The Breakfast Club - Trump calls Charlamagne a low IQ sleaze ball after Fox interview comes out

Episode Date: August 4, 2025

Charlamagne Tha God went on Lara Trump’s show and his comments have been hit with a lot of scrutiny from the right, including Trump himself coming after him calling him a “low IQ” individual. Loren comments on this latest outburst from the president and notes that he is happy to use Charlamagne’s voice when it serves him, during his campaign and then happy again to attempt to drag him when he is critical of the administration.YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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it really depends on who you talk to. There are many versions of what happened in 1969 when a young Ted Kennedy drove a car into a pond. And left a woman behind to drown. Chappaquiddick is a story of a tragic death and how the Kennedy machine took control. Every week we go behind the headlines and beyond the drama of America's royal family. Listen to United States of Kennedy's on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and everybody. You know she don't lie about that right? Lauren came in hot. Hey y'all what's up? It's Lauren LaRosa and this is the latest with Lauren LaRosa.

Now this is your Daily Dig on all things pop culture, entertainment news, exclusives, cause y'all know I bring them exclusives, and all of the conversations that shake the room. So let's get on in to The Latest. Now typically we do the behind the scenes of the grind check-in, but let me tell y'all, okay, my wig is snatched.

And y'all know it takes a lot for my wig to be snatched cause normally baby is a fried die and laid to the side. That's not the best term to say when you talking about your wig. But what I'm saying is it takes a lot to like throw me off a bit. And today I was getting ready to come in here and you know, record the podcast. I had my whole episode ready and all the things we were going to talk about. And then Donald Trump decides to get on Truth Social and respond to Charlamagne, who went

on Fox News and said this. Let's take a listen. I do think, and this is a, I think that, I think that conservative, traditional conservatives are going to take the Republican party back. I think there's a political coup right now in the Republican party that people aren't paying attention to. Oh, interesting. Yeah, I think that this Epstein thing is going to be a way for traditional conservatives to take their party back.

I really do. I think that they know this is the issue that has gotten the base riled up, the MAGA base isn't letting this issue go, and for the first time they know they can probably take their party back and not piss off the MAGA base. I think they're going to do that. Well, I would say we've never seen a typical election since the day that Donald Trump came down the golden escalator. So I don't know that I don't know that we'll ever see another typical kind of traditional

election, traditional Republicans. I don't know. I feel like things have changed, the game changed. And to say that the old guard is going to kind of come back. That's that's a lot. That's a big statement. That's the mistake Republicans are going to kind of come back, that's a big statement. But that's the mistake Republicans are going to make. Republicans are going to make the same mistake

that Democrats made. And I'll tell you what I mean by that. Barack Obama was a one-of-one, once-in-a-lifetime, you know, political juggernaut. And since Barack Obama, every Democrat has tried to be Barack Obama. You're not Barack Obama. You got to be yourself.

It's going to be the same thing with Republicans. Say what you want, Donald Trump is a once in a lifetime, one-on-one political juggernaut. You're not going to be Donald Trump. So if you think you're going to be able to do what Donald Trump has done, talk the way Donald Trump has talked, get away with what Donald Trump has got away with, it's not going to happen. So everybody right now, we have the opportunity to have like a huge reset. I think you should blow it all up. I think that people are really

sick and tired of what we've been presented from both parties. By the way, we knew this before the last election. They were telling us that like 70% of people did not want to see a rematch between Trump or Biden. So it's like we know we want something different. Everybody wants something different. So I think that if Democrats keep doing the same old thing, they're gonna keep getting the same results. And if Republicans, you know, think that they can repeat what has been done and don't try to give the people something new,

they're gonna get the results they don't want. Now, here's the thing. This is not anything that Charlemagne has not been saying for, I think, when it... I would say for the last month, maybe two months, he's been having this conversation about Epstein and why Democrats should not let up on it, why this should be the hot button topic that Democrats lean in on the same way that Republicans lean in on transgender conversations and all those things.

They have their topic that they lean in on heavily. They use it to incite the masses and get people listening and show, OK, here's what we can do. And they're changing laws and changing rules and all these things. That has been Charlamagne's point for the last two months, right? And he's been saying it and yelling it and screaming it. But baby, when he sat across from Laura Trump and said it, oh, the people is upset.

I tweeted out just the videos from the interview and I ain't never seen, I thought the shade room comments got messy, baby. I ain't never seen that many people arguing about the things. You got some people feeling like Donald Trump gathered Charlamagne. You got some people feeling like,

literally one girl said, I've never wanted Charlamagne to be right as much as I want him to be right about what he just said on Fox News with Laura Trump. And I think the reason is, I mean, to his point, some of y'all thought that, you know, having Donald Trump in office would be the key to whatever it is that you need, whether it's more money in your household,

the price of groceries going down, you know, being able to go work a job and, you know, not be targeted because you're a person of color work a job and, you know, not be targeted because you're a person of color working that job or not feel like you're just checking the box under DEI and just having DEI even exist so that you could even walk through the doors of the job. Let's talk about that, right?

But other people feel like the complete opposite. Now let's get into what Trump actually said. So Trump got on Truth Social, which is his version of X. And he said, the wonderful and talented Laura Trump, who show is big rating success, put racist sleazebags. Charlamagne the God. First of all, I don't even believe that black people can be racist, but that's a whole nother conversation.

Argue with your mom. He put in parentheses, why is he allowed to use the word God? At least he capitalized God, because you should. When describing himself, can anyone imagine the uproar Why is he allowed to use the word God? At least he capitalized God, because you should. When describing himself, can anyone imagine the uproar there would be if I use that nickname? He doesn't have to. He's already positioned himself well above dictatorship. He's a low IQ individual.

He has no idea what words are coming out of his mouth and he knows nothing about me or what I've done. Trump then continues, like just ending five wars, including, mind you, let me just say for clarification here and for all purposes, I don't know if any of this is true. I am not the, you know, political voice or face. I know enough to get me to the ballot. I know enough to try and keep me safe. In this last election, it did not work, but I know enough, right?

But I don't know if all this is true. And we know that president Trump loves to Trump things and speak very president Trumpish, but he lists some things that he says that he's done. So president Trump says he's ended five wars, including a 31 year bloodbath between Republicans of the Congo and Rwanda, where 7 million people have died. And there was no end in sight.

He didn't know that or India and Pakistan or wiping out Iran's nuclear capabilities. I know that, you know, he sent the strikes over there to Iran or closing the horrendous open border or creating the greatest economy where prices and inflation have come way down and we're stupid and he put come way down and where stupid and he put stupid in caps and corrupt corrupt in caps. Joe Biden, of course, Joe Biden is in all caps, set the record for doing the worst job as president ever, ever is in all caps. But let's not shy away from the fact that Charlamagne actually says while they're on

Fox News that he's been critical of Joe Biden as well. Let's take a listen to that. At the end of the day, man, regardless of who's in the White House, that person represents all of America. And I reserve the right to criticize both parties. Well, and I would say that person is a representative of America

and we should all want that person to succeed for America, right? No matter your political viewpoints, right? A hundred percent agree. Like, when you asked me, you know, what do I think Trump has done, President Trump has done over the last six months, I don't want to say that I think he did a terrible job. But if he's doing a terrible job, I got to call it like it is. And if it was a Democrat— I will respectfully disagree with you on that.

But that's okay. You can have your viewpoint. But if it was a— I gave President Biden the same hell too, you know, cause I didn't think he was doing a good job. All we want is somebody in those positions that's going to do a good job. I'm not a party person in no way, shape or form. I want to say I'm an independent, but that don't make no sense because there's only two parties in this country.

Right. So you're going to end up voting for one of them. Yeah. Trump continues, but this dope Charlemagne, I'm surprised if he's saying he thinks Charlemagne is dope or is he saying that like Charlemagne is on dope. But this dope Charlemagne will vote for Sleepy Joe or Kamala, remember one year ago our country was dead. Dead is in all caps.

Now it's the hottest, cause hottest is in all caps. Country anywhere in the world, MAGA. We also gotta remember too that some time ago, Charlemagne was getting dragged. I mean, every auntie, every black church, every political head, black, white or indifferent, that was, you know, for the Dems, especially if you were black, Charlamagne wasn't your friend. Y'all remember that? Because he was saying things like this. Donald Trump shows me what's politically possible. Trump shows me what presidents can do if they want to do it.

Donald Trump shows me what can be said if you are willing to say it. It's not about what can't be done. It's about who has the political will to do it. I don't want to hear a peep from Democrats about nothing until they get the b---- to say what's really on their mind in regards to this country and this world. So for people to use this as a moment of,

but wait, weren't you all for Sleepy Joe and all the things and we got to get Charlamagne up out of here. To be honest with y'all, the day that Kamala won, the Breakfast Club broadcasted from DC. We broadcasted from Howard University and you know, it was supposed to be historic. Like Kamala Harris was gonna win the election, black woman and and you know after

defeating Donald Trump and we would be at Howard University, her alma mater, and you know all things black would go down in celebration and we were there and it just didn't feel like that was what was going to happen after a while and you're there in real time watching it happen. We ended up leaving before she was even able to come out and make the small remarks. No, I don't even think she came out and made remarks that night. But we ended up leaving nonetheless. We left before the actual voter night ceremony at Howard University was over. But I remember we broadcasted from Maryland the next morning.

And I remember texting Charlemagne and saying, what are you going to get on air and say tomorrow? Because everybody listens to you when it comes to politics. Everybody I know listens to Charlamagne. And I don't think it's because, cause I think here when Trump is talking about IQ and what he does or he doesn't know, I think a lot of times with politics,

and Charlamagne has actually credited Donald Trump for doing this. A lot of times with politics, people would like to make it seem like if you don't know everything, if you can't know everything, if you can't rattle off every poll number or every mass world event, you shouldn't be speaking and people should not be listening to you.

But ironically enough, what Charlamagne has given Donald Trump credit for is going right through that and making it clear that that is not true. But Donald Trump is using the same rhetoric that people will throw at everyday people. And honestly, that a lot of the Democrats have gotten shit for, right? Because a lot of the Democrats, people like to say they're elitist.

They only want to talk and listen to each other. And when I say each other, I mean those people that I mentioned, the people who can rattle off all the numbers and all this, not the everyday people who are going through these things, who they might not know everything, but they know what they're experiencing every single day. And I think Donald Trump is missing the fact that, because even Laura Trump said it on her show, Donald Trump is missing the fact that the everyday

people, the listener to the breakfast club, to a voice like a Shalimeen, a God who is tuned in every day, who is relying on you to get information. So information, of course, and factual information is always important. But people just want to hear from someone who they believe filled them, that they can trust. And he has become that. Donald Trump is making it seem like

he doesn't understand that or know that. But baby, Donald Trump ain't taking his time to type out this paragraph, this essay, this thesis, if he didn't believe it. I think the irony of politics always end up showing their hands because how ironic that Donald Trump used the Breakfast Club, right, to lean into that hot button topic, to try and help him create commercial ads to win the campaign against Kamala Harris. Y'all remember this? Kamala supports taxpayer-'all remember this? Kamala even supports letting biological men compete against our girls and their sports.

Kamala is for they, them. President Trump is for you. I'm Donald J. Trump and I approve this message. But at the same time, the minute that Charlemagne disagrees, and honestly, the disagreement wasn't even like a biased disagreement. It was very fair. It was, I have the right to criticize and I don't believe that you were doing a good job and so here's what I'm going to do.

But the minute that he hears that on a platform that he obviously wants to promote Laura Trump, his daughter-in-law, so he's going to lean in, he's going to pay attention, he's going to give it light. He does. But it's insane because the same person that has this low, he said low IQ and has no idea of the words that are coming out of his mouth. You ran these ads, Donald Trump, for about a good six months, like a very long time, to the point where anywhere I went, whether I was in church, I was with my family, it

was a family cookout, the reunion, you had the aunties mad at Sister Charlene Charlemagne the God, okay? Baby all his, I talk a lot about him not having a hairline. He might've grew one back from the stress if he leaned into the amount of people who were upset at the Breakfast Club for that Trump ad because it was taken out of context, number one, they were never campaigning for Trump

or anything that he was doing. They were having a conversation about some of the trans law and trans conversation, but it's just ironic, right? But that's how this politics thing go. And that's what I'm beginning to learn is like, all of this is a facade. People don't really know who they're against, who they're with, nothing at all.

There was one part of this interview though, that I feel like a lot of people are not gonna focus on because it's not the, hey, this is the argument between Trump and Charlamagne point. It is not the caddy housewives vibe. But to my point of focusing on the people and what the people actually care for, what the people actually want done and finding a person who actually cares about that and wants to get it done and not just their hot button topic and using people when it makes sense for them and then

going against these people or going at these people when it makes sense for them, right? Donald Trump talks about fake news and how the news is sensationalized. And he just, you know, got this settlement, this huge settlement, right? Because he claimed that 60 Minutes altered a Kamala Harris interview by editing the interview. Essentially, that leans into him feeling like the news was going to be reported or displayed in a very disproportionate way. I think that it's funny that then you see Donald Trump right now. If you are a person who did not, and I don't know how you wouldn't if you're

under, or maybe you're under a rock, but if you're a person right now who knows nothing about the breakfast club, nothing about Charlamagne the God. You would think that Charlamagne is this non-neutral, heavily critical Trump hater. And I mean, we're not throwing out, we love you, welcome back. Do the Harlem Shake on the maze, welcome back, Donald Trump party, when the man walked back in the office. But I think if we're being honest,

a lot of people have had to come around to the point of the president is the president. So I'm gonna criticize you the same way I was criticizing everybody else because my main goal here is to get what I need as a United States citizen, to get what the people need as citizens. in the heat of battle your squad relies on you don't let them down unlock elite gaming tech at Lenovo.com dominate every match with next level speed seamless streaming and performance that won't quit and push your gameplay beyond limits with Intel core ultra processors that's the power of Lenovo with Intel inside maximize your edge by shopping lenovo.com during their back to school sale. That's lenovo.com.

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Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. So I show all of this to you guys to say, Andy Cohen, you are focused on the wrong thing, baby. We need the real husbands of the White House, the real girls of the White House, the real girls of the White House. And we need an ASAP because that's where all the drama is. One thing Donald Trump know how to do is start up a storyline.

Cause as y'all see, when he wants to use your voice, he uses it. When he wants to use your voice in another way, he uses it. I don't know. I'm feeling the real husbands of the White House. I don't know how y'all are feeling or the real girls of the White House, because it's very catty. This gives, like, this is bitter baby mama energy, okay? I expect more of the man who was in my White House.

But again, he also left out a lot of words in this Truth Social post. He also left out a lot of grammar in this Truth Social post. He also left out a lot of, like, common sense post. He also left out a lot of like common sense in this truth social post. So what did we expect? Now if I'm taking it to the streets in the tweets, I told y'all that I posted this as news. Make sure you guys are following me everywhere. It's Lauren LaRosa everywhere. And Lauren LaRosa iconic on TikTok.

I do things that get the people going online as well. As far as posting my stories, I know. And when I do it, I don't do it to, you know, get into the Trump of all of the things. Like I'm not trying to incite no riots. You know, I'm just trying to cause good conversation because that's what we do here at the latest, right? So when I posted this, I simply said, hey, and I tagged Charlamagne, Donald Trump is

mad at you. And then I said, you know, Trump is taking shots at Charlamagne, the guy via True Social, following a Fox News sit down that he did. We are currently at almost 20,000 views. And that's like, I literally just did this. So it'll it'll go bigger. But man, people are going crazy. So, Uche, I believe that's how you say it.

Uche said, quick, somebody sent Trump a book on a 5% lesson since he's so confused about someone using the God moniker. And then someone else, yeah, I'm Stacey, said, but yet he used Charlotte for his campaign, ramped paid ads with him and Envy's words to manipulate his fan base, fraud. Woke and present on X said, what makes him low IQ talking about Charlamagne? What makes him a low IQ individual? Did Trump see his IQ results from the IQ test that he took?

Or is it simply because he's black? Well, let me tell you something, Woke and present, Charlamagne is a little slow, but I don't think that Trump has seen an IQ test. I think Charlamagne just wanted to throw something at him to get him going. Because again, nothing was low IQ when he was using that ad to help him get seated where he is right now. It's just so funny to me when people like to act like they don't understand the power of Black voice, the power of certain individuals.

There was a list going of black men that the black community did not wanna see talk about politics anymore. It was like, these people don't stand for us, so stop inviting them on your platform. And Charlamagne was one of the people. I don't agree with that. And it's not just because I work at the breakfast club.

This is something that even prior to, it was very clear to see that in a political space, when you're talking black boys, there are talking heads, which is why a Biden comes on the Breakfast Club and not even just talking heads, but black spaces. There is no space right now in media that is as mass, as wide ranging, as big, as diverse and as long running. As the Breakfast Club. I challenge you guys, right? If you can find a media platform that reaches as many people,

that covers as many wide range topics, that has the engagement in the numbers that the Breakfast Club does, the guests in the intersection between culture, hip hop, politics, all the things. If you can find a show that does it, tweet me, at me. Y'all know I be outside in the streets and in the tweets. I wanna know, because when people criticize platforms

like the Breakfast Club and then moments like this happen, I'm like, do we, especially black people, do we not see why we should champion what we have? So if your issue is that the Breakfast Club doesn't always have all the information, say that. Don't say, hey, breakfast clubs should no longer exist because obviously Donald Trump sees the beauty and the goldness in a Charlamagne the God in a breakfast club.

So does Laura Trump. They don't look like us, but that list that I'm talking to you about, that didn't come from a person that looks like them. It came from a person that looks like us. Y'all see where I'm getting at? So I'm gonna head on out right now because I'm sure you guys are already pretty mad, but make sure you guys tune in. At the end of the day, I tell you guys all the time, there's always so much that we could be talking about and y'all could be anywhere with anybody talking about it, but y'all choose to be right here with me when you do it. And I'm

always so grateful for you guys, my low riders. Make sure you guys tune in for my next episode. I had a lot planned today and then Trump decided to wake up and I don't know, Charlamagne must have been paid a child support on time. I don't know what's going down, but baby it got the pot going. I will see you guys in the next episode with more. It's always the latest with Lauren LaRosa.

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wherever you get your podcasts. So what happened to Chappaquiddick? Well, it really depends on who you talk to. There are many versions of what happened in 1969 when a young Ted Kennedy drove a car into a pond. And left a woman behind to drown. Chappaquiddick is a story of a tragic death and how the Kennedy machine took control. Every week we go behind the headlines and beyond the drama of America's royal family.

Listen to United States of Kennedy on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Girlfriends is back with a new season, and this time I'm telling you the story of Kelly Harnett. Kelly spent over a decade in prison for a murder she says she didn't commit. As she fought for her freedom, she taught herself the law. He goes, oh God, Harnett, jailhouse lawyer. And became a beacon of hope for the women locked up alongside her. I'm supposed to have faith in God, but I had nothing but faith in her. I think I was put here to save souls by getting people out of prison.

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