Ever wondered what it's like to celebrate your wife' birthday in a courtroom? Join us as we offer up a cheeky birthday salute to Melania Trump, only to pivot to the not-so-celebratory scene of her husband, Donald Trump, navigating his way through a thicket of thorny legal issues in court—on her special day, no less. The drama unfolds with Trump battling the chill of the courtroom (and perhaps the chill of the proceedings) and even allegedly catching winks of sleep amidst the serious accusations. You'll be glued to your headphones as we discuss the curious absence of Melania and the Trump offspring from the courtroom gallery and dive into the murky waters of media manipulation and the seismic shifts in the Supreme Court that could reshape America's legal landscape.
Shift into a softer gear with us as we explore the empathetic leadership style of President Joe Biden, sculpted from the raw clay of personal tragedy. Listen closely as we unravel how Biden's deep-seated experiences with loss breathe life into his presidential duties, particularly his handling of the pandemic, and how this contrasts starkly with Trump's more reserved acknowledgment of his own family's losses. We wrap up with a powerful interview featuring Howard Stern, where the conversation takes an unflinching look at the Supreme Court and indulges in a fantasy debate with Trump. It's a conversation that's as candid as it is critical, and one that offers insights into the very heart of America's political tug-of-war.
Ever wondered what it's like to celebrate your wife' birthday in a courtroom? Join us as we offer up a cheeky birthday salute to Melania Trump, only to pivot to the not-so-celebratory scene of her husband, Donald Trump, navigating his way through a thicket of thorny legal issues in court—on her special day, no less. The drama unfolds with Trump battling the chill of the courtroom (and perhaps the chill of the proceedings) and even allegedly catching winks of sleep amidst the serious accusations. You'll be glued to your headphones as we discuss the curious absence of Melania and the Trump offspring from the courtroom gallery and dive into the murky waters of media manipulation and the seismic shifts in the Supreme Court that could reshape America's legal landscape.
Shift into a softer gear with us as we explore the empathetic leadership style of President Joe Biden, sculpted from the raw clay of personal tragedy. Listen closely as we unravel how Biden's deep-seated experiences with loss breathe life into his presidential duties, particularly his handling of the pandemic, and how this contrasts starkly with Trump's more reserved acknowledgment of his own family's losses. We wrap up with a powerful interview featuring Howard Stern, where the conversation takes an unflinching look at the Supreme Court and indulges in a fantasy debate with Trump. It's a conversation that's as candid as it is critical, and one that offers insights into the very heart of America's political tug-of-war.
Before we get started, I'd like to take this opportunity to send birthday wishes to an amazing woman who is dear to all of our hearts. Happy birthday, dear Melania. Happy birthday.
Speaker 2:
No.
Speaker 1:
I'm fucking kidding. Hey, this is D Knight from the Part of the Interaction podcast coming to you from Nashville, tennessee. But yes, of course it actually was Melania's birthday. She's not getting the ideal present, I would imagine, and I'm sure you're wondering. Hmm, if it's her birthday, where might her husband be?
Speaker 3:
Thank you very much. Everybody Appreciate it. Thank you very much, everybody Appreciate it. I want to start by wishing my wife Melania a very happy birthday. It's nice to be with her, but I'm in a courthouse for a rape trial. It's a rape trial Terrible but we're doing very well in this rape trial. Everybody knows it.
Speaker 1:
Man stuck in court on your girl's birthday. That is unfortunate, but maybe if you haven't been getting spanked by Stormy Daniels, you wouldn't be in court and you could spend the birthday with the missus. And in case you're wondering how much she believes him when he says it never happened, Take note of the fact that she hasn't attended a single day of his trial Any of his trials for that matter. Speaking of which, where are the rest of his kids? I guess that's not super important, but let's hear more from Donald Trump about how he's handling his day in court, missing his missus.
Speaker 3:
So we have another day of court in a freezing court house. It's very cold in there. For what purpose, I believe? They don't seem to be able to get the temperature up. It shouldn't be that complicated. But we have a freezing courthouse and that's fine. That's just fine. Let them keep handing it out. This is a rigged trial. Thank you very much, mr Dross.
Speaker 2:
You're not going to jail, Mr Dross.
Speaker 4:
Do you think there's going to?
Speaker 1:
Is it really that cold in there? Or is he just thinking about his bedroom, where it's gotten cold and lonely here recently? Regardless, there's no reason for him to be railing against the cold courtroom constantly like bro, have you ever heard of dressing in layers? That is an option. Or maybe you're just getting old and you need to go get your levels checked. That's also a possibility, and I don't know about you all, but when it's cold I personally have a hard time going to sleep. It's like really uncomfortable when it's really cold, but when it's warm, that puts me right out. But clearly the cold is no obstacle to Donald Trump catching some Zs and well, considering the type of women he was sleeping with with no condom, it's surprising that he's not caught more than Z's.
Speaker 2:
I also have another source who's inside the courtroom who asked that I not name them specifically, but this source had a very interesting take of what was going on in the courtroom and it confirmed all of the other reporting that I've just read for you. Let me take a look, and just so I want to make sure I get this absolutely 100% accurate right here as to what was going on in the courtroom. They said that Trump looked to actually be in close to deep REM sleep, that his lids are heavy, oftentimes look like he's about to fall asleep, but then he's taking full-on bona fide naps, possibly REM sleep taking place.
Speaker 1:
While it's clearly past Don Snorleone's jail time, there were quite a few stunning revelations from the Trump trial this week. For instance, a media outlet conspiring to suppress and kill negative stories about Donald Trump, while pushing and promoting negative stories about his opponent, and speaking of Trump's opponent in the 2024 election. I'm sure you're probably wondering. Hmm, I wonder what Joe Biden's up to. He's definitely not sleeping in court. He actually instead did a live interview with the infamous radio host Howard Stern.
Speaker 4:
When Obama had his time to appoint a Supreme Court justice, he was going to appoint Garland. These maniacs in the Senate said no way, not interested. And now we've got a Supreme Court. That's nuts.
Speaker 5:
Well, it's a really extremely conservative court, maybe the most conservative court in modern history. And when they struck down Roe v Wade saying that it was not constitutionally federal, constitutionally guaranteed it was a state issue, states can make those judgments. Lucy guaranteed it was a state issue. States can make those judgments. And one of the justices, clarence Thomas, said it's not that women don't have a choice. They can, in fact, change it if they, in effect, at a state level, like but we'll see if they have any power.
Speaker 1:
Most conservative Supreme Court ever. Dude, they just got finished arguing in support of the idea of granting immunity to presidents even for ordering the assassination of their own political opponents. What if their political opponent is the Supreme Court? That ain't conservatism. That is insanity. They are willing to sign their own death warrants in order to bail Trump out. It's forking bananas. Let's play the next clip.
Speaker 4:
Can I tell you a fantasy I had? I don't know if you're going to debate Trump out, it's forking bananas. Let's play the next clip. Can I tell you a fantasy I had? I don't know if you're going to debate your opponent.
Speaker 5:
I am somewhere, I don't know when, I'm happy to debate him.
Speaker 4:
This is how I would handle it. Tell me if I'm nuts Well, I am nuts, but tell me if this is accurate. I would stand there on stage with Trump and I would repeat over and over again excuse me, please find me 11,000 votes so that I can win the election. I would just repeat that over and over again and then I'd say to the audience what are we debating? A man picked up the phone and wanted to say fake the election, give me 11,000 votes. I don't know how any American who loves this country that's the end of the debate. You don't get to run if you're going to fix an election On.
Speaker 5:
January 6th, when the they were storming the.
Speaker 4:
Capitol and a police officer died.
Speaker 5:
Yeah, and he would say nothing. He was sitting in that office off that dining area, off the Oval Office, for three hours and said nothing.
Speaker 1:
Well, that's not completely true. Actually, trump was saying a lot of things. He was calling conservative members of Congress and asking them to do everything in their power to steal the election, and he also sent out a tweet saying that Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what he'd be done to overturn the 2020 election, and that's when the mob tried to hang him. But let's play the next clip.
Speaker 5:
I was supposed to make a speech on the economy that day. Instead I made a speech from Delaware. I was in Delaware on that issue because I was elected president, but I wasn't sworn in yet. It was derelict, it was almost criminal. He did nothing. He just sat there and watched what was happening Not a single. And now he wants to call. He calls them patriots and victims. I mean it says he's going to pardon them all if he's reelected.
Speaker 1:
Side note, our podcast is called Pardon the Insurrection. It's supposed to be tongue in cheek If you're familiar with the long running ESPN show Pardon the Interruption. It's kind of a play on that. It's supposed to be taken. Ironically, trump is literally talking about pardoning the insurrectionists. But I mean I guess I'm glad we beat them to the title at least, like I'm sure they were eventually going to come up with the idea. Like I can only imagine what it must be like being a MAGA supporter and you're scrolling through your podcast You're like, oh, pardon the insurrection, I want to pardon the insurrectionists. Man, are they in for a surprise when they press play on that bad boy? But let's get to the next clip.
Speaker 4:
How do some of the guys that you served in the Senate with I'm talking about Republicans how are they going along with this? Well, I don't think.
Speaker 5:
Look, this is not your father's Republican Party. No, it isn't. This is, you know, a lot of Republicans, including the old segregationists that I served with, who at least you could talk to, at least on matters relating to. They were totally wrong on civil rights, but the fact is that they understood there's a need for a consensus to run this country and I've had, and I gave my word I'd never say their names and I never will. In the last three years I've had seven sitting Republican senators. Two are gone. Now seven sitting Republican senators call me to tell me Joe, I agree with you, but I just can't do it. He'll go, he'll get me.
Speaker 1:
He's going to get them. Like is he threatening their lives? Just these people? Look, Republicans in the Senate had the opportunity to be rid of this dude in 2021, right after the coup where they had the opportunity. If just a handful more of them had stepped up and convicted him in his impeachment trial, he would be out of their hair. But now here they are, being held hostage by a man that they're afraid to speak out against because of whatever consequences they imagine might happen. Like is he threatening the Supreme Court too? Well, guys, like, maybe you shouldn't give him immunity, because if he comes after you, at least he'll go to jail for it. My God, with these people, let's get to the next clip.
Speaker 4:
That's what I was going to ask you. Do you get these calls in secret where guys go listen? I can't say it publicly, but I'm for you and I'm going to vote for you. I'm a Republican, but screw it, I can't vote for this guy because he's talking about ending the democracy.
Speaker 5:
Well, they're not saying they're going to vote for me. They're saying I agree with you.
Speaker 4:
And do you say to them you coward, why don't you say something publicly? Where's Jeb Bush? Where's George Bush? Where are these guys? Why don't they say, hey, I'm interested in saving the democracy for our grandchildren?
Speaker 5:
Well, I don't think the election's over yet on that score.
Speaker 4:
What do you think's going to happen?
Speaker 5:
I can't imagine you're going to lose, but Well, look, he's promised if he doesn't win, there's going to be a bloodbath. Can you imagine? Here's what bothers me most. We have a fundamentally different value set. For example, when he was in Paris, he wouldn't go to that grave site and said there are losers, these men and women who were killed in the battle defending America, Losers. And I just I'm glad I wasn't there, because I think I would have my son's in one of those graves. He's in one of the graves back here, not there. And the idea that they're losers and suckers.
Speaker 4:
And McCain's a loser. He said.
Speaker 5:
McCain's a loser. Well, McCain's a loser. When John McCain got out of prison and was released, he came work for me. He was a Senate liaison officer. We traveled over a hundred thousand miles together and he was like an assistant because he worked for the he was a fabulous man.
Speaker 4:
I got to meet him before he died no, he's a straight up guy, man.
Speaker 5:
Yeah, tough as hell and uh, but I, I, just I, I. I find I can't fathom a president of the united States of America saying that the folks who died defending this country were suckers and losers.
Speaker 1:
For the record, President Biden was about to say that if he had been there he would have beat Trump's orange ass, and here's a clip of President Biden speaking about his son, Beau, who served in the military.
Speaker 4:
Here. You were a US senator and you know the song by Credence Clearwater I'm Not a Fortunate Son. Your son he is a son of a senator, joins the military and was in Iraq Look um.
Speaker 5:
And Bo, my son Bo, should be sitting there instead of me. He's more capable than I am. And he was the attorney general of the state of Delaware. And one day I came home, he came over to the house he was living in Delaware and he said Dad, what are you doing? On Friday, I said what do you need? He said I need you to pin my bars on me. I said pin your bars on you. What the hell are you talking about? So I joined the National Guard and facetiously said somebody's got to do this anyway.
Speaker 4:
Were you in shock that he joined the National Guard?
Speaker 5:
No, I wasn't in shock. It didn't surprise me. It's just he had to give up the attorney general's job because you either have to work for the president or for the state.
Speaker 5:
So he was attorney general at that point he was attorney general turned it back over to a Republican who had been there before Wow and went for a year. The problem was he lived next to one of those burn pits. He came back with a bronze star. He came back with a service medal. He also came back with stage four glioblastoma. The brain injuries out of Iraq are extreme, like they were the people in 9-11, all those firefighters because of the toxic fumes.
Speaker 4:
You're convinced that the reason he got brain cancer is oh, I know it, it's been determined.
Speaker 5:
Yeah, and a lot of them did.
Speaker 4:
A lot of them Did he call you and say, Dad, I've gotten a horrible diagnosis.
Speaker 5:
No, he came home and it just kept getting worse. And that's when he realized they did the analysis. And then he was in Walter Reed for a long time. But I wrote a book called Promise Me, dad. He knew his time was up and one night we were having dinner at our home before he was incapacitated, hospitalized, and he said dad, uh, can we talk? And I said sure. And I said I.
Speaker 5:
He said look at me, dad, promise me dad. Promise me, dad that you'll not leave public life. I know when I go you'll, you'll want to quit, you'll, you'll want to quit. And he looked at to quit. And he looked at me, said Dad, give me your word as a Biden, give me your word. Wow, look at me, I give my word on the health of my family. He said promise me Dad, he won't step back. And I made the promise Before he passed away. No, excuse me. Last thing he said before he passed away. I mean, literally we were in the hospital about hunting, I with him, lying in bed with him. He looked at me and said I'm not scared, dad, it's okay, I'm not scared, it's okay. He was gone within anyway.
Speaker 1:
Wow, say what you want about President Biden, but I can tell you this one thing for sure that man cares. He's experienced some extraordinarily traumatic loss over the course of his life and that shaped him into a president who cares, who's compassionate, who's considerate and who's empathetic. Take the pandemic, for instance. You know something that's touched all of our lives to some degree or another and cost, you know, two million American lives, president Biden having lost his son to a disease. I think that made him right for this job. His predecessor left him with no pandemic response plan and no vaccine rollout, no PPE, nothing. President Biden got into office and made that his first priority. He got that up and running, got the vaccines rolled out, saved numerous American lives, and you know there are multiple foreign wars going on at this point and despite whatever you may think about the specifics of his policies, I can tell you and, as you've seen from that video, there's no one more acquainted with the cost of war when it comes to human lives. And just keep that in mind and also, like, just for comparison's sake, like you see, how much President Biden still thinks of his son.
Speaker 1:
You remember when Trump's brother died mysteriously in the middle of the pandemic? Oh, that's right. You ain't never heard Trump mention his ass again, have you? No, you have not. Oh, what about Trump's ex-wife? That's right. They buried her on the par five of this golf course. Someone needs to go get out there and mow her grave at his golf course. Someone needs to go get out there and mow her grave, like, just for comparison's sake. Like Biden is one of the most caring and empathetic human beings and I'm glad to have him as president. And you can give me a follow on my personal podcast, pardon the Insurrection, available everywhere that podcasts are found.