Dictator Don the Con Lies, Cons and Self-Aggrandizement | Scrood

Authoritarian and Deceiver, Don the Con and his silly self-aggrandizement.

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Elly: 0:00

Dictator Don the con and his promises. This is Elly Stone with the Scrood Podcast.

Ben: 0:07

And this is Ben Scrood.

Elly: 0:09

Hi Ben,

Ben: 0:10

hi Elly. You're going to get a kick out of this. This is for you, Ryan.

Elly: 0:18

Uh, hi Ryan. Well, let's get going.

Don the Con: 0:23

I know more about steelworkers than anybody that's ever run for office.

Elly: 0:25

Yeah, right. And that's why he doesn't support unions and he just loves Elon Musk and laughs on Twitter and how he just crushes workers. just says, go on, you workers got a problem, you don't like your wages or it's dangerous working for

Ben: 0:39

big business,

Elly: 0:40

dangerous working conditions. See ya. Goodbye. He doesn't care. Isn't that funny? Yeah. he's really for the blue collar workers, by the way, a couple hundred thousand, blue collar workers. Lost their jobs during his presidency and not during COVID. So let's move on yeah contributions like golden sneakers magic Bibles And junk watches for a hundred grand that are only worth two hundred dollars in gold in them. Oh, and let's not forget that that was a prototype. It's a scam. it's not even a watch yet. It is a prototype And you can buy stuff with Bitcoin. Yeah, untraceable. Mm hmm. Perfect. This is the

Ben: 1:18

same guy years, a few years back, he said that Bitcoin was a scam, now he wants all in on

Elly: 1:23

it. Yeah, contributions. Yeah, you're an expert. You know everything.

Ben: 1:27

Can I tell you something? If somebody were five years old and went to the schoolyard, met for the first time all their classmates, and one idiot Was acting like this. I know more about this. I know everything about that. I know more about at five years old Those kids would leave that kid alone.

Elly: 1:43

Oh, yeah, he would be ousted. We have

Ben: 1:45

adults Following this creature who knows everything He's a fringing alien.

Elly: 1:53

Let's not forget about his rich donors like Elon

Ben: 1:57

Musk. Oh, here's another moron.

Elly: 1:59

that was just in the news again. The Elon Musk raffle. Uh, I don't cheat. I don't cheat.

Ben: 2:05

Did you see him jumping around on stage when Trump brought him on stage?

Elly: 2:09

Yeah, and you know what, I'm going to pick on him a little bit more.

Ben: 2:12

Here's a guy, he's the richest man in the world, and he's jumping around it must be such a high for these low life trillionaires to be on stage with an orange person running for president. It just boggles my mind.

Elly: 2:29

Yeah, I'm going to pick on him even more. And here's a guy who's uber rich and is jumping like he's 80 years old.

Ben: 2:37

Well, he's jumping like he's a two year old. He's got so much pent up energy inside because he's so fringing happy about this shit.

Elly: 2:45

He's bobbling around like a giant dough boy

Ben: 2:48

This is the same guy that gets all kinds of money from the government money, money,

Elly: 2:51

money, money, money, money. He gets, I believe, more money than anyone.

Ben: 2:56

He's a defense contractor. Huh? He's a defense contractor. With all the money that's going to the, to the rockets? That's all, that's all from coming from the, Yeah,

Elly: 3:05

yeah, and dumb Trump introduced him as the guy who created the Tesla. He, he bought Tesla. Yeah, exactly. He didn't create nothing.

Ben: 3:12

Let me see. I think he, didn't he also create Twitter? Because that was so many years ago. No, that's right. He did not create Twitter. He actually. Yeah. He actually bought Twitter after he opened his mouth, said he would buy it, then he refused to, then he offered some crazy number, and then they said, yes, we'll take that, and then he wanted to back out, very Trumpian of him. He's another idiot.

Elly: 3:35

daddy's money dude.

Ben: 3:36

They're all self made.

Elly: 3:38

None of them are self made, We'll get into that later. Okay, we can't forget about this. Remember the big oil thing? I'll give you a billion dollars for some favors. Yes. Yeah, remember that? Yes. And when he asked Putin to basically hack into our elections, and he did. Yes. Yeah. What a jackass. Why is this man walking around free? This is what I want to know.

Ben: 3:59

We have, we have people that are behind him, voters, and judges, that they're afraid to say anything or do anything because of what may fall out because of it. Oh, chicken shits. They've got no backbone.

Elly: 4:13

No, they don't. This

Ben: 4:14

guy should be banned. Punched in the mouth and just pushed away and shunned

Elly: 4:19

and

Ben: 4:20

nobody ever talked to him again. I agree. Except for Elon Musk. They can put both those guys on an island and leave them to fend for themselves.

Elly: 4:28

MAGA, get your head out of your ass. I mean, seriously, come on. Of course, of course, Let's see what Mad Baby Donnie has to say about the courts. The courts don't make me laugh. He denies responsibility. He blames the other side. then he sues them. Yes. With other people's money, by the way. Yes. Like, MAGA. Yes. Then he stacks the Supremes, the appellate, and the district courts with corporate, money hungry, anti woman, anti humanist, and religious zealots. Project 2025.

Ben: 5:10

You know, he's been in and out of court long before he became president. He knows nothing about it. He doesn't have a clue.

Elly: 5:17

You know, and like you were saying earlier when we were talking, you were saying something about he knew the courts way before these problems Yes. Yeah. He knew the courts then. He's been suing people in and out and ripping people off. His

Ben: 5:28

whole life.

Elly: 5:29

Yeah. his whole life.

Ben: 5:32

He's a con artist. He's a scammer.

Elly: 5:35

Yep. He's a con man who cons everybody and rips everybody off and sues people who have less money than him or think they have less money than him. And they just sue for a percentage of the amount, say a contractor or. Just drop the case because they can't afford to go up against a guy who sues people with other people's money. And that means you, MAGA, all these contributions you're making right now It's for his defense right now.

Loopback Mix (MOTU M Series)-2: 6:03

Trump never pays his bills. He owes Albuquerque 445, 000 from years past. He can't find a venue there Because his debt to Albuquerque is over four hundred and forty five thousand dollars. Mm hmm. He doesn't pay his debts. He stiffed the citizens of Albuquerque. Yes, because you know who's got a fork over that bill now? You guessed it. The citizens of Albuquerque.

Ben: 6:33

idiot

Elly: 6:34

Ha, ha, ha,

Don the Con: 6:35

I know more about renewables than any human being on earth.

Elly: 6:38

Ah, here we go on renewables. here's a blast from the past. The windmills are fallin the windmills are fallin Raer, raer, raer, raer. Ha, ha, ha, ha. He's an idiot. The birds, the bunnies, they're all in trouble. My eyes, my eyes. I can't see anymore. I'm blind. I can't see, I'm blind.

Ben: 7:03

He's a know it all. Anybody else, he's just a know it all. Everybody hates know it alls. Everybody.

Elly: 7:12

He's narcissistic. Everybody hates a know it all. He's sociopathic. Everybody hates a know it all. He's an authoritarian. I don't think it's funny.

Ben: 7:24

I think this whole thing is laughable. I think it's laughable that he is actually able to run for president again.

Elly: 7:30

Now that is laughable. It's actually, humiliating. I'm embarrassed for this country. I really am.

Ben: 7:36

We've got comments before, about, you know, this isn't a funny subject matter, but can I say something? Anything about Donald Trump running for presidency again is a laughing matter because we, The United States of America is the laughingstock of the world because of this know it all idiot.

Elly: 7:55

We're not in Kansas anymore. Moving forward, Don the Con has some things to say about, uh,

Ben: 8:03

money. I'm sure he does. I got some comments about his comments. Money,

Elly: 8:09

money, money, money. Here we go.

Ben: 8:18

He understands money more than anybody.

Elly: 8:20

Mm

Ben: 8:21

hmm. Let's, let's think about this for a second. He understands his daddy's money more than anybody. He understands how to go bankrupt with his daddy's money more than anybody. He understands how to con the government out of money more than anybody. He understands how to what with money?

Elly: 8:38

What? What does he understand with money? He forged his paperwork and so does his father to get money for the poor and it wasn't for the poor. Government grants. Yeah. He

Ben: 8:45

knows a lot about money alright. He also knows how not to have ten billion dollars like he says he has.

Elly: 8:51

And to go bankrupt. He's broke. Yeah, go bankrupt six times. He knows so much

Ben: 8:54

about money. Yes. The

Elly: 8:56

Taj Mahal, the Taj Mahal goes, who goes bankrupt

Ben: 9:01

with a casino with a casino? We said this eight months ago and now people are bringing it up. Oh, we talked about this last

Elly: 9:07

year on the podcast and now it's in the news everywhere because someone. Who I respect wrote a book, but we did our research prior to and we're telling everybody about this and you guys just didn't listen.

Ben: 9:19

Well it's, it's fearful that they're afraid to say something.

Elly: 9:22

If you're listening, if you don't want to know the truth. Don't listen.

Ben: 9:24

Yeah. You're afraid that you're afraid to be the first one out of the gate to say something. And, and we don't work by fear here. No. We call it the way it is. Yep. Donald Trump is an idiot. He's a con artist. He's a thief. He's a convicted felon, and he's also running for President of the United States. And that is shameful.

Don the Con: 9:43

I concur.

Elly: 9:47

he knows so much about money, that's why he can't pay, uh,

Ben: 9:51

He can't pay anybody.

Elly: 9:52

That's why he couldn't pay that 450 million

Ben: 9:55

That's right.

Elly: 9:56

But it's

Ben: 9:56

worth 10 billion.

Elly: 9:57

Yeah, he knows so much about money, That's why he couldn't even pay the 450 million bond for all his crimes, his fraudulent crimes in New York. Yes. And he begged, begged, begged the courts, please reduce it, please reduce it. And no one would back him. You know why? Because you need real assets for a bail bondsman. You have to have real assets and no one would do it. What's that tell you? It tells you the man doesn't have 450 million in assets.

Ben: 10:19

assets That's right.

Elly: 10:19

please reduce it. Please reduce it. And he doesn't have to pay the 450 remember

Ben: 10:23

in 2016, when he was running, he said he doesn't need to any contributions because he can fund his own campaign.

Elly: 10:28

Whatever

Ben: 10:29

happened to that line of bullshit. It's all a line of bullshit. Although people blocked the line of bullshit.

Elly: 10:36

Uh huh. Well, we knew right away that he was a con man. He's an idiot.

Ben: 10:40

Yep. Yep. the guy's an idiot

Elly: 10:44

and he knows so much about money because he's underwater. That's why. Bail bondsman won't deal with him. He is underwater. He's in the red

Ben: 10:53

It means when he declared bankruptcy on the Taj Mahal back in the 90s and the man has never recovered.

Elly: 11:00

his show, his program helped him a lot. let me say this, Trump isn't a billionaire, and he squandered daddy's money. Daddy did have some money. And Forbes says right now, today, that Trump is worth 2 billion, mostly tied up in the true social promise. It's a crock of shit. He's in the red. Now remember, okay, remember Trump was a couple hundred million, let me say that again, a couple hundred million dollars in debt when. Forbes, the people who say he's worth two billion now, when Forbes named him one of the richest men in America and put him on that Forbes list, what was it, the Forbes 500, Forbes Top 50, whatever the eff it is, they didn't even check. They didn't do any vetting and put this man after he begged them under the alias, Barron,

Ben: 11:54

He used to come up and say that,

Elly: 11:56

you know. Under the alias Mr. Barron. How much Trump was worth. And he was in the hole a couple hundred million. I'll say it like Donald. Million. Couple hundred million. Dollars. In debt. Alright? And he got on the Forbes list. So, Forbes saying he's worth two billion. Come on, Forbes.

Ben: 12:16

And it's because of his, Truth social platform. And yeah. And this is the, this is the platform that is tanking this is the problem. Mm-Hmm.

Elly: 12:27

it's tanking. Yeah. We did a program about that months and months ago. before it started, before the tank started So yeah. Before

Ben: 12:34

he got his IPO. Yeah.

Elly: 12:35

We can rub the little magic eight ball. Tell you people what's gonna happen before it happens.

Ben: 12:38

He's a LOOOOOSER

Elly: 12:48

Uh. Oh, yes. He's in the red. Yeah,

Ben: 12:55

he's in the red all right.

Elly: 12:58

A few more things I want to bring up about money. he rips off everyone. Just everyone. Contractors, banks, partners, employees. And obligations. He doesn't pay his obligations. This was just recently in the news. He promised to pay the funeral cost of a fallen soldier and when the bill came, guess what? I'll give you one guess. He didn't pay it. No, he didn't pay it. You know what the bastard said? It's hard telling. Here, let me get this right. He said, it doesn't cost that much to bury a fringing Mexican. That's what he said. What? That's what he said. Ho,

Ben: 13:30

ho, ho, ho, ho, ho. Yeah. Looooooser.

Elly: 13:38

I, I'm, I'm speechless but that is what that man said. Oh my.

Ben: 13:44

What do you expect? What do you expect, honestly? Integrity? What do you really expect? Honesty? What do you expect? From

Elly: 13:53

a president? What do you expect? Yeah, kinda.

Ben: 13:56

No, he's a former president. He's no longer a president. He's a candidate. We don't expect anything from a candidate. Oh yes we do. That's why we don't want him to be president. He can be kicked out right now. Just flush the toilet,

Elly: 14:08

Yeah, he needs to go.

Ben: 14:11

Yes.

Elly: 14:12

Remember when he promised to pay all the legal costs Of the January Sixers, the attorneys, and the fake electors, the false electors. Yes. But only pardoned some of his advisors. Yes. He even allowed his cheerleader, his number one cheerleader. Giuliani to crash and burn.

Ben: 14:33

Rudy Giuliani.

Elly: 14:35

Rudy Giuliani. Yeah. Rudy. Yes, Rudy. I

Ben: 14:39

think old Rudy was crashing and burning long before he got, well, old Rudy was losing his mind before.

Elly: 14:47

Guliani is nuts, too. Guliani is nuts. I, I used to respect that man decades ago when the towers fell. 911

Ben: 14:53

yeah, you know, he was the New York City man. But you know what?

Elly: 14:56

He's just a con, just like Don. Yes. That's why they love each other. That's why they're in love.

Ben: 15:00

Yes. Yes. That's why. Please kiss me. Kiss me now. Bend over.

Elly: 15:13

I think they already did for one another. they don't call him Don the Con for nothing So, here we are. Let's talk about some taxes. Some Donald Trump and Trump Corporation taxes. Wow! I'm so impressed.

Ben: 15:32

Zero to 750 dollars. He's a billionaire.

Elly: 15:38

Let's hear what he has to say because he's so smart. His brain, he's got such a big brain and the best words

Ben: 15:44

is a stable genius.

Elly: 15:45

I think I got a clip of him talking about taxes. Oh, boy. Oh, boy.

Ben: 15:53

Yippee ki yay.

Don the Con: 15:55

Lemme explain how the world works. Okay. I think nobody knows more about taxes than I do. Nobody knows more about taxes than I

Elly: 16:02

do.

Ben: 16:03

Oh man. He knows about taxes. He knows about how to get away from them. Holy cow. zero to seven hundred and fifty dollars paid in taxes over the course of a few years. Yeah, he

Elly: 16:17

knows about taxes because he don't pay them.

Ben: 16:19

He's a con artist. He's a thief. He's a convicted felon

Elly: 16:23

Yeah, he overvalues what he has. to the banks to secure loans. Yes. Doesn't mention debt. but he undervalues to the IRS. Yes. what's up with that? Lies. I mean, the Justice Department went after Hunter Biden for taxes.

Ben: 16:43

Yes.

Elly: 16:45

Which, you You don't pay your taxes. You need to pay your taxes, but that's not the point. The point is, they've let Don the Con slide as of this taping. What is up with that? He's

Ben: 16:58

been sliding for decades.

Elly: 17:01

I don't know, is this guy like, uh know, J. Edgar Hoover? Yeah. I'm beginning to wonder, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, if he's like Hoover and has like a bunch of dirt on people, because why the eff is this happening this way? Well, he may

Ben: 17:13

because of that Epstein thing. I'm sure he was really involved with Epstein. Oh, yeah. He may have some tapes of people.

Elly: 17:18

Maybe we should start calling him Hoover. He gets dirt on everybody. If men would just keep it in their pants, we wouldn't have this problem.

Ben: 17:25

There you

Elly: 17:26

Okay, I think, this next clip I have of him is about, uh,

Ben: 17:30

trade. He knows a lot about trade. Didn't he trade something with Stormy Daniels? I don't know. I don't know if someone traded something.

Elly: 17:39

Some kind

Ben: 17:39

of trade. He and Karen McDougal? The Bunny McDougal? I'll trade you.

Elly: 17:47

Now, remember, he ran on trade. Okay. That was one of the things he ran on. Oh, yeah. He runs on trade already. His trade, but do you know that the trade deficit increased? let's see what he has to say first before we give you this pop in the face.

Don the Con: 18:02

Nobody knows more about trade than me. Let me explain how the world works, okay. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA This man is too much. He is just too much. He's lost

Ben: 18:15

it. He's lost it. It's, it's, this is like cruelty to old people right here. This is just cruel. letting this guy go on like this. Aren't

Elly: 18:24

they cute at that age? No, they're not.

Ben: 18:27

they're not.

Elly: 18:30

Let's just talk about Don the Con's trade policy when he was our president. He tariffed our neighbor. Yes, he tariffed Canada.

Loopback Mix (MOTU M Series)-2: 18:38

Trump's lumber tariffs We're 20 to 24%. You heard that right. You wonder why housing is so expensive.

Elly: 18:49

In turn, that created a 30 percent spike in the price of housing. And then the ball keeps rolling downhill. So these big national and multinational lumber companies that control the lumber. These are companies from America and companies from Canada that use Canadian and American trees to make lumber. So these companies gouged Americans I guess the tariff situation wasn't good enough. they saw an opportunity to gouge us again. So the tariffs increased housing prices and then these huge corporations gouged us again, and the prices increased again, and again, and again. It was a never ending story. And their decisions on price hikes was laden with excuses which we had already went into on another show. So in a nutshell, Trump's lumber tariffs on our neighbors Canada, and of course steel and aluminum, but we're talking about lumber here. those tariffs increased our housing by over 30%. Donnie.

Loopback Mix (MOTU M Series)-2: 20:03

Don the Con's tariffs is a major factor, of the increase in housing costs. Your buddy Don Don.

Elly: 20:13

when he was our president. The trade deficit increased by 36. 3%. In 2020, the trade deficit with China also increased. Six of our trading partners and China slapped retaliatory tariffs on the U. S. This hurt our exports. And hurt our businesses and hurt our farmers. The export of agricultural commodities and food products decreased greatly. We lost business. America lost business. But Americans paid for Trump's idiocy. Losses for the retaliatory tariffs caused by Trump's tariffs. We're over thirteen billion dollars for American business and farmers. Yeah, Over thirteen. Billion. and you wonder why inflation skyrocket why food prices jumped? do you ever ask yourself why did milk and dairy products skyrocket? They skyrocketed because of the tariffs with Canada. Trump, you buffoon. Listener, you're crazy not to vote blue. Inflation is down lower than 2. 4 percent, stocks are up, jobs are up, blue collar jobs are up, wages are up, gas prices are down. Yeah, gas prices are down, baby. And that's all under Democratic leadership. job numbers up, even when striking workers and devastating hurricanes Have been common the last couple of years or so. You want more money? Vote blue. Through and through. Up and down the ticket. From the President, Senators House Reps, And your local people, even your school board, vote blue. Vote for people who give a shit. Vote for people who have a track record of giving a shit. Real quick, books we recommend: Nick Hanauer: one. Corporate Bullshit. Two. Gardens of Democracy Brian Tyler Cohen: Shameless David Pakman: The Echo Machine Michael Cohen: one Disloyal, two Revenge. Susanne Craig: Lucky Loser. Robert Reich: one. The System. Two. Saving Capitalism. Three. Aftershock. Four. Supercapitalism. Heather Cox Richardson: Democracy Awakening. Leigh McGowan. A Return to Common Sense. Ryan.

Ben: 23:13

I'm Ben Scrood.

Elly: 23:14

And I'm Elly Stone. We're the hosts of Scrood.

Ben: 23:17

Thank you for watching.

Elly: 23:19

Don't forget to vote. If you don't vote, big spiders are gonna crawl on your head and in your ear. That's right. Thank you for listening. Bye.

Ben: 23:26

Bye.

Elly: 23:26

Buh