Some More News - Even More News: Trump's Monday Morning Market Manipulation

Episode Date: March 31, 2026

Hi. On today's episode of Even More News, Katy, Cody, and Jonathan discuss the imminent global fallout from Trump's war in Iran and his inept attempt to fix things by threatening to commit war crimes. They also talk about Kash Patel's emails, the No Kings Protests, and Zohran Mamdani fixing potholes.As always, we recorded right before that big thing that happened.PATREON: https://patreon.com/somemorenewsMERCH: https://shop.somemorenews.comYOUTUBE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvlj0IzjSnNoduQF0l3VGng/join#EvenMoreNews #Oil #IranWarSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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love Mom Donnie? Hey, hello. Welcome back to even more news. The first and only news podcast. Thank goodness. There's a podcast for all the news. My name's Katie. Stoll, that is. I'm Cody. Nice to meet you, see you. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance.

How you doing? Finally, after all these years. Our first and only meeting. Jonathan's also here. Hi. Ah. How are you? You know, a little stressed with the news,

but also not at all. that totally calm and collected to give our audience the news straightforward and calmly. We're all disassociating a little bit. I'm associating. You're associating. With all of you. With us. And our viewers whom we adore.

And that's it for us today, folks. Well, I hope you feel informed. Yeah. The war continues. Jonathan, that's me passing. that was like oh okay yeah i thought uh you might have something comforting to say about it but no it continues absolutely and uh let's see the president on monday morning did his typical market shakeup where he says we're basically done and we're making a deal which is a lie we know this but he says

we're almost done we're making a deal but also if the street of hormuz is not immediately open for business we're going to blow up the plants and the wells and carg island and the desalant a desalinization plans. So all the war crimes? If the war doesn't end, we're going to do more war crimes. But the war is done. If they don't accept that they've been defeated, that's a fun line. Isn't that what Caroline Levitt said?

Yes, it is. Essentially. They need to understand that they're defeated. Did he refer to it as a war when he's referring to this? To sort of start us off, I wanted to read this quote from him from a couple days ago over the weekend quote is the president of the united states talking do you say quote uh no that was me so quote now and now this is the president of united states and he didn't say now this is the president of the united states this is still part of this is still me it's for legal reasons i say military op

because as a military operation i don't need any approvals as a war you're supposed to get approval from congress something like that so i call it a military operation uh-huh So you called it a war a hundred times? You said you had to go watch the war, sir. Where they say, they don't like it. They don't want you to call it a war, so I don't. Because apparently that'll get people upset. Oh, yeah.

He does this all the time now. Is this still Trump or did the quote end? This is all still Trump? We're just saying this is still Trump. Yeah, you know, yeah, it is. Okay. It's all him. And quote.

So he. He, when you hear him say this, it is stunning how little he is concerned about those legal reasons, right? If there were legal reasons where you had to not do something, you'd maybe take it a little more seriously. He's openly mocking all of us.

I think he's learned that he doesn't need to pay attention to legal reasons. We laugh, but he's saying that he's calling the war something else so that he can do it illegally. We laugh as we cry. Indeed. Tragedy, call me, mind. We know this.

Yeah, wild stuff that continues to happen. It does feel like Groundhogs Day. Every Monday feels like we've been here before, haven't we? It came out there every day. It is the, I mean, right, he's surfing on this, like, two-dimensional surfboard, like trying to do the war and the war, the markets, but make sure everyone knows he's going to do. And like, there's only so many more weeks he can get away with this. It's becoming pretty clear that the shock waves of this, of the energy

shortages, of the oil and gas shortages around the world, it started in East Asia and Africa. It's going to hit Europe soon. It's going to hit here. And the question right now is the scale of the shock. Up until I would say this weekend, there was just a lot of rumblings on the internet. Like, you guys aren't prepared for what's coming. The kind of pandemic level shutdown we're about to experience. But then Bloomberg this morning published a story called the Strait of Hormuz Oil Shock is now heading west. And it does seem like we are in for not just higher prices, but shortages and rationing of energy. Government employees potentially ask too. stay home for a time.

People are almost certainly going to have their summer vacation plans upended and maybe their summer going to work plans. This is a very amorphous time and I'm not quite sure

even reading this how much pee I should have in my pants or you know, it's very unfair. I'm sorry. What the fuck does that mean? How much pee? He's going to piss his pants.

I'll pee my... He's got to piss his pants. I thought you meant in terms of stocking up. I thought you meant, like, I need to... I mean, you have to preserve your peeve your peeve for sure. On something and keep on all my person? And I was like, Jonathan, what? I am so happy that you stopped to ask what does that mean instead of just being like, yep, sure, we all need our pee around.

I mean, of course we need the pee around. I mean, I guess it's a, it's hyperbolic. I probably won't literally pee my pants over the shock. I'll still probably do it in the potty. But because you're currently potty training a toddler and you need to set a good example. It might be a higher quantity of alcohol in there if I'm drinking to cover up the pending economic crisis and energy meltdown. Yeah. It is definitely alarming.

It feels like the lead up to COVID when we all knew that it was happening. I remember my boyfriend at the time being like, there's nothing going on. I'm like, I think we need to be paying attention to this. I think this is going to be worse than you think. And that's what it feels like. And we should trust our instincts because. Well, this time we have a better precedent to deal with it, though. I mean, you know, you read about ticking time bomb and you aren't sure you're like,

okay, you're just a scared nerd. but also you would be the nerd guy to know about things. And then we've got this quote from the defense minister in Italy saying, I'm forced to know things about what could happen in the coming week and the effects it will have on the economy in our daily lives that no longer allow me to sleep. You know, that's a big deal. I'm not sure what, I'm not, you know, I'm not going out and stocking up on the toilet paper and the water or whatever. I just wrote it down, stock up on stuff, on peeps specifically.

Extra. And the T and the P. No, I'm just saying that our lives could be very different in a couple of weeks. The level of the disruptions are unknown. There's certainly going to, like, everything that I'm reading from the experts are saying that even if the Strait of Hormuz were to reopen today, everything ends today, we're still seeing like a year of high prices and volatility in the, and of course with food with the fertilizer, the third of the fertilizer of the world.

Code goes through there, apparently. Brand and stuff. Real stuff that you should have considered before doing the war that's pointless. And there's not going to be a silver lining to this because so many people are going to, I mean, people are going to die because of this. They're not going to be able to get food.

They're not going to be able to get water. They're not going to be able to get to work and they will lose their livelihoods. While there's a war going on. However, Trump's, approval in a new UMass Amherst poll is now 33%, which is... Dancing on down into the 20s. This stuff might actually get him under 30 and get him impeached and removed.

I mean, once it hurts... Yeah, once it hurts them at home, which is part of the tragedy, right? Like, not realizing it until you're the one who's going through it. I do keep thinking about how, again, how insulated we are here, and we are going to feel these economic impacts, I am scared for everybody, but especially people that are already struggling. When you take a step back and look around the world, other places are going to be hit so much harder just by nature of where they live. And no, that's not a positive thing, as our vice president recently declared, like, other places are going to hurt more. Fuck. You. You. You. And,

you, that's a problem too. That's a horrific thing to say. That doesn't bring me comfort to know that I'm going to hurt less. Right, because it's also not even a comfort from like, okay, this like horrible situation, like COVID, something like that. Or it's like we're going to do our best to handle it and we're going to coordinate and so on. We're going to be a little better off than everybody else. It's a war that they started.

Yeah. It's because of this war that they started. It's not even like, oh, we're going to, we're going to be hit a little. horror, you know, it's like, no, we started this war and everybody else is going to suffer more than us. The clear goal of the war now is to reverse the thing that they caused. Like this straight of Hormuz throwing the entire global supply chain into chaos is now the only goal. Trump would leave today if it was open or if we had Carg Island or whatever the hell. Like, it would be over. Hey, we won. The only reason he can't declare victory is because.

because we're all about to get, and by we all, I mean the world. The world. Are about to get bombarded with these disruptions to our lives in the terms of just having energy, being able to get on a bus or take a car somewhere or buy the food at the grocery store that we want to buy. And now he has to pretend that that's not the thing. And then is going to pretend that it's not happening. like because at least with COVID you know no one legitimately thought it was his fault we knew that he didn't create COVID and unleash COVID unless that's a new conspiracy theory that I'm not part of but like Trump didn't do that and so he kind of got the benefit of the doubt for a little bit yeah but now this thing is about to hammer everyone and he was just about to bask in the glow of everyone's slightly elevated tax returns you know he was a

about to do fine. And that's totally overshadowed. He took back everybody's doge checks so he could spend $200 billion more dollars on this. Another chilling reality entered my heart and mind, which is we're approaching hurricane season. The natural disasters that are almost certainly going to befall parts of the world in the midst of this manmade disaster. I don't even have to finish that thought. I think we all understand where I'm going here. God, he's going to be so much worse during hurricanes.

Have you guys seen all the different reports circulating? Again, grain assault, everything, but the center for conscientious objectors, having just an influx of people trying desperately to get out of this. Counterpoint, Rob Schneider thinks we should reinstate the draft. He also is a big fan of Victor Orban. I know that. I saw that. Oh, yeah.

Great stuff. Great stuff. Another thing I just wanted to mention is that Trump is apparently allowing a Russian ship to deliver oil to Cuba. I say apparently allowing because, I mean, does he get to allow that? Or is that them doing it? could blow it up, I get, right? He could blow it up. And I'm bringing this up in conjunction with my previous point about disasters. Good. I'm glad. I mean, this is a confusing clown show. You guess Russia benefits from this. Russia really is coming out as the real winner of this conflict.

It seems at this point. It's almost like they knew they would benefit from having Trump as the president. Almost like they knew that. That said, people dunking on. it or making jokes. Just let it happen. This is good. This is good. We want Cuba to have some oil.

It's not going to save them completely. But it is good to know that they are going to get some sort of a shipment. Would you like to watch this clip of Trump with what appears to be freshly colored hair? He hadn't done it. Maybe it's the lighting on Air Force One. In the CNN poll which just came out. Thank you very much everybody. Thank you very much everybody.

What more thing about Cuba? There's a report that the U.S. is going to let a Russian oil tanker go to Cuba? Is that true? We have a tanker out there. We don't mind having somebody get a boatload because they have to survive. It wouldn't bother me. That report is true as far as you know. Well, I would say, I told them if a country wants to send some oil into Cuba right now, I have no problem with it.

Do you worry that that helps us whether it's Russia or not? What? Do you worry that that helps a lot of Britain, though? Doesn't help him. He loses one body. boatload of oil, that's all it is, it's fine. If he wants to do that and if other countries want to do it, it doesn't

bother me much, it's not going to have an impact. Cuba's finished. They have a bad regime. They have very bad and corrupt leadership. And whether or not they get a boat of oil, it's not going to matter. I'd prefer letting it in, whether it's Russia or anybody else, because

the people need heat and cooling and all of the other things. This is very confusing. It is confusing because I thought we wanted to crush Cuba and not let anything go there and we're going to take it. It's the thing he's doing. It's the thing he's doing. He's created the situation.

It's weird. He says, well, people need to live. They need the heating and the cooling. Like, yeah, the heating and cooling that you're depriving them of. The people are dying in the hospital. The ventilators don't work because of you. Or you've exacerbated this situation. Do you think he knows?

I don't think. think so. I don't think he cares. I mean, he's so reactive, right? He hears the question. He kind of knows what they're talking about, and he needs to make it sound like it's fine. So he just sort of talks.

I mean, maybe, I don't know, it's weird. He also said that, like, what do I care? They lose one tanker of oil. Well, if they're not losing it, what do you mean they're going to lose it? No, they're sending it there. That's not how words work, whatever. Yeah, it's very, very odd.

It's the same thing with his trade deficit. thing. You lose the things it's very bizarre. Right. He's like, don't you think that's going to benefit them? They lose one one thing of oil. No. They're not losing it. What are you talking about? One boat load of oil. They can have a boat load. He said it twice. I was really

hoping he'd say it a third time. Comedy rule of three is sir. Wait, was this all Trump talking or did we end the quote and start out? Was sorry? This is we're still going. Oh, okay. This is still, oh, my beautiful, my beautiful son, Don, who has the best genes in the world, aside from another Don I can think of, is me.

End of quote. End quote. Over the weekend, I believe Trump told everybody on truth social to watch a conservative commentator are Mark Levin, Mark Levin, Mark Levin, who explicitly made the case that we need to send ground troops into Iran, specifically to take their uranium. And he did a whole monologue about it, and the president told everybody to go check it out, which says it all, right? That that's what's going to happen very, very soon.

They're going to send troops into attempt to take their uranium, which is extremely dangerous. I've seen some people write about this and it's like conceptually seems like one of the more dangerous attempts to do anything you could do because you're like handling uranium and you're going into like multiple facilities probably and it's like such a volatile material

and like what do you what are you talking about also it's legal to have whatever. It sounds like the setup for a comedy heist where the bad guys are the ones one's trying to do the high. Like, this is a clown show. What are you talking about? That is an absurd.

It's not Ocean's 11 or whatever. It's Ocean's 11 mixed with Armageddon where they have to drill and get them. He's still just riding high from Venezuela. Like, that is, like, he just thinks like, oh, so I can do anything. Let's just go in and do it. And the fact that he told people to go watch this specific person say this specific thing, I think is pretty alarming, I guess. Meanwhile, I haven't really been totally following it, but Mark Levin and Megan Kelly have been going at each other back and forth.

They hate each other now. Yes, they do. Well, they love the exposure. They love the pageantry and the drama. Because no one was talking about Mark Levine a month ago, and now Trump, it was like watch this guy's stupid show where he tells me what war stuff to do. Because before this, like, if anyone said Mark Levin, I would think of that old audio clip with him and Hannity. calling in to yell at Alec Baldwin. It was like some viral audio thing.

I think of somebody using his audio and putting it under Master Shake because they have similar voices. Very well. Like, that's great. This dip shit is now going to escalate an entire war and he doesn't mind Megan Kelly saying he has a small penis

or whatever she is saying something like that. And then he can insinuate her proclivities too. and they have a fun time with that. Yeah. Like, get a real job, you know? I want to briefly mention Cash Patel's emails getting hacked. Because for the last couple weeks, there's been warnings of, like, targeting, you know, the government or targeting, well, they did target AWS, Amazon's, storages, all the facilities in the Middle East, different American companies. And now Patel's emails have been released by.

an Iranian hacking group Hondala and this is something we should all keep in mind is that things look different there's different ways you can target foreign governments there's different ways you can cause

disruption and they have released some sort of a cache of his emails it's mostly personal prior to you know his current position it seems as though they might have specifically not released some things.

Like there seems to be some photo attachments that aren't available or what have you. I'm bringing this up as a warning to cash to all these freaks because I know that they listen. Pon Gino, they're coming for you. There's got to be more information that they have, stuff that they have. Yeah, I mean, the president uses an unsecured personal cell phone. all the time and everyone knows his fucking phone number. But her emails, but her emails. This is a tangent, a little detour.

You bring up her emails. I was thinking about this the other day. Everyone is always like, oh my God, Trump is. You went after him and you did this. And even now, everyone always complains. And they're all rewriting history. Like, you went after him and you used the DOJ to do this and this and this. And I keep thinking, I was thinking yesterday, I was like,

the first thing he said when he first started running for president was that he was going to lock her up. They chanted lock her up so many times. And like I just, it's just, we've gone so far where like Trump is this perfect little angel who appeared out of nowhere and has been so nice to everybody. And everyone's just like, we're going to attack you. But, but like that's not what happened. And I just feel like I'm losing my mind sometimes when I hear people talk about things that

are being said now about him when the first thing he said was he was going to lock up his political opponent. Yeah. For a month. It's a continual, like, accusing the left of doing the thing you said you were going to do or the thing that you already did and then pretending that you thought it was bad. So, like, oh, well, all this stuff that's happening in Trump's second term is your fault because you did this during Biden.

And, like, they went, like, Biden and Garland went out of their way not to throw Trump in jail. It seems. It seems. They really slow played it. They really wanted to let the process play out. And then, but even if he had weaponized it and everything, yeah, you chanted lock her up, like five, six years earlier. You wanted her locked up for, uh, uh, by what Benghazi. Like, who knows? I don't know. But yeah, Benghazi or something. Benghazi and various things. Right. So it's like, it's just like, oh, it's fine when we do it because of Benghazi. But then, And, you know, we have the list of many more crimes, right? Right.

And, like, you know, like, your point about, like, the slow, the slow role of the DOJ and, and, and, uh, and Trump and all this sort of stuff. And then you see, like, every day he's like, well, I'm going to fire this person because they're not going after my enemies fast enough. And then they do a bad job because they're not really lawyers or whatever. And, like, they can't find evidence. It's like, well, surely there is. And it's just, it's, we don't need to dive more into this.

It's just, I've been thinking about it. And it's really frustrating. And it worked. There's so many people who were like, but you did this. Yeah, after what? Like everything happens in a vacuum, apparently. It's very frustrating. One thing I did want to point out back to Cash is that it was his personal email account,

not like his FBI account that was hacked and leaked. So it's very much like I don't know if, I'm assuming it's harder to get into the FBI one than the personal one. You know, you get the text message two factor authentic. Whenever I'm doing it, I'm like, all right, yes, send me that code. And then the code pops up on the same computer that I'm trying to get. So I'm like, how would this help? But, you know, but nevertheless, trust the process. It's like proof of concept of like, by the way, even if we can't get into your government stuff,

we can probably embarrass you with the personal. It just felt like a warning shot in my opinion. But yeah. But you're right. This is his person. That is a good clarification. It is his personal email. I just think that there's potentially more to come in terms of the fallout from cyber warfare.

And everything happens so quick. I mean, this could have taken up more of a chunk of the news cycle, but it's fairly a blip because everything is happening. But I just wanted to not brush over it because it's not going to beck. it's not great. Yeah, it's really, really, really embarrassing, yes. I mean, apart for the course, the most embarrassing administration you could possibly imagine a second time. But he's such a fun dancer. He loves to dance.

He loves his cigars. All these guys love cigars so much. Positive news. No Kings Raleigh over the weekend. A huge massive turnout. One of the second largest protest, it seems. something like that the criticisms are founded and I didn't I was gonna say well-founded look I get the criticisms and I think they exist and I think there's there's a

reality to it and any sort of an outlet where people can show up and in a community environment and find strength from each other and do express their frustration their fear their anger is a benefit and I wish I I I I there's something about the build-up to these protests every few months that feels good and bad because I kind of think we should be out there all the time every day. An anti-war protest would be nice. An anti-war protest specifically that said it's important and I think that we can draw comfort from that in as much as there's comfort to be drawn from that.

I've also seen a lot of like farther, probably farther left than a lot of No King's attendees post about going there and like talking to a lot of people and trying to get them more involved and people coming up to booths and being like I know, you know, this isn't much

what else can I do and stuff like that? So that's an opportunity there as well. It's bigger than the last one. So if the next one's even bigger and it grows and grows and grows, that's just good. Even though I do understand a lot of the criticisms and some of the ineffective performative nature of it, but also there are,

I think, positives about it as well. I do, I mean, just from an organizing perspective of showing up and meeting members of your community, if you represent an org or if you are trying to get something started for yourself, if you've got any sort of mutual aid programs, this is an opportunity to spread the word. So thank you to everybody who showed up. And thank you also. One more little bit of fun news here. Fun, positive.

I don't know. America's mayor, Mr. Mom Donnie. Oh, yeah. He did a blitz over the weekend. A pothole blitz of where they fixed, I think, over a seven, almost 8,000, 7,000 potholes in 14 hours. And people, of course, are just going to keep ragging. And I'm like, this, what do this, this is. Shut the fuck up.

Everyone complains, every place in America complains about potholes. Well, maybe not in L.A., but I certainly complain about him here. It's a big deal. They're everywhere and nobody likes it. They're everywhere. I mean, I guess I wasn't railing about potholes when I was in L.A. But they're everywhere and it's important. And it's just he's showing over and over again positive ads to do good social media.

Fucking crush in the social media. viral videos still to get the word out because it's also about the messaging of what it is that we are doing because Dems just step on rakes left and right when they do something good they don't know how to get the word out but following him is delightful

and the way he goes around like we're doing it folks we're doing it where do you want us to go where do you want us to go thank you be transparent show us what you're doing please come to California yeah it really gets and it gets people invigorated too

and gets people involved and aware of what's going on in their city in that respect. And I think it's really, really a positive shift in some of the transparency of that. And it's really cool to see. He's very, very charming. He's really quick on his feet. Every single question he gets asked. We're not going to, we won't play him, I guess. Yeah.

I mean, dealing with the heckler, no one is doing it like him. Did you guys see that? Dealing with the heckler being asked about Staten Island seceding. He had a great response to that. just very, very quick on his feet and good. Also, I just have to point out that, so his response about the potholes was in response to somebody being like, you don't do anything or whatever. Some nip shit being stupid online, and he was like, yeah, we actually repaired 7,6001 potholes yesterday. It's a week's worth in 14 hours.

And then somebody responded, that's a complete joke. There's no way you can fill that many potholes in that amount of time. You're an idiot. Well, he didn't do it. my sweet, sweet child. He didn't do it personally. It's not one guy going out fixing 7,000 potholes. You know, pretty soon, we're going to have L.A.'s mom, Donnie, Spencer Pratt, from the hills.

He's polling, you know. Oh, yeah, he's running for mayor of our fair city, Los Angeles. As a Republican, I believe. Well, I mean, listen, we, you know, we got the, we got primary, coming up so Karen Bass is running for re-election and then we get Nithia Raman is uh potentially the like progressive option but she's moderated because of all this stuff um but yeah that we got spencer pratt he you know that's wild what the what the fuck you're talking about he's married to hidey montag we all know these these people i know spencer pat what he's talking about well he's he's

hard up for cash yeah he's running for mayor uh he's he's gonna he's like the most popular Republican right now. It's a joke. It's a joke. It's a joke until it happens. Oh, my God. We need to start treating things as they are. Jeez Lord.

One more thing to add before we go, just a little fun, a little teaser, because we're going to talk about this probably in the next episode. We have a little more time, and there's not so many things going on, which means that we won't talk about it

because there's always so many things going on. but over the weekend the vice president came out and said that he believes in aliens but actually he doesn't he thinks that the alien the UFOs out in the world are demons and I just wanted to give a little preview for when we talk about it

no he doesn't he doesn't think that he doesn't think aliens are demons he's lying he's pretending for his political project along with Tucker Carlson and Peter Thiel there's so much to say but not right now we're going to wrap up the show right now yes we are yes we are

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