8/18/25: Putin crushed Trump, and it devastated Karoline Leavitt
August 18, 2025
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Summary
-- On the Show:
-- Vladimir Putin exploits the Alaska summit to humiliate Donald Trump and walk away with legitimacy while Trump gets nothing
-- Donald Trump runs to Sean Hannity to repeat Vladimir Putin's flattery and election lies after being embarrassed at the summit
-- Marco Rubio struggles on live television to name any concessions won from Vladimir Putin after Donald Trump's failed summit
-- Donald Trump rants on Truth Social with an authoritarian plan to seize control of elections and eliminate mail in voting
-- Nationwide protests erupt against Donald Trump's authoritarian power grabs and grow larger despite his crackdowns
-- Gavin Newsom releases a sharp ad against Trump that frames the fight over redistricting as a national battle for democracy
-- Karoline Leavitt fails to hide Trump's obvious physical decline and cognitive struggles as evidence mounts in public view
-- Karoline Leavitt looks shaken and ashen after Trump's disastrous meeting with Vladimir Putin that produced no concessions
-- A reporter confronts Marco Rubio with his own past warnings about Vladimir Putin to expose hypocrisy in defending Trump
-- On the Bonus Show: Trump to meet with Zelensky today, "non-routine" white-collar workers getting replaced by AI, Republican governors send National Guard troops to DC, and much more...
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