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Chapter 1: What are Trump's latest actions against the Houthis?
Folks, tons going on in the news. President Trump has some excellent poll numbers. He is also unleashing the American military on the Yemeni Houthis and Iranian front group that's been attacking shipping in the Red Sea. So the American military going to town over the weekend first. America is in the middle of a comeback, but... The culture war is not yet over.
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Connect with a community of thinkers, not followers. Watch anywhere, anytime on desktop and the Daily Wire Plus app for mobile and TV. Join the fight right now at dailywire.com slash subscribe. All right, so... Over the weekend, 32 Americans were killed in a massive American storm after fatalities were reported apparently in both Kansas and Mississippi.
Violent tornadoes, according to the Associated Press, ripped through parts of the United States, wiping out schools, toppling semi-tractor trailers in several states. It was a huge monster storm that has killed at least 32 more people. More severe weather was expected late on Saturday. Lots of vehicles involved, truly a terrible accident.
You've already seen the attempt by some in the media to try and paint the Trump administration as responsible for all of this. That, of course, is incredibly silly. Natural disasters strike on everybody's watch. The question is what the fallout looks like and what the federal government can do and should do in response that has yet to be seen.
So all the sort of preliminary blame on the Trump administration for what happened with these tornadoes across the country, that's silly. And it is not Joe Biden's fault that a tornado hit North Carolina. It's his fault if the federal government doesn't do what it's supposed to do afterwards. We're going to find out in very short order whether the Trump administration rises to the occasion.
I have a feeling that they absolutely will. Meanwhile, the big news of the weekend was that President Trump announced attacks by the United States military on the Houthis. So the Houthis are a group of America-hating, Jew-hating, anti-Israel, anti-American, near-satanic terrorists. in Yemen. And they've been at war with the Saudi government for a very long time.
And one of the things that the Biden administration did was basically push the Saudis to give up that war with the Yemeni Houthis on quote unquote humanitarian grounds. And the result was that the Houthis after October 7th decided that they were going to not only target Israel with some missile strikes, but they were also going to target shipping in the Red Sea.
The Houthis are almost entirely funded. and staffed by the Iranian military. The Iranian military has propped up the Houthis for literally years. What's been going on in Yemen has been a proxy war. The only reason that that had to involve the United States at all is because the Houthis began to attack shipping in the Red Sea, which is a major artery for international shipping and trade.
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Chapter 2: How have Houthi attacks affected global shipping?
So as I say, all Democrats have to do at this point is wait for President Trump to make a mistake, not because President Trump is going to be terrible at being president, but just because every president is faced with crises. Bad things happen in every presidency, and they should wait until he makes a mistake to jump on him. But they just can't do it. They just can't do it.
Over the weekend, Scott Besant, the Secretary of the Treasury, who is excellent at his job, he was talking about President Trump's economy. He said, look, the economy is going to be fine. Again, Besant is doing heavy work on behalf of the administration to quiet the markets given all the sort of tariff chaos that has been taking place over the course of the last several weeks.
I've been in the investment business for 35 years, and I can tell you that corrections are healthy. They're normal. What's not healthy is straight up that you get these euphoric markets. That's how you get a financial crisis. It would have been much healthier if someone had put the brakes on in 06, 07. We wouldn't have had the problems in 08.
So I'm not worried about the markets over the long term. If we put good tax policy in place, deregulation, and energy security, the markets will do great.
That's exactly right. So one of the things that's happening right now is something that happened during the first Trump administration. Trump would throw out an economic policy. Everybody would freak out. And then the economic policy would get sanded down by all the people around him into something that was more palatable to markets. That is one of the things that Scott Besant is doing here.
By the way, J.D. Vance was doing the same thing over the weekend with regard to Doge. There have been tons of questions about Doge. and about the fact that Doge is moving fast and breaking things. And that means that some people are getting fired who probably need to be rehired, for example.
Over the weekend, Vance said in an interview with NBC News, the vice president, quote, Elon himself has said, sometimes you do something and you make a mistake and then you undo the mistake. I'm accepting of mistakes. I also think you have to act quickly to correct those mistakes.
But I'm also very aware of the fact there are a lot of good people who work in the government, a lot of people who are doing a very good job. We want to try to preserve as much of what works in government as possible while eliminating what doesn't work. And again, that is a smart way to approach all this. If you explain to the American people
That when you are performing a surgery on a catastrophic cancer inside the federal government, you might have to cut out some stuff that you don't want to cut out. But then you have to allow it to grow back. That's what Vance is essentially saying right now. He said many people are clearly collecting a check and not doing a job.
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