All-In Podcast host Jason Calacanis says Americans “don't like” Trump's ICE agents “beating powerless, hard-working immigrants”
Calacanis: “Nobody wants this type of violence. Nobody wants to see people beaten. Nobody wants to see mothers thrown on the ground as their children are crying.”
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From the October 10, 2025 edition of The All-In Podcast, uploaded to YouTube.
JASON CALACANIS (HOST): I think this is because he's drifted from the 2.0 policies. Closing the border, very popular. Lower taxes, no taxes on tips, extremely popular. Pro-business, pro-innovation. Thank you, Sacks. You're correct. This all is the best of Trump. DOGE, reducing spending, the best of Trump, and relentlessly trying to stop wars and apparently on the cusp of succeeding with the one in Gaza right now. This is what Americans, including myself, moderates, really like about Trump.
What don't we like about the Trump 1.0 platform? The violence of January 6, ICE agents in masks beating powerless, hard-working immigrants, sending in the National Guards. If you remember from the first administration, the kids in cages, the Muslim immigration ban, pardoning all the January 6 rioters who beat police savagely, trying to overturn election results. This is what people don't like. They don't like the chaos.
And what Americans do love is they love the Constitution. And, you know, they love the rule of law. This is where he can do really well. 85% of Americans have a favorable opinion of the Constitution, and 94% say it's really important to protect the liberty and freedom. And what these actions — and when you see Pam Bondi and you see Stephen Miller, Trump's ratings go down. When you see Lutnick, you see Bessent, you see Sacks, you see Elon and DOGE, his approval ratings go up.
And so I would like to lobby my friends who are in the administration or around it and the people I know in the administration to think through this because what's at stake is the midterms. The Democrats are gonna shellac the Republicans in the midterms if this continues. Nobody wants this type of violence. Nobody wants to see people beaten. Nobody wants to see mothers thrown on the ground as their children are crying just because they came here 20 years ago, 10 years ago when Republicans — Republicans, who were the biggest proponents of letting people in from Mexico to work here because we needed a cheap labor. We, as Americans, have an obligation to these people who we brought into this country to treat them with compassion, and we're not doing that.