Has anyone checked?
Sleepless in the White House posted about ICE and the “Safeguard American Voter Eligibility” Act (SAVE) early this morning without mentioning the latter by name. In what Daily Beast oversells as a “frantic early-morning” rant, Donald Trump smushed together two of his favorite grievances in one 1:48 a.m. ET Truth Social post:
“Democrats are desperate to keep illegals, no matter how bad or dangerous they may be, in the Country. They want them to VOTE! That’s why they are fighting so hard to neutralize ICE. We will fight them all the way, and WIN!
By “we,” Trump means someone else.
“Pull yourself together. We have work to do. And by ‘we,’ I mean you,” Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) tells sleepy assistant Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) in the trailer for The Devil Wears Prada 2. Which is how Trump operates.
Trump told a roundtable in Memphis, Tennessee that Republicans should work through the Easter recess to pass SAVE for him.
“You don’t have to take a fast vote. Don’t worry about Easter, going home. In fact, make this one for Jesus,” Trump said. He’ll be golfing, cheating at it, and shouting at clouds.
In Memphis, Trump struggled to keep his eyes open, Daily Beast reports, “occasionally jerking his head around as he appeared to drift off, while MAGA acolytes took turns giving him ‘Dear Leader-style’ compliments.”
This is a man who does not use email and puts nothing in writing other than his sharpied signatures. But he’ll issue directives to underlings at all hours for all to see via Truth Social, or at events far from Washington, D.C., and expect others to jump. Or maybe bomb Iranian power plants or invade Cuba.
Yes, noncitizen voting is extremely rare, Daily Beast acknowledges. And yes, SAVE has virtually no path forward where the House bill sits in the U.S. Senate. And, by the way, Trump has a war he started with Iran and can’t seem to finish on his plate when he’s not obsessing over his gilded ballroom and gutting the Kennedy Center. But what keeps him up at night is losing control of Congress in the fall elections.
Daily Beast remarks on SAVE:
Critics have raised concerns that Trump’s push for stricter voter ID rules in a country where nearly half of residents do not own passports could be an attempt to meddle in the 2026 midterms, where Republicans are widely expected to suffer heavy losses.
In whatever way he fails, Trump makes sure someone else pays the price. It’s one of his few talents.
It’s not too late to remind any Republican representing you in the Senate not to save SAVE.