President Donald Trump escalated his criticism Wednesday of two progressive congressional Democrats who shouted at him during his State of the Union address, denouncing them as “mentally deranged.” In his wild rant he said that the lawmakers had “the bulging, bloodshot eyes of crazy people” and, suggesting deportation, added, “we should send them back from where they came.”

“When you watch Low IQ Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, as they screamed uncontrollably last night at the very elegant State of the Union, such an important and beautiful event, they had the bulging, bloodshot eyes of crazy people, LUNATICS, mentally deranged and sick who, frankly, look like they should be institutionalized,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

U.S. Reps. Omar and Tlaib had denounced the fatal shootings by federal agents of two U.S. citizens in Minnesota. “You have killed Americans!” the two yelled, according to NBC News.

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“When people can behave like that, and knowing that they are Crooked and Corrupt Politicians, so bad for our Country, we should send them back from where they came — as fast as possible.”

Trump’s targeting of the left did not end there.

He suggested that the two members of Congress should join with Hollywood star Robert De Niro.

They “should actually get on a boat with Trump Deranged Robert De Niro, another sick and demented person with, I believe, an extremely Low IQ, who has absolutely no idea what he is doing or saying — some of which is seriously CRIMINAL!”

Trump did not specify which remarks he believed to be criminal.

“When I watched him break down in tears last night, much like a child would do, I realized that he may be even sicker than Crazy Rosie O’Donnell, who is right now in Ireland trying to figure out how to come back into our beautiful United States,” Trump also wrote.

“The only difference between De Niro and Rosie is that she is probably somewhat smarter than him, which isn’t saying much. The good news is that America is now Bigger, Better, Richer, and Stronger than ever before, and it’s driving them absolutely crazy!”

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President Donald Trump will get his first opportunity to “test drive” his midterm message “later this week, when he travels to Texas, where the Latino voters whose shift toward Trump in his successful 2024 reelection campaign highlighted how he had reshaped the Republican coalition,” according to the Associated Press.

Recent polls show that the Latino vote surge that helped push Trump back to the White House in 2024 has declined from that level.

Trump on Wednesday “will spend much of his time participating in meetings at the White House, including policy sessions and a sit-down with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.” President Joe Biden, the AP noted, “went to swing states such as Wisconsin and Pennsylvania the day after his speech in the last two years of his term.”

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“In 2024, Trump won 48 percent of self-described Hispanic or Latino voters, the highest mark for a Republican presidential candidate in at least a half-century, driven largely by economic anxiety,” Politico reported. “But polling shows Trump’s approval among Latino voters cratering as their satisfaction with the economy and immigration enforcement plummet.”

Texas is about 40 percent Hispanic.

“Senior White House officials have promised that Trump will travel the country regularly until the midterms,” the AP adds. “He so far has hit critical battleground states such as Michigan, Pennsylvania and North Carolina on his economy tour, but he also traveled to reliably conservative Iowa and the congressional district of former Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. He has boosted candidates — in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, he bantered with Republican Michael Whatley and promoted his Senate run — while sometimes veering far away from the economic points the trips are meant to emphasize.”

Late last year, The New York Times raised the question of whether Republicans had overplayed their hand by pushing to redistrict in Texas.

“Republicans redid their voting map so they could flip five seats to help keep control of the U.S. House,” the Times reported. “But achieving that goal is far from guaranteed.”

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Weakened but still dangerous, President Donald Trump faces a relentless, great adversary — time itself, according to a New York Magazine Intelligencer columnist.

Pointing to Trump’s below-40-percent approval rating, Ross Barkan says it will likely never rebound much. There’s also his administration’s “savagery in Minneapolis” that destroyed the popularity he had on immigration, and there are the challenges facing him — and many Americans — on the economy.

“Betting against Trump is typically a fool’s game,” but this time, writes Barkan, what’s different is the passage of time.

Trump turns 80 this year, and “is in his final term, no matter how much he humors the idea of illegally seeking a third term.”

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“If Trump can’t improve his standing in the next few months, Republicans are going to be swamped in the midterms,” Barkan warns. “Democrats are very likely to flip the House and could make a serious run at the Senate. This will make Trump’s 2027 even more perilous. His goodwill with the American people is gone, and there are signs that the grip he maintains over his own party could start to slip.”

The days of Republicans worrying about facing off with Trump “seem to be coming to an end,” as Republicans begin to understand that “the second term of Trump has offered almost nothing to campaign on this fall.”

For starters, there’s the issue of inflation, and Trump’s “messy and expensive” tariffs.

“The immigration regime is violent and alienating. The safety-net cuts punish the working class and poor. In his first term, Americans were largely optimistic about the economy. That world is gone,” says Barkan.

And while some economic realities are out of Trump’s hands, “he’s given no indication he’d care to fix them. Solutions are absent. Instead, in his State of the Union, he pretended the problems didn’t exist or blamed the Democrats.”

But, a “weakened Trump, of course, is still a dangerous Trump.”

“We do not know what he or J.D. Vance might be plotting for 2028,” writes Barkan. “Perhaps they’ll rerun the 2020 playbook and hope for a more successful outcome. All scenarios have to be considered.”

Also, as Trump “weakens on domestic affairs, he’s increasingly turned to sowing chaos abroad.” There are the issues of Venezuela and Iran. In short, Trump “can light the world on fire without congressional authorization.”

And that, “ultimately, may be his legacy,” Barkan concludes, “unless he somehow decides to restrain himself. An American president playing out the string is a little different than a baseball team. He can still kill a whole lot of people.”

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