MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/19/26

29:13He goes, America under Trump is like the pedo. It's like, we're like the gross thing. Like, don't, don't think that we're the cool kid anymore. He goes, like Donald Trump just gave that to China. It's an interesting perspective from a right-wing podcaster. Also, when you talk about internationally, he goes, America's like the pedo now, covering up like the Epstein files. Like, what are we doing? Because we're the weird kid who hangs out with high school students when we're in college. What are we doing? And that is this whole crew. It's like not just that they're a bunch of liars and phony and fraud and idiots, like just a bunch of like grotesque things also.

29:46But when we talk about international affairs, Also, stability, certainty, predictability, and trust are the most important things. And U.S. used to represent that, the peaceful transition of power, the fact that you can have administrations that strongly disagree with each other, but you would have a peaceful handoff. You wouldn't have one administration spending all of its time attacking the prior administration. and you would try to kind of keep this consistency and keep these structures and frameworks as a leader of the free world in place. Donald Trump threw that all the way. Also, I think about the expression snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

30:31I also think of Donald Trump snatching weakness from the jaws of strength. It's so obvious where strength actually could be with. I mean, Carney recognizes it. I mean, Carney recognizes that Canada and energy superpower joining forces with the European Union, especially a united European Union that can bring the UK back into the fold. You bring Australia there to join with it. You focus on traditional allies in Asia, Southeast Asia. Talk about South Korea. You talk about Japan. You talk about Philippines. You talk about actually supporting the people who you're supposed to be standing with. And then, most significantly, you talk about Ukraine because Zelensky is now not just the strongest military in Europe, one of the strongest militaries in the entire world right now.

31:30in response to Russia's invasion, Ukraine has developed the most innovative drone technology, drone interceptors, those unmanned vessels. You're talking about the ability to strike deep within Russia, some of the best modern warfare tactics, some of the best surveillance, counterintelligence. I mean, Zelensky has that right now with one of the largest standing and active armies. So if you were actually thinking about where the strength is, Trump looks to strong men like Putin and like Xi Jinping and like Kim Jong-un. And Trump doesn't recognize that strength could be U.S. as a leader working with Canada, working with Denmark, not against it, bringing together NATO in such a strong way.

32:24Trump could have actual victories if he just left the economy and stopped interfering with it and let the economy just do its thing. Let American companies be innovative and stay the hell out of it and stop manipulating the market. We'll talk about that. He could take credit for a booming economy if he allowed NATO to work with Zelensky to strengthen it. He could take credit for these massive wins right now that are happening with Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Ukraine's counteroffensive. There was a world where, based on the just trajectory of the United States, if you had my 19-month-old daughter, Jimena, in the Oval Office instead of Donald Trump, and none of these things happened, you could have actually been taking credit and spiking the football, And history would remember you as actually a great leader, not as the worst ever, simply because you stole the valor and credit of your predecessors and you could have stolen it.

33:23And yet Trump found the way to just destroy it all. Let's tariff the world. Let's get caught up in the Strait of Hormuz. Then let's call that a victory and say, aha, that's what we always wanted to do, get caught up in the Strait of Hormuz. He interferes with the predictability of our markets. Thus, the bond market, which is usually the best indicator of where things really are. The bond market is absolutely terrible. Look at the 10, 30-year yields right now, like the highest in recent history, which means by your mortgage rates growing up, people can't afford things. And that's kind of the status of where things are right now.

33:57So we want to talk a lot more about this when we come back from our first quick break. A reminder, if you can, I had my ears covered, but I heard Jordy Maeve said something about becoming a member. become a member of our YouTube channel. Also, make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel. Subscribe to the Midas Dutch podcast on audio as well, and leave a five-star review wherever you get audio podcasts. All right, let's take our first quick break of the show. When we come back, I want to talk about these incidents that have been occurring at nuclear plants across the Middle East and also in Oil Depot in Venezuela.

34:33Let's talk a little bit about Cuba. I want to share with you. Donald Trump's very, very, very suspicious would be putting it lightly. There's probably lots of other words that you could use for these stock trades that happened during Q1, 3 ,800 of them. We'll talk about that. So much more to cover. Let's take our first quick break. If you've ever tried bone broth and hated the taste, forget everything you know about bone broth. Our next sponsor makes bone broth so good, I can't stop eating it. This podcast is sponsored by Brodo. Brodo's bone broth is the simplest nutrition upgrade you can make to your daily routine.

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38:47Benji, where to next? Well, you have one of Iran's leaders, MB Galibaf, who's their leader in the parliament, who was also just appointed in the past 48 hours to be an envoy to China. We know who the leaders are in Iran. Just stop with the gaslighting that we don't know who they are. It's a more entrenched version of the Islamic Republic than existed before you and Netanyahu launched this unlawful invasion at the end of February. MB Galibov posted, the world stands at the cusp of a new order. As President Xi said, the transformation unseen in a century is accelerating across the globe. And I emphasize that the Iranian nation's 70-day resistance has accelerated this transformation.

39:33The future belongs to the global South. Now, statements like that are being coordinated, of course, with Russia and with Xi Jinping of China because they're all meeting with each other. They're all talking with each other. This isn't some coincidence. While Donald Trump's out there making deranged social media posts, all of this is being planned. So when Putin arrives in China in the next 24 to 48 hours, Russia and China will sign 40 documents, and Putin and Xi Jinping will adopt a, quote, declaration on the formation of a multipolar world and a new type of international relations. The message is very clear.

40:14China is the hegemonic power, and it is leading right now as the world's leader. That's the message that they're projecting. While Donald Trump is sending deranged memes on his social media platform that, what, lost hundreds of millions of dollars in Q1. We'll talk what Trump was doing during Q1 while his company was losing money. But Trump personally ain't losing my money with that. I mean, he's probably already made a fortune on the Trump media, in my opinion. Well, here's the types of things that he's posting. It was the calm before the storm, which by the way is a QAnon line. And it's like some weird AI image of himself and some like Admiral with ships in the background and lightning bolts.

40:56And it's like, we made America great again, like a golden AI image of Donald Trump pointing at you. President Trump gets younger, a deranged looking photo of Donald Trump next to Xi Jinping, where he does not look younger, and then Space Force. And then it's Donald Trump in some futuristic looking thing, and it's an AI image of him blowing up the world with nuclear weapons. That's what the United States is doing right now. Iran responds with posts of Donald Trump next to Saddam Hussein, that weird Trump golden statute in the Saddam Hussein. And they go, Saddam Hussein, Trump, so damn insane. And they just post photos of Donald Trump going, summary of Trump's speech, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, bullshit, blah, blah, lie, bullshit, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

41:47That is how the United States looks to the rest of the world right now. And where previously Iran would have loved an audience with the president of the United States or his top envoys. Iran doesn't want to be next to the United States because if we're next to you, you're just going to lie about the meeting and say a bunch of deranged things that aren't true. You're going to use the meeting to negotiate as a way to basically lie about what our negotiating position is. Basically, basically stay away from us. One of Iran's other national security leaders, yes, we know who their leadership is, Abrahim Azizi writes, Iran, within the framework of its national sovereignty and the guarantee of international trade security, has prepared a professional mechanism to manage traffic in the Strait of Hormuz along a designated route, which will be unveiled soon.

42:42In this process, only commercial vessels and parties cooperating with Iran will benefit from it. The necessary fees will be collected for the specialized services provided under this mechanism. The route will remain closed to the operators of the so-called Freedom Project. And so Iran, very clear what its message is. They've launched their own port authority, if you will, that's going to be collecting these tolls with a social media account. They're also offering insurance to companies that want to secure safe passage. So they're developing an insurance company. They're working with Oman, which is notable because the country of Oman previously served as kind of an independent, neutral negotiator back in February.

43:33Remember, the Omani foreign minister thought he entered a deal in principle between Iran and the Trump regime because there was an agreement reached. And then that night, Netanyahu and Trump decided they were going to invade Iran the day an agreement in principle was reached. But that's what Trump does. It's how he's always viewed negotiations his whole life to achieve that which he can't in litigation, that which he can't through business prowess, because he's an idiot. So you lure people into negotiations where good faith is supposed to be exemplified. And then you sucker punch him. That's Donald Trump.

44:10Donald Trump is a sucker puncher. Going back to what that right wing podcaster Tim Dillon said, there's nothing worse than someone who sucker punches you. That's exactly what Donald Trump is because he's too weak to look you in the face and actually execute an effective plan. He's a sucker puncher. And so as Donald Trump is posting these bizarre and deranged memes, we also have an active cover up of what's going on in the world. I see corporate news here not talking about any of this. I just found it notable. I'm like, huh. So in the United Arab Emirates, there were multiple drones that hit in Baraka, the Baraka nuclear power plant in the Aldafra region.

44:53And one of them hit the nuclear power plant. They said, we don't know if there's any radiological safety level issues. Okay. fascinating. Now that was 24 hours after an Israeli nuclear site blew up and there was a gigantic mushroom cloud and Israel's like coordinated detonation. This was pre-planned. Really? You just have mushroom clouds emanating from nuclear sites where people believe you have your nuclear weapons. You're not going to tell the public. You always want to do your nuclear tests and experiments. You want to do them at the nuclear site, just blow up there just to see what happens as everyone knows.

45:34Yeah. An American MQ-9 Reaper drone shot down over Yemen, which CENTCOM doesn't address this at all. Like we can literally see it's a Reaper drone that's like there and they'll act like it didn't happen. But like I see the Reaper drone, damn it. So we had that happen. Saudi Arabia says that it was attacked by multiple drones. And then you had in Venezuela, you had a oil depot there spontaneously blow up in Venezuela. I mean, isn't the Trump regime supposed to be looking after that in the Lake Macarbo region, which is apparently caught on fire, routine gas depressurization operation. It's just the 14th non-combat energy incident since the war on Iran began.

46:24And look, whether these things are pretexts for the eventual re-invasion of Iran by the U.S., whether these things are going on, at least in the past. And I know, I'm not acting like our national security apparatus was the most honest thing ever, far from it. But you see all of these things happening. We see the videos of it. And CENCOM isn't talking about it. I did videos over the weekend where we had some top military officials who were crossing, this is not getting a lot of attention anywhere else. That's why I devote full videos to it. There are top military officials. I showed us the video of AFRICOM, basically the main African command center.

47:12There's CENTCOM, there's AFRICOM is one of them. They talk about ISIS and Al-Qaeda on the rise in Africa right now, you know, under cross-examination finally by members of Congress. But like, you don't hear this being talked about, you know, in the media at all. And you have all of these situations that are breaking out, these conflict. I got to say, I don't know if I consider this a good thing of the Trump administration, but I will say the one thing that the Trump administration has done is really opened my eyes to the level of propaganda and BS that comes from our government. Because I'm sure past administrations, you know, did plenty of similar things.

47:54And we have learned throughout history that we've done some incredibly messed up things with the CIA and other countries. I mean, that's no secret at this point. But Trump is just so obvious about all of it. And you really just see, oh my God, like, do I have to rethink like all of our history at this point? How many things have we been told that are actually true? What's complete and total BS? You know, and watching all these other countries too, who are behaving like, you know, Saudi Arabia, UAE, all these countries who are known to hide things that happen. We look like that right now. And it became a kind of dark joke that we would make in the beginning of this war, going back to the beginning when Donald Trump said that this is just going to last a couple of days when countries like the UAE or Saudi Arabia, uh, they, they wouldn't acknowledge that their buildings would actually be hit.

48:44They would say euphemisms like, oh, there's just some debris fell from the sky. So there's some debris and it fell and it hit this building. And there was a second debris incident at the airport. And so we have to shut down the airport because more debris just, I don't know, just came out of the sky and just hit the building. And it's like, okay, enough with the BS. Stop lying to my face. And we're seeing that now from all of these governments. And it's why kind of independent reporting right now takes on a greater level of importance, especially as we see this new disturbing trend. And Ben, I don't want to step on your order of things.

49:23We'll get to this in a second. But what's going on in Cuba right now, I think is incredibly disturbing. Because this is the most obvious kind of gaslighting, lying, wag the dog that I have ever seen in my life. Like this is, this is like, I don't know, going back to Iraq, right? Weapons of mass destruction kind of stuff. If they basically like told you, Hey, we're lying about this. We, we really want to go to war. So we're lying about these weapons over here. It's become that obvious with this administration, the tactics that they are doing. I'm sure any day now they are going to say that Cuba is two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon, whatever it takes to justify this sort of action.

50:09But you could see how throughout history when there wasn't the internet, and don't get me wrong, there's plenty of disinformation on the internet, but you could see how before the internet that governments could just get away with this stuff, right? They could just lie to people's faces. They could just craft their own narratives. They could just completely make things up, drag their country into war under false pretenses. People, you know, kind of like Donald Trump who just want to get into this for whether it's personal reasons, whether it's for their stock portfolios, whether it's to try to be a wartime president, whatever the excuse is, whether it's to help a foreign country and whatever it is, making up these BS excuses used to be way easier.

50:52And right now, I think people have really wised up to it. And that's why there's been such backlash to the stenographers. That's why there's been such backlash to the people like the folks at Axios who just parrot what Donald Trump says and try to build this BS consensus for a war that nobody wants to be a part of. And it's why I think the approval ratings for Trump and the approval ratings for this war are like the lowest in history below Vietnam, below Iraq, below Afghanistan, below any of this stuff, because the people are just not buying the same old bullshit anymore. Exactly, Brett. And I want to emphasize your point that you made earlier in that is this is why it's so important to have good independent media out there, like highly vetted, resourced, independent media out there that will actually show people the clips, that will play the clips, that will play the footage that will dig through the filings and that's what i'm most thankful and grateful for here with this community is like this pro-democracy community that we have here are genuinely interested in the facts and they know exactly what you were saying there brett that that the scales are so tilted in the favor of the propaganda to brainwash just the masses in the united states and the masses globally and so it really it hits me to my core when we do the show and get to interact with everyone here and just all the videos ben that you're getting up throughout the day and and the sub stack just like how grateful i am for this community specifically here the mightest mighty as we continue to report on just the absolute insanity of what's going on because look they the trump regime all of they want you to be tired they want you to be exhausted they want you not to care but you guys are so hungry for the facts and the real information that's that's out there but you know you have to do some digging and researching to really get there And I'm just so grateful that we could sort of put that together here.

52:43Let me paint this picture for you once again. So imagine if rather than Donald Trump engaging in this horrible, unlawful, war crime ridden war with Netanyahu in Iran, imagine if Donald Trump, rather than inviting Putin to Alaska, rolling out the red carpet and making our troops quite literally bend down and kiss Putin's feet or come very close to doing that. Imagine if rather than Donald Trump going to China and saying, oh, you look so strong. Gee, how strong are you? Imagine if Donald Trump supported our NATO allies, just said, we support you, okay? And then supported Ukraine. And then when Zelensky has succeeded in this counteroffensive without the US right now, and maybe that's one of the reasons why Zelensky has been so great is because everything Donald Trump touches turns to crap.

53:39So just being on the opposite side of that maybe be actually a motivating force. But imagine if Trump leaned into helping Ukraine and then took credit for the major advances of Ukraine in this invasion by Russia, and then the advances based on Biden's investments in Ukraine of all of this technological innovation. And now to rather than a$1.5 trillion dollar defense budget. We may only need$500 billion because that's bigger than anywhere else in the world. But we could be getting so much of this technology with Ukrainian American JVs, where now we're getting all of this equipment that you can make much cheaper rather than using $3 million Patriot or THAAD missiles, you can do$20 ,000 drone interceptors, or you can get$20, $30 ,000 drones and be far more effective.

54:41Rather than use these gigantic battleships that cost $20 billion, Ukraine has demonstrated how you're able to just take down Russia's fleet with unmanned, submerged vessels. And then you could take credit of the same thing with the economy. Just as I said before, just American companies on their own were making profits. Imagine if you doubled down on now working to actually help manufacturing, help, I know, rather than attack green new jobs, support them, and then try to steal, like, just even if you're looking at this selfishly. And it would have bothered me so much. I'd be like, the guy's just stealing credit for Biden stuff.

55:26He's just stealing credit for it. But the country would have been doing good. And I would be like, yeah, but the country's doing good. He did the exact opposite of it all. So you'll remember in the Oval Office when Donald Trump was with Zelensky, I still remember it very vividly. This moment will go down in history as I think one of the most prescient, most just incisive moments that defines so much of this failed Trump era and the decline of American power. Let's play this clip inside the Oval Office, February 2025. Let's play it.

56:14Thank you.

56:44Thank you.

57:16So fast forward, fortunately, fast forward that we're, we've gone through a lot together and here we are still standing and fighting, but fast forward to the past 24 to 48 hours where Ukraine's been able to strike deep inside Moscow. The initiative on the battlefield has shifted. Ukraine has been able to not just hold its territory, but go on an offensive such that Putin had to beg Donald Trump to beg, Putin begging Trump to beg Zelensky to do a ceasefire for two weeks ago, the parade in Moscow, please don't strike Moscow because Zelensky and Trump realized, sorry, Trump and Putin realized that Zelensky has the ability to strike in Moscow.

58:05He could have destroyed that parade if he wants to. And we showed you some of the images of what what Moscow looked like over the past 48 hours with its critical infrastructure being destroyed, its oil depots being destroyed, and Zelensky hitting in Moscow. So here's what Zelensky said in the message this weekend. I did a whole video about it earlier in the morning, but watch what Zelensky said now. Let's play it.

58:40Thank you.

59:12Thank you. Thank you.

1:00:02Right. And so, as I said before, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory or snatching weakness from the jaws of strength with what's taking place, right? If you're just a winner or just selfishly, you want to be a winner, right? Like, why wouldn't you just be like, yeah, look what we're doing. Look how we're helping. Look what we've been able to achieve. I'm going to help the guy. I'm going to help that guy, okay? But instead, what happened in the past 24 hours? Well, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant announced yet another extension of the United States lifting the sanctions for Russian oil, allowing Russia to sell its oil and freeing up, or rather allowing Russia to make all this huge profit in order to fund its war machine against Ukraine.

1:00:54And remember what Besant previously said after he lifted the sanctions the first time, when is this several weeks back or whatever, the first time he goes, we will not be extending this again. Well, now it's the second extension of this, and that's what they're going to keep on doing. Trump always doubles down on losers. He finds a way. This is his whole life. If you want to go back and say, why did he bankrupt this? Why did he bankrupt that? This Atlantic City, this company, he's a loser. He's a loser. And he always, like a magnet, finds the way to lose. And we're seeing it right there. You know what it's like?

1:01:34It's like, if you think about it, this whole entire MAGA movement, and I'm not even just speaking here in the United States, I'm speaking about this global network of authoritarians that we see between people like Trump and Putin and the loser, Viktor Orban, and all these folks, is that they have this crab mentality, right? They are all losers, and they want to pull people down into their loserdom. And we see that time and time again with everybody here, right? We see these Trump supporters who are getting destroyed by Donald Trump, who are losing, getting killed if they're farmers, who are getting in manufacturing and are losing their jobs, whose factories are shutting down.

1:02:14People in all various sectors who are just getting absolutely destroyed, people getting destroyed going to the supermarket and paying these insane prices for groceries, they just kind of succumb to this loserdom of this MAGA movement. They're just losers, loser, loser, loser. That's what Donald Trump, that's kind of his big skill, right? Bringing, pulling people down into the depths with him and making them into the same mold of a loser that he is. And we just keep on seeing this and it is absolutely pathetic. I mean, how wrong was Donald Trump when you go looking at that clip of him and Zelensky and how accurate, how spot on, how prescient was Vladimir Zelensky back then to say, this is going to happen one day to you.

1:02:58I am just warning you, just telling him the facts, right? Just telling him the truth and the level of, how dare you say that? You can't say that to me. And then Vance jumping in like the loser he is, right? He's one of these people who have been brought down into this loserdom, right? The lifelong loser, J.D. Vance, a shape-shifting loser. What we see is now Donald Trump just piggybacking on these losers, doubling down over again as the people who he fought continue to keep defeating him and winning. Their ideas are the ones that are actually standing the test of time, like Zelensky. It kind of reminds me, actually, the way MAGA behaved during COVID, where they would get really mad by facts.

1:03:39If you told them the truth, they would get furious at you, right? Remember, the former President Biden at some point made a statement being like, if you're unvaccinated and you're going out, it's going to be a dark winter for you. There's going to be a lot of people who are dying who are unvaccinated. So get the vaccination because you do not want that to happen. And they were like, is that a threat? Is he threatening me? How dare it? What is he saying? So no, he's telling you the truth. He's trying to warn you actually about what's to come. You try to act like you're tough guys, right? You try to act like, oh, we're so alpha, we can handle it.

1:04:13Just tell it like it is, right? Tell it like it is. But you don't care about anybody who tells it like it is. You want people to lie to your face. You want people to just feed you all of this bullshit while you eat it up. That's what you want. When we need people who are actually willing to stand up and tell the truth, whether you like the reality or don't like the reality. Let's take our last quick break of the show. When we return, I do want to talk about this stock trading by Donald Trump, a new trade every nine minutes, 3 ,800 trades in a month with companies like Dell, with companies like Apple, with companies like Boeing, companies like NVIDIA that Donald Trump has dealings with.

1:04:59Think about how many times he had Dell over, right. And it was like purchase, purchase, purchase. And then buying a lot of these exchange traded funds that have components of other companies that he like has direct, has put the United States into like ownerships with like Intel. And this is a big, I mean, the people on CNBC, Jordy, who I know, you know, we're very critical of because of the way they've kind of changed that into like this MAGA show or MAGA adjacent, I think called MAGA show. They literally, when you have Jim Cramer was like, he started talking about it. And Jim Cramer, who's just, you know, a professional bullshitter and talker, he was just like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

1:05:40He literally did that. I'm not exaggerating. I've never seen that on live TV before. I'm going to talk about that. I want to talk about what's going on with this new fund that Trump is announcing,$1.776 billion going to J6 insurrectionists and other people who Trump claims had the government weaponized against them under Biden. I mean, this needs to be challenged, obviously. I mean, this is one of the height of ridiculousness and I think illegality in my opinion. And then you had J.D. Vance and Hegseth out there on the road. and I'll show you what they were saying. Let's take our last quick break of the show.

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1:10:16Links in description of both the YouTube and the audio. Use the links, use the codes. If there's an exit survey, let them know we sent you real quick. And I'm like a little bit of a light note here because I see people asking like if I'm okay. So if you're listening to the show, I'm kind of actively sweating on stream. I am recording from my in-laws house. I love them. You are listening. I'm glistening. It is like 95 degrees in this house right now. I love them. I love, very grateful. Very grateful that I could record out of here. Very, it's like 95 degrees. I am struggling this episode, brothers.

1:10:45You are glowing, I will say that. See? Yeah. So I'm not sick. It's just, we're in a little bit of a steam room right now. And that's okay. Jordy, why are you so nervous, man? Who's nervous? Not nervous, not nervous. Just be like, we could ask Jordy anything right now it will look like he's lying like that more more important than my birthday today's actually my wedding anniversary with my wife sochi so i want to say i love her love you and happy anniversary and uh very important wedding anniversary then birthday we kind of do it uh back to back right big week let's get into uh let's get into it so stock trading right remember all of the issues that we had with congressional stock trading, which rightfully so we need to call out and we need to ban.

1:11:32But in all of these congressional stock trading legislation that goes back and forth, these different drafts, the MAGA Republicans always want carve-outs for themselves that kind of render the whole thing useless. But there's always carve-outs for Donald Trump with MAGA, right? He can do whatever he wants. And then we've always seen these very unusual and suspicious just trades at massive volumes that happen right before or right after certain stories of Trump officials say, Trump officials do that, Trump officials do that. And then Donald Trump will go out and he'll say, buy certain stock. Go out and buy Dell.

1:12:09They're great, Donald Trump said a few weeks back. And then on news like that, Dell will shoot up 12%. You know, we've seen Intel since the U.S. took a piece of it go up. We've seen interesting and unusual bailouts of like NVIDIA bailing out certain companies. And it turns out that, wait a minute, Trump owned the bonds of that company that got bailed out by NVIDIA. That's fascinating. And then you look at this chart right here that comes from a disclosure that Trump was required to make when you're in the executive office. You have to, based on prior law, you have to make disclosures of your stock trades every quarter.

1:12:55And so the Office of Government Ethics then publishes it. They published it late, as always, with Donald Trump. But we got to see the trades that were disclosed by Donald Trump. And there was like 3 ,800. That's basically right around what the number was. So that in the quarter, quarter one of 2026, that's just one quarter of trading. And so that means there's a transaction about every nine minutes and 26 seconds. Like stock traders using like quant technology don't trade at that clip. Like this is trade, trade, trade, buy, sell, buy, sell, buy, buy, sell. I mean, it's wild. And it's often buy, buy, buy, buy more, buy more, buy more, buy more, buy sell, sell, sell, buy, buy, buy, dip, dip, dip, buy, buy, buy.

1:13:44And also for those on audio, we're showing a chart. What also makes it unusual is that there was still, in my opinion, a lot of inappropriate trading going on in January 25, April 25, July 25, and October 25. But compared to the amount of trading that happened right around the lead up to the war in Iran and right after, I mean, it looks like the the equivalent, if you're thinking about a chart of this graph, it's like the equivalent of like a two-story building compared to like massive skyscrapers is where the bar chart goes vertical, showing the quantity of Donald Trump stock trades right around and right after the war during certain moments where the news is getting, there's a deal, there's no deal, there's a deal, There's a no deal.

1:14:37And when you look at the disclosure, it's buying individual stocks. Like you see, there's purchasing Nvidia, there's purchasing Boeing, there's purchasing Netflix, there's purchasing Dell, there's purchasing of these things. There's also exchange traded funds, ETFs. There's like a Schwab fund to this fund, which kind of aggregate certain things and kind of package bundle stocks together. And there's different ETFs that trade along the NASDAQ or trade along S &P, right? And so there's that. And then there's another disclosure that deals with bonds, corporate bonds that earn interest, annual interest of anywhere from five, usually a little bit, the so-called junk bonds, which are usually higher than just your typical treasury bonds, but anywhere from kind of 5 % to like 8.5 % up to 10 % on the more riskier bonds.

1:15:32And then I looked at there were some companies there that got like bailouts and unusual bailouts that Trump invested in certain bonds as well. There was, I think, an NVIDIA bailing out a company where there were bonds. And I'm not suggesting one way or another Trump orchestrated this or anything. I don't want to make these suggestions or implications. I just simply want to say this creates lots of conflicts of interest and lots of red flags. And then I saw Eric Trump say, no, we keep this all in a blind trust and we're simply buying ETFs, exchange traded funds like Schwab. Well, I saw Schwab on there, but then I saw purchases of individual stocks as well.

1:16:18And I don't see any indication. And again, you could try to provide additional information, but I don't see any indication that a lot of this is subject to or any of it is subject to a blind trust. If you want to put forward evidence that shows that, but it seems that there were certain purchases that were, in my opinion, that were made around critical events. And just that chart to me of Q1, January, 2026, with this catastrophic war compared to all of the prior quarters, to me, this tells you the whole story when you watch that, which is why all of a sudden Q1 of 2026, right when the war starts, you become the most rapacious trader of stock.

1:17:02You literally turn the White House into like a stock trading ring. It should be a front page story all the time. This should be impeachable, in my view, just the conflicts of interest that get created in something like that. Again, I'm sharing with you my opinion, but you've got that. So let me pause there because that to me is a major, I'm not going to let that story just fade into the sunset, Brad Jordan. I'm sure Trump probably just finished stock trading for dummies around December and then just got really good at it, right? Just really incredible it come January. worry. It's such a disgrace.

1:17:38And I, you know, I'll just give my opinion, you know, as well throughout this. And that's that this is one of the most corrupt things that we have ever seen in the history of this country. I think it's absolutely shameful. And the same people who go on and on and on about Nancy Pelosi's stock trading are suddenly silent on this or okay with this. I think it should be okay to be bipartisan and be against this sort of thing, no matter who it is, no matter if it's a Democrat, a Republican, a member of Congress, a member of Senate, a president of the United States, a judge. This should not be going on.

1:18:12And we need rules, in my opinion, to ban this sort of thing completely. The fact that these same people who have been going on and on and on about these issues, which is actually, in my opinion, this is a good issue to actually go for. This is something that I think has broad bipartisan appeal. I agree with these MAGA people when it comes to banning stock trading from the halls of Congress. 100%. But the fact that when Donald Trump does it, suddenly it's okay because it's your dear leader, I mean, it just shows that you actually don't give a crap about this at all. You just want to try to wield it as some sort of political weapon against your opponents.

1:18:48Be consistent here. And I think this will probably bring us too shortly into this, the DOJ fund for the J6ers and the folks who were prosecuted by the Biden administration investigations, by the way, which I believe actually officially began during the first Trump administration. But Biden, they're saying that Biden weaponized the government, that they should have never have went after these January 6thers, these patriotic protesters. And now Donald Trump, he's dismissed his case against the IRS, the$10 billion case because he's so generous. He's dismissing this$10 billion case. So shouldn't you be so happy that he's doing that?

1:19:30And instead, what he's going to do is they're creating this DOJ slush fund that's$1.776 billion. Get it? 1776? $1.776 billion that could be doled out to anybody who says that they were harmed by the Biden administration as a result of kind of January six prosecutions or whatever. It's kind of Donald Trump's and his former personal criminal attorney, Todd Blanche's money to give away. And I don't know how you could be like one of these Trump supporters who's earning like, I don't know,$20 ,000 a year,$30 ,000 a year. Inflation is absolutely crushing you like it is all of us. And you're cheering on the guy who's made billions and billions of dollars this term alone off the presidency.

1:20:13You're cheering on the guy who is, in our opinion, in my opinion, manipulating the stock market, making these incredibly shady trades and profiting to the tunes of millions, if not billions of dollars off that, you're cheering on the guy who is taking$1.776 billion of your money and giving it to his friends and his allies and people who attacked this country. It is unfathomable. And I cannot think of a greater scandal, quite frankly, in American history of this sort of crime ever, ever, ever, ever go down the list. This is worse than anything in modern American history, bar none. Yet it's like maybe one headline one day, and then it's on to the next thing.

1:20:58It's just, oh, that's Donald being Donald. This is absolutely reprehensible stuff we are seeing. We can never normalize it. We can never treat this in any way like it's okay. Could you imagine if Biden in his personal capacity sued the government while he was the president for$10 billion? Okay. Not only would he be impeached, I think he would be arrested on the spot. And I think we would all be cheerleading his arrest because that is patently unlawful and despicable. I don't care what he did, right? I mean, could you imagine they announced it like, what did he do? He's suing the government for$10 billion because he's saying his feelings were hurt.

1:21:41That's what Donald Trump did. He sued saying that his taxes, which were always released by presidents in the past, except for Donald Trump, were leaked by this contractor of the IRS, a guy named Little John, who also leaked 7 ,500 other high net worth people taxes. In 2019, when Trump was in office, Trump says that injured him$10 billion. So does that mean the 7 ,500 other people have$10 billion cases? No, the whole case was phony. In my opinion, it was time barred. There's immunities that the federal government has, and this would go nowhere on a motion to dismiss. But the federal judge, Kathleen Williams from the Southern District of Florida, where Trump filed it, she said, hey, Trump, hey, Treasury Department, Trump in the personal capacity sued the Treasury Department, then bragged that he's already won the lawsuit because he's settling with himself.

1:22:30So the judge ordered, you need to let me know why this isn't a fraudulent, collusive settlement agreement. I want you to brief it. And the judge appointed three firms as investigators to basically help the judge understand if this was like a fraudulent, collusive case. So the briefing was due this week. Trump and the Treasury Department had to justify why they filed this lawsuit. So instead of justifying it in front of the judge, they dismiss the case with prejudice and say, so now you don't have jurisdiction, judge, even though we filed it here, nothing you can do. And now we're entering a settlement extrajudicially outside of the court for 1.776 billion.

1:23:15So using the court as a kangaroo court, when the judge was actually calling out the behavior and said, justify this, then Trump goes, I'm going to dismiss it now. And then we'll enter the settlement. And now you don't have jurisdiction judge. So we'll see what the judge does because the case was still initially filed with the judge. So can the judge say, now I have serious concerns that you've used this court as a way to kind of launder this arrangement, which is improper. I want to still know what happened in my court. I don't want to, you know, should there be sanctions applied? What should the repercussions be?

1:23:57So we'll see what Judge Williams does there. But that was my big, one of my big call outs. And again, I view this on a bipartisan basis. I don't think it's an issue, which is, okay, you've now used the court, you've wasted our judicial resources, And now you refuse to go through the judicial process because this is an authoritarian regime. And then when you have people like Jeanine Pirro, the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., the number one in D.C., right? So she's asked, well, what do you think about this slush fund? What's your view about it? Here's what Pirro said. Let's play it.

1:24:57you

1:25:05what why do you ask these out of the lane questions you really you don't know the Treasury Department is in your jurisdiction. They're the settling party, as is the IRS. And so you weren't involved. I know nothing. I don't know anything about it. And then you have, I mean, it's the old, this was Orbán's tactics. These are Putin's tactics. Then you have J.D. Vance realizing that the Trump regime can't run on the economy because the economy is terrible. They can't run on affordability because people can't afford anything. And so their whole thing, they're running on is we're going after the fraudsters.

1:25:42The reason things are bad is all of the fraud taking place. And we've got to get rid of the crazy leadership in Washington. We got to, so they're running a campaign against themselves, but framing it as we need to, we need to stop the real bad guys in DC. You're the guys running DC. Watch JD Vance say, if you want to rebuild the American dream, you got to vote against this crazy leadership in DC. Let's play it.

1:26:21Yeah. And then he says, when someone steals a billion dollars from you, that's theft. That's what you just did. That's what the regime just did. 1.776 billion there. $1 billion they want for the golden ballroom,$1.5 trillion they won for defense spending while ripping away people's healthcare. Here, play this clip.

1:27:09You're the people ripping away healthcare. You don't have a healthcare plan, which you promised two weeks, two weeks, two weeks, just like every two-week death spiral that Trump gets everybody into. Two weeks, we'll do this. Two weeks, we'll do that. Two weeks, we'll do this. Two weeks, we'll do that. All BS. You're the con artist. You're the frauds. You're fraud, waste, and abuse. And then they have Hegsa, the defense secretary, though it pains me to say that. He goes to Kentucky. And in Kentucky, he's out there talking about how Thomas Massey is not loyal to Donald Trump. And we've got to elect this guy, Ed Galrine, who's running against Massey because Massey had the audacity of calling for the release of the Epstein files, exposing a child sex trafficking ring has made him disloyal to MAG.

1:27:59And now they send the defense secretary out there to become a partisan campaign tool, which was never the role of a defense secretary. And he says, look, we need people who cheer on Donald Trump and vote whatever Trump wants. He literally says this. Watch what Hegson says while he's in Kentucky. Let's play it.

1:28:27Thank you.

1:29:06Okay, sorry. Quick. One point before you go into it, Jordy, because this is what he says when he, I'll anticipate what you're going to say. You have the defense secretary actively campaigning. Is that where you're going to go? Don't steal my line. Yeah, that's what I was going to ask. Is it normal? Is that normal for the defense secretary to be actively campaigning? Well, watch the Putin-esque, Orban-esque tactic of what he says. He goes, I just want to say for all the lawyers out there wondering why the defense secretary is out here doing this. Here, play this clip.

1:29:55and look for the audio listeners for the audio listener he says it with just like this the shit-eating grin, like the same way Janine Pirro said, next question, or however she ended. Like, they're so cartoonishly evil, like this Trump regime. It's really, like, it's outlandish, and they're doing it in front of your face. Sorry, go ahead, Brett. It goes back to what I was saying earlier, right? Like, the one thing about this Trump administration, this Trump regime, is that it has put the propaganda front and center, because it could not be more obvious. But it's almost so obvious that it works on, dare I say, dumb people.

1:30:26I don't know. I'll let you be the judge. But it works on a - What Trump says, Brett. Trump says, I love the poorly educated or whatever that line is. That's what he says. Not my words, but like what is more obvious than this? What is more obvious than spending all your time, Trump is posting all day, post, post, post, post, post, attacking specifically the individuals who voted and pushed for the release of the Epstein files. That's what I would call a tell, right? What's the other thing that somebody like a Thomas Massey broke with Donald Trump on, right? And you have a headset there going, oh, we don't need someone who's an obstructionist who never votes with us.

1:31:05Massey's voted with Trump 91 % of the time. And I want to be clear. I'm no Thomas Massey fan in general. Okay. I respect what he did with the Epstein files. He's done a lot of crazy stuff, said a lot of crazy things about January 6th, which I think is reprehensible. This is not me agreeing with Thomas Massey, but I'm pointing out this right here. 91 % of the time, Thomas Massey votes with Trump. The things he doesn't vote with Trump on, Epstein, the war. He's against the war. He's against these war efforts. He calls it out. And what more, you couldn't paint the picture more than having the literal representation of the military industrial complex, the secretary of defense going to the district to campaign against that person.

1:31:51It is the most obvious thing. And the fact that Trump is attacking Massey, that Trump is attacking Boebert, that Trump is attacking all of the people who agree with him on all of the stuff, mainly except for one, and that's the release of the Epstein files. I mean, you could not appear guiltier if you tried, if you tried. And the Vance stuff, it's just the most classic kind of representation of the idea of accuse those of what you are guilty of yourself, which is a Freudian concept. It's a concept that was employed by Nazi regimes. And that's exactly what this Trump regime is doing right now. All of their kind of weaknesses, which are a lot, all of everything that they do, they simply, it doesn't even matter if it's on the same day, at the same hour, while this$1.776 billion quote unquote weaponization fund is being announced, Vance could go out and say, anyone who steals over a billion dollars from you is a fraudster.

1:32:56I mean, those happen basically simultaneously. And he says that without irony. And it's not a mistake. It's not an accident. It's the point. It's the psychological maneuvering that Vance is specifically using. It's a technique that dictators have used. So don't think, oh, this is just what a coincidence that he said that. No, it's not a coincidence that he is saying today. It is part of the techniques of MAGA, the way they kind of brainwash people, the way that they deploy their propaganda. And then that leads me to Jim Cramer on CNBC, when he's asked by Carl Quintanilla, who's actually the kind of lone voice of reason on these panels.

1:33:39And it wasn't even like Quintanilla gave a difficult question. So, isn't Trump also investing in these companies? Watch what Cramer does here. Let's play it. Thank you.

1:34:25Hold on. Hold on. Don't bail him out. I know you have to cut to commercial. I know you probably have to do things, your corporate media or whatever. Don't bail him out. Let him speak. If he's going to be the MAGA guy, let him be the MAGA guy. If the other gym is going to be the MAGA, let them be the MAGA. Let them answer. Let me politely disagree with you. I think he said plenty i think i was watching this live and i took my remote and i threw my remote across the room because again this is just this is this is the daily occurrence on the show it's a mega property in my opinion it feels like a mega property at this point that that like embezzles mega talking points to people yet when there's the slightest of pushback the main mega vocalists go silent or or cat got your tongue there, Jim Cramer.

1:35:13I mean, to me, that that's why it's frustrating, Brett. That was bonkers. And I'll just, you know, piggyback off that and say shout out to Carl Quintanilla, who does an incredible job. You know, I think he's the only individual on that show right now who actually lives in reality. And it's sad that it's down to just him, but he does, he does a fantastic job with his reporting. But I mean, that's like, that's beyond parody, him not even being able to say words, him just making noises. It sounded like he was having a medical episode on the air, but he just could not get himself to dare speak out against Trump in this situation.

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