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Ben Miceli
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Also, when you take a look at the approval ratings of Zelensky versus Putin as Donald Trump continues to suck up to Putin and just say a bunch of false and demeaning things about Ukraine, 14% of Americans view Zelensky positively and Putin has a net negative 80% approval. I guess 80% people disapprove of Putin means 20% of Americans and MAGA like Vladimir Putin, which is very bizarre. The next question do you approve Trump excluding Ukraine from negotiations with between Russia and Donald Trump? Trump had those bilateral discussions yesterday that were a complete and utter fail. More on that in a moment. 66% of Americans disapprove of Donald Trump just speaking directly to Putin without Zelensky or Europe. And then you take a look at the NBC poll from the day before yesterday. Trump job approval amongst independents, 67% disapprove. I mean, look, as Donald Trump and his regime send the United States of America into a recession or perhaps even into a depression, you have Donald Trump, he wakes up in the morning and he just does crap like this and it's so odd and dangerous and pathological. It just stop this nonsense and behave normal. But look, folks, we know he's incapable of that. Here's the photo that he posted when he posed in front of the empty auditorium at the Kennedy center with his hands outstretched like he's Mussolini. And he was kind of copying those photos from authoritarians in the past who stand on the balcony. There's literally nobody in that auditorium. And Donald, if you were to show up there, people would boo the hell out of you. I dare you to show up to a Kennedy center event. By the way, I doubt there'll even be many more Kennedy center events since I think attendance is down 50% since Donald Trump fired everybody on the Kennedy center board and appointed himself as chairman. And like, nobody wants to perform there. The Hamilton play canceled and other people are canceling as well. I mean, you wake up in Trump regime America. And by the way, it's not a government by the people for the people. It's by the bullies for the billionaires. And you wake up to headlines like this. Whereas with former President Biden, the headlines were like economy envy of the world. New record highs in the stock market. Now you get headlines like this from the New York Times, Trump says a recession might be worth the cost. Economists disagree. It's like a stupid headline too, though. I mean, Trump says recession might be worth the cost. Economists disagree. How about Trump wants to destroy our economy, which is completely and utterly stupid and dangerous. So he and his oligarch friends could hoard their money and then try to lower the interest rates, then borrow and then try to scoop up assets for pennies on the dollar when they crash the economy and make people suffer. I don't know. Maybe that's part of their plan. You take a look at the NASDAQ yesterday. The Dow yesterday continues to have awful, awful days. Headlines like this Trump policies promise an economic downturn, says prominent forecaster and first ever Recession Watch. The UCLA Anderson forecast, citing substantial changes to the economy from the policies of the Trump administration. So, yes, it's directly linked to Trump, issued its first ever recession watch on Tuesday. UCLA Anderson has been issuing forecasts since 1952, said the administration's tariff and immigration policies and plans to reduce the federal workforce could combine to cause the economy to contract. Its analysis was titled Trump Policies. If fully enacted, Trump Promise a Recession. They could have just titled it Trump's Policies Promise a Recession. Because he's out there every day. What? What's his new thing that he's saying April 2nd is Liberation Day. You know what he's saying that's gonna happen on April 2nd. Uh, he says on April 2nd, all the countries of the world are going to get a. A envelope. I'm not making this up. And in the envelope, they're going to get a number, and the number is going to be how much they're going to be tariffed based on how nice or naughty they are to Donald Trump. I'm not making that up. There was a town hall that was held recently in Nebraska where it's by MAGA Republican Mike Flood, where the crowd chanted, tax the rich. Tax the rich. And this is in a ruby red area of Nebraska. Play this clip. Here's a. Okay, let's talk about this. Let's talk about this. So your proposal to solve this is to tax the rich. While that was taking place, as I mentioned yesterday, Donald Trump had these failed negotiations with Putin where Trump says, I'm going to go in and we're going to get the. We're going to get a absolute cease fire. Trump didn't get that at all. What they did talk about. You want to know what Trump and Putin talked about? Donald Trump supports Putin's idea of organizing hockey games in the US And Russia between Russian and American players competing in the NHL and the khl, as per Russia's propaganda network. As our editor in chief, Ron Philip Kowski writes, yes, Donald Trump still hasn't ended the war in Ukraine in 24 hours like he promised, but apparently he's setting up hockey games with the guy who is murdering civilians, torturing prisoners and kidnapping children. Also, Donald Trump and Putin, according to the readout of their negotiations, agreed that a future with improved bilateral relationships between the United States and Russia has huge upside. This includes enormous economic deals and geopolitical stability when peace has been achieved. As our editor in chief, Ron Philip Koski explains from the White House readout, readout of Trump's call with Putin where Putin did not agree to a ceasefire. It seems that while Trump is launching a trade war with the EU and North American countries, our closest allies, Trump does expect enormous economic deals with Russia very soon. So Donald Trump had these failed negotiations with Putin, or maybe that's what Trump wanted them to like. That was the goal, right? I've told you, right? I think from the outset, when Trump was talking about a deal, it was that Trump was going to steal Ukraine's minerals and rare earth minerals, scoop that for himself, put it in his own mind into his sovereign wealth fund, and then build all of these Trump stuff with Ukraine's wealth and then give the other portion of Ukraine to Putin. And then US and Putin would become allies and engage in a bilateral trade relationship and then screw Europe and Canada and Australia and everywhere else. That's what I predicted. And I mean look, Trump was acting consistent with that plan. But shout out to the European nations and Canada for standing up against Donald Trump and strongly getting Zelinsky's back and standing up to this wannabe fascist and Donald Trump. So after Trump's, whatever you want to call those discussions with Putin, by the way, Putin made Donald Trump wait for him like a half hour. And Putin was like mocking Donald Trump at a speech he did before. Oh, he could wait for me. He could wait for me. Then Donald Trump rushed to Laura Ingraham state regime media in the US and he goes, I really want to do more trade with Putin. We need to do more trade with Russia. Play this clip with Russia.
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Donald Trump
We don't have that much trade. And they'd like to, and we'd like to also. They have some very valuable things for us, including very big forms of rare earth. They have a lot of earth. You know, they have a big chunk of real estate, the biggest actually the biggest in the world for a country by far. And on that they have things that we could use frankly. And they that I want to tell.
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Ben Miceli
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Donald Trump
Putin actually said to me, if you're my friend, I'd hate to see you as my enemy. He said that very strongly. But I had, with all of that, I had a very good relationship with Putin. I had a very good relationship with President Xi, a very good relationship with Kim Jong Un of North Korea. Lots of good relationships. And that's a positive thing. That's not a negative thing. But at the same time, I'm about our country. So that's why we're talking about tariffs. We'll be taking in trillions of dollars.
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Ron Philip Kowski
I want to get to the tariffs in a minute because we're going to. We're going to first hit the other.
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Ben Miceli
Then he spends the rest of the interview bashing Canada. Bashing Canada. Here's what he has to say about Canada.
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Ron Philip Kowski
Let's play it with Canada than you are with. Only because our biggest adversaries.
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Donald Trump
Only because it's meant to be our 51st street.
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Sean Hannity
But.
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Donald Trump
No, but listen to this for a second.
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Ron Philip Kowski
Need their territory. They have territorial advantage. We're not one of the most close to China.
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Donald Trump
Look, I deal with every country indirectly or directly. One of the nastiest countries to deal with is Canada. The people that. Now, this was Trudeau. The people that. Good old Justin. I call him Governor Trudeau. He was. His people were nasty and they weren't telling the truth. They never told the truth. You know that. You know, they'd say, well, we don't charge. Well, they do. They charge tremendous. They charge tremendous.
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Ben Miceli
And. And here's what he says about Canada. Again, let's play it.
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Ron Philip Kowski
Any one of our tougher with Canada than you are with some of. Only because our biggest adversaries.
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Donald Trump
Only because it's meant to be our 51st Street. No, but listen to this for a second.
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Ron Philip Kowski
We need their territory. They have territorial Advantage. We're not going to get close to China.
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Donald Trump
Look, I deal with every country indirectly or directly. One of the nastiest countries to deal with is Canada. The people that. Now, this was Trudeau. The people that, that good old Justin, I call him Governor Trudeau. He was. His people were nasty and they weren't telling the truth. They never told the truth. You know that.
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Ben Miceli
So, yes, praising China, praising Putin, but he's very. An attacking canon. I mean, it's so utterly pathetic. Shout out, by the way, to Canadian Prime Minister, their new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, who is, I think, pitch perfect right now in standing up to the Trump regime. As I've said, Mark Carney the banker, Donald Trump the bankrupter, Mark Carney the banker, Donald Trump the bankruptcy guy, over and over again. You need a real banker to deal with Donald Trump. And Carney's been handling him quite well. But, you know, like, there's a pathology to these sicko authoritarians. Like, look at Putin when he would like give himself the awards at the hockey. Right. You know, he gives himself the hockey awards. Donald Trump gave himself over this weekend while America's Midwest faced deadly storms where like 40 people or more died. Trump awarded himself the golf tournament championship at his own golf club. Very Putinesque, the way Putin has his sycophants go on state regime, media. That's what Trump does. He has Witkoff, one of his special envoy to Russia goes, oh, I would commend President Putin. I'm commending Putin on everything. The way he talked to Trump. Oh, and Donald Trump, I can't overstate how compelling he was. Trump was so compelling. Here, play this clip.
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Sean Hannity
So I think there have been some breakthroughs. I would commend President Putin for all he did today on that call to, to move his country close to a final peace deal. And I would say, and I would give all the credit to President Trump, his election, peace through strength, the perception that there are no alternatives, that a good peace, a lasting peace, a durable peace is important for both sides. And the president was, you know, I can't, I can't understate or I can't. Pardon me. I can't overstate how compelling he was on this call. He's a natural born leader, Sean, and he demonstrated that today. I've seen him in action. I know him pretty well, Steve, like you. I've known him 30 years and there's.
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Ben Miceli
No other human being like him. I will say that it's really pathetic stuff. And by the way, the Trump regime keeps putting out, like Just fake stuff like this to egg prices drop again. I think the USDA is putting out phony wholesale numbers, not retail number, wholesale numbers. And they're comparing wholesale to retail, and they're acting like egg prices have dropped and eggs are good now. We're all good now because the US Department of Agriculture tells us there's no issues with eggs. Like a miracle, it's fixed. Mission accomplished. It's like, dude, I go to the grocery store, there's no eggs. At least for me in California, it's like 10 bucks. I know in other areas, it's 8 bucks, 9 bucks. I don't know. You may find a Trader Joe's where it's three or four bucks, I don't know. But overwhelmingly, it's not $3.45. It's ridiculous. And this is what they want to, you know, sell us on. And finally, I'll just show you this just so you can see for yourself. The clip first. Just take a look at the stock market since inauguration. Hong Kong, crushing it. Europe, crushing it. United States being crushed. You know, all the other markets are good, but the United States is doing horrible when it was doing fantastic under former President Biden. But here's Donald Trump. Liberation Day, April 2nd. We're all going to be liberated, stupid. Here, play this clip.
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Donald Trump
April 2nd is Liberation Day for our country because we're going to finally be taking in money. We're already doing it. A lot of money. As you know, we put down some early tariffs on people and countries that were not treating us well.
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Ben Miceli
So going back to what I shared with you at the outset, no wonder people are pissed. No wonder Trump's approval is plummeting. Frankly, I think it's high. I mean, the fact that it was still 47% approve of this madness, of this craziness or something like that, or 54% disapproved. Who could approve of the guy like a psycho in every aspect of it? We got to just keep opening up people's minds, showing them the facts, pulling out the receipts and just showing. What are we even talking about here? You got Trump and Musk cutting Medicaid and calling Social Security Ponzi schemes. Firing veterans. Pisses me off. Hit. Subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching. Can't get enough Midas. Check out the Midas substack for ad Free articles, reports, podcasts, daily recaps from Ron Philip, Kellogg and more. Sign up for free now@midasplus.com.