POTUS Hires America's Least-Qualified Spy & Trump's Portrait Graces New $250 Bill? | Beth Stern

About this episode

Michael Kosta discusses the Trump administration's new hires and celebrates America's 250th birthday with guest Beth Stern, who talks about her new children's book and animal adoption.

Michael Kosta digs into the Trump administration's promising new hires, including a Pentagon employee who got his start doing January 6 and a new highest-ranking intelligence officer with zero intelligence experience, Bill Pulte. Plus, New York Knicks fans go zombie-mode after winning Game 1 in the NBA Finals, and Trump prepares for America's semiquincentennial with his face on a $250 bill and the most confusing d**k-measuring contest ever. America is celebrating its 250th birthday, but the country is still as divided as ever. Jordan Klepper heads to a celebration event in New Orleans to ask hard-hitting questions like: How is the president doing? Should any of the January 6 insurrectionists get money from the slush fund? And how many more years does America have? Beth Stern, bestselling author and national spokesperson for North Shore Animal League America, joins Michael to discuss her new children’s book, “Coco and Stephen, Together Forever,” which is based on the real-life unlikely friendship between her rescue animals, Coco the kitten and Stephen the rabbit. She recounts how her home with husband Howard Stern has become a safe haven where over 3,000 foster animals have passed…

People in this episode

Host: Michael Kosta

Guest: Beth Stern

Topics covered

• Trump administration
• animal adoption
• NBA Finals
• political satire
• children's literature
• celebration of America

Keywords

• Trump administration
• Beth Stern
• animal adoption
• children's book
• NBA Finals
• New Orleans
• January 6
• political satire

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: North Shore Animal League America, Comedy Central

Places: New Orleans

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