Trump's Disaster Fourth of July as Event Falls Apart, Evidence Proves It Was All Fraud

3 Jul 2026 · 19 min · 10 chapters

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In short

The episode is a satirical, politically charged roundup arguing that Trump-aligned efforts around America’s 250th birthday collapsed due to fraud and partisan hijacking. Guests/hosts: Jennifer Welch and Don Lemon (co-hosts), plus recurring references to Fox News figures (Jesse Waters, Stephen Miller, Pris Waters) and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis.

Key claims

a 52-page Democratic probe alleges Trump allies misled donors, supplanted the bipartisan America 250 plan, and sold access for millions; the event flopped because people avoided a partisan spectacle. They compare the failed arch/reflecting pool fiascos to Trump’s “everything he touches dies” pattern. They also discuss Polis commuting election-denier Tina Peters and firing clemency board members.

Notable examples

Fox birthright-tourism debate clips; Polis clemency controversy; Thomas Massey confronting a Fox reporter about gay porn hypocrisy.

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Chapters

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Trump's Flimsy Fair Arch

0:45 to 2:20

Discussion on the aesthetics and implications of Trump's event structure.

“It looks like it's put together with spit and glue.”

Allegations of Fraud at America 250

2:20 to 4:28

Exploring accusations of fraud and the implications for Trump and his allies.

“The Midas Touch is reporting congressional probe alleges massive fraud and Trump aligned Freedom 250 alleging Trump allies misled donors, hijacked America's 250th and sold access for millions.”

Trump's Public Appeal Wanes

4:28 to 6:07

Analysis of Trump's dropping appeal and failure to attract bipartisan support.

“The inauguration was supposed to be outside.”

Jesse Waters and Stephen Miller's Odd Relationship

6:07 to 8:02

A humorous take on the relationship between Jesse Waters and Stephen Miller.

“OK, speaking of gayish meltdowns, not very well liked.”

Governor Polis and Clemency Controversy

8:02 to 11:20

Discussion on Jared Polis's decision to grant clemency to election denier Tina Peters.

“Look at how happy they are in each other's presence.”

Democrats and the Need for Fighters

11:20 to 14:00

A call for the Democratic party to embrace stronger, progressive candidates.

“I don't know how Donald Trump got to him.”

The Fight for Living Wages

14:00 to 14:43

Discussion on the importance of living wages and healthcare as human rights.

“There is nothing that is woke or wrong with people wanting a decent living wage, wanting affordable health care.”

Thomas Massey's Confrontation

14:43 to 16:24

A segment analyzing Thomas Massey's confrontation with a Fox reporter about hypocrisy.

“All you got to say is you don't like it, that you haven't been to those websites.”

Calling Out Hypocrisy

16:24 to 17:46

A call for Democrats to confront Republican hypocrisy regarding LGBTQ issues.

“We wouldn't agree with him on that much because I don't think he cares much about social justice.”

Future Plans and Upcoming Episodes

17:46 to 18:27

Discussion on upcoming episodes and personal plans of the hosts.

“I know, but you know who is going to do it?”
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0:04All right, welcome to the Friday's edition of Welch's Lemon Juice. I have maybe a slightly buzzed Don Lemon on our hands who might, may or may not have just had a margarita and maybe some rose. So we're going to dive right into some juicy details of what it's like being an American on the 250th birthday. Let's check in, Don, on Donald Trump's Great American State Fair. Here's the mock-up of his arch and it looks like it's about to collapse pop this up it's like paper mache jen come on cock coming out of that and i and i'm and i don't mean cock i mean i was gonna say did you say which did you say cock that's some weird looking shit coming out of their cock what is that thing jen it looks like a project that like a and not even a junior high school but we would put together when I would go to vacation Bible study and we would make the cigar boxes with, with macaroni shells and glue.

1:04Yeah. It looks like it's put together with spit and glue. How embarrassing. This is what happens when you dismantle DEI. This is what happens when you don't have any gays doing set decor for you. This is what happens when you don't have creative people. This is what happens when you starve out all of the creatives. this is white heterosexuality on full display is what that is because you know if some gays would have made that arch it would have been triumphant it would have been appropriate for the 250th birthday and i think trump would have liked it a lot more obviously he would have loved it he loves he look he is always talking trash for his party about the about trans people because he knows it works politically.

1:51But Trump is such a gay at heart. And even though he's homophobic, I'm sure, I think he's just jealous that he really, you know, that he can't be a gay because his party won't let him be a gay. Look, if he would just let his gay freak flag fly, he would have all the gays fixing stuff for him. It would be all pretty. And we would get rid of that gold lame that went out with the trailer park. We completely agree. All right. Speaking of this America 250, it wouldn't be a Trump 250 unless there was massive grifting going on. Pop this up. The Midas Touch is reporting congressional probe alleges massive fraud and Trump aligned Freedom 250 alleging Trump allies misled donors, hijacked America's 250th and sold access for millions.

2:43The 52-page report released Thursday morning by Democrats reveals a series of blistering accusations against Trump-aligned officials for their management of the events. The report alleges Trump allies outflanked and supplanted the initial congressionally approved America 250th operation to install their own Trump-favored sycophantic event. Well, that's why no one came, Because initially, Jim, it was supposed to be an event that was bipartisan, that was about America. And then Trump and his sycophants or allies got their hands on it and people started pulling out because they didn't want to be part of this partisan event.

3:22So I'm not surprised that it's a flop for two reasons. One, people don't want to be a part of that. And two, I think that MAGA is coming to an end and people are the veil is off, so to speak, or they pull back behind the curtain and they see the Wizard of Oz to mix my metaphors and comparisons has no clothes. The emperor has no clothes. So I'm not surprised. And look at look when look at what happened with the reflecting pool. He got one of his friends to do it. What was that? A disaster. Right. Didn't put out any bids, just wanted a friend to do it. I think it's the same thing in this instance.

3:54They filled it with Trump folks, Trump who, people who kiss Trump's ass and don't know their right hand from their left hand. And look at what you get. You get the stupid arch that is, that'll blow down. What is that? I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down. That can blow out with any wind. That's probably why they, you know, the whole thing with the weather, they got rid of the weather because they didn't want the papier-mâché to fall over or melt or blow in the wind. And I'm not surprised that it is a total, total flop because everything Trump touches dies. And everything Trump's allies and sycophants, everything they touch dies as well.

4:30So not surprised. Okay. Think about this, Don. The inauguration was supposed to be outside. Trump moved it inside because he cannot handle small crowds. Remember that military parade he had where the tanks were like squeaking? Like it was like.

4:50And it needed like WD-40. And they couldn't even fill the stands? Here's the deal. Unless Trump goes to some red state where he has the sycophants, he cannot draw crowds. The one thing he fears more than anything is not being adored. In this presidency, he has not been able to draw crowds whatsoever. Jen, when you said he can't stand not being adored and he goes to places where he's adored, as you and I both said a couple of times, a couple of weeks ago, after he went to the Knicks game and he got booed, he was exposed then because he only shows up at places where people are going to be like, oh my God, and kissing his butt.

5:38Oh, Trump is here. Most places don't want him there. there. And that's why we said on our show, Trump, carry your ass home. No one wants you there. No one wants him there. And so, yeah, I think that exposed him. People don't want to be associated with him at all. And I think the world is figuring it out. They're figuring out his grift. Like they figured out the grift, hopefully about the stupid airplane that he is whatever confiscated or whatever he's done with it. I think they figured out his grift and I think they're, they're turning on him. I think this is the end of MAGA. I really do. OK, speaking of gayish meltdowns, not very well liked.

6:17Miss Pris Waters on Fox News has been having a meltdown. She I'm sorry. He and Stephen Miller are losing their minds about birthright tourism. Play the clip. Can we banning pregnant women from America? Are we banning foreign pregnant women? Well, what I'm saying, Jesse, is that you have to now think very carefully about who you let into your country, even on a temporary basis, because the possibility, as you said, for birth tourism. This is not a thing. Birth tourism is not real. And I just want to remind you, Marco Rubio, birthright citizen. Kash Patel, birthright citizen. um it's just insane but you know what melania trump chain migration uh and where did stephen miller get that let me tell you jesse why does she sound like this he's from california and now he sounds like he's uh from uh someplace uh up in new england and he talks like do you notice that when he talks like what is that such a poser he's such a poser he's such a poser it's It's just Jesse Waters and Stephen Miller have the weirdest relationship I've ever seen.

7:40They are the happiest in each other's presence. I've watched clip after clip of these two. Jesse Waters refers to Stephen Miller as a sexual matador. Kylie, can you put up the still to show Dawn how they're just shit eating granite each other? I'm telling you, Dawn, we're breaking news. Breaking news on Welch's lemon juice right here, you guys. Look at the joy. Look at that. Look at how happy they are in each other's presence. I'm going to break news right here. Jesse Waters and Stephen Miller are happiest together. I've never seen either one of them that happy unless they're with each other. What do you think they do when they're together in person?

8:21Do we even want to think about that? I mean, it is pride. Well, pride month is over. So we won't desecrate pride month by, you know, talking about it. so june is pride month july is shame yeah that's what we're going to do all july on our friday episodes we're going to do shame month we're going to shame them yeah these are the first two we're shaming why are they so happy and hitting on each other and flirting on fox news all the time i want to know why i think when you get a bunch of bigots together look i don't really pay attention to jesse walters waters i don't really pay attention to him that much because i think he's a clown yeah um but i you know i do i don't think i've ever met him but i do know stephen miller i've met him and i've interviewed him before and he's an odd bird he just gets all wound up in you know his these sort of this sort of racist language so hysterical oh and he gets like it's like megan kelly when megan kelly starts being racist she's just like yeah like she's having an orgasm stephen miller is the male version of that he's just like oh my god more racism coming out of my mouth.

9:26No, they're nuts. Okay. Sorry, audience. No, they love it. Hey, it's 4th of July weekend. Everybody loves a slightly tipsy lemon. Okay. So Jared Polis, the governor of Colorado, out of the closet, gay governor, got a lot of pressure put on him by Kankles McTaco tits, the president to pardon this election denier and just nut Tina Peters. So eventually this Democrat caves, pardons, gives clemency to Tina Peters. And now Jared popped this up. New York Times says, Governor Jared Polis fired two members of his clemency board after they spoke out against his decision to commute the prison sentence of the election denier, Tina Peters.

10:16And this is something really important we need to talk about, Don. You have Democrats that behave as MAGA light, and that's what this is. He caved. You need to take a machine gun to a knife fight with these people. You don't cave and then do a very Trumpian thing and then fire the people who are exercising their right to free speech. I just think this is why the Democrats lose. This is why the Democrats helped incubate this fascist takeover that we're seeing. And this is why you're seeing these progressives win all over the country, these Mondami-style progressives that are incorruptible. Yeah, I agree 100%.

11:02And I think Jared Polis should be ashamed of himself because we saw what Tina Peters did. And we know that Tina Peters was not innocent at all. Obviously, she was convicted by a jury of her peers. And she, you know, should remain as such. She should remain as someone who has been convicted of that and not granted clemency. I don't know how Donald Trump got to him. I don't know what he did. But I think this is, as you say, why Democrats will lose. I hear people all the time talking to me about we need this kind of Democrat. We need that kind of Democrat. It's got to be a straight white man. It's got to be this.

11:31It's got to be someone. You know what it has to be, Jen? It has to be someone who's not fucking afraid to stand up. It's someone who's not afraid to say the energy in the party is on the progressive side. The people want someone who's going to stand up and fight back. The people want accountability. They want a Democrat who's going to come into office, whether it be whatever level, a congressman, a senator, or president, and they will make Republicans be accountable for all of the degradation and all the wrong that they have done this entire time that Donald Trump was in office. They want things turned around.

12:00They want Washington, D.C. taken back, and they want, quite frankly, our country to, they want to take back our country. Not in the way that Republicans want to do it, not in the racist way that MAGA says they want to do it, but a country that is meant for all. But they want a Democrat who's not afraid to say things, not afraid to be human, not afraid to be imperfect. That's the kind of person they want. they don't want in this era of jared polis who is a gay man and i respected him and you know used to talk to him all the time i'm seeing and be a mom donnie in this day and age rather than a jared polis i completely agree what we want are fighters and the democrats get so caught up in identity politics and we need to quit talking about the bathroom stuff you know who talks about the bathroom stuff?

12:46Donald Trump, Moses Mike Johnson, Jesse Waters. You want to talk about somebody who is consumed with culture wars? It is not the Democrats. What the Democrats want are fighters. And right now, Don, I believe the progressive wing of the party is fighting the Maga light, the Chuck Schumers that are fascist collaborators, the collaborators that take money from the same oligarchs and the same APAC donors that also fund this fascist takeover. And how can you be an opposition party when you are taking money from the same people who are crawled right up Trump's ass, sat there and parked? Look who's, look who talked about the bathroom thing the most, was obsessed with it, Nancy Mays.

13:31Think she's going to be the governor of South Carolina? Hell no. Nobody wants her. They know that she's a Trump sycophant. They know that she's not a serious person, but everyone was so afraid of Zoran Mamdani. They're so afraid of AOC. They're so afraid of the progressives and the progressives are winning and Democrats need to get their heads out of their ass and realize that and stop, stop fighting for this. We want to be centrist and we can't talk about, we need to get rid of the woke. You know, this is bullshit. That's not what people want. That's not what Democrats want. That's not what people who are opposed to this Trump regime want and Republicans as well.

14:03There is nothing that is woke or wrong with people wanting a decent living wage, wanting affordable health care. Those aren't progressive ideas. They're human ideas. It just so happens that the progressives happen to have those ideas and to be on the right side of those ideas. Okay. Last clip. I don't know if you saw this. You may have covered it. I don't know. Here is Thomas Massey confronting a Fox reporter. Play the clip. I love it. I love it. I heard that you like gay porn. Is that true? I just want to give you a chance. I'm giving you a chance to give me your side. I'm not going to get into that.

14:41Are you a real news organization or not? I'm not going to get into that. No, come back, man. All you got to say is you don't like it, that you haven't been to those websites. Of course I don't like it. Really? Well, thank you. I kind of think he kind of does. I kind of think it took a long time to deny it. He got to look and look, we're coming out. We're in shame month now. We're just coming out of pride month. And the thing is, is like people like that guy, you can shame him because he's a hypocrite. So if someone is going to gay porn sites and they're gay, you're like, okay, fine. Who gives a shit, right?

15:15But that guy came up to Thomas Massey and said, you know, your ex-wife is saying this and that you were abusive. This is saying this. And who gives a shit about that, right? Let them deal with whatever they have to deal with in their own marriage. I don't know if it's true or not. But then he said, which he said, when did you guys, he said, who are you with? and I think he said I'm with Fox Digital or something. He goes, when did you guys become a tabloid? And the guy keeps asking the questions and he whips out his phone like you saw it. He says, when did you start going to the gay porn sites?

15:42And the guy freaks out because he must be going to those sites and he doesn't want people to know. Thomas Massey is a badass. I did not have it on my bingo card that in 2026, I would be agreeing with anything that Thomas Massey says and pretty much all of it I'm agreeing with. And here's the thing. I have been saying on iHip News and I've had it the Democrats need to go there. They exactly what Thomas Massey did. The Republicans have the balls to campaign like this. The Democrats need to go there and say, why is little Moses Mike Grinder Johnson so consumed with anti-gay stuff? What is that? They need to go there.

16:18And Thomas Massey did it. And I agree with you. It makes you think he's a fighter. Now, here's the thing. Thomas Massey is probably, you know, he's more libertarian leaning. We wouldn't agree with him on that much because I don't think he cares much about social justice. But what we like about it, you and I, when we saw that is he fought them. He called them out on their hypocrisy. And that is a lesson for the Democrats. Call these closeted freaks out. Call them out. Instead of talking about all of these issues, say, why are they so obsessed with it? What the fuck is going on there? Lindsey Graham.

16:50And why is it that someone should have said to them, why aren't you covering the closeted gays, right? Someone should say to the Republicans or to Fox News and the conservative outlets. Why aren't you covering the closet of gays that are out there being hypocrites and proposing and enacting legislation that's detrimental to what they really are in their own hearts and their own bodies? Why aren't you covering that? Why aren't you covering the MAGA after preacher, after church leader, after school counselor, middle-aged white male conservative man, white male conservative who are molesting children, who have been found to have gay porn.

17:30Why aren't you doing that? Because they're the overall majority of the people who are doing it. Why aren't you covering that? Why aren't you talking about that? Why are you so obsessed with trans people who are not molesting people, who aren't going into bathrooms and doing things to people? You know who's doing it? The people who are in your own tribe. Why aren't you covering that and calling them out? That's what Democrats need to do. And they're fucking afraid. And it pisses me off. I know, but you know who is going to do it? Jennifer Welch and Don Lemon. We are going to cover it. Come hell or high water, we're going to cover it.

18:00JWDL, Jennifer Welch, Don Lemon, 2028, I see. That's right. And we're bringing shame month, July 2026, America's first shame month. And here's the deal, listener. I've got Don for this finite amount of time because he's on vacation. So this is obviously happy Friday, everyone. But we're about to record another episode. And I think we're going to get even crazier with that one so that you guys have two Welch's lemon drops over the weekend. So we'll be back soon with more news.

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