My personal opinion on a lot of this stuff to get a bit conspiratorial is of course, there is a deep state I believe, that Trump is losing. I think Trump has done a lot of good things. But you take a look at like the Epstein files, you take a look, look at the MAGA coalition breakdown. And admittedly, the Trump administration has not been doing enough [00:00:18] on affordability, grocery prices. And for this, the American people are wary. That was right wing podcaster Tim Pool admitting that the American people aren't really buying what Trump is selling when it comes to the economy. So Trump, as you know, recently gave himself a very laughable a [00:00:35] plus plus plus plus plus five plus rating on his handling of the economy. But who who is he fooling? Jenk your $0.02, please. All right. So we're going to give you a couple more Republicans that are speaking out honestly on this issue in a minute. [00:00:51] But then, what I really want to tell you about is how this is Trump's Waterloo. So. Yeah. Epstein files, opened a the door. That was catastrophic for Trump, in my opinion. Again, I'll explain why a little bit later. But but I think of all the different issues. [00:01:08] This is the most important. We'll talk about why in a minute. All right. Well, he's not the only one in Trump world who is slamming Trump for the way that he's trying to sell his economy. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who I guess is technically ex Trump world now. Well, she had this to say about the impacts that everyday people [00:01:25] and families are feeling as a result of Trump's tariffs and economic policies. Electric bills have gone up. Everyone's bills have either stayed the same or going higher. Grocery prices have not gone down. Everybody suffered from inflation. [00:01:42] That happened during the Biden administration. And I think the the president needs to be aware that he's a billionaire president of the United States. And you can't gaslight people and tell them that their bills are affordable, and you can't tell them that the economy is an A plus plus plus. [00:02:00] You just can't do that. And I think it's insulting to people's intelligence. And I don't care how many charts he wants to throw up, people literally know because they're the ones standing at the checkout counter in a grocery store. Let's be real. President Trump doesn't go to the grocery store and do his own grocery shopping. [00:02:18] And they're the ones buying their kids clothes. And and, you know, all kinds of goods and supplies for their families. All right. So she then went on to discuss the ways in which small businesses have been negatively impacted ever since Trump took office. [00:02:34] There are also the small business owners that are struggling to continue their small businesses under tariffs that have made it hard. These are also manufacturing plants that are still struggling under tariffs and trying to work a new trade system and a volatile system. [00:02:50] So I, I would encourage the president to to have some empathy and to change his tone and how he speaks to Americans about how bad they're financially hurting. Well, she's absolutely right. I don't think that he's ever going to change his tone and find empathy [00:03:06] in his heart anytime soon. But take a look at this. Companies with fewer than 50 employees shed 120,000 jobs in November, according to data from payroll processing giant ADP. The sharp drop comes just ahead of a month that, for many small businesses, [00:03:24] is the most pivotal sales period of the year, right before the holidays. Other changes, not as obviously reflected in the data, include hiring pauses or owners just not replacing employees who have quit for whatever reason. Consumer confidence being the lowest that it's been in seven months. [00:03:42] Also result that results in lower profits and also quality cuts having to be made just to keep the lights on. But maybe, maybe we all just need to stop complaining and get to work. Dan Pena had some thoughts on how young people complaining about [00:03:58] the economy and the lack of jobs are just get you know what it is. We're just not working hard enough. My kid, when they got out of undergraduate school, my daughter took seven months to find a job. And our son took nine months to find a job. [00:04:13] And they both found jobs, and it was a recessionary time. In both cases, by making hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of phone calls, hundreds and hundreds of letters out going on, dozens and dozens and dozens of interviews. And the kids today, because I have a fairly large consortium, [00:04:29] almost 40 companies. And the kids go one one interview and they don't even call back to find out how they did. All right. And if you're waiting for it, here it is. Take a look. The elitist of that generation, in my opinion, are lazy. I mean, we don't have an affordability problem in my opinion. [00:04:48] All I know is when I bought my first house and my dad bought his first house that we couldn't afford, he went out and worked overtime. He got another job. The kids don't want to have another job. They expect right out of school to make all kinds of crazy money, six figure money, and they have no experience whatsoever, so I don't the affordability [00:05:06] to me is a matter of choice. They're not looking hard enough and not working hard enough to get a job. I'm sorry. Who cares what this old man and his dad did when they were trying to buy a house? That's not the world that anybody lives in anymore. But he did mention that there is no affordability crisis in his opinion. [00:05:22] But it's really not a matter of opinion. It's a matter of data. So in 2025, food prices, food price increases are outpacing their 20 year average, as the Department of Agriculture expects grocery prices to rise 2.4%, [00:05:37] restaurant meals to climb 3.9% and overall food costs to increase 3%. Also, the price of major food staples like eggs, sugar and meat, especially beef, all increase in 2025 and are expected to continue rising in the months ahead, according to the USDA. [00:05:55] Housing costs also surged in 2022. A typical household spent about 23% of earnings on a median priced home. Yet in 2025, that burden increased to 25% and has peaked at over 26%, according [00:06:11] to the National Association of Realtors. Home prices climbed. The median single family home rose from $392,800 in 2022 to an average of $419,122 in 2025, [00:06:28] per the National Association of Realtors. And since February 2020, electricity prices have surged nearly 40% per Federal Reserve economic data. The Affordable Care Act market showed up similar. [00:06:44] It showed a similar upward trend of 312 insurers only for proposed median premium reductions, while 125 requested increases of 20% or more, and seven put forward hikes of at least 50%, [00:06:59] according to health system tracker cited by Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. And finally, Stockholm based buy now, pay later company Klarna recorded a 45% year over year jump in January in November, driven by US Black Friday volume? [00:07:18] Jenk. It's also very convenient for people like Dan Pena to talk about jobs when the government has stopped releasing job reports. What are your thoughts here? Yeah, it's two different things here. So this whole bashing young people. Oh yeah, I bought a house, I worked really hard and I got [00:07:35] the whole $37 I needed for that house. Oh shut up. The housing prices are so much higher now. Yes. Adjusted for inflation, it's still massively higher than when grandpa bought his house for $12. [00:07:50] Okay, so they're living in a fantasy land. They're like, what do you mean? I'm already rich and old. Old and rich. So, you stupid young people, it's all your fault. You're too lazy. Yeah, but drug prices weren't this. The housing prices weren't this. [00:08:05] Wages weren't this. So you got. You don't know anything. You don't know any of the economic numbers. You're just a dumb old man just yelling at kids on your front lawn. So I'm sick of it. Now, to the current state of things and Trump's handling of the economy. [00:08:23] This brother is in a world of trouble. So he had a lead on Biden and Harris, on the economy when he was running for office. Do you know what the numbers are now? AP just did a poll released yesterday. 67% approve. No, 67% disapprove. Only 31% approve. [00:08:41] That's -36, son. -36 on the economy. The economy is by far the biggest issue. They're like, yeah, I don't want to go to war with Valenzuela. Yeah, I want to release the Epstein files, but I gotta eat and I gotta pay the rent. [00:08:58] Okay, so he's in a world of trouble. Okay, let's look at Republicans and independents as well. So three out of ten Republicans disapprove of his handling of the economy. I mean, those Republicans never moved against Trump before. Three out of ten say no. He's doing a bad job. [00:09:15] When you ask him, how's the economy doing overall, they want to say yes, but they can't. So 44% of Republicans, 44, say no. The economy is doing poorly. Some percentage of them are still like, it's not Trump's fault. It's not it's it's it's it's it's a Biden. It's Jimmy Carter. [00:09:32] It's it's Mao. Okay. But but most of them are beginning to go. Yeah, brother, you said you'd help. And this isn't helping. Now, it's not a majority yet for the Republicans. Well, now you know, the Democrats know the economy is bad and you know that they're going to say that Trump's doing poorly. [00:09:48] That's not surprising. So but what matters the most is independents. Independents these days decide elections for sure right. 80% say no. This economy is poor to very poor. Not going well at all. [00:10:05] I mean, those are the kind of numbers where you go no no no no no no. Oh if you say 02220 knock on wood. Don't you count your chickens before they hatch. There's a long time before the 2026 elections. All that stuff is true. But guys make it up. 36 points is super hard, especially [00:10:22] when you don't have a freaking plan. His plan was tariffs and it made it worse. What's his new plan? There is no new plan. The new plan was oh, tax cuts for the rich. So me and all my donors are super happy and loaded up with more of your money. Okay, that you already did. That is the economy still sucks. [00:10:40] What's your new plan? They don't have a plan. Their plan is. Oh, well, now let's give more money to and deregulation to my AI donors. Let's attack Venezuela for my oil donors. None of that's going to help the economy at all. It's going to make it worse. [00:10:56] So here I'll say it now. Trump is never going to recover. Now that's crazy. Jake, we've seen Trump go up and down, up and down. It's been around ten years. He's the hardest guy there is to knock out. Yeah okay. That's fine. That that brother doesn't know a single thing about the economy and doesn't care. [00:11:14] And he thinks he's going to BS his way out of it because that's what he's done with his entire life. So he's like, I give myself an A plus plus plus plus plus. Problem solved. I lied to you. Now you all believe my lies. No, they don't believe your lies. Now you lost 80% of independents. [00:11:30] You're never going to recover. Because here, if you're a Republican and you know you don't know this and you're going to be angry at me, no problem. Okay, I got news for you. The Republicans never have an economic plan. They're only economic plan is give everything to the rich, give everything [00:11:46] to corporations and to their donors. That's it. Full stop. That's their only plan. Democrats have a good plan. They just never do it. And they don't. And they don't do it because the donors don't want them to do it. So it's not like the Democrats are innocent, but the Republicans, literally, whether it's health care or the economy, I've never seen them have a plan [00:12:05] for the average guy. I've never seen them pass a bill. For the average guy, they're not going to turn around all of a sudden go, oh yeah, you know what? Maybe we shouldn't serve our rich donors. Maybe we should help the average guy and come up with an economic plan to do that for the first time in our lives. [00:12:21] Okay, go ahead and ask them if you if you don't believe me and you're a Republican or a right winger, go. Go ask your local Republican congressman or senator. What's your economic plan? I guarantee you it's going to be deregulation of their corporate donors that they have, so they could rob you even more, and corporate tax cuts [00:12:39] and tax cuts for the rich. That's it. That's it. I defy you to find me another plan from Republicans to help you with anything. You're never going to find it. It doesn't exist. Yeah, and, you know, deregulation is really just a modern way of saying trickle down economics. [00:12:55] They've just rebranded it, and they thought that none of us would catch on to what they were doing. And yeah, as far as their new economic plan, it is more tax cuts for the rich because that's what they're talking about now. And as far as you know, their healthcare plan, they have never had a healthcare plan. [00:13:12] Trump has been criticizing the Affordable Care Act since before he was ever even a presidential candidate. He was just dogging on Obama the whole time. They branded it as Obamacare, so that their supporters wouldn't even realize that it's the same thing as the Affordable Care Act. [00:13:28] And like, miraculously, that actually worked. But even when Trump decided to get into the ring and that that was one of the first things they asked him about because he was so outspoken in his Disregard for the Affordable Care Act. They said, well, what would you like to do instead? [00:13:43] And he has never had a plan. Even when he was a presidential candidate on the debate stage, he said he had concepts of a plan. He has never had a plan. He couldn't even be bothered to come up with, like any kind of idea for what could replace the Affordable Care Act. [00:13:58] He has never planned to have a plan. That is what. That's what it is. He's he's he's never, taken the time to even consider what the average American, everyday American needs. And instead he just complains and he criticizes things, which is what he [00:14:14] complains about other people for doing. And he has never had a plan. And I think that is very, very telling. But what is more telling is that up until now, people have voted for him for as he had no policies as he had no plans. I remember Elizabeth Warren during those debates, she had binders [00:14:31] full of plans that she had thought up and come up with with her team. She put it all together. Trump had none of that, and they still voted for him over somebody like her. And hopefully now these people who have voted for Trump, sometimes some of them three times, hopefully they're finally starting to realize [00:14:48] that he doesn't actually care about you. He has no idea of what is coming in the future because he's not going to be here for that future. He's worried about his kids, maybe. But even that, you know, is kind of a long shot. So super last thing, when Biden was running and we were trying [00:15:04] to get him out of the race and we were like, in the beginning, we were the only voice saying, what, are you guys nuts? He's going to lose. He's obviously going to lose. First of all, he's 98 years old. He's falling apart at the seams. He can't finish his sentence. But on top of that, he's sitting in an approval rating that is in the 30s. [00:15:21] You cannot recover from that. No incumbent can recover from that. And all of a sudden, all the geniuses who follow politics and are supposed to know things like that are like what? I don't know what an incumbent polling. I don't know what that is. And all of both the Democrats and, you know, legacy media pretended [00:15:41] like they don't understand numbers. Now, if you're a Republican or a Trump supporter and you want to ignore numbers just like the Democrats did have at it, Hoss, and you'll say the same things that they said, which is, oh, I don't believe in polling, polling. It's all I heard from the Democrats for two years straight [00:15:58] was I don't believe in polling. I don't believe in polling. No, we're going to win. We're going to win. I know everyone I know loves Kamala Harris, right? So now you can say that about Trump. But brother he's at -36 on the economy. Game over already. Let alone it's only going to get worse. It's not going to get better. [00:16:16] All right. But if you don't believe it God bless. You could pretend that Joe Biden was young and dynamic, too. Everybody's got their own fantasies that they want to believe in, but, he's in a lot of trouble. And unfortunately, more importantly, the economy is in a lot of trouble. Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets its wings. [00:16:33] Totally not true. 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