Meredith Shiner & Michael Calderone

**Molly Jong-Fast** (0:00)
Hi, I'm Molly Jong-Fast, and this is Fast Politics, where we discuss the top political headlines with some of today's best minds. And Trump Media CEO, former Congressman Devin Nunes has stepped down after the company lost $712 million last year. We have such a great show for you today. The New Republic's Meredith Shiner stops by to talk to us about the enormous vibe shift changes in Congress. Then we'll talk to The Wrap's own Michael Calderone about the upcoming White House Correspondents' Dinner and the immense drama we may see. But first, the news.

**Jesse Cannon** (0:39)
Somali, you and I live in Mamdani Stan, the socialist state, and we're always hearing about these giveaways. But it's funny, the place where all the corporations get the giveaways is really from the Trump administration. And we're seeing this with half a billion dollars going to Spirit Airlines to bail them out. Now, you can argue this is an essential way people get around this country, especially people.

**Molly Jong-Fast** (1:01)
No, you can't.

**Jesse Cannon** (1:02)
No, poorer people use Spirit Airlines.

**Molly Jong-Fast** (1:04)
But Trump doesn't give a fuck.

**Jesse Cannon** (1:05)
No, he doesn't care.

**Molly Jong-Fast** (1:06)
And also, this is socialism. But the thing is, because it's the Trump administration, the question is, why?
Is the Spirit CEO making a donation to... If we look at Trump World and we look at MAGA, we know that there's something rotten in the state of Denmark. So what is it? Is it that the Trump administration has some kind of relationship with Spirit? Why is Donald Trump using our tax dollars to bail out Spirit Airlines? Earlier in this season of Donald Trump Destroys America, we saw him use some of that money to bail out Latin American countries. We've seen him use our tax dollars for any number of sordid things. But my big question is, what is he getting back? The deal will be $500 million for Spirit, equity warrants for the government, because what better business to spend tax payer dollars in than airlines notoriously stable? Actually, Donald Trump has already lost his shirt once with airlines. You'll remember the Trump shuttle. So of course, if there's an airline on the wall in the first decade, it will go off sooner rather than later.

**Jesse Cannon** (2:23)
Okay. So there is lots of people questioning Mr. Trump's mental health these days. So this is where we get into some very fun modern stuff. So there is this man known as AL. Yaakoby, who's been caught many times making pro-Israeli propaganda out of AI. So he today shared a meme that said, breaking the Islamic Republic is preparing to hang eight women. And people who are good at detecting AI are all dying laughing, saying this is the most AI that has ever AI imaged of all time.

**Molly Jong-Fast** (2:51)
The thing that's amazing to me about this story is that this is Internet people on Axe. But the thing that they don't realize is that those of us whose son subscribed to the New York Post know that this was the cover of the New York Post today. So these women, quote unquote, if they're women, if they're not women, were on the cover of the New York Post this morning. So maybe they're AI, it certainly seems like they may be. But either way, they were on the cover of the New York Post. So I don't know what is happening here.

**Jesse Cannon** (3:28)
Yeah, so Trump demanded that Iran not execute them. And now the White House has put out a statement saying that they've just been informed that they're not going to be killed and taking a win for saving AI lives.

**Molly Jong-Fast** (3:41)
We think that they're not real anyway, I think, is the net net, right?

**Jesse Cannon** (3:46)
It seems that the consensus on the Internet as of now is that this was made up. And because the person who initially spread this has such a bad past of making AI images and getting caught for it, it is not seeming very likely. And if that is the case, this is a real egg on the face of Mr. Trump.

**Molly Jong-Fast** (4:03)
Yes, welcome to post-truth America, where who even knows what the fuck is happening?

**Michael Calderone** (4:10)
It's true.

**Molly Jong-Fast** (4:10)
They do really look very AI-ish. One of them looks like Alina Harbaugh, one of them looks like Kai Trump, one of them looks like, none of them look like actual people.

**Jesse Cannon** (4:20)
Yeah, like my thing would be is like, if these are people who are captured, did they go to a modeling agency and do a kidnapping?