Gas Prices Hit Record High. The King is Here. $400M of Your Money for Trump’s Ballroom

Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff

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Politics, News, National Security, News Commentary, Daily News, Veteran

4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

A real king is in Washington this week, and the wannabe king in the Oval Office is making the most of the pomp. Paul Rieckhoff opens with King Charles and Camilla's visit, the Epstein questions nobody at the White House wants to touch, and the through-line that drives this entire briefing: Trump is busting up Congress, the UN, NATO, the World Bank, the EU, and now OPEC — and the institutions that held this country and this world together are being stress-tested in real time. Gas hits $4.18, the UAE bolts from the cartel, 1,100 TSA officers walk off the job, and most Americans have no idea any of it is happening.

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0:00.0	He's a renegade, rogue president, and he's busting up many of the institutions in this country and in this world that had never been really truly tested before.
0:09.6	He's busting up Congress. He's busting up the World Bank. He's busted up the U.N. He's busting up NATO. He's challenging the EU.
0:17.2	And now, OPEC.
0:57.2	Welcome to Independent Americans. Welcome to episode 506. I am your host, Paul Reikoff, and it is Tuesday, April 28th. And I'm coming to you today from New York City, USA, where the weather is very 2026-like. It was nice and really sunny earlier, and now it's gloomy and colder.
1:04.6	Up and down, up and down, back and forth. That's 2026, right? Well, the show is going to help you breeze through it, and today's artist will help you do the same. Every day I introduce my boys
1:09.9	to a new artist. And today's
1:11.7	artist of the day is Spencer Sutherland, because one of his top songs is called drama. And boy,
1:19.5	do we have lots of it. And Spencer is kind of a throwback to maybe Freddie Mercury, a little David
1:26.3	Bowie, a dash of Adam Lambert, who I actually love,
1:30.2	American pop R&B singer originally from Ohio. He competed in the X Factor UK, which is relevant
1:37.6	today, given the King is in town, more on that coming up. He was in a Netflix film Afterlife of the Party.
1:44.0	He's had a modern rock
1:45.5	album called The Drama, and his single Selfish was released back in 2017 and had millions of
1:51.6	streams. He says he writes songs about how amazing and heartbreaking life can be, which is
1:58.3	perfect for 2026. He also has a new song that the algorithm fed up for me
2:02.9	called Life is Glamorous. And then it has a line that says, oh, can we cover it up? Can we cover it
2:09.0	up? Crimes in clown makeup, which is perfect today for Trump and the King, which is not really glamorous.
2:17.7	They want to feel glamorous. They want to feel glamorous.
2:18.9	They want to look glamorous, and it's not glamorous for the rest of us.
2:21.7	But I'm going to try to help you push through it and bring you the five eyes.
2:25.3	I bring you in every single show.
2:27.8	Independence, integrity, information, inspiration, and impact.
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