Trump Loves Putting His Own People Down
Bulwark Takes
The Bulwark
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Sam Stein takes on a series of bizarre Trump appearances, ranging from crude jokes and made-up stories to comments that may have revealed something far more serious. The pattern raises a bigger question: when the president speaks, how much of it is real?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. It's me, Sam Stein, managing editor at the bulwark, and I am joining you on Saturday morning for Little League with the kids because, well, to be frank, I don't really want to do this. |
| 0:11.4 | Donald Trump has been saying things that suggest, and I'm not trying to be funny about this, that he's horny. |
| 0:19.9 | I'm dead serious. There was a speech last night, |
| 0:24.0 | a speech last night that he gave to a Saudi investment fund, a Saudi sovereign wealth fund, |
| 0:29.8 | that should be more accurate, in which he had this peculiar little aside where he went to |
| 0:33.7 | the question and answer session. And then suddenly he just decided, you know what, |
| 0:38.2 | I'm going to open this up to anything including sex. |
| 0:41.1 | Let's play the clip. |
| 0:42.0 | So I want to just thank everybody very much. |
| 0:45.1 | And I'm asked to take a few questions. |
| 0:47.9 | And unlike other politicians, they would like the question screened. |
| 0:52.4 | I don't ask for screening of the questions. |
| 0:54.5 | You can ask me anything you want. |
| 0:56.7 | You can talk sex. |
| 0:58.6 | You can whatever the hell you want. |
| 1:02.0 | I'm here for you. |
| 1:05.3 | Whatever question you want. |
| 1:07.3 | Okay. |
| 1:08.2 | Well, look, the Saudi sovereign wealth fund might not be the right form for that. |
| 1:13.4 | And you might be saying, Sam, well, whatever, it's one instance. Don't jump to conclusions. |
| 1:18.1 | He's just making a joke. Surely you have to have a pattern before you make an accusation like |
| 1:22.7 | you did up top. And I do have a pattern because not even like a day before that. |
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