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So listen, the biggest disappointment here is not seeing could Marjorie Taylor Greene win with Trump endorsing a primary challenger. We, last week we said one of the most interesting things will be to see is the outcome different than it was, for example, for Liz Cheney when Donald Trump did an attack of Liz Cheney and endorsed Cheney's primary opponent in Wyoming for her congressional seat. Cheney got crushed. And that was really the height of Trump's power within MAGA and within the Republican Party. So it would have been fascinating to see in 2026 a seemingly diminished Trump out of energy, with, with limited influence. Could Marjorie Taylor Greene just win anyway? And in fact, the risk was greater to Trump. Listen, if Marjorie Taylor Greene tried to get reelected in 2026 and lost a primary challenge, all right, she loses. But the asymmetrical risk would have been, imagine that Trump goes scorched earth on Marjorie Taylor Greene and she still wins her primary in Georgia in 2026. And whoever Trump endorses doesn't win in a Republican primary. No doubt that would have been really, really bad for Donald Trump, we're not going to get to see that because Marjorie Taylor Greene is resigning. Now, there's a bunch of other important implications here. Marjorie Taylor Greene's district is now going to require a special election. This is going to, at least for a period of time, it's going to weaken the very narrow Republican majority in the House. So we've been talking about Democrats taking the house back in 2026, being able to cut Trump's agenda just immediately, overnight. That's it. You're getting nothing that requires congressional votes. If Democrats take the house in 2026, we now are going to have sort of a lead up or a preview to that, during which Republicans will be even less able to lose any votes in the House of Representatives because their margin will be even smaller. So that's going to be interesting. Number two, even though over time the affiliation with MAGA of Marjorie Taylor Greene has diminished. There's no question of that. We are going to see what is the effect of such a major MAGA figure. This, this is not like, you know, Rand Paul has been what we might call more of a reluctant Trump supporter for a long time. So when Rand Paul goes actually what Trump is doing isn't constitutional, or do we still care about due process in this country? It's not the biggest surprise. It's not really shaking to MAGA in that way. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been a very strong MAGA for years. And what will be the effect on voters and donors of seeing such a major MAGA figure say, that is it for me. And then there is the question of future ambitions. And what is Marjorie Taylor Greene planning on doing? She is hinting in her resignation video that she still plans to be involved in political activity. There is this. We know that she wanted to run for Senate against Jon Ossoff and she was told not to by Trump and the Trump White House because they believed she had no shot. And I think that that's probably true. Jon Ossoff is an excellent senator and very popular. She may still want to run for Senate. She may have ambitions for a gubernatorial run. A lot of my friends have been texting me over the weekend saying she's clearly going to try to run for president no matter what. The optics of this are terrible, terrible for Donald Trump's control of this movement. So the MAGA civil war is very real. It's intensifying it. It's bigger than Marjorie Taylor Greene and it is about a regime of loyalty, fear and discipline, which is what Trump demands. And when a loud defender suddenly turns on you, how does Trump react? And the message that's being sent is if you become a dissident from inside the movement, you lose everything. You lose support. Your future is in question and you even, I guess you could say you even end up losing your seat. Although we can't yet say for sure that she was pushed out by losing Trump support versus she decided she's sick of this crap. This is going to reverberate through 2026. It may even, even affect 2028. So we're going to keep an eye on it and we will take a very quick break and be right back. Skip the hassle of planning meals or cleaning up. Our sponsor, Cook Unity, brings a unique twist to meal delivery by being the first collective of award winning chefs offering locally sourced dishes straight to your doorstep every week. Each meal is fully cooked, ready to eat after only five minutes of heating. One of the most memorable meals I've had from Cook Unity is the chicken enchiladas suisse from chef Santiago Lopez. From Mexico, the tender chicken wrapped in corn tortillas with a tangy green mole made with cream cheese and pickled onions went so well with rice. Incredible flavor, satisfying. 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Doge the Department of Government Efficiency. I know many of you have probably forgotten about it because it's been completely failed and has not achieved any of the things it supposedly was going to achieve, trump said. Doge is going to clean up Washington. It's going to root out fraud, waste and abuse will cut Billions. And it'll delete mountains of bureaucracy, and it's just going to be so awesome. It turns out it was a waste of money and it was costing more than what it supposedly was able to save. So they have quietly shut it down without even acknowledging this, until reporters said, look, this thing seems to be gone. What is going on here? It's like those fuel additives. I don't know if you. When I was younger, you know, some of my friends would go, oh, we got to go to AutoZone and get this thing you add to your fuel tank. It's 10 bucks, but it'll save you money because it improves gas mileage. So you've got to buy the additive, but then you save money on gas, and then it turns out it didn't really work. So you go, I guess I'll stop buying the fuel additive because it's not really saving me any money. That is what ultimately happened with Doge here. Now, the official statement from inside the administration is simply, it doesn't exist. It's gone. That's from the Office of Personnel Management. Asked about the status of Doge, they're essentially saying, don't know anything about it. Not a thing. Doesn't exist. Now, the primary question I go back to, aside from the money part, is where are all of the consequences for the fraud that they found? Fraud is a crime. They talk about rooting out waste, fraud and abuse, and yet we have seen no one, no one, not a single person, face consequences of any kind, never mind an indictment for the fraudulent nature of what they were doing that Doge turned up. Now, of course, we all know it's bullshit. They talk about tens of billions saved and all of that. They never really found proof, no public accounting. There were statistical errors where they said, we just found billions in savings, but really they meant millions. And then it turns out that even the millions were actually a program that hadn't even started yet or that had already been cut under Joe Biden or whatever else the case is. Nothing anyone could verify was ever achieved by Doge. It was branding, it was Elon Musk, it was tweets. And meanwhile, the actual government work ended up being handed back to the regular agencies that were doing it after Doge fizzle fizzled out. And reportedly, a bunch of Doge employees ended up being moved to other roles in the administration. And a whole bunch of them just lost their jobs. Some got side projects, you know, Trump's national design studio. Another one of these just moronic things that they need to beautify. Government websites if that doesn't sound like waste. God, guys, give me a break. And then when you look into the Elon Musk angle of the entire thing, it's kind of even worse, because remember that Doge was built around Elon. Elon promoted it. He posed with. With props, and he says he has a mandate to delete regulations. And then his relationship with Trump completely blows up. He leaves Washington, and, of course, Doge just starts to kind of evaporate at the exact same time. And people talk about Doge in the past tense. Doge did what it set out to do. Doge has been able. It was able to accomplish the. What did they call it, an efficiency mandate or something like that. And what they didn't want to just say out loud was, the project is over. So this is a remarkable humiliation. Trump designed an agency that was going to increase government efficiency by saving money. They were going to run it like a business. They initially put two people in charge of it instead of one. Remember when it was Ellen and Vivek Ramaswamy, and it was clear that Vivek Ramaswamy was really doing nothing, and it was just Elon. So Vivek quietly went away, and now it's being dissolved for being what we said it was from the beginning, extremely inefficient. They've created the Department of Fixing Leaks, and they didn't find any leaks other than inside their own department. That's the equivalent of what went on here. And now you've got the White House kind of pretending that the entire thing never happened. Hyped, bragged about chainsaws on stage with Elon, the entire thing. Now they want it wiped from memory. So Trump has suffered a lot of public humiliations. Every single foreign trip, every single speech, every single signing ceremony in the Oval Office. You know, it's. It's a lot. But in a sense, this was going to be the trademark, hallmark, signature achievement of Trump's second term. It accomplished nothing, and they wanted it to quietly go away. So the program to clean up DC exposed that what really needs to be cleaned up was the program to clean up D.C. itself. It's like it became the punchline of its own joke. And now it goes to wherever these ideas go, never to be heard from again. Donald Trump suffered an irreversible collapse on his own Truth Social. It went overnight. There is both the tone and there is the substance, and I want to look at a little bit of both. First of all, as far as the tone goes, Trump just posting over and over again, AI generated images of himself looking very strong. Time to obliterate the deep state. Nothing can stop what is coming. Just a weird blend of conspiracy nonsense combined with weird attacks and user generated content interspersed with advertisements for Ivermectin of all things. So like the optics of this are just terrible. Trump's up all night. He's posting. You know, some of this stuff is Posted at 1:00am 2:00am Just the strangest times of the night. He's up all night. Okay, then we get to the substance. I want to remind you, as part of this posting spree, Trump did post this attack message about Marjorie Taylor Greene's resignation where he said, quote, marjorie Trader Brown, because of plummeting poll numbers and not wanting to face a primary challenger with a strong Trump endorsement, has decided to call it quits. Her relationship with the worst Republican congressman in decades, Tom Massie, also known as Rand Paul Jr because he votes against Republican party legislation, didn't help her for some reason. Primarily that I refused to return her never ending barrage of phone calls. Marjorie went bad. Ok, so Trump with his anti Marjorie Taylor Greene post, then Trump again. I have just gotten the highest poll numbers of my political career while my great work on the economy has not yet been fully appreciated. Yeah, that's an understatement. It will be. Things are really rocking. Stopping wars and foreign relations seems to be a strong suit. Also great, the border and stopping crime. I predict that the economy and the already highest stock market ever and prices coming down sharply from the Biden disaster will soon be at the top of the list. Make America great again. None of that is true. Trump has the worst approval rating of either of his terms today. You go back till to the moment where Trump came down the golden escalator, as he likes to say, his approval is the lowest it has ever been today. A lot of the accomplishments of stopping wars that Trump touts aren't real. Prices have not come down. The stock market is doing okay, although it's been shaky lately. But basically none of this is true. Trump then engaging caps lock and continuing the traitors that told the military to disobey my orders should be in jail right now, not roaming the fake news networks trying to explain that what they said was okay. It wasn't and never will be. It was sedition at the highest level and sedition is a major crime. There can be no other interpretation of what they said. Well, there is another interpretation. What Trump is referring to is the Democratic lawmakers who said if you are in the armed forces, it is your responsibility to to refuse to follow Unlawful orders, no matter who they come from, implying even if they come from Donald Trump. That is the law. If you believe in law and order and following the law, then what those Democratic lawmakers said is correct and true and what Donald Trump said is not. That's the reality. That's where we find ourselves today, Trump Continuing on social media, many great legal scholars agree that the Democrat traitors that told the military to disobey my orders as president have committed a crime of serious proportion. This is not true. Stating the law is not a crime. Saying, look at what the US MJ says, the code, UCMJ Code of Military Justice. Look at what it says. That saying I was just following orders is not an acceptable excuse or explanation and that you have a duty to refuse to follow unlawful orders. It's like saying, hey, the speed limit is 55 here. If you go faster, you might get a ticket. That's a crime. What, what are we talking about here? And then finally, Trump desperate to claim that the Republican Party is united even though it isn't. He says, quote, the Republican Party has never been so united as it is right now. Other than Rand Paul, Rand Paul Jr. Massie, Marjorie Trader Brown and a couple of other lowlifes. And other than the fact that many want the election threatening filibuster terminated. The Dems will do it in the first minute of their first chance and some don't. There is great spirit and cohesion. Plus the Republican Party is much bigger than it was when I announced in 2015 or ever was before many millions more members. Well, remember, the population keeps going up in the United States. That's not the biggest accomplishment, really. Trump finalizing this by saying we now have the strongest border ever, biggest tax cuts, the best economy, the highest stock market, and so much more. But the best is yet to come. Vote Republican. Trump is in a panic. He knows he is at serious risk of losing the house in 26. We need to make sure that he does. We, we have to be part of that. If we stay home, it won't happen. But we have time for that. We're now about 11 months from that election. But Trump is terrified because he is thinking of legacy. And he knows if Republicans lose the House next November, that Trump is an even lamer duck instantly than he is today. In the midst of a very strange video of Trump struggling to walk, a clinical psychologist who has studied Trump for years is now making a stunning prediction, which is that he does not believe Trump will make it to the end of this presidential term. Campos Mentis, meaning mentally Competent. Now, here is the relevant video. This is a video of Trump walking outside the White House and he almost seems to fall down. He doesn't look stable. But this is as bad as we have seen Trump's gate ever. That's g a I t. It is unusual. This is not exactly the video you would expect of a guy who just had a perfect medical exam, including the best MRI doctors have ever seen, despite not knowing what part of the body they were looking at and what the results were or what they were looking to find out by looking at the mri. This is a concerning video of Donald Trump walking. Now, we then get to the professional assessment of Dr. John Gartner. Dr. John Gartner, who's been on this show before, spoke to Times Radio, and he lays out some pretty terrifying stuff. What John Gartner lays out is that Trump already has the strongest, most extreme version of a personality disorder. Malignant narcissism, narcissism, psychopathy, paranoia, sadism all together. This is the framework that was originally used to understand authoritarian leaders in the past. And Dr. Gartner says he recognized this a decade ago. But that is only the first part. Part two are the signs of what Dr. John Gartner says is clear cognitive decline. And what Dr. Gartner pointed out is Trump was given, if we believe Trump. Trump is regularly being given cognitive tests and an MRI, and Trump doesn't really know why. And what Dr. Gartner explains is that you never, as a professional, order these things unless you have a suspicion of something. You don't just routinely give cognitive tests. You don't do an MRI just for kicks. And then he lays out the symptoms, which we all see publicly. Trump's vocabulary diminishing dramatically. Unfinished, disconnected sentences jumping from one topic to another, seemingly with no rhyme or reason, mixing up names and countries. Extraordinary impulsivity, memory gaps, wandering and disorientation. This particular unusual gait that also includes Trump leaning forward. It includes Trump dragging afoot. It includes Trump again in this video that we just looked at, looking extraordinarily unstable. And Dr. Gartner also says that Trump is regularly producing these phonemic paraphrases. These are failed attempts at words that you often see in people suffering from brain disorders, dementia, and other cognitive decline. This is like when Trump says South Carolina, not. Not a typo, when he puts that on truth social. And Dr. Gartner says that those are concerning symptoms. Now, this starts to get even more alarming if you follow the logic of Dr. Gartner, where he says, Trump met with Chuck Schumer and a really nice man he he brought with him. The nice man was Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader. Trump deals with him all the time. Is Trump forgetting Hakeem Jeffries his name? Or is he not recognizing someone who should be familiar? He talks about the word salad. Stories with no structure and tangents that go nowhere and sentences with no connection to each other whatsoever. That is not being tired. According to Dr. Gartner, it's not normal aging. He believes that it is a breakdown in how Trump is organizing thoughts. Now, there is also the media story, and we're going to see about talking to Dr. Gartner. The media keeps pretending everything's fine, right? They'll pick out an isolated line from a six minute ramble and call it a headline, as if the rest of the six minutes didn't happen and Trump was coherent. But we all see what is going on. The other red flag from this interview with Dr. Gardner is he's warning that as Trump becomes more impaired, power is going to shift to the people around Trump, exactly as we were told was happening with Joe Biden. And so that means Stephen Miller gets more power. The Project 2025 architects get more power. The extremists and the hardliners get to push their agendas while Trump kind of babbles. 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To see administration officials who simply cann go and make a case for the economic policy of this administration based on the facts just make stuff up. And I'm going to show you some examples of this. There's this kind of phrase in the legal world, when the facts aren't on your side, you argue process and when the process isn't on your side, you argue facts. In the Trump administration, it's when the facts aren't on your side, you just make them up. And we heard from Brooke Rollins, the Secretary of Agriculture just repeat lie after lie after lie. And my question to you is, could this possibly work on the American people? I'm going to give you some examples of this. Here is Brooke Rollins saying what Trump is fundamentally doing is taking care of farmers with the proposed bailout and so on and so forth. But what's missing is, is that the reason the farmers need help is because of the very policies that Donald Trump put in place in the first place. Are the American people going to fall for this? Farmers might get helped eventually.
