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Stay tuned. Donald Trump further be clowning himself in Ireland as his regime crumbles. He's at the Irish Open, which is the real reason he went to Ireland. Shout out to all the people in Ireland who have been protesting Donald Trump.
While at the Irish Open Trump, ranting and raving like a lunatic says, Iran wants to make a deal. So badly, they keep on calling me all of the time. It's all projection.
Donald Trump is utterly desperate right now and Iran's like we can't do a deal with a psycho-like you. You're playing this clip of Donald Trump saying, Iran, they want to do a deal so badly while at the Irish Open.
You're playing this clip. Not gonna end until after the midterm election. Is that enough? It could end before the midterm election. It could end before the midterm election.
“It could end before the midterm election.”
Iran, Iran, I will tell you this. Iran wants to make a deal so bad. They are calling constantly, and they want to make a deal. They're going to make a deal. I'm not going to make a deal that's no good.
I'm not going to make a deal that's no good. Well, I'll show you what Iran is actually doing right now. The Foreign Minister of Iran wrapping up a successful trip to the brick summit in New Delhi, India. You can see this photo right here
of the Iranian Foreign Minister Iraq, which the Foreign Minister of Russia, China, Egypt, Indonesia, and Kazakhstan. It's all smiles. Hey, Treasury Secretary Scott Besett,
remember when you threatened economic day for any country who dares speak to or do business with Iran. You said economic outcast. Well, sadly, the only economic outcast right now
is the United States. I say that's sadly because I live here in the United States, but it's such an utter embarrassment. And so despicable with this Trump regime has done to our country here.
And Donald Trump, at the Irish Open, says,
“"But here's the thing, I promise you, I guarantee you,”
Iran will end right after the midterms, maybe before the midterms." And gasoline, it's going to drop like a rock. It's going to drop like a rock. He says, "Here, play this clip."
Tax on tips, no tax on social security for our great seniors. No tax on overtime. The logo gets sent in. The country is booming. The country is booming.
Iran will end right after the mid-med, maybe before. But Iran will end right after the midterms. Gasoline's going to drop like a rock. Just like it was just before I got it.
I mean, I knew what it was doing. I guess I had to do it. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Really, Donald, it's going to drop like a rock. We've been talking here on the Midas Touch Network.
Not only does Iran control the straight of her moves now. Not only do the Houthis control the Bob Almondab straight right now. We also talked about how the East West Pipeline connecting the coast of Saudi Arabia, where hit hard, it was hit hard in the past 48 hours. It had to be shut down.
And here's what we're learning.
Saudi oil exports equivalent to up to 4% of the global supply could be disrupted if the damages to the East West Pipeline are unable to restart within days. The pipeline, of course, shut down after a drone attack. The Saudis blame this on the Iraqi resistance.
Also allied with Iran as part of the access of resistance. The Iraqi resistance, as it was in us, the Houthis said it was us. Saudis too scared to admit it was the Houthis, so they're blaming the Iraqi resistance.
In any event, it does appear that the East West Pipeline is going to be shut down for quite some time. Further causing the price of diesel and gas to surge. The Houthis continue to advance east now after taking over all of Western Yemen. You can see the Houthi tribal mobilization right here.
As they start heading east, we'll be following the breaking developments there. Also there was some smoke scene at the Yanbu Aramco refinery facility,
Which had been hit before.
That's in Saudi Arabia.
It's part of the connections to the East West Pipeline
in the western area of Saudi Arabia. Unclear if it was hit again, it appears it may have. We'll be following up there as well. Donald Trump then at the Irish Open is asked by a reporter. Do you expect Congress would need to approve your $5,000
“dividend that your promising voters if they vote Republican?”
And again, I just want to be very clear here. He's not giving anybody $5,000. It's just more fraud from Donald Trump. You know this. He promised people $5,000 doge dividend checks last year.
Then $2,000 tariff rebate checks. Remember what Donald Trump has said before. He said he would make the greatest communists like Lenin. He called Lenin. Lenin, he said, because I would just promise people free stuff and free money.
And then you would never have to deliver it.
And people would live in squalor. He said, that's the problem with communism. And Donald Trump behaves like a communist authoritarian. It's true. So a reporter says, do you expect Congress would need to approve the $5,000 dividend
and Trump's like, we have so much money right now. It'll be easy. I don't need Congress here. Let's play this clip. Well, our debt continues to skyrocket under Donald Trump.
This past month, month and a half. The debt has now increased to over $40 trillion. Our deficit is increasing dramatically. Donald Trump's responsible for about 30% of all of our debt. The most of any president.
He is reckless. And he is incompetent. And he is malicious. It's a horrific combination right there. So you then have magma Johnson.
The Republican speaker of the house. He made his way onto the various morning shows.
“He was asked, well, what do you say to Susan Collins?”
The Republican senator from Maine, who's running for re-election. And so he gets Troy Jackson, who's now the Democratic candidates leading in Maine. And Susan Collins says that these $5,000 checks shouldn't be tied to election results. It's criminal to do that with Donald Trump is doing. And it's fraudulent.
And it's going to increase the debt and it will cause inflation to rise. And magma Mike Johnson, like, oh, it's the Democrats fault to which the host does like, Yes, Susan well goes. Susan Collins is a Republican here. Play this clip.
Just be proud. I want to read for you something that Republican senator Susan Collins of Maine said about these $5,000 checks. She wrote, quote, tax and spending decisions should be made based on the needs of the American people. And the state of the economy, they should not appear to be tied to election results.
The president said that these checks are contingent on election results. Is this in attempt to buy votes? Of course not, remember the Democrats who are making that claim are the same ones who gave out COVID checks and all sorts of stimulus checks. She's a Republican. Susan.
Yeah, I'm saying that. Sure. But that's right. And so is the president. He's the leader of Republican in the country.
And what he is articulating there is the obvious truth that you have more money in your pockets with Republicans in control than with Democrats. More for magamike Johnson here when he's asked about the impact that Donald Trumps can fraudulent promise would cause to the national debt. Again, this is how he just so such a weak and pathetic individual magamike here play this clip. In the past, you have called the national debt the largest threat facing the country.
“Why would you want to add to the debt, Mr. Speaker?”
I don't want to add to that, Kristen, and I guess we're going to spend the whole segment talking about this one issue and there's so many other things. No, we're going to get something we've actually done in that ideas on the table. Okay, I'd love. With our economy reeling here in the United States with inflation surging, we expect this week the federal reserve is going to raise interest rates here. Again, that's going to be very harmful to families who are already struggling to afford homes and unable to afford homes.
Let's just face it.
Had Donald Trump done nothing and basically let former president Biden's economy just go into autopilot, we were expecting three rate cuts this year.
Three rate cuts. Donald Trump managed to screw that up because to go look at the charts.
Inflation was going down.
Biden had brought it down.
Earlier, it was bad because of Trump's behavior during the first term and Donald Trump's reckless printing of money, the debt that Donald Trump had caused.
Trump's reckless handling of COVID all of that. But anyway, it was going down and now interest rates are likely going to go up. Everybody says it almost certainly interest rates are going to go up. And by the way, if somehow the Fed doesn't raise interest rates, that may even be more harmful now because it'll show just the utter manipulation and lack of independence. And that act alone could further crash the economy because if they were acting independently based on where the economy is, they should be raising the interest rates.
Unfortunately, that's just the reality to try to rain in the inflation. And then Donald Trump's responses, I know more about formulas than anybody.
“What do you mean you know more about formulas than anybody?”
What the hell are you talking about here at play this clip? We should be paying the United States a so strong. We should be paying the lowest interest rate in the world. Regardless of their formulas, I know more about formulas than anybody. And with the best credit in the world, we make other countries rich. We can turn that off in two minutes.
Then Donald Trump says, we make other countries rich. So we can turn that off in two minutes. If we want to make you poor, we'll make you poor other countries. So while you have this bricks summit taking place, China asserting itself as a new global hedgemon, talking about multilateralism and cooperation,
here's Donald Trump just continuing to threaten countries. As former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, America's not a serious country right now under Donald Trump. She says, America's a dangerous country, not a serious country, and here Donald Trump's like, we make other countries rich.
You want us to turn it off, and he's saying this at the Irish Open, which again, if I hadn't said it already, is that his golf course in Ireland, which is the only reason that he's there, here at play this clip. And with the best credit in the world, we make other countries rich. We can turn that off in two minutes.
You understand that? Just to present you. And so while Donald Trump threatens countries across the globe, countries are moving on. Mark, this was a article from the Wall Street Journal today,
but if you've been following the minus touch network, the minus candidate, you know, we've been covering this every day,
basically Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's audacious bid
to make Canada an associate member of the EU. As trade talks with the US collapse, Prime Minister Carney, pursues a major and risky pivot to Europe, and Ottawa Book Club plays its part. Carney has even suggested Canada take on a new title,
associate member of the European Union. And look, because of Trump's weakness, we're living in an even more volatile world right now.
“Remember one of Donald Trump's promises,”
a day one after the election, I will be able to resolve the war in Ukraine. I can go over all of Donald Trump's other lies, that he was going to bring electricity prices down and half, that home ownership would become accessible to all Americans,
that gas prices would be $2 a gallon, that grocery prices would be cheaper, that the cost of living crisis would be solved, everything would be so much better. Everyone was going to be so rich.
He lied at no more never ending wars.
He lies about every sound utterance word is a lie. But one of those big lies, of course, is that he was going to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. While Donald Trump was at the Irish Open, while he was at the Irish Gulf Tournament,
Trump called on Ukraine.
“Ukraine, you need to halt the strikes on Russian refineries.”
That's, and the Russian tankers. And then Trump said the reason that diesel surging, it's Zelensky's fault. It's all Zelensky's fault right now, Donald Trump says it has nothing to do.
This is not being done by the Middle East Trump says. It's all Zelensky's fault. This is what Donald Trump does, okay? When there's catastrophic situations, he blames. And so, Dr. Fauci, bide, and it's everybody's fault.
It's everybody's fault. Look, the fact that Ukraine is striking refineries, is that causing diesel to go up? Sure, you promised you were going to end the war in 24 hours. That would have been over two years ago at this point,
what you promised. Also, Russia invaded Ukraine. Also, the main reason for diesel surging is you want to take a look at this map Donald right here about what it looks like with the East West pipeline disabled,
with the Babel Mundab straight controlled by the Houthis,
The straightive removes controlled by Iran,
and like only one or two tankers are able to leave
“the straightive hormones each day now, and before the war,”
you had 20 million barrels leaving. Think about 20 million barrels a day leaving, and from the East West pipeline, you had five to six million barrels. All of this is being shut down because of you, Donald is being because of you, and you were the guy who said you would easily bring peace to Ukraine.
It's all your fault. It's all your fault.
Anyway, here's what Donald Trump says, his message to Zelensky
has played this clip. And Mr. Zelensky has to do one thing. Because he's causing a shortage of diesel. This isn't done by the Middle East. This is done by what's happening with Russia.
We spoke to Mr. Zelensky about it. There are plenty of other targets. Don't hit diesel for you, because that's hurting the world. We don't want him to hit diesel for you. Sir, Andy.
“And while Donald Trump was saying that earlier today,”
Russia struck the locomotive of a passenger train in Ukraine's Volian region just two kilometers from the Polish border. We have video of what went down, and let me show you what it looked like.
Let's play it. The one that we're talking about right now. Now, the Russian drone strike hit a chartered train that was the same type of train, not the exact train that these diplomats were on,
but you had Boris Johnson, German Chancellor Merz's security advisor, Gunther Salter, and numerous other Western officials were on another train that passed right before the train that was ultimately hit
by the Russian Shahi that I just showed you over there. And so the escalation right now, of the war is actually getting more significant, escalating more and more by the day, and we expect as we head into autumn and winter,
there's going to be a massive escalation and Russia's telegraph this, and a massive escalation of ballistic missile strikes, and that was a landscape doesn't have Patriot interceptors,
or was never given the license,
and promised he was going to do that, but of course, Trump lies about everything. Meanwhile, Senkham, it's posting Senkham is posting graphics, U.S. Senkham posting graphics,
that it successfully redirected 100 commercial ships over the past 60 days since America resumed the steel wall blockade against Iran. Zero ships have passed through the blockade without U.S. forces around.
So our one's proud navy is boasting of 100 redirects of commercial vessels, commercial vessels, not war vessels, food, medicine, supplies, commercial vessels, war crimes,
post and boasts on war crimes, not letting food get in. That's what the navy is bragging about, becoming a bunch of pirates. By the way,
this is why we need a good media diet though, so we can identify what's really happening in the world right now, and I spend so much time just trying to bring you not just like ranting and raving opinions, just to give you the facts and enable us to be able to
make sense of this chaos, and what Donald Trump has done to the world right now also. So that article I shared with you, Trump calls on Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian diesel, saying attacks are causing a shortage.
What I've been finding interestingly, as I look at how's left-wing media covering this, how's the so-called center media covering, how's right-wing media covering. It's fairly evenly distributed right now.
Whereas a year ago, you would see certain things, especially when it comes to the war coverage, being more focused on either right-wing coverage or left-wing coverage,
depending what the story was. So I actually think this is a good development to see mostly all media's covering what went down,
when Donald Trump basically going after Zelensky
“and blaming Zelensky, because I think we all know,”
Donald is because you're catastrophic war in Iran, and you promised you were going to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. By the way, that's exactly why I partnered with Ground News
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and he says, "Look, Xi Jinping has been so fair with us. He's been so, we have such a great relationship. Here, play this clip." Great relationship.
“If you want to get along and we want it,”
we're going to get along. China's been, I think, very fair with us over the last number of years that I've been there. But over the years, over the decades, but over the years,
during a bomb and during Obama, China took tremendous attention. And it's so bizarre that Donald Trump views this as like Xi Jinping really likes me. Xi Jinping looks at you like you're an utter fool. I did a whole video on China's president Xi
and in the past 24 hours, Xi has threatened Donald Trump. I'm not going to come and visit you in September. If you provide any support to Taiwan for their military,
China's threatened to cut off rare earths to the United States, based on threats that were made by Donald, by Trump against China. And so with all of that as background, and after Trump and best-in-threatened economic day,
I've showed you all the photos of China at bricks, and they're far in Minister Wang Yi standing right there with the wrongs, far in Minister Wang Yi. And then Donald Trump's like,
“"I think they've been very fair. I think they've been great."”
The message that also sends, though, is when best-in-tent Trump threat in economic day again,
the same way Donald Trump will always say,
"I'm going to do this to you 24 hours, and then Trump doesn't do it." The U.S. has zero credibility right now. But it's more huffing and puffing. Donald Trump says,
"We're ultimately going to get out of Iran, unless we decide to keep it like the oil And then as well, you'll play this clip. What are you talking about, man, and so ridiculous, then the reporter says, "What do you make of the golf nations meeting with Iran? There's a big meeting tomorrow that will be taking place in Muscat in Oman and Oman, where Iran will be formally announcing it's deal with Oman for its control over the straight of Hormuz. And a lot of these Arab nations are now moving closer to Iran, moving away from the United States recognizing a shift in the power center right now.
And I want you to listen to what Donald Trump says, Trump's like, "I don't care. I don't really care that they're doing the meeting." But Trump says, "Has long as Israel is happy?" No, just listen carefully, he'll say, "As long as I'm good with it, as long as Israel is happy." So not only is he basically admitting that his policies dictated by Israel, but he puts it on Netanyahu basically because Trump himself is like, "Abs, whatever, what should Netanyahu tell me to do?" Listen, he says it himself here.
"You're gonna play this clip." Then he rants and raves like a lunatic about windmills because that's his happy place just to say, "Dimented stuff and not actually grapple with the ramifications of his horrible and erratic behavior like when he's in Ireland."
He then says, "Well, I think that the Faulklin Islands can't be protected by ...
And he's an absolute lunatic. You're playing this clip right here. "Far less than Scotland. Scotland is a shame what they've done. Here's a good thing about a windmill. It can be taken down.
“But you know it's so bad, it's so pathetic. You can't really bury them. They say the blades will cause all sorts of problems in the earth. They get something for everything."”
I'll leave you with this. Iran's President Pasechkin, who's been out the bricks, just gave an interview with India today. And here's what he had to say about Trump.
He said, "Trump is saying something every day. One day he wants to destroy Iran. Another day he says we are friends. One day he says he accepts us. Another day he says he doesn't accept us. So we are not sure what kind of statement we should, you know, accept and proceed based on which. With their technologies actually, they, referring to the Trump regime in Israel, are the real terrorists in the world. You look at Israel in America, no difference what they are doing in Syria and Lebanon and Gaza, Iraq, Qatar, even in Iran.
They assassinate anybody they wish. And then they claim that these people are terrorists. So it's a weird world. They kill people very easily for a single person. They kill a whole family and they destroy a whole building. Then they say they kill the terrorist. They are the real terrorists. They are state terrorists.
“And that's what he's saying while shoulder to shoulder with China, with Russia, with India, with the other bricks nations that we've been sharing with you.”
And then you had Jared Kushner this morning, who was at the Yalta European strategy meeting and he zoomed in and he was at so are you going to come back to keep Kushner and Kushner's like,
"Well, hopefully soon I'm really not in a department of diplomacy." Why is the sun in law idiot? Why is the idiot sun in law involved in any of this? Why are we normalizing the idiot sun in law, who's not appointed, who's not a diplomat? Why is any of the, why are we normalizing anything? Who the hell is this guy? Kushner, frickin loser, seriously, with cough Donald Trump's scumbag real estate Manhattan. He's out with a health secretary of state, where the hell's our government, where the hell's our country?
You're a play this clip.
“I have a question just when are you coming back to keep?”
Well, hopefully very soon, we'll figure you're a business man. And I think that again, I have now after doing this for 10 years, I do a diplomatic experience, having done all these different deals.
But we're not really in tip-reformative diplomacy, meaning that we do what we need to do on the phone, we do what we need to do over Zoom, people come see us, we see that. And so we're trying to put our effort as focused as possible on the things that actually could drive the results forward. And so just be kidding. By the way, everybody, make sure you get your copy of WTF America pre-order it right now. It comes out October 20th, but pre-order it right now if you can.
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