Trump Botched the Army–Navy Coin Flip
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🗓️ 15 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody. Tim up at the Bullwark here with our managing editor, Sam Stein. It's Sunday afternoon. |
| 0:03.8 | We did this couple weeks ago. Just a little weekend potpourri where, you know, I'm like looking at the internet. And, you know, there are a few things out there that don't merit a full video, but that's either fun or sad or annoying. And we can just chop it up real quick. So that sounds good? It sounds great to me. |
| 0:20.7 | It's like, you know, my family, we would go out to Sunday night Chinese food and we'd get like the, you know, all the appetizers. It's like that, basically. Yeah, some dumplings, you know, some spring rolls. Some spring rolls. Oh. Jinks. Okay, here we go. We're going to start with yesterday. there was an art. It was a pretty boring sports weekend, I will say. But yesterday |
| 0:40.2 | we had the Army, it was a good Spurs Thunder game. We had an Army Navy game yesterday. They invited the President to the event. And okay, an interesting thing that happened was I asked her to do the coin flip and i we just should just watch it together |
| 0:55.7 | mr president would you do the honor it is it tails army you're going it's a little it's like a little |
| 1:09.7 | bird it's right there in the name it's flip it's a little it's like a little bird it's right there in the name it's flip it's a coin flip he let it he let it fall he's a little coin fall it dropped yeah i mean at least it tumbled it turned over one time no it had to have turned over what i mean it couldn't have just landed like that. I don't think it was over one time. No, it had to have turned over. What? I mean, it couldn't have just landed like that. I don't think it was not. There wasn't much rotation. Let's put it that way. I don't know. Do you think he had someone he wanted to get the heads or tell? I don't know. Why was he so gentle? I just don't think he knows how to do it. |
| 1:45.2 | No. |
| 1:45.8 | Why he was just really gentle with that coin? |
| 2:02.2 | All right. How would you have done? I would have done the little bing like that, right? Pop. Yeah. Pop. Yeah. Not that hard. It's not something you practice, I suppose. Maybe he got a little like the yips, you know, where you're just sort of anxious about the flip. |
| 2:03.3 | You want the flip to look nice. |
| 2:52.7 | And then you're suddenly like, ah, and then it just falls. A normal person that doesn't live in his own hotel would know how to flip a coin. It's all of the time. Wait, you kind of just glossed over Spurs Thunder. That was a great game. Amazing game. And so absolutely needed for the NBA because the Thunder was running. I'm so worried about this season. It's just looking like preordained. But my boy, Steph Castle, my boy, Steph, had a great game last night. Yeah, you congratulate. Yeah, Wembe and Yokin. You're going to have something to say about it. Okay, I had one more thing on the Army Navy game. I've noticed a couple times, but I don't think we've mentioned it. And I'm going to have, do a big interview later this week on Palantir and what's happening over there. Folks on the Palantir is like the government contractor, Peter Thiel started it. They do spyware. Let's just pull this up here. This massive Palantir ad at the Army-Nabby game. |
| 3:01.0 | I find this very gross. This is the military academies, and we're having like a spyware company. |
| 3:10.5 | Defense companies, contractor, spyware company that has like a very up front political perspective among their leadership they're doing ads at the game i don't know i mean they obviously knew trump was there right |
| 3:16.0 | so they're trying to get on his radar but yeah it was like there's a little bit sort of like |
| 3:20.2 | we're all going to be basically soldiers for Palantir down the road yeah it felt like |
| 3:25.1 | it was out of a creepy dystopian movie yeah it's like i you know me sam i'm gonna be i'm gonna be |
| 3:30.4 | probably more pro capitalist than the median commenter on this youtube feed i do love capitalism |
| 3:35.0 | but like it feels like that we should have some safe spaces from capitalism in the country |
| 3:38.8 | like a military academy football game i show i don't it's either. It's either that or it's, it's sports betting. It's like one of the other is going to advertise right there. So it's like, pick your poison, right? I would feel a little bit better about draft kings. I don't feel a little bit better about draft kings than Palantir. No, I totally agree. But the draft kings, it's everywhere. Like, you cannot escape the sports betting advertising at these events, too. That makes me uncomfortable a little bit as well. Okay. Here's one more little politics sports take us on the weekend. We are like absolutely rifling through these times. We're rolling through. It's a potpourri. You don't have a full meal of dumplings. You take a couple of nice. Then you move on. |
| 4:18.5 | It's a fucking potpourri, Sam. Are we at the spare ribs? |
| 4:21.7 | We're in the spare ribs. We're something a little gayer than spare whips. There's a little Timu Charlie Kirk. He's trying to sell himself. Like the new Charlie Kirk. You've seen this fellow. Brilyn Holleyhand. Oh, yeah, that guy. Will's written about him. He's so. Yeah. He did a post over the weekend. I just, you know, I just, did you see it? No. So you gave me some prep work, but I didn't see that one. Great. He wrote this. This is a tweet that he posted. This is one of the worst |
| 4:51.3 | tweets I've ever seen in my life. Instead of the Super Bowl, I'd rather watch |
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