S2 Ep1057: Rahm Emanuel: Trump Is a Chump

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Politics, News, News Commentary

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🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

The lovelorn TACO trader has been hanging by the phone at 2am hoping China's Xi will call him to make a tariff deal. But that call is not coming without America paying a very high price— because world leaders know that Trump is a feckless, desperate negotiator. Meanwhile, Republicans are blowing off Elon's take-down of the reconciliation bill and prepping to turn themselves into roadkill in the midterms. Plus, Scranton Joe went missing in the White House, and the Dems need to stop listening to the very smart and very sophisticated (202) babies who think sharing the right pronoun is more important than kids actually knowing what a pronoun is.

Rahm Emanuel joins Tim Miller.

show notes
Action for Andry: Protest at SCOTUS at 5pm Friday, followed by Free Andry live show

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0:00.0	All right. Hey, everybody. I have an announcement. If you're in D.C. on Friday, we are now doing a rally outside the Supreme Court in support of Andre, before the fundraiser. So it'll be five o'clock outside the Supreme Court. Go to the Borg.com slash events. Our buddies are crooked. It'll be there. Sarah's going to be there. A bunch of other folks. And we wanted to maximize as much attention as we could just to make sure
0:22.8	that folks are aware that there are people out there that still care about these Venezuelans
0:27.3	that have been sent to a fucking gulag in El Salvador for no reason. So come out if you're in the DC
0:32.7	Metro, 5 o'clock outside the Supreme Court. There are a handful of tickets left. If you want to
0:37.2	come to that fundraiser, you better get that ticket right now because it's
0:40.1	going to sell out probably today.
0:42.0	So I appreciate you guys.
0:43.8	Up next, I have a long interview because it was good, man.
0:46.4	It was good.
0:46.8	I just, we had to keep it rolling.
0:48.2	All right.
0:48.5	So we've got a marathon with Rahm Emanuel.
0:51.3	I hope you guys enjoyed as much as I did. Stick around for that.
1:14.7	Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast. I'm your host Tim Miller. Delighted to welcome today for his first time, a guy who's former titles include congressman,
1:19.8	White House Chief of Staff, Mayor, Chair of the D-Triple-C, ambassador to Japan.
1:21.2	You figured it out.
1:22.0	It's Ron McManual.
1:22.7	What's up, Ronbo?
1:23.2	How you doing, man?
1:29.0	I'm good. Not to be a jerk, but I thought I'd start right where I want to begin. You left two titles off.
1:38.2	Okay, great. Which titles are you? I don't know. You're not the only person. Everybody seems to forget these two. I was caucus chair for the Democrats.
1:39.3	I just didn't want to say the majority.
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