0:01

Vice President JD Vance, right after

0:03

killing the Pope, flew off to

0:06

India and delivered a speech warning,

0:08

the 21st century could be a

0:10

dark time for humanity. Well,

0:12

with imbeciles like JD Vance

0:14

in charge, it will be. On

0:16

today's program, why JD Vance

0:19

could be even dumber than Donald

0:21

Trump, maybe even dumber than

0:23

Pete Hexeth, whose chief of staff

0:25

over at the Pentagon just

0:27

quit as our nation's Pentagon under

0:30

his leadership plunges into a

0:32

dark chaos of backstabbing and

0:34

lie detector tests. Also,

0:36

Trump's failing with Putin

0:39

and now China is refusing

0:41

to negotiate tariffs, suggesting

0:43

the American economy, not the

0:45

world economy. Just the

0:47

American economy is a lot

0:49

of trouble. Trump, according to Bloomberg

0:52

this morning, has tried numerous

0:54

times to get Xi, the leader

0:56

of China, on the phone, head

0:59

of China, refusing to

1:01

talk to this pustule.

1:03

of a president, Donald Trump.

1:06

Plus, no surprise

1:08

here, Fox Business senior

1:10

correspondent Charles Gasparino, now

1:12

reporting the Oval Office has

1:14

become a den of illegal inside

1:17

trading with White House officials

1:19

on the phone, with select

1:21

Wall Street traders giving

1:23

them real time updates

1:25

on impending tariff deals,

1:28

providing Wall Street insiders

1:30

with enough information. for

1:32

these investors to jump in and out

1:34

of the market, timing it based

1:37

on inside information

1:39

emanating from the Oval

1:41

Office. Should

1:43

that surprise you? The only

1:45

thing surprising is that it came out

1:47

of a Fox business

1:49

correspondent. Taking a

1:51

shot at Act Blue, one of the

1:54

Democratic Party's premier online donation platforms, President

1:56

Donald Trump signed an executive

1:58

order Thursday authorizing Attorney General

2:00

Pam Bondi to crack down

2:03

on straw donors who make

2:05

foreign contributions to American elections.

2:07

You know, like the tens

2:09

of millions of dollars Putin

2:11

donated to the National Rifle

2:13

Association, who in turn gave

2:15

it over to Trump back in 2016. Obviously,

2:18

Trump's afraid Russian money might

2:21

accidentally end up going to

2:23

Democrats instead of him. So

2:25

this is an interesting executive

2:27

order, because one of Trump's very

2:30

first moves after returning to

2:32

the presidency was shutting down

2:34

the FBI's foreign influence task force

2:36

that had been set up

2:38

by then FBI Director Christopher

2:40

Wray in 2017 during the first

2:42

year of Trump's presidency. The

2:45

foreign influence task force, which

2:47

Trump just shut down, was

2:50

established to block Russia from

2:52

interfering in our elections again.

2:54

It was a response to

2:56

Putin interfering in our 2016

2:58

presidential election on behalf of

3:00

Donald Trump, you know, donating

3:03

tens of millions of dollars

3:05

to the National Rifle Association

3:07

so they would give it

3:09

to Trump in 2016. So

3:11

obviously Thursday's executive order is

3:14

all about weaponizing the

3:16

Justice Department to try to

3:18

shut down the Democratic

3:20

Party's ability to raise money,

3:22

accusing Act Blue precisely

3:24

of what Trump is guilty

3:26

of, and that is

3:28

accepting millions and millions and

3:30

millions of dollars, foreign

3:33

donations, foreign money,

3:36

not just from Russia, but

3:38

Saudi Arabia and other Middle

3:41

Eastern countries. C. Jared

3:43

Kushner for more information on

3:45

that. He took a

3:47

lot of money from Russia. Donald

3:50

Trump did and he promised throughout

3:52

his presidential campaign last year that he

3:54

would end the war in Ukraine

3:56

on his very first day back in

3:58

office because he said, Putin will

4:00

listen to me. He said, I know

4:02

how to talk to Putin. Sure

4:04

he does. On day

4:06

one, the war in Ukraine

4:09

would be over and now

4:11

we're approaching Trump. being in

4:13

office for 100 days and

4:15

those peace talks couldn't be

4:17

going any better. Secretary

4:19

of State Marco Rubio saying

4:21

he might withdraw entirely

4:23

from these peace negotiations talks

4:25

between the United States,

4:27

Europe and Ukraine scheduled in

4:29

London for this week

4:32

to draw up a peace

4:34

plan that could be

4:36

offered to Russia. Those talks

4:38

canceled at the very

4:40

last minute by Marco Rubio.

4:42

But the first thing

4:44

Rubio did was praise Donald

4:46

Trump for all the

4:48

good work he's doing to

4:50

end the fighting in

4:52

Ukraine. Jake Sullivan, Biden's national

4:54

security adviser, now calling

4:56

Trump's foreign policy desk a

4:58

disaster of confusion. Obviously,

5:01

Putin didn't agree to

5:03

end the fighting on day

5:05

one, despite Trump signaling

5:07

a willingness to give Putin

5:09

whatever he wants. Ah,

5:11

yes, the art of

5:13

the deal. Before negotiations even

5:15

begin, Trump is offering

5:17

up major concessions telling Russia,

5:20

take it. Whatever isn't

5:22

mine is yours. J

5:25

.D. Vance warning yesterday that the

5:27

United States will walk away

5:29

from peace talks between Ukraine and

5:31

Russia. Well, maybe

5:34

that's a good thing. Europe

5:36

can step in. and actually

5:38

accomplish something. Vance said, unless

5:40

territorial lines are frozen

5:42

right where they are, meaning

5:44

Russia gets to keep

5:46

what it's seized from Ukraine,

5:48

that's about 19 % of

5:50

Ukraine, that's roughly four

5:52

territories within the Donbass region,

5:55

unless Ukraine agrees to

5:58

give all that

6:00

to Putin. And

6:03

if Ukraine

6:06

doesn't challenge

6:09

Russia's annexation of

6:11

Crimea. He's demanding,

6:13

Vance is demanding that

6:15

Ukraine has to just accept

6:17

that Crimea is now

6:20

Russian territory. Not only that,

6:22

but Vance also said

6:24

Ukraine must promise not to

6:26

join NATO. This

6:28

is JD Vancing, unless Zelensky

6:30

agrees to all that, we're gonna

6:32

walk away from the negotiations. Are

6:35

these negotiations or the terms

6:37

of surrender? Again,

6:39

the negotiations haven't even begun

6:42

yet and already Trump is

6:44

caving. You might

6:46

remember Pete Hexeth, our alcoholic

6:48

defense chief, ran into trouble

6:50

two months ago for saying

6:52

pretty much the same thing

6:54

in Europe as Vance just

6:57

said. And Senate Armed

6:59

Services Chair Republican Roger

7:01

Wicker slammed Hexeth for telling

7:03

the Russians what America

7:05

was willing to give up

7:07

in Ukraine before the

7:09

negotiations even began. Senator Wicker

7:11

said, this is not

7:13

how you negotiate. Hexeth

7:15

said, well, I'm just trying

7:18

to set reasonable expectations. No,

7:21

you were telling the other

7:23

side what you're thinking. Hard

7:25

to believe this idiot

7:28

Pete Hexeth put classified material

7:30

on several unsecure signal

7:32

group chats. Donald Trump now

7:34

saying he's prepared to

7:36

officially recognize Crimea as part

7:39

of Russia. But Stefan

7:41

Meister, he's with the German

7:43

Council on Foreign Relations, did

7:46

a pretty good job this

7:48

week explaining that Europe will find

7:50

that unacceptable. Europe,

7:52

not just Ukraine, Europe

7:54

doesn't want to cede

7:56

Crimea. Stefan Meister

7:59

saying, quote, Crimea in

8:01

particular is so strategically important

8:03

for European security that

8:05

there can be absolutely no

8:07

interest in Europe. No

8:10

interest from Europe in

8:12

Crimea coming under any form

8:14

of permanent Russian control

8:16

or being recognized as Russian

8:18

territory under international law.

8:21

Take a look at the

8:23

map. See where

8:25

Crimea is. See why. You'll see.

8:27

If you look at the map,

8:29

you'll see why Europe doesn't want

8:31

to give up Crimea to Putin. Vladimir

8:35

Zelensky, the Ukrainian president,

8:37

now saying that ceding Crimea

8:39

is out of the

8:41

question. Adding Crimea belongs to

8:43

Ukraine. In fact, he

8:45

said, it's written into

8:47

our nation's constitution. Ukrainian

8:50

parliamentarian Ivana Klimtush Since

8:52

Asa calling Trump's plan

8:54

to recognize Crimea as

8:56

part of Russia, she's

8:59

calling that sad and

9:01

dangerous. She then

9:03

accused Trump of not actually

9:05

seeking a just and lasting

9:07

peace, but rather wanting to

9:09

brag that he brought peace. But

9:13

he's doing it, she

9:15

says, by making major

9:17

concessions to the aggressor.

9:19

Well, who is the

9:21

aggressor? I

9:23

thought it was Putin, but you

9:25

might recall, Trump has

9:27

said Ukraine. Not Russia

9:29

is the aggressor. Trump called Zelensky,

9:31

you might remember. Earlier this year,

9:33

he called him a dictator who

9:35

wanted this war. And Trump told

9:38

him, quote, you should

9:40

have never started it. Trump

9:42

says Ukraine started

9:44

it, right, and Eugene

9:46

Carroll sexually assaulted

9:49

herself. On Wednesday,

9:51

Trump continued to attack

9:53

Zelensky, accusing him of prolonging,

9:55

quote, the killing field

9:57

because he refuses to cede

10:00

Crimea and other territory

10:02

in the name of peace.

10:05

Trump said, quote, Crimea was

10:07

lost years ago under the

10:09

auspices of President Barack Hussein

10:11

Obama and is not even

10:13

a point of discussion. Trump

10:15

then asked why Ukraine didn't fight

10:18

for Crimea 11 years ago when

10:20

it was handed over to Russia

10:22

without a shot being fired. Trump

10:24

then blamed Zelensky's

10:27

inflammatory statements for

10:29

Trump's inability to

10:31

negotiate a truce.

10:34

Truce or surrender? Later

10:37

in the day, Trump assuring reporters,

10:39

I'm very close to a peace deal,

10:42

adding Zelensky. has to

10:44

fold. He has

10:46

no cards to play.

10:50

Zelensky responding on social

10:52

media by reminding Donald

10:54

Trump of his administration's

10:56

Crimea declaration made back

10:59

in 2018 by the

11:01

Trump White House, promising

11:03

America would never recognize

11:05

Russia's sovereignty over Crimea. So

11:08

Trump has not even tried

11:10

to hide his fidelity to Vladimir

11:12

Putin. or even hide

11:14

his contempt for Zelensky and the

11:17

people of Ukraine. You

11:19

all remember how Zelensky's

11:21

February 28th visit to the

11:23

Trump Oval Office went

11:25

down. Trump made me

11:27

ashamed to be an American

11:29

for the billionth time

11:31

this year. Since returning

11:34

to office, Trump has distanced himself

11:36

from NATO, the

11:38

European Union, as well as

11:40

the UN, which is

11:42

attempting to prosecute Putin for

11:44

invading Ukraine. He's

11:46

not assisting the International

11:48

Criminal Court. In fact,

11:50

Trump ordered Pam Bondi over

11:53

the Justice Department to cancel

11:55

Biden -era investigations into Russian

11:57

war crimes. He shut

11:59

down the Justice Department's program

12:01

of seizing assets belonging

12:03

to Russian oligarchs. In direct

12:05

violation of a law

12:07

passed by Congress, Trump has

12:09

refused to hire a

12:11

new coordinator to look into

12:14

Russia's war crimes in

12:16

Ukraine. And one of

12:18

Trump's first acts back in

12:20

power this year was canceling

12:22

a program that Joe Biden

12:24

launched to find Ukrainian children

12:26

kidnapped from the Donbass region

12:29

by Russian soldiers. This

12:31

is genocide. This is ethnic cleansing.

12:33

A new study by the Yale

12:35

School of Medicine puts the

12:37

number of Ukrainian children kidnapped

12:40

by Russia at 20 ,000, but

12:42

other sources say the numbers

12:44

20 times higher. After

12:46

Trump canceled that program,

12:48

he was shamed into reopening

12:50

it, but he's not

12:52

really helping. Trump has

12:55

signaled to Putin that

12:57

he wants to lift

12:59

all economic sanctions All

13:01

economic sanctions dating back

13:03

to the Obama administration

13:06

so given all this

13:08

It should come as

13:10

no surprise that instead

13:12

of coming to the

13:14

peace table Putin just

13:16

launched one of his

13:19

deadliest missile attacks on

13:21

Kiev in nearly

13:23

a year. 12 dead,

13:25

90 wounded, at least. Gee,

13:28

what a surprise. Trump

13:30

publicly shames Zelensky,

13:33

orders him to fold, says he can't

13:35

win. Within hours, Putin

13:37

goes on the offense.

13:40

Within hours of

13:42

Trump talking

13:45

this way, not

13:48

just a deadly attack, On

13:50

Kiev, there are

13:53

now reports of 70

13:55

missiles and 150 drone

13:57

strikes on non -military targets

13:59

that would be civilians

14:01

throughout Ukraine. And

14:03

how did Trump respond

14:05

to Putin's aggression by

14:07

taking to social media,

14:10

writing, and I quote, Stop.

14:22

Vladimir, stop. Wow. Trump's calling

14:24

him by his first

14:26

name. What a special

14:29

relationship those two must

14:31

have. Because Joe

14:33

Biden never called him Vladimir,

14:36

especially on social media. Gee,

14:38

I hope Vladimir was

14:40

on Truth Social to read

14:42

Trump's stern message. Yeah,

14:45

Trump was gonna stop. the war

14:47

in Ukraine on day one because

14:49

he knows how to talk to

14:51

Putin. Apparently, that

14:53

means scolding Putin by

14:56

using his first name

14:58

in a carefully worded

15:00

tweet of disappointment, the

15:02

art of the deal. No

15:05

phone call. Couldn't get him

15:07

on the phone. You said you know how

15:09

to talk to Putin the same way you

15:11

know how to talk to Xi from China,

15:13

right? Can't get Xi on

15:15

the phone. can't get Putin on

15:17

the phone. Vladimir calling

15:19

him Vladimir on social media.

15:21

Like we're supposed to

15:23

believe the two of you

15:26

have a special relationship.

15:28

Yeah, he's your pimp. Congresswoman

15:31

Marjorie Taylor Greene responded

15:33

to the Pope's death

15:36

by tweeting quote major

15:38

shifts in global leadership

15:40

and global leadership are

15:42

happening and that evil

15:45

is being defeated by the

15:47

hand of God. She responded

15:49

to the Pope passing away

15:51

by writing, evil is being

15:53

defeated by the hand of

15:55

God. She says America is

15:57

a Christian nation, but she's glad

15:59

the Pope died. See,

16:02

this is the problem turning

16:04

America into a Christian nation

16:06

as she said it is. Christians

16:08

kill each other the same way

16:11

Muslims and Jews kill each other. See,

16:13

everyone thinks Christians, because they're in

16:15

the majority, will turn on the people

16:17

who don't welcome Jesus into their

16:19

hearts. No, no, no, that's not how

16:21

it works. First, they're

16:23

going to attack other Christians

16:25

who don't worship Jesus properly, you

16:28

know, like Catholics. You

16:31

might want to check out

16:33

the endless European wars over religion.

16:35

and the centuries leading up

16:38

to the writing of

16:40

our constitution. It's precisely why

16:42

our founding fathers gave

16:44

us the establishment clause telling

16:46

Americans to keep their

16:48

religious beliefs to themselves because

16:51

it never ends well, Marjorie,

16:54

when government and

16:56

religion become one. Donald

16:58

Trump will attend the Pope's

17:00

funeral Word is he's

17:02

going to be seated in the

17:04

third row. But Trump

17:07

is going anyway, because he and JD

17:09

Vance are tag teaming the poor

17:11

Pope, you know, it being

17:13

Eastern all Vance and Trump worry,

17:15

Pope Francis will be coming back.

17:18

And this time it's Trump's turn

17:20

to rub him out. Trump

17:22

on Wednesday, lashing

17:24

out at the Supreme Court,

17:26

complaining they are now

17:28

requiring due process hearings. For

17:31

all the migrants, Trump's

17:33

deporting under the Alien Enemies

17:35

Act to lower courts,

17:37

also demanding the migrants receive

17:39

due process this week.

17:42

And one court questioning the

17:44

legitimacy of Trump invoking

17:46

a wartime power when there

17:48

is clearly no war, apparently

17:51

in Trump's fevered brain,

17:53

possibly sephalitic. That's what people

17:55

are saying. That's what

17:57

I've heard. Apparently in Trump's.

18:00

fevered brain. We

18:02

are at war with

18:04

Venezuela. Somebody should

18:06

tell Venezuela. I

18:08

think that would be the

18:10

polite thing to do. And while

18:12

you're at it, tell Congress

18:14

they're supposed to decide things like

18:16

this. Trump said the

18:19

courts are interfering with his agenda

18:21

and that there is no

18:23

time to provide trials for everyone

18:25

he mistakenly deports. Trump

18:27

is saying I

18:30

want to suspend Habeas Corpus.

18:32

Habeas Corpus, a sacred universal

18:35

right going all the

18:37

way back to the Magna

18:39

Carta. He knows better

18:41

than King John. Speaker Mike

18:43

Johnson criticizing several Democratic members

18:45

of Congress for flying El

18:47

Salvador and attempting to meet

18:50

with the wrongly deported El

18:52

Salvadoran migrant, Abrego Garcia. Speaker

18:55

Johnson said, quote, Democrats

18:58

traveled to El Salvador as

19:00

part of their obsession to

19:02

bring a violent, illegal alien

19:04

and member of MS -13

19:06

back into the United States. Wow,

19:10

that's how he describes Abrego

19:12

Garcia, a violent,

19:14

illegal alien and member

19:16

of MS -13. Christian

19:18

Mike Johnson bearing

19:20

false witness. Trump's

19:22

own Justice Department, even ICE

19:25

admitting Garcia is not

19:27

MS -13, has no criminal

19:29

record, he's not violent. And

19:31

most importantly, Mike

19:33

Johnson, he's not an illegal

19:35

alien. He's a

19:37

legal resident. In

19:40

2019, a judge gave

19:42

him protected legal

19:44

status. That makes

19:46

him legal. One

19:48

of the Democratic Congressman who

19:50

made the El Salvador

19:52

trip House Democrat Robert Garcia

19:54

firing back calling Speaker

19:57

Johnson a mouthpiece for Donald

19:59

Trump. Congressman Garcia Johnson

20:01

is a liar. He

20:03

said, quote, it's really

20:05

sad to see that Speaker

20:08

Mike Johnson, unfortunately now

20:10

has no issue with lying

20:12

like Donald Trump does. He

20:15

said now he has no

20:18

issue lying. What? All

20:20

Johnson has ever done is

20:22

lie. Mike Johnson

20:24

in 2020 wrote an

20:26

amicus brief for the Supreme

20:29

Court, signed by House

20:31

Republicans, calling the presidential election

20:33

stolen. He is a

20:35

world -class election -denired, dating

20:37

back to before January

20:39

6th. He refuses

20:41

to say Trump lost

20:43

in 2020. He's

20:45

been lying since

20:47

he arrived in Washington.

20:50

Mike Johnson, meanwhile, our

20:52

speaker, is the least

20:54

productive House Speaker in

20:56

modern American history. So far,

20:59

only five bills have

21:01

been signed into law since

21:03

Donald Trump was sworn

21:05

back into office. Five

21:07

bills, this despite

21:09

Republicans having the trifecta.

21:11

The first 100 days are

21:14

supposed to be transformative when

21:16

a president takes office with

21:18

his party controlling both chambers

21:20

of Congress. That's

21:22

what Trump's got, but

21:24

so far, only five

21:26

bills signed into

21:29

law. This is

21:31

a disaster. Not

21:34

good bills, not

21:36

agenda -setting bills. One

21:38

bill was the continuing

21:40

resolution to keep our government

21:42

open because Republicans, Donald

21:44

Trump, Mike Johnson,

21:46

can't pass a 2025

21:48

budget. There

21:51

is no 2025 budget

21:53

and there won't

21:55

be. They've just, they've

21:57

conceded that. It's just a

21:59

series of continuing resolutions until

22:01

October 1st, when the 2026

22:03

budget has to be passed.

22:06

and operative, otherwise

22:09

more continuing

22:11

resolutions. Again,

22:13

there is no budget for

22:16

2025 and there's not going

22:18

to be one. That ship

22:20

sailed. Trump and

22:22

Johnson couldn't do it. Five

22:25

bills in 100 days.

22:28

The other bill they passed

22:30

was Lake and Riley,

22:32

which gives ICE more detention

22:34

power, But there's no money. ICE

22:37

saying it's broke. The

22:40

Washington Post reporting yesterday that immigrants

22:42

rounded up by ICE are now forced

22:44

to sleep on cement floors. No

22:47

beds. As our

22:49

nation's for -profit ICE detention

22:51

industry says it's at

22:54

full capacity. Right

22:56

now, detention centers can't

22:58

handle the load. They're

23:00

about 50 ,000. That's all they're capable

23:02

of housing. can't handle

23:04

it while the Trump

23:06

administration shut down two

23:08

agencies responsible for health

23:11

and safety in all

23:13

ICE detention facilities. Why

23:15

did they do that?

23:17

Why is Trump shutting

23:19

down the two agencies

23:21

responsible for health and

23:23

safety at the for

23:25

-profit ICE detention centers? Well,

23:28

those two agencies are

23:30

ICE Health Services Corps, and

23:32

the office of detention

23:34

oversight. They've been

23:36

shut down. Why?

23:40

Well, ICE has no

23:42

more money to give

23:44

the for -profit prisons, so

23:47

get rid of

23:49

the inspectors. That way,

23:51

the atrocities go

23:53

unseen. They're

23:55

scrimping and saving. People are

23:57

sleeping on floors. We

24:00

know how it went. The

24:02

last time Trump was president,

24:04

there are going to be

24:06

atrocities, but Trump

24:08

is smart. He's fired

24:10

the two agencies

24:12

that keep tabs on

24:14

the for -profit detention

24:17

centers. So Congress has

24:19

to pass the 2026 budget

24:21

by October 1st, so ICE

24:23

can expand its operations, so

24:25

ICE can funnel billions and

24:28

billions and billions to core

24:30

civic. and geo group, geo

24:32

group, those are the two

24:34

companies that run for profit

24:36

concentration camps. They are big

24:39

donors to Trump. Okay.

24:41

So they, they want

24:43

their money. Do you think

24:45

there's going to be

24:47

a budget by October 1st

24:49

to pay the for

24:52

profit concentration camp companies? I

24:55

don't think maybe we'll

24:57

be surprised. Maybe But

24:59

I don't see a

25:01

budget by October 1st.

25:03

I see more continuing

25:05

resolutions. So Trump

25:07

has passed five bills. Three

25:11

other bills were resolutions

25:13

under the Congressional Review

25:15

Act that overturned Joe

25:17

Biden's regulations involving environmental

25:19

protection and the Internal

25:21

Revenue Service. Those

25:24

three bills were

25:26

necessary because Trump couldn't

25:28

sign executive orders

25:30

to overturn these

25:32

Biden regulations. Five

25:35

bills, those are the five bills, Lake

25:37

and Riley, the continuing

25:39

resolution and three

25:41

minor resolutions, overturning

25:44

Joe Biden's regulations

25:46

regarding the environment and

25:48

the internal revenue

25:51

service. 100 days,

25:53

five hollow. meaningless

25:56

pieces of legislation. So

25:59

far, Trump has been ruling through

26:01

executive orders. He

26:03

signed, so far close

26:05

to 130, it's a record, but

26:07

executive orders are not legislation

26:10

and all of those orders are

26:12

being held up in the

26:14

courts and all of them will

26:16

be changed if they're even

26:18

held up in the courts. They

26:20

will be changed the nanosecond

26:23

a Democrat is sitting

26:25

inside the Oval Office, not

26:27

a propitious first 100

26:29

days, no budget, and

26:32

no money for ice. So

26:35

what does Trump have to show

26:37

for it? Migrants

26:41

brutalized, shipped off to

26:43

torture chambers in El

26:45

Salvador, but

26:47

that's just terrorizing

26:49

segments of our

26:51

population. So far,

26:54

Trump has thrown 100 ,000

26:56

migrants out of the

26:58

country in the past

27:00

100 days. A

27:02

little better or worse,

27:04

if you're me, it's worse.

27:07

I don't approve of this. He's

27:11

thrown 100 ,000 migrants. By

27:14

this time last year, Biden had

27:16

tossed out about 75 ,000 migrants. During

27:19

his first administration, Trump

27:22

deported 935 ,000

27:25

migrants. Biden

27:27

deported 4 .6

27:29

million. Trump

27:33

can only deport and

27:35

detain so many migrants

27:37

until our economy collapses.

27:39

We all know this.

27:42

We all know we need these people.

27:44

And Biden and the Democrats, instead

27:46

of deporting 4 .6 million,

27:49

should have done a better

27:51

job Teaching Americans. So

27:53

what we're witnessing right

27:55

now is performative sadism.

27:58

Go out of your way to

28:00

deport the wrong people, separate

28:02

families, terrorize communities. Kind

28:05

of like the tariffs right

28:07

now, announce them, suspend them, bring

28:09

them back, then bring

28:11

some back. Don't bring

28:13

them back, bring some of the

28:15

tariffs back. The tariffs are

28:17

chaos, the same way the treatment of

28:19

the migrants is chaos. But

28:22

the math doesn't lie. Unless

28:25

ICE gets its funding for 2026,

28:27

and I'm not so sure it

28:29

will, we are

28:31

going to see lives

28:33

ruined publicly to distract

28:35

attention away from the

28:37

fact that Trump is

28:39

deporting a lot fewer

28:41

migrants than he had

28:43

promised. Now he should be deporting

28:45

none of them. I'm a broken

28:47

record on this. I'm

28:50

gonna move on. Elon

28:52

Musk is moving on,

28:54

leaving our government. Ordered

28:56

back to Tesla after it

28:58

was announced this week his

29:00

company's net earnings for the

29:02

first quarter of the year

29:04

nose dived 71%. consumers

29:07

not just here in

29:09

America but all over the

29:11

world boycott his car

29:13

because of his association with

29:15

Trump because of what

29:17

he's doing to the United

29:19

States government. Tesla is

29:22

suffering now from what

29:24

they call brand erosion. Shares

29:26

of Tesla down 50 %

29:28

off their highs right before

29:31

Trump got sworn in. It

29:33

remains to be seen whether Elon

29:35

Musk can salvage the company. It

29:38

remains to be seen if by

29:40

returning full time, he will end

29:42

up doing more damage to it.

29:45

Because of his government

29:47

track record, because of

29:49

his association with Doge, he's

29:52

lost all credibility. Some

29:54

analysts saying Musk's

29:56

reputation is permanently damaged.

29:59

One big investor warning

30:01

Musk now automatically

30:03

strips as much as

30:05

20 % off the

30:07

value of any

30:09

corporation simply by being

30:11

associated with it. This

30:14

is all starting to feel

30:16

like the last year of

30:18

the first Trump administration. Starting

30:21

to feel like 2020. It

30:23

was right around this time, back

30:26

in 2020, when

30:28

the economy was

30:30

being unplugged. But

30:32

instead of COVID, now

30:35

the pandemic is

30:37

Donald Trump. It's

30:40

spring break for

30:42

members of Congress and

30:44

we're hearing about

30:46

one town hall after

30:48

another where Republican

30:50

lawmakers like Iowa Senator

30:52

Chuck Grassley, Once

30:54

again, getting screamed at

30:56

by angry Republican

30:58

constituents demanding he do

31:00

something about Donald

31:02

Trump. Grassley has

31:04

had two horrible town

31:06

halls since spring

31:08

break began. Lisa Murkowski,

31:11

the Republican senator from Alaska, literally

31:13

telling her audience, I'm

31:15

scared of Trump. She said,

31:17

we are all afraid of

31:19

him. She said in her

31:22

two decades serving in Congress,

31:24

she's never seen members of

31:26

her own party so overwhelmed

31:28

by this pervasive fear of

31:30

retaliation from Trump and his

31:33

supporters. Well, I

31:35

need not remind my listeners. There's

31:37

a reason Trump pardoned

31:40

and or commuted the

31:42

sentences for nearly 1500

31:44

January 6. insurrectionists.

31:48

The most underreported story

31:50

in Washington are

31:52

death threats made to

31:54

Republican members of

31:56

Congress who don't obey

31:58

Donald Trump. Byron

32:00

Donalds is the Florida

32:02

House Republican. He's

32:05

now running for governor

32:07

of that state. Trump

32:09

already endorsing him, Byron

32:12

Donald's most recent town

32:15

hall turned into a

32:17

free for all as

32:19

Republican constituents leveled very

32:21

specific and angry complaints

32:24

about tariffs, about

32:26

tariffs and Elon

32:28

Musk's attempting to destroy

32:31

our government and

32:33

our social safety net.

32:36

As I keep telling you, we

32:38

are not close to passing a

32:40

2026 budget. In the

32:42

next couple of weeks, you're

32:44

going to be hearing a

32:47

lot about Republicans wanting to

32:49

lift the debt ceiling. There

32:51

may be a

32:53

government shutdown because the

32:55

debt ceiling has

32:57

to be lifted probably

32:59

by July. So

33:02

forget the budget for

33:04

2026. When Congress

33:06

returns next week, all you're going

33:08

to hear about is the

33:10

debt ceiling and whether our government

33:12

can even pay for what

33:15

has already been budgeted for 2025.

33:17

This is chaos. This

33:20

is government through band

33:22

-aids, just

33:24

temporary stopgap measures. But

33:27

eventually Republicans have to

33:29

pass a budget for

33:31

2026, something they've

33:34

proven themselves incapable

33:36

of. They

33:38

can't pass a budget

33:40

and this time they can't

33:42

do continuing resolutions because

33:44

then the tax cuts for

33:46

the rich expire. There's

33:48

real concern among voters that

33:51

these Republicans will keep their

33:53

promise and pass a massive

33:55

tax cut for the rich

33:57

that they plan to pay

33:59

for by slashing our social

34:01

safety net, Medicare, Medicaid, Social

34:04

Security and food stamps. That

34:06

is the Republican plan. They've

34:08

said so. Remember

34:11

supply side economics? Remember

34:14

they used to tell us tax cuts

34:16

for the rich would mean increased revenue that

34:18

will reduce the debt. Republicans

34:20

aren't even trying to sell that crap

34:22

anymore. Everybody

34:24

knows. 2017,

34:28

Trump gave tax cuts to

34:30

the rich. He added

34:32

$8 trillion to the debt.

34:35

Didn't produce tax revenue. So

34:37

now they're just trying to

34:40

raise the debt ceiling by about

34:42

$5 trillion before they give

34:44

tax cuts to the rich. I

34:47

don't know. Leave a comment. Do you think they're

34:49

going to be able to pull this off? All

34:51

it takes is about

34:54

four Republicans in the

34:56

House of Representatives to

34:58

kill the budget. There's

35:01

a reason Tesla's net

35:03

income plunged 71 % since

35:05

Trump took office. People

35:08

around the world do not

35:10

approve of Musk. They

35:12

don't approve of Trump, and

35:14

they especially don't approve

35:16

of the tariffs. Even

35:19

Musk doesn't approve

35:21

of these tariffs. There

35:23

are now reports that Musk

35:26

and Scott Besant, the Treasury

35:28

Secretary, We're screaming at

35:30

the top of their lungs

35:32

inside the White House, almost

35:34

coming to blows. Trump walked

35:36

into the room to watch,

35:38

not to stop it, to

35:40

watch. We know

35:42

Musk hates Peter Navarro, Trump's

35:44

point person on the tariffs.

35:47

Musk calling Navarro dumber than a

35:49

bag of bricks. Navarro,

35:51

by the way, served four months in

35:53

prison last year for contempt of Congress. So

35:57

Trump is replacing

35:59

the neocons with the

36:01

X cons Musk

36:03

also hates Howard Lutnick

36:05

Trump's Commerce Secretary

36:07

who insists the Internal

36:09

Revenue Service can

36:11

be replaced by tariffs

36:13

Well musk so

36:15

far has lost almost

36:17

half of his

36:19

Tesla fortune Thanks to

36:21

people like Howard

36:23

Lutnick somebody's runs

36:27

Cantor Fitzgerald. His

36:30

son now runs it. Somebody should

36:32

check his trades. Fox

36:34

News reporting there's

36:36

insider trading. I'm

36:39

just saying somebody should

36:41

check out these Cantor Fitzgerald

36:43

trades. Well, it's the

36:45

outbreak of COVID all over

36:47

again, but this time

36:49

the deadly virus is Trump.

36:52

The entire world knows We

36:55

voted in an

36:57

incompetent buffoon. We

36:59

elected an

37:01

imbecile, a

37:03

brain dead moron as

37:05

president. Rachel Reeves is Great

37:07

Britain's Chancellor of the

37:10

Exchequer and she now says

37:12

Trump and Trump alone

37:14

will have a profoundly negative

37:16

impact on her country's

37:18

and the entire world's economy.

37:20

Maybe, maybe not.

37:24

Maybe not. The

37:27

global economy can

37:29

heal itself. Europe,

37:31

India, China, Brazil, to name just

37:33

a few, can make

37:35

their own deals without the

37:37

United States. In a few

37:39

weeks, Trump will be confronting

37:42

a new globalism, one

37:44

that doesn't include the United

37:46

States. It's why she

37:48

had a China. It's why

37:50

Trump can't get she. Trump

37:54

claims the tariffs are

37:56

non -negotiable. At the

37:59

same time, he says

38:01

they're negotiable. He's

38:03

negotiating the non -negotiable. He

38:06

suspended most of the

38:08

tariffs for 90 days,

38:10

which means Trump has

38:12

until July 9th to

38:15

negotiate at least 75

38:17

separate trade deals with

38:19

75 separate countries. So

38:22

far, no deals. No

38:25

deals. Trade deals

38:27

are very complicated and hard

38:29

to pull off, especially

38:31

when you're an imbecile like

38:34

Donald Trump. But this

38:36

other imbecile, Peter Navarro, is

38:38

bragging. This is a

38:40

no -brainer. I can negotiate

38:43

a deal a day. Well,

38:46

you gotta negotiate more

38:48

than 75 trade deals

38:50

by July 9th. Trump,

38:54

as usual, is lying, claiming

38:56

China is begging to

38:58

negotiate. But he

39:00

can't get Xi on the phone.

39:03

China's foreign ministry says they

39:05

have not entered into any serious

39:07

talks about the tariffs, especially

39:10

because they take

39:12

exception to our vice

39:14

president calling China

39:17

and its leaders peasants.

39:20

Yes. Vance

39:22

on Fox News defending

39:24

Trump's tariffs and

39:26

said, quote, to

39:29

make it a little

39:31

more crystal clear, we borrow

39:33

money from Chinese peasants

39:35

to buy the things those

39:37

Chinese peasants manufacture, unquote. China

39:40

fired back that the

39:43

trade war will end up

39:45

hurting American peasants. China

39:47

then imposed a

39:49

125 % tariff on

39:51

all American goods. And

39:55

she won't come to

39:57

the phone. On

39:59

Thursday, Treasury Secretary

40:02

Scott Besant reached

40:04

out to China

40:06

again, wanting to

40:08

make a deal. China

40:10

not getting back

40:12

to Scott Besant.

40:14

Oops. China's

40:16

Foreign Affairs Ministry said, we're not

40:18

talking to America. They

40:21

said, we're not talking America

40:23

because China refuses to be

40:25

bullied into negotiations. There

40:27

are now reports in the

40:29

Washington Post that she, the

40:31

leader of China, is using

40:33

Trump's tariffs to galvanize his

40:36

people, to get them to

40:38

unify by standing up to

40:40

the West. He's painting

40:42

America as a colonial power

40:44

from the 20th century, who

40:46

we must defy. What

40:49

we're witnessing from the

40:51

people around Donald Trump

40:53

is the arrogance of

40:55

stupidity. Trump,

40:58

Lutnik, Scott Besant,

41:00

all thought America

41:02

controlled the cards. Instead,

41:05

China is using this

41:07

as an opportunity to strike

41:09

trade deals with dozens

41:11

of countries, aching to remove

41:14

America from the equation. The

41:16

Washington Post reporting yesterday

41:18

that China's economy has had

41:20

some rough spots in

41:23

the past few years, but

41:25

it's coming back with

41:27

more than 5 % growth

41:29

this year. I

41:31

think that's better than we're doing. No

41:34

deals yet. No

41:36

trade deals. Treasury Secretary

41:38

Scott Best and arrogantly

41:40

telling reporters, I've begun negotiations

41:43

with North, South

41:45

Korea. I began negotiations with South

41:47

South Korea and then he said

41:49

they came to the table bringing

41:51

their A game as though this

41:53

is pickleball. And, you know,

41:55

I want to see what

41:57

they got their A game you

41:59

arrogant prick. This

42:01

is not going well

42:04

for the United

42:06

States because of the

42:08

blindingly bright arrogance

42:10

emanating from douchebags like

42:12

Scott Besant. And

42:15

it's starting to

42:17

look like the world

42:20

trade representatives are

42:22

resenting it and aren't

42:24

as scared as

42:26

they used to be.

42:30

They were scared at first. Doesn't

42:32

look that way anymore. The

42:34

International Monetary Fund's top

42:37

economic advisor, Pierre

42:39

Olivier Grinchos, now

42:41

worn in quote, He's

42:44

warning but listen to

42:46

this quote. We're entering a

42:48

new era as the

42:50

global economic system that has

42:52

operated for the last

42:54

80 years is being reset

42:57

Okay, but this reset

42:59

He goes on to suggest

43:01

may be okay for

43:03

the world And he opens

43:05

up the possibility that

43:07

it's just gonna be bad

43:10

for America The

43:12

International Monetary Fund,

43:14

the IMF, the evil

43:16

IMF, saying Trump's

43:18

tariffs are slowing the

43:20

world economy by

43:23

only half a percentage

43:25

point, and right

43:27

now they're not predicting

43:29

a global recession,

43:31

which means nobody's panicking.

43:34

The world isn't that

43:36

afraid of Trump. The

43:38

IMF, the evil IMF, Even

43:41

predicting the world economy

43:43

will pick up next

43:46

year and grow at

43:48

3%. Far from a

43:50

global depression. The global

43:52

depression Trump is threatening

43:55

unless world leaders come

43:57

crawling to him to

43:59

make a deal. Trump

44:02

has a lot less

44:04

power than he imagined.

44:08

So at first, when this tariff

44:10

crap began, you heard a lot

44:12

of world leaders ringing their hands. But

44:15

sometimes when you move out,

44:18

she doesn't want you back. I

44:21

kind of like not saying

44:23

your dirty dishes in the sink

44:25

or smelling your three -day -old,

44:27

half -eaten burritos collecting mold on

44:29

the nightstand. Right

44:31

now, you're hearing a lot

44:33

about the Smoot -Hawley Tarifact, also

44:35

known as the Tarifact of

44:37

1930, signed into

44:40

law by President Hubert

44:42

Hoover on June

44:44

17th, 1930, after Congress

44:46

overrode his veto.

44:48

He vetoed the Smoot

44:50

-Hawley Tarifact, but Congress

44:52

overrode the veto. So

44:55

Smoot -Hawley, back

44:57

in 1930, place

45:01

20 ,000 imported

45:04

products under

45:06

tariff restrictions. Now,

45:08

for some reason, you're

45:11

hearing that it's received

45:13

wisdom smooth -holy turned

45:15

a global recession into

45:17

the Great Depression. It's

45:20

all I hear. Not

45:24

so. As

45:26

much as I want

45:28

to believe that Smoot

45:30

Hawley that Herbert Hoover gave

45:32

us the Great Depression because

45:35

of Smoot Hawley, even though

45:37

he vetoed it. Smoot

45:39

Hawley had nothing to

45:41

do with the Great

45:43

Depression. Most respected

45:46

economists agree Smoot Hawley

45:48

didn't help the world

45:50

economy, but the Great

45:52

Depression had nothing to

45:54

do with tariffs because

45:56

global trade in the

45:58

early 1930s was so

46:00

minuscule Tariffs barely made

46:02

a dent in the

46:04

American, the European, or

46:06

global economy. Back

46:08

then there was global trade,

46:10

but not the kind

46:12

of globalization we have today.

46:16

Trump literally

46:18

said, thanks to

46:20

these tariffs, the world is

46:22

kissing my ass. He

46:25

claims they're

46:27

begging. to make a deal

46:29

with them. Get so

46:31

far. No deals. Can't

46:33

get Xi on the

46:35

phone. Why? All

46:37

right, let me give

46:39

you a little math here.

46:42

The United States is 26 .5

46:44

% of the global economy. China

46:47

is in a distant

46:49

second with only 16 %

46:51

of the global economy. Our

46:54

economy, our gross

46:56

domestic product. is

46:59

$29 trillion a

47:01

year. China is

47:03

$18 .5 trillion a year.

47:05

They're second, but they're

47:07

not even close. But

47:10

here's the problem that

47:12

Trump faces. China

47:14

is just as

47:17

big a customer

47:19

as America. We

47:22

buy about three trillion

47:24

dollars worth of goods

47:26

and services from the

47:29

rest of the world

47:31

each year In other

47:33

words each year America

47:35

imports roughly three trillion

47:37

dollars worth of goods

47:39

and services China Imports

47:41

pretty much the same

47:44

exact amount so if

47:46

Trump Plans to turn

47:48

the world economy into

47:50

a binary choice, China

47:54

or America. Well,

47:58

the world is going

48:00

to look at China

48:02

and see that it

48:04

buys just as much

48:06

from the world as

48:08

America does. And that's

48:10

a problem, especially when

48:12

we're refusing to trade

48:14

with the world. We're

48:16

turning inward. Okay,

48:19

nature abhors a vacuum and China

48:21

is more than willing to fill it.

48:24

The Chinese market is

48:26

suddenly because of

48:28

Trump way more attractive

48:30

than ours. In

48:33

raw dollars and cents

48:35

before the tariffs, there

48:37

was, for countries and you

48:39

know, throughout the world, there was

48:41

just as much money to

48:43

be made selling to China as

48:45

there was selling to America. But

48:50

even before the

48:52

tariffs, China had way

48:54

more purchasing power than we

48:56

did because they have

48:59

less debt and because our

49:01

dollar is still the

49:03

world currency because the dollar

49:05

is so strong that

49:07

makes what we sell more

49:09

expensive. So

49:11

if Trump is going

49:13

to make the world

49:15

choose between the USA

49:17

and China, There

49:19

is way more

49:21

opportunity for economic growth

49:24

trading with China.

49:26

That was before the

49:28

tariffs. There's

49:30

simple math. 1

49:32

.5 billion customers in

49:35

China, 350

49:37

million in the United

49:39

States. There

49:42

are rumblings that

49:44

Trump isn't going to

49:46

destroy the world

49:48

economy with these tariffs

49:51

just hours. Again,

49:55

when smooth holly got passed

49:57

in 1930, global trade was

49:59

nothing compared to what it

50:01

has become during the past

50:03

25 years. And

50:05

nobody is quite sure

50:07

what Trump and his

50:10

isolationism in both international

50:12

trade and foreign affairs,

50:14

what his isolation It's

50:17

isolationism when it comes

50:19

to military intervention and foreign

50:21

aid. Nobody's quite sure

50:23

what this will do. Trump

50:26

is attempting to

50:29

make America incredibly

50:31

insular. There's

50:34

a book that I read. It's

50:36

called The Rise and Fall of

50:39

the Great Powers. It was written

50:41

by Paul Kennedy back in 1987.

50:44

This was before the Soviet

50:46

Union fell, it was

50:49

before the kind of

50:51

globalization that began 25

50:53

years ago. This

50:55

was not, it

50:57

wasn't preaching globalization. In

50:59

his book, Kennedy says

51:02

great powers fail when they

51:04

turn insular. He

51:06

writes that before the

51:08

Renaissance, China was the

51:10

global power. But

51:12

during the Renaissance, the

51:15

Ming emperors of China

51:17

turned inward. They cut

51:19

off foreign trade. Instead

51:21

of great

51:23

seafaring ships, they

51:26

built boats that

51:28

navigated China's rivers so

51:30

they could trade

51:33

internally instead of globally.

51:36

All this, this is the

51:38

Renaissance, while Europe expanded

51:40

across the globe, colonizing

51:44

the Americas

51:46

and eventually

51:48

China. The

51:52

book, it's called The Rise and

51:54

Fall of the Great Powers back

51:56

in 1987, suggested

51:58

that when countries turn

52:00

inward, when they

52:02

ignore the rest of

52:04

the world, It

52:06

is a recipe

52:08

not just for decline,

52:10

but eventually getting

52:12

taken over, being taken

52:14

over by more

52:16

powerful countries. So

52:18

I believe too much globalization

52:21

is a bad thing.

52:23

It's one of the reasons

52:25

America is in a

52:27

permanent state of war, but

52:29

Trump isn't equipped to

52:31

find the sweet spot. He's

52:33

a brain dead moron. What

52:37

he's going to

52:39

do is destroy our

52:41

economy, but not

52:43

the world's. And

52:45

that's why he cannot get

52:48

Xi on the phone. Maybe

52:51

he'll surprise me. Maybe

52:53

there'll be trade deals by

52:55

July 9th. And maybe

52:57

there'll be a budget by

52:59

October 1st. What

53:02

do you think? What

53:04

do you think? Apparently

53:08

the IMF, the

53:10

evil IMF, isn't

53:13

too worried. The

53:15

IMF is saying yes, Trump's

53:17

tariffs will be a drag

53:20

on the economy, but not

53:22

quite the poison, not

53:24

quite the poison

53:26

Trump seems to think

53:29

it's gonna be. It

53:33

looks like if you

53:35

venture into the commanding

53:37

heights of the world

53:39

economy, people at

53:41

Davos, people working over

53:44

the IMF, really bad people,

53:46

they don't think Trump's tariffs

53:49

are going to be

53:51

as earth -shattering as Trump

53:53

wants us to believe. Again,

53:57

the problem isn't so

53:59

much tariffs as it is

54:01

Trump getting to decide

54:03

what those tariffs are going

54:05

to be. He

54:07

announced a 90 day freeze

54:09

on some and Braggs. World

54:11

leaders are kissing my ass

54:13

to make a deal, yet

54:15

no deal. He still

54:17

claims China is begging to make

54:19

a deal, but he can't get

54:21

she on the phone. Scott Besant

54:23

can't get anybody on the phone. Look,

54:26

not all tariffs are

54:29

bad. Joe Biden post tariffs

54:31

on Chinese electric vehicles

54:33

and batteries. So

54:35

they wouldn't flood the

54:37

US market and destroy

54:39

Detroit tariffs can be

54:41

a useful tool But

54:43

not when they're in

54:45

the hands of an

54:48

imbecile like Donald Trump

54:50

How did Donald Trump

54:52

get to wield this

54:54

much power over our

54:56

economy How did the

54:58

guy who went bankrupt

55:00

six times somehow get

55:02

to decide all

55:04

by himself that close to

55:06

100 nations have until

55:09

early July to make a

55:11

deal with him, to

55:13

kiss his ass and nobody

55:15

else's ass. By

55:18

the way, how

55:21

do you know where

55:23

Trump's ass begins

55:25

and where it ends?

55:30

So how did he get this power?

55:34

At a president's disposal

55:36

are about 150

55:38

emergency powers. Some

55:40

of these national emergencies

55:43

he can declare all

55:45

by himself without congressional

55:47

approval. But

55:49

nobody's really quite sure. And

55:51

so Trump declared a

55:53

national emergency. He signed an

55:55

executive order invoking the

55:58

International Emergency Economic Powers Act

56:00

that was passed in

56:02

1977. And

56:04

according to Trump, it

56:06

grants him unlimited

56:08

power to renegotiate tariffs

56:10

globally. But

56:12

most constitutional experts

56:14

agree Congress and not

56:16

the president possesses

56:18

the power to impose

56:20

tariffs. Not

56:23

the president. Now,

56:25

Congress can pass laws

56:27

designating specific tariff powers

56:29

to a president. But

56:32

even surrendering that power

56:35

resides within the legislative branch

56:37

and they can take

56:39

that power back. A

56:41

president just can't declare

56:43

an emergency and seize

56:46

economic power. And by

56:48

the way, what

56:50

economic emergency is

56:52

he talking about? Biden

56:55

handed him the greatest

56:57

economy in the history

56:59

of the world. for

57:01

half this country. The

57:04

yardsticks, the way we

57:06

measure the economy, works

57:08

for half our country.

57:12

And Biden handed him the

57:14

greatest economy in the

57:16

history of the world. Where's

57:20

the emergency? This

57:23

is why New York,

57:26

Illinois, Oregon, and nine other states

57:28

have just filed a lawsuit challenging

57:31

Trump's authority to

57:33

impose these tariffs.

57:37

Senate minority leader, Democrat

57:39

Chuck Schumer said, Trump's

57:42

executive order declaring a national

57:44

emergency in order to

57:46

invoke the International Emergency Economic

57:48

Powers Act requires congressional

57:50

approval, something Trump doesn't have.

57:53

Schumer saying that when Congress

57:55

returns next week, he

57:57

will introduce legislation revoking Trump's

58:00

emergency declaration. which would

58:02

then strip Trump of his

58:04

tariff powers. Coroner

58:06

Schumer, Congress and

58:08

only Congress can pass

58:10

legislation granting specific emergency

58:13

tariff powers to a

58:15

president. Schumer says

58:17

the president cannot seize

58:19

emergency powers simply through an

58:21

emergency decree without an

58:24

act of Congress. Well,

58:28

both houses of Congress are

58:30

controlled by Republicans. So

58:32

Schumer's bill will die, but

58:35

he's forcing Republicans

58:37

to own these

58:40

tariffs. Schumer's

58:42

planning for the

58:44

midterms, he's making it

58:46

impossible for Republican

58:49

members of the House

58:51

and Senate to

58:53

distance themselves from Trump's

58:56

economic wreckage. Donald

58:59

Trump has authoritarian aspirations because

59:01

he has no idea how to

59:03

govern, how to make deals,

59:05

how to pass laws. Fascism

59:10

is for stupid people who

59:12

can't make a deal. The

59:15

first 100 days are supposed to

59:17

be the honeymoon. It's when you put

59:19

your agenda into motion. And

59:22

that agenda must

59:24

be a legislative agenda,

59:26

otherwise nothing sticks. Anything

59:28

short of a

59:31

legislative agenda is posturing

59:33

and noise. His

59:36

executive orders are

59:38

fleeting, subject to the

59:40

courts. These executive

59:43

orders, you see what's going

59:45

on? They crawl through the

59:47

courts and by the time

59:49

they go into effect, if

59:51

they go into effect. It's

59:54

already the midterms. Donald

59:56

Trump has

59:59

zero legislative agenda,

1:00:01

which means

1:00:04

zero lasting change.

1:00:08

Yes, a lot of suffering,

1:00:10

just like his first four

1:00:12

years in office. But

1:00:15

no bills. Hitler got

1:00:17

the enabling act passed.

1:00:20

His first year as

1:00:22

chancellor that was

1:00:24

a major that was

1:00:26

a sea change

1:00:29

I'm not seeing any

1:00:31

major pieces of

1:00:33

legislation coming out of

1:00:35

the Oval Office

1:00:37

because Trump has zero

1:00:40

idea on how

1:00:42

a bill becomes law

1:00:44

Because he's stupid

1:00:46

he taunts Democrats stupid

1:00:49

There's still a filibuster in the Senate.

1:00:52

He needs Democrats. Calling

1:00:54

Schumer stupid isn't how

1:00:57

you get bills passed. The

1:01:00

only major piece of legislation

1:01:02

Trump ever passed was back

1:01:04

in 2017. His first year

1:01:06

as president. It was the

1:01:08

massive tax cuts for the rich. He

1:01:11

had a trifecta back then. And

1:01:13

he passed massive tax cuts

1:01:15

for the rich, which added $8

1:01:17

trillion to our national debt. By

1:01:20

the time he left office, he

1:01:22

was responsible for one -third of our

1:01:24

national debt, thanks to those tax cuts.

1:01:27

And those tax cuts expire at

1:01:29

the end of 2025. Does

1:01:31

anybody think this Republican Congress will

1:01:34

get a budget passed by the

1:01:36

end of this year, one

1:01:38

that includes renewing those

1:01:40

tax cuts? See,

1:01:43

you can't,

1:01:45

can't blame

1:01:47

the Democrats.

1:01:51

You can do this. Trump

1:01:54

can do this without

1:01:56

the Democrats through a budget

1:01:58

process called reconciliation. Democrats

1:02:01

can't filibuster a budget bill.

1:02:03

That's according to Senate rules.

1:02:06

The 2017 tax cuts known as

1:02:08

the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, were

1:02:12

passed through reconciliation. Republicans,

1:02:17

they have the trifecta. Right now

1:02:19

they can do it all by themselves through

1:02:21

reconciliation. Trump will have nobody

1:02:23

to blame other than himself if

1:02:25

those tax cuts expire at the end

1:02:28

of the year. Republicans

1:02:30

without any Democrats right

1:02:32

now could get the 2026

1:02:35

budget passed up and

1:02:37

going by October 1st. renew

1:02:39

those tax cuts for

1:02:41

the rich. They

1:02:43

can even deepen them

1:02:45

without the Democrats. But

1:02:49

do you see that happening? The

1:02:52

tax cuts, I think,

1:02:54

have a pretty good

1:02:56

chance of expiring simply

1:02:58

because Republicans in Congress

1:03:00

can't do anything. Chances

1:03:03

are, by December 31st of

1:03:05

this year, the government will

1:03:07

be running on a continuing

1:03:09

resolution with no budget, and

1:03:11

you can't extend tax cuts

1:03:13

for the rich with a

1:03:15

continuing resolution. Again,

1:03:17

maybe Republicans will surprise us.

1:03:21

Perhaps Trump's death threats

1:03:23

will get them in

1:03:25

line. You know,

1:03:27

there are about four or five

1:03:29

Republicans in the House who can

1:03:31

kill His budget. Those

1:03:34

death threats can be very

1:03:36

convincing, but I doubt

1:03:38

it. In fact,

1:03:40

Republicans are already floating the idea

1:03:42

of raising taxes on people

1:03:45

who earn more than a million

1:03:47

dollars a year. Republicans

1:03:49

are trying to make it look

1:03:51

like it's their idea, but they're

1:03:53

probably going to have no choice

1:03:56

because they can't pass the budget.

1:03:58

So those tax cuts. for

1:04:00

the rich are going to expire. But

1:04:02

they're making it look like, you know,

1:04:05

maybe taxing people who make a million

1:04:07

dollars a year is a good idea.

1:04:10

Now, if the

1:04:12

tax cuts do expire, and

1:04:15

I hope they do, that

1:04:17

adds roughly $500 billion

1:04:19

a year to our

1:04:21

budget. Freshman

1:04:23

Republican Senator Dave McCormick

1:04:25

of Pennsylvania, he

1:04:28

beat Casey. in

1:04:31

2024. Dave

1:04:33

McCormick of Pennsylvania,

1:04:35

the populist ran

1:04:37

Bridgewater, one of the

1:04:39

world's biggest hedge funds. So

1:04:41

he's serving his constituents

1:04:43

of Pennsylvania by ringing the

1:04:45

alarm, warning the tax

1:04:47

cuts for the rich are

1:04:49

going to expire. We

1:04:51

have to do something because

1:04:53

that's why the people of Pennsylvania

1:04:55

sent him to Washington. Senator

1:04:58

Ted Cruz of Texas,

1:05:00

also screaming about how

1:05:03

we have to save

1:05:05

the tax cuts for

1:05:07

the billionaires, because Ted

1:05:09

Cruz is a populist.

1:05:13

Meanwhile, former

1:05:15

Treasury Secretary, Andrew Bill

1:05:17

Clinton, the odious Larry

1:05:19

Summers, who also served

1:05:21

as one of President

1:05:23

Obama's top economic advisors, is

1:05:26

now warning that Trump's

1:05:28

plan to fire 20

1:05:31

,000 IRS agents will

1:05:33

cost the federal government

1:05:35

$100 billion a year

1:05:37

in uncollected taxes. Well,

1:05:40

Larry Summers is also the former

1:05:42

president of Harvard, which means he's an

1:05:44

idiot. He really is. Thanks

1:05:47

to Larry Summers, we

1:05:49

got rid of the Glass -Steagall Act

1:05:52

during Clinton's last year in office. that

1:05:54

deregulated Wall Street, turning

1:05:56

our banks into casinos, which

1:05:58

eventually caused the financial

1:06:01

collapse eight years later. So

1:06:04

Larry Summers presents

1:06:06

as a fiscal

1:06:08

hawk who petrifies

1:06:10

centrist Democrats into

1:06:12

believing inflation is

1:06:14

caused by government

1:06:16

spending. It isn't.

1:06:19

He's wrong about everything, including

1:06:21

the damage Trump is

1:06:23

doing to the IRS. It's

1:06:26

a lot worse

1:06:28

than what Larry Summers

1:06:30

says. It

1:06:33

is estimated that $1 trillion

1:06:35

a year owed to the IRS

1:06:37

goes uncollected, not $100

1:06:39

billion, like Larry

1:06:42

Summers opines. It's

1:06:44

$1 trillion, okay?

1:06:47

Not $100 billion. And

1:06:49

that One trillion was

1:06:51

supposed to get collected

1:06:53

thanks to Joe Biden's

1:06:55

Inflation Reduction Act, which

1:06:58

added 87 ,000 new

1:07:00

IRS employees. It

1:07:02

cost $80 billion over

1:07:05

10 years to hire

1:07:07

87 ,000 new IRS

1:07:09

employees, and they would

1:07:11

bring in trillions of

1:07:13

uncollected taxes. We're

1:07:15

not talking about raising taxes on the

1:07:17

rich. We're talking about

1:07:19

simply collecting what they already

1:07:21

owe. Well,

1:07:24

the Republicans hated this. You

1:07:26

might remember they were

1:07:29

talking about 87 ,000 IRS

1:07:31

agents carrying weapons. Remember that?

1:07:35

So what happened in 2023

1:07:37

in order to raise the

1:07:39

debt ceiling, Biden agreed to

1:07:41

cut $1 .4 billion from the

1:07:43

IRS budget over a three

1:07:46

year period. And

1:07:48

now, despite the Inflation

1:07:50

Reduction Act calling for

1:07:53

87 ,000 new IRS

1:07:55

employees, Trump and

1:07:57

Musk in their

1:07:59

infinite wisdom are attempting

1:08:01

to hack the

1:08:04

IRS workforce down to

1:08:06

1981 levels when

1:08:08

there were 100 million

1:08:10

fewer Americans filing

1:08:12

taxes. Natasha

1:08:16

Saran. teaches

1:08:18

economics at Yale. She just said

1:08:20

Musk and Trump got in the

1:08:22

IRS will leave about two trillion, two

1:08:25

trillion dollars in taxes,

1:08:27

uncollected over the next

1:08:29

decade. Try 10 trillion.

1:08:32

She called the layoffs at the

1:08:35

IRS, quote, fundamentally the destruction

1:08:37

of our tax system. She

1:08:39

says two trillion,

1:08:42

going uncollected over a

1:08:44

decade, it's 10

1:08:46

trillion. It's called the tax

1:08:48

gap, the gap between

1:08:50

what is owed and what

1:08:53

is paid. And that gap is

1:08:55

about one trillion a year. Look,

1:08:58

the math is simple. And

1:09:01

as usual, Democrats

1:09:03

do a piss poor

1:09:06

job doing adding

1:09:08

and subtraction, explaining to

1:09:10

voters simple addition

1:09:12

and subtraction. So.

1:09:15

I know most people

1:09:18

don't understand how this

1:09:20

works because the Democrats

1:09:22

don't explain it. So

1:09:24

get a pad and

1:09:26

pencil and it's not

1:09:29

your fault that you

1:09:31

don't understand how this

1:09:33

works. The

1:09:35

federal budget is

1:09:37

roughly this year, $7

1:09:39

trillion. The

1:09:42

federal government is going

1:09:44

to spend $7 trillion this

1:09:46

year. But the

1:09:48

deficit is $1 .9

1:09:50

trillion. So let's call

1:09:52

it $2 trillion. All

1:09:54

right. We're going

1:09:56

to spend $7 trillion

1:09:59

in 2025, but we've

1:10:01

only collected $5 trillion

1:10:03

in taxes. Okay.

1:10:05

That leaves us, right?

1:10:10

Uh, seven

1:10:12

minus five. that leaves

1:10:14

us with a

1:10:16

$2 trillion budget deficit,

1:10:19

which is added to our

1:10:21

national debt, right? So every

1:10:23

year, if there's a budget deficit, if

1:10:26

the national debt

1:10:28

is $32 trillion,

1:10:31

and this year we

1:10:33

have a $2 trillion

1:10:35

deficit, budget deficit, the

1:10:37

debt becomes $34 trillion, okay?

1:10:41

The Internal Revenue Service collects

1:10:44

roughly $5 trillion this

1:10:46

year and we come up

1:10:48

about $2 trillion short. So

1:10:50

what do we do? That's our debt.

1:10:52

We add $2 trillion to our debt.

1:10:55

Well, we have to put $2 trillion

1:10:57

on our credit card. What

1:10:59

does that mean? It means

1:11:01

we have to issue $2 trillion

1:11:03

worth of treasury bonds and

1:11:06

we have to pay interest on

1:11:08

those treasury bonds So

1:11:10

investors will purchase them

1:11:12

It is estimated that if

1:11:14

corporations and billionaires now

1:11:17

that you know the math

1:11:19

and it's not your

1:11:21

fault It's not your fault

1:11:23

It is estimated that

1:11:26

if corporations and billionaires simply

1:11:28

paid what they agree

1:11:30

they owe After the reductions

1:11:32

and legal wrangling if

1:11:35

they simply paid what is

1:11:37

owed that would bring

1:11:39

in an extra $1 trillion

1:11:41

a year. Okay. You

1:11:43

don't have to raise taxes. Just

1:11:46

have people pay

1:11:49

what they owe

1:11:51

at the levels,

1:11:53

at Trump's tax

1:11:55

cut for the

1:11:57

richest 1 %

1:11:59

levels. $1 trillion. A

1:12:04

year. Larry Summers

1:12:06

says it's $100 billion a year.

1:12:08

This professor from Yale says

1:12:11

it's $200 billion a year. We

1:12:13

know it's $1 trillion, but we're

1:12:16

not gonna get $1 trillion. But

1:12:18

we could get

1:12:21

$500 billion if

1:12:23

all those extra

1:12:25

IRS employees weren't

1:12:28

fired. So I'm

1:12:30

gonna say half a billion

1:12:32

dollars a year without raising

1:12:34

taxes. Then,

1:12:38

When you let the

1:12:40

2017 tax cuts for

1:12:43

the rich expire at

1:12:45

the end of the

1:12:47

year Automatically that's another

1:12:49

half a billion dollars

1:12:51

a year Coming in

1:12:53

right there without doing

1:12:55

anything in other words

1:12:57

if Joe Biden had

1:13:00

been reelected or Kamala

1:13:02

Kamala If Kamala had

1:13:04

been elected and she

1:13:06

kept the IRS She

1:13:09

hired 87 ,000 new

1:13:11

IRS agents and

1:13:13

allowed the Trump tax

1:13:15

cuts to expire

1:13:17

without doing anything. Don't

1:13:19

touch the Inflation Reduction

1:13:21

Act and allow the

1:13:24

tax cuts for the

1:13:26

rich to expire. That's

1:13:28

$1 trillion of found

1:13:30

money for 2026. $1

1:13:33

trillion. Okay.

1:13:37

So our budget deficit for

1:13:39

the year, I said was

1:13:41

$2 trillion, but

1:13:43

we just found $1

1:13:45

trillion. Doing

1:13:48

nothing, just electing a

1:13:50

Democrat. All

1:13:52

we had to

1:13:54

do was elect a

1:13:56

Democratic president and

1:13:58

a Democratic Senate and

1:14:00

House. And

1:14:03

through reconciliation,

1:14:07

This is filibuster proof. We

1:14:09

would have had one

1:14:11

trillion dollars extra to

1:14:13

spend for 2026. All

1:14:16

we had to do was

1:14:18

elect Democratic president, a Democratic Senate,

1:14:21

not a filibuster proof

1:14:23

Democratic Senate, just 51

1:14:25

Democratic senators and Democratic

1:14:27

House. There would be

1:14:30

one trillion dollars automatically. Okay.

1:14:34

Like I said, the budget deficit

1:14:36

for the year, two

1:14:38

trillion. I just found

1:14:40

one trillion. That leaves

1:14:42

us with a one trillion dollar

1:14:44

budget deficit instead of a

1:14:47

two trillion dollar budget deficit. And

1:14:49

the dirty dark secret

1:14:51

in politics is we

1:14:53

don't want zero budget

1:14:55

deficits. We had that

1:14:58

during Clinton's last year

1:15:00

in office and Wall

1:15:02

Street panicked. You're

1:15:05

supposed to run a

1:15:07

debt because that way

1:15:09

we put Treasury bonds

1:15:11

into the marketplace, which

1:15:13

is good for the

1:15:16

economy debt is good

1:15:18

Can't grow the economy

1:15:20

without the government taking

1:15:22

on debt If people

1:15:25

understood this Republicans would

1:15:27

be doomed its simple

1:15:29

math adding and subtraction

1:15:32

Democrats do a piss

1:15:34

poor job explaining very

1:15:36

simple things to the

1:15:38

voters. They make it.

1:15:40

They talk in a

1:15:42

shorthand and people's eyes

1:15:44

glaze over. So

1:15:46

Trump barely won in November.

1:15:48

He didn't get a majority.

1:15:50

And while he carried all

1:15:53

the swing states, it

1:15:55

wasn't by much. And

1:15:57

now his

1:15:59

poll numbers. Cratering.

1:16:03

Four years ago during

1:16:05

Biden's first 100 days,

1:16:07

Biden's approval rating was

1:16:09

57%. He was seven

1:16:11

points above water. They

1:16:13

call that being above

1:16:15

water. Trump's approval

1:16:17

ratings right now

1:16:19

are below 45%.

1:16:21

Some show him

1:16:24

at 40 % approval

1:16:26

rating, which means

1:16:28

he's anywhere between Six

1:16:31

to 10 percentage points

1:16:34

underwater Right Not good

1:16:36

You might hear some

1:16:38

say he's polling fantastically

1:16:40

well, but that's only

1:16:42

because in his first

1:16:44

administration He was doing

1:16:46

a lot worse. He

1:16:48

was 10 points underwater

1:16:50

Averaging 10 points underwater

1:16:52

after his first 100

1:16:55

days. He's not quite

1:16:57

averaging 10 points underwater.

1:16:59

So he's doing a

1:17:01

little bit better. He's

1:17:04

doing better compared to himself. That's

1:17:06

how they created the narrative last year

1:17:08

that black people were voting for Trump. You

1:17:11

can do things with numbers. In

1:17:13

2020, there were no

1:17:15

black people voting for

1:17:17

Trump. Last year, they

1:17:19

found a handful of

1:17:21

black Trump voters and

1:17:23

they said, well, he's

1:17:25

gone from 4 %

1:17:27

to 8%. Used

1:17:30

to be 4 % of

1:17:33

the I think it's more

1:17:35

like 2 % of the black

1:17:37

community is voting for Trump

1:17:39

now. It's 4 % That's

1:17:41

a 100 % increase in black

1:17:43

voters for Trump. That's the

1:17:45

headline That's how you make

1:17:48

numbers sing You say there's

1:17:50

been a 100 % increase

1:17:52

in black voters for Trump.

1:17:54

It's gone from 2 % to

1:17:56

4 % That's how you,

1:17:58

and that's why they're saying

1:18:00

now, Trump's poll numbers are

1:18:03

great. Yeah, compared to how

1:18:05

he did the first go

1:18:07

around and not by much. Throughout

1:18:11

his entire presidency, Trump

1:18:14

was underwater. His

1:18:19

approval rating averaged

1:18:21

nine points underwater, which

1:18:23

means at a

1:18:25

41 % approval rating.

1:18:27

He's never been above

1:18:29

water. Never.

1:18:33

Biden was. So

1:18:35

he lost the popular vote

1:18:37

in 2016. He lost

1:18:39

it in 2020. He

1:18:41

finally won the popular vote

1:18:43

in 2024, but he didn't win

1:18:45

a majority. Biden

1:18:48

won the majority in 2020.

1:18:50

He got something like 5

1:18:52

million more votes in 2020

1:18:54

than Trump got in 2024.

1:18:58

Trump didn't crack 50 %

1:19:00

so now Trump's a

1:19:02

little less below water

1:19:04

than he was eight

1:19:06

years ago and People

1:19:08

are saying so he's

1:19:10

doing better The truth

1:19:12

about Donald Trump and

1:19:14

I'm making a point

1:19:16

here the larger point

1:19:19

Going by polling averages

1:19:21

Trump remains the least

1:19:23

popular president in modern

1:19:25

American history No

1:19:27

president other than Trump

1:19:29

has pulled this

1:19:31

poorly during his first

1:19:33

100 days and

1:19:35

his first administration Never

1:19:37

cracked 50 % it's

1:19:40

not going well. So

1:19:42

what's the point I'm making? Here's

1:19:49

the thing about

1:19:51

fascism and apparently Trump

1:19:54

And his supporters haven't seized

1:19:56

upon this yet. The

1:19:59

whole thing about fascism,

1:20:01

it's all predicated on

1:20:03

the people loving their

1:20:05

dear leader. Not

1:20:07

happening. More

1:20:10

Americans disapprove of Trump than

1:20:12

approve. And it's always been

1:20:14

that way with Trump. Yes,

1:20:17

he did win two elections

1:20:19

barely. I know

1:20:21

he wants to be a dictator.

1:20:24

He's just a dick. It's

1:20:26

really hard to become

1:20:29

a dictator when more than

1:20:31

half the people you're

1:20:33

leading think you're an idiot

1:20:35

and hate you. Yes,

1:20:38

Trump does have a

1:20:40

cult of personality, but only

1:20:42

for idiots. And

1:20:46

it's going to get much

1:20:48

worse for Trump because It's

1:20:51

gonna get much worse for

1:20:53

America or at least feel

1:20:56

like it's gotten a lot

1:20:58

worse. Turns

1:21:02

out there's a direct

1:21:04

correlation between a president's job

1:21:06

approval rating and the

1:21:08

job he's doing. Funny

1:21:10

how that works. So

1:21:12

Trump, for some reason won

1:21:14

Michigan last year. I don't know

1:21:16

why. especially since the down ballot

1:21:19

Democratic candidate for Senate, Lisa Slotkin,

1:21:22

won. There

1:21:24

was ticket splitting in

1:21:26

Michigan. Kamala

1:21:28

lost, Slotkin won.

1:21:31

Okay, the unemployment rate

1:21:33

a year ago in

1:21:35

Michigan, 4 .2%. Today, 5

1:21:38

.5%. It's jumped. So,

1:21:42

I want you to keep

1:21:44

in mind there is the

1:21:46

real number, what

1:21:49

unemployment really is,

1:21:51

and then there's

1:21:53

the mystical, psychological

1:21:56

number, which can't

1:21:58

be measured. There's

1:22:00

what the real number is and

1:22:02

what people think the real number

1:22:04

is. What

1:22:07

people think the real

1:22:09

number is, what

1:22:11

they feel, and

1:22:16

What's happening now

1:22:18

is psychologically it's

1:22:20

starting to feel

1:22:23

a lot worse

1:22:25

under Trump now

1:22:27

the numbers don't

1:22:30

reflect that but

1:22:32

Voters Americans are

1:22:34

already beginning to

1:22:37

believe the economy

1:22:39

is getting worse

1:22:41

getting worse than

1:22:44

it actually is. Okay?

1:22:48

Remember how crazy good

1:22:50

Joe Biden's economic

1:22:52

numbers were? Again,

1:22:55

by the yardsticks we use,

1:22:58

this economy doesn't work for

1:23:00

half our country, but by

1:23:02

the yardsticks we use, Joe

1:23:04

Biden had the greatest economy

1:23:06

in the history of our

1:23:09

country, but Americans didn't feel

1:23:11

it. Well,

1:23:13

this is going to be a much

1:23:15

bigger problem for Trump. The feeling. Doesn't

1:23:19

matter if we plunge

1:23:22

into a recession, a

1:23:24

depression, or don't plunge

1:23:26

into one. Biden

1:23:28

didn't plunge us into

1:23:30

a recession, but too many

1:23:33

Americans were convinced he did. And

1:23:37

right now, Americans don't

1:23:39

feel financially secure. Because

1:23:42

of these tariffs, they're scared,

1:23:44

the massive layoffs inside our

1:23:46

federal government. Americans

1:23:48

are feeling things. They're

1:23:50

feeling that things are a

1:23:53

lot worse than they might

1:23:55

actually be. Kind

1:23:57

of like the way they

1:23:59

did during Biden's four years.

1:24:02

But this is going to feel

1:24:04

way worse because it's Trump. And

1:24:09

because it's Trump, Things

1:24:11

will get will actually

1:24:13

get worse. I don't

1:24:15

know how bad. But

1:24:18

they will get worse. I

1:24:21

hope they don't get

1:24:23

worse. But they

1:24:25

will feel worse. Because

1:24:28

Trump lacks the vocabulary to

1:24:31

create a sense that things

1:24:33

are going to be OK.

1:24:36

All he knows how to do is

1:24:38

tell us. how

1:24:40

bad America is doing.

1:24:42

He can only paint

1:24:44

an apocalyptic wasteland, but

1:24:46

he can't when he

1:24:48

gets into power, it

1:24:51

turns into an

1:24:53

apocalyptic wasteland. He

1:24:55

cannot help people. Doesn't

1:24:57

know how. He

1:24:59

only knows how to help himself. Remember

1:25:02

he threw paper towels in

1:25:04

Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria? leaving

1:25:07

thousands to die. It

1:25:09

was as bad as

1:25:11

Katrina in 2005. About

1:25:16

the same number

1:25:18

of people died in

1:25:20

Puerto Rico as

1:25:23

died in New Orleans

1:25:25

after Katrina. Maybe

1:25:27

even more in Puerto

1:25:29

Rico. It didn't

1:25:31

come back until Biden.

1:25:34

became president because he doesn't

1:25:36

know how to help anyone.

1:25:38

He doesn't want to help

1:25:40

Arkansas. Deep

1:25:42

red state run by

1:25:44

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, his

1:25:47

former White House liar. She's

1:25:49

the governor now. Got

1:25:51

smacked by tornadoes. Horrible

1:25:55

damage. They need

1:25:57

help. They're asking

1:25:59

for help. He's refusing

1:26:01

to send Arkansas money. Sarah

1:26:04

Huckabee Sanders begging him

1:26:06

for money. No

1:26:09

emergency relief for

1:26:11

Arkansas. A

1:26:13

red state. He

1:26:17

doesn't want to help people. Doesn't

1:26:20

care. I

1:26:23

don't know how that

1:26:25

translates into votes into

1:26:27

a higher approval rating.

1:26:31

Biden did everything he could to

1:26:33

forgive student loans. The Supreme

1:26:35

Court blocked some of

1:26:37

those loans from being forgiven.

1:26:39

So Biden found workarounds

1:26:42

through executive orders and billions

1:26:44

ended up getting forgiven. This

1:26:47

administration, as of

1:26:49

May 5th, Trump's education

1:26:52

department will begin collecting

1:26:54

student loans. Payments

1:26:58

were suspended during the COVID

1:27:00

lockdowns? Education

1:27:02

department says you gotta pay your

1:27:04

student loans. Couple

1:27:09

this with the

1:27:11

people who brung

1:27:13

Trump to the

1:27:15

dance, the incredibly

1:27:17

rich. What

1:27:20

happens if these

1:27:22

tax cuts For

1:27:25

them expire at the

1:27:27

end of the year Now

1:27:29

the stock market is

1:27:32

going up and down, but

1:27:34

it's roughly down 14

1:27:36

percent since Trump took office

1:27:38

It's the stock market's

1:27:41

worst performance During the first

1:27:43

100 days of any

1:27:45

presidency in more than a

1:27:47

century and again Not

1:27:49

necessarily bad for rich people

1:27:52

because they have cash So

1:27:54

they buy on the dips.

1:27:56

And as I said at

1:27:58

the top of the show,

1:28:01

Fox News of all people,

1:28:03

a reporter from Fox News

1:28:05

reporting inside trading is rampant

1:28:07

inside the Oval Office. Trump

1:28:10

is reportedly telling a select

1:28:12

few how he's going to

1:28:14

move the markets before he

1:28:16

moves them. Does

1:28:19

that surprise you? Anyway.

1:28:23

the dollar down 10 %

1:28:25

since he took office. And

1:28:27

normally that's good for

1:28:30

manufacturing because a weak dollar

1:28:32

makes American products cheaper

1:28:34

on the world market, but

1:28:36

Trump is waging a

1:28:39

trade war. So the weak

1:28:41

dollar doesn't translate into

1:28:43

more exports. So

1:28:45

it's not going well.

1:28:47

Not going well at

1:28:50

all for Donald Trump.

1:28:53

Not going well. Now

1:28:55

he's ruining people's

1:28:57

lives and it's

1:28:59

scary. But

1:29:02

fascists are supposed

1:29:05

to be big

1:29:07

on the military.

1:29:10

They're supposed to build up

1:29:12

our military, make

1:29:14

people in our

1:29:17

military feel respected.

1:29:21

But under the alcoholic leadership of

1:29:23

Pete Hexeth, whose body is

1:29:25

covered in neo -Nazi tattoos, our

1:29:27

Pentagon right now is in a

1:29:29

state of chaos, insiders

1:29:32

saying they have never

1:29:34

seen the morale this

1:29:36

bad. As Hexeth

1:29:38

becomes increasingly paranoid, accusing

1:29:40

even his most trusted

1:29:42

loyalists of stabbing him

1:29:44

in the back and

1:29:46

forcing his friends in

1:29:49

the Pentagon. Take lie

1:29:51

detector tests to determine

1:29:53

who's leaking. The problem

1:29:55

is who's leaking. Not

1:29:57

the problem of

1:29:59

using signal group

1:30:02

chats to share

1:30:04

coordinates of airstrikes

1:30:06

like he did.

1:30:09

It's the leaking. It's

1:30:11

gotten so bad.

1:30:14

Hexeth's wife, a former Fox

1:30:16

News producer, has begun

1:30:18

sitting in on high -level

1:30:21

Pentagon meetings. And

1:30:23

she, along with Hexeth's

1:30:25

personal attorney, as

1:30:27

well as Hexeth's two brothers, are

1:30:30

being included in unsecure

1:30:32

signal group chats. They

1:30:35

were included in an

1:30:37

unsecure signal group chat

1:30:40

during the lead -up

1:30:42

to those airstrikes on

1:30:44

Houthis in Yemen on

1:30:47

March 15th. It's

1:30:49

all coming out every

1:30:51

day, drip, drip, drip.

1:30:55

ABC News now reporting

1:30:57

Hexeth kept what

1:30:59

is called a dirty

1:31:01

line inside his

1:31:04

office at the Pentagon

1:31:06

in direct defiance

1:31:08

of Pentagon protocol. A

1:31:10

dirty line is

1:31:12

using unsecure phones to

1:31:15

communicate with whomever. Washington

1:31:18

Post reporting that Hexeth

1:31:20

is so intent on

1:31:23

using his cell phone

1:31:25

inside the Pentagon, he

1:31:27

installed the band signal

1:31:29

app on his phone.

1:31:31

His computer also, his

1:31:35

Pentagon computer also

1:31:37

has the band signal

1:31:39

app, which means

1:31:41

he's holding unsecure conversations

1:31:43

with the White

1:31:45

House and Pentagon personnel.

1:31:48

It gets worse, but

1:31:50

I've been telling

1:31:53

you about all the

1:31:55

civilian deaths resulting

1:31:57

in Trump's airstrikes on

1:31:59

Yemen. And I've

1:32:01

been complaining, nobody talks about this,

1:32:04

but we keep hearing all those

1:32:06

airstrikes on Yemen are so

1:32:08

successful. Why are you complaining about

1:32:10

Hexeth sharing the coordinates? They're

1:32:13

not successful. The

1:32:17

real crime here

1:32:19

is the airstrikes on

1:32:21

Yemen killing civilians. Well,

1:32:24

finally on Thursday, Democratic

1:32:26

senators Chris Van Hollen, Elizabeth

1:32:28

Warren and Tim Kaine wrote

1:32:30

a letter to Hexeth demanding

1:32:33

to know why the United

1:32:35

Nations is now reporting that

1:32:37

162 people in Yemen have

1:32:39

been killed and injured by

1:32:41

these airstrikes more than 70. Dead

1:32:44

that we know

1:32:46

of civilians dead that

1:32:48

we know of

1:32:50

Since these airstrikes began

1:32:53

so at least

1:32:55

the Democratic senators are

1:32:57

asking questions Meanwhile

1:32:59

Trump insisting Hexeth I've

1:33:01

got his back

1:33:03

not going Caroline leave

1:33:05

it the White

1:33:07

House Spokeswoman saying once

1:33:09

again that Hexeth

1:33:11

is the victim of

1:33:13

a smear campaign

1:33:15

The victim of the

1:33:17

smear so telling

1:33:19

the truth about Pete

1:33:21

Hexeth Is an

1:33:23

attack on his character

1:33:25

just speaking the

1:33:27

truth New reporting that

1:33:29

while Musk and

1:33:31

Trump lay thousands off

1:33:33

Cutting billions in

1:33:35

foreign aid Pete Hexeth

1:33:37

was somehow able

1:33:39

to find thousands in

1:33:42

his military budget to build

1:33:44

a hair and makeup room off

1:33:46

to the side of his

1:33:48

office. So he looks his best

1:33:50

before going on television. A

1:33:52

defense spokesperson was quick to

1:33:55

remind reporters that the original

1:33:57

cost for the hair and

1:33:59

makeup room would be north

1:34:01

of $45 ,000, but Hexeth

1:34:03

agreed that's too much. So

1:34:05

he brought the price down

1:34:07

for his hair and makeup

1:34:09

room. A

1:34:11

spokesman for Hexeth also

1:34:13

noted that the Pentagon saves

1:34:15

money because Hexeth knows

1:34:17

how to do his own

1:34:19

hair and makeup. They

1:34:23

don't have to hire

1:34:25

someone to do hair

1:34:27

and makeup. So he's

1:34:29

saving the Pentagon a

1:34:31

bundle by doing his

1:34:33

own hair and makeup.

1:34:35

Trump picked Hexeth because

1:34:37

he stands upon that

1:34:39

wall. Camera ready. This

1:34:43

is my makeup brush. There are

1:34:45

many like it, but this one

1:34:47

is mine. This makeup brush is

1:34:49

my best friend. It is my

1:34:51

life. I must master it as

1:34:53

I must master my life. He

1:34:57

can do his own hair and

1:34:59

makeup. This is the

1:35:01

same guy declaring war on

1:35:03

transgender soldiers. Says women

1:35:05

shouldn't serve in battle. Hey

1:35:08

Pete, you're on in 30 seconds. Thanks.

1:35:11

Does this foundation match my

1:35:13

skin tone? Am

1:35:15

I seeing too much shine? Call

1:35:19

the vice president and

1:35:21

ask him if my eyeliner

1:35:23

is giving me panda

1:35:25

eyes. These

1:35:30

are the guys who

1:35:33

complain about the feminization of

1:35:35

our masculine culture. It

1:35:39

will be interesting to see

1:35:41

how long Hexeth can survive. He

1:35:43

defied expectations by becoming Pentagon

1:35:46

chief. He did do it. I

1:35:48

mean, I thought he was

1:35:50

a goner. You might recall most

1:35:52

people predicted he'd go the

1:35:54

way of Matt Gaetz pulling his

1:35:56

nomination before it was even

1:35:58

voted on. Hexeth

1:36:00

appeared on his old

1:36:03

show, Fox and Friends.

1:36:06

Earlier this week, Brian Kilmeade

1:36:08

introduced him as the

1:36:10

former secretary of defense. That's

1:36:12

true. Then he quickly

1:36:14

corrected him. I'm sorry, current secretary

1:36:16

of defense. I don't know if

1:36:19

he did that intentionally or not.

1:36:22

Meanwhile, Hexeth continues to peacock

1:36:24

lashing out at the

1:36:26

media, blaming them for blowing

1:36:28

way out of proportion,

1:36:30

what is now being referred

1:36:32

to as signal gate. It's

1:36:35

all being blown out of proportion. The

1:36:38

problem he has is that in

1:36:40

a few weeks he's going to

1:36:42

have to testify before both the

1:36:44

House and then the Senate Armed

1:36:46

Services Committees. And

1:36:49

he's in trouble

1:36:51

because he's probably

1:36:54

the least popular

1:36:56

cabinet official on

1:36:58

the Hill. You

1:37:00

might recall He

1:37:03

was confirmed in the Senate only

1:37:05

because Vice President Vance stepped in

1:37:07

to break the tie. It was

1:37:09

50 -50. Republican

1:37:11

Senators Mitch McConnell, Susan

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