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The world is recognizing how utterly weak and pathetic Donald Trump is. Donald Trump is caving with respect to the tariffs that he imposed on Mexico and Canada after he crashed the American economy and world economies. Donald Trump got a talking to by the big three auto manufacturers and Donald Trump said, can we do an auto manufacturing carve out Canada? To which Prime Minister Trudeau was like, do whatever you want to do. We're going to keep retaliatory tariffs until you stop putting us in this yo yo cycle of abuse and tariffing us every 30 days. Do what you want to do, Donald. We're going to keep the retaliation going. Also, you have French President Emmanuel Macron delivering a powerful address to the people of France where he said, look, United States is basically done. We need to lead Europe along with the UK and others. We need to create new security alliances and we have to realize that Donald Trump is pretty much with Putin at this point and we've got to realign America becoming isolated and weaker than ever. But what's Donald Trump doing? Well, here's what he's spending the day doing. You want your free Trump 2024 gold bar? Grab yours today. This is what's being posted with Donald Trump's name, image and likeness on his social media platform. And by the way, Donald, it's also 2025. But to be clear, this is A free Trump Gold bar, as opposed to the Trump Gold Card, where Russian oligarchs and Chinese oligarchs can buy citizenship into the United States for $5 million. And if you just sold 10 million Trump Gold cards and give citizenship to what, 10 million oligarchs, you can make two petrillions of dollars. Quadrillions of dollars. By the way, take a look. Presidents to reach net negative approval ratings. Donald Trump's reached a net negative approval in 44 days, whereas it took former President Biden 224 days. It took Clinton 132 days, Obama 520 days. Yes. Donald Trump's approval is plummeting, plummeting, plummeting. Like the American economy. We now see headlines like this, Beware a recession that could be triggered by a chain reaction of tariff risk. Wall street executives say you think Donald Trump crashing the economy and also crashing the lives of people who served our country so courageously. It seems that Donald Trump is focusing his attacks on marginalized groups, on veterans. I mean, just take a look at this. The Trump administration is firing, as you know, thousands of veterans as well as the spouses of armed service members who work in the government. And Donald Trump, we now learn, is planning on firing about 70,000 people who are part of the VA staff that serve veterans. And we previously reported that Donald Trump and Elon Musk are basically gutting the entire Social Security Administration. Remember yesterday I played you an audio where the wait time was like hours and hours and hours just to try to get a human being on the call and then to process a disability application. They were saying it would take close to 3, 300 days for it to even first be processed, to potentially even get a contact back. Donald Trump destroying our national parks. Donald Trump destroying the Department of Labor, gutting the Department of Education, gutting our weather services, gutting all of the federal government every single day. But Donald Trump is blaming the fact that we're heading into a potential government shutdown on Democrats because Donald Trump just thinks that everybody's just so stupid that we'll just believe anything that he writes. It's like 1984, right? Just they tell you what to believe and they tell you two plus two equals five, and you believe it. So here's what Donald Trump posted yesterday evening. He goes, government funding runs out next week, and Democrats are threatening to shut down the government. Can we pause there for a second, Donald? You control the executive branch. The House of Representatives is controlled by Republicans. The Senate is controlled by Republicans. You're blaming Democrats for trying to shut down the government. Here's the thing. You can't normalize this behavior. The level of lying here is stratospheric. Democrats don't control any branch of government. They don't control the executive. They don't control either, either the House or the Senate in Congress. And Donald Trump's blaming the Democrats. Excuse me. So Trump goes. Government funding runs out next week, and Democrats are threatening to shut down the government. But I am working with the great House Republicans on a continuing resolution to fund the government until September to give us some needed time to work on our agenda. Conservatives will love this bill because it sets us up to cut taxes and spending and reconciliation, all while effectively freezing spending this year and allowing us to continue our work to make America great again. Very important. Let's get the bill done. As our editor in chief, Ron Philip Koski goes. Democrats have no power to shut down the government. Even when Republicans control the presidency, the House and the Senate, every legislative committee, every. They still try to blame Democrats for their failures. Pass your budget, Republicans. Oh, sorry, you can't figure out how to do that. Pass your CR then. And you notice they're still using the budget from Nancy Pelosi back in 2022. So while they claim all of this fraud, all of these things that are going on, they're still using the budget when the Democrats were in power in the House of Representatives back from what, 2022, before the midterms, because Republicans have been unable to do their most basic function, which is to freaking pass a budget. Donald Trump then writes the following. He goes for anyone who is interested. I also told Governor Justin Trudeau of Canada that he largely caused the problem we have with them because of his weak border policies, which allowed tremendous amounts of fentanyl and illegal aliens to pour into the United States. What for? From Canada? These policies are responsible for the death of many people. See, this is why even if the tariffs eventually become resolved, why Canadians are boycotting all things American. You're calling Canadians our closest ally before you. Donald Trump took a wrecking ball to our alliances. You're calling them murderers. You're calling the most peaceful people murderers based on abject lies. It is utterly, utterly disgusting. And Donald Trump saying this because he got his, you know what, handed to him by Prime Minister Trudeau, by the premiers of Canada like Doug Ford, by the premier of Manitoba and others who said, you know what, Donald? You want to see our big, beautiful laws that we're passing? We're banning all things American. We're taking American booze off of Our shelf. We're taking American products off our shelf. You know, government procurement, no more for American companies, Donald. Oh, and you're going to send your commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, that freakin snake oil salesman into Canada to say, can we please make a deal? The American economy is a crashing. We weren't prepared for this. Even though Canadians. You prepared your people for a trade war. We just declare trade war. We don't know the ramifications here in the United States. And you know what Prime Minister Trudeau and the premiers of Canada said, Go pound sand, America. If you want to take away all of your tariffs, we'll take away our retaliatory tariffs, but do whatever you want. So you know what the United States does? Donald Trump caved right away. And Donald Trump said, okay, we're gonna remove the tariffs for the auto and maybe we'll remove the tariffs for agriculture. The agriculture hasn't been removed yet, the auto has. Why? Cuz Trump's destroying all of these industries in the United States. But Trump's like, all right, 30 more days. Let's do a 30 day extension. Which by the way is creating an absolute mess. Here's Donald Trump's trade adviser Peter Navarro saying, though Canada, it's been taken over by all of the Mexican cartels here, play this clip.