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In the spirit of The Daily Show, Last Week Tonight, and yes, even those Pod Save America guys, we’re cutting through the chaos of Trump’s second term and the Democrats’...
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In the spirit of The Daily Show, Last Week Tonight, and yes, even those Pod Save America guys, we’re cutting through the chaos of Trump’s second term and the Democrats’ sudden hot streak. From Zohran Mamdani shocking New York to Gavin Newsom redrawing democracy with a kombucha in hand, we’ll break down the biggest stories with sharp humor, a little parody, and zero political homework required. Come for the sass, stay for the sanity—and blame the A.I. for the jokes that don’t land.
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Ballot with Patrick Gutfield - Where Politics Meets Pop Culture
Ballot with Patrick Gutfield - Where Politics Meets Pop Culture
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13 NOV 2025 · Patrick Gutfield unpacks the latest political circus: Donald Trump's Truth Social meltdown over newly released Epstein emails. The president's response? Classic deflection - calling the potentially explosive documents a "hoax" and demanding everyone look at the government shutdown instead.
We're breaking down the emails that suggest Trump might have known more about Jeffrey Epstein than he's letting on, while he's frantically waving the shutdown flag like a magician trying to distract the audience.
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12 NOV 2025 · America’s skies are in meltdown as the shutdown leaves air traffic controllers unpaid, flights grounded, and Trump promising mystery bonuses from “some place.” Laura Ingraham actually does journalism for once, grilling him on housing, China, and chaos in the skies. And in corporate land, Paramount tells workers “five days a week or hit the eject button,” and six hundred take the parachute.
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11 NOV 2025 · The Washington dating scene is on fire — and not in the fun way. We dig into new reporting on why pro-Trump singles are struggling to find partners in the bluest city in America, where 92% of voters went Democrat and MAGA staffers are now speed-dating each other at partisan mixers because they’re tired of being called fascists on Hinge. You’ll meet the women who moved to D.C. looking for “masculine, faith-driven providers” and instead found overworked political guys who ghost after six weeks because they’re already plotting their next job. And yes, there are now matchmaking events built around “Did you attend January 6th?” as a screening question. Then we look at Elon Musk’s new “Grokipedia,” his AI-run Wikipedia clone that claims to be the unbiased alternative while pushing a right-leaning spin on culture-war topics and playing up Musk as a visionary. Critics — including Wikipedia’s own Jimmy Wales — say it’s sloppy, plagiarized from Wikipedia, and already full of errors. We connect the dots: Trumpworld is trying to build its own government, its own media, and now apparently its own dating pool and its own encyclopedia.
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10 NOV 2025 · Conservative host Glenn Beck says Trump personally told him the real reason he’s tearing down the East Wing and replacing it with a 90,000-square-foot, gold-soaked, bulletproof ballroom: foreign leaders only respect “power and wealth,” and Trump wants them to feel like they’re walking into a palace. We explain how Trump fast-tracked demolition, bypassed normal review, and greenlit a project that’s expected to cost around $300 million and seat more than triple what the old East Room could handle — the first major structural change to the White House complex since the Truman Balcony in 1948. Then: House Speaker Mike Johnson says he’s already spoken with Trump about the “constrictions of the Constitution,” basically conceding they’ve discussed a third Trump term but admitting there’s “no path” to change the 22nd Amendment fast enough. This episode hits the two questions that actually matter for 2028: How far will Trump bend American institutions to match his ego — and are Republicans quietly planning for a post-Trump era, or planning for no post-Trump era at all?
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7 NOV 2025 · Zohran Mamdani makes history as New York’s first Muslim mayor, Tom Brady clones his dog because of course he does, and President Trump decides to celebrate his eightieth birthday with a UFC fight on the White House lawn. From politics to pets to the Octagon, it’s another totally normal week in America.
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6 NOV 2025 · It was a bad week to be Donald Trump and a great one for anyone who likes seeing him lose. Democrats swept major races nationwide—Zohran Mamdani made history as New York’s first Muslim mayor, Gavin Newsom outmaneuvered Trump’s redistricting games, and Abigail Spanberger flipped Virginia blue. As Trump raged in all caps on Truth Social, off-Broadway found hope and harmony in Forty-Four, a new musical about Barack Obama’s presidency. Because when politics gets too grim, there’s always a song about “Yes We Can” to make America feel good about itself again.
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5 NOV 2025 · Democrats just handed Donald Trump the political beating of his second term. In New York, 34-year-old democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani toppled Andrew Cuomo’s comeback bid and made history as the city’s first Muslim mayor. Out west, Gavin Newsom passed Prop 50—the so-called “Election Rigging Response Act”—to out-maneuver Trump’s redistricting games. Meanwhile in Virginia and New Jersey, pragmatic Democrats Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill cruised to double-digit wins while every Trump-backed candidate went down in flames. From coast to coast, voters sent a message loud enough for even Truth Social to hear: America’s done playing along.
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4 NOV 2025 · Donald Trump has officially endorsed Andrew Cuomo for New York City mayor — yes, the same Cuomo who resigned in disgrace. Patrick Gutfield breaks down how the president’s new political strategy seems to be “find the least likable guy in the room and back him.” Plus: Trump’s threats to defund cities that vote wrong, his bizarre 60 Minutes interview about running for a third term, his sympathy for Prince Andrew (yikes), and the death of Dick Cheney — the vice president who once shot his friend and still somehow got an apology. A full week of “very normal” American politics.
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3 NOV 2025 · On Air Force One, President Donald Trump talked up Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio as an “unstoppable” 2028 ticket — then immediately blurred the line on whether he’d still be in the mix himself, refusing to rule out trying for a third term even though the 22nd Amendment clearly bans it. We explain what Trump said, why he keeps teasing 2028, and why his own allies are already gaming out how to keep Trumpism in power. Then we pivot to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is now literally banning “beardos” from his events overseas. Service members in South Korea were told that even troops with approved shaving waivers — including guys with documented medical conditions that hit Black service members especially hard — are “not authorized to attend.” Hegseth says he wants a clean-shaven military and has threatened to boot people who still need waivers. We’ll walk through what that means for morale, discipline, and whether the culture war has officially reached facial hair.
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31 OCT 2025 · California Governor Gavin Newsom is unloading on President Donald Trump’s 90,000-square-foot, bulletproof, $300 million White House ballroom — calling it a “knock-off Versailles” and blasting Trump for building a private palace on the ruins of the East Wing while millions lose federal food assistance during his shutdown. We lay out what this ballroom actually is (think mega-gilded state hall, capacity 600+ and funded by big donors, after Trump bulldozed a historic part of the White House) and why Newsom says he’s now “seriously” looking at a 2028 run. Then: Trump went to an aircraft carrier in Japan and delivered a wild rant about how “water destroys magnets,” promised an executive order to force the Navy back to steam catapults because he doesn’t trust electromagnetic launch systems, and claimed tractors prove he’s right — even though those same “magnets” are literally used in MRI machines, including the MRI the White House won’t explain. The Commander-in-Chief is redesigning $13 billion carriers based on “a glass of water on the magnets,” and the governor of California is comparing his taste to pre-revolution French royalty. Welcome to Friday.
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In the spirit of The Daily Show, Last Week Tonight, and yes, even those Pod Save America guys, we’re cutting through the chaos of Trump’s second term and the Democrats’...
show more
In the spirit of The Daily Show, Last Week Tonight, and yes, even those Pod Save America guys, we’re cutting through the chaos of Trump’s second term and the Democrats’ sudden hot streak. From Zohran Mamdani shocking New York to Gavin Newsom redrawing democracy with a kombucha in hand, we’ll break down the biggest stories with sharp humor, a little parody, and zero political homework required. Come for the sass, stay for the sanity—and blame the A.I. for the jokes that don’t land.
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