Trump Kicks Out Press After Shock Tariff Ruling!!

0:00Donald Trump is having a meltdown after the Supreme Court struck down his tariffs against the world. Also, a horrible GDP readout for the fourth quarter, and inflation is coming in hotter than expected. Donald Trump was holding a presser earlier this morning with governors who were at the White House. Donald Trump then sent the press out. He kicked the press out during this press conference and said, you know, bye-bye, time to get out, as he continued to have this meltdown. Let me show you what took place moments ago. So let's play this clip.

0:49Well, thank you very much, everybody. Thank you very much. And I guess we're going to be asking the press to leave. That way we're going to talk very candidly and take questions. I think at the end it wasn't supposed to be. I just said to Suzy, what about questions? And, sir, you can do whatever you want. I don't know if she says that to other people that she's represented over the years. But thank you very much for being here. It's a great honor. And the media, thank you. You can leave now. Mr. President, are you considering a limited military strike to pressure in Iran? That's what it is. President Trump,

1:31at breakfast with the governors, you heard him there saying that he's going to deliver some remarks. and then take questions from the room, not from the media, and then asking the media to leave. Now, we know from people who were inside the room, Donald Trump then started cursing after kicking the press out. He said, these fucking courts, you know, I don't like to curse. I'm just giving you the receipts of what actually happened. These effing courts, these effing courts is what he said over and over again. CNN got the scoop there of what went down. Let's just play this clip of what happened inside this governor's meeting in the White House after Donald Trump learned that the Supreme Court struck down his tariffs against the world.

2:14He was melting down. Apparently he was sweating. His face was red and he just started like cursing almost like he was going to cry. I heard it was incredibly weird. CNN has the scoop as well. Let's play this clip about this. Yeah, Pamela, we still have no official reaction from the White House or President Trump. We are waiting. I am told that they are meeting, discussing how they are going to respond. But we have learned more about what happened in the room when President Trump was with those governors and he learned of the Supreme Court decision. Apparently, the breakfast had been going well.

2:45They were working together. And then President Trump became enraged. He started ranting about the decision, not only calling it a disgrace, but started attacking the courts at one point saying these effing courts, but using the actual language there. We know that President Trump does use expletives on quite often when he is enraged in particular. Now, this, of course, comes as this tariff policy. This could not be a bigger decision for President Trump. This could not be a bigger loss for President Trump. Not only is so much of his economic agenda based on these tariffs, so much of his foreign policy is based on these tariffs.

3:20He has used these tariffs as leverage in almost every meeting that he has had around the world. He has touted them as the most important part of the economic agenda. So clearly a huge loss. And he recognizes that today. Pamela. All right, Chris at home. Now, earlier this morning, Donald Trump released the GDP data before it was officially released. It's again, unlawful to leak that out. But Donald Trump posted this before the Supreme Court made the ruling striking down his tariffs against the world. Trump posted the Democrat shutdown cost the USA at least two points in GDP. That's why they are doing it in many form.

4:00Again, no shutdowns. Also, lower interest rates. Too late. Powell is the worst. President D.J.T. again, ranting and raving like a lunatic this morning. And the Supreme Court said you don't have the power under this 1977 law, IEPA, to impose tariffs against the world. That belongs to Congress. Article 1, Section 8, the power of taxation. It's the power of Congress. And they did not in this statute called IEPA, which talks about emergency powers to regulate imports and exports. It doesn't even mention the word tariffs in IEPA. They didn't give you this power to tariff the world. by you declaring unilaterally that there's a drug war emergency against Canada and Mexico, or that trade deficits, by the way, which are increasing right now since Donald Trump imposed tariffs against the world, not decreasing, they're increasing, but saying that that constitutes an emergency and then you're going to say you can tariff the world.

5:04The Supreme Court in a six to three decision said absolutely no way. Go and you can watch the full analysis that Michael Popak and I did. It's the video we dropped on our YouTube channel before this. Oh, by the way, while I got you here, we are so close to 6 million subscribers. Can we hit 6 million subscribers today? You may think you're subscribed to this YouTube channel, but you may not actually be subscribed. Double check and hit subscribe right now. Also, let's talk about that GDP falling below expectations. Fourth quarter GDP below expectations came in at 1.4 % versus the 3 % expected. And Trump regime officials were telling us that it may even come in as high as 5%, but it came in at 1.4%.

5:50Very, very disappointing indeed. Indeed, also inflation as measured by PCE, which is really a consumer index, consumer goods, and how inflation is affecting consumers came in hotter than expected. 2.9 % versus 2.8%. And core PCE came in at 3 % versus 2.9%, which was the expected. So now, after this Supreme Court ruling, Trump and his regime have to now pay back close to$200 billion, somewhere between$175 billion and$200 billion in tariffs that they took from companies in the United States. It was never paid by countries abroad. It was always incurred. It's a tax on Americans. And companies here are passed on to the consumers.

6:41The consumers likely won't see any relief from the prices going up on their goods. But the companies that had to increase the prices, they're now going to go to Commerce and Treasury and say, give us our money back. And now it's going to be total chaos in the Trump regime as they've got to pay back the money they unlawfully stole. Who would have thought that a felon like Donald Trump, a sexual abuser like Donald Trump, a fraud like Donald Trump would go and steal money unlawfully? Who could have predicted that one right there? Monica Crowley, a former Fox host who Donald Trump made an ambassador of protocol, kind of like a spokesperson at the White House.

7:24She issued the following statement. President Trump has plenty of tools in the Tower of Toolbox. don't be a panicking trust Trump what a weird criminal cult these people are who continue to cover up the Epstein files and don't think for a second that on the Midas touch network we're going to forget the fact that the Epstein class cabal resides in the White House and they're currently covering up a child sex trafficking ring by also not producing 50 terabytes or so of documents millions of documents that they're still not disclosing them. That's one of the reasons why we're also leading the boycott against the Trump state of the union.

8:07The people state of the union will be right here on the Midas touch network. We have dozens of members of Congress and senators who will be speaking and not showing up to the state of the union, but they'll be here with the Midas touch network. So what were other Trump regime officials? You had Kevin Hassett, Donald Trump's national economic advisor, blaming Democrats for the 1.4 % GDP growth. These guys can take no accountability. It was the Democrats fault. It's Biden's fault. It's this, it's that. It's when, when, when y 'all are in charge, y 'all are in charge, act like freaking leaders for once.

8:45You know what? Maybe just act like grownups because it will be major progress for you to simply act like adults. You know, frankly, children behave better than all of y 'all here. Replay this clip of Hassett. GDP up only 1.4 % on an annual basis fourth quarter. That's not what President Trump wants to see, is it? Well, you know, the Democrat shutdown took about 2 % off the number, according to the Council of Economic Advisors. So if you're really thinking about, like, what trajectory is the economy on right now, it's way north of three. And if you look at the average of the three quarters since President Trump took office, you know, abstracting from the first quarter when it was, you know, mostly Joe Biden's quarter, then we're looking at growth of 3.2 % on average over the year.

9:30And so I think if you add back in the government shutdown number, which will bounce back at the first quarter, I think you could say that Trump's economy is running pretty close at 3%. Okay, at the top, well, I just don't want to talk about it. This episode of the Midas Touch podcast is brought to you by Wild Grain. Wild Grain is the first bake-from-frozen subscription box for sourdough breads, artisanal pastries, and fresh pastas, and everything bakes in 25 minutes or less. It feels like having a real bakery on standby whenever you want it. What I love about Wild Grain is that unlike a lot of the store-bought bread, they use simple ingredients you could actually pronounce, plus a slow fermentation process that can be easier on your belly and richer in nutrients and antioxidants.

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11:28Here, play this clip. Just don't want to talk about inflation. The PCE, that picked up a little bit. That's not a great sign, is it? Well, I mean, it's just one month. The Consumer Price Index is headed right back towards the target. If we look at the details, there are a heck of a lot of things that are growing in the ones now. One of the things that happens, Stu, when you've got runaway inflation like we had in the Biden years is kind of the price of everything is going up. And what we're seeing now is that there's a whole bunch of variation in what's going up and what's going down. There are a whole bunch of things below the target.

12:01And that's exactly what you see as the Fed reaches its target. At the top of the hour, the Supreme. Next state regime media asks Kevin Hassett about, you know, what do you say to the economists? You know, you claim that the economists who said that most of the tariffs are being passed on to consumers. You said that the economists who prepared that report from the New York Federal Reserve, these professional economists who wrote a study with data and detail and evidence showing that tariffs are passed on to consumers, which we all know they are. You said they deserve to be disciplined. What do you mean by that?

12:33Play this clip. Good. I got to go to this New York Fed study. This is about. Oh, yes. You know where I'm going here. The study said 86 % of the tariff burden falls on American businesses and American consumers. 86 % falls on us. You say the economists who came up with the study should be disciplined. What's your issue with the study? Yeah, you know, I probably got a little emotional when I said that. And I regret if the people who wrote the study feel like I personally attacked them. That was certainly not my intent. And the bottom line is that the Federal Reserve itself needs to have a policy where, you know, the extreme gravitas of the Fed should be used to talk about monetary policy and not to go willy nilly into every single political topic if they want to preserve their political independence.

13:20And by the way, don't we all remember when Howard Lutnick said that the GDP in Q4 would be gangbusters? Remember, he said, we own it in quarter four. It's gangbusters. It's ours. We own it. Okay, well, you own it. But now it's the Democrats' fault. Anyway, here's the montage that our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, created here. Play this clip. ...announced is in the fourth quarter of 2025, this economy is going to be humming. Okay. Look for the second quarter of 2026 to be amazing as all this money. Okay, the Donald Trump economy, we own the economy in the fourth quarter. We start to get, you know, we get shovels in the ground.

14:06I would say the first quarter of next year will be the best quarter. Job after job, factory after factory, they're coming and they're coming now. So I would say one year from today, you're going to see, you're going to see job numbers in the second half of next year that are going to blow you away. And I would say the first quarter of next year will be the best quarter. the golden age of America. It's coming now. You feel it now. What's going on? So the economy that Donald Trump owns starts at the end of this year. You can't think of the employment. You look at next year's employment. It is going to explode.

14:44All these factories. Then you had Maria Bartiroma who claimed that she didn't even believe the GDP numbers. I'm skeptical that these are the numbers. Trump said it was coming in so hot. He said, we've never been hotter before. So if Trump said we've never been hotter before, how, do you tell me that Donald Trump lies? Yes, Maria Bartiroma. We're telling you that the guy, the sexual predator, the felon, the fraud, the bankruptor of most of his businesses in life, the demented individual who goes on stage and starts rambling and not completing full sentences. Yeah. The guy who's covering up the Epstein files, the guy who says he's been vindicated in there.

15:34Yeah. That guy, not a good guy, Bartiroma. Not a good guy, Bartiroma. Here, play this clip of her. I mean, I'm skeptical too, because you had a close to 5 % number just a few months ago. And now you're talking about 1.4%. percent. You know, markets are on the move. The Dow is down 115. But if you have a slower economy and you have what that indicate that the Fed would want to lower interest rates, although the PCE being hotter than expected, perhaps the changes the Fed's directory. What does this say to the Fed in terms of rate cuts, Jason? It's it's a great question. And of course, there's going to new leadership and i i think again there's going to be more not to get too technical about this but there may be more of a focus on the balance sheet rather than rates and and there's of course a connection but it's not it's not perfect connection and i i think it's uh in i think it's well in time that we do that that i think we should lower rates but also maybe tighten up the balance sheet of that too right and that's something scott bess and then finally we have Neil Katyal, along with his co-counsel, who were responsible for arguing this case in the Supreme Court.

16:49Here's their statement. Let's play. Neil Katyal joining us. He argued against the tariffs in this case before the Supreme Court and lead plaintiff Sarah Albrecht. Neil, thank you so much for joining us there. Thank you for joining us. Let me get both of your reactions. Neil, I'll start with you. Yeah, so we have a couple of statements. We won't be able to take questions. These are our first remarks. We've just seen the decision, just heard it in the Supreme Court. But today, the United States Supreme Court stood up for the rule of law, stood up for Americans everywhere. Its message was simple.

17:25Presidents are powerful, but our Constitution is more powerful still. In America, only Congress, the Chief Justice, writing for six justices, said only Congress can impose taxes on the American people. And that's what tariffs are. Tariffs are taxes. I am so grateful for the leadership of the Liberty Justice Center, and in particular, the brilliant woman standing next to me, Sarah Albrecht, who masterminded this case, who took this case when so many others were afraid to stand up for the rule of law, who was dauntless in our defense of the Constitution. I'm also grateful to the five small business owners who stood up against these unjust, unconstitutional taxes.

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