Trump has Catastrophic AM as War Spirals

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3:05Donald Trump is having a terrible Wednesday morning. His regime is admitting that this disastrous war in Iran may last over eight weeks. Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Besant went on various networks this morning and said it's just fantastical media accounts that you're seeing about chaos in the Middle East. Everything is great. The straight of her muse is still effectively closed. About 90% of the ships can't get through. More news about factory job losses in the United States. Far worse than expected. It's also a record number of Americans are tapping into their 401Ks to withdraw money in order to survive. And then when Donald Trump looks at Texas in the primaries that took place yesterday where the Democratic Senate candidate James Tallerico ended up prevailing Jasmine Crockett put out actually a very nice message today

4:05supporting Tallerico. Democrats outvoted Republicans in Texas. More Democrats showed up to vote and Democrats made huge gains amongst the Latino community in Texas as well. All of this news and more is bombarding Donald Trump this morning. Why don't we go through it piece by piece as we always do here on the Midas Touch Network. We've been expanding rapidly on the Midas Touch YouTube channel. You'll see we blew past six million subscribers were almost at seven million subscribers. So double check that you are actually subscribed. Click subscribe, turn your notifications on. We'll be giving you breaking news updates throughout the day as we always do here on the Midas Touch Network. So earlier this morning, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson said, we need to stop these quote fantastical media accounts that the region is on fire referring to the Middle East. That's not what happening.

5:06He says it's just somebody on their cell phone taking videos of buildings being blown up. Let's play this clip. Becky, I will tell you the region is not on fire. What is happening is that someone with an iPhone and look, it's terrible when a hotel gets hit, the N Bahrain when there is a drone that hits the airport in Doha. But those are one offs. The Iranian attack capabilities have been substantially degraded. The U.S. is getting stronger and stronger every day and the most fulsome part of our campaign is just starting. So that there are the people in the market willing to look through this. And that's what I think everyone should do because President Trump has a vision here. And before that, Pete Hegsith, the Secretary of Defense, says that all of what you're hearing about is fake news. Yes, tragic things happen referring to American soldiers dying and being seriously wounded.

6:07He goes, but fake news is missing the real story here, which is how great we are doing. This is what Hegsith says. Let's play this clip. This is what the fake news misses. We've taken control of Iran's airspace and waterways without boots on the ground. We control their fate. But when a few drones get through or tragic things happen, it's front page news. I get it. The press only wants to make the president look bad, but try for once to report the reality. The terms of this war will be set by us at every step. And then Hegsith, I guess, tries to do this cosplay where he is like a bad actor pretending to be the bad guy in a 1980s B or C action movie. He's like, from the skies, America reigns death on the people of the Middle East. You don't exactly sound like the good guy here. Like, let's be pretty clear.

7:08Hegshegsith saying that, let's play it. Ending and fixing their leaders and their military leaders. Flying over to Iran, flying over Iran, flying over their capital, flying over the RGC, Iranian leaders looking up and seeing only US and Israeli air power. Every minute of every day until we decide it's over. And Iran will be able to do nothing about it. B2s, B52s, B1s, predator drones, fighters, controlling the skies, picking targets, death and destruction from the sky, all day long. We're playing for keeps. Our war fighters have maximum authorities granted personally by the president and yours truly. Our rules of engagement are bold, precise and designed to unleash American power, not shackle it.

8:10This was never meant to be a fair fight. And it is not a fair fight. We are punching them while they're down, which is exactly how it should be. And then the gaslighting from the magas continue. Take a look at what Maga Mike Johnson said this morning. I'll do a whole other video on it in about 90 minutes. But here's what Maga Mike said why we're at war with Iran right now. Remember, he previously said the reason was because Israel was going to strike Iran first. And then if Israel struck Iran first, then Iran would strike the United States. So we had to strike first. Remember that's what he said. That's what Rubio said. Now Johnson says, actually, they declared war on us. Iran declared war on the United States is what he says here. Play this clips. Okay, those are sovereign territories of the US. They have declared war on us. I don't believe in the semantics. We've talked about the language this morning. We're not at war right now. We're four days in to a very specific clear mission

9:10and operation, Operation Epic Fury, which has two components, as you know, that we have articulated over and over. The president has the commander of joint chiefs, everybody has explained. Two points, we had to take care of these ballistic missiles that they were producing at such a rapid pace that our regional allies could not keep up with. We had to ensure that they get fire all those barrage of missiles at our troops, our assets, our citizens in the region and our installations. And then Maga Mike says, actually, this is very biblical and this is about a bad religion in Iran. And so basically we're just redoing the crusades right now. Here, let's play this clip. We have been and they say that quiet parts out loud. They wanted to wipe Israel off the face of the earth and they'd like to take us out as well. We're the great Satan in their analogy and their misguided religion. And there was no way to appease them and define here with this guy saying, more from Hegsith, where he goes, Iran cannot outlast us. We will ensure the tempo

10:11and that tempo will be whatever Donald J Trump tells us to do, whether that's eight weeks or longer or shorter. Donald J Trump sets the tempo. That's what Hegsith is like the most embedded. You guys are a bunch of idiots. I can't believe our country is run by these people. Watch what Hegsith says here, play this clip. That, the Iran cannot outlast us. We're going to ensure through violence of action and our offensive capabilities and our defensive capabilities, as I said, that we set the tone and the tempo of this fight. That's why stories and speculation about different things that try to make it look like we're limited in what we can do. The only limits we have in this is President Trump's desire to achieve specific effects on behalf of the American people. And that's why we don't talk about, you know, you can save four weeks, but it could be six, it could be eight, it could be three. Ultimately, we set the pace in the tempo. The enemy is off balance and we're going to keep him off balance. And we know their ability to shoot

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13:16and get your kids the full body nourishment they need to grow into healthy adults. While Higgs was doing that press conference we learned, and Reuters was first to report that the defense department is demanding an emergency munitions supplemental. They want an additional $50 billion from us, from our taxpayer money. They want $50 billion to now fund additional munitions, even though Donald Trump said we're not running out of munitions. We've been warning here on the Midas Touch Network, even before this war started, that we could quickly be running out of munitions. And that's exactly what appears to be happening. Let me just show you what some of these scenes in Tehran look like right now, though, as the United States bombards it. I mean, apocalyptic scenes in Tehran. So I'll show you with the US and Israeli strikes on Tehran look like, and then I previously have reported on the Iranian strikes of the Dubai consulate, the US consulate in Dubai, the US building,

14:18the CIA building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the al-Udid air base in Qatar. Lots of other US interests being struck, but to no doubt Tehran is being hit really hard to your play this clip. One, one, one. I don't want to ignore what's going on in the domestic front, right now. I think it's important that we talk about our economy, the things that we were talking about as well before the war, because Americans are struggling. The war on Iran is causing gas prices to surge. It is causing chaos in the markets, Wall Street Journal reported earlier this morning. A record number of American workers are pulling money from their 401ks to cover financial emergencies. A record share of Americans are tapping those retirement savings. Six percent of workers with plans

15:20run by Vanguard Group, for example, have been making hard ship withdrawals. Also factory job losses have been worse than we thought Wall Street Journal reports as well. Take a look at the US manufacturing job loss chart. Not good, but we know this. If you work in a factory, if you work in manufacturing, if you work in construction, if you work, okay. If you work generally and you're not a billionaire or a Deca millionaire, you know what the economy is like. You are not gaslit by this regime. You know that prices are going up. You know that wages are stagnant or going down or there are so much job losses taking place because of AI in this terrible economy. We are in a jobs recession right now and prepare to see inflation surge even more. Rick Scott, Maga Republican Senator, making his rounds on the various networks this morning, saying clearly oil prices are going to go up,

16:22but because of this war, but it will be worth it because of freedom in America. Yeah, here play this clip. What do you think the American people should be prepared to bear? Prepare for it to bear in terms of costs here. Gas prices have already gone up. They could rise even more. What's the cost that you think the American people should be prepared for? Well, I think short term clearly oil prices are going to go up as short pairs, right? When Iran and the proxies shut down the straight of our moves, that's what's going to happen. But long term, what we're going to see is we're going to see the world's a better place. No different than getting rid of Maduro. The world's a better place. It's a safer place for Americans. And what we're going to see, well, if you really were patriotic, I think that you would focus on ensuring that Americans have health care, ensuring that Americans can live and can have jobs and Americans can live productive lives and have good education. But you know, people like Rick Scott, they're part of the Epstein class, right?

17:23Rick Scott was involved, you know, you know, how he launched his political career. I thought said these magas do. He was involved in one of the biggest Medicare and Medicaid fraud criminal enterprises in American history. He invoked the fifth over and over and over again. He took a golden parachute from the company that engaged in all this criminal conduct. Well, he invoked the fifth, used that money to run for office and to help more Epstein class people. I could go through all these magas. They're all like that. And then they use their money and resources to try to manipulate the people and pretend that they're the ones fighting against the bad guys when they are the bad guys. The worst of the worst, the Epstein class. That's who they are. This was a good sign when you look at what happened in Texas that it seems that the people were waking up there. More Democrats than Republicans voted in Texas. 2.21 million Democrats voted to 2.12 million Republicans who voted. James Talleriko went on to beat Jasmine Crockett

18:23and you now have Cornyn and Paxton, still in a runoff against each other while Talleriko is able to go around Texas and make the case. But it's hard to overstate, as my friend Tom Bonyer says, how rare it is to see Democratic turnout in a midterm primary election exceeding, not just Republicans in Texas, but exceeding that of a presidential election. So you take Zipada County, for example, turnout in the Democratic primary yesterday was 143% of the total number of the vote Harris won in the 2024 general election. That's wild. Bonyer points out here are four districts that the Texas GOP and Donald Trump, Jerry Mander, to try and gain seats in November with the Democratic and GOP primary vote. Democrats far outvoted the Republicans in every one of them fueled by the Latino vote. Few other data points I wanna point out. You know how the Trump regime views Argentina

19:26as their model of an economic miracle. You know how we gave $40 billion to Argentina, Javier Malay. Their Maga leader there is like a close ally of Trump has his little Maga leaders, right? He's got his Maga leader in Ecuador. By the way, you know we're at war at an Ecuador right now. You know, we have ground troops in Ecuador, Donald Trump and the Ecuadorian leader who's a Maga guy are doing joint military operations against so-called narco trafficking inside boots on the ground types of stuff. I just wanna let you know that that's going on. But anyway, now we have our Honduras, our Ecuador person, Trump has his little authoritarian in Venezuela. And by the way, that's what he wants in Iran. He doesn't want democracy, doesn't care about the people of Iran. Donald Trump wants an Islamic Republic leader who likes Donald Trump more and is corrupt with Donald Trump and they could funnel money to each other. But anyway, here's the Javier Malay, miracle in Argentina. The second largest decline in the world.

20:282,436 companies have closed down with 73,000 jobs lost because this whole Maga thinking about everything is failed and flawed and it always leads to disaster. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson was asked though about job losses about, you know, the jobs recession that's taking place right now. And in such an arrogant way, I think the entire Trump regime is vile so I don't know who's the worst. But this guy Besson is like one of the worst human beings. I think that exists, you know, just a level of arrogance and he puts his head up and he goes, oh, the effect of the illegal aliens. That's what's causing people's job losses. This guy lived in a pink Barbie mansion. He lived in Charleston, South Carolina in a, swear to you, a replica of Barbies Malibu mansion in Charleston, South Carolina. This is the guy with his head up because let me tell you what's, I despise this human here, play this clip.

21:31The government saw a large net contraction in 2025 and we saw private sector jobs created. The other is the effect of two and a half million illegal aliens leaving the workforce. So the monthly jobs number does not need to be as high for that. And we are at the lowest level as a percent of the total workforce for government jobs since 1966. And he goes, and we are going to put more tariffs again, even though the Supreme Court ruled against us, more tariffs, more tariffs. And this guy's a billionaire Epstein class guy here, play this clip. Mr. Secretary, the president has said that he will raise the global tariff to 15%. I believe it still stands at 10% today. Do you know when that change will be implemented? Becky, that's likely sometime this week. And again, that's under something called section 122 and that's 150 day authority.

22:32And during that time, during the 150 days, we will see studies from USTR on section 301 tariffs from commerce and section 232. And it's my strong belief that the tariff rates will be back to their old rate within. One other thing to point out to in that press conference, Hegseth acknowledged that we've seen the footage of it as well. A U.S. Navy submarine torpedoed and sank the Iranian Navy frigate, the Iris Dena, or Dena off the coast of Sri Lanka. 30 people were survived, I think the 180 people were on that frigate. They were doing a joint mission in India. Then they were in Sri Lanka, then they left Sri Lanka and the United States launched a torpedo and killed, basically killed 80 people or more on that boat

23:33that was leaving, that was right off the coast of Sri Lanka. This is the first time that a U.S. submarine sunk an enemy warship since World War II with the torpedo. So I guess that's America, right? Yeah. Why the hell are we in this regime change war? What are the objectives? What the hell is going on? Seriously, what is going on here? This is an unlawful war. Regardless of how hot we can hold both concepts that the Ayatollah is terrible, the Islamic regime is horrible and repressive and what the atrocities they commit is awful. Here in the United States, we're doing regime change wars. No one's explaining what's going on. Maga Mike's talking about blibbiblical crusades and Americans just need healthcare and need money to live and be able to survive right now here in the United States. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to seven million subscribers. Thanks for watching. Wanna stay plugged in? Become a subscriber for our substack at MidasPlus.com. You'll get daily recaps from Ron Phil Kowski,

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