Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump Awakes to Devastating News of his own Making

Episode Date: March 7, 2026

To paraphrase MAGA Sen. Kennedy, Trump’s economy is as “dead as fried chicken,” as the new job numbers hit today showing that Trump LOST 100,000 jobs in February alone, including in construction and factory workers, on top of 70,000 lost in December and January, and the financial markets tumble in the face of the Iranian War Trump started and its devastating impact on oil, gas and energy prices. Popok puts on his Wall Street hat and provides the report. 120 Life: Go to https://120Life.com - and use my code LEGALAF for 20% off Subscribe:  @LegalAFMTN  Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! 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 Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show The Ken Harbaugh Show: https://meidasnews.com/tag/the-ken-harbaugh-show Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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here to lead off into the weekend, economists thought February was going to be a terrible month with a job creation number of about 60,000 new jobs. That would have been terrible compared to the 400,000 jobs created every month during the Biden administration. But instead, the job numbers came out and it was a negative 100,000 jobs.

100,000 jobs lost in February, not 60,000 gained. Just to give you some perspective, since the beginning of the year. December and January, they revised the job numbers down 69,000 from what they originally predicted. Now, another 100,000 jobs, and wait to you hear the sectors that the job loss is in,

completely counter to what Donald Trump is telling you about how successful his economy is. Unemployment now up 4.4%. And the American people know a war when they see it, even though Donald Trump and his lapdog of a Congress, they've been ordered not to refer to the Iranian war as a war, but the financial markets, the energy markets, they all know what a war looks like, and it looks just like this.

And as a result, the financial markets are tumbling as I'm recording. I can't even keep up with how far they're tumbling. I'm not happy about it, but it is an indication that the sole reason, the raison d'etra for Donald Trump to be elected president, was low oil prices and a booming economy job creator and low prices. None of that has happened. Instead, quite the opposite. We're only bombing Iran and going overseas to export our chaos to cover up for the failures at home.

For a domestic policy, that is, as dead as fried chicken. I'm Michael Popok. You're on the, I'm hungry now. You're on the Midas Touch Network and on LegalAF. Let's talk about these job numbers. And these are coming out from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That's the one Donald Trump really hated because the numbers were so bad. So he fired the head statistician six months ago.

Well, the new statistician, what's he going to do now? Close the door of the bureau so they don't issue numbers at all. Think what are the headwinds that are crushing the American economy? You could do it with me. You can make it a nursery rhyme. Tariffs that are taxes. A war that is leading to rising oil and energy prices. When you've got a transit zone in the Middle East called the Strait of Harmuz,

you can't get any oil tankers through it right now. It's a traffic jam because of the Iranian war that we've started, right? And so, all right, so you've got all of that. Then you've got the job numbers. I mean, when you've got the, when economists think you're already got an anemic job creation, record and you're only going to create 60,000 jobs in a 330 million person economy. When you think that, then you're already in a terrible place. But when you lose 100,000 so they're off by 160,000, that's even worse.

Here's the sectors where they've done the loss, right? Donald Trump, the builder, Bob, the builder president, right? Building everything. Construction lost 11,000 jobs. 11,000 jobs in construction lost. in the month of February alone, 28,000 in health care, 30,000 in restaurants and bars. And get this, remember the reason for the tariffs was to bring manufacturing home. Bring it home. Have factories booming again in America, right? South Korea is going to build a chip or an AI factory, whatever it is.

Yeah, he not only did his economy, our economy, lose 12,000 jobs in factories in the month of February alone. It's the 14th month out of 15. He's on an epic losing streak of having factory jobs, lose jobs, not create them. So none of what he's trying to sell to the American people is working. The polling shows it. He's going to crash potentially through the 30% approval barrier any moment now. Independence gave up on him months ago, ran away screaming from him. Young voters, the same thing.

They all want their vote back. Now, in addition to the job loss, look at what's what happened to the stock market. It's down like 2% now. You're down 2%, 3% just as we went to open the markets. And that is a signal that the financial markets do not believe in Donald Trump stewardship, if you want to call it that of the economy. And as a result, it's hurting you and me. Time to run the bastards out.

What do you do when you got dead fried checks? You toss it. And that's what the pent-up demand in America right now is for voting to vote him out. This is something I wish more people talked about sooner, and it runs in my family. High blood pressure. It doesn't always feel urgent, but it affects half of all adults, and it's the number one risk factor for mortality. It doesn't hurt.

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well, what are we watching? We're watching a reverse Lyndon Johnson. Let's give you historical reference. Lyndon Johnson was a tremendously successful domestic policy president. go to the museum, the Lyndon Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. You will be amazed by the great society wing and all the things he did that we still benefit from for domestic policy, period. But he was terrible abroad because he inherited the Vietnam War.

And so he felt he had to finally give up on his candidacy, and he never ran for a second term. He did it all in one term. Trump's got a reverse problem. He's terrible at home. I mean, the stench of scandal of the Epstein scandal, the amount of resources he's using to cover up one scandal after the next. You know, Christy Noem and a love affair with somebody in her office and spending Donald Trump's money and blaming him for it on an ad campaign

that benefited her own people, her own friends. That's what got her canned, that she was corrupt, but it corrupt in not in a way that benefited Donald Trump. So you have the labor secretaries in the midst of a scandal about strip clubs and her husband abusing people in her office and assaulting people in her office. You got all these scandals going on. And what does Donald Trump do? Time to bomb Iran. You know, and he makes it up as he goes along, of course. I thought they were going to shoot first.

Did you? Did you think Iran was going to shoot first at the United States and bomb one of our bases? And then having already been bombed several months ago, You think that was going to happen? Yeah, no. So look, here's my perspective. The economy should be the driving wedge between the people and Donald Trump once and for all. He can't fix all of these failings between now and the midterms.

I mean, when we founded Legal A after YouTube channel, September of 2024, we were like, so far away after the election. You know, if Trump wins, the midterms two years away, forget two years. We're down to counting on one hand the amount of months left. Right? A little more than one hand. Never great at math. And ballots are being printed.

Special elections are being held. Primaries are being held. He can't fix the scandals, the polling numbers, how people hate his immigration policy, the inhumanity of it, the lack of kindness and humility about his presidency. Right? We need to forget about regime change in Iran. He wants to pick who's going to be the next leader of Iran. We want to pick who's going to be the next leader here in the United States sooner rather than later. So what are the job numbers? They are a telling indicia of the failure of the Trump administration in every way, shape, and form. Period.

I mean, you got his commerce secretary, his treasury secretary, saying every month, everything's going to be all right. We're just getting past the Biden administration. Everything's all right. Now he says gas prices are going up. Trump said, who cares? Shrugged my shoulders. I thought that's the reason he got elected for gas prices and the rest.

Lowered. No, that's not going to happen. The Iranian war puts pressure on energy prices, energy, oil, et cetera, electricity. that's what fuels the global economy, including our own. Nothing that Donald Trump has done has worked. And yet he continues to lie to the American people, like at the state of the Union, and tell them everything is okay when we know it is not.

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