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Johnson looks up at Emmer during a presser this month. (Finn Gomez/Getty) This special Saturday edition of PN is made possible by paid subscribers. Become one⬇️ Mike Johnson, the theoretical speaker of the House, announced last Thursday he’s canceling votes for the last two weeks of September. This leaves just four days of legislative business before the midterms.

This week’s episode of the PN Pod features Paul and me unpacking the RNC, including two extremely culty moments and Vance’s audition as MAGA’s heir apparent. We also talk about how all 2028 Republican hopefuls — including JD — lack a key characteristic, why there might be method behind the madness of Trump’s ongoing humiliation of Ken Paxton, and more.

Trump snaps at a reporter last night after Trumpapalooza. (Andrew Harnik/Getty) PN is supported by paid subscribers. Become one⬇️ When it comes to 9/11, Donald Trump has always had a problem with the truth. Now that he’s increasingly detached from reality and completely surrounded by sycophants, his lies have gotten downright bizarre. The absolute weirdest of these has to be Trump’s fantasy that he was literally pulled to safety by brave firefighters as he stood … Inside? Near? Under?

A scene from a gas station in North Carolina in April. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty) PN is supported by paid subscribers. Become one⬇️ “Bidenflation.” Throughout the 2024 campaign, Donald Trump, his supporters, and the national punditry invoked that term to indict President Biden’s economic policies.

Bartiromo during a broadcast in June. (Paul Morigi/Getty) PN is supported by paid subscribers. Become one⬇️ On Thursday, Fox News announced that longtime anchor Maria Bartiromo was leaving the network.

Hegseth at the Pentagon last week. (Win McNamee/Getty) PN is supported by paid subscribers. Become one⬇️ Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth suffered a significant defeat last week as one of his signature policy initiatives was quietly shelved. Details are sketchy, but for whatever reason, the Pentagon has pulled back on Hegseth’s effort to make the United States military the most testosterone-blasted, masculinity-maxxed fighting force in the world.

A relative of a political prisoner holds a placard reading, “Trump: You negotiate our oil with the criminals who destroyed Venezuela,” during a march in Caracas on September 1. (Juan Barreto/AFP via Getty) PN is supported by paid subscribers. Become one⬇️ Last week, gas prices shot up to a Labor Day weekend record of $4.15 a gallon. Diesel prices also broke records, reaching $5.85 — 55 percent higher than in February, when Trump started his illegal war of aggression with Iran.

Trump holds up one of his anti-vax social media posts during an Oval Office event last month. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty) This special Saturday edition of PN is made possible by paid subscribers. Become one⬇️ Back in the simpler days of 2022, Nina Jankowicz briefly became a household name to Fox News viewers due to her selection to head the newly formed DHS Disinformation Governance Board.

A scene from a March in Mpls last February. (Jerome Gilles/NurPhoto via Getty) PN is supported by paid subscribers. Become one⬇️ For communities crushed by President Trump’s brutal immigration crackdown, there isn’t a world where people simply get over it. During Operation Metro Surge, the federal government inflicted unprecedented violence on Minnesota, particularly on the state’s most vulnerable populations. There’s a temptation to try to forget what cannot be forgiven.

This week’s episode of the PN Pod features Paul and me discussing “Trumpapalooza” and why it’s likely to backfire on Republicans, Trump’s self-defeating trade war with Canada, and Paul’s growing concerns about the administration’s tampering with mail voting and what it could mean for the midterms. We close by getting into how Supreme Court reform is becoming table stakes for the 2028 Democratic primary.