The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: Trump Flips The Bird
Episode Date: January 14, 2026Dana Loesch reacts to Trump flipping the bird at an obnoxious leftist who heckled him at the Ford Factory in Michigan with her political commentary. Meanwhile, a leftist dude posts a cringe video of h...im at target practice supposed to be threatening ICE.Thank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…CovePurehttps://CovePure.com/DanaMake a New Year's resolution that sticks and improve your health with clean water. Get $200 off for a limited time.Bank on Yourselfhttps://BankOnYourself.com/Dana Bank on Yourself offers tax-free retirement income, guaranteed growth, and full control of your money. Receive your free report.Patriot Mobilehttps://PatriotMobile.com/DANA or call 972-PATRIOTSwitch to Patriot Mobile in minutes—keep your number and phone or upgrade, then take a stand today with promo code DANA for a free phone!Humannhttps://HumanN.comKick off the New Year with simple, delicious wellness support—pick up Humann’s Turmeric Chews at Sam’s Club next time you’re there and see why they’re such a fan favorite!WebRoothttps://Webroot.com/Dana Take your cybersecurity seriously! Get 60% off Webroot Total Protection today!Noble Goldhttps://NobleGoldInvestments.com/DanaThis is the year to create a more stable financial future. Open a qualified account with Noble Gold and receive a 3 oz Silver Virtue coin free.Subscribe today and stay in the loop on all things news with The Dana Show. Follow us here for more daily clips, updates, and commentary:YoutubeFacebookInstagramXMore InfoWebsite
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It's his life mission
to make bad decisions.
It's time for Florida man.
Cana's, that's a, yeah.
I know.
Okay, yeah.
All right.
So let me just set the story up for you.
He's already looking at this.
I said on break, like, what in the world?
This is in Fort Walton Beach.
Just let me give you the headline.
woman tries to avoid arrest by defecating towards officers in Fort Walton Beach.
Towards?
What does that mean?
I don't know.
It's a Tuesday.
This was just yesterday.
Officers responded to the Palms of Emerald Coast massage parlor due to a report of battery on a Department of Health employee.
According to the Fort Walton Beach Police Department, the employee was conducting a routine inspection when Feng Wang, a massage parlor
employee, became upset and began yelling at the inspector.
Wait, is this a real story?
It is literally from WJHG Channel, whatever, in Florida.
It's a real news article.
I kid you not.
Now back to the story.
Police said Feng Wang tried to force the inspector out of the business.
When officers tried to detain Feng Wang, she began defecating towards officers.
In an attempt to avoid being arrested,
Fing Wing was arrested for battery on a specified official.
Okay.
I am made of questions right now.
How does one do that towards something?
That suggests there is force to projectile it in a direction, right?
right? I don't know. I don't know. I don't really don't really want to know.
On the list of ideas on how to get away from cops, defecating towards them would probably be way, way, way, the bottom.
You're so going to get arrested. It's still battery. Even if it's with that, it's still battery.
So she was so totally arrested, as you can imagine. And she was taken to jail. So, yeah, that's not, no.
Oh my gosh, I have so many.
Let's do a...
Okay, so I got a Florida man who stole a motorcycle from gas station employees and then returned only to threaten the guy with a knife.
So it wasn't enough that he did his bike stolen.
The guy came back and was like, I'm going to cut you with a knife.
He wore it hanging around his neck.
What?
I need to know more about the knife.
Was it like a pocket knife?
Was it a switch?
Like, what was it?
Uh, anyway, uh, they, uh, they should have solved their dispute without that, but now, the authorities are holding the guy without Vaughn. He's, he had a restraining order, which escal, which enhanced everything. So, uh, a, USPS driver tries to run over a 10 year old bringing the wrongly delivered package to the right home. The postal worker thought that he was a porch pirate.
Yeah, this is in Florida. The guy was arrested. I mean, he's got a mug shot and everything now. The 10, it's not just a simple oops. This is a,
according to ABC affiliate W EAR channel.
I don't know which one.
The boy was bringing the package to his neighbor's house
because they dropped it off to his house by accident.
And William White is accused of trying,
he's 41, accused of trying to hit the 10-year-old
in Escambia County.
He was riding his scooter with the package.
The kid was, and he was returning it to his neighbor.
White saw the boy with the package,
thought he was trying to steal it,
purposely drove his USPS vehicle towards the kid,
and ran over the scooter, narrowly missing.
the boy, the kid hurt his ankle when he tried to get out of the way and fell off onto the side of the road.
So that guy, he was screaming at the boy and everything. So he, yeah, he was totally arrested.
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So I wanted to play, as you know, we had some of this that we took live yesterday.
POTUS was in Dearborn.
He was at the, he was at a manufacturing facility.
He was there at the Ford plant.
And there's always some guy, right?
There's always some guy.
Some dog-faced pony soldier, which can I just sidebar real fast?
I'm sidetracking myself.
What does it even mean?
I ask like legitimate old dudes who are in their 90s and they're like,
hell if I know, I went to the source, man. I was like, look, can you gents explain what does this
mean? Nobody knows. It just, I thought it was like a saying from like the days of your. Apparently,
it's not. I think he just made it up. It was word salad that made accidental sense.
Anyway, so there's always, you know, he's at this plant. Now, remember when Biden was at the,
plant, a guy didn't heckle the, a guy didn't heckle Biden. A guy was asking Biden a tough question.
and Biden acted like he was going to square up to him.
Remember that?
So here's Trump at the Ford plant.
Biden's was performative and it looked weak.
Trump's at the Ford.
I don't know what this guy thought POTUS was going to do.
This guy starts heckling POTUS.
Watch.
You need the meme where you put the glasses on him.
So he told him, I can't tell you what he told him.
He yelled that the man should go and do something on flattering to himself
and then raised the one-finger salute.
just didn't care he's like yeah we have you uh-huh you uh-huh and here it is wait for it wait for it
wait for pow yeah hey everybody after that hey guys i just got to watch it again and then bong
then he waves hey guys it's just hysterical i don't know what that guy thought was going to happen
to him so he's at his job right now you're at your job
Some of y'all are at work right now, you know, trying not to signal to everybody that you're a conservative.
It's all right.
Go ahead and do it.
But you guys are at your jobs.
What would you guys do?
Your employer is accepting a visit from the leader of the United States, right?
The duly elected leader of the free world.
And he shows up and you guys decide, you know, anybody at work, you guys decide you're going to,
cause a problem and act that way.
How do you think that you would have been,
would you have been disciplined?
Do you think that your employer would have appreciated you acting like that?
I mean, I know we all know the answer,
but for the left, sometimes the obvious things are just so shocking to them.
Like, what do you mean?
I can't tell the president of the United States at my place of employment to which he was
invited and received by my boss to go blank himself.
What?
Well, that's what happened.
happen to this dude. So the dude in question who did the heckling, I don't want to say,
he wasn't really just heckling. He was really, he was, you know, also telling the president to go.
He was calling him a pedophile and all this stuff and saying some unflattering stuff to him.
This Ford factory, the employee, T.J. Sebulah, age 40, was disciplined. He was suspended.
He said he had no regrets.
Ragrats, he was suspended.
And he goes, no regrets.
As far as calling him out, definitely no regrets.
And I love these people.
Listen to how they describe themselves.
Listen to this.
Just the self adoration, quote.
I don't feel as though fate looks upon you often.
And when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity.
And today I think I did that.
end quote. Dude, you didn't save a child. You screamed invectives at the president of the United States.
You didn't, what does he think is going to do other than giving me content to monetize on my airwaves today?
What did you think you were going to accomplish by doing this? You think you were going to change the free world because you were calling him a pedophile?
I mean, if he had Steve Bannon up there with him and you were shouting that to him, I mean, being BFS with Epstein, I would completely understand it.
And I would say, well, no lies detected. But, you know, he was saying that to POTUS, who does not have that history.
of that close association to the point where he was advising him.
So I'm just, you know, there's a little bit of a difference there.
And he, White House spokesperson, a White House spokesperson told the Daily Mail, quote,
a lunatic was wildly screaming expletives in a complete fit of rage.
And the president gave an appropriate and unambiguous response.
I think it's interesting what the spokesman said,
really feel like he should probably check the definition of unambiguous.
Because we all felt that it was pretty the opposite that, in a very entertaining way.
Now, someone with Ford said, quote, one of our core values is respect, and we don't condone anyone saying anything inappropriate like that within our facilities.
When that happens, we have a process to deal with it. We don't get into specific personnel matters.
Notice how on the right no one's calling for this guy to be fired.
If this was the left, they would, oh my gosh, they would want this dude burned on a pyre.
But it's not. I mean, Trump handled it. He was like, yeah, blink you, whatever. You, you, yeah. And then, whop.
So that was it.
But the guy, this is how the left thinks.
They feel like, it sounds like they're on their own little personal crusade.
Every day they wake up.
And it's like, it's like they're on the Truman show.
They feel like the world is watching them.
I'm going to yell invectives at the president.
I can't believe he said this quote.
I bet he has a live, laugh, love sign in his house.
Quote, I don't feel as the fate looks upon you often.
What?
What?
Do you think that POTUS is going to go get on Air Force One?
That guy yelled at me.
I've got to reconsider everything in my life.
No!
No!
First off, that goes to show you what a schmuck you are, dude.
Because POTUS, everybody has a currency, right?
This is one of the things that I discovered with my kids early on.
I have a currency, everybody is a currency.
It's the thing that you can use to move somebody.
Right?
So of my kids, one of them, criticism is the worst thing that you could ever do,
just like lightly criticize something and it's, oh my gosh. The other kid does not even care
about criticism. Doesn't care. He is bought and sold by positive reinforcement. Now, I'm one of
those people who I don't care about criticism. I legit don't. I am a positive reinforcement person
in order to get me to do. Kane struggles with this. I'm like an untrained dog in some ways.
It has to be, you have to positive reinforcement. That's just people work differently. Everybody's a
currency. Trump's currency, he
wants to be flattered,
and he also likes positive reinforcement.
I'm not saying this as a pejorative. Everybody has
it. Some of you out there probably have the same
things. It's not saying that you're a bad person. That's just
what motivates you. So this
guy yelling at POTUS at the Ford
plant, first off, if you're going to be
some little crusader,
you know, it felt like fate looked
down on me, except fate didn't tell me
exactly what to do. So I just acted
like an A double snakes.
POTUS was never going to be receptive to
anything like that. If anything, that just digs him in further. So great job, dude. You just
actually probably set yourself back by 20 paces. Great job. These people don't, they all think like this.
All of these people, if you watch on social media, which I try not to, they all record themselves
talking into the camera. Like people are out there like, oh my gosh, I wonder what Karen,
XYZ Jessica 972 on TikTok has to say about this issue. Oh my gosh. And it's like some lady melting
down while sitting in her pantry eating chips. I don't know. Why? This guy, listen to him. You know he looks
in the mirror every morning and he's like, make it about you. I don't feel as though fate
looks upon you often. And when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity. And today,
I think I did that. Whatever makes you sleep easier at night, dude? You go ahead and you tell yourself
that. That's all right. It sounds like he's writing a letter to his family from the front lines of
the Civil War. And he throws in some M&M lyrics.
Just kind of shine it up a bit.
Fade has looked upon me and I decided to scream pedophile with the President of the United States.
I mean, on the same day that Bill Clinton, I almost said George Clinton.
Oh my gosh, that's hysterical.
No idea why that happened.
Verbal typo, but it ought to stay.
But Bill Clinton, a day when he ignored a subpoena.
You know, the guy who literally was in, you've seen some of those nasty photos?
I don't like hot tubs and I don't like public pools.
I don't like rivers and streams are fine because it's flowing water, but hot tubs are people soup.
It's gross.
You see Bill Clinton on all these bodies of water with all these other old dudes down at pedophile island.
Just so gross.
I'm sick.
All right.
So the, well, anyway, to add to that, they had a fundraiser for this guy because he got suspended, right?
So what does the left do?
The left loves rewarding douchebaggery.
So he was suspended.
and he said he had no regret.
And now apparently there's a nice little fundraiser for him.
They were trying to raise $90,000.
Was all of it raised?
Because last night it was like 60 something.
They started to go fund me.
And let me see where it is right now.
Oh my gosh.
This is so stupid.
I hate everything.
So they increased it.
I hate everything so much right now.
I just want to break things.
They started it at $90,000.
They increased it.
it to $250,000. What do you think it's at right now? How much money do you think they got raised?
Probably close to double from last night, I would imagine. Yeah, it's $3003,363. Yeah. Like why,
he was suspended for, oh my gosh. And let's force him to release the Trump Epstein files.
Okay, quick thing on this. Do I think it's stupid to campaign on releasing the Epstein files?
knowing that you might not actually have the full authority to release them?
And I'll explain that in a minute.
Do I think that action's dumb?
Why, yes, yes, I do.
Do I think that Trump is personally preventing the release of the Epstein files?
No, because that's retarded.
And do you want to know why it is?
Because it's a federal seal.
It's federal court.
It's been sealed.
It's a sealed court document.
You've got to have Congress get involved with this stuff.
Long story short, that's why they were voting on it.
that's why they were doing this stuff.
That's just so mind-numbingly stupid to think that this is, that he's somehow preventing the release of it.
That's separate from campaigning on it because I think it's stupid to campaign on something, then you not follow through.
Or say that, well, it's not a big deal anymore.
Well, it was during the campaign.
So it's crazy.
When you tell people things during the campaign that you're going to do, I know jokes on them.
They expect it to happen.
but I'm just saying it's actually not his within the realm of his authority to personally release it himself.
So that's what these people at this fundraiser don't quite understand.
They don't understand that.
So they're like they're trying to discuss how to the donation beneficiary and all this other.
This guy's got half a million dollars now, almost half a million dollars because of this.
He didn't lose his job.
He was suspended.
And they act like he's a little crusader.
Oh my gosh.
He's a patriot.
for what
why is he a patriot somebody gave
look at these donations someone gave five thousand dollars
some sucker gave five thousand dollars
I mean if you can make a career out of going out
and just you know showing your backside everybody
I'm kind of curious because
someone's got famous what I'm kind of curious because
we've seen how this fundraising and all the data
that's come out over the last couple of years of some of these small money
donations through act blue or whatever have been actually
tied to the larger Soros Foundation, Tides Foundation, things like that.
I wonder if there's any of that going on here.
I mean, I don't know.
Might be.
I'm looking at these donations.
Can you imagine putting your name?
I'm going to give money to this.
This guy's not hurting for money.
He's not losing.
He's just suspended.
And it wasn't even suspended without pay.
They're acting like they banished him to the wilds away from the colony, away from
like Roanoke.
They banished him out to the wild.
the wilds of the northeast. Shut up. That's not what happened here. Good night. But yeah,
that's, it's pretty, I don't know. I, I thought the way that Potus handled it was funny.
The guy was like, I've, I'm a political independent and I've never voted for Trump, but I've
supported some Republicans. I don't care and no, you haven't. So he's going to be, he's going to be
on the cover of time next. No, Tucker's going to have him on his podcast to talk about why the Jews are so
bad. That's what's going to happen next. He's going to have this checks,
notes, T.J. Sibula on. So how is this all the Jews fault? It's going to be the first question.
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So I saw this.
It first appeared on Facebook.
And it's this leftist.
And we're going to show you the video.
And then you need to pull up a chair.
Because we're going to analyze the video.
This is a progressive who's trying to see.
scare ICE agents by acting so hard. Watch.
Dear Ice, here's a message from your friendly neighborhood leftist.
Not all of us are going to stop at snowballs in the future.
So maybe think twice before you just start randomly shooting into vehicles.
Oh my gosh.
Hug that Magwell.
Hug it.
Look at a sloppy trigger.
Oh my gosh.
this man is frightened.
Oh my gosh.
And some of us
aren't just going to
randomly fire into things.
Some of us actually know how to aim.
Except for me.
This guy is the biggest chode.
I cannot ridicule this man enough.
This guy is seriously a low-t
female copulatory organ.
In the dictionary,
if you looked up beta cuck,
it's this guy.
I've never seen a man get cucked by his own gun.
But I just actually probably is not even his.
He probably rented it at the range.
First off, the dude's fully supported hugging that magwell like he's going on a date with it.
The trigger.
I can't even do that.
He's like all over the place of this trigger finger.
25 yards out with that kind of a scope and the man takes that he would be overwhelmed before he'd even get a second round off.
What a D bag.
I cannot believe that this guy put this on the internet thinking that it.
It was a flex.
I've seen seven-year-old shoot better than this female copulatory organ.
Look at him hugging the magwell.
Look at him.
Here's that sloppy trigger finger.
Oh, my gosh.
This guy is not scary at all.
He needs to get a gun that he can handle if he's actually going to shoot.
Who takes that long, 25 yards out?
And then he tries to brag about that absolute fecal grouping at 25 yards out with a scope.
my gosh. He's all supported, all stand back up in his indoor range. I bet it wouldn't even 25 yards. I bet it was like 15. How much you went? Actually, I don't even think that this guy put holes through a paper target. I think he had his boyfriend peg it, the target, that is. His boyfriend poked the holes in the target. No, it's not Friday. Kane. The erection. That's right. Is that guy scary? No, that guy's not scary. That guy's sad. He's actually from Missouri. And, um, and, um, um,
man, of course, you know, the internet did its thing.
That was lame and gay.
I mean, actually, that's mean to gay people who shoot.
That's lame.
That's so bad.
I just, who are these people?
He's like, he calls himself liberal trucker or whatever.
What an insult to truckers.
But he actually was threatening to shoot ICE agents.
And he's acting like, can you believe he's sitting here lecturing about tactics?
This is one of the most embarrassing.
he's a fud. He is a straight up fud.
And this guy's going to, I'd rather hear Biden talk about shooting stuff off his balcony.
And then he's like five days later, still acquiring target.
He's all over the place of this. Oh my gosh. And then he tries to flex and brag about it.
I don't think anybody needs to worry about these guys. Yeah, I don't, I don't really think anybody needs to worry about him.
He does all these videos and he's got these tells.
He's got his D-bag little earrings.
And he does this.
If you're watching the simulcast, you can't see what I'm doing.
But he has these little ticks because he's a basic B.
And he does like does a bounce before his camera starts.
Like every single time, like get me, whether he's sitting down or whatever.
It's just annoying.
Learn how to shoot.
Get a gun that you can adequately handle and learn how to shoot.
And also don't threaten to kill.
people. I get it that leftists get off on that and they love talking about, not just talking about
killing people, but they love killing people, whether it's for their free speech, whether it's
ice agents, they love trying to do it. You can't, it's only coming one way, folks, so it's not an
exaggeration. But I'm going to tell you something. Don't be an idiot like this guy because these
guys believe their own bravado. He's not even a man. He's just literally a female copulatory organ.
we'll call them a FCO.
Because FCOs like this,
they talk a really good game,
but when you screw around with someone
who does know what they're doing,
the people you're talking about
aren't the ones that are going home
and body bags, you are.
So don't be stupid.
Don't be stupid and be stupid online
and encourage other people to be as stupid as you are.
Don't lecture people about tactics
when you can't even manage the gun.
handle the damn recoil of the rifle you're holding. Don't talk about ice agents and sending people
home when you're like terrified shooting in an indoor range 25 yards out with a crap grouping.
You don't even, you need that kind of big old scope for that overcompensating for much?
I mean, I get that that you might need that scope to find his manhood and dignity, but not the target
at 25 yards out in an indoor range.
Yeah, you need a way bigger scope to find, you know, the forementioned.
but this is stupid all these people that talk so tough online is it about saving lives and de-escalation or not
because you will find yourself sideways one day if you keep that up with somebody who does know what
the hell they're doing and it will not go well for you at all whatsoever this guy's getting
dragged online he got i posted it on instagram and oh my gosh my folks on instagram dragged him
six ways to sunday it was like the funniest reality show ever reading
some of these comments, but this guy, people need to, this is, the left needs to not be like this.
They've done enough stuff like this.
If you dislike what the law is, A, win elections without cheating.
B, you actually have to change and modify law that you dislike.
And you're not going to do that by threatening to kill the people that are enforcing the law
that are made by the lawmakers elected to office by the voters.
When you do stuff like that, you're not just attacking like the agents.
You're attacking the voters.
because the voters, like me, voted for this.
So you're attacking innocent Americans
while simultaneously pretending
that you're some kind of like, you know, crusader.
I mean, it's just embarrassing.
And last but not least, never, ever, ever post a crap video of yourself,
not being able to handle the recoil of a rifle
with an overcompensating scope 25 yards out
having a crap grouping,
and you can't even reacquire the trigger.
It is one of the most embarrassing things I've ever seen in my life.
And if this guy had a little bit more,
more sense, more brain cells, and a little more dignity and self-awareness.
Maybe he would have realized that and deleted it before it went viral.
But alas, here we are.
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