'Smells like corruption': Maddow points out bizarre pattern of overpayments for warehouses by DHS
The Rachel Maddow Show
Rachel Maddow, MS NOW
4.4 • 35.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The president has a 33% approval rating and a 62% disapproval rating. |
| 0:06.9 | The president is now sending American ground troops, thousands of them, and special forces |
| 0:12.2 | as well, to join his inexplicable war in Iran, which is now entering its second month. |
| 0:18.4 | That war is even less popular than the president himself is. |
| 0:23.3 | Specifically the idea of U.S. troops having boots on the ground in that war, that is even |
| 0:28.9 | less popular than the overall war. There is now a 10-foot-tall golden toilet on the |
| 0:35.1 | national mall at the Lincoln Memorial. It says, quote, a throne |
| 0:39.6 | fit for a king. In a time of unprecedented division escalating conflict and economic turmoil, |
| 0:45.0 | President Donald Trump focused on what truly mattered, remodeling the Lincoln bathroom in the |
| 0:50.1 | White House. The plaque next to the 10-foot-tall gold toilet says Trump is, quote, |
| 0:54.7 | an unwavering visionary who looked down, saw a problem, and painted it gold. The gold |
| 1:02.9 | toilet president this weekend was also the target of one of the largest single-day nationwide |
| 1:08.0 | demonstrations in American history. Organizers say more than 8 million |
| 1:13.5 | Americans protested against President Donald Trump this weekend. These were the third No King's |
| 1:20.7 | protests against Donald Trump in 10 months. And there were more than 3,000 separate protests all over the country, which if I went one by one, |
| 1:30.4 | it's too many for me to show you all in one sitting. But, you know, the organizers in advance of |
| 1:35.2 | this weekend's protests had said that they were noticing a little bit of a theme, sort of a trend. |
| 1:41.7 | They were noticing not only that there were going to be more, |
| 1:45.3 | no-kings protests against Trump in more places |
| 1:48.8 | than there ever had been before, |
| 1:50.5 | but they said specifically they'd noticed |
| 1:53.0 | kind of a red state spring happening. |
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