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Furious World Leaders Destroy Trump on Trade War
Economies. Let's cross back to Professor Scott Lucas, professor of U.S. and international politics. Scott, we spoke to you a little bit earlier. Now that we've heard what the detail is from Donald Trump, what do you make of all of that?
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Furious Kenya Blasts Trump in Public Meeting
On Tuesday, Kenya's President William Ruto arrived in Beijing for talks aimed at increasing investment and trade. China is already Kenya's biggest lender. They funded massive road, railway and power projects. Ruto is hoping to expand that partnership, especially in the manufacturing and digital infrastructure sectors.
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Donald Trump's disastrous trip to the Middle East is perhaps best summed up by this video of Donald Trump with the royal family and the United Arab Emirates. Let's just play this clip.
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So much so that what it takes to buy him off, we know the number now, America, right, with our $30-plus trillion GDP compared to Qatar, whose entire GDP is $200 billion, the price to pay off an American president, a $400 million hand-me-down jet, which is probably bugged where it compromises America's security interests from a country that's helped fund Hamas. That's the number.
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That's the number. So Trump loves them because they treat him like a fellow authoritarian, which he is. And why do you think he doesn't like Canada? Why he doesn't like, you know, European countries? Because he doesn't like democracies. He thinks that's weak when that's actually strength. And you want to like I'll show you the.
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Could you imagine just the outrage if President, and I'm going to keep beating this drum because I think it's important to compare. Could you imagine if President Biden did this? If he would just put up these images of his faces on buildings like this and the outrage that Fox News would run with for weeks? This isn't normal stuff that we're dealing with.
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And that's why I just get so frustrated when we get gaslit by people who are just like, no, it's another day. You know, this is normal.
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And then he starts talking about Sean Duffy climbing trees. And just watch. This is what he's talking about with the Qatari royal family before the United Arab Emirates royal family.
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You see, there's two things. As I was saying, my theory of the case, though, with all of those things going on, why has the media been going wild on the stupidest stuff about Biden right now? Like, why now, you have to ask yourself? Well, one, they always did it, right? But they're doing it in a coordinated fashion because they're trying to cover for Donald Trump and the disaster that he's having.
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They got to go back to the playbook, right? Let's just spend all of this time distracting people by now bringing up Biden this, Biden that. So because there's no justification for what Donald Trump is doing and or their corporate overlords at these corporate media networks are afraid to criticize him because they've got their mergers and they've got all of these things going on.
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I mean, because, you know, you want to talk about what's right before us. How about Donald Trump in these rambling speeches? He just talks about, like, he just brings up random numbers every time. Like, and again, imagine if former President Biden did this.
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I think Donald Trump's lying about the amount of districts that he won, and he just starts rambling and says that there's, like, is he talking about, of course, I'm always talking about it. Is he talking about congressional district? Because there's not thousands of congressional districts, okay? Is he talking about counties? Just watch what he's saying, though, and he'll go, there's 2,037, 535.
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There's 7,032, 34, 7,13, 33, 4, 9, or 11. Here, play this clip.
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Wasn't an obliteration. He didn't even get the majority of votes. There's only 435 congressional districts. And he just keeps on making up different numbers. And I'll give you a real world impact of that conversation.
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why numbers matter and for donald trump just make up whatever number comes to mind so out of this trip to cutter what was their big announcement that the trump regime announced cutter is committing 1.2 trillion dollars to the united states whatever the hell that's going to mean look what i did 1.2 trillion dollar economic commitment well what's the gdp of Cutter, what's the overall annual GDP?
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It's about $200 billion. So you're saying that the deal you cut with Cutter, they've agreed to give you 6X their entire GDP? We're supposed to believe that? And that's what they expect us to believe. Donald Trump goes and makes- I bet that's in every headline also that people wrote about this.
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Exactly, they'll go in and they report that this was like a successful diplomatic trip when it was the biggest, objectively the biggest disaster. I mean, the cognitive decline is there, but I don't even wanna focus so much on the cognitive decline because it lets them off the hook.
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you know, or, or it doesn't line up the hook, but I want to make sure we hold this idiot accountable, but just describe what's going on. I mean, we can see it and I, and I'm sick and tired of this. Don't look at him. Just pretend that this is supposed to be some normal things.
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Pretend when they're putting his posters like Nazi style, like fricking Kim Jong-un Putin style in Washington, DC, that we're supposed to be like, Yeah, whatever. That is Donald Trump. First off, why is he even talking about those things to the royal families in the Middle East who don't have elections? What is the even purpose of that?
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So I wanna talk about more about that when we get back from our first break. I also wanna talk about a major victory though by Democrats in Omaha, Nebraska, which I think is a major sign of things to come. They're the longest serving Republican incumbent mayor in the United States lost
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her campaign to a democratic candidate john ewing jr a 20-point swing in that mayoral race from the last race in 2021 we want to talk about what that indicates now let's talk about some of these congressional hearings where rfk jr said that you shouldn't trust him for any advice regarding health or medicine he's the secretary of health and human services excuse me although I agree with him.
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We shouldn't rely on him. That's what he said. Kristi Noem refusing to answer the question about whether the photo that has the doctored letters MS numbers 1-3 on Abrego's hands are actually doctored. She refuses to answer that. We'll talk about that and more. A reminder, hit subscribe on our YouTube channel. Check us out on patreon.com slash Midas Touch.
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We'll be right back after our first quick break of the show.
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Let's go to the halls of Capitol Hill where this... A giant tax bill is a giant tax scam. Trump calls it one big beautiful bill, which should indicate right away it's one big giant scam. When you actually look at it, when it comes to the no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on social security, all of the exemptions basically make the whole promise BS to begin with.
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But let's just talk about the fact that it still basically gets rid of Medicaid and they're pretending that it doesn't write like $880 billion cuts to Medicaid are still there.
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to pay for trillions of dollars in tax cuts for the billionaires you know it's going to add to the deficit do you know how because they literally put it in the big beautiful bill right these people who are referred to by our idiotic media as fiscal hawks right hawks it's the stupidest name in the world that they give these fiscal what makes you a hawk it's a stupid nickname stop calling them fiscal hawks
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I don't even know what the hell you're talking. Why? What makes you a hawk? Every time you do a budget, you're the idiots who increase our deficit and then Democrats have to fix it. And then you blame the Democrats, the firefighters for putting out the fire by the arsonists and the arsonists come back in and screw it again. And then they get the cool name. That's like the hawks. So stupid.
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It just goes to show you, though, why the media is so broken that they just perpetuate narratives and labels that may quite possibly be the freaking stupidest thing ever. So in this budget bill, it literally raises the debt ceiling by about four to five trillion dollars. It says we have to increase the debt ceiling by trillions of dollars. Why? Because they're going to increase our debt.
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Go back to some of the videos that I was making even over the summer. when everyone was like, no, it's not going to be that much. They're not going to do that. And I would say, I bet you when all is said and done, I still will stand by this guess. Trump will add $20 to $30 trillion, I think, to our deficit. I I'm convinced of it.
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If you add the lack of tax revenue that's going to be coming in because Trump's firing all these people at the IRS. So I think Trump's rich buddies are going to not pay their taxes and have loopholes to try to get around it. And there's not going to be enforcement mechanisms.
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When you add the actual reckless spending by Donald Trump, I mean, look, he's adding, he's doing a trillion dollar defense budget, a trillion dollars. Doge has only added costs.
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actually and the inefficiencies created by doge are going to cause trillions of dollars more federal spending is up month over month now than where it was under former president biden and they're gutting infrastructure they're gutting medicaid they're gutting supplemental nutrition assistance program i mean they're literally getting rid of like snap
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They're getting rid of critical programs from HUD that support housing. All of those programs that basically support people in low-income areas to get housing, they are cutting it by 40% to 50%, which is going to increase the homeless problem. This thing is the biggest disaster. And then you layer on what they've done to FEMA and how they've destroyed FEMA. They fired a MAGA guy.
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who was running FEMA, a guy who called himself an ultra-MAGA candidate when he was previously running for Congress and lost, who was the interim FEMA director. He attended a hearing last week where he was asked a very basic question by a Democratic Congress member. He was terrified to answer the question. I saw it go down in real time. I did videos on it last week. You can watch it.
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They asked him, do you want to destroy FEMA? Do you think FEMA should be eliminated? They asked the head of FEMA, do you think FEMA should be eliminated? His answer was, I can't speak for what Trump wants. I personally believe that FEMA serves an important purpose. That was his answer. Fired right away. They perp walked him within hours after that.
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They invited him to Kristi Noem's office, the dog killer secretary of Homeland Security. And then they fired him right away. And they replaced him with the guy who wants to eliminate FEMA. Eliminate FEMA?
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What the hell is going on right now? Seriously. And just to show you how profoundly dangerous this is, yes, Pete Buttigieg responded to that saying, it's a perfect up north Michigan morning, good day for a bike ride, eh? Then Donald Trump starts saying that he's not a huge fan of stealth. that he doesn't like stealth all that much. He's not a fan of stealth.
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And look, there are no adults in the room here anymore with this Trump administration, with this Trump regime. This is a kakistocracy, right? This is your guys' favorite word. These are the most incompetent people running the government at this time. And it's painful to watch play out.
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And we all saw it with those cabinet meetings that we played here last week or a week and a half ago, when you surround yourself by a bunch of yes men and women who have to subscribe to your MAGA brand of politics, and they have to pledge their allegiance to Donald Trump. And before they could even say anything, they have to compliment their dear leader. And what a great
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100 days he's doing and how this is, they're not getting any work done for the American people. And it's painful to see out because their lack of action and the things that they are actually doing are hurting this country so dramatically. And people are feeling it day in and day out.
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they don't care and that for me is just the worst part it's that they don't care it's cruelty for cruelty's sake how can we line our pockets with the money while everyone else suffers
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So then the trial lawyer in me brings out my exhibits, Jordy, and I say to Brett, let's play exhibit A, which is the head of NIH refusing to answer a question from a Democratic senator, Senator Murray, about how much staff. has left the NIH. Just what's the number? Do you have an estimate? Is it one, 1,000? Just tell us. Here, play this clip.
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And then he tries to talk about how he says that stealth is not effective technology because you can figure out the shapes easily. And he's saying this visiting the Middle East while he's begging for seconds or thirds of the jets from the Qataris and the royal family. I just want to contextualize what's taking place here playing this clip.
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Yeah, there's actually another clip where she then goes to the head of the NIH. Sorry, Brett, I gave you the RFK clip. I'll just tell people what it says. She goes to the head of the NIH. And she goes, well, how many people have you cut? What's the number? Is it one? Is it 100? Is it 1000? Then the person refuses to answer the questions. In the next clip, I want to show you RFK Jr.
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says that his opinions about vaccines and his opinions about health advice are irrelevant when he was asked some basic questions. Let's play.
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I'll tell our viewers to go. We can rewind it. Our audio listening to watch. There's a guy in a. purple sweatshirt behind him. He says the thing, he looks over to the person next to him, he goes, he's whispering something, but it's like, you're the head of health and human services, America's health department. And you're saying that we should not rely on you for any guidance regarding health.
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And here's the thing too, we have the largest measles outbreak in America in recent history. We don't even know the full scale and scope of it because they fired the people who collect the data. So I don't even, it's hard to even trust what the data is. And the head of health and human services is saying, don't trust me. And then the surgeon general.
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But they're deep-sixing the data. I mean it's one of those things where – and here's the thing across the board. We know they fired the data people too. That's one of the first people who got fired were the data people.
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so how do we and we know that their whole theory is if you don't test you don't know what's going to happen basically or you don't have to actually report cases so so so who the hell knows let me just play this cross exam of dog killer secretary of homeland security christy gnome by congress member eric swalwell where she refused to just admit that the letters ms-13 are not supposed to act are not actually on abrigo garcia's knuckles
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and just watch her try to evade and run away from it. Let's play it.
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So what is your point? So what is your point? The point is, is that you're in charge of this. This is your jam, okay? And you and Donald Trump are saying that it says the letters MS and the numbers 13 on it, and it doesn't.
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And you're using that somehow as pretext to deny a human being due process who you've thrown in a concentration camp and you want to throw other human beings in concentration camps in El Salvador. That's the point. right there. Speaking of which, I want to talk about the Supreme Court oral argument that went down today. I want to talk again about the mayor's race in Omaha and some other things.
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Let's just take our last quick break of the show.
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I got my Trump hacks confused. That was the right clip of RFK Jr., but then the FAA guy couldn't answer the question about how many people were fired.
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There's a lot of people who don't know who works in their organization anymore. So here's the head of the FAA with all the issues that are going on. And Brett, what was the latest from Denver? The radars went out for what, like six minutes in Denver?
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And then just play the B-roll of the spread of the motorcade in Qatar as, you know, in order to kind of suck up to the Trump regime in Qatar and these other countries, they were riding around in like red Elon Musk cyber trucks.
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So here's the FAA guy. Let's play this head of the FAA. Let's play it.
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What does that even mean? How do you not know? That's literally your job. You don't know if it's 1 or 1,000. You're confident it's not 5,000. You don't think it's 2,000. So what, we have to play a guessing game? What, that it's 1,500? 1600? These are basic questions. And this is where I always like to say on this show, this should not be, I don't view this through political lenses.
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Like what the hell is that? If that was a democratic head of the FAA, or if that person was part of a democratic administration, I would be saying the exact same, I'd be saying, But that never happened. Do you know why? Because they showed up prepared. And if they didn't show up prepared, they got fired or they got let go. That's what ended up happening.
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And again, basic leadership, again, should not be partisan. I mean, to see Donald Trump in a foreign country whining about Biden while even being with foreign leaders, that's just not what leadership even was. Even if you thought your predecessor,
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was not a good leader and i happen to think former president biden was a very good leader who ran a competent administration and america was actually first if you just look at the objective data but just assume arguendo for the sake of argument that's not the case a good leader takes over and doesn't go around whining about the past guy or the past person this is not what good leaders do you just fix it you move but just think about a coach you become the new coach you're coaching seven eight games in
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Have you, think about it, you know, football or basketball, say you're 40 games in and you're losing everything. Do you see coaches, yeah, you know, in the press conference, it was because the other guy was so bad, that's why I'm losing. Do you see that? If a coach did that, Jordy, you follow sports.
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As the motorcade, as like Donald Trump pulled up to the various Middle East palaces, first the Saudi Arabian palace, and then the palace in Qatar, and then the palace in United Arab Emirates. And then we've learned that one of the reasons Donald Trump needs a gold-plated 747 jet is that he says that he feels humiliated around these royalties.
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Let me get you here. Exactly. You know what this is reminding me of? Remember that great line from Remember the Titans? Attitude reflects leadership, Captain. And that's what we're seeing here. This leadership or lack thereof leadership that we see from Donald Trump whenever he gets pressed on a question. Oh, I haven't heard of that. I don't know what you're talking about. I need to look into it.
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Or, you know, no one's told me about this yet. It's never like, let me figure this out. Or I have an answer for you. It's never that level of let me take accountability for X, Y, Z. It's this deny till you die mentality that this guy's had. And now he's fostered it through his entire administration where no one wants to raise their hand and say, you know what, maybe we could have done better here.
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Because you know what happens? What we talked about earlier in this episode, you get the boot because you no longer subscribe to that MAGA brand of politics that Donald Trump is the dear leader and everything he says is the smartest thing ever. If it's for the American people, it's not for Donald Trump in that instance. And then you know what? Sorry, get out of here. That's what we're seeing.
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Many people are reporting right now that he feels actually humiliated being with the royal families and only having Air Force One in its current form and not gold-plated jets. So he wants to get these gifts from Qatar. Let me bring in Bretton Jordy. Obviously, guys, when Donald Trump is telling the United Arab Emirates royal family that prices are down and things are great,
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And by the way, that's coming from Walmart, which has... It's taken a lot of market share from small businesses. I'll be putting it gently. How do you think this is affecting medium-sized and small-sized businesses right now who don't have access to the secret meetings with Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, that their lines of credit are running dry?
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The indicators I've seen from all of the banks, whether it's Goldman or JP Morgan, they really haven't changed their recessionary projections as a result of this. The market's gone up. The market goes down. The market – it's very volatile based on the manipulation taking place, and it trades more like a meme coin now than like a real –
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uh sound marketplace and and you can tell what's really happening when you look at the bond market as we're approaching the five handle on the 10 20 and 30-year treasury yields that are again going up significantly which really to me is is an expression of a lot of foreign countries don't want to buy our bonds anymore and these bond sales that take place from the treasury department aren't going well there's not the same type of demand
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to buy American bonds, and they have to make it more enticing. That's why the numbers are going up to try to make more people buy the bonds in the first place to try to find a buyer. You don't want to go up. When it goes up, that's bad because that means people aren't buying them unless they're going to be guaranteed a certain level of return on them.
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The dollars weakening the American brand has been destroyed, probably irreparably. right now. China left Donald Trump's, like no one other than our ridiculous corporate media here views what went down in China as a win for America. I mean, I saw a reporting today about how the European Union and Japan, they know that they can wait this out and try to strike – they know that Trump will cave.
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It's just getting him to cave at the right price at this point because Trump always caves. What would they call it? TACO. What was the acronym? Yeah, Trump always caves. What's the – every time? I'm not sure. No, TACO. Trump always caves. I don't know. He always caves, taco something. They call him taco. But I'll go back and think about whatever that acronym is. I forget what the O is.
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Trump always caves, always, I don't know. I don't know what the O is. anyway um so so so you you you have that going on um and again systemically the markets like our overall structural economy is not going well right now and uh nothing that donald trump's doing by pretending to scam his way out of it is actually helping i think it's deeply problematic
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Just two other things I want to point out, because I think this isn't getting enough attention. If you just take a look at some of the actual deals Trump's made, I just want you to put yourself in the position again where we started. Imagine if Putin, the president, did this. Did a ceasefire deal with the Houthis and then called the Houthis... great, respectful, powerful, admirable people.
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I mean, it's obviously a complete lie, but I wanted to lead with that clip because I don't think you can just talk about what's happening in the Middle East as Donald Trump is a grifter. That's not enough.
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It's what Donald Trump called the Houthis. After they shot down eight predator drones, after we lost two F-18 Hornets in the Red Sea, the Trump regime's Department of Defense refuses to release casualty numbers or any data from the Red Sea about what's happening out there or why things are happening. Then we enter into a ceasefire with the Houthis, the United States.
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Think about the win for the Houthis, you know, like Why would the United States even need to enter a ceasefire with the – like just think about the win for them. We got the United States to do a ceasefire deal with us? Like holy crap. So I'm not sure they use that language though. But that's the Houthis.
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Donald Trump did a deal with El Chapo's family to bring in 17 family members of the Guzman family into the United States. They crossed the Tijuana-American border. Donald Trump didn't consult Mexico about it at all. Just people saw 17 family members of the Chapos come in. And I guess the DOJ is trying to cut some deal with Chapo's son, who's been indicted in the United States since 2023.
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And so he's bringing the family in. So we just bring cartel families into the United States now while we send people with no criminal record to concentration camps in El Salvador. I mean, just think about it. You're a Trump supporter, right? Good luck.
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But if you're a Cuban for Trump, a Venezuelan for Trump or whoever, like your families, like pregnant women, like women who are breastfeeding, they're getting sent back to the Maduro regime in Venezuela while Trump's like, Chapo's family.
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I think you have to make it clear that he's broken every single one of his campaign promises, his entire campaign of lowering prices, making housing more affordable, just a complete and total fraud, ending the war in Ukraine in 24 hours.
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So as we conclude this episode, I mean, ask yourself, I'm not suggesting that... this stuff isn't covered anywhere else i'm sure bits and pieces you may have seen before i don't know i mean i'd love to see in the comments like the stuff that we've talked about and we've brought receipts to show you and you could google any of the stuff too research it yourself I mean, it's a serious question.
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Other than on this show, do you see this stuff being talked about in this level of detail or even something close to it? Or certainly all of these topics? Or when you turn on corporate news, do you see them praising Donald Trump's deals in the Middle East that aren't deals?
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Do you see them talking about, for some reason, Biden, which makes zero sense to me why they're doing that right now other than to try to further defame him and distract from Trump? Or what... Tell me. I'd love to actually know in the comments. So leave a comment right now. Put it in the chat. We'd love to hear from you. All right. We've got some travel that we've got to do right now.
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ending the war in gaza in 24 hours all lies things are actually much worse but there he is in lorraine palace in this palace in that palace you know cuddling up to authoritarians while At the same time, his regime has basically ordered the State Department and others to stop doing any work for the G20 summit because it's in South Africa.
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So I'd love to spend some more time on the show. I want to thank everybody, though, so much for watching, for all of your support. It's been a very productive trip here in New York.
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Thank you, everybody. Check out MidasPlus.com. That's our substack. Patreon.com slash Midas Touch. That's our Patreon. We'll do a whole live in the next few weeks where we'll talk about our trip here. We'll do a state of the Midas Touch address. I think the next time everyone's going to see me on the Brother Live show, you'll see me on YouTube every day. But next Monday, I turn 40.
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It's my birthday. On the next live show, I'll be turning 40. So that'll be a fun birthday episode. And thank you, everybody, so much for watching. We appreciate you. We love you. We're grateful for you. Jordy, take it away. Shout out to the Midas Mighty.
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And Donald Trump is claiming that there's a genocide amongst all white people in South Africa. And while Donald Trump is treating his own voters, Latinos for Trump, Venezuelans for Trump, Cubans to Trump, like horrifically and sending them to concentration camps, he's allowing in 2.7 million Afrikaans from Venezuela.
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from Africa because Elon Musk is a white South African who came to the United States. How about that for an intro?
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absolutely katie's an absolute legend so that was really awesome to do i mean just a an icon in the space so that was awesome we were thrilled to do it check it out let us know what you think it was cool we got to talk more about the network and uh let us know what you think it was awesome today has been a day brothers um mightest mighty excited to get into the news ben just reacting really quickly there i don't like stealth like what is what what and
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And then Buttigieg, he's saying he controls the airspace. He's taking a bike. I don't like that. Does he want Pete to fly to work? What is he even trying to say in these clips? And it really is just so aggravating for all the emphasis on mental acuity with the previous administration from folks. Where is that same energy when it's staring you in the goddamn face?
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every second of the day with someone who is actually currently the president of the United States and has access to the nuclear codes.
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begging for gifts from Middle East royal families, like a $400 million gold-plated jet from the Qataris. Donald Trump is talking to the various royal families in the different countries, like there in the United Arab Emirates, saying the word groceries is an old-fashioned sound, he says, and he said that
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Well, the media is complicit in my theory of the case of them bringing up Biden. Then I'm going to stop talking about it is that Donald Trump has looked so addled. This has been such a disastrous trip. This has been the worst.
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kind of few days in a row in presidential history, from the capitulation in China where Donald Trump bent the knee, basically sent his stooges, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant and Trade Representative Jameson Greer to go to Switzerland to pull back the tariffs and then try to claim it was a deal.
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I mean, just literally America losing massively in the world stage to China, where China looks like the adult in the room and America looks the way like China used to look or America looks the way North Korea looked. It was the biggest loser move ever with China. You put 145% tariffs. You say it's going to get you rich. You say you're not going to need to do taxes ever again.
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And the external revenue service is going to collect all this money. You're not even going to need to do an IRS. You take that. Then you take this trip to the Middle East, you compound it with just look at what Donald Trump is saying. Look physically at him. It's staring us in the face. What have I been saying? It's like the movie. Don't look up. I guess the equivalent here is don't look at him.
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Don't listen to him. Just pretend it's all okay. And like a miracle, we're all going to be fine. You layer on top of that the Qatari bribe, the $400 million gold-plated jet. As Donald Trump's out there saying, I deserve gifts. Why wouldn't I get the gifts? It's embarrassing that I don't have a gold-plated jet the way they have gold-plated jets, right?
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Nobody would make up numbers 200% and down 98% and that people don't really know the word groceries and that eggs were never this cheap. Just everything he's saying is a lie. But just what are we watching? How humiliating. I mean, you can go back to when he visited Qatar and he told this story about Pete Buttigieg riding bikes and that he doesn't like that Buttigieg rides bikes.
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You have Donald Trump saluting the Qatari army, saluting the Saudi. He's saluting Saudi troops. Why are you saluting Saudi troops for? One by one, he would salute them. Saluting United Arab Emirate troops? What the hell are you doing?
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Yeah. the country behind 9-11. Then you go to Qatar, the country behind funding Hamas, and we're not supposed to comment on that and act like that's some normal thing. Here's the thing. He rubbed shoulders with these guys. They're like him, right? You know, as Donald Trump would say, like, what is it, like, they not like us? They like him, okay? They just like him.
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Normally, we'd look at them and be like, they not like us. But with Trump, they are Trump. Bribes, fraud, royal family bullshit. It's all of the things that he wants to be. Have you seen the Oval Office where he tries to make it look like a royal palace by spraying these stupid statues gold around it? Just look at the Oval Office and you'll see that he wants to be just like these people.