Former MSNBC host Krystal Ball joined foul-mothed and extremist I’ve Had It podcast co-host Jennifer Welch to whine about non-white ICE agents and female members of the second Trump administration. The episode, entitled “Christian Nationalist Crybabies,” was released on Tuesday.
One thing Ball “had it with” was the apparent irony of Hispanic ICE agents deporting illegal immigrants of like ethnicity:
It's like, what is wrong with you? Not only do you not have morality, apparently you don't have self-preservation. I mean, this is — these people hate you. They hate you. They hate your family. They hate your kids. They hate your future grandkids. They don't think you belong here. You're not a quote unquote, “heritage American.” You're never gonna belong. And you're the one implementing the violent force against your own community? I just can't wrap my head around that.
Perhaps those brown-skinned ICE agents actually want to protect the legal pathway to citizenship. Why should they let short-cutters undermine the process they or their families properly used in order to find a better life?
Also, it’s not very “diverse” for a liberal white woman to speak on behalf of a people group they’re not a member of. Just saying.
Welch then went on a tirade against female leadership within the Trump administration, namely Pam Bondi, Karoline Leavitt and Kristi Noem:
… these women that gender-wash this administration […] they are riding the coattails of the suffragettes and all of these women that fought so hard for them to have the job that they have, to be in front of the cameras that they are, to sit behind the desk that they're sitting on. And they are tearing it all down with zero self-awareness as to what generations before them thought. How unworthy these women are of these positions, because they're not taking the time or care.
Huh? So, high-achieving career women have somehow… destroyed feminism? Sure.
Viewer be advised, Welch then satirized dopey “apolitical women” with Christian sentiments who fell for the “gender-wash” swindle with a sweet little F-bomb:
How unworthy these women are of these positions, because they're not taking the time or care. And they're playing this role that a lot of authoritarians use where they use — trot women out so they make these apolitical women feel like, “Oh, it's fine. They're not anti-women because these women are for it. Oh, and they have a Christian cross. The Lord, she's — the Lord likes her. She loves the Lord, so we're gonna go ahead and go along with this fuckery.”
Building off of Welch’s sexism cry, Ball took a wild conspiracy as a source of legitimate concern for all American women:
I mean, you have to take seriously this repeal the 19th Amendment stuff. Not that because it would be like easy to effectuate, but, I mean, all these things that start out as, sort of, like, memes or jokes have become reality with Trump 2.0. I mean, they're really trying to go for it. They're trying to make it so that the only people that count and can vote and have any sort of influence are, like, this narrow swath of people that to them count as whole human beings.
C’mon (wo)man. Nobodies coming for your civil right to vote.
Someone please order these poor ladies some Women for Trump hats!
The transcript is below. Click "expand" read:
I’ve Had It
December 2, 2025
36:33-39:29
JENNIFER WELCH: Okay. Something else you said you'd had it with are minorities in ICE.
KRYSTAL BALL: I mean that connects to this, right?
WELCH: Yeah.
ANGIE SULLIVAN: Yeah.
BALL: [Inaudible] not only do you have no moral compass — and how many times have you seen these guys, they've got their masks on so you can't see their whole face, but what you can see it's, like, a brown skin tone and a dude who looks like his last name is probably, like, Lopez or Hernandez or something. It's like, what is wrong with you? Not only do you not have morality, apparently you don't have self-preservation. I mean, this is — these people hate you. They hate you. They hate your family. They hate your kids. They hate your future grandkids. They don't think you belong here. You're not a quote unquote, “heritage American.” You're never gonna belong. And you're the one implementing the violent force against your own community? I just can't wrap my head around that.
WELCH: No. It's insane. And I feel the exact same thing that you feel when you see the ICE agents. When I see Pam Bondi, or I see Karoline Leavitt, or I see these women that gender-wash this administration where Sean Duffy, Secretary of Transportation, says on camera, “Women shouldn't want to have careers to try to be happy. They should want to have husbands” — oh my god, your mug is so cute.
SULLIVAN: Oh, I want to see.
WELCH: — “husbands and kids.”
SULLIVAN: Oh, that's so cute.
WELCH: Sweet. For those of you that are listening, it's a cute little teddy bear mug.
And then when I see Pam Bondi and Karoline Leavitt and Kristi Noem, and they are riding the coattails of the suffragettes and all of these women that fought so hard for them to have the job that they have, to —
BALL: Yep.
WELCH: — be in front of the cameras that they are, to sit behind the desk that they're sitting on. And they are tearing it all down with zero self-awareness as to what generations before them thought. How unworthy these women are of these positions, because they're not taking the time or care. And they're playing this role that a lot of authoritarians use where they use — trot women out so they make these apolitical women feel like, “Oh, it's fine. They're not anti-women” —
SULLIVAN: Right.
WELCH: — “because these women are for it. Oh, and they have a Christian cross. The Lord, she's — the Lord likes her. She loves the Lord, so we're gonna go ahead and go along with this” —
SULLIVAN: “She must be a good person.”
WELCH: — “fuckery.” It’s —
BALL: Yeah. I mean, you have to take seriously this repeal the 19th Amendment stuff. Not that because it would be like easy to effectuate, but, I mean, all these things that start out as, sort of, like, memes or jokes have become reality —
SULLIVAN: Yep.
BALL: — with Trump 2.0. I mean, they're really trying to go for it. They're trying to make it so that the only people that count and can vote and have any sort of influence are, like, this narrow swath of people that to them count as whole human beings. So, I think you have to take it extremely seriously.
And they're putting on thick pieces about how women ruined the workplace and were to blame for absolutely everything that's ever happened. It's like, you know, what happened to this idea of personal responsibility also. I thought you guys were big on that.
SULLIVAN: Right.
