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Progressive Commentator
Democratic governors are rising up and they are becoming our first line of defense to protect us from a man that has cankles so bad that they're muffin top kinks. So muffin top Kings wants to militarize everything because he cannot take his agenda to Congress. He cannot take it to the ballot box because it's wildly unpopular. I saw a poll today that only 21% of the American public, only 21%, strongly support Trump's agenda. So you have 20% of the country that all of these blue states have to pay for their racism because they're parasites that want to suck off of what the working class does. And so Wes Moore is somebody who is rising up right now. He is the Governor of Maryland. Sharp as a tack, cute as a button. And here he is on the weekend press rounds. Are you so opposed to this deployment?
Political Analyst
Well, there's a, there's plenty of reasons. You know, one, it is not sustainable. You cannot continue this type of pace of operations, particularly when you're. When it's costing over a million dollars a day in order to do this. The second, it's not scal. You're not going to be able to do this in every single major American city, particularly when many of the cities that have the highest crime rates are the places that have actually deployed their national guards to. Washington, D.C. so who's going to go do the work in their cities? The third, it's unconstitutional. It's a direct violation of the 10th Amendment. And for a party that talks about state rights, it's amazing how they're having such a big government approach in the way they're conducting public safety. The fourth reason is because it's deeply disrespectful to the members of the National Guard. As someone who actually deployed overseas and served my country in combat, to ask these men and women to do a job that they're not trained for is just deeply disrespectful. And so when we're thinking about all of these lasting factors, when we think about the fact that it serves as a distraction from the fact that the President's disastrous economic policies are making everything more expensive for everyday Americans, is making life harder for everyday Americans, there is a multitude of reasons that I am against this. And I will not authorize the Maryland National Guard to be utilized for this.
Conservative Commentator
Mike jock.
Progressive Commentator
Love him.
Conservative Commentator
Love him. He doesn't mess around. He says exactly what it is. The red cities that are sending their National Guard have higher crime rates than.
Progressive Commentator
D.C. well, and they're parasitic cities. Absolutely. I mean, all of these states, Texas, parasite state. Take so much more money than they give. Our state, Oklahoma, take so much more money than they give. And they're. We have a. All of these blue states and blue cities that are funding these dipshit red states to undermine democracy. Democracy. And they want to talk about states rights all the time. Women in our country don't have the right to go see an ob GYN without gross people. Closeted homosexuals like Lindsey Graham all up in your vagine. It's. It's disgusting. It's disgusting. How hypocritical the DL LGBTQ+ movement is that lives within the MAGA movement. All right, so Trump was watching TV, of course, because of the aforementioned Muffin Top kinks and the bruising on hands per Alex Jones, he's going to collapse within 12 months. And he gets on lie social, of course, because he's four and he pops this out. Governor Westmore of Maryland has asked in a rather nasty and provocative tone that I walk the streets of Maryland with him. I assume he is talking about out of control, crime ridden Baltimore. As president, I would much prefer that he clean up this crime disaster before I go there for a quote walk. Wes Moore's record on crime is a very bad one. Unless he fudges his figures on crime like many of the other blue states are doing, which right there is a window into a soul that hit his default setting. He. He telegraphs everything that he does. He fudges numbers. Kinks. Muffin Top kinks. Fudges numbers. Okay, then he goes on. But if Westmore needs help like Gavin Newscomb did in la, I will send in the troops, which is being done in nearby DC and quickly clean up the crime. After one week, there's been no crime and no murder in DC. When it is like that in Baltimore, I will proudly walk the streets with failing because of crime. Governor of Maryland, P.S. baltimore is ranked the fourth worst city in the nation in crime and murder. Stop talking. Get to work, Wes. I'll then see you on the streets. Also gave Westmore a lot of money to fix his demolished bridge. I will now have to rethink that decision. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Make America great again, President Muffin Top Kanks. Okay, that, that is. That is so stupid. I just.
Conservative Commentator
It's so stupid. And what amazes me that people, surely people get it. But the infrastructure bill and then the emergency action by the Biden administration. Donald Trump did not give money to rebuild that bridge.
Progressive Commentator
And let's just say Donald Trump did.
Conservative Commentator
Not write a check out of his own pocket. That is money provided by the American taxpayer. And for him to say, I gave money, and I'm going to rethink it. So basically, if you say something, it gets me. I'm. I'm going take money from you. You know, Stephen Miller, if they don't like it, we're going to send more troops. It is. It's fascism, full stop.
Progressive Commentator
Okay, next up, Westmore responds to Muffin Top Kings. President bone spurs will do anything to get out of walking, even if that means spouting off more lies about the progress we're making on public safety in Maryland. Hey, Donald, we can get you a golf cart if that makes things easier. Just let my team know. And based on the information that I've been seeing on independent media, Midas Touch has covered this extensively. People with dementia, they do this walk. They have a gate where they drag one leg in a semicircle like this. And if you noticed when Trump Muffin top Kinks rolled out the red carpet for his boyfriend Putin, he couldn't even walk in a straight line. And it's because of that dementia walk. And so, I mean, I think that Kinks does need a golf cart. And I don't know what all this stuff on the hands is, but I would think they're juicing him. They would have to be juicing him.
Conservative Commentator
I think that it has something. I look at him and I've had a lot of old people in my life, and I see congestive heart failure. So I think they're giving him transfusions or something in his hand. There's no question, not only is he dementia ridden, he is also physically health failing.
Progressive Commentator
All right, so Trump is so triggered by the offer of the golf cart because, you know, Trump fancies himself an athlete, and clearly he is not. So now he just, he cannot be a grown up. So then he has to get on Lysocial and he says, did Wes Moore, the governor of Maryland, lie about getting a bronze star? This coming from the guy that wakes up every morning and lies all day long, that lied about having bone spurs so that he didn't have to go serve in the military. That called troops suckers and losers. That made uniformed officers, uniformed military members get on their hands and knees to roll out the red carpet for a murderous dictator Donald Trump should have arrested on site and instead he had our military roll out the red carpet. He doesn't give a shit about the military and maga. You don't either. You claim you do, but you use them as props to make you feel like a patriot. But every single time it comes time for you to vote for their health care and take care of all of the damage and emotional toll that happened to them in war, you vote it down. You always vote to fund the war. You never vote to fund the soldier or their famil single one of you are hypocritical liars. All 77 million of you. Hillary Clinton didn't go far enough. You're not just a basket of deplorable deplorables. You're heaping piles of dog that use the troops as props to justify your abject racism. It's disgusting. All right, it's very important during this time frame, you guys, that we stay focused on what is real and what isn't real. Because Muffin top Kanks lies 24, 7, 365. So every morning, Pumps and I log on to our favorite app, Ground News. And here's just a prime example of how two headlines are shown here. The left reports the following should be terminated in quotes. Trump menaces ABC and NBC in midnight outburst. And it shows that this is high factuality. And the right frames it as such. Trump hits ABC NBC as fake news said hit support FCC revoking license. And so what you can see is that they're suggesting that this is appropriate, that they're suggesting that this isn't an attack on the first Amendment. And the way things are framed is the way that fascism and the way the media can help assist it. They can help assist it along by normalizing it. And that's why every single morning this broad and I get on Ground News because it sorts it all out. So listener join us by going to ground news.com forward/I hip to get 40% off the ground news vantage plan that Pumps and I use every single day. They're subscriber funded and our favorite part is they are female. Founded by subscribing, you're not only getting a tool we all need today, you're also supporting our work. That's ground gr o u n dnews.com forward/I hip Kylie's pinning this right below in the show notes.
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Progressive Commentator
Pumps. After he accuses Wes Moore of lying about a bronze Star. And I think, do you remember, like, didn't he want to award himself a Purple Heart Trump? Or didn't he say he deserved a.
Conservative Commentator
Purple Heart and a Presidential Medal of Freedom?
Progressive Commentator
Yeah. Okay.
Conservative Commentator
And that he was a war hero?
Progressive Commentator
Okay, so. So then just what we were talking about in that ground News ad read, he is attacking anybody and everybody where it's the governor of Maryland, he wants to attack him. Anybody that says anything that exposes who he really is, because this man is a malignant narcissist. So any scratch behind that and you have this narcissistic attack back. And the ABC and NBC obviously hosted Wes Moore and others. And he watched the Sunday news because he's infirm. He's very sick. He has these problems with his hands and his cankles. So he has to sit around in his recliner at the White House and watch TV all day. And so this man does not support the Constitution. This man does not support the First Amendment. And he puts this out overnight despite a very high popularity and according to many, among the greatest eight months in presidential history. ABC and NBC, Fake News, two of the worst and most biased networks in history, give me 97% bad stories. I'm shocked it's not 100. Right. All right. If that is the case, they are simply an arm of the Democrat party and should, according to many, have their licenses revoked by the fcc. I would be totally in favor of that because they are so biased and untruthful. An actual threat to our democracy. Maga. So what he's doing right here is he's priming. Priming the public that anybody who says anything bad about me is saying something bad about you. And so we're going to have to take away free speech because we, none of us can hear anything bad about ourselves because they're and titty babies.
Conservative Commentator
Well, what's so alarming about this is CBS News is not mentioned because they bent the name. They have zero problem with him. He doesn't say anything about Fox News because they propagandized him full time. You look at the universities, you look at law firms, you look at the Smithsonian, you look everywhere you look. He wants it to be just how great he is, full stop. Who does that remind you of? Kim Jong Un? Putin? I mean, it's, these are scary times and for people to act like they're not is a concern.
Progressive Commentator
And I just, here's the thing that, that I think will go down in if you fast forward like 50, 75 years from now or even like five years from now, it's some middle school class in France and they play because he's, you know, per Alex Jones, he's going to be dead by then. And they play the tapes of him to a 13 or 14 year old, they're going to go, they gave up their whole country for that, for him. Like, for that guy that speaks like that. Like, this is who they gave it up for. It's wild. All right, that's all we have. Please subscribe to our show and we'll see you all later. Sam.
Episode Title: Trump's Plan Backfires After Smack Down From Dem. Governors
Hosts: Jennifer Welch & Angie “Pumps” Sullivan
Date: August 26, 2025
In this energetic, humor-tinged episode, progressive hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie "Pumps" Sullivan dissect the recent escalation between former President Donald Trump and Democratic governors—most notably Maryland’s Wes Moore—over the politicized use of the National Guard in major cities. The hosts break down Trump’s inflammatory social media posts, Democratic pushback, hypocrisy around "states' rights," and the broader threat to democratic norms and free speech. The discussion is peppered with biting sarcasm, pop culture references, and a clear progressive framing, aiming to both inform and entertain.
Wes Moore as the “First Line of Defense”
Jennifer refers to Democratic governors rising against Trump's plans:
“Democratic governors are rising up and they are becoming our first line of defense to protect us from a man that has cankles so bad that they're muffin top kinks.” [00:20]
Wes Moore’s Reasons for Refusing to Deploy National Guard
Moore is lauded for his media interviews, listing reasons against deploying the Maryland National Guard on Trump’s orders:
“For a party that talks about state rights, it's amazing how they're having such a big government approach in the way they're conducting public safety.” — Wes Moore [01:17-02:29]
Hosts accuse red states like Texas and Oklahoma of taking more federal money than they contribute, while undermining democracy:
“Texas, parasite state. Take so much more money than they give. Our state, Oklahoma, take so much more money than they give. And they're… funding these dipshit red states to undermine democracy.” — Jennifer [02:39]
Discussion skewers “states’ rights” hypocrisy, particularly regarding women's health and LGBTQ+ issues.
Trump’s unfiltered statement about Wes Moore is read and ridiculed:
“Governor Wes Moore of Maryland has asked in a rather nasty and provocative tone that I walk the streets of Maryland with him... As president, I would much prefer that he clean up this crime disaster before I go there...” [04:00 approx.]
Jennifer observes Trump always “telegraphs everything he does” and accuses him of “fudging numbers.” [04:30]
Trump also claims credit for infrastructure funding that actually came from Biden’s administration—hosts clarify that this isn’t Trump’s personal money:
“Donald Trump did not give money to rebuild that bridge." — Angie [05:06]
“That is money provided by the American taxpayer.” — Angie [05:21]
Trump is mocked for his apparent health issues, alleged “cankles,” “dementia walk,” and vanity:
“President bone spurs will do anything to get out of walking, even if that means spouting off more lies about the progress we're making…” — Jennifer (quoting Wes Moore’s clapback) [05:40] “Hey, Donald, we can get you a golf cart if that makes things easier.” — Wes Moore, paraphrased by Jennifer [05:40] “Trump fancies himself an athlete, and clearly he is not.” — Jennifer [06:50]
Speculation about Trump’s health, referencing swollen hands and supposed “transfusions”:
“I see congestive heart failure... I think they're giving him transfusions or something in his hand.” — Angie [06:34]
Trump threatens major TV networks’ broadcast licenses after critical coverage, echoing authoritarian tactics:
“Trump hits ABC NBC as fake news... said hit support FCC revoking license.” — Jennifer, reading the contrasting headlines [09:00 approx.]
The hosts sharply critique this as an attack on the First Amendment and further evidence of “fascism”:
“It's fascism, full stop.” — Angie [05:18]
Analogy to authoritarian leaders is underlined:
“Who does that remind you of? Kim Jong Un? Putin?... These are scary times and for people to act like they're not is a concern.” — Angie [12:24]
“The way things are framed is the way that fascism and the way the media can help assist it… by normalizing it.” — Jennifer [09:20]
“Fifty, 75 years from now… they play the tapes of him to a 13 or 14 year old, they're going to go, they gave up their whole country for that, for him. Like, for that guy that speaks like that. Like, this is who they gave it up for. It's wild.” [12:52]
On Democratic resolve:
“Wes Moore is somebody who is rising up right now. He is the Governor of Maryland. Sharp as a tack, cute as a button.” — Jennifer [00:20]
On Trump’s gaslighting:
“He always votes to fund the war. You never vote to fund the soldier or their fam… single one of you are hypocritical liars. All 77 million of you. Hillary Clinton didn’t go far enough. You're not just a basket of deplorable deplorables. You're heaping piles of dog [shit] that use the troops as props to justify your abject racism. It's disgusting.” — Jennifer [06:50-08:10]
On authoritarianism and media:
“He wants it to be just how great he is, full stop. Who does that remind you of? Kim Jong Un? Putin?" — Angie [12:24]
On historical legacy:
“They gave up their whole country for that, for him. Like, for that guy that speaks like that.” — Jennifer [12:52]
| Timestamp | Segment Description | |------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------| | 00:20 | Discussion of Democratic governors leading the opposition | | 01:17-02:29| Wes Moore's detailed rebuttal to Trump’s National Guard plan | | 04:00 | Trump’s social media outburst on Wes Moore | | 05:18 | Hosts clarify infrastructure funding origin, call out fascism | | 05:40 | Wes Moore claps back at Trump (golf cart joke) | | 06:34 | Discussion of Trump’s alleged health problems | | 09:00 | Media framing: contrasting headlines, Ground News is mentioned | | 12:24 | Comparison to authoritarian regimes; media threats | | 12:52 | Reflection on future historical views of Trump |
Summary:
This IHIP News episode delivers a rapid-fire, irreverent progressive critique of Trump’s attempts to exert federal power and control media narratives, celebrating Democratic leaders’ defiance and lampooning Trump’s personal and political weaknesses. The hosts seek to empower their listeners to see through propaganda and hypocrisy, using humor and relatable analogies while drawing sobering parallels to historical authoritarianism.