July 23, 2025

Trump's Snake Videos & Hunter's War Threats

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Patrick Gutfield breaks down the weekend's wildest political moments: Trump posting cobra-catching videos to distract from Epstein file pressure, Hunter Biden threatening to invade El Salvador on a podcast, and why the President's social media strategy resembles your aunt's Facebook feed. Plus, how a house cat apparently has better presidential prospects than Hunter Biden.

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Callaroga shark media from Washington, d C. Where released the

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Epstein files. This is ballot another day, another no Epstein files.

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Let's hit this. President Trump had quite the weekend on

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social media. And by quite the weekend, I mean he

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posted everything except what people actually want to see those

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Epstein files. So here's what happened. After weeks of being

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hounded about not releasing the Jeffrey Epstein documents, Trump decided

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the best strategy was to post about literally anything else.

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And when I say anything, I mean anything. He went

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after Senator Adam shiff which, let's be honest, is like

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a Tuesday for him. He attacked Samantha Power, the former

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USAID administrator. He posted that fake AI video we talked

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about earlier showing Barack Obama getting arrested, plus a fake

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photo of Obama and his administration in prison uniform. He

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threatened to derail a deal for a new Washington Commander's

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stadium unless they change their name back to the Redskins.

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And then, and this is my personal favorite, he posted

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a compilation video of twenty five wacky and incredible stunts,

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including a fake video of a woman catching a cobra

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midstrike with her bare hands. That's right. The President of

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the United States spent his Sunday sharing snake videos like

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He's your Aunt on Facebook. Trump also celebrated the six

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month anniversary of his second term by writing, one year

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ago our country was dead with almost no hope of revival. Today,

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the USA is the hottest and most respected country anywhere

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in the world. Happy anniversary. But here's the thing about

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distraction tactics. They only work if people actually get distracted,

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and it doesn't appear to be working. Trump was friendly

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with Jeffrey Epstein for nearly fifteen years. Trump's strategy is basically,

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you want transparency. Here's a video of someone catching a snake.

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That's like being asked about your taxes and responding with

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a magic trick. Well, Hunter Biden just gave a three

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hour podcast interview, and apparently someone forgot to tell him

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that when you're no longer the first son, you probably

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shouldn't threaten to invade foreign countries. So here's what happened.

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Hunter sat down with Channel five podcaster Andrew Callahan for

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what can only be described as an expletive leaden therapy

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session disguised as an interview, and when the topic turned

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to Trump's immigration policies, Hunter went completely off the rails.

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Hunter started by giving a history lesson about reconstruction and

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the ku Klux Klan, specifically an eighteen seventy three incident

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in Colfax, Louisiana, where former Confederate militiamen converged on a

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courthouse with a cannon. He then connected that to Trump's

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immigration policies, saying America gets stuck in a permanent Jim

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Crow loop. But here's where it gets really wild. Hunter

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said Trump is sending mask men to take immigrants and

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put them on planes, put them on buses, put them

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on trains, and send them to a prison camp in

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a foreign country. Then he asked them what am I

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describing right then? Am I describing Germany? Or am I

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just describing the United States right now? Hunter then called

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El Salvador's prison system a concentration camp and referred to

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both Trump and Salvadoran president Naib Bukele as thugs. But wait,

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there's more. Hunter said, if he were president, he would

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call President Bukeley and tell him you either send them

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back to the US or I'm going to invade. That's right, Hunter,

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Biden just threatened to invade El Salvador on a podcast

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that's like threatening to start World War three. During a

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zoom call, Hunter also took shots at former Obama advisors,

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including the pod Save America hosts plus David Axelrod and

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Ram Emmanuel. He defended his father by saying Joe Biden

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got eighty one million votes not by appeasing white voters,

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but by challenge them, adding that his dad had empathy

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for transgender people and immigrants even as an eighty one

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year old Catholic from Scranton. The White House responded through

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spokesperson Abigail Jackson, who sett a lill. Luckily for the

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American people, a house cat has a better chance of

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being president than Hunter, which is probably the most diplomatic

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way to say, please ignore everything. This man just said. Well, well, well,

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just when you thought twenty twenty five couldn't get any weirder,

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a coyote and a black bear who've apparently decided to

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become roommates. So here's the setup. The Eton fire back

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in January basically turned parts of Altadena into a post

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apocalyptic wasteland, and now wandering through this burned out neighborhood,

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we have what can only be described as nature's oddest couple.

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A coyote and a bear just hanging out together like

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their old college friends who decided to go dumpster diving.

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The whole things started when La County Sheriff's deputies responded

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to a bear call and found these two just casually

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strolling around together. Deputy Andrew Garza said, they were kind

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of just walking and hanging out together, which was really interesting,

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which is cop speak for I have no idea what

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I'm looking at, but I'm filming it. Then a local

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resident named Raymie Rosenduft caught them on her doorbell camera,

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and now we have footage of these two animals sharing

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a garbage can like they're splitting an appetizer at Applebee's. Now,

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before you start planning the Disney movie, wildlife experts are

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here to crush your dreams. Steve Searles, who's apparently known

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as the bear Whisperer, which is either the coolest job

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title ever or the most dangerous, says this isn't exactly

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a friendship. He explains that coyotes have been known to

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follow bears around because bears are basically nature's most inefficient

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garbage disposals. Here's how it works. The bear knocks over

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a trash can, licks out a peanut butter jar, and

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leaves behind perfectly good chicken bones. The coyote swoops in like,

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don't mind if I do. It's not friendship. It's the

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Animal Kingdom's version of following someone to Costco because they

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have a membership. Searles also drops this fascinating detail. Black

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bears are one of the laziest animals on the planet.

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They just want to walk around on your lawn eating

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grass or daisies. I'm surprised that they don't use AI

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to write the jokes.