Transcript of Trump Panics as Protests Kick Him Out…in Maine!!!

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Maine is furious. Maine is fuming. What you saw right there were thousands of protesters in Portland, Maine, protesting against Donald Trump's despicable regime and the ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo that are terrorizing the people of Maine and the rest of this country. We've seen Donald Trump's approval plummet across the country, but perhaps one of the areas where it is the worst, and maybe surprisingly so, but not if you know Maine's independent streak. In Maine, Donald Trump's approval right now is below net negative 18 %. Just look at Donald Trump's approval in some of these other states right here. Georgia, he's negative 18. 6. Maine right here, negative 18. 4 %. Even in Texas, Donald Trump's negative 17. 2% now in Maine. They're going through a recession in the state induced by Donald Trump's Tariffs Against the World, Donald Trump's Attack on Canada. Maine and Canada's relations are so close that now that Canada is boycotting the United States, that's impacting Maine a ton, especially Canada's tourism boycott. The Trump regime has invaded Maine with ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo, and it announced that invasion right around the same time as it surged with its invasion of Minneapolis.

Now, the Trump regime claims it's pulling out of both Minneapolis and Portland, Maine, but the Trump regime lies about everything. And we've seen some horrifying images. And the people of Portland, Maine, and throughout Maine have experienced horrifying situations where ICE is absolutely terrorizing and torturing the community. I mean, just take Take a look at this story right here from this past week, where Maine's top federal judge, a chief judge, ordered ICE to release a woman arrested without a warrant. François Mucuza was detained by ICE. Gustave on January 23rd while leaving her neighborhood for work. Maine's chief judge, US district Court Judge, told immigration officials this past Friday they had to release this asylum seeker, François Mucuizza, who was arrested as she was leaving her house for work. Just listen to this story. Muccaiza and her family lived in the country for more than a dozen years, having arrived on visas in 2011 from Colombia. They were refugees there from the Democratic Republic of Congo. She is the mother of a 12-year-old US citizen and works providing professional support to residents in an assisted living facility, according to court records. Mukiza has no criminal history, according to her lawyer, and has been waiting since a hearing last summer for an answer on her asylum application.

I know that she and her family are ecstatic, attorney Christine Hanley said Friday. Even the week-long detention has been very trying for their family and very scary for the family. Now, Judge Lance Walker wrote in his order that Mukiza's status as an asylum seeker had no bearing on his order. Instead, he was more concerned with the lack of an administrative warrant. I have no difficulty appreciating the Department of Homeland Security or Immigration and Customs Enforcement should be permitted to effectuate the orderly application of federal immigration law prescribed by Congress. Walker, who was nominated by Donald Trump in 2018, wrote in the order. This is a Trump appointed judge, who's the chief judge in Maine. However, I question the notion that the activities that have brought petitioner and others to the court via habeas petitions have generally the hallmark of orderliness and meticulous observation of statutory details. Now, dozens, perhaps hundreds, perhaps thousands of other Maine immigrants arrested by ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo in the last year have filed similar petitions, alleging that they are being held unlawfully. And so whether you're talking about immigration or the economy, Maine is suffering. I mean, take a look at this.

Moody's List Maine as one of 22 states facing recession right now. Mounting job losses and rising prices are squeezing Maine's economy. If you're noticing your dollar isn't going as far as it used to be, you aren't alone. 13 WGME reports. We're hoping for grocery prices to come down, but those prices are not there. Eggs are still too high. Bread is still too high, is what you would expect given the general tenor of the country. $16 billion of Maine's economy comes from tourism, especially Canadian tourism. But Trump's trade war with Canada resulted in Canadians boycotting Maine this past summer. The Maine Office of Tourism reports the state likely lost 225,000 tourists this summer, and that corresponds to $139 million that stayed in Canada over the summer. And don't get me started on the tariffs against the world, which have increased input prices and increased prices on consumers dramatically. Then you have instances like this taking place in Maine, where ICE agents threatened to assault and illegally arrest a US citizen in Portland, Maine. In this video, a man is legally observing ICE activity in his own neighborhood. And watch with the ICE Gestapo do. Here, play this clip.

Hi.

How are you doing today? Good, and you? Are you following us? Yeah. Okay, so what you're doing is called impeding federal law enforcement, okay? It's an 18 USC, charge 111. I see. It's your first and only Good morning. Thank you. Continue to impede us and follow us, you will be arrested. Yeah, except I'm not impeding you. Okay, you just openly admitted that you were following us. I am following you. I'm not impeding you. I'm observing you. It is impeding. No, it's actually not. We have the one morning, Keep doing it. We'll pull you back out and arrest you. Yeah, okay. Thanks.

Then there was this clip that went viral out of Portland, Maine, in South Portland, where ICE take a photo of a peaceful protester and observer of their terrorism, they take a photo and say, We have a nice little database, and we're putting you on that database now. Let's play this clip right here.

You guys are doing here.

You got Look at them. Look at them. The ice is here, guys. Be careful. Be careful. Be over here. It's not illegal to record. Exactly. Yeah. That's what we're doing. Yeah. Why are you taking my information down? Because we have a nice little database. Oh, Now you're considered a domestic terrorist. We're videotaping you? Are you crazy?

Now I want to bring in Troy Jackson, candidate, Democrat for the governor of Maine in the upcoming election. Troy, great to see you again. Troy, one of the things with this Trump regime is that they'll say things. We're doing this. We're doing this. Then not only is it a lie, but it is such a that it was never even attached to a semblance of reality. Look, the news is out that Susan Collins is saying, and also when you start with Susan Collins is saying, you also may have to have the caveat that it's probably a lie, but she's saying that ICE is retreating right now from Maine. We've seen some horrific videos of ICE doing terrible things to people in Maine. I don't think it was getting enough attention nationally, but they were doing horrible things to people in Maine. And so they say that, but they say a lot of things. Why don't we start there, Troy? Troy, good to see you, by the way.

Yeah. Well, thanks, Ben. Appreciate being on again. Yeah, well, that's the thing. I mean, obviously, what's been happening in Minnesota has been horrific and That's been taking up everything. What's been going on in Maine is bad, but not compared to there. But we've certainly been dealing with a lot. Susan Collins has been making promises and saying things throughout my entire life, and And what we know is they've been going around doing all kinds of crazy stuff here in Maine, hauling people out of vehicles, violating their Fourth Amendment rights, using kids as bait. And it's just been insane what's been happening here in Maine. And yeah, exactly. They don't let facts get in the way at all of what's been happening. It's just something that shouldn't be. It's not the way Maine has been. And We're 47th as far as immigration here in Maine. We're the whitest state in the nation. They're just going around targeting people for no good reason at all. It's hurting our economy. It's certainly scaring the people in the state. It's hurting the hospitals, it's hurting the schools. It's hurting everything. If anything, Maine needs to welcome immigrants to the state.

We're an older state. We need people to come to it. Certain Certainly, if there's anyone that's violated any law, we want to make sure that that's taken care of. But that's not the case here. They're just going around targeting anyone that doesn't look like me or you. That's not the way Maine should be. That's not the way anywhere in the United States should be, and there's no place for it in Maine.

Yeah, I mean, you mentioned the economy and how state like Maine and places throughout this country need some injections of people who want to contribute to this economy because things are rough. And you put out a video before, earlier in January, that things were rough before Trump and things were getting rough and getting more rough over the years. The thing is that Trump, though, said that, I am going to fix this. I'm going to make it better. He's made it worse. But worse yet, he's claimed he's fixed it. Right now, as we're heading into February, 2026, he's doing the victory lap as though what just took place over the last year has saved the people of Maine and the rest of this country, that everybody should be grateful, and that this is a mission accomplished. And that, to to me is also part of the thing that's pissing people off. It's like, you made it worse, and now you're spiking the foot. But we're not stupid, right? I mean, there's a component of that.

Absolutely. I mean, the thing about... You're Exactly right. They treated voters like they are idiots, and that is not the case. We know better. And here in Maine, our health care costs are going through the roof once again. They're going up even more dramatically. And people know that people can feel it. Food prices are out of control, our health care, our prescription drugs. Those are all things that people have been feeling for a long time. Like I said in that video, Democrats We have to own that, too. Trump said he was going to make all those things cheaper, and he hasn't. That's why people are frustrated with all political parties. I get that very well. That's the things that we need to fight on. Democrats need to step up and fight for. Health care, prescription drugs, child care, nursing homes, housing has certainly become a huge issue. What I've been saying, so people across the state understand, is that the Somalians and other immigrants here in Maine are not my oppressors. They're not the ones that have been driving my health care costs up. Wall Street have been the ones that are driving my health care costs up.

People like Donald Trump that are making sure that his friends are getting more and more money are the ones that are driving my health care costs up. Not the immigrants that have come to Maine that are trying to do everything they can to fight for their families. That's why we have to band together to try and do whatever we can to push back on this 1% that are just killing all of us.

Then, of course, there are the attacks on Canada that happen every day by this Trump regime. He wakes up. He says, now I'm thinking about 100% tariffs on Canada. If Canada enters into a trade pact with China, after Trump said, I'm fine with the trade pact with China. The only reason that Canada did that is because they've been attacked by the United States. They're just trying to find somebody else because their traditional ally keeps attacking them over and over again. Now we learn that the is working with a separatist movement in Alberta, a la Putin, working with separatist movements in the Donbas to try to get Alberta to secede from Canada. You think about the close relationship between Maine and Canada, and also how this impacts the economy there. To your point, it's like, what are we doing here? What's the end game other than to really harm America?

Yeah, well, that's really close to me for where I live in St. John Valley. They literally made the St. John River the boundary and split families. One day, both sides of the river were Maine, and then one day, they just split the St. John River became the boundary, and people went from Maine and Canada being split like that. We have people on both sides of the river that are family members that are divided like that. That's how close our country is to New Brunswick and Quebec, up in St. John Valley. Our countries are very well connected. And I've had issues in the past in the logging industry, but it wasn't the Canadian workers. What it was, was the big landowners that were using Canadian workers to drive down wages over here in the United States. We've always had that similarity, working across borders, that trade, and now it's become a real problem. It's really challenging for logging. It's really challenging for farming, things like that. People are really feeling the effects of the tariffs across the state. We're seeing real challenges of people, tourism, things like that, that these tariffs are hurting the state big time, and something's got to change.

It's not working, and they can say whatever they want, but these tariffs are not something that's been good for the state, and I don't believe they're good for this country.

Troy, talk to us about your platform. If you were to become the governor of Maine, tell us what you're focused on. And as many people may recall, we had you on about maybe 6-9 months ago, a lot of excitement behind your campaign as well. There still is. There are lots of... It's part of the fight the oligarchy tour, AOC and Bernie and you and Platner representing a generation of Democrats fighting for the people, not fighting for Wall Street, and speaking to that Bernie, truth to power, fight the oligarchy. But obviously, with so much going on and all of the chaos taking place, sustaining that momentum and reminding people every day that the oligarchy is still here and we still need to fight them. That's the tough part of a job like yours, and that's the tough part about politics because people in this day and age, and this is by design by the oligarchs of Trump, people get distracted. It's like, we got to remind people who you are and what you're fighting for and what people like Platner and Bernie and and AOC are fighting for it. Talk to us before we go.

Yeah, well, there's no doubt. When all these ICE raids start happening and people start getting hauled off, you got to stand up for that and other things go to the back seat. But for us, it's always been about economic justice for people. I started my career blocking the Canadian border, fighting for people in Northern Maine to get better opportunities. This campaign is about people getting better health care, prescription drug coverage, nursing homes, childcare, housing. These are the things I've been fighting for. Economic justice, like I said, we're going to take on big farmer. We're going to take on the big landowners here in Maine that have been holding back the logging in history. We're going to provide better childcare for people that deserve it. There's a lot of things that in my time as a Maine State Senator, I've passed bills that unfortunately have been vetoed by our current governor, and that's why I'm running I'm not having the big lobby veto my bills anymore. I'm going to become governor so that we can pass bills that actually help Mainers out across the state because working class people deserve somebody in the Blaine house that's actually going to fight for them for a change.

Where can people learn more about your campaign, Troy?

Jacksonformaine. Com.

Check it out. Troy Jackson, running for governor in Maine. Loger. Just hard working Maine guy. Great to see you.

Same here, Ben. Thanks so much, man.

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