On his Politics War Room podcast, James Carville, a longtime Democratic strategist who frequently critiques Donald Trump, suggested that a full Democratic sweep would require immediate and forceful action across government.
“If the Democrats win the presidency and both houses of Congress, I think on day one, they should make Puerto Rico [and] D.C. a state, and they should expand the Supreme Court to 13,” Carville said. “F–k it. Eat our dust.”
He also noted that Republicans had “stolen Supreme Court seats” and “gerrymandered everything.” His advice to Democrats: “Don’t run on it. Don’t talk about it. Just do it.”
That kind of rhetoric did not sit quietly for long.
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A response from Donald Trump quickly followed on Truth Social.
“Wacko James Carville, a so-called Democrat ‘strategist,’ wants the Democrats to make D.C. and Puerto Rico States and, most importantly, pack the Supreme Court, putting 13 Justices on the Court,” Trump wrote.
“If they pull off adding these two States, these Country Destroying Sleazebags will dominate politics in America, if we even have a Nation left, for 100 years.” He also demanded that Republicans terminate the filibuster.
The second half of the rant turned inward, with Trump attacking the conservative justices he personally appointed for failing to rule in his favor.
“The Democrat Justices stick together like glue, totally loyal to the people and ideology that got them there,” Trump wrote. “Certain Republican Appointees let the Democrats push them around, always wanting to be popular, politically correct, or even worse, wanting to show how ‘independent’ they are, with very little loyalty to the man who appointed them.”
Behind the anger sits a growing list of court setbacks.
The Supreme Court delivered a significant blow to Trump’s economic agenda earlier this year, striking down his sweeping tariff regime in a 6-3 decision.
Trump also attended the April 1 birthright citizenship hearing in person and stormed out after the conservative justices shot down several arguments from his own solicitor general. He then went home and posted about it at 1 a.m. Tuesday’s rant was considerably more measured by comparison.
At the center of his frustration was a Brett Kavanaugh dissent on tariffs, which Trump pointed to as proof he had come close to victory. He argued the ruling would have “saved American Taxpayers a minimum of $159 Billion Dollars.”
He closed with a final accusation directed at the bench he helped shape.
“I put certain people on the United States Supreme Court who totally misrepresented who they were, and the true ideology for which they stand,” Trump wrote.
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