Dan Pfeiffer: Why Trump’s “I Don’t Think About Americans” Gaffe is the Worst Gaffe Ever
Impolitic with John Heilemann
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🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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| 1:02.1 | Thank you, Hello, namaste, and welcome Tim Politick with John Heilman, a puck and Odyssey joint. |
| 1:03.0 | It has been a little while since we did a combination tour to horizon of and deep dive into the U.S. domestic political scene. |
| 1:13.9 | And it's been even longer since we last had A-List friend of the pod, Dan Pfeiffer, on the show. |
| 1:20.0 | So with Donald Trump, off in Beijing, having the red carpet literally rolled out for him |
| 1:27.3 | in the same way that he rolled out the red carpet |
| 1:29.4 | literally for Vladimir Putin in Alaska last year. You see the symmetry there, right? And with Democrats |
| 1:37.1 | indulging their endemic bipolar disorder, one day bubbling over with delight over Trump's admission |
| 1:43.2 | that he doesn't give any thought |
| 1:44.6 | whatsoever to the financial strains and economic pressures. His war in Iran is imposing on ordinary |
| 1:51.5 | Americans and expressing certainty those Democrats that this gaff will be the thing that brings down |
| 1:57.6 | MAGA. And then the next day, absolutely freaking out about how the U.S. Supreme Court's abominable |
| 2:05.0 | gutting of the Voting Rights Act and the Virginia Supreme Court's invalidation of that state's |
| 2:08.7 | recent mid-decade redistricting plan may snatch victory from the jaws of defeat for Democrats |
| 2:15.4 | in the November midterm elections and, and with the calendar overflowing with critical primaries in the days and weeks ahead, |
| 2:22.2 | this seemed like a perfect time to have Dan back to discuss all of that and more. |
| 2:28.6 | So that sports fans is precisely what we did, what we have here, listening from Dan, |
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