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But it'll end after the midterm. Iran, Iran, I will tell you this. Iran wants to make a deal so bad. They're calling constantly. They want to make a deal. They got to make the right. I'm not going to make a deal that's no good. 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, Iraqi with the foreign ministers of Russia, China, Egypt, Indonesia and Kazakhstan. It's all smiles. Hey, Treasury Secretary Scott Beset. Remember when you threatened economic D day for any country who dare 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.
Then 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. It will get sent in. The country is booming. The country is booming. Iran will end right after the mid maybe before. Like a little hand right after the midterms. Gasoline is going to drop like a rock. Just like it was just before I got. I mean, anywhere it was doing against 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 Hormuz now. Not only do the Houthis control the Bob Almondob straight right now. We also talked about how the East West pipeline connecting the coast of Saudi Arabia were 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 you're promising voters if they vote Republican? 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 than $2,000 tariff rebate checks. Remember what Donald Trump has said before? He said he would make the greatest communist like 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. President, do you expect Congress would need to approve the $5,000? It's easy enough. If the Republicans would, as I said, $5,000 to all adults in the country. And we can easily handle that because we're taking this so much money. We've never done better. The Democrats can't make that pledge because we're low-goat at hell right away. 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 Maga Mike 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 is running against Troy Jackson, who's now the Democratic candidate 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. What Donald Trump is doing. And it's fraudulent. And it's going to increase the debt. And it will cause inflation to rise. And Maga Mike Johnson is like, oh, it's the Democrats fault. To which the host does like, yes, Susan, well, go Susan Collins is a Republican here. Play this clip. So Speaker, 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 an attempt to buy votes? Now, 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. Well, she's a Republican. Susan Collins is a Republican. Susan Collins is a Republican. Yeah, I understand that. I understand. Sure, 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. And more for Maga Mike Johnson here when he's asked about the impact that Donald Trump's and fraudulent promise would cause to the national debt.
Again, this is how he just so such a weak and pathetic individual, Maga Mike 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 when there's so many other things. No, we're going to get to other issues that we've actually done and not ideas on the table. Okay, I'd love with our economy reeling here in the US. We're going to be 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. We're going to be reeling 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 just go look at the charts.
Inflation was going down. Biden had brought it down. It was bad earlier. It was bad because of Trump's behavior during the first term. Trump's reckless printing of money, the debt that Donald Trump had caused, Trump's reckless handling of Cogat 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 of the Fed. 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 and array 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? Play this clip. I don't know. We should be paying the United States is 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 hedge mom talking about multilateralism and cooperation. Here's Donald Trump just continuing to threaten countries as former secretary of state Hillary Clinton said America is not a serious country right now under Donald Trump. She says America is 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. 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.
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 Midas Touch Network, Midas Canada, 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 auto a 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 on day one, after the election, I will be able to resolve the war. And you create, I can go over all of Donald Trump's other lies that he was going to bring electricity prices down and half that homeownership 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 worse. He lies about it. Every 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 Zalinsky's fault. It's all Zalinsky's fault right now. Trump says it has nothing to do. This is not being done by the Middle East. Trump says it's all Zalinsky's fault. This is what Donald Trump does. When there's catastrophic situations, he blames. And so Dr. Fauci Biden, 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 is 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 Bob El Mondob straight controlled by the Houthis and the straight of her moves controlled by Iran. And like only one or two tankers are able to leave the straight of her moves 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, it's being because it's because of you. And you were the guy who said you would easily bring peace to Ukraine. So it's all your, I mean, it's all your fault. It's all your fault. Anyway, here's what Donald Trump says his message to Zelensky is play this clip.
This isn't done by the Middle East. This is done by what's happening with Russia. And you can go. We spoke to Mr. Zelensky about it. There plenty of other targets. Don't hit diesel fuel because that's hurting that's hurting the world. We don't want him to hit diesel fuel. And while Donald Trump was saying that earlier today, Russia struck the locomotive of a passenger train in Ukraine's Volion 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. This was 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 adviser, Gunther Souter, and numerous other Western officials were on another train that passed right before the train that was ultimately hit by the Russian, by the Russian Shahid 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, massive escalation and Russia's telegraph this. And a massive escalation of ballistic missile strikes. And that was a linsky doesn't have a patriot interceptors or was never given the license and Trump promised he was going to do that. But of course, Trump lies about everything. Meanwhile, sent com. It's posting sent com is posting graphics US and come posting graphics that it successfully redirected 100 commercial ships over the past 60 days since America resumed the steel wall. The steel wall blockade against Iran zero ships have passed through the blockade without US forces allowing so our ones proud Navy is boasting of 100 redirects of commercial vessels commercial vessels not war vessels food medicine supplies commercial vessels war crimes.
Post and boss on war crimes not letting food get in. That's what the Navy is bragging about becoming a bunch of pirates. By the way, when I and 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 halts strikes on Russian diesel saying attacks are causing a shortage. What I've been finding interesting lately as I look at how's left wing media covering this how's the so called center media covering house 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 is covering what went down when Donald Trump basically going after Zelensky and blaming Zelensky because I think we all know Donald is because your 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 for this episode because they're the best tool that helps me stay objective with my reporting. You see ground news is an app in a website that pulls in thousands of articles from around the world and organizes them by story to show you how is the left center and right framing the story differently. And they have also a way to determine is it corporate news that's doing a story a large media conglomerate or is it an independently owned media entity. And so ground news has this dedicated blind spot feed that I use it's a favorite of mine it highlights the stories being disproportionately covered on either side of the political aisle to help burst through echo chambers help me burst through how anybody burst through echo chambers.
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And it's so bizarre that Donald Trump views this as like Xi Jinping really likes me. No 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 she 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 is threatened to cut off rare earths to the United States based on certain threats that were made by Donald by Trump against China. And so with all of that as background and after Trump and best and threatened economic D day. I've showed you all the photos of China at bricks and their foreign minister Wang Yi standing right there with the Ron's foreign minister or a roggy. And then Donald Trump's like I think they've been very fair. I think they've been great. The message that that also sends though is when Bessent and Trump threat economic D 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 US 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 Venezuela. Here play this clip. You'll ultimately get out unless we decide to stay and keep the oil like Venezuela. You don't talk about Venezuela anymore. Do you take it in billions and billions and billions of dollars? Unless we let's we decide to get what are you talking about man. It's so ridiculous. Then the reporter says what do you make of the Gulf nations meeting with Iran? There's a big meeting tomorrow that will be taking place in Mascot in Ulman and in 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 as long as Israel is happy. Notice 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, what are what should Netanyahu tell me to do listen he says it himself here here play this clip. Then he rants and raves like a lunatic about windmills because that's his happy place just to say, he's not actually a dumbfounded stuff and not actually grapple with the ramifications of his horrible and erratic behavior like when he's in Ireland and he then says,
well I think that the Falkland Islands can't be protected by the UK. And then he's asked questions about it. Oh windmills your windmills are horrible. That's what he goes back to because he doesn't know what the hell he's doing. And he's an absolute lunatic here play this clip right here. Our last in Scotland Scotland is it's 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 air. They got something for everything. I'll leave you with this. Iran's president Pzezskiin who's been at 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 in Lebanon in 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 killed the terrorists. 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 asked, are you going to come back to Kiev Kushner and Kushner is like, well, hopefully some really not in temperate of diplomacy.
Okay, this is what why is the Sun and law idiot. Why is the idiot Sun and law involved in any of this? Why are we normalizing the idiot Sun and law who's not appointed, who's not a diplomat? Why is any of the why we normalizing anything? Who the hell is this guy? Kushner, frickin loser, seriously, Whitcoff, Donald Trump, scumbag, real estate Manhattan, he's the hell's the secretary of state, where the hell's our government, where the hell's our country? You're play this clip. I will say my question just when are you coming back to Kiev? Well, hopefully very soon we'll take your look, you're a businessman and I think that, you know, again, I have now, after doing this for 10 years, I do a diplomatic experience, you know, having done all these different deals, but but we're not really into performative diplomacy, meaning that, you know, 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 them. And so, you know, we're trying to put our effort as focused as possible on the things that actually could drive the results forward.
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