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10:01Now PlayingGlobal Economic Collapse Is Coming and Trump Is Living in a Fantasy World. Turns out Daddy just needed some attention.
Hawk reacts to Donald Trump's primetime address, which offered no objectives, no plan, and no coherent conclusion. Trump repeated the same claims he has been posting on Truth Social for weeks, with nearly everything he said contradicted by real-world conditions. While Trump declared the U.S. economy the greatest on earth, gas prices are already above four dollars a gallon just one month into the Iran conflict.
The Strait of Hormuz remains closed, and the ripple effects are already hitting Asia, Australia, and Europe hard. Hawk points out that every U.S. president before Trump refused to militarily strike Iran specifically because of the catastrophic global economic consequences of a prolonged Hormuz closure. Trump dismissed those concerns and is now dismissing the consequences.
With the midterms still seven months away, the window for any political correction is distant. Hawk questions whether centrist AIPAC-aligned Democrats have their priorities straight, calling out their decision to spend energy attacking progressive candidates like Hasan Piker instead of addressing the economic and geopolitical crisis unfolding in real time.
Iran and Israel are not going to stop fighting when U.S. troops leave. Israel is not withdrawing from southern Lebanon. The regional conflict was already in motion, and the Strait of Hormuz closure is accelerating a global economic crisis that Trump either cannot see or does not care about.
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