Trump 2028

Summary

The Necessary Conversation – "Trump 2028"

Podcast Date: July 26, 2026
Host: Chad Culture
Guests: Haley Pope (sister), Mary Lou (mom)
Theme: Family therapy through politics

Episode Overview

In this episode, the family unpacks the state of American politics in 2026, focusing on Donald Trump’s ongoing presidency and potential plans for 2028. The conversation traverses personal experiences (including a targeted vandalism incident), divisive current events (the Iran war, Trump’s international controversies, domestic corruption), and shifting political allegiances—particularly those of their MAGA-leaning mother, Mary Lou. Through combative yet affectionate debate, the family examines whether any common ground remains and if political positions can change within the context of strong familial ties.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. [00:53–07:35] Personal Update: Hate Crime at Parker Square

• Haley describes discovering "slut" keyed into her car, suspecting political harassment due to her public profile and anti-MAGA stance.
• She finds out other women in Parker Square had similar vandalism, possibly indicating a hate crime targeting women, not just her.
• The management claims inability to review surveillance; police are slow to act.
• Mary Lou advises going private to resolve it: “You hire someone, a private eye, and...someone to go through all those clips.” (05:25)
• Diffuse concern and support but frustration with authorities and property management.

2. [08:07–10:28] Listener Question: Mary Lou’s Political Shift

• A listener asks how her husband (the dad) feels about Mary Lou moving away from MAGA.
• She reports disagreements, especially regarding the war and ICE, but emphasizes, “We don't argue. I just say, that's not right, and he tells me that I'm not right.” (09:00)
• Chad notes the change: “Does he understand that these new views you have...are indicative of a larger thing that is happening with you, which is leaving MAGA?” (09:34)
• Mary Lou: “I'm not leaving MAGA, but there are a lot of points right now that I don't like.” (09:45)

3. [12:23–17:39] Topic 1: The Iran War and Presidential Overreach

• Chad outlines Trump’s unauthorized, costly, ongoing war with Iran: “...he never got Congressional approval to start a war. That is not legal.” (13:21)
• Mary Lou reluctantly agrees: “You can't keep saying that...Every one of those 125 times was also probably illegal.” (13:43)
• All three express horror at the mounting casualties, including a local Texas soldier.
• Haley: “Isn't that enough to just say Donald Trump is a corrupt piece of shit and that you do not support this and you do not support him?” (14:17)
• Mary Lou ultimately admits: “Yes...I'm against this war. It needs to stop.” (15:57)
• Haley/Chad press on hypocrisy between Republican and Democratic wartime actions.

4. [18:07–22:31] Topic 2: Trump Booed on the World Stage

• Trump is booed presenting Spain with the World Cup, refuses to leave the stage—seen globally as humiliating.
• Mary Lou downplays: “He probably heard a little bit of applause and thought he should stay...” (20:35)
• Haley: “Everyone hates him. Negative 37 rating. Everyone hates him.” (20:43)
• Chad asks about the importance of presidential respect: “He needs to be respected. Yes.” (21:49) Mary Lou agrees but acknowledges waning global respect for Trump.
• Discussion of viral incidents mocking Trump.

5. [22:41–25:01] Tangent: Food Safety & Taylor Farms Scandal

• Haley/C: “Donald Trump is giving us all a diarrhea parasite...all of the sanctions that were in place to keep our food safe are gone.” (24:28)
• Mary Lou: “The food sources thing does scare me...it's completely out of control and very scary.” (24:55)
• Jokes about collective “diarrhea,” but underlying worry about deregulation.

6. [25:35–32:43] Topic 3: Trump, Saudi Arabia, and Nuclear Arms

• Chad details how Trump has agreed to share nuclear technology with Saudi Arabia—a country implicated in 9/11 and Khashoggi’s murder—despite conflict of interest with Kushner’s financial ties.
• Mary Lou: “Of course not...He did not give them a nuclear weapons program. The purpose is to help them use nuclear energy for peaceful uses.” (27:13)
• Chad counters that Saudi Arabia’s own statements and the region’s context contradict that.
• Haley: “Jared Kushner...is now going over to this country making deals and trades for the United States. His son-in-law.” (29:16)
• Mary Lou tries to see benign intent, but Chad and Haley highlight rampant profit-seeking and danger to world security.

7. [33:30–37:36] Mid-Episode Breather: Which Pet Would You Bring Back?

• A light segment where each chooses a beloved deceased pet, sharing personal and emotional memories.
• Chad: Story about “rooney, dead” call from dad—”At that moment, I mean, I love Rudy, too...” (34:22)

8. [37:37–42:34] Topic 4: US–Israel Military Merger and Netanyahu

• The House pushes for lasting US/Israel defense tech integration—even as Netanyahu faces global war crime accusations.
• Mary Lou: “No, I do not [think we should merge].” (38:37) Eventually concedes: “I kind of do [think Netanyahu is a war criminal].” (40:02)
• Haley/Chad push her to recognize the ongoing genocide and implications of such alliances.

9. [43:15–49:22] Topic 5: White House Correspondents Dinner, Trump’s “2028” Hat

• Trump attacks journalists, wears MAGA “Trump 2028” hat joke, makes misogynistic remarks, and continues his “fake news” crusade.
• Haley: “He's disgusting. He's a disgrace. I'm tired of his face. I'm tired of him in the news. I want him gone.” (45:32)
• Mary Lou dismisses the 2028 hat as a joke: “He was teasing...I've told you he won't run.” (49:15)
• The family discusses the problematic coziness between journalists and the administration at this event.

10. [50:43–56:11] Topic 6: Trump Family Corruption & Insider Dealing

• NYT report: Trump Jr’s firm 1789 Capital nets 200% returns, often linked to government contracts influenced by Trump himself.
• Chad: “How can he make 200% when other companies are making 20?” (54:14)
• Haley: “Trump is doing this every day.” (54:31)
• Mary Lou agrees to check with her husband if it’s “insider trading”—but concedes discomfort.

11. [56:11–61:33] Topic 7: The Ballroom Pay-to-Play Scandal

• Watchdog report exposes $50+ billion in federal contracts flowing from donors to Trump’s private ballroom project.
• Chad: “You understand what's happening, right? These companies are giving him money for his ballroom, and then he's giving our taxpayer money to them.” (59:49)
• Mary Lou: “I kind of. But kind of not.” (60:05)—but later acknowledges the scope after repeated explanations.
• Haley: “Isn't it incredible to think that all that money that they're stealing from us could actually pay for universal health care?” (61:33)

12. [61:56–64:53] Closing: Mary Lou the “MAGA Socialist”?

• Mary Lou reluctantly admits support for healthcare reform and abolishing ICE—mainline Democratic positions—while still saying she "won’t vote Democrat.”
• Chad: “You have some very socialist views right now.” (64:49)
• Emphasis on how exposure and discussion have shifted Mary Lou’s attitudes on multiple major issues.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Haley on misogynistic vandalism:
  “If they're carving the word slut...that insinuates that you're doing something toward women, which is a hate crime.” (04:41)
• Mary Lou on the war:
  “Yes, I'm...I'm against this war. It needs to stop.” (15:57)
• Chad on hypocrisy:
  “If Trump drops a nuclear bomb, would you say, well, we used nuclear bombs before?” (15:28)
• Haley on Trump's reception:
  “Everyone hates him. Negative 37 rating. Everyone hates him.” (20:43)
• Mary Lou on Trump’s foreign policy:
  “Of course not [should we help Saudi Arabia with nuclear].” (27:13)
• Haley (paraphrasing family’s political shift):
  “Those are two big Democrat positions that no Republican will have.” (64:30)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:53 – Start of Haley’s account of vandalism
• 08:07 – Listener question on Mary Lou’s political change
• 12:23 – Debate on Iran War legality and casualties
• 18:07 – Trump booed at the World Cup, international embarrassment
• 22:41 – Taylor Farms, food safety, deregulation
• 25:35 – Saudi Arabia nuclear controversy
• 33:30 – Emotional segment: “bring back a pet”
• 37:37 – US–Israel military merger and Netanyahu as potential war criminal
• 43:15 – White House Correspondents Dinner, Trump’s attacks on media
• 50:43 – Trump Jr’s investments and family corruption
• 56:11 – The ballroom donor scandal/pay-to-play
• 61:56 – Mary Lou’s issue priorities (“MAGA Socialist” moment)
• 64:49 – Final discussion about policies, party loyalty, and growing political awareness

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Final Reflections

• This episode is particularly notable for the visible evolution of Mary Lou’s positions on MAGA and Trump, under familial scrutiny.
• The hosts’ relentless fact-based approach, emotional stories, and humor blend into a tense but revealing family therapy session on American political extremism.
• Mary Lou, once staunchly MAGA, finds herself agreeing more with Democratic policies on healthcare and humanitarian issues—even as she resists the label.
• The podcast closes with playful ribbing about political identity, hints of hope for deeper understanding, and mundane family logistics.

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Best Summary for New Listeners:
If you want a snapshot of how the Trump-driven political era fractures American families—and how dialogue can sometimes bridge those chasms—this episode delivers potent, uncomfortable, and sometimes hopeful insights.

Transcript

[A]

In the Aftermath of the 2024 election, America is even more divided than before. Half the country fears the end of democracy, and the other half welcomes it. As America inches toward the brink of authoritarian rule. Now, more than ever, we must force ourselves to have the necessary conversation. Welcome to the Necessary conversation. I'm Chad Culture. With me is my sister, Haley Pope Pop, however she pronounces it. And my mom, Mary Lou. My mom is maga, although only by a little. At this point, my sister and I are definitely not. We have made progress, I think, with you, mom. Over the course of this podcast, over the course of, really the past couple of months, I feel like you have been changing by leaps and bounds.

[B]

Hello, leaps and bounds. We'll see. Okay,

[A]

do you have any ditties to begin this program?

[B]

I was gonna let Haley talk about what she wanted to talk about.

[A]

Okay, Haley, you have the ditty this week, the forgery.

[C]

So last week, I'm not sure what day this happened because I. I don't know if you guys drive a car every day, but when I go to work, I get out of my driver's side, I go into work, I come back to my car, I get in my driver's side, I drive home, I park it in the garage. I don't ever look at my passenger side until Sunday when someone else is driving my car, and we, like, go get groceries or go on an errand or whatever. So anyway, I was up at Parker Square, which is the place where Hive Bakery is Monday through Thursday of last week, working, like, basically 15 hour shifts because we've been really busy. So up there really early, going home really late. I noticed on Sunday, or no, I noticed on Thursday night because we're getting ready to go to the airport to go out of town. Somebody scratched the word slut and into the side of my passenger side. Very alarming. I've never had this happen before. And it's, like, hot off the heels of all of our viral fame and, like, MAGA down my throat. And so my initial reaction is like, okay, so it was some piece of that was, like, waiting for me, potentially stalking me in the parking lot. Wrote this on my car door, you know, so it was alarming. I immediately online filed a police report. I have yet to hear back from them, I'm assuming because it was over a weekend, so that I have yet to deal with. Hopefully they call me on Monday. And then I sent an email to management ownership and said, I need you to look through the video footage. Like, these were the days that I was in the parking lot.

[A]

When you say management and ownership, you're talking of the strip mall that HIVE is in.

[C]

Of Parker Square. Yeah. Okay. So first I emailed management and said, basically, I kind of here for my safety. Somebody keyed my car. Can you please look through the video footage? And. And here are the days that I think it could have happened. And she said, yeah, sure. Oh, my God. I'm so sorry. So that was management. Two days pass, I hear nothing. Then we get an email from the owner, and she says, you know, like, can I have your personal information so I can text you? Like, what exactly? Where were you parked your car? All this. So we tell her we even, like, circle it on an aerial map and show her. I think it's, like, the next day. She said they don't have the manpower or the time to look through all of the footage and that nothing stood out to them. So at this point, three cars have been keyed in this parking lot, all

[A]

similar kind of stuff. And is it all your employees?

[C]

No. So I spoke to. I didn't speak to anybody, but I got a message from someone that's in, like, an adjacent parking lot in a different area of this square. And she didn't want to, like, go public with it, but she said somebody scratched the. The words slut into her car multiple times on Monday. So I know that happened. And then she also said that a police officer that she met with about the incident told her that a Tesla was also keyed in the parking lot on Monday. So I guess we have some serial keyer going around Parker Square, but, like, you don't know the intent. And also, if they're carving the word slut, and that insinuates that you're doing something toward women, which is a hate crime.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

So we going on, and I have a landlord that basically said we don't have the manpower to look through the video footage.

[B]

Well, then, too, yeah, you need to ask to look through it and then get the police involved if you still don't get it.

[C]

Already filed a police report. I'm waiting for them to get back to me. But just the idea that this has happened now to multiple people at Parker Square. Literally nothing has been done so far. And this happened all the way back on Monday, per the woman who told me, like, I filed it on Monday. So we're sitting on this. It's now Sunday, and nothing has transpired.

[B]

Haley, if the police can't figure it out or won't help you, then you hire someone, a private eye, and. And Someone to go through all those clips.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Yeah. With that. Hire someone that does this as a living.

[C]

Literally, like the police job to do this.

[A]

I know, but your tax money goes for.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

I'm sorry.

[C]

Yeah. So, yeah, I'm a little discouraged that, you know, there's hundreds of people in Parker Square. We all park there. Lots of us are women. So it's a little alarming that nothing's being done. Ownership kind of was like, well, we just don't have enough people to look through the footage. Like, that's wildly crazy, in my opinion.

[A]

I agree.

[C]

Yeah. So that's. That's what's going on with me.

[A]

Well, I'm sorry that that is happening. I'm sorry that the police are failing you. I'm sorry that the people who own your strip mall are failing you. Hopefully, there will be some kind of resolution.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

But if it's happening to other people, the way that you first made this story sound, it sounded almost like it was some kind of retribution for your political views. But if it's just randomly happening to multiple people, it doesn't seem like that to me.

[C]

Right. Well, you. Well, so some other things coincided with this that, you know, involve you guys getting phone calls the same day that I saw it on my car. So I now think that was probably coincidental.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Because I. This. He could have. He or she could have keep my car anywhere from Monday to Thursday. I don't know what day, but, you know, it could have been all the way back on Monday. Regardless. The fact that it is these words. The fact that.

[A]

Yeah, it.

[C]

I. The two of us that I know were women. I don't know about the third person, but that is alarming. So I do have a taser. I do have pepper spray, and I'm going to get my license to carry.

[B]

Good.

[A]

Oh, good. Do you. I don't think you need one in Texas, do you?

[C]

Yes, but you can get it very easily.

[B]

Oh, good.

[A]

I thought you could just. I thought. Didn't Ken Pax Bill or you can just walk around with a gun now in Texas, you can.

[C]

In Oklahoma, I think you can walk around with a sword. I know that.

[A]

You got to get his sword. All right. Thank you for your ditty again. Sorry you're going through that. Now we must move on with the show with a listener question. If you have a question you want to send us, just record it in a one minute or shorter video. Video format. Send it to the necessary conversation. Podmail.com Are you ready for today's question?

[B]

Yes. Hope it's for highly or Chad, it's for you, Mom. Hi, everybody. I was wondering what is your dad's response to your mom's recent change in some of her politics and what she thinks?

[A]

That's it. That's the whole question, but I thought it was a good one. I, too, am curious about this. Does he know that you have said, abolish ice?

[B]

Yes. And he said, are you crazy? I said, no, I'm not. I said, you've seen on TV what's happening. You've seen what's happening. So he thinks I'm a little crazy on that one. And in regards to the war, he just wants to keep bombing and bomb them all and get them all out of there.

[A]

But he knows that you want it over. So do you guys argue about these things?

[B]

I listen to him. He listens to me. We don't argue. I just say, that's not right, and he tells me that I'm not right. Right now. We're kind of at a spot where.

[A]

But is he calling you? Like, for me and Haley, if he was still on the show, he would be calling us all kinds of names in service of making sure that we understand he believes we're wrong about whatever our attitudes might be. Does he call you names and shit, or are you just, like, agree to disagree past the tea and crumpets?

[B]

Yeah, no, he doesn't call me names, but he says that's silly, that I would say, abolish ice.

[A]

But does he understand that these new views you have on these issues are indicative of a larger thing that is happening with you, which is leaving maga?

[B]

I. Well, I'm. I'm not leaving maga, but there are a lot of points right now that I don't like.

[C]

Yeah, you're leaving.

[B]

I think there's some that he doesn't like, too, but.

[A]

Yeah. What one doesn't he like?

[B]

Well, he likes the war going on. He wants to blow everybody up. Still, he thinks ICE is doing a great job, which. That's ridiculous. Trying to think of another one. He said the other day, he. He's ready to come back on for maybe one topic. He's getting a little stronger. We'll see.

[A]

You know the deal.

[B]

I know. Yeah.

[A]

He's got to be able to not be in a hospital bed in the living room.

[B]

That's the.

[A]

That's the key. And he has to be, like, coherent enough to actually do this, have enough energy, etc. Etc.

[B]

I know.

[A]

All right, well, there you have it. Thank you for your question. There's the answer again, if you have a question, just send it to the necessary conversation pod Gmail.com in a 1 minute or shorter video format. Now, let's begin with our first topic. If you support Trump, you support the war in Iran. Today is the 149th day of Trump's personal war with Iran. This week, Trump launched a 13th consecutive night of strikes aimed at Iran's ability to attack shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran's army said it carried out drone strikes against U.S. bases in Bahrain and Jordan and claimed to have destroyed a radar and Patriot system at a US base in Jordan. Eighteen US troops have died since February, four since July 17, with nearly 500 injuries, 100 of those in the past two weeks. Instead of any attempt at diplomacy to end the war, Trump instead threatened to, quote, bomb and destroy one bridge or power plant for any attack against a ship in the Strait. And he said Iran hadn't received enough pain yet. Iran counter threatened to hit US Linked infrastructure region wide. The war is also now out of control financially. Hegseth said the $37.5 billion we've already spent on the war isn't enough, and he requested 67.1 billion more to continue bombing Iranian civilians. At no point in the entirety of the war did Trump seek or acquire Congress Congressional authorization making the war illegal. This week, the House passed a resolution 214 to 208 urging Trump to end the war, while the Senate then rejected a binding version of that 47 to 49. Mom, do you support the war in Iran?

[B]

Okay. When you did that topic, this is what I'm going to say back to the topic that you started. Okay. I can support Trump, but I can say I don't like the direction that the war is going.

[A]

The direction?

[B]

Yes.

[A]

The direction is gone. This thing is so far out of his control or anyone's control in our government, he doesn't know what he's doing. He will one day be like, iranians are fine people. We're going to have a deal made by tomorrow. And then literally that day tweet, I'm going to bomb a bridge for every second that you're in the Strait of our mouth.

[B]

As of about six hours ago, the airstrikes did pause, like right before we went on to air.

[A]

Fantastic.

[B]

Overnight, there were no strikes. This was the first time in two weeks that that happened. Okay.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

And then you talked about that Senate vote. I think both parties are starting to question what the heck are we doing here.

[A]

Starting to. Mom. He never got congressional approval to start A war that is not legal.

[B]

Chad, There has been 125 other occasions when the US when a US president employed military forces without congressional support or an act. 125 other times.

[A]

I don't care.

[B]

You can't keep saying that.

[A]

Yes, I can. Every One of those 125 times was also probably illegal. Know the details of every 125 moments you're talking about, but that is how it works in America. To wage a war, the president must have congressional approval.

[B]

There were wars in the past that were never declared. They were just started, like Korean War, the Spanish War, a long time ago, World War II.

[C]

One of the soldiers was a young woman from Carrollton, Texas, and I don't think she was more than 25 years old.

[B]

I saw her picture. I cry. It's terrible.

[C]

Isn't that enough to just say Donald Trump is a corrupt piece of shit and that you do not support this and you do not support him? Like, isn't that enough?

[B]

There's going to be some Republicans that turn against him and they're going to vote again, and then I think it's going to be over because this cannot keep going.

[C]

It's already an illegal war. It's never over.

[B]

Vietnam was never a war either, but it went on forever. I'm not saying this one will be. I think it has to be done.

[A]

Do you support the Vietnam War? Do you think that was a good thing?

[C]

No.

[A]

You're using other bad examples to try and justify this. You're saying, well, other presidents did horrible shit that up everybody's lives in the entire geopolitical system. So why can't Trump bad things? Don't make this a good thing.

[B]

It's not a good thing. I want the war over as much as everybody else does.

[A]

But, mom, you're using that number that you threw out, the 125 times people have started wars without congressional approval. You're throwing it out to just justify a bad thing Trump is doing.

[B]

I'm not justifying it. I'm just trying to show you there were other times in history where this did occur. Who cares? But yet you zero in on Trump because you hate him that bad.

[A]

No, that's not. We're zeroing in on Trump because it's happening now. If Trump drops a nuclear bomb, would you say, well, we used nuclear bombs before?

[B]

Yeah. No, I wouldn't. No.

[A]

Okay, so you're using that kind of logic, which makes no sense at all. Let me ask you this. Do you think Hegseth and Trump should get 67 billion more taxpayer dollars to continue this war?

[B]

Absolutely not.

[A]

Okay, so you're against Trump in principle on that?

[B]

Yes, I'm. Oh, I'm against this war. It needs to stop.

[A]

All right. Do you think. I know you just said the 125 other wars or whatever, occasionally, and I can't verify this or at this moment. Sorry, I will not go deep into

[B]

this, but I GPT it. It's true.

[A]

Okay. Do you think Trump should have gotten congressional approval before he started this war?

[B]

Probably. He just went into it. Yeah, he just. I remember. And he said because of nuclear. Because all those people were in one spot at one time, he wanted to take them out. Yes. He probably should have. Yes.

[A]

Okay, so you're fully against Trump on every element of this war right now?

[B]

Yes, because I thought it would be over by now. Okay. And now we're losing young, beautiful lives that are women and men, and it's ridiculous.

[C]

If this was Joe Biden, you would have denounced him as your President by now.

[A]

100%. But also, you have to remember this isn't just about Trump being completely inept. Like, as a president, one of your key goals or one of the key requirements is that if you're going to start a war, you actually have some plan to execute that war, an exit strategy from the war, etc. Etc. Clearly, he has none of that. Beyond all of that, he fucking lied to you. He ran on a campaign saying he would never start another war, certainly not with Iran. And here we are now stuck in this war on whatever what I say. It was the 149th day, no end in sight.

[C]

There's compilations of J.D. vance and Trump literally saying, Kamala Harris is going to send your kids to an unnecessary war. We would never do that. Literally saying, we're never going to do the very things that they're doing right now. They lied to you on purpose. And this is all for profit. Donald Trump and his kids are just raking it in over this war, and that's why he doesn't care to get out.

[B]

I don't think that's it, but.

[A]

Well, we have some other topics later in the show that will prove that that is it. Let's move on to topic number two. Trump is booed on the world stage. This week saw the dramatic conclusion of the World cup, with Spain defeating Argentina 10 in the final at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, securing the second World cup title in the country's history. Unable to let the team have their moment of celebration, Trump marched onto the victory Stage presented Spain with their trophy, then refused to leave the stage as the team celebrated, sparking widespread outrage. Even as Spain gathered for their traditional celebratory team photo, Trump remained among them. Even as the president of FIFA jogged up to him, tapped him on the arm, and pointed to the side of the field to encourage him to leave the stage, he remained. Trump was greeted by a deafening chorus of in person booing as he walked onto the field to present the medals and the trophy. And the boos kept ringing throughout the stadium. And as he refused to leave the stage, global coverage of Trump's egomaniacal spectacle was largely mocking or critical. Outlets described it as a humiliating episode, noting he had to hand the trophy to a team representing a country he had publicly criticized days earlier. On the heels of his embarrassing show at the World cup, the American Research Group released a poll this week showing Trump's net approval at -37%, which is described as his lowest rating yet, with 31% approval and 67% disapproving among registered voters. Mom, why do you think Trump refused to leave the stage at the World Cup?

[B]

He probably was hearing some of the clapping going on. There were mixed. Yes, there was, Mom.

[A]

The president of FIFA walked up to him and it was like, get off the stage. And he did not. He refused.

[B]

Yeah, I don't know why he didn't get off. He probably should have, but I. I've watched a couple of the clips. There was booing, there was some clapping, there was some cheers, there were mixed reactions, but you could hear the booze.

[A]

But you're. You're missing the question.

[B]

What is.

[A]

Why do you think he wouldn't leave that stage?

[B]

He wanted to be up there with people that were winning it.

[A]

I guess he's a narcissist.

[C]

Yes. Same reason. He wants his name on money. He wants his name on the Smithsonian. He wants his name everywhere and buildings and statues and his likeness. He's a piece of.

[B]

I think he probably heard a little bit of applause and thought he should stay a little bit longer because there was some clapping, there was booing. It was kind of a mixed thing.

[C]

Everyone hates him. Negative 37 rating. Everyone hates him. He's a sack of.

[A]

How do you think, based on what I just read to you, the world coverage of this event, the mocking coverage of him, how do you think the world perceives Donald Trump?

[B]

You know, I've heard what you guys tell me right now. I'm not for sure.

[C]

Every sporting event that he's been to boos.

[B]

Yes, I know. And I Can't say what I want to say. You'll just say other presidents have been booed and clapped and cheered before, too, at other events.

[A]

Not like this.

[B]

Well,

[C]

yeah, he's a piece of shit and everyone knows it. I think you even know it.

[B]

People are not liking him right now.

[A]

And so then my next question off of that is, do you think it's important or how important do you think it is? I should say that the American President is respected in the world.

[B]

It's. He needs to be respected. Yes.

[A]

And he's not. No one respects him. People are openly mocking him.

[B]

I, I did see that clip. I forget where he was speaking. Did you see the kid behind him mocking him?

[A]

Yes, and that kid went viral. People love him.

[B]

What is that about?

[C]

What do you mean?

[A]

People hate Trump.

[C]

Nobody wants him to be our president anymore.

[B]

Well, then we know if those people don't want him to be what they

[C]

have to do if we still have free and fair elections. Right, because he also put on a hat that said 2028.

[A]

We're going to get to that. We're going to get to that.

[C]

How come you didn't talk?

[A]

We're going to get to that. Hang on, hang on.

[C]

You didn't, you didn't put in the notes for discussion. The, the diarrhea parasite.

[A]

Oh, bring it up. What do you want to know about it?

[C]

So I read that Taylor Farms is a contributor to Donald Trump. And then they came out, the FDA came out and said, yeah, it's connected to Taylor Farms. And then a day went by and they said, no, we're just kidding.

[A]

They revoked. Yes, there. It's kind of like, I don't think it's as cut and dried as. Just like Taylor Farms gave money to Trump. So they said, no, it's not Taylor Farms, but that is in the, the mix for sure. It looks like the FDA came out and said, like, the origin of this parasite was from lettuce that Taylor Farms had produced. Taylor, the. I believe it's the CEO of Taylor Farms gave to one of Trump's super PACs and then had a meeting at the White House or something. I don't know if I'm 100% accurate in this, but I believe this is what I read after that meeting. Then the FDA downgraded their culpability in the diarrhea parasite case.

[C]

So Donald Trump is giving us all diarrhea parasite. Not to mention the fact that, like, they defunded cdc. Fda, like, shit's just running amok. We're getting screw worms and Diarrhea, parasites, and kids measles are at an all time high. Like, we're all gonna die. The world is on fire. And it's Donald Trump's fault. That's why he gets booed at every sporting event and kids make fun of him in the background.

[A]

Yeah, mom, are you with us?

[B]

I was, yes. I was looking at. I didn't hear any of that. And it says the tycoon Bruce Taylor founded America's largest salad producer, Taylor Farms. That's his name that y' all are talking about, that you think that is a friend of Trump's and that's why this is happening.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Yes. I mean, it is happening because of. All of the sanctions that were in place to keep our food safe are gone. They're hosing everything down with Roundup. They're causing cancer left. And right now, we all have diarrhea, parasites. And it's 100 RFK and Donald Trump and the entire regime stealing money from different pockets of the government so they can put it in their bank accounts. Yeah, we all have diarrhea.

[B]

Yeah. The food sources thing does scare me. And I heard it's completely out of control and very scary.

[C]

I haven't eaten a lettuce in two weeks, and it's not easy because I'm a vegan.

[B]

I went into Subway the other day to get me and dad and another friend of ours at Subway, and there was two people in front of me and they got no lettuce on their sock at all. Nobody. Lettuce. Yeah.

[A]

Although explosive diarrhea for a couple of days can be good if you want to lose some weight. Let's move on to something else that should scare you. Mom. Trump is about to give Saudi Arabia a nuclear program.

[B]

I read. Keep going. I know.

[A]

This week, Trump okayed an agreement with the country responsible for 911 and the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia that gives them a pathway to enriching nuclear fuel, provided they use United States firms loyal to Trump to supply its reactors. The agreement will last 30 years and involve American companies providing technology and expertise to develop the Saudi program. The deal must be reviewed by Congress still, which has 90 days to consider it. And Congress would need two thirds majority to block it over a likely presidential veto. Saudi Arabia claims it would only use the enriched uranium to build a nuclear weapon if Iran pursues one first, which, of course, they have been doing for many years. The agreement would allow Westinghouse, Bechtel, bwxt, Centris and other companies to sell sensitive nuclear equipment to Saudi Arabia. Westinghouse is owned by a company called Brookfield. Brookfield bailed Jared Kushner's family out of a bad real estate deal for 666 Fifth Avenue property in Manhattan. So it's already tied to Trump in that way. On top of that, Kushner's private equity firm, Affinity Partners, got $2 billion from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund in 2021. Separately, the Trump Organization has struck new residential and golf deals in Saudi Arabia, and Saudi backed Live Golf has funneled money to Trump's golf course. Kushner is currently acting as Trump's Middle east envoy. You can see how this is all very corrupt. So, mom, you were very scared of Iran having a nuclear weapon. Do you think the United States should be helping the country that did 911 to get a nuclear weapon?

[B]

Of course not. Now, I'm holding up my notes because you say I'm always looking down and not paying attention. I have my notes up here. I would like to say what I would like to say. So don't say, are you there? Omniscient. Okay. He did not give them a nuclear weapons program.

[A]

Correct.

[B]

The purpose is to help them use nuclear energy for peaceful uses.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Like generating electricity for their country, finding and preparing good water sources to get the salt out of the water. Okay. It's not to produce. I do not believe nuclear weapons.

[A]

They themselves said they would make a nuclear weapon if Iran pursues a nuclear weapon of their own, which, again, we know they are. That's the whole pretext for the fucking war in Iran is that we're trying to shut down their nuclear program because they're trying to build a nuclear weapon. So what Saudi Arabia has already said means they will definitely pursue a nuclear weapon.

[B]

I didn't read it like that when I researched it. And Trump says that they need to join the. What is it? Abrams Accord to. Yeah.

[A]

So these. This is the country behind 9 11. You think them signing a deal or saying anything means anything?

[B]

I don't know.

[A]

This is the country that did the most horrific terrorist attack on United States soil in the history of our country.

[B]

Right.

[A]

You think them signing a piece of paper saying we won't make a nuclear weapon holds any water? They fucking murdered a guy. They cut a guy into pieces and loaded him in a fucking duffel bag.

[B]

I know. Probably not.

[A]

So my next question is, why do you think Trump is trying to give them a nuclear weapon?

[B]

Like I said, I don't think he's doing that. He's trying to give them, like, better Electricity, better water.

[A]

Right? That's what this is.

[C]

They are literally giving Donald Trump and his family money.

[A]

Can you see that? Hello.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

Jared Kushner has, like, he's not in politics, he's just his son in law, and he's now going over to this country making deals and trades for the United States. His son in law, he's not doing

[B]

it for government, is he? Oh, yes, he is. Yeah. Well, he's.

[A]

He's. No, he's not. He's not. The deals he's making are to get money for himself, the Trump family, and all of these companies that are donating to Trump, like I told you, that one company owns one of the major companies that will be supplying nuclear reactors. It's like a big investment company. That company bailed Kushner out of a bad real estate deal, so he owes them.

[B]

Right.

[A]

So he's now over there making sure that all the T's are crossed and the eyes are dotted on these contracts that say, you will have to buy the nuclear reactor from this company. Billions of dollars.

[C]

This is all business deals. And they're doing it on our dime.

[B]

I see.

[A]

Not to mention giving a nuclear weapon to Saudi Arabia.

[B]

But I, when I Googled and read it said, actually, that's not what it is.

[A]

Course, the deal doesn't say you get a nuclear weapon. It says, we're going to help you start your nuclear infrastructure plan, basically.

[B]

Right.

[A]

So you're going to buy nuclear reactors from all the companies that donated to my campaign. You're going to have now the ability to enrich uranium, which certainly can be used for nuclear power plants. Certainly can be. Can also be used to build nuclear warheads for nuclear missiles

[B]

that can also help with electricity. Sure. Water.

[A]

It's wild, though. You think, like, Saudi Arabia needs any help. They have more oil than anybody in the world. They're fine for money. You know what I mean?

[B]

Huh? I hear what you're saying, okay, that

[C]

Donald Trump is corrupt. That's what you need to hear.

[A]

But even beyond corrupt. Corrupt at the expense of, like, global stability. He's giving Saudi Arabia the ability to make a nuclear weapon. Whether it says in the contract they're going to do that or not, doesn't matter. Like I said, they themselves are like, we. The only way we'd ever build a nuclear weapon is if Iran started pursuing one. It's like, well, that's. Are we at war because of that right now?

[B]

Yeah, we are. Yeah, we are, everybody.

[A]

So the condition that they're claiming would need to exist for them to Pursue their own nuclear weapon already exists.

[B]

Right? Everybody wants one. It's not good.

[A]

Of course it's not good. I'm not. We're not disputing whether it's good to have nuclear weapons or not. What I'm trying to get you to see is Donald Trump does not give a. About America or anything in the world other than putting his name on and getting more money. And in this case, it's going to be at the expense of global safety, where now he's. He's potentially giving another country the key to the fucking executive washroom where we all have nuclear weapons now. And this specific country launched the biggest terrorist attack on United States soil in the history of our country. That's meaningless to you?

[B]

No, it's not meaningless. But if more people feel that way, like what you and Haley feel like, then they know what they have to do.

[C]

Don't you feel that way?

[A]

What? Take him out. What are you talking about?

[B]

I would like to know where is Vance. I haven't seen him lately. What's Vance doing?

[C]

He's sending his kid to golf lessons. Using taxpayer money and, like, military helicopters. That's what J.D. vance is doing. Taking trips around the world.

[B]

They did have a baby. Congratulations. They did. Yeah. I forgot about that.

[A]

All right, foreign, let's move on to our. Simmer down. We've gotten a little heated up here. My question is, if you could bring one of your pets back from the dead, who would it be, mom, and why?

[B]

I couldn't say. One. I'd bring them all.

[A]

All right.

[B]

I'd bring them all.

[A]

You gotta pick one.

[B]

Yeah. Max, Kitty, Rudy.

[A]

That's three.

[C]

Max and Kitty were, like, so much nicer than Rudy.

[A]

No, Rudy was beautiful. I'll never forget driving home. I had just sold a TV show in a pitch meeting, and I was driving back home and dad called me on my cell phone and I was like, what the. He never calls, Obviously. You have been the conduit of communication for the entirety of our family. And I was just like, hello? And he says nothing. He just goes, rooney, dad.

[B]

It's not funny.

[A]

It was to me at that moment. I mean, I love Rudy, too. I. I was very sad that he. He went to the. The big dog heaven, but. Interesting. All right, so you can't select one. Is that what we're learning here?

[B]

That's right. They're all my favorites.

[C]

Okay, Haley, this is really hard.

[A]

By the way, we should mention that Rudy was a little fat chihuahua.

[B]

Please.

[C]

To bite people.

[A]

Yeah, he was mean. He was a vicious motherfucker. I loved him. I loved Rudy so much.

[C]

This is really hard because we've had, you know, all of my animals live to be like. They all have longevity.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I.

[C]

We had Duff for. We had a Shiba Inu for, I think, almost 16 years. We had a. Like a chow chow mix named Roxy for equally as long. And then, like, we had an OG quad. We had Dust and Roxy, the two dogs. And then Stinky and Boomer were our two cats. And Boomer lived to be 18 and Stinky lived to be 21. Wow. So it's hard to say, but if I only get to choose one, I choose Stinky. He was like. He's like the cat that everybody wants. He was very cuddly. And if I would go stand next to him, he'd lift his hands up like this and get on his back feet and, like, want to be picked up and hugged. Like, he was always he. There was something, like, really special about him.

[B]

Yeah. He was the good.

[C]

Yeah. Even to, like, his dying day, he was still trying to give hugs with his old man body, so. Oh, I miss him immensely.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And we know what Chad's gonna say. Well, I don't know. One of two.

[A]

Yeah. That's how it is. It breaks down in my mind that way too. It's kind of a 50, 50 split.

[B]

Earliest or putty.

[A]

Those are the two. Pudding was a cat that we had when I was in junior high and high school. She would sleep in my bed under the covers, like in my legs. She would, like, crawl in there and go to sleep. Had multiple litters of kittens. Killed our rabbit when we were children. That was not that cool.

[B]

Killed our rabbit. Yeah.

[C]

Groom us as well. Yeah.

[A]

She would lick her hair. We were her babies.

[C]

And then.

[A]

Yeah. Squirrelus was a pet that. I mean, I don't even know if I consider a pet. She was a wild squirrel, but she became so familiar with me that she would come into my house every day, sit on the couch with me. I could pet her like a little cat. She would. She had multiple litters of babies right outside my bedroom window that she would let me watch over as she would go run around in the trees and stuff. Like I said, I don't know if I consider her a pet exactly, but we had a very close relationship. A daily relationship where I would feed her and hang out with her and stuff. She was really cool. So. Yeah. I don't know.

[B]

I met Squirrelly as she came in and sat on your. Sat on your knee while dad and

[A]

I were there once Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what. Which of these two I would bring back from the dead?

[C]

I don't know.

[B]

It's hard to say.

[A]

Probably. Yeah. All right, let's move on. Our next topic. One world military. This week the U S. House passed a National Defense Authorization act which would create a permanent initiative to merge U S and Israeli defense technology. The Bill would merge U.S. and Israeli defense research, development, testing, evaluation and industrial cooperation, including counter drone systems, missile and air defense, quantum computing, AI and autonomous systems, cyber and electronic warfare, directed energy and defense industrial co production. It also authorizes 750 million for U S Israel cooperative programs as political pressure builds to reduce US Military assistance to Israel. But the bill entrenches Israeli technology within the US Defense supply chain in a way that would shield it from the annual appropriations process. This comes at a time when much of the world considers Netanyahu a war criminal responsible for the ongoing genocide of the people of Gaza. Mom, do you think we should merge militaries with Israel?

[B]

No, I do not. But this bill that you're talking about, it's still going through Congress and so

[A]

is the Saudi Arabia thing.

[B]

Yeah, it could change. It could change in the end.

[A]

That's fine. But hang on a minute, hang on. You use this as a weird excuse. You did it a bunch last week too. Well, that's not gonna happen. The point we're making here is he's trying to get these things to happen, whether they do or don't. This is what Trump wants. And so when you say he's still my president even, and you're like, well, he says that but it's not going to happen, or he, that he's just joking. It's like whatever. He's saying these things, he's trying to do these things. And so if you disagree with the things even he's trying to do, using as an excuse the idea that, well, it won't happen doesn't really mean much because he's trying to do something that you don't agree with.

[B]

Correct. But they do this every year to try to pass this, to do like military raises to do weapons equipment and all that. Yeah, I don't think we should merge with Israel. There you go. Okay, that's my notes.

[C]

Do you think Netanyahu belongs behind bars?

[B]

Probably. He's killed a lot of people.

[A]

What? Hang on. Are you saying you think Netanyahu is a war criminal?

[B]

I kind of do.

[C]

So now you have sympathy for the people of Gaza?

[B]

I'm tired of people being killed I'm tired of being depressed.

[A]

Would you go so far as to say Netanyahu is committing a genocide?

[B]

No, I just think too many people are being killed.

[C]

It is genocide.

[A]

Too many people of a certain kind of people. That's a genocide.

[C]

He's trying to annihilate Gaza, like all Palestinians.

[B]

I know.

[C]

That's why he's a war criminal. He's, like, shooting children in the streets with snipers.

[B]

And there was a reporter that asked Trump, are you a war criminal too, you know, for killing people? And he.

[C]

Yeah, the answer is yes. He wants to take out bridges and power plants. Like that's crimes against humanity.

[B]

Yeah. She asked him that. He wouldn't answer it. And he goes, who do you work for? New York Times.

[A]

Fake news.

[B]

Yeah, fake news.

[A]

Do you remember the very beginning of the Iran war? The United States blew up a school full of children, a girls school. Remember that? Would you consider that?

[B]

Did we still get the answer that that was yes, that was the United States?

[C]

Yes. And when they asked him in press conferences, he avoids all of it? Well, we're still. There's. It's under investigation. For how fucking long is it going to be investigated? They did it on purpose.

[A]

So you can, hopefully, you can kind of see a bigger picture forming here, which is Netanyahu, a war criminal who is committing a genocide. Trump, a war criminal who is now threatening to bomb civilian infrastructure, has killed a school full of children, merging their militaries into one. You can see how he's positioning us as, like, one of the most evil countries in the world.

[B]

That would be a no vote for me for sure.

[A]

That's a no for me too, dog.

[B]

But did you call me dog?

[A]

I did.

[C]

Randy Jackson, American Idol. That's going to be a no for me, dog. It's pitchy. Pitchy dog.

[A]

Yeah. Doggy defense of Donald Trump's genocide is a little pitchy.

[B]

Call me a dog.

[A]

What I'm trying to get you to see is like, you. You say Netanyahu, you disagree with all the killing, etc. Etc. But you do see it's a genocide or no.

[B]

I. I'm starting to see. Yes. Yes.

[A]

Okay. Can you just say the phrase Netanyahu is a war criminal?

[B]

Don't put words in my mouth.

[A]

I'm not. I'm asking you to say them.

[B]

I don't want to say that right now.

[C]

But you know what a war criminal is, right?

[B]

Yes.

[C]

And he is. He is committing those crimes and has been.

[B]

War is not good at all, never will be, and we need to get out of the war we're in and we do not need to merge with Israel. There you go.

[A]

Okay, so against Trump on this then?

[C]

Yes. And Netanyahu.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

So far, everything today, you've been against Trump on literally every topic.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Let's move on to our next topic, the White House Correspondents Dinner Part 2. This week, Trump returned to the White House Correspondents association dinner three months after a gunman canceled the original event. Some notable moments included a rambling hour long speech from Trump himself attacking journalists, comedians, Democrats and even members of his own cabinet. At the dinner, CNN journalists and longtime target of Trump's temper tantrums, Kaitlan Collins, won the 2026 WHCA Broadcast Award for her coverage of the February 2025 Oval Office confrontation between Trump and President Zelinsky. Trump mocked the honor, saying, I want to personally congratulate CNN's Caitlin Collins on receiving her award. It was all about me. It's fake. She shouldn't get the award. And he also reprised his misogynistic comments about Collins needing to smile more as he began attacking her. There were some boos from the audience before the room fell quiet. Then, when Wall Street Journal reporters were given an award for their coverage of Trump's close personal friendship with child rapist Jeffrey Epstein, Trump smirked and shrugged his shoulders. Trump also WORE A Trump 2028 hat at the event and told those in attendance, when I'm not around, you're going to be broke. There's not going to be anyone to report on.

[B]

No.

[A]

What's that?

[C]

Have you thought about voice acting Every day.

[A]

Set it up.

[C]

You could be an anime villain for sure.

[B]

When he, when he.

[A]

That's my dream. That's my literal dream. If anybody out there is making anime and you need anything, a villain or anything, please email me.

[B]

Yeah, when he wore the hat, he said, dress like my president. Oh, better. It'll be better yet. I'm just kidding. Ah, that hurt my throat. That's what he said. He said, just like my presidency, second time is always better, and third time

[C]

I'll be better yet.

[A]

No, but he said he won three times. He was like, I won three times. Yeah, yeah.

[C]

He's disgusting. He's a disgrace. I'm tired of his face. I'm tired of him in the news. I want him gone.

[B]

There was one good thing at that dinner he did give an award to. It was the officer, the officer who shot or who was shot or something that night. He was given an award for his actions that pulled down the guy or whatever. Yeah.

[A]

Let me ask you this, mom, why do you think Donald Trump constantly attacks journalists?

[B]

Yeah. It's getting bad, and he needs to stop it. It's ridiculous. I don't know why.

[C]

Because he thinks it's a blow to his ego and he can't handle hearing it.

[B]

I think it's. He thinks it's all fake. Fake news.

[C]

No, he doesn't.

[A]

He knows it's not fake. Obviously. The reason he does it is to undermine the integrity of the press in America so that the people or his adherents, like you, still the. The mahja cult. It's so that when bad press comes out about him, you dismiss it immediately. Yeah, because it's fake. He says cnn, New York Times, they're all fake news. So when it comes out, when they drop a big bombshell report about how corrupt he is or how he was tied to Epstein or whatever the thing may be, he dismisses it because they're fake news, and then you dismiss it because he tells you to.

[C]

That's why he does this with Caroline Levitt, you know, when she's giving press conferences, she immediately dismisses, like, all of the news sources that they don't like, just so you will adhere to that same principle.

[B]

But he has also won money from some of these resources, and he hasn't won anything.

[C]

He's got. He's got some settlement, all of them, but he didn't win anything.

[A]

But, like, CBS gave him a settlement, or abc, maybe one of the big networks gave him money just to be like, okay, sorry, sorry. But it didn't go to court. It didn't go to trial.

[B]

No.

[A]

He was threatening to take away their broadcast license with his FCC chair, Brennan Carr, who's a horrible pile of too. He basically is just, like, threatening all press, who isn't completely flattering to him. And so to have him at this, the White House Correspondent center, to me is like, I don't get it. Quite frankly, I don't know why we have it. Because it's this weird dinner where you have all the people that are covering politicians and whoever else having dinner together in the same room. It, like, blurs the line, in my opinion, of journalistic integrity. Like, you shouldn't have a journalist who's covering Trump's involvement with Epstein shaking hands with Trump at this dinner while he's, like, cracking jokes and shit.

[C]

And you see some of them, like, getting chummy with Stephen Miller, and it's like, okay, I'm done. I never will trust you again.

[A]

Absolutely.

[B]

Supposed to be kind of like a roast or something to all Them, and it's supposed to be funny and stuff. And I guess he failed miserably. They said at. It had all the jokes and stuff.

[A]

Yeah, it's also just kind of like a. It's almost like the Oscars for press or something, which doesn't, like, line up the Oscars or the Emmys or whatever. That's all about artifice. It's all about, like, we create these fictional pieces of entertainment for you. And fine, get dressed up, show up. Get your awards. Like, that's fine. That kind of goes hand in hand with making movies and TV shows. But journalism is like a different thing. It's, like, hard. In my opinion, it should be, like, kind of gritty and, like, it's about the truth, whereas that night is not. It's literally about maintaining the lie that we're all just getting along. We can all sit in the same room with Donald Trump and everything's fine. And you're like, what the fuck is going on? Are you trying to take him down or not?

[B]

The hat thing, he was teasing. He's not going to run in 2028, and I've told you he won't run. That's stupid.

[A]

But why even put on the hat then?

[B]

Because he's. That was a joke that he tried to do, and he failed miserably, I guess.

[A]

Even when he started, he ran this whole line where he was trying to do jokes about Caitlin Collins needing to smile more. The room is dead silent.

[B]

I know.

[A]

He's just bombing.

[B]

Didn't work.

[C]

I guess he also fell. Did you see the video of him

[A]

just, like, eating, getting into that limo? Yeah, you got got. That video ain't real.

[C]

Really?

[B]

Yup.

[A]

AI, he fell.

[B]

Where?

[A]

No, he didn't.

[C]

That was a good video.

[A]

You got got.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

I want to see that. I want to see.

[C]

Flabbergasted.

[A]

Yeah, Got got. Go on, Snopes. I looked it up. As soon as I saw the video, I'm like, this isn't real. And indeed it's not.

[C]

Even some, you know, like, some influencers that I follow on Instagram are sharing it as if it was real.

[A]

Yeah, they got got, too.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

It ain't real. You gotta check that. That's the first thing I do. Anytime anything like that comes out, I'm like, google this. Is this real? And it ain't you got got. Let's move on. Our sixth and maybe final topic. I have two more, but this. This one might take us to the end here. Trump family corruption.

[B]

Oh, I wanted to do the ballroom one, but okay.

[A]

We can do them both. We can squeeze Trump family corruption is our next topic. This week, a New York Times report revealed Donald Trump Jr's investment firm, 1789 Capital, has gone from managing a few hundred million dollars two years ago to overseeing more than 3 billion. And its main investment fund generated returns of roughly 200% as of June 30, compared with an average of about 21% for venture firms started the same year he started his. Many of his largest investments are tied to big decisions made by the government. Trump Jr. Made an early bet on the prediction market platform Poly Market, when it was valued around 300 million. The company is now reportedly worth 15 billion after Trump loosened regulator guidelines in the US that allowed them to function as a company. Trump Jr also made investments in AI and defense technology that tripled in value in just months as Trump Senior gave the okay for many of these companies to receive government contracts. Mom, do you think it's okay for Trump Jr. To have an investment firm that bets on the decisions his dad is making?

[B]

That's not the way I see it going down. And he's not the only one in the firm. He is a co founder with two other people of the 1789 capital. Yeah, it's called. The firm invests in American companies and industries that. That strengthen. Strengthen. Strengthen. That strengthen our economy and national security. So they can buy into defense, manufacturing, energy, AI, aerospace, critical minerals. It supports American interests and ventures.

[A]

Sure. So, but here's how this works. Like Poly Market is, is a good example of it, Right?

[B]

Okay.

[A]

So Poly Market. Do you know what Poly Market is?

[B]

No, Please tell me.

[A]

It's a prediction market. So you can go, basically bet on anything. You can bet on who's going to win the super bowl, who's going to win Survivor. This is where that guy got in trouble, the dude that was a Marine. Because he bet on the day that Maduro was going to get kidnapped.

[B]

Right.

[A]

And he knew what day that was because he was getting the orders. He was part of the kidnapping.

[B]

Got it.

[A]

So that whole company, Polymarket, could not operate in America at all until these regulations were loosened.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Trump is the one making that decision. So he then just goes to his little son, is like, I'm going to go ahead and let Poly Market work in the United States. You should put some money into it. And so then he does. And that's, I mean, did you not hear the thing that I said? Investment firms started in the same year that Trump Jr. Started, that one have made about 21%. He's made 200%. You think that's just because he's super smart and knows what to. To bet on every time?

[B]

Well, he has two other people in that company with him. One guy is a financial one guy, something else. It's not just him. There's three.

[A]

Those guys are the nuts and bolts dudes who run the company. He's the one who goes to daddy and is like, okay, which defense contractor is going to get the big job for fucking drones this year? I'm giving it to this one. Okay. Buy that stock. It's all insider trading. How can he make 200% when other companies are making 20? He's making 10 times the amount of money any other company in his field is making.

[B]

I'm not sure.

[C]

You remember how Martha Stewart went to prison for six months?

[B]

Yes.

[C]

For insider trading.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

And that was over like, what? It wasn't even like a million dollars that she made from this deal?

[B]

I wish.

[C]

Trump is doing this every day.

[B]

I'm going to ask dad about this one. I'm going to ask if he thinks that's insider training or not.

[A]

It's not technically insider trading, I don't think. I'm not an expert in this, but my understanding is it's not. They're not buying stock. They're investing money in these companies.

[C]

Right.

[A]

United stake in the companies, basically. You know what I mean?

[B]

Right.

[A]

That's. At least. That's my understanding of how this is working. So it isn't technically insider trading. It's like a little workaround, you know what I mean? So it's not. I don't think technically. Again, I could be wrong on this, but this is my understanding of it. I don't technically think it's illegal. It's just horrible.

[C]

There are super corrupt billionaires in this. Just perfectly articulates why they don't get to the top through hard work, as you like to say.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

They get to the top through cheating and scamming. Like this is all just shady behavior.

[B]

I don't. I'm gonna ask your dad about that one. I'll get. I'll get back on that one.

[A]

What's he gonna tell you? Why do you need to ask him? What do you think?

[B]

To see if he thinks that's insider trading. I don't think it is.

[A]

I don't think it is either because I don't think they're trading stock. They are. They are investing money into these companies.

[B]

Right.

[C]

But they're getting a tip off from dad.

[A]

Yes, of course. Like you wouldn't invest money In Poly Market, if you thought at all that they weren't going to be able to operate in the United States, Trump Jr. Knew that they were because Daddy said that I'm gonna let this happen.

[B]

Okay, I understand it.

[A]

All right, let's move to our final topic, the ballroom corruption. This week, some new reporting came out about a report in June from a watchdog group called Public Citizen. Their report found over 50 billion taxpayer dollars in new and increased government contracts was given by Trump to corporate donors of his ballroom. Of 27 known corporate donors, 14 received new or expanded contracts. Lockheed Martin, Booz Allen Hamilton and Palantir were among the biggest beneficiaries. Over a longer window, 19 of 27 donors held $338 billion in contracts over five and a half years. And 16 of 27 face or had suspended federal enforcement actions, which are now likely to be eliminated. The White House disclosed 21 corporate donors, but not how much each gave. Mom, do you still think Trump needs his ballroom?

[B]

Yes, I do. The ballroom is being paid by private money, like what you said himself and private donors.

[A]

Right.

[B]

What is not is the underground bunker. Now, let's talk about this.

[A]

Okay?

[B]

The history of that bunker. It goes back to Franklin Roosevelt days. He's the first one that wanted that underground bunker for himself. So it was. There was an underground bunker a long time ago under that White House. On the day that we were bombed on 9, 11. Did you know that they grabbed Cheney? The vice President grabbed him and stuck him down in that bunker.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

That bunker is going to be useful not only for Trump, but for presidents coming after him. It will be a security place where they can be safe. That is the money. Congress has proposed to use some funds of our government to help secure the bunker. I don't see anything wrong with it. I really don't.

[A]

You're skipping over the entire thing that I just read. What? The ballroom is being funded by private donors, as you're saying.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Right now, these in quotes, private donors are giant companies. It's Amazon, it's Lockheed Martin, it's the billionaires, basically, and the military industrial complex are giving him money in exchange. He's giving them all contracts or loosening any restrictions that federal law may have on whatever they're doing, as I said. So you've got Palantir is one of these companies, obviously, who has massive government contracts. Lockheed Martin makes all of our missiles and bombs, and they're getting a huge contract. 14 of these 27 donors that we know of, because we don't exactly know all the donors that are going in because it's private. He doesn't have to reveal them if he doesn't want to. So that. We know that 14 of them have gotten new or expanded contracts. We know that 19 of them are going to get $338 billion in contracts over the next five and a half years. We know that 16 of them are up against some kind of federal enforcement action. Either they're getting hit with fines, they're being told you can't do this, they're being told you can't merge with this other company, whatever the case may be. Those are all being lifted now. So you donate $10 million to Trump's ballroom and you're going to get a contract that pays you billions for the next five years, or you're going to get out of some kind of jeopardy that your company is in because you've got federal enforcement coming down. You understand what's happening, right? These companies are giving him money for his ballroom, and then he's giving our taxpayer money to them. In exchange, he gets private money given to him. He gives our public money to these companies in exchange. You can see the corruption. Yes or no?

[B]

I kind of. But kind of not.

[A]

What do you mean? How do you not see it?

[B]

I see that they're giving him money to make the ballroom.

[A]

Right.

[B]

Then he gives them a contract. Or. What are you saying? How can he.

[A]

That's exactly what's happening.

[B]

And that. That is on paper and has been proven.

[A]

Yes. That's what this report is that I'm telling you about. 14 of the 27 companies, half of these companies that we know of, have received contracts almost immediately on the heels of giving the donation.

[B]

Right.

[A]

New contracts or like extensions of the current contract they have or expansions of the current contract they have. 19 of them are part of this, a larger thing that's like an extended kind of thing over the next five and a half years, where $338 billion of our money is being given to all these companies, then 16 of them are facing some kind of federal enforcement action, which is they. They're getting fines for some kind of impropriety or they're having trouble doing some kind of merger or opening a power plant or whatever the. The case may be. They're having some kind of roadblock by government regulation that sh. Just disappearing now.

[B]

Yeah. Is the Ballroom worth all that? No. No. Right.

[C]

Isn't it incredible to think that all that money that they're stealing from us could actually pay for universal health care?

[B]

Yes.

[C]

Doesn't that infuriate you that our government is robbing us blind and giving us nothing in return? We still don't even have a medical plan from Donald Trump. There is still nothing in place and nothing being implemented.

[B]

I know.

[C]

That's insane. I'm surprised you also didn't bring up the fact that he's, like, basically invading, like, national parks and, like, different land in Utah.

[A]

I don't know about this one.

[C]

You know what I'm talking about.

[B]

No, I did see that.

[C]

There's, like, two sacred. Sacred sites in Utah.

[B]

Rack and drill or something.

[C]

Yeah. Like, native land that they took all sanctions away. Like, now they're just gonna drill all over it, and then they, like endangered species. Basically, they said, go kill a manatee. I don't care. Like, they're rolling back all of these protections and our animals. We brought that up before for corporate greed and money. That is your president.

[B]

The only thing today I agreed upon is the bunker. I do think we need the bunker to say, president's coming in the future.

[A]

All right, well, that was the last topic we had. I want you right now to say, one way or another, abolish ice.

[C]

Huh?

[B]

Abolish ice.

[A]

I know you've said, abolish ice. And you're against the war. You're against all of these things, except you want the bunker built. But I do think you disagree with how it's happening, that the money he's getting to build all this is coming from these companies that he's just giving deals to. You disagree with that, I assume.

[C]

Would you rather have the bunker or universal health care?

[B]

Probably. Universal health care? Probably.

[C]

Probably.

[A]

So Trump is still your president?

[B]

Yes.

[A]

But you disagree with him on almost everything?

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Okay, so would you then say that in the future you might vote for a Democrat who you disagree with on almost everything?

[B]

No.

[A]

Why not? What would be the difference between how you now feel about Trump and a Democrat who you disagree with on almost everything?

[B]

I would vote for the person that I think would do the best job for our country, whether they are a Democrat or a Republican.

[C]

What are your hot buttons? What are the issues that mean the most to you? What are you voting on? Health care.

[B]

Health care. No more ice. Get ICE out of here.

[C]

Okay, so you're voting for a Democrat.

[A]

Yeah. Those are. Those are two big Democrat positions that no Republican will have.

[C]

I think you should actually, like, take time to research Mom, Dummy, and AOC because you've been fed, like, all your. That you know about them from Fox News and Newsmax. I think you should actually look them up. Look into their policies. Look at what they're trying to achieve. I think you'll be shocked.

[A]

You have some very socialist views right now.

[B]

I know this.

[A]

Okay. You're a MAGA Socialist. Before we say our love you or I love yous and everything, I should let everybody know we are going to be off this Wednesday. We are going to try to do a show next Sunday, and we will be off the following Wednesday as well. Then we will be back next Sunday. I am gallivanting.

[B]

Who's gallivanting?

[A]

Me. I'm going to be gallivanting.

[C]

You can't. You can't do it while you're gallivanting.

[A]

Well, it's going to. The time difference is going to be pretty insane.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

I'm not gonna have time to, like, edit and everything. So I'm gonna try to get next Sunday once I figure out our schedule and everything. Once we're over there, I will let you know. But the Wednesdays, I think, are not gonna be possible.

[B]

So I don't need to take my camera and just go on a walkabout and talk to people like I used to in the good old days.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Feel free. If you want to make a video and send it to me, I will post it. Or you can post it if you still have access.

[B]

Yeah, I could probably do that. I could send it to you or something. Little butterfly video or something.

[A]

Yeah, maybe. Yeah. People have been asking in the live for you to do like, a vlog about your butterflies. Go in the backyard, show us what the plants are. Show us your little butterfly cage, all that stuff.

[B]

I could do that, maybe.

[C]

So maybe the one Wednesday mom does her butterfly vlog, and then the next Wednesday I can do my skincare routine vlog.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Yeah. Just email me those videos and I'll post them for sure. But thank you for joining us. Mom, I love you. You're becoming a socialist. You kind of already are one and you just don't accept it yet. Haley, I love you. I'm sorry about your car. I hope they get to the bottom of that. And please tell dad that I love him.

[B]

All right. I love you, Haley. Sorry about your car. I love you, Chad.

[C]

Love you both. Sorry about my car, too. Don't know what I'm gonna do about it.

[A]

I will be on tonight at 6pm PDT had some people correcting me. We're not in PST right now. We're in PDT.

[B]

What's that?

[A]

Pacific Daylight Time or something? Oh, we're in Daylight Savings right now, I think so. I'LL be on at 6pm West coast time, however you want to say it. Are either of you going to join me?

[C]

Boy, I just told you I had to wake up at 2am to make that 5am flight and now I gotta go run all my errands and do my and worry about my car. I can't do it tonight.

[B]

Mom. What time would that be?

[A]

My eight for you.

[B]

Oh darn, no. I'll be in bed.

[A]

It'll just be me as always, holding down the fort. Join me if you dare to talk about today's show and anything else that you might want to talk about about it'll be on our YouTube. And once again, thanks for joining us. And once again, no Wednesday show this week. Maybe I'm 5050 on if I'm going to be able to do Sunday next week and no Wednesday show the week after. Then we will be back two weeks from today for sure with this kind of standard format. All right, see you later.

[B]

Bye bye.