Trump caught in INSANE new scandal at Mar-a-Lago
By: Brian Tyler Cohen
The first few minutes are the content I intended to see. Not the the commercial and the balance of the video.
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Trump finally has his mask-off moment, dropping all pretense he's focused on delivering for working Americans with his latest move. And I'm joined by California Governor Gavin Newsome to discuss the Trump shutdown, Attorney General Rob Bont to discuss how California is fighting back against the deployment of DOJ poll watchers, and ABC News's Jonathan Carl to discuss his behind-the-scenes reporting from Mar-a-Lago. I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're watching No Lie.
One might think that when the government is shut down because you refuse to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies, when you put 42 million Americans at risk of not getting their food assistance that they rely on to survive, that you might try just a tad bit harder to make sure that you, the billionaire President of the United States, do not host a party at your exclusive resort where the theme is quite literally The Great Gatsby. I mean, talk about on the nose. Was The Hunger Games not available?
And of course, this is not a bug—it is a feature. We have a president broadcasting the extent to which he just doesn't care how out of touch he looks. Doesn't care about the extent to which he is channeling Marie Antoinette. And it's not just his party celebrating the haves versus the have-nots; it's the fact that the day before that party, he posted—I kid you not—25 photos about his newly marbled bathroom renovation.
It's the fact that he demolished the entire East Wing of the White House to build himself a $350 million ballroom. It's the fact that he's using a billion dollars in taxpayer money to retrofit a jet that he gets to keep. The fact that he's adorned the Oval Office with enough gold to make Liberace blush. The fact that he's doubled his net worth in the last ten months in office. The fact that the latest drone contract from the Pentagon went to Don Jr.'s drone company.
And so we've got example after example after example of the fact that this guy has used the presidency to enrich himself and his family and immerse himself in opulence, which would be bad enough unto itself. But remember, this guy ran an entire-ass campaign predicated on this idea that he actually gave a—he pandered for years and years about the cost of groceries, of housing, of rent, of eggs. He talked about manufacturing jobs, talked about high inflation, talked about wages, and yet now housing is more expensive, rent is more expensive, groceries are more expensive, manufacturing is contracting, inflation's been rising every month since March, wages are flat, everyone is hurting—and yet this guy has the balls to get in front of the cameras and try to explain to people how what we needed as a country was a ballroom.
Look, Trump is not devoid of political strategy. He may have had zero intention of keeping any of his promises from the campaign, but he was still smart enough to deploy those promises because he knew they would work—and they did. The guy isn't stupid. He understands optics. He understands marketing. If nothing else, he understands marketing.
So the fact that he will then, regardless, still adorn his office with gold and post 25 pictures of his new marble bathroom and literally host a Gatsby-themed party at Mar-a-Lago wasn't some accident. It is simply the result of the fact that he does not care. His priority is not—and never was—working-class people. It is himself. It is his family. It's his donors and his rich friends. Those are the people who will ride on his new jet. Those are the people who will dine in his new ballroom. Those are the people who will admire the gold leafing in the Oval Office.
All the while, millions of Americans across the country—and especially in red states—will spend the following days hoping their food assistance comes through while they figure out how they're going to pay two, three, four, five times more for health insurance in 2026 than they did in 2025.
You don't have to listen to what I say Trump's priorities are—you just have to look at what he's doing. He is broadcasting those priorities a hell of a lot better than I ever could. So I hope his supporters and his voters out there recognize not just the con being perpetuated by Trump, but supported by his entire party.
Remember, the GOP's got full control of government. They don't need to compromise with the Democrats. This is their full agenda playing itself out. This is what you get with GOP control—yes, Donald Trump, but everybody else in the House, everybody else in the Senate, all of whom are going along with this.
So they'll say the right things during the campaign, but the moment they have power, it is about helping themselves. So remember this moment, because when they need to pander for your votes again in the upcoming elections, they're going to repeat the same populist platitudes they did before—but when it comes time to govern, their focus will always be helping themselves.
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Trump's super power is the con. He knows how to play that game. He knows how to take advantage of naivety and wishful thinking.
with the percentage of gullible morons among the electorate now clearly evident, I regret retiring from sales ...
Ahhh, they will always be plentiful in supply.
Of course. I struggle to find it possible for any but the most naive and/or sycophantish to have believed anything else.
I think he just wanted to see girls in short flapper-style dresses.
But so many still believe this scoundrel.
Or at least support him. You don't need to believe what he says to support what he is for. For the more obtuse it is all about owning the liberals, no matter if he is using their money....
I agree, many Trump supporters are so desperate to antagonize 'the Left' that they are willing to have an irresponsible asshole inflict damage on this nation on a weekly basis.
And that's irresponsible. Didn't know we had so many irresponsible people in this country
I know, the Trump era has been quite an eye-opening view into the current electorate.
The Republicans want to OPEN the government, which is why they vote YES for a clean CR, the Dems want to keep it CLOSED and keep voting NO. Some Dems have openly stated they want this shutdown to hurt the working and middle class so they will gain. "leverage"
The voters will let us know what they think by the midterms