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The MAGA Bargain Is Collapsing (w/ Tom Nichols) | The Bulwark Podcast

2025-12-23 News & Politics
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Six months ago, MAGA world was strutting around with their chests puffed out. But now, many of them are having a blue Christmas over the infighting, the economy, the DOJ's inability to deliver revenge, and Trump's cover-up of child sex traffickers—one of the key things they really cared about. All Trump can think to do is plaster his name on another large object, including most recently a new fleet of warships. Plus, the bourbon shutdown, Bari's getting burned by Canada also airing "60 Minutes," the president could move Ghislaine out of her cushy prison, and Epstein in his alleged letter to Larry Nassar really sounds like "Access Hollywood" Trump. Tom Nichols joins Tim Miller. Show Notes: Tom on Trump's new 'golden fleet' of warships: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/12/trumps-vanity-fleet/685399/?gift=AO0MhSsTDaHgiP_RxFGfB8p4wX8l__L0O7dqXn5jMQA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share Navy Secretary John Phelan: https://www.usatoday.com/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2024/11/27/USAT/76617552007-502768624.jpg?crop=2167,2168,x0,y0 Get 15% off OneSkin with the code BULWARK at https://www.oneskin.co/BULWARK #oneskinpod Become a Bulwark Youtube Plus Member here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG4Hp1KbGw4e02N7FpPXDgQ/join

Top Comments (10)

@gecho111 2025-12-23

May Trump live long enough to see his name removed from everything he had named after him.

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@badluck5647 2025-12-23

The Secretary of War Crimes renamed the _USNS Harvey Milk,_ a ship named after Korean War veteran and civil rights activist Harvey Milk, because of the "priorities of reestablishing the warrior culture." Now the Navy is naming a ship after a draft dodger who calls our veterans "suckers and losers." I'm not sure the _USS Bone Spur_ screams "warrior culture".

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@stopmotiondiecastwizard 2025-12-23

BIG, slow, easy target? That's Trump in a nutshell.

225 6 replies
@pauladunn3555 2025-12-23

I love when Tom is on, it's an automatic click for me! I reallllllly wish he was on more often.....

215 6 replies
@RogueDonut87 2025-12-24

God it infuriates me how much money, resources, time, energy, and nature are wasted because we just have to follow a delusional person. In a sane society we’d be able to remove such a person from office, but no we are just going to go along with this for a minimum of 4 years

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@fitz27486 2025-12-23

Oxymoron of the year (emphasis on moron): Trump class.

113 1 replies
@kimbertrue 2025-12-24

Blanche said Maxwell “was suffering” and therefore moved. Please play that up, she the SEX TRAFFICKER and CHILD ABUSER is “suffering”??? WTF? she’s supposed to suffer in prison but gets Todd Blanche’s empathy instead the victims who deserve that…NOT HER!!

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@kimdarling590 2025-12-24

“Golden fleet?” No more of a “Golden Fleece” of the American taxpayer.

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@caljn1 2025-12-23

Tom Nichols is the best.

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@TheGlobetrekkinGal 2025-12-23

Tom: "Poverty of character." Perfect description of that heinous criminal!

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