The Pressure Cooker Economy: Why Americans Feel Like Everything Is Breaking

Added: 2026-05-09

[00:00:02]Well, well, well. It seems that Americans are being squeezed everywhere from the pump to healthc care and are putting everything including their gas on their credit cards. And everyone from the commerce secretary to the secretary of transportation thinks that that is a-ok okay and everything is going just fine except for the fact that the rest of us live in actual reality and not just the architect of [ __ ] that they live inside of because there's only so much that the American people can take.

[00:00:44]There's only so many lies that this administration can tell when the receipts, the actual physical receipts are telling us the truth. And so today on this early edition of the Danielle Moody Show, we are going to unpack where we stand economically. And we're looking like we're a little bit closer to a recession slash depression slashstagflation um than we are to a robust economy where according to Shan Road Rules Duffy, everyone should take a road trip this summer.

[00:01:22]My god.

[00:01:24]I pray I pray that the American people wake up sooner rather than later. Buckle up, dear friends. Happy Thursday. It is time for the Danielle Moody Show. Let's go.

[00:02:08]Hello, hello, Damn Nation, and welcome to the Danielle Moody Show early edition. Um, so we begin today with going over where things stand with our economy because if you were to just listen to Scott Bennett or to Sha Duffy or to Donald Trump himself, they would tell you that everything is coming up roses. Everything in America is going just fine. Don't pay attention to those gas prices. As a matter of fact, I thought that they'd be at $200 a barrel or $300 a barrel or a bazillion dollar a barrel, but the fact that they're just over a hundred bucks, like, who cares?

[00:02:50]Because what has Donald Trump ever had to pay for in his entire [ __ ] life?

[00:02:54]What has he ever had to work for in his entire [ __ ] life? So, he doesn't know what the average American is having to deal with, nor does he give a damn. But I want you to take a listen uh over here to Anna Navaro on CNN where she talks about what was recently said uh again by Scott Benett um Bennett Besett I don't know how to say his name and I don't care uh the grinning idiot that goes on Fox to tell us that the economy is great. Uh take a listen to what she says in response >> just to ask you to respond to what he said. He said Americans are spending more on credit cards. That they are not only paying more, they are paying more for things that they are buying, but they're doing so on credit cards. That's what he's saying. The >> that's I mean that's >> the amount of that Americans are are are carrying on their credit card has increased. It's gone up to almost $7,000 per person. A lot of Americans are making minimum payments. The average interest rate is between 21 and 22% on whatever balance they are carrying. And then you've got the chief economic ad advisor to Donald Trump out there with a [ __ ] eating grin telling us how great it is that American debt is increasing, that the average American's debt is increasing. I just think it speaks again to this constant theme I see from this administration, which is tonedeafness, right? Oh, it's just a little short-term pain. Oh, buy your daughter less dolls.

[00:04:26]Oh, it's, you know, they it's worth the little pain they're feeling. Oh, it's great that they've got more credit card debt. I mean, I I would say that if I'm a person who can't pay my gas, whose dollar is going a lot less f far in the grocery store, who uh is stuck in Fort Lauderdale airport without being able to get back home because Spirit Airlines no longer exists. I hear this guy and I'm not happy about it.

[00:04:51]>> I mean, I think I think >> I'm not happy about it. It's like the understatement of the year.

[00:04:58]So it is Scott Bent. Thank you so much for those in the chat that always correct me um and offer me the right pronunciation. So this man gets on television every day and just lies. They all just lie, right? They tell you that everything is fine. They tell you that energy prices are going to be so low you're never going to even believe how low they are. And the question is when?

[00:05:26]When is that going to happen? because y'all have been in office for damn near a year and a half at this point and everything everything that was promised to his mafified base hasn't materialized. Right? So everything is more expensive. People are getting sicker broker, right? The American dream is now just a mirage in a desert someplace.

[00:05:54]like what are we doing here? And so again, take a listen to this. So this is Fox Business where they're talking about the uh corporation Whirlpool. You know, Whirlpool that makes uh fridges and and uh uh laundry and all of those things, right? Washing machines, dry, you know, all of that stuff.

[00:06:19]Take a listen to why Whirlpool is suffering right now.

[00:06:28]>> Turn up. Good morning.

[00:06:29]>> Good morning.

[00:06:30]>> Why the dive for Whirlpool down 16?

[00:06:34]>> So comments from executives are coming out and they're saying that they haven't seen demand this low since 2008. That this feels like recession levels to them. They're citing a number of factors. record low consumer sentiment, the economic impact of the Iran conflict, severe weather, all of that drove what they're saying is 7% contraction in industry demand during the first quarter.

[00:06:55]>> Okay, I'm >> who is buying any major appliance right now?

[00:07:05]Who is undergoing any type of non-essential construction inside of their home? who is replacing anything that doesn't need desperately need to be replaced right now. You're talking about major appliances that are into the thousands of dollars when people are feeling good and they're just looking around and saying, "hm, you know, maybe I could use a refresher.

[00:07:33]Maybe I could, you know, get a new smart stainless steel fridge or a new oven, etc., etc." No, we're at a place right now where folks are tightening their belts. They're making use of whatever it is that they have. The people that are probably making money right now, if they still exist, are like handymen, handy people who are coming in to like fix a thing, which it used to be, well, let's just get it new. It's it's easier and cheaper to get the new appliance than it is to fix the old one. Well, not so much.

[00:08:10]Also, you want to take into consideration Donald Trump's tariffs.

[00:08:15]A lot of these things are not made in the United States in general. So, you want to take into consideration the tariffs that he put on everything and on every single country on top of the ballooning costs of getting trucking delivering those appliances to you folks.

[00:08:36]It It's unsustainable.

[00:08:39]It's unsustainable.

[00:08:41]And they continue to go in front of these cameras and stand there and just lie to you.

[00:08:49]And honestly, I was watching some of these clips and I'm feeling absolutely insane because again, I want you to take a listen because who is having the conversation about Donald Trump's lies and affordability and really making sense in these clips? Tucker Carlson.

[00:09:11]Where is Chuck Schumer and Hakee Jeff nowhere to be found? So, take a listen to how Tucker Carlson has responded to Donald Trump yesterday or or earlier in the week saying that, "Well, I mean, honestly, I really thought that the war was going to have gas be at $200 a barrel or $300 a barrel." Take a listen to his response.

[00:09:38]>> 100. It could I thought it was going to go to 200 or 300?

[00:09:42]Really? What would $200 a barrel oil mean? Well, we've never had it. We've never had in the and this is these are adjusted numbers. We've never had $200 a barrel Brent crude period in world history. But what would happen if we did? Well, I don't know, $10 a gallon for unled at the pump, more for diesel, much more for jet fuel.

[00:10:10]What would that mean? Well, it would mean inflation, possibly hyperinflation.

[00:10:14]What would $300 a barrel oil, which the president said he imagined we could have. What would that mean? Well, it's not even worth guessing because no one's even modeled it out. No one's even taken the time to write out the formula or guess as to what effect $300 a barrel oil would have on human civilization.

[00:10:37]But you can be absolutely certain it would be the end of a lot of things that we take for granted. Mhm.

[00:10:44]>> Certainly air travel, jobs.

[00:10:49]It would be a true disaster on the level of, I don't know, a national tsunami or hurricane. It would affect every person in the United States making less than a million dollars a year. It would crush people already at a hundred bucks in the US.

[00:11:09]$100 oil. You just heard the president say it's 97 something like that.

[00:11:14]People around the world are worrying about famine >> because of course oil is not just used to produce gasoline and jet fuel and asphalt and kerosene and all the familiar products. It's also used to produce fertilizer, all kinds of petrochemicals used in manufacturing, but fertilizer.

[00:11:31]And without it, crop yields go down and people starve.

[00:11:36]in the most populated continent in the world which would be subsaharan Africa.

[00:11:41]So already you are seeing a massive human cost not well reported in American media to a relatively small spike in global oil prices.

[00:11:53]And here you have the president saying I thought it could be 300 bucks.

[00:11:58]And this is coming from a man. I just want to remind everybody because I play Tucker Carlson's clips because I think that it's important for you to hear how he is talking and the vacuum that he is filling that is being left by the Democrats.

[00:12:17]You tell me why Democrats are not on television every single day giving the same line of thinking, connecting the dots for the American people.

[00:12:30]Tucker Carlson is to blame for the fact that Donald Trump is president right now.

[00:12:37]He sees that Donald Trump is now the Titanic and he has gotten himself off and in a life raft and has rode away, created a new path and a new place for himself while he ensured like the [ __ ] usher that he acted as parading everybody on the ship.

[00:13:02]And yet he's the first one to jump off.

[00:13:06]Tucker Carlson was up on a stage referring to Donald Trump as his daddy, saying that America, you know what? You need a good spanking. That's what Tucker Carlson was saying back in 2024.

[00:13:20]Oh, America didn't just get a good spanking. We're getting the [ __ ] beat out of us because these people are stealing our tax dollars, right? looting the American people for Donald Trump's billiondoll bunker, his underground command center, on top of the manipulation that is happening within the stock market, so that they can all short crude oil whenever Donald Trump says that we're just this close to a deal, which he has said now five or six times, making damn near a billion dollars in shorts that happened earlier in the week.

[00:14:09]All of this is happening and remind you that Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, and others said, "Yeah, the American people are going to feel some pain, but you know that pain is going to be necessary." Do you remember? I reported it here when Elon Musk said that on the campaign trail.

[00:14:29]So, I want to say something. It's not as if these people lied about everything.

[00:14:35]They did weave in some truth. They did tell you that, oh, there was going to be initial shocks.

[00:14:43]Initial shocks that they have no timeline for, just like they didn't have a timeline for getting in and out of Iran because this is a smash and grab job.

[00:14:56]You're in the middle of the jewelry store with a sledgehammer.

[00:15:00]That's what they are doing right now.

[00:15:03]So, everyone else is literally walking on glass, picking it out like shrapnel from their skin, and the bandits are getting away.

[00:15:17]Because on top of on top of where things stand right now with gas, I want you to take a listen to what is also happening with healthc care premiums because again so much is going on and we can only focus on so on on so many things at one time. But take a listen to where health care premiums are right now for the average American that has to buy their health care like I do.

[00:15:53]>> So premium uh numbers have come in and the average premium for someone these are for people who buy their insurance in the marketplaces that Obamacare set up of 58% for the average premium.

[00:16:05]That's not even shared equally.

[00:16:07]Different age groups, different income levels uh will have different impacts.

[00:16:11]But let's just look at a typical family.

[00:16:14]$65,000 is the average income of an American worker today. If you're 60 years old, your premium is going to go on by go up by $920 a month. That's $11,040 a year. If you are making $65,000, paying $11,000 uh $40 a year for health insurance is simply not realistic.

[00:16:39]Did Did you just hear what he said?

[00:16:44]The Trump administration is causing health care premiums to skyrocket by 58%.

[00:16:52]A worker making $65,000 a year will now be forced to pay over $11,000 just for basic insurance.

[00:17:10]This comes on top of an additional $100 a month in gas. And that's just right now if you're paying around $450 to $5.

[00:17:27]Okay. So, an additional $100. Then he's talking about for health care an additional $900. That's an additional $1,000, folks. And we have no food.

[00:17:42]We're just talking about literal gas in your car and health care so that you don't die. So that you can get to the job to put gas in your car.

[00:17:57]And what is going to happen? What is going to happen? Because what was Obamacare trying to stop?

[00:18:06]People being forced to use the emergency room as their primary care, waiting for symptoms to get so bad that you need to go to the emergency room.

[00:18:23]He wanted to create a system, however imperfect it was, that all people could get health care.

[00:18:31]And by the way, we have plenty of money to make healthc care free in this country for everyone because why? Oh, I don't know. We just passed a budget to provide another 79 billion dollars to ICE on top of the billions upon billions of dollars that they got last year. On top of the billion dollars that Donald Trump needs for his underground command center.

[00:19:01]So they keep telling you, "Oh, we don't have money for these things." Oh, no, no, but they have money so that so much money in fact that Pete Hexath had to be forced to figure out a way to spend 98 million extra dollars. So, he bought a bunch of lobster and a piano.

[00:19:22]Cash Patel put his name on a bourbon bottle.

[00:19:26]That's what they're doing with our [ __ ] money. And you can't afford health care and groceries.

[00:19:37]But here's your transportation secretary telling you, uh, this is all much to do about nothing. Everything's fine.

[00:19:48]>> A very different world. And I just don't think we've had other presidents who have been willing to see the threat and address the threat of Iran. And so, um, I think opens up, you're going to see prices come down immediately. You saw yesterday uh uh energy prices came down below $100 a barrel. I think we had 93 this morning. I don't quote me on that, but I was looking at I think it was like 92 93 uh for Brent crude. So, we're in a good place.

[00:20:12]>> We see the price of crude going down significantly recently. But when could we see that at the pump, especially now we're getting into that summer blend gasoline. 90% of Americans take road trips for their summer vacation.

[00:20:25]>> Well, first of all, we want to encourage all Americans to take a road trip.

[00:20:28]whether you're going to go 2 hours or 2 days uh to see your country. Everyone should come to Philadelphia, by the way.

[00:20:33]This is the this is where it all started. Um great history here. So, if you're thinking about a summer road trip, come to Philadelphia. Uh but um it's interesting the way gas stations work. When when prices go up per barrel, you see that the next day the price goes up and as prices go down, it takes a little bit longer to ricochet.

[00:20:56]Nothing you were saying makes any sense and nothing you were saying is truthful.

[00:21:00]So interesting how gas how gas stations work. It's so interesting how war works when you have no strategy and no plan of execution.

[00:21:12]So interesting what happens when you decide to take Netanyahu at his word, the same lies that he's been telling for 40 years, to get into an unprovoked war with Iran that no other president would take up because they knew this would happen and that the risk was too great, not just for the United States, but the world. While we sit here and debate high gas prices and high grocery prices, there are people around the world right now that are on the verge of starving, that are on the verge of famine.

[00:21:54]Like folks, I don't think that people are getting what is happening. You just had an airline shut down while people were waiting for their flights.

[00:22:07]17,000 people lost their job with no severance.

[00:22:12]People just left stranded HAVING TO SHELL OUT HUNDREDS of dollars to try and get back home.

[00:22:21]There's no relief for them.

[00:22:25]You have airlines shutting down. You have health care premiums through the roof. You have gas prices through the roof. And the rest of the world is dealing with potentially running out of oil and jet fuel altogether and running out of food.

[00:22:43]And this idiot is sitting here saying we couldn't be in a better position.

[00:22:51]Yeah, my head in a vice with the devil cranking it. You're right. It I couldn't be in a better position.

[00:23:02]It's it's insanity. And so aside from gaslighting the public, what is Donald Trump doing as Americans are suffering?

[00:23:16]I [ __ ] you not.

[00:23:20]This is a gold statue of Donald Trump that was put up in Doral, Miami.

[00:23:31]Donald Trump says put there by great American patriots.

[00:23:45]I did tell you that there is reporting that came out that said the gap between the rich and the poor is wider than it was when the French Revolution happened.

[00:23:59]Just putting it out there.

[00:24:04]Americans can't afford health care, groceries, and gas. And Donald Trump is posting about a gold statue.

[00:24:18]And I just want to remind you before we move on, somebody wrote this a couple of days ago and this is a AI manufactured video that I showed months and months and months ago, probably also last year.

[00:24:40]This video thought experiment using AI from last October of what Trump's ballroom unveiling might look like in 2028 seems increasingly spot-on to me.

[00:24:52]And I want you just once again, this is where America is. This is where we are going.

[00:25:08]The video, which I can't play because it was very poor quality in this one, but I wanted to remind you of it, shows Donald Trump inside of his billion dollar now ballroom with all of his cabinet members eating shrimp cocktail and using gold forks and stuffing, you know, supposedly expensive foods into their mouth. while the farmers are bankrupt with foreclosure signs, while the people are burning their MAGA hats to keep warm. And then all one by one they begin to gather in front of the White House. And then there are the first stone is cast into the ballroom before absolute mayhem breaks out.

[00:26:01]Was an AI manufactured video. Don't know who created it, but it's actually starting to seem more like a trailer to 2028 than a fictitious video.

[00:26:21]But you know what's not fiction?

[00:26:28]The rise of Jim Crow 2.0.

[00:26:33]Thanks to the Roberts Supreme Court that gutted the Voting Rights Act, which was a symbol of racial progress and equity of the 20th century.

[00:26:49]Today, Tennessee Republicans redrrew their maps to erase the last black majority district in their state. There was only one in the entirety of Tennessee and they couldn't leave that alone. The state house was flooded with protesters demanding that they stop with their Jim Crow maps. And this is one of the representatives and what he wore as they cast their 9 to0 vote because there are no [ __ ] Democrats.

[00:27:32]They wrote them all out to stop anything. Representative Tom Warner walks into the House to strip majority black Memphis of representation wearing a Trump flag as a cape.

[00:27:47]They are showing you who they are following I said this yesterday following the 8 to 12 years depending on how you look at it of reconstruction post civil war where we saw the most progress for black Americans once They were free from bondage.

[00:28:22]What happened after that?

[00:28:28]The Southerners, plantation owners, cut a deal with the president on the backs of black Americans and instituted Jim Crow, which would be the law of the land for 100 years or, you know, until the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1965, which again, Roberts has had his eye on.

[00:29:08]And on top of which, again, news that's happening that we can't all keep track of because we're all trying to keep track of whether or not we are headed into World War II. The Trump administration counterterrorism strategy document, according to Midas Touch, is not getting nearly enough attention. The document explicitly lists left-wing extremists, people with radically pro-transgender ideologies, and anti-fascists alongside ISIS and cartels as top national security threats. It discusses using counterterrorism powers to map domestic groups, identify memberships, and target ties to organizations like Antifa, which doesn't exist.

[00:30:02]But this is to lay the groundwork for the rising dissent against this fascist government to label anyone that tries to bring them down politically speaking as a terrorist.

[00:30:23]Meaning that guess what? You don't get the same rights and protections when you are dubbed a terrorist.

[00:30:38]Folks, I can't express enough the danger that this country is in and how much worse it is about to get.

[00:30:54]We live in a nation that has more guns than it does people.

[00:31:00]And the American people are in a vice right now, an economic vice that is cutting off their lifeline.

[00:31:15]While Donald Trump posts pictures of gold statues, his billionaire friends attend the Met Gala while they hide their names inside of the Epstein files so that we don't know who the pedophiles are.

[00:31:38]It is one thing after another after another after another. There is only so much people can take before they snap.

[00:31:52]And then there was this piece that I saw today that I thought was important in public notice.co.

[00:32:02]The Confederacy rises again.

[00:32:06]The right never lost their faith that if they were patient and determined enough, the 1960s could be undone and maybe some of the 1860s, too. They knew that even after a statute of a slaveolding traitor is torn down, defeat is not permanent.

[00:32:26]In fact, the statue may literally be raised back up.

[00:32:33]Never underestimate the power of right-wing backlash.

[00:32:38]The civil rights era of the 1950s and60s is sometimes referred to as the second reconstruction, a moment when the high-minded promises of democracy written into the founding documents finally had legal force for everyone.

[00:32:54]And just as the first reconstruction was followed by an intense and violent backlash that clawed back the political progress black Americans had made across the South, the second reconstruction produced Richard Nixon and his silent majority. Then the steady sorting of the two parties into a white conservative party and a multi-racial liberal one.

[00:33:17]But throughout those years and those that followed, it was possible to believe the arc of history was bending in only one direction. Republicans could trot out various race baiting tactics at election time to great effect. Ronald Reagan's welfare queens, George HW Bush and Willie Norton. But not only was legal equality reasonably secure, culture kept moving in a more progressive direction. Interracial couples became more common on TV and in movies. Using racial slurs became less acceptable.

[00:33:52]And even conservative politicians had to pledge their commitment to an equal society. The VRA itself, Voting Rights Act, was repeatedly reauthorized and strengthened by wide bipartisan majorities in Congress.

[00:34:07]But then they write this.

[00:34:11]For decades, the dominance of baby boomers over our politics and culture meant that much of our national life was defined by the divides of the 1960s between the hippies and the squares, the old and the young, the protesters demanding change in the forces of the status quo. It was reasonable for liberals to think they won those arguments once and for all. But conservatives never admitted defeat. And today, the Supreme Court supermajority they spent decades building in is fulfilling its purpose. While the administration advocates a white supremacism more shameless than anything we've seen in our lifetimes, one lesson to take from this abysmal moment is that no victory is permanent and politics never ends. The right knew it and the left can no longer ignore it.

[00:35:08]But that also means that the horrors now being unleashed on the country can be undone.

[00:35:17]I think that it is important for us to understand that where we are now is not the end.

[00:35:31]Depending on how you look at it, friends, where we are now is just the beginning, the beginning of realizing the level of indoctrination that Americans have been forced to undergo, the lies of American exceptionalism, the lies of global democracy, when in fact we are recognizing now through the USIsraeli war in Iran that imperialism and colonialism never actually ended. It just morphed into something else.

[00:36:10]We wanted to believe desperately that the ark of the moral universe only bent in one direction and that was towards progress and towards the light.

[00:36:24]We wanted to believe that the election of America's first black president meant that all the horrors of our racist, discriminatory, oppressive, Jim Crow history, they were behind us.

[00:36:42]We never had to look back again because they were so far in the rearview mirror.

[00:36:49]But you know what it says on the rearview mirror? The objects are closer than they seem.

[00:37:00]They never admitted defeat during the Confederacy because they believed that the timeline that we were on was going to be a blip and was going to be the source of power that they would regain.

[00:37:24]They want us to believe now that their power is inevitable, that their reign is inevitable. It is not. But I don't want us to assume that where we are right now is not just a few years into another hundredyear battle because that is exactly what this Supreme Court has set up.

[00:37:58]If the American people want better, want different, then they're going to have to fight for it.

[00:38:09]Because assuming that power is going to offer you a hand is insanity.

[00:38:25]No one ever gives up power. You take it.

[00:38:31]You demand it.

[00:38:33]No one ever gives it up willingly.

[00:38:37]And they are showing you with the redrawing of these maps, with the decision out of the Supreme Court, with Donald Trump's every utterance about the fact that he has no plans on leaving.

[00:38:50]Take them at their word and watch how they are moving.

[00:38:59]They're not going anywhere.

[00:39:04]And the only place that we will find ourselves is under their boot if we do nothing.

[00:39:24]If we just sit back and wait for some one on horseback, some white knight to come in and save us.

[00:39:37]It should be obvious to you now that there are no saviors, that there are only people that are in it for themselves. And the sooner that we realize that we are all on the Titanic, that it isn't just white folks, it isn't just black folks, it isn't just queers, it isn't just this group or that group, that we are all on the Titanic, the sooner that we link arms and recognize who the real enemy is.

[00:40:14]the sooner their descent will become, their crumbling, their end, because I want you as I wrap up here today, just a couple of more quick stories.

[00:40:39]So Shawn Duffy had said, "What? As soon as the straight opens, you're going to see energy prices come all the way down because Donald Trump said at the beginning of the week, oh, we're close to a deal." Well, guess what? That was all [ __ ] Because Iran has rejected the Trump administration straightup Hormuz deal as what? Unrealistic.

[00:41:06]Musen Ros says tan will not accept the US proposal unless it includes full reparations for war damage. Iran demands tangible benefits, not symbolic concessions and vows to continue its resistance. So guess what?

[00:41:25]I know that it's so crazy for me to say this again and again. The straight ain't opening.

[00:41:33]On top of which, the Washington Post, which I'm shocked by because it's owned by Bezos, the Washington Post put out a story today that um goes against Donald Trump's lies that he's been telling us that Iran's missile capacity is only at 18 or 19%.

[00:41:59]This is what Donald Trump said yesterday. Their missiles are mostly decimated. They have some. They have probably 18 19% but not a lot by comparison to what they had. Here's what the Washington Post said today.

[00:42:15]Iran retains about 75% of its pre-war inventories of mobile launchers and about 70% of its pre-war stockpiles of missiles, a US official said. The official said there is evidence that the regime has been able to recover and reopen almost all of its underground storage facilities, repair some damaged missiles, and even assemble new missiles that were nearly complete when the war began.

[00:42:50]So, do you think that they have the capacity to dig in?

[00:42:56]Yeah. Do you think that the United States does? No, we don't. because they have used their $35,000 drones to blow up our half a billion dollar planes and our multi-million dollar missiles, take out our bases, which I reported earlier in the week, that CNN's investigative reporting said that across eight countries, 16 bases are inoperable.

[00:43:34]It gets worse because yesterday Donald Trump also shelved the project that he launched on Monday. He put back on the shelf yesterday.

[00:43:46]Project Freedom.

[00:43:48]Because why? Oh, because his besties over in Saudi Arabia said, "You can't access our shit."

[00:43:58]A refusal by Saudi Arabia to allow the US to use its bases and airspace to provide a military escort for oil tankers passing through the straight of Hormuz lay behind Donald Trump's decision to shove the plan days after it had been launched. Riad told the White House it would not allow its Prince Sultan air base to be used to mount the operation build as project freedom which the US presented as the successor to the bombing campaign called operation epic fury. Saudi Arabia refused to drop its objections despite a personal call between the crown p the crown prince Muhammad bin Salam you know the terrorist murderer and Trump.

[00:44:45]So not even the Saudis who remind you gave Jared Kushner $2 billion when he walked out of Trump's first administration want to be in bed with Donald Trump anymore. Why? because they don't want to get their [ __ ] blown up by Iran.

[00:45:05]Because what has Iran done? Been like, "Oop, guess what? You think that having these bases means that the United States has your back, but the United States is all the way over here?

[00:45:20]Me and you right here, and I will blow your [ __ ] up."

[00:45:26]and they want absolutely no part of it because they have already suffered enough in a sign right also I told you this the UAE the Emirates has bounced out of uh the US uh the Saudis dominated oil producers club OPEC and is now considering leaving the Arab League as well the UAE as a signatory to the Abraham Accords has been has long been closer to Israel. But the tensions within the Gulf have widened as the war has dragged on, causing untold damage to their economies and international image.

[00:46:08]Cuz remember, the UAE wanted to say, "Look at us. We're the luxury center of the Middle East. Come, come visit us and spend your millions of dollars, Americans. We're safe."

[00:46:21]And what has the war done? ruin that [ __ ] image.

[00:46:31]Saudi Arabia also feared that Project Freedom did not have clear terms of engagement, shocker, and could turn into a risky naval confrontation between Iran and the US, marking the effective end of the ceasefire and that had been in partial place since April 7th. Iran had explicitly said it would treat the US military escort of oil tankers or attacks on Iranian shipping as ceasefire breaches exposing Gulf states to further attacks.

[00:47:09]And I got to tell you, the trolling doesn't ever stop because here was the Iran embassy in Hungary today. And here's the video that they posted making Donald Trump look like an absolute idiot.

[00:47:55]It doesn't get much better than their ability to troll. But I will leave you today, dear friends, uh, with a little bit of good news because don't we need it? something to close out the week here on the Danielle Moody show with just something to hang on to.

[00:48:15]So, here it is. New York Governor Kathy Hokll has banned ICE agents from wearing masks.

[00:48:25]New York Governor on Thursday ordered federal immigration agents operating in her state to not wear masks. a move likely to be challenged by Trump's administration after courts overturned a similar effort in California. Since the beginning of Trump's controversial mass deportations uh campaign, agents from ICE have typically covered their faces officially uh to avoid being identified and potentially threatened outside of work. quote, "For ICE, wearing masks without good cause is nothing short of an intimidation tactic, a cowardly attempt to evade responsibility."

[00:49:02]New York Governor Kathy Hokll, leading Democrat opponent of Trump and his immigration policies, said on Thursday, "So there you have it, friends.

[00:49:14]There is some resistance that is happening, but so much more is needed."

[00:49:21]I will close again today with saying this. They may be in power right now, but their power is not inevitable. It can be disrupted. When the American people have decided that they have had enough, that they can't take it anymore.

[00:49:39]That they can't take the high gas prices, they can't take the high health care premiums, they can't take the pain that is being caused. so that Donald Trump can get a billion dollar underground command center with gold leafing.

[00:50:00]Then maybe something will happen.

[00:50:06]Revolutions have been built on less.

[00:50:10]And it's time that the American people, as we move closer to that birthday, come July, get a little revolutionary spirit in them.

[00:50:23]Once again, that is it for me today here, friends, on the Danielle Moody Show. Thank you so much for joining me early today. I am running to an event. Uh, and so I appreciate you all tuning in. I will be back tomorrow uh with Wajahhat Ali at 12:00 p.m.

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