March 9, 2025

Trump, Tesla, and Turnberry Troubles

Sharp-witted commentary on Trump's vandalized Scottish golf course, the Musk vs. Rubio White House showdown, Tesla owners facing backlash, Trump's controversial Kennedy Center appointments, and Sam Bankman-Fried's prison interview with Tucker Carlson....

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Callaroga Shark Media from Washington, DC. We're in a fight

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between Elon and Marco Rubio. I guess you have to

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root for somebody. This is ballot, that's right. And Palestinian

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protests have made their way to Chexsnotes, a golf course

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in Scotland. Let's hit this. President Trump's Turnbury golf resort

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in Scotland got a little makeover this weekend, but not

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the kind you'd find on HGTV. A pro Palestinian group

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decided to redecorate with what interior designers called protest chek,

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basically splashing red paint everywhere and digging up the greens.

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You know how when you were a kid and you

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dug a hole in your backyard and your parents got mad, Well,

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imagine doing that on one of the world's top five

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golf courses. That's a different level of grounding. These activists wrote,

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Gaza is not for sale across one of the greens,

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which is interesting timing since Trump recently met with Israeli

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Prime Minister net and Yahoo and suggested the US should

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take over Gaza and redevelop it. He even shared an

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AI generated video of his vision for Gaza. Because nothing

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sells real estate, quite like computer generated imagery that doesn't exist.

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When Trump proposed neighboring nations could take in Palestinians from Gaza,

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Arab nations said no, thanks, faster than someone being offered

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gas station sushi. The Trump organization called this vandalism a

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childish criminal act. I mean, they're not wrong. It's like

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when you're thirty five years old and still drawing on walls.

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Technically art, but also technically destruction of property. What's particularly

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sad is that Turnberry hasn't hosted the Open Championship since

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Trump bought it in twenty fourteen. The course is apparently

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so exclusive it won't even let in golf tournaments anymore.

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Police Scotland is investigating the incident, which happened around four

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point forty in the morning. You know you're dedicated to

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a when you're willing to vandalize a golf course before sunrise.

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Most people aren't even willing to play golf that early.

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The Palestine Action Group said they wanted to show Trump

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his own property is not safe from acts of resistance.

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I'm no political strategists, but I'm not sure damaging a

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Scottish golf course is going to change US foreign policy.

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But hey, at least they got their Cardio in for

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the day. Elon Musk and Trump's cabinet got into a

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heated argument in the White House, and it went basically

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like watching a billionaire tech bro try to explain to

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career diplomats why they should run the State Department like

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a Twitter account. Marco Rubio was sitting there getting absolutely

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roasted by Musk, who accused him of firing nobody. Rubio

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fired back, asking if the fifteen hundred State Department officials

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who took early retirement didn't count as layoffs. Then he

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sarcastically asked if Musk wanted him to rehire everyone just

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so he could fire them again for the spectacle. That's

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like asking someone to uneat their dinner so you can

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watch them eat it. Meanwhile, Trump is just sitting there

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with his arms folded, watching this cabinet room cage match

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like it's WrestleMania. When Musk told Rubio he was good

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on TV, which in Musk speak translates to useless in

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real life, Trump finally stepped in to defend Rubio, saying

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he's doing a great job. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy jumped

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into the fray when Musk accused him of lying about

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air traffic controller layoffs. Musk demanded names of who was fired,

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and Duffy was like, there aren't any names because I

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stopped your people from firing them. Then Musk bizarrely claimed

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diversity hires were working in control towers, which honestly sounds

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like something he read on his own social media platform

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at three in the morning. Trump's solution to the air

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traffic controller debate hire people from MIT because they need

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to be geniuses, because nothing says air safety like replacing

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experience controllers with theoretical physicists who've never seen an actual airplane.

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The veterans Affair secretary tried, explaining that maybe firing thousands

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of veterans wasn't the best move politically. Trump agreed they

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should retain the smart ones and get rid of the

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bad ones. Revolutionary management strategy. There By the end, Trump

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declared that cabinet secretaries would be in charge and Musk

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would only advise. And Musk, who showed up in a

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suit instead of his usual T shirt after Trump mocked

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his appearance, didn't seem too happy about his new advisor role.

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Who knew that putting the world's richest man in charge

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of government efficiency would lead to chaos. Oh right, everyone.

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Tesla owners are experiencing a wave of backlash thanks to

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Elon Musk's public behavior. Cyber Truck owners in particular are

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finding their vehicles booed and vandalized across America. One Tesla driver,

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Steven Minnick, claims people in a Subaru gave him the

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Nazi salute. The same guy later found someone had drawn

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male anatomy on his car, which really makes you wonder

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is it the they hate or did Steven cut someone

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off in traffic. Tesla owner Jennifer Vargas told CNN she

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sold her car entirely because of the way he was

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behaving in public and the extremism that he was portraying.

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She said, I love the car, I like everything about it,

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but it was just his name being attached to it

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that became the issue. Imagine spending fifty thousand dollars on

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a car and then getting rid of it because you

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don't like who made it. That's like throwing away your iPhone.

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Because Tim Cook once said he prefers cats to dogs,

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These poor Tesla owners are driving around with the automotive

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equivalent of a Maga hat, except it costs as much

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as a college education. And the cyber truck. That thing

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looks like what would happen if a DeLorean and a

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Dumpster had a baby and raised it on a strict

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diet of right angles and stainless steel. I hear cyber

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truck owners are now disguising their vehicles as giant metal

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or agami projects just to avoid conferenceation at stop lights.

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President Trump has added two new members to the Kennedy

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Center Board, Laura Ingraham and Maria Bartiromo. Because nothing says

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high culture like two people who think interpreting dance means

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explaining what happened on Dancing with the Stars. Trump announced

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on Truth Social that they're going to make the arts

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great again, which I assume means replacing Swan Lake with

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synchronized flag waving and the entire orchestra playing nothing but

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Lee Greenwood's God Bless the USA on repeat. These Fox

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News personalities will be joining quite the artistic dream team

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that includes Second Lady Usha Vance, White House Chief of

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Staff Susie Wiles, and Attorney General Pam Bondi. It's like

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they're putting together the Avengers if the Avengers' superpowers were

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complementing Trump's hair and nodding vigorously. Trump became chairman after

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purging eighteen Democratic appointees from the board. He claimed the

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vote to make him chairman was unanimous, but CNN reports

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it wasn't. I guess when you define unanimous as everyone

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who didn't agree with me has been fired, then sure

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it was unanimous. Several artists are now boycotting the Kennedy Center,

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including Rhiannon Giddons, Whoopee Goldberg, and Hamilton producer Jeffrey Sellar.

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Trump reportedly responded, who needs Hamilton. I'll produce my own

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musical called Washington, where George Washington actually wins the election

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and serves for twenty five years. I hear their first

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gallo will feature the world premiere of Symphony Number five

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in D Major. The Art of the Deal performed entirely

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on cash registers. Well, guess who's sitting in solitary confinement.

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Sam Bankman freed the disgraced crypto King got himself thrown

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in the hole at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center after doing

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an unauthorized jailhouse interview with Tucker Carlson. I mean this

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guy steals billions of dollars, and his punishment is he

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doesn't get to talk to the other prisoners. That's like

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giving a vegetarian a time out from the steakhouse. So

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Bankman Freed is serving twenty five years for basically running

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a Ponzi scheme with hair that looks like it's running

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its own separate Ponzi scheme. During his little prison chat

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with Tucker, he made this subtle as a sledgehammer plea

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for a pardon from President Trump. The worst part of prison,

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according to Bankman Freed, he's bored, no meaningful projects. You

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know what would be a meaningful project returning all the

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money he stole? Just a thought. While chatting with Tucker,

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Bankman Freed tried to butter up the president by saying

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how great Trump would be for crypto real subtle strategy there, Hey,

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the guy who defrauded investors out of billions thinks you're

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great for financial regulation. No word yet on whether Trump

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is considering the pardon, but I hear bankman Freed is

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offering him twenty thousand bitcoin that definitely absolutely exists this

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time pinky promise. Portions of today's show were made with

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the help of ai, a cyber truck, and some bitcoin.

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What could go wrong?