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Trump Deals Himself a Devastating Blow Ahead of the Midterms

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Trump Deals Himself a Devastating Blow Ahead of the Midterms

The transcript criticizes Donald Trump’s midterm strategy, highlighting his plan to spend millions in MAGA funds on self-promotional ads that falsely claim economic success and victory in Iran, despite widespread hardship. The speaker notes that many Republican lawmakers are avoiding Trump’s upcoming Dallas convention, seeing it as a "self-immolation exercise" poorly timed around NFL games and the 9/11 anniversary. Voter discontent is evident, with former Trump supporters expressing frustration over unfulfilled promises on prices and the economy, and polls showing record-low approval ratings. The administration faces backlash over a severe measles outbreak, with Pennsylvania’s governor publicly blaming RFK Jr.’s misinformation, while officials like Sean Duffy produce mocked YouTube content and Brooke Rollins defends controversial beef imports that undercut ranchers. Foreign policy missteps include Iran’s continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Pakistan’s large bailout request, and declining U.S. favorability in South Korea. Trump’s attacks on Canada and his sale of novelty items on Truth Social further highlight his focus on self-interest over governance. The speaker concludes that Trump’s actions are a "death blow" to his own political standing, urging viewers to pre-order a book titled "WTF America" as a call to action.

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Donald Trump is delivering a death blow to himself come the midterms in November. It is a sight to behold and I'm not talking about the death blow that Iran is threatening with barren, which are secret service claims that they are monitoring. I'm talking about Donald Trump saying that he's going to use that MAGA ink pack money that he's grifted with all of those deranged emails. He says, "I need you to help me. I need your money right now. Do you still love me?" You know all of those messages. He raised like four hundred million dollars. And so the MAGA Republicans are like, "Who's he going to spend it on? How is he going to deploy it? Is he going to help us?" Well, Donald Trump has made a decision. Donald Trump plans to buy midterm ads about drum roll. Please, himself, he's going to take ads out that feature him and say how great things are and that Americans are living the golden age and that gas prices are amazing and that we've won the war in Iran and that his trade war against the world has made us richer and that farmers have never been happier and that this is the golden age delivered that he promised. One of course, we know it is the absolute exact opposite. And so he has that event September 9th and September 10th in Dallas, Texas, the deranged midterm convention that he wants to hold. And we're hearing more and more, even more than we heard from yesterday from these MAGA Republican Congress members saying, "We don't want to go anywhere near this thing. It's going to be some bizarre Donald Trump self-immolation exercise where he's going to claim things are amazing." And also, it's during the first week of the NFL and it's going to be conflicting with all of these football games. Like, what are you doing? And it's like two days before 9/11, like the timing couldn't be any worse. Like, let me show you the JD Vance Fundraising email that was sent out yesterday. You can see how desperate MAGA is. So this is a new R&C fundraising text from JD Vance and it says, "If you can't give right now, don't Natalie. Groceries cost what they cost. But can you answer this for me?" And then it gives you a link that asks you for money anyway. But that's an interesting one. If you can't give right now, don't Natalie. I know the reporter's name is Natalie Ellison, although I reflect on the name, Natalie there with Donald Trump, regardless. If you can't give right now, don't. Groceries are too expensive. Yeah, because of your regime. And so we've been hearing from Trump supporters, three-time Trump supporters in Iowa and elsewhere who are saying, "We're off the Trump train. We hate this guy." Take a listen to it. This three-time Trump voter told MSNOW about why they no longer support Donald Trump play this clip. President Trump promised to bring down prices. You voted for him three times. Are you disappointed? Very disappointed. Very disappointed. Why? Because the price haven't gone down. I don't know. I don't know. I just, I'm over it. I think over 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 bullsh*t. Make America great like you said. That's what I'd say. And here's another video earlier at the Iowa fair play this clip. Tell President Trump right now. Resign. That is what I would tell him. Used to be, no matter where you drove, they did it on the pouring bales or the hay bales, everything. Trump, Trump, Trump. Every place you went. Because we are republished and we're underground. You don't see anything now. Driving down here is a three-hour drive for us and I'll bet you in a course of time, we probably saw 30 different times stuck in the ground, out in the cornfield, whatever. You don't see any of them. You know, when you just think about just measles, for example, like that the Trump regime is a super spreader of measles, right? The United States hit 2777 confirmed measles cases per the CDC. The most in a year and 35 years and it's only August. So it's going to get much worse. Two people died from measles in Pennsylvania, marking these states first deaths in 35 years. Then you had RFK Jr. reach out to Governor Shapiro and he's like, uh, what are we going to do about it? They're Governor Shapiro and Governor Shapiro. Well, I'll just show you what Governor Shapiro said that he told RFK Jr. He's like, this is your fault man. You came in here and you act like this is not a serious issue and you tell people not to get vaccinated and you act like measles isn't a big deal you moron. Watch what Governor Shapiro says, play this clip. Part of the reason why I was late is I've been sitting out in the parking lot talking to Secretary Kennedy who reached out to me this morning and while I appreciate his willingness to offer staff to assist us, we think we're able to manage this through the Department of Health. I was very, very blunt with him and I made very clear that his actions and the rhetoric that's coming from this administration are having a negative impact on communities across America, particularly right here in Pennsylvania, that there's real life consequences to spreading misinformation, there's real life consequences to scaring people and not relying on actual doctors and actual medical professionals to provide unbiased information to parents so that we can make reasonable decisions for our kids. As I said before, the people are trying to do the best for their kids. They're trying to protect their kids and the best way are health experts at the federal level and the state level and in a hospital, wonderful hospital like this, the best way those professionals can do their jobs is to provide unbiased factual information so that parents can make responsible decisions for their children. Sharing conspiracy theories and misinformation does not help the cause of public health and it leaves people less healthy and less safe and it leaves parents in a position where it's harder for us to do our jobs to protect our children. And just so you can see the clip of what RFK Jr. had done in Pennsylvania, you can see he's like, I just, I cure measles with chicken soup. I mean, it's just shut up with these stupid lies, man, y'all are a bunch of killers, you're dangerous, you're hateful, you've destroyed the lives of Americans, you've destroyed the lives of farmers, you spread measles and all of these diseases, you're gross, you're play this clip of RFK. What is the cure? What is the cure for measles? Your measles is chicken soup and vitamin A. Neither of those things can be pathogen. Now, as in any shock then that a new Reuters Ipsos poll shows just 13% of Americans strongly approve of Trump, it's like the lowest ever in the history of the United States, only 35% of Republicans approve of Donald Trump, and only 13% of Americans strongly approve and just it's just deranged behavior. I mean, you know, there are a bunch of failed reality TV people who are out there thinking that this is some like reality show and we don't want to be non-consensual extras in their dystopian horror reality show. I mean, did you see this clip right here? I mean, this is what transportation secretary Sean Duffy is spending his time doing. He released a reality show on YouTube that like nobody watched at all except people to mock them, and so you have this former Bravo reality TV star randomly interrupting the conversation to talk about how great credit card points are as Henry Burke says it's bizarre, but like most of the show, once you take a look at the list of corporate sponsors, which are credit card companies and other people who are interested, they're doing like product placement in this deranged YouTube video from the transportation department about Sean Duffy's road trip, and it's like, what are you even doing here? Like it's not your job as the transportation secretary. What the hell do you think this is? The American people are suffering gas and diesels at record highs. You've destroyed our ranchers by bringing in, well, you've destroyed our farmers and ranchers over and over again with so many things, your tariffs against the world, making the input costs much higher, taking away export markets, and now you're undercutting ranchers with beef, mystery frozen beef. That's going to be 25 percent cheaper than what be when our ranchers are doing like you and you're doing these videos and then you don't say who the deal who the deal is with. I mean, did you see this? This was Brooke Rollins earlier in the day here playing this clip. The president is the champion of all Americans ranchers farmers. Of course, they're my my world and I'm very focused on that. But the conversations I've had with him is that, you know, we inherited an impossible situation. We inherited the lowest herd on record cattle herd, the beef that we're eating today or cattle that were born under the Biden administration like this is a this is not eggs, right? You can't you can't had to chicken and have them laying eggs in a couple months. It takes years to rebuild the herd. The president made the decision that for a short 90 days, there's a lot of ground beef. This is just ground beef. There's a lot of ground beef that's sitting in other countries that would potentially help serve Americans, especially lower income Americans who really lean into lean into the lean ground beef and then it's just manipulation of the market over the wire. U.S. Iran ceasefire reportedly nears. The U.S. and Iran have reportedly reached a ceasefire agreement with an announcement expected in the coming days according to Rian Novosti, a Russian network is saying that Pakistani and Iranian military sources say it's super serious this time everybody that there's going to be a deal. No, that's not what's going to happen. Iran and Oman did a deal which they confirmed yesterday regarding the straight of Hormuz, but Iran's deputy foreign minister, Garbabadi, made it clear. We are still in a state of war and the straight of Hormuz will remain closed. Why should we always wait for American to attack? We can take preemptive action if we want to as well. By the way, remember the Pakistani mediators, they're like pay up Donald, Pakistan formally requested a $10 billion currency stabilization facility from the U.S. Treasury, the largest such ask in the country's history. The request follows Pakistan being the mediator over here and so it's like pay up Donald, we want our money right now. So what we're going to bail out Pakistan after bailing out the end, after bailing out Argentina and then bringing you what Argentina beef in order to undercut our ranchers here. I mean, again, this entire regime is so deranged while we attack South Korea, prop up Kim Jong Un, send our CIA to meet with Putin, become bootlickers to Xi Jinping, brag about how Xi Jinping's visiting Donald Trump. No wonder in South Korea a Pew survey finds 55% of South Koreans now view the U.S. unfavorably up from 39% last year. So overwhelmingly viewing the United States as negative. And then Donald Trump attacking Canada, saying over the last 10 years, the United States lost $60 billion, which just isn't true. It's just moronic. I've debunked this every single damn day. But let me show you what they're selling under Donald Trump's posts. This is from the president of the United States, how utterly humiliating. Trump $1,000 bills being given away free for truth social users. Hurry, only 71 left. Do you want your Trump $1,000 bill? Do you want to pay real dollars to buy a fake $1,000 bill with Trump's face on it and they're 71 left, which you know is probably a lie. And he's selling that on his social media platform while attacking our closest ally, Canada, which he's now alienated, right? That's why the book that I wrote with my brothers is called WTF America. It used to be sitting on there. I don't know where it went. But pre-order WTF America right now, wherever books are sold, you can Google WTF America. The pre-order momentum is strong. And I think you'll really, we dedicate it to you, the minus mighty. Thanks for watching. We appreciate you for watching. And obviously this Trump event, this convention is going to be a complete mess and no one wants to be out. I think Trump's going to be speaking both days and just going to be Trump and his cabinet. Speaking about, they think how great they are, how great they are, so utterly deranged. Donald Trump delivering the death blow to himself. Thanks for watching. We appreciate you. Hey, if you want the full story, how democracy got here and how we take it back, pre-order our new book, WTF America Today. Just scan the QR code or click the link in the description. Let's do this.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Trump plans to use MAGA fundraising money for midterm ads promoting himself and claiming a "golden age," despite economic and political realities.
  2. MAGA Republicans are distancing themselves from Trump’s upcoming Dallas event, citing poor timing (NFL opener, near 9/11) and its self-promotional nature.
  3. Disillusionment among Trump voters is growing, with some former supporters expressing disappointment over unfulfilled promises on prices and the economy.
  4. The Trump administration faces criticism over a measles outbreak, with Pennsylvania’s governor blaming RFK Jr.’s misinformation for worsening public health.
  5. Polls show record-low approval ratings for Trump, with only 13% of Americans strongly approving and 35% of Republicans supportive.
  6. The administration’s actions, including tariffs and beef imports, are hurting farmers and ranchers, while officials like Sean Duffy and Brooke Rollins face mockery for off-message activities.
  7. Foreign policy tensions persist, including Iran’s refusal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and Pakistan’s request for a $10 billion bailout, while U.S. favorability drops in South Korea.
  8. Trump’s social media platform sells novelty items, and he attacks allies like Canada, further alienating international partners.

Summary:

The transcript criticizes Donald Trump’s midterm strategy, highlighting his plan to spend millions in MAGA funds on self-promotional ads that falsely claim economic success and victory in Iran, despite widespread hardship. The speaker notes that many Republican lawmakers are avoiding Trump’s upcoming Dallas convention, seeing it as a "self-immolation exercise" poorly timed around NFL games and the 9/11 anniversary. Voter discontent is evident, with former Trump supporters expressing frustration over unfulfilled promises on prices and the economy, and polls showing record-low approval ratings.

’s misinformation, while officials like Sean Duffy produce mocked YouTube content and Brooke Rollins defends controversial beef imports that undercut ranchers. S. favorability in South Korea.

Trump’s attacks on Canada and his sale of novelty items on Truth Social further highlight his focus on self-interest over governance. The speaker concludes that Trump’s actions are a "death blow" to his own political standing, urging viewers to pre-order a book titled "WTF America" as a call to action.

FAQs

Donald Trump plans to use the money raised from MAGA fundraising to buy midterm ads that feature himself, claiming that Americans are living in a golden age with great gas prices and a won war in Iran.

They fear it will be a self-immolation exercise where Trump claims things are amazing despite reality, and the timing conflicts with NFL games and falls two days before 9/11.

The voter expressed disappointment because prices haven't gone down, saying they're 'over the Trump wagon' and would tell Trump to 'stop the bullsh*t' and make America great as promised.

Shapiro was blunt, stating that RFK Jr.'s actions and rhetoric are harming communities, and that spreading misinformation has real-life consequences, making parents less safe and less healthy.

The poll shows only 13% of Americans strongly approve of Trump, the lowest ever in U.S. history, with just 35% of Republicans approving.

Duffy released a reality show on YouTube that few watched, featuring product placement for corporate sponsors like credit card companies, which critics see as inappropriate for his role.

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