Mallory Hagen
Appearances
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
We don't know anything about this 900-page memorandum for what's to come. And even though Democratic leaders, Kamala Harris, were shouting it from the rooftops, they claimed they knew nothing about it. And I just want to talk about the fact that half of these executive orders were outlined in Project 2025.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
So in 100 days, half of the executive orders that he has signed are directly from that playbook. So it is concerning to see what might be next as far as that playbook goes. Yeah.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
Well, and there's something to be said, though, for... How productive can our country be? How secure can our country be? If over half of the country is living essentially in fear, right? Every day they're worried about what's going to come next, how they're going to pay for the next thing.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
When we've got Doge cutting government workers, people concerned about their jobs, we've got friends and family in the military worried about what's coming next, worried about... Reorganisation coming down from Pete Hexeth. You know, there's just there's so many things that are unsettling to the everyday American that are happening that really have a long term effect and a long term cost.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
And we didn't even get into the defunding of things like health care, the defunding of research, which will have generations, generations of impact. Yeah. So There's just so much uncertainty and that uncertainty leads people to not be able to function as they normally should or could on a daily basis. And that in and of itself is a loss of productivity and a loss to our economy on a regular basis.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
Well, I think you're exactly right. First of all, the criticism of Democrats can only go so far. What are they going to do? And this conversation tends to happen among Democrats, right? We're all very angry and there's always a lot of infighting within the party. And I just want to say on the record that I think that's actually... the result of something that's good.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
And that is that Democrats cast a wide net. We are the party of inclusion, bringing people in. We've got people of all different races and backgrounds and ethnicities and nationalities. And because of that, there are so many points of view, so many people focused on what should be the solution.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
So although it tends to be fragmented, I think it's actually the result of something positive, which is that we have diversity in our party. But What I think is, first of all, I wish people would focus more on the fact that we have Republicans who not two years ago, four years ago, were talking about Donald Trump being the worst. J.D. Vance. J.D.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
Vance was on a media tour, you know, before he was the vice presidential nominee, talking about how Donald Trump was the worst thing that could ever happen to the United States of America. And now here he is. So we don't hold Republicans' feet to the fire or hold them to the same account that we do Democrats. But
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
As far as what could Democrats be doing, I hate to sound ageist, but we are living in 2025. And we don't have leadership in the Democratic Party that reflects that, if you ask me. I always think that there's room for experience and wisdom and knowledge that should never be lost on us. But I do think that there's room for...
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
die Schumers of the world to sort of pass the torch, step aside and allow emerging leaders to really flourish in that space. The Jasmine Crockett's, the AOC's and anybody else who's willing and able and aspires to take in a position of leadership. The inability to
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
work together on messaging and come up with tactics and strategy that they all agree on and can move forward with is, I think, really hindering us right now.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
I think that when you don't have the power... in the political sense, that truly that's where communication and messaging really comes in. And that's what I was saying. It's like the inability to agree on direct talking points, direct messaging, or even a way to distribute those. That part, I think, is where they might be failing a little bit, because that messaging can sway.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
Well, why don't, because I'm not entirely sure exactly what the program does. So why don't you tell people a little bit about what it entails, why it was important in the first place?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
So, when he says that the troops hate this program or people don't like it, riddle me this. How many people are usually sitting at those negotiation tables? Who is typically doing the negotiating?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
When you consider that Walls and Rubio were instrumental in putting this program together, getting it off the ground, what do you think is happening there? How do you have these two people in Hegseth's circle? I don't want to use the word allowing, but letting this transpire.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
I know, but that's also like you're crapping on the work that I just did for however many years to get this going.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
Well, this goes back to what we were just talking about, these sort of long-lasting, potentially generational impacts of this administration and their poor decision-making and poor leadership. I just for a moment... would like to implore everyone listening to imagine that you are Pete Hexeth's wife or mother.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
Two women who surround him when he is consistently talking about how women are incapable, they're not powerful, they're not worthy. Like, that is insane to me. I find the fact that you can come from a woman and be married to a woman and have daughters and still espouse this level of disdain for half of the population and be supported in doing so absolutely crazy.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
You said one of the most dangerous combinations is one that he has, which I think the words you used were stupidity and arrogance together.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
Not even. He's never even seen an organization this large, much less led a reorganization of it.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
I think that Indigenous people were here... auf diesem Kontinent, lange bevor Columbus es gemacht hat. Und du kannst dich nicht so fühlen, aber ich fühle mich so. Natürlich will ein weißer Mann nicht akzeptieren, dass, weißt du, dass die Nachbarn hier zuerst waren. Wir haben diesen Ort nicht entdeckt.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
I hope more people recognize that. That's right. It's the old saying, when you know better, you do better.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
Although I would question folks if they really feel strongly about Christopher Columbus. I would just question why. Dig a little deeper there.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
Dieser Mann ist ein Mann von Unternehmens. Er ist sehr sicher, dass jede Foto von ihm, die er jemals verabschiedet hat, von hier nach Hell und zurück gepostet hat. I think this is much larger in the sense of the propaganda machine that they are attempting to create, allowing right wing journalists only into the White House and spaces where he is.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
I think there's much more of an effort here to dupe their base. And also it's just it's it's a losing subject for him. Yeah, I mean, he's doubling down. Yeah, Republicans are coming out. People who are MAGA are coming out and saying, hold up. So I think, you know, doubling down on this is his way of testing the waters even further on how much he can get away with.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
I want to point out, there's a lot of rhetoric happening. I'm chronically on the Internet. There's a lot of rhetoric happening online that due process is for citizens. And I just want to reiterate that due process is granted to every person, not citizen. And in order for you to know if someone is an illegal immigrant, you would have to go through due process. It's a little chicken and egg, folks.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
But I just want to clarify that there's a lot of people who don't seem to understand that if you are walking around on American soil, you are granted due process.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
We've made it clear that some folks don't want to do that.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
I can't stop laughing because the levels of ridiculousness know no bounds. None. What do you mean, the Pope? The man held a Bible upside down for a... He couldn't tell you... What did he say? What was the book of the Bible that he said incorrectly a couple years ago? I don't know either. But the point is, he couldn't tell you a single verse.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
It makes sense to be offended by that. However, I'm also just never surprised. We are at this point where I mean, this is on the list, the long list of offensive and horrendous and awful things that have been suggested or done. Ja, ich meine, für mich ist das einfach komisch.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
So many people, especially to call anyone a bum, who's doing their best to make it through this life, just in general. But when you add the added layer of being a veteran, so many people, I think, don't realize just how long lasting the impacts of Thank you very much.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
working through those things, from PTSD to health-related issues, cancers, a bum, or to insinuate that they don't deserve the help from our government in order to get by is preposterous, honestly.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
And instead, what they might be doing with said money is, I think it's Trump who's requested a parade A military parade for his birthday? So that's where the priorities of this administration lie. Trump needs a birthday celebration with the military, but he doesn't want to support them when it's necessary.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
Nun, ich bin zum Derby gekommen und ich bin zum Kentucky Oaks gekommen. So, I'm sad that I'm missing out this year. I brought something to show you. I don't know about you, Amy, but I am an esteemed... Float Judge for the Derby Pegasus Parade.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
They're our neighbors, not our 51st state. Cheers to Canada. Cheers to Canada.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
And I got this lovely plate to display in my home as a keepsake. So it's been a long time since I've been to the Derby and been to the Oaks. But it's a fun week filled with mint juleps. Not for me. But it's a fun week filled with mint juleps. And you know, for a moment you can just forget the worries of the world. Forget that everything seems to be crumbling around us.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
Yeah, that's true. Today I've got coffee, but I put it in a glass specific so I could cheers with you.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
Just for a moment, you were giving me Rachel Ray.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
It feels like it's been an eternity since January 20th. He promised to bring back the golden age. You know, he has this make America great again. He wants to take people back. And instead, this has been, you know, the worst first 100 days in modern history in the last 50 years. So that's how I feel.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
Yeah, I feel like it has. I feel like it's lasted forever. And all I can think is and we still have. you know, three and a half more years.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
The promise to rapidly defeat inflation. Everyone was talking about the price of eggs come election day. They're voting for Trump because he's going to make eggs cheaper. He's going to make their lives more affordable. And instead...
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
60% of folks who are surveyed are saying that prices are on the rise, that they're worried about what they're buying at the store, that they're concerned about inflation getting worse. So he's done a lot though, Amy. It's just not good stuff. He said he hasn't done much. He's done a lot.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
Ich bin wirklich gespannt, hier zu sein. Ich habe dieses Projekt von Anfang an genossen und freue mich darauf, meinen eigenen Twist zu öffnen. Ich bin kein Denverer, aber ich werde es versuchen.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
Yeah, I think one of the things that stands out to me over the course of these last hundred days is just we're leading with insecurity. And that might not be at the forefront of a lot of people's minds, but when you have a leader who says he's going to do something, signs the executive order, or...
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
says tariffs are coming and then is constantly taking it back or getting public pressure and moving in a different direction it's just it's just being led by insecurity and we all know why he's he's a large tiny man he's he's a tiny tiny man but um but that stands out to me just we're on the world and global stage we don't appear to be very strong because how can you if you can't stand by what it is you said you were gonna do
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
I also think something that has marked the first hundred days is the attack on First Amendment rights. I mean, the attack on people who speak out against this administration straight out of an authoritarian playbook. The way that we have Senators, Senator Murkowski coming out saying that they're fearful of this administration and Donald Trump in particular. And you brought up Russia.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
That makes me think about talking about First Amendment rights. We've got a president who's telling Putin to stop it online. What are we doing? But the attack on First Amendment rights is something that for those of us who are constantly talking about this administration, railing against them, calling for action. It's a little bit concerning.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
But more specifically, when you've got people who are in public office talking about being fearful of the president, that's noteworthy. And another thing in regard to that, you mentioned the attack on veterans. There's also the attack on information, just in general, eliminating history from government websites and the removal of women from...
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
all of our military branches from the government websites. It's really concerning, but also... Problematisch.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
Yeah, let's bring a little different flavor to it. I heard that you're going to make something for everybody to see based on the Derby. What you got?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.01.25
It is it is truly hard to fathom the level of idiocy that we are dealing with here. in our government and by people who are supposed to be leaders among us. I think one thing though that really should be highlighted is so often throughout the campaign trail, Donald Trump and the people surrounding him said, we don't know anything about Project 2025.