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Maybe putting a felon, a fraud, a sexual predator in the Oval Office, and someone who led an insurrection against the country. Not a great idea. I would say I told you so, but most of you watching knew that. And for those who are now coming to your senses, well, we talk about data here on the Midas Touch network. So why don't we take stock this morning, pun intended, of where we're at. Since Donald Trump declared Liberation Day, which is really self inflicted, Great Depression day, annihilation day, liquidation day. So stocks have now lost over 15% in two trading days. About $10 trillion or more of market value just wiped away. Bitcoin crashing. Didn't Donald Trump and all the bitcoin bros say this guy's the bitcoin president to the moon? Well, bitcoin is crashing. Over the past few days, we saw 18 dead as significant severe weather flash floods were tearing through parts of the United States and Tennessee and Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia and Florida. Bet you didn't hear Donald Trump talk about the 18 people who died over the past few days because of horrific storms. Also, you haven't heard Donald Trump really mentioned the four US Soldiers who died in Lithuania. Donald Trump was too busy to even greet the families and meet the bodies when it was returned, when the bodies were returned to the United States. But Lithuanians bid farewell to the four U.S. soldiers who died during training exercise. They did an incredibly moving ceremony in Lithuania. But Donald Trump cannot be bothered. And in fact, Donald Trump leaked to Fox and I put this in, quote, news, which I call state regime media, that he doesn't give an F about how people feel about him anymore. He says, I don't give an F. He says, I couldn't care less if people suffer if prices rise. That's what Donald Trump saying over the weekend. Rather than talk about people suffering, rather than talk about American troops who died overseas, Donald Trump posted videos and photos of himself golfing over and over again. He posted this. Hang tough, we can't lose. He posted this. This is actually a post from him. Trump is purposely crashing the market. That's what Donald Trump is posting from his official account. I would say, can you imagine if Biden or Obama or. But you get the point. What are we even talking about here, folks? Donald Trump is posting from his official account that he's purposefully crashing the markets. We have a demented individual in the Oval Office. And as I said at the outset of the video, this is a felon for business records. Fraud. This is a fraud. Someone who was found civilly liable for falsifying valuations in a very detailed order spelling out that this guy lies about the valuations of his properties. This is a sexual predator. Someone found liable for sexual assault by a jury. This is someone found liable for defamation. I mean, what, we're not supposed to talk about that. We're supposed to just ignore that, the way corporate news wants to ignore the growing protests across the country. But guess what, you can't ignore it. We ain't going to ignore it here at the Midas Touch network now that we're the biggest news network and get the most views in the country. And the world should highlight this story as well. What's Trump focused on while all of this is happening? You know what Trump is focused on? He is preparing a massive military parade that probably will cost hundreds of millions of dollars in Washington D.C. set for June 14th. He's preparing a massive military parade where he wants to bring out tanks and weapons and fly jets overhead as Americans are suffering. So to recap, Donald Trump is posting videos and photos of himself golfing and he's planning Kim Jong Un style military parades through Washington D.C. on June 14th. Seven months ago this was the headline. Seven months ago this was the headline Dow sets a Record as Wall street gears for cuts to interest rates. Yep. Remember when under former President Biden we would hear on Fridays the Dow Jones set a new record today. The S and P set a new record today. What? The markets were 50 to 60% or so under former President Biden. But remember how upset Fox was when they had to report on the job numbers? Well, the reports came out, but it's a little underwhelming. Even though it's a record. Even though the market is up 50% since when Biden took office. It's a little underwhelming or they would get angry when they had to report the good data. Under former President Biden, 16.2 million jobs were created. Unemployment was at record lows. Every single month was a month of job creation. There were 40,000 infrastructure projects that were going up in the United States under former President Biden. We were energy independent. Our GDP was leading the world. We were number one in every world economic category and our alliances were stronger than ever. Naito brought in new members to stand up to Russia's aggression. We were strong on the domestic front, on the foreign front. And all we heard from corporate news and maga, Republican influence influencers and right wing propaganda media was attack after attack after attack. Well, here are some facts, some data, some objective information right now. Here are the markets that hit circuit breakers today, meaning they shut down because they were tanking so fast. China, Taiwan, Japan, the Russell futures, Australia, Singapore. As we we wake up today, markets shut down because they're tanking and they hit a point where the markets literally have to shut down. The question is, will America's markets hit that today? Are we heading there today like those other markets? By the way, if the S and P today falls more than 4%, it will be the first time it's done this since the Great Depression. Since the Great Depression. Right now, as Spencer Akimian also writes, if the market opened right now, the NASDAQ would be down 29% since February 19th, the second fastest 30% drop in history. But folks, the oligarchs are feasting. The oligarchs are happy. Take a look. Mark Zuckerberg bought a $23 million mansion to be right next to Donald Trump. Cool. Zuckerberg, AUTHOR man, you gotta do your jujitsu. You're gonna do your jujitsu, Zuckerberg. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Here was Donald Trump flying back on Air Force One when he was asked about. By the way, this Bloomberg reporter is. She's amazing, this Bloomberg reporter, and she was the one who was speaking to Scott Bessen. So Trump's asked about the markets and Trump says to the people, really? He's like, I don't care. You gotta take your medicine. Americans just deal with it. Take your medicine. It's like a stupid question. Americans to eat their medicine right now and I'm feeding them their medicine. Here, play this clip, which is what it should be. Is there a Trump put, though? Is there a mark? Is there pain in the market at some point? You're unwilling to tolerate this idea of a Trump put. Is there a threshold?