Breaking News from Pod Save America - NEW Report Exposes Trump's Biggest Weakness

Episode Date: November 27, 2025

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I'm being serious. The headline was Trump faces realities of aging in office. I'm not sure he's facing the realities. We are certainly facing the consequences of him aging out of reality, but here we are. So a few specifics from this Times story. They point out the fact that Trump recently had an MRI scan, and he has disclosed nothing about it. When asked about by reporters about why. He had an MRI.

He said, I have no idea what they analyzed. But whatever they analyzed, they analyzed it well. And they said, I had as good a result as they've ever seen. So that seems credible. He's not checked out. They did an analysis of Trump's schedule, and they found that most of Trump's events are between noon and 5 p.m. The average event starts at like 1208 p.m. The total number of events he has done decreased 39% over 2017.

And also he's got those weird issues with his hand that he covers up with makeup. So it's just like sort of like an interesting critical mass. of health issues with our president, and they are, of course, the most transparent administration in history won't tell us anything about it. We here at Cricket Media have acquired some exclusive photos of Sleepy Donald dozing off in the Oval Office. Here they are, right up on your screen. Incredible. Yeah, by exclusive, I mean we got them off of Twitter. So, Brian, the question is Trump's probably not running for reelection. DeVoters care about this? Should Democrats be talking about it? What do you think? Well, I think Trump really sets the tone for the rest of

the Republican Party. And these people are completely wholly deferential to him. And so if you have somebody who's increasingly tired, increasingly like unhinged at the top of your party, knowing that all of these other Republicans are just going to defer to him, that obviously doesn't bode well for the future of the party. It's not like they have any other leaders who, as Trump continues to slow down, are going to step in and kind of fill that void. He always has the ability to just kind of freeze the rest of the field, freeze the rest of the republics, Republican Party, he's not going to let anybody step in and get the spotlight. It's only going to be him. And when it's him slower and slower and slower, that's just reflective of the entire Republican Party more broadly.

Yeah. I think it's a hard political challenge because, like, Biden's decline was quite evident to voters, right? Like his gate changed, he sort of shuffled when he walked. He looked older. He had challenges communicating. Like, voters were not fooled. I don't think we have seen kind of a day to day. decline in Donald Trump yet. There are definitely moments. He fell asleep in the Oval Office. Yeah. He calls it the weave, but it's really just spouting gibberish. It's just errant synapses firing in his brain and words falling out of his face. Yeah, but in his defense, he did that 30 years ago, too. The guy is just like incoherent. I do, though, think it's worth thinking about one of Trump's strengths is he is seen as strong. And I think it behooves us if we can paint an impression of

Donald Trump as a week. So I do think, like, maybe there is part of this narrative. we need to work in in terms of our political attacks? Well, I think, I think, too, all of these instances are so much more pronounced because the Republican Party and Trump in particular has groomed this country into being really aware of instances where the leader, you know, is slowing down. And so whereas, you know, Trump starting at 1208 every day and ending at five or instances where he's falling asleep, you know, in the Oval Office might not have been so obvious before, thanks to Trump himself and all of his attacks on Joe Biden,

now everybody can see it. Now you and I are sitting here talking about a New York Times cover story where the president is slowing down and isn't able to wake up as early, isn't able to work as late. And that's owed entirely to Trump. So that's the great irony. That's the tragic irony as far as Trump is concerned of him making these attacks on an old president front and center because lo and behold, we've got an old president. Yeah. Also, he eats McDonald's all the time and he never sleeps and he just chugs Diet Coke. He's not a healthy man. You know what? But, like, this is one of those things where I'm going to take a completely unscientific approach to this. And you have these people that just, like, everybody knows those people who, like, exist on cigarettes from, like, from, like, age 10 until, like, 100, 105 years old. And they just don't fucking die. You know what I mean? Whether or not.

Like cockroaches. They just, like, exist off of, like, subsist off of, like, Dr. Pepper, Diet Coke, just candy. And they just keep living. They're like 110 years old. And those people are called role models. We salute you. Yeah, I don't know whether this is a good political line for Democrats to take. I do think that hopefully when the Trump era ends, let's just pass a bill mandating the disclosure of like basic health records for all candidates and all presidents.

I feel like we deserve that. Yeah. Well, and also I think, you know, the irony of all of this is Trump keeps talking about all of these cognitive tests that he's taking. I've never been in a position where I needed to take a cognitive test once, much less the dozens of times that Trump seems to be taking them. The fact that we are put in positions where on like a weekly or monthly basis, people keep giving this guy test to make sure that he could identify like basic animals. Sir, can you draw a clock for me real quick?

And like figure out which day comes after Tuesday. Like him saying that he's acing these tests does not negate the worry that I have at the fact that he can continues to be given these tests. No, no, it makes it way worse. Sir, can you please draw a cowboy hat on this turtle? I would love to watch this thing actually happened. Okay, another story that's related to Donald Trump. So the drama around Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green continues.

By now, our viewers have probably heard that she is resigning from Congress. She is fed up with the fecklessness of the institution and leaders. She has been in this nasty fight with Donald Trump over the release of the Epstein files. and frankly she just seems to absolutely hate it, which, hey, no shame in your game. So that brings us to this tweet that Brian Flagg from MTG on Wednesday in response to this right-wing lunatic named Mike Cernovich, who was attacking her about a bunch of stuff and it was demanding that she serve out her full term. Here's what MTG wrote.

It'll put it up on the screen too. Oh, I haven't suffered enough for you while you post all day behind a screen. Do I have to stay until I'm assassinated? Like our friend Charlie Kirk, will that be good enough for you then? shit posting on the internet all day isn't fighting get off your ass and run for congress i fought harder than anyone in the real arena not social media put down your little pebbles and put your money where your mouth is brian is it weird that i i like her more and more every single day i mean she's not wrong tommy like as a as a couple shit posters ourselves like it is a lot easier it is a lot easier

no look i i think i think one one aspect that that a lot of people are overlooking is the safety aspect and what happens when you become a persona non grata, an enemy of the state. And I say the state specifically, because for Trump, like, letasse moi. Like, he views himself as the state. That's good French. Brian's fluent in French, by the way, everyone.

I am. He is. He is. I lived in France for a couple years. I can stomp a grape, too. I can. Mix a board out. Bare foot.

Yeah, so I think that what we're, you know, the thing that kind of goes unnoticed in all of this is the threats that she's dealing with. And what I've noticed from a lot of these elected officials, many of whom do have to deal with these threats, is that they won't talk about it publicly because then it validates the use of political violence as an effective tool against them. And so it will just beget more threats against them. And so oftentimes they don't talk about it. But clearly she's dealing with it. And look, I think any of us would recognize that if we were contending with, you know, people trying to dox us, people emailing us, telling us that they're going to kill our families, whatever it may be, especially in the aftermath of, you know, in the.

in a post-Charlie Kirk world, then I think that that really weighs heavily. And so, you know, I'm sure that that's kind of fucking her up in a big way. And so, like, the irony of like Mike Sernovich being like, you know, from exactly as she said, from the cheap seats being like, you need to serve out the rest of your terms so that, you know, so that we can have some like cheap political win so that Mike Johnson can, you know, have one more seat of a buffer to, you know, fuck over the American. people more broadly. Like, it's just, her more poor people.

Her more poor people is just, it's so, it's so easy to say. But like, I get, I get where she's coming from. I understand why that would make her kind of snap in the way that she has and, like, you know, good on her. Yeah, good on her. I'm just to agree with you, Brian. You is intelligent and beau. Epstein, no, say not suicide.

Just to let you know, the last thing he said is Epstein didn't kill himself. Yeah. I've heard that there might have been some threats against not just MTV. but her kids. Yeah. That really freaked out. But you're right. Like, this is not normal.

This is a very, look, I realize Charlie Kirk was assassinated. This is not a problem that is exclusive to one party. There's crazy people of all political stripes. They're just plain crazy people on stochastic terrorists and people that are just like nihilists and stuff. But Trump being able to sick, scary, violent mobs on people is a new and different thing that we are not used to from our political leaders. And I think I understand why when people hear Marjorie Taylor Green, you know, put out a tweet like that, they're like, oh, well, you weren't saying much when, you know, you were part of the mob with Trump attacking Democrats. But I have genuine empathy for anyone who has been sort of in the barrel like this and dealing with threats from Trump because it's scary stuff. And by the way, that is also a valid point.

Like we can, we can, you know, carry both of those, juggle both of those points together because Marjorie Taylor Green emboldened Donald Trump. who was perfectly content to wield political violence as a tool for years and years and years. This guy incited a fucking insurrection that led to people dying. And Marjorie Tiller-Green was not only okay with it. She was posting videos on January 5th explaining how they just had their session about how they're going to protest. And everybody knew that this protest was going to lead to violence. Trump himself tweeted in the week leading up to the insurrection, Be there will be wild.

They knew exactly what was coming. They knew that the proud boys and all these other, you know, white national. paramilitary groups were going to be there. They knew that there were going to be weapons. They knew that there were weapons that day, you know, at the, at the, at the, at the, at the, at the, on the ellipse. And so Marjorie Taylor Green, her hands are not clean here. So we can both be okay with condemning her participation in all of this in the lead up

to this moment while also, you know, having empathy for anybody who's dealing with with threats that are, you know, putting their lives or their kids' lives, whoever it may be at danger, you know, in danger. Yeah. I'm just, Dacro, it's complicated, and it can

have two ideas on Mont-Thames. Yeah, that's right. It is, it is complicated, but you can hold two, two ideas at the same time. That's exactly right, Tommy.

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that Donald Trump has dubbed the Seditious Six. This clip should help explain what it is we're talking about here. What should happen to the seditious six? Well, they should be held accountable under the law and under the Uniform Code of Military Justice for a seditious. conspiracy against the United States of America. This is completely open and shut, straightforward. What is the motivation? Why would six members of Congress selecting specifically for individuals

with a CIA or military background record a carefully written, carefully produced, snickly edited video messaging directly to members of our clandestine services and our armed forces telling them to disobey orders from their superiors, telling them that they should individually determine whether an order is legal or illegal and defy it. Hey, Stephen Miller, I can answer your question. It's because your president is murdering random fishermen off the coast of Venezuela. And you're saying it's counterterrorism. You're just murdering people in boats. And so what those members of Congress are saying, most of them veterans or from the intel agencies or from the U.S. military, they are saying, hey,

service members. If you break the law, you can be prosecuted. Your oath is to the Constitution, but you do not need to follow unlawful orders, which is exactly what's happening here. They're just murdering people. Yeah, not only do you not need to follow unlawful orders. According to the UCMJ, you can't. Like, you have to defy illegal orders. And so it's so bizarre how they're trying to die on this hill where they're claiming that this is seditious to explain that you can't follow unlawful orders when you can't follow unlawful orders, this should be completely banal. And the fact that they're protesting so hard against this,

tells you a lot. Tells you a lot. Like, this should not be something that upset somebody when you say, you shouldn't break the law. And unless you're seeking to break the law, unless your whole agenda is predicated on breaking the law, it should be a complete non-issue. And so, you know, the fact that the White House bit

and not only bit, but, like, is throwing such a tantrum, like where there's smoke, there's fire. Yeah, I think this is a really big deal. I think you can't divorce it from the broader context, too, which is that Trump has sent like multiple aircraft carriers to the Caribbean. There's this open conversation about whether the United States is now going to wage a regime change war in Venezuela. It is clearly unlawful to just kill people in boats because they are suspected drug runners. Like the way this normally works is the Coast Guard interdicks those vessels and then we arrest those people and then we prosecute them. That absolutely could happen here.

Like if you can fly a drone over, you know, these boats and fire a missile at them, then you could certainly like just send a Coast Guard cutter out there, interdict them, and do this the right way. And I like, I personally, like there's some reporting today. The Times reviewed a bunch of these snuff videos. The Department of Defense, Department of War, sorry, is putting out of the, you know, explosions of these boats. Some of the boats are stalled in the water. Yeah. Some of them had like gone out to maybe traffic boats to someplace and then turned around because they saw that they were being tailed by an aircraft carrier.

Like it is 100% murder. I think people are going to be prosecuted for this. And I hope it's Pete Heggsef. Now, the irony of this kind of seditious six bit that all these Trump lackeys are doing is Pete Hegsef weighing in and calling them guilty is something called unlawful command influence. Basically, he is in the military justice system. If your commander basically thumbs the scale in a case, it can overturn the whole thing because it's a hierarchical system, right?

And if your commander says they're guilty, well, if you're the prosecutor or defense attorney or someone on the jury, your job is to follow that order and say that they are guilty. So Hegsef, by being a partisan hack idiot on Twitter all day, might have blown up any case they might actually have made, but that's not really what it's about. They just want to intimidate these members. Yeah. I think we're seeing the extent to which all of this is about rebranding, you know, the Trump administration. Their whole thing has been that they're like, they're these tough alphas. I mean, Pete Heggseth made this big show of taking off the plaque that says Department of Defense and putting on Department of War.

I mean, this whole thing is really to figure out even minor instances where they can just flex their muscles and kind of compensate for the fact that they have nothing else going for them. Like they're not able to enact some policy agenda. Really, the last vestige that they have is trying to show like this instance of strength by just blowing up like fishermen in the Atlantic or off the coast of Venezuela. But otherwise, I think the reason that they're leaning in so heavily is because what else? else do they have, you know, to show for themselves. They're underwater on everything. They promised that they would lower the cost of everything, that they would protect her and benefits, that they would make IVF free, that they would release the Epstein files. None of this stuff is happening, that they would get inflation under control. Inflations been rising every month since March.

And so they can't lean on any of that stuff. This is all they have left. You know, all it is just a bunch of small-dict men that are jerking themselves off in public so that they can feel big. You excited? You need a minute? Hard to argue with that one. Yeah. Well, speaking of that, I mean, Tommy's all flustered right now. You partially joke, but, like, Hegset is getting so cucked right now because the secretary of the army is this guy named Dan Driscoll. He was randomly tapped. This guy has, like, multiple rungs into Pete Hexel.

Dan Driscoll was randomly tapped to be, like, one of the lead negotiators for the Russia-Ukraine peace deal. And that is clearly making Heg-Seth lose his mind. Because this guy, Driscoll is also close friends with J.D. Vance. So it's this whole weird power play thing. And you're like, Hegseth just like sitting back at the Pentagon, rage tweeting away while his underling is at the big boy table doing the real negotiations about the war in Ukraine. Yeah. And I mean, it makes sense because so many of the people that Trump taps to lead these agencies and these departments, they're not qualified to do their jobs, but they're there because they're the central casting pick. And like, you know, Pete Hegseth walks around with his, like, you know, suit that has the American flag on it.

And like, that's his big thing. And it's like these little schicks. But like this guy doesn't know what he's doing. and everybody there knows that he doesn't know what he's doing. He is a joke. Everyone knows he's a joke. Yeah, like the most, like, all he does is, like, put out workout videos with the troops. Or, like, random cabin numbers.

And if you're going to do those, learn how to do a full pull-up. Sir, do a better pull-up. Also, take some H-G-H, like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Like a real man. And then flow like a river. And then we're good to go. Seems like the perfect place to leave off. For everybody who's watching, if you are not yet subscribed to Positive America's YouTube channel,

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