The Josh Innes Show - How Does Trump's Brain Work?

Episode Date: December 16, 2025

I'm not super appalled by Trump's Rob Reiner message. I don't support it or agree with it. I find it to be pretty warped. But, we've seen so much bizarre and gross junk over the years that a Tweet isn't really going to rock my world. That said, it's clearly messed up. That said, I'm amazed by how Trump's brain works. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, everybody. Welcome in, all up in us on this Tuesday. Glad you guys are hanging out. Glad you guys tell all your friends about the podcast. But if you don't, you should because, I mean, it's a nice little podcast, and I would appreciate it if you guys would listen to it because it sure would be swell. So give it a listen. And, of course, listen to the WLLZ show podcast as well. Just search for the Josh Ennis show. I'm well aware that there have been 9,000 iterations of the Josh Ennis show, whether it be in podcast, or radio show form. I'm fully aware of this. But make sure you tell all your friends and all that because it would be greatly appreciated. And to start today, we talked about this on the radio

show a little bit too, but I'll expound. Is that the word I'm looking for? Expound on this. That I, like, so the Rob Reiner thing. All right. Rob Reiner, he has died, obviously. He and his wife were murdered. It appears they were murdered by their son, a very effed up story, and there's a lot of effed up things about it. But I could make an argument that Trump's reaction to it is among the more effed up things. Now, I'm not super appalled by anything, as you know. Like, nothing really surprises me and nothing really appalls me. So, like, I don't go, oh my God, like, I watched the Charlie Kirk assassination video. Like, I've watched that. I've watched, you know, like, I used to go to rotten.com. So it would be kind of bogus of me.

to be like, oh my God, this is the most appalling thing ever. And I've been to the Celebrity Morgan Rotten.com, and I've watched the video of the dude in Pennsylvania shooting himself on TV. So, like, look, I'm not some sort of prude, and I'm not some sort of holier-than-thou snobby asshole about this stuff. But something's happened, and you're kind of like, what the fuck? So let's get into that. Let's get into Trump's reaction to Rob Reiner and his wife being murdered.

We will do that. An uplifting topic today after these words. So let's start here. It is well documented that the meathead, that Rob Reiner is a guy or was a guy that was super progressive and did not like Trump. It is also well documented that 99% of the people in Hollywood, at least publicly, are anti-Trump people. So that's nothing new. It is also well known that Trump is pretty much a, it's weird. Like, because if you listen to Trump on podcasts, and maybe it's because he's politicking and maybe he's full of shit, that's very possible.

But if you listen to Trump like when he was on Joe Rogan and you listen to Trump when he's on different podcasts during the campaign and you listen to people talk about their personal dealings with Trump, not Rosie O'Donnell or Keith Olberman, but like real, you know, I say real people, but like celebrities who've had legit encounters with him. Like whenever Bill Maher has said that he, you know, went to the White House and talked with Trump, and it kind of changed his opinion of him as a person. And you talk with him, and it sounds like he legitimately cares about America. And it sounds like he is this kind of introspective kind of guy, very inquisitive, is very interested in what's going on in your life. He asks questions. If you listen to a podcast, he's so inquisitive that he asks questions about shit that have obvious answers, right?

Like, he asks questions about everything to the point that it's almost overly inquisitive, right? Like, you'll be talking to a wrestler or something. Like, he talked to The Undertaker. And he's like, and the Undertaker will be asking questions. Like, so anyway, Trump, when you did blank and blank, he's like, yeah, that's great, but you're a wrestler. So that means you wrestle, right? Tell me about wrestling. And, like, he'll just ask these questions that are, like, almost to the point where you're like,

well, that's an obvious question, like, why you're asking this, we don't know. But he's a genuinely inquisitive guy. And I think there's an element of him that's actually a thoughtful guy. Like I know that there'd be a lot of people that would disagree with that and a lot of people that would think that's insane to say. But if I listen to enough people talk about their encounters with the guy, I can see that being the case, right? But everything he does publicly is that of just an imbecile. Everything he does, it's like he's a guy who can't break character. It's like back when wrestlers couldn't break K-Fabe, right?

So, like, back in the 1970s and 80s, if you broke K-Fabe, it was a huge deal. It's like that guy, I forgot what the guy's name was. They did a one of those documentary show. What the hell was the beyond the ring, not beyond the ring, whatever it was called, Dark Side of the Ring. There was a dark side of the ring about one of these guys who was interviewed by John Stossel for like 2020 about wrestling. And John Stossel, who's a smarmy prick, is like, hey, look, we all know wrestling's fake. And then this guy like slaps the dude in the face and ends up getting sued over it.

Back in the day, it was sacrilege to say that this is fake. It was sacrilege to break character. Like you had to stay in character. If your character was like Genghis Khan, like people could not see you out in public as anything other than Genghis Khan. If you had beef with another wrestler, you couldn't be seen eating dinner with that wrestler. It was cave. That is clearly not the case anymore. Like people know it's fake.

The people online want to write the scripts for it. People know wrestling is not only fake, but people know that, like, these guys aren't who they portray themselves to be, and they don't pretend to anymore. The Rock doesn't pretend to be the rock outside of being the Rock when he's wrestling. You get the point. It's like somebody forgot to tell Trump to turn it off on occasion, right? Like, there's the public persona. Well, I guess you can't because if this is who you are publicly, you can never be, like, a super empathetic figure. Like, this is who Donald Trump is.

So maybe I think that's more of the point. Like behind the scenes, I think he's able to turn it off. I think when he's talking to Bill Maher at the White House, he's able to turn it off. I think when he's on with Joe Rogan on a podcast, he's able to turn it off and be super inquisitive. Or he's just a super fraud and is able to make it seem like he's introspective and interested on podcasts. Maybe that's the thing. Maybe he's a total, maybe that's his narcissistic slash sociopathic way. Maybe he's able to convince you he's interested, but no matter what he's not.

I don't know. All I'm telling you is that when I hear the guy. guy on podcast, and I heard him during the campaign, and I hear him outside of speaking in front of 20,000 people and doing his schick, he sounds like a fairly introspective, decent human being. The problem is, the guy is incapable of breaking character when he's out in public. Like, he adheres to, like, the old school fucking wrestling thing. Like, when he's out there on stage and he's out there doing anything that is for, like,

consumption in that way, it's like he can't be a human. and that's how I feel when I like I see that the post like you see something and you go how the fuck can somebody post this right so he says a very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood Rob Reiner a tortured and struggling but once very talented movie director and comedy stars passed away together with his wife Michelle reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive unyielding and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as Trump deranged syndrome sometimes referred to as TDS. It is so psychotic that it's actually hysterical.

Like when I read that, like there's a part of me that almost kind of admires that Homeboy is just like, fuck it, I'm in. It's like when you watch any of these dummies on TV, these talking head shows, these sports guys, like WIP in Philadelphia. When you listen to WIP in Philadelphia, you almost admire that these guys say stuff that is so fucking stupid that you almost have to be like, you know what?

The fact that you'll sit there and defend this and fight it, I kind of admire that you kind of stay in this role. Like, I admire, like, I love Howard Eskin. He's one of my favorite people. Like, I admire his whole schick.

I admire that the guy never breaks it. Like, he'll be online, and no matter what happens, if he has somebody that he hates, that person that he hates could go out and cure cancer, and it would still be like,

he's basically, he's a Trump. He does Trump things. Like, it's almost fucking hysterical. that like that paragraph is truly given the context one of the funniest and also most appalling things I've ever read about somebody's death like it's almost admirable that my man is so committed to this bit of being this person that he is that he's like watch this like it's like it starts out fine a very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood okay obviously it did two people were stabbed. We're off on the right foot. Let's go Donald. Rob Reiner, okay, that's good.

Then after the comma, it is all downhill and a mixture of fucking hysterical and bat shit crazy and crass and crude and heartless. And it's actually fascinating. Like this is something, like, I get that it's easy to run to social media and be like, I'm super appalled by this. And look, it is appalling. It is. But I'm more entrant. by breaking this thing down and trying to understand what is in this man's brain. Because, like, you know how, like, when, like, dudes, like, football players kill themselves and they shoot themselves in the chest so you can examine their brain for CTE. I need this man's brain examined when he is dead.

Like, I need his brain, like, in, like, a fucking, like, on a table, like, in a, I want bunsen burners and fucking beakers. I want the whole thing. Because I need to know what is going on in this man's brain. because the first line, you're okay. A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood, correct. Rob Reiner, comma, I'm like, all right, let's see where he's going. A tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star has passed away.

All right, we're going downhill here. Now we're just fully in. Like now the snowball is rolling down the hill and there ain't no stop. And we're going zero to a hundred real quick. Reportedly, here's what I love, he says, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind-cripling disease known as Trump derangement syndrome, sometimes referred to as TDS. If not for the fact that this is one of the more appalling things that someone has said about a decent person's death, by the way, this is not Hitler's death, this is not, you know, Osama bin Laden's death. This is the death of a guy who just doesn't fucking like Donald Trump or people that like Donald Trump, right? Like, that's the extent of this.

Like, it is so appalling that it's actually hysterical. I'm not defending it. I wouldn't do it. What I'm saying is it is so effed up that it's actually funny. It's like this. I get gout sometimes. And my foot like flares up and, like, it feels like I can't walk. It feels like someone has shoved a knife.

my foot. It's to the point that I cannot walk. It's all because of my, you know, my red meats and my domestic light beers that I drink. They used to call gout the ailment of the kings. Now it's just the ailment of the dead beats that eat red meat and drink bush lights all the time. And on

occasion it will flare up and I cannot walk. And the pain is so bad that I will laugh that it hurts so bad. That's kind of what this is. This is so appalling. that it's almost funny

because like there are times like I'll tell you this so my buddy a guy that I've worked with in radio for a long time one of my best buddies Mike Meltzer

he sends me a text yesterday that just has the screenshot of that and it was the first time I had seen it when I read that I thought it was a goof I was like ha that's funny

it's like I can almost like it's so weird because I could think it's real but I could think it's fake he goes no that is real and that's what's so effed up about it is it's so

effed up that I'd be like, there's no way that's real. But then the really effed up part is I think, you know what, it probably is real. He was known to have driven people crazy by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness.

And with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before, may Rob and Michelle rest in peace. Like, again, I'm not laughing at the fact that Rob Reiner is dead and his wife is dead. I find this whole thing to be like, oh, a giant what the fuck are we doing here thing. But it is such a giant what the fuck are we doing here thing that it's actually hysterical that a human person who, oh, by the way, happens to be the leader of the free world is like, I'm going with it. and it's almost admirable

that old buddy here is just like I'm not breaking character like imagine what happens if Rosie O'Donnell dies or if like one of these real hardcore anti-Trump people imagine if Keith Oberman croaks I guess just like what will his reaction be to that again I'm not laughing at the death of anybody and I'm not supporting this like this

is not something that I'm like going to jump in bed with and be like and I'm also not going to be one of those people that rushes to social media and like, this is all appalling and I can't believe. Because it's obviously appalling. There are some things that are so appalling that, like, it doesn't require you to run to the internet to tell people that it's appalling. There is no real redeeming quality about this, except that the comedic part of it's fantastic

because it's that fucked up that it's funny. But, like, there are some things you don't need to rush to the internet to cry about and yell about because it's so obvious. Like, when you hear a story about, like, you know, like a house full of dogs and children and catches fire. Like, I don't need to run to the internet and go, it is such a sad story that the house caught on fire with the dogs and the kids. Like, no shit, it's a horrible story.

You don't need me to come out and let you know that it's terrible. You don't need me to come out and tell you that this is terrible. It's fucking terrible. But when you think about how fucked up this dude is, it's hysterical that someone sits there and goes, I'm going to type this. And, like, you wonder if somebody is like, sir, and I know we asked this about a lot of things, this guy tweets.

But like, did someone go, sir, maybe just don't say anything? Or, hey, just say rest in peace. Like, if you take the first and last line of this, it's actually a very nice tweet. A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. May Rob and Michelle rest in peace. Right there, you got yourself a winner. Like, I wonder if someone was editing him and goes, Mr. President, I have a really good idea.

Could you mind if I change a few things up? And he's like, yeah, change a few things. He's like, Mr. President, can you let me just like maybe change a little thing to make it sound better? Ah, yes, go ahead. Look, there's not much you can do because Trump makes magic and these are my words. And my words are magical. I'm a lyrical gangster. But you're like, just let me fix it a little bit.

You go out and you delete, delete, delete, delete, delete. All right, sir, what do you think about this now? And then he reads it. Ah, yes, a very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood, very sad. May Robin Michelle rest in peace, exclamation point. Very. That, I like the exclamation point. It means I want them to really.

I want them to really live in peace. Rest in peace. And then he realizes that the whole thing has been erased and he's all pissed off. Again, it is a gross thing. Like, I'm amazed that someone's brain operates in this universe, like in this world, in this way that someone's brain operates like this. But it's also hysterical that it does. because this should be studied. Like, we should exhume this male.

When he is dead, take his brain out of his skull. Because there's going to be parts of it that are like, wow, this guy is super brilliant. Like, whoa. Like, I don't know how you examine brains. Like, obviously, you can't just, like, go in and be like, oh, he knew this, this, and this from his brain. But, like, his brain works in some very brilliant ways. That's how he got where he is. But then it's also, like, broken beyond repair.

and it's fascinating. Anyway, more to come.