Trump is Melting Down in Front of the World, His Walk Of Shame Worries Insiders

Summary

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Episode: Trump is Melting Down in Front of the World, His Walk Of Shame Worries Insiders
Hosts: Jennifer Welch, Angie “Pumps” Sullivan
Date: December 18, 2025

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Episode Theme Overview

In this episode, Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan deliver a sharp, irreverent take on Donald Trump’s newly-unveiled “Presidential Walk of Fame.” Focusing on the alarming tone and content of the plaques written by Trump himself for Obama, Biden, and his own presidency, the hosts dissect the pettiness, dishonesty, and extreme partisanship on display. Throughout, the episode critiques media enablers and highlights concerning polling data—emphasizing the seriousness they see in these theatrics for American democracy, all with a signature comedic edge.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Trump’s Presidential Walk of Fame – A Personal Project

• Trump unveiled a “Presidential Walk of Fame” at his resort, complete with plaques beneath portraits of recent presidents. Trump authored the commentary himself.
• Caroline Levitt introduces the topic, labeling Trump "the most corrupt president… also the pettiest.” (00:04)

The Obama Plaque: Disrespect Laced with Dog Whistles

• Jennifer reads the intensely critical passage about Obama, which attacks his credentials, legislative history, and character. The text is riddled with inaccuracies and personal animosity.
  • “Barack Hussein Obama was the first black president. A community organizer… and one of the most divisive political figures in American history… passed the highly ineffective Unaffordable Care Act…” (00:53)
  • Claims Obama “weaponized the IRS," "spied on the 2016 Trump campaign," and "presided over the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.”
  • Jennifer notes the overt disrespect:

    “This is insane. I mean, it’s insane. …the plaque isn’t just so inherently, all the dog whistles and all that, the disrespect, immaturity…” (02:46)

• Reflects on racial backlash after Obama’s presidency and the entrenched racism she observed locally.
• Criticizes media and Republican pundits for defending such childish attacks, asserting they're undeserving of being taken seriously. (03:54)

The Biden Plaque: Projection and Pettiness

• Jennifer is shocked as she reads Trump’s denigration of Biden, including unfounded claims about election fraud, economic collapse, and fictional conspiracies.
  • “Sleepy Joe Biden was by far the worst president in American history. Taking office as a result of the most corrupt election ever…” (05:06)
• The writing blends conspiracies, memes, and overt insults. Jennifer and Caroline identify this as “projection,” noting Trump accuses others of what he, himself, is regularly criticized for.
  • “So much of this is just such projection, like totally covering up people covering up for the mental decline…” (06:31)
• Jennifer lampoons pundits who attempt to defend such narratives, mocking the necessity for “a how to be a big boy class.” (07:14)

The Trump Plaque: Outlandish Self-Aggrandizement

• The Trump plaque describes his imagined second term as an unprecedented series of victories, full of clearly false claims, including:
  • Landslide Electoral College victory
  • “Ending eight wars in his first eight months,” “deporting gang members and migrant criminals,” “largest tax cuts in history,” “obliterated Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity…”
  • Renaming the Gulf of Mexico
  • “President Trump announced the beginning of the golden age of America. And he delivered.” (10:17)
• Jennifer notes the dangerous absurdity:
  • “Let’s put up the facts about the presidency. Kylie popped this up. Okay, so here we have a brutal poll…” (11:58)

Reality Check: Polls and Public Perception (11:58)

• Caroline contrasts Trump’s grandiose self-praise with hard polling data showing record low approval on the economy (38%), especially among key demographics.
  • “Trump is underwater. 41% approved, 47% disapprove. …The country is feeling it can’t get ahead and that unhappy with Trump on the economy.” (12:36)
• They call out the media for not pressing Trump on his fabricated claims—particularly the “eight wars” he claims to have ended.

Media Critique & Enabler Accountability

• The hosts repeatedly blast cable news networks and pundits for platforming and legitimizing what they see as dangerous immaturity.
  • “If I had someone on this show… who defended that, I’d say, you know what? You’re not a serious person.” (07:11)
• Comparisons to enablers of addiction:

  “The people enabling Donald Trump… you do everything in your power to get those enablers away… The people on television that defend this, what a disgrace.” (07:28)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Caroline Levitt:

  “The most corrupt president in the history of the United States is also the pettiest.” (00:04)

• Jennifer Welch, on the Obama plaque:

  “This is insane. I mean, it’s insane. …the plaque isn’t just so inherently, all the dog whistles and all that, the disrespect, immaturity…” (02:46)

• Caroline Levitt, on Biden’s plaque:

  “It’s…I shouldn’t be laughing because it’s so sick. I mean, this is sick and twisted and demented, but it’s beyond parody.” (05:52)

• Jennifer Welch, on media enablers:

  “You’re a juvenile person. You need to go to therapy or some sort of how to be a big boy class…” (07:14)

• Caroline Levitt, on polling:

  “While he’s writing how great he is, the American people are saying he sucks, he lied, he’s delusional…” (12:21)

• Jennifer Welch, on fact-checking Trump’s “eight wars”:

  “The problem with asking him a question [is]…we’d all be tortured with the answer. I mean, could you imagine how exhausting the answer to that question would be?” (13:32)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Trump’s Walk of Fame introduction and Obama plaque: 00:04 – 02:53
• Critique of Obama’s treatment and media defense: 02:54 – 04:51
• Reading and analysis of Biden’s plaque: 05:02 – 06:31
• Media enabler analogy and accountability: 07:11 – 08:11
• Reading Trump’s own plaque and satirical editorializing: 09:37 – 11:24
• Contrast with real polling data: 11:58 – 13:32
• Hope for accountability and final sign-off: 13:47 – end

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Final Thoughts

With humor and outrage, Jennifer and Caroline dismantle the spectacle of Trump's self-mythologizing “Walk of Fame.” They blend personal anecdote, sharp political commentary, and biting satire to underscore the seriousness and absurdity they see in today’s Republican politics—and the media’s role in enabling it. For listeners who want an incisive, unapologetically progressive take, this episode delivers a lively and detailed critique of both Trump’s ego and institutional failings.

Transcript

[Jennifer]

Foreign.

[Caroline Levitt]

The most corrupt president in the history of the United States is also the pettiest. And while Americans are suffering mightily, he's running around with his art projects and unveiled his new presidential Walk of Fame yesterday. And just a gander at the pictures that he's chosen and the plaques that he has, according to Caroline Levitt, authored himself underneath the portraits of United States presidents. It is disgusting. If it wasn't so dangerous and sick, it would be funny. So let's start with Trump's the one. He absolutely is so envious of Barack Obama. And Jennifer, you're gonna have to read it because I can't see it, but it's, it's unbelievable what he wrote.

[Jennifer]

Okay, so he puts a plaque under it and it says, Barack Hussein Obama was the first black president. A community organizer, one term senator from Illinois, and one of the most divisive political figures in American history. As president, he passed the highly ineffective Unaffordable Care act, resulting in his party losing control of both houses of Congress and the election of the largest House Republican majority since 1946. He presided over a stagnant economy, approved the terrible Iran, Iran nuclear deal, and signed the one sided Paris climate accords, both of which were later terminated by President Donald J. Trump. And it looks like he wasn't done there. So he added an additional plaque. Under Obama, the ISIS caliphate spread across the Middle East, Libya collapsed into chaos, and Russia invaded and took Crimea and Ukraine. He crippled small businesses with crushing regulation and environmental red tape, devastated American coal miners, and weaponized the IRS and federal bureaucracies against his political opponents. Obama also spied on the. Oh my God. Obama also spied on the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump and presided over the creation of the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, the worst political scandal in American history. His hand picked successor, Hillary Rodham Clinton, would then lose the presidency to Donald J. Trump. This is insane. I mean, it's insane. Figure out how can I get Hillary in here? This is, this is so immature and stupid. And the fact that the foreshadowing in that, that about Obama did lose a lot because the opposition was gunned and ready. I mean, after, I'm talking about the midterms, after Obama won that first term, that racist, crotchety, crusty old Mitch McConnell said our number one goal of Congress in the Senate, well, it's not to help people, not to get health care. None of that is to make sure that this black man, I'm adding black man. But we all know that's what he meant as a one term President, and everybody was on board with that. And I remember living in Oklahoma City, two things. I remember that Obama came during his first term downtown Oklahoma City, and he was greeted with Confederate flags. The first black president. That's how he was greeted in Oklahoma. And then the second time that he came, he was running for reelection and I was with some of my interior design clients, and these are wealthy men, and he was coming to talk about some pipeline that was going to be somewhere through Oklahoma, transfer of oil. And they were like these guys, they think the white entitlement and the white supremacy. I remember them saying, who invited him? Who invited him? And I'm like, president of the United States. He is the President of the United States. He can go to whatever state he wants to. But the, the racism regarding him. And I think about so many black people saying they knew that there would be a white lash after his, you know, two terms. And my God, are we in the throes of that. And my God, if that plaque isn't just so inherently, all the dog whistles and all that, the disrespect, immaturity, I mean, what is maturity, you know? Or is he. Or. And then all of these Republicans that want to be taken seriously, any Republican pundit, pundit right now on cable news that defends that, you, you have no credibility. They should be fired immediately. But of course, corporate news won't do that. They'll keep inviting him back the next night, the next night to defend this. When institutions don't stand up and say, if you're defending this immature, you're just awe. You're not a serious person, you're not gonna be a serious commentator on our channel, period.

[Caroline Levitt]

Well, look at the Rob Reiner tweet people were fucking defending. It's unbelievable. Okay, so pop up what he did for President Joe Biden.

[Jennifer]

Oh, my God. Okay, I haven't seen this yet, you guys.

[Caroline Levitt]

Unbelievable.

[Jennifer]

Trump's just showing me all this stuff for the first time. Okay, sleepy. Joe Biden was by far the worst president in American history. Taking office as a result of the most corrupt election ever seen in the United States. Biden oversaw a series of unprecedented disaster that brought our nation to the brink of destruction. His policies caused the highest inflation ever recorded, leading to the US dollar to lose more than 20%. That happened under Trump's first. This first year, his green new scam surrendered American energy dominance. And by abolishing the southern border, Biden let 21 million people. Blah, blah, blah, I can't even. Okay, and then the second one goes on to nicknamed both Sleepy.

[Caroline Levitt]

I mean it's, I shouldn't be laughing because it's so sick. I mean this is sick and twisted and demented, but it's beyond parody. It's beyond.

[Jennifer]

Okay, so nickname both Sleepy and Cricket. Joe Biden was dominated by his radical left handlers. They and their allies in the fake news media attempted to cover up his severe mental decline in his unprecedented use of autopin following his humiliating debate. Oh, Jesus Christ. His debate lost to President Trump in, in the big June 2024 debate. He was forced to withdraw from the campaign for re election and disgrace. Biden weaponized law enforcement against his political opponent. I wish he would have. While also persecuting many other innocent people. He left office issuing blanket pardons to radical Democrat criminals and thugs. So much of this is just such projection, like totally covering up people covering up for the mental decline. And then how, I mean, here's the thing. Disrespectful. This photograph that he put up. And then I've seen people on CNN pundits and they sit and go, well, blah, blah, and they defend it. And I just think at some point, like if I had somebody on this show, I guess who defended that, I'd.

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[Jennifer]

You're not a serious person. You don't serious opinions. You're a juvenile person. You need to go to therapy or some sort of how to be a big boy class. And you're off the, you're off of this. I'm not going to entertain this. And I just think that's the way these enablers should be dealt with. When you are, when, and think about it like this, if there's somebody you love that's an alcoholic or a drug addict and there are enablers surrounding them, you do everything in your power to get those enablers away from them so that you can help your loved one. And this, in this situation, the people enabling Donald Trump and his dementia in his like these plaques, nobody said, let's tell him it's going to take a long time to get him out. You know, let's tell. I don't. It's just, and then the people on television that defend this, it's just, what a disgrace. What a disgrace to CNN or anybody, Fox, anybody that has people defending this juvenile up.

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[Caroline Levitt]

Okay, but I have to show you. I want you to see Donald Trump's photo. Oh God himself.

[Jennifer]

Okay, let me get ready to read this. January 20, 2025. Donald J. Trump became the first president in 132 years to be sworn into office for a second non consecutive term following his historic victory in an election Electoral College landslide 312 to 226. Overcoming unprecedented weaponization of law enforcement against him. Just I want to personally editorialize here. Due to unprecedented abdication by the Supreme Court and moving away the rule of law and dismantling it so that a criminal could run. All right, I'll get back to this. As well as two assassination attempts, he won all battleground states by millions of votes, was the first Republican in decades to win the popular vote big and won 86% of counties in America. 2,700 to 525. All 50 states shifted toward Republican party for the first time ever at his inauguration, President Trump announced the beginning of the golden age of America. And he delivered. Ending eight wars in his first eight months, securing the border, deporting gang members and migrant criminals, making our city safe, helping our farmers, defeating inflation. What reducing energy costs and drawing trillions of dollars of new investments. A record to the United States. President Trump signed the largest tax cuts in American history, the largest spending cuts in American history, and implemented the largest ever regulation cuts. He obliterated. That's a really good sentence right there that the Democrats should roll that out because all of that is true.

[Caroline Levitt]

Yeah, that's true.

[Jennifer]

And the fact that Republicans still brag about that as a plus if the Democrats are not educating the public on how bad all of that's a real miss. He obliterated Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity with Operation Midnight Hammer, convinced NATO countries to agree to increase contributions, blah, blah. And then he goes on here to say and the best is yet to come. Oh, he talks about renaming the Gulf of am Mexico.

[Caroline Levitt]

Again. I shouldn't be laughing because it's petty and it's stupid and it's dangerous. But I just want to point out this is the project he's interested in plaques. He authored these himself. Caroline Levitt was so proud of him. He's painted everything gold. He's got the arch, he's torn down the deal. But let's put up the facts about the presidency. Kylie popped this up. Okay, so here we have a brutal poll from Republicans. Our latest NewsHour poll says 38% Trump is the at his worst rating ever on the economy for either term. Just 38 approve 35 this more regular voters believes dim are better on the economy than Republicans repel. Republicans are losing women including is based 41% of non college white women. Trump is underwater. 41% approved 47 disapprove. 70% college white women disapprove. 70 38% of tariffs are part of it. 38% of Republicans are concerned about tariffs overall. The country is worried, feeling it can't get ahead and that unhappy with Trump on the economy. So while he's writing how great he is, the American people are saying he sucks, he lied, he's delusional and I'm just going to end on this. Will someone please just ask him in a live setting, what are the eight wars list off the countries where you settled. Eight wars.

[Jennifer]

Here's the problem with that. Pumps would have to sit through the answer. That's the problem with asking him a question. Then we'd all be tortured with the answer. This is not. I mean, could you imagine how exhausting the answer to that question would be?

[Caroline Levitt]

Yeah, it would be terrible. But he it's a lie. And nobody ever just says, well, what is it? What are. What were the words?

[Jennifer]

I agree with you. No, I agree. I 100% agree with you.

[Caroline Levitt]

All right, so the pettiest, dumbest, most corrupt, smallest hands president in the United States. That's his presidential walk of fame. Please like this video subscribe to our channel and we'll be back with more news.