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Trump fell asleep at his own event about maternal health, just seconds after speaking. Stephen Miller’s once-untouchable grip on immigration policy is quietly being dismantled. Local cops are now arresting immigrants who call 911 for help. And Marjorie Taylor Greene appears to have decamped to Costa Rica after her fiancé quit his White House job. Let’s dive in.
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Trump Falls Asleep at His Own Maternal Health Event
Donald Trump’s daily nap routine has now expanded to events that begin at 11 in the morning.
On Monday, the president hosted a White House gathering to roll out “Moms.gov,” a new vehicle for the administration’s campaign to convince American women to have more babies. He was joined by Dr. Oz, Senator Katie Britt, philanthropist Olivia Walton, and a handful of other officials. Then, seconds after delivering his bit, Trump appeared to drift off with his eyes fully closed while the people behind him kept speaking.
This isn’t a one-off. Last week he was caught napping in the Oval during another event. The week before that, he dozed off while bragging to a room full of children about his Iran war plans. We’re now at the point where his public dozing barely registers as news.
The president is 79. He insists he’s aced all three dementia tests he’s been forced to take. And yet here we are — his first scheduled event of the day, 11 in the morning, and he can’t keep his eyes open long enough to get through it.
Capable presidents don’t fall asleep at 11:30 in the morning talking about maternal health.
Stephen Miller Is Quietly Losing His Grip
For the first year of Trump’s second term, Stephen Miller was arguably the most powerful staffer in Washington. He wrote the executive orders, designed the ICE arrest quotas, and built the legal architecture for mass deportation. Now, according to a remarkable new piece in The Atlantic, his influence is quietly collapsing.
The unraveling started in late January, after the killing of two protesters in Minneapolis turned Miller’s enforcement push into a political disaster. Trump reversed Miller’s visa cuts without consulting him. He brought back career law-enforcement officials Miller had sidelined. He installed Markwayne Mullin to replace Kristi Noem at DHS, and Mullin is reportedly taking his cues from Tom Homan and CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott — not Miller.
The numbers reflect the shift. ICE arrests dropped from 36,000 in January to about 30,000 in March, well below Miller’s goal of 3,000 a day. The administration also quietly reverted ICE training from the rushed eight-week course Miller had pushed for, back to the traditional four-and-a-half-month academy.
One senior official put it bluntly: “The new secretary is listening to Tom Homan and Rodney Scott before he is ever listening to Stephen Miller.” Another said Trump’s been telling people Miller “sometimes goes too far.” Miller will be back. He always comes back. But for the moment, the architect’s blueprints are gathering dust.
Cops Are Now Arresting People Who Call 911
In December, a Florida man called 911 to ask for a welfare check on his sick four-year-old daughter. Two deputies from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office showed up. One took his ID, walked back to the patrol car, and returned to inform him he was being detained for ICE.
The man, Axel Sanchez Toledo, ran. Bodycam footage obtained by The Marshall Project shows the deputies chasing him down, tasering him, then kicking and tackling him to the ground while his girlfriend sobbed and held their infant son. Pinned to the pavement, he begged: “Please, guys, I’m not a criminal.” He had a pending asylum case. “I don’t want to go.”
“Too f***king bad now!” one of the deputies screamed.
The resisting-arrest charges against him were dropped last month. He’s still in ICE custody.
The deputies were part of Palm Beach County’s 287(g) Task Force, a program that deputizes local cops as federal immigration agents in exchange for cash reimbursements. Only 150 of the county’s 1,500 officers are deputized, and yet they’ve managed to arrest 60 immigrants a month since September, the highest rate in Florida, earning the department nearly a million dollars. More than 1,100 law enforcement agencies across the country have signed similar deals.
The downstream effect is exactly what you’d expect. A Virginia woman allegedly killed by her partner had been too afraid to report the abuse, her family says, because of her immigration status. The Tahirih Justice Center says 76 percent of its immigrant clients now refuse to go to the police. This is what 287(g) actually buys. Not safer streets, not better policing — a population of people who’ve learned that calling for help is its own kind of risk.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Reportedly Flees to Costa Rica
And finally, in the category of you-cannot-make-this-up: former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, the self-styled America First firebrand, has apparently relocated to Costa Rica.
Greene posted a photo from a tropical location on Instagram this week, writing she was “so thankful to start the next chapter” with her fiancé Brian Glenn — who, you may recall, resigned from his White House correspondent job last week after Trump publicly insulted Greene in the Oval Office.
MAGA activist Laura Loomer alleges Greene has bought a $5 million mansion in Costa Rica, having sold her Rome, Georgia home for $1.1 million in March. None of this has been confirmed, and Loomer is a notoriously unreliable narrator. But Greene hasn’t pushed back on the location.
Greene left Congress in January after breaking with Trump over his handling of the Epstein files. She’d been pushing for full transparency and was one of the few voices on the right willing to challenge Trump on his Epstein associations. Now it looks like she may have decided that taking on Trump from Washington was less appealing than doing it from a beach in Central America.
You really cannot script this stuff.
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