Trump Panics as He Goes Silent After SOTU
2/25/202620 mincomplete
0:00Donald Trump has gone completely silent after that disastrous State of the Union he gave
0:05last night. Low energy, low ratings.
0:09Most people were watching the People State of the Union by the Midas Touch Network.
0:14Over 2 million views the Midas Touch Network received for the People State of the
0:18Union. Towards the end of Donald Trump's State of the Union speech, he looked lethargic,
0:24tired, unwell. He was clinging onto that podium for dear life, it looked like.
0:29His hand was discolored. He was physically and mentally rotting before our eyes.
0:34It was incoherent. He couldn't string together sentences.
0:38So no statements from Donald Trump since the State of the Union.
0:41The one thing he posted before the State of the Union, because he takes zero
0:45accountability for anything, was the Democrat shutdown is killing the blue states.
0:51That was his message heading into the State of the Union.
0:53No social media posts since then.
0:56Now, he did send his cabinet sycophants to make their rounds on state regime media
1:02and to go on other corporate news.
1:05So, for example, you had Pam Bondi, his attorney general, once again bragging about the
1:11Dow. She's doubling down on that.
1:13And she goes, the economy is booming because of Donald Trump.
1:19Now, this morning, we also learned that on January 4th of this past year, Todd
1:24Blanche, Donald Trump's deputy attorney general, sent a memo to FBI agents telling them to
1:31flag and not produce those FBI 302 reports, the interviews with Epstein victims and survivors.
1:41And we know that there are some interviews with survivors who have made accusations that
1:46Donald Trump sexually assaulted them when they were minors.
1:49And those documents are being, those accusations, those 302s are being withheld.
1:55And now we know that there was a memo sent specifically to withhold 302s.
2:01So, Pam Bondi, she goes on state regime media and she's like, this was a
2:05great State of the Union.
2:07Everything is amazing. And she said, that's why the economy is just crushing it right
2:12now. Everybody's thriving, she says.
2:15Here, play this clip. These are the kinds of things they want to say he's
2:19racist. He really just loves Americans and is trying to protect families.
2:24Ainsley, as you know, he loves America.
2:26President Trump has made America safe again, and that's what he's doing.
2:31And in turn, that makes Americans feel safe to go to work, to have jobs,
2:39to be able to go to church, to be able to function in our country
2:43and be safe. And that's what's driving our economy.
2:47Donald Trump making America safe.
2:50And that's why our economy is at a record high.
2:53We all know that and it's safe.
2:55And, you know, we also had last night there, Andy Wolf, and I've gotten to
2:59be very close with his mom, Melody.
3:02And, and, and, you know, something else, Ainsley, you'll appreciate this.
3:05What President Trump said, what's very different.
3:07We are a praying administration.
3:09I love that. We all are.
3:11Our cabinet prayed before we went out there last night.
3:14We prayed for the president.
3:15We prayed for Congress. We prayed for the country.
3:17And that's because of Donald Trump.
3:19And that's what's making America safe.
3:22And, but here is what, uh, Lisa Rubin, who's an attorney, uh, here's what she
3:27just told that. MSNOW about that January 4th memo that I just referenced here.
3:32Play this clip. Berger, Lisa, you are all over this.
3:35What are you learning now?
3:37Well, Ana, this morning I was looking to see whether the Department of Justice posted
3:41any new documents this morning regarding the alleged victim that we reported on yesterday.
3:46We thought maybe our reporting and that of NPR and an independent journalist named Roger
3:50Sullenberger might have changed what they were willing to post.
3:53I didn't find any new documents about the woman who accused both Jeffrey Epstein and
3:58Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was 13 or 14 years old back
4:02in the 1980s. But what I did find absolutely stunned me, and that's a January
4:064th, 2026 memo from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
4:11I just want to situate the date for you and our viewers.
4:13December 19th was the congressionally mandated date for compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
4:19And yet on January 4th, Deputy Attorney General Blanche is writing a nine -page memo
4:23to people at the department who were charged with doing the first -level review of
4:28documents for production. And one of the things that the Deputy Attorney General instructs them
4:32to do in this memo is once they determine that something is responsive to one
4:37of the nine categories that Congress mandates may need files for, he says there are
4:41some types of documents that we want you to particularly flag or tag while you're
4:46going through them in the electronic database.
4:48And one of them is something called a 302.
4:51Barrett knows this well as a former federal prosecutor, but a 302 is the form
4:55that the FBI uses to memorialize interviews.
4:58That's the exact kind of document that we reported yesterday was missing with respect to
5:02this particular. So then you had other Trump sycophants making their rounds on state regime
5:07media as Donald Trump went silent.
5:10You have, for example, Jim Jordan.
5:12Jim Jordan chairs the House Judiciary Committee.
5:17It's interesting. In a little bit this morning, I'm going to do a video on
5:20this Senate confirmation hearing of this Casey Means, who Donald Trump wants to be the
5:26next Surgeon General. And she has an inactive medical license since her residency.
5:33She hasn't actually had a license to practice medicine.
5:36And she's kind of been selling people all of these like quack and kind of
5:40scammy stuff. And that's who he wants to have as the Surgeon General.
5:44I mentioned that here as it relates to Jim Jordan, just because he chairs the
5:47Judiciary Committee and he's not a licensed lawyer, never took the bar exam to begin
5:52with. To me, this just kind of is very typical of MAGA.
5:57It's like, just find the licensed lawyer to be on the Judiciary Committee.
6:00Find someone who actually has a medical license to be the Surgeon General at a
6:05bare minimum, right? Can we talk about anyway?
6:07So here's what Jim Jordan had to say.
6:09And they have like Kevin McCarthy on this panel as well.
6:13And they're like, oh, that speech was just the greatest.
6:15That State of the Union could not be any better.
6:18Here, play this clip. First, give us your sense of the president's speech last night.
6:21It was apple pie. I mean, you would, Congressional Medals of Freedom, Congressional Medals of
6:26Honor, Olympic Gold Medals, Purple Hearts.
6:30It was as apple pie and patriotic as I've ever seen.
6:33The only one that compares, and Kevin and I have been to a lot of
6:35these. Last night, I think, was the best one I've ever been to.
6:38But when you go back a few years ago, when the First Lady gave Rush
6:42the Medal of Freedom, that was a special night as well.
6:45But last night, I thought it was even better.
6:47I mean, the hockey team, it was just, it was as apple pie as you
6:50get. And then you had people who have, for years, tried to pretend that they're
6:53like moderates. You have Senator Thune, who's the Senate Majority Leader from South Dakota.
7:01And he's asked a question by state regime medias.
7:04And they're like, so? So?
7:05So? we go in a war with Iran?
7:08And he's like, well, we're going to have to defend our interest here because a
7:13nuclear Iran is something that is going to be horrible for the United States.
7:17Didn't you all say last June that you totally obliterated everything?
7:22Isn't that what you sold us?
7:24Everything was obliterated. We don't have to worry ever again about Iran getting nuclear weapons.
7:30It just seems like every six months they go back to, Iran's about to annihilate
7:35us with nuclear weapons. And we need to go to war again when the American
7:38people like, just give me health care.
7:41I just want health care.
7:43I want to be able to live here, right?
7:45I mean, I want a good education.
7:46I want to be able to afford a home.
7:48I want to be able to afford things.
7:49Stop pretending that everything's affordable and things are great and inflation's been solved and the
7:54economy's booming. It isn't. Just stop it.
7:56And then you're going to go to war to do a wag the dog moment
8:00and try to distract from your cover -up of the Epstein files and how horrible
8:04the economy is. That's what the regime's doing here.
8:07Play this clip of Thune.
8:08The ominous leader Thune. And folks are wondering, after this briefing, are we going to
8:14war? I don't know the answer to that, Aisha.
8:19I think that the president is preparing us to defend America's vital national security interests,
8:26both in that region and here at home.
8:28I mean, we cannot abide, we cannot tolerate a nuclear Iran.
8:31He made that clear in his speech last night.
8:33I think that's something, I hope at least, that a big majority of Americans agree
8:37with. But we have vital interests in that region.
8:39And obviously, the capabilities that the Iranians have to hit a lot of our allies
8:44in the region is something that we have to be well attuned to as well.
8:48I think the president is pursuing peace through strength by ensuring that America has the
8:52right assets in the right places at the right time if necessary.
8:55Hopefully, it won't be necessary.
8:57If the Iranians come to the table, I think there's potentially a deal that could
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10:14for 15 % off. And they bring in people like Byron Donald, he's running for
10:18governor of Florida, MAGA Republican Congress member from Florida.
10:22Even when you present him with the actual data, like, are you aware the GDP
10:28is significantly less under Trump than under former President Biden?
10:33Like, are you aware of that?
10:35No, no, that's not true.
10:35That's not true. That's true.
10:36We can look at the numbers.
10:38I mean, Biden's GDP growth was higher.
10:40Oh, that's not true. Let's talk about inflation.
10:43Okay, well, bye. Biden was bringing down inflation that was caused by Trump's first term.
10:48And then even if you say that wasn't, by the time Biden left office, inflation
10:54was heading down to 2 % and now it's heading up past 3%.
10:57That's just the facts. That's just what the numbers are.
11:01But they live in this alternative fantasy where their dear leader can't do anything wrong
11:05and the numbers aren't actually the numbers.
11:08Here's what Byron Donald says.
11:09Let's play this clip. The previous economy under Joe Biden, we all know that was
11:13a terrible economy for everybody.
11:16Everybody was suffering in America.
11:17You brought up GDP growth.
11:19Inflation was higher, but GDP growth was also higher during the Biden administration than certainly
11:24it was last quarter in the average of year to year.
11:27But Congressman, I do want to ask you about GDP growth.
11:30You can go check GDP growth.
11:31I mean, you can say what you want about inflation, but the GDP is what
11:33the GDP was. GDP growth last quarter was 1 .4%.
11:36John, here's what I will tell you.
11:39Under Joe Biden's economy, wages adjusted for inflation were down in America.
11:44I mean, families were falling behind left and right.
11:4713 months with Donald Trump back on the job, wages adjusted for inflation.
11:50And then to their credit, I guess here at least, state regime pressed J .D.
11:54Vance this morning on the fact that Donald Trump's polls were all horrible, because the
12:00American people absolutely despised this train wreck, this wrecking ball, this mess of a regime.
12:09And then J .D. Vance, you know, wearing his makeup, you know, he's just like,
12:13well, you know, it's Biden's fault.
12:17This is all Biden right now.
12:20Okay, dude, just stop it.
12:22Act like leaders. Act like adults.
12:24Let's play this clip. To the issue that might clip this administration, and that's the
12:28economy. On screen now, we can show you three of the most recent polls about
12:32the economy. How about Americans are feeling about it?
12:34Everything in red. Our Fox polling disapproves at 59%.
12:37Washington Post, ABC News, 57.
12:40Wall Street Journal at 54.
12:41It seems like you're pushing a car uphill.
12:43And you've got nine months to turn it around.
12:46You know, Democrats are juiced.
12:47They are ready to vote tomorrow.
12:49Do you have enough runway to get this economy where it needs to be before
12:54November? Well, Bill, in some ways, we are pushing a car uphill because the Biden
12:59administration left us such a disaster of an economy, the highest peacetime debt in American
13:04history, skyrocketing inflation. A lot of Americans who had lost $3 ,000 was that how
13:10much the average American had lost in take -home pay.
13:13Now, in a year, we've actually seen the average American gain about $1 ,200 in
13:18take -home pay. But if you're sitting at home from the perspective of the Biden
13:21administration, you are still worse off than you were when Joe Biden took over.
13:26So we are absolutely pushing that car uphill.
13:29I'm going to do an entire video on this as well.
13:32But something that's not getting, I think, enough attention was on the sidelines of the
13:37State of the Union, where they were doing interviews with some Trump cabinet officials.
13:41By the way, I didn't really see a lot of Howard Lutnik interviews on the
13:44sidelines. U .S. Trade Representative Jameson Greer was talking about not just how to implement
13:52these 15 % tariffs against the world because they're only 10 % now after Donald
13:56Trump had the other tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court, then Trump said, I'm
14:00doing 15%. But he only signed the proclamation that said 10%.
14:04So they're trying to figure that out, I guess.
14:06But one of the things that Jameson Greer also said is as it relates to
14:10Kuzma, the Canada -U .S.-Mexico Agreement, or in the U .S.
14:15sometimes it's referred to as USMCA, which is the successor to NAFTA.
14:20It's a free trade agreement.
14:23purpose of it. Free trade between Mexico, Canada, and the United States.
14:28So there is now a KUSMA or USMCA review and a renegotiation taking place of
14:36it because it has a certain term to it.
14:39And now Jameson Greer is saying, we're going to figure out what the right tariffs
14:45are under KUSMA and under USMCA.
14:48And it's like, what do you mean the right tariffs under KUSMA?
14:51The purpose of KUSMA, it's a free trade agreement, okay?
14:55Which by the way, Trump had renegotiated during his first term in 2018, 2019.
15:01Free trade, it's not a tariff thing.
15:02And as Andrew Coyne says, what an exciting, he's being sarcastic, he goes, what an
15:07exciting opportunity for Canada. We can participate in the reshoring of production to the United
15:14States from, say, Canada. It's very simple.
15:16As the trade representative explains, we agree to open our markets to the United States.
15:22And in return, they agree to close their markets to us.
15:25Where do we sign? Like the Trump regime, people think that everybody else is an
15:30idiot and everybody else knows what they're doing.
15:32Anyway, here, play this clip of Jameson Greer.
15:35Let's play it. Ambassador Greer, I'm sorry.
15:37Can we just ask you, what's the status of talks with Canada right now?
15:40So right now with Canada, they have a new chief negotiator that will meet our
15:45chief negotiator. I'm in contact with Dominic LeBlanc, who's Minister of Commerce in Canada.
15:51There are, you know, we keep in contact, you know, they express an interest in
15:55having some kind of alternative deal.
15:57Right now, again, as I mentioned earlier, we're quite focused on reshoring supply chains related
16:02to automotive, steel, aluminum. We've shipped 300 ,000 metric tons of steel more last year
16:11than we did the year before.
16:12We made more steel than Japan did last year for the first time in a
16:15decade. That's what we're focused on.
16:17If Canada wants to come in and participate in this type of reshoring we're trying
16:21to do, you know, we're happy to have those discussions.
16:24What do you mean by the participate in the reshoring?
16:26What do you mean? Well, what I will say is when we go to other
16:30countries and we make a deal with them, the other countries, they agree that we
16:34can have a tariff on them, that we can have a protective tariff to protect
16:37our industries as we try to reshor and they open their markets to us.
16:41If Canada wants to agree that we can have, you know, some level of higher
16:44tariff on them while they open up their markets to us and things like dairy
16:48and other things, then that's a helpful conversation.
16:51We have very open lines of communication.
16:53We'll keep talking. You know, I tend to try not to negotiate in the press
16:58or anything like that. And we have, we have discussions ongoing.
17:02So I'll, you know, if something happens, I'll, I'll let, I'll let you know.
17:05But isn't the point of USMCA, so there, there aren't tariffs.
17:08Isn't that the point of USMCA?
17:10The concern about USMCA is that when we put it into effect, the hope was
17:14that there would be more, you know, more critical supply chains were short to the
17:18United States. There'd be more US content.
17:20We actually ended up seeing cars increase for Mexico and that kind of thing.
17:24There's a lot of good in the deal, but there are a lot of things
17:27where reshoring didn't happen fast enough.
17:29US content didn't happen fast enough.
17:31We think that if you want it, we want to have that deal, you need
17:33to have better rules, stricter rules to make sure there's more US content in what
17:37we have. We don't want a situation where countries like Vietnam or China can send
17:42a bunch of stuff to Canada, do a screwdriver operation and send it across the
17:45border to the United States duty -free, right?
17:47And we know that Canada has talked about having closer ties, economic ties with China.
17:51I don't want a situation where Canada is being used as a backdoor for Chinese
17:54goods. There are a lot of issues like that that would have to be.
17:59And then one more clip from Jamison Greer.
18:01Right here, where he says, actually, Trump may raise the tariffs to 50 % now
18:06globally. He may do 50%.
18:08Let's play with their deals.
18:09One analyst was saying that section 338 could be used, that you could actually go
18:13all the way up to 50 % in terms of tariffs there based on that
18:16legal authority. Is that on the table?
18:18So that legal authority is about 100 years old.
18:22It's still good law. We've looked at that.
18:25We think that could be helpful in specific circumstances.
18:28That law focuses on when countries discriminate against the U .S.
18:32relative to other countries. And a lot of countries have the same tariffs toward other
18:37countries. They have the same policy across countries.
18:39So you have to look at a really specific instance where the U .S.
18:42is discriminated against relative to a third country.
18:45And I think there are probably going to be instances where that matter.
18:47But I think the section 301 investigations and then the section 232 investigations that the
18:53Commerce Department has, these are areas where we can have very durable investigations, very durable
19:00tariffs where necessary. And they've stood up to legal scrutiny in the past, and they
19:04will again. Now, if you're talking about excess - So Donald Trump going silent post
19:08State of the Union, what a horrible State of the Union that was.
19:11He looked physically and mentally unwell.
19:15I mean, he is ranting and raving like a lunatic.
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