Feb. 6, 2025

Trump Takes Media to New Heights: From 60 Minutes Meltdown to White House Disco Dreams | Patrick Gutfield on JD Vance's Medieval Tweet Storm

Patrick Gutfield rips into Trump's wild week of media attacks, from demanding CBS shut down over edited footage to his plans for a one hundred million dollar White House disco ballroom. Plus: His Press Secretary invents the "grocery pump," and VP JD...

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Caalaroga shark media from New Orleans, where the only thing

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more inflated than these super Bowl ticket prices is Jason

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Kelcey after three bowls of jambalaya. This is ballot, that's right,

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and we're on radio row at the super Bowl for

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some reason. Let's hit this. Trump's really taking his media

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criticism to New Heights. See what I did there. He's

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demanding CBS get shut down because sixty minutes edited an interview,

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which is basically saying, how dare you take out the

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parts where she's drinking water? And saying this man watched

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an edited TV interview and decided it was and these

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are his words, perhaps the biggest scandal in history, Bigger

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than Watergate, bigger than that time I ordered a twelve

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piece McNugget and only got eleven. He's also pushing this

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wild theory that the government is secretly paying media outlets

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for positive coverage. According to Trump, Politico got eight million

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dollars from USAID, but it turns out that money was

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just from government agencies subscribing to political pro which is

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like getting mad that the DMV has a New York

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Times subscription. And you know what's really something. His Press

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Secretary Caroline Levitt is now threatening to cancel all these subscriptions.

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That's right. The White House's solution to fake news is

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to make sure government employees have less access to information. Next,

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they'll fight inflation by breaking all the thermometers. The best

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part Trump called this election interference because they edited an

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interview for Time by that logic. Every time I fast

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forward through a commercial, I'm committing a federal crime. Lock

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me up. I skipped through three pharmaceutical ads just this morning.

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Trump wants to add a one hundred million dollar ballroom

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to the White House because nothing says fiscal responsibility like

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turning the executive mansion into Studio fifty four. According to Trump,

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he's been trying to pitch this idea since Obama was

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in office. He's like that friend who keeps the jesting

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everyone should go skydiving, and nobody ever responds to the

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group text. He says he offered this to Biden too,

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but shockingly, installing a mar A Lago style dance floor

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wasn't high on the administration's to do list. Now, Trump

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says he'll pay for it himself, one hundred million dollars

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for what would be the biggest White House renovation since

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Truman basically gutted the place back in nineteen forty eight.

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That renovation was because the building was literally falling apart,

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not because it needed more disco balls. His reasoning, well,

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apparently he's tired of seeing tents go up when Chinese

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diplomats visit. I mean, who hasn't looked at a formal

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diplomatic meeting and thought, you know what, this needs more glitter?

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And just to put this in perspective, he's announcing this

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grand ballroom plan right as his efficiency team is cutting

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federal budgets left and right. It's sort of like telling

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your roommates you're installing a hot tub right after explaining

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why everyone needs to start buying generic toilet paper. Trump

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claims he's good at building party room, pointing to his

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ballroom at mar A Lago as proof, which I guess

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makes sense if your idea of presidential decor is Las

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Vegas Casino meets Versai. Vice President Vance is citing medieval

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Catholic philosophy to justify immigration policy, which is like using

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a Thomas Aquinas quote to explain why you won't let

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your neighbor bar your leafblower. The irony here is that

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Vance cherry picked this Ordo Amorus concept but left out

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the part where Aquinas literally says, hey, sometimes you actually

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need to help the stranger in extreme need before your

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own father. That's not exactly supporting the whole America First agenda.

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There he's telling people to just google Ordo Amorus like

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it's a mic drop moment. But if you actually read

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Augustine's work, he says all men are to be loved equally.

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That's about as far from Trump administration immigration policy as

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New Orleans is from medieval Rome. What's really something is

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Vance posting this on X Nothing says I respect the

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deep theological tradition of the Catholic Church, quite like explaining

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them in two hundred and eighty characters between posts about

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Hunter Biden's laptop. And you've got to love a Yale

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lawgrad telling people to just google complex medieval Catholic theology.

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That's like telling someone to understand constitutional law by watching

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Law and Order reruns. Ah the famous grocery pump where

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you fill up your grocery cart with premium unleaded milk.

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The White House had quite a moment when Press Secretary

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Caroline Leavitt created a new concept in American retail. When

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asked about prices coming down under Trump's policies, she accidentally

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combined two talking points and referred to prices at the

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grocery pump. That's right, she merged grocery stores and gas

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pumps into one magnificent verbal slip. Levitt just invented my

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favorite new phrase. I'm going to start using that. Hey, honey,

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can you stop by the grocery pump and pick up

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some gas powered bread? Now? I I know we've all

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felt like we're getting robbed at both places lately, but

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this is the first time someone's officially combined them. When

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asked for a timeline on when these prices might actually

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come down, whether at the real gas pump or this

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mythical grocery pump, Levitt couldn't give one, though in her defense,

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maybe she was just busy inventing more new places to

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spend money, like the laundromat casino or the drive through library.

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Portions of today's program were made with the help of

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the Grocery Pump AI and an expense account at Pat

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O'Brien's