Back to episode — Episode 3060 CWSA 01/02/26
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ifferent polls. They have very different answers. I think one said he's at 44% approval, which wouldn't be bad. Another poll I think said 50% approval, which would be very impressive, 50%. But you know how much you really trust claims of popularity or approval, I guess. But here's what Trump does. So in the midst of these sketchy numbers, Trump says that the polls are rigged and he claims his real…
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Oh, speaking of which, Trump also had a physical. He claims he's in quote perfect health and that he aced the third cognitive exam he's been asked to take in his time as president. He says the White House doctors have reported that I am in, now all caps, perfect health and that I aced, capital all capitals, meaning was correct on 100% of the questions asked for the third straight time. My cognitive examination, something which no other president or previous vice president was willing to take, Trump wrote. Now again, do you hate the fact that he's claiming his cognitive test success? No. Will it bother his critics for whatever reason? Yes. So if it bothers his critics and it doesn't bother his supporters, that's a sweet spot. He has a sweet spot.
Well, over in Israel, apparently Netanyahu and the Israeli government is going to enforce a ban on 37 NGOs in Gaza. So they believe that at least 37 of them are maybe sneaking in bad guys or doing something that Israel would not want them to do and is not in their charter. So if you had heard this story a few years ago, what would you assume was happening? You might assume that Israel was being mean and they were removing the sources of charity for the region that they conquered. And you might say, my god, these brutal monsters, they're cutting off our NGO support. But what are you thinking in 2026 now that we know the NGOs are mass
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ive money laundering schemes and probably in this case being used as some kind of disguise for moving in things that could be weapons, for example, maybe it's other terrorists. So it makes me wonder, has there ever been an NGO that was good or are all NGOs just automatically a signal for fraud and a signal for something you don't want to happen? I don't know. But I'll tell you, it does seem to sug…
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