Jane Coaston: We Have Some Questions, Melania
The Bulwark Podcast
The Bulwark
4.6 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
No one was really asking about Melania’s ties to Epstein. But after her surprise White House statement to the press on Thursday, the questions are flowing—particularly because a former Brazilian model who moved in both Trump and Epstein circles is posting threats against the First Lady on social media. Tim and Jane break it all down. Plus, Melania does not speak or read English very well, Trump is furious about Tucker & co.’s opposition to the Iran war, Vance’s motives for converting to Catholicism are disgusting and unchristian, and why would Iran permit Saudi-paid Jared to participate in the Islamabad peace talks?
Jane Coaston joins Tim Miller for the holiday weekend pod.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm your host, Tim Miller. |
| 0:15.8 | Delighted to give you a vacation episode of the podcast. |
| 0:18.9 | I'm here in Indio, California. |
| 0:20.6 | I'm in the desert. And so I needed Indio, California. I'm in the desert. |
| 0:21.3 | And so I needed to find a California buddy to come on the show with me. And I mean, |
| 0:26.8 | the content gods have blessed us with very vacation friendly material. She is the host of Crooked Media's |
| 0:32.4 | What a Day podcast. Couldn't be happy to welcome back. Jane Coastin, go blue. |
| 0:40.5 | Go blue. Fresh off the Michigan Championship in your sweatshirt. |
| 0:41.8 | Yep, yep. |
| 0:42.6 | It's been great. |
| 0:48.2 | I have successfully fixed my Instagram algorithm to only give me material about Michigan doing things that I like. |
| 0:49.8 | Like, it's funny how Instagram at a certain point you'll just keep giving you what you want to see. |
| 0:53.6 | And sometimes that can be like really bad because you'll click on one depressing thing and it'll keep giving you more depressing things. |
| 0:59.0 | But right now it's just all good Michigan vibes and things about running and like other stuff I'm into and nothing that I need to not know. |
| 1:07.4 | Which that's why, you know, I have to check Twitter for all the things I don't want to know. |
| 1:10.7 | I had some school parents tell me that they were upset because they didn't really know that I was a content creator. And then all of a sudden I came up on their Instagram. And so they're like, oh, that's interesting. So they started watching me. And so like now all they're getting is never trumped content and they're reals and they're like, I need to retrain my, she's like, I love you, but I need to retrain my algorithm. I was like, please, my feelings won't be hurt, you know? Do what you need to do. Yeah, they don't need full Midas touch in their, in their, in their, in their feeds. As mentioned, you know, I'm going to be a little loose today, all right? I'm already mentally out on the polo grounds. |
| 1:45.6 | And so luckily, the first lady of the United States, Flotus gave us, I think, something that we can really just kind of experience altogether. |
| 1:57.9 | You know, I want to, I want to marinate and our Slovenian first lady. She summoned |
| 2:04.4 | reporters yesterday to the White House to give a surprise statement about Epstein. Nobody knew what it was |
| 2:10.5 | going to be. Nobody knew why they were being summoned. It seems like her husband didn't even know |
| 2:15.6 | that she was going to do it, if you believe him, which is a big if. |
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