Transcript: MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—Exposing Trump as Weak

So the economy is gonna be tanking. Before long, we’re gonna be going back to someone, a century, two centuries, three—you know, our research is being cut. And now we have RFK Jr., who—you know, the irony of some of these steps that he’s taking, as I mentioned, is that it’s the red states that are gonna be hurt the most. It’s the red states that are gonna listen to RFK Jr. talk about how vaccines could hurt you, you know, or even kill you. It’s the red states that are the agricultural states. So, I mean, it should by all rights backfire, and yet too many people have too big a stake in it all.

Sargent: Well, I wanna pick up on what you said there, because it really gets at another hallmark of MAGA, which is that they are absolutely screwing over their own people every which way—from the tariffs to the, to the government shutdown, to the ACA subsidies expiring. In every conceivable way, they’re screwing the shit out of their people.

But they are selling to their people the notion that they’re making Democratic areas suffer. So you really see this with Trump’s budget chief, Russell Vought. He’s now crowing about the fact that he’s going to pursue layoffs. He’s canceling the funding for programs and projects that are in Democratic areas.