Feb. 10, 2025

Trump's Super Bowl Meltdown - From Penny Pinching to Rage Quitting!

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Join Patrick Gutfield as he unpacks Trump's wild Super Bowl Sunday where the former president managed to ban pennies, start a trade war, AND storm out of the biggest game in America - all in the span of twenty-four hours! From declaring war on copper to watching his golden predictions turn to lead, we're breaking down how Trump turned America's favorite sporting event into his own personal metal crisis. Plus, find out why Melania chose to ghost the big game (spoiler alert: maybe she just didn't want to watch another L). You won't believe what happened when the Eagles crashed Trump's perfect Sunday faster than a falling penny!

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Calaruga Shark Media.

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From New Orleans, where the Chiefs showed up as hard

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as Walter Mondale did in nineteen eighty four. This is ballot,

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that's right. The game was so bad that Trump left early.

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That was twenty million dollars well spent. Let's hit this. Hey,

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Trump's got a brilliant new plan to save money. And

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it's not not flying Air Force one to attend half

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a football game.

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He's going after Chex'snoes pennies. That's right.

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The same guy who lives in a golden tower thinks

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the real financial drain on America is that copper colored

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piece of metal in your couch cushions.

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You know what's wild.

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Each penny costs three point seven cents to make. We're

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literally spending almost four cents to make one cent. That's

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like buying a hot dog for five dollars and selling

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it for a dollar, which coincidentally is exactly what Trump stakes.

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And here's the kicker.

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He announced this on truth Social while watching the Super.

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Bowl in New Orleans.

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Because nothing says I'm focused on fiscal responsibility, like dropping

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national monetary policy between touchdown passes. But you've got to

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admire his commitment to cost cutting. He saw we were

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losing eighty five point three million dollars making pennies last

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year and said enough. Although I'm pretty sure that's also

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exactly what he said to his accountant about paying taxes.

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The best part he might not even have the authority

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to do this. Congress typically handles coin specifications, so this

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could be like when your friend says, I'll pick up

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the check, but then conveniently remembers they left their wallet

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in their other pants, you know, the ones at home

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in a safe under audit. And Elon Musk is involved somehow,

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because of course he is. He's now running something called

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the Department of Government Efficiency, which honestly sounds like a

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departartment name from a high school model. Un but hey,

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maybe Trump's onto something. Canada already ditched their penny in

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twenty twelve, although to be fair, they also have universal

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health care and use the metric system, so maybe we

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shouldn't be taking all our cues from them. By the way,

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the nickel costs fourteen cents to make, but we're not

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talking about that because apparently we're doing this financial reform

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one cent at a time. It's like trying to bail

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out the Titanic with a shot glass. Trump's really going

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all in on metal this week. First he declares war

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on pennies, and now he's slapping tariffs on steel and aluminum.

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I guess when you spend four years living in a

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golden apartment, you develop some strong opinions about metallurgy.

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He made this announcement on Air Force one heading.

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To the Super Bowl, which really makes you wonder if

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he was just looking out the window at all that

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aluminum and thought, you know what would make this flight better?

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Twenty five percent more expensive planes. And get this, he

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wants reciprocal tariffs. That means if another country charges us

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one hundred and thirty percent, we charge them the same,

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which seems fair until you realize it's like responding to

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someone cutting you off in traffic by also cutting them off,

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except now everyone's stuck in a traffic jam and somehow

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paying more for cars.

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The Europeans aren't too happy about this.

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France is threatening to replicate any tariffs, which is diplomatic

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speak for I know you are, but what am I?

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Germany says a tariff conflict only has losers, which is

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pretty rich coming from a country that invented the brought

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worst stuffed pretzel. You've got to appreciate the timing, though.

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In one day, Trump managed to make pennies too expensive

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to produce and announce tariffs that will make everything else

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more expensive too. It's like he's playing economic Jenga, but

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instead of removing pieces carefully, he's just hitting the tower

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with a very expensive tariff hammer. The funniest part he's

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pausing tariffs on Canadian oil and electricity for thirty days

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because nothing says I'm tough on trade, like telling Canada, yeah,

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We're going to tax you right after we finished this

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month of Netflix and heating our homes. Well, what a

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day for Trump. First he declares war on pennies, slaps

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tariffs on medals, and then, in true New York socialite fashion,

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leaves the biggest party of the year early because his

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team was losing. It's like leaving your own casino because

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other people are winning. You know things are rough when

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you bail on the Super Bowl before it's over. The

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Eagles beat the Chiefs forty to twenty two, and Trump

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was already on Air Force one by the time the

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Eagles were doing their victory dance.

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I guess.

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When you predict the wrong winner, sometimes you just have

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to take your football and go home. And speaking of predictions,

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earlier that day, he announced new steel tariffs and killed

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the penny while watching Patrick Mahomes lose. That's what I

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call a metal breakdown. The whole Trump family was there,

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well almost. Milania was notably absent, though Trump assured us

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she joins me in sending our best wishes, which is

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exactly what I tell people when my girlfriend, who goes

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to another school can't make it to prom. The irony

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here is beautiful. He spent the day trying to save pennies,

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then watched his favorite team lose quarters and ended up

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leaving before the final two minute warning, though to be fair,

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he was probably just rushing back to Washington to figure

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out how to put tariffs on Eagles merchandise.

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And here's a fun fact.

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He's the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl,

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though I'm pretty sure he's also the first president to

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leave one early because his team was down by eighteen points.

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I haven't checked the history books on that one, but

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I'm feeling pretty confident about it. Breaking news from South Africa,

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where Donald Trump just pulled the most awkward save the

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date move in diplomatic history. He offered refugee status to

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a group of people who basically responded with new phone

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who dis so picture this. Trump signs this executive order, right,

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He's probably sitting there thinking.

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I'm about to be the hero of this story.

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Meanwhile in South Africa, the Afrikaaners are looking at their

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phones like when you get a party invitation from that

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one person you haven't spoken to since high school and

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they're all, yeah, we're going to have to pass on

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this one. The whole thing started when Trump and Elon Musk,

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who left South Africa faster than I leave a party

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when someone suggests charades, decided they needed to rescue people who,

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according to actual statistics, own seventy percent of the private

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farmland and have a poverty rate of one percent. That's

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not exactly a save our ship situation. That's more like

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trying to rescue someone from their yacht. The South African

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government responded by basically saying, have you seen our constitution?

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Which is diplomatic speak for did you even google this

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before making decisions. What's really wild here is that Trump

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cut off aid to South Africa faster than a teenager

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blocks their parents on social media, and the people he

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was trying to help were like, thanks for the attention,

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but we're good here. It's the international relations equivalent of

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sending a life preserver to someone lounging in their pool.

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And let's talk about these numbers. Seven percent of the

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population owns seventy percent of the farmland. That's like owning

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seven slices of pizza, but telling everyone else to split

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the last three slices between ninety three people and then

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complaining when they suggest maybe redistributing a few pepperonis the

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best part. The South African Foreign Ministry pointed out that

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while Trump's trying to rescue some of the most economically

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privileged people in their country, he's sending others packing faster

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than a New York apartment building with a rent increase.

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Now that's what I call selective humanitarian aid. Portions of

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today's show were made with pennies, AI the Super Bowl

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and fake Milania.