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Chapter 1: What are Trump voters saying about the current market turmoil?
Trump voters are regretting what they did, especially individuals in the market who are or who are looking at their pensions and 401ks right now or those in the investment community. You had people like Geiger Capital who had previously posted no one other than fairly stupid partisans on the left think that Trump is truly going to implement 20 percent tariffs on everything across the board.
Maybe didn't predict 145% tariffs against China or whatever cockamamie formula they use. And then Geiger Capital responded to their own post recently. I won't delete this tweet because I am a man of honor. But yes, I was wrong on the tariffs in November. He has indeed put blanket tariffs on every country. Trump 2.0 is very different. Also, seeing a lot of posts like this.
I've lost $208,000 since Trump became the president. I should have voted for... And of course, the person can spell Kamala Harris's name correctly. It says Camilla and other statements like this. It's no secret I voted for Trump, but I didn't vote for a global trade war. He better fix this strife immediately if Republicans want a chance to keep the House or Senate.
71 million Americans have a 401k. We are the world's largest consumers. Our trade deficits could have been ironed out with a phone call. I believe this is a huge miscalculation. Democrats should be jumping up and down tonight celebrating. Actually, we're not jumping up and down celebrating. This is a horrible time generally.
for the country i mean the pain that donald trump is inflicting other posts like this i'm a small business in a small town 99.9 of america's small businesses we cannot survive the tariffs i voted for trump so don't come on here and calling me a liberal i i can go on and on and on headlines like this market turmoil puts bro sphere support for trump under strain and uh while
As of we're recording this, you never know with kind of the pump and dump meme coin economy that Donald Trump has turned our markets into. So I want to be careful what I say. But as the markets are once again in a crash mode right now, Donald Trump held a cabinet meeting and he talked about the big day we had the prior day. Here, play this clip.
Prescription drug prices are even to down. We're doing very well. It's been amazing. We had a big day yesterday. There will always be transition difficulty, but we had a... In history, it was the biggest day in history. the markets. So we're very, very happy with the way the country's running.
Very happy with the way the country is running. Let's call in Democratic Congress member Jimmy Gomez. Congress member Gomez, he's very happy, very happy with it. Transition problem, very happy with it. What's your response to that?
Well, it pisses me off. It actually makes me extremely angry because his economic plan, if he wants to call it, has just been creating chaos. One We always knew taking on having a trade war would be difficult, especially when you're picking a war with every single country on the globe, including your own allies. That's insane. He always said, oh, these are going to be easy to win, easy to win.
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Chapter 2: How have Trump's tariffs affected the economy and investors?
Finally, I got to ask you about this because LAUSD is in your congressional district and LAUSD is sprawling in the Los Angeles area with schools all over, but the headquarters is in your district. So on Thursday, LAUSD confirmed that plainclothes federal agents
tried to question kids at two elementary schools in los angeles monday what but were denied entry by administrators superintendent carvalho said the agents claimed they had parent permission to question the kids but it wasn't true carvalho said the agents were seeking to talk to five children who came to this country as unaccompanied minors
and are in the care of legal guardians la usd's legal team is responding the agents did not have warrants to access the campuses and especially where we're seeing the trump regime disappearing humans without due process and sending people literally to concentration camps in el salvador i mean i want to get your reaction to this breaking story today and just generally of the disappearing of human beings with no due process
You know, I was just made aware of the superintendent, what happened to L.A. USD. It's extremely scary because this basically says that the Trump administration knows no bounds and has no dignity when it comes to dealing with even young children. And as a dad, you know, that is something that worries me.
And I'm glad that the superintendent and also the guardians of these individuals stepped up, because even if you're undocumented, you have certain rights in this country. And I've been holding Know Your Rights workshops. I've been going door to door handing out that information so people are not fooled by ICE agents saying that they have a warrant when they don't.
And that's the best way to protect right now, protect our communities, is to make sure they have that information. And here's the thing, when they're pulling people off the streets, sending them to El Salvador, that is just one step of pulling American citizens themselves off of the streets. He's even looking into that.
If you basically, his press secretary said, oh, we're looking into it to see if it's legal. We don't know if it's legal. This administration, you know, doesn't care about the law. They don't care about the custom and practices. They're going to try to push their agenda. and what people have to decide for themselves, that one of these court cases won't reach the Supreme Court.
And the Supreme Court, if they rule against them and Trump ignores it, what are they willing to do? Because we're not a country of kings, we're a democracy. And people are gonna have to decide, are we gonna stand up or we're gonna let Trump actually trample on our constitution? This is getting real serious and real dangerous.
Congress member Jimmy Gomez, thank you for joining us. We need you to come back soon. You were here in the early days of the Might and Spence Network. I remember we did an interview when the audience wasn't quite this size. So I'll always remember.
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