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[00:00:00] President Trump just passed one year in [00:00:02] office, so I think it's time we give him [00:00:04] a report card. One thing that drives me [00:00:07] crazy is how bad the news coverage is on [00:00:10] Trump. If you watch MSNBC, [00:00:13] everything he does is horrible. If you [00:00:15] watch Fox News, everything he does is [00:00:18] brilliant. [00:00:19] Here's where I'm coming from. If you [00:00:22] watch my channel, you already know that [00:00:24] I publicly endorsed Trump during the [00:00:26] last election. Since he's been elected, [00:00:29] there have been several things I've been [00:00:31] unhappy about and I've called him out [00:00:33] about them. So, I want to take a more [00:00:35] measured approach. I'm going to give you [00:00:38] five things I think are problematic and [00:00:40] five things that I like that Trump is [00:00:42] doing. And then we are going to give [00:00:44] Donald Trump a grade. And I want to do [00:00:46] this together. Watch this video all the [00:00:49] way through and then comment down below [00:00:51] your grade for Donald Trump. [00:01:01] >> [music] [00:01:08] [music] [00:01:10] >> number one, lowest congressional record [00:01:12] in modern history. I want to start with [00:01:14] Congress because this directly reflects [00:01:16] on Trump. We have seen that Trump is not [00:01:19] good at working with Congress to get [00:01:21] bills passed. And this year, Congress [00:01:25] sent over only 38 bills to President [00:01:27] Trump to sign into law, the lowest for a [00:01:30] first year of a presidential term in [00:01:32] modern history. It turns out that Trump [00:01:35] is no different than any other [00:01:36] president. We typically see that a [00:01:38] president will get one major piece of [00:01:40] legislation passed in the first 100 days [00:01:42] of his term and then basically do [00:01:44] nothing for the rest of the term because [00:01:46] they've used up all their political [00:01:48] capital. [00:01:49] Trump pushed through the big beautiful [00:01:51] bill and then any momentum in Congress [00:01:53] has been very limited. This is a big [00:01:56] problem because much of what Trump has [00:01:58] done has been with executive orders, [00:02:00] which means when a Democrat takes [00:02:02] office, they can just reverse everything [00:02:04] because nothing has been put into law. [00:02:07] So, the only major thing Trump has [00:02:09] accomplished is the big beautiful bill, [00:02:12] which did implement some pretty [00:02:13] incredible things. It gave everyone a [00:02:16] massive tax cut and funded the border [00:02:19] wall. The biggest problem with the bill [00:02:22] was it did not include Doge cuts. In my [00:02:26] opinion, Doge was a massive failure. And [00:02:29] I put most of the blame on that on Elon [00:02:31] Musk because he left. He was the only [00:02:34] person who really cared about cutting [00:02:36] the government budget. In government, [00:02:39] you really need someone in the room the [00:02:41] entire time pushing to cut the budget or [00:02:44] it's never going to happen. Elon left, [00:02:47] so it's no surprise that the budget cuts [00:02:49] never materialized. What we have seen is [00:02:52] that in the day-to-day efforts of [00:02:53] governing and passing bills, Donald [00:02:55] Trump has not been very successful. [00:02:58] Number two, ICE raids. There has been [00:03:01] growing concern over the extreme actions [00:03:03] we have seen in the ICE raids and the [00:03:05] effort to deport illegal immigrants from [00:03:07] the country. I think it is important to [00:03:10] note that even with the controversies [00:03:12] around the ICE raids, strong border [00:03:14] policy is still extremely popular among [00:03:17] Americans. In a Reuters poll this week, [00:03:20] they found that 39% of Americans [00:03:22] approved of Trump's handling of [00:03:24] immigration. That is the lowest this [00:03:26] issue has ever pulled. But you have to [00:03:28] keep this in context. For a political [00:03:31] issue, this is still relatively strong [00:03:33] polling. In a year, it has only dropped [00:03:37] 7 percentage points. This remains one of [00:03:40] Trump's biggest areas of support. People [00:03:43] want a strong border. Most of the [00:03:46] discussion has been centered around the [00:03:47] violent riots in Minneapolis. [00:03:50] I think what is happening in Minneapolis [00:03:52] should be blamed on Governor Tim Waltz. [00:03:55] I believe he's trying to create as much [00:03:57] chaos as possible to take attention away [00:03:59] from all the money he has been allegedly [00:04:01] stealing from fake Somali daycare [00:04:03] centers. I want to highlight another [00:04:06] aspect of immigration that I find [00:04:08] problematic. The treatment of asylum [00:04:11] cases. [00:04:12] It has always been the policy of the [00:04:14] United States that we will not deport [00:04:17] someone if it means that being sent home [00:04:19] would be a death sentence. [00:04:22] I've been monitoring some of these court [00:04:24] cases and it seems like this policy [00:04:26] under Trump has been thrown out the [00:04:29] window. Judges are ignoring asylum [00:04:32] requests and it's pretty disturbing. I [00:04:35] realize that asylum requests were abused [00:04:37] under Joe Biden. Everyone wanted asylum. [00:04:41] That is obviously ridiculous, but we [00:04:43] should not throw the whole system out. [00:04:47] Let me give you an example. [00:04:49] Last week, a young Iranian woman who is [00:04:52] an anti-hijab activist was deported back [00:04:54] to Iran. This is someone who was [00:04:57] fighting for women's rights not to have [00:04:59] to wear a headscarf. We sent her to [00:05:02] Iran. [00:05:03] She is being sent to her death. This [00:05:07] happened last week. [00:05:10] I understand that having a strong border [00:05:12] is important, but we should not be [00:05:14] sending people to their deaths. [00:05:18] Another example is Russia. [00:05:20] A lot of these people are immigrants who [00:05:22] fled to the US because they protested [00:05:24] against Putin and the war in Ukraine. [00:05:28] When we send them in a plane back to [00:05:30] Russia, they are met at the airport and [00:05:32] they're either sent to the front lines [00:05:34] of the war to die or they're sent to [00:05:36] prison. Putin wants his hands on these [00:05:39] people and we are doing Putin's dirty [00:05:42] work. I realize that we cannot give [00:05:44] asylum to everyone, but Russia and Iran [00:05:47] are two examples that are so blatantly [00:05:50] obvious that we should be recognizing [00:05:52] these cases as legitimate asylum cases. [00:05:55] These are vulnerable populations and [00:05:58] Donald Trump should be making sure that [00:05:59] we are not sending people to their [00:06:01] death. [00:06:03] Even if we did continue to deport these [00:06:05] people, why not allow them to go to [00:06:08] another country that is willing to [00:06:10] accept them? For example, we could be [00:06:13] sending people to Kazakhstan instead of [00:06:15] back to Russia to die. To put this in [00:06:18] context, I'm only talking about roughly [00:06:20] a thousand people who are currently [00:06:22] being held in detention centers awaiting [00:06:24] deportation. [00:06:26] In the general scheme of things, this is [00:06:28] a drop in the bucket. We should let [00:06:31] these people out of prison, give them [00:06:33] temporary asylum, and deal with the [00:06:35] other immigration cases first. [00:06:38] The Russians and the Iranians are not [00:06:40] the people causing the immigration [00:06:42] problems. They're not bringing in the [00:06:44] drugs. They do not have criminal [00:06:46] records. They're not gang members from [00:06:47] Central America. They are not creating [00:06:49] fake daycare centers with Tim Waltz. [00:06:52] These are hardworking, educated people [00:06:54] who love America and are here because [00:06:57] they were protesting against oppressive [00:06:59] regimes. [00:07:00] I would think these are the people we [00:07:02] would want in America. [00:07:05] We are talking about a thousand [00:07:07] exceptional people and we could save [00:07:09] their lives. Number three, strawberry [00:07:12] shortage. On a less serious note, the US [00:07:15] has been experiencing a strawberry [00:07:17] shortage. [00:07:18] I don't know about you, but I like [00:07:21] strawberries. And it's not like I eat [00:07:23] them everyday, but I would like to be [00:07:25] able to find them in the grocery store. [00:07:28] Where I live, there has been no [00:07:30] strawberries in the grocery stores [00:07:32] starting around Thanksgiving. It has [00:07:34] been two months with no strawberries. [00:07:38] Now, I realize that it is the middle of [00:07:40] winter and this is not exactly [00:07:42] harvesting season for strawberries, but [00:07:44] with modern supply chains, there's [00:07:46] usually some place somewhere growing [00:07:48] strawberries. This just raises questions [00:07:51] whether this is a sign of problems with [00:07:53] the US economy. If we cannot buy [00:07:56] strawberries, Trump just did a big deal [00:07:58] with Argentina. We bailed them out with [00:08:01] a $20 billion credit line. Well, if [00:08:04] we're giving them all this money, why [00:08:06] doesn't Trump tell them to send us all [00:08:09] their strawberries? [00:08:11] That seems like a no-brainer to me. Can [00:08:13] you put in the comments, do you have [00:08:15] strawberries in your grocery store? [00:08:18] Actually, this week I did find one store [00:08:21] that was selling strawberries. This was [00:08:23] the first time in 2 months. [00:08:26] If these shortages continue and I find [00:08:29] out that they're still serving [00:08:30] strawberries at Mara Lago, I'm going to [00:08:33] lose my mind. Number four, Venezuela [00:08:36] invasion. This month, the United States [00:08:38] invaded Venezuela and captured their [00:08:40] leader Nicholas Maduro and his wife. [00:08:43] This has raised a lot of criticism on [00:08:44] whether the US should be invading other [00:08:46] countries. And I think that people have [00:08:48] a valid point. However, what really [00:08:51] bothers me about this story is the news [00:08:53] coverage is so bad. No one is telling [00:08:57] you what is really going on. For months, [00:09:00] Venezuela has been launching attack [00:09:02] boats towards the United States. Trump [00:09:05] has been destroying these boats. I have [00:09:08] lost track of how many boats have been [00:09:10] destroyed, but it is well over 20 [00:09:13] attacks. Here's a map with some of the [00:09:16] locations. You can see the boats were [00:09:18] heading from Venezuela towards the [00:09:20] United States. In my opinion, the US is [00:09:24] justified in defending our mainland from [00:09:26] these attacks. Trump got tired of the [00:09:28] attacks and took out their leader. This [00:09:31] is where the news media is so unethical. [00:09:35] They were covering these boat attacks [00:09:36] non-stop, talking about how mean Trump [00:09:39] was. Then after Trump responded against [00:09:41] Venezuela, suddenly the news completely [00:09:44] stops mentioning the boat attacks and [00:09:47] tries to tell the story that innocent [00:09:49] Venezuela was doing nothing wrong. [00:09:52] Venezuela was just minding their own [00:09:54] business and evil Trump invaded them. [00:09:57] That is not at all what happened. I [00:10:01] don't care what country you are. If you [00:10:03] are going to send armed boat attacks [00:10:05] towards the US mainland for months, [00:10:07] we're going to take out your leader. End [00:10:10] of story. Number five, FBI failures. [00:10:14] Probably the thing that people are the [00:10:15] most upset about is the FBI's inability [00:10:18] to do anything. Under Joe Biden, there [00:10:21] was a huge long list of political [00:10:22] persecutions, including President Trump [00:10:25] himself. We are one year into Trump's [00:10:28] FBI, and they have not made any major [00:10:30] arrests. They've indicted James Comey [00:10:33] for lying to Congress and that is pretty [00:10:35] much it. What about prosecutions for co? [00:10:39] What about election fraud? What about [00:10:41] conspiracy over January 6 prosecutions? [00:10:44] What about Hillary Clinton's emails? [00:10:48] Instead of prosecuting these people, we [00:10:50] have had very bizarre FBI investigations [00:10:53] like allegedly arresting the wrong [00:10:55] person as a January 6th pipe bomber or [00:10:58] refusing to release the documents on the [00:11:00] murder of Seth Rich or refusing to [00:11:03] release the Epstein files. Congress even [00:11:06] passed a law mandating that they release [00:11:08] the Epstein files and they still have [00:11:10] not released them. The Trump [00:11:12] administration and the Department of [00:11:14] Justice has slow rolled this release at [00:11:17] every turn. Today they released 3 [00:11:21] million of the 6 million documents we [00:11:23] know they have. We know they have 6 [00:11:24] million because they said it. They [00:11:27] released 50% of the documents and the [00:11:29] 50% we have today are heavily heavily [00:11:33] redacted. So they continue to cover up [00:11:35] the full truth that's in in the files. [00:11:38] The worst offense is the poor [00:11:40] investigation into Charlie Kirk's [00:11:41] murder. I think more than any other [00:11:43] issue, this will determine whether the [00:11:45] Republicans win in the midterm [00:11:47] elections. If Trump's FBI is still [00:11:50] trying to convince us that Charlie Kirk [00:11:52] was shot with a 30 six, the Republicans [00:11:55] are going to lose the midterms. [00:11:57] I don't know what stupid person came up [00:12:00] with that story, but when so many of [00:12:02] your voters are gun owners, no one's [00:12:04] going to vote for you when you're [00:12:06] pushing such an obvious lie. Let's [00:12:08] switch into five positive things that [00:12:10] Trump is doing. Number six, January 6 [00:12:13] prisoners. My number one biggest [00:12:16] accomplishment of Donald Trump was when [00:12:17] he released the January 6 prisoners on [00:12:20] day one. I have followed their cases [00:12:22] closely and hundreds of innocent people [00:12:25] were caught up in January 6. These were [00:12:28] people who were waved in by police and [00:12:30] simply walked through the capital [00:12:32] building. These innocent people spent 3 [00:12:35] to four years in prison. Think about [00:12:38] that. Their lives were destroyed. Their [00:12:42] families were destroyed. Several of them [00:12:44] committed suicide. [00:12:46] It was such a horrible injustice. [00:12:49] Donald Trump on day one let these people [00:12:52] go home. This is the reason why I give [00:12:55] Trump leeway on so many of these other [00:12:58] issues because I think this one decision [00:13:01] showed real character. [00:13:04] He was under a lot of pressure not to [00:13:06] release the prisoners and he did it [00:13:08] anyway. And these were not rich or [00:13:11] powerful people. These weren't his [00:13:12] friends. Trump was getting nothing out [00:13:15] of this. He did it because it was the [00:13:17] right thing to do. [00:13:19] Because of this one decision, I give [00:13:22] Trump the benefit of the doubt on [00:13:24] everything else. Number seven, [00:13:26] comparison analysis. Something you do a [00:13:29] lot in business is comparison analysis. [00:13:32] You compare your business against others [00:13:33] to see if you're doing a good job. Well, [00:13:36] we can also do this with presidents. [00:13:40] Do you remember what it was like under [00:13:42] Joe Biden? [00:13:44] Here he is stroking the arm of one of [00:13:46] his supporters. [00:13:49] >> [music] [00:13:56] [music] [00:14:01] >> Okay, this is just creepy. Who shakes [00:14:05] someone's hand like this? I don't [00:14:08] understand what is going on here. You [00:14:10] may not like everything about Donald [00:14:12] Trump, but he seems to me to be a [00:14:15] massive improvement to Joe Biden. When [00:14:18] you compare Donald Trump to other past [00:14:19] presidents, he still comes out on top. [00:14:22] We don't have the sex scandals we had [00:14:24] with Bill Clinton. We don't have the [00:14:26] Iraq war we had with George Bush. And we [00:14:28] don't have the secret communist takeover [00:14:30] we had under Obama. In a comparison [00:14:34] analysis, Donald Trump looks pretty [00:14:36] good. Number eight, time. People need to [00:14:39] allow time for Donald Trump's actions to [00:14:41] kick in. Many of the things in the Big [00:14:44] Beautiful bill do not kick in until [00:14:46] 2026. [00:14:48] People are doing their taxes right now, [00:14:50] and they're going to start to see [00:14:52] benefits. For example, no tax on tips is [00:14:55] a policy that is affecting people's [00:14:57] taxes. That is extra money in people's [00:15:00] pockets that they're going to start [00:15:01] spending from their 2025 tax returns. A [00:15:05] lot of the decisions that Trump made in [00:15:06] 2025, we're going to start feeling in [00:15:09] 2026, and I think it's going to be very [00:15:12] beneficial. Number nine, central bank [00:15:14] digital currency or CBDC. [00:15:17] Central bank digital currency is one of [00:15:19] the most important issues. This is one [00:15:22] of those topics that really only finance [00:15:25] nerds care about, but it is something [00:15:27] that will affect everyone's life in a [00:15:30] [snorts] massive way. [00:15:31] The government was racing towards [00:15:33] implementing CBDC under Joe Biden. This [00:15:37] is a governmentcont controlled form of [00:15:39] cryptocurrency that would replace the US [00:15:41] dollar. Thank goodness Trump has put a [00:15:44] stop to this. He signed an executive [00:15:46] order his first month as president. This [00:15:49] is another example that did not benefit [00:15:51] him that much politically, but he did it [00:15:54] because he understood how important it [00:15:56] was. The big problem is that the ban on [00:15:58] CBDC is only in the executive order. [00:16:02] Trump needs to codify it in legislation. [00:16:05] Otherwise, if the Democrats take over, [00:16:07] they're once again going to try to take [00:16:09] control of your money. If you refuse to [00:16:12] take the vaccine, they can just turn off [00:16:14] your money. If they don't like your [00:16:16] speech, they can turn off your money. [00:16:19] Trump needs to take further action on [00:16:22] banning CBDC. [00:16:24] Number 10, AI investment. AI is [00:16:28] currently the fastest growing new [00:16:30] business sector. We always want the US [00:16:32] to be on the forefront of developing any [00:16:34] new technology. Now, I know that a lot [00:16:37] of people are scared of AI. We've all [00:16:40] seen the Terminator movies, but I do not [00:16:43] believe it is in our best interest to [00:16:45] ignore the problem. We should remain [00:16:47] involved so that we can implement AI [00:16:49] responsibly. People really underestimate [00:16:52] what Trump has done in terms of AI. Let [00:16:55] me play you a clip of what Kla Harris [00:16:56] was doing with AI under the Biden [00:16:59] administration. [00:17:00] >> AI is kind of a fancy thing. It's first [00:17:02] of all, it's two letters. It means [00:17:04] artificial intelligence, but ultimately [00:17:08] what it is is it's about machine [00:17:10] learning. [00:17:12] And so the machine is taught [00:17:15] and part of the issue here is what [00:17:18] information is going into the machine [00:17:22] that will then determine and and we can [00:17:25] predict then if we think about what [00:17:27] machine what information is going in [00:17:29] what then will be produced in terms of [00:17:32] decisions and opinions um that may be [00:17:35] made through that process. [00:17:37] >> The Democrats focus was on making sure [00:17:39] that AI was woke. that is what they [00:17:42] cared about. They wanted to teach AI to [00:17:44] lie so that it did not hurt anyone's [00:17:46] feelings. That would have been a huge [00:17:49] disaster. [00:17:51] I've been very happy with Donald Trump's [00:17:53] embrace of the AI industry and making [00:17:55] sure that American companies have the [00:17:57] ability to remain on the cutting edge. [00:17:59] So, those are the 10 main issues during [00:18:01] Trump's first year as president. Now, it [00:18:04] is time to give him a grade. Let's see [00:18:07] how other people are grading Donald [00:18:09] Trump. This is what Candace Owens had to [00:18:11] say. [00:18:12] >> If you had to grade his presidency of so [00:18:14] far within what we're 11 months in [00:18:15] roughly, what would you say? [00:18:17] >> So, I would say I'm biased. So, if [00:18:18] you're asking me to grade, you know how [00:18:20] you would have those teachers where if [00:18:21] you you would take a test and they would [00:18:23] automatically flunk you if you didn't [00:18:24] put your name on the paper. [00:18:25] >> Oh, yeah. [00:18:26] >> Yeah. The Epstein thing for me is like [00:18:27] automatic flunk if you don't put your [00:18:28] name on the paper, right? So, like it's [00:18:30] I'm a mom now. So, this was the most [00:18:32] important thing to me was figuring out [00:18:34] where the pedophiles are in our society. [00:18:36] An F [00:18:38] really [00:18:40] that seems a little extreme. [00:18:42] Let us see how Donald Trump would grade [00:18:45] himself. [00:18:46] >> But I do want to talk about the economy, [00:18:48] sir, here at home. And and I I wonder [00:18:50] what grade you would give [00:18:51] >> A+ A+. [00:18:53] >> Yeah. A++ plus. [00:18:55] >> Well, it's [00:18:55] >> Trump gives himself an A+ plus. [00:19:00] I didn't even know that was possible. [00:19:03] So Candace Owens gives him an F. Donald [00:19:06] Trump gives himself an insane grade I've [00:19:08] never heard of before. Here is my grade. [00:19:12] I give Donald Trump a B. I think there [00:19:15] are some issues, but I'm willing to give [00:19:16] him more time to address some of these [00:19:18] concerns. My grade might not still be [00:19:21] that high by the time midterms come [00:19:22] around, but for right now, I'm still [00:19:24] supportive of his administration. Now, I [00:19:27] want to hear from you. 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