The Majority Report with Sam Seder - 3621 - Orban Down, JD Vance Fails and Trump's Blasphemous Social Media Weekend

Episode Date: April 13, 2026

It's a News Day Monday on The Majority Report   On today's program:   Trump, Vance and the right-wing media orbit suffers a humiliation after Viktor Orban loses his re-election bid in Hungary. Trump spends the weekend attending cage fights and posting repeatedly on Truth Social, including an attack on Pope Leo, whom he calls "soft on crime." He also shares an AI-generated image of himself depicted as Jesus Christ healing someone. After facing backlash from Christians, Trump claims he thinks he is portrayed as a doctor because "he makes people feel better." To reinforce that point, he then presents a woman whose husband is undergoing cancer treatment, claiming the president is covering the cost. Harry Enten presents polling showing that JD Vance's net popularity is cratering and that American's feel like the administration is too focused on foreign affairs.   Maria Bartiromo asks Trump if he believes that gas and oil prices will come down before the midterms to which Trump answers with "I think so, could be the same, maybe even higher".   Senator John Barrasso claims that Democrats like higher gas prices because it fits their radical climate agenda.   In the Fun Half:   New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivers his 100-days-in-office address, invoking FDR's first 100 days. In the speech, he announces five city-run grocery stores, faster buses, and a plan to containerize all trash across the city.   Dave Rubin tries to attack Mamdani on his tax and childcare plans by using outdated footage out-of-context in a lazy segment that falls flat on his face.   Fox News' Griff Jenkins has come up with his own anagram as a rebuttal to Taco Trump. NACHO - Never Avoiding Confronting Hard Obstacles. Good job, buddy!   Representative Eric Swalwell has is accused of sexual assault by multiple women and has dropped out of the Governor's race and may face expulsion from Congress.   all that and more   To connect and organize with your local ICE rapid response team visit ICERRT.com The Congress switchboard number is [phone]. You can use this number to connect with either the U.S. Senate or the House of Representatives. Follow us on TikTok here: https://www.tiktok.com/@majorityreportfm Check us out on Twitch here: https://www.twitch.tv/themajorityreport Find our Rumble stream here: https://rumble.com/user/majorityreport Check out our alt YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/majorityreportlive Gift a Majority Report subscription here: https://fans.fm/majority/gift Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here: https://am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! https://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: https://majority.fm/app Go to https://JustCoffee.coop and use coupon code majority to get 10% off your purchase Check out today's sponsors: FACTOR MEALS: Go to FactorMeals.com/majority50off and use code majority50off to get 50% off SMALLS: get 60% off your first order, plus free shipping and free treats for life, when you head to Smalls.com/MAJORITY SUNSET LAKE: use coupon code 420 to save 30% sitewide at sunsetlakecbd.com The sale ends April 22nd at midnight Eastern time. Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattLech On Instagram: @MrBryanVokey Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on YouTube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Check out Matt Binder's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Subscribe to Brandon's show The Discourse on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Check out Ava Raiza's music here! https://avaraiza.bandcamp.com

It is Monday, April 13, 2006. My name is Sam Cedar. This is the five-time award-winning majority report. We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA. On the program today, the United States Navy starts a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. to supersede the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz that Iran has initiated, none of our allies seem like they are going to be joining us. Meanwhile, J.D. Vance fails at peace talks.

As other key administration officials, check out the UFC. Victor Orban, authoritarian leader of Hungary for almost two decades. concedes election loss to center right Peter Magyar tears from Rob Schneider

I mean what a successful foray for J.D. Vance over the past week into international politics and J.D. Vance with a notch in another L Judge Toss's Trump defamation suit against the Wall Street Journal. Eric Swalwell

accused of rape And multiple accusations of sexual harassment drops from the California governor's race now may face an expulsion vote in the House. Donald Trump, the late night truth binge attacks Pope Leo as soft on crime. 100 days in Mondani launches fast if not yet free buses and the first of city-owned groceries in Alaska Mary Patola raises $9 million in the first quarter

of her Senate bid the highest fundraising total ever in Alaska this as even supported are thinking it may be time for Janet Mills to exit in Maine. Lastly, Brad Lander, primary Dan Goldman, calls for an end of U.S. funds for all Israel weapons buys. All this and more on today's majority report. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, it is...

Fun Day Monday and Sam is back. And it's sort of Newsday Tuesday, Tuesday Monday. It's Newsday Monday. The things are so messed up. I know, I know. But we had to catch you up. There's just so much. There's so much.

But on some way, we're sort of like back to where we were when I left. Right. There's no better way to end a blockade than to blockade the blockade. Yes. Therefore, your blockade's not working because I've already blocked people from being blocked by you. How many Ds can we fit in this chest? It is crazy. But we will get to that in a moment.

it the victor abon has been um prime minister president of uh of hungry for 18 years now i think it's 18 and he has been what is sorry 16 years he has been what is known as a soft authoritarian ruler just sort of like stacking the deck once in power to maintain that power in many respects Donald Trump followed his roadmap in some ways Donald Trump superseded it or Bonn conceded his election lost and we should be clear that you know the winner of this election this is not like you would not call this a progressive of victory. It's certainly a liberal victory, though,

if you're looking at it from the stance of the European Union and also, you know, Western interests in the war in Ukraine because he's much cozier with those, this new leader, and is, you know, going to unfreeze this multi-tens of billions of dollar loan that Orban had, blocked that was supposed to be headed to Ukraine. Yes, much more pro-Europe. The winner of the election is Peter Magyar.

Apparently, Magyar basically means very Hungarian or something like literally it would be like if Dan America won the Dan American won the presidency. Can't wait to elect bald eagle. 1776. He is more, I understand, there are three parties that are going to have seats in the Hungarian parliament. One is Fidez, which is the party that, I'm sorry, Tiza is the party that Magar is a part of.

One is Fidesz and one is my homeland. My homeland is pretty fashy. and Fidesz's Orban's party Exactly And Orban had been moving away

From NATO To the extent that he could As a member of NATO Um The Peter Maggiar gave a something like a two and a half three hour speech

He called for the resignation of Orban's puppets Um he made a commitment to protect minorities in the country. He made a commitment to guide Hungary back within the sort of Western alliance. He also made a commitment to rebuild the Vizkrad cooperation. That's the Czechoslovakian Republic, excuse me, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary, and that had sort of fallen apart under Orban.

He called for accountability for the massive corruption that has gone on in the country. He said, I'm going to be your prime minister to, you know, whether you're in Fidesz or whether you're older or younger. And he said that Orban called him and said that they're going to unite the country. But this has special resonance because of the incredible investment, the right in this country, made in Hungary. I think for the right in this country, they saw Hungary as a beachhead to spread this, you know, conservative slash fascist movement. Bannon had invested incredibly in Orban. I mean, remember when Tucker Carlson went over there and talked about how wonderful Hungary was? Dave Rubin recently came back from a trip from Hungary talking about how wonderful Orban was ostensibly trying to help him get reelected.

As a gay man, when Orban is notoriously anti-LGBQ. There's something you've got to overlook. I understood. Right. It's a big tent. It's a big tent. But you're not in, Dave. It's Chechia.

Not the Czech Republic. Apologies. Rob Schneider. I mean, they brought out the heavy hitters for Orban. And J.D. Vance went over there to campaign with a guy in the midst of a war that we're in. and again Orban lost

this is a big loss for Vance Dave Rubin Tucker Carlson Steve Bannon the right the the

sweeping fascist conservative movement across ultra-nationalist movements across the country and Europe yeah because they've tied themselves to

they are all like we're the friends of Trump and one of the biggest friends of Trump just got taken down in an election. And you know it's a big loss for them because of the way that Donald Trump took it. Here is a clip of Donald Trump responding to the news that Orban had lost. Serious. Exactly. And Michael Hanlon.

Bye. There you go. That's it. He doesn't want to talk about it. No. No. It's a little embarrassing. It's a little embarrassing. I do think it's more embarrassing for J.D. Vance there because he actually showed up.

Same with these Iran peace talks. Just L after L for him in his international relations for A. Weren't you guys the America first people? Just pointing that out. He wanted to, I think Vance, now meanwhile, do we have the picture of where everybody was when J.D. Vance was basically failing in his peace talks with Iran. He's a guy who is heavily motivated to end this war because, you know, he's supposedly been leaking that he's been against it. Here he is, here are, here is the Trump brain trust while. Secretary of State. Secretary of State is looking sober. Is that Joe Rogan?

No, that's Dana White. Oh, Jesus. Okay. But there was a, there was a Rogan interaction that we'll play later in the show that was fascinating. of Trump trying to bully Rogan into being nicer to him. I feel like Marco Rubio has aged like 40 years in the past two years. You have not look good in that picture. No.

Well, I mean. But it is interesting. Secretary of State, incidentally. Trump likes Rubio a lot because Rubio delivered him Maduro. And that's like what also has sent this kind of cascading horror in Iran going. And that's mostly been Heggzeth's beat. So Rubio, I feel like, is still close to the president. But we could see maybe Hegseth is the first man he tries to fire.

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So Trump, let's just scroll through before. we read this, was this last night or Saturday night into Sunday? I'm not sure. Let me check. But Trump went on some type of like insane rant. I don't know what I would call it. It's not even a rant. It's a series of rants on a diary entry.

On truth media, though, like until like four. or five in the morning. Putting up stuff about, can't figure it out? No, not yet. Whatever. It was in the middle of the night. You can see that. So let's go to,

this is, it was Saturday night, Sunday morning. Okay, so this is about going in after the UFC stuff, he must have been jacked. Get to that thread that you had. The truth of social thing? Yes.

And just to give you a sense before we start talking about what he said about the blockade this is what's going on this shadows him and this was he goes

you see in this I go slow like he does one about about a swall well but he does one about Biden and then he goes on he keeps doing the Biden thing over and over again and then

at like, I don't know, like midnight. He says the U.S. is going to blockade ships on April 13th at 10 a.m. That has already begun. And then look at it. He just keeps going. Trump's Putin is afraid of us. He goes on to like talk about people who have been in office for so long, like Biden. I think that's when he's trying to say he looks good as hell.

Oh, I can't quite tell. And then he's got like a Trump tower on the moon. This is all in the middle of the night. Then a Swalwell, another one. Another Swalwell. And then here he is talking about show more here on this. Pope Leo is weak on crime and terrible for foreign policy. I don't know what that means.

I love that. He talks about fear of the Trump administration, but doesn't mention the fear that the Catholic Church and all the other Christian organizations had during COVID when they were arresting priests, ministers and everybody else for holding church services, even when going outside and being 10 and even 20 feet apart. Trump was president during that. Also, what mass arrest is he talking about? I just love the idea of Pope Leo being weak on crime.

Wait, wait, wait, keep keep. I wouldn't read this because it's completely bat crap insane. I mean, in Vatican City, you know, they're just looting and rioting everywhere. I like his brother Louis much better than I like him because Louis is all Maga. He gets it and Leo doesn't. I don't want a Pope who thinks it's okay for Iran to have a nuclear weapon. I don't want a Pope who thinks it's terrible that America attacked Venezuela, the country that was sending massive amounts of drugs into the United States and even worse, emptying their prisons, including murderers, drug dealers, and killers into our country. Wait, so we have no more drugs in the United States.

We've been reading about drug shortages. I don't want a Pope who criticizes the President of the United States because I'm doing exactly what I was elected in a landslide to do, setting record low numbers in crime and creating the greatest stock market in history. Leo should be thankful because, as everyone knows, he was a shocking surprise. He wasn't on any list to be Pope. and they thought that would be the best way to deal with President Don J. Trump. Who's they?

All the other Catholics. If I wasn't in the White House, Leo wouldn't be in the Vatican. Unfortunately, Leo's weak on crime, weak on nuclear weapons, does not sit well with me, nor does the fact that he meets with Obama sympathizers, like David Axelrod, a loser from the left, who is one of those who wanted churchgoers and clerics to be arrested. clerics? Leo should get his act together as

Pope. Use common sense. Stop catering to the radical left. And focus on being a great pope, not a politician. It's hurting him very badly and more importantly, it's hurting the Catholic Church. Wait, wait. So should he be a great Pope and not a politician by,

I guess, agreeing to everything that Trump says in the realm of politics? It's quite bizarre. Also, the argument is he was only put as Pope because he would deal with me, presumably the stuff that he doesn't like me doing. So it's sort of a catch-22 that the Pope is, because he'll... Yeah, so he was, I'm shocked that a religious leader is weak on nuclear weapons,

weak on or against his invasion of Venezuela, against his war in Iran. What about kill thy neighbor as I would with himself or something? Yeah, it's a little weird. Sit on the face of your enemies with your other cheek or something. And I also do enjoy it. I wasn't expecting David Axelrod to appear in this truth. But I do think that, you know, part of maybe why Pope Leo was weak on crime is because he's from Chicago, just like David Axelrod. And we know what Chicago's style politics means here within the Republican Party.

Now, he wrote this after, I guess, the 60 Minutes segment on like some Cardinals were talking about, how they're a little concerned with Trump. Because this was Sunday night at 9.03 p.m. But pop up, do we have the image that Trump was putting out? I guess you get to go earlier. So that's further back. Here's Trump promoting a golfer. Keep scrolling down.

That's an ad. This is after the UFC thing. He's him telling a UFC fighter that he's an attractive man as he rubs his thighs. Oh, let's see this. He's getting so horny and gay at the end. You're an attractive man. He said he could be a model, not a fighter. Let me still hold your hand, please.

Let me still hold your hand. I'm going to still hold your hand. I'm going to hold your hand. Ooh, that tries it. Oh, look at you. Oh, my God, touch his thigh. Can I touch your thigh? Can I touch your thigh?

You're very, very hot. You're very, very hot. I'm going to hold your hand again. That's what men are. Keep scrolling down. Rory McElroy won the Masters. And there he is. Bruce Springsteen is bad.

Some picture of Bruce Springsteen. And this is where he starts getting into Iran, promised to open the Strait of Hormuz and they noiling failed to do so. It's caused anxiety, dislocation, and pain to the many people in countries throughout the world. This caused anxiety? They say they put mines in the water, even though all of their Navy and most of their mind droppers have been completely blown up. You're giving me so much anxiety by using your drones to patrol the Strait of Hormuz.

They have done so, but what shipowner do want to take the chance? There is great dishonor and permanent harm to the reputation of Ron and what's left of their leaders, in quotes. But we are beyond all that, as they promise, they better be. begin with the process of getting this international waterway open and fast. Every law and book is being violated. I have been fully debriefed by Vice President J.D. Vance. Special envoy Steve Wichkopf and Jared Kushner on the meeting that took place in Islamabad through the kind and very competent leadership of Field Marshal Assam Munir and the Prime

Minister Shibh Shibh Shabh of Pakistan. I don't think he wrote this one. Well, the next line is for him. They are extraordinary, very extraordinary men and continuously thank me for saving 30 to 50 million lives. What would have been a horrendous war with India? I always appreciate hearing that. The amount of humanity spoken of is incomprehensible. I don't know what that means.

The meeting with Iran began early in the morning. Iran is unwilling to give up its nuclear ambitions. In many ways, the points we agreed to are better than us continuing our military operations to continue. This is all. My three representatives became, not surprisingly, very respectful and friendly of Iran's representatives. Magdar, Bao, Galabit, Baf. I think he, actually, that guy, I think there's a tweet in there that said, like, they kept moving the goalposts. Yeah.

Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. Iran has continually said they have gotten into agreements. They have offered agreements. I'm talking over the course of the past 25 years, that they had a, the late Ayatollah Kamani was, had issued a decree that there was not going to be any nuclear weapons, but they want the ability to enrich uranium and have control over their own. capacity have nuclear reactors for civilian purposes and um we don't want them to do that because um we don't want them to be able to control their own energy future that uh now i think this is a different guy

who is part of the um he is mentioned in trump's sweet oh he was okay uh he is one of the um negotiators minister. In intensive talks at the highest level in 47 years, Iran engaged the U.S. with good faith the end of the war. But just when just inches away from Islamabad, a memorandum of understanding, we encountered maximalism, shifting goalposts, and blockade. Zero lessons learn. Goodwill begets goodwill. Emnity begets enmity. Look, we know that the prime minister of Oman had said that Iran had offered to give up all of their enriched uranium, they had offered to enrich no further or minimal amounts of uranium. And Whitkoff and Jared Kushner apparently supposedly didn't understand what the offer was.

It's also possible that Whitkoff and Kushner are working their. own agenda, which is tied into the enormous amount of money that both of them are getting from other players in the Middle East and in, obviously, support from Israel. So they're not necessarily looking to forge a peace deal. Now, the other thing is that Iran at one point was talking about a toll on ships coming out of the Strait of Hormuz, a $1 per barrel toll, which is worth hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars. I mean, over the course of who knows how long, I mean, chicken, the amount of money that Obama unfroes

during, as part of the JPCOA, is a fraction of what they can make in the question. course of a year on tolling one dollar a barrel, but they were going to take crypto. And there were reports that Trump was trying to negotiate that they would take Trump bucks or whatever it is from the Trump coin, Trump coin, but tied to like a, the, the USDC. Is that what they call it or something like that? But let's just go follow more. of Trump's tweets. Yes. This came in the middle of the night. And apparently he just deleted this because it caused such a stir. It caused a lot of problems where, and I don't know why, because Trump is put himself in the

position of Jesus. We got to look at this carefully. Can we zoom in a little bit? I don't know who the dude is on the bed. I did see some jokes that he's not. That dissimilar looking from Jeffrey Epstein. I was about to say that. Which is hilarious. I will resurrect Jeffrey Epstein. Putting the erected resurrection. Also, you should know that this Jesus looks a lot like the Mormon Jesus, is my understanding.

Like whiter than the lightest. No. The red robe, the white smock. he's chunkier than a lot of Jesuses. And then look at all the people around him. It's very American. And then can you look up above his head? Yeah.

Who is what the F is that? Whoa. What is that a demon? It does look like a demon. It looks like a demon. And it also looks like some type of like ninjas. Well, they're supposed to be soldiers for sure. Flanking the demon.

But I am curious about the central soldier who also appears to be wearing some sort of these military fatigues, but has a helmet on. Is that a helmet? Is that the Statue of Liberty head crown thing? Maybe, but it's like a five-pointed helmet or a three-pointed helmet. And he's got wings on. It's from a different planet. this is these are the aliens well anyways

reading like mac gait says this apparently apparently pretending that you're Jesus literally uh apparently has offended some of his Christian supporters

it's a commandment um going after uh the pope I don't know if that's offended any of his Catholic supporters including J.D. Vance uh including J.D. Vance is you know

um, part of a different Catholic church. Frankly. The Mel Gibson wing. Very, very different wing. Here is more of Trump tweeting, the world is a safer place because of President Trump. Don't

you know? I mean, it's just such a psychotic scroll going through. He's really losing it here. Now I've lost my see, I've lost my sound sheet. Okay.

Well, what is that in Clockwork Orange ultraviolence? Is that what it is where they like glue his eyes open and force him to watch like just to turn him into a monster? That's what's scrolling through scrolling through true social. It's insane. Ultra violence. So all right. So J.D. Vance is sent to Iran to, excuse me, to Pakistan to try and negotiate some type of way out of this. Yeah, because Wickoff and Kushner have lost all credibility as negotiators.

Because what we've seen since Trump has launched this war with Iran is him using the negotiation process as a way to lull the Iranians into a false sense of security before he bombs them. And so Wickoff and Kushner have no credibility for the Iranians as negotiators. It's achieved nothing except trying to get them on their heels. Let me make a prediction. We are going to see within the next 24 hours, maybe 36, some leak from somewhere that suggests that Vance had almost closed the deal and Whitkoff or Kushner ended up screwing it up. I mean, Vance wants to go. First of all, why is the Secretary of State not going? Why is the vice president going?

Well, I suspect it's because Vance sees his political future completely tied to the end of this conflict. Well, it's interesting you say that because we remarked on this last week with that very extensively reported Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman in New York Times piece. And there are two people who are consistently framed as being more skeptical of this war. And you want to guess who they are. And there's direct quotes. It's very well sourced. J.D. Vance. And then the other one is Marco Rubio, both of them who want,

Rubio is distancing himself from it. He wants to be more in the Western Hemisphere area. And it appears that that's actually true, that Hegsworth was the one most enthusiastic about this war with Iran. But they want to set themselves up for a presidential run in 2028. So, but in the spirit of Joe Biden, as, you know, we have another president in a row who's getting dogwalked by Benjamin Netanyahu, all floating the least popular parts of your presidency onto the vice president,

like sending Kamala Harris down to the border. And now J.D. Vance is doing Trump's scutwork for him. So what is old is new again. And here is J.D. Vance announcing his failure at the end of the talks. We've had a number of substantive discussions with the Iranians. That's the good news. The bad news is that we have not reached the agreement. And I think that's bad news for Iran much more than it's bad news for the United States of America.

So we go back to the United States having not come to an agreement. We've made very clear what our red lines are, what things we're willing to accommodate them on, and what things we're not willing to accommodate them on. And we've made that as clear as we possibly could. and they have chosen not to accept our terms. Which is funny because apparently the terms you were negotiating on, all 10 of them were Iran's based on what Trump initially said. So the whole framework for your negotiations were, it was not in your favor.

So now you're pretending like it was your terms that were the basis of negotiations. It's hilarious. They're just, they're wishing for a time machine. They wish they could go back and do this differently. But there's no putting this genie back in the bottle. Iran has strengthened itself on the global stage in just less than two months with just using the leverage that they kind of were a lot more conservative and less willing to use because they understood what it would mean militarily. Their geographic leverage with the straight. And additionally, they have the ability via the Caspian Sea where there is no NATO presence to trade.

in an unfettered manner essentially with Russia. So that's in part why they're able to resupply and have armaments and the armaments continue to be more sophisticated than the U.S. anticipates because they have a trade route that circumvents Western channels. This was all known by everybody prior to this, but Trump was sold on this war by Netanyahu, Hegzeth, and his own arrogance. Here is just a taste of what J.D. Vance is looking at. This is Harry Empton, which number is this? I'm sorry, it's number two. Trump administration and J.D. Vance not looking so good in the polling right now.

Take a look here. Look at this. Trump administration is focusing too much on formatters. 58 percent, 58 percent of Americans believe that the Trump administration is too focused on things abroad. What they believe also is there's been too little focus on domestic matters. Look at this, 60% of Americans believe there's been too little focus on domestic matters. Now, of course, the Iran war is part of this, right?

But this is just part of a larger picture. The belief that the presidency and the administration of Donald Trump in his second term, they have taken their eye off the ball. They are looking abroad when Americans want them looking at home. And of course, JD Vance going and campaigning for the prime minister of another country that is pretty far away from here, is just part of a larger picture that the American people dislike.

So Vice President Vance, how's he doing? How popular? Yeah, J.D. Vance is not doing too hot to trot at this point. Look at this. Okay, J.D. Vance's net popular, this should actually be a plus. There we go. Plus three points. Then we go to minus 18 points at this point. That is a 21 point swing in the wrong direction. J.D. Vance started off his, vice presidency in plus territory, and now he is in negative territory. Down he goes, J.D. Vance getting dragged down along with the president of the United States. Where does he run? Maybe along with, maybe because of that, we don't, we don't know that. But where does he rank among other vice presidents?

Yeah, you look at other vice presidents. Look at this at this point in their vice presidency. Historically, the worst. Worst at this point in a vice presidency, Kamala Harris was at minus 13, Mike Pence was at minus seven, Joe Biden was at plus four. Dick Cheney was at plus three. of this might be part of a longer trend of vice presidents becoming unpopular, but we can't say J.D. Vance is historically the least popular vice president at this point in their vice presidents. Yeah, that is notable. It may just be a thing where Americans over time, we just hate everything. Yeah, that's true. Increasingly, but I love it. I wonder why. Um, because everything's really bad.

Trump's like we need another 9-11. I mean, sometimes John Berman has like these live moments, but it's like perhaps read the writing on the wall. Our political system is failing. That's why every time there's a new person in power they hit historic levels of unpopularity over and over again. I'd be curious to look at it. It's tough because Vance is a, you can't do apples to apples because we've never had a situation where, you know, the second term is misses one term for president and whatnot. But minus 18 is not where you want to be. you know, a year out from when you would theoretically declare that you're going to run for president, right?

I mean, we're around the time where people are going to start jumping into or start announcing that maybe soft announcements, maybe quiet announcements that I'm going to be looking for the president's now. We all know he's going to be. But that's not good for him. Meanwhile, let's just do this last note. A week ago, maybe a little bit less, five days ago, and I think this is what Trump basically thought that he was going to get. Jonathan Carl from ABC, is he still at ABC?

tweeted this morning I asked President Trump if he's okay with the Iranians charging a toll for ships that go through the Strait of Hormuz. He told me there may be a joint. US Iran venture to charge tolls. We think of doing it as a joint venture. It's a way of securing it, also securing it from a lots of other people. It's a beautiful thing. Now, first of all, like, who else? Who else are we securing it from?

We're securing it from lots of other people. He's saying basically Iran is going to charge a toll. They're going to charge a toll, which puts us in a worst. situation at like base level, but maybe we will get a cut out of it. That is what he's hoping for. And I don't even think Iran's going to agree to those terms. Why would they? Well, that's the thing is that I think he went into these negotiations thinking like, okay, we're going to need a vague on this. You're only going to take Trump bucks. How about that? Bitcoin, no Bitcoin, just Trump crypto.

It's amazing. his blockade is just intercepting ships right that that's the plan is to intercept the ships after they've already paid the toll to iran which means he wants to take some and then probably in his mind he's like let's just take the oil after they've paid it yeah the idea is that no one no one's going to cooperate with iran but the whole point is to get the straight of hormuz open right this is going to destroy gas price gas and oil prices, which it seems like he doesn't really care that much about at this point. But this is so, it's so bizarre of a strategy because the idea is that like, does he think that we can outlast Iran in terms of shutting down the Strait of Hormuz?

He doesn't seem to, maybe, because the United States can if, because we have more domestic global supply, but what who is really hurting right now is like, South Korea, our traditional allies, Korea is in really bad shape right now. They can't rely on like China or something because they're allied with the United States. And Asia is overall way more dependent on oil that comes through the strait. But Trump's like, I don't care about the South Koreans. I'm going to dismantle your missile interceptors from my war. And I'm going to make sure that the country is in like dire straits from their energy systems.

I like North Korea. They say nice things about it. And Europe's screw too. Europe as well. And Ukraine, I mean, like, because Russia is getting more and more emboldened as well. And it's going to, just by nature of necessity, European countries are going to start to talk to both Iran and the Russians. In the heels, on the heels, I should say, of Trump basically saying, like, you know, maybe we'll get into a joint venture about this. and we'll see.

Here he is on with Maria Bartolomo. And what time was this at? Was that Sunday morning? Sunday morning. And, oh, I should say also on the heels of that poll that show some huge percentage of Americans, majority of American thinks he's spending too much time on foreign things, not domestic things. There's probably also a segment of the population who just wish he wouldn't spend time.

on anything. Here is Trump calling and going like, they'll get over it. They all said. Louder. So do you believe the price of oil and gas will be lower before the midterm elections? I hope so. I mean, I think so. It could be. It could be or the same or maybe a little bit higher, but it should be around the same. I think this won't be that much longer. Look at her face. They're wiped out. And you don't get the, you don't get a fair shake. You don't get, you know, we need, we need a free and fair press in this country and i i don't even know why people would do that why would they say how wonderful they're doing militarily they're doing so well they totally what the country's

wiped out we lost one airplane and we we can't i just want to go back i just go back a little bit because i just want to make this clear as um as he's talking about they're getting wiped out fox news business is uh putting up uh images of how much uh gas has gone up all right turn up the clips because apparently they're they're not for whatever reason i got it fixed halfway through okay okay and you don't get the you don't get a fair shake you don't get you know we need we need a free and fair press in this country and i i don't even know why people would do that why would they say how wonderful they're doing militarily they're doing so well they totally what the country's wiped out we lost one airplane and we we captured the

two pilots no They lost in that mission, we lost more military aircraft than we had since the Vietnam War. He's just straight up lying about that. That's not true. And Maria Barteromo's jaw almost drops when he says that the oil prices could be lower or could be higher for the midterms. It doesn't matter. It'll be fine. Don't worry.

I mean, I really do feel like right now, Trump is. realizes like it doesn't matter he's just looking for cash deals that is basically it he realizes this is my second term right look I'm I'm gone

so it's just about how much graft and corruption can I just think Iran should just do all Trump coins Iran also still has another card to play that that is not getting much attention because the straight of four moves is not the only straight that can be closed

there's all yeah the Iran is allied with the Houthis in Yemen and in Yemen there's another trade route I forget exactly I wrote it's really uh the the the red sea but yeah in the red sea but the straight is called the Babel Mandeb if I wrote I can't read my own handwriting ever straight I think that's what it is um they they can they can choke off oil from there as well and Iran has still not played that card at this point so Trump wants to intercept uh oil after they already pay a toll to Iran, go for it, buddy. We can cause more pain. And it's eventually like it's going to impact all of these like Republicans in their races. And Trump just doesn't seem to care about that. Yes. And it's also, I mean, to the extent that even without this

whole Iran excursion, our economy was sort of like teetering. It really does feel like we could be moving into a sort of stagflation mode. This has been in the offing for some time. It's unclear, you know, what it is exactly that is keeping things afloat. We just seem to, there just seems to be this sort of like volatility

in the markets where it's just sort of Trump throws some chum into the water and it raises the markets. I mean, who knows who's making huge bucks off of this? But the remark, The markets have also started just not listening to what he says. It's all taco.

Yeah. I mean, and his market manipulation, too, they've gotten used to when he makes these announcements and when he doesn't. And so, yeah, this was supposedly some sort of ceasefire framework, but we're literally back to where we were just prior to that announcement. So they're not moving on this. Do you want to play this really quickly because this just fits in pretty nicely with what we're talking about? I found this to be amazing. This is Senator John Barrasso, who is one of the top senators in leadership in the Republican Party. Obviously, he's from a very populous state, Wyoming.

So Barrasso and John Thune is from North Dakota. God, the Senate is such an undemocratic institution. Okay. So Barrasso was asked about high gas prices, and I found this to be an amazing explanation as to why. why it's the Democrats who love the high gas prices. Triple A has these as gas prices right now. We'll put it up on the board for everyone to see at $4.13. You said still below four in Wyoming, but it's on people's minds.

Well, absolutely, Dana. I was in your hometown of Newcastle, Wyoming. People still love you there, no surprise. They also love the president, support the president what he's doing and specifically with Iran. And yeah, gas prices are on their minds. always are for our producers, our farmers and ranchers and people that drive long distances in Wyoming. They also understand that what the president is doing in an effort to provide

stability in that part of the world will have good long-term impacts in terms of energy prices. They also understand that Republicans are the party of energy dominance. Democrats like high gas prices because of their radical climate agenda. So people understand what the president's doing, agree with him, and know that we need peace and stability and need to protect America long term from the threat of Iran, which has been there. And they've been at war with us for 47 years. Wait. So, but he says the people like it. But you just said it was the Democrats that like high gas prices. So why is Donald Trump delivering the radical climate agenda to the Democrats? So both Democrats. So the explanation here is that everyone likes high gas prices. Everyone.

The Democrats like it because it serves their radical climate agenda. And the Republicans like, it because they know that it's short-term pain for long-term gain, which means defeating Iran and energy dominance. So really, when we're all paying more at the pump, it's the most bipartisan thing we could be doing in supporting America. It's the most patriotic thing you can do. Exactly. It's a two-for. It's a two-fer. I can't make head nor tell of what he was saying other than just remember the Trump caused high gasoline prices are being enjoyed by Democrats. Yep.

Even though Trump caused them. That's what I'm saying. He is a rhino. Trump is a fake Republican. He's working for the Democrats. He's trying to please his Democrats. The radical climate agenda. We always knew that when he was from New York and like with all these liberals

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