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That's clod.ai slash Spotify. Donald Trump is waking up to his worst nightmare, the Xi Jinping trip to Washington DC has been ruined and it's been a series of events that's just a crush Donald Trump's vision for what was going to go down. So at 1.30am last night, federal judge Tim Kelly and judge who Donald Trump appointed during Trump's first term dropped the hammer and granted the injunction on behalf of MS now, CNN and Politico granting them immediate access to their hard pass. They get to return to the White House Donald Trump's media ban was defeated. It's the first thing that Donald Trump is waking up to and he is not taking it well at all. Also, everybody's talking about the oddity that was Donald Trump rushing to joint base
Andrews to greet Xi Jinping when she arrived Donald Trump at Air Force personnel and Army personnel literally get down on their hands and knees to greet Xi Jinping. And then when there was the flyover that took place Donald Trump freaked out over the noise he couldn't handle how loud the flyover was. So he like shrieked and you can see him really, winsing in pain. By the way, I'm just giving you my opinion here as protected by the first amendment speech. You know, people with dementia and cognitive issues are unable to really process noises that are that loud. And just when you compare Trump's reaction to Xi's reaction, she didn't flinch and I understand it's loud, but I mean, it wasn't like so loud where you would like wins like that. Another data point as well. And I just want to show you these back to back so you can judge for yourself.
It was like 65 degrees when Donald Trump met Xi Jinping yesterday, but Donald Trump was wearing like the gigantic trench coat and he had gloves on his hand as though it was the frigid days of a DC winter. And I think he was covering up his hands because he knows they are rotting and he wanted to look his finest when he met Xi Jinping. And everybody is talking about how sickly Donald Trump looked. That's what they're talking about in China and Asia and throughout the world. And everybody is going back to Donald Trump bowing to Xi Jinping and bending the knee and kissing the ring. It's so odd. Let me just show you what went down so you can judge for yourself. Just this was Donald Trump unable to deal with the loud noise of the flyover. Play this clip.
And here is Donald Trump wearing the coat and the gloves even though it was not all that cold. You can see it for yourself here.
This is all unraveling as well. So we learned that we've been reporting on this for a long time. And now the Pentagon is just starting to report out. Remember the Washington Post reported some of this the other day and Pete Hegsith was like under no circumstance would we ever cover up combat deaths that are taken place. We would never cover up a combat death. Well, what you do do for sure is you claim we're not in combat with Iran right now. And thus you attribute the deaths to medical incidents or other things. So here's what we learned yesterday as well as Xi Jinping was arriving. The Pentagon added another US military death link to the Iran war bringing its publicly disclosed fatality total to 19 the army identified the latest casualty as Captain Bianco Wilkerson 37 years old who died on September 18th from a non combat medical emergency while
supporting operations in Doha Qatar. However, US officials say the actual number of military deaths is much higher with at least 22 to 23 fatalities reported since the Iran conflict began. This is Bianco Wilkerson 37 years old who died on September 18th. You can see her right there. And again, the numbers probably higher than 22 23 according to the Pentagon now it's 19. They keep different sets of books of this was epic fury. This is miscellaneous incident. And by the way, this stuff carries real world implications because people who are killed in combat are entitled to certain types of benefits that if you're not killed in combat, you may not be entitled to and Trump just just changing the name of things. That's what I don't like the name of AI. I'm going to call it super intelligence. I'm going to call the reflecting pool American flag blue.
Oh, we have epic fury. Then we have economic outcast and then we just it's not branding man. It's real life and you're screwing up and you've destroyed the reputation of the United States. Stop like naming things. It's really weird and it's really. And range folks, in addition to that additional death that's now officially been confirmed by the Trump regime, we also learned yesterday eight us Navy sailors assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group attempted suicide during deployment that included combat operations against Iran. According to a letter from acting Navy secretary hung cowl obtained by CNN. No service member died by suicide, but one official called eight attempted suicides on the USS Abraham Lincoln alone. Incredibly high. I wonder what the stats are on the Gerald Ford. I wonder what the stats are on the George HW Bush super carrier, which which has been in the Arabian sea for quite some time.
I wonder what it's going to be for the George Washington. You know what doesn't get enough attention and I hear from families on the Navy destroyers and the other ships that accompany the aircraft carriers all the time. I wonder what's going on in those ships. I hear it's very grim on those other ships. We often pay attention to the aircraft carriers. The big flashy, you know, ships themselves, which are basically sitting magnet targets at this point to Iran. But there are all these other ships that then are part of the kind of US Armada, if you will. And those other ships are under resourced and not getting the food and supplies that they need because Iran destroyed the logistics in the area. They destroyed all the military bases belonging to the US and the region also relevant to China's visit to the United States, which is in Pings, visit China has taken possession of sensitive F 35 stealth parts that were diverted to Hong Kong while being shipped from Australia to the US and has not returned them. A cockpit canopy and weapons bay door were shipped by UPS in late May for inspection.
The parts were coated with radar absorbing material that enhanced stealth capabilities and that made its way officially to Beijing. We reported that it went to Hong Kong, of course, but then it was also now we know reverse engineer by Beijing who refused to give it back. And again, one of the topics while she is going to be in Washington, DC is going to be the ballroom. This is all Donald Trump wants to talk about with she ballroom ballroom ballroom. So it's fitting that as she Jean Ping arrived in Washington, DC, here is what we learned that James McCreary, the second who was the original architect hired for the White House ballroom project. We know that he resigned in October, but now we learn the reasons Washington Post got the exclusive McCreary resigned after warning that the president was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes.
McCreary warned that the designs lacked adequate emergency exit routes and fire containment measures required by building business required by building safety codes. Trump dismissed McCreary's concerns and said building codes do not apply to the White House telling McCreary, I am the code. I am the code. And McCreary is like, all right, you can be the code. I'm resigning. By the way, I'm also pretty confident that there was massive, massive amounts of asbestos that were in the East Wing. That's around the time when asbestos was used. There was no asbestos mitigation in the demolition of the East Wing. It came down all at once. I believe we're going to hear in the future a lot of messetheloma cases arising out of the lack of asbestos mitigation and how it was taken down. That's the Trump regime for you right there. That's the Trump regime. And also a note while Xi Jinping is visiting Washington, DC, China announced yesterday
that it would not be abiding at all by the latest economic outcast threats by Treasury Secretary Besan and the Trump regime not to allow Iranian Airlines to travel to countries. Iran is like now we ignore that. We don't listen to unilateral sanctions from the Trump regime. Iran, you can fly your Mahan Airlines and fly all of your planes to China. We've got your back. And also when Iran was at the United Nations yesterday and President Pzezskin gave that speech. I talked about yesterday how he was holding up photos from Manab, the little girls slaughtered there. 160 little girls are there and their teachers as well in Lamar, the little children slaughtered at the sports hall during volleyball practice and the other photos of people who were slaughtered children, teachers. He was showing that. And then Pzezskin brought a book that was called American Aid to the Iranian people. And it's a book containing images of all of the U.S. attacks slaughtering civilians. And so when the Iranian President Pzezskin would go to these meetings and he met with
a lot of world leaders, whether it was Ukraine, European Council, Armenia, European Commission, Norway, Italy, Belarus, numerous countries, the Iranian Foreign Minister and President of Malwa, they would show that book. And then you know, you have Donald Trump committing a clear and obvious hat-checked violation, clear violation of the law, but the Trump regime violates the law all the time. And I think the Trump regime was running this ad for she because they started running. I've seen this ad on Trump's social media, but they were playing it on Fox State regime media. So I think they ran this like weird authoritarian fascist ad. I'm not going to play it here because it's so freaking deranged. But I think they played it on Fox with China, with Xi Jinping arriving to see you see, look, I'm like an authoritarian. The White House is currently airing this video as an ad during commercial breaks on Fox.
It looks and sounds like a political spot. I mean, it clearly deranged one. It looks like a fascist Hitler political spot. Then it says the video combines Trump saying anti-communist or I hate the communist. And it says paid for by the US government. This is where US taxpayer dollars are going to. It's pure unadulterated fascism with all of this going on though. You have Donald Trump's deputy assistant, Sebastian Gorka. Here's why he's like, why is everybody obsessed with gas prices? Here's what he has to say, play this clip. When he sent that first letter to the former IOTOLA, you can't have nuclear weapons. I mean, think about everybody's obsessing with the price of gas. This is much bigger than the price of gas. And think about what would happen to the price of gasoline if those missiles were nuclear tipped. The idea that you're experiencing problems now would be just absolutely incomparable to
what would happen if an Islam fascist regime that literally has been at war with us. Since they took out diplomats hostage. You had treasury secretary, Besant downplaying Iran attacking oil tankers. Play this clip. A month ago, you launched what you called economic D day on Iran. Today, oil is still as we talked about about a hundred. The straight is definitely pinched. There are tankers that are getting through, but a lot of them are getting attacked regularly. A month in, is it working? Well, first of all, Brett, the tankers, they may get hit. Many of them just sail on. They just sail on. The Iranians may launch three, four, five, six, the drones after them. Our great Navy is blocking them. But we are getting between 10, 15, sometimes 17 million barrels a day out to put that in perspective. That when, before the conflict began, the number was 20.
There's probably another three million going out through alternate methods. So that gets us back to somewhere between 13 and 20, which is the reason we have seen oil come down from the spring highs. By the way, it should be noted that Iran successfully struck at least one other oil tanker in the past 12 hours or so. You can see the video right here of the Emirati tanker, the Cape Dow. Let me show you what this looked like after it was hit by the Iranian Navy here. Play this clip. Okay. And, and Besson wanted to downplay it. Oh, there's nothing going on there. And then you have the RNC chair, Joe Grudders or Grooters. And his whole thing is Biden left us a mess. Give us one more chance in the Republican. Please just their sociopaths. I mean, they're sick, right? Give me one more chance. Please, I just need one more chance here.
Play this clip. $21 trillion with investments. Trump, our ex accounts, Trump accounts, the working family tax cuts. He has transformed the Republican party into working man's party. He will get America back to work. GDP is high. Stock prices are high. Yes, he has empathy for those who are working and who are struggling. We got to help them, but we help them by growing. I mean, how damn pathetic can you be? Give me one more chance. Well, this is what Xi Jinping is arriving to right now, folks. That's what Xi Jinping is arriving to right now. Oh, and Treasury yields here are 10 year, 20 year, 30 year record. Look at what the 10 year Treasury yield just looks like right now. Look at how crazy it is. I mean, it's just literally, it's a vertical line. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to $7 million. Thanks, y'all. Breaking news right now. My brothers and I wrote a book. It's called WTF America. And well, doesn't that just say it all? It comes out officially this October, but you can pre-order your copy today.
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