James Carville scorched Donald Trump on Thursday as he lambasted the president for being the “most serious crisis” that America has “ever faced.”
The longtime Democratic strategist — in an interview with Chris Cuomo — got “very serious” as he tore apart Trump, who regularly touts his policies as “America First” and has hugged and kissed the U.S. flag on several occasions.
“I am not convinced at all that Donald Trump loves the United States,” said Carville, once an adviser for former President Bill Clinton.
Carville, earlier in Cuomo’s podcast, sounded the alarm on Trump’s second term as he warned that the “entire idea of the United States is in jeopardy.”
“I think it’s fundamentally that profound a problem,” he said.
“And I think if the Democrats act clever and determined, understand where they stand at this moment in history, I think that it would be very successful.”
His comments follow weeks of a federal budget-slashing campaign by Trump’s billionaire Elon Musk and an all-out trade war spurred by the president’s tariffs, moves that have rattled Wall Street as of late.
Carville, when asked to clarify why he thinks there’s never been a “crisis” quite like the president, swiftly laid into Trump.
“We have a president who is siding with Belarus and North Korea and Russia. I’m sorry, that’s a crisis,” he told Cuomo.
“We have a president that has appointed some of the most incompetent people you can imagine to the United States Congress.”
He continued, “We have a president who is starting a trade war with our three biggest trading partners and we’re watching the beginnings of which could be a financial meltdown that we can hardly imagine.”
Carville went on to press that Trump doesn’t respect American institutions along with the limits to — and the separation of — powers in the Constitution.
“I can think of no bigger crisis that this country has been in in my lifetime. Ever,” said the Democratic strategist, who contrasted Trump’s moves from “mistakes” such as the Iraq War during President George W. Bush’s administration.
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