Crews dumping hydrogen peroxide into the water in a mad-dash effort to kill the algae were met with floating chunks of blue paint, and pouring rainwater quickly replenished the water that workers were trying to cleanse from the area. A furious Trump declared, without any evidence, that Antifa protestors had cut a 350-foot “slit” into the bottom of the reflecting pool in an effort to destroy his beautification efforts, with MAGA mouthpiece Karoline Leavitt backing up the outlandish claim on Fox News.

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Trump has now resorted to sending the national guard onto the grounds of the reflecting pool to stop… nothing? The vandals that Trump is convinced are haunting the memorial are completely non-existent. The only person Trump has to blame for the state of the reflecting pool, and the entirety of Washington D.C., which has now been razed to the ground after Trump’s manic “restoration” projects, is himself.

On this episode of Big F*ing Deal, Jo and Tara dive into the latest with the reflecting pool, and Trump and the DOJ’s meddling of journalists.

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Over the past two days, dozens of images and videos have gone viral documenting the current state of the nation’s (once) beautiful reflecting pool. The Trump White House and his Republican cronies for weeks said the pool would be “American flag blue.” But it’s now a darker shade of green than the grass that surrounds it.

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The pool is representative of the entire Trump/MAGA mindset. Bulldoze your way inside, break one (or ten) laws to accomplish your goal, claim victory, and then ride off into the sunset as everything crumbles around you. It’s the latest example to prove that everything Donald Trump touches literally breaks, whether its the reflecting pool, the White House grounds, the Kennedy Center, or the economy.

On this week’s episode of Big F*ing Deal, Jo and Tara discuss everything about the reflecting pool debacle, Trump’s newly botched Iran deal, and JD Vance’s disaster of an interview on The View.

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Pulte has no background in intelligence work, which makes him a great fit for the most unqualified and unserious White House in U.S. history. Pulte gave money to Trump’s inauguration and has weaponized and abused his current position within the government as the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Pulte also led several criminal referrals to the Trump DOJ against political figures, who just so happened to be on Trump’s political enemy list, like New York AG Letitia James, Fed Governor Lisa Cook, Senator Adam Schiff, and former Rep. Eric Swalwell.

As is typical with this regime, Pulte has no business leading one of the most important and sensitive positions in the world. Which is exactly why he’s been tapped to run it. Jo and Tara discuss all of this and more, right here on The Siren Network.

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ICE agents, acting as they usually do, attempted to quell the freedom of speech right to protest of the crowd. As Senator Kim attempted to calm the crowd down in fear of violence from ICE agents, he was pepper sprayed. Gov. Mikie Sherrill was outright denied access into the facility, being housed in her own state.

In response, Senator Kim said “Delaney Hall must be shut down immediately. ICE cannot be allowed to continue operating in this way.”

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On this episode of Big F*ing Deal, Jo and Tara discuss ICE’s brutality, in addition to Trump’s declining health, his recent trip to Walter Reed, his decaying hands, and his daytime sleeping problems. They also dive into the absurdity of the Trump UFC White House fight, in which taxpayer funds will be used, even as Trump says there isn’t enough money for healthcare.

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Republicans, in a frantic attempt to rationalize Trump’s morning nap, said that he was only “blinking.” But the nearly 20-second long video clearly shows Trump with his eyes closed the entire time, while attendees look at him, apparently trying to figure out what was happening.

During this same White House event, Trump was joined by a group of MAGA crazies including Senator Katie Britt, RFK Jr., and quack Dr. Oz. During the speech, RFK Jr. decided to talk about his disappointment in teenager’s lower semen levels (yes, this is real) while Dr. Oz complained that “1 in 3 Americans are under-babied.”

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One reason as to Trump’s inability to stay awake, might be because he’s up all night tweeting. The Daily Beast found that there were only 5 nights in all of April where Trump wasn’t up until 4am tweeting, meaning that he spent more than 80 percent of his nights posting on social media last month.

This is extremely concerning for someone of Donald Trump’s already worrisome mental state, who demands that golden statues of himself be built on his golf courses, as we saw yesterday in Doral, Florida.

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One of the accusers, a young woman who, according to the new report, had connected with Swalwell online, said Swalwell would send her message on Snapchat saying, ‘What do you want to do with your future?’” the woman said, and, ‘What are you wearing right now?’”

Since initial allegations emerged last month, Swalwell has resigned from Congress and ended his campaign to be California’s next governor.

Jo, Tara, and Kaivan discuss this story in this clip from today’s episode of Big F*ing Deal. All this and more, right here on The Siren Network.

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For the administration that was apparently going to “make comedy legal again,” it seems that only applies to people they dislike. This is not the first time Donald Trump or members of his family have resorted to authoritarian tactics to silence comedians who make jokes at their expense, or reporters who publish stories that particularly upset the regime.

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Kimmel took to the air to respond to the GOP’s wild accusations against him, saying “It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he's almost 80 and she's younger than I am,” Kimmel said. “It was not by any stretch of the definition a call to assassination, and they know that I've been very vocal for many years speaking out against gun violence in particular.”

On this episode of Big F*ing Deal, Jo and Tara also dive into the attempts by Donald Trump and his Republican Senator lackeys in Congress to pay for the White House ballroom with taxpayer funds. Going back on a statement is nothing new for Donald Trump and the GOP, for whom practically every word of out their mouths is a lie. But at a time when Americans struggle to afford grocery or gas prices due to his illegal and costly Iran War, this should be a step too far.

They also discuss Trump’s absurd call to rebrand ICE agents as ‘NICE Agents,’ in an attempt to salvage the agency’s abhorrent public perception.

The Trump midterm message is as follows: We will hide the Epstein Files from you that we promised to release, while bombing children’s elementary schools during our illegal war and raising your gas prices in the process, cause the job market to crash and inflation levels to rise. And while we’re at it, we’re going to send thousands of masked secret police agents into your communities to kidnap your family members and keep them in a concentration camp while denying them medial resources. And then we’ll use your money to pay for a lavish, Victorian-era ballroom so Dear Leader can throw his Mar-a-Lago parties for his billionaire friends at the People’s House.

Great midterm message, Donald. No notes.

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As Jo said earlier today, If Melania wants to improve the public discourse, she should walk across the hall into her husband’s bedroom and start with him.

On this special Monday episode of BFD, Jo and Tara are joined by Kaivan Shroff, media and culture expert, for a more pop-culture focused show. They discuss RFK Jr. ditching his wife Cheryl during the WHCD shooting, Megan Thee Stallion’s drama with athlete Klay Thompson, King Charles’ meeting with Donald Trump, and the U.S. mistakenly putting up Australian flags instead of the U.K.’s flags to greet the King.

Let us know in the comments below if you like this new, more culture focused show! And feel free to leave some idea for names in the comments, and we’ll pick the best one.

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Vice President JD Vance’s trip to Pakistan has now been put on hold after Iran did not respond to American positions on the deal. With the previous 10-day ceasefire set to expire on Wednesday, Trump, the wise master negotiator that he is, told CNBC today that he would begin bombing Iran again if a deal was not made. Really smart stuff.

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In the midst of MAGA’s Middle East disaster, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio going into hiding to protect his prospects of running for president in 2028, Jared Kushner has continued to rake in astronomical sums of money. While currently serving as the “United States Special Envoy for Peace Missions,” Kushner reportedly has been trying to raise $5 billion from foreign governments for his private equity firm.

In addition, Trump’s own children are getting in on the grift as well, with Donald Trump Jr. sitting on the advisory boards of both major prediction markets, Kalshi and Polymarket. There has been numerous reporting demonstrating dozens of instances in which a newly created, anonymous account dumps a gargantuan sum of money into a statistically unlikely claim, only for that bet to come true less than 24 hours later. We’ve seen this with Maduro’s kidnapping in Venezuela, and now with Iran. The White House has refused to respond to claims of insider trading.

It seems that the fraud and abuse within the federal government that MAGA was screaming about during the Biden Administration, was really just them all along.

Jo and Tara discuss all of this and more, including the growing MAGA rift, with Tucker Carlson saying: “I’ll be tormented for a long time by the fact that I played a role in getting Donald Trump elected. And I want to say that I’m sorry for misleading people.” Additionally, Alex Jones’ right-wing disinformation outlet InfoWars has now been officially sold to the satirical comedy site The Onion, who will send a portion of the funds generated from the new deal to the Sandy Hook families, who Jones disparaged for years.

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MAGA’s favorite autocrat, Viktor Orbán, lost the Hungarian presidential election on Sunday. With Orbán officially conceding, the opposition party has now won a supermajority in the nation’s parliament, allowing the country’s constitution to be rewritten, and Orbán’s corruption to be rooted out. The Hungarian people had enough of the corruption, and of the democratic backsliding. Through never-ending protests in the nation’s streets, democracy won in Hungary.

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During his 16-year term, Orbán consolidated power, attacked democratic institutions, restricted and reshaped the nation’s media apparatus, rearranged the constitution including election rules, removed independent checks on his power, and enriched his friendly and family while his own citizens fell into poverty. Sound familiar?

On this episode of Big F*ing Deal, we discuss how Orbán took Hungary from a democracy to a hybrid regime, modeling the exact template for what Trump, Vance, and Stephen Miller have attempted to do (and succeeded in some regards) within the United States.

Domestically, Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson have led the Republican shift to a nationalist populist party, inspired by what Orbán had done within Hungary and Europe’s far-right (see Brexit). Nothing demonstrates what the modern day Republican party has morphed into more clearly than Trump’s endorsement of Orbán, JD Vance’s disastrous stump speech for the autocrat in Budapest, and CPAC’s entry into Hungarian politics. America’s leaders have been studying, and using, the authoritarian playbook.

Jo and Tara also discuss Trump’s insane attacks on the Pope, his blasphemous picture depicting himself as Jesus Christ, causing massive uproar within MAGA, and Eric Swalwell’s resignation from Congress.

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As of 6:22pm today, 70 Congressional Democrats have called for the 25th Amendment to be invoked, or for Trump’s impeachment. That number is growing by the hour. Democratic Representative John Larson has officially introduced articles of impeachment against Donald Trump, and Rep. Jasmine Crockett, along with other Democratic lawmakers, have written letters to Trump’s Cabinet urging them to invoke the 25th Amendment on the unstable Mad King president.

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There may not be words to describe how dangerous this moment is. Republicans, who are currently on yet another Congressional vacation, spent the day downplaying Trump’s call to “end civilization,” saying that he was only joking and would just target Iran’s energy infrastructure.

Except, that’s not what Trump said. As all of us sane, rational people continue to point out the obvious, (while everything we said would happen during the election unfolds in real-time), Trump’s enabling goons in Congress and on Fox News continue to placate his every unhinged whim.

It’s crystal clear today, as it has been for a while, that there is absolutely nothing that Trump could do or say that would cause Republicans to abandon him, or even to say they merely disagree. As the midterms are fast approaching, and more and more deep-red Republican strongholds continue to flip blue, the abhorrent behavior of Donald Trump’s handlers in DC will catch up to them eventually.

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Today’s development closely follows news that Pete Hegseth fired the Army Chief of Staff, in addition to two other Army generals, in the middle of the Iran War. The destruction of this fighter jet, and what may now ensue during the search for the missing U.S. crew member, may plunge the already unstable situation into an even darker place, and could have massive military, political, and diplomatic ramifications for Donald Trump domestically.

In addition, Iranian officials have taken to Twitter to mock the U.S. and its leadership, with Mohammad Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran’s Parliament, tweeting: “This brilliant no-strategy war they started has now been downgraded from ‘regime change’ to ‘Hey! Can anyone find our pilots? Please?'”

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This morning, Pete Hegseth made his latest outrageous comment about U.S. troops in Iran, saying “As far as President Trump and boots on the ground, I don't understand why the base wouldn't have faith in his ability to execute on this. Look at his track record." This comes as the Iran War rages on, with the war now completely backfiring politically for Trump and domestically with rising gas prices. The war is now such a political liability for Republicans, that possibly its biggest supporter, Lindsey Graham, has begun backpedaling, trying to convince Trump to ‘wind down’ the war and look for a ‘peace deal.’ You know, the thing we had before Trump launched the war.

Graham, to his credit, was hard at work on the proposed ‘peace deal.’ While he works tirelessly to address the ongoing government shutdown and rising prices, Graham was seen at Disney World over the weekend carrying a pink bubble wand while wandering around the theme park and eating breakfast at Chef Mickey’s.

The Iran War has also further exposed Pete Hegseth’s shady financial dealings. Hegseth’s Morgan Stanley affiliated broker, as the Financial Times reported on Monday, looked into making a multi-million dollar investment into defense firms shortly before the U.S./Israeli attack on Iran. This, along with the massive amounts of money flowing through online betting sites such as Polymarket and Kalshi, presumably coming from those with insider knowledge of U.S. military activity, makes for one too many coincidences. As with all things within the Trump White House, it’s all just one big grift.

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Clearly, this is one of those stories that has broken through political Twitter and into the real-world. But how do we know that, you might ask? CNN’s Harry Enten presented the network’s latest poll number findings, showing severe losses in Trump’s base of support among men, pushing him well into the negative numbers. Trump’s biggest constituency (men) are leaving him in droves, caused in part because of Trump’s complete inability to govern domestically, skyrocketing gas prices, his blatant protection of pedophiles and subsequent coverup of the Epstein files, and yet another war in the Middle East.

Everywhere you turn, the average American is feeling the negative affects of Trump 2.0. And while all of this is happening, Trump and his MAGA goons in Congress are attempting to ram through a sweeping voter disenfranchisement bill that would render millions of Americans unable to vote.

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And if that wasn’t horrible enough, Trump has now decided to flood U.S. Airports with ICE agents, in an obvious attempt to intimidate and racially profile travelers coming in and out of the United States. Trump, when asked yesterday about ICE invading U.S. airports, had this to say: “They're able to now arrest illegals as they come into the country. It's very fertile territory.” Clearly, (and unsurprisingly) this isn’t about helping travelers catch their flights.

Jo and Tara also discuss Republican Senator John Kennedy’s admission that TSA delays are due to Trump’s rejection of the Senate funding deal, saying “No deals with the Democrats.” The duo also gets into the “SAVE” Act, and Trump’s incredibly corrupt insider trading and war betting scheme.

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Kent, who was a hardline Trump loyalist, had antisemitic ties and defended the Jan. 6 riots. Certainly, Kent is no hero. But his resignation speaks to the growing chasm within MAGA and Trumpworld on the topic of Iran. More MAGA figures are speaking out and criticizing the war with every passing day, with former Trump loyalists Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson leading the charge.

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Joining us on today’s episode of Big F*ing Deal, is Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Alex Vindman, who served for 21-years in U.S. Army combat. Alex led hundreds of people in high-pressure situations throughout the Middle East. In Iraq, Vindman was wounded and later awarded a Purple Heart. And as we all remember, Vindman’s decision to blow the whistle on Trump’s corruption and abuses of power led to Trump’s 2019 impeachment. He’s now running for the U.S. Senate in Florida as a Democrat.

Alex understands the costs of war better than most. In the face of a president and White House who are all too willing to send American troops to die in Iran, for a cause that they have still yet to articulate, while tweeting daily AI-generated videos glorying and romanticizing war, Alex’s expertise is needed now more than ever. You can support Alex’s senate campaign here.

Jo and Tara discuss all of this and more, including Jared Kushner’s billion dollar fundraising scheme for his private equity firm while representing the U.S. as an envoy, and Trump’s obvious mental decline.

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The plaque was required by law to be installed by March 2023, but Republicans have refused.

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Former Capitol police officer, January 6th hero, and Siren contributor Harry Dunn joins this episode of Big F*ing Deal to discuss this latest coverup of Jan. 6 by Republicans, and shares his thoughts on this new development.

In addition, writer, attorney, and Siren contributor Kaivan Shroff joins this episode to discuss the latest GenZ/alpha trend of “looksmaxxing,” the new body dysmorphia term being proliferated to young, impressionable, and lonely men by right-wing grifters.

Jo and Tara also discuss Trump’s abhorrent behavior during the dignified transfer of six American soldiers whose lives were taken as a result of Trump’s Iran War. Trump decided to wear one of his own hats, which he sells as merch, during the ceremony. Trump then raised his fist to reporters during what should be a solemn reminder of the costs of war to a president who seems completely detached from reality.

Trump also incorrectly stated that Iran attacked their own elementary school with Tomahawk missiles (which they do not have access to), and proceeded to repeat the lie over and over again when pressed by a brave reporter on the facts. It has been reported that the U.S. was responsible for the attack on the all-girl’s elementary school, resulting in the deaths of over 165 people, mostly children.

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Trump’s MAGA party is quickly losing support over his authoritarian, unilateral decision to drag the United States into yet another Middle Eastern war. Many prominent MAGA figures such as Matt Walsh, Dave Smith, and Curt Mills, the executive director of The American Conservative magazine, are slamming Trump and his White House over their decision to go to war, with Mills saying Trump “could be impeached.”

Even Marjorie Taylor Greene, the former MAGA heiress, came out swinging against the regime, saying “We’re a year in and we’re in another f*cking war and we’ve got American troops being killed.”

The polling has also shown a sharp decrease in Trump’s support since Saturday’s start to the war. MAGA lawmakers and media allies themselves are struggling to align on their talking points, with some lawmakers like Senator Markwayne Mullin and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna declaring this “isn’t a war,” while Pete Hegseth clearly states the exact opposite.

All the while, Marco Rubio made the stunning admission that we only attacked Iran because Israel was going to do it anyway, and Donald Trump rambled about his favorite color drapes in the White House while American troops were being killed overseas during his new war.

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On this episode of BFD, Tara speaks with Skye Perryman of Democracy Forward, to discuss their newly released report, “The State of Democracy in the United States.”

The report released ahead of yesterday’s State of the Union, and highlights the truth about what’s happening inside the U.S. Inside the announcement of the report, Democracy Forward said this: “Over the past year, the Trump-Vance administration has waged a systematic campaign to dismantle government, intimidate the courts, silence the free press, restrict voting access, and consolidate executive power at the expense of the American people.”

The full report can be read here. It’s a fascinating and in-depth chronicle of the first year of Trump 2.0, and something every American should read.

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On this episode of Big F*ing Deal, Jo and Tara are joined by Miles Taylor to discuss the latest with DHS/ICE funding, the daily impeachable offenses that the Trump regime are committing, and Miles’ State of the Union counter event.

Jo and Tara also discuss Trump’s latest egregious attack on the 1st Amendment and his desire to clamp down on Democrats ahead of the midterms. This time, Trump and the FCC have directed CBS not to air their interview with Texas State Rep. James Talarico, a Democrat running in the Texas Senate Primary. Furthermore, Colbert says he was directed to not even mention that Talarico was a guest on the show, or that he was told not to air the segment, signaling that CBS under MAGA stooge Bari Weiss knows they are dead wrong.

However, Colbert did not bend the knee, devoting a portion of the show to documenting the censorship, and later posting the entire interview to his YouTube channel.

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