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Trump Locks Down White House as Midterm Fears Grow

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump locking down the White House from the press as midterms approach and he poised to suffer the biggest election loss in modern presidential history...

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Tiktok Donald midterms are right around the corner, you're ready for impeachm...

three, you're ready for investigations, buckle up, Donald Trump closing the White House

to the press all day yesterday, no public events on schedule, Donald Trump closing the

White House to the press all day today. He's heading to Houston for a closed press event as well. Donald Trump did give an interview to Sean Hannity, where he said, I want to make the midterms all about me, I want to take out all of these ads that just feature me and I've told all the magas, make this about Trump, Trump, Trump, okay, this interview is going to

be airing in a few days, but sounds good Donald because, guess what, you're approval rating in the United States right now is only 13% of Americans strongly approve of you, and those 13% people are pretty deranged, you're play this clip. There's a theory that I get the vote, you know, I see it all the time that when Trump's in the ballot, they win, when he's out of the ballot, the people don't go to vote, and

I'm asking the people through your brilliant show, number one show, I'm asking the

people to get out and vote, pretend them on the ballot, because they go out and vote, we're

going to win, and if we don't, our country is going to be in such a shape because we're going to go through a lot of things. And just to review what happened in the past 24 hours, while Donald Trump shut down the White House to the press, let's recap our energy for on Philip Kowski explained, just to review today, the Department of Education made a post saying that they were just like Hitler,

Ted Cruz had a retweet of an account named Ted Cruz's tiny penis, the White House posted a screenshot of an eagle on top of a Canadian goose, but in the video, the goose wins. Trump made a mission accomplished post on Iran that included George W. Bush and Iraq. A GOP representative banned Jelly roll from his district because he made a fat joke about Donald Trump not being able to see his penis because Trump is too fat.

I kid you not the Maggory Publicans are lashing out at the musician, jelly, jelly roll for guest hosting Jimmy Kimmel and making that joke. Just so you see here I come with receipts, you can see with the U.S. Department of Education posted yesterday, it says no one like us with a "tigory" emoji. And then it was pretty apparent that this is the clip from the darkest hour and the tiger

in this clip refers to Adolf Hitler, who the Department of Education was comparing to Donald Trump. What about this right here, the White House, in trying to attack Canada, posted a photo of an eagle attacking a Canada goose, but as Carl Shemote explains, someone just pointed out that almost unbelievably, this is real footage from a fight in which the Canada goose

ultimately prevails over the eagle.

If this isn't a metaphor for U.S. trade policy, I don't know what is. This is the weird AI image that Donald Trump kept on posting yesterday. It's a photo of him next to the Iatola and George W. Bush with an AI sign that says mission accomplished. And here is the post by Congress member Jimmy Petronis, a mega Republican Congress member from Florida.

Florida Congressman who used to be a big jelly roll fan now says he's not welcome in Florida after the joke jelly roll did about Donald Trump. And this mega Republican says jelly roll is 100% not welcome to Florida's panhandle. I don't even want to see his bus on I-10.

He's always been the token country star the lives in California are allowed to enjoy.

He ain't country never was. Take the TDS somewhere else loser, just so you know what jelly rolls, joke is that got the mega cult all mad. He said, well Mr. Trump from one fat pig to another, take it from me that physical fitness

is very important and trust me, you'll be happy to see your penis again.

That was the joke, maga was very angry about that. Another mega influencer said, by jelly roll, you could have built a real legacy here. One that outlasted the hype and the applause. Instead, you put on a suit for Jimmy Kimmel and you spent the night roasting the president like a desperate late night hack that pig, weight jokes, crude shots, all to kiss the ring

of the woke Hollywood, these people are so damn embarrassing. But I'll show you what the other maga Republican Congress member were saying Donald Trump sent his sick offense like maga Republican Congress member Pete Sessions. He went on CNN and he said, when Donald Trump took office a year ago, inflation is lower

Now.

We brought it down and the CNN host is like, yeah, that's not true.

When Biden left office, inflation was significantly lower than it is now and it was heading

to 2% and then Donald Trump did a trade war against the world and then Donald Trump launched a catastrophic war against Iran and that increased inflation. It's very basic. It's very basic and yesterday's inflation reading of PCE was way hotter than expected and not in a good way, in a bad way, bad hot here play this clip.

John, the president, was in reference to where it was when we took office, when he took office.

He didn't even go, it is lower.

Congress said, no, no, it's not, inflation was lower when he took office than it is now. It just is.

Prices are, you know, inflation is higher now than when he first took office has got up.

It was, it was coming down. It was. So let's go right to your point, has the president done things economically that would lower the cost of doing business and the answer was, we were until war started. And once the war started, as you know, the gasoline prices have increased and the increase

in gasoline prices have had a large effect off, not only travel, but up on doing business.

And that would be correct. I will only note that the core PC, which trips out food and energy is also elevated at 3.3% of prices are high, even without the fuel prices high, Congress said. And then could we just have a video cleanser together for a moment, as the maga republicans

attack New York City, Mayor Momsdani over and over again, who's approval rating is basically

like 70% in New York City, let me just show you what Mayor Momsdani was doing yesterday. While the maga republicans were railing about, I don't know, the WNBA and the socialists are coming to get you and whatever the hell they were talking about, here was Mayor Momsdani playing tennis with kids after announcing 10 resurface courts in the Bronx made possible through the New York Parks adopt a park program, which completed the refurbishment within

three weeks. I know, this is what the maga republicans are terrified. Joy, empathy, love, getting stuff done, here play this clip. Okay, you got any tips for me? Go swiftly, all right, here we go, all right, all right, all right, all right, thank you

for taking it easy on me. That's you. Now we also saw yesterday headset meeting with the Joint Chief of Staff General Cain and CIA director John Ratcliffe, they showed up at the White House while Donald Trump closed the White House to the press, following a meeting you see right here in this photo taken

by Andrew Layton right there, Ratcliffe returned from Russia late last night and according to the Wall Street Journal, they said the surprise visit by the CIA director John Ratcliffe to Moscow was to deliver a warning to Russia, not to attack NATO countries, according to people briefed on the visit, not really buying that and if that was the message, it's perhaps even more humiliating because immediately Russia launched a massive hack against

Norway, China launched a massive hack against the United States, China hacked the Justice Department, they hacked the Senate, they hacked the Federal Reserve, the Trump regime claims they stopped the hack, but the Trump regime lies about everything so you could pretty much be sure that Canada has all of the information right now would be my best guess. It also yesterday after the meeting with Ratcliffe, Russia hit hard and keyed and the surrounding

cities and other areas in Ukraine, so obviously the visit by Ratcliffe didn't have any impact on Putin and also all the intelligence coming out is that Russia's planning a massive attack on Ukraine in the winter, people close to Putin are also saying that they're not ruling out tactical nuclear missiles, there's some indication based on the Belarus army's readiness posture that there could be a invasion from the north right by Belarus into Ukraine and

open up a northern front and Russia's not worrying about Trump, the U.S. is out of weapons,

The U.

knows that the U.S. can't fight a war right now, Iran beat the United States in a war

and the U.S. depleted its weapons, Trump could say, oh, we control the straightive or

moves, allies told Bloomberg, the straightive or moves is controlled by Iran, it's not demined, Donald Trump's lying when he claims it's demined, there's at least 80 to 150 minds in the straightive or moves according to our allies and it's really sad and tragic to them how weak the United States has become, but they've moved on also in the past 24 hours, Iran struck another tanker in the straightive or moves, we did not get any formal

post from UK MTO about it, Martin Kelly, who is of EOS risk group, explained that a Kuwaiti oil tanker was struck by Iran in the straightive or moves and then after that was announced,

remember we reported about another tanker being hit earlier this week and that wasn't reported

anywhere else, remember my report on that and you may have said, I didn't hear that, it's not anywhere.

Well finally yesterday, UK MTO gave a report, 36 hours after the incident saying a tanker

was struck, that's separate from the one from yesterday, they announced one from two days ago yesterday and then there was separately one yesterday.

So two strikes in 48 hours and now it just is pretty clear that that UK MTO is no longer

making any timely reports and kind of just like SENCOM, it's been, you know, they used to provide reliable data, they just don't provide reliable data anymore, you know, which is a sad site to see, and then you just have the Iranian leadership mocking the United States, you have Iran's Parliament leader thanking China for rejecting Treasury Secretary Besson's economic D-Day, right that sure ended quickly, economic D-Day, okay, that's

gone. You have Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson, mocking the U.S. sanctions and saying that mission, project power, current mission, project vacation, I'm tired boss and they're mocking the U.S. for not being able to take care of troops on the U.S. as Abraham Lincoln, which is now left the Arabian Sea and is now heading to Thailand, so there you have it.

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