Stephanie Ruhle
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6 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 12 Jun
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The two interesting things with the testimony for me is, one, there's a Raphael Warnock exchange where he's like, so you're going to extend the Trump tax cuts for everybody to $1 million? $50 million? $100 million? $1 billion? You know, it keeps going up. And Besant's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. We need to extend the Trump tax cuts even for billionaires.
Right. And so this is kind of what I wanted to get to, which is he was adamant about this, right? So it seems like the Trump administration position, as we know for right now, is that they're going to extend all the Trump tax cuts even for the richest people and all the corporations, which is going to be about a $4 or $5 trillion price tag.
And you have at least a handful of House Republicans that still claim to care about the budget. And they have a two seat majority. And so I just think with all of the craziness happening, it's like the Elon, you know, see Kyle salute and all the things you want to talk about. Like the real fight that's coming is like in your wheelhouse, right?
Is this is this like the Treasury Secretary's testimony? And maybe one way they try to fake their way out of it is by actually doing the tariffs, because then they can be like, well, the tariffs will pay for this. You know, it's kind of like a an updated version of the tax cuts will pay for themselves. It's like the tariffs will pay for the tax cut extension.
And that's a real financial pickle, I think, that's for some people.
And the MAGA voters who are on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. All right, final question. I want to circle this back to the initial question. Because of all we talked about, what's been undergirding all this? You have all the billionaires sitting behind Donald Trump. You have Scott Besant saying that they're going to extend the tax cuts on the wealthiest and on all these corporations.
We have the vibe shift when it comes to, you know, whatever, DEI and cultural issues. Are these guys ready, your CEO buddies, your CEO sources? Are they ready for what's coming? Because I think what they're setting themselves up for is I think they're going to be wishing for the annoyance of DEI when it gets replaced with the annoyance of eat the rich.
Because populist economics is what's coming next. from the left. And I think these guys are going to be begging for the struggle sessions about diversity hiring when what they're getting is mass protests about economic inequality.
We will. Steph Ruhl, thanks for doing this. Thanks for having me. We're going to have a lot of reason for you to come back. It feels like the masters of the universe are back in vogue and back in power. And so we'll have much to talk about. So thanks so much.
I would love that. I keep waiting for somebody to invite me. So if Jaden makes it, I assume that you'll be giving me your plus one and I'll see you there in New Orleans.
We love it. Jay, it's been a Trump derangement syndrome and Jaden Daniels fanboy podcast this week because, you know, we need some light in our life. Steph Rule, thank you so much.
tim people are gonna stop listening to this podcast if you tell them that all right thank you everybody come on back tomorrow we'll see you back here then and i'll give you the darkness you've become accustomed to but maybe with a little happier me and thanks to that pep talk from staff we'll see y'all then see ya
And I'll tell you one other example. The day after Donald Trump had that crazy rally at Madison Square Garden, I rolled the dice and I called him on the phone. And he answered!
And I wasn't calling to chitchat. I said, Mr. President, this is Stephanie Ruhle. You made a lot of comments last night, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it was not an on-the-record conversation. Long story, so I'm not going to get into what he said. But I called for one reason. I said, you just said a whole bunch of public things. I'd like to sit down for an interview with you.
We got five days before the election. So we didn't get into anything. There's nothing for me to report. I called him and said, I want an interview with you. Obviously he said no. But my point is, I was able to get to him by dialing his phone. Now that might be completely apeshit and you're like, I can't believe people know this guy's phone number.
But the reverse of that, if I were to want to connect with VP Harris or President Biden, there's 50 people Between me and that, I could write a note that maybe could get to somebody to get somebody, then through Pony Express and a pigeon, something might end up in a mailbox near them. And I called DJT to say, yo, can I have an interview?
He told me to go fuck myself, but I still was able to connect with him.
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