In short
The hosts dissect Trump’s mid-interview remarks about Israel and election “rigging,” then pivot to criticism of billionaire tax avoidance and media narratives, focusing on Jeff Bezos and other wealthy figures.
Guests
No specific guests are identified in the transcript; it appears to be a two-host discussion with references to “scholars” and clips from public figures.
Key claims
Trump is portrayed as easily manipulated by Benjamin Netanyahu via praise/polls; Trump’s “Jesus Christ counting votes” comment is framed as intentional Christian signaling to energize supporters for rigged elections. Billionaires are accused of gaslighting the public about taxes and exploiting workers; Bezos is said to have paid little/no taxes and to dismiss teachers and workers while defending other rich elites.
Notable examples
Trump claiming he’s “99%” in Israel and could run for prime minister; Trump saying Jesus would “count the votes” and rig elections; Bezos arguing doubling his taxes wouldn’t help a “teacher in Queens”; Bezos defending Ken Griffin and supporting a “pied-à-terre tax.”
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOTrump's Prime Minister Aspirations
0:46 to 1:54
Analysis of Trump's comments about running for Prime Minister of Israel.
“like every other person on the planet knows, how do you get Trump to do what you want him to do?”
Manipulation and Psychological Play
1:55 to 3:19
Discussion on how Trump is easily manipulated by leaders like Netanyahu.
“I think it's made up as a manipulative play by Benjamin Netanyahu to play into him the same way that Putin plays into him psychologically.”
Jesus as a Poll Worker?
3:20 to 4:28
Exploration of Trump's bizarre statement about Jesus counting votes.
“Jesus needs to have a felony record as well.”
The Impact of Billionaires on Society
4:29 to 6:14
Critique of billionaires and their lack of accountability in society.
“it too big to rig, and we must do everything in our power to do so because they are removing black voices from government.”
Jeff Bezos and Taxation
6:15 to 8:21
Discussion on Jeff Bezos' comments about taxes and their consequences.
“And there was a generation of men back before Citizens United that paid up to 70 % in taxes.”
Billionaire's Victim Complex
12:38 to 14:01
Discussion on the victim mentality of billionaires like Ken Griffin.
“You may remember Ken Griffin as the guy that Zoran like tink, tink, tink on the camera and called out for having a$250 million, like third or fourth home in New York.”
The Impact of Taxation on New Yorkers
14:01 to 14:34
Learn how hotel taxes affect tourism and the local economy in New York.
“If you raise the hotel taxes too much, tourists stop coming, right?”
Wealth Inequality and Accountability
14:35 to 15:40
Explore the disconnect between billionaires and everyday Americans regarding wealth and responsibility.
“running get priced out and have to commute an hour, hour and a half.”
The Moral Dilemma of Wealth
15:41 to 16:49
Examine the ethical implications of extreme wealth and the lack of empathy among the wealthy.
“I will be the first to admit, I didn't realize how ingrained it was in me as an American that rich people deserve respect, that they're smart.”
Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:04Angie Sullivan:It's Wednesday in America and Trump is giving another bonkers presser on the tarmac. The mainstream media refuses to cover how batshit and insane this man is, but we here at IHIP News will do so. Play the clip. At 99 % in Israel, I could run for prime minister. So maybe after I do this, I'll go to Israel, run for prime minister. I had a poll this morning. I'm 99%. So that's good. But do it, do it. Go to Israel and run for prime minister. Do it, Mr. Popular. Do it, Mr. Congeniality. Go over to Israel and be their prime minister. Here's what I think happened. I think Benjamin Netanyahu, like every other person on the planet knows, how do you get Trump to do what you want him to do?
0:52Angie Sullivan:You pile on effusive praise. And so, Bibi calls him and he's like, hey, we just had a new poll drop in Israel. It looks like you're 99%. And Trump's like, oh my God, Bibi, I could be Prime Minister. And he's like, oh yes, Mr. President, you could be. You absolutely could be. And that is how easy it is to put a collar on the President of the United States, attach a leash, and then walk him off to commit war crimes. Am I crazy? Or the reason he's so popular in Israel is because he's Netanyahu's little bitch. I mean, he's just a little bitch for Israeli government. And if it were me, I would not be bragging about that.
1:34I would not be bragging that I was so unpopular at home, yet I'm just all over the place in another country. To me, that's not something I would brag about. Right.
1:45Angie Sullivan:But he brags about not passing or about passing cognitive tests. You know what I mean? Like this is, but also I don't think that poll is true. I don't think that is real. I think it's made up as a manipulative play by Benjamin Netanyahu to play into him the same way that Putin plays into him psychologically. This stuff is manufactured to get the result that anybody wants because the psychological profile on Trump is razor thin because it's not deep. It's super easy to manipulate him into doing things. And then here's just crazy shit that he says on a Wednesday. Play the clip. If we had Jesus Christ come down and count the votes, I would have won California.
2:31Angie Sullivan:Perfect. Perfect. That's what I think we do. I think we start summoning Jesus Christ to come down and count the votes to rig the election for you. That makes perfect sense. I mean, according to Trump, he and Jesus are one of the same. And to actually now make Jesus Christ some sort of poll worker is really an interesting evolution of his fascination with poll workers that I didn't see coming. Like, you know, he got the gay governor of Colorado to let a criminal election denying election rigging felon out of prison. So why not throw Jesus in there? Why stop now with all the blasphemy? Let's go ahead and make Jesus commit election crimes, too.
3:19Angie Sullivan:For MAGA Christians, let's go. Jesus needs to have a felony record as well. are you kidding he wouldn't make it to the the polling place because he'd be rounded up by ice because his skin is brown touche yeah and i don't think he would have spoken american english either i don't think he would have spoken english with an american accent and that too would probably cause him to get uh picked up by ice but i want to point out this is classic christian signaling right here this is trump you know, a lot of times I think, oh, he's just mouthing stuff off. But after talking to a lot of scholars that I've spoken with on the podcast, a lot of what he does, even though he's in complete cognitive decline is intentional.
4:04Angie Sullivan:And he uses this Christian signaling now to say, even California is rigged and only Jesus could make it right. And so this is a way that he keeps his maniacal Christian base in on the upcoming rigging that he intends to do. But let me say, when I say that, you guys, do not let that suppress your vote. We can turn out and make it too big to rig, and we must do everything in our power to do so because they are removing black voices from government. And of course, the billionaires, I mean, you have billions of dollars and all you have to do is shut the fuck up and go live your life. Get off social media, go build your bunkers, but they can't, they cannot help themselves.
4:53Angie Sullivan:And here is Jeff Bezos on the news this morning. Play the clip. You could, you could double the taxes I pay and it's not going to help that teacher in Queens. I promise you.
5:08Angie. He's really gained weight, hasn't he? He does not look good. I mean, I couldn't take But anyway, I think it's fillers.
5:15Angie Sullivan:I don't know that he's saying, but I think it's fillers. He and his wife are going to the same as a physician. Here's the thing. The reason it wouldn't help the teacher in Queens is because he didn't pay any fucking taxes. That's why. What he said was, I'm sorry. What he said is you could double the taxes I pay, and that's not going to help that teacher in Queens. and evidence shows that that is false, that raising taxes on billionaires will help the teachers and queens. It will help everybody. The fact that these guys show no sense of patriotism, and I'm not talking about the MAGA, chess beater bluster kind of patriotism, you know, where they have their flags and the truck nuts and all that shit, and the shirts with the eagle and the grenade and I'm a big boy, you know, all that, all that stuff.
6:10Angie Sullivan:I'm talking about like, you know what, this country has been so good to me. And there was a generation of men back before Citizens United that paid up to 70 % in taxes. And there was a a culture that people wanted to be earnest in this way. The culture in America right now is Jeff Bezos is easy to hate. Elon Musk, easy to hate. But the culture is that somehow these people are victims. Do you hear how he gets on there? Like, I'm not the problem here. Instead of saying, tax me, Warren Buffett says, tax me. And he was a billionaire long before Jeff Bezos was. Not only is it a lie, it is intentional gaslighting.
6:56Angie Sullivan:And these guys want power. They want to have power, but he will not put his name on a ballot and go run for office. The fundamental problem I see is a cultural rot where we have a large segment of the American society that allows these men to be victims, that allows these men to be on this constant loop, that somehow the billions of dollars that they have from exploiting people isn't enough. And we need to shift the focus that Jeff Bezos is a billionaire because he exploits people. Amazon workers deserve to be paid a livable wage with dignity. And I would even go as far to say as rich as Amazon is beyond a livable wage.
7:47Angie Sullivan:Right. A really good life wage. Amazon workers that get in their trucks and drive all over the United States, dropping packages all day long. I argue they work harder than Jeff Bezos. A lot of these billionaires sit at a desk, paperclip, staple, highlight, press send. The manual labor that goes on to make these billionaires this rich to where they feel like they're victims. And he should be standing there saying, I am more than happy to pay more in taxes because it will affect my life zero. It will have zero impact on my life, but we have to create a culture where people are paying more in wages, but he cannot, it's all built on a house of cards and he cannot let one card swipe out or they're all come tumbling down because he enjoys exploiting people.
8:37Angie Sullivan:He enjoys demonizing the union workers that try to organize to get just a livable wage, not a decent wage where maybe you can go to Cancun or something for vacation. Just being able to live above the poverty line, Jeff Bezos organized and spent millions to besmirch their efforts. Well, and when you think about, and Amazon's the example because of Jeff Bezos, but this is a, the world's largest retailer with, that's not, doesn't have any real property stores. So you're using infrastructure, railways, air, highways, all of these things. And when you look at it, he's not paying any taxes for that.
9:19So the taxpayer is paying for the upkeep of the infrastructure that he uses. And then he's fighting to keep his employees from earning a decent living. And it's gross is what it is. It's gross that he doesn't say, you know what, thank you. I built this business model, but you're the ones that keep it running. Without the person that delivers the package, I couldn't have a business. But there's zero gratitude for anyone but himself. Right.
9:50Angie Sullivan:And more than anything, there's disdain for the American public. For him to sit on television and be that dismissive about, well, you could double my taxes and it's not going to help the teacher in Queens. How dismissive to that teacher in Queens? How How dismissive to those parents in Queens? How dismissive to those parents all over the country? And you notice he chose Queens because if he would have said that teacher in rural Oklahoma, because for the people in middle America, it's easy to demonize these crazy liberals in New York. But the fact of the matter is the people who suffer the most from this stuff are the people in rural America because they have politicians who spend their lives kissing the ass of Jeff Bezos, who in turn spends his life, at least the last three years, two years, kissing Donald Trump's ass.
10:38Angie Sullivan:In the same interview, he was saying he thought Trump was a more mature, better version of himself in Trump 2.0, which is just complete pathological gaslighting by Jeff Bezos and also proves to me that he's not that smart. This notion that we attribute all of this intelligence to billionaires is the biggest bunch of crap. I have met a lot of really wealthy people in my lives. Some are smart. The majority are not any smarter than anybody else you know. They're just better at exploiting people and they're better at not feeling that exploitation. The people who don't feel when they do something immoral, who are able to bask in cognitive dissonance, that's what these billionaires are able to do.
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12:44Angie Sullivan:And here's Bezos defending Ken Griffin. You may remember Ken Griffin as the guy that Zoran like tink, tink, tink on the camera and called out for having a$250 million, like third or fourth home in New York. And Ken Griffin goes on, you know, Bedwetter City. Like, you know, he put my life in danger and all this bullshit. Instead of like being a real man and going, Zoran, Ken Griffin, I agree with you. That's obnoxious, the cost of my apartment. I want to donate to your child care initiative in New York, and I want to pay these taxes immediately, and I want to do it in front of cameras to set a precedent so that all billionaires start doing the same.
13:23Angie Sullivan:I agree with you. There's a rot in my community. Now, what does he do? He's a victim. Wah, wah. B-O-O-H-O-O. Here's Bezos defending Ken Griffin, but also saying he supports the pied -à-terre tax. He isn't a villain. He hasn't hurt anybody. He's not hurting New York. In fact, quite the opposite. And so that piece of it isn't right. And there was no reason to do that. A pire de terre tax is a, you know, there's a very, taxes on out of towners are very popular taxes. That's why there are hotel taxes. And you know, hotels always have very high tax rates because why not tax the tourists? And there are limits.
14:02If you raise the hotel taxes too much, tourists stop coming, right? So you have to be judicious. But I think that the peer-to-tear tax is a fine thing for New York to do.
14:13Angie Sullivan:Okay. So, first of all, he has to sit there and enable Ken Griffin in being a pussy and a victim. And actually it does harm New Yorkers when you have this billionaire row where all of these people that never live in these apartments drive up the comps all over the place, where the people that are the oil and the lubricant and the engine of keeping a city like this running get priced out and have to commute an hour, hour and a half. And then how do they pick up their kids? And the cascading effects of that are so massive and so far removed from any part of Jeff Bezos' life. They're so removed from any part of Ken Griffin's life.
14:54Angie Sullivan:It's so removed from them to do anything other than to grandstand and get on TV. And Donald Trump's so smarty, so mature. And, you know, Zoran was wrong to call out Ken Griffin and say, you know what, I don't blame Americans for calling us out. We are rich as shit and it can be really obnoxious. And we do need to pay more and we need to contribute more to this wealth inequality. They will bend themselves and pretzel themselves to not do that. Self-reflection and accountability are something that you just do not see in these billionaire circles. And I'm not in one, but when I look at like self-reflection, what can I do?
15:34There's never any of that. It's always, I want more. Everybody's mad at me. I'm a victim. Why isn't everybody celebrating me? Because I'm so great and so smart. And you know, here's the thing. I will be the first to admit, I didn't realize how ingrained it was in me as an American that rich people deserve respect, that they're smart. But when you take a step back and you take away that filter, it's stomach turning. It really is stomach turning that somebody with that much wealth, that much privilege has no, it's so detached from what the reality of, of, you know, the majority of people, how they live and what they struggle with.
16:13It's, it's really a stunning reflection once I did that. And you brought that to my attention a long time ago.
16:20Angie Sullivan:These people can afford to be bad people. they can afford it. And the American public goes along with it. No other group of people would be able to be so devoid of empathy and get away with it. Elon Musk goes on a tear on Twitter all the time about toxic empathy. I mean, it's just, it's insane. And here Jeff Bezos, all he has to do is shut, all he had to do is shut the fuck up for four years. He was still going to be rich as shit, but they can't do it. They are addicted to power and money and greed and trying to control the narrative. And the narrative against the billionaires is completely flipped.
17:01Angie Sullivan:Nobody, nobody likes them. All right. That's all we have. Please like and subscribe. We will be back later with more news.
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