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As Hassan says, all this time it was literally die or die and we didn't realize it. As we've been reporting and others have been reporting as well, Donald Trump has been firing hundreds from the faa despite the four deadly crashes on his watch already, this is yet another crash as well. Democratic Congressmember Steve Cohen says Trump just fired hundreds of FAA tech and maintenance workers, the people who keep radar, landing and navigation systems running. Amid a string of recent plane crashes, including in D.C. and Alaska. This is dangerous and it undermines public confidence in air travel. Reverse this absurd decision. Now, that post was before this crash in Canada. And the Minnesota Senator Back on February 6, 2025, Senator Tina Smith, who's been on our program before, said Elon Musk and his interns meddling in aviation safety is truly terrifying. You go back to the report I did this morning and it was the Transportation Secretary, Sean Duffy, who got famous for being on the Real World and the Real World Road Rules Challenge, who is basically posting saying, hey, public, we'd love for you to help us figure out how this equipment works. Go back to the video I did earlier before the news about this Delta flight that flipped upside down in Canada. So we have that happening. What we also have happening as well is Russia's propaganda networks have posted the photographs of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio landing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where they will be having a bilateral meeting. US And Russia while they cut out intentionally Ukraine and they cut out Europe from these negotiations that will impact Europe and Ukraine most. This was an intentional slap in the face and a dangerous one to Europe and Ukraine who are perceiving the threat. Because you now have an emergency meeting taking place as of this recording in France that's being led by the French President, Emmanuel Macron. And then you have all of these European leaders from democracies who are meeting there, not the undemocratic ones like Hungary. So just think a look at this image you have, you know, Rubio and Lavrov, the U.S. russia alliance. How utterly horrific. And then you have over here, this image of Kier Starmer, the Prime Minister of UK and Emmanuel Macron, the President of France, meeting with each other in France. We're also learning that the US Is intending to pull out its military presence from the Baltic states, which would hand a massive, massive win to Russia as well. America essentially capitulating to Russia each and every day. We also learned moments ago as the Trump Media financial report was released. Trump Media, this is the company that controls Truth social. They lost $400 million last year. They filed their 10K report. I'll do a deeper dive on this 10K report because Wowzer, it is illuminating in a bad way for Donald Trump. The revenue declined 12% to just 3.6 million. We're not talking about profit or Ebitda, which would still in my view, be small for a company like this. They their entire revenue for all of 2024 on the company being run by Donald Trump was 3.6 million in revenue on 400 million in losses. But you should ask yourself, money just doesn't get lost. Money goes somewhere. So where was that $400 million going to? That's viewed as a loss. Meanwhile, as Doge and Musk continue to fire people in the government, key government jobs, you have Elon Musk making posts like this. What is happening here? And then it says, breaking image released of the migrant mom that stormed a Birmingham armed with axes and blades. It's literally a picture from Batman the Dark Knight Rises. This is who is using his algorithms and AI to cut all of these critical employees who are necessary for the safety of our country. I've said it before and let me say it again. Under Donald Trump, America is no longer safe. So in addition to Canada boycotting the United States tourism because of America's threats of annexation, under Donald Trump, it's also, they fired all of these people like it's not a safe place for food and flight anymore. Which is horrible to even think about. But it's just the reality.
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Political Commentator
And also, here's how they're running our government right now. So now they've created official government accounts like this Doge irs and here's the post Doge irs. Doge is seeking help from the public. Please DM this account with insights on finding and fixing waste, fraud and abuse relating to the Internal Revenue Service. As Olga Lautman says, what in the hell is this? What a lawless country the United States of America is Right now this they're posting Doge IRS give us tips, Twitter or now X about what's going on. What while they fire career people who actually knew what they were doing? But what's Donald Trump doing? Donald Trump is posting the following after just 17 frenetic days, Trump has already delivered a big part of his agenda. What's that? Was it the plane crashing agenda? Was it crashing planes? Was that part of the agenda? Was it the destabilizing Ukraine, Europe and the rest of the world agenda? Was it? Was the agenda to lift to pressure Romania to lift restrictions on Andrew Tate, who was charged and being prosecuted for sex trafficking with underage girls? It was that. Was that the frenetic days delivering a big part of the agenda? I mean, what else would you expect though, with Donald Trump, who was close pals with Jeffrey Epstein, someone like Donald Trump who said he bought beauty pageants and one of the things he liked to do was look at the women or the girls naked in the locker rooms without their consent? Or Donald Trump said that Epstein's a great guy who likes women on the younger side, I guess. What else would you expect right there? But by the way, prices ain't going down. Prices are going up, up, up right now. And by the way, you want to take a look at what's in Donald Trump's 10K filing to the SEC from Trump Media Take a look at this is what Trump's filing Sundays. Currently the US economy is experienc bout of increased inflation resulting in rising prices. The US Federal Reserve as well as its counterparts in other country have engaged in a series of interest rate hikes in an effort to combat rising inflation. Although inflation did not have a significant impact on our results of operations for the years ending December 31, 2024, we anticipate that inflation will have an impact on our business going forward, including through a material increase in our cost of revenue and operating expenses in the coming years. If not permanently continued or permanent rises in core costs could impact our growth negatively. That's Trump's company posting that. So prices are surging, going up, up, up. Housing is less affordable, pricing is hitting record highs. Gas prices are going up. It's not a good situation. He's crashing our economy right now and also he's crashed law and order. Four of the top deputies for Mayor Eric Adams in New York, they just announced they are resigning. Some of the top people in the office, Deputy Mayor Maria Torres Springer, Deputy Mayor for Operations Mira Joshi, Deputy Mayor of Health and Human Services and William Isom and Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Chauncey Parker, said that they were all stepping down right now after the quid pro quo deal between Trump's DOJ to dismiss charges against Mayor Eric Adams for bribery for foreign companies and foreign countries, rather without prejudice, for Mayor Eric Adams to pursue the MAGA agenda. And so all of those people are resigning right now like the good people are resigning. Unfortunately, that follows seven federal prosecutors resigning, including lots of right wing conservative lawyers who refused to dismiss the case when they were demanded to because they thought it was unethical and or illegal. And also our State Department is kind of undermining the way America's had a very delicate balance between rejecting China's sovereignty over Taiwan, but also kind of respecting China's one China policy. It's been a very delicate balance over many decades for America to kind of pursue this diplomatic tightrope walk with China so that we can defend Taiwan's sovereignty but also not piss off China as part of an, you know, because they're an international trade partner, even though there's an adversarial relationship. So one of the things Trump's State Department did is they deleted language that respected at least China's claim over Taiwan, despite America still defending Taiwan's sovereignty. I know it gets wonky, but it's pissed off China that basically said you're going to now cause severe damage to the China US Relations and cause severe damage to peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait. So what the Trump State Department doing is doing is destabilizing everything in Europe, destabilizing everything in Asia right now. And while this is going on, Donald Trump was taking laps yesterday in NASCAR around the track with his motorcade to project the strong man image, which really just looked like embarrassing. It just looked like Kim Jong Un, basically. So those are your core updates here about what's going on, while you have Tom Homan. Trump's borders are threatening to arrest AOC for providing migrants with what their rights are about, what the interactions are with ICE and what you can do here. Play this clip.
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News Analyst
She and others don't want ICE to enforce the laws that they enacted. She's a member of Congress. Let us enforce the laws you enacted. That's what we're supposed to do. You can't go after her. Do you think others should? No, I think I've asked doj, where is that line of impediment of interference Now? If someone stands in your way, prevent you from arresting somebody, put your hands down, that's impediment. But what line is telling people to hide from mice, not open the door? Where do you cross that line on impediment? So I simply ask the Department of Justice, give us that line. You have talked to them about this.
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Political Commentator
That'S what you're saying? Yeah. And then you also have one of Donald Trump's cabinet members, Doug Burgum here. He's like, I've never seen anybody look more powerful than how Donald Trump did when he went around the track. Here, play this clip.
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News Analyst
When we saw him take that victory lap of sorts going around the track, he seemed to be digging it well, Steve, watching President Trump in the beast leading the pace car, leading a field of the most talented drivers in the world, kicking off the entire NASCAR season for America, when he was doing that, it reminded me of how he's actually leading the world right now. You know, I had an opportunity to be with them, with the Prime Minister Modi from India, with the prime Minister of Japan. And the world is looking to President Trump for his leadership. And he's out in front and everybody's following his lead and wow, is that great for America and great for the world?
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Political Commentator
Well, you know, and look, folks, unfortunately, the Kim Jong un style propaganda, it does, I want to be honest, like it appeals to a group of people who are like, yeah, look how tough it is. And when you have billions of dollars in propaganda behind it, it appeals to a group of Americans. You know, 35% of Americans, they will golf of America. Look, he's around the. She's riding around the motorcade in the track. We're back, baby. Even as their rights and jobs are being taken away, you know, but there's nothing you can do about those people. This is the reality. What we have to do, though, is speak loud with our microphone here. Why we got to grow to 5 million subscribers and then beyond, because we got to speak to Americans who are apathetic, who may not be following politics, who decided not to vote this election. Trump got under 50% of the vote. Tens of millions of Americans did not vote. We have to speak to them. And look, Trump's popularity is decreasing. The new YouGov poll has him underwater. I think the approval ratings mid-40s, it should be lower. But this is also the honeymoon period, which is rapidly fading fast. But we'll keep you posted every step of the way. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe and let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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