Donald Trump speaks at a reception in the East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C., December 16, 2025 (Andrew Caballero/AFP/Getty)

EA-Times Radio VideoCast: Trump Worried as More Epstein Photos Released

I joined Dublin NewsTalk’s Pat Kenny Show and LBC’s James O’Brien Show on Wednesday to analyze the latest nastiness of Donald Trump.

I evaluate the amorality of Trump in demeaning and insulting the filmmaker Rob Reiner, murdered with his wife and film producer Michelle Singer Reiner on Monday.

Then I consider the revelations of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles about the Trump Administration in 11 interviews with Vanity Fair’s Chris Whipple: Trump’s obsessive, abusive conduct; the ambition and conspiracy theory of J.D. Vance; the ineptitude of Attorney General Pam Bondi; the “odd duck”, ketamine-dependent Elon Musk; and the destruction from the closure of the US Agency for International Develpment to deportations of immigrants to Trump’s retribution against perceived political enemies.

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I begin with a personal reflection:

I have never in my life heard any person, let alone an official, high-profile politician, or a President, issue such a vile, disgusting statement.

To do this hours after they were murdered — my grandmother said, “Don’t speak ugly,” and Trump was as ugly as they come.

I evaluate why only a handful of Republicans have had the political courage to call out Trump: “He has tried to turn the Republican Party into a cult of personality, and it takes a lot to call out the person at the top of that cult.”

I explain how Wiles, the daughter of a high-profile alcoholic, has identified the damaging traits in the teetotal Trump.

But what is her motive with the full-and-frank statements to a veteran reporter, “laying explosives” about not only Trump but also Vance and Musk? Could it be lining up to support another politician, even Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a future campaign?

I also chat about Trump’s threats against the Maduro regime in Venezuela and whether he will use this to divert from Friday’s deadline to release the criminal files of the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

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I give detail about the Wiles interviews to expose the White House’s lies that she was “set up” and quoted “without context”.

I emphasize that while Wiles saw the damage of personalities, policies, and actions, she did nothing to stop them and sometimes aided them.

I turn to the political cost of Trump’s remarks on Reiner:

I think they are corrosive.

I don’t think they are fundamental because is where the US economy goes. But when people are feeling the economic pain — if Trump says, “Be loyal to me” when he has violated the rule, “Don’t Be Ugly”, when he has shown no compassion and gloated about these murders, you may see even some Trump voters peeling away.