The Harry Sisson Show - The Daily Briefing - June 20, 2025

Episode Date: June 21, 2025

On today’s episode, Harry breaks down Trump’s escalating meltdown starting with a 3 A.M. social media rant From there, we unpack the unhinged morning posts, the fiery MAGA infighting he triggered,... and the emotional fallout as a longtime supporter breaks down on camera. We also cover the disaster press conference at the airport and the viral moment when a MAGA voter flipped on Trump in under two minutes. It’s a day of unraveling, and we’re walking through every wild twist.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 All right, folks, check this out. Donald Trump is having yet another late night meltdown on social media on his truth social platform. This is almost like an everyday occurrence. And when I'm reading what Donald Trump is posting in the middle of the night, I am always bewildered as to how people talk about President Biden's mental ability when he got so much done as president. But they don't talk about Donald Trump's when he's up in the middle of the night posting total slop. So I want to show you some of these posts that Donald Trump is just letting fly right now. And let's just start with. this one. He posted a 51 minutes ago at 1149 p.m., quote, big win in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on the President's core power to call in the National Guard. The judges obviously
Starting point is 00:00:42 realized that Gavin Newscom is incompetent and ill-prepared, but this is much bigger than Gavin because all over the United States, if our cities and our people need protection, we are the ones to give it to them, should state and local police be unable for whatever reason to get the job done. This is a great decision. Yaddy, yada, yada. And this is unfortunately the case. We just did get a ruling from the appeals court that has blocked Newsom's bid to reclaim control of the National Guard indefinitely. And it reads, a federal appeals court has indefinitely blocked an effort by Gavin Newsom to reclaim
Starting point is 00:01:14 control of the National Guard that Donald Trump deployed. The three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that Donald Trump appeared to have acted within his authority when he took control of 4,000 California National Guard troops under law that has never been invoicing. without the consent of a state governor, which is a crazy ruling. There are two judges appointed by Trump, one by President Biden, and they concluded that Donald Trump has enormous latitude to determine that the protests and related violence were interfering with execution of federal law. The judge said that there are limits, but there was enough evidence of civil unrest and danger
Starting point is 00:01:50 to federal officials to justify Trump's actions, which is insane because I really just want to see their evidence of this civil unrest. I didn't see it. I know you folks didn't see it. There were individual spots of unrest, but widespread, certainly not. And Gavin Newsom has already released a statement in response saying, quote, the court rightly rejected Trump's claim that he can do whatever he wants with the National Guard and not have to explain himself to a court. The president is not a king and is not above the law. We will press forward with our challenge to Donald Trump's authoritarian use of U.S. military soldiers against citizens. So Donald Trump is like up in the middle of the night bragging about this temporary ruling, which is going to be appealed. And that's
Starting point is 00:02:29 the beginning of Donald Trump's unhinged rants. Later, earlier in the night, he, for some reason, just posted this photo of himself, 11.19 p.m. It's just a photo of him smiling, and it's just make America great again. Perhaps Donald Trump is trying to boost his ego, you know, post photos and then his wonderful fans in the comments will support him. As you can see right now, they're all saying absolutely posting photos of him, praising him. This is like his little ego boost. He relies on his followers on truth social, but it's just incredibly strange. I mean, can you imagine like Obama or Biden just posting a photo of themselves, smiling in the middle of the night with their slogan? I certainly couldn't. I certainly couldn't. I think Republicans at that time wouldn't be
Starting point is 00:03:12 able to either, but because it's Donald Trump, they praise him. And then for some reason, he started posting random clips like one from Fox News, then another from Fox News, then one from a UFC fight he recently attended, another from a UFC fight. another from a UFC fight. I mean, it's just relentless. It's just relentless slop, relentless garbage of just clips from him previously, recently, people praising him on Fox News. It's like, this is the president of the United States. And he's all doing this in the middle of the night around 10, 11, 12, 1 a.m. in the morning. And it's like, you know, we're on the brink of war with Iran, right? Like, we have reports that Donald Trump has authorized an attack plan for
Starting point is 00:03:53 Iran and the president of the United States is posting clips of him at UFC fights. Really? You know, just a complete lack of leadership being shown from Donald Trump. But it gets worse. If you can even believe it, if you can even believe it, just hang tight for this one. He posts lowest inflation in four years. That's total nonsense. We all know that's not true. But then for some reason, he starts tagging random accounts on truth social like this I stand with Trump 47 account. And he just writes, Department of Treasury, just announced the largest blue call her wage growth in over 60 years. Wow. Again, didn't really cite any report here. He's just tagging this random account. But then he starts interacting with this account by posting things
Starting point is 00:04:34 that they posted. So like reposting some of their images and just take a look at some of these images that Donald Trump is reposting, the president of the United States in the middle of the night. This one, trust the plan. I mean, this is cult like stuff here, folks. Nothing can stop what is coming. I was the hunted and now I'm the hunter. They're literally making fan cams of Donald Trump. They're making edits of Donald Trump and he's reposting them on his
Starting point is 00:05:00 main timeline. How strange is this? How narcissistic do you have to be? To be scrolling on so, again, President of the United States, not just some random guy. President of the United States, scrolling on social media, just finding different edited photos of himself with these weird
Starting point is 00:05:16 slogans and reposting them consistently. It's just so strange. But he did this multiple times. This was not just a one-off. The same account again. Another one, the golden age. Donald Trump, 45, 47, 48.
Starting point is 00:05:32 We need this winning to continue. Well, it's, is Donald Trump calling himself the 45th, 47th, and 48th president of the United States? Is that like a third term kind of thing? Is he insinuating that he wants to run for a third term and be the 48th? president. Very strange. I just saw that now. This is the first time I'm seeing this one, actually. So I guess Donald Trump is reposting images again, hinting at running for a third term. But I take particular issue with this one because not only is it like very dictatorial, but also it says
Starting point is 00:06:07 the golden age. I didn't realize that being on the brink of war with Iran and having tariffs on all these different countries and the stock market collapsing and people's 401k is going down and due process being ignored, courts being ignored. I wasn't realizing that. I wasn't realizing that that was the golden age of the United States, but according to Donald Trump, it is. And again, continues to do this, continues posting random images from this random account on social media, one that is a fan of him. Is anyone going to tell, this is another one, is anyone going to tell the GOP that Trump is the only reason they have any voters left? So in this one, it appears that Donald Trump is taking shots at his own party saying that he's the only reason that the Republican party is
Starting point is 00:06:47 alive that you can see from the just the images we've seen right now, just the few ones that he's reposted right now along with the written messages that he's thrown out there, that this guy is unhinged. Like Donald Trump, I've always said this. Donald Trump reminds me of your crazy uncle at Thanksgiving who's like in the corner waving a turkey leg screaming at the wall. And you're like, well, there's Uncle Gary again. You know, oh, well, you know, he's wearing the tinfoil hat because he thinks the aliens are
Starting point is 00:07:12 going to come down because his Q&on group chat told him. That's what Donald Trump reminds me of. any other human being that acts in the way that Donald Trump does would be admitted to a psych ward. But since it's Donald Trump, the Republicans stand by. Like, he's posting random weird images in the middle of the night. Let's just look at one more. Oh, yeah, this is the one I saw earlier, where he posted this image of Barack Obama. It's an AI image of him surrounded by money saying we know who's responsible for Iran's
Starting point is 00:07:37 nuke program, which is so ironic. It's just pure projection from Donald Trump because if anybody knows anything about like recent U.S. history on a presidential level, we know that Obama is the one that negotiated an Iran nuclear deal that stopped them from getting nuclear weapons. Because of this deal, they shipped 25,000 pounds of enriched uranium out of the country, provided unprecedented access to its facilities, its nuclear facilities for investigation, and the International Atomic Energy Agency verified that Iran completed the necessary steps under the deal to ensure that their program remained peaceful. This was under President Obama. Donald Trump came in,
Starting point is 00:08:13 got rid of this deal. And then what do you know? Iran started their nuclear program again. So this is just pure projection from Donald Trump. And he continued to post other things. And this is the last one I want to show you because I think listening to Donald Trump too much genuinely makes us worse off, less healthy. And he wrote about Juneteenth, which was yesterday, too many non-working holidays in America. It's costing billions of dollars. The workers don't want it either. Soon we'll end up having a holiday for every once working day of the year. It must change. So, Donald Trump, the guy that golfs every weekend, is telling other people to work more. And it's just interesting that he posts this on Juneteenth, a holiday celebrating the official
Starting point is 00:08:52 end of slavery, but he didn't post it on something like Columbus Day. You know, really tells you the character of Donald Trump. So what we just looked at is one of the craziest midnight rants, late night rants, and posting sprees from Donald Trump I've seen. We just looked at all these different things. And that happened in the span of like three hours. the president of the United States, which is just so mind-boggling to me. So anyway, I just had to show you these midnight posts because it just gets weirder by the day.
Starting point is 00:09:23 Earlier today on my channel, I covered Donald Trump's relentless, unhinged posting on truth social last night in the middle of the night. But I think that some of the posts he made deserve a little bit more attention because amidst all the chaos, all the garbage that he was just letting fly on social media, he was directly engaging with. and amplifying Q&on conspiracies. Now, this is nothing new for Donald Trump. He has done this for years now, but it's incredibly concerning that the president of the United States is actually giving any oxygen,
Starting point is 00:09:55 any attention to these conspiracy theories at all. And let's be clear, this is a pattern that Trump has engaged with for quite some time. I mean, do you guys remember in late May, May 31st, 2025 at 10.06 p.m. at night, Donald Trump shared a random conspiracy from a random account on truth social.
Starting point is 00:10:13 that claimed that Joe Biden was executed in 2020 and that he's been replaced with clone doubles and robotic engineered soulless, mindless entities. And that's what we see and that Democrats don't know the difference. That is obviously a bonkers conspiracy theory, something that the most loony-tunes MAGA believe, yet this theory was amplified by Donald Trump on his main page. He reposted it.
Starting point is 00:10:36 We talked about it on this channel. It was insane. And yet he continues to do things like that today. So let me show you some of these posts. We talked about all these different posts you're seeing right now in the video earlier today, just posting random pictures of himself, clips from Fox News, clips from UFC fights. But this is especially where it got weird, where he started reposting things from users on truth social. So let's just start here. This account is I Stand with Trump 47.
Starting point is 00:11:04 It's women for Trump. So you can tell that this is no liberal, obviously, and they're also on truth social, which gives us a good indicator about what they believe. but this is a post that Donald Trump amplified. Trust the plan, it says. Nothing can stop what is coming. And also a quote from Donald Trump that he gave the other day, I was the hunted and now I'm the hunter. So the trust the plan slogan right there and then nothing can stop what is coming.
Starting point is 00:11:29 I mean, I'm sure we've all heard this in recent years. This has come directly from QAnon. Their claim that something major is coming that Donald Trump is uncovering the deep state or whatever their stupid conspiracy theory is for the day. They change them all the time. But trust the plan as well. CUN on phrasing, nothing can stop what is coming. And of course, the whole hunted phrase is something that drove the MAGA people crazy.
Starting point is 00:11:50 They loved it when Donald Trump said it. The far right MAGA people indicating that, you know, the bad people, the cabal are going to get arrested, that Donald Trump is finally going to reveal the secret, but there is no secret to reveal, obviously. But Trump was amplifying this post directly. It was a response to him talking about Juneteenth and saying that there are too many non-working holidays in America, she, this random account dropped this in his comments, and it got amplified by the president of the United States. And that's just one example of many of Donald Trump doing this. He did it multiple times last night. Like, for example, let's take a look at another one.
Starting point is 00:12:25 This one was also especially concerning. It came from the same account. Donald Trump is engaging with the same user on truth social multiple times on his page, amplifying posts from them. This is another graphic of some sort that they posted. And it's a picture of Donald Trump doused in gold. It's as dictatorial, as cult-like as it gets. And it reads the golden age on top. And then here's what's concerning. Donald J. Trump 45, 47, 48. Now, of course, Trump is the 45th and 47th president of the United States, but they threw 48 in there, indicating that Donald Trump is running for a third term, even though that's not how it works at all. He would not be the 48th president. He would just continue to be the 47th theoretically if you ran for a third term, which is of course
Starting point is 00:13:10 unconstitutional, but they threw 48 in there. We need this winning to continue. So this is somebody directly saying like, hey, Trump, I want you to run for a third term. I want you to be president again. And it was reposted by Donald Trump. It was amplified on his page. Now Trump has obviously engaged with this idea of running for a third term. Then he said, oh, I'm not going to do it. Now he's doing it again. I mean, the Trump organization is selling Trump 2028 hats. They actually have merchandise for this stuff. Now Trump is reposting stuff like this again, again, after previously saying, oh, I'm going to do it, I'm not going to do it. Now he's back to saying I'm going to do it.
Starting point is 00:13:46 And once a guy, I just can't believe that this is the president of the United States. This is what this guy is doing in the middle of the night, amplifying random posts from random people. And you can even believe it. It continued. It wasn't just twice. He did it more. Here's another one. Is anyone going to tell the GOP that Trump is the only reason they have any,
Starting point is 00:14:05 voters left. So in this instance, this is it not necessarily like a QAnon thing, but it's Donald Trump going after his Republican Party. It's the king mentality that he has, that I am the king, I'm the dictator of the Republican Party. Without me, they'd be nothing. You know, once I'm gone, the Republican Party crashes. This is something that Donald Trump has genuinely said before about the Republican Party that they need him. He doesn't need them. They need him. And they've kind of bought into that conspiracy. They've kind of bought into that idea that they actually do need Donald Trump more than he needs them. And that's why we're in this situation we're in right now, where we have like this cult like following in the Republican Party where if you step out
Starting point is 00:14:41 a line, you are instantly excommunicated. You're excommunicated never to be let in Republican politics again. And Donald Trump is still pushing this idea. Is anyone going to tell the GOP that Trump is the only reason they have any voters left? Again, amplified by the president. And it continues. There's another one. Here's another insane one. Now this is really diving into conspiracy theory land, Q and on land once again. It's an AI photo of Barack Obama surrounded by money for some reason. And the caption is, we know who is responsible for Iran's nuke program. Now, they're trying to claim, if you can even believe this, that Barack Obama, who hasn't
Starting point is 00:15:22 been in office since 2017, is now responsible for problems in the United States in 2025. Donald Trump is still trying to make Obama take the fall for everything he, does bad. Now, what we know to be fact is that actually Donald Trump is responsible for the problems in Iran. He's the president right now. He's the one that escalated the situation. Obama's the one who negotiated a nuclear deal that got Iran to put down their nuclear weapons, stop their nuclear program. Donald Trump yanked this out of that deal. And then what do you know, Iran starts making nukes, allegedly, according to U.S. intelligence. But amplifying just crap. This is, this is garbage. This is BS. There's no fact behind this. And Donald Trump is, of course,
Starting point is 00:16:02 engaging in a lot of projection, the idea that Obama is responsible for his failures, his problems, and his disasters. And there's another one right here, that the final one that he amplified, in the midst, again, of all the different chaos. You can see all these different posts that he's just letting loose. Here's another one where it's, I mean, this photo doesn't, it looks really strange to me. It kind of looks off in terms of like whether it's real or not, but it's just a random protester saying, not paid protesters, just love Trump, say awesome if you love this pick. This is like Facebook slop that you see from like the mag of weirdos. But I mean, I guess Donald Trump is playing into the conspiracy theory that all the Democrats
Starting point is 00:16:40 who protest against them are paid because nobody can just be against a convicted felon. You know, somebody that assaults women and commits business fraud and breaks the law. Nobody can be against that. He just has to believe that if somebody's opposing him, they must be paid or it must be a conspiracy theory of some kind. But just engaging in nonstop conspiracy, we have a commander in chief, a president of the United States, who is dealing with major global problems right now, especially in the Middle East. And instead of focusing on that, he's amplifying, promoting, posting conspiracy after conspiracy.
Starting point is 00:17:12 And we have no leadership as a country. We have no leadership right now. Our leadership is absent. They're too busy posting slop on social media. It is insane that this is the president of the United States. So those posts were back to back to back to back, just nonstop amidst, again, I do want to emphasize all the other stuff that he was just posting late at night last night. And this was the last one that he posted at 1149 at night, which was bragging about a ruling from the Ninth
Starting point is 00:17:37 Circuit Court of Appeals. But regardless, I just had to talk about those posts more because I didn't see them getting enough attention. We need to be calling this stuff out. And I'm going to continue to do that. I'm not going to stop. So anyway. So we all know that MAGA is currently in civil war. They're arguing amongst themselves. They are divided. It's just been this whole thing. And it's all because Donald Trump may go to war with Iran. Some MAGA fans feel betrayed, lied to because Donald Trump said he was the pro-peace president
Starting point is 00:18:09 that there'd be no conflict under him. And then other MAGA fans are saying, well, you know, it's Trump. We got to rock with him. He's got to do what he's got to do. So the base is fractured. But here's the thing. A second war inside of the Trump administration is currently breaking out in public. This is not a hidden thing.
Starting point is 00:18:25 It's happening all in the public eye. And this war is actually something that Donald Trump himself has chimed in on. So I'm going to show you his responses to this civil war in his administration in a minute and break down this story. But before I do so, I do want to give you the current state of MAGA with all these different conservatives coming out against Donald Trump. Alex Jones, who we all know is Looney Tunes, right? The other day on Twitter, he posted this. What you voted for, what you got. I hope this is not the case.
Starting point is 00:18:53 It's a photo of Donald Trump. and then an AI photo of Trump and George W. Bush combined, which is really a photo I did not need to see today. But nonetheless, he's basically trying to imply that Donald Trump is pro-war, that he lied to his base, that he's slowly becoming George Bush when it comes to Middle East intervention. And that's something that Candace Owen similarly said, kind of betraying the base, saying, quote, Donald Trump just completely fractured his base. This was the other day. And he did it for the very neocons who minted the never-Trump movement.
Starting point is 00:19:23 truly unbelievable, and that's in response to Donald Trump saying that Iran can't have a nuclear weapon. We saw something similar as well with Dave Smith taking it a step further. He's a comedian, major Trump fan before the election. He's now calling for Donald Trump to be impeached and removed from office. It's like sitting after Pearl Harbor over now. The time for negotiations was before this. And so, yeah, Donald Trump looks and, man, I supported him this last year. I apologize for doing so.
Starting point is 00:19:53 It was a bad calculation. At the time, it seemed like the right one. But he should be impeached and removed for this one. And not on some, like, not on some ridiculous Nancy Pelosi. Of course, the Congress. Wow. Impeached and removed for this one regarding Iran's, Trump's policy toward Iran. So this is happening as we speak.
Starting point is 00:20:13 But as I mentioned, the smaller war is taking place. And it is pretty significant. It's happening in a significant wing of the government. So let's dive in here. The Trump appointed director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency has ignited an intra-governmental civil war with a series of tweets calling for the resignation of the Federal Reserve Chair. Businessman Bill Pultz launched his campaign against Jerome Powell on Wednesday with a tirade calling on Powell to lower interest rates shortly before it was announced that the Federal Reserve
Starting point is 00:20:44 would not be changing interest rates this month. He wrote, quote, because Donald Trump has crushed inflation, I don't know where he's getting that from. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell needs to lower interest rates today. And if not, Chairman Powell needs to resign immediately. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can help so many more Americans if Chair Powell will just do his job and lower rates. So this is concerning for a number of reasons.
Starting point is 00:21:07 But the main one is that the federal government, aka the Trump administration, the executive and people around him, are directly trying to influence the Fed. You know, the presidency and the Fed are independent for a reason. They're separate. so the president doesn't just control the money supply here in the United States and the entire economy, so politics can't interfere with it. And now the Trump administration is trying to make politics interfere with it. So this is another addition to the long list of examples of Donald Trump's dictatorial tendencies
Starting point is 00:21:34 and the people around him engaging in dictatorial tendencies. It's very strange. Over the course of the next day, Pult posted an additional eight tweets calling on Powell to resign. Does anybody in the Trump administration do anything? I mean, these people are tweeting like 10 to 20 times a day. They do anything? In one, he used his position as chairman of government-backed mortgage finances to point the finger at Powell's failure to lower interest rates that is hurting the housing market.
Starting point is 00:21:58 In another, he claimed that Powell had no clue what he could do for the housing market and was, quote, not listening to the people who help lead. As a result, he needed to resign. In response to an article from the Hill about his crusade, Pult explained his repeated calls for Powell to resign, quote, he is hurting Americans and hurting the mortgage market, which I am responsible for regulating. The latest conflict comes as the Republicans find themselves, of course, embroiled in another civil war over Donald Trump's handling of the Middle East.
Starting point is 00:22:26 Polt was eventually joined by Donald Trump, who posted on Truth Social, and I'll show you that right now. This is a post directly from the President of the United States. Again, the executive and the Federal Reserve is meant to remain separate, but Donald Trump doesn't care about any of that. He said, quote, too late, Powell is the worst, a real dummy who's costing America billions. Fannie, Freddie, regulator, Powell should cut rates or quit. That's people who work in the Federal Reserve.
Starting point is 00:22:52 So Donald Trump joined as well. And Donald Trump didn't stop there. He followed up with a longer post writing on Thursday morning, and I have it here for you as well. Quote, too late, Jerome Powell is costing our country hundreds of billions of dollars. He is truly one of the dumbest and most destructive people in government. And the Fed Board is complicit. Europe has had 10 cuts. We've had none.
Starting point is 00:23:12 We should be 2.5 points lower and save billions in all of Biden's. short-term debt. We have low inflation, too late, an American disgrace. So Donald Trump himself, again, the president is directly chiming in here posting just relentless crap. And the funny thing about this story is that Donald Trump is the one who nominated Jerome Powell for the position of chairman for the Fed Reserve in 2017, breaking from her tradition by naming a new appointee, rather than reappointing the previous chair. So Jerome Powell is there because of Donald Trump. let's just be abundantly clear about all of that. But it's just interesting that Donald Trump's entire argument is like, oh, we have low inflation
Starting point is 00:23:50 so we can lower the interest rates. It's like, no, if Donald Trump wants low inflation, he should take the tariffs off. Jerome Powell has been abundantly clear that the only reason rates are still high is because of an expected raise in inflation because of Donald Trump's tariffs. He said at a press conference the other day that like, look, somebody has to pay for the tariffs. And he's right. Somebody has to pay for the tariffs. It's going to be the American people at the end of the day.
Starting point is 00:24:12 But Donald Trump is complaining about the interest rate, saying they need to be lower, they need to be lower. Meanwhile, he is the reason why inflation is still high and why inflation in 2025 is expected to actually go up. Now, Powell had responded negatively to Trump's proposed tariff scheme earlier this year, cautioning that it could lead to higher inflation and slower growth, which the Fed is now projecting. Despite these threats, according to the New York Times by Donald Trump, the president is aware that attempting to remove Powell from his position could further damage an already volatile market, while Federal Reserve chairs are nominated by the President, as Powell was in 2017, the question of whether they can be removed by the president is a legally
Starting point is 00:24:50 complex and politically fraught one. Trump firing Powell could be seen as compromising the political independence of the Federal Reserve. And they're right, Donald Trump trying to fire the chair of the Federal Reserve would be disastrous, not only politically and legally, because it's like, does Donald Trump even have the power to do that, but the markets, the economy, which have already crumbled under Donald Trump and are projecting slower growth under Donald Trump, they would react terribly. I mean, the president doing that would cause utter chaos around the country, and it would be all Donald Trump's fault. So this is all happening in real time. This smaller civil war taking place inside the Trump administration is happening right now. And it's not getting as
Starting point is 00:25:31 much coverage, obviously, because, you know, the civil war over Iran has really broken out among the MAGA base. They are not happy at what Donald Trump is doing. But none of the it's still significant because we're talking about the Federal Reserve. We're talking about the American economy here of which the Trump administration is attacking the Fed. The Fed is saying we're not going to bow to the pressure. And I hope they don't. I hope they just don't start cutting rates, the interest rates, which so far they've been pretty good on this. I hope they don't start cutting interest rates just because Donald Trump asked them to because it makes his economy look better and he gets a higher approval rating or whatever it might be. Because still,
Starting point is 00:26:03 inflation in the United States is very high. It is very high. And Donald Trump has made it higher and the projection is not good in the future. As Donald Trump's presidency continues to collapse with MAGA Civil War, raging Americans feeling the pain that Donald Trump is inflicting on all of us, more and more MAGA voters are getting out there and saying, hey, I regret my vote for Donald Trump. I made a mistake. He's the wrong guy for the job. And this is happening across the country from average everyday Americans to even MAGA influence. who swore by Donald Trump, it is devastating for him and his administration. And it's especially happening after all these ice rates in California and what Donald Trump is doing in the Middle
Starting point is 00:26:49 East. So I want to show you a bunch of examples that have been gathered. But first and foremost, let me show you one from TikTok where a woman who came on saying, hey, I voted for peace. I voted for a peaceful presidency, no conflict, and she feels betrayed by Donald Trump. Take a look. I think the hardest part about all of this is that middle-aged, I didn't think I could get fooled again by politicians, not after W. Which I voted for. Except she got fooled by the biggest con man known to American politics, but I digress. I voted for peace in independent parties every election since then. And I'm still processing the fact that I've part of it.
Starting point is 00:27:40 of the demographic that ushered this into power. Now we're sending her kids to die in war again. Over nukes. Not weapons of mass destruction. That was never going to work. It's full-blown, maybe potentially nukes this time. I hate myself. I hate myself at the end.
Starting point is 00:28:06 She just said this is as much regret as you're going to see from these MAGA folks. She voted for Donald Trump on the idea of peace of an independent party is what she said. But her view now is that, quote, I hate myself. That's how much regret that some MAGA fans are feeling over Donald Trump, especially now because he's on the verge of going to war with Iran after promising he'd be the peace president. He would only focus on eliminating conflict, not getting into new conflict, and now look where we are. So let's dive into some of these examples that have been gathered. Let's start here.
Starting point is 00:28:40 These ICE rates have received backlash from those on the left, but even the MAGA crowd isn't holding back their disapproval. of immigrant families being torn apart. Here's one example from Facebook. I honestly did not vote for deportation or any of that. I voted for so many other things that I felt would benefit my little family and it has been fulfilled slash is being fulfilled. So that's one voter saying,
Starting point is 00:29:01 hey, I do not like what I'm seeing in Los Angeles. I am not a fan. But let's get into some conservative influencers, some big names that endorsed Donald Trump before the election. Ryan Garcia, a professional boxer, endorsed Donald Trump in the 2024 election, but he recently spoke out against Donald Trump's ICE raids in L.A.
Starting point is 00:29:19 This is a post that you can see on your screen that Ryan Garcia made before the election. He went to Mar-Lago. He hung out with Donald Trump. They made videos together. They took photos together. He posted these photos saying, America, that was it. But now he's changed his tune just slightly. Ryan Garcia posted recently, I may have voted for Trump, but I can't stay silent about what's happening with ice in L.A.
Starting point is 00:29:42 These aren't just, quote, illegals or statistics. They're people. Hardworking immigrants, especially Mexicans who pay taxes, raise families, build our communities, and are part of the people we love. Ripping them away from their homes is not just policy, it's pain. We can have borders without losing our humanity. Just to be clear, having borders without losing our humanity is the exact policy. And I mean, to a T, that Kamala Harris ran on, that Joe Biden, was promoting during his presidency, having borders, enforcing our borders, having a strong immigration system, reforming that immigration system to make it more efficient. But that entire policy of approaching immigration in a humane way is something Kamala Harris said time and time and time
Starting point is 00:30:27 again. So let me just start off by saying, look, I'm very happy that some of these MAGA voters are having regret over their support for Donald Trump. I'm never going to reject a MAGA fan who says, hey, you know, I don't like Trump anymore. Maybe we can gain a voter or something like that. But It's so frustrating for Mag gets to say like the exact same things that Kamala Harris was saying. That's the policy they support, except they voted for Donald Trump. And it gets worse, if you can even believe it. The co-founder of Latinas for Trump, Ileana Garcia, called the recent ICE raids, unacceptable and inhumane, saying this is not what I voted for.
Starting point is 00:31:00 She ran Latinas for Trump. She said, quote, I stand with Congresswoman Salazar as the state senator who represents her district and the daughter of Cuban refugees who are now just as American, if not more so than Stephen Miller, I am deeply disappointed by these actions and I will not stand down. I want to put myself on record. This is not what we voted for. I have always supported Trump through thick and thin. However, this is unacceptable and inhumane. I understand the importance of deporting criminal aliens, but what we are witnessing are arbitrary measures to hunt down people who are complying with their immigration hearings in many cases with credible fear of persecution claims, all driven
Starting point is 00:31:36 by a Miller-like desire to satisfy a self-fabricated deportation goal. This undermines the of fairness and unjust and injustice, or excuse me, justice that the American people value. So again, co-founder of Latinas for Trump saying, hey, I'm not supporting all these undocumented immigrants who are here working, who are here paying taxes, doing all these things. I am not support ripping these families apart. And it drives me nuts. Drives me nuts when people say, this is not what we voted for. I didn't vote for this.
Starting point is 00:32:07 Yes, you did. Yes, you did. Donald Trump made it abundantly clear before the election that if he were to get into office, he would have the largest deportation campaign in American history. It wouldn't just be targeting criminals, not just bad people doing bad things, which, by the way, Democrats support. It would be going after everybody, everybody, regardless of if you've been here for 20 years, regardless of if you're working a job, paying taxes, any of that stuff, everybody would be
Starting point is 00:32:34 targeted by Donald Trump. And so when you say, this is not what I voted for, I'm sorry, it is. unfortunately. And I will always, as I just said before, I will always welcome somebody to our side to hopefully get another voter and hopefully win an election. But to say that, oh, you know, I didn't see this coming, please. You ran Latinos for Trump. How about this one? This Latino voter says he has logic, empathy, and reason, which is why he doesn't support the ice raids. Vic, and his last name was blurred out for privacy reasons on Facebook said, I'm a 41-year-old man with logic, empathy, and reason. I'm a Latino from Mexican parents, a Texas native, a Marine Combat veteran, and a proud of
Starting point is 00:33:09 I voted for Donald Trump, and I don't support this regarding ICE raids. And there's more. One Florida Trump voter lost one third of his employees at his roofing company due to ICE raids. This guy says Trump voter, Billy Corbyn, a journalist. Trump voter in Florida Keyes says ICE detained a third of his employees at small roofing company, quote, thought the administration was going to focus on deporting criminals, but seems immigration officials are just trying to meet quotas. And that's right. Donald Trump has continued to target people in construction sites, on farms, just in different aspects of the economy. And we've now had this major gap in parts of the economy where it's more expensive to build things. It's more expensive to get food. It's more expensive for small businesses and
Starting point is 00:33:53 small towns doing a variety of different services to operate because of Donald Trump. Again, how did you not see this coming? This is what Donald Trump said. If you didn't support this, if you didn't support one third of your company being fired, vote for Kamala Harris. It's that simple. Here's another one. Trump voter, I feel for this deportation issue and the way it's come about me. None of these families deserve to be ripped apart. This anonymous person says, just because I voted for Trump doesn't mean I agreed with every single political view he had. I got what I wanted out of my vote. Interesting. I feel for this deportation issue and the way it's come about. None of these families deserve to be ripped apart like this. And don't come commenting your BS because I don't care to sit and read ignorance. So it's crazy that she's still saying, I got what I wanted out of my vote, but these families don't deserve to be ripped apart. Is that what you want? out of your vote? Are you doubling down on that as well? Is her view that, hey, you know, these families being ripped apart is just a necessary part of Trump's policies to make America great again or whatever their claim is? And let's just look at one final one. This anonymous person again on Facebook, quote, I honestly did not vote for deportation or any of that. I voted
Starting point is 00:34:57 for so many other things that I felt would benefit my little family and it has been fulfilled slash is being fulfilled. So another voter saying that some aspects of their vote has been fulfilled, but I didn't vote for deportation. And I've said this like a million times now. I feel like a broken record. But you did. You did. That was Donald Trump's main campaign promise. Deportation. Just going to send people out of the country regardless. And let me just tell you, there's so many other examples of people regretting their vote. The list does go on of all these MAGA fans who are saying, hey, I am not with what Donald Trump is doing. I'm not backing it. And some of them are even saying I wouldn't have voted for Donald Trump if I had the opportunity now. But anyway, I just had to show you some of these MAGA voters.
Starting point is 00:35:35 who are saying, uh-uh, not a fan of what's going on, especially in pertaining to these ice raids. Anytime Donald Trump opens his mouth on something regarding U.S. politics, whether it be foreign policy, domestic policy, whatever topic, you name it. He somehow makes it worse every single time. Everything Donald Trump touches goes to die. And that's exactly what happened today when he spoke to reporters on the tarmac after landing in New Jersey to go to his Bedminster Club to play golf all weekend. while there are so many issues taking place around the world.
Starting point is 00:36:08 In this press conference, he sabotaged further negotiations with Iran. He threw his own administration officials under the bus. And he just tried to puff himself up with these random rants he went on. So I want to start here. And we'll watch this clip and talk about it. But just take a look at what Donald Trump says here. Just in time to see whether or not people come to their senses. Cool.
Starting point is 00:36:35 Yeah. So the question was hard to hear because of the plane in the background. But a reporter asks him, what's the thought process behind the two-week time frame that you gave? Because Donald Trump said he'll make a decision on what to do on Iran in two weeks. That's his claim. And he says, quote, just a time to see whether people come to their senses or not. Except this is a common phrase with Donald Trump. According to the New York Times, the two weeks is the magic number for Trump.
Starting point is 00:37:01 And they're absolutely right. You know, this is what Donald Trump, this is when Donald Trump says he'll be ready to make his decision about bombing Iran or not, you know, within the next story. two weeks. This new timeline was offered by Caroline Levitt at a press briefing recently, but of course, it sounds familiar to a lot of people. Almost everyone in Washington is now aware of the two weeks and how it's one of Donald Trump's favorite units of time. Recently, he was asked eight weeks ago if he could trust Vladimir Putin on Russia, and he said, I'll let you know in about two weeks. That never came. Of course, tax plans, health care policies, evidence of conspiracy theories he claimed were true, the fight against ISIS, the opening of some coal mines,
Starting point is 00:37:39 structure plans. All of these different things, Donald Trump said at some point would be coming in two weeks. The health care plan in particular, he said that five years ago. I'm going to be getting a plan in two weeks, except that was five years ago when he was president the first time. And what a surprise, that never came. So this whole two-week time frame that he's set for Iran is total nonsense. It's like you should totally disregard when Donald Trump says that because it could mean it's coming in the next couple of days. It could come in six months. It could never come. That's the unfortunate reality of the president we're dealing with right now, who has no regard for the truth and no regard for transparency with the American people. So let's move on to the next clip where
Starting point is 00:38:18 Donald Trump is so brazenly lying about his policy and his past positions, it's sickening. Just take a look. 20 years ago, you were skeptical of a Republican administration that attacked the Middle East country on the idea of questionable intelligence of weapons of mass destruction. How is this moment different with Iran? Well, there were no weapons of mass destruction. I never thought there were. And that was somewhat pre-nuclear, you know, it was there was a nuclear age, but nothing like it is today. And it looked like I'm right about the material that they've gathered already. It's a tremendous amount of material. And I think within a matter of weeks or certainly within a matter of months, they were going to be able to have a nuclear weapon. We can't let that happen.
Starting point is 00:39:01 I was very much opposed to Iraq. I was, I said it loud and clear, but I was a civilian, but I guess I got a lot of publicity, but I was very much opposed to the Iraq war. And I actually did say, don't go in, don't go in, don't go in, don't go in. But I said, if you're going to go in, keep the oil. But they didn't do that. What, until 20 years. I mean, he's just openly being dishonest here. And as CNN journalist, Andrew Kaczynski pointed out, in response to this question in particular,
Starting point is 00:39:30 where he's saying, oh, I never supported this invasion. He said, must note, number one, Trump did not oppose the Iraq invasion before. happened, obviously. Two, he was on record supporting the invasion. Three, he celebrated it as a success at first. And then four, he did not turn against it publicly until a year later. So at first, Donald Trump was very much in favor of this invasion of Iraq. And then only a year later, after saying it was successful, only a year later, it was like, eh, I'm not a big fan of it now. And now his entire position is, oh, I've always been anti-war, except that's obviously not true. And Donald Trump, in his first administration, was sending drone strikes all over the world.
Starting point is 00:40:09 We were beefing with Iran. All these different countries were targeting the United States. And now Donald Trump is trying to rewrite history, not only on things like the Iraq war, but also his own record when it comes to conflict around the world. So, and this clip will be relevant in just a second as well. But I want to move on to the next one where he's demanding a Nobel Peace Prize. This kind of flows nicely because the guy who launched all these drone strikes in his first term, and the guy who's now walked the United States into a possible war with Iran is demanding a Nobel
Starting point is 00:40:39 Peace Prize. He's just so jealous that President Obama has one. I feel like that's where this is coming from. Let's take a look. Sir, Liam Cosper, Missouri. Former Congressman Matt Gates throughout an interesting idea, suggesting that if you were to broker a deal where nuclear inspectors go into both Israel and Iran, that you can win a Nobel Peace Prize, and they might even rename it the Trump Peace Prize. Did you hear those? What do you think of that? Well, they should give me the Nobel Prize. for Rwanda and have you looked to Congo or you could say Serbia, Kosovo, you could say a lot of them.
Starting point is 00:41:11 You could say, I mean, the big one is India and Pakistan. I should have gotten it four or five times. I should get it for the, I would think the Abraham Accords would be a good one too. They won't give me a Nobel Peace Prize because they only give it to liberals. No, they give it to anybody. They give it to Democrat Republicans who actually broker people. and do things that are worthwhile, they don't give it to people who try to claim that they've brokered peace while simultaneously sending drone strikes around the world. That's just, it's not quite how it
Starting point is 00:41:42 works. It's not really the way the Nobel Peace Prize works. And I just love that he's citing random examples that he had no input on, like India and Pakistan. There are officials from, I believe, Pakistan recently that were like, yeah, Donald Trump had nothing to do with this. So he's demanding a Nobel Peace Prize on something that he had nothing to do with. But this wouldn't be the first time that Donald Trump claimed credit for something. He had no hands. But just the fact that we have the president like, you know, complimenting himself constantly saying, oh, yeah, I deserve the prize. I deserve it five or six times by now is so gross.
Starting point is 00:42:14 You would just never hear somebody like Biden, Harris, Obama saying things like this. The last clip I want to show you is Donald Trump throwing Tulsi Gabbard again under the bus. Have a look. They didn't do that. What intelligence do you have that Iran is building a nuclear weapon? Your intelligence community has said they have no evidence that they are at this point. Well, then my intelligence community is wrong. Who in the intelligence community said that?
Starting point is 00:42:36 You're a director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. She's wrong. Wow. This is the second time in a week that Donald Trump has been asked about Tulsi Gabbard saying, yeah, you know, Iran's not building a nuclear weapon. He just dismisses her saying, yeah, she's wrong. And this actually is a broader feud that's taking place between Tulsi Gabbard and Donald Trump. They are not happy with one another.
Starting point is 00:42:59 Trump is certainly not happy with Tulsi Gabbard, because at 5.30 a.m. on June 10th, Tulsi Gabbard tweeted a cryptic three-minute video warning that, quote, the political elite and warmongerers are carelessly fomenting fear and tension between nuclear powers and that the world is on the brink of nuclear annihilation. Trump saw that video and became furious, complaining to associates at the White House that she had spoken out of turn, according to three people familiar with the episode. Her first post came a few days after Israel Hawks met with Trump. at the White House to lobby him to join their attacks on Iran. In the eyes of Trump and some close
Starting point is 00:43:36 to him, Gabbard was warning him not to greenlight Israel attacking Iran. Somebody said on the rec, or excuse me, anonymously, I don't think he dislikes Tulsi as a person, but certainly the video made him not super hot on her and he doesn't like it when people are off message. So you're seeing Donald Trump target people like Tulsi Gabbard by name. That is purposeful. That's not just him throwing a random person under the bus. It's because he feels Tulsi Gabbard spoke out of turn, undermined him in his administration and now they're beefing. So it's great. It's fantastic that not only are these two people in these really important positions,
Starting point is 00:44:08 president and D&I secretary, not only are they incredibly incompetent, but they're also beefing with each other. In the middle of the United States, possibly going into a war, that, to me, seems like a recipe for failure. One of the things that we all know Democrats have to do better is kind of winning back this podcast space, these mag conservative guys in the podcast area, the Joe Rogans, the Theo Vons who were about to talk about,
Starting point is 00:44:34 they played a major role in swaying the election for Donald Trump in 2024 and getting young men, especially to vote for Donald Trump. And that's why what I'm about to show you is just so amazing to me and so needed because Theo Vaughn had Representative Roe Kana, a Democrat from California, on his show. And in under around two minutes, Ro Kana got Theo Vaughan to agree with him, to agree with the Democrats.
Starting point is 00:44:59 And I think that this is so powerful and can do so much for the Democratic Party. And let's be clear, Theo Vaughn is somebody who, before the 2024 presidential election, was praising Donald Trump. He was attending and invited to Donald Trump's inauguration declared that it's time to put America first.
Starting point is 00:45:15 He called the inauguration inspiring, saying he was happy to be there. He even interviewed Donald Trump on his podcast before the election. Take a look. But your thing is going really great. My son's a big fan of you as Baron. Really? Baron is? Yeah. He just graduated high school, right?
Starting point is 00:45:31 That's right. He just said, he knows you very well. He said, Dad, he's big. Wow. That's cool. That's cool. That's where it is nowadays, right? Yeah, well, it's interesting. You know, yeah, I can't believe that. So you're kind of, you kind of get the idea. I mean, you know, Theo Vaughn interviewed Donald Trump, helped him before the election, endorsed him, spoke positively of him. And now, in the past couple of weeks and days, Theo Vaughn has said some things that are somewhat critical of Donald Trump and his administration. And so seeing clips like this where Roe Kana was able to go on to Theo Vaughn's podcast and convince him of something is pretty impressive. So I want to show you this clip and just one more after this and talk about it really quickly. Have a look. But I do know some things.
Starting point is 00:46:11 I know this that I'll say this. This is in that big beautiful bill. And I don't know everything that's in it, but this is one thing that really stood out to me. And I asked a JD about this. It says for a full 10 years after enactment, no U.S. state or locality may enforce any law. or regulation that limits restricts or otherwise regulates artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems entered into interstate commerce. Only laws. So what he's referencing here is a provision that's in Donald Trump's big, beautiful bill, that essentially prevents regulation on AI for 10 years in states.
Starting point is 00:46:48 So if AI gets super developed in the next 10 years, and it's starting to take jobs away from people, just hypothetically, right? the states on an individual level can't regulate that. That's what Trump is trying to do. And Theo Vaughn is calling the bill out by name, the big, beautiful bill that Donald Trump is trying to pass and criticizing it on his show in front of millions. And then listen to Rokana's response.
Starting point is 00:47:08 It's fantastic. Laws encouraging use or deployment of AI are excluded. That means that you won't have any legal recourse against a machine. Basically. Like, you know how you said you want hands on a wheel? Yeah. If now a state wants to pass a law saying you've got to have a truck driver on a truck, you can't do that. If your state wants to pass a law saying you can't have an
Starting point is 00:47:30 algorithm in social media that gets young girls addicted to content that makes them more likely to have eating disorders, can't do that. So it's just going to be federal, have the only federal will be the only one. And you know what? Do you not see how crazy? Do you not see what is at the gates? And by the way, you're not going to get federal legislation because the way you get federal legislation in this country is when you get a bunch of states that pass legislation, then you get the industry coming to the federal government saying, oh, there are too many state laws, can you just get one federal standard?
Starting point is 00:48:01 But if you don't have the state laws, you're never going to have industry coming saying, let's get a federal standard. So it's basically like, let's have AI just develop. And that is the problem, right? There's the beautiful AI vision of how your nephews could learn this and build wealth, and we could have some people in one generation,
Starting point is 00:48:19 have economic security. And then there's the dystopian AI vision, where big government and big companies, control our data, or making decisions based on what predictive algorithms are telling about us, where we lose control to machines. And the question is, which way are we going to go as a society? And who's going to benefit? Is the AI revolution going to be like globalization? All the money piles up in my district. You know, we'll be sitting here five years from now instead of $14 trillion, it'll be $50 trillion, and places like Louisiana will still be shafted, or,
Starting point is 00:48:55 Or is the AI revolution going to be owned by American citizens? Like to me, that is the whole biggest question of our society right now. I agree. And him, Theo Vaughn at the end, just saying, I agree, is so vital. Theo Vaughn has obviously a very conservative audience. A lot of MAGA people tune in to his podcast, his shows. A lot of people who listened to him did vote for Donald Trump. That is a demographic.
Starting point is 00:49:23 And it's not hyper political people. it's young men, you know, between the ages of 18 to 29, for the most part, who are just getting out of college, just working their first job. They were sucked into this kind of pipeline, this right-wing pipeline online, and ended up voting for Donald Trump. So for those viewers, hearing Theo Vaughan interview a Democrat saying, I agree with that Democrat, hearing that Democrat say something that is common sense, right, that we are at an inflection point here when it comes to AI and we need to approach this in the right way and not
Starting point is 00:49:51 just basically hand the keys to a bunch of billionaire. and their tech companies, hearing a Democrat articulate that view in a smart way is vital for convincing people. And it's vital for Theo Vaughn, who just said, I agree, a major criticism of this big, beautiful bill that Donald Trump is trying to pass. And he named it by name, set it out loud, and agreed with a Democrat on it. This is a major, major moment. And I also want to show you another clip where they were talking about Donald Trump and what he's trying to do in the Middle East. And I think, again, Roe-Kana just articulated this so well. And Theo Vaughn responded in a very positive way for the Democrats.
Starting point is 00:50:27 Have a look. At the bill that you guys were thinking about, what is it called? It's called the war powers resolution to stop a war in Iran, which basically says before the president does anything to go into war with Iran, he's got to get a vote in Congress. And how long does that take, though, like usually to get a vote in Congress? Like, is there a certain period of time? Like, can they do it in 24 hours? It takes weeks or what? They could.
Starting point is 00:50:47 It's the decision of the Speaker of the House to when he can bring it. He has to bring it within 15 days. but what we want is today. But by the way, you know, there are a lot of Trump supporters who are telling him, don't go into this war. Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Green. Oh, Dave Smith was talking about it. He's a political.
Starting point is 00:51:05 He's a comedian who also talks a lot about politics, you know? Oh, I think this is a horrible idea, you know? You know, and yeah, people say, well, you don't know a ton about the Middle East. I'm like, that's fine. I don't want people I know my friends getting called up. I don't want the children of my friends. getting called over to die. I don't even understand how it's an option.
Starting point is 00:51:27 The only reason I even kind of want it to be possible is to give is that if Israel like goes to war with Iran, then it'll at least stop killing Palestinian people for a day or two, right? You know what I'm saying? Like that's like my own, it's like at least point the guns that way, you know, kind of that's See, look at this. I mean, Theo Vaughn's like, yeah, I think what Donald Trump is doing, essentially trying to get into war with Iran is a horrible idea. A horrible idea.
Starting point is 00:51:53 I don't want my friends, children going to war. I don't want to see people I know going to war and dying. I don't want that. And Donald Trump right now keeps flirting with the idea of going to war with Iran. That's why having Democrats enter these kind of more conservative spaces and having these conversations is so vital for the future of the Democratic Party. And let me tell you, as a young man, I'm 22 years old myself. I see the dialogue, the discourse online among other young men regarding politics.
Starting point is 00:52:21 When stuff like this happens, the response is overwhelmingly positive. When Democrats go on these shows and start talking to conservative hosts, people change their minds. People say, you know what? That Democrat I heard from, the policies that they were outlining, it doesn't sound that bad. It kind of sounds like common sense. And it kind of sounds like I was duped by Donald Trump. I feel like so many younger folks, younger men especially, are feeling that right now. And so I just had to show you this clip because I think Rokana was fantastic.
Starting point is 00:52:48 He articulated himself really well. He discussed the issues really well. And I hope we see more of this. I hope we see more Democrats on conservative platforms because this new era with new media, the new media we're engaging in right now, is the way. And it will be the way for the future.
Starting point is 00:53:03 So anyway, I will leave the video there. Thank you so much for watching. I appreciate you being here. Make sure to subscribe to the channel down below. It goes an incredibly long way. Drop a like on the video, comment. Let me know what you think about this story. And as I always say, I greatly appreciate you.
Starting point is 00:53:18 and I hope you have an amazing rest of your day.

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