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Chapter 1: What is the current state of the U.S. economy under Trump's first 100 days?
it just keeps falling and falling donald consumer confidence is plummeting your approval ratings are plummeting the first 100 days in office the worst stock market since richard nixon since 1973 it's the wall street journal headline trump's first 100 days were worse for dow and s p 500 since nixon
Chapter 2: What do major financial institutions predict about GDP?
JP Morgan just came out with their findings that they believe first quarter GDP will be negative 1.8%, not too dissimilar from the Atlanta Federal Reserve, which was predicting negative 2.5%. Goldman Sachs is in the negative territory as well. You took a thriving Goldilocks economy that the Wall Street Journal said was the envy of the world under former President Biden, and you destroyed it.
Chapter 3: What controversial statements has Donald Trump made recently?
And this is a real post I'm about to read for you right now. What is Donald Trump and his MAGA cult talking about? Real post I'm reading right now from Lindsey Graham. Here's Donald Trump talking about how he wants to be the next Pope yesterday. Play this clip.
As Pope? I'd like to be Pope. That would be my number one choice. No, I don't know. I have no preference. I must say we have a cardinal that happens to be out of a place called New York who's very good. So we'll see what happens.
Now, Donald Trump's been posting over and over again the following. Promises made, promises kept. Promises made, promises kept. Post after post after post like that. Donald Trump has the view, and this was a view from major, very dangerous propagandists. If you repeat the same lie, an outrageous lie, over and over again, the bigger the lie, the better. People will believe your big lie.
35% of our country has magamush brain who believes this stuff. Even if their own pensions are being destroyed, their jobs are being lost, they're losing their health care. Donald Trump wants to be the Pope. He says promises made, promises kept. Donald Trump goes to war in Michigan and he says that he's reduced egg prices by 87%. It's a total lie. It's just false.
It's not even tethered anywhere near reality. Right. Donald Trump yesterday was in Warren, Michigan, bragging about his accomplishments in the first 100 days. There are none. You destroyed our country. I'm not being hyperbolic. You just literally you and Elon Musk and your billionaires took a wrecking ball to our federal government. You destroyed essential services. You destroyed the VA.
You're destroying the Department of Education, the Consumer Financial Bureau, our parks. I mean, you have people raiding the African-American Museum in the Smithsonian and destroying and getting rid of artifacts and things at the museum because you say they're woke. But anyway, here's Donald Trump bragging about opening up the toilets. He did it. The toilets, everybody.
Donald Trump gave us toilet bowls, he says. Play this clip.
I need everything I can get. I don't need to be under a shower trying to get water to come out of that damn thing. So we've opened up the shower heads, the faucets, the toilets, the washing machines that don't give you water. All of that stuff has been opened up and we're giving you gas ovens, gas stoves if you'd like.
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Chapter 4: What claims is Donald Trump making about inflation and prices?
no more electric you can have electric if you want i have a lot of friends they like gas better you're supposed to sell your gas stove or get it i don't who do you sell it to maybe another country because we're the only country that would be so stupid to that but and here donald trump lies and says that the egg prices are down 87 he's gonna believe me when you get out there that it's sleepy joe biden's fault so brooke you gotta get going brooke please
And she did a great job. And you had so many eggs for Easter, and your price was down 87 percent from that point. Prices are coming way down. You know, the fake news doesn't say. They said he pledged. Now, I pledged safe orders. I pledged all sorts of things. But they said he pledged to bring prices down. Well, that's what I've done. They're trying to say the prices have gone up.
Chapter 5: How does Trump describe changes to household utilities and appliances?
Your energy, your car, your gasoline. And they have three states this week, a couple of days ago that...
Again, it's just a lie. Donald Trump sat for an interview with ABC as well that aired yesterday. And Donald Trump says, you know, tourism, he says, is way up. There's never been more tourists coming to the United States right now. It's the biggest easy lie to prove in the world. But Donald Trump says if you tell the big lie, that's all that matters. Here, play this clip.
And Canadians, many of them, are really angry, furious about your talk about we're going to take over Canada, it's going to become the 51st state. And it kind of is of a piece, a lot of travel is down into the United States from around the world. It feels like there's been reputational damage.
Chapter 6: What is Ben Meiselas's response to Trump's economic claims?
The country's doing great. Well, prices are down. Gasoline's down. Energy's down. Tourism is going to be way up. Wait till you see the numbers. The tourism is way up. Now, Canada, tourism's doing very well. We're doing very well. We're doing very well. Wait till you see the real numbers come out in about, in six months from now, wait till you see the numbers.
But do you think, I'm going to ask you, if I may, do you think that...
tourism right now is plummeting canada's boycotting the united states they've gone elbows up europe ain't coming to the united states australia they ain't coming united states people who are planning trips to visit the united states they ain't coming they don't want to be locked in detention centers or concentration camps and be cavity searched and separated from their families and who knows sent to el salvador and then even when they get here since donald trump's gutted essential services
Or is the food they're going to eat safe? I mean, people don't want to come to the United States right now. I'm not sure you could put it in the comments if you're from another country so that you can let Americans know foreign countries right now view the United States like North Korea. Like they're not coming like they're like, we don't want to come there right now.
Why would why would we come there? Right. So let me talk about this as well. United States Trade Representative Greer. So he's now telling this is real. He's telling GOP senators that there are some countries coming to the table for tariff talks. He says, but Europe's not engaging. Europe isn't really want to do a deal right now.
But one of the things that Trade Representative Greer talked about is how Madagascar knows what we want. Cambodia and Vietnam know what we want. We are clear, but Europe ain't getting it. As Carl Quintanilla says, well, at least Madagascar, according to Greer, is going to kneel before us. I'm glad that that's clear. That that's their priorities.
You know, when you go and you look at like who Trump thinks is strong and who Trump thinks is weak, shows you what a weak, empathetic person he is, right? He thinks Viktor Orban in Hungary, who basically turned Hungary into like a failed state, he thinks Orban is strong. Massive inflation there in contrast to their neighbor in Poland and Eastern Europe, which is a thriving democracy.
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Chapter 7: What is the status of U.S. tourism and international perception under Trump?
But Trump thinks Poland is weak and he thinks Hungary is strong. Donald Trump thinks El Salvador is strong. Their GDP is like, what, 4%. $34 billion or $38 billion. It's not a thriving country. It's a poor Latin American country with a poverty rate of 25% and extreme poverty around 10%.
All they have is Seacott, the concentration camp where they have the highest per capita imprisonment rate of anywhere in the world. And that's why Trump likes that. He thinks that's strong. It's not strong. He thinks Javier Millay of Argentina, the huge poverty right there, he thinks Millay is strong. No, he's not. Canada's strong. European allies were strong. Australia is strong. Japan is strong.
I mean, but Donald Trump has such a warped view of that. So doesn't this tell you everything you need to know right here? This is real what I'm about to show you. This is not an SNL skit. This is what the press briefing room looks like under Trump right now, where they bring in right-wing media and have special press briefings for right-wing media. I swear this looks just like an SNL skit.
And the questions are, trolling or truthing? This is how they ask. Trolling or truthing? Taking over Canada, trolling or truthing? Watch this. I was wondering if you'd indulge me in a quick round of Trump trolling or Trump truthing?
Sure, let's do it. Okay, good.
I love it. Greenland joining America.
Definitely Trump truthing. Trump truthing all the way. And the Canadians would benefit greatly, let me tell you that.
Eliminating the IRS?
I think that is an optimistic goal. And the president, so I would say we're on the side of truthing there for sure. And the president, again, wants to see tax cuts and he wants to see this massive revenue that we can gain from tariffs as well, which will create the external revenue service. So that's a definitive goal for sure.
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Chapter 8: How is Trump’s view of international allies and trade partners characterized?
I mean, I'm just thinking about how China's looking at this. Or just anybody. I mean, like, Canadian Prime Minister Carney, former central banker looking at this, how they're looking. They're like, what the hell is going on there? What in the Kim Jong-un is this? Let me tell you what China is saying right now.
China is responding to Trump tariffs with defiant propaganda clip comparing making a deal with Trump to drinking poison to quench thirst. This from the China foreign ministry bowing to a bullies like drinking poison to quench thirst. It only deepens the crisis. Speaking about crisis and crises.
We learned that Pakistan has credible intelligence that India intends to launch a military strike within the next 24 to 36 hours. That could happen any moment right now. Donald Trump creating more instability in the world right there. UPS announcing 20,000 job cuts at 73 facility closures as Amazon reduces its volume. And what did Donald Trump spend yesterday doing as well?
He called up Bezos and told Bezos to not put on Amazon the additional costs to consumers because of Trump's tariffs on the Amazon website. On Amazon, they were going to list the prices of what the additions to the prices from tariffs. And Donald Trump and his regime called that a hostile, a political hostile attack, and then said basically Bezos is just aligning with his friends in China.
And like, I feel like Bezos is like a Chinese agent. That's like what they were saying. And then Trump called up Bezos and made Bezos take it down. So you remember during COVID where Trump was like, Like a miracle, it's all going to go away and don't test. If you slow down the testing, we don't know about the disease spreading. So we don't know. So less cases, less testing. It's a version of that.
This is Donald Trump. He's a vile piece of trash. He's got a warped sicko pathology. Like that's Donald Trump. Like he's a loser. He's bankrupted companies in the past. He's a big loser. He's not a builder. He's a destroyer. And this is one of the things that he does. Don't deal with the problem. Cover it up. And then it doesn't exist. See, Don, it's not the way the problems work.
Problems get worse when you don't address them. And why I call your regime a Ponzi scheme presidency or a rug pull presidency is that it's cover up after cover up after cover up. And then eventually, you know what hits the fan and then there's a bankruptcy and there's an explosion. That's where you're heading. This is where this is heading to.
If you look at our ports right now, you know I cover our ports. Freight volumes down significantly. Trucking volumes down significantly. Port of Seattle, not a lot of ships coming in. Port of Long Beach, not a lot of ships coming in. You go look at Shanghai, you go look at other ports in China. All the ships are there. And by the way, they're just not coming into the US.
$2 trillion in trading relationship with China is basically an embargo right now. For what? Like for what? And as China strengthens its hand internationally and Trump and these idiots are crushing our economy the way I've described it, and I'll describe it again. In a tsunami, the shore recedes, right? And then the tsunami hits. We're in the shore receding period.
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