Daily Wire's Matt Walsh on Trump's deportation policies: “The Trump administration is ... extremely tuned in to what the base is saying. I know that for a fact.”
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From the June 17, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): So this is great news. I mean, it's absolutely the right decision. There should be no exemption for any illegal aliens at all. Least of all, should there be, you know, sweeping exemptions for thousands of them at a time. If you're in the country illegally, you gotta go. I mean, the one single factor that should determine whether you're deported is whether you're here illegally. That's the only thing that should matter. That's it. That's all. That's all that matters. And that policy will now be restored from the sound of it, which is very good. And it also — it's why it's important to push back and make your voice heard. Remember what I said yesterday? This plan, you know, is being floated by the White House.
There's a reason they send out these trial balloons rather than just implementing the policy without all the back and forth discussion. They wanna hear from us. And so we have a real ability to influence public policy in this way. And by we, I mean, you know, the voters, the base, America first conservatives. And we should have that influence. This is a constitutional republic. Our leaders are supposed to represent our interests. And that's — and Donald Trump should care about what the people that voted him in the office want and what they and, you know, what their opinions are because they put him in office for a reason. And that's why you have to speak up.
And it's also why conservatives who scold you for speaking up or tell you that you should never criticize Trump or under any circumstance, that you should trust the plan and so on should be ignored. I mean, America First obviously does not mean just simply accepting whatever Trump decides to do or whatever idea, like, is floated out there as something he might do. We're not morally obligated to say, well, OK. I mean, if that's what he wants to do, whatever he decides to do is obviously the right thing because he can never be wrong. No. It's America first, not Trump first. And Trump is human. He can be wrong about things. And if he's wrong, then we should say so. That doesn't mean — you know, you don't have to go nuclear on him. You don't have to declare that it would have been better to vote for Kamala or whatever. I mean, nothing would be better than — Kamala would never be the better option.
But we should say, you know, if you disagree with something, with a potential — with a move that's being made or a potential move, then you say, hey. I think this is really wrong. I think it's a very bad idea. Here's why. And say it loud enough to be heard. And one thing about the Trump administration is that it's extremely tuned in to what the base is saying. I know that for a fact, and it's -- but you don't need to have any secret insider knowledge to know that. It's, like, very obvious. So the base should speak up as they did here, and, I think there's no question that the, you know, pushback from the base is a big part of the reason why this decision was reversed, and that's a very good thing.