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Bulwark Takes

Trump’s Golf Obsession, Groyper Conference Disaster, Daily Wire Layoffs | MAGA Monday

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Politics, News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Will Sommer and Sam Stein are going live to cover the biggest news in the right wing fever swamp.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, hey, everybody. We are back. It's Maga Mondays. Mondays. I want to make sure it's plural.

0:05.9

There's been a slack conversation about whether there should be a singular show. I like plural,

0:10.3

because we're doing it multiple Mondays. I'm here with Will Summer. It is Monday, May 4th, 10 a.m.

0:16.0

How you doing well? Good. You know, alert viewers may notice that the art behind me fell right before we started. So we're down to two paintings. But, you know, I'm hanging in there. I think we have a lot to discuss. I'm excited. You know, Will, just to pull the curtain a little bit here, Will is coming. This is like, I've never seen such bravery in podcasting before the art fell will's microphone

0:39.9

may or may not be working uh the other day when will was uh doing a broadcast with us he had a

0:45.0

real technical problem with his microphone frantically looking for a solution to it and then realize

0:50.2

he hadn't plugged it in um so that you, this is the stuff that Will does for you.

0:56.1

Well, you know, last week's Maga Monday, I was also in this room. Now that it's spring,

1:01.2

the leaves have come in. And so it was giving me kind of a Kermit the Frog tint that people noticed

1:06.8

outside the window. And so there's a lot that we're dealing with to make this happen. But

1:10.7

I'm excited. This is hero stuff. This is Hall of Fame stuff. And so there's a lot that we're dealing with to make this happen. But I'm excited.

1:11.8

This is Hero stuff. This is Hall of Fame stuff. And I'm just so proud to call you a colleague, honestly, it's making me a little choked up. We're going to be talking about a little bit off-topic stuff today. We do have some MAGA-ish stuff. For sure, we're going to touch based on the daily wire and whether there's some firing's happening there, how big a deal it is. We got that Tucker

1:29.6

Carlson

1:30.7

uh interview with the New York Times where he seems to either not know or disavow

1:36.0

things that he's on tape saying that was a weird one too but we got to start with golf

1:40.8

uh you know I'm going to use a little bit of editorial privilege here.

1:44.6

This is a show about what happened over the weekend.

1:46.7

People golf on the weekend.

1:48.2

And on top of that, there's a lot of drama happening with the D.C. public courses

1:52.3

because Donald Trump, who loves golf, seems to be obsessed with taking over D.C.'s public

1:58.3

courses.

1:59.3

Now, just a little backstory here for those who do not know,

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