On a single Sunday morning, live on national TV, the entire MAGA Republican machine tried to prop up Donald Trump’s collapsing presidency — and instead exposed just how broken their party has become.
It wasn’t one bad answer. It was an hour-long implosion.
Across the Sunday shows, Trump’s top allies — from his billionaire Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, to hardline senators like Tom Cotton, Eric Schmitt, and John Curtis — all tried to spin a brutal reality: Trump’s plummeting approval, a hollowed-out economy, war crime allegations, and a president calling whole communities “garbage.”
What they delivered instead was a masterclass in gaslighting, deflection, and sheer political panic.
The Billionaire Who “Runs a Soybean Farm”
It started with Scott Bessent, Trump’s Treasury Secretary, who insists he’s just a humble agriculture guy.
“I run a soybean farm,” he bragged, as proof he understands farmers and trade. When pressed, he immediately shifted: well actually, his family works it, and anyway, he just divested “this week” for ethics reasons.
So which is it — a farm he runs, an investment he barely touches, or a convenient talking point?
Then, with a straight face, he claimed he “probably knows more about agriculture than any Treasury Secretary since the 1800s.” All while defending Trump’s chaotic trade wars and insisting farmers just need “certainty” — as if Trump didn’t turn them into bargaining chips in his tariff tantrums.
“We Inherited a Train Wreck” — From a Booming Economy
On another network, MAGA Senator McCormack from Pennsylvania tried out the new party line: blame everything on Biden and hope no one remembers basic history.
“We inherited a train wreck from the Biden administration,” he said confidently, claiming Trump rescued America from “out of control inflation” and stagnant wages — even though economists had literally been calling the pre-Trump economy the envy of the world and a Goldilocks moment of stable growth and manufacturing expansion.
Reality: Americans are now drowning in higher prices, layoffs, and brutal costs of living. But on TV? Republicans are selling a fairy tale.
“The Economy Has Been Better Than We Thought”
Back came Bessent. Asked about job cuts, price hikes, and squeezed households, he smiled and delivered this stunner:
“The economy has been better than we thought.”
Tell that to families looking at $165 breakfast bills and grocery receipts that feel like mortgage payments.
When pressed on toy prices surging from $25 to $40 thanks to tariffs and inflation, he waved it away with pseudo-econ word salad:
“Inflation’s a composite number… it’s roughly the same year-over-year.”
Translation: Ignore your eyes, your wallet, and your bank account — trust the billionaire in the pink Malibu Barbie-style mansion instead.
Affordability “Is a Con Job”
Polls now show Trump’s economic approval in the 30s, with most Americans saying he makes prices sound better than they actually are. Asked why Trump calls affordability a “con job,” Bessent didn’t show empathy — he blamed the media.
He insisted real incomes are up “about 1%,” and complained Americans are just hearing too much “coverage.” As if people can’t feel the difference between financial security and panic every time they tap their card at the register.
Then, with a straight face, he added: “Thanksgiving was cheaper. Turkey was down 16%.”
Millions of viewers collectively thought the same thing: What grocery store are you living in?
Defending War Crimes and a Cartel Ally
While the economic gaslighting played out on one channel, the moral collapse unfolded on another.
Senator Tom Cotton was asked how Trump can claim to protect Americans from drugs while pardoning former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández — the man convicted of bringing more than 500 tons of cocaine into the United States.
Cotton’s response? Maybe there are “strategic reasons” for freeing a convicted narco-trafficker. He said his usual policy is to “lock them up and throw away the key,” but somehow couldn’t apply that standard here without “more information.”
Meanwhile, when shown video of survivors on a capsized boat — two men appearing shipwrecked, possibly trying to surrender — Cotton dismissed it entirely.
“It doesn’t really matter what they were trying to do,” he said, insisting they remained “valid targets,” even suggesting a man taking his shirt off might be trying to attract another cartel boat… or “maybe he’s trying to get a suntan.”
War crimes brushed off like a bad vacation joke.
“Garbage” Communities and Spineless Excuses
Then came Senator John Curtis, asked about Trump calling Somali immigrants “garbage.” Instead of condemning it outright, Curtis mumbled that he didn’t “love that language,” but reminded viewers: the country “knew very well what we were electing” — a “disruptor.”
In other words: you voted for the cruelty, now you have to live with it.
Trump-aligned officials like Tom Homan even tried to defend the slur, claiming Trump was just talking about “public safety threats,” despite the president clearly smearing an entire community.
By the end of the Sunday circuit, one thing was obvious:
This isn’t a serious governing party.
It’s a PR operation frantically trying to patch the leaks on a sinking ship — while the captain keeps punching new holes.
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