The Daily Blast: Trump Unravels in Crazed Rants to Media as Poll Reveals Fresh Weakness

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Chris Cotnoir

Government

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🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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President Trump’s presser on Wednesday flew off the rails. He raged at a reporter for questioning his acceptance of a luxury jet from Qatar. He snapped when asked why he’s resettling white Afrikaners but no other refugees. And he tried to humiliate the South African president by brandishing printouts about the deaths of white South Africans but couldn’t defend his lie of a “white genocide” unfolding there. The corruption and the white nationalism—Trump openly promised both during the campaign, and he’s now doing them. Yet on the latter, a new Marquette poll finds wide public disapproval of Trump’s deportations of longtime residents, and shows independents tiling strongly against him on immigration, revealing fresh weakness on this issue. We talked to veteran labor strategist Michael Podhorzer, author of a new piece on his Substack arguing that the anti-MAGA majority that didn’t show up in 2024 is now visibly reconstituting itself in polls. He explains that Trump’s unhinged presser helps show how Trump himself is making that happen. 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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1:04.4	On Wednesday, President Donald Trump offered some of his widest ranging remarks to reporters yet, and the proceedings really went off the rails.
1:10.3	He raged at one journalist for questioning his corrupt acceptance of a luxury jet from Qatar. He lost his temper when
1:12.3	asked why his administration is resettling white Afrikaners but no other refugees, and he tried to
1:18.8	humiliate the president of South Africa by thumbing through printouts of news articles of deaths of
1:24.1	white South Africans, but couldn't even defend his lie that there's a white genocide
1:28.8	happening there. We think the scene captured something essential about this moment. The corruption
1:35.0	and the white nationalism. Those are two things Trump openly promised he would do during the campaign,
1:41.5	and he's now doing both of them. The longtime labor strategist Michael Podhorzer
1:46.6	has a good new piece on his substack, weekend reading, arguing that the polling evidence is now clear.
1:53.2	Trump won in 2024 because voters either didn't know what he was promising to do or didn't
1:58.7	believe those promises. So we're talking about all this today.
2:02.9	Good to have you on, Michael. It's great to see you again. So Trump met with South African President
2:08.2	Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House Wednesday and journalists were in attendance. Let's start here.
2:13.5	Trump was asked about the news that the administration will accept a $400 million luxury jet from Qatar,
2:20.0	but Trump wanted to talk about the fake white genocide in South Africa, so he lost his temper.
2:24.7	Listen to this.
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