Thursday Breaking Updates with Ben: Trump Attacks Canada, Charlie Angus Responds - 8/27/26

This has been on Breaking News. I'm Ben Mycelis, and this is your Breaking News. The headline, of course, Donald Trump saying, I'm going to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America. Don't be distracted by what he's doing. Obviously, we need to take it seriously. But why is he doing this right now? He's launched a disastrous trade war against Canada. Canada is fighting back and going elbows up. Donald Trump has destroyed the United States economy. Everything he promised his voters, they all now realize that he's lied about. Took him some time, but they realize that he's lied about. His approval right now in the United States of people who strongly approve him in the latest YouGov poll is only 13 percent. Let me repeat that. Trump's approval among Americans overall who strongly approve of him is 13. One. Three. 13 percent. You look at Texas, for example, in districts like Latino districts that Trump won by anywhere between 10 and 18 in 2024. All of these districts are now have Tallarico favored to beat Ken Paxton. And also the Democratic congressional candidates in Texas, 15, 28 and 34 are all winning as well. Democrats have actually recruited a lot of great candidates in Texas. Trump's approval is plummeting. We're still in this never ending and catastrophic war in Iran. The Trump regime threatened economic D-Day against Iran. Economic D-Day. China immediately responded like laughing at us, mocking Besson. We stand strongly with Iran is essentially what China's foreign ministry said. And then Russia's foreign ministry said the same thing. And their action said the same thing. Next week, there will be the Shanghai. Cooperation organization and Russia has announced it will continue its nuclear discussions with Iran, Russia doing a $25 billion nuclear deal with Iran. This is in addition to the Bushir facility, which is already a nuclear plant that Russia and Iran have done in a joint venture. And so the big trading partners of Iran are not backing down at Donald Trump's threats. Quite the contrary. They're laughing in the face of the United States. The United States has never been weaker in its entire history. You have all of these other alliances forming as the U.S. security umbrella has broken around the world. Right. You have the United States running out of weapons. We're out of munitions. We're out of defensive munitions like Patriots, Interceptors, Patriot Interceptors, the THAAD Interceptors. Offensive. Weapons, Atacoms, Tomahawks. The United States military bases in the Middle East have been severely damaged by Iran. We don't have any ability to protect Europe anymore or Asia. So Donald Trump, the fraud, just goes and attacks Europe. He attacks Asia. So I give you that background because this is what Trump does. This is what he does. Right. He'll do something. That's incredibly outrageous. And everybody goes, ah, could you believe it? Could you believe it? And the reality is, yeah, I can't believe it. He's a psycho. He's a psychotic, demented human being. This is his playbook. This is his WMD, his weapon of mass distraction, while he is a WMD, a weapon of mass destruction against the United States. You know, you had Iran's main advisor to the Ayatollah, Moshe Rezegh and others, they said, look, we're not trying to kill him or Barron. There's all these reports. And they said, look, this is Netanyahu propaganda in order to try to push the United States back into additional attacks on Iran, warfare, kinetic strikes on Iran. Oh, I hate the term kinetic strike. But Iran's like, if we wanted to do it, we'll do it. Like, why, why, why would we want to do it? The guy is destroying the United. We can't think of any person harming the United States or anything harming the United States more than Donald Trump right now. And I think that's just an objective damn fact. So let's take a look at what was going down this morning. And then you see what Donald Trump did in the Oval Office. So I'll show you this MAGA Iowan voter. This is someone who voted for Trump. And you're seeing. In Iowa, particularly turning purple. I think you'll see Iowa actually turn blue in both the governor's race and the Senate race, I believe, as well. But take a look at this MAGA Iowan. Let's play it. Two years out of high school and I'm already struggling for my life. It's just that shouldn't. That's not the American dream. If you could talk directly to President Trump, what would you tell him right now? I would just look him in the face and just say, you. That's about it. And that's the reaction that people who have been defrauded by Donald Trump his whole life of fraud. That's the reaction they inevitably have when he doesn't pay the contractors, when he destroys the livelihood of people and doesn't pay them when he wreaks havoc on communities. That's what he's done his whole damn life. And he promises, oh, you're going to be rich. You've never been this. You're going to be rich. The farmers, you're never going to do better. It's going to be amazing. Ranchers, I got your back. I love you. You know I love you. I'm just kidding. You know, when he does things that, you know, most human beings aren't able to lie every word, syllable, sound, sentence. He is. Everything he says is a lie. He doesn't care. He doesn't have feelings other than he just wants to take from you. The whole thing is snatching your money, stealing from you, criming. He's a sexual predator. He's a sicko. He's on the loose. He just grabs, grabs, grabs. That's all he cares. He doesn't care what happens to you. He doesn't care if you die. He wants you to die. He hates. You think he likes America? He hates the United States. He absolutely hates our troops. He thinks they are suckers and losers. He hates our country. He hates his voters. He hates his voters more than Democratic voters. He thinks they're the stupidest people in the world. He hates everybody. He just wants your fucking money at the end of the day. That's all he wants. In this moment, you'll see a two-time. You'll see two Texas. Republican voters who were on CNN last night. Did you catch this? Here, play this clip. We've been fighting this for three years, and we've realized that the Republican Party has given us nothing more than the middle finger. I have been a staunch Republican my entire life. I'm done. Anyone that was in office during this mess that hasn't supported us, it's not going to get my vote. Amazingly, we've had two Democrats, one absolute running for Congress and one running for governor that were willing to come out and listen to us. Not the Republicans, the Democrats. And it's just, it's really changed my thinking. And this is a people thing. That's what I've always said, too. This is a lot of these issues, and the issue that drove him over the edge was that, Greg Abbott, the MAGA governor, gave all of these incentives for data centers to go into Texas. Let them not have to even pay their energy utilities. As they drain the energy utilities, they didn't have to pay the energy costs as well. All these incentives make Texas the data center capital, put data centers in your backyard. But it's everything that's going on in the state as well. I mean, there's. They're destroying the National Park by the Rio Grande there in order to build a performative wall. That's not even like an actual wall, but they're like bulldozing the beautiful National Park when no one's even crossing from that area. I mean, they've targeted the Latino voters who turned and voted for Trump in 2024 because he lied and said he's going to make them rich and this and that. I mean, so wealthy. Everybody knows this guy is a con artist. Of the worst kind, okay? There's no normal conversations to have. Dude's a felon. Dude's a sexual predator. I'm not being hyperbolic. He's found civilly liable for sexual assault. He's on audio tape bragging about sexually assaulting women. This is like a big scumbag. Stop acting like, oh, the Republicans or the Democrats. This guy's bad. And the people he surrounds himself with are losers also. Every one of them has a loser MAGA arc. They've all been losers in life or criminals in life or incompetent. People in life or just vile outcasts who nobody wanted to be around. And they found this MAGA cult where they can lie and lie and lie and be a shield and a sword for the oligarchs and funnel billions of your dollars to make people who are already beyond rich even richer. It's crazy. Three-time Trump voter in Iowa saying, yeah, I'm over the Trump insult and his bullshit. I'm over it. Enough of this bullshit. President Trump promised to bring down prices. You voted for him three times. Are you disappointed? Very disappointed. Very disappointed. Why? because the prices haven't gone down um i don't know i don't know i just i'm over it i think over the trump thing the trump wagon we won't call it you could talk directly to the president about the war about the prices about the economy what would you tell him stop the bullshit make america great like you said that's what i'd say the whole thing is bullshit everything about the guy the whole thing is a fake it's a fraud it's a fugazi the guy's a liar that's it what about the what about the green negotiator i do deals man deals the art of the deal dude's never done a deal he's always he said if you actually read art of the deal and don't he basically says the his he views a deal not as something that is to be complied with in good faith but he says that in the book it's a trap in order to extract and take that's not what a deal is supposed to be bad guy you can't do a deal with him ever there's there's no deal that canada can do it by the way this is this goes for the democrats too you you're not doing deals with donald trump okay you're not gonna meet with trump or people in his regime or people who pretend to be in the regime to solve problems so just put that aside the voters don't think oh i want the democrats because they're gonna do deals with trump if they get they're not doing deals with him okay just stop it what the american people want is a political party if it's the democrats so be it or whoever the party is who's going to hold these fascists who's going to hold these criminals who's going to hold the people who cover up the epstein files accountable that's it that's what people are looking for right now and then you get to 2028 and hopefully there's new leadership that could bring and inspire generational change but i don't think he just be you know i don't i don't like to talk about oh i'm not the political guy okay if you're looking for oh i'm giving you a political shot i'm the people guy and it's clear you can't do deals with trump okay so if i was a party running against trump i would say we're we're not doing deals with this guy okay we will be relentless and ruthless in investigations and accountability that's it and we will make sure that we build what's necessary for a post-2028 world of accountability and we will be relentless and ruthless in investigations and accountability we will impeach the guy we will and on on everything if it's a thousand things do a thousand things that's it that's what you're going to do make don't what do you get you think you're going to cut a deal with donald trump on the economy then you're going to cut a deal with donald trump on it you're not doing any deals just stop the guy can't do him he's covering up the epstein files for for god's sake you think you can do a deal with him on something else but what about our deal maker what about the deal maker donald hey donald you're gonna do a deal we're gonna do a deal with the right people we're gonna do a deal with the right people we're gonna do a deal with the right people we're gonna do a deal with the right people we're gonna do a deal with this was the white house on iran earlier caroline levitt he doing negotiations you're doing negotiations he's going to use those crafty deal making skills caroline here play this clip operation epic fury to destroy their military now we have operation economic outcast to destroy their economy no negotiations are happening right now and this will continue until the president feels that maybe they come to the table in a meaningful way we have not seen that yet but of course that's at the discretion of the president as commander-in-chief he of course there was operation epic fury and before that there was operation midnight hammer and then after that there's operation economic outcast and then there's what what new names there was operation freedom what would they call it operation freedom you're just making up name you're making up corny advertising names so what are you getting chat gbd to give you advice on corny advertising names that's not a strategy to make up a freaking slogan we're now we're doing operation economic outcast great work with operation economic outcast where china immediately says yeah we're not doing we're not going along with that where russia says yeah we're going to further discuss our 25 billion dollar investment into iranian nuclear capabilities that great work on operation economic outcast but the the projection by the trump regime it's almost so ridiculous and obvious that you're like seriously like you don't realize like how how operation economic outcast that's literally what the trump regime is doing to itself they've outcast we've we are the outcasts the the this was a post i kid you not this was the post from scott besant the one who's doing this is operation economic outcast this is what he posted this morning as the iranian people struggle to afford basic necessities the corrupt regime continues to squander enormous sums abroad instead of funneling billions of dollars to its terrorist proxies the regime should spend that money for its people it's like the most ridiculous post imaginable i i don't even want to even say it's projection like it's it's something beyond that you're literally just talking about the united states what do you even mean that the iranians are squandering enormous sums abroad i thought they were the economic outcasts oh they're not the outcasts now now now iran is a global superpower squandering their money abroad you're literally describing the united states it's it's actually crazy just say as the united states people struggle to afford just literally put in the word united states as the united states people struggle to afford basic necessities the corrupt regime continues to squander enormous sums abroad instead of funneling billions of dollars to its people it's like the iranians are squandering enormous sums abroad instead of funneling billions of dollars to its terrorist proxies the regime should spend that money for its people how about you spend money for the american people wasn't that the whole thing but just note that everything is always the opposite because he is a fraud america first of course it's going to mean america last trump's a con artist he just knows what to say to defraud people because he's a predator when trump says i've rebuilt the military he's destroyed the military we're out of weapons we should never have been involved in the catastrophic war in iran in the first place but we're out of we're out of if you're gonna do it how do you run out of weapons in the first 40 days yeah i know how you do it because if you can't even run a freaking casino and you bankrupt all of those you know i think you're gonna be able to handle the freaking military do pete hegseth couldn't run a small non-profit veterans group you're gonna have that idiot that loser he's a lifelong loser this guy he shouldn't be any i'm not saying this as a political person he's a loser look at his background he's a loser and there are very serious allegations against the guy he shouldn't be running the defense department and note what he does right away corny marketing department of war lethality here's what we're gonna everybody fears us nobody fears you you're a clown everybody knows it's just a bunch of freaking losers who aren't qualified this is about leadership this is about leadership this is about leadership this is about leadership this is about leadership this is about you know you said we're building the military you destroyed the military right of weapons where everybody knows right so mb galabafaron's parliament leader goes instead of funneling billions to its terrorist proxy israel on 750 bases this failing empire could spend that cash on its own people but nah that'd make too much sense for this regime scotty man question mark although questioning besant's manhood your credibility is on the line do something do something and the credibility's done it's tarnished it's over if you're gonna say we're doing d-day just like you have to use like they ruin everything right they they literally ruin everything you know they they they ruin everything and so it's like d-day you're gonna now equate this with with d-day and actual heroic thing when the u.s and its allies didn't say okay we're gonna blow up everything and then say and and then ask you know it's like uh saving private ryan the trump version of it you know they're on the they're on the the trump version of saving private ryan you know is they're on those speed boats and they're heading in and then the bullets start to go turn around turn around turn around turn around taco taco taco taco taco that's what i mean it's it's it's you know it's even worse than i mean for the trump regime it would just be announcing it hitler hitler we're coming we're coming next wednesday next wednesday here's where here why do i have a snoopy pen here this is the beach normandy it's right it's this is where it's coming hitler okay you scared you scared it's happening that's how trump would have done i mean that's i'm this isn't a political critique this is just this guy's an idiot they're all idiots and it's shameful with what america looks like so i give you that as background because i don't just want to report on oh donald trump said he's changing the name of lake ontario to lake america and by the way as prime minister carney says the name Lake Ontario comes from its from the indigenous people there, which means the lake is beautiful. The lake is big. The name is more than 400 years old, predating Canada, predating the Declaration of Independence. And he goes, we know that America is changing their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronym, hydronyms. Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario then, now and always. We got Charlie Angus here, by the way. Do we have Charlie? I want to bring in Charlie just so people can see Charlie so I can tease that we've got Charlie coming in during the break. We've got Charlie. Charlie, we're going to take a quick break. But Charlie, let me play this clip first from the press conference. Charlie, of course, leads Midas Canada on its way to 300,000 subscribers. Charlie leads the resistance tour there with the people. It's an honor to have always been in solidarity with Charlie and all the people in Midas Canada. Let me just share this with everybody as well. This is what was posted earlier today by ASIN, where Donald Trump says, we're going to be changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America. Let's play this clip. And finally, I guess the purpose of this more than anything else is we're going to be changing the name of Lake Ontario. Effective immediately to Lake America. That's going to take place right now as I sign the order. Do you have anything to say about it, Ben? Yes, sir. So this is a straightforward but important executive order. It directs Secretary Burgum and the Department of the Interior to update the Geographic Names Information Service to reflect that Lake, once known as Lake Ontario, will from this day forward be known as Lake America. Charlie, I know you've got a lot of. We've got a lot to say. We'll take our first quick break of the show when we come back. Charlie Angus, the leader of Midas Canada. We'll be right back. Do you snore? Did somebody hand you a CPAP and did you quietly stop using it? 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Again, head to Hexclad.com/Midas. M-E-I-D-A-S. Welcome back. We've got Charlie Angus, the leader of Midas Canada. Midas Canada is about to turn one year old on Labor Day, already close to 300,000 subscribers and working hard on the petition to say goodbye to Pete Hoekstra, the despicable U.S. ambassador to Canada that's picking up steam. I think you're close to 300,000 signatures on that petition, well on its way to a million. We'll talk about that. We'll talk more about Midas Canada. But Charlie, before the break, I showed you what Trump did in the Oval Office today, the performative, "I'm changing the name of Lake Ontario." I also wanted to let people know before showing that the U.S. is in total chaos right now. And so this is part of what Trump does. But talk to us about what you view this as and give us your perspective, Charlie. Well, I would think that if Donald Trump was wanting to take a position on a body of water, he'd be focused on the Strait of Bermuda. But he's completely destroyed that. And so you can see the economic numbers across the United States. So we are, you know, from the Canadian side of the border, we're what, one week into Operation Epic Fool. And what we're witnessing is classic. I mean, they came, they threatened, they hopped and popped, and we walked away and they couldn't believe it. Over the last week, our prime minister has been invited to speak to the leaders of the EU. I mean, our relations with Europe are getting stronger and stronger. Our revenue minister was meeting with India about trade. And I think they're just doing this to troll the Trump gang. But Melanie Jolie, our excellent industry minister, was announcing all the brain drain coming north. We are poaching serious researchers and scientists and that to come work here. And I think we're going to have to work in Canada. Meanwhile, we've been focused on our tariff war has been really specific, real focused body blows. They're going after key factories, they're going after key parts that are going to be very crucial for the American economy in the red states coming into the midterm. So we've been very focused and we've collected our first white flag. It is Taco Thursday. Yep. After all the threats they made, they're now backtracking quickly on having threatened French language rights in Canada. And, you know, in Canada, French language rights, I mean, that those are fighting words. So what they've done with that is really unified all the parts of the country around the French population in Quebec. The separatist movement in Quebec are now sort of hiding under the table. They're not talking about separation. Maple Maga, Maple Maga is deteriorating under pressure. And so what does Trump do? I mean, he signs this crazy executive order renaming the lake. It looks pathetic, Ben. And I think people are saying that's it. That's as good as it gets with this past week of threats and huffing and puffing. You're going to try and rename of all lakes, Lake Ontario, where, you know, all the populations like along that lake who trade and work together from both sides of the border. It just it's looking really pathetic. Yeah. And I think the behavior that you've seen from these Trump regime officials, even after the bad faith tactics by the Trump regime made the deal fall apart, just show why you can't do deals with the United States. It's very public, their behavior about you got to stop retaliating against us or else it's retaliating because you're attacking them. This going into the victim cocoon that the Trump regime does, you know, the posting of the goose. And then it turns out that in that video, the Canada goose actually beats the in the fight, you know, and then and then the Lake Ontario situation. But it just shows like you can't do deals. And it's a message to the world also that reminds me a lot of Carney's speech in Davos about a shifting world paradigm. You can't do deals with this psychotic regime that you're like the new dictator in Colombia or the dictator in Ecuador, or a Trump proxy from Miami who he's installed, where you're going to let the American troops go in there in order to extract all of your resources and turn it into enriching Trump and the oligarchs. Well, Ben, I think the really important thing to talk about and the Midas viewers understand this, but I, I watch, you know, American coverage and they don't get it. They think this is a trade dispute This is outright war. And Canadians are coming together in really incredible ways. We posted through our Midas online work about a farm in Manitoba that was concerned because if they couldn't get their honey across the border, that they were going to go bankrupt. And we posted about it. Other people posted. By the end of the day, they were begging people to stop calling because they had to set up an online store because so many people were out to buy their products. There's a Syrian family in Nova Scotia, Syrian refugees who set up a chocolate shop. They can't keep up with the orders because people are really taking these serious measures to show our support for one another. So Mark Carney has an enormous base to work from. But he also has real clear instructions to Canadian people. As you say, Ben, know this man is a criminal. They know he's a predator. There is no dealing with him. So we're in a very, very interesting position. One week in, it looks like the other side's falling apart and screaming and hollering and shouting. And our side is staying pretty cool. But I would like to make an offer to the MAGA regime and those behind it. I think you've got to move Donald out. I think he's decrepit. I think he's creepy. I think nobody believes him. I think you need to bring Legoman from Iran. We don't know that Legoman has had anything to do with Epstein's sex cases, but we know Donald Trump, his name's all over the file. So I would rather, as a Canadian, negotiate with Legoman at this point, and ask for the word of what comes out. I don't know if he's going to be able to get out of the White House. It means nothing. This guy was a criminal grifter from the get go, and it's all coming home now. You know, when you say this is actually war, and this is how it's being viewed, I think it's important to understand that when the Trump regime talks about the Don Roe doctrine and what they mean for the Western hemisphere, that this is a broader plan as Trump sees the world, where Putin gets all of Europe. Xi Jinping gets all of Asia. Donald Trump doesn't think about Africa. So, you know, I guess his view is Putin and China, you know, you can carve up Africa. But Trump has the Western hemisphere, and he has that map. And Trump's view of it, in my view, is very much like, and I'm just giving you my opinion, very much like a Hitler mindset. You know, Trump sees the map, and he wants to take over a lot of places, you know, and he's doing that right. Now, what we see actually happening, and I did an interview that's going to be airing tomorrow morning with Camila Lourdes-Galarza, who's in Ecuador, and we talked about the Neboa regime, that's the dictatorship in Ecuador, and then we talked about Bukele in El Salvador, and we talked about Malay in Argentina, and we talked about the new leader who's a Miami lawyer, who was a lawyer for a lot of the drug traffickers in Florida, who became the Colombia president, Alvarado de la Espraya. U.S. has ground troops in these places. The U.S. has CIA. They're doing drone strikes. They're killing people. The prosecutors who investigate the killings are getting killed. The witnesses are getting killed. We talk a lot about these, you know, the Iran war that the U.S. is in, but I want to also note there's actual wars happening that gets no coverage in the Western hemisphere right now, and this is how Trump sees it. He's Canada. It's not, to your point, it's not, he actually wants to send troops in and invade it and take it over, and it's not a joke. He wants it to be the 51st date, and he wants to see the Canadian people be subjects of him. That's what he wants. That's what's actually happening right now. Well, Ben, I think this is really important because there is a danger of just treating it as a joke. I think as Canadians, we have to keep our spirits up and recognize how ridiculous he is, but he's extremely dangerous. He's extremely. He's shown this through his entire career, his viciousness and his recklessness, and there is an element of the Fugger bunker around him right now as things are starting to fall apart. You know, he has said on multiple occasions that he thinks he should be able to arbitrarily move the border, move the border 50 kilometers, he said at one point, maybe 100 another. That's the Great Lakes. So you arbitrarily move the border, that's an invasion. That is a statement that we will now just have a provocation. And we will do something to take your country. And so we see the statement that he made on Lake Ontario. It's very much talking about why it belongs to the United States. It is part of that threat. We are treating it sort of as a joke, but I think most Canadians fully understand the nature of the threat. This is why Canadians are very focused, talking all the time. People have, you know, peaceniks I've known my whole life are talking about defense here. I think the one thing that's stopping Donald Trump from doing something that reckless is that he's kind of spooked by the determination of the Canadian people. But that being said, the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa is actively undermining us. Pete Hoogstra, the ambassador, is actively intervening in our nation's affairs. This is why the petition to have him expelled and to call for hearings into U.S. interference, because we see these patterns across the Americas, they don't see us any different than what they're doing in El Salvador or Colombia. They see us as a place that they can interfere and undermine and threaten and break up and take leaders out if necessary. The one thing stopping him right now are the Canadian people. And I want to talk before we go about the Maple MAGA. And obviously, people in Canada know what we're talking about. And at this point, to me, I've always viewed the Midas Touch Network as a international democracy network, first and foremost. And so I think our viewers have a huge body of knowledge now about what's going on in the world, which has been a made the biggest priority for me and how we've how we've built this thing. But Canada was having this trend the way the U.S. was moving. You had your own vessel, Pierre Poliev. Was that was we had Trump was our vessel here. But we can go look at Orban. We can look at these dictators in South America. There is this authoritarianism on the rise internationally. And Canada, of course, saw what was happening in the United States and Trump's attacks. And then Prime Minister Carney, you know, came at a moment where you had a banker or central banker, someone with those bona fides. You know, you had Donald Trump against the bank rupture. And there was a dynamic there. But you've still had the Pierre Poliev. It's like the end of a Terminator movie. You know, the guy loses his riding, he loses his seat and then he somehow like, you know, spawns again. And you're like, well, dude, where did you come from? Again, why are you around? You lost your own riding. And for our American viewers, that's like your congressional seat. And so, like, he stole somebody else's ride in, you know, give me your seat. And so you had all of that, Charlie. And you're still in Alberta. You have Danielle Smith, who's Maple Maga, is really the only, you know, the main kind of premier who's Maple Maga, like that out, you know, so outwardly like that. But not to say there's not others. But talk to us right now, because, you know, I'm seeing lots of people and old conservative leaders, new conservatives who are saying, dude, you can't both sides this. They're trying to look what they're doing, look what they're doing. So talk to us about that. Well, it is really amazing. And Pierre Poliev is. Now, totally on the margins, he is he has lost so much credibility. So he's not being a factor right now. But at the provincial levels, we're seeing they Pierre Poliev backed a mega leader of the Conservative Party in British Columbia. I think they've had 12, 12 of their elected members quit and leave or get thrown out. I mean, they're in free fall in Saskatchewan. Premier Mo, who's like he's he's Maple Maple Maga, he's getting hammered over the booze boycott. He's having to now be on Team Carney. He's feeling a lot of pressure because people in Saskatchewan are really angry that they have not been strong. But it's most interesting with Daniel Smith, who is absolute total Mar-a-Lago Maple Maga, Trump, traitor, Quisling, who has done everything to undermine us time and time again. And the people in Alberta are out every day. There's rallies happening all over Saskatchewan. So it's a lot of pressure. And I think it's a lot of pressure. who are conservatives they're out there fighting uh they're on team canada so maple mega is is disintegrating as the fool in the white house is doing every day he does something stupid and threatening to us it builds canadian solidarity in much more in a way that we couldn't have imagined two years ago so we get stronger every day the fight is we're just in the beginning stages ben but we are in the fight of our lives and it's i'm feeling like we're going to get through this i want everybody to subscribe to midas canada charlie angus runs midas canada he's got full independent 100 editorial everything is charlie over there it's just an honor being in solidarity with canada you know to see how we can bring international communities together under an umbrella of pro-democracy um and charlie before we go um and as we celebrate the first day of the year we're going to be talking about the first day of the year we're going to be talking about the first 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country it is parliamentary petition e7531 so if you're a canadian citizen all you got to do is sign that you put your name your address your email parliament of canada will will send you a code or check to make sure it's you and then it goes in we will have this i think we're we're at about 300 000 plus now i can't keep up but this is going to be the biggest uh parliamentary petition in canadian history and it's telling mega uh and the u.s embassy uh we we know what you're doing and you are not going to get away with this and your maple mega your maple your mega dude uh pete hoekstra is a troll and we want him gone we're going to pack his bags and you know ben uh pete and i've had conversations in the past and i've invited him out for a beer or two just to try and give him some advice well we're past the advice stage it's time to pack the bags and send him to the border charlie angus everybody subscribe to midas canada thanks charlie we'll take our last quick break we will be right 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member of parliament with the ndp party he's always been on the side of workers and labor and miners and he's always been on the side of the mining community over there and so it's great to uh it's great to have charlie aboard i'll share this with you as well a uh grinning natalie harp following donald trump aboard uh air force one you can see over here as donald trump is leaving the white house i mean how utterly uh embarrassing right there um and i will share with you just uh from that oval office disastrous press conference that donald trump had he was asked by before leaving like what the hell is he even going like like what the hell is the what the hell is this like what the hell is going on right there um i think we all know what's going on right there but but look the the issue is what his priorities are there's national security issues that i believe in my opinion too but look what he's focused on look what he's doing including what we've talked about earlier lake ontario you're naming it literally means big lake great lake and now we're gonna call that lake america it was it was called lake ontario before before the u.s existed and before canada existed how stupid are you but he's doing that while you are paying record gas prices while you are paying record diesel prices while the pce inflation readout was hotter than expected while the american people have the lowest consumer confidence essentially in history right now while people are paying their rent while people can't afford homes and can't afford their rent while people can't afford health care while all of this is going on it's like this is what you're doing man while you got us into a catastrophic war while our service members are suffering while you've destroyed our alliances abroad it's like just clown behavior you realize again i just we know trump's approval is at a all-time low and i think the republicans i truly feel that in this midterms they're gonna get wiped out like no one's ever um like like like we've never seen in an election um i don't think there will be a precedent if you looked at what's been happening in these special elections where democrats overperform by 12 15 18 points and then you look at the generic and then you factor in an overperformance i think people are wildly underestimating the reaction by the american people to the trump regime and the reality is though i i don't want i don't think the democratic party should necessarily take that as as an endorsement of them yet you need to fight and earn people's trust the american people want accountability and they want to return and restore checks and balances system and the american people by and large feel the trump regime is a bunch of war criminals that they cover up child sex trafficking that they only care about enriching donald trump and do social welfare for billionaires while screw over everybody the american people know that this regime are evil demonic bad people and i don't even think the american people view it as like oh well they're the republicans i think there's like these are bad people who who have caused us harm who have lied to us and they treat us like we're stupid every day i just i think it's very it's very simple and i think that it is incumbent upon any opposition party to make it very clear that the opposition will be just that robust ruthless rigorous and that will be the primary very focused and to articulate those goals. and not to pretend there's deals that are going to be had with bad people. It was Warren Buffett who first said the Wab Kanu, the premier of Manitoba, also said it thereafter, but it was a Buffett quote, I believe, originally, you can't do a good deal with bad people. You can't do any deal with Donald Trump, ever. He just can't do a deal with him. You can't give an inch to the guy he takes your life. That's just it. It's just the reality of the situation. That's it. All right. A reporter asked Donald Trump, hey, man, so you spent your day attacking Canada. Why are you doing this, number one? The reporter's like, there are reports that Putin is meeting. I'll show both of these first. First, the reporter says, there are reports that Putin is meeting the president of Iran next week. Is there a concern, since they're talking about building Iran's nuclear facilities? Does this concern you? You announce, economic D-Day, and then Russia and Iran announce more nuclear cooperation. It wasn't your whole thing. You were going to obliterate Iran's nuclear capabilities. And didn't you just send your CIA director, John Ratcliffe, to meet with Putin or to meet with the head of the intelligence in Russia? And this is their response the day after. Does that concern you, Donald? There is reports that Vladimir Putin is meeting with the president of Iran to talk about, nuclear agreement next week. Is there a concern in the administration and the White House that these countries aren't taking economic D-Day seriously, that they're going to continue doing business with Iran despite the warnings? No, Iran right now, they're not paying their troops. They're in deep trouble. They have very little capacity. Last night, we took 24 boats through the Strait. We're taking them through all the time. We say it very openly. It doesn't mean we're finished with the military. We're not finished with the military. But we are. The Strait is open, as you know. The Strait of Hormuz is open. We have control and we have the blockade. Iran's not getting anything. Nothing is going through. Not one ship has gotten through. Will you punish Putin or Russia if they continue to do business? Well, it depends. It depends. So far, I think Russia's behaved quite well having to do with the Strait of Hormuz. And you have to understand, for everything they do, we do also. You know, somebody was saying about China. What about China? We hear they're spying. We're spying on them, too. You know, it's hard to even express the stupidity there. They've been great. The question was, are you concerned that Russia is helping move nuclear material very publicly to Iran? I think they've been great. We do the same thing also. You know what it'd be like if, you know, remember watching the World Cup? Right. And Spain versus Argentina. And, you know, when Argentina scores, you know, you have Spain celebrating. Go, yeah, we score. You score. You scored on our goal. You want us to help you out? Score on our goal. Like, he has no sense. It's a stupid example, I guess. But you're the president of the United States, you idiot. But he doesn't care because he hates the country. He hates his job. He doesn't like, you know, he's not a public, he's not a rep, he's not representing the United States. He's representing Trump and the Trump company to steal your money. And to sometimes give money to billionaires who give him money and who stay in his good graces by giving him gold shit. That's it. That's it. He doesn't care about the country. He doesn't care about our troops. He doesn't care about you. He doesn't care about it. He doesn't care about anything. This is just, this is, this is the him show. And that's all he wants. I'll show you the other clip right here. This is from that same presser where the reporter says, but why are you spending all your time attacking allies? Like, why not spend your time, like, allies, same team versus other team? Why have you spent this whole press conference praising Putin, praising Xi Jinping? Xi Jinping said, we don't go, we won't go along with economic D-Day. Like, like they're mocking you, Donald. The, the, the, the people who want to do harm are saying, we want to harm you. And they're mocking you. The allies who are, who have been here to help, you're attacking. Does that seem odd to you? Listen to what he says. Let's play it. Things like this towards America's allies, instead of doing things. Well, they haven't treated us. They haven't treated us well. The Canadian officials have treated us very badly. They're nasty people. They charge our farmers 400% tariffs. They've been doing it for a long time. And I had them figured out in my first term, and I did some pretty strong things and had it getting pretty good. And then the election was rigged. And now I'm coming back and doing it the way and finishing the job. But they treat us very badly. Canada treats us very badly. I would say that of all countries, as you know, we have President Xi coming in a couple of weeks. We have a lot of, we deal with a lot of people. And people oftentimes, they'll ask me, who's the worst to deal with on trade? And I said, that's easy. Canada. They are the worst to trade. And they feel entitled. And just, we can't have that. Mr. President, President Xi doesn't like you, you idiot. He thinks you're a fool and you're a clown and a loser. And that you've provided a fast forward button for China to achieve its overall objectives that I think it thought was 50 years away from being realized. You sped it up. And you have, he even answers the question about why do you attack your allies by saying, I need to fit, you know, he lies obviously about the 2020 election because he's a sick and demented person. But then he also goes, I needed to finish the job against Canada. What, what are you talking about? You know, finish the job, finish the job on Canada and you talk to Xi Jinping and then you mock Canada together. Okay. You think that makes you look stronger? You doing that with Xi Jinping? He's like, got it. Like this guy's an idiot. That's how the world thinks about you. And then finally, I want to show everybody this clip. I thought the speech that Abdul El-Sayed, Dr. El-Sayed gave in Michigan in, uh, I think it was in Farmington Hills was a great speech. Did you catch that? I did a video where I covered the full speech, but I wanted to show you part of it where I thought was just a plus. Let me share this with you. Let's play it. And I just want to point to two issues right now that we're dealing with. Number one, as hard as he tries, as hard as he tries, this guy wants to pretend like he never met Donald Trump. I don't know who that is. Who's that? And Donald Trump, because he can't resist the red meat, can't seem to keep my name out of his mouth. Habibi, if you can't say the name, don't say the name. Abdul, Abdul. I'm going to say it like that, man. It's creepy. Abdul. Holds on to the L a little too long. Oh, Abdul. You know, Natalie's going to show him this clip and he's going to be so mad. Abdul. Try Abdul Rahman. And then you had MAGA Mike Johnson in Texas today where the MAGA Republicans are on the ropes right now. And a very desperate and scared and panicked MAGA Mike said, if we lose the midterms, everything we built will be destroyed. The economy is going to crash. The stock market will go bust. It will destroy our power abroad. It will undermine us internationally. So I just want to make it clear. This is always the plan of the con artist and the fraud. The arsonists destroy it. Everything that he's talking about, the wheels are already in motion right now or have happened, right? Our economy is, for most Americans, horrific right now. If you want to say that the market, the stock market is up a little bit. Well, I mean, it's built on this kind of AI pump that's been taking place. That feels like a circular kind of funding structure of lots of CapEx spending that's coming from the exact same sources. And lots of people can see at least some of the design of a bubble that's right there kind of before the pandemic. for our eyes. but in any event, this is what they do. They want to blend. By the way, GDP growth's anemic. It's like, what, 1.4% inflation, significantly higher than when Biden left office. And so now they basically say, look, what'd they tell us? End of 2025, Trump owns the economy. He should own it at the beginning, but end of 2025. First quarter, 2026. We got you. Second quarter, 2026. And now what do they say? Because they're con artists. 2027. We got this. 2027, we're going to fix everything then. We got it. And then they're going to lose the midterms. And then they're going to say, ah, Trump was so close. He built it. We had everything. The first year was the appetizer, whatever stupid thing. Then the second year was the banquet, and it was about to all be unleashed. But then the Democrats won, and that foiled everything. They're giving you the playbook of what they do. This is what Trump did after his first term. And this is the cycle that we need to get out of as a country. Because this cycle, where the arsonists burn it down, then someone needs to fix it. And the arsonists burn it down, then someone needs to fix it. everybody. Want to stay plugged in? Become a subscriber to our sub stack at MidasPlus.com. You'll get daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski, add free episodes of our podcast and more exclusive content only available at MidasPlus.com.