Trump’s Late-Night Posts Draw Scrutiny as Diesel Deal Raises Questions
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Wise provides a transparent, globally accessible financial solution by offering reliable international money transfers with exchange rates matching public benchmarks, helping users avoid hidden fees. This financial approach aligns with a global lifestyle, enabling seamless spending across 40+ currencies. Meanwhile, a critical political analysis highlights Donald Trump’s increasingly erratic and xenophobic behavior, including racist remarks and panic-driven posts ahead of the midterms. His proposed deal to import Russian diesel violates existing U.S. laws, including bans on Russian energy imports and congressional approval requirements. Canadian energy exports already support U.S. needs through stable, legally binding trade agreements, rendering Trump’s appeals both illogical and politically damaging. Ukraine’s military actions against Russian refineries and data centers disrupt Russian supply chains, undermining Trump’s claims of energy peace. Additionally, Trump’s unauthorized destruction of over 500 mature trees at the East Potomac Golf Course violates court orders and is seen as a symbol of destructive, unaccountable power. Crucially, evidence suggests that Russian diesel exports may originate in Iran due to damaged Russian refineries, indicating a broader geopolitical manipulation that benefits adversarial regimes. These developments collectively reveal a pattern of poor policy, legal violations, and reckless behavior that erodes public trust and undermines U.S. stability.
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Then he posted, "Kid rock warns of a religious civil war in America, due to the rise of Islamists and calls Abdul El-Sayed a wolf in sheep's clothing." How terrified is Donald Trump and what a racist xenophobic lunatic he is? He then writes, "Just in, Trump just sent a direct message to the radisil left and fake news with his absolutely epic video. They spell radical radisil, R-A-D-I-C-L-E." I mean, look, Trump's a sex predator. He's a lunatic. He's a felon. He is an incompetent, bankrupting fool. Just can you just spell the radical if you're going to go there? You loser. And then speaking of what a loser he is, as Donald Trump has attacked Canada over and over again, he said, "Whoopsies! I caused a catastrophic oil crisis with my disastrous war in Iran, and I'm sending the United States into a depression. Maybe I need Canada." So here's what we learned last night. Canada Prime Minister Karni's office says, "Karni spoke to Trump, and that Canada will maximize exports of oil and diesel to the US, with oil exports to the US yielding over one million barrels of diesel a day." Canada can do that, Donald, you idiot, as Catherine Rampel notes. The entire reason we have a trade deficit with Canada, which Trump says he wants to eliminate, is that we buy so much Canadian energy, excluding energy, we the United States run a surplus with Canada. So Trump can either import more Canadian diesel or reduce our trade deficit, not both. But Trump is an idiot. He doesn't know anything. Now, the deal that Donald Trump announced with Putin to bring in Russian diesel, that's for what two and a half million barrels, like total, maybe the whole deal is three million barrels in total. This Canadian deal, which we have already, it shouldn't even be a thing. We have a trade deal. We have the United States, Mexico, Canada agreement, or as they call it, in Canada, Kuzma. We have a free trade with them. This benefits the United States, the relationship, and Canada's also our strongest ally, is one million barrels a day, one million barrels a day, and you don't have to be a Putin bootlicker, and you can support our allies. I mean, what a lunatic this guy is. Remember the reporting I did, though, a few weeks back, where as Donald Trump kept on attacking Canada, Prime Minister Karni held that press conference. You remember, in Alberta, he's like, "All right, we will build the pipeline, and rather than going south, it will go east-west, it will go west, it will go out, and we will give that diesel and that oil, and that gas, and we will give it to Asia, because Trump, you keep attacking us, so we just won't bring it to you. We'll bring it out to Asia." And now, Donald Trump's like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, we may need this right now." Yeah, I mean, that's part of the trading relationship with Canada. Also, as we pointed out yesterday, there's something called the 2022 end-Russia importation act, which makes Donald Trump importing Russian oil unlawful, and anybody involved in the Trump regime doing this, like Besin, who gave the license to Russia to export their oil, and gave them permission to remove the sanctions. It's criminal. It's criminal. If customs and border patrol takes the Russian diesel, it's a crime. It's treason, quite literally, under the statute. It is a high crime. Then there was a 2017 law that requires congressional approval of any material or even minor trade deal with Russia. You have to submit it to Congress, and Congress has a 30-day period to approve or reject. Trump signed that into law in 2017. So there's a 2017 law, and a 2022 law, not to mention the so-called Lindsey Graham Sanctions Act that was just passed, which was supposed to enhance secondary sanctions against anybody who imports diesel from Russia. So we're doing what the new law says. We're supposed to sanction other countries for doing. We're doing not to mention Donald Trump has attacked countries like India and elsewhere for importing Russian diesel, and then Trump did it. Trump used that as a pretext to tariff India and others, but Donald Trump, on the one hand, he'll now come begging to Canada. We need your diesel. We need your diesel after attacking Canada. On the other hand, Donald Trump and White House officials call a Barack Reved yesterday over at Axios, who I call Trump's stenographer, and they start whining. Like you're just a bunch of whiny losers, these people. White House officials warn that Ukraine's attack on Russian refineries are hurting Zelensky's relationship with Trump more than their damaging Russia. Trump is really mad. He feels Zelensky is taking the US for granted. The White House official said, "Stop talking like a loser-fascist-second-grader. No offense to second-graders. That's why I qualified with loser-fascist-second-grad. Donald Trump is mad. Don't make him mad, everybody. Oh my gosh. He's going to be sad. Is he going to be mad? And then is he going to be sad? And then is he going to be angry? Then is he going to be angry? And what are we talking about? Why are we communicating no offense to babies like babies? Okay. There's a world. There's geopolitics at play. This is real life stuff. Okay. Donald Trump went into this catastrophic war with Iran. We lost miserably. By the way, Iran's doing ballistic missile tests yesterday. They've struck like 20 tankers in the strait of promuz in the Gulf of Oman in the past 10 days. They hit like four tankers yesterday. I'll do a whole other video on that. We know behind the scenes the Trump regime is like begging Iran for a deal. Iran's like, "No. Here are seven preconditions. Exactly what we said in March. Agree to them. We, or go away. We have no interest in negotiating with you. And then you have Donald Trump getting involved in this catastrophic war in Iran, creating a worldwide oil crisis. And then doing a deal with Russia to cover up for the catastrophic situation that he created. And then he's like, that's energy independence. He had nothing says energy independence and abundance like getting potash from Belarus and getting your diesel from Russia. When Russia doesn't even have surplus diesel, Russia doesn't even have it because Ukraine has struck the diesel refineries in Russia. Russia doesn't even have the diesel for its own people. So the whole deal to begin with also is a Trump and Putin fraud. So that Trump and Putin can do their mafia protection racket thing. And Trump could say, "You see, Zelensky, I'm mad. I did a deal with my friend, Putin. We did a deal together. So you can strike the oil refineries there and the diesel refineries. Nanny, nanny, poo poo." I mean, it's like second grade crap, but no offense to second graders, right? What are you talking about? But that's what this is about. Trump saying, all right, Zelensky, you strike the refineries. It's like you're attacking the US because I've got a big deal with Putin. First off, at max, it's like two tankers, right? The deal with Canada gets us the same amount of oil in three days. I mean, based on what Canada exports to the United. So what are we even talking about here? And, you know, what's Zelensky's done? You know, first off, yesterday, Russia struck Kharkiv and the thermal power plant over there and all of the power grids, so like Russian never agreed to remember Donald Trump yesterday was like, "We have done an energy ceasefire between Zelensky and Putin. They both agreed." Zelensky's like no one ever
told me about that, but I'm fine to do it. And then Putin was like, in the doom on Russia, we're like, yeah, we never heard about that. That's Trump manipulating the market. So in the Trump regime went back and they were like, no, it's actually a refinery for refinery ceasefire, not an energy ceasefire, which is what Trump announced yesterday. And so Zelensky's like, we don't have refineries really here in Ukraine. We have like one refinery. So Russia won't strike Ukraine refineries because we don't have refineries. They're striking our power grid, our energy grids. We want them to stop that. That's why we're striking their refineries because they're striking our infrastructure. So if they agree stopping our infrastructure will stop hitting their infrastructure. And Trump's like, no, you must unilaterally stop striking the Russian refineries. In any event, like 51% of those Russian refineries are already offline and pretty much destroyed. But you saw what Zelensky did yesterday. Zelensky started striking the data centers. And he's been doing this over the past couple of days. But he did the Yandex data center over there, one of the big Russian data centers. Take a look over here. There is the Yandex Vladimir was hit yesterday. And then there was the Yandex Assovo and the Yandex Kulaga. There's 16 major data centers. There's I think what? Nine Yandex. And then there's a total of 16 data centers in total. And Ukraine's going to start striking all these data centers. And it's caused massive disruption. Also the Russian bot traffic went down massively when these Yandex data centers were hit. And so those Russian bot farms are very important to Trump and Putin for interfering with elections like the midterms coming up. So while all of this is going on, while more tankers are being hit in the straight-over moves in Gulf of Oman, as Donald Trump is being called out for this unlawful deal with Russia, as the MAGA Republicans continue to collapse before the midterms. As Donald Trump's approval hits new record lows, as the American people are fed up with this guy covering up child sex trafficking, rings it all in MAGA, covering up the Epstein files. How does Donald Trump take his anger out? Well, he cuts down over 500 trees at DC's East Potomac Golf Course, including, by the way, healthy, mature, oaks, and maples. He just starts hacking down the trees at the golf course over 500 trees. So you watch the Midas Touch Network so you know we've covered one of these lawsuits that were filed, right? Donald Trump wants to destroy the East Potomac public golf course. And so there's litigation filed against that. The DC Preservation League filed a lawsuit against the Trump regime for trying to destroy the golf course, right? The way Trump's trying to destroy all these things in DC. And one of the things they were worried about also is that it's a historic piece of land and that the Trump regime would just start hacking the healthy, mature oaks and maples and the landscape that's beautiful and that brings people out of pride. It's accessible. It's affordable. It's not some Trump, Weirdo, Saudi Arabian, Abu Dhabi thing. Like it's, you know, for the people. I went to school in GW and Georgetown law and GW undergrad. Like I love that golf course. I know it very well. I mean, is it the most elegant that there is? No, but it's beautiful and it's nice. And you've got the cherry blossoms that have that come in the in the spring. It's beautiful. And so there is litigation and the judge specifically told the Trump lawyers, if you're going to start hacking the trees or doing anything material, you have to give notice to the plaintiff and the court. And I'll just read from you the transcript. This is what the court said. The court repeatedly instructed defendant's Trump administration to provide enough notice before some major thing happens in the implementation of Washington's National Planet East Potomac Golf Course. The court said, here's what I don't want to have happened. The court said the judge, I don't want to get to the point where someone is telling me from the government that it's too late. Too many things have happened and now we are like moving forward and we can't, you know, stop the train. All right. So please make clear to your client that I'm not going to entertain and I'm going to be quite emphatically not entertaining any argument that oh, things are too far along. And so the court said you must give notice before you do anything to the court so we can have a hearing about it. And then though the plaintiff say the die has now been cast. Despite the court, federal courts admonition at 4.55 p.m. on Friday, proceeding the holiday weekend, defendant's announced their intent to begin barely 12 hours later, a massive operation to clear 529 trees at East Potomac Golf Course. It goes on to say plaintiffs receive no more notice than the court did and immediately requested a conference to meet and confer. By 8 a.m. on Saturday, defendant's workers had arrived in full force to begin felling hundreds of trees, including healthy, mature oaks and maples. Defendants council made themselves available to meet and confer in the afternoon on Sunday, October 11th. Shortly before that conference, defendants, the Trump administration notified plaintiffs that their tree raising operation was proceeding faster than anticipated and that a total of 529 trees had already been destroyed on Saturday alone. And that contrary to their Friday declaration, hundreds of additional trees would be feld imminently. Defendants council confirm that the tree that the tree raising will resume as soon as the weather permits. Folks, these are real sickos. These are psycho sicko predators. I don't know how else to describe these people. They hack all of the freaking trees. They rush to take down the trees. You go through all of things like they want to put data centers in the national parks. They've tried to destroy, they've destroyed national parks in Texas. These people hate the existence of this earth and they cover up child sex trafficking and they just steal and they take and they screw you over. That's who these people are. They're the worst scum of the earth. They really are. I mean, these are scummy. This isn't a political argument I'm making. This isn't. Oh, well, I think that you should vote like that. Listen, listen, we're talking about a sick, vile piece of trash group of oligarchs covering up child sex trafficking rings, cutting down trees, demolishing the freaking white house. They're out there putting data centers everywhere. They're starting catastrophic wars. The first thing they do when the war starts is slaughter children in elementary schools, little girls. They killed little children in a sports hall in Le Maird playing volleyball. They slaughter unarmed Iranian Navy members who were leaving a parade from India that the US was invited to as well. Whenever the Trump regime, by the way, they're covering up the death count of how many people got killed in this catastrophic war because they claim it's not combat. Oh, we were not in combat. We won the war. So this is not combat. So these deaths and injuries are just, they're miscellaneous. They're not real deaths or injuries. They're like something else. We won the war. I'm going to do a deal. Do a deal. Everybody more deal. These people are ridiculous. I mean, they're just bad. I wouldn't call them human. They're awful things, right? And they're here just to cause harm to us all. It's ridiculous. Am I this is what he posted yesterday? My rallies, legendary Dave already be like, how did anyone read it? I don't want to freaking read the thing. Why are we tolerating this loser behavior? You're like, like, have, have, has his psychotic behavior just kept like, why do we tolerate this loser behavior? Like, why don't we just call it be like, um, no, you're a lunatic. You're, you're an evil sicko. F you. Like, why don't like, I know we do that. Like, what are we doing here? What the hell are we for real? As we look at, I'll leave you with these two pieces of nuggets. This little knowledge. We'll leave you with number one. Russia's Rosatom company says 135 Russian staff are back at Iran's nuclear facility. The Bashir nuclear plant because Russia has a JV with Iran's nuclear plants, right? I said, Iran will never have nuclear, but I love Putin. Well, Putin's doing the nuclear civil plants with Iran. Like, what are you talking about? And then get this one. This one, ready? It appears because Russia doesn't have diesel really to give surplus diesel. Can't you not? It seems what's happening is Iran is providing its diesel to Russia to sell to the United States. Let's talk about it. And this Babak Taga V count, I think did a good job outlining what's happening. The diesel fuel Russia is now exporting to the United States at Trump's request may have originated in
Iran. As Russian oil refineries are largely unable to produce diesel because of Ukrainian attacks, Russia has been importing most of the diesel it needs from Iran. In September, thousands of Iranian tanker trucks were spotted in various regions of Russia, including Ryazan carrying Iranian diesel. So Russia may be buying Iranian diesel and reselling it to the United States if so, Trump's attempt to lower U.S. energy prices and deceive American voters is putting money into the hands of Russia and Iran's Islamic regime. And it's like we're like, we have this impenetrable blockade on the strait of Hormuz. Okay, well, Russia keeps on striking tankers in the hall area. We're not in the strait of Hormuz, Iran keeps on striking tankers in the area. And there's other, the strait of Hormuz isn't the only place Iran can get out its oil. Like there's land, right? Like go look at Iran on a map. There are bodies of water that Iran can use that's not the Persian Gulf, strait of Hormuz, Gulf of Oman. Okay, there's other bodies that would look at it, look at the map. There's places that Iran can drive through. It could send its trucks through. There's other passageways. You think they're just meeting with the Taliban for fun? What do you think Pakistan is doing? What do you think the neighbors, what do you think is going on? Okay, what do you think the route is? Anyway, there you have it. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks for watching everybody. [Music]
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
Wise offers transparent, fee-free international money transfers with exchange rates matching those seen on Google, helping users avoid hidden fees.
Donald Trump’s recent public statements reveal extreme fear and xenophobic rhetoric, including racist comments about Muslim communities and accusations of a religious civil war.
Trump’s proposed deal to import Russian diesel is legally problematic under U.S. law, including the 2017 and 2022 trade restrictions and the Lindsey Graham sanctions act, making it a potential crime.
Canada has a strong, established trade relationship with the U.S., including one million barrels of diesel daily, and has already exported energy without needing Trump's intervention.
Ukraine’s targeting of Russian refineries and data centers disrupts Russian operations, challenging Trump’s claims of a ceasefire and highlighting the strategic imbalance in the war.
Trump’s destruction of over 500 mature trees at the East Potomac Golf Course violates court orders requiring advance notice and is seen as a reckless, destructive act against public land.
Evidence suggests Russian diesel being exported to the U.S. may actually originate in Iran due to Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries, raising concerns about energy sourcing and geopolitical manipulation.
The U.S. maintains a trade surplus with Canada, contradicting Trump’s claims of a trade deficit and making his calls for increased Canadian oil imports illogical and self-defeating.
Summary:
Wise provides a transparent, globally accessible financial solution by offering reliable international money transfers with exchange rates matching public benchmarks, helping users avoid hidden fees. This financial approach aligns with a global lifestyle, enabling seamless spending across 40+ currencies. Meanwhile, a critical political analysis highlights Donald Trump’s increasingly erratic and xenophobic behavior, including racist remarks and panic-driven posts ahead of the midterms.
S. laws, including bans on Russian energy imports and congressional approval requirements. S.
needs through stable, legally binding trade agreements, rendering Trump’s appeals both illogical and politically damaging. Ukraine’s military actions against Russian refineries and data centers disrupt Russian supply chains, undermining Trump’s claims of energy peace. Additionally, Trump’s unauthorized destruction of over 500 mature trees at the East Potomac Golf Course violates court orders and is seen as a symbol of destructive, unaccountable power.
Crucially, evidence suggests that Russian diesel exports may originate in Iran due to damaged Russian refineries, indicating a broader geopolitical manipulation that benefits adversarial regimes. S. stability.
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The 2022 End-Russia Importation Act makes it unlawful for the U.S. to import Russian oil. Any such activity, including by individuals or government officials, could be considered a criminal offense under U.S. law.
Yes, Trump proposed a deal with Russia to import diesel, but it is questioned whether the diesel actually originated from Russia or was sourced from Iran due to damaged Russian refineries.
Due to Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries, Russia may be importing diesel from Iran. Iranian tanker trucks have been spotted in Russia, suggesting Iranian diesel is being resold to the U.S. under Trump’s initiative.
The U.S. already has a strong trade relationship with Canada through the USMCA. Canada exports oil and diesel to the U.S., and the U.S. does not have a trade deficit with Canada in energy; instead, it runs a surplus, making Trump's demand for Canadian diesel questionable.
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