The Trump administration is taking a chainsaw to the Deep State. DOGE is recommending cuts left and right, Trump’s cabinet is cleaning house, and newly confirmed Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI director Kash Patel are gearing up to end corrupt partisan investigations and deliver the Jeffrey Epstein client list: “Patel is not going in to play nice. He’s the wrecking ball the FBI has been begging for.” Glenn reviews all the change that is coming. And he also addresses whether Trump supporters should be worried about inflation, like the media insists, or realize that “it is going to sting before it heals.”
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GLENN: Reuters is reporting that Trump's approval has slid from 44 to 47 because jobs and inflation are punching folks in the gut. Yes, unemployment is up to 4.2% and grocery bills are like a bad ex that won't go away and people are jittery a bit. It isn't a meltdown but it is Trump able to catch some flack on this. Some are saying it is the tariffs, others are saying it is Congress that is all talk and no action, the air in D.C. is thick with tension. Washington isn't nor should it ever be your sugar daddy. Trump is swinging at a system so fat the system can't even move to get out of the way.
We have trashed our economy for decades and then we added a wrecking ball to the rest of it for the last four years. As I have said for all during the election for sure, it is going to sting and hurt before it heals. Think 1970's gas lines only with worse coffee! Help your neighbor whenever you can. Look for people in need you can help. Stock your pantry. If we want the feds off our backs, we have to step up and not take shortcuts. Washington post is reporting musk and Trump with selling DOGE like it is the next moon shot aiming to call out waste and pass 20% of rebates our way. Agencies are sweating bullets. Details are sketchy but it is a gut punch to the beast in Washington. Is it bold? Yes. Is it what we asked for? Yes. This is the government getting a long overdue haircut and Musk is holding the clippers. Yesterday at CPAC it was a chain saw giving to him by the president of Argentina. They are not just trimming the fat but are promising a chunk of our own money back but here is the kicker. Do not cash that check and run. We drowning in $36 trillion in debt. Stick it in there instead.
I like Trump's latest idea. It helps everybody. Why get a trillion in cut, 20% goes back to you, 20% goes to the debt and 20% to reduce the deficit. Trump demanded what's ordinary for you and me but mythical as my little pony in Washington, D.C., he demanded a balanced budget. It will be up to us to support and demand lawmakers here to what all of us have asked for decades. Paying down the debt and cutting the deficit to zero. It is not real sexy but it is a grown up move. Less waste, more backbone, that's the win. In the time, Zelensky begging for an F BFF vibe with Trump's crew. His team met with Trump's Envoy and ghosted a presser. Washington told them to drop the dictator trash talk. It is a little chilly and not full on feud but the cracks are showing.
Trump is not here to play global babysitter. Those days are and should be over. Ukraine has its own mess. We don't need my copy mop it up. When will the media, Lindsay Graham's of the world, care about the 100 billion we shipped over there that went poof? Zelensky has said maybe half of the United States money didn't arrive. Where is it? Also, we now know that the United States arms we sent to Ukraine, some are vacationing on the Mexican border in the arm of the cartels. America's wallet isn't a bottomless pit. It is time to close it. "Washington Post" reporting America's corruption perception index craters from 69 to 65 which makes us 28th worldwide. America's correction perception index they say that's Thanks to juicy scandals like clarence Thomas and his secret billionaire get a ways. Is that the real deal?
Here is the true story and the truth "The Washington Post" will never cover. Transparency international issued this report. They are the score keeper. It is interesting because a quick search now you can find out they rake in 80 million euros from the United States state, EU and WUF cronies just last year. X is screaming deep state hit job. TI skips the Dobbs league. The Trump legal gauntlet in D.C. Georgia what happened there and in New York. It is only about the conservatives on the Court. Smells like the same rotting trash they began to shovel after Vance's speech in Europe. Transparency international is nothing more than deep state PR bank rolled by the same clowns. The state department along with all the other usual NGO that DOGE is finding is financed with taxpayer dollars. The government funded propaganda. Trump's Courts are slugging it out. But Transparency International is blind to the real dirt. The witch hunts and leaks galore. This is a power grab dressed up as a report card. Europe and the global media need to understand we are not stupid and not buying it.
The time of AI is giving us complete transparency. Kash Patel is confirmed and the GOP is pumping the fish for reform and democrats fight goons and Collins and Makowski bolted but he is locked in and promising to cutting the FBI and zero in on the crime they were committing. Eight top dogs are already out the door. He has a list and checked it twice. All the agents of January 6th. The real meltdown will happen when Kash comes in. If I were Adam Shift, I might begin to liquidate to stock and need fleet of attorneys to keep me out of jail. Patel is not going in to play nice. He is the wrecking ball the FBI has been begging for. The swamps built a fortress in that agency is he is kicking down the front gates. Eight are gone already and that's the warmup. This is not about loyalty. This is about placing justice where it belongs. Let them run. Their cheese hasn't just been moved. It is being taken away.
It will be interesting to see how these terrified rats begin to eat each other. Rioters said that DOJ is hitting pause on the foreign correct press act. Slicing overseas bribes from 2024. Trump's squad calls it an unshackling of business and fewer audits and lighter fines. Trump's side is saying they view the foreign corruption protection act as a job killer strangling United States firms while China cheats freely. Did China every pay a price for the bribery of our government officials all of the way up to and including our former press? X at Scott smells cronyism. Maybe it is growth. And not global cop duty but the optics are iffy. When the Fed's let up it is usually a breezer. This one still feels a little weird. Trump's all about fair fights and not buddy-buddy deals. But if this is a wink to his pals it is a misstep to the president and the first one. I am not sure. China is dirty. 14 billion in deals last year alone.
Justice doesn't bend for convenience. Keep it straight or we are no better off than we were and no better than the other side. Economic breaks are here and that's interesting according to the time. I will tell you about that in 60 seconds, February 28th is shaping up for a wallet boycott because Americans are fed up and targeting companies like Target for dumping DEI after Trump's nudge. Is that the way people feel? Or is this part of your tax dollars going to the Tide foundation. #BlackoutDEI is blowing up on X. I have no problem with companies choosing to go full DEI if that is what you want. It just means every day is voting day for America and we will vote with our cash. Pure American muscle. Don't like DEI? Great. Stop going to Costco which has doubled down on DEI. And any other county. Just like bud light losing over 40% market share and billions. If Americans are aware of who is sticking with the insanity and who is behind merit the daily election wouldn't bow close. Trump is pulling off the DEI duct tape and people are done. Walmart is not our morality cop. It is a freaking store. Keep your dollars where the voice is. That's power not preaching.
AI is fueling domestic crime search and fighting corruption from foreign policy and turbo charging United States crimes. Arrest are up 15%. Car tells are turning fake ID and scammers getting the crime. AI is a double barrel shotgun. Crooks will use it and blast away but it is being used by good guys also. Cartels moved $8 billion in fakes last year meanwhile AI is catching Congressmen with sticky fingers. It is a race of bad guys versus the truth. The stakes are only climb. Another defeat from Reuters. Trump's SEC pick is gutting ESG rules. They can dodge climate and social votes. Green investors are crying. Resolutions are down 40%. Exon that used to gravel at the knees of black rock are bailing on them as Trump's team is torching it and starting to do what's right for Exxon. X tags with WEF smackdown. ESG was Davos shoving its boot on company's throat. Companies are not here to bow to the globe score card. They are here to work. Let the market breathe. This is us taking the wheel back.
Europe's DEI reckoning civil unrest is brewing now. Reuters said the EU is shredding DEI. Protests are hitting the street of Berlin and Paris. 10,000 marches last week. An identity wipe out is what they are saying. Europe's awake says the culture versus elite decrees. Politicians are deaf to this risk and this risk is going to spread to a wildfire. The overlords have poked the bear too long. It isn't about hate or racism. What is happening in Europe and all over the world is about our homes. Folks want their streets safe. They love their own country but hate anyone else's country. They are tired of being told anywhere they live isn't unique or perhaps you should be ashamed of the West and install the Middle East cultural that is mostly known terror, death, and chaos. 70 Christians were beheaded as Muslim terrorists said they did in the 12th century. Convert or die. Islamic countries hundreds of years ago did give us algebra and the zero what but have you done for us lately other than return children hostages back home in coffins? Enough is enough. We all want common sense back. And not bureaucratic blueprint. Trump is proving you can push back and win. They are one spot from a reckoning. Ignore that role.