Breaking News from Pod Save America - Trump UNHINGED At Bizarre Rally In Pennsylvania

Episode Date: December 10, 2025

Tommy Vietor and Jon Favreau react to Donald Trump's insane rally in Pennsylvania. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, John, Donald Trump's poll numbers are collapsing. Voters are furious about the economy and Republicans are terrified about getting wiped out in the midterms. So the president has taken his show on the road for a big messaging reset in economic tour. He started Tuesday night in Pennsylvania. Let's see how it went. For miners, do we love miners? I love miners. Sun Epstein Files Rally, what the fuck was that?

We love them, don't we? We love them. 15, 16. No, he's unfortunately talking about. Coal miners. Coal miners. Shovels. Anyway, it's fun. I've never seen all the clippers went into action right at the same moment. I tried to get one out fast. We all need those views. Again, though, the whole point of this rally is delivered in that comic message. So the gist is, I hear you, I care. I'm working on it. I'm fixing it. But as you know, as a speech writer, writing those lines is easy. Getting Trump to say them is a whole other thing. So let's see how it went, whether he's stuck to the script.

You know, and I said it the other day, and a lot of people misinterpreted this. Oh, he doesn't realize prices. I have coming. down very substantially. But they have a new word. You know, they always have a hoax. The new word is affordability. So they look at the camera and they say, this election is all about affordability. Now, they never talk about it. They never talk. Thank you very much. They say I'm not allowed to run. I don't know what the hell that's all about, but that's okay. He said four more years. 2.9. Look at that. Our prices are coming down.

Tip prices. It's a hoax. That's a good polling message. Is that effective? It's just so, the whole thing is so funny because, unfortunately, we watch this whole thing. But just for you, for you people. He says a couple times, like, you know, we're still, prices are high still, but we're bringing him down. He's like, you can tell the lines he's trying to.

knowledge and then he calls it a hoax and then he's like i'm not supposed to call it a hoax anymore but it is but it is he says at one point that susie wiles as chief of staff is the one who's making him do this yeah um that he had a genuinely funny moment with those charts which first of all crazy like if joe biden had charts when he was doing his bionomics thing we would have given him rightly a bunch of shit sure it's crazy that he had these charts and he's going number by number but at one point he goes let's throw up another chart because uh because they're landing so well with people because no one was clapping for the charts. He really clinging to the chart.

Yeah, that's why he has a pivot to racism. Yeah, we watched the whole thing. He ran very hard against Joe Biden, who again is not president anymore. I think the clock probably ran out on blaming Biden for the economy like six months ago. I mean, the rally goers love it. The jokes and the Biden attacks, but normal voters are like, hey, buddy, your president. Like, can you please fix this? The thing about Trump is that even when he's lying, you can kind of tell when he's being

honest. And like right there where he's like, it's a hoke. that's what he thinks. He definitely thinks. Absolutely thinks. Like this is a made-up problem. Prices are coming down. Gas prices are cheap.

I'm not getting credit for my accomplishments. Why aren't you praising me more? The media is bad. Joe Biden's bad. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Because Scott Bessent and on the economy and Kevin Hassett and all the rest of them are telling him, Mr. Trump, the numbers are great and you're doing wonderful. And it's just that you're not getting the credit you deserve.

So I agree. I think he does believe that. I agree. I think his staff is probably telling him that. Do not agree. There's a recent political poll where 46% of voters say the cost of living

in the U.S. is the worst they can ever remember it being. That includes 37% of Trump voters. 56% say affordability is their top issue. So just a hoax is their top issue. Per the blame game stuff, one in five Trump voters

think the economy is solely Trump's responsibility. So that's a kind of big crack in the MAGA coalition. Approval of Trump's handling of the economy is at 36% in the latest Gallup poll. just 32% of voters said the economy was good in a recent CBS poll.

The same poll found 65% of respondents since Trump's policies are raising food and grocery prices, probably because they are. Just in terms of some economic stats, consumer price index is up 3% on the year. So inflation is still an issue. Utility prices are up 12% over the last year. A cup of coffee now cost 20% more than it did in 2024. Thank you, tariffs. Yeah.

And he said that he did another tariffs, the most beautiful word. I love tariffs, which is funny to do when it's a lot. and that is the single most damaging policy economically for people to his approval rating. And he's just not even stepping back just a bit. Loves it. But Susie Wiles, his chief of staff, who I think he called Susie Trump at some point in this speech, wants to put Trump on the ballot. So he's out doing this stuff.

We hope he does more of these. More, sir. Okay, so not surprisingly kind of intermingled with his effort to convey an economic message. It was just some raw, uncut racism for the. a faithful. Here's just one example. And we had a meeting and I say, why is it

we only take people from shithole countries, right? Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden, just a few? Let us have a few. From Denmark, do you mind sending us a few people? Send us some nice

people, do you mind? But we always take people from Somalia. places that are a disaster, right? Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime. The only thing they're good at is going after ships. Subtle.

By the way, many have pointed out that the first time it was reported that he said shithole countries, the White House, of course, denied the story. And deny it for eight years. Eight years, and now he's just saying it.

You can tell he went there because that's what the crowd came for. That crowd? They don't want the affordability. Like, they're not the people that you cited the Trump voters in those polls. This is the true believers who came for the hits. Do you catch the guy, the Persians for

Trump shirt guy checking his phone during this little bit? He wasn't loving that part. He was the one who wasn't feeling it, yeah. Yeah, you're right. I mean, in 2018, there were a bunch of reports that Trump said shit old countries during a closed door meeting with senators. They denied this story for years and years and years. This Washington Post scoop and now he's just out there confirming it. It is pure

uncut racism. It's also this just ongoing like collective punitive policy, right? There's this corruption in Minnesota. It involved some people who have a Somali background. So he's blaming all Somalia. The shooter, the National Guard shooter was from Afghanistan, because now he's punishing everyone in Afghanistan or anyone who came to the U.S. from Afghanistan. It is like, you know, a pretext to do what he and Stephen Miller always wanted to do with this, like, blood and soil nationalism. But it's pretty fucked up. Yeah, there was the Somali immigrant who, you know, went to jail for a billion dollar fraud scheme.

And then scammed like 100,000 people and then Trump pardoned them. Oh, no, that wasn't a small. That was just a white guy that Trump pardoned because they're... Hedge funder. Because he cares about fraud and crime in the country. He's a good guy. The crime... Also, like, reporter friends, if you have a chance to interview Trump,

can you guys just please press him a little bit when you ask him about his tariffs? And he's like, well, I don't even know who that is. Like, he got to ask about Juan Orlando Hernandez, the former president of Honduras. He was pardoned. who we pardoned. And Politico's like, just like, follow up on that. When Trump's like, oh, I don't know much about him. You just recommend it to me.

Like, you don't know who you're pardoning. Dude, come on. Do better. Okay. I can't believe I just said do better, unironically. Finally, it wouldn't be a Trump rally without just some kind of weird shit. We even brought our superstar today, Caroline. Stand up, Carolin.

Isn't she great? Is Caroline great? You know, when she goes on television, and Fox, like, I mean, they dominate. They dominate when she gets up there with that beautiful face and those lips that don't stop, pop, pop, like a little machine gun. She's got no fear.

You know why she has no fear? Because we have the right policy. What? Also, not for nothing, like, oh, does she dominate on Fox? Wow, what a talent. What does that even mean? Yeah, you're defeated a lawyer. Congratulations.

A debate, yeah. Beautiful face and lips that don't stop like a machine gun. Bob, Bob, Bob. What is that? He's, you know, he's just an unreconstructed douche from the 80s. Yeah. Do you hear that, speaking of doches, you hear that dork scream, Sweet Caroline? Oh, I didn't miss that.

Nine to nine percent of that guy's from Boston, unfortunately. Yeah, it's just sort of how he talks about women, even, like, you know, successful, professional women. Like, he was, at one point, Dave McCormick was there, center from Pennsylvania, and he was talking about McCormick's race, and he was like, and let me tell you about Dave's wife, Dina. She's a beautiful. She's really in the social scene But you know what If he had lost that race She would have left him

She would have left him He was trying to do as a joke But also it's like Dina Powell worked for you She had a high level job in the White House Deputy National Security Yeah she was like in the Oval Talking to you a lot

And you said that she's hot and on the social scene Yeah she's also like a top person A Goldman Sachs before that Yeah I don't expect Trump to be up On the kind of the latest best practices When it comes to like DEI or like sexual harassment Training But at least like some measure of respect

But lips that don't stop is such weird phrasing. And I didn't realize this. I was just like Googling around. He's got lips that don't stop. Bobba over here. He has said this before. In August, he said the same thing about her to newsmen. Really?

He said she's a star. It's that face. It's that brain. It's those lips the way they move. They move like a machine gun. And then the report on it said, and then he realized that she was in the room. And he goes, oh, she's a star. Like, it's so creepy.

And it comes after he said, quiet piggy to a female journalist. Yeah. He attacked a New York Times reporter who wrote a story about Trump. falling asleep in all of his meetings these days, and called her ugly, both inside and out. This guy's just completely out of control. It doesn't mean if a friend or a foe. Yeah, I mean, there is also all the assaults that he both bragged about on tape and has been sued for successfully. Also sexually harassed at this event was Scott Bessant. Did you catch that part? What he's like, if you're picking a guy for the treasury for a movie, he's made for a movie, he's central casting.

Are we casting a movie about, again, a cadaver cabinet? What are we talking about? There were a lot of callouts. Also, Scott gave a little bit of a warm-up. I don't know if you saw that when he was talking about how the next year is going to be the best year for the bond market. Yeah. You think a lot of those people at the rally care about the bond market? I can get myself interested in the stock market.

You can. No one's interested in the bond market. No one's interested in the bond market. No one's fired up about T-bills. Scott, I want Scott Besson and Donald Trump to be like the- Put him on the stump. Put him on the stump. I want to hear Besson talk about affordability.

I want to talk about his experience as a soybean farmer. He also, at one point, he called out a speechwriter. Which one? He was like, oh, I haven't been reading a word on this prompter this whole time. It's like, yeah, we can tell. And he's like, I say this. And he goes, my speechwriters, they get all this praise. And all these, everyone's like, you're the best speechwriters.

He's like, what? I don't even use it. Oh, one of my speechwriters is here. And Ross, Ross, Ross stand up. And it was like, he makes the speechwriters stand up after saying that his speechwriters are undeservingly getting praise because he doesn't read any of the thing. shit that they write for him. Amazing. Doing the weave. Doing the weave. John, having

watched this, do you think Republicans in swing districts are going to be clamoring for a Trump visit? It's so funny because they're going to have, he's going to want to go. Oh, yeah. They're going to not want him to go, but then they are going to want him to go because he's like, well, he'll juice the base for them, but he's just going to provide so many ads.

The challenges, it's like, he'll go to their district, you'll get a good picture or a still of him and the congressperson, and then the Democrats can just put that in an ad with him calling affordability a hoax, and that's your pretty easy. Yeah, Susie Wiles says she wants to put Trump on the ballot. I think that's also the Democratic Party's plan. Yeah, no, I agree with Susie Wiles.

Challenge for Republicans is, will the MAGA people turn out if Trump's not actually on the ballot? So far, no. No. But we'll find out. Yeah. Great events, sir. Do more. 97 minutes, I think, was the... Jesus. And he started like an hour late.

Yeah. Which everyone loves. Or whatever. Yeah. Whatever. Did people watch that anymore? Who knows? It annoyed us.

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