Ballot with Patrick Gutfield - Where Politics Meets Pop Culture

Patrick Gutfield dives into Trump’s wild 1990s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, the shady modeling agency connections, and that infamous Mar-a-Lago party with 28 young women. Plus, the jaw-dropping $934 million secret Air Force One makeover funded by nuclear missile money.

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Patrick Gutfield breaks down Trump's Scotland golf course opening, Qatar jet controversy, and demands to prosecute celebrities over campaign payments. Scottish newspaper calls someone a "convicted US felon" as business and politics collide.

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A podcaster accidentally reveals his massive earnings while trying to show off, Republicans want to rename the Kennedy Center after Melania Trump, and we remember Ozzy Osbourne - the man who survived everything except reality TV remotes.

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The Justice Department wants to meet with Jeffrey Epstein's partner in crime, Speaker Johnson sends Congress home early to avoid an awkward vote, and Trump calls the Marcos family "highly respected" - apparently forgetting the whole "chased out by revolution" thing.

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Patrick Gutfield breaks down the weekend's wildest political moments: Trump posting cobra-catching videos to distract from Epstein file pressure, Hunter Biden threatening to invade El Salvador on a podcast, and why the President's social media strategy resembles your aunt's Facebook feed. Plus, how a house cat apparently has better presidential prospects than Hunter Biden.


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Patrick Gutfield covers Trump's triple-header of distractions: posting fake AI videos of Obama getting arrested while his own supporters demand Epstein file transparency, releasing MLK assassination documents to change the subject, and Trump Media's sudden two billion dollar bitcoin fortune. From selective transparency syndrome to turning the presidency into a crypto side hustle.


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Patrick Gutfield breaks down the Stephen Colbert Late Show cancellation controversy, from Trump's suspicious Truth Social celebration to Rob Schneider's Fox News defense of CBS's "financial decision." Plus, Rosie O'Donnell delivers an epic Instagram response to Trump's citizenship threats. Get the full timeline of events and expert analysis on whether this was really about money or politics in today's late-night comedy roundup.

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Patrick Gutfield's satirical take on President Trump's "chronic venous insufficiency" diagnosis, the ongoing Epstein files controversy and calls for transparency, Emil Bove's controversial judicial nomination, and Trump's potential executive order on college athlete employment status. Plus coverage of the nine billion dollar cuts to public broadcasting and foreign aid.

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Patrick Gutfield covers Arizona's first plague death in twenty years (yes, actual medieval plague), Trump's new baby investment accounts that financial experts are calling mediocre at best, and a French Olympic fencer who beat doping charges by claiming she kissed her boyfriend too much. From medieval diseases to government-issued portfolios for newborns to steroid contamination through saliva - it's been quite a week.

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Once again our team points out Vance didnt ruin anything and its just wordplay and this whole show is parody.

Anyway, Joe Biden defends using an autopen to pardon people—and yes, he threw in some Trump shade while he was at it. Over in Anaheim, Vice President JD Vance visits Disneyland and triggers ride shutdowns, protest signs, and culture war cameos. And in Missouri, a man throws a woman off a boat and leads police on a Fast & Furious-style lake chase because...America.


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