Trump Says “Smart People Don’t Like Me” at Golf Club Gala, Skips Charlie Kirk Vigil for golf

Patrick Gutfield recaps Donald Trump’s eyebrow-raising weekend at Bedminster where he declared “smart people don’t like me,” skipped Charlie Kirk’s vigil for tee time, and threatened a national emergency over DC immigration enforcement. Meanwhile, Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade suggested “involuntary lethal injection” for the homeless, then issued a rare apology.  

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Caalaroga Shark media from London, where we consider ourselves smart.
This is valid. Hey, you speak for yourself. I don't
want to go to the gulag. I think the guy
is great. Let's hit this. I'm Patrick Gutfield and President
Trump was at his Bedminster golf club over the weekend
and he decided to share some thoughts with the crowd.

(00:26):
Smart people don't like me, you know, and they don't
like what we talk about. He told the gala attendees.
The crowd chuckled, which is the polite golf club equivalent
of nervous laughter at a family dinner. Now, this comment
was caught on video by Republican strategist Nicole Kipperlock, and
let's just say it traveled faster than a golf cart. Downhill.

(00:46):
Texas Representative Jasmine Crockett saw the clip and basically said,
hold up, does MAGA know what he just implied about them?
Which is a fair question when your leader essentially says
the smart people aren't in your corner. Trump made this
remark while discussing Tyler Robinson, the suspect in the assassination
of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. He was talking about how

(01:09):
Robinson's parents turned him in, which apparently doesn't happen very often.
Trump said he asked someone at the FBI about it,
and they told him parents turning in their own kids
is almost never a thing, which raised the question exactly
how many casual chats about family betrayal is Trump having
with the FBI. The whole story gets even more awkward

(01:31):
when you consider Trump was praising these Utah parents as
conservative people supposed to be very nice people for doing
what any decent parent would do when their kid allegedly
commits murder. That's setting the bar pretty low for conservative niceness.
Trump skipped Charlie Kirk's religious vigil on Sunday, opting to
spend the weekend at his Bedminster golf club instead. Trump

(01:52):
was apparently busy with more pressing matters, like not having
any public events scheduled. The vigil started at six pm,
right around the time Trump was returning to the White House.
Perfect timing, really, He managed to arrive just as everyone
was leaving. It's the political equivalent of showing up to
a party as they're doing dishes. White House Press Secretary

(02:14):
Caroline Levitt had to cover for her absent boss, telling
the crowd. I speak on behalf of the present when
I say President Trump loved you Charlie so much, which
is the kind of thing you say when your boss
is golfing instead of grieving. Senator Jake Hoffman of Arizona
tried to make Trump's absence feel less awkward by telling guests,
we know there are two special individuals and that big,

(02:36):
beautiful white house that care about Charlie Kirk, don't we
The crowd applauded, probably because they were being polite about
the fact that one of those special individuals was nowhere
to be found, because one of them was golfing and
the other was doing her usual best to be nowhere
near her husband. Trump did promise he'll attend Kirk's funeral
next weekend in Arizona after his state visit to the UK,

(02:56):
unless the weather is nice for golf. When asked if
Anania would join him, Trump said, I didn't ask her that,
but a lot of people are. We're going to Europe,
so we're going to be doing that. I haven't even
thought of it. I've been thinking about other things. Nothing
says heartbroken like forgetting to invite your wife to a funeral.

(03:19):
Trump is having a bit of a moment with Washington
d C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, And by moment, I mean
he's threatening to declare a national emergency because she won't
let his immigration officers play cops and robbers anymore. Trump
sent National Guard troops and ICE agents to patrol DC
back in August, which is exactly what every tourist wants
to see when they're visiting the Lincoln Memorial, heavily armed

(03:41):
federal agents asking for papers. But now Bowser has said
the Metropolitan Police Department won't cooperate with ICE anymore, and
Trump is not taking it well. At one in the
morning on Monday, because all the best presidential policy decisions
happen at one am, Trump went on truth Social to vent.
He wrote that watching the National Guard and Mice patrol

(04:02):
the Capitol had been a beautiful thing to watch, which
is one way to describe armed federal agents wandering around
your neighborhood. Some might call it dystopian, but Trump went
with beautiful. Trump is claiming his intervention has made DC
virtually crime free in just a few weeks. He says
it went from one of the most dangerous and murder

(04:22):
ridden cities in the USA and even around the world
to one of the safest, which is why protesters got
within ten feet of him at seafood restaurant. Trump claims
the city is absolutely booming, with restaurants, stores, and businesses packed,
which raises the question has the Smithsonian been experiencing a
tourism boom thanks to military checkpoints. Well, Fox and Friends

(04:44):
had quite the week, and by quite the week, I
mean Brian Kilmead suggested we should give homeless people with
mental illness involuntary lethal injection on live television just another
Wednesday morning in cable news. This gem came up during
a discussion about the murder of Ukrainian refugee Irena Zarutzka
on a light rail train in Charlotte. Lawrence Jones was

(05:07):
talking about how some homeless people don't want help and
suggested they should be given a choice, take resources or
go to jail. Then kill Mead chimed in with or
involuntary lethal injection or something. Just kill them or something.
That's the kind of casual follow up you'd use when
suggesting pizza toppings, not state sponsored execution of vulnerable people.

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On Sunday, kill Mead offered what Fox News called a
rare on air apology rare. Indeed, it's like spotting a unicorn,
but the unicorn is admitting it said something horrible about
homeless people. I am obviously aware that not all mentally
ill homeless people act as the perpetrator did in North Carolina,
kill Mead said, which is the kind of clarification that

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makes you wonder what he thought before. Were we operating
under the assumption that every homeless person is a potential murderer.
Fox News sent out kill Mead's apology is their official response,
which is corporate speak for please don't ask us any
follow up questions about this. Portions of today's show were
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