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Hacks On Tap

TACO Tuesday (with Morris Katz)

Hacks On Tap

David Axelrod & Mike Murphy

Politics, Government, News, News Commentary

4.78K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This week, Axe and Heilemann dive into Trump’s Oval Office presser on the state of the war with Iran—and, of course, his ballroom. The Hacks also break down kitchen table issues, potential watershed moments, Republican influencers turning on Trump, redistricting, the midterms, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You can tell a lot about a person by their accent.

0:06.3

I really do say I pod my cat and have a yacht.

0:09.5

Everyone around here says like a coffee and dog.

0:13.5

We're so attached to the way that we sound because it tells a part of the story of who we are.

0:19.1

Your accent, decoded.

0:20.9

That's this week on Explain It to Me.

0:23.0

Find new episode Sundays wherever you get your podcasts.

0:39.4

Hey, pull up a chair.

0:44.6

It's Hacks on Tapp with David Axelrod, John Heilman, and Mike Murphy.

1:06.3

From the Vox Media Podcast Network. You know, the one thing about sports is you break it down into, you know, a two-hour period, something nice.

1:09.6

You don't have to wait a lifetime to find out is somebody a winner or a loser.

1:28.8

You've got a lot of losers, mostly losers, fortunately. It's a good thing to have a lot of losers. I always like to hang around with losers, actually, because it makes me feel better. You know, I agree with Donald Trump, David. That explains, you know, so much of my affiliation with Hacks on Tap. I knew that, I knew that line was coming when you picked that clip out. I didn't even have imagine that but i can i can i will also tell you that that clip makes a lot of sense on a day when he lost yet two more

1:35.0

lawsuits on the on the on the ballroom on npr so if he wants to hang out with losers he should get to

1:41.5

get together with his lawyers over there. They're having a bad,

1:44.7

they're having a bad day. Do you think he's going to take the ballroom thing lying down?

1:49.0

Like, what's Trump going to do? That's the men thing that could actually make him good nuclear.

1:52.4

He went on. This was a day in which, and we'll talk about this in a second, Donald Trump basically announced the taco moment, like past the hot sauce, we're getting out of Iran and, you know, basically declared victory, mission accomplished and all of that.

2:09.9

And he spent the bulk of his press conference fuming about this ruling about on his ballroom, that that he can't go forward with

2:20.4

his ballroom. For 160 years, presidents have been demanding this ballroom, and we finally have it.

2:28.1

Well, you know, he said the other day, David, that it was the military that wanted to have it

2:31.8

built. And I, you know, my thought was that, you know, who really wanted to have it built? i you know what my thought was that you know who really wanted to have it built more's cats um who was like please give me a solid gold

2:38.8

ballroom sorry you know what a great symbol of the plutocracy morris is morris is becoming such a big

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