The Young Turks - 'Bruhh!' Cenk Reacts To Trump's Address

Episode Date: July 17, 2026

Cenk Uygur discusses President Trump's speech about election integrity on The Young Turks. Do you agree with TYT's take? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Go to the Games tab and play FIFA World Cup launch edition now, only on Netflix. President Trump just gave a speech to the nation. I was a little worried that he was going to declare a bigger war. He didn't. Good, good, good, good. Okay. So instead, he talked about the elections as they said he would. And he says he has shocking revelations,

five different things that they put up on the White House website. and it turns out this is like the Scooby-Doo moment when they take the mask off. You know who it was? Israel, just kidding. Of course not. They would never admit that. It was China. It was China all along.

It was Agatha all along. Okay. So now we haven't seen any of the evidence because they just put it up tonight as he was giving the speech. So obviously we'll analyze it. We'll do our due diligence and report back to you. When is the Young Turks? You guys know it's live at 6 o'clock Eastern every time, Monday through Friday on YouTube and so many other places. So we'll do that for you guys tomorrow for sure,

right? So I can't comment on things I haven't seen yet. But I do have the context of Trump's previous allegations connected to these allegations. And I have the context of the rest of the speech. So I'll get to that. So first of all, the context of Trump overall, again, displayed in the speech is he's a massive pathological liar. The chances of any of this being true is very unlikely. He starts to speech with, you know, we were a mess before we weren't winning. And we had transgender for everyone. I don't know that that's a category of lie.

It's more a category of, I don't know what the hell you're talking about. I don't believe everyone in the country was trans at that point, but okay. But I get it. He doesn't like trans people and then Democrats allowed them to exist or something, right? And then he's like, we had inflation problems, bro, we have inflation problems with you. Okay. So he's like, you know, bragging about how everybody's 401k is doing well. Why?

Because, yes, the one thing that is true is that Dow is at 52,000 record high. And I think that's mental. But we're going to find out. We're all going to see this together. How's inflation? How's unemployment? How's the economy? So if I was him, I wouldn't stake any of my claims on that because I believe that they're going

to be, first of all, they're already in bad shape. Everybody knows that from the rising prices, higher prices on gas, et cetera. But I think they're about their head into disaster. Okay. So now, so he's starting the speech with the same kind of like exaggerations and weird statements, et cetera. Then he moves on to the main event about these elections. And he said they released these five different things on the website. And he goes on to explain.

And he says, either we found out the deep state was working with China, you know, the famous deep state. I'm like, well, no, by definition, they're not famous. That's why they're the deep state, and we don't know who they are. If you know who they are, just tell us. And if you really have that, this will go arrest them, right? I believe there is a deep state. I believe they're working with a different country, not China. And I think it's pretty obvious.

But, of course, vague, no names about the deep state. And so I'm very curious to see how they discovered who the deep state is. Are they going to tell us who the deep state is? Or are they just going to go, trust us, bro. This is just like the Epstein files. We released them. We released them. Did you?

Did you? Okay, so we'll find out. And he says, they had techniques that you could never detect. So then how did we detect them? I don't know. There was one part that was relatively true, right? So when he talked about, hey, in 2020, Venezuelans, Maduro's government cheated in their elections. Yeah, that's very believable, right?

And they had these outlandish results. I forget if he won by 95% or 97%. All these dictators do that, right? Okay, but bro, we're not Venezuela. We're America. So, okay, yes, Venezuela had fake elections. So did Russia. So did a lot of countries.

And I mean, I don't know if he's trying to connect it to the previous theory they had. And the previous theory was that the ghost of Hugo Chavez had rigged our elections. I don't know if that's why he's bringing Venezuela back up because when they started talking about how Hugo Chavez rigged elections, everybody was like, I don't know if you know this, but he's dead. He's been dead for quite some time. Like, yeah, he rigged him before he died. Okay. So like none of that ever made any sense. Guys, look, I don't know where camp you're in if you're watching this. So the left and the independents generally know this. But if you're on the right, okay, let's look at this evidence. And don't take his word for it. He said at one point, as he's transatlanticians. to the elections, you have to trust your country. Trust me, bro, is not a real policy. Okay, we're going to look at the evidence and we're going to, and don't tell me that you

kind of have the evidence and make these big giant jumps and say, well, there's someone who said that China, Russia, and North Korea might want to interfere in our elections. So, well, that's believable. Yes, but did they, right? So he laid out a, and then he said, if there's no trust, there's no greatness. I totally agree. And guys, you have to understand this. If you're on the right in that camp and you think 2020 was rigged or whatever, remember, progressives are super worried about elections being rigged because ain't nobody going to rig an election for progressives to win, okay?

Because we're against the establishment. We're against the unit party. Have been from day one. They hate Bernie Sanders more than they hate anybody, right? So if any election is going to get rigged, it's going to get rigged against us. And unlike the right, we also have very little power historically in this country. And so I'd be the first person ecstatic if we can verify all the votes. And if you can show me a way to verify the votes, again, I'd be thrilled with that, right?

So proof's always in the pudding. So what happened in 2020? Well, Trump and his allies went to the court 61 different times after the election to tell us how rigged it was. And so every judge, including Republican judges and Trump appointed judges, asked them, okay, great, show me the evidence. and they had zero evidence, none. So where did they get this stuff from? My guess is you remember how they went to Georgia and, in my opinion, illegally seized the ballot boxes?

And then we could debate whether that's illegal or not. But Tulsi Gabbard went down, if you remember. And so what we're worried about is that they grab those ballot boxes, chase things afterwards, and then say, see, we told you, we found the thing that we put in. there. Now again, I don't know if that's the case. We haven't seen the actual evidence. I swear to you that if they have anything that's actual proof, we'll come and tell you, oh yeah, well, that one is true, right? And that's amazing, and we should do something about it. So for example, here this one spectacular piece of, well, I don't want to say it's a fact

because Trump said it, so I have no idea if it's a fact or not, but a statement that he said about how China got access to 220 million voter registration. information, so I don't quite know what that means. Certainly didn't clarify it. So I'm curious about that one. Let's look at that one. What does it mean that they got access to voter registration information how? And most, most importantly, did they do anything with it? Now, if you have real evidence verified by all the experts or some of the experts, and by the way, the internet catches everything. So you're watching this online very long.

lightly. And if you are, you know, we're all going to look at it. The right is, the left is, the middle is, and we're going to get on the case and we're going to see if it's true or untrue. Look, in the old days, we all had to trust mainstream media, which I hated, and it turns out it's a disastrous idea. So when he also said mainstream media was working with the people that are interfering in elections, well, that's actually a super believable fact, because there's one country that mainstream media is constantly supporting, and that's Israel. And So if you said to me, mainstream media is, you know, hiding the fact that Israel's interfering our elections, well, I would say that's actually indisputable.

I have overwhelming evidence of it. 94% of Congress is paid through campaign contributions by the Israeli lobby, yet none of our media ever reports it. And, you know, we've given them $320 billion over the course of Israel's life. Have you ever heard that on television? You've never heard it, right? They asked us to attack seven countries and we attacked all seven. Okay, and we spent $8 trillion on those wars.

Now, why does the media cover up for Israel? Look, there's a lot of different reasons, but one of them is two radical Zionists own like half the media in America to begin with, let alone the other companies. Larry Ellison is now going to own CBS and CNN and TikTok and other outlets, Paramount Warner Brothers, etc. and Rupert Murdoch, it was Fox News, New York Post, Wall Street Journal. And again, this is not connected religion. Murdoch's not Jewish, but they are united in being radical Zionists. And they are, every media organization that Rupert Murdox ever run has always supported Israel 200%. And every war that Israel wanted.

So I don't know what Murdoch or Murdoch's motivations are. I probably can guess at Ellison's, but it's okay. Either way, at least those are real facts. We know that they've funded politicians who support Israel. We can show you all of those data points and prove our case. Mainstream media rigged things on behalf of China? I've never heard that in my life. I've never seen them rig anything in favor of China.

I've never seen them be particularly nice to China or do propaganda for China. If you've got the evidence, I'm all ears, because I don't like mainstream media. I don't trust mainstream media. I'm ready to hear it. But that would be shocking. So I think what's happening here, guys, is a two-fer, right? This is two squirrels for the price of one, okay? One is, I won the elections in 2020.

We took some ballot boxes and said it was the Chinese and Maduro slash DeGos deGosurgo Chavez. And trust me, bro, right? So, and one is, of course, Trump's ego about 2020. but more importantly in that bucket, I'm super worried about what they're going to try to do around the upcoming elections because he, I'll come back to the second squirrel in a second.

But in this case, he accidentally kind of said things that I'm worried about. He said that the elections could be, vulnerable, look, I don't want him to be vulnerable. And he said, you know, they could easily say that something went wrong. And I'm like, you could say that. And I'm worried about what fake laws that he thinks we need that he's going to try to push. So if he's just trying to push through the SAVE Act, that's fine.

It's not going to make it through it. It's going to get filibustered. The Republicans in the Senate aren't really for it either. Guys, the SAVE Act, by the way, you want to know why the Republicans are because the Republicans grow conscience and they want to save our democracy? No. Number one, they really do have trouble with the filibuster. But number two, what the knucklehead doesn't get at Donald Trump is, so the two ways you would verify your vote, let alone all the other random stuff they have in the Save Act having nothing to do with voting. So there's a bunch of garbage in there that they're

trying to sneak through. You should learn about that. But let's keep it to about the voting tonight. They said the two ways you can prove it is a passport, but 50% of the country doesn't have a passport. In fact, a lot less. Republicans have passports or a birth certificate, but about 20% of the country doesn't have or can't find their birth certificate. So you would be disenfranchising a gigantic percentage of the voters in America. They would go to vote and they'd be like, okay, where's your birth certificate or passport? And they'd be like, what? Right. And they couldn't find it in time. So part of the reason the Republican senators are against it is because it actually affects Republicans a lot. But Trump is so obsessed

that he's like, I do care. Like, I mean, mail-in voting is a great example. He's like, mail-in voting is evil. Everybody who does it is cheating. Bro, you do it. He sends in his vote through the mail every time. He can just go down to Florida to vote, but he doesn't want to. Now, to be fair, he's the president.

You want to be in Washington? Well, on election night or election day, I get. I mean, you could also take Air Force One. But don't put up pictures on the internet with you and your entire family with their mail-in ballots, And then tell us, everyone chees through the mail-in ballots, unless it's projection. Okay, but so all of that stuff that he said in the past has been lies. He's never been able to prove a single thing in court, never presented any evidence that even a Trump appointed judges can say, oh, that's real. One time Rudy Giuliani got laughed out of a court case back in 2020.

They said, are you going to present any evidence? And he's like, no. And they're like, what are you doing here? So the last couple of things here, we'll go back to the second squirrel. So one is, hey, I'm worried about what they're going to use this as an excuse to do something weird about the elections. If it turns out it's a bunch of fake info and meant to rile people up and they're just going to use it to whine about the elections after they lose, no problem. Right. But if they try to do something to interfere in the elections, huge problem.

The second distraction here is, as the entire country is talking about how Israel, keeps interfering in everything we do, going to, forcing us to go into the Iran war, forcing us to fund a genocide, putting $50 million in the Senate race in Michigan, $32 million in a congressional race in Kentucky over and over again, interfering in our elections, interfering in our elections. They go, squirrel, China. Don't worry about Israel. Just let him say, 50 million.

That's totally normal, totally normal, giving to 94% of Congress, totally normal. China, China, they're weird, they're different. They're a different race. They're communist. So two squirrels for the price of one. All right, he says, then we got, oh, I got to tell you about the burn bags. So he's like, we found these burn bags. Barack Hussein Obama had him, and they were supposed to burn them up, but they didn't.

You know, there's one possible reason why they didn't burn the bags. Because they weren't supposed to burn the bags, you made that up. So we'll find out, we'll find out. But I very seriously doubt that there's a memo from President Obama. All right, I want you to take the votes and I want you to burn them, okay? And then somebody writes back, oh, sorry, President Obama, we forgot to burn the burn bags. Okay, let's see, let's see what you got. They put it up tonight.

So we're reporting on six o'clock tomorrow. But that is intensely unlikely to be true, given the entire history of Donald Trump. and a lot of his made up claims about the elections. So there's one thing in there that, you know, other than the Venezuela election that could be true. He said, oh, we found out that there's some canvassers, did some voter registrations that weren't true, and they were getting gift cards for however many people that they signed up.

Yeah, I could see that happening. So we'll have to look at the evidence, but why? because a lot of the people who are going canvassing or doing these kind of get out the vote efforts are paid. The ones that are volunteers are actually more likely to be trustworthy because they're volunteering for it. They usually care about it, et cetera. But the paid guys, they just want to get their money, right? And if they're promised gift cards, if they sign up more people, they might want to sign up more people. Okay, and that could happen on both sides and in fact, anytime that we've caught people

cheating on the voting in that way, honestly, in the last 10 years or so, it's been Republicans nearly every time. They had to redo a whole congressional election because they found Republicans cheating on the voter registration cards that they were submitting or the votes, in fact, the actual votes they were submitting. And so some of the things that he explained about crossing out something or ripping it up and putting in a different voting thing and putting in the name and that's literally what the Republican did. I think it was in North Carolina, but you could look it up for yourself and confirm, right? So we'll take a look at that and see if they did it on both sides.

If they did it for Democrats, was it a small number? Was it a big number? Is it even real? And, you know, he goes back to this 278,000 non-citizens were registered the vote. Is that true? They've made up numbers like that before, not true. hundreds of thousands of dead people. No, people die, and then it takes a while to take them off the voter rolls.

That doesn't mean that they're actually voting. So whenever you ask them to prove, hey, show me all the dead people that voted. They're like, they were on the voter rolls. Yeah, I know they're on the voter rolls because if somebody dies three days before the election, how to hell are you going to take them off in time? But that doesn't mean they voted. They've never presented any evidence to that effect. It would be shocking if they found out something different.

Remember, Tulsi Gabbard steps down. They put in Bill Pulte. Bill Pulte is the biggest loyalist for Donald Trump. And even the Republicans who were objecting to putting him into the intelligence role, number one, he has absolutely no background in that, no experience. He was working on housing before. By the way, he still has that job. So he's like Hunter Biden, both a modern artist and a Ukrainian gas expert. So Bill Pulte is a housing expert plus intelligence expert, plus he's.

found this stuff on the voting registration problems? No, there's one piece of expertise Bill Pulte has, and that's kissing Donald Trump's ass. So that is very likely what happened here with this loyalist with a bunch of things that are very likely to be made up. Again, we will investigate. We won't assume it. We'll look at the actual things that they have released. I would be shocked if it was true. And finally, oh, he mentioned the California elections. And look, guys, California elections are super frustrating. How long

they take to count the votes are frustrating. I believe that when I ran for Congress, they never finished the count. Last I checked, only 70% had been counted. And that was six years ago. So I'm not the guy who says, oh, California is doing a great job in the voting process. But it's one thing to say they take way too long because of the mail-in votes being counted too slowly.

It's another thing to say that means they cheated. No, you have to show evidence that they cheated. So they took forever, and literally in my case, to count the votes in my election. But I don't think they cheated. That's a different thing that requires evidence. And he's never had that and he doesn't have it in the case of California. So it's easy to rile people up saying, hey, the other side is cheated. Oh, we would never lose an election if we weren't cheating.

But is that true? Well, right now, the people that are panicked about losing the election are not the Democrats. It's the Republicans. Trump right now is at minus 30 points on the Ukraine war. I think he was independence. I think he's at minus 44 on the Iran war with independence. And overall, he's at minus 22 on the Ukraine war. And I think in the minus 30s in the Iran war, the Iran war is down to about 20% in popularity.

So he's super worried, especially if he restarts the war that they're going to get their clocks cleaned. And I think they are. I think that not a lot of people are going to show up excited to vote for the Republicans. I mean, look at the vote they just had. Half the Democrats, a little over half the Democrats voted to take Israel's funding away. Whether they mean it or not, at least, hey, we got 103 votes from the Democrats. We got one vote for the Republicans. Thomas Massey, it was his amendment.

Every other Republican voted, no, we must keep taking your money and sending it to Israel. That is a deeply unpopular position. 60% of Americans don't want that policy position, let alone the war, let alone the economic consequences, let alone how deeply unpopular Donald Trump is. So this looks like a panicked attempt to affect the elections. If there's no actual push to cheat in the elections and it's just propaganda, I can live with it. You know, you do your, propaganda is part of politics, and it's a huge part of Trump's campaigns and political messaging overall. So let's see, let's look at the information that they provided. Let's see if there's any validity to it.

Again, it would be shocking. And then most importantly, see what they're going to do next. Are they going to propose something crazy around the elections to actually cheat themselves? Or is this just demagoguery about, hey, China. Oh my God, we lost because of the Chinese and the deep state who we won't name. And finally, you know, he mentioned the presidential daily briefing. And he said, it turns out they changed the presidential daily briefing. We have that one.

We have the quote of them saying they changed it. Yeah, we reported on that too. They changed it because Trump in his first term refused to read past the page. When you have a president who's deeply ignorant, you have to unfortunately tailor it around him. And in fact, they had to add more pictures to get his attention. And they had to put his own name in the document more because he likes to see his name. So he's like, oh, Donald Trump, I read that part. Oh, Trump again, I read that part.

Okay. But did they change it to withhold evidence about China wringing the elections against them? And then they wrote that down somewhere? Why would they write that down? You have evidence of that? I'd be very interested in that. None of that happened, guys. It's a fantasy.

Bill Pulte, I'd be shocked if this wasn't what we're going to find out tonight and tomorrow. Bill Pulte made up a bunch of stuff, took like bits and pieces of things that are kind of true. Oh, the Venezuela was cheated in their election. We had to change the presidential daily briefing so Trump would read it. And then go, aha, nothing. So, all right. overall, I'm happy to report on two things here. Trump has lost so much credibility, including with his own voters,

that I think a lot of people will go, yeah, bro, okay, I got you, I got you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Chinese are working with a deep state. That sounds likely, right? So, and then this second hope I have is that they're just trying to do marketing, and this is all a big nothing burger. So if it turns, and we didn't launch a bigger round of the war, some relieved about that. If this turns out to be a nothing burger, oh, great, amazing. By the way, if on the incredibly unlikely scenario, did they actually caught the Chinese working with our

government officials to rig an election? Well, then I'm glad they caught them. And we'll tell you about it tomorrow on the Young Turks at 6 o'clock. And I don't want the Chinese rigging elections. I don't want the Israelis rigging elections. I don't want anybody rigging elections. And to be fair to the Israelis? No, they usually do the legal way. We legalize bribery in this country, so they do campaign contributions, media, et cetera. I've never heard of them bringing elections. So I've never heard of anyone ringing elections, except the ones where we caught them. They like the guys that did it for the Republicans. Again, I think it was in North Carolina where we had to redo a whole congressional race.

So finally, to give you a sense of why I'm so confident that this is incredibly likely to be BS, other than Trump's entire track record of lying, is that even right when you think tanks like Heritage Foundation, when they were desperate to prove cheating in elections of voter fraud, and they did this giant analysis of decades of American elections, they found out that it happens. 0-0-0-0-06% of the time. Okay, in other words, almost never. Okay. So that's what happened tonight.

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