Oct. 21, 2025

J.D. Vance Defends Racist Group Chat, Trump Plans Arch de Trump, and Even Joe Rogan’s Out

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Vice President J.D. Vance brushes off a vile GOP group chat as “boys being boys,” Trump pitches a $250M White House makeover complete with a giant golden arch, and Joe Rogan suddenly notices Trump’s immigration policies are… intense. Patrick Gutfield breaks it all down, from political tone-deafness to literal architectural ego. Plus: Korean scientists invent a new kind of ice. No, seriously. It’s called Ice-21 and it’s wild.

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Caalaroga shark media.

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From Washington, DC, where what we don't need is a

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giant arch. This is vallot and Trump is starting to

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lose Joe Rogan. It's like LBJ losing Cronkite but stupid.

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I'm Patrick Gutfield, and Vice President JD. Vance is out

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there defending racist group chats like he's auditioning for most

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tone deaf politician of the year. Picture this a bunch

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of young Republican kids and buy kids, I mean professionals

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in their late twenties and early thirties decide to turn

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a group chat into a masterclass of offensive comedy. We're

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talking jokes so bad they'd make a comedy club bouncer cringe.

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Vance's defense, boys will be boys, except these aren't boys

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trading awkward high school jokes. These are grown adults with

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government jobs, dropping slurs like they're collecting frequent offender miles.

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The chat was the greatest hits offense of content, racial stereotypes,

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gay slurs, jokes about gas chambers and slavery. It's like

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they took a seminar on how to destroy your career

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in one group chat and aced it with flying colors

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who were these comedic geniuses, a state senator, a chief

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of staff, government officials.

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These aren't random internet trolls. These are people who are

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supposed to be representing constituents. Do we think some sort

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of racist, misogynist idiot is who we want in charge?

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Vance wants us to believe this is just a harmless mistake. Sorry, buddy,

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but seven months of documented nonsense isn't a mistake. It's

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a lifestyle choice. President Donald Trump is turning the White

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House into his personal real estate fever dream, a massive

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renovation project that's less presidential upgrade and more dictator's interior

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design fantasy, Trump's latest obsession and arc to Trump because

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subtlety is for losers. At a billionaire dinner in the

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White House, Trump unveiled his grand plans where it's talking.

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A two hundred and fifty million dollar ballroom with bulletproof

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glass walls, a massive architectural monument near the Arlington Memorial Bridge,

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a gilded oval office, and a paved over rose garden.

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He even created a Presidential Walk of Fame with gold

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framed photos of past presidents, conveniently leaving out President Biden.

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The arch comes in three sizes, each topped with a

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gold Lady Liberty. Trump proudly showed off the models, declaring

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he likes the large one because of course he does.

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Tech giants and defense contractors are footing the bill. Amazon, Apple, Google,

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basically every company you've raged tweeted about are funding this

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presidential makeover. The ballroom can host one thousand people and

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includes twenty two million dollars from a YouTube settlement. Trump's justification,

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real estate is relaxing, he told the room. For the

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rest of us, it's like watching a reality show where

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the star is both the producer and the only contestant.

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His renovations read like a mix between a casino makeover

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and a third world dictator's weekend project. The White House

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is no longer just a symbol of democracy. It's Trump's

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personal monument to himself. Joe Rogan is suddenly shocked by

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Donald Trump's immigration policies. Shocked as if Trump didn't spend

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the entire twenty twenty four campaign promising exactly this. I

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thought they were just going after criminals, Rogan said, which

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is basically like saying you invited a wolf to dinner

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and are shocked when it starts eating sheep. Trump's immigration

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crackdown has been so intense that even his own supporters

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are starting to do a double take. Polls show a

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fascinating psychological dance where Americans are slowly realizing, wait, he's

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actually doing all that crazy stuff he said he would.

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Fifty two percent of Americans claimed Trump is doing what

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he promised. In February, seventy percent thought he was staying

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true to campaign promises. Now it's down to fifty two percent.

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Even more wild, one in five Republicans and fifty three

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percent of independence are looking around, going, this isn't quite

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what we signed up for. It's like ordering a hamburger

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and getting an entire cow delivered to your living room.

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But there's good news about ice. No, not those guys.

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Actual frozen water researchers have officially gone full mad scientist

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on water molecules. Imagine being h two oh and suddenly

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getting squeezed so hard you transform into a brand new

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type of ice. Welcome to ice twenty one, the molecular

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equivalent of being told to sit down, shut up, and

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completely change your entire molecular structure. Korean scientists basically waterboarded

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water into submission using diamond anvil cells that sound more

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like Batman's torture devices than scientific equipment. They cranked up

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the pressure to two gigapascals, which is scientific speak for

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we're going to make water doo things water does not

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want to do. The result a new ice phase that

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forms at room temperature with molecules packed tighter than commuters

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on a rush hour subway. And why to understand icy

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moons because apparently understanding Earth wasn't complicated enough translation, We're

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doing this because we can and science is awesome. Portions

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of today's show were made with the help of H

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two O and Ai