CBS chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett showed off his dismay with the second Trump administration on Tuesday’s CBS Mornings by painting it in apocalyptic terms as “revolutionary” in nearly every sense of the word and “not collegial” and “unremittingly hostile to the established, stable order” that’s kept America and the world safe and secure.
Some doomcasting and fear porn hours ahead of President Trump’s first address to a joint session of Congress in his second term (as it’s referred to the first year of a new presidency with the State of the Union moniker returning in 2026)? How predictable!
Asked by co-host Tony Dokoupil to “[h]elp us understand what is happening in the nation’s capital,” Garrett remarked that “Elon Musk told Joe Rogan on his podcast that Trump’s cabinet is revolutionary and I think we ought to take that seriously because Trump and Musk talk all the time.”
Garrett went all negative:
So, let’s think about what a revolution means. Revolutions, by definition, are not collegial, and they’re unremittingly hostile to the established, stable order, whatever the order is. So, Trump and his White House are trying to remake the order in Europe, whether the transatlantic alliance of 80 years cares or not, whether NATO cares or not.
Closer to home, Garrett lamented Trump wants “Hemispheric domination” based on “why he talks about Greenland the way he does, Panama, and the Gulf of America” and “launched a trade war against Canada and Mexico, our two neighbors, one that is creating economic instability because he is remaking the economy of the world.”
As for the federal government, Garrett huffed that Trump wants to “replace civil servants with loyalists and artificial intelligence” and impose “immigration policies” that “are even more aggressive than his original restrictive immigration policies plus he’s added a $5 million gold card to get you to the head of the line.”
“All these things, taken in together, are a revolutionary scream against the established order, Republican and Democrat, from anybody that preceded Trump,” he added.
Dokoupil said all that sounds “horrifying” and “terrifying” to “people who don’t like President Trump,” but then offered the smallest crumb of balance by acknowledging “fans of President Trump” see his second term thus far as “exhilarating” and “thrilling.”
Only here did Garrett concede he doesn’t view the “revolutionaries” in this White House as violent:
[W]hat we do know about every revolution past, and I’m not saying this as a hostile, aggressive, armed revolution, but revolutionaries have no shortage of confidence and fervor. And this administration, because I covered the first one, is much more self-confident, much more sure of itself, much more convinced about what it wants to do.
In addition to “remaking maps and...economic notions,” Garrett spun the Trump administration’s fight against the scourge of transgenderism and support for families as “tak[ing] our culture back 30, 40 years.”
Garrett concluded by stating, in so many words, being a Trump supporter makes you a cultist:
It’s all, though, in the same spirit of upsetting what we are accustomed to, remaking things in Trump’s image, and expecting Republicans on Capitol Hill to not only go along but applaud enthusiastically. And, if they don’t, they will receive the hardest political backlash that Trump can give to his own party.
To see the relevant CBS transcript from March 4, click here.
