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Chapter 1: How is Trump proposing to change the immigration system?
As our economy worsens, Donald Trump yesterday was in the Oval Office talking about replacing our visa system and immigration system with the Trump gold card. And he says he's basically going to sell gold cards to immigrants to get visas and fast track their citizenship. And he says specifically he's going to help I'm not making this up. The Russian oligarchs become American citizens.
Here, play this clip. Go down to nothing.
Would a Russian oligarch be eligible for a gold card?
Yeah, possibly. Hey, I know some Russian oligarchs that are very nice people. It's possible. They're not quite as wealthy as they used to be. They're not as wealthy as they used to be. I think they could afford $5 million.
Yeah, from that same Oval Office appearance where he was flanked by RFK Jr., Donald Trump was also selling MAGA hats from the Oval Office. Take a look at RFK Jr. 's face also while Trump was selling MAGA hats. Here, play this clip.
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Chapter 2: What controversial items did Trump promote in the Oval Office?
Look. See that? Trump was right about everything. Just came in. Somebody said, I said, this was sent in by a fan. I said, I think we should make some of them. But we were pretty much. You want one?
Are you allowed to take one?
He'll consider it. I know him well. He's sort of a stiff. Brian, you're not a stiff one. He's sort of a stiff guy. He'll take other things, but not a free hand. Always say yes to the president. Always say yes to the president. Would anybody like one? Mr. President, an easy question.
While all of this was going on, too, or I should say right before that was going on, Donald Trump was in the Oval Office playing with toy toys. airplanes, and he was playing with it while Elon was like, good job. And you can see Donald Trump holding the kind of toy plane, the statute, if you will. Then you can see Elon through the mirror right there.
Chapter 3: What is in Trump's proposed budget plan?
There's some real issues about what's going on there as well. What the heck? At the same time, you had Donald Trump basically coercing and pressuring the MAGA holdouts to support the budget plan, the Trump GOP budget plan, which cuts basically... $880 billion from Medicaid. So say goodbye to Medicaid under this program. It has about $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the billionaires.
It also cuts close to $300 billion to farmers, about $400 billion for education. And Tens of billions of dollars for infrastructure, but don't worry, the billionaires are getting a massive tax cut.
Ultimately, the budget blueprint passed after Donald Trump reached out to MAGA Republicans like Congresswoman Spars and others and got them to change their votes to flip in favor of the plan, which will add about $19 trillion to the deficit. over the next 10 years, conservatively, about $19 trillion. Remember what I said a few months back?
I said, Trump's plan, they're saying that it'll add about 10 trillion. I was saying, nope, I think it'll be more like 30 to 50 trillion, which I still think I'm gonna be right. Here is the moment where the MAGA Republicans were cheering the fact that they cut billions from, hundreds of billions, from healthcare and food assistance programs, but delivered $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to billionaires.
Chapter 4: How are federal judges ruling against Trump's policies?
Here, play this clip. Yesterday, Donald Trump also got a number of bad rulings from federal judges. That's why Donald Trump and Elon Musk are basically calling for these federal judges to now be impeached or to force them out.
One of the rulings was Judge Ali in Washington, DC, who granted a motion to enforce the restraining order against USAID, against the spending freeze that the Trump administration ordered. Judge Ali ordered the Trump administration to pay, quote, all invoices and letter of credit drawdown requests for work done prior to February 15th by tonight at midnight, 36 hours to comply.
Also, there was a separate scathing ruling from another federal judge extending her block of Trump administration's blanket spending freeze. While all of this is happening, Elon Musk is posting, what is the point of having democratic elections if unelected activist judges can override the clear will of the people? Well, that's no democracy at all.
As our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski writes, they really struggle with the concept of a constitutional republic with judicial review. They also struggle with the concept of decency. Because here's Marjorie Taylor Greene from the hearing yesterday that preceded the vote on the budget bill, where Marjorie Taylor Greene says that the federal workers who are being fired are not really workers.
Chapter 5: What is Marjorie Taylor Greene's stance on federal workers?
They don't have real jobs. They don't deserve their jobs. They don't deserve their paycheck. And that federal workers are lazy. This is what Marjorie Taylor Greene, who leads the Doge subcommittee, has to say. Play this clip.
You can protest all you want outside of departments of this government. You can protest all you want, but the American people disagree with you. You're protecting the bureaucracy. The bureaucracy is not a business. Those are not real jobs producing federal revenue. By the way, they're consuming taxpayer dollars.
Those jobs are paid for by the American tax people who work real jobs, earn real income, pay federal taxes, and then pay these federal employees. Federal employees do not deserve their jobs. Federal employees do not deserve their paychecks. And these are jobs that can be fired at will.
Chapter 6: How is Shopify helping businesses grow?
I often get asked, what's the secret to how Midas Touch has grown so fast? I said, it's easy. It's the community, the Midas Mighty Number One. Then we have to make good content. Number three, we gotta have the business behind the business, the nuts and bolts that make it all work. And we use Shopify here at the Midas Touch Network. Nobody does selling better than Shopify.
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And by the way, as Marjorie Taylor Greene leads the Doge subcommittee, again, I don't care what political party you're from, aren't you pissed regardless that she's not calling Elon Musk to testify before oversight committees? that Elon Musk just gets to like make up things.
Chapter 7: Why is there controversy surrounding Elon Musk and political oversight?
And then as the New York Times reported yesterday, Elon Musk then like removed some of the main claims about, or Doge removed some of the main claims about the things they allegedly discovered that were fraud, which were not, they're not calling Elon Musk to testify. In fact, the MAGA Republicans have consistently blocked the subpoenas to Elon Musk when the Democrats have tried to subpoena him.
Here, Marjorie Taylor Greene says that everybody loves Doge. Democrats, Republicans, everybody loves Doge. Here, play this clip.
72%.
They are not upset about anything that Elon Musk is doing. As a matter of fact, they're happy. They want their 50. They want all these improper payments, all of this waste. They want it back.
Also today, Elon Musk will be attending the first cabinet meeting that Donald Trump will be convening. Here is Caroline Leavitt, Donald Trump's press secretary, talking about that. Let's play the clip.
Carolyn, I was wondering, is Elon Musk going to attend the president's first cabinet meeting tomorrow?
He is, as a matter of fact. I spoke to the president about that before coming down here as well. And Elon, considering he is working alongside the president and our cabinet secretaries, this entire administration, will be in attendance tomorrow just to talk about DOJA's efforts and how all of the cabinet secretaries are identifying waste, fraud, and abuse at their respective agencies tomorrow.
We look forward to the meeting tomorrow. And I think you'll be hearing from the president and his cabinet where they're on campus tomorrow. Hope you guys are excited.
And then yesterday, you may recall this instance where the reporter asked Caroline Levitt, so who's running Doge? Like who's the administrator? Play this clip.
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