Trump Torched in NYC With Massive Protest After His Disaster Stunt

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1:31All right, joining me today on iHip News is the creator and host of The Majority Report live here in studio on Game 3 Day. Sam Seder, how are you? I'm well. I'm very well, thanks. Well, you know who's strolling into New York to rain on everybody's parade? They're shutting down Midtown Manhattan, pop this up. NYPD News starting at 4 p.m. Vehicular and pedestrian traffic will be closed from West 30th Street to West 35th. Yak, yak, blah, blah. And he's already being met with a lot of pushback. First, they had to build a wall around MSG, which is so stupid. Let's put here it is. Here's the video. Oh, geez.

2:13I hadn't seen that. That's ridiculous. And so what's so sad about that is so many people I live pretty close to there. like celebrate in front. They can't afford to go, but they can at least get close. Yeah. I mean, you know, well, there's two things, right? Obama was a huge NBA fan and refused to go to any games because of the disruption it would cause. But also New York ticket prices are insane. I mean, this is, you want a perfect example of the K-shaped economy. This is it, right? I mean, because you got tickets nosebleed seats are for thousands of dollars i saw some breakdown that it was like cheaper for new york fans to fly to texas to see uh a game in san antonio pay for a hotel buy yourself a meal uh and buy the tickets then to see one in new york city and at least the overflow stuff with like the the you know the the feed uh was provided for that and trump has taken that away and there's a clip of him i don't know maybe you were playing on play it where he's just like that's that's life yeah and for him it is life like his whole life has been uh avoiding the fact that this guy was born with hundreds of millions of dollars in his bank account yeah and uh the idea that like none of this stuff has been out of his reach at any time in his life and it's just life for him to have to like realize like I'm gonna inconvenience people but what I do is more important than them yeah he's just like tough titties well of course New York is already greeting him appropriately pop this up so this is in the subway go next fuck Trump and then there's sidewalk chalk all in front of Madison Square Garden go next fuck Trump and I love this for him now predictions do you think they're going to put his face up on the jumbotron when he went to the us open they did not i i i can't imagine they're going to do that because they have to know someone in his entourage has to know because i think mom donnie's going to be there i think he's going to be in the nosebleeds he's going to be in the nosebleeds and um i suspect they won't put his face up on the Jumbotron because then people will be like, why didn't you put Trump's face on the Jumbotron?

4:41But if I had to bet, and I actually have a problem with how easy it is to bet on these things, but that if there isn't a F Trump chant that happens at one point, I'll be shocked. I would be too. Okay. Okay. True serum polygraph. Do you think Trump deep down is hoping he runs into Zoran? I mean, the happiest I've ever seen. I think he's just like chasing him around. I do. You know, he texts him. He gets all fluffed up in his bed and texts him. Like, he texts him frequently. I mean, you know, I have no idea, but I wouldn't be surprised. He's a very demented guy. Yeah. I mean, I think like literally and sort of like colloquially speaking, I think he's a very demented guy.

5:29I think he's just so excited that he doesn't have to deal with the war that he has lost. And, you know, just all of the planning about, I've got to go to New York and I'm going to see the game. I mean, the best is going to be if it's a tight game when he leaves with like 10 minutes left in the game because he doesn't really care. No, he doesn't give a shit. No, he doesn't give a shit. All right. Speaking of not giving a shit, I came across this tweet on Twitter. And this is Congressman Ted Lieu. I mean, this is just really revealing, and I want us to analyze this, pop this up. I endorsed Xavier Becerra.

6:07That's why I hope Republican Steve Hilton remains in the top two. The latest vote updates show Hilton will likely beat Steyer. So let's dissect that here is a Democrat rooting for a Republican. And we see this right now. Now, this is at the epicenter of the Democratic Party where you have corporate Dems. And I have a question. Do they hate progressive Dems more than they hate MAGA? Because why wouldn't he want two Democrats in there making us a stronger party? I mean, his tweet doesn't hold up because it's not going to be Steyer versus Hilton. It would be Steyer versus Becerra if Steyer got in there because Becerra is clearly going to be the candidate.

6:55But, you know, there was a writer, Kevin Drumm from the Washington Monthly, who years ago wrote about the iron law of institutions, which was that people would rather have the institution fail and not lose their position in it than have the opposite. They lose their position, have the institution succeed. And I think there's a lot of Democrats who feel really threatened by the energy behind the more sort of progressive wing of the Democratic Party. And I think that's a big fear. And I think, you know, Lou doesn't understand that he's telling on himself in that instance. This is not a choice between, you know, Hilton and Steyer.

7:45It's a choice between Becerra and Steyer, if Steyer gets in there. I mean, we see it like, you know, that's the funny thing about what's going on with the Democratic or the conspiracy theories around the mayor race. Because the establishment, which ostensibly would be in charge of, you know, faking the ballots, they want Bass. And Bass has a much better chance against Spencer than she would against a progressive Democrat. Right. And so it's fascinating. But this is something that I feel like I've seen for a long time. And I think we're seeing it a lot with like in the the the Platner race. I think we're seeing it.

8:30I mean, the level of desperation there is is intense. I think there was, you know, this goes back to like the abundance stuff. There was a sense that the establishment and the corporate influence could influence Harris and that they were gearing up for that. They were gearing up from it, like, you know, trying to demonize Lena Kahn. They were trying to undermine some of the more progressive things that the Biden administration did. and when Harris lost, they were not ready for it. And you're seeing, I think, like, you know, progressives don't have the strength, they don't have the money yet that the corporate wing of the party does and frankly, like, the APAC money that filters in through derivatives.

9:24But there's, you know, Chris Robb in Pennsylvania. we have others well they're worried about Syed and they're worried about Plattner because it's in the event that these guys make it to the Senate it's going to be a very different Senate caucus than we've seen in the past without a doubt and I think we're going to see a more progressive Democratic caucus that doesn't necessarily mean that it's like dominated by them it won't be but But it's headed in the right direction from my perspective anyways. I agree. It's like baby steps. But I think at the epicenter of Ted Lieu's tweet where he's cheering for a Republican to win because he wants a Republican versus a Democrat is really telling.

10:10And it reminded me a lot of the mayoral race here. And you had all of these headlines. Everybody's going to leave New York. Crime's going to go. 25%, I think was the prediction. Yeah, 25%. And then so his accomplishments in 2026, major crime is down 8 % citywide. He secured over$1.2 billion in a partnership with Centrist Hochul. So they work together. He secured more than$9 million in restitution for workers and small businesses. He expanded protected time off for 4.3 million workers and filled 100 ,000 potholes in his first 100 days. And here were the headlines before. Let's look at these. electing zoran momdani new york city mayor would spur huge cop exodus rising crime straight out of gotham city zorn momdani's success is a warning escape from new york researcher predicts new york city business exodus exodus of zoran momdani wins well then he does the pied-a-terre tax and he's like oh luxury real estate's gonna take it's up right well and you know um are they scared that once somebody like him shows us 100 you know who didn't leave who promised he would is andrew cuomo he's supposed to be in florida right now i honestly like i don't know like like the idea that this guy's still even in new york state is uh an abomination um but yes they are scared and i think like this is you know and and i think to some extent this is what scares of a platinum with new york and remember they also compared him to span burger right like in virginia like they were trying to make it like both span burger and mom donnie after mom donnie won they were trying to make a comparison there her uh approval rating is in the toilet now and mom donnie's has soared it is increased by i don't know uh 25 since he's not 25 percentage points but maybe 10 15 percentage points but uh since he's gotten an office and there's also like even from an intangible standpoint, he's worked on creating a spirit about the city and about what government can do.

12:23And I think to a large extent, that's very threatening because part of the reason why a corporate wing of the Democratic Party wants to get out there and say, there are certain things you can't do. You just can't do them. Well, I would love to, but we can't do them. And to see Momdani have this success. They said he's never going to get the money for universal child care. They're not going to do anything with the buses. Like you say, people are going to leave, etc., etc. And then their fallback position is like, this is New York. The rest of the country is not like New York. And then you start to see Plattner build a movement up in Maine and really just destroy the establishment candidate.

13:06I mean, regardless of what people say about, like there's no way that Janet Mills is going to win. And we're going to find that out tomorrow, but for sure. But obviously he just destroyed her and he motivated people with a very similar tact, not the exact same policies, but this perspective of like. There's there are people who are responsible for the miseration of the American public, like we are making. the country has huge GDP, somebody is getting that money. And it's increasingly in the hands of a smaller group of people. And I think that is very threatening. And then once it happens in Maine, I think there's even a fear like, what if it happens in Nebraska?

13:51And then, you know, this is something that begins to undermine the narrative that we've been told. Like, you don't understand in new york what people want in the heartland of the country and it's true i mean there are states that there's a lot of conservatism a lot of it is like social conservatism and cultural conservatism and that's what's most important to those people as opposed to sort of like a material benefits but at the end of the day i think they're very threatened by an economic populism they are and every time it succeeds they've got to find something and and now in new York, the complaints against Mamdani have gotten increasingly sort of like narrow and just bizarre.

14:35Yeah. I mean, at one point they were trying to push that he had cursed the Mets. How much do you think the through line with the hysteria over Zoran, the hysteria over Mamdani, the hysteria over Abdul-Isaid has to do with AIPAC and Israel and the optics for somebody like me who grew up in middle America. Muslims, bad terrorists, multiple wives kill white people with impunity. I mean, that's, that's the propaganda. And then you see this Muslim man in New York that has the, you know, the trans flag and he's fighting for workers and never really talks about religion ever where the politicians where i come from are using religion you know to control how much do you think these people bashing that stereotype a senator named abdul al-sayed bashes that stereotype how how scared do you think the propagandists that keep all of that intact the israel dream intact how scary is that for well i think for for like from a zionist perspective it's very scary because um much of what you know having grown up in a jewish family where i don't know that we perceived ourselves as zionists back then it was just you you supported israel and and there was a narrative about arabs and uh uh you know maybe not till after 9 11 from like a muslim perspective and i think like without the ability of demonizing uh um uh arabs or palestinians or whatnot things become a lot harder um and i think you know what has happened over the past couple years we saw it with cory bush we saw jamal bowman um is that the corporate forces found a way to basically launder their money to run against these progressives through DMFI or APAC and then also combined with Democrats who are also Zionists.

16:42And they all sort of found like a common home. Like these are the same people that we're going to go after. So I think a lot of that money has commingled. And yeah, I think there's a tremendous amount of fear that these things are being normalized and and it's harder to otherize people who are of Arab descent or Muslim, and that's a problem. I mean, and it's a problem that is happening at such a rate for them. I mean, it's stunning. The popular opinion has changed both in the Democratic Party for sure, and amongst independents, but even younger people in the Republican Party no longer sort of knee-jerk support Israel.

17:25And I think they're going to get increasingly desperate, frankly. And I don't know how that plays out, but it's scary. Don't you think that desperation is playing out a little bit right now with Netanyahu knowing, OK, we have this idiot in America right now, Trump. We can go all gas, no brakes. This is our moment. This is the time to balkanize Iran. This is the time for the greater Israel project. project. And not only is it Netanyahu, but it's all of these tech oligarchs. Everybody's just sucking out of him and he doesn't give a shit. He's just worried about his vanity projects. Absolutely. I mean, I think that's the dynamic.

18:04I mean, I think Netanyahu knew this was his last bite at the apple. I mean, also for him personally, probably too. I mean, he's in his 80s. And I think Trump allowed him. And I think Trump was, is, you know, either of not sound mind enough or easily convinced, or, I mean, I'm convinced that there's a dollar that he feels like he's going to make from this, or at least initially, I don't know what that was, but that's usually what, and so, yes, I think they're going full force. There's a real quality. and I think amongst the Republican Party in general, and we're seeing it with guys like Russell Vogt and the Heritage Foundation, there's a real quality of like, we're in the getaway car now.

18:53This is it. So polling be damned, trying to trim our sails in some way to try and maintain be damned. We need to get everything we can. And we're seeing that on a daily basis. Supreme Court. Well, the Supreme Court. Shadow docket. The shadow docket. But just the other day, you remember Schedule F from the end of the first Trump administration? And this was a plan. There's about 40 ,000 civil servants in the government. And there was a plan that Russ Vogt and the Heritage Foundation and the whole Project 2025 people had to get rid of the civil service protection. They wanted to do it for 40 ,000.

19:34They've done it now just the other day for 8 ,000 of the top level of civil service. So these jobs are going to be in this. We're talking about this has been in something that's been in effect for 150 some odd years in this country to make sure that we have good government. And Trump is going to replace this with a political patronage system. And he's going to make people take some type of loyalty test and whatnot. And this is, when I came in here, like, how you doing? I'm like, this is the thing that's really keeping me up at night because there's things that a new democratic administration in 2029 can change, right?

20:18And there's stuff that's more obvious and there's policies that you can reverse. But my biggest fear is regardless of who wins that election in 2029, and hopefully it'll be a Democrat, is that there's only so much bandwidth. There's only so much resources an administration has. There's only so many bodies. There's only so much money. And the destruction of our administrative state is so extensive that nobody coming in in their first four years is going to be able to fix everything. I mean, it's going to take two terms, three terms, four terms to fix this stuff. And you don't start in the destruction that's happening today.

21:03You don't see for years. And so five, 10 years from now, as we start to see like the degradation of, of, of sciences, I, I had on the program today, we had Jonathan Cohen, who had written this piece about there has been a incredible discovery or the development of a treatment for pancreatic cancer. One that like caused like all these oncologists in the middle of a presentation to get up and like spontaneously standing ovation. But the mechanisms that led to that, like, you know, it doesn't happen overnight. You're talking about 20, 25 years of government funded research that has led us to this moment.

21:46Well, now that pipeline is done. Like we've destroyed it. We've destroyed the grant making. You've got people, you know, you've got a somewhat of a brain drain. You've got people going into other professions and not pursuing this stuff. stuff, we're not going to feel that as a population for five, 10 years down the road when all of a sudden there's just nothing in the pipeline. None of these things are being built on because we've lost a generation of scientists. And I don't know how many people are going to say like, oh, well, the reason why we haven't had this progress is a function of what happened five, seven years ago.

22:23And this is the case with the EPA, the FDA, with climate change. There's a whole host of the SEC. The next financial crisis we have, if it doesn't happen immediately, the seeds are being planted down the road, whether it's from deregulation and crypto, on and on. And this is the part that really keeps me up at night because this is, we're undermining the structure of things in such a way that even a candidate that we would love, pick your favorite coming in, they're not going to be able to fix all this quickly. And I don't know what kind of patience the American public is going to have for this.

23:08I don't think there's a broad understanding of it. We don't even cover it because there's so many other stories. Like, you know, what would have been a top line story, you know, five years ago is like the 12th story of the day type of thing. It's scary. It's really scary. And it brings, everything always brings me to how the Democrats are messaging. And that's why when I come across Ted Lieu's tweet, I'm like, our number one mission should be anybody who is a Republican we want to defeat, period. We don't care if it's a primary where, you know, like in the ranked primaries like they have in California.

23:45And the patronizing way that corporate Democrats treat the electorate really bothers me. And so here's a video of David Brooks, who was married to a woman for 28 years, and he left his wife to marry a research assistant who was 23 years his junior. And I don't give a shit if he does that. Free country. What else? What I hate are hypocrites. I can't, because I grew up in the Bible Belt, and always the most sanctimonious people are always the biggest fucking hypocrites, 12 times out of 10. So here's David Brooks talking about Graham Plattner. Play the clip. To a public office, a person of basic integrity, and second, do I agree with them?

24:31But if you've gotten rid of the first criteria, then you have weakened your democracy, and Republicans clearly did that with Trump, And now Democrats really, if they side with Plattner, I don't want to hear too much about Trump in the future and his moral degeneracy. Jonathan, to that. Okay. So here's my thing about this. Susan Collins has a record of being a fascist, period. She is. It's no longer fascist collaboration. I called her a fascist the other day, and we have a decades-long record of her rat-fucking women in states where I'm from, in Oklahoma, where she voted to give rapists more rights and more privacy than a rape victim.

25:11She has enriched herself, you know, millions upon millions of dollars. She votes with Trump over 90 something percent of the time. She voted for all of these unqualified dipshits to be in his cabinet that are dismantling all of the stuff that's keeping you up at night. She is a, an absolute fascist. And this guy gets on here and lectures us. And I think it was James Carville who said, look, we got a fucked up candidate, but he's got to win. Right. And that's kind of where I think we are in this fight for democracy. What's your take on all that? Well, David Brooks is a Republican. And nobody's taking him seriously.

25:44And the thing is, he's not had a constituency for years. You know, the New York Times would hire people like David Brooks ostensibly to represent the conservative perspective on things. But he's not a conservative. I mean, he is hated by the conservatives. He is the corporate Democrats' fantasy of what a Republican is, honestly. And part of the problem has been, and it's changing slightly, but we still have some holdouts. Starting in 2016, the Democratic Party had the opportunity to tie Donald Trump to the Republican Party. If you go back in October and September of 2016, they were not attacking Paul Ryan.

26:25they were not forcing paul ryan to say like what is your perspective on this guy they were not saying it to mitch mcconnell you had chuck schumer in fact in october of 2016 was saying like i've got schumer for whatever reason talked about himself in the third person i've got clinton do the impersonation uh well i don't have my right glasses but i've got schumer i've got i've got clinton and i've got paul ryan and we're gonna do a repatriation of uh overseas taxes and we're gonna do an infrastructure bill and they wanted to protect like you know and we've had this over and over again obama biden uh the fever's gonna break the republican party is gonna return to the mean uh nancy pelosi we need a strong republican they rhetorically and and i would argue also even legislatively in some respects protected the republican party instead of tying donald trump to it he was not a republican he was not the republican party he was maga and then he wasn't just maga he was extreme maga like i mean they constantly add these qualifiers to take him away from the republican party in fact you know kamala harris going around the republican party and i represented by uh you know cheney and i we're you know we're the normal people he's this outsider No, he exists today as president because the Republican Party was this party.

27:51They had created a suit and he walked into it. He was exactly what the Republican Party had been building. They incubated him. They incubated him. Well, they were waiting for a guy like him to come along. And the Democratic leadership refused to sort of acknowledge this for years. Now, even Democrats who I don't agree with from an ideological perspective, younger ones of a different or I should say of a different political generation, recognize that you need to be partisan, that the Republican Party, you can't. But we still have a leadership that refuses to take this position. And it gets complicated with a guy like Chuck Schumer, who is, in fact, I think, very much behind a war with Iran.

28:37I think he would argue like maybe Trump has messed it up in some way, but he was very slow to come out. You know, he was complaining about side deals with Iran. A side deal to avoid a war? Like, I mean, this is not the messaging that is helpful. And I think the Democrats are going to underperform. Now, they very well may do, they may take the House. They very well may take the Senate. But I think there's probably a point or two that they're underperforming because they're trying to build a narrative now that these Republicans are supporting Donald Trump, that there is no difference. When you vote for Susan Collins, you're voting for Donald Trump.

29:19And they're behind and they've had 10 years to do this. But our last president was was inviting the Republicans. And when they were talking about the Build Back Better bill, the reason why that thing stalled and ultimately fell apart was because Joe Biden, instead of after the American Rescue Plan passes in February or March of 2021, he puts the brakes on and he says. the Republicans, mind you, at that point, in the wake of the passage of that, you can go back and look at this. You know what they were talking about? They were talking about Dr. Seuss. They were talking about two books that Dr. Seuss were not publishing.

29:57So you have your opponents completely flailing around. Joe Manchin at that time, if you go back to what Joe Manchin was saying in March and April of 2021, he was saying that the Build Back Better bill while bernie was saying it should be six trillion joe manchin was saying it should be nine trillion and instead of like taking this uh momentum joe biden says like i gotta show the american public that we're bipartisan and he invites the republicans in and they dick around for two or three months because they have no interest in doing this i mean come on like like how many times do you have to learn this lesson they have no interest in voting for any of this And then when they don't come up with anything, he allows Portman, no longer an elected Republican, and Sinema, no longer an elected Democrat, come in with their deal.

30:50And meanwhile, just around that time is when Joe Manchin's on tape with his donors finding out like, oh, I shouldn't vote for this. And that's when Joe Manchin becomes a problem there. And that's when the whole thing, and that's when health insurance expires for Americans. Extended unemployment dies for Americans. The earned child income, or I should say the child tax credit, which took 45 % of children out of poverty. We did that in a year. Yeah. We did that. That's when that expires. I mean, all of the benefits that came from the American Rescue Act just vaporize, essentially, because of this notion that the Republican Party is still a legitimate good faith partner in governing.

31:43And it is so clear they are not. It's so clear they are not. And it's so clear that we're talking about Schumer, that he isn't really a good faith actor in our government. And here's what I have to say as a person who lived 51 years in a red state. Republicans love rat fucking Democrats. And when they rat fuck Democrats, everybody gets fucked. And I wish that Democrats would rat fuck Republicans because what that ends up looking like is a lot of the way that Zoran is governing here. You get they will hate it so much. So you get to satisfy that, you know, just fuck you, you fascist pieces of shit.

32:20We're going to govern well. But it actually is trickle down. The only thing that trickles down in Republican policies are lies. They are pathological liars. The branding that they have done marching into red sites saying wealth will trickle down. And, you know, we have to we have no regulations at all. And the you and I talked about this one night at a party in Christmas over Christmas was how the Democrats abandon all of these rural states. So where I live right now in Oklahoma, you have the primaries tomorrow. these republican gubernatorial candidates sam they are out anti-transing each other so bad one of the candidates has a banana on a butcher block and talks about we're gonna get rid of the trans ideology in school like he's castrating the banana and it's it's such a race to the bottom and one of these nuts is going to win but what happens is the electorate gets crazier and more unhinged So this idea that Biden or that Obama has, that we have to work with Republicans, the Republican Party and their media ecosystem is incubating something worse than Trump.

33:31And I know this because I saw the Tea Party become MAGA. And I just know these people, MAGA is now going to become the Groypers or the Tucker Carlson thing. And it's not good. The Mormons are finding out right now just how welcome they are in that tent. Yep. Yeah, I mean, the failure of the 50 state, or I should say to maintain the 50 state strategy, Rahm Emanuel resented it and shut that down when Obama got elected in 08. I mean, it was sort of like you were starting to develop an infrastructure. You're not going to necessarily win, not necessarily, at least in the short term. Maybe long term, you'll hit some places and you'll win.