Trump Admits Everything Out Loud, Exposing the MAGA Scam; Dems Brace for Blue Wave

0:04Walter Masterson:All right, joining me today on iHIP News is my friend Walter Masterson. He is a comedian, activist, and you might know him from crashing a pro-Israel rally dressed up as a stormtrooper. Let's play the clip. The Empire.

0:23I would pitch on fire. The Galactic Empire did nothing wrong.

0:31I stand with the Empire. Three Algerians from the Rebel Alliance. It was Mark Carson. People are Algerians. All right.

0:41Walter Masterson:So how did that go over and how did you get the idea to do that? Oh, God, that was, I wanted to sort of cross genres because I feel like a lot of us watch these movies and TV shows and we always understand who the bad guys are. And then suddenly that all goes away. So I just figured, you know what, let me take any genre, take any piece of fiction and just side with the bad guys and justify that. And everyone can hear how dumb that looks. Like we could go back and forth with history. We can talk about Theodore Herzl, but you know what, forget all that. Let's just break it down the way that anyone can understand it.

1:23They'll be like, oh, right. Yeah, we're saving Alderaan. We can figure out how dumb that sounds.

1:29Walter Masterson:I mean, and that's what's so disheartening about the time we're living in. My husband always says this. He always says, it's just so enraging that everybody's celebrating the villain. Yeah. You know, with MAGA, with the war crimes of Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, it's just people are flagrantly celebrating the bad guys. Oh, yeah. And it's always this sort of, you know, I know you are, but what am I? with any time you're like, well, you called me a fascist. That means you're a fascist. Obviously, that's how fascism works. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And we have to remember that the first person to ever call Trump Hitler was J.D.

2:08Walter Masterson:Vance. Oh, God. I love that. Yeah. I actually have an old interview. I was at the RNC right as the news dropped. So I got to watch their reactions in real time. And I thought, this is perfect, right? Trump announced J.D. Vance as his running mate. And I get to watch all of their reactions and pull them in real time before the talking points come out, before they've been told what to think. And you can find the video. People are a little like, okay. I mean, I guess. Everyone was like, huh. Who do you think they wanted? They wanted Marco Rubio to balance the ticket. Okay. Because Marco Rubio is sort of seen as this, you know, rhino.

3:00He's seen as like marginally MAGA. He's sort of more of the old Republican guard. And they thought, oh, that'll unite the right. And they had other people that they thought for this. What's her name who had the failed Arizona campaign. Carrie Lake. Someone like that.

3:21Walter Masterson:So what's it like? Okay, the RNC, a couple of things stick out to me from that. Number one, everybody putting maxi pads on their ear. Number two, Usha Vance saying that she's a vegetarian to the crowd of MAGA Republicans. And I just, every time I think about MAGA being, or like, I guess it completely fell flat, But I always think about Ted Cruz doing this video where he goes, Kamala, you're not taking away my cheeseburger. And it's, you know, do you remember that clip where Ted Cruz is talking about Kamala? Yeah, it's always, we're trying to take away their gas stoves, their cheeseburgers, light bulbs.

3:59I mean, were you there during Usha Vance's speech? I wasn't there for that, but it tracks because I've been to over 30 Trump rallies. I followed him around and did interviews for years when I first started. And I am clear that no one is listening to what he was saying. No one, because there's so many people going, you know, I really didn't vote for this. And then I'm like, I went to these rallies. I listened to his speech multiple times. And, you know, this is exactly what you voted for. He actually, to his credit, was incredibly honest. He was like, I'm going to deport just everyone. I'm going to set up camp.

4:44There's going to be camps. And he actually was, he laid it out. He's like, I mean, they laid out Project 2025. He held up signs that had mass deportations. Now, I mean, there was everything about it. And having been to these rallies, I don't think anyone was listening. There's sort of a dynamic that happened at those rallies.

5:06Walter Masterson:They would ramble on at these rallies. Sometimes they would go on like two, three hours. Would the people start leaving early? Oh, always, always. Because this is what happened at every rally. They would do this all the time. So they would say that the rally started at 4 p.m., 3 p.m., right? Because they wanted to get everyone in there, right? So these people would get there. And granted, these are in open fields. There's no cover, none. So these people are stacked with no cloud cover, just getting blasted on by the sun. And he's never the opening act. There's always a bunch of people opening for him.

5:49He goes on dead last. Every time, by the time they get to him, people are exhausted. Naturally. I mean, that's because they were supposed to be there hours before. All these people spoke. And by the time he's going on, they're like, all right, you know what? I checked this box. I punched my time card. I saw him. Cool.

6:15Walter Masterson:Put it on my Insta story. Yeah, just did the thing. Okay, what's your take of, I would say somebody who's going to go to a field in bumfuck America to see Trump is a full-blown cultist. Because there's degrees of maggot. I mean, I will. I'm not going to knock him for doing that because the Democratic Party spends just this ungodly, what should be an illegal amount of money, just trying to get voters in those areas. And they make all types of bizarre contortions, ethical contortions. They're like, oh, yeah, well, we can do fracking. Yeah, we can we can have, you know, some ice we can, you know, we'll let ice, you know, shoot people like sometimes.

7:00And then to try they do that to try to get those people in those areas. They'll do everything but go to those areas physically. I agree. So I'm not knocking that. That was genius. He spent years going to these random areas. And these people felt very ignored, which they are, because they don't have money. No one cares about them. And yeah, he's like, hey, I care about you. And they're like, oh, he's our savior. He's the only person to come here and, you know, tell it like it is. So, you know, that as a tactic without spending hundreds of millions on these... Focus groups. Yeah, like, yeah.

7:40Walter Masterson:It's really smart because, you know, I recently moved to New York from Oklahoma City, and I've always been a political junkie. I've hosted more fundraisers for losing Democratic candidates in the state of Oklahoma than anybody. and you feel as a person that is blue in a red state or perhaps red in a blue state or a state that isn't contested at all you feel like a forgotten voter you don't feel like you're a part of the political process and i remember uh in 2016 bernie came i voted for hillary i regret it but bernie came to oklahoma bernie won the state of oklahoma in the democratic primary because he came and he campaigned there.

8:22Walter Masterson:He actually had rallies and people felt seen. And recently, whether you like him or not, Pete Buttigieg went to Tulsa, Oklahoma. And there were some people criticizing that online. And I looked at the comments and all the people in Tulsa were like, we're just glad he came. We're just so glad he's here. We're so glad somebody's paying attention to us. And Democrats abandoning a 50 state strategy is such a horrible idea because what What happens like in Oklahoma right now in the gubernatorial race, you have the Republican primary and whoever wins the Republican primary will win governor. So they out crazy each other.

8:57Walter Masterson:Who can be the most anti-trans? Who can be the most Trumpy? And it is a race to the bottom. And so you get a much more radical Republican party because of the Democrats. Even if you don't win in these states, you need to have a presence. a presence. You need to let people feel like they're a part of the process because eventually Democrats have started to invest in Texas and it's trending purple. I mean, it is definitely heading that way. So what is your take on the people at the rally? Take us into the psychology of, of these, of these people that go to a Trump rally for hours on end. Oh God.

9:35Um, here we go. So, I mean, yeah, there's, there's definitely like a cultishness to it. And And these people have never been a part of something. So a lot of people come there and they feel a sense of community. And the community starts when you put on the MAGA hat. It's like, oh, welcome. You know, you're wearing a MAGA hat. You're one of us. You're in the club. That's why I originally went there years ago wearing a MAGA hat, interviewing people, because visually that's all they cared about. It was like, oh, okay. You're wearing the MAGA hat? Cool. That's it. And then they, and then you feel like you're apart and it doesn't, I mean, there are, I don't want to say like, I don't want to say it's like diverse, but I mean, you see, it's like, there's like two black people there.

10:27You go, no, okay. Right. And, you know, and no one's, everyone's like, oh, well, you know, they're, that's, that's, that's good enough for me in terms of numbers, you know, that's, let's not get too much here. Right. And they're like, oh, good. And they always point to them saying, well, if we're racist, then why are they here?

10:47Walter Masterson:So they talk about race a lot. Well, I actually, Jolly Good Ginger, early on, he went with me to these things. He very much told me, he said, do not say the word racism because it's like waving red in front of a bull. Because I made the mistake in an interview talking about racism, just the word itself. And this guy absolutely lost it. His fangs came out and Jalika Ginger's on the sidelines laughing. He's like, I could have told you not to use that word around them. And it was a very amicable conversation until I mentioned that. I was like, noted. So it's like they've been, you know, propagandized of like, you know, racism.

11:32I think it all goes into like racial capitalism of like, well, if we acknowledge the black people, if we acknowledge them, it's all going to take away from us. It's going to take away from our piece of the pie, this small piece that we have.

11:48Walter Masterson:Well, and also I think it's the bargain that they get. Like, you're not going to get higher wages and you're not going to get healthcare, but you're going to get to be racist. We're going to give you that. You're going to get that. And And Trump has really delivered that for them. I mean, it is completely untethered. I want to show you a clip of some crazy shit that Trump is doing this week and get your reaction. Let's do this. These people have unbelievable courage, unbelievable. A lot of other things too, by the way, to get in there, you have to be very smart, have to do a lot of things physically good.

12:22So I would have had no trouble making it and physically very, very good. Maybe a little bit of a problem. I don't know. We'll have to try it sometime. Is a president allowed to go up in one of these missions? We can get working on that. We have no problem, right? We'll launch more rockets. The opportunity. We'll have to try it. Oh, my God. That is such, you know what? I got to say, I totally agree with Donald Trump. I think he should totally go up to space. And you know who should be in charge of it? Elon Musk. Elon Musk.

12:55Walter Masterson:That is so brilliant. After watching him manage Twitter. I think he should be in charge of taking all the billionaires and Trump administration officials into space. I think that's, you know, I mean, listen, if you have any doubts, just look at what he's done with Twitter and prove me wrong. Am I right? I think that's exactly right. That's incredible. Yeah. I particularly like how he manages child support and baby mama issues on Twitter. I mean, you know, that's like one-stop shopping. I own the website. I can deal with all of my offspring and their moms. If you're Elon Musk, he can do all of his white supremacy.

13:37Walter Masterson:He's been retweeting full-blown Nazi shit. He's always did it before, but now it's like 800 times higher these last two weeks. If you can imagine, he's gotten worse. Oh, wait, it got worse the past two weeks? Yeah. Yeah. I talked to a scholar, and she has a theory on this. She has a theory that the tech industry's investment into J.D. Vance has not been what they thought it was going to be because J.D. Vance is face planning because Trump's rat-fucking him every chance he can get. He's like, yeah, you go to Pakistan. You go campaign for Orban. You're the fraud czar. So Trump's rat-fucking Vance, right?

14:16Walter Masterson:And all of the tech oligarchs are like, oh, fuck, we paid a lot of money for him to be vice president. And they're all having like a mass psychotic episode right now because their investment is unraveling before their eyes and i'm here for it yeah i also think they they have a better plan than what i think biden had was they're keeping their whereas the democratic party kind of sequestered kamala then when it was time for her to actually run and do something it's like where have you been whereas they're keeping jd vance very front and center because they know donald trump's got very limited time left.

14:52I mean, they could throw the constitution in the trash and then just have Trump do a third term, but they're like, yeah, we don't know about this. He's any day now and JD Vance has got to be ready to take the helm. And so they have him very visible. The only problem is he doesn't have any, there's no way for him to say, oh, hey, I disagreed with Trump so much because he's basically working hand in glove with him.

15:20Walter Masterson:Totally. Okay, here's another clip of Trump making fun of a NASA administrator's ears. I love this. Well, the best man to tell you that is a man standing right over here. You heard that question? With those beautiful ears of yours? He's got great hearing, you know, super. He's got super hearing. Trick of the trick, sir. For those of you that are listening, the guy has very large, out-of-scale ears. That's very consistent because Trump has been phenomenal at coming up with middle school insults for people. I mean, the way he trashed DeSantis was just, I mean, putting fingers, all that stuff. I mean, phenomenal.

16:03Walter Masterson:Yeah. So, I mean, that's just consistent. I mean, right. I mean, he hasn't, that's still his biggest superpower. Oh, I agree. Middle school nicknames for people. Totally. The only person who beats him in that, I think, or rivals him is Curtis Sliwa. Oh, yeah. Curtis Sliwa is great. Curtis Sliwa is like, hmm. Yeah. Okay. If you're like me, you pick on the right and the left, which we both do. Bipartisan. Yes. Yes. Yeah. So here's a clip of you interrupting New York moderate Democratic Tom Swatzee. Let's play the clip for the audience. Moderate. I'm going to read the names of the nine people that were killed by ICE this month.

16:41I'm reading names of people killed by ICE. You're going to touch me? Yeah. You're going to touch me. Alex Freddie, Renee Goode, Keith Porter, Bernie Laha. These people were killed by ICE this month. Nine people were killed by ICE this month. And you're throwing me out while I'm reading their names? You are funding our occupation. Tell me how good you made a mistake. Tell Alex Freddie you made a mistake.

17:07Walter Masterson:So when you go in and do these, you have, so when they take out one protester, you have another that pops up. Yeah. What's it called? Popcorn disruption. And you're really great at this because it's like they get one and then another pops up, then another. Yeah. And then they finally get the hang of it by like the sixth or seventh person. And they're like, oh, okay. I see how this works. So this congressman, if I remember correctly, there's this theory or it's kind of been proven that the Democrats deploy a rotating villain strategy where they don't whip the votes. They are not a full opposition party.

17:41Walter Masterson:And so they'll be like, okay, y 'all are going to have to take this hickey. You're going to take it. Oh yeah, like Jared Golden with voting for the Iran war. And Swazi, I believe he funded right before these killings, he voted to fund ICE. Is that right? Yeah. And so that's why you went there to call him out. Yeah. And it's funny is that this is in a synagogue. He held his town hall in a synagogue. Okay. Which, okay. I mean, this is a town hall. It's in a synagogue. It's not during a religious service. I had some misgivings about that because I don't necessarily like going into a religious institution.

18:20Right. But the people that were in the synagogue, those are his constituents. They agree with him on things like Israel and all that stuff. If you look at the rest of the video, they start calling him out too. They're like, yeah, no, you're on the wrong side of history. Get back on the right side here. And they start screaming at him for this. after we started, they were like, yeah, we're here because you messed up, pal. And then he, there's like a full video of this live stream there when he starts being like, hey, you're acting like those Palestine protesters right now to his own constituents.

18:59And I was like, oh, that's good. That's so good. Calling his own constituents, which were like vehemently pro-Israel and they're calling him out. And he's like, hey, you're acting like one of those Palestinian people right there. Cut it out. And I was like, oh, well played, sir.

19:18Walter Masterson:Let's talk about this, Walter. Sometimes, and this is something I think the Democratic voter base needs to be made aware of. So a politician like Tom Swasey lives in a very blue district and he's given this benefit by virtue of having a D behind his name, because voters are not super engaged all the time. We have lives, we have shit we want to do, et cetera. Not everybody's just nut political junkies like you, me, and the listener. And so they think, oh yeah, I'm going to vote for the D. Sometimes - Don't check under the hood. Sometimes under the hood, they vote a lot like ours. And I've read some stuff that, you know, it's almost like this is an intentional plant, politicians like Swazi that go into these blue districts, and then they just deliver corporate policy for corporations, much like the Supreme Court is doing right now, over and over again.

20:15Walter Masterson:And what's your take on like where we need to be? Like right now, I feel like we're approaching a primary, we need to be really critical of our party, especially the corporate ones. But then as we gear up towards the midterms, the primaries are over. What are your thoughts on supporting like vote blue, no matter who, after that? I cannot wait for someone to win their primary that is very far to the left, that has a lot of problematic views against Israel and so on. And I would love to pull those same vote blue, no matter who people be like, Hey, come on. Where is it? You know, Janet Mills just dropped out.

20:57Yeah. Vote blue no matter who, baby.

21:00Walter Masterson:Come on. Then it's got to be Graham Plattner, right? Yeah. I do feel like I like Graham Plattner. When he speaks, we share the same politics, all of that. It is frustrating that he had a Totenkopf tattoo for all those years. He was a Blackwater freelancer for a while. And I'm fully aware though, I'm just going to say it, if this was a Republican and it was like, oh, I didn't know what this Totenkopf tattoo would be all over it. We'd be like, yeah, okay, moron. Sure. You're right. So I do think we can hold his feet to the fire on that because I know exactly how I would feel if someone gave this like, oh, this tattoo?

21:48I mean, what is it really? I mean, just... That's a really fair take, Walter.