Trump’s Deportation Pledge Shows How Desperate He Has Become

Donald Trump clearly believes the polls that show him losing in 2020, and his pledge this week to begin deporting millions of immigrants from our country is proof of it. He needs a way to shore up his base, and he believes that this is going to be the issue that does it. But the truth is that most Americans believe immigration is a benefit to our country, which it is, and mass deportations are going to have disastrous consequences on our economy. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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The last week or so, I've been pointing out how horrible Donald Trump's poll numbers are right at this moment and he refuses to believe that there are this bad, and I said, if he does believe his poll numbers are that bad and he's going to lose 2020 he's going to do something horrible. He's going to do something drastic to try to shore up his base and lo and behold, a week later, it was proven correct. Donald Trump announced earlier this week that he is going to begin mass deportations. Millions of immigrants here in the United States are going to be deported according to Donald Trump. That is what desperation looks like. There's no particular reason for him to send ice agents all around to start rounding up millions of immigrants and deporting the amount of this country. But he's doing it because he's terrified. He's terrified of losing the 2020 election, which again, as of right, this second poll show would happen.

That's going to change up and down constantly until we hit the election. But he is freaking out about it because as much as he said they were fake polls, part of him actually does believe that he is in trouble. So what's he gonna do? He's going to shore up his base. Those hate filled little Maga hat wearing freaks out there. Love when Brown people get kicked out of this country, and that's what Donald Trump is going to do. Not because it's legally necessary, not because these people are criminals, not because they're out, they're harming anyone or stealing money or taking money from the federal government, but because he needs to shore up his base. That is what this is about. And it's because Donald Trump has failed with his signature policy, which was immigration. You know, he told these same people that, look, we're going to stop the flood of people coming across the border.

We're not going to let them take over our country. We're not going to let white people become the minority. He didn't specifically say that, but other members of that alt right community have Tucker Carlson has hinted at that and that's why he's doing this to say, hey, we're, we're banking it ride. I'm keeping my promise. Democrats want open borders, but I want to send people back over it. And that's going to be the rallying cry that he's going to continue whining until the 2020 election possibly even after that, regardless of whether he wins or loses. But this is what desperation looks like. This is what weakness looks like. Trump knows he can't win on the issues. He knows he's not going to become more likable as a human being in the next year and a half. So the only thing he knows how to do is to start rounding up immigrants and sending them out of the country to make his base a little happier.

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