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Pablo Torre

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first: 2026-02-08
most recent: 2026-02-08
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2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Who's counting? But who's counting? Not Bill. Not Bill. That's for goddamn sure. So I highly Anytime I can be your sports correspondent whenever you need, I have a feeling that there'll be more penis-related issues in the future. Amen.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“how big your penis is for this reason. 3D scan you. In order to measure what your suit can be allowed to be, how big your suit can be. And because the edges are so small and therefore big, people who have more fabric on the suit have a performance advantage. And so it used to be, back in my day, the scandal was people were so, there's a literal video we obtained of like people with a sewing machine creating a bigger crotch, but these guys are like, what if I told you that we could make the measurements actually reflect the size of our temporarily enormous penises? And I gotta say, I did not see that one coming.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The gate that we reported on was Crotch Gate because Inski Jumping, which is an Olympic sport that's happening now, and we did a whole deep dive into this.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“How dare you question the wisdom of once again men? This is real. Oh, no, no, no. So we did a whole episode, an investigation. You, Tommy, have been traumatized by Spygate, Deflategate, all the ways in which your Patriots have obviously been exposed as rank cheaters that should not be rooted for by anybody in America with a conscience. Many are saying”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And you put it in those ways, and it makes me also want to clarify. There is a problem in locker rooms all across America when it comes to female athletes. And the problem is the men who are around them. Not the trans athletes, though, that they say, oh, these biological men, it's the dudes who are coaching. That is a concern very often, and this is real, and it should be reported on, and it's very telling that that's not of a concern at all to these same people who are truly profiting off of. A minority group that is so vanishingly small that no one wants to stand up for them.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And replace it with this trumped up, fake thing while ignoring the actual victims who I was on this team with. And so one of the quotes from one of her teammates is basically, how can I give a shit about Riley Gaines? I'm paraphrasing here. How can I give a shit about Riley Gaines talking about trans athletes when our head coach raped one of our teammates? Like that's how on the nose some of this stuff is, and that's the story that Fox News does not want you to know about”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The kicker is this entire time Riley gains his teammates at the University of Kentucky. Watching this happen, and we spoke to several of them on tape, in fact, in the episode. We have one particular teammate who went on tape. And the thing that Riley gains almost never talks about, has never spoken words with her mouth about on camera, despite all these interviews, is the fact that the person she has called in her book her best friend, the person who was the head coach of their swim team at Kentucky, this guy Lars Jurgensen, was himself somebody who sexually assaulted several of her teammates, allegedly. These are court cases. These are documented. These are alleged by those women. And so not only is it the dishonesty of the rhetoric, it's the actual substitution of real event happening over here. Let's get that out of here.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Has ever suggested that Riley Gaines is arguing with Simone Biles, who was, I mean, and I cannot stress this enough, an actual victim of sexual violence, sexual assault by Larry Nasser, who committed the largest sexual assault scandal in American sports history. This was the doctor of the USA Women's Gymnastics team, Michigan State, and Riley Gaines is telling on Twitter, Simone Biles, basically, how dare you talk about your issue, your trauma, but dismiss mine. And she posts parallel photos of Leah Thomas and Larry Nasser and the testimonies and stuff. It's abhorrent. And the kicker, Tommy, I'll speed it up because I'm just doing the whole episode for you now. No, no, no.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Taking a harder line on how mad she should be. And so it's ramping up, it's ramping up. And what she ends up doing is alleging that Leah Thomas, this swimmer she competed against, is actually a predator who is committing a version of sexual assault. This is a criminal concern, is what Riley Gaines is arguing. And parallel to the rhetoric being radicalized are, according to the reporting we did with Mother Jones, Madison Pauley, an excellent reporter who helped us tell this story with documents, are payments coming in from a range of conservative activists that are creating the Riley Gaines leadership center, and they're paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for her to be front and center on this winning political issue because it's working. And it's getting so divorced from where it started and from what the evidence”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A series of interviews on Fox News with the Daily Wire, with Clay Travis, in which she was, and you can hear this happen on tape. I'm not just saying this as a matter of editorial interpretation. You can hear her be prodded into.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The Riley Gaines story is not a debate about rules. She would like you to think it is. The Republicans, the Trump administration, which has her, front and centered, dressed in all white as they're banning trans athletes by the president's pen, would love you to think that this is about protecting women and girls. Isn't. This is a story. If you go through the evolution of Riley Gaines the character of somebody who had to tie for fifth place with a trans female swimmer, Leah Thomas, who is really good at swimming? And the issue is that Riley Gaines' objections went from Have problems with the rules, but I don't blame Leah.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But this issue was, of course, ran on. It was advertised, and it worked. I've been hearing the term all over the place that this is an 80-20 issue. We win this 80% of the time. The Libs lose it. And I would say that that is not inaccurate because no one really knows how to talk about this stuff. Because there is like this competitive equity concern. And there is a scientific argument there, which we should have. Again, we should have a scientific argument. Are there advantages by going through male puberty? Yes. Can they be regulated through hormone suppression? Yes, but. And in that, yes, but there is.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, so the trans athlete issue has been one of the biggest political winners for this administration, and it is rooted again in a lack of, let alone numeracy, but certainly honesty and reality. And I say that because in general, to zoom out quickly for a second, there are so few trans athletes that exist. So the president of the NCAA, Charlie Baker, was asked in Congress how many of them are there. And he said there are less than 10. Okay. The odds of you having a near fatal run-in with ICE is greater than your daughter competing in a meaningfully concerning way with a trans person.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Just like we are, the whole thing of our perpetual numbness to horror. Humans are so good at normalizing insane conditions. The pandemic taught us that. We all know it. This is that but on for loco. It's just like we are turning to these fixable, manipulatable markets to tell us whether we should expect something. And people with money get to decide in an unregulated way. That is a fucking nightmare.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“None of us. Like we are also people who like to use these heuristics to guide our understanding of what seems normal. And so a prediction market, to your point, an election is a really good example of this. Like if you spend a lot of money to move a prediction market for any given race, there is now an expectation that has changed. If this applies now, which by the way can be better and more value added than just buying political ads, right? That's why you might do it, is to change the narrative of like, he's still in it, right? It's not over yet. But the other thing that happens is when everything is bedtable like this, you can change the expectations for every governmental action, including foreign invasions, including whether we're going to prosecute a nice officer.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, and so two things, the CFDC, I was just talking to somebody who used to work there today because I've been trying to understand this, continue to understand this more. And it's very disturbing how so many of the people, not just responsible for enforcement at the CFTC, but were like the true believers over there in terms of like, let's regulate things civilly and let's make sure that we can deter market manipulation and all that stuff, even if it doesn't rise to the level of criminality. It seems very clear to a lot of former CFTC employees that this is all happening. And I was just listening to the head of the CFTC now under this administration be so outwardly pro-crypto pro prediction market stuff that it seems to be of a piece with the business dealings that we've been describing now, this whole episode. The second thing that which you're just referring to is a prediction market because we are not numerate as human.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In exchange for money. In that case, then maybe you trust their ability to take care of us in that way. What I think is realistically happening is that they're doing the opposite and the people who are losing money are the retail investors. And that is something that we're not even, we haven't even begun to measure what they are winning and what the rest of us are losing.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Knows more about this than me? And do they stand a prophet if they have a person on the inside? And so that's why Carolyn Levitt is not merely a funny coincidence, but like a deeply disturbing, hypothetical example, if she, in fact, did share this information ahead of time. And it's also something that is, I would say, destructive to the ability that we have as American citizens to trust in anything that we are witnessing, right? So what happened to sports? We can't trust whether this has integrity. Is this person genuinely incompetent or are they fixing a game? This is now true of anything happening in our administration. And the only reason you should feel good about it, I guess, is if you think this administration is a type of administration to be so, so buttoned up on not compromising principles.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Prediction market, as gyms are a wiki, Wisdom of Crowds was his book in 04 told me it is an interesting and useful way to predict some things. The election in 2024, prediction markets were all over that. There is value to that as an instrument of forecasting reality. The Donald Trump Jr. thing, though, reminds us that there are networks of people with access to information and now take the Jante Porter example from before, a hyperspecific micro bet that no one would have interest in except for people with inside information. Now there is not a cheesecake factory thick menu, there is an infinite list of truly infinite list of bets. You can bet on anything. And in that way, the question that not enough people are asking is who knows?”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Just how dare you? This is just a guy who loves forecasting in this sort of rigorous data-driven way. But it's interesting because realistically,”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And that paid out, right? And so the Donald Trump Jr. part of it is really instructive because Donald Trump Jr. is on the board of both Kalchi and Polymarket, which are these billion-dollar prediction markets. Seems like a conflict, okay?”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But this is actually the legal question, right? So the CFTC, which ostensibly used to regulate commodity trading, they have now decided that actually under this administration, actually we have oversight over these event contracts. And so an event contract in a prediction market like Kalashi, like polymarket, is you can bet, you can buy an event contract, which is basically a yes or no question. Caroline Levitt finish her press briefing in under 65 minutes. That was a real event contract. There is also now evidence that you can watch of Caroline Levitt stopping short like seconds short of 65 minutes exactly.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If you still want to sign up for consensual possible addiction, cool. Go with God. Let's federally regulate it. And we can make that work. But I think what's happening is that it happened so quickly. The legalization happened so quickly with this internet era, cell phone casino in your pocket dynamic, that people are still just catching up to what's actually scientifically on the table. And so I am not saying we should ban federally gambling. I am saying that we need to be very open and transparent about here's what's happening very often to men in America. And we should tell them that this is what they're risking, if this is what the science is suggesting.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and I want the science, I want the research. I think about this kind of like how I thought about the concussion crisis in the NFL in a weird way, where it was like, look, I am tempted now to stop watching football, but if you do the science diligently enough such that the participants have disclosure and they're told here are the risks, here are the harms. I think about how in Europe if you buy cigarettes, they put on the box like here are the faces of death, right? Do you want this?”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Potential conflicts of interest in which players now have the ability or their specific proxies have the ability to profit off of things that don't even require you, Tommy, to throw the game. Just suck for a period of time. It's a remarkable and dangerous thing to institute.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It really is. It really is. Yeah, Barack would have needed to wear a Matthew Lesko question mark suit to get that level of just like what are, I mean, I've long said that the most unamerican position that you can have is to go against the NFL in 2026.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, look, you alluded to the FIFA stuff before. This is all the same thing. This is the equivalent of Dana White constructing for him that golden spinning pimp my ride trophy that Gianni Infantino did. And he let him keep at the White House. There is almost like an Egyptian pharaoh dynamic. It's like, here's your gold, here's your frankincense, here is your myrrh, here are the things you can be buried with. And it's UFC walkouts and gold trophies. And that's why he does it. But the reason they do it is because it's good for business and it's bad, unfortunately, for the rest of us.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's the total verifiable dishonesty of a guy who wants to cosplay as I'm here for free speech unless it threatens my business, which is exactly what the UFC has been doing.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In terms of what his actual compass is as a businessman, as a human, is abhorrent. And I don't say that because I'm against the UFC or MMA. I'm here for the consensual concussions, right? I covered boxing, love boxing. I'm here for the violence of football and all that stuff. I'm not fainting on to a couch somewhere because of it. I'm just saying that this is a guy who says that he is a First Amendment absolutist, much like a lot of the names that I've alluded to in this very sort of like answer that I'm giving you. And at the same time, he is somebody who will ardently, ardently regulate the speech of people who dare to speak out against him. And also this administration. It's that perfect hypocrisy of the Constitution for me, but not for thee.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exactly what that felt like, how edgy it felt. They just want to say those things. That's the main political platform. I want to watch mixed martial arts and bro out and laugh at things that I'm not supposed to laugh at. And Trump's friendship with Dana White, who spoke at not one RNC and not two RNCs, but at least three. While also claiming to be not political. That's how he is mentally, cognitively, threading the needle of like, no, no, no, this is a culture thing. This is like a sports thing. But of course, for Trump, whether he intended it this way or not, it is the ultimate in political image laundering because he's just one of the guys. He's one of the guys at the fight that you want to hang out with. And Dana White.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“MMA is such a big part of the story that I think has gotten underrated. In MMA, by the way, you get noted ESPN commentator and the dean of MMA commentary and analysis, Joe Rogan. Where he is. Right, so okay, already you're like beginning to piece together what's happening here. The manosphere such as it exists, which is to say a bunch of dudes who are typically apolitical, if not anti-political, which is to say all these comedians who you'll also see like ringside, who have podcasts, who have these demographics that are heavily male, who basically are anti-authority, who also, frankly, just want to say words that they used to be able to say in high school. Went to an all boys Catholic school. I remember”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And now, when you look back, it's like classic non-violent, as respectful as can be, kneeling during the ceremony of the anthem, which is its own fraught, of course, military-industrial complex tradition. But nonetheless, it was the thing that kind of made sports go crazy. And crazy in the sense of, I can't believe we got to deal with this, this being the people who wanted him and us and me to stick to sports. And then Crazier when it came to we can never abide by what we want. And it's just crazy that we watch what's happening again in Minnesota. And the version that these woke tarts enacted upon them was they kneeled. Like that's the juxtaposition.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's so quaint what Kaepernick actually was doing. He was kneeling and staying silent. He was very silent. Almost problematically silent. I remember people being like, could you please talk more? And no, he was like, this is what I'm going to do. He was recommended to do it, actually, by a vet, a former member of the military who was like, this is the most respectful way to do this.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, it's, I think the clearest embodiment of the pendulum that swung 2016 to 2020, when there was actual pressure that was being enacted upon sports and mainstream institutions that they responded to. And now here we are with the pendulum swinging all the way back. My first memory, because I remember, you know, this is Trump saying, I remember talking about this on ESPN all the time. Trump's saying, get these sons of bitches off the field. One of his early indications that maybe this guy wasn't really here for the First Amendment. Maybe not here for the Constitution. My reaction at the time is even more sort of acute now, which is.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Older son. But it's also, I think, a lack of recognition of the polling on this is very obvious. There is a parallel to the Minnesota stuff. It's like that stuff is polling terribly. And Bad Bunny, in a parallel way, is so deeply popular with normies that are just Spanish speakers, as well as just normal music fans, and they don't get it. Like they should be so good Trump's administration at this point at sussing out popularity. And weirdly, the entity that is the best at it happens to be the NFL, which is the last monocultural institution we have left. And they're still like, you know what? We don't really get it. It's like maybe trust the one thing that's popular anymore.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They're trying to do is expand their audience. And so, look, the bad bunny thing reminds me because of his streaming numbers and because that is an audience, a demographic that they're trying to export the NFL to and the way they're trying to export it to Brazil and Spain and all these other places all around the world, they see the world as a risk board for Roger Goodell to conquer. That's why they want access to it. What's funny is that when Mike Johnson is being interviewed and he's like, I've never even heard of Bad Bunny. At that point, beyond just making fun of what is on Mike Johnson's iPhone, I think you know. What is.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, Tony Kornheiser of the late, great Washington Post Sports Department used to quote Don Olmeier, the former MBC executive to me all the time. He answered all your questions is money. And this is the God the NFL worships. They do not give a shit about politics. I hate to break it to you. Even though they put end racism in the end zone. They didn't really care about ending racism.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I think the risk of bad bunny being somebody who dares to say words in Spanish plus a bunch of people in the Bay Area who might boo him. I think that's enough for him to say, I don't want to look bad. I think that's the only theory that I really can land on at that point.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The time to discern the difference, and so we thought he was on television. But anyway, I remember asking him about, and I remember he was telling us like Tom Brady should sue the NFL for $250,000 because of the deflate gate and all this stuff. So he likes being sports adjacent. But the thing that keeps happening when he shows up at Games, and this happened at the National Championship games, this happened at the US Open, this happens at all these things, is that he also, because sports are fundamentally a populist exercise insofar as a lot of people are in a room together, he does get booed.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My theory is that Trump loves, of course, the attention. I remember when I was at ESPN, I actually interviewed Donald Trump because he was at that point just Donald Trump. I was co-hosting Dan Lebitard's radio show. And Donald Trump at that point, this is 2015-ish. Donald Trump at that point was just a caller. Like he actually is a great sports radio call-in guest. And to be clear, you don't need to know anything about sports to be great at that job. Donald Trump actually, I believe, was calling into Dan Levatard's radio show because he thought it was Dan Levatard's television show on ESPN, highly questionable, and just never...”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was John Bon Jovi. It was Donald Trump, and the guys who actually bought the Buffalo Bills, and either of the other two scenarios, Bon Jovi and Trump, I'd like to roll the dice on. I'd just like to see what would have happened at that point.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And Brady, but like there was the letter from, they were like pen pals, like literal pen pals at one point. They were reading these things out in public. Brady, of course, is somebody who had, in the early days, when we were so innocent, the MAGA had in his locker and had to answer questions about it because that at that point was glaring. His relationship with sports, though, and football in particular is through the perspective of somebody who tried to buy the Buffalo Bills and couldn't. And now because of that, he decided to eventually be the president. And so there is a take here that if only Trump was an NFL owner and not the president, we would be living very, very different lives.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He has always respected it as a country club he was not allowed into. And so that is a genuine thirst that we're seeing detecting in all of these relationships. But again, like self-interest and a desire to be in the club does not mean that you love the game. And it's interesting with Belichek too, by the way, not to go right to Belichek, your boy, Tommy. But remember that letter?”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I should say that my perspective as a guy who clearly did not play any professional sport of any kind, let alone college sport of any kind, is that sports has been the passport for me to connect to all sorts of people who are nothing like me. And that's the magic of it. So it's okay. And in fact, like I try to live my life and make this show that I make for people who don't like sports. And the whole premise is you might actually like things that sports connects to. And that's enough. But it's the stolen valor, Tommy. It's the stolen valor of we are the sportsiest administration you've ever seen. And it's those two guys. And that offends me”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But he has to, and he's bad at it. And you knew it when he was at the donut counter, by the way. And he was like, so let's talk about this donut. It's like, no, that's where you talk about sports, man. Just say some sports stuff. Get in the cab, talk about sports, go to any store, talk about sports. He cannot talk about sports”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I just feel like JD Vance is secretly listening to the shins and writing in his live journal and does it want to perform masculinity anymore?”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Untruth social, he's always talking about how they've like Wussified the kickoff and stuff. He has some go-to's. He's like that guy who has. Half a take and he won't stop giving the take. And then when he meets whatever his aide, I don't know. Do this for him, Tommy. Me, the White House expertise better than anyone, I guess. But some kid had to be like, so he's actually not. He's got to know about Tua Tunga He's injured a lot. And his name is Tua Tunga Vailoa, and Trump's like, got it.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There has never been a more obvious line read of a word you've never said or heard before. That I was once I remember going to when I was in high school, we did the grapes of wrath and like, Weeks into the book, one of my classmates was like, So this guy, Tom Joad. And I was like, okay, so you just have been sleeping this entire time. It reminds me of trying to say Mores. Never actually heard anyone say Mora is before, but it's Tunga Vailoa Clearly mangled There are lots of ways that Trump reveals himself to not know anything about sports while wearing the costume of basically being a white guy Loves athletes, which is not the same as sports knowledge, by the way. He is somebody who Always we'll talk about that kickoff rule he hates.”
2026-02-08 · Pod Save America · Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source