In short
The episode centers on Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “revenge tour” against Donald Trump and her push for a boycott, including urging Trump supporters not to pay taxes on tax day. Key claims highlighted: Greene calls Trump the “Antichrist,” says he should be removed from office, and argues he should be removed via impeachment or the 25th Amendment; she frames Trump’s actions as blasphemous (including a Jesus-like image) and cites his alleged war posture toward Iran. Notable examples include Greene’s social media posts and CNN appearance with Caitlin Collins, plus clips of Trump attacking the Pope and posting Jesus imagery.
Guests
Paymon (described as an Iranian immigrant who says he hasn’t paid income taxes for 30+ years) and Joe Bannister (a former IRS agent who also says he doesn’t pay taxes).
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOMarjorie Taylor Greene's Anti-Trump Campaign
1:59 to 2:55
Explore Marjorie Taylor Greene's recent actions against Trump.
“In the past 48 hours, Marjorie Taylor Greene has called Donald Trump the Antichrist.”
Greene's Blasphemy Claims and CNN Appearance
2:57 to 4:19
Discuss Greene's claims against Trump and her CNN interview.
“Here's a real post from Marjorie Taylor Greene saying that it's anti-Christ spirit.”
Tax Revolt and Economic Concerns
4:27 to 6:05
Understand the call for a tax revolt and economic issues raised by Greene.
“And a doctor, President Trump is not a doctor.”
Interview with Joe Bannister on Taxes
6:05 to 7:39
Hear insights from former IRS agent Joe Bannister about tax obligations.
“And what happens when you have a child is no longer you buying things for yourself.”
Trump's Leadership Under Scrutiny
7:39 to 9:15
Examine criticisms of Trump's leadership and its implications.
“After all, he is an American that came here as a teenager from Iran.”
Trump's History with Women and Recent Controversies
11:57 to 14:02
Analyze Trump's past behavior towards women and current controversies.
“And then I saw this footage unearthed right here as well.”
Trump's Outlandish Behavior and Legacy Destruction
14:02 to 16:43
Discussion on Trump's erratic behavior and its implications for his legacy.
“So then like, if that's not bad enough, then he posts the thing of him as Jesus this morning, Rob.”
Trump's Attacks on Key Figures in MAGA
16:44 to 17:41
Analysis of Trump's recent criticisms of prominent conservative figures.
“I think he'd prefer that than some other Republican star rise.”
Criticism from Trump's Supporters
17:42 to 19:17
Supporters express their discontent with Trump's actions and state of mind.
“Gas prices, which are starting to skyrocket.”
Trump's Mental State and Influences
19:18 to 19:35
Discussion on Trump's mental state and the influences around him.
“And he thinks these people are totally sane.”
Transcript
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1:59Ben Meiselas:In the past 48 hours, Marjorie Taylor Greene has called Donald Trump the Antichrist. She's called for Donald Trump's impeachment. She's called to invoke the 25th Amendment. She's called on all of her MAGA friends or former MAGA supporters to not pay their taxes in order to stick it to Donald Trump. And she's been rallying MAGA to continue to leave Donald Trump. She's been doing this all on social media as well as media appearances that she's made on CNN. This is Marjorie Taylor Greene's revenge tour right now. And let me just bring out the receipts and show you what she is doing, especially leading this boycott against Donald Trump by telling Trump supporters, do not pay their taxes.
2:46Ben Meiselas:I mean, today's obviously tax day, whether we like it or not. But she's saying the way to really stick it to Donald Trump is nobody should pay their taxes because of how he's screwing everybody over. Here's a real post from Marjorie Taylor Greene saying that it's anti-Christ spirit. It's more than blasphemy. As Donald Trump continues to attack Pope Leo XIV, she also posted on Orthodox Easter, Trump attacked the Pope because the Pope is rightly against Trump's war in Iran. And then he posted this picture of himself like replacing Jesus. This comes after last week's post of his evil tirade on Easter and then threatening to kill an entire civilization.
3:27Ben Meiselas:I completely denounce this and I am praying against this. Then she goes on CNN with Caitlin Collins and she's asked, do you really think that Donald Trump should be removed from office? And she says, absolutely. This guy's got to be removed from office. Here's what Marjorie Taylor Greene says. Let's play this clip. Do you really think that the president should be removed from office? I think we have to truly question the mental stability of any president that threatens to wipe out an entire civilization of people. That would include all the innocent people in that country that have nothing to do with the war, especially after President Trump said this was about freeing the Iranian people from the Iranian regime.
4:13So for him to call to wipe out an entire civilization of people is absolutely wrong.
4:18Ben Meiselas:And she goes on to talk about Donald Trump engaging in blasphemy and how he needs to be removed again. Let's play this clip right here. I thought that was blasphemy. As a Christian, I was very offended. And a doctor, President Trump is not a doctor. And that picture had him in a robe, as Jesus is often portrayed, with light coming out of his hands. Next, Marjorie Taylor Greene posts this clip from Fox. And again, she's made it her mission, destroy Donald Trump and make sure she brings all of Trump's MAGA supporters as part of this exodus away from Donald Trump. Here's what she posts. She goes, the cost of raising a child is over$300 ,000 on average, up 27 % in just the past few years.
5:06Ben Meiselas:This is why Americans voted to lower inflation, cost of living, and to put America first and why they are so angry the focus is on war driving inflation higher. Here's what Marjorie Taylor Greene said. Let's play this clip. It's expensive to raise a child. How expensive? It's gone up 30 percent, actually, nearly 30 percent over the past three years. It costs more than$300 ,000 to raise a child in the United States nowadays. So apparently it's all about where you live. And the most expensive places are Hawaii, Maryland, and Massachusetts. Of course, the South, you get a break. $17 ,000 in Mississippi, Alabama,$18 ,000, and South Dakota,$18 ,000.
5:51So that's over the course of 18 years, right? For the first five years. Right. But since 2023, they say the cost of raising a kid is up 27%. So just so you know, just keep track. They will pay you back. Right. If you just keep that invoice. Do y 'all think that most of this, though, is coming from the child care costs that is impacting? Gosh, everything is so expensive. And what happens when you have a child is no longer you buying things for yourself. Everything goes to that child and you think about them constantly.
6:20Ben Meiselas:Then she made an entire documentary on her social media channels telling people not to pay their taxes. Now, I'm not going to play you a long clip, but I want to give you a short flavor of her rallying Trump supporters not to pay taxes right now. And here's what she said. She said, due to recent events, it's become evident that we are not voting our way out of this. Americans across the country have been calling for a national tax revolt, having tired from their taxpayer dollars being spent to fund endless wars, endless scams. Here's what she says about Donald Trump. Let's play this clip. But Americans are furious for many reasons, and they don't want to pay taxes.
7:07Number one, they're tired of the national debt. We're nearing$40 trillion in debt, and this is what the government has done to America. But there's many more reasons. They don't want their money sent off to foreign wars, foreign causes to pay for regime change in foreign countries that they've never even been to. And Americans are tired of the fraud. They're tired of the waste. They're tired of the abuse. And they're tired of no one being held accountable. Well, I found Payman's discussion to be extremely interesting. After all, he is an American that came here as a teenager from Iran. He loves this country, and he believes America is the greatest country in the world.
7:49But he hasn't paid taxes, income taxes, for over 30 years. So I decided to talk to someone else. And today joining me is Joe Bannister, a former IRS agent who he himself does not pay taxes. So, Joe, thanks for joining me today. I really want to dig into this with you. I have to be honest. I was a little skeptical when I first talked to Paymon. I was like, is this guy lying to me? How can this be real? Because as Americans, we just live most of our lives believing we have to file and pay our income taxes.
8:28Ben Meiselas:You know, when I reflect on the Trump regime's behavior also in the past 12, 24 hours as well, you've got Donald Trump's energy secretary over here, Chris Wright, saying just because we're heading in the wrong direction doesn't mean we're heading in the wrong direction. Play this clip. Just because it looks like we're going the wrong direction does not mean that's the direction and we're going. In terms of invoking the 25th Amendment, this is what it looked like when King William Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, and Queen Maxima, of course, very, very popular, the royal family, very popular in general there, of the Netherlands, and across the world, frankly, hanging out with Donald and Melania Trump at the White House.
9:15Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump doesn't even know where to stand in this video. Let's play this clip right here.
9:45I'm thinking about those guys over there.
9:52All right, you're just listening in to this as they are gathering for this now photo opportunity, the king and queen of the kingdom of the Netherlands at the White House.
10:03Ben Meiselas:And folks, the wheels are clearly coming off the track, if you will, right here. Here's MAGA Republican Senator Cynthia Loomis from Wyoming. I mean, you don't get much more kind of MAGA and right wing than her. And here she talks about how people in Wyoming are really suffering right now under the Trump regime. Let's play this clip. In my state and others, we had record distributions in my county in Wyoming of Meals on Wheels records, which is an indication that more and more people are turning for food to the subsidized food opportunities. So I'm worried and I admit that, but for now I have patience.
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11:57Ben Meiselas:And then I saw this footage unearthed right here as well. Just to show you how Donald Trump has always treated women his entire life and the way he has engaged in these horrific, misogynistic stunts. And it's why it's always important to call them out. It's from 1997 when Donald Trump held a press conference as Miss Universe Alicia Machado worked out on a stationary bike as Donald Trump mocked her weight and that she gained too much weight to be Miss Universe. And then he did this whole press conference calling her obese. I mean, this is who Donald Trump is. He's always been like a sick, vile piece of trash creature.
12:40Ben Meiselas:And, you know, it's shocking to me that people are just kind of seeing it now, but I suppose better late than never. Just let me show you what this clip is here. Play this clip. Some people, when they have pressure, eat too much, like me, but like Alicia. And what she's going to do now is she's got one of the great trainers of the world and a very, very famous man in his own right. Our goal is to get her between 125 and 130. She will look 118 to you and to the camera, 118. So we want to keep that soft, feminine look. We don't want to have any short, bulgy muscles. The weight was unacceptable to a lot of people.
13:16Now, all of a sudden, she's gained. I mean, literally, she went up from about 118 to about 170 pounds. It was incredible. And we had a choice, termination or let's get her back into shape. She gained 50 or 60 pounds in a period of nine months, which is unbelievable. I've never heard of such a thing. And now she's on a very strict diet and she's working very hard. She's with a trainer, a terrific trainer, and hopefully it's all gonna work out. But she's obviously got a major eating disorder. She likes food. You called her an eating machine. Well, at one point she was actually an eating machine.
13:46I mean, she was. Somebody said, gee, that's not a very nice thing to say, but it's true.
13:49Ben Meiselas:And then we're seeing a bunch of other MAGA people joining Marjorie Taylor Greene is saying right here, for example, you have, you know, this right-wing guy, Dave Smith, who voted for Donald Trump. And this he's part of like the podcast bro stuff. Here's what he had to say. Play this clip. And okay. So then like, if that's not bad enough, then he posts the thing of him as Jesus this morning, Rob. Like he's so out of touch that he didn't. I mean, it seems almost like he is working to destroy his legacy, his presidency and his coalition. And then he's like, I've never seen anything like this before where a president is trashing all of the people that got him elected.
14:31Ben Meiselas:It's kind of weird. Here, play this clip. But, you know, if you think about like what this is the equivalent of, like this would be like Joe Biden trashing Rachel Maddow, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, you know, like just like your people's favorite people. you're you know between the four of those might be the four biggest conservative right-wing shows in the country and he just trashed all of them and they also kind of represent almost like the spectrum of because you know like megan kelly and alex jones are very different people you know it's like all the way from fox news to info wars and everything in between and he just trashed all of them in the most like, like it was, it was Trump.
15:26It was kind of funny, I guess, in some parts of it, but it was so petulant and it just looks so bad. And then the reaction of all of them has essentially been to laugh at him. And I, I don't know, Rob, I just, I've never seen anything like this before where a president is trashing all of the people who got him elected. And it's all, it's so naked. It's like, look, here's the rules. Okay. Donald Trump requires 100 % loyalty and he offers absolutely none. Those that's the deal. And, you know, you just demonstrate that enough times. It's like, all right, dude, then who the hell wants to work with you?
16:08Like, this is still a bit of a free country. And like all four of those people have the option of not supporting you if they don't want to. So why the hell should they?
16:21Ben Meiselas:But, you know, and then he says also, I think Donald Trump wants the Democrats to sweep like that. Donald Trump doesn't really care anymore about anything. This is what they're saying in MAGA world right now is Marjorie Taylor Greene leads this charge here. Play this clip. And look, I look, Donald Trump is 80 and he's rich and he doesn't have another election coming up. And frankly, I don't think he gives of shit about, you know, I think Donald Trump is would be quite happy for the Democrats to sweep everything after he's gone. I think he'd prefer that than some other Republican star rise. You know, like he'd rather be like, yeah, I was the only one who could do it.
17:01And all the other guys were always second rate compared to me. Like, I don't think he cares about the country or any of
17:06Ben Meiselas:that at all. More from Dave Smith over here talking about how Trump's attacking Megan Kelly, Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Talley Green, and all these people here play this clip. He came out the other day and by name trashed Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones. And I got to say, man, I've kind of just never seen an act of political suicide quite like that. And cesspool puts it. This is a mega disaster. Here's what Donald Trump's most fervent 2020 supporters have to say about his war in Iran. Play this clip.
18:11Gas prices, which are starting to skyrocket. Diesel is at$6. Milk, bread, and eggs. It's going to cost substantially more money. How the fuck does this benefit? We're destabilizing the globe, you psychopath. You don't threaten to wipe out an entire civilization. Fucking shut up about that shit. Committing war crimes every day. Changing stories every five minutes. He's a liar. He is completely losing his mind. Only 25th Amendment is asked. He is a coward for doing this, and that's going to be his legacy. An old, disheveled, evil person. He looks really unhealthy. His belly's swollen up. His calves are swollen.
18:42The Antichrist is president.
18:46Ben Meiselas:Then Candace Owens says that Donald Trump is under demonic influences. Let's play this clip. Trump is very clearly under demonic influence. I think Paula White probably put a spell on him of some sort. I mean, he is surrounded by, ironically, the very thing that he accuses me and Megan and Tucker of being because we're calling for peace. We're calling for peace. And He's like, these people are nut jobs. And then he has people like Laura Loomer, who has been forcibly placed on Psyche 5150 holds as his number one advisor. She's like, I'm advising him. We've got Paula White, who's telling him he's akin to Jesus Christ, which is absolutely blasphemous.
19:21And he thinks these people are totally sane. Again, very scary to be that far in the cave. He is so in the cave. He is so convinced of his own invincibility. It is completely unhinged.
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