Trump wants you Dumb & Mean: A Conversation with Ben Sheehan

The PoliticsGirl Podcast

MeidasTouch Network, Leigh McGowan

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Don’t feel bad if you don’t know how the government works. It’s by design. Today we talk to the Host of PBS’s Civics Made Easy about the importance of offering Americans the kind of knowledge we should have but don’t, on a network that the government should fund, but won’t. Ben wants us to, “Get caught up together” and Trump wants us as stupid as possible. As always, if you find worth in what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free and it, and the the rants delivered directly to your inbox so even if we’re shut out of social media, you’ll still get access to the most highly researched, factual information available. Independent media needs your support now more than ever. Go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social: https://linktr.ee/thatbensheehan https://www.pbs.org/show/civics-made-easy/ Please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward! All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl This episode is sponsored by… https://sundaysfordogs.com/politicsgirl code: politicsgirl IQBar: Text PG to 64000 https://lolablankets.com code: politicsgirl https://calm.com/politicsgirl

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0:00.0	I was looking at a White House spokesperson recently, and he was talking to Entertainment Weekly
0:04.1	about some random comment that one of the women on the view made about Trump being jealous
0:09.4	of Obama and his swag, right?
0:11.5	Like it was like very kind of throwaway comment.
0:14.5	And this White House spokesperson said, and I'm going to quote, Joy Bear is an irrelevant loser suffering from a severe case of Trump derangement syndrome who should self-reflect on her own jealousy of President Trump's historic popularity before her show is the next to be pulled off the air.
0:31.8	And I was like, bro. Bro. Hello, and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast. I'm your host Lee McGowan. Let's get into it. We've had Ben Sheehan on the show before. He is the author of the incredible book, OMG, WTF, does the Constitution actually say?
0:57.1	And the two of us have gone through all of the amendments in the Constitution piece by piece.
1:01.5	If you haven't listened to those episodes, I highly recommend you go back and check them out.
1:05.6	They are deeply educational, but also really fun, and you will come out of them feeling
1:09.7	smarter and more aware of the
1:11.3	constitutional rights that are currently being ripped away from us right now. I think it's important
1:15.7	to have a real understanding of what it is that we're really fighting for, which is probably
1:19.8	one of the reasons Ben created his new show on PBS, Civics Made Easy, because in his words,
1:25.7	he was looking to break down the complex world of
1:28.4	American government and civic participation. Every episode takes something complicated and makes
1:33.7	it easy, because we both believe you cannot fix anything if you don't understand how it works.
1:39.3	As a reminder, Ben Sheehan is a former award-winning executive producer at Funny or Die, and the founder of
1:45.3	OMG WTF, which stood for Ohio, Michigan, Georgia, Wisconsin, Texas, Florida, a group he created
1:53.1	to teach voters about state executive races during the 2018 midterms. The Hollywood reporter named
1:59.7	Ben one of Entertainment's 35 rising executives under 35,
2:03.6	and Ben helped register over 50,000 voters back in 2016 through digital videos as the executive
2:10.1	director of Save the Day. His book, OMGWTF, does the Constitution actually say,
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