Trump’s Wild Weekend: If This Happened on a Plane, They’d Tape Him to the Chair
A passenger aboard a flight from Tucson reportedly became so disruptive—using racial and homophobic slurs and behaving aggressively—that he ultimately had to be restrained. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump spent part of the holiday weekend posting a barrage of unusual material on Truth Social, including maps depicting Canada, Mexico and other territory under the American flag and repeated posts promoting the idea of renaming New Mexico “New America.”
On today’s The Karel Cast, Karel asks the provocative question: If behavior this erratic would get someone restrained on an airplane, what happens when it comes from the president of the United States?
The episode examines Trump’s social-media posts and the constitutional reality behind them—including the fact that a president cannot simply rename a state. Changing New Mexico’s name would require changing the state’s constitution, a process involving New Mexico voters.
Then it’s back to Southern California, where Hurricane Marie remained hundreds of miles offshore but still brought rain, dangerous surf and coastal flooding concerns over the holiday weekend. Long Beach’s Peninsula was hit by powerful waves, and officials closed the boardwalk because of unsafe conditions. Karel lived in Long Beach for years—and his reaction to seeing his former home in the national news may surprise you.
Plus, another food-safety warning: more than 1,500 pounds of imported pork guanciale were recalled because of possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination, with the USDA classifying the recall as Class I. People.com
What is happening with America’s food supply? What do recalls actually tell us about the effectiveness—or failures—of the food-safety system? And when something goes wrong, who is actually responsible: producers, regulators, Congress, or the administration in power?
Politics, food, extreme weather and one extraordinarily strange holiday weekend—it’s all on today’s The Karel Cast.
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Karel is a history-making broadcaster, entertainer and commentator based in Las Vegas, joined by his little service dog, Ember.
