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Krystal Ball
Foreign President Donald Trump clearly has dementia or cognitive decline. And then his physical health is showing just horrific signs that it doesn't look like this guy's going to be around that much longer. There's a massive cover up going on, but he's trying to physically cover up all of this bruising and scarring on his hands, and he's using this awful makeup. Clearly has no LGBTQ plus staff that can help blend it properly. And that's what happens when you try to demonize an entire community. But here he is in the Oval Office and he is sitting behind a desk to hide his cankles and watch what he's doing, trying to cover up his right hand with all the makeup.
Donald Trump
On it to make it. It'll be great. It'll be fantastic. You see the way this is looking? Look nice. I can't tell you how much that gold costs. A lot of money. There's nothing like gold and there's nothing like solid gold. But this beautiful office needed it. It had to be representative. When we took it over, it was dirty, not clean. I immediately changed the chair and had this beautiful desk renovated, brought out by the White House. People that do this, they did a great job. They send it out. We have a craftsman who's great, but this was not appropriate for the Oval Office when I took over. And now you look at all those paintings, you're allowed to turn back. All of these are great presidents and they're okay.
Krystal Ball
You can see he's constantly covering up his hand. He has on a ball cap that says Trump was right about everything. And he's talking about interior decorating. In my opinion, you guys, this man is a bisexual. He talks about he's a size queen. He talks about the size of Arnold Palmer's penis. He talks about how hot men are. He practically was, you know, like, hyperventilating it. How attractive he thought Harrison Bucker is. He tried to give a microphone a blowjob. And the only time I've ever heard him really talk about women is either that he wants to sexually assault them and he can do it because he's famous, or he can walk in and see teenage girls naked. And so what I think we have existing in the MAGA movement right now, or what I'm going to call, I'm going to add some letters to the Alphabet DL LGBTQ + movement. And these are the down low LGBTQ + people in this administration. We know they crash Grindr twice. And this man, I've never seen a president so attracted by other men. And have such an interest in interior design.
Saagar Enjeti
Well, as you've often said, which I think is so smart that they give him projects because he's incapable of understanding policy. Plus he doesn't care. But that was the most self discipline I've seen Donald Trump. Trump with the hand. Normally he's off the wall. He's talking about Hannibal Lecter. He is so spot on. Holding the hand over the other hand and then holding the hand back. So that tells me it must be bad. And also I look at that and I think you are kicking almost 17 million Americans off health care. You are taking away SNAP benefits and the Department of Education, but you're going to tell the American people how expensive gold is and how putting it in the office was a good use of government dollars. It's disgusting.
Krystal Ball
Okay, let's look at these images in this tweet. Pop this up, Kylie. At the main wonk tweets, people are saying the President has congestive heart failure and the administration is concealing his condition. Who is running the country? How long has the administration hid his condition? Did I do this right? I'm sure Jake Tapper is on the case. Put up the photos with this. Okay, here's his hand. Okay. With this horrific concealer that looks like spackle. And then let's go to the next photo. You guys, this is a new thing right here. What we have is a muffin top cankle. Okay? The, the cankles are as big in circumference as my chubby French bulldogs, but if you notice, he has had to push his little his feet into those shoes. And we've got a muffin top cankle. So what I'm going to start referring to him now for the remainder of this episode is Muffin Top Kanks. And Muffin Top Kanks is pretending like he's running the country, but the dark forces behind him are just giving him show projects. And he's very easy to distract. He's very easy to flatter. He's very easy to just get off of one path and get him on the other. So that leaves us with the question is who is running the country? And one candidate that I have is failed drag queen Smokey eye sociopath JD Just Dance Vance, who I'm going to refer from this point forward as a little smokey, pun intended on the little smokey, if you get my drift. So let's play this clip. He made the rounds. When we have all of these cascading problems in the geopolitical world. We have Gaza, we have Russia, and JD Little Smokey goes to the Sunday morning shows. And this guy was educated at Yale, and I just want you to hear how stupid he is. I get to security guarantees. But very quickly, if Russia is allowed to keep any of the territory that it illegally seized, what message does that send to China? Does it give China a green light to invade Taiwan? Does it give Russia a green light to invade other European countries, which is what your European allies are concerned about?
Peter Thiel
Well, first of all, the Ukrainians are going to ultimately make the determination about where you draw the territorial lines in their own country. But, Kristen, this is how wars ultimately get settled. If you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation. We're actually.
Krystal Ball
Okay, stop. That is a lie, and that is willful stupidity and willful gaslighting on his part. World War II ended because the Allied forces surrounded Hitler and he shot himself. And then the United States sent nukes to Nagasaki and Hiroshima. There was no negotiating in that. That was, we are going to defeat fascism. He says this because he himself has negotiated with Nazis, and I'm talking about Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. So he says that because it's familiar to him, because that's what he has done in his 180 degree about face.
Saagar Enjeti
It's so unbelievable that the Vice President of the United States either he doesn't know history, but I think he does. And he's just trying to make the administration look better because they're so weak that he's acting like, oh, yeah, this happens all the time. And the dipshits that she's stupid every morning, they probably don't know history either and know that he's lying.
Krystal Ball
I think a middle schooler knows what happened at the end of World War II. What, what this is, is a constant global realignment of authoritarians. He's intentionally providing cover for Vladimir Putin. Meanwhile, he's this big Christian and the Russians have kidnapped 1.6 million Ukrainian children. He doesn't give a about that. So this is, it's even more insidious than what you describe. It's willful stupidity, but also a realignment. He's the one who goes and says Europe is going the wrong way, and he speaks horribly about European allies. So this is far more insidious and far more 3D 4D chess. What the base thinks Trump is doing, but all of these evil, evil men are doing. So if you think about it like this, you have Muffin Top Kanks. And then he's clearly not running the country. He's too busy redecorating the Oval and putting makeup on his hands. Okay. And, and then playing, you know, with, with his lie social. So then they trot out J.D. vance. The administration has announced that they're giving him more of a leadership role pertaining to the Russia Ukraine. And it makes you think because we've all seen video of little smokey from like 12 months ago and it's like, oh, it's America's Hitler. And he completely had clarity on what a nut Trump was. So why did he do an 180 degree turn? Who's running JD Vance? Well, Lil Smokey is owned by a man named Peter Thiel. Put this up. Peter Thiel, the Palantir co founder with close ties to JD Vance, will hold a four part lecture series on the Antichrist. And here's what you'll need to understand about Peter Till. Number one, not American born. So by maga's logic, they want American born people because it shows more loyalty to the country. Yet maga's three big superheroes are Rupert Murdoch, not born on American soil. Elon Musk, not born on American soil. And Peter Till, not born on American soil. Now I'm not so shallow so as to think that somebody could be an immigrant and automatically have nefarious intentions for the United States of America. But it seems like the people that are pulling the levers in the MAGA movement are this, are foreign born that don't care about America's interest. But here's what's interesting about Peter Thiel. He's intentionally contradictory. He's a huge, huge, huge Christian, yet he is an out of the closet gay man. And he plays this whole. He cares about society, society, but he thinks that democracy is no more, no, no longer compatible with the best wishes of the people. And Peter Thiel, if there ever was a walking, breathing embodiment of the Antichrist, it is he. And so when you think about, if you've grown up in the Bible belt and I remember when I was younger these peers of mine would talk about the Antichrist and they're literally like, they think he's coming just cuckoo for cocoa puff stuff. But Peter Till believes this shit and he's doing a four part series on it and they have this intentional cognitive dissonance on display all of the time because the easiest people to manipulate are these hardcore right wing Christians, whether they're Catholics like little Smokey or complete closeted evangelicals like Moses, Mike, Josh, Hawley, Lindsey Graham, etc. These are the easiest people to manipulate. So it's no coincidence that this is what this man is doing. And make no mistake about it, J.D. vance's net worth was around $1 million. With his book Hillbilly Elegy, he goes out to Peter Thiel, works for him, clearly gets queer eyed and now his net worth is over $10 million. So he has 9 million reasons to not support democracy anymore. Because these men have no conviction.
Saagar Enjeti
They have no conviction and they sell to the highest bidder. And Peter Thiel, what we have to remember is he is now in charge of all of our data from the Doge and Elon Musk situation and Palantir. And through Palantir, he is the one controlling it. So when I look at the 2026 midterm and moving forward with elections, I worry about that motherfucker more than anybody. And I agree with you, the Antichrist, he should just look in the mirror and call it a day.
Krystal Ball
And it's just, you have to follow what's going on here. Muffin Top Kanks is clearly not running the country. They're trotting out J.D. vance, who put J.D. vance in power. Peter Till and Elon Musk. By Maga's logic, these people are quote, foreigners. And what do they want to do? They want to destroy American democracy. Why the Dems aren't hammering this is beyond me, but we will do it nonetheless. I just want to leave you with a video here of Peter Till so you understand, understand how divorced from reality and psychotic and evil this man is.
Peter Thiel
But I would always maybe go back to the apocalyptic specter would be Antichrist or Armageddon. And I think there is a lot in this runaway science technology that's pushing us towards something like Armageddon. And then there is the natural pushback on this is we will avoid Armageddon by having a one world state that has real teeth, real power. And the biblical term for that is the Antichrist. And the, the Christian intuition I have is, you know, I don't want Antichrist, I don't want Armageddon. I would like to find some narrow path.
Krystal Ball
All right, I've heard enough. And to quote George W. Bush, that was some really weird shit and everybody should be completely alarmed. This cover up that is going on with Muffin Top Kinks passing over to their show pony, Queer Eyed Lynch, Little Smokey and there are some foreign born weirdos that are actively, actively trying to put the military and militarize the streets so that when Muffin top kings kicks the bucket that they can have all everything in place to just steamroll their agenda through. All right, that's all we have for today. Buyer book life is a lazy Susan of shit sandwiches and we'll see you all later. Most people would rather remove a nest of irate hornets than search for auto and home insurance. That's why the zebra searches for you.
Peter Thiel
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Krystal Ball
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Episode: Trump is Deteriorating at Rapid Speeds and Won’t Deny He’s Dying
Hosts: Jennifer Welch & Angie “Pumps” Sullivan
Date: August 25, 2025
This episode takes a sharply comedic and unapologetically progressive look at the state of the Trump administration, focusing on Donald Trump’s apparent health issues, cognitive decline, and the broader implications for American government. Hosts and guests (including Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti) dissect the visible cover-up of Trump’s physical deterioration, poke fun at his recent behaviors and public appearances, and explore who is truly pulling the strings in the White House. The conversation quickly expands to critique the rising influence of J.D. Vance and Peter Thiel, touching on themes of authoritarianism, manipulation of right-wing Christians, and the precarious state of American democracy.
This episode serves as both a comedic roast and a serious warning about the state of American democracy under Trump, raising pointed questions about who is truly wielding power in Washington. The recurring message: Trump’s visible decline is more than a punchline—it's a signal that ultra-wealthy and ideologically driven actors are filling the void, threatening the core of democratic governance.