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All right. When it comes to Trump and the people surrounding him, the people he pick, the incompetence is the point. He wants to pick incompetent people to make himself look better. It's not that deep. And so he's made a point to assemble the most unqualified people to work for him. And you're about to see what might be the clearest example of this yet. Trump just hired this woman as an immigration judge. Let's play the clip. And really what she taught me was there's two types of women. There are good, solid, valuable women who are major assets to men if you're a good woman. And then there's a warm, wet hole. All right, so this woman right here is going to be an immigration judge. And these judges make around $200,000 a year. And I wish I could say, like, oh, my God, she's some fringe thing, but she's not. There are just hordes and hordes and hordes of women that carry water for the patriarchy like this that have so much hatred towards women. And it's really stunning.
Pumps
Pumps well, and I would also probably, if I'm going to guess this woman is super evangelical Christian. And growing up being indoctrinated with that, it was such a part of my life, the internalized misogyny and the asset to men, the woman is the helper. That is how they control women in evangelical Christianity is because they tell them they're less than a man and they're there to serve a man. And that is why it is so dangerous, because women are left in situations and put in situations that they cannot get out of financially, emotionally, mentally. Shamewise, it. That is so dangerous, and it is so religious inspired.
Host
I. I agree. And this woman pumped. She also attacked women in the military, defended disgraced Senate candidate Roy Moore from pedophilia allegations. And let's remember, MAGA is an anti family pro pedophilia death cult. What that woman is talking about, her policies, her thought about women will lead to death. Women will be trapped into marriages with abusers that they can't get out of. She defended three January 6th insurrectionists, and she falsely argued that men suffer from domestic abuse more than women. And so the hysteria and the mentally unstable people that Trump has collected is really quite breathtaking. And this is just one of the people that Trump is hiring to fill the more than 100 openings because Trump has fired everyone else. The Washington Post with more reporting on people Trump is hiring. Let's pop this up. A divorce lawyer who has vowed to, quote, fight exclusively for the rights of men. A Minnesota attorney who championed Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the Trump administration's raids in Minneapolis. And a judge who was once lambasted by an appeals court for denying humanitarian protection to a Serbian man because he didn't look, quote, overtly gay. All three are among the, quote, deportation judges recently hired as part of President Donald Trump's quest to clear a massive case backlog and fulfill his goal of deporting 1 million immigrants each year. And so they trot this out and they say that this is President Trump is doing all of these things. And I call bullshit on that. We all know he's laser focused on the ballroom and the arch and talking on, on the phone with his friends and any reporter on the planet at any given time. When he's fluffed up in his bed eating McDonald's, throwing ketchup on the wall. This, all of this in your face, flagrant injustice and disqualification of these people. In my opinion, this has Stephen Miller's fingerprints all over it. Stephen Miller clearly is the biggest bigot, modern day bigot, in my lifetime, that I've ever seen in, in, in office this close to the presidency. He's the one that controls dhs. I believe he controls doj. And Donald Trump is so intellectually lazy. This man, he just is like, fine, yeah, he's a delegator. So he delegates it out to Stephen Miller. In my opinion, there's no reporting on that. That's just what I think. Because Trump would no more go through these qualification lists and go, oh, yeah, that's great.
Pumps
He would be bored to tears going through and picking competent people. First of all, I think intellectually lazy is a compliment to Trump because I think he's dumb as fact. I think we know he has real cognitive, intellectual shortcomings because he's always talking about how high his IQ is and how low other people's IQ is. So at the end of the day, I just don't think he's smart.
Host
Yeah, I think that there's a, a, just, he's kind of like street smart Trump. Like, he's smart in the sense of self preservation. He knows how to preserve himself. He's smart in the world of propaganda. Like this whole thing, the way he has Guided immediately his self preservation. He wants that ballroom. After this shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, he brilliantly was like, this is why we need the ballroom. And then the whole army of sycophants jumped in on it. And I think there's a lesson here from Democrats. They do not Republicans and maga, they do not fuck around. It is all gas, no brakes, whatever bullshit. They want to get through. They want to get through. Do I think Trump is book smart?
Pumps
No.
Host
Do I think he has the patience to be book smart? No. But I do think he is a brilliant propagandist in self preservation is something that he excels in because the way he has preserved himself after so much failure before he even got to the White House. There is an ability, marketing, propaganda ability there that I think that he excels at. And it pains me to say that it really does, but I mean, he got elected twice to be President of the United States. And then Pete Hexeth and Kid Rock have been running around together. And I just want to remind you guys that all of these MAGA men that go on and on about, you know, we need to protect men. I think Erica Kirk said we need to protect white male men. And she wasn't talking about the United States Postal Service. There's all this, you know, these men are victimized, but if you notice in MAGA circles, they're always in these very homo social settings. And so Kid Rock did a whole video where he was getting in a hot tub and drinking milk and lifting weights with a topless RFK Jr. Now Kid Rock is running around with Pete Heth in helicopters. Pop this up. Secretary of War Pete Heth just tweeted this in the middle of a war. Joined my friend Kid Rock and some of our great Army Apache pilots for a ride this morning. More to come on that Kid Rock is a patriot and a huge supporter of our troops. The War Department is wasting no time celebrating America's 250th home of the free because of the brave. And so I just, I literally cannot. With the. Kid Rock is in a Patriot and he's running around with these army people in Apache helicopters. All of this is cosplay, homosocial, where these kids have. Like, when Hexeth was a little boy and Kid Rock was a little boy, they thought, one day I'm going to be able to do this. And now they're doing these. It's so unserious. And I cannot believe, like, if Barack Obama was like, yeah, Jay Z and I are running around on the Apaches today. Can you imagine the racism that would be coming out of Fox News? So I'm just going to say this. This is a white trash administration through and through. I'm going to give you some white on white crime. Pete Hexeth is a white trash piece of. And Kid Rock is trailer trash. All right? This is a white trash presidency.
Pumps
Yeah, well, and here's the thing, too. The cost of. Okay, so not that long ago, there were Apache helicopters or some kind of hundred million dollar helicopter, like going over Kid Rock's house. Remember, in. We're in a war with Iran, but we have time and we're willing to waste the money of giving Kid Rock a flyover at his house. These are the people that when they play Call of Duty, they think they're in it. And now they have been given the keys. And this is just a big fat call of duty for Pete Hexeth and Kid Rock.
Host
This just reminds me of Cash Patel's tweet about his girlfriend where he talked about that she had done more for this country than most Americans had in 10 lifetimes. And it's clear that Cash Patel's really in love with Alexis. So I'm just drawing conclusions here because this is crazy. So I'm asking you, do you think Pumps and viewer, do we think Pete Hegseth is in love with Kid Rock? Because the risk of all of this, the embarrassment of this, you think, why would somebody do that? Why do we have helicopters doing a drive by Kid Rock's house? And that wasn't enough. Now he's like, I'll tell you what I can do for you, Kid Rock. I can actually take you in the Apache helicopters. This feels like, like love to me. Pumps, what's your take on that? The similarities?
Pumps
It's like, right. It's like Cash Patel has to have the private planes for his girlfriend to give him the time of day. Now we've got Pete Hegseth showing Kid Rock what a big fat alpha manias. And they can go up in these helicopters that Pete Hexeth controls. To me, it's. It feels like infatuation. It feels like I want to improve.
Host
It does. It feels like love.
Pumps
It feels like love.
Host
It feels like love. And I'm rfk. I think, you know, there could be a love triangle because that whole video of them drinking milk and getting in the hot tub topless, that felt like love to me, too. So in a. In a headline that's surprising to zero people, GOP senators are losing confidence in Pete Hegseth. Oh, My God, I wonder why. Pop this up. GOP senators are losing confidence in Secretary of War Pete Hegseth after ousters of Army Chief, Army Chief of Staff Randy George and Navy Secretary John Phelan. John Phelan is this billionaire donor to Trump. By the way, the hollowing out of incredible leadership at the Pentagon has been a big concern, said one GOP senator. Senate Republicans who spoke to the Hill on the condition of anonymity say Hegseth wouldn't be confirmed to head the Pentagon if he were nominated by Trump today. He would be because Senate Republicans have no spine and they say senior staff turmoil at the Defense Department under Hexess leadership is a major concern. And then there's more reporting that Trump's Pentagon is hiding critical national security information from Trump. Pop this up. The Atlantic is reporting that JD Vance has privately questioned the Pentagon's depiction of the Iran war and raised concerns that it has understated the depletion of US Missiles and stockpiles. Okay, here's my thing on all of this. J.D. vance is positioning himself as the anti war candidate. This information from anonymous sources is leaked on purpose. J.D. vance knows that the MAGA regime has jump jumped ship. The meaning the ecosystem that got him elected. Tucker, Megan, Candace, Joe Rogan, etc. And J.D. vance wants to be president. Peter Thiel really wants J.D. vance to be president. And so he is actually smarter than Trump. And who is going to Win President in 28? It's going to be the anti war candidate more than likely so consistently. This is the second or third time that JD Vance has leaked information that he's anti war. And I'm just going to tell you J.D. vance, one thing I know about Kanks it he is an excellent rat and he will rat J.D. vance. I mean all non stop. He's like, yeah, you go over here, you go party with Erica Kirk and you go do this. He throws him under the bus left and right. Remember that scene where he goes, yeah, I was looking around for J.D. vance and he used to be so big. Yeah, he lost weight. Now he says that on camera. Do you remember that? I forgotten about it, but I totally did. So regarding the story Pumps two senior administration officials told us that the Vice President has queried the accuracy of information on the Pentagon has provided about the war. He has also expressed concerns about the availability of missile systems in discussions with President Trump. And I know from like Anthony Scaramucci that, you know, he got fired so quickly in Trump 1.0. Anybody that questions the leader, like Trump's going to humiliate them. So prediction I hip news prediction in the next seven to 10 days. Trump even though he's already rat him a bunch he sent him to Erica Kirk's rally Erica Kirk no showed he sent him to Pakistan peace negotiations face plant city. He's made him the fraud czar. Trump's or it's just the biggest bunch of so I think something is cooking and he I mean JD Vance we are on rat watch because it's coming all right listener, there's so much news, so much information, misinformation, disinformation out there and just listen to me like you've never listened to me before. Go to your app store and download Ground News. Get the Vantage plan. They're basically the Spotify of news, telling you who owns each outlet, where it leans politically and whether you're reading originally original reporting or recycled messaging. Here's a prime example. Here's a headline. US soldier charged with using classified intel to win $400,000 on Maduro raid is granted bond because of this Ground News Vantage plan. It tells me this article has a high factuality in the outlet. Leans left. Same subject, different media outlet calls to pardon soldier who bet on Maduro removal. Here's why tells me this is a right leaning news outlet with low factuality. So what are you going to do? You're obviously going to read the article with more facts. So listener join us by going to groundnews.comforward/IHIP to get 40% off the ground News Vantage plan that we use every single day. They're subscriber funded and female founded by subscribing you're not only getting a tool we all need today, you're also supporting our work here at IHIP News. That's ground gr o u n dnews.com IP news. Hip Seth is going to link this right below in the show notes for easy clicking.
Pumps
Okay, just a couple things I want to your point about you know the Republicans saying they wouldn't reconfirm him because they've had two votes about limiting the war powers of Trump during in Iran and both times they've said oh no, we're all in. So that you're exactly right on that in my opinion and I in reading this article article JD Vance comes off like the biggest coward in my mind and here's why. Because J.D. vance has gone stood on the Senate floor when he was the senator and said the government lied to us about Iraq and Afghanistan while being true. He knows that right now Pete Hexeth and Trump are lying to the American people, but he's too big of a coward to just come right out and say it because he's a pussy boy. And then here's the thing that's just completely jumped off the page at me. And you're gonna die laughing. Pete Hexeth wants to run for office. He has deep political aspirations.
Host
Run him. Run him. Let's run him. I mean, run him. I'm just like, do it. Run him. You know, like, I see these. We started this video about these women that. And, you know, says, women are wet. Some women are wet holes. And I, when Ryan showed him, I go, perfect. She's perfect for the Trump regime. Pete Hex says is the perfect candidate for MAGA. Run him. But here's the thing about J.D. vance. Him being a coward started a long time ago. Everything after this is just little sprinkles of confetti. He saw crystal clear that Trump was America's Hitler. These are his words. He saw that he was a demagogue. He saw the dangers of this man. And then he went off. Because JD Vance is a prostitute. He is purchased by Peter Thiel and big tech that want to dismantle democracy. But Peter Till is even more unlikable than some of the worst people in the Trump administration. He can't run for office, so he does it by cheating, by buying politicians. And I just want to. It just want to say one more thing, because I love to browbeat JD Vance. He was supposed to do an event with Erica Kirk, another one at Iowa State. And after the abysmal turnout at the University of Georgia, Vance has canceled the event with Erica Kirk. Pop this up. VP Vance has canceled his trip this week to Iowa, where he and Eric Kirk were scheduled to speak at a TP USA event. To be clear, this is not due to security concerns related to recent events, TP USA said in a statement. This is simply a matter of scheduling conflicts. To be clear, I think it's really obvious that Turning Point is. It is in a death spiral. I mean, there's no way that this thing is going to maintain. Eric Kirk is a weird laughing stock. And. And it this, she needs mental help. And I mean that sincerely. I mean, there's something severely mentally wrong with this woman. And I'll even take it a step further. Anybody who would want to go to a Turning Point event and listen to J.D. vance and Erica Kirk yak and then weirdly embrace each other, I think they need to go to therapy as well. But I'm no psychiatrist. All right, that's all we have. Please like and subscribe and we'll be back later.
IHIP News Episode Summary: "Stupidest Government In History; Kid Rock Advising The Military While US Loses In Iran?"
Podcast: IHIP News
Hosts: Jennifer Welch & Angie “Pumps” Sullivan
Date: April 28, 2026
In this irreverent, sharp-witted episode, Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan examine the latest chaotic developments in Trump’s administration, focusing on the appointment of highly questionable officials, the unsettling influence of pop culture figures like Kid Rock in military matters, and the internal political jockeying among GOP leadership, especially regarding the U.S. war effort in Iran. The hosts blend biting political analysis with comedic banter, skewering MAGA leadership for what they view as performative incompetence, cronyism, and a general lack of seriousness in government.
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The entire episode is delivered with unapologetic candor, a healthy dose of exasperation, and plenty of gallows humor. The hosts take a “no holds barred” approach to political critique, often using biting sarcasm and irreverent analogies—especially around the absurdity of the celebrities now holding or advising positions of power.
Recommended for listeners seeking raw, progressive commentary with sharp humor, especially those frustrated by the direction of U.S. politics or bemused by the intersection of celebrity and government.