Trump Screws Himself as He Tanks Everything

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Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 And he says he's basically going to sell gold cards to immigrants to get visas and fast track their citizenship.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 5 We'll We'll go down to another thing.

Speaker 4 Would a Russian oligarch be eligible for a gold card?

Speaker 5 Yeah, possibly. Hey, I know some Russian oligarchs that are very nice people.

Speaker 6 It's possible.

Speaker 5 They're not quite as wealthy as they used to be.

Speaker 5 They're not as wealthy as they used to be.

Speaker 2 I think they can afford $5 million.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 Take a look at RFK Jr.'s face also while Trump was selling MAGA hats. Here, play this clip.
Look.

Speaker 8 See that?

Speaker 8 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, right? But we were pretty much.
You want one?

Speaker 8 Are you allowed to take one? Because he'll consider it. I know him well.
You're sort of a stiff. I said you are.
Brian, you're not a stiff one. You're sort of a stiff guy.

Speaker 8 He'll take other things, but not a freehand. Always say yes to the president.
Always say yes to the president. Would anybody like one, Mr.
President?

Speaker 4 An easy question.

Speaker 4 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 airplanes, and he was playing with it while Elon was like, good job.

Speaker 4 And 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.

Speaker 4 That's there's some real issues about what's going on there as well.

Speaker 4 What the heck? At the same time, you had Donald Trump basically coercing and pressuring the MAGA holdouts to support

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 It also cuts close to $300 billion to farmers, about $400 billion

Speaker 4 for education,

Speaker 4 and

Speaker 4 tens of billions of dollars for infrastructure. But don't worry, the billionaires are getting a massive tax cut.

Speaker 4 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

Speaker 4 to the deficit over the next 10 years.

Speaker 4 Conservatively, about $19 trillion.

Speaker 4 Remember what I said a few months back? I said, Trump's plan, they're saying that it'll add about $10 trillion.

Speaker 4 I was saying, nope, I think it'll be more like 30 to 50 trillion, which I still think I'm going to be right.

Speaker 4 Here is the moment where the MAGA Republicans were cheering the fact that they cut billions from hundreds of billions from health care and food assistance programs, but delivered $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to billionaires.

Speaker 4 Here, play this clip.

Speaker 4 Yesterday, Donald Trump also got a number of bad rulings from federal judges.

Speaker 4 That's why Donald Trump and Elon Musk are basically calling for these federal judges to now be impeached or to force them out.

Speaker 4 One of the rulings was Judge Ali in Washington, D.C., who granted a motion to enforce the restraining order against USAID,

Speaker 4 against the spending freeze that the Trump administration ordered.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 Also, there was a separate scathing ruling from another federal judge extending her block of Trump administration's blanket spending freeze.

Speaker 4 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?

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 They also struggle with the concept of decency.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 They don't have real jobs. They don't deserve their jobs.
They don't deserve their paycheck and that federal workers are lazy.

Speaker 4 This is what Marjorie Taylor Greene, who leads the Doge subcommittee, has to say. Play this clip.

Speaker 10 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.

Speaker 10 The bureaucracy is not a business. Those are not real jobs producing federal revenue.
By the way, they're consuming taxpayer dollars.

Speaker 10 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.

Speaker 10 Federal employees do not deserve their paychecks. And these are jobs that can be fired at will.

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Speaker 4 And by the way, as Marjorie Taylor Greene leads the Doge subcommittee, again, I don't care what political party you're from.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 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 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.

Speaker 4 Democrats, Republicans, everybody loves Doge. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 10 And we have Democrats crying over Elon Musk. Are you kidding me? The American people, the polling is out.
72%

Speaker 10 Democrats and Republicans support Doge. Support it.
72%.

Speaker 10 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 this, these improper payments, all of this waste.
They want it back.

Speaker 4 Also, today, Elon Musk will be attending the first cabinet meeting that Donald Trump will be convening.

Speaker 4 Here is Caroline Levitt, Donald Trump's press secretary, talking about that. Let's play the clip.

Speaker 11 Caroline, I was wondering if Elon Musk is going to attend the president's first cabinet meeting tomorrow.

Speaker 12 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

Speaker 12 this entire administration, will be in attendance tomorrow just to talk about Doge's efforts and how all of the cabinet secretaries are identifying waste, fraud, and abuse at their respective agencies.

Speaker 12 We look forward to the meeting tomorrow and I think you'll be hearing from the president and his cabinet there on campus tomorrow. I hope you guys are excited.
So some of those.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 12 Thanks, Caroline.

Speaker 12 I wanted to ask about a federal judge yesterday was saying that they didn't know who the Doge administrator was and was asking the lawyer for the administration who it was and the lawyer responded, I don't know the answer to that.

Speaker 12 Can you tell us who the administrator of Doge is? Again, I've been asked and answered this question. Elon Musk is overseeing Doge.
There are career officials.

Speaker 12 There are, no, Elon Musk is a special government employee, which I've also been asked and have answered that question as well.

Speaker 12 There are career officials at Doge. There are political appointees at Doge.
I'm not going to reveal the name of that individual from this podium. I'm happy to follow up and provide that to you.

Speaker 12 But we've been incredibly transparent about the way the Doge is working.

Speaker 12 John,

Speaker 4 yes, Caroline Levitt said they were being so transparent that they couldn't tell you who the administrator is. And then they basically named this lady Amy Gleason.

Speaker 4 I'm not sure she realized that she was the head of Doge.

Speaker 4 Her LinkedIn said that she was a senior advisor at the U.S. Digital Service.

Speaker 4 So I'm not sure she realized she was the administrator. So is Gleason going to testify? We will see.

Speaker 4 While all of this was going on, Trump allies circulated a mass deportation plan calling for processing camps, which I call concentration camps, and a private citizen army because the Trump administration has been so incompetent in their attempt at doing the largest deportation exercise on day one, which they've tried to do, and they've tried to do it cruelly, but they're so incompetent.

Speaker 4 They now want to hire people like Blackwater, like Eric Prince and others, and they're hatching a privatized plan to go after

Speaker 4 migrants. Love what Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett had to say when she was asked by a reporter, Joe Galena, from Call to Activism, what her message to Elon Musk is.

Speaker 4 Here, play this clip right here.

Speaker 2 If you could speak directly to Elon Musk, what would you say?

Speaker 6 Fuck off. That's it.

Speaker 4 Then you had spineless former Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy. He was asked the following by Jesse Waters.
Let's play it.

Speaker 13 If you had one thing to say to Jasmine Crockett, what would it be?

Speaker 7 The last woman who said that to Elon was a state rep in California.

Speaker 14 And you know what happened? What?

Speaker 7 He moved his company to Texas.

Speaker 6 Ooh.

Speaker 15 So think about that.

Speaker 14 And think about how much taxes California just lost.

Speaker 7 I think they should celebrate Elon and anybody else who wants to go and volunteer to make the government more accountable, more efficient, and more effective.

Speaker 4 And now what is MAGA doing to try to distract?

Speaker 4 Well, you have Jesse Waters who's saying, well, according to the Washington Times, the new FBI director, Cash Patel, is opening an investigation into James Comey about some honeypot operation.

Speaker 4 to go after Donald Trump. And Waters is like, this is about justice.
Okay, it's about retribution.

Speaker 4 And, you know, these people just make up stuff all the time now. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 13 Fox News Alert, according to the Washington Times, cash patel's FBI opening an investigation into James Comey.

Speaker 13 The Times reports that Comey launched an off-the-books honeypot operation against candidate Donald Trump.

Speaker 13 According to a whistleblower, he sent two female undercovers to infiltrate Trump's 2016 campaign and told them to act as honeypots. spies who use sex to get what they want.

Speaker 13 And the honeypots ingratiated themselves into the top ranks of the campaign. If true, that means the Obama administration was conducting multiple phony investigations into Trump without any evidence.

Speaker 13 The whistleblower says FBI employees were told to shut their mouth about the operation. And one of the agents was transferred to the CIA so she couldn't testify.

Speaker 13 This investigation into Comey isn't about revenge. It's about justice.
Cash and Bongino are going to get answers.

Speaker 4 Should be noted as well, yesterday, 20 individuals who worked at the digital department that essentially became Doge, they resigned from their positions yesterday as more

Speaker 4 of a mass exodus from the kind of corrupt stuff this Trump administration is doing is underway.

Speaker 4 We'll keep you posted every step of the way here on the Midas Touch network, but it sickens me to have these MAGA Republicans out there cheering and supporting the fact that they're taking away Medicaid and taking away SNAP and

Speaker 4 attacking the most vulnerable Americans, attacking farmers, attacking veterans, you know,

Speaker 4 attacking people who live in red states too, and blue states and all across the country.

Speaker 4 It saddens me that that's what's happening. We'll keep you posted every step of the way.
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