Trump's China Trip

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Necessary Conversation

Episode: Trump’s China Trip
Date: May 17, 2026
Host: Chad Colchin
Guests: Mary Lou (Chad’s mother), Haley (Chad’s sister)

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Overview

This episode centers on post-2024 election America, with the Colchin family—Chad, Mary Lou, and Haley—engaging in their signature "family therapy through politics." Their discussions span President Trump’s contentious China trip, his approach to domestic and foreign policy, corruption in government, and contemporary political scandals. Intermingled with familial banter, the episode explores deep divisions within American politics, the overlap of personal interests with official business, and the ongoing consequences of Trump’s leadership style.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Family Update and Healthcare Frustrations

[00:01–02:19]

• The episode opens with a health update about Chad’s father, Bob, who remains hospitalized.
• The family discusses frustrating insurance obstacles and the lack of control even doctors face, reflecting the broader dysfunction of the American healthcare system.

“The insurance companies are the ones who control all your health care decisions. Doctors have no say in it. You have no say in it.”
—Chad, [01:38]

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2. Listener Question: MAGA Identity and Republican Values

[02:32–06:12]

• Listener Megan asks Mary Lou: Can you be a Republican and not support Trump?
• Mary Lou claims not to identify as MAGA but admits continued support for Trump, noting increased discomfort with some of his actions but not enough to renounce him.
• Haley asserts MAGA and the Republican party are now “the same thing,” while Chad describes the practical impossibility of being a non-Trump-supporting Republican in the current climate.

“You have a motherfucking hat that says MAGA... But Republicans can, you can be a Republican and not be a MAGA and you can be a MAGA and be a Republican.”
—Haley and Mary Lou, [04:35–04:41]

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3. Trump’s China Trip: Diplomatic Fiasco and Billionaire Entourage

[06:12–15:06]

• Chad summarizes Trump’s two-day China trip—widely seen as a diplomatic embarrassment.
  • President Xi humiliated Trump by making him sit in a smaller chair and called America a “declining nation.”
  • Trump took a delegation of billionaire CEOs (e.g., Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Jensen Huang) and family members, but not Melania. Instead, he brought his executive assistant Natalie Harp (sparking speculation about their relationship).
  • Trump secured minor trade concessions (planes, agricultural goods) but no substantive help from China regarding the Iran war or Taiwan.
  • Trump allowed continued Chinese purchase of American farmland.
• The family debates the appropriateness of taking business magnates on official trips, the possibility of personal enrichment, and potential national security implications.
• Mary Lou attempts to cast Trump’s actions as normal give-and-take but is challenged by Chad and Haley.

“No president in the history of the United States has done this. To take a bunch of billionaire CEOs to a chat with China…”
—Haley, [10:37]

“He’s literally giving American land to China.”
—Chad, [13:20]

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4. Trump’s Attitude Toward Americans’ Financial Pain

[15:06–21:35]

• Audio clips are played where Trump openly states, multiple times, that he does not consider Americans’ financial situations when dealing with foreign policy (specifically Iran).
• Inflation and rising gas prices are discussed. Trump justifies his stance by prioritizing nuclear non-proliferation over economic pain.
• Mary Lou insists Trump does care about Americans but is “laser focused” on the Iran issue, referencing supporting statements from House Speaker Mike Johnson.
• Haley and Chad accuse Trump of both indifference and direct self-enrichment through policy decisions.

“I don’t think about Americans' financial situation. I don’t think about anybody. I think about one thing. We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.”
—Trump (clip), [15:18]

“Donald Trump himself said, I don’t give a fuck. Thrice… And he said, no, motherfucker, I meant it. And I’ll say it again.”
—Haley, [19:17]

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5. New York Mayor Zorin Mamdani’s First 100 Days

[21:43–26:31]

• Chad outlines Mamdani’s accomplishments: eliminating New York’s $12bn deficit, universal child care, settlements for exploited workers and tenants, and new infrastructure initiatives.
• Mary Lou remains skeptical, calling the fixes temporary and warning of billionaire flight and future shortfalls.
• Haley points out the hypocrisy of criticizing social policies that help ordinary people while ignoring Trump’s self-serving actions.

“Give him time, we’ll see if it sticks… But Trump will fire him.”
—Mary Lou, [25:04], [42:48]

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6. Lighthearted Family Moment: Gibberish/Glossolalia

[26:31–29:44]

• A brief, comedic interlude where the family does “gibberish” vocalizations together, providing comic relief amidst heavy topics.

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7. Trump’s Creation of a $1.7 Billion Compensation Fund

[29:44–35:59]

• Chad reports Trump will drop a $10bn lawsuit against the IRS in exchange for establishing a $1.7bn fund to compensate January 6th defendants and others claiming persecution by the “Biden weaponization” of government.
• The fund, with almost no oversight, could directly enrich Trump, his associates, and convicted criminals.
• Mary Lou justifies the payouts as deserved, believing many were “wrongfully targeted”—even if the sums per defendant exceed $1 million.
• The hosts debate the ethics and reality of such government payouts and Trump’s repeated fraudulent schemes.

“If he splits up the $1.7 billion… each one of those people will get $1,062,500.”
—Chad, [34:10]

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8. FBI Head Kash Patel’s Disrespect at Pearl Harbor

[36:14–43:24]

• Trump’s FBI head, Kash Patel, is accused of inappropriate behavior (partying, drunkenness, and disrespectful snorkeling at the USS Arizona memorial).
• Mary Lou predicts Trump will fire Patel—though Chad and Haley are skeptical, noting Trump has only fired women from his administration so far.
• The family debates the pattern of corruption and poor judgment in Trump’s appointments.

“He gives people chances… If they don’t produce, bye bye.”
—Mary Lou, [40:01]

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9. Reality TV Government: Sean Duffy’s “The Great American Road Trip”

[43:24–47:26]

• Trump’s Transportation Secretary, Sean Duffy, is starring in a taxpayer-supported reality show, funded by corporations he regulates.
• The family discusses the corruption and conflict of interest, and the increasing blurring of politics, business, and entertainment.
• Mary Lou calls this “bizarre,” and recognizes Trump’s reality TV ethos may have negatively infiltrated the government.

“America’s a beautiful place right now. Gas prices higher than they’ve ever been—what’s he doing? Spending money, spending our money on higher-priced gas to literally drive across the fucking country with his family.”
—Chad, [45:04]

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10. Perceptions of America Abroad and Domestic Readiness

[47:26–49:53]

• The hosts reflect on declining international perceptions (e.g., Australia's rejection of a Trump Tower).
• The family discusses the U.S.’s pandemic preparedness, with Mary Lou citing World Health Organization involvement—only to be reminded by Chad that Trump withdrew the U.S. from the WHO.

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11. Trump’s Health and Anti-Aging Claims

[49:53–52:08]

• Trump’s conspicuous attempts to project youth are mocked as the family speculates about his actual health.

“He said he’s aging in reverse… Yeah, he said he is.—He didn’t mean it. For real.”
—Chad & Mary Lou, [51:15–51:19]

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12. Summing Up: Fatigue and Ongoing Family Friction

[52:08–end]

• The episode ends with familial exhaustion and mutual encouragement as Bob’s health struggles continue. There are closing acknowledgments of increasing doubts and disagreements with Trump by Mary Lou, even while maintaining overall support.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On MAGA and Republican Identity
  “To be a Republican and not be MAGA, it would mean saying, I hate Donald Trump… but I’m still for fiscal responsibility, conservative family values… but also not be for Trump.”
  —Chad, [05:14]

• On Diplomatic Humiliation
  “The bottom line is Trump got his ass handed to him. He looked so stupid when they put him in that little tiny chair.”
  —Chad, [14:51]

• On Direct Enrichment
  “Trump is in the multiple billions arena at this point with how much he has taken from other countries and given to his family.”
  —Chad, [09:44]

• Comic Relief
  “Sometimes I just hear gibberish phrases. —Because you’re autistic. —Thank you.”
  —Chad & Mary Lou, [27:02]

• On Political Theater
  “Our government is a joke.”
  —Haley, [46:39]

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Important Timestamps

• Listener question and MAGA identity: [02:32–06:12]
• China trip details and fallout: [06:12–15:06]
• Trump’s disregard for Americans' finances: [15:06–21:35]
• NYC Mayor Mamdani’s performance: [21:43–26:31]
• Trump $1.7B compensation fund for Jan 6 defendants: [29:44–35:59]
• Kash Patel and Pearl Harbor disrespect: [36:14–43:24]
• Sean Duffy’s reality show and government corruption: [43:24–47:26]

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Conclusion

This episode of The Necessary Conversation is an intimate, sometimes combative, and always candid glimpse into a family grappling with the nation’s political and ethical crossroads. The hosts dissect recent Trump controversies—from geopolitical blunders to domestic corruption and the spectacle of reality governance—always mapping the larger implications onto their own evolving relationships and convictions.

The tone balances sharp skepticism (Haley and Chad) with loyal, if struggling, support (Mary Lou), mirroring many American households navigating these divisive times. Through humor, argument, and occasional absurdity, the Colchin family makes national politics personal.

Transcript

[Chad Colchin]

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 Colchin. As you can see, I'm still in Oklahoma with my mom and my sister. They are both here with me. We're helping out our mom as Bob. Our dad is still in the hospital. Mom, you want to give an update on his condition?

[Mary Lou]

About the same. And we get kicked out due to insurances. On Tuesday morning, he just. We had a bunch of doctors come through this morning. We're working on dehydration, we're working on potassium levels, on magnesium levels. He's starting to give a little pushback, so I'm pushing back on him to do what's right. And if you want to come home, you have to do these things. When we first got to rehab, he was good. He was walking, doing a few things. But now L4 L5 are giving him terrible pain and he's decided to shut it down for a while and not get up. And he can't. So hopefully maybe Monday before we get kicked down, I'll have him to the spine doctors. One of the best one here in okc. That's where we're at.

[Chad Colchin]

Yeah, it's. It's been interesting to navigate the American healthcare system and see that. I mean, I kind of already knew this from cancer treatment, but the insurance companies are the ones who control all of your health care decisions. Doctors have no say in it. You have no say in it.

[Mary Lou]

The doctor would like to keep us. He said at least two more weeks, but the insurance says no, you have to go. And we have a first insurance of Medicare and then we have a secondary too, but. And the doctor will try to code as many things on there to keep you as long as he can. But they're kicking us out on Tuesday no matter what. So I have scrambled to get that care at home too and go from there.

[Chad Colchin]

Do you have any ditties? Mom?

[Mary Lou]

Diddy, You. That's it.

[Chad Colchin]

What does that mean?

[Mary Lou]

Means I have no Diddy at this

[Haley]

point, so I got nothing left to Diddy.

[Chad Colchin]

I do have a listener question. I thought we could play one today. I'm just going to play it off my computer screen. I'll turn around so you guys can see it.

[Mary Lou]

Okay.

[Chad Colchin]

If you want to submit a question to our podcast, all you have to do is record it in a one minute or shorter video. Send it to the necessary conversation podmail.com I try to play the best ones here. Here is today's question.

[Megan]

Good morning cult and fam. My name is Megan. I am 32 years old. I live in Jacksonville, Florida. I own my own home independently and I have a full time job and a part time job for whatever assumptions Bob wants to make about demographic. My question is for Mary Lou. Last week on the pod, Chad was teasing you about, you know, you disagreed with Trump on several points and it was really difficult for you to say out loud that you disagree with him specifically. I know that Chad and Haley like to tease you about, you know, liberalism and. Oh, you're sounding like a library. Is there a universe that exists where you can remain a Republican and support our country and not support Donald Trump? Thanks. Love the pod.

[Chad Colchin]

So that's the question, mom, in your mind, could you remain a Republican and not support Donald Trump?

[Mary Lou]

Yes. We've talked about that on another podcast. If he pardons Maxwell, if he is taken down for crimes himself dealing with children. Yes.

[Chad Colchin]

Okay, now you. I don't know if this was yesterday or the day before. We were driving in the car coming back from dad and you told me that you were not maga. Do you remember this?

[Mary Lou]

I have never thought I was maga. You guys labeled me with this.

[Chad Colchin]

We labeled you?

[Mary Lou]

You labeled me. I've always thought I was a Republican.

[Haley]

You have a motherfucking hat that says my job, but that's. You got all the products.

[Mary Lou]

But Republicans can. You can be a Republican and not be a maga and you can be a MAGA and be a Republican.

[Haley]

No, MAGA is maga, period. It's its own entity.

[Chad Colchin]

MAGA is the Republican Party at this point.

[Mary Lou]

Okay, so I'm a Republican.

[Chad Colchin]

Right. That at this point that means maga.

[Mary Lou]

I guess I'm still MAGA then.

[Chad Colchin]

Right? Because you're supporting Donald Trump. If you support Donald Trump, you're maga. You do support him.

[Mary Lou]

Yes, I still do. Okay.

[Chad Colchin]

To be a Republican and not be maga, it would mean saying, I hate Donald Trump or at the very least, I would never vote for him. I think his policies are bad. But I'm still for fiscal responsibility, conservative family values, blah, blah, all this that Republicans are, but also not be for Trump.

[Mary Lou]

Well, there's more and more things that I'm disliking. Yes, yes. You can eliminate the golden statue and bringing God and Jesus and stuff into that and kissing that. That's not. Yeah, there's a lot of Things that my eyes are being open to that I don't like. But I am still a Republican. I guess you're calling me still a maga.

[Chad Colchin]

Yeah.

[Mary Lou]

And Trump is my president.

[Haley]

You have to renounce, like your love of Donald Trump. You can still be conservative and a Republican. You just have to say, fuck Donald Trump. I see all this terrible shit happening, but I'm still conservative and I'm still a Republican.

[Mary Lou]

Well, not yet.

[Chad Colchin]

Okay. Still maga. Speaking of things that are turning your head, changing your mind, let's get into today's topics. First up, we got Trump in China. This week, Trump took a two day trip to China, which was largely seen as a failure for America. As Chinese President Xi referred to America as a declining nation and made Trump sit in a smaller chair than he sat in for a meeting, effectively humiliating him on the global stage. To make matters worse, Trump chose to take a group of billionaires with him who hold no formal office in United States government. His billionaire entourage included Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Jensen Huang, Larry Fink, Jane Frazier, Stephen Schwartzman, and Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg. Musk and Huang flew on Air Force One with Trump. Trump also opted to take family members Eric Trump and Lara Trump, but Melania did not join him. But he did take his 34 year old executive assistant and social media planner Natalie Harp, who many are speculating is his mistress. Mom, you are one of those people that make that speculation.

[Mary Lou]

I just had. I. It's speculation. It has not been proven, but I did read some of that.

[Chad Colchin]

Okay. President Xi made no commitment to help with Trump's war in Iran. And he warned that if Trump mishandled the situation in Taiwan, it would put the America China relationship, quote, in great jeopardy. And, and Trump was convinced by Xi to let Chinese nationals buy American farmland. Trump left China with no major breakthroughs on trade or tangible help in Iran, despite heaping praise on Xi Malm. Why do you think Trump took so many billionaires with him to China?

[Mary Lou]

Well, what I have read is that some good things did come of that, that they were, you know, the BOEING, we got 200 aircraft now, but China

[Chad Colchin]

committed to buying 500. Then we got there and he was like, nah, we're just gonna do 2,

[Mary Lou]

200 plus more in the future. Okay, okay. There are, there was soy, soybeans, wheat, beef, poultry, some of that. China signaled willingness to reduce tariffs on that and that's okay. So that kind of opens stuff, I guess, the airplanes. It was.

[Chad Colchin]

But why do you think, like the CEO of Nvidia was taken? Why Was Elon Musk taken? Why did Elon Musk get to take his little kid? XAE xxx There.

[Haley]

This was all about business deals for them.

[Chad Colchin]

Yes.

[Haley]

Yes.

[Mary Lou]

And us. No. And the United States.

[Chad Colchin]

What business deal do you think Elon Musk was making for the United States?

[Mary Lou]

I have no idea.

[Haley]

He's not even part of the Cabinet.

[Chad Colchin]

What business deal do you think Tim Cook was making for the United States?

[Mary Lou]

I have no idea.

[Haley]

They weren't. This was all personal gain. It's a whole bunch of billionaires making personal contracts with China and Donald Trump being the facilitator and bringing his family in addition to make more money for his family. Kind of like in people.

[Mary Lou]

Kind of like when Biden went on his trips and had to have Hunter right there to make deals for him, too.

[Chad Colchin]

Oh, my God.

[Mary Lou]

And that's the truth.

[Haley]

And we don't like that either.

[Mary Lou]

No, we don't.

[Chad Colchin]

Right. This is a little different in that even if what you're saying is true, which I don't necessarily agree with, but let's say that it is. Let's say Joe Biden took Hunter Biden everywhere around the world to do these illicit business dealings and. And enrich their family.

[Mary Lou]

Yes.

[Chad Colchin]

They did not do as much as Trump is doing. Trump is in the multiple billions arena at this point with how much he has taken from other countries and given to his family. Nor did Biden take a group of 12 billionaire CEOs with him to do business for their companies. That has nothing to do with America.

[Mary Lou]

No, he took family members, and then all that money trickled down into his family.

[Chad Colchin]

So did Trump.

[Mary Lou]

Okay, so what's the. What's the difference?

[Chad Colchin]

These billionaires that are coming in to do this, I'm assuming they're giving kickback to Trump in some way, or at least special treatment through their companies.

[Mary Lou]

Oh, I never thought of it like that.

[Chad Colchin]

Why else would he be taking them?

[Haley]

No president in the fucking.

[Mary Lou]

Most of those people are like the head of. Of things that he does and is around him. No, no.

[Haley]

They're just billionaires with companies that they want to further their agenda and make money. No president in the history of the United States has done this to take a bunch of billionaire CEOs to a chat with China with another country.

[Mary Lou]

They also talked about Taiwan.

[Chad Colchin]

Yeah. Yes, we're gonna get to that. Okay, well, let me ask you this. Why do you think he didn't take Melania to China?

[Mary Lou]

Because she's mad at him, I'm sure. Okay, maybe over the blonde chick that

[Chad Colchin]

he took and you believe this executive assistant that he took with him? I had her name written.

[Mary Lou]

Speculation, speculation.

[Chad Colchin]

Natalie Harp.

[Mary Lou]

We don't know.

[Chad Colchin]

What do you think the nature of that relationship is?

[Mary Lou]

Well, they said she's what, his executive assistant. And behind some of the weird stuff on X and the social media, she

[Chad Colchin]

does post for him.

[Mary Lou]

I'm not there. I don't know. I speculate.

[Chad Colchin]

You were the one who told me this.

[Mary Lou]

I speculate. Yeah.

[Chad Colchin]

Okay. I wouldn't even put this in the list. This question had brought it up.

[Haley]

You brought it to the table. I speculate. Why is this blonde.

[Mary Lou]

I speculate. Why wouldn't the wifey not go?

[Chad Colchin]

You tell me.

[Mary Lou]

Why would our first lady not go?

[Chad Colchin]

Why?

[Haley]

Right.

[Chad Colchin]

Answer the question.

[Mary Lou]

Because she is mad.

[Chad Colchin]

Huh? Because.

[Mary Lou]

Because the blonde chick is there.

[Chad Colchin]

Okay.

[Mary Lou]

Yeah.

[Chad Colchin]

Why do you think Trump couldn't get President Xi to commit to aiding us in the war in Iran?

[Mary Lou]

They. They're in discussions, I guess. Gotta wait and see.

[Chad Colchin]

Those discussions are over. He left China.

[Mary Lou]

Okay. There'll probably be more discussions, hopefully.

[Haley]

No, that was the discussion. That was it.

[Chad Colchin]

Why do you think Trump is allowing Chinese nationals to continue to buy American farmland?

[Mary Lou]

There's got to be give and take. Maybe. I don't know.

[Chad Colchin]

Yeah, the. The give is they're giving money to Donald Trump and the take is they're

[Mary Lou]

taking American farmland, but they're buying the airplanes from us. Right.

[Chad Colchin]

What does that have to do with anything? How does that help American farmers? That Boeing is going to sell 200 of the 500 promised planes to China?

[Mary Lou]

Give and take. And they're gonna buy soy and stuff like that from us. Right. And more beef.

[Haley]

American farmers are.

[Mary Lou]

No, I think this trip helped them. I thought.

[Chad Colchin]

What. It doesn't matter if they. Let's say that China is agreeing. Yes. We'll buy all your beef and all your soybeans.

[Mary Lou]

Right.

[Chad Colchin]

Also, we own the land it's grown on now, right?

[Mary Lou]

Yeah.

[Chad Colchin]

So those farmers are gone. Fuck you. We're putting our farmers there or our factory farming or whatever they want to do.

[Mary Lou]

I don't see.

[Chad Colchin]

He's literally giving American land to China.

[Mary Lou]

I don't see that as when you need them.

[Chad Colchin]

What do you mean you don't see it as happening?

[Mary Lou]

I don't see that as happening.

[Haley]

It is happening.

[Chad Colchin]

That's literally part of what they talked about.

[Mary Lou]

I thought the American farmers that are producing all that, that, that now is going to be sold to China, but

[Chad Colchin]

China is being allowed to buy their land. So when farmers get hit hard and it's like, shit, we have. We Had a bad year. We can't sell our stuff like we used to. I'm in financial dire straits. And then a Chinese mega corporation comes in, is like, well, we'll buy your farmland, maybe even for more value than it's worth. That farmer now has no choice.

[Mary Lou]

I'd like to see what percentage they own of the land.

[Chad Colchin]

Okay, I'll, I'll look for that.

[Mary Lou]

I mean, not today, but, yeah, I would like to see that.

[Chad Colchin]

All right. So do you think overall, Trump's trip to China was a success?

[Mary Lou]

I think it was. I don't think it was as bad as everybody's saying it was successful for him.

[Chad Colchin]

Okay.

[Haley]

And the billionaires, but not for us. He didn't broker any deals that benefit the American.

[Mary Lou]

They talked about Taiwan. They did the farmer thing, they did the airplane thing.

[Chad Colchin]

They talked about Taiwan. Yes. But, well, I had it in here somewhere. President Xi said he made no commitment to help with the war in Iran. And he. She basically said if you mishandle the situation in Taiwan, it could put our relationship in, quote, great jeopardy. That basically means you're going to let us do whatever we want there, right?

[Mary Lou]

Yeah.

[Chad Colchin]

The bottom line is Trump got his ass handed to him. He looked so stupid when they put him in that little tiny chair.

[Haley]

He always looks so stupid.

[Mary Lou]

That part I didn't see. I just saw him walking. I didn't see him in the tiny chair that you all are talking about.

[Chad Colchin]

Let's move on. Trump doesn't care about Americans is our next topic. This week, Trump was asked to what extent Americans financial situations were motivating him to make a deal with Iran. He said, not even a little bit.

[Reporter/Interviewer]

The only thing that matters when I'm talking about Iran, they can't have a nuclear weapon. I don't think about Americans financial situation. I don't think about anybody. I think about one thing. We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That's all.

[Mary Lou]

I can't understand, understand you, so stop it.

[Chad Colchin]

When ABC's Karen Travers passed him to clarify what about the pressure on Americans prices right now, he doubled down. This was on the same day.

[Reporter/Interviewer]

The most important thing by far is Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.

[Chad Colchin]

He added that, quote, including whether our

[Reporter/Interviewer]

stock market, which by the way is at an all time high, but including whether our stock market goes up a little or down a little. The most important thing by far is Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Every American understands this.

[Chad Colchin]

Landed on the same day inflation data showed gas prices at $4.50 a gallon, up 28% in the past two months. Then later this week, in a Fox News interview with Brett Baier taping in Beijing, Bayer said you can imagine how many people stopped the sound bite at I don't think about American's financial situation. So what's your response to that? And Trump replied, I can't do the voice because that hurt my throat so bad. Trump replied, it's very simple. When people hear me say it, everybody agrees. Short term pain. It's going to be short term pain. And he added, I'd make it again the decision to say that exact same thing. Triple down on this. So, mom, Trump has said twice he does not care about Americans financial situations. Do you think he does?

[Mary Lou]

I do. I totally think he cares. And he does. And I think they stopped that right where he said it and then they broadcasted all of that. He has like a one, a tunnel vision mind and, or, and he's, he wants the war to end and he wants no bombs over there. And that's what he was trying to say.

[Haley]

No, he's just a selfish piece of. And that's what he said. I don't give a fuck about the American people.

[Mary Lou]

No, I said it. I'm trying to find what the President

[Haley]

would say that he said it.

[Chad Colchin]

What do you mean you're trying to find what he said? I just read you everything he said.

[Mary Lou]

No, what Rubio said about his statement.

[Chad Colchin]

Who cares, Mom?

[Mary Lou]

That he cares.

[Chad Colchin]

They're running interference for him. He said, I don't care about America's financial situation. Then on that same day, like immediately after that, he's asked by a reporter, did you mean to say that? Yep, meant to say it. Then multiple days later in China, he's asked about it again and he's like, I would say it again.

[Mary Lou]

Okay, here's what Johnson said. It wasn't Rubio, it was Johnson. I can tell you the president thinks about Americans financial situations. I talk to him on an average twice a day, sometimes three or four times a day. And we talk about it constantly. Constantly. He is laser focused. That's what I was trying to say. Laser focused on trying to resolve the conflict in Iran. Okay. Because if we get the Strait of Hermos reopened, that will alleviate pressure on gas prices and the economy in the United States. The message is he does care.

[Haley]

So first of all, Obama had a deal with Iran, so none of this existed and we were all fine. This is all Donald Trump's fault. Now they're backpedaling and like, oh, we got to get the straight open it. Fudgeing was they did this okay. And this is coming from Mike Johnson.

[Mary Lou]

Yes.

[Haley]

A guy who just came before the fucking public and said we should be able to insider trade because my salary of $250,000 isn't enough for my family. Did you see that?

[Mary Lou]

No, I did not see that.

[Haley]

We should be able to do stock trading.

[Chad Colchin]

Yeah. He was asked basically, like our federal politicians doing insider trading, and do you think it's a good idea that you guys should all be able to trade against basically what's going on? And he was like, well, we only make $250,000 a year and so we need to do insider trading.

[Mary Lou]

No, I didn't see that.

[Haley]

They're all crooks.

[Mary Lou]

He said he talks to him three and four times a day. He said he does care. And that's. I do believe he does.

[Haley]

Donald Trump himself said, I don't give a fuck. Thrice they. They said, like, if you want to go ahead and, like, say that wasn't what you meant, go ahead and do it. And he said, no, motherfucker, I meant it. And I'll say it again.

[Mary Lou]

Yes, because he's tunnel vision.

[Haley]

No, because he's a selfish piece of shit.

[Mary Lou]

I'm sorry.

[Chad Colchin]

It's because he's a billionaire making international deals against the interests of the United States. He knows that he's hurting the regular American with all this shit. Like, he's seeing gas prices go up, he's seeing the price of everything go up. He does not give a fuck.

[Mary Lou]

He.

[Chad Colchin]

He could end this war tomorrow. He could just say, it's over, we're out, sorry, Iran. He's not going to do that.

[Mary Lou]

I think he cares that if they have a bomb and they drop it on us, we're all gone anyway.

[Haley]

This is all.

[Chad Colchin]

Why haven't they dropped it on us?

[Mary Lou]

I don't know.

[Haley]

It's not here. It's not real.

[Mary Lou]

They have the capabilities, making it and he's going to stop it all.

[Haley]

This was just like nuclear weapons.

[Mary Lou]

Nuclear, nuclear, nuclear, nuclear, nuclear.

[Haley]

I can't even say it wrong. Nuclear, nuclear. I have weapons.

[Mary Lou]

He wants that stopped. And that's what he was focusing in on. And I do believe he cares for the American people.

[Haley]

They're preying upon, okay, fear. They're trying to make you scared that they have this big bomb that's going to blow everybody up. It's not real. Just like the weapons of mass destruction were not real. It's all like a cash grab.

[Mary Lou]

I do believe he cares about America.

[Chad Colchin]

Okay? You believe that. But when other maga see him say this three Times I don't care about America's financial situation again and again and again. Do you think other MAGA are starting to get turned off by this?

[Mary Lou]

No, my. No. My MAGA friends are more turned off about kissing the golden statues, that kind of stuff. The bringing the religious freak lady in that. We're concerned about that.

[Chad Colchin]

But do you have any MAGA friends who are being financially affected by this?

[Mary Lou]

No. In fact, one of them said the other day, I don't know what's wrong, but my gas has gone down a little bit. Kind of look good at the gas pump.

[Haley]

That's not true.

[Mary Lou]

That's what, that's what she said.

[Haley]

That's not true.

[Chad Colchin]

They may be living in a delusional world. I don't know. That's not true. They're seeing the numbers on the gas pump differently than they actually are.

[Reporter/Interviewer]

I don't know.

[Haley]

They're astral projecting into another plane.

[Chad Colchin]

All right, let's move on to our third topic. Mamdani. His first hundred days in office as a New York mayor.

[Mary Lou]

Yeah.

[Chad Colchin]

This week marked 100 days in office for New York Mayor Zorin Mamdani. And he has some significant accomplishments. Perhaps most notably, he announced that he has reduced New York's $12 billion deficit inherited from primary Eric Adams to zero. He has also instituted universal child care with $1.2 billion of funding from Governor Kathy Hochul to fund child care for 2 year olds from existing state revenue with signups starting in June and spots announced by August delivered without requiring any tax increases. He also secured more than 30 million in settlements with bad landlords, repaired over 6,000 apartments, and recovered nearly $100,000 a day for workers exploited by corporations and delivery apps. He also announced plans for a city run grocery store at La Marquetta in East Harlem, plus expanded fast bus lanes and garbage containerization. Mom, you said when he was elected that New York City would fall. It has not fallen. It seems to be doing very good. Do you still think it will fall?

[Mary Lou]

Yes, I do.

[Chad Colchin]

Okay.

[Mary Lou]

What I have read about those grocery stores are like three years from now, maybe they'll open. I also read that all this stuff that they said he just did as a temporary fix, 4 billion of this money that he is so erased has come from help and actions by the New York State, by the state of New York. The governor, Kathy. How do you say her name? Hochul. Including pension restructuring. So she's take. He's taking money out of pensions of people. He's getting it from the state. Around 1.77 billion of that came from agency savings. So he's cutting contracts, he's cutting people's pensions as a temporary fix to say, look what I've done. And everything I've read said this could be a huge future shortfall because the fixes are temporary rather than permanent. So maybe he's done it for now, but it's not going to stay.

[Chad Colchin]

So you still feel like New York City will, in quotes, fall?

[Mary Lou]

I think it will, because the billionaires that he's taken money from will leave also, and they'll get the heck out of there. So they're going to say, you're not going to get all my money. I'm not going to give you my billions.

[Chad Colchin]

Okay. And so what is the fall to you? What will that look like?

[Mary Lou]

A lot of the housing, a lot of the good houses, people will leave. It will all be sold off, the free grocery stores and all that. Three to four years down the line. If it's there. I don't even know. Taking money from people's pensions, that's not good. They're not going to put up with that.

[Haley]

Donald Trump does that every day. He's stealing $1.7 million. Donald Trump does that every day.

[Mary Lou]

Okay.

[Haley]

Goons are literally robbing us blind every day.

[Mary Lou]

Okay.

[Haley]

But you want to go after Mom Donnie for setting up, like, daycare, like I said, giving people apartments that aren't. Like what?

[Mary Lou]

Like I said, people have said that it's temporary. So I guess give him more time and see if it sticks. That's what I want to say.

[Haley]

Regardless if it's tem or not, it exists right now. Is that not good? Did not do good for.

[Mary Lou]

For a couple days.

[Haley]

Did he do good?

[Mary Lou]

It's what, stealing from the rich given to the poor or stealing out of pensions?

[Haley]

Stealing? You mean making billionaires pay their taxes?

[Mary Lou]

Taking money from pensions, giving to other people? I don't know. Give him time. We'll see. We'll see if it sticks.

[Chad Colchin]

Do you think universal child care is good?

[Mary Lou]

Yes.

[Chad Colchin]

Okay, so then he's done good there.

[Mary Lou]

Yes.

[Chad Colchin]

Do you think lowering the deficit of his city to zero from $12 billion

[Mary Lou]

is good, but he's taken from places that they say may not be permanent.

[Chad Colchin]

Okay.

[Mary Lou]

I mean, anybody can shuffle money around.

[Chad Colchin]

All right? But when you look at that and you're like, anybody can shuffle money around, which you would agree Trump does as well?

[Mary Lou]

Probably. They all do.

[Chad Colchin]

Probably.

[Haley]

He definitely did. He fired a bunch of government agencies and then stole that money and put it in his own pockets and called it waste fraud. And abuse.

[Mary Lou]

Okay?

[Chad Colchin]

So when Mamdani is shuffling the money around, he brings his city's deficit to zero. When Trump's doing it, he is enriching himself and his family to the tune of billions of dollars. The American deficit ain't zero.

[Mary Lou]

No.

[Chad Colchin]

So who do you think is shuffling the money better?

[Mary Lou]

I'm sure it's greater for Trump to have to do stuff than one state like that, too.

[Chad Colchin]

Okay. But he has shuffled enough of this money around that he could have affected our deficit. He hasn't.

[Mary Lou]

He's trying.

[Haley]

No, he's not. The deficit is growing.

[Mary Lou]

He's trying.

[Chad Colchin]

All right, let's move to our. Simmer down. Mom, you and I have already done this a little bit. We've had an intense week here in Oklahoma City, to say the very least. And sometimes we just need to laugh because it's, as I said, intense. And so was this in the car yesterday, or I forget where we were. I sometimes will speak in gibberish. Let me simply say that it's an affectation I have that I can't really control. Sometimes I just hear gibberish phrases.

[Mary Lou]

Because you're autistic.

[Chad Colchin]

Thank you. He is. And so sometimes I'll just do it. And I was speaking some gibberish around the kitchen, and, mom, you became enraged by it. What are you doing? Shut that up. And I said, no, in fact, you should speak gibberish. It's fun. And then you did. You jibbed a little bit. So I thought today it could be fun if we all three speak some gibberish.

[Haley]

But, like, that's your. So at the bakery, we. Sometimes we'll do gibberish, but we do noises. So, like, we try to. It's just the repetition of, like, sound.

[Megan]

And.

[Chad Colchin]

Also known as glossolalia.

[Haley]

So we try to, like. I think I can sound like a train whistle.

[Chad Colchin]

Oh, let's hear it.

[Haley]

It might take me a minute. I have, like, a double voice.

[Mary Lou]

Yeah, you have it.

[Haley]

Like, I can. I can.

[Chad Colchin]

I can do that. Can you speak like that?

[Haley]

No, I've tried, Mother.

[Mary Lou]

Oh, my God. Yeah.

[Haley]

So we do like that.

[Mary Lou]

Oh, dear God.

[Chad Colchin]

I have little phrases that will trigger in my head. Like, anytime I'm in the bathtub and I lay down, and then when I sit up, I have a phrase that goes through my head that is this boy qualaquine. And I say it out loud.

[Mary Lou]

What is wrong with you? You are your father's children. You're not mine.

[Chad Colchin]

Yes, mom, give us some Jimin. It's stimming.

[Haley]

It's stimming.

[Chad Colchin]

Give us some Jimin.

[Mary Lou]

That hurt my throat.

[Chad Colchin]

Come on, jib it.

[Mary Lou]

I.

[Haley]

I don't. I don't jib, though.

[Chad Colchin]

Even now, today. That's your task.

[Mary Lou]

Do it, do it.

[Haley]

But mine is more rhythmic. Like, it's. I think of the real world.

[Chad Colchin]

This is nice. You're scabbing, you're giving. I'm done.

[Mary Lou]

I'm done. Wait.

[Haley]

Talk as low as you can.

[Chad Colchin]

That's good.

[Haley]

Talk as high as you can.

[Mary Lou]

I'm done.

[Haley]

Go as high as you can.

[Mary Lou]

I can't do no more.

[Haley]

Go as high as you can.

[Mary Lou]

I can't do no more. Okay, all right, all right.

[Chad Colchin]

Oh, hey, you're gonna break the mic.

[Mary Lou]

Okay.

[Chad Colchin]

All right. But see, that was fun. Oh, yeah, we needed something like that. You were laughing loads. You're having a good time. All right, back to the serious stuff we jibbed. Our fourth topic is Trump steals $1.7 billion. Trump steals $1.7 billion in taxpayer money. Trump is expected to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS in exchange for creating a $1.7 billion fund to compensate allies who claim they were wrongfully targeted by the Biden administration. The fund would also be open to anybody alleging harm from Biden era. In quotes, weaponization of the legal system, including the nearly 1600 January 6th defendants, all of whom Trump already pardoned. The money comes from the Treasury Department's judgment fund, permanent appropriation normally used to pay legitimate court settlements. Trump will have unchecked authority in this settlement to remove commission members without cause and determine where the money is sent. And with no oversight, that money could be given directly to any number of companies affiliated directly with Trump or his family. There's also another settlement on the table that would require the IRS to agree to never audit Donald Trump or any of his family members for anything, essentially making them immune from any investigations and any kind of financial fraud they could be doing. Mom, do you think Trump should be able to give himself $1.7 billion of taxpayer money?

[Mary Lou]

That's not all going to go to him. No, it's going to go to, like, 1600 individuals who are charged in connection of the January 6th, which they'll get some of the money.

[Chad Colchin]

That's criminals.

[Mary Lou]

Some of his political allies will get some of the money. It says it's not all going to

[Chad Colchin]

Donald Trump, but do you think taxpayers should. Haley and I should. You have to pay one point. Let's say that it's not going to go to Donald Trump at all, which it is. He's going to give. I Think the majority of that to his family. But let's say he's not. Let's say it's all going to go to criminals, convicted criminals who attacked our country, basically, who tried to lead a violent insurrection. Should we have to pay them money?

[Mary Lou]

No, they were, I feel they were wrongfully targeted by our government and thrown in jail on that day. I watched it.

[Haley]

Would you feel that same way if it was liberals scaling those walls and storming the building?

[Mary Lou]

If they were wrongfully targeted on that day and thrown in jail, yes, they should get.

[Chad Colchin]

So you saw. I mean, I played you clips of them shattering windows, pulling a cop out of a window, almost killing a cop. You think the people who killed or almost killed that cop should be given $1.7 billion of taxpayer money?

[Mary Lou]

I saw clips both ways. I saw doors being open saying, come

[Haley]

on, nobody did that.

[Mary Lou]

Yes, they did. They allowed people to come in. They wanted them in there.

[Chad Colchin]

They were screaming that they wanted to kill all kinds of politicians. Nancy Pelosi.

[Mary Lou]

Right. And she could have stopped it all by sending in the National Guard and she refused to do that, too. So,

[Chad Colchin]

so that means the people committing the crimes, it's not their fault.

[Mary Lou]

I don't feel. I feel maybe some of them maybe did crimes. I feel there were undercover agents in there doing a lot of stuff that they shouldn't have.

[Chad Colchin]

So should the undercover agents get part of this $1.7 billion?

[Mary Lou]

Were they wrongfully targeted? Okay, whoever was wrongfully targeted, yes. That's my belief.

[Chad Colchin]

Why do you think Trump is. Is taking $1.7 billion from taxpayers to

[Mary Lou]

give it to the people that were thrown in jail?

[Chad Colchin]

So let's just do some quick math here. I'm going to do 1.7.

[Haley]

His promises are always empty. So remember when we were all supposed to get like a two thousand dollar check?

[Mary Lou]

I haven't got mine yet.

[Haley]

And you never will.

[Mary Lou]

We'll see.

[Haley]

Hasn't he promised us money twice now?

[Chad Colchin]

He's promised us money twice. He pro. He sold 500,000 Trump cell phones making millions of dollars. And now they've come out and said, basically, yeah, we're not making that, but we're keeping your money. You.

[Mary Lou]

Oh, I'm glad I didn't buy one of those.

[Chad Colchin]

Right. But he has now defrauded.

[Mary Lou]

Yeah.

[Chad Colchin]

However many people bought those funds.

[Mary Lou]

Yeah.

[Chad Colchin]

So with this money, if he gives, if he splits up the $1.7 billion, takes nothing for himself and gives it all to these 1600 people who committed violent crimes to try and overthrow our

[Mary Lou]

government, who are targeted on that Day,

[Chad Colchin]

each one of those people will get $1,062,500.

[Mary Lou]

That would be fine with me. You believe that they were targeted? They were not. They were wrongfully targeted and thrown in jail.

[Haley]

What the. They stormed the Capitol building. That is illegal.

[Mary Lou]

They were protesting criminal activity. Wrongfully targeted.

[Haley]

How many liberal protests have you seen where they're scaling walls and breaking into Capitol buildings?

[Mary Lou]

Summer of Love. All kinds of stuff on fire in Portland. All of that shooting, killing.

[Haley]

Nothing's on fire in Portland. You're making up.

[Mary Lou]

No, that was a summer of Love. I forget what summer was. A. When they were antifa was going crazy.

[Chad Colchin]

You're talking about the George Floyd protests.

[Mary Lou]

Long time ago.

[Chad Colchin]

Yeah, 2020.

[Mary Lou]

Yeah.

[Megan]

What?

[Chad Colchin]

I mean, certainly there were some violent actions going on in the protests that summer, but they weren't committing those actions against the cap.

[Mary Lou]

You guys believe January 6th was one thing. I believe it was another. We're never going to be on the same page.

[Chad Colchin]

We don't believe that these people were convicted of crimes using evidence in courts

[Mary Lou]

of law, wrongfully committed. That's where the money's going to go to them for having to be in prison for that.

[Haley]

What about the pedophiles that have gone back to prison for that? Do they deserve part of that? 1.7.

[Mary Lou]

No. A pedophile is a pedophile. They deserve nothing.

[Haley]

So, hell, lots of those people are actual criminals.

[Mary Lou]

They're not with records. There's a few pedophiles, yeah.

[Chad Colchin]

They're going to get one point whatever million dollars.

[Mary Lou]

They should not. A pedophile should not.

[Chad Colchin]

What about people who have been convicted of financial fraud, but they're Trump supporters, so he has pardoned them.

[Reporter/Interviewer]

That.

[Chad Colchin]

That's happened multiple times.

[Mary Lou]

I don't know. I don't know.

[Chad Colchin]

Should they get money?

[Mary Lou]

My brain can't process that right now. I don't know.

[Chad Colchin]

Mike Johnsoning us. All right, let's move on.

[Mary Lou]

Mike Johnson.

[Reporter/Interviewer]

Huh?

[Mary Lou]

What'd you say?

[Chad Colchin]

You're Mike Johnson ing us?

[Mary Lou]

Good.

[Chad Colchin]

That's what he always says. Anytime anybody brings up something like, oh, Trump said this crazy shit. I don't know anything about that. I haven't seen that footage.

[Haley]

I hate Mike Johnson.

[Chad Colchin]

He's such a piece of shit.

[Mary Lou]

Oh, my God.

[Chad Colchin]

Topic number five. Cash Patel disrespects American soldiers at Pearl Harbor. This week, Trump appointed head of the FBI, Cash Patel appeared before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee and angrily lashed out at Democratic lawmakers. Senator Chris Van Hollen confronted Patel directly, saying, reports of your being so drunk and hungover that your staff had to force entry into your home are extremely alarming. Patel fired back, accusing Van Holland of running up a $7,000 bar tab and telling the senator the only person that was slinging margaritas in El Salvador on the taxpayer dollar with a convicted gang banging rapist. Was you referring to Van Holen's trip to. Sorry. Referring to Van Holen's trip related to deported migrant Kilmer Albergo Garcia, where he was photographed near a margarita, an image that has been proven to have been staged by El Salvadorian officials. Also this week, the Associated Press obtained government emails revealing that during an official trip to Hawaii last summer, Patel took a VIP snorkel with around the USS Arizona, the sunken battleship that entombs more than 900 sailors and Marines killed in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. Snorkeling and diving are usually prohibited around the wreck. A Marine veteran who dives on the Arizona annually to check on its condition called it inappropriate, saying, it's like having a bachelor party at a church. It's hallowed ground. It needs to be treated with the solemnity it deserves. Malm, do you think Kash Patel is doing a good job as the director of the FBI?

[Mary Lou]

No. And I think Trump will fire him soon.

[Haley]

Okay, well, we have this discussion about Pete Hegseth, and he's still standing.

[Mary Lou]

Well, Patel's a little bit more crazy doing weird stuff. And I do know if Donald Trump thinks you're not doing the job and there's too much, too much things in public like this, which he should have not done that in hollowed ground. That's ridiculous. Mark my words, he's going to be fired.

[Chad Colchin]

Have you been there?

[Haley]

Dad has.

[Mary Lou]

I have not. Dad has.

[Chad Colchin]

It's. I remember going there once when I was younger with a girlfriend, and we saved our Pearl harbor memorial kind of trip for the last day right before we left. That was a mistake. It is incredibly sad, emotional. Yeah. They. They basically tell you, you know, that there were Marine sailors that were trapped in the boat as the attack happened. Their bodies are still there. And there are some guys who served with them that were not trapped in the boat, survived the attack on Pearl harbor, and then after they died, when they died, had their bodies put in that boat in the wreckage to be with the guys that they served with.

[Mary Lou]

Wow.

[Chad Colchin]

He's swimming around, he's snorkeling.

[Mary Lou]

Yeah. Over their bodies. The more stuff that shows up like this and he's doing stuff in public. Trump's going to fire him.

[Haley]

So if he doesn't fire him, what are you gonna Do.

[Mary Lou]

Trump will fire him.

[Haley]

What if he doesn't?

[Mary Lou]

Trump will fire him. Mark my words.

[Haley]

Hypothetically, if Cash Patel remains and he is not fired, how do you perceive Donald Trump at that point?

[Mary Lou]

I back Donald Trump on his decisions, but I know him. When he gets fed up with people doing stuff like this, they're gonna go.

[Chad Colchin]

When he gets fed up with women doing stuff like this, they go, well, say, so far he's only fired women.

[Haley]

He's not firing Patel, and he's not firing Hegseth.

[Mary Lou]

We'll see. We'll see.

[Chad Colchin]

I mean, what else do you need to see?

[Haley]

Kash Patel continuously does shit like this. It's not ending and there is no firing in sight.

[Mary Lou]

I think he will fire him. Put it down as a prediction.

[Chad Colchin]

But why do you think. Let's say he fires him. He appointed him in the first place and lobbied hard to have this guy installed.

[Mary Lou]

He. He gives people chances. He picks who he thinks he gives them a chance. If they don't produce, bye bye.

[Chad Colchin]

But this has been going on for months. These accusations against him, reporting coming out that he's drunk all the time and people can't wake him up. He's used FBI taxpayer money to have FBI agents escort his drunk girlfriend in her friend's home.

[Mary Lou]

I think Trump will focus back on him when he gets this war done. And I do think he will fire him. That's my opinion.

[Chad Colchin]

And who do you think he'll replace him with?

[Mary Lou]

I have no idea. I'm not the president.

[Chad Colchin]

But like, you're seeing all these things. He's fired three people so far, all women.

[Mary Lou]

Right.

[Chad Colchin]

He appointed them in the first place and was very gung ho about them. Right now you're seeing Cash Patel is doing this shit. Appointed him very gung ho. All the people he appoints are terrible. He fires the women. Maybe he will fire Cash Patel.

[Mary Lou]

I think he knows.

[Chad Colchin]

But do you question at all his judgment when every person he puts in one of these places of power, he then has to fire or they turn out to be terrible or whatever?

[Mary Lou]

No, in businesses. And he was a businessman before he became our president. If you put someone in that position and they don't do the job, you get rid of them and get them what?

[Haley]

Like in the history of presidencies, this

[Chad Colchin]

level of corruption, firing and replacing that. Maybe people do get fired out of cabinets kind of all the time, I think. Or they leave or they, you know, get. I mean, Dan. Dan Bongino wasn't in his cabinet, but he was the number two guy at the F.B.I.

[Mary Lou]

right.

[Chad Colchin]

He's gone. And he got the fuck out on of his own accord. He was like, actually, this looks terrible. I'm just gonna go back to podcasting because I think when you see people, like, dip their toe into this, Elon Musk is like this, too. He's still traveling around, but, like, in the beginning, he was trying to take full control. And you can tell, like, that little kid X, that he.

[Mary Lou]

He's always like, you're not in charge,

[Chad Colchin]

trailing around that kid. He's just. He's pumping that kid up to be like, the. The owner of the world. You can tell that. And I don't know what's going to happen to that kid. As it ages, I'm hoping that it will snap out of it and maybe even use some of Elon Musk's money, power, influence that he's going to inherit to, like, make the world a better place. But I doubt that's going to happen. I think Elon Musk is telling him, you're God. I'm going to give you more money than anybody's ever had, and you will be able to do anything. And here's what you use it for. That's what it feels like to me.

[Mary Lou]

We'll see. Let's just let Trump focus back. And I think he will fire him. That's what I'm sticking to. From.

[Haley]

You're the President of the United States from the war.

[Mary Lou]

He's trying to get this war done.

[Chad Colchin]

No, but he's not focused on the war. He's repaving or painting blue the reflecting pool at the. In front of the Washington Monument. He's fixated on this ballroom, which has now doubled in price.

[Mary Lou]

He's doing improvements and stuff. Yeah, he. He will get this war done.

[Chad Colchin]

Mom, you're like, when he. When he gets his focus off the Iran war, then he'll look at Kashi Patel. This is the head of the FBI. That means every CR crime, every federal crime that is going on the United States right now, this guy's in charge of investigating it. And you're like, yeah, forget about that. He's got the war in Iran. But he's also, again, fixated on building a ballroom, doing the reflecting pool, his golden statue.

[Mary Lou]

That's why he never sleeps. He does a lot. I cannot wait till he fires him. And I'll be sitting right here with you two saying, I told you so.

[Chad Colchin]

Maybe he will. But at this point, shouldn't that be immediate?

[Mary Lou]

Yes, he. He will get to it.

[Haley]

He'll get to it.

[Mary Lou]

He'll get to it.

[Chad Colchin]

Let's move on to our final topic, the American reality show. This week we learned Trump's Secretary of Transportation, former reality star Sean Duffy, is returning to reality TV in a brand new show called the Great American Road Trip, funded by Boeing, Shell, Toyota, United Airlines and Royal Caribbean, all companies that Duffy's Department of Transportation has direct regulatory control over. But Duffy's travel to and from filming locations was not paid for by those companies. That was paid for by all of us United States taxpayers. The show is a five part reality series set to air on YouTube celebrating America's 250th anniversary. It follows Duffy and his reality star wife Rachel Campos Duffy and their nine kids traveling across the country with a kickoff from Trump in the Oval Office. So Trump is in this reality show as Duffy and his family happily drive across America with gas paid for by corporate bribes and taxpayer dollars. The rest of US are paying $4.50 a gallon, up roughly 50% since the Iran war began. Shell, one of the companies sponsoring the reality show, has seen profits double as a result of increased gas prices. The Duffy family claims they filmed one or two days at a time over seven months. Meaning he couldn't have been working during that time as Transportation Secretary. Mom, do you think it's okay for a cabinet member to use taxpayer money to shoot a reality show about their family?

[Mary Lou]

No.

[Haley]

Social. We fire.

[Mary Lou]

Sean Duffy might be next in line. What is he supposed to be doing for us right now as the transportation.

[Chad Colchin]

You've got airplanes. They were shooting the show while those planes were fucking crashing. While we were having, when they air

[Haley]

traffic controllers, it was like falling apart.

[Chad Colchin]

He's fudgeing, running around shooting this reality show with his family. America's a beautiful place right now. We've got gas prices higher than they've ever been. What's he doing? Spending money, spending our money on higher priced gas to literally drive across the fucking country with his family.

[Mary Lou]

He's supposed to oversee nations navigation, highway, railroads, transit systems and work to ensure safety, regulate the airline industry and build infrastructure. That's what he's supposed to be doing.

[Chad Colchin]

But you can see the corruption here, right?

[Mary Lou]

And not making movies.

[Chad Colchin]

Yes, but he oversees companies that do all those things. You said those companies are paying for the reality show. So there's all these, these companies that I, I mentioned, Boeing, Shell, Toyota, United Airlines, Royal Caribbean, they're coming and being like, we'll fund your reality show, but you're gonna help us out, right?

[Mary Lou]

That's strange. Yeah, very strange.

[Haley]

And he was appointed by Donald Trump Right.

[Chad Colchin]

And he's a reality TV star.

[Mary Lou]

He might be fired too, just like Donald Trump.

[Chad Colchin]

Do you think the fact that Trump is a reality star, has wrestled in the wwe, constantly, is lying to cameras, which is what reality TV is. Do you think that has in any way permeated our government to a degree that is negative now?

[Mary Lou]

I see it filtering in. I do see some of that. And all that AI stuff that I see on Instagram with Pratt.

[Chad Colchin]

Yeah. He's also a reality star who's now running for office, which he might win.

[Haley]

We're the last of the world.

[Mary Lou]

He might win.

[Haley]

Our government is a joke.

[Mary Lou]

I. I don't think so.

[Chad Colchin]

How do you see this and not think that Trump is in this? The reality show, per the reporting on, it starts with Trump being like, okay,

[Reporter/Interviewer]

Duffy, have a good drive. Bye.

[Mary Lou]

Bye.

[Chad Colchin]

He's in it.

[Mary Lou]

Okay.

[Chad Colchin]

That means he had to have fucking approved this.

[Mary Lou]

Right? So, like, I don't know, it's being change. It's being tilted into weird stuff right now.

[Haley]

It's all about making money. And now he's got all these corrupt pieces of. In charge of all of the different government heads who are just making money left and right from us.

[Mary Lou]

Yeah.

[Haley]

They're stealing our money.

[Mary Lou]

I think it's bizarre. I think this one is bizarre. Yeah.

[Haley]

And Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth, he's.

[Mary Lou]

Well, Patel will be fired. Predict. That's a prediction. Write it down.

[Haley]

But look at all these people that you're stacking up that need to be fired. It's our entire government, and they were all appointed by Donald Trump.

[Mary Lou]

Okay.

[Chad Colchin]

And. But you think the rest of the world looks at this and still thinks we're like the best country ever on top, et cetera, et cetera. Okay. Did you see this wasn't one of the topics, but this happened this past week. Trump had a deal to build a Trump Tower in Australia. They revoked the deal because the Trump brand is too toxic. They basically were like, we don't want a Trump Tower anymore. You fucked that up.

[Mary Lou]

Wow.

[Chad Colchin]

So that's an entire country basically saying this multi billion dollar real estate deal, fuck it.

[Mary Lou]

But I don't think Australia ever liked Trump that much.

[Haley]

They liked America.

[Chad Colchin]

I'm using it as an example. You're saying the world sees us, or you believe the world still perceives America to be the superpower and everything we do is great. This is a whole country saying, Trump, your president.

[Mary Lou]

They're the country too. That when Covid hit, no one could go in the street. And if you did, you got Tickets and all that. So that country's turned a little bit different, too.

[Chad Colchin]

Okay. We just got some news today about Ebola that's starting to break out globally.

[Mary Lou]

My MAGA friend sent me that. Yeah.

[Chad Colchin]

Do you feel like we are in a good position as Americans to protect ourselves against this?

[Mary Lou]

Probably not. And why do you think that is, if it's true? Because we listened to Fauci, who is a big fat liar, did all of that.

[Chad Colchin]

You think the current Ebola outbreak is Fauci's fault?

[Mary Lou]

No, I. I don't know whether to believe it or not.

[Chad Colchin]

Okay.

[Mary Lou]

I did get something, right. Oh. It was from my friend who sent it through New Newsmax.

[Haley]

Like, the CDC has been dismantled and, like, they're not keeping track of infectious diseases like they used to when Fauci was there. Now we don't have information, and Donald Trump is on the screen telling us everything's okay.

[Mary Lou]

Well, if this is true, they need to lock down that country and not let people in and out. Right.

[Haley]

It needs monetization.

[Mary Lou]

Just lock down that country.

[Chad Colchin]

Okay, well, I'm trying to get you to understand that, like, Trump has gutted any of our federal agencies that are looking into this or trying to keep us safe.

[Mary Lou]

Somebody's looking into this right now.

[Haley]

No, they're not.

[Mary Lou]

Yes, they are. Let's see. I can find you something like, they

[Haley]

have defunded all the programs that, you know, manufacture vaccines for new diseases that we all need. They shut down all of the funding for the people that monitor this very thing. So no one is looking at it anymore.

[Mary Lou]

Ari said the World Health Organization is on it. The big outbreak, they're not letting people in or out now. It's a big emergency.

[Chad Colchin]

Didn't he pull us out of the World Health Organization?

[Haley]

Yes, he did.

[Chad Colchin]

So the. The organization you're citing right now, he's not even associated with it, but nor is America.

[Mary Lou]

What he's going to do is lock down America. You guys ain't going to be traveling to shit, probably. You might lock down America. Let no one in or out to keep us all alive.

[Chad Colchin]

I want to ask you one more question before we go here. This week saw Trump making 100 million posts with AI with all kinds of shit, this and that. Many of these posts and many of his public statements were talking about how he is the youngest person in the room. He said he's aging in reverse in one of his posts, and he's very into this idea of, like, look how young and powerful I am. Do you think he's on the verge of death.

[Haley]

Yes.

[Mary Lou]

Well, I don't think he's going back in age.

[Chad Colchin]

He said he is.

[Mary Lou]

No, he's not.

[Chad Colchin]

Yeah, he said he is.

[Mary Lou]

He did. He didn't mean it. For real.

[Haley]

Why do you do that when he says you're like, he didn't mean it. He said it.

[Mary Lou]

Well, if he did, he's crazy because he's not going back in age. None of us do. Right.

[Haley]

It's very clear that he's falling asleep. He's got the cankles, he's got bruises everywhere. It's very clear that he's ailing.

[Chad Colchin]

Yeah.

[Mary Lou]

He's not going back in age. I can tell you that.

[Haley]

He's dying.

[Chad Colchin]

What are you taking there? Anti aging pill. What is that?

[Mary Lou]

Hot Molly.

[Chad Colchin]

Okay, well, hot tamale, I guess that's the show. The hot tamale is the sign that it has ended. But I just, I want you to, like, take account of how many times you're disagreeing with Trump now. And even when you're saying he's going to fire Cash Patel, that's still a disagreement with Trump because Trump appointed him.

[Mary Lou]

Yes. Okay. But Trump will fire him.

[Chad Colchin]

And in his place, we'll put somebody just as bad or worse, someone better.

[Mary Lou]

That's what you do. You fire someone, put someone better.

[Chad Colchin]

Who did you think Todd Blanche is better than Pamoni.

[Haley]

Right.

[Mary Lou]

No.

[Haley]

Todd Blanche said we're not going to even look at the Epstein files anymore.

[Mary Lou]

He was supposed to be like an interim. And they're going to put someone else in there.

[Haley]

When's that going to happen? Yeah, and when are they gonna.

[Mary Lou]

As soon as we get the war cleaned up.

[Haley]

Where is the new elect for Iran And. And you know, like, we're stealing leaders from other countries and yes, we'll implement new leadership. When is that going to happen?

[Mary Lou]

You're asking me hot questions. I'm done. It's because Molly's got me.

[Haley]

It's because the answer is they're not going to do that.

[Mary Lou]

Hot tamale.

[Chad Colchin]

All right, so, mom is not a hard week. We should wrap this up, I guess. Thank you, everybody for joining us. Before we go. As always, Haley, I love you. Thank you for being here this weekend, Mom. I love you. I know you're going through some rough shit. Hopefully us being here has helped a little bit.

[Mary Lou]

Yes, it has. I love you, Chad. Love you, Haley. Love you, Bob.

[Haley]

Love you, Chad. Love you, Mom. Hopefully dad gets better.

[Mary Lou]

Yeah.

[Chad Colchin]

Time will tell. I don't think we're going to do a live tonight based on what we have to be at the hospital, this kind of stuff. I think our schedule's a little off. Hopefully we'll get back to the live next week. I'll be back in Los Angeles and the show will return to kind of some normalcy. But thanks for joining us and we'll see you soon.