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Host 1
Dementia Ridden Kings gave a presser yesterday in front of a bunch of Republicans that was more off the wall unhinged sundowner hour than we've seen in a minute. And I wanted to just hit the highlights. Some are funny, some are terrifyingly dangerous. But we'll start with. He's now outing Tim Scott.
Host 2
Tim Scott, who's a great guy, great, wonderful guy. South Carolina straight guy, right? He is a good guy, good person.
Host 1
He's a straight guy, which there have been rumors forever about Tim Scott. So him getting up there and saying specifically he's a straight guy tells me he knows he's gay, right?
Host 3
100%. I mean, the MAGA movement is full of sexual repression, which I think drives a lot of this anti woman sentiment, drives a lot of this anti LGBTQ sentiment. And obviously the rumors of multiple people in the MAGA movement and not to mention the data that we know to be true, that when Republicans conglomerate and meet in certain areas, Grindr has serious outages. Furthermore, we've done some reporting about the hotspots of where trans porn is viewed. Surprise, surprise. It's deep in red counties, deep in red spaces. And so to me, this is reminiscent of, I, I think that as Trump's dementia advances, we are going to see more and more slips like this. As we get closer and closer to the end days, the curtains are closing on this guy. I mean, you can just tell by kind of the way he's talking. I mean, this is somebody who needs to be in the memory care wing of a nursing home, probably the psychiatric wing of care wing of the nursing home of the prison. You know, the prison part of that. And so I think we're going to have a lot of this stuff. I think, I think we're a couple of news cycles away from him saying, you know, we all know Lindsay likes to have relationships with men. I just think he's going to outlady Graham. I think he's probably end up throwing Moses Mike Grinder Johnson under the bus. And I just, I think that this is slash hilarious. But at the same time, I just can't believe these people are in charge of things.
Host 1
Yeah, well, and it's such a huge. I mean, the decline in him is daily, if not hourly. And you're right, I think we're one or two news cycles away. But here he is having sex in public again, which my question is, is it Bubba that he's thinking about or Arnold Palmer?
Host 2
What a really? Yeah, but she gets it and. Dropped a thing.
Host 1
Okay, what the is that?
Host 3
He's done that before. And here's the thing. Like, he is who he is consistently. This is the guy that he has always been. Did you hear the people in the audience laughing? Yeah, it's all of the enablers and the people that go along with this insanity that I'm most angry with. This guy wakes up every day and he's a chronic disappointment. Incompetent, low iq, full blown dementia every single day. He's consistent. The makeup is unblended, the bruises are on his hands. He says crazy shit. He doesn't know the difference between those seeking asylum and an insane asylum. He's consistently a nutbag all the time. It's the people that defend him, the people that vote for him, the people that think that he's great. And again, I understand, like maybe some rural people that, that they think this is kind of their, their tough guy. And for some bizarre reason, they have like, aspirational liking of him to be rich. It's the people who know better that piss me off the most. And there's a lot of them. I mean, you can look at like somebody like Scott Jennings, Marco Rubio. These people know better. All of the Fox News anchors, all of them, they know better. We saw the text messages between them during the Dominion lawsuits. We know they all know better. We know behind everybody talks behind this man's back. It's just so disappointing.
Host 1
It's so disappointing. And then, as always, he's making no sense. And then he tries to cover it up because he at least is aware he's making no sense and talks about the weave and then does his standard copyrighted boop, boop.
Host 2
So let me just finish up because, you know, I weave. I love to weave. If you ever weave and don't come back to the point, then that's a problem. Then you say, but when you weave and you go here and boom, boom, boom, always coming back, then you're in good shape. But what?
Host 1
Here's my thing, Jennifer. I believe the American public and the American citizens, they deserve better. They deserve serious leadership that Puts the American problems first and talks. And I don't mean an American first agenda, but like, let's figure out health care. Let's figure out how we can put more money in the pockets of single parents. I want those type. Why do Republicans not think they deserve better than somebody up there weaving and boop.
Host 3
I don't understand.
Host 1
Are we. Has he beaten us down with this abusive cycle of gaslighting for so long that we don't believe we deserve better?
Host 3
Well, I believe we deserve better. And tens of millions of people, Americans, believe that they deserve better and actively voted against this three times. I am a triple anti Trumper, loud and proud. From the very beginning, the moment he descended on that escalator, I knew that something was up here. It's not. Not that they see that and they think, oh, my God, I deserve better. What they see is, oh, finally we can get away with all the stuff that we want to get away with. We truly are exceptional. He taps into this. You know, he's most popular with men, which tells us that we have a huge problem with not all men. There's some great, fabulous men in this country that fight the good fight, but there's also a group of men that see this, and that is their idealized form of masculinity. And let's review this masculine male. He wears a full face of makeup every single day, okay? He has to Photoshop images of him. He complains all the time. He's the biggest pussy on the planet. He cannot take one for the team. He cannot take ownership. He cannot suck it up and grin and bear it. The grievances, the complaining, the nagging, the hysterics. From the same political party that says women shouldn't be in charge of anything because they're too hysterical. Have idealized this man as the strongest form and the strongest aspirational form of masculinity. And it is this whining titty baby bullshit. But I believe that the support for him and the Americans that see him right now, I think we're talking about two different types of people. The cult and then country club Republicans. Country club Republicans that fucking know better. And when they're in certain social circles would never admit their vote for Trump, but secretly they sadistically like what he's doing. They think that they should be entitled to not pay taxes. They demean the poor. They look down on black people. They look down on immigrants. Meanwhile, of course they're going to watch NBA basketball or listening to a little soul music or. Or watching college football. They Enjoy multiculturalism whenever it behooves them, but secretly, when they go to the voting booth, they vote for money and for racism, period. And this man gives them a permission structure to do that, so then they're willing to overlook. Oh, well, that's just Trump, you know, he's crazy. I don't believe with any of the stuff that he really tweets. I do like his policy, right? It's the policy that I like. So talk about weaving. The people that have to weave are his supporters. The moral and mental gymnastics that these people have to go through to watch what he does to justify the cruelty towards marginalized groups, all in the name of Jesus, and then be able to still vote for it. And then they want to go to cultural circles and act like they're hip and cool and, oh, yeah, I'm great with the gays. And yeah, we're big supporters of black people. You vote for two things. You vote for money and you vote for race because you think this system should be set up exclusively for you. And that's what he personifies.
Host 1
No, I agree with that, because he has never been held accountable for anything. So then, as the economy is going to shit, inflation is rising, small businesses filed more bankruptcy in 2025. I think it was like four or five years than had been filed. But he. He never can take constructive criticism. Like you said, he can't grin and bear. He always has to double down. So he just can't understand why the voters would be against him in the midterms, because he's right about everything.
Host 2
Say that when you win the presidency, you lose the midterm. So you're all brilliant people. Most of you are in this business longer than me. That makes me smarter than you, because look where I am. Right? No, it doesn't. But I wish you could explain to me what the hell's going on with the mind of the public, because we have a. We have the right policy. They don't. They have horrible policy. They do stick together. They're violent. They're vicious. You know, they're vicious people.
Host 1
Can you explain why the American people hate your pol. Hate his policies? Because apparently nobody in his inner circle will do it for him. Nobody will tell him that he is harming the public.
Host 3
The situation with Trump is that when he's campaigning, Americans default to this entertainment mindset, and, boy, he's a hoot. And I also think there is a. He is a consequence of us favoring corporations so much. And so there is this. He got falsely attributed that, oh, he's so rich he can't be bought and paid for by the corporations. Well, now we all know, you know, he's the biggest Shakespeare, everybody down and he can be shaken down if you give him a trophy. What happens when he governs is it's always a shit show. When he governed in Trump 1.0 it people could not get him out of office quick enough. Right it and now we're only 11 months in and I think if we had an election for president today, I think the Democrats would make an FDR style electoral college map. He is wildly unpopular when he governs. He's entertaining, he's an entertainer. But every time he governs, number one, he doesn't know what he's doing. We have a problem culturally in America where we have leaned too much into entertainment. Politics should generally be boring, but they're not. And that's changed. You know, Bill Clinton played the saxophone on Arsenio hall and blah blah. And so now there is always going to be an entertainment component to politics. Zoran Mamdani did a great job of showing how to be entertaining his social media rollout, always using certain filters and it wasn't super, you know, high production costs, but it was really, really savvy. But the most important thing about what he did is he took on the establishment and not just the Democratic party establishment which they tried to stamping, mount and and slip in Cuomo, but he took on the oligarchs, the richest mfers in the world, the hedge fund billionaires in New York City that genuinely think when they wake up and they go to bed, I made this city just like Donald Trump thinks he built the skyline of Manhattan, which is bullshit, but he took them all on. And the larger message with all Trump is going to wake up every day next week we're going to do another episode just like this about him doing a batshit insane, crazy press conference. There should be more and more and more of this. My problem is is why isn't there constantly. Why are we not putting a Democrat on at the same time that he does this? That's young, that speaks out against court, against corporation, that calls out all of these street titans. It says Mark Zuckerberg, you're a complete piece of and you treat your customers like after January 6th. You saw what this man did and you banned him because he incited violence that got people killed at the Capitol. They wanted to hang the Vice President of the United States and you banned him from your platform. But you're such a puss boy that you have the Audacity to then let him back on, donate to his campaign, and then get on a podcast and say you feel like you've been neutered. You, Mark Zuckerberg, the only reason you have so much money is because of this economy. And you can't this country and all of the loopholes and this unrestrained capitalism. So can you not stand up for the people who sign into your social media platforms every day and then go down the list? Call out Tim Cook, call out Jeff Bezos. The Democrats need to get pointed. They need to grow some fangs. And here's what would happen. I remember explicitly in 2008, listener, because I was so locked into that campaign. John McCain would be on TV and he would be giving a speech and then all of a sudden this attractive, energetic, young, eloquent speaker would hop on Barack Obama. And they did it on purpose, the Obama campaign. They did it so that McCain would be like, well, yeah, and we're, you know, America first and you know, whatever his policies were. And then they would say, okay, he started in five to 10 minutes. Later, Obama would come out and the news channels would purposely switch. And so it literally started giving you like the changing of the guard. Trump did this all through Biden's term. He did, he responded to everything Biden did as though he were a co president. And that's what's missing in a lot of this conversation. The, the, our left wing media ecosystem is growing. We are collaborating with so many wonderful people and that is getting a lot of traction. But the leadership needs to, needs to catch up and they need to start being verbally vicious to the, to this man and, but most importantly to all of his supporters. Because nothing about this press conference surprises me. Nothing. I mean, we've, I feel like we've had this episode 25 times in the last 11 months. Right?
Host 1
And something that's super important right now is health care. We know the Obamacare subsidies taken away. Health care is going through the roof. His big solution is we're going to give $2,000 to the American people. That's not even half the country's deductible. And so, but this is where he is. This is where his concept of a plan about health care is. And it's fucking wild.
Host 2
And the premiums are horrible. But one thing I've learned, I learned a lot about health care. I found health care so sort of like not of tremendous interest, but it was very important and I've made it of tremendous interest. So I made a statement.
Host 1
He's made healthcare interesting but he also.
Host 3
Said he found it not important that sentence right there. I think if we had a Alzheimer's or memory style medical doctor on he didn't, he wasn't able to finish the thought. He goes from I learned a lot about health care. Health care is not important. I mean that to me is like a 911-25-5 style situation. But more than anything he's able to say that kind of stuff even through the dementia because he's never right had an insurance agency or, or anybody deny him health care. He's never had to decide do I get this test and get this to get some pathology done on this growth in me or do I go buy groceries this month because my insurance isn't going to cover the pathology test on that. He doesn't know what that means. He doesn't know what that is.
Host 1
Right. He's never been broke. He inherited a half a billion dollars from daddy. He lost it and then he's grifting off the American people. He doesn't understand the struggle that it takes for health care and health insurance. And then the most terrifying part of this whole press deal is Donald Trump knows he's going to lose the midterms and he knows he'll be impeached if he loses the midterms. So he doesn't want the midterms. And we're going to, I believe throughout 2026 we're going to start banging the drum of how do we get rid of the midterms.
Host 2
We had the worst president, did the worst job, they had the worst policy. We have to even run against these people. Now I won't say cancel the election. They should cancel the election because the fake news will say he wants the elections canceled. He's a dictator. They always call me a dictator who nobody's worse than Obama.
Host 3
A couple of things here and I think this is really important. A lot of people are doom scrolling right now and there is a real. Have he, has he had conversations with Stephen Miller and other people about how do we cancel the elections because his historically the party that is not in holds the executive branch is going to win. Yes, they've had conversations about that. Is Elon Musk saying yeah, I'm going to fund all these Republicans right now because I don't want the blue suit on me? Fuck yes he has because we know he did nothing but he and big balls crime, crime, crime, crime, crime. And he knows he's going to get drug in in front of Congress and the whole thing is going to be exposed of Course they're having conversations like that. But I think it's important as messengers and as holders of these microphones that we remind the American public we are going to have elections. They are going to try to suppress the vote. We will vote. We will vote early, we will vote often. We will expose every voter suppression tactic imaginable. We are going to turn out in full force against this. Do not doom scroll and go, oh, my God, we're not going to have elections anymore. Have they had those conversations? Like, yes, they've had those conversations. Yes, this man wants to cheat. He tried to overthrow the government. He's serious about that shit. But our elections are localized. So this is number one. He's part serious about it, but he's not going to be able to do it. He is not going to be able to cancel our elections, period. I think even the dipshit colluders on the Supreme Court would stop him on that. That is the heartbeat and the epicenter of American democracy in our are localized. And he can say this all he wants to. And again, this is what people with dementia do. They start, you know, squeaking out what they're saying in private. Private. So, yeah, they've had these conversations because they know he'll get impeached. They know that he's going to be. All the Epstein will be released.
Host 2
All.
Host 3
All the investigations into the at Doge will all be exposed. And this is going to be super serious. So they are going to be super serious about stopping it. And this is why they are embedding Trump loyalists. The deep swamp that didn't exist before now truly exists. They're embedding all of these people into the federal government. But don't let this scare you. This country is of the people, by the people, for the people, and we will every single day motivate you guys to stay focused on turning out the vote. The turnout has to be too big to rig pumps. I was thinking that we could start putting pressures on businesses and companies to allow their employees two to three hours paid time to go vote in the election. I don't know if that's, you know, or, you know, a break or whatever it is, but there, there, these voter suppression techniques, especially in black areas, have always been like this. And we have to motivate our base and motivate even people that maybe have triple trumped. And I know y' all don't like them, and I don't like them either, but it's going to take a strong coalition to cling on to our democracy. So don't let that orange faced buffoon scare you guys with that because that's the purpose of that. The purpose of fascism is to scare you with propaganda and that is a fascist scare tactic. Are they having those conversations? Yes. But we will not be scared by that, by that buffoon and by Stephen Miller. We there are hundreds of millions of Americans that are anti fascist that oppose all of this and that hate with everything in them, everything that these people do.
Host 1
I'm kind of jazzed up like you made me feel like optimistic and happy so let's end on a happy note because we never end these episodes on happy net. Please like this video. Subscribe to our channel.
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Hosts: Jennifer Welch & Angie “Pumps” Sullivan
Date: January 7, 2026
In this episode, progressive hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan break down former President Donald Trump’s latest press conference, which they describe as alarmingly unhinged and indicative of accelerating cognitive decline. With a blend of humor and outrage, the hosts dissect Trump’s bewildering public statements, his team’s mortification, and the greater political implications for Republicans and the nation. Rich in insight and memorable rants, the episode includes a call for electoral engagement and pointed critiques of GOP enablers and corporate collaborators.
Trump’s Outing Comment (00:35 - 01:21): Jennifer and Angie discuss Trump’s out-of-nowhere declaration that Tim Scott is a “straight guy,” referencing persistent rumors about Scott’s sexuality.
Societal Commentary (01:21 - 03:00):
Signs of Decline (03:00 - 05:08):
Enablers and Republican Accountability (05:08 - 06:20):
Lack of Accountability (10:03 - 11:07):
Trump’s Deflection and Rhetoric (10:35 - 11:07):
Cancelling Elections & Fascist Tactics (18:08 - 23:01):
Voter Suppression & Mobilization (21:09 - 23:01):
With their trademark sardonic wit and heartfelt concern, Jennifer and Angie articulate both exasperation and resolve. The episode ends on an optimistic note, emphasizing the power of collective action to overcome political chaos and preserve democracy:
Host 3 (22:42): "...there are hundreds of millions of Americans that are anti fascist ... and that hate with everything in them, everything that these people do."
In short:
The episode is a cathartic, comedic, and critical unpacking of a troubling Trump performance. The hosts deftly use the spectacle to both skewer GOP hypocrisy and inspire grassroots engagement, mixing humor with calls to defend democracy at the ballot box.