Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville suggested there are only two logical explanations for Donald Trump’s increasingly erratic behavior so close to the 2026 midterm elections.
On Wednesday’s edition of the “Politics War Room” podcast, which Carville hosts with Al Hunt, Hunt argued that Trump is “out of control” right now, pointing to his talk of Iran bombing Los Angeles and San Diego, his false claims about inflation and his branding of Democrats as “dumb sons of bitches.”
For Carville, it raised one obvious question.
“Is Trump trying to lose? I mean, there’s nothing that he does that’s consistent with trying to win,” he said.
Trump is “the central issue in the campaign” and “dominates everything, but I gotta keep asking, is he trying to do this?” he continued. “Does he just want to screw the congressional Republicans? Does he hate ’em? I don’t know.”
Carville then offered another possible explanation.
“It might be that he’s just out of his goddamn mind,” Carville pondered. “Who knows? But he is a man of real grievances, and this behavior, the only thing that could really explain it is he’s clinically insane, or he wants the Republicans to lose. I don’t think there’s any other explanation for it.”
Hunt said he was “hard pressed” to come up with another explanation, although he also expressed concern that Trump could try to interfere with the election.