Some More News - Even More News: Holy Sh*T! It’s Only Been 100 Days of Trump 2.0

Episode Date: May 2, 2025

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Why hello and welcome back to even more news the first and only news podcast my name is Katie Stoll. Katie Stoll. I knew it. Thank you so much. Welcome to the first and only time I will say, no thank you, I hate being here. And back to normal.

Thanks so much for having me. I'm Cody, I love it to be here. Cody loves it to be here, folks. And Jonathan is also here for once. Hi. Love it to be here. Leave it or love it. We love it to be here.

Love it to be here. Love it to be here. Four podcast names in one. We love it to be here. We have holidays, of course we do. We do. That we do. Okay, interesting. Friday, May 2nd, school lunch hero day.

Huzzah. Ah, dedicated to those men and women who make the cafeterias and the schools a better place to be. What was your favorite school lunch? Do you remember the smiling face who served you? I don't, unfortunately. I'm sorry to the- That's okay, to the heroes though. Lunch beep, to the hero of the lunch you? I don't, unfortunately. I'm sorry to the-

That's okay, to the heroes though. Lunch beep, to the hero of the lunch beep. I agree with the holiday, I agree. I took it easy on them by, I brought my lunch every day. My mommy packed me a lunch every day until the last day of school. And I remember her standing at the counter, tears in her eyes saying,

this is the last lunch I'm ever gonna pack. Yeah. The last day of school and I remember her standing at the counter, tears in her eyes saying, this is the last lunch I'm ever gonna pack. Yeah, so, but maybe a couple times I was like, it's pizza, I wanna get pizza or something. Pizza day and tater tot day. Those are the big ones. My mom was a caterer and you would think that would mean I have great lunches,

but my mom would be at work well before I would get up in the morning, so my dad, who is not a caterer, would give me lunches, and they were the foulest thing. Oh, no. Foulest. I remember very clearly one specific lunch. He was my lunch lady. It was ketchup and bologna on just white bread.

Oh, on bread at least. And I'll tell you what happens. At least there was bread. A lot of ketchup, a lot of ketchup so that it became like a soaked piece of ketchup bread and then just a slab of baloney. And then I will say much, remember, he put some strawberries into a plastic baggie. No, because you know what happens to strawberries

in a plastic baggie is that they get sweaty. They get sweaty and mush. So you've got this fermented strawberry mash and then this, so I did choose the school lunches often. He did his best. By the time I got to eighth or ninth grade, I started noticing all the other kids were either buying sodas or had sodas packed with them,

and I still had a juice box. And I took a really detailed look around and calmly, I'm sure, told my mom, I said, I need to bring a soda from now on. It's time that I can have a soda at lunch every day. Okay, my boy's growing up. My boy is growing up. No more juicy juice.

Well, maybe once in a while some juice juice juice juice. I mean, obviously you want a little juicy juice. Maybe like a Capri Sun every once in a while, you know? Donald Trump was, man, that guy was on TV a lot this week. The president. Again? He was a lot. On TV a lot. So we've got a bunch of different interviews. We've got, well, we'll get to it,

but I want to start with His interview on ABC News with Terry Moran Never heard of him who I hadn't heard of either. He's in his late 60s. He's been there a long time I don't follow the network news that much few choice clips from this. I want to play and the first one is Discussing bringing one is discussing bringing back or potentially bringing back Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who by the way, still in El Salvador. Was he supposed to go to El Salvador?

No, no, he wasn't. He was very specifically not supposed to go anywhere and not supposed to go specifically there. Oh. Okay. Okay. Okay. there. Uh. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. and with all the power of the presidency, you could call up the president of El Salvador and say, send him back right now. And if he were the gentleman that you say he is, I would do that. But the court has ordered you to facilitate that. I'm not the one making this decision. We have lawyers that don't want to do this. But the buck stops in his office. No, no, no, no. I follow the law.

You want me to follow the law. If I were the president that just wanted to do anything, I'd probably keep him right where he is. Okay, lot there. Weak. Wait, so if he wanted to, he could make a phone call to keep him where he is? You'd think his lawyers would tell him not to say that because they're arguing like it's out of our hands. It's up to the president of El Salvador. He's like, well, yeah, sure. I'm the president. I can do whatever I want.

Sure I could, but I can't. But then also I can't. I'm going to throw my lawyers under the bus. I can do whatever I want. Sure I could, but I can't. But then also I can't. I'm gonna throw my lawyers under the bus. My lawyers are telling me to ignore the Supreme Court. Because of the law. Which I'm openly doing, but I could follow, but I wanna follow, you wanna follow the law. If I wanted to, I could leave him there.

Are you not? Which I want to. What are you saying? Which I do want to do. I could, sure, I could call him. Yeah. But yeah, no, he's just admitting it. He is saying the truth of it, which is, yeah, sure, I could, but I'm not going to. And the buck does not stop with me, the president.

No. Oh, there's no buck. There's no buck anywhere. I could do it. I can do almost anything I want, but not... I have lawyers. Why would I want to bring that criminal back? Because they told you to.

They said you have to. And speaking of, they're still saying he's a criminal. This is wild, though. When we have criminals, murderers, criminals in this country, we have to get them out, and we're doing it. And you'll pick out one man, but even the man that you picked out, he said he wasn't a member of a gang. And then they looked, and on his knuckles. He had MS

There's a dispute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. He had MS 13 We had some tattoos that are interpreted that way, but let's move on. Wait a minute. I will territory He did not have the letter M s1 it says MS 1 3 that was Photoshop So let me that was Photoshop Terry. You had Photoshopped. Terry, you can't do that. Hey, they're giving you the big break of a lifetime. You know, you're doing the interview. I picked you because, frankly, I never heard of you, but that's okay. Oh, the big break of a lifetime. Terry, but you're not being very nice.

He had MS-13 tattooed. We'll agree to disagree. I want to move on to something else. Terry, do you want me to show you the picture? I saw the picture. We'll agree to disagree. And you think move on to something else. Do you want me to show you the picture? I saw the picture. Well, here we go. Here we go. Don't Photoshop it. Don't look at his hand. He did have tattoos that can be interpreted that way. I'm not an expert on them. I want to turn to Ukraine. Okay, I'm frustrated. He had MS as clear as you can be, not interpreted. This is why people no longer believe the news because it's fake news. When he was photographed in El Salvador, they aren't there. But let's just go on. They aren't there when he's in El Salvador.

Oh, they weren't there, but they're there now, right? No, but they're there now. They're in your picture. Terry, he's got MS-13 on his knuckles. All right. Okay. We'll take a look. It's such a disservice. We'll take a look at that, sir. Why don't you just say yes he does and you know go on to something else. It's contested. I feel there's a lot of frustrating things about that clip but one of which is I mean honestly when he says do you it up on the screen the photo it is so clearly just photoshopped typed in there we go MS 13 on top of the picture that's what it says yeah that's what he said and that's one three that's the tattoo they're sitting there going back and forth and nobody's looking at the photo to say that is clearly a Photoshop job. If they're real, okay, I mean,

I hate how the interviewer is even like dignifying this. Well, it's contested. Well, we'll take another look. Agree to disagree. Right, right. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You're correct and you know you're correct. Yes.

Look at these. If you were going to get those tattooed in a darker ink that would show up on, like what are we talking about? Wouldn't you have them aligned with your knuckles instead of straight on as if they were typed? So either the president wants you to just ignore what you see, like don't believe your own eyes, or he's got a real problem, because I don't think,

there's very few like non-tech savvy seniors who wouldn't look at this and know that that MS-13 are not actually on his fingers. One would hope. Yeah, it's a mixed bag, I think, honestly, because there's this, he just says whatever, and he says partly what he's told, obviously. Like, he's like, well, yeah, they held up the photo and look at it. It's there. He's one of the few people, I think, that can look at that photo and go like, yeah, it's the tattoo.

Like, he doesn't know what MS Paint is. He's not what Photoshop is. He doesn't like everything's computer to him. Right. So like, he's just doesn't get it. But also he's lying. Even that photo has the tattoos and then the word added underneath, which aren't part of the tattoo. Right. It says like marijuana. Marijuana, smiley, cross,

and skull. And that photo was then taken and Photoshopped over. It's like there's three, like there are several levels of like, well, we took that and we put the words on and that wasn't enough. So we took a screenshot of and we put the words on and that wasn't enough. So we took a screenshot of that and put the letters on. I feel like there's this weird deja vu thing going on with this. I feel like it's,

like we're back in like 2017 talking about like a Photoshop tattoo. How like you look at it like, well, it would curve over the, over the knuckle. Like that's just how like human hands work. But again, in like twenty seventeen, just like if you're a reporter and you're interviewing somebody, have it in front of you, have it ready to go. Have the photo, print out the photo. You know you're going to talk about this one case. So maybe physically have

the image that you're going to be referencing with you. Why would you let him walk over you and say that like, well, it's contested this, this, this. No, just be accurate. This is your one chance. Like he said, chance of a lifetime, you are one chance. You will never talk to him again, ever again. That's true of most people.

Maybe Brett Beyer will like get another, like there are people who are like Brett Beyer will get another, there are people who are like, oh, you get another chance. If you are interviewing Donald Trump, it's the one time. So make it count. And I guess this does a little bit. And don't desperately try to move on when you have got him.

Maybe he was doubting himself, like, oh shit, I don't wanna look stupid. Maybe MS-13 really was on there. No. You know what you saw. You know that the president is lying to your face and he's doing it in service of a violation of a Supreme Court order, right? We've crossed the Rubicon.

We're over there. This is your chance. And you're like, well, agree to disagree on the basic facts in front of your face. It's absurd. And aside from the fact that like, you know, this particular, these particular tattoos aren't like known, known MS-13 tattoos, aside from the fact that on all of his paperwork

whenever he was detained and like determined to be in a gang, none of them referenced tattoos. There's no like, oh yeah, we saw the tattoos. But aside from that, just like do it. It's just very frustrating. Do a better job because also the aftermath of this, you see tons of really stupid accounts and right wing slop, propagandist accounts. I won't even name them because bad and worthless, but they're all being like, Oh, look at this exchange. The report says it wasn't photoshopped. And then he says, I'm not an expert later.

Like how embarrassing for him. Like because of the way he handled it, people are like victory for Trump. When if you watch it, it's clearly, he's clearly just full of it. It's very frustrating. Well, yeah, I mean, I agree with you completely, but this is also again why I'm like,

throw that picture up, put it on screen somehow, show people because they're just sitting there arguing back and forth and then this shit takes root. The reality is Trump was getting angry and angry so he wants to move it so that he can get the most out of this so he doesn't walk out of the room or whatever, have him walk out of the room.

Go for it. Again, it's your one chance. Pushing. I'm looking at this again. It does feel as though they put the MS-13 above to try to stretch it. Like the marijuana plant is the M, the smiley face is the S, but somehow a skull means three. They're trying, like clearly they saw the tattoos and then

someone's like, no this is interpreted as MS-13, let me put it on here as a visual aid so that Trump will get it. And then Trump's like, oh, wow, these were his tattoos. It says MS-13 in there. They're like, uh, yep. Well, whatever. Yeah, I see that. He went with it. Just what a fucking bomb.

Yeah, it's also, and because we talk about this on Monday and then I think at our Patreon Hangout too, and just like this seeming idea that, because he's, you know, when he's talking, he's asked about the Supreme Court case, like, yeah, my lawyers tell me that we won nine nothing. It just seems like Stephen Miller's like, hey, my leash.

He's just whispering these lies to him, and he just believes whatever. He's not actually checked in to so much of what's going on. It's very clear you have this weird shadow Nazi freak just sort of like telling him what he wants to hear, what's easy, yeah, it's the MS-13, here's the tattoos. We won nine zero. It's actually illegal to facilitate the return of this man.

Like it's just say whatever, he'll repeat it. There's been no consequence so far. So all right, before we move on from this ABC News interview, Say whatever he'll be in it. There's been no consequence so far. So Alright before we move on from this ABC News Interview we can watch the the quick fun one about the Declaration of Independence. And of course you have the Declaration of Independence What does it mean to you? Well, it means exactly what it says. It's a declaration. It's a declaration of unity and love and But it says it's a declaration, it's a declaration of unity and love and respect. And it means a lot.

And it's something very special to our country. Okay, okay. His face is like, the fuck you say? The declaration of respect? And love. I mean, between what? Us and the King of England? And love and unity.

I don't know. Yeah, you put him on the spot. He doesn't have a thing ready to go by the Declaration of Independence. He knows what it is, right? He was already the president. We can't do this anymore. It's not like, oh, yeah, first hundred days, Trump.

Yeah, it's a declaration. They just put it up. He's gonna say whatever. He was the president already for four years. He should know what to say when some fucking asshole asks him what the Declaration of Independence means to him. What absurdity. No, he should, but he doesn't give a fuck.

Everything he does shows that he doesn't know or understand our Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, America in general. He's got it. He's never needed to study US history. It's just like, bro, you had a practice run already. You've done this. Just say, just say it's because the declaration

that I'm the king, just say that, who cares? Sorry, Jonathan. It's about our kings are great and it's me. That's what they wrote. They knew I was gonna come along 250 years later. I'm gonna be the president during the big one. There's other stuff in this. There's-

Why did we create an office of president? The interviewer points out that no one has been referred from the department, from Doge to the Department of Justice for fraud, despite them uncovering so much fraud. And Trump's like, how did you know that? How do you know that? Yes, yes, we've referred. Yes, there's lots of fraud that we're gonna do fraud cases and he goes, okay

He says okay bad job, but you know, what else are you gonna do there's he said the thing. All right Yeah, well like no, I guess we don't know we don't know for a fact, right? They don't they don't reveal ongoing investigations, but you'd think they would want to promote all the fraud they found. That would be everywhere. That would be- They're gonna get to it later. They gotta do Fauci, Hunter Biden, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden. Oh yeah. Maybe Harris.

Fauci's coming up. I don't know. The list is probably long. And then you do the Doge fraud that they definitely found and that there's proof of. No one wants that, though. That's like the second season of a TV show that has to, like, relitigate the whole first season instead of moving on. People are done with Fauci.

They don't want to do a big Fauci. I'm sure some people do. Oh, they are not. Oh, check the... RFK wants to prosecute Fauci, certainly. I can't remember when I've shared things on here with everybody or just you guys, but I finished listening to... The clip was online, too, I can't remember when I've shared things on here with everybody or just you guys,

but I finished listening to the clip was online too, but I finished listening to that Pete Buttigieg, Andrew Schultz conversation. It was very frustrating. But there's just this one moment where talking about social security fraud and Buttigieg very calmly breaks it down saying like, well, first off, you know, there are people on Social Security who die. And so it might take maybe a month or two for systems to get caught up.

So maybe a check sent out. But then he explains the thing that we all know by now, which is that the system's out of date. And there's just a glitch in the system and it lists people from the 1800s, but that doesn't mean that people are getting paid. And these clowns are like, oh. Why didn't Elon explain that? And then he goes, one of them goes,

see, I just thought it was a fact. And why? You haven't seen shit, man. Why would you think that's a fact? Here's what I'll say to that and them. Great that you heard the truth and that you accept that that is the truth. Great. Maybe use this as an opportunity

to rethink your media diet and where you get your information. And specifically, maybe rethink the idea of trusting anything Elon Musk says at face value. Maybe the fact that you're like, oh, I thought it was a fact and it's not, when in fact it is a straightforward lie. Maybe that can sort of inform you in the future when Elon Musk once again says a lie after a lie

after a lie after a lie, literally one month ago, exactly one month ago, he said he expects arrests for fraud from Doge's findings tomorrow, April 2nd. I don't think that happened. Why did he say that? Why did he say that? Why, indeed. I guess that podcast proves the point.

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It's just like they go around the table and everyone gives their little report, which is filled with praise for Trump and what a great job he's doing. And I don't know how even MAGA people watch this. It's very uncomfortable. Like you'd think they'd be like, all right, tone it down. I've seen that. I've seen a few people. I saw I mean, it's very similar to the the rightwing influencer White House press sort of like thing that they're doing now where it's just like, praise us for one hour.

Thank you, you're welcome, we're done. Yeah, I get why Trump likes it, but I don't. 100%. Ann Coulter the other day was like, can we stop with these Kim Jong-un cabinet meetings? Like of all people, it is off-putting. It's weird. There has been an amount of supporters,

GOP ghouls that are criticizing this kind of shit. Well, because it came out of nowhere. Why are they suddenly like this? Why is Trump and everyone around him suddenly like weird sycophants and authoritarians? It's so weird. Maybe the thing that we've all been talking about for years is happening. Nah.

Obviously. I don't want to shit on that. I hope so. I hope you're right. I just, I would be shocked. I'll be shocked when it happens. I don't, what I meant, I need to clarify. I don't mean that they're coming around.

I mean, you know, slipping into an authoritarian state. Oh yeah, that is happening. I mean that, like, oh, cry harder libs. Just that kind of energy at us for complaining about, or not complaining, rightly calling out what we see. Anyway, let's watch the fucking thing. Yeah, this is Attorney General Pam Bondi talking about what a great job we've done fentanyl wise, what a great job Trump has done fentanyl wise.

I was at DEA yesterday and they said to me, you, Donald Trump, have taken the handcuffs off of DEA agents. And as a result of since you have been in office, President Trump, your DOJ you have been in office, President Trump, your DOJ agencies have seized more than 22 million fentanyl pills, 3,400 kilos of fentanyl, since you've been here last hundred days, which saved, are you ready for this media, 258 million lives.

Kids are dying every day because they're taking this junk laced with something else they don't know what they're taking They think they're buying a Tylenol or an Adderall and a Xanax and it's laced with fentanyl and they're dropping dead and no longer Because of you what you've done wait I'm sorry what how did you get at these numbers ma'am? I mean, I don't know how she arrived at 258 million, because the day before it was 119, I think. So obviously, right off the bat, that's

three quarters of the country that I don't think would have died of a fentanyl overdose in the last three months, obviously. Can't believe I even have to point that out. However, I've got to go into this a little bit more. Do it, do it. He's gonna Jonathan it. I have to Jonathan this.

Do it, do it. You're also here and you're fired up. If you're listening, you won't see this, but we're gonna put a graph on screen. The number of pills containing fentanyl seized by law enforcement increased greatly from 2017 to 2023. In 2023, when Joe Biden was the president, we seized over 115 million fentanyl pills. So we're not even on pace to break that record. And also, you know, it used to be bad.

They would point out the Republicans that it was bad that seizures of fentanyl had gone up because that meant more people were trying to bring in fentanyl and I know there's no fucking point in doing a gotcha. What are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? No, there's not. But it's so hard. I have to play this clip. This is from 2023. I want you to know that in 2020, there were 4.8 thousand pounds of fentanyl seized by CBP. But in 2021, fiscal year 2021, it increased to 11.2 thousand pounds of fentanyl was seized by the CBP. That is a direct result of Biden administration

failure policies. Now, here we are in to date, to date, fiscal year 2023. They have already seized 12.5 thousand pounds of fentanyl. Question, did she continue this point when this information was released about Donald Trump's administration? Did she make this point when this information was released about Donald Trump's administration? Did she make that same argument? Well, no, you cut off the clip because then she's like, and guess what that means? Media.

And then she looks into the camera and she goes, that means Joe Biden saved 500 million lives. That would have been great to see. I don't even want to pat myself on the back of like, because it took three minutes to look that up, because I was like, wait a minute, didn't that used to be bad? And then also I have to bring this up because I told I did this whole rant to my wife last night.

I'm like, the body, the lies that she's like, what, what do you, what do you say? What words are you saying to me? And then she's like, wait, go over those numbers again. And I was like, uh, uh, 3,400 kilos 22 million pills 258 million lives and she's like so how many different slices would each pill have had to be cut into and I'm like that's a good point that means a good boy has to be cut into 12 different little pieces in order to overdose

258 million people. Are you ready for that, media? No, it's so wild. Maybe they're lying. But no one's gonna think critically about it. Not the people that you would want to. Oh, I just love, I mean, yeah, it's absurd. And that whole entire meeting is full of absurdities

like that. I do, it's very funny when she goes to the camera Hex does this too um They're all very very aware of what their job is which is to only play to the cameras and like we're actually the fox news Administration or not even that they're like what one one news network or whatever one of the one of the worst news max Oh, it was man bondi's basically Truman Burbank at this point she's on camera you can find her on TV at any hour of every day

She doesn't do anything that's her job on TV And then you know when a Trump administration official looks to the camera they're about to say the dumbest made-up Ever heard I'm gonna look into your eyes so you believe what I'm saying. Yeah, it's the Kristi Noem in her little outfits, her little camo outfits, just doing her photo ops. It's just pageantry, which, you know,

a lot of politics is pageantry. It is only that, pageantry and lies. We love their little costumes, don't we, folks? It is a fun tell, though, if they look at the camera, just like, get ready, get ready. That's the rule. But just, it's like, you know. Hegseth's law. If you think even a little bit critically about it,

you're like, well, what is it? Is fentanyl coming from Mexico, or are we not detaining people and getting them out of the country? Which is, like, it just doesn't track. Where did you get all of this fentanyl if people are now not coming here across the border? Or if you guys are doing such an amazing job?

But anywho. And this stuff works. That's fine. Like, when you read, which I stupidly do, all these focus groups with Trump voters or people who are on the fence and voted for Trump. Why would you be dumb enough to do that? Well, it seems like he's doing a lot of stuff. He's signing all these executive orders. I always see him on TV doing stuff.

It seems like he's doing a lot more than Biden, who did stuff and just wasn't on TV all the time bragging about it. But Trump gets it. He's the optics president. It looks like he's doing stuff, even when it's made up nonsense like this cabinet meeting. Yeah, it looks like Joe Biden is hiding because maybe he was a little bit. Yeah. Which more and more makes me like, I don't know, we don't have to get into a whole Buttigieg

conversation, but the more I see how he plays on TV and on podcasts, I'm like, he's good at this, he's just good at it, and he seems to, he doesn't turn people off like AOC, and we could talk about why she does that, like all those things are true. There's a whole, yeah. But like, we might have to throw in our lot with P.D. Oh, I'm getting ready for that.

I would prefer- Nope. to see some shifts from him. No, I mean, I think that if over the next couple years he continues the trajectory he's on, I could totally see myself going. He's communicating very well. Well, we need this. I understand that. We need this.

We need someone who is able to walk into fucking Andrew Schultz's podcast environment and sit down and put up with the nonsense and be a good sport. And then really, cause he's not, he doesn't get triggered. He's really nice. He's, you know, a millennial. He's younger than other people and he's, he's got, he fits into that.

He can go out there and communicate a message and seems to be... Yeah, but I guess here's the thing though. I'm not saying, I'm not hanging my hat on that. No, I know, I know. I'm just pleased that someone is doing it. Yeah, that's a skill. He'd be great at communicating in that way for people.

I would say he's not the only one who can do that. He seems to be one of the few that chooses to. Of course. But like I can easily see AOC being on with Andrew Schultz and her being like, here's the truth about the social security thing. And maybe Andrew Schultz will be a little like sexist about it.

Yeah, he'd be a dick to her in a way that he was for sure. That's also, again, we'll have many, many months to talk about that leading up to over the many years. I've got a lot of thoughts about that and how I don't think we should let people like that bully us into not allowing women to run for president, but. Of course. I know, I know.

I know you're not saying that either. No, not at all. I would love, I'd get her on there and I'm sure she will. I genuinely think that there'll, I'm not sure. But I guess my main point is that like, yes, Pete is very good at that aspect of this and we need more Democrats who are able to do that and aren't like 90 years old

and can talk like a normal fucking person. But I will also say that's not how Trump won. Trump doesn't go on like a media tour of like podcasts and talk normally to people and communicate. He lies, it is weird. But he does sound authoritative about stuff. Yeah, and he goes on. Part of it was, no, it's not like,

oh him on Theo Vaughn is some slam dunk of an interview, but it was a great soundbite that got played around and around and I just saw my head because yeah, make you damn out, homie. Mm hmm. I didn't I didn't see any other clip from it. Maybe it's amazing. Well, yeah, that's like that's a very now is a very humanizing clip. Yeah. And so my point is going out and just being in those spaces and For whatever reason not everyone can do it So I I think it's good that I'm seeing it regardless of whether or not Pete Buttigieg runs He's definitely he's not denying it yeah I I yeah, I just think communication has to be in the top three traits of whoever this is gonna be.

100%. Because the more you read from voters, the more they think, you know, Democrats, and the Democrats, whatever, they're out to see, they don't have a plan, they don't have anything, and effective communication is the first step in, and yes, he's the guy who's doing it right now. Yes.

The other guy who's doing it is Gavin Newsom, but he's doing it on the other side. He's doing a Republican shit. I was gonna say, you have Pete going out and doing it, and then you have Gavin doing kind of the opposite in his space, and then you have Bernie and AOC sort of doing their tour, and that's it. Which is hugely valuable, and I'm glad they're doing it.

But a different kind of thing, yeah. But again, yeah, Bernie goes, yeah, whatever. Well, once AOC's done with this tour, I'm curious to see if maybe she starts doing more of these appearances. Anyway, what else we got? So also in that cabinet meeting, Trump was asked, we're talking about the economy.

Some bad economic numbers came out. GDP shrunk in the first quarter, usually not a good sign. Consumer sentiment is down. That's good now. Trump came out saying, of course, that's all Biden's fault. And Q2's does gonna be Biden's fault as well. And Peter Navarro was on TV, we're not even gonna play this clip, but Peter Navarro's

like, listen, if you take out all the tariffs and the stuff we've done, there was positive growth. Okay, but that's not what this question is about. A reporter asks him if he is going to get on the phone with President Xi to talk about trade deals. That's all this is. I told you before they're having tremendous difficulty because their factories are not doing business. They made a trillion dollars with Biden, a trillion dollars, even a trillion one with Biden selling this stuff. Much of it we don't need. You know, somebody said, oh, the shelves are

going to be open. Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, you know? And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally. But we're not talking about something that we have to go out of our way. They have ships that are loaded up with stuff,

much of which, not all of it, but much of which we don't need. Says the man who lives in a golden condo. You know, you just need to get rid of your earthly possessions. You don't need 30 dolls. You need two dolls. Trump the enlightened. I do think it's funny.

It's like, you don't need to buy them 30 dolls. They can live with three dolls. That's how you raise your kids. I mean, yeah, that's Lucille. Just buy them 30 of something. That's Lucille Booth stuff, yeah. Yeah, what kind of banana car? Instead of five cars, have one car, right?

And your car will cost a few thousand dollars extra or whatever. Have Christmas in your mind this year. Why do you need to buy things that you don't need? Christmas is about family. I know that about two months ago, I bought a $70,000 car on the White House lawn and told you all to buy a $70,000 car too.

Did that work? But, you know, it did not work, incidentally. Um... Uh, inconsistency with the messaging a little bit. Speaking of communication, god. This is a flailing messaging, and now, of course, he's admitting, like, well, the prices are gonna go up on stuff

And it's interesting he mentioned toys because 80% of the toys we have in America come from China Books to almost every book and kids books is from China. Cash Patel's kids book is from China Cash Patel has a kids book doesn't he or no, it's, it's a book for adults, but it's for kids. It's the Trump is King book, right? And like I saved the world. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I think there's also a story in Rolling Stone out today about how Trump administration officials and Republican officials have been hoarding toilet paper and other home goods

preparing for, you know for the prices to go up and for shelves to be open, as Trump says, because he doesn't know what's on a shelf in a store, he doesn't know that they're empty shelves, shelves will be open. I said, who cares? Okay, well, I wanna talk about some other non-clip related news,

but I do want us to show one more clip. Oh! That is fun. Is it good? Fun. No context for this one. Fun. But if you're listening, Elon Musk is wearing two hats. Two hats. I bet that looks funny.

Elon, I love the double hat, but he's the only one that can do that. He's the only one to wear with it. Well, Mr. President, now they say I wear a lot of hats. That's true. Even my hat has a hat. This is so funny. What a funny joke. And this isn't even the worst of it.

He's done way worse jokes. But this is the biggest laugh he's maybe ever gotten in his life. Best moment of his life. It is... Because they let that sink in thing. And obviously the very funny Nazi salute he did twice. Because like, normally, you know, like the let that sink in thing and like, obviously the very funny Nazi salute he did twice. He usually, like there's a version of this joke that is more Elon coded, which is like,

he's like, Elon, you're wearing two hats. Like yeah, it's like a no cap, but like not. It's like the opposite. It's like the opposite of no cap. Are you punching up the lawns material? It's like well? No, I'm actually making it worse because it's like that's a joke where it's like oh, yeah He doesn't kind of understand like this phrase He's trying to like sound younger than he is and he gets it wrong and he kind of stumbles through it good job

You said it you said the right thing you said I wear many hats But I will also say just as a person who he seems, he seems desperate to be funny, obviously, that he'd practiced that the night before and he was like rearing to go. Um, he's like, even my hat wears a hat in the comedy world, Elon, there's a phrase that we use sometimes about jokes. And the phrase is, it's kind of like putting a hat on a hat, which means that you're going too far with the joke and there's actually not very good and you should actually not very good.

You should maybe tone it down. There's a pure joke there. And you're putting a hat on the hat and making it worse. I'm gonna just point out one more thing. He doesn't wear a lot of hats. He wears one hat. He's the CEO of a bunch of companies. And then he runs Doge, which is the same job.

And he runs them poorly and annoys all of his employees. It's a single hat. It's one hat, you're right. He doesn't, he's not like a jack of all trades. He edits and he puts the, all right, fuck him. I hate it. Hate him, hate it.

Wish we didn't have to talk about him at all, ever. So we've had a couple of judge rulings when it comes to deportations. So a federal judge in California told the US Border Patrol to stop doing illegal stops and warrantless arrests in the Central Valley of California because they've been detaining and arresting farm workers and laborers indiscriminately because they've roped in US citizens in this as well and people who are immigrants but have legal documentation, etc. And so the judge said, you can't do that. And the

LA Times even wrote in its headline, a federal judge ordered the US border patrol to halt illegal stops. It's illegal. stop doing it. This is interesting. But what if I wanted to? So then online, you know, people are, of course, the predictable cesspool debate online about this and the attack on judges. They shouldn't have broken the law. There is some rule, I can't find this in front of me, I don't know the exact distance of border patrol being allowed to, you know, make arrests without a warrant within

a certain distance from the border. This is presumably because maybe they've illegally crossed and you've been able to spot them or track them from the border. I believe it's like a hundred miles. It's a hundred miles. Seven to five miles. There's the border zone. Yeah. It's absurd. This, what you're talking about, this, this border zone. I think about two thirds of American citizens actually live within that zone

because it is a hundred miles from the border, from the coast. The entire state of Florida is impacted by that because every part of Florida is within a hundred miles. Like there are entire states that are impacted by that. Does the coast count as the border? I believe so. Yeah.

Interesting. So up and down, yeah. The East Coast, West Coast. So just to really put a highlight on that, our entire states where they don't need a warrant to search a zipline thing. Which is wild. Which is wild.

Well, because Florida, right, almost everywhere is within 100 miles of the water. The entire state of Florida is within 100 miles. I think Maine, probably too. There might be a pocket in the middle. Maybe Stephen King can write a book about the pocket right in the middle of the city. Yeah, the pocket.

The pocket in the middle of the water. The free zone. But two out of three people. Yeah. And that's, you know, Border Patrol had said. That's as many people were saved by fentanyl, from fentanyl by the administration, so.

They said that they had only been stopping people with known criminal records, but a CalMatters investigation found that they had no prior knowledge of criminal or immigration history for 77 of the 78 people that were arrested in Kern County. 77 of the 70s. That's, um, none is good.

Yeah. But like... Effectively zero. That's, um, that's wild. You'd hope those would be reversed. Yeah. One would be bad, but like, at least, only one, but like, God. No, but they're a criminal for even being here.

Shout out to this judge. I think Judge Jennifer Thurston. Do we say her name? Judge Jennifer Thurston. It's a scary time. I mean, this is an important, feels like it should go without saying ruling, but it is a scary time to be a judge

who is making headlines like this. Yeah, clearly judges that are interpreting the law are being attacked by people who don't want to follow the law. There was also a Trump appointed judge in Texas who said the president can't use the Alien Enemies Act to send migrants to El Salvador. It only applies to the Southern District of Texas. But of course, the judge is like, well, the Alien Enemies Act is for use in wartime

and we are not at war with Venezuela nor does some Venezuelan migrants, even if they are gang members, that doesn't constitute an invasion from Venezuela. That's not war stuff. We're gonna, the Supreme Court's gonna weigh in on the whole AEA thing as a whole. I guess not that it matters because they're like bring

those going to say like this is all like say that's great ruling. I'm glad that judge is doing that. That's great. OK, now we know what the law is, but they don't care. Yeah, I mean, we're still just they're going to keep not caring. You got to go through the formalities of law stuff because we want to maintain the rule of law. We have to go through the rule of law. Yeah, I know. Yeah, we have to go through the process to prove that they don't care and they're going to keep not caring.

Well, because he's ignoring it, but then saying, well, we're following the law and the lawyers are telling me to follow the law, which is this. And if I did the other thing, it would be against the law. And I guess John Roberts could be like, no, let me clarify and put this in clearer language than the clear language, but whatever. Mike Waltz, National Security Advisor is out. He's being made ambassador to the United Nations and Marco Rubio will be interim National Security Advisor.

Thank you for your attention to this matter, which is what Trump puts at the end of every truth social post announcing something. I mean, when we were prepping for today's show, we're like, well, Mike Waltz is out. So weird, because the scandal's kind of blown over. But now Mike Waltz is out, and then we woke up to, oh, he's just being moved. And now Marco Rubio has two jobs? Two jobs to do poorly.

See, now that is somebody who wears many hats. Marco Rubio is a- It's a real comer. That's the appropriate use of the phrase. Yeah, Secretary of State, Interim National Security Advisor, a total piece of shit, little bitty toady to Trump, guy who used to not like Trump openly. You know, many hats, we're many things.

Exactly. Congratulations, Marco Rubio. Congratulations Marco. And Mohsen Madhawi was released from immigration custody on Wednesday. This is great, a federal judge said that his actions were protected by the first amendment. There's still a deportation case against him.

They still want to deport him, but the judge said he should not be jailed one more minute over this. And he seems reasonable. He left and he said, I'm saying it clear and loud to President Trump and his cabinet. I am not afraid of you, which is a good thing for people to say. Yes. Love it. I'm not going to, but. But they're not afraid of you.

This is a good, happier note to wrap up this show on. But they're not afraid of you. This is a good, happier note to wrap up this show on. I mean, honestly, thank fucking God. There is a lot more to go for him on this journey and there are a lot of people that also need to be released. But we'll take this as a start. I really am thrilled, obviously. It's a good sign. be released, but we'll take this as a start. I really am thrilled, obviously. It's a good sign. It's a good sign.

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