Trump and Republicans are LOSING IT One Week Before the Midterms

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Here's a sample of what the reaction has been from the people whose political, political philosophy is that everyone else needs to learn how to take a joke. This was a totally unserious speech by someone who can't get over one thing that his presidency, but we will be remembered for rooting health care and then ushering in the Trump years. That's all Barack Obama gave the country. He's been lashing out emotionally ever since. It struck me as somebody who hasn't been paying attention to Obama in the last few years, how elitist he and the party that he continues to lead has become. It goes exactly to why. Democrats lost the middle class, why they lost blue collar voters, because it's just, you know, it's kind of a guns and religion clinging kind of comments and it turns a lot of people in this country off. I think about all the birthday parties that people have at the cheesecake about the birthday parties included. I mean, this is not about the Cheesecake Factory or money. This is about the Democrats not being able to appreciate beauty. At least. Love it. It was kind of honest at the end. Yes. The beauty of Donald Trump's design aesthetic, as you said, John Husted's ass. Just we keep turning our blind eye to the beautiful things the American people love. Look, everyone knows if you enjoy eating at the Cheesecake Factory, you must also want the president to decorate the White House like one. Yes. And this is the thing that gets lost in all this discourse. It's not your regular old Cheesecake Factory, which is a wonderful restaurant. I'm a Cheesecake Factory rewards member. Just like Lovett. Here's a tip. If you're a rewards member, you can make a reservation. Oh, I didn't know that. I thought it's like you go 10 times and you, oh. No, no. I mean, I'm sure there are rewards you can get, but the real trick is you can make a reservation. Dan, last time we went to the Grove, the one at the Grove, which is our neighborhood Cheesecake Factory. Thank you, Rick Caruso. It was like a 45-minute wait. Yeah, it is. And with two kids, that's not, you can't be doing that. But at your kids' age, that's a seven minutes is max waiting for. We had to go to the toy store and get them a toy. That was the thing. Oh, so you actually did wait. Well, we are at the Grove, which is, again, one of the happiest places on earth, or at least in Los Angeles. Yes. And so, you know, we could walk around a little bit, but boy, do love that. Is that, were you in Flyover Country for that? Yeah. Because I was told the Cheesecake Factory was a restaurant only understood by people in Flyover Country. Yeah. I flew over Beverly Hills to get to West Hollywood. Yes. Yes. Yes. Beverly Hills, where it was, I think, the first Cheesecake Factory was. Found it, yes. Found it in Beverly Hills. But I think the point that people are missing on this, even if you, however you feel the Cheesecake Factory is, the joke is Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory. Right. Because, be very clear, Donald Trump's White House is way tackier than Cheesecake Factory. Yeah. Oh, for sure. Yes. For sure. Cheesecake Factory doesn't have gold everywhere. You know who would have gold? Some gold. Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein would have gold in his Cheesecake Factory everywhere. It's just, again. The idea that this is somehow an attack on working people requires you to believe that working people are too dumb to understand what the joke is about. Yeah. I don't believe that. Yes. And that's why you haven't heard one actual real American be offended about this on only highly paid pundits and right-wing media and a bunch of people on Twitter who've had their brains badly damaged by the algorithm. Can I take a walk down a dark side of the alley? For a second. Sure. You know what this kind of reminds me of? Like, Republicans are losing. They believe they're losing. These people on Fox News, people auditioning to be press secretary on CNN, they have to say something. And when you're losing, you are desperately looking for anything that could possibly look like a narrative changer. And so this reminds me a little bit about the reaction to the Tony Hinchcliffe Puerto Rico joke. You know, Dan, that's what they're saying on Twitter. That's been popping up. It has? It has. Peter Hamby, our friend Peter, just tweeted. A poll. Like, what's the better way to close? Mad at Tony Hinchcliffe or mad at Cheesecake Factory? Yes. No, like, the Tony Hinchcliffe joke was offensive and unfunny. And I think the Obama joke was neither inoffensive and was funny. But just you remember that moment where, like, this is the thing that's going to remind people why they hate Republicans. And then we were checking. We were getting these reports of early voting turnout among the Puerto Rican precincts in Allentown. And we were all so excited. And the fundamentals are the fundamentals. And that's a problem for Republicans. No. Our friend J-Mart over at Politico just said, The Cheesecake Lunge is one part phantom limb stuff, 2026 version of Obama on price of arugula, and one part living off landism. Until Obama teed up that line, the most consistent and reliable messaging from Republicans was on the presence of good-looking men. I can't even tell what he means there. What is landism? Living off the landism. Like, I guess, like, one part. Trying to find something. I guess they're forging for a message, I guess. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But, like, also, it is so far from the Obama price of arugula stuff, which I don't know if anyone watching remembers from 2007. Yes, it happened right in the state of Iowa before he won a massive victory in the caucuses and then went on to win the popular vote by, like, seven or eight points. So I guess working people weren't too offended by the arugula comment after all. Yes, they get over it quickly, yes. So the response from. The people paid to defend Donald Trump was actually to defend the Cheesecake Factory's design aesthetic, not the president's. That's a very important point. Other than Caroline Leavitt, who I think is defending the beauty of the White House, yes. So, sadly, Donald Trump was left to fend for himself there, which he did for an entire press briefing on the tarmac yesterday and then again while campaigning in Mississippi for Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith at a rally last night. Let's watch. And now they say, oh, whoa, Barack Obama is going to start campaigning. He said, this isn't a Cheesecake Factory, can you believe it, which is a very successful company. This isn't. He doesn't like successful companies. But, you know, he was very critical about me because I spend time. And if you would have seen the White House, the plaster was falling off, the paint was no good, a lot of the beautiful ornamentation that they have around the windows. I mean, they had four or five windows where literally. They had four or five windows where literally the ornamentation was up on one side and had fallen off or had fallen off on the other. Oh, my goodness. And I fixed it. We made a mole of the good one and we put it on the other one. And then we skim coated with an exterior plaster that's phenomenal, the entire exterior with the best artisans you've ever seen. And we delicately, one thing after we took tile that was broken, that was, I mean, I don't want to say from Home Depot, but it does. It does come from a box and it's not for the White House. Wait a minute. Did he attack Home Depot? An attack on Home Depot? Yeah, it seems that way. Is Scott Jennings going to go defend my way of life going to Home Depot? Is Martha McCallum going to stand up for my backsplash in the kitchen? What the fuck, man? It's also a very successful company. Very successful company. Maybe Trump hates successful companies. And talking about the plaster. The skim coating? I don't even know. So his answer to being called out of touch because all he does is focus on gold-plated home renovations is to talk about, to go to Mississippi and talk about working with the finest artisans. Not the people at Home Depot. Not those people. That's not good enough for the White House. I mean, he just. He cannot not take the bait. And so while he makes this joke about, as you said, his obsession with home renovation projects at the expense of lowering prices for people, and he responds by a phenomenally detailed discussion of his home renovation projects. Who could have thought? Who could have thought, Dan, that a joke like that about his home renovations would lead him to talk about home renovations even more? Who could have thought, Dan, that a joke like that about his home renovation projects would lead him to talk about home renovations even more? In the week before the election. You know what? Barack Obama still got it. 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Oh, and if you forget where to go, don't worry. You'll hear another ZipRecruiter ad soon enough. Now, at that same rally, one person in the audience did have some unsolicited feedback on one of the president's most prized home renovations. It was a little less subtle than Obama's, but let's see if it landed. To the consternation of the people that protect us. Go home. Go home. $250. He broke up my punchline, and it was a beautiful—we have to have a beautiful— Beautiful, beautiful, well-kept White House. Shove it, Paul. Remove your fat ass. If that is not available in the Crooked merch store by the end of this week, I do not know what is happening. Good idea. Good idea. Maybe put it on a pair of pants on the back. I can't believe I'm going to admit this, Dan, but watching Donald Trump talk. He was very angry in the tarmac. He actually looked directly at the camera and spoke to Barack Obama and said, like, this is why you're a bad president, because you said it was like the Cheesecake Factory. And then in that speed when he was like, honestly, this relaxes me. He said, like, I like renovating. It relaxes me. I'm having fun, which, thank God, he's having a good time. That's important. I almost felt a little bad for him. No. No. Not bad for him. Like, I think this man genuinely just wants to putz around the White House, fixing up the place. And he was like, I've never seen Donald Trump hurt by something, like actually hurt by something. I think this hurt his feelings. I didn't think he had feelings to hurt, but I think this hurt his feelings. That may bring you empathy for Donald Trump. It brings me joy. Oh, no, I'm sorry. I guess I shouldn't say I feel bad for him, but it's like. He was surprised that something hurt his feelings. This is like as close to hurting his feelings as you can get. He takes real. I think he does take real pride in his home renovation projects. Like, he thinks it's very important. But he also, and this is where his political meter is way off since 2024, is he thinks it's really important. He thinks the American people think it's important. He doesn't understand why it bothers people so much. No. He just makes no sense to him. That is for sure because you can tell that the conservative meter reaction, right, was, all right, obviously they know that Donald Trump's ballroom and the home renovations are fucking ludicrous and that people are pissed because gas prices. Like, they get all that. And so they hear that joke and they're like, well, we got to turn it around to make it look like Obama's the elitist one, you know. Trump, if he was smart and took that advice, would have done a whole thing where he was like, Obama's an elitist snob, blah, blah, blah. But he didn't do that. What he did was take umbrage to the fact that his own interior design aesthetic was mocked, which, again, Trump got the joke. Like, all the people in MAGA Media pretending not to get the joke, Trump got the joke. Which is saying a lot. Yes. But it's like he knew that the joke was about his design taste and not about the Cheesecake Factory at all. And he sort of, like, let it slip there because all the other fucking idiots are pretending to be offended even though they're not. Or they're just too fucking dumb to get it. Well, he got the literal interpretation of the joke. Yes. He missed the larger point. Of course. Which is why he has decided to double, triple, quadruple down on making sure every American knows that his primary focus, the reason he gets out of bed every morning is to put more gold in the White House. Yeah, that's it. Now, there was one crack in the Cheesecake Defense Coalition. And I can't believe I'm going to say this, but Jesse Waters, take it away. Now, it is funny what he said about Saddam Hussein looked like he opened up a Cheesecake Factory. And then Besson said the library looked like Darth Vader's tomb. That's pretty funny. But we're talking about asses in architecture. This is the gayest midterm ever. So this is sometimes why I like my man, Jesse. You know, he's in on the joke. He knows that what comes out of his mouth is just bullshit. Yes. He's just he's playing a part on TV. And, you know, that doesn't say a lot about him because he doesn't really give a shit that he's defending all this this craziness. But every once in a while, again, the mask slips just like it did with like Donald Trump got the joke. Jesse Waters got the joke. I mean, it is. He makes a real point about this is probably not what you want to close with the two A's. You know, a lot of people argue that should we be focused on the two C's cost and corruption or the three C's cost corruptions and chaos, which is my personal favorite. Since the two A's asses in architecture. This is an architecture. That is the election. We'll always look back on this one. Finally, we should remember who this rally was supposed to actually be for Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, who's running against Democrat Scott Collum. So Trump speaks at the rally for, you know, his usual like a couple hours. And then he brings her up, gives her the microphone. And and this was her. This was her stump speech. Let's listen. Is this not the best president in our lifetime? Thank you. I love that. You know, somebody gets sometimes they get up and they talk for 10 minutes. I say, oh, and that's it. That's it. That's that's all they heard from Cindy Hyde-Smith. The the plaster got more airtime than Cindy. What do you think's going on there? Do you think she's just shy as a public speaker? She never prepared remarks. She didn't want the wrong line of work. Well, I think that's pretty clear on a whole host of measures. But it's it can't be that she didn't want to be seen with Trump because Trump's unpopular and underwater, even in Mississippi. Since she stood up there and screamed, he's the best president of our lifetimes. Maybe she knows that that he's. He's so much more popular than her in Mississippi because he's got to be popular somewhere in the country. Underwater, Mississippi. Yeah, I was going to say, well, I still think I don't know. Maybe she just who knows? She's maybe I mean, she's not made for this, but it's just as a no, she hasn't really made her mark as senator, which I believe is one reason Scott Collum has a chance here. Do you know what Scott Collum was doing during that rally? I saw that he was talking to Trump voters outside the rally. He went out. He went to the rally. He went out of the rally and talked to people waiting in line and took selfies with them and introduced himself. What a guy that that's that's how you campaign. That's how you campaign. You think he was asking them about their interior design aesthetic? I think he was inviting all of them to his victory party at the cheesecake factory. Yes, boy. If after this election, we're going to the cheesecake factory, win or lose. You know, we could. Oh, in D.C. Yeah, a crooked con. Yes. Oh, I mean. After party at the cheesecake factory brunch on Sunday before we go home. Perfect. All right. I'm in. All right, Dan, that's that's all we got. Everyone, please subscribe to Pod Save America so you can get great content like this and more recommendations on the Cheesecake Factory menu. All right. Bye, everyone. Bye. 26% return on investment over three years and pays for itself in just three months. Learn why over 16,000 of the fastest growing companies use Vanta at Vanta.com. Hank joined BJ's Wholesale Club the day he became a father of 30. I coach football. Now Coach Hank saves up to 25% off grocery store prices, 30 pounds of pasta, three cases of protein bars, 75 sports drinks. 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