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.