Some More News - Even More News: Donald Trump Lost HIs Juice

Episode Date: July 27, 2026

Hi. In today's episode of Even More News, Katy, Cody, and Jonathan dig into Trump's vindictive decision to withhold energy grants from blue states, his routine at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, his flood of desperate sh!tposts, and a fresh batch of tariffs.PATREON: https://patreon.com/somemorenewsMERCH: https://shop.somemorenews.comYOUTUBE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvlj0IzjSnNoduQF0l3VGng/join#DonaldTrump #whitehousecorrespondentsdinner #IranSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hello. Today we talk about how Trump vindictively canceled grants only in blue states, his really great jokes at the White House correspondence dinner, and how he's trying to juice those low poll numbers. Oh, and also like and subscribe. Hi, hello, and welcome back to Even More News, the first and only news podcast. I'm Katie Stoll, and I'm back. Yeah, welcome back to even more you who is back from last time when you weren't here. I'm Cody who was here last time as well. And I'm here now too.

I'm also still here. Jonathan is also here. Hi. Welcome back, Katie. All back together just the way it was supposed to be. How badly did you miss me? Don't answer that. So much.

Badly. So much. Yeah, it was odd. Oh, boy, but we are back. And I did my best to not pay attention to any news since last we met. So here we are. What happened? Well, we got a lot of news on Friday that kind of percolated over the weekend.

We found out that this was from a court filing a couple weeks ago, but it took a little while for anyone to notice that the Trump administration admitted in a court filing that, it was canceling a bunch of grants specifically because they were going to blue states, states that voted for Kamala Harris in 2024. It's kind of startling to read because it's this ongoing lawsuit and the lawyer for the energy department wrote, quote, with one exception, the 284 terminated grants had a recipient location and or at least one place of performance in a state that awarded its electoral votes to Kamala Harris in the 2024 election and has two Democratic caucusing senators.

And then there's a follow-up quote where they said there's there was no like a specific budget related or topic related reasoning for this. And you'd ask like, why would they admit this in a court document? Yeah. And the reason is because this is part of an ongoing lawsuit where people were suing over these canceled grants. And if they don't meet a deal, there's going to be discovery where we'll find out probably worse stuff.

You'll find out that the conversation was literally Cancel all of them. Anybody blue. Anybody state. I don't fucking care. Just go down the list. I got to take care of my people. I don't care about it.

This is one of those, okay, this is outrageous. And in the landscape that we live in, it's so easy for it to just wash over you. Because you think in the back of your head, there's a knowing, like we know that this is happening. Obviously, these things have been cancans. and it seems pretty clear. But oh, wow, very easily pinpointable.

Yep, that's 100% what they did. They just went down the list of blue states. Outrageous. And especially when you realize the things that they cut are pivotal, so fucking important. That these resources go to things like, okay, this is according to New York Times. Upgrades to electrical grids in states like California and Oregon. pinpoint all of this because we'll talk about wildfire season later in the episode, but efforts to reduce methane leaks from oil and gas operations in Colorado and large hubs

to produce clean burning hydrogen fuels in California and the Pacific Northwest. For example, some of the things cut vitally, vitally, vitally important. I was just an organ last week in the whole state's on fire. It sounds like woke bullshit to me, so. Well, it is woke bullshit. it. Okay. Well, so good riddance. Yeah, it's, it sucks. It's really evil. I can't believe they are just writing it out loud and writing it out loud, writing it down for people to read. They're writing it out loud. They're writing it out loud. All caps. All caps. The yell font. Because also you get all

these people all the time like, oh my God, Biden doesn't care about red state people or he did this or he didn't help North Carolina. Like, it's just so obvious like how petty and evil he is towards half, at least half the country when other you know maybe other presidents wouldn't be like that and maybe if there was even an inkling of it the right would freak out

and demand that they'd be impeached or hanged or something like that and it's just really really gross to see them be like yeah you know that's just how it is now we owned you but not by giving you money which you're not going to get

if this was a bigger story and like people members of Congress Republican members were being pressed on this over and over, they'd have to come up with a, well, what about when Biden did? And then they'd make up something that's not this. Because also, all of those, like, woke, wasteful grants, the red states still got them, right? They didn't, like, they don't care about the content of them. Because they're still. So it's not wasteful in those states, though. Yeah. And, like, not that it matters, but the energy secretary lied to Congress when he said,

quote, no decisions were made on politics, which his administration has now admitted as a lie. All decisions are made on politics. All their decisions are based off that. Every single thing they do. Or money. Like, if it incidentally hurts Democrats while they're making money off of it,

they're okay for that. That's a win, win, win, win. But we're so far from what the norm, the norm should be. At least the pretense of a president being for everybody that a president is for whether you voted for me or not the celebration of democracy like I want to do the best to include everybody in the fold I want unity in our country

those days are so long gone there's no there's just not even a pretense of it but this is not normal he does try to say it sometimes yeah yeah it's really abnormal he does try to say it sometimes I guess but not really I mean it's it'll be a true social post followed up by I'm glad who ever died

to his dead. Like, it's not, he's not, you know. He'll, he'll put in a sentence sort of in the tweet

and then spend the rest of the tweet, negating what he just said. The norms are so, um, destroyed now that you would think the next Democratic president is not going to do the stuff

that Trump is doing, but is going to say, why can't we just do this, guys? Like, the, the system is broken down. We can't really build it back up. If it's going to,

be a thing where you know Fox News and everyone's in an outrage over every little liberal thing that the next Democratic president tries to do I don't know if because obviously it won't connect with me it'll seem absurd is half the country just going to go for it like I've never seen a president

be this brazen when president whoever it is does it I don't all they will all pretend like the world has flipped around and like they were sweet little angels the whole time and their last president loved everybody and helped everybody and was nice constantly and the Dems are mean and in response to the Dems being so mean we have to get like a real fucking asshole in there next time is how they will react to it. They will want a larger, stupider asshole. I do think that we are seeing lots of signs of Trump losing his juice or mojo. or whatever you want to call. His mind, his life, slowly his life. But I think there's like signs that his big stolen election speech was a huge dud.

No one really cared. They're like, okay. Forgot about it already. Okay, grandpa, go and yell about the stuff. Whatever you're going to try to do. Okay. We'll talk about some of this White House correspondence dinner stuff where he didn't read the jokes beforehand and thus couldn't deliver them with any of the kind of cadence or tempo that one would want.

And he's just now like posting memes nonstop. He's posting all kinds of AI images, lots of Trump 2028 stuff to try and get a rise out of people. And there's like not even articles about it anymore. It's like, okay, man, you yell at the cloud. We don't care anymore. And I think that's like, like it's obviously nuts that he's doing it. But I think it's a good sign that it's just like he does not have what it takes to shock us anymore. I mean, he can't.

He'll... He will. Listen, he will. He's going to do something next summer. I don't know what, but he's going to do something next summer to try and be like, I'm running. He's going to humiliate Katie. He's going to be like, no, you're not. And he'll be like, oh, it was a joke, you know?

Does Truth Social have an app? Does he post from his phone? Is he there for like an hour just sort of... Because where does you get the eye slop? How does you know how to copy paste links in his phone? I think he sees stuff... and then he sends it to somebody. And he's like, go post this, go post this.

Or maybe Steven Chung is just standing right next to him and he's like this, this, this. Yeah, right. I think you can teach an old dog new tricks and it's his favorite new trick is to copy paste link, copy paste link. Totally. I just like in my mind I'm like, the idea of him like at a computer

is so funny to me. Like I've never and we will never see him sitting down in front of a computer using it. It's got to be the phone. It is an interesting question. Who's doing the actual posting? I mean, it's, Stephen or whoever, it's like, you know. But that's a lot of posting.

He's definitely not like physically doing it. But like I'm just, I just wanted to imagine him on a computer. Yeah, it's very funny. Like an old IMac. Just like looking at it. Yeah, like he's got his hand on the mouse. Like what are you going? Or like he's using the track pad.

I don't know. I just want to see it. 20 something times. I don't know. He was really on one the other day. Yeah. Sunday he posted just all day. like all kinds of AI slop

all kinds of Trump 2028 stuff nothing really getting any play I'm sure he's just posting stuff and then going on Fox News being like why aren't they talking about all the cool he doesn't know dank but cool memes he's like what did that idiot say what cool dank memes who was that guy he's that fucking moron everybody hates

there's so many this Harry assistant bookmark gave a tweet with all the different times stamps next to it 1116 a.m. AI photo of Caitlin Collins as Dolan Mulvaney, 1143am, A.A. Image attacking Bruce Springsteen, 3.22 p.m. and AI art installation of Trump throwing a Trump 2028 hat. There's so much. There's hundreds. If I can talk about this Caitlin Collins joke at the White House Correspondence dinner for a moment,

it's like a minute and he's going to insult, like you'll tell he's going to go off script by insulting Caitlin Collins and calling her fake for a bit. and then he gets to the joke which he delivers poorly. But they'll learn to listen. But I want to personally congratulate CNN's Caitlin Callens on receiving her award. It was all about me. It's a fake. She shouldn't get the award.

It was a fake. But I didn't mind. I said, Caitlin, congratulations. But it was fake. There's no question about it. But she's a young, attractive woman. She never smiles. I said, Caitlin, do you ever smile?

Smile. You have a nice position. You're at CNN fake news. You should be a happy person. So smile, Caitlin. Just smile. But we attack, and I thought Caitlin had really made it big with a major new sponsorship.

But then I informed her that it wasn't her on the Budlite can. It was Dylan Mulvaney. And Dylan Mulvaney cost Budlite $35 million. In market cap. Crickets. That's as silent as his other jokes that he tried to tell. They're all so bad. So what's really interesting about this to me, well, first of all, is that he's going off

script and doing this, she should smile thing. And then it's not clear that he's going into a joke. An actual bit. And the joke is like, I had to inform her of that, whatever. The joke, it's a transphobic joke suggesting that Caitlin Collins resembling. trans woman Dylan Mulvaney and it's an insult to both of them because they don't like the way to compliment to both of them because they're both gorgeous. They don't like the way that these two people specifically look.

But since that happened and people are like, oh, Trump told this transphobic joke, they have been trying. Maga has been attempting to say no, the joke isn't transphobic and I want to go through two. Please do. The reaction to this is, yeah. So Katie Miller writes, the joke wasn't transphobic. President Trump didn't call Dylan Mulvaney a man. So I guess Katie Miller's argument is that misgendering is the only way something can be transphobic, which isn't true at all. And then this other person, this is what I really want to get to because this is what they've been going off of. The joke is they look alike and to most objective viewers they actually do.

So, no, they don't. They don't really look alike at all. They've got dark hair. They're brunette women. And also, that's not a joke. It's not a joke to just say that two people look alike. You're pretending that the joke isn't the joke. And why are you doing that?

Why won't they own their transphobia? This was three years ago. Dylan Mulvaney, getting a case of beer sent to her from fucking Bud Light was three years. Get over it. This is so tired. This is so hag. No one fucking cares, man.

Clearly they do. They're clamoring for it. Judging by the reaction. The overwhelming reaction. And we're just brushing past this, but like, telling a woman to smile. It's so embarrassing. Oh, yeah.

It's so I had a big conversation about that this couple weeks ago. And like, not this instance. Just. remarkable remarkably offensive um and sometimes it lands fine and you're like whatever other times you're like just fuck off let me live but don't what are men telling you to smile on the regular i've had i have multiple times been walking down the street having a perfectly nice time listening to my headphones and had a man be like you're so pretty honey be prettier if you smiled you should smile

Why aren't you happy? Like, and sometimes you're like, okay, huh, thanks. Okay. Other times it's like, fuck you, dude. I was actually in a great moment, but now you've got me in my head wondering how I look like. Like, you have to outwardly, like, display, like, your emotions constantly. And the truth is, I go out of my way to smile a lot of times when I don't feel like it, just to be pleasant to people. And I just, give me a break.

I don't see men walking down the street like this. like that's a weird thing to do to have a giant smile on your face when you're by yourself right people having a stroll unless you're like in a musical or something i understand sometimes people if it's like an old man there's something in them that's like this is nice i guess but it's not nice it's fine to smile outside it's fine to not smile outside it's probably fine to like compliment somebody smile if they're smiling but to like demand like performative emotions i think if they're strangers just leave people well yeah If they're strangers, just like, don't fucking say it.

God damn word. I just going to say, regardless, don't fucking do that. That's so... Just leave women alone. Leave women alone. Leave women alone. My blood would have boiled over if I was Caitlin Collins sitting in that chair, having that disgusting, melting man telling me to smile more.

Well, so I wanted to get to this joke thing, because the reaction to it, like, obviously, Katie Miller's stupid or pretending to be stupid or whatever. But everybody is also. doing that. They're all, I saw, like, this is just one example, but they're all talking like this and claiming, like, it's actually, this is the perfect 4D chest joke, right? It's the perfect 4D chest joke to humiliate, Caitlin Collins, obviously, because we're going to humiliate her and, like, target her and make her feel bad, but it humiliates the entire left because they can't articulate why it's offensive without admitting their beliefs are fake. What's she's

supposed to say? How dare you compare me to a man pretending to be a woman? No, that's what you think. That's your opinion. They're pretending like context doesn't exist. Are we to believe that Donald Trump and the entire MAGA Wright thinks that Dylan Mulvaney is a pretty woman and that Caitlin Collins is a pretty woman and that they are being complimented by them? Or do we understand the context and understand their viewpoint and understand that is an intentional insult in their minds? We can look at it and Katie, you were earlier like, but they're both beautiful. Yeah, we can. We can. think that. You guys think not that. And you're like being like purposefully obtuse about how like he was just like explain why you're so mad because you are obviously knowingly

insulting them based off of your worldview that you let everybody know about constantly every day of the fucking week. I'm going to add one more thing to be insulted by? Do it. You didn't even put any heat behind that, sir.

It doesn't look like you care at all. You didn't even bother to insult me with passion. Yeah, he's like, and I informed her that the can wasn't her on the can. What, like, you're

a terrible joke, you may have been good at it before. He even tells, like, a classic joke at one point. It's like, that's just a joke you pick up in like 900 jokes or whatever. Any fucking... I can't do both joke? The, the inappropriate joke that he shouldn't have

old and then yeah the about like yeah because he can't like they can't have sex right and then he like goes off for about two minutes about like so he's because like he's got the energy to do that but like actually he's not he's not having sex you know because when you have sex it's like you got to put in some work but he couldn't like he's he goes the other day a senator i knew got a text of great guy from his wife and she said when you get home i want to have you immediately come up the stairs and make love to me And he said, I can't do both. You know what the...

In other words, can't go up the stairs and make love. Does anybody get that way? I thought that was actually pretty good. That was actually the only thing I thought was good in this whole freaking stupid speech that they wrote. That was the only good one, and that went down with not exactly great laughter. I think, you know, in other words,

you can't go up the stairs and make love, too, you know. So we're looking for term limits. Does anybody understand this? it dies and then he's like maybe they didn't get it and so he goes so in other words he can't both he explains it multiple times he can't both go up the steps and make love to the wife he can't do both in the thing they have to make love down here it doesn't make any sense it's so funny unbelievable and then the the Barry Weiss joke is like a well-constructed yeah that is a written out somebody wrote it can't deliver it but it is by definition it is a joke and it fits it

You can do the math. You can, yeah. Which is not like this person looks like this person, wink, wink. This is a left trap joke where I'm trying to get you to admit that you believe the thing that we believe even though you don't. You're so triggered. You people are protect. We insulted you and you're like, oh, they insulted us and we're like, ha ha, we got you because you don't believe the things that we do. but you know that we believe it.

So your offense, it's, I fucking hate them all. So stupid. Another thing just to mention about this evening is that it is wild when you remember that this is about giving out awards to different outlets and journalists for their reporting. To take a word. Mostly about Donald Trump and his administration. And the backdrop of this administration suing a lot of these organizations over this reporting. wild times people very wild

free speech president but that is what it is I honestly had forgotten that the last one was foiled by an assassination attempt genuinely had ejected that from my brain we should start doing White House correspondence dinners every three months now because Trump will just be like that one didn't go well let's do let's have a redo one more one more do it again I'll tell the joke again

so people don't love Trump's jokes clearly, because they're bad and you perform them well. People don't seem to like when he says most things. People seem to be annoyed about his policies and appalled by all the war and the continuing war over the war. A lot of people not really like all the ice stuff consistently. Seems like everybody is not a big fan of Donald Trump these days. But maybe he can turn. it around. Do you think he can turn it around? John, and then what's he, what could be he possibly do to turn it around? Another White House correspondence dinner.

I mean, it goes back and forth to maybe he's going to come up with some ridiculous plan, but then he sabotages that seemingly and, and then doesn't care. They have this housing bill that, you know, should over time help build more housing. A little bit with the housing. He did. Didn't you say, uh, no? Yeah, he refused to sign it because of the Save America Act, which he has referred to as the deep-throated Save America Act. I mean.

And he wouldn't sign the housing bill. So now it's taking effect despite him. He will, I'm sure, try to claim if there are any benefits down the road. But he's losing ground even slowly among people who voted for him in 2024. Among his 2024 voters, he started out with 95% approval among white people. that's down to 81% among the young people who voted for him. It's down to 57%. I know all of this still seems very high, but like he should, if he started with 92% approval

among under 34 people who voted for him, it should not have dropped by 35 points. That is bad. No, that's that's bad. That is wild. 76% of people in a CBS news poll say the war with Iran has been harder than expected. Only 19% say they're operating. optimistic about it. And overall, Trump voters seem to see this, the one big, beautiful bill as benefiting the wealthy and not helping the working class. Good, good point. Good point from them. Two things. Depressing that so many people do still support the man. But as Jonathan's already stated, this is a significant drop. And not enough for him to win again. If he was to do this again.

I don't think. I shouldn't say that. Maybe it is. I'm jigsing ourselves. I'm just saying I don't think you would win with these numbers if he was to run today. No. There's like multiple reasons he's not running for president in 2028 and a secondary one after the Constitution and all that stuff is that like the Republicans probably don't want him to run. They're like, we would have a better chance of winning with this juiceless dork vice president that everyone hates. Too bad. It's too bad. He doesn't. care. He does not care. He will he will not care that they don't want him to do that. He will be so mad when they try to

pivot to JD. Who is as you said a dork loser. Or Marco. I don't think he gives a shit about his approval ratings that much because he keeps doing the very unpopular things. He keeps saying the very unpopular things. He keeps pretending as though affordability isn't a big deal.

It is. To your base to all of us it is. He keeps calling that fake. He keeps saying the Democrats made up that word. He said it again. It's not a fake word, sir. It's a real word. And the other thing he's trying to do, I guess, to get on voters good side. I don't know if this counts as something he's trying to do to get on anyone's good side is he's found another law to justify more tariffs on like 80 different countries. He's citing the section 3, section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. He's already been sued over it because I guess it probably does not give and the authority to do this,

including, like, extra punishing tariffs on Canada because... Because of their wildfires? Yeah, the smoke from their fires is coming down here. They didn't put up a big net or whatever. Meanwhile, we also have wildfires that are blowing smoke over the country.

How do we know which smoke is coming from their wildfires or from our wildfires? He can tell. We need, like, some sort of screen. You can tell. You're like a screen for the smoke to... He's like, that smells... That's Canadian timber.

Their smoke is in... fading our country. We need to secure our borders from the enemies. You know, any kind of justification he can. But these will probably take effect while, you know, the legal, you know, wrangling is ongoing. He can probably just do this forever. Tariffs get struck down. He can find another law point at some obscure thing, you know, blow dust off the town charter and say,

I can do tariffs here. and, you know, prices swing wildly based on that. So, no, this is not good for anybody, not good for people's wallets, which I've been told to care about. You know, he's trying to, he's backing off the war again, I guess. But maybe not for that reason, maybe because our munitions are depleted. Yeah, they've been depleted. He keeps talking about how that happened and then we're running out of oil,

so we need to stop the war. So I assume those things are still true. It is concerned. that he said multiple months ago, we run out of oil in four weeks. He said that. But we know that. We haven't.

Two weeks later. Speaking of things that the president says and does that are actually not popular, revising the death count from the war on the Pentagon website. Oh, yeah. I mean. Wild. So the recent force service members,

who were killed, they removed those from the death toll of the war, so it's now 18 down to 14, the idea being that, well, these deaths took place after a ceasefire. I'm pretty sure it wasn't after the cease, wasn't even during the ceasefire. First off, that's bullshit, because

it's all part of this war that never ended at all, ceasefire or not. But it was active. It was happening again. We were exchanging fire, bomb shit up, and they were retaliating. I mean, this is this is wild. This just happened.

Yeah, they're arguing, though, that, well, since we signed a ceasefire and no one ever said we unsigned it, this doesn't take place during the war. So the war had been going on for 47 years and stopped back at the ceasefire and has not since resumed despite all the blowing each other back and forth. 47 year of war is over. And it's weird because Trump had acknowledged this 18 number because he put it in his truth social post where he compared. it to deaths in other wars and how it's like so super small compared to Vietnam and World War II. So what are you

all complaining about? Fewer people died this war than World War II. Stupid asshole. In this four-month-old war versus World War II? Yeah. So yeah, he's not wrong. But how many people died during the that Afghanistan

pullout? Was it 13 I think? Or was that Benghazi? Well, either way, those were the two worst things that ever happened in the history of the country when they happened under Democratic. When Ghazi and then we pulled out Afghanistan, which was going to happen, Trump got that ball rolling anyway and whatever. Right.

So the Afghanistan pull out worst thing. I literally think he said, like, this is the worst thing that's ever happened to our country. Something like that. I'll look it up. But now his, you know, little excursion, his nonsense, uh, violence. in the Middle East, it doesn't matter what happens there because it's less than the million plus from World War II. What a, what a jerk.

What a jerk. It was 13 people in Afghanistan. To be clear, also 170 Afghan civilians. Yeah, that's an important thing to include. But he is not including. Oh, no, he doesn't. No, no, of course. He's not.

No. All right, gentlemen. it's been real it's been fun it's been real fun being back in the hot seat yeah

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