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Right Now With Perry Bacon
A twice-weekly show about national politics with a focus on the radicalism of the Trump administration and tactics to combat it. The program features in-depth discussions with experts and politicians. It goes beyond the daily headlines to explain why things are happening and put them in a broader context.
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Right Now With Perry BaconTrump’s Threats to Defy Courts Darken as MAGA Fury over Losses Grows
President Donald Trump has been ranting wildly at the Supreme Court. In a pair of tweets after oral arguments over his effort to end birthright citizenship…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump Rages Over Qatar Jet Fiasco as GOP Angst Worsens: “Humiliating”
President Donald Trump has been growing angry over the criticism of his decision to accept a $400 million luxury jet from Qatar. He snapped at a reporter who…
Right Now With Perry BaconMAGA Senator’s Stunning Admission: GOP Is Badly Screwing Trump Voters
The House GOP is forging ahead with its massive domestic policy bill implementing President Donald Trump’s agenda. And it’s becoming clear that it will…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump Tariff Fiasco Worsens as Brutal New Reports Reveal a Fresh Scam
The White House has been boasting that President Trump’s partial pause in the trade war with China is a historic breakthrough. But two new reports, one from…
Right Now With Perry BaconJamie Raskin’s Harsh Takedown of Trump’s Qatar Jet Scam Hits the Mark
Over the weekend, the news broke that President Donald Trump is accepting a luxury jet from the country of Qatar for presidential travel. This extraordinarily…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump Press Sec’s Fawning over Him to Media Takes Scary, Cultlike Turn
In her most recent media briefing, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt went full North Korea with a number of worshipful monologues about Trump. Yet…
Right Now With Perry BaconMAGA Rage Erupts as New Pope’s Views of Trump Prove Unexpectedly Harsh
Right after the news broke that Robert Francis Prevost was elected as the new Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, the internet produced lots of evidence that he…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump Erupts as GOPers Quietly Nix Key US Attorney Pick, Enraging MAGA
President Donald Trump erupted on Truth Social this week when it became clear that MAGA loyalist and insurrectionist Ed Martin’s nomination for U.S. Attorney…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump’s Odd New Tariff Musings Show How Badly He’s Screwing His Voters
Thanks to President Trump’s policies, a confluence of events is set to absolutely clobber rural America. First there’s Trump’s trade war. On Tuesday, Trump…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump Seethes as Karl Rove Delivers Harsh On-Air Warning about Polls
President Donald Trump is angry at longtime GOP strategist Karl Rove. That’s because Rove delivered Trump a stern on-air warning about his sliding approval…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump’s Rage at Fox News over Bad Poll Signals Coming Fiasco for MAGA
President Trump has recently been erupting at Fox News over its new poll finding him with 55 percent disapproval. Trump described Fox’s pollster as “Trump…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump’s Arrests Hit by Major Legal Setback as Stephen Miller Seethes
Big news: A federal judge just ruled that President Donald Trump’s renditions under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act are illegal. It’s a crucial moment in the battle…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump Rages Wildly over Humiliating GDP Data as Aides Calm His Fury
We just learned that President Donald Trump’s economy contracted in the first quarter. Trump unloaded twice over this bad news, attempting to blame Joe Biden…
Right Now With Perry Bacon“He Was Pissed”: Trump’s Vile New Threat over Tariffs Takes Scary Turn
After the news broke that Amazon might publicly clarify the costs that President Trump’s tariffs are imposing on its products, Trump instructed his White House…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump’s Fury at Bad Polls Goes Nuclear as Allies Rush to Calm Him Down
President Donald Trump is growing angrier over polls that keep showing him tanking. On Monday, he raged that polls sponsored by media outlets are “COMPROMISED…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump’s Fury over Abrego Garcia Case Darkens as Crushing New Polls Hit
Over the weekend, President Trump raged on Truth Social at judges who are ruling that Trump must follow the law in the case of wrongfully-deported Kilmar…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump’s Surprise Admission about Putin Wrecks “Great Dealmaker” Scam
President Donald Trump just made some new public statements about the Russia-Ukraine war, and they were thoroughly unimpressive. At one point, he seemed to get…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump Suddenly in Retreat on Many Issues as Poll Reveals Key Weakness
Suddenly, President Donald Trump appears to be retreating or getting knocked back on multiple fronts. Trump is considering whether to slash his tariffs on…
Right Now With Perry Bacon“Madness”: Trump Tariff Fiasco Suddenly Worsens amid Brutal Poll Drop
On Tuesday, largely due to President Trump’s tariffs, the International Monetary Fund downgraded its projections for economic growth in a big way. Meanwhile…
Right Now With Perry Bacon“Full-Blown Meltdown”: Don Jr. and MAGA Rage as GOPers Turn on Hegseth
President Trump’s defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is imploding again. We just learned that he shared still more highly sensitive data on a private signal…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump’s Ugly New MS-13 Ramblings Wreck His Case Against Abrego Garcia
President Donald Trump’s case for leaving Kilmar Abrego Garcia to rot in an El Salvadoran prison continues to collapse. In bizarre, rambling remarks to…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump’s Fury at Harvard Darkens as GOPer Openly Admits: “We’re Afraid”
In an extraordinary escalation of President Trump’s rage at Harvard University, the administration just threatened to block Harvard from receiving foreign…
Right Now With Perry BaconFiasco for Trump as Judge Threatens Contempt amid New Warning in Polls
Donald Trump’s illegal deportations are running into more trouble. A federal judge just declared there’s probable cause to find the administration in criminal…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump’s Unhinged Eruption at Harvard Actually Reveals Big MAGA Weakness
Harvard University has declared that enough is enough, and it’s now openly refusing to buckle to Trump’s command for subservience on multiple fronts. In…
Right Now With Perry Bacon“Horrifying”: Trump’s Angry New Rants to Media Openly Defy SCOTUS
On Monday, Donald Trump met with El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, and in an act of true infamy, the two authoritarian leaders collectively agreed that wrongfully…
Right Now With Perry Bacon“Terrifying”: Trump’s Fury at Foes Darkens amid New Alina Habba Threat
After President Trump raged for weeks at law firms he regards as personal enemies, a number of them just surrendered to him like falling dominoes. That Trump…
Right Now With Perry BaconFox News Accidentally Wrecks Trump’s Tariff Spin as MAGA Panic Worsens
After President Trump’s supposed tariff “pause,” we still have a 10 percent tariff on most global imports, the trade war with China is intensifying, and…
Right Now With Perry Bacon“Trump Is Backing Down Again”: Hakeem Jeffries Mocks Tariff Flip Flop
President Donald Trump’s tariff chaos continues. He just announced a big reversal: For 90 days, the reciprocal tariffs will come down, but a universal 10…
Right Now With Perry BaconSotomayor’s Harsh Dissent on Trump Arrests Offers a Terrifying Warning
The fate of dozens of Venezuelans deported by the Trump administration to a maximum security prison in El Salvador remains in doubt. So does the fate of Kilmar…
Right Now With Perry BaconUnwell Trump Rages Wildly at Many Targets as GOP Starts Turning on Him
As the chaos grows around President Trump’s tariffs, the Mad King is now raging wildly in many directions. He erupted over China’s reciprocal tariffs…
Right Now With Perry Bacon“Disaster”: Trump Voters Suddenly Realize How Badly He Screwed Them
President Donald Trump has more support in rural America than any U.S. politician in decades, and farmers remain overwhelmingly loyal to him. Yet with Trump’s…
Right Now With Perry Bacon“Horrifying”: Trump’s Weird, Confused Rant to Media as Markets Tanked
After President Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on imports from all over the globe, prompting the markets to implode, he took a question about it on Thursday…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump Suddenly Set to Cut Musk Loose as Knives Come Out Over WI Fiasco
After Democrats scored a huge victory in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, a contest that revolved heavily around Elon Musk’s involvement, Trumpworld is…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump’s Arrests Take Dark, Unnerving Turn, and MAGA Rage Melts Down
By now you may have heard that the Trump administration deported a Maryland man to a Salvadoran prison in “error.” The administration is refusing to bring him…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump Hit by Two Brutal Polls on Econ as GOP Tariff Panic Goes Nuclear
President Donald Trump is set to announce that he’ll impose sweeping new global tariffs on imports, and Congressional Republicans are already scrambling wildly…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump Text Fiasco Suddenly Worsens as MAGA Knives Come Out for Hegseth
President Donald Trump’s own allies are beginning to turn on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Politico reports. White House and Pentagon insiders are…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump’s ICE Removals Take Darker Turn after Unnerving Rubio Admission
By now you may have heard that President Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained a foreign student at Tufts under shocking circumstances…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump Privately Seethes at Text Fiasco as Hegseth’s Dumb Spin Implodes
It’s day three of the scandal in which President Trump’s top advisers accidentally allowed a journalist for The Atlantic onto a highly sensitive discussion of…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump Text Fiasco Worsens as Tulsi Gabbard Implodes and Fox Melts Down
As the scandal worsens around the news that President Trump’s top national security officials allowed a journalist onto a highly sensitive text chat about war…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump’s Angry Rant about Stunning Leak of War Plan Makes Scandal Worse
By now you may have heard that President Trump’s top officials discussed war plans on Signal, and that the group chat actually included Jeffrey Goldberg of The…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump Blurts Out Revealing Aim of Law Firm Shakedown Right to Media
Faced with President Trump’s shakedown, the Paul Weiss law firm agreed to a “deal” with Trump that sure looks like a ransom payment. Trump then told reporters…
Right Now With Perry Bacon“Terrifying”: Trump’s Rage at Judge Unnerves GOPers as Crisis Worsens
President Trump is furious with a federal judge who is trying to block his ludicrous deportations of migrants under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act. Trump and his…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump’s Fury at Canada Boils Over on Fox—and Polls Now Show a Backlash
It’s growing harder to shrug off President Trump’s deranged threats toward Canada. In a new Fox News interview, Trump snarled angrily that Canada is “meant” to…
Right Now With Perry BaconFox Anchor Suddenly Panics About Trump Economy as Brutal New Poll Hits
Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo has suddenly emerged as a leading voice sounding loud alarms about President Trump’s tariffs and the devastating impact they could…
Right Now With Perry Bacon“Chilling”: Trump Press Sec Hints Darkly at More Lawlessness to Come
President Trump’s lawlessness is escalating. First he angrily tweeted that his predecessor’s pardons of January 6 committee members are invalid, while…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump’s Rage at Canada Darkens, and Even GOPers Suddenly Seem Unnerved
President Trump’s anger at Canada has darkened: He’s kept up the menacing threats even after it’s become clear Canadians take them seriously. Indeed, Canada’s…
Right Now With Perry BaconMusk Craters in Two New Polls as DOGE Cuts Hit by Brutal Loss in Court
Elon Musk is suddenly facing lots of bad news. A judge just ordered the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of federal workers in their jobs, a big…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump’s Anger Spins Out of Control at Presser as Another Bad Poll Hits
At a presser on Wednesday, President Donald Trump seemed unusually angry. He ripped into Chuck Schumer, calling him Palestinian. He seethed with anger at…
Right Now With Perry Bacon“Terrifying”: Trump Press Sec Drops Dark Hint about Coming Crackdowns
The Trump administration just arrested and is moving to deport Mahmoud Khalil for being a suspected terrorist sympathizer, even though he has a green card and…
Right Now With Perry BaconBad News for Trump as Brutal New Stock Market Plunge Wakes Up Dems
President Trump is on the defensive. The Dow fell nearly 1,000 points after Trump admitted that couldn’t rule out a recession. This comes after more turmoil in…
Right Now With Perry BaconMusk Humiliated as Trump’s Own Advisers Brutally Expose DOGE Fiasco
The rift between Elon Musk and Republicans is about to get worse. The New York Times reports that in an extraordinary Oval Office meeting, President Trump’s…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump Attack on Social Security Takes Ugly Turn with Musk Leak Stunner
As President Trump’s administration gears up to cut Social Security, The Washington Post reports that a top official at the Social Security Administration…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump Press Sec Blurts Out Ugly, Revealing Truth about His Tariff Scam
In his speech to Congress, President Trump kept lying about his tariffs, falsely claiming that Canada is letting huge amounts of fentanyl into our country and…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrudeau’s Blistering Takedown of Trump’s Tariffs Puts GOP to Shame
After President Donald Trump’s tariffs went into effect, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau offered an extraordinary, heartfelt plea to the American…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump Hit by Brutal Fox News Graphic on Tariffs as More Bad Polls Land
On Monday, while President Trump talked about his tariffs, Fox News showed him speaking even as a graphic in the corner displayed the markets sliding. That…
Right Now With Perry Bacon“Sick”: GOP Senator’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Hints at a Darker Story
After President Trump and JD Vance ambushed Ukrainian president Zelensky in the Oval Office, one GOP Senator stepped up. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska decried Trump…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump Hit by Brutal Poll on Economy as Panicked GOPers Nix Town Halls
President Trump looks increasingly vulnerable on the very thing that helped him win the election: Rising costs. On Thursday, Trump announced that his tariffs…
Right Now With Perry Bacon“Terrifying”: Trump’s Ominous Moment with RFK on First Measles Death
In Texas, an unvaccinated child just died of Measels—the first reported death related to the disease’s recent outbreak. This came up at President Trump’s…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump Press Sec Seethes at Media over Musk as More Bad Econ News Hits
At Tuesday’s media briefing, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that the White House will now decide who attends briefings, an effort to…
Right Now With Perry BaconTrump’s Angry DOGE Defense Backfires at Presser as More Bad Polls Hit
At a Monday press conference, Donald Trump angrily defended Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency. Though officials from Trump’s…