President Donald Trump ripped “broken down losers like James Carville” after the Democratic strategist mocked the president’s polling numbers on Fox News.
Carville, who masterminded Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 presidential campaign, jabbed Trump throughout a testy Thursday night interview with host Sean Hannity.
The moment that went viral, though, was when Carville questioned the narrative—often pushed by Fox News—that Trump’s actions during his first weeks have been immensely popular.
“I’m reading these polls saying the Democrats are 13 points up in the congressional generic, that Donald Trump has the lowest approval rating of any president at this point in his presidency in American history,” Carville said. “So, your viewers are getting one view. And I’m reading another view. One of us is right and one of us is wrong. It’s that simple. Have they got fact checkers at Fox?”
Trump didn’t take well to being lampooned on his preferred cable news network.
“I won the Presidential Election in a landslide, won ALL SEVEN SWING STATES, THE POPULAR VOTE, AND ALL FIFTY STATES SHIFTED REPUBLICAN, a record, and now I have the best polling numbers I’ve ever had,” he fired back on Truth Social Friday morning. “The Democrats, run by broken down losers like James Carville, whose [sic] weak of mind and body, are going crazy, and just don’t know what to do.”
“They have lost their confidence and spirit—They have lost their minds!” he added.
At another point in the Fox interview, Carville, nicknamed the “Ragin’ Cajun,” railed against the Republican Party’s platform under Trump.
“I think the Republican party is against the minimum wage,” he began. “I think Republican party stands for more tax cuts for people making over $400,000 a year. I think the Republican party wants to get rid of a woman’s right to choose. I think the Republican party wants to destroy Medicaid. I think Republican party would like to get rid of Medicare… I think the Republican party supports Vladimir Putin. I think theRepublican party is weak when it comes to communist China.”
“So there are a lot of issues of which I have profound and deep disagreements with the Republican Party on, I must tell you that,” he concluded.
Carville’s interview came less than a week after Trump and “First Buddy” Elon Musk had teamed up for an amiable joint interview with Hannity on Fox.
The conversation, without much pressure applied by Hannity, turned into a lovefest between Trump and Musk, who the president has tapped to gut the federal bureaucracy.
At one point, Trump said that he had “searched all over” for somebody smarter than Musk to join his White House but “just couldn’t” find anyone.
Later on, Musk declared, “I love the president.”
