The Good Liars Jason Selvig & Molly Jong-Fast reflect on nearly a decade of covering Donald Trump, focusing first on a Washington Post report that described Trump allegedly being moved covertly—along with Natalie Harp and Pete Hegseth—via a catering truck while the press corps and others were left on a plane as an apparent decoy, a story the speakers say enraged Trump because it embarrassed him and involved lying about safety and threats. They then connect that pattern of embarrassment to retaliation, discussing reporting that a Qatari plane wasn’t ready and lacked safety features, and claiming Trump responded by using the DOJ to subpoena journalists, which they describe as an unprecedented use of government power to protect his ego. The discussion shifts to Trump’s foreign fixations (including Greenland), then to Minnesota’s Republican gubernatorial primary where Mike Lindell (the “MyPillow guy”) lost and alleged the election was stolen, which they take as evidence that even some Trump-endorsed, extreme candidates can be rejected. Finally, one speaker recounts reporting from a Michigan Trump rally where attendees dismissed ideas like universal health care and higher taxes on billionaires despite personal economic hardship, attributing higher gas prices to Democrats even while acknowledging costs are up, and the segment ends with an anecdote about “MAGA water” being sold with “taste the pure difference,” which the speakers interpret as disturbingly tied to “keep it pure” rhetoric.
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GOP shaken up by the ICE invasion of MN. Sadly no lessons learned in CO with the GOP primary win of the self-proclaimed exorcist man-killer.
They are baked in.
Let’s face it. You cannot fix stupid. And maga is flipping stupid.
The people who defend billionaires while they can’t afford healthcare, think that they are just temporarily embarrassed millionaires. They genuinely believe that they are going to be rich soon.
American exceptionalism is a hell of a drug!
The oligarchs around Trump have told him how much mineral wealth and resources are under the ice in Greenland. He wants it because he wants to go down in history as a great leader who expanded the United States. It’s also part of the reason why he wants to take over Canada.
The press will still fête Trump at the WHCA dinner next year.
Everyone should go listen to the whole video from Michigan… 😩😩
This isn’t hard. People WANT to believe what they want to believe. Facts do not matter to Trump voters. They are not coming around. Decades after Germany was destroyed, many of Hitler’s most fervent supporters could admit that the war was bad but refused to blame Hitler himself. Why? Because they WANTED to believe it. I wish we could stop talking about Trump supporters so we can focus on the rest us, mobilizing, and defeating this mass psychosis, which is what this is. Guarantee 99% of these people are lost to us. WE are the majority and have to focus our energy on fighting back, defending this country’s values, and reforming the nation to do the most good for the most amount of people.
Dude is distractingly handsome! Love the quick witted field reporting and conversation. Thank you, Molly 🙏
All djt staffer and PR firm, soft and gentle, no follow up, "reporters" who travel with him are sickafants, willing propagandists and know full well people are disposable to djt. They are all there by choice to enable the destruction of our country. Any real reporters have no access to djt. No enemies of djt would consider them civilian targets.
Just hoping the October Surprise breaks to Dem advantage for a change.
Everyone should read Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Stupidity. Once you read it you can't unsee it in all of Trump's followers.
Also, we should point out that they don't seem to care about anything with Trump except that he punishes the people that they hate. In that respect "the cruelty" really is the point with them.
How we give these people a pass when Trump is off the scene is beyond me because allowing them back into society is going to do nothing but encourage more of this kind of crap.
"You have to think two things at the same time." Doublethink exactly.
This is why.
Entertainment, like fox, entertainment, podcasts, rush limbar. Are Serious devices, that brainwash, certain kind of brains of people. Psychological test have been stopped because of the intensity, of brainwashing by law. We should be looking into by law. The brainwashing of these areas
That's why it's like a cult, and you have to deprogram a person who's been in a cult. It's not a simple one sentence or a simple one question. It takes intense days of questions to that person for them to answer, not for you. To answer, what you tried to do is make them find in their own mind. The misconnect and that doesn't happen easily. That's also why, when you take someone away from a cult, you literally take them away so that they have nothing to feed back into them the false narratives.
And MAGA all the time compare Donald Trump to General Patton. Would General Patton sneak off in a catering container truck leaving everyone else to die.
The health insurance dude and his demeanor was that of a total loser!!!
Jason Selvig had to drop the “likes” in his conversation. So annoying! Otherwise, a good conversation.
I would like to tell the press corps, 'you have been his decoy this whole time. Why stop now?'
I want evidence to persuade, and I don’t understand why it doesn’t work.
He has no moral line. Satan is yell ing hold on there amigo.
No, you are wrong about it being a good thing that the crazies are losing their primaries. We need them to win, first, to publicize widely how horrible Republicans have allowed themselves to be, and second, to lose the general.
I love that TFG left little Marco on the decoy plane.
U don’t understand how Fanatical Zealots work. They strap bombs to themselves. They support Trump and the ideal of Capitalism till the Extreme End!
It's a cult…
The point ending at 19:55 is a perfect description of believers. The belief itself does not matter, these people WANT to believe. If it's god, allah or that the moon landing is fake is secondary. And that is a HUGE problem.
Ego is what everything is about with Trump. The money, the hair, all the women, the lawyers. It's all about stroking his weak ego. He knows he's a buffoon. We need to keep humiliating and laughing at him! It's what drives him crazy more than anything.
What Trump has going for him is cadence and emphatic diction. He's really strong in those.
Look, the rational people that some of us are will never-ever be able to understand the mindset of the low-information maga voters. They are willfully ignorant and aggressively stupid, they mine their “knowledge” from gas-lit echo chambers that reinforce their own misguided beliefs, and are simply beyond help. It’s sociopathy perverted by narcissistic and borderline personality disorder levels of crazy. Let them eat cake – I’m gonna be just fine, thanks 🙏
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Amazing the second plane could take off after Trump in a food van
Sorry, but "martial" is not a hard word to spell.
One correction, Molly. Per reporting elsewhere, Pete Hegseth boarded that other plane in full view of people to make it look like he was the guy who was gonna be taking that plane.
Dumb down the schools, dumb down the fools. Your country is dying from stupidity. MAGA Water is one step away from Idiocracy’s, ‘Brawndo : The Thirst Mutilator.’