Some More News - Even More News: Donald Trump Will Make Us All Pay For Laughing At His Sad Parade

Episode Date: June 17, 2025

Hi. In today's episode of EVEN MORE NEWS, Katy, Cody and Jonathan dig into the very obvious lies Trump has told about the war in Iran and the scale of human tragedy already unfolding in the region. They also discuss the weekend's large protests, political violence, and Trump's very sad birthday parade. PATREON: https://patreon.com/somemorenewsMERCH: https://shop.somemorenews.comYOUTUBE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvlj0IzjSnNoduQF0l3VGng/joinSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hi, hello and welcome back to the sleepy show. My name is even more comma news Katie and you are? Cody some comma news. I'm Cody, hello. Sounds good to me. Hello, Jonathan is indeed almost, no. Jonathan is here. He almost wasn't here.

He almost wasn't here, it's true. I'm here, the internet's working. We still live in a society. Hi. Yes. Hi. For the moment. You need to get that Trump mobile phone

to get your hotspot, to get that good internet. I mean, that's gonna be the only signal that works in a few years, right? You gotta get Trump mobile. Exactly. God willing. I'm sorry for bringing up the news, Katie, you go. I have something important to say. Really quickly, we're gonna address the elephant

in the room, and that is my bangs. There was a lot of upheaval last week because I had my bangs pulled back. And you know what, folks, I get it, it didn't look good. But unfortunately, I cut them and they looked bad. I've been on a journey, I don't know what to do. I don't know how to please you. I apologize, especially to that one baby

that was apparently really upset. I don't wanna cause distress, but also these bangs are all different lengths. Anyway, here you go! No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Only apologize to the baby. Anyway, there is news to discuss. The news. The news. Boy, do we have some.

From Mobile. Before our last episode came out, but after we recorded, Israel bombed Iran a lot. A lot. A lot. A lot. Iran fired missiles back toward Tel Aviv. I think maybe 10% of them made it through, causing some injuries. We always hear like there's a bunch of bombings and both countries bomb each other and then we read, this creates the risk of all out war and it seems like it's war right now and

that's really awful. Then there was this thing, obviously a lot of political stuff in the United States going on concurrently. Really? The Trump administration's line was like, oof, we did not want this to happen. We didn't have anything to do with this. You guys, Trump, oof, he really was mad at Netanyahu. Kind of the same thing that happened with Biden for the last couple years. But then Trump came out and said, like, I told Iran, you know,

they had a chance to make a deal and they didn't and we're hitting them hard. And so there doesn't seem to be a lot of internal communication about what we are or are not helping with. In this war, I'm gonna go with we're helping. I don't know if people follow Ken Klippenstein or, you know, a grain of salt with everything. But on his substack, he has been reporting for months about the secret war plans of the

Trump administration preparing for a regional conflict with Iran. I'm not saying that that is their goal, but they certainly have been preparing for this eventuality in some capacity whether or not they are admitting it publicly or not. You know, there are the people you would expect in our country like Lindsey Graham and John Fetterman who are very much on board for a war against everyone in the Middle East who's not Israel, I think. It's been long enough. We need to. We deserve it. Okay, we deserve a little bit of war with Iran.

There's definitely this Israel is the protagonist kind of framing of things. If it's up to me, no one should bomb anyone. But you know, obviously we have this framing from the New York Times and others of, well, maybe Israel's preemptive attack on Iran can prevent war, can prevent further death and destruction as they are exhibiting death and destruction. And you got to pre-stop the war by un-starting the pre-started de-warring that you do, I think. Yeah.

I mean, you already talked about this a little bit, but like, it is very surreal and weird to be like, well, we're not doing war stuff, but you're bombing all the time. It does seem like that. And asking for the United States' help with that. And they had to, right at the moment that Netanyahu faced some sort of political shift

It's very troubling. Also. We just got reporting that Israeli jets have bombed the building of Iran state broadcaster live on the air What's going to happen from this? We never learn lessons. People don't learn lessons. Governments don't learn lessons. This is already rumblings from the expected people about regime change and so on. And that works well? Is that not part of the problem now? It is.

We'll see. You know, nth times the charm. We don't know yet. Yeah. It's a small sample size, to be honest, of the United States forcing regime change on other countries. We're 0 for, you know, 14, I guess that's not specifically. So yeah, it was a it was a big weekend domestically as well. There was of course, Trump's birthday slash military parade and the no Kings protests. One of those events brought out estimated five million people. The other brought out an estimated not that. Yikes, you know? The night before Friday night, there were the assassination of a Minnesota state lawmaker,

a Democrat, and her husband, and the attempted assassination of another and his wife. It is, as Minnesota Governor Walz described, a targeted political attack. The suspected shooter is a evangelical Trump supporter. So there's the right-wing violence and Trump the next day kind of doubling down and saying, you know, that Democrats are radical, left sick people. Murderous violence. Yes, and that ICE has to target Democrat cities specifically, including the FBI and ATF.

He named like every agency and did one of those I hear with demand proclamations. It's every weekend, but this past weekend, highs and lows, I felt very inspired by the beautiful peaceful protests. Thank you everybody for showing up, for doing what you can, and for being there and enjoying it. But it was juxtaposed with extreme violence, us waking up to the news of this horrific

murder assault coupled with stories across the country of, while mostly peaceful, various isolated incidents of violence that were thankfully not massive tragedies in and of themselves, but there were cars, there were, you know, brutality, driving into crowds, brutality in Los Angeles, on the hands of the police. You saw live on television, Jacob Soboroff, broadcasting about how peaceful the protests were. And then in the background, you see the Calvary coming in with their horses trampling people. So many people have been bloodthirsty for violence for so long and for so long have been like, oh yeah, send the Marines in.

I can't wait for you to get what you deserve. And then you see this old man shoved into a crowd and just the people just being like, yeah, that's what you get. Wait, that's what you get? What? It's very sick, sick, sick stuff, sick stuff. Over and over again, and we saw it a lot last week and we saw it this weekend, where the LAPD are the ones who initiate the conflict, the clash,

as the media will describe it. In the Soboroff clip, he's literally just interviewing a protester and then they have to start running because the sheriffs on horseback are coming closer toward them. There was another reporter, I can't remember where he was from, we could find the clip,

and he's just standing there talking and then a cop starts like kinda putting his hands on him and yelling at him, and the reporter is trying to You know say well, it's very tense out here. These guys are under a lot of pressure He keeps trying to defend the cop who's like getting really close to doing something brutal to him on camera You're on TV and now you're pushing me on live television. All right, we didn't touch anybody. You know, that's true So you can see obviously tensions are extremely high here You know that's true. Okay. Thank you. I got it. So you can see obviously tensions are extremely high here.

Yeah, because you touched the officer. Don't touch the officer. We have video testimony. They'll be touching officer. Okay. Obviously, massively high tensions here. These folks are tired. They are also hot.

It's a long day and it's been a long week. We clearly didn't touch the officers. You're on live television, sir. Yes, you did. Okay, thank you so much. We will stay back. I also think it's very notable that we've got however many thousand national guardsmen

still in Los Angeles and 700 Marines. And it's still like, they're kind of hanging back. Everything you see is like, like well the LAPD is Shooting or the LAPD shooting and it's hitting the sheriff's department guys With rubber bullets trust this this city in this county's law enforcement. They've got the brutality under control everyone Yeah, exactly. Also the marine it seems like it does seem like the like everyone else is there for like show like oh We're here for like a show of force but we yeah like you're saying like yeah the LAPD is going to take care of it don't worry.

It's breaking through some amount there are lots of conversations that I've had over the past weekend both frustrating and not but I will say in terms of this multiple people are like what's happening in LA is outrageous the LAPD is out of control and these are not people that you would have expect to have that response. And it has led to some interesting conversations about immigration. And I'm not saying that the tide has completely changed, but I do think it is changing.

I do think that this is breaking through and that some real conversations are coming from it. I just want to highlight that anybody on any topic really who says, well, the polling's down so you should abandon this issue as something that you care about. Tell those people no, because I do care about it and people are capable of changing their minds in a short span of time too. It doesn't take, I mean, sometimes for some issues, but it doesn't take months and months and months and months and months for people to go, wait, that's not good.

And if you believe that you have more clarity on an issue and you think that it's good to say something is bad, then don't let people convince you otherwise simply because well, he's not, he's pretty good on this issue with the polling. Well, change people's minds and then that won't be true anymore. So that's such a good point, Cody, and valid and true. And we should all take that to heart as we navigate these absurd times we're living in. I do think it's really important to not move past this topic without highlighting that someone did die in Salt Lake City. There was a man there that was threatening and started running into the crowd with a gun and then some peacekeepers opened fire to disarm him and shot him. A bystander we should clarify.

Highlights some of the dangers here of us also taking up a vigilante status of, you know, we're all heightened and wanting to protect people. The cops were there. I don't I don't know. It's beyond tragic, though. I do want to speak to the like, the no kingsness of this weekend. Like I went, my mom was visiting from out of town, you know, obviously I have a two-year-old son, so I was like, I don't think we're going downtown. I don't want to get caught downtown based on whatever the cops are doing. So we went to Culver City, which was a very like, you know, a very like playful atmosphere and lots of signs.

And you know, I was a little bit torn in the sense of like, this feels like people came out to have fun and I don't wanna shut down people's joy, right? And so I wanted to try to find a way to like bridge the like the seriousness of this, like this can't be it. And I don't wanna even shame them, but there were people sitting at the Culver City like brunch spots with their signs,

having like, you know, the whole brunch thing, like doing that. And I think it can be a little cringy to see like just a bunch of orange turd signs and you're thinking, well, where's this going? But then the ability to mass mobilize like happened on Saturday. So like whatever you want to say about 50 51 and indivisible and the the organizers of this

They got five million people out there and we need those, you know, we need the wine moms Like it's it's very tough to do this without that So I really wanted to like it at my experience and it was it was good. We you know, it was good to be there I was glad we were a part of it, but experience and it was it was good. We you know, it was good to be there. I was glad we were a part of it. But I hope it made people feel the way I felt of like, all right, what's what's next? How do we support the communities

who were not able to come to this? You know, yeah, because of the other protests that are sort of surrounding it as a thing too, because like if this sort of happened in a vacuum, I think we might feel a little bit differently, where it's like, oh, we're doing this big protest. The birthday boy wants his little party, so we're gonna do this.

But this is sort of smack dab in the middle of these ICE protests that have been going on, which are more immediate because you can say, no kings, we don't like Trump. Well, he's the president now for three plus more years. I understand that sort of tension that you sort of feel, but also like five million people, that's a lot of people.

And I was looking around and I'm like, these seniors are not gonna be on the one-on-one freeway, so you can't expect them to do that. The criticisms are worth taking note. Like yes, there is some resistance liveness of it. Yes, it's a bunch of different messages. Yes, in the community Facebook here, people are like, what are you talking about no kings?

And really getting hung up on that. The only king in our country is Jesus Christ. Oh, well, you know. There's all sorts of- Tell that to the president who tweets about how he's the king. Yeah, let me just finish my point, which is that all of that is fine and fair and notable. You can note that and store that away. But what it also was was a cathartic opportunity for people to come together for me personally.

And I think it really depends on what town you live in. for people to come together. For me personally, and I think it really depends on what town you live in. Sure, we see these massive turnouts in the major cities, and that is chef's kiss, inspiring, cringe signs aside. But for small communities like mine, for other communities all across this country,

this was an opportunity for people to come together. I showed up and I cried immediately because I was so touched that in my small town somewhere between 12 and 1700 people showed up and that is a big fucking deal and yes a lot of them were old boomers and you know what I'm grateful that they were there. They made me cry, they made other people cry and it was a beautiful opportunity for people to to see that they're not alone. All of this is valid. All of this is important in being able to sustain ourselves for the next four years. And yes, this is not it. It has to be more than that.

It has to be sustained efforts. And like I said before, as unfortunate and horrific, brutal as this has been, especially in cities like Los Angeles. It is breaking through and it is registering despite the amount of people that you see online finger waving or trying to embarrass us or mock us or whatever. Also old boomers vote. Old boomers vote. I saw also a lot of people, some various videos of people in small towns where not people didn't show up but like one person did and is very very sweet to see still. It's invigorating to see and know that people know that that it's bad and if we can get in the same space and feel that with each other and

Feel yeah comfortable and it's fire to safe in that I think that is that is good and Yeah, like you're saying people some people can't go out there, you know every day and right and there are ways to Contribute and help the people who are still gonna be outside that detention center until this this massive sweep that is continuing in Los Angeles and probably in other Democrat-led cities near you, there are ways to help them and contribute. And you don't have to like, you might not be a tear gas person. And that's fine.

Do you want to talk about this assassination and this thing that happened as well? Because this has been quite something.'ll get to that we can get to the details But some of the reaction very expected This is not news to anybody Twitter acts the everything platform is the worst place in the world for finding out anything about anything Especially something like this there are so many

finding out anything about anything, especially something like this. There are so many disgusting liars out there that are proudly and happily just like going along. It doesn't matter to anybody what is true anymore. And we know this, this isn't news. It's so frustrating to see just people just like spout whatever they just, they don't even like know what's the lie we're gonna go with.

We'll try this, that didn't work. Caught on over here. All right, we're gonna go with. We'll try this that didn't work. I caught on over here All right, we're going with that What else we're gonna do and just like all day and you can point out how they're lying all you want But they do not care. It is so disgusting Elon Musk out there is like actually the the left is a murderously violent. Well, actually no So this-

We need to set up the specifics of this, which is that in the wake of these shootings, yes, of course, information is coming out. It seemed pretty clear from the outset that this was a right-wing Christian nationalist. That's not to say that there might not be a time when some left-wing radical person goes out there and starts opening fire, assassinates right-wing politicians. This is a terrifying moment that we're living through. The tensions are so high, everything's exacerbated

online. All of us should be able to recognize this as a fucking problem that is across the board. It's terrifying. But it tends to be. I'm not trying to be all sides here. I'm just trying to point out that this is really fucking scary. We try to not be so fast reacting to things like this because we do want to wait for the information and it is clear that that is a just a fruitless endeavor. What a struggle because if you aren't doing that, then all of the other people are and

they're lying to you. And then you have like the Marjorie Taylor Greene's all these other people be like, well, I'm going to like stuck up on guns and I'm doing target practice for the radical left. He's gonna come get me. It wasn't, he was an evangelical preacher who like voted for Trump. Why would he have potentially targeted

the no Kings protest given that it was written? And abortion clinics. But also people are seeing that photo and going, look, he was a No Kings protester. Look at all his flyers. Even though the police said that he's probably targeting people at the No Kings protest. It's all obvious.

Every little bit of information is opposite of what they are saying and they know it. All these freaks who only buy a Twitter blue check so that they can lie to their fans who they think are fucking stupid. They hate the people who follow them. They think they're so stupid and gullible and sadly they're right, it sucks.

It's so upsetting to see. In addition to the thing that happened, what a fucked up thing to happen. That's bad. We can't just look at this political assassination, go, that is bad. You have to have an entire army of people out there just spreading lies as much as possible

so that they don't have to denounce violence. Why don't they just claim it? They like it, they like violence. Like it has been so disgusting to see all these people, elected officials, pundits, all of them, just like, wow, this Marxist really, really is dangerous. What are you talking about? Within hours of the news breaking.

It's so gross, and they're not gonna apologize, not gonna admit it, they're gonna keep going with that narrative. And again, what a fucked up thing to happen. That's bad. Just say that. Cody, you need to go get bored to death all day. Okay, thanks, love you very...

Yeah, let's talk about the parade. Yeah, I we can't end without talking about the parade. No, we can't. So it can basically be summed up by a vertical video that I was convinced was doctored somehow. And it's not it is like eight seconds long. And it is a tank creek its way down the street You can see like 40 ish people around

Silently watching it because I think a lot of people recognized and Trump recognized in the crowd that a military parade is boring. Boring! In 1914, years of escalating competition between European alliances culminate in the outbreak of the First World War. He thought it was going to come with the music that they put behind the parades in North Korea with like the 10,000 people walking by and everyone in lockstep. And this was just like it was it was not like, yeah, like it was not like a bunch of the army guys from Toy Story and the Main Street Electrical Parade at Disneyland are more inspiring army guys than what were out there. It felt like I

Just such satire a moment in Veep something just cartoonish just cartoonish I don't think no one showed up, but they got a couple thousand. Like they got a little more than we had out in Culver City, California. A little more than what I had in a small mountain community. Yeah. And I don't know if many interesting conversations were happening out there in the crowd. You could tell that Trump was bored, that Hegseth sitting next to him was like, oh shit, is this going to get me fired?

How much this kind of sucks? Maybe it will. Obviously he lashed out the next day in anger that the protests against him were so much bigger than his parade. He's like, I'm gonna double down and I'm gonna break you, Democrat cities. I don't get hit without hitting back and that sucks.

But we do need to like be a little bit heartened that like this thing was a flop. His huge... It was. And you know what? I feel bad because we don't know all the political opinions of the people who marched. I don't know if they could have said, no, I don't want to take part in this. There's a lot of speculation about were they intentionally not marching in lockstep the

way they could. I don't know any of that. I don't know these people, but the fact that it was so uninspiring, I think it reflects not on the the United States military and it reflects entirely on Donald Trump. Not that I'm like, no, no, the poor United States military. I'm not talking shit about the military in this specific moment. I feel bad for the people that have to be trotted out there whether they want to or not, but it is satisfying to see this be such a colossal and expensive flop,

especially with such massive turnouts across the country. It's what we needed in a weekend full of highs and lows. This was a delight, a little delight. I felt good watching the clips and it like I think brought people together. You know, we were all like sharing around the phone. Look at this goon. Look at these goons who thought

this was gonna be a big thing. Right, there were robot dogs, there were guys holding drones. It feels like we're better than this. And I thought they were gonna be able to put on a better show than this. I thought they were gonna try to put on like an Olympics opening ceremonies type thing. And I don't think they realized that those things

take years and hundreds of millions of dollars to come together. I don't wanna brush past what you mentioned. I mean, we've mentioned it a couple of times, but the tirade that he posted on Truth Social, it's too long to read. It's basically an essay broken up over multiple posts, but it is truly terrifying. A petulant man lashing out, but it's truly horrifying to read.

Yeah, it's very serious when he says we have to expand efforts to detain and deport illegal aliens in America's largest cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, when he says that these cities are the core of the Democrat power center where they use illegal aliens to expand their voter based cheat in elections and grow the welfare state robbing good paying jobs and benefits from hardworking American citizens. So he is using a conspiracy theory to say this is why we need to do any it's like a different reasoning than his previous mass deportations reasoning.

And so it is it's scary. You got to be prepared in your city like he is not backing away yet even though approval is going against him. Maybe he will. He's trying this out first. But also it is a little heartening that all he has is this. He can double down and say, what's going on now

is going to be even worse if you keep protesting me and going against me. It looks, it's scary, but it looks a little weak to me. 100%. I mean, this is a total changing of tactics. Instead of our country is overrun by criminals and rapists and murderers, it's these migrants are coming here specifically

to bolster the Democrats' number. This is not a new conspiracy theory. This has been trotted around. We've talked about it a lot. The great replacement theory. And he wasn't leading with that. I mean, people would talk about that a lot, but that wasn't the official messaging, but now it is now it will be.

And that is why, how he can justify targeting cities that are in opposition to him. But you're right. He does look weak. This is chaos. Everything he fucking touches is chaos. I'll reiterate as awful as the experience has been for people showing up and putting their bodies on the line for, for what matters to them. It is breaking through. People are seeing the chaos. Um, and some sentiment is changing.

I really hope that this doesn't latch on and become a wider spread conspiracy theory. You know, the idea that Democrats are busing in people from Mexico to vote for us is just so laughable. Yeah. And so now it's like, oh, by the way, not only is my, you know, unprecedented, destructive policy going to help you, the real Americans. Fortunately, it's also going to crush our political opposition, and this is a politically motivated policy. He's admitting it right here. Seems illegal, but I think it's an act of desperation. It's not going well for him, folks. I hope. It's not. It's not going well for anyone right now. It's not going well for any of us.

We gotta, you know. I'm glad everyone showed up. I hope we keep showing up in any way we can. All right, okay. I think we've done it, folks. I think we've reached the end of the show. As stated, thank you all for showing up. Thank you for watching.

Thank you for being here on a Tuesday morning for you, your time. I'm so sorry once again for my bangs. I'm doing my best to grow them out and not pull them back. Jonathan, do you have any last messages for folks at home? See you, see you next time. And we love you very much. Very.

And I do mean it.