Some More News - Even More News: Trump Slush Fund, Threats To Cuba, Ebola Outbreak, And Spiders

Episode Date: May 19, 2026

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Hi there. Today we are talking about our president's overt corruption, the U.S. threats to attack Cuba, and the Ebola outbreak. Plus, are spiders good or bad? Find out now. Welcome back to even more news. Woof. I'm Katie Stoll, and I'm doing fine. Woof. Yeah. Hey, I'm Cody. welcome back to all of it you're welcome thank you Katie

I feel welcomed and I feel so very back also Jonathan is also here hi first and only high yeah got it in there finally a high weekends good bad how do we feel about him

generally yeah oh seems like we're living life to the fullest y'all news things happened this weekend Shall we talk about the corruption? All of it. Let's start with their corruption.

Why not? Let's start with the corruption. We got the corruption. We got all the more worse stuff we've talked about for a long time as being an inevitable thing. And we'll get to that. Who's corrupt? We were going to lead off with a story about Trump being corrupt doing insider trading. And we'll get to that.

But now we're going to pivot to the breaking news this morning. The Department of Justice has agreed to a settlement. with the Trump organization and Trump and his sons, where they're going to drop their $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS in exchange for the creation of a $1.776 billion fund to settle claims by people who felt they were the victims of lawfare from the Biden administration. So, for example, if a January 6 guy by the name of,

Jake Lang, who this weekend went to a Washington Nationals game and unveiled a banner that said white replacement.org save America, deport a hundred plus million. If he feels like he was the victim of lawfare because of the January 6ing, he can get a piece of that 1.776 billion. And I bet he will try. And you mentioned January 6th a few times. That's like some date. Like that's what like something happened. Like, I vaguely remember that. Yeah, it's kind of like, you know how people say 9-11 when they're referring to the September 11th attacks.

Right, right, right, right. May the fourth be with you. I forgot about that, but now I remember. Yeah, January 6th was that, it was that time that, like, a bunch of people who thought the election, the 2020 election had been stolen for whatever reason, they tried to like overthrow the United States government. Faultly due to support from the president of the time to overturn democracy. Okay. They wanted to hang the VP for an interesting reason

because they thought he could use his ceremonial position to certify the election results to, like, throw them into chaos. Anyway, that happened. At least it's not going to him personally. No. Well, he was also the victim. I know. I know.

That was the next part of my thought was, who do you think is going to avail themselves with those funds, if not Donald Trump and Jake Ling? The biggest victim in the world, Donald Trump? The biggest victim in the world. Yeah, it's pretty. absurd and really blatant what's going on. What the most corrupt president in history he is.

I also just need to, some of the news, they're not doing a great job about reporting about this. The art? Huh. Every article's just like, and he's dropping the case, and then like five paragraphs down, like, and by the way, there's this thing that Democrats are calling a slush fund, and it's just like, God.

Sorry, I'm just seeing the number written. out 1.776 billion to 1776. Oh, yes. That was the implication. I'm just seeing it there written before me. I'm like, oh, this is so crimson. It's a number that does have some level of meaning. We can

go through all the numbers that have meaning for Americans symbolically. 1-6, 9-11, 1776. 7-8-9. Fuck you, 7. Why do you 8-9? Because 6-8-7. Why was 60s, seven? Oh, my gosh.

They're a huge meal. Regardless, this happened. Well, it's very obviously, like blatant corruption. All of the people who he already pardoned, who already got, like, their full pardons, they're out of jail, they get to go to baseball games and unfurl white nationalist flags. A lot of them are free to get re-arrested

when they do more crimes as what keeps happening. And get banned. Like, that guy is now banned from the Washington Nationals Park, and I don't think Trump can do anything about that. So he's persecuted. is what you're saying. Well, maybe there will be a fund there from the baseball team.

There should be. Mm-hmm. So they did that, and now they're doing the, they're calling it the anti-weaponization fund while he still weaponizes stuff all over the place. And they're bad at this

because they announced it on a Monday morning. You would think this is a Friday 7 p.m. type of deal. They don't need it to be because, again, all the headlines are saying It's like, well, I'm like, he dropped it. Oh, he's saving so much money for you by not having, like. By not stealing money from you.

But except he is. It's just like being, I've seen articles even like, yeah, by dropping this, he's avoiding, like, the risk of impeachment and stuff. It's like, he's just wants the fucking slush fund. I do think, like, to avoid this, like, huge chunks of money going to some of the worst offenders, I do think anyone, like, if you were in. the military and you're like, oh, they made me get a vaccine or whatever. Like, I think legitimately everyone should just file a claim

as if it's like, you, did you buy Chapo-Lay between 2013 and 2022? You might be, oh, yeah, that's me. So everyone should just do this and get 33 cents from it. I don't know if that's illegal, so don't actually do that. I don't know if it's illegal either, but you should do it. Cody saying do it, I'm saying don't do it.

There's two options. And I'm going to say, follow your heart. So clear directives from all of us here at the SMN team. I want to sue the government for emotional distress over the last 10 fucking years. How about that? We should do that. Seriously, is there any, like the existential terror, the loss of income tariffs, all the shit, all the fucking shit. Let's all just do a class action lawsuit.

That would make them rage so much, like the next president, the next Democrat. president says we're going to create an emotional satisfaction fund if you were emotionally scarred by the last 10 years and you just have to send in a photo of yourself doing one of the like oh crying memes or whatever show your soy latte or whatever and then you get a soy fund we should do that i am joking but i'm not so figure that out all politics now is just thinking of what's going to make the other side rage and then doing that i guess yeah Yeah, and how you can get rich in the process. Should we talk about the insider trading?

Oh, yes. Speaking of getting rich in the process. Pelosi and her insider trading, right? We're talking about Shirley, Nancy Pelosi. At this point, it's like, I'm shocked that Trump is still filing financial disclosure forms. Like, why not just not file it? No one cares. He personally, like, so whoever's managing his money, has made over 3,700 stock trades

since he took office again. And some of them are real egregious. Popular info went through them. Here's a few of them. February 10th, Trump bought between $1 million and $5 million of Dell stock. A week later, he told an audience to go out and buy a Dell computer, saying the company makes phenomenal products. And since February 2026, the stock has more than doubled.

It was like 115 and now it's 238. per share. So he's made millions of dollars just from that one trade. Go buy a Dell computer. There's more. He purchased between 50,000 and 100,000 shares of Micron stock, whatever that is. And then he called into Fox News and he's like, I met with Micron CEO. They're one of the hottest companies. It's not legal, right? This is not legal. I don't mean to I don't. You should do. laugh. Laugh. Laugh it out. There's nothing else to do, Cody. You should buy a Dell computer, folks. He's the president.

That's so fucking that's, oh, that is something else. We screamed about the emoluments clause. Oh, my God. The first episode of this show when it was called some news was about the emoluments cloth. That's real sweet summer child type stuff. Oh my God, I know. He's violating the hatch act by Pete Hed. Seth is campaigning for a Kentucky candidate?

Oh, that's a blatant violation, sir. How dare you, good, sir? Just like, the entire country, just like collapsing under the weight of Donald Trump's massive wealth, just like the ground starts to crack and all these signs like, they made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm. Sorry, we're all dead. Oh, God. Some of it is stuff where, like, he was specifically promoting it or Trump was going to visit

place. And then others seem like he just literally had insider information. He bought a bunch of Nvidia stock a week before meta and Nvidia made this like massive deal to use their AI chips in a data center. Probably right after Nvidia came to the fucking White House for dinner or something, you know? In the last few months, Nvidia stock is up like 20%. I'd like to point out noticeably missing from this list, Tesla? Yeah It would be so easy for him to do And like what a good deal for both of them

But he's like, I'm not gonna I already own two of the stupid cars One of them's got me right after I got shot on it on the side Where are those cars? Like they're just in some storage I assume they've been melted down And painted gold or something They're at some property. There's the one that the streamer gave him

Adon Ross Yeah, Aidan Ross with the With the decal of him doing the fight, fight, fight. But then there's the two that he bought outside the White House when they did that Tesla commercial. Does the White House have a garage? He's got to have a garage. They got to have a Jay Leno thing. They got to build that out.

That's underneath. That's part of the reason why they needed to build this ballroom for all of his Tesla. Well, it's ballroom, whatever security thing they have, and then underneath is the Teslas. Over the weekend, out to dinner, and there was another table loudly talking about. about Grock Plus and how that's a good, this guy's all in, just loudly talking politics praising Elon and Grock Plus is the way to go and then outside where was his Tesla.

I mean, follow up on that, we're seeing a lot of, we don't need to show them necessarily, people have probably seen them, a lot of commencement speeches seem to be happening where people bring up AI and the crowd overwhelmingly booze them and the concept of AI. and some people are shocked by it

and some people think it's funny the people think it's funny or correct just don't create a technology and have the pitch be we're going to take over the world and we're going to ruin your life yeah the conservative pitch from AI to these students is

the world used to be so great everything was so perfect we don't really have a plan to go back to that other than racism and by the way you're not going to be able to work or have a job in the future. Great pitch for the youth of America. But we'll all be so rich we don't need retirement accounts, according to Elon. It will be so rich because of the AI that's going to take your jobs because it's going to create stuff

that people who lost their jobs will buy. And then we're going to have everyone will have two golden robots each. And you're going to pay for them with the universal high income that happens due to the two golden robots that everybody has to buy in order for it to happen. So, oh no. Yeah, it's really stupid and circular and he is, they're all full of shit. And kudos to all the young people who are booing this stuff at these events, more of that. The Mars salt mines are going to have to unionize to get decent pay when you're working on Elon's Mars salt mines. Well, you need to work about 20 years and get the right number of chip coins so you can pay for the robot that you're actually, building with your bloody bloody hands.

It's the first 30 minutes of Alien Romulus is the future that Elon envisions, which I guess is preferable to what happens to everyone afterward, but... Do you want Blade Runner or do you want Alien? Because both are amazing. Blade Runner that we have the cool vision,

you can have like advertisements that are just holograms, or you can do the weird floating thing where you're floating around the aliens in the floating scene. You go around the acid in this. You guys.

Yes. It takes place between alien and aliens. It references all my favorite movies. It references movies that chronologically took place afterwards. I remember movies too, and this one makes me remember the movies that I love. It's got Johnny Alien in it, and of course, the main character of the second film. Johnny Aliens. Ellen Alien.

Did you guys see the various clips of him in China being so fucking high? Yeah, I mean, he was doing something. Ooh. He looked like the beginning of Peter Gabriel Sledgehammer video. Elon's like, show me around your fruit cage. That is 100%. Oh, fun. My favorite artist, Peter Sledgehammer.

They used to make music videos like that, but they don't anymore. Okay, what other news shall we talk about? Thanks to GROC. Yeah, there's other news. Yeah, so anyway, the president's being all corrupt, the end. Yeah, and every, you know, every day they're like, we're getting rid of the fraud, but also we're pardoning all these fraudsters, but we know that. That's how it goes.

They are trying, I don't know why, because things aren't going so well militarily for them otherwise, but they are really trying to set the stage for a Cuba attack or invasion. They want us to know that these people who are now out of, fuel who are in a desperate humanitarian crisis because of us, because we've sanctioned them, and we're going to tariff anyone that gives them oil. So they don't have power. They're in desperate need right now. But they're also a huge threat because Axios reported that Cuba has acquired more than 300 military drones and has recently begun discussing plans to use them to attack Guantanamo Bay. So we really, we really,

got to be ready. Then you read further into the articles and you realize that that's not exactly it. They're trying to prepare in the contingency of them being attacked, having some sort of protection. It seems there's no immediate, but they're going to spin this.

The move is that you're a very aggressive bully of a country run by a fucking idiot. And you do your saber rattling and then a nation is like, well, we need to defend her. from these maniacs, and then you use that as a justification to attack them and go in and all the things. They're just manufacturing.

And you don't have some of the advantages that Iran has in that you can't shut down a major maritime thoroughfare for commerce, so you have to come up with something else you can do to avoid the United States just taking over your country. Yeah, it's a, they have drones. We do. Does that mean that, like, a bunch of countries need to, like, attack us? What are you talking about? Again, are other countries not allowed to have even a fraction of self-defense? This Axios article is clearly, like, a leak from the Defense Department to create a pretext which they mention in their Why It Matters section. They say, the intelligence, which could become a pretext for U.S. military action, shows the degree to which the Trump administration sees Cuba as a threat.

Like they're saying they leaked this to us. We're using it to kind of create a pretext for the next war because we don't care that no one likes us anymore. Some suggest we're definitely manufacturing consent. I mean, I know that this was in the works for a while and this has always been the pet project of one Marco Rubio, et cetera. Check out our episode about this from last week. That said, also convenient.

timing when things are going so very poorly in Iran um we're no movement and they just got to they got to go beat somebody up yeah they got to make themselves feel better but also i know that this has been in the works it's just it's things can be many things well it seems like they wanted also you know they want i mean this was in the works and has been in the works and they've been wanting to do this he literally said what so many times we're going to take them or we're going to save them whichever one i feel like and that probably looks the exact same for both. But it seems like, yeah, the timeline is messed up because they thought that this Iran situation,

combat situation, would be over by now, or they would have a stronger position. And they're like, well, we still want to do the Cuba stuff. So we've got to leak this information. Trump, as usual, with his war stuff, is the most honest one about this. He's like, well, Cuba's next. And he's long been saying that Cuba's next.

But we have to wait until one's done to open up another. You're not supposed to do two at once. And he'll just babble this out there. All the time. He says it all the time. If he is able to end what's going on in Iran, which it seems like he's going to escalate there first. So, you know, he'll have to put Cuba aside. He's going to have to, I guess.

What else is he going to do? I don't know. I mean, he keeps saying, we keep the threatening. I'm getting my patience is wearing thin. I'm not directly quoting, but you know the vibe. He goes, yeah. They're encouraging him to do it. There have been reports like Trump is now getting, warming up to the idea of bombing Iran again.

This morning, Fox host Brian Kilmead advocates for American troops to seize uranium from Iran. He says, the best chance for no casualties is you open up four different fronts immediately simultaneously. So now Brian Kilmead is just giving like military strategy advice to the president through the television. because it's executive time all morning. They did this first term too. Trump was talking about how I was like, yeah, maybe we'll go and get the uranium for like PR reasons. It would look good and help us if we went in and took it.

He literally says it. Otherwise the fake news, because the fake news, oh, destroy me or whatever. I said it. But you're just saying it's PR reasons. What? Someone needs to create a fake news network. like a literal fake news network that is presented to Trump

as a bunch of libs like these are the blue libs news network and fill it with hosts that appear to be coming around to Trump and say well you got to admit it he did this thing let's do it. Let's do it.

Yeah, it'll cost a lot of money to do so what we should do is Google what company Trump is visiting in a few days and put all the money into that stock right now. This is not financial advice. I'll do the financial advice.

I think you could do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think you should do it. Okay, okay, Cody's saying it's financial advice. I'm saying it's not. But you could Google, oh, he's going to chick-fil-A on Friday. There you go. That's, you know.

We should talk about this offer of aid that the State Department issued. The United States continues to seek meaningful reform. They basically are offering aid if they, dramatically changed their regime and their system. Yeah, get rid of communism. It's like soft bullying into regime change is what they're floating. Yeah. Put you in a position where you're so desperate where nobody has access to fuel where you're cooking your meals in the street. It's devastating what we're doing to them and we're going to indict 94-year-old Raul Castro for shooting down planes that might have been from a humanitarian group or

might have been the CIA three decades ago. The way we're throwing so much stuff at Cuba now, I think is indicative of Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, having nothing to do with what's going on in Iran, the thing they started. And so he's like, well, what am I going to do all day? The thing I want to do. Oh, the thing I've been wanting to do for so long? Let's do that. Yeah. But now it feels very haphazard. Like we're throwing all of this horrible stuff, plus leaking news about it, about Cuba, when the guy should be focused on ending the conflict in Iran

and opening the straight and all that stuff that everyone else in his orbit appears like Trump, Heggseth, they talk about Iran so much and then Rubio's just like out there in the doorway. Well, that's like the job of like the Secretary of State. What's a senator from Florida going to do?

Well, he's both the Secretary of State and the National Security Advisor. Marco Rubio is a Secretary of State? Yeah, little Marco. He's got to go out and start doing his job. They just made him both and never refilled the national security. I just, we just never spend enough to, what's there to say, but it's just wild. What do you mean he's got two of two huge jobs?

I think Kissinger had both of those, which is not a great comparison, but, uh. You're right, not a great comparison, but fair. But it's Marco Rubio too, but also is it. Okay, fair. The humanitarian crisis is awful enough and the primary problem is not how it will affect Americans. However, people have said that if Cuba collapses, the humanitarian crisis is coming here because people will flee. Florida is 90 miles from Cuba. That's what has happened.

Yeah. It is a terrible argument as to why we shouldn't be doing this, but also a valid and true point. like this isn't going to play well for you sir when you cause a humanitarian crisis that we are absorbing yeah people aren't able to rise up and create a democratic system of government on the fly if they don't have bread like or gas this is simple also it's not our country just being pulled into leave them alone yeah I know of course

I know we're all in agreement we could have left them alone for the last 65 years Right. He just wants it. He wants it. He wants to have the island of Cuba, right? He's going to take it. We'll just take it. I can do with it whatever I want.

I have an article, too, that says I can do whatever I want. Like, he wants Greenland, but that's not a deal that's going to happen, so he needs to go take places. Cuba's smaller. You can just pick it up in your hand and cradle it, yeah. It's smaller. It's easier. It's right there. And then, once you establish it, like, actually, we do take stuff.

We are this expansionist failing empire. and we're going to start taking stuff, then you can start taking places like Greenland, but you need to sort of establish that you're takers. And it's another island out there in the Caribbean, so I can shoot hoops with paper towels at them the same as anyone. He doesn't know the different, you know, bad person, bad people, doing awful things,

trying to make the world worse for everybody. But Cuba has 300 drones. No, it's so ridiculous. I know. I just am like, what are we talking about here? And then online, of course, Of course, it's bots, it's whomever, or it's just fucking the worst of the worst actual human beings. Tweet and shit like, well, okay, so instead of buying fuel and food and medicine for your citizens, you bought drones, okay. Fuel from who?

Right. What are you talking about? I know, I know. It's mostly fake. I mean, they just announced, like, we're going to limit the number of tweets that you can do. so it's just going to make more accounts, like more anonymous bought accounts so they can get their quota up,

whatever. Before we wrap things up today, should we talk about pandemics? Well, the good news is they're not pandemics. I know. I feel silly saying it because they're very bad, but the Ebola outbreak

has been listed by the World Health Organization, which we're not a part of anymore, as a global health emergency. These are in Uganda and the DRC. This is a strain that seems to have not been caught very early. It's already killed, I think, 80 people. You know, the last huge Ebola outbreak was 2014. That's the one that kind of spread internationally a little bit

and for which Trump said that Obama should resign because a single case someone was allowed to fly. In Ebola is a hemorrhagic fever. It is awful, awful, awful. It's similar to Hanta virus in that it has a high death rate, but does not transfer as easily because it's through vomit and blood and saliva and things like that. And unfortunately, US AID had a outbreak response division, which would be helping with stuff like this if Doge had not gutted it.

And we're not part of the World Health Organization, so all the public health experts we have, the whole international global health emergency thing, when it's global, you want to all collaborate and share information and track the spread of things. And we cannot do that anymore because we're dicks. We don't want to spend money on that. Blah, blah, blah, blah.

People are histrionic about COVID, and we're not going to protect other countries. It's just so short-sighted to not realize the nature of viruses and how it is not limited. to one region. It can expand. It can travel. It can cause a global emergency that affects everybody. And also just, you know, we don't want viruses to kill people. We've been doged. And also, this is not really specific to Ebola, since that's a known thing, it's been around. But as climate change progresses, animals will be looking for new habitats and are likely to come into contact with humans more than

they used to, and it just makes zoonotic spillovers more likely. Zoonotic spillovers happen all the time. Most, you know, they either are viruses that don't impact humans or they only affect one and they peter out. But every once in a while, you get a COVID, which almost certainly happened because of a zoonotic spillover, don't yell at me. It just makes pandemics more likely. And the shifting of the weather and like all kinds of things that can affect illnesses

and viruses and spreading of things. There's spiders in my house, and I believe... That's why. It also has to do with all of that. Yeah. Like a black widow. When it's hot. I really wish the spiders

kill the bugs thing wasn't true. I wish we didn't need spiders. I don't particularly like them. And I kind of live in a spider house too. You do? My house hasn't been a spider house till this year. Yeah. I used to live in an ant house.

So now it's fine, you know, mix it up. Different kind of creatures. Do you prefer ants to spiders? Ants are like once a year just happens like in August. Yeah. And then it's annoying. You really got to like spray. You got to clear it all out.

Spiders are just, they can pop up anywhere at any time. In your bed. And there's a thousand varieties. Every time you see a new one, you're like, what the? It's over there. It's over there. It's on your ceiling. You're looking at them.

Yeah. Now I'm looking everywhere. Now I'm looking everywhere. Spiders don't like to be caught or seen. They know. our habits, the spiders that live in your house avoid, don't want to see you. And if you, did I say this on the show?

Did I say it in a meeting? I don't remember. I said it to you recently. And I'm going to say it now. Do it. I'm not going to fact check myself because I think it's true. When you see a spider in your living room, if you come home in the middle of the day, you're sick, and then you're sitting on the couch and you see a spider,

it's because that spider has learned your habits and it's not used to you being there at that time of day. They're going to do that. their best to avoid you. Or it just wandered in. Fact chat. Fact chat me or not. I don't care. I'm not going to do it, but I have heard it. Oh, God. Oh, no. I don't know.

Jonathan bit off his own hands. I don't know. I got this from somewhere. Katie, you have to stop saying things like this. Look what you've done. No, I don't know. That seems, I don't know if it. It seems reasonable. It's possible. Anyway, so next time you just surprise them, catch them on a wares and then you'll find it.

Spider. we're looking around. Is that it for us today, folks? I think it needs to be because, yeah, otherwise we end on the terrible topic. And Spider-Man. Spider-Man is Jonathan. Mm-hmm.

Is there a worse topic? What's going on? No, no, no, no. We're going to wrap it up. We're going to wrap it up. But thanks to everybody for spending this half-hour plus with us. I was looking to see how long we're reporting for. Half-hour plus.

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