This Is How Trump Goons Exploit His Mental Decline The Daily Beast Podcast

[Uncle Joe]

David Rothkopf joins Joanna Coles for a blistering, darkly funny tour through what they argue is the accelerating late stage of Donald Trump: a president who can’t hold a thought, wanders off mid-meeting, and yet is being weaponized by Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, JD Vance, and others to push extreme agendas at breakneck speed. Along the way, they unpack Democratic paralysis, early signs of Republican and corporate peeling away, the politics of immigration as it tips from winning issue to liability, and why the real fight now is about stopping the madness before the midterms—plus, because it’s 2026, a detour into Doritos, Hollywood finally finding its voice again, and the Melania movie as protest art.

00:00 - Rubio’s Notes and Trump Reading Prompts Aloud
04:23 - How Trump’s Mental Decline Is Being Exploited
09:13 - ICE, the Fed, and Governing Through Intimidation
13:46 - The Melania Movie and Cultural Breakdown
18:03 - Erasing the 20th Century and Rewriting History
22:00 - G20 Chaos, UFC on the White House Lawn, and Global Absurdity
27:00 - What Trump’s Second Term Is Doing to America
27:33 - Democrats, Deportations, and Obama’s Record
31:05 - When Immigration Turns Against Trump
34:30 - Republicans Confront Trump’s Decline
38:05 - Corporate America Starts to Pull Back
41:35 - Press Freedom, Autocracy, and Trump Exposed
45:55 - “My Own Morality” and the Authoritarian Red Line