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4/4/25: Trump kicks out Elon, influencers turn on MAGA

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🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

-- On the Show:

-- In the midst of absolute economic chaos, Donald Trump's approval rating hits yet another new low

-- Within hours of a brutal loss in Wisconsin in which $25 million of Elon Musk's money failed to bring a win, Donald Trump starts telling his staff that Elon Musk will soon be leaving

-- Vice President JD Vance admits that prices will go up before they have a possibility of going down, but argues this is a good thing

-- Key influencers are turning on Donald Trump, including Joe Rogan and Dave Portnoy

-- Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert confused Roger Stone with Olive Stone in a humiliating Congressional hearing

-- Donald Trump's approval on the economy collapses, understandably

-- Alina Habba looks horrified as Donald Trump forgets the word "criminal"

-- This week's Friday Feedback

-- On the Bonus Show: Right-wing reactions to Trump's latest tariffs, and much more...

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Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, Donald Trump's approval rating has plummeted to 43%, the lowest number since he returned

0:15.1

to office.

0:16.7

And I think if we give it a week, it's going to be even lower because right now many of Trump

0:21.2

supporters still believe that he is bringing back manufacturing to the United States with these

0:26.3

disastrous blanket tariffs, that this is short-term pain for long-term gain.

0:32.7

But it's not what is happening.

0:34.4

And what is happening is that the manufacturing we have, what's left

0:38.0

of it, is going to get strangled by Donald Trump's own tariffs. As the source materials needed

0:45.6

for domestic manufacturing get more expensive, the end products being manufactured will get more

0:51.2

expensive, meaning it will be more money out of the pockets of individual

0:55.2

Americans.

0:56.2

When people start losing their jobs and new jobs don't show up to replace them, this

1:02.8

entire fantasy is going to collapse.

1:04.9

Now, according to the latest Reuters Ipsos poll, only 37% approve of Donald Trump's handling of the economy.

1:12.1

We're going to dig into Trump's economic approval more a little bit later.

1:15.9

But the point here is that Trump and the economy were supposed to be the best match.

1:21.6

His strong suit supposedly was the economy.

1:25.0

It's the whole businessman president thing. And meanwhile, more than half the

1:29.4

country says that these new tariffs on cars and car parts will personally hurt them. The public

1:37.8

is catching on slowly, but it's happening. Now, later we'll talk about the economic approval.

1:45.9

I do want to be clear about one thing.

1:53.1

None of this means that people will suddenly vote against MAGA in 2026. Many are not going to vote at all. And I think it's important to remember that the first exit from the MAGA train is not

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