May 7, 2025
Trump ADMITS He Has No Idea What His Administration Is Doing
The Trump administration may soon start deporting migrants to Libya.
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We have gone to countries all
over the world and said, hey, you want
good relations with the United States?
You need to take back your people
that are here illegally.
And we've had historic cooperation
beyond that.
And I say this unapologetically.
We are actively searching
for other countries
to take people from third countries.
So we are actively not just El Salvador.
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We are working with other countries to
say, we want to send you some of the most
despicable human beings to your countries.
Will you do that as a favor to us?
And the further away from America,
the better.
And I think you could do that.
You could fit the entire cabinet
on one plane, probably, and rid us of all
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of those despicable individuals,
like Secretary of State Marco Rubio,
who is talking about taking people
who have committed the grave sin
of not having their paperwork in order,
or for some of them,
they do have their paperwork in order,
but we're going to deport them either way,
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and we're not even going to send them
to the place where maybe they were there
when they were eight or whatever.
We're just going to send them somewhere
to some place, somewhere in the world.
But that doesn't bother him.
He's unapologetic about it,
to be clear, and according
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to two anonymous US officials,
the next country up on that list is Libya.
We're going to be taking migrants,
probably, presumably predominantly
from Latin and South America,
and we're going to ship them to Libya.
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Okay.
Now, Marco Rubio is not the only person in
the administration talking about this plan
of just taking people
and sending them like like our old,
you know, like t shirts for the wrong team
that didn't end up winning the Super Bowl
and just sending them somewhere.
Stephen Miller, unsurprisingly,
is also super jazzed about this idea.
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Of a tremendous national security adviser.
Right now, his name is Marco Rubio.
I've gotten to know Marco so well.
I consider him a close friend.
He will be the Kissinger of our time,
and I'm just proud to work alongside him
in my role as deputy chief
and Homeland Security advisor.
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And by the way,
he and I are working very closely together
on behalf of President Trump
on the project of getting all these
illegal alien gangsters out of the country
and finding other countries to take him.
That's just one example of how I'm
working with Marco on a day to day basis
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to execute President Trump's agenda.
So that is Stephen Miller,
who is a clearly a bold guy.
I mean, you'd have to be to wear
white and gray with his coloration.
But anyway, so he's there,
he's super excited.
He's working with Marco Rubio,
and he obviously sees everyone who's
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a shade tanner than him as human garbage.
So he doesn't care
if they get sent anywhere.
Again, I just want to remind everyone,
like, you know, I said in the break,
I haven't traveled as much as I'd like to.
Even I know Libya is kind
of a rough spot at this point.
It's not necessarily the place that you
just send someone who doesn't know the
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area, obviously doesn't know the language,
and will likely die
as a result of being sent there
for a variety of different reasons.
I mean, right now the State Department
has a level four travel advisory for Libya
warning us not to travel there because of,
quote, crime, terrorism,
unexploded landmines, civil unrest,
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kidnaping and armed conflict.
And it's not it's not a coincidence.
That's why they're going
to be sending them there.
Stephen Miller and he knows a
significant portion of the MAGA movement.
They want these people sent
to the worst possible places,
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whether it's Scott, whether it's Libya,
a concentration camp in Guantanamo.
The cruelty is the point of it.
But, David, what do you think?
I'm not as concerned about.
I mean, look, I am concerned
about where people are sent.
I think it's not exactly cost effective
to send anybody to North Africa,
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to Libya, to the Middle East.
I mean, that's a long plane ride,
and that's going
to cost the government a ton of money.
But putting that aside, I just want
to know, is there going to be due process
for people that you're deporting or not?
And I was stunned.
- And this is how much, you.
- Know, the answer.
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Shifted because Senator James Lankford
just said on CNN that he believes
that everybody who's going to be deported
should have some sort of due process.
And he's now being written out
of the Republican Party because he agrees
with the Constitution's Fifth Amendment,
which says all people get due process.
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It doesn't say all Americans, all
citizens, all people here get due process.
Now, due process
doesn't necessarily mean a trial.
It could mean a short hearing.
Kind of like what you get
if you get a traffic ticket, you still
get due process to challenge that.
That's what we're all talking about here.
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And if they follow due process
and they can actually establish
in front of a judge or a magistrate
that, yeah, this is a criminal.
This is somebody who's committed crimes
or a gang banger, and they are
then justified in sending them out.
Fine. Send them to Libya.
Send them to Timbuktu. I don't care.
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The problem that I have is that they're
not doing the work on the front end
to honor the Constitution,
and therefore it's a disaster.
I want the due process,
but I also sign me up for the don't
just send them to Libya part.
That seems super weird.
Super expensive, also super cruel.
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Yeah.
Look, I know that there's there's
a lot of Americans that think that if
you're not here with the proper paperwork,
you should be sent out.
I think that once you actually talk
them through the actual consequences
of doing that to hundreds of thousands
or millions of people, the the sheer
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cost not only in initially doing it,
but the cost ongoing to your community,
the work that they used to contribute,
the taxes that they pay,
all of that is super significant.
The fact that they work in some vital
industries where we already don't have
enough people working in those industries.
The idea that you're going to ship
out tons of them is also a bad idea.
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That said, I don't think we should
just send them literally anywhere.
And I do think that they
should get the due process.
You know, I, I share
that belief with the Constitution.
I think it's abhorrent that Donald
Trump thinks that he can just say it's
inefficient and we're not supposed to care
about the Constitution anymore.
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But I also just want to point out,
like like they keep repeating the lie,
which we're done with.
We're so far past the idea
that these are the worst of the worst,
or these are gangsters
or these are terrorists. 1 or 2 are sure.
Yes, but the vast majority
have no criminal record.
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And I just do not accept that a person
who either snuck into the US or was
brought by their family or whatever,
should be sent to a prison in El Salvador
to never see the light of day again,
to likely die
in their best case scenario of old age.
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Worst case scenario shivved in the kidneys
just because they didn't have
their paperwork in order.
And so we shipped them there, and I have
a feeling I'm going to go out on a limb
and say that whatever they find in Libya
is going to be worse than Seacourt.
I just don't think that's what a country
that wants to present itself as,
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like the moral city on the Hill
of the world should be doing.
There's got to be a better way.
Yeah, I think you said it right.
I mean, the terror, that's the purpose.
And so send them to Libya,
send them to a horrible prison,
a rat infested jail, whatever it is.
But if you've got the money to send people
to Venezuela, to send people to Libya,
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surely you have the money to try
to give them judges and magistrates.
And by the way, 75% of the Venezuelans
that were sent to El Salvador,
according to CBS, had no criminal record
whatsoever, no violent crimes.
And that was backed up by an internal
Department of Homeland Security memo.
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- So what are we doing here?
- Yeah, I couldn't agree more.
You were saying
you want to go to that last video?
Okay, let's play the last video, which is
Trump responding to this new conversation.
Your administration
sending migrants to Libya?
I don't know.
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You'll have to ask,
Homeland Security, please.
Look, honestly, I can't even say that.
I think he's lying.
I don't think he knows
anything that's going on.
Like, is he avoiding. Is he a coward?
He's avoiding accountability. Yes.
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I think he's constantly
throwing people under the bus,
and he's worried about being sued or
getting locked up for some of the illegal,
unconstitutional things he's doing.
But I think it's also possible
he just has no idea what's happening.
David, where do you come out on that?
He has no idea where Libya is
or even what it is.
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He probably thinks it's that female
genitalia part and he just doesn't, you
know, that's where Donald Trump's mind is.
He doesn't know anything
about North Africa or the Middle East.
He doesn't. Sorry.
Every time you ring the bell below,
an angel gets his wings.
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