HOT TOPICS | Trump Is Dining with Billionaires While Cutting Medicare - May 23rd, 2025
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Good morning, everyone. Check it out. Do you guys recognize this face? Do you remember the Lemonheads who have the diehard Lemonheads? Well, know that this is my friend Tracy from the West Coast.
One of my best friends.
Yes.
She is... My colleague who's not my colleague, but who's a genius who I love. Hi, guys. It's so good to see you.
It's good to see Tracy. Tracy is our West Coast Hollywood correspondent. She's here. We want to talk about news. We're like, Tracy, we have to talk about what's happening in the world. She's like, I want to talk about...
I want to talk about Diddy. I want to talk about Taylor Swift and Blake and Justin. I want to talk about Trump's idiotic stance on new tariffs and taxes and crypto and everything insane that, you know, Don said in 24 hours. I said 24 minutes. It's hard to keep up. Hi, Maureen. Nice to see you, too. And hi, everyone. But my name is spelled T-R-A-C-E-Y. E-Y. But thank you, Carol, for remembering that. I so appreciate that.
Yeah. All right. So good morning, everybody. We have a lot to discuss, a lot to talk about this morning. You guys saw what's happening. It's crazy. Look, I think one thing that's going under the radar that's really, really bothering me is this whole thing about what's happening with him having this meeting.
The crypto meeting.
It's insane. The crypto meeting is insane. We have a smorgasbord of news for you this morning. Let us know where you are streaming from. Say hi to TikTok. We're live on TikTok. We're live on Instagram. We're live on Facebook. Of course, we're live right here on YouTube. Our main show is on YouTube, so make sure you hit the like, hit the thumbs up. Your comments on YouTube will get highlighted and profiled, and we will read them. Tracy's going to, you know, say.
Fill in the blanks.
Yeah, fill in the blanks. Okay, so the commander is beat. Do you think that's a good way of putting it?
I mean, yeah. I mean, it's extraordinary, as I said to Don last night, that within, he's been president February, March, April, almost five months. Almost a half a year. Almost a half a year. The level of corruption is, And thievery is just unending. It's just, you don't even know where to start to correct it. It's so difficult.
What were you saying to me last night when you were asking me about what's going on? Cause Tracy was on a plane all day trying to get to me yesterday, flying across the country in the bad weather. And I was filling you in on what's going on. I said, he had this crypto meeting. I talked to you about the bill passing, whatever. And you said, it's like, And I talked to you about what the media folks with reports on ABC, you know, saying, calm down. That's reporting from the Daily Beast.
Oh, you mean that Bob Iger is telling The View and people like that to basically shut up and can their anti-Trump views.
And you said you were walking out of the door and you said it's almost as if he's God. Like, what did you say?
I said it is as though he's God and there's no stopping him. And every day he can literally do and say, or I should say, say and do whatever he wants with zero to less repercussions, if that's possible.
Yeah, with impunity.
With impunity. absolute impunity. It's not just the MAGA folk. It's everyone now who's just, I think people have just said, I give up. There's nowhere to go. What can I do?
Oh, I was telling you about Harvard. Oh, we talked about Harvard. So listen, this is a new round of tariffs is about to hit the economy and the stock market is down. Let me know how much the stock market is down, guys. Harvard is officially suing the government over the blanket ban of international students and We need to reflect on this monstrous, disastrous, really awful, awful, awful anti-Semitic attack in Washington, D.C. yesterday. It's just awful. I think it was a day before yesterday. It was two days ago. To discuss all of this, this is my co-pilot, my fan favorite of you guys, Tracy Jacobs, West Coast Hollywood correspondent.
So happy to see you all and to be here and delighted to participate and to be asked. Yeah, I am being told that the Dow is... It's down about 800 points since yesterday.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–26:07
2
What happened at Trump’s Virginia crypto dinner and why is it controversial?
26:07–28:26
3
How is Trump allegedly profiting from meme coins and crypto while cutting public programs?
28:26–39:23
4
What did the White House say when reporters challenged the ethics of the crypto event?
39:23–1:05:37
Speakers
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