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Back to episode — Episode 2734 CWSA 01/29/25

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ll here's this gap, there's this thing that needs to be handled. And you look around and you say nobody's doing anything like nobody's making the threat real. And then Nicole says I can do it and then she does it and now it's news and now I can boost it. So that's what I could do. Like I wanted to do something too but just complaining didn't seem enough. But if I'm boosting Nicole's message, that'…

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ly separately they also created a rapid response account on social media so they'll correct hoaxes in real time. I think they had that before in the first term. But to actually announce the fake news hoaxes by press releases, oh my God that's good. They're actually making the fake news the news because if the White House does a press release that's a big deal.

Now in my opinion this is the biggest mistake that Trump made in the first term, not doing this. Not once did I see the White House debunk the fine people hoax. Even if they did I never heard about it. The drinking bleach hoax and all the other hoaxes. But on social media people were passing them around like crazy. So let's do a hoax update. So according to the White House here are the four hoaxes that happened in the first week. One week, four hoaxes. Let's see which ones you caught. There's the Elon Musk doing a Nazi salute, which obviously was a hoax. There's Trump paused Medicaid and SNAP benefits. No, those were specifically excluded from his executive order. All the things that were direct payments to people were explicitly excluded. But the news reported that they were included to get everybody all worked up. That was fake. Then there's Governor JB Pritzker said that and also Chicago school officials said that ICE raided a school. That never happened. There was this Secret Service thing that had nothing to do with anything about immigration I guess. So that was fake. That's three. And the fourth one was physicians advocacy group opposes RFK Jr. for Health and Human Services head. No that wasn't a physicians advocacy group. It was a partisan bunch of Democrats. It wasn't any kind of unbiased group.

All right, so you've got four hoaxes in one week. So let's say that the rate of hoaxes stays consistent. So four per week, 52 weeks, take a few weeks off for vacation, 200 per year. 200 per year times four, the four years of the term, 800. So the Democrats are on track, I'm not making this up this is just math, they're on track for 800 hoaxes by the end of Trump's term. Now we'll see if the rate increases or decreases but the current rate, four per week, 800 over four years, which to me is pretty funny anyway.

So and the funniest thing about this newest hoax about the spending cuts for things that really they're really not doing a spending cut to. I often talk about my quote smartest Democrat friend who is suffering with massive terminal TDS. And after Trump won and he won by a solid majority and even the Democrat left had said, huh okay, he got real quiet. And I thought surely after seeing that Biden really had a dead brain and that the Democrats were covering it and that they picked Kamala Harris against old Democratic norms and that she was so bad she couldn't complete a sentence, I thought to myself, well surely now, surely now my Democrat friend will admit not only are Trump's policies the most popular ones for most things but that he's getting it done and even the news is complimenting him. Even Democrats were complimenting him sometimes. So I thought he's finally seeing the light. But he emerged yesterday by email just as plucky as he was. And why do you think he emerged? Because he believed the fake news that there were all these benefits being cut and he wanted me to know that once Trump's reputation goes in the toilet and his approval drops like a rock, which it will because of all these terrible cuts he just made which didn't happen it's fake news, and that Trump would be completely disgraced. And he hoped that Pete Buttigieg, he figures is the best candidate, will come to the rescue. So that's what the other world looks like. Ouch.

All right. General Mark Milley had a bad week because now that Pete Hegseth is Secretary of Defense he's

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already announced that he's pulling the security clearance for Milley. And what else is he doing? And he's going to conduct a review board to determine if there's enough evidence to have General Milley stripped of a star while in retirement because he's in retirement for his efforts to quote undermine the chain of command during the first term of President Donald Trump. There is going to be enough…

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