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This is what a deeply insecure, pathetic, malignant narcissist looks like. Donald Trump in the Oval Office. He's been spending the whole week after spending the weekend golfing on the taxpayer dime, spending the week with sports teams. Like yesterday he was with the Naval Academy football team. Donald Trump was holding a football. Didn't say United States of America on it in big bold letters it said Donald J. Trump. And he's posting videos of himself holding the football as he's crashing the economy. As most CEOs think we're heading into a recession as all of the signs of stagflation crashing, GDP surging inflation are taking shape now as the latest New York Fed survey on manufacturing shows, everything is down other than prices. And of course it was announced last night that Hong Kong was shutting down its postal service to the United States to inflict more pain as they continue to outmaneuver Donald Trump in the trade war that Donald Trump started. It should also be noted as well that China announced in the first quarter about a 5.4% GDP growth as they prepared for Donald Trump's actions. It should also be noted, and this is being underreported, that as Donald Trump was taking those photos with the footballs to make himself look like a tough guy. Donald Trump banned all wire services from being in the press corps because a Trump appointed judge in D.C. federal Judge McFadden ordered that Donald Trump was to return the Associated Press to the press corps into the Oval Office unless there was some non discriminatory reason for not allowing the Associated Press because Trump didn't allow the AP because they refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of Mexico and not the Gulf of America. Donald Trump said, okay, I'll come up with a non discriminatory reason. I'm banning all wire services. So no more wire services getting their news. You just get pathetic right wing podcasters now basically leading the quote unquote press in the White House. And then some other corporate news that is apparently okay with enabling this behavior and asking Donald Trump some of the most pathetic questions that I've seen talking about pathetic. Donald Trump is also sending emails like this to his supporters, trying to cling on to support. Remember yesterday I showed you Donald Trump saying the new poll showing that we are surging with MAGA and MAGA surging. It was like 36% of voters identify as MAGA. Yeah, Donald, that means 64% of America is against you. Your approval is plummeting. It's in the toilet, it's swirl swirling the drain with the rest of the MAGA Republicans because it just pathetic crap like this, right? As mortgage rates are now at 7.5%, as the bond market continues to be chaotic, as the stock market continues to be as volatile as it's frankly ever been before. As I told you, the manufacturing New York Fed survey shows that um, the expectations in manufacturing are lower than it's ever been since 9 11. Donald Trump's posting things like this. You just won. Congratulations. Did I spell Ben correctly? Memo from Trump. Today's the tax filing day. Then Donald Trump's like before my mid month deadline today, can you chip in and accept your trump card? All you gotta do is gimme some money, accept your award right here. Or here's the other one. I know you hate getting reminders about tax day. He uses tax day to send this email to give him money on tax day. I'm fighting to eliminate unfair taxes like tax on Social Security, tax on tips, tax on overtime. You two bit piece of trash scam artist. Donald. Okay, I haven't seen that in the legislation and already what we're approaching 100 days. Housing is far less affordable. Prices are higher, goods and products less affordable. China's shutting down their entire market right now to the United States. There's no peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. And as Yardini says, the latest batch of soft data is consistent with stagflation. So as China's economy seems to be doing pretty good, as Europe's economy is figuring out how to navigate, as Canada, Europe, Australia, China, South Korea, Vietnam, Southeast Asia in general, as they're cutting deals, you have isolated the United States to look like some weirder version of North Korea meets the worst season of the Apprentice, yardini writes. The latest batch of soft data is consistent with stagflation scenarios in the US the soft data is likely signs of hard data during the second half of this year. Trump tariff turmoil, T T T as they're calling it. We've also learned some additional data from leaks about Musk and Trump and Doge. One of the things that Doge has been trying to do is put Doge people to sneak into certain nonprofits and to kind of gut it from within and to take information from within. The Washington Post reports Doge sought to assign a team to independent nonprofit groups to try to take their data. Also, a whistleblower is reporting that Musk's doge stole 10 gigabytes of union data, legal files, and corporate secrets, then try to cover it up. Is this a shocker to you, by the way, that this is going on? The ultimate karma that Elon Musk is getting as Donald Trump is imposing all these tariffs on China? It's absolutely destroyed Tesla's plans for expansion, assuming Tesla was ever even going to follow through on those plans. And it wasn't just something they were saying to pump the market. Can I show you the difference about what's going on in the ground right now? You have Senator Bernie Sanders and AOC going into red states, red cities and counties in blue states, but going into red areas, which she was in Nampa, Idaho, Salt Lake City, Utah, in California yesterday. She was in Bakersfield. She was in Folsom, California. Here she is in Folsom saying, hey, they said this was Trump country. I don't look like Trump country to me right now. Play this clip of AOC yesterday.