Today’s Episode EP 525

The pigs are at the trough: Trump's national security fire sale

Trump's family is cashing in overseas while the Pentagon budget balloons 40% and Nvidia's best chips get pitched to Beijing. This is not a partisan gripe — it's a national security sucking chest wound, and the Angry Middle sees it. In this solo briefing, we connect the trough: foreign real estate deals, Don Jr.'s drone contracts, Kash Patel's snorkeling tour, and why corruption — not ideology — is the issue that decides November.

May 18, 2026

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