The Rachel Maddow Show
'Two perfect months?!': Trump's rationalization of insecure group chat scandal backfires
Thu, 27 Mar 2025
Donald Trump says the scandal over his top officials discussing secret military plans in an unsecured group chat is just a "glitch" in an otherwise perfect first two months in office. Rachel Maddow looks back to help Trump jog his memory and realize that "perfect" is probably not the best word for what has happened so far in Trump's second term.
Chapter 1: Who is the key player involved in the White House Faith Office scandal?
I'm really happy to have you here. So, she is a special government employee. Just two and a half weeks after Trump was sworn in for this term as president, he put out a press release announcing proudly that she would be a, quote, special government employee and senior advisor of the newly created White House Faith Office. In that role, I guess, she would now like you to send her $1,000.
You can receive these seven supernatural blessings for you and your house according to Exodus 23. God will assign an angel to you. He'll be an enemy to your enemies. He'll give you prosperity. He'll take sickness away from you. He will give you long life. He'll bring increase in inheritance, and He'll give a special year of blessing.
You're not doing this to get something, but you're doing it in honor to God, realizing what you can receive. Ministry takes money. And if you have the ability to stand with us, I'm going to ask you to put your faith during this very holy time, because I give just to give. And I pray there are others. But also know we want to get you some special gifts.
We want to give you some very special gifts. This is the head of the White House Faith Office. She is a special government employee of the government of the United States of America. And she does have some very special gifts for you. but you're going to have to do your part too. Luckily, you can do your part, meaning you can send her money in a lot of different ways. You can send her money online.
You can send her money by phone. It's a toll-free number. You can send her money by text. You can send her money by scanning her QR code, or you can just stuff some money into the P.O. box. Lots of ways to give.
Toll free, write, text to give, or go to PaulaWhite.tv. With your best Passover Easter resurrection offering of $125 or more, Paula wants to send you a special olive wood communion set from the Holy Land.
That's what you get if you send $125 to the head of the White House Office of Faith Programs. Again, she is a special government employee of the United States. She is asking for your money. But I got to tell you, I watched the whole pitch. They're not really going for the $125 gift. That is not the target.
They want you to know that the big stuff, the really miraculous stuff, kicks in when you give her $1,000.
For your special Passover offering of $1,000 or more as the Holy Spirit leads, you will also receive the beautiful 10-inch Waterford Crystal Cross. Don't miss your moment to release seven supernatural blessings and provision into your life.
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Chapter 2: What are the alleged benefits of donating to the White House Faith Office?
Parents in Gaines County, Texas, the center of a raging measles outbreak, have increasingly turned to supplements and unproven treatments to protect their children, many of whom are unvaccinated. One of those supplements is cod liver oil containing vitamin A, which Mr. Kennedy has promoted as a near miraculous cure for measles. Physicians at Covenant Children's Hospital in, yes, Lubbock, Texas.
now say they have treated a handful of unvaccinated children who were given so much vitamin A that they have signs of liver damage. Quote, In fact, at high doses, vitamin A can cause liver damage. It can cause dry, peeling skin and hair loss, and in rare instances, seizures and coma.
So far, doctors at West Texas hospitals have said they've seen patients with yellowed skin and high levels of liver enzymes in their blood work, both signs of a damaged liver. Health officials say the recent popularity of vitamin A use for measles can be traced back to a Fox News interview with Mr. Kennedy, in which he said he had heard of, quote,
almost miraculous and instantaneous recovery with treatments like cod liver oil, which he said was the safest application of vitamin A. In the weeks after the Fox News interview, drugstores in West Texas struggled to keep vitamin A and cod liver oil supplements on their shelves.
And now, because Donald Trump's health secretary has said that's what you do for measles, parents are inadvertently poisoning their children and giving them liver damage. with this miraculous cure that the Health and Human Services Secretary went on TV and promoted as a miracle, despite, you know, science.
The government of the United States of America under Donald Trump firing the infectious disease doctors and cutting off funding to fight, for example, specifically the measles epidemic. But now there's kids in Texas with liver damage because Donald Trump's health secretary got on the fox and said he found a miracle cure. And why wouldn't you trust him? He was handpicked by Donald Trump.
That said, if you do want to take sickness away and live a long life, you can always just send $1,000 to the head of Donald Trump's White House faith office. She will take your check or cash or whatever. So tonight we're going to be joined by Tammy Duckworth, Democratic U.S. Senator from Illinois.
She is a veteran of the Iraq War who lost both legs when her helicopter was shot out of the sky in combat. Senator Duckworth is demanding the resignation of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as the fallout continues to mount from the revelation that Pete Hegseth endangered American pilots.
Pete Hegseth and Trump's national security advisor and his director of national intelligence and his CIA director and his secretary of state and his treasury secretary and his White House chief of staff and his advisor Stephen Miller and his vice president J.D. Vance and more.
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