Tim Miller and Sam Stein take on Donald Trump's unhinged Oval Office performance, where he tries to distract from the Epstein scandal by ranting about Barack Obama, treason, and gold drapes. It's desperate, chaotic, and completely off the rails.
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OMG Caesar's Palace threw up here. Thank you Sam.
Tim - your thought about a possible infection point resonated. Does anyone else feel like, maybe, the tide is turning a bit? I almost hate to verbalize it.
Actually, he said Se DAY chus.
The Oval looks like a tarted up whore! Disgusting and disgraceful but totally in character with the doofus that was sitting there spilling words out of his pie hole.
Trump said "sedatious." So he learned the word yesterday but he doesn't quite have it down yet.
God damn, just listening to Fatass play the same old hits is nauseating. Don't the orcs ever get tired of listening to this shit?
Seriously, it is almost impossible to listen to Trump when there is video of him surrounded by the cheap gold EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE! LOL A sixth grade Christmas pageant would have better props and attention to detail. SNL/South Park like comedic ambiance...and then there are Hegseth's socks. Sorry. I am not distracted. Let's keep asking about Epstein EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE.
Tim! It looks better??? I’m so disappointed.
The Bulwark has changed so much. In a way, I guess it's cool to have more videos to watch. On the other hand, the quality is lower. A lot of these banged-out, reaction-to-news videos are super light on substance. Like, this one, for example.
Could Obama sue for slander?
Sorry did he say he has the Declaration of Independence in his office? Please tell me it's not the real one... How is this even a question in my mind?
No, it's a copy. The original is in the National Archives. https://apnews.com/article/trump-declaration-of-independence-oval-office-5b9b9a07ac61ab303d77bcb4f6f252e5
Very much with Sarah on the Oval Office decor. And it seems like it gets worse with every new clip I see. Before long the whole thing and all its furniture will be gold plated.
Tim & Sam, That was a treat. Thanks for the gilded oval office clip. The best part is if you go back and do a freeze frame on the other cabinet secretary's sitting and standing. Just take two of them. Rubio and Hegseth, why are they even there? Don't they have important jobs to do? Do they need to be there for the Bongbong guys suck up to Trump? They all are frozen looking like they belong in Madame Tussauds. WTF, you'd have to be deaf, dumb and blind to not know how insanely moronic these people are. You really have to ask yourself why the F we would let these weaklings run the world's only true super power right into the ground. How safe you feeling these days America?
Tim & Sam- love the breakdown. As a mom of 4, I almost needed to change my shorts. Almost. 🤣 Also, this may be the first time I disagree with Tim. I agree with Sarah on the whore’s decor. The gold is awful Caesar’s Palace level byproduct after a night-o-cocktails, many, many, many cocktails, and bad decisions.
Tim - you think it looks better???? OMG! Sarah had it absolutely RIGHT! Caesar's Palace threw up and couldn't STOP throwing up!!!!
Trump has the tacky taste. The oval office looks stupid and gaudy.
Putting aside all other subjects that were discussed in this video, the current oval office decor is absolutely disgusting. I am amazed that Tim thinks it looks better.
I live for the tim/sam collabs
Me too
What is going on with trump’s hair? I’ve never seen anyone with hair jutting out over their forehead. Serious bed head from tossing and turning all night worrying about Jeffrey Epstein?
Doesn’t the Hovel Office exchange sound like Jimmy Kimmel’s Idiot on the Street interviews?
I took some time out from the news cycle to listen to Ozzy. RIP. And the segue into trump news was Crazy Train.
Sam and Tim, you should check out cookinwithcongress on Insta. That might be the other outlet you’re talking about. He recreates unhinged recipes from politicians and does a lot of “eating like president X for a day” content. He ate like Trump for a week before the election last year and thankfully he seeks to be relatively fit and healthy because by the time he was done, the Diet Coke alone appeared to have partially preserved his body.
When you see how some of our electeds eat, it explains so much about our current circumstances. No one who eats like Trump or Nancy Pelosi should be trusted to serve the country.
My Will
by Lorna Goodison
Son, my will,
albeit premature,
when the palm readers
divine
for me an extended
life line.
Besides who knows what
worth bequeathing
I could acquire
before the life line
inches to the darker side
of my hand.
But, for a start,
the gift of song,
this sweet immediate source
of release was not given me
so I leave it for you in the hope
that God takes hints.
Then the right to call
all older than you
Miss, mister, or mistress
in the layered love of our
simplest ways,
eat each day’s salt and bread
with praise,
and may you never know hungry.
And books
I mean the love of them.
May you like me earn good
friends
but just to be sure,
love books.
When bindings fall apart
they can be fixed
you will find
that is not always so
with friendships.
And no gold.
Too many die/kill for it
besides its face is too bold.
This observation is the
last I give:
most times assume a
patina a shade subdued
so when you bloom they
will value it.
The Oval is decorated like Liberace's Vegas living room.
Tim, Sarah’s right, “Caesar’s Palace threw up in the Oval Office.” Brilliant metaphor. Pls come around on this one. I’ll try to send you a great poem by Lorna Goodison, “My Will,” that nails it. Pls: no gold. Oval looks horrible & sight of it is brutal to the senses, demoralizing. Gold is for losers.
I thought he said sedacious--somewhere seditious and sagacious...
I can't say it sudden, since Trump and maga are on the scene for ten years. Neverrheless, it's still unthinkable.
When you see the scene in the oval chamber gilded in such a gaudy kitchy classless and tasteless manner, and you see a mad ruler, whose taste and behaviour are medieval, rants incoherently and boasts and howls at the same time like a raving lunatic, you really feel the United States, at once was transported to the pre modern era, when kings were mad and the rethoric of raging vengeance was the normal discourse. When power meant naked fury.
Things you read about the Roman empire, the Russian Czars, are autocrats like Idi Amin, Sadam Hussein, Kaddafi, all happening here.
But this is the biggest democracy on earth, founded by enlightened men like Franklin and Jefferson. It's still a dream or nightmare.
Kafkaesque
Good to see Saddam-Saudi style come home to the Oval...
Steven Miller is one scary looking guy! He actually looks like the fascist that he is! Trump still trying to punish Obama for becoming POTUS while black, it’s pathetic!!! A corrupt criminal calling someone else guilty WHAT A JOKE!
Trump knows that he can always play the race card with his base - the new birtherism that helped elect him in 2016!
DON’T LET UP ON EPSTEIN!!!!!!!!!!
"a meaningful day of crazy shit." I'm now calling him President Fat 'N Crazy, because there IS no better name for him.
If possible, would you guys be able to edit out the malign image of Stephen Miller from any future clips? I'm worried that seeing too much of Miller-Goebbels might have the same effect as that video from 'The Ring'.
He didn’t say seditious, he said “se-day-titous.”
Yuck. It’s so gaudy. Tim you’ve have terrible taste.
STRONG AGREE, Tim.
Every reporter should mock Trump for NOT arresting Obama.
Ask WHY Trump hasn’t arrested him? Is Trump too afraid? Does Obama scare him? Or is he intimidated by Obama’s “manliness”?
He's so full of orange crap. Please, distort his voice like Mary Trump does.
He actually said, “sedatious”. 🤦🏽♀️
Is it a reflection of how much this WH staff actually believes that this man is all wonderful that they let him try to say "seditious" on camera, in front of people--the man who couldn't say "origins" so instead talked about the "oranges" of the Mueller investigation?
It really pisses me off the DJT is allowed to just blatantly lie. He does this again and again and no one calls him out on it. He is a fucking liar and TV allows him to just lie. They should have in large scrolling letters - DJT is lying right now. Maybe if people in the room would just say - hey Donald you're fucking lying.
Yes, this! Drives me completely batshit crazy that he lies with absolutely no pushback whatsoever! I'm all for the scrolling chyron - Trump is lying right now.
Totally agree. But we better do it before the Brownshirts (a.k.a. ICE agents) take complete control of the government and start shooting people for telling the inconvenient truth.
... but, but, but NORMS Mary Jo.
Norms!!!
Aren't presidents immune?
They are now according to SCOTUS. Would that work for Obama?
My mom was a private, in-home caretaker specializing in elder care specifically for those with paranoid dementia.
There were a few occasions when school was out and I had to go to work with her: Trump sounds exactly like those 80-90 year old paranoid dementia patients I interacted with and observed when I was young.
Maga is happy when trump ‘owns the libs’ but everything he is doing at this moment is a distraction to own 'the MAGA'. And I think the MAGA knows it.
Tim ... Gotta disagree. The oval office is HIDEOUS
Can’t wait until the orange psychopath is gone and the facility people peel away the phony gold filigree. It will be a harbinger of spring for our ailing country.
This distraction attempt is so obvious and stupid. Maga will surely eat it up, right?
Trump can read??? ;)
The sad thing is the maggats will just take whatever he says as gospel. I will get my fight back, but today I am just so sick of this ridiculousness.
Really Tim? You think the oval looks better as Caesars Palace East? Tsk, tsk
Caesars Palace vomited gold in the oval!
Sorry Tim, but I was just about to say the same thing Sarah did about the Oval decor.
I love the concept of decor as art too, but the Liberace motif is way too kitschy for me.
Tim and Sam, thanks for the report on the latest insanity, distractions, and Olympian lies coming out of the people’s house!
By the way, I have to disagree with your take on the decoration of the Oval Office. You really think it looks nice?
As one gay man to another, I have to challenge your taste. The Oval looks more like a Russian “whorehouse” than the office of the leader of the free world.
Most American people do not decorate their house to look like a whorehouse so how is it appropriate for the people’s house to look like one? It is called tacky at best!
Well, Russian brothels are probably Trump’s favorite places, so of course he’s going to decorate like that.
You got that right!
Thanks! Good to know I’m not alone.
Trump actually said “sedatious,” which if it is a word doesn’t mean what he was trying to say, seditious. In any case, it was surely outside of his working vocabulary.
Sedatious means he's attempting to distract from his own salacious behavior, by accusing someone else of sedition. I think you can look it up in the Matt Gaetz dictionary.
Yeah, you’ve got the go-to source for sure. I’m thinking it also might have to do with people getting bored with Trump’s schtick. Sedatious …. it sedates us. Puts us to sleep.
A little off-topic, but this clip just surfaced about Trump testifying before Congress in 1993 about native Indians and casinos
The congressman questioning him is quite amazed at how Trump thinks and determines who has rights in our country
https://substack.com/@bluepowerdemgirl/note/c-137722978?r=eit6y&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
whoa...
Who is this weirdo running our country?
He knows just what he's doing. Look at his face when he talks about Obama getting "caught." It's the same look that he had at the age of 4 when he was getting himself out of trouble: tattle on somebody else. Obama started it!!!
Uhhh...... No one said there would be a test afterwards.
I was told there would be no math…
I would like to request no one refer to Trump doing a “weave”. I think it’s normalizing his inability to stay on track in a conversation.
Agreed. Unless you're talking about his hair.
I think in the Bulwark community we understand it as being said with irony.
It didn’t sound ironic to me.
What I wonder, if Trump can sue Murdoch & WSJ for libel, why can't Barack Hussein Obama (have you heard of him?) sue Trump? Lies can be proven, and malicious intent is a given. The weak spot I see (other than Obama being a public figure of course, but the Trump litigation also ignores that minor fact) is the question of actual damages. Few people believe the lies about Obama, and I don't think this hurts Obama in any material way.
A whole lot of his followers will believe it, so ironically they could be the ones that bring the big fat boomerang home.
What he's really trying to say
Don't cry for me Maga
When I try to explain how I feel that I still need your love
After all I've done
(Don't Cry for me Argentina)
Yes, Tim! Let’s see it. If this is true we should be seeing Obama arrested next week and in jail. Let’s start a countdown clock. How many days that Obama is still walking free. And a clock for how many days that the Epstein files haven’t been released.
What was revolting for me was to watch what looked like childish delight on his face as he spun out this skein of lies. He's a scumbag, and the malice oozes out of his pores.
Okay Tim, we are revoking your gay card and sending you back to interior design classes. 🤣🤣🤣
Well said, Steven!
Dammit, Tim!!
What I'm thinking about is Rupert Murdoch and the people who work for him--are they on board with Trump's accusations, either tacitly or actively? Who are they? (Same with people from National Review.)
I assume the non-right wing outlets don't put any stock into these accusations.
This is the kind of thing where I wish we could gather Trump supporters and Trump opponents together and see which outlets were correct. I feel like right now there is no reckoning or consequences. Murdoch's minions can say whatever they want, no matter how outlandish, and there are no consequences.
You played enough…
You are torturing me. He is an idiot.
So sick of his shit!
I vote to remove your membership in the gay lifestyle.
I heard Trump say Obama was “sedacious”, as in sedated. Another example of every accusation being projection?
I heard sedatious, too. What an idiot!
I just think he doesn't know how to pronounce "seditious". It's a new word he has wanted to use ever since he pardoned seditious conspirators.
What the absolute fuck, is this sloppy mother motherfucker even talking about? Lol
Senior moments
Hey! Don't blame us, blame the tiny pea brain he was born with! I wouldn't blame you for being young, just because you're photo happens to be enjoyable.
I'm saying he had a senior moment. I'm not at all blaming seniors.
Just teasing. I know you didn't.
Oh OK. I was trying to be funny, but I don't want to insult older folks.
You were funny! I can laugh at some of the ridiculous shit I do now.
Whatever Trump believes or knows is in these files must be very bad for him given he is willing to go thru this to prevent the files from becoming public. What could it be?
Bad.
No need to apologise to the current Marcos. His father was a brutal dictator and he helped his dad. They were massively corrupt and given refuge in Hawaii by Ronald Regan when it all went pear shaped for them. Marcos would have been loving Trump's performance- he's a master of disinformation himself.
Considering what Trump and Marcos are, I'd have thought journalists would be interested in what's actually going on between those two rather than laughing at a name.
I wonder how come nobody asked Trump what it was that Obama is supposed to have done. You know… Like give an example. Seems like journalism 101.
"What do you hope to learn in kindergarten Donny?" Seems like a reach.
When Trump was talking about invading Greenland, Seth Meyers jokingly dared him to do it saying, "Do it. Go get it. I want it." If Trump wants to arrest Obama, we should be saying, "Arrest him, or shut the f**k up." Dare him to do it.
Arresting the most popular living president will have consequences. If you thought the No Kings protests were big, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
Tim - channelling your inner Liberace! Can't say I agree with your take but love the honesty ;)
Wait, wouldn't Obama be immune because of the Trump decision? Everything he did was legal! Checkmate.
This. :) Thank you.
His little eyes light up when talking about the decor.
There’s never been a more tasteless president. In fact, he deserves the Nobel prize for tastelessness. What an honor that would be. The president with the least amount of taste EVER. Congrats in advance.
As extra content can we get Tim and Sarah to do a competition redecorating of the Oval Office using Adobe photoshop or whatever? Queer Eye For the Straight Autocrat.
"The witch hunt that you should be talking about is the one I'm trying to distract you with"
The kind of sleight of hand that only works on puppies.
You are both great together. However, Tim..WTAF? The Oval Office is freaking hideous. 😂 I am with Sarah on that one.
Yes indeed, let's see it. Orange47 says he has the proof, got Obama stone cold engaging in treason and its been released... LET'S ALL SEE IT. I feel that this is shit Trump has said many many times before and I find it very refreshing that nearly everyone (even the Rs) refuse to be distracted.
Love the analogy “throwing so much chum in the water”.
Hope they get the big tuna LOL
He did not say “seditious,” he said “SEDACIOUS!” Listen to that vlip again! What an idiot. Don’t give him a pat on the back for using a brand new word. He mispronounced it!!!!! Funny, it rhymes with SALACIOUS, a word he’s VERY familiar with—as in a “bawdy doodle” birthday card.
Colbert caught it and had some fun with it…
I spit out my covfefe when he said "sedacious"
Omg! I'm dying laughing . . . He didn't learn it! He mispronounced it.
More 3D chess from the Orange Genius. Combine two words to masterfully mangle the language into a single gem of stupidity and projection.
Remember when he kept talking about the "oranges" of the Russia investigation?
And people seeking asylum means people were turned out of foreign mental health inpatient facilities, "insane asylums."
You beat me to it! It was so obvious I can't believe Sam and Tim didn't catch it. That's what happens when stupid people try to use big new words.
He just makes this crap up and the media nods along with it. THIS is a major reason why we have a problem.
This is why we need and have outlets like The Bulwark. Without, we would be in even more trouble.
All that gaudy gold and he claims the Oval Office is "more beautiful." They are paving over the Rose Garden. Not to mention renaming the Kennedy Center Opera House after Melania.
The Barbarians have taken over.
Sam, you are working Tim too hard.
He thinks the Oval Office looks better? He needs more time off.
"HE'S GUILTY!" "HE TRIED TO LEAD A COUP".
Well, his litigation dockette will be full after his time in office.
Trump looks like some ancient Catskills comic that usually knows where all the laughs are who suddenly finds himself locked in a room where the act has died. Watching that clip one can almost smell the sweat & desperation.
“But…but…I brought out the rubber chicken! I ALWAYS get a laugh when I bring out the rubber chicken!”
“Sedatious”…?? 🤣
He’s just showing a bit of ankle to distract from Jeffrey Epstein
Have you heard of him?
That’s bonkers.
What about presidential immunity?
Drumph's lawyer argued sedition is an official act and the Clown Court seemed to agree so...
Ship has sailed, time to focus on modernizing the torpedoes.