Is Trump's $1776 a bonus or a bribe?

-- On the Show

-- Donald Trump promotes $1,776 cash payments to service members while escalating explicit oil-driven rhetoric about Venezuela, raising concerns that patriotic rewards are being used to soften troops ahead of potential military action

-- Donald Trump signs an executive order reclassifying cannabis to Schedule III, formally acknowledging medical use while stopping far short of federal legalization or criminal justice reform

-- Reporting reveals Susie Wiles pushed Donald Trump into a nationally televised address meant to deflect from her Vanity Fair fallout, resulting in a rambling speech that damages both Trump and his administration

-- Donald Trump appears disengaged and authoritarian as he dismisses congressional oversight and avoids accountability

-- Fox News anchor John Roberts publicly dismantles Howard Lutnick's mathematically impossible defense of Donald Trump's exaggerated pricing claims

-- Cardiologist Jonathan Reiner warns that Donald Trump's frantic speech cadence raises serious medical and leadership concerns for a sitting commander in chief

-- Trump administration officials delay credit for economic outcomes by pushing promised gains into 2026 while deflecting questions about present-day performance

-- The Friday Feedback segment

-- On the Bonus Show: The Epstein files were supposed to be released today, the Brown University shooting suspect was found dead, MAGA infighting spills into the Turning Point USA conference, and much more…

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(00:00) Start (01:27) Trump cash payments, oil war (08:37) Cannabis rescheduled, no reform (17:20) Susie Wiles media damage (22:06) Trump rejects oversight (28:19) Fox News math takedown (34:16) Trump speech raises health concerns (42:05) Economic gains pushed to 2026 (49:12) Friday Feedback

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