Trump's Tariff Tantrum and LIVE SOTU Tonight

The Muckrake Political Podcast

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News, Politics

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Support the show by signing up to our Patreon and get access to the full Weekender episode each Friday as well as special Live Shows and access to our community discord: patreon.com/muckrakepodcast Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman dig into the Supreme Court slapping down Trump's massive tariff scheme, only for him to lose his shit, call them disloyal, and crank it right back up to 15% global like nothing happened. That $133 billion that's supposedly been collected? Nobody's got a clue where it vanished to, and crickets from the media on asking the real questions. They move south of the border to break down how US intel helped snag a top Sinaloa cartel boss, he ends up dead in transport, the raid leaves 70+ bodies, and now Mexico's exploding with burning cars, kidnappings, tourists trapped in Puerto Vallarta, and the whole thing reeks of somebody upstairs quietly shopping for new cartel partners to cut deals with. From there they hit Bret Stephens basically begging Trump in the Times to drop bombs on Iran so we can all pretend to be liberators one more time (yeah, that'll end well). Part of the Dems' autopsy finally leaked, indicating that Gaza straight-up killed turnout for Harris but they're still finger-pointing at everybody but their own cowardly moves. We're going live tonight right after the State of the Union wraps up. Trump finishes his bullshit, we jump in to dissect it deeper than the cable hacks ever would. So head over to Patreon, subscribe if you haven't yet, and join us - and have a drink handy.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Muckrick podcast. I'm Jerry J.J. It's Sexton. I was just thinking, Nick, I was doing the math in my head that this comes out on Tuesday and I was getting ready to do the promo for our live show. And then I got my wires got all tripped up. Oh, well, I forgot the name of the show. Don't cross the streams. Don't cross the stream. I forgot the name of the show.
0:22.5	Oh, geez. Isn't that terrible? Anyway, it's not a Craig podcast. I'm too excited, Nick. We, we, we're so, so
0:29.2	excited because with this comes out on Tuesday. And Tuesday, Tuesday night is going to be the
0:36.1	State of the Union. And we're going to be doing a live show immediately after it is over.
0:40.4	It is scheduled to begin at 9 p.m. Eastern.
0:42.8	As soon as Donald Trump is done spewing bullshit all over a joint session of Congress,
0:48.2	Nick and I are going to hang out and talk about what that bullshit was and go deeper than any of the cable shows because they're all awful.
0:53.7	How about that?
0:54.4	Hey, and we have a bunch new Patreon subscribers who are going to join us.
0:58.6	Yeah, that's fantastic. So if you haven't already, head over to patreon.com slash
1:03.5	my Greg podcast. You're going to get the weekend or every Friday. But on top of that, live shows
1:09.1	like this. For instance, we're heading into the thick of the political season, Nick.
1:13.6	We're getting ready to go into primaries.
1:15.6	We're going into debates.
1:16.6	We're going into the midterms.
1:19.2	And beyond, we're going to be doing a ton of these things.
1:22.1	I have to say, personally, from my perspective, listening to a Donald Trump's stay of the union is akin to
1:29.0	hurting myself, but it makes it better that you and I get to hang out after.
1:32.5	But we're going to do it so the listeners don't have to.
1:36.1	They don't have to.
1:37.3	And on top of that, do you want to tune into CNN?
1:40.4	Do you want to watch an 18-person panel that just spews more corporate bullshit? Is that what you want to do? Or do you want to hang out with your friends, Nick and Jared, as we just say, hey, that was absolutely terrible. Sure. Well, cut to Jared's appearance on CNN on whatever time, you know. They are never going to have me on again. Let's be frank. I will never be on CNN again. That will never happen. Yeah. All right. Well, you know, don't never say never. You never know. I'm saying never. It's not going to happen. And I don't want to. I don't want to go. Anyway, we got to go. I can't talk about that sweet green underneath your nose and it might, you know,
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