Jim Acosta Says Trump Steamrolling As Democrats Have Reached ‘Maximum Powerlessness’

Jim Acosta lamented that while President Donald Trump steamrolls through obstacles to his agenda, Democrats have reached the point of “maximum powerlessness” and asked political analyst Larry Sabato what they can do about it.

Trump’s first weeks in office have been characterized by a string of successful cabinet nominations and a relentless testing of executive power and governing norms.

On Wednesday’s edition of the Substack video podcast The Jim Acosta Show, the former CNN host wondered when Democrats will get their “act together”:

JIM ACOSTA: I just wonder, Larry, what– I mean, the other question that’s come up this week is what Democrats should do about it?

Because what we had seen initially as this administraion was getting going, as Democrats were saying, well, you know, up in the Senate in particular, when it came to Trump’s Cabinet nominees, you know, it’s their tradition of the Senate, by and large, to sign off on Cabinet nominees and so on.

Sure, there are going to be some like Pete Hegseth are going to be highly controversial. RFK, Jr, highly controversial.

But you’ve seen Democratic senators in some cases vote for some of these nominees.

What we’ve heard in the last day or two is that maybe some of these Democratic senators are saying, hold on a second, perhaps we should just do a blanket–. We’re not going to vote for any of these nominees.

Of course, they don’t have the numbers. They can’t stop people from getting confirmed theoretically speaking.

But what do Democrats what can they do at this point? They’re sort of in this situation, this this position of maximum powerlessness.

LARRY SABATO: Yes. And that’s the tragedy of it for Democrats. They they should have been able to carry the House. That’s obvious now. And maybe they will in 2026, although I’m not putting any bets on Democrats to win anything the way things are going.

What I do think they can do, and this is depressing, but they can throw sand in the gears. That is what the Republican Party did for years when they didn’t have the White House or either House of Congress.

Now in an early era, they actually worked with Democrats. They had bipartisan compromises and so on. But those were different parties.

But for the Democrats now, they do have to put themselves out there in a way they don’t like to. They’re going to have to say not t”his far, no further.”.

They need to say he’s already gone way too far. Forget about no further. And they have to do what they have to do, which means staying up all night. No one likes to stay up all night except for my students. You know, it’s just not ideal.

But they have nothing else they can do. Other than to work through the Democratic judges, the district and the appellate court judges that they can do.

Watch above via The Jim Acosta Show.