‘ME?!?’ Jim Acosta Stunned When Ex-Trump Aide Tells Him ‘You Should Run For Office!’

Jim Acosta was stunned when former Trump White House official-turned-NeverTrumper Olivia Troye suggested he “run for office” amid President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

Troye was a guest on Friday’s episode of The Jim Acosta Show, during which Sen. Alex Padilla’s (D-CA) takedown by FBI agents and Trump’s use of the military in his crackdown on immigration and protesters were hot topics.

Acosta was taken aback by the suggestion he run for office, but had an idea of his own — a “Million Latino March” in Washington, DC to protest Trump’s treatment of Hispanic people:

JIM ACOSTA: What has happened to the Republican Party? I mean, Mike Johnson wants to censure Alex Padilla. Give me a break!

OLIVIA TROYE: Yeah. I mean, how about protecting the decorum and your own branch, right? I mean what happened to that? Or are you going to let the Trump administration bully you every single day, which is what’s happening and it’s happening definitely on the Republican side, but I’m also concerned about the reaction from some of the Democrats. I mean you cannot give this a pass.

And so like–.

JIM ACOSTA: No, absolutely not.

OLIVIA TROYE: No, no Jim, what are you going to do? You should run for office.

JIM ACOSTA: ME?!?

OLIVIA TROYE: Yeah, why not? We need people to take a stand!

JIM ACOSTA: You know what I, you know what I think? I mean, I, this is something that I, I do think about because I mean there’s, there’s doing, you know, a show there’s there’s you know, doing podcasting, they’re speaking out. There’s, you know, um, talking to people about the way you feel about this country and how it needs to go in a, in a better direction.

And I, it just absolutely infuriates me to see what is taking place with Hispanic people in this country, with Latino people in this country, they are absolutely being treated. We are absolutely been treated. I know you’re Mexican-American background. My dad’s a Cuban refugee.

We’re absolutely being treated like third-class citizens in this country and this is a moment for, I think, the Latino population in America to rise up and make its voices heard.

I’m going to talk about this with Chuck Rocha in a little bit too. I think maybe we need to have a Million Latino March in Washington.

I mean, we need to have a peaceful, nonviolent resistance movement in this country that reminds the people in power, people like Donald Trump, that we are not second and third class citizens.

We are Americans and we have the same rights and we’re a better country than this. Just brutalizing and beating up Hispanics in this country, they don’t even care if he’s a United States Senator for Christ’s sake!

Watch above via The Jim Acosta Show.