Trump pushes socialist price controls for pharmaceuticals, refugee status for white people and free flights out for everyone else. Rachel and Aaron also dive into the effort to suspend the U.S. Constitution, and compare how Trump’s chaotic presidency parallels the rise of Vladimir Putin. Plus… the Da President thinks he invented a brand new word, and Da Pope offers inspiring words for the world.

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• Trump wants drug price controls (
• Trump bashes price controls on Truth Social (August 2024)
• White House: TO ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS: BOOK YOUR FREE FLIGHT NOW
• Cardinal Prevost (Pope Leo XIV) tweet re: JD Vance (Feb 3)
• Bannon’s War Room: Marjorie Taylor Greene
• Rachel on white South African refugees
• OANN on Twitter
• Pope Leo XIV: “Evil will not win”
• Hit ‘Em Where It Hurts: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game

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This week Rachel and Aaron investigate the three words that hit hardest from Donald Trump’s recent interview on NBC's Meet the Press, and the one word missing from the New York Times’s editorial criticizing his first 100 days. Plus: Jews and fascism? An eye-opening comparison between Trump’s “Lord of the Shadows” and the rise of the Third Reich.

LINKS:

• NBC’s Meet the Press: Full interview with Donald Trump
• NBC News: Fact-checking Donald Trump’s May interview with ‘Meet the Press’
• 60 Minutes: How law firms targeted by Trump are responding to White House pressure
• Marc Elias: Democracy Docket
• SNL: ‘Lord of the Shadows’
• Stephen Miller: ‘Children will be taught to love America’
• New York Times: Editorial: There Is a Way Forward: How to Defeat Trump’s Power Grab
• Mike Pence Receives JFK Profile in Courage Award
• Hit ‘Em Where It Hurts: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game
• The Cycle on Substack

As another texting scandal jolts the Pentagon into “full-blown meltdown,” Rachel earns national attention for her internet sleuthing skills and gets vindicated in the aftermath of the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. Plus, she and Aaron take a close look at the first rule in fighting tyranny… and share a masterclass from a European internet troll.

LINKS:

• Politico Opinion: Former Top Pentagon Spokesperson Details ‘Month From Hell’ Inside the Agency
• The Daily Beast: Rachel catches bad White House photoshop job
• George Carlin: Methods of Execution
• SplitTicket.org tweet: The story of Wisconsin's Supreme Court election was turnout
• Timothy Snyder on Substack: Obeying in Advance
• European Parliament Member Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy trolls Trump’s New York
• Hit ‘Em Where It Hurts: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game
• The Cycle on Substack