Trump Falls Apart on Monday…

WTF Donald Trump has been panic posting all morning dozens and dozens of posts this as Brent crude prices the price of oil now is at 107 dollars a barrel and it continues to surge so what is Donald Trump doing he's posting fake quotes from Denzel Washington that seems to endorse him just entirely false Denzel Washington said I've worked with a lot of people in my life and I've never met anyone braver smarter or who cares more about America than Donald Trump just absolutely false Denzel Washington never said that the president of the United States is a sex predator and a liar and every word out of his mouth is a lie and this follows him making posts late last night of three black Trump supporters apparently maybe and he called them adorable and they were in Tennessee then he was posting all throughout this morning more photos of him and Mike Tyson and then he posts a quote attributed to Kid Rock we are not and will never be one nation under Muhammad the American people are struggling right now this isn't an election talking point people are suffering this diesel deal with Russia which is patently unlawful has been exposed not just for the criminality not just for its traitorous and treasonous behavior around it but also it's not that much diesel and the markets aren't being manipulated by these criminal gimmicks and so what does Trump do he makes posts like that he sends MAGA Mike it's about to lose his job soon MAGA Mike's been talking about I may start a lawn business or something a lawn mowing business remember he said that the other day well Trump sends MAGA Mike out he gives an interview on state regime media CBS and MAGA Mike gives the economy an A here's what he said play this clip the president's right and I don't think that what the vice president is saying is inconsistent with that we have produced we we had to fix the so the A plus you share his A plus view let me let me answer it this way oh we got an A grade on the economy everything we've done the big beautiful bill alone the president's right and then MAGA Mike said everybody's frustrated about fuel prices but it has nothing to do with Republicans or Trump or our policies it just has to do with the straight of Hormuz we had nothing to do with that that's why I always say these people are psychopaths the actual definition of sociopaths and psychopaths you all engaged in the catastrophic war with Iran that's why the straight of Hormuz is shut down I mean what world are you living in and then you MAGA Mike as a member of Congress as the speaker of the house could have supported war powers resolutions to try to block this and you didn't and you all were saying oh it's going to be over in four to six weeks four to six weeks this is what MAGA Mike says though here play this clip there's lots of answers to that the first thing is if the idea we're all frustrated everybody's frustrated about fuel prices obviously but that's not related to policy It's not related to the Republicans in office. It's hard to make that case, though, to a voter who knows Republicans are running the House and the Senate and the White House. Yes, but if I give them a couple of pure facts and they understand it easily, this is related to the straightforward moves. It is not yet resolved. And of course, you can't have a MAGA Mike interview without him blaming former President Biden and former VP Kamala Harris. It's like the economy was the worst then. We forget that we were in a depression then. We weren't. OK, for the first two to three years under Biden, there was indeed a lot of struggles caused by Donald Trump's term and COVID. But Biden passed bipartisan legislation so that by the end of Biden's term, all of, by the way, the more conservative leaning financial papers, the Wall Street journals, the economists, the Financial Times, all said the U.S. had the Goldilocks economy, that the U.S. economy was the envy of the world. Interest rates were going to decrease numerous times, that inflation would head down to 2 percent. And I don't want to paint this perfectly flattering picture because things were still too expensive. And Americans should have, we should, people should have listened more to how Americans were feeling about prices. And of course, all fair, all fair. But things were significantly better. Donald Trump's made him way worse. Just every chart Trump has made gas prices are higher. Inflation is higher. Everything is worse. But he's got to blame Biden. This is what MAGA does because there's no responsibility. They're the party of no responsibility. Here, play this clip. What I'm saying and the president is saying, remember what we inherited from Biden-Harris after four years. It was the worst economy in generations. They brought us to 9.1 percent, 40-year high inflation. But there is that old phrase, Mr. Speaker, the buck stops here. The buck stops here. But one election in two years is not, you don't just flip a switch and turn the economy back around upside down. It does take time. And then MAGA Mike Johnson says, and if we lose the majority, it's going to be lawfare on steroids. Trump will not be able to continue his America first policies. Play this clip. The president being out is very important because he's sending the message to his base, to the Republican base, that he is on the ballot and to a certain extent because his administration has to continue for four years and not just two. And if we lose the majority, it'll be lawfare on steroids and all sorts of chaos. And he will not be able to continue his America first policies. Well, if these were the America first policies, it seems like it's America last, Netanyahu first, Donald Trump's Arab royal family, Arab nation royal family first, certainly over the United States of America. It's Putin first over the United. I mean, he's thrown the United States under the bus. I mean, you can say the word America first over and over again. If anything, it's cover up child support. Child sex trafficking rings first. Cover up the Epstein files first. Help the Netanyahu regime first. Help royal families. Actually, they're not even help. Pretend to help defraud them. Take their money. Screw them. Throw them under the bus. Have Iran become a regional and global power first. What the hell are we talking about? Meanwhile, Ukraine's President Zelensky says Russia is also blocking grain exports from Ukraine. An agriculture crisis will begin within two months. Zelensky said the U.S. isn't feeling the effects of this, which is why the focus is only on energy. There won't be enough food for countries across Africa, some Asian countries, and in the Middle East. Also, throughout the night, Russia engaged in more strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure over and over again. So, Zelensky was on state regime. He also spoke at the Warsaw Forum in Poland. We'll talk a little bit about what went down. Here's what Zelensky described first about Donald Trump wanting Zelensky to step down as president. The first, the second point, if President Trump wants to change the leader in Ukraine, he has to know that only our people can change. And I'm ready for elections. Really, we need minimum 60 days for security of infrastructure to prepare elections. Zelensky then addresses the fact that everybody knows that the reason that diesel prices are surging and gas prices are surging is because the Strait of Hormuz is closed. First of all, everybody understands that the prices on diesel, it doesn't depend on our attacks on diesel. In Russia, everybody understands that it depends on the blocking Hormuz, Strait of Hormuz. So, this is understandable. By the way, Russia only accounts in terms of the world diesel supply for about 2% of the world diesel supply. So, in terms of the amount of diesel that Russia would be supplying to the United States, as I said, in terms of the global supply, it's like a few hours of one day of diesel that's consumed worldwide. Like, a few hours, that's it. It's not a lot of diesel. Zelensky then told state regime media, Fox, how Ukraine, even though Putin and the Duma all announced in Russia that they were not agreeable or they never heard of the energy ceasefire that Donald Trump was posting about on Trump's social media platforms. Zelensky said, we honored it. And we didn't. We did not strike any Russian refineries. But Russia struck all of our energy infrastructure all throughout the night. Listen to what Zelensky says over here. Let's play this clip. We never, sorry, communicate what we will do next. But yesterday, I mean, this today at night, yes, we didn't attack any energy objects on the territory of Russia. Because President Trump said that it will be energy ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia. 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And when Quince asks where you heard about them, let them know it was the Midas Touch podcast that sent you. It's always the best way to support the show. By the way, during Zelensky's speech at the Warsaw Forum earlier today as well, he talked about how when Ukraine was able to strike the data centers in Russia, like Yandex, which I did a report on this morning, how all of a sudden you saw a lot of these bots, these Russian bots, suddenly were shut down for a period of time and how that is bringing some relief to the world, especially as Russia uses its bot networks to interfere with elections here in the United States, in Europe, and across the world. Maga Mike Johnson says, I think the Iranians are watching the election. I think we enter a new phase of this war after the midterms. What does that mean? Are you going to put boots on the ground? You all are going to be so angry and upset that the Republicans are going to get wiped out in the midterms. You're going to cause thousands and thousands or tens of thousands of young Americans to die in a catastrophic war and cause global depression. Is that what you're threatening, Maga Mike? Here's what he says. Play this clip. I think all this comes to a head. I think the Iranians are watching this election cycle. I think they want to do harm to the president in his political prospects. And I think that's a very new phase of this. Let's take a look at what's actually happening in Iran. Right now, we'll take a look at the Strait of Hormuz. Another tanker was struck. I feel like, again, a broken another tanker was struck. And you may be saying, where are all the ships? Why do they keep on doing it? Well, as I've reported on before, the VLCCs, the very large crude carriers, they charge now $1.5 million a day to try to get the oil out of the Strait of Hormuz. So it's like $30 to $50 million for them to deliver the oil, which increases the price of oil. But a lot of them are getting destroyed, to be fair. They're running out of ships. JP Morgan did a report on this the other day that there's a ship shortage right now. Ships don't want to go in. The way the ship-to-ship transfer works, it takes a lot of ship coordination. It's not an easy transport of the fuel. And so we're running out of ships. But the IRGC released this video of yet another tanker struck in the Strait of Hormuz. Play this clip. While Trump was posting photos like this this morning, other presidents, and it's an AI image of the Iranian Navy, which is never what the Iranian Navy looked like. Trump, an AI image of the Iranian Navy on the bottom of the sea. Trump also posted AI images this morning of his Doral Golf Club. And he posted like a AI image of it, like white and looking perfect. And then he goes, this is how New York Times tries to say that it looks like. But this is what it really looks like. And he posted an AI image of his own golf course, because he's actually a lunatic. Meanwhile, at that same Warsaw security forum, Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said, anyone who, for reasons of betrayal, stupidity, or money, wants to weaken Ukraine in its defense against Russian aggression, is acting directly against their own nation, the security of their own country, and its sovereignty. I wonder who that message was directed at. The U.S. ambassador to NATO, Matthew Whitaker, was at that same Warsaw forum. And here's what he had to say. Play this clip. And, you know, if you study history, you know that, you know, superpowers and great global powers have, have mostly, um, uh, had challenges when they get overextended. So I think President Trump and, and, uh, his administration is making sure that we don't get overextended, that our allies are capable and not dependent. And that's, you know, we're, we've had great success here in Europe and Poland. I, I point to that example. The projection is so insane. Did you hear what he said? If you study history, you know, that superpowers have challenges when they're overextended. You mean like y'all getting involved in catastrophic wars everywhere and saying the word America first while you're involved in catastrophic wars everywhere? You're describing you and the destruction of the United States. By the way, the U.S. is not a superpower anymore. The U.S. is not even a serious nation right now, sadly, anymore. It's a dangerous, unserious nation under the Trump regime that goes around and attacks everybody and then begs and then attacks and then begs and then attacks like the other day for Canada, right? I mean, I mean, the other day Trump continues 51st state attacking Canadian sovereignty, but then, oh, wait, you have diesel? A million barrels of diesel a day? That sounds like a lot. Can we get some? Can we get some? And then the attacks, the behavior is just, again, sociopathic. Take a look at this chart right here. The Financial Times with a very helpful graph on understanding why diesel prices are high. See over here where diesel prices were before Trump launched the catastrophic war. And then essentially a vertical line up slight reprieve when there was the MOU, but then vertical line all the way up. And again, as Donald Trump gets more and more desperate, we see things like this this morning. The Trump regime's DOJ SS Gestapo raided Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's Washington area home this morning. As part of a federal investigation, a ginned up scam federal investigation, corrupt as can be into alleged fraud involving immigration paperwork completed by her late father when she was a child, state regime news reported. The Trump regime coordinated with state regime media so they'd be at her house ready to go as FBI agents barged through the door right before an election. Which is against, completely against DOJ policy as well. But they're going after her right before a midterm election. She's a naturalized citizen for decades. This is what they're doing. The Justice Department, as I've said before, is a criminal racketeering enterprise covering up child sex trafficking rings right now. And they are affirmatively working and doing the crime. They are a gangster mafia regime. Under the Trump regime. I'll leave you with this right now. This is a statement from Peter Gernus over in Norway, one of the five Nobel Prize commissioners. It's a very lengthy statement where he calls out Donald Trump for begging for the Nobel Prize the way he describes it. A certain head of state wanted the prize the way a child wants a thing in a shop window, which is to say loudly and in public. And with the full belief that wanting it was itself the argument. Gernus goes on to say that Trump wasn't even eligible for it this year because the nominations were due. And he was only in office for 10 days when the nominations for the Nobel Prize were due. So he said, regardless of the fact that we wouldn't give it to him anyway, the calendar rejected it regardless. But here's how it's described over here. Here is what he will never understand. The thing I tell him on the tram, if he ever took one, we are the one prize he cannot buy, cannot post his way to, cannot have a friendly dictator phone in for him. Not because we're incorruptible, we are as vain and wrong and human as the portraits on our wall. But because the entire point of the thing, the only power a small cold country's book club has ever held, is that it goes to the person not performing the wanting. The moment you demand it, you've proven you don't understand what it's for and proving that is itself the disqualification. He ran the most expensive campaign in the history of the prize and the campaign was the reason. He was never losing to Navi Pillay. Navi Pillay. 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