Back to episode — Episode 2899 CWSA 07/16/25
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han 2,100 fentanyl-related arrests. Now I don't know. And here's the caution here. I don't know how this compares to the baseline. Could it be that the DEA and the DOJ routinely catch this much drugs? We just don't hear about it. Is that possible? Because you always hear about the Biden administration was doing a bad job of messaging how successful they were and they did do a bad job of that. Is i…
← Previous segment →umber of successes that every day or every few days he's going to be able to say, well, we got another amazing trade deal with another major country. Well this is one of those. So how many major trade deals is he going to get with how many countries? And then of course there's the surprising amount of tariff revenue coming into the government. Trump is winning pretty hard on trade. The stock market has decided he's not going to destroy the country. So the stock market is like, oh, we're fine. And he just is rolling up the wins.
Now sometimes I imagine he'll get ahead of the reality. So he might claim that they have a deal and then you find out and it's not really finalized and stuff like that. But in terms of taking credit, they're really good at it. And that's actually a positive statement. I like it when my government is telling me that things are great and getting better. That's what I want to feel. I want to feel that optimism that the government is doing a great job. And then it makes me think, well, I can do things too. You know, I can contribute. Everything's heading the right way. I sure like being an American. You know, it makes you feel good. So Trump is really good at that.
On top of that, I think this was all happening this morning. Trump has announced a whole bunch of gigantic investments in the United States. So he announced I think it was today 56 billion in new energy infrastructure. 56 billion. That's a lot of dollars. More than 36 billion in new data center projects. That's a lot. I don't think we have anything that compares to those numbers in the past. And he says that 20 leading tech and energy companies are announcing more than 92 billion of investment in Pennsylvania. Just Pennsylvania. 92 billion dollars. Just Pennsylvania.
Now why Pennsylvania? Is that because it's close enough to everything? But they have maybe a better situation for regulatory problems maybe. So I'm guessing that Pennsylvania has their act together enough that they can attract all that investment. So good job, Pennsylvania, whatever you're doing.
Now Trump has also claimed I think this was also today maybe that he's already secured 16 trillion dollars in investments in the US economy. Do you believe that he's already secured 16 trillion in new investment? Well I feel like this is the situation where you have to say that might be a little bit of salesmanship there. That might be a little bit of hyperbole, a little bit of optimism. Does that bother me? Nope. Nope. I want my country to tell me that they're bringing in trillions of dollars of new investments so that other people want to invest too because people like to go where things are working, right? If you tell the world, hey, everybody's investing in the United States. I mean really, the investments in the United States, the AI, the energy. Oh yeah. This i
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s really good. You should get in on this. Can't lose. So yes, I like it when they say they're capturing a bunch of drugs. I like it when they say the investments are big. And I like it when we get new trade deals. Now are there exaggerations involved in all these accomplishments? Perhaps. Doesn't bother me a bit because I want a salesman in chief who is telling us everything's working out great b…
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