Democratic strategist James Carville urged party members to allow President Trump to “punch himself out” during his first few weeks in office.
“He just says anything that he wants to say,” Carville said during a Friday appearance on MSNBC.
“He’s just going to keep plowing through,” Carville continued. “And what we have to learn as Democrats, just let him punch himself out.”
During the interview, Carville hammered in on Trump’s priority to decrease food prices throughout his first week in office as the Republican promised on the campaign trail.
“But the big thing is his number one promise, the biggest political promise to this generation is he would get food prices down. Then he got in office and said, ‘There’s nothing I can do about it.’ Of course, eggs, $4 and something, a dozen,” Carville criticized.
“And he keeps distracting us and we keep getting distracted,” he added. “But we’ll come back in and we’ll straddle this target and get it in range here before long, I think. Yeah, well, the ‘but my eggs’ has become the new kind of retort.”
While the president’s first full week in office wasn’t filled with inflationary lows for food prices, it was focused on immigration and action through executive orders.
Trump signed more than 26 new orders during his first week in the White House which re-established the “Remain in Mexico” program, authorized Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to make arrests in churches and schools in addition to a push to revoke birthright citizenship.
A court temporarily blocked Trump’s order regarding citizenship on Thursday.
Democrats have worked to challenge some of his new policies through joint lawsuits while honing in on a new party voice as elections for chair of the Democratic National Committee are underway.
