IHIP News - Catastrophe for Trump as Even Fox News Abandons Him

Episode Date: April 24, 2025

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Convicted felon Donald Trump's economic policies are so bad, even the hardcore MAGA donors are going on Fox, ripping him to shreds. Watch this clip. I don't know, Robert, some of the people we talked to saying incompetence, probably the wrong word, unclear might be a better word. What do you say? I mean, this, I've been in finance for 40 years. This is probably the biggest manufactured crisis I've seen with a bunch of unforced errors. The execution of Liberation Day was pathetic. I mean, you have Kevin Hassett in 2019. Be very clear. Trade wars are bad.

Tariffs are tax. Steve Moore, another Trump advisor. Trade wars are bad. tariffs are taxed. Steve Moore, another Trump advisor, trade wars are bad, tariffs are taxed. The GOP, tariffs are taxed, trade wars are bad, where for free trade? You saw April until, for the most part, the president blinked both on Fed Powell, Fed Chairman Powell, which I'm glad, as well as the China trade war. Then the markets recovered somewhat, but it was on for the worst month since 1932. And that's not even considering what's going on with bonds, where there has been an incredible lack of confidence in the U.S. dollar and U.S. investments. So I've... Okay. One of my favorite parts about that video is Kellyanne Conway starts

grinning ear to ear, and she tries so hard to maintain it. And as he just starts leveling blow after blow after blow in very simple language, this is bad, this is bad, this is bad. You can see the smile start to dissipate. But this is a finance guy. This is a Trump donor. And that is Fox News. And the one thing, there are different degrees of MAGA.

You have like the base that's like QAnon conspiracy theorists. Then you have these country club Republicans like that guy who are all about money. And I'm just so shocked at how short-sighted so many of these men are on the economy and they didn't play the tape through that if we appoint a convicted felon, if we elect a convicted felon to be in charge of the economy that's bankrupted his own personal businesses, that might be damaging to our economy. And I'm not an economist. I'm not even a political strategist, but I was able to deduce that that might not be very good.

Well, and Donald Trump has never been a planner. a political strategist, but I was able to deduce that that might not be very good. Well, and Donald Trump has never been a planner. He's never gone from point A to point B and then played the tape through how is this going to look at point Z. He is an impulse guy. He lacks self-control. And so he gets mad and he taxes or he puts a tariff on China that's 145%. That's completely untenable. So he rolls it back. He is not a good businessman. He has no self-control. He has surrounded himself with moron yes men. So of course he's incompetent.

Of course this is a complete disaster. And anybody that's watched Trump throughout his lifetime could have seen this coming. And he was such a laughingstock in New York, in the business world prior to this. But it's something about Trump that triggers the worst impulses in people. It triggers a real short-sighted consequences be damn style impulse. And here we have, this is humiliating. We have put up this headline. The CEOs of three of the nation's biggest retailers, Walmart, Target, and Home Depot, privately warned President Trump in an office meeting on Monday that his tariff and trade policy would disrupt supply chains, raise prices, and empty shelves.

Call me crazy, but I think that the president of the United States that's in charge of the world's largest economy shouldn't have to have the CEOs from Home Depot, Target, and Walmart sit him down and explain to him about tariffs and supply chain issues. Furthermore, the Home Depot guy has been a Republican mega donor his whole entire life. I mean, this guy is just all, you know, all chips in on what can enrich me. And I don't care about, you know, the rest of the country, just the worst of what Republicanism has to offer. And Target in particular, they found out, you know, what happens when you abandon your core principles. And so I think this is just humiliating. And if these three CEOs had to sit down

with Joe Biden like he was a two-year-old, like they just had to do with President Trump, Fox News would be in an absolute tailspin. And the way that these MAGA men are able to operate with impunity is just such a nod to how much deference we as a society give rich white men that happen to have a big bank account, that we just assume that they're so smart and we just assume they're so competent. And the dismantling of expertise in this administration and the damage to our country is I think we're approaching a part where it's going to be decades to reverse. I agree with you. And I also think it's unbelievable that, like you said, these three men have to go tell Trump that his tariffs are going to raise prices, hit supply chains.

Like I could have told you that. Like tariffs are bad. Anybody who studied tariffs knows it's bad. And I wonder if these CEOs, because Trump is so susceptible to superficial flattery, and oh, you're athletic, you're so handsome, if they thought they could manipulate him out of this tariff policy that he's so high on during the election, I wonder if they thought they could manipulate him because he's so high on during the election. I wonder if they thought they could manipulate him because he's so easily manipulated. Maybe, maybe not. I think that the larger autopsy on all of this is a lot of these people need to look at the whole package of MAGA. They now brag openly about being a big tent party. And when you have these finance guys that are all about,

you know, unleashed capitalism combined with these Heritage Foundation people that authored Project 2025 that want to take away civil liberties and concentrate all of the power in the executive branch. And if you were to pause for a second and speak to experts in this, they would be able to tell you that the governments that have such a setup don't have strong, sustainable economies. And so I just think that Trump, again, people cave to their worst impulses with this man. And he gives all sorts of a permission structure. And the people who are rah-rah, sis-boom-bah capitalism, they are like, oh, shit. Oh, shit. We are so fucked.

And so I don't know if they, at this point, he's so unhinged. I don't know if there's a psychological play with him. Because I think his actions towards the economy have surprised many because Trump 1.0, his ego was directly tied to the stock market. Now he doesn't give a shit about the stock market. So I think they're all sitting there like, what the fuck? Okay, next up, here is a Republican mega donor, mega donor, named Ken Griffin. He is speaking about the damage that the Trump administration is doing to the American brand and how tarnished it is getting. But in the financial markets, no brand compared to the brand of the U.S. Treasuries. U.S. Treasury market, the strength of the U.S. dollar, and the creditworthiness of Uiness of US Treasuries. No brand came close. We

put that brand at risk. And as you and I both know, it can take a very long time, very long time to remove the tarnish on a brand. So the President and the Secretary of Treasury and the Secretary of commerce need to be very thoughtful that when you have a brand, you need to behave in a way that respects that brand, that strengthens that brand. Because when you tarnish that brand, it can be a lifetime to repair the damage that has been done. Okay, so I agree with him that the American brand is getting tarnished. And when you talk about the Treasury and that a lot of investors would always park their money in the dollar, it was a safe haven. And Trump is completely inflection point. And they can get on here and say Trump needs to be patient and he needs to be measured and he needs to be this. that the man you're talking about is incapable of doing, nor did he surround himself with anybody

who's capable of having a conversation below the surface of what his impulses are. So these business leaders that talk about the American brand that have profited off of the American brand have got to get in front of a camera together and say, we screwed up. We bet on the wrong horse. We have all got to come together and have a strong uprising against this president and get him out of office or the damage

will be irreversible. And they're starting to tiptoe. They're getting their toes just barely in the water right now. But it's going to take, you know, the financial sector and then people, everyday people like our listeners and our viewers right now to band together to put the pressure on Congress, because we still right now have three branches of government, although Congress seems to have abdicated their power to him. But if there's pressure on these Republican politicians from the financial sector and people that backed him that were mega donors, like that guy on the Fox and this guy talking about tarnishing the American brand, because deep down somewhere in the psyche of some of these country club Republicans that sit around and freebase Fox News, that American brand thing and that American exceptionalism thing is very important to them. But Fox distracts. all of these people in the Trump administration on camera all the time. It's not because they're busy grinding out policy. It's because they're busy with a propaganda campaign.

And Fox News falls prey to that propaganda campaign all the time. But these hedge fund guys and these finance guys and Home Depot and Target, they're out in the real world really trying to say, we have these big American companies, we have these big American companies, we have these big American brands, and you are fucking it up royally. And so I'm glad they're taking baby steps, but they need to consolidate and get a plan very quickly because this is getting to a point economically, and we haven't even talked about the egregious human rights violations,

but that's the point of an autocrat. They throw out all this stuff so that you feel helpless and hopeless. But I do know this, Americans like their money and Americans like their economy. And these guys have a responsibility to their country and the country that has made them so wealthy to own their mistake in supporting this man. Tuck your tail between your legs and band together and help put pressure on Congress to get this MF-er out of office. Yes, I think the pressure on Congress

is absolutely what's got to happen because a lot of these congressmen, they are in fear of Donald Trump and then in fear of the money that can be taken away from their campaigns. And we're talking about people that have a lot of money that could donate to them if they stand up to Trump. But I might even argue that Trump is rebranding. He's attempting to rebrand the United States as an autocracy where you have to come to him. And so all of the gains that we have made,

all of the stability, he is rebranding it to be the Trump show. And that should scare every single one of these people because he's a terrible fucking businessman. I think you're right. I think that's a really good point. He is. He's rebranding everything as being Trump centric. And I think Senator Chris Murphy talks about this, that this is he wants all of these businessmen

to bend the knee to him and say, you know, please help me, sir. Please help me. And then Trump gives them like he did with Apple. He gave them, OK, we're not going to put a tariff on the iPhones or, you know, so that's what they're looking for. But anyway, that's all we have for this episode. Please subscribe and we'll see you all later.