BOOED & 'CROPPED': Trump humiliated at World Cup as polling CRASHES

[0:00] They know Donald Trump in New Jersey, where this World Cup match had the booze raining down when [0:06] he walked out with FIFA's president. When Spain was celebrating its victory, you could see Trump [0:27] sort of lingering on stage. Australian broadcasters also discussing whether he'd stay in the photos. [0:35] In 2026, the champions of the world in. [0:44] It's now, so they can edit him out of that. They can edit him out of that. That's real-time [0:56] commentary, and it happened, as Forbes reported. The FIFA World account posted this shot, where [1:04] if you look closely, you can see the leader of the free world's right arm getting cropped. [1:10] Now, Trump's unpopularity abroad is well known, but again, this was match held, [1:16] and the boos you hear are inside the United States. His approval stuck in the 30s over the war, as we [1:22] were covering at the top of the show, the economy and other failures. Republicans close to [1:27] the operations say it's time to make the midterms a kind of, quote, hate election. Republicans admit, [1:33] Axios reports, the midterm forecast is bleak, but if they can just make voters hate Dems more than [1:38] Republicans, maybe the losses won't be as bad. I want to bring in a special guest. Brian [1:45] Tyler Cohen is the host of the No Lie podcast, which has billions of views online. He's interviewed [1:50] all kinds of heavyweights across the Democratic Party, including that rare get in American politics, [1:57] a recent sit down with former President Obama. We've seen the de-evolution of the discourse. [2:04] How do we come back from a place that we have fallen into? Well, first of all, I think it's [2:11] important to recognize that the majority of the American people find this behavior deeply troubling. [2:19] You know, it is true that it gets attention. It's true that it's a distraction. Cohen is also [2:29] the author of the new book, The Day After, How to Wield Power in a Post-Trump World. You can get [2:36] that right now wherever books are sold. Brian is one of these new voices that we've been listening [2:41] to. As you know, the world keeps evolving. Welcome back. All right. Thanks for having me. [2:46] Yeah. The top story here relates to your book. So reading from a passage, you talk about how [2:52] before 2024, this duality that Bill Clinton had discussed, strong and wrong was beating [2:58] weak and right. You could say that demonizing the opposition is bad for the country, [3:03] but you can't say it's worse than Trump's presidency. The truth is Republicans have been playing the long [3:07] game. Dems playing the wrong game. Bars, Brian. And you go on to write, why are Dems so far behind [3:13] with this kind of politics? It works. Look at the two times Dems did play hardball. You point to 96 [3:19] in 2012 where the campaigns really did diminish their opponents sailing to victory rather than [3:25] the talk we've heard so often about going high. How does that apply today when we see these reports, [3:32] everything from abuse of power, revenge indictments, ice at the polls to a propaganda campaign that [3:40] Axios reports would be just about hating Dems? Well, look, they have run that playbook over and [3:46] over and over again, and largely it's been successful. I mean, how many elections can you remember, [3:51] Ari, where Republicans had deferred to this idea of migrant caravans or demonizing gay people or [3:58] trans people, as was the case in this latest election. There's always some minority to punch down [4:03] on, always some scapegoat. That's the problem. That's the cause of all of our woes, [4:07] as opposed to the people who are actually causing a lot of the problems in this country, [4:10] who in large part are the millionaires and billionaires who benefit from the policies of [4:15] this administration. It is notable that you have Republicans who continuously run [4:20] on punching down on these, on these small minorities. But at the same time, [4:25] the first thing they do is pass tax cuts, for example, that heap favor, heap benefits onto the [4:31] wealthiest Americans in this country as we see income inequality explode. And by the way, [4:36] Republicans know that this is potent. That's why they run on it. But the problem is, when they get [4:40] into office, they never actually deliver on any of those things. It's always about [4:44] finding some small minority to beat down on as the cause of all of our nation's problems. [4:50] What are the issues that you think currently work best against Trump? [4:54] The issues that currently work best against Trump, well, I mean, his blatant corruption and his [5:01] inability, unwillingness to deliver on the very things that he promised on the campaign trail. Both of [5:05] those things in concert, I think, tell a really clear story about who this president is working [5:10] for, which would be bad enough unto itself, but even worse, given the fact that this is somebody [5:14] who came into office on this pretext that he was going to focus on the little guy. It was him who [5:19] decided to run an America first campaign. And really the only person that stood to benefit from [5:24] this is not the 350 million people in this country. It's Donald Trump himself. He's the one who's [5:29] tripled his net worth. He's the one who's encrusting the Oval Office in gold, building himself a [5:33] monument in the form of a ballroom and maybe a triumphal arch, who's gotten a new airplane out [5:38] of this that's going to, of course, go to him after he's out of office. And so, again, the person who [5:43] stands to benefit from all of Trump's priorities, as we see costs rise, as we see healthcare gutted, as [5:47] we see food assistance gutted, as we see gas prices rise, is only one guy. It's Trump. [5:55] What do you see in the early primaries, which of course are just a smattering, [5:58] and this conversation about generational change? We follow this now across two elderly presidents, [6:05] an elderly Supreme Court, Mitch McConnell, mystery about his health status. But I think we'd all be [6:13] fair to note it's a problem in both parties and across every branch of government. How much of [6:19] that does account, does that account for some of the energy behind younger Democratic candidates? [6:23] I think that's a huge driver of the future of the Democratic Party. I mean, there's no doubt, [6:29] as you mentioned rightfully, that gerontocracy is a problem in this country. My generation, [6:33] millennials, have largely been locked out of power forever. And frankly, some of the millennials that [6:39] are getting into office now are the most popular politicians in America, whether it's Zoran Mamdani in [6:44] New York, whether it's AOC, also in New York, whether it's John Ossoff down in Georgia. This is what [6:51] happens when you actually make a bridge to the next generation and allow people who are more [6:55] charismatic, more dynamic, more articulate, more tech savvy to have their spot in the spotlight, [7:01] have their chance in the spotlight to actually show what they can do. And so I think this should be a [7:05] blinking red light to existing members of the Democratic caucus that, you know, if you stand for [7:13] the things that you claim to stand for, make way for people who are going to be more effective [7:17] arbiters, more effective shepherds of that exact message, because the people who are seeing [7:22] popularity, the people who are able to better relate to the electorate, are those younger people [7:27] who've grown up in these ecosystems where the vast majority of Americans are already getting their news. [7:34] Yeah. And that you could be a great shepherd and still eventually say, [7:38] it's time to have a shepherd's retirement. Let somebody else out on the hills, you know. Brian, [7:44] as mentioned, a lot of folks know you online. Folks know you from the Obama interview to our viewers. [7:50] We appreciate you coming back. And that book, if you want to learn more about what Brian's saying, [7:54] is The Day After, How to Wield Power in a Post-Trump World. You can Google that or get it wherever books [8:00] are sold.