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Here’s what we’re talking about today.
This is a quick rundown of the topics we’ll be covering on today’s show. You can hit play to listen, or read the transcript below if that’s more your style.
Transcript:
On today’s show, anger is building across the country, and the Trump White House never saw it coming. We are now seeing the first serious calls for a national strike—not a protest, not a march, really a work stoppage—and it’s coming from Chicago’s Mayor Brandon Johnson. It’s a simple idea: if Trump can’t be stopped through the courts or through Congress, maybe he could be stopped by the people who actually make the country work.
I’m also going to speak with Abigail Spanberger. She is running for governor of Virginia. This is one of the most important elections this off-year, in November.
Meanwhile, Trump is literally demolishing part of the White House—the East Wing. Part of it is being torn down to make room for his $250 million Patriot Ballroom, supposedly funded by generous donors. The administration has even told federal employees not to take pictures, which is what you always do if what you’re doing is above board, right?
And while the chaos unfolds, Red State secessionists are going to hate this next part: if any region could actually leave and thrive, it’s the Northeast. The numbers don’t lie. We’re going to look at it.
Plus, Trump’s mental decline is on full display with another day of incoherent rants. His press secretary is reduced to saying “your mom did it” to a reporter, and Trump melts down over a Republican Congressman just asking a few too many questions about Jeffrey Epstein.
ProPublica has also uncovered the new secret police force of unmarked agents and unaccountable detentions—the full authoritarian checklist. All of it, on today’s show.
