FOX News Goes on Unhinged Racist Rant as Trump Polls Slip Away

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IHIP News — Episode Summary

Episode Title: FOX News Goes on Unhinged Racist Rant as Trump Polls Slip Away
Date: September 7, 2025
Hosts: Jennifer Welch & Angie "Pumps" Sullivan

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Episode Overview

In this candid and fiery installment, Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan dissect recent racist rhetoric on Fox News as Trump’s poll numbers continue slipping. The duo pulls no punches in scrutinizing right-wing media narratives, especially around crime, race, and Trump’s health, while calling for progressive unity and unapologetic resistance. The episode is a mix of sharp political critique, passionate allyship, and trademark Southern wit, offering both catharsis and strategy for listeners frustrated with the current state of American politics.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Fox News’ Overt Racism and Propaganda

[00:20 – 03:12]

• The hosts open by lambasting the MAGA movement for blatant racism, underscoring how Fox News—especially host Jesse Watters—acts as a propaganda engine justifying racist beliefs.
• Jennifer gives a nod to “Decoding Fox News,” a watchdog account, for exposing these patterns:

  "Nobody helps them justify this more than Fox News. Specifically the Queen, Jesse Waters. And Jesse Waters is an absolute propagandist and a bigot." — Jennifer Welch [00:47]

• A devastating clip is played, highlighting Fox News’ repeated racist tropes about Black crime and Donald Trump’s supposed role as a savior for Black communities.
  • The Fox commentator suggests Trump deserves an NAACP Image Award if he cleans up Black neighborhoods, invoking “black-on-black crime” and blaming Democrats for crime in minority neighborhoods.
  • The commentary includes a litany of racially charged and misleading statements about crime statistics:

    "Majority of the crime is black on black and I don't hear any black leaders besides Harold Ford, Tyrus and myself talking about the need to reduce crime in these neighborhoods. ... Trump believes Black lives matter. Do Democrats?" — Fox News commentator [02:00]

Hosts’ Reaction:

• The podcasters forcefully reject these justifications, highlighting Fox’s role in radicalizing white audiences:

  "This propaganda arm, this entertainment hate channel, has radicalized millions of Americans and is one of the biggest...components that led us to this Trump presidency." — Jennifer Welch [03:24]

• Jennifer calls on white allies in the South and elsewhere to confront racism directly within their communities.

2. How Mainstream Media Excuses Trump and Gaslights Viewers

[05:33 – 07:35]

• The discussion pivots to how Fox News frames criticism of Trump’s age or cognitive health as “ageist,” despite years of attacking Biden for the same issues.
  • Fox commentators cite normal bruising and claim Trump’s critics are practicing ageism.
  • Jennifer and Pumps find this hypocrisy “unbelievable,” noting the audience’s willful absorption of such double standards:

    "It's unbelievable. The lack of self awareness and how they are able to gaslight their viewers who willfully absorb it because of the aforementioned racist clip..." — Jennifer Welch [06:42]

• Pumps mocks Fox viewers’ gullibility:

  "I would assume the majority of Fox viewers probably think the earth is 5,000 years old. So when you start with that, they'll believe anything." — Angie “Pumps” Sullivan [07:35]

3. Fraying MAGA Loyalty and Progressive Missed Opportunities

[07:35 – 08:22]

• A clip of Alex Jones underscores the fractures emerging within MAGA ranks, as Jones rails about betrayal and internal backstabbing.
• The hosts argue that crumbling MAGA unity should be an easy “layup” for Democrats—but the party’s strategists are blowing the opportunity.

4. Democratic Party Infighting and the Case for Bold Progressivism

[08:22 – 12:40]

• A spirited takedown of centrist Democrats follows. The hosts read a Politico article quoting prominent party figures warning that progressive candidates like Zohran Mamdani are a threat.
• Jennifer sarcastically blasts party insiders:

  "So what I have to say to Hank is you are the most out of touch, corporate, dim propagandist shill and you were the reason that Hillary Clinton lost and you are the reason that Kamala Harris lost." — Jennifer Welch [09:11]

• She champions Mamdani and socialist messaging, arguing that broad, base-driven progressive politics have wide appeal—even in “Bible Belt” states. Bernie Sanders and other left figures are held up as models.
• Jennifer criticizes the Democratic establishment for failing to learn from past losses, calling for resignations and radical change:

  "You guys need to resign and go off and basket weave because you are not helping this moment. You are just obsequious to the patriarchal corporate structures that caused us to lose two presidential races..." [11:55]

Pumps echoes the frustration:

"We're sliding into fascism. We need guns a blazing. We need all hands on deck and we need these strategists to sit down and shut the fuck up." — Angie “Pumps” Sullivan [12:23]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On white allyship:
  "We need as white people to be allies with our black and brown sisters in this country and stand up for racism everywhere, all the time, loud and proud." — Jennifer Welch [03:42]
• On Fox News:
  "This propaganda arm, this entertainment hate channel, has radicalized millions of Americans..." — Jennifer Welch [03:24]
• On frustrated Democrats:
  "Guns a blazing. We need all hands on deck and we need these strategists to sit down and shut the fuck up." — Angie “Pumps” Sullivan [12:23]
• On Fox News hypocrisy:
  "It's unbelievable. The lack of self awareness and how they are able to gaslight their viewers..." — Jennifer Welch [06:42]

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Key Timestamps for Important Segments

• Fox News Racism Exposed & Reaction: [00:20 – 05:33]
• Fox Gaslights Viewers on Trump’s Health: [05:33 – 07:35]
• MAGA Infighting Soundbite: [07:35 – 08:22]
• Centrist Democrats Called Out: [08:22 – 12:40]

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Tone and Language

• Candid, blunt, and often profane; passionate outrage mixed with biting sarcasm.
• Relatable, deeply personal anecdotes from two progressive women in the heart of conservative America.

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Summary Takeaway

Jennifer and Pumps deliver a relentless critique of both right-wing media’s racism and the Democratic party’s reluctance to seize the moment. With humor and righteous anger, they challenge listeners to confront bigotry head-on, demand better from Democratic leaders, and organize unapologetically for real progress.

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Transcript

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[Progressive Political Commentator]

The MAGA movement is racist. The racism trickles down from Kanks all, all the way down to his followers. And they like to act like they're, oh my God, you're playing the race card. Everything they do is racist. You can look at the whitewashing of history, the removal of gay and black and brown service members from the names of boats from exhibits, from government websites and replaced with Confederate soldiers that were complete racist, that fought a war so that they could keep slavery intact. And you have this whole thing of from Trump all the way down, they're now trying to whitewash the issue of slavery. It's the most regressive thing on the planet. Well, if you're in maga, if you're in the Death Star, you need to be served a daily dose of justification for your racism. And, and nobody helps them justify this more than Fox News. Specifically the Queen, Jesse Waters. And Jesse Waters is an absolute propagandist and a bigot. And I want to give shout out to my gal over at Decoding Fox News who does the Lord's work and she worked on this clip and it is devastating, devastating to watch what millions of Americans consume all the time and they feel nothing but better and they salivate when they hear racism served up to them. Then on Sundays they go and praise the Lord with their racist mouths. Play the clip.

[Conservative Political Commentator]

Majority of the crime is black on black and I don't hear any black leaders besides Harold Ford, Tyrus and myself talking about the need to reduce crime in these neighborhoods. What about Al Sharpton? Al Sharpton was sitting cross legged at Martha's Vineyard next to Joy Reid the other day. He never talks about black on black crime. Donald Trump should win an NAACP Image Award if he can clean up, don't laugh. If he could clean up these black communities. Cuz it is a real, real problem. He can put it next to the Nobel Peace Press. Black on black crime is going to keep raging if everyone's so afraid to talk about it. You can't arrest your way out of drugs, gangs and broken homes. But it's a good start. Well over 90% of the black victims of shootings are black. I didn't say that correctly, but you get the point. This is Trump has every right to use the guard to stop black gangs from killing over 90% of the shooting victims. In D.C. are black. TRUMP believes Black lives matter. Do Democrats? We can't let DEI slow down the usa. The only thing that could have been worse, if they had made it blacker barrel.

That would have been bad.

This they can recover from. It seems like the politicians who don't experience crime want to keep the crime in the black neighborhoods. Mr. Trump's loudest critics.

[Progressive Political Commentator]

So this is, this is devastating as decoding Fox News puts all of that together and the continued tropes and misinformation and racism that comes out of Fox News. And the majority of their audience are white Christians, and they consume this news and they feel more justified about being racist. They espouse and speak more racist things on a daily basis because this propaganda arm, this entertainment hate channel, has radicalized millions of Americans and is one of the biggest, aside from Citizens United, one of the biggest components that led us to this Trump presidency. And at some point, we can sit here and blame Donald Trump and Donald Trump and Donald Trump, but there's another point where we need to blame the people that vote for him. We need as white people to be allies with our black and brown sisters in this country and stand up for racism everywhere, all the time, loud and proud. Because this space that these people are given, we can stop it on a local level level. I have heard people say very racist things in my presence as a privileged white woman. I've heard it and I check them. I make them uncomfortable. I let them know that that racism will not be tolerated in my space. I will not share oxygen with a racist. And when you live in a Bible Belt state, it is pervasive, the dehumanizing of people.

I, I, I watch that and I think, so this is how we're getting here. We have dehumanized black people. Now we're dehumanizing immigrants, dehumanizing LGBTQIA plus communities. We're dehumanizing women. These people want nothing for anybody than the white male with money. I am so offended and grossed out. Jesse Waters should be ashamed of himself.

Well, and let's just talk about all the MAGA criminals. You can go check Wing Watch on Twitter and on Instagram where all of these MAGA men, guess what? They're pedophiles. All right, next up, we have Fox again. And here they are really, really doing a whiplash moment where they are claiming that criticism of Trump and his declining health, which we can see and hear, is woke, and they're calling out ageism.

[Conservative Political Commentator]

Well, and also, apparently they have no elderly relatives or people who are getting up there and they bruise easily. It's just, it's like a fact of life. Do you not know that fact? If you're, especially if you take aspirin for any condition you're going to have be more prone to bruising.

Really, really great point. I want to make one other point. 25% of people at 80 are demented. Guess who was in that group? 25%. The former president. This guy. He's in the 75% group. This is pure ageism. It wasn't.

Oh no, that's. Oh yeah, that is ageism.

This is ageism. To be looking for something wrong with this guy who's in great health just because he's 79 a few weeks ago.

[Progressive Political Commentator]

It's unbelievable. The lack of self awareness and how they are able to gaslight their viewers who willfully absorb it because of the aforementioned racist clip that decoding Fox News put together because they got to get that hit. It's like a Pavlovian exercise for them. They've got to get that daily dose of racism to justify being the abject pieces of shit that all 77 million of those people are.

I just watched that clip and my mouth hangs open. All we heard about was Biden and Biden. At least they were talking about a cover up. Nobody can cover up for Trump because he's that far gone. I mean, I'm just sitting there going, if you're a Fox religious Fox News viewer, how does this not clip your brain? Like, well, they did it to Biden. Why aren't they? And now they're doing it to Trump and it's different. But that's how they've justified everything.

Yeah. And I would say, I would go, I don't have any facts for this. But when I would assume the majority of Fox viewers probably think the earth is 5,000 years old. So when you start with that, they'll believe anything. Next up we have there is start. The cracks are really, really, really starting to show in maga. This Jeffrey Epstein file thing is really bringing it out. Here's Alex Jones on loyalty. Play the clip. All right.

[Conservative Political Commentator]

You don't have to come in. I hung up. So you're crying and then he goes on air and lies about me. You, you piece of. I won't take people stab me in the back anymore.

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[Progressive Political Commentator]

All right? Moving along. This stuff should just be so easy for the Democrats to dismantle. It should be layup shot after layup shot after layup shot. So I was much to my surprise when I read this Article in Politico. Kylie put up the first excerpt. A Democratic strategist, a New York operative named Hank Sheinkon, says, and I quote, mamdani is the greatest threat to Democrats probably since Ronald Reagan because he's everything Democrats have been accused of being and in fact is to the extreme. Republican ad makers will know what to do with this, he says. So what I have to say to Hank is you are the most out of touch, corporate, dim propagandist shill and you were the reason that Hillary Clinton lost and you are the reason that Kamala Harris lost. And y' all can stay as the party, this is the conservative Democratic Party that can't be forward looking, that can't listen to what the base is doing. And here's what I have to say to you, Hank. Bernie Sanders message has not changed. And in fact he's gotten more and more and more popular. And I can tell you this because I didn't vote for him in the primaries back in the day. I voted for Hillary. I regret that vote. I made a mistake. I bought into the bullshit propaganda, the stagnant Democratic propaganda that propagandists like you shill out to the Democratic Party. And I was wrong and you are wrong now. Mamdani' stands up for everybody and he is the opposition to this horrific Citizens United ruling that led us to this fascist moment. Here's another clip from this Politico article. Another excerpt. I've never seen Republicans more giddy about the idea of a socialist mayor in New York City, said former Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, a Democrat. They're more excited about this than Ma' am Donnie's followers or supporters. All right, Laura, you are the reason this type of strategy that Kamala Harris lost. I bet that you thought it was a great idea that Kamala trot around with Liz Cheney, who was a liar and a warhawk and a nut job. I bet you thought that was a good idea. You're the reason we lost. And I just want to express to you from deep in the Bible Belt, many, many, many people that I know, and this is anecdotal, that are centrists, libs, or maybe even liberal Republicans. You know this. So I'm socially liberal and fiscally conservative. They like Ma' am Donnie. They like him a lot because he's beholden to no one and he is the solution to all of the problems that we find ourselves in. Not he is an individual, but the messaging. And you know who else has acknowledged this? YouTube Democratic Stat Strategist. You know who else has acknowledged this Steve Bannon and Marjorie Taylor Greene. When you're getting outflanked by these two whack jobs, we have a big fucking problem in the Democratic Party. The ratings of the Democratic Party are in the shitter. We are not going to listen to your bullshit anymore. You try to go fill up an arena like aoc, like Mamdani, like Bernie Sanders can and now there's this guy out of Maine, Graham Platner. He filled up a whole arena talking about this. You guys need to resign and go off in basket weave because you are not helping this moment. You are just obsequious to the patriarchal corporate structures that caused us to lose two presidential races to a complete Donald Trump. Can you believe that they have the audacity to keep us on the same road. It's unbelievable. Pumps. It pisses me off.

It pisses me off too because I see article after article of them not going after Trump hard because they're like, well, you know, we don't want to upset. We're sliding into fascism. We need guns a blazing. We need all hands on deck and we need these strategists to sit down and shut the fuck up.

I agree. Pumps, you tell them. All right, listen. The summer's hottest summer read has now morphed into the it cool read of the fall. The leaves are falling and this book will not fall. You prop it up. It's a great way to support our show. It's a great way to learn more about how we got here. Two middle aged women in the buckle of the Bible belt sitting here trying to stand up for democracy. It gives you a little backstory. It's a great way to support us. The link is below in the show notes. Stay tuned and we'll be back with more news.

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