I wish I were making this up. Donald Trump just held what may go down as the most disastrous press event in modern American history. I watched it live, and if you care about the future of this country, you should watch my latest report. Because this event wasn’t just bizarre—it was dangerous.
Standing outside the White House like a cartoon villain, Trump proudly announced a 10% baseline tariff on every country in the world (Canada and Mexico currently exempted and being handled separately) and 25% tariffs on all foreign-made automobiles. Then he went country-by-country with a clumsy chart, inventing numbers and butchering trade policy like a deranged game show host. Markets instantly plummeted. The S&P after-hours chart basically turned into a cliff.
He talked about “cheating at the gate,” accused the European Union of robbing us, called Vietnam “great negotiators,” and said Taiwan “took all our semiconductors.” Then he started waxing poetic about the word “groceries.” Yes, groceries. “Such an old-fashioned term.” Huh?!
This isn’t funny. This is the guy who promised prices would go down on Day One. Instead, he’s crashing the economy and triggering inflation with a trade war against the planet. He thinks tariffs are some magic wand, even though history (and economists) agree they’re taxes on the American people. Tariffs hurt the middle class. That’s why we moved to an income tax system in 1913—something Trump seems to think was a global conspiracy against him personally.
He cited 1789 as America’s peak wealth era. Really, 1789? That's when the country didn’t even have electricity, but sure, let’s pretend we were all billionaires churning butter and dying at 40.
Then, of course, he attacked Canada. Because when in doubt, blame the Canadians. He claimed they “screw us” on milk and called them a national security threat—because apparently, Canada’s been the real problem all along.
At the end of his performance, Trump said we’d all look back on this day as “Liberation Day.” Liberation from what? Sanity? Logic? Economic stability?
A CNBC anchor noted following Trump’s announcement: “The market reaction after hours, I've never seen anything like it. This is worse than the worst-case scenario of the tariffs that many in the market expected.”
This is what happens when you put a bankrupt con man in charge of a global economy. The same guy who couldn’t run a casino without losing money is now trying to run the country like a reality show—and we’re all footing the bill.
Either Trump is the most incompetent man to ever touch economic policy, or he’s actively trying to destroy the United States. I think it’s both.
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He IS trying to collapse the economy for his friend in Russia
Putin's puppet, and not even trying to hide it.
This is what I’ve thought since Inauguration Day when the destruction started. It has just accelerated from there.
I imagine he started selling our most sacred secrets upon receiving his first briefing in 2015.
But now Trump’s pro-Putin rampage is escalating to world destruction, without any subterfuge.
You’re correct. He has no fear now.
He’s deranged. I mean in the clinical sense. We have a truly severely mentally ill president and all the Republicans do is nod their heads. Do they not love their families?
They love power and money.
And at their levels, power and money are indistinguishable.
And they won't let go until they're forced out.
I have fantasies of a Rambo style assault on the White House and Capital. I seriously don’t see any other path out, as long as Republicans bow their heads in compliance. Odd how governance became the vehicle of our downfall, when it was conceived for the opposite.
I do not see a frontal attack on the white house and the Capitol, I see people protesting in the streets nationwide.
100% necessity at this point.
Exactly.
we all do -- but don't be fool enough to do it
Yessss! That would be a beautiful thing to see 😜
Agreed, he needs the Full Mussolini.
Yes, I think he's totally deranged too. I believe the Canada hate on /tariff idea started because Melania made google eyes at our PM, Justin Trudeau. Trudeau is everything trump is not: attractive, handsome, intelligent, successful, respected by world leaders and YOUNG. Can't buy these attributes
By imposing the tariffs on Canada, he's created a huge tax cash cow and at the same time gets revenge on Trudeau, who he belittles and berates endlessly. There were other advantages.
Trump saw how much attention he garnered from this move and that his power and wealth could increase exponentially if he put the screws to other trading partners. He gets to bully and exert his dominance over the wealthiest countries in the world, all those leaders for whom he harbors a "deep" resentment and jealousy. He knows he's never been accepted or respected on the world stage with these 'serious' people. Trump knows he could never legitimately rise to their level of achievement or status and is sadistically enjoying watching them squirm. He's the winner now and they are all going to feel it.
Of course he hasn't thought it through because he's blinded by the $ signs and "revenge". He's left his lackeys to deal with the ensuing carnage, but there is no cleaning up the mess.
The man is out of his mind. Who knows how this will end (heavy sigh).
I think you are exactly right! As evidenced by? Justin immediately flying down to show Trump the data debunking the claims! But seriously? Show Donald revidenced based research data? Donald "cannot read a financial spreadsheet!".
He's emotionally driven and Bullies anyone that is a conflict! He bankrupt two casinos? Ha ha. A stupid buffoon queens mob Boss!
Trudeau DID NOT reciprocate Melania's flirt. She just like Trump are 100% corrupt and transactional. Perhaps Melania's absence is some sort of time out as well. Reports are she has been completely focused on her movie financed by the Amazon billionaire. But we see nothing of her. Nothing!
You are right Judith, you are right.
Yes. I agree. Trudeau and Canadians commented the goal post kept moving and even when they bent over backward Trump would like and still tariff Canada -- the moment it happened I knew it was based on that photo of Melania flirting with Trudeau who did not respond -- Trump will wait years but he never forgets once his ego is dinged which happens every day -- He also hates Macron and anyone who is bilingual -- so unfit it is an embarrassment. But you cannot cower in the face of abusive controlling types. You have to fight back. Zelensky knows this dealing with Putin for so long. Today all our allies are flipping Trump off in unison, including Zelensky. I love it!
And FUCK YOU Marco Rubio for playing along with his madness.
Trump stays up all Night writing his crap on his website and sleeps all day till about 3 :00 P.M. Then goes on TV for an Hour or Longer to tell his takeaway from all Americans and what Putin tells Trump what, When and why do the damage Trump has done to the USA in 73 days, and Trump still has over 3 years to stay in office unless a democrats take over Congress in Midterm, and impeach trump the first order of Business.
Remember when they said the Dems knew Biden had dementia and weren’t doing anything about it? What do they call it now - how they are covering for Trump’s mental illness and applauding all he is doing?
You’re right. Everyday when he speaks he doesn’t make sense. Tariffs in 2 small islands not inhabited but only penguins & seals live there. Really? How are they going to pay anything? Bring the Prez fresh fish? He doesn’t read to do research. His staff is allowing gibberish to go out. 🤷♀️
Read Project 2025. Trump is a puppet. No one has read Project 2025. No one.
No! They have no respect or love for themselves. Just an enormous heap of garbage that needs to burn.
It's horrific.
Most likely why he stole all those files of our confidential documents too. He made money on some & gave away secrets on some. He was reckless with them -& will do it again no doubt. Traitor to our country.
Agreed! Donald has sold us all out numerous times! This I'm certain! Prove me wrong?
I'm sure Putin has our nuclear codes by now.
Ha ha yep. Bet hegseth asked JD or Steve Miller if they were right? Putin following signal? Probably still, was it Donald that said they will still use it? He knows nothing about it! JD was speaking policy on it for him! Well him and Steve were!
They want to use signal due to it automaticallyndeletes! No archives or foia requests have no info! That's Criminal! Again!!
Honestly, we should give him a huge spreadsheet because the codes change constantly. There is no way to give someone a code and have it mean anything.
It is so scary. An old fashioned term. OMG!! Why do the maga cult not see what has happened? President Biden was rebuilding ~ even after having been left with the lyin' king's mess. Horrible.
It goes deeper but hard to keep up with. The first couple of weeks after he took oath, he dropped all of the guardrails we have to protect our country (internet/voting/everything) from foreign interference according to what is already in freaking print in Project 2025. I don't know why people are surprised. It is all in plain sight and written and published.
The fact that thru a reporter we found out how lax everything is at the White House when it comes to security was the story not the fact, they are using Signal versus all the options to keep communications secure. It is the modus operandi. It is this administration's protocol to have no security!!
In their world where security is tossed out the window thru several Executive Orders that have dismantled what kept us safe the only error was including that journalist in the call. Otherwise, the freewheeling unsecured communications and protocol is no security.
They will keep that up because it is protocol to not practice secure methods (all have been tossed thru Executive Orders) but you can bet your bottom dollar they will never ever make the mistake of including a journalist in on any of those communications.
That is the bottom line.
Like who was really signing Dutch Reagan's signature at the end?
How 'bout on 1/20/16 when his first guests in the Oval Office were his two handlers from Russia!
You’re right; it’s been clear since then. Shame on the Republicans for shutting down the investigation results from “Russia Russia Russia”, during Trump One. They are all traitors. It was perfectly obvious from day one.
They're complicit; the NRA has been funneling Russian monies to the GOP since Charlton Heston raised his fist and declared to Al Gore, "From my cold dead hands!" Putin is their daddy.
*gun
He raised his gawddamn gun!
Remember Helsinki?
Oh gosh yes. The warning lights were flashing all through the first term. But politically he was constrained by his “normal” cabinet. Was there a stenographer in that meeting? I know there was in one of their meetings. I always thought that poor woman’s life was probably ruined. Can you imagine how terrified she must have been and will be for the rest of her life?
Nobody has ever mentioned the time when (during his first term)Trump went to Russia and after the public known meeting, he and Putin has a meeting of their own in secrecy with only the translators…Would love to know what was discussed secretly by those translators….
And don’t you feel sorry for those translators? Stay away from 6th floor windows. Was that the meeting where Trump grabbed the notes from the translator as they left the room? This was all highly irregular and suspicious. And here we are, even after J6. That’s what allowing propaganda networks to thrive will give you.
It's been even more painful for me for I saw it in 2016. I'm surprised to be still standing. It's been lonely.
I saw it, too. Nobody listened to the warnings.
I can hear Putin laughing in the background
Soon he'll be laughing in public.
https://handsoff2025.com/?SQF_SOURCE=faithfulamerica
Don wants to invite him to marr locco!! there's a international warrant for his arrest?
I’m pressing the heart under each article to say I liked what you had to say and trolls/ bots are immediately erasing my likes could this be DJT or
Elon inspired?
I’m noticing a lot of glitches. Maybe the traffic tonight is overwhelming. People are hot!
I always start with suspecting Don Jr.! Why? Because of his history! I always wondered what Donald was flushing and Meadows was burning?? Now they just communicate on signal! Their hiding from us! They work for us folks! Or suppose to!
I often have problems when trying to 'like" MTN posts. I've also wondered if it's because of interference. Nothing would surprise me at this point. (Disgust? Yes...surprise? No.)
I had that happen to a page I'm not subscribed to. Restarted my phone, and everything worked fine. Got rid of the glitching, too.
You noticed that too.
and billionaire buds who will sweep up assets at pennies on the dollar
That’s what’s saddest. Using the economy to enrich the billionaires who clearly don’t need anymore. How about giving back to the people now?
It’s a nice thought. However, that’s not the plan. So, don’t count on it. We’re going to have to take it back by any means necessary.
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This is the end game
I think he's trying to collapse the economy for all his billionaire investment friends so they can scoop up all the low priced stocks, bankruptcies, etc. Plus they'll all get a big tax break while us regular folks see earnings go down the toilet. They don't care about us..at all.
He hates this country because he lost in 2020 and now we all have to pay for the blow to his bloated ego. Monsters from the id, all of them.
Exactly. Recessions are only good for the evil greedy rich and ruling class. Everyone else suffers, while we fund their luxury VIP First class lifestyles
🤷♀️😥👎😅 what’s he thinking? Whose side is he on? Traitor. He’s deliberately tanking the U.S. knowing us consumers will suffer. He needs to be impeached & thrown out of the Whitehouse! ASAP. He keeps bringing up Biden too / he must be jealous of him & his accomplishments. . .
Exactly. He hates Biden and Obama bc he couldn't con them or buy them. These former presidents were superior to him in every way, he knows it
Exactly!
I think Putin has some things over the Donald! Like maybe letting his oligarch neighbor use the pool side bathroom while shopping for classified docs? Or Donald with the urinating Russian Prostitudes? My guess its equivalent to high treason "like our Country has never seen before".
The real puppet masters? Steve Miller, Russel Vogt?? Putin has black mail maybe? Steve and Russel are using the Donald for aligning their 2025 plan!! Just my thoughts!
Fascism gains control by crushing the economy and impoverishing the population; and then taking full control. Fascism = Redistribution of wealth from the working man to the oligarchs. All will be taken from us. We need to hit the streets! Pressure Burst Pipes! Hope to see everyone one of us at a 4/5 HANDS OFF! protest Saturday, April 5th being coordinated across the country and internationally by INDIVISIBLE.
Hitting the streets April 5 is a great start.
Don't forget the Nerd Reich bros; they're more influential than Putin so long as Musk is running algorithms through our govt. databases and feeding the illegally obtained info on all of us into his AGI investment, Grok.
Please, Meiselas Brothers, interview Gil Duran, who has been researching Peter Thiel (the man who made Shady Vance), David Sacks, Elon Musk and other players for years. He exposes their plan to destroy our democracy so they can rule the world and provides critical information on the plan behind what so many still perceive only as chaos. If you're not familiar with it, please read the New Republic article Duran wrote ("The Most Powerful Crypto Bro in Washington Has Very Weird Beliefs"); you can find it here: https://www.gilduran.com/: click on "The New Republic" link (top bullet point). Or watch his posts on The Nerd Reich YouTube channel.
This is NOT some hair-brained conspiracy theory; all these tech billionaires are on record in primary sources; they are currently lobbying Congress to allow them to turn SF's Presidio into a Network State, aka Freedom City, which will answer to no government, where the elites are white, male tech billionaires.
Crypto promotion is part of the plan to destroy our rule-of-law based economy and the Fed. They are trying to co-opt Democrats as well as MAGAworld to enable unregulated crypto markets. I will not vote for anyone—Democrat or Republican—who takes campaign money from the crypto bros. Adam Schiff did in his Democratic primary run against Katie Porter, who understood the danger and refused to take their money. So they ran relentless ads against her, propagating lies and hiding the source of these ads in condensed, fine print no one could read. I froze the video ad frame only with great difficulty to see who was sponsoring these ads; it was crypto promoters who didn't want voters to know who was behind their ads.
He did exactly what his Oligarchs wanted. He tanked the economy, stocks tumbled in real-time.
Now sit back and watch how many cheap stocks the billionaires buy up.
When people start missing mortgage payments and business loan payments, watch them buy up the real estate and businesses as well. Whatever is left, the banks will own.
Yep. I believe that’s 💯 the plan! Disgusting. I don’t understand how anyone can be so self centered & lack empathy so much!!
You forgot the punchline. Then they will rebuild. This time it’s feudal
Many of the banks will also collapse. A great deal of the required reserves are held in the form of market assets: stocks and bonds.
Remember after the last economic recession disaster in 2008 when the banks got bailed out and the American people lost their life savings, and were left holding the bag?
Yes a Recession under another Republican President Bush…and it took Obama 2 terms to get us back a good economy then Trump inherited that economy just to turn around and made it an inflation again…which Biden inherited but at least he kept it stable but now with Trump it will become a Recession….
Yes, true. The reality is H& B purveyors, drug makers/dealers (legal and otherwise), banks, undertakers and gun manufacturers always win no what's going on in the economy.
Not so for the average Jane or Joe. Nosiree Bob. Even after one gains title to a home, it can go back to its "original owner" aka the bank if taxes aren't paid. So the illusion of ownership is just that--an illusion. The same goes for privacy and now amid this fresh h*ll designed by the devil's manservant--what we've known as freedom.
Surely Bibi And Putrid and licking their chops right about now. The irony is Dumpty Doo Doo will never attain the recognition or the respect he craves from his heroes--not even his loyal subjects. He is hated and despised. He's not getting what he wants and will leave this life having achieved nothing of value.
"Nothing From Nothing Leaves Nothing" --Billy Preston aka The Fifth Beatle
His plan for Gaza is revealing of his plan for the U.S.
How does he get stopped?
Impeachment that’ll stick this time! He needs to go. What Musk started collapsing & ruining he’s now going to continue ruining whatever is left. Traitor. Arrest him for treason. The U.S. trusted him & he’s not helping but purposely hindering us in everything. No allies now thanks to you. Go play golf (on your dime — not the country’s money anymore). & leave the country alone.
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Mass protests (with thousands to tens of thousands of people)
A Bullet or 6
Take a page from the French Revolution and bring back the guillotine
US the people by consistently protesting…Showing our discontent in front of the Supreme Court, the White House and Congress…till something gives…we have Freedom of Speech….
The million (or billion?0 dollar question! I wish I knew.
This is everything
This is my question every day. One man doing such damage to our country.
Australian 🇦🇺 I can’t understand how 1 man can single-handily do this to USA. Where are the congress & senate in all this?
The Republicans are subservient and complicit. They are too afraid of the violence of the MAGA mob to cross Trump.
Also, as I understand it (not an American but I have been paying attention) the only thing that can stop an Executive Order is the courts. Congress could, I suppose, pass a law making what he did illegal and then the courts could do something? I don’t know. If it violates the constitution or any existing laws, then the courts could decide to stop it. It could take a long time, though.
I have heard that the auto plants will shut down within days—in all three countries of the USMCA—, so the damage done will not be reparable.
Scares the holy sh-t out of me. I’ve never been rich but what I have I don’t want to loose. All so he and his cronies can have more money. You only need so much and it can’t buy you a ticket to Heaven but it can buy you a one way ticket to Hell.
It’s easier for a rich man to thread a camel through the eye of a needle than get into heaven.
No wonder they're all clapping and cheering, they're gonna be even richer baby! The golden age of america only for the already wealthy. Special place for the trump regime in he||
My God I hope it happens in time
When does bank bail-out time arrive after this mess?
You got it!
That’s their whole plan.🤷♂️😎
AMAZING ANALYSIS AS USUAL! Thank you Ben, Brett, and Jordy. I'm 🇨🇦
I totally agree, great report, thank you for all you do!!
Canada here as well 🇨🇦♥️you Ben
"Elbows in your face!!!".........you Orange F%&^in" Creep!!!
I agree.
He’s a Russian asset. Destroying US to set us up for takeover. Up until he came into the picture, it would’ve seemed beyond fiction. But here we are.
Yes, and I believe someday he'll accidently fall out of a window.
Or his McDonald’s order will be poisoned
I’m waiting
He never lets the facts get in the way of his story. He just goes on and on talking total nonsense. Does anyone actually believe all this crap? He's insane!!! Groceries? He is speed talking. Sounds almost manic delusional.
He is manic and delusional, and demented, and senile, and utterly insane. He should be impeached and convicted and thrown into a padded cell. This is a nightmare and the Republican Party is completely complicit in his madness.
He is an Adderall addict. Like Elon, the king of Ketamine and Alcoholic Hegseth, he hasn't got a clue. The stench that people complain about being near him is the stench of a short timer rotting from the inside out.
Who's clapping for him?
The kiss ass fools who paid for him.
And who is laughing at his speech? WTF? So NOT FUNNY.
I wondered the same. It sounds like a very small group
I agree he is all that however, I think the Republicans and now chittin their pants!
They are all terrified of him and his knuckle dragging, mouth breathing, lip reading scum. They will not move against him until they realize that they are about to lose their phony-baloney jobs (with apologies to Mel Brooks). If he tries to declare martial law they will go along with it to avoid having to run for re-election. These people are extraordinarily dangerous. I don't know how they can be stopped.
Of course
So, what can be done?
Today, on April 5, there is a Hands Off protest in every state. I had to work and missed the one in my area. Maybe these will draw public attentions! That's something.
He needs a doctor to test him mentally & physically. There’s something really going on with him that needs to be confirmed so we can toss him out of making decisions on behalf of our country. He’s not playing with a full deck!
There’s probably a reason he didn’t turn in his medical report when he came into office. They’re all supposed to do that.
I think you are correct. He’s still hiding his medical records and probably all of his financial records have been edited as well. He’s very shady and can’t be trusted with anything
You’re right. He failed all the testing - especially mental aptitude. lol
This is nothing new
Yes actually my neighbor thinks Donald Trump walks on water, guaranteed she celebrating today...
At least until it hits her pocketbook.
Your neighbour is about to find out, the hard way, at the check out line.
Liberation Day will be when we see the felon's obituary.
The first day Orange is frying in the hottest part of hell.........a global celebration wll take place....."like nothing ever seen before.....so incredible......nobody has ever seen such a celebraion.....just like 1776.....1918.......1945......."
Thank you for making me laugh today, despite the despicable. I appreciate the humour! 🇨🇦 🍁 ❤️
So happy you got a laugh.......reading MAD, from around the age of 9...taught me all I really needed to know about the Orange Dicktator
That’s a glorious day I can’t wait
This is exactly what he wanted. He will drive the majority into poverty
He’s a wretched disaster and a disgrace. The ends that he has gone to give billionaires a “pass” on taxes…knows no bounds.
And WTF else do you call groceries?!?
This man has never purchased groceries in his life, so the word is foreign to him.
That’s exactly it. But people are too blind to see that just shows how much he doesn’t relate to the avg person & he couldn’t care less
"Republicans, if you’re listening.
Sure, maybe you have to make it look like you are voting, but that’s not so hard. The truth is these people calling themselves Republicans no longer are. I’m guessing you know this and as much as it’s hard to admit it, you see the damage they’ve unleashed.
Our whole lives the world saw us as the good guys. We protected smaller countries from bullies. When disaster struck we sent aid. When fascists struck our troops volunteered. Many of them still rest in well-tended cemeteries of thankful nations the world over.
Two months ago that all changed. We became the bullies. We became the fascists. And though we are the richest country in the history of the world, even 1/10th of one percent of our taxes going to help those in the poorest nations treat preventable diseases and save hundreds of thousands of lives became too much “waste” for us to afford.
You know those now in control of the Republican party are sick. You know they are criminal. You know any Republicans with the moral courage to stand up to those now in charge have been purged from the party years ago.
Now it is only you who can pull your party back from the brink and by doing so keep alive the decency and the caring at the heart of America that you and I as cooks both love.
To save your party, and with it our country, you have to, for now, stop voting for your party.
You know this.
It’s time to come back to being the good guys."
Thanks for your consideration,
Bill
bill@penzeys.com
(Penzeys Spices
12001 W. Capitol Drive | Wauwatosa, WI | 53222 US)
It’s all MAGA’s economy now.
I want to find comfort there. But there’s no way to stop this without Republicans. We are totally screwed. Many people across the globe will die, and many right here. How could MAGA voters be so stupid? It was so freaking obvious! His rallies were deranged.
Yep!!
Attn all importers, if this piece of shit donald can bend the rules, then do the same and tell that motherfucker you will only impose 10% of the tariffs he has set…so for a country with a 20% tariff, tell him you will do 2%. Band together and tell him to fuck off. Your survival depends on it.
My god. He’ll NEVER understand he’s charging US to buy from them! What a freaking idiot!
The American people are being charged dummy. Other countries don’t pay the tariffs you are implementing. Had you been paying attention in college, you would know that.
SCOTUS John Roberts needs to backtrack and redeem himself, after allowing Trump complete immunity, to be above the law. Because of this, Trump is now trying to impeach judges. Judge Roberts rebuked this. How long will it be before Trump runs all over Judge Roberts+, or tries to impeach him? Judge Roberts didn't think that far enough ahead about this happening.
The Supreme Court reversed Roe vs Wade…I would hope they can reverse their decision of Trump’s immunity…
I have said the same thing! If they can overturn Roe vs Wade, they can overturn his immunity!!!
When I was in 3rd grade, my teacher had a psychotic episode. She began to cut off the student girl’s locks of hair and equated it to Samson losing his strength when he lost his hair.
I went home for lunch, told my mom about this, she called the principal who had the teacher removed— by people in white coats.
I think we should have Trump removed from office exactly in this way.
OMFG! What a story! I'm sorry you witnessed that. Yep, you can't reason with crazy. 🇨🇦 🍁 ❤️
Majority of his voters can't even afford to buy a car🤡😂 great job MAGA Fucks!!!
SMDH not surprised by anything this incompetent man child does at this point. Such carnage!!
Disastrous buffoonery
He just cannot stop being stupid!
"Thank you, Cory Booker."
"Amazing.
Senator Cory Booker, his voice still booming after more than a day spent on the Senate floor railing against the Trump administration, on Tuesday night surpassed Strom Thurmond for the longest Senate speech on record, in an act of astonishing stamina that he framed as a call to action." (NYT)
This is how you fight. By using every tool and rule you have to put roadblocks in front of the Republican sprint to dictatorship. This may have just stopped them for one day, but if the other Senate Democrats joined, and started playing hardball, we could turn that day into weeks, months, or a whole lot longer."
Please add your name: "Thank you, Senator Booker. And to all the other Democrats--more like this, please."
Thank you,
LeftAction
Washington, District of Columbia
info@leftaction.com
https://www.thepetitionsite.com/309/979/240/?TAP=1181&source_id=bookerbuster&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=f7f6c543-4b90-4c4e-b995-a8309d37b652#
I couldn't bear to watch this imbecile tank the economy, so a big "Thank You!" for bearing that excruciating pain for us and telling us what went on. You're a better man than I, Ben!
Thank you again.
Me too today! Thanks Ben 💖
Australian PM on US tariffs: "not the act of a friend". Listeners queueing up on talkback radio last night to report their own personal boycotts of US products and tourism. Could somebody please escort this demented, orange clown off to somewhere he can do no further damage so that the world can get on with the job of repairing the damage he has already caused?
Horrible....
His rant about FDR was one for the books. He seemed to forget about the little detail of WWII. He also threw a MAGA hat into the crowd of reporters. We have to get this thing out of the White House and into prison.
I can’t understand why and how DJT gets away with stuff other presidents would be penalized for even thinking of. 😡😡😡😡
What I don't understand is who do they think is going to buy their products when everyone is broke? Are they really that short sighted. Absolutely NO common sense that I can see...
Yep... they are that short sighted or narrowly focused on stealing everything from the federal treasury.
He screwed our Farmers twice, deporting their workers and cutting off the food supply for USAID.
Yep.
Isn’t destroying the dollar all part of Yarvin/Thiel plan - crypto and AI all the way!
Watch: "‼️Sen. Cory Booker BREAKS Senate speech record—in an EMOTIONAL rebuke of Trump, gets STANDING OVATION", on YouTube. (Occupy Democrats)......
https://youtube.com/shorts/jfh2NtLsU8E?si=kMR-PLTxFV4YzL1d
Mr. Trump. Please watch Faris Bueller's Day Off
I wonder why it is that this person is still in office? Nixon did far far far less over years and was impeached and resigned. ISN'T IT TIME!!?? Enough is enough already.
Any teenagers out there with better aim...?? Asking for a friend.
Trump is so stupid!!!! He is making us all lose our money!!! He really does not understand T-A-R-R-I-F-S!!!!
No MEDIA SHOULD NOT COVER HIM ANY MORE. Media TV NEEDS TO BOYCOTT TRUMP IMMEDIATELY!!!!
ARE YOU ALL AFRAID?????? COME ON MEDIA!!! BOYCOTT TRUMP!!!!!
Yes, all of our savings in 401k and IRAs gone. For those of us that were close to retirement age it is devastating. We are talking years of putting money away to have it stolen.
Exactly forget about retirement. Everyone needs to be working for the oligarchy now
I am in the same, although I am 75 years old. It such devastation for all if us!!!
Steven Miller is doing a great job running the country...... are Trumptards happy now?
oh he’s just the bit player. You need to look at the tech bros behind the curtain. Elon Musk is only one of them and they put him up there because he is the most widely known. Tech, Putin and the Russell Vought’s of the world.
I know there are a lot more Natiz's behind the curtain.
And Steve Bannon.
Thank you for speaking the truth.
Every time I think it can't possibly get any worse... IMPEACHMENT THIS FUCK IDIOT
MAGA economy congratulations 🤬🤬🤬
I cannot stand to hear that drivel. Please alter his voice like Mary Trump does. It's very effective.
I have PTSD everytime I hear that awful voice. Thanks for listening Ben
I had to mute most of it.
I'm an American. Leave Canada the F alone.
This Canuck thanks you. I'm not sure we will sacrifice a single soldier for America ever again. Stay strong our American friends. 🇨🇦 🍁 ❤️
"Solidarity on April 5. “Hands off” our health care, our schools, our Social Security, and our rights!" (Robert Reich, Mar 31, 2025)......
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/april-5-hands-off-our-healthcare?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=365422&post_id=160185141&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=17g504&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Yes! April 5 protest loud and non violently. The Regime is most likely poised to impose martial law at any time. We need 3.5% of the population (Erica Chenoweth) out protesting to make revolutionary change.
I'm praying millions will attend and fight like our lives depend on it 💜
Liberation Day is the day Felon47 is impeached and the maggot senate and congress are in jail.
You’re the best Ben!
Real people are here. With or without this Liberberation Day, we will soon Celebrate it again on the very same day of which Donald John Trump is physically removed from office, and Detained in our US Prisions the remaining time of his life, without the possibility of parol
No, to the Supermax in El Salvador
Once he tanks the economy, he and his oligarch buddies are going to start buying everything up.
Who the hell is laughing in the background? This deranged dictator wannabe is FUCKIN loving every second of this rip-off of our allies and our working Americans
My observation exactly!! What's so fuckin funny???
The rich people are laughing bc he's making them richer
"'Fasted for days': Cory Booker didn't eat or drink ahead of record breaking speech." (Raw Story)......
https://www.rawstory.com/cory-booker-2671655282/?u=7b9efb3185bef2bd309f85021fcf366956aa9a477375b276f5af3843618fd1f1
Thanks for sharing Barb, great article. I love Senator Booker. He must be our next President 💜
Trump has the mentality and vocabulary of a fourth grader
i agree he is quite limited w his vocabulary and conveyance of his ‘ideas’. however, my 2nd grade grands have larger vocabularies and can express themselves w much much much more articulation than 47. and they attend public school. shout out to all the dedicated teachers!
Oh so clearly I was giving him way too much credit.
Everybody go watch the Gilded Age documentary from PBS on YouTube. That will show you the reality of the 1880’s! Wealth inequality out of control with people like Carnegie & JP Morgan crushing workers that made them rich! Sick & that is where he would like us to be.
Groceries? An old fashioned term? A beautiful term? A bag with different things in it. How can anyone listen to this and say “yes. That’s a smart man and I want him in charge of my future. “ no words.
That's the problem with a conservative elite billionaire in charge. I doubt he has been grocery shopping ever in his life.
He is an utter and complete disgrace to humanity. His world exists inside his addled detached reality brain. It is pathetic and it's dangerous. The question is why has he been permitted to rise? Who is responsible? Surely no one we can see, so the other question is who is the chess master and who, besides the devil, is he or she in league with?
As his physical health declines let's hope he reaches a point where his mouth will stop working altogether. If that happens it will mark the beginning of the end of an era of sheer madness.
You see, once it becomes unavoidably clear that Trumpty Dumpty can no longer avoid the consequences of his action or protect his hood rats they'll scatter and he'll be left to scurry around on his own. Sooner rather than later is an understatement. God save us all.
I think that there should be more emphasis placed on the fact that the terrorist going into the US treasury and the main purpose of to be able to give tax cuts to the wealthy. It’s not to reduce the deficit.
No Foreign Countries will be buying any of our products.
It’s a shame that the DOW watch ticker wasn’t running - people who voted for him could see the stock market race to the bottom in real time.
That’s why he deliberately made the announcement after the markets closed.
No words for such arrogance, stupidity, and bull crap.
I look forward every day to your analysis,to which I agree with every single one
Who are the people clapping? 🤬😭🆘‼️🛑
Very STUPID and BRAINWASHED idiots!
The wealthy who he is making even wealthier by stealing from the American people
Frontal Lobe Dementia.
No....he's just plain f***ing NUTS!
This man is seriously demented. When you look at his videos from his first term to this one, there's no denying it. Why is the GOP covering for this old, demented man as he burns down our economy?
fear, belief that they are going to become rich off him, which they might.
They're complicit, they get even richer too. It's a class war against middle and poor class
If a foreign country damaged the United States to the extent that this administration has, we would unequivocally consider it a declaration of war.
What a belated April Fool's Day...by the biggest, bigly, boastful Fool!
Hoping everyone takes comfort in the better performance by Senator Booker yesterday!
Stand up to the bloated Fool, and stand with the real leader - Cory Booker whose courage and confidence represents what America needs to save our democracy. 🫡🇺🇸
Cory Booker for President now please
Odd.....didn't notice Russia on his list.....anyone else see it?
I think the reason there are no tariffs on Russia, Iran or North Korea is because of sanctions and the fact no significant trade (if any) is done with those nations at the moment. It will be interesting to see if Trump lifts sanctions on Russia, will he impose tariffs in their place?
Trump had small islands in Pacific and Antarctica that have NO inhabitants and/or no trade, yet listed the 10% base tariff for them. He stated ALL nations would be 10% tariffs so there would "be no cheating". Sanctions or not, those nations should have been posted with the 10% tariff if he is truly doing a global tariff as a warning to eliviate cheating, which we know for a fact has been happening with the sanctions.
You may be right. But he didn’t put tariffs on Iran and he’s fixing to bomb them, so… I don’t think leaving out Russia, North Korea and Iran was because he likes these countries.
Thanks for the report Ben, what a shame for all the idiots who clapped for this MORON, I hope finally the believers of this Demented MORON don’t come back in say 3 months and wonder what happened.
Stay strong America we aren’t finished yet 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
"This is what happens when you put a bankrupt con man in charge of a global economy." Stop being so nice to him. If you want to understand this deranged egomaniac, just plan on him to change his mind ten times, pretend like whatever he ends up doing was the plan all along, blame anyone but himself and skate, skate, skate like he has his entire self-centered life.
This is a very sick man... and people are kissing his fat ass for what?
And what’s so sad is that people STILL support this dude and make all kinds of excuses for his destructive incompetent behavior.
Those ppl will find put when they shop at Walmart and discover a 34% price increase. At the pumps, when gasoline rises by another $1USD per gallon. Not one MAGA will understand until it hits their own wallet.
The rich especially bc everything he's doing is making them even richer
OMG! He talks about other countries "cheating"? He's the cheater in chief. Cheated on all 3 wives, has cheated business associates, etc etc. etc. Heaven help us!
ZERO SYMPATHY FOR 4 FALLEN USA SOLDIERS. That tells you everything. Shameful. 🇨🇦 🍁
Cheating?? He's the world's biggest cheater!
Wouldn't it be great if someone booed him🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I believe that Congress is supposed to set tax law; when will they stand up to Trump trying to take their power and responsibilities? This should make every GOP officeholder up for election in 2026 shake in his boots. And if he really goes through with getting rid of Social Security/Medicare, the pitch forks and tiki torches will come to DC and Congress local offices!
The day he had Elon buy this presidency we lost our democracy. However, I must believe the monster will fall. We all die, and he is mentally, and physically trashed now. Sadly I fear recovering from him may take longer than I have to live. I’m 71 and my prayer is to see him taken down so that I may rest in the knowledge my grandsons will live their lives free and peaceful.
Looks like the Dotard Don forgot where he was going or what he was supposed to do next. I’m grateful for the summaries before each clip — I can’t stand his butchery of the English language and the 6 words he knows. I simply can’t stand to hear the sound of his voice.
Let us never forget the GOP senators who celebrated July 4th -- Independence Day -- in Moscow in 2018.
This makes me sick to me stomach 🥵🤬
Trump is a fool. We need to take down Trump and MAGA.
He notably hasn't declared economic war on Russia.
I would like hear a discussion about where the tariff money is going. Trump keeps talking about how “we’re”going to be really really rich. When he talked about tariffs during the campaign, he talked about how it would pay off the debt in no time. Since being elected he’s only talked about how rich “we” are going to be. A very bright spotlight needs to be shined on where all this tariff money is going. Seems like it’s going to end up being a slush fund for his personal agenda items and acquisitions.
That’s like the “gold card” for rich immigrants — where does that go. He talks like it’s all going to his bank!
Bc it is, he wants to be the richest man and control the world
One interpretation is that he’ll use this to cancel income tax. So rich people will get very very very much richer. He’s replacing progressive taxation with regressive taxation that will mostly be paid by the middle class. It’s an upward wealth redistribution scheme. So “we” is him and his billionaire buddies. You should be scared of that “sovereign wealth fund”, too, since that sounds like a personal slush fund for Trump. If he puts all the tariffs paid by importers in there, he could mean “we will be so rich” as “I will be so rich”.
He really is such an idiot!
He’s nuts! A total nut job
Groceries is an old fashioned word. WTF. How out of touch is this old F....?
And now we will pay the price for having Trump in office!!
That will help rebuild our economy? Biden left us with a strong economy. Chump is not fit to be president of the USA. We need to remove him from office
They should check his brain for RFK's parasite
Every day I wake up thinking how is it even remotely possible that our country elected arguably the stupidest person ever born, a man that couldn’t even profitably run a casino to lead our country and the world economy. I’m gobsmacked and baffled beyond belief. We need divine intervention now.
This guy needs inpatient care, not the office of the President.
I managed to watch the first 5 minutes but after yelling at the TV and scaring my dogs I decided I’d attend to something more important like scrubbing toilets.
4/5/25 Rise Up
Cory and AOC need to announce their candidacy for President/VP right NOW (or as soon as legally possible) and start barnstorming the country.
What big gate is this asshole talking about ? He is insane. The only big gate he should be seeing is the gate that closes him in a jail cell.
Most despicable person in the world, I will never comprehend how anyone could ever like him or believe a word he says.
We also had slavery for most of the time period he is referencing when he says we were the most prosperous. We were made prosperous on the backs of men, women, and children who were stolen and sold.
Today, we are held hostage by this crazy man and he's goons.
good point!
That's rich coming from someone that doesn't even know HOW GROCERIES get into your kitchen. 🤨
What an effing ass.
All those people today cheering him as he talked about the tariffs made me physically ill. Had to turn the tv off. He talked about making America rich. As long as you can pay your bills, have shelter and food you are rich. He is slowly taking all that away. He couldn’t care less about all the Agencies he closed, all in some form working for the people. These folks may loose their homes, and all they have obtained while working. There is not enough good paying jobs that are vacant now to hire over 100,000 people in a very bad economy. He says his tariffs will bring good jobs….. it will take many, many years and billions of dollars for that to even MAYBE happen. It will be more like a depression instead. But do you think he really cares???????How could this happen is a question I ask everyday.
No, he does not really care. He intends to clean up himself and if no one else benefits, or everyone else is hurt by it. Oh well!!!
I watched this and couldn’t believe what I was watching as he went into his word salad, pulling numbers out of the air (his airhead), and listened while people clapped and cheered. And it seemed the more people clapped and cheered the more he exaggerated numbers, although he probably didn’t know he was exaggerating numbers … he had no idea what the hell he was talking about, but the MAGA cult members hung on every word as they listened to their orange god! I finally had enough and turned it off. Deceit, divert and make no apologies. And oh! Biden is still getting blamed for almost everything! We are in big trouble if someone doesn’t haul his ass out of there!
Shame on Trump and the oligarchs for what they are doing to destroy our economy. They are causing suffering and death to innocent people just to fatten their wallets. They have more money than they can spend in a lifetime. I truly believe we are on this earth to help each other. The sad thing is their wealth can help wipe out hunger and homelessness. Instead they want to hoard more money and power not caring about their fellow human beings.
Look how tiny his weak little hand looks, holding the top of the CHART OF DOOM.
I literally don't have words for the ignorant aggression. They picked a doozie with him. Just disgusting behavior, so done.
“and in the case of Elon Musk, it’s $40 billion a year…”
Thanks Ben, your report tells us like it truly is-DT (not just him, but his handlers as well) wants everyone in this country to be destitute, and morale at a drastic low. We ALL KNOW that DT is being handled and fed these lines and ideas, as he is mentally incapable & physically incapable of stringing a competent sentence or thought together. All they need to do is strike is narcissistic ego and they are doing a fine job at that by the way, play golf, which they allow every weekend, and ride around in Airforce One, the presidential car/tank, and a golf cart. Adding up to the tune of $10 million per flight just to keep him pacified, so his handlers can write up the next executive orders. Keep the truth coming!
Can you say “depression”
He reminds me of Major-General Stanley with puffed out chest from Pirates of Penzance: "I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical, about binomial theorem.."
Why he did not talk about Canada ? We waited for this .
This Canuck understands your confusion. Aren't we all mystified.🇨🇦 🍁 ❤️
🤪😆🤪 Brain glitch? Twenty seconds later MAGA KING remembered 🇨🇦
To everyone that voted for this insane lump of crap, it really shows the world how very ignorant you are. Hope you're proud of yourselves for helping our country go down; you'll go down too. No one is immune. And thank you Ben for watching him perform to the height of stupidity, so we don't have to.
I did not see Russia on that chart!!
What is going to happen to all of the countries that had our backs and helped us out in time of need.
This is crazy, he is crazy!
Im 91 years old and never thought I’d see the day when a mad man took over our country and put a10 % tariff on barren islands populated only by penguins and polar bears. What are they going to pay the tariff with, fish?
he needs to be in a senior memory care center
Thanks, Ben. The man is pure evil and how 99% of the Rs can run scared of him is astounding. I had more guts when I was 10 years old while trying to secure justice for myself and friends. Ben and Bros have more courage than the whole of Congress. Yayyy Meidas Mighty!
No tariffs on Russia or North Korea?
Ben, I don't want to be RICH 🤑! SERIOUSLY,most people would just like to make a living Wage!!!!! And more $$$ is Nice but, DON'T WANT TO EVER BE LIKE DUMP! 😭💙💙💙💙💙
He is out of his mind.
Thank you for the excellent report, Ben, Brett, and Jordy. He is deliberately destroying our country. His handlers are angry about losing the Wisconsin Supreme Court seat, plus all of the media attention being given to Bernie; AOC and now especially Cory Booker. Personally: Cory and AOC need to announce right NOW that they are running for President/VP in 2028 and start barnstorming the country and raising money. "Liberation Day" might in his deranged mind mean liberation from the rule of law. He's just chomping at the bit to use any excuse to declare martial law.
the real liberation day will be that glorious day when 47 and his gang of bandits are gone gone gone!
Dazzle the fools, muzzle the intelligent. Impeach CHEETO!
It simply remains to be seen just how brutally we've all been fuqued, & whether our internal injuries are fatal.
That’s going to hell with the joke crybaby orange POS
What a douche bag he is 🤮
Just can’t listen to his voice again heard Michael a few minutes ago ! We are screwed thanks
Watch: "Trump CRASHES & BURNS in Disaster "Liberation Day" Address", on YouTube. (Mary Trump)......
https://youtu.be/uJQ9RqQr94E?si=WAAldjSIqg-NQPzs
Liberation day = liberating Americans from their money 😂
I love Mary trump
He’s trying to tank us. wtf?
Impeach Deranged Trump
"Drug smuggler, granted clemency by Trump, arrested yet again – this time for allegedly punching man in the face and shoving toddler to the ground." (Newsbreak)......
https://local.newsbreak.com/nassau-county-ny/3946425081154-drug-smuggler-granted-clemency-by-trump-arrested-yet-again-this-time-for-allegedly-punching-man-in-the-face-and-shoving-toddler-to-the-ground?s=dmg_local_email_bucket_2.web2_fromweb&emailId=2c4aABX#topdoc
"Elon Musk mocked for trying to spin the Wisconsin election result: ‘You failed, you couldn’t buy the vote’. Musk jumped on to X to scorn ‘the long con of the left’, shortly after the Democratic defeat.
Elon Musk breaks silence after his candidate loses Wisconsin Supreme Court race.
Phony Stark dropped a cool $21 million to back MAGA's preferred candidate, in a highly consequential state Supreme Court election in Wisconsin, but it simply wasn't enough to knock off Democratic candidate Susan Crawford, whose victory cemented the court's 4-3 liberal majority, for another three years.
Crawford did not let the moment go unnoticed, telling supporters at her victory speech: "I never could have imagined that I would be taking on the richest man in the world for justice in Wisconsin... and we won." Hell yes you did, Susan!
Elon, likely coming down from one helluva a ketamine bender, eventually chimed in to downplay his embarrassing defeat and change the narrative.
"This was the most important thing," Musk tweeted, referring to Wisconsinites' approval of a constitutional amendment to enshrine state voter ID laws, which actually has been the law in Wisconsin for ten years.
Funny, the $21 million he spent backing Crawford's vanquished opponent in the most expensive judicial election in American history, sure felt like the bigger story leading up to last night's vote, but what do we know?" (The Independent)......
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-wisconsin-supreme-court-voter-id-b2726082.html
Intentional move to destroy the working class.
Exactly! The MAGA/GOP have been on a mission to create a servant, if not slave, class. We are soon going to have a segment of the population that’s uneducated, hungry, ill and probably turning to criminality. And if we get past the next four years without a war, and the revival of the Selective Service, I’ll be pleasantly surprised!
He cant even not lie on a chart, doing research on the numbers he claims are countries tariffs on the US shows that those numbers are actually either UNDER what is on the chart or never SOLIDLY the number that is on the chart depending on what country you are looking at
This is painful to watch. T---p is pathetic. Farmers were brutalized by t---p. Then he's taking our tax money to pay them back.
Watch: "Republican says federal worker deserves to be fired, calls them a CLOWN", on YouTube. (Brian Tyler Cohen).......
https://youtube.com/shorts/df1SjWfcdyc?si=Q0LvV5gXojn0V0wi
Saw that replayed. That Republican publicly taunting a recently fired Federal worker, because of budget cuts not authorized by Congress is not an intelligent move. Human Resource personnel would have advised against that, but they were probably fired too.
What an arrogant tosser! I hope we get to see these lowlifes behind bars soon. They're all evil corrupt criminals
"Mike Waltz Used Personal Gmail for Government Communications." (Newsweek)......
https://www.newsweek.com/mike-waltz-used-personal-gmail-government-communications-report-2053863?link_id=2&can_id=56bdad496d5a1d659d2f23c00c81d0e3&source=email-gop-town-hall-crowd-explodes-with-rage-at-trump-and-elon-2&email_referrer=email_2680280&email_subject=trump-aide-mike-waltz-ensnared-in-major-email-scandal&&
"'Devastating consequences': Ethics experts sound alarm at Trump family's latest venture."
"A new bitcoin-mining company is receiving an investment boost from President Donald Trump’s two oldest sons – a move that is also raising a new round of ethical questions from critics, raising conflict of interest concerns.
That’s according to the Wall Street Journal, which reported on Monday that a merge would occur between Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr.’s American Data Centers and American Bitcoin, a mining company owned by Hut 8.
Their goal is to create “the world’s largest miner of the digital currency, with designs on building its own ‘bitcoin reserve,’" the report added. The latest venture is part of the Trump family’s “all-out crypto blitz” since Trump reemerged at the White House in January.
“In a matter of months, the Trumps started a decentralized-finance, or DeFi, project called World Liberty Financial, said their social-media company would invest in bitcoin and other digital assets, launched meme coins to capitalize on the popularity of the president and his wife and announced plans to issue a World Liberty dollar-backed stablecoin,” the Journal reported.
Trump also vowed to make the United States the “crypto capital of the world.”
But the new Trump family business dealing is raising fresh ethics concerns by some critics who cite the Trumps’ recent crypto investments as potential conflicts of interest.
“At least in the last term, it was all golf courses and hotels, whereas now he’s getting into crypto, which could have a systemic effect on the economy,” Richard Painter, a former ethics attorney for President George W. Bush, told the Journal. “This is an area where conflicts of interest, whether the Trump family or anybody else, could have devastating consequences.”
The president earlier in the month signed an executive order authorizing the United States to establish a strategic reserve of cryptocurrency as the “ultimate celebrity endorsement." (Raw Story)......
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-crypto-2671646161/
"Trump and Musk are daring us to stop them—let’s rise to the challenge."
🔥 "This is a crisis. This is a coup. This is our moment to fight back." (Laurie Woodward Garcia and People Power United,
Apr 01, 2025)......
https://www.newsletter.peoplepowerunited.org/p/trump-and-musk-are-daring-us-to-stop-e44?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1499421&post_id=160350861&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=17g504&triedRedirect=true
Tariffs just passed Senate. Of course, down party line.
Correction: I was not correct, Senate voted DOWN tariffs, with help of Collins, McConnell, Murkowski. Now to House.
Maybe I am crazy but wasn’t the Biden administration bringing back jobs and manufacturing all while avoiding a recession and global chaos and all after bringing us back from the hell of a mismanaged covid pandemic? Our economy was the best in the world. Did stupid people really give up our future prosperity because millions of sick chickens had to be slaughtered thus causing egg prices to rise? The fall of our country will not be due to foreign acts of terror but by voter’s gullibility and ignorance and the right wing media channels they watch. ___It is frightening to see the joy in the speeches of the Orange Man, the X-Man and the chicken-shit enablers in our government as they rationalize the ruin they are bringing to our economy. I truly miss the old Republican Party I once knew. We are now a land ruled by a government of the “rich”, by the “rich”, for the “rich” and wouldn’t you know that years ago DJT warned us we were becoming a third world country. He just never admitted back then his sick desire to proudly lead us there. It is going to be a sad and dangerous situation for many years to come. My respects to Meidas and the brave founders and contributors.
it's not "trump's tariffs" that ring through his nose is huge... he hasn't a clue what he's doing he's just following the scent of money he doesn't realize just how expendable he is.
Please don't let the Republicans in the Senate and Mike Johnson off the hook. They could stop this train wreck.
This, today, is the START of the moment where MAGA will get their eyes opened. They too will finally at last see that the Emperor has no clothes and that they have been conned. Because in a Depression ALL suffer (except the uber wealthy) it is only when MAGA personally suffers that they will open their eyes.
The guys a madman and can you imagine his low I Q people trying to figure this out? Most of his help are not capable of running a animal shelter and that's giving them credit.
I was just thinking today about a job that used to be elected: Dog Catcher. Most of the people currently running our government, especially the president, couldn’t run for that position.
At this point there is no Republicans,just cultist. No one should be touching there 401/403b ,savings or Thrift savings plan. Don't even move things around because you will lose money then too.
I believe everyone around him, specifically Susie Wiles and probably JD Vance know he is fading.. there is no way anyone who saw that can ignore it.. the players behind the scene are evil, they are using a man moving into dementia for their own ambitions. But I also think they are trying to keep JD Vance away from the presidency as long as they can because they don’t trust him. I find him to be the most interesting character in this plot.. unfortunately the American people are suffering through these reality tv games they are all playing.
I am so sickened to hear all of his garbage plans. He couldn't keep his companies from going bankrupt , so what is he doing trying to run a country? I hope and pray the people of these UNITED STATES wake up and finally start doing something.
Never in my wildest dreams thought I or my family would have to go through something like what he is doing.
The devaluation of the Dollar is next...he needs gold to back his bitcoin...smh... agreed this tariff will be on the backs of the middle class...
I have nothing insightful to say . . . I just feel sick. Just watching the clips disgusts me.
Is oil from the Saudis being tariffed?
Trump has totally screwed the American people and other countries, as well. "Liberation Day???" Yeah, liberating us from even more of our money!!!
Ben and all, I am Canadian pardon my expression but I think Trump is just a fucking idiot. We don't need his drama. We shall move forward without any of the dependency he thinks we need to survive. He thought our Prime Minister would be Mr. Trudeau and that he could walk all over him but surprise!! Unfortunately for him it is not working out the way he thought it would. His Liberation day has already had a fizzle but after his big speech where I listened, the only people who are going to suffer are and his people he is supposed to protected. Sad!
We love you, Canada. Thank you for standing up with us against Trump. Friends forever!
Who the fuck is clapping? That’s it minions. Go ahead and cheer as the ship is sinking and taking us all down with it.
I can't even stand to listen to him talk, never could. He sounds like a lying preacher.
Every one of you is attending the protest on Saturday, correct?
Yup, there's 4 of us so far.
yes! and i’ve got a carload of friends joining me!
Who are the people cheering for this at this point?!?!?!?!
I wondered the same thing.
Sounds like 10 people clapping. What an effing moron.🤮🤮🤮
Everything trump touches dies, including the American economy. I hope maga enjoys paying thousands more for their F150s.
The “groceries” thing just reinforces his “kingliness” - in his mind, elevated above the common man. Simpering.
hahaha! did i hear 47 correctly? ‘groceries are just bags w stuff in them’???
Yeah... He does not know what groceries are. He has never shopped for groceries. It is a new word in the wilderness of his lack of knowledge and he plays it over and over again. Can you imagine someone from his servant quarters telling him that they need to go shop for groceries before a meal can be prepared?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The people giggling in the background… 😳
Holly smokes, either laugh at his Idiocracy or get angry or sad, who cares, falling off the cliff, so much for having for retirement. ...4 years of this...bbb.sss.
TRUMP IS THE END TO OUR DEMOCRACY in AMERICA and ABROAD , ALL WE CANDO IS PRAY
“For unknown reasons” 😠 Research history.
Just keep an eye on the billionaire buddies who will be gobbling up stocks before the orange man “changes his mind “ and the stocks recover and the buddies make a zillion more.
I feel like I'm in some kind of black comedy--this man is so sick and he's running our country. And all those asses clap for him.
He does remind me of Mr Potter & this speech from ‘Its a Wonderful Life’ ….
You, you said that they -- What'd you say just a minute ago? They had to wait and save their money before they even thought of a decent home. Wait? Wait for what?! Until their children grow up and leave them? Until they're so old and broken-down that -- You know how long it takes a workin' man to save five thousand dollars? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about, they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him, but to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well, in my book he died a much richer man than you'll ever be.
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechitsawonderfullifeboardaddress.html
He will now make “special” deals with countries with draconian conditions- much like he has done to law firms. It’s a control mechanism to subjugate other countries which don’t stand up.
Trump is a blight on our country and a curse for democracy he is a useless as the leader of a Democracy.
This feels like the end is near. The end of the world. Hate to think that way but unless he is removed from office, we are done. How did it ever come to this.
His billionaire friends will wait a couple of days, until they think the markets have bottomed out, then they will buy low and can afford to wait until tariffs are dropped and stocks raise again, making them hyperrich.
Tariffs are just another way to transfer the cost of government to the poor, the working, and middle classes to ensure Trump can continue to dole out tax cuts to the morbidly rich and monopoly corporations. Disenfranchisement!
Hey Republicans, are we winning yet?
They honestly think they are!
NO ONE is as stupid as Drump. Of course, the economy is tanking.... He is doing the opposite of President Biden at every turn. The orangitan is right about one thing: This day will be remembered for ever as the day Traitor Trump completely destroyed our once great country.
In midterm election America is screwed. We need Democrats in Office and then Impeach Trump
Trump Lied again; what else is new?
More car plants being built? President Donald Trump’s widespread tariffs on foreign goods aims to persuade foreign manufacturers to produce their goods in U.S. factories and employ Americans. During a recent interview with the conservative network Newsmax, Trump said this effort had already produced results. "We have automobile plants being built at levels we've never seen anything like it, and they're going up fast," Trump said March 26. That’s Mostly False. The White House cited announcements of major U.S. investments by Hyundai, Honda and Stellantis since Trump took office Jan. 20. With one exception, these were reallocations of investments at existing facilities, not "plants being built." Building a plant, or even increasing production at an existing plant, can take years. Automotive manufacturing construction increased substantially under Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden.
I watched the clown until I recalled his history as a pathological liar, history inflating numbers, such as adding zeros!! Seriously its a given the Donald is a Buffoon! Is it Steve Miller that's behind this too? The signal chat exposed this where Steve over rode JD!!
Interesting I'm thinking its simply a page out of the 2025 plan where author vout handles the treasury? I'll be participating with some protests this weekend!! Its gone to far!!
Getting a bit tired of Trump constantly lying about Canada. All US dairy products are part of the free trade agreement Trump signed. In the agreement it states if the US surpasses the agreed upon set quota they will be charged 250% tariffs. They have NEVER surpassed the quota and NEVER been charged a tariff.
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Sorry, Ben -- I really can't stand to hear his voice.
I miss Biden
Thank you Ben for your very insightful programme about Trump and Tariffs. This is a very sad day in America and, in fact, the world. May God help us all through this tragedy. As a Canadian and neighbour of your country, am appalled at the actions of the Trump regime against all their allies and others.
For one millisecond I thought I was watching a Netflix movie about a demented president and how he was destroying the country until the population rose up against him.
Then I realized that I was a part of that film and April 5th was three days away.
Time to rise up, America. Let's write a different and better ending to this debacle.
“Barbarians at the gate”
We need a true “Liberation Day” when we the people liberate ourselves from the Tyrannical Traitorous Trumphuk and the Horrific, Hateful, Heritage Cabal for which he is the felonious frontman.
I think we ALL need a very simple explanation, probably cartoon-ish, describing why it is the American consumer, who is paying the tariffs... not some country that happens to have produced the commodity WE are purchasing. For instance, Japan is NOT paying the 25% extra... the tariff... the $600... on a Nissan that was once priced at $24,000. Trump continues to push the goofy position that the $600 is "new" money coming into the US Treasury from Japan... NO. US citizens are paying for his tariffs.
Whoops. I need remedial math tutoring - a 25% tariff on a $24,000 car is $6,000.
That chips factory he described was negotiated and passed during Biden's presidency. It will be built in AZ. Just like the Repugnants who voted against the infrastructure act then took credit for what it brought to their constituents, Trump is doing the same with the chips factory.
Also, tariffs were enacted in 1930 when unemployment was in the single digits. By 1931 unemployment was at 20%, and we went from a recession to the Republican Depression.
What a grotesque display of arrogance and ignorance. FDT
RECIPROCAL....you fuck America over...you get fucked over!!! RECIPROCAL
A handful of republicans voted one even co sponsored a bill against trumps tariffs hours after his big debut. Article I read said Trump was pissed said was rogue republicans So I personally went to GOP facebook pg and thanked them then went to every republican that voted against the tariff page and thanked them too😂
Here’s a free article from the New York Times abt it
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/us/politics/senate-democrats-canada-tariffs-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.804._ne3.uDVQNbUi5aMw&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
This is so crazy. Our companies went overseas to make products, so now we have lost jobs and now have to pay the products.
I can't believe there are people who believe Trump's bs
me neither. i live w a maga. i have no idea how the open-minded, peace-loving, help-your-neighbor hippie i married 48 yrs ago got sucked into the maga cult. the unbelievable swing in his values has left me absolutely gob-smacked.
I'm so sorry 😞
I guess if your worried about Chips and semi conductors, perhaps you should undo the Chips and Science act.
bam!
Maybe this wouldn't bother me as much if I hadn't majored in history. 😐
This is like a mushroom induced fever dream. What bullshit.
Yes...I am trying to go back to Earth One where Kamala is President... everyday is a wtf now on Earth Two...lol
When he says at the end that people will remember today as THE BEST DAY in America where it becomes "FREE"...!!!???? AND everybody will BECOME RICH!!..!!
While the stock market is crashing and all our money is becoming worthless. I am watching the ticker tapes and it is rallying back at the moment, but the Dow dropped 1500 points before it started to rally. It's got a few more hours to go, though, so anything could happen. "t" announced this after the market closed yesterday - needed time to bet on the negative and clean up on the crash this morning.
He can’t even talk!
I am with you. Idioacracy
Creates a crisis in the market( because it has been doing too well ) then people start selling stocks , he and his buddies buy low because they can. He has to create a crisis in order to appear as a hero! Which he can never be. He’s a puppet of Heritage and Putin anyway.
I get so annoyed with the Donald Mob Boss style of governance! He is so thin skinned to go after the Maine Governor due to the Gov standing up to him!! He needs to be impeached!! Elon is not above the law! Don Jr. Is not.above the.law!!
I cannot listen to his voice much less view him; so muted most of this pod cast. Trump tanked his inheritance too. He literally had nothing at one point. He is a failed businessman not a deal maker. He is a master class con man and that is how he makes a living off others. He is making money off of all of us.
The oligarchs have not put in the man hours we have over our lives or worked as hard as our children for their education and need more because likely believe me they are probably teetering on the brink of disaster themselves. It is all smoke and mirrors.
Musk is not a scientist, inventor or genius and he is likely not autistic. Musk applies labels to himself to increase his appeal but if there is one thing Musk will never have is appeal. He has conned our government out of billions to build junk!! Two master class con men who are empty and like toddlers make believe they are great -- but unlike toddlers they are also con men.
And the oligarchs that support them are cruel and likely in more trouble than we can imagine. Amazon comes into towns and displaces working class people from their homes occupying acres of area for their Amazon campuses and bringing in high paid staff who displace the local communities once real estate and rental rates go up in response to the new "richer" demographic. Look at the homeless people surrounding these Amazon campuses. They used to have homes or rentals and work in these town with nowhere to go but the streets. Fuck AMAZON!
The founder of FACEBOOK is a twisted and cruel personality whose first creation was one that screamed misogyny in its dehumanizing of women. And he is a freak who thinks he is a God. Who knows what is behind the smoke and mirrors however because there is no way that such a personality can actually succeed without destroying others. Dangerous personality. Fuck FACEBOOK and META!
It is very dangerous to be affiliated with con men and narcissists and if one comes near you run like hell. We cannot run (although so many of us who can have left the country) leaving us behind. So, here we are again -- the working man and woman! As were our parents and those who came before them.
Once this over we need to storm the Capitol in DC and get rid of the ELECTORATE COLLEGE -- and clean the house of all the LOBBYISTS and clear the way where CONGRESS is listening to us only. For we the people have been telling CONGRESS what we want and are disregarded and pushed aside by LOBBYISTS and our votes skewered by the ELECTORATE COLLEGE. And we freaking need more woman and people of color and people who represent any differences to add to the pool of talent and potential from which we can draw our leaders. We need to drop all prejudices if we are to succeed.
Never again! We need to watch them for they are all crooks like a hawk!!
ré: "He cited 1789 as America’s peak wealth era. Really, 1789? That's when the country didn’t even have electricity, but sure, let’s pretend we were all billionaires churning butter and dying at 40."
Thanks, Ben, great sentence and I needed a laugh.
And then he goes golfing.
It’s costing a fortune too. A basic golf game in NJ costs around 6 million dollars. Crazy as them using military planes for 80 immigrants at a cost of $854,000. Shoot there is some waste and inefficiency.
That’s right.
And the cost of sending them commercially is about 10 percent of that.
But that would have taken too long to get them in the air. And the judge was hearing about Trump’s actions.
Darn that FAA and its air traffic controllers.
Just like his golf outings, the AF flights are paid using tax payer money, so WTH, he had nothing to lose deporting them on AF jets.
the destruction to our country continues from this insane maniac...I wonder what it will take to stop him ? ....waiting to see if my SS check for the month of April gets deposited....I'm planning on attending the Saturday April 5th protest in WPB, FL, near tRUMP's fleabag motel in Mar-a-Lago ....I hope the orange, fat faced, bloated, gasbag drives by....I'll have my 2 finger salute waiting for him....it will be nice if some of the local Democrat politicians show up....I'm making my anti tRUMP, muskrat & GOP sign as we speak.
I’m attending in Tulsa. Hope no one gets shot. There were folks here that defended Tesler!
He's so STUPID! A 5TH grader probably knows no foreign country pays a cent on his tarrif, U.S. citizens do!
He has NOO clue…
just insane
25th amendment get it?
Trump needs to read a history book! 🤣🤣🤣🤣if he can understand this.
dumb fuck
he is such a dumb f
He makes Liz Truss look like a FUCKING GENIUS 👏👏👏👏👏