Trump's Losing Steak | Slush Fund Flop, War Won't Stop, but is Voting Violence on Tap?

What happens when everything starts going wrong at once?

In this episode of Fearless Politics, Dr. Avis takes a sharp and often humorous look at what she calls Trump's "terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week."

From courtroom setbacks and investigations into controversial settlement agreements to growing problems surrounding the Iran conflict, failed public events, and mounting political pressure, this episode examines a series of developments that raise serious questions about leadership, accountability,  political strategy, and a potentially dangerous future that matches a Trump-condoned violent past. 

With her signature unapologetic style, Dr. Avis breaks down why these events matter—and why some political losses may have consequences far beyond a single news cycle.

In this episode:

•  Federal court rulings that delivered major setbacks 
•  Questions surrounding the January 6 settlement controversy 
•  The investigation into alleged misuse of government authority 
•  Why Trump's planned Freedom 250 concert fell apart 
•  The ongoing Iran conflict and diplomatic challenges 
•  Military readiness concerns and weapons stockpiles 
•  The political and financial cost of prolonged conflict 
•  Why public perception may be shifting 

Sometimes politics is expensive.

Sometimes politics is dangerous.

And sometimes politics delivers a week so chaotic that it deserves its own episode.

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Transcript

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I have to say, I am wondering like, is it a bad thing to revel in someone else's suffering? Let me consider that for a nanosecond. Is it a bad thing to revel in someone else's misfortunes? To me, the answer to that question is if that someone is Donald Trump, oh hell to the no, it's not bad. It's not bad at all. And I am enjoying every second of it. In a political world that is defined by unending chaos, crisis, and unprecedented action, politics as usual is no longer an option. Instead, this is a moment that requires bold, fearless, and fierce truth telling. And that's exactly what you'll find right here on Fearless Politics. I'm your host, Dr. Avis. Buckle up, it's time to be fearless. Welcome to another episode of Fearless Politics. This is gonna be fun. I have to tell you, I am going to savor this episode. And I'm gonna tell you why I'm gonna savor this episode of Fearless Politics. It's because, fun fact, I'm petty. Okay. And I get to let my petty flag fly today as I go through a series of things that have happened over the course of the past several days that really led to what I am going to call from henceforth Trump's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Oh God, I gotta celebrate it. I gotta celebrate it. He had a hell of a week. And not in the good sense, in the worst sense possible. So let me delve into that. I have to say, I am wondering is it a bad thing to revel in someone else's suffering? Let me consider that for a nanosecond. Is it a bad thing to revel in someone else's misfortunes? Uh to me, the answer to that question is if that someone is Donald Trump, oh hell to the no, it's not bad. It's not bad at all. And I am enjoying every second of it. So let's get down to business. Literally, if you were to describe it, I would say that Trump had a clusterfuck of a week last week. And it all culminated on a clusterfuck of a Friday. And Willie had several bad things happen. Let's dig right in because there's so much to get into here. Oh my goodness. Now, I have to say, first of all, as I mentioned, I am a professional petty person. I do own my pettiness. But I have to say, I strive for this level of petty. On Friday, a federal judge seemingly waited for John F. Kennedy's birthday to announce hey Trump, you gotta take your raggedy ass name off the Kennedy Center. The level of petty to wait to announce on John F. Kennedy's birthday that Trump needs to remove his name to sweet from the Kennedy Center is a level of pettiness that I strive to one day ascend to. Oh my god, that is like professional level petty. I am so loving it. And in clear Trump fashion, he turned into a toddler and pitched a fit, had a temper tantrum, was so upset about it, so mad about it, was tweeting or anti-truthing, because I refuse to call it truth social because he ain't saying shit on there that's true. But the anti-truth tweets that he was giving off was giving temper tantrum, two-year-old meltdown. Oh my God, he was going after the judge, he was going after the judge's wife. He was saying everything he could to attack these people. But the bottom line is it does not preclude the fact that his name needs to come off, and they gave them a maximum of two weeks to get his ugly name off of that institution. And so it's hilarious to see the first domino fall that I want to go over with you today. But that one was especially beautiful. Just the timing of it all just made my heart sing. We could have announced this the day before, we could have announced it a couple of days after, but no, we're gonna announce it on Kennedy's birthday that you need to take your name the hell off. Okay. And so that's the first thing. All right, but that was not the only thing. And then there's more. Another federal judge came in and said, Hey, your slush fund that you tried to push through, that that needs to be flushed, okay? You need to go ahead and flush that slush fund that you were trying to get through. So, in other words, that $1.8 billion, to be very specific, they tried to be cute, the $1.776 billion that Trump's attorney general tried to swindle out of the American people to pay his January 6th thugs that he broke out of prison on his first day in office. Well, a federal judge jumped in and said, Hold up, wait a minute, you can't do that, okay? Absolutely not. And not only did one judge do that, another judge came in after that and said, wait a minute. Not only can you not do that, but we're gonna launch an investigation into this shit, okay? We're gonna launch an inquiry. Because how this settlement happened in the first place is very suspect. So you had the second judge say she needs answers. In fact, she's arguing that the court has been defrauded by Trump and his minions. And I would say that she's exactly right. Okay, she has said that Trump has defrauded the federal government because he filed a meritless lawsuit against the IRS, over which, honestly, at the very, very top of the totem pole is himself. And you can't sue yourself and then settle with yourself just to be able to steal money, which is exactly what was going on here. And so not only have they hit a snag in terms of being able to pay the January 6th thugs, but in addition to that, an inquiry is being launched into the whole shenanigans in the first place because this judge believes, and I agree with her, that it looks like a case of fraud, which we all know is what? Illegal. You know, what is surprising here to me is the fact that anyone would be surprised that if you put a criminal in office, he would behave criminally. That's the part of it that is shocking to me. I don't think anybody should be shocked by the fact that you put a criminal in office, you tell that criminal that no matter what you do, because you're in office, you can't be charged with a crime. So you expect that criminal then to not behave in criminal ways, knowing that there is nothing that can be done to him, or at least he believes that. Let's just take a minute to remember that criminal had people engage in riotous behavior, had them attack police. Several were injured severely, some even ended up having mental illnesses as a result of that day, and actually committed suicide after. And they got into the building, spread feces all throughout the Capitol. A lot of the same Republicans who are now acting like it didn't happen were running for their damn lives, like the punks that they are. And all of this from people who claim that quote unquote blue lives matter. Okay. Now, you remember all of this was happening on January 6th. And then for me, I also take my memory back a little bit further. Do you remember when he ran the first time and he was having all of these rallies where his crowd in the rally became violent to protesters that were in there? I don't know if you recall those. Take a look. Do you believe that you've done anything to create a tone where this kind of violence would be encouraged? I hope not. I truly hope not. Well, I certainly don't incite violence, I don't condone violence, and I don't talk about violent. And they did, I don't know, wrap up. He should have been, maybe he should have been rubbed up because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing. So if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously. Okay, just knock the hell. I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise. I promise. We're not allowed to punch back anymore. I love the old days. You know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this? They'd be carried out on a stretcher, folks. Like to punch them in the face, I'll tell you. We having a good time. USA, USA. All right, yeah, get them out. Try not to hurt them. If you do, I'll defend you in court. Don't worry about it. In the good old days, this doesn't happen because they used to treat them very, very rough. And when they protested once, you know, they would not do it again so easily. Isn't it great to be in a Trump rally, really? Why? Part of the problem and part of the reason it takes so long is nobody wants to hurt each other anymore, right? So, yeah, you heard that right. Uh, he literally said the problem is no one wants to hurt each other anymore. I mean, if that is not a desire to incite violence or to encourage violence, or in fact, endorsing violence, then I don't know what is. When you have someone that's sitting there in places like Alabama, Fayetteville, North Carolina, having a largely all white crowd attack violently, largely black protesters, and stand there and say things like, when people would come up in a crowd like this, they would leave on a stretcher. Is it any doubt who he is and what he's talking about? And so when we see that, can we really be surprised that January 6th happened at all? And can we really be surprised that not only would he incite violence, but he would want to link compensation to violence? He has shown us echoes of this ever since he ran for president the first time, and we should have believed him. What I think is ironic about that situation is to me, what he was trying to do with this $1.8 billion fund was a couple of things. He was literally trying to take your money, your taxpayer money, to pay his thugs in the same way that he was promising to pay his thugs when he ran for office the first time, but he was too cheap to use his own money to pay his thugs. Now he wants you to pay his thugs. And he wants you to pay his thugs because he wants his thugs to be at his beck and call for future violent activities that he might want to use at any time. I mean, just think about it. What if he wants to sick his thugs out on election day in order to intimidate people who are trying to vote? What if he wants to use his thugs when we're supposed to have a change of power and he decides he doesn't want to leave the next time? And now he has a ballroom with a bunker under it. And now he has a Department of Defense that is compromised. It is disturbing. And so when I think about what his nefarious plans were for that payoff, I think it was about more than just rewarding them for being his muscle at a time in which he literally tried to overthrow this government. I think it really was about giving them the resources to rearm and to prepare themselves and give them the message that if you hurt people on my behalf, potentially even kill people on my behalf, not only would I look out for you legally, I will actually compensate you for it. That is really my boss behavior. If you want to talk about a crime family, this literally is a crime family. Trump and his sons are getting rich over causing wars that now they go and monetize either through new business ventures having to do with drone development now that we've used up all of our drones. Isn't that convenient? They're shenanigans with the stock market and more. It's been estimated they have enriched themselves to the tune of $4 billion, and he's been in office for less than two years. I have to give it to him. This is the most successful business he's ever had. I will give him that. The presidency is the most successful business this fool has ever had. He has managed to bankrupt businesses over and over and over again, but this time he decided he wanted to bankrupt us. So, anyway, number three. Nobody wants to come to your party. Listen, oh my God. The humiliation just keeps rolling right in. It is so fun to see. You know, Trump tried to throw that Freedom 250 concert series to commemorate the 250th anniversary of this nation, in which he released this list of, I want to say it was like nine different artists. And one after the other, after the other after the other kept saying, Hold up, wait a minute, I ain't coming. And then I ain't coming. And then, but wait a minute, I ain't coming either. It was such a humiliation that Trump has now gone once again on his little baby temper tantrum moments and said, Well, I'm not gonna have a concert at all. Well, the bottom line, to his defense, what kind of concert would it be? I think at the end of the day, maybe only one person was left on the list, and obviously nobody that anybody actually wanted to see. So he didn't have much of a choice. But what he's gonna replace that concert with right now is guess what? One of his clan rallies. Yeah. So he's just decided I'm gonna have a rally instead. A rally that nobody cares about. Okay. All right. So that's what he's gonna do instead after he has gotten yet another humiliation by artists telling him we don't want to have nothing to do with your toxic ass. Okay. So next, whatever happened to the artist? And when I say the artist, I'm not talking about the artist formerly known as Prince, rest his soul. Oh my goodness, I miss that man so much. I'm talking about the person who claimed to be somehow the master of the art of the deal. Well, I wonder whatever happened to his mastery of the art of the deal because somebody apparently is having a whole hell of a hard time coming up with a deal with Iran. Iran keeps running intellectual rings around Trump and his minions. I mean, it's not really surprising. These are brilliant people. Intelligence goes back thousands of years, literally, birthplace of algebra and other groundbreaking intellectual accomplishments. So it's not shocking that they're outsmarting him. It's just if so much money wasn't being spent and so many people weren't dying, it would be almost comical to see the level of humiliation that they are putting him through right now. But I thought it would be interesting to have a little trip by memory lane because to jog your memory, this is a war, which he still hasn't gotten authorization for, which itself is illegal. But what can you do? Republicans are in charge and they have decided that they're just gonna let him run among. No end in sight. Yet he keeps on claiming we're about to wrap it up. So I did like a little bit of an analysis of how many times he has come out to say things like the war is ending soon or we're close or the war is practically over. And when I went back and took a little look at this, I noticed several things. Okay, it's been a lot of times and we still we ain't there. So he has said either the war is ending soon, we're close, or it's practically over, on March 9th, on March 10th, or March 11th, on March 24th, on March 31st, on April 1, on April 6th, closely followed by April 7th, and then again on April 13th, and on April 15th, and then he did it again on April 21st, and then obviously in May, most recently last week, when he announced this tentative deal, a 90-day memorandum of understanding that would lead to the finalization of the war, which by the way, this 90-day memorandum of understanding included a condition, which is almost laughable as well, because you might recall somewhere in this timeline, he also mentioned that he wasn't gonna stand for anything less than unconditional surrender by Iran. Well, what his 90-day memorandum of understanding included was the United States of America paying Iran $300 billion to rebuild all the things that they just blew up along with Israel. So I don't know how we got stuck with the bill. But anyhow, $300 billion. He was willing to pay $300 billion in reparations to Iran. I ain't even mad at him. Iran should go ahead and get everything they should get out of his dumb ass. But I think that's very interesting because that don't sound like unconditional surrender to me. In fact, if anything, if anybody is not having conditions here, agreeing to something like that, it would be the U.S. He is willing to do anything to be able to find a way to get out of this war with just even a hair of dignity. But the bottom line is not going to be able to because, well, he'll eventually, hopefully, it'll have to stop at some point, but not with all of his dignity intact, because the reality is he's not gonna end up with anything better than what Obama already did without anybody dying, without spending $2 billion a day on a war, without running through and burning through our munitions. So, anyway, he announced this deal only to this past weekend when it was supposed to be finalized, saying, Well, you know, I'm still thinking about it. So, you know, the problem here is that the man that's supposed to have the art of the deal down apparently has no idea how to get a deal. And that's because honestly, they are running intellectual rings around them. They have the world economy in their hands because they now control the strait, something that they never had done previously. This is a prime example of you come into this situation only to fuck it up. And now here we are, 90 days in, billions of dollars spent, maybe even in the hundreds of billions, when you count not only the money that's spent in terms of the cost of the war, but when you think about the cost of the U.S. bases that have been destroyed all across that region and what it would cost to rebuild that, hundreds of billions of dollars spent in an unnecessary war that we shouldn't have been in in the first place. All right. And at the time that all of this is happening, guess what else happened last week? The Pentagon came out and said, guess what? It's gonna take us years to rebuild our missile stockpile. We've run through way too many missiles in this unnecessary war. And it could take at least three years to rearm our stockpile to the level that it was at prior to when this war began. So we're running through our shit. We just burning through our shit. Now, who has the upper hand? You know, because at the same time that we burn through our shit, it would take us three years to build it back up. Iran actually has been taking this time that we've had a ceasefire to guess what? Rebuild their armaments. So now they have more munitions. And then in addition to that, guess what? They have just launched a new air defense system. Oh my God, it just keeps getting worse and worse and worse. What this puts on full display is what happens when you have incompetent people in charge. I mean, come on. The level of incompetency here is just baffling. It's astounding. It's unprecedented. You start a war that you didn't have to start. You are spending during the heights of this war $2 billion per day. You've burned through so much equipment that it's going to take us three years to rebuild the munitions that we've utilized as part of this particular war. God forbid that we found ourselves in need of actually defending ourselves because my God, they've now put us in a point of military vulnerability. And at the same time that we've wasted all that money and all those munitions in a war that should not have happened, you are over here giving Iran the opportunity to rebuild their munitions and improve their air defense systems because they don't trust your ass. And neither would I. I mean, can you blame them? Once again, I have to say, running intellectual rings around his dumb ass. This is what we have witnessed here. So, with that said, I still want to take a moment to revel in his dubious, disturbing, very bad, horrible, very unfortunate week, in which he lost over and over again. It makes me feel like T Pain, you know, I need to sort of serenade him instead of saying all we do is win, all he does is lose. He just had a loser, loser week. What a loser. And I just had to take a minute to immortalize this moment of perpetual losing that we saw over the course of the past week. And it's with this hope. Okay, it is with the hope that this losing momentum will continue. Because I do know that come November, the loser will be losing even more. And until then, oh, I won't revel in it, and I hope you do too. All right. See you next time on the next episode of Fearless Politics. Take care, everybody. Thank you for joining us on today's episode of Fearless Politics. And while you're here, don't forget to subscribe, follow, and leave that five-star rating that you and I both know we deserve. Also, feel free to leave a review so more people can find out about us and become members of the Fearless Politics Crew. And finally, if you want to go further down the rabbit hole with us, then be sure to check us out at FearlessPoliticspodcast.com. Or connect with me personally on Instagram at FearlessDr.Avis. With that said, we'll see you next time. 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