Trump Gone Wild - October 2, 2026

Cenk Uygur (0:13)

All right, welcome to The Young Turks, Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola with you guys. So interesting show today, Donald Trump is falling apart at the seams, both in the polls and what he's saying. It's just totally nonsensical now, it's fascinating. We'll get to that, is he more mentally gone than Joe Biden is a conversation we're going to begin to have.

So and then after that, a Palestinian reporter shows what it's like to have been in inside one of Israel's prisons slash gulags. And gulag is not 1% exaggeration, that story will break your heart in a thousand ways.

So it's incredible what the Israelis are doing. Meanwhile, while our media pretends that their feelings are paramount, their feelings are not paramount. I don't care about their feelings at all as a torture and murder nonstop. And it makes me sick the way the American media supports those fascists, okay? Anyways, we'll get to that in a little bit and Donald Trump with a dumb plan to theoretically give you $500. We'll tell you why that's a lie. It's like one lie after another after another. So a lot to get to, John, how are you?

John Iadarola (1:34)

I'm doing well. I like the entire rundown. I can't wait to break down the most moral gulags in the world. I think that's gonna be great.

Cenk Uygur (1:41)

Yeah, I think so too, yeah. All right, everybody, of course, check out the damage report, 1 o'clock Eastern, every day, Monday through Friday. All right, thanks for doing double duty today. So let's get started with our first story.

SPEAKER_3 (1:51)

And then at 1 o'clock in the morning, with no moon, dark as can be, these unbelievable machines led by the most incredible pilots in the world. They unloaded every single bomb, went right down air shoots into this drug factories really. That's what they were doing. They were nuclear and drug. They were doing drugs but they were doing the nuclear but these drug factories slash nuclear factories were hit so hard.

Cenk Uygur (2:20)

What in the world is he talking about? We invaded Iran because they were making drugs?

What does he mean like aspirin or like meth? What the iranians were doing drugs?

SPEAKER_3 (2:31)

They're doing a little bit of drugs, a little bit of nuclear.

SPEAKER_4 (2:34)

And then I said, you know what?

Cenk Uygur (2:36)

I didn't like the drug factories.

SPEAKER_3 (2:37)

I don't like the nuclear factories.

Cenk Uygur (2:40)

I mean, was Biden ever this far gone? So look, in this story, you're going to get a couple more of these lunatic ravings of a madman who unfortunately happens to be our president. And then we're going to show you economic catastrophes that are coming.

But the good news is the electoral catastrophe for Trump and the Republicans are now almost baked in. We'll show you those devastating numbers for the Republicans as well. So a lot to get to, Donald.

John Iadarola (3:06)

So John, tell us about Donald Trump. Tell me Donald Trump.

Cenk Uygur (3:09)

No, no, no, no, no.

John Iadarola (3:11)

I've never done that to you. No, no. Anyway, yeah, I'm so confused about what we heard. I don't know if he saw a reference to nuclear medicine and got very confused about what that means or did he see that like post credit scene with the incredible Hulk and he thinks that's what's going on deep underground? I'm so confused. And the fact that he's never mentioned this drug thing nine months into the war. Now he brings it up. Very suspicious, but anyway, a lot that's going on is strange and hard to follow. He's been doing a little bit of campaigning for the Republicans, for better or worse for the candidates, I guess. He was in Denton, Texas trying to drive enthusiasm for Ken Paxton, a candidate he seems to very much despise actually.

He's not alone. I think he hates him more than I do actually.

Cenk Uygur (3:57)

Well, a lot of people hate him, so way to endorse him. We appreciate it.

John Iadarola (4:01)

Yeah, thanks a lot for that. But anyway, the topic of affordability came up, which obviously his aides have been telling him, dude, just pretend to care about it, please. And he can't even do that, as you'll see.

SPEAKER_3 (4:13)

All other prices have come, they're coming down rapidly, but we inherited. Remember they came up with the word affordability. So from day one, they said, well, what about your prices? And then they came up, they always come up with these words, affordability.

So the fake news starts using it because they're partners with the Democrats. And the fake news would say, they say it all the time to me. What about affordability?