IHIP News - Uh Oh, Donald...This Fully Backfires In Their Face

Episode Date: October 2, 2026

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Welcome, welcome to... the weekend read, a Welch's Lemonade production. We are here right now squeezing it and juicing it up. Don Lemon, tell everybody what we're going to be doing next Wednesday in Boston. Let's see. I'm going to be hanging with you. I'm going to be, we're going to be on stage in the same room together. Do you have the book? You better have that book right there. So Jennifer Welch has a new book. And guess who's moderating the conversation? Oh, not today, fascist. So I guess I'm not a fascist because I will be there that day, not today, but I will be there. I'm so excited for you.

Are you ready for this? Are you ready for me, Jen? I am so ready. I am absolutely ready. So if you're in Boston, there's only a few tickets left. I mean, you drop the Don Lemon as the moderator. Those tickets sell fast. There's just a few left.

So anybody in the Boston area wants a little Welch's lemonade in person in Boston next Wednesday at 7. But let's get to MAGA ripping. Yes, ma'am. Yes, I'm ready. The first item up to review with the Welch's Lemonade community is one Benny Johnson. One Benny Johnson who let's just remind the people when Benny Johnson was doing a search on the Google. Google sends you targeted ads based on your previous search history. So let's tee it up this way first.

So one day, Benny's Googling. gets targeted for this ad. Kylie popped us up. So he tweets during advertising on the military times right now, and he pops it up. And the ad that he, Benny, was targeted based on his Google search is the world's largest gay crews. Well, since then, there's been a lot of leaking in conservative places where they say that Benny Johnson's been making out with men at conservative conferences. Hold on, hold on. I don't want to hear leaking and conservative reasons. I don't want that image in my head.

Ew, because you know they're freaky and weird. All right. Sorry, sorry. Go on. No, I agree. But the press is getting pretty awesome about this. I think this might be TMZ. Play the clip.

Are you a homosexual? No. Were you a homosexual? No. Well, then why are there so many allegations against us? Why? People lie. They're all lies. Sayy Jones was lying when he said he made out with you in the Buzzfeed dressing room.

All right, well, we'll see what happens. How come you didn't sue Mila? He said you were going to sue him, right? I don't sue him. What? I want to sue him. You want to sue Mila? But you don't want Discovery, right?

No, I'd be fine with Discovery. All right. Well, let's see what happens. Don. Tisk. Tisk. Ooh. Oh, what a web we weave.

When first we practice. to deceive. Those rumors have been out there. Jen, you and I have spoken about it. I have someone who has told me that they have had relations. And let's just put encounters, or an encounter at least, with our said subject. So I would say allegedly, reportedly, that's what they say to me, that he is not the only one who says that.

And that has been for years, this is when I was at CNN. that this has been out there. And it's, look, it's not just among, you know, people that they deem liberal. Conservatives talk about it. They talk about it openly. All one has to do is a Google search, Jen. Where's the lie? Am I wrong? You're right. Benny did a Google search, and he was sure targeted by the community he fetishizes at night on a little gay cruise. It's so hilarious, the cell phone in that. But speaking of a conservative... You know what? You know what? When I first saw Benny Johnson, I wasn't aware of him when I was in mainstream media. When I first saw him, I said, oh, who's that gay guy? I immediately my, my gator went up. I'm like, I'm like, oh, I'm like,

oh, who's that gay in the black t-shirt, like doing his best Anderson Cooper black tight t-shirt thing with the glasses. And then they, like, and then I found out it was Benny Johnson. He was talking about his wife and Christianity. And I went, oh, God, here we go. Anyways. Yeah. Yeah. You don't get a ping. You're good, you have a good gadar, Jen. I have really good gaitar. Yeah. Yeah. I'm excellent Gator. A total, a total ping. I mean, 100%. And I mean, you could tell, by the way, he answered that question.

I've watched enough, like, body language experts, the way he kind of, no, no. I mean, if somebody came to me instead of you're a lesbian, I'd be like, where'd you hear that? Like, what's going on with that? No, I know. Can I tell you what you would say? When someone said, Jen, are you a lesbian, you'd go, I wish, but I just, I'm not. And if I was, honey, I would tell you.

But, you know, I have a friend. I have straight friends who will say, when people ask them if they're gay, they'll say, thank you for the compliment. I wish I was, but I'm just not interested in that. You know, it's cool to be gay. We're stylish. We're handsome. We're smart.

We're successful. We're overachievers, all the things. But I think you say the same thing. You'd like, yeah, I wish I was a lesbian, but I just ain't. I would love to have a wife. You wouldn't have to deal with men's drama if you did. Exactly. And I wish, I wish that that was for me.

but it's just not. I have to deal with all the men and my very high-maintenance husband, whom I love very, very much. Okay, let's move along to speaking of gay-coded stuff. Jesse Waters is sucking balls on Fox Names. Play the clip. Okay. You can't watch me while I suck the straw.

They made that really weird laughing noise. I remember I was like, oh, I got a ball in my mouth. Yes. Yes. So at the bottom of it, there's balls, right, Kennedy? That's right. Tapioca balls. All right.

Oh. Okay. So did you notice Don't at the beginning? He goes, don't watch me sucking this. It's private. There's footage after footage of him on the five talking about the way men suck straws. The way men. Oh, my God.

Kylie. Play the clip. Hit the. Hit Kennedy. We're building a soundboard for Welch's Lemonade. That's one. How would you even get into bestiality? The Welch's Lemonade community needs the soundboard.

This is the Friday unwinded after the news cycle. Give me a high five. Give me a high five, Jen. Other side, other side. Other side. Oh, you're so smart. Wait. Oh, wait.

No, other hand, but then go across your face. No. Jen. We'll do it later in person. You don't have to turn your hand. You just go like that. I can't. I'm not.

Wait, look, look, look, look. I can do it now. We'll get better and better. Okay. So there's a lot of footage of Ms. Waters talking about how Joe Biden likes ice cream and how men should eat soup. He's very consumed with how men use their mouths. And you notice when he just took a drink of a coffee tapioca drink, he says, don't watch me suck this. It's private.

That's a weird tell. And then, of course, he's like, oh, my God, I got a ball in my mind. mouth. Just the minute he thought about sucking, he goes straight to a ball in the mouth. Well, anybody, Jen, who is that concerned about looking as if they might be doing what they're doing is, in my experience, the bigger the homophobic, the bigger the hypocrite, the bigger the closet it is. And most people are not concerned about eating ice cream in public because licking an ice cream cone is nothing to do with being gay. Sucking out of a straw has nothing to do with being gay. And if you're that concerned about it, there's something wrong with you. And most likely,

you're probably having, you have gay tendencies. You want to, you want to actually suck on a straw and lick on an ice cream cone if you know what I mean and get whatever happens that came out of the bottom of that straw, the balls. Hey, don't forget the balls. Don't forget the balls, Jesse. Okay. Staying on Ms. Waters here for a second. I want to ask you this as a black voter and a member who's of the black voting community. I'm going to play this clip for you and then you just go off on this. Play the clip. Donald Trump doubled his black turnout in 2024. Black. Black support is going to stay Republican with Trump not on the ballot. The party is going to need a little lift. So they called in Nikki. Now is not the time to think that your voice will not be heard.

Done. Girl, all the way by. Don't. Don't nobody want to hear nothing from no, the Nikki Maga Minaj. We don't want to hear that from Nikki Maga Minaj. We don't want to hear that from Nikki Maggie Minaj. Nikki is trying to get a green card. Nikki is trying to get a pardon for her brother, whoever it is that was accused of the things. And I think is he still in prison or or was in prison or spent time and whatever. So no, and nobody in the black community is listening to her. We're not going to get political advice from the woman who has super bass. Now, if you like her music, that's one thing. But stick with super bass in the music. Get out of politics. And I'm you know what I will say.

I will say. I'm not into that wig with the big hump because you know, she's doing her best 1960s Supreme or who is it. Gosh, who was a young lady who died? Amy Winehouse. Yeah, he's doing her best Amy Winehouse, right? She got a better wig than the one when she and Trump were all luby-dovey up and holding hands because that was a terrible wig.

You could see the glue at least that one. It's got bangs. and you can cover the glue. Nikki, go sit down. That's it. And also talk about... She's not even American. She's not even American.

So I think maybe she doesn't want to get deported, but I think Trump and those, they would deport her in a second. I'd be careful about her going anywhere near the White House because she might get deported. She's not even an American citizen. Let's talk about the way Jesse Waters just spoke to his predominantly white audience.

I think the average age of a Fox viewer is 69. these people enjoy getting lied to. They know they're getting lied to every night. They sign up every day and say Fox News, lie to me, pay more money, lie to me. That he says, Trump did great with the black vote, and the black vote's not going anywhere because Nikki Minaj endorsed him. I mean, just how belittling and patronizing and dehumanizing that is and how these are the instances that incubate a much larger emboldened racist white. community that they're viewing like that, that all black people are a monolith, that every black person likes Nikki Minaj. And because Nikki Minaj said vote red, that the black man is like,

Nikki's in for Trump. So I mean, it's just culturally, that's just so fucked up the way he said that, in my opinion. It is. It is fucked up because they think that, well, first of all, it's tone deaf. It's racially toned deaf. Second of all, he's operating from inside the conservative playbook. He's using the conservative playbook that you can get any, you know, any asshole or any warm body that has a platform, i.e. kid rock or whatever and that people are going to go along with it. So, look, Nikki is no kid rock. I don't want to insult kid rock. But nobody's going to pay attention to her. And you're right. To be speaking like that, he thinks like African Americans are just going to do it because, oh, She's a rapper. Of course, black people like rapping and she's black. And no, we don't play that way.

We know that all skin folks ain't kinfolk and not there and everybody doesn't speak for you. Black people in general vote for the right thing, which is democracy. And they just happen to be on the left now, right? So black folks are voting for the Democrats mainly because Democrats stand for democracy now. black women and black men, although there are a few outliers out there who we don't claim. They are, no, we don't. We don't know them. Who can hit the bricks.

Yeah. We're talking about you, Clarence Thomas. Yeah. So we will take, you know, let's see, who do we want from the black contingency would like to trade Nikki Minaj for Dolly Parton? Yeah. We'll take Dolly Parton. in, in, in memoriam, and you can have Nikki Minaj.

We will take, who will which I'll take Kelly Clarkson. You can have Nikki Minaj. So, no, we don't want Nikki Minaj, and we don't want the folks who are like Nikki Minaj. We don't want Nikki Maga Minaj or any other MAGA black people. I can't understand how, I do not understand how any black person is MAGA. I just don't get it. Sorry. It's crazy.

It doesn't compute. Yeah. It's crazy stuff. Okay. Let's do a little check-in with our little smoky-eyed sociopath, failed drag queen, Vice President of the United States, J.D. Vance. He is out on the campaign trail. And in my opinion, when Trump goes out, when Vance goes out, when little Moses Mike goes out, they're really stumping for the Democrats. But let's take a gander on what the failed drag queen has to say.

Going after universities and corporations that reject applicants because they were born with the wrong skin color, We're hiring on merit for a change. I love how he talk about it meritocracy. And then like Pete Hague Seth is the Secretary of Defense or he's the vice president. Thank you. His biggest job is he was purchased by Peter Thiel. J.D. Vance, not only is he a failed drag queen. He is America's top prostitute.

And that is a really tough competition considering who the First Lady is. And so, I mean, the First Lady's own very best friend, Amanda Ungaro, says that she was a hooker. I don't know if that's true or not. It's just on Elon Musk's free speech website. But this, J.D. Vance, it's really interesting to me. He has an Indian wife. He has mixed race kids. And he and Usha, their inability to stand up for their kids and try to make America a better place for their mixed race kids. It's wild to me. It is wild work. I'm a mother. I have two kids. I couldn't actively vote or take part in policies. would make the world a less safe place for them. And that's the difference between MAGA and all of us.

We want to make the world better for everybody. He's willing to ruin the world for his kids to own the lives. Well, let me just tell you, you said the right thing, and that should be end of story. He's talking about meritocracy, and here he is the vice president of the United States. Only in this MAGA phase, our timeline that we're on right now, is that even possible. Is that even possible? Because he's not qualified. And the person who is not qualified to be president wanted him to be the vice president.

So that should say something. And neither is Pete Hexeth. They're just not qualified. And that is objective. Compare their resumes to anyone who has ever held that office and some of the people who have run in recent history, i.e. Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris. They just don't have it.

And look, I could go on and on and on. But I will say this about J.D. Vance. J.D. Vance probably does not believe anything that's coming out of his mouth. He's saying it because he's a consultant-driven person. He's an empty suit where you can just, you can get a consultant. They say, say this, give him some media training. Say this, say this. He doesn't believe anything.

His name is not J.D. Right? Remember, how many times is he changed his name? Three times. He's changed his religion, right? Recently. Yeah. And he's changed.

changed how he feels about Trump. He was Hillbilly Elegy. Oh, my gosh. I believe in these principles and America and helping people and all of the things. My mom who has addiction issues and all these, we should be helping people social safety net. And now he's MAGA and he's taking away all those services. And he's going against whatever his, whatever he said his convictions were back in the day when he was someone else. J.D. Vance has no, no convictions.

No morals. He doesn't believe in anything, in my opinion. What he believes in is himself and his professional goals. And he does things for political expedience and professional expedience. And that's it. If that means selling out his wife, selling out his children, then that's what it means. By saying immigrants are dirty, make America dirtier. And he has a wife who's who is comes from an immigrant family. That should say... This crazy work. That says it all.

It says it all. Here's another clip of him on the campaign trail, continuing to use projection. Play the clip. But on each and every issue, David Jolly has contorted himself like a pretzel to pander to the crazies. Okay. Okay. I've heard enough. Is he talking about himself?

Every accusation is a confession. Did that motherfucker not? say that Trump is America's Hitler, and now he's all like, he's one of the highest IQ people I've ever met in my entire life. Is he for real right now? Is he putting on a master class in projection for future psychiatrists to show their classes at universities? Is this bitch for real? Is he for real? He wrote it all down in the book. Yeah, it's for real. Again, no convictions. He said, oh my gosh, would you want to be the second to the right-hand person, to the person you called Hitler? If you thought they were Hitler, what does that say about you?

You know, what does that say about you? And what does that say that you can change two things? One, if you thought he was Hitler and you're still working with him, that's problematic. If you thought he was Hitler and now you don't, what does that say about your judgment before now? It says that you don't have a good judgment and you don't believe in anything. Yeah, it's projection. What he said, oh, he will contort himself into a pretzel for the crazies. J.D. Vance, you're talking about yourself. You have contorted yourself into a pretzel for Donald Trump, Mooney, the Laura Looney,

Loomers of the world, and everyone, all of the crazy MAGA conspiracy theories. That's what he's doing right now. He's talking about himself. There's no question. And so he's in Florida. And there is a gal running for Senate in Florida, who I am completely obsessed with, and I'm sure you are too. Angie Nixon. Ms. Angie Nixon. She is a joy. She's an incredible candidate. She is incorruptible. She is unflappable. She has incredible life, experience, compassion, and everything. But we all know in this community, in this Welch's Lemonade community, that a lot of people are going to see this woman and all they're going to see is a black woman. And they're going to take a lot of cheap shots at her. And that means that we have to support her double, triple, quadruple, that we have to go hard in the paint for her even more than we would at James Tala Rico even.

Because that's how rigged the system is for black women across the board. This is a sitting vice president of the United States on the campaign trail that just said this about Angie Nixon. Play the clip. Now, it's a live fight. I hate to say it right here in the state of Florida. As reasonable and rational and freedom loving as this state is, you've got some real choice Democrats running in the state of Florida. Look no further than Angie Nixon, the self-described. It's almost too easy.

to make fun of her. The self-described socialist that the Democrats put up against Ashley Moody this fall. Now, one of the things I love about Florida is you have so many people who came to this state, legally, of course, from Latin America. People who know that socialism kills. People who saw it in their friends and their family. Well, ladies and gentlemen, when Angie Nixon calls herself a socialist, I think the right response is to say, then get the hell out of here, you don't belong in America. I'm tired.

I know. I know. And this really pisses me off. This notion that Republicans have, if you don't think the way we think, you get the hell out of America. And it's on steroids

when you get to black candidates or black politicians. And also, what an embarrassment that he doesn't understand the difference as the vice president between Democratic Socialist of America and a socialist. Have you, what are your feelings about Angie Nixon and this type of candidate running? Because I think we are so lucky to have somebody brave enough to run the campaign she's trying to run.

Very well said. Look, I didn't know, as I'm sure you, I didn't know much about her. I'd never really heard about her. I'm not in Florida, so I'm not, you know, tuned into Florida politics, but I've had her on my show several times. And from what she says to me, how she conducts herself, how I see her conducting herself in the media and what she says are her policies, I don't see anything that sounds like a, you know, some the socialist in the socialist sense of the word. Democratic socialist is not the same as a socialist in a socialist country. It's completely different. They don't want you to know that because they can use that word as a pejorative.

But a democratic socialist is not the same thing. By the way, there is a large part of our democracy of our republic that is based on socialism. If you look at the broadcast airwaves in this country, that's socialist because we all have, you know, access to them. If you look at roads and bridges and schools and infrastructure and other things, those are socialists. aspects of our society and our culture. And no one complains about them and no one. And Medicare. And Medicare. No one complains about that. So I think people need to understand what the definition of democratic socialist is and the definition of a real socialism is. But I'm just tired. I get tired of people like J.D. Vance. Again, someone who is unqualified did not get there on meritocracy.

And he's talking about a woman who works her ass off and is fighting for, for, for, equity and equality in our society. And for everyone to have health care, that's not, that's not a progressive or a liberal value. That's a human value. And he's just, he's just demeaning and being negative about her because, again, he will do anything out of political expedience. It works in that crowd. He's going to do it. It's awful. It's terrible. All right. Well, it's going to get worse from here. Oh, Lord. I'm going to drag out Pete Hage. Seth. Oh, God.

He's been running around the Pentagon, just saying the craziest shit. The disrespect he has been showing to Donald Trump is just off the charts. And I want to remind you before I play this clip, Donald Trump is the commander-in-chief of the military, all right? He is at the top. And then his top deputy, right under Donald Trump as Pete Hexas, has the audacity to go out and say this. Play the clip.

But it's worth saying again so that the fake news understands it. We are no longer the woke department or the weak department. Simple translation of that, no fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals. Just warriors. All right. The disrespect in that, Donald Trump is a fatty. One could argue Donald Trump is a wimp. So did he just exclude the commander-in-chief of the military on national television?

Is that what I'm hearing from him? Because Donald Trump is objectively a fat ass. And we all know he's a wimp. All you do is go over to lie social and you'll see just a barrage of just the titty baby crying, feelings hurt victim. I'm surprised that Donald Trump is putting up with this. Well, and Pete Hickson is a wimp. So he, based on his qualifications, he can't even be in the military. He shouldn't even be in the military.

And guess what? You said no fatties and you said no beardos. Well, that would exclude J.D. Vance, who we just talked. talked about. It's a beardo and he's fat. Yeah. And a weirdo. That excludes Cash Patel. All of them. So he's excluding people who are in the MAGA regime who are in the MAGA. You want to call the administration? I call it a regime. This is, I get, it gets me worked up talking about these people. And everyone thinks like, oh my God, this is so partisan and you have Trump derangement syndrome. No. This is just the truth. And we've been trying to scream it. And finally,

people are starting to realize some Maga folks, we'll see where they vote, that these people give, don't give a shit about them. They don't care about democracy. They don't care about the truth. They don't care about the First Amendment. If they cared about democracy and the Constitution, then they wouldn't be kicking journalists out of the White House or off of planes or taking their credentials. This is an authoritarian fascist regime, and they only care about themselves and power. political power and Donald Trump money. And the people who are supporting him, the wealthy people in America who are supporting this,

they're in it for the money, for the tax cuts. They're making money hand over fist. And the poor people who are being co-opted don't have health care, many of them or most of them, don't have affordable health care. They're not making a living wage. They're not getting all of these enormous tax breaks that the millionaires and billionaires are getting.

They're simply being co-opted. And now they're paying higher gas prices. Today, as we are taping this gin, mortgage rates are at their highest that they've been in forever. It's like seven, almost eight percent. Yeah. So what did you vote for? And then you didn't realize that? Like, what does that say about your character and your judgment?

Because the people who are actually to blame for this, don't get me wrong, it's a MAGA Republican Party. It's the folks who are, you know, who are the cult leaders who are out here co-opting people. and scamming them. They're the marks. But you are the marks. It is your fault. You voted for this. So here you are.

Here it is in all its glory. You get what you vote for. You probably saw that Donald Trump in his big circle jerk meeting with all of the corrupt tech oligarchs rolled out AI on the government website. I don't need that image of them. in my head with all those people. I'm sorry, go on. I know. Citizens immediately started asking the

AI robot on the government website, who won the 2020 election? And they're like Joe Biden. And then they're asking like, does the big beautiful bill transfer wealth from the poorest Americans to the richest Americans? And the government AI is like, yes, it does. And so I reported on it that morning. And I told my audience, this AI bot will be getting a lobotomy. It will be getting a lobotomy since. Sure enough, they do a lobotomy on the AI. And now it's like, I'm not allowed to answer those questions. Well, Trump was asked about the AI this week. And here's what he had to say about it.

Play the clip. It's just another thing. Just another. Sir, there's no question. This will be the biggest thing you've ever. If it is the biggest thing I've ever done, I've done a shitty job as president. Deathbed confession era. It's coming out.

The truth is often spoken in Jess. So they ingest, he's speaking the truth, but he always says a quiet part out loud. He does. Yeah. That's all I have to say that. And he's right. He's done a terrible job as president, right, in the story, period. And so let's talk about these tech oligarchs for a second.

I personally am so angry with them because my understanding of these autocratic states and these strongmen, which we have, a very incompetent one that wears a full face of makeup, but we'll just leave that aside. They are able to do the things that they're doing with impunity because they're propped up by the elites. And Trump 1.0, the guardrails really held strongly because industry titans were a part of the resistance. And Trump 2.0, the elites have gone and propped him up and they are actively propping him up. And I want to start highlighting the fact that right now, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Sam Altman. All of these people are 100% fine with the 52 or 56. I can't remember the number, people that have died in ICE custody. They're 100% fine with the people that ICE has shot with no investigations whatsoever and then called them fucking bitches or terrorists, et cetera. They are fine with Alligator Alcatraz. They are fine with the Supreme Court saying, sure, deport somebody from Mexico to send. In the country, that doesn't seem cruel or unusual.

The depravity for coming from Trump, I get it. We've been watching it for 10, 12 years. It's the same fucking day over and over with that schmuck. He wakes up, he's an asshole, orange makeup, taxpayer-funded nap, rents, repeat. These oligarchs that make so much money off of Americans, us buying their products, and then the taxpayer-funded subsidies that they get, the taxpayer loop poles that they don't have to pay, propping up all of this moral depravity,

Obn is going to tell you, if the Democrats get back in power and they start making deals with the tech industry and not hauling their asses in front and launching investigations into them, I'm going to be so fucking pissed. Yeah. Well, they've already said that they're not going after impeachment.

You saw that, right? Because they said it's not, yeah, that there's no appetite for it. And it's never going to work. It's not the first that is to go through the house. It gets past the House. And then after that, it gets past the Senate. and there's no, you know, there's no appetite.

No appetite from who? From them. Well, they believe. Chuckles and Hakeem and the frogs in their pocket because everybody I talk to wants to see this motherfucker impeached. Did you see that Chuck Schumer says he's running for leadership again? Oh, for fuck sake. Please tell me that's not true.

No, it's true. He says I'm running. He's ready to win. He says he's running to be a leader again. Yeah. I think he says there's no appetite. amongst the Senate. Maybe they're speaking about Republicans as well because I think I'm pretty sure it's a two-thirds vote that you'd have to get. No, you're right. Yeah. It's not going to happen. But I mean, it sucks. But I'd like to see some of that energy. I'd like to see some of that mean girl energy on the Democratic side.

Yeah, me too. Okay. Here's a video of a MAGA candidate in Colorado laughing about beating his wife. Play the clip. A whole time. And it was funny because she goes, I can handle myself. I said, you can. And I remember grabbing her and slamming her into our front door. I mean, pretty, it was a decent push. It would be a bouncing push, right? You got to move, ram.

Low microdose. Yes. Microdosing domestic assault on your wife. This man's name is Victor Marx, and he is running as the Republican candidate. Just when I think, like, okay, There is, this is the bottom. We can't go any lower. What I think fascinates me about MAGA is how it's brought out the true nature of the Republican Party. During George W. Bush, all of this depravity was there. They just hid behind, we're compassionate conservatives. Meanwhile, they're homophobes and racist and all these things. Now that mask is off. And now they're just casually on podcast talking about, you know, slamming my wife up against the door. And the other guy's like, yeah, I just. a microdose. Yeah, you said it.

And, you know, I spoke about this on my show earlier this week. It's about what's become normalized under this regime. It's about what Donald Trump has normalized. He's normalized the most unsocial, undemocratic, anti-diversity. He's unleashed that. into our society where people think they can say and do anything not only so he he feels okay because Donald Trump has become the imprimatur for for um for just madness he's unleashed the racists he's unleashed the misogynists he's unleashed the homophobes for the people who said uh i want

to be able to say the r word so he's unleashed those kinds of people and they think it's okay he didn't think twice about talking about slamming his wife or girlfriend or woman into a wall. And he has no idea that, hey, that's problematic. He doesn't know. Just as people, I don't know if you get it when you go out, but occasionally people think that they can say anything to me. And, you know, as is what happened to,

I don't know if you saw what happened with Spike Lee when he was at the Yankees game. And some guys said, wanted to take a selfie and then said, hey, hey, say F. Palestine, right? And he's like, why would you come over to me and ask me to say some shit like that, right? So this is just a symptom of a society that was where this sort of thing was buried. It had to be there for people to act on it. But Donald Trump has made it okay. And he probably will suffer no consequences for saying something like that. It's, you know, that's where we are.

That's terrible. All right. Last story. Go vote. No, shit. Last story. There's more evidence. that Riley Gaines is just a world-class loser. Pop this up. Riley Gaines, famous for turning her

fifth place tie with transgender swimmer Leah Thomas into a far-right career against transgender people, has officially had her lawsuit against the NCAA thrown out by a judge. The judge found no evidence for her claims. Imagine suing somebody, because you fucking tied for fifth place. If the trans swimmer hadn't swam, you're still fucking fifth place. Fourth. She thinks she's going to be fourth, right? If Riley Gaines wasn't there, right?

So she would be... No, they tied for fifth. Oh, they tied first, second, third, fourth place. And then they tied for fifth place. She still be fifth. That bitch is still fifth place swimmer. It changes nothing. It fucking changes nothing.

It's kind of like the same thing with Max. right now. Oh, Donald Trump bullied trans people. Guess what? Your fucking gas is still expensive. Donald Trump bullied black people. Guess what? Dip shit. Inflation's still everywhere. He's firing all, you know, fucking up the economy. That bitch, Riley Gaines, would be nothing, nothing without the LGBTQ community. She would not have this career on fucks. She fucking tied for fifth place and these people want to lecture us about a meritocracy where I live, where I grew up. If you got fifth place, you're a fucking loser. You don't even get a participation trophy. Look, and the fact that a judge threw it out, I mean, that stings. That has to sting because MAGA always thinks that they're

right, even when the facts are not on their side. They will push for it, as they always do. And so now that this judge has done this, what they're going to say, I'm sure they are already saying it, It's an activist judge. It's an activist judge. And how about it's a judge that's going by the law and the rules? But here's a sad thing, though. Have you been hearing about what judges, what's happening to the judges around the country? They're having to get security.

They're being threatened. They're being forced to rule certain ways or sort of, you know, counter what they're doing. I don't know if that's the best word. But just to not and not demeanor. diminish, but so I just maybe they would rule one way and they don't or they hold off on ruling because they just don't want to deal with it and they delay and delay and delay. Or they rule it the way that they want.

That's what I that's what my sources are telling me. But from what has been out in the press, these judges are having to get security. They are nervous and they said in large part there was a judge who, who, who, who came out publicly recently and said they're doing this in large part. This is due in large part to what Donald Trump, the rhetoric that the Trump administration is putting out in the atmosphere, that people are attacking judges and they're nervous. The word is dilute. Dilute is what I'm saying. And they may have had a stronger opinion when they rule on something, but they diluted to appease the MAGA folks. Here's what's wild. We're being held hostage by the most immature, petulant,

bottom feeding dipshits, but here's what's fascinating for me. And dumb. Let's just say dumb. Here's what's fascinating to me about the whole judge thing. The Supreme Court justices have fallen prey to a lot of this. And they're out there actively like dismantling their whole profession and dismantling the rule of law. It's a kind of like J.D. Vance and Ushavans won't stand up for their mixed race kids. There's such a self-harm inflicting. in MAGA, they go out and vote against their economic interest. They go out and vote against their own rights. They go out and vote to favor billionaires and favor.

It's crazy. There's like a self-harm infliction that permeates through the entire movement, which is really an interesting psychological offshoot of it, where people say it's kind of like watching Fox News. Like, everybody fucking knows Fox Life. It's a billion dollars. Yeah, it's watching. wild, right? It's masochism. And some people like to be tortured. Some people like pain. I think fear and what you're talking about, the sentiment that you're talking about, it can be very

motivating. And if you have nothing else going on in your life, that's the only thing that, you know, gives you some, right? That gives you some passion and you have a feeling that you're alive because you're, you know, you're aggrieved. And remember, if you were sitting around for the most of the folks who are watching Fox News, older people, whatever, maybe they haven't been able in their lives and younger folks, maybe they haven't been able in their lives to achieve certain things where they think that it is their birthright to be able to achieve certain things, have certain jobs. A man is a head of the household. Now you have women who are making more money and they're leading. Wait, it shouldn't be that way, right? And then someone comes along and says, oh, you should

be the head of the household, whatever, a military, and it makes you feel alive. And it makes you feel like, oh, this American thing that is supposed to be for me and people like me. And so then you start looking at your fellow Americans as others, as people who are taking things away from you. The blacks are taking things away from you. The Latinos are taking things away from you. The immigrants are taking things away from you. These are things that should belong to you.

The gays, the lesbians, the transgender people, as we talked about with Riley Gaines, they're taking things away from you. when really you are at fifth place because you are a loser. Maybe you're not that great of a swimmer. And maybe you're not that great of a swimmer, Maga. Maybe you suck at swimming, Riley. Maybe you suck at fucking swimming.

Considering that you tied for fifth and let's say that you get your wish, there are no trans people in sports, you're still a fucking fifth place loser. And that is the MAGA story. Totally. You're still a loser. You're still a fucking loser, Riley. I mean, okay, Welch's Lemonade community. Thank you.

This is going to good, a good release on this Friday afternoon. We're going to try. I'm going to see if we can. Kylie's going to see if she can get it recorded the book moderation so we can drop it for the Welch's lemonade. Oh, yes. Collab us. I feel like we're going to be unhinged. We'll collab.

I feel like we're probably going to be unhinged on stage, you and me. Let me say this because we have your thing. Do you mind if I do a little plug? No, my gosh, plug away. Because you know, D.L. Hugley, comedian D.L. Hugley now, we do our road tour. And we're trying to inform people, educate them, make them laugh, a little humor, smile, give them something good to go home with. We're doing our road tour, our arena tour. And we're going to be, as this airs, in the original airing, we're going to be in Cincinnati and Columbus over the weekend, Friday and Saturday.

And then Indianapolis and then we're going on end up in New Orleans. and then we're going to end up at the end of our event. We're going to end up in New York at the Beacon Theater, which I feel is a big deal, right? I'm coming. I want to come. Yeah. So.

Beacon theater. That's big time, Dawn. I know. You guys are famous, famous. Just go to Don Lemon.com and you can get, it'll show you how to get tickets. I'm getting tickets. I'm going to bring all of the I've had it. Yeah.

The I hipsters for the Welch's Lemonade. I want some merch. I want to wear, oh, you know what? Let's just make a Welch's. lemonade merch shirt for me to wear. And come see us in Boston. Yes. Yes.

I'm so excited about your tour, though. And then my book tour, lots of great things happening. But more than anything, vote, vote, vote, vote. And then leave us, okay, what are, what are you? The juicers, the squeezers, the squeeze. The squeeze community. It's a squeeze worth, is a juice worth a squeeze? The squeeze.

No, but like their name. You know how you're on your show. show they're the lemon heads? Yeah. All right. They're the juicy. They're juicy here. The juicies?

They're juicy. Juicers. The juicers, I don't know. I don't know. You'll let us know in the comment section. All right. We'll see you guys next week. In communities across Canada, hourly Amazon employees earn an average of over $26 an hour.

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