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Ben (1:00)
This is a disaster for you, Donald. The American people hate you. They see through your lies. They see what a vile, deceitful, pathetic piece of trash you are. Just take a look at the Pew Research poll. Some of the lowest polling numbers ever in history of presidential polling. Approval rating 40% disapproval 59% just look at these cross tabs. When you look at his support in the Black community, only 14% of Black people support Donald Trump. Hispanic support Only 27% of Hispanic people now support Donald Trump. Negative 45% Only 29% of Asian people support Donald Trump. How about those young people, Donald, who were listening to the podcast? Did they support you anymore? Nope. Only 36% support amongst people ages 18 to 29. That's negative 27%. You're 27% underwater there, but you may say, hey Ben, that's just Pew research. I'm sure Fox is saying something different. Not really. Donald Trump's approval based on the new Fox poll is the lowest in modern presidential history. For the Fox poll, it is less than his first administration Trump regime to approval 44%. Compare this to former President Biden. At the same time, Biden was 54%. Former President Obama was 62%. Former President Bush was 63%. How about on the economy in the Fox News poll? Let's put news in quotes. Only 38% of Americans approve of Donald Trump's handling of the economy under the Fox poll. And Fox was showing these graphics over and over again. Yesterday. Yes, Donald, your nightmare there is here. Those protests that you're scared of, they're only going to get bigger. The crowds for the events by aoc, Bernie and other Democrats who are doing town halls and big speeches, those are going to get bigger, Donald. Ooh, I can't wait for a summer of democracy. Donald. As we've been predicting here on the Midas Touch Network. Oh, this was a question that was asked on that Fox Put News in Quotes poll. In general, do you think imposing tariffs or fees on products imported from other countries makes the products you buy more or less expensive? 72% of people say more. Only 7% of people say less. That's bad for you, Donald. That means that even people in your own MAGA base know you're a liar because wherever you go right now you're hearing the word tariff, tariff, tariff, and people know it's screwing their lives. You may claim that the price of eggs is down 93% and the egg price and grocery prices are the problem that you say is that it's too low, but most Americans don't. All Americans, unless you're lying, don't think that's true because we go to the grocery store. Unlike you who thinks the word groceries is a cool word. Right? Donald goes, have you heard the word groceries like an old fashioned word? No, groceries is not an old fashioned word. It's a word and you're making things worse. By the way, like one of the people who works at the Midas Touch Network, Jeremy, he gets emails like this. I'm sure you get emails like this. This is from Guitar Center. This is what companies are sending out right now. And these should be three alarm fire SOS right now. This is the subject from Guitar Center. Lock in up to 30% before tariffs hit. Hey Jeremy, we wanted to give you a heads up that prices on gear across the board are about to rise due to new tariffs. If you've been thinking about upgrading your setup or adding new gear, now is the best time to buy before the price increases hit. We're seeing that for cars and basically everything else. Also freight, the freight industry, the shipping industry, the trucking industry right now is getting crushed and there's like a 14 day lag time where then we're going to see the scarcity. Lots of companies prepared for the worst, not all. And they bought a lot of goods in bulk, but now they're running out of supply. And so we're about to just start running out of important things on the shelf. So remember with COVID where people couldn't find toilet paper or this or that. Get ready for that again. So, Donald, you think we're off now? Just you wait in 14 days, you idiot. Here's what we're learning about. So the CEOs of three of the nation's biggest retailers, Walmart, Target and Home Depot. By the way, a lot of these people, Trump supporters privately warned him that his tariff trade policy could disrupt supply chains, raise prices and empty shelves, according to sources familiar with the meeting. The big box CEOs flat out told Trump the prices aren't, the prices aren't going up. They're steady right now, but they will go up. And this wasn't about food, but he was told that shelves will just be empty, an administration official familiar with the meeting told Axios. Another official briefed on the meeting said the CEOs told Trump the disruptions will become noticeable in about two weeks time. Craig Fuller, who runs a freight analysis company, data company, here's what he's been saying year over year. Trucking activity out of Los angeles now down 23%. It will likely drop to 50% in the coming weeks if there isn't a trade war resolution. Massive layoffs coming to the west coast trucking sector. And it's not just the West Coast. This story is being repeated across the country. Craig Fuller repeats this story right here. Spoke to a Michigan truck driver yesterday. He normally hauls auto parts from Michigan to Kansas. He hasn't had a load now for two weeks. He is getting worried. Industrial trucking is already in a recession. 80% of the trucking industry voted for Trump, but they will be among the first victims of the trade war. And one of the things that Donald Trump is also doing is creating massive instability, massive volatility. If you are a CFO or someone planning at a company, how do you know what Donald Trump is going to do next? Right. Yesterday it seemed, or two days ago, it seemed like Donald Trump was going to walk back the 145% tariffs on China. It seemed like Donald Trump was going to walk back the auto tariffs against the world and against Canada. And then today when Donald Trump was speaking about Canada, for example, he said 51st state, he wants to annex Canada. He said that Canada would not exist if it wasn't for the United States. He made comments that, you know, it's up to China if they want the 145% tariffs removed, that he's not going to unilaterally reduce the tariffs. Just going back on what he said. And then he was asked questions like, you know, Your policies, like disappearing human beings to concentration camps and your attacks on the sovereignty of Canada, Europe and elsewhere are causing nations and causing people to boycott American products and tourism. Hey, Donald, does that bother you, for example, that there's a steep drop in international tourism? Donald Trump goes, not a big deal here. Play this clip. It's been a steep drop off in international travel to the United states was down 12% last month, down even more from Western Europe.