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Trump’s Kennedy Center Speech Was a Tangent-Filled Disaster
The Bulwark

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Sam Stein and Sarah Longwell react to Trump’s Kennedy Center announcement, mixing Phantom of the Opera with wild tangents on D.C. crime and grass. Become a Bulwark Youtube Plus Member here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG4Hp1KbGw4e02N7FpPXDgQ/join If you're a Bulwark+ subscriber on Substack, you can watch here: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/decoding-trumps-kennedy-center-fever

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@@dannadailytherecoverytoolb9360

Trump sent Gavin Newsome one of those 2028 hats. He said so in his interview with Heather Cox Richardson.


@@Mr_Justy

What would trumps drag name be?


@@emanuelmota7217

Trump actually believes the insane stories he makes up. And he thinks WE believe him, too. He's so mentally unwell.


@@maryroberts9539

I know it seems funny, but he’s truly lost his mind if he wants to replace vast swaths of grass. I am trying to keep from crying or vomiting.


@@msandreaparker-22

I said that when he took over the Kennedy Center - he was going to not just take over but he was going to rename it after himself & I said that again when he renamed the opera house after Melania~ He's going to take over, host the shows himself, give himself prizes, pick only MAGA people to honor and eventually turn the place into another cheap 'ho house decorative place using federal funds to keep jacking up our debt & he will have yet another place named after him


@@michellerose7446

I agree with you guys. Trump ONLY wants to be President for the perks. That’s IT. He gets off on it. He is using the US govt. as his gigantic plaything. He doesn't care about the US AT ALL. He just cares about the power, the ego trip, the status, being treated like Royalty in Saudi Arabia and middle east, with sword dancers and camel brigades. And hosting the Kennedy Center Honors. He LOVES the attention. His way of governing is with lies and chaos. He’s really creepy and dangerous. He SHOULD NOT be in power.


@@charlesherbig4502

You have gravely insulted soup. I think you owe soup a sincere apology, and a promise to do better.


@@vincecareatti4334

Who’s the “they”


@@Cliff2028

It’s a bordello vibe.


@@vickien4524

I hope no one shows up for the honors program. It would be hilarious!!


@@EverydayGoddess1111

Sarah, Les mix is NOT about the French Revolution. It happens decades later. Get your history right. I’m a theater prof and this is a PEEVE of mine. Read the book


@@robertgreen9150

Well what it is is avoid avoid avoid delay delay delay deny deny deny avoid delay ignore ignore ignore of course Bubble Boy is the ignoramus


@@robertgreen9150

Ask Bubble Boy with centipede is I'm sure he doesn't know what centipede grass is❤😅😮😮😊


@@SuperBookdragon

I think his cabinet likes it this way. They are keeping him busy , i.e. Kennedy Center hosting and designing a ballroom , until his ultimate demise and downfall.


@@robertgreen9150

Nothing Bubble Boy has done or ever will do makes any kind of sense whatsoever as he has none😮❤😊


@@leannastevenson

Yaaaa right trump


@@bron9674

Sarah! "this is what old people do"? Give me a break.


@@bjartkosen

Eat your oatmeal Grandpa.


@@david.leikam

Well, you know his former legal eagle, Roy Cohen was in the closet for decades… it’s his call and I don’t personally care if he is though wouldn’t be surprised if DJT cracked the door nowadays. 🏳️‍🌈


@@LDVTennis

Trump's brain is soup.


@@jamielunes1841

No one asked him shit 😅😅😅😅


@@TricksterDaemon-jw9hi

No gay man would have that bad taste in interior decorating.


@@jamiegodfrey1860

MORE of this. Please !?!


@@BarbaraParr-c1f

I just can’t laugh with you over this. He disgusts me. I knew he would eventually name it after himself and take it completely over. The Board he put in place are all his underlings who fawn all over him. He is expecting to stay longer than 4 years and make DC his kingdom. How much has he spent already? And then we have the ballroom. I’m so glad he put cross-dressing out of the Kennedy Center (NOT)….and now we will have Kiss gracing the stage. Even this presentation today with the women in evening gowns uncovering the portraits was “True Trump”. And then him musing why or why not he didn’t receive certain honors in his life. All part of the “schtick”.


@@PollyMaxable

He sounds so out of breath as he lies about being asked o host the awards. He most likely demanded to be the host!


@@CanadianFury

Come from away? Just saying. It's in top 3 for me, with Hamilton.

Guess it would just make Americans feel guilty now lol


@@CLo-jo6gn

I thought I was smoking grass after he was talking about grass


@@howardbond1583

How about an award for the NYC Naked Cowboy…. Atleast as good a KISS….,,


@@RussellAshworth

Well he ain't gonna die of natural causes or old age something else is coming his way at about 3 times the speed of sound


@@storyteller2882

Your show is great. Trump is giving me so much ick I had to stop the episode halfway through.


@@Aasveig

Now, I like sheetrock as well as the next home hobbyist, but I've never called it "gorgeous."


@@maggieholt2250

There seemed to be a change in his demeanor recently--almost like overnight. He also seems not quite as active. I wonder if it has anything to do with his lower legs. Blood flow is pretty important, y'know? It's one of those things ya might not give much thought to until some doc tells you things aren't as great as you thought.


@@thomasmoll4884

If Trumb is talking about grass, then he thinks we W O N T bring up Epstein Files.


@@ToddPlotzwaddle

It's the Donny Dumfuq Show!


@@jbowerdel

i don't think they should be called the kennedy center honors anymore-make them the trump awards to distiquish them from the prized awards of the past to now the fake gold leaf awards given now. he even cancelled the man who has made the medals for many past events and will choose someone of his choice to now make the medals-can imagine they will have his image on them not kennedy and maybe some big eagle on a red white and blue ribbon instead of traditional rainbow ribbon, bc god forbid rainbow!


@@adjamidestan7279

Since Putin is Trump's Russia tsar, I'm sure that they talk about Leningrad all the time


@@jbowerdel

they are keeping dementia don busy decorating and away from making any real presidential acts.


@@JoostMeerloo2

Y faith in the Big Mac is diminishing


@@chevalvivant

Intent of establishing his brand as overpowering and better than the Kennedy legacy.


@@SuePevo

Why can't people complain in every broadcast that veterans are hurting!! Every veteran's hospital is running dangerously short on clinical and clerical and maintenance workers! That's one of the true crises, I don't care about ballrooms or grass or the corruption of the Republican party and the criminals that are running our government. That is what podcasts should be bringing up every single time !! As well as the every day idiocy of this regime.


@@chevalvivant

Gorgeous plywood? Doesn’t sound a quality contractor


@@pcfcastro7176

They asked Trump to host. WHY?!


@@lylelanley18

Kids, late stage syphillis is a dangerous drug…


@@annmd1735

What a joke... he's so ridiculous... and he brings up his old reality show, which this entire decade has been, an extension of his rality show he so craves the attention and every clownish person attached to this maga movement is a bizarre character of a live action reality show that we are all held captive in... someone pull the plug on this...


@@Coffeewineanger

But did we notice how out of breath he was again? He is not well on many fronts.


@@TrueFederalCitizen

Trump so badly wishes he was a ceremonial monarch head of state who did not have to do any actual work. He would love to be the face of the nation who hands out awards and glad hands and does nothing else. I always said that he wanted his Chief of Staff and Vice President to functionally be the head of day-to-day government Prime Minister in practice.

He wants to be the Governor-General equivalent of America.


@@VirginiaVercruysse

This is all going down in the history books, I wouldn't even attend if I was Sly, Gloria, Kiss, etc?!!


@@gswi4763

Putin almost certainly has kompromat on Trump.


@@dianep6791

I hope the honorees accepts the invitation and not show up. I hope the performers 3:05 rehearsal, and not show up.


@@AngelaS-n7d

Drump pretends to be demented and rambles more to avoid the epstein questions?