Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV

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Speaker 2 Watching Donald Trump Trump put these spineless Republicans through humiliation ritual after humiliation ritual is a sight to behold. I mean, he breaks these people.
And for what?

Speaker 2 He's so utterly weak. They're afraid he's going to post on social media.
I mean, what does he have over them? I mean, oh, mean tweet, mean post alert. It's like grow up and stand up.
But they don't.

Speaker 2 I mean, here, watch this. You've got the MAGA Republican senator.

Speaker 2 I wouldn't say he he was mega but he is now the uh senate republican leader uh senator thune here he's asked about ukraine are you concerned that donald trump is calling zelinsky a dictator and trump is blaming ukraine for russia's unlawful invasion senator thune used to be viewed as like a a moderate guy more of a centrist a quote-unquote normal republican not anymore watch this word salad of a response he gives here.

Speaker 2 Play this clip.

Speaker 4 You have long supported Ukraine aid to Ukraine.

Speaker 2 Are you at all concerned about the president's rhetoric blaming Ukraine for starting the war and calling for elections in Ukraine, which is what Vladimir Putin is calling for?

Speaker 10 I think what I'm in support of is a peaceful outcome and result in Ukraine. And I think right now the administration, the president, and his team are working to achieve that.

Speaker 10 And I think right now you've got to give them some space, honestly. This is something this war has ground on now for three years.
There's been

Speaker 10 a lot of cost, a lot of death, a lot of injury associated with it. And I think it's in everybody's best interest,

Speaker 10 Ukraine, Russia, Europe, the United States, if they can bring about a peaceful conclusion to the war. And so that's what this is about right now.

Speaker 10 And I think most of us want to support their efforts as they move in that direction and hopefully to a successful outcome.

Speaker 2 You know, then you have your Republicans like your Lisa Murkowski or your Susan Collins, and they're like, I am so shocked and offended. And then they don't do anything.

Speaker 2 And then they support Trump's chaos and rampage and destruction. This is what Lisa Murkowski said after Donald Trump called President Zelensky of Ukraine a dictator.

Speaker 2 We all heard what Donald Trump said. Murkowski goes, quote, I would like to see the context because I would certainly never refer to President Zelensky as a dictator.

Speaker 2 As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski notes, the context is that Donald Trump is Putin's little bitch. That's the context, Murkowski.
What context? You want me to play it for you?

Speaker 2 I'll play you what Donald Trump said. Here, play this clip.
Easy.

Speaker 11 Pretty easy.

Speaker 11 A dictator without elections. Zelensky better move fast or he's not going to have a country left.
Got to move, got to move fast, because that war is going in the wrong direction.

Speaker 11 In the meantime, we're successfully negotiating an end to the war with Russia. Something I'll admit that only Trump is going to be able to do in the Trump administration.

Speaker 11 We're going to be able to do it. I think Putin even admitted that.

Speaker 2 You need more context than that, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins, or are you clutching your pearls? Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 Grow a spine, Republicans. What are you you doing?

Speaker 2 Here, going back to Republican Senate leader, Senator Thune, he's asked, okay, this is a good question by the reporter.

Speaker 2 You talk about saying that agriculture is the lifeblood of your state, South Dakota. Well, the budget guts billions of dollars for farmers, and Donald Trump's Doge attacks.

Speaker 2 affected a lot of jobs of farmers. Donald Trump's tariffs are going to hurt the farmers.

Speaker 6 And you're selling out your state, dude.

Speaker 2 And he's like,

Speaker 2 what are we talking about here? Here, play this clip. You're fond of saying that agriculture is the lifeblood of South Dakota.
Right.

Speaker 2 Yet your farmers already struggling are now facing additional headwinds, including contract freezes,

Speaker 2 staff firings, including inadvertent ones or accidental ones affecting bird flu responders, and also the interruption of overseas food aid that they depend on.

Speaker 2 So how does all this make sense when food prices are already through the roof and when support for downsizing the government could be on the chopping block as the damage, the damage from this purge builds up?

Speaker 10 Well, look, I think we all know

Speaker 10 that the administration, the new administration, is giving a very careful scrub to the government, to all the agencies of the government, to figure out how we can do things more efficiently and save money for the American taxpayer.

Speaker 10 It's important in doing that that you don't undermine important services. In many cases, as you point out, there are some that affect my state.

Speaker 10 There are some that affect all of my colleagues, states around the country.

Speaker 10 And we will work with the administration as they move forward to ensure that important services that have to do with health and safety, for example, are protected and preserved.

Speaker 10 But I think we all understand that this government, federal government, is

Speaker 10 long in need of the kind of scrub that is being done to figure out how we can do things better.

Speaker 10 And I think most of us support that effort and we will, with our individual states, respond to the administration if there are things that we think that need to be addressed that perhaps

Speaker 10 they're not considering as they make some of these decisions.

Speaker 10 But at the end of the day, the American people, I think, demanded in the election that we have a smaller, more limited, more efficient federal government that costs less and delivers the important services that they expect their government to deliver.

Speaker 10 Thank you.

Speaker 2 I mean, look, then you go to MAGA Republican, ultra-maga Republican Senator Tommy Tubberville. I mean,

Speaker 2 you don't expect anything from this guy. I mean, this guy is a total clown.
And here he goes, look,

Speaker 2 I just feel bad for what the American American people are about to go through. Things are going to start to get even harder for the American people.
Why are you going to make it harder?

Speaker 2 Things were going in the right direction at the end of the Biden administration. And these Republicans constantly keep talking about inflicting the hardship on us, right?

Speaker 2 Every day they're like, we need to inflict hardship. Look, we got to make sure the billionaires are doing good.

Speaker 2 We got to hurt the working-class Americans. Why? Play this clip.

Speaker 12 There's no way some of these places actually receive this money. So

Speaker 12 it's going to be interesting to watch, but again, I hate it for the American people. They've had to go through this.
But again, tough times get hard. President Trump is going to

Speaker 12 expose all this, and then after we expose it, we correct it.

Speaker 13 I think you're onto something with that. That's why I wanted you to elaborate here.

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Speaker 2 Then you have Ted Cruz go on Fox and Ted Cruz's version of events is not that Donald Trump is literally parroting Putin talking points and Donald Trump is talking about what removing troops, American troops in Baltic states and basically collapsing NATO and Donald Trump's talking about what just totally capitulating to Russia, letting Russia do anything that Russia wants.

Speaker 2 But for Ted Cruz, it's Biden's fault.

Speaker 2 You know, we all know it's Biden's fault. No, not Russia's fault for unlawfully invading Ukraine.
They go, it's Biden's fault.

Speaker 14 It was clear when President Trump campaigned throughout last year that he was campaigning, among other things, on ending the war in Ukraine.

Speaker 14 The war in Ukraine was caused by Joe Biden's weakness, his weakness as commander-in-chief.

Speaker 2 But I mean, these people are pathetic. I mean, you go to former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's statement.
He goes,

Speaker 2 he quotes Trump here, and he goes, a dictator without elections. Zelensky better move fast or he's not going to have a country left.
That was Trump's. He's quoting Trump.

Speaker 2 If you'd have told me just three months ago that these were the words of the U.S. president, I would have laughed out loud.
He goes,

Speaker 2 They're mocking us in Russia. And these spineless Republicans are like, we stand firmly with Ukraine.

Speaker 2 You don't if you're allowing Donald Trump to do this, if you're enabling Trump, then you have over here MAGA Republican Senator Tim Scott, who's literally just making up numbers at this point.

Speaker 2 He's like, $10 trillion, $2 trillion, $4 trillion, $18 trillion. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 15 And that's why Doge is so important. Whether he finds $500 billion, $8 trillion, or even aspirationally, $2 trillion,

Speaker 15 that probably multiplies to $10 trillion in private sector activity over a 10-year period of time. Those numbers are real dollars in the pockets of the American people.

Speaker 15 Thank God Almighty, we have a president who made promises on the campaign troll, and now he's keeping those promises.

Speaker 12 Okay, free. Good news for the American people.

Speaker 3 Free at last, free at last. Not quite yet, but we'll see.

Speaker 2 Thank God Almighty.

Speaker 3 Who knows where they are in six months?

Speaker 2 So wild. Then you have the Trump pick as labor secretary.

Speaker 2 Remember who that like MAGA Teamsters had, what Sean O'Brien was the guy's name, you know, who would give the thumbs up and say, Donald Trump's so great. We love Donald Trump or whatever.

Speaker 2 It'd be ridiculous. I mean, throwing the Teamsters under the bus.
Geez.

Speaker 2 But here's the labor secretary, Trump's pick, refusing to answer if any American can survive comfortably on a minimum wage that Trump supports because they refuse to support living wages.

Speaker 2 Here, play this clip.

Speaker 16 I recognize that it hasn't been changed, the minimum wage.

Speaker 17 I I guess I'm just asking you: like, do you think that's enough for a worker to live on? I'm just trying to get a sense of your vision for what the standard of life for an American worker is.

Speaker 16 Yeah, well, I mean, again, for every state, for every community, again, I mentioned Oregon. What happens in Portland doesn't happen in Grants Pass.
It certainly doesn't happen.

Speaker 17 I understand that about Oregon.

Speaker 17 I guess I would ask you, what is $7.25 an hour? That is what in an annual term? Do you know off the top of your head? Oh,

Speaker 17 it's not a math question.

Speaker 17 I'm just trying to get a sense of it. So it's about $15,000 a year.

Speaker 17 So I guess I just want to ask you, do you think that there is a state in this country where someone can live comfortably on their own for $15,000 a year?

Speaker 16 Well, I don't know if there is, but I would look to work with Congress.

Speaker 16 This is a congressional issue. I hope I can support you in telling the story of what's happening on the ground.

Speaker 17 But that's what I'm just trying to get a sense of from you

Speaker 17 is.

Speaker 17 is what your vision is.

Speaker 2 And I got to play this because in my view, this guy's basically MAGA at this point. Sean O'Brien, O'Brien, the Teamsters president.

Speaker 2 The damage this guy has done to the Teamsters rank and file, one of the greatest betrayals, I think, in labor history. It's, in my view, one of the most shameful things.
You can't see it over there.

Speaker 2 I have the Teamsters magazine. I love Teamsters.
I just can't believe that this guy's leading it. Here, Sean O'Brien goes on Fox.

Speaker 2 goes on the propaganda network and he downplays Trump's reckless firings of federal workers. Play this clip.

Speaker 13 The president came in, and he didn't come in subtle, that's for sure. And there's a lot of known him, there's a lot of controversy on that.

Speaker 13 Look, we don't want to see anybody get laid off, we don't want to see anybody losing their jobs, but he thinks he's within his right.

Speaker 13 There are court proceedings, and ultimately, the courts are going to decide whether what he's doing is lawful or not.

Speaker 13 I know that there is a lot of fat in the government he's trimming, and I don't think people are opposed to that.

Speaker 13 And look, I tell people all the time,

Speaker 13 let's take a look at the 101st day and where we're at at that point in time.

Speaker 2 All of this is taking place. Donald Trump is posting photos of himself wearing crowns, saying, long live the king on fake time magazine covers.

Speaker 2 While all of this is going on, you've got another plane crash yesterday, the ninth plane crash. Nine plane crashes.
I think four were lethal.

Speaker 2 This one was lethal, maybe five, nine plane crashes since the Trump administration started. And this one was in Arizona.

Speaker 2 But folks, you have people like this MAGA Republican from Florida, Ashley Moody, who goes, everybody, the grown-ups are back in charge. The big boys are back in charge.
Here, play this clip.

Speaker 18 So our country was looking more and more like cartel territories. Deadly drugs, gang violence, taking over full apartment complexes.
I mean, it was out of control. Well, guess what?

Speaker 18 The parents came home. The grown-ups are back.
It is time to take back control of this nation. President Trump said he would do it.
He is fulfilling that promise.

Speaker 18 And those of us that have been in law enforcement and begging for this decisive, aggressive action, it's like Christmas come early. And you know who's going to pay? The cartels.
And

Speaker 18 we're going to make sure that Americans are put first again. You know, Senator.

Speaker 2 And then over here, you have Speaker Mike Johnson, who previously said, one of my promises is we're going to have single subject legislation.

Speaker 2 And then Donald Trump said, nope, I want one big, beautiful bill. And then Mike Johnson was like, we're doing one big, beautiful bill.
I mean, again, these people.

Speaker 2 They're not a co-equal branch. They're just utterly pathetic.
You got Mike Johnson saying, this is what he said on January 9th, 2023.

Speaker 2 He goes, the House GOP instituted the most positive reform in generations.

Speaker 2 Some highlights. A truly open legislative process.
Bills must be about one single subject only. No new votes on a bill without at least 72 hours notice.

Speaker 2 And then Donald Trump, though, sends a post yesterday, February 19th, saying, the House and the Senate are doing a spectacular job.

Speaker 2 However, unlike Lindsey Graham's version in the Senate, the House resolution implements my full America First agenda. Everything, not not just part of it.
We need one big, beautiful bill.

Speaker 2 So what does Mike Johnson then say? House Republicans are working to deliver Trump's full agenda, not just a small part of it. Let's get it done.
By the way, you know what that agenda is?

Speaker 2 $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid. $250 billion in cuts to agriculture.
$350 billion cuts to education. Nothing about no tax on tips.
Nothing about no tax on Social Security.

Speaker 2 Nothing about no tax on overtime. $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the billionaires.
For the billionaires.

Speaker 2 We told you that was going to happen. It's all the Project 2025 agenda.

Speaker 2 Screwing over hardworking people.

Speaker 2 Sad to see. Sad to see.
We got to make our voices heard, America.

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