Trump Hit with Brutal Karma After This Backfires In Their Face

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1:22By the way, Jen, I kid you not. This is not hyperbole. I'm not making it up. I'm not boosting anything everywhere I go. Oh my God, I love Welch's Lemonade. It is my Friday treat. Most of them are young women, right? I get some dudes, the gays, but mostly young women are like, I love the Welch's Lemonade. So we're on to something here, I believe. And we're hip with the young kids? Yes, we are hip with the young kids. Oh, I love it. Welcome. Welcome. Okay. Don, let's talk about this story. I know you're aware of it. Ed Sheeran, Macklemore, et cetera. So Ed Sheeran has lost 200 ,000 followers on Instagram.

2:05Macklemore then donated a million dollar salary from the tour to a pro-Palestinian cause. And then following the backlash, Ed Sheeran and Robert Kraft, and Robert Kraft and Ann Sheeran are, you may remember the two that tried to censor Macklemore's free speech. Now, they have each donated$2 million to humanitarian aid. But what's so interesting about this is we came across this video of Colin Kaepernick chiming in. And I thought this was really poignant. And I think your take on it is going to be equally as poignant. Kylie, play the clip. One thing that I hope people appreciate and take away in this moment is what Robert Kraft and what they're saying by denying McLemore the opportunity to go out and perform with Ed Sheeran is they are willing to collude.

2:53They are openly colluding. And when we when we filed the grievance, it was like, well, the owners wouldn't do that. They, you know, everybody just wants to win within the NFL. And the realization is, no, they want to protect their interests. They want to protect their power. They want to protect their money. And they also want people to know that if you take an action that they don't agree with, they will come for you. And that was some of the warning coming out of the protest and some of the warning coming out of the grievance is that they will organize against you. Don, I thought that was really interesting.

3:39He drew the parallel with what they did to him. They organized against him to silence his speech. And now Robert Kraft and NFL owners organized against Macklemore. How much time you got, Jen? And I'm being serious because I know a lot about this. I got all day, darling, for you. All right. Let me go. So I know Colin Kaepernick. I produce a documentary on Colin Kaepernick. Last time I saw Colin Kaepernick was at a mutual friend's wedding. I think it was a year or a year and a half ago, maybe two years. And I know Robert Kraft. Robert Kraft and I are sometimes run in the same circles of sorts of influential people in media.

4:22him and when if anybody knows about being silenced and people colluding against him it is colin cavern and so he has inside knowledge and he has personal experience with it and so when the whole nfl kneeling thing was going on i reached out to bob craft and i said bob you should just sit down and talk to colin cavern because you know i think that you too whatever and i tried to broker some sort of peace there or something, right? And it never happened with Bob Craft. Bob Craft did the same thing to Colin Kaepernick, or I should say, same thing to Macklemore that he did, or very similar to Colin Kaepernick.

5:09He is supposed to be a person, and if I saw him, I would say the same thing to him, who believes in peace. He says he wants to broker peace. He wants peace in Israel. He's given this money to Palestinian people. He could have done that a long time ago. He's one of the richest men in the world, right? He's a billionaire. He could have done that a long time ago. But in that, whatever he's saying that he stands for, that's not being realized now. now he has actually made the situation worse i believe for jewish people for the people of israel because he's brought attention uh more attention to a subject that has that may have not been on the minds of many people i like mac lamore i like ed sheeran there haven't they haven't been on my playlists in a long time but you'd better believe i am paying attention to it and a whole lot of people who were not in those stadiums and those isolated incidents that, that Macklemore said what he said.

6:11And now the entire world is finding out about it. And Sheeran's band is now saying they're not going to appear. Other major opening acts are saying they're not going to appear. So basically Sheeran is, um, he's, he's, he's, it's a one man band. So it is a one man band. Um, Um, Jen, this is a tough subject to discuss, as I said, because I know people and it also involves, you know, religious ideology and people will say, oh my God, you're anti-Semitic. I'm the furthest thing from anti-Semitic. I'm part of a black Jewish alliance. So it's not that, but sometimes your friends hold up a mirror to you and they tell you, hey, you need to pay attention to this.

6:59Perhaps you are too close to it to understand it and to see what is going on. And I believe, sadly, many of my Jewish brothers and sisters are too close to it. Because if you look at the polling, it'll show you how people feel about Israel, how people feel about Jewish people in this country. They face a lot of anti-Semitism. So I think that Bob Kraft may be, he may be perpetuating some of that by doing what he did. We don't believe in silencing people. Artists, Jen, forever, since you and I have been alive, they have been speaking out on issues. They were anti-war. They didn't like Vietnam. They spoke out on Iraq.

7:42And artists are allowed to do those things. And they're saying people weren't going to buy tickets or they were threatening to it. These are sold out concerts. The people had made up their minds. They were there to see Macklemore and Ed Sheeran. And so I don't understand their logic in saying, well, the people were threatening to leave or whatever it was. The venue owners, the venue owners should understand people had already made up their minds. And I want my Jewish brothers and sisters to understand that right now there is a toxicity around Israel. Whether they want to admit it or not, whether that is right or not, whether it is fair or not, it is what it is.

8:27And so stop shutting people out and trying to shut them down and claiming that any criticism of Israel and the Israeli government is anti-Semitism. It is not. I didn't hear anything said on that stage that was anti-Semitic. Not one thing. And he apologized before for something, but I didn't see. He said, I'm not disparaging the Jewish people or the Israeli people. I want peace for everybody. And so I think they should be bringing people in instead of shutting them out. And I think Bob Craft has made the situation worse, a situation worse in two ways, that he is the Streisand effect, gain more attention, and he is not helping he is not helping the Jewish people and Israeli people understand how many people in society see them now beyond anti-symmetry.

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9:47See terms. And this is the way I look at this stuff. Let's take - I'm sorry to go on for so long. No, I'm really glad you did because I think this is really important that we all talk about. And we not be scared to talk about it. And we not feel like, oh, if we step into this, we're going to be called that, blah, blah, blah. No, we have microphones and we should talk about these issues. It's our job to do it. And oftentimes politics and pop culture collide. So let's start with how these things age. Colin Kaepernick started taking a knee to draw attention to the fact that his black brothers and sisters are being over policed and that there was a different policing system for him than there was for white people.

10:29And this was before we all saw George Floyd suffocated on our cell phones. This was before that. So when I look back on all of that, Colin Kaepernick was right. He was on the side of justice. He was on the side of shining a light to help those that didn't make it out of the neighborhood that he grew up in. And he said, I made it here and I've made it. And I'm not going to just Michael Jordan it and say, I'm not going to talk about politics. I'm going to be involved here because I have that opportunity to do it. And that type of conviction and that type of principle, I'm so down with that. And so now let's jump to Macklemore and how this is going to age and how it's already aging.

11:16There are over 20 ,000 kids that have been killed in Israel. I mean, in Palestine. Gaza. Gaza. In Gaza. And these little kids, a lot of them have been shot in the head and the heart. A lot of them have had amputations done without anesthesia. And these are just really stomach turning things. And they need to be criticized. And that needs to be called out because we have to advocate for innocent children. And I always think I'm going to start calling this the Miss Rachel standard. You know how Zoran Mamdani, when he ran for mayor, he centered everything on affordability. Miss Rachel centers everything on child safety.

11:59Kids having food, kids feeling safe, kids not getting shot, kids not getting arms and legs amputated. And she just centers that and she does it over and over. How is that going to age? It's going to age really well. We know that because that's the position. History is never going to be kind to the oppressors. But I always think it's a sign to when people try to control speech, what are they trying to cover up? And in both of these instances, they tried to shut up Colin Kaepernick because he was flying too close to the sun. He was shining a light on something that they knew was wrong. And the same thing, if somebody hears the phrase free Palestine and they get triggered by that, that's about them.

12:41That's about their journey with where they are in life. It is with what we've seen and you've seen all the aerial footage of all of this stuff It's just something we should talk about. These people are marginalized. These people are exploited These people are getting killed And the killing still continues the stuff that's going on the west bank is just awful And I admire people that have conviction And stand on it when the easiest thing for him to have done would have been I'm just going to stay out of politics and go collect my million dollar check and just go on but he couldn't put his head on the pillow at night if he did that and i fuck with people like that i think that is awesome and that's the type of person that i like this has nothing to do with jewish people and everything to do with criticizing israel and as an american i want to say this criticize my government criticize my country criticize the portion of the electorate that voted for this man because it is a cancer criticize every single bit of it and i will join with you because to me, that is true patriotism.

13:44And that is a true exercise of if we believe in liberal democracy, and we want to save liberal democracy, we are never on the side of the speech censors, ever. And nothing he said was offensive. And he gets to say it. And now again, all of these NFL owners, it goes back to the word owner. They think they own people's thoughts. These billionaires have all this power that they can start silencing and closing people's mouths. And in closing, I just want to say this to your point. College students, for as long as I've been alive, have done mass protests against wars. That's not new. It's about the same as college students smokes weed.

14:24It's that big of a newsflash. They believe in that. They're young. They are discovering their own opinions. That should be celebrated. And likewise, artists, when they have a microphone get very involved in human rights. And I dig that. I think it's great because I truly love free speech. Very well articulated. One thing, as you know, these billionaires, these oligarchs, these very rich people, they operate in a vacuum. They're in a bubble. and they often don't understand the language and the sentiment of the streets. And if you have your ear to the ground, you would understand what people are saying about what's happening in Gaza.

15:12Just because someone says free Palestine does not mean they mean jail Israel. It's not what they're saying. People are worried about humanity, about treating people humanely. One thing I want to say is, you know, we're in a, and what people don't understand now is we're in the era of precision warfare, precision weaponry. If you can locate people and place beepers on them and blow them up, surely you can find a way not to injure or maim a child, an innocent child, and not kill people indiscriminately. And look, excuse me, October 7th was awful. Hamas is to blame for what happened, not the average Palestinian person.

16:01And no one has forgotten what Hamas did. It was horrible. It's horrific. Jewish people face anti-Semitism and it has been on the rise. But let's remember this. When I talked to when I said about friends, when your friends hold up a mirror, sometimes and some people, when your friends hold up a mirror, you criticize them. You call them anti you or anti this or anti that. the biggest purveyor of anti-Semitism is right-leaning, on the right, neo-Nazis, proud boys, people who are marching through the streets, domestic terror, which Kash Patel was just here on Capitol Hill testifying about, people who are hurting and killing Jewish people because of anti-Semitism.

16:42That's far worse than someone saying, free Palestine. So you're not criticizing your enemies and the biggest purveyor of blatant, brutal, violent anti-Semitism, but you're calling people who I guess they deem to be on the left and young people, you're calling them anti-Semitic when all they're saying is, we want the people of Palestine and all over the world to be treated humanely. I don't understand it. I don't understand it. Well, it's, yeah, it's, this is, you know, we have a fascist government. Israel has a fascist government. Benjamin Netanyahu, as you know, is reporting. They told him about October 7th.

17:22He funded October 7th. And as the camera lens draws more and more and more into focus, it appears that he, and this is just my opinion, he wanted that because they want to raise Gaza. And that's before you even get to Smotrich and Ben-Gavir down the line, and it just gets really, really dicey. But we also, as we talk about anti-Semitism, before we leave this subject, I do want to say islamophobia is something that is just accepted and never called out in this country and you see those attacks on zoran mamdani you see those attacks on the squad you see those attacks on abdul el-sayed you see that attack on any arab american muslim american they are conflated with being jihadist and they are you know zoran mamdani was happy on 9 11 he was nine nine years old and And so I think the most important thing that we can do is value fighting against all bigotries equal.

18:21Homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, racism, all of those things, sexism, all of those things, because none of us are free until all of us are free. And we have to practice a politics that is inclusive of everybody. Now, that was very good. we wanted to show our audience at welch's lemonade that we can be serious and talk about serious things and that was serious and we mean every word of it but it's time we can have tough conversations and we can have tough conversations yeah but it's time to get to our bread and butter don and my welch's lemonade serve up your get your welch's lemonade stirred up guys i'm getting i'm getting eaten by mosquitoes out here by the way but that's okay i love you that's why i keep going Okay.

19:08Apparently there's rumors online that Jared Kushner got a facelift. Pop this up. Ivanka Trump's husband, Jared Kushner, looks unrecognizable as critics suspect he got a bad facelift. He looks like he's in pain. So my question for you, Don, is because I saw this video and I said to Pumps, when I saw it, I said, boy, fascism really ages people. And I hadn't thought about the, facelift thing. So what do you think? Is this doing immoral shit that makes you just look like hammered dog shit or did he get a bad facelift? So I have noticed for a while, I'm glad people are noticing now, but I was like, what is going on with Jerry Kushner's face?

19:48He looks like it's either crazy Botox or fillers or something has happened. I mean, maybe he's on some skin routine that, you know, we don't, we don't know about some peptide. Yeah. Some peptide, but something, look, I'm not a plastic surgeon. I'm not a doctor, but I have eyes and something is going on. I don't know what he got. Maybe it was a, what do you call the thing? Shoot the internal one that you get and it tightens you up or whatever. It's something he's got something let's put it that way. But the more he gets it, the more he looks like a woman. Do you notice that? The more feminine he looks.

20:26It's weird. This whole MAGA movement is just so weird. I mean, obviously they do a bunch Deep plane. Deep plane. That's the one I think about. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So let's stick with this track. Now, somebody who I think could use a facelift, if he could survive the surgery, would be brain dead Mitch McConnell returning to the Senate this week. Let's go ahead and just play a little clip for dawn here i'm sure you've seen this here we have uh senator mcconnell that they are weekend at burning all over dc and both parties do this both parties have people that need to call it and that should have called it 10 or 15 years prior and we mean no disrespect to any boomer that is in our show and that watches our show but this is a real problem This is just elder abuse.

21:20And here's the deal. I mean, hooked up to truth serum, if somebody said, do you think Mitch McConnell deserves to be abused? I'd probably, yeah, I think so. But this is not good. This is insanity trotting this man around like this. Well, Jen, let me just say.

21:38Did I lose him? No. Okay, restart that. Oh, wait, just restart that. No, I'm proving a point. I'm proving a point. Oh. I'm proving a point because I'm proving a point because how uncomfortable that is. That's not normal for someone to do that. It's not normal for people to freeze. And on my show, the first time that we saw him freeze, it took about 15 seconds for someone behind him to even notice for for John Boone to jump in. And then it happened again and it took a long time. And he's like, I'm fine. And he couldn't say anything. So it is obvious that there is something he is incapacitated. It's obvious.

22:22And I'm here on Capitol Hill and I've been asking people about it and they've been treading very lightly. Some people have been very candid about it. but at a certain point, as you said, you need to bow out. And, and, and for, I spoke to Jody Ernst and she said, Oh, I'm so, I'm glad he's back. And I did this. And I, someone said they had a conversation with him. I'm like, well, we haven't heard him speak. I haven't unless I've missed it. But I, when I look at that video, I realized that is how he's going to be remembered is from that last, from that video. And also, did you see the vote video when he's voting?

22:59Jen? Unbelievable. He voted and they kept saying, everyone's like, say, I, I, I, and he gets to him and he says, nay. And seriously. And then they have to tell him, prompt him again. And then they said, I, and then finally he goes, I. So he's not even with it enough to be able to vote. The other day I said it was elder abuse. I don't know if it's elder abuse. I think it's cruel that they're allowing it to happen, but he's a grown man. He's been doing this for decades and he is going to be remembered for those last moments. Also for what he did to Merrick Garland, but for those last moments looking like that and trying, you know, but something he's in, the man is incapacitated and I don't believe that he has the capacity to be able to serve well the people of Kentucky.

23:55And I want this MF-er to be remembered for the Supreme Court that he assembled that is killing women right now. These abortion bans all across the United States are killing women. Women are dying in the richest country in the world because of Mitch McConnell and the corrupt freak show Supreme Court justices that he appointed. That man has blood on his hands. His policies led to deaths, which brings me to a sentence. Mitch McConnell is a killer. His policies kill people. And I just also want to point out, based on the video evidence we have seen and discussed about the vote, I think we can conclusively say that Lady Jennings lied his ass off about the 20 minute conversation that he had with the video with that guy.

24:46two and a half months ago, you talked to that guy for 20 minutes. The lying of Scott Jennings has been exposed. And that MFR, Scott went out and took a victory lap after he appeared. And I'm like, I don't know if that was the best move because now we all know for sure you didn't talk to that. They're using him. He's not a useful, incapacitated person. And because they need the votes. They can find someone else to step in as a Republican and do it. Let's look at how great the optics are. Let's look at how great the optics are for us. Mitch McConnell, that's MAGA. Donald Trump, falling asleep, droopy face, that's MAGA.

25:29These are your big guys. These are your big tough guys, MAGA. That's who you're going to go vote for, these guys? They both appear to be incapacitated. And so does Donald Trump. He can't remember where he is most of the time. They had so much ire and so much to say about Joe Biden and whether Joe Biden was in cognitive decline or whatever. Look, if we all are lucky enough to live long enough, we're all going to go into cognitive decline. But at a certain point, you have to realize that it's time to go and rest and have a seat. Donald Trump is an 80 year old man. He's showing signs of what an, how an 80 year old man operates.

26:12He can't keep, you know, he can't distinguish between Nancy Pelosi and, um, and, and Nikki Haley. You know, he can't, I think he wants to name all of those things, the gulf of this and the gulf of that. So, because he wants to remember what it is, because he can't remember the actual name of it. He's supposed to be the Gulf of Mexico. It's just easier if it's the Gulf of America. You're right, because he put a sign outside the Oval Office, the Oval Office. Yeah, like he needed to know that. Yeah, along with that tacky gold shit so that he could think like he was somewhere in Versailles or something.

26:49I don't know what's happening. Okay, so this is a really interesting story here. There is a Republican candidate, And this is in a Republican plus 15 district, Republican plus 15. She should not have to make an ad like this unless they came to her with some polling that was abysmal. Play the clip. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far. In July, 50 percent of the 50 ,000 people that were detained had no criminal record. Be careful what your advisors are telling you about immigration policy. The same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today.

27:30You can be for immigration when Lincoln was for slavery and Reagan was for communism. I'm not talking about giving them amnesty. I'm talking about giving them a dignified life in this promised land. I am Maria Elvira Salazar and I approve this message. Ooh, uh-oh. Plus 15. Plus 15. That's not good, Jen. And look, someone was giving me the stats this morning here in Washington. I think it was like 43 % of women voted for, white women voted for Donald Trump at 47%, I believe, of Latinos voted for Donald Trump. And now they fucked around and they found out that it doesn't matter, no matter how close they try to get to whiteness or power, they're not going to be.

28:15They don't deem them as American and on equal footing. So what do they do? They deport them in the most inhumane, cruel ways. They drag them across the ice. They shoot them. And, you know, and maybe some people who are not immigrants, who are not Latino, who are not, you know, immigrants or migrants from other countries. It's just, it's awful. But they found out. And I think they're going to they are going to find out. They're going to be a lot of people like her. Smith Salazar coming up in 20 and 20 November of 2026. A lot of folks like that there. Your friend J.D. Vance or Donald Trump, people aren't going to want them to come and and stomp for them and campaign for them.

28:59No way. The public sentiment is too awful. What I thought was interesting about this commercial, aside from he had signs, mass deportations now at the Republican convention and all that stuff, set that and put it aside, was the way she framed it. Mr. President, you need to talk to your advisors about your immigration policy. I remember the Republican Party being the buck stops with me, Mr. Personal Accountability Bootstrap kind of party, right? Even in that ad, the codependency and the toxicity of telling the president of the United States that the buck doesn't stop with his immigration policies, that they're still providing cover for him in that.