April 18, 2025 11:58 AM UTC

Gabe Evans Tells Frightened Families To Embrace Trump's "Chaos"

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• by: Colorado Pols

Reading today’s Unaffiliated newsletter from the Colorado Sun, we were briefly excited by a teaser promising after some scrolling to reveal “Gabe Evans’ one critique of Trump’s presidency.” Since GOP freshman Rep. Gabe Evans has established himself as Donald Trump’s most unflappable brown-nosing apologist west of Lauren Boebert herself, Evans putting even the slightest criticism of Trump in the permanent record could be considered highly newsworthy.

But sadly, it wasn’t:

“Things will happen and I’ll find out about it on Twitter,” [Evans] said, referring to the social media site now known as X. “As we’ve established and built those working relationships with the White House, and with the liaisons that I have in the White House, I think that communication has gotten better. But there’s still been times where big, big policies or statements will come out and I wish I’d gotten a little bit of a heads up on them.”

This might be a valid complaint but for the fact that Gave Evans has never once expressed any disagreement with Trump over any of those “big, big policies” that have buffeted the nation during Trump’s first three months in office. If anything, Evans’ staff have rushed out statements and video clips of Evans backing up Trump’s erratic moves as quickly as they could, so maybe a “heads up” might have resulted in…faster brown-nosing? Without anything to disagree with Trump about, being out of the breaking news loop is a notably hollow complaint.

But while the Sun had Rep. Evans on the line, they gave him another opportunity to clarify his previous comparisons of Trump’s calamitous tariff launch to a game of pool, since that analogy wasn’t comforting to constituents watching market value evaporate by the trillions and pondering emergency purchases before prices explode:

“I think the president told us almost 40 years ago how he negotiates,” he said. “I went back and reread parts of ‘The Art of the Deal’ where he talks about ‘I like to induce chaos, because when chaos is induced, then I’m able to go pick the lanes and get the deal that I want.’” [Pols emphasis]

We don’t see how telling nervous constituents to sit back while Trump ‘induces chaos’ is any more reassuring than comparing Trump’s disastrous unprovoked assault on the global economy to a “rack break” in a game of pool. The reality is that Trump’s tariff scheme sent the global economy into a sustained tailspin that was only averted by Trump belatedly acknowledging that the rest of the world was getting “yippy” and walking most of the tariffs back. Trump insisted for days that his tariffs “would never change” before undoing most of them in disgrace. The long gradual slide in Trump’s public approval rating, which had flipped negative in March, accelerated rapidly following “Liquidation Day.” The only reason those numbers haven’t collapsed even further is that Trump blinked and (partially) mitigated the immense damage he was inflicting.

While other Republicans like fellow freshman Rep. Jeff Hurd put daylight between themselves and the increasingly unpopular President, Gabe Evans appears determined to shill for Trump unreservedly in Colorado’s most politically competitive congressional district. We’re not sure if that’s a result of dogmatic loyalty or a resignation to fate, but either way the end result looks the same.

Donald Trump ending another political career.