Breaking News from Pod Save America - Trump’s Birthday Parade Suddenly At RISK

Episode Date: June 12, 2025

Tommy Vietor and Brian Tyler Cohen break down the week’s political absurdities: Gavin Newsom takes the fight to Trump, Trump attends Les Misérables (and gets booed), and the Trump's ridiculous MAGA military parade. Plus, what’s going on with David Hogg and the DNC? CHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR - SimpliSafe - http://simplisafe.com/rank Save 50% on your system and your first month is free when you sign up for professional monitoring. Visit http://SimpliSafe.com/rank to customize yours! Try SimpliSafe risk-free. If you don’t love it, return it for a full refund within 60 days. Make sure to follow SimpliSafe on IG: @simplisafe and TikTok: @simplisafe 00:00 - Trump vs. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles 12:27 - Trump Booed at Les Misérables 15:35 - Ad Break 17:29 - Elon Bends the Knee to Trump 21:19 - Trump’s Stupid Birthday Parade 23:27 - DNC Pushes Out David Hogg Photos courtesy of AP Photo Archive Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Greetings from the crooked media bunker here in occupied Los Angeles. Brian, do you have enough food and water? I do not. I'm actually very poorly fed. I don't get enough sleep. You don't look like you've been eating. Liberal Tears is brought to you by SimplySafe. There's no safe like Simply Safe.

Well, as everyone knows, we are under full military occupation here in Los Angeles. It's anarchy outside. You can't know. Everything's completely normal. Everything's fine. Quiet and... Yeah. I mean, that's the thing about what's happening in L.A.

and how the Trump administration is trying to frame this as like all of these Republicans. keep saying that Los Angeles is on fire. Now, in their defense, L.A. is generally on fire. There's been a lot of that lately. Very flammable city. But as it relates to the protests happening right now, it is restrained to like just a couple of city blocks downtown L.A. It's very weird to be in the middle of media firestorm.

That's just totally inaccurate and kind of living it and being like wanting to fact-check people in real time. But it is what it is. Anyway, it's been a big problem for our governor, Governor Gavin Newsom, who has been fighting Donald Trump's decision to federalize the National Guard and deploy them to Los Angeles. The federal government also deployed 700 Marines. You interviewed, we both interviewed Gavin Newsom this week. You interviewed him first, which I'm absolutely not at all mad about. Yeah, you keep texting me about how not mad you are. I'm not mad.

I did notice something interesting about the interview. Let's watch a clip. We're joined now by Governor Newsom. We're in the Emergency Operations Center as these protests. continue to rage as Donald Trump has federalized the National Guard. First and foremost, did the National Guard need to come into California? Of course not. He'd flame the fires. Brian, how many times a week do you do biceps? That's the question I was sort of getting at. Nice substantive discussion on policy right now. Okay, so let's be political hacks. Let's talk about

the political implications of what Gavin's doing here. He's doing a ton of media. You were first, he talked to Patsy of America on Monday. He was on the New York Times. the daily. Like, I don't know. I don't know Gavin well. Like, I've observed him from afar. I've interviewed him a few times. I've hung out with him kind of off the record a few times.

This was as angry as I've ever seen him. Yes. Did you have the same sort of reaction when you were with him? Yeah. Yeah. A hundred percent. When I walked in, I noticed his entire, like, the entire ambiance, the entire aura around him was completely different.

He was legitimately pissed off over this. And I've heard two things. I think I have two takeaways from the Gavin Newsome of it all. First of all, the through line that I've heard from everybody, regardless of where they lie on the ideological spectrum, is that, you know, Newsom may not be their cup of tea, but at least he's fighting. Yes. And I've heard that from Uber progressives who, you know, six months ago would have said that he's the Antichrist, right? And now they're saying, like, at least he's out there. At least he's doing something.

And the second thing that I noticed is that he's striking back really quickly. And that's such a welcome change because Democrats would usually be fumbling around for four days to find the perfect poll test of response. And he's coming out and he's posting as much as he can. He's reaching as many news outlets as he can. He's spoken to independent folks like myself and you guys and Midas Touch. And, you know, there's been a lot of other creators. A lot of progressive outlets. Progressive outlets.

He's spoken with national outlets. The same day that I interviewed him, he was with Jacob Soberoff on MSNBC. He spoke with local outlets, my buddy Alex Michelson here in Fox, L.A. Our buddy, our buddy, Alex Michelson on Fox LA, spoke with him. And so he's doing the rounds. And he has a very smart strategy to be able to reach as many people as possible. But even then on his own socials, it's just clip after clip after clip. He's going direct to camera to say what he needs to say.

He did a gubernatorial address to the state and the nation. And so he understands the media environment that we're in right now. And he's making sure to fix a lot of the problems that Democrats have contended with in the past. Yeah. And I guess I had the same reaction. Like, I think there is just such a leadership vacuum out there. Everyone is looking for someone to fight back against Trump. And, like, we've seen, like, spatterings of it, right?

Like, people get excited when Pete does a great interview. I was excited when Chris Van Hollen went down to El Salvador to fight for Kilmar, Brago Garcia. Corey Booker did his long filibuster. But, like, this has been a moment, I think, where Gavin has leaned in harder than I've ever seen him lean in to fight against Trump. Because normally they had a pretty good relationship. Like, I actually think Trump really likes Gavin because he kind of, they see some of themselves and each other, you know. But there might be some increased risk here of retaliation from the White House, but I kind of think that was always going to happen to California.

Like they want to slap around a bunch of liberals. I mean, like, to that exact point, like, we're worried about risk of retaliation. The military is in L.A. right now. Like, what are we going to, like, not push back against Trump for fear of him doing something that's abusive of his powers? We've got the Marines in Los Angeles. I think that ship has already sailed. The ship is long ago sailed.

Maybe the Navy will be here soon. The question that all the hacks like us are asking is, does this make him more or less likely to run for president? I think I probably lean more. Yeah, I would say so. I mean, look, I think if at one end of the spectrum, yes, of course, I think it makes him more likely to run for president. But on the opposite end of the spectrum, if nothing else, I think that all of this is good in the sense that it shows that there's a big incentive structure for any Democrat, for all Democrats to respond aggressively and. quickly. And if nothing else, that's what all of the positive reinforcement Newsom is getting right now is offering up to the rest of the party, a playbook in how to respond and deal with

Republicans in the Trump era. Yes, and digitally. If I read another goddamn op-ed, I'm going to rip my hair out, like, get online, fight with memes, like get in the trenches with him with Trump digitally. I think if I'm understanding your idea is to start more substacks, is that, is that how we defeat Trumpism? Yeah, we're going to substack our way out of fascism. So there's also a big legal fight, like on the more substantive front, Governor Newsom and the Attorney General Rob Bonta sued the Trump administration saying the federalization of these 4,000 National Guard members and this deployment of 700 Marines is illegal. They argue it bypasses the governor's authority. It violates the Constitution. It violates federal law. There's a hearing scheduled for today,

Thursday, June 12th. I took a quick look at the California filing that just went up before this. The first sentence of it is President Trump and his fellow defendants advance a breathtaking vision of and limited unreviewable executive power. So it's quite clear in what their concern is. The legal injunction itself is asking for pretty narrow and temporary relief. Basically, they want these troops to not be able to do actual law enforcement. They want them to protect personnel and federal personnel and federal property. Regardless, so we'll see how this plays out.

Regardless, I mean, the images that, you know, Trump is fanning the flames of and the sort of limited protesting and law breaking that there is, has led to protests in other cities like Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Seattle. You're also seeing Democratic governors release this joint statement earlier in the week because they're deadly afraid that Trump is going to apply this executive order to their states and send the troops there. So this is expanding quickly. Yeah.

So I spoke with Attorney General Bonta a couple of days ago. Basically, the U.S. Code that Trump invoked was U.S. Code Title 10, Section 124,406. And there are a few qualifications that have to be satisfied here. One, the only way that you can send in the military is to repel an invasion of the United States. There is no invasion. A rebellion against the authority of the government of the United States. There is no rebellion against the United States or the inability of the U.S. to be able to execute our laws, which isn't the case either. And if you are going to send in the military, then you have to consult with the governor of that state.

And there was no consultation. And, of course, Trump was trying to make it seem like he spoke with Newsom by saying that he spoke with him on June 9th and there was no call on June 9th and then Fox tried to try to help him out by saying, by showing a call log of them speaking on June 7th, which of course is well documented. But they're trying to like reverse engineer some some justification. Let's just take it one second. So I think yesterday on Wednesday or Tuesday, Trump said he had spoken to Gavin Newsom the day before. That was not true.

They spoke at like midnight on Friday night. So maybe it was Saturday like DC time. Gavin then fact-checked him. The Trump administration released a screenshot of his iPhone call log to try to suggest that he was right. And Fox News, by the way, is just pretending that those timelines make sense. Right. That saying the call was Monday means that Gavin Newsom is wrong and that Trump is right when in reality the call was on Friday. It's just a very stupid side fight.

Yeah. I mean, the whole thing kind of just puts on full display how complicit Fox and these right-wing media figures are in Donald. Trump's effort to try to clean up this completely unjustifiable mess. But to your broader point here, I would contend, and I think a lot of these other governors and attorneys general understand the same issue here is that Trump isn't doing this to stop in L.A. He doesn't want to be viewed as an autocrat as all-powerful only in the eyes of Angelinos. He's doing this as a test case here in LA because this is an easy city to go to. It's the punching bag of the right wing media ecosystem is just California and Los Angeles. It's this big blue bastion, big blue city in a big blue state

with a evil communist Marxist governor. And so they might view what's happening in Los Angeles as isolated just to L.A. But this is a test case that Trump is going to export to other cities across the country. And he'll start in, you know, in blue cities, in blue states, like he'll go to New York and Chicago, and then he'll go to these blue cities in purple states like Philly and Detroit and Milwaukee. And then he'll go to blue cities in red states like Austin and Dallas. And by then, I mean, it'll just be an easy policy to export around the entire country. It'll be totally normalized. Correct. It'll be completely normalized. And so, look, authoritarian's don't generally impose limitations on their own power. He's not just doing this to be powerful in the eyes of the folks

who live here in L.A. He's doing this because this is the easy way in for a policy that he wants to implement across the entire United States. And so everybody should be worried. Even if you look at Los Angeles and you say that that's 3,000 miles away from me, this is him rolling out the policy that I guarantee he's going to try to roll out everywhere else. And so that's why these other governors are obviously taking this seriously. Obviously recognizing the risk. that are posed not just to the United States, but there are states and their cities in particular. Yeah, I ask Gavin about this on Monday. He's like, coming to a theater near you. If you think this is an LA problem, you think this is a California problem, you are wrong. One last thing. Let's throw up that

tweet. I mean, it is notable that President Trump this morning Thursday seem to suggest that he wants to walk back ICE suddenly raiding like all these Home Depot's and going after farm workers after some videos emerged over the last few days of exactly that happening. So, uh, big slap in the face to Stephen Miller and likely the result of a bunch of business interests calling him and being like, hey, man, we're not going to be able to do construction if you arrest all of these people. We're not going to be able to have restaurants open if you arrest every undocumented person. We're not going to be able to pick the fruits and vegetables that you're all eating if you unrest every undocumented person like you promised to. So this is a crazy unworkable policy. You know, he's coming out as if he's making this big discovery that good workers are getting caught up in his policy. There are, are videos of ICE chasing down migrant workers in fields where they're picking food? What do you expect? These aren't

people in mid-crime. You were going out to the fields where these agricultural workers are working in the agriculture sector running down the fields to arrest them and then you're like, hold on, I've just made this discovery that some people are accidentally getting caught up in the net. Right. And it's like, hey man, that's happening because your

dumb fuck senior advisor, Stephen Miller, went to ICE and told them they were all pathetic and worthless and would be fired if they didn't started arresting, what, 3,000 before a day. So now we have to do this quota where they're going, like, everywhere. I mean, they're going into construction sites where these people are working. They're going into the fields where these people are working. And this is all happening, by the way, at the same time that our manufacturing sector is contracting.

The only country in the industrialized world that has a shrinking manufacturing sector at the same time that we're taking the workers away who are actually making this thing function. And terrifying everybody else. Great policy. All right, Brian. So as Trump tells the world that our city is some burning crazed. anarchist nightmare. He took some time out to attend a performance of Les Miserables. Did I say that well on Wednesday night?

Les Miserables. Thank you. Here's a quick clip of how Trump was greeted and some of the coverage. Before the show, President Trump said he's a big fan of Le Miz. Ironically, while protesters are in the streets of some U.S. cities, the legendary musical tells the story of French citizens rising up against their government. Incidentally, that's what it sounds like when you walk in at Crooked Media every morning. You suck, Vitor. You're not far from the truth. You're lame, miss fan.

I've never seen it. I know nothing about it. I think the biggest irony in the world is Donald Trump, in the midst of deploying the U.S. military and the U.S. Marines into an American city, multiple American cities, is you have this guy who is so tone deaf, so oblivious, that he walks into a play that actually discusses, like, the people rising up against the tyrannical government. I mean, it's just so on the nose. Chef's Kiss.

Speaking of oblivious and out of touch, let's check out this tweet from J.D. Vance. Here's J.D. Vance talking to his wife, Usha, about how he doesn't know anything about what's in Lame is, but he does know lots about a well-less, much lesser-known play called Sweeney Todd. Do you believe it, Brian? First of all, you know, Tommy, the right is getting better at comedy, and I think it should make us nervous. Speaking of comedy, here's a great response I saw this morning and instantly retweeted. The tweet says, me when I pretend not to know the plot of a Broadway musical, that's based on one of the best known novels of all time

while somehow knowing the plot to a different lesser-known Broadway musical. This was the joke I just stole. I think that's a photo of JD Vance in drag from college. So people were having fun with this one. Yeah. Gavin Newsom also got in on the fun here. He tweeted, someone please explain the plot to him when he learned that President Trump was going to lame-miss.

I don't know, Brian. It's also the other irony here is the Congressional Budget Office just announced today that the big, beautiful bill, with all its Medicaid cuts, will make the bottom 30% of our country far worse off and that all these tax cuts will make the top 10% off much, much richer. So lame is indeed. Yeah, I mean, but this is the whole goal, right?

This is not a surprise to anybody. I mean, if they were going to go to any play, they would go to Robin Hood, the musical. I mean, this is what they're doing. They are literally taking, this is the biggest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in this country's history. All the while, it's under this pretense that Donald Trump swept into office because he understood the struggles of the working class. He understood that rent was too high and that housing was too. expensive and that groceries are too hard to find. And that gold toilets were just too hard to find. And so thank God he's swooped in and offered a bill that's going to heap more benefits onto the wealthy

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when you sign up for a professional monitoring plan and get your first month free. Visit Simplysafe.com slash rank to customize yours. There's no safe like SimplySafe. Also this week, Brian, America's most powerful and childish billioners. They finally kissed and made up. I'm obviously talking about the feud between President Trump

and is drugged up oligarch. Elon Musk. We probably don't have to remind people that they got into a huge Twitter fight last week. It included Elon. suggesting that the Epstein files haven't been released because President Trump is in them. Quit a spicy one. That's some tough toothpaste to stick back in that, too.

Yeah, I don't know that one's working, buddy. So on Wednesday, Jude 11th. You got to love, like, Elon waking up after, like, some deep ketamine hangover, and he's like, I did what? I'd be like, oh, my God. I said what yesterday? This is the worst hangover ever. Yeah. So on Wednesday, Elon tweeted, I regret some of my post about President Trump last week.

They went too far. some not all apparently he's like I stand by the Epstein one that one was fine you did delete a bunch of them including the Epstein one apparently based on reporting the times and other places that Trump

Elon called Trump directly on Monday night by the way that that tweet I just read for you was sent at like 304 a.m. Eastern so you know we don't know what extracurricular Elon was doing at the time but it's safe to say nothing good happens on Twitter

at 3 a.m. apparently Elon also spoke to Susie Wiles. Or most of the other, or most of the rest of the day, as, as Favs can attest to. Yeah, we probably all should get off there. Whatever. Whatever. Elon spoke to Susie Wiles, Chief of Staff and J.D. Vance on June 6th to kind of begin the groveling process. Trump, Brian, unsurprisingly, was not satisfied. A reporter asked him if the relationship had been patched up. He said, I haven't really thought too much about it. Yeah, that's what you get for, that's what you get for throwing yourself on the grenade and like, and sacrificing what's left of your dignity. to grovel at the feet of Donald Trump, and then that's the thanks you get in the media. So, Brian, do you think this means Trump is no longer in the Epstein files?

Elon and Trump was always a marriage of convenience. It was always transactional, and so it's not like there was some deeper underlying relationship between them. It was transactional before, and it continues to be transactional now. They both recognize that they can just continue to benefit each other, just like they benefited each other before in the lead up to this, in the lead up to the election, where Elon gave Trump a bunch of money, and in turn, Trump gave Trump a bunch of money, and in turn, Elon unfettered access to gut all of the regulators that were overseeing his businesses.

And so this was never about them. Who cares if they, who cares or who knows if they even liked each other? This was always about how, you know, two billionaires, one can make each other richer. And that's, and that's, at the end of the day, that continues to be the case. You're calling them friends with Benis. I'm calling it. I think the takeaway here is that they're friends with benefits. Yeah, it sounds like Trump spiked Elon's pick to run NASA. was this guy named Jared Isaacman, who, you'll not be surprised to learn, could throw a lot of money Elon's direction by contracting with SpaceX.

Elon was reportedly angry about these electric vehicle tax credits getting stripped away. Those are critical to Tesla and their ability to make money. Tesla doesn't make money off selling a lot of cars. A lot of it is selling these EV tax credits. Elon reportedly got physical and attacked Scott Besson, the secretary. You mean it wasn't his child who punched him in the eye? It's crazy to come in with a black guy. I'd say it was your five-year-old.

Tommy, you have children. Is that standard practice that you just tell your child to punch you in your eye as hard as they can? To blame her for international. No, but she has scratched me in the face, so, you know. Yeah. She knows what she did. You know, we'll see how this goes, Brian. I mean, like Trump could still review the SpaceX contracts and take all kinds of steps to punish Elon.

Elon pledged $100 million to Trump's aligned groups and super PACs. It'll be interesting to see. if that check comes through or maybe if Trump declares an Epstein premium. So the price just went up, big guy. But it was a disaster. But Trump will be busy this weekend, Brian, because he's

got a big birthday event planned. Are you excited that you were selected to be Deputy Grand Marshal of the fascist military and birthday parade this weekend? It was an honor, one that I take very seriously and I'm actually heading out to D.C.

today. So you're going to wear. I'm going to wear You're a big army guy I'm a big, big army guy Love my Fatigues Love my camo

Cool I think you'd look great Blend into the Thalac missiles that will be Winding their way Down Pennsylvania Avenue Yeah so folks have probably heard I mean let's play this B roll we got of

This is like literally Tanks coming into D.C Tank after tank After tank Is that in Russia Or is that in Washington, D.C.? you decide. A new segment here on liberal tears. Tanks are,

they're supposedly like... Washington, D.C. or Pian, or Pianyang. I don't think I've ever said that word out loud. Gung Yang. There's like, they're going to have like MLRS rocket systems, which are those like massive long-range missiles. They're going to have 7,000 troops. Apparently they scheduled the event in the afternoon.

So these poor soldiers don't pass out walking through like one of America's swampiest, sweatiest cities. But it might rain, according to meteorologists. Yeah, we should be so lucky. Look, all of this is happening. It's crazy what happens when you just don't get into art school, you know? Democrats are counter programming all over the country with these No Kings protests. Yes. Saturday, June 14th, No Kings Day. There's going to be protests. I think there's 1,800 protests planned across the entire country. Obiaeat protests that we have here in Los Angeles, and I know that we're going to have that it's looking like millions upon millions of people.

This will likely be the biggest protest that we have during Trump's second term. My hope is that it gets as big as the women's march did during his first term obviously remains to be seen, but there's going to be a lot of energy, a lot of enthusiasm about that. Yeah, it's exciting. Go to Votesaveamerica.com. If you click the volunteer tab, you can find, you know, the closest protest to you. Because, as you said, you don't have to go to one place for this one. They're happening all over the country. Finally, Brian, Democrats are at the DNC are solely trying to get their shit together.

Earlier this week, Democratic activist David Hogg announced that he would resign from his post as DeMoney. DNC vice chair. David Hogg had infuriated Ken Martin, the head of the DNC, by announcing a plan to raise up to $20 million to launch primary challenges against other Democrats. And he announced this after he'd become the vice chair. The DNC said that they're going to force new elections for vice chair because the previous iterations didn't comply with some gender parity rules. That seems like a bit of a pretext to just kind of push David out of the DNC. Regardless, this all dragged on way too long. It got ugly. There was like leaked audio. of a conference call where Ken Martin sounded like he was crying. Project Veritas was going after

David Hogg. It was like super ugly. So Brian, I'm glad this saga is over. I just like want the DNC to get to work on the nuts and bolts of party building. Clearly though, there is a growing frustration within the party about the age of a lot of elected officials and the need for a new generation of leadership. And that's not going away just because he pushed out David Hawk. Right. And nor should it. I think of the last eight lawmakers who have died in office. they've all been Democrats. Yeah, not good. Like this idea that we should just have these people

who are in safe district. I mean, this is to David's point, these people who are in safe districts, and so view that as kind of an entitlement to that seat until they die is not how this process should work. Like, you should be there to best represent your constituents, and when you get to a point where you can no longer do that effectively, then make room for the next generation.

And I think what's ironic here is that there is a certain generation of folks who have stayed in office for so long that we've kind of completely skipped over Gen X. And now there's like a whole wave of millennial lawmakers coming in, probably for the best, because Gen X is actually the most conservative. They're terrible. They went hard right. No offense, Gen X if you're listening, like and subscribe.

But stop. Talk to your peers, guys. You know, we didn't all listen to Pearl Jam and end up like this. Like, what are you doing? You know, it's funny is obviously we've had some pretty well-documented discussions about Gen Z being farther to the right than other generations, especially at their age. but the millennials, you know, we're holding it down. We're the best generation by far.

Yeah, the Gen Z thing in fairness, like Gen Z women tend to be very progressive as Gen Z men that we've lost and we need to get back. There's all sorts of plans being circulated to do exactly that. Yes, yes. I've been, you know, watching the millions and millions pour in. Yeah, yeah, you're the... You were saying you were donating a couple million from Crooked. You asked me to call you Joe Rogan at the last on this episode, and I was like,

that seems out of nowhere, man. I have to just say that, like, Leftwing media will not let this idea die, that the left is looking for a Joe Rogan of left. And no one is actually looking for a Joe... No one who's actually acting in good faith or in any way serious is saying, like, oh, we need a Joe Rogan of Left.

It's just something that continues to pop up in all the media coverage about the Joe Rogan. I protest too much. Speaking the place. No, it's right. No one is looking for a Joe Rogan to the Left. We're just trying to reach young people through new kinds of media.

Yeah. But like, without fair... Every day you will pick up, like, you will like a New York Times story about how the left is searching for the Joe Rogan of the left as if we're just going to like, like, you know, anoint one in conclave, like the Pope. If I owned X.com, formerly Twitter, I would create a feature where if you tweeted the words Joe Rogan at the left, you got a little shock. If you started to fight about the, just a light shock, like a shock, like a dog collar. And if you started a fight about the book, Abundance, you got a much stronger shock. Yeah. I would like to end that conversation in both places.

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