Ben Meiselas

You have this purported blockade that's basically there and you don't really enforce it all that much.

And people just stop thinking about it.

It's like, ah, just Trump being Trump.

But meanwhile, ships aren't leaving the Strait of Hormuz.

You know, I think that eventually people start developing other routes, whether it's more ships going into the Red Sea.

Gas prices go up.

Then it's just basically accepted that this is like the new norm that we all just accept, you know, that lots of travel doesn't happen anymore through that straight in terms of, you know, oil and maritime.

It gets shifted elsewhere.

Prices generally go up.

And then Donald Trump blames it on Democrats or whoever he blames on in a given moment.

Right.

That's to me his behavior.

Brett, let me toss it over to you.

Well, think about also some of the big lies thus far.

And there's so many of them.

But obviously, when Trump said there would be Doge dividend checks and all Americans would get $5,000 or there would be these tariff rebate checks or tariff dividend checks that so much money would come in.

that everybody would get all of this money directly handed to them think about donald trump saying 90 deals in 90 days we promise you there's basically been no deals in 90 days in terms of written trade deals that actually take the form of what we would consider to be a traditional

trade agreement they made a bunch of press releases like seven press releases that were non-binding and are not being enforced and then donald trump basically made up a bunch of numbers and he would say we brought in 17 trillion dollars or 21 trillion dollars and he would say saudi arabia offered us five trillion dollars or qatar offered us two trillion dollars

more money by multiples of what the actual underlying gdp is of these nations and so there was always that taking place last year and we were always on the front line saying fake deal fake deal fake deal we're not bringing in trillions of dollars this is all part of the ponzi scheme that he uh is doing you know there's one other post that donald trump made

There's been many actually, but the one that's not getting a lot of attention though, that to me probably deserves to because it goes to his psyche as well.