Comic and podcaster Andrew Schulz turned on President Donald Trump Thursday, lashing out at guarantees the president has failed to meet since returning to the White Home, saying he “voted for none of this.”
“He’s doing the precise reverse of all the pieces I voted for. I need him to cease the wars. He’s funding them. I need him to shrink spending, cut back the funds. He’s rising it,” Schulz stated on his podcast, “Flagrant.”
Schulz, who has amassed practically 2 million subscribers on YouTube, hosted the president on his present final yr within the lead-up to the presidential election; throughout their interview he burst into laughter after Trump known as himself “mainly a truthful particular person.”
Schulz advised The New York Times in an interview printed final month that his vote for Trump was “in opposition to a Democratic establishment” he felt “was stripping the democratic course of from its constituents.” He went on to say that, going into the Trump interview, he particularly wished to deal with three matters with the candidate: ensuring entry to in vitro fertilization was protected, having “empathy” for law-abiding undocumented migrants, and ending international wars.
Months after casting his vote for Trump, Schulz tore into the president in Thursday’s episode in entrance of his co-hosts, comedians Akaash Singh and Mark Gagnon and media producer AlexxMedia.
“There’ll be people who they’ll DM me and be like, ‘You see what your boy’s doing? You voted for this.’ I’m like, ‘I voted for none of this,’” Schulz stated.
The dialog moved on to Trump’s immigration coverage, the place Singh questioned the president’s promise of specializing in undocumented immigrants who dedicated legal offenses.
“I don’t even know if the criminals are getting despatched again. I do know there’s lots of people with inexperienced playing cards getting despatched again. There’s individuals who aren’t criminals getting despatched again,” Singh stated, emphasizing that “nothing has occurred.”
At one level, Schulz expressed frustration with Trump’s unfulfilled promise to launch information associated to convicted youngster sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein, stating “it’s insulting our intelligence.”
“Like, clearly the intelligence group is making an attempt to cowl it up. Clearly the Trump administration is making an attempt to cowl up,” Schulz claimed. “One thing modified as a result of they ran on this concept of exposing all of it.”
Some argued that Trump’s look final yr on Schulz’s podcast and others prefer it that draw giant audiences of younger males helped the president attain youthful male voters and win the election.
The comic has lately hosted extra left-leaning figures on the present, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who warned of not taking Trump’s guarantees severely.
“To me, like a lot of the stuff he stated he was going to do, he didn’t really do,” Buttigieg stated in April. “He didn’t do the massive infrastructure invoice he talked about. [The Biden administration] really did it. He didn’t even construct the wall.”
