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I'm showing you this photo of Donald Trump with no hair transplants and no bronzer. Not to mock him, but to show you the absurdity of it all. As part of Donald Trump's late night meltdown on Sunday, he kept on posting these photographs of himself to show what good photographs and good portraits of himself look like. And he wanted to make it very clear that there's a painting of him in Colorado at the State Capitol building put up by the governor of Colorado. And Donald Trump says it is a distorted portrait of himself. And he said that the artist must have lost her talent as she got older because he says it's very bad and needs to be taken down immediately. And then he shows what the portrait of himself looks like and then he just starts posting photos of himself and portraits of himself and memes of himself. I mean, folks, we're not talking about running for the class clown of third grade. And no offense to class clowns of third grade. This is the presidency. Like, can we grow up and not normalize this behavior? This is the leader of what was once there, was once the leader of the free world before Donald trump. And under 70 days. Squander that. He squandered that, frankly, really, in the first week or so. And then this is what he kept on posting last night, over and over again. So this was like 9:30 his time. The failing New York Times insists on using little Peter Baker, a bad writer, Obama biographer, to write long and boring fake news. Hit pieces against me. The only people with less talent than Peter are his wife and of course, Maggot Hagerman. Hagerman is stupid.
Mike (2:50)
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John (2:51)
It's just again, this would make a petulant third grader. No offense to petulant third graders look mature. It is humiliating. It is a weapon of mass humiliation. Then after that, at 9:49pm his time or 8:49pm His Time, he goes, why would the now highly discredited 60 Minutes do a puff piece on George Clooney, a second rate movie star? What in the world? Look, there are real issues right now, real suffering taking place in this country caused by this maniac. People don't know if they're going to get their Social Security check next month. As Donald Trump's puppet master Elon Musk says that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, Donald Trump's commerce secretary Howard Lutnick says if you complain about not getting your Social Security check, you're probably committing crimes and fraud. People don't know if Medicaid is going to still be around tomorrow. In the MAGA Republican budget, it calls for basically the total obliteration of Medicaid. Donald Trump has signed an executive order to try and eliminate the Department of Education. Donald Trump has attacked veterans, cut tens of thousands of jobs at the va, fired veterans, dismantled the federal government. And when he's just posting stupid crap like that as well. To me it compounds the cartoonish villainousness of this, of this regime. To our enemies, they're a laughingstock. To our allies, they're just completely horrified by this. And the behavior just continues over and over. In the morning he posts I love dollar sign Trump. So cool. The greatest of them all pumping up his meme coin. And by the way, you can see like a blip in the mean coin went up after he like did a kind of like a pump and dump on the meme coin. By the way, the meme coin like has utterly crashed. Remember when it was like think in the 70s or the 80s or the 1002s, it's now at like $11 or $10. Just horrible stuff. I know there's a lot of news about Donald Trump firing government workers and gutting federal agencies. I think this one needs a little bit more attention as well, especially as we look to be headed into a great Recession or even potentially a depression and stagflation. Crashing low GDP while inflation surges. This was on Friday from Politico. It got some attention, but we got to give it more attention. Bad sign. Purge of data experts raises alarm over economic reports. The removal of advisors supporting closely watched monthly releases may mean trouble for agencies that provide vital information on jobs and inflation. So from that political report and mentions how the experts serving on the Bureau of Labor Statistics Technical Advisory Committee, the bls, were informed this week that they were no longer needed, leaving the BLS without a panel that has long advised the Labor Department how economic changes can impact data collection. So remember during COVID during the first Trump administration, where Trump would say, if you don't test, then you don't know if there are X amount of cases? Right. He was telling on himself, of course. And here he's doing the same thing. You get rid of the experts, get rid of the analysts who tell you, is the GDP up? Is the GDP down? What's going on with inflation? And then you just start making up numbers. I think we kind of saw this even last week when the Trump regime was claiming that the price of eggs had now dropped to $3 a dozen. And they were like, look, it's dropped like 80%. And like, we know it's not $3 a dozen. We, we can see that either eggs are not on the shelves, or in some states it's still $8, $9, $10 a dozen. I'm sure there are places where it's $3, but I think they were referring to the wholesale price in some areas, not the retail price. And they're going to start manipulating all of this data the way they do in authoritarian regimes. And as Trump wants to distract us with all of those weird portraits and pictures that he's posting, it's why I always want to bring it back to Donald Trump said he was going to lower prices on day one. He didn't. He said there would be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. That didn't happen. He said housing would be more affordable. Housing is less affordable right now. Literally everything he said was a lie. There's nothing about no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no. No tax on overtime. But the oligarchs and the billionaires are getting massive, massive tax cuts. $4.5 trillion tax cuts as Medicaid is being gutted. Just take a look at this. This was from Donald Trump's interview with Laura Ingraham that they've been re airing these clips. He's asked the most basic question about his son. Like, do you think your son's going to focus on business or, or tech? Donald Trump can't even answer a question so simple like, what is your son like? And his response is that Barron can kind of open up a computer. And it's very impressive how he opens up a computer. Here, play this clip. But is Barron's aptitude in your view, business or politics?