6/20/25: MAGA is being ripped to shreds, Tulsi in trouble

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4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

-- On the Show:

— MAGA is imploding: Trump attacks his own intelligence chief, Elon Musk turns on him, his tax bill collapses, and even Tucker and Cruz are fighting each other on air

— Marjorie Taylor Greene publicly breaks with Trump over the Iran war, and the MAGA movement starts to fracture

— Doctor Oz embarrasses himself on CNN with wildly inaccurate claims about the ACA and income verification

— A C-SPAN caller confronts CNN’s Jake Tapper live about ignoring Trump’s declining mental health

— Trump humiliates Tulsi Gabbard over her Iran testimony, considering eliminating her job entirely after freezing her out of the war cabinet

— Trump’s foreign policy collapses as he scrambles for credit on Israeli strikes—only to be contradicted by his own Secretary of State

— Mike Pence turns on Trump, blasting him over Iran, Ukraine, and the January 6 pardons

— CNN host destroys a belligerent GOP congressman on air over his violent rhetoric and bizarre behavior

-- This week's Friday Feedback

-- On the Bonus Show: Mike Lee's disgusting tweet about Minnesota shooting, right wingers start saber rattling, and much more...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show.
0:08.0	Hope you've got a good weekend ahead.
0:10.8	The big news is that MAGA is collapsing under the weight of its own bullshit.
0:17.2	This is what happens when you build a political movement on lies and loyalty tests instead of anything
0:22.2	you actually believe.
0:24.4	Donald Trump never believed most of the stuff he ran on, not in any really meaningful
0:29.4	way.
0:30.4	He said he was anti-war because it polled well and it helped to distinguish him from some of
0:34.9	his Republican counterparts in the primary way back in
0:38.2	2016.
0:38.8	He said he was religious because evangelicals demanded it, even though we all know he's not
0:44.8	religious.
0:45.8	He said he was anti-abortion because he knew he couldn't win a Republican primary without
0:50.0	saying you're anti-abortion, even though we knew he's not really against abortion. And he was pro
0:55.6	choice his entire life until he decided to enter politics. So none of it was real. It was all branding.
1:01.7	And for a while, you got to hand it to the guy. It actually sort of worked as long as Trump wasn't
1:06.8	confronted with any of it, he could say whatever sounded good and then move on. But now
1:12.8	the contradictions are starting to catch up with him and it's happening very quickly. This
1:17.4	week, it's really happening with the Iran war. Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's own director of national
1:22.7	intelligence, goes public and says U.S. intelligence doesn't believe Iran is building a nuclear weapon or that
1:29.0	they're close. It was a serious measured assessment that at least seems to comport to the facts as we
1:34.0	currently know them. And Trump freaks out. Trump says during an interview, I don't care what Tulsi
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