{"id":15688,"date":"2026-04-09T18:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T01:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15688"},"modified":"2026-04-09T18:45:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T01:45:46","slug":"maga-buckles-bradcast-492026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15688","title":{"rendered":"MAGA Buckles: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 4\/9\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_TruthSocialBlowback-Trump_040926.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">On today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>: Finally, even MAGA is beginning to notice. Or, at least they are finally <i>admitting<\/i> they&#8217;ve noticed. [<i>Audio link to full show follows this summary.<\/i>]\n<p>Day after day, especially as his war on and\/or supposed ceasefire with <strong>Iran<\/strong> continues to be a global embarrassment, <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> keeps proving his critics were right all along. <\/p>\n<p>In many case, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/04\/08\/trump-maga-tucker-carlson-iran-war\">MAGA media elite<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/08\/us\/politics\/trump-truth-social-iran.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Z1A.fF0t.I2sCgMhNudRk&#038;smid=url-share\">his own Truth Social supporters<\/a> turning on him, it&#8217;s amusing and encouraging. In other cases, like those who, with the encouragement of Republican officials, bought into the Trump myth, it is very sad. Especially in states like deep &#8220;red&#8221; <b>West Virginia<\/b>, where energy prices are now skyrocketing amid his broken promises to revive dirty, deadly, expensive coal and his broken campaign vow, repeated dozens of times, to cut everyone&#8217;s gas and energy prices by 50% within his first year. (See Margie Mason&#8217;s great piece for AP <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/electricity-utility-bills-west-virginia-trump-coal-38ad648f99a42eb2c73d7affaddadbcb\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Trump is now failing, and very quickly, to paraphrase him. At record levels! Like nobody has ever seen before!<\/p>\n<p>In fact, a majority of Americans would now like to see him impeached an historic third time. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/trump-impeachment-2026\">New polling<\/a> appears to break the record for such a finding this early in a President&#8217;s term.<\/p>\n<p>But, before any of that can happen &#8212; if it ever does &#8212; there are still a whole bunch of folks likely to die in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/trump-warns-major-war-escalation-if-iran-peace-process-fails-2026-04-09\/\">absurdly ill-considered<\/a> war, and a whole bunch of Administration friends and insiders likely to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/polymarket-iran-trump-ceasefire-prediction-markets-350d9fe5ffefa74080ff5dd973aef48b\">profiteer off it<\/a> all on the so-called prediction markets.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Desi Doyen joins us today for <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15687\">our latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a>. Things don&#8217;t look any better there either&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman-IranWarCeasefireLatest-MAGAMediaTurns-TruthSocialTurns-EnergySkyrocketsWV_040926.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/256-the-bradcast-w-brad-friedm-30973643\/\">iHeart<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s BradCast: Finally, even MAGA is beginning to notice. Or, at least they are finally admitting they&#8217;ve noticed. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] Day after day, especially as his war on and\/or supposed ceasefire with Iran continues to be a global embarrassment, Donald Trump keeps proving his critics were right all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,716,1690,89,675,543,499,479,390,1691,548,178,134,428,477,808,1536,498,540,300,1967,34,105,45],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-15688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-agriculture","category-alex-jones","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-climate-change","category-coal","category-donald-trump","category-economy","category-electricity","category-extreme-weather","category-impeachment","category-iran","category-israel","category-kpfk","category-lebanon","category-marjorie-taylor-greene","category-natural-gas","category-oil","category-republicans","category-trump-media-group","category-tucker-carlson","category-virginia","category-west-virginia","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15688"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=15688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}