Domenico Montanaro

And asking for more money, $200 billion is a lot of money, especially at a time when in the United States, people are saying that high prices are their top priority.

Gas prices are going up because of this.

Other prices have gone up because of tariffs.

And now people, again, that argument that was made by Trump himself to say, why should we be sending money over there when we need to fix what's happening over here?

Again, it's something that you see on huge signs.

It's hard to say to people, you know, don't listen to the mainstream media.

They're just lying to you.

You can do that with a lot of different things that are arguable, but it's not arguable how much more money you pay when you fill up your gas tank or go to the grocery store.

I mean, 98 cents a gallon, a gallon up.

That means that if you've got a 12 to 16 gallon car,

You're paying, you know, 12, let's say conservatively $12 more.

If you fill up once a week, yeah, it's an extra $12 a week, $24 every couple of weeks, almost $50 a month.

And if you do it twice a week, $100 a month, there's a lot of people pinching pennies right now wondering why are they paying more?

No, I mean when you think about Iran, it turns out that talking badly about your allies and not having tariffs as leverage and not making a moral case ahead of time might not push people to do what you want.

And I think that there's a lot of things right now that Trump is facing that are out of his control.

Psychologists talk about you can only control what you can control and that's yourself and how you respond to things.

And it has to really, really, really be grading on Trump that there are these things that are out of his control right now.

right at that same time but i mean there's some truth probably to the fact that he's more powerful in his second term in some ways right because he understands the levers of power a little bit more he understands you know how to get leverage over some domestic you know policy fronts uh without even needing legislation to do it right so there's some degree to which he is more powerful and then there's other ways that there are things that are major things that are really out of his control

In particular, those prices that, you know, Americans say that he, because of his tariffs, have made things in particular worse because of this war with Iran, that they've made gas prices worse.

You know, and those headwinds add up to quite a bit in an election year.