FBI Director Christopher Wray to resign, Bragg urges against dismissing Trump case, abhorrent reaction online to CEO murder. Plus, Trump to be Time’s Person of The Year.
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Good Evening.
I'm Caroline Marcus again billing in for James Morrow, who will be back in the new year. Coming up tonight on the program. The Left's perverse reaction to the killing of a major insurance firm CEO in New York last week, Plus Trump promotes his new fragrance with a photo of You'll never believe it, Jill Biden, and Biden pardons a record number of criminals in his final days. The American people have a few ideas about who else should.
Get a free pass.
But first, this week, we've seen a tale of two killers, two cases which have consumed the American public and generated headlines around the world. The first Daniel Penny, a marine veteran who heroically defended terrified passengers, including women and children, on a New York subway from a mentally ill vagrant, George and Neely, who'd been warning he was going to kill someone.
He was just.
Threatening to kill people. Who's threatening to go to jail forever, go to jail for the rest of his life. If I just let him go, I'm on my back now. He can just turn around and start doing what he said to me. So killing killing hurting.
In his first interview since being acquitted by a jury of negligent homicide on Monday, the twenty six year old slammed the district attorney for taking him to trial in the first place, a scandalous decision, but despite being put through the legal ringer, Penny says he'd do it all again.
I would not be able to live with myself if I didn't do anything in that situation and someone got hurt, I would feel guilty for the rest of my life.
Of course, the usual suspects couldn't bring themselves to muster any relief Penny's exoneration, nor could they grasp why he should possibly be entitled to celebrate his freedom with a legal team who'd helped secure it.
I don't know that seeing them celebrating in a bar made me comfortable, you know, I mean, you killed a guy.
The man is dead.
Far left outlet.
The Guardian predictably made it all about race, claiming the acquittal revealed a double standard about white vigilante crime. Vigilanteism. It was pure heroism, self defense. But haven't those race fad has been dining out on this one.
The only crime that Jordan nearly was guilty of was the color of escape.
I've shown you just a small sample of the kind of shameful treatment Penny received. Now compare that to the fetishization of another twenty six year old Luigi Mangioni.
Mangioni is the alleged.
Quote hot assassin charged with the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a father of two, I can't help but think about those poor kids who've lost their father in an utterly senseless, cold blooded crime.
When I see things like.
This, This ivy league hardy named Luigi is the robin hood that we never knew that we needed.
I listened to Luigi's manifesto this morning three times and I cried. Honestly, it's beautiful, and I agree with him.
At least he left a very powerful message, and he highlighted how terrible the healthcare system is America. I think they'll go down as a hero in.
History, seeing the warped world of TikTok. A handsome villain is a hero, not a vigilante. Then again, the victim here is a middle aged white executive, the CEO of the largest health insurer in the US.
The very embodiment many.
On the left would have us believe of cool forate greed and the failings of the country's healthcare system. This professor even celebrated the fact she works at the same university U Penn as the alleged killer.
It's Sick.
Senator Elizabeth Warren appeared to be auditioning for Mangoni's defense team in this performance.
But you can only push people so far and then they start to take Matterson's hand.
It's amazing what a six pack will allow some of these women to excuse. A CNN host went so far as to ask for on screen graphics to be dropped during a broadcast so viewers could get a better look at Mangioni's abs.
So much of the clips we were watching at the top of this segment are driven by the fact that this is this is an attractive.
We're going to.
Even The New York Times was publishing think pieces on what happens when violent crimes are overshadowed by appearances. Well, perhaps if Daniel Penny had spent more time in the gym and less time serving his country, that have been a very different response to twenty six year olds, two people dead, two starkly different treatments well. Joining us now is former White House Chief of Staff and senior advisor at Bondi Partners, Mick Milvainey. Mick, great to see you again. FBI Director Chris Ray announced this week he will resign in January, at the end of the Biden administration, despite having three years remaining on his tenured term. It's interesting me since Trump was the one who originally nominated Ray for the role after firing the previous FBI director.
It is and it isn't.
Keep in mind, Christopher Ray was the head of the FBI when the FBI was in charge of the raid at mar A Lago, And of course if the FBI sort of stormed your house, you might think differently about thea about the FBI after that event, and certainly Donald Trump did. There's also some evidence coming out today that suggests that perhaps there were FBI undercover agents on the ground during the January sixth riots that was previously undisclosed. So there was a bunch of questions about whether or not Christopher Ray was going to be able to work with Donald Trump moving forward, and obviously Donald Trump making the nomination of Cash Patel for the position now and not waiting the three years that Christopher Ray had under his current tenure sent a very strong message that Donald Trump was ready to move on for Christopher Ray.
In our system, Caroline, the President of.
The United States has the absolute authority to fire the FBI director.
That's unquestioned.
It's unlike different positions the Federal Reserve Chair, for example, it's unclear whether not the president has the right to fire him. The president clearly had the right to fire FBI Director Ray. Directory knew that, and I think it was a foregone conclusion he was going to leave.
Either willingly or unwillingly. That he chose to go willingly.
Yeah, I guess you have a point.
Someone who orders a search of your premises is not going to make that position maybe somewhat untenable, I guess well. Manhattan, DA Alvin Bragg is opposing Trump's motion to have his hush money case dismissed due to his election as president, suggesting the case can instead be put on hold while Trump is in office. Do you think Trump will have any luck here with this one?
Oh?
Yeah, unlikely.
Alvin Bragg is probably more responsible for Donald Trump's reelection than anybody else. Keep in mind, it was cases like this, the hush money case that put Donald Trump back on the track to get to return to the White House. Hush money payments in this country are absolutely legal. They happen all of the time. So what Alvin Bragg was essentially trying to do is throw Donald Trump in jail for doing some thing that is legal.
There was a.
Technicality and our finance, our election finance rules at Alvin Bragg try to take advantage of to turn this into.
A criminal case.
So it doesn't surprise me that Alvin Bragg, who was sort of irrational in his pursuit of Donald Trump beforehand, maintains that irrationality now. Keep in mind, he won't be able to pursue Donald Trump during the four years that Donal Trump remains in office. But it doesn't surprise me that Alvin Bragg is going to sit around and wait. He hasn't sort of done the right thing here from the beginning. It's hard to imagine why he would begin.
Now, Well, we'll see what happens with that one. I guess it's for you wait to find out.
Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren has been under immense scrutiny after appearing to rationalize the alleged murder of former United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week. Now, I played the clip earlier in the show, Mick, what did you make of what she said?
Look, as you know, as well as anybody, when you talk for a living, which you do, which I do to a certain extent, Elizabeth Warren does, you're going to.
Make mistakes from time to time.
If you go back and you watch what Elizabeth Warren says, you can't help but get the sense, knowing what you know about her past, about her political outlook, about her philosophy of life and capitalism and healthcare, that she was being honest in her first comments, and that she simply was facing a backlash that she was unwilling to tolerate. So, look, you could give her the benefit of doubt, say she misspoke.
I get that she tried to clean it up.
But I do think there's a sense here in undercurrent in Washington, DC and more broadly, that Elizabeth Warren was being honest when she said she was probably okay with this. It's disappointing, it's frustrating. It says a lot about where the nation is these days. But I don't think anybody who knows. Elizabeth Warren was really surprised by the comments she made Originally.
You know, I talked about this a lot at the top of the show. But there's been such an interesting reaction to this case. And obviously we've got this suspect in custody now. But to see so many people, especially on the left, come out and seem to sympathize with this alleged killer, what have you made of all of that?
It's unhealthy, it really really is.
It's I'm all for having a spirited debate about the way we buy and sell healthcare in this country. It's the most perverse and bizarre market that we have. No one understands why things cost what they do, no one understands how wealth insurance works. I get all of that frustration, but to then take that to violence is the type of thing that typically doesn't happen in the United States. Yes, it might happen from time to time with a truly deranged individual, and it's possible that this particular suspect wasn't indeed mentally ill. There's some discussion here as to whether or not the medical procedures he'd been through had driven him to sort of an insanity of sorts, albeit temporary. Who knows, but the fact that there are so many people willing to defend this violence, really I hope it is a wake up call for both people on the left and the right that the language we use does and can have consequences outside of the original intentions. And I hope we take advantage of this situation to maybe dial things back.
I'll remain to see if that happens or not.
Yeah, so true.
Well.
Senator John Fetterman, someone we've spoken about in praise many times on this show, has made serious waves by becoming the first Democratic US senator to post on Donald Trump's platform Truth Social his first post reading my first truth, the Trump hush money and Hunter Biden cases were both bs and pardons are appropriate. Weaponizing the judiciary for blatant partisan gain diminishes the collective faith in our institutions, and so's further division make What did you make of this post?
Fetterman is a fascinating study in American politics right now. He's one of those people who really is quite plain spoken, and what he just put in that truth in that text sort of speaks to what a lot of people think about what we just talked about the hush money payments were bs. There's a lot of Democrats who agree with that. There's a lot of Democrats who voted for Donald Trump in the twenty twenty four election because they thought he was being targeted by a weaponized and a politicized Department of Justice under the Biden administration. So, yeah, it doesn't surprise me you're talking about Fetterman. We talk about him a lot here because he doesn't seem to fall into those natural sort of columns of Democrat or Republican. Sometimes he sounds like a Democrat, sometimes he sounds like a Republican. And honestly, I gotta tell you, Caroline, it's refreshing in Washington, d C. To just have people like that around.
Oh look, it's refreshing in Australia too, to have that, because we hear too many people just taking their own side.
So it is.
But I think a lot of viewers won't agree with what he says about Hunter Biden's pardon. I mean, at one point Joe Biden himself didn't agree that he was going to pardon him. But maybe they'll respect him for at least speaking his mind.
They do, and the Hunter Biden pardon is just it's bizarre in many many ways. Look, a lot of us expected Joe Biden to pardon his son anyway. I never I know Joe Biden a little bit, but I know Washington a lot. I never expected Joe Biden to allow his son to go to jail. And when he went on you know TV here and said that he promised he would never do it, I didn't believe him.
It raised a really good question, Caroline.
You know Bill Clinton used to say, it's not a lie if you believe it to be true, and that raised there's there's a corollary to that, which is that is it really a lie if no one believes you. I think most of the Democrats were okay with the pardon. It was the reason for the pardon that's getting Joe Biden in trouble with his own party. If he come out and said I'm pardoning my son because he's my son and I love him and I can't stand to see him go to jail, I think a lot of people would be okay with that. What he said, though, was he's pardoning his son because he was targeted by the Department of Justice.
What does that mean?
I means Joe Biden is admitting that the Department of Justice is politicized. That plays right into what Donald Trump was saying during the campaign and which the Democrats have denied for several years now. So it's the reason for the pardon, the reason given by Joe Biden that's creating all of that confusion. And again it's it's it's fun to watch Fetterman sort of cut through all of the bs in Washington, d C.
And get down to what so many people are thinking quietly.
It sure is. Well mcmlvany thanks for your time as always, Thanks Caroly Well.
Joining us now to break down some of this week's media madness is media critic Steve Krakauer, author of Uncovered, How the media got cozy with power, abandoned its principles, and lost the people.
Steve, thanks for your time.
Let's return to this killing of the United Healthcare CEO in Manhattan last week, which has brought to light this sort of twisted far left populism. I guess you could call it. The most popular posts on social media are the ones which express support for the admiration of the alleged assassin. Now United Healthcare's own bereavement message online had over seventy seven thousand laugh reactions.
Steve, this is sick.
It is, it is, it's really I think I'm trying to put my think on where is this coming from? Because why would people be celebrating this? Now, look, I understand there's going through and say, well, insurance companies are predatory, and there's all sorts of reasons. You know that the healthcare industry is a mess. Okay, Now where does that then go to celebrating the murder of someone who has two teenage sons. I mean, this is it's completely inhumane. But I realdn't think that there's a symptom of this post pandemic world where we're living in where people are online and they're not engaging in real life with people, and then something like this happens in the real world and they sit behind their keyboard or the scrolling on their phone and they're celebrating this without really thinking through the humanity of it. It's disturbing.
It is really perverse.
Now to talk about another media story, we spoke last week on the show about how Donald Trump chose NBC's Meet the Press for his first post election interview. That's not taken place. Were you surprised by his decision to do that.
A little bit? Yeah? I think.
Look, he's largely avoided all of corporate media here in the United States, I mean, every network for the entirety of this year. He's left that to his vice presidential candidate now VP elect dat Vance. So to go out there and to do more than an hour with Kristin Welker was definitely a bold decision, but I think it.
Really worked out well for him.
He came across it was even in NBC's own right up of the interview described him as calm and measured.
You were not words you.
Would not expect to be associated with Donald Trump at all, but especially not from NBC News.
He came across very well, almost diplomatic.
In the way that he gave his answers, lots of nuanced two of them, lots of moderation, and I think it actually, you know, really spoke to an audience that maybe it was a little bit nervous about the results of this election, and maybe they don't have to be.
You know, I think we're seeing quite a different Donald Trump already. I mean, obviously he hasn't taken up the role yet. But with this interview, with some of his foreign appearances already in Europe, it seems like we've got a bit of a different president this time.
I think so.
I think so, even just in the appointments that he's made in his captain there's a lot of talk. Obviously, Robert F. Kennedy Junior, for example, endorsed him in August, Tulca Gabbard endorsed him in August. These are democrats, you know, I mean Tulsi's now switched sides, but you know, really progressive people, and there's a lot of rumblings, oh you know, he's embracing what they believe in just so they can get his side and get them to on board until they get the election. Well, then he puts Robert F. Kennedy Junior as his nominee for Health and Human Services. Then he puts Tulca Gabbard as the head of Director of National Intelligence. These are prime, very important roles that these people can completely upend the system up in the establishment in these places and do so in a way that almost makes the right half of the country a little bit uneasy about what might be happening. But he is really speaking to this idea of a unity moment and a party that's completely made in his image.
It's no longer really the old GOP. It's really the MAGA movement right now.
It certainly is.
Look, let's talk about another remarkable case that some just wrapped up.
I guess in the US this outcome.
We've seen this week where ex marine Daniel Penny was found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide for using a choke hold to restrain a homeless man who was making these violent threats on a New York subway in twenty twenty three, ultimately leading to his death. I spoke about it a bit at the start of the show. How do you rate how the media handled this whole case and this verdict pretty poorly?
I think this was this is a really a greedious example. I think of media that completely spun a false narrative that, if anything, the justice system here in America really won out. A jury of his peers in New York City, a very left wing district, has found.
Him not guilty of anything.
You know, they couldn't come through a decision on the most serious charge and then not guilty on this charge. This was a I think a real moment where come and said is winning out. It was clear that this is a person who is not going on the train to hurt people.
He was going on.
There to help people in this moment by a deranged individual who was really making everyone of all races and young and old, protecting kids. I mean, it was outrageous, and most of the people, if you were watching the MSNBC's and the CNNs here in America, you were getting a very different side of what this story was about. So I think the outcome was just, but I think that most of America didn't really realize what was actually.
Happened in these Yeah, it's been fascinating to watch from over here. Now look, Pete Hegseth, along with many of Trump's other cabinet nominees, they've all been victims of what I would describe as smear campaigns by the left media. Now, Hegseth posted on Twitter this week pro Publica, a left wing group, was planning to publish a knowingly false report that he was not accepted to West Point in nineteen nineteen nine.
Now what happened here?
It's a mess. It's a mess.
Republica it for reports to be this objective journalism institution, and the editor then went on this rant that thought, oh, you know, this is just what journalism is. Well, clearly they got some tip that Pete Hexceth at some point.
Said he was accepted to West Bollyt but decided.
Not to go, and they said, oh, well that didn't actually happen, maybe he didn't get accepted, And then to their credit, they asked West Point and West Point said no, no record here of him being ever accepted, and they were just ready to run with the story until Pete accept found an acceptance letter from twenty five years ago, who even saved this stuff and was able to stop the actual publication of the story before they could put out something false to I would say correctly as you say, samear him. So yeah, it was a really embarrassing moment. Thankfully they didn't hit published. But even the idea of what do you doing, what are you trying to get after here? This person who was he accepted twenty five years ago to this thing, and did you lie about who cares that certain is not relevant to the position that he'd even go for. So yeah, I think it's a very bad example of journalism. But I think it's really what a pretty representative of the moment that we're in.
Look, there's been a lot of talk, speculation that he saith wouldn't be able to last to the confirmation, But what do you think it seems to die down a little bit, at least from a perspective across the world.
Do you think he will be able to get confirmed?
Listen, it all depends on if Trump's standing by him, and he does seem to be so. I think that the first step is is what will he stay as the nominee and make.
It to the confirmation hearings? And I think that we are past that.
I think that we will see a text of confirmation hearing end of January, early February. Can he convince basically for Republicans to vote against it or to not vote against him? And that's all it takes? You need three only lose three. I think he'll do it. It's going to be very close, and I think that the confirmation hearings in this case, more than perhaps any other, will be the most important step into whether he could actually withstand this.
Okay, we'll be interesting to watch, Steve kra Karen, thanks for your time. Now After the break, we're going to break down one of the greatest advertising moves by the Trump camp. But before that, speaking of good thinking and witch, have a look at this masterpiece. What a beautiful story. Almost a tear joker. Now, don't go anywhere. After the break, Trump hysteria perks up out of Canada. You won't want to miss this. Welcome back. Well, now it's time for a little segment I like to call aren't you glad we didn't get stuck with this guy another four years?
Not a joke.
I'm not being wise guy.
If we do not lead the world, what nation leads the world?
Okay, okay, down, un wise guy. I'm it on some level, I will miss this. It's like sitting next to your crazy uncle at Christmas lunch.
An old fair amount about foreign policy. Have me major world leader for long? Been around five hundred years?
I know these guys he's been around five hundred years. Well this time had certainly felt that long sometimes. But if he thought Biden was making no sense, just wait till you see what happens when his teleprompter fails.
One of the things that's going on here. They just turned off. I'm going to go vote I lost the electricity here anyway. One of the things we found is that, you know, we invented the semi the computer chip touristability in Eastern Asyria, protecting any personnel are personnel against any threats and will remain our mission against ices will be maintained.
Did anyone get what he was trying to say there?
I guess it's only national security, not that important anyway, But maybe we need to cut a bit of slack to someone who claims to be five hundred years old and sounds like wife Jill Biden's family is equally impressive at aging, although.
She did go spend a little time in Sicily because just suggested they're so to meet her great great grandmothers.
And yet for some Democrats, they still can't grasp why lying about the president's cognitive decline four months before asking an unlikable VP to stand was ultimately so disastrous, you know, a great scapegoat the media.
We know that we were winning for those that were tuning into the traditional news sources, but when it came down to people getting their news from places that really aren't even news sources, they were going for Donald Trump by nineteen points.
And that is exactly why we love I.
Should clarify the non mainstream medium places more like Sky News Australia and how you watch us on you if you're in the US.
You see it's.
Not the message that's wrong, just the messenger, because with messages like this, ah, I still have no idea what he's saying.
Play it again, true stability and he's true, Siria.
Bring on January twenty well, joining me now is a great friend of the show. Brianna Lyman, elections correspondent for The Federalist, Brianna Welcome. Donald Trump has released a new Fragrance line to commemorate his historic election victory, and he's found an unwitting model to help sell it, Joe Biden.
Jill Biden, I should say.
An online ad for the Fragrance features a viral photo of Trump and Jill, with the first Lady seemingly smiling at him at the reopening ceremony of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Saturday, with the tagline even enemies can't resist What incredible marketing?
Yeah that Jill Biden is willing to sit down next to Hitler and have a laugh and share a few smiles, and I think, you know, obviously, Donald Trump's marketing is genius. This is a man who knows how to keep the mood light hearted, especially at a time when people are tired of negative politics. But I think it also underscores just how fake the rhetoric from Democrats, including Jill Biden's husband, President Biden, was about Donald Trump for the past few years, because they have labeled him hitler, fascist, you name it, they call him it. And yet they're sitting down and they're, you know, shooting the breeze with him. So I think this just goes to prove how bad politics in America has become that they could lie about that man and then go sit down and laugh with him like it's no big deal.
Yeah, it is always fun seeing what Trump puts out next. Now, Ontario Premier Doug Ford has threatened to cut off energy supply to the US if Trump follows through with his tariff threats. He says, quote, we will go to the full extent depending on how far this goes, We will go to the extent of cutting off their energy, going down to Michigan, going down to New York State and over to Wisconsin. What did he make of this.
This is the biggest endorsement of Donald Trump's policies that I have ever seen, because Donald Trump has always been steadfast we need to be energy independent. The reason being is you don't want your adversaries or in this case, even one of your allies, threatening to cut off your energy source. And that's exactly what they did as soon as the tough as soon as it got tough. So this is what Donald Trump should be plastering all over the place. When he starts, you know, drill baby drill, when he reopens the Keyston pipeline, when he does things he says, look, this is what our allies are willing to do to us. Imagine what our enemies will do if there is more global conflict.
Well, for some people, I think the notion of making Canada state has just become even more appealing. What US FOT has found out very quickly just how little Joe's so called Bidenomics really works.
Yet still four years.
Later, as Americans suffer in a cost of living crisis, he still chooses to ignore just how badly he will be leaving the US economy.
Most economists degree the new administration is going to inherit a fairly strong economy, at least at the moment, an economy going through fundamental transformation has laid out a stronger foundation, a sustainable, broad based, highly productive growth as my profound hope that the new administration will preserve and build on this progress.
Brianna, that's a real lack of self awareness.
Then yeah, it's also really insulting to the intelligence of the American public. And if you notice, Biden is very particular about the way he phrases it. He says, I hope they will build upon it. The reason that they're going to use this language for the next month or a few weeks is because they want the American public, the remaining people who could be so gullible to the propaganda press of the Democratic narrative, to really believe that Donald Trump is just building a top of the great things that that Biden has administration has done for us. That way, in four years, when they run a Democrat, they can say Donald Trump was building on top of it. Even Joe Biden said it before he took off, as we predicted it because we knew what would happen. But American people, you just played that clip about the media sources, the American public understands that the propaganda press that said that inflation was transitory, that we were just having, you know, a little lull, that inflation is cooling. It was all just propaganda meant to sway an election, but it wasn't true. So I don't think they'll buy the narrative that Donald Trump is building upon what.
Joe Biden did.
They will believe the truth that Donald Trump is fundamentally fixing the economy.
Wow, maybe that's Honestly, the grasp on reality is getting a bit lighter now. Joe Biden has pardoned over thirty nine criminals and commuted approximately fifteen hundred sentences this week. Brianna, this is the most ever done by a president in one single day. How is it going down?
You know what the most interesting thing I seen today is a lot of people on Twitter. They keep sharing that Joe Biden commuted the sentence of two Chinese spies, including a Chinese man who had like forty seven thousand images and videos of child pornography. I mean, some of the worst descriptions I've ever read. And the best part about that is those three Chinese part are commutations. They didn't happen today they happened on November twenty second, and that's actually what's kind of driving the talk today about these pardons at our commutations that didn't even happen today. And that's what's concerning to me, because yes, we see fourteen four hundred and nine nine people have their sentences commuted, but we're talking about Chinese spies. A few weeks ago that Biden quietly let off the hook sent back to China people that were trying to steal our secrets, and there was little to no media coverage because he did it so quietly. So you know, Biden is just kind of willy nilly assigning pardons and commutations because I don't think he cares, and I also don't think he really knows what's going on. I mean, I think Biden picked out all these by himself. No, but who did and why?
Question?
Very good question, Brianna Lyman, Thank you so much for your time. Now, you may remember Kamala Harrison's campaign vibes were based on joy because joy was exactly what voters were feeling, struggling to pay their bills and with record numbers of migrants crossing the border. So check out Jill Biden's not so subtle dig here.
So I hope that you all feel that sense of you know, peace and light, and that just for a moment when you leave here today, that you feel, I don't know a little a sense of joy, because I think we all need like this, you know, we all need to feel joy now during this time of the season, during just during this time.
So anyway, okay, now I'll start. You're all reading into that.
I don't even know if she realizes she was trolling there anyway, after the break at Google's latest Woke Christmas, it's definitely not sparking joy. Welcome back to the program. Joining me now is Wrong Speak Publishing founder Adam B. Coleman, the author of Black Victim to Black Victor, identifying the ideologies, behavioral patterns, and cultural norms that encourage a victimhood complex.
Adam, Welcome.
Well, we spoke about Daniel Penny's acquittal earlier in the show. Now you've written this great piece about how the victim's father blamed racism and the system for his son's death.
Tell us about that.
Yeah, the press conference, the thing that stood up for me was his statement that we need to do essentially, we need to do better. Society needs to do better when it comes to these particular situations, And the only thing that could come to mind is where have you been? We know that his father was essentially strange from him for quite some time after his mother was murdered. He ultimately ended up in foster care and then aged out of the foster care system and was on the streets. So why is society more responsible for his son than he was as a father. And I just think that often we look at the end result. Obviously, you can debate whether this man deserved to be chokehold or not, and people can disagree on that, but I think we can all agree that every child deserves a chance, Every child deserves both their parents, and so when one of their parents pops up out of nowhere, seemingly reached some sort of reward. Whether that's true or not, the impression is that his father was absent. When your kid is in foster care for four years and you're nowhere to be found, I can't come up with another word other than you neglected your child. Your child.
Oh, it's so true, And he just seems to be trying to absolve his own personal responsibility. I mean, we've seen how absent fathers do play a role in crime rates. There have been studies about this. It's such a good point. Now Donald Trump is expected to be named Time Magazines Person of the Years, something he was also awarded in twenty sixteen after he won the presidential election.
What do you make of this?
I think that this is fitting. You know, I'm getting a sense in America that people are starting to calm down. Even the people who had the strongest opinions about him, even in the media, are starting to soften, becoming more i would say, optimistic about Donald Trump. They're seeing also that he's become a little bit more serious than maybe he was in his first term. He seems very determined, in calmer, less belligerent than maybe years past, and especially after the assassination attempt, he seems a lot calmer. So I guess my point is, I think America is warming up to Donald Trump. Believe it or not. I think the people who are calling him hitler and so on and so forth are realizing that the rhetoric was too strong and they don't have to agree with the man, but they don't have to dehumanize them. And so yes, I think he deserves to be, you know, percent of the year because of everything that he's gone through this particular year and winning, you know, in a landside manner. I see no problem with it.
Yeah, it's funny mentioned Hitler because he was once Times Person of the Year two But I think you're absolutely spot on, Adam. I think there is a real shift which on one which is great, but on the other hand, will give us less content for sures like this look. Google has been trolled on social media for their recent woke Christmas ad featuring a non binary TikTok.
Start shopping for Christmas? Have a look?
So try this winter ginas?
Is not it?
Especially when I have so many holiday looks to pull off. Thankfully, I know just the thing and its in stock nearby. Hydrated skin is a gift to everyone. No wrapping needed.
Happy Holidays to me, Adam.
Why you know, I think Google and other big tech firms are going to be the last ones to hold out when it comes to DEI propagandazed marketing. But I think other companies are realizing it's not benefiting them. You're seeing less and less of it in our commercials. You're seeing more companies move away from DEI. You know, as far as a practice within their corporations, they're realizing that there's there's no particular benefit, you know, financially, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense within the corporation. It doesn't make them any money. It only just siphons more money from their budgets. And on top of that, it divides people. It's very divisive the way they are going at it. But from a marketing standpoint, the whole point of marketing is to appeal to as many people as possible, and this appeals to a sliver of the population. Other people find it strange, and I don't think they've yet to realize that. Maybe they feel they're too big to fail. But at some point I think they're going to realize it, or you know, maybe they'll they'll keep losing money and they'll wake up one day.
Yeah, they'll realize it when the bottom line just drops just way too low.
Now.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau went on an unhinged rant about Trump this week, suggesting that his win was a setback for women.
Now it shouldn't be that way. It wasn't supposed to be that way. We were supposed to be on a steady, if difficult, sometimes march towards progress.
And yet, just a few weeks ago, the.
United States voted for second time to not elect its first woman president. Everywhere, women's rights and women's progress is under attack, overtly and subtlely. But I want you to know that I am and always will be a proud feminist.
I hate it when they pull out the woman caught at him.
Well, the first thing is never trust a man who calls himself a feminist. So that's the first part. Yeah, yeah, there are always snakes. But the other part is while he should be blaming the Democrats for setting up Kamala Harris to fail, I mean, you send any candidate out there to basically run for two months in a process that normally takes over a year, and tell her that, yeah, you can win this one. They set her up to fail. If she even had a chance, she would have needed far more time. And it wasn't going to be just enough money.
She needed.
She needed prep work, she needed to be tested. That's why they have primary process. But you know the Democrats in their primary process idea, it doesn't mean a whole lot. We saw what happened in twenty twenty, what they did with Bernie Sanders and how they propped up Joe Biden to take that position. So you know, if he wants to blame anybody for women not coming through, blame the Democrats.
Yeah, well, I dare say they won't be doing that very time soon.
But you're spot on. Thank you Adam Coleman for your time.
Now, before we go to the break, here's more from the archives of how did they get away with pretending he wasn't senile for so long? Watch this painful exchange the US President had with reporters about an American held for months in Assyrian prison?
Have you, gregor an operation to go get him?
Good all taste?
If you have to, We won't want to get him out, so we have to identify worry is thank you?
Yeah, that was the question.
Up next Only in America. Welcome back to the program, And now it's time for a little part of the show we like to call Only in America. Now, outgoing President Joe Biden is firming up his legacy in the final days of his term now that his pardoned son Hunter. Despite promising, though roughly at gazillion times, he wouldn't he's handing out pardons like he's Oprah. So who else deserves a pardon from Biden? The Daily Show took to the streets to find out.
President Biden putin two turkey is named peach and blossom on Thanksgiving, and a human man named Hunter.
Biden, have you ever done anything that you would need a pardon?
For?
Marrying my first hosband, President Biden, I would like to be pardoned for the occasional mistake of missing an item on self check it right.
She does it every single day, but she doesn't mean to. So Biden, please pardon me for lying to mint all a lot a while.
And mister President, please pardon us for the criminal amount of delight we've taken in lampooning you all term Now, that's it for the US Report in twenty twenty four. James Morrow will see you all in the new year, but for now, have it safe and happy holidays. Period Up next to the Media Show,