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Trump is panicking on Saturday morning that his actions are going to cause a 1929 style Great Depression. There are leaks from his inner circle saying Donald Trump is running around the White House right now fretting about 1929 and causing a 1929 event. Now folks, when I label the titles of these YouTube videos, Trump panics, it's because he actually is panicking. Now, Donald Trump may try to project the image of a strong man, of an authoritarian, but he is not. And the rest of the world leaders know how weak and pathetic he is. You don't want to believe me, take a look at the headline from the New York Times after we've been reporting about this for weeks. Risk of financial Panic Tempers Trump on firing Powell. President Trump again attacked the chair of the Federal Reserve this week, but advisers say the president has turned more cautious on policies that could to that could stoke extreme financial volatility again. And it goes, and if you read the article, it says for months Mr. Trump has privately fretted about the prospect of a Great Depression scale event happening on his watch, a scenario he shorthands in conversations as 1929 Scott Am I going to cause a 1929? Howard Am I going to cause a 1929, and so Bessant and Howard Lutnick have to try to wall off one of Donald Trump's other economic advisors, Peter Navarro, because Navarro wants to push more tariffs and Besant and Lutnick try to keep Navarro away. And then this article from the Wall Street Journal talks about how they try to say, hey Donald, we don't want to cause a 1929 either. Donald, we don't want to do 1929. So that's why you need to pause the tariffs and listen to us, not Navarro. This is how the Wall Street Journal reports it. So the morning where the tariffs were paused, when Navarro was in a different part of the White House, Besant and Lutnick made their move. They rushed to the Oval Office to propose a pause. They stayed until Trump actually typed it out on a truth social post hovering over them. As Aaron Sojourner says, this is the policy process in a Trump White House. Rival factions jockey for access to the Oval Office. They race to get in front of Trump to run their thing up the flag pole publicly first before another faction can shoot it down. This is not a healthy policy process. It's not a process at all. It is panicking. It is how weak, unqualified people who should never be near positions of power handle things. And during the campaign, Donald Trump would be on stage and he would be projecting his own fears about 1929, 1929 this, 1929 that. Now he would try to frame it as strength. You need to vote for me and we'll avoid 1929. We'll avoid it. But in reality, it was him saying that he is a scared little pathetic human. Here he was from August 8th. I could show you hundreds of these clips. I'll show you1 from August 17, 2024. Here's Donald Trump saying that if he's not elected, there will be 1929. Here.
