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The United States of America has completely bent the knee and given Iran a sweetheart deal because the Iranians hired psychologists and psychiatrists to figure out how to game this guy. And it's incredibly easy. But Israel and hard right members of their government are having a stage five meltdown regarding this and they are pinning the entire thing on JD Vance. And who else is pinning a bunch of stuff on JD Vance, the fraud czar? Well, that's Trump pinning that on J.D. vance. J.D. vance is getting knifed left and right. Meanwhile he's on the View and on Fox doing a book tour about what a great Catholic and what a great Christian and what a great American he is. Well, everybody else is knifing him. Look at this analysis from Glenn Greenwald. Glenn says these Israel first cowards are still scared to criticize Trump. So they're now calling the deal that Trump signed with Iran the Vance Peace deal, as if Vance somehow forced Trump to agree to it. And here's Mark Theen. And he says getting Lebanon, including in the Vance peace, peace deal, was an Iranian objective. So imagine this, the party of personal accountability, the party of the buck stops with me. The party of Trump saying I alone can fix it. They're saying that J.D. vance is more powerful than Donald Trump. Donald Trump, who has spends all night benders comparing himself to Jesus Christ and the best president in the world. He's better than Lincoln, he's better than Washington. So all of these supporters are of Trump are saying that JD Vance is running the country. So my question to you all is, who is running the country? Because is it Donald Trump who is falling asleep at a NBA Finals game and otherwise a complete lunatic, or is it JD Vance who's busy parading around sashaying and shantang about his new book on Catholicism? Well, let's see how conservative media is reporting this pop up Drudge this morning. All right, in the top left, you guys, Drudge is fat shaming Trump and just puts Trump 250 pounds. And they have a picture of Trump where he looks obviously morbidly obese and swollen up like a bubble tick. Then we have mullahs more powerful than ever is the first headline. Meaning Iran is at its strongest. They are the strongest they've ever been. Iran declares total victory will control Hormoz. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that America is in retreat. And then Iran or somebody in the United States government or somebody in Israel leaked the entire agreement via text messages. This is a shit show of the highest order. This is the stuff that these Republican men that claim to be patriots, that claim to care about the troops would be losing their minds because this is utter incompetence. This whole war was started, in my opinion, because the Epstein files were an incredible nuisance for Donald Trump. They were not going away. They were pesky. They kept coming up. Coming up. BB saw this. He knows how to psychologically manipulate Donald Trump just like Putin does, just like the Iranians do. And he convinces him to attack Iran, to wag the tail of the dog to get the American psyche and the American electorate on off of these Epstein files. And it worked. Briefly. Well, then what happens? Inflation up. Trump's approvals plummeting, plummeting. And this shows you that even though they're trying to rig the midterms, they know on some level that these polls that show that the House is going to flip and the Senate is going to flip could be a real guard rail to this fascist regime's takeover. And so he's retreating in this. And then all of the ass kissers that want to manipulate Trump all the time, they're too scared to criticize him because remember, Iran hired psychologists and psychiatrists to get this deal, this deal that is now all over headlines globally. Iran has basically won this war. America is in retreat. So Israel knows because they have the same psychological profile, we cannot critique this guy. We have to pile on praise. So the rat, J.D. vance, which is America's favorite thing to do now, it's Israel's favorite thing to do. It's Trump's favorite thing to do. It's the Internet's favorite thing to do. It's a global phenomenon. Everybody loves to pick on J.D. vance. And so let's take a look. Let's ask ourselves, who is coming up with this deal? Who is running the country? Is it this guy in this video right here sitting down 250 pounds per drudge? Okay, here he is sitting down. And remember, his administration has reported that he's in excellent health, demonstrating strong cardiac, pulmonary, neurological, and overall physical function. Blood pressure at 105 over 71, total cholesterol at 143, and his cardiac age, approximately 14 years younger than his chronological age. If that isn't some propaganda, can we blame that all on J.D. vance? This. Let's say that J.D. vance AI that video. I mean, everybody else is blaming Vance. This is the Vance obese video. And then let's look at. Why are they blaming Vance? Why is that so easy to do? Because here's Trump yesterday in France on the global stage at the G7 meeting. Play the clip.
Audience Member
I have a question. Yes.
Political Commentator
Regarding this.
Audience Member
What a nice looking person. Is he from your country? Is he from your country? Absolutely. No. He's got such a nice way about him. My people, still, they're so mean. Look at him. Handsome guy. Be careful. No, I can put him. I can put him in a movie right now. Go ahead.
Political Commentator
All right, here he is. He's always talking about how hot he thinks men are. And of course, I don't have any issue with this. I think men are hot too. I mean, I am not some religious hypocrite that wants to browbeat and ostracize and oppress the LGBTQ+ community. But his regime, his Supreme Court, all of the Bible thumping MAGA Republicans in Congress and Senate, they sure as hell want to project this form of toxic masculinity that even their own leader, you know, clearly finds a lot of men attractive. Which, again, I'm all for. I just cannot stomach the hypocrisy. And here's Trump walking into a G7 meeting telling everybody he's the boss. And mind you, all of his allies in Israel just said J.D. vance is the boss. They said J.D. vance made this peace deal. Play the clip.
Audience Member
Hello, I'm the boss.
Political Commentator
Yeah, that's just a real knee slapper. That's hilarious. Imagine if Obama did that. Remember when Fox News lost their mind all the time? Obama thinks he's a king. Obama's so arrogant. And then here we have Trump really confused about where he was yesterday, and he wanders off in the wrong way. I mean, this is like nursing home memory care center stuff. Play the clip. Okay, for those of you listening, he starts walking the wrong way. Manuel Micron is like, come on over here, over here. He's dragging his right leg. His right side of his face is completely drooped. In my opinion, he had a stroke. The White House is covering it up. And all of these stats about having a heart 14 years younger is a jet stream of, of propaganda. And it I have to ask, who is running the country? Whose peace deal is this? Look at this new mark on Trump's hand. Okay, first of all, look at how swollen the hands are, you guys. And then he's got some sort of. Look at that. Look at the swelling. I mean, he is swollen up like a bubble tick. And we're supposed to sit here and believe that he is somehow 14 years younger than his chronological age? Are you kidding me? And he barely knows where he is. They were taking a photo at the G7. Everybody's looking at the camera and Trump is just staring off. And here's the thing I want to say. When Joe Biden was in office and he was old and the press was covering it, I think it's appropriate. I think that that is appropriate. I voted for Joe Biden. I was so happy when Joe Biden won. But Joe Biden had no business running for his second term. I'm not such partisan hack. I was like, oh, yeah, let's run him again. He had aged. Things were happening. You saw him kind of wandering off. In my opinion, Trump's physical and mental decline is at a record tick far past that of Joe Biden's. And I just think, God, can we just elect somebody younger with it that can run the country for us and not for all of these corrupt oligarchs? And then this gets even juicier, you guys. So you know that Trump's son in law, Jared Kushner, and Steve, his golfing buddy Steve Witkoff, are like diplomats. They have zero experience whatsoever in being American diplomats. But what they are are dirty cops for Trump that can go in, enrich themselves, enrich the Trump family, rap America. And he knows that they will do this. So Israel, who they negotiate with and they want to build, develop Gaza, which is so morally obscene, Israel is now. Not only have they thrown J.D. vance under the bus, they're throwing Witkoff and Kushner under the bus. Pop this up. A prominent right wing commentator in Israel is denouncing Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff for negotiating the Iran deal and turning their backs on their, quote, real home. First of all, Jared Kushner and Witkoff are Americans. But here's the thing. You have right now, everybody blaming everybody around Trump. They blamed Vance, they're blaming Kushner, they're blaming Witkoff. Why? Why aren't they letting the buck stop with Trump? Well, I'll tell you why. Because of the psychological profile the that Putin has, that Mossad has, that everybody on the planet has, that the Iranians used to get a sweetheart deal from the United States of America in a war that it should have never been started. And that is, you pile on effusive praise to this man. You cannot give him a narcissistic injury because he is bitter. Party of one. Your table is now available. Available. And he will never forget it. So they're attacking all the people surrounding Trump. Why? Because they want Trump to fire them so that they can be the most recent person in his ear. They are rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Okay, we'll throw Vance under the bus. Okay, we'll throw Witkoff and Kushner under the bus because we need to have a seat right next to the weakest, the easiest manipulated American president the world has ever seen. We have to get the rational voices away from him and think about what a low bar that is. J.D. vance, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are the rational voices. I mean, this is a 911 house is on fire. And the problem is we don't have a corporate media that is accurately reporting this. Because Jared Kushner, Witkoff, J.D. vance and Donald Trump all have the same interests. And that is taking money from the working class and transferring wealth to mediocre workers. White men like Jeff Bezos, like Elon Musk, all these tech AI guys. This is incredibly dangerous. Israel has greater visions of keeping a permanent kind of war state in the that the region so that Benjamin Netanyahu won't have to face accountability in his pending corruption charges. So they're wanting to start dismantling and taking out the people around Trump. You know who should be doing this? Our Congress, our Senate, little Moses, Mike Grinder Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Thune. They should be the ones dismantling this regime and all of the pay to play illegal wars, bombing elementary schools. It is the reason they're doing this. They're rap fucking Vance and they're rat these other people because they want to sit right next to the guy who's parading around on the global stage putting on a master class and how to travel with dementia. And they want the people that are kind of there out of the way. And then so Vance, we know this isn't the Vance Peace deal. Why do we know this? Because Vance is trotting around America telling everybody, oh, I'm a new Catholic and here's how I want to express my Catholic views and how much my faith has touched me and made me a better person. Here's what he has to say on Greg Gutfeld.
J.D. Vance
Play the clip to make an a bipartisan point here. The Republican VP trying to be bipartisan. I was raised by patriotic union Democrats who maybe wouldn't have agreed with every single policy of a Republican administration, but they recognize that this is the greatest country in the world and every single one of us should be grateful to live here. And I think that is the fundamental problem. The I it Greg it doesn't bother me when congressional Democrats disagree with our policies. It bothers me like that they're just terrible people, so many of them. But it, what, what really does bother me is that they don't show gratitude for the United States of America disagree with our policies.
Political Commentator
So here he is saying that congressional Democrats are just terrible people. Meanwhile, congressional Republicans are covering up for child sex crimes. His newfound faith did the exact same thing the Catholic Church covered up for child sex crimes. J.D. vance is putting on a master class. That is the opposition to what the Pope is trying to do. He is trying to show the world, and I'm not a religious person, but I like the Pope and I never had that on my bingo card that I would be advocating for the Pope of the Catholic Church. But he talks about social, social justice. He talks about poverty, he talks about acceptance. JD Vance goes around stoking the fear and the anger and the white grievances that the Republican Party has fed off of for so long. Meanwhile, Israel is trying to put this entire deal on him so that they can get closer to Trump. And who's footing this entire bill, the entire Iran, Iran thing. All of those Americans that you see all over all swaths of America that don't have health care, that don't have a decent school system, that fight so hard to make a livable wage while the oligarchs tell them maybe you just shouldn't have lunch. Remember Kevin O saying, I don't understand people having $20 lunches. They are paying for it. They are paying for the Elon Musk to become a trillionaire as he games the stock market. And they're paying for these countries to exploit the United States of America because we have a dipshit, demented, obese motherfucker in the White House who is rat the country. And we are going to pay a long, extended price for this because Republicans, both in the electorate and in Congress in the Senate, are cowards. All right, that's all I have. Please, like, subscribe, Comment. We'll be back later with more news.
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Episode: Trump Blindsided As Text Leak Reveals Truth, Vance Taking Over As Trump Loses Control
Hosts: Jennifer Welch & Angie “Pumps” Sullivan
Date: June 17, 2026
In this fiery episode set against the backdrop of ongoing turmoil within the Trump administration, Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan unpack recent revelations around a leaked Iran peace agreement—dubbed the "Vance Peace Deal"—and explore the escalating narrative that Trump is ceding control to Vice President J.D. Vance. With their signature comedic edge and progressive lens, the hosts critique the political infighting, the media spin, and the alarming signs of instability at the highest levels of government. This episode dives into the blame game targeting Trump allies, the psychological manipulation driving US foreign policy, and the broader consequences for working-class Americans.
This episode is unapologetically assertive and sardonic, as Welch and Sullivan riff on the absurdities and dangers of the current administration. The segment is rich with biting humor, political critique, and a sense of outrage over the manipulation and scapegoating rampant in Trump's inner circle. Listeners come away with a deep understanding of the crises within the GOP, the media’s complicity, and the human cost for everyday Americans—delivered with the hosts’ signature blend of insight and irreverence.