Hurricane season is here, and the biggest storm making landfall this week is Hurricane Trump. Paul Rieckhoff opens episode 630 from New York City as the UN General Assembly turns into a global stage for threats, propaganda, and pressure campaigns. From the UNGA lectern, Trump floated annihilating the Islamic Republic, telegraphed Cuba as the next target, mocked the very concept of artificial intelligence, and kept pushing the rigged two-party system further into authoritarian territory. Then he banned CNN, MS Now, and Politico from the White House and rolled out Trump TV “a predictable next step in the MAGA machine’s propaganda buildout.
Paul connects the dots the corporate press won’t: why Mamdani cozying up to Trump lacks integrity, why Kamala parachuting into Michigan for Abdul El-Sayed is a losing play, and why the four independent veterans running in Idaho, South Dakota, Montana, and Nebraska are about to get buried in dark money if we don’t have their backs. He also honors President Zelensky’s return to the 9/11 Memorial, remembers Wells Crowther, and closes with the reminder that eternal vigilance is the price of freedom “even when your quarterback goes down, even when the storms come, even when everything goes sideways.
In this episode
- Why UNGA week is really “Hurricane Trump” making landfall in New York
- Trump’s UNGA threat to “annihilate the Islamic Republic” “and why we must never normalize that language
- Cuba is next: Rubio “deep into negotiations” and the Cuban delegation walking out
- Trump tries to rename artificial intelligence to “superintelligence” from the world stage
- The White House bans CNN, MS Now, and Politico “and launches Trump TV
- Why Mamdani meeting with Trump “lacks authenticity” and what the far-left/far-right convergence looks like
- Kamala Harris stumping for Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan “why Paul calls it a losing play with independents
- The final 30-day dark money hurricane facing Todd Achilles, Brian Bengs, Seth Bodnar, and Dan Osborn
- President Zelensky honoring the victims of 9/11 at Ground Zero “and Wells Crowther, the man in the red bandana
- Jackson Dart, Jameis Winston, and the Giants disaster “every crisis is an opportunity to learn
