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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, thanks for listening, and welcome back to the Brian
Mud Show. Time now for today's top three takeaways heal
takeaways for you on this a Wednesdays, we're considering the
source taken a look at Trump six months and the
presidents celebrating six months last night with members of Congress
in DC. And there are a lot that has been
(00:24):
taking place, obviously, not just in the past six months,
but even just over the past day.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
A whole lot of news on Trede that we'll get into.
But also, yes, you continue to have the developments with
Trump Russia collusion, a really old story that has gained
new traction as more information is being released from intelligence agencies.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Fox's Alexandria Hoff with more.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
President Trump called for Obama to be criminally investigated for
claims that his administration allegedly manufactured intelligence that eventually prompted
the Trump Russia collusion. A spokesperson for the former president
stated that the Obama office normally would not dignify the
quote constant nonsense with the response quote, but these claims
are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are
(01:13):
ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction a Director of
National Intelligence, Tulci Gabbard says that statement doesn't address the
issue at hand.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah, that's true. I mean a couple things.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
What would Trump be distracting from? Just a distraction from
what there's nothing needs that is tracked from.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
That's one.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
But the other is, look, I don't know if how
much knowledge Obama personally had of any of this. Not
necessarily the right play for President Trump to be going
down the treason path unless he's going to present some
really solid evidence that ties Obama himself directly to it.
(01:52):
But in the context that the buck stops with the
president and all that happened under his administration, and it
all was a hoax, and it was a grand conspiracy
to first try to prevent Trump from becoming president, then
to try to take him out once he was. That's
all real that should be dealt with. But much of
(02:13):
the information that you're starting to see now is stuff
that I had investigated and reported back to you, and
it broke and even seven years ago at this point,
So I just I do not spend extra time on
it this point until and unless we see actual accountability.
And I'm just not holding my breath on that it'd
be nice, but not going to make on it my
(02:38):
top takeaways. I'm talking about considering the source some news organizations,
just to illustrate a point here, and the BBC, Reuters,
the Associated Press. Those have to be three news organizations
that were actually deemed to be the most credible for news.
(02:59):
When I asked Chat shept that question yesterday. The Associated Press, Reuters,
the Wall Street Journal. Those happened to be the three
that Grock gave me the most credible. So the illustration
proves a couple of points. Not only is it important
to consider the source for your news, it's also important
to consider the source for your AI. And I test
(03:21):
them out regularly. I have yet to find AI that
doesn't routinely provide false information and false answers.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
That's one.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Secondarily that reports the same information back to the same question,
which is another. And so there's so much subjectivity in
so many aspects of life, and that is kind of
the point here. So on the topic of considering the source,
after six months into Trump's presidency, how do you feel
about the job that he's been doing. And there's one
(03:49):
thing that is rather universal, better than Biden. Whatever your thoughts,
the general consensus is better than Biden was just over
six months ago that you had dementia, Joe that had
to go, and when he departed, his real clear politics
point average approval rating was thirty nine percent. Okay, so
(04:11):
the average of all polls thirty nine percent, which still
was one of those things where I'm like, I understand
the people that are like, well, Biden is not Trump,
and I really don't like Trump, and so but how
do you go from just like, okay, well Joe is
not Trump too. Yeah, you know what that guy I approve?
(04:32):
I all right, what more of that Joe Biden experience?
That is what gets me with the thirty nine percent.
But anyway, also of only twenty seven percent of Americans
when Joe left, where feelings of the country is heading
in the right direction? So after six months of the
returnative Trump, how do we feel well? In the same
(04:54):
point averages forty five percent of Americans approve of Trump's
performance forty two two percent approving of the direction of
the country and not awesome numbers, not even Trump's highest
numbers of his second term. He did have some slightly
higher numbers to begin his second term, but Trump's average
approval writing six points higher than Biden's right now and
(05:16):
a solid fifteen percent more Americans think we're at least
heading in the right direction. But like I mentioned in
my top takeaway, consider the source, and as we all know,
and it happens to be the case after three presidential elections,
is well documented, Trump's actual support has always been higher
than the average of the polls. When you boil it
(05:38):
down to polling samples, you see a very specific story
that is often quite a bit different. So, for example,
the polls that only sampled adult surveys, or basically the
point the quivalent of just doing man on the street
kind of stuff. It's like, hey, you don't even have
to be illegal citizen of this country. What do you
(06:00):
think of Trump? Trump averages only forty two percent approval
with your adult only samples, though that is still decently
higher than Biden, And among samples of registered voters or
at least those who have made some kind of an
effort to get engaged along the way, Trump's rating bumps
up to forty six percent. And then when you take
(06:23):
the temperature of only likely voters, we see that most
just over fifty percent approve of the job that Trump
continues to do quite a bit different. Right on that
note about Poles, Trump said this last night, I have
the best.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Numbers I've ever had. You know, it's amazing. I watched
people on television. Well, what about Donald Trump's polling numbers?
Yet that the best numbers I've ever had.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
They're beautiful, They're attractive. You will like it. I like it.
You know, they're huge.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
So anyway, yeah, consider the source in the sample of
these polls. And when you see that, we just focus
on those who pay attention to what's going on in
the world, pay attention to what's happening here at home.
Those that actually vote most do currently approve of the
Trump job, the job that he has been doing.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
So you simply consider those things.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
And when you are taking a look at the job
that Trump has done over the first six months, Holy
cal has he been busier than you and busier.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Than all of us.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Through his first one hundred and eighty four days, the
president of the United States responsible for one hundred and
seventy one executive orders, seventy five presidential proclamations, forty five
presidential memoranda, and nine laws, highlighted of course by the
president's overall agenda being codified in the one big, potentially
(07:48):
esthetically pleasing act, the one that you know, just if
you look at the right angle, you go, that might
even be beautiful right there. Look at the wrong angle
you're going, Eh, you might want to break out the concealer,
you know. But anyway, what is it that you've been doing?
What is it that you've been doing over the past
six months. And I can tell you that I feel
(08:12):
like I've had a pretty good run.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I've been pretty productive. I haven't done.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Anything that even begins to scratch the surface of what
the president has done. And it happens to be seventy nine,
which is the other incredible thing. But anyway, as we
look back at a couple important moments in the first
six months, I'm going to walk you back because they're
good reminders about the kind of leadership and what is
happening here as Trump gets this country on track. You
(08:41):
had Liberation Day, of course in April. Second that really
stands out. A lot of people freaking out, financial markets
freaking out, and as I mentioned at the time, said
it's going to take a while for much of corporate
America to sort this out. But the big picture is
a much prettier picture than like these guys falling headlines
that you continue to see. And here, day after day
brought about a great reset, to correct the great reset,
(09:03):
and we're going to be better off in the end
that he did. And I also added this to the
conversation at the peak of the post Liberation Day stock
market selloff, I said, as much as some of my
biggest calls and biggest decisions have happened through the application
of the one hundred and eighty degree theory, the decision
to do so is remarkably easy. Here I asked, if
(09:25):
you are a believer in this country, and if you
believe that the country will be better off by the
time that President Trump is done with it, done with
his presidency, and if the answer to those two questions
is yes, the rest is easy to digest, because here's
a fact, every major stock market sell off in American
history has proven to be a historically great time.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
To invest in American companies.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
And of course that turned out to be a historically
great call on my part.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
So yeah, there's that.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
But of course, the trade deals still currently be worked out,
and you take a look at what has happened, you know,
we are not where we need to be yet. I mean,
we still have rampant illegal immigration, lots of problems. We know,
inflation still higher than it needs to be, but it
is lower than at two point seven percent, than the
three percent when Trump came into place. You start taking
(10:19):
a look at the record tariff revenues that have been
coming into the country on the basis of the trade
deals in just the terif rates that he's instituted. While
he works these out, well, have we seen a budget
surplus in two of the past three months, reducing the
federal deficit in the second quarter by one hundred and
seventy seven billion dollars a year every year. There are
a lot of good things have been going on. In
(10:39):
my third takeaway for you, he is most certainly not
tired of winning. In fact, there was winning taking place
late into the day yesterday.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
But just signed the largest trade deal in history, I
think maybe the largest deal in history in Japan.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
By the way the trade deals are.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Started to take a look at it, so it's like
five hundred and fifty billion dollars that Japan is going
to invest in the US. They will drop their terriff
rates on US goods. We will have a fifteen percent
tariff on Japanese goods, and so it is a much
better deal than we ever had with Japan previously. And
that's on back of the deal with the Philippines, that's
(11:19):
on back of the framework with Indonesia that's been worked out.
We're hearing that the EU is coming to the White
House to meet with Trump today and there's an expectation
that we're going to get something there by the end
of the week. So you know, when we turned the
page on Trump's first one hundred days, I said that
it would be the next one hundred that actually be
the most important days of Trump's presidency, and from key
support Supreme Court rulings that have allowed his agenda to
(11:42):
move forward to the BBB, to these trade deals, that's
exactly what we have seen.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
It's been an impressive run.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
By the way, inside of that two hundred day mark
is August first, that is on the horizon, which is
when that kind of like Liberation Day two point zero
three kicks in. Who knows all the trade deals might
be done by then, and it just may be the
case that he's accomplished his entire agenda within the first
two hundred days, that'd be something. And at that point
(12:11):
it could get interesting because you know he's going to
stay busy, So what would he turn his attention to.
When I was thinking about that, it's like, yeah, Canada
and Greenlands, and you might be hearing about them again.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
Securing America over the next three years, a spotlight will
be on America with Olympic and Paralympic Games, a world
copy and as Homeland Security Subcommittee Task Force Chair Mike
McCall said, let's not forget.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
The celebration of the United States two or fiftieth birthday.
Speaker 7 (12:38):
Safety of those events will be a priority. Had a hearing.
Lawmakers look to learn from past lessons, such as the
Boston Marathon bombing. Retired Boston cop Ed Davis said a
terrorist was caught.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
By breaking down agency silos but actively seeking out what
is unknown through cooperative effort.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
Kansas City Police Chief Stacy Graves discussed the deadly shooting
at a super celebration in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Underscoring the unpredictable nature of such open air public events.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
Members of Congress say they want to know what all areas,
from big cities to tribal lands, need to make America
not only welcoming but safe as these global events happen.
Grnald Scott Fox needs
Hey, thanks for listening, and welcome back to the Brian
Mud Show. Time now for today's top three takeaways heal
takeaways for you on this a Wednesdays, we're considering the
source taken a look at Trump six months and the
presidents celebrating six months last night with members of Congress
in DC. And there are a lot that has been
(00:24):
taking place, obviously, not just in the past six months,
but even just over the past day.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
A whole lot of news on Trede that we'll get into.
But also, yes, you continue to have the developments with
Trump Russia collusion, a really old story that has gained
new traction as more information is being released from intelligence agencies.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Fox's Alexandria Hoff with more.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
President Trump called for Obama to be criminally investigated for
claims that his administration allegedly manufactured intelligence that eventually prompted
the Trump Russia collusion. A spokesperson for the former president
stated that the Obama office normally would not dignify the
quote constant nonsense with the response quote, but these claims
are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are
(01:13):
ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction a Director of
National Intelligence, Tulci Gabbard says that statement doesn't address the
issue at hand.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah, that's true. I mean a couple things.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
What would Trump be distracting from? Just a distraction from
what there's nothing needs that is tracked from.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
That's one.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
But the other is, look, I don't know if how
much knowledge Obama personally had of any of this. Not
necessarily the right play for President Trump to be going
down the treason path unless he's going to present some
really solid evidence that ties Obama himself directly to it.
(01:52):
But in the context that the buck stops with the
president and all that happened under his administration, and it
all was a hoax, and it was a grand conspiracy
to first try to prevent Trump from becoming president, then
to try to take him out once he was. That's
all real that should be dealt with. But much of
(02:13):
the information that you're starting to see now is stuff
that I had investigated and reported back to you, and
it broke and even seven years ago at this point,
So I just I do not spend extra time on
it this point until and unless we see actual accountability.
And I'm just not holding my breath on that it'd
be nice, but not going to make on it my
(02:38):
top takeaways. I'm talking about considering the source some news organizations,
just to illustrate a point here, and the BBC, Reuters,
the Associated Press. Those have to be three news organizations
that were actually deemed to be the most credible for news.
(02:59):
When I asked Chat shept that question yesterday. The Associated Press, Reuters,
the Wall Street Journal. Those happened to be the three
that Grock gave me the most credible. So the illustration
proves a couple of points. Not only is it important
to consider the source for your news, it's also important
to consider the source for your AI. And I test
(03:21):
them out regularly. I have yet to find AI that
doesn't routinely provide false information and false answers.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
That's one.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Secondarily that reports the same information back to the same question,
which is another. And so there's so much subjectivity in
so many aspects of life, and that is kind of
the point here. So on the topic of considering the source,
after six months into Trump's presidency, how do you feel
about the job that he's been doing. And there's one
(03:49):
thing that is rather universal, better than Biden. Whatever your thoughts,
the general consensus is better than Biden was just over
six months ago that you had dementia, Joe that had
to go, and when he departed, his real clear politics
point average approval rating was thirty nine percent. Okay, so
(04:11):
the average of all polls thirty nine percent, which still
was one of those things where I'm like, I understand
the people that are like, well, Biden is not Trump,
and I really don't like Trump, and so but how
do you go from just like, okay, well Joe is
not Trump too. Yeah, you know what that guy I approve?
(04:32):
I all right, what more of that Joe Biden experience?
That is what gets me with the thirty nine percent.
But anyway, also of only twenty seven percent of Americans
when Joe left, where feelings of the country is heading
in the right direction? So after six months of the
returnative Trump, how do we feel well? In the same
(04:54):
point averages forty five percent of Americans approve of Trump's
performance forty two two percent approving of the direction of
the country and not awesome numbers, not even Trump's highest
numbers of his second term. He did have some slightly
higher numbers to begin his second term, but Trump's average
approval writing six points higher than Biden's right now and
(05:16):
a solid fifteen percent more Americans think we're at least
heading in the right direction. But like I mentioned in
my top takeaway, consider the source, and as we all know,
and it happens to be the case after three presidential elections,
is well documented, Trump's actual support has always been higher
than the average of the polls. When you boil it
(05:38):
down to polling samples, you see a very specific story
that is often quite a bit different. So, for example,
the polls that only sampled adult surveys, or basically the
point the quivalent of just doing man on the street
kind of stuff. It's like, hey, you don't even have
to be illegal citizen of this country. What do you
(06:00):
think of Trump? Trump averages only forty two percent approval
with your adult only samples, though that is still decently
higher than Biden, And among samples of registered voters or
at least those who have made some kind of an
effort to get engaged along the way, Trump's rating bumps
up to forty six percent. And then when you take
(06:23):
the temperature of only likely voters, we see that most
just over fifty percent approve of the job that Trump
continues to do quite a bit different. Right on that
note about Poles, Trump said this last night, I have
the best.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Numbers I've ever had. You know, it's amazing. I watched
people on television. Well, what about Donald Trump's polling numbers?
Yet that the best numbers I've ever had.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
They're beautiful, They're attractive. You will like it. I like it.
You know, they're huge.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
So anyway, yeah, consider the source in the sample of
these polls. And when you see that, we just focus
on those who pay attention to what's going on in
the world, pay attention to what's happening here at home.
Those that actually vote most do currently approve of the
Trump job, the job that he has been doing.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
So you simply consider those things.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
And when you are taking a look at the job
that Trump has done over the first six months, Holy
cal has he been busier than you and busier.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Than all of us.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Through his first one hundred and eighty four days, the
president of the United States responsible for one hundred and
seventy one executive orders, seventy five presidential proclamations, forty five
presidential memoranda, and nine laws, highlighted of course by the
president's overall agenda being codified in the one big, potentially
(07:48):
esthetically pleasing act, the one that you know, just if
you look at the right angle, you go, that might
even be beautiful right there. Look at the wrong angle
you're going, Eh, you might want to break out the concealer,
you know. But anyway, what is it that you've been doing?
What is it that you've been doing over the past
six months. And I can tell you that I feel
(08:12):
like I've had a pretty good run.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I've been pretty productive. I haven't done.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Anything that even begins to scratch the surface of what
the president has done. And it happens to be seventy nine,
which is the other incredible thing. But anyway, as we
look back at a couple important moments in the first
six months, I'm going to walk you back because they're
good reminders about the kind of leadership and what is
happening here as Trump gets this country on track. You
(08:41):
had Liberation Day, of course in April. Second that really
stands out. A lot of people freaking out, financial markets
freaking out, and as I mentioned at the time, said
it's going to take a while for much of corporate
America to sort this out. But the big picture is
a much prettier picture than like these guys falling headlines
that you continue to see. And here, day after day
brought about a great reset, to correct the great reset,
(09:03):
and we're going to be better off in the end
that he did. And I also added this to the
conversation at the peak of the post Liberation Day stock
market selloff, I said, as much as some of my
biggest calls and biggest decisions have happened through the application
of the one hundred and eighty degree theory, the decision
to do so is remarkably easy. Here I asked, if
(09:25):
you are a believer in this country, and if you
believe that the country will be better off by the
time that President Trump is done with it, done with
his presidency, and if the answer to those two questions
is yes, the rest is easy to digest, because here's
a fact, every major stock market sell off in American
history has proven to be a historically great time.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
To invest in American companies.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
And of course that turned out to be a historically
great call on my part.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
So yeah, there's that.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
But of course, the trade deals still currently be worked out,
and you take a look at what has happened, you know,
we are not where we need to be yet. I mean,
we still have rampant illegal immigration, lots of problems. We know,
inflation still higher than it needs to be, but it
is lower than at two point seven percent, than the
three percent when Trump came into place. You start taking
(10:19):
a look at the record tariff revenues that have been
coming into the country on the basis of the trade
deals in just the terif rates that he's instituted. While
he works these out, well, have we seen a budget
surplus in two of the past three months, reducing the
federal deficit in the second quarter by one hundred and
seventy seven billion dollars a year every year. There are
a lot of good things have been going on. In
(10:39):
my third takeaway for you, he is most certainly not
tired of winning. In fact, there was winning taking place
late into the day yesterday.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
But just signed the largest trade deal in history, I
think maybe the largest deal in history in Japan.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
By the way the trade deals are.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Started to take a look at it, so it's like
five hundred and fifty billion dollars that Japan is going
to invest in the US. They will drop their terriff
rates on US goods. We will have a fifteen percent
tariff on Japanese goods, and so it is a much
better deal than we ever had with Japan previously. And
that's on back of the deal with the Philippines, that's
(11:19):
on back of the framework with Indonesia that's been worked out.
We're hearing that the EU is coming to the White
House to meet with Trump today and there's an expectation
that we're going to get something there by the end
of the week. So you know, when we turned the
page on Trump's first one hundred days, I said that
it would be the next one hundred that actually be
the most important days of Trump's presidency, and from key
support Supreme Court rulings that have allowed his agenda to
(11:42):
move forward to the BBB, to these trade deals, that's
exactly what we have seen.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
It's been an impressive run.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
By the way, inside of that two hundred day mark
is August first, that is on the horizon, which is
when that kind of like Liberation Day two point zero
three kicks in. Who knows all the trade deals might
be done by then, and it just may be the
case that he's accomplished his entire agenda within the first
two hundred days, that'd be something. And at that point
(12:11):
it could get interesting because you know he's going to
stay busy, So what would he turn his attention to.
When I was thinking about that, it's like, yeah, Canada
and Greenlands, and you might be hearing about them again.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
Securing America over the next three years, a spotlight will
be on America with Olympic and Paralympic Games, a world
copy and as Homeland Security Subcommittee Task Force Chair Mike
McCall said, let's not forget.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
The celebration of the United States two or fiftieth birthday.
Speaker 7 (12:38):
Safety of those events will be a priority. Had a hearing.
Lawmakers look to learn from past lessons, such as the
Boston Marathon bombing. Retired Boston cop Ed Davis said a
terrorist was caught.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
By breaking down agency silos but actively seeking out what
is unknown through cooperative effort.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
Kansas City Police Chief Stacy Graves discussed the deadly shooting
at a super celebration in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Underscoring the unpredictable nature of such open air public events.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
Members of Congress say they want to know what all areas,
from big cities to tribal lands, need to make America
not only welcoming but safe as these global events happen.
Grnald Scott Fox needs
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