• Akaash Singh, host of the popular Flagrant podcast, was called out by his wife, Jasleen, on TikTok for giving a platform to Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign.

  • The interview was posted just weeks before the election, though Akaash insisted to his wife that he didn’t vote for Trump.

  • Jasleen’s TikTok was in response to the recent stock market panic over Trump’s universal tariffs: “There goes our investment portfolio, you dick.”

Akaash Singh, co-host of the Flagrant podcast, was called out by his wife for platforming Donald Trump weeks before the 2024 presidential election.

On Thursday, April 3, Jasleen Singh took to her TikTok account to post a video of herself accosting Akaash about the interview, following Trump’s announcement of sweeping global tariffs that resulted in an immediate stock market free fall.

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“Are you happy that the U.S. stock market is crashing?” Jasleen asks Akaash in the clip. “Isn’t that what you wanted, because you interviewed Trump?”

Akaash and his fellow Flagrant hosts Andrew Schulz, AlexxMedia and Mark Gagnon had Trump on their show for a podcast that went live on Oct. 9, 2024, just weeks before his victory over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.

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Donald Trump (L) joins Andrew Schulz (C) and Akaash Singh (R) on ‘Flagrant’ podcast on Oct. 9, 2024

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In the hour-and-a-half long interview — which currently has 9.5 million views on YouTube — the group discussed everything from Trump’s assassination attempt to his 18-year-old son, Barron, being “unleashed” at NYU.

Akaash launched the podcast with Schulz in 2022, though Schulz tends to take the driver’s seat on most of their interviews. During the Trump interview, Akaash occasionally chimed in to give Trump a chance to appeal to moderate voters.

He did also have a few fawning moments, telling Trump it was an “honor” to sit down with him and praising his tariffs on China.

“Everybody I speak to, every race, creed, whatever, they don’t just like you, they love you,” Akaash marveled at one point. “And I talk to people on both sides about your policies.”

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Despite telling Trump during the interview that he “might actually vote” after speaking with him, Akaash insists in his wife’s TikTok that he did not vote for Trump. He also said that he and the Flagrant team would have welcomed Harris on for an interview of her own.

“Maybe she didn’t want to come because maybe some of you guys shouldn’t have podcasting equipment,” Jasleen fires back in her selfie video.

The comment then incites a reaction from Akaash, who can be heard accusing her of using a “TikTok talking point.” That’s when Jasleen decides the conversation is over.

“I’m not talking to you,” she tells her husband. “There goes our investment portfolio, you dick.”

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“You don’t know what’s in our investment portfolio,” Akaash says.

“Yeah, I do,” his wife replies. “Stocks.”

Despite the broad influence of comedian-run podcasts like Flagrant and The Joe Rogan Experience as a political platform in the 2024 election, Schulz claimed in a May 2025 interview with Variety that the Trump interview wasn’t an endorsement for the then-candidate, adding that he didn’t care if he was branded as a “MAGA lunatic” for having the president on his podcast.

“I did wrestle with it,” Schulz said of the decision. “I understood by doing it I’m politicizing myself. Politics is ugly, bro, it just f—— sucks.”

“I don’t believe in endorsing candidates. I’m a comedian,” he added. “And I didn’t want to go to the inauguration either. They were very kind to invite me, but it wasn’t for me.”

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Schulz added that he’s a lifelong Democrat. He said he doesn’t believe that Flagrant’s Trump interview had any influence on the election.

“I think that America had made their mind up, and I think that a lot of people assumed that the vote for Trump was because he’s this populist superstar that everybody loves and they’re obsessed with,” he explained.

“I think what they’re not calculating is, there are a lot of people that were unhappy with the status quo and they were voting to reject the current administration, which seemingly was saying that they weren’t going to make any changes.”

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