Fox News Can't Decide Whether Democrats Are Too Hot or Too Good at Politics

The hosts of Pod Save America returned this week with a sprawling, irreverent look at the state of Trump-era politics, anchored by two Fox News freakouts that reveal more about the right's current anxiety than they do about the Democrats themselves. John Favreau and Tim Miller, back from vacation and reunited, run through Trump's strange White House renovation tour, the Scott Jennings meltdown over John Ossoff's Natalie Harp comments, and the growing Zohran Mamdani phenomenon—all while trying to figure out whether the right is losing its edge or just its mind.

Trump, Granite, and the Forever Home Problem

The episode opens with Trump giving reporters a tour of his White House renovations—the "million year plus" granite, the drone-proof roof with "spinny drones," the new topsoil that makes grass "very happy." The Wall Street Journal reports that over the same 60-day period, Iran was developing plans for what happens after the ceasefire expires, including pressuring regional countries to acknowledge Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz, building redundancies in command and control, and planning to destroy undersea cables.