Carville offers blunt advice for Trump officials trapped in political doom spiral

In a new episode of his "Politics War Room" vodcast, veteran Democratic strategist James Carville discussed "Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump" — the new book by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan book. One of Carville's main takeaways is that more and more Republicans will be turning on Trump in the months ahead, and the 81-year-old Democrat argued that even people who appear to be loyalists will be working against him in the hope of saving their political careers.

"I'll give you one piece of advice, Donald Trump: everybody is out for you, even your own people," Carville argued on "Politics War Room," which he hosts with veteran journalist Al Hunt. "Be scared, be very afraid. Don't trust anybody. Everybody in the administration is s–– all over you, and they're just getting warmed up."

Carville emphasized that if the 2026 midterms go badly for Republicans, many will blame Trump — and will feel no obligation to keep supporting him.

"Come November, these people will realize that their careers are, for all intents and purposes, gone," the Democratic strategist warned Republicans. "No one's going to want to hire anybody out of the Trump administration. And the way that you get right with history is start leaking."

Realizing that they are political pariahs, Carville argued, Republicans will publicly pretend that they tried to talk Trump out of his worst political blunders.

Carville advised Republicans presently serving in the second Trump administration, "That's the only future you have: Leak like a sieve. Leak like a broken faucet. Leak everywhere. You're already leaking. Everybody's leaking on you. Everybody's leaking on everybody else. Trust no one. That's my message to anybody that works in this administration: Leak or be leaked on. That's it, you got no other choice."

"Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump," according to Carville, is not only a damning indictment of Trump himself, but also, of loyalists serving in his second administration. And in order to "save yourself," Carville warned, Republicans will have to do everything they can to distance themselves from Trump's policies.

The Democratic strategist observed, "Look at the number of people that are leaking!

They're trying to save their a––. They leak what he does in his own bedroom. They leak everything about him.... Everything that you know, every stupid thing that he says, every grotesque, horrible, nasty habit he's got — leak it."