This Week Will Be VERY BAD FOR TRUMP w/ Rick Wilson

Rick Wilson and Molly Jong-Fast argue that disruptions in key shipping chokepoints like the Strait of Hormuz matter to Americans even if the U.S. isn’t importing most of its oil from there, because oil is a globally priced, fungible commodity that raises costs everywhere when supply is threatened. They connect that dynamic to broader signs of economic strain—rising gas and jet fuel prices, fertilizer shortages hitting farmers, record farm bankruptcies, high credit-card debt, and fears of ugly incoming jobs and manufacturing numbers—casting it as a compounding “red zone” made worse by tariffs and geopolitical instability. The conversation then veers into political consequences, with Wilson claiming Republicans are increasingly anxious about vulnerable Senate races, and into Trump-era governance and messaging, including confusion over who speaks for U.S. diplomacy and Trump’s fixation on a White House “ballroom” after a security incident. Finally, they broaden the critique to media and public trust: Jong-Fast calls the Correspondents’ Dinner optics self-aggrandizing and corrosive, while Wilson argues the deeper problem is access journalism and corporate owners pressuring outlets to soften coverage—set against a decades-long conservative campaign to discredit mainstream reporting—leaving an angry, distrustful public and a weakened accountability ecosystem.

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