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Bari Weiss
All right? This American fascist regime on top of being cruel and lawless and right in the epicenter of a pedophile rink. It's just weird. The stuff that goes on in the Oval Office is just so bizarre. And the fact that he has to sit and I'm talking about Kanks, has to sit at his desk and have 25,000 people behind him in these weird, performative press conferences. And he had one yesterday about milk. Okay? And of course, you have RFK Jr. In there acting like a nut. And, you know, nobody can really afford milk right now. Nobody's thinking about milk right now. Minneapolis is completely burning. He has a Gestapo out there. Stephen Miller is an unhinged Nazi sociopath. But, yeah, sure, why not? Let's have a press conference on milk. And because this senior citizen, frail man, and I'm no longer going to refer to him as a strong man because it's clearly frail, is, you know, literally got one foot in the grave. He just falls asleep all the time in front of everybody. Play the clip. Both. All the wonderful men to the right who worked so hard on this. Peter Welsh. It is a bipartisan issue and understanding where we are in this country and how important. Okay? You could hear him snoring there. And there are two little girls to the left of him. And as he snores, one of the little girls, like, scared of him and kind of like turns to the mother. And I just thought, I mean, look, what a form of child abuse, you know, that this man is covering up pedophilia. And you walk your daughters into the Oval Office to stand next to this man who is clearly a pedophile protector. Like the type of parenting that happens in evangelical circles to just expose their children to dangers like this and to normalize. Like, one day these little girls are going to be big and they're going to Google and they're going to find out that this man was in the. At some point in the future, all of the Epstein files will be released. All of his dirty deeds will be there. And these little girls are going to think back and go, well, my mom didn't protect me. They marched me right in, right next to a sexual predator.
Pumps
It's so unbelievable that for the last year, I'm sorry, 2024, the full year, all we heard, Sleepy Joe. Sleepy Joe. And then Trump goes to slee on press conferences all the time, in cabinet meetings. Everywhere he goes, he falls asleep. Why is nobody calling this out? Why is Jake Tapper not breaking in with the news with the chiron? Donald Trump Sleeps during meetings. It's because there's two different standards. Trump gets to have zero morals, zero ethics, zero standards. And everybody else has to be on the high ground. It, it really is shocking to me that this not the lead story every day. This man cannot be president. A, because he has cognitive decline and dementia and B, because he's asleep.
Bari Weiss
Completely agree. Moving along. The White House social media feeds are so weird. They vacillate from full blown Nazi propaganda that has simply been translated from German to English. I mean, and the ma. The masks are off, the hoods are completely off to this type of weird. Pop this up White House, make whole milk great again. And then you have him carrying milk. And I mean, somebody thought, okay, yeah, let's, let's post this. Let's get a photoshopped image of this man who is like, to me, like, if I were a heart disease doctor or a stroke specialist, I would be like, let's put a guy like up as the poster board for somebody that looks very unhealthy, but they have to photoshop and they have to fluff him. And he has this entire news organization that does nothing but overtly lie and fluff him. And they're laser focused on masculinity and they, they send out women to do the masculine washing, the testosterone washing, if you will, of a man who clearly has very small hands. He whines all the time. He wears a full face of makeup. When I think of like manly men, Donald Trump is like the last that I think of. He acts more like hysterical. The way they perceive a stereotypical woman to be. This man is always upset, grievances out the wazoo, always has all of these petty, petty concerns about stupid, petty things. Never stands up, never stands up for the small guy. And here we have Riley Gaines, who her big forward facing image is that she's a Christian woman and she cares very much about Christianity and traditional family. Meanwhile, those traditional families have no problem marching two little girls right in to stand right next to a man who is violating federal law right now by not releasing the files of Jeffrey Epstein. They're never going to call that out. Could you imagine if Joe Biden or Barack Obama were in the middle of a sex pedophile ring and somebody walked in two little girls and the President was touching those girls. I mean, to me I just thought this is just, this is so abhorrent. But what is Riley Gaines talking about? Is she talking about protecting children? Here's what she's talking about on Fox.
Guest Commentator
I saw this morning, actually it was Dr. Oz, who said that President Trump has the highest testosterone level of any man over 70 that he's ever seen. So you compare.
Bari Weiss
He knows that.
Guest Commentator
He actually went on to say, like, I'm not beyond the news, really thrilled that I, that I said that, but you compare President Trump to someone, I mean, any of the Democratic male leaders, someone like Tim Walls, if you will, you know, Mr. Jazz Hands. You ask any 20 year old boy.
Bari Weiss
Okay, I've heard enough. Here she is crowdsourcing who's masculine. If you ask these hypothetical 20 year old boys who they want play golf with, that's what she goes on to say. But it's important that we call out the hypocrisy of this woman, Riley Gaines. Her entire identity is that she is a Christian woman. And Riley Gaines, the Christian woman supports a pedophile protector. She supports a political party that normalizes sexual abuse. She supports a political party that trots young girls in front of this man that is in the epicenter of all of this pedophilia. And we know he's a sexual predator. We know that on Howard Stern he said his cutoff age for having sex with girls was 12. So what kind of mother walks their children into the White House and we're all sitting here like it's normal and Riley Gaines is in their line through her teeth saying he's got high tea. Which all that does is confirm is that Dr. Oz took Trump's blood and he has the lowest t of any 70 year old or probably any 20 year old that he's ever seen, ever. I mean, it's, it's abundantly obvious that this man has very low testosterone problems. And then all of his character defects, you know, are played out in this very abusive way to the American electorate.
Pumps
I just can't imagine the production meeting where it's like, okay, today we're going to talk about Donald Trump's testosterone level. But I'll tell you why Riley Gaines doing this doesn't surprise me. Riley Gaines made a big name for herself being cruel about a trans woman swimmer. When the real story was on her swim team, male coaches were putting the other swimmers, such as herself, in sexual abuse situations. She knew about it. She said fucking nothing. So she'll cover up for them because she covers up for herself. She doing the exact same thing.
Bari Weiss
Okay? And then this is just wild. Okay, so we know Christine is a domestic terrorist, in my opinion, a sociopath, a supporter of Nazi ideology. On her social media feeds of the Department of Homeland Security, her number one goal is to terrorize American citizens. We all know that she shot her dog. We all know that she likes to change clothes a lot, put on costumes. We all know that this is a very unserious person that likes to use the government to enrich herself via private planes, via social media promotion. I think she thinks of herself as a celebrity and not a servant. Not a civil, humble civil servant. So this is pretty alarming news. Kylie popped this up. Fact, Post reports, federal contracts reveal Customs and Border protection is spending $75,000 to house their dogs at the Four Seasons Pet Resort. And Reuben Gallego says, and I think this is, he sums it up perfectly. So I want to make sure I quote him here. I'm not surprised that Kristi Noem is wasting your money. I am surprised she's wasting it on luxury dog care. And just when you think these people cannot surprise you and they cannot out crazy you, they do. Here's a woman that shot her dog, Cricket, also shot her goat and wrote about it, like, bragged about it, flexed about it, like, I'm such a badass, I shot my dog. And then on the other hand, she's paying, we're paying, American taxpayers are paying for her to fluff her dogs up at this luxury doggy daycare. And listen, I'm the biggest animal lover on the planet. And I don't think this is just this hu story. But it is to show you, number one, to take our mind off sometimes, we just cannot consume the brutality all day, every day in these news drops. But of just the breathtaking hypocrisy of this movement, the MAGA movement, from Riley Gaines, who claims to be this huge Christian woman who to Kristi Gnome, she's a big Christian woman who, by the way, she's screwing Corey Lewandowski, her longtime lover, shooting her dog and then having taxpayers pay for other people's, you know, doggy boarding. And the hypocrisy and the lack of morals in the flagrant manner in which they rub it in everybody's face. All of this is on tape. All of these are short sighted, impulsive plays by maniacs. These people are absolutely hypocritical maniacs. Riley Gaines, Christy Noem, Caroline Levitt and all these other women, oh, Eric Kirk, who march around on the moral high ground that they think they're on, telling other women how to live their lives are a walking, talking, breathing advertisement as to why when you get outside of your bubble, everybody hates white mega churchers. We see you all for the hypocritical, cruel people that you are. And Every single time you get on the news, you don't spread your faith and make it enviable to where people think she's got a lot of serenity. I wonder what her secret sauce is. No, we immediately go, oh, she's using her faith as a permission structure to be a twat.
Pumps
The thing about Kristina Home and MAGA and Fox News is when a sanctuary city housed their immigrants, waiting to find housing for them in run of the mill hotels, they were furious. But nobody's going to say a word about housing a dog in a luxury Four Seasons pet resort. So that to me is you're angry about housing for human beings, but you're all for taxpayer money to pay for luxury pet resorts. I mean, when that sinks into me, the depravity of that, that they would rather immigrants in sanctuary cities be on the streets, yet they think nothing of putting their dogs in luxury resorts. That tells me everything about these people. They have dehumanized people of different races and culture as less valuable than pets. It's truly an alarming realization that these people do not care about human life, full stop.
Bari Weiss
So this is not new. If you were to talk to black people.
Pumps
Absolutely.
Bari Weiss
For years and years and years they have said that white women care far more about their pets than they do black people. And so this again, as we report a lot of this stuff, I want to give a shout out to our black brothers and sisters that are a part of this. I have community that I know of, the tropes about white women and this propping up of the pets and we'll do anything for our pets and then just being uber, uber, uber dismissive, no humanity. And as pumps just really articulated there, it is on full display. And it is an opportunity for allies in the black community and allies of immigrants to really illustrate because this dog story, as minuscule as, as it is right now in this horrific news cycle that we're in, the way Pumps put it there about, we care so much about these pets juxtaposed to these black and brown people. We're throwing you in a concentration camp with horrible living conditions with not even clean water with alligators surrounding you. And then this is just more than I can take, you guys. This, this popped up on my feed and the Trump DOJ is currently arguing in court it had to remove Maduro because illegal mining was displacing indigenous communities. That tweet was from Sagar Njeti and then Jason Willock tweets in which Trump DOJ goes full liberal internationalist legally justifying Maduro operation as in part a humanitarian intervention striking. Now it's very important that you all understand that right now Stephen Miller has Native Americans in ICE custody. There are members of Native American Indian tribes in ICE custody right now. These people do not give a shit about indigenous people. When they say America is for Americans only, that is a complete whitewash over the indigenous people that are in the United States. So for them to go into court and argue that their humanitarians concerned about indigenous communities in Venezuela is so unbelievable. And of course their base will never hear this because their base doesn't give a shit about the human rights of indigenous people. But the fact that they're using that in court is just again, the depravity and just the non stop shape shifting lies from these people, from, from these bottom feeding hypocrites is stunning.
Pumps
I look at all of the Trump, Trump 1 and Trump 2 even in filings when he wasn't president. What he says on the podium and the propaganda that he Spews is a 180 degree difference from what he says in court. Because when you're in court you have to have evidence, you have to have proof. And he never does, you know, starting with Stop the Steel, he didn't. But on this deal it's like I see him saying we're, you know, his administration is saying we're liberating indigenous people. He's all over live social saying, you know, the protesters were helping you. I'm like, you're shooting people in the United States of America who are protesting but yet you're going to be the savior in Iran. You are completely destroying the civil rights of indigenous people in the United States of America. But you're going to go save it in Venezuela. Shut up the up. You have no credibility. If I am a judge and I read that and I'm like, since when do you give a about indigenous people? Look what you're doing here. Like they have to be held accountable. I know the Supreme Court won't do it and I know these judges continue to try and the Supreme Court thwarts them, but it's just, it's unbelievable that they do not, they're not embarrassed and have shame about the utter lies they file in these court filings. It's stunning.
Bari Weiss
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Just head to Jonesroadbeauty.com and use the code IHIP at checkout. After you purchase, they're going to ask where you heard about them. Please support our show and tell them that we sent you. Okay? And now, you know, they seized all of this oil from Venezuela, saving the indigenous people because we all know how empathetic. Oh yeah, you know, the Donald Trump, Trump, Riley Gaines, Jesse Waters of it all is right. These people are real empaths. So they go and seize all this Venezuelan oil, you know, because Trump is going to make America great again and we're America first. And you know, all of the Democrats have taken all your shit away from you. So I'm going to make sure everybody is taken care of in America. Pop this up. Trump is selling seized Venezuelan oil and putting the cash in a bank account in Qatar. Nothing to see here. And so here you have a president that is not America first. He is ego first his ego. And he is surrounded by opportunists, billionaires that feel oppressed. He represents the oppressed billionaires of the world. And they're all able to go over and manipulate him and get what they want. But as it pertains to Qatar, I just think this is really interesting. Everybody in his base is super Islamophobic, right? And he is like connected at the hip with a lot of really shady regimes that happen to be Islamic. And I don't care if somebody's Muslim or not. I care about human rights. I don't care what your religion is. I don't, I don't care what country you're from. I believe in universal human rights. But maga, they really, really care about somebody being a Muslim. And so he took a plane from these guys, they bribed him with his plane that he's going to get. And now he's put this money that American taxpayers paid for this military raid and abduction and stealing, taking of. I don't know what the legal framework is there, but it sounds to me like a powerful regime. The United States went over, said, we don't like this guy and we're going to take all your natural resources. And now he's putting it in bank accounts in Qatar, not in the United States Treasury. For the Americans, the make America great again. All the people in rural America that came out like some of these counties, you guys, he won like 80% of the vote. And you can duplicate that across the electoral map everywhere. And the money from this is going to bank accounts in Qatar. The, the shakedowns and the double dealings and the hypocrisy and the erosion of the rule of law is going to bite all of these oppressed. And those of you that are listening, I'm saying oppressed with quotations, all of these oppressed billionaires. Because you cannot have an economy. If you do, if you erode the judiciary and if you do not have an honest judiciary where you have honest jurists and you can go and pay a judge off so that you can curry favor with your company, we will cause even more inflation that we have with our currency right now. And all of these industry titans will no longer have a customer base. And we will go the way of Russia, which is not a very strong nation right now. They have inflation out the wazoo. Their military is stretched, but they project via propaganda that they're so strong and they're so badass. And of course, Trump, the Trump regime gave Vladimir Putin the biggest desist on the planet by inviting him to the United States, rolling out red carpet for him and then clapping like a seal when he walked up, then letting Vladimir Putin dog walk him, put his shock collar on him, probably boink him in the ass, and then they tucked and rolled back to Russia. And so we are so much stronger than Russia right now, but Russia is dictating what we do. And Donald Trump is intentionally weakening the United States of America. He's doing this on purpose because he doesn't want people to have the power. And I just want to leave you all with the political and hypocritical buffoonery of Caroline Levitt. Pop this up so she tweets leaking classified information, puts America's national security and the safety of our military heroes in serious jeopardy. And God love Theo Baker on Twitter. And then he puts. Because she goes on to talk about, we have President Trump has zero tolerance for this. And he puts zero tolerance. And then he shows a picture of all the classified documents that Donald Trump stored in his bathroom at Mar? A Lago that he stole from the United States government after he incited and was the architect of an insurrection. And he stole government documents because that's how entitled and how much the system has been set up for men like him. And you know what? There were never any consequences for that ever, because the Democrats are all right. That's all we have. Like, subscribe, comment. And we will be back later with more news.
Hosts: Jennifer Welch & Angie “Pumps” Sullivan
Date: January 15, 2026
Guest: Bari Weiss
In this high-energy episode, Jennifer, Angie (“Pumps”), and guest Bari Weiss deliver their trademark irreverent, progressive takes on the latest political absurdities. The focal point: a bizarre televised Trump press conference where the former president apparently falls asleep surrounded by children. The hosts seize upon this as a symbol of partisan hypocrisy, moral disintegration, and performative right-wing politics, tying it to broader issues of media coverage, evangelical culture, right-wing hypocrisy, and the erosion of American institutions. Their critique is unfiltered, comedic, and laced with outrage.
Memorable Quote:
“Why is Jake Tapper not breaking in with news with the chyron: ‘Donald Trump sleeps during meetings’? It’s because there are two different standards. Trump gets zero morals, zero ethics, zero standards. Everybody else has to be on the high ground. It really is shocking.”
—Pumps [02:20]
Memorable Quotes:
“If I were a heart disease doctor, I would be like, ‘let’s put a guy like up as the poster board for someone who looks very unhealthy’...They have to Photoshop and fluff him and he has this entire news organization that does nothing but overtly lie and fluff him.”
—Bari Weiss [03:14]
“When I think of manly men, Donald Trump is like the last I think of. He acts more like hysterical – the way they perceive a stereotypical woman to be.”
—Bari Weiss [03:45]
Notable Exchange:
“Riley Gaines … her whole identity is that she is a Christian woman … supports a pedophile protector … a political party that normalizes sexual abuse.”
—Bari Weiss [06:23]
“Riley Gaines made her name being cruel about a trans swimmer, when the real story was male coaches on her swim team … putting swimmers in sexual abuse situations. She knew about it. She said fucking nothing.”
—Pumps [07:53]
Notable Quotes:
“Here’s a woman that shot her dog, Cricket, also shot her goat and wrote about it ... then on the other hand, we’re paying, American taxpayers are paying, for her to fluff her dogs up at this luxury daycare.”
—Bari Weiss [09:53]
“When sanctuary cities house immigrants in hotels, they’re furious. But nobody’s going to say a word about housing a dog in a luxury Four Seasons resort. … They have dehumanized people of different races and culture as less valuable than pets.”
—Pumps [12:12]
Quote:
“I want to give a shoutout to our black brothers and sisters... all of this propping up of the pets and then just being uber, uber, uber dismissive, no humanity.”
—Bari Weiss [13:30]
Quote:
“These people do not give a shit about indigenous people. … For them to go into court and argue that they’re humanitarians concerned about indigenous communities in Venezuela is so unbelievable.”
—Bari Weiss [15:23]
Quote:
“Here you have a president that is not America First. He is ego first … the shakedowns and the double dealings and the hypocrisy and the erosion of the rule of law is going to bite all of these oppressed—quote-unquote—billionaires.”
—Bari Weiss [19:05]
Quote:
“He stole government documents because that’s how entitled and how much the system has been set up for men like him. And ... there were never any consequences for that, ever.”
—Bari Weiss [21:05]
The episode blends caustic humor, exasperation, and scathing political critique. The language is direct, frequently profane, and emotionally charged, matching the irreverent style and “no-holds-barred” approach the hosts are known for.
This installment offers a rapid-fire, unsparing indictment of the MAGA right’s media games, abuse of power, and selective morality, using the “Trump fell asleep on TV” incident as a launching pad for wider reflections on American politics, hypocrisy, and social decay. The hosts dissect media failures, lampoon partisan hypocrisy, and amplify the lived contradictions between right-wing rhetoric and reality. If you’re looking for smart, furious, and funny progressive commentary, this episode delivers.