Trump: Do magnets people. We need more magnets. You'll make money.
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Trump: Affordability. Affordability. It's a fake word they came up with. I come up with words too: Dumocrats. Replace the e with a u.
Trump: The One Big Beautiful Bill tax cuts helped my friend buy a private jet
Trump: Those poor suckers buy the windmills and lose their ass
Q: Do you believe that Americans are safe right now under ICE? GOP Sen. Thune: I think they're safe if they are here legally.
Trump: I did a great job with Covid and I never got credit for it
Trump: I know Dave McCormick's wife almost as well as he does. I hope not as well.
Q: Are you concerned that the renewed war in Iran will raise inflation? Trump: Well, look, we're making a lot of money. The defense companies are doing great.
Elon Musk has donated $5 million to Vivek Ramaswamy's Ohio gubernatorial campaign. Musk has spent at least $90 million on this year's midterm elections so far.
Vivek Ramaswamy argues that Black Americans were better off in the 1960s during Jim Crow and calls affirmative action "a form of psychological slavery" that is a "cancer on our nation's soul"
Rogan: You have to be a very manly man to eat a corn dog on camera. Vance: I don't know if I could do it. Rogan: I eat 'em. They taste good.
Imprisoned pedophile R. Kelly has formally asked Trump to commute his 30-year sentence. Prior to his conviction, Kelly lived in Trump Tower Chicago.
Vance muses on Joe Biden eating ice cream: "His staff would get him to eat ice cream in just the most suggestive way possible..."
Vance, in a moment of uncharacteristic self-awareness: "Republicans still fundamentally have a cool problem. There is something more charismatic and cool about the Democrats."
Vance: I've been saying for a year and a half that I'm going to look into the UFO thing, and I haven't done it yet because I haven't had the time (He is currently participating in a three-hour podcast)
Vance: There will be some displacement in the labor market from AI, but that's not the main issue (AI is now the top reason companies give for cutting jobs, per a Challenger report)
Rev. Al Sharpton and the family of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. will lead a rally on August 28th to mark the 63rd anniversary of the historic March on Washington. Sharpton, Martin Luther King III, Andrea Waters King, and others will call on lawmakers to strengthen voting rights protections.
Vance: We're not just going to do something in Iran indefinitely. We're not just going to bomb and bomb and bomb (Trump declared that U.S. strikes on Iran will "continue until I say it’s enough")
Sen. Padilla: Do you commit to defending taxpayer money being paid out to convicted J6ers regardless of the source of funding? Trump's Attorney General Nominee Todd Blanche: We always vigorously defend our cases, but I can't speak to a particular case.
JD Vance, throwing his hands up: "If people want to say we mishandled the Epstein release, guilty. We did mishandle it."
The U.S. Mint has released $1 gold coins prominently featuring Trump's face. This comes after Trump canceled a decade-old plan to honor Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.
JD Vance admits it took longer than it should have for Trump's DOJ to release the Epstein files
JD Vance: I've looked at most of the Epstein files. I've never seen a single piece of credible evidence that Trump ever engaged in wrongdoing.
For the first time in over 10 years, zero female active-duty naval officers will be promoted to admiral this year. This comes after Pete Hegseth personally blocked the promotion of multiple women without cause.
Sen. Welch: Do you support Kash Patel's efforts to subpoena reporters to disclose their confidential sources? Acting AG Todd Blanche: I authorized it.
Acting AG Todd Blanche: I don't think Kash Patel has a drinking problem.
Joe Rogan: If you become president, you're not going to do a UFC fight at the White House, right? Vance: Uh, I don't know. *nervous laugh*
JD Vance on Joe Rogan: Epstein seemed to be connected to the elements of the Israeli deep state that were left of center. But in the U.S., he has friends across the political spectrum...
Acting AG Todd Blanche: The men and women of ICE are doing their job. And people may not like that they are doing their job, but these accusations that they are violating the first amendment or somehow committing crimes are blatantly false.
Acting AG Todd Blanche defends federal immigration agents killing Alex Pretti: "He was not protesting peacefully. He was interrupting an ICE operation."