Bulwark Takes - Trump’s INSANE White House Event Was Straight out of Idiocracy

Episode Date: August 23, 2025

Trump’s latest press conference was pure chaos: he joked about renaming the Kennedy Center after himself, called the Epstein files a “Democrat hoax,” gushed over a signed photo from Putin, and bragged about sending masked federal police into Chicago and New York. He even mocked his own allies like Kristi Noem while wearing a hat that read “Trump Was Right About Everything.”

Hey, everybody, Tim Miller here at the Bullwork. It's been a long, insane day, given what's going on with the raid of John Bolton's home. And, you know, we're taking over part of Intel, apparently. We've got MAGA communism coming to the country. I mean, like, if you even knew who our new ambassador to India was, I should do a whole separate video on that. You would just, you know, you can't just believe this is real life. In the middle of all that, Trump, oh, also we have the release of the, the Jeline Maxwell documents, which we'll get into

over the weekend with you. In the middle of all that, Trump did a press conference with the head of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, Gianni Infantino. And boy, was he in for a wild ride. They did a press conference, and, you know,

some days I take breaks from the Trump press conferences, and in the midst of all this very serious stuff, you know, with this incipient authoritarianism, and you know the other and the economic and there's so many serious issues out there so sometimes you're just like I can't take it with another Trump goat rodeo but I kept getting messages this one is insane this one is crazier than ever Trump is losing it like how is this real life and so I watched it I did I suffered through it and I felt like if I had to we're going to have to do it together. So here we go. We pulled, thanks to our team for pulling together for me a

couple of the clips, a couple of the highlights. And boy, I guess we start before we even hear him talk at all. I just want to point out to you that he's wearing a hat that says Trump was right about everything and that the head of ICE, the Department of Homeland Security, Ice Barbie is there, I guess, I mean, to discuss the fact that we'll make sure that we're to protect the FIFA soccer games, but does you really need to be there? Uh, but Trump's hat, Trump is right about everything. Like, you can't, like, you can't even imagine this. Like, you know, a leader of sport, like, imagine Adam Silver, the head of the NBA commissioner or something, you know, going to China to meet with them about an NBA game in China.

NBA shouldn't be doing games in China, but, you know, just go with me here. And chairman she has like a chairman she was right about everything hat on. Like, you're like, what, how, how, where am I? What is this? Is this, like, I mean, idiotocracy. Mike Judge couldn't even think of this. Couldn't even come up with something like this. So that's what he's chosen, that hat.

Trouble's right about everything. He went bankrupt several times. He wasn't right about everything. Lost in election. I mean, anyway. Let's go ahead and play the first clip. The 26 FIFA World Cup draw will take place at the Kennedy Center. Some people refer to as the Trump Kennedy Center,

but we're not prepared to do that quite yet, maybe in a week or so. I just, I don't know, man. The Trump Kennedy Center? I just, everybody, you just got to, you just got to accept that this is happening. Like, Republicans are going to name fucking everything about them. You're going to be flying into, you know, Donald Trump International Airport in Houston.

And you're going to get off and you're going to get on to Donald Trump Highway. way. And then there's going to be the Donald Trump Memorial Rest Stop, God willing. And then there's going to be, you know, the Donald Trump's biggest ball of flags. Like every fucking thing is going to be named up to this guy. They're in a cult and they know that's what makes them happy. So he's going to, whatever, the Trump Kennedy Center, you know, of all the indignities we have to deal with, I guess him pretending like he's going to put his name. Who the hell knows? He might put his name on there. Trump. This is why I go back to a way. Should have given him Gulf of Trump. We should have made a deal where we got coastal restorations in the exchange for Gulf of Trump. Anyway, Trump Kennedy Center. That's how we're kicking this thing off. Hello, sir. Welcome. The draw, the World Cup draw will take place at this building, this historic theater that I'm going to rename after myself before you get here. Let's do a next one.

Your Justice Department is also sending some of the Epstein files over to the House Oversight Committee today. Are you in support of them releasing all of them? Innocent people shouldn't be hurt, but I'm in support of keeping it totally open. I couldn't care less. You've got a lot of people that could be mentioned in those files that don't deserve to be people, because he knew everybody at Palm Beach. I don't know anything about that, but I have said to Pam and everybody else, give them everything you can give them, because it's a,

It's a Democrat hoax. It's just a hoax. The whole Epstein thing is a Democrat hoax. So we had the greatest six months, seven months in the history of the presidency, and the Democrats don't know what to do, so they keep bringing up that stuff. But it affected them.

Bill Clinton was on his plane and went to the island supposedly 28 times. I don't want to bring that up, frankly. You have Larry, whatever, his name is Summers, the head of Harvard, who was Jeffrey Epstein's best friend. Nobody ever talks about that. I mean, but I don't want to hurt Larry Summers, but he was best friends with Jeffrey Epstein.

No, this is a Democratic hoax to try and get the significance of what we've done over the past seven months. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. They say it's number one in history. What we've done, including stopping seven wars. I mean, just include that. Okay, it's a hoax. I mean, what is, it doesn't even make sense.

Like, he just, like, throws out hoax now. like what doesn't make sense i mean you have the as i mentioned before we had this testimony from jillian maxwell today i i looked at some of it and it's like i we're going to talk to some lawyers about it i this point this woman is a fucking liar and to me the big stories that donald trump is covering up his involvement or his appearance in the upstein files and jeline maxwell's lying about it doesn't really isn't really a huge news story for me but um what what is the democrat host exactly like it's your people it was pan bondi that said you were in there it was republicans a mega republicans who were pushing for epstein reveals uh you know i mean there are things

you could say i i guess like democrats or it's a democratic stunt or something i don't you know that would be disrespectful to the victims who should have a right to learn what is in these files but like at least i'd be in the ballpark like there's no hoax what's the fucking hoax you're just making shit up. Next. And I just sent a picture from somebody that wants to be there very badly. He's been very respectful of me and of our country, but not so respectful of others. But he'll, I'm going to sign this for him, but I was sent one, and I thought you all like to say it. That's a man named Vladimir Putin, who I believe will be coming, depending on what

happens. He may be coming, and he may not, depending on what happens. We have a lot of things happening over the next couple of weeks. But I thought it was a nice picture of him. Okay of me, but nice of him. So that was very nice that it was said to me. Okay? This is the weirdest one for me. I mean, he wants Putin to be at the World Cup.

Why? He just loves Putin so much. Putin, he just, Putin has buttered him up to such a degree. Like, why do you want this killer? You just have to go to these counterfactuals to try to think about it. Like, imagine in 92, or I guess it would have been, yeah, 80, 90, in 90, George H.W. Bush being like, I really would wish Saddam Hussein would come here. I really wish Saddam Hussein would be the 96 example.

We had the Olympics here in the Atlanta in 96, like Bill Clinton being like, I really want Milosevic to come here. I love Slobo So what a man You can just You know I love his big jolly belly You know

And he's committing a genocide And he's a murderer And he's a mass murderer But boy It would be great If he was here For the Olympics And that's weird enough

He's just like I'm desperate For Putin to come For some reason He just loves being in his company he likes his musk but then it's like the picture he's showing the picture it's like there's me in Putin and Putin looks good and I just look okay he tries to be self-deprecating but it's like what why and he does it showing it off with like with pride like if I had a picture with Putin I'd be like shredding that you

know I've got some pictures with somebody who's really giving me the business some old picture of Sarah Palin I took with her Palin, which I think I took as a gag. I think it was after. I already didn't like her, but anyway, I've forgotten that it was out there. Somebody, somebody grabbed it. And I was like, I would try to erase

that. You know, if I had the Palin picture, now I wouldn't be like, and Palin's say what you want about her. Isn't a fucking mass murderer? Isn't a kidnapper of children, to my knowledge? So, like, I don't. What?

Look at that. Aren't you impressed? Me and Putin. He sent me this picture. He sent it to me as a present. Yeah, it goes, as usual with Toronto, it goes from mockable and weird and strange to just ominous.

You said Chicago might be next. Are you making, have there been concrete steps that the administration is taking to do that? Or what are other cities as well? I haven't spoken to the mayor. He's grossly incompetent. I haven't spoken to the mayor. No, when we're ready,

we'll go ahead and we'll straighten out Chicago, just like we did D.C. Chicago is very dangerous, great place. I built great stuff there. I have the most beautiful building in Chicago, I think. But I hate to see what's happened to Chicago. Chicago was our greatest city, actually. Bob Tisch, a great friend of mine, passed away. He used to own the Giants and very successful lows.

He said Chicago, I think they had their main office in Chicago. He said Chicago, and San Francisco, the two greatest cities in the world. now you look at what the Democrats have done to San Francisco. They've destroyed it. I own a big chunk of the Bank of America building in San Francisco. And, you know, it's just different. We can clean that up, too. We'll clean that one up, too.

Now, if we, if everything works out, and we've already had calls from other cities, quiet calls, calls from Democrats, we'd love you to come here. Because they've lost control of their cells. I'm not going to say, because I don't want them to lose their elections. but we've had calls from Democrats and calls from people generally and we'd love you to come here because we'll straighten out the problem. So we're going to take over Chicago next.

And New York, you mentions, I think, in a later clip. And we all know this is coming. We'll know this. But like, he's doing fake emergencies to militarize the police in major cities and put in federal police. A lot of them are going to be masked and they're going to act with impunity. I don't want to live in a police state.

That's extremely alarming that he's so casual about it. And I think people need to wake up to where we're going. But I've said right piece on that already, so we'll continue. Here's another clip about Chicago. And the people in Chicago, Mr. Vice President, are screaming for us to come. They're wearing red hats, just like this one. But they're wearing red hats. African-American ladies, beautiful ladies,

they're saying, please, President Trump, come to Chicago. Please. I did great with the black vote, as you know, and they want something to happen. So I think Chicago will be our next, and then we'll help with New York. We're going to help with... And I think really, I think a lot of...

And a lot of these people that you see on television, they're including the people in this audience. They'll say bad things about me, and then they'll say, he's here because half of them got mugged and they don't want to get mugged again but they're you know they work for a latter they work for stupid people

at a radical left and they're made to do things and say things that they don't want to be saying but the people right here are all happy because you're not going to be mugged in Washington DC anymore so as Trump trying to do this thing the black ladies love me it's all so fucking gross I don't think they do I don't there's not any evidence

of this you did horrible it was your worst demographic black women shout out to black women. They were the demographically voted the most for Kamala and most for Biden in 2020. And I don't think they're begging for you to come to Chicago. I think they want you to stay the fuck away from them. So let's move on to the next clip. I turned on last night and I see Christy's painting the wall. And it looked beautiful, by the way, when that paint went over there. And it's hot. It's hot. If it's white, it's not hot. If it's going to be very hard to climb that sucker. It's not going to be easy.

but it's black and a high-quality black. You know, it really looked good. Is that going to be a two-coat job or one coat? No, just one coat. One coat. We used the paint you told me to buy. Yep. The two-coat will take place in three years from now.

We'll do the second coat. Did you get that double-coat of paint there? I mean, imagine just being willing to humiliate yourself like this. I mean, you might as well have called her tuts. We get a second coat of paint on that tuts? like, I mean, it was, I just, he's so dismissive, massage it's just like, I don't ever feel, I don't feel bad for Christy Nome, she got herself in this spot, but imagine you, like, you were the governor of a state. You're the secretary, you're a cabinet secretary. And this guy's up there being like, saw you out there painting, saw you looking good with that paint roller. Do you do a double coat while you're at it? No, sir.

No, sir, just the one coat. You might have to go back out there for a double coat. I mean, it is just... What? What? I don't. Humiliating. It is humiliating what Christyneum is doing to herself.

Frankly, I kind of like it. And let's see. Oh, I had one more clip here. about John Bolton we've talked a lot about John Bolton today I don't really I don't want to show Trump talking about him because it makes me mad um because what he's doing is appalling it's our government our resources our tax dollars he's using it to go after people that are foes of his he's using it to go after immigrants he's using it to um you know target people and intimidate them

and it's fucking wrong it's not the kind of country that we should live in and I as I mentioned to Tommy Vitor in our pod today I think it's important for all of us to kind of you know I'm not saying that democracy to embrace libertarianism I don't libertarianism isn't that popular and so I'm not saying that

but I think that there's this ethos that appeals to kind of the American spirit there's a libertarian ethos that appeals to a lot of Americans, not everybody American, but a big swath of them that is like, this is a free fucking country and I don't want your secret police shaking people down. I don't want some massive security state spying on me and hassling me on the street and shaking down old ladies and roughhousing people with masks on and with impunity. This is not China.

It's not Venezuela. This is not what we want for our country. And we should try, and we should all be clear about how much we want to stop it. So I'm not going to show the John Bolton clip because it seconds me what Trump is doing with him. And, you know, I've had my fill of that for the day. So I hope you guys have felt informed. We've brought some, we've brought some breaking news to you this morning with the John Bolton. raid.

We also brought some insight, a laugh or two when it came to the cancels. If you haven't checked out the video with Tommy Vitor, if you made it this far, you're going to want to go see the end of that video where we discussed Donald Trump's cancels. And we'll be back here over the weekend as the news dictates. So appreciate you all very much. Subscribe to the feed, tell your friends.

We'll see you all soon. Peace.