Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Economy Tanks as Trump's Words Backfire in His Face

Episode Date: March 10, 2025

Trump is so disconnected from the American Public, that he calls a recession that will cripple the economy and kill American dreams, as “just a period of transition” as he goes on Fox Business with his best friend Maria Bartiromo and makes it worse, as we woke up to an increasingly gloomy financial markets who weren’t happy with his comments. Michael Popok puts on his Wall Street hat to do a deep dive. Elevate your workspace and energize your year with Uplift Desk. Go to https://upliftdesk.com/legalaf for a special offer exclusive to our audience. Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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who just refers to an oncoming recession caused by his own failed policies as a period of transition and I don't like to make predictions, well I'll make a prediction here on the Midas Touch Network, the markets are roiling because of Donald Trump's incoherent, untethered to reality economic policy led purportedly by people in his cabinet that used to work on Wall Street. I don't know what happened to them, but I will tell you that the brokers and traders around the world are reacting negatively and the American economy may be sliding into recession. Not my words, those of independent economists at major banks. I'm Michael Popock.

You're here on the Midas Touch Network and Legal AF. I'm going to put on my hat for working for years on Wall Street. Let me tell you what I am observing. First of all, let's start it off with Donald Trump's comment during a Fox interview with a friendly softball interviewer of Maria Bargaromo, the same person who threw a softball to him along the lines of, well, we know you inherited a mess in the economics from Joe Biden. What is she talking about? Was she on Fox News that she watched the Biden administration? He inherited, Donald Trump inherited, a roaring economy. He inherited job creation, job growth, GDP growth.

Right? He, we had robust free trade. We had tariffs where it was important. We had free trade where it mattered. We had increased investment in our infrastructure, in our future, in our technology, in our oil and gas production. We had stock market booming.

We had prices heading in the right direction at the right time. After he inherited, let's remember, every time a Democrat gets in, they have to inherit an economy that's on life support or worse. Barack Obama takes over when the economy fell off the cliff. We had to do the auto and bank bailout all at the same time. People forget that. And then he turned that economy around and created hundreds, you know, tens of millions of jobs. Joe Biden takes over from Donald Trump and the economy is flatlined. That flatline. He had to pump $3 trillion of stimulus just to defibulate the

American economy and get it back awake after COVID and Donald Trump's failed policies. This is the person we gave the keys to the economy back to. And Donald Trump now in 50 days decides to do what I guess would have been interesting in some sort of weekend retreat by Heritage Foundation or a tabletop exercise in the woods. What will happen if we pull out the US from the US economy, stop domestic aid, stop foreign aid, all of those having American jobs behind them,

all of those having American companies behind them. Let's get rid of billions of dollars of US investment in the economy. All at the same time, we start and lose a tariff war with our three major trading partners in Canada, Mexico, and China, let's do all that at the same time. Let's get rid of the internal revenue service.

We don't need to collect taxes. Let's start sharpening our knives and go after Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Let's take consumer confidence and shrink it to its lowest levels in over a decade. Yeah. And then when we see that maybe all of that at the exact same time, doing everything everywhere

all at once may not have been the right message to send to brokers and traders and American consumers who are still struggling. Then what do you do? Oh, you trot out your treasury secretary who used to work for George Soros, by the way., you trot out your Treasury Secretary, who used to work for George Soros, by the way, and you trot out your Commerce Secretary, who used to and probably still has a major,

a Wall Street company, to say, there may be a recession. No, there won't be a recession on my watch. And then Donald Trump's supposed to be the tiebreaker. Donald Trump is supposed to be the tiebreaker. He's told everybody he's in charge. Buck stops with him. Not that we have any bucks with him, but the buck stops with him, right? Executive orders

after executive order, putting every agency in the executive branch under his greasy little thumb. It's him. He's in charge. All right. Okay, chief, what do you got to say for being in charge? Will there be a recession, says Maria Bartiromo. Here's what the President of the United States says, apparently to break the tie between his Commerce Secretary and his Treasury Secretary to make the markets feel better. Go. Are you expecting a recession this year? I hate to predict things like that.

There is a period of transition because what we're doing is very big. We're bringing wealth back to America. That's a big thing and there are always periods of... it takes a little time. It takes a little time but I don't... I think it should be great for us. I mean I think it should be great. It's going to be great ultimately for the farmer. You know, don't forget I made... And are the markets feeling any better with his, I don't like to predict Maria, but there's gonna be a period of transition.

What's the period of transition? Are we transitioning from a period where we had money, we had dignity, we were able to take care of our loved ones, our elderly parents, our children, college, food, rent, the electric bill. Is that it? And now we're transitioning into a period where we don't have those things because of the Trump administration, because he's paying off his campaign debts to those that put him

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What is the Trump doctrine? I defy anyone to tell me what the Trump foreign policy and tariff economic policy is in one sentence, in comments. I'll take a moment. Tell me what it is. Because if you're gonna tell me he's erratic and he's unhinged and that's a good thing because it unsettles our adversaries,

that is the biggest line of crap I've ever heard. All it does is embolden our adversaries. Russia, China, North Korea, they're thrilled by Trump's behavior and conduct. They couldn't have scripted it better themselves, are they? They couldn't have scripted it better themselves. We, because of Trump, are being played and are playing into the hands of our adversaries who are taking full advantage of it on a global stage. And now the economy in America is reacting. If what Donald Trump was supposed to be doing when he went on the Bartiromo show was to calm and quell the markets, didn't work.

Markets are tanking again as we wake up this morning, Dow Jones and NASDAQ down considerably and have been trending down and crashing down since beginning of February. We're over a month. Whatever the Trump dividend was, everybody's so excited when he got elected. Bitcoin up, now it's considerably down by a lot in cryptocurrency. Everything he touched turned to you know what. Wiped out all the gains already in the stock market. Yeah. And sending out your Treasury Secretary and your Commerce Secretary who have competing ideas about the recession and are inconsistent with each other and then Donald Trump goes out and says, well, I can't make any predictions. I'll tell you who does a good job

at predictions. Banks like JP Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, and they both doubled their percentages of the chance of us going into a recession. A recession that our Federal Reserve Chairman, Jay Powell, has said because of all of the policies, domestic and foreign, of Donald Trump all at the same time increases the chances of a recession. Immigration policy and the billions of dollars required to execute on it, the tariff war, the attempt to strengthen the US dollar. That's why the Treasury notes, the treasury rate for 10-year notes is down considerably. That's a bad thing. That means it's cheaper out there to buy, it's also cheaper out there to buy our debt,

which is what the Chinese are doing. So we've got all of that going on. Consumer confidence plummeting, manufacturing confidence plummeting. And this is what happens when the Republicans like MAGA get in office. They just wreck it. They just wreck it. And I'm gonna continue to follow it here

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