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The Next Level

It Doesn't Matter Which Reich Trump Meant

The Next Level

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.92.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

It's been a a chaotic week in GOP politics, with Donald Trump sharing a video hyping up a "United Reich, SCOTUS Justice Alito's upside down flag revelation, and a new MAGA conspiracy making the rounds claiming the FBI tried to assassinate Trump.

Oh, and voters continue to see the economy as horrendous, while failing to register Trump as a socially conservative radical.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone this is J.D. L. here with my best friends Sarah

0:08.9

Longwell and Tim Miller of the bulwark guys it, it's Wednesday, May 22nd, and we are living on the cusp of a unified Reich.

0:17.6

It's fantastic. I can't wait. It's the disparate Reichs. You don't want them. You want all the ricks together.

0:25.3

Can somebody clue me in? This is like one of those stories that I just opted out of.

0:29.6

Like it sounded stupid and like probably an intern made a mistake or something but like what tell me

0:36.7

Tell me what happened. All right Tim do you want to do the plot summary or do you do the plot summary because I've got a riff

0:42.3

I'm mentally churning on a riff right now so you do the

0:44.9

plot summary while I get riled up. Some Trump's super fan on Twitter put together a video

0:52.0

ad homage worshipful package for Trump. It has a bunch of stuff floating

0:58.1

words and text and headlines floating in the background. Trump goes and retweets this from his truth social account,

1:07.1

at which point somebody paying attention was like,

1:09.3

does that say unified Reich behind? What?

1:13.0

And the headlines are things that would happen in another Trump term.

1:17.0

You know, it's like economy great, 15 million illegals deported.

1:20.0

And, you know, so this then, the Trump people say, well, Donald Trump didn't do that.

1:26.0

Somebody else who runs that account did that.

1:29.0

So I guess if something bad happens on your social account,

1:32.0

you're no longer held accountable for it.

1:33.4

That's good to know. And Dave Waggle would like a word. And the fellow who made the meme said, no, that was just like you know placeholder words in a template that I pulled

1:46.1

off the shelf to make the there's no Nazi stuff going on in here don't pay attention to the fact that the guy who had dinner with the Nazi,

1:54.0

Nick Fuentes, and who said he wants to be a dictator and has said that he would

1:58.1

likely terminate parts of the Constitution. And look, don't go saying that this is Nazi stuff, because this is just an accidental

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