Gutfeld! Monologues - An Addiction To Praise

Episode Date: January 9, 2026

As seen on Gutfeld!, CNN's data guru says there is no rift in the Republican party in regards to Trump. Plus, Jen Psaki plays fake therapist and diagnoses Trump with an "addiction" to power and praise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You couldn't be more right. Good evening, everyone. So the White House has unveiled the new food pyramid, and it was designed by Health Secretary RFK Jr. Here was the previous pyramid right there, and here's RFKs. At the same health meeting, Dr. Oz recommended drinking alcohol in moderation, adding, don't have it for breakfast. Well, guess I'm sleeping till noon, said one woman.

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Thank you for joining me for the 52 episode podcast series, The Life of Jesus. A listening experience that will provide hope, comfort, and understanding of the greatest story ever told. Listen and follow now at Fox Newspodcasts.com or wherever you listen to podcasts. So have you noticed one of the latest news, narratives from today's discredited media, that Republicans are in conflict and turning on each other like the Kardashians during Black History Month. But is there a rift in the Republican Party? There is no rift in the Republican Party. If you look among 2024 Trump supporters, we're talking

about 80% support. The vast, vast majority of Republicans are with. Donald Trump on this issue. Donald Trump has had an iron grip, an iron grip on that Republican base for a long period of time, and it is the same iron grip that he had six months ago. I know every so often, people are trying to say,

oh, I spot these little wrists in the Republican base. Oh, oh, you know, they're finally starting to break. They're starting to break from Donald Trump. It ain't happening. Whoa. Dude, take it easy on the Red Bull Enemas. But he's right. The only riffing.

The shift among Republicans is whether to order the salmon or the lamb chops when you visit Mar-a-Lago. Meanwhile, the last Democrat who had 80% support was Nancy Pelosi before her 18-hour bra took a 20-minute break. So instead of arguing policy, Democrats do what they always do. They play the shrink. Let's hear it from Pippi wrongstocking. So Donald Trump, we know this. He doesn't drink. He doesn't smoke. He doesn't take any recreational drugs that we know of. But Donald Trump has a different kind of addiction, I guess we could call it. He's addicted to feeling like he is powerful, even if he's not really powerful. Often he's not. He lives, lives for the dopamine rush that comes with big public displays that make him feel strong and important.

Actions that feed his fragile ego and quell all of his insecurities, and there are many. Thanks for the analysis, Strawberry Shortbus. True, he doesn't drink smoke or take drugs, but I bet after watching her for five minutes, he'll take fentanyl. But I got to wonder, where was Dr. Saki when her former boss made public displays all over the Oval Office rug? Where was she when her guy tumbled down more stairs than a slinky?

She says Trump's dopamine comes from power and praise, but isn't that good? Or would you prefer he get that thrill from putting his shoes on the correct feet. Or cigars in odd places. If Trump gets praise, it means he did something good and don't want to do it again.

He closes the border quick. People praise him great. He'll do something good again. Why do you think I volunteer at St. Jude's? It's not for the kids. It's for the nurses who tell me I look like Brad Pitt. Bride of Chucky had more to say. For him, this is all about the spectacle, about the images of toughness and conquest.

It's why he's obsessed with the idea that the U.S. is now going to take their oil. It's a fantasy he's been fixated on for almost 40 years. Oh, dear, Trump wants America to be seen as tough. There's an epiphany. By the way, it's not an image of toughness. It's the real deal. otherwise, Maduro would still be sitting in his palace, stuff in his fat, comie face while Venezuelans would be at the zoo fighting over scraps of baked giraffe.

But she thinks that this is perceptive, saying Trump reacts well to praise, as if that doesn't describe every sensible human being? I mean, it's the very reason she lets Rachel Maddow sniff her sneakers. Now, maybe if Sacky reacted to praise, she'd do something about her awful show. I heard that Animal Planet beat her in the ratings last week when they ran a repeat of finding Bigfoot. But look, if you're going to play amateur psychoanalyst, you should understand the basics of human behavior, like incentives, which Democrats don't get. If good behavior is rewarded, people repeat it. If bad behaviors punished, they'd stop. It's like when my interns let me fondle, their discarded swimwear. then I let them phone their families.

But this tells you how screwed up the Dems are. They play therapists because their ideas suck. Who cares what motivates Trump, as long as the outcomes match our needs? If things that put America first happen to align with Trump's feeling good about himself, so what? What would you prefer,

the modern progressive model, where domestic policy reflects the loathing they have for their home country? Remember, a Democrat feels good when they can point out the bad in America. Trump's success has broken everything they've ever believed in. He's in nobody's box. Instead, he frames every challenge with how can we make this work for us, not how we can punish our country for being irredeemably racist. That's quite a difference. And Jen can't wrap her little redhead

around it, which is why it's so rich watching her play the shrink. Remember that old line, he who can does and he who cannot teaches? Now it's he who thinks does and those who can't. host a show on MSNBC. Listen ad-free with a Fox News podcast plus subscription on Apple Podcasts. And Amazon Prime members can listen to this show ad-free on the Amazon Music app.