President Donald Trump isn’t usually in the business of giving campaign advice to his political opponents—but during a candid interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, he laid out the one thing Democrats could do to make themselves competitive again: “Just be normal on things.”
The conversation began with Trump calling out how far off course the Democrat Party has drifted. “I think you have a lot of them that they don’t know where they are right now,” he said. “I think they don’t know what to do, like men playing in women’s sports.”
Trump referenced a Democrat lawmaker he recently saw defending the idea of biological males competing in women’s athletics—a position Trump said is wildly out of step with voters. “It’s a 99-1 issue,” he noted, admitting he was tempted to call the man and tell him to drop it. But Trump joked that he chose not to because keeping Democrats on their radical path actually makes them easier to beat.
“Look, in one way, I don’t like talking about it because I don’t want to talk them out of it,” Trump quipped. “It would be harder to beat them if they were normal on things.”
Trump didn’t stop there. He slammed the Democrat platform across the board, from transgender extremism and unlimited abortion access to soft-on-crime policies and obsessive anti-Trump theatrics.
“They’re almost insane,” he said. “And they do suffer from Trump derangement syndrome at a high level—and I guess I’m honored by that.”
Voters appear to agree. Congressional Democrats recently hit record-low approval ratings in a national Fox News poll, as Americans grow increasingly fed up with their party’s extreme stances and tone-deaf priorities.
Instead of adjusting course, however, Democrats seem determined to double down. A new poll from co/efficient shows Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez leading as the party’s most influential voice, with Bernie Sanders and Jasmine Crockett trailing behind. Trump supporters say that lineup is a gift to the GOP, a showcase of how disconnected Democrats are from mainstream America.
“It’s transgender for everybody, defund the police, visit terrorists in foreign countries, and scream ‘Get Trump’ on repeat,” said one GOP strategist. “They’ve abandoned normal voters and wonder why they keep losing ground.”
Trump also mocked Democrats’ latest publicity stunt—a plane flying over Mar-a-Lago with a banner reading “Qatar-a-lago,” a dig at reports about Trump’s diplomacy in the Middle East. “No, that isn’t a joke,” one conservative commentator noted. “They think this is how you win elections now.”
With his usual blunt force delivery, Trump’s message was clear: the Democrat Party isn’t losing because of Trump—they’re losing because they’ve become unrecognizable to ordinary Americans.
“All they have to do is be normal,” Trump repeated. “But they just can’t do it.”
For conservatives, that’s just fine. As long as Democrats keep alienating everyday voters with unhinged policies and cultural obsessions, Trump and the GOP are more than happy to let them run their party off the rails. And unless something changes, 2026 could be another wake-up call they choose to ignore.
