Has Trump Jumped the Shark?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
As President Trump jumped the Shark, the Good Morning Cooner Country. Okay,
my friends, let me be brutally honest with all of you,
like I'm in the confessional, as I like to say,
I was planning on talking about the economy. Trump's incredible

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achievements with the economy. Frankly, his massive successes in the
last six months. To me, I've never seen any president
ever have as many consequential achievements as he has had
over the last six months, the first six months of
any presidency. And I wasn't planning on talking about Epstein

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or the Epstein files or the Epstein List, because we've
done several shows and you know where I stand, and
most of you have expressed where you stand.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
But holy Schomoli, holy.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Mackerel, you want to talk about Trump having and I
mean just an angry reaction. You want to talk about Trump,
I mean just giving it now to some of his supporters,
in fact, many of his supporters with both barrels. He

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went on truth Social yesterday and he let it all
hang out. And what you can tell now, is that
the demand of many of his supporters, I would even
say in some ways, maybe even a majority of his
supporters for the Epstein files to be released, for there

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to be complete and utter transparency and accountability for what Epstein,
and not just Epstein, but his sex trafficking network work
on behalf of the victims of all of these pedophiles,
powerful men who used Epstein to victimize and sexually abuse

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countless underage girls, including children. That this demand, now that
we see all of the information and that they'd all
be released, is now clearly clearly upsetting him now to
the point where we have to ask ourselves, has Trump
now gone too far? Or was he just blowing off steam?

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Is he just ultimately just exasperated and just kind of vented,
or is this now a significant break with many and
I mean many of his voters. So on Monday morning,
yesterday morning, President Trump released an absolutely explosive post true

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social and let me just sum it up quickly because
it's a very long post, but let me give you
the the the heart of it, he writes regarding the
Epstein files and the demand to release the files. According
to Trump, this is what he wrote, My past supporters

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have bought into this. I can't say the word I'm
gonna get fined. Bull You know what, have bought into
this bs okay, this bull crap. Let's put it that way,
hook line and sinker. And he went on to say,
let and I remember he's talking now about MAGA, He's
talking about Trump voters, Trump supporters. Let these weaklings continue

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forward and do the Democrats work. Don't even think about
talking of our incredible and unprecedented success because I don't
want their support anymore. He then added, I have had
more success in six months than perhaps any president in

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our country's history.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
And all these people want to talk about with strong.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Prodding by the fake news and the success starved Democrats
is the Jeffrey Epstein hoax. And then he went on
to say, in particular, he really forget doubling now he's
tripling down that the Epstein files, he says, are one
of the great hoaxes of our time. And so he

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starts to say that it's comparable, as he put it,
to the Steele dose k, to the Russia collusion hoax,
to the Hunter Biden laptop, saying, quote, these scams and
hoaxes are all the Democrats are good at it's all
they have. They are no good at governing, no good

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at policy, no good at picking winning candidates. And so
he basically what he's saying is, in fact, I'll play
you the cut.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
He then told reporters, these supporters.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Of mine, they keep asking us to release the files,
are quote unquote stupid. They're stupid, and I don't want
their support, and that they're falling into this hoax that
is now being pushed and peddled by the Democrats. And
according to Trump, the Epstein files are a creation of

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Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John Brennan, James Comey, and the
same gang that gave us the Steele Dosier Russia collusion,
the Hunter Biden laptop. That it was the fifty one
intelligence agents who lied the laptop from Hell claiming it
was Russian this informatsu when it really was obviously Hunter

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Biden's laptop. So he's now saying it's an absolute hoax.
And all you want me to do now is focus
on this hoax. And by doing this, I'm playing the
Democrats' game. It's going to be a scandal that will
take over my presidency while we're not talking or focusing

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on my incredible achievements both at home and abroad.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
And so basically he says, I don't want your support anymore.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
In fact, as he puts it, these are my quote
past supporters. In other words, I don't want much to
do with them anymore. Now let me just write, let
me right out of the gate, give you exactly my take,
and then I really want.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
To hear from you.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
Kooner country six one seven two six six, sixty eight,
sixty eight. And I would love to take calls right
after the break. So if you want to get on,
now is the time to do it. I think part
of it, clearly, it's a temper tantrum. He's angry, he's frustrated,

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he's done so much in six months, and now he feels,
from Trump's point of view, he feels betrayed. I think
he feels angered and betrayed by many of his supporters
who are talking about the Epstein files, who want the
Epstein files to be released, who are saying this is
clearly now a moral stain on his presidency, and he

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feels in some sense betrayed. And I understand his anger.
I do I understand his frustration. I clearly do. But
sometimes it's better, you know, write something, get it off
your chest, and then file it. It's you shouldn't sometimes

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press send or in this case, you know, whatever return
or whatever post this. I think he should not have said.
And I understand his frustration, of course, I get it.
You're you know, basically saying, look, I just want to
get to work. I don't want another, uh, you know,

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another issue to paralyze my presidency where I'm not able
to continue to achieve my goals. I've had it. It's enough.
Look what I've done, Look what we can continue to do.
And I don't want this now to devour and consume
my presidency. So I understand where he's coming from. But
now what he's doing, as I said on X last night,

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he is now.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
Spitting in the face.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
Of millions and millions and millions, maybe probably tens of
millions of his own voters. He is separating himself from
and attacking his own people. That there's no question and
when when you come out and say not only that
they're stupid and that they're traders, and that they're weaklings,

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and that you know, essentially their suckers for falling for this.
So called hoax. But then you say, and I don't
want your support. Well, okay, let's play this out. You
don't want their support, let me tell you what they're
going to do. They're going to say, fine, I'm never
gonna I'm not going to vote for the Democrats, obviously,
So when the midterms roll around, they're not going to vote.

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They won't vote for the Democrats, they won't vote for
you or the Republicans. So they're going to stay home,
which means millions and millions and millions of his own
voters are going to stay home.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
Let me tell you what that means. You can take
it to the bank.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
That means the Democrats are going to win back the House,
probably win back the Senate, and you're going to get
impeached over nothing, over nothing, and the second the second
half of your second term is going to be consumed,
palized by NonStop investigations and one impeachment after another. So

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I don't see how you win from this. Again, as
I said on X, I think this is a big mistake.
I understand the anger, I understand the frustration, and what
I don't get is what is wrong.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
A with releasing the files. I still don't get this.
If there are lies in there, if there are people
who are being unfairly accused, well we can. We're smart enough,
we can.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
We can parse and differentiate and analyze. I mean, we
debunked the Steel dosier. We debunked the Hunter Biden laptop
story that it was disinformation. We debunked the Steel, as
I said, the Russia collusion hoax. So if there are
lies in the in the files, we can. We can

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refute them, we can explode them, we can debunk them.
But even if you think there are good reasons not
to release the Epstein files, have Pam Bondi and Cash
Ptel do a press conference and walk us through exactly
why these files need to be kept under wrap and seal.

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But what you don't do to me is just say
shut up, do as I say, or else I don't
want your support.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
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Speaker 1 (11:34):
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