Trump Awakes to Devastating News of his own Making

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2:07Michael Popok:Donald Trump's economy, to paraphrase Republican Senator John Kennedy, is about as dead as fried chicken. We've got new job numbers that have just come out here to lead off into the weekend. Economists thought February was going to be a terrible month with a job creation number of about 60 ,000 new jobs. That would have been terrible compared to the 400 ,000 jobs created every month during the Biden administration. But instead, the job numbers came out and it was a negative 100 ,000 jobs. 100 ,000 jobs lost in February, not 60 ,000 gained. And just to give you some perspective, since the beginning of the year, December and January, they revised the job numbers down 69 ,000 from what they originally predicted.

2:54Michael Popok:Now another 100 ,000 jobs. And wait till you hear the sectors that the job loss is in, completely counter to what Donald Trump is telling you about how successful his economy is. Unemployment now up 4.4%. And the American people know a war when they see it, even though Donald Trump and his lapdog of a Congress, they've been ordered not to refer to the Iranian war as a war. But the financial markets, the energy markets, they all know what a war looks like. And it looks just like this. And as a result, the financial markets are tumbling as I'm recording. I can't even keep up with how far they're tumbling.

3:34Michael Popok:I'm not happy about it. But it is an indication that the sole reason, the raison d 'etre for Donald Trump to be elected president was low oil prices and a booming economy, job creator and low prices. None of that has happened. Instead, quite the opposite. We're only bombing Iran and going overseas to export our chaos to cover up for the failures at home for a domestic policy that is as dead as fried chicken. I'm Michael Popak. You're on the mic. I'm hungry now. You're on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF. Let's talk about these job numbers. And these are coming out from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

4:12Michael Popok:That's the one Donald Trump really hated because the numbers were so bad. So he fired the head statistician six months ago. Well, the new statistician, what's he going to do now? Close the door of the bureau so they don't issue numbers at all? Think what are the headwinds that are crushing the American economy? You can do it with me. You can make it a nursery rhyme. Tariffs that are taxes. A war that is leading to rising oil and energy prices. When you've got a transit zone in the Middle East called the Strait of Hormuz, you can't get any oil tankers through it right now. It's a traffic jam because of the Iranian war that we've started.

4:58Michael Popok:Right? And so, all right, so you've got all of that. Then you've got the job numbers. I mean, when you've got the, when economists think you've already got an anemic job creation record and you're only going to create 60 ,000 jobs in a 330 million person economy, when you think that, then you're already in a terrible place. But when you lose 100 ,000, so they're off by 160 ,000, that's even worse. Here's the sectors where they've done the loss, right? Donald Trump, the builder, Bob, the builder president, right? Building everything. Construction lost 11 ,000 jobs. 11 ,000 jobs in construction lost in the month of February alone.

5:4528 ,000 in health care, 30 ,000 in restaurants and bars.

5:49Michael Popok:And get this, remember the reason for the tariffs was to bring manufacturing home. Bring it home. Have factories booming again in America, right? South Korea is going to build a chip or an AI factory, whatever it is. Yeah. He not only did his economy, our economy, lose 12 ,000 jobs in factories in the month of February alone. It's the 14th month out of 15. He's on an epic losing streak of having factory jobs lose jobs, not create them. So none of what he's trying to sell to the American people is working. The polling shows it. He's going to crash potentially through the 30 % approval barrier any moment now.

6:32Michael Popok:Independence gave up on him months ago, ran away screaming from him. Young voters, the same thing. They all want their vote back. Now, in addition to the job loss, look at what happened to the stock market. It's down like 2 % now. You're down 2%, 3 % just as we went to open the markets. and that is a signal that the financial markets do not believe in Donald Trump's stewardship, if you want to call it that, of the economy. And as a result, it's hurting you and me. Time to run the bastards out. What do you do when you got dead fried chicken? You toss it. And that's what the pent-up demand in America right now is for voting, to vote him out.

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9:14Michael Popok:period. But he was terrible abroad because he inherited the Vietnam War. And so he felt he had to finally give up on his candidacy. And he never ran for a second term. He did it all in one term. Trump's got a reverse problem. He's terrible at home. I mean, the stench of scandal of the Epstein scandal, the amount of resources he's using to cover up one scandal after the next. You know, Kristi Noem in a love affair with somebody in her office and spending Donald Trump's money and blaming him for it on an ad campaign that benefited her own people, her own friends. That's what got her canned, that she was corrupt, but corrupt and not in a way that benefited Donald Trump.

10:00Michael Popok:So you have the labor secretaries in the midst of a scandal about strip clubs and her husband abusing people in her office and assaulting people in her office. You got all these scandals going on. And what does Donald Trump do? Time to bomb Iran. And he makes it up as he goes along, of course. I thought they were going to shoot first. Did you? Did you think Iran was going to shoot first at the United States and bomb one of our bases? And then having already been bombed several months ago, you think that was going to happen? Yeah, no. So look, here's my perspective. The economy should be the driving wedge between the people and Donald Trump once and for all.

10:42Michael Popok:He can't fix all of these failings between now and the midterms. I mean, when we founded Legal AF, the YouTube channel in September of 2024, we were like, oh, so far away after the election. You know, if Trump wins the midterms two years away, forget two years. We're down to counting on one hand the amount of months left. Right. A little more than one hand. Never great at math. And ballots are being printed. Special elections are being held. Primaries are being held. He can't fix the scandals, the polling numbers, how people hate his immigration policy, the inhumanity of it, the lack of kindness and humility about his presidency.

11:29Right?

11:30Michael Popok:We need to forget about regime change in Iran. He wants to pick who's going to be the next leader of Iran. We want to pick who's going to be the next leader here in the United States sooner rather than later. So what are the job numbers? They are a telling indicia of the failure of the Trump administration in every way, shape and form. Period. I mean, you've got his commerce secretary, his treasury secretary saying every month everything's going to be all right. We're just getting past the Biden administration. Everything's all right. Now he says gas prices are going up. Trump said, who cares?

12:09Michael Popok:Shrugged my shoulders. I thought that's the reason he got elected. For gas prices and the rest. Lowered. No, that's not going to happen. The Iranian war puts pressure on energy prices, energy, oil, etc., electricity. That's what fuels the global economy, including our own. nothing that Donald Trump has done has worked. And yet he continues to lie to the American people, like at the State of the Union, and tell them everything is okay when we know it is not. Stand together here. Join together here. Be part of this community. Hit the Legal AF YouTube subscribe button. Continue to bring you this kind of analysis every day.

12:50Michael Popok:I'm Michael Popok. Until my next report.

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