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Hello, and welcome to the DSR Daily. I'm David Rothkough. I'm joined by Riley Fester and Minestine.
It's been quite a weekend.
If there's a lot to talk about, obviously, one of the things that is triggering a lot of these stories, and I use the work trigger. Advisitely is the events that took place at the White House correspondent's dinner over the weekend. And let's start with some of the follow-up. Yeah, so following those events, Trump sat down for a 60-minute interview yesterday with Nora O'Donnell.
And he totally freaked out on her after she quoted from the manifesto of Cole Allen. It was the gunman who attempted to storm the White House correspondent's dinner. Trump accused O'Donnell of being a graceful for reading the shooter's labels of pedophile, rapist, and traitor, which I will point out she didn't say we're exclusively about him. He said they were about him.
He immediately did that. I actually did. He said that.
“Didn't she say, oh, you think he meant those were about you?”
Yes, she did. Right. Yeah. He made me an exonerated of such accusations. Yeah.
I mean, of course, look, there's a lot in there, right? One of the things is, of course, Trump can't sort of make us unsee Trump, right? We know that a judge concluded that based on a jury's decision, he was adjudicated to be effectively a rapist. We know that.
That's on the record of a court.
“We know the number of accusations that exist out there, including in sworn testimony associated”
to the Epstein files that he has committed sexual assault and sexual abuse. We know that there are scores of women who have accused him of those things. So, it's not, you know, he can get tough, and he can get cranky. But he can't make it go away. The same is true with pedophilia associated directly with those things.
The same is true with being a trainer and betraying the country. You know, I'm sorry to do this, not, but up here, there's a book called Trader. I wrote the book, okay? And it talks about people who betrayed the United States and concludes that among the most degrigious betrayals of the United States was Donald Trump.
So, you know, let's, let's be real clear here. His being disgruntled about that is not just disingenuous. It's not going to work, but here's the real sticky part of all of this. The guy who tried to storm the White House Correspondence dinner, Cole, who wrote this manifesto, was a well-educated guy living in America.
And if you read the manifesto, which is tragic and really kind of a suicide note from a disturbed person, there are parts of it that you will relate to. And this is, this is the hard part for this discussion, and it's, it's what we can't really talk about. A lot of people feel profound anger and disgust at Trump. The way it was expressed here if events are what we were told they were.
Well, that's not the way to express them.
There's no place for political violence in America, but the reality is that a lot of us can relate to what he wrote.
And that is a much deeper problem than anybody in the media was talking about this weekend in the wake of this thing,
Which, frankly, I found insufferable.
Because they were all talking like they just got back for a battle in Fallujah.
“When they were sitting there in their black ties, and the worst thing that happened to them was that they had to hide under their tables,”
couldn't get the main course, and didn't get to see the mentalist who was going to perform. You know, this was, there's a lot of drama associated with this. And of course, Trump was playing into it as he does when incidents like this happen. You know, he became one of the most insufferable manifestations of Donald Trump that we see, which is Saint Donald the magma murder. You know, and for a moment, he's like, we must all come together.
But get a grip, folks.
Donald Trump is the author of the violent divisive political mood in the United States of America.
Donald Trump is the man who has taken American politics, which were dysfunctional, and it turned it into a kind of a war. And most importantly, in the context of all of this, if you page through the violent incidents of people storming buildings in Washington, the worst such incident, which resulted in death, and hundreds of injuries, and a threat to the function of the United States government, did not come from what Trump calls some lone wolf whacked up.
Came from Trump. He incited it. January 6, 2021 is not going to go away. He is the most dangerous man in America. And frankly, as I wrote in a sub-stack, which you can go and look, which talks about this stuff, at our need to know sub-stack.
“The only thing worse than a lone wolf whacked up with a gun is a lone wolf whacked up, running the most powerful military in the war.”
That's Donald Trump. He is the one who has sent thugs in the streets. He is the one that has incited right. And I can only say he is also the one who is in the middle of a war crime right now in the Middle East. And the illegal war, which has resulted in the deaths, not missing out on the main course, not missing out on the mentalist.
But in the deaths of 5,000 people, the dislocation of a couple of million people, huge economic shocks around the world, huge suffering and pain, instability, and war.
That's a danger as whacked up. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the president of the United States. We'll stick with a little bit on the correspondence that are shooting the right wing commentators have all come out with basically the exact same statement. And that is, this shows us why we need the ballroom. And not only is it the commentators, it's also the Justice Department because the assistant attorney general sent a letter to the National Trust for Historic Preservation demanding they drop their lawsuit in light of the shooting or the government would ask the court to do so.
So this just shows us that we need that ballroom, David, I bet you feel foolish now saying it was a waste of money. Yeah, I'm being a part of the anti ballroom faction in America. They're like Antifa, we're subset of Antifa actually the anti ball rumors.
“And we ought to be ashamed. No, I mean, this is ridiculous, right?”
This is logical and it makes you ask, like why is Trump so obsessed with this ballroom? Do any of you any theories? Because it's cool and golden and cost a lot of money. Because that's a very innocent Ohio interpretation of this, any others. Now, you know, whatever I see something that's cool and golden and and means a lot of money, really. One of my assumptions is he's getting a cut.
There's there is some nefarious deal underneath all of this. He has made some promise to somebody about this ballroom. I mean, there's another element of this whole thing, which is it fits into his authoritarian idea of how the world works. You know, he came out of this event on Saturday and he said, you know, this is why we need the ballroom. It could all be in the ballroom. It wasn't his event.
It was a private event.
It was a private event. He was a guest at a private event. He views the United States of America, like he concluded a hostile takeover of the whole country and he owns it. And everything that's happening in the United States is Donald Trump's to operate, to judge, to shut down, to handle how everyone. But there's, of course, another element of this whole thing.
First of all, I think he's a little paranoid about his safety. And frankly, would not want to lead.
And if you look at that justice department filing that followed the events, which says,
“"You must get rid of the injunction and building the White House ballroom because it is putting the president and his family at risk."”
It's offensive, right? It's an insult to the secret service. And by the way, you know, the secret service ain't what it used to be. Not only did Elon cut it with toes. But remember, Trump got rid of a lot of people in the secret service that didn't go along with his interpretant of January 6. He put in people in the secret service who went along with his interpretation of January 6.
And somehow, and we've forgotten this, remember, January 6, can you remember back to all of that? I know many of you were in elementary school.
But in January 6, 2021, there was all this how about back and forth about the secret service. People in trees with guns and should the president go and should he not go and what's going on, right? What's going on with Mike Pence? And somehow, all the text messages associated with that got lost. And the people who oversaw the losing of all those text messages, ingratiated themselves with Trump, and now are running a dysfunctional secret service.
That either is, you know, whole has holes in it like Swiss cheese. Or alternatively, is allowing certain events to happen close to the president in ways that somehow benefit the president. Now, again, I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I'm not saying there's evidence to support that. But each and every one of us in the past 48 hours has heard hundreds of people or seen hundreds of people online going, "This is fishy." This is when Trump needed an event like this. This reminds them of Butler Pennsylvania,
and a very weird events that happened in Butler Pennsylvania. When the president alleged he was shot, but then there was no trip to a doctor. There was no note from a doctor. He said he was shot in the eerie war. This bandage on his ear. There was no blood on the bandage. Republican, Stuja's war, you know. God's squares on their ear at the convention.
“And it was all, you know, and immediately, Trump, I mean, didn't Riley didn't you buy a local watch that is Trump with his fist in the air?”
You know, it was too expensive for me. Sorry. I'm sorry. Well, someday we'll get you one. After you finish 25 years at DSR and you're getting your 25 year golden watch, we'll make sure it's one of those watches. Thank you. But you know, you can get priced out from your heroes.
Yeah. It really, it really does first spider-man, then Trump.
But in any event, the Trump turned it into a coin, a watch, meme, you know. It was weird, right?
“I mean, if it was really under threat, you should have seen a real doctor and not Dr. Ronnie Jackson, right?”
Anyway, all this is to say that, you know, this move, you know, about Trump's safety as an insult to the secret service was been a private protecting president says they went out among us for 150 years or whatever it is. But, you know, it's also a bizarre commentary on how Trump thinks the presidency should work. That he should be a king living in a golden palace where there is a palace guard and people should come at his pleasure to his palace that he should not be among his people. He does not get with this traditional American idea of the White House as the People's House.
I mean, you imagine that Trump would have reacted in the 19th century. Like when Abraham Lincoln was president of the United States and for 100 years, people could just walk to the White House door knock on the door and come in without a point. It was, it was said, you know, because it was the people's house.
The president was a tenant doesn't fit with Trump's view of things either.
My final point on this, and I'm sorry, I've so many, but it was a full weekend, is that here we are talking about the solution to so-called using Trump's language, "wack jobs with guns" is turning the White House into a fortress. Or turning school houses into fortresses, arming teachers. It's not getting rid of the fucking guns, because Trump's on the take from the NRA. Trump's son is on the take from the NRA. Trump is part of the gun lobby in the United States. Trump promotes weapons in our society.
And his solution is that we all should live in a fortress for the steel door, multiple locks.
Those of us who pour to afford the secret service to protect us, because we're not kings, our children should go to schools, but the teachers are armed and can shoot anybody else who's armed in their midst. Not that that would lead to collateral damage among the kids. It's a deeply works view of the world that contains elements of authoritarianism, elements of Trump's narcissism,
“and elements of the corruption associated with guns in America all wrapped into what?”
Well, I'm going to hard pivot us to a new topic of something that's upcoming. King Charles is coming to Washington, DC, to try to stabilize some USUK relationship due damage control after Trump's criticism of NATO. He also had like a back and forth with Kierstarmor over using British air bases for military strikes against Iran. Kierstarmor said no, Trump insulted the British government, but despite all that, he remains a good relationship with the king.
So now he's coming over to try to have diplomacy back between the two.
Look, I'm going to give you a little bit of a caveat here. To me, the king is a man in a funny hat from an in bread family. The thousands of years ago got themselves into line for doing this by killing everyone in their midst, because they were the most brutal family around. And they were lied to the most brutal families around, and then they created these mythologies of the divine right of kings and that royalty was something glorious and that they were somehow better than us. And most places in the world that have such relationships and gotten rid of them.
“And you know, I mean, if you want to keep having a king for some reason fine, but it's not that's not the American way, right?”
And Charles is not sort of covered himself with glory nor does he have any really political role.
The president likes the king because the king has its crown and he lives in a palace and Donald Trump has the political worldview of a three year old. And, you know, so here we've got this guy coming here, and let's be honest, King Charles is a cuck to use the terminology of the right. He's totally being used by Trump. He's a sucker. Trump is using him to make himself look like a statesman to make it look like people like him in the world. And Charles can't actually say or do anything to make Trump uncomfortable, which is just perfect.
It's why Trump goes to WWE matches. It's his whole world view. It's kind of fake matches that are orchestrated. The good guy wins. There is a script. The crowd cheers when the crowd is supposed to cheer. And the crowd is too stupid to know that it's all ranked. That's Donald Trump's world view. WWE is Donald Trump's world view.
And it's just no accident that the woman who ended up running WWE is actually a member of his cabinet who unbelievably is the Secretary of Education.
“And as the job of eliminating the Department of Education because stupidity and lack of education ignorance is the only way that the maga movement can possibly survive.”
It is predicated on the dumb and the lazy and those who find facts to be inconvenient.
Well, something positive Bernie Sanders is pressuring democratic leaders like...
For his part Martin said he agreed with Sanders, but that to take action would require commitments from across the party. And it is worth noting that under the DNC under Martin, the DNC has already passed resolutions aimed at limiting dark money from midterm primaries and the 2021 presidential primary.
So they're taking some action, but Bernie wants more. He wants more decisive action and I have to agree with him.
“Good. I agree with you. I think you're absolutely right. There should be no money from PAC corporate PACs. Nobody should take any money from corporations. People shouldn't take dark money. And if you find out that they do he shouldn't vote for it.”
It's also not necessary given the way fundraising works and how much money you can raise in small amounts from average people. Wearing desperate need of campaign finance reform in this country. We have to surpass laws that undo citizens united that give billionaires hugely disproportionate power that have made billionaire political contributions go up 14,000 percent in the past decade. And we need to get all this money out and try to fight back on, you know, the corruption that exists in Washington as a result of the money, including other things like, you know, banning congressional stock trading.
And notice today a story where it said Trump has bought a couple of hundred billion dollars worth of bonds in the past month. And, you know, you might think, well, he's buying US bonds treasury bonds municipal bonds.
“That, you know, don't be a sucker here. What he is doing is he is betting on the stock market going down because that's what bank bonds go up. And he's the president of the United States and he can control that.”
Or he can influence it. So there's there's plenty of corruption here and anything that cuts back on it is a good thing.
Well, it's funny you should mention that because that is our last story for today. And I will fill in some of those details Trump purchased between 51 million and 161 million dollars in bonds in March of this year, according to financial disclosures. One hundred and seventy five transactions primarily targeted municipal bonds and US treas, though he also bought corporate debt from companies including Nvidia Microsoft Boeing and several major Wall Street banks.
“The investments span multiple sectors, including energy technology, health care and financial services. So closing out today with a reminder of corruption and how the Trump family is benefiting.”
And how they're doing it in the open. And I mean, the amount of Trump family corruption going on right now without outrage, without congressional pushback, without anybody saying no, we can't do this anymore.
Is absolutely stunning. They're making billions of dollars. It is prohibited by the Constitution of the United States in not one but two imoluments clauses in the Constitution of the United States.
It's prohibited in other laws. It's mentioned as one, you know, bribery is mentioned as one of the reasons for impeachment. And yet their theory is we're just going to normalize all this and all of us zombies have, you know, turned it into turn it into just the quotidian reality of the corrupt politics of America in 2026. And with that, welcome to the week. Everybody, it's Monday. We'll be here covering all of this in depth on all of our podcasts on the TNR podcast on our daily podcast on our in depth expert podcast.
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