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Trump Rally Turns Disruptive as Protesters Clash With Crowd

The TMZ Podcast

October 8, 2026

President Trump’s Texas rally was repeatedly interrupted by protesters, several of whom were escorted out by police.

Speakers Deven, Courtney, Tony

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Deven (0:08)

Welcome to The TMZ Podcast.

Courtney (0:10)

Whoa, it's like a DJ set in here.

Deven (0:13)

What the hell is going on in here? Okay, I think we're good now.

Courtney (0:15)

I know, there's a production set up.

Deven (0:18)

Take two.

Deven here with The TMZ Podcast. I'm like so thrown off by that. We got Courtney here as well.

Courtney (0:26)

Yes.

Deven (0:27)

Sorry about that intro, guys.

Courtney (0:28)

I was like, are you going to get to my name?

Deven (0:29)

No, I'm, it's like Ron Burgundy when it's like, he's just reading what's on the prompter. That threw me the hell off.

Courtney (0:36)

I love that movie.

Deven (0:37)

I know, great movie. So we got some stories for you as we always do. Yes, we do. President Trump will lead us off. He had a rally in Texas and he had protesters. So that went about exactly how you think it went. We're going to play that, right, Tony? Cool. So we'll play that.

I don't know if we covered this on the podcast, but there's a big story for us last week. Melania Judice.

She's going through a lot down there and she was going to school in Tampa. We got pretty explosive body cam of this incident that happened with her and her mom at the airport.

Courtney (1:13)

Yeah.

Deven (1:14)

So she has broken her silence. She had not said anything about the whole situation. So we'll get into the situation, we'll get into what she said. And then lastly, I don't even know if we talk about this on the show, have we? The Halle Berry stuff? So we got an update in this whole saga with Halle Berry.

You're going to have to probably help me with this one. But basically just the whole saga between her, her ex-husband, her son, all that drama. Got drama. A lot of drama.

Courtney (1:41)

Always drama.

Deven (1:42)

Always got drama.

Tony (1:44)

All right.

Deven (1:44)

President Trump.

Courtney (1:45)

This guy.

Tony (1:46)

In Texas.

Courtney (1:47)

He's been in Texas a lot.

Deven (1:48)

Well, I was going to say he's campaigning, but it's like for what?

Courtney (1:52)

He's campaigning on other's behalf, other Republicans' behalf.

Deven (1:54)

Got it. Okay. So he was out in Texas supporting the Senate nominee Ken Paxton.

So he went to San Antonio. It was the exact city he was in. I've never been to San Antonio.

Courtney (2:07)

I hear it's awesome.

Deven (2:09)

Do you? Because I feel like people trash San Antonio.

Courtney (2:11)

I don't know why, but my boyfriend was just there.

Deven (2:13)

The city walk looks kind of nice.

Courtney (2:14)

Yeah. He said the city walk was amazing. You get to walk around with drinks, and he said the brisket there.

Tony (2:18)

Oh yeah. I'm sure the food is good.

Deven (2:20)

I feel like, but then there's like, what's his name? Charles Barkley is calling all the women big down there. I know, even the churros. Like anytime I think of San Antonio, I think of Charles Barkley.

Courtney (2:29)

The churros thing was amazing.

Deven (2:31)

You know, I wouldn't touch a churro.

Courtney (2:34)

I don't like churros. I don't think I've ever had one.

Deven (2:36)

I wouldn't touch it.

Courtney (2:37)

Tony's so upset with himself.

Deven (2:38)

I've said this one time, and the people at the table were like flabbergasted.

Tony (2:44)

I don't like it.

Deven (2:44)

Or they thought I was trolling them. I was like, if I wouldn't touch a churro, if it was the last food on earth.

Courtney (2:49)

It's just fried dough and cinnamon and sugar, right?

Tony (2:53)

It's too sweet.

Courtney (2:53)

That's it?

Deven (2:55)

I don't eat donuts either.

Tony (2:56)

I know.

Courtney (2:57)

Yeah, not for me.

Deven (2:58)

Let's get back on track.

Courtney (2:59)

Okay, yes, Trump.

Deven (3:01)

So he was on stage at the Freeman Coliseum, and the crowd got pretty disruptive. Here is the clip.

Tony (3:08)

Voting record in Texas. Calafrico voted to allow dangerous repeat criminals and serial rapists to be immediately released.

Let me ask you a question, is there anything like a Trump rally, is there anything like it? I don't know. I don't think so. No, he's, he's going back home to mom right now, he's going to get the hell bowled out. Because what he doesn't know is that his mom voted for Trump.

That guy's got to lose a lot of weight. That guy's got to lose a lot of weight. If there are any more paid protesters, please raise your hand and get the hell out of here.

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