Russia wasn’t a hoax. Mueller proved it.

This Brit is regurgitating last week's talking points. According to Trump its actually 10 wars he's ended now.

They just repeat the same phrases over and over

🤣

Well done Ben Kentish 👏

“Colin from Portsmouth is on the line…” @explodingheads.bsky.social

This is what it like trying to talk to MAGAs. Waste of time and energy

The caller is exhibiting symptoms of Gish Gallop. Rapid fire "whatabout" questions, refusal to answer a single question with any evidence of what they are spewing, and it's an epidemic.

Russia, Russia, Russia was not a hoax. Trump is a russian asset.

Actually 8 wars... He ended the Civil war too.

🤣🤣🤣

They resort to slogans to stop the conversation when they get cornered. It’s a cult tactic. Bizarre to watch, especially now that everything’s coming out into the open.

A book called Cultish covered that well. Thought ending phrases. No debate or critical thinking allowed. It hurts me even more to think of Trump supporters outside of the US. Also, PLEASE FOCUS ON THE ENEMY: Project 2025 Regime (Trump’s masters, who don’t need to keep him)

Joe is a dumb💩

Yeah. We have some high-quality radio, that's for sure.

The caller is basically saying "I know you are, but what am I?" Often used in arguments when the person doesn't have a real response.

Any American reporter with a spine who can ask this question when the felon repeatedly lies about the wars he had ended?

Good lord.... MAGAts are spreading across the globe 😱

No I'm not, you are ...

Wait. They have MAGA cultists in Britain too?? I had no idea!

Yeah, the Heritage Foundation have been cultivating them there, too. The last nine years have seen Farage desperately trying to become the British version of Trump, all backed by the talking heads from the Heritage Foundation, et al. The rightwing media in the UK is complicit, too. Utter madness. 🙄

And if there was an election tomorrow, the polls tell us Farage would be PM - IRL I don't know a single person who would admit to supporting the bigoted weasel but that may be the bubble I live in.

Yep. Extension of Brexit organizers rooted in xenophobia.

how do we get ben to host "meet the press"?

Another Russian with Newsom Derangement Syndrome with nothing better to do than talk in British accents on the phone from Moscow.

Big strong men with tears in their eyes, saying (crying, really), "Thank you, sir, for ending our war!" every week for months.

If Trump told them 2+2=5, they would believe.

The sequel to Spinal Tap is more political that I expected ;-)

wow. This is for the historian, because there's no way we can truly grasp this moment as it's unfolding. This man is not alone ; a shocking number of people around the world support Trump, and it’s beyond baffling🤔 The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity by Carlo M. Cipolla might explain this moment🙄

Never underestimate the inate and obviously inane stupidity of man. Even so, it's still a 'loud' minority that might like to imagine supporting PEDOPOTUS who boasts the "incredible shrinking penis" right up and until he were to begin screwing around and running their own country into the ground.

Thanks for this, it's frightening how many stupid people are in positions of power 😳

It is frightening! Carlo M. Cipolla point is that stupid people are dangerous not just because they're irrational or uneducated, but because they act in ways that harm others and themselves; often unpredictably😒 and that everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation!

It's just the same in the UK. Idiots and bandits in positions of power. 😳

We need to wipe the C drive clean and reinstall a truly more democratic OS so future generations can realize the promise that, 'all people are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.'

Apologies from the UK - it's the world turned upside down - social media is rotting brains 🧠!

I have a shinny Pound Sterling that says this dork on the line is a pro-Brexit Nigel Farage boot licking Tori.

This thick as shit Brit will only be so invested in Trump because he will be a Faragist. Fascists of a feather flock together.

The weaponization of the term “fake news” was the tip of the spear for MAGA and it was genius. I remember when it simply meant fake posts on social media designed to look like it was coming from a news outlet. Now it is anyone who doesn’t align with the MAGA narrative.

My American friends. In Britain we have a Trump supporter called Farage. He’s a right wing extremist and racist. Sadly because of our government being unable to sort out our immigration problem legally he now has many followers. We’re on the same track as you. If you see Farage throw milkshakes.

the immigration problem is being hyped, amplified & misrepresented. our government is being expected to deal with the influx of people as if it was a purely national problem, the way their predecessors sold it & no one has suitably challenged this.

i'm no fan of this lot, having won a wide but shallow victory they have taken to aping the people they just beat rather than offering a real alternative.

It's so weird to hear MAGA word-vomit being mindlessly regurgitated in a Northern English accent.

It's happening in Australia too - men listening to American podcast bros while driving in their cars. Then they mindlessly regurgitate false MAGA talking points. I get calls almost daily from a couple of Australian friends absolutely exasperated with their idiot sons about this.

I'm in Canada, and we have a bunch of MAGA goofs up here too. It's the internet.

I mean, like what the fuck why are they backing trunk? I mean I get they like Farage and they wanna end immigration but why are they wedded to Trump and his insanity?

Came here to say that

There are a lot of lonely uneducated internet fixated men and boys everywhere. And we hear about them ALL. THE. TIME. But in the UK the biggest story the papers don't mention is that most young girls are going to vote Green. Not right or left, but for the Green party. That makes me proud

They lust for power, even tainted evil power, whatever cursed corner of the earth it currently oozes from

We need to stop pretending that these people have "legitimate concerns". They do not. They area racists, idiots and racist idiots.

or *any* intelligible form of English.

I mean, REALLY weird

Midlands accent actually, but I get what you’re saying. It’s this blind acceptance of lies and utter bullshit that is going to give us our very own fascist government in 2029.

Start watching the rt-wing in the UK. They're imitating Trump fairly well.

Yes and no. There is an increasingly prominent and successful populist right in this country (see Nigel Farage) but Trump is not widely popular. He is mostly seen as an idiot even by many of the people who will happily vote for Farage

Indeed!

😂 and 😢

People... This is every Trump supporter. They are brainwashed and it is paper thin. It only works because they are the dumbest people in our society.

FFS, Now England has to set up Trump de- programming clinics as well.

😆 sad ain't it mate

He is up to 10 now. Ten wars when he last counted. He is the living proof that Republicans just want revenge. Mitch McConnell needs to rot in hell

I heard him say 7 yesterday! Tomorrow 8?

I think by months end the number will jump to "50, maybe 150 ,THEY were pre-thinking about pre-war , I stopped them, I said " STOP " and they ...oh, shiny! Look AT ME" ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-ups-nu...

Trump is delusional ! He likes big numbers so he just makes them up. He thinks the bigger the lie, the more people will believe him. Especially if he keeps repeating the lie. Art of the Deal? Yet, it’s apparently working… sad!

How could it be working? The only people that believe them are the crazy cult they don’t even count

We’re up to 10

WTF??!!

Put up the photo of Trump with his hand on the thigh of that teenage girl

"Russia, Russia" was not a hoax. Just look at Deutsche Bank.

The seven claimed bilateral agreements: Armenia and Azerbaijan; Cambodia and Thailand; Israel and Iran; India and Pakistan; Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Egypt and Ethiopia; and Serbia and Kosovo, as well as the Abraham Accords. Mostly hyperbole. www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/p...

Embarrassing that his catch phrases have spread to other countries

Well done, Ben

Name 2? Name 1. He should have asked him to back up any claim with a fact.

I had no idea there were Trump supporters in the UK?

They're literally everywhere, supporting trump ans well as Orban and the likes

The cult is everywhere 😬

Britain had Hitler supporters back in the 1930s too. One, Sir Oswald Mosely, was locked up during the war.

the nation likes to dine out on the battle of cable street in comforting assurance that it couldn't happen here. right now i couldn't guarantee that a cable street conflict would resolve the same way.

Sadly, yes. Probably a "Tommy Robinson" fan. One of those wife beater types who were trying to burn down hotels full of women and children to "protect women and children". www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Far right propaganda is rife there, too.

Farage!

Holy crap, I had no idea there was an international MAGA horde…

FACT - #PedoPrez AKA tRump HAS NOT ENDED ANY WARS. In fact because of him Russia has increased it's aggression in Ukraine and so has Israel in Gaza!

Thats @benkentish.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk 👏

But hunters laptop

Michael Clarke on Sky News goes through the six war claim and he says that it doesn’t really bear scrutiny and in fact he’s made 2 wars Gaza and Ukraine worse.

He can't name one! 🤣 Fake follower! 🤣

Also, every time I ask a comment's source on the WSJ opinion page

Another Reform voter I guess.

Trump ended the Great Cracker Barrel War, The NFL kneeling insurrection The Epstein Honeytrap Insurrection The Supreme Court Give up The Congressional Capitulation and MAGA battle with reality

Fake news, it’s a hoax, two weeks, fake news, witch hunt, hoax. People can parrot the lines, but they can’t explain their positions. Eventually they will realize things are more expensive, and it’s far less safe. The only people that will benefit are the ultra rich and the shamelessly corrupt.

Unfortunately I don't think they will ever realise.

Real eyes, recognize real lies

The latest news is that the Russia/Ukraine war has ended!!!! I am European. Trump announces that he has ended "7 wars maybe even 10." Tell me which ones!

It’s not “ Russia, Russia,” it’s “Russia,Russia,Russia.” The caller can’t even get a Brady Bunch reference correct.

I believe the *GOP-Led* Senate Foreign Intelligence Committee had a distinctly different take on that hoax part- www.intelligence.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

Joe thinks talking over people = winning the argument.

Trump's greatest contribution has been to the delusion that all you need to do to win an argument is to be the loudest person in the room.

All these self-proclaimed “free thinkers” who speak only learned lines, like parrots.

Why is a Brit such a Trump symp? It's like he wants to lick Trump's sack.

Have a look at who Nigel Farage is. Anyone who supports Farage can very well be a member of the Trump-club. Note that Farage now also has support from a lot of people who won't like Trump. This is because uk media and now also Labour are validating Farage's xenophobia.

Some people love the hate Trump stands for.

The Russian disinformation campaign hooks people in globally. We've got our own subset in Aotearoa New Zealand, spitting the same factless clichés with no shame or reason.

Considering the labour is actively trying to cozy up to the tories, a far right party is gaining power, and the constantly rising transphobia? Are you really surprised that there are British Trump supporters?

How TF is this insanity spreading?!???

Wow. They just want to belong to a club and have no idea what they’re saying. There is no thought left in that brain. Just repetition.

you misspelled cult

I guess that’s true. Sad to think that so many millions of adults are so lonely and anchorless with no moral core of their own, that they go down this evil path just to feel like they belong. Never thought I’d see my country led by the dumbest playground bully and his insecure sidekicks.

They have no morals and trump gave em all permission to show it, bottomline

Except they're all practicing Christians, they skipped the Jesus part and are stuck on the Fire and brimstone chapter? :)

They are not Christians 🙄

I'll tell you ... ugh

No one wants to be in a cult. Yes they are, there are always the red cult and the blue cult no matter where, but they don’t think that’s what is happening.

What, omg, they exist in Great Britain too?

The infection has been spread far and wide.

These Trump supporting sycophant cult members should never be allowed near anything sharper than a boiled egg.

It’s a cult 🤦🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️

All fucking lies !

This sounds like what my son goes through when he has a discussion with his MAGA coworkers. He asks them to back up the dumb stuff they say and they answer with “You’re a communist”

Meanwhile their guy is giving a tour around a US military base to a KGB officer and a guy in a Soviet Union shirt 🤣

And don't forget, buying into Intel. So what if 8 billion could be used on healthcare and food security? www.opb.org/article/2025...

But, we repeat what the talking heads say... Rolly Eye'd so hard I did a complete brain scan.

Name a country that dropped one or more nuclear bombs onto civilians .. go ahead. #hypocrisy

Oh my god the MAGAts are spreading. PLEASE UK! Do better!

Apparently stupidity has no boundaries

Except he doesn't know it's nonsense. He is an empty husk into whom Trump's propaganda has flowed. He is stupid, not a liar.

There is no intellectually honest conversation with a fascist. None. Stop being polite. host should’ve called him a fucking liar and that would’ve been it.

What the fuck is “Russia, Russia?” Is that a new musical at the Kennedy Center?

I'm not proud of the way our country is going. Why do we Brits just follow the US?

It’s only a small, noisy, portion of the U.K.

This is true but unfortunately they're getting a lot of press! And Reform keep winning council elections, plus leading in the polls. It's all very worrying.

I’m sure the caller ‘did the research’!

Another programmed idiot who can only regurgitate what he’s been fed.

A useless exchange. That MAGAt will never accept the facts as they are because he doesn’t believe they’re true. And that’s all the proof he needs.

“you’re being silly.” “no, you’re being silly!” paging john cleese.

In Britain when you’re called”silly” it’s a really big deal. 🤪 Yes - sadly we have people here who have been brainwashed. They are all very silly.

I find it fascinating that anti-Trumpers are the ones being labelled as having the so-called "Trump Derangement Syndrome"... that label is more appropriate to the crazies who think he's akin to a god. The never-ending merch, the arse-kissing, the worship, falling for the grift. THAT is deranged!! 🤪🙄

Recht hast Du!

Well said. I wear my TDS label as a badge of honor-it’s called sanity, in other words Deranged Trump Syndrome.

@benkentish.bsky.social is a very good journalist/broadcaster.

"20,000 Russian soldiers died (every month)’ in July during attack on #Ukraine war - now, #Putin looking for women in Africa to die. Putin shooting deserters. nypost.com/2025/08/01/u...

This reporter has more journalistic integrity than anyone in the MSM in the states. Period.

TDS is morons who cant see what a crook he is.

The caller lives on stale ale and mushy peas.

Unfortunately we are following the US down the same rabbit hole of stupidity…just look at this muppet who walks around my hometown waving this flag with his MAGA hat occasionally and the people of my town find him amusing and stop to have their picture taken…personally he boils my piss with anger.

Rupert Murdoch's reach.

Wow so this stupid thing is international.

So was Epstein’s child sex trafficking operation.

Dear God, we’re infecting other countries. 😣

He literally just heard Trump say that on tv and then thought it would be a good idea to repeat it on live radio. 😂

It's infected the UK. Good lord.

LOL they can't name one, and Trump has bumped the number up to ten. These people are so fucking stupid its painful.

The 'Rose Garden War,' (No Roses) and 'The Gulf Of America.'

I thought it was 100.

Give it a werk or two and it will be. Damn he wants that Peace Prize 🙄

I think they should tell him he can can have it posthumously. Then forget about it. Like him.

Good call but I want him to know for the rest of his pathetic life that he was not good enough for something his money couldn't buy.

I hear ya! And agree.

Ignorance is strength, disagreement is treason.

Putins gimp called in

Weird hillbilly accent that.

Trump also says he preempted 2 other wars from Happening, so that’s 8 ! Ha Ha !

Guy's brain was seriously glitching there.

Brain washed moron. Cannot name even one war.

He is a desperate mean girl. He could not accomplish his boastful claims to quickly end Russia's aggression and Israel's genocide, so he made up lies that he won fantasy wars. His followers are freaks and dumb freaks at that. How stupid must a person be to defend he won a war?

this is how you do it, if a person won't defend their claim shut them down and don't move on

No pt to engage with these people, the lights are on but nobody is home

LOL he's on video asking Russia to find dirt on Hillary then dirt appears, from Russia, it was far from a hoax.

Joe sounds like the village idiot after ten minutes on the internet.

And perhaps a pint or two?

I have a feeling they are an idiot without booze

That'd mean leaving his mum's house

The caller was covering a lie with another, unrelated lie. Literally classic behavior. 😂

That person on the call believes Trump stopped 6 wars? I hope he's safe in a mental hospital if he's that stupid.

Sadly, there are stupid people all over the world 🌎 😞

😤😔

civilization and our ecosystem dies with these sort of people.

Let me get hold of that young British MAGAT and explain Bill Barr to him.

Yesterday he said it was 7 then said there were 3 wars he stopped before they started so it’s 10 wars he stopped

We have our version of MAGA, they are fixated on the 0.5% of immigrants who get on dinghies and risk their crossing the English Channel. Their party will win our next election, some people dont like democracy.

Omg-my 16 yr old son said one of the other students was claiming the same thing in his Civics class. WTF so much propaganda

If you live in Great Britain, do not wait to rise up against idiots like Joe. Take it from one who knows.

📌

The crazy has crossed the pond.

I’m comforted yet terrified to know it’s not just happening here. 😬

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

This is great! "You can't name a single one can you?" Finally. Why can't anybody here do that?

Tom Swarbrick shut down Sebastian Gorka. Tom Swarbrick wasn't taking any nonsense from Trump's arrogant spokesperson, and it's a very satisfying watch - The Poke share.google/1UapvTDWrn0T...

I listened to that live, Gorka was exactly as you expect: arse-licking PR for the orange Nobel elect, without answering any question with facts and then dissembling into a "you leftists always do this" prevarication. What an utter vestigial scrote-lick of a human he is.

Jesus..trumpers abroad?

We have our own home grown fcukwits too 🤦‍♀️

LBC callers are very low hanging fruit.

Delusions of grandeur #Insanity

It's turtles all the way down 🐢

Trump single-handedly ended the war on Cancer, and you libs refuse to give him credit.

😆

MAGA-Ts are worldwide 🤦🏻‍♀️

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Sounds like one of your Brexit callers....

Gotta give ‘em credit for sticking to their talking points (and incessantly repeating them) regardless of the accuracy.

There's no fixing stupid, which is why America is now a failing democracy. Millions of Joes, voted for the most corrupt Joe in living memory.

And "Russia Russia" was not a hoax, either. We all watched it play out. That caller is a fucking idiot.

If the shoe fits wear it ...

Seriously. People were charged *and* convicted over that "hoax." Trump *pardoned* them! The *Republican led Senate Intelligence Committee* looked into it, and *their own report* acknowledged that the claims were accurate!

Most of the callers into LBC are bonkers! But Nick Abbot on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights is good on LBC and usually get some callers in from the US who are great!

Nick Abbot is my weekend treat.When he turns the humour off he's just as interesting, so last week as Ben Kentish was filling in for Tom, Nick was just excellent.

Was that caller John Barron with a fake accent?

It’s always so bizarre to hear a deplorable with an accent from another country. Sadly, our cancer has spread.

Brexit and its accompanying brain worms sadly predates MAGA, with Bannon and Cambridge Analytica using it as a Petri dish for Trump’s first presidential campaign, so it’s no surprise to hear these people all singing off the same song sheet.

Interesting how Bannon's name pops up so frequently in these origin stories. We need to keep eyes on him.👀

Sad to see a lack of critical thinking in some British folks. The US apparently has spread that malady to our friends in Great Britain and Ireland.

🇬🇧(not me, obviously) voted for Brexit before 🇺🇸 voted for Trump - this is not a proud boast…

Most of us despise Trump.

Oh, I do believe you. I saw the reception he got while visiting Scotland and you all did a great job of showing your disgust of him. Keep up the good work.

He’s due his state visit next month. I’m sure he’ll receive an appropriate greeting .

Today we are already at 7 wars. Tomorrow that dipshit will claim it were 10, next week 14 wars.

Trumpism is a cult, plain and simple. They just regurgitate the vomitous lies Trump makes on a daily basis.

There was no Russia hoax.

Do these people have an aversion to facts?

He did end six wars! The Whos vs the Munchkins Bugs vs Daffy Diddy vs Epstein Mayans vs Aztecs Smurfs vs Gargamel MTG vs Boebert Oh wait, that last one is technically a ceasefire. 🤔

He can't name 1

My theory is Rumpy's handlers put him on Air Force One. Took him to some foreign countries, introduced him to a couple of guys shaking hands, and told him it was because Rumpy ended their "war." Maybe they gave him a fake gold medal or a ribbon or something.

Made my ears hurt.