July 31, 2025 • 9 mins
Patrick Gutfield unpacks Donald Trump’s latest mental slip-ups, including imaginary chats with dead relatives, forgetting his own appointments, and calling world leaders “Mr. Japan.” Plus, Hulk Hogan’s beer brand tries to rescue Hooters from bankruptcy—because of course it does. Portions of today’s show were made with the help of A.I. and nice hooters.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Callaroga Shark media from Washington, d C. Where Trump's so
vain he probably thinks this joke is about him. This
is valid, that's right. But the best part of this
first story is that there's a decent chance Trump gets
my name wrong when he gets mad about it. Hi,
I'm Patrick Gutfield, and Rolling Stone reports on what might
(00:25):
be the most uncomfortable topic in politics right now, President
Trump's increasingly frequent senior moments. And when I say uncomfortable,
I mean the kind of uncomfortable where everyone in the
room is pretending not to notice that Grandpa just called
the mailman. President Roosevelt. Trump is now the oldest man
to assume the presidency in United States history, the same
(00:47):
Trump who spent months attacking Joe Biden for being too
old and cognitively declining, which creates this awkward situation where
Trump is now older than the guy he said was
too old to be president. That's like complaining that your
neighbor's music is too loud and then turning your own
stereo up to eleven. Rolling Stone has compiled a Greatest
Hits collection of Trump's recent gaps, and honestly, it reads
(01:11):
like a medical textbook. Chapter on warning signs your relatives
should maybe stop driving. First up, Trump told a completely
false story about his uncle teaching the un obamber at
a Pennsylvania energy summit. Trump claimed that Ted Kazinski, you know,
the guy who mailed bombs to people, was one of
his uncle John Trump's students at mit. Trump even claimed
(01:31):
he asked his uncle about Kazinsky, saying what kind of
student was he? Uncle John. Here's the problem. Literally, none
of that happened. Kazinski never went to MIT. He went
to Harvard in the University of Michigan. John Trump died
in nineteen eighty five, more than a decade before anyone
knew who the un obamber was. So Trump is having
(01:52):
conversations with his dead uncle about a terrorist who wasn't
identified until after said uncle died. That's not political story telling.
That's the setup for a really weird seance. Then there's
Trump's confusion about Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell. Trump has
been complaining about Powell, saying he was surprised he was
appointed and that Biden put him in and extended him.
(02:15):
Plot twist, Trump appointed Powell in the first place. Trump
is literally surprised that Trump appointed Powell. That's like being
shocked to discover you're wearing your own shoes. At this point,
Trump is so reflexively blaming Biden for everything that he's
erasing his own decisions from memory. Trump also recently dumped
on his own trade deal. During his tariff discussions, He
(02:37):
criticized past North American trade agreements, apparently forgetting that he
negotiated and signed the United States Mexico Canada agreement himself.
He's basically reviewing his own work and giving it one star.
Who would ever sign a thing like this? He asked,
You did, sir, You literally held a signing ceremony. But
my personal favorite is when Trump called the Japanese Prime
(02:58):
Minister mister Japan during a Fox News interview about tariff deals.
Trump said, Dear mister Japan, here's the story. You're going
to pay a twenty five percent tariff on your cars,
Mister Japan. That's not diplomacy. That's like addressing a letter
to mister Europe or Miss Africa. Mister Japan sounds like
he's one of the guys in the Justice Gang from
(03:19):
the New Superman movie. Don't worry, Green Lantern, Mister Japan's
got this the Prime Minister's name is Shigaro Ishiba, but
apparently Trump's brain filed that under too complicated, just use
the country name. The Japanese government, to their credit, figured
out they were mister Japan and managed to strike a
deal anyway, which shows remarkable diplomatic flexibility when your negotiating
(03:43):
partner apparently thinks your name is your entire nation. During
a press conference at a Florida detention center, which Trump
built in the Everglades because apparently regular prisons weren't dystopian enough,
a reporter asked how long detainees would be held before deportation.
Trump's response a rambling speech about how much he loves
(04:03):
Florida and how he has a very nice little place,
nice little cottage in Palm Beach. Nice little cottage. He's
talking about mar A Lago, which is about as much
of a cottage as the Pentagon is a tool shed.
But sure it's a cottage if cottages typically have ballrooms
and require their own zip codes. The reporter asked about
detention timelines and got a real estate review instead. That's
(04:27):
like asking someone for directions and getting their life story
about why they moved to the neighborhood. But the crown
jewel of this collection is Trump's West Point commencement speech,
where he advised military graduates not to marry trophy wives.
At a military academy, Trump went on this bizarre tangent
about developer William Levitt, rambling about how Levitt's second marriage
(04:49):
to a trophy wife didn't work out too well. A
lot of trophy wives. It doesn't work out, but it
made him happy for a little while at least, Trump
told future army officers, because nothing says military leadership like
unsolicited marriage advice from someone who's been married three times,
he continued, he sold his little boat. You got a
(05:10):
big yacht. He had one of the biggest yachts anywhere
in the world. He moved for time to Monte Carlo,
and he led a good life. That's not a commencement speech.
That's a fever dream about rich people's relationship problems. These
cadets are expecting to hear about duty, honor, and country,
and instead they're getting marital advice and yacht reviews. Trump
gave the same speech at the University of Alabama, discussing
(05:33):
Levitt's marital disappointments and advising graduates about something he calls
momentum time, which sounds like either a self help concept
he invented or a physics term he doesn't understand. The
thing is, during the twenty twenty four election cycle, we
had months of debate about Biden's age and cognitive decline.
Biden had to drop out of the race because of
(05:54):
concerns about his mental fitness. But somehow, when Trump has
equally bizarre moments, it gets written off as Trump being Trump.
But there's a difference between being eccentric and forgetting that
you appointed the guy you're complaining about. There's a difference
between being unconventional and thinking Japan's leader is named mister Japan.
(06:15):
Rolling Stone points out that Trump is not today the
same man who first assumed office in twenty seventeen. He
has new health issues, less self control, stronger authoritarian impulses,
and visibly looser skin. Visibly looser skin. That's the kind
of observation that's both medically accurate and deeply uncomfortable to contemplate.
(06:36):
The most telling line in the rolling Stone piece might
be the conclusion, Unfortunately, for both the young and the elderly,
taking one's own advice can often be the hardest lesson
to learn, because Trump spent so much time insisting that
cognitive decline was disqualifying for the presidency, and now we're
watching him call foreign leaders by their country names and
(06:57):
have imaginary conversations with dead relatives about tear arrists. The
real question is if this was anyone else, would we
be having a very different conversation about fitness for office?
Or are we so used to Trump being Trump that
we've stopped noticing when Trump stops being Trump. When wrestling
legend Hulk Hogan died Thursday of cardiac arrest, there was
(07:20):
another unexpected casualty. The future of Hooters might be hanging
in the balance. Before his death, Hogan's Real American Beer
brand had launched a bid to acquire Hooters, which filed
for bankruptcy in June after abruptly closing dozens of locations.
So now we are in the bizarre situation where the
fate of a restaurant chain known for wings and orange
(07:42):
shorts might depend on what happens to a beer company
named after a wrestling catchphrase. Real American Beer had initially
bid just for hooters intellectual property, but then expanded their
offer to acquire all of Hooters of America, including over
four hundred locations worldwide locations. That's a lot of places
(08:02):
serving buffalo wings under the guidance of someone who used
to drop leg drops on people for a living. When
Hooters filed for bankruptcy, management insisted the company wasn't going
anywhere and would be well positioned to continue our iconic
legacy under a pure franchise business model, which is corporate
speak for we're broke, but we're optimistic about it. Real
(08:24):
American Beer was competing against a proposal led by Hooters, Inc.
So basically it was Hulk Hogan's beer company versus the
people who actually know how to run Hooters. That's like
having a cage match between someone who understands restaurants and
someone whose main qualification is that he once body slammed
Andre the Giant. Real American Beer had big plans for Hooters,
(08:45):
saying their bid was about rebuilding Hooters from the ground
up with a fresh operational model, new revenue streams, and
a cultural strategy designed to re engage diners in their
twenties and thirties. It shows you don't understand Hooters if
you think our eyes are focused on the ground, and honestly,
if Real American Beer does successfully acquire Hooters, I'm expecting
(09:08):
the new menu to include something called the leg Drop
Wings and a dessert named what You're Gonna Do When
these ice cream Sundays run wild on you. Portions of
today's show were made with the help of AI and
Nice Hooters.
Callaroga Shark media from Washington, d C. Where Trump's so
vain he probably thinks this joke is about him. This
is valid, that's right. But the best part of this
first story is that there's a decent chance Trump gets
my name wrong when he gets mad about it. Hi,
I'm Patrick Gutfield, and Rolling Stone reports on what might
(00:25):
be the most uncomfortable topic in politics right now, President
Trump's increasingly frequent senior moments. And when I say uncomfortable,
I mean the kind of uncomfortable where everyone in the
room is pretending not to notice that Grandpa just called
the mailman. President Roosevelt. Trump is now the oldest man
to assume the presidency in United States history, the same
(00:47):
Trump who spent months attacking Joe Biden for being too
old and cognitively declining, which creates this awkward situation where
Trump is now older than the guy he said was
too old to be president. That's like complaining that your
neighbor's music is too loud and then turning your own
stereo up to eleven. Rolling Stone has compiled a Greatest
Hits collection of Trump's recent gaps, and honestly, it reads
(01:11):
like a medical textbook. Chapter on warning signs your relatives
should maybe stop driving. First up, Trump told a completely
false story about his uncle teaching the un obamber at
a Pennsylvania energy summit. Trump claimed that Ted Kazinski, you know,
the guy who mailed bombs to people, was one of
his uncle John Trump's students at mit. Trump even claimed
(01:31):
he asked his uncle about Kazinsky, saying what kind of
student was he? Uncle John. Here's the problem. Literally, none
of that happened. Kazinski never went to MIT. He went
to Harvard in the University of Michigan. John Trump died
in nineteen eighty five, more than a decade before anyone
knew who the un obamber was. So Trump is having
(01:52):
conversations with his dead uncle about a terrorist who wasn't
identified until after said uncle died. That's not political story telling.
That's the setup for a really weird seance. Then there's
Trump's confusion about Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell. Trump has
been complaining about Powell, saying he was surprised he was
appointed and that Biden put him in and extended him.
(02:15):
Plot twist, Trump appointed Powell in the first place. Trump
is literally surprised that Trump appointed Powell. That's like being
shocked to discover you're wearing your own shoes. At this point,
Trump is so reflexively blaming Biden for everything that he's
erasing his own decisions from memory. Trump also recently dumped
on his own trade deal. During his tariff discussions, He
(02:37):
criticized past North American trade agreements, apparently forgetting that he
negotiated and signed the United States Mexico Canada agreement himself.
He's basically reviewing his own work and giving it one star.
Who would ever sign a thing like this? He asked,
You did, sir, You literally held a signing ceremony. But
my personal favorite is when Trump called the Japanese Prime
(02:58):
Minister mister Japan during a Fox News interview about tariff deals.
Trump said, Dear mister Japan, here's the story. You're going
to pay a twenty five percent tariff on your cars,
Mister Japan. That's not diplomacy. That's like addressing a letter
to mister Europe or Miss Africa. Mister Japan sounds like
he's one of the guys in the Justice Gang from
(03:19):
the New Superman movie. Don't worry, Green Lantern, Mister Japan's
got this the Prime Minister's name is Shigaro Ishiba, but
apparently Trump's brain filed that under too complicated, just use
the country name. The Japanese government, to their credit, figured
out they were mister Japan and managed to strike a
deal anyway, which shows remarkable diplomatic flexibility when your negotiating
(03:43):
partner apparently thinks your name is your entire nation. During
a press conference at a Florida detention center, which Trump
built in the Everglades because apparently regular prisons weren't dystopian enough,
a reporter asked how long detainees would be held before deportation.
Trump's response a rambling speech about how much he loves
(04:03):
Florida and how he has a very nice little place,
nice little cottage in Palm Beach. Nice little cottage. He's
talking about mar A Lago, which is about as much
of a cottage as the Pentagon is a tool shed.
But sure it's a cottage if cottages typically have ballrooms
and require their own zip codes. The reporter asked about
detention timelines and got a real estate review instead. That's
(04:27):
like asking someone for directions and getting their life story
about why they moved to the neighborhood. But the crown
jewel of this collection is Trump's West Point commencement speech,
where he advised military graduates not to marry trophy wives.
At a military academy, Trump went on this bizarre tangent
about developer William Levitt, rambling about how Levitt's second marriage
(04:49):
to a trophy wife didn't work out too well. A
lot of trophy wives. It doesn't work out, but it
made him happy for a little while at least, Trump
told future army officers, because nothing says military leadership like
unsolicited marriage advice from someone who's been married three times,
he continued, he sold his little boat. You got a
(05:10):
big yacht. He had one of the biggest yachts anywhere
in the world. He moved for time to Monte Carlo,
and he led a good life. That's not a commencement speech.
That's a fever dream about rich people's relationship problems. These
cadets are expecting to hear about duty, honor, and country,
and instead they're getting marital advice and yacht reviews. Trump
gave the same speech at the University of Alabama, discussing
(05:33):
Levitt's marital disappointments and advising graduates about something he calls
momentum time, which sounds like either a self help concept
he invented or a physics term he doesn't understand. The
thing is, during the twenty twenty four election cycle, we
had months of debate about Biden's age and cognitive decline.
Biden had to drop out of the race because of
(05:54):
concerns about his mental fitness. But somehow, when Trump has
equally bizarre moments, it gets written off as Trump being Trump.
But there's a difference between being eccentric and forgetting that
you appointed the guy you're complaining about. There's a difference
between being unconventional and thinking Japan's leader is named mister Japan.
(06:15):
Rolling Stone points out that Trump is not today the
same man who first assumed office in twenty seventeen. He
has new health issues, less self control, stronger authoritarian impulses,
and visibly looser skin. Visibly looser skin. That's the kind
of observation that's both medically accurate and deeply uncomfortable to contemplate.
(06:36):
The most telling line in the rolling Stone piece might
be the conclusion, Unfortunately, for both the young and the elderly,
taking one's own advice can often be the hardest lesson
to learn, because Trump spent so much time insisting that
cognitive decline was disqualifying for the presidency, and now we're
watching him call foreign leaders by their country names and
(06:57):
have imaginary conversations with dead relatives about tear arrists. The
real question is if this was anyone else, would we
be having a very different conversation about fitness for office?
Or are we so used to Trump being Trump that
we've stopped noticing when Trump stops being Trump. When wrestling
legend Hulk Hogan died Thursday of cardiac arrest, there was
(07:20):
another unexpected casualty. The future of Hooters might be hanging
in the balance. Before his death, Hogan's Real American Beer
brand had launched a bid to acquire Hooters, which filed
for bankruptcy in June after abruptly closing dozens of locations.
So now we are in the bizarre situation where the
fate of a restaurant chain known for wings and orange
(07:42):
shorts might depend on what happens to a beer company
named after a wrestling catchphrase. Real American Beer had initially
bid just for hooters intellectual property, but then expanded their
offer to acquire all of Hooters of America, including over
four hundred locations worldwide locations. That's a lot of places
(08:02):
serving buffalo wings under the guidance of someone who used
to drop leg drops on people for a living. When
Hooters filed for bankruptcy, management insisted the company wasn't going
anywhere and would be well positioned to continue our iconic
legacy under a pure franchise business model, which is corporate
speak for we're broke, but we're optimistic about it. Real
(08:24):
American Beer was competing against a proposal led by Hooters, Inc.
So basically it was Hulk Hogan's beer company versus the
people who actually know how to run Hooters. That's like
having a cage match between someone who understands restaurants and
someone whose main qualification is that he once body slammed
Andre the Giant. Real American Beer had big plans for Hooters,
(08:45):
saying their bid was about rebuilding Hooters from the ground
up with a fresh operational model, new revenue streams, and
a cultural strategy designed to re engage diners in their
twenties and thirties. It shows you don't understand Hooters if
you think our eyes are focused on the ground, and honestly,
if Real American Beer does successfully acquire Hooters, I'm expecting
(09:08):
the new menu to include something called the leg Drop
Wings and a dessert named what You're Gonna Do When
these ice cream Sundays run wild on you. Portions of
today's show were made with the help of AI and
Nice Hooters.
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