The Adam Mockler Show - Press Sec Shaken over DELETED TRUMP VIDEO

Episode Date: October 2, 2025

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Let me lay out what just happened. Vice President J.D. Vance and Trump's press secretary Caroline Levitt just spent their first press briefing since the government shut down having to defend Donald Trump's AI videos, multiple AI videos, not only racist ones of Akeem Jeffries, but also conspiratorial ones of med beds, fake medical beds that don't exist. Donald Trump posted this, then deleted it, and Caroline Levitt honestly was stuttering a bit trying to defend this. And just to zoom out, we are 12 hours into the government shutdown. Donald Trump is going to try to distract from a few key issues, but we will always center the

conversation around the health care that the American people deserve, around the government shutdown that at the end of the day, Republicans own, they have both chambers of Congress and the presidency. There's even a video of Trump in 2011 saying that the president owns a shutdown. It's his job to bring people together. And he's right. If there is a shutdown, I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States. He's the one that has to get people together. He's the one that's supposed to be the chief negotiator, the chief dealmaker, as they say. And Donald Trump and Republicans bragged about having a mandate from the American people where they got both chambers of Congress.

Yet now they can't get their shit together and just give the American people some sort of health care or make a deal with the Democrats. Now, J.D. Vance came on stage and immediately had to defend the AI video of a sombrero that Donald Trump posted multiple times. He thinks he's trolling, but tens of millions of Americans are going to suffer because of this. And J.D. Vance doesn't seem to realize how bad faith this makes him and Trump seem. Democrats have approached this in good faith with substantive solutions, in real concerns for the American people, yet they are doubling down and not approaching them. and good faith. Take a look. Okay, go ahead and ask the second question.

So the president's been posting some images of Leader Jeffries and Sanders Schumer. I saw. You've said that you're interested in good faith negotiations with these leaders, but, you know, what message does that send? Is it helpful to post pictures of Leader Jeffries in a sombrero if you're trying to have good faith talks with him? Oh, I think it's funny. The president's joking, and we're having a good time.

You can negotiate in good faith while also poking a little bit of fun at some of the absurdities of the Democrats' positions and even, you know, poking some fun at the absurdity of the Democrats themselves. I mean, I'll tell Hakeem Jeffries right now, I make this solemn promise to you that if you help us reopen the government, the sombrero memes will stop. And I've talked to the president of the United States about that. A room half full of MAGA influencers, just laughing in anything J.D. Van says, they are not negotiating in good faith. In fact, they were okay with the government shutting down. They're okay with hurting American people because they can consolidate more power. Now, this is where it gets

even more wonky. A few days ago, Donald Trump posted, then deleted this video, an entirely AI-generated video of himself and his daughter-in-law reporting on Fox News that there was a new technology called medbeds. The claim is that these med beds can fix any sort of health condition, anything. You get in them, and then you're fixed. And it's actually sort of a grim conspiracy because it's apparently convinced a lot of desperate people who have health conditions, who have family members of health conditions, that there is some sort of solution that can solve anything when there is not. So when the president of the United States posted it, then deleted it, it's quite worrisome. He's very clearly losing his mind. And then

Caroline Levitt was asked about this. Just remember, the government shut down and we are being asked about AI videos being posted by the president, not backdoor negotiations, but AI videos. Take a listen to this class. I want to ask about this video that the president posted the other day. It was an AI deep fake of himself talking about something called med beds. What was he trying to communicate to the public there and why did he delete it? I think the president. I just like how these questions are framed still. What was the president trying to communicate to the public when he made his 90th schizophrenic post of the day and accidentally posted a fake video? Now watch how, I mean, he's just framing his question how he has to, but listen to how Caroline Levitt responds and it stutters

her way through trying to make sense of it. I think the president saw the video and posted it and then took it down and he has the right to do that. It's his social media. He's incredibly transparent. As you all know, you hear from him directly on social media. He likes to share memes, he likes to share videos. He likes to repost things that he sees other people post on social media as well.

And I think it's quite refreshing that we have a president who is so open and honest directly himself, many a times on truth, you are hearing directly from the president. I love how shameless the spin is. Donald Trump posted about a fake technology that gives people fake hope, and they say, I love how transparent and I love how open he is. This is like Donald Trump getting on camera, taking a shit on the Oval Office desk, and they're like, I like how unique his plumbing strategies are. He's really just pushing the boundaries on what's acceptable in society.

No, he's not pushing the boundaries. He's being an effing idiot. He's literally posting videos of fake AI deepfakes of himself. He didn't realize that. Then him deleting it is a concession. Them deleting it is a very clear concession that, oh, shit, we didn't know this was fake. We didn't realize that he posted this. This is quite clearly going to end up harming us in the long run.

It's very not common that they delete things like that. Here is J.D. Vance, once again, being asked about the shutdown and how they're now targeting people. Thank you, Mr. Vice President. Thank you for being here. Yesterday, President Trump said, as a result of the shutdown, will be laying off a lot of people that are going to be very effective, and the Democrats, they are going to be Democrats. Has the administration asked agencies to target federal workers who they believe to be Democrats in these reductions of forces?

We're not targeting federal agencies based on politics. We're targeting the people's government so that as much of possible of the essential services can continue to function. That is the question the president has asked the entire government is fundamentally, okay, we're in a shutdown. That causes some problems. The troops aren't getting paid. There's nothing that we can do about that while the government is shut down. But there are essential services that we want to make sure as much as possible they still continue to function. That is the principle that's driving us forward during the shutdown. Someone in the comment said, can someone ask J.D. Vance, why we even need a budget bill? My understanding is that we've taken in something like $17 trillion from forward investments. That could fund the government for quite a long time. Why are we pretending that we're broke? He's obviously being sarcastic because Trump keeps making this claim that we brought in $17 trillion. It is so insanely BS that you almost wonder if he saw it on a fake AI video online. Remember, he's going to invade Portland, quote unquote, invade Portland apparently because they're

at war with U.S. cities, and we found out that this was a rerun of Fox News footage from five years ago that he was watching. It was footage on the ground in Portland during the BLM protests and a riot. broke out, so they played footage of that for Trump, and apparently he thought it was modern day, so now they are deploying the military. We have a senile president who is being fed Fox News clips, and it's terrifying. These Fox News clips are warping his brain, and he doesn't seem to understand what's real and what's not. He's got no reality tests around him or no walls to push back. I mean, to make matters worse, Tulsi Gabbard reportedly was going to use his daily presidential

briefings to do Fox News type segments and use that as a vehicle. for the information. We have a child as the president with an infantile view of the world. So let's just continue to push back. Let's continue to debunk the news on a daily basis as it comes. If you appreciate Machler Media and the Adam Mockler channel, make sure you're subscribed to the feed below. We have some great debate shows, breaking news formats, live streams, all cooking up for 2025, 2026, and beyond. So be there for it. I love you all. And peace out.