“Trump CAVED To The Deep State On Defense Spending” – Ben Cohen
The Jimmy Dore Show
Jimmy Dore
4.6 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Ben Cohen, legendary co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, has long fought for progressive causes ranging from ending war to saving the environment. In this conversation with Jimmy Dore Cohen talks about seizing the opportunity of a second Donald Trump administration to cut the defense budget and redirect those precious funds to address the pressing needs of struggling Americans.
Plus segments on rapper Li’l Yachty calling out Black Lives Matter as a grifting organization and the giant highway being carved into the Brazilian rainforest to make travel easier to an upcoming climate conference.
Also featuring Mike MacRae, Kurt Metzger and Stef Zamorano. And a phone call from Chuck Schumer and Elon Musk!
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| 0:14.9 | Hey, this is Jimmy, who is this? |
| 0:17.5 | Jimmy, this is Senator Chuck Schumer of New York. |
| 0:20.1 | Hi, Chuck. How are you doing on this fine day? Jimmy, I'm Senator Chuck Schumer of New York. Hi, Chuck. How are you doing? I'm just fine day. |
| 0:23.8 | Jimmy, I'm sorry, but I have no time for chitchette. No time to waste. No time to lose. Very busy. |
| 0:29.9 | Then why did you just call into a live YouTube show? |
| 0:33.6 | That's a good question. In retrospect, a very curious decision on my part. But, oh, well, what's done is done. |
| 0:40.7 | Well, what are you so busy doing, Senator? |
| 0:44.0 | Resistance, Jimmy, resisting. |
| 0:46.3 | Jesus. Don't resist the resistance. |
| 0:50.8 | Resistance, too. Resistance 2.0 to be exact. And boy, oh And boy, oh boy, do we have our hands full? |
| 0:57.1 | Not only do we have the President Trump instituting terrorists that are crashing the economy, |
| 1:02.0 | but we also have this no good Nick, Elon Musk, running around, |
| 1:07.0 | slashing and burning government services with no authority. |
| 1:11.7 | I see it. |
| 1:14.1 | And what are you doing to resist these measures? |
| 1:16.8 | Excuse me? |
| 1:19.2 | What are you doing about it? |
| 1:22.3 | Oh, I'll tell you what we're doing about it. |
| 1:30.5 | We, unlike them, are respecting the rule of war and resisting, hence resistance, these unacceptable measures. |
| 1:36.4 | Yeah, but Congress controls all the spending, not Elon Musk. It seems to be that there would be measures that you yourself could take to at least try and stop what they're doing. Well, it's more |
| 1:43.1 | complicated than that. Then what are you doing? Jimmy, it's more complicated than that. |
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