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Episode Date: September 17, 2025

Tommy Vietor and Jon Lovett discuss Donald Trump's second state visit to the UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Love of the transatlantic royal fluffing has begun. I'm, of course, talking about Donald Trump's second state visit to the UK. Let's watch some hard-hitting coverage of Trump's visit via our friends over at G.B. News. White and blue applying, of course, equally to Britain and the United States of America. They could deploy the tricolor. Oh, that looks magnificent. media network, partly owned by this hedge fund guy. Are you a big fan of military flyovers? Yes.

I think so. I am too. I like them. I like them, although I was caught up. I went to an Alabama game once. What? Yeah, that's right. Football?

That's right. When? Years and years and years ago. I had a friend who was from Alabama, Republican, actually. It was another time, another era. And they did a flyover, and I was like genuinely shocked by it. Yeah. And I really look like quite the liberal fag in front of all these conservatives.

Because I was like, ugh. Well, the afterburners go on. It is like scary. My dad was in the Air Force, so he took us a lot of like air shows and stuff when I was a kid. I love them. I think they're awesome in Chicago Air and Water Show. The thing I don't get, the pageanty and protocol tradition is like reviewing the troops. Like, why do you want to watch dudes goose step around in like weird costumes?

Why is that a thing we do? I don't know. It's obviously not very American to do it in the same way. They get those big beefeater hats and go marching around. I guess it's back from when the army is very small, then you could see the whole thing before a single person sent them off to go fight on their behalf. It's very 19th century, though. It's very monarch.

Oh, yeah. Anyway. Yeah, it was, you know, an exciting time. It's like, we're going to kill some French people. Yeah, I guess they didn't have streaming TV. Right. It was a lot less to do. You get a picnic blanket, you go to the top of the hill, you watch the truth where they go and to kill those fucking lymie, froggy bastards. Trump's in the UK.

So far on his trip, he's a later wreath at Queen Elizabeth the Second's Tomb. He watched a bunch of military bands march around, as we just said. He rode in a horse-drawn carriage. There was the flyover that got everyone all excited there. At the moment, Trump is comfortably ensconced at Windsor Castle. He's far away from downtown London where there are big anti-Trump protests planned. You know who's going to speak at these protests is Crooked Media's own Nish Kumar. Oh, cool.

Host a Pote of the UK. Frequent guests and love it or leave it, I believe. Yeah, that's right. And, yeah, and raconteur. Parvacatur. Yes, all of the above. Great House. So, love it.

Trump is quite unpopular in the UK. Do you want to guess his approval rating? Boy, 30%. Lower. 25%. Lower. 15% approval. 70% disapproved.

17% disapproved. 13% are neutral. Trump is going to be very annoyed to learn that, according to U.Gov, the most popular politicians in the UK, are Barack Obama and Volodemir Zelensky. Which one do we think he hates more? That's a tough list for him. I was Biden at 13?

30s. Yeah, for sure. Low. That's, yeah. That's interesting. Man, it's such a sad thing that like the American, like the American president can safely go to like Dubai or Riyadh, but is obviously unwelcome in like downtown London because he's such a despised and reviled figure.

And also it's like, man, they got TikTok over there. It's not just TikTok. What's going on over here? Why can't people get people's heads? I'd love to see a one in front of Trump's approval radio. Two would be nice. Me too. I think part of the answer is GB News is the brand new startup that very few people watch,

but it's the equivalent of our Fox News, which is the number one voice in news. All right, let's enjoy a little bit more GB News coverage. The holding hands. Yes, we've got the hand hold there, which is lovely to see. It's lovely to see. None of that slapping away that we've been used to before. It's your ability to come and. this like a football game is extraordinary

and I'm enjoying it immensely. Thanks, Will. Feel free to jump in if you have any observations. Well, I was just thinking it's nice to have a president walk down the stairs and not be fearful that he's going to fall. It's a pleasant change from years gone by. This is the thing. Everyone who meets Trump says he is very charming in person.

He can be an absolutely lovely. It's only this kind of negativity that you get from the media and the leftist class where this hate figure narrative comes in. One on one, he's meant to be an utterly charming man. Joe Biden catches some strays there. By the way, it's like, you know, it's funny to see it.

There's something about seeing like Trump's sick of fancy in a British accent. It's like, oh, right. They're talking about him like he's a fucking God king. Fuck you. Fuck you, people. Fuck you. We beat you. We beat you so we didn't have to do this.

Oh, look at him. Walk down the stairs with a plumb. Everyone says he's very charming. He doesn't have sausage-like fingers. So I've never met Donald Trump. I see his charm at events. I see his storytelling ability. I see his sense of humor.

I get the appeal on some level. I've never heard anyone say that he is always charming one-on-one. In fact, you hear stories about him being a raging asshole. Yeah, yeah. He's a mercurial narcissist, as everyone, including his closest friends, usually acknowledge. Right. Yeah, I think he's got the charisma and charm of a narcissist, right? He can be funny and entertaining.

But at the same time, he's a deeply weird fucking guy. He doesn't know how to act like a normal person. He's asked on the White House lawn about, Charlie Kirk. He's like, yeah, it's a real bummer. Check out this ballroom. He's a fucked up guy. I can't get over that clip. Yeah, look at the, it'll get a construction of the ballroom. Okay, so as we talked about briefly on Monday's Potsave America, Jeffrey Epstein is also looming large in the background of this visit. So Prince Andrew has deep ties to Jeffrey Epstein. He's been a source of shame for the royal family. Prime Minister Kier-Starmor recently fired

the UK's ambassador to the U.S. after Bloomberg published emails from Peter Mendelsohn, the former ambassador, to Jeffrey Epstein. This is an email. Mendelsohn sent the day before Epstein reported to prison in 2008. I think the world of you and I feel hopeless and furious about what has happened. I can still barely understand it. It just could not happen in Britain. At the time he sent that, he was the European Commissioner for Trade, which is a very senior job negotiating trade agreement.

It's not just for the UK, but on behalf of all EU member states, the UK was one of them back then. So tough email. Also, man, the UK has had. its own version of Epstein scandals with very prominent figures who turned out were abusing children basically in plain sight for years, including big media figures. So disgusting. Also, I haven't heard it come up, but Gleine Maxwell's father was apparently British intelligence, and she did not deny in her interview that he might have continued having some kind of a relationship.

Yeah, he was a big media guy too. And, yeah, reportedly had ties to lots of intelligence agencies, maybe the Mossad as well. That's always been speculated as part of the whole Epstein. lore. Some activists projected images of Trump and Epstein on the wall of Windsor Castle, which is well done. But it is interesting. The political conversation in the U.S. has kind of moved on from Jeffrey Epstein. Like Cash Patel got asked about it today. But it's interesting that he still can't really escape it overseas. No. Well, yeah, as long as people keep bringing it up, he can't escape it. He won't be able to escape it when he gets back because it's going to be other turn to the screw. Like Cash did get asked about it today and had some pretty unsatisfying answers about one. And so like,

Data is going to continue. But yeah, like, it's, it's more just the, um, this, also the sad part of all this, which is that every foreign government has figured out that like, man, Trump is a cheap date. Throw some planes overhead. Yep. Make him feel like a conquering hero. Give him a carriage. Tell him how great he is. Give him the pomp in the circumstances. And you'll get better trade deals. You'll get better terms. It's like it's, it's not diplomacy. It's just sort of, it's, it's, like personal politics. Yes, 100%. On the Mendelsohn thing, Bloomberg obtained more than 100%. It's like, it's, it's not. previously unreported emails from Epstein to Mandelson and back and forth from like 2005 to

2010. Also in that infamous birthday book that we saw Trump draw the armless naked tween. Madelson said that Epstein was quote his best pal in that. And like it like Middleson is gay. So presumably this was not a sexual relationship. There was no like trafficking of young girls. We hope we believe. But I guess God only knows. I have no idea. We just don't know. The, like, the perversity of all of it, too, is that even for some of these wealthy people that were not necessarily, like, directly involved in abuse, like, it was common knowledge. It was a joke. It was something everybody talked about. I'm sure it was something people saw.

So it's like, whatever his direct involvement, it's just like, you're disgusting. You're hopeless because he's finally facing some meager accountability and you're going to continue to be friends with them after. And you barely understand it, which either means you don't want to understand it or you do and are lying. So like, fuck you. Also, this guy was Tony Blair's head of communications. If anyone should understand the peril of Hagenr out with someone like Jeffrey Epstein, it's Peter Mendelsohn. Yeah.

So the trip isn't all, like, kind of goofy, ceremonial stuff. Trump's going to meet with Kier Starmer, the prime minister. They're scheduled to do a joint press conference, I believe. Big issues will come up, right? Like, you've got to imagine Ukraine, trade policy, tariffs, freedom of speech. So that's all to come. And we'll cover that when we see it. But for now, please enjoy one.

last dumb clip from G.B. News. Although I noticed that they're wearing red coats, and I always thought the red coats were something that the Brits were supposed to be wearing. So maybe, I don't know whether that's their standard uniform or whether they're doing that particularly for this occasion, but wonderful to see them incorporated. And they're playing a wonderful medley of tunes, including Yankee Doodle and the British, British Grenadiers. A real love fest, a transatlantic love fest as we pay tribute to one another. That was being appropriate. Yeah, I mean, it really does look like we're watching something out of a history book, as you said.

I mean, the colors are opposite. But this is not something you see every day in this country, and certainly not something you see in the United States of America. It looks like a movie. Who, wait, were those our fucking guys? Were those our guys? I don't know what was happening there. I think they might have been in red, and I'm not sure why.

Why are Americans wearing red coats? What the, were they Americans? We brought some guys over to dancing. Are they, what the... I don't know. Also, Yankee Doodle sucks. Like, give me Star Spangled Banner, batter him, the Republic.

stars and stripes forever. I would even take party in the USA. Yankee doodle. Come on. We can do better than that. Those are Americans in the Red Coats? I think so. It was confusing. It was hard to track. Yeah, not our best. Special relationship. Uh, all right, that's it for this, uh, Pod Save America YouTube. Thanks for watching. Please subscribe to Pod Save America here on YouTube. We do more stuff like this. We have some fun. Yeah. Let's talk about some serious shit. But also, you know, the right wing's killing us on YouTube. And when you subscribe, it helps us get good information into the algorithm. So when people search for political news, they find us. How keep these Yankees doodle dundee, you know?

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