Feb. 19, 2025

Trump's Executive Orders, Kennedy Center Protests, and Mexico Fights Back!

Patrick Gutfield analyzes recent political developments, including Trump's closure of the JFK Library, protest dancers at the Kennedy Center, Mexico's potential lawsuit against Google, and U.S.-Russia negotiations in Saudi Arabia. A satirical look at...

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Caalaruga Shark Media.

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From Washington, DC, where we had an executive order to

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finish recording the show by five point thirty.

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PM so we didn't have to pay overtime. This is

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ballot Yeah.

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Look, mister President, if you want us to make fun

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of you, you can't save the good stuff for Hannity's

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just go on the price is right or something, so

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we can get this thing done by mid afternoon.

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Let's hit this.

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I'm Patrick Gutfield and Mexico is threatening to sue Google

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over the name of the golf.

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You know what I love about this story.

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Mexico's president suggested renaming the United States to Mexican America,

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and let's talk about Google's response. Their VP wrote this

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perfectly corporate letter saying they're just following normal operating procedure.

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Oh sure, totally normal, just like how I tell both

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my girlfriends they're my favorite. Thirty four dancers showed up

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at the Kennedy Center to protest Trump becoming board chairman

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by performing an interpretive European dance from nineteen eighty two.

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That'll show him.

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Nothing strikes fear into the heart of a political opponent

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quite like synchronized seasonal movements.

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While other protesters were out there with.

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Bullhorns and signs, these brave souls were like, you know

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what will really shake things up, interpretive dance in a

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single file line.

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Take that establishment.

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I haven't seen resistance this fierce since my neighbor passive

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aggressively planted flowers spelling out, mow your lawn in my

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front yard. The security guards didn't know what to do.

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They followed the dancers around the building for thirty minutes,

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probably radioing back to headquarters. Sir, they appear to be

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pirouetting menacingly. Should we call in the backup dancers. Trump

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takes over the Kennedy Center board and these dancers respond

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with a piece about the seasons. That's like protesting high

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gas prices by doing the macarena.

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But hey, at least they got a workout.

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Nothing says speaking truth to power like getting your cardio

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in while you're at it. The Kennedy Center spokesperson was

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quick to assure everyone that no changes to dance programming

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were planned. Meanwhile, these dancers are outside doing the world's

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most elegant CONGA line of resistance, though, I have to say,

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if you're trying to convince Trump you should keep diverse programming.

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Maybe don't lead with the European avant garde piece. Just saying,

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and you know Trump's watching this from the White House, going,

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nobody protests better than me. I have the best protests.

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My protests have the highest kicks you've ever seen. Nobody

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can kick higher than my protesters. Trump isn't done messing

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around with Kennedy's aside from making RFK work for him.

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He closed the JFK Library in Boston with an executive

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order that nobody's even seen yet. This man's signing secret

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executive orders from mar A Lago like he's dropping surprise

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albums on Spotify.

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You've got to appreciate the drama here.

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He shut down a Kennedy library the same week he

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took over the Kennedy Center. Next week, he's probably going

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to try to executive order the Kennedy Space Center into

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Trump's Space hotel and golf resort. Nine employees got laid

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off at the library. Imagine that meeting. Sorry everyone, but

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effective immediately, this Presidential library is being turned into well,

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we don't know yet because the executive order is still

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probably being written. Pool side in Palm Beach the best part.

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They just put a sign on the door saying closed

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due to executive order. That's like breaking up with someone

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by changing your relationship status to its executive ordered. And

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they had to do this at two pm, not even

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letting people finish their lunch breaks. This library has been

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opened since nineteen seventy nine. Jimmy Carter was at the opening,

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and now Trump's closing it from his beach club. I

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haven't seen a presidential library get this kind of treatment since,

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well never. Presidential libraries don't usually get this kind of treatment.

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They're like post offices. They're just supposed to be there.

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And you know somewhere Robert Kennedy Junior is watching all this, like.

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See, this is exactly why I switch teams.

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So Trump's really going all in on this whole rebranding thing.

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First he renamed the Gulf of Mexico, and now he's

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trying to rebrand drug cartels as terrorist organizations. I guess

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when you can't build a wall, you just change all

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the labels. He's got the CIA flying drones over Mexico,

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very sneaky, very cool. They're not armed yet, but you

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know Trump's probably sitting there going these drones need some pizzazz,

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maybe some gold trim. Definitely my name in big letters

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on the side. Meanwhile, over in Saudi Arabia, we're having

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this fancy meeting with Russia where apparently we're just handing

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out participation trophies. Lavrov's over there strutting around like he

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just won America's next top superpower, and Trump's like, see,

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I told everyone Ukraine shouldn't join NATO, which is exactly

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what you want to hear from the guy who's supposed

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to be on our side. The best part, Russia didn't

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have to change a single thing. They're sitting there in

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this fancy palace, probably eating gold leaf dates or whatever,

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and Lavrov's basically saying, we showed up. That's our compromise.

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They're a pro Kremlin commentator even went on telegram to

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brag about how they didn't make any concessions. That's like

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bragging about not bringing a gift to a dinner party.

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And now Marco Rubio's over there talking about extraordinary opportunities,

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like he's pitching a timeshare. If you end this war now,

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you'll get a free weekend at mar A Lago and

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we'll throw in some sanctions relief between renaming bodies of water,

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shutting down Kennedy libraries, and turning drug cartels into terrorist organizations.

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Trump's really going for that total rebrand of North America vibe.

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Anyway, I think it's all great.

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Make podcasting great again, and have someone at the White

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House have every single electronic device download every episode of

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this show, which by the way, was made with the

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help of AI. So I don't really understand why we

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had to be done by five point thirty last night.