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Chapter 1: Why is Donald Trump's approval rating dropping?
Donald Trump's approval is sinking as inflation is once again rising. The markets took a battering today as they were spooked over rising inflation and Walmart put out a pretty bad financial report as well. Trump's approval is specifically tanking as well with Black Americans, Hispanic Americans. young voters and voters overall.
And as inflation is once again on the rise, Donald Trump is trying to blame it on former President Biden, Donald Trump and his puppet master, or should I say co-president or whatever you want to call Elon Musk. I guess they're trying to call him in the White House. the tech guy now. They went on Hannity and Donald Trump said it was Biden's fault why inflation is back right now.
And then Fox tried to supplement that with a Chiron saying Donald Trump is bringing us out of the disaster. Here, play this clip.
Yeah, we inherited. Yeah. And inflation is back. I'm only here for two and a half weeks. That was January. Inflation is back.
don't think of it inflation's back and they said oh trump and i had nothing to do with it oh i had nothing to do with it actually donald trump was the original cause of the inflation that former president biden fixed because donald trump added eight trillion dollars of debt he completely mishandled or i should even say not handled at all uh coven and then donald trump said like a miracle it was all going to go away in addition to saying that inflation's back donald trump also spent the past few days
threatening President Zelensky, threatening our NATO allies, saying that he would not support any statements to go out by the G7, which calls Russia the aggressor of Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine. But let's play this clip of what Donald Trump said about Zelensky. Play the clip.
Like a fiddle. He played him like a fiddle. That's an expression we use, yes, sir, to say that he's pretty easy, pretty easy. a dictator without elections, Zelensky better move fast or he's not going to have a country left. Got to move, got to move fast.
So as Donald Trump destroys our economy, destroys our alliances, tries to establish alliances with Russia by sending Secretary of State Marco Rubio to have direct negotiations with Russia in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, cutting out Ukraine and Europe. What Donald Trump wants to distract everybody with is that he says that he and Elon Musk are going to go searching for gold in Fort Knox.
They're gonna start investigating if there's gold inside Fort Knox, everybody. They're gonna go into the mountains with their shovels. This is how they wanna distract us. So ridiculous, play this clip.
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Chapter 2: What are Donald Trump's views on inflation and the economy?
The diplomatic one is one we think we hope to move pretty quickly on because this involves the treatment of our respective missions. The second one will be difficult, which is the question of Ukraine and the end of that conflict.
But I think that's essential in order for the third piece to even be possible, which is our ability to work together on other geopolitical matters of common interest and, of course, some pretty unique, potentially historic economic partnerships as well. The key that unlocks the door for those opportunities, however, is the end to this conflict.
Bring in my brothers, Brett and Jordy. Did you ever think that you would see the day in your lifetime where a United States president would become a Russian bootlicker, send your secretary of state to Saudi Arabia to kiss Russia's ass and to capitulate to Russia and threaten our NATO allies and engage in that reckless and dangerous and malicious behavior?
No, the answer is no. It's great to be here with you guys, first of all. What's going on, brothers? What's going on, everybody watching, listening? No, I mean, it's a complete betrayal of American values and everything that we have ever stood for. I want to be clear, and I'm not going to sugarcoat it to folks out there right now. America is no longer the good guy, right?
And I'm not saying America was always the good guy at every point in history, but I'm saying right now that the United States— can no longer be viewed in the world as a good guy. Our guiding star right now is no longer towards the good of the free world. We are now allied, and this is horrifying, but we are now allied with autocracies. We are now allied with dictatorships.
We are now allied with Russia and our own government right now, including the way they are treating the press, including the various policies, if you want to call them that, that they are implementing. are all straight out of Russia or even Nazi Germany. I always wondered growing up, how could somebody like a Hitler come to power in a democratic country?
I always wondered, how the hell is that possible? How could the people alongside him let that happen? And then you see videos like that of Marco Rubio and you see all these cowards who are subservient to Donald Trump and do everything that he asks and treat this like it is a game when there are people's lives on the line.
when there are people's livelihoods on the line, people's health on the line, all the above. It is an absolute disgrace and an utter betrayal. And that's before we even get to Doge, which I got to say is probably the biggest scam in United States history right now.
what they are doing and we're going to get into all the details but it is all smoke and mirrors under the guise of cutting waste fraud and abuse and it is just fake like the whole thing is fake it's all bs that's wrapped in these russian talking points to act like look we're making things more efficient as they ruin people's lives as they don't even cut a lot of money you know doge's website get this
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Chapter 3: How is Donald Trump impacting international relations?
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Chapter 4: What are the consequences of Trump's economic policies?
I think we need to be looking at ourselves and what we could all be doing, the ways we could be organizing, protesting, speaking out, demanding that members of Congress do what they promise they do, that they actually put up a fight.
And I think if we're able to coalesce and build this coalition and continue to knock down Donald Trump's approval ratings by exposing him the way we are, I think the power that we are going to see of the people is going to be the thing that saves this country ultimately. And that's why I love when I look out.
not on the news, but when I see on social media and on the Midas Touch Network, when I see these protests forming, when I see the people speaking up, speaking loudly, loudly, and demanding action. And I want to see more of that. And we all need to be thinking every single day, what could we be doing? Do we have a skill? Maybe you're an artist. Maybe you write songs.
Maybe you want to make phone calls. I don't care what it is, but every day we should be thinking, is there something I could do today to try to save my country? responsibility and ownership of this as much as it sucks, as much as none of us asked for this. But I don't even think this is not a partisan thing at all. This is about democracy. This is about our country. This is about normalcy.
And what we're seeing right now with Trump and Doge, this operation, which I think is a a whole kind of foreign influence operation, kind of both from within and from overseas. It's horrifying. And we should all be united in pushing back against that, regardless of whether you consider yourself the leftiest of lefties, the most conservative person on the planet, moderate.
I don't care where you are, right? This is an existential crisis that we're all facing. So it's time to come together.
And people are pissed. It's very clear. People are angry. I mean, they are taking to the streets. We cover the protests here just like we showed right there, Brennan, that shot. What's happening here is this entire administration is just gaslighting the entire American people. Gaslighting the world, right? Donald Trump, no tax on tips. Where is that? Oh, no. Look at this shiny object over here.
Look at this over here. Everything that he essentially campaigned on that got people excited, I mean, the no tax on tips one is like the most infuriating one to me because that was such a staple of his campaign. But yet he dodges every question when asked about it. It's an unbelievable thing. You look at Duffy on Fox News. I mean, gaslighting 101.
There's more plane crashes under the Biden administration than the Trump administration. Y'all have been in office now for three weeks. I'm hearing about a plane incident every other day at this point. What are we talking about? And then the stats that Duffy threw out, I'm not going to go point by point, but just completely made up, like just completely falsified.
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