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It’s been a tough week for Donald Trump’s most fervent supporters. First, the FBI said there is no Jeffrey Epstein client list, and that nobody else is facing legal trouble in the case of the wealthy pedophile, and now it looks as though the president doesn’t want to deport all those “illegals” that he had promised to kick out of the country.

While Trump maintained on Tuesday that there would be “no amnesty” for any undocumented immigrants, he and other cabinet members then immediately described a “work program” that sounds a lot like temporary amnesty.

“There is no amnesty,” Trump said. “We are getting rid of criminals. But we are doing a work program.”

Now, to hard-core MAGA supporters, any undocumented immigrant is a criminal, and none of them should be given any quarter.

And that is certainly how Trump made it sound on the campaign trail.

Now, however, he is changing his tune.

“We gotta give the farmers the people we need,” Trump said.

To any rationally thinking person, it was always clear that this would happen. Deporting all undocumented migrants would result in economic chaos.

Therefore, it’s no surprise that Trump is now flip-flopping on the issue.

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins and Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer explained what that will look like.

“We must be strategic in how we are implementing the mass deportations so as to not compromise our food supply,” Rollins said, while adding that there would be “no amnesty under any circumstances.”

Chavez-DeRemer then clarified that the administration plans to use temporary visas to allow undocumented farm workers to remain in the country or to re-enter it.

That is a form of amnesty, of course, as former Republican representative from Michigan, Justin Amash, explained.

“It’s obvious Trump wants to provide amnesty to migrant farm and hospitality workers, and he’s still workshopping how to pull it off without drawing the ire of his base,” he said.

Trump supporters on social media were not pleased, with many of them noting that they did not vote for any undocumented immigrant to remain in the country.

However, there is a silver lining for these xenophobic MAGA malcontents, because, in the end, there may be a job in it for millions of them.

Rollins later explained that the goal is to only use the indentured servants trustworthy immigrants who are allowed to stay while working for the farmers who sponsored their work permits until they can be replaced with machines and good ol’ American farmhands in the near future.

“With 34 million … able-bodied adults on Medicaid, we should be able to do that fairly quickly,” Rollins noted.

That should be music to the ears of Trump supporters on Medicaid.

Instead of sitting in their mom’s basements and tweeting about amnesty and Epstein, they could soon find themselves laboring on the farms of the heartland and replacing those pesky “illegals.”

In his Navigating the Insanity columns, Klaus Marre provides the kind of hard-hitting, thought-provoking, and often humorous analysis you won’t find anywhere else.