Trump, Orwell, and the “Golden Age” That Isn’t

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In this cutting Watchdog on Wall Street episode, the host draws a chilling parallel between Trump’s economic claims and George Orwell’s 1984, where citizens are told to “reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.” As Trump insists the U.S. is thriving in a “golden age,” Americans face rising costs, struggling small businesses, and growing disillusionment. With even Fox News acknowledging affordability issues, the question looms: is the administration believing its own propaganda? A searing call for honesty, accountability, and economic reality amid political delusion.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast explaining the news coming
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and the impact it we'll have on everyday Americans. Author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst, and trader Chris Markowski.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Trump Orwell, and the economy.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
So we're constantly being told, we're constantly being told by
Trump and people within the administration that we.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Are in a golden age.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
This is the best economy we've ever had. Huh. Yeah,
George Orwell, nineteen eighty four, the party told you to
reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was
their final, most essential command. And yeah, there are still

(00:56):
many many Trump supporters out there that believe every damn
word he says. They're cult members. They're cult members, the
same the far left and the far right are any extreme. Okay,
I don't call maga far right because it's not right.

(01:19):
It's any of these true believers. And it's the same
type of people that would drink the kool aid. Okay,
I can go back to Jones air. You know, it's
the same thing. Anything that he says, it doesn't make
any difference. Again, you're losing some of them right now
and some of them are starting to see the proverbial

(01:40):
forest for the trees, if you will. But still you
get the others out there that will just keep going
and going and going. Lour Ingram last night interviewing Donald Trump,
asking about the tens of millions of voters that are

(02:01):
struggling because of the cost of living here in the
United States. Can he completely dismissed this. Reports of a
dwindling economy he called a conjob pushed by Democrats and

(02:21):
the media. He also broashed off polling showing widespread financial
anxiety as fake. Laura Ingram asked Trump whether there's a
negative voter perception of the economy or if more work

(02:41):
needs to be done to tackle issues such as rising
food costs and unemployment figures on his answer. More than
anything else, it's a conjob by the Democrats. They put
out something say today, costs are up. They feed it
to the anchors at ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN. It's
such a big system. So are you ready? Costs her

(03:03):
way down? Gasolene is going to be hitting two dollars
pretty soon. Around two. Gasolene is at two seventy now
is four fifty hunder Biden under sleepy Joe. Yeah, the
national average right now is over three.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Ingram, to her credit, interrupted Trump and asked him whether
the voters are misconceiving their feelings about the economy. Then
he didn't answer, and he went off on Kamala Harris. Yeah,

(03:43):
you can look at all the polls right now, and
again people are quite disillusioned, even though again you're going
to be told that it's fake news. Again, polls are fake.
We have the greatest economy we've ever had. It's not selling, man,

(04:10):
I mean yeah, to the kool aid drinkers it's selling,
But to most people it's not. Anybody with anybody that
you know has got a few brain cells to rub together,
knows this greatest economy ever.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
October jobs and this is not government Okay, it's not
government's ADP report. They're they're saying, was the economy shit about?
And fifty jobs a week last month? And you know
where these jobs were coming from? Small business, Small business

(04:49):
taking it on the chain, just like they have been
all year. When it comes to tariffs, not translate. Man,
you can keep saying these things, but no one believes
what you're saying anymore. You need to focus on what's

(05:16):
really important. You need to stop listening to all the
Lutnix and the other Kevin Hasser. Honestly, that guy that
it's almost embarrassing when he goes on TV. He sounds
so dumb. Oh, worry about the eggs are down, that's

(05:38):
only freaking point to egg prices are down a little bit.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
Egg prices are down a little bit. Are you kid me? Man?
Stop again? This is what happens.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
This is what happens. Is what happens when you surround
yourself with people that are not going to be honest
with you, that are not going to tell you too.
This is the the crap that would happen. Honestly, and
like communist type of a regime, they don't want to
get any bad news. So people are afraid to deliver

(06:11):
the bad news because they feel like they're gonna get
dropped out of a window or something like that. That's
not how that's not how you run something properly.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
You want to be lied to. You don't want you
to get your facts straight.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
When Trump goes on and he does these interviews, it's
like it looks like he believes what he's saying.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
For crying out loud. He really does. I mean, is
he being told that this is the greatest economy? This
is he believed?

Speaker 3 (06:40):
This bs because no, the polls aren't fake man. Nope,
small businesses are getting hit man. You need to focus
on this. Reducing regulations. There's a myriad of things that
you can do. Stop firing off a damn tweet every

(07:03):
five minutes and not doing a damn thing. We're going
after meat processors and all this stuff. Ah, come on, okay,
you reduce regulations. Let the states sell meat within So.
I mean, there's a ton of things that you could do.
We've talked about them here on the program. They're not
getting done. The way that we handle food in this
country is pathetic. You need to empower Robert F. Kennedy Junior.

(07:29):
Now I'm actually hearing it now. Even guys of other
people within the administration, they've been sidelined already because of
various different moneyed interests. Batachari, all those guys, that's why
you hired them.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Everybody heard from Tulci Gabbard for crying out loud. Nothing.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
This needs to be solved, Okay, everything else takes a
back seat.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
Wow, you think people.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
That are you know, struggling with affordability. Do you think
that they're going to get off on seeing you hang
out with one of the most used to be one
of the most wanted men in the world who's now
president of Syria.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Huh you think, oh, they're all excited about that bloody terrorists.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
No, man, they're not. I understand foreign policy is part
of your gig here, but the Poles aren't lying, man,
The Poles aren't fake.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
For crying.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
Even Fox News, which bloody carries your water, is covering
the affordability issues here in this country.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Even Fox What does that tell you? Fake news? All
for everything's fake?

Speaker 3 (09:02):
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