Trump made gas expensive and now his supporters hate him.
Factually! with Adam Conover
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🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Trump's tired. Constantly owning yourself is hard.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgum podcast. |
| 0:05.2 | So I actually think that we might be watching Donald Trump destroy himself right now. |
| 0:10.4 | Like literally, everything he does immediately turns into a gigantic cell phone. |
| 0:15.4 | And he's always been essentially self-defeating, but now he is shitting himself on the global stage. |
| 0:21.6 | And, you know, if you don't like the guy, that would be funny and satisfying. |
| 0:25.0 | But unfortunately, we're all watching from the splash zone, and it's us who are getting covered |
| 0:29.8 | with shit. |
| 0:30.5 | So in February, Trump took his buddy, Bebe Netanyahu's advice and invaded Iran. |
| 0:36.5 | And, you know, Netanyahu had been trying to get basically |
| 0:38.5 | every American president to do this for decades. And the reason they hadn't is that anyone could |
| 0:43.9 | have told you this would simply be a world historical f***cup. Even George W. Bush was smart enough |
| 0:50.3 | not to invade Iran. Not only has this war failed to remove Iran's government or its nuclear material, |
| 0:56.0 | it has actually made Iran geopolitically stronger. Iran has now blocked the Strait of Hormuz and cut off one-fifth of the world's oil supply, |
| 1:05.0 | leading to, you know, it's just the worst energy crisis in history, just, you know, throughout all of human history, that's all. Little thing. And, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Twump didn't expect them to do that. So he sent his underlings scrambling to end of the war he started, but now he can't help torpedoing their efforts to help him and prolonging the catastrophic war with his dumbass social media posts. |
| 1:28.9 | And look, I have trouble logging off too. |
| 1:31.1 | Who amongst us has never been caught in a flame war? |
| 1:33.8 | But I generally have the sense to stop before it turns into Flame World War III. |
| 1:37.8 | But, you know, Trump's flailing isn't just hurting others, you know, among them hundreds of |
| 1:42.8 | thousands of Iranians and of course the American |
| 1:45.6 | soldiers who are being put in harm's way, he's also plunging a dagger into the heart of his |
| 1:50.6 | own political coalition. With this idiotic war, Trump has violated two of the key promises that |
| 1:56.6 | led him to re-election. First, that he wouldn't entangle America in any more idiotic foreign wars, |
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