Trump Can’t Keep His Own Stories Straight Anymore
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🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, guys, it's JVL and Sam Stein from the bulwark yesterday. |
| 0:04.1 | Donald Trump had a McDonald's summit with a bunch of Mickey D's corporate types and franchise owners. |
| 0:12.8 | And Sam, how often do you watch the president speaking in extended, extended remarks? |
| 0:23.9 | Honestly, probably every day. |
| 0:26.9 | Really? Okay. |
| 0:28.1 | So I have not. |
| 0:30.1 | I'll be honest. |
| 0:31.3 | I see clips of him. |
| 0:32.3 | I'll see places where he will be back and forth with reporters, but I don't see his set pieces. |
| 0:40.1 | Right. |
| 0:40.6 | Every day. |
| 0:41.0 | I don't just, like, sit through 49 minutes of him. |
| 0:44.3 | And I did better off. |
| 0:45.9 | I did that with yesterday. |
| 0:47.0 | And what I came away from thinking was that when you do that and really unpack it, |
| 0:55.6 | he may not have all the mentals yeah i know the MRI was good was a very strong MRI he had we don't know what it was |
| 1:01.2 | of we just know it's good and he doesn't know either but uh i i just want to play some some of the |
| 1:09.2 | clips here and talk about what I think I'm seeing. |
| 1:12.1 | Not a doctor. |
| 1:13.4 | Not a doctor. |
| 1:14.1 | And I want to be clear, I'm not doing this clown on him. |
| 1:16.7 | Okay. |
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