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Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]Donald Trump demands Republicans in Congress fire the Senate parliamentarian. And I know what you're thinking. We have a parliamentarian.

[00:00:07]This is just another day.

[00:00:11]When you have a TV show with the catchphrase, you're fired. It's hard to let things like that go. President Trump began pressing Senate Republicans to fire the Senate parliamentarian because she told them they could not include the $1 billion for the ballroom security that they want in their upcoming 72 billion dollar reconciliation bill.

[00:00:31]>> Yes, there is no law too ironclad, no institution too sacred, no tradition too storied that this president isn't willing to bulldo straight through it if it means he can get to his shiny golden ballroom. Frankly, I don't even know how one spends a billion dollars on a ballroom. I presume Trump said that he wanted it to look like the Beauty and the Beast ballroom, except in his, he demanded that Mrs. Pototts be a blonde with huge tits. I don't know. But let's take a look at exactly what it was Trump said. In his post this morning, he so eloquently wrote, "Shockingly, Republicans have kept the very important position of parliamentarian in the hands of a woman, Elizabeth Mcdano, who was appointed long ago by Barack Hussein Obama and a vicious lunatic known as Senator Harry Reid, who ran the Senate for the Democrats, with an iron fist.

[00:01:15]Over the years, she has been brutal to Republicans, but not so to the Democrats. So why has she not been replaced? There are many fair people who would be qualified for that vital job."

[00:01:25]And isn't that all our president has ever wanted? A fair, qualified person for one of our nation's most vital jobs?

[00:01:32]Because if we start putting less than competent people into these positions, it would start to make a mockery of our institutions as a whole. But what's happening in Congress is not something new. The nonpartisan Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth Mcdano, who Donald Trump found the need to remind us is a woman, probably because he respects them so much, determined that the billion dollars Republicans proposed for the ballroom went against budget reconciliation rules and sent the GOP back to the drawing board. Which means Senate Majority Leader John named that Thoon can either cave to Donald Trump and fire McDonno or feel the wrath of dear leader. And so far, it looks like there might be some wrath feeling in Thoon's future.

[00:02:12]>> By the way, uh, Senate Majority Leader John Thun, when he became the Senate Republican leader, made very clear from the beginning of his term as leader, that he had no desire to abolish the Senate's 60 vote filibuster rule. A whole lot of Republicans think that by uh uh doing that, they could potentially weaken the institution here. Right now, that 60 vote threshold.

[00:02:33]>> Yes. And what a tragedy it would be if congressional Republicans even gave the mere appearance of weakening one of America's greatest democratic institutions.

[00:02:41]>> Most Republicans in the Senate and one Democrat have rejected a resolution that would have reigned in President Trump's war powers against Iran without permission from Congress.

[00:02:50]>> We have a a select subcommittee bipartisan uh a a committee that is is reviewing the investigation of the original J6 committee. I mean a committee investigating the previous committee. Why? because there was so much bias in the system.

[00:03:04]>> President Trump has answered hundreds if not thousands of questions from you all about Epstein. Uh and I I think he's been very transparent in releasing the documents.

[00:03:14]>> Can you just imagine if they fired the parliamentarian what a tragic stain on their immaculate legacy that would be?

[00:03:21]But while the decision is ultimately up to John Thun, other members of the GOP weighed in on what they think he should do.

[00:03:28]Leader Thoon fired the parliamentarian for disagreeing uh with Republicans on the ballroom fund.

[00:03:34]>> I think we're we're working through that right now. I think there's uh some other language that's being contemplated. Um we're working through it on some language that I have. So I think all that process is still ongoing.

[00:03:43]>> I'm sorry, but I've got to give it up to Republican Senator and Trump sickant Eric Schmidt here. It takes skill to be able to say abso fuckingutely nothing and pretend that it's an actual answer to a human question. We're working through that and there's other language being contemplated and the process is still ongoing. I'm not kidding when I say that that answer could be applied to literally anything. Senator Schmidt, have you heard about the alien invasion and their harvesting of human brains?

[00:04:12]>> We're working through that right now.

[00:04:14]>> Was there any part of you turned on at all by the incest in last season's White Lotus?

[00:04:19]>> All that process is still ongoing.

[00:04:20]>> Just uh one last question. Is it hard to breathe when your head is so far lodged up Donald Trump's ass? We're working through that right now.

[00:04:28]>> Got it. But for a moment, let's just get a quick refresher on what Elizabeth McDonald's job actually is. You know, at least back when presidents respected the person who held the position.

[00:04:38]>> This person is in charge of keeping track of centuries of rules and even more difficult precedents that senators themselves have created. And then senators go to her when they're trying to do something tricky legislatively and essentially ask, "Can we do this?" Both parties are trying to use really tricky legislative maneuvers to pass bills that duck filibusters from the other party.

[00:05:03]So, the parliamentarian is kind of like a couple's therapist with each side trying to say the right thing so that ultimately they're given the thumbs up by the person in the middle. What how do how do you guys do couples therapy? The reality is through each and every action he takes, Donald Trump is showing America exactly how he feels about our government institutions. Frankly, I think the only reason that he hasn't gone over to the capital and taken a on everyone's desk is because he doesn't want to go through the lengthy process of pardoning himself and then waiting for his massive payout. This president doesn't care about democracy because if he did, he wouldn't be spending his entire presidency trying to destroy it. And if it wasn't so tragic, it might even be comical how Donald Trump continually portrays himself as a guy who feels hamstrung by a bureaucracy and just can't accomplish what he wants because of all this senseless red tape.

[00:05:52]as if that's actually slowing him down.

[00:05:55]And in case we needed any extra proof of this, just watch the footage in this clip from today.

[00:06:00]>> He criticized Elizabeth Mcdana for opposing ballroom funding and the Senate's reconciliation package. Mcdana took the job in 2012 when she was appointed by Barack Obama.

[00:06:13]>> Uh, how many more construction projects does this guy need to satiate his building boner? for a guy who's constantly pissed about not getting his way. He seems to be getting his way to the tune of every crane and jackhammer on the planet. But there is a bigger lesson here to be learned, and it is one for Democrats. If we want to deliver real change in this country, like lowering the cost of gas, making health care more affordable, making housing more affordable, and providing more food assistance to those who really need it, basically all the things Trump promised to do on the campaign trail, but has no intention of actually doing, then we have to dispense with this idea that being precious about our institutions or norms or procedures will help us achieve that. I am someone who believes in government, but that belief only goes so far in a democracy when you're battling someone who doesn't. For Democrats to continue this fight the same way that we have for years with strongly worded letters or press conferences filled with dismay and disappointment is like fighting with one hand tied behind our backs or in Lauren Boowbert's case with one hand tied up in your date's lap.

[00:07:15]Despite what Donald Trump says about the parliamentarian being a show for the Democrats, it was only a few years ago when Elizabeth McDonald wouldn't allow them to include a path to citizenship for 8 million undocumented immigrants in their spending bill. And here's how they reacted. The news we see received last night from the parliamentarian.

[00:07:33]Last night's ruling was extremely disappointing. It saddened me. It frustrated me. It angered me.

[00:07:40]>> The parliamentarian uh is who is chosen typically uh to make a decision in a nonpartisan manner uh in terms of what can be included in a package that goes through reconciliation is the proper process to for this uh to journey through.

[00:07:54]>> Wow. A civil response to legislative disappointment. Did that happen in the same era as Leave it to Beaver? Because it sure as hell feels like that long ago. But that's still the world that the Democrats live in today. And unfortunately, that level of respect and decorum for our institutions needs to be put to the side, at least for now, because we will get nowhere with that type of strategy when our opponent is a tyrannical con man who could give two shits about democracy or providing relief for struggling Americans. So, it remains to be seen which way this GOP will lean in terms of firing the parliamentarian, but to me, they've already shown their true colors as a party willing to capitulate and sell out Americans at all costs if it means they get to continue their grip on power. Or to put that another way, >> I think there's uh some other language that's being contemplated.

[00:08:41]>> Exactly.

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