Aug. 22, 2025

Trump Rides with the Troops, Kamala Hits the Road, and Solar Power Gets Fired

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Trump patrols the streets of D.C. with the military and celebrates “law and order” with a Shake Shack run. Meanwhile, the Vice President launches a crackdown on sunlight, banning “Solar” in all-caps, and Kamala Harris embarks on a 15-city book tour that somehow includes London. Also: the State Department decides to re-vet 55 million visa holders just in case, and no, you still haven’t heard about the Epstein Files.

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Caalaruga Shark media from Washington, DC, where the streets being

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occupied by the military seems like it should be news

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or something. This is ballid and Kamala Harris is going

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on tour. How boring is that? I'm Patrick Gutfield and

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Vice President JD. Vance In Defense Secretary Pete Hegsith made

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a little field trip to Union Station to visit National

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Guard troops while protesters outside were chanting free DC. Now,

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when your own capital city is demanding to be freed,

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that's usually not a great sign for your administration. The

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Trump team has deployed nearly two thousand National Guard troops

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to Washington, turning the nation's capital into what can only

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be described as military cosplay. There are massive military transport

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vehicles parked all over the city. I haven't seen this

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much military hardware in DC since the last Independence Day movie.

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Arrests are up twenty percent in just ten days. Twenty percent.

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That's impressive efficiency. Most government programs can't increase anything by

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twenty percent other than spending. But here's where it gets good.

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Vance and Hegsath decided to celebrate bringing law and order

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back by taking the troops to shake Shack, Yes, Shake

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shack nothing screams. Mission accomplished quite like a Hamburger photo op.

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I wonder if the guy's got Trump a black and

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white shake. I'm guessing he just wanted vanilla. Speaking of

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questionable leadership decisions, if you want to hear more about

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the military rolling tanks down DC, check out the Acting

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President podcast. Trust Me, after listening to that show, military

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occupation of burger joints will seem completely reasonable. Trump announced

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during a radio interview that he was planning to join

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police and National Guard troops on patrol in Washington last night. Yes,

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the seventy eight year old commander in chief wanted to

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go on a ride along. I wanted to go to

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bed and not stay up until midnight to finish the podcast,

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Trump told conservative radio host Todd Starns, I'm going to

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be going out tonight, I think, with the police and

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with the military. Of course, we're going to do a job. Now.

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While this is fun and all, please remember it got

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you to stop asking about the Epstein files. Just like

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every other ridiculous story. Trump took to truth Social this

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week to announce we will not approve wind or farmer

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destroying solar and yes he did capitalize solar like it's

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a proper noun. Maybe he thinks solar is someone's name. Sorry, Solar,

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you're fired. Trump added that the days of stupidity are

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over in the USA with three exclamation points, which, in

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Trump's speak, means he's really really serious this time. Also,

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he doesn't seem to understand what the word over means.

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This new policy actually means the days of stupidity are

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just beginning in the USA. Four exclamation points. Now here's

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the irony. Trump is blaming renewables for rising electricity prices,

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even though we're facing an electricity shortage. If only we

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had the sun or a strong breeze to make some energy.

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According to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and these are

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actual scientists, not truth social scientists, solar and battery storage

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are literally the fastest way to fix the supply problem.

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They make up the overwhelming majority of projects waiting to

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connect to the grid. So Trump's solution to an electricity

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shortage is to ban the thing that could solve the

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electricity shortage the fastest. That's like responding to a house

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fire by banning water. Also, declaring war on solar is

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a good way to distract you from asking that someone

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released the Epstein files. The State Department announced Thursday that

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they're reviewing the records of more than fifty five million

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foreigners who hold valid US visas. Fifty five million. That's

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like reviewing the entire population of South Korea, except they're

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all here legally and we're second guessing ourselves. They're calling

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it continuous vetting, which sounds like what happens when you

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can't decide what to watch on Netflix, except with much

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higher stakes and less stranger things. The Department is looking

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for what they call indicators of ineligibility visa overstays, criminal activity,

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threats to public safety, your name being in the Epstein files,

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or any involvement with terrorist organizations. You know, the usual

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red flags that probably should have been caught the first

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time around. They're reviewing everything social media accounts, law enforcement

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records from home countries, the Epstein files, and any violations

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committed while in the United States. Former Vice President Kamala

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Harris announced the fifteen city book tour for her memoir

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One hundred and seven Days, which sounds less like a

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presidential campaign and more like a very specific prison sentence.

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The only tour that would be less interesting is if

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Train decided to do a Greatest Hits tour. The publisher

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says Harris will share what she saw, what she learned,

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and what it will take to move forward. What she

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saw was defeat. What she learned was losing. What it

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will take to move forward is apparently a book tour.

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Harris is making stops everywhere, from New York to Toronto

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to London, Yes, London. Maybe she's testing the waters for

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a different kind of campaign. She's such a bad candidate

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she'd probably lose to Prince Andrew in an election to

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replace King Charles. Sources close to Harris say she's keeping

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her options open for a twenty twenty eight presidential run,

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which is like how I keep my options open to date,

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gal Gado. Portions of today's show were made with the

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help of AI and a candidate so bad she lost

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to a convicted felon. Release the Epstein files, you coward.