Schiff: GOP Will Ditch Trump ‘Like Rats Off a Sinking Ship’ if Tariffs Continue

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Pam Key 10 Apr 2025

Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) claimed Thursday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that if President Donald Trump continues imposing tariffs, Republicans will “abandon him like rats off a sinking ship.”

Host Nicolle Wallace said, “I mean, the other thing that’s happened is Donald Trump’s approval rating has plunged. He’s at 41% overall approval and down to 40% on the economy. The tariffs are lower than that. When do you think Republicans will reassert themselves as elected officials?”

Schiff said, “Well, had he continued, and if he does continue along this tariff, destroy our economy, this self-inflicted wound to our economy, Republicans are going to abandon him like rats off a sinking ship. It’s unsustainable. You already saw Republicans start to abandon him. We brought up a resolution, Tim Kaine did, got four Republican votes, enough to get it passed in the Senate to try to stop these destructive tariffs on Canada.”

He added, “That was Republicans not just speaking privately, not just speaking publicly, but actually voting against the president. And you’re going to see more and more of that, the more destruction he brings to our economy. Just watching this display in the administration, as the president’s aides were out there after this latest flip-flop, saying it wasn’t a flip-flop, it was — it was planned that way. You know, you’re just not smart enough to see the president’s brilliant strategy, his art of the deal.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/04/10/schiff-gop-will-ditch-trump-like-rats-off-a-sinking-ship-if-tariffs-continue/

[DefiantMassRINO]

Schiff and Raskin are no Abbott and Costello.

GOP can't ditch Trump.  Trump is the GOP.  Without Trump, GOP is nothing.  Congressional GOP are useless and worthless.  The only thing they are doing is keeping Pelosi out of the Speaker's chair.

[catfish1957]

Let's not forget that this is the same Nicolle Wallace who made fun of the 10 year old boy who beat cancer and became an honorary Secret Service Officer.  The entirety of MSNBC and CNN , et al. are all void of honor, honesty, or empathy.  A virtual cesspool worthless lowlifes.

And to Watermelon Head Shitty?  Trying to extract political capital a week in that constitutes a long game that helps the country for decades?  Nice Try....

[rangerrebew]

What an irony!!  Schiff says the rats will ditch Trump like a sinking ship when he is proof positive that rats don't necessarily abandon sinking ships.

[Smokin Joe]

Who made schifty a GOP spokesperson, anyway?

[bilo]

Bessent made a very good point last week. He said,"88% of equities are owned by the top 10% in net worth and the remaining 12% are owned by those in the top half."

IOW, people in the bottom half economically aren't going to worry too much about the wealthy. However, the tariffs are getting all types of businesses to onshore their business which in turn will create good jobs for those not only in the bottom half economically but also those in the top half.

The only GOP members I see leaving over the tariffs are the establishment loyalists. The American people are not only strongly supporting Pres. Trump they are saying "it's about time!"