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Chapter 1: Why is Donald Trump posting about his portraits?
I'm showing you this photo of Donald Trump with no hair transplants and no bronzer, not to mock him, but to show you the absurdity of it all. As part of Donald Trump's late night meltdown on Sunday, he kept on posting these photographs of himself to show what good photographs and good portraits of himself look like. And he wanted to make it very clear that there's a
painting of him in Colorado at the State Capitol building put up by the governor of Colorado. And Donald Trump says it is a distorted portrait of himself. And he said that the artist must have lost her talent as she got older because he says it's very bad.
and needs to be taken down immediately, and then he shows what the portrait of himself looks like, and then he just starts posting photos of himself, and portraits of himself, and memes of himself. I mean, folks, we're not talking about running for the class clown of third grade, and no offense to class clowns of third grade, but this is the presidency.
Can we grow up and not normalize this behavior? This is the leader of what was once the leader of the free world before Donald Trump in under 70 days squandered that. He squandered that, frankly, really in the first week or so. And then this is what he kept on posting last night over and over again. So this was like 9.30 his time online.
Chapter 2: What accusations does Trump make against the media?
The failing New York Times insists on using little Peter Baker, a bad writer, Obama biographer, to write long and boring fake news hit pieces against me. The only people with less talent than Peter are his wife and, of course, maggot Hagerman. Hagerman is stupid. Again, this would make a petulant third grader, no offense to petulant third graders, look mature. It is humiliating.
It is a weapon of mass humiliation. Then after that, at 9.49 p.m. his time, or 8.49 p.m. his time, he goes, why would the now highly discredited 60 Minutes do a puff piece on George Clooney, a second-rate movie star? What in the world? Look, there are real issues right now. Real suffering taking place in this country caused by this maniac.
Chapter 3: How are Trump's policies affecting Social Security and Medicaid?
People don't know if they're going to get their Social Security check next month. As Donald Trump's puppet master, Elon Musk, says that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. Donald Trump's Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, says if you complain about not getting your Social Security check, you're probably committing crimes and fraud.
People don't know if Medicaid is going to still be around tomorrow. In the MAGA Republican budget, it calls for basically the total obliteration of Medicaid. Donald Trump has signed an executive order to try and eliminate the Department of Education. Donald Trump has attacked veterans, cut tens of thousands of jobs at the VA, fired veterans, dismantled the federal government.
You know, and he's just posting stupid crap like that as well. To me, it compounds the cartoonish villainousness of this regime. To our enemies, they're a laughingstock. To our allies, they're just completely horrified by this. And the behavior just continues over and over in the morning he posts stuff. I love dollar sign Trump, so cool. The greatest of them all pumping up his meme coin.
And by the way, you can see like a blip in the meme coin went up after he like did a kind of like a pump and dump on the meme coin. By the way, the meme coin like has utterly crashed. Remember when it was like, I think in the 70s or the 80s or the 100s, it's now at like $11 or $10. Just horrible stuff.
Chapter 4: What economic concerns are raised under Trump's administration?
I know there's a lot of news about Donald Trump firing government workers and gutting federal agencies. I think this one needs a little bit more attention as well, especially as we look to be headed into a great recession or even potentially a depression and stagflation, crashing low GDP while inflation surges. This was on Friday from Politico.
It got some attention, but we gotta give it more attention. Bad sign, purge of data experts raises alarm over economic reports. The removal of advisors supporting closely watched monthly releases may mean trouble for agencies that provide vital information on jobs and inflation. So from that Politico report,
It mentions how the experts serving on the Bureau of Labor Statistics Technical Advisory Committee, the BLS, were informed this week that they were no longer needed, leaving the BLS without a panel that has long advised the Labor Department how economic changes can impact data collection. So remember during COVID, during the first Trump administration, where Trump would say, if you don't test,
then you don't know if there are X amount of cases, right? He was telling on himself, of course, and here he's doing the same thing. You get rid of the experts, get rid of the analysts who tell you, is the GDP up, is the GDP down? what's going on with inflation, and then you just start making up numbers.
I think we kind of saw this even last week when the Trump regime was claiming that the price of eggs had now dropped to $3 a dozen. And they were like, look, it's dropped like 80%. And we're like, we know it's not $3 a dozen. We can see that either eggs are not on the shelves or Or in some states, it's still $8, $9, $10 a dozen. I'm sure there are places where it's $3.
But I think they were referring to the wholesale price in some areas, not the retail price. And they're going to start manipulating all of this data the way they do in authoritarian regimes. And as Trump wants to distract us, with all of those weird portraits and pictures that he's posting. It's why I always want to bring it back to... Donald Trump said he was going to lower prices on day one.
He didn't. He said there would be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. That didn't happen. He said housing would be more affordable. Housing is less affordable right now. Literally everything he said was a lie. There's nothing about no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime.
But the oligarchs and the billionaires are getting massive, massive tax cuts, $4.5 trillion tax cuts as Medicaid is being gutted. Just take a look at this. This was from Donald Trump's interview with Laura Ingraham that they've been re-airing these clips. He's asked the most basic question about his son. Like, do you think your son's going to focus on business or tech?
Donald Trump can't even answer a question so simple. Like, what is your son like? And his response is that Barron can kind of open up a computer, and it's very impressive how he opens up a computer. Here, play this clip.
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Chapter 5: How is Trump responding to questions about his son Barron?
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I reported on this yesterday, but it's worth mentioning again that the White House is trying to sell corporate sponsorships for the White House Easter egg roll this year. Are they going to try to make up for the fact that it's now being projected that tax revenue will drop by 10% or over $500 billion amid turmoil at the IRS? Staff cuts and disruptions related to U.S. Doge service?
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Chapter 6: What alternative beverages are discussed in the podcast?
is now causing the IRS to be unable to kind of take in the revenue that it even needs. By the way, if you look at the way Trump runs his businesses, 400, look at Trump media. Last year, $400 million loss only brought in $4 million in revenue. This guy's bankrupted things over and over again. So now all the billionaires are not gonna pay their taxes.
or they're going to use loopholes and think that the IRS isn't going to go after them because Trump's firing all the people who deal with enforcement there. The rest of Americans are going to pay our taxes, pay our fair share, and Trump's going to go and we're not going to collect tax revenue that's needed.
So Doge is going to cost trillions of trillions of dollars in what they are doing in gutting the IRS. And then what's the IRS doing as well? Well, they're cutting a deal with ICE to give over the private data of people who are non-citizens who have been paying their taxes so ICE can target them. The taxpaying migrants who don't have their citizenship.
As Donald Trump's revoking the citizenship of over 500,000 people here lawfully. Cubans, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, Guatemalans, Haitians. A lot of people, by the way, who are Trumpers. So he's going to find their data in the IRS system.
Also, just in general, people who may not be here lawfully, not have like a lawful protected status, but may be here but paid their taxes, like hardworking people, Trump's going to use the database to target them and find them and then do what he's done, which is kidnap them and then send them to concentration camps.
concentration camps in El Salvador or send them back to the country where they may be political exiles, back to the repressive regime that probably will kill and torture them. I mean, literally, the Trump regime, they have blood on their hands. There's no other way around it.
I'm going to do a whole other video about some of these individuals who Trump kidnapped and sent to El Salvador, like Andres, a gay barber. from Venezuela, came to the US lawfully, asylum seeker, fled the repressive Maduro regime, had a court appearance in the next week as an asylum seeker. Trump kidnapped him, sent him to El Salvador concentration camp. No one's ever heard from him again.
There was a Time Magazine photojournalist. in the El Salvador concentration camps who saw someone crying and saying, I'm a barber, I'm just a hairdresser, I'm not a gang member. And the fear on this, we believe that that's Andres. But now Kristi Noem, Donald Trump's Homeland Security Secretary, she does this whole cosplay thing. She goes place to place and she dresses up in the different outfits.
So she's now going to go to El Salvador and let me tell you what she's going to do. They're going to go take photos and videos next to people with tattoos who look like horrific gang members. And then she's going to go, see, this is the type of people we're locking up here. This is the type of people. My whole point is people have due process in the United States of America.
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