Spin Cycle: Today, The World Either Ends Or It Begins Again

For those who don’t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week’s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.

With just 24 hours to go before President-elect Donald Trump was set to take the oath of office for the second time, most of the conversations on Sunday’s political talk shows were focused on what people expected to see happen not just in the coming days, but through the end of Trump’s second term.

The predictions ran the gamut from the straightforward to the outrageous, and as one might expect, split pretty evenly along party lines.

ABC News host Jonathan Karl opened “This Week” by saying, “We come on the air this morning on the precipice of a historic moment, one that feels more like the beginning of a new era than a new presidency.”

Karl also spoke to Jon Finer, who used his last moment in the spotlight to help President Joe Biden claim credit for the ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Hamas terrorists who have been holding a number of hostages since October 7, 2023.

While Finer did concede that Trump’s team had offered “significant support” for a deal, he added, “Ultimately, at the end of the day, it was our team that was in the driver’s seat for the negotiations directed by President Biden with their support.”

Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) broke from several members of his party and said that he would attend Trump’s inauguration – but he also signaled that he expected more bad than good from a second Trump administration.

On CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) also predicted disaster from the implementation of Trump’s stated policies. He specifically commented on plans for mass deportations — which he said would hit like “an absolute gut punch” — and the tariffs Trump has threatened to impose, which he argued would cause pain to American consumers.

Despite what many of the Democratic politicians were warning about, a new CBS News poll seemed to indicate that the American people were ready to see the change they’d voted for: “A majority of Americans say they are optimistic about Donald Trump’s second term, a CBS News poll finds one day before the president-elect’s inauguration, with high expectations for the economy after he returns to office.”

Green Beret veteran and incoming National Security Adviser Michael Waltz laid out a number of executive actions Trump could take in the early days of this administration, particularly with regard to the southern border and the Mexican drug cartels.

“I don’t want to get ahead of the announcements, but we have to deal with them with what they are. We cannot have a situation where we have paramilitary gangs that are shooting down aircraft with heavy weapons, controlling 30% of our neighbor, Mexico, and controlling whole swaths of our border,” Waltz said.

On NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries tried to run cover for Biden and the concerted effort made by Democrats and media to hide his obvious mental decline from the American people.

Host Kristen Welker spoke with Trump himself, who confirmed that deportations would be a priority.

“It’s clear that mass deportations will be in focus…he said that the deportations will begin very early and very quickly,” Welker said of their conversation.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) also spoke to Welker about what to expect in the coming weeks — and he said that, after multiple reports suggesting that mismanagement of government had contributed to the devastation wrought by the wildfires in the Los Angeles area, he was not ready to commit to sending monetary relief to California without condition.

The X account for CNN’s “State of the Union” referred to Trump’s plan for deportation by stating that “immigration raids” were in the offing — and quoted Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) as saying that he hoped they’d begin “right away because that’s what the American people voted on.”

Republican commentator Scott Jennings took a similar position, saying that he too expected big moves on immigration in the early days of the administration: “The insanity stops tomorrow when Trump takes over. It’s what the American people voted for.”

And over on MSNBC, former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki painted a very grim picture of an America where the president only cared about certain people — kind of like the America that existed under the thumb of Biden’s administration.

“All of the evidence from the first term… all of the early indicators, even the visuals, suggest that starting tomorrow… we’re going to be back in a place where some citizens mean much more to the president than others,” she complained.

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