Trump’s Awful Morning…US Ship Hit

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Also, the Houthis have announced, that they were able to successfully strike Saudi Arabia's Yanbu facility in Western Saudi Arabia, causing more oil disruption into the global market. Also, we learned that the Houthis were able to shoot down yet another Saudi drone, likely provided by the United States military. The oil markets are getting even more problematic, and that's an understatement. Let me just share with you the footage right now. Of the Houthis posing in front of the F-15E they shot down. This is fairly incredible footage right over here. Let's play this clip. Now, if the Houthis have the capability to shoot down F-15s, let's be clear, Iran definitely has the capabilities to do the same. It should also be noted this morning, that we learned that the Trump regime was covering up the fact, that Iran struck a U.S.-contracted oil tanker with U.S. troops on board around the Strait of Hormuz earlier in the week. Remember when Iran said they did it and CENTCOM denied it? Well, guess what? CENTCOM was lying again. So using four drones and at least one missile, one projectile we're aware of directly hit the tanker and caused injuries to our troops. Smoke inhalation and potentially other injuries that are still being covered up per usual. And this is something that we will continue to be following here. With all of this taking place, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright went on state regime media this morning. The propaganda is so utterly outrageous while the American people are suffering really badly. Chris Wright's message, and he's the Energy Secretary, he's in Trump's cabinet. He said, Thank God we have Donald Trump. We're doing so good right now. They are all con artists. Watch for yourself. Play this clip. Are you worried about the refineries? They've been running for months at full tilt. How they need maintenance. We do. And thank God we have President Trump with some common sense on energy. We're doing everything we can to help refineries expand their capacity. President Trump is aggressively deploying the U.S. military. More from Chris Wright here, Donald Trump's Energy Secretary. He's asked, would you be brave enough to put a timeline on when these gas prices are going to come down? I can't predict Iranian behavior. He says, okay, what about your behavior? What about the Trump regime's behavior? You and Netanyahu were the ones who invaded Iran. Here, watch this for yourself. It's so pathetic. Play this clip. Would you be brave enough to put a timeline on when they come down? I certainly can't predict. Iranian behavior. More from Chris Wright. He says how, yeah, you know, this is the sacrifice we as Americans have to pay. This is what we have to pay for being strong. We don't want the sacrifice. This is not a sacrifice that we want. We don't want to be in this catastrophic war. Here, play this clip. But in a conflict, yes, this has taken some energy resources out of the marketplace. It is causing a short-term sacrifice for Americans right now. But this is to end Iran's ability, its ability to forever drive up energy prices. Meanwhile, you have Iran's parliament leader, MB Ghalibaf, basically the top civilian leader, posting the following: Straits tailor rule. And it provides this formula. I'll explain it in a moment. MB Ghalibaf is a PhD and Professor Ghalibaf to some. He goes, let's see if a hike, referring to the interest rate hikes that are likely to happen, which most people believe, will happen shortly. But we'll see. We'll see. Let's see if an interest rate hike could open the Strait of Hormuz or produce a single barrel. You can't 25 basis points a choke point. And R isn't neutral. It's Strait of Hormuz risk premium. And we said it. Stay unanchored. And just so you know the formula he's posting. The Taylor rule is a formula central banks use to guide interest rates. Ghalibaf rewrote it to argue that U.S. inflation can no longer be managed by interest rates alone, because in essence, Iran is now supplanting the Federal Reserve through their control over the Strait of Hormuz. And although not in his formula through the Houthis control of the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandab Strait at the same time, we're also seeing earlier today. You have Iran's foreign minister, Iraq Chi meeting with China's foreign minister. Wang Yi in Beijing. You can see the meeting taking place here. You know last week or was it earlier this week? You had treasurer earlier this week. You had Treasury Secretary Besant say we're doing a tip line. And so if you know anybody who's helping Iran or cooperating with Iran, they need to call into this tip line and let us know and then we're going to impose real serious sanctions for our economic D-Day. Right? So you have Arad's farm. Minister meeting with China's foreign minister. Wang Yi talking about improving and increasing economic cooperation. So what's the Trump regime doing? Are they going to take action against China? Of course not. You have Donald Trump this morning doing rehearsals with our troops at the White House for how they need to stand at attention and salute President Xi of China when he visits they're doing rehearsals. So Donald Trump can have all of the pomp and circumstance for she's visit. So our soldiers can basically honor. She that's what's going on at the White House right now. I'll show you the images of that. You could see the b-roll right here. One candidate. We recently hired caught our attention by not only showing us that they were qualified but that they were motivated and believed in what we do that extra effort really stood out when you're hiring. It's always helpful to know who really wants the job, but you don't need unusual stunts. You just need a Zip Recruiter on a Zip Recruiter. 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I did a video on it earlier to say that this is a war without authorization. So that was at least a public rebuke, although it doesn't sadly have the force to stop the catastrophic war because the Trump regime is a rogue authoritarian regime, but with all of this taking place and you all saw the congressional hearings yesterday, right where Kash Patel got chewed up and spit out Treasury Secretary Besson got chewed up and spit out and just expose the other fraud of this Trump regime. So as I predicted yesterday, voila, Maga Mike Johnson pulled the plug on the remaining days this week in the House of Representatives. It's being shut down. They're going into recess and they will not be returning until after the election surprise surprise, but we did know that the US. May have to do a full ban on diesel exports right now as the fuel shortage as the diesel shortage as the supply shock will Ravage the United States while Congress is back in their home districts chilling having a grand old time laughing in our faces while they refuse to do the work and while they continue to cover up child sex trafficking rings few other data points. I want to. give you this morning, Donald Trump's last post was about 14 hours ago. What the disloyal leaks about Iran prove about Trump. I think it proves what we knew without the leaks, Donald, that you're a pathetic loser and you bankrupted things your whole damn life. And now you're doing that with the military and the United States. You're malicious and a loser and incompetent and literally a psychotic individual. And so I think that's what the leaks confirm. So you have that. And then you have MAGA Republican Congress members like Representative Stutzman from Indiana. And so now that you have Prime Minister Carney heading to Europe where he's going to be speaking at the European Union State of the Union Address over there. And we're talking about Canada getting associate member status, essentially creating this role, Canada and the European Union together. Don't worry. Everybody because the MAGA Republican Indiana representative is saying we don't need to trade with Canada anymore. We've got Israel and Netanyahu, everybody. That's literally what he said. We got Israel and Netanyahu, everybody. Watch what he says. Play this clip. Canada is one of the largest export markets for your state, my home state. If Canada starts buying less of what you're selling, is that going to hurt your constituents? Good morning, Kay. Great to be with you. You know, I think it's a terrible decision by Canada to appear. Appearances look like they're trying to walk away. And I think that if they want to join the European Union, nothing wrong with them trying to develop trade partnerships with the European Union. But during this context with negotiations with the United States, I think it's a bad decision. European Union, I mean, Europe, especially Western Europe, has been on the decline. And so why Canada wants to attach themselves to that, I don't understand. But I think it's a terrible decision. I think that, you know, for Indiana, we are a heavy manufacturing state. There is a lot of trade between Indiana and Canada. But we have other markets. We have other countries that are coming to Indiana and saying, we want to do business here. Israel is one of those. They just announced a big announcement a couple of weeks ago with the governor of Indiana related to agriculture, a project there. So there's new opportunities for Indiana. I'd much rather be in our shoes on trade than in Canada's. And I want to give a shout out to Congresswoman Beatty, who is one of the ex-officio members of the Kennedy board. And she's been the one suing Donald Trump to block all of his unlawful actions with the Kennedy Center. Here's how she described Donald Trump's behavior yesterday when he called the Kennedy board and threw a toddler tantrum. No offense to toddlers, because toddler tantrums are far more mature than Donald Trump's behavior right here. It would be unthinkable for someone to hear a president using the language that he used. He threw a tantrum. It was like an immature child. I wouldn't even want to put this on a child. It was just being very, in my opinion, very immature, shouting, calling names, stating facts. He doesn't really know anything about me. And I looked to the board and said, are we really going to do this? This is very unprofessional. Finally, let me debunk some information out there as well. There have been videos circulating about how the Houthis were launching drones over Mecca. And this was being used by MBS and allies of MBS and the Trump regime and Netanyahu to say, the Houthis are now doing a religious war against MBS and they're attacking the Sunnis and watch what's happening over there. Look, they're attacking Mecca. Okay, folks, folks, the video. That circulating is not Mecca. It's Medina. And it's from 2025, not 2026. And so you have a Houthi leader saying, claims of targeting Mecca al-Mukarrama are nauseating. It's a nauseating lie that was already worn out before. Oh, widows of Jeffrey Epstein, fight like men if you are men. And that's one of the, Ansar Allah, Houthi political bureau leaders right there calling MBS out for his Epstein connections. But I do find it interesting that you have MBS meeting with CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper and Mossad leadership in Saudi Arabia right now. It's not a conspiracy. That's actually what's been happening over the past few days. And part of their plan is to say that the Houthis were striking Mecca and then release a photo of Medina from 2026. And that's what's happening right now. And so you have the Houthis saying, look, you want to fight? Let's fight. Look what we did with the F-15. Let's fight. You know, it's an interesting dynamic. That's in play right now. That's the morning. We'll keep you updated with more here on the Midas Touch Network. Did you check out the interview I just did with Colin Kaepernick? I hope you found that interview to be fascinating. I hope you enjoyed it. And check out all our other videos from this morning. We've got a busy day ahead of us, folks. We'll be with you every step of the way, of course. And as Patrick DeHaan, one of the foremost gas price and diesel price experts in the country says, buckle up. Gas and diesel look set for a spike over the next 48 hours. The hardest parts that will be hit in this nation will be the nation's interior. I track this for a living and I'll be sharing it in real time. We'll be following him. We'll be following other sources. Thanks, everybody. Appreciate you. Before you go, our book WTF America is available for pre-order now. It's the story of how we got here and how we fight our way back. To pre-order, scan the QR code or click the link in the description. Let's do this.