Trump teams up with Elon while misinformation surges in the presidential election | Planet America

As hurricanes batter the United States, a perfect storm of misinformation is surging. Meanwhile Trump teams up with Elon, while Harris teams up with Call Her Daddy and Melina asks why everyone is talking about fracking! With guests Mike Rothschild and Brian Riedl. Planet America 9pm AEDT ABC TV
00:00 – Welcome to Planet America from John Barron and Chas Licciardello
00:39 – Hurricane Milton bashes Florida, while hundreds are still missing after Hurricane Helene.
01:52 – Misinformation surges as Trump claims FEMA funding has been stolen to pay for illegal immigrants
04:49 – When Trump drained FEMA’s disaster fund to pay for his own policies when he was president.
05:23 – Chas explains the challenges of FEMA’s handling of the hurricane crisis
08:56 – Economist Brian Riedl of the Manhattan Institute explains his take on the Trump/Harris/Biden/DeSantis FEMA budget row.
09:32 – Trump returns to the scene of his attempted assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania, JD Vance and Eric Trump accuse Democrats of inciting the shooting.
11:43 – Elon Musk jumps up and down on stage with Donald Trump and makes a grim prediction
13:11 – We ask conspiracy theory expert and journalist Mike Rothschild about the storm of misinformation
18:39 –Biden appears unannounced in the White House Briefing Room to tell reporters the good news about the economy
22:00 – Melina Wicks explains why everyone is talking about fracking!
24:48 – Harris teams up with Liz Cheney and Call Her Daddy podcaster Alexandra Cooper, as well as 60 Minutes.
26:51 – Tim Walz braves an interview with Fox News and firefighters come out in support of “greatest president ever” Joe Biden
29:05 – Goodnight from John Barron and Chas Licciardello

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[DanielA-skoh]

Can we please stop reducing “blatant lies” to “misinformation” ?

[Did.You.Forget]

I’m a Texan and I love Planet America. Yall seem to know more about America than we do!

[lotsinganimedes]

He did the same to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. CAT 5 Hurricane destroy our island. We are not the Main Land but we do exist.

[creeib]

Lies should NOT be called misinformation

[NewZealandWild]

Imagine if everyone Trump ever slandered all sued him at once. He'd be facing hundreds of thousands of charges 😂

[SirQuantization]

More Americans need to watch Planet America

[professorg]

As an American, I must say you guy nailed it dead on!

[fractalign]

Who else is fed up with Trump’s endless whining !

[CatherineReynolds-rdhx]

Donal trump lies. Its concerning that so meany people are prepared to belive him.

[PJSO]

Forgot to mention Majorie Taylor Green spouting her crazy conspiracy theories about Dems controlling the hurricane.😂

[bobchannell]

Trump makes up obvious lies while campaigning but half the country wants to vote for him anyway. I think some kind of mental dysfunction is happening here.

[bobchannell]

J.D. Vance is our real problem. Trump may serve one term as president, but J.D. Vance will be here to stay if Trump is elected. Big problem.

[peterheath]

Why are blatant lies called ‘misinformation’?

[donaldtrunt]

How lucky are we in Australia to have the ABC.

[bipolarbear]

People are dying in North Carolina. Yep, people are dying, people are being eaten along with the cats 🐱 and dogs 🐶 and horses🐴 and cows 🐮 and chickens 🐔, yep the chickens, we’ve never seen anything like this before, not even in China 🇨🇳, and not in Russia, Russia, Russia, and you know Vladimir, Vladimir and I, we’re great friends, great friends, and Pootin, he’s a bad guy but we like him, we like him a lot. Vlad sent me a love 💕 letter on Kremlin embroidered toilet paper. We exchange gifts all the time. I don’t see any reason why we wouldn’t. Vlad gives me the odd signed soccer ball for a few highly classified documents. You know, I’m a stable genius, the ‘Art of the Deal’ and all that crap. Just remember that even though I’m mega-wealthy, I still want your money, I mean donations. Together, we’ll Make America Great Again! 🤔

[allanfloyd]

Vote for Harris 2024 👍 Smart people will.

[chandarsundaram]

Excellent program guys. as always. Your show is the best thing I've ever seen on US politics.. Seriously!! Fair balanced and critical.. And you don't talk down to your viewers. I have to ask though: Where does Chaz Get his t shirts.? They're wild.!!

[bobchannell]

I was a fan of Elan. I can't believe he's getting up there with that clown and saying the same kinds of things Trump does.

[lilianhalcombe]

I've found the community notes on twitter do help a lot with misinformation. For example, the video today doing the round of Biden saying to get vaccinated before the hurricane was correctly identified as coming from 2021. And importantly community notes helps with misinformation from all sides of politics.

[mrflibble]

I honestly don’t understand MAGA supporters, it’s like anything Trump has done in the past just doesn’t exist in their reality.