About this transcript: This is a full AI-generated transcript of Trump Out Of His Mind During Bonkers Fox News Interview from The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder, published April 16, 2026. The transcript contains 4,017 words with timestamps and was generated using Whisper AI.
"i think i had the greatest year the greatest opening year i've read the greatest look i ended eight wars a ninth is coming but i ended eight wars nobody's ever ended one war who's entered one nobody trump is increasingly unhinged we say this pretty much every week but it continues to accelerate um..."
[0:00] i think i had the greatest year the greatest opening year i've read the greatest look i ended
[0:06] eight wars a ninth is coming but i ended eight wars nobody's ever ended one war who's entered
[0:13] one nobody trump is increasingly unhinged we say this pretty much every week but it continues to
[0:20] accelerate um you know he really thought and was sold by benjamin netanyahu uh that he could do
[0:30] what he did in venezuela that he could take out maduro in the same way that he could take out
[0:35] the ayatollah uh i mean obviously he the united states did kill a lot of iranian leadership which
[0:42] trump is calling regime change but the the power is so dispersed and the government is so entrenched
[0:50] that like no they have institutions and the regime the entire structure is still in place so they
[0:56] they abandoned that as an objective then trump was saying that oh they can never have a nuclear
[1:02] weapon well they weren't building one there has been a fatwa on that since the really turn of the
[1:08] 21st century but now they're more likely to pursue it because you killed the more conservative older
[1:14] leader that was reticent to provoke israel or the united states so that has failed and uh gas prices
[1:23] are through the roof people are getting really scared and uh you have inflation data that shows
[1:29] that energy prices have are driving um this uh level of of inflation um up four percent in march which
[1:42] is the highest year over year gain in three years so people are panicked and trump isn't going to show it
[1:49] but he is desperate to find some sort of way to declare victory when everybody knows that he's lost
[1:56] so he wants the war to be over and kind of betrays that fact in an interview with maria bartiromo i had
[2:04] to divert because if i didn't do that right now you would have iran with a nuclear weapon and if they
[2:11] had a nuclear weapon you would be calling everybody over there sir and you don't want to do that well you
[2:17] keep saying was is this war over i think it's close to over yeah i mean i view it as very close to over
[2:24] you know what if i pulled up stakes right now it would take them 20 years to rebuild that country
[2:31] and we're not finished we'll see what happens i think they want to make a deal very badly
[2:36] i had on what terms on what terms because uh trump is now saying we're going to blockade their blockade
[2:44] but the reason that the blockade is a leverage point is because is increasing gas prices in the
[2:50] west so what deal can you make with them that isn't humiliating to the united states they also as we
[2:57] talked about yesterday in our interview still have cards to play that the administration does not
[3:03] including enlisting the houthis in yemen who control a large swath of that coastline to make
[3:09] sure that another checkpoint is throttled and um that could dramatically continue to increase gas prices
[3:18] so what really i think stands in the way there are two things that stand in the way of us hopefully
[3:25] putting this nightmare behind us even though this will indelibly change the united states's
[3:30] relationship with the region and our trade relationships going forward um the the things
[3:35] that are standing in the way are uh trump's own ego and obviously the israelis um if if iran
[3:47] wants to pursue a like wants to humiliate the americans they can do so they already are doing so
[3:54] but is it in their best interests i'm not necessarily sure trump has these maximal maximalist demands
[4:00] but iran is going to want some sort of reparations uh for the damage that he brags about inflicting
[4:05] there with his illegal offensive war where we double tapped as a girl school and decimated much of
[4:11] their civilian infrastructure because god they may have at one point transferred material that could
[4:17] build a weapon over bridges like you know we do in every country to transport materials that's what
[4:23] that's what trump did um they need money to rebuild their country so they're saying that they need want to
[4:30] to uh toll on the street of hormuz they also could just need sanctions relief or have their assets
[4:37] unfrozen the assets being unfrozen was a part of was the the hinge point for the 2015 jcpoa which the
[4:47] entire republican party framed as us giving billions of dollars to iran acting like these were this was
[4:54] taxpayer money we just unfroze their assets that's only one of the things that iran's going to have to get
[5:00] for them to to to uh agree to any kind of deal with with trump trump was even floating giving taxpayer
[5:07] money as a way to uh ensure uh to give to insurers so that they would allow for the ships to go through
[5:16] the strait because insurance companies didn't want that to happen or weren't gonna get behind it
[5:22] because of how dangerous it was so i'm just like trump is trying to get back to the jcpoa but we're gonna
[5:30] but but also was literally trying to give american taxpayer money to insurance companies
[5:36] in addition to the war he started where billions of dollars was spent in a day and we could pay for
[5:41] college for all and then some for people with the amount of money that we spent so he is trying to
[5:46] find a way to save face and i do hope iran gives him that in a very shallow way while also asserting their
[5:54] sovereignty and their leverage um so that is a big obstacle and then the other obstacle of course is
[6:01] the israelis they are continuing to bomb lebanon it appears that they're not you know like carpet
[6:07] bombing beirut like they were when this initial ceasefire uh deal was announced probably because
[6:13] the americans yanked on the leash which we can always do we could even put them in a goddamn cage if
[6:19] we want to and say no more weapons no more arms we're invoking the leahy law we're cutting this
[6:25] off tomorrow showing once again that both biden and trump can restrain the genocidal israelis when
[6:31] they want but still they are bombing lebanon they're trying to derail this um and trump has been has shown
[6:39] how pliable and susceptible he is to flattery and to manipulation and it becomes more and more obvious
[6:46] as he gets older and older here he is talking about how uh we're probably going to lose the midterms
[6:54] and uh no one can explain why because we've been so successful and he spoke to some people deep in
[7:03] the psychological world about this you know he he's doing some real self-care yeah and deep in the
[7:13] country why do i lose the midterms right can you tell me thought leader please um here he is just
[7:20] kind of being like hey i'm gonna do what i want to do sorry republicans you're just there's nothing that
[7:26] i can do differently to help us uh win the midterms let me just ask you about the midterms do you expect
[7:33] the republicans to lose seats in the house and what does that mean for your agenda well i just left with
[7:38] mike johnson and some great people some great congressmen and women and in the oval office i think
[7:46] we're going to do good and women oh wait can you pause it for a sec just because i wanted to point
[7:50] this out from when from the initial clip you're gonna you would be calling everybody sir
[7:58] you mean like you demand everyone call you what does she call it sequiously right like
[8:03] did she oh mr president or sir no you wouldn't just be calling me sir you'd be calling every man
[8:10] sir all 200 of their hitlers over there yeah you know that's why we bomb that girl's school it's
[8:16] because we care so much about women's ability to stand shoulder to shoulder with men and not use
[8:20] formalities anyway just the oval office i think we're going to do good now with that being said when
[8:28] somebody gets elected president that party always loses the midterms i don't know why i don't know
[8:35] why nobody could explain it i asked people that are deep into the psychological world i said why is it
[8:41] that a voter votes for the opposite party it's even when you have a good president i think i had the
[8:46] greatest year the greatest opening year i've read the greatest look i ended eight wars a ninth is coming
[8:55] but i ended eight wars nobody's ever ended one war who's ended one nobody
[9:01] we have the biggest tax cuts ever we have the biggest can you pause it okay nobody has ever
[9:08] ended one war and everyone that's ever happened is still going and and trump is gonna start and
[9:14] end this ninth war which he's bragging about you can't count the ones you started to be honest
[9:19] right exactly those should be the rules okay bro if you want to tally up all the wars you've
[9:25] ended you can't start wars to end them that's called stacking the rules you i know that that's
[9:30] the kind of thing that you do with your golf swing you don't count it you hide balls you don't take
[9:35] rounds of molly right again the rounds of mulligan yeah um you know what could also explain potentially
[9:43] what is going to happen hopefully inshallah to the republicans in the midterms is the fact that trump's
[9:48] approval rating is like one of the worst in history at this time in presidency it's the worst in history
[9:53] um like we're talking bush 2007 levels but he's not even halfway through his first term that could be
[10:00] a part of the explanation it's more scientific than it is psychological so i'm not sure if he
[10:04] would accept the analysis but um this it's more like data driven that is a ouija board no i i haven't
[10:15] looked deep into the soul of america to figure out why they hate what the republicans are doing but it
[10:20] could have something to do with the fact that the economy's falling apart he's starting a war that he
[10:24] said he would never start and uh we're rounding up people and throwing them into camps and that was
[10:30] what they this administration said was going to solve the economy and the economy's getting worse
[10:35] could be something like that or just that neither party's ever delivered for a long long time right
[10:41] it's very easy to figure out i mean i don't have a psychology degree but that's how i feel that our
[10:45] government is corrupted and no one likes it right yeah that's a big part of like the american experience
[10:51] right now but um i mean he had like two shitty divorced parents and we're like switching our
[10:57] christmas every year i wouldn't know anything about that relation cuts the greatest economy ever
[11:06] pretty much including the fact that i took a detour into a rend in order to stop detour something that
[11:12] would have just could have destroyed the world okay was it a war or is the detour because he just
[11:19] called it a war and something that could have destroyed the world there is one country that has
[11:26] dropped nuclear weapons on civilians it's us it's us i mean what we did to japan is unconscionable
[11:36] let's like not pretend and there are two nuclear armed powers that have offensively bombed the country
[11:42] that we're saying is going to build a bomb to destroy the world why wouldn't they build a bomb
[11:46] as a deterrent keep going even when you have a great president they tend to lose the midterms
[11:57] it doesn't make sense to me so we're going to try turning it around you know in 50 years i guess
[12:03] the the president the person the party with the president has won twice why that happens i don't know
[12:11] we are really working hard to turn that around we've had the greatest year in the history of the
[12:15] presidency first year and we should be giving credit look at the border so we had a border that
[12:22] was an open sieve you covered it better than anybody so is that i should get i should get credit
[12:29] i think we should well i think we have to bring it back to talk we don't need help on the border
[12:36] but you know i built over a thousand miles of wall i we have to talk about it because we should be
[12:43] given credit for having taken this disaster where people were criminals were coming in from all over
[12:49] the world and pouring into our country the worst thing it's the worst thing that's ever happened it
[12:54] was like an invasion and we should be given maria credit for it so i'm going to be talking she looks
[12:59] at her notes and he tries to get her attention maria hey hey my eyes are up here yeah hey hey pay
[13:05] attention to me and call me sir also when he says he's working really hard in the midterms i think
[13:11] that means what installing ice at voting polls hey also focusing on the ballroom because the what is
[13:19] the midterms without a big celebration after okay um she's trying to get him on message like coaching
[13:26] him like like a little child like hey and and and what is your message i know you're going on a little
[13:32] bit of a tangent here but what is the the core of the assignment that the teacher gave to you which
[13:38] is to give voters something to vote for oh immigration and then he goes off on some tangent
[13:42] about that i'm a victim i'm a victim i'm a baby yeah credit yes right right me me me me so what is
[13:48] your message there they they thought that they could ride this immigration stuff for because on polling
[13:55] it's their best issue but trump is now underwater on their best issue um you know why because turns out
[14:01] warehousing hundreds of thousands of people deporting hundreds of thousands of people
[14:06] has not improved our economy um you can't separate that from from the border like he's talking about
[14:12] he's trying to talk about the border wall but everybody immediately thinks of ice shooting people
[14:16] in the street yes when they think about that yes which is fun because sometimes pollsters will
[14:20] separate border enforcement and immigration in their polling stupid because mentally nobody can do that
[14:25] exactly i mean he's underwater on both but he's slightly better from my understanding on border so
[14:31] that's why he's trying to pivot there but he's not artful enough to do it and when you're historically
[14:36] unpopular on everything and the goal that you said that immigration was that that this brutal immigration
[14:43] crackdown was supposed to achieve isn't happening construction is slowing across the country um housing in
[14:49] general is in really bad shape because mortgage rates are ticking up again um the there was uh
[14:57] they were coming down slightly you know trump was trying to bully the fed about that but what do you
[15:01] know when energy prices uh explode due to this war that you started and inflation is and ended
[15:15] i forgot about that wish my nobel peace prize oh my god they need to make one for him so he'll stop
[15:22] the biggest one ever yes yes right make it bigger than machado just physically we doubled obama's we
[15:30] changed the design and we allowed baron to come up with an idea um when that doesn't happen and you're
[15:39] like people aren't sadists like stephen miller they don't like for the most part unless they're
[15:45] already voting for you and like are the triple trumpers as jennifer welch would say and are still
[15:51] in a part of the country that approves of of what he's doing um they don't want to see families
[15:58] getting ripped up they don't want to see people getting shot in the street by ice they're not they
[16:02] don't get like a hard-on from that in the way that stephen miller does they were sold and and their
[16:08] racism people's reflexive racism it makes it easier to make this case but they were sold that this would
[16:15] help their lives it's not helping their lives the the economy is getting worse you don't feel safer
[16:22] when you go to sleep don't feel safer uh don't necessarily feel safer at all i don't uh i'd be
[16:29] pretty afraid that iran if you actually think the terrorists are coming for us i don't but iran would
[16:35] have every incentive to attack us on u.s soil based on what we did we killed their leader we bombed a
[16:42] girls school like that doesn't make me feel safer but even on the economy housing construction is slowing
[16:48] they can't get people to there's no people on job sites in addition to the uh the the interest rates
[16:54] ticking up existing home sales uh fell to a nine month low as we get into spring when it's supposed
[17:02] to be home buying season um inflation is ticking up the all trump cares about is the stock market but
[17:11] if that ai bubble burst with which ed zitron has been saying is going to happen and it i my the all
[17:17] indications show that it's obviously well uh over inflated and uh not worth what the stock market
[17:25] says yeah we're we're going to be in in in real trouble here economically and trump's like yeah
[17:33] americans are racist i get it but they're not seeing any material gains for their racism being
[17:39] implemented and so the border stuff you can say i'm focusing on the southern border and immigration
[17:45] enforcement all you want bro but when it's not tied to the economy you're screwed you're screwed
[17:54] um so one more clip from this this interview that i found uh quite amusing oh and and just to point out
[18:01] he is kind of he did have that stat at the top of his head correct about um the the house actually
[18:07] in particular he's focused on the house in that response um about midterm gains so it has only
[18:14] happened two times in the past 50 years bill clinton in 1998 uh saw democrats they gained seats in the
[18:23] house and then in 2002 after 9 11 bush gained some seats in the house um and also gained senate seats
[18:29] which is the last time that that has happened in 50 years when the party in power gained seats in both
[18:34] the house and the senate so he's correct about that um but that was 9 11 nationalism history says a
[18:40] different story about this approval rating this level of activation the senate is in play and he
[18:48] should start to maybe worry about that a little but he can't stay on message because he doesn't actually
[18:52] care about the republicans that's his best asset to us is that he hates his supporters and the republican
[18:58] party just as much as we do yeah he's disgusted by anybody who doesn't have at least two bill yeah and
[19:05] he and he says he likes to surround himself with losers because it makes him feel better another
[19:12] wonderful you know kind of insight as he deteriorates but um you know we want this war to end as we've
[19:21] said what material gains are we going to get from this to make it look like not an abject surrender on
[19:29] iran's own terms well trump has an idea that's going to impact you and me do we still have the same
[19:37] relationship with italy right now and george maloney no no she's been uh negative anybody that turned us
[19:44] down for helping with this uh iran situation we do not have the same relationship just so you know
[19:52] italy gets a lot of oil from the straight you can call it the street of hormones or the harmos straight
[19:59] i said which is better they said either is okay but you can call it either one the only thing you can't
[20:05] call it is the trump straight they don't like that idea by the way speaking of that i did a thing that
[20:11] people like very much except for mexico i took the gulf of mexico we now call it the gulf of america
[20:17] that's not bad and google changed it i know that and google did you and by the way google is great on
[20:22] that did you see by the way google is great on that she tries to get him back on track again he's he gets so
[20:30] fixated on these vanity moments like all self-indulgence a grievance that's all he
[20:36] understands it's true i mean and and it it's getting worse as he deteriorates it's becoming a
[20:42] larger larger part of his brain i'm also very impressed with his ability to make every chair
[20:47] look like a toilet oh yes i mean it's that dump truck lumpy orange ass uh although i'm sure he doesn't
[20:58] spray tan that part god i'd imagine the tan line differences somebody is spray tanning that they
[21:03] deserve all of the money millions of dollars i hope that he doesn't steal your wages like he does for
[21:09] almost every other worker um he also sounds a little bit like biden did at the end like he's
[21:13] getting that like whispery yeah yeah yeah yeah and trailing off um speaking of biden at some event
[21:20] brought up some black guy on stage he said looks like obama um but he's a demon and deserves a
[21:28] rotten hell joe biden but it's getting into elder abuse like stop putting him in public exactly i
[21:33] thought you were just sit on rehoboth beach and just it can't be up decompose there please
[21:40] um i mean like god we can't get you tried in the hague for committing genocide can you at least
[21:45] not subject us to seeing your face um anyway but uh i do like him going after maloney a little bit too
[21:53] like it's kind of you're not the same person anymore you broke my heart yeah i thought beautiful i
[21:59] thought you were special turns out i should have known that that that dye job was fake you but blonde
[22:06] italian no such thing no such thing i like my blondes naturally to see my kids how they turned out but
[22:15] also uh so when he says we have anybody who turned us down with iran yeah that's the whole world except
[22:22] israel yep yeah so so he said fuck you to everybody but israel it is us and israel against the world
[22:28] baby yeah that really is that germany japan thing you were talking about yes yes italy yes yes right
[22:37] right that's what yeah trump is trump is upset that yeah italy isn't joining into our axis of evil this
[22:43] time they were like we've tapped out okay we've been down this road we've been down this road please
[22:50] look we'll we'll match you on hating immigrants and letting migrants drown in the sea maloney's all for
[22:56] that but i don't know if we want to join the international axis of epstein just quite yet
[23:04] buddy um well uh cold dog says i call her fredo maloney exactly cankles uh mctaco tit says maloney used to
[23:16] maloney used to be a solid eight hey folks don't forget to hit the subscribe button and check out
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