Jessica Tarlov

The Trump administration is a big pay-for-play scheme.

And why would that be any different when it comes to the first lady versus what you would be paying to the president himself?

But I do always wonder, and I mean...

I like a compliment as much as the next girl, probably a little bit more than the next girl.

And everyone likes to be flattered and things like that.

But it really eats at me when I think that somebody is being nice to me or giving me false praise because they want something or they think I can help them with something.

And what must it feel like?

When you're just being flattered and sucked up to all the time and that it has nothing to do with actual merit or who you are as a person.

That's what I really struggle with.

And that goes for all of them.

Like, it doesn't, you know, Trump standing there holding Maria Machado's Nobel poster that she made for him like he was a six-year-old.

Like, how can you live with yourself, right?

if you are that dependent on false adulation from people who are actually doing important things with their lives.

There's nowhere to move.

It's the end of the show.

ICE needs to be abolished.

It cannot be reformed.

And Christian Noah must be impeached.

Welcome to Raging Moderates.

I'm Jessica Tarlev, and I'm joined today by Aaron Parnas.