Trump got his Comey indictment Thursday and issued a memo directing “domestic terrorism” investigations. And yet, both provided more evidence that Trump is losing.

Chris Geidner
Sep 25, 2025

The broad-based unpopularity of Trump — and even greater unpopularity of many of the actions he and his administration are taking — is leading Trump, unsurprisingly, to lash out.

He is a petty tyrant, and we are seeing that at work. And though actions this week are those of an authoritarian, so were his and Federal Communications Commission Chair Brandan Carr’s attacks on Jimmy Kimmel. And yet, Kimmel is back on the air, after it became undeniably clear that Americans weren’t going to live that way.

The same thing should — and, eventually, will — be true of the administration’s cruel, unnecessary, lawless, and often racist immigration enforcement policies, documented most recently by Stephanie Keith on Thursday in New York City, as a woman pleading for the return of her husband was mocked, then violently thrown against a wall and on the ground by one of those people who are carrying out Stephen Miller’s policies.

As Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, noted of the video, “I think a single video like this does more to radicalize people against ICE than any loaded rhetoric any politician has ever used, and DHS should think very hard about the consequences of supporting this kind of behavior from its agents.“

And so, it is in this environment that we are getting — and are going to continue getting — the sort of over-the-top overreach like we saw on Thursday.

But, even in those moments — although they are undoubtedly bad — we get signs of how weak Trump actually is…