'Shut this White House down': Platner talks strategy to stop Trump
The Briefing with Jen Psaki
MS NOW, Jen Psaki
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🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, it seems like speaking of politics and elections, we're all thinking about him, right? |
| 0:05.6 | It seems like little Mike Johnson has finally, finally settled on his pitch for the midterms. |
| 0:12.1 | He has managed to boil it all down to one simple message. |
| 0:17.9 | House Republicans continue to deliver for the American people. |
| 0:21.6 | We will continue to do that for the remainder of the year, |
| 0:23.6 | and that is a large reason why we are going to win the midterms |
| 0:26.6 | so that the grown-ups can stay in charge here. |
| 0:28.6 | They have full-on Trump derangement syndrome, okay? |
| 0:31.6 | And it informs how they see the world and how they react |
| 0:35.6 | and how irresponsible they are now is on full display for the whole country. |
| 0:39.7 | I hope voters remember this in the fall. |
| 0:41.9 | You've got to keep the grownups in charge, and that's the Republicans. |
| 0:46.1 | Does that make Mike Johnson the grownup? |
| 0:48.7 | Like, if you're a grownup, you don't have a spine. |
| 0:51.1 | That's how it goes these days. |
| 0:52.7 | Who knows? |
| 0:53.2 | But that's their message du jour of this week. Well, today, the 79-year-old man-child in charge of all those little |
| 1:01.2 | grown-ups was on true social bragging about the cognitive test he passed. Not once, not twice, |
| 1:07.8 | but three times. You know, the tests where you name the animals drawn on a piece of paper. |
| 1:12.4 | And Donald Trump might have felt the need to brag about acing those tests |
| 1:15.5 | because lots of people noticed that he can't even keep his war straight right now. |
| 1:22.9 | I think Ukraine, militarily, they're defeated, okay? |
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