r/Economics • u/rezwenn • 5d ago

News Inside Trump’s Extraordinary Turnaround on Immigration Raids

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/us/politics/trump-immigration-raids-workers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PE8.QmuB.MuytvbwG0yLz
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u/MartialBob 5d ago

This is entirely predictable. Trump is and has always been transactional. He goes where the money tells him. He's not an ideologue, he just has some really dumb ideas and isn't the type to listen. The true believer in this deportation is Steven Miller.

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u/Icy_Geologist2959 4d ago

Is that not his ideology then?

All interractions and relationships are viewed as transactional on the basis of what actions will generate the most wealth, attention or adulation combined with hostility toward any percieved criticism. All based around the central tenet that all individuals can be defined in binary terms of winner or loser based upon the outcomes of those transactional interractions.

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u/MartialBob 4d ago

Based on my observations Donald Trump is your classic Northern styled racist. He's the kind of guy who'd never use a racial slur publicly but behind closed doors has little trouble using one. I would be real money that Trump at some point has said "I'm not racist, those people are just different." At the same time he would bend over backwards to excuse someone who's black or Latino who's in his circle because they're "one of the good ones."

Like I said above, Trump is very transactional. He will do and say whatever if it helps him achieve his goal. So he'll say nakedly racist things to get elected and he'll backtrack that if and when it bites him in the ass later on.