Panicked White House Holds Disaster Mid-Day Briefing
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What was the White House's response to the market crash?
An awful press conference just unfolded in the White House after a disastrous day on the market. It seems this press conference was called to try to distract the public from seeing Donald Trump crippling our economy, and they also wanted to dangle magical rebates, money that's going to magically enter people's pockets that won't be inflationary from the work that Doge is doing. Just don't be distracted on the havoc that they are causing to our country. Let me show you what went down in this disastrous press conference. Here you have Caroline Levitt saying that she looks forward to Canada becoming the 51st state. And also Donald Trump sent a message inviting Prime Minister Trudeau to the governor's meeting in the United States saying that he should be a governor of a state in America. Play this clip.
One for Caroline. Does President Trump have a bet with Trudeau about this USA Canada hockey game tonight? And when there is a big hockey game on, Is the president watching for the goals or for the fights?
Probably both. I think he's watching for the United States to win tonight. I know he talked to the USA hockey team this morning. He talked to the players after their morning practice around 10 o'clock. And I also spoke to some folks from that team after they were jubilant over President Trump's comments to the team. I believe they're going to put out a video of that call. So he looks forward to watching the game tonight and we look forward to the United States beating our soon-to-be 51st state, Canada.
Next up, you have Stephen Miller, and as Aaron Rupert says, Kim Jong-un thinks Stephen Miller is laying it on a little thick here. Here, play this clip.
You all know he has renamed the Gulf of Mexico to its correct and proper name, the Gulf of America. He has renamed Mount Denali into Mount McKinley, part of a historic effort to restore patriotism and national pride all across this land.
Next, you have the National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz. And Mike Waltz here says that even though he previously said that Putin is to blame for the war in Ukraine because Russia invaded Ukraine. Here, Mike Waltz said, it shouldn't surprise you that my assessment has changed because now I do what Donald Trump tells me to do. He literally says that. I'm not using hyperbolic language. Here, play this clip.
You wrote in an op-ed in the fall of 2023 that, quote, Putin is to blame, certainly like Al-Qaeda was to blame for 9-11. Do you still feel that way now? Or do you share the president's assessment as he says Ukraine is to blame for the start of this war?
By the way, I want to
you some clips of kevin hassett kevin hassett is the uh national the internet the national economic council director and just so you know who kevin hassett is how he got famous well he wrote a book called uh dow 36 000 published in 1999 predicting the stock market boom Right before the internet.com bubble burst of 2000, this guy gets it wrong every single time. We literally have the worst people up there at this press conference and in this administration. Here he is being asked, well, if the goal of the spending cuts has been to reduce the debt, why are you imposing the deepest cuts on the IRS that collects revenue? Here, play this clip.
Speaker, either one of you. So we reported, several other outlets have reported that about 3,500 people are due to lose their jobs at the IRS by the end of the week. If the goal of these spending cuts across the federal government has been to reduce the debt, why impose some of the deepest cuts we've seen so far at the agency responsible for raising revenue for the federal government?
I think our objective is to make sure that the employees that we pay are being productive and effective. And there are many, many, more than 100,000 people working to collect taxes and not all of them are fully occupied. And the Treasury Secretary is studying the matter and feels like 3,500 is a small number and probably can get bigger, especially as we improve the IT at the IRS.
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