Trump Losing The WH? Mike Johnson Panics Over Midterms and Losing His Job

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1:04Okay, joining me today on IHIP News is political strategist and commentator. You may see him cooking and talking about politics all at the same time in your Instagram feed. It's Sawyer Hackett. Sawyer, thank you for joining me. Great to be with you. All right. So we're in the final sprint to the midterms, and Trump seems to be accepting that he may lose. Let's play the clip. I didn't have one. But isn't this just as important, Mr. President? I mean, your whole legacy is on the line. It's never as important. Look, I'm campaigning for other people. When you say my legacy, I'll be a block. I'll end up being a blocker.

1:39I'll block all their bad stuff for two years. It won't be the same, but I'll be a blocker. What can I tell you? And probably be able to make deals with them. You know, they're going to want some stuff and we'll get, you'll make deals. I mean, it's one of those things. So it's not as dire. Maybe it is. Well, I'm just talking about impeachment investigations, that whole routine. They'll try and impeach. why is that bizarrely comforting i think it's because you know it seemed like for a long time that donald trump uh you know actively didn't care if republicans won the midterms or or even competed in the midterms now it seems like he's completely come to terms with the fact that he's going to lose both the house and the senate in november it's going to be by wide margins and he's looking at a potentially uh you know a democrat united democratic congress that's going to hold him accountable and he's starting to panic and so he's talking about making deals with Democrats, that's going to be on the table in a Democratic Congress.

2:30I think it's been painfully obvious that he's known this for a long time. He's obviously not spending his money on these Republican candidates. He's not going out there and campaigning yet. He's making that Trumpalooza all about him. He's inserting himself into the middle of this race saying, I am on the ballot. Meanwhile, he doesn't want any of the responsibility if these guys get their asses kicked. It is comforting to watch that because it seems like everyone has come to terms with the fact that the Trump era is coming to an end. Of course, he's still in office. He's still going to be extremely dangerous.

2:59And we have to do every single thing we can to hold him accountable these next couple of years. But it seems like even he is starting to realize that his era of power, of stranglehold of our politics is ending. Yeah. And then we also have to remember when we watch this, because how many times did we feel in 2016 or in 2024, like, oh, he's going to get beat and he knows it. Like, I feel like I've felt this before. And so because of that collective PTSD that those of us that are sane and not in a cult share with that, we have to remind our audiences all the time that like, he may be looking like this, but his base is something that I'm glad he had the Republican convention.

3:40And I saw that rabid, insane enthusiasm because it's a reminder, oh, they're still there. He has a 90 % approval rating in the Republican Party because we have a cultural problem in this country and they are the cancer, the deplorables, the trash, everything that Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden called these people, they didn't go far enough. Right. And you're absolutely right. I mean, he's like defied polling and political gravity for his entire political life. I think the difference is this is a midterm race and he is not on the ballot. And those, you know, as much as he can scream that he is and that, you know, Republicans need to get out there and vote for him, they're not voting for him.

4:16He's not on the ballot. They're voting for Republican candidates at a time when they feel like the Republicans are not kind of living up to their promises of lowering costs, addressing the issues they care about. And so he's doing the one thing that he's always had to revert back to, which is bring it back to me, bring it back to Donald Trump. And, you know, it's very telling the moves that they're making right now because they're entering these like last 50 days with Donald Trump's approval rating at 33%, you know, an all time low across the board, you know, the generic ballot Democrats are up 10 points.

4:47And enthusiasm is extremely down among Republicans. And so they're doing everything possible to juice that enthusiasm. And that's Donald Trump that's inserting Donald Trump into everything. It's this Trumpapalooza, it's promising$5 ,000, every single or going after Hassan Piker, everything that they're doing is about juicing the base, because they haven't even shored that up with 55 days left until the midterms, They have to win over those, you know, Republicans who are disillusioned and unenthusiastic about this midterm cycle. And I thought that it was particularly telling that they had that convention in Texas because Ken Paxton embodies that more than anybody.

5:20He's at like 80 percent with Republican voters right now. That is not you cannot win in Texas with only 80 percent of the Republican coalition. And so they're doing everything they can to just juice out just a little bit more enthusiasm because they know that that gap between Democrats and Republicans is extremely wide. And, you know, of course, they love to go after Hassan Piker. But to me, it looked like they were thirst trapping after him at the convention. But also, I think a really important Democratic message right now that I wish the Democrats would message is these candidates are so bad that even Trump won't give them any of his$400 million.

5:54That's how bad these candidates are. He won't even talk about them. The candidates on the ballot are so bad. He had a convention about himself and didn't even talk about these candidates. That's how bad they are. And the Democrats need to sharpen, sharpen, sharpen at all times. And the Democrats are going to win despite themselves because I have not seen. I mean, I see it in Abdul El-Sayed. I mean, he goes after them and goes after their masculinity and all of the stuff that I think is the language that they speak. But I really wish that some people would start making the point that these candidates are so shitty that our stingy, their stingy ass old queen president will not give them a cent.

6:31That's how shitty these candidates are. honey what are you listening to mom your teen might not share everything with you but teens share everything with each other and certain everyday behaviors like sharing food drinks or kisses could mean sharing bacteria that can cause meningococcal disease known as meningitis although meningitis is uncommon about one in ten who develop it will die ask your teen's doctor about missing meningitis vaccinations learn more at meningitis.com vaccination may not protect all recipients sponsored by GSK. And they're in such a shitty position in terms of how they're, you know, getting their asses kicked in these races that I'm not even sure that they want Trump's money.

7:10I mean, like, they don't want him on the campaign trail. They don't want him at the center of their campaign issues. They don't want him in ads. They don't want him in their races because he is toxic to them. I mean, you look across the ballot and all of these issues that he was once very strong on immigration, the economy, he is now underwater by 10, 20 points. that is dragging down every single Republican in the country. And so, you know, I do think Democrats need to go on the offense a little bit more nationally speaking. I mean, I think a lot of these Democratic nominees are taking on their Republican candidates, but, you know, the national party would be great to have some, some voices out there kind of talking about the whole field.

7:46Just to unite the base and the lead up for voter turnout, there needs to be, I agree, a national, some national messaging from somebody who is rising up. You know, I always think Bernie Sanders does this really well. He's the one speaking out about AI, but Fox News is on board with Trump's new 5k bribe for the midterm. So things are so bad. The candidates are so shitty. He won't share his money with them, but he is willing to share taxpayer money with them. And here's what Fox News has to say about this. Play the clip. And this is shows just how creative and rule breaking and out of the box President Trump is.

8:25I'm surprised no one's thought of this before. I mean, it's actually a great way, as you say, to sort of get that momentum, push things forward, especially if you're running, you know, as the incumbent in a midterm, you know, you're already going to have those headwinds. I think this was. I've heard enough. I've heard enough. I am so sick of Fox News lying and applying a standard. If Barack Hussein Obama said that he was going to pay every American if the Democrats won in a midterm, which he got his ass handed to him in midterms, too. That's the way politics are. And he said he stood there and took it like a man, FYI.

9:05But if he said something like that, Fox News would say, see, they're lazy. They would use a bunch of racist tropes about Obama. They would use a bunch of racist tropes about the black support of Obama. And they said they're lazy. They want handouts, blah, blah, blah. But Fox News, and this is something that I just really want to do reputational brand damage to. The people who watch Fox News are so fragile. They would rather be lied to than face a modicum of truth that's unpleasant for them to hear because they're such fragile little snowflakes. Yeah. I mean, when people ask me, like, why, why, how has this become a cult?

9:46Why do people not see through Donald Trump? Why is this still going on? You know, 10 years in people are still believing him when he says shit like this. And it is because of Fox News. I mean, Fox News is a massive propaganda outlet that they exist solely to launder out culture war issues to keep the democratic, keep the pro-democracy wing of, of our politics divided and to boost Republican candidates. I mean, and look at who's saying those comments. That's Rachel Campos Duffy. That is the transportation secretary's wife, who was just featured in a documentary about her life and the life of being the wife of a transportation secretary.

10:20And here she is, you know, touting the administration's policies on air as a Fox News paid co-host. And so, I mean, yeah, it's a giant propaganda outlet. And of course, that's why you have that kind of like 30, 35 % of the country that will just never leave him because it is a cult. I mean, these people are cultishly devoted to him and they'll believe anything he says. I mean, and it's wild that they can't see through the fact that he made that promise for$5 ,000 to give us doge checks. He made the promise to give us$2 ,000 for tariff checks,$1 ,000 for the savings from slashing our health care subsidies and the ACA.

10:53And so, you know, if you add up all that money, you're looking at what, 10 grand now of Trump promises that you have not seen. And it's like that doesn't even register with them. haven't even thought about the fact that that money never materialized in their bank account. And yet he's out here just making the promises. But I'll come back to that point again about this is base turnout. People think of this as like, oh, this is persuasion. He's reaching out to people in the middle. Oh, here's a bribe that I can get these people to come out to the polls. I don't think that that's true. Nobody believes this, except for the people who are dyed in the wool Trump supporters.

11:24They think that that$5 ,000 is going to come to them. But I don't think anybody who was wishy-washy about Trump, anybody who was on the fence is looking at these kind of comments, these promises and being like, well, that's my sign to vote for Donald Trump. I don't think that's happening. Yeah, no, I agree with you. And here's a montage of some of the other times, and you alluded to this in your answer, that Trump has promised to send Americans checks. 20 % dividend, so to speak. There could be a distribution or a dividend to the people of our country. We're thinking maybe a thousand to two thousand.

11:56Really bronze there.

12:06I mean, this guy is just, he's such a blowhard. He's so full of shit. I understand at this stage, nothing he does or says surprises me. It doesn't. But I think about all of the Republicans that support him and how much they emasculate themselves. And the ringleader of all of this is little Moses Mike Grinder Johnson. And I call him that, number one, to be petty. But number two, because again, we have to do reputational brand damage to these people. The Speaker of the House is such a nut. He monitors his son's porn, lets the son monitor his porn. He went to a purity ball. It's probably cuck porn, I would guess.

12:44No shit. He went to a purity ball and married his 13-year-old daughter and said, your virginity is mine, and then I'll give it to your husband. That's some weird-ass shit. I didn't know if I knew that. Yeah. There's a German documentary filmmaker did it. He went, his daughter wore a little dress, he put a ring on her finger, and she gave her virginity to her dad for him to keep safe until he approved of her husband. That's some weird ass shit. And then it gets worse from there. Then during the whole, you know, ousting of the former Speaker of the House and the incoming of him that whole shit show.

13:20He stood on camera and said that God woke him up in the middle of the night and said, Hey, wait, wake up, little buddy. You're Moses. And Mike goes, me? This is crazy shit. He is the speaker of the house. His testicles are in the front top drawer of the resolute desk. He has all the power in the world and uses none of it. He's putting on a master class, like all Republican men do, of how to be a trad wife. And little grinder here, here's a video of his message to voters for the midterms. Then I want you to go off. Play the clip. Easy to promise free things to people, but there is an education component to what we're doing right now on the campaign trail.

14:08You have to explain to the generations come behind us. If the government's large enough to give you everything, it's large enough to take it away as well. And that is always, every single time, the outcome of experiments in socialism and communism. It never ends well. And they take away freedom and ultimately ends in suffering and death. Sounds like MAGN policies, ends in suffering and death. I mean, that's what it is. It's projection with these guys. I mean, that is like such a... First of all, Donald Trump is the most, if we're going by kind of legal definitions of socialism, Donald Trump is the most socialist president we ever had.

14:39I mean, even just in this comment, He's talking about sending everybody$5 ,000 without the power of Congress or any kind of legal oversight. He just wants to be able to send people money. That is socialism. Also, if you don't get socialism, you'll get all of your rights taken away. That's exactly what they're doing in this country right now. Donald Trump is seizing the means of production in 35 different companies he's taken a national stake in. These people, it's entirely kind of big cuck energy. I think Mike Johnson, he gets his marching orders and he does what he's told. And this time it's clearly socialism and Hassan Piker.

15:16It's kind of back to the well of like, how can we scapegoat and fearmonger about people because they have nothing to run on. And this$5 ,000 promise to me is so funny because all of us on the rational side of the news are watching this happen. And we know that this is ridiculous. But on Fox, there's no conversation about the fact that you inject$5 ,000 into every single person's wallet. What does that do to inflation? our inflation crisis that he's already skyrocketed. They want to have it both ways. They want to be able to talk about socialism and the democratic agenda that's caused all this inflation.

15:48And yet they want to hand$5 ,000 to every single American in the country at a time when inflation is already on the rise. It's a joke. I mean, these guys, it is a cult following. They do what Donald Trump says. Mike Johnson gets the talking points and repeats it with that kind of dead weight behind his eyes. It's just nothing there. Let's talk about the hypocrisy of this, because I don't think the Democrats do a good enough job calling out the crazy Christian problem in the Republican Party. Mike Johnson uses his faith to Christian signal. He accuses people like you and me of virtue signaling.

16:18And I accuse him of doing something far, far worse, Christian signaling. He's using a faith that he claims he holds very dear. And in places where, like where I come from and where he comes from, Louisiana and Oklahoma, a lot of people don't have a lot of culture. And so their church is their main foundational way to socialize and experience friendships and community and he takes that and he exploits it and he says well the good lord you know said wake up buddy you're moses and all of this stuff meanwhile he claims to be tight as ticks with jesus christ who was against the accumulation of wealth um uh radically empathetic to human suffering incredibly welcoming to outsiders immigrants etc etc And he votes with a man that is an epicenter of a pedophile ring who is an adjudicated rapist who was banging a porn star while his wife was at home breastfeeding.

17:14And we could just go on 34 felonies and we could just go on and on and on and all this stuff. Who also doesn't give a shit about any of them. And nobody calls out the hypocrisy of the Republican Christianity because Democrats sometimes just don't have enough bite in it. Like, oh, we can't go after faith. And I'm like, well, the Republicans had no problem inserting themselves into this faith. And we have to call it out. These people are complete hypocrites of the highest order. And they want to enmesh church and state. And I think, you know, most people find that crazier than what Trump is saying.

17:52I mean, I think it's crazier to be, you know, auctioning off your daughter's virginity or to be monitoring your having your son on it to your porn or even like saying that that, you know, God spoke to you directly and said that you're Moses calling you like a disciple of God. I mean, that is that's just as crazy as anything Donald Trump has ever said. And we don't call it out because I think a lot of people in the Democratic Party are worried about offending Christians, are worried about kind of aligning Christians as a whole, getting put out of context on Fox News. And it's absolutely crazy. And I think, you know, it's a it's a project of what, 30, 40 years in the making within the Republican Party, more than that.

18:29Exactly. And the Democrats allow it to continue because they're so scared of calling it out. And that fear that Democrats operate on is what got us into this. Merrick Garland's fear that that would be bad for the country to prosecute Donald Trump and to prosecute those people in the White House. cowardly yeah yeah um and we can even take it back and i can criticize you know other presidents barack obama's fear and that dojs of investigating the lies that led to the iraq war um and the uh human rights violations of abu grabe and waterboarding and all of that and so there's always this fear of confronting patriarchal bad ideas right and i think we're going to have to have and we're seeing this pop up in primaries we're seeing candidates that aren't scared about calling that out and the through line is they're not bought and paid for right i think the other through line is kind of the rise of independent media and folks like you who are kind of like speaking to people in a way that's unfiltered through the lens of corporate you know corporate media overlords that tell you what is and what isn't acceptable in political debate and so uh you know i i think it's um it's a problem that our party has had to deal with for a long time i do think that it kind of coincides with the rise of conservative media.

19:49And I think Democrats have always been kind of beholden to, they're the only ones bound by any sense of like decorum, civility, but also like reason and logic. They're the only ones held to any kind of account in politics. And Republicans just aren't because they've always had that kind of conservative media apparatus that just spreads their shit no matter what they say. And I do think like that is that's starting to change. I think it's starting to change both with, like I said, the rise of independent media, but also some of these Democratic candidates that aren't bought by the corporate wing of the party that aren't going to be shut up by APAC money or things like that.

20:22And so I think we're headed for a big change. And I think this election in particular in 2028 in particular could be a big like linchpin moment for the party to kind of change the way that we approach these issues because people just do not communicate like that anymore. They don't communicate through stiff ass like talking points and press releases. They don't at all. And I think that we relate to the independent media ecosystem, but it is the fastest growing thing right now. And I want to say, and I share this with my listeners a lot on the right, they're all cannibalizing each other, throwing each under the bus.

20:57On the left, we're all genuine friends. Right. We want to help support each other and do podcast trades and guests because we genuinely believe in the movement of saving democracy. But, oh, go ahead. I was just going to say, and it feels very reminiscent, like kind of reversed roles from 2024, 2023, when, you know, Democrats were kind of like putting people like Joe Rogan at a distance. And it was like, we need to stay away from these kind of toxic media figures. And now you have the right kind of afraid of the Beltway media, you know, using Hassan Piker as their foil in politics to kind of paint, use him to paint the entire Democratic Party.

21:33It really is reminiscent of a party that just doesn't understand how the media landscape has changed. and doesn't really understand how public opinion has changed just within the last year and a half since this totally office like totally people are rejecting this like categorically and that's happening both i think at the polls but it's also happening in their media digest as well i agree all right let's let's talk about the humiliation kink that exists among maga men and among billionaires that allow for the president to humiliate them by making them give him participation trophies in the Oval Office and all sorts of things.

22:09Well, Ken Paxton is really into humiliation kinks. And here is Trump's new bit for the candidate that he refuses to give any money to. Play the clip. Kerry, I said, I'm not sure if I like your look. I'm not sure if I like the way you dress. I don't like the way you talk. But you're the greatest attorney general. So therefore, that's the only thing that matters, Jerry. Right. He's the best attorney general in the country. He really can't stand that guy. This is my favorite. This is my favorite thing in the midterm race right now, because it's just so funny that like Donald Trump sees Ken Paxton like faltering in the polls.

22:49He sees that, you know, Trump voters, MAGA voters do not like Ken Paxton. They don't think he can win. And his like answer to that is, oh, it must just be because of the way he's dressed or the way he talks. He's not attractive. It's not the fact that he's like the most corrupt politician in American history and has led Texas for decades and has achieved absolutely nothing in office, was indicted by his own staff and the FBI, impeached by Republicans. It's absolutely wild that Trump has kind of picked this as the thing to pile on Ken Paxton about. But I think it's great because it's one more wrinkle to add to the like, this guy's a fucking doof.

23:27Ken Paxton is a doof. And I think most people think he's a doof. And that's why - What's a doof? He's just like a doofus. Like he's a loser. He's like, you know, he's this corrupt kind of grifter who steals from taxpayers and goes on trips with his mistress and like puts on$40 ,000 watches to go to like campaign speeches with like 20 grandmas in the middle of Texas. Like it's ridiculous watching this happen. But it's also just funny because I think Donald Trump, you know, can't help it. He can't help but just like trash this guy's appearance at a time when he's like really struggling. Let's talk about how hilarious this component is.

24:01Trump is so shallow and he's so into aesthetics and humans and in, you know, architecture, interior design, et cetera, even though I would say he has a bad eye on the ladder. But that Zoran Mamdani, who represents everything the MAGA movement is terrified of, not bought and paid for, attractive, Muslim, him democratic socialist um and he go he rolls up to the white house and trump is like it's okay call me a fascist i don't care yeah do what you want to do big guy and then juxtapose that with somebody who ken paxton who was just a mega thumper extraordinary believes in all the same corrupt on the planet and trump is so shallow if we if we hooked him up to a polygraph right now and said who do you think is a better candidate ken paxton or zoran mamdani and you went down the list of all of the different you know republicans that he's endorsing because he believes in nothing he's a nihilist to his core and he likes zoran because oran's attractive right no and i think it has a megawatt smile and it's that's it's that simple that's how transaction and he likes winners right i think he would say the same thing about abdul i think he would say the same thing about a number of these like kind of a light melanin yeah of a man i've seen like the saudis strong kind of hit like look at how hot that was the saudi guy who's like look at how hot this guy is he's always talking about how hot men it's so funny to be like so obsessed with aesthetics when you're just like this fat slob who like dresses like shit and like wears five inch lifts in your shoes and talk about how he dyed his hair for a couple days yeah it was like brown like a different person for like five days i saw that and it's just like saw your sometimes we're you and i were so in this news cycle all the time and our listeners are so in the news cycle all the time but if you really step back from it and let's say you read the news once a week you came across the gut uh an article president dyes his hair to chestnut brown two days later it's not and then like a week before that he was wearing a wig Like, all of that stuff is stupid and irrelevant.