POLITICS: America needs to hear ‘You’re fired!’ again, President Trump

If the second Trump term turns out to be like “The Apprentice” without “You’re fired!” its ratings are going to resemble Joe Biden’s.

That means needlessly big losses in the coming midterms, and an end to — or even reversal of — President Donald Trump’s agenda.

President Biden never accepted blame for the Afghanistan debacle, for economic malaise and record inflation or any of his other disasters, such as the endless waves of illegal migrants waved into the country.

But he also never even implicitly admitted his team had failed by axing an obvious author of those debacles — none of his generals, nor Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas or Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.

Nor did he change the course that produced those debacles.

Trump doesn’t have to admit error, either, but if he wants to keep winning after something’s clearly gone wrong in the public’s eye, he should send the message that his administration will do better.

Decisive action will calm the nerves of independent voters; anything else comes off as inauthentic and shady, raising fears Team Trump will slide back into the same blundering approach.

A high-level firing, even if not utterly explicit, is easily the best way to signal — to the public and to his whole team — that things are going to change.

Put a face on failure, and get rid of it.

The immigration-enforcement surge in Minneapolis wasn’t Joe’s Afghan debacle, but it’s the first clear black mark on Team Trump.

The president absolutely needs to stick to his guns on immigration enforcement, but his people have to be smarter about it going forward.

In Minnesota, they stepped into a buzzsaw as bad as what the Taliban applied to Biden’s bugout, then made everything worse by seeming to blame the victim — and so failed the president and the American people, who support deportations but not what they just saw.

It may be unfair, it may mean telling a committed loyalist to walk the plank, but it’s a necessity.

The White House needs to rapidly turn the corner on Minneapolis, and obvious efforts to just change the subject won’t reassure nervous swing voters.

To move on, the prez should ax someone, get smart enforcement moving forward and then get to selling his big successes.

He’s rightly starting a set of regular events flagging the economic turnaround from Biden, but if he can’t draw a line on recent events, that message is all too likely to get drowned out.

You need a high-profile firing, sir — then pivot to the economy.