This week on Ring of Fire:

Donald Trump is trying to blame and punish the Democrats for the government shutdown even further this week by announcing that he is permanently “closing Democrat programs” within the federal government. Because there are no partisan programs inside the government, Trump is likely referring to programs that Democrats support, but he was mum on the details. Trump is absolutely dismantling everything good about this country for no reason whatsoever.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy declared this week that the No Kings Day protests are actually a part of Antifa, which the administration has repeatedly, and falsely, claimed is a terrorist organization. Duffy, who is most famous for his stint on reality TV, is trying to make a link that doesn’t exist so that the administration can crack down on protesters across the country.

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson is digging his heels into the government shutdown, threatening this week that it could be the longest shutdown in the history of the United States. Republicans are desperately trying to blame Democrats for the shutdown, but the roots of this particular shutdown go back years when Republicans regained control of the House at the start of 2023 and repeatedly failed since then to pass a real budget.

All that, and much more, on this week’s Ring of Fire Podcast!

This week on Ring of Fire!

Attorney General Pam Bondi was grilled by Senators about a myriad of issues, particularly the recent revelation that border czar Tom Homan was busted in an undercover FBI sting last summer. Bondi refused to answer a question from Senator Sheldon Whitehouse about whether or not Homan kept the $50,000 that he accepted from the undercover agents last summer. Instead of giving a yes or no question about whether he kept the money, she instead attacked Whitehouse for allegedly being obsessed with the scandal.

Donald Trump’s decision to give a $20 billion bailout to the country of Argentina has caused a massive uproar with both Democrats AND Republicans. The plan is an absolutely disgusting move as the US economy – especially the farming industry – is struggling to even stay alive, and workers are being laid off left and right. This is why the plan is creating such a massive backlash against Trump. As usual, Trump has ulterior motives for why he’s doing this.

Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump-appointed judge, had to hold an emergency, late-night hearing this week after ruling at the end of last week that Donald Trump cannot federalize Oregon’s national guard unit to invade the city of Portland. The emergency hearing was about the administration’s plans to send other troops into the area, and Judge Immergut absolutely laid into the administration for intentionally skewing what her order actually said in order to justify their actions.

All that, and much more, on this week’s Ring of Fire Podcast!

This week on Ring of Fire:

As Donald Trump prepares to lay off potentially thousands of government workers, the economy is already reeling from an unemployment crisis that is getting worse by the month. The jobs numbers for September from ADP have revealed that the country LOST nearly 40,000 jobs last month, the first time we’ve seen NEGATIVE growth since Donald Trump’s first term in office. This is a trend that cannot be ignored, and no matter what he tries to say, Trump can’t blame this on Democrats.

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson could not be happier that the federal government went into shutdown mode this week, and he actually bragged to Fox News that this means that Democrats have handed Donald Trump “the keys to the kingdom.” Trump is now going to start slashing as many federal jobs as possible, even as the federal government scrambles to rehire the people that DOGE let go. This administration, and the entire Republican Party, are officially agents of chaos who just want to watch the country fall apart.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is calling for Donald Trump to be removed from office using the 25th Amendment after his comments this week about using “inner cities” in places like Chicago as military training grounds to prepare for war. This comment, as Pritzker pointed out, is a direct assault on the rule of law in America that Trump has already been found by a federal court to be in violation of, and his continues lawlessness is a direct threat to the survival of our country.

All that, and more, on this week’s Ring of Fire Podcast!

This week on Ring of Fire!

Donald Trump delivered a speech at the UN on Tuesday that not only did it leave the folks watching at home embarrassed for their country, but it also caused the audience in the room to break out in laughter. Trump lectured the rest of the world about the importance of teleprompters, escalators, and preventing Muslim people from entering their countries – things that left the entire world shocked by what this dictator had to say.

Donald Trump held a press conference on Monday that featured a former drug addict and a reality TV doctor where the trio proclaimed – without a shred of evidence – that Tylenol is somehow responsible for causing autism. Doctors are now frantically having to warn the country that there is absolutely no link between the two, but the damage is now done. Our country is being run by the dumbest human beings imaginable, and millions of Americans don’t even seem to realize that.

Fox News host Jesse Watters suggested this week that the UN building should either be “gassed” or destroyed after Donald Trump was forced to walk up a flight of stairs. Whether he was joking or not is irrelevant at this point, considering the fact that about a week ago a Fox host, Brian Kilmeade, suggested that all unhoused people should just be euthanized. Fox News apparently only hires raging psychopaths as on-air talent.

All that, and much more, on this week’s Ring of Fire Podcast!

This week on Ring of Fire!

While the rest of his White House staff is attempting to claim that the Epstein files released this week – including Trump’s crude sketch featuring his signature – are “fake,” Donald Trump decided to take a different approach. When asked by a reporter on Tuesday about the release of the files, Trump said that he would not comment on the issue because it is officially “dead.” He can declare it all he wants, but that doesn’t make it so.

Democratic Representative Suhas Subramanyam told CNN on Tuesday that there are even MORE Epstein files that the House Oversight Committee has received and will be releasing very soon. This was a direct taunt to Donald Trump who has been unusually quiet about his name being all over everything in those files, which included a never-before-seen photo of Trump pretending to “buy” a “depreciated woman” from Epstein at his own golf resort.

And Republican Senator Mitch McConnell warned in a recent interview that there are far too many similarities between America today and America in the 1930’s. McConnell’s concerns are about both economics and global stability, as he believes that the isolationist, “America-first” policies of the Trump administration are allowing our enemies to grow stronger. But it was the economic policies that really worried him, as he brought up what Republicans did with tariffs to stop the Great Depression but ended up making it so much worse.

All that, and much more, on this week’s Ring of Fire Podcast!