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Breaking: Trump Frustrated as MAGA Turns on Him Over Deportations and Iran War
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We have some big news this morning. The Trump administration is facing issues on multiple fronts. On one hand, there is an increasing divide over the President's actions in Iran as gas prices continue to rise here at home and it looks as though boots on the ground may be closer than we previously realized. On the other hand, the Trump administration is privately acknowledging that its mass deportation efforts weren't good for politics. And Donald Trump is privately urging advisors to move on from some of the mass deportation efforts we saw over the past year. Both are upsetting the MAGA base that voted for him, that sent him to the White House, and that really helped propel him back to a second term. All while there has been a major consolidation of media that not many people are talking about, which with the merger of nexstar and Tegna impacting TV stations across America, a merger that was greenlit by the President and allowed for the waiver by the White House. Make sure to like, comment, share and subscribe. The more you like, the more people see. And with this merger, which I'll talk about momentarily, media consolidation and media monopolization has never been a greater issue than we have now. So make sure to subscribe to support independent media to help us build something different, something not beholden to this White House. Subscribe to my substack Click the link below. The first thing I do want to talk about is this merger between Nexstar Media Group and Tegna. It's a $6.2 billion merger. It was approved overnight by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. It was specifically greenlit by Donald Trump and his Administration. Why? Well, because under this merger, this new Nexar Tegna merged company, this entity will own over 60% of local TV stations across the country. The current rule in place under the FCC regulations is that no one company can own more than 39% of TV stations. These are local TV stations that impact local news and more. Well, Brendan Carr waived that rule saying that you know what, we're going to override it, we're going to waive it. And now you have an entity monopolizing 60% plus of all TV stations across America. Why did the Trump administration greenlit this? Well, because the goal is to have more right wing coverage on local news and it's happening in real time. You have the Ellison's consolidating CBS soon cnn. Now local TV is being consolidated through this Nextar techno merger and well, it's going to fundamentally change media as we know it. So make sure to subscribe to support independent media instead. Click the link below. Now we're at a point where the administration is facing two competing narratives or two competing issues. The first is deportations. The second is Iran. And this is what folks in MAGA are saying this morning. This is from Marjorie Taylor Greene, the former congresswoman. Yeah, she's no fan of Trump, but she speaks for a lot of maga. And this post has been amplified by a lot of folks within Republican circles this morning. Quote, Trump wants to decrease mass deportations of illegal aliens has dragged America into another full scale war in the Middle East. Gas prices are skyrocketing, inflation will rise, which means cost of living will rise. No doge checks have been sent to struggling Americans, but Instead Trump wants 200 billion for his war and 13 US soldiers have been killed. No one has been held accountable for the 2020 election or Epstein or Covid insanity or J6. And Tina Peters is still in prison. This is not what we thought MAGA would be. This is in the same deep state ways of Washington that we thought we ended. I want to take a few of those because overnight we learned that as far as deportations go, Donald Trump is privately telling advisors that his mass deportation effort wasn't successful and that it went too far in some respects and that he wants less of the quote, chaos that we've seen on the streets from Minneapolis to Los Angeles to elsewhere. And it comes as Republicans on Capitol Hill are privately urging their members to stop talking about mass deportations and immigration generally, as that's not an issue they want to be tied to heading into the midterm elections. On the other hand, you have the war in Iran, which continues to rage. Right now, America is spending billions and billions of dollars overseas on this war while gas prices continue to rise. An average cost of a barrel of a gallon of gas in the United States is now up to $3.91 in less than one month since the war began. It's up 93 cents since the war began. This number is going to go above $4 a gallon. It may very well go up over $5 a gallon. That hasn't been seen in years, since Russia invaded Ukraine. And before that, you have to go a long time before gas prices were ever this high. And so there's a little bit of buyer's remorse we're seeing within some sects of Republican circles. And when talking about gas prices, here's the message from the administration. Vice President Vance essentially said, you know what? Other countries are experiencing it worse.
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Actually worked with a lot of our allies all over the world who are suffering from this, frankly, more than we are. Because unlike the United States, where we've pursued an energy dominance agenda, you've got a lot of people all over the world who have focused on a lot of green energy scams, and they're hurting a lot more than we are. So as much as we've got, we've got to focus on getting these gas prices down. The reality is, overseas, they're feeling it far worse than we did because we had, we've taken the steps to protect our energy economy. So, for example, what we did, working with these allies, that we released hundreds of millions of barrels out of all these petroleum reserves so that we could put some downward pressure on prices. We're working on a number of things. In fact, a couple of things that I think will be announced in just the next 24 to 48 hours. I don't want to get ahead of the, the President on that, but we recognize this is an issue. We are fighting against it. And we promise that when this conflict draws to a close, when this operation draws to a close, we're going to see those energy prices come back down to reality, because that's what the President promised to do. He delivered well.
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So that last point brings up an important point. When is this conflict? When is this war coming to a close? And the answer is we don't know. Because over the past 12 hours, thousands of US service members, Marines, have begun the process of deploying to the Middle east, likely in an effort to eventually put boots on the ground. The Trump administration is actively considering a proposal to put boots on the ground to seize or blockade Kharg island, where Iran's most critical oil infrastructure is located. Another proposal actively being considered is to put boots on the ground of the shoreline of the Strait of Hormuz on Iranian soil, again in an effort to seize the Strait of Hormuz, where 20% of the world's oil and gas flows through. And so this war is actually escalating. It's not de escalating. And the Trump administration just asked for $200 billion or set to ask for $200 billion more dollars from Congress to approve of more war fighting a longer war effort to replenish America's stockpiles. And well, if Iran ends today, Cuba may begin tomorrow. So we're in a very precarious situation. Trump is facing significant internal divisions today and at the end of the day, the American people are still feeling it when they go to the pumps, more so than ever before. Make sure to like, comment, share and subscribe. As always, subscribe to my substack. Click the link below to support independent media and I'll see you soon for another update. So stay tuned and we'll have more coming soon.
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