Truth bomb💣: Larry Fink’s Wall Street Journal op-ed today nails why working-class Americans are resentful and suspicious after globalization and how the AI/infrastructure and big tech buildout can prevent the same fate again.
📰Fink headlines, “America Needs More Capital,” writing
“This boom can produce something larger than a handful of extraordinarily successful companies. The true measure of success will be how many Americans benefit from the growth.”
First step‼️: The BlackRock Foundation partnered with “SaverLife,” an app for financial education and savings tracking customizable with AI available for free to 75,000 trades apprentices.
Watch tonight📺: Katie Pavlich joins us on Katie Zacharia — the new White House press secretary who can’t seem to tell the truth about not passing the bar but calling herself a lawyer.
My thought💭: Seems like Zacharia will fit right in. The White House’s casual relationship with the truth goes back to the “alternative facts” days.
Plus➕: For all the obsession with Katie Zacharia’s credentials, where is the deep dive by The New York Times on Abdul El-Sayed calling himself a physician despite not being licensed in a single state?
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Least shocking news ever‼️: The MAGA donor Kimberly Guilfoyle “asked” for a $100,000 Amex payment is now suing her and promises to play a damning 16-minute phone call recording tomorrow.
“This might just bring down the entire Trump administration, an administration which I have supported from Day 1, whose policies I still support. It also may end the JD Vance/Marco Rubio ticket after you hear the phone call that I’m going to play tomorrow. It’s pretty freakin’ amazing,” says MAGA donor Eric Deters.
Look back🔙: We told you yesterday to watch the KG story — it’s not over.
Prediction💭: The Mooch got it wrong last night when he predicted this story would be over
The Rural AOC/AES Voter🗳️
🔴Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Abdul El-Sayed took their grievance roadshow tour to one of America’s darkest red areas — Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
‼️AOC clearly believes (or wants to believe) that if El-Sayed wins Michigan as a senator, she can win as a presidential candidate
Observation👀: El-Sayed’s support in rural America consists of angry, educated, white voters who skew female.
Think social workers, teachers, therapists, lawyers, doctors
A bitter professional class that struggles economically.
Talarico shares many of the same supporters in Texas.
So does Annie Andrews in South Carolina.
All in⚠️: AOC’s embrace of AES is a larger embrace of the socialist/Islamist alliance.
The truth on El-Sayed keeps getting worse
His preaching at a Muslim Student Association service
The MSA emerged from the Muslim Brotherhood decades ago.
Watch tonight📺: Evan Barker and Joe Cunningham tonight on whether angry, overeducated, white women really are the future of the Democratic Party.
Only Choice‼️
🤦Trump’s decision to abandon Ukraine will do nothing to secure his legacy. It won’t help with the midterms — and it once again appears to rescue defeat from the jaws of victory.
Prediction🤔: Trump’s decision to squeeze Zelenskyy while giving Putin a pass will only make peace harder to find.
“‘Putin is laughing’ Trump BETRAYED us, Zelensky slams… saying ‘people will die’ after Starshield cut off leaving Ukraine at mercy of strikes,” headlines The Sun
What happened‼️: Trump declared a unilateral energy ceasefire.
Russia ignored him and hit Ukraine anyway
Zelenskyy said if Russia won’t live up to the deal, neither will we
Trump punished Ukraine.
What I am thinking💭: We have been very complimentary of Donald Trump’s policies towards Ukraine because they have been working — Trump just gave up all those wins and his leverage. For what?
Watch tonight📺: Amb. John Bolton
Who’s Next?👀
📺Susie Wiles is considered one of the greatest forces in the Trump world — but now the media believes she may be the next person to be ousted.
📰Politico headlines today, “Trump’s ice maiden is under fire,” writing:
“It’s Susie’s turn...Trump has been soliciting allies’ views of Wiles and musing about replacements for his top aide, according to four people with direct knowledge of the conversations.”
Imagine💭: What’s it like to read in the papers that your boss is floating your possible replacement names?
Be real: There’s a chance this is just another massive disinformation campaign against Wiles. It wouldn’t be the first
Look back🔙: In June, the Daily Mail headlines, “Susie Wiles to quit White House: Insiders claim Trump’s chief of staff is ‘drained’ by cabinet chaos... and stung by president’s ‘insult”
Last December, Vanity Fair released, “Susie Wiles, JD Vance, and the ‘Junkyard Dogs’: The White House Chief of Staff on Trump’s Second Term.”
Trump today said the reporting was “TOTAL FAKE NEWS...Susie Wiles is my loyal and longest serving Chief of Staff — there is a reason for that. She has been with me since the beginning, is my trusted advisor, and has my COMPLETE confidence.”
🤦Of course, The New York Times is out with an article all talking about Trump targeting women — “The Disappearing Women of the Trump Administration”
To be fair: Say what you want about Trump, but he’s got strong women around him that do very well.
Tonight📺: Yemisi Egbewole and Mick Mulvaney, who’s been in Wiles’ shoes, join me.
Trump is becoming an embarrassment to this country and causing lives in Ukraine because he doesn't have the guts to stand up to Putin. I have supported him because I thought he had the guts to stand up against Russia, China and others trying to kill Americans. His ego is becoming a major problem for our country. Wake up Mr. President.
Dan
All the news people report about how the economy is bad and people are concerned about cost yet Costco is packed. Sam’s Club is packed and as I watch the baseball game on TV the stadium is at capacity.