Former Trump White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin on Thursday warned allies of President Donald Trump against “over-interpreting” his 2024 election victory to mean “he can just do anything” that he wants.
“The View” host cautioned “Trump World” against their idea that the returned president “can throw decades of what the GOP and the country have stood for out the window.”
“He does have a historically high approval rating with the Republican Party right now,” acknowledged Griffin, who served during Trump’s first term but has now become a vocal critic of her former boss. “But it’s already dropping in his first month in office by nearly seven points,” she noted.
And Griffin warned: “If he treats our allies worse than our enemies, that is going to backfire even with his own party, but broadly, with the country. If he doesn’t address the things he was elected to do, the cost of living, and instead puts in place trade wars that rise the cost of living, that is going to backfire.”
Griffin concluded with a prediction:
“If he comes after things like birthright citizenship, where there are voters who voted for him in this country who support him, who are citizens because of birthright citizenship, it will backfire. So, I just would caution him and those around him of thinking that they have this sweeping endorsement to do anything that they want. There are guardrails in place and the American public will reject it.”