Sept. 16, 2025

Trump Says “Smart People Don’t Like Me” at Golf Club Gala, Skips Charlie Kirk Vigil for golf

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Patrick Gutfield recaps Donald Trump’s eyebrow-raising weekend at Bedminster where he declared “smart people don’t like me,” skipped Charlie Kirk’s vigil for tee time, and threatened a national emergency over DC immigration enforcement. Meanwhile, Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade suggested “involuntary lethal injection” for the homeless, then issued a rare apology.

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Caalaroga Shark media from London, where we consider ourselves smart.

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This is valid. Hey, you speak for yourself. I don't

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want to go to the gulag. I think the guy

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is great. Let's hit this. I'm Patrick Gutfield and President

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Trump was at his Bedminster golf club over the weekend

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and he decided to share some thoughts with the crowd.

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Smart people don't like me, you know, and they don't

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like what we talk about. He told the gala attendees.

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The crowd chuckled, which is the polite golf club equivalent

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of nervous laughter at a family dinner. Now, this comment

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was caught on video by Republican strategist Nicole Kipperlock, and

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let's just say it traveled faster than a golf cart. Downhill.

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Texas Representative Jasmine Crockett saw the clip and basically said,

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hold up, does MAGA know what he just implied about them?

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Which is a fair question when your leader essentially says

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the smart people aren't in your corner. Trump made this

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remark while discussing Tyler Robinson, the suspect in the assassination

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of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. He was talking about how

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Robinson's parents turned him in, which apparently doesn't happen very often.

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Trump said he asked someone at the FBI about it,

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and they told him parents turning in their own kids

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is almost never a thing, which raised the question exactly

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how many casual chats about family betrayal is Trump having

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with the FBI. The whole story gets even more awkward

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when you consider Trump was praising these Utah parents as

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conservative people supposed to be very nice people for doing

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what any decent parent would do when their kid allegedly

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commits murder. That's setting the bar pretty low for conservative niceness.

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Trump skipped Charlie Kirk's religious vigil on Sunday, opting to

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spend the weekend at his Bedminster golf club instead. Trump

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was apparently busy with more pressing matters, like not having

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any public events scheduled. The vigil started at six pm,

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right around the time Trump was returning to the White House.

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Perfect timing, really, He managed to arrive just as everyone

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was leaving. It's the political equivalent of showing up to

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a party as they're doing dishes. White House Press Secretary

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Caroline Levitt had to cover for her absent boss, telling

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the crowd. I speak on behalf of the present when

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I say President Trump loved you Charlie so much, which

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is the kind of thing you say when your boss

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is golfing instead of grieving. Senator Jake Hoffman of Arizona

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tried to make Trump's absence feel less awkward by telling guests,

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we know there are two special individuals and that big,

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beautiful white house that care about Charlie Kirk, don't we

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The crowd applauded, probably because they were being polite about

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the fact that one of those special individuals was nowhere

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to be found, because one of them was golfing and

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the other was doing her usual best to be nowhere

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near her husband. Trump did promise he'll attend Kirk's funeral

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next weekend in Arizona after his state visit to the UK,

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unless the weather is nice for golf. When asked if

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Anania would join him, Trump said, I didn't ask her that,

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but a lot of people are. We're going to Europe,

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so we're going to be doing that. I haven't even

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thought of it. I've been thinking about other things. Nothing

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says heartbroken like forgetting to invite your wife to a funeral.

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Trump is having a bit of a moment with Washington

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d C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, And by moment, I mean

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he's threatening to declare a national emergency because she won't

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let his immigration officers play cops and robbers anymore. Trump

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sent National Guard troops and ICE agents to patrol DC

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back in August, which is exactly what every tourist wants

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to see when they're visiting the Lincoln Memorial, heavily armed

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federal agents asking for papers. But now Bowser has said

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the Metropolitan Police Department won't cooperate with ICE anymore, and

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Trump is not taking it well. At one in the

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morning on Monday, because all the best presidential policy decisions

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happen at one am, Trump went on truth Social to vent.

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He wrote that watching the National Guard and Mice patrol

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the Capitol had been a beautiful thing to watch, which

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is one way to describe armed federal agents wandering around

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your neighborhood. Some might call it dystopian, but Trump went

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with beautiful. Trump is claiming his intervention has made DC

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virtually crime free in just a few weeks. He says

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it went from one of the most dangerous and murder

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ridden cities in the USA and even around the world

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to one of the safest, which is why protesters got

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within ten feet of him at seafood restaurant. Trump claims

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the city is absolutely booming, with restaurants, stores, and businesses packed,

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which raises the question has the Smithsonian been experiencing a

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tourism boom thanks to military checkpoints. Well, Fox and Friends

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had quite the week, and by quite the week, I

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mean Brian Kilmead suggested we should give homeless people with

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mental illness involuntary lethal injection on live television just another

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Wednesday morning in cable news. This gem came up during

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a discussion about the murder of Ukrainian refugee Irena Zarutzka

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on a light rail train in Charlotte. Lawrence Jones was

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talking about how some homeless people don't want help and

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suggested they should be given a choice, take resources or

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go to jail. Then kill Mead chimed in with or

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involuntary lethal injection or something. Just kill them or something.

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That's the kind of casual follow up you'd use when

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suggesting pizza toppings, not state sponsored execution of vulnerable people.

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On Sunday, kill Mead offered what Fox News called a

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rare on air apology rare. Indeed, it's like spotting a unicorn,

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but the unicorn is admitting it said something horrible about

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homeless people. I am obviously aware that not all mentally

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ill homeless people act as the perpetrator did in North Carolina,

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kill Mead said, which is the kind of clarification that

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makes you wonder what he thought before. Were we operating

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under the assumption that every homeless person is a potential murderer.

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Fox News sent out kill Mead's apology is their official response,

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which is corporate speak for please don't ask us any

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follow up questions about this. Portions of today's show were

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