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Trump Loses It as General Strike Spreads

23 Jan 2026

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Chapter 1: What triggered Donald Trump's reaction to the General Strike?

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Donald Trump is losing it as he has returned to Washington DC and a general strike has been initiated in the great state of Minnesota and a general strike is spreading across the United States. We haven't seen a general strike of this scale for about 70 years or so.

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And the hope is that this becomes the biggest general strike in the history of the United States in solidarity with the pro-democracy forces who want to stop this fascism, these ICE and Border Patrol, Gestapo invasion, these Trump attacks on the workers. And so whether you're looking right now in Minneapolis and St. Paul, by the way, where it's like negative 16 degrees Fahrenheit,

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And the people are out there protesting the ICE regime, calling in sick, engaging in this general strike. Or we should turn our attention to what's taking place in New York City. Solidarity with the nurses there, 15,000. nurses out there every day. They've been there nine plus days already. We've seen the New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani.

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We've seen Senator Bernie Sanders show solidarity with those striking nurses. And all they're saying is we want a fair wage for the job that we're doing. You have these hospital executives and CEOs making 20, 30 million dollars a year, and they can't even provide the most basics. for nurses who were on the front lines.

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And then you've got the workers in Minnesota saying, there's lots of Fortune 500 companies in this state and you want to treat us like this Trump regime?

Chapter 2: How significant is the General Strike in Minnesota?

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You just think we're cogs in your wheel where you're going to take our money, what, put it in Qatari bank accounts?

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to build yourself golden arches and golden ballrooms i mean look what donald trump was posting this morning more photos of golden arches that he wants to build in washington dc while he rips away the health care of tens of millions of americans not extending the affordable care act subsidies continuing to cover up

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a child sex trafficking ring as he continues to make it more difficult for people to afford their rent or purchase a home. This is what he's posting, renderings of golden arches with AI slop. We don't want golden arches, Donald. The American people just want to be able to live a life with dignity

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to support our families and not be invaded by ice and border patrol gestapo it's pretty damn freaking simple donald our friends over at migrant insider are covering uh the uh general strike right now take a look at this map right here you see other locations where this general strike is taking place and you know we've seen those massive no kings protests of course i think those no kings protests get bigger and bigger and bigger

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But I think it's time that we start, I think it was well past time, that we start talking about a general strike and we start talking about what else can we, the people, do in order to stand up to this regime and make sure they feel our power as they try to hoist authoritarianism across this nation in the demented image of the dictator with no clothes, Donald Trump.

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So again, solidarity with the nurses in New York City also and everybody. involved in this general strike. Now, Donald Trump ranting and raving like a lunatic this morning as well, making social media posts like this. Record cold wave expected to hit 40 states. Rarely seen anything like it before. Could the environmental insurrectionists please explain whatever happened to global warming?

237.623 - 255.916 Ben Meiselas

Well, you see, Donald, first off, you're just calling everybody insurrectionist these days. And you know how you want to conquer Greenland and annex it and take it over? And you know how you say, well, it's because there's a lot of melting of the ice in the North Pole area and there's going to be lots of new shipping routes around Greenland.

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Do you realize that when you say that you're recognizing the impact of global warming right there and that that impact matters? is causing severe and catastrophic weather issues in the United States as well. Just because it is cold doesn't mean that global warming doesn't exist. But again, Donald Trump is a demented idiot and he should be nowhere near the Oval Office.

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But thanks to this MAGA infrastructure of individuals who also think it's a good idea to cover up child sex trafficking rings, you have these demented individuals who are leading the United States. And by the way, Donald Trump's trip to Davos, we know how humiliating it was, but when he left and he trashed the United Kingdom, you know the uproar in the UK right now?

Chapter 3: What role do nurses play in the ongoing protests?

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It's like Trump, Uzbekistan, Belarus with Lukashenko, Orban's Hungary, and Putin. But Putin's like, I will give you billions of dollars for your board, Donald, but you just need to unfreeze my funds, which are not your funds, that I just unfreeze the funds from Russia that were frozen because of the invasion of Ukraine. And then I'll give you billions of dollars.

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to that Qatari bank account of yours, Donald, and we could all rant about how elections are fraudulent. Come on, Donald. That's what Putin's saying right now. And then Donald goes, what a great trip to Davos it was. So many things accomplished, including the framework of a deal with NATO on Greenland. Also, the Board of Peace, wow, make America great again.

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There's no framework of a deal with Denmark on Greenland. The premier of Greenland, here's what he had to say. He says, no one even knows what you're talking about. You've made this up. There's no aspect of that said true. Here's what the premier of Greenland says. Let's play this clip.

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First of all, nobody else than Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark have the mandate to make deals or agreements about Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark without us. That's not gonna happen. In terms of the deal there's been talking about, I don't know what's concrete in that deal. Let's face it, after a night with drinks, I don't bounce back the next day like I used to.

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And then more ranting and raving by Donald Trump. Here he goes, in Pennsylvania during the 2020 election, there was over 400,000 election errors alone, direct switches of votes from one candidate to another. And folks, he's reposting account called The Skiff, some QAnon account. He's still whining about losing the 2020 election. All of these cases were litigated in court.

Chapter 4: How does Trump's administration respond to the protests?

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And then you have J.D. Vance, this evil shapeshifter who's changed his identities multiple times throughout his life, says, you know what? I got to hand it to all, you know, he calls the people who are striking and he calls the people who are out there protesting against ICE sex traffickers, because that's what authoritarians do. You're a domestic terrorist, you're sex traffickers.

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That's the language that's being used by this evil regime. And J.D. Vance is like, I got to hand it to them. It's very cold out there. And they're committed to this bit. You know, you got all of these sex offender criminal aliens are standing outside. You're calling the peaceful protesters in Minnesota, from Minneapolis and St. Paul and other areas, criminal alien sex offenders?

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The same way they call anybody who disagrees with them domestic terrorists.

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Here, play this clip. It is really cold outside. And you know, we in the Trump administration want to deport criminal aliens who are sex offenders. It takes a certain level of commitment to sex offender criminal aliens to stand outside in negative 40 degree temperatures and attack the vice president of the United States.

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But man, they are committed to the- I want to hear from somebody who's outside right now protesting in negative 16, negative 20 degree Fahrenheit. Let's play this clip of this person saying we're stronger than them. Play this clip.

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Why did you want to be out here this morning? I mean, it's negative 20. There are other days to protest. You wanted to be out here this morning. Why was that important to you? We're stronger than them. And I think being out here on a cold morning like this really shows that. I hope they get frostbite. We are strong and we are together. You cannot divide us. We love our neighbors.

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We love our community. And go home.

910.235 - 917.187 Ben Meiselas

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