Walls are closing in on Trump from Minnesota to Maga ...Middle East

WASHINGTON — For an administration that never likes to exude a scintilla of weakness, Donald Trump and his lieutenants have found themselves relentlessly on the back foot this week.

Things got so bad, that at one point the White House urged supporters not to give in to panic.

“We’re Winning – And We’re Not Slowing Down”, an e-mail assured Republicans. “Don’t take the bait. New victories pour in daily”, it insisted.

In fact, the only thing pouring in daily this week was a torrent of bad news for the White House, fuelling questions about whether Trump has overplayed his hand, and is now leaving his best days behind him.

Last weekend’s disastrous own goal sparked by Trump’s social media posting of a video that included a racist, two-second meme of the Obamas portrayed as primates in a jungle, was just the beginning. Republicans were left fuming over shifting White House explanations for the video’s appearance on Trump’s Truth Social account.

As late as Thursday, the president was still telling reporters that no action had been taken to discipline the junior staffer who allegedly posted the video on his direct instructions. No expression of regret for the incident has ever passed his lips, nor has any apology been proffered to the former First Couple.

Thursday’s announced U-turn in Minneapolis over the brutal presence in the city of ICE and Border Patrol agents sweeping people off the streets, and killing two American citizens last month in the process, is a stunning climb-down forced on the White House by the fury of Minnesotans. “Operation Metro Surge”, unleashed on the city on 4 December, has proved an unmitigated disaster for Trump’s Department of Homeland Security.

The slayings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, gunned down in cold blood by ICE and Border Patrol agents respectively, resulted in the removal and demotion of swaggering Commander-At-Large, Greg Bovino.

Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan is now based in Minneapolis, cleaning up Bovino’s mess and orchestrating the departure of up to three thousand masked federal agents who have tormented the city. Tim Walz, the Democratic Governor of Minnesota, praised relieved locals for seeing off what he called an “unprecedented federal invasion” of his state.

Opinion polls show that across Minnesota, two-thirds of voters believe the tactics deployed by Trump’s paramilitaries went too far. Nationally, the president is also under water over the brutal implementation of his mass deportation policies. Nine months from mid-term elections that will determine the balance of power on Capitol Hill, just 23% of swing voters back Trump’s immigration tactics, down from 37% last March. 60% of independent voters say the president’s mass deportation policies have gone “too far”.

Those numbers chill the blood of vulnerable Republican lawmakers seeking re-election in November. As a direct consequence, some of them are now proving more ready to challenge the White House than they were before.

On Wednesday, half a dozen Republicans crossed the aisle and voted with Democrats in the House of Representatives, passing a measure that rebuked the president for imposing aggressive tariffs on Canada.

The resolution specifically chides Trump for claiming that a “national emergency” required the imposition of duties on Canadian imports without Congressional approval. If it passes in the Senate, the president will be forced to veto the measure to stop it from becoming law.

A similar vote may soon condemn the president’s tariffs on Mexico as well, with Democrats preparing legislation that could even target the entire set of so-called “Liberation Day” duties that the White House imposed on America’s global trading partners last April.

Meanwhile, fury abounds over the disdainful, disrespectful, even contemptuous disposition of Attorney General Pam Bondi during Wednesday’s session testifying before the House Judiciary Committee.

Bondi berated lawmakers who wanted to know why she appears to be protecting Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged co-conspirators, yet failed to protect victims of the sex-trafficking financier in this month’s release of sloppily redacted documents by the Department of Justice.

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Her refusal even to glance in the direction of survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuses, much less apologise to them, infuriated key influencers within the president’s “Make America Great Again” movement. Conservative radio host Erick Erickson accused Bondi of a “ridiculous performance…she should be fired or resign”. Pro-Trump influencer Tim Pool accused Bondi of proving that America has become “a nation of adult children…I don’t think we are served as the American people by this kind of yelling”, he said, accusing Bondi of complicity in the cover-up of crimes by members of Epstein’s inner circle.

Trump, however, described Bondi’s performance as “fantastic”, claiming she had come “under intense fire from the Trump Deranged Radical Left Lunatics” who were trying to “take attention away from tremendous Republican SUCCESS”.

But whether he recognises it or not, Trump is now on the ropes, and faces a battle restoring the confidence of Republican lawmakers and grassroots MAGA supporters in the tumultuous, exhausting and sometimes brutal antics of his still-young administration.

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