Royal Flush: Trump Gets the Crown Treatment While AI Guy Predicts Paperclip Apocalypse

Royal Flush: Trump Gets the Crown Treatment While AI Guy Predicts Paperclip Apocalypse

Author: Political Humor Today's News / Caloroga Shark Media September 15, 2025 Duration: 5:10
Patrick Gutfield broadcasts live from London (on the company dime) as Trump heads to Britain for his second unprecedented state visit. King Charles rolls out the full royal charm offensive - helicopters, carriages, and banquets - hoping sparkly crowns will make Trump forget about tariffs and Ukraine. Meanwhile, we dive into Trump's most jaw-dropping promises: renaming the Defense Department to sound more warlike, slapping his name on the Kennedy Center, and somehow keeping a promise about sugar Coke while failing to end a war. Plus, meet the AI doomsday prophet who thinks we'll all die from paperclip-making robots and wrote Harry Potter fan fiction longer than War and Peace. All this while Prince Andrew stays locked away and Trump's twenty-four-hour Ukraine peace plan enters its second year.

Come for the sass, stay for the sanity—and blame the A.I. for the jokes that don’t land.

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