IHIP News: Trump in 2 AM BENDER Makes BIZARRE Threats to ALLIES as MAGA Continues to COLLAPSE!

What this episode is about

The discussion critiques the current state of American political discourse, focusing on the erratic behavior and statements of Donald Trump, whose recent threats and bizarre claims reflect a disturbing descent into irrationality. It highlights the contrast between the continued power of MAGA supporters in government and their persistent feelings of oppression, despite their political victories.

Key takeaways

• When cult-like loyalty leads you to fear a Canadian trade deal, sanity takes a backseat.
• Racism as entertainment: Trump serves a guilty pleasure amidst a culture craving approval for its prejudices.
• MAGA misery persists despite political victories; oppression is less about power and more about perspective.
• Humor is subjective, but interpreting salsa as 'gay porn' reveals more about the viewer than the performance.
• In the era of multiculturalism, the real cultural battleground lies in the absurdity of backward thinking.

Who speaks in this episode?

• Megan Kelly (Guest) · 1 min speaking
• Jesse Waters (Guest) · 1 min speaking
• Randy Ogles · 1 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 3:00: Donald Trump, Bad Bunny, Aaron Rupar
2. 3:00 – 6:00: Barack Obama, Bad Bunny, Puerto Rico, Randy Ogles
3. 6:00 – 9:00: Bad Bunny, Fox News, Jesse Waters, Puerto Rico
4. 9:00 – 12:00: Fox News, Rupert Murdoch
5. 12:00 – 15:00: Bad Bunny, Fox News, Jesse Waters, Not Today Fascist: The Lies That Got Us Here and the Truths That Will Reunite Us
6. 15:00 – 18:00: Bad Bunny, Megan Kelly
7. 18:00 – 18:20: Megan Kelly

Notable quotes from "IHIP News: Trump in 2 AM BENDER Makes BIZARRE Threats to ALLIES as MAGA Continues to COLLAPSE!"

• News cycle. I won't read the whole thing to you all, but Aaron Rupar has posted a summary of it. Trump in the middle of his latest unhinged truth social screed claims that if…

  about Donald Trump · at 0:53

• Well, and he serves up what they really want. He serves up memes of Michelle and Barack Obama, correct, as apes. And so when he th th th throwsrows in this stuff mixed in with some heavy antilack racism which.

  about Barack Obama · at 3:40

• The Bad Bunny performance is conclusive proof that Puerto Rico should never be a state. And what I have to say to Representative Andy Ogles is this is a big tell for you.

  about Bad Bunny · at 4:54

• The United States and it is treated really poorly by our government. And there was a lot of messaging in Bad Bunny's halftime show about the electrical issues in Puerto Rico about multiculturalism, about valuing love over hate, and.

  about Puerto Rico · at 8:22

• Trump is insane. Fox News are chief propagandists. They are making billions of dollars. Rupert Murdoch has done so much damage to this country. It's really alarming when you…

  about Fox News · at 9:53

• So naturally, I've been busy writing a book called Not Today: Fascist: The Lies That Got Us Here and the Truths That Will Reunite Us. My book will publish on October 6. And if you really want to.

  about Not Today Fascist: The Lies That Got Us Here and the Truths That Will Reunite Us · at 13:35

• Which brings me to Megan Kelly who is I think in the latter stages of MAGA psychosis. Play the clip.

  about Megan Kelly · at 16:32

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Donald Trump — Person · Primary referenced political figure / target of critique · 2 mentions · first at 0:59
  Central figure in the rant: described as mentally unfit, racist, and a driver of MAGA grievance politics; cited for a Truth Social post and broader influence on media and supporters.
• Bad Bunny — Person · Referenced performer / cultural flashpoint · 8 mentions · first at 0:26
  Used as the example of right-wing backlash to Spanish language and multiculturalism; his halftime performance is discussed as a trigger for Fox/MAGA commentary and a proxy for immigration/culture-war narratives.
• Jesse Waters — Person · Referenced media commentator (Fox News) / target of critique · 2 mentions · first at 8:04
  Presented as an example of Fox News propaganda and xenophobic framing of a Spanish-language halftime show; quoted describing it as an 'international event' and tying it to immigration claims.
  Jesse Waters. Jesse Waters was completely unhinged, which is just another Monday night in America last night on Fox News. And so these MAGA people fundamentally have a hard…
• Barack Obama — Person · Referenced political figure (example of racist targeting) · 2 mentions · first at 3:46
  Used to illustrate racist conspiracies ('born in Kenya') and dehumanizing memes; framed as a symbol of Black progress that triggered backlash among MAGA supporters.
• Megan Kelly — Person · Referenced media personality / target of critique · 2 mentions · first at 16:32
  Quoted criticizing a Spanish-language performance as a 'middle finger' to America; used to illustrate culture-war rhetoric and anti-multicultural framing.
• Randy Ogles — Person · Referenced politician (culture-war example) / target of critique · 1 mention · first at 4:36
  Quoted reacting to the halftime show with anti-gay/anti-Puerto Rico rhetoric; used as an example of culture-war framing and insinuations about sexuality.
  Last night's halftime show was a disgrace and it mocked American families. Depicting gay pornography on prime time has no place in our culture.
• Rupert Murdoch — Person · Referenced media mogul blamed for media influence · 1 mention · first at 9:57
  Invoked as emblematic of Fox News/corporate media power and alleged societal harm; used to explain how propaganda reaches millions nightly.
  Trump is insane. Fox News are chief propagandists. They are making billions of dollars. Rupert Murdoch has done so much damage to this country. It's really alarming when you…
• Aaron Rupar — Person · Referenced journalist/aggregator cited as source · 1 mention · first at 0:55
  Cited as the person who posted a summary of Trump's Truth Social post; functions as attribution for the described 'screed.'
  Just one that just gets slipped into the news cycle. I won't read the whole thing to you all, but Aaron Rupar has posted a summary of it. Trump in the middle of his latest…
• Michelle Obama — Person · Referenced public figure (example of racist targeting) · 1 mention · first at 3:42
  Mentioned as a target of racist memes alongside Barack Obama, supporting the episode’s argument about dehumanization and racism in MAGA media ecosystems.
  Well, and he serves up what they really want. He serves up memes of Michelle and Barack Obama, correct, as apes. And so when he th th th throwsrows in this stuff mixed.

Books & papers

• Not Today Fascist: The Lies That Got Us Here and the Truths That Will Reunite Us — Book · Primary recommendation · 1 mention · first at 13:35
  Mentioned as a forthcoming book by the speaker, critiquing the Trump administration and fascism.

Companies & orgs

• Fox News — Company · Business focus · 5 mentions · first at 8:00
  Discussed as a major propagandist outlet feeding racism and misinformation in the U.S.

Places & events

• Puerto Rico — Place · Setting · 2 mentions · first at 4:57
  Discussed in the context of its treatment by the U.S. government and its cultural representation during the Super Bowl halftime show.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 When the autopsy is written on this horrific racist chapter in American history, I think what's going to be so fascinating for those learning about it is how so many people lost their minds, their moral compass, relationships, family relationships, because they were blindly obedient to an incompetent, deranged old man that clearly has dementia. So, while all this stuff is going on in the world, right-wing melting down about Bad Bunny, because I guess people speaking Spanish is triggering when you're a thin skinned uh amoral MAGA cultist. Their cult leader is on his liocial idiotic social media platform because he got kicked off of all the others when he tried to do an insurrection. So, he started his own.

0:50 And he goes on these benders. And here's just one that just gets slipped into the news cycle. I won't read the whole thing to you all, but Aaron Rupar has posted a uh summary of it. Trump in the middle of his latest unhinged truth social screed claims that if Canada makes a trade deal with China, the first thing China will do is terminate all ice hockey being played in Canada and permanently eliminate the Stanley Cup. And here's the thing, like I understand all of us have been around old people with dementia. All of us have been around people that are old and kind of mean. I guess what I'm fascinated by right now is the people who read this and are like, "Oh my god,

1:34 ice hockey is going to be gone uh because of the Chinese and they're going to eliminate the Stanley Cup." Like that they connect all of this insanity to somehow their feeling that they are oppressed. And I want to remind everybody the bulk of MKA, they got everything they wanted in this last election. They have the presidency, they have the House, they have the Senate, they have the Supreme Court, they have uh all of Trump's sickopants buying up all of corporate media. They have everything they want. And these people are still miserable. They still feel oppressed. Which brings me to my foregone conclusion. Nothing will fix these people. They are permanently emotionally stunted and scarred from a culture in the United States of America that values profits over human beings.

2:28 Here's the thing about Trump. He's a bully. He's just a big fat insecure little teeny weeny peny bully. But here's the thing. It's like he's mad at Canada for making a trade deal when the first thing he did when he got into office the second time was call Canada the 51st state. You know, he sent an official lie social disinviting Canada from his board of peace. I mean, he's so freaking immature and stupid. It's just he's stupid. And these people, I think they give him a pass of, "Oh, he's so funny. Oh, he's going to he's going to get take away ice hockey from these people." I think they think he's just a laugh and a half because they're so dumb. They don't understand true wit and comedic energy and timing. But it's just it amazes me that people don't look at this and think this man immediately needs to be 25th Amendment. He immediately needs to be put in a nursing home because he is absolutely [ __ ] out of his mind.

3:40 Well, and he serves up what they really want. He serves up memes of Michelle and Barack Obama, correct,

3:47 as apes. And so when he th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th throwsrows in this stuff mixed in with some heavy antilack racism which is the MAGAS's first love antilack racism they've settled and moving on for immigrants and being triggered about these other things but as long as he serves that up which was the impetus of his campaign Barack Obama is not American Barack Obama was born in Kenya that racism unlocked something in these people that they felt damaged by the progress of black Americans They felt like Barack Obama's presidency damaged them, that it took something away from them. And the person who is providing deliverance is this guy because he allows them and gives them a permission structure to be racist. And then of course he's surrounded by just complete nuts. And so there's this congressman named Randy Ogles. And I just want to review his um halftime post.

4:45 Last night's halftime show was a disgrace and it mocked American families. Depicting gay pornography on prime time has no place in our culture. The Bad Bunny performance is conclusive proof that Puerto Rico should never be a state. And what I have to say to Representative Andy Ogles is this is a big tell for you.

5:07 Yes. This tells me that when you see men dancing, your brain interprets it as gay porn. Your brain interprets it as exciting and titillating. I actually saw a heterosexual marriage in the uh halftime show. He sees hot men uh doing salsa style dancing and he was aroused and he went to Twitter to prove that when he sees men dancing he's aroused much like little Moses Mike Grinder Johnson when somebody called him Magic Mike went to the movie Magic Mike where these men are hot strippers dancing and for him that's gay porn for Congressman Ogles seeing attract active men dancing is gay porn to him. So my messaging here is the Democrats here is an opportunity to bridge this divide on the culture wars because clearly after the bad bunny thing we won the culture wars. I mean, even the uh Paul brothers or Logan, whatever their names, those Logan Paul, he starts off with, "I'm not going to watch the halftime show all the way to

6:21 Bad Bunny was great." And they see that Americans love multiculturalism. My big thing is I am fascinated and I always have been about MAGA men that talk about gay stuff all the time. Y

6:36 they just talk about gay stuff more than the gay people that I know. And listen to me listener. I have been an interior designer for 25 plus years. So my gay friends are abundant. And I have never quite heard so many gay comparisons in out in the world, out in the wild as I have pertaining to MAGA men seeing gayness in something that really wasn't even gay. And I think it's a real Freudian style tell. I completely agree. And what's so funny about that is you hear what they say. You see what they post. Benny Johnson with the gate cruises. You know, Moses Mike with Magic Mike. And I think no wonder Grinder crashes every time these people are together. They're obsessed and thinking about gay stuff all the time because they have a desire to do it. Yet their religion or their, you know, whatever they think their status they're projecting doesn't allow them to be who they are. That's why they're

7:36 angry. That's why they crash grinder in secret. That is why they have to be so hateful because the rage is against themselves in my opinion. Speaking of alleged heterosexuals, a person that is completely obsessed with men, talks about them adnauseium, talks about masculinity, talks about real men do this, real men do that, of course is um ridiculous propagandist on Fox News, Jesse Waters. Jesse Waters was completely unhinged, which is just another Monday night in America last night on Fox News. And so these uh MAGA people fundamentally have a hard time understanding that Puerto Rico is the United States and it is treated really poorly by our government. And there was a lot of messaging in Bad Bunny's um halftime show about the electrical issues in Puerto Rico about multiculturalism, about uh valuing love over hate, um and lifting up small immigrant children when he handed the Grammy to the little boy.

8:49 And so here's how this was all received over on Fox. Play the clip. The Super Bowl not to be an international event. I like it when we kind of all come together as Americans, especially when it feels like the NFL is just using it as a marketing ploy to recruit Latin American audience on the heels of Latin America invading this country. 20 million pouring in. And that's

9:13 Pause it right there. That's a lie. The 20 million pouring in, that isn't a um demonstrabably proven lie. Yet it continues and continues on Fox and through this administration. Continue on.

9:28 All these foreigners speaking a foreign language with foreign flags marching into the camera like a caravan. Too soon. Listen. What? This was an open borders moment. Everybody knows it. That's what's going on here. And all the reporters.

9:46 Okay, so obviously that's just insane. And the bigger issue for me again is Trump is insane. Fox News are chief propagandists. They are making billions of dollars. Uh Rupert Murdoch has done so much damage to this country. It's really uh alarming when you sit back and think about it is that millions of people sit at home at night and watch that and it it it feeds something in them which is this default setting of racism. And I remember, and it doesn't just apply to brown people, they get really mad at white people that embrace multiculturalism as well. And I'll give you an example. When John Ky was running for president against George W. Bush, John Kerry can speak fluent French.

10:33 Fluent. And he's over in France and he starts speaking fluent French. And then later on when he was Secretary of State, he would be in France or some EU thing and he would speak fluent French. this same level of meltdown about somebody who's bilingual. And so I just have to implore the question like are your are your is your whole world and your identity built up so thinly like a house of cards that if somebody speaks a different language or has a different skin color or is somebody who you deem to be a heritage American like this is why Fox gets so mad at me because they say oh wait a minute she's a heritage American. She's from Northern Europe and born in Texas. She's supposed to be on our side. She's a race trader just like they thought Mike Pence was. And they are so insecure that anything that isn't in their own little teeny tiny narrow world view. It is explosive diarrhea on lie social, on Twitter, on Fox News. And

11:40 it feeds this hysteria. And I think the thing that amazes me about the MAGA movement is just how thin skinned, fragile, and hysterical they are. These people are absolutely hysterical. It was a Super Bowl show. The America that I have grown up in is like, if you don't like it, change the channel, right? You have autonomy. You have agency. And all of this could have been avoided by Jesse Waters changing the channel. But we saw in an episode that I did yesterday that even at Mara Lago, which by the way is not an English name, Mara Lago, doesn't sound very American to me. But at Mara Lago, the foreign named golf club, they're watching Bad Bunny, they're not watching the [ __ ] show Kid Rock thing because Kid Rock sucks. They're watching Bad Bunny and Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin and all of the fabulous multiculturalism that America has to offer. And this is the thing that scares them so much.

12:37 They're so concerned about the great replacement theory. They're so concerned about people, white people, breeding heritage Americans, as they call it, breeding with brownskinned people and maybe speaking another language. And I just think, what a pathetic existence that that would that's your big rub in life. Like out of all of the things in the world to be mad about, like may hey maybe the president of the United States is an adjudicated rapist and in cankles deep in the middle of a pedophile sex ring wherein the lead operator appears to be a MSAD agent who also is selling off [ __ ] to Russia to bribe our president. That's how it appears to me.

13:17 But no, let's get wound up about a musician named Bad Bunny wherein you could have simply not watched the show. All right, listen up listener. The Trump administration has said that we cannot call them fascists. And the last time I checked, we still had a first amendment. So naturally, I've been busy writing a book called Not Today: Fascist: The Lies That Got Us Here and the Truths That Will Reunite Us. My book will publish on October 6. And if you really want to give the administration the bird, go over and pre-order it wherever books are sold.

13:55 Well, here's the deal. They have to have something to talk about, and it has to be racist because that's what the people that watch Fox News want to hear. So, they can't talk about Epstein. They can't talk about Trump being so ass deep in these files and the atrocities that he committed against young girls as alleged in these files and all the other people in his cabinet. For example, Howard Netlick Letic. But they can't talk about that. So they have to imagine a slight and here's the thing they have Fox News anchors and the audience they think that if you have access to the American dream that takes away my access to the American dream. They've never figured out that the more access people have to upward mobility the better it is. And you look at this wealth disparity and you see people are getting poorer and the 1% and the richer they're getting richer and richer and richer. So what they're doing, they're feeding the

14:59 hate. They're feeding this anger in people and they're making them think you're going to take from me. If you're equal then you take from me which is the biggest bunch of horseshit because it's the billionaires that are taking everything. And I just want to say one other thing. The whole theme of Bad Bunny's hap halftime show which I rewatched after I you know read about all the nuggets in it. It was like love is more powerful than hate. This is America and these people are triggered by that and it is unbelievably racist and appalling and the fact that it's just sitting there on the news like it's normal. It's just [ __ ] gross.

15:41 Well, these people have been historically triggered by halftime Super Bowl performances. Like, this isn't new. They're always upset by art. They're upset by the fact that open-minded people that tend to be creative, tend to be more progressive, that facts have a liberal bias. Um, you know, lately they've been running around saying there are no Republican professors at any of the Ivy's. I'm like, well, no [ __ ] because facts have a liberal bias. You know, it's not like somebody get ascends that high and critically thinks that much and then says, "You know what I think we should do? We should tax the working class more than the billionaires." That makes perfect sense to me. That just when you get data and you get facts, you don't end up in that place. But this is a classic historical scapegoating that we've seen in other uh times of history, other fascist regimes.

16:32 Which brings me to Megan Kelly who is I think in the latter stages of MAGA psychosis. Play the clip.

16:39 Sorry, Piers, but to get up there and perform the whole the whole show in Spanish is a middle finger to the rest of America. Who gives a damn that we have 40 40 million Spanish speakers in the United States? We have more than 10 million who

16:57 I I care that we have 40 million Hispanics in the United States. Um it doesn't bother me in the least bit that it was all in Spanish because I think it's fascinating to get a little sampling and a taste of a different culture that literally hundreds of millions of people around the world like Bad Bunny. What an honor to be able to have the world's largest uh Latino pop star agree to perform at the Super Bowl during Trump's reign of absolute murder, terror, and debauchery on US citizens. Keep going. Don't speak a lick of Spanish. This is supposed to be a unifying event for the country, not for the Latinos, not for one small group, but for the country. We don't need a black national anthem. We don't need a Spanishspeaking non-English performing uh performer. And we don't need an ICE or America hater featured as our prime time entertainment.

17:59 Okay. What is the Okay, here's I'm just going to leave it with this. Megan Kelly, Chinga Tumadre Pa. All right. Like, subscribe, comment. We'll be back later.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "IHIP News: Trump in 2 AM BENDER Makes BIZARRE Threats to ALLIES as MAGA Continues to COLLAPSE!"?

Megan Kelly (Guest), Jesse Waters (Guest), Randy Ogles.

What is "IHIP News: Trump in 2 AM BENDER Makes BIZARRE Threats to ALLIES as MAGA Continues to COLLAPSE!" about?

The discussion critiques the current state of American political discourse, focusing on the erratic behavior and statements of Donald Trump, whose recent threats and bizarre claims reflect a disturbing descent into irrationality. It highlights the contrast between the continued power of MAGA supporters in government and their persistent feelings of oppression, despite their political victories.

What is mentioned in this I've Had It episode?

12 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Donald Trump, Bad Bunny, Fox News, Puerto Rico, Jesse Waters, Barack Obama. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "IHIP News: Trump in 2 AM BENDER Makes BIZARRE Threats to ALLIES as MAGA Continues to COLLAPSE!"?

The episode runs 18 min; the transcript is about 2,878 words in 26 timestamped sections.

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