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Aug. 26, 2025 - Lionel Nation
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Mamdani’s Bench Press FAIL Everyone’s Talking About
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I hope you are with me this morning at 12.04 Monday, Monday, the 25th of August.
And of course, as you know, tomorrow is a big day in our country.
It is, of course, a celebration of my birthday.
Just want to let you know, we are expecting President Trump to issue an executive order.
indicating all lights, all car lights to be on mandatorily.
That is, of course, what we need to do.
My friends, where do I even begin to...
Where do I...
It's hard to begin.
First, I want to welcome everyone.
I want to say to you that you are asked to like this video, to subscribe.
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I keep telling you, and I find this to be fascinating, but like there's 40, no, 80, no, not 40, 80, 70 percent of the people who who who watch us don't subscribe i don't know why i don't know what to tell you about that so i thank you for that and i also ask you to like this because liking of course and you always have to do this is really everybody does it because it's true you have to do this i see fred had dad is there karen peterson jimmy floyd dr's
there shelly bradley sanders Greg Gello, Bello, Greg Below Zero.
Johnny Gelaine watching from the sidelines.
Janet Bonanno, 7712, actually writes, it's dark after 9 p.m. and car lights are on anyway, and they should be.
Janet, you actually said that.
One of the most obvious jokes, maybe in the history of humankind, for me to suggest that President Trump has issued an order.
that all lights, all car lights, after 9 p.m., I said this, knowing, knowing, of course, that lights would be on, and therefore it really wouldn't be that big of a deal everybody in the world knows that's a joke everybody except Janet Bonanno bless your heart Janet I don't even I don't even know I don't know what to tell you tell me you're actually joking
that you did this knowing that it was a joke and you're like giving me a double kind of right back tell me tell me you knew this tell me Janet tell me you knew tell me this was the greatest double joke ever.
I know your joke, and I'm going to give it right back.
I'm going to pretend that I didn't understand that was a joke.
Tell me, Janet.
Tell me someone does not honestly understand that this was obviously a joke.
Tell me, Janet.
Janet, tell me.
Tell me you understood, hun.
Please.
I beg you.
I beg you.
Please.
Please.
Thank you.
Janet, now it's my turn to catch up.
I got to say something.
I got to say something.
Ladies and gentlemen, I hope your weekend was great and it was glorious and it was wonderful.
I'm in the WABC studios and at 1 a.m.
I am going to be talking, my friends, to you on the air and I hope you join us at WABCradio.com or 77.
Anyway, you can follow accordingly.
My friends, so much to talk about.
Let's talk about one of the stories which is the most interesting.
And maybe you'll find it a bit just.
I don't know.
But as you know, people love this Mom Donnie.
And Mom Donnie is just one of the greatest examples of just, he's the gift that keeps on giving.
and what he's doing is he's running of course for mayor of New York but he and other people as well he like oh you know Gavin Newsom and all these other people the mayor of Chicago the mayor of Boston I don't even know the names the same they're they're the same and what is what is that everybody's laughing at them,
but they're going to be elected and have been elected.
They have been elected.
And there's this wonderful story, which I find so interesting recently, about how people who run for office make these stupid, stupid mistakes, which I do not understand why people do this or whatever they do.
but Let me see if I can give you this one.
This is the best story.
Mamdani and the bench pressed.
Did you see this?
Did you see this story?
Did you see this, ladies and gentlemen?
Did you see this?
Did you see this one, ladies and gentlemen?
Merrick, Mayor, Merrick.
Mayor Eric Adams'own campaign got his age wrong by three years.
an ex post aimed at dunking on radical election foe Zoran Mamdani for failing., ladies and gentlemen, for failing to bench press alone even once at a public event.
67 verses 33.
A lifetime of hard work versus a silver spoon.
The results speak for themselves.
This is from Adam's site.
Eric Adams for NYC, quipped.
After the humiliating Mambani fail while posting a video of the mayor cranking out reps on the same bench press during the man's event in Brooklyn.
And they show him doing it.
67 versus 33.
Ma'am scrunny.
The weight of the job.
Well, Adams is 64, wrote Katie Honan, a reporter for the city, who noticed the goof and posted it later Saturday.
Adams team later corrected his age, but not before screen grabs were made of the mistake.
Adams campaign spokesman Todd Shapiro said it was just a mistake and that the mayor would never lie about his age.
Normally people would lie, I think, to be younger versus 67, which is my age tomorrow, where President Trump has ordered lights to be turned on of all cars after 9 p.m.
Meanwhile, Governor David Patterson, who endorsed Adams last week, said Sunday that the mayor is getting nicked to death by corruption scandals surrounding his aides.
And Adams, of course, his former long-time right-hand woman, Ingrid Lewis Martin, ladies and gentlemen, ran a corruption scheme with tentacles reaching across the city including political favors for $75,000 in bribes.
This is including thousands of dollars in seafood and an acting role opposite Forrest Whitaker prosecutors allege.
Moreover, an Adams campaign volunteer and ex-aide Winnie Greco handed Honan a potato chip bag stuffed with $300 in cash at an event, a movie that reporter immediately rejected, a movie that a move, rather, the reporter immediately rejected, and which sparked another scandal.
I have tremendous respect for the mayor.
Patterson said, I've been, I've backed him up many times.
I have even let it go when things happen.
But when it happens in campaigns is you get nicked to death.
And that's what's happening to Adams.
Every time it appears that he's going, gaining some momentum, And none of his fans, was his fault, somebody affiliated with him, something happens.
His poll numbers aren't that great now I was going to endorse him because he's the type of friend you endorse him no matter what the polls say but the potato chip scandal didn't help the situation at all ladies and gentlemen I don't know what anybody and and and I and I am speaking not not as an endorse just as a citizen of New York but how anybody cannot look at Curtis Lewa is beyond me.
I don't understand it.
I don't get it.
I don't get it.
Thank you, Dr. NX, whatever you are.
Thank you for that.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is something which is just incredible.
By the way, you know whose birthday this is today?
Regis Filban.
Regis and I used to always meet prior to our birthdays.
What a good guy he was.
In any event, my friends, in any event, here we are.
So this is our story.
This is where we are.
And I find this to be fascinating.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, why would anybody, does it matter about bench pressing?
Does it matter?
Does a bench price matter?
No.
No.
Why did he do that?
John Kennedy never wore a hat.
He asked him one time to wear a hat.
He won't wear a hat.
He wore a hat like one time.
Then when he was in Texas, they gave him a cowboy hat.
And he said, I'm not going to wear the cowboy hat.
You know, I'm bored just coming to Washington and I'll show you that or whatever it was.
He knew.
Not gonna get me in a hat.
Not gonna get me in a hat.
What moron would let him do that?
In this world where everybody's into, how much can you, where Hegseth and Bobby Kennedy, all they want to do is pull-ups.
This matters.
Pull-ups.
They want to do pull-ups.
Well, say no more.
Pull-ups.
We live in this world now, keto and this and testosterone, crazy men who live, I need your likes, by the way, my friends.
I need your likes.
I need 5,000 likes.
I know.
I know.
How do you do that with 140 people watching?
I have no idea.
Just make it happen, okay?
Think Winnie Greco.
What would Winnie Greco do?
What would Winnie Greco do?
Now, you might consider this to be rather...
The whole notion of bench pressing super berogatory, you might think, is this in any way indicative of a salubrious candidate to the point that this would make them more, I don't know.
well ladies and gentlemen do you know those instances in real lifetime where people have made the biggest mistakes ever where they have decided decided decided ladies and germs decided to do Do you know anything like that?
Do you?
Do you?
I think it's important to understand this.
Do you think there's anything, my friend?
Do you think there's anything at all that makes people understand this?
What was one of the biggest, biggest, biggest wardrobe or event malfunctions ever?
What do you think?
What have they been?
what were some of the big the most stupid ones ladies and gentlemen please get me Well, Janet Jackson, that is true.
That is true.
That's very good.
That is a wardrobe malfunction, which, yes, I'm thinking more political, but you are correct.
I guess that was a wardrobe malfunction.
I remember watching that and thinking that you had to have the visual acuity of a fighter pilot to see.
It was a nipple ring or nipple guard.
I didn't even know what nipple guard was, but I watched it and I still do not understand what the big deal was.
I have no idea why it mattered at all.
But I'm talking about political, what's the worst political?
Weird hat, stunt, movement.
Remember Gary Bauer one time?
Was it Gary Bauer?
through, was flipping a, I think it was Bob Dole fell off something.
Imagine being unrecognizable after practicing a fitness regime.
I don't know what that means.
Johnny, I don't know what that means.
Imagine being unrecognizable.
Huh.
Tomorrow is the hatch day, one arc.
Tomorrow, my friend, okay?
Dukakis of the Tank.
Yes!
Probably the worst ever.
Probably one of the worst, one of the, what, the guy with the tank.
Thank you, Scott Belanger.
The guy with the tank.
Didn't even know his name.
Didn't even know Michael Dukakis.
Doesn't matter.
Curtis says Cuomo wears a nipple ring.
We saw this one time.
You can see it through the various...
Okay.
All right.
He's doing that thing where he's bringing his daughters out again and they're talking about music.
Michael Dukakis, 19-88 as a Democratic nominee Dukakis wanted to project toughness on defense against Bush.
His campaign staged a photo op with him.
Bush's team used the footage and ads to paint Dukakis as weak and ridiculous on national security.
That, of course, compared to our friend, Mr. Bush, President Bush, war hero and the like.
2007, Barack Obama on a bicycle with a helmet.
And the word is 7.
During his first campaign, Obama was photographed casually biking around Martha's Vineyard with a helmet and tucked in polo shirt.
To average people it was harmless and safe, but to image-obsed pundits the visuals screamed a professor rather than commander in chief.
Critics compared it unfavorably to macho imagery of leaders like Putin riding shirtless on a horseback.
The picture fed the narrative that Obama was more academic than strong.
Don't forget his other when he was bowling and oh, his pitching.
John Kerry windsurfing in a wetsuit, 2004.
He thought he was showcasing athleticism and energy.
Instead, the footage showed him zigzagging on the water, was turned into a devastating bush campaign to add John Kerry, whichever way the wind blows, an elite flip-flopper.
Gerald Ford slipping down Air Force One, 1975.
Thank you, CA.
See this, 2005.
Yep, 1975, by the way.
Ford already had a reputation for being clumsy, though he might have been one of the most athletic presidents, maybe of all time.
Wizard White wasn't a president.
He was a Supreme Court justice.
Jack Kemp later on paid for the Buffalo Bills.
But Gerald Ford was one of the most very, very athletic skiers, the whole bit.
He already had a reputation for being clumsy.
Remember when, when, who was it, when, was it, Bush threw up on a bunch of Japanese folks?
Remember that one?
Howard Dean Scribe.
Yeah!
2004.
Yeah!
After a disappointing third place, there we had.
Happy birthday, Uncle Lenny.
Thank you, Lori Luck.
Lori Cuck, rather, excuse me.
Thank you, Dear Hart.
His voice cracked in this bizarre.
Yeah!
After a disappointing third place finish in Iowa, he tried to rally supporters by energetically, he was afraid that people couldn't hear him and the networks replayed the clip endlessly, out of context, making him look unsound, unhinged.
Nixon sweating in the debate in 1960.
Ed Miliband eating a bacon sandwich in 2014.
This was very scary, apparently.
I did not see this.
but they say it was here.
Theresa May's wheat field confession and dancing.
Theresa May, she was what?
She was a prime minister for like an hour.
May once admitted that the naughtiest thing she ever has done was running through a wheat field as a child.
The confession was mocked as comically dull.
Later she walked into a Conservative Party conference stage dancing stiffly to Abba's dancing queen.
Romney's 47% video at a closed-door fundraiser, Romney was secretly recorded.
saying that 47% of Americans would never take responsibility.
Al Gore's makeup, remember his over-pressed They overprepped him, applying heavy makeup that made him look unnatural.
During the debates with George Bush, he frequently sighed audibly, rolled his eyes.
Remember when George Bush was looking at his watch?
He looked at his watch because he didn't know what time it was.
He wanted to see how much time he had left.
He wasn't bored or whatever.
So these go to show you.
This is where we are today, my friends.
Nobody expects you to know image and nobody...
Anybody give a shit about John Bolton getting a search warrant?
No.
Nobody cares.
Zero.
Johnny says, you could do Tai Chi in less than a month.
No one will be able to recognize you.
I saw it in an internet ad.
Thank you, Johnny.
Johnny, by the way, Johnny Jolaine, ladies and germs, thank you for that.
Johnny has a very interesting take on everything right now.
Johnny has a great take on this.
So anyway, so this goes to show you this whole thing.
Scott Balanger.
Imagine if Ross Perot would have won.
Yes.
Did Obama ever eat a bacon sandwich?
No.
But you know, other people said, somebody one time, who was it, was eating like a corn dog, stay away from long sausages and worsts.
And that's what they don't do to it.
You understand this.
Because you understand this.
This was the problem.
This was the problem.
Remember, Americans don't know anything about issues.
know things that can become a meme.
They don't know anything about So this crazy thing with the, believe it or not, believe it or not, the bench press thing may make more sense than the basically Marxist nonsense that he's been talking about.
You think I'm kidding?
Think I'm kidding?
Visuals matter.
That's right, toxic dust.
Visuals matter.
Because Americans are stupid and the voting population is stupid.
Democrats are real stupid.
I mean real stupid.
They're into a world that I don't understand what the hell they're talking about.
And I don't understand what they're even remotely concerned with.
But I gotta tell you something.
It's a fascinating world we're living in, my friend.
And this may have actually done more than anything you can imagine.
How about those Menendez brothers?
anybody care about that of course not you don't care about that right am i right you don't care about the menendez brothers come on trump burger inventor becomes second maga loving restaurant or detained by ice as his dark past emerges did you see this one that's fascinating glamorous lawyer 22 22.
Dies after getting an allergic reaction during a routine medical procedure.
She's a lawyer at 22.
That's pretty damn good.
She must have got out real early.
Let me see.
I saw something about Sting here, which is interesting.
There's a lot of, you know, My Dream of Jeannie.
What the hell is her name?
She turns 94.
Did you see this one?
Sting sued for millions and lost.
and in millions of pounds and lost royalties by former bandmates in the police.
Sting's former police bandmates are suing the frontman for millions of pounds in missing royalties.
The singer was handed a high court writ by the group's guitarist Andy Summers and Stuart Copeland.
The substantial damage his claim comes after many years of bitter legal disputes.
Well, there you know, my friends.
There you have it.
Fascinating, is it not?
His name is Gordon Matthew Sumner, and they're suing and that's great and that's terrific but I'm going to see the our friend the woman who is what is her name quick the woman who is a goddammit I dream of Jeanie what's what's I dream of Jeanie what's her name hang on a second that's just a minute I'm going to get to the bottom of this I'm going to get to the bottom of this What's
her name?
Come on.
Somebody tell me.
Let me go back and check.
My head's a little shingat sometimes I'm barbary eaten barbary eaten barbary eaten 94.
Can you believe that?
Isn't that something?
Remember when she couldn't show her belly button?
I think she was pregnant at one particular time.
This was in the time when we had this thing called class when we were worried about about exposing ourselves about about being gross or being whatever it was.
I find that absolutely incredible.
Did you know that?
Of course you knew that.
Of course you knew that.
Of course you did.
Nothing really grabs me.
Any of the big stories you think I should be talking about?
Anybody, anything you see?
You know this Blake lively thing?
I don't know the first thing about it.
I'm glad to see Kate, Princess, Princess.
Kate's doing well.
She had me scared for a while.
I kind of liked her in a way.
I kind of liked her.
The other stories are interesting.
I'm looking.
It's kind of slow today, my friends.
It's kind of slow.
Well, it's not slow for what's going on in the world, but slow for purposes of what we want to talk about.
Because you know, and I know, we don't want to talk about this stuff.
That's really important.
I know.
I know.
I understand.
Let's see what the...
Somebody who reads, you know, what's going on in the world.
Cracker Barrel Menendez, what do you think about no parole?
I'm not surprised, but I would give them a parole.
I really would.
After a while, maybe they did some bad stuff.
I think they were abused.
And while I don't think the father had it coming, he kind of had it coming.
But they handled it just poorly.
I think the cracker barrel is absolutely still the big deal.
Why?
Simple to understand.
Low-hanging fruit.
absolutely baseless simple not a lot to it nothing at all it's very simple cracker barrel they changed it DEI it's actually ESG and you got this woman who's making these who's also kind of animated and it's whatever that people are just going crazy the demoralization of America Gorb says Yeah, they just murdered their parents.
They murdered their parents.
The mother, I'm not so sure.
I don't think she was a rebel.
But the father abused him.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Let me see.
Baby Emmanuel.
Wow.
Look at that one.
First time anyone has ever talked about Cracker Barrel.
Thank you, Luke.
You can't spell Cracker Barrel without cracker.
Ladies and gentlemen, you are correct.
God, you're so smart.
You have a real sense of what's going on.
So anyway, my friends, it's Monday.
We are back.
We are back.
Ready to go.
Ready for Freddy.
I'm here on this beauteous New York day.
It's 12:33.
I wanted to make sure you go to 77 WABC.
Just go online.
And I appreciate that.
And also for your love and affection, keeping me straight, moving in the right direction.
That'll be just enough.
Just enough for the city.
I got 193.
That's good.
I got more people.
I got more people watching, which is very good.
I thank you for that.
Let me see.
Great.
Anyway, so that's it.
I hope everybody had a great day today.
I got to look.
I think the story I'm going to stick with here is our friend, Mr. Mom Donnie, why the low-hanging fruit is just.
And also, by the way, today's topic is going to be people who demoralize country music who don't know what the hell they're talking about, which is later on a big topic for my suggestion.
That's an inside joke, my friends.
In any event, thank you so much for watching.
Have a great and glorious day.
Love you to death, my friends.
Love you to death.
Thank you.
You are absolutely absolutely my man happy birthday if I don't get to say it tomorrow.
Well, thank you so much.
All right my friends have a great and glorious day.
We will be back in and out of here.
I'm going to be ready to go do my show at 1 o'clock.
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