Sam Stein: The Ridiculously Unserious President

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<p>We’re raining hellfire down on Iran and American soldiers have died, but that doesn’t stop Trump from hitting the links, doing a little dancing, or holding a revenge rally. His main preoccupation is his daily PR battle over the war—which currently involves arguing that higher gas prices are a good thing. And his ever dutiful backup chorus in Congress is happy to explain how “freedom isn’t free.” Meanwhile, the immigration system has been so undone that we now have a shortage of seasonal workers. Plus, the absurd shoe-related loyalty test at the White House, a major Trump donor is trying to buy a Senate seat in Oklahoma, at least one white Afrikaner refugee has seen enough and wants to go home, Sam and Tim have new Cabinet member rankings, and some justice for JVL and Bill after Wednesday's pod.</p><p><strong>Sam Stein </strong>joins Tim Miller.</p><p><em>show notes<br /></em><br /></p></div><ul>

<li>JVL’s “Triad” on Iran from <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/dire-straits-the-iran-war-is-run?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=web">Wednesday</a> and <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/trumps-huge-complete-very-strong-victory-iran-getting-costly?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=web">Thursday</a>

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<li><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/sing-goddess-of-the-fury-of-trump-iran-war-name-epic-fury-trump-florsheim-shoes-too-big-rubio-vance?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=web">Bill on the "epic failure" of the Iran war in "Morning Shots"</a></li>

<li><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/senator-markwayne-mullin-meet-the-new-dhs-homeland-security-boss-same-as-the-kristi-noem-boss?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=web">Adrian and Jared on Markwayne Mullin</a></li>

<li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gop-senator-tells-americans-to-accept-higher-gas-prices/id1794450472?i=1000754883931">Sam's and Catherine's 'Bulwark Take' on higher gas prices</a></li>

<li><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/tim-and-sam-rank-trumps-cabinet-from?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=web">Tim's and Sam's year-end ranking of Cabinet members</a></li>

<li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/odd-lots/id1056200096">"Odd Lots" podcast</a></li>

<li>Tickets for our LIVE show in Austin on March 19: <a href="http://thebulwark.com/Events">TheBulwark.com/Events</a><a href="http://thebulwark.com/Events.">.</a>

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