IHIP News - Trump's Disaster Fourth of July as Event Falls Apart, Evidence Proves It Was All Fraud

Episode Date: July 3, 2026

We are joined by our friend  @TheDonLemonShow  to discuss what a disaster Trump's America 250 celebration has been.Pre-order Jennifer’s new book Not Today, Fascists today: https://linktr.ee/ivehaditpodcastFollow Us:I've Had It Podcast: @IvehaditpodcastJennifer Welch: @mizzwelchDon Lemon: @donlemonofficialSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

All right, welcome to the Friday's edition of Welch's lemon juice. I have maybe a slightly buzzed Don Lemon on our hands who might may or may not have just had a margarita and maybe some rosé. So we're going to dive right into some juicy details of what it's like being an American on the 250th birthday. Let's check in, Don, on Donald Trump's great American state fair. Here's the mock up of his arch. And it looks like it's about to collapse. Pop this up. It's like paper mache, Jen. Come on. What's cock coming out of that? And I don't mean C-O-C-K. I was going to say, did you say, which, did you say Cork? That's some weird-looking shit coming out of their cock. What is that thing, Jen?

It looks like a project that like a, and not even a junior high school, but we would put together when I would go to vacation Bible study and we would make the cigar boxes with, with, with, um, macaroni shells and glue. Yeah. It looks like it's put together with spit and glue. How embarrassing. This is what happens when you dismantled DEI. This is what happens when you don't have any gays doing set decor for you. This is what happens when you don't have creative people. This is what happens when you starve out all of the creatives. This is white heterosexuality on full display is what that is because you know if some gays would have made that arch, it would have been triumphant. It would have been appropriate for the 250th birthday. And I think Trump would have liked it a lot more, obviously. He would have loved it. He loves,

he, look, he is always talking trash for his party about trans people because he knows it works politically. But Trump is such a gay at heart. And even though he's, he's homophobic, I'm sure. I think he's just jealous that he really, you know, that he can't be a gay because his party won't let him be a gay. Look, and if he would just let his gay freak flag fly, he would have all the gays fixing stuff for him. It would be all pretty. And we would get rid of that gold lame that went out with the trailer park. We completely agree. All right.

Speaking of this America 250, it wouldn't be a Trump 250 unless there was massive. grifting going on. Pop this up. The Midas Tetchers reporting, congressional probe alleges massive fraud and Trump-aligned Freedom 250 alleging Trump allies misled donors, hijacked America's 250th, and sold access for millions. The 52-page report released Thursday morning by Democrats reveals a series of blistering accusations against Trump-aligned officials for their management of the events.

The report alleges Trump allies outflamed. and supplanted the initial congressionally approved America 250th operation to install their own Trump favored sycophantic event. Well, that's why no one came because initially, Jim, it was, Jen, it was supposed to be an event that was bipartisan, that was about America. And then Trump, you know, and his sycophants or allies got their hands on it. And people started pulling out because they didn't want to be part of this partisan event. So I'm not surprised that it's a flop for two reasons. One, people don't want to be a part of that. And two, I think that MAGA is coming to an end and people are, the veil is off, so to speak.

Or they pull back behind the curtain and they see the wizard of Oz to mix my metaphors and comparisons. Has no clothes. The emperor has no clothes. So I'm not surprised. And look at what happened with the reflecting pool. He got one of his friends to do it. What was that? A disaster, right?

Didn't put out any bids. Just wanted a friend to do it. I think it's the same thing in this instance. They filled it with Trump folks, Trump who kiss people who kiss Trump's ass and don't know their right hand from their left hand. And look at what you get. You get the stupid arch that is, that'll blow down.

What is that? I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down. That can blow out with any wind. That's probably why the, you know, the whole thing with the weather, they got rid of the weather because they didn't want the paper mache to fall over or melt or blow in the wind. I'm not surprised that it is a total, total flop

because everything Trump touches dies and everything Trump's allies and sick events, everything they touch dies as well. So not surprised. Okay. Think about this, Don. The inauguration was supposed to be outside. Trump moved it inside because he cannot handle small crowds. Remember that military parade he had where the tanks were like squeaking like they just like, and it needed like WD 40? And then- And they couldn't even fill the stands. Here's the deal. Unless Trump goes to some red state where he has like, you know, the sycophants cult, he cannot draw crowds.

The one thing he fears more than anything is not being adored. And this presidency, he has not been able to draw crowds whatsoever. Jen, when you said he can't stand not being adored and he goes to places at where he's adored, as you and I both said a couple times, a couple weeks ago, after he went to the Knicks game and people, and he got booed, he was exposed then because he only shows up at places where people are going to be like, oh, my God, and kissing his butt, oh, Trump is here. Most places don't want him there. And that's why we said on our show, Trump, carry your ass home, no one wants you there.

No one wants him there. And so, yeah, I think that exposed him. people don't want to be associated with him at all. And I think the world is figuring it out. They're figuring out his grift. Like they figured out the grift, hopefully about this stupid airplane that he is, whatever, confiscated or whatever he's done with it. I think they figured out his grift.

And I think they're turning on him. I think this is the end of MAGA. I really do. Okay. Speaking of gayish meltdowns, not very well liked, Miss Pris Waters on Fox News has been having a meltdown. She, I'm sorry, he and Stephen Miller are losing their minds about birthright tourism. Play the clip.

Are we banning pregnant women from America? Are we banning foreign pregnant women? Well, what I'm saying, Jesse, is that you have to now think very carefully. about who you let into your country, even on a temporary basis, because the possibility, as you said, for birth tourism. This is not a thing. Birth tourism is not real. And I just want to remind you, Marco Rubio, birthright citizen,

Cash Patel, birthright citizen. It's just insane. But you know what? Melania Trump chain migration. And where did Stephen Miller get that? Let me sell you, Jesse. Why does she sound like this? He's from California.

And now he sounds like he's from someplace up in New England. And he talks like, do you notice that when he talks? What is that? Such a poser. He's such a poser. He's such a poser. It's just Jesse Waters and Stephen Miller have the weirdest relationship I've ever seen. They are the happiest in each other's presence.

I've watched clip after clip of these two. Jesse Waters refers to Stephen Miller as a sexual matador. Kylie, can you put up the still to show Don how they're just shit eating granted each other? I'm telling you, Don, we're breaking news. Breaking news on Welch's lemon juice right here, you guys. Look at the joy. Look at that. Look at how happy they are in each other's presence.

I'm going to break news right here. Jesse Waters and Stephen Miller are happiest together. I've never seen either one of them that happy unless they're, with each other. What do you think they do when they're together in person? Do we even want to think about that? I mean, it is pride. Well, Pride month is over. So we won't desecrate Pride month by, you know, talking about. So June is Pride Month, July is shame month? Yeah, that's what we're going to do all July on our Friday episodes. We're going to do Shame Month. We're going to shame them. Yeah, these are the first two we're shaming. Why are they so happy and hitting on each other

and flirting on Fox News all the time? I want to know why. I think when you get a bunch of bigots together, look, I don't really pay attention to Jesse Walter's Waters. I don't really pay attention to him that much because I think he's a clown. Yeah. But, you know, I do, I don't think I've ever met him, but I do know Stephen Miller. I've met him and I've interviewed him before and he's an odd bird. He just gets all wound up in, you know, his, these sort of, this sort of racist language. He's so hysterical. Oh, and he gets like, it's like, it's like Megan Kelly. When Megan Kelly starts being racist, she's just like, yeah, Like she's having an orgasm.

Stephen Miller is the male version of that. He's just like, oh, my God, more racism coming out of my mouth. No, they're nuts. Sorry, audience. No, they love it. It's 4th of July weekend. Everybody loves a slightly tipsy lemon. Okay.

So Jared Polis, the governor of Colorado, out of the closet gay governor, got a lot of pressure put on him by cancels, McTacococot Tits, the president. to pardon this election denier and just nut Tina Peters. So eventually this Democrat caves, pardons gives clemency to Tina Peters. And now Jared, pop this up. New York Times says Governor Jared Pellas fired two members of his clemency board

after they spoke out against his decision to commute the prison sentence of the election denier, Tina Peters. And this is something really important. we need to talk about Don. You have Democrats that behave as Maga Light. And that's what this is. He caved. You need to take a machine gun to a knife fight with these people. You don't cave and then do a very Trumpian thing and then fire the people who are exercising their right to free speech. I just think this is why the Democrats lose. This is why the Democrats helped incubate. this fascist takeover that we're seeing,

and this is why you're seeing these progressives win all over the country, these Mamdami-Mondami-style progressives that are incorruptible. Yeah, I agree, 100%. And I think Jared Polis should be ashamed of themselves because we saw what Tina Peters did, and we know that Tina Peters was not innocent at all.

Obviously, she was convicted by a jury of her peers, and she, you know, should remain as such. She should remain as someone who has been convicted of that and not granted clemency. I don't know how Donald Trump got to him. I don't know what he did. But I think this is, as you say, why Democrats will lose. I hear people all the time talking to me about we need this kind of Democrat. We need that kind of Democrat.

It's got to be a straight white man. It's got to be this. It's got to be someone. You know what it has to be, Jen? It has to be someone who's not fucking afraid to stand up. It's someone who's not afraid to say the energy and the party is on the progressive side. The people want someone who's going to stand up and fight back. The people want accountability.

They want a Democrat who's going to come into office, whether it be whatever level, a congressman, a senator or a president, and they will make Republicans be accountable for all of the degradation and all the wrong that they have done this entire time that Donald Trump was in office. They want things turned around. They want Washington, D.C. taken back. And they want, quite frankly, our country to take back our country. Not in the way that Republicans want to do it, not in the racist way that MAGA says they want to do it, but a country that is meant for all. But they want a Democrat who's not afraid to say it things, not afraid to be human, not afraid to be imperfect. That's the kind of person they want. They don't want in this era of Jared Polis, who is a gay man, and I respected him and, you know, used to talk to him all the time I was in CNN.

Be a mom, Donnie in this day and age rather than a Jared Polis. I completely agree. What we want are fighters and the Democrats get so caught up in identity politics. and we need to quit talking about the bathroom stuff. You know who talks about the bathroom stuff? Donald Trump, Moses, Mike Johnson, Jesse Waters. You want to talk about somebody who is consumed with culture wars? It is not the Democrats.

What the Democrats want are fighters. And right now, Don, I believe the progressive wing of the party is fighting the Magalite, the Chuck Schumers that are fascist collaborators that take money from the same oligarchs and the same A-PAC donors that also fund this fascist takeover. And how can you be an opposition party when you are taking money from the same people who are crawled right up Trump's ass sat there and parked? Look who's, look who talked about the bathroom thing the most, was obsessed with it, Nancy Mays. I think she's going to be a governor of South Carolina. Hell no. Nobody wants her. They know that she's a Trump sycophant. They know that she's not a serious

person, but everyone was so afraid of Zora and Mamdani. They're so afraid of AOC. They're so afraid of the progressives and the progressives are winning. And Democrats need to get their heads out of their ass and realize that and stop fighting for this. We want to be centrist and we can't talk about we need to get rid of the woke. There's bullshit. That's not what people want. That's not what Democrats want. That's not what people who are opposed to this Trump regime want and Republicans as well. There is nothing that is woke or wrong with people wanting a decent living wage, wanting affordable health care. Those aren't progressive ideas. They're human ideas. It just so happens that the progressives happen to have those ideas and to be on the right

side of those ideas. Okay. Last clip. I don't know if you saw this. You may have covered it. I don't know. Here is Thomas Massey confronting a Fox reporter. Play the clip. I love it. I love it. I heard that you like gay porn. Is that true? Carsman, I'm not, I just want to give your chance. You're giving you a chance to give me your side. I'm not going to get into that. Are you a real news organization or not? No, come back, man.

All you got to say is you don't like it. That you haven't been to those websites. Of course I don't like it. Really? But thank you. I kind of think he kind of does. I kind of think it took a long time to deny it. He got to look.

Look, we're coming out. We're in Shane month now. coming out of Pride Month. And the thing is, is like people like that guy, you can shame him because he's a hypocrite. So if someone is going to gay porn sites and they're gay, you're like, okay, fine, who gives a shit, right? But that guy came up to Thomas Massey and said, you know, your ex-wife is saying this and that you were abusive and is saying this? And who gives a shit about that, right? Let them deal with whatever they have to deal with in their own marriage. I don't know if it's true or not. But then he said, which, he said, when did you guys?

He said, who are you with? And I think he said, I'm with Fox Digital or something. He goes, did you guys become a tabloid? And the guy keeps asking the questions and he whips out his phone like you saw it. He says, when did you start going to the gay porn sites? And the guy freaks out because he must be going to those sites and he doesn't want people to know. Thomas Massey is a badass. I did not have it on my bingo card that in 2026, I would be agreeing with anything that Thomas Massey says and pretty much all of it I'm agreeing with. And here's the thing. I have been saying on IHIP News and I've had it, the Democrats need to go there. They exactly what Thomas Massey did. The Republicans have the balls to campaign like this. The

Democrats need to go there and say, why is little Moses Mike Grindr Johnson so consumed with anti-gay stuff? What is that? They need to go there. And Thomas Massey did it. And I agree with you. It makes you think he's a fighter. Now, here's the thing. Thomas Massey is probably, he's more libertarian leaning. We wouldn't agree with him on that much because I don't think he cares much about social justice. But what we like about it, you and I when we saw that, is he fostering. them he called them out on their hypocrisy and that is a lesson for the democrats call these closeted freaks out call them out instead of talking about all of these issues say why are they so obsessed with it what the fuck is the one on there lindsay graham why is it that someone should have

said to them why aren't you covering the closeted gaze right someone should say that to the to the two republicans or to to fox news and the conservative outlets why aren't you covering the closet of gays that are out there being hypocrites and proposing and enacting legislation that's detrimental to what they really are in their own hearts and their own and their own bodies. Why aren't you covering that? Why aren't you covering the Magad after preacher, after church leader, after school counselor, middle-aged white male conservative man, white male conservative who are molesting children, who have been found to have gay porn?

Why aren't you doing that? Because they're the overall majority of the people who are doing it. Why aren't you covering that? Why aren't you talking about that? Why are you so obsessed with trans people who are not molesting people who aren't going into bathrooms and doing things to people? You know who's doing it? The people who are in your own tribe. Why aren't you covering that and calling them out? That's what Democrats need to do. And they're fucking afraid and it pisses me off. I know. But you know who is going to do it? Jennifer Welch and Don Lemon. We're going to cover it. Come hell or high water. We're in cover. Jennifer Welsh, Don Lemon, 2028, I say.

That's right. And we're bringing shame month, July, 2026, America's first shame month. And here's the deal, listener. I've got Don for this finite amount of time because he's on vacation. So this is obviously happy Friday, everyone. But we're about to record another episode. And I think we're going to get even crazier with that one

so that you guys have two Welch's lemon drops over the weekend. So we'll be back soon with more news.