Trump’s Deportation Drama: More Style Police Than Policy Enforcers

KEY POINTS

•Trump's team reviewed private GOP polling in December showing declining support for aggressive immigration tactics before the fatal Minneapolis ICE shooting.
•Several advisers worry the raids damage Trump’s key voter coalitions and could threaten the Republicans' narrow House majority in November.
•Despite criticism from Republicans, Joe Rogan, and sanctuary city officials, Trump publicly continues to back harder deportation enforcement.

In a wild sequel to political theater, Trump's team unearthed private GOP polls (circa late December, just before the tragic Minneapolis ICE shooting of Renee Good) revealing a Ryan Reynolds-level plot twist: 60% of independents and 58% of undecideds think Mr. Deportation is spending too much time on illegal immigrants, while 33% claim his deportees often look more like law-abiding citizens than criminals. Amid roaring chaos in Minneapolis and St. Paul, where sanctuary city policies leave ICE playing hide-and-seek without local cops, Trump’s inner circle debates 'recalibrating' tactics—not policy, mind you, just optics—because apparently, mass deportations are great as long as they don’t look 'Gestapo.' Even Joe Rogan dropped the mic recently, questioning if America’s becoming ‘Where’s your papers?’ central, sparking more side-eye than a judicial hearing. Meanwhile, Vibing on Marshall McLuhan, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt insists this tough-love agenda still polls like a champ, while Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem march on as the architects of what might be 2028’s least charming presidential launchpad.