How To (NOT) Win Friends And Influence People

REPORTER: Do you want negotiations to be over now?

TRUMP: Which negotiations?

REPORTER: Over this bill

TRUMP: Oh yeah. Well it's gonna be ... we don't want to benefit Democrat governors ... Gavin Newscum pic.twitter.com/IizGpT7dZe

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 20, 2025

REPORTER: What do you plan to tell the fiscal hawks?

TRUMP: I'm a fiscal hawk. There's nobody like me as a fiscal hawk

R: Do you think Thomas Massie is correct that this is adding Biden level spending?

TRUMP: I don't think Thomas Massie understands government ... I think he… pic.twitter.com/csMev7xPlX

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 20, 2025

TRUMP: I don't think Thomas Massie understands government ... I think he should be voted out of office

Roger Marshall: "Let's just assume that Joe Biden will be completely mentally incapacitated in 6 months. Now they're gonna say 'these are metastasis from the prostate cancer that caused this,' not the Alzheimer's that we've been seeing, or the Parkinson's, if not both of them."… pic.twitter.com/Vs9HKT7u1Q

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 20, 2025

"Let’s just assume that Trump is already completely mentally incapacitated.” Because that’s the discussion they’re trying desperately to avoid.

Trump "weaponization czar" Ed Martin: "Many many people in this country are victims of what I call hoaxes that capture our imagination. The unselect committee of Liz Cheney -- they spent hundreds of millions of dollars with earned media to condition people to think something… pic.twitter.com/75W5iIlvDg

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 20, 2025

Trump "weaponization czar" Ed Martin: "Many many people in this country are victims of what I call hoaxes that capture our imagination. The unselect committee of Liz Cheney -- they spent hundreds of millions of dollars with earned media to condition people to think something about J6 that we know was not true. So we have to unpack that, unravel it ... we have to go faster ... and then still have the trials and prosecutions."

I really want to know what his legal theories are, because the man doesn’t talk like a lawyer. He talks like a gibbering loon. (The congressional members of that committee all enjoy constitutional immunity from precisely the kind of prosecution Martin is talking about.)