1049: LIVE REACTION: Sundowning Trump Stumbles Through Press Event
The Next Level
The Bulwark
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
Sarah, JVL and Tim discuss the low-energy, never-ending Trump event and the end of their will to live. They also go deep on how Trump’s obsession with Greenland is threatening to torch America’s relationships with its allies and completely realign the world order.
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| 0:00.0 | We're live. |
| 0:01.0 | There we go. |
| 0:02.0 | We're live. |
| 0:03.0 | We're live. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello, America. |
| 0:06.0 | This is JVL here with my two best friends. |
| 0:09.0 | We're an hour 97 of Donald Trump's press conference. |
| 0:13.0 | And I'm glad you've come to join as my soul leaves my body. |
| 0:18.0 | It's good fight. |
| 0:20.0 | I've enjoyed it. |
| 0:22.3 | Guys, let's listen to what the present of these United States is saying. |
| 0:25.6 | Just for people's benefits. |
| 0:27.5 | We were supposed to be doing a podcast for you. |
| 0:30.2 | We've a podcast called The Next Level that we tape it this time. |
| 0:33.0 | You guys might have watched before? |
| 0:34.9 | And we decided we were going to wait to tape the next level to see what happened. |
| 0:39.1 | This press conference, figuring that given the fact that we're having a diplomatic crisis in Europe, |
| 0:44.6 | and many of our allies are talking about decoupling from us, |
| 0:46.9 | that maybe the president might address that, you know, the fact he's trying to invade a NATO ally. |
| 0:51.5 | Instead, what, how long are we in, JVL? |
| 0:54.0 | 97 hours? I think so. Instead, we've got a 97-hour list of the list of grievances and rambling. No, it's not a list of grievances. I mean, that's in there. Slash achievements. Hold on, here's what he's doing. I just want to set up what he is doing. Trump has taken the podium. He's been going for well over an hour and he is trying to go through a slurring, dissembling laundry list of his so-called achievements. And he's just reading them one by one and then like sort of going off and weaving in between. But he is doing this. And I just, this is the only real thing to take away from what's happening right now. Somebody showed Trump his poll numbers and how bad they're declining. And Trump decided, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to get up the podium. I'm just going to tell everybody how great I'm doing to turn things around. So's just that they don't understand. He keeps saying. They don't understand how good everything we're doing it. Ice is good. The Hispanics are good. Men are looking good to their wives because of their 401ks. The economy is good. These are paid agitators. The hell's angels like me. What, uh, that is what's happening |
| 2:03.7 | right now. The green news scam. Let's listen to the president for just, just 45 seconds randomly. |
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