Trump Loyalists Learn What ‘America First’ Really Means
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The Bulwark
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
First, the Trump Burger chain owner in Texas who plastered his restaurants with MAGA merch… and now faces deportation. Next is Josh Smith: a Montana knife maker who mocked companies for whining about tariffs — until those same tariffs jacked up his costs.
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| 0:24.4 | That's right. JVL's been out this week. It's been on a family vacation, well deserved. I had to take a week off the FY podcast. We need to give you a little something. We deserve it. You know, not that we enjoy other people suffering, but it's interesting to see when people |
| 0:43.1 | experience the consequences of their support for Donald Trump. |
| 0:46.7 | And I don't know, maybe it'll be a little theme, just a little Saturday treat, a little |
| 0:50.1 | shot in Freud a Saturday. |
| 0:51.3 | I can think that's fair. |
| 0:53.1 | I think we deserve it. |
| 0:54.7 | Anyway, |
| 1:02.5 | there are two MAGA executives. We call them executives. Like CEOs. That have fallen on hard times this week, which is tough. And first, I want to turn it over to a report from K-H-O-U in Houston. |
| 1:13.2 | The owner of Trump Burger restaurants, which has several locations in the Houston area, |
| 1:18.9 | has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and now faces deportation. |
| 1:24.7 | I says Roland Biani, a 28-year-old from Lebanon, overstayed his visa after entering |
| 1:31.0 | the U.S. back in 2019. He was taken into custody in May and is now out on bond as he awaits |
| 1:37.7 | immigration proceedings. |
| 1:44.1 | Excuse me. Excuse me, sorry. |
| 1:47.8 | Boy, boy, did you catch that. |
| 1:51.0 | Trump is right about everything sign? |
| 1:55.0 | Oops. |
| 1:57.4 | Well, here's the thing. |
| 2:00.6 | I just want to say, up front, I don't know anything about this person. |
| 2:05.6 | Seems like a decent businessman. |
| 2:08.6 | He found a niche in the marketplace. |
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