In short
Critiques of President Trump’s health checkups (third Walter Reed visit in 13 months), claims of dementia, and alleged White House chaos canceling appearances; plus commentary on Trump’s security “ballroom” bunker, shootings near the White House, and foreign policy around Iran (peace talks vs. bombing), with warnings about economic fallout and market crash.
Guest backgrounds
No named guests appear; discussion includes references to Mary Trump (licensed psychologist, Don Jr.’s first cousin) and “scholars” on autocrats/fascism.
Key claims
Trump’s health reports lack credibility; he shows cognitive impairment; Republicans and Democrats fail to oppose fascism; the “ballroom” reflects fear and autocratic paranoia; Iran deal dynamics were mishandled; escalation abroad worsens inflation and economy.
Notable examples
Walter Reed checkup; Trump’s “divide by 19” cognitive clip; Don Jr. wedding absence; Todd Blanche citing a White House shooting; Trump saying a peace deal is near while U.S. bombs Iran; Netanyahu’s long-term aim to “balkanize” Iran.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOTrump's Health Concerns
0:45 to 2:00
Discussion of Trump's recurring health issues and skepticism about his fitness.
“his third scheduled medical checkup in 13 months as outside physicians say they have persistent questions about his health and fitness.”
Cognitive Tests and Public Perception
2:00 to 4:00
Analysis of Trump's cognitive tests and public reactions to his mental state.
“Toward the end, like they had a question, like, pick a number, sir, any number.”
Family Dynamics: Don Jr. and Mary Trump
4:00 to 6:00
Insights into the relationship dynamics within the Trump family and Mary Trump's critiques.
“And he's a racist and a misogynist and just a terrible person.”
Trump's Absence at Don Jr.'s Wedding
6:00 to 8:00
Speculation on why Trump didn't attend his son's wedding and implications.
“And so basically the messaging opportunity here for Democrats is if you listen to them, like Donald Trump got the votes because they wanted the United States to be more affordable.”
Violence and Security at the White House
8:00 to 10:00
Discussion around recent violence near the White House and Trump's security needs.
“Every single action that they deploy is to prevent them from feeling scared.”
Trump's Foreign Policy and Iran
10:00 to 12:00
Analysis of Trump's approach to foreign policy, particularly regarding Iran.
“Listener, there is no possible way on the planet.”
Consequences of Trump's Actions
13:00 to 14:02
Discussion on the long-term effects of Trump's policies on the U.S. economy and credibility.
“So if they balkanize it, then they can start taking over parts of it.”
The Consequences of Trump's Decisions
14:02 to 14:31
Explore the various global and domestic repercussions of Trump's policies.
“It basically was a complete surrender by the United States of funds paying tolls now in the strait.”
The Weakness of Republican Leadership
14:31 to 15:10
Discuss the inability of Republicans to confront Trump's leadership challenges.
“Yeah, the Donald Trump disaster on our constitution, on our economy, on our institutions, on our credibility.”
America's Leadership Crisis
15:10 to 15:26
Examine the current state of American leadership and its challenges.
“This entire country is run by chicken hawks that cannot stand up to a man with dementia.”
Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:04It will come as no surprise to any of you who pay just a marginal amount of attention to the the president of the United States. He is in terrible health. His cankles are as wide as a linebacker's thighs. He's got some sort of rash on his neck, caked on makeup all over his hands, dementia out the wazoo. Surprise, surprise. He's going to Walter Reed again for the third time in 13 months, despite getting on national television, telling everybody, I'm healthier than Barack Obama. I am an incredible athlete. All of this just bullshit that goes unchecked. So pop this up. The Washington Post is reporting President Trump is expected to undergo his third scheduled medical checkup in 13 months as outside physicians say they have persistent questions about his health and fitness.
0:59Here's what I'll say to this. Every medical report we've seen about Trump says he is the healthiest person the doctor has ever examined ever. And the last two, he wins his golf tournaments every time because he is in such great health. So I know immediately those reports have no credibility. Yeah. And I mean, just by looking at him objectively. The man has total dementia. He will not shut up about taking cognitive exams. This would be like me getting on here every day and going, I passed my drug test this morning. I passed my drug test this afternoon. Then you would think, is Jennifer a drug addict?
1:43Why is she constantly talking about this random thing? Well, he's taking cognitive tests and discussing cognitive tests because he has dementia. Mind you, I am not a medical doctor. This is my unprofessional observation of the most obvious thing on the planet. Play the clip. Toward the end, like they had a question, like, pick a number, sir, any number. Okay, 203. Multiply times nine. Divide by two. Add on 1 ,324. Subtract 1 ,292. Sir, multiply it out one more time by 19. What is the answer, sir? And I got it right. But he can't tell us what it is. It's remarkable that he's sober. I mean, it just blows my mind.
2:42It's so true. That he has not just like done four shots of tequila and then, you know, just come out to the stage or that he didn't just pop a zanny or something. and he's slurring his speech. And then they're like, multiply by 19 and then divided again by three, you know, by pie. And I whipped it out. I whipped it out. I whipped out the answer. Who believes this shit? And I guess it's like, you have the Venn diagram of like the true believers that listen to this guy and they think he's smart. He's the dumb guy's idea of what a smart man is. But these Republicans that provide cover for him in Congress, I hold far more responsible than the American public because they know better.
3:26They know he's full of shit. They know he has dementia. While he was doing this rally over the weekend, he was there with the New York Giants quarterback, who, again, he started talking about how hot he was. I'm going to spare you guys that clip because this is just something that comes up all the time. And he didn't go to Don Jr.'s wedding this weekend. And I wonder why he didn't go to Don Jr.'s wedding. Well, let's see what Mary Trump, Don Jr.'s first cousin, has to say about Don Jr. Feeling sorry for Donnie. Donnie's a horrible human being. He's a little Nazi. He's totally unaccomplished. And he's a racist and a misogynist and just a terrible person.
4:10So don't waste your time feeling bad for him. You're setting up. I've never felt bad for Don Jr. A lot of people have screwed up parents. A lot of you listening here, listener, you have, everybody has dysfunction and you have to buckle down and decide, are you going to perpetuate this dysfunction? Are you going to end it? And Don Jr. has said, I want to be worse than my father. I want to be a worse human being than my dad is. I want to be a bigger hypocrite than my dad is. And so good on Mary Trump for just straight up calling him out. Mary Trump is very good about just zeroing in on the issues because she's in the family and she is a licensed psychologist.
4:52I would just say this about Don Jr.'s wedding. In my mind, and this is just my armchair psychology expert, Trump doesn't like to be in a situation where he is not the center of attention. So if Don Jr. is the groom and the bride, they're the focal point of the wedding. He can't handle it. I don't think he ever had any intention of going. I think that he doesn't give a shit, first and foremost. He just simply doesn't give a shit. No. I mean, obviously, if it was Ivanka, he would go. Right. That would be that weird kind of psychosexual obsession with her, which is really interesting for the whole family values crowd.
5:33And then there was another shooting at the White House over the weekend. And of course, they immediately use this shooting, which is at this point, I'm just like, what's going on? Todd Blanche comes out. This is why we have to have the ballroom pop this up. Donald Trump's top law enforcement officer is using a shooting outside the White House as an excuse to claim that Trump cannot safely conduct the business of the United States without his$1 billion ballroom. And so basically the messaging opportunity here for Democrats is if you listen to them, like Donald Trump got the votes because they wanted the United States to be more affordable.
6:22They wanted inflation to be under control. Obviously, they clearly like the racism. But if you listen to MAGA right now, if Donald Trump gets everything he wants, then all in America will be OK. And this is a man who has gotten everything he's ever wanted. This is a man who has skirted around accountability his entire life. So clearly, I mean, they're trying to pitch this whole thing that if he just gets his ballroom, then everything's going to be great. While at the same time, they're also trying to pay off all of these January 6 insurrectionists, Because I think they want to show people if you are violent after the results of the midterms, we will make sure you get millions of dollars.
7:08My thought on this whole ballroom is, why does Trump need a ballroom? Ronald Reagan had an attempted assassination. He never wanted a ballroom. Why aren't we talking about guns in the United States if it is so dire that the president have a ballroom? It's all bullshit. It's an underground bunker so that, as you say, the people that are willing to commit crimes and go into a coup for him, if they do not succeed, nobody can get him out. I will stand on that hill. Yeah. And we've had scholars on the podcast that have studied autocrats, that have studied dictators. The top fascism autocracy experts in the country have said that all of these autocrats get laser focused on finding a safe place because their number one default setting is they operate out of fear.
8:01Every single action that they deploy is to prevent them from feeling scared. And so he is looking for his little blanket, security blanket. And that is why he's so laser focused on the ballroom. I think his niece, Mary Trump would probably say one of the biggest scars, one of his biggest narcissistic injuries was when Joe Biden beat him. And then he tried to incite an insurrection and it failed. And then he had to leave via Marine One. And then the Republican Party immediately, after about two weeks of outrage, immediately started falling back in line again. And then when he won again, the Democratic Party started playing patty cake with fascists.
8:45When you have Democratic senators that voted for Christine Ohm, that voted for Marco Rubio, I don't care if he was in the Senate or not. We have to have a country where our opposition party says, if anybody is willing to go work for a man that committed crimes, that is a convicted felon, then they are not qualified to run the Department of State. And from the Republican Party and then the lackluster milquetoast response from the Democratic Party, we do not have a robust opposition to this fascism. And here's the problem. Donald Trump, like all autocrats, escalate to starting wars. Why do they do this?
9:29These same scholars have told us their popularity starts plummeting domestically. So then they start trying to attack things foreignly. He's basically spiraling out right now and he can go to Walter Reed. He can take all the cognitive exams he wants, but there are real consequences. And they say for every, I think it was for every week of war, you add like a month of inflation. And so the inflation and the economy, what is coming is going to be even more debilitating than any, any state that we're in right now. Listener, there is no possible way on the planet. We could even function as a podcast without Shopify.
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11:24So this man who has dementia, who will not even go to his own son's wedding, who's obsessed with his ballroom starts off the weekend with a peace deal is near. Pop this up. Trump says a peace deal is near. President Trump said the United States and Iran had largely negotiated an agreement, but American and Iranian officials described the terms differently. And then same weekend, US bombs Iran hours after negotiators arrive for peace talks. So I read a lot about this over the weekend. And basically you had people in Trump's delegation that were getting close to a peace deal. And then you have Israel, Netanyahu, that will do everything in their power to make sure that the United States stays engaged in this war because they have an interest in Balkanizing Iran.
12:18We do not. The Obama deal that we had, the strait was open. Were they our friends? No. Did they say death to America? Yes. But tough titties. Talk is cheap. They could say it all they want to. The nuclear observers were going in observing that they were not progressing with the nuclear weapons. Donald Trump said, oh, I think it was earlier this year. It's all been completely obliterated. This is the same lie they told about Iraq, that there's all this yellow cake, there's all this enriched uranium, and they're going to have a bomb. Benjamin Netanyahu is saying this for 40 years because he wants to balkanize Iran because Israel does not have any natural resources and Iran is natural resource rich.
13:04So if they balkanize it, then they can start taking over parts of it. The United States has zero interest in doing this. We were a million times better off before they ever started this shit. And now our oil supply, our oil reserve domestically is starting to dwindle. And as much fun as Trump is having doing all of his insider trading, for all of you country club Republicans are like, my 401k is good. Bad news. CNBC has reported all weekend that a major crash is imminent with the stock market. It's impossible to think that there won't be an imminent crash in the stock market and a full-blown recession, if not depression.
13:45Because here's the deal. Even, and this is what I was reading, that reports were leaking that the Iranian deal negotiated by the United States put the United States in a far weaker position than when this all started. It basically was a complete surrender by the United States of funds paying tolls now in the strait. I mean, it is unbelievable the mess this man has made. And globally, we are paying the consequences. And we will be for years to come. I'm so worried that this is going to be almost like a decade's worth of mess to clean up if we ever get it finished. Yeah, the Donald Trump disaster on our constitution, on our economy, on our institutions, on our credibility.
14:42And I'm not saying we were rock solid before. I mean, clearly, there is a problem with a country that espouses democracy and espouses free speech, espouses being this bright light on the hill. And then their foreign policy is quite different. And I acknowledge that. But this is so damning. It is so damaging. And these Republicans are too weak to stand up to him because they're scared of him. Imagine that video I showed you guys of him talking about divide by 19 and multiply by pie. That's who they're scared of. We are run by chicken hawks. This entire country is run by chicken hawks that cannot stand up to a man with dementia.
15:25All right, that's all we have. Like, subscribe. We'll be back later with more news.
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