Donald Trump and his goons continue to spin the group chat screw-up as totally routine—even as evidence mounts that the story is breaking through to average Americans and causing serious concern. Jon and Dan discuss the Republican reaction, why the White House won't admit to making a mistake, and how Democrats can take advantage of the situation. Plus, Trump deepens consumer misery with new tariffs on cars, the Associated Press fights for its right to cover the presidency, and JD and Usha Vance stage their own invasion of Greenland. Then, Jon sits down with Canadian actor and entrepreneur Jasmine Mooney, who was detained by ICE for 12 days without explanation, to talk about what it's really like to get caught up in America's cruel new enforcement system. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
Chapter 1: What is the controversy surrounding Trump's group chat scandal?
And, you know, even though I do think we will all forget about this or at least move on from this as we do every Trump crisis. And even if this is not the thing that shifts it, it gives us an opening, I think, to start framing all of the other fuck ups as more and more incompetence. Right. And so it sort of gives us a door to push on as he continues to and his.
And I do think it's really important that it's not just about him. But it's about the fucking idiots that he has running the government right now and the fucking bigger idiots that are running Congress. We're going to be up in two years, less than two years now for reelection. So I do think that like these people are we're ruled by crooks and morons is is as good of a message as any at this point.
Because there's a lot of evidence for it.
Right. It changes the context. Like if Elon Musk stood up in the cabinet meeting next week and said he accidentally canceled an Ebola prevention program in the middle of an Ebola outbreak, it would be treated differently than it was treated then. Now it confirms a broader suspicion. And that's when things start to hurt.
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Chapter 2: How did Trump's administration handle the group chat fallout?
That's the editor of the New Yorker for those of you. He's the guy who edits the magazine sitting on a lot of your bedside tables that you haven't read.
I don't know, man.
What's the meeting in Usha Vance's office? We need our first thing, our first big public event. What's it going to be? Thank you.
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The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is the second most powerful court in the country after the Supreme Court, has now ruled just this week. They decided to agree with the federal judge in a 3-2 ruling. One of the Court of Appeals judges actually said, quote, Nazis got better treatment under the Alien Enemies Act than these Venezuelan migrants.
And what's the administration's response to all this? They sent Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to visit the El Salvador prison so that she could pose in front of a crowded cell full of prisoners and make this propaganda video.
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