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2:03Washington DC will be a war zone that will work hand in hand with the White House roof. Which will also be a drone port. There will be drones flying everywhere. According to Donald Trump. This is what he's saying. The American people wanted. This is part of the golden age. But in the real world in all seriousness, the American people are suffering. Gas and diesel prices are continuing to surge to record highs on top of the prior days. Record highs. The market recognizes the Trump regime has been manipulating all of this. And so they're usual tricks are working. And so now we're really seeing the pain at the pump even worse. Which we've been warning about also Donald Trump when put into the corner. Of course, bands. Certain press outlets because Natalie Harp showed him articles that were critical of him. So Trump banned Politico and CNN and MS now from being inside the White House. Although Donald Trump says this is not an attack on free speech and the free press.

3:04It's an attack on fake news everybody. That's what this is all about. It's a national security threat. I'm protecting against the American people are just sick and tired of this crap. I should note that the overall press pool has agreed not to cover Trump events until Trump's ban on Politico and MS now and CNN is done. And Donald Trump tried to do a press conference today without the press pool and then quickly realized wait a minute. I guess I could have other propaganda networks bring cameras but I need the press pool for audio and actually I don't know handle logistics logistics never really a strong suit of the Trump regime. So Donald Trump was out there ranting and raving about the helipad again. It's like the 10th press conference he did on the helipad you know doing accordion hands and there was no audio. It's actually enjoyable to watch that. Meanwhile, Donald Trump's approval hitting record lows according to American research group is approvals now 29% according to Reuters.

4:06Ipsos is approvals at 32%. I mean we're talking real record lows and the bottom seems to have really fallen from underneath him and you're seeing massive loss of Republican support from week over week. That's been a major development as well. We'll talk about that. And also you've got the catastrophic war continuing to rage on Donald Trump calling state regime media fox over the weekend talking about blowing up the Iranian civilization and then Donald Trump caving there then Donald Trump apparently told his buddy MBS who he did all those quid pro quo deals with that the US had MBS is back and they would jointly strike the hoothies and Yemen the hooties on Cerella now controls basically all of Western Yemen and they're pushing east really exposing that MBS is a Saudi back to army there and even MBS is ability to project strain from inside Saudi Arabia is incredibly weak as you know on Cerella was able to hit numerous oil facilities within Saudi Arabia also the east west pipeline is down on Cerella controls Bob Bell Mondob straight and thus the red sea.

5:11And then Donald Trump told MBS all right we're joining you we're going to do these strikes and then Donald Trump returned to the Washington DC Virginia area over the weekend and then decided we left from Camp David on Saturday returned on Sunday and then just went and played golf at like another club tournament where he gives himself awards and then didn't actually do the strikes and then backed out after promising MBS he was going to do that we've got a lot to discuss on this episode of the minus touch podcast we're going to be going to be going to do that. So we're going to be heading into the 81st general assembly general debate tomorrow in the United Nations so we're focusing on what's going on there as well we had the FAA announcing all of these cancellation of flights today as a result of a cable apparently accidentally being cut according to transportation secretary Duffy a cable was accidentally cut by Amtrak took him five hours after the cancellation of the cancelation of the United Nations. And then the first time we had a couple of sessions began to blame Amtrak and then Amtrak says no was actually New Jersey transit who did it and so they're all blaming everybody but meanwhile the America people are like this is the most incompetent deranged malicious evil regime imaginable Brett how are you doing.

6:22Well, I'm doing well get to see a band get to see a Jordi get to see you might as mighty the bottom has officially fallen out of the Trump regime at least as far as his approval rating goes we're now seeing Donald Trump in the 20s in some poll but then as he mentioned he's got the triumphal arch he's going to make it into a military facility now I don't think the pollsters consider that that is what the American people want right now that's what everybody is asking for turn DC into a military target turn a triumph make a triumphal arch and fill out the Trump and fill it with weaponry and drones that's smart that's what we want it's like the dumbest presidency as we said the other day on social media will probably go through this also because he had the Paul brothers Logan and Jake Paul appearing in Department of Defense videos and hyping up our military and things like that and see the movie did not go far enough idiocracy is tame compared to what we are seeing right now in this Trump regime we got plenty to speak about today Jordi what's the latest for others might as mighty I'm so excited to be here tonight I'm so excited to get into tonight show I just I feel like you know we've hit another level of the stupidness of this Trump regime and the evilness of it and the dangerousness of it that we're all continuing to sort of witness play out quite frankly it is exalted

7:41and the truth is that we're all going to be exhausting but they want it to be exhausting Trump wants it to be exhausting he wants you to tune out do not do that right now more than ever we just dig our heels in we continue to report the facts and show the truth every single day Benji where we started off today big bro but Benji I'm you we're supposed to be a superpower right and as such always found it strange when the Trump regime would brag about hey we did 13 million metric tons of soybean deal with China remember when they announced that and it was like yeah but under Biden it was 26 million metric tons of soybeans it just but just the very strange concept that we'd be bragging about just an agreement of China to buy soybeans and like you spiked the football and so when I saw Donald Trump today talk about the potash deal it's like we are doing a massive potash deal when that's like a type of fertilizer and with Belarus okay so with all these news stories out there as well about how Russia's either actively engaging or about to escalate with their actively engaging in this hybrid warfare of you know all of Europe and Europe is like on like the highest form of alert right now preparing for all of this we

8:58heard like all these European leaders and leaders in the UK talking about how they're basically on a World War III footing they don't use the word World War III but they're like on a World War footing UK brings their war book back you have the House and the Senate pass sanctions at the end of last week against Russia obviously Belarus is like a close ally of Russia and their countries often used to stage strikes on Ukraine either obviously or Corvore I think we all know that's going that's going down and so Trump sends a US envoy last week to Belarus and that was his big announcement today a potash deal with Belarus and meanwhile on the same day today Belarus announced that they're out of potash for the rest of the year they've already committed all their potash to China and other areas and so they're like well we don't have any potash so I guess you can order for next year but again that's what the United States has become under the Trump regime I mean do you remember when Donald Trump when he did his tariffs against the world and he called liberation day and we called it liquidation day and people were like okay well I don't know aren't like supplies not going to be able to like reach us like what are we going to do about basic things like pencils and erasers and school books and like remember like Donald Trump and regime officials here would be like well you only need two pencils there's no reason why you should need more than two pencils one eraser max like what are we even talking like why do people need barbies for

10:24Christmas like you really want to get your daughter a Barbie doll like what are we even doing here one Barbie max you know so he would say things like that and then you had work Rollins his agriculture secretary previously talking about how okay here's the ideal thing that we should give people it's like one half a slice of meat half a carrot some other thing and that's what we're going to do you know it's the most authoritarian communist regime here imaginable except they also rip away your healthcare also and then make you suffer and make you die and I'll give you health care that's that that's this Trump regime authoritarian version of of what their communism is so then you take a look at like what are the Trump regime officials like possibly saying this morning right with all of this going on like how are they trying to pitch this to the America people well for Carlons agriculture secretary she's added again here's what she had to say this morning let's play but if it is too expensive unlike fuel binning you can eat chicken pork salmon eggs there are other sources of really good protein and all of those prices are coming down as well so it isn't necessarily breaking out there and listen I'm a mom

11:32for I'm still feeding a whole bunch of kids very hungry kids I real we realize the price of groceries are too high we're doing everything we can to bring them down after the Biden years of crazy crazy inflation it's the Biden years and so the solution to the fact that beef and all these other groceries all these other things are unaffordable is people don't realize this unlike diesel and gas which you need gas or diesel when it comes to beef you can actually buy chicken so that's ours well why would you want to buy beef at all in the first place and then there were Trump influencers who were posting we you know because all meats expensive like we should just go completely vegetarian like let's do vegetarian burgers now is the craziest one I have the tweet here Ben this is from Bill Mitchell a big Trump booster online and he said with regards to beef prices have you ever tried a veggie burger they're actually really good a little lettuce tomato pickles a portable mushroom slice of switch cheese excellent now I'm not knocking veggie burgers I'm a big fan of veggie burgers and I think vegetarianism is great veganism is great but I

12:36think it's quite ironic that you now have all these mega people pushing vegetarianism and veganism telling people to try to go veggie and try to try all these other types of meat instead of beef when they make this their whole identity these people like you literally on the one hand have this message and coming from the Trump White House and then on the other hand you have them go and tell a Rico he wants to beat the meat he wants to beat meat as the Trump officials are telling people not to eat meat they become a parody of themselves this is kind of the fear of the people that they have said for years and years and years about Democrats Democrats are going to take away your meat Democrats don't want you to be allowed meat under Democrats they're going to tell you to eat bugs it sounds like right now under this Trump regime that we're like two weeks away for Brooke Rollins going on TV and being like you know it's a good source of protein crickets bugs I would definitely try that American people they're super cheap right now and you got all these varieties and options I feel like we're like about what two weeks away from that I think we're also two weeks away from them being something like oil prices are too high that you're paying too much at the pump can I tell you guys about the green

13:43new deal let me tell you like they are so showing their ass here and they always do and that's what happens though when they pledge their loyalty to a person and not trying to actually fix you know the issues that are broken and acknowledge the real you know brokenness of society that we're living through right now Beth well you know they basically gave a version of that Jordi they're like gas prices and diesel prices are so high they go I kid you not this was the main message that magna influencers were pushing out they're like I think we're thinking about liquids the wrong way like I just want you to think about how magnificent is it that we only pay I don't know six fifty seven dollars a gallon of diesel what's the national average approaching for gas now for 50 it's clearly probably more expensive where you live I'll be very clear about that but they're like just think about think about other liquids like people like wine so for a small glass of wine what does that cost twelve dollars can that even transport you anywhere you get nowhere exactly I that was their message right that they were all it was all

14:49coordinated it was all the magna influencers because that because I was calling them out to and it's like you know it's almost as if and I think it legitimately is because this like I think there's a memo that goes out and they go okay here's going to be our spin for the day everybody go all in on this line I saw and then this was the thing to in this bill Mitchell guy comes up in in this montage that I put together as well but you had one magna user saying this is how they justify they just throw out all these prices of other things as if it as an indicator of gas prices if you could drop sixty dollars on a bottle of wine seven dollars on a lot they sixteen dollars in a cocktail and fourteen dollars on a stadium beer in a plastic cup then you could pay four dollars and fifty cents for a gallon of gas people this is bill Mitchell people complain about being broke as they watch one of their three flat screen TVs by the way does anybody have anything else other than a flat screen TV in twenty twenty six flat skins TV's are actually quite cheap these days or type on their twelve hundred dollar smartphones or decide which of their two cars they want to drive to buy their overpriced Starbucks coffee this one's from hunter eagle then

15:50she's these people people walking around with two thousand dollar foldable iPhones those aren't even out yet eight hundred dollar shoes and a fourteen dollar pumpkin spice latte where you go buddy then they say that they can't a wrote vote for Trump because of gas prices yeah okay and by the way you're just calling attention to the fact that everything else in the economy due to Donald Trump is very expensive and who is your average who is this a human being who you who you've created in your mind this is the average Trump voter with two thousand dollar phones and eight hundred dollars shoes and getting twenty dollar coffees you just make somebody up this it's the it's the worst argument and this is how you know that this party's in for just a absolute reckoning in November the arguments absolutely insane because again all they're doing they're saying everything else in this country in this world is so damn expensive because of Donald Trump's failed leadership you could afford to pay a little bit more here at the pump what's the what's the issue there it's like if you're trying to sell someone like like like how you should really date my buddy he he's really ugly but

16:50also he has a really shitty personality for even mega influencers to be totalling like this ridiculous of a line it's just it shocks me actually just how stupid like the trajectory of this argument that they're taking is you know one of the things brothers and let me let me tell you brothers I better little secret operation I've I've been doing I've I've created a truth social account and I look truth social and I see what's going on in truth social I'll occasionally reply to Donald Trump's posts and see if I get a reaction that people however when I was looking through truth social the other day Donald Trump last night posted something that was defending his high gas prices and when this is your messaging once again you know that things are really really bad and Donald Trump wrote gas prices were much higher under Biden than under Trump so we're almost all other prices president DJT first of all and these all's actually at a record high right now higher than it ever was under Biden gas was a little higher under Biden during one period during the Russian

17:54invasion of Ukraine but generally the average was far lower than it is right now under Donald and I was curious I like the Trump people like because when you're on truth social you're on the page with all the closest you know the biggest Trump cultists in the world right what are they saying about this and so I checked and here were some of the comments gas lighting no they weren't they really weren't pardon me gas prices are through the roof yeah but you promised to lower gas sure crying laughing face somebody posted a graphic that says Trump still owes every American $8,700 and they went through the list of promises that Trump made about giving them money another person says no they were not this person says voter for you three times and I could finally say that you are not the same person that we put in office somebody said diesel is at record highs another said end the war please somebody says change your diaper your full of shit again these are the kind of comments that Donald Trump was getting on his own cult truth social social

18:58media platform well this is reflected also though in the polling data I mean you one can say that's anecdotal and are those bots or what are we really seeing there well to be clear it is rare to see on truth social where usually every post is followed by just deranged religious memes of like Donald Trump as Jesus it's like the weirdest platform imaginable so you can go well is this anecdotal what are we seeing here but then you actually look at the polling data and you see what's going on from state to state and what's even happening in red states and how are Republican candidates running races there I mean like you have in Iowa the Magga Republican extremist congresswoman who's running for the Senate seat there Ashley Hinson she's running on you know basically we need to work with the Democrats and now we should bring people together it's like you supported Donald Trump's disastrous budget bill you supported his tariffs against the world you were there with his catastrophic war in Iran you supported every one of his policies that hurt the state I mean we're seeing this literally in every red state repeat itself over and

20:01over and you looked at the latest polling data whether it was America research group or Trump's approval is now in the 20s 29 percent whether you look at the polling from Reuters Ipsos their lowest lowest polling ever in Trump's two terms where his approval there is 32 percent and then you go and pull up a last graph one more time that you did Brett so you can see how it's fallen back from February 2025 in the same Reuters Ipsos poll Trump was plus six by October 2025 he was net negative 14 by June 2026 it was negative 20 and by September 2026 the latest polling has him net negative 34 that's a net negative 40 point swing right there his approval on the cost of living is 17 percent right now approval on the issue of cost of living which is probably the biggest issue because for people who are living the cost of that is something that is pretty much on their minds right now as an existential issue this isn't like a joke here's there's not like a

21:05talking point right lots of people when you approach the midterms they view this as political messaging then how are you going to message for the midterms what's the right message and it's like are you alive right now because if you truly think what Donald Trump's done is good for you I need to really know about your background I need to really understand this because unless you're just a core group of billionaires or Deca millionaires he's screwed you and I guess he can paint a hypothetical love wouldn't it be worse if wouldn't it be worse it wouldn't it really wouldn't this is almost the worst case scenario I mean it pretty much is based on how the Trump regime has behaved this far but let's take a look telly leftler she's a billionaire like the exact worst person to run the small business association she married a billionaire what is she saying right now about the situation with the surging price and record high prices of diesel and gas and surging price have just about everything one of the initiatives that she's doing I say that

22:05you know initiatives in quote she's doing a reality show that's kind of a theme with them where like you could win a prize if you like win the small business association challenge and she's doing it with Nicki Minaj and I did a video on this earlier today about the reality show challenge that she's doing it's like the transportation secretary Duffy he did like a reality show it's like all these people are like loser reality show people you know who made us non-consensual extras in their like dystopian weird malicious evil world but here's what Kelly leftler says about small businesses that she's speaking to right now okay Kelly leftler here playing this clip look I think small businesses are looking through this right now they obviously prices are elevated there's nothing more important to the president than getting these prices down that's what he's working on every single day but we cannot have the largest state sponsor of terrorism having their thumb on oil prices indefinitely he's taking care of that small businesses are in growth mode that's the bottom line you see it in small business optimism that during the that's majority of

23:09president Trump's second term where small business optimism continues above its 52 year average we saw that last month we saw it the prior month and we see small business in investment mode because of the tax cuts because we're deregulating taking the weight of trillions of dollars of regulation that the Biden administration on the Biden administration everything's amazing everything's great everything it'd be so much worse if we didn't do this catastrophic work by we're talking about by the way Donald Trump claimed in 2025 total obliteration of Iran's nuclear facilities that's what Donald Trump said and also Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the JCPOA that former president Obama worked with with many other nations to have Iran sign where Iran was not developing nuclear weapons and so this is the constant theme with Donald Trump always he destroys something he is the arsonist and I'm the only person who can solve the problem that I created then he makes the situation significantly worse and then he tries to take credit for

24:10the worst situation he creates a situation where trying to buy 13 million metric tons of soybeans versus 26 and he spikes the football like it's a like it's a big deal you know he brings in foreign frozen mystery meat into the United States and then tries to take credit as though that's a great thing by destroying the ranchers and then it's a constant Ponzi scheme of cover up of the cover up of the cover up and you know he's hit a point right now where it's just fully exposed in the American people I think by and large see it for what it is and Americans are fed up I want to talk more about this when we come back from our first break of the show a quick reminder we're out with our new book WTF America for pre-orders right now the book officially comes out October 20th but pre-order a copy now the pre-orders are really helpful let's keep the momentum going there you can scan the QR code or you can click the link in the description below or just search WTF America hit subscribe to our YouTube channel let's keep growing YouTube viewers subscribe to the

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29:36let's get back into it brothers and minus mighty so we shared with you an agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins has been saying we shared with you what small business association and minister Kelly Leffler has been saying and the deranged messages coming out of the Pentagon from Pete Hegsup it's like just some of the most like religious extremist crusade war language imaginable like everything that the Trump regime accuses these you know Arab nations of doing and saying oh well there is lamic extreme this bad and the other you know I mean this right here is Hegsup um saying that the book of Isaiah basically tells people that they need to be sent into war and that the slogan of the Pentagon now that they push out their big campaign is send me and that the book of Isaiah says that you need to be sent into war whatever whatever the demand is from your

30:36government the people have been saying this for generations in America send me send me send me and so he does this weird propaganda event at Texas A&M he uses the stadium there as part of the propaganda event and on their jumbo tron or big screen it says send me and he's like he's like in a t-shirt I'm not even sure he understands what the job of the uh secretary of defenses like supposed to do I mean he's like I'm not cosplaying as like a drill sergeant so all right all right here's what you got to do for generations the book of Isaiah has said send me I mean if you think about it what was maga 2024 they're like we don't want to be sent into war and former president Biden he just wants to send me and now the Trump regime's entire message is just like no matter what we're asked to do send me so I can die for whatever the Trump regime wants and do it and do it for God as the book of Isaiah because the book of Isaiah told me to do I mean look at what he says here play

31:38this book and this is actually our first stop in what down you see up on the screen right there which we're calling send me to or you know your book of Isaiah uh chapter 6 verse 8 the Lord said to the wise send and Isaiah says Lord five years send me send me and if you think about it across the 250 years of our country I know you got 150 years this great court year over 150 years of this court at 250 years of the country there have been men and women who raised their right hand and they said send me send me to go fight the red coats send me to go fight the communist send me to go fight the Islamists and you are saying send me to go fight whatever threats threaten our nation for the next 250 years and even define what it is he just says and you are all saying send me whatever it is to do whatever the hell we're doing whatever the hell it is over the next 250 years you know what Donald Trump said don't send me I have bone spurs please don't send me send barren send me is the send

32:41me send barren hashtag send barren that should be the campaign yeah where's the separation between church and state just like not something we learned in school just not a thing though clearly not and like Ben was getting it this is like a parody of what they constantly accuse all these arab nations of being either it's a holy war they want to do this for a law they send their soldiers and to die for a law and and then you have Pete Higgseth go and basically go send me to war to die for God for this holy war crusade for the United States and it's very obviously deliberate that the United States is taking this messaging right now under Higgseth but you see it really spread throughout all of their messaging and all their social channels all their communication with the troops it's incredibly inappropriate and I've even seen backlash amongst religious communities who are normally be supportive of Donald Trump and of this administration speak out and say that's kind of a blasphemous use of a bible verse you know that's not what the bible verse was getting out in any way and to use it to send our soldiers to war to use it for a government

33:44action to bomb people like that's kind of f'd up like that screwed up I've actually seen that a lot and these religious communities online lately yeah well I mean send me for this tray yinxed one of Donald Trump's propagandist over at state regime media over the weekend he said I just got off he's still in Tel Aviv by the way this guy like is always reporting from Tel Aviv right so Trump's two main propagandist reporters he got Barack Rivid over at Axios he's reporting from Israel and then you have tray yinxed reporting from Tel Aviv it's never leaving Tel Aviveth. So tell points though gotta be great going crazy right now he's constantly in the background where we see the city of Tel Aviv's like okay got it got understood he's racking up those mario bomb points and then he's like I just got off the foot you know he acts like you know okay I just got a phone with Donald Trump president Trump and here's what president Trump just told me here play the clip of what traying said this was an urgent update from the president hey tray yeah hey guys good morning I just spoke with president Trump about the situation with Iran he

34:45tells Fox News he's in a deciding mode and that very big things are going to be happening in the not so distant future the president described the current choices on the table as wiping Iran out letting them rot economically or making a deal he added my question is if and when do I blow the entire nation up they better behave and that's genocide and we know Donald Trump aids in a bed's genocide but we shouldn't normalize what we just heard right there right I mean Donald Trump called up state regime media and said should I have them economically rot or should I blow up the entire nation I am in deciding mode and then you have Pete exit misquoting the book of Isaiah saying that book of Isaiah means you need to be sent into what a catastrophic and unlawful war perpetrating genocide that Donald Trump just articulated out loud on state regime media who's saying send me to do that and just the very concept of send me send me send me that's not what our nation actually

35:50it's the exact opposite we believed or we were told that there was a set of values and principles worth defending defending that's why it was called the defense department right and the Trump regime which ran on no more never ending wars change the name of the defense defending values in principles to a war department and then got involved in all of these catastrophic wars and then lost lost miserably wars we should not have been involved in but we got destroyed in his wars and by the way you go back to May of 2025 or even shortly before that that March to May 2025 period where the Trump regime lost to unsurrahla the Houthis and then Donald Trump did a press conference in the oval office I think it was around April, May or 2025 and he said they're brave and noble and courageous people and we didn't deal with them and they've assured me that everything's going to be great and so you had and that was remember all the signal gate stuff about how you had Hegsith and you

36:54had Mike Waltz who's now the UN ambassador from the United States and they were having all of these conversations also do you remember back in 2025 when the US launched those attacks against unsurrahla that like airplanes and helicopters were like mysteriously falling off the aircraft carriers do you remember that they were like another helicopter fell off the air another airplane fell off the aircraft carrier and I think maybe even at that time people wouldn't want to believe that when it came to issues of like war that the Trump regime like that was an area that they wouldn't be just totally lying to us I mean we all I mean we were saying they were lying to us but it seems increasingly clear then but like every war this Trump regime starts they lose and the catastrophic war in Iran has been just an unmitigated disaster I mean we've been sharing with you what the US bases and the region looks like there has been a report from the Pentagon Inspector General the Congressional Budget Office even there was a report from Sencom I mean depending on which report I mean

37:59at a low end when you don't include the military bases that were destroyed because all of these reports don't include the military bases for whatever reason because they're covering up I think the true extent of the damage you're talking about 45 to 50 billion dollars have already been spent on this catastrophic war and I believe that that's not even 20 to 30% of what the actual costs are and I'm even talking about the consequential costs which could get into the trillions of dollars we learned from additional reporting from the Washington Post what we've been saying all along here that the Trump regime has been covering up the killed in action total because the Trump regime claims were not in combat operations and that the war is done so they say that certain deaths that have taken place are not combat deaths not killed in action deaths so just covering up the numbers according to this Washington Post article the numbers more like 22 or perhaps 23 killed in action but who even knows I believe the numbers more than that I believe the seriously injured number is far more than the 800 or so of people who are claimed to have been injured because I

39:05believe the Trump regime covers up traumatic brain injuries and they claim that they're not really injuries and there are I think we're talking about thousands of injuries there which will ultimately be reported and so we're involved in this catastrophic war you've got Hegset saying send me you've got the US you know losing all of its weapons we're out of weapons we're out of interceptors and then you have the sent-com propaganda you have Admiral Brad Cooper he starts you know he releases a video this weekend and his video he's like every money things are going amazing right now things are going great we've gotten out huge amounts of oil from the straight of her moves I am pleased to announce it watch this like ridiculous propaganda over here let's play this clip hi I'm Admiral Brad Cooper commander of US Central Command and I want to update you on the straight of her moves and the incredible milestones that America's men and women in uniform continue to achieve sent-con forces have supported more than one billion barrels of crude oil

40:07leaving the Gulf that's one billion barrels of crude oil out through the straight of her moves in the last couple months we've reached this significant milestone while assisting over 2,000 commercial ship transits through the straight what milestone you created the problem the straight of her moves was open before this catastrophic war the fact that you are taking out a fraction of the oil from the straight of her moves that's not a boast that's not a brag but do you see the pattern here of the Trump regime they're the arsonists they create the problem they break it as I've said before it's like they take away your loaf of bread they dangle bread crumbs and they want you to just be thrilled that they're offering you bread crumbs which they're never going to even give you what what are you talking about you're acting like things are great the American people are going to the pump we know what the price of gas is we know what the price of diesel is I mean we may you may have been able to fool people at the beginning of the war and even you know a month or

41:10so afterwards because I think it was hard for people to get their minds around the fact that even Sencom could lie like this but this is what they're boasting about this weekend to try to manipulate the markets well it's unbreakable to see before it's us to you the deserving part about that video for me too is like that video right there who's it even for right bent your point everyone's going to the gas station we know what we're paying at the pump we're seeing the price increase and then the obvious answer is oh that video's not even for the American people that video is to appease Twitter fingers Donald Trump in Mar-a-Lago as he tweets away to make it seem like I don't know the give Trump another talking point it's so pathetic Brett let's do the math on what uh out of rural Cooper once respected guy by the way now just like a joke like I've even seen you know a lot of I've heard from a lot of folks in the military community who say like they knew Admiral Cooper like he had a lot of respected people and and they're like I can't believe that he's just debased himself like this such a so atrocious but let's let's do the math he said what he said

42:12ability just reached about a billion barrels since the beginning of the war what was it before 20 million barrels a day before Trump started the war we're going through the strait 20 million a day would make it 600 million barrels a month meaning he's bragging about the US getting out a month and a half s worth of oil through the Shreda Firmose in the past seven plus months Greg great great shout out a billion a billion sounds like a big number and then he uses the Adobe stock footage of like ships and like standards and Marines you know it's not even the real footage of what's actually happening they use Adobe stock that's self funny but then you contrasted to the footage that Iran is releasing and like Iran released actual footage of them shooting down yet another MQ1 drone I mean they shot another MQ1 drone down it seems like every day they shoot another MQ1 drone down two tankers were struck by Iran in the strait of Hormuz today there was a liquefat an LPG tanker and then there was an oil tanker that was hit by Iran in the strait of Hormuz

43:16you have the Houthis on Surala they control the Babel Mandab a strait and all the Red Sea they're moving east right now and as I said at the outset Donald Trump promised MBS apparently on Thursday or Friday that he was going to do joint strikes against on Surala in Yemen in Sana the capital of the Houthis area where they control and Trump's top advisor like how are you going to do this like we're out of weapons like we're not this isn't like a fake news thing like we're out of weapons right now so how are you going to do it but Trump promised MBS that he was going to do these joint strikes and then there was all this military activity there was like a B1 that flew out of the Royal Air Force space in the UK there was an alert that went out to all of our embassies in the Middle East from like every country because there were about to be these strikes against on Surala in Yemen and apparently all of the weapons were being loaded on all of the aircraft

44:17and the aircraft were like about to take off like it was very close for this operation to start against on Surala and you should also note that remember I talked about the US basically surrendering and losing the war to on Surala in April and May of 2025 and so there's a ceasefire there because in the large part the US said that they obliterated on Surala but of course we know that's not actually what what happened and so US ships have been able to leave but the Saudi ships have not been able to leave there's a blockade that on Surala has against the Saudi ships but then right before the mission was about to take place that Trump ordered Trump then backed out of that mission and then also it seems that Trump was thinking about escalating against Iran you heard trayings there talk about it and then Trump backed out of that again and so you see just also this kind of utter chaos sending confidence taking place you know I was able to interview a top Houthi reporter

45:17Al Bukhati who's saying Al Bukhati his brother Muhammad Al Bukhati was actually one of the main Houthi governors and he's on the political bureau so in addition to being a top pro Houthi reporter who's saying who I am to be it is like deeply connected you know with his brother and Brett do we have I think there's two clips I want to share with you from that interview the first one I want to share is where he says that we hear view Donald Trump as a fool and we believe that you know when we talk about people who lie all the time in Yemen we call the liar a Trump that's our name for someone who's a congenital liar you let's play this clip we look at him here in Sana'an maybe in all Yemen as like someone who's a fool who doesn't want who doesn't know what to say he doesn't know what not to say he just like what comes to his mouth he will just say it and

46:18is actually making the reputation of the United States as one of the countries that's considered the free world making it bad and if there I mean if somebody will break an agreement or a word with someone we call him Trump and so I always wanted to know like what do they actually think about this in yet what are the Houthis think about Trump and what the United States has become and are they watching what's happened with the US catastrophic war in Iran and has that informed their behavior have they been emboldened by that because Saudi Arabia gets its weapons and gets its military protection from the United States the US lost to Iran I know Trump and Hegseth and the regime here pretends that we won what we didn't the whole world knows that we lost and we lost bad so I was curious I wanted to go to the you know how do you think about this and so I also asked him hey so are you following you know the war in Iran and what Trump is saying

47:20and just from like a military tactical aspect like what do you think about it let me show you what Al-Bukhiyatdi told me about his shotgun he's like I know Trump and Hegseth you know are you know are dumb but like we're surprised like are any of your generals or admirals like saying that this is like a bad idea like that's what surprises us here you know in on Surah al-A'inihaem let's play what do you think here I mean he done it really miserably I mean he targeted Iran he didn't so thought of the strength of Iran which is was the strength of foremost Iran has never ever used it I mean if I was him when I target Iran but he thought Israel target Iran for the toward the edge Iran hasn't done that is the opposite because United States have all all all the bases so he should have thought as well where Iran get a retaliate they do have missile to the United States I mean a child will know that they will retaliate against your your bases they will target your bases there they will destroy the economy and this will affect your

48:24economy as well in the United States and you promised for peace and for all of that so to go and allow that huge war and that huge attack that could actually cripple Iran killing their subrimelida so usually they expect all type of retaliation but the thing that's actually make me think I mean that's Trump of course you have military advisors you have people I'm not talking about the minister of defense because he's he's as well he's just another copy of Trump I'm talking about the commander of the aircraft carrier the commander of the districts of the United States Army wasn't there anyone who's wise will tell him this is actually will make us say this was damaged our reputation you can see now that the United States reputation as one of the strongest power it was damaged by Yemenis in in in in in the retreat yeah and the conversation I

49:27with al-Mukhadi right there was about just military tactics and they were shocked about the fact that it seemed that there was no planning and you know their view was always before this that the United States was still a strong powerful still a strong powerful country and now they're like this shocked us that you couldn't even effectively operate the war was war shouldn't have been involved in but the fact that you had no logistics let's take our last quick break of the show or a reminder a book is called WTF America pre-order now the book comes out October 20th but the pre-orders are really helpful yes we did do an audio book and each brother ran different chapters of the audio book and so if you want to get the audio book as well I think you'll enjoy hearing the audio hit subscribe to our YouTube channel let's get to seven million subscribers here let's take our last break of the show we will be right back after this quick break have you ever actually looked at the ingredient list on your dog's food after the

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53:44about here overwhelmingly actually has nothing to do with politics um it has to do with competence and leadership and values and principles and we all want politicians to align with these values and principles that i know you care about and at a basic level you know we want uh kind of serious adult behavior right and people to behave like growing up set like a baseline and as former secretary of state Hillary Clinton has said like we're not behaving as a serious country where behaving as a very dangerous predatory one right now that's just out there kind of causing and creating harm and you know a lot of the stuff is just logistics right logistics logistics and so massive logistics failures when it comes to this catastrophic war in Iran massive logistics failures uh when it comes to you know even basic things today like when the FAA cancelled all of these flights

54:49in the east coast from New Jersey to Philadelphia New York Boston all of these areas had flights cancelled and then we learned that well according to transportation secretary Duffy Amtrak workers cut into uh cable lines and that basically brought down systems there were backups available apparently and then Amtrak said no it wasn't us it was New Jersey transit but it's just kind of very basic logistics i mean you can even go back to how horrifically i know this often gets overlooked that's why i want to bring it up here you know the awful handling of the flooding by the Rio Grande and some of the areas in Texas remember like this doesn't even get talked about but like hundreds of little girls were killed at a camp because the logistics um by the trump regime and by other kind of republican administrations there were ineffective and and and were and were not working and there

55:52was major issues about alerting the camp and you know making sure the little girls could get to the top of the top of the mountain there and then remember Kristi no made people sign a you know she had to approve every purchase over a hundred thousand dollars and then we learned a lot of that may have been because corialloo and dousecube she was running around with all her husband was doing like the gigantic boobs thing on tea you know with with all of the you know people and you know and I don't even want while they were i don't even know what was going on there um but like they wanted to control it so they could be in charge of all of the contracts and then they didn't approve the search and rescue i mean it's like a maliciousness and a logistics thing you know when when we talk the trump regimes war crimes in aron right striking the elementary school killing little girls is kind of a theme here right killing little girls in minab and slaughtering the children there it was an over a pentagon report has says that it's an overreliance on certain a i tools um and then

56:57Pete hegseth wanting to basically just target everything and it was so obvious if you just opened up google maps that that was an elementary school and it's been an elementary school for over a decade and yeah it was in the vicinity of an ir gc facility but everybody knew that was the elementary school and it's not uncommon for elementary schools anywhere in any country to be somewhat remotely near uh near schools i mean when we talk about trump's recent escalation in aron where he slaughtered people out of wedding right that was in the vicinity of some telecommunications tower but it's just everything they do is just also like awfully logistical like in a they they don't plan things and it results in awful consequences and it also begins with the fact that they are also very malicious and evil and have ill intent to begin with and so you know even Donald Trump banning all of these uh reporters from ms now and cnn and politico from the white house because natalie

58:02harpshoed donald trump some articles that were written about him by these outlets so as a result of natalie harpshoeing of these articles trump and bans these outlets and what happens next then the press pool which is made up of a bc nbc cbs and fox they say well we're not going to cover events until you remove that ban then donald trump holds a press conference anyway it's like the 10th press conference he's held on the helipad i can't even front might even exaggerating right he's done like a helipad press conference it seems like every three days over the past two months he had a helipad where he brings the workers behind him and then he says okay we're opening up the helipad he's done this like over and over again but you get that approval writing up somehow ban that that's it the triumphal arch with snipers everywhere and turning it into a drone port and then the helipad is what he's you know have you not heard of an october sprees but then he doesn't realize that wait a

59:02minute i need audio and i need a press pool to cover these events so even as he tried to like do this on the white house a white house youtube or have newsmax cover it what turned out as there wasn't any audio hooked in so you couldn't even hear what he was saying and so it just became this like deranged propaganda fest without any sound or audio and again this is also shows you the incompetence but also shows you just the most basic facts like you probably need to double check that there's audio if you want your propaganda to even get out so let me show you what went down here play this clip yeah there but you can't hear it because there's no mics okay so there's no microphone because there's no microphone because the pool cameras aren't there so maybe Tim this is one example of it backfiring just a little bit um pick up on or some of things

1:00:05michael was saying and um obviously the ramifications are right here can't hear what the president's saying all right so you had that then he said before before everything i'm so sorry before everything though like when you just watch those movements without sound it's so weird when you watch them when it's actually speaking but when you were just watching him without sound the movements are so alien like i like it's it doesn't look human the way Donald Trump is moving his body and I know he's suffering through a lot of elements that that we all know about it is truly bizarre seeing him even just turn his head and when he starts to speak like the shapes he's makes with his mouth it's bizarre he is like an alien i mean he kind of is but like the the broader point uh uh you know him not realizing that he's not gonna have audio when he does these press conferences is that this is how the guy makes his decisions in every aspect of his entire life this is how he's making decisions in war right now it's why he didn't foresee the straight of her moves being closed

1:01:06than the aron war becoming the debacle that it is because he's never thinking ahead he's always just making a decision and it's could be the most reckless decision imaginable but he never thinks it through and the people who are the smart people who are supposed to be in the room with them who say hey buddy that's gonna be a disaster if you do that right now he's not listening to them or they don't exist at this point and so that's one of the big actually issues that we see uh you know in this whole kind of second trump administration in a microcosm right there yeah so then you have jd vans giving you speech in north carolina so you have melania and north carolina and trump and north carolina and then jd vans was in green spurrow north carolina uh today and by the way in north carolina let's not forget the trump regime did not provide the necessary female aid that the north carolina governor requested they did not the trump regime did not provide matching funds after you had the awful helene storm over there um which is just i mean how cruel and unusual is that

1:02:08for the federal government to deny disaster relief the same disaster relief that former president Biden was giving the trump regime attacked Biden with all this propaganda that Biden wasn't giving the fema relief and Biden was attacking fema then trump gets into power and what does he do he gets rid of half of the fema employees like eleven thousand twelve thousand fema employees were fired and unlawfully a federal judge recently held those terminations were unlawful and then didn't approve the fema aid that north carolina demanded and needed um so jd vans then heads to north carolina gives a speech in green's bro where he's like uh you know the the democrats are the fart left you're the fart left uh uh uh uh uh uh and oak the fake news is gonna say i called them fart but uh but i i guess that was a slip of my tongue i mean this is what they're doing i mean again these are the most lunatic people imaginable here play this clip now you may not have even heard that but i actually i usually don't miss speak but i just called them the fart left not the fart left

1:03:11that i promised that was an accident so the fake news who will accuse me of bad language i promise i did not mean to call them the fart left i meant to call them the far left but in another case i mean so do you so do you think i'm serious jd just out there crushing it he's got he's got where they could say riz jd to too much riz jd too much riz bro yeah save some for the rest of us man jess i do want to correct when i said i said reo gron river i made guatalupe river it's an important distinction um but nonetheless the trump regime uh did you know it's a better distinction the far left we're far left far left far left anyway true okay let's but i want to share with you though and and so tomorrow if you're watching this or listening on Tuesday if you're watching this on monday it's tomorrow the 81st session of the united nations general assembly uh we'll begin uh and it's the general debate that's when all of the uh world leaders you know give their speeches uh so we're all paying attention to what's

1:04:13going to be happening there the entire theme of the united nations general assembly opening is restoring trust and multilateralism like it's clearly geared towards basically the end of the united states kind of leading the free world and more or at least the pretext of that happening and so it is a restoring trust in a multilateral world it's built on these six pillars of the uh bangla deshi foreign minister who's now the president of the u.n. general assembly um in advance of the speeches that are going to be taking place there katar held their katar economic forum in york there's a lot of like events that take place before the u.n. general assembly meets it has the general debate and i found this very fascinating that prime minister althani was talking about how the arom nations and all the gulf nations need to start being focused on embracing aron more and being more and recognizing that you can't have a situation there where you just fully alienate

1:05:18aron and he's saying it out loud and so this guitarry prime minister he's one of the kind of main mediators between the u.s. and aron and i thought it was kind of an interesting perspective to hear this articulated out loud and this is obviously a major shift from where things were before the catastrophic war started let's play this clip. the aron is our neighbor we need to understand that without having a security framework that brings us all together as gulf countries with iran ensuring that none of us is posing a threat on the other this region will not just be you know continuing in the same way as it used to be we have to act together responsibly as a region and to make sure that we are having a good relation with iran and iran has a good relation with the gulf countries and we are working toward that our regional partners believes in this

1:06:20and we are hoping that this war is a wake up call for everyone that it's time at this war is a wake up call for everybody and so that was happening in new york Donald Trump left dc to head to new york he arrived there with Natalie Harp and margo martin and suzy wiles so he shows up in new york in one of his first places that he visits is visits with mayor mom donnie and so i want to share with you what went down at his meeting with mayor mom donnie while donald trump doesn't have a press pool new york city mayor mom donnie does with sound and so mayor mom donnie shown will went down in the press conference and so donald trump just diffusively praising mayor mom donnie over and over again at this press conference let me show you one such scene let's play it no i certainly hope he will be a great mayor you have to understand i want what's good for new york i want what's good for the country so if i had a choice of having him be a bad mayor or horrible mayor i don't want that i want him to be a great mayor

1:07:24and he certainly got potential got great potential and i'll show you one other clip from that meaning let's play the other clip at any remarks well thank you very much mr. mayor i've been at gracy manchewer discussing quite a few times over the years a lot and it sort of feels like a home and it's a special place a very special a beautiful place when you go inside and i've seen it with numerous different mayors and i said some great ones and some not so great ones so hopefully you're going to be a great one i'll be able to say you're going to be a great one and you're off to a start so i just want to thank the mayor for the invitation i mean new york to do the united nations tomorrow i have a lot of meetings right now today a very important meeting also know where do you britain jordan what happens in these meetings in the york city mayor mom danie it's just so it i really just shows you though trumps whole scam right trump will say the most vicious things about you when he's hiding behind a keyboard he'll say the most vicious things behind you when he's

1:08:27calling into fox news but the second you get face to face with him if you stand up for your principles and stand up for your values he backs down like every single time and there were even other indications of this where trump was speaking about mayor mom danie's thoughts on immigration obviously there's a huge delta between what new york city mayor mom danie believes about immigration and the rights for immigrants and what donald trump believes and trump acknowledged without doing his normal bluster during this press conference he acknowledged he was like yeah you know uh the mayor he he has his opinions on immigration and he he didn't back down he he told them to me and i see i see what he's saying and it's like what what what what this is this this is the guy you were calling a communist who was letting in the leagles were gonna kill everybody blah blah blah blah blah and now this is how you're talking to the press it is just honestly just a very fascinating thing and i kind of wonder how the maga put people like you know the remaining folks are even able to process you know things like this after they're built up you know after

1:09:30someone like a mom danie is built up as this evil communist villain who wants to kill them and all the sudden you have like this bromance plan where trump is just like a few sivley praising the guy it's just got to be a weird dynamic yeah i think they let it slide because they're waiting on those uh two thousand dollar tariff dividend checks that are still in the mail and maybe those five thousand dollar doge dividend checks and also the five thousand dollar elect the republican checks that are you know going to be sent out so they're just waiting on some money before they really critique the guy it's all coming in by the way you just have to wait a little bit longer just just just give them another chance wait a little bit longer and all that money will just be in your pockets per Donald Trump you know i actually think trump is the definition but i'm just gonna say he's the definition of a keyboard warrior you actually confront the guy head on and he folds like a lawn chair and that's what we see time and time again you know we talked about how Donald Trump approval and one major poll 29% the Reuters ipso's has in the 32% and you think about what were some of the major events that probably just caused him to lose this massive amount

1:10:34of republican support recently and there's so many there's so many and it's like why did this not happen sooner but i do think jory you point out the five thousand dollar uh fraud right i think that there are some things that sometimes transcend just the usual kind of political coverage and to me that was actually one of them and it reminded people wait a minute you promised me five thousand dollars here you promised me two thousand dollars here i see the price of gas surging i see the price of diesel surging i'm being screwed and you just think i'm stupid i think that was actually i mean there should be so many other moments like seriously that's the moment but i do think that that may have penetrated into certain red right at red areas at least then what's the famous George bush line fool me once shame on me fool me twice you you can't be fooled again it it truly is because all this time Donald Trump continues to promise people money this is the

1:11:35third time this regime has done this and it's just a constant rug poll and people are looking around saying i thought you promised me money over here wait what about this money wait what about this money and the only money they see is the money leaving their bank accounts bad yes really an interesting you know uh less than in human psychology i guess you could say it but the way that a lot of these uh trump voters process the world is it just is factually a very selfish way of processing the world it doesn't matter what ever what's going on with everybody else the world doesn't matter the chaos happening overseas doesn't matter the chaos happening to your neighbors or love what doesn't matter it matters what's affecting me and how much pain can i take where the propaganda until the propaganda finally collapses and some of the statements that we're seeing from these former uh or or these trump recent trump voters who are now uh you know considering or saying that they're going to vote for democrats the midterms really give away the game there was this uh 60 minutes

1:12:36report recently um and this guy there was this guy in texas who uh lifelong conservative Republican he lives near a proposed data center and he said the following this is the first time in my adult life where there's been an issue that's come up that i feel like is going to directly impact me going to directly impact me i mean i think he kind of said the quiet part you know out loud here oh it's all fun when they were doing this stuff to other people but now that there's going to be a data center in my backyard and it's going to be using our resources and it's going to be making all these noise and it's going to be affecting my vegetation and my animals now now i have a problem and so and and i saw the guy's interview he was like you know i normally vote Republican but this time i'm not even going to think you know red or blue or republican or democrat i'm just going to vote for the guy who's you know against these things and that's why i'm going to vote for james telleriko and you're like that's what it took out of all the things everything that we've been talking about over the past few years it was the data center issue that affected you

1:13:37personally that caused you to change and i think gas is one of those things for a lot of folks that is that thing that affects them personally it's like everything that happens in the world all the chaos the ice shootings like whatever doesn't even even the war stuff like doesn't even matter until it affects them until they go down the block and they have to pay seven bucks for diesel right i mean it's just it really truly is you know it shows you how so much of the electorate takes in politics you know all the political messaging you want to throw at all the millions and billions of dollars spent on political ads when so often it just comes down to that well look and you think about the right wing media the right wing media trillion dollar kind of echo chamber or propaganda networks that basically said look Biden's going to do world war three Biden's going to send you into never ending wars Biden's going to do this Biden's going to do that quite literally all of those things Donald Trump is doing that Biden didn't do those things now there was a time during Biden's

1:14:42administration when gas and inflation were high and Biden had to deal with Trump's first term and by the end of Biden's term where things great no but were they heading and trending statistically in the right direction and where the moves put in place complicated moves with actual legislation to try to grapple with comprehensive problems and try to solve problems he was doing those things and he actually would have passed comprehensive immigration reform had Donald Trump not told the magnate Republicans I want you to kill this because a winning issue for me is to run on immigration we can't solve the problem we need to make the problem worse so we can terrorize immigrant communities because it's a wedge issue that we want to use and then that's their playbook wedge issues to divide and he just interesting I mean you heard you know JD Vance's speech in Greensboro North Carolina you know where he's out there you know doing the same playbook from 2024 I don't not only to play you all the stuff but it's just like if you are telling kindergarteners about

1:15:43them pronouns then you are creepy you know it's like kindergarteners and pronouns like our education system is under attack from these magnas our public education system has been destroyed teachers have been treated so horribly I put a I made a video this weekend of Dr. Abdul's L. Syed's the speech that he gave in Michigan where he spoke to a lady who just graduated college with a degree in being an elementary school educator and she was terrified that when she becomes an elementary school teacher she's not going to be able to afford rent and she's not going to be able to be able to basically survive because she chose to pursue a noble profession and being a teacher and rather than talk about oh this or that or dividing you and pronouns and you know Dr. Abdul L. Syed gave a very thoughtful answer very policy driven here's what we can do to make sure that teachers are treated better and teachers get more money and we need to do a minimum wage for

1:16:43teachers so that teachers are paid with dignity and here's how we have to address public schools being under attack and ultimately this is beneficial you know to our students and to children and we want a better educated country we want and so there's such a difference here and I think to the extent there's anything good that's come out of this real dystopian error it's that I think people are paying attention to government and people want to make sure that a government works for them people don't want to go back to the status quo and I'll end here with talking about New York City Mayor Mamdani you know he stands on principles he stands on values he's not really wavering he tells you who he is and he strongly stands behind those issues and I think that's something that's appreciated and I think it's one of the ways that Trump doesn't really know what to do with that also I mean Trump's a phony guy as phony as you get he's the biggest phony fraud and recent human history and probably going back a very very very long time and what he's able to

1:17:46sense as a phony and fraudulent person are where people are able to break and what they're you know when they're not actually representing who they are publicly so if you're authentically yourself and you stand up against him I mean you're able to really back him into a corner because you know you're not trying to do deals with him you're not trying to appease him you know you're standing up and I think that that's one of the things we see with New York City Mayor Mamdani always you know I think I think one of the things you see too is like when I see Mayor Mamdani with Trump in these scenes it doesn't feel performative to me it doesn't feel like he's trying to put anything on doesn't seem like he's trying even like act tough for anything he is tough in his own way he's tough by standing up for his principles and I think the most revealing moment that really set the stage for this relationship and you know I think why everybody as so impressed I think by how New York City Mayor Mamdani has handled this is during that first meeting in the Oval Office when he was asked by the press the press made it said some sort of comment like you've been calling Donald

1:18:48Trump a fascist an awful lot he's standing right next to you right now do you feel still think Donald Trump is a fascist and Mamdani was like yes you know and like I don't think everybody else would say that standing next to the guy but the fact that he's like yes but you know he's also the president and we're you know do an x-y and z you know I I think that sort of honesty is actually you know incredibly refreshing and I think he brings an authenticity to the job and a real like a realness to the job that Trump doesn't know how to even like combat or handle and Trump just likes people at space it who are who are charismatic and and you know and and Mamdani is like you know like the most popular politician right now like like as the craziest approval rating and I think Trump knows that you know it's it's it's all there covered a lot on today's episode got a lot more to cover of course throughout the day as theirs breaking news developing make sure you check back on the Midas Touch YouTube channel every 90 minutes or so we get up a new video here

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