May 8, 2025

Trump's Constitutional Questions, Papal AI, and Hollywood's Portugal Escape

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Patrick Gutfield delivers razor-sharp commentary on Trump's Meet the Press confession about the Constitution, his bizarre AI papal image controversy, and why Sopranos star Joe Pantoliano is joining celebrities fleeing to Portugal.

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Callaroga Shark Media from Washington, d C. Where the Oath

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to Protect the Constitution should have clued you in this

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is ballot. I was asked if my job as host

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of the show means I have to actually host the show,

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and honestly, I'm no longer sure. Let's hit this, Hi.

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I'm Patrick Gutfield and President Donald Trump went on Meet

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the Press with Kristen Welker, and when asked if he

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believes he needs to uphold the Constitution during his presidency,

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he responded with, and I swear this is true. I

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don't know. You know how, when you're at the DMV

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and they ask if you've read the handbook before taking

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your driver's test, most people say yeah, sure, even if

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they haven't. But our president just went with, I don't know.

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When asked about the document, he literally swore an oath

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to preserve, Protect, and defend. Trump was talking about deporting

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immigrants without court hearings when he made this constitutional shrug.

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He said, I was elected to get them the hell

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out of here, and the courts are holding me from

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doing it. When pressed on whether he still needs to

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abide by the Constitution, that's when the I don't know dropped,

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then he pivoted to I have brilliant lawyers that work

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for me. That's like telling your spouse you don't know

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if you should remain faithful, but don't worry, you've hired

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brilliant divorce attorneys. In the same interview, Trump didn't rule

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out using military force to take Greenland, but don't worry Canada.

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He said, it's highly unlikely he'd use force against you.

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That's the international relations equivalent of telling your neighbor, I

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probably won't bulldoze your house. Probably, And apparently we don't

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need Canada at all. Trump said, we don't need their cars,

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we don't need their lumber, we don't need their energy,

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we don't need anything. On the economy, Trump suggested Americans

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will just have to make do with fewer things, saying

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children don't need thirty dolls, they can have three or

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four dolls instead. I haven't seen a president this invested

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in doll rationing since Herbert Hoover's fail miss a chicken

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in every pot and exactly six dollars per household platform.

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When asked about rising prices for baby items, Trump dismissed concerns, saying,

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when you say strollers are going up. What kind of

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a thing I'm saying that gasoline is going down? Gasoline

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is thousands of times more important than a stroller. Tell

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that to any parent who's ever had to carry a

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twenty five pound child plus diaper bag for miles because

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they didn't bring a stroller. So remember, America, the Constitution

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is a Maybe, Greenland is in danger, Canada is useless

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but safeish, and your child only needs four dolls and

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zero strollers. But don't worry, gasoline is cheap. Democracy has

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never been more interesting. Remember when President Trump shared an

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ai image of himself dressed as the pope on social media.

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Now he's claiming he had nothing to do with it.

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That's right. The image appeared on both the White House

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ex account and his truth social page, but according to him,

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it just materialized out of thin air. When reporters asked

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about Catholics being upset, Trump said they can't take a joke,

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then immediately pivoted with you don't mean the Catholics, you

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mean the fake news media. The Catholics loved it. Cardinal

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Timothy Dolan of New York had a different take. When

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asked if he was offended, he used the phrase bruda figura,

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which is Italian for this is definitely going to come

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up in my next confession. And here's the kicker. Trump

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insists his wife Milania thought the image was cute and said,

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isn't that nice because nothing says respecting religious figures like

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dressing up as their recently deceased leader. Meanwhile, Vice President

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jd Vance, who converted to Catholicism as an adult, responded

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with I'm fine with people telling jokes, which is exactly

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what someone says when they're not fine, but their boss

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is the one who made the joke. Also what one

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says when they were the last person to meet Pope Francis.

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In a weird coincidence, Trump also joked last week that

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he was his number one choice for Pope because if

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there's one job where you can say whatever you want

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without consequences. Wait, never mind, he already has that job

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for the latest in what's happening with the actual papacy,

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and hey, maybe they will select Trump. We're all living

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in the simulation anyway. Follow the podcast White Smoke for

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daily updates about what's happening in Rome. White Smoke. Wherever

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you get your podcasts, Remember Joe Pantoliano you know him

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as Ralph Sipparetto from The Sopranos, the guy who met

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his end with a telephone receiver. Now, at seventy three

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years old, he's ready to pack his bags and leave

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America faster than a wise guy who just realized he's

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wearing a wire. Pantoliano was born in New Jersey, which

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explains his immunity to bad smells and why he probably

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doesn't have real id. He recently told Page six that

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he and his wife are thinking about moving to Portugal permanently.

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We really love it there, he said, adding that it's

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hard for me to think about people's bulls to heat

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while trying to work. I mean, when a guy who

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played a mobster thinks there's too much drama in America,

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that's saying something. The world is on fire. It's hard

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for me to concentrate. Pantoliano explained. You know who else

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said that every student trying to finish homework during the apocalypse.

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Pantoliano joins the exodus of celebrities fleeing Trump's America. Ellen

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DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi traded Los Angeles for the

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English countryside after Trump's reelection. Meanwhile, Rosie O'Donnell has no

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regrets about moving to Ireland, saying I knew after reading

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Project twenty twenty five that if Trump got in it

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was time for me and my non binary child to

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leave the country. You have to wonder is Portugal ready

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for a wave of American celebrities. I mean, their biggest

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export used to be Now it might be Instagram stories

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about how much better the healthcare system is over there.

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

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the Sopranos. The Constitution an American made AI