Chapter 1: What recent developments are impacting Donald Trump's approval ratings?
Donald Trump's approval is tanking. The bottom is falling out right now. You take a look at the recent data for progress poll. Who do you trust on inflation? Democrats for the first time trusted more, plus eight. Compare this to 2022 when Republicans were plus 17. That's a 25% swing. But when you get into the latest Fox poll of Donald Trump's overall approval, his approval is at
39 on specific issues like inflation he's net negative 52 on the economy net negative 42 when you look at issues like foreign policy net negative 24 the latest disaster trip to china net negative nine percent on immigration net negative eight percent it just gets worse from there the quinnipiac poll
has donald trump's overall approval at 34 when you look at his approval on the economy and total free fall just 33 to prove while 64 disapprove folks this number looks like it will be heading into the 20s in no time the latest arg poll as well has trump's approval at 31 i can keep on going but i think you get the point and now we're seeing republicans in both the house and the senate
rebelling against Donald Trump. Obviously, MAGA Mike doing what he can to further reduce our Congress to the Russian Duma. But we had the United States Senate with Republican leader Thune shutting down the Senate after apparently there was a meeting with Donald Trump's acting Attorney General Todd Blanch, a massive
fight broke out over Donald Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund to January 6th insurrectionists. Also, Republicans absolutely pissed that Donald Trump's on a retribution and revenge tour against Republicans he doesn't like.
Donald Trump endorsing the corrupt Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over the incumbent Senator John Cornyn, which we are now seeing James Tallarico, the Democratic candidate for Senate,
leading in a head-to-head with paxton if paxton ultimately makes it through the primaries with talarico winning by uh plus four as of this point republicans are telling punchbowl and others it is a total meltdown of our chances to keep control of the united states senate we know previously the republicans in the senate joined forces with democrats to pass a war powers resolution act they discharged that
meaning they voted to block Donald Trump's continuation of this catastrophic war in Iran. Earlier today, the House of Representatives was supposed to take a similar vote. And Democrats and some Republicans collectively were going to pass it in the House of Representatives. So Maga Mike Johnson delayed it until the next legislative session. He has the ability to do that like once.
And so he's delaying it to the next legislative session. And get this, He's now sent the House of Representatives home as well. So the House of Representatives now shut down also, and both the House and the Senate shut down until... June. So again, no work going on there.
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Chapter 2: How is Congress responding to Trump's proposed funding for January 6 insurrectionists?
And then some people may get off like a day for Memorial Day. They take off like an entire week. I mean, the fact that they are pushing everything now on a Thursday and they're saying, you know what, we're not going to be back until June at this point.
it's just a disgrace and it just like throws it in the face at the american people who are out there every day uh some people work in one job for 12 plus hours some people work in two jobs three jobs and then you see these people being paid with taxpayer money um just taking off all the time that they could get and
And by the way, that's before we even get to all the other scams of the Trump administration, right? All the various stunts that they are pulling by giving your taxpayer money to January 6th insurrectionists, to Donald Trump's family members, to Donald Trump's allies. Like I was saying the other day,
It's almost morally difficult to even square the concept that you have to pay taxes that fund these wars when the money is being used to kill girls, innocent girls in schools overseas, or give money to then possibly have it go to January 6th insurrectionists. It is just appalling. It is morally reprehensible, and it is representative of the moral rot
that we are seeing right now out of this White House and with a spineless Republican Party every single day. We're gonna get into all of it. We got a lot to discuss, but first, you know, I gotta toss it over to Jordy. Jordy, what's the latest? Brothers, mightest mighty. It's great to be here, pumped to get into today's show. Brett, exactly, man.
I mean, it just, like, we have to get to a point in this country where the politicians here actually want to work for the American people. Actually want to work. Like, let's just stop there. Actually want to do some work.
And it's just so frustrating when an entire party, the Republican Party right now, has just decided no matter what, they are going to do one thing, and that is protect Donald Trump and the Trump regime every chance that they can get. American people be damned. And so to me, it's like no wonder why Donald Trump's approval rating is just sinking further and further as the days go
It's because he's not working for the American people. None of these people in the Trump regime, Donald Trump himself, the Republican Congress, like they hate you. Like MAGA constituents, they hate you. Just so you know, they don't want to work. They want to take paid vacations and protect Donald Trump And they don't care about how much you're paying at the pump.
They don't care about your health care costs. They don't care that housing isn't affordable in this country. They don't give a damn about you, the American person. To me, it's so frustrating.
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Chapter 3: What global tensions are escalating during Trump's presidency?
And then you tell me the week before, Maga Mike is shutting down. Yeah. So what they keep on doing, they're not working right now. And what they're doing, and this is what you see happen in Russia. So what you see happen in North Korea, that
Donald Trump's puppets, MAGA Mike, are using whatever procedural rules they can to literally basically disband the equivalent of like disbanding parliament, but disbanding the, you know, adjoining Congress, adjoining the House so that you can't vote if no one shows up to work. That's where they're at. Just let people vote. Like, why wouldn't you do the vote? Why, just see what happens.
And if the vote, and if you lose the vote, You lose the vote and then you deal with it. That's what adults do. That's what happens with adults. And then you have that going on in the House. And then just think about how out of touch they are, because this is what's going on in the White House, where Donald Trump's holding this press conference.
You got this guy behind Donald Trump, which just completely distracts me with his belly and his Audi belly button just continues to distract me during this whole video. But then Donald Trump is out there saying affordability. What's this word, affordability? Here, let's play this clip.
From day one, they said, affordability. Affordability is a word, because they're good at that. They're good at words, but I'm good at words too. But they hit me with affordability. I'd just gotten there. They hit me with eggs.
uh we had a news conference on my third day and they said uh egg prices are through the roof i said i just got here tell me about eggs and we got the prices down way down actually lower than it was four years before what do you mean they hit you with eggs anyone of those and they hit you with it no one's hitting you with eggs things are more expensive right now and visual though
Expo inflation is up 3.8% year over year. CPI, PPI, wholesale inflation, producer inflation is up 6%. Based on the monthly increases of inflation, we believe inflation will rise to 5% CPI by the end of this year. Notably, while we were talking about rate cuts before, what will probably happen is interest rates will rise.
And some of the next votes, that's likely the outcome, interest rates increasing. And he may be saying, well, didn't Donald Trump just appoint that Warsh guy who's the new chairman of the Federal Reserve? Wasn't he going to lower interest rates? He doesn't have that power on his own. There's still enough votes that are on because the former chairman
jerome powell did not resign he's still on the board there's enough votes that the board has enough people that aren't going to do what donald trump tells them to do and when inflation surges the way you reign it under control is to increase the interest rates
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Chapter 4: How are Republicans reacting to Trump's influence on their party?
How far can you push people until they just have had enough with this crap? But the stuff they are doing is not only so criminal, but it's also just so brazenly criminal. It's so in your face. The coverups are so in your face. The way Donald Trump covers up the Epstein files and then goes after the Congress people who actually voted to release the Epstein files.
the way he tries to hide his potential tax fraud, the way he tries to bail out the January 6th insurrectionists, the way he has already granted clemency and pardons to all these January 6th insurrectionists. Like any single one of these things should be... at the end of a presidency and the end of you ever being in public life and anybody associated with you in public life.
But I think the one thing that we see is that Donald Trump, these Republicans, this whole crew, in many ways, they are like cockroaches in a nuclear attack. They are equipped, their whole thing is we will survive at all costs. People be damned. We don't care how this impacts the rest of the population. We are going to do whatever we can to survive.
And so I think that's another reason why they pushed this vote, for example, on the War Powers Act, canceling it because Democrats had enough votes. This is something that wouldn't even necessarily have an impact, let's be clear, aside from being symbolic, because Trump would ultimately be able to veto it once it got to him if it passed both chambers.
But they don't even want to have their they don't even want to have to vote on it. They don't even want that to be on the record. And they don't want to betray Donald Trump, who any moment now could go back to war with Iran or could go to start a war with Cuba.
And you already see the language that they're using with those countries, especially with Cuba right now, as Donald Trump tries to distract from the Iran disaster and debacle as Iran continues to formalize its control over the Strait of Hormuz.
building the persian gulf strait authority uh working with neighbors giving russia and china exemptions to tolls all the things that they are doing you already see this trump regime and then you spoke about the drones and you spoke about the other things that they're claiming cuba has which you know i'm sure they do have plenty of stuff probably as a defensive posture because the united states for the past few months has been threatening to invade their country
And they've seen what follows when the United States makes these threats when it comes to Venezuela, when it comes to Iran, right? So yeah, I think they want to be prepared for a potential invasion. I totally understand that aspect of it.
And then you see someone like Marco Rubio today, and he's getting out there and he's starting to say the same things that we heard in the lead up to the Iran war, the same things we heard in the lead up to the Iraq war. It's the same lines that these Republicans have used for decades and decades and decades.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of Trump's foreign policy decisions?
And the same thing with Ukraine. What was he saying? Give me two weeks.
one more month we're making progress two weeks one month oh breakthrough two weeks one month all bs right what was he saying with prices we're getting there don't worry give me two weeks give me most favorite nations provision look this is going down this is going down we're right around the corner next quarter next quarter's our quarter don't you worry we're about to unleash fourth quarter first quarter 2027 this is what ponzi schemers do and they create new crises
to try to mask the old crises. And then a lot of the domestic crises are distractions from other domestic crises, which are distractions from other crises, which are distractions from the Epstein files. And then you just have this mess. that we find ourselves in heading into Memorial Day. We find ourselves in an absolute mess. No predictability, no certainty. People are suffering.
And saying no predictability, no certainty, that's generous. It's chaos. It's chaos out there. It's Trumpian. This is how Donald Trump ran businesses into the ground. This is how he's destroyed
know companies and entities this is his mo and we're seeing it here play out in our country there's a new global world order that is forming right now where america first has meant america alone and america finds itself weaker than ever as right now the person in the oval office continues to suck up to xi jinping and putin while they're out there mocking him and forming alliances to weaken the united states
and they're going about doing it methodically with plans and tactically while donald trump wakes up and posts photos of reflecting pools and golden statues and ballrooms and and all that we're going to take our first quick break of the show when we come back we've got a lot more to discuss what's going on in capitol hill what's going on in the rest of the world todd blanche acting attorney general and by acting i mean
acting and acting he's trump's personal defense attorney what he's doing is is an act it's a farce as well we'll take our first quick breaker reminder hit subscribe help us get to 7 million subscribers and also if you can uh become a member uh click member join right now become a member and uh gift memberships to others if you can let's take our first quick break of the show
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Chapter 6: How does Trump's stock trading raise ethical concerns?
And then Donald Trump, uh said i'm going to endorse paxton in a primary over cornyn and republicans in the senate were pouring in millions of dollars to support cornyn and they still are going to because he's one of their colleagues and now when you look at the actual polling that's taking place in texas you have james talarico leading right now in texas on a head-to-head with paxton
And now Republicans are like, well, we're probably going to lose Texas now. And we're going to be spending tens of millions of dollars to fight for Texas while we lose Texas. And now that money could have been spent on other states. And now we're looking at this map and this is deeply, you know, this is deeply problematic for control of the Senate.
And so they thought they'd at least control the Senate, lose the House. Now they're thinking in the Republican circles, we're going to lose this. We could lose the Senate right now.
if we lose if we lose texas so you had attorney general todd blanche he shows up and he talks about that 1.8 billion dollar slush fund and apparently republicans were like we're blocking your slush fund you screwed us we're not you know you screwed us over we're not doing the slush fund we're not doing the ballroom we're not doing that stuff it's just not we're not we're not going to support it we will support blocking it and apparently blanche started like yelling at them and they they're like who are you like who are you to yell at us
You're Donald Trump's personal attorney. So that's what went down there. Senate shuts down, House shuts down, and Donald Trump's in the Oval Office, and he's asked in the Oval Office, are you losing control of the Senate? Are you losing control of Republicans in the Senate and even the House? Here, let's play this clip of what Trump said.
Are you losing control of the Senate, Senate Republicans? I don't know. I really don't know. I can tell you I only do what's right. I don't need money for the ballroom. You know, I'm making a gift of the ballroom. This is the biggest misreporting that I've ever seen. The ballroom is being built. It'll cost, it was going to be 200 million. I've doubled the size of it because we need it.
And it's being done in conjunction with the military and with the, very much in conjunction with the military and Secret Service.
What does it even mean? It's being done very much in conjunction with them. We saw the reconciliation bill. You asked for $1 billion for it. The guy, as I said, every sound, syllable, everything is a lie. I know a lot of diplomats overseas, but when they see someone like Jeff Landry, Donald Trump's envoy to Greenland, the governor of Louisiana, it's like, why are you even there?
No one invited you there. There was like a business conference and he showed up and acted like he was invited. And then he goes there and he does like the Trump thing where he goes, no one's ever heard of Greenland since we were there. Just think about it. There's been no diplomats who ever showed up here until me. Like you all should be very thankful.
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Chapter 7: What are the consequences of Trump's actions on American democracy?
And hopefully they're going to have a great marriage.
OK, so it's a small event, usually at a small family event. The dad would be at the family. You would be there. And then he goes, I have something called Iran, but didn't you say that we won in Iran? So what are you doing? You say we control the Strait of Hormuz and everything's going great. We've already won. We've obliterated them.
You're using that as an excuse not to go to your own son's wedding? Also, he said the fake news media would kill me if I went there. I think it'd be the one thing that people would be like, yeah, it's your son's wedding. Yeah, you show up for, I don't know, at least five minutes. It's weird.
Then I understand what I think he was trying to say, but I'm not trying to make excuses for him because at the end of that, he basically said he's someone I've known for a long time. Like, it sounded almost as if he was referring to his son in that moment. He slurs his words. He could have been talking about the wife, the soon-to-be wife.
Exactly, but I don't even want to give him that out because that's not what he said. It's just not what he's, he's like, is he someone I've known for a long time? And I'm like, your son? Of course, yeah, you've known him his whole life.
this is also so insane to me this guy has no idea where he is and yet he's bombing countries left and right and bringing us into wars it's just it's madness it really is madness It definitely is madness. And then he goes on to say that he controls the Strait of Hormuz. So what are you spending time on doing if you control the Strait of Hormuz? And if you control the Strait of Hormuz, then great.
Then the ship should be leaving. Everything should be fine. What's even the question? We control it. Okay. So we're done. And again, it's just, what do you mean we control? We know we don't control it. We know that you asked for a billion dollars. It's just lie after lie. Here, play this clip.
And we'll see. We have total control of the Strait of Hormuz, as you know, with our blockade. The blockade's been 100% effective. Nobody's been able to get through. It's like a steel wall.
31 ships got through today. I mean, like 31 ships. And they're all using Iran's route that Iran and Oman have worked out this kind of port authority where they charge tolls and their allies get exemptions. And people are negotiating bilaterally with Iran to get their ships out. They're not allowing any ships that are allied with the United States out. And that's what's going on.
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Chapter 8: How can listeners stay informed about political developments?
We don't need anything from Congress.
The land isn't owned by the Interior. The land is owned by us. Public land, not the Interior Department, isn't a corporation that owns land. It's American soil. It's in our capital. And when you do things with our money, you need our approval for it as exercised through the legislature.
This is not a complicated thing, whether it's an arch, whether it's a ballroom, whether it is a $1.8 billion slush fund. If Congress voted for a $1.8 billion slush fund for insurrectionists that was then signed into law, we can hold members accountable for voting on such a thing because they would have cast their vote. They're elected by the people. They'd have the ability to do that.
I think it would be a travesty if they did that, but that's our system. We could hold them accountable. When there's lawsuits that are filed and There's conflict, there's adversary, there's adversity between the plaintiff and the defendant. And there's a jury verdict or a judge makes a ruling on something. And there's a fair resolution that is reached in the context of a court adjudication
and a federal judge approves a settlement, that's part of a process that's used and that's been used in the past to deal with disputed claims. And what we've seen before happen was when there were lawsuits filed, when there was a judge who approves a settlement agreement, That is viewed as a way to have an independent authority create, an independent authority adjudicate claims.
What Donald Trump wants to do is just What authoritarians do, handpick a commission of people that he likes and then just have them vote for whatever he wants and then go around Congress or go around the courts or go around everything. That's not American. It's not our system.
If you like that system of kings and authoritarians, there are other countries where that system, but fundamentally, that's not the American system. I don't say this as a Democrat. This isn't a Republican thing.
i'm just telling you what our system is so you know when you say by the way you see him doing that now as you look at uh the ballroom right the the fine arts commission that he put together it's all trump lackeys you see that with the commission that todd blanch is putting together with this 1.776 billion dollar fund is going to be all people who are direct directly approved by todd blanch donald trump's former personal criminal attorney i know he gets upset when you call him that but the facts are the facts mr blanch now he also does that at
Everywhere, every aspect you look, he's making these kind of fake committees. He's putting his people on. He's stacking it. And I just want to give you like a list that this was compiled by Ron Filipkowski in our daily bulletin on MidasPlus.com just to show you the consequences now of Donald Trump dangling this 1.776 bill.
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