 Okay, we're back, we're live. This is Stink Taken on the Given Friday. This is Trump week, Trump week. Every week is Trump week, seems like, isn't it? Tim Appichella, my co-host and Cynthia Sinclair, my co-host, thank you, you guys for coming down. Thank you, James. You know, just a few words here. You know, sometimes things are exactly as they seem to be. Sometimes what appears to be looney tunes is in fact looney tunes. And we have to keep our heads straight about that. You know, we have now, we have something like 120 days without a press conference. We get on pass on in front of the helicopter, where a given president can always say that he didn't hear the question. You know, we're gonna focus on some of those statements he makes, including this week in front of the helicopter, which, you know, that's from the heart. An old teleprompter in front of the helicopter, so we wanna hear what he has to say from his heart. The other thing I wanna say is that a president, and in fact any executive in the 21st century has to surround himself with a brain trust. The smarter, the better, the more experienced, you know, the more equipped, competent, the brain trust, the better the decisions. And we've learned this. We've learned this in a whole history of humanity, and we don't have that. We have a president who surrounds himself with yes men or worse. And so what we have is, as I've said before, a sole proprietorship government, and it's all Trump. He knows how to keep the focus on him. He knows about, you know, keeping the attention on him, but query, does he know how to govern? And then the question today is, can he, is he competent to govern? Okay, Tim, you first. Well, you always can tell when it's been a tough week for the staff, because if you look at their forehead, there'll be finger imprints like this, you know. You always can tell what week it's really been. The bottom line is there are so many things that Trump has either tweeted about or has spoken on the way to the helicopter, that it is loony tunes. I mean, it's off the rail. But I guess I'll just back up a little second and say, should we be surprised? Didn't we not know we were gonna get this when he was running as a candidate? However, I don't think anyone expected for it to be this bizarre and this surreal with this president. So I've got a number of things that he's done this week that you're just gonna go, I just can't believe it. That's why we're calling this show, is it time to invoke the 25th? Because they talked about it a year or a year and a half ago and everybody blew that off as over the top. Well, let's remind people what the 25th is. Yeah, please. Well, the 25th basically says you're not capable of performing the duties of your office. And it's almost like an impeachment. You need so many different staff to agree to that and actually vote that you need to be replaced either temporarily or permanently. Yeah, okay, so that's the question before the house today. Now, let's send you a go first. Do you have any indication this week or up to this week that this president is not competent to do his job? Oh, constantly. His rampant narcissism is part of what makes him not qualified and makes him dangerous because people like that and the further we push him into the corner, if he hears about things like people thinking about the 25th amendment, he's going to become more and more and more dangerous as we push him back into the corner. And that's what worries me the most because we've got so much impending possible wars going on throughout the world. I was just listening to NPR and things are devolving in Afghanistan. Yes. There was one expert at the War College who was impressive. She said, like the Russians, we're going to have to fight our way out, survive the troops that are trying to leave. Bad decision, what he did there. He doesn't know. He doesn't have people around him telling the truth. Well, I've got a list of specific items but let's get back to this exit of Afghanistan. Remember, he bludgeoned President Obama by Obama saying we're going to try to exit by such and such a date. Hasn't Donald Trump done the exact same thing? The exact same thing. That's the mark of a demagogue. When I do what it's right, when you do what it's wrong. It is the mark of a demagogue. Okay, let's have some examples. Let's go down number one. I mean, I call it Trump doubles down on the Jewish people. And he basically said anyone who's Jewish that votes Democrat are disloyal to Israel and to the Jewish people. Yeah, well, you can take that further. Anybody who opposes him, anybody who speaks against him, any Democrat is disloyal to the United States of America. That's the ultimate logic of what he's saying. I find that really incredible. As you said, he's going off the rails. He's done great to service to the state of Israel. He's done great to service the Jewish people. He's done great to service to the country with all this Mishigas. That's the Yiddish word. Okay, what else you got? Trump retweets and thanks, conservative, conspiracy theorist. I forget his name offhand. But basically, he's retweeted and thanked him for saying, I am the king of Israel and the second coming of God. Okay, I don't know. Okay, I remember a president saying, I'm the decider. We now have a president that repeats himself over and over again, I'm the chosen one. Okay, so he's starting to buy into all this hype about he's the second coming of God and the king of Israel. Come on, folks. Well, that's nutcakes. But what's worse is that we're supposed to have a First Amendment, you know, the establishment clause keeping church and state separate. So that's being mushed and it was bad enough under W, but now it's way worse. We have a guy's proclaiming himself God, essentially. Well, one of the worst things in that too is because his base is mostly evangelical Christians, right? And how they could just throw away everything that they have believed for all these years and just throw it away. And I don't know as Christian, or any of the Christian denominations because it's just undermining everything. So all of these very established denominations are just blown away. That's a good point. As he basically threw out words of hate and warnings of hate about the immigrants coming across the border, which I believe did result in a shooting at El Paso, in a sense, he's starting to do that with the Jewish people. He's trying to separate their loyalty to our democracy and he's trying to cast them in a very negative light and God forbid someone from his white supremacy followers and or other groups starts to act on these words. Fanning the flames. Already happening, it's happened. And there are people out there who buy what he has to say. The other thing he did this week was this absolutely incredible, the birthright. Citizenship by birthright. If you were born in this country, you are a citizen. It says that in the United States Constitutional and one of the amendments, I think the 14th Amendment, if you are born in the United States, you are a citizen. He is now questioning that. He doesn't want that to be the case. He's gonna rewrite the Constitution of the United States by himself. He's gonna try. Executive orders get you somewhere, but it doesn't get you everywhere. But it shows you where he is. He's above the law. He's above Obama's regulations. He's above Congress's previous statutes now he's above the Constitution of the United States and he is God. So let's thread this one. Is this just getting ready for the 2020 election and he's just priming the pump or his 35%, 36% oil base? I mean, is this just red meat and he's just trying to throw more out there or is he really decomposing in front of our very eyes? I can't imagine his base increasing but it's possible because some of these religious comments that he makes, apparently, I mean, some commentators have said he does this for them. He does this for the evangelicals and they in turn like it. I'm not sure that's true, but that's what some of the commentators are saying. It's very troubling that this could be successful. Some of this craziness could be successful in expanding his base. You had more? When I was in Alabama, his base is pretty strong down there and they're all like, let's go to church on Sundays and I don't quite understand how they can just look the other way to his misogyny, all of the incredible number of plus 20 plus people that have come out for sexual misconduct. Well, we're doing a show about that this afternoon, aren't we? We are doing that this afternoon. And we're asking whether Trump should be put on the sex offender registry. He's given his relationship with Epstein and Epstein's underage friends. Right, and some of his own quotes and we'll go into the details of that as we get to the show later on. And we got misogyny and we got crimes, lots of business crimes and personal crimes and sexual abuse crimes. And yet there are people in the evangelical base community who say they're a Christian who support everything he does. This is really incredible. It's madness. Does it remind you of Germany or is he just decompensating into a completely incompetent? It reminds me of Germany and the fact that he took away and so it's indefinite detention now. Some of these kids used to be there was a set number of days that they could be in there, 20 days or 40 days. 20 days, I think it was, yeah. And now it's indefinite. They can keep these kids as long as they want. What's gonna happen to these children? All these crazy decisions, I don't know if you wanna call them executive orders or not, they're all gonna be challenged in court. By the time it gets through the court system, his term, first term will be up. So he gets through this craziness knowing that it's gonna be tied up in the court because he's an expert in court. How many times does he use the court to get what he wants? Right, you throw lawyers at it, you throw money at the lawyers and you double down on everything you never admit anything, it's perfect. You don't have to pay any bills, you never have to pay your contractors, none of that. So let's go, look at three. I mean, he throws our long established ally under the bus, Denmark, because they just said, we own Greenland and we're gonna keep it and it's kind of absurd for you to basically say you're gonna buy it because it's not yours to buy because it's ours, we own it. And it's over sale. And it's not even, he didn't say kind of absurd, she said it's absurd. And that's what made him mad. That's what made him really upset, of course. And he referred to her as, as he made, many other women, is as nasty. That's part of the show too. Oh, okay, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to take it. No, no, no, no, no. Okay, let's take a short break, you guys, we'll come back, we'll finish, there's lots more, we're only gonna have a six hour Trump week today. Is that all? That's all. One, two, three. Hello everybody, my name is Walter Kawaii. I'm your host for a monthly live streaming video entitled Ukulele Songs of Hawaii. Where I bring on guests, we enjoy talking story about the music industry here in Hawaii, sometimes going back 50 decades if possible and always having some good fun talking with entertainers. We're here located at Think Tech Hawaii, downtown Honolulu at the Pioneer Plaza building and in their studios. And so join me next month for Ukulele Songs of Hawaii. Hello, huh. My name is Wendy Lowe and I want you to join me as we take our health back. On my show, all we do is talk about things in everyday life, in Hawaii or abroad. I have guests on board that would just talk about different aspects of health in every way, whether it's medical health, nutritional health, diabetic health. You name it, we'll talk about it. Even financial health. We'll even have some of the Miss Hawaii's on board and all the different topics that I feel will make your health and your lifestyle a lot better. So come join me. I welcome you to take your health back. Mahalo. Okay, we're back with more and we agree that we're gonna put the, we're gonna shoehorn the six hours into 15 minutes. Okay, but this is so much material to suggest that Trump is actually decompensating and he's becoming more loony tunes. And the last question I'll put you on notice now is what happens? What happens when he becomes completely incompetent and unable to run the country? If that hasn't happened already. Okay, you have more Indisha. So let's talk about the Indisha. All right, well, remember a good friend, guy named Vladimir Putin and a little country called Russia. Remember Russia used to be part of the G7 and then they were summarily, they were going to pack their bags because they invaded Crimea. And also he poisoned a few people on the way and he basically was hacking into our 2016 election. So Russia's no longer part of the G7 for a reason, a very, very good reason. They're not our friend or ally. They're a rogue nation. They're a rogue nation. Yes, just out of all the possibilities, try to guess who wants them back in as a G7 member. The first two guesses don't count. They got something on him, I tell you. It's in the Steele dossier somewhere. They got something on him. Anyway, yeah, okay, so he's alone in that regard. It's not gonna happen. The other members of the G7 are never gonna agree to that. But it's again a provocation and puts them in the top 20 news articles in the Times. But now in this case, what audience is, given the thumbs up that Russia should be in the G7 can't be as base. I mean, Russia completely been converted to saying, Russia's our great, great friend and ally. I don't know what constituency is on board with this concept of Russia in the G7. Nobody. Russia, yeah, I guess you answered the question. There was an article that they put out in a Russian newspaper that he's all excited about the fact that Trump wants him back in the G8, right? I wonder if he wrote love letters like Chairman Kim did. I think you probably... I heard there's some love letters in the drawer somewhere that we haven't seen. You can probably find things that are very similar to what Trump has said about Kim Jong-un with respect to Vladimir Putin. Same kinds of, you know, he loves me, I love him sort of thing. Okay, what else? Well, this is a big deal with the missile test that went wrong over there in Russia because there are people that are finding, there's even a doctor that had nuclear radiation in his bloodstream and all he did was work on the people. You know, so it's... And now they're trying to say that he ate bad seafood, eat... Trump's saying is Trump is ignoring the risk of nuclear and he's also ignoring climate change. He's ignoring it. Even now when it's becoming ever so clear and look at what's happening with Bolsonaro land, Bolsonaro land in Brazil. Oh, right. Jair Bolsonaro is responsible, absolutely, just as Trump is responsible for denying climate change and encouraging people, you know, to exploit the resources in the river valley there and in what we call the rainforest. And now we have, I don't know, something like 50,000 fires burning in Brazil, the lungs of the world, right? And Trump hasn't said anything about that. Because he's on Bolsonaro's side. They're buds. He's got some really bad friends. He's got some bad friends. Okay, anyway, more. More. More. Indisha of incompetence. All right, let's go down to his recent statement about, remember he said how the people of Dayton and El Paso loved him and the doctors loved him? Well, he basically said that the staff left the operating rooms and wanted to come out and greet them and that their doctors were coming out of the operating rooms. They were hundreds and hundreds of people all over the floor. You couldn't even walk on it. Okay, so Ryan Milky, spokesman for the University Medical Center in El Paso said, our priority is always patient care. At no time did or would physicians or staff leave active operating rooms during a presidential visit. So who's zoomin' who? I think when he did that on Passant in front of the helicopter, he was lying. But then, you know, it wasn't the only lie that he does in front of the helicopter. The whole thing was a lie. You know, there are people who believe that. And it's the obligation of the press to call him on it. But what's troublesome about it is that he makes it up out of thin air. In fact, the reports at the time, you know, were headline, nobody wants to talk to him. Right, don't tell him that's right. They were irresponsible. Leave me alone kind of thing. Well, this is, you know, this is the narcissism that you're referring to. If you call week after week after week, everyone loves him. Whether it's Chairman Kev or, you know, everyone just loves him. And he's got to tell the world the news, everyone that he's loved. And who doesn't love me? Okay, so big psychological question. Why does he need to do this? Why does he have to have everyone love him? And it seems to be increasing. This becomes all-consuming for him. Find people or create people who he says love him. He's not loved enough, clearly. He doesn't have enough love. So what does this mean? Don't get me a psychological diagnosis. Give me. Don't, I was kidding you. I knew it. All right, okay, all right. Give me a psychological diagnosis. That's okay, because it goes back to narcissism. That's just a classic thing that narcissists do. Is it, I mean, any, you know, run-of-the-mill narcissist is gonna be like that big one. Does he believe what he says? I believe he does, yes. He believes his own lies. I was talking before about having a brain trust around you, you know, that can help you test the limits and come with good decisions and so on. He doesn't have that. He's excluded all that. He doesn't have that. He hasn't had that for a while. At the same time, he's making lies. And he believes the lies. How can you make good decisions? Decisions which affect the lives of billions of people when you're lying to yourself. And nobody's there, you know, that gives you pushback. I'll just go back to the old saying you was talking about years ago. I alone can only fix this. And he really does believe he's the only person in the United States that can fix all his problems. Remember when the generals left, you know, mad off and when they left, those were the bookends of rational thought that kind of contained him from acting the way he's acting this week. But they're all gone. And they've been replaced with loyalists. And loyalists will never be a critical thinker or say critical statements because they'll no longer be seen as loyal. So he is the mad king that basically has a mad staff. Yeah, but there's a process happening. There's a trend, there's a sea change here. It's getting worse. We agreed on that. Definitely getting worse. Somebody really should look into the 25th Amendment and see what the mechanics are. Who has to vote? You know, when you have to have a doctor's certificate. Hey. You mean for his bone spurs or for his up here? You know, what's one? Bone spurs on the brain. Spurs in his head, yeah, right. Okay, more rendition. Well, let's talk about what he did to the Fed here this week. I mean, he hit the Fed. He basically in the quotation is this. Who's our bigger enemy? Jay Powell. That chair. Jay Powell. Who he appointed. Yes. Who he appointed. Or Chairman Z. Who's the bigger enemy? China or our own Fed chair? We have a very strong dollar and a very weak Fed. I will brilliantly work with both as we will do. Well, do you think doubling down can save the economy? No, probably no. No, because it's coming true now. The farmers in Indiana are losing it. I mean, they're going bankrupt. They're going out of business. And they've supported him all this time, but they're not supporting him now. And you have all the promises that were made. I'm going to work it out with North Korea, no? I'm going to work it out with China, much worse. And he hasn't stopped them from their initiative in any way. In Europe, he's busting Europe. If he goes to the G7, if he appears there, he's going to make a mess. I guarantee it. He's hurting all of our allies and our relationship, our alliances everywhere in the world, and people are laughing at him, and thus laughing at us, and thus making arrangements and alliances with others like the Chinese and the Russians. I mean, we are really losing it. We are no longer, you can quote me, the leader of the free world. He has abandoned that. He has actually single-handedly destroyed it. And the question is, can we ever get it back? The question is, in his need for narcissism, will he be able to do anything constructive, or are we going to see a real closet case? Is he going to need help from those very same doctors in El Paso? Well, I know that the Dow is down almost 500 points, and that wasn't even the end of the day yet. Well, let's look at this. I left my house down 500. Well, 493. Let's look at exactly why today. When you're a farmer, you're going to love this statement. Remember, China retaliated. They're going to do some tariffs on $75 billion, because Trump early said, I'm going to tax 10% on $300 billion. So this is a trade war. So here's what Donald Trump said today. We don't need China. And frankly, we'd be far better off without him. That was a tweet this morning. If you're a farmer, and you know that 90% of your market has been going to China for sale, you've got to be devastated, because he is now closing the door as China as a trade partner. He's closing their farms. He's shutting down their farms. They don't have a market. They don't have anybody to sell it to. There's nowhere else they can sell it. But remember, a lot of these farmers are his loyal followers. It's going to be hard to them to follow in bankruptcy. They're not going to be able to claim he's done a great job when you look across the landscape of the Midwest and they're all bankrupt. That's what I truly feel sorry for as the farmers right now. I really do. And it's unnecessary. And it was unnecessary. When I heard that comment about how we don't need China, I thought, well, we sure better hope that they don't decide they want us to pay our loans back right now, then. Because don't we owe them a lot of money? They don't even have to do that, Cynthia. All you have to do is stop buying new bonds. Yeah. Just let them mature. That's all. Yeah. And then we're in trouble. And then we have to pay them off. Yeah. With the maturation, yeah. So, OK, we only have a couple of minutes left. And I wanted to get to the most heady question of all where is this going? The lies and the obfuscations and the doubling down on these incredible disinformation statements every day, multiple times. Where is it going? It seems to be getting, remember the newspaper used to count the lies? Over 12,000. They don't do it. I would do they, but you know. Yeah, it's over 12,000 now. 12,000. I think they're still keeping count, but we just not seeing the headlines on any more. Because we're Trump fatigued. Right. Right. True. We're Trump fatigued. So where's it go? He's believing himself. People still believe him. He's got yes men surrounding him. He's making, you know, terrible decisions. And he's crazier every day. So where does this go? Are we going to be OK? Are we going to be able to get to 2020? What's the damages, which is going to be incurred between now and 2020? How much more damage can he do? You asked this question many, many months ago. When we were talking about impeachment, and you said if they don't do it now, how much damage can they do by waiting? Well, the same question and answer holds here right now. If they don't do something about his madness, how much more damage can this president do upon this country, both domestically and internationally? A lot, you can do a lot. Look what he's done in one week. Just this one week. And if you multiply that by, you know, and then think, don't forget about what Michael Cohen said about how he's not going to leave the White House easily. He's not going to leave, you know, peacefully. Scared. And so I'm scared about what will happen. I believe that he will manipulate the outcome of the votes, whether Russia is involved or not. Doesn't really matter at this point. Because his people are in place, like you said, everywhere, his yes men, everywhere, the state controllers, everywhere, that count the votes. So how do we trust our votes when we have no security, no election security? We have none. There's none been voted on, so how are we going to do that? Remember, the reason he doesn't want to leave office, because they know he's going to be prosecuted for criminal offenses after he leaves office. And that won't be federal offenses, but also state offenses. But Russia has no control over him. Even if he worked out a deal with someone, they won't be able to pardon him for the state stuff. So I want to know if we can get Neil Cotty all back in there to rewrite the memo, so it's not the same memo that says you can't prosecute a sitting president. Who is it to have memo? Excuse my language. Only an internal DOJ policy is not the law. Why does it apply? It's easy to break a law, but it's apparently a memo. It's a sacrifice. I know one tag. Come from Mount Up High. OK, so I don't get it. What I get from you guys this week is that these processes we're talking about, this overarching decompensation, you're not the only ones we feel that way really. A lot of people I know feel that way, it's going to continue. The decompensation will continue. And that means, and this is my last question, that means we'll see more of it next week, the week after, the week after that. And actually it will overshadow or at least compete with the attention of the American public as against the Democratic primaries, rather the Democratic debates and attempts to get elected campaigns. So what will happen next week and the week after, given a decompensating president? Any thoughts on that? I have one. OK, I have one. I believe that he is trying to instigate a riot. I don't know what to call it exactly, but a riot where there's so much rioting in the streets. You've got the white supremacists here, then you've got the antifas over here. So there's riots in the street. I better declare martial law. And I think he's been trying to trigger this for a long time. Yeah, I'm lost to it. He's been working it and working it and working it. And all of his hate speech, which is getting more and more and more intense, is causing more and more and more of this. And so because of the El Paso shooting, now, Antifa is more vocal than they were before. And Portland, I was really wondering what was going to happen in Portland this last week, or was it, yeah, last week, to see what was going to happen. They handled it pretty well. They handled it really well. And there was only a lot for his help, though. OK, we're almost out of time. Most out of time, well, a lot of times psychological issues don't run just with psychological issues. They manifest themselves in medical issues. Physical medical issues. We don't know if this thing continues to get worse. We may be dealing with a president that has some medical crisis. I'm not predicting it, but you just don't separate one without the other sometimes. Very interesting thought. OK, Tim, Tim Epicella, Cynthia Sinclair, Trump Week. Let's be back next Friday and find out what happened in the course of the week between now and then. All right, thank you so much. Thank you. See you next week. See you next week.