{"id":15703,"date":"2026-04-23T18:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15703"},"modified":"2026-04-24T17:25:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T00:25:27","slug":"so-much-losing-bradcast-4232026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15703","title":{"rendered":"So Much Losing: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 4\/23\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_TrumpOldManLoser_042326.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">When your brand is &#8220;WINNING!&#8221;, but you keep losing and can&#8217;t seem to win anything anymore, things fall apart quickly. As more and more evidence suggests on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradCast.BradBlog.com\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, that&#8217;s where our flailing and faltering President finds himself. Of course, once gain, we all have to pay the price for <i>his<\/i> failures. [<i>Audio link to full show follows this summary.<\/i>]\n<p>Among the evidence in support of that thesis on today&#8217;s program&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Donald Trump<\/b>&#8216;s war in <b>Iran<\/b> is a disaster. He is losing and clearly has no clue how to either win or simply get out of it. He is hoping to merely will it all away. It didn&#8217;t work with COVID, it isn&#8217;t working with his war. He may think that declaring an &#8220;indefinite&#8221; ceasefire ends his ill-considered war. But it doesn&#8217;t. A fifth of the world&#8217;s oil and gas supplies are still not coming out of the Gulf with Iran&#8217;s blockade, as the global economy falters, fuel is being rationed, gasoline prices remain high, inflation and unemployment is on the rise, and the global supply chain, once again (just like during his mismanagement of COVID), is beginning to buckle under the strain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And, because he doesn&#8217;t know what to do about any of it, this week he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/04\/22\/politics\/john-phelan-navy-secretary-leaving\">fired<\/a> his Navy Secretary in the middle of the largest naval standoff the U.S. has been involved in since WWII. Naturally, the guy he tapped to replace him is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/trumps-new-navy-secretary-previously-warned-witchcraft-had-taken-over-a-californian-city\/\">a loon<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In the bargain, Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/columnist\/2026\/04\/23\/trump-approval-rating-republicans-midterms\/89733442007\/\">polls are collapsing<\/a>, to levels as low or lower than the lowest, final days of his post-insurrection first term &#8212; into <b>George W. Bush<\/b> territory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump and his sycophantic worshipers, like FBI Director <b>Kash Patel<\/b> and wingnut activist <b>Laura Loomer<\/b>, are failing along with him. In this example, they are seeing defamation lawsuits they&#8217;d filed against media outlets, pundits and even satirists, laughed out of court. In recent days: Patel&#8217;s lawsuit against a former FBI official, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/04\/21\/kash-patel-fbi-defamation-lawsuit-figliuzzi-dismissed.html\">dismissed<\/a>. Loomer&#8217;s lawsuit against <b>Bill Maher<\/b> and <b>HBO<\/b>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/04\/22\/judge-tosses-laura-loomer-bill-maher-defamation-suit-00887992\">dismissed<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump isn&#8217;t doing much better himself on that front. Ridiculous defamation lawsuits seeking billions of dollars for some absurdly perceived slight don&#8217;t really work unless you have sued someone who needs something from you &#8212; while you corruptly run the federal government &#8212; who is willing to settle for millions in order to profit in the billions. Trump&#8217;s lawsuit against <b>Rupert Murdoch<\/b> and the <b><i>Wall Street Journal<\/i><\/b>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/04\/13\/trump-epstein-murdoch-wsj-lawsuit-dismissed.html\">dismissed<\/a>. Trump&#8217;s failing social media company&#8217;s lawsuit filed against <b><i>The Guardian<\/i><\/b>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/news\/trump-media-group-guardian-lawsuit-dismissed\">dismissed<\/a>, refiled, and finally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/13\/trump-media-guardian-lawsuit\">withdrawn<\/a> just days before a first court hearing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And, because it&#8217;s never Trump&#8217;s fault, after his money losing <b>Trump Media &#038; Technology, Inc.<\/b> &#8212; whose only product of note is his failing <b>Truth Social<\/b> outlet &#8212; saw another horrendous year, taking in just $3.7 million in revenue while <i>losing<\/i> $712 million, Trump finally, quietly <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-media-truth-social-nunes-ceo-don-jr-f528dc294683c7f132c063b4a21dd68e\">booted<\/a> its CEO, former Republican Congressman <b>Devin Nunes<\/b> this week. That&#8217;ll fix things. The public company, which trades as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/symbols\/NASDAQ-DJT\/?timeframe=ALL\">&#8220;DJT&#8221;<\/a> and once sold shares to MAGA chumps for nearly $100\/share. It has more than $6 billion in investor wealth since then, closing down again on Thursday by more than 3%, with shares tumbling to a pathetic $9.17.  So much losing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for another <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15702\">winning edition of <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a>, with bad news on the global economy amid Trump&#8217;s war; bad news on <b>climate change<\/b> and drought for the majority of the U.S.; but good news indeed for <b>renewable energy<\/b> which has now overtaken <b>coal<\/b> as the main generator of electricity globally&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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-LosingTheWar-PublicOpinion-DefamationSuits_042326.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>When your brand is &#8220;WINNING!&#8221;, but you keep losing and can&#8217;t seem to win anything anymore, things fall apart quickly. As more and more evidence suggests on today&#8217;s BradCast, that&#8217;s where our flailing and faltering President finds himself. Of course, once gain, we all have to pay the price for his failures. 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