The Daily Blast: Trump Press Sec Goes Full Cult as Brutal Fox News Poll Hits Him Hard

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Chris Cotnoir

Government

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🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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On Thursday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the world that the Kennedy Center has now been renamed after President Donald Trump. Her announcement of this great honor was bizarrely obsequious, mimicking phrases Trump himself uses and slathering him with great flattery. We think it’s no accident that this comes as Trump’s decline is worsening both physically and politically: On Friday, he seemed to nod off amid his escalating physical deterioration. And a brutal Fox News poll finds his approval on the economy cratering, huge majorities saying economic conditions are bad, and even majority opposition to his mighty boat bombings. We talked to Moira Donegan, a columnist for The Guardian, who has a great new piece on Trump’s decline. We discuss how Trump’s minions are compensating for his deterioration with increasing cult worship, why his physical and political decline are connected, and what it means that the world is now looking beyond Trump. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:20.3	President Trump's public events on Thursday were very strange.
1:23.2	At one point, he seemed to nod off.
1:29.1	At another, he claimed it was a great honor that the Kennedy Center has now been named after him,
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