All statements about Donald Trump

271 statements about Donald Trump in 77 videos, by upload date.

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2011

2011-05-02 · Osama Bin Laden is Dead — Hank cannot imagine Donald Trump making that phone call and is glad Barack Obama was in charge just then. — 00:02:46

2015

2015-08-11 (said on 2015-08-10, implied) · 454 Days: Understanding America's Ridiculous Political Campaigns — announcement: John's pledge: he will begin caring about the US presidential election 100 days before Indiana's May 3rd primary; if Donald Trump is still a candidate on January 23rd, 2016, he will think about Trump for the first time. — 00:03:03

2016

2016-01-19 · The Looking for Alaska Movie, Davos, and Hufflepuff Shade: It's Question Tuesday — announcement: John: Asked whom he will vote for, John says he is not paying attention to the so-called presidential election until 100 days before Indiana's primary, and will enjoy his last few days of not thinking about it. — 00:01:02
2016-03-22 · Understanding the Primaries: Delegates, Democracy, and America's Nonstop Political Party — John says that in Missouri's primaries last week (week of 14 March 2016) Trump beat Cruz statewide by about .19 percent and Clinton beat Sanders by a similar margin. — 00:00:21
2016-03-22 · Understanding the Primaries: Delegates, Democracy, and America's Nonstop Political Party — John says Trump beat Cruz very narrowly in Missouri but got 37 delegates to 15, while Kasich, with 10 percent of the vote, won none. — 00:02:00
2016-03-22 · Understanding the Primaries: Delegates, Democracy, and America's Nonstop Political Party — John says Missouri's Republican rules give the statewide winner 12 delegates if no one reaches 50 percent, plus five to the winner of each of eight congressional districts; Trump won the state and five districts, hence 37. — 00:02:27
2016-03-25 · Snapchat Question Time! — Hank recalls that on Dear Hank and John they joked there were only two multiverse futures in which Donald Trump became the Republican nominee, one requiring a meteor to kill all but 12 Americans. (joke) — 00:00:39
2016-03-29 · My New Book, Marriage Advice, and Hamilton: 50 Snapchat Questions Answered! — John: Asked his honest opinion of Donald Trump, John quotes Cyrus Ching: never wrestle with a pig; you get filthy, and the pig likes it. (playful) — 00:02:00
2016-04-19 · Literally Hitler — John says Hitler and the Nazis are now compared to everyone: on social media Clinton, Trump, Cruz and Sanders are each likened to Hitler. — 00:00:33
2016-04-19 · Literally Hitler — John says all the presidential candidates have name-called, but, not wanting a false equivalence, that Donald Trump does it by far the most. — 00:02:36
2016-04-19 · Literally Hitler — John lists some of Trump's insults of Ted Cruz that he can repeat on Vlogbrothers: liar, choker, disloyal, lowlife, crazy, dishonest, reckless, hypocrite, a soft, weak little baby. — 00:02:43
2016-04-19 · Literally Hitler — announcement: John says that next Tuesday (26 April 2016) he will look at the Republican candidates' tax plans. — 00:03:20
2016-04-22 · Clinton vs. Sanders: POLICY IS EXCITING! — announcement: Hank says John will give his analysis of Ted Cruz's and Donald Trump's tax plans on Tuesday. — 00:07:15
2016-04-26 · Understanding the Tax Plans of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz — John lists his sources: analyses of both Cruz's and Trump's plans from the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center and the right-leaning Center for Federal Tax Policy (Tax Foundation), a primer on Cruz's VAT or "business flat tax", the National Priorities Project on the federal budget, and Wikipedia on US federal income tax. — video description
2016-04-26 · Understanding the Tax Plans of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz — announcement: John says that today he will discuss the tax plans put forth by Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. — 00:00:04
2016-04-26 · Understanding the Tax Plans of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz — John says Trump would raise the standard deduction so couples earning $50,000 or less pay no federal income tax, and collapse the brackets into four, with a top rate of 25% over $432,000. — 00:05:20
2016-04-26 · Understanding the Tax Plans of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz — John says Trump's plan, like Cruz's, would eliminate gift and estate taxes and most deductions, but would cut corporate tax rates rather than replace them with a VAT. — 00:05:36
2016-04-26 · Understanding the Tax Plans of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz — John says Trump's plan would end carried interest, which lets hedge fund managers pay a lower rate, but with such low income tax rates almost all of them would still pay less tax. — 00:05:49
2016-04-26 · Understanding the Tax Plans of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz — John says Trump's repeated claim that his plan will 'cost me a fortune' is just not true: a $1 million earner would pay about $200,000, more than under Cruz but far less than now. — 00:06:08
2016-04-26 · Understanding the Tax Plans of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz — John says Trump's plan would cost more federal revenue than Cruz's, 10 to 12 trillion dollars over the next decade, about 25% of the total federal budget. — 00:06:23
2016-04-26 · Understanding the Tax Plans of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz — John says Trump claims his plan is revenue neutral, but the right-leaning Center for Federal Tax Policy published an op-ed saying it will not be revenue neutral under any circumstances. — 00:06:35
2016-04-26 · Understanding the Tax Plans of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz — John says the Tax Policy Center estimates that eliminating the US military altogether would cover only about half of the revenue gap from Trump's plan. — 00:06:45
2016-04-26 · Understanding the Tax Plans of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz — John says Trump's plan would probably lead to even bigger deficits than Cruz's. (hedged) — 00:07:13
2016-04-26 · Understanding the Tax Plans of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz — John says that, as with Cruz's plan, everyone would pay lower taxes under Trump's but the rich get most of the benefit, though less than under Cruz. — 00:07:16
2016-04-26 · Understanding the Tax Plans of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz — John says, speaking frankly, that neither candidate has offered a serious explanation of how they would preserve those programs. — 00:07:35
2016-04-26 · Understanding the Tax Plans of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz — John says cuts to services for the elderly, disabled and veterans are so politically unpopular that both candidates have promised to preserve those programs. — 00:07:35
2016-06-10 · Hank Roasts Himself Diss Track - Roast Yourself Challenge — Hank raps that most of his audience wants him to 'feel the Bern', but he is too old for revolution and just doesn't want Donald Trump. (playful) — 00:00:46
2016-07-19 · Pretty Bad Ways to Start a Conversation — John says nicknames from 'Canadian Cruz' and 'Crooked Hillary' to 'Lying Donald' and 'Barry Obama' undermine and demean people too vaguely to defend against. — 00:01:14
2016-08-12 · AMERICA, DAMMIT! - Thoughts from Glacier National Park — In the description Hank says he is sick of it, and particularly of Donald Trump leveraging fear into hate. — video description
2016-08-12 · AMERICA, DAMMIT! - Thoughts from Glacier National Park — Hank says Trump wants him afraid of so much that he has become most afraid of Trump himself; he has never seen anyone fan hatred like him and worries that hatred, once loose, cannot be put away again. — video description
2016-08-12 · AMERICA, DAMMIT! - Thoughts from Glacier National Park — Hank says with no signal you check the news back at the hotel and learn Donald Trump has again said something disgusting and inexcusable that somehow hasn't disqualified him from the presidency. — 00:01:33
2016-08-12 · AMERICA, DAMMIT! - Thoughts from Glacier National Park — Hank grants the country has problems worth discussing, but says he loves it and is proud to be American even facing the popularity of a despicable man. — 00:02:50
2016-10-11 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Tax Plans — John cites Lily Batchelder's paper, and a PolitiFact story on the same topic, as the source for Trump's plan raising taxes for 7.8 million households. — video description
2016-10-11 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Tax Plans — John says comparing Clinton's and Trump's tax plans first requires understanding the current US tax system, which is not uncomplicated. — 00:00:11
2016-10-11 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Tax Plans — John says Trump's debate claim that Clinton is raising everybody's taxes massively is simply not true for the vast majority of Americans. — 00:04:34
2016-10-11 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Tax Plans — John says Trump's new tax plan is quite different from the one released in June that he discussed in an earlier video; at the debate Trump promised big tax cuts for the middle class. (doubtful: June) — 00:05:13
2016-10-11 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Tax Plans — John says Trump's plan has three brackets for married couples: 12% up to $75,000, 25% up to $225,000, and 33% above. — 00:05:25
2016-10-11 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Tax Plans — John says Trump would cap deductions at $200,000 for married couples, make child care deductible, raise the standard deduction from $12,600 to $30,000, and abolish $4,050 personal exemptions. — 00:05:40
2016-10-11 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Tax Plans — John says under Trump's plan the Johnsons would pay $400 instead of $553, the Kennedys about $46,350 (about $20,000 less), the Roosevelts about $287,250: cuts concentrated on the wealthiest. — 00:06:18
2016-10-11 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Tax Plans — John says Trump would cut the corporate tax rate from 35% to 15%, seek to bring back offshore profits like Clinton, and close the carried interest loophole. — 00:06:47
2016-10-11 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Tax Plans — John says before macroeconomic effects Trump's plan would lower federal revenue by $4.4-7.2 trillion over ten years, depending on who does the math. — 00:06:58
2016-10-11 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Tax Plans — John says even the conservative-leaning Tax Foundation finds that after growth federal revenues fall $2.6-3.9 trillion under Trump's plan. — 00:07:30
2016-10-11 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Tax Plans — John says Trump proposes about $1 trillion in budget cuts but $500 billion more for the military; even rosy projections add about $2 trillion to the debt (10x Clinton), the Tax Policy Center $7.2 trillion (36x). — 00:07:40
2016-10-11 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Tax Plans — John says a US debt spiral is very unlikely whoever wins, but the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget projects Trump's plan raising debt to 105% of GDP in ten years, a very scary level. — 00:09:18
2016-10-11 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Tax Plans — John says serious, thoughtful Republican tax and budget plans exist, but cuts this large require cutting entitlements like Medicare or defense; serious Republican plans do one or both, Trump's does neither. — 00:09:33
2016-10-11 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Tax Plans — John summarises: Trump's plan cuts income taxes for most, with most benefits to the wealthiest and small rises for some middle-class families; Clinton's cuts them for middle-class families with children and raises them for the wealthiest. (hedged) — 00:09:51
2016-10-14 · Compassion, Weakness, and the 2016 Election — Hank says he is voting for Hillary Clinton, not only because he thinks Trump treats the world as a game to win at any cost and would raise the (still low) odds of apocalypse, but because she has done much good and he relates to her. (hedged) — video description
2016-10-18 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Health Care Reform Proposals — recommendation: John recommends the Commonwealth Fund's tool comparing side by side what Clinton and Trump propose for the health care system's problems. — video description
2016-10-18 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Health Care Reform Proposals — John says Trump would first repeal the ACA; Trump says he will ensure private insurers keep covering people with pre-existing conditions but has not said how. — 00:03:59
2016-10-18 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Health Care Reform Proposals — John says Trump would fund Medicaid through block grants, letting states run their own programs, which most analyses expect to involve many cuts over time. — 00:04:09
2016-10-18 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Health Care Reform Proposals — John says Trump would let insurers sell plans across state lines and make all premiums tax deductible; deductions, unlike credits, would mostly benefit high-income people. — 00:04:19
2016-10-18 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Health Care Reform Proposals — John quotes RAND's conclusion that Trump's proposals decrease the number of insured, raise out-of-pocket spending for individual-market consumers, and raise the federal deficit compared to the ACA. — 00:04:34
2016-10-18 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Health Care Reform Proposals — John reports RAND's estimate that about 19.7 million would lose insurance if the ACA were repealed, and about 20.3 million fewer Americans would be insured under Trump's plan overall. — 00:04:45
2016-10-18 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Health Care Reform Proposals — John reports RAND's estimate that under Trump's plan average annual out-of-pocket costs per person would rise from about $3200 to $5700, due to less generous deductions and more bare-bones plans. — 00:05:05
2016-10-18 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Health Care Reform Proposals — John reports RAND's estimate that, with ACA taxes and Medicare savings repealed, the deficit would go up by about 5.8 billion dollars under Trump's plan. — 00:05:38
2016-10-18 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Health Care Reform Proposals — John adds that all nonpartisan analyses he could find agreed Trump's plan would reduce the number insured, increase out-of-pocket costs and increase the deficit. — 00:05:55
2016-10-18 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Health Care Reform Proposals — John summarizes RAND: Trump's plan means significantly higher out-of-pocket costs, fewer insured and a modestly higher deficit; Clinton's insures more people at lower out-of-pocket cost but raises the deficit more. — 00:07:55
2016-10-18 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Health Care Reform Proposals — John says the deficits must be seen alongside the candidates' budget and tax proposals: overall, the deficit would be trillions of dollars more under Trump's proposals than Clinton's. — 00:08:07
2016-10-18 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Health Care Reform Proposals — John says the Trump campaign's claim that selling across state lines will increase competition is deeply contested, and even the rosiest projections show little spending decrease. — 00:08:26
2016-10-25 · Will the U.S. Presidential Election Be Rigged? — John says Smartmatic machines will be used in zero states in 2016. — 00:05:50
2016-10-25 · Will the U.S. Presidential Election Be Rigged? — John says the US presidential election will not be rigged, any more than the 2004 one was. — 00:05:58
2016-10-25 · Will the U.S. Presidential Election Be Rigged? — John says one major-party candidate loudly claims the election will be rigged, with widespread fraud, people voting ten times and undocumented immigrants voting, and that these are all simply lies. — 00:06:03
2016-10-25 · Will the U.S. Presidential Election Be Rigged? — John says he understands that fearmongering is part of US politics, but undermining the legitimacy of political institutions without cause is not. (hedged) — 00:06:31
2016-10-25 · Will the U.S. Presidential Election Be Rigged? — John says hearing such unfounded rhetoric from a presidential candidate is a new and disturbing development in American political discourse. — 00:06:38
2016-11-09 · My Post-Election Thoughts — John says more Americans appear to have voted for Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump, but Trump won most Electoral College votes and is president-elect. (hedged) — 00:00:05
2016-11-09 · My Post-Election Thoughts — John thinks the result is so hard partly because Trump attacked not what opponents believe but who they are (race, gender, religion); being called dangerous or less than by a president-elect is painful, scary and real. (hedged) — 00:00:25
2016-11-09 · My Post-Election Thoughts — John apologizes that we let political discourse become so hateful and echo chambers so sealed that each side finds the other's choice of candidate unfathomable. — 00:00:47
2016-11-09 · My Post-Election Thoughts — John says Nerdfighteria is also an echo chamber: just 4% of Nerdfighters who filled out this year's (2016) census said they would vote for Donald Trump. — 00:01:17
2016-11-11 · The Trouble with Wishful Thinking — Hannah Hart: Hannah says people tweet 'make a wish' at 11:11 and she can't be bothered to find out why, since it is the first Friday of President-Elect Trump's 'president-electionry'. (playful) — 00:00:07
2016-11-11 · The Trouble with Wishful Thinking — Hannah Hart: Hannah says some people voted for Donald Trump to be president, and moreover 46% of people didn't vote at all. — 00:00:27
2016-11-11 · The Trouble with Wishful Thinking — Hannah Hart: Hannah says it occurs to her that wishes are what got us here: wishing is what made 46% of the population not vote. (hedged) — 00:00:55
2016-11-11 · The Trouble with Wishful Thinking — ask: Hannah Hart: Hannah asks viewers, while it is still safe, to have uncomfortable dinner conversations with family members who hold opposing political beliefs. — 00:02:32
2016-11-11 · The Trouble with Wishful Thinking — ask: Hannah Hart: Hannah tells viewers to show such family members their Twitter feeds and the racism and violence already incited in 'Trump's America'. — 00:02:37
2016-11-11 · The Trouble with Wishful Thinking — ask: Hannah Hart: Hannah tells viewers to show friends who didn't vote this, and if they say they didn't vote for Trump, to answer that they didn't vote at all and are guilty by association. — 00:02:51
2016-11-11 · The Trouble with Wishful Thinking — Hannah Hart: Hannah cautions against wishful thinking: what we thought was enough isn't, so we can't cross our fingers for a more aligned Congress in two years; the conversations must start now. — 00:03:20

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2017

2017-01-20 · Behind the Scenes of My Life — In the description Hank says he is not hopeful or pleased about the new president but very worried, since the president is actively antagonistic toward many things he cares about. — video description
2017-01-31 · Understanding Trump's Executive Order on Immigration — John reports that on Friday afternoon President Trump signed an executive order reshaping US immigration law, causing confusion, even within government, about whom it affects. — 00:00:01
2017-01-31 · Understanding Trump's Executive Order on Immigration — John: The order is hard to parse even within government: on Sunday Trump's chief of staff said it does not apply to green card holders, then in the same interview that it does. — 00:01:16
2017-01-31 · Understanding Trump's Executive Order on Immigration — John: Trump is suspending all refugee admissions to the US from all countries for 120 days and all refugee resettlement from Syria indefinitely. — 00:03:24
2017-01-31 · Understanding Trump's Executive Order on Immigration — John: The order prioritizes claims based on religious persecution, which Trump says means prioritizing Christians, though the order doesn't say so and it may not be legal. — 00:03:54
2017-01-31 · Understanding Trump's Executive Order on Immigration — John: Trump says the order will make the US safer and has secret information John lacks, but these policies would not have prevented a single US terror fatality in the last 40 years. — 00:05:16
2017-02-03 · Are We Making Things Worse? — Hank wants to act for his beliefs without attacking those who disagree: not every Trump supporter is like Milo or Richard Spencer, 50% of Americans still approve of Trump's job, and treating them as a monolithic block of racists does more harm than good. — video description
2017-02-03 · Are We Making Things Worse? — Hank says that as part of Trump's refugee ban, federal funding to local organizations helping refugees find work, training and basics like toothpaste and tampons has been eliminated. — 00:02:26
2017-03-17 · Trump's Budget Explained — Hank says Trump's proposed budget leaves untouched programs like Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment and Social Security; these and other mandatory spending take up 73% of the US budget. — 00:00:06
2017-03-17 · Trump's Budget Explained — Hank says the Trump budget raises the military by 52 blocks, a 10% increase, enough to pay the entire current budgets of the EPA, CPB, Transportation and NASA. — 00:01:14
2017-03-17 · Trump's Budget Explained — Hank says one small block holds the entire NEA, NEH, Institute of Museum and Library Services and Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and under Trump's budget they would no longer exist. (playful) — 00:03:52
2017-03-17 · Trump's Budget Explained — Hank says that if Trump's tax cuts are taken seriously, even with these cuts it will be an extremely unbalanced budget. — 00:04:47
2017-03-21 · My Information Diet — John is not convinced twittering makes him better informed: he knows a lot about Trump's handshakes with foreign leaders but little about South Korea's ousted president, Brazil's corruption scandals or the Fed's monetary policy. (hedged) — 00:01:50
2017-04-28 · Can You Trust Mainstream Media? — Hank says the destruction of expertise and its results, from feeling ill-informed to electing a reality TV star president to denying the biggest crisis humanity has faced, is all our fault. — 00:03:01
2017-05-23 (said on 2017-05-14, implied) · Boxes, Butterflies, and Regular Aunts: Live from the Past, It's Question Tuesday — John: Demanding happier news, John refuses to answer questions on Russia and Trump and on AFC Wimbledon failing to score in their final six games. (joke) — 00:02:58
2017-06-02 · The Paris Accord: What is it? And What Does it All Mean? — Hank says that if Congress's majority party and the President deny human-caused climate change and keep investing in Edison-era energy systems, US progress will stall. — 00:04:48
2017-09-26 · Trump and Russia: An Introduction to What We Know (and What We Don't) — John: DHS and the ODNI have stated with high confidence that the Russian government sought to influence the US presidential election in Trump's favour over Clinton. — 00:00:50
2017-09-26 · Trump and Russia: An Introduction to What We Know (and What We Don't) — John: It is unsurprising because Putin's regime has a history of swaying foreign elections and Trump's positions were much more favourable to Putin than Clinton's. — 00:01:08
2017-09-26 · Trump and Russia: An Introduction to What We Know (and What We Don't) — John: As far back as 2007 Trump said Putin was doing a great job. — 00:01:16
2017-09-26 · Trump and Russia: An Introduction to What We Know (and What We Don't) — John: The Trump campaign cut proposed language supporting Ukraine in its conflict with Russia from the official Republican Party platform. — 00:01:20
2017-09-26 · Trump and Russia: An Introduction to What We Know (and What We Don't) — John: None of this means the election was illegitimate (it wasn't) or that Trump didn't win (he did). — 00:02:31
2017-09-26 · Trump and Russia: An Introduction to What We Know (and What We Don't) — John expects to hear 'thing of value' a lot in coming months, partly because the courts haven't clearly decided what it means. (hedged) — 00:03:02
2017-09-26 · Trump and Russia: An Introduction to What We Know (and What We Don't) — John: Many people in Trump's campaign had past relationships with Putin's regime. — 00:03:33
2017-09-26 · Trump and Russia: An Introduction to What We Know (and What We Don't) — John: Trump's one-time campaign manager Paul Manafort received around $30 million working for Oleg Deripaska, seen as one of Putin's closest business confidants. — 00:03:37
2017-09-26 · Trump and Russia: An Introduction to What We Know (and What We Don't) — John: Early Trump adviser Michael Caputo had worked on a Russian campaign to improve Putin's image among Americans. — 00:03:46
2017-09-26 · Trump and Russia: An Introduction to What We Know (and What We Don't) — John: Michael Flynn, Trump's first national security adviser, failed to disclose payments from an arm of the Russian government, which is illegal for former military officers. — 00:04:00
2017-09-26 · Trump and Russia: An Introduction to What We Know (and What We Don't) — John: The day after learning Flynn had lied about discussing sanctions, Trump asked FBI Director James Comey for loyalty. — 00:04:42
2017-09-26 · Trump and Russia: An Introduction to What We Know (and What We Don't) — John: The day after Flynn resigned, Trump asked Comey to drop the Flynn investigation altogether. — 00:04:50
2017-09-26 · Trump and Russia: An Introduction to What We Know (and What We Don't) — John: Trump asking Comey to drop the Flynn investigation was a significant breach of protocol. — 00:05:10
2017-09-26 · Trump and Russia: An Introduction to What We Know (and What We Don't) — John: Months later Trump fired Comey; the White House first cited his handling of the Clinton email case, then Trump acknowledged it was mostly about the Russia collusion investigation. — 00:05:20
2017-09-26 · Trump and Russia: An Introduction to What We Know (and What We Don't) — John: The most serious evidence of collusion so far is a meeting with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer attended by Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner. — 00:05:58
2017-09-26 · Trump and Russia: An Introduction to What We Know (and What We Don't) — John: Trump Jr. was emailed that the lawyer had incriminating information on Clinton as part of Russia's government support for Trump, and replied 'if it's what you say, I love it'. — 00:06:09
2017-09-26 · Trump and Russia: An Introduction to What We Know (and What We Don't) — John: Trump Jr. first said the meeting was about adoption, then a day later that it was about Clinton but the lawyer had no meaningful information. — 00:06:46
2017-09-26 · Trump and Russia: An Introduction to What We Know (and What We Don't) — John: Much of this is suspicious: Trump Jr., Kushner, Manafort and Flynn have all been caught lying about their contacts with the Russian government. — 00:07:17
2017-09-26 · Trump and Russia: An Introduction to What We Know (and What We Don't) — John: None of what is publicly known involves the president himself, except his asking Comey to drop the investigation. — 00:07:31
2017-09-26 · Trump and Russia: An Introduction to What We Know (and What We Don't) — John: Trump's behaviour toward Russia has been strange: as president he met Putin privately without a US interpreter, which is extremely unusual. — 00:07:38
2017-09-26 · Trump and Russia: An Introduction to What We Know (and What We Don't) — John: Trump has gone to great lengths not to criticise Putin and refused to publicly acknowledge or condemn the interference. — 00:07:48
2017-09-26 · Trump and Russia: An Introduction to What We Know (and What We Don't) — John: What we know: Russia sought to influence the election for Trump, at least one campaign member knew, and several people close to Trump hid or lied about interactions with Russian nationals. — 00:08:02

2018

2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Hank says that in Montana's last big election Donald Trump won 70% of the vote while a Democratic governor was reelected with 54%, which he wants explained. — 00:00:07
2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Hank says 20% of people who voted for Bullock also voted for Donald Trump; Bullock confirms. — 00:04:09
2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Steve Bullock: Bullock says his Trump-voting supporters, like his wife and children, don't agree with him on everything but believe he'd fight for them and listen to them. (hedged) — 00:04:27
2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Steve Bullock: Bullock says delegitimizing and tearing down the media, calling anything he disagrees with 'fake news', is not how representative democracy runs. — 00:05:15
2018-04-13 · Who is in Control? — Hank: More than 100 years later that future is now: personalized news has become information and entertainment feeds, from your cousin's baby to the President's unfiltered thoughts. — 00:00:21
2018-04-27 · Finding Respite in 2018 — Hank: The study found that bedtime cortisol rose after the election in young people who didn't vote for Donald Trump, more so in women and non-dominant groups such as LGBT people and people of color. — 00:00:54
2018-05-22 · The Liger Delusion — John: A conspiracy theory, which may prove true, holds that the affair was really between the woman and Donald Trump, and that Broidy covered it up and made the payment. — 00:02:02
2018-05-22 · The Liger Delusion — John: Looking for explanations, you find them: Broidy has profited tremendously from the Trump presidency and has a history of covering up affairs for his friends. — 00:02:13
2018-05-22 · The Liger Delusion — John stops himself: none of that means Broidy covered up an affair for Trump. — 00:02:21
2018-10-26 · The Rigged Election — The description says Trump exercises power through unconcern for truth, treating lying as flexing: he lies, the media fact-checks, he laughs; it is about winning, not reality. — video description
2018-10-26 · The Rigged Election — Hank writes that he has come to understand he lives in a world where, for his president, the truth isn't interesting: a firehose of lies and perplexed fact checkers. — video description
2018-10-26 · The Rigged Election — Hank writes that it gets scary when Trump's lies rot the system's foundation, as when he says an election he loses isn't legitimate. — video description
2018-10-26 · The Rigged Election — Hank: Trump lying about voter fraud is nothing new, Hank writes, yet it still shocks him: he thought 'If we lose, it's rigged' would mean something to supporters who were supposed to love America, the constitution and tradition. — video description
2018-10-26 · The Rigged Election — Hank: It seems to Hank that Trump's supporters love a strongman who looks powerful, even one breaking the fundamental institution of government by calling on followers not to accept an election he doesn't win. (hedged) — video description
2018-10-26 · The Rigged Election — Hank: President Trump doesn't talk like that: before the 2016 election he repeatedly said Democratic Party plots would deprive him of victory. — 00:01:23
2018-10-26 · The Rigged Election — Hank: Even after winning, Trump said he lost the popular vote only because millions of undocumented immigrants voted; Hank calls it lies told because they sounded good. (doubtful: millions) — 00:01:31
2018-10-26 · The Rigged Election — Hank: Trump talks like a political pundit, which is not just style: with the power of the presidency behind you, some things shouldn't be said because they attack the country's foundations. — 00:01:45
2018-10-26 · The Rigged Election — Hank: Claiming widespread voter fraud funded by your opponents, without even trying to prove it, weakens democracy; Trump has done this and continues to. — 00:01:59
2018-10-26 · The Rigged Election — Hank says Trump lied about undocumented immigrants voting, Pennsylvanians voting multiple times and Massachusetts voters bussed to New Hampshire, and said in the campaign the only way to lose was cheating. — 00:02:16

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2019

2019-01-18 · Should You Burn Dirty Fuel? — Hank notes that John, off Twitter, probably doesn't know the President of the United States invited a football team to the White House to eat McDonald's. (playful) — 00:00:00
2019-02-05 · Deepfake: A Brief History of Unreliable Images — John says deepfake technology has been used to make Donald Trump, Barack Obama and many others say things they haven't actually said. — 00:00:29
2019-09-06 · Trump is Abnormal, It's His Superpower — Hank says that a couple of days ago President Trump shared an earlier map of Hurricane Dorian's projected path. — 00:00:00
2019-09-06 · Trump is Abnormal, It's His Superpower — The description says the channel has rarely discussed Trump, perhaps as a respite, and Hank has no idea whether attention helps or hurts, but understanding it matters, hence this video. — video description
2019-09-06 · Trump is Abnormal, It's His Superpower — Hank says the president had said Alabama was in Dorian's crosshairs, which on its own would be a totally normal verbal flub. — 00:00:21
2019-09-06 · Trump is Abnormal, It's His Superpower — Hank says someone, probably Trump, drew a Sharpie line on the map to include a slice of Alabama. (hedged) — 00:00:21
2019-09-06 · Trump is Abnormal, It's His Superpower — Hank says it became a front-page story, 'Sharpie gate' trended on Twitter, and people suggested Trump be prosecuted for sharing false weather data. — 00:00:21
2019-09-06 · Trump is Abnormal, It's His Superpower — Hank says the story was mostly used as a window into the president's mind, which is always guessing. — 00:01:20
2019-09-06 · Trump is Abnormal, It's His Superpower — Hank says Trump is not bad at everything: he really gets attention, prefers spectacle to governing, and produces fresh spectacle two or three times a week; it is a feature, not a bug. — 00:01:20
2019-09-06 · Trump is Abnormal, It's His Superpower — Hank adds this does not mean the spectacle is good for Trump personally or for his reelection chances. — 00:01:20
2019-09-06 · Trump is Abnormal, It's His Superpower — Hank says some people find the theatrics exciting: a line on a map makes everyone explode, fitting a narrative of the press and liberals being ultra-critical of Trump. — 00:02:04
2019-09-06 · Trump is Abnormal, It's His Superpower — Hank says that by being abnormal Trump is always in the spotlight, and so gets to craft a narrative like the producer of a reality TV show. — 00:02:04
2019-09-06 · Trump is Abnormal, It's His Superpower — Hank says the only story Trump wants to tell with this power is about himself: the ultimate and only savior, owed loyalty, always right even when clearly mistaken. — 00:02:43
2019-09-06 · Trump is Abnormal, It's His Superpower — Hank says we are exhausted not only by a fresh spectacle every two days but because it is always about the same thing: pompous, selfish, egotistical and smug. — 00:03:13
2019-09-06 · Trump is Abnormal, It's His Superpower — Hank says Trump has a tremendous skill for crafting narrative but uses it only for himself, not a shared vision, which is exhausting because of how dangerous it is. — 00:03:13
2019-12-27 · Why I'm Worried about 2020 — Hank says the US just impeached its president over his lack of respect for the process, and he is worried about that. — 00:01:14

2020

2020-06-02 · --- — In a comment John says he still doesn't think they should talk like Trump, but he was '1,000% wrong' about the best way to counter Trump's rhetoric. — creator comment
2020-07-31 · Your Brain Gets Smart, but Your Head Gets Dumb — Hank says the Trump administration is hurting universities: making it harder for international students to stay and having the Treasury investigate revoking nonprofit universities' tax-exempt status. — 00:00:42
2020-07-31 · Your Brain Gets Smart, but Your Head Gets Dumb — Hank says higher education is the victim of three things: decades of hubris raising prices to compete, a pandemic that will decrease education's value, and an administration that doesn't care. — 00:02:23
2020-08-25 · Somebody once told me… — John: After Noah's claim that Trump will be re-elected, John says many social media algorithms value engagement over accuracy, so engaging predictions beat well-informed ones; sports talk radio shows it offline too. — 00:01:27
2020-08-25 · Somebody once told me… — John says the TikTok's most popular comments are not about it being fun or silly but about chip implants as a sign of the apocalypse, or about Donald Trump. — 00:02:26
2020-08-25 · Somebody once told me… — John says that even knowing the video is fake, Noah's predictions will sit in his mindscape when he thinks of chip implants, Mars or Trump, so Noah is real whether he exists or not. — 00:03:24
2020-08-28 · Break the Mold — Hank says TikTok is in turmoil: its CEO just quit, and Microsoft and Walmart are teaming up to buy its US operations because otherwise the president might ban it. — 00:01:06
2020-10-02 (said on 2020-10-01, implied) · I ain't she was with well and I so and it's and but so and I'll and — The description says Hank doesn't want Donald Trump to suffer, from illness or from his terror of losing power, his mistaking cruelty for toughness, or his belief that illness is a character flaw. — video description
2020-10-02 (said on 2020-10-01, implied) · I ain't she was with well and I so and it's and but so and I'll and — The description says Trump's suffering has caused suffering for millions, and not wanting him ill does not change anyone's fury and sadness at that. — video description
2020-10-02 (said on 2020-10-01, implied) · I ain't she was with well and I so and it's and but so and I'll and — The description says Hank doesn't know what Trump's diagnosis means; he is sick of this year's (2020) uncertainty but shouldn't pretend to know things he doesn't. (unsure) — video description
2020-10-12 · What Matters — The description says Hank began this video thinking about Donald Trump: how a hollow perception of strength, bullying and gathering power could be so integral to someone's self-worth; it makes sense now but is no less sad. — video description
2020-10-13 (said on 2020-10-05, implied) · Me from the Past: A Pizzamas Miracle — John notes the main news on the morning he films: the US President has been hospitalized for COVID, and many people close to him caught it after indoor maskless gatherings. — 00:01:56
2020-10-13 (said on 2020-10-05, implied) · Me from the Past: A Pizzamas Miracle — John suspects that news, very big to him, will not feel big to viewers eight days later because news cycles are moving much faster. (hedged) — 00:01:56
2020-10-14 · John Predicts the Future! — Hank: Because of COVID a virtual town hall debate was planned; Donald Trump dropped out, Joe Biden decided to do the town hall alone, then Trump scheduled a different town hall. — 00:01:28
2020-10-14 · John Predicts the Future! — Hank: Asking why Trump's town hall was at the exact same time, Hank jokes that maybe his favorite debate format is talking over his opponent the whole time. (joke, hedged) — 00:01:57
2020-10-14 · John Predicts the Future! — Hank says John was right: the President's COVID hospitalization is somehow no longer a big deal in our minds. — 00:01:57
2020-10-23 · 10 Reasons to Vote RIGHT NOW — Hank says that would not have happened if everyone who thought Trump would win anyway had skipped the polls. — 00:01:27
2020-10-23 · 10 Reasons to Vote RIGHT NOW — Hank: Reason nine: this big election will and should be read as a judgment on the last four years, internationally and in how we treat each other; we vote for a story, not just people. — 00:02:26
2020-10-27 · The time I met Joe Biden — John finds Biden's plans for tackling the COVID pandemic far more convincing than Trump's. — 00:01:56
2020-10-27 · The time I met Joe Biden — John calls Biden's climate change proposals serious and Trump's literally non-existent. — 00:01:56
2020-10-27 · The time I met Joe Biden — John says the Trump administration has no comprehensive responses because its idea of governance is populism, not policy: a clear us and them, with only a Trump vote stopping them. — 00:02:26
2020-10-30 · Four Years Ago — Hank: His son was born in the days before the 2016 election, which Hank was very worried about, so many searches are about Donald Trump. — 00:01:27
2020-10-30 · Four Years Ago — Hank: Like Orin's head size, the laptop story had little data: the story was really our anxiety, and worry about the worry was legitimate, since it could lead people to faulty judgments lived with for years. — 00:01:56
2020-10-30 · Four Years Ago — Hank doesn't want to have been thinking about Trump that day, but was, and doesn't know whether he should have been. (unsure) — 00:02:36
2020-11-06 (said on 2020-11-05, implied) · Just Some Election Thoughts… — Hank expected the country either to roundly denounce Trumpism or to accept it as the right way, two worlds very different from each other, and has realised the outcome is neither. — 00:00:29
2020-11-06 (said on 2020-11-05, implied) · Just Some Election Thoughts… — Hank thinks that if Biden is ultimately elected, many people will see it as a failure of Trumpism. (hedged) — 00:00:58
2020-11-06 (said on 2020-11-05, implied) · Just Some Election Thoughts… — Hank says the result is close enough that Trump can falsely claim the election was stolen from him, and many of his supporters will completely lose faith in the American system. — 00:00:58
2020-11-06 (said on 2020-11-05, implied) · Just Some Election Thoughts… — Hank: On the evening of November 3, 2020, as Florida turned red, it made sense to Hank for the first time that Trump is president; for four years it had seemed surreal to him. — 00:01:27
2020-11-06 (said on 2020-11-05, implied) · Just Some Election Thoughts… — Hank says the US has a right-wing populist president because many believe people who are not 'real Americans' make their lives worse, a label drawn culturally, racially, by politicized oversimplification or by loyalty to Trump. — 00:02:01
2020-11-20 · Would I Take a COVID Vaccine? — Hank: Politicians don't develop vaccines, and the rules for testing vaccine safety did not change at all in the last year: scientists deliberately changed nothing. — 00:01:30

2021

2021-01-15 · Influencers and Insurrectionists — The description says Facebook, Fox News and Trump, blamed separately for radicalization, increasingly feel like the same thing: each informs the others in a loop, Trump being the essence of a conservative radio host. — video description
2021-03-05 · How Much Hope is OK? — Hank calls it a relief that a mean, petulant, victimhood-based presidency was being forgotten quickly, maybe a little too quickly. — 00:00:00
2021-03-26 · Why I'm Worried about 2021 — Hank: We are exiting four years of a president whose favorite pastime was fanning the flames of anger and frustration with each other. — 00:02:55

2022

2022-08-12 · The Biggest Climate Bill of Your Life - But What does it DO!? — Hank: Joe Manchin forced in oil and gas leases in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico that Trump authorized and Biden paused; Hank calls it weird, frustrating and outside normal process. — 00:15:53
2022-10-28 · I'm Changing the Way I Think About Politics — Hank says Trump won Montana by 16% in 2020 and 20% in 2016, yet in 2016 Montana also elected a Democratic governor, and it has a Democratic senator, Jon Tester. — 00:01:06

2023

2023-11-03 · We Need to talk about Sarapocial Relationships — The description says those best at sarapocial relationships are often people Hank dislikes, like Trump and Musk; being good at something does not mean being good. — video description
2023-11-03 · We Need to talk about Sarapocial Relationships — Hank says the share of nerdfighters who voted for Donald Trump is much lower than in the general population. — 00:03:28
2023-11-03 · We Need to talk about Sarapocial Relationships — Hank says these traits arose naturally: the brothers did not set out to attract non-binary people or exclude Trump voters. — 00:03:28

2024

2024-01-05 · I'm Scared of 2024...So Here's 3 Optimistic Thoughts — Hank is certain Donald Trump will be on the ballot in November, which puts him way too close to being president again, something absolutely possible. — 00:01:03
2024-07-05 · Should I Run for President?? — In the description Hank finds it important that a 'generic Democrat' polls better against Trump than any actual Democrat. — video description
2024-07-05 · Should I Run for President?? — In a comment Hank says Trump cannot do everything he says he will; treating his threats as real would give him power over us. — creator comment
2024-07-05 · Should I Run for President?? — Hank points to Donald Trump as a sign that outsiders aren't effective: his was the most dysfunctional administration in living memory. — 00:02:59
2024-07-05 · Should I Run for President?? — Hank says one of Trump's best-known accomplishments, appointing more Supreme Court justices in four years than Obama did in eight, was something he could not have avoided. — 00:02:59
2024-07-05 · Should I Run for President?? — Hank says Trump's other signature act is refusing to accept the results of every election he lost, helping destroy many Americans' faith in America. — 00:02:59
2024-07-05 · Should I Run for President?? — Hank says the only major non-COVID legislation Trump's administration passed was one forgettable tax cut, though it had both houses of Congress for its first two years. — 00:03:28
2024-07-19 · The Assassination Attempt and the Comfort of Certainty — Hank says he gets stuck on the internet after major events like the attempted assassination of Donald Trump; when Katherine asked why, he couldn't explain. — 00:00:00
2024-07-19 · The Assassination Attempt and the Comfort of Certainty — Hank says that on Sunday everybody, including him in a text to John, said Trump would now definitely win, but the attempt does not seem to have changed polling much. (hedged) — 00:01:49
2024-07-19 · The Assassination Attempt and the Comfort of Certainty — Hank says it was later reported that Crooks once told a classmate he was stupid for supporting Trump. — 00:04:09
2024-07-19 · The Assassination Attempt and the Comfort of Certainty — Hank says a conservative might claim Crooks registered Republican only to vote against Trump in the primary; maybe, but nobody saying it knows, and loving guns is not generally liberal. — 00:04:22
2024-07-19 · The Assassination Attempt and the Comfort of Certainty — Hank's own reading: Crooks does not seem to have hated Trump in particular but to have hated everything. (hedged) — 00:05:40
2024-07-19 · The Assassination Attempt and the Comfort of Certainty — Hank says Crooks googled where Joe Biden and Donald Trump would be, and also Merrick Garland, Christopher Wray and an unnamed member of the British royal family. — 00:05:57
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse says that although Trump may win Montana by 10 to 20 points, Obama lost the state by only about three and a half to four points. — 00:25:15
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Hank says candidates used to be judged on policy plans; now vibes matter, with a party led by a man who has never accepted losing an election. — 00:37:51
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Hank says Trump appears to be preparing everyone for him not accepting the result if he loses this election too. (hedged) — 00:38:14
2024-11-08 · These Maps are Lying (if you let them) — In a channel comment Hank clarifies that Trump got way more votes than in 2020 and Harris way fewer than Biden: the swing was decisive and national. — creator comment
2024-11-08 · These Maps are Lying (if you let them) — Hank says maps that colour land make it seem the whole country votes Trump, but land does not vote. — 00:02:13
2024-11-08 · These Maps are Lying (if you let them) — Hank says his brain reads the swing map as more people voting Trump, but Harris may have got fewer votes than Biden, or both changed; it shows only margin change, no absolute numbers. — 00:03:33
2024-11-08 · These Maps are Lying (if you let them) — Hank thinks over the next four years people will need energy to push back against the weirdest and wildest things the Trump administration will want to do. — 00:05:01
2024-11-22 · Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment — Hank says Trump is a product of a post-media-revolution rise in populism, with grievances, attacks on institutions and a new unregulated medium, without being the same as Coughlin or Hitler. — 00:06:11
2024-11-22 · Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment — Hank says Luther, Father Coughlin, Donald Trump and other anti-establishment populists who rose after media revolutions share one trait: recklessness. — 00:12:18
2024-11-22 · Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment — Hank says the shift to authoritarians is an internet phenomenon, not a post-COVID one: you cannot imagine Donald Trump without Twitter. — 00:15:41
2024-12-20 · Fine, I'll Talk About the Drones… — Hank reports internet theories that the drones are aliens, a deep state plot against Donald Trump, or a distraction from healthcare frustration and the murder of Brian Thompson. — 00:01:27

2025

2025-02-07 · What Trump's Doing — Hank says a country cannot run if everything is burned down every four years, but Trump, Elon Musk or whoever seem to want to test the country's limits, and are doing so. — 00:01:32
2025-02-07 · What Trump's Doing — Hank says a recent White House press release referred to Donald Trump signing an executive order into law. — 00:02:05
2025-02-07 · What Trump's Doing — recommendation: Hank recommends Ezra Klein's recent essay on Trump's first weeks back in office, also a good YouTube video, and links it in the description. — 00:02:27
2025-02-07 · What Trump's Doing — Ezra Klein (quoted): Hank cites the line from Ezra Klein's essay he has been thinking about all week: Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. — 00:02:34
2025-02-07 · What Trump's Doing — Hank says the essay shows Trump is legislatively weak: the narrowest House majority since there have been 50 states, a narrow margin in Congress, and the highest disapproval of any incoming president since polling began. — 00:02:42
2025-02-07 · What Trump's Doing — Hank says perhaps, instead of creating durable change, Trump is governing largely through executive orders and other untested, probably illegal, unilateral actions. (hedged) — 00:02:55
2025-02-07 · What Trump's Doing — Hank voices the first, Trump-sympathetic view: the US is so corrupt and broken that the Constitution must be set aside for a while, letting the world's richest man into the Treasury to stop payments at his whim. (satire) — 00:03:09
2025-02-07 · What Trump's Doing — Hank: Continuing that view, Hank voices removing security professionals for obeying the law and letting the president take the power of the purse from Congress, because he alone can fix this. (satire) — 00:03:25
2025-02-07 · What Trump's Doing — Hank's second reading: perhaps a flood-the-zone tactic, keeping everyone distracted and trying everything fast to occupy the press, courts and public and see what sticks. (hedged) — 00:03:43
2025-02-07 · What Trump's Doing — Hank's third reading: perhaps Trump wants change but knows legislation with narrow House and Senate majorities would likely fail, and he hates the idea of failing. (hedged) — 00:03:54
2025-02-07 · What Trump's Doing — Hank says lots of Trump's executive orders have already been nothing but brief news stories before being blocked as obviously unconstitutional. — 00:04:09
2025-02-07 · What Trump's Doing — Hank says the Constitution is more powerful than Elon Musk or Donald Trump not just through legacy or law but because it is a good document that we collectively believe in. — 00:04:36
2025-02-07 · What Trump's Doing — Hank hopes Americans will say not merely that courts blocked Trump, but that his action was unconstitutional, and that they like no president as much as they like America. (hedged) — 00:05:21
2025-02-07 · What Trump's Doing — Hank says Trump fans may call the lawsuits the deep state fighting back, but they are people saying laws exist not only to restrict but to uphold the structures that have upheld the nation for 250 years. — 00:05:45
2025-02-28 · We Will Eradicate Measles — Hank's script predicts his representatives will eventually stand up to Donald Trump taking away their power, asking whether they will be among the first, as he hopes. — 00:07:56
2025-03-07 · How Social Security Fraud Actually Works — Hank says President Donald Trump definitely knew this when he raised it in the State of the Union this week (week of 3 March 2025). — 00:05:04
2025-03-07 · How Social Security Fraud Actually Works — Hank asks why a president would spend so much of his State of the Union on centenarians in the database when he knows only about 90,000 actually get benefits. — 00:05:04
2025-03-07 · How Social Security Fraud Actually Works — Hank says what he really dislikes is the most powerful and the richest man in the world teaming up to intentionally mislead America about the scale of Social Security fraud, which shows a really significant lack of respect for the country and its people. — 00:07:20
2025-04-04 · Morality — The description says a president openly unfaithful to every wife is seen by many as a moral actor because he promises to control people in ways that feel morally imperative; Hank dislikes it. — video description
2025-04-08 · DOGE Is Not Cutting Government Spending — John says one of the broadest current misconceptions about the US government is that the Trump administration is shrinking the federal government through DOGE. — 00:00:00
2025-04-08 · DOGE Is Not Cutting Government Spending — John says that in each of the Trump administration's first three months, despite mass federal layoffs and cuts to foreign aid and science research, federal spending exceeded 2024 and 2023, by a growing margin. — 00:00:00
2025-04-11 (said on 2025-04-10, implied) · How Actually Crazy is This Mess? — Hank says Trump-era news is too much to keep track of, so he sorts the weird parts of the Liberation Day tariff story into a YouTube tier list by level of crazy. — 00:00:00
2025-04-11 (said on 2025-04-10, implied) · How Actually Crazy is This Mess? — Hank says Trump tore up the USMCA, which replaced NAFTA and was signed in his own first term, to put new tariffs on Canada and Mexico. — 00:07:02
2025-04-11 (said on 2025-04-10, implied) · How Actually Crazy is This Mess? — Hank says Trump's adviser Peter Navarro is a big advocate of tariffs. — 00:07:02
2025-04-11 (said on 2025-04-10, implied) · How Actually Crazy is This Mess? — Hank says cost of living got Trump elected, and a giant tax on many goods will raise it. — 00:08:35
2025-04-11 (said on 2025-04-10, implied) · How Actually Crazy is This Mess? — Hank says Trump's reasons for the tariffs contradict each other: permanent revenue for tax cuts, a negotiating tool that must be lifted, and bringing manufacturing back. — 00:09:04
2025-04-11 (said on 2025-04-10, implied) · How Actually Crazy is This Mess? — Hank says Trump paused the tariffs nine days after imposing them, while the trade war with China continues; some countries seem to have offered concessions, others did not. — 00:10:02
2025-04-11 (said on 2025-04-10, implied) · How Actually Crazy is This Mess? — Hank says Trump treats trade deficits as being stolen from and sees everything as winning or losing, with no mutual benefit. — 00:12:36
2025-04-11 (said on 2025-04-10, implied) · How Actually Crazy is This Mess? — Hank says that just before pausing the tariffs Trump posted on Truth Social that this is a great time to buy, signing the post. — 00:13:34
2025-04-11 (said on 2025-04-10, implied) · How Actually Crazy is This Mess? — Hank says posting that while knowing he would move the market feels like encouraging theft: S-tier crazy. — 00:14:22
2025-04-11 (said on 2025-04-10, implied) · How Actually Crazy is This Mess? — Hank's only explanation is that Trump values loyalty to himself above loyalty to the country, the Constitution or the rule of law. (speculative) — 00:14:22
2025-04-11 (said on 2025-04-10, implied) · How Actually Crazy is This Mess? — Hank cites a headline that Trump will consider exempting some companies from US tariffs. — 00:15:31
2025-04-11 (said on 2025-04-10, implied) · How Actually Crazy is This Mess? — Hank sees a logic: Trump destroyed much value but converted a portion into power for himself, using tariffs to strong-arm companies. — 00:16:43
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Adam Schiff: Schiff says the check broke down because the president punishes party members who step out of line, using social media to rally online supporters and primary challenges, cowing them. — 00:05:18
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Adam Schiff: Schiff is confident people will one day ask how that man ever became president; the only questions are how fast and how much damage along the way. — 00:10:21
2025-06-10 · 90,000,000 Lives for $20 — John says the Trump administration's latest budget proposal would cut US funding for the Global Fund by 50% and change how that funding works. — 00:01:56
2025-06-13 · Moving to Hope from Hopelessness (3 ways) — Hank: Paraphrasing his hankschannel video, Hank says the Trump team widens rifts and capitalizes on chaos: infringing rights faster than courts can act makes people try to stop them, creating conflict. — 00:00:29
2025-06-13 · Moving to Hope from Hopelessness (3 ways) — Hank felt hopeless, frustrated and angry, as if nothing could stop the inevitable: Trump's insistence that process does not matter, against Americans' insistence that it does, would create conflict and deliver him more power. — 00:00:29
2025-06-13 · Moving to Hope from Hopelessness (3 ways) — Hank says reacting to the news made him lose sight of what he cares about: his frustration was less worry for people than anger that a guy he dislikes runs a strategy likely to win him more power. — 00:04:23
2025-06-13 · Moving to Hope from Hopelessness (3 ways) — Hank says the man got powerful not in spite of being rude, crass, manipulative, deceitful, indifferent to truth and narcissistic, leader of a cult of himself, but because of it. — 00:04:52
2025-08-15 · What Trump is Doing to Universities — Hank says President Trump's attacks on universities are, to his eye, less intense than those cases or than they could be, but reflect the same broader pattern. — 00:00:24
2025-08-15 · What Trump is Doing to Universities — Hank says universities' funding is threatened if they don't align themselves with President Trump's ideology. — 00:00:36
2025-08-15 · What Trump is Doing to Universities — Hank says the Trump administration is trying to cap the overhead rate at 15%. — 00:02:07
2025-08-15 · What Trump is Doing to Universities — Hank says Trump's approach shows this: quiet, boring measures soften all universities, while loud, splashy attacks target large, prestigious coastal ones. — 00:09:48
2025-11-14 · The End of The Penny (and of Congress??) — Hank says the penny is still legal and US law still requires the necessary amount to be made, but the Treasury under Trump has decided the necessary number is zero. — 00:00:07
2025-11-14 · The End of The Penny (and of Congress??) — Hank says Trump apparently did not need Congress: it comes down to two readings of a law requiring the Treasury to mint the coins necessary to meet the country's needs. — 00:01:25
2025-11-14 · The End of The Penny (and of Congress??) — Hank says Trump's Treasury declared the necessary amount zero not because Congress repealed it, the mint couldn't make them, or demand vanished, since people still want them from banks, but because the president decided. — 00:01:55
2025-11-14 · The End of The Penny (and of Congress??) — Hank says Trump also has higher priorities, but by his legal definition dropping the penny is so easy that he just did it, and he won't catch flak for it. — 00:02:24
2025-11-14 · The End of The Penny (and of Congress??) — Hank says Trump has done more controversial and legally questionable things: the president doesn't get to decide tariffs, but he found a flimsy loophole and uses it. — 00:02:53
2025-11-14 · The End of The Penny (and of Congress??) — Hank says Trump repeatedly tests the outer boundary of executive power where statutes are vague or Congress paralyzed, recently fighting to keep people from food stamps even after a court ordered him to stop. — 00:02:53
2025-11-14 · The End of The Penny (and of Congress??) — Hank says Trump acts wherever a statute leaves wiggle room and waits for the courts; by the time legality is decided, the thing is done regardless. — 00:04:21
2025-11-25 · Poverty Is Expensive — John says it is impossible for Henry and Isatu to visit him in the US because the Trump administration has imposed a total travel ban on people from Sierra Leone. (doubtful: total) — 00:02:26
2025-12-19 · My Big 2026 Prediction is...Not Fun — Hank says Trump has built a very weird coalition, presenting himself as a populist while being backed by the ultimate elites. — 00:01:57
2025-12-19 · My Big 2026 Prediction is...Not Fun — Hank describes the basic MAGA story: a cultural elite in charge, out of touch with real Americans, wants to take America where real Americans do not want it to go. — 00:01:57
2025-12-19 · My Big 2026 Prediction is...Not Fun — Hank says Trump hires from both of his worlds: grievance-based attention farmers (RFK Jr., Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, Pete Hegseth) and billionaires (Linda McMahon, David Sacks, Elon Musk, Scott Bessent, Howard Lutnick). — 00:02:27
2025-12-19 · My Big 2026 Prediction is...Not Fun — Hank says the coalition is powerful and works: Trump is the linchpin, admitting he is greedy and mean but claiming to be so for the average guy, controlling his greedy friends for him. — 00:02:56
2025-12-19 · My Big 2026 Prediction is...Not Fun — Hank predicts that AI, a big new force one side loves and the other hates, has a good chance of doing a lot of damage to Trump's coalition. (hedged) — 00:03:25
2025-12-19 · My Big 2026 Prediction is...Not Fun — Hank says that if the bubble pops the government should probably intervene, and the oligarchy side of Trump's coalition will want him to stop a crash. (hedged) — 00:04:23
2025-12-19 · My Big 2026 Prediction is...Not Fun — Hank says Trump's populism is not labor- or even class-centric but partisan- and status-centric: many people feel disrespected and have picked their guy. — 00:05:51

2026

2026-02-03 · Does the truth still matter? — John says the video won't reach a representative sample of America: a recent Nerdfighteria Census found more community members voted for Jill Stein than for Donald Trump. — 00:00:29
2026-10-30 · The Last Normal Year — Hank recalls Pizzagate, and Donald Trump being elected president just days after Hank's son was born, which he found weird. — 00:01:30

Also named in other years (nothing said): The Greek Debt Crisis Explained in Four Minutes (2010-04-30)