Breaking News from Pod Save America - Trump Crashes Out After Fox News Delivers Devastating Report

Episode Date: June 10, 2026

Fox News delivers bad news for Trump, and his response is truly wild. Tommy Vietor and Jon Favreau break down the latest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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free of charge. BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with Eye Gaming Ontario. John, Donald Trump's hobby, some would say is kink, is to tell the American people just how much he does not give a shit about their economic hardship. He's been on a legendary run. He's a real terror. Bill Clinton is the I feel your pain president. Trump is the, I don't give a fuck about your pain. Yeah, it costs you pain president.

Here's the latest example of a career-ending quote for Donald Trump about this topic. Let's watch. Are you concerned, Mr. President, about the latest inflation number which came out this morning? Could that be a head win? No, I love it. The numbers were great. You know what I really love? I love the inflation.

I like if it calls it the inflation, too. Just some real old guy stuff. Where does this one rank in terms of just potential political damage as compared to the, I don't think about Americans financial situation and the other dozens of quotes now about how he doesn't care about us? He is like one of these press avails away from just saying, if you vote for my party in November, I will cost you more. money and probably keep stealing from it. I will take your house personally.

That is where we're getting to it. I still think that I don't think about American's financial situation is maybe it's still the number one for me, but this is pretty close. You can imagine a nice button on an ad where it's like I love the inflation. You hear it over and over and over again.

I think for POTSave America tomorrow, I kind of want to put together a super cut of all a greatest hits because we have a bunch now. We probably have to cut it down. Could be the whole episode. The broader context there is he goes into this weird rant about how... Yeah, what?

American ships have been, like, secretly escorting, like, tankers out of the Strait of Hormuz, which we knew we've read about. But still, it's at very low numbers as compared to what the flows were like before the war started. Like, it was 130 ships a day through the Strait of Hormuz. I think I read a couple weeks ago that the Navy had gotten out, like, 75 ships over the course of several weeks. Maybe that's gone up a bit. So, like, a day or two of oil? Yeah, it's so weird.

And then in this whole avail, it's like Trump's problem, the problem with the economy, right? So we had inflation numbers out today. The consumer price index has inflation at 4.2 percent, which is a three-year high, which is very, very bad. Have to go back to April of 23 to find a reading like that. Yeah, that is not great. Yeah, those are some Biden-era numbers that people are going to be upset about. So what Trump needs to do to solve that problem, though, is very simple. He needs to end the war and get oil flowing through the Strait of Hamuz.

But in that same press avail, like on Monday he said the war is going to be over in a couple days. But then today he said, quote, we're going to hit him hard again today. Praise Allah. Praise Allah. He did a praise Allah thing. We're back to that now. Why is he, why do we praise Allah in the tweets? Well, also, he's saying we have control of the straight.

So we have control of the straight, but we have to do secret missions at night to get a few oil tankers out of there. And we are because we have to evade their radar, which we have apparently destroyed. though. That's what he also has told us. We've destroyed everything. We've destroyed their army. We've destroyed their anti-aircraft missile. We destroyed this. Although that's why they fired out us. On Monday, they shot down an Apache helicopter. Right. Yeah. Was that how did they shoot that down?

And then Trump did another thing about how like the explosive grenade got lodged in the thing, but didn't go off. But he was also saying that the downing of the American Apache helicopter was no big deal. No big deal. But then we retaliated and apparently blew up like some water emphasis. structure. It's like something that provides fresh water to like tens of thousands of Iranians. It just we're we're, it doesn't seem like we're close at all to ending the war that we've gotten any closer at all. And it seems like the Iranians have probably just strung us along in negotiations because they know they have the upper hand here and Trump keeps asking for more

and more and more and they just don't want to give it to them. CNN had a report out this week where they counted up the number of times Trump said so mention of the deal is imminent. You want to guess how many it was. Oh, that's a good one. 10? 38. And that was like before today. That was a couple of days ago. Did anyone cut up the siren emoji?

When I played the same game with Ben Rose, he was like, how many of them were directly to Brock Review? Yeah, there you go. There you go. I mean, the thing that's so hard about this is, you know, I was listening to this great, another show, the rest of politics podcast, and they had just been to this big energy conference talking to a bunch of real experts, like, you know, ones from Norway and shit, you know, like real kind of like energy nerds.

And all of the energy experts are talking about how we are going to eventually hit some breaking point on the oil and gas markets where, like, the gears just kind of grind to a halt and prices spike up to 150. But Trump has, he's learned how to game the oil future markets. And I still don't really get why those guys believe him when he says the war is almost over. Yeah, because at some point, gaming the markets meets the reality of oil being... Of illibility. Having physical properties.

I realize that everything we trade in now, the crypto and this and the markets, all that. That's all just like in our heads. And it's like a fun game. But like oil, last I checked, you do actually need oil to use oil. You can't pump the vibes into your tank. You know what I mean? You can't just blockchain your gas tank. Like, I realize that maybe just, you know, they've been successful at getting around the straight, like some of the, you know, Middle Eastern countries.

There is some pipeline access. Yeah, so they've probably been more successful at that than maybe people expected it first and people have their oil reserves. And, you know, but I, yeah, it can't go on like this forever. Well, it's also, it's not just oil and gas. It's also, like, oil derived products. Like, there's a thing called naphtha, which sounds like you're saying NAFTA with a list. Yeah, I thought it was like Napster. No.

It's a great way to steal music from guys in your dorm. No, NAP, THA. It's liquid that's derived. It's a liquid derived from oil that's used in, like, plastics, medical supplies, paint, other things. Good thing. No one needs any of that. One of the most popular potato chip brands in Japan switched to black and white packaging because they were out of Napha and they couldn't put the paint together.

Like 60% of Asian crude imports come from the Middle East, and they're just not able to get access to almost anybody. Iraq's production alone went from 4 million barrels per day to 1.4 million barrels per day. And when is that going to get fixed? We don't know. It's not. And, you know, I mean, it is showing up in gas prices already, which are still at record highs. And like, they can celebrate it going down a few cents here and there. And that the price of a barrel of oil going down a little bit from its highs of like, what, 120, 100. And I think Trump said there was like, it's only $85 a barrel now.

It's like, okay. Well, no, actually it's up over 90 today because you said you're going to bomb the shit out of the Iranian to you, Goober. And then in case they hadn't read about it in the New York Times or elsewhere, you told everyone like, we're doing secret missions at night. Yeah. I want to take credit for the secret missions at night than no one's supposed to know about. He's always surrounded by the most hilarious group of people when he's ranting about this stuff. It's just always totally unrelated. I also saw the CEO of Shell said it's going to take close to a year for the oil markets to like fully write themselves.

Look, we're frustrated by this. It's driving us a little crazy. average voters are telling us in polls that they're pissed about how the war with Irani is going, keeps dragging out. Here's a couple of clips for you guys via our friends over at Fox News that show how reality is kind of slowly breaking in over there too. Let's start with our boy Jesse Waters. Here's Jesse.

He keeps saying we're very close. We're days away. And I don't know what that means. We've heard that for a very long time. I mean, oil has gone down. It was closed at, I think, 89 today. But gas prices are very high. And there's a lot of people in the administration

I think that would like to see the job finish and others think that, you know, we're pretty close. But what do we know? That has never stopped us. Too bad they demonized Tesla, Jesse. I didn't really get the Tesla joke at the end. She's a real fucking idiot, by the way. She's popped up a lot lately.

So her argument is too bad they demonize Tesla because if everyone had EVs, that's what, yeah, that's what I think she meant. Oh. And yeah, because the reason people aren't driving more electric vehicles is because some liberals got mad at Elon Musk and not because Donald Trump has basically tried to ban EVs in the United States. Right. Yeah, no, the problem is all the liberals who have the, uh, bought this before Elon went crazy bumper stickers, which are all over my

neighborhood. I don't know about your saying. It is funny, though, like, you know, we were just talking about the CNN story about the number of times Trump has said they are close to a deal. It's funny that Jesse Waters has noticed that too. I like, I like he keep, we keep hearing that it's a, First of all, we keep hearing. From who? Just, we were not going to say. We keep hearing it's a few days away, a few weeks away. I don't know what that means.

What would it means, Jesse, is when someone says it, it means that the president, it means that he thinks a deal is imminent. And it hasn't been imminent, which means that the president has lied. Is a liar. Oh, we keep hearing this on your network, is where you primarily hear it. Okay, so that was a ringing endorsement of the war effort. There was some more brilliant insight on this same panel, though, from comedian-ish.

Greg Gutfeld, let's watch. I do feel like this war, and this is awesome. on me. It's not on the, it's like, I feel like it's the show Survivor, where it just keeps going on and on what series are we on now. Maybe 20 years ago, I wouldn't be this impatient or this jaded. I don't know what happened, but it feels like we have such a short, maybe it's healthy. We have, you know, just a short fuse for this stuff. And I think the Russia-Ukraine war kind of just like, that thing's been going on for almost five years now, four and a half years,

that we've kind of just like started to treat war like something in the background, which is not really good. Well, luckily, this operation, we've had very few casualties. And it's true. Hopefully we keep it that way. Harold.

The best part of that whole thing is that Greg Gutfeld had that point written down. Yeah. He thought that he decided to have his like meta hit the bong in the dorm room point, like in front of him. Hey y'all, it's Kelly Clarkson with Wayfair. Ever order furniture online and wonder, what if? Like, what if it doesn't hold up?

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which is like, oh. Wow. And it was so bad and it was so poorly received that he was like, and I was a long walk to that joke. And everyone's like, yeah, we noticed. Like, get to your other dumb point. But there's just, there's so much to unpack there. I know.

Can we start with his posture? I'm going to start, I'm going to start doing these like this. Why is he doing the show like this? And then he's like looking down. He's like, Here's something I just thought of. Here's something someone wrote for me. There's something I just thought of right now.

So speaking of wars that went on for years in the background. Was he alive for Iraq? Was he alive for Afghanistan? Does you not remember those wars War for a very long time? Oh, and then the attention spans because of the phones, and maybe it's good. I don't know, maybe it's healthy, maybe it's not.

There's a lot of war. I feel like war is bad. Yeah. What's going on with that Russia thing? That's been going on a while, and it's just like it fades into the background as we go on to talk about our do our 20th Grand Platner segment

of the day, along with the jokes about the cast of you and everything else after we briefly talk about this war for two minutes on Fox, which is a 24-hour news channel. It's also interesting that he begins this segment with some self-flagellation. He has to like hurt up, like whip himself for daring to be unhappy about there being a war that won't end. Look, look, this is on me. Maybe this, it's my bad that I thought that the war would be over by now.

And my bad that I've come to realize that maybe war is bad. Thank you, sir. May I have another, sorry for complaining. It's interesting, though, it's like there were some kind of mega-examination. faithful who left the Trump orbit before the war started because of it, right? Like Tucker Carlson, hard against the war, uh, has been pretty critical of Trump ever since. Megan Kelly even. Yeah. It's kind of followed him on that journey. Fox News, though, is not only pro-Trump. They are pro-war in all cases. They love a tough spot. And so now as watch these guys

kind of break character was interesting. I kind of wonder if it's either that it's showing up in their ratings or it's just, it's just that the, the information and environment that they all swim in, that it's gotten so loud sort of the anger and the magabase about the war and from some of these other podcasters and right wing figures and former Fox people that it's starting to affect them. Interesting. Yeah, because part of the argument from Tucker Carlson and Megan Kelly is like they felt obligated to sing from the pro war hymina when they were at Fox. Like it wasn't like a stated rule, but it was a rule that you were in favor of the Iraq War and you were in a cheer lead for it. And you are going to call.

unpatriotic or un-American anyone who criticized it. And they can read polls as well as they can read ratings. And so they know how unpopular it is. And they know that usually when something's unpopular, they just pivot to like blaming Democrats for it in some way. But they really can't blame Democrats for Iran. There's only one person to blame for this. And so to the extent that they have to talk about Iran on Fox,

this is all they can really do. Yeah, until they find like a trans swimmer who's impeding. Right. And then they will, of course. Yeah, exactly. What a bunch of idiots. Yeah, it is like, you know, you look at a poll. It's like two thirds of the country thinks the awards of that idea.

They want it to be over. They're pissed about gas prices. They're furious about inflation. I mean, part of this, I guess, is they all think that they are probably communicating directly with Donald Trump in every episode because that's all he does is watch cable TV. Yes. And they are half doing that and half worried that they will say something that will draw the ire of Trump and he'll call one of them or call Fox and get them in trouble. So that's where I think you've got

that consternation there where they kind of don't know what to say. They're sort of at a loss for words. Yeah, they're like, can we just finish this part of the show? Can we not do any more around segments? Please stop covering this. Please go back to the trans swimmer? Anything, anything but this. I love it. I love the inflation. Donald J. Trump. I'm sure that I'm sure they'll do that segment today. I'm sure they'll hammer that thing. Yeah, that'll be a big, a big story on Fox. Yeah, yeah. If a Democrat said, I love the inflation, I'm sure they would never cover it. If a Democrat said it was no big deal that an Iranian drone shot down an American Apache helicopter, I should imagine that. Yeah, Barack Obama would say that and they'd be like, yeah, no, that's chill. Ben and I were talking about how, remember there was an incident when 10 U.S.

sailors like veered off course and the Iranians picked them up. Oh, yeah. And they kind of took a photo of them like this. Oh, I forgot about that. Like this great humiliation. And how will our country ever live it down? Ain't seen nothing yet. When we resolved it is John Kerry made a phone call and they returned the guys us and everyone is fine. Yeah, no, that's, uh, well, there'd be a lot more humiliation to come after that. Yeah. Some of it will be, um, you know, Greg Gutfeld's and what things he does in the privacy his own. Anyway, maybe war is bad. Anyway, yeah, thanks for watching this Pod Save America episode on YouTube, subscribe or something. Pod Save America is a crooked media production. Our show is produced by Austin Fisher, Saul Rubin, McKenna Roberts, and Ferris Safari with Reed Jirlin, Elijah Cohn, and

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