Trump Has Meltdown as His Agenda Completely Fails

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Speaker 4 Donald Trump may be crashing the economy, but you can win a trip to Mar-a-Lago. So says Donald Trump in an email to his supporters as he's crashing everything.
He sends these emails.

Speaker 4 Don't miss your chance to win a free flight in hotel in Florida. Everyone that takes the Trump citizen quiz will be entered to win a dinner at the lavish Mar-a-Lago.

Speaker 4 You could go to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, everyone. Then Donald Trump says this, sends this email to his supporters.
I subscribe to his listserv so you don't have to.

Speaker 4 He goes, Ben, I have a few proposals on taxes, but I need your input before I make any decisions. One, no tax on tips.
Two, no tax on overtime. Three, no tax on social security.
Answer Trump.

Speaker 4 Then when you click it, it takes you to a page where he asks you for money for one of his political action. action things.

Speaker 4 Hey, Donald, why didn't you put this stuff in the continuing resolution? I don't see any mention of this in the outline for the Republicans' budget.

Speaker 4 I see massive tax cuts for billionaires, $4.5 trillion.

Speaker 4 I see you basically gutting all of Medicaid and destroying the lives of veterans, but I don't see that anywhere. I guess you put them in your emails, but not in the actual budgets themselves.

Speaker 4 That's why I call this Trump regime the rug pull presidency or the Ponzi scheme presidency. I think the American people, though, by and large are figuring it out.

Speaker 4 This is from a Fox News Beacon Shaw poll. How likely is it that the U.S.
economy will go into a recession this year? 71% of Americans from this Fox poll say a recession is likely. Only 29 or 26%

Speaker 4 say not likely. So 71% of Americans say likely.

Speaker 4 That is devastating because in and of itself, when consumer confidence falls like that, by the way, that's the Fox Beacon Shaw poll, then that actually creates the recession as well.

Speaker 4 It becomes a self-fulfilling thing. By the way, here's Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody's.
And he goes, I have no clue what's going on here. Our economy was rip roaring.

Speaker 4 Consumers were actually feeling good.

Speaker 5 This seems like a recession by design like this trump regime intentionally tried to cause it and they're sending the country into an economic spiral here play it uh there's a lot of talk about reciprocal tariffs that's broad-based tariffs coming into effect in a couple weeks i think early up april if that actually happens and those are those tariffs stay in place for any length of time, a couple, three, four, five months, I think that's enough to push the economy into recession, given everything else that's going on.

Speaker 6 So, you know,

Speaker 5 this is a this would be a really weird recession right i mean it's recession by design you know the economy came into the year rip roaring exceptionally strong and we're pushing it in because of policy it just doesn't feel like you know that's the the direction uh we need to go so i suspect the president and the administration at some point will say okay enough already but you know i don't see that with confidence and while this trump regime sends our country into an economic spiral they're doing like the weirdest stuff like this cosplay dress-up shtick that Christy Noam, the homeland security secretary, keeps on doing.

Speaker 4 This is real what I'm about to show you. It's not AI.

Speaker 4 So while she and ICE are picking up migrants and because of the way they look or their tattoos, giving them no due process and shipping them to concentration camps in El Salvador, she's doing dress up.

Speaker 4 This was the cosplay outfit. She did a firefighter outfit.
Firefighter Gnome reporting for duty. And then over the past weekend, she did this photo, GNOME patrol.
She did this one on the boat.

Speaker 4 She did this one where she acted like she was on a mission and she was holding the guns.

Speaker 4 And then this was from a few weeks back where she was dressed up in the bulletproof vest. Then she had the cowboy hat and then she had the Ranger outfit.
Those are an AI.

Speaker 4 She dresses up every other day as Americans are suffering, as they're violating the Constitution and not giving people due process. That's what they are doing.
Then Donald Trump goes on, Laura Ingram.

Speaker 4 And as Aaron Ruper says, this is the Trump University of Getting America's fiscal house in order. He goes, we're going to be so rich.
You don't even know it.

Speaker 4 We're going to sell these Trump cards, the gold cards, to the Russian oligarchs and to the Chinese oligarchs. We're going to make $5 trillion.
You sell $10 million for $5 million and then $5 trillion.

Speaker 4 Here, play this clip.

Speaker 7 Let's say we sell a million of them. That's $5 trillion.

Speaker 7 We are now an unbelievably

Speaker 7 successful country, paying down tremendous amounts of debt. It's all going to pay down debt.
We're going to have very little debt.

Speaker 7 But if you did, think of it. If you did $5 million now.

Speaker 4 And here he is again on Laura Ingram last night where he goes, I don't know, should we call it the gold card? There's lots of gold cards. Or do we call it the Trump card here, play it?

Speaker 7 It's a graduation.

Speaker 7 They'll buy these.

Speaker 8 Why should any American kid become a computer?

Speaker 7 And by the way, they're going to call it either the gold card. The problem is, there's many gold cards, well, I will tell you what my people want to call it.
It'll drive you crazy.

Speaker 7 It'll drive the left crazy. They want to call it the Trump card because the Trump card sells much better than the gold card.
Everybody has a gold card.

Speaker 8 So you're not worried about any unsavory people coming in and taking it.

Speaker 7 Yeah, I'm worried about unsavory, in which case we're going to be vetted.

Speaker 4 Give them the money back and they get out they'll be properly vetted oh they're gonna be properly vetted but you know we're talking about a lot of people i think it's gonna be very successful if somebody's wrong we get we actually are very very nice because it makes it a lot easier legally we give them that money back and we send them out i don't give a what you call it i mean at the end of the day why are you focused on these things maybe you can i don't know like lower the price of things now we're in inflationary periods where recessions seem increasingly likely i know how about you lower the price of things how about you bring peace to ukraine in 24 hours how about you do the things you said you were going to do oh no you're too busy talking about what

Speaker 4 annexing canada annexing the panama canal annexing greenland attacking our allies in europe but praising putin right the big powerful negotiation you did with putin right said ended in maybe we'll play hockey together we'll play hockey together or putin says we're going to to do a ceasefire and don't worry, Donald,

Speaker 4 we won't hit energy infrastructure in Ukraine. 30 minutes later, they attack the energy infrastructure in Ukraine.

Speaker 4 That was after Putin made Donald Trump wait about an hour, an hour and a half, while Putin laughed at making Donald Trump wait.

Speaker 4 Oh, by the way, in that Laura Ingram interview with Donald Trump, Donald Trump's like, people think that this button is the nuclear button, but it's like the Coca-Cola button.

Speaker 4 Here, play play this clip. It's the Coke button.

Speaker 9 It's right here. Everyone thinks that's the nuclear.

Speaker 9 Everyone thinks that's the nuclear weapon.

Speaker 4 I mean, it's deranged, deranged stuff. As Ilya Pomerenko explains, this is one of these cities in Ukraine right now.
Over 30 strikes in residential areas reported. The city is burning.

Speaker 4 How many more times does this need to happen until Donald Trump finally understands that Putin is openly making an idiot of him and demonstrably spitting in his fantastic diplomatic effort.

Speaker 4 Ilya, the answer is never, because Donald Trump, in my opinion, is Putin's puppet.

Speaker 4 Let's turn to Canada for a second, where Canadian airlines are canceling flights into the United States, in Tennessee and elsewhere, because Canadians are not traveling to the United States.

Speaker 4 As I reported yesterday, leisure travel by Canadians to the United States in some places down 85%.

Speaker 4 Remember when the U.S. Tourism Bureau predicted if it's 10%, it will cause $2 billion in damages.

Speaker 4 I said, I know the Maple Mighty, the Mightest Mighty in Canada, and I know that it's probably closer to 100% in terms of the tourism boycott, because Donald Trump ain't just using trade war words, which would be seriously damaging.

Speaker 4 Trump is using actual words of war against Canada. By the way, this is so pathetic.
Did you pick this up? I know our Canadian watchers did.

Speaker 4 Pierre Poliev, the leader of the Conservative Party in this next upcoming election, he put out a statement that was obviously, in my opinion, boosted by Elon Musk on X, formerly Twitter.

Speaker 4 And he goes, last night, President Donald Trump endorsed Mark Carney, who's the new prime minister from the Liberal Party. Why? Because Trump said it's easier to deal with.

Speaker 4 I mean, does Pierre Polyev think that Canadians have the MAGA mush brains? I think he does.

Speaker 4 I think he's so entrenched in MAGA and in his Jordan Peterson podcast and all the kind of Putin tricks that he thinks, yeah, if I tell the Canadians that Donald Trump says that he wants the liberals, then maybe they won't believe that I'm Maple MAGA and that I've been supporting Donald Trump and MAGA and Elon Musk has been boosting me.

Speaker 4 Maybe they'll just think, oh, ho, ho, Pierre Polyev is the tough guy. I mean, it's so transparent that Poliev and the Conservative.

Speaker 4 Conservative Party and Trump were like, all right, Trump, go out on Lori and Graham and say that you prefer the Liberal Party. And then I'll say, you see, he doesn't want me here.
So utterly dumb.

Speaker 4 We did this graphic right here on the Midas Touch account from Trump to Pierre Pollier. This is how we imagine him.
So like, Pierre, can you say like you hate my guts or something?

Speaker 4 Pierre saying to him, so say like you hate my guts or something, man.

Speaker 4 Earlier in the day yesterday, by the way, you had the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, saying, you know,

Speaker 4 we had a strong fourth quarter. He didn't say under former President Biden, but that's that's when the fourth quarter was.
And now all of a sudden, things are getting weaker. Here play this clip.

Speaker 10 Economic activity continued to expand at a solid pace in the fourth quarter of last year, with GDP rising at 2.3%.

Speaker 10 Recent indications, however, point to a moderation in consumer spending following the rapid growth seen over the second half of 2024.

Speaker 10 Surveys of households and businesses point to heightened uncertainty about the economic outlook. It remains to be seen how these developments might affect future spending and investment.

Speaker 4 And here was the moment where Jerome Powell said,

Speaker 4 you know, it seems that we're heading in a more inflationary direction right now. Here play this clip.

Speaker 10 Do you think with the arrival of the tariff inflation,

Speaker 10 further progress may be delayed. The SCP doesn't really show further downward progress on inflation this year, and that's really due to the tariffs coming in.

Speaker 4 But what are the MAGA Republicans doing? Well, they're posting images like this. Egg prices on the decline.
The price of a dozen eggs has now decreased. Now it's $3.10 a dozen.
Nearly 50% decrease.

Speaker 4 So my brother Brett wrote. Okay, so they're just making up stuff now.
They just make stuff up. I don't believe any of the data from the U.S.
Department of Agriculture now.

Speaker 4 By the way, they're using wholesale data, not retail data, but also we know it. We go in, we see the price of eggs.

Speaker 4 I could barely get eggs out here in California, and I know from speaking to all of you what the prices are. I'm sure maybe somewhere there's eggs that are low.

Speaker 4 Maybe in a Trader Joe's here and there, it's $3.50. But overall, it's like $8, $9,

Speaker 4 $7, $6.50, $10, $12.

Speaker 4 That's what I'm seeing. But, you know, what would you expect from the party that does this? Free Trump 2024 gold bars.
There it is. Grab yours today.
You can get a Trump 2024 gold bar, everybody.

Speaker 4 Then you have MAGA Republican Congressmember Tom Emmer. He takes another turn in the Trump Kiss My Ass Club, as Aaron Ruper says here.
Play this clip.

Speaker 11 Critics have argued that Putin is playing Trump, that we know from history.

Speaker 11 This is right out of his playbook, that sometimes he uses negotiations as a stall tactic, and that so far he hasn't really given up anything.

Speaker 11 And he said after the discussion with Trump that he will agree to the ceasefire if the U.S. stops all foreign military aid and intelligence to Ukraine.
Would you ever support that?

Speaker 12 Again, I do say Donald Trump is a master negotiator.

Speaker 12 I mean, there is no other leader on the world stage that has his experience and has shown what he has shown in his first term, what he's willing to do and what he can get accomplished.

Speaker 12 If anybody can help these people get together and bring peace back to the region, it's Donald J. Trump.

Speaker 4 By the way, shout out to Ruper, shout out to ASIN. They use Snapstream.
You should use Snapstream as well. That's where we get these clips from.

Speaker 4 Snapstream lets you put the clips from the cable networks on the video, and you can clip it really good. It's called Snapstream.
I'll put it in the description if you're interested.

Speaker 4 Reach out to them and tell them Midas sent you. That's how we get some of these clips like this.

Speaker 4 Then let me show you this one right here, Brandon Gill. This is what he talks about when it comes to just picking people off the street, not giving them due process.

Speaker 4 He goes, this is what executive power is all about. MAGA Republican Brandon Gill, play this clue.

Speaker 13 I have to ask you this. For impeachment, obviously, you have to have the high crimes misdemeanors.
What crime did the judge commit?

Speaker 4 This is for usurping the executive's authority, for

Speaker 4 demeaning the impartiality of the court by making a politicized ruling and forcing a constitutional crisis. That is a high crime and misdemeanor.

Speaker 13 Congressman Brandon Gill, sharing that with us today. We do appreciate the time, Congressman.
Thanks so much.

Speaker 4 But here are the facts, folks, because facts matter. Putin is rejecting Trump's ceasefire.
Putin is playing Trump. Trump looks so utterly weak when it comes to Putin.

Speaker 4 Trump said, you know, Tom Emery, you think he's a master negotiator? And why hasn't he made peace in 24 hours in Ukraine? Why aren't prices lower?

Speaker 4 Why are we heading into a recession or perhaps even worse than a recession right now? Which, as you heard the chief economist for Moody say, it seems like a a recession by design.

Speaker 4 Why do 71% of Americans believe a recession is very likely right now? That's part of the art of the deal.

Speaker 4 It's part of the master negotiating that we just so smart that we just don't know the plan, man.

Speaker 4 And just like all the master negotiations where he bankrupted his other businesses.

Speaker 4 Or were those not real? Or is that a smart businessman bankrupts most of your businesses, man? You don't know business.

Speaker 4 They always go bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt, all throughout the 90s and 2000s. Anyway, I'm Ben Micellis.
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