The Young Turks - Rogan Rips MAGA - March 27, 2026

Episode Date: March 28, 2026

The Pentagon is reportedly weighing sending another 10,000 ground troops to the Middle East, signaling a major escalation as Donald Trump is caught making false claims that Iran requested a pause in bombings. On Capitol Hill, Speaker Mike Johnson unveils a new award to honor Trump, while the administration issues an executive order directing DHS to pay TSA agents. Media and political fractures deepen as Joe Rogan rips the MAGA fringe as “a bunch of f*cking dorks." Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at https://go.tyt.com/shopifytyt Just go to this exclusive web address right now to try ZipRecruiter FOR FREE: ziprecruiter.com/tyt Check out Pocket Hose and use my code TYT for a great deal: https://www.getcopperhead.com If your work depends on conversations — interviews, meetings, calls — check out plaud.ai Explore opportunities in more than 60 countries and apply at http://PeaceCorps.gov/serve Use less data, get paid by switching to Noble Mobile: https://go.tyt.com/getnoble Hosts: John Iadarola, Cenk Uygur SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE ☞  https://www.youtube.com/@TheYoungTurks FOLLOW US ON: FACEBOOK  ☞   https://www.facebook.com/theyoungturks TWITTER  ☞       https://twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM  ☞  https://www.instagram.com/theyoungturks TIKTOK  ☞          https://www.tiktok.com/@theyoungturks 👕MERCH  ☞      https:/www.shoptyt.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Everybody who's United Against War. So go sign up at United Againstwar.com. Then go, and if you want to be part of the town hall and ask me a question or hear what we're doing and be part of the Zoom, then go to t.y.com slash hope and sign up for that. But anyways, I'm excited last night we had Joe Kent on, talked to him for nearly an hour and a half. And it was a great conversation. And I really hope you guys get a chance to check it out. because it was very informative on how our governments infiltrated, how there's an echo chamber

that surrounds the people in power so they literally can't hear anyone else. It's an amazing conversation. And then the other thing I'm excited about, I mentioned it at the very end of the show, and I hope that in case people missed it, Graham Platner has joined the rebellion. So that's awesome, okay. And so now we're up to eight candidates at rebellion, and the rebellion grows. A lot of good news for him too recently. Yeah, yeah, I love it.

Can't get enough of it, so it's all wonderful. Now on tonight's show, unfortunately we have more discussion of ground wars, but also good news, like the independent podcasters, full blown rebellion, and now like kind of cursing at MAGA, okay, and all the way to Tim Poole saying that MAGA are dorks. What? Wow. I mean, okay. I mean, he's kind of an expert too.

Well, look, I think the tide has turned. I know there's folks, good folks who see polling and think, no, it hasn't turned. But hear us out on this episode, let's see how things go. But anyways, I get that there's like folks who are concerned, but I think there is a mass movement against Trump and war and all the donor class. And guys, the independents are not your enemies. And they're showing it today, in my opinion. We'll get to it later on the show by saying, no, we're not MAGA and we think MAGA are dorks.

We're just looking for anyone who isn't going to follow the orders of the donors. And guess what guys? That's us. That's always been us. For the last quarter of a century, that's been us. Yeah, I told you my 2026 rule of polling, which is independent polls will always look more like Democrats than Republicans this year. And that's what we've seen over and over and over 100%. Yeah, no question. Yeah, let's do it. Let's say it with that. Yeah, we got a lot of war to get

into, a lot of polling to get into, lots of stuff. Let's jump into it. The reality is that there is no way to extricate ourselves from this situation right now. There's no way to extricate ourselves from this situation by simply running away that does not leave Iran in control of the Strait of Hormuz, which means 100 to $150 barrels of oil from here to forever. There is a There's no way out but through. Told you. In the beginning, they go, oh, it's gotta be easy. It's gonna be a cake.

Well, we'll be done in a couple of days, a good max a couple of weeks. And then once you're already stuck in the quagmire, then they're like, there's nothing we can do about it. It's a quagmire. We just gotta go in deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper. That's the only way out, no way out except through. Okay, if you think that was bad,

wait until you get a little Sean Hannity's flip-flops. So what we're gonna show you in this segment, other than the fact that we are putting in ground troops, which is devastating, is how the echo chamber created by Israel first has created the environment in which, oh, golly, gee, are we stuck fighting Israel's war? No. I guess we are. That's a shame. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, there's, there's no way out, but not out at all. It's good advice. Like, when I accidentally drive into a lake, I gun the engine so hard. And that's what you gotta do when you're being paid to tell people to do that. So anyway, that was a clip from Ben Shapiro, if the voice didn't

clue you in. We have more, actually. Now, one of the things that's happening right now is this bizarre media driven ADHD idea, that the American people are sitting there on tensorhugs every single hour of every single day thinking when is it over, when is it over? Here is the thing. If you look historically, the American people actually have some patience. During Vietnam, the Viet Cong counted on the idea that Americans would get tired, that Americans would get bored. And after a while, they were right. Americans did get tired. After a while they were right, Americans did want out. We should know that there were 50,000 American dead by that point. In Iraq and Afghanistan, too, our enemies thought,

okay, they can just outlast the Americans. But here is the point. To outlast Americans, typically, requires not months, not weeks, years, because Americans are not nearly as stupid as our enemies think we are. Oh my God, that was broadcast directly from Brazzarland. First of all, he literally tisked you. Did you hear that? Here's what's actually going on. He just promised years of war. He just promised like you're not stupid. He said people might get bored, get frustrated. No, no get Ben. Day one, they did not want this way before day one. Day negative 390 or so. I'm pretty sure they voted exactly against this. There's no getting against the war. They were always against the war, they're just more against the war with every passing day.

This isn't a thing of waiting days or weeks or years to see if people eventually get off their tender hooks and have a problem with this conflict. They never had any interest in this conflict and neither you on the media side or Donald Trump on the political side have done literally anything to convince them that they have any vested interest whatsoever in what's being done. They have no political interest, they have no international interest, certainly no economic interest, you have an economic interest, you're being paid to say the sort of B-S propaganda that you were just spreading right there, but it is convincing no one.

It's barely even holding your audience together at this point. And I know we'll have more, I wanna give you a chance. Yeah, just real quick guys. So he said Americans get bored of war. No, Americans die in war, we're not at all bored. That's not the issue, right? Secondly, John's right, so you say that we didn't stay long enough in Vietnam and Afghanistan? And Iraq.

We stayed 20 years in Afghanistan. understand. So we went in the span of one month from, oh, this will be over in a couple of weeks to, well, obviously, we have to stay longer than 20 years. Okay, I mean, this, they're not even trying to hide that, hey, this is Israel first and only, and you should all shut up and do as you're commanded by the government that Ben Shapiro actually loves, the Israeli government. We have a demonstration of how quickly the references to history have turned. Take a look at this. It turns out that coherent, solid action, we're not talking here, gigantic wars. We're talking about operations like this one, targeted action can provide serious upside and limited downside. And that's what we are talking about right here.

That is the counterfactual that we should be looking at right now. Turns out the only counterfactual is not Iraq or Vietnam. It boggles my mind that we are talking about endless war right now. Can I just say that people who are saying that this is an endless war and we are three days in, stop being children. If you look at President Trump's record of military interventionism, do you truly believe that this president is going to get sucked into a war involving hundreds of thousands of American troops on the ground if you do, you are a moron or a liar? That was less than one month ago. By the way, in his first term, Donald Trump did not pull us out of any of the Forever wars that we were in.

They love to say he didn't get us into any new ones. He also didn't end any of them. And then he whined and whined and whined when Joe Biden finally did. And so that three weeks ago, this isn't gonna be Iraq and Vietnam. Now he's talking about like, think about the great example of our experiences in Iraq and Vietnam. And high gain, no cost, no cost. Well, at that point, the average price per gallon of gasoline hadn't yet gone up a dollar. That is up now $1 per gallon.

per gallon. Basically every product that you buy is going to be more expensive because of how jacked up diesel fuel is going to be the price of fertilizer is also massively rising. These are all things that we were worried about because we were children a month ago. Our betters, our superiors weren't worried about that sort of thing. Of course he's rich, why would he be worried about it? And now that it's come, shut up about that. Shut up about the costs that you're paying because I got a whole lot more costs coming. And it's not just him, we're focusing on Ben Shapiro, but it's Also, Sean Hannity, at the beginning of the war just a couple of weeks ago, he was saying

all these people talking about us getting involved in a big war, boots on the ground, you guys are fools, you don't know what you're talking about. But slowly, over time, very gradually, but inexorably, he moved those goalposts. Take a look. It's not part of the Trump doctrine. It's not going to be boots on the ground, not going to be an endless war. I mean, there are still idiots out there that actually think Donald Trump is going to put boots on the ground. He's not. Now, they've left open the door, the possibility, if there is a remote situation that might need a strategic placement. At some point, I would imagine Americans are going to be on the ground in Iran,

helping them extract their oil and get their economy back in place. But I'm pretty certain also that the U.S. will insist that they pay for their own liberation. I can see two scenarios where there might be a necessity for some boots on the ground. And I know that goes against the Trump doctrine and what he has done up to this point, with the exception of Maduro in Venezuela. And number one, if there is a risk at the 460 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium, which can be turned into weapons grade, 90% enrichment in just 7 to 10 days, if there is a chance that could fall into the wrong hands, I could see American involvement at a deeper level. Also, the question of Karg Island, which is the lifeblood of the entire Iranian economy. Yeah, so from just a couple of weeks past, you're an idiot if you think it will happen under

any circumstances. What part of no new wars didn't you understand when Trump said it? To maybe a couple little things and then no, it actually would be awesome if we were to take Cargoy out literally just steal their territory, just park a couple thousand American troops down in drone and missile range, you know, because we want the oil and all that stuff. Also we need to, after we obliterated their nuclear program last year, and then we double obliterated it this year, as long as there is any uranium in that country, in one week they can have a bomb. No matter how obliterated they are, multiple layers of obliteration. And so that is how you shift those goalposts.

That is how you try to get your audience to sign up for boots on the ground, Karg Island, maybe the coast. Ben Shapiro said they can't be allowed to control the Strait of Formuz. It's off their coast, it's theirs, what are you gonna move Iran? How is that supposed to work? Is he talking about a permanent deployment of what US naval assets in the Strait of Hormuz to stop them from ever firing on it again? It's a madness.

Or maybe we could take it with our ground troops and then hand it over to Israel as another buffer zone. Yeah. And where it's safe where the Israelis occupy it and settle it. Anyways, let's hope they don't go there. Okay, so guys, I have a unique perspective on this because I already went to this movie. over 20 years ago in the Iraq war, we were on the air. Young Turks sold the show in online history. And in the old days, the difference was that we would play those same exact clips from Hannity about the Iraq war.

And everyone else would gaslight us and go, nope, no, he's right, you're wrong. They didn't say that it was going to be easy. I'm like, you're on tape saying it's going to be easy. And with Iraq, they said the same exact thing, it'll take a couple of weeks. One guy said it'll only cost $1.2 billion, the whole operation. Now this war is causing us $1 billion a day, 1 to 2 billion a day, okay? So it's the same exact script, oh, fake weapons of mass destruction, et cetera. And it's the same pro-Israel group that is telling us, including Fox News, Murdoch is a giant

Israel first guy, all of his publications, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Fox News, all like, war, war, Israel, Israel, Israel, right? And so, and by the way, again, guys, this isn't about religion. Rupo Murdoch's not Jewish, I don't know why he loves war so much and why he's so indebted to Israel, right? But he's been pushing this for over 20 years now. America must go to war for Israel, right?

So that's why you're seeing the clips from Hannity. But John made a great point, both about Hannity and Shapiro. So they not only start out with like, oh, it's going to be easy to, what, you're stupid if you think we're gonna put in ground troops to, you're stupid if you think we're not gonna put in ground troops, how we're gonna win without ground troops, you idiots, right? Wait, why are you yelling at me, right? Meaning the American people and calling us idiots

unless we agree to your agenda. And which one is it? Because both of you, Shapiro and Hannity, just said that if you think we're gonna put in ground troops, you're an idiot and a moron. Now you're both saying we should put in ground troops, troops, so I guess you're an idiot and a moron, but of course they're non. It's the second option, Shapiro said moron or liar.

So Shapiro is a giant liar, he's been a liar from day one. And you want to talk about liars, I mean, he's not gonna be able to take the championship belt away from Sean Hannity. That guy has been plaguing us our whole lives. It's steady stream of propaganda war, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, right? And then every once in a while when the Democrats are in charge, I'm antiwar, are you? I never seen anyone more pro war in my life than Sean effing Hannity, right? So and Lindsey Graham.

Yeah. And did you notice last thing? Shapiro was saying like, it boggles my mind why anybody would say endless war. Month later he's like, it needs to be an endless war. I mean 20 years in Afghanistan didn't do it. Vietnam we stay too short. We don't we do, it's gotta be endless. You're either the liar or a moron if you don't want an endless war. No, no, no, no.

You're an American if you don't want endless war. You're an Israeli if you do want endless war and for America to pay that price for you in treasure and blood. Israel doesn't want to spare any of their soldiers. The government. Yeah, they're well also the people, let's be honest. They're 82% wanted this war, the war with Iran, the Israeli population. And they're like, okay, good, you want to fight it? They're like, no, that's why we have to suck our Americans.

We're gonna have Shapiro and Hannity and everybody lie to them and we're gonna trick them into another war. And then that way we could stay under Iron Dome and be totally fine that you suckers paid for. And then we're gonna push you into the meat grinder, which is exactly what they're doing. Yeah, let's talk about that meat grinder actually. And by the way, by the way, you know, Sean Hannity, he's obviously, he's an older guy. Ben Shapiro's young, I'm pretty sure he's younger than me. They just raised the age of enlistment. If you love this war so much, grab a rifle, stand a part.

You can join up, you can go participate in this war that you think is so goddamn noble and so goddamn necessary. You can go participate in this right now. Why is it that you think that you should sit in your air condition studio and tell other people to go overseas and die and to send their kids overseas and die? Why are you so goddamn ready to tell people that you will never meet that they should die for a thing that you can barely articulate? In any event, a lot of people are already being sent over.

In addition to, let's see, we had thousands of Marines, we had the 8th,000. 82nd went over. So we had paratroopers. Now they're talking about potentially sending an additional 10,000 troops to the Middle East. So 5,000 Marines, thousands of paratroopers. Nancy Mace implied that the administration, she went to a briefing, came out and said that she was even more sure that they were gonna do boots on the ground. And she was even more against it based on what they had said about how that might go. She was already 100% against it. Now she's more against it because of how they might be used. And Mike Johnson wasn't happy about that. Take a look. Congresswoman Nancy Mace came out of a classified briefing and seemed to reveal some of what was

reportedly discussed about possible ground operations in Iran. There's people who ask, why should the administration brief Congress when Congress can't keep a secret? Are there any punishments for Congresswoman Mace in this instance? Well, it is not lawful to leak classified information. I'm not suggesting that's what Nancy did there, but it is a problem. I mean, we had a big briefing for all House members in the Congressional Auditorium, and it's a lower level of classification because some of these things are so sensitive and there is a breach

of trust here. And that's a problem for the institution and something we need to address in the long run because we've got to get back to these. The secrecy is important, especially at a time of international conflict. That was Brett Baer volunteering to Mike Johnson that Nancy Mace, who is better representing the anti-war sentiment out there amongst her constituents, the American people, he suggested to Mike Johnson she should be punished. I mean, phrased it as a question. Well, Mike Johnson didn't bring that up, the media, who should presumably want as much information as possible so they can do the job of making sure that people know what's going on. Instead, he wants more secrecy. He wants to clamp down on the leaks. What's the latest trend in hiring?

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Number one, there is no one that works at Fox News. It's just Rupert Murdoch, right? Murdoch hires them and pays $5 million a year, $20 million a year, $40 million a year, right? And he goes, you are to say these exact things. So there is no news going on at Fox News, okay? And Murdoch always wants war. So if Nancy Mace is going to be against war, Brett Bear is going to come out and go,

now shouldn't she be punished for saying something that might prevent the ground troops? Punish her, right? Now, if she had come out and been in leaked something, which she didn't do, but had done the same exact thing, but said she was in favor of the ground troops, Brett Bear would not have asked that question. He would have been very possible. Well, as you see Nancy Mays is saying, we need ground troops. Don't we need ground troops, Mike Johnson? Don't we need to start this work? Did I do it well, Rupert?

Did I do it well? Okay. So that's, the game is being played on you. And the good news is now there's online media. So they can't play the game nearly as well. So they're not punishing her because she might have revealed something. They're trying to punish her because without her, by the way, this is really important. They don't have enough votes for the war powers resolution.

And as we explained to you on yesterday's show, that's why the traitor Democrats are not pushing the war powers resolution vote because they would win it right now and it would end the war. They don't want to win. And they don't want it. And that's why I talk about the Iraq war guys because these days are actually actually believe it or not better. A lot of the American people are totally against this war, and there's online media that lets you know about this hypocrisy, and that breaks this stuff down. Back then, it was the young Turks and Amy Goodman screaming into the abyss, and CNN would come and back up,

Sean Hannity. And New York Times would go, oh, your weapons of mass destruction, must go to war for Israel. No, no, no, wipe that out, right out, right out. Must go to war for America, right? And then no matter how much you showed their hypocrisy, they say, I don't know, radicals that don't want war and think it won't be easy, right? So these are all tried and true tactics, but I don't want you to lose track of the fact that we're busting them up, right? So now there's a whole new paradigm where nobody believes this BS unless you're like a boomer watching Fox News and you're like 98 and you're like, yeah, I think we wanted war, didn't we? Wait, for what? Because Israel's a special ally and they love Jesus or something? Right. Well, so in terms of the troops, so now they're considering 10,000 more troops. We keep getting told.

Of course! Leaks from the White House, Trump statements, oh, victory is on the precipice. We can close this thing down really fast. A Ben Shapiro, I loved his little bit where he was like, well, I mean, we can't, there's no way to end it. We can't just leave. That's exactly what we could do. We could turn around and leave right now. It'd be super simple to do that, but he doesn't want that to happen. And news just came out right before we did the show, Marco Rubio is now telling our allies four to six more weeks. That was the entire original duration.

And remember they've said all throughout, Hegseth would come out and go, oh, we're ahead of schedule. This is going so quick, we're so ahead of, you said three to four weeks in the beginning, Trump said then he went to four to five weeks, then he went to four to six weeks, and now we're adding another four to six weeks. God help us if we were behind schedule. This is when we're ahead of schedule. So wait, if we're ahead of schedule, then you were lying in the beginning, right?

Yeah, or you're incompetent. And also, if people like Ben Shapiro are saying, well, we can't just leave because then they'll have the Strait of Hormuz, you know, the geographical formation right next to their country or whatever, we could have never seen it coming that they would control that. What are they going to be saying when we land 10,000 troops, 75 of them die, or 113 of them die? I know exactly what is. Well, we obviously can't leave now. Of course, that's what they're gonna say.

So guys, understand how the trap is being laid, right? So number one, when you look at their, you know, as we told you, easy, easy, oh, well, we gotta stay a little longer, but have patience, right? And then oh my God, they killed our guys, can you believe it? So look, in terms of what is our goals, they can't even define a single goal that we have in this war. So that's why they keep talking in generalities. Because there is somebody who has a goal in this war, and that's Israel.

It's regime change. But we said we did not sign up for regime change, so we're totally goalless. Like we say, oh, destroy their navy. We did. Destroy the air force. We did. Destroy the nuclear facilities. We did.

Destroy the leaders in the regime. We killed all 49 of them, and then we added more and more bodies to that death count. So then what else is left to do except await Israel's next instructions. And that is literally what we're doing here. And so the idea that once the guys die, like Ben Shapiro and Sean Hannity are going to turn around and go, oh, wait, we didn't know that we were going to use ground troops and we didn't know that they were going to die. No, we should come home, right?

Of course they're not going to do that. What they're going to do, and I guarantee it is, oh, the evil, evil Iranians. no reason at all killed our troops that happened to land on their territory. And now that they killed 12 of them, 120 of them, that's it. We got to stay longer than Vietnam and Afghanistan combined, right? This isn't about Israel, not at all. Americans are dead. No, when Americans die, which by the way, they already have 13 dead,

you know who you should blame? 100% Israel. They're the ones who drove us into this war, no doubt about it. Not one, Joe Kent said it again last line in the interview. There's no question. We have no objectives in this war. It's just our politicians who are disgustingly corrupt. And it's so much of our mainstream media that is disgustingly corrupt that is driving

us into the war for a different country. We have no interest in it at all. And to John's point, oh, we can't leave. They close the trade of Hormuz. Yeah, here's how you, the deal you make. It's the easiest thing in the world. Hey, Iran, we're going to leave. you're only going to have Israel to deal with.

Don't attack the Gulf countries that are our allies, don't attack us, and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and then you and Israel figure it up. Iran would take that deal in a second. Yeah. Okay, we can make that deal and we could leave. The only people that are bothered by that deal are the Israelis. Good, I want them bothered. They already cost us 13 dead Americans.

They're planning to cost us hundreds more dead Americans, all on behalf of a foreign government that is fascist and oh, we'd like to build our, as Netanyahu just said like a week ago, we could become a regional or global superpower after this war. Why is it our responsibility to make a fascist state a global superpower? So this is disgusting, has nothing to do with America, and they're gonna get those poor guys killed, and once they do, here, we'll guarantee it now, and then we'll play you the clip afterwards. They'll say, well, now that the Americans are dead and way more of them, you have to

to fight around longer. Yep, 100%. Okay, well let's talk about, we're gonna take a break, but then when we come back, we're to talk about the fact that more and more people who might have previously been okay with some of this are starting to peel off. We're gonna track that after this. You know when you're building something from the ground up, the to-do list never ends. When I started TYT, it wasn't just what if no one watches, it was also, how am I supposed to handle

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Well, if that's like, I don't know, like my position is always like, if you're saying, if if not supporting covering up the Epstein files or not supporting a stupid war of choice, a war of aggression on behalf of Israel means I'm not MAGA, then okay, I'm not maga. I'm not attached to the, you know, the phrase, make America great again. I don't care. But if that phrase sucks, here's the thing. Like, first of all, America is great. Make America greater, I'm down.

But make America great again and then it becomes a movement of a bunch of dorks, because a lot of them are dorks. So the question of what exactly defines a MAGA Republican is something being debated quite a bit. And more so every day because there's this interesting civil war brewing on that general side of the aisle. Now obviously Donald Trump has weighed in both saying, I'm MAGA, I determine what MAGA is. And then exiling those, he doesn't think get to be in the group anymore, including people like Marjorie Green, Tucker Carlson, people like that. And now you have the podcasters and the comedians sort of firing back. There had Joe Rogan and Dave Smith saying that the phrase kind of sucks.

And it's, I guess, something that's hugged closely by dorks, I guess, in their words or whatever. But it's certainly an interesting thing. As the polling has developed, as we've now moved through, as Dave Smith pointed out, the whole Epstein debacle, the terror and all that, now the war. Jank, what are your two cents? Yeah, so there's two different issues here, guys. So number one is the fact that these podcasters that have huge audiences are against the war, and now against MAGA, that's an enormous turn of events, right?

So number two is, look, this isn't about who's right or wrong. It's about what's the right thing to do going into the future. So if you thought the right strategy was call every Trump voter or anyone who talked to Trump or anyone, racist, fascists, Nazi, we hate them and we'll always hate them and we should hate them forever, you're turning away voters who are independents and actually are naturally aligned with our side. They're anti-war, they actually want to serve American voters. I'm not talking about the cult of MAGA.

And they're gonna tell you there is a cult of MAGA, right? But it's on the outer edge, or maybe a half, or I don't know what the numbers are. But sure, a big number of the Trump voters. But there's also a giant number of Trump voters who are independents like Dave Smith, and apparently Joe Rogan as well, who are like, well, I, you're not my uncle. I didn't sign up to have you as my daddy for the rest of my life, right? I just care if you agree with me. And Trump is, and why were we against Trump?

Trump doesn't actually believe any of that stuff. And we couldn't get Rogan to understand that back then. And if you're frustrated with him, I get it, of course, right? But at the same time, now that they're coming in our direction, let's take yes for an answer. Yeah, and I am still one of those who is frustrated, but I hear what you're saying. And how we define these things is something that's being fought, not just in the media, but also in like in Trump circles. So one of Donald Trump's top goon, Stephen Miller, he attempted to sort of redefine at this late date what America First means saying America first means America will be the greatest, most unquestioned, unmatched power in the world, and it means we will defend American lives.

And yes, we will avenge American blood. You know, the blood that died because we started this war, like we put them out there to die now they're dead, now we get to avenge them. Isn't that a cool little circular thing that we've got going on? And yeah, America First doesn't mean focusing on Americans, and it doesn't mean focusing on what happens here, it means vague, abstract international power. I feel like I missed those Trump commercials in 2024. Weird that they're defining it that way now.

And by the way, if you have fallen off of MAGA or have started to distance yourself from Donald Trump, because for instance, you think that the Epstein files are being covered up because they are, or because you don't support the war because you didn't support the war before, then I don't know, I think it's very natural to define yourself differently. That said, those who still call themselves MAGA, it really feels like there has been an all ongoing purification process, where it used to be a mix of people who just really like Donald Trump, and then there were people who believed a certain set of policies or a vague ideology. And I think a lot of those people have woke up to the fact that that was never actually

a serious part of it. It was always going to be whatever Donald Trump said it was on any given day. And there is a certain percentage of the population, 25 to 32% of America, who are ready to follow him anywhere he goes, directly contradictory positions. inside of the span of one sentence. But there were other people who thought he meant something, and they're learning that that is not the case. And I want to turn now to one of the polls about, I think this is Donald Trump so happy that he's got MAGA support. We'll define what that means right now.

Is Trump losing MAGA support? The poll was 100%. And you know their poll story's got a lot of energy and he's, he's so. And he's pretty good. He probably won't have a job very long. But he said, whoa, whoa. It was 100% of the people, the MAGA people, which is mostly, I think MAGA is almost the whole Republican Party. You want to know the truth.

They did a poll at CNN two days ago. And I think you probably saw it. Maybe you put it on. But it was 100% support. So it's wrong. And we have people that are weak or stupid or low IQ people that don't mind. having Iran have a nuclear weapon. The MAGA people are smart.

Now, that doesn't mean they want us over there for like Bush for years, you know, just for years. I always said don't go into Iraq, but if you do keep the oil. Okay, so it's fascinating to watch the five there where every one of those people, the conservatives and the liberal, are bored out of their minds that Donald Trump as he rambles and know that he's lying about the polls. Now there he referenced Harry Enten though, the 100% support in MAGA thing. And notice he also fit in a little comment about how Harry Inton is going to be fired soon,

making it very clear that the bid to have CNN be bought out by his ideological allies is to weed out anyone who mildly inconveniences him. It's feeling very Hungarian up in here all of a sudden. But he is right that they found that poll that said that 100% of MAGA supports him. But even as Harry Inton has since pointed out, that's just circular definition. That's just the people who still call themselves MAGA are the people who will follow Donald Trump. no matter what he believes. It doesn't really mean anything and certainly not what Donald Trump applies it means. Yeah, so we broke this down on an earlier show and so it's basically they ask people,

do you still support Trump? And they're like, yes, I still call myself MAGA and I support Trump. Then they said, okay, great, now we're ready for the poll. Do you support Trump? They're like, I just told you I support Trump, yes. Like good, 100%. Yeah. Okay, I actually think, I'm a little conspiratorial on this. I think that they frame those questions in a way to be pro-war, right? So they want Trump to think that he's holding his entire base and there is no rebellion, don't look online, don't listen to Tucker Carlson and Megan Kelly and all of the most popular right-wing hosts in the country.

100% support, right? But when they, and why do I say that? When they ask the similar questions about the economy, they don't frame it that way. And then you see that he's lost a lot of support, even when they, even among his base. And then so when they asked in that same poll, okay, if you don't call yourselves MAGA to this day, right, meaning you aren't disillusion, like the people who aren't calling themselves MAGA anymore are disillusioned, right?

So in that bucket in the people who never called themselves MAGA, etc. The independents who voted for Trump, you ask them, and they're like, only 61% are in favor. So he's lost four out of 10 of them, which is a giant number and enough to swing any election. Yeah, yeah, and we know that overall inside of Foxy's polling, which he bad mouthed to the five, and not one of those people, all of whom know that the polls are accurate, defended their own company's polls there. They just sat there and took it, including when he was insulting Jessica Tarlov, Greg Gutfeld, Jesse Waters, just sat there and let this a whole insult their colleague to their face with lies, because they're not men. But anyway, yeah, it doesn't mean,

we know that the approval for the war early on was bad. has since gone down, it's gone down even amongst non-Maga Republicans. And his level of support inside of MAGA is so much less important than what percentage of Republicans consider themselves to be MAGA. That is by far a more important story, because that is the story of how he has been losing support among core groups throughout his presidency. I'm sure that you guys talked about the thing about men, including young men that are dropping off from supporting him.

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Okay, now he's in a world of trouble because we're not at, if he slipped to 92%, he would have lost the election. Yeah. You know, that's why I want you to get a sense of the scale of the damage that has been done politically to these guys. Now another way of looking at being able to tell that is how much Rogan, Tim Pool, and others have turned on him. And I think Tim Poole in that sense is maybe even more indicative. Rogan way bigger, but Tim Poole, I would argue even though he comically says no all the time, is more right wing, right? He held out longer.

Yeah, yeah. So let's give you more of Rogan. There are absolutely these magadorks where it's like no matter what Trump does, there's just never Make America Great Again and then it becomes a movement of a bunch of dorks. Because a lot of them are dorks. A lot of them are these really weird, uninteresting. unintelligent people that have got something they cling to. And there's a lot of people that are just real genuine patriots.

And they're all lumped into this one group and you've got to accept the dorks too. That. Like the concept of making America great is a great idea. But as soon as you have a team and you allow anybody to join up, you don't even have tryouts for your team. So you've got a bunch of people that are running around spouting out opinions and you have to go along with them because they're MAGA. And then you've got bots online that are probably from Indonesia or Russia or wherever. And they're pretending their MAGA and they're saying crazy.

So that's a part of MAGA too. You've fucked up by becoming a part of a group. Yeah. Whether it's a Republican group, a Democrat group, a MAGA group, a woke group, whatever it is, you've fucked up by being in a group. And John, I think that that's an enormous development, not just in terms of all like Rogan is saying this. No, I mean, by far the biggest political group in this country now is independence. And no one in mainstream media ever talks about that.

We're still talking about Democrats and Republicans, but their independents not only have passed Democrats or Republicans, they're starting to dwarf them, right? And no one is addressing that group. And it's so easy to win them over. Just do what we stand for. We're already, and when I say we, I mean populist left, But really, the populists agree on so many things. There's plenty that we disagree on, but if you gave them no war actually serving American voters

instead of the donor class, that's it, just those two, you'd already win in a landslide. Please let's go get those voters instead of constantly insulting them. Now this is how deep it's gone. Now it's gone to even Tim Poole, let's watch. There are absolutely these magadorks where it's like, no matter what Trump does, there's just never any critical thought. It's true. And there are genuine patriots. Many of them are my friends. They don't blindly march and lockstep with Trump. They're critical thinkers. And they are explaining why they think this is the right path. And those people, like Jack Besovic, great example,

good guy, good friend, intelligent, reasoned, and will explain to you why he supports Trump with facts and logic. But then there are these like dork accounts. I don't know if dork is the right word, But they meme blast. They seem to contradict themselves because the only thing that matters is I'm aligned with Trump. It's first ordered thinking. And that is what the left will latch on to to attack conservatives and Trump supporters. Joe's not wrong on this. Yeah, look, guys, again, great development.

Things are not binary. I also want to give you a note of caution here. This is the most important thing, please. So he says, oh, Jack Posobiac is great and logical. No, he's not, okay? So Posobiac is deeply problematic. Okay, he's the guy who did Pizza Gate, et cetera. And we have a million disagreements with him.

And I don't necessarily believe that he's genuine. So that, okay. So I don't want you to panic the next time you see a Tim Pool clip or a Joe Rogan clip that you don't agree with. And go, what, I thought there were Democrats now. They never said that. They never said. I thought they were gonna agree with everything about it.

No guys, they're saying the exact opposite. There, no one agrees 100% on anything. So you, like some on the left thought, no, what, every Trump voters agrees with Trump 100%. Now you're seeing with your own eyes definitively, empirically not the case. And that is Rogan talking to millions of his viewers, let alone Poole and Dave Smith and so many others talking to their viewers going, do not believe Trump 100%. But we also have to do the same. We can't just go and be like, nope, the most extreme left wing position, 100%.

Otherwise you're driven from the party. Well, if you do that, then the independents are going to go, oh, okay, so these guys are also unreasonable. So I don't know, let's go somewhere else. Invite them in, they're super important anti-war allies, okay? So that doesn't mean that you go, okay, I'd like Tim Poole to be the next president. Nobody's voting on Tim Poole. Nobody's voting on Joe Rogan, right? Meaning like putting them in charge, it is not binary.

Let's go find allies to win on important issues that affect all of us. Does that make sense? Yeah, sorry, if I was smiling while you're saying that, it wasn't about that. I agree with what you're saying. It was the transition from Joe Rogan, you know, like muscular Joe, UFC Joe Roman. These are dorks and this bro energy. And then Tim Colby and like, yeah, they like their memes, you dorks. And I'm like, dude, you're not Joe Rogan.

Like you may agree with him. You have an extra, you even put it the hours in the gym like Joe Rogan. But anyway, that was just the small thing that caught me. Yeah, or hours at the buffet like me. Both time well spent. I couldn't agree more. All right, we gotta take a break. When we come back, more from our failed state, John's got a great.

great story about awards that Donald Trump has won. He's won awards, did you know that? We'll be back. All right, back on TYT, Jen and John with you guys. And guys, remember if you're a member, you don't get the commercials, except the one that's in the middle of the show. I read the social breaks if you're getting the member stream on TYT. So if you're a YouTube member, you already paid, you know, all you got to do is connect

your accounts, t.yt.com slash connect, and then that takes about, I don't know, I don't know, 30 seconds max and then you can get the member only stream there where I'm reading your super chats and your member comments. All right, John. Awesome. Okay, let's jump into what's going on in DC. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. You and John Thune are not on the same page. You came out and criticized Democrats. He was the engineer behind this. Why are you guys not on the same? And are you not extending the shutdown? If you were to accept what the Senate had passed, this could end tonight and the TSA lines would shrink. I wouldn't call John Thune the engineer of this. Chuck Schumman. And the Democrats in the Senate, Chuck Schumer and the Democrats in the Senate have forced

this upon the Senate. So the longest, at least partial government shutdown in history shows no signs of stopping. It really looked like this morning, it might be ending soon because regardless of what little Mike Johnson might want to say, Republicans joined with Democrats to finally do a funding bill that would fund DHS excluding ICE and border patrol. So the TSA would be paid. Johnson had the chance to take up the same thing, pass it, get it before Donald Trump, get the TSA paid, and he is deciding not to do that. House Republicans are going to be opposing

the measure, which means we're right back where we're at before the deal. Your two cents, Cenk. Yeah, so I think the Republicans misunderstand how Congress works. So you need Democratic votes for a bill, then you have to work with the Democrats to find a compromise in a solution. They think, no, they should just do whatever we tell them to do. Not how things work. And John was frustrating to me and we'll talk more about it after you give us the facts, is that the media seems to also not understand.

Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, like what's complicated about you? You need their votes so you have to compromise. Exactly, yeah, and they did compromise. We actually saw it right there. And by the way, not unlike if I were to write the list of reforms to ICE, it would not be what they voted on, this is very reasonable. This does not go far.

It's not abolishing ice or anything like that. And also, by the way, the idea that this is the Democrats that are stopping TSA for being paid, bye-bye to that. We're done with that now. It was stupid before, but now it's utterly ridiculous. The Democrats just approved a plan with the Republicans. It is Mike Johnson and Donald Trump, who of course, behind the scenes is telling him to oppose this. They are the ones that are forcing TSA to continue to not be paid.

So rather than putting forward the same bill, what Mike Johnson is going to do is he going to He is going to tee up a vote on a bill that would fund all of DHS for eight weeks, which he knows is not, that's not what the Senate has already done. So that's utterly pointless. He's not doing that because he thinks it can work, he's doing that because that's apparently what Donald Trump wants. And Mike Johnson is not a leader, he's not a man, he does what Donald Trump tells him to do, and so that's what he's doing here.

Now in response to that possibility, Chuck Schumer said, a 60 day continuing resolution that locks in the status quo is dead on arrival in the Senate and Republicans know it. We've been clear from day one. Democrats will fund critical homeland security functions, but we will not give a blank check to Trump's lawless and deadly immigration militia without reforms. That's actually stronger language than I've come to expect from Chuck Schumer. I kind of like that. He said, or you should keep in mind, ICE and CBP still have roughly $75 billion in cash from Trump's big beautiful bill giving the agencies a buffer for a time because of course they have been better funded than most of the world's militaries for some reason that will never make sense

to me. But while they have money to waste on whatever they want, TSA doesn't. They're the ones that are actually suffering. Now, as all of this is going on in the legislature, Donald Trump thinks he potentially has a solution that as he has want to do doesn't involve the representative bodies. Here he is to talk about that. How would this work? Do we know when this might happen, how it may happen? Yeah, Anderson. That was our first question after the president announced that he was going to take this executive action to pay the TSA employees who have gone so long with without their paychecks because obviously typically these funds have to be congressionally appropriated, which is why this entire fight is playing out on Capitol Hill right

now. What we have learned tonight since the president made this announcement is that likely these funds are going to come from that sweeping legislation that the president signed into to law last summer, the one big beautiful bill. And so it remains to be seen exactly how that's going to shake out. It's not finalized yet. And what we're told tonight is that senior staff are actually still working through what this is actually going to, to how this is actually going to happen in order to get these TSA workers paid. But the people I've spoken with sound pretty confident that it will actually work, that this is a viable solution here. Yeah, so Trump wants to just ignore Congress and just say we're going to fund them.

And maybe he can, although they don't yet know how. And maybe it's legal, although again, we don't know how. I do know because I've been conscious for a good portion of the last year and a bit, that whenever Donald Trump says that checks will be in the mail soon, they have a way of not materializing and still have yet to get my doggy check. The military never got their 1776 check. There was supposed to be tariff, like there was a stimulus that we were going to get from all the tariff money that was coming in.

That never came. We'll see, maybe TSA will be paid. But what doesn't seem likely to happen is that they get paid by this weekend. That's when the next check is supposed to go out. We've already had a lot of TSA quitting very understandably. After weeks of working without pay, they're about to be asked to forego another paycheck. So even if this plan works, it's probably not gonna work very quickly. Yeah, I mean, he's a guy who's stiffed all of his creditors in the past over and over again.

He stiffs his employees. He stiffs everyone. The only thing he sent in the mail was his ballot, ironically. After he called it, this is cheating in voting. And he's like, watch me cheat in vote. And he sends it in through the mail. It's unbelievable. So to be a little bit more accurate, it wasn't just Trump behind the scenes saying that he's against this.

After it failed, he came out and said, not appropriate. You can't, you can't this vote and this Senate, not appropriate. No compromise. Me want whatever me wants, okay? Yeah, but bro, you're not a dictator. We have a government and it has three branches. And I, you know, someone should remind him of this, I'm not even sure he knows. Congress passes the laws, then it's your job to sign them or not sign them.

You have plenty of power, huge power, but you don't have unilateral power, right? Yeah, so much to remind Mike Johnson as well. Yeah, but you keep going, keep shutting it down, keep making everybody angry at the airports, keeps screwing over workers, but to be fair, they don't have any money because we're spending one to two billion dollars a day on Israel's war. Yeah. So I mean, we have some priorities. Israel must be satisfied, but you just wait in the airlines and then, or just drive and

bankrupt yourself with the gas fee. So please, you didn't donate to Donald Trump or Mike Johnson. Oh right, the Israeli lobby is the number one donor for both of them. What a coincidence. Yeah, and by the way, just as we finish, just to be very clear, the Senate deal doesn't even do the ICE reforms that the Dems want. It just allows the rest of DHS to function while that debate continues. It's not even giving the Democrats really anything.

It's giving the TSA something. That seems to be the thing that bothers Donald Trump and Mike Johnson so much. But that's what I can't stand about extremists. No, it has to be 100% what I want. If it's who varies one centimeter from what I want, that's it, I'm breaking all my toys, I'm breaking all your toys, I'm breaking everything, right? And no, just all right, okay, well, we're not gonna get anything done that way. Yeah.

Like look guys, we're the ones who constantly say don't do BS. compromises where, oh, golly gee, there's a corporate Democrat and a corporate Republican. They agreed to give tax cuts to their donors, right? That's a BS compromise. Hey, ISIS killing people in the streets. Can we have a tiny bit of restraint is not a BS compromise? That's a rational compromise. Yeah, exactly.

Do you want to do this last story real fast? Okay, let's have a little bit of fun. The president has done so much for the American people. And we want to honor him in some small way, some token of our people. appreciation for his leadership. And so tonight we have created a new award. It is our honor on behalf of all House Republicans, all of you here and all patriots across the country, present the very first America First Award to the 45th and the 47th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump. Yeah, if you thought that Republicans had maxed out on ass kissing Donald Trump,

Mike Johnson, he stayed up late last night, he figured out a new way that they can do it. They've created yet another gold trophy to give to Donald Trump. Oh boy, has he participated and he's gonna get recognition for it. But that's not it. They're also gonna be adding his signature to all US currency, because if he goes two seconds without seeing his name or face on something, he will lose it. Jank, what are your two cents? Yeah, so I think they've gone from kissing to eating, to be honest.

So does Donnie want an award? This is wonderfully humiliating. They're like, Donnie, hello little child, we got you another award. Hey look, it's a beautiful glass that says Noble mobile mobile like our sponsor. But it's an award, Donald. Okay, okay, see guys, Mike Johnson's an ask his server or whatever. Like, that's clear, everybody gets it. Every grown up gets it.

But what's 10,000 times more pathetic is that it works. That Donald Trump's like, oh yeah, I wanted a award. Hey, hey Melania. Oh, never mind. I want an award Lindsay and Stephen Miller and anyone who will listen to me. It's so embarrassing. Oh, you know, embarrassing. Okay, well, let's participate in a little bit more of the embarrassment.

But we wanted to do one thing before we bring the president out to the stage. Because of his accomplishments, and because of his willingness to work literally around the clock to fix every issue that has faced this country, to change the global partnerships, to make America strong again on the world stage, to solve all the domestic problems that we are facing in this country, the President has done so much for the American people. And we want to honor him in some small way, some token of our appreciation for his leadership. And so tonight we have created a new award. We have, we're going to do something we've never done before. We're going to honor him with a new award that we'll present annually from this point forward.

But he is the suitable and fitting recipient of the first ever America first award. We can think of no better title for what that is. That's this beautiful golden statue here. Yeah, we could think of no better title because we didn't really try because what's the difference? He'll accept anything we give him. And so they gave him a golden eagle. It's a great, great honor. And if you would like that great, great honor, people found it online.

It's less than $70 online. So embarrassing. Oh, you goofess, wake up. They have no respect for you, Donald Trump. Nobody respects you. And by the way, really fast on the whole working around the clock thing, just wanna remind everyone. And I'm a fan of golf, by the way, but not nearly

as much of a fan as Donald Trump. He has spent at least 102 days verified playing golf. He's only been president for a little bit over one year. He's spent a quarter of his presidency at his golf courses. And so I think not all the way around the clock, maybe he's gotten through around like half of it at this point. John, could have been worse. They got him a golden eagle.

They were thinking golden calf. They're like, ah, it's a little on the nose. A little bit, yeah. Okay. And I like how they named the America first. Their first title they had was not Israel First Award. No, really, really not Israel First Award, okay? Okay, sure, buddy, sure.

Yeah, it's just, it's so embarrassing. And I think we're running out of time. So I'm gonna jump ahead to the other embarrassing thing. Donald Trump has insisted that his name be put on literally everything, centers and all sorts of stuff. Now it's gonna be on stuff that you might have to carry around with you. Because the Treasury has announced that they are going to be adding his signature to every piece of U.S. currency beginning later this year because it's America's 250th birthday.

Why do you have to do that because it's the two? I don't know, they're just saying that as if it's a reason. Scott Besant says there is no more powerful way to recognize the historic achievements of our great country and President Donald J. Trump than U.S. dollar bills bearing his name and it is only appropriate that the historic currency be issued at the semi-quincennial. And so he is, as you might suspect, the first sitting U.S. president ever to have their name on currency, because notably no other president has asked for it because they're not that utterly pathetic. In the past, it would have had the Treasury Secretary and another person, another person working at the treasury. Their signatures are on there. They're taking off one of those. The guys whose name is being taken off, he thinks it's awesome.

He loves that his name is going to be there so that the little baby boy can have his name in Instead, this is Brandon Beach, US treasurer who says, the president's mark on history as the architect of America's golden age economic revival is undeniable. Printing his signature on the American currency is not only appropriate, but also well deserved. And it is a true golden age. We even have the Eagles to prove it. But I don't know, last year we had almost net, net no job growth. Inflation is spiking. Gas is way more expensive.

doing his tariffs, that's eating into our economy. The stock market's down massively from the beginning of the year, it's like 10% lower than it was like two months ago. What exactly is the golden age supposed to mean to regular people? I don't know. But if you use cash, you might soon have to have Donald Trump's stupid signature on your money. So to give you a sense of how damaging his narcissism is, and I'm wanting to see his name.

So back in 2016 when he was running, we did a lot of research on his businesses. And so I always wondered, because I grew up. up in New Jersey, why did he do three casinos in Atlantic City? That doesn't make any sense. Anyone with any sense, let alone if you went to business school or whatever, knows that your business are going to cannibalize one another and hurt each other. And then I found out, oh my God, for Taj Mahal, the last one, he got a 14% interest rate, which is gigantic, right? And very, very hard to be able to keep up with. And especially when you cannibalize your other business. So we did a lot of research and we found that there was an executive who explained

why he did it. It's from his own company, okay? He liked to see his name on buildings. So when he drove around Atlantic City, he wanted to see Trump, Trump, Trump. In case you don't know, all three went bankrupt. Yeah. I mean, what a child, what an unbelievable child that we've put into office as the most powerful man on earth. It's maddening. And then finally, Finally, if all this wasn't enough, it's not just that he wants to win awards. He doesn't want anyone else to win an award. So Bill Maher, I'm not a big fan of, but he did actually get the award Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

It's going to be handed out at the Kennedy Center and Trump's White House like, no, he didn't. He's not getting an award. And then people are like, yeah, but awkward, he definitely is. It's public, it's not in question. So later they're like, okay, fine, he is getting an award, but he only got the award after we said he's not getting one. A man child, how much damage is he gonna do in the next three years? I don't know, buckle up, brace for impact.

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