Melania Breaks With Trump in Shocking Letter to Putin

18 Aug 2025 · 15 min · 7 chapters

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In short

The host argues the Trump administration is compromised by Russia, citing alleged pro-Putin talking points, a Melania Trump letter to Vladimir Putin, and Russian influence/propaganda in U.S. politics. The episode also criticizes CNN’s Jillian Michaels segment on slavery and discusses “waste, fraud, and abuse” in Trump-era spending.

Guest backgrounds

No guests are interviewed. The host references Tim Miller (Bulwark) and Brian Tyler Cohen (reporting on waste/fraud).

Key claims

Trump mirrors Putin’s positions; Russian tanks are shown with American flags; Melania’s letter signals weakness and is linked to Putin’s alleged blackmail; Yale research on kidnapped Ukrainian children was defunded; Russia fuels U.S. white-supremacist propaganda; Jillian Michaels minimizes slavery and racism; Trump/ICE optics over child welfare.

Notable examples

Melania’s Putin letter; Yale defunding; Indianapolis neo-Nazi march; Jillian Michaels’ “2% owned slaves” claim; $50M taxpayer PR; $560K “Trump jet” styled ICE trucks after cutting child cancer research.

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Melania Trump's Letter to Putin

0:44 to 2:50

Analyzing Melania Trump's shocking letter to Putin amidst ongoing conflicts.

“Guess whose talking points are matching exactly those of Vladimir Putin's?”

MAGA Movement and White Supremacy

2:57 to 6:00

Discussing the rise of white nationalism and its ties to the MAGA movement.

“If you really wanted to do something about these kidnapped Ukrainian kids, you'd tell your husband to at least put back in the research that Yale University was doing, which is now all gone.”

Jillian Michaels and Slavery Remarks

6:10 to 8:12

Critiquing Jillian Michaels' controversial comments on slavery and race.

“They have Jillian Michaels on and this woman adopted a black daughter and she is trying to defend slavery by minimizing it.”

Jillian Michaels and Slavery Remarks

9:37 to 9:56

Critiquing Jillian Michaels' controversial comments on slavery and race.

“That's why customers have enjoyed Progressive's Name Your Price tool for years now.”

Government Waste and Abuse

10:08 to 14:03

Examining the misuse of taxpayer funds under the Trump administration.

“And, you know, what's even worse is she is a lesbian.”

Cultural Defense and Its Consequences

14:03 to 15:06

Explore the implications of defending cultural identity in America.

“these white Americans that feel like they have to defend their culture.”

Call to Action for Equality

15:06 to 15:39

A reminder to continue fighting for equality and justice.

“But please remember that those of us who believe in the ideas of equality and social justice, we're all still here and we all still have our voice.”
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0:28You're listening to this podcast, so I know you've got a curious mind. savings of$946 by new customers surveyed who saved with Progressive between June 2024 and May 2025. Potential savings will vary.

0:43Ever since the Alaska disaster we're in, Vladimir Putin put a shock collar around Kankle's McTaco tits and just started shocking it nonstop. Guess whose talking points are matching exactly those of Vladimir Putin's? Donald Trump. Donald Trump's talking points mimic the Russian position almost word for word. And as of right now, Russian tanks are heading into the battlefield with a Russian flag and an American flag. All of this is all over Russian television right now. It is American weakness. This cankles, McTaco tits, is soft. He is weak. He is triggered by late night comedians. And 77 million people think he's a tough guy that can go handle Vladimir Putin.

1:34This is absolutely a disaster. And what makes it worse is the wife of cankles, the wife of McTaco tits, Melania Trump. She wrote a letter to Vladimir Putin, put this up. Tim Miller with the Bulwark is reporting not a great sign for Trump's negotiation that he's been reduced to putting out a Mr. Putin. Won't you please think of the children letter from his third wife? We're in Melania goes and writes this letter to Putin because Russia kidnaps Ukrainian children. They kidnap them and they take them to Russia. And there was a university in the United States, Yale, that was tracking this and trying to keep track of where all of these kids were.

2:19Guess who defunded that research? Kankles McTacotits did. So for Melania Trump to write that letter when her husband is actively doing what Vladimir Putin wants him to do is so breathtakingly numb, cruel, and beyond the pale. But that's what this administration has become. And I just want to pop that letter up one more time. This is just the petty part of me. Why is she copying his signature? I mean, you know, it's just save us. We know you don't give a shit about Christmas, Melania. We know you don't give a shit about kids. This is unbelievable. If you really wanted to do something about these kidnapped Ukrainian kids, you'd tell your husband to at least put back in the research that Yale University was doing, which is now all gone.

3:06The database is gone because of kinkles. Well, I mean, I look at her and think this is the woman that wanted be best, which was trolling on the Internet. And her husband is the biggest troll. But this also was a signal to me. She knows how weak and compromised Vladimir Vladimir. I'm sorry. Donald Trump is by Vladimir Putin because she wrote this letter. If she really gave a fuck, she would be on TV every single day. But she does it because Vladimir Putin runs naked photos of her on Russian state TV all the time. Yeah, all the time. Yeah, he does. All right. Next up in the MAGA Big Ten of Deplorables.

3:43Here's what's going on in the streets of Indianapolis. We have armed neo-Nazis chanting white power through the streets. And I want you to notice that these people wear masks. Ice agents wear masks. And a lot of this has been in the United States forever. And now they're coming out. And guess who started this propaganda war a decade ago to get Americans at each other's throat, to feed into the default setting that some Americans have towards white supremacy, towards white nationalism? Guess who has just an army of bot farms that keep feeding all of this? Vladimir Putin. Vladimir Putin does. And so you see that all of these people, I guarantee you every single person in that march, every single one of them, MAGA, 100 % voted for Trump.

4:33And this is a generational issue that is going to live beyond Donald Trump because any oversight that we had over monitoring espionage that Russia does to the United States of America, guess who shut that down? Kangol's McTaco tits. At every turn, he bends the knee to Vladimir Putin and is now mimicking his talking points almost word for word. Well, Tulsi Gabbard's been, you know, the director of national intelligence. She's been mimicking his talking points since she got in office. There is no question. You cannot make the argument that this administration is not compromised by Russia. You can't make it.

5:17It is as clear as the nose on my face. And here's where I get with this. Is somebody in the Trump administration, somebody that was in that closed door meeting, is it going to be little Marco? I doubt it. But is somebody going to say, hey, here's the deal. They have compromising information on the president that's going to take us all down. This is why they campaigned about getting rid of the deep state, because before there were people in during Trump 1.0, they reported on the call, the Ukrainian call, and they reported on it and Trump got impeached for it. And so they are trying to get everybody in power that is just blindly obedient to Trump, who is blindly obedient to Putin.

6:01And the collateral damage goes beyond the United States of America. This is very, very dangerous stuff. But what are they talking about over on CNN? Why all of this is going on? They have Jillian Michaels on and this woman adopted a black daughter and she is trying to defend slavery by minimizing it. Play the clip. Anyone surfing social media this week has surely seen this clip of Jillian Michaels saying this about slavery. Julie said only less than 2 % of white Americans owned slaves. And while she didn't name a specific year in her claim on CNN, she did tweet this out later saying, I'm denigrating all of humanity by pointing out that 98 % of American white people in 1860 didn't perpetrate slavery.

6:49Okay. Let's take a look. Let's stop right there. This is the problem, Jillian. You're looking at it the wrong way. Because in 1860, 95 % of blacks in the South were slaves. In Mississippi, 100 % of black people were slaves. And if you didn't own a slave, you treated somebody else's slave as such. So you're looking at this from the wrong angle. You're looking at it from being an oppressor. And as the mother of a black child, I just find that unbelievable. And to try to say that, oh, only 2%, which her numbers are faulty and that TikTok dives into it more and more. But 95 to 100 percent of black people either were slaves or were treated as such.

7:44I still live around people in Oklahoma City. Pumps lives around people and knows people intimately who oppose interracial marriage. So the confines of this thinking still permeate to today. So you looking at it, trying to assuage white people and trying to make them feel better about it is not helpful. It's better to help the people that were enslaved. That is the braver thing to do. Do we all sit around with a lot of guilt about this? This is a real absolutist way of thinking. No, I don't sit around and have a lot of guilt about this, but I put on a solution-oriented mindset that it's very obvious to me that white people, if the race of life is a hundred-yard dash, start on the 40 or 50-yard line, and black men start at maybe minus five, and black women start at maybe minus 25 in that hundred-yard dash.

8:40What can we do to make the ideals and the dreams and aspirations of the United States Constitution come to life, a more perfect union? What can we do to echo the words of Martin Luther King Jr. to help lift up those? I don't know if this gal is a big Christian or not, but I probably think based on her KKK style thinking that she is. So why don't you look at it from the lens of the people that were raped, killed, tortured, and it was legal to do so. And the people who didn't happen to own a slave still treated those people as though they had no rights. The fact that you're fighting for the white majority instead of the 100 percent black minority that had horrific crimes committed against them is just the biggest character reveal I have ever seen on national television in my life.

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10:08And, you know, what's even worse is she is a lesbian. Like, she is she's a lesbian. Yes, she has a wife. I mean, she has an ex-wife with the kids. I don't know if she's married right now. But here's the thing. whether it's, I think it was like 300 ,000 all in the South because the North was free at this point. The problem is in the South, the racism still exists like it did in the time that she's talking about. It's now become emboldened by Trump with a stand back and stand by. And what Jillian Michaels doesn't understand is her daughter and herself as a lesbian are on the chopping block for this, for this administration, for the MAGA movement, you can really, I mean, we used to say they're against black women, they're against white women, they're against this, that they are against everyone that is not a white male with money.

11:00I'll tell you what, Jillian Michaels should, if she wants to know what it's like, she could bring her family and her, by no choice of her own, she's a lesbian, I believe she was born that way. And her black daughter who deserves equal rights, bring them to the South and enroll them in a private Christian school. See if you even get in. See if they even allow you in, because they won't. They won't allow you in because they're racist homophobes that make people sign documents that they oppose gay marriage. That's their number one thing. And I can tell you what, at these schools, they might have a black person here or there.

11:40And it is a token. It is a token black person in these schools that assuages white guilt for active racism. So come take a spin around in the South, Jillian, and see how well your daughter's treated. Because my husband's a criminal defense attorney, and he represents two black female basketball players who moved to a rural town. And guess what happened when those black girls started playing on that basketball team in an all-white rural town in Oklahoma. Inward, inward, inward, inward by their classmates. So this is just unbelievable. She probably lives in a blue state, I don't know much about her, where she is provided the protections of blue state governors that fight for equality for all.

12:29All right, and then moving along, I want to point out two issues of waste, fraud, and abuse that I would like to earmark for the MAGA administration, put up the first headline. The Trump administration is set to spend up to$50 million on taxpayer-funded PR amid the torrent of negative coverage dodging Ice Barbie, Kristi Noem. $50 million for a PR campaign for this broad, just a complete waste, fraud, and abuse. So every time they say waste, fraud, and abuse, it's bullshit. And the last one, I want to get Pump's take on this. Brian Tyler Cohen is reporting on waste, fraud, and abuse. The Trump administration just spent$560 ,000 taxpayer dollars to buy new ice trucks styled to look like Trump's private jet for social media hype video after cutting funding for child cancer research.

13:21This is who they are. They are not pro-child. They are not pro-life. They are pro-dehumanizing people, torturing people, and cruelty. The reason they're doing this is because they don't give a shit about people. What they care about is optics. Full stop. Full stop. Speaking of optics pumps, take a look at this. Kylie put up that truck again. It says defend the homeland on it. And this is manufactured by Putin because he thought I can I can wage a war against the United States of America and never have to fire a bullet or a missile. And he did it with psychological warfare that creates all of this division.

14:02So you have all these white Americans that feel like they have to defend their culture. One of the ICE websites doesn't say defend your culture. That's on their recruiting. What culture are they talking about defending the same culture that Jillian Michaels is trying to defend right now when she doesn't realize if you go live in an all white America and go go live in rural America with your black daughter Jillian take her around see what happens I would say don't do that because it's child abuse but these are very dangerous sick people that don't give a shit about children this defend the homeland stuff.

14:44They are now, I saw a report recently that they're now going to be moving on to, they want to make sure the one thing that they support in these concentration camps, I guess they support diversity there because now they're looking to arrest white people to put them in the concentration camps. I read a report on that over the weekend. All right. Very alarming, troubling stuff. But please remember that those of us who believe in the ideas of equality and social justice, we're all still here and we all still have our voice. And this is a deranged, despicable minority. Trump has in the 30s approval rating.

15:24So we have to keep hammering hard at these people. We have to keep calling out the hypocrisy and the duplicity. And we have to fight for this country and fight for Jillian Michaels' daughter because God knows she's not. All right, we'll see you all later.

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Melania writes to Vladimir Putin, Neo-nazi's parade around US cities, and Trump leaves behind a trail of waste, fraud, and abuse.


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