Speaking during a ridiculous freakout during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, retiring RINO Senator Thom Tillis went absolutely berserk and started screaming and shouting at Department of Homeland (DHS) Security Secretary Kristi Noem over the mass deportations that she has been able to effect.
For reference, over the course of 2025, Noem’s DHS managed to deport about 600,000 illegal aliens, and estimates that about two million illegal aliens chose to self-deport over that period, a massive number compared to past presidents. About half the deportations were effected by ICE, and the other half were generally carried out by Border Patrol. The Administration aims to rapidly ramp up deportations in 2026.
Sen. Tillis went cataconic, screaming at Sec. Noem over the number of deportations she has effected and for listening to Stephen Miller, the Deputy Chief of Staff and the man behind much of the deportation strategy. He screamed, “Why am I disappointed with Secretary Noem? Because we’re not going after enough people who did this damage at the expense of running numbers that Stephen Miller wants out of the White House.”
Continuing to yell, the RINO senator ridiculously shouted, ignoring as he did so the massive scope of the illegal immigration threat, “We just want numbers. We want 1000 a day, 6000 a day, 9000 a day. Because numbers matter, right? No, they don’t matter. Quality Matters, not quantity, quality.” What he meant by “quality” was unclear, as all illegal aliens are here illegally.
In any case, continuing with his meltdown, Sen. Tillis shouted that the mass deportation campaign has been a “disaster” because a couple American citizens have been elected, saying, “And what we’ve seen is a disaster. Under your leadership, Miss Noem, a disaster. What we’ve seen is innocent people getting detained that turn out are American citizens.”
Getting even more absurd in his meltdown, Tillis then declared, “I could talk about the culture that’s been created here with Stephen Miller aiding and abetting. I heard first reports that he was the one that said it was a domestic terrorist situation where two people lost their lives in Minneapolis. I’ve heard that report. Maybe you can refute it. I don’t know that we’ll have time for you to respond, because I’m giving you a performance evaluation here. I’m not looking for a response.”
Watch Tillis lose it here:
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Theo Wold, calling out Tillis in a post on X, said, to caption a video of Tillis’s meltdown, “‘Republican’ Thom Tillis is extremely angry at the Trump administration for actually following through on mass deportations. All it takes is for an elected Republican to retire to tell us what they really think about the priorities of Republican voters.”
Commenting on Wold’s post, one poster said, “Like the other Congressional RINOs, Tillis PRETENDED to be a Republican to get elected. Now that he’s no longer running, his true self is being exposed.” Similarly, another wrote, “Thank you for retiring @SenThomTillis. While it’d have been great seeing you dog walked out the door by the voters, it’s very satisfying to see you kicking and screaming like a bitch on your way out the door this way.”
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video