Transcript of Trump Just Got a Rude Awakening….

Donald Trump has gone silent on Monday morning as Iran continues to strike tanker after tanker. And finally, the official authorities are acknowledging the strikes we've been reporting about that have taken place in the Strait of Hormuz every damn day. Most recently, October 3rd, an oil tanker was struck by a projectile. October 4th, an LNG tanker. and an oil tanker were struck by projectiles from the IRGC in the Strait of Hormuz. Earlier this morning, a massive tanker turned around after being warned by the IRGC. And now we're seeing headlines like this from the Wall Street Journal: Oil was pouring out of Hormuz again, then attacks on ships resurged. Iran's targeting of ships has improved, according to a U.S. official. Making transits through the Strait of Hormuz riskier. No, there was never all of this oil getting out of the Strait of Hormuz. As we were reporting over and over again, we knew these strikes were occurring. It was just not being reported. And the Trump regime was lying and saying that more oil was getting out than was actually getting out. I mean, you take a look at indicators that people in the United States and across the world know what's going on, because we know what we're paying for gas and diesel.

Consumer confidence keeps on collapsing. It's at its lowest level right now since April 2014. And it's very close to the lowest level since, um, you know, whether it was in 2021 or 2001. I mean, the consumer confidence is at the Great Recession level right now, cuz that's what the American people are experiencing. And all of a sudden this week, you know, we started to hear people like Aramco's CEO, Amin Nasser. He spoke at an energy conference in London and he goes, Global inventories have fallen to dangerously low levels, calling the world's supply cushion scarily thin. Nasser said nearly 3 billion barrels of oil supply have been lost since the war with Iran began, while reserve release offer only temporary relief and rebuilding inventories could take up to 2 years. Yeah, there wasn't all of this oil getting out of the Strait of Hormuz. In fact, things are getting worse each day. And One of the things we've learned in the past 24 hours as well, Ansar Allah, the Houthis, were able to successfully strike an area in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. Look right over here. Footage shows a plume of smoke rising from Jeddah following an Ansar Allah ballistic missile attack on a Saudi Aramco refinery there earlier.

Now, Saudi Arabia working with its PLC-backed forces in Yemen said that they intend for an offensive to try to seize Sana'a, the capital of Ansar Allah, and also take back other areas in Western Yemen that Ansar Allah, the Houthis, were able to take control of in the recent weeks. And so Ansar Allah responded, striking this refinery right here in Jeddah. Saudi Arabia's defense authorities no longer report the warnings that they used to, or when there are refineries struck, they just cover it up. It's just a massive manipulation taking place from the Trump regime to the Arab nations, all across the world, there's this market manipulation. But again, you look at the price of crude, you look at the price of diesel, it is surging. One other fact that doesn't get enough attention, but to me, this chart and this analysis says it all. Just even if you assumed all of the oil was getting out of the Strait of Hormuz, assume it's just like it was pre-war. Here's a major difference. VLCC rates, those are those very large tankers, the largest types of tankers that carry out crude, have reached unprecedented levels of what they are charging per day because the risk is so severe.

They charge $1.3 million per day now to carry the crude, whereas before the war it was around $30,000. to $50,000 a day. So it's around 43 times the January number. So this adds to the price per barrel of oil about $33 or 27% of the delivered cost of crude oil. So even if the amount of oil getting out was all the same, the risk premium is so damn high that it would still cost so much more by the time it was transported to the refinery and then ultimately refined. It has to then be refined. And then the gas, the diesel, and jet fuel is then sold. So I think it's important that we just have some basic understanding of what the hell is going on. I know we do here at the Midas Touch Network, but the level of disinformation is so wild. Meanwhile, speaking of disinformation purveyors, you had J.D. Vance. This is what he said at Joint Base Andrews this morning. He said, I think the American people love These taxpayer-funded political commercials that Donald Trump's doing, those fascist commercials Trump keeps running during football games and other major national sporting events. And just in general, he keeps on playing these political ads.

And J.D. Vance was like, Obama did it. No, Obama didn't do it. Stop saying Obama. Stop saying Biden. There's no comparison here to what's going on. Obama, Biden, again, disinformation purveyors, fraud. They just wanna overwhelm you with this crap here. Play this clip.

Well, look, if, if you look historically, um, you know, go back to the Obama administration with the Affordable Care Act. You have the people's government using tax dollars to advertise about what the government is doing. It's part of actually, I think, living in a constitutional republic. You have to be honest with the American people about what you're doing, about what's going on. And part of that is getting out there and telling the message. So I don't think there's anything unusual or unorthodox about it. I'm sure that some people probably don't like it. But if you look at the message of those advertisements, they're not partisan. They're not, you know, it's not like we're advocating for a particular candidate. We're trying to tell a story, I think, about how great the United States of America is.

Even though one of the ads turns after that. Then you have MAGA Republican Senator Rick Scott said, look, Sure, the gas price is really high, but I don't want to be killed by a nuclear weapon. Do you want to be killed by a nuke? So this is great. We can deal with high gas prices because Trump saved us from being killed by nukes. No, he didn't. You made up a threat that didn't exist so that Trump and Netanyahu, as part of their cover-up also of the Epstein files, could slaughter little children in Manab and Lomerd and invade Iran. This is what Rick Scott said here. Play this clip.

Killed. Now, nobody likes war. War is not popular. Nobody likes high gas or diesel prices. All right. But we also don't want nuclear weapons. And this president actually is doing the opposite of Democrats. He's tried to build up the oil and gas industry while they tried to destroy it and drive prices up. He's trying to build it and he has built it in this country. And he's trying to build relationships in places like Venezuela. Now, he's trying to make sure Europe's a partner. So And we're, we're headed in the right direction. I don't want a nuclear weapon. I mean, I don't want my kids or grandkids killed by a nuclear weapon. I don't like high gas prices, but I want— I don't want to be killed by nuclear weapons. So—

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Yeah, okay, so Kansas has not sent a Democrat to the United States Senate since 1932. That's 94 years ago, for those who don't want to do the mental math this early in the morning. What is going on? And that is President Trump is historically unpopular for a president— for a Republican president in the great state of Kansas. Take a look here. Okay. What are we looking at here? Republican presidents' net approval ratings in Kansas. I absolutely buy the idea that this race is close because just take a look at these. Okay, GOP net approvals in Kansas about at this point in a term. Look at this. George W. Bush coming off of 9/11 was at about +45 points. Even in 2006, he was still in the positive territory at about +1. In his first term, look at this. Donald Trump at +5 points. Look at how much less popular Donald Trump is than was in term number 1. At this point, he's way down in the basement, 15 points underwater. That's a 20-point shift away from the president of the United States. That is 16 points less popular than any other Republican president at this point in the term this century.

And in fact, while we don't have the polling data, if you look at the national polling data, I would say that Donald Trump is probably at this point in the term the least popular Republican president probably since, well, Herbert Hoover.

Now, new Gallup poll Q3 party ID data coming out right over here. This is This is how Americans politically identify right now in the new Gallup poll. 50% identify Democrats, 39% identify Republicans. This Democrat +11 lead is the largest quarterly margin recorded for the Democrats since the first quarter of 2009, and it was Republican +4 in 2024, just by comparison. The Trump regime announcing Benny Ray Harmony will be the new assistant press secretary at the White House, taking on a prominent role there. Here she is in 2021 wearing her F Joe Biden shirt over here, I believe, with a family member. Um, here's what she looks like today, by the way, now that she's taken this Trump regime job. But this is what she looked like in 2021. Here she is, uh, today. Marco Rubio was asked about updates regarding the apparent plague case taking place in Russia right now. There was a pneumonic plague at a biolab in Siberia that killed a lab technician. There's a major quarantine going on right now in the Siberia area. Marco Rubio says this is not cause for alarm, but it is cause for focus, he says. Let's play this clip.

Can you give us an update on the suspected plague case in Russia?

Well, we don't— we know what we What do we know, obviously, about whatever the Russians have provided? We see that there was a worker at the lab that was infected, and there's concern that that, you know, could have spread. At least internally, we've seen quarantines and things of that nature. There's very limited travel between the U.S. and Russia, obviously, but like anything else, something like that gets out, it could quickly spread. So we're watching and monitoring it closely. I don't think it's possible It is cause for focus and a cause to just keep an eye on it, and we're doing that.

And then Rubio was asked about the reporting. We did this reporting this morning, and others did as well, about the 12 B-1 bombers that have been removed from the, the Royal Air Force Base Fairford in the UK, so that all those B-1s are gone, as you also are aware. The USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier has been removed from the Arabian Sea and it's now in Phuket, Thailand, leaving only one aircraft carrier there. The US has no aircraft carrier in the Pacific. The USS George Washington is now the only aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea. This is a catastrophic war we should never have been involved in, but it's also massive mismanagement of the catastrophic war also. There's the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier and its strike group and an amphibious assault group It will arrive in the Arabian Sea mid-November after the midterms where Trump's threatened escalation. But I think one of the reasons Iran also realizes it can strike these tankers with impunity right now and project its strength as it controls the Strait of Hormuz is that the US, the literally the munitions and the US ability to even project strength in the region is gone.

But anyway, here's what Rubio has to say about that. Let's play this clip right here.

What?

Why did American bombers leave?

Well, you'll have— the Department of War is constantly reallocating resources where they need to be. There's regular rotations that happen as well. So I think you guys are just— well, I mean, we've documented what happened last week. I wouldn't just directly tie that to the move that was made. The only reason why you guys are focused on how many planes are available is because of the threat that happened last week. But it's not unusual to see rotations. Movements happen and movement of assets to different parts of the world based on exercises, redeployments, people changing out, new people coming in, new planes coming in, old planes going out. So crews are changing all the time. You guys are just really focused on that now because of the threat.

Meanwhile, one of the main advisors to Ayatollah Mojtaba Khomeini posted the following: Every computational error by the enemy against Iran has resulted in heavy defeat for it. The next era will bring about fresh fronts and greater surprises. With the wise leadership of the Supreme Leader of the Revolution, the companionship of the history-making nation, and the coordination of all branches of the system, Iran will powerfully navigate through these complex conditions. Another thing to note as well, the USS George Washington, the only aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea, it's like 1,000 kilometers outside of the kind of entrance as you start heading towards the Gulf of Oman and towards the Strait of Hormuz. So the US aircraft carriers are pretty far out. There's only one at this point that's even there. The other, as the announced date, is in Phuket, Thailand. I think that's notable as well. And so really the first time that's happened in a very, very, very long time. Also important to note as well, a Turkish commercial vessel, the Royad Mahmedov, Sank in the Black Sea after being struck by a drone believed to be a Russian drone, perhaps a Geran-4. Romanian authorities said 11 crew members were rescued and 2 were killed.

The vessel was about 30 nautical miles south inside Romania. Romania is a NATO member's exclusive economic zone. Zelensky has responded to the incident. And he's talked about, uh, what's taken place, and he's calling it out as well. Um, by our account, Iran has struck at least 12 tankers in the southern corridor of the Strait of Hormuz in the past 7 days as well. And this open-source site agrees with that number. Keep you posted every step of the way here on the Midas Touch Network. Get your copy of WTF America audiobook is out. October 20th. Ebook is out October 20th. Hardcover book is out, but the preorders are available now. And lots of people were happy that there was an audiobook. I read the audio with my brother, so check that out. Thanks, everybody. Hey, before you go, our book WTF America is available for preorder now. It's the story of how we got here and how we fight our way back. To preorder, scan the QR code or click the link in the description. Let's do this.