MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 9/22/26

We've got a lot to discuss on today's episode of the Midas touch podcast Donald Trump announcing really big news for the American people who are suffering right now We did a huge pot ash deal with Belarus just want you all to know that big stuff happening over there also big news on the triumphal arch lane I know you all were very focused. What's going to be happening military complex. We're turning it into a drone port We're going to have snipers on top of the triumphal arch right by Arlington Cemetery Washington DC will be a war zone that will work hand in hand with the White House roof Which will also be a drone port there will be drones flying everywhere according to Donald This is what he's saying the American people wanted this is part of the golden age But in the real world and all seriousness the American people are suffering gas and diesel prices are continuing to surge To record highs on top of the prior days record highs the market recognizes the Trump regime has been Manipulating all of this and so their usual tricks are working and so now we're really seeing the pain at the pump Even worse, which we've been warning about also Donald Trump when put into the corner of course bands Certain press outlets because Natalie Harp showed him articles that were critical of him So Trump banned politico and CNN and MS now from being inside the White House Although Donald Trump says this is not an attack on free speech and the free press It's an attack on fake news everybody. That's what this is all about. It's a national security threat I'm protecting against the American people are just sick and tired of this crap I should note that the overall press pool has agreed not to cover Trump events until Trump's ban on politico MS now and CNN is done and Donald Trump tried to do a press conference today without the press pool and then quickly realized wait a minute I guess I could have other propaganda networks bring cameras, but I need the press pool for audio and to actually I don't know handle logistics logistics never really a strong suit of the Trump regime so Donald Trump was out there ranting and raving about the helipad again It's like the 10th press conference he did on the helipad, you know doing a cordy in hands and there was no audios actually enjoyable to watch that Meanwhile Donald Trump's approval hitting record lows according to American research group is approvals now 29% according to Reuters ipso's his approvals at 32 I mean, we're talking real record lows and the bottom seems to have really fallen from underneath him and you're seeing massive loss of Republican support from week over week that's been a major Development as well. We'll talk about that And also you've got the catastrophic war continuing to rage on Donald Trump calling state regime media Fox over the weekend talking about blowing up the Iranian civilization and then Donald Trump caving there then Donald Trump apparently Told his buddy mbs who he did all those quid pro quo deals with that the US had mbs Is back and they would jointly strike the Houthis and Yemen the Houthis on Cerella now controls basically all of western Yemen and they're pushing east really exposing That mbs's if Saudi backed army there and even mbs's ability to project strain from inside Saudi Arabia is incredibly weak as you know on Cerella Was able to hit numerous oil facilities within Saudi Arabia also the east-west pipeline is down on Cerella controls Bob Bell Mondob straight and thus the red sea and then Donald Trump told mbs all right We're joining you. We're gonna do these strikes and then Donald Trump returned to the Washington DC Virginia area Over the weekend and then decided we left from camp David on Saturday returned on Sunday And then just went and played golf at like another club tournament where he gives himself awards and then didn't actually do the strikes And then backed out after promising mbs. He was going to Do that we've got a lot to discuss on this episode of the Midas Touch Podcast we're going to be heading into the 81st general assembly General debate tomorrow in the United Nations so we're focusing on what's going on there as well We had the FAA announcing all of these cancellation of flights today as a result of a cable Apparently accidentally being cut according to transportation secretary Duffy a cable was accidentally cut by Amtrak Took him five hours after the cancellations began to blame Amtrak Then Amtrak says no it was actually New Jersey transit who did it and so they're all blaming everybody But meanwhile the American people are like this is the most incompetent deranged malicious evil regime imaginable Brett how are you doing? I'm doing well. I'm doing well. I get to see a band get to see a Jordi get to see you Midas mighty the bottom has officially fallen out of the Trump regime At least as far as his approval rating goes we are now seeing Donald Trump in the 20s in some Paul but then as he mentioned he's got the triumphal arch He's going to make it into a military facility now. I don't think the pollsters consider that That is what the American people want right now. That's what everybody is asking for turn DC into a military target Turn a triumph make a triumphal arch and fill it with weaponry and drones. That's smart. That's what we want It's like the dumbest presidency as we said the other day on social media We'll probably go through this also because he had the Paul brothers Logan and Jake Paul Appearing in department of defense videos and hyping up our military and things like that Ideocracy the movie did not go far enough Ideocracies tame compared to what we are seeing right now in this Trump regime We got plenty to speak about today. Jordi. What's the latest brothers might as mighty I'm so excited to be here tonight. I'm so excited to get into tonight's show I just I feel like you know, we've hit another level of the stupidness of this Trump regime and the evilness of it And the dangerousness of it that we're all continuing to sort of witness play out quite frankly It is exhausting But they want it to be exhausting trump wants it to be exhausting. He wants you to tune out do not do that right now more than ever We just dig our heels in we continue to report the facts and show the truth every single day bangey where we started off today big bro Come here, but bangey on mute. We're supposed to be a superpower right and as such Always found it strange when the Trump regime would brag about hey, we did 13 million metric tons of soybean deal with China I remember when they announced that and it was like yeah, but under Biden it was 26 million metric tons of soybeans It just but just the very strange concept that we'd be bragging About just an agreement of China to buy soybeans and like you spiked the football And so when I saw Donald Trump today talk about the potash deal It's like we are doing a massive potash deal And that's like a type of fertilizer And with Belarus Okay, so with all these news stories out there as well about how Russia is either actively engaging or about to escalate with their actively engaging in this hybrid warfare Of you know all of Europe and Europe is like on like the highest form of alert right now Preparing for all of this we've heard like all these European leaders And leaders in the UK talking about how they're basically on a world war three footing They don't use the word world war three, but they're like on a world war footed UK brings their war book back You have the house and the senate pass Sanctions at the end of last week against Russia obviously Belarus is like a close ally of Russia and their countries often used to stage Strikes on Ukraine either obviously Oak or I think we all know that's going that's going down and so Trump sends a U.S. envoy last week to Belarus and that was his big announcement today a potash deal with Belarus And meanwhile on the same day today Belarus announced that they're out of potash for the rest of the year They've already committed all their potash to China and other areas and so they're like well, we don't have any potash So I guess you can order for next year, but again, that's what the United States has become under the Trump regime I mean do you remember when Donald Trump when he did his tariffs against the world that he called Liberation day and we called it liquidation day and people were like, okay, well I don't know aren't like supplies not going to be able to like reach us like what are we going to do about basic things like pencils and erasers and schoolbooks and like Remember like Donald Trump and regime officials here would be like well, you only need two pencils There's no reason why you shouldn't need more than two pencils One eraser max like what are we even talking like why do people need barbies? For Christmas like you really want to get your daughter at Barbie doll like what are we even doing here one barbie max You know, so he would say things like that and then you had work Rollins his agriculture secretary Previously talking about how okay here's the ideal thing that we should get people It's like one half a slice of meat half a carrot some other thing and that's what we're gonna do You know, it's the most authoritarian communist regime here imaginable except they also rip away your health care Also and then make you suffer and make you die. I don't give you health care That's this Trump regime authoritarian version of of of what their communism is so then you take a look at like what are the Trump regime officials? Like possibly saying this morning right with all of this going on like how are they trying to pitch this to the America people? Well pork Rollins agriculture secretary. She's added again. Here's what she had to say this morning. Let's play But if it is too expensive unlike fuel binning you can eat chicken pork salmon eggs There are other sources of really good protein and all of those prices are coming down as well. So It isn't necessarily breaking out there. And listen, I'm a mom of four. I'm still feeding a whole bunch of kids, very hungry kids. I realize the price of groceries are too high. We're doing everything we can to bring them down after the Biden years of crazy, crazy inflation. Ah, it's the Biden years. And so the solution to the fact that beef and all these other groceries, all these other things are unaffordable is people don't realize this unlike diesel and gas, which you need gas or diesel when it comes to beef, you can actually buy chicken. So that's ours. Well, why would you want to buy beef at all in the first place? And then there were Trump influencers who were posting, we, you know, because all meat's expensive. Like we should just go completely vegetarian. Like, let's do vegetarian burgers. That was the craziest one. I have the tweet here, Ben. This is from Bill Mitchell, a big Trump booster online. And he said, with regards to beef prices, have you ever tried a veggie burger? They're actually really good. A little lettuce tomato pickles, a portabella mushroom, slices, which is excellent. Now I'm not knocking veggie burgers. I'm a big fan of veggie burgers. And I think vegetarianism is great. Veganism is great. But I think it's quite ironic that you now have all these mega people pushing vegetarianism and veganism telling people to try to go veggie and try to try all these other types of meat instead of beef when they make this their whole identity these people. Like you literally on the one hand have this messaging coming from the Trump White House. And then on the other hand, you have them go and tell a rico. He wants to beat the meat. He wants to beat meat as the Trump officials are telling people not to eat meat. They become a parody of themselves. This is kind of the fear mongering that they have said for years and years and years about Democrats. Democrats are going to take away your meat. Democrats don't want you to be allowed meat under Democrats. They're going to tell you to eat bugs. It sounds like right now under this Trump regime that we're like two weeks away from Brooke Rollins going on TV and being like, you know, it's a good source of protein. Crickets. Bugs. I would definitely try that American people. They're super cheap right now. And you got all these varieties and options. I feel like we're like about what two weeks away from that. I think we're also two weeks away from them being something like oil prices are too high. They're you're paying too much at the pump. Can I tell you guys about the green new deal? Let me talk like they are so showing their ass here and they always do. And that's what happens though when they pledge their loyalty to a person and not trying to actually fix, you know, the issues that are broken and acknowledge the real, you know, brokenness of society that we're living through right now, Beth. Well, you know, they basically gave a version of that, Jordy. They're like gas prices and diesel prices are so high. They go, I kid you not. This was the main message that magna influencers were pushing out. They're like, I think we're thinking about liquids the wrong way. Like, I just want you to think about how magnificent is it that we only pay, I don't know, $6.57, a gallon of diesel. What's the national average approaching for gas now for 50? It's clearly probably more expensive where you live. I'll be very clear about that. But they're like, just think about it. Think about other liquids like people like wine. So for a small glass of wine, what does that cost? $12. Can that even transport you anywhere? You get nowhere. Exactly. That was their message. I forgot that they were all, it was all coordinated. It was all the magna influencers, because I was calling them out too. And it's like, you know, it's almost as if and I think it legitimately is because of this. Like, I think there's a memo that goes out and they go, okay, here's going to be our spin for the day. Everybody go all in on this line. And then this was the thing to and this Bill Mitchell guy comes up in this montage that I put together as well. But you had one mag user saying, this is how they justify it. They just throw out all these prices of other things, as if it is an indicator of gas prices. If you could drop $60 on a bottle of wine, $7 on a latte, $16 on a cocktail, and $14 on a stadium beer and a plastic cup, then you could pay $4.50 for a gallon of gas. This is Bill Mitchell. People complain about being broke as they watch one of their three flat screen TVs. By the way, does anybody have anything else other than a flat screen TV in 2026? Flat screen TVs are actually like quite cheap these days or type on their $1200 smart phones or decide which of their two cars they want to drive to buy their overpriced Starbucks coffee. This one's from Hunter Eagle. Then she's these people people walking around with $2,000 foldable iPhones. Those aren't even out yet. $800 shoes and a $14 pumpkin spice latte. Where are you going, buddy? Then they say that they can't or vote for Trump because of gas prices. Yeah. Okay. By the way, you're just calling attention to the fact that everything else in the economy due to Donald Trump is very expensive. Who is your average? Who is this human being who you've created in your mind? This is the average Trump voter with $2,000 phones at $800 shoes and getting $20 coffees. You just make somebody up. It's the worst argument. This is how you know that this party's in for just a absolute reckoning in November. The argument's absolutely insane because again, all they're doing they're saying everything else in this country in this world is so damn expensive because of Donald Trump's failed leadership. You could afford to pay a little bit more here at the pump. What's the issue there? It's like if you're trying to sell someone like like like how you should really date my buddy. He's really ugly, but also he has a really shitty personality. For even MAGA influencers to be totalling like this ridiculous of a line. It shocks me actually just how stupid like the trajectory of this argument that they're taking is. You know, one of the things brothers, and let me tell you brothers, I've had a little secret operation I've been doing. I've created a truth social account and I look at truth social and I see what's going on in truth social. I'll occasionally reply to Donald Trump's posts and see if I can get a reaction that of people. However, when I was looking through truth social the other day, Donald Trump last night posted something that was defending his high gas prices. And when this is your messaging once again, you know that things are really, really bad. And Donald Trump wrote gas prices were much higher under Biden than under Trump. So we're almost all other prices, president, DJT. First of all, Diesel's actually at a record high right now, higher than it ever was under Biden. Gas was a little higher under Biden during one period, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But generally the average was far lower than it is right now under Donald Trump. And I was curious, I like the Trump people like because when you're on truth social, you're on the page with all the closest, you know, the biggest Trump cultists in the world, right? What are they saying about this? And so I checked and here were some of the comments, gas lighting, no, they weren't, they really weren't pardon me. Gas prices are through the roof. Yeah, but you promised to lower gas prices. Sure, crying, laughing face, somebody posted a graphic that says, Trump still owes every American $8,700 and they went through the list of promises that Trump made about giving them money. Another person says, no, they were not. This person says, vote for you three times. And I could finally say that you are not the same person that we put in office. Somebody said, diesel is at record highs. Another said, end the war, please. Somebody says, change your diaper, your full of shit again. These are the kind of comments that Donald Trump was getting on his own cult truth social, social media platform. Well, this is reflected also though in the polling data. I mean, you one can say that's anecdotal and are those bots or what are we really seeing there? Well, to be clear, it is rare to see on truth social where usually every post is followed by just deranged religious memes of like Donald Trump as Jesus. It's like the weirdest platform imaginable. So you can go, well, is this anecdotal? What are we seeing here? But then you actually look at the polling data and you see what's going on from state to state and what's even happening in red states and how are Republican candidates running races there? I mean, like you have in Iowa, the Maga Republican extremist congresswoman who's running for the Senate seat there, Ashley Hinson, she's running on, you know, basically we need to work with the Democrats and now we should bring people together. It's like you supported Donald Trump's disastrous budget bill. You supported his tariffs against the world. You were there with his catastrophic war in Iran. You supported every one of his policies that hurt the state. I mean, we're seeing this literally in every red state repeat itself over and over and you looked at the latest polling data, whether it was America research, group or Trump's approval is now in the 20s, 29% whether you look at the polling from Reuters episodes, their lowest polling ever in Trump's two terms where his approval there is 32% and then you go and pull up a last graph one more time that you did Brett. So you can see how it's fallen back from February 2025 in the same Reuters episodes. Paul Trump was plus six by October 2025. He was net negative 14 by June 2026. It was negative 20 and by September 2026, the latest polling has him net negative 34. That's a net negative 40 point swing right there. His approval on the cost of living is 17% right now approval on the issue of cost of living, which is probably the biggest issue because for people who are living, the cost of that is something that is pretty much on their minds right now as an existential issue. This isn't like a joke here. It's not like a talking point, right? Lots of people when you approach the midterms, they view this as political messaging. How are you going to message for the midterms? What's the right message? It's like, are you alive right now? Because if you truly think what Donald Trump's done is good for you, I need to really know about your background. I need to really understand this because unless you're just a core group of billionaires or deck of millionaires, he's Scrooge you and I guess he can paint a hypothetical love wouldn't it be worse if wouldn't it be worse it wouldn't it really wouldn't This is almost the worst case scenario. I mean it pretty much is based on how the Trump regime has behaved this far But let's take a look Kelly leftler. She's a billionaire like the exact worst person to run the small business Association she married a billionaire What is she saying right now about the situation with the surging price and record high prices of diesel and gas Surging price have just about everything. I mean one of the initiatives that she's doing I say that you know initiatives in quote She's doing a reality show. That's kind of a theme with them We're like you could win a prize if you like win the small business Association challenge and she's doing it with Nicki Minaj and I did a video on this earlier today about the Reality show challenge that she's doing it's like The transportation secretary Duffy. He did like a reality show It's like all these people are like loser reality show people, you know who made us non-consensual extras in their like dystopian weird malicious evil world, but here's what Kelly leftler says about Small businesses that she's speaking to right now. Okay, Kelly leftler here playing this clip. Look, I think small businesses are looking through this right now They obviously prices are elevated. There's nothing more important to the president than getting these prices down That's what he's working on every single day But we cannot have the largest state sponsor of terrorism having their thumb on oil prices indefinitely He's taking care of that small businesses are in growth mode. That's the bottom line You see it in small business optimism that during the That's majority of President Trump's second term where small business optimism continues above its 52 year average We saw that last month. We saw it the prior month and we see small business in investment mode because of the tax cuts Because we're deregulating taking the weight of trillions of dollars of regulation at the Biden administration on the Biden administration everything's amazing everything's great everything It'd be so much worse if we didn't do this catastrophic work by we were talking about by the way Donald Trump claimed in 2025 total obliteration of Iran's nuclear facilities That's what Donald Trump said and also Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the JCPOA that former president Obama worked with with many other nations to have Iran sign where Iran was not developing nuclear weapons And so this is the constant theme with Donald Trump always he destroys something He is the arsonist and I'm the only person who can solve the problem that I created then He makes the situation significantly worse and then he tries to take credit for the worst situation He creates a situation where trying to buy 13 million metric tons of soybeans versus 26 and he spikes the football like it's a Like it's a big deal, you know, he brings in foreign frozen mystery meat into the United States and then tries to take credit as No, that's a great thing by destroying the ranchers and then it's a constant Ponzi scheme of Cover up of the cover up of the cover up and you know He's hit a point right now where it's just fully exposed in the American people I think by and large see it for what it is and Americans are fed up I want to talk more about this when we come back from our first break of the show a quick reminder We're out with our new book WTF America For pre-orders right now the book officially comes out October 20th, but pre-order a copy now the pre-orders are really helpful Let's keep the momentum going there you can Scan the QR code or you can click the link in the description below or just search WTF America Hit subscribe to our YouTube channel. 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I mean, it's like a cosplaying as like a drill sergeant So all right all right here's what we got to do For generations the book of Isaiah has said send me I mean, if you think about it. What was magna 2024? They're like we don't want to be sent into war and former president Biden He just wants to send me and now the Trump regime's entire message is just like no matter what we're asked to do Send me so I can die for whatever the Trump regime wants and do it and do it for God as basically God there's saying because the book of Isaiah Because the book of Isaiah told me to do. I mean, look at what he says here play this book And this is actually our first stop in what down you see up on the screen right there Which we're calling send me to her You know your book of Isaiah chapter 6 verse 8 Lord said Foul of Isaiah Isaiah says Lord 5 here send me Send me and if you think about it across the 250 years of our country I know you get 150 years of this great court year Over 150 years of this court at 250 years of the country There have been men and women who raised their right hand and they said Send me Send me to go fight the redcoats Send me to go fight the communist Send me to go fight the Islamists And you were saying send me to go fight whatever threats threaten our nation for the next 250 years And even define what it is he just says and you are all saying send me whatever to do whatever the hell we're doing Whatever the hell it is over the next 250 years. You know what Donald Trump said don't send me I have bone spurs Please don't send me Send me is a send me send baron hashtag send baron. That should be the campaign Yeah, where's the separation between church and state just like not something we learned in school Just not a thing though clearly not a thing and I've been who's getting it This is like a parody of what they constantly accuse all these Arab nations of being either it's a holy war They want to do this for a law they send their soldiers and to die for a law And then you have Pete Hegseth go and basically go send me to war to die for God for this holy war crusade for the United States And it's very obviously deliberate that that the United States is taking this messaging right now under Hegseth But you see it really spread throughout all of their messaging and all their social channels All their communication and with the troops. It's incredibly inappropriate And I've even seen backlash amongst religious communities who are normally be supportive of Donald Trump And of this administration speak out and say that's kind of a blasphemous use of a bible verse You know, that's not what the bible verse was getting out in any way and to use it to send our soldiers to war to use it for Government action to bomb people like that's kind of f'd up like that screwed up I've actually seen that a lot in these religious communities online lately Yeah, well, I mean send me for this Trainings one of Donald Trump's propagandist over at state regime media over the weekend He said I just got off he's still in Tel Aviv by the way this guy like is always reporting from Tel Aviv right? So Trump's two main propagandist reporters. You got Baroque revered over at Axios He's reporting from Israel and then you have trainings reporting from Tel Aviv It's never leaving Tel Aviv His hotel points. They'll got to be great going crazy right now. He's constantly at the background where we see the city of Tel Aviv He's like, okay, got it got understood is rack it up. Those marry a bomb. I'm just it Um, and then he's like I just got off the foot. You know, he acts like you know, okay I just got a phone with Donald Trump president Trump and here's what president Trump just told me your play the clip of what Trayon said this week Energy an update from the president. Hey, Tray Yeah, hey guys. Good morning. I just spoke with president Trump about the situation with Iran He tells Fox News he's in a deciding mode and that very big things are going to be happening in the not so distant future The president described the current choices on the table as wiping Iran out letting them rot economically or making a deal He added my question is if and when do I blow the entire nation up? They better behave And that's genocide and we know Donald Trump aids in a beds genocide But we shouldn't normalize what we just heard right there, right? I mean Donald Trump called up state regime media and said should I have them economically rot? Where should I blow up the entire nation? I am in deciding mode and then you have Pete exit Miss quoting the book of Isaiah saying that book of Isaiah means you need to be sent into What a catastrophic and unlawful war perpetrating genocide that Donald Trump just articulated out loud on state regime media Who's saying send me to do that and just the very concept of send me send me send me that's not what our nation actually It's the exact opposite we believed or we were told that there was a set of values and principles worth defending Defending that's why it was called the defense department right and the Trump regime which ran on no more never ending wars Change the name of the defense defending values and principles to a war department And then got involved in all of these catastrophic wars and then lost Lost miserably wars. We should not have been involved in but we got destroyed in his wars And by the way you go back to May of 2025 or even shortly before that then march to May 2025 period Where the Trump regime lost to unsarola the Houthis and then Donald Trump did a press conference in the Oval office I think it was around April, May or 2025 and he said they're brave and noble and courageous people And we did a deal with them And they've assured me that everything's going to be great and so you had and that was remember all the signal gate stuff About how you had Hegsith and you had Mike Waltz who's now the you an ambassador from the United States And they were having all of these conversations also do you remember back in 2025 when the US launched those attacks against unsarola That like airplanes and helicopters were like mysteriously falling off the aircraft carriers Do you remember that they were like another helicopter fell off the air? Enough another airplane fell off the aircraft carrier And I think maybe even at that time people wouldn't want to believe that when it came to issues of like war That the Trump regime like that was an area that they wouldn't be just totally lying to us I mean we all I mean we were saying they were lying to us But it seems increasingly clear then but like every war this Trump regime starts They lose and the catastrophic war in Iran has been just an unmitigated disaster I mean we've been sharing with you what the US bases and the region looks like There has been a report from the Pentagon inspector general the congressional budget office Even there was a report from Sencom I mean depending on which report I mean at a low end When you don't include the military bases that were destroyed because all of these reports Don't include the military bases for whatever reason Because they're covering up I think the true extent of the damage You're talking about $45 to $50 billion have already been spent on this catastrophic war And I believe that that's not even 20 to 30% of what the actual costs are And I'm even talking about the consequential costs which could get into the trillions of dollars We learn from additional reporting from the Washington Post What we've been saying all along here that the Trump regime has been covering up The killed in action total because the Trump regime claims we're not in combat operations And that the war is done So they say that certain deaths that have taken place are not combat deaths Not killed in action deaths So just covering up the numbers According to this Washington Post article the numbers more like 22 or perhaps 23 killed in action But who even knows I believe the numbers more than that I believe the seriously injure number is far more than the 800 or so of people who are claimed to have been injured Because I believe the Trump regime covers up traumatic brain injuries And they claim that they're not really injuries and there are I think we're talking about thousands of injuries there which will ultimately be reported And so we're involved in this catastrophic war you've got Hegsett saying send me You've got the U.S. you know losing all of its weapons or out of weapons or out of interceptors And then you have the sent-com propaganda You have Admiral Brad Cooper He starts you know he releases a video this weekend and his video He's like every money things are going amazing right now Things are going great We've gotten out huge amounts of oil from the straight of her moves I am pleased to announce it watch this like ridiculous propaganda over here Let's play this clip Hi I'm Admiral Brad Cooper, Commander of U.S Central Command And I want to update you on the straight of her moves And the incredible milestones that America's men and women in uniform Continue to achieve Sent-com forces have supported more than one billion barrels of crude oil leaving the Gulf That's one billion barrels of crude oil Out through the straight of her moves in the last couple of months We've reached this significant milestone while assisting over 2000 commercial ship transits Through the straight What milestone you created the problem the straight of her moves was open before this catastrophic war The fact that you are taking out a fraction of the oil from the straight of her moves That's not a boast that's not a brag But do you see the pattern here of the Trump regime? They're the arsonists. They create the problem. They break it As I've said before it's like they take away your loaf of bread They dangle breadcrumbs and they want you to just be thrilled that they're offering you breadcrumbs Which they're never going to even give you What what are you talking about? Racting like things are great The American people are going to the pump We know what the price of gas is We know what the price of diesel is I mean we may you may have been able to fool people at the beginning of the war And even you know a month or so afterwards because I think it was hard for people to get their Mines around the fact that even Sencom could lie like this But this is what they're boasting about this weekend to try to manipulate the markets It's unbelievable to see before it toss it to you The deserving part about that video for me too is like that video right there Who's it even for right bent your point Everyone's going to the gas station. We know what we're paying at the pump. We're seeing the price increase. And then the obvious answer is, oh, that video's not even for the American people. That video's to appease Twitter fingers, Donald Trump, in Mar-a-Lago as he tweets away to make it seem like, I don't know, give Trump another talking point. It's so pathetic, Brett. Let's do the math on what Admiral Cooper once respected guy, by the way, now just like a joke. Like, I've even seen, you know, a lot of, I've heard from a lot of folks in the military community who say, like, they knew Admiral Cooper, like, he had a lot of respected people, and they were like, I can't believe that. He's just debased himself like this, such a, such a, so atrocious. But let's, let's do the math. He said what? He said, a bill, they just reached about a billion barrels since the beginning of the war. What was it before? 20 million barrels a day before Trump started the war. We're going through the strait. 20 million a day would make it 600 million barrels a month, meaning he's bragging about the U.S. getting out a month and a half's worth of oil through the Shredofer Moose in the past seven plus months, Greg, great, great job. But a billion, a billion sounds like a big number, and then he uses the Adobe stock footage of like ships and like, standards and Marines, you know, it's not even the real footage of what's actually happening. They use Adobe stock, that's still funny. But then you contrast it to the footage that Iran is releasing, and like, Iran released actual footage of them shooting down yet another MQ one drone. I mean, they shot another MQ one drone down. It seems like every day they shoot another MQ one drone down. Two tankers were struck by Iran in the strait of Hormuz today. There was a liquefy, an LPG tanker, and then there was an oil tanker that was hit by Iran in the strait of Hormuz. You have the Houthis on Serala. They control the Babel Mandam strait and all of the Red Sea. They're moving east right now. And as I said at the outset, Donald Trump promised MBS, apparently on Thursday or Friday, that he was going to do joint strikes against on Serala in Yemen, in Sana, the capital of the Houthis area where they control. And Trump's top advisor, like, how are you going to do this? Like, we're out of weapons. Like, we're not. Like, a fake news thing, like, we're out of weapons right now. So how are you going to do it? But Trump promised MBS that he was going to do these joint strikes. And then there was all this military activity. There was like a B1 that flew out of the Royal Air Force Base in the UK. There was an alert that went out to all of our embassies in the Middle East from like every country because there were about to be these strikes against on Serala in Yemen. And apparently all of the weapons were being loaded on all of the aircraft and the aircraft were like about to take off. Like, it was very close for this operation to start against on Serala. And you should also note that remember I talked about the U.S. basically surrendering and losing the war to on Serala in April and May of 2025. And so there's a ceasefire there because in the large part, the U.S. said that they obliterated on Serala. Because we know that's not actually what happened. And so U.S. ships have been able to leave. But the Saudi ships have not been able to leave. There's a blockade that on Serala has against the Saudi ships. But then right before the mission was about to take place that Trump ordered, Trump then backed out of that mission. And then also it seems that Trump was thinking about escalating against Iran. You heard trayings. They're talking about it. And then Trump backed out of that again. And so you see just also this kind of utter chaos and incompetence taking place. You know, I was able to interview a top Houthi reporter, Al-Bukhati, who's saying Al-Bukhati, his brother, Muhammad Al-Bukhati, was actually one of the main Houthi governors that he's on the political bureau. So in addition to being a top pro Houthi reporter, who's saying who I am to be, it's like deeply connected, you know, with his brother. And Brett, do we have. I think there's two clips I want to share with you from that interview. The first one I want to share is where he says that we hear view Donald Trump as a fool. And we believe that, you know, when we talk about people who lie all the time in Yemen, we call the liar a Trump. That's our name for someone who's a congenital liar. Here, let's play this clip. We look at him here in Sana'an, maybe in all Yemen, as like someone who's a fool, who doesn't want. who doesn't know what to say, he doesn't know what not to say. He just like. what comes to his mouth, he will just say it, and he's actually making the reputation of the United States as one of the countries that's considered the free world, making it bad. And if somebody will break an agreement or a war with someone, we call him Trump. And so I always wanted to know, like, what do they actually think about this in yet? What do the Houthis think about Trump and what the United States has become? And are they watching what's happened with the U.S. catastrophic war in Iran and has that informed their behavior? Have they been emboldened by that because Saudi Arabia gets its weapons and gets its military protection from the United States? The U.S. lost to Iran. I know Trump and Hegseth and the regime here pretends that we won. We didn't. The whole world knows that we lost and we lost bad. So I was curious. I wanted to go to the. How do you think about this? And so I also asked him, "Hey, so are you following?" The war in Iran and what Trump is saying and just from like a military tactical aspect. Like what do you think about it? Let me show you what Al-Bukhiyatdi told me about his shotgun. He's like, "I know Trump and Hegseth are dumb." But like, we're surprised, like, are any of your generals or admirals, like saying that this is like a bad idea. Like, that's what surprises us here, you know, in Amserala and Yemen. Let's play it. What do you think here? He done it really miserably. I mean, he targeted Iran. He didn't thought of the strength of Iran, which was the strength of the form of Iran has never, ever used it. I mean, if I was him, when I targeted Iran, but he thought Israel targeted Iran for 12 days, Iran hasn't done that. It's the opposite, because United States have all the bases. So he should have thought as well, "Where Iran can retaliate? They do have missile to the United States." I mean, a child will know that. They will retaliate against your bases. They will target at your bases there. They will destroy the economy. And this will affect your economy as well in the United States. And you promised for peace and for all of that. So to go and launch that huge war and that huge attack that could actually cripple Iran, killing their supreme leader. So usually they expect all type of retaliation, but they think that actually make me think, "I mean, does Trump, of course you have military advisers, you have people, I'm not talking about the minister of defense, because he sees as well, he's just another copy of Trump. I'm talking about the commander of the aircraft carrier, the commander of the Districts of the United States Army, there anyone who's wise will tell him, "This will actually make us say this was damaged our reputation." You can see now that the United States reputation as one of the strongest power. It was evidamaged by Yemenis in the Red Sea. Yeah. 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Shout out to our sponsors, y'all links in description of both the YouTube and the audio. Use the links, use the codes. If there's that exit survey, let them know we sent you. Benji, you brought up a really good point. You bring up a good point all the time. Just so you know, but you brought up a really good one because who could have believed that the guy that renamed the Department of Defense, the Department of War, is getting us into these endless wars? I mean, who would have thought that that would be the natural progression of things there, Benji, maybe a lot of people. Maybe a lot of people. - You know, so much what we talk about here, overwhelmingly actually has nothing to do with politics. It has to do with competence and leadership and values and principles. And we all want politicians to align with these values and principles that I know you care about at a basic level. You know, we want kind of serious adult behavior, right? And people to behave like growing up. So like a baseline. And as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said, like we're not behaving as a serious country where behaving as a very dangerous predatory one right now that's just out there kind of causing and creating harm. And you know, a lot of the stuff is just logistics, right? Logistics logistics. And so massive logistics failures when it comes to this catastrophic war in Iran. Massive logistics failures when it comes to, you know, even basic things today, like when the FAA canceled all of these flights in the East Coast from New Jersey to Philadelphia, New York, Boston, all of these areas had flights canceled. And then we learned that, well, according to Transportation Secretary Duffy, Amtrak workers cut into cable lines and that basically brought down systems that weren't backups available apparently. And then Amtrak said, no, it wasn't us. It was New Jersey transit. But it's just kind of very basic logistics. I mean, you can even go back to how horrifically, I know this often gets overlooked. That's why I want to bring it up here. You know, the awful handling of the flooding by the Rio Grande and some of the areas in Texas. Remember, it doesn't even get talked about, but like hundreds of little girls were killed at a camp because the logistics by the Trump regime and by other kind of Republican administrations there were ineffective and we're not working. And there was major issues about alerting the camp and making sure the little girls could get to the top of the mountain there. And then remember, Kristi No made people sign a, she had to approve every purchase over $100,000. And then we learned a lot of that may have been because Corey Lewandowski, she was running around with all her husband was doing like the gigantic boobs thing on tea with all of the people. And I don't even know what was going on there. But they wanted to control it so they could be in charge of all of the contracts. And then they didn't approve the search and rescue. I mean, it's like a maliciousness and a logistics thing. When we talk about the Trump regime's war crimes in Iran, striking the elementary school, killing little girls. It's kind of a theme here, right? Killing little girls in Minab and slaughtering the children there. It was an over a Pentagon report. It says that it's an over reliance on certain AI tools. And then Pete Hegseth wanting to basically just target everything. And it was so obvious if you just opened up Google Maps that that was an elementary school. And it's been an elementary school for over a decade. And yeah, it was in the vicinity of an IRGC facility. But everybody knew that was the elementary school. And it's not uncommon for elementary schools anywhere in any country to be somewhat remotely near schools. I mean, when we talk about Trump's recent escalation in Iran, where he slaughtered people out of wedding, right? That was in the vicinity of some telecommunications tower. But it's just everything they do is just also like awfully logistical. Like they don't plan things. And it results in awful consequences. And it also begins with the fact that they are also very malicious and evil and have ill intent to begin with. And so even Donald Trump banning all of these reporters from MSNOW and CNN and Politico from the White House because Natalie Harp showed Donald Trump some articles that were written about him by these outlets. So as a result of Natalie Harp showing him these articles, Trump then bans these outlets. And what happens next, then the press pool, which is made up of ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox. They say, well, we're not going to cover events until you remove that ban. Then Donald Trump holds a press conference anyway. It's like the 10th press conference he's held on the helipad. I can't even-- I'm not even exaggerating, right? He's done like a helipad press conference, it seems, like every three days over the past two months, he's on a helipad where he brings the workers behind him. And then he says, OK, we're opening up the helipad. He's done this like over and over again. But you need to get that approval writing up some of them. That's it. The triumphal arch with snipers everywhere and turning it into a drone port. And then the helipad is what he's-- Have you not heard of an October surprise? But then he doesn't realize that, wait a minute, I need audio and I need a press pool to cover these events. So even as he tried to do this on the White House YouTube or have Newsmax cover it, what turned out is there wasn't any audio hooked in. So you couldn't even hear what he was saying. And so it just became this like deranged propaganda fest without any sound or audio. And again, this also shows you the incompetence, but also shows you just the most basic facts like you probably need to double check that there's audio if you want your propaganda to even get out. So let me show you what went down here, play this clip. Yeah, there. But you can't hear it, because there's no mics. OK, so there is no microphone, because there's no microphone, because the pool cameras aren't there. So maybe Tim, this is one example of backfiring just a little bit. Pick up on some of things, Michael was saying. And obviously the ramifications are right here. Can't hear what the president's saying. All right, so you had that then he said before before everything. I'm so sorry, before everything though. Like when you just watch those movements without sound, it's so weird when you watch them when it's actually speaking. But when you were just watching him without sound, the movements are so alien like I like it. It doesn't look human the way Donald Trump is moving his body. And I know he's suffering through a lot of ailments that we all know about. It is truly bizarre seeing him even just turn his head and when he starts to speak like the shapes he's makes with his mouth, it's bizarre. He is like an alien. I mean, he kind of is. But like the broader point to him not realizing that he's not going to have audio when he does these press conferences is that this is how the guy makes his decisions in every aspect of his entire life. This is how he's making decisions in war right now. It's why he didn't foresee the straight of her moves being closed and the Iran war becoming the debacle that it is. Because he's never thinking ahead. He's always just making a decision and it could be the most reckless decision imaginable. But he never thinks it through. And the people who are the smart people who are supposed to be in the room with them who say, hey, buddy, that's going to be a disaster if you do that right now. He's not listening to them or they don't exist at this point. And so that's one of the big actually issues that we see. you know, in this whole kind of second Trump administration in a microcosm right there. - Yeah, so then you have JD Vance, giving a speech in North Carolina. So you had Melania, North Carolina, Trump, and North Carolina. And then JD Vance was in Greensboro, North Carolina today. And by the way, in North Carolina, let's not forget the Trump regime did not provide the necessary FEMA aid that the North Carolina governor requested. They did not, the Trump regime did not provide matching funds after you had the awful Helene storm over there, which is just, I mean, how cruel and unusual is that for the federal government to deny disaster relief, the same disaster relief that former president Biden was giving. The Trump regime attacked Biden with all this propaganda that Biden wasn't giving the FEMA relief and Biden was attacking FEMA. Then Trump gets into power and what does he do? He gets rid of half of the FEMA employees, like 11,000, 12,000 FEMA employees were fired. Unlawfully, a federal judge recently held those terminations were unlawful and then didn't approve the FEMA aid that North Carolina demanded and needed. So JD Vance then heads to North Carolina, gives a speech in Greensboro where he's like, you know, the Democrats are the fart left. They're the fart left. And Oak, the fake news is going to say I called them fart, but I guess that was a slip of my tongue. I mean, this is what they're doing. Again, these are the most lunatic people imaginable here play this clip. Now, you may not have even heard that, but I actually, I usually don't miss speak, but I just call them the fart left, not the fart left. I promise that was an accident. So the fake news who will accuse me of bad language, I promise I did not mean to call them the fart left. I meant to call them the fart left, but in other case, I mean, so detent, so detent serious. JD, just out there crushing it. He's got, where they could say, Riz, JD, too much Riz. JD, too much Riz bro. Yeah, save some for the rest of us, man. I do want to correct when I said, I said Rio Grande River, I made Guadalupe River. And it's an important distinction. But nonetheless, the Trump regime did, you know, fart left, fart left, fart left, fart left, fart left. I want to share with you though, and so tomorrow, if you're watching this or listening on Tuesday, if you're watching this on Monday, it's tomorrow, the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly will begin and it's the general debate. That's when all of the world leaders, you know, give their speeches. So we're all paying attention to what's going to be happening there. The entire theme of the United Nations General Assembly opening is restoring trust and multilateralism, like it's clearly geared towards basically the end of the United States, kind of leading the free world and more or at least the pretext of that happening. And so it is a restoring trust in a multilateral world that's built on these six pillars of the Bangladesh before and minister, who's now the president of the UN General Assembly. In advance of the speeches that are going to be taking place there, Qatar held their Qatar economic form in New York. There's a lot of like events that take place before the UN General Assembly meets. It has the general debate. And I found this very fascinating that Prime Minister El Fani was talking about how the Arab nations and all the Gulf nations need to start being focused on embracing Iran more and being more and recognizing that you can't have a situation there where you just fully alienate Iran. And he's saying it out loud. And so this guitarist, Prime Minister, he's one of the kind of main mediators between the US and Iran. And I thought it was kind of an interesting perspective to hear this articulated out loud. And this is obviously a major shift from where things were before the catastrophic war started. Let's play this clip. Iran is our neighbor. We need to understand that without having a security framework that brings us all together as Gulf countries with Iran, ensuring that none of us is posing a threat on the other, this region will not just be continuing in the same way as it used to be. We have to act together responsibly as a region and to make sure that we are having a good relation with Iran and Iran has a good relation with the Gulf countries. And we are working toward that. Our regional partners believe in this. And we are hoping that this war is a wake-up call for everyone that it's time. At this war is a wake-up call for everybody. And so that was happening in New York. Donald Trump left D.C. to head to New York. He arrived there with Natalie Harp and Margot Martin and Susie Wiles. So he shows up in New York in one of his first places that he visits is visits with Mayor Mom Donnie. And so I want to share with you what went down at his meeting with Mayor Mom Donnie. While Donald Trump doesn't have a press pull, New York City Mayor Mom Donnie does with sound. And so Mayor Mom Donnie showed what went down in the press conference. And so Donald Trump just diffusively praising Mayor Mom Donnie over and over again at this press conference. Let me show you one such scene. Let's play it. - No, I certainly hope he will be a great mayor. You have to understand. I want what's good for New York. I want what's good for the country. So if I had a choice of having him be a bad mayor or horrible mayor, I don't want that. I want him to be a great mayor. And he certainly got potential, got great potential. - And I'll show you one other clip from that meeting. Let's play the other clip. I want to add any remarks. - Well, thank you very much, Mr. Mayor. I've been at Gracie Manchu, we were discussing quite a few times over the years a lot. And it sort of feels like a home. And it's a special place, a very special, a beautiful place when you go inside. And I've seen it with numerous different mayors. And I said some great ones and some not so great ones. So hopefully you're going to be a great one. I'll be able to say you're going to be a great one. And you're off to a start. So I just want to thank the mayor for the invitation. I'm in New York to do the United Nations tomorrow. I have a lot of meetings right now. Today a very important meeting. - Pause it over to you, Brett and Jordy. - What happens in these meetings in New York City mayor, Mom Donnie? It's just so, I really just shows you though, Trump's whole scam, right? Trump will say the most vicious things about you when he's hiding behind a keyboard. He'll say the most vicious things behind you when he's calling into Fox News. But the second you get face to face with him, if you stand up for your principles and stand up for your values, he backs down like every single time. And there were even other indications of this where Trump was speaking about mayor Mom Donnie's thoughts on immigration. Obviously there's a huge delta between what New York City mayor Mom Donnie believes about immigration and the rights for immigrants and what Donald Trump believes. And Trump acknowledged without doing his normal bluster during this press conference he acknowledged. He was like, yeah, you know, the mayor, he has his opinions on immigration and he didn't back down. He told them to me and I see what he's saying. And it's like, what, what, what? This is the guy you were calling a communist who was letting in the Legals. We're gonna kill everybody blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And now this is how you're talking to the press. It is just honestly just a very fascinating thing. And I kind of wonder how the mega put people, like, you know, the remaining folks are even able to process, you know, things like this. After they're built up, you know, after someone like Mom Donnie is built up as this evil communist villain who wants to kill them. And all of a sudden you have like this bromance plan where Trump is just like, effusively praising the guy. It just got to be a weird dynamic. - Yeah, I think they let it slide because they're waiting on those $2,000 tariff dividend checks that are still in the mail. And maybe those $5,000 Doge dividend checks and also the $5,000 elect the Republican checks that are, you know, gonna be sent out. So they're just waiting on some money before they really critique the guy. It's all coming in by the way. You just have to wait a little bit longer. Just just just give them another chance. Wait a little bit longer. And all that money will just be in your pockets per Donald Trump. You know, I actually think Trump is the definition. But I'm just gonna say, he's the definition of a keyboard warrior. You actually confront the guy head on and he folds like a lawn chair. And that's what we see time and time again. - You know, we talked about how Donald Trump's approval and one major poll, 29% the Reuters Ipsos has in the 32%. And you think about what were some of the major events that probably just caused him to lose this massive amount of Republican support recently. And there's so many, there's so many. And it's like, why did this not happen sooner? But I do think, Jordi, you point out the $5,000 fraud, right? I think that there are some things that sometimes transcend just the usual kind of political coverage. And to me, that was actually one of them. And it reminded people, wait a minute, you promised me $5,000 here. You promised me $2,000 here. I see the price of gas surging. I see the price of diesel surging. I'm being screwed. And you just think I'm stupid. I think that was actually, I mean, there should be so many other moments, like seriously, that's the moment. But I do think that that may have penetrated into certain red, bright, red areas. Absolutely. And what's the famous George Bush line? Fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice. You can't be fooled again. It truly is because all this time Donald Trump continues to promise people money. This is the third time this regime has done this. And it's just a constant rug pull. And people are looking around saying, I thought you promised me money over here. Wait, what about this money? And the only money they see is the money leaving their bank accounts, Ben. - Yes, really an interesting, you know, less than in human psychology, I guess you could say it, but the way that a lot of these Trump voters process the world is, it just is, factually, a very selfish way of processing the world. It doesn't matter what's going on with everybody else in the world, it doesn't matter the chaos happening overseas, it doesn't matter the chaos happening to your neighbors or love doesn't matter. It matters what's affecting me and how much pain can I take where the propaganda, until the propaganda finally collapses. And some of the statements that we're seeing from these former, or these Trump recent Trump voters who are now, you know, considering or saying that they're going to vote for Democrats in the midterms, really give away the game. There was this 60 minutes report recently. And this guy, there was this guy in Texas who a lifelong conservative Republican, he lives near a proposed data center. And he said the following, this is the first time in my adult life where there's been an issue that's come up that I feel like is going to directly impact me, I mean, I think he kind of said the quiet part, you know, out loud here. Oh, it was all fun when they were doing this stuff to other people, but now that there's going to be a data center in my backyard and it's going to be using our resources and it's going to be making all these noise and it's going to be affecting my vegetation and my animals. Now, now I have a problem. And so, and I saw the guy's interview. He was like, you know, I normally vote Republican, but this time I'm not even going to think, you know, red or blue or Republican or Democrat. I'm just going to vote for the guy who's, you know, against these things. And that's why I'm going to vote for James Telleriko. And you're like, that's what it took out of all the things, everything that we've been talking about over the past few years. It was the data center issue that affected you personally that caused you to change. And I think gas is one of those things for a lot of folks that is that thing that affects them personally. It's like everything that happens in the world, all the chaos, the ice shootings, like whatever, doesn't even, even the war stuff, like doesn't even matter until it affects them, until they go down the block and they have to pay seven bucks for diesel, right? I mean, it's just, it really truly is, you know, shows you how so much of the electorate takes in politics. You know, all the political messaging you want to throw at, all the millions and billions of dollars spent on political ads, when so often it just comes down to that. Well, look, and you think about the right wing media, the right wing media trillion dollar kind of echo chamber or propaganda networks that basically said, look, Biden's gonna do World War III. Biden's gonna send you into never ending wars. Biden's gonna do this. Biden's gonna do that quite literally all of those things. Donald Trump is doing that. Biden didn't do those things. Now, there was a time during Biden administration when gas and inflation were high. And Biden had to deal with Trump's first term and by the end of Biden's term where things great know but where they heading and trending statistically in the right direction and where the moves put in place, complicated moves with actual legislation to try to grapple with comprehensive problems and try to solve problems. He was doing those things and he actually would have passed comprehensive immigration reform. Had Donald Trump not told the Magna Republicans, I want you to kill this because a winning issue for me is to run on immigration. We can't solve the problem. We need to make the problem worse so we can terrorize immigrant communities because it's a wedge issue that we want to use. And then that's their playbook, wedge issues to divide. And he just interesting. I mean, you heard JD Vance's speech in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he's out there doing the same playbook from 2024. I don't need to play you all the stuff, but it's just like, if you are telling kindergarteners about them pronouns, then you are creepy. You know, and it's like kindergarteners and pronouns. Like our education system is under attack from these Magna's. Our public education system has been destroyed. Teachers have been treated so horribly. I put a, I made a video this weekend of Dr. Abdul El-Saheads, the speech that he gave in Michigan where he spoke to a lady who just graduated college with a degree in being an elementary school educator. And she was terrified that when she becomes an elementary school teacher, she's not going to be able to afford rent. And she's not going to be able to be able to basically survive because she chose to pursue a noble profession and being a teacher. And rather than talk about, oh, this or that, or dividing you in pronouns, and you know, Dr. Abdul El-Sahead gave a very thoughtful answer, a very policy driven. Here's what we can do to make sure that teachers are treated better and teachers get more money. And we need to do a minimum wage for teachers so that teachers are paid with dignity. And here's how we have to address public schools being under attack. And ultimately, this is beneficial, you know, to our students and to children. And we want a better educated country. We want, and so there's such a difference here. And I think to the extent there's anything good that's come out of this real dystopian errands that I think people are paying attention to government. And people want to make sure that a government works for them. People don't want to go back to the status quo. And I'll end here with talking about New York City Mayor Mamdoni. You know, he stands on principles. He stands on values. He's not really wavering. He tells you who he is. And he strongly stands behind those issues. And I think that's something that's appreciated. And I think it's one of the ways that Trump doesn't really know what to do with that. Also, I mean, Trump's a phony guy, as phony as you get. He's the biggest phony fraud in recent human history and probably going back a very, very, very long time. And what he's able to sense as a phony and fraudulent person are where people are able to break. And what they're-- when they're not actually representing who they are publicly. So if you're authentically yourself and you stand up against him, I mean, you're able to really back him into a corner because you're not trying to do deals with him. You're not trying to appease him. You're standing up. And I think that that's one of the things we see with New York City Mayor Mamdoni always. You know, I think one of the things you see too is when I see Mayor Mamdoni with Trump in these scenes, it doesn't feel performative to me. It doesn't feel like he's trying to put anything on. It doesn't seem like he's trying to even act tough for anything. He is tough in his own way. He's tough by standing up for his principles. And I think the most revealing moment that really set the stage for this relationship. And I think why everybody is so impressed, I think, by how New York City Mayor Mamdoni has handled this, is during that first meeting in the Oval Office, when he was asked by the press, the press made some sort of comment, like, you've been calling Donald Trump a fascist and awful lot. He's standing right next to you right now. Do you still think Donald Trump is a fascist? And Mamdoni was like, yes. And I don't think everybody else would say that standing next to the guy. But the fact that he's like, yes. But he's also the president, and we're doing x, y, and z. I think that sort of honesty is actually incredibly refreshing. And I think he brings an authenticity to the job and a realness to the job that Trump doesn't know how to even combat or handle. And Trump just likes people at space who are charismatic. 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