IHIP News - WHOA! Elon and Trump’s Sinister Starlink Scheme Just Got Exposed!
Episode Date: May 23, 2025...
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Explosive allegations that Trump and Musk are running a scheme with the tariffs.
Representative Greg Sesar just called for a massive corruption probe into what he calls a really serious allegation that Trump and Musk ran a tariff scam where countries dodged tariffs by signing contracts
with Musk's companies. Now it's all starting to make sense. Listen to this.
Musk continues to find ways to enrich himself while he was virtually running the White House
and is still deeply involved in the Trump administration. In breaking news, myself and Representative Gabe Amo
and then also Senator Chris Murphy
have called for an investigation
into these allegations that are really serious.
This whole tariff scam has not been
about bringing American jobs home,
but instead what Trump has been doing
is threatening massive tariffs on countries,
and then reporting and leaks have started coming out
that these countries are then opening up to Musk's companies
and signing contracts or looking at contracts with Starlink
as a way of getting out from underneath these tariffs.
You could be paying thousands of dollars more a year
in your consumer goods because of these tariffs,
all so that Trump can basically extort countries
to do business with his buddy, Elon Musk,
that bought him the presidency.
That is the core of corruption.
That is the definition of kleptocracy.
And so we need to become a democratic party
that is anti-billionaire, anti-corruption and pro-worker.
Finally pass a ban on stock trading by members of Congress.
Make it illegal for presidents to accept things
like a $400 million jumbo jet from a foreign government
and say, no, you cannot be a billionaire
with contracts with the federal government
and then be running the federal government at the same time. That is okay.
This is at okay. First and foremost, this makes so much sense because the tariffs are so
harebrained. They're so squirrely. And if you notice right when Trump was inaugurated,
Musk was so excited. Everybody knows knows, he finally got to come
out of the closet as a Nazi. But he immediately went in, shut down investigations into himself,
rewarded himself contracts. But that's not enough because he wants global dominance.
Elon Musk does. There was reporting back that he thought that his spirit was that of an
old Roman king or something. I mean, this guy is just like delusions of grandeur.
I mean, like a real nutcase. We know Trump is a real nutcase too. And so he's helping him do this.
And all of this still, I think, leads to Putin as well, because both of them are severely compromised
by Putin. But the Trump administration has fired and the Supreme Court even said yesterday, yeah it's okay to fire whoever you want. And so the MAGA
movement is surrounded by a lot of enablers, a lot of enablers who are
selling out the American public, who are draining all of the systems that held
American power, the economy, the military, our espionage, making sure that nefarious governments are
not spying on us. They've just let all of that go. And all of this is because Musk and Trump want
to be like kings of the world. And they are obviously facing some friction. And so we're
going to be sitting back here with some popcorn. But I believe what this congressman said. I think Musk is still knee deep in with the Trump
administration. I think that there have been reports that have come out that said Trump
is done with Musk. And it's because the shareholders at Tesla are saying, you've got to quit being
in the news for doing bad shit with Trump. And I think he's still knee deep in.
You noticed him on the Middle East tour,
Middle East circle jerk.
But here's Trump again.
And I cannot emphasize enough that people
who in my personal life,
who would call themselves moderates,
that voted for Trump justified it by saying
that he's good for the economy, that they
like Republican policies.
And this has been a myth that has been so successful by the Republican Party starting
in the Reagan era to now that so many people have been indoctrinated to think that by not
taxing billionaires that wealth trickles down and it doesn't.
So here is Mr. Free Markets, Mr. Let the Free Markets Run.
Here he is at like 4 a.m. this morning, at real Donald Trump.
And I will never get over it that that's the president of the United States Twitter handle,
but I digress.
I have long ago informed Tim Cook of Apple that I expect their iPhones that will be
sold in the United States of America will be manufactured and built in the United States,
not India or any place else. If that is not the case, a tariff of at least 25% must be paid by
Apple to the U.S. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Timestamp 4 19 a.m. That's psychotic. Next slide.
How much would an iPhone cost if Apple were forced to make it in America? In the 30,000 to
100,000 dollar range. And no, that is not a typo. In fact, if Apple were forced to solely manufacture the iPhone in America, there is a
good argument that it would not be able to manufacture any at all. And if they could somehow
successfully make the manufacturing transition, capacity would likely be constrained to just a
few million units a year. So what is all of this about? Why are we on a 4 a.m. bender attacking Tim Cook? Well,
it's been reported that Trump had his crypto bribery dinner last night that Tim Cook didn't pay,
he didn't play, and he didn't show up. So Trump starts all of these crazy ass tweets. Another
tweet that I'll spare you guys from reading is he is now attacking the EU and he is calling for a 50%
tariff with the EU. I'm just going to speculate here, but I guarantee you what happened is last
night he's grandstanding with all of the foreign corrupt nationals that are bribing him through his
meme coin. And I guarantee you, he said, I can make the markets jump.
I can make, I can, y'all can make a bunch of money.
Watch this, in the morning,
I'm gonna pick a fight with these people
and their stocks are gonna go down.
And then I'll give you the heads up
as to when I'm gonna reverse
and then y'all can pump and dump and make a lot of money.
That's what they're all doing.
Meanwhile, the American economy is being drained from every stabilizing
force in it. Our American military is now turned into a mega church. Pete Hegseth is
over there having prayer groups at the Pentagon. How that makes us safer is beyond me.
All right. Next up we have Chris Murphy.
Estimated that 40% of Trump's entire net worth today is due to these two crypto coins
that he just launched months ago.
So this has been maybe the most lucrative venture he has ever, um, ever endeavored to
begin.
All of this money is going straight into his pocket and he is, as we've seen, trading favors, trading U.S. policy in order to get paid. That is different than a contribution
to a campaign that can only be used for political purposes.
Okay. So Chris Murphy, everybody knows he's my favorite senator right now because he has
moral clarity. He calls it out constantly, the corruption. He doesn't take the bait of the shiny objects
of Trump acting like a nut in the Oval Office, because all of that, Trump's reality TV show
is a complete distraction. Another distraction that the Trump administration is constantly
doing is they are, Kristi Noem just announced that she is blocking Harvard from enrolling international students.
In this, immediately Harvard is going to file a lawsuit.
They already have this morning.
Harvard will win.
But before I go any further, I want you to understand that every single morning when
we prepare for these news episodes, Pumps and I go to an app called Ground News.
And here's just an example.
On the left, the left reports this Harvard
situation with the following headline. Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling
foreign students. And on the right, it says Trump administration terminates Harvard's students visa
program over pro-terrorist conduct at protests. So this is how it's reported on both sides.
But the brilliant thing about ground news is you can go and see the story, see how your
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And then you can see how the center is seeing it.
And then you can see how the left is seeing it.
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MAGA politics right now. So, Rolling Stone reported that the GOP senator, and this of course
is Josh Hawley, begs for disaster aid as FEMA snubs another red state. So, the pro-life party
FEMA snubs another red state. So the pro-life party MAGA is saying, no, we're not sending emergency aid. But everybody needs to remember that Hawley voted against FEMA just a couple of months ago.
So two months ago, he's engaged in the MAGA optics of we're going to cut all of these things. There's all this fraud, waste,
and abuse. And then you have the governor down, that Sarah Huckabee in Arkansas, who's
just a big Trump thumper, right? The biggest Trump thumper. Well, they have all of these
natural disasters. This is why we pay taxes. We pay taxes so the federal government can keep us safe and assist its citizenry when national
disasters strike.
But part of the project 2025 was to dismantle all of these things because it's a very cruel
regime.
And the cruelty is the point.
And so we have Josh Hawley here and he's going to speak and he's going to say, we need these
funds and people in Missouri are going to feel like, oh yeah, he's going to speak and he's going to say, we need these funds and people
in Missouri are going to feel like, oh yeah, he's fighting for us. We have a badass senator. Well,
no, you have a senator that cherry picks when he thinks government is good and when he thinks it
is bad. And so when he wants the electoral optics of voting with Trump so that it plays well with his
red state base.
He does that.
Everybody needs to cut through all of this shit.
Finally, once and for all, and acknowledge, government cannot be run like a business.
Businesses harm and injure people because they favor profits more than they do their customers'
well-being.
Look at the cigarette companies, look at the oil and gas companies, the pharmaceutical
companies and on and on and on.
It is insane.
And so when I go back to the first video I played where we had the congressman talking
about billionaires and talking about the corruption, Moving forward, I think we need to amplify voices that are completely not beholden to
these corporations and only lift up corporations that are playing a long-term game here with
American democracy.
In the short term, yeah, you can probably give Trump some money.
And he's going to favor you and keep his Twitter and his lisocial from berating your company.
But he's not a spring chicken. And he's, you know, he's a second term president. So this is
a lame duck presidency. And so we need to lift up the corporations that are not bending the knee and that say,
look, we are only going to support candidates that favor democracy, that are not beholden
to corporations.
So I think we need a merger of the private sector plus democratic politicians and even
Republican politicians that are sick and tired of being
beholden to corporations, insider trading, and fleecing the American public because everything
in the United States is being completely drained out and Trump just puts up a shiny object for all
of us to look at and talk about. Meanwhile, everything is set up for Trump, Musk, and a few others
to win at this. All right. That's all I have for today. And we'll see you all later.