MAGA loses it – and White House gets brutal community note on X – over Trump’s amnesty idea

Donald Trump’s MAGA base has lost it over the president’s idea to give illegal immigrants amnesty after leading a mass deportation campaign for the past two years.

Trump made the shock announcement while reflecting on Republicans’ brutal defeat in the midterm elections last week.

“Do you think immigration hurt you in the midterms? Do you think the crackdown hurt you?” 60 Minutes correspondent Ross Douthat asked the president in an interview that aired Sunday night.

“I think it both helped and hurt. I think I got an A-plus for closing up the border. I get very high marks for getting the bad ones out,” Trump said. “But I get hurt because we also took people that had good jobs that committed one violation or breaking of the law, and that was that they came into the country illegally.”

The president then suggested potentially giving illegal immigrants who are otherwise law-abiding hard workers amnesty.

“If they’re good people working in a landscaping company or working in a hotel or doing something and in some cases paying taxes…there’s a large group of people who think that they should be allowed to stay,” Trump said.

The White House has said it’s “wrong” to assume Trump may allow amnesty deals for illegal immigrants.

“The word ‘amnesty’ was never even said in this entire exchange,” the administration’s rapid response X account wrote.

But social media users aren’t buying it.

The White House’s post was hit with a community note that mentioned another quote from Trump during his conversation with Douthat that read: “But people who are here, and in some cases here for 10 or 15 years, work a deal for them.”

“That’s the same thing as amnesty,” the community note contributor said of Trump’s quote.

MAGA was shocked to hear Trump is weighing amnesty for illegal immigrants, with some likening it to a betrayal.

Conservative podcaster Megyn Kelly wrote: “And now amnesty. Seriously?”

“I legitimately fell out of my chair watching this,” conservative influencer Matt Van Swol wrote. “Is Trump seriously suggesting MASS AMNESTY for illegal aliens??? WHAT?!!!”

Far-right news outlet The Gateway Pundit called a potential amnesty deal from Trump “The End of America.”

Republican Minnesota state Sen. Michael Holmstrom said, “Amnesty is a betrayal. America First.”

James Fishback, who unsuccessfully ran to be the Republican candidate for Florida’s governor’s race earlier this year, called an amnesty deal “treason.”

Democrats will take control of the House and the Senate in January after winning key races in reliably Republican states. Despite record-low approval ratings, Trump has tried to shift the blame onto the GOP candidates he fiercely campaigned for in the lead-up to the midterms.

The president did admit during his 60 Minutes interview that voters “didn’t like the war” he started in Iran more than eight months ago, which caused gas prices to skyrocket, and that his immigration crackdown was “too tough.”

The Trump administration made headlines earlier this year for the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens and the detention of a five-year-old boy by federal immigration agents in Minnesota. “I voted” stickers were placed at the memorials of Renee Good and Alex Pretti on Election Day.

Fifty-three percent of voters said the Trump administration went too far on immigration enforcement, according to a Fox News poll conducted in September.

Despite Trump admitting he was “too tough” on immigration, he decided to replace his chief of staff, Susie Wiles, with her deputy Stephen Miller after the GOP shellacking.

Miller is known as the architect behind Trump’s hardline immigration agenda and has called people who cross into the U.S. illegally “invaders.”