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I'm seeing a lot of messages like this from business owners who, for whatever reason, supported Donald Trump in the election. This is from Craig Fuller, who runs something called Freight Affiliated Media. They do market intelligence for freight-related services. He goes, I enthusiastically supported Trump's victory in the November election.
I thought I was voting for a pro-business policies and small targeted incremental tariffs. I did not vote for a neutron bomb to wipe out supply chains and small businesses 100 days in. Or Azalea Banks, a musician who said, OK, I think it's time everyone who voted for Trump admit that we made an effing mess here. Like, This is an absolute disaster.
And this was after she bragged about voting for Trump following the election. You know, and then there's just things every day that just makes you, I guess, scratch your head is an understatement like this. Putin gifted Donald Trump a portrait of himself raising his fist after the Butler, Pennsylvania incident.
And Witkoff, Donald Trump's special envoy to Russia, said how touched Donald Trump was by the painting commissioned by Vladimir Putin. But look, I think the business community is getting it right now. The front page of the New York magazine was this cartoon right here, a political cartoon. I did not think for one second he was going to go this crazy as all the Wall Street bankers see the
market imploding as the U.S. economy is now behaving like that of a developing country. We're seeing op-eds written by conservative economists talking about that. And then just the message boards you look at from the conservative message boards, and it's all people saying, I'm not too proud to admit it, but I feel stupid now. I want to bring in
friend of the show, John Cryer, your Midas Touch fan, which is great, the producer of the podcast, The Man Who Calculated Death, which I want to talk about as well because it focuses on the scientist who built the first cruise missile or Adolf Hitler. And these times are not too dissimilar from those times. But first off, welcome to the show. And what do you make of this mess, John?
Thank you so much.
It's great to be here. I'm to some degree amazed that some people are being that candid about it, only because we're three months in. I mean, this is pretty remarkable. This is supposed to be a honeymoon. This is supposed to be Trump's honeymoon. Trump's honeymoon is very bumpy so far.
And, you know, a lot of the sort of more cultish aspects of Trumpism will be much, much harder to dislodge from people because it's similar to Brexit. You know, there's very few people in Britain who are willing to just say, wow, that was just a dumb idea. I can't believe I fell for that.
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