It is Thursday, May twenty ninth.
This is the warning Taco Trump always chickens out. That's the new faith that Wall Street traders bet billions and billions of dollars on. They look for patterns that are predictable for the edge, to know what's going to happen next, so in a split second they can place the bet and take the profit. And the one enduring absolute when it comes to Donald Trump and his regime is their talent in that great American colloquial expression for chickening.
Out buck buck buck goes.
The chicken now a tasty bird, for sure, but a dirty bird and a contemptible one compared to the mighty eagle that Donald Trump is trying to clip the wings of with his orf corruption and incompetence, and his imposition of surrender and weakness on the American government, and crises after crises of his own making, born from his stupidity,
from his idiocy, from his ignorance. And so it came to be that in the White House we saw the best of what journalism is supposed to be when a young reporter fearlessly from CNBC asked Donald Trump to respond to his legend to his reputation on Wall Street, amongst the traders, amongst the tough guys from the movies like Wall Street, where Trump looked at himself in the mirror so long ago and saw a version of Gordon Gecko. Those guys know the truth about Donald Trump, and they bet billions on it.
Trump always checked out.
Now Trump doesn't understand the question at first.
Let's watch, mister president. Wallster analysts have coined a new term called the taco trade. They're saying, Trump always chickens out on the.
Tariff threats, and that's why markets are hired this week.
What's your response to that?
I kick out, kick it out. Oh, then I check it out. I've never heard that. You mean, because I reduced China from one hundred and forty five percent that I set down to one hundred and then down to another number, and I said, you have to open up your whole country, And because I gave the European Union a fifty percent tax uh tariff. And they called up and they said, please, let's meet right now, Please, let's meet right now. And I said, okay, I'll give you
till Jan nine. I actually asked them, I said, what's the date, because they weren't willing to meet, and after I did what I did, they said, we'll meet any time you want, and we have an end date of July ninth. You called that chickening out. Don't ever say what you said. That's a nasty question.
Nasty question, but it's true. The Trump shuffle, there is always the boast, the declaration I alone can fix it. Remember that one he would end the Russian and Ukraine War caused by Russian aggression.
And what was it twenty four hours.
This isn't my war. This is Biden's war, Zelenski's war and Putin's war. This isn't Trump's war.
His weakness and his breaking of the Atlantic Alliance has incited Vladimir Putin's aggression. Vladimir Putin is doubling down. Donald Trump has made Putin strong again by making the opposition Putin faces weaker. By dividing the Atlantic Alliance, Donald Trump has set a signaled of Vladimir Putin that if Putin pushes, he's pushing into a marshmallow, that Trump will chicken out and turn around. Let's look again and to what Trump told the reporters in the Oval office about the Chinese tariffs.
It's called negotiation. You set a number, and if you go down, you know, if ICE set a number at a ridiculous high number and I go down a little bit, you know, a little bit. They want me to hold that number, one hundred and forty five percent tariff even. I said, man, that really got up. You know how it got because of fent and all and many other things, and you edit it up. I said, where are we now? We're at one hundred and forty five percent? I said, whoa,
that's hi. That's why they were doing no business whatsoever. And they were having a lot of problems. We were very nice to China.
It was started by his unilateral declaration and then his unilateral retreat. He started the war for the purposes of retreating. It was an act of aggression before a premeditated surrender that was always in the cards. Trump talks about holding all the cards. Everybody knows what's in his cards. He makes ludicrous statements that he can't deliver on.
That is a war that's dying to be settled. I will get it settled before I even become president.
Rushing great day, reising on. Where did they see right now? Well, there's only half a day.
I have another half a day left.
Trump's only feared in the Republican conference, and amongst the appeasing schumercrats, he's laughed at everywhere else in the world.
Then Trump backs.
Down over again and over again, and over and over and over again.
And do you still believe that Putin actually wants to end the war?
I can't tell you that, but I'll let you know in about two weeks. Within two weeks, we're going to find out very soon, we're going to find out whether or not he's tapping us along or not. And if he is, we'll respond a little bit differently.
And then he says that he's strong and the golden ages here in America is great, when in fact, the bill for his wrecked economy hasn't even started yet to come due, but it will. Prices are rising, inflation is rising, jobs are going to be cut, the real estate market is collapsing. Trump has injected uncertainty while turning in the country fear up with mass goons that have been sent across the country by orders of his henchmen. Donald Trump is an agent of chaos and fear. That's certainly true.
But he's weak and he's corrupt. He's a world class demagogue. That doesn't change the fact that he's ignorant. He is talented at a connection when it comes to selling grievance, but incompetent at achieving results, and it's always been that way. His takeaway from his first term was that being nice to Trump means telling Trump that he's a genius at all moments, every time anything is ever put in front
of him. Trump knows best, and he has assembled a team of yes men and extremists and incompetence with disorders and derangements. From Christy Noan and Steven Miller to Howard Lutneck. All of these people are a wrecking ball riding it into our institutions. But Donald Trump is weak and vacillating. He wobbles, he cannot hold firm, and he will always blink first, always back down. It is the most predictable
bet and pattern in the world. The American people delivered this office to Donald Trump with forty nine point five percent of the vote, about thirty two percent of the eligible population, and difference will have a catastrophic price. But nobody should be afraid of a man so laughed at around the world. He's not feared outside of America. He's
a figure of mockery, in disdain anxiety, for sure. But we could lower the anxiety of the world by facing the problem that we allowed to fester and create here at home, and deal with this in the election in twenty twenty six and wipe from power the capitulent, compliant, rubber stamp Congress that has allowed this disgrace to go on and on and on, and to allow the catastrophe that is unfurling to unferral. Better days are head. Stronger
men are ahead, Stronger women are ahead. Donald Trump Taco Trump always chickens out, just like his power Elon Musk, currently crying and in hiding because the American people have disavowed him and hold him into contempt. He deserves just like they will Trump and all of his henchmen as history on ferrals as a surely will all of these people, every single one of them, will be scorned by history.
As we all play our role in a decisive hour where the American cause is being tested by people who despise it, who revile it, and are trying to smash it. Let's not let them into two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the year where the Declaration of Independence was signed. Let's renew our faith in the country two hundred and fifty years later with an act of defiance and dissent and repudiation. Let me leave you with this from Martha's Vineyard,
an American citizen standing up to American Gestapo. Good for him. Do not be afraid. This is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. I invite you to join this community where I promise to be honest, blunt and direct about what is happening in this country. America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe to this channel and on substack.
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