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I've done many things this year.

→ I've hosted The Rubin Report five days a week, except when I was off the grid in August.

→ I took my “Don't Burn This World” tour to faraway corners of the planet.  

→ I launched my own tequila brand back in June.

And now, perhaps my biggest achievement yet. Not sure how many of you had "Dave Rubin fashion mogul" on your 2025 bingo card. Move over Karl Lagerfeld, Tom Ford and Ralph Lauren. Dave Rubin is here to disrupt the worldwide fashion scene.

Behold the official Moron Zamboni T-shirt.

It is now the featured product in The Rubin Report merch store. All proceeds go directly to me because I am an unrepentant capitalist.

Btw, it looks like Karl Lagerfeld already moved over -- clearly he knew what was coming. ChatGPT tells me he died in 2019. And that's likely because he would have had no answer for the Moron Zamboni T-shirt. Just look at that screenshot above. A great fit for a man or woman, no matter where you live. However, if you live in New York or know someone who does, this item is a must-have. Get it before it takes off as the hottest trend of 2026.

And now on to some of the news I covered on the show this week.

The Epstein files are coming, people. Brace yourself. Congress passed the bill requiring the release of the files this week, and Trump signed it. The Democrats think this is finally going to be the harpoon that sinks Trump.

I think it could be their biggest self-own yet.

Just look at what’s emerged from the Epstein emails released over the last week or so.

We learned that a Democrat Congresswoman, Stacey Plaskett of the Virgin Islands, was texting with Jeffrey Epstein in 2019 during Michael Cohen’s congressional hearing. He was feeding her what questions to ask Cohen. At one point, Epstein told her to ask Cohen about Trump’s former executive assistant, and she did. 🤯 

It’s so absurd, even the anchors at CNN had to call her out on it, and her response as to why she was texting a known pedophile during a congressional hearing was equally absurd.

Democrats jumped to her defense. First up was Temu Obama, who told everyone we shouldn’t jump to conclusions about the congresswoman being fed questions by a known pedophile. “She’s a woman of great intelligence, and a woman of great integrity,” he claimed. If she’s so intelligent, then why would she need a “random” constituent telling her what questions to ask in a hearing. As for the integrity claim, I think you know what to make of that.

The insanity continued when Jasmine Crockett, Lady Eyelashes herself, stood up on the House floor and turned on her urban affect to accuse a bunch of Republicans of accepting campaign donations from Jeffrey Epstein. Oh, really, Jasmine?!

In what could be the most epic self-own to have ever occurred in the halls of Congress, Crockett had the wrong Epstein. 😂

The Republicans she named took campaign donations from a Dr. Jeffery Epstein — not Jeffrey Epstein, the dead pedophile. And some of the donations came in after Epstein, the pedophile, was dead. Crockett’s attempted gotcha moment was such a huge self-own, even CNN had to expose the blunder. Just watch Lady Eyelashes squirm as she tries to explain this one away.

And it got worse for Crockett when she went on MS NOW (the televised mental institution formerly known as MSNBC) and accidentally said the quiet part out loud, when she awkwardly claimed that Democrats haven’t been doing a good enough job at spreading “propaganda.” That’s it, folks — Democrats can’t win elections because they aren’t good enough at propaganda.

The best part of all of this is that Epstein — the dead pedophile — actually donated to Democrats, like Chuck Schumer and Plaskett. The ultimate projection. And I think this whole Epstein gambit by Democrats could end up being a monumental self-own. We’ll see.

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So much of what’s happening in U.S. politics right now is meant as a distraction so that voters don’t notice the wins Trump is putting on the board. Just look at the visit by the Saudi crown prince this week. Trump gave him a welcome with all sorts of fanfare, and the crown prince pledged to increase the $600 million investment in the U.S. he promised earlier this year to $1 trillion. Now, you may be skeptical of Saudi Arabia, but Trump is doing more than any other president to take a different approach to the Middle East. He formally declared Saudi Arabia a major non-NATO ally, all in an effort to bring stability to the region, because stability in that part of the world is good for America.

Has Trump been perfect so far? No. But give the guy a chance. We've got the guy we wanted back in the White House, and he’s been there for only 10 months. Not every problem is solved overnight — although he did seem to solve the border issue overnight.

Speaking of problems, the world’s most oppressed woman went on and on about, of all things, her hair problems during an interview — and blamed them on, you guessed it, white people.

Former first lady Michelle Obama had to “explain something to white people” about how black women’s hair comes out of their heads naturally. And it’s white people’s fault that she and others spend time straightening their hair. And that is why black people don’t know how to swim, she said, and why they don’t go to the gym. Although I’m pretty sure I’ve seen black people swimming and at the gym in my experience.

Lady, I promise you, the average white guy’s daily hair-related thoughts are 100% devoted to “Why is mine leaving me?” and zero percent to your braids, your weave, or whether you should go natural.

And I think Michelle Obama may be just a little out of touch herself on this issue. In modern America, black women are letting their hair go au naturale and setting Guinness world records for biggest afro ever. Will you look at this — that is one humongous afro.

Rubio runs away with victory in Trump admin power rankings

After a couple of weeks assessing who you all think are the worst Democrats, I went back to our Top Trump Peeps Poll last week. And Marco Rubio vaulted to the top of the rankings this week — with more than double the votes runner-up JD Vance got. I think a lot of people are waking up to Rubio as a serious political figure in the Republican Party. He’s come a long way from his Little Marco days 🤣 . Rubin Recap reader emberkalon succinctly summed up what I heard from many of you over the last week.

Which got me to thinking — 2028 is still a long way away, but 2027, when campaigning begins in earnest, isn’t that far away. Rubio and Vance have really emerged as the frontrunners. Now, Vance as VP would seem to have the advantage come 2028, but Rubio has opened some eyes over the last 10 months. And, btw, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will likely be available in 2028, too.

Right now, the betting site Polymarket has JD with a big lead over Marco. I’m curious what Rubin Recap readers have to say. Who would you rather see lead the 2028 GOP ticket? Vance v. Rubio. Get your vote in ⬇️

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What to know

• Have you been watching Actual Friends? We have a new episode that dropped on Friday. Dr. Drerw Pinksi, Sage Steele, Jillian Michaels, and myself discussed a host of hot-button issues, including Marjorie Taylor Greene being suddenly embraced by the mainstream media, declining female happiness, and more on Michelle Obama’s hair problems and what she’s really saying about herself. Watch the new episode here, and subscribe on YouTube here.

• I made a number of appearances while I was in Australia and we’re just getting around to posting some of them on YouTube. This week, we released my appearance on “Liberalism in Question” at The Centre For Independent Studies in Australia with host Robert Forsyth. I talked about the MAGA movement in America and how it needs to be careful not to lose its way. Check out the full discussion here. What a trip down under it was.

• The Rubin Report merch store not only has the official Morron Zamboni T-shirt — we’ve also got some new Thanksgiving-inspired fits. Check it all out here.

• And if you haven’t ordered Copal yet, it’s too late to get it for Thanksgiving. But beware — there are only a few bottles from our second batch remaining. We’re hard at work on a third batch and should have that ready for purchase ahead of Christmas. So get your order in now — and keep the feedback coming. It’s so great to hear your thoughts on what I like to call the official tequila of free speech.

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Until next week … — Dave