May 19, 2025
Trump Shows He May Actually Be Losing It After THIS Attack On Obama
President Donald Trump reposted a call on Truth Social for former President Barack Obama to face a “public” military tribunal.
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You're telling me
that the president of the United States
should be posting that serious?
Oh, yeah. Obama.
You're dragging me
in front of a military tribunal.
You know what?
He didn't say anything
about James Comey and his seashells.
How do you not see that? That's crazy.
How do you not see it?
I people are so blind these days,
and it's so frustrating.
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This weekend, President Donald Trump
went on a massive truth social bender.
That's not unusual.
But he went so far as to share a post
that called for former President Barack
Obama to face a military tribunal.
Here's the post.
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All roads lead to Obama, it says.
That post did not explain why the former
president should face a military tribunal.
Those are usually reserved
for members of enemy forces.
Trump's social media spree
only gets crazier from there.
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But before we give you more on that,
what do you think so far, Jake?
What?
It kind of requires getting in Trump's
mind, but take a stab at it, I guess.
Yeah. I don't think it's tough.
I think he's mentally unbalanced.
And I don't think that it's even close.
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So that doesn't mean
that he can't function.
It doesn't mean that he
isn't right from time to time.
Broken clock and all that.
And it's not just broken clock.
Look, I we give credit
where credit is due, and so sometimes
he makes the right decisions.
So I'm not saying that he's
totally out of his mind, but.
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But is he partly out of his mind?
Of course he is.
What military tribunals
are you talking about?
And then he's going to get into
the Clinton murders in a second.
I mean, that's cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
And he's always been that way.
So we just like Joe Biden not being old
Democrats say he's not old.
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And then Trump supporters of MAGA says,
no, Trump's not crazy.
Of course, you should investigate the
murders of the Clintons and the tribunals.
For what?
What are you guys talking? What is this?
This is lunacy.
All right, let's give you
more of the details
and then come back and rip them more.
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All right.
Post calling for Obama to face a military
tribunal was in response to an article
about former FBI director James Comey's
controversial Instagram post.
Last week, Comey uploaded an
image of seashells
arranged to make the numbers 8647.
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And speaking of Comey,
Trump also shared this post.
Why haven't they raided his house in
the middle of the night and arrested him?
He's still on that one.
Comey fired during the first year
first months of Trump's administration.
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Finally, Trump shared a video
captioned the video
Hillary Clinton does not want you to see.
Video has to do with the Clinton body
count conspiracy theory, which alleges
that Hillary and Bill orchestrated
the murders of numerous Americans.
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Some versions of the conspiracy theory
even go so far as to claim that
the Clintons had over 50 people killed.
So serial killers, mass murderers.
Murders.
That would mean the video
that Trump shared.
The Clintons are blamed
for the deaths of five individuals,
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including John F Kennedy Jr,
Bill Clinton's former white House interim.
Mary Mahoney.
Bill Clinton's deputy white House counsel,
Vince Foster, that's been widely floated.
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To give you an idea
of how the conspiracy works, let's break
down what's being alleged here.
Kennedy Jr was a highly popular Democrat
who was weighing a run
for a Senate seat in New York.
You see, he died, though,
in that plane crash in 1999.
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Hillary Clinton would go
on to win that Senate seat.
But he implies that the Clintons
somehow planned that plane crash,
which also killed his wife and sister.
Mahoney was killed in 1997 when a robber
attacked the Starbucks where she worked.
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She tried to take his gun. He shot her.
The conspiracy theory alleges
that she knew about Bill Clinton's sexual
misconduct, and would have been called
as a key witness in his impeachment trial.
Vince Foster died in 1993.
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No less than five investigations into his
death ruled that it was a suicide,
but according to the conspiracy theory,
foster was killed due to his disagreements
with Hillary Clinton and his knowledge
of the Travelgate scandal.
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Again, the Clinton body count theory
spans many more deaths that were allegedly
planned by Hillary and Bill Clinton.
- Thoughts?
- Yeah, I have a lot of thoughts.
But first, I like this comment that just
came in on Twitch drenched wildfire said,
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wait, I thought JFK Jr was alive and going
to be part of the Trump administration.
That's what QAnon said. That's true.
He was supposed to come back
and then he was going to be part of it.
Can't keep up
with the conspiracy theories.
Okay.
I fought Hillary Clinton tooth and nail.
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Back in 2008 primary against Obama.
I was for Obama, against Hillary Clinton.
And then famously, in 2016,
I was for Bernie Sanders
and very much against Hillary Clinton.
Hillary Clinton has taken
an enormous amount of money from the donor
class and serves a donor class.
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Did she murder 50 people?
No. If you think that you have mental
health problems, go see a therapist.
It makes no sense at all.
And I know a lot of people believe
conspiracy theories
and they're going to get super offended.
And of course, if you believe
the theories, it's so naive not to think
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that Hillary and Bill Clinton
are obviously Dexter.
Serial killing on the side of everybody
knows that they drive an Uber and kill
people on the side, and then they're also.
Why would they risk their vast fortune
and their political empire?
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Oh, John F Kennedy Jr might have run
against Hillary Clinton many years later.
So they murdered him just in case.
Cuckoo for Cocoa puffs?
None of that is true. It's totally insane.
Okay. Some rando QAnon guy posts it.
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All right.
And Democrats,
maybe we make too much of it.
Although then you see the numbers,
and there's a lot of them,
and you go, okay, wow, that's disturbing.
But that's a separate thing from the
president of the United States posting it.
And what military tribunal for Obama.
Okay.
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So James Comey took a picture of
seashells, obviously national emergency.
I hope FEMA was called in too. Okay.
And then the seashells do numbers
and the numbers mean something?
They mean either cancel or kill.
So we'll assume it means kill.
Okay.
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And that's why his house should be raided
in the middle of the night.
Okay? Okay.
All right.
So, look, I think that's nuts, too, but.
But at least it's in the realm of.
Not, like, not insane, I say hesitantly,
because 86 Six could be killed.
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It's usually not used that way at all,
especially when you're doing it
with freaking seashells.
Okay.
And you and and Republicans
have said 86 before as well.
It's overhyped. Overhyped.
Okay.
But at least one meaning of 86 is that.
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But to think that Obama should be brought
before a military tribunal
because James Comey took a picture
of seashells, and you're telling me
that's not cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs?
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You're telling me that the president
of the United States
should be posting that seriously?
Oh, yeah.
Obama, you're dragging me
in front of a military tribunal.
You know what?
He didn't say anything
about James Comey and his seashells.
How do you not see that? That's crazy.
How do you not see it?
I people are so blind these days
and it's so frustrating.
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So here we were a year ago, two years ago,
ripping our hair out, going,
oh, of course Joe Biden is too old.
Of course he's too old.
Look at any public appearance.
And we had Democrats go, no he's not.
He's young and dynamic.
He is the best candidate.
All other Democrats suck.
The only one who could win is Joe Biden.
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Like, why do all other Democrats suck?
Why can't somebody else beat Trump?
No Joe Biden.
We were told by cable news that Joe Biden
is the greatest president of all time,
and the best Democrat we choose
to believe into view is the best.
Okay. All right.
Now the Trump people know
Trump is not mentally unstable.
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Of course, Obama should be brought
in front of a military tribunal
for the arrangement of seashells that
James Comey might or might not have done.
And of course,
Hillary Clinton's are serial killers.
Of course, of course, of course.
That's not mentally unstable.
Okay, what am I going to do?
All right, so two sides have decided
that they're going to be purposely blind,
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and they're not going to see
the most obvious things in the world.
You know, people joke around
about how Ted Cruz is the Zodiac killer.
That's a joke.
On the other hand,
Donald Trump said Ted Cruz's dad
might have killed John F Kennedy, and he
wasn't joking because he's a lunatic.
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So, according to Trump.
Ted Cruz's dad killed JFK
and the Clintons killed JFK junior.
And you're telling me that's not crazy?
I know, I know what some will say.
Everybody has different excuses.
They ironically, it's a shell game, right?
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So. Oh, he's just trolling.
He's just this really funny
when you accuse the former president
of being a serial killer.
You know, another former president
will be happy to go in front of a
military tribunal and maybe get executed.
It's always so funny
when the president is like a nine year old
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and he trolls other people.
That's that's your main excuse.
The president is, you know,
somewhere between 9 and 12 years old
and emotional stability.
And and that's why he's constantly doing
running these weirdo psychotic gags all
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the time when he's the commander in chief
and the leader of the free world.
Okay, okay. You know what?
Want
if that's what gets you through the night.
But this dude has Sharon and it's not new.
He's always believed
in ridiculous conspiracy theories.
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He's the one that pushed the Obama
wasn't born here
because he's black and his dad's Kenyan.
So I don't believe his birth certificate
and he didn't push that
just to get at Obama.
He pushed it because he believes it.
I know guys like him.
They believe every conspiracy theory,
every single one.
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Somebody should ask Trump
whether the earth is flat.
I got it at 50 over 50 on his answer.
Did we land on the moon?
I got it at 50 over 50 on his answer.
You give him a conspiracy theory,
he will believe it.
And look, you can say he's not crazy,
but if he's not crazy,
then the other alternative
is he's really, really not bright.
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- Sorry.
- Okay.
Thank you for saying that. Okay.
I'm having the same particular friend
call me up today and argue with me
about how Trump is actually a genius.
I said, well,
what about the lack of discipline?
What about the emotional intelligence?
I'm not even not a genius.
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I won't call them stupid, even though I
think there's evidence of it.
And this is what we get
time and time again.
But I think you make strong points.
It's really on both sides.
Oh, and by the way, I looked it up.
If the Clintons, if their body counts 50
and serial killers, they would only be
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surpassed by Samuel Little. 93 murders.
The green River killer, 49 confirmed,
was moved to slot three.
So it's just, you know,
it's the degree of it.
But, you know,
there's more on this one, Jay.
Of course, we've been alarmed
by Trump's unhinged post,
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his brazen actions in his second term.
And while it seemed like the American
people were on that same page for a while,
that is starting to change.
Last week, CNN's Harry Enten
explained that Trump's approval rating
has been rebounding.
Here's more.
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Hello.
Trump's net approval rating among voters.
This is the Reuters Ipsos polling.
Look at this.
In late April,
he was eight points underwater.
But look at where he was
in the most recent poll.
Among voters, he's up seven points to a
minus one point net favorability rating.
This is just one poll, right?
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But let's take a look across
an aggregate of polls.
What are we seeing here?
And I want to compare both to where Donald
Trump is now versus where he was
in late April, as well as where he
was at this point in term number one.
What you see is at minus six points,
he is a little bit worse off than he is
in the Ipsos Reuters polling, but he is
considerably better than he was in late
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April when he was nine points underwater.
And more than that, look at this.
He's nearly ten points better than he was
back in May 16th of 2017,
in his first term.
So we see as Donald Trump's
not just doing better than he was doing
in late April of 2025.
He's doing considerably better
than he was doing at this point
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in term number one, it is the economy,
the economy, the economy.
As the chance of a recession has fallen,
as the trade wars have kind of collapsed
a little bit, at least with China,
Trump trying to make a deal.
We do see that.
I do think that the voters are responding
to this, and therefore we're seeing
- Trump's approval rating going up.
- How much of this do you suspect is ego?
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And by that I mean, you know,
the friend who calls me and wants to argue
with me and tell me Trump's a genius.
He's not stupid.
He's actually very, very smart man.
How much is this?
Is just not wanting to be wrong?
Wanting to win at all costs.
Intellectually dishonest, I don't know.
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Or maybe people really believe it.
Maybe it's just what Harry Enten said.
Listen, the threats off the table
for for now.
Okay.
But I just. I just don't get it.
Yeah.
Look, there's two different things here
for on the conspiracy theory stuff.
If you're somebody who's into it,
you could be bright in other ways.
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I mean, I've seen it, right?
Very bright in other ways.
But there's something like about
conspiracy theories for those set
of folks, they just can't get enough.
It's it's like crack to them.
Any anyone suggests
a different reason for something.
They're like, oh, definitely.
And they think that we're super naive,
right.
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Like, you don't believe that
the Clintons are bigger serial killers
than the green River killer.
So naive. Right?
Like, oh, it's so frustrating
to talk to them.
But those are. But now, back to politics.
Look, I'm saying that because I just.
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We do a news show, and I care about
reality, and I can't stand gaslighting.
But is it relevant politically?
No. The personal attacks on Donald Trump,
don't work at all at all anymore.
Maybe they worked in the beginning,
but they got whatever mileage
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they're going to get out of it.
You're not flipping
a single person like he.
There isn't anything he could say
that's deranged enough for anyone
to change their opinion of Trump
based on some deranged thing he said.
I mean, does it get more deranged
than the Clintons or serial killers?
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And it doesn't move
the numbers at all, right.
So the only thing that matters
and it makes sense, guys,
is what do voters vote based on?
Not some other dude.
And how, you know, is his mental
health okay or another country?
I wish they cared about other countries.
But not often.
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Not some do, but not a lot.
No, they care about things that affect
them and what affects them the most.
The economy.
So why is Trump's numbers rebounding?
Well, some on the left said that no,
Trump will never change
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any of his policies and his supporters
will never change anything.
They're all cold.
And then they'll always stick
with whatever maniacal things.
No Trump flip flops all the time,
and his base sometimes gets exhausted
flip flopping with him.
Right? Like, oh, we love nuclear tariffs.
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No, tariffs can't be nuclear.
But we still like some tariffs.
But later he'll change that. Oh no.
But we never liked tariffs
in the first place.
I mean yes.
So there's a base
that definitely flip flops with him.
But does he flip flop all the time.
All the time.
And so by the way that is not a bad thing.
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So he does these nuclear tariffs.
They destroy the markets.
And he goes okay I didn't like that.
And the American people didn't like that.
Okay let's bring him down. Good, Good.
He's reacting to the American people, so.
And he'll keep doing that.
That's actually as a politician
that's one of his biggest strengths.
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Whereas, you know, you could tell
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
the issue of Gaza is costing you
an enormous number of votes.
And they're like, we don't care.
We will be voting with the donors
no matter what.
Why don't you negotiate drug prices?
That's a layup over 90% of Americans want.
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We don't care. We will be.
We will negotiate one drug.
We will leave tens
of thousands of drugs alone.
We will try to trick the American people
because we work for the donors.
Well, that people hate that. There's just.
But don't get me wrong, there's robots
on the Republican side, too.
All those corporate guys, they never
changed because they take orders
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and their donor tells you to do one thing.
You're going to do that thing and they
don't care about the public polling.
It's amazing.
Whereas Trump's like,
I like to be popular.
And, you know, it's kind of goofy.
It's a little silly.
But for a president, it's not such a bad
thing because if you get to a point where
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you're doing deeply unpopular things,
your polling goes down
and then Trump responds to it
and goes, oh, they didn't like that.
Okay, we're lowering tariffs.
So I hope he gets the memo
on Israel by the way.
You would be very, very, very popular
if for the first time in our lifetimes,
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you were actually the president
of the United States and stood
up to a foreign government like Israel,
unlike every other president we've had.
If he figures that out,
he'll be super popular.
But but there's a lot of people around
him, like, literally paid to make sure
he does not find that out.
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Anyways, you see how I think Sharon, this
is actually an upside and not a downside.
Yeah.
When you put it that way,
it had me, reminiscing about when we were
on the show a couple of weeks ago
and we were talking about, was it
Bill Maher who got invited to dinner?
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And I was just thinking,
as you were going through all that.
Well, I do hope Jack is invited to dinner.
Maybe he can get.
Maybe he can get through to him.
If you're the last person, everybody else
is going to bed, You're having dessert.
Maybe you can get through to him
on Gaza and everything else.
No. Look, honestly, like it'll.
Of course it'll never happen.
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I get that, and you'll never be
the last person in the room.
And then 28 other people funded by
the donor class will rush in afterwards.
And some, you know, far right lunatics
will rush in and say, oh, no,
don't listen to him, blah, blah, blah.
But in reality, Trump and again,
the left won't believe me on this either.
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They'll be like, no, he's core evil.
He'll never do anything positive.
No. If you told Trump,
hey, paid family leave, that helps
American moms, it'll polls at 84%.
It'll make you really popular.
My guess is you'd be like,
oh yeah, okay, let's do that.
And then some people will come in
and try to bribe him and go, oh,
no, corporations don't want that.
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Here's some checks.
And either they'll be large enough
and he'll just take it
and he'll make more money, right?
Or they won't be large enough and he'll
be like, no, I prefer the polling.
I want to be popular. I'll do that.
You know what?
America is tired of paying
Israel $300 billion,
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and we don't want the responsibility
for starving babies to death.
Right.
Well that one.
There's toners everywhere on all sides.
Right.
And now on Qatar's
on the other side of Israel.
And there's it's a giant mess
and the money will probably decide it.
But if he found out how popular he'd be
if he cut off funding to Israel,
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he might do it right.
And for the people saying he won't do it
because he's evil guys,
you know you're not getting it.
All Trump cares about is Trump.
So he's not doing it out of being
weirdly malicious, or even if he is.
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And believe me, he's got many
malicious thoughts in his head.
Believe me. Okay.
But if he thinks it's bad for Trump,
he won't do it.
He'll go to good for Trump.
So frame things as good for Trump
and he might go there.
But I no, no don't try.
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Instead, just call everyone racist
and go back in a cave.
Okay. Anyway, that's a random tangent.
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