{"podcast":{"title":"FiveStack with Dean Blundell & Zev Shalev","slug":"fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639","podcast_index_feed_id":7267639,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/1581221/s/197927.rss","website_url":"https://www.narativ.org/s/fivestack-w-dean-and-zev","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/1581221/s/197927/9d2ef4222bc8f33dd53a7a53a92e33bd.jpg","author":"D. Blundell and Z.Shalev","episode_count":272,"summary":"The Top 5 stories of the moment with Canada's #1 Shock Jock Dean Blundell and Former CBS News executive producer Zev Shalev.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T10:18:34.994558+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639"},"episode":{"title":"FiveStack: Trump is Cornered at 31% Approval; Senate Kills The Billionaire Ballroom; House Prepares for War Resolution Vote","slug":"fivestack-trump-is-cornered-at-31-approval-senate-kills-the-billionaire-ballroom-house-prepares-for-war-resolution-vote","published_at":"2026-05-21T21:26:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639/fivestack-trump-is-cornered-at-31-approval-senate-kills-the-billionaire-ballroom-house-prepares-for-war-resolution-vote","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639","url":"https://www.narativ.org/p/fivestack-trump-is-cornered-at-31","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/198747461/2698f8c8462e874c259db79ddc690ae0.mp3","summary":"A pollster tied to Fox put Donald Trump’s approval at 31 percent today. Twenty-five is the number that ended Nixon. A president at 31 and sliding can no longer make his own party afraid of him — and on Thursday, his own party stopped pretending to be. The Senate killed the billion dollars he wanted for his ballroom. The House moved to take away his power to wage war. Two dozen Republicans lined up to kill the fund he built to pay the people who stormed the Capitol. Five stories, one engine: a cornered president, and the arithmetic that cornered him. 5️⃣ The Ballroom Dies on a Technicality Trump wanted a billion dollars of public money for the ballroom going up on the White House lawn. He buried it inside a spending bill and called it Secret Service security. He did not get it. He lost it on a technicality, which is the only way anything stops this White House anymore. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse walked through the kill: the White House is a public building under the Environment and Public Works Committee, and it sits on national park land under Energy and Natural Resources. Republicans wrote their reconciliation bill without instructions to either committee. Whitehouse and Martin Heinrich sent their lawyers to argue the funding was therefore defective. The parliamentarian agreed in a day. Bye-bye, billionaire ballroom. What’s left is the question of why a president needs a billion-dollar fortress at all. Trump talks about drone ports and snipers and keeping the world safe. The likelier read is the one Dean gave it: this is a bunker, and a man builds a bunker when he does not plan to leave. The same afternoon, a commission of his own appointees approved his triumphal arch by the Arlington Memorial Bridge. The fortress and the monument, waved through on the same day. Trum…","meta_description":"A pollster tied to Fox put Donald Trump’s approval at 31 percent today. Twenty-five is the number that ended Nixon. A president at 31 and sliding can no l…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3498,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639/episodes/fivestack-trump-is-cornered-at-31-approval-senate-kills-the-billionaire-ballroom-house-prepares-for-war-resolution-vote/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639/fivestack-trump-is-cornered-at-31-approval-senate-kills-the-billionaire-ballroom-house-prepares-for-war-resolution-vote.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}