Sheldon Whitehouse on Trump’s Flying Monkeys, Cosplaying Billionaires, & his Festival of Corruption

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🗓️ 22 April 2025

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Rick is delighted to sit down with Senator-meets-influencer Sheldon Whitehouse, who is fed up and is "not going to take it anymore!" Chatting about Trump's flying monkey followers in the House, Senate, and in his administration, Sheldon and Rick unpack the three C's -- Cost, Chaos, and Corruption -- that are hurting Americans and will challenge Republicans in the upcoming 2026 race. ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ Follow Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse on X and @whitehouse.senate.gov on Bluesky. Follow Rick Wilson at @TheRickWilson on X and @therickwilson.bsky.social on Bluesky, and subscribe to his Substack at therickwilson.substack.com. Join the fight with the Lincoln Project at www.lincolnproject.us and follow LP on X at @ProjectLincoln. If you'd like to help us continue our critical work, visit https://action.lincolnproject.us/helplp to make a difference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know, this is Springsteen. Poor man want to be rich. Rich man want to be king.
0:04.6	Yep. So these billionaires get to sort of cosplay at government offices that they don't know
0:11.6	anything about, but they get to drive around in the big black SUVs and they got security people
0:15.6	and they can be like super self-important and make important decisions. Your task will not be an easy one.
0:24.6	Your enemy is well trained, well equipped in battlehardt. There is not a liberal America and a
0:30.7	conservative America. There is the United States of America. Good night and good luck.
0:39.3	Hey, everybody. It's Rick Wilson, your host. As always, of the Lincoln Project
0:42.8	podcast. I want to welcome back our listeners today. And thank everybody for coming back and giving
0:48.2	us your valuable time and attention. I am joined today by a absolutely terrific leader in the
0:53.9	United States Senate,
0:54.7	Sheldon White House.
0:55.8	He has been a guy who has taken on this moment and really gone out there and started to
1:03.1	to fight where the fight is.
1:05.6	And he's fighting the craziness of the doge things in the Senate,
1:10.3	the craziness of this administration in the Senate the senate the craziness of of this administration
1:12.4	in the senate and he's doing it not just on the senate floor but on social media really well
1:17.8	and so senator i wanted to welcome to the show today thank you so much for coming on and i want to
1:22.9	i want to start out we're recording this on t afternoon. So I want to start out by asking,
1:29.5	what is the feeling that you're getting in the Senate, not only broadly, but from your
1:33.6	Republican colleagues, about how well they think this trade war is going?
1:41.5	Let's just say they're not pleased. I think anxiety is high. I think there was a certain amount of
1:49.3	anxiety before this, but when you're the party that tends to represent the millionaires and the
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