Aug. 5, 2025

Trump Praises Press Secretary's 'Lips' in Creepy Interview + Doritos' New 'Woke' Sriracha

Show Notes
Transcript

Patrick Gutfield covers Trump's bizarre comments about Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt's facial features during a Newsmax interview, the Senate's failed negotiations over Trump nominees after the president told Chuck Schumer to "GO TO HELL," and Doritos' attempt to create the next Cool Ranch with their new Golden Sriracha flavor targeting Gen Z. Also, release the Epstein Files.

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Callaroga Shark media from Washington, DC, where I guess you

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can harass your employees. Now this is ballad. Hey, nice lips,

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you got there, Let's hit this. I'm Patrick Gutfield and

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President Trump went on Newsmax this week to talk about

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his Press secretary, Caroline Levitt, and, in classic Trump fashion,

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he managed to make what should have been a normal

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workplace compliment sound like he was reviewing a Vegas show act.

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Trump said about his twenty seven year old press secretary,

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it's that face, it's that brain, it's those lips. The

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way they move. They move like she's a machine gun. Now.

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I've heard boss's praise employees before, but usually they stick

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to things like great work ethic or excellent communication skills.

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They don't typically break down facial features like they're giving

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commentary at Westminster Dog Show. This seventy nine year old

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president went on to say that Levitt has become a

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star and that he doesn't think anybody has ever had

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a better press secretary, which is quite a statement considering

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previous press secretaries didn't get performance reviews that sounded like

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they were auditioning for a cologne commercial. Levitt is the

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youngest press secretary in White House history, known for her

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fierce defense of Trump's presidency and her strict stance on

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calling it the Gulf of America. She recently claimed Trump

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should win the Nobel Peace Prize for his diplomacy, which

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is like nominating Gordon Ramsay for a customer service award.

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The timing of these comments is particularly interesting since Levitt

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just got married in January to real estate developer Nicholas Riccio,

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who is fifty nine years old. So now we have

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a workplace dynamic where the boss is publicly praising his

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employee's lips while she's married to someone else. That's not

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awkward at all. The Senate left town for their August

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vacation this weekend without confirming Trump's nominees, and the President

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responded with all the diplomatic grace of a toddler having

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a meltdown at target. Trump posted on Truth's Social telling

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Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer to go to Hell, which

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is definitely the kind of measured presidential response you want

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when delicate bipartisan negotiations are happening. Nothing says let's work

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together like telling the other party's leader to take a

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one way trip to the underworld. Trump has been pressuring

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Republicans for weeks to cancel their August vacation and work

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through his nominations, but apparently telling Chuck Schumer to go

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to Hell was more important than actually getting his nominees confirmed.

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Schumer said afterward, Donald Trump tried to bully us, go

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around us, threaten us, call us names, but he got nothing,

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which is a pretty accurate summary of Trump's negotiation strategy

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in general. So now everyone's going on vacation, nothing got done,

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and Trump's nominees are still waiting. But at least we

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got a presidential social media post that sounds like it

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was written by someone who just lost at Mario Kart.

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Dorito's just announced their next big flavor, and they think

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it's going to be as revolutionary as cool Ranch was

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back in nineteen eighty six. The new flavor golden Seracha,

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because apparently regular red seracha is so last year. So, ladies,

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if Trump ever ask you if you're into golden Seracha's,

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don't freak out. He's just offering to share his chips

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with you. He's cool like that. The Dorito's culinary team, yes,

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that's apparently a real job, has been constantly searching for

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trending flavors, which sounds like the most delicious research job

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in the world until you realize they probably have to

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taste test every weird flavor combination. Imaginable Johnson, How did

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the pickle ranch birthday cake chips turn out? They landed

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on sararacha because it's supposedly as popular as ketchup with

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gen Z. But here's the twist. They didn't go with

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regular red seracha. That would be too obvious. Instead, they

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chose yellow serracha, which is popular in places like Koreatown

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in Los Angeles. It's practically woke sparacha, and we're going

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to need someone to make sriaracha great again, and I

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think I know a guy. James Wade, Dorito's's senior marketing director,

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explained that red seracha has peaked in popularity. Wade described

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yellow sarracha as having layers and nuanced because apparently gen

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Z doesn't want one note high intensity and spicy flavors.

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Gen Z wants their snack foods to be complex and

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emotionally sophisticated. The best part is they're calling this a

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mega flavor, not just a new flavor, a mega flavor,

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which plays right into my jokes about us needing Trump

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chips with Mega Flavor. Portions of today's show were made

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with the help of Serracha, and Ai released the Epstein files.

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