Trump Refuses to Leave World Cup Trophy Ceremony | MAGA Mondays

All right.Hello everybody.Welcome to MAGA Mondays.I'm here with Will Sommer, who you can't see is wearing shorts.

You know, Sam, I, I was biking in, I didn't have time to, uh, you know, for me, punctuality is the most important thing in terms of delivering for the MAGA Monday audience.So, you know, it's, it is a classic news anchor look too, right there.Aren't they always wearing shorts?

No.Um, beyond that it's in direct violation of our employee handbook.And if you read the, if you read the letter of the handbook, you are subject to termination instantaneously.So it's been a good run.Well, but, uh, we got to cut it sharp.Uh, we have a lot to talk about, uh, everything from the world of sports to international affairs, to clavicular.

Uh, there is just a ton going on your boy, John Solomon.We're going to touch on that, but we're going to start with Trump.Um, because, uh, if people didn't notice the.Biggest sporting event, uh, in every four years happened yesterday, world cup final.What'd you think of the match itself?I thought it was kind of, um, boring, honestly.

Yeah.You know, I, I didn't watch it myself.I was grocery shopping.I was leaving my house to go grocery shopping and my neighbor was like, what are you doing?You know, you got to be watching the world cup.And I was like, Oh yeah, you know, you have these kinds of parent weekends.

Yeah.Everything's, you know, carefully orchestrated.Um, but I did hear it was boring.Uh, and, but you know, it's, I feel like the world cup went off pretty well.Um, you know, uh, obviously cash Patel did a great job.He put out a video saying what a great job he did.

We didn't even prep the video.

I don't know if we could get that video prepped in the meantime, but that was pretty awesome.

Uh, but yeah, but yeah.your take?

Well, the, the game itself was like, you know, Spain's so methodical.They're so good.They're technically astute.They pass the ball so well, but when you have a game where it's like something like 23 shots to zero on goal, and, uh, literally Argentine did not have a chance until it was in extra time.And then it felt like if Argentina had won that game, I would have been really upset because they were just acting thuggish towards the end and they were trying to get to penalty kicks.By the end, I was excited that Spain had scored a goal.

I was just excited about that.And I know this is going to sound like, you know, classic American bullshit, but whatever.It was pretty boring for the time being until they finally pulled it out at the very end.I would have been, again, we've been really upset if Argentina pulled that because they were, they were playing very unethical football.

Well, they're kind of the bad boys is what I've heard.Okay.They're the bad boys, but that wasn't the highlight of the game.I have a question for you.What did you think of Donald Trump's performance on Spain's team?Well, that sounds like, you know, I was kind of getting a second hand.

It seems like he was in the game.

Yeah.So the big the big winner, the guy who scored the final goal was Donald Trump, which is why he was there to celebrate at the very end.OK, so this was this was kind of a highlight in a way.First Trump shows up at this event and he's sitting in the box and he loves going to these big sports events.And honestly, it's, you know, whatever he likes sports.It's fine.

I'm not going to get too worked up about it.It is a little odd.And I saw some commentary about it, that all this tragedy is happening in the war in Iran.And he and his family are just taken in the festivities.And, you know, you kind of harken back to the Bush era where, you know, Bush was kind of shamed into not golfing because of what was going on in the Iraq war.Trump has no.

Um, hesitation about that type of stuff.And then when the game ends, he goes on the field.Let's start with the booing, which was, you know, it was tough to tell, but the pool part said it was pretty loud.Couldn't get good audio of it.And then we found this clip, uh, this morning where the audio is pretty definitive.Like he's getting really big.

I don't like him.

Well, you know, he has.gone out of his way to piss off all these countries, although Argentina, well, he did save the Argentine economy.

So hopefully they were a little nice, but the, um, but, but Spain certainly is a, he has sort of picked a fight with as one of our great enemies.

Sort of is like a, kind of an understanding.He was like, at one point he's just like, we're cutting off all trade with Spain.So I guess it that they're done.They're too lefty.Um, but yeah, I mean, like, I don't think he cares that much.Well, he does care probably, but.

It is obvious that he's going to get booed in these events.This is he's really gone out of his way to piss off the rest of the world and insult everybody except for a few select countries who happen to not be that great at soccer.Like Belarus was not hanging out there and playing, you know, the Saudis weren't there.So it's not it's not a particularly great venue for him.Also, this is the New Jersey, New York.Metropolitan area.

So it's not great.Although I doubt like this is international flavor here.Uh, and then real, the really sort of insane stuff happens during the awards ceremony.So to set this up, Spain wins.They have this big award ceremony.Obviously they're going to lift the golden.

They're going to lift the world cup trophy.They're going to go crazy.Uh, they call Trump.To the stage to present some medals, uh, for some reason.And they have FIFA president and Fantino up there.Who's presenting some medals.

Everyone's waiting in Donald Trump just lingers and lingers and lingers.Let's watch.Oh my God.Get out of the shot.That's crazy.All right.

So what'd you think of that?

Well, yeah, so Gianni Infantino is kind of trying to pull him off.Trump kind of pats him like, I know we did it brother.You know, I'm happy to let's look time for our big picture.It was crazy.

Um, the prior to that video, Trump's going around and shaking all the hands and the captain of the Spanish team is like, thank you.Thank you.And he like kind of gently nudges him along to get to the side of the stage and let's put up the video again.You don't have to play the sound.I just want to watch.I'm going to do a little like commentary as we played, if we can do so.

All right.So there's Trump and pause it for a second.Pause it.Okay.We go back a little bit.Cause and Fontina comes in and she, and he's like trying to get Trump off and he's like wrapping his head around Trump's way.

He's like, come on.And Trump just kind of takes his right hand.Cause actually you go.Meanwhile, all the Spanish players are just not even paying attention to this guy.They're waiting to celebrate.They've been waiting the entire time.

Let's keep playing.And Trump just kind of like, no, stop.Look at his back is back in the frame.

Yeah.

And I just love, I wish we could do closeups because he's just sort of staring at the cameras.He knows all the cameras are right in front, but he's asymmetrical.His back is to the team, but his face is looking forward at the cameras and he's got this little Cheshire cat grin.He's doing the little stinker smile.So obviously this is, so there's two explanations here.One is, and just keep this picture up.

One is this is intentional.Like he knows, and he wants to be in the shot.And I think there's history to suggest that it was Copa America.He did the same exact thing last year.The other is that he's just confused and has nowhere to go.Where do you come down?

You know, it's a good question.I'm a little sympathetic to Trump here because I know that well, I've been in situations This is like one of my great nightmares is like, you know when people are like let's get together for a picture and then I'll be like well It's a little weird for me to be in this picture with these people But they seem to want me or something and then they're kind of like why don't you move a little to the side?You know, I've been in these situations on the other hand.He has a whole staff dedicated to telling him like ohyou're going to do this.So then you're going to move out of the way.

Um, it's, I think he's doing it deliberately.Okay.Yeah.Obviously he's doing deliberately.

Well, um, there, there's questions in, on the MAGA internet about this.So by and far the, the, the common refrain I've seen among these MAGA accounts is that the Spanish team was just, So happy to have him there.And they all shook his hand and they would just recognize the aura and how great he was.And they were, and it just shows that America's being respected again in the world stage.I I've seen this in multiple Twitter accounts.And then if you read below on the replies, everyone's like, what the hell are you talking about?

Like, clearly this was not the case.There was one account of, I don't know who this person is.

Yeah.Let me, let me set this up.So the, the, the, the Groyper accounts, however, were really like, Trump will never recover from this.So let's pop one of these bad boys up.So this guy says, Kaiser Rev. He's kind of like a Fuentes clipper.He says, Bro, Trump will never recover from this, crying, rivers of tears emoji.

And then there was another guy named a Suka Graper, who said, you know, this is generational aura loss, essentially.So basically, these are guys, I'm assuming are probably in their 20s, who are just like, this is so embarrassing, you know, I will say, you know, you think about if Joe Biden had done this, you know, I mean, this is very reminiscent of these Biden moments where he would kind of be like, randomly in like another delegation, if there was like a Diplomatic meeting or something like that and Trump has had these instances where they're like, no you got it sit over there, man You're not part of the South Korean team and it so he kind of gets it finds himself in these situations in this case I agree with you that it was deliberate.

So that's funny mentioned by anything I hadn't thought about the analogy but the famous Biden Hollywood fundraiser when he came back from that long trip overseas and there's video of Obama kind of like trying to get him off the stage andObama's infantino in this case.And he's just sort of like, Hey, all right, we gotta go.We gotta go.Except in Biden's case, I don't think he was like trying to kind of get in the photos or anything like that.I think Biden was just sort of a little bit exhausted and tired and didn't know where to go.

Trump was just trying to stay there.Um, if people were confused about whether Spain was excited or upset that Trump was crashing their photos, um, I think we got definitive evidence here.The Spanish team tweeted this following picture.You might want to chop him.You, I mean, you look to the right and he's not there now.It's possible that this came like later when he had meandered off finally.

But if you put up the, the, another photo, um, like right beforehand, I go, go back to the other one if we can.

Yeah.So this Trump's in this one.

Okay, and now he's gone.Now.I think they photoshopped him.

It looks like the confetti is still in the air, which suggests to me that it was like pretty recent.Like it's not like they just kind of hung out there for another minute and took the shot.So I think they photoshopped him out.

It's possible that they just waited till he was out of the frame, or they took a shot of him out of the frame.But if we go back to the last one, just quickly one more time, he's very, I mean, he's so in the frame.Absolutely in the frame there.He did eventually leave.I'll say, so it's possible that this is not a Photoshop and they're just having fun with it.Um, we do have the, um, cash Patel video.

So cash, uh, is let's just set this up a little bit.

Another great insinuator with sports teams.Obviously he famously had the, uh, the incident with the Olympic hockey team.

Yeah.Cash cash went down to the locker room after the U S Olympic hockey team.won gold and he started chugging beers and being like, these are my boys.They want me here.And they might have actually, because Cash is super into hockey.Cash is in a lot of heat, obviously, for a whole host of things, excessive travel, things like that, hanging with his girl too much.

I've never seen an FBI director take a victory lap for like not having people killed, but this is no masculinity events, baby.Yeah.He's like, but cash had a ready to go video.I mean, this was like, they didn't just crash on this thing, right?Like this came out like several hours after the world cup was done.So they clearly had this thing ready to go and they clearly were planning it out in case like the opportunity was there to do it.

And they was, but.where literally Cash gives himself an attaboy for doing his job.Let's watch the video.

We put on the largest sporting event in the history of the world.And everybody, including FIFA and the White House, looks to the FBI, to our interagency partners, to DHS, to state and local, to everybody to figure out how to get 6 .5 million people into the U .S.and into these games without a single major security incident.We have lived up to that measure because you guys have put in the time.It's truly, truly incredible.

Very casual.We just can't say enough about the preparation and the execution has been flawless.Wearing a like a Lululemon hoodie.

Yeah, that is the amount of narcissism to put out a video where you're in the center of it for like every frame.Basically, we put on, who's we?He didn't put on the sporting event.

It's crazy.And I mean, it's not as though it's like, obviously I'm sure it was a great undertaking, but also like all the other countries that have hosted the world cup in the past have managed to do this as did, you know, Mexico and Canada this time.I mean, it's, it's.very weird to be like, you know, cash has done the unthinkable.He had a world cup.

Yeah.It just, or you don't have to take a victory lap for doing your job.It'd be like, if I, you know, got your newsletter out on time on Monday and I was just like, We did it.

Just video of you telling me what to do.You in center frame, we did it.

It was unthinkable, but yeah, that actually deserves its own vid hype video.I did the unthinkable.People said it couldn't be done, but will was edited and out by 6 PM on a Monday.Unbelievable.These guys, I mean, congrats.It was a great, I will say it was a great world cup.

I was super jazzed by a lot of it.I thought the final game kind of underwhelmed, but whatever that happens.And I'm glad it went off of that without any incident.Um, I find the need to take a victory lap for that ridiculous.I found Trump kind of lingering on stage, totally ridiculous, but that's what you get with this administration.

Yeah, I, I think, you know, I'm glad they, the government kept the focus on, you know, who really matters, Donald Trump and cash Patel.

The golden boot goes to cash Patel.Um, the only other thing from this is Barron Trump.I just want to put up this photo of Barron.Who's got a great, he is the tie.He, first of all, he's very tall, but he he's decided to go full Donald with the long red tie.

Is he like a bruise on his head?No, I think he's just tall.No.Okay.Yeah.

I don't think he's No, I don't think that's a bruise.He's got a long red tie, folks.He's becoming his father completely, but five inches higher.Okay.Any final World Cup memories that you want to talk about?Are you good?

No, I loved every minute of it.

Yeah, right.Especially the part where you're grocery shopping.The part I will always remember was when Donald Trump caused a diplomatic incident.in an attempt to cheat in the games and we lost anyway.

I will say there is a different sporting event and this is not a sports podcast, obviously.The British Open golf tournament was this weekend too, and Bryson DeChambeau, who is the Trumpiest of all the golfers, he did a video with Trump during the campaign where they competed in this little gimmicky thing that Bryson does.Anyways, he's at the White House Sports Council and all that stuff.Bryson got in trouble over the weekend because he also clearly cheated.He was patting down the tall grass, the fescue, to improve his backswing on a shot, and he was assessed a two -stroke penalty.Instantaneously, people are like, oh, my God, Trump's going to try to intervene and get the penalty revoked because they're buddies.

And there are some reports.I don't think it's been confirmed, honestly, but there are some reports that Bryson was trying to call Trump up to, like, have him call the British Open officials to, like, get the penalty revoked.But it never materialized.So I guess Trump's like there's an extent to how much Trump will involve himself in all these affairs.What do you think of the Trump sports curse, this idea that, like, if Trump shows up, bad things happen for the host team?Or in this case, I believe it was reported that he thought Argentina was going to win.

Well, you know, we saw this happen with the Knicks, obviously.I think it's probably true.I think he has one of, you know, it's like, I think it's fair to say he has got a bad vibe that he brings around with him.And, you know, I think it's a sort of hex that he puts on you.Yeah, I agree.

All right.Well, let's move from the surreal to the serious.The war in Iran.Horrible, horrible weekend.We've lost several of the service members.I think that counts up to 17.

There's one missing.The strait is completely closed, if maybe a dribble of boats getting through.There was a tax this morning.There's no diplomatic off -ramp.Things are going horribly.Uh, and I talked about with Mark Kirtland over the weekend, it just feels like there is a real escalatory problem ahead of us.

Um, Trump seems to be like, ah, we're good.Don't worry.We're knocking the hell out of them.Everything's great.You know, I said four to six weeks, but now I'm at four to six months, but we're doing things differently.And Mac kind of is like, waking up to the idea that this is not going particularly well, or like that Trump has been promising things that, um, aren't maybe necessarily coming to fruition.

So let's put up this tree from your boy, Matt van swoll.First of all, who is Matt Van Swaal?

Matt Van Swaal, it's a really funny name.He's a guy who lives in North Carolina and people may remember the big hurricane, I believe, the big flood there a few years back.And he got kind of, he was just like a guy on Twitter and he got kind of radicalized against Biden because FEMA was saying things like, no, you can't run like wildcat helicopter rescue missions.We have to figure out how we're going to use this airspace to get supplies in.And so that made him really turn against Biden.He became like this MAGA Twitter figure.

And now he's an interesting guy because he reads as like, you know, I'm a normal guy.I'm like a common sense kind of guy.But he gets pretty into conspiracy theories.Not in this case, but he's just kind of become a MAGA figure because of that.

Yeah, this is a case where someone got a little taste of the maggot internet and the dopamine that you get when you see your tweets take off.And then suddenly you're like, I need more of that.And you keep doing the whole routine over and over and over again.But in this case, he probably stepped a little bit too far off the path.He writes, I'm confused period.The USA has the most powerful military on earth.

We've bombed the hell out of Iran for four months.Trump says their air force, Navy, and nearly all their missile capabilities are destroyed.Dot, dot, dot.So how do you know?is Iran still capable of hitting U .S.S.

bases right now?Question mark, question mark, question mark.So one of two things.One is he thinks some there's like some conspiracy happening here, or is he like starting to question whether Trump maybe was full of shit?It's either one of those two.

I think it's probably the latter.I think sometimes you have these cases where these like kind of mainline MAGA pundits are like, wait a minute, and then, you know, they kind of get whipped back in line.In this case, I think what we're seeing here is that there's, you know, before the MOU, There was kind of this divide in MAGA between people who were like really pro -Israel, like let's go Max, let's send in ground troops, people like Laura Loomer, Mark Levin, let's do it as hard as we can.Then you had people who were like really anti -war, like Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Candace Owens.But then you had this big middle group of people who were kind of like, I guess if Trump says we're going to do a war, that's cool.But then as it dragged on and kind of became this quagmire and they start looking at the midterms, they're like, Oh my gosh, yes.

Let's do the MOU.Let's just, I don't care what concessions we have to make.Let's just get this thing over with.Let's get it out of the headlines.Let's get, let's get gas prices down.And now you're seeing that middle group as the war kind of kicks back up again, they're saying, Oh my gosh, we can't do this.

Right.But they don't ever get to the point where they're like, Trump was full of it.Right?Like he's not saying that he's just like, I'm confused.And, and.He won't take the jump because if you take the jump, then you lose your cred in that community and he's tied to the cred.

He's not the only one, too.This happened to other cases.Let's play Maria Bartiromo first.

Centcom says that there will be outsized action in retaliation.But I don't understand how it's possible that Iran has the capabilities to fight this way and continue to try to lash out at Gulf countries and U .S.military bases because the U .has obliterated Iran's military and the president continues to reiterate that.

So close.So close.She almost gets it.Obviously, Iran is not obliterated, but also they're using drone technology, which is cheaper to produce.And our munitions are depleted because of what's happening.And so we have fewer interceptors to disrupt or intercept the Iranian drones.

That's why what happened in Jordan over the weekend happened.She's so close to getting it, unbelievably close, and I just wanted to get it.

Then there's Joey Jones, also on Fox News.Let's play that.What we do understand very well is when two Americans are killed by an airstrike that most Americans sit around and say, how's that even possible?Don't we have defensive weapons?Didn't we take out their missiles?So when we talk in hyperbole and we talk in grand statements, sometimes reality hits us in the face and we lose two Americans in Jordan where most of us thought that wasn't really on the table anymore.

Hmm.Good point, Joey.Um, you know, this guy is a to set him up, you know, he's like, as you can maybe tell from the accent, he's a very kind of straightforward bag of guy.He's like, you know, I, I, we got to let Donald Trump go, you know, go wild on Iran typically.But in this case, even he is starting to say, well, wait a minute.I thought we destroyed these bases.

So what's your take on like the kind of mood of mag on the war right now, because it is not going well and it's the MOU was a disaster.I mean, I, I'm a little, I said this to Mark hurtling.And maybe you know, maybe you have a better sense of what's going on in that corner of the universe.But like that is a huge diplomatic failure.Okay.You spent a fair amount of time talking in Islamabad with these folks.

You left it saying, this is a great agreement.We're going to end the war.This is ironclad.J .D.Vance is up there saying, you know, it was really amazing seeing how cool these Iranians are.

They're actually moderate.And then it falls apart so spectacularly.There's more U .S.casualties.Price of gas is above four dollars.

To me, that's a that's an abject failure.And yet they're kind of skating around it as if like nothing happened, as if like, oh, yeah, we always knew we could be back in this place.Don't they get dinged for this?Do they get dinged for this?Do the people on the mag are right who wanted the MOU not say, Hey, like what happened here?

It's a good question.I feel like there's this there's this rationalization that happens in the MAGA movement where When Donald Trump wants to be really hawkish when he wants to you know, have the Don Roe doctrine or what -have -you They're like, all right Trump.Let's do it.Let's be an imperialist power and then when it fails they go Oh who cares about the rest of the world, you know, we're pulling back anyway, and and so they can say, you know Whatever like, you know, we had this terrible MOU and now apparently even that isn't gonna work, right?And they got off, you know, who cares?

Yeah, but they're not even pulling back.I mean, there was so because they're not, they're actually reengaging militarily.And there was an anti -war faction in that in that in that part of the party who was inherently skeptical of the initial invasion of Iran.Now we're back in it.And you don't really hear as much from them anymore.Right.

Like, I don't maybe I'm missing it, but I don't really see Megyn Kelly going crazy or, you know.Who are the other ones?

You know?Yeah.I mean, we'll have to see, right.Cause a lot of this kicked up over the weekend.And so, you know, the podcasters really have not weighed in yet.Uh, but I do think that I just feel like there's kind of like a war exhaustion in the party.

And I think like you can only make people ultimately like, I don't think these people are going to start like denouncing Trump.I mean, Megyn Kelly might, but like the Sean Hannity is not going to come out and denounce Trump.But I think there's also this sense of like, you can only expect people to follow the Trump line on something so many times before they're just like, you know what, let's just talk about something else today.And then you start losing that kind of messaging power.

It's war exhaustion.We're like, what, four or five months.That's not, that's nothing.That's nothing.This thing could go on for a lot longer.I, it feels like it does.

I will say it does feel like everyone's just sort of like, I don't really want to talk about this anymore.I don't want to talk about, I mean, Trump doesn't want to talk about it.Right.Like he does, he, he'd much rather talk about the save America act or voting fraud.And we'll get to that in a second.But I just, You know the only people who are talking about it really are like MTG let's put up her tweet.

If we can because she's a hex of puts out you know you know a sort of classic exit tweet on on the news that two more service members.I had passes a godspeed heroes or sacrifice only stiffens our resolve.And she says, sacrifice.What the fuck are you talking about?They did not willingly sacrifice themselves.They were killed because of the war.

You, Trump and the admin are waging on behalf of a foreign country, Israel.That's a little too far, I think, but that's my own personal opinion.You mean their deaths fuel your bloodlust for a senseless war?And she's literally like the only one out there who I, who I see still banging the drums on this stuff.

Yeah.I mean, I, I think.you know, sometimes you have to hand it to her.I'm very reluctant to do it, but you know, the sacrifice, what the fuck are you talking about?I mean, that really sums it up.You have these situations where these troops are kind of like sitting ducks.

They're just, I mean, we know in the, the, some of the prior casualty incidents, there were already security risks with the bases that were hit and they're kind of just sitting out there and, you know, there doesn't seem to be much of a plan to protect them.There doesn't seem to be a plan to resolve this war.I mean, I think, you know, to hit on your earlier point, If there were kind of if there was progress in the war, if it was like we're taking Cargill and I mean, I don't want to give Trump any ideas here.But like if people had a sense of like there was this campaign that was being waged, I think it would be more popular with the MAGA base.Instead, you have this thing we've all been dealing with where it's like, is there an MOU?Is the ceasefire on?

Oh, there's a ceasefire.Iran's hitting the tankers still.It's very hard to keep track of.And I think that makes people kind of tune out.

And Trump is all over the place too.I mean, he really, literally he's on stage with the Spanish fricking football team trying to log them.And then he gives speeches on, you know, kind of goosed up election conspiracies and pushing for the save act.And he's talking about, you know, all this other, shit that like has nothing of direct relevance to Iran.And so, yeah, it's like following a squirrel chasing acorns.It's nuttiness.

Um, he did give the speech and we'll talk about this now, I suppose, but gave that speech on, on all these election conspiracies.And it was so easily and quickly debunked by the own, by their own documentation that they put out and then by John Solomon.So.First of all, talk a bit about Solomon.We haven't talked about your piece on this, have we?

No, we haven't.I haven't talked about this speech at all, and I'm really excited.

OK, I'm going to cede the floor to you.You take as much time as you because I want to pepper you with some solid questions when when you're done.

OK, so obviously on Thursday, Donald Trump gave his much hyped, I don't know, maybe much hyped to me personally, a speech on how the 2020 election was stolen.And sort of the architect here is a guy who I think outside of the MAGA universe is not very well known.A guy named John Solomon, a guy who, you know, came from this very conservative traditional reporting background at the Washington Post and the AP, but sort of over the past decade has become sort of a twisted shadow of a real reporter, a cruel parody of our industry, in that he presents as a normal reporter.He wears suits.He's very serious.He's not like the typical lunatics who come up with election fraud stuff.

But on the other hand, his stuff is, and I should say, I also have a personal connection here because I was at the Hill when he was there and doing kind of a, gettinghis his his his sea legs in this world.And he kind of comes up with these things.He's like, I've got I've got him dead to rights.You know, Hillary Clinton sold all our uranium.And then you look at it and it's like, what?

I don't think that's true at all.Why?Why is the story being hyped up so much?And so last week, I wrote a piece kind of running through his greatest hits.There it is. I love this headline.The pseudo journalists destroy American democracy.

That was really how I felt.So Uranium One, which is the idea that was kind of like the real Russia scandal when the Mueller thing was kicking off.He was like, actually, Hillary Clinton sold our stuff to our uranium to Russia.Not true.His big shining moment really was like the Ukraine situation where he was linked up with all these kind of like pro Putin or otherwise shady Ukrainians.And they were kind of concocting schemes together at the Trump hotel at the BLT steak.

They were called the BLT team.Um, this truly working on this story was like a real flashback to our days at the daily beast, all these characters, Dimitri Firtash, Igor Fruman.And he was just like muck deep in this stuff.And then during the impeachment, so he was, he was the reporter who would often present these things and then he would go on Hannity.And this was kind of like the, the core of the Ukraine counter narrative.But as it would come out, a lot of it was just totally wrong.

His conflicts of interest were like mind -boggling.A lot of times he would quote this pair named Joe DeGeneva and Victoria Tonsing, these two lawyers, these like MAGA lawyers who were married.By the way, they were not only representing a lot of parties he was quoting or he would quote them, but they were also his personal lawyers.I mean, so stuff that was like so crazy.So yeah, you can't quote your personal lawyer.

My favorite was when he gave him a draft of the piece.

Yeah, he gave him a draft of the piece, another journalist to crime, not even getting into the like, just straight up blackbusiness ethics violations where he was, like, running the Hill TV network.And so, like, ProPublica had this story where it was, like, he got some ad deal from some conservative, like, grass, you know, quasi -Astroturf group, and then he would go into a Hill article and tell someone, you should add a, like, a laudatory quote from these people who just bought ads from us.I mean, like, stuff that, like, it's, like, It's just crazy, but like, yeah, he gets up to a lot of antics.

So how did he end up at the White House?

Right, so now he has his own website.The Hill had too much oversight, which I...It did not.I'll tell you what.

They made you an editor.

That was the most in your comments on that story.You left a thing that was like, wait, you were an editor at the Hill.And I was like, I was, I was.So anyways, so he left the Hill kind of under this cloud of scrutiny.They had this review, all his mischief.Um, and so then he launched his own website where he could really call the shots called just the news, which, you know, lightly.

And so ever since then, he's been like, he's a good guy to kind of launder are you supposedly digging up all the proof of misdeeds against Trump.

But he's also still at Just the News.

Yeah, and he's very much not resigned from Just the News.He did a video where he's like, I'm giving up my status as a special, or excuse me, as the editor -in -chief of Just the News, but I'm still going to do my daily show.I'm still going to be on Steve Bannon all the time.I'm still writing articles for just the news.I saw this and I was like, why is he writing articles?So anyway, so the conflicts of interest are just like mind boggling here.

And so he's a, just to be clear, he's a paid white house employee, unpaid, unpaid, according to him.

But he is, he's a white house employee.

Yeah.And so also reporting the news.So he's, he's declassifying stuff.And then.A lot of that stuff then ends up on just the news, right, his website.And it's this kind of ouroboros of ethical conflicts.

And there is, like, before we dive into the speech in that aspect, there is also kind of like a sort of more serious aspect here, which is his buddies, Joe DiGenova and Victoria Tonsing, are now working on a grand jury in Florida under this thing called, and this is a concept that I think is important to understand that we haven't talked about here, the Grand Conspiracy.Now, the Grand Conspiracy is this concept that essentially all anti -Trump activities taken by Justice Department, the CIA, and I say anti -Trump, things that did not redound to Trump's benefit.like investigating Russia ties, Ukraine stuff, all the way to the Jack Smith investigations.Jack Smith?Yeah.And so all of that was part of a grand conspiracy so that you can, you know, avoid statutes of limitations.

A lot of the stuff has run out.You can have a venue in Florida, ideally in Judge Eileen Cannon's district, because you can link it to the Mar -a -Lago raid.So it's all wrapped up.It's a crazy idea.But his old buddies from Ukraine, the BLT team, they are now investigating perceived Trump enemies.election was stolen, but like they'll really have like some credible thing they can hang their hat on and they never do it.

You're still feel that way.Even, you know, whenever it's like a James O 'Keefe thing or this, I'm just like, oh my gosh, what will the revelation be?

And then it's like, yeah, I feel like that's a little Lucy in the football for you.Um, anyways, they put out a couple, uh, I don't know what you want to call them.Uh, revelations.

Yeah.

The one was that China, China actually did interfere, but they didn't, uh, they obtained all these voter rolls, which they could do publicly that Venezuela hacked our voting machines, which they didn't, but they had the technology only hack them in their country that non -citizens were voting in droves.The numbers they put out showed that they weren't.I mean, it was just sort of like one after another and even Solomon, you know, I don't think we have this.clip of him and Von Hilliard, but I wish we do.

It's great physical comedy.Yeah.Why don't you talk for a little bit?I'll see if John Solomon faces two issues as sort of like his new kind of more obvious skullduggery.Number one is I think he still has this, I don't want to say shred of ethics or like integrity, but he basically, I think struggles to flat out lie in the way that some other Trump officials do.

Yeah, I see that.He's got this.It's not this innocence about him, but there is like a sort of, you know, I'm just a humble journalist and I don't want people to.He put it this way.He cares enough.that people in this industry think he's a journalist.

I think that's right.Like, and so, you know, he's done these things that have been disproven, all this stuff, but he still has to act like, you know, he can't just like flat out lie, like, like the press secretary might, for example.And so when you hit it with a question, and I feel like he has this kind of like earnest sense of trying to find out what's going on.And so he'll just be like, well, we're trying to get to the bottom of that.And so he also, the other challenge he's facing is he's constantly doing media appearances.And so

you know, in this case, this was kind of this thing before the, the, the, the speech, but he's also like always going on CBanon show.And so he's kind of like jousting CBanon will be like, you know, people in the white house say you're a crackpot, John.And he's like, I'm not a crackpot.You're the crackpots.So he's kind of generating this negative content.

So yeah, let's play that before, before I play a video, I will say this because the video really gets to it, which is.He is a white house employee, but he's presenting himself as a journalist hired by the white house to dig into documents by the white house.So he's like, I'm just looking around at all the documents.I didn't have access to all these documents in my capacity at just the news.Now I have all this access.I'm getting all these declassified docs.

You guys should be grateful.It's all on the name of transparency, but I'm just trying to discover things as if he's just sort of this impartial.investigative reporter who happens to be given White House access.So then after the speech, when it just kind of fizzles, he's approached in the White House front yard and he's asked about this stuff by Von Hilliard.And this is what happens.telling the president.

Did you acknowledge that there were no votes changed in 2020?

All I can acknowledge is what the intelligence shows, right?I only know the intelligence committee has zero evidence that someone has flipped, that a foreign power flipped a vote in 2020, 22 or 24.

And you have no, you're able to - We're not through all the documents.You're able to acknowledge that Venezuela has not tampered with voting machines in the United States?

No, the intelligence is very clear.They did it on their own machines.Why is it important that they did it on their machines?Their machine protocols are the same as America.Why?Because for a long time, they didn't talk about it.

Until the 2020 election, it wasn't a fact.

That's a former Breitbart guy grabbing him, who's now in the administration.

But there's no intelligence.

Not yet.He's got to go.There's no intelligence of the election.It would have said that Donald Trump was president.

The backwards walk and like he's like trying to end it on a good note John John we gotta get yet.

Um, so After this happened, everyone was jumping on Solomon for basically admitting that they had nothing and he kind of like had him not a meltdown But he was going out.He was going off on mine Yeah, let's let's take a look.Well, no, I don't know if we have that.OK, talk about us tweeting since then.

Yeah.So, I mean, he's doing a lot of this like you fools.Can't you see the importance of this?Like they you know, he's saying like, look, no vote totals were changed.I guess we're going to talk about Venezuelan machines.It has no relevance to us.

And then you almost want Von Hilliard there to say, why the fuck are we here, man?Like, what is the point of this?Is this a presidential address?And then the part that also killed me is when he goes, we're still researching.We're still looking into this.And it's like, this is the biggest stage imaginable.

It's the presidential address.Could you wait a week?How much more time do you need?

that's at CBS News covered it seriously.But when D .J .T.announced China got 240 million of Americans voter files, your team dismissed it like it was no big deal.Why?

He then corrected himself to note that it was actually 220 million.It's not the point, really.But yeah, so he's having a mini meltdown, I think, on Twitter.

At the point where you're complaining that Barry Weiss and CBS News are not giving you a fair shake.I mean, he actually before the speech, he went on.Tony DeCouple interviewed him.And look, I mean, they didn't play like clown music or anything.I mean, they theyI think gave him as fair a shake more than he deserves to be Frank.

And the idea that now he's like Barry Weiss, you know, you're, you're part of the twisted MSM.It's crazy.

Yeah.Tony, Tony started his broadcast by saying like something like, frankly, we have to acknowledge that a lot of this is just not supported by evidence.So I think that that really got his coat.Um, okay.A couple more things we've got to get to, and then we got to get out of here.The tape brothers, what happened?

Arrested.

Arrested, cuffed.Yes.So this is Andrew and Tristan Tate.They were in Florida for, I believe they were hosting a bare knuckle boxing match.Yes.And I mean, these guys, you know, they're the Trump administration very close to them.

We had officials intervening to, you know, get their devices back when they were seized.I think last year in Florida, Ron DeSantis really wants, unfortunately for DeSantis, The Tate brothers can only exist in Florida and the United States because they are, it is the natural environment for them, but he doesn't want anything to do.And so they're like, well, we gotta be in Florida.

There's no other state that actually fits their aura.

I mean, it's a perfect match.I feel like Arizona could be there.That's there's something crazy.Arizona.Yeah.Vegas.

Vegas.Certainly.I think Vegas is a little upscale for those two.And so you have, um, Do you have them getting arrested in these just like comical Tate brothers outfits?Basically what this all relates to is, you know, obviously we know they're, they're facing some charges or there's kind of a twisted legal history in Romania.They're also now in the UK.

We've known for a while there were investigations into them.And now the, the, after this arrest, the UK came out and said, well, you know, this is, you know, these are some new charges of, you know, sexual assault and rape and interestingly, you know, child or extreme pornography.And I think that's the first we've heard of that.hopefully you know i i don't know hopefully i these guys are up to their necks in um you know webcam you know exploitation uh And so I, you know, we'll have to see what the, what the exact situation is.The UK frustratingly has moved very slow here in terms of actually finding out what the situation is.

But let me read what we have here on the details of the crime.It says the CPS, I believe that's the crown prosecution service has decided to prosecute Andrew Tate 39 with seven further counts of rape, three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking of, for sexual exploitation, three counts of assault, occasioning actual bodily harm and 19 additional charges for offenses relating to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography.The CPS has decided to prosecute Tristan Tate, 38, with one count of sexual assault, two counts of rape, and three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation.The offending is alleged to have taken place between July 2010 and August 2017.The suspects were arrested by the U .S.

Marshal Service in the United States of America on July 18th, 2026.Following their arrest in the U .S., prosecutors will be seeking extradition in relation to the original 21 charges and the further charges which we have decided to prosecute.So I think the interesting thing is here is we cooperated with the extradition.

Well, this is interesting, yes.And I think the Tate Brothers lawyer, a guy named Joseph McBride, who is a big deal with January 6th defendants, he came out and said, not only is this a travesty of justice, but this was approved by a low -level DOJ appointee, and the Trump administration is going to look at this, and we're going to get this overturned.Now, how much does Trump want to intervene?I mean, I would say these are pretty bad guys.I don't know if Trump wants to help them.Well, he's helped a lot of bad guys.

So I will have to see.I, I, you know, someone was looking at the bureau of prisons, a lockup list and indeed, you know, uh, the taits are listed.So, I mean, they're currently in custody, but we'll have to see how this goes.

There's a lot of, you know, people who have willingly associated with these brothers.Um, we have a Trump envoy, uh, who, uh, or Trump's special envoy, Paolo Zampolli.Don't know who the hell that is, but you might.There's this picture we have of Representative Wesley Hunt, if we can put that up.

There he is, Wesley in his three -piece suit.Sick.

Who on the MAGA right has also been willing to cozy up to these brothers?

Tucker Carlson had Andrew Tate on his show.Alina Haba has said that.Right.What, what is worth always considering about the Tates is that they were not big deals relatively in the American right before their human trafficking charges in Romania.When they were arrested, I wrote, I wrote the first American story about it and I had to kind of like fucking cash Patel here.Actually this video, I was there, I said, take them away boys.

So the, the but but at the time and the reason i bring this up is that i had to look and i was like okay they went to the trump hotel once they were with mostly kind of other british influencers there were like a couple kind of right -wing people they hung out with um but but it was not like these guys were like just enormous mega figures after the human trafficking stuff, that's when the American right really embraced them.And that is what I find truly disturbing, because you might say, some of these people, it's like, oh, I didn't know they were such bad guys.I just took a picture with them at dinner, and now they've been charged.I want nothing to do with them.But actually, they've only gotten bigger.You know, again, Alina Haba, I think just last year, she said, I'm a big fan of Andrew Tate and his work.

Really?You know, and that was when she was up there.U .S.S.Attorney of New Jersey.You know, that's when, you know, these guys are, you know, facing a lot of criminal allegations.

Yeah, these guys are no good.

We have a video of Habba.Let's play it.Hello, Alina.

Hi.Nice to meet you.I'm a big fan.

Well, nice to meet you.I'm a fan.You're the one saving Trump.You're doing more important work than me.

America, America, not just Trump.And I agree with everything you just said.Anger is the same that President Trump has for our country.And the time is now for us to stop being wimps.I think that's exactly the right sentiment.And I also have to say that I sympathize with you because I think you go through a lot of the same.

Oh, actually, well, that's crazy.

I think because I think she's about to say, like, you know, you went through the same lawfare essentially as as Donald Trump.And it's like, really, I shouldn't have cut that off.

Show me the person, I'll find the crime that President Trump has gone through.

I'm glad I rescued that last two seconds.Having uttered those words, I would be a little bit ashamed at this point.But yeah, damn.So what happens to the Taits now?Do we know?Well, I mean, they're in custody.

We'll have to see if there's a, you know, how the extradition goes.I feel like they could probably delay it a while.

Um, you know, what's, what's DeSantis has always been sort of skeptical of these brothers.Right.

I feel like when they first touched down back in the U S last year, he, after the administration, the Trump administration helped get the charges in Romania dropped.Uh, he was just like, you know, I, these guys have no place in Florida.I want them out of here.

Sometimes you can smell something rotten and it doesn't take a genius to figure it out.All right.Our last topic sadly of the day is your boy clavicular.I'm a little bit surprised he went on handy.He's podcast.Um, like I don't, it just doesn't seem like the type of audience that he wants the court.

That said, if he, if he wants to come on mega Mondays, I would absolutely take him in a second.Um, we can have you and him just sort of look smacks each other.Uh, but he's talking to Hannity yet.Ooh.Ooh.I wonder if he were famous.

He does not wear shorts to work.

He memorably, you know, vowed to mock me at the white house correspondence dinner weekend.Right.And, um, and you know, that's still happening.

When is the white house correspondence?It's gotta be soon, right?

It's relatively soon.And so he vowed to mock me and then he overdosed the night before.Uh, and so I won by default.Uh, and so he didn't make it up to DC.So, you know, I, I, I, I'm not going to be available for a rematch.Let's just say the white house correspondence dinner is technically rescheduled for this Friday.

I had no idea.Oh my God.Really?This Friday?

Yeah, July 24th.That's what the A .I.overview of Google's telling me.And yeah, no, that's that.That is according to Politico dot com to reschedule for July 24th.

You know, what's really great about this is that Trump just subpoenaed a bunch of New York Times reporters.So it should be really fun to have them up there giving him his kudos for being a good shepherd of the First Amendment.Excited for that.Are there going to be any parties?

No, I hope not.Um, I, my sense is it's a bit more of a subdued affair this time.

Yeah.Yeah.You would imagine after what happened last time.That's too bad.Cause I wanted you in clavicular to have your meetup.Um, he did go on Hannity's podcast.

As I mentioned, um, we're going to play, let's play the boring clip first and then we'll do the fun clip second.Boring clip first.

Over a million followers.

Can we pause it for a second?

Um, is this slow down or something?

Yeah.We had 0 .75 speed.Can we start again?

Can we just followers?

When you're doing your IRL streams and so many people come up and say like hey, thank you, man Like you really changed my life.Like I lost, you know 60 pounds and I Did this and you know now I have a girlfriend now.I feel better Just every time I step outside.

So it is rewarding in that sense clavicular should share some of his meth with Sean Hannity I think get a little more energized.

Can we put on the screen back up and just the part where it's just clavicular.Cause I want to, I'm like obsessed with the background for Hannity.Now we got to get back a little bit where we go.

This is the Hannity podcast.

Yes.I keep going.I want the wide shot of clavicular if we can.Yeah, there we go.Okay.What?

It's like the most generic bullshit possible.Hey, let's put up an American flag.You know what we really need?We need a streetlight.We need to, we got to get one of those.Oh, make it turn right.

Cause this just to be clear, this is, Oh, that's pretty good.That's pretty good.Honestly.

And you know what?The dartboard just lying there and some pool sticks.It's like this place doesn't exist.It's a hangout with Sean Hannity.All right.Sorry.

Go ahead.

Well, oh, I, I was just going to say, yeah, I mean, I, that's very low effort or low energy Sean Hannity.And it struck me that like at the point where clavicular is like, when I'm doing my IRL streams, you know, when I'm getting my super chats or whatever, and Sean Hannity is like, what am I doing?

Uh, yeah, well, Hannity just seems like he's absolutely like on some prescription drugs that have made him tired.Um,Let's play the funnier one, though, because this is great.

almost taking it to its logical conclusion.So that's going to include just traditional bodybuilding and fitness style stuff, as well as a new focus on sort of facial aesthetics.And that's been missing from a lot of the male red pill stuff and male self -improvement was emphasis on the face.

Do you agree?Have you seen that meme picture where it's like the like the 12 year old sitting around a table or that they're just like, you know debating fortnight or something.That's how this feels where it's like, well, you know, the male red pill it had some obvious blind spots.Look, we all love Rolo Tomasi, you know, rattling off these red pill guys and Hannity is like, yes, of course, of course, this is a breakthrough.

First of all, his facial aesthetics is like him hammering his cheekbones.

Yeah, it's well rounded.It's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a It's a reasonable approach, you know, the smoking the meth, getting a nose job that busts up your nose that everyone hates, all this stuff.

Oh my God.He should have done a number on handy.He should have put handy through like a week or this is what a, this would have been better content if he was like, I will do your routine for a week, just have at it.And I would have watched that.This seems really sort of low energy.They need to load.

They need to up the T level, go to the Pete Hegseth bootcamp and do more tea.Um, all right, before we go, we finally got the pictures of the tape brothers in the ridiculous garb.Unbelievable arrest.Wow.I don't know which one's worse, honestly.Actually, I know which one's worse.

Yeah, so let's do the less worse ones.We got Tristan Tate.I guess he's shaving his head now in like a very tightthree -piece suit.What do you make of this?

Well, it's it's Florida.Yeah, July like there's no why are you in a three -piece suit like all black three -piece suit like the He's the classy brother.

He's the he's the one who's kind of like the dapper gentleman.

Yeah Yeah, that looks just villainous, almost, in the stupid pocket square.I guess that's better than Andrew's look, but I would be deeply uncomfortable in a three -piece suit in Florida.Mid -july, so let's talk about Andrew that perfect to host a bare -knuckle boxing match.

Yeah Yeah, so we've got Andrew he's in a I guess I would say a purple blouse with down to People were digging up some pictures from the TJ Maxx catalog But I you know that so it's down to what like your your clavicle your clavicular would have you And And he's got some chains on, um, but, but the striking thing, you know, he's got some black leather slippers.I don't know if these are called pumps and then, uh, and then some incredibly, incredibly.Yeah.Tell me about the pants.They're clam diggers.

That's what they're called.

They're called high waters.Yeah.

Yeah.You're supposed to get you when you go digging for clams, you don't want your bottom of your pants to get wet.So you get those clam digger pants, but is it's a ridiculous look.I mean, the blast is so absurd.

They also had, they had a third friend of theirs who wasn't arrested named Jay Waller, who's kind of like a, a non blood relation Tate brother.And he was in like, basically what Tristan's wearing, like a full suit, but like orange rayon.And so he was like comforting Andrew.And it's just like the, they're just like the guys who they dress like crap and they go around and cause mischief.

Oh my God.All right.I got to end it there.This has been too much.Will.thank you so much.

You want to give a little tease for you?You got coming tonight in the newsletter.

Yeah.Let's just say this Q and on prison Q and honors are taking over a prison folks.Get ready for it.

Yeah.It's not Q and honors going to prison or housed in a prison.They are taking over running the prison.It's not a functioning prison.They're just running it though.All right.

Well, take care, buddy.For those who watched, I'm sorry, you should have gone to the comment section.I usually am better about that.Uh, it was just lots to talk about, so I had to, uh, we had to just roll with it.Uh, but thank you for watching.Thank you as always for, uh, you know, paying attention to us on Mondays, subscribe, please subscribe to our YouTube.

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