Trump Faces Backlash from Republicans as He Returns to Washington

Donald Trump looked like death, and he was contemplating his own death as he left Florida and head back to Washington, D.C. to face the music where Democrats, joined by some Republicans, are preparing to drop the hammer during this lame duck session before Democrats even take control of the House and the Senate in January. Expect impeachments this week, beginning with Secretary of Defense, Hegsiff, then potentially RFK Jr., then potentially Howard Lutnik, and Donald Trump is not handling it well. I'll show you what he was saying to 60 minutes during this interview he gave that drop last night. He said, "In theory, do I go to heaven? I hope I go to heaven. I don't want to go to hell," he said, and just look at him during this interview, his eyes were all puffy, and it looked like he was crying all day, and then he said, "When I stand before God in judgment, I'm just not sure I'll be able to forgive, comb me, and Pelosi. I think I will always hate them. I think I will always hate my enemies." And then the interviewer who did a pretty decent job was like, "Okay, can we just talk about some other topics? That's odd. Your net worth." It went up by at least $3 billion during this presidency so far. Can you see why the American people believe that this is some really bad corruption? And Donald Trump goes, "Everyone's net worth went up $3 billion." Then the interviewer said, "My net worth didn't go up $3 billion." And Trump's like, "Well, I guess you weren't playing the stock market. I've got a lot of money. If you did the stock market, you would have made all of this money." What the hell are you talking about? The fact that you continue to manipulate the market, while you and your oligarch friends, you create the dips, then you buy the dips while the American people suffer. We know what you're up to. We know how throughout this catastrophic war in Iran, it's been one massive market manipulation grift after another while the American people are paying record highs for gas and diesel and groceries while you've ripped away people's health care, while you've destroyed people's lives. You and your billionaire friends have made so much money while screwing everybody else over. So as Donald Trump was getting up these stairs asking, he was being asked a few more questions as he was leaving to head to Washington DC before getting up the stairs on Cotari Air Force one. I mean, the guy's flying a Cotari jet. What the hell are we even doing here? Even Secret Service had to intervene and say, "All right, Donald, time to go, time to go." And the question that he was being asked is, "Well, what happens if Democrats go after your donors for all of the schemes and crimes and all of the things that they're alleged to have done?" And Trump's like, "I guess I'll go after them." And the Secret Service is like, "Sir, you got to leave. Just come on. Just get on Cotari jet, man. Just get on Cotari jet and be quiet here. Play this clip." Thank you very much, everybody. They're going to be terrible. Well, then we'll investigate their donors because their donors did bad things. Okay, thank you. And then when he was on Cotari jet, he started posting photo after photo of the reflecting pool. He's still doing reflecting pool photos. Here, he posted a photo of Howard Lutnik at the reflecting pool. I mean, I guess it's better than the photo of Howard Lutnik on Epstein Island. By the way, one of the reasons I think Howard Lutnik may get impeached in addition to his disastrous trade war against the world, lying about everything. But one of the lies he told, of course, was his cover-up of the Epstein files when he said, "I never met Epstein. Just once. You were his neighbor. You lived like in his home. You lived in the townhouse right next to his townhouse in New York City." I saw his house once and I never saw him again. You were on Epstein Island with Epstein. You brought your children to Epstein Island. Well, isn't that better than me going alone? No, it's worse. You brought your kids to an island where kids are sex traffic. Of course, it's way worse. And by the way, I did a report on this last night, but it was the Commerce Department and the Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnik, which continued to give licenses to NVIDIA and Jensen Wang, the head of NVIDIA, to do all of these deals with China and do all of these deals in Malaysia. And in Singapore, when the U.S. knew at that time in 2025 that Jensen Wang was basically part of a Chinese spy operation involving someone named Alice Wang, who was having an affair with Jensen, who was married at the time, while Jensen became a Trump bootlicker. And then it seemed that Donald Trump approved the chip sales, the semi-conductor sales to China. When he knew that Jensen was deeply involved in this affair with the Chinese spy, go back and watch the video I did all last night on it. But Jensen Wang, NVIDIA's the largest U.S company by market cap. It was like $4.5 trillion. We'll see what the value is soon. He had to send a letter that he publicly posted to his board and to shareholders about the affair. There's an internal investigation into what he knew and when he knew it and what others knew about this relationship with someone who's believed to be a Chinese spy, who set up these companies in Singapore and Malaysia that didn't even have an office, but did billions of dollars in transactions with NVIDIA. And there's a bigger question too, because I've heard some people say, well, Ben, you know, the chip that we're talking about is nowhere near as advanced as some of the new chips like the black well. And there are so many better chips than this specific chip at this time. But one of the big issues too was NVIDIA's profits was a lot of the money NVIDIA making basically sales that went to China when it was prohibited to send these chips to China. And did that make up a huge percentage of sales? And then did those chips end up in, you know, I don't know, Iranian weapons and Russian weapons and other issues that there was a reason why there were restrictions on these chips in the first place. But I digress go and watch the report that I did now. As we note, there's a lot of Republicans who are getting who are knives out. They are getting ready to impeach Hegsith and others in the Trump regime. We've been hearing from a lot of House Republicans and then even Republican senators who are going to lose their job after the lame duck session who are contemplating a conviction of Hegsith. For example, you have Republican Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana. Here's what he said. First, he said in terms of a war powers resolution that he believes a war powers act could pass. And also he said that he believes that there could be a impeachment of Hegsith and a conviction as well. So war powers resolution, conviction of Hegsith, listen to what Republican Senator Bill Cassidy has to say play this clip. What do you think this new Congress or what do you think said happened even before the new Congress is sworn in when it comes to the Iran War, given how voters seem to feel about it? I can imagine that a war powers act passes this time. I can't swear by that because really getting into the war was a mistake. We now know that it was supposed to be over in five weeks. It's still going on months later. Now how you get out of it is a different story and a more complicated story. The administration is going to have to make his case. But again, I can imagine that I can imagine that a war powers act passes this time as much as I can prognosticate that. If Secretary Hegsith is impeached next week, how would you vote on that in the Senate? I have to hear the testimony. I don't prejudge. I've been in the situation before. You hear what the testimony is and then you make a decision. Clearly, there are people who I respect who feel that he's done a very poor job. And if he's the one that gave the president the guidance that we could be out of the Iranian War in five weeks, that was an incredible misjudgment. But that's what will be presented before the House and then we'll consider it in the Senate. Do you think he's done a poor job? Clearly, the Iranian War, the decision to go into the Iranian War did not work out. It was presumed that the administration had information that was not shared, but that we would be out in five weeks. It has not worked out well. And we spent tens of billions of dollars. So who's responsible for that and why did they make that decision? That would be an interesting thing to know. Even on state regime media, they were saying that the Republican Congress members that they spoke to said during this lame duck session this week, starting today, Hegseth is screwed. He said the knives are out. Hegseth is screwed. Trump cabinet members are screwed here playing this clip. Secretary, responding to outgoing Congressman Thomas Massie's plans to impeach him next week, calling it a sham. Didn't work against President Trump. And it won't work with me. But several House Republicans tell Fox News Digital they expect it could pass because of attendance issues and frustrations. over the Iran War's impact on the midterms. One Republican saying privately, he screwed. And again, the president has said that P. Hexeth is going nowhere. No, Donald Trump was asked. So, are you going to continue to bring Jensen Wong around with you when you go to your trips to Asia? Like, are you concerned about the spy situation? And Trump's like, we all go through it. It happens to everybody. Everybody listen to what Trump says here. Play this clip. Numbers. I think so. Oh, yes. Is he going to go with you on your trip to Asia next week? I don't know, but I certainly take him. I mean, we'd have to find I haven't heard he's done anything wrong. He dealt with somebody. But you know, so does everybody else. And then yesterday, Donald Trump also said after posting the deranged message about how Dana White is going to be the press secretary. And then Trump started posting these like weird cartoons of Dana White, like attacking and assaulting members of the press for asking questions. As Donald Trump was heading back to Washington DC. He was like, yeah, I was just kidding. Like, of course, Dana White's not going to be the press secretary. Like, that's just me being funny. This isn't a comedy show, man. This is the United States of America. Look, if you want to be funny, go quit, resign. Do stand up, routine somewhere. This is the presidency of the United States. There's a time and place if you want to be funny. But right now we're in a war. People are dying here in the United States. You've ripped away people's health care. The American people just to rebuke your entire presidency and rebuke Republicans and the whole mega brand for generations. The American people are pissed right now. And so don't doing jokes about having the UFC had Dana White work in the White House. This isn't a funny joke. People's lives are actually on the line. This is reality. And you need a reality check right here because you are a lunatic here. Play this clip. Okay, questions. What made you suggest Dana White? And are you serious about her? Are you kidding around? Well, if you looked at it, you saw the assistance I put. I posted the greatest wrestlers and UFC fighters in the world, right? Like Kabeeb, like Dustin, Justin Gates, he was phenomenal. And you see a lot of rough faces there. And you would have thought that people would have said he's having a good time. I will tell you, I was only kidding. But Dana loves the idea and there's only one Dana, he's great, I don't know. You wouldn't mess around with him so much. But so I was kidding, of course. When you look at the fighters that I put in, that's why I said some don't come from our country. They come from parts unknown. They come from a lot of areas that are very rough areas. So I was kidding, but I think Dana likes the idea. And he is a very capable guy. So he's actually coming tomorrow. Of course I was kidding. And you can see that because I put all of the great fighters as his assistants, that they're all going to come with him. But it was just a little fun. But Dana is actually coming tomorrow, actually on other reasons. I think he's going to be in Washington. So he's going to come over and see me. That was an example of something where I was kidding. And then people said, you know, that's actually a pretty good idea. Meanwhile, Donald Trump continues to say things like he was asked, do you have any plans to escalate the war in Iran? And Donald Trump's like, well, I'm not looking to, but I may. Not sure if there's reasons to, we'll ultimately see. We'll ultimately see. I'll do a report on this as well. I talked about it a little bit last night. More tankers struck in the Strait of Hormuz. At least three tankers maybe four were struck in the Strait of Hormuz. It's hard to know the exact number since a lot of the tankers don't report when they're struck. But we're able to see some of the footage. So we saw some tankers that were hit. Look at some satellite footage. See what the IRGC is posting. You have to kind of use a number of sources to figure it out. At least three, maybe four tankers were struck in the Strait of Hormuz. So obviously you have shipping severely hurt right now. But also here's a stat that I think is important. 221 U.S. trucking companies have filed for bankruptcy so far in 2026, which is on track for the highest number of trucking bankruptcies since in 23 years. This marked the third consecutive year with at least 220 bankruptcies. By comparison, annual bankruptcies were below 100 and both 2021 and 2022. Remember Donald Trump's like, I love the truckers. I'm so there for the truckers. No, you screwed over the truckers. You screwed over the farmers. You screwed over workers and manufacturing. Frankly, you screwed over everybody. You have unregulated AI and data centers. You applaud when you're corporate oligarch friends fire people. You don't pay people with dignity. You don't support even a living wage. You want them waged to be as minimum as possible. You attack people who want affordable housing and who want affordable things. It's just one thing after another with the Trump regime. Oh, I want to mention this too. As Congress comes back into session, expect a leadership fight in the. We already know there's one in the house between Jim Jordan and Steve Scalise over minority leader. There's going to be a minority leader fight in the Senate as well. Senator Dave McCormick said we shouldn't just approve John Thune to still be the leader. Like we lost big in this election. So Senator McCormick of Pennsylvania is like, we should be a little more circumspect before we actually pick somebody else to be the leader. Maybe he's going to run for leader. We'll follow that up. Here is Donald Trump walking into the White House late last night. And you'll see the press asking him questions and he was like, well, I still think he looks awful. By the way, he can't even walk straight. He's like, I think he's doing a great job. What are you talking about? Play this clip. And then right behind him, you had Natalie Harp his human printer. And then you had Steven Miller right behind him as well. I'll show you this. 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