The Sound of Cracks Forming: A Confidence Game
The Mary Trump Podcast
Mary Trump Media
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🗓️ 21 February 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
It’s Week 57 of the so-called “Golden Age,” and the numbers are telling a very different story. The dollar is weaker, tariffs are driving up costs, job growth is slowing, and Americans are feeling it at the grocery store. Yet White House advisers like Peter Navarro insist we’re in a “Goldilocks economy.”
Mary breaks down the latest polling with CNN’s Harry Enten, examines Kevin Hassett’s response to a New York Fed study on who’s really paying for tariffs, and looks at growing concerns about press access after controversies involving CBS, Stephen Colbert, and White House briefings. Plus, Donald’s remarks at a Black History Month event in the East Room and why it all matters heading into the midterms.
Trump Trolls Trump Week 57.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, this is a president, Dana, who listens to the American people and when the American people wanted more information on the MLK files, on JFK, on Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 0:18.0 | This president said, let's release all of that. Let's give it to the American |
| 0:21.4 | people. And I think he's listening to the American people here once again. This is the most |
| 0:26.4 | transparent president in American history. There is no doubt about it. |
| 0:43.2 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to this week's edition of Trump-Trolls Trump, |
| 0:49.5 | the show where I complain about the fact that somebody keeps using my name. |
| 0:54.7 | I think there may be a cease and desist in my future. |
| 0:56.2 | Or his future? |
| 0:57.4 | I don't know which. |
| 1:09.7 | But anyway, it is time to assuage our frustrations, our horrors, actually, by mocking the guy who keeps using my name. |
| 1:15.8 | How dare he? It's not just Donald, though. We get to mock because, since he is truly the biggest loser I've ever met in my life and the most |
| 1:25.2 | embarrassing, humiliating person who's ever led this country. |
| 1:29.4 | He has surrounded himself with people who are very much like him. |
| 1:33.2 | So we get to mock them too, which means we never run out of material. |
| 1:39.3 | It has now been 397 days since the beginning of what Donald laughably referred to as the golden age of America. |
| 1:49.7 | How's that feeling? |
| 1:51.4 | Is everybody feeling optimistic? |
| 1:53.1 | Do we feel like we're thriving? |
| 1:55.9 | No. |
| 1:57.1 | So we're looking back at week 57. |
| 2:01.8 | That makes me feel older than I want to. |
| 2:04.7 | I actually think I've, I feel like I've aged 10 years in the last week, year or something. |
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