5-18-26 Morning Rush - Trump's War In Kentucky! & More Threats In Iran!
The Rush Hour With Dave Neal
Dave Neal
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Trump goes scorched earth against Thomas Massie ahead of Kentucky's massive Republican primary battle
- Is MAGA turning on itself? We break down the growing civil war inside the Republican Party
- Trump pressures allies to fall in line while Massie refuses to back down
- New threats toward Iran as Trump warns leaders to "make a decision" before "something bad happens"
- Are we drifting closer to another major conflict in the Middle East?
- More questions surrounding insider trading, suspicious market activity, and who profits during chaos
- The media spin versus what Americans are actually seeing unfold in real time
- Plus reactions, commentary, and plenty more on today's wild morning news cycle on Rush Hour
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the rush hour. Your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride. |
| 0:07.6 | Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand-up comedian Dave Neal. |
| 0:13.5 | Good morning, everybody. Happy Monday to you on this May 18th, 2026. I have all of your news for your rush hour ride to work, and a war has broken out in Kentucky. |
| 0:24.3 | Why else would the government be sending the Department of Wars? Pete Higgseth, well, turns out he's |
| 0:29.9 | there to campaign against the guy running against Thomas Massey. |
| 0:33.8 | Why might you say? Because Donald Trump is one by one picking off everybody who was for the release of the Epstein files. |
| 0:42.9 | Surgical assassinations, at least politically, if you cross Trump. I'm going to get into all of this and more stars right now on the rush. |
| 0:50.4 | If you're new to my channel, my name's Dave Neal, I'm a stand-up comedian, formerly covered pop culture, specifically the Bachelor, but I have to tell you, what I love more than anything is to cover the human dynamic. |
| 1:01.4 | And what makes us tick, calling out BS, following justice, hypocrisy, things like that. |
| 1:07.5 | And I have to tell you, I've loved covering politics. This world we live in, |
| 1:12.6 | there's those that actually speak their truth, their opinion, that have a spine. And then there's |
| 1:17.3 | those that are, you know, secretly, you know, financed from dark forces, those that are afraid |
| 1:22.7 | to cross Trump. It's really thrown a complete wrench in the whole political system. It's no longer, |
| 1:28.6 | are you on the left or are you on the right? I don't waver in my progressive values, but I do |
| 1:34.3 | appreciate people like Thomas Massey, who's got a backbone to say, you know what, I'm not going to |
| 1:38.4 | vote for a war. I'm not going to vote for anything that's going to lead to the government going |
| 1:42.6 | into greater debt. He, of course, worked with Rokana, a progressive. So someone from the left and the right came together and they worked to try to get the Epstein files released. Now he's speaking out and might lose this race that's happening this week. We're going to cover this and more. And by the way, if you happen to be in East Nashville, I have a show May 29th, just announced it. I'd love for you guys to come. Go to rush hour with Dave.com. If you want to buy tickets, they're really affordable. If you want to come for a night of laughter, it's at a fun wine bar. And again, I covered this yesterday. This idea, you know, like as comics, one of our jobs on stage obviously is to find the funny, |
| 2:19.2 | but another is to speak truth to power, to call out BS when we see it, whether it be from |
| 2:24.8 | a heckler in the room or someone grifting. And Theo von, I have to say, has earned so much love |
| 2:31.1 | from me and my channel over his clapping back at Joe Rogan. They're boys, |
| 2:36.3 | but Rogan aired out his mental health laundry and a lot of people. I mean, if you read |
| 2:41.2 | the comments online, it is one-sided. Everyone is really upset over Rogan. So we covered this |
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