A fraud calls in to talk about fraudsters telling us about fraud

Tom in Cleveland lied about what who he was--which is the epitome of fraud--then expected me to entertain Trump's and Musk's lies about Social Security and fraud.

This is just a short, cute one. But it exposes once again what hypocrites MAGA are, as well as their empty, grandiose claims. And it’s kind of funny.

On my SiriusXM program, I was discussing Elon Musk’s rummaging through the Social Security Administration, and the twisted arguments of Musk, Trump and their supporters. And then came a call from Tom in Cleveland.

But first, let’s be clear: Elon Musk, who has recklessly called Social Security “a Ponzi scheme,” has been lying about Social Security and the supposed massive fraud in the Social Security Administration—which he’s given us no evidence about.

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The Washington Post exposed why Musk is struggling to find fraud in the Social Security Administration: “Claims of massive problems by Elon Musk and President Trump are at odds with the agency’s audits and reports.”

Elon Musk put a big target on the Social Security Administration in the first weeks of the Trump administration, claiming it is plagued by “immense waste” and promising audits to root out “the extreme levels of fraud.” President Donald Trump said during his joint address to Congress earlier this month that Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service was already “identifying shocking levels of incompetence and probable fraud” at the agency.

But some of the biggest examples of allegedly wasteful spending held up by Musk and DOGE so far have been overblown or inaccurate. Musk’s assertion that tens of millions of dead people over 100 years old are receiving Social Security benefits was so off-base that it had to be tamped down by the agency’s acting head, who had been promoted because of his willingness to cooperate with DOGE. “These individuals are not necessarily receiving benefits,” acting Social Security commissioner Lee Dudek said.

In fact, we’ve been offered no evidence of anyone over 100 receiving a payment who shouldn’t be receiving a payment, though Trump claimed in his speech before Congress that “over 130,000 people according to the Social Security databases are aged over 160 years old.” He even preposterously claimed there was someone over 360 years old—which would be shortly after the landing of the Mayflower—receiving checks, which is a couple centuries before Social Security was created.

First off, the Social Security Administration stops payments automatically to anyone over 115 years old. Second, as has been explained by analysts, the names of former recipients are still in the database even though they are long dead and not receiving checks.

If there’s all this fraud, tell us the names of the dead people receiving the checks, and tell us the names of the people who’ve been charged for cashing their checks? Are they going to prison? Where are they? Who are they?

It’s all a lie.

Enter Tom from Cleveland, calling into my show. He demanded to know if I cared about people over 100-years-old getting checks, if I cared about “fraud and abuse.” I told him this was a lie, and asked him to give me the name of the 360-year-old person getting a check, which he couldn’t. He actually then asked me to prove that it wasn’t true.

Haha. We’re supposed to believe Trump without proof, as if the burden is on us and not him?

But more hilariously, Tom himself engaged in fraud and abuse. He posed as someone else, telling our producers he wanted to talk about his fears of not getting his Social Security check after paying into the system, when he was actually a MAGA defender of Musk.

I have no problem speaking with MAGA callers and debating them—when it’s possible and they’re not ranting like maniacs—and I’m happy to take their calls. But I have no time for MAGA who call in posing as anti-Trump, engaging in “fraud” and “abuse,” and thus proving to be a “waste” of my time. So it was soon a “goodbye” to Tom.

Listen in and let me know your thoughts!