Trump is a repeat loser as his slash-and-burn rampage collides with U.S. law

The Rachel Maddow Show

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4.5 • 34K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Rachel Maddow reports on yet another bad day in the courts for Donald Trump as he was made to restore jobs his top campaign donor, Elon Musk, had slashed, and was similarly made to restore USAID, another victim of Musk's DOGE, and lastly, had his anti-trans military policy rejected and was given a lesson in the language of the Declaration of Independence for good measure.

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0:00.0	Really happy to have you here.
0:01.7	So these are Trump voters.
0:03.2	These are people who voted for Donald Trump in this past election.
0:06.5	They are all voters from Swing State, Michigan.
0:10.5	So by a show of fingers, who approves of what Elon Musk has been doing in the Trump administration?
0:19.4	None of you.
0:23.6	And who disapproves?
0:28.6	All seven of you.
0:36.6	Cheryl, tell me why you disapprove of what Musk is doing. Because he wasn't elected to do anything.
0:41.3	I don't understand his position.
0:43.3	It's a made up position that they made, department or whatever.
0:47.3	And he's been going through with the sledgehammer, just actually dismantling everything with the approval of Trump.
0:56.1	So I'm almost at the point where did he actually buy the election to do what he wanted to do?
1:03.2	Like, who's running our country?
1:05.7	He was even in the overall office during a meeting with this kid on his neck.
1:10.4	Like, what? I feel like we are a reality show.
1:14.9	America is.
1:17.0	It's awful.
1:19.3	That's awful.
1:20.9	And these are all Trump voters.
1:24.3	This is an engageous focus group done with Trump voters this past week in Michigan.
1:30.3	To someone listening to you folks might say, he was president for four years. You knowingly chose to put him back in office, having watched him in office for four years.
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