NYT's Unobscured Trump Attack, Trump Wants to Reopen Alcatraz, The Obamas' Endless Whining
3 Martini Lunch
Radio America
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
First, they tear into the New York Times for framing the Congressional Review Act (CRA) as an “obscure” tool possibly being misused by Republicans to undo Biden-era regulations. The article warns readers that opponents can’t filibuster CRA rollbacks—something the left suddenly finds troubling now that Republicans control Congress. Jim dismantles the Times’ arguments, defends Trump’s use of the CRA, and calls out the media’s hypocritical coverage of these tactics.
Next, they react to President Trump’s call to reopen Alcatraz as a prison for the nation’s most dangerous criminals. He also hints at sending criminal illegals there, blaming judges "that are afraid to do their job and allow us to remove criminals." Jim and Greg aren't sure that specifically rebuilding Alcatraz is the answer, but they do like the like of sending our worst criminals to places that will be remote and will become synonymous with a thoroughly miserable experience for the inmates. And some of their ideas for how to do this are out of this world.
Finally, they roll their eyes at Michelle Obama’s latest White House grievances—this time about paying for their own private meals and also travel for their children when the president wasn’t with them. Jim and Greg are tired of how the Obamas continue to portray themselves as victims while enjoying elite status—but are enjoy seeing how their political influence continues to fade within the Democratic Party.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:04.8 | Grab a stool next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:10.2 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:13.1 | So glad you're with us for the Monday edition of the Three Martini Lunch. |
| 0:16.2 | Hope you had a terrific weekend. |
| 0:17.7 | We begin the week with all crazy martinis. |
| 0:20.7 | So you just never know where the week |
| 0:21.8 | is going to go from here. We're going to take a look at how the media constantly tries to describe |
| 0:28.1 | any action by the Trump administration as weird or maybe not legitimate. In this case, |
| 0:33.7 | it's obscure again. First, it was, you know, laws from a couple hundred years ago. That's obscure, little used. Now it's going to be another one that's actually used quite a bit, but they don't like it, so they're going to characterize it that way. We've also gotten to the point, apparently, Jim, where the Obamas are tiresome to a lot of people, including on the left, which is welcome news, which they had wised up to |
| 0:55.5 | that a couple decades ago, but nonetheless, better late than never. And then we're also going to be |
| 0:59.7 | talking a little bit about President Trump's call to reopen Alcatraz as an actual prison, |
| 1:04.5 | which came on the same day, Jim, that he also called for major tariffs on movies made overseas. |
| 1:10.1 | A lot of people freaking out about that, |
| 1:11.5 | so we'll see if it actually happens. |
| 1:12.8 | But nonetheless, I know as a movie buff, |
| 1:15.4 | you're taking a closer look at that. |
| 1:17.4 | First of all, Greg, welcome to the rock. |
| 1:21.3 | As a, I first of all, the pinnacle of both Michael Bay |
| 1:25.0 | and arguably Nicholas Cage, |
| 1:27.1 | I fully support not just a tariff on all foreign films, |
| 1:31.6 | as President Trump said on True Social last night. |
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