Wow. Can he do that? I guess he can. This may turn out to be a really big deal. How much might California’s population decrease if illegal aliens are discounted. A million? Three million? Maybe more? What if all of a sudden there are more people in Texas and Florida than New York and California? Not to mention all the illegals in Illinois, Virginia and New Jersey.
So, this is Trump swinging for the fences. I can’t imagine that the same federal judges that have challenged him on every executive order and every action he takes won’t write injunctions against this. They may slow him down but I think the Supreme Court may back him on this if he can make the case that illegal aliens are being counted in defiance of the intent of the census to count how many Americans need representation in each state.
I listened to a little bit of a podcast where James Carville was freaking out over this and he said that if the Democrats can get the White House and both houses of Congress in 2028, they should immediately declare DC and Puerto Rico states and add six seats to the Supreme Court in order to claw back control of the federal government. I took that to mean that he’s in a panic. Trump is fighting gerrymandered fire with fire. Massachusetts has been 100% Democrat for ages. The Supreme Court has said that gerrymandering is not within their purview. Since racial gerrymandering is no longer allowed, it’s only natural for the red states to copy states like Massachusetts and maximize the number of Republican house seats they can manufacture.
Trump is playing hardball and he’s doing it while he has the maximum clout he’ll ever have. Could it backfire? Not really. It could fail to get all he’s looking to get but it’s not like the Democrats could ever get any angrier than the already are. And this is the moment when the Democrats are as unpopular as they’ve ever been or maybe ever could be. So, this is the time to strike.
We are living in very turbulent times. We have elected Trump because the other Republicans were useless and dishonest. We’ve hired a pragmatist who doesn’t like losing. It certainly behooves us to back his play. Any Republican wringing his hands or whining about alienating the Democrats is not to be listened to. In fact, these are the people we must replace. Trump has a vision of how to defeat the leftist political movement. It entails restoring prosperity to the American middle-class and eliminating as much of the bureaucracy and the NGO’s that leech money and power from the federal government at the expense of the tax payers. He is dead right. Defunding USAID and other slush funds that feed the Left is brilliant. Recounting the census is also brilliant. He is doing everything he can to allow the real majority to get the government they want. If he keeps up like this, it won’t be enough to add him to Mt Rushmore. We’ll have to put him on the million-dollar bill (which will have to be added to circulation to allow for buying Starbucks coffee in a few years).
I’m very interested to see how this plays out. I worked for the Census Bureau for six years and who got counted in the decennial census was always very contentious. After every census the Bureau would be sued by several states who believed their population were undercounted (states always want to maximize their population to get the maximum number of congressional seats). The Census’ position always was that the Constitution states that they are to count the number of “persons” in each state without any other qualifiers. There is a historical basis for this since slaves were not citizens and… Read more »
I expect it will be very contentious and messy. But I give him full points for putting in the effort. He’s the first Republican who doesn’t just complain about a problem and then throw his hands up saying it’s too hard to do anything. I like the fact that he’s always on the attack.
>We have elected Trump because the other Republicans were useless and dishonest. We’ve hired a pragmatist who doesn’t like losing. It certainly behooves us to back his play. Any Republican wringing his hands or whining about alienating the Democrats is not to be listened to. In fact, these are the people we must replace.<
This is where we have to primary out the spineless, the ball-less, and the Rhinos!
Primarying renegades used to be a hollow threat. But it’s starting to happen because Trump has gotten around to capturing the RNC leadership and the donors.
I actually looked at the constitution with respect to the census in a comment in another blog ( https://thenewneo.com/2025/08/07/trump-calls-for-new-census-that-doesnt-count-illegal-aliens/ ) Looking at the text of Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 of the US Constitution (partial) we have Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be… Read more »