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Chapter 1: What are the major criticisms of Trump's recent actions?
Let's get right into it, folks, on the Midas Touch podcast. I want to remind you from the very beginning what it was that Donald Trump was saying repeatedly on the campaign trail that corporate media and propaganda promoted over and over again. He said that prices will start to decrease immediately on day one. Here's what he said. Play the clip.
when i win i will immediately bring prices down starting on day one we will end kamala's war on american energy and we will drill baby drill we're going to drill i just want to come with receipts like this receipt over here and i could show you hundreds of clips like this where donald trump said that there would be peace in ukraine on day one he said specifically that he would bring putin
and Zelensky into a room together and they would have a deal within 24 hours. In fact, even before he took office, he said if he were to win the election, a deal would just be made during the transition period. Here, play it. You'll see the receipts.
And the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Yes. How would you do that? I know Zelensky very well. I'll end that war between those two countries in 24 hours. It won't even take that long.
Okay, well, let's look at headlines like this. Major trouble for Donald Trump in new polling. This comes from the Economist YouGov poll, which now has his approval rating dropping to 46%, which I still think is pretty high. And you're probably like, yeah, that's still a little too high. It should be noted, though, that this is still supposed to be the
honeymoon period for someone because they literally just won. And they are pushing the propaganda like crazy. And it's not working. You know where he's losing a lot of support with? Actually, young people. About 37% now is what his approval rating is amongst young people.
It's very, very low as young voters who he tricked are now saying, wait a minute, you literally just screwed us and you lied to us. This is the Wall Street Journal headline as well. Trump voters splinter over his rapid shakeup of Washington. And then there are quotes like this in this article. I feel so stupid, guilty, regretful, embarrassed. It's a huge one.
I am absolutely embarrassed that I voted for Donald Trump. Yeah, you should be. This is what Donald Trump was doing this past weekend. While there was horrific storms in Kentucky and Virginia and West Virginia, took the lives of at least nine or 10 people in Kentucky and our hearts go out to everybody there. Donald Trump was spending millions of dollars in taxpayer money going to the Daytona 500.
This followed Donald Trump going to the Super Bowl. The prior week, he just goes to every sporting event now.
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Chapter 2: How is Trump's approval rating changing?
But we're going to continue to see the divide right now between the hyper online kind of Trumpers on Twitter who are amplified by like Elon Musk's algorithms and actual real people in the world who have a true hatred for Trump and are being affected by him in their daily lives, including people who voted for him. Like the Elon Musk, the Twitter, that's always going to be the same.
But I think sentiment and we're already seeing it is going to continue to shift. The shift with Gen Z, Ben, is one of the most wild things that I've seen. Like you see right before the election, Gen Z sentiment about Donald Trump like spike, spike. That's when Trump was on all those podcasts. He was out there post-shooting, all that stuff. Trump Gen Z spiked. After the election, plummeted.
like like like bottoming out and going down quickly. And I think it's just an interesting dynamic. And it's also enlightening to kind of look at a new generation as well and see what their behavior patterns are. And I think we're seeing Gen Z appears to be pretty reactionary. And and they tend to you know, they didn't know the Donald Trump of four years ago or eight years ago.
They didn't grow up with that. Now they're getting to see what a Trump presidency actually looks like beyond the bluster, beyond the actual campaigning. And guess what? They don't like it. They don't like that all these advances that Biden actually made for them are now being taken away, whether it be student debt relief or whether it be these policies that they actually care about.
I think they actually care about equality at the end of the day. I think they actually care about prices. And they thought that Trump wasn't lying when he said all those things. And now it's all just coming out to be just a total fraud.
Well, look, Donald Trump has made it very clear his priority is simply oligarchs and billionaires. The $4.5 trillion tax cut in the budget for the billionaires. There's nothing about no tax on tips in the budget. There's nothing about no tax on overtime in the budget.
There's nothing about no tax on Social Security in the budget, $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid, $250 billion in cuts to farmers and agriculture, $350 billion in cuts to education. Donald Trump trampling over the environment, which Gen Z does care about, and Gen Z feels like the rug has been pulled. There's reason for hope.
I want to talk about that soon because I think that Donald Trump and Elon Musk thought by now they were going to bulldoze over all of us. They thought that at this point, America would have submitted. They thought they controlled all of the media. I think they thought they would rule like dictators with their shock and awe plan, but they failed.
And I think now their incompetence is showing, and they're also now playing on the battlefield of AP. pissed off population of millions who are getting screwed by them every single day, which is why you see the protests growing, why you see Trump's unpopularity rising. And I think it's going to hit a critical point sooner than even I expected.
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Chapter 3: Why is Trump's visit to Daytona 500 controversial?
One of the first things Hitler did upon gaining power was apply aggressive censorship. So he did that. 20 minutes later, 20 minutes after sending that tweet, he sends this tweet. 60 minutes are the biggest liars in the world. They engage in deliberate deception to interfere with the last election. They deserve a long prison sentence.
Just think about those back to back tweets and then just get, you know, this isn't some random dude. This is a guy who is making major decisions about our government, even if the Trump administration wants to lie to courts about what he's actually doing. He is obviously very intimately involved. He's also
threatening basically all the politicians in our country and kind of blackmailing them in many ways. He's holding his money over them, threatening that if they step out of line in any way and don't go along with everything they're doing, he's going to throw all their money at primary challengers and things like that. So you have these Republicans who are running scared.
And it just speaks to the problem, honestly, with money in our country, money in our politics. If you think about it, You know, just allowing money to be in our politics in the way that is being used right now is going to go down in history as the worst decision ever.
The Citizens United decision is going to, if it hasn't already yet, and this is something that back in the day, President Obama warned against, like, a lot, and he sounded the alarm.
And he was definitely vindicated in sounding the alarm about this decision because it's let the oligarch class, it's let people like Elon Musk use their money to dictate our elections, to control the outcomes, and to threaten our politicians. And I don't think that was ever how this was supposed to work in this country.
Thousand percent, Brett. You want to talk about weaponization of the government? You remember when Republicans were crying in that every day or every second? Look no further than what Elon Musk is doing. He quite literally bought his seat at the table, and that table just so happens to be in the Oval Office.
I mean, when you look at Elon Musk taking questions from corporate media in the Oval Office, standing next to Donald Trump as he did earlier last week, that's a terrifying sight. People... Look, they may have voted for Donald Trump, right? Not by 50%, less than 50%. But sure as hell, nobody voted for Elon Musk.
And now Elon Musk is seemingly making every decision that's impacting every single American and is, quite frankly, having devastating ramifications on this country and people's lives. It's terrifying to see play out. It's absolutely disgusting. And this has to be an indictment on the oligarchs and on Elon Musk. It's absolutely awful.
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Chapter 4: What are the international implications of Trump's foreign policy?
You know, it's always sunny in Philadelphia, this show. You guys, anyone who watches us watch It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, there may be a small sliver of overlap there.
but it's and it's always sunny in philadelphia when they're crazy in the bar it's one thing and they feed off their crazy energy right once they leave the bar and it's always sunny and go into the real world that's when the real pandemonium breaks out and that's when the differences between their crazy and the actual normal world come to a head and i feel like donald trump and jd vance are living this it's always sunny in philadelphia kind of
these episodes where they then go overseas and they look like animals, like they look like just psychopaths to these countries. Then they don't get applauded. Everyone gets offended because they're just like lunatics. When that propaganda structure isn't there, when they don't have Twitter to rely upon and all these various things, it really, it's an emperor has no clothes situation.
And those clothes come off like very quickly.
Jordy talks about Instagram 1.0 with the aviator glasses. Frankly, I have no clue that reference, Brett.
That's why it wasn't for your gen.
Brett, I mean, I had Instagram version 1.0, I think with those weird filters. I wasn't sure what I was taking photos of though. Anyway, Brett's sunny in Philadelphia, but it's almost like JD Vance walked into that room and literally just took a crap in front of everybody.
people were like literally like dude did you just crap on the floor in front of like you know jd vance is like what that's not what we do here i mean people were absolutely could be immature sometimes like people were like just like the f word the what did he do did he literally just poop on the floor right yeah you'll see this he just guys pooped on stage you see this like it's a combination of like horrified just and like this and like disgusted by him
All right. I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to land this plane while they're still I'm going to land this plane while the FAA still has some people right here, you know, and try to and try to bring it and try to bring this home right here. But by the way, there is absolutely total chaos and pandemonium.
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