Speaker 1: So this weekend, Trump wasn't just breaking norms, Oh no,
he shattered them, literally humiliating the country on the world stage.
In fact, he handed himself a fake FIFA award, literally
became the first president to hijack the Kennedy Center honors
and then strutted around, strutted around the stage like he
won an Oscar. Let me show you him, literally putting
on his own fake FIFA medal. Play the clip.
Speaker 2: This is the President, This is your prize. This is
your peace prize. That is also a beautiful medal for
you that you can wear everywhere.
Speaker 3: You want to go.
Speaker 2: Right now, Okay, hold, fantastic, excellent.
Speaker 1: I mean I literally found this to be so ridiculous,
so insane, so stupid that I wrote my Substack on
it for this morning, called Peace Sacrificed on FIFA's altar,
and in it I begin it. I proudly accept the
inaugural Substack Leader of Peace Award, also known as the
Slop Award, from the global community of readers and watchers
who recognize my tireless, unimpeachable pursuit of world peace. It stands,
by the way, amongst the greatest honors of my life.
Right alongside being chosen from the crowd by Hucko, the
clown at Madison Square Garden to do the macharena in
the center ring. Now you'll hopefully forgive me for taking
a moment to revel in my own greatness. I mean,
how often does a guy like me get to win
the first ever Slop Award for promoting World peace? My friends?
It is historic, it is groundbreaking, practically biblical, and unlike
some other newly created, highly suspicious awards that were handed
out this week, mine it didn't require a tenor in
a blue velvet tuxedo or a sports federation president willing
to fam over a grown man like he's the Dalai
Lama with better healthcare. Let me be clear here, all right,
when the ratings for this Kennedy Center Honors debacle tanked,
Trump pretended that ratings don't matter, play the clip.
Speaker 4: What are you expecting, mister President, in terms of ratings
for this year is Kennedy Center. I think it's gonna
be Ratings are complicated now because you have streaming at
it on and everything else, But I.
Speaker 3: Think it'll do very big.
Speaker 4: I mean, just look, I mean, just based on what
you see right here, if you if you came here
last year, you saw the line it was about what
tent this does?
Speaker 3: You weren't even here last year.
Speaker 1: I was here. You weren't here.
Speaker 3: No, no, sir, I was here.
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level stupidity, it's just getting worse. The weekend flattery it
wasn't enough for Trump now, as shown literally when a
reporter asked Trump if he would want to receive a
Kennedy Center honor next year. Play the clip.
Speaker 5: Did you imagine, miss President, And now we know that
you've hosted before The Apprentice for many years, could you
imagine next year maybe you're not hosting, but maybe you
receiving a Kennedy Center honor.
Speaker 3: That's an interesting one. Yeah, I think I'm going to
nominate myself for next year. President.
Speaker 1: Every day you have to a big job. Yeah, I mean,
I'm not really sure why that's funny. It's just so absurd.
Especially do you think that the country right now has
enough things that maybe the president should be concentrating on
other than say, rebuilding the fake boardroom. Another reporter goes
on in ash Trump if he will rename the center
after him. Trump turned around and said, well, it's up
to the board. Play the clip.
Speaker 3: So we're very proud of that, Thank you very much.
What do you think of Kennedy's senator budget?
Speaker 2: Usually do you think the center will eventually be named
the Trump Kennedy.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I hear that, but I don't know, and that's not
up to me. That's up to the board. The board
makes that decision. We have a very prestigious board. If
you look at the names, I don't think there's a
board like it, So that would be up to the board.
Speaker 3: Thank you either.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Let me also turn around, said, if I'm not mistaken,
I think he's the president of the board, right and well.
So Trump was then asked how he prepared to host,
and unsurprisingly Trump's claim he'd prepare it all. Play the clip.
Speaker 5: But I have a question for you, mister president, how
have you prepared to host tonight?
Speaker 3: Well, maybe I haven't prepared it. Maybe you want to
be a little bit loose.
Speaker 4: If you look at the great hosts Johnny Carson, Bob Hope,
those are the greats. If you look at the not
so greats like Jimmy Kimmel here is just terrible. But no,
I think you if you want to be just loose
and not allowed to.
Speaker 3: Prepare for right, I've ask you. You know what you
have to be. You have to be yourself.
Speaker 1: You know. The interesting thing to anybody that sees the
old Johnny Carsons and so on, they actually had Q
cards for everything. That was the human version of the teleprompter.
And of course nothing says a good solid meeting like
digging into Jimmy Kimmel or something like that. But Trump, again,
in true weave fashion, then started to ramble about gold.
Speaker 3: Play that clip. But they had the fake gold. You
know the one thing about gold, You can never imitate
real gold. They've tried to do it for years, Paint
gold painting. Mister paint never worried. You got to go
for the real twenty four carrot gold.
Speaker 1: Yes, again, what relevance is any of this when you
have twenty two million people that are going to be
losing healthcare and forty million that are going to be
losing snap benefits, and so on and so and then
the fighting that's going on between Russia still in Ukraine
and all the other stuff around the world. The tariff nonsense.
I mean, we can go on for days and days
and days twe but no, no, no painting these I
don't know, finials in the oval office, or putting the
words the Oval office on the outside of the room
from the back of the property, all in twenty four
Kara Cole. This is what's important. This is what's important
to him. Now, let me be clear. Trump not only
knows how to receive flattery, but in fact he actually
knows how to dish shit out. Jesse Waters, producer, he
asked what Trump's favorite moment of twenty twenty five was,
and Trump, in true Trumpian fashion, said it was being
interviewed by Jesse the Jerkoff Waters play the clips top.
Speaker 5: Of the Line, President Trump, Jesse Waters has a question
for you, what was your favorite moment of twenty twenty
five And with a big year, I.
Speaker 4: Think when Jesse Waters interviewed me, it was such a
phenomenal interview.
Speaker 3: He's a great guy, and you're a great guy. You're
doing a very good job out there. I'm proud of you.
Thank you so much, President Trump.
Speaker 1: Who oh, yes, thank you so much. Right Meanwhile, reporter
then goes and asks Trump about Republicans being upset about
his tariff dividend promise because you all remember that everybody's
supposed to be getting a check in the mail right away,
suggesting instead that maybe he should pay down the country's debt.
Play that clips.
Speaker 4: Some Republicans have expressed concern about using the tariffs the
revenue for a dividend, saying we should be paying down
the national debt. Well, we will always agree with them
on that, But I also think that, you know, we're
making so much money with tariffs that will also be
able to make a nice dividend to middle income people.
Speaker 3: We're talking about middle income and lower income people. We're
not talking about dividends to rich people.
Speaker 4: But there's so much money being made from the tariffs,
and countries that were taking advantage of us for many
many years are not taking advantage of us anymore. We're
taking in tremendous amounts of money from countries that we
were losing lots of money too, And you know what,
they're okay with it. They're not complaining. They're not complaining
about the tariffs and rather not have them. But they're
not saying there's anything wrong. And the big thing is
in the court. We have tremendous flexibility with the current system.
It's unbelievable for national security. I've ended eight wars largely
because of trade or because of tariffs. If we go
the other tariff route, and there are other routes we
can go, but it won't give you the same pure
national security as this one.
Speaker 3: This one is swift and very powerful.
Speaker 1: That's your presence. Yeah. Again, eighty percent of what just
came out of his mouth is completely made up and nonsensical.
Now I'm staying on obviously a more serious note. Reporter
asks Trump, since we're talking about tariffs, and since he
believes that all of a sudden, Americans are making so
much money that we won't know what to do with it.
They did ask him if he intends to restart negotiations
with Canada. Play the clip, what did you talk about
with Time, mister Carney and Mexican President Time on when
you were here died earlier.
Speaker 3: Mexico and Canada we met, as you know, I mean
it was pretty well. A lot of people were here
right here.
Speaker 4: We met and the Prime Minister of Canada, president of Mexico,
and we spoke for a half hour, very good, very productive,
took mostly trade.
Speaker 1: Will you restart negotiations with Canada?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Look, I have a great relationship with Canada. They're very
tough traders. But I have a very good relationship with
the Prime Minister Edward Canada.
Speaker 1: And you had said you would pull those negotiations earlier
after the terrior have it?
Speaker 3: So will you restart that? We'll see.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, the problem is that Canada makes
a lot of things that we don't need because we
make them also.
Speaker 3: But we'll work it out.
Speaker 4: Canada is a special place, and they really are good
at ice hockey.
Speaker 3: Aren't they. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean you sort of can't make that up as
a response. I mean, this is really, first of all,
what Canada manufacturers.
Speaker 3: We don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just the reason why we're buying it.
Including by the way, about a third of the energy
that powers the northeast of our country comes from Ontario. Meanwhile,
Trump claim that he's upset with President Zelensky. All right,
why well for not allegedly reading his peace proposal. Play
that clip about.
Speaker 4: War talks, Denis, what's your next step in Russia Ukraine
talks after last week's negotiations. So we've been speaking to
President Putin and we've been speaking to Ukrainian leaders, including Zelensky,
President Zelensky, and I have to say that I'm a
little bit disappointed that President Zelensky hasn't yet read the
proposal that was as a few hours ago. His people
love it, but he has it. Russia's fine with it.
Russia's you know, Russia, Russia, I guess, would rather have
the whole country when you think of it. But Russia is,
I believe, fine with it. But I'm not sure that
Zelensky is fine with it. His people love it, but
he has ready. So someday you'll explain that one to me, Jeff.
Speaker 1: I don't have an explanation there. You can't have an
explanation because it's bullshit. First of all, that peace proposal
is not a peace proposal. It is a surrender proposal.
So Zolenski's people don't love it, right, I mean, imagine,
imagine turning over the country, turning over the land, turning
over your mineral rights, agreeing not to become part of NATO,
agreeing to demilitarize. Absolutely, my god, how fast would you
want Zelensky to get his John Hancock on there? It
is the most ridiculous. It's not even a proposal, it's abnormal.
Oh yeah, And I think that Russia would probably accept it. Sure,
sure they would accept it. Really, it's a complete and
total surrender. Why would they not? And finally, reporter asks Trump,
this is the craziest shit, right if he thinks Netflix
should be allowed to buy Warner Brothers. I mean, this
is something that every president gets them sells involved with.
As the situation now is getting more complicated today as
Paramount is now trying to outbid Netflix, Trump claims that
he's going to be involved in the decision making of Netflix.
Speaker 3: Are you serious?
Speaker 1: Play the clip? Should they be allowed to buy Warner Brothers?
Speaker 3: Should Well, that's a question.
Speaker 4: They have a very big market share, and when they
have Warner Brothers, you know that chair goes up a lot.
Speaker 3: So I don't know, that's going to be for some
economists to tell.
Speaker 4: And also, and I'll be involved in that decision too,
But they have a very big market share.
Speaker 5: Did he make any guarantees to you about the merger
if they do merge now?
Speaker 3: No, no, No, he came up. He was in the
Oval office last week. I have a lot of respect
for him. He's a great he's a great person. But
he's done one of the greatest jobs in the history
of movies and other things.
Speaker 4: He's and he's got a lot of interesting things what's
happening aside from what you're talking about.
Speaker 3: But it is a big market share, there's no question
about it could be a problem.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Let me say this, as I said in my
substec of today, if Trump genuinely wants to be remembered
as the peace president, if he truly wants that Nobel
Peace Prize that I don't know he's been chasing like
it's the last diet coke on Air Force one, then maybe,
just maybe he should start doing something that resembles peace.
You see, you don't get to brand yourself as a
global peacemaker while literally unleashing ice raids to deport migrants
from all over the world, or enforcing a travel ban
on thirty countries and publicly denigrating entire communities, like calling
Somalian's garbage, you know, as if their lives are disposable.
You don't advance humanity by targeting fishermen on the Caribbean
with lethal force based on I don't know, some concocted
story that fentanyl is coming through Venezuela or Colombia. You
certainly don't serve the cause of world peace while inflicting fear, chaos,
and death on innocent people, all in the name of
some self serving narrative of national security. So, mister President,
if hypothetically you really want that nobel peace price, start
acting like a peacemaker and as always, thanks for listening.
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