'Wild pitches': Maddow warns that Trump may get 'markedly more horrible' as polls worsen

On her Monday episode, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow noted the approach of President Donald Trump's 100th day in office, and the slew of public opinion polls that paint an unflattering picture of how American voters view his performance.

Maddow began her show by going into detail on the wave of "Hands Off" protests that have swept the country in the last month, bringing out hundreds of thousands of people in more than 1,400 cities around the United States. She then pivoted to the numerous polls that show Trump is deeply underwater with a majority of voters on essentially every issue — even on issues like immigration and the economy that swept him back into the White House last November.

But the MSNBC host cautioned viewers that Trump's dismal performance in polling could soon be followed by even more egregious acts than the kind he's carried out in his first 100 days, like the deportations of legal residents without due process and even U.S. citizens as young as two years old being included in some deportations.

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"Here's where I think we are right now. I think that Trump and the Trump administration are going to throw some increasingly wild pitches to try to change the political trajectory of how things are going," she said. "I mean, they're now deporting U.S. citizens. You can't deport a U.S. citizen. U.S. citizens are from here. There's nowhere to deport them to. They're now arresting judges, right? It's insane."

"I think because of that instinct in Trump, we should expect that there are going to be some things ahead that are markedly more horrible than even what they have done already," she continued. "I think they're going to try to put some proverbial heads on pikes, and i think that's going to be terrible. I also think, though, that the more important truth here is that the country is against them and the country is against him, and he knows it."

Maddow encouraged her viewers to continue protesting and speaking out against the Trump administration, and opined that the strategy of some in Trump's path to choose "capitulation and sucking up to Trump" (like how several major law firms targeted by his executive orders have done" was "shameful and weak and marks you as a loser." She then lauded those who are "saying no to Trump and fighting him and standing up to him," arguing that the American people view those people as "strong." And she also predicted that as public opposition grows, Republicans will be forced to distance themselves from the administration in order to protect themselves in next year's midterm elections.

"Republicans will be under unrelenting and increasing pressure to split from him on basically every policy with which he is associated. And yes, that includes immigration. And yes, that includes his abuse of trans people," Maddow said. "I think relentless opposition and mockery of his failures will spread and intensify as those are further exposed, and as nobody in any part of Republican politics finds any way to defend him ... I think 100 days in that Donald Trump is losing. and I think Americans defending democracy are winning."

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Watch Maddow's segment below, or by clicking this link.