NYT’s Mara Gay Labels Trump Officials 'White Supremacists' Over ICE #Political
On Tuesday’s Morning Joe, the MS NOW’s morning talk program led with the news of an ICE-involved shooting death in Maine. Frequent guest and The New York Times opinion writer Mara Gay used the shooting discussion to label “many” Trump officials as “white supremacists” before she related the shooting to the removal of Temporary Protected Status and “anti-democratic behavior.”
Gay continued the Scarborough-led conversation of the Maine shooting, similar to last Friday when he screamed at ICE funding and “Don’t Tread on Me” license plates.
She started by saying she was not a Maine resident nor an immigrant, but she was a “proud American.” Gay then stated, “This administration has made every single American complicit in these deaths.”
Scarborough then connected back to ICE funding and related the situation back to moderate Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins. He remarked about Collins and other Republicans: “They’ve sat back and let this happen.”
Frequent Morning Joe guest and New York Times Opinion Writer Mara Gay labeled some Trump Administration officials as "white supremacists" who "don't care" about the politics after ICE-involved shootings. She continued, "They're cruel, and this is what they want." pic.twitter.com/h3JvExJiJE
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Gay labeled some officials in the Trump administration, who she called hardliners, as “white supremacists.”
"But the other thing here is the hardliners in this administration. They don't care about the politics because many of them are white supremacists and they don't care,” she continued. ”They're cruel, and this is what they want.
The writer then connected the ICE shooting to the removal of TPS status of Haitian and Syrians in the US, after the Supreme Court ruled DHS could remove temporary statuses.
She wondered: “Why is this administration doing something that is so obviously bad politics in addition to cruel and un-American?”
In close of her white supremacist accusation, she implied immigration policies were part of “all the anti-democratic behavior from this White House.”
CNN This Morning's Audie Cornish also talked about the Maine shooting and asked if ICE has acted differently or if the shootings revealed "a little bit of a standing operating procedure here." pic.twitter.com/NVktc4O5Rb
— Nick (@nspin310) July 14, 2026
CNN This Morning also covered the shooting in Maine, and host Audie Cornish asked if the recent shootings revealed “a little bit of a standing operating procedure” of ICE.
Instead of true talk on the shooting in Maine, Gay took the opportunity to opine about democracy and white supremacy, which was not surprising due to her history of comments on Morning Joe, as previously documented by NewsBusters.
The white supremacy claim had little to no relation to the shooting issue at hand, and her comments were more about her own views on immigrants, especially those in the country illegally.
Paired with Cornish’s allegation of ICE shooting as “standing operating procedure” of ICE, the morning cable news shows' reaction to the events in Maine showcased the renewed build-up of immigration enforcement-dominated news coverage in the lead-up to the midterms.
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MS NOW’s Morning Joe
July 14, 2026
6:10:41 AM Eastern
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MARA GAY: Right. And I just want to say, you know, I don't live in Maine. I'm not an immigrant, but I'm a proud American. And this administration has made every single American complicit in these deaths. This is happening with our taxpayer dollars that could be going to schools, to health care.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Because of what -
GAY: Because -
SCARBOROUGH: - Susan Maine and Republicans are doing.
GAY: That’s right.
SCARBOROUGH: They’ve sat back and let this happen.
GAY: But the other thing here is the hardliners in this administration. They don't care about the politics because many of them are white supremacists and they don't care. They're cruel, and this is what they want.
This is the same administration that removed protections for Haitians, for Syrians. At the same time, it's allowing more Afrikaners only, white South Africans only, in. So, this is all one of a piece. And when we ask ourselves, why is this administration doing something that is so obviously bad politics in addition to cruel and un-American?
I think we need to really look carefully at all the anti-democratic behavior from this White House, because this is not a popular policy. So why would someone pursue a popular policy in a midterm year?
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