Donald Trump was having a psychotic

meltdown all throughout last night. He

hadn't posted in about 48 hours and he

wanted to let people know just how

unhinged and deranged he is. He started

posting about windmills and saying,

"Look, these windmills are killing these

bald eagles." And it turns out that he

was posting photographs from Israel in

2017 of falcons. Donald Trump started

attacking the Kennedy family on the day

where Tatiana Schlashberg uh tragically

passed away due to terminal cancer and

Donald Trump's like the Kennedys don't

even show up to the Kennedy Center. So

of course I should vandalize it and call

it the Trump Kennedy Center. Then Donald

Trump was posting that his approval

rating is actually like 65% and that

every single poll is rigged and it's all

absolutely one big giant scam and he's

the most popular ever as his approval is

actually like 38% or 36%

just utterly deranged behavior. I want

to take you through what's going on and

then we should talk about how the

American people are responding to this.

I mean, you even have a Republican

consultant Carl Rove saying, "People are

sick and tired of Donald Trump bragging

about this and that while the American

people are suffering and plastering his

name everywhere and building himself

golden ballrooms and looting and

stealing from the American public and

taking away people's health care." And

you know, the American people again

showed how pissed off they were. In

Iowa, a Democrat won a special election

by 43 points, overperforming in that

Senate district from former Vice

President Kla Harris in 2024 by like a

24 27 point overperformance there. And

we're just seeing throughout the country

that people are sick and tired of the

scams, the lies, the drama, the

derangement of Donald Trump. This has

been the worst year. Objectively in the

history of the United States presidency,

according to the people, and there's

been a lot of presidents, Trump is the

single worst according to the American

people. Trump is far less popular now

than when Biden left office. Not

withstanding all the MAGA efforts to

defame him. Again, let's just go through

what's going on. A reminder, first off,

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Philip, and others. All right, let me

get into it. Um, Donald Trump posts,

"The polls are rigged even more than the

writers." Okay, the real number 64%. And

why not? He goes, "Why not? Our country

is hotter than ever before. Isn't it

nice to have a strong border, no

inflation, a powerful military, and a

great economy? Happy New Year!"

exclamation point. And Donald Trump just

lies. Why not? Why not? Because of the

not part of the why not. We like to be

objective and be tethered to the reality

and not your MAGAP authoritarian

propaganda. We've never been hotter

before. By hotter, do you mean that the

fact is that Americans are literally

unable to afford air conditioning or

Americans are unable to afford homes and

are able to pay rent? Is is that what

you're referring to? And Donald Trump

goes, "We have no inflation, a powerful

military." No inflation, really? Because

I think when people leave their house,

they see that things are more expensive.

You think we have a powerful military

right now? Isn't our like navy chasing

some fishing boat right now or some

vessel from Venezuela that has we

haven't even be able to capture them?

You're blowing up fishing boats and

committing war crimes. You think that's

power? At the same time, you have China

doing military drills and threatening

Taiwan. You have Kim Jong-un shooting uh

missiles and doing launching tests. You

have Iran saying it's in an all-out war

against the United States and the West.

You have Putin uh further escalating

attacks against Ukraine while you say I

trust whatever Putin says. You you you

think that we are a stronger military

with Pete Hegsith who just wants to say,

"Oh, I'm the Department of War who has

weakened our military and our

credibility more than ever before."

Actual real numbers, the latest PBS NPR

Maris poll of national adults who are uh

pled 38% approval, 8% unsure, 54%

disapproval. As bad as it gets. Take a

look at the latest New York Times

opinion that talks about the Gallup

poll. America is unhappy. That's how the

New York Times defines this year. Donald

Trump's year in approval rating is lower

than that of any president in the last

five decades. It's lower than Biden's

approval rating when he left office.

This is bad, bad, bad right here. You

can see it. And then Donald Trump posts

the following. Windmills are killing all

of our beautiful bald eagles. It took us

at the Midas Touch Network. About 60

seconds of research cuz that didn't look

like a bald eagle. It looked like a

falcon to me. [laughter]

Looked like a falcon. So, I Googled this

photo. Trump posted a photo claiming it

showed a bald eagle in the United States

killed by a windmill. In reality, the

image is a dead falcon in Israel from

2017 in a Harets article. wind turbines

in Israel was the story there. But Trump

doesn't care. He posts more stories

about windmills, more stories about

windmills. You know, energy prices are

up 15, 25, 30%. If you've gotten your

energy bills lately, you know how

expensive it is. This is a lot caused

from the crypto mining, the data

centers, the fact that Trump's just

letting uh these energy companies price

gouge us and uh collude and uh and and

dra engage in antirust violations um

without any regulation at all. Um but

Donald Trump then is killing solar

energy, wind energy, and other energies

that would bring down costs. But don't

worry, Donald, you see, China's doing

it. China's building out their wind and

solar and they're preparing for the

future. Well, you're bringing America

back to coal. Remember when uh

Christmas, the kid said, "I don't want

coal in my stockings." Um and then

Donald Trump's like, "Oh, well, you want

that big beautiful coal? We love coal

now." Then Donald Trump attacks the

Kennedy family right here. Um he goes,

"They don't raise money for it. They

never show up." And the only Kennedy

who's ever been there recently is a

member of Trump's cabinet. You're

attacking the He did he did post after

post after post attacking the Kennedys.

This is why it's called the Trump

Kennedy Center. No, you vandalized the

Kennedy Center by sticking your name on

it. It'd be no different than someone

who just goes and uh vandalizes any

government building. There's a law that

called it the Kennedy Center. You can't

just put your name on it. And here's the

thing. Anybody who performs there and

promotes it, I believe one day can be

held criminally liable because you're

aiding and abetting the vandalism on

public property. And there's a lot of

people who are pulling out. There's been

the jazz bands that pulled out for

Christmas. Another jazz band and group

pulling out for New Year's. Another

group uh pulling out uh uh for April.

And and then you have like Rick Grenell,

Trump's like proxy, who's on the board,

who is the guy behind the name change

with Donald Trump. He's like, "I'm going

to sue you for a million dollars if you

quit. I'm going to sue you for a million

dollars." Good luck with that lawsuit

when the defense is, you vandalized the

building and called it the Trump Kennedy

Center. The easiest defense for anybody

who wants to quit their shows at the

Kennedy Center. I'm just going to give

you my legal opinion. Right? I have a

first amendment right to give you my

legal opinion. If you're worried that

you're going to get to I'm giving you my

legal opinion as a law professor, okay?

And as a former litigator who litigated

cases, not like this, but who litigated

cases. Here's how I would argue it as a

civil defense lawyer. I would say

there's illegality now taking place.

Trump named it Trump Kennedy Center.

That's illegal. If we lend our

performance to this uh Trump Kennedy

Center, which is not what it's called,

we're promoting the crime. So, we have

to back out because otherwise we would

be aiding and abetting criminality and

we don't want to be criminally

prosecuted in the future. I think that's

an argument that will win in front of

most judges if you wanted to resend the

contract. And by the way, our hearts go

out to the Kennedy family right now.

Tatiana Schlloberg, author,

environmental journalist, and

granddaughter of President John F.

Kennedy, died at the age of 35.

Schllothberg's death comes just a month

after sharing that she had been

diagnosed with terminal cancer. Here was

an article she wrote for the New Yorker.

Tatiana Schlober, the daughter of

Caroline Kennedy, had just given birth

when she was diagnosed with a rare form

of leukemia. She writes about her fear

of adding another tragedy to her

family's life. When you are dying, you

start remembering everything. Tatiana

Schllothberg, a battle with my blood.

Our hearts goes out to the family. And

Donald Trump was post after post

attacking the Kennedy family yesterday.

Oh, they don't visit it, so I should be

able to call it Trump. Just shut the

heck up, man. Just shut up and be like,

stop acting like a freaking baby, man.

Just act normal. Just act like a

grown-up. Act like an adult. Are you

such a freaking sociopath malignant

narcissist that you rhetorical question?

Okay, we know that he is this also from

that PBS NPR Mars poll. Which party do

you think would do a better job handling

the economy by far? People believe the

uh Democrats and just look at all these

other stats and things that are taking

place right now, right? You have measles

cases never have been this higher like

in any recent time. You got measles

outbreaks taking place right now. The

number of recorded measles cases in the

US during 2025 has exceeded 2,000 for

the first time in more than 30 years.

MAGA make measles spread again. And

you're having all these diseases spread

because Trump and MAGA have attacked

vaccines after vaccines.

My gosh. I mean, take a look. also the

incompetent DOJ attorney general Pam

Bondi. She made a post touting a chart

as proof that Donald Trump has succeeded

in reducing drug overdoses. But after

being informed that the data actually

reflects Biden's record, Bondi had to

delete her post. As Ted Loop, Democratic

Congress member, writes, "Dear Pam

Bondi, the chart you provided ends in

October 2024. Thank you for

unintentionally giving massive credit to

Joe Biden. Also, when are you going to

stop violating federal law and provide

the unredacted Epstein files? Right. As

we head into the new year, Donald Trump

and the Maggas are involved in a cover

up of a child sex trafficking ring. And

Marjorie Taylor Green, who was as close

to Donald Trump as could be, said that

Donald Trump screamed at her and said,

"Marjorie, you're going to hurt my

friends by putting these files out

there." This is Marjorie Taylor Green

saying publicly. Again, this is what my

opinion what she's she said it, but what

she's saying is he's involved in

obstruction of justice regarding child

sex trafficking and all the other people

in his cabinet are complicit in covering

up child sex trafficking rings. I mean,

how putrid, how utterly disgusting is

it? But they want to distract you with

everything. and their latest one is to

blame Biden and to blame Governor Walls

for fraud being committed in Minnesota.

Now folks, fraud is a very serious

issue. We need to take it very seriously

and we should not be saying, "Oh,

there's nothing to worry about when it

comes to fraud." But do you know who was

out there prosecuting the fraud? Do you

know of the 78 people who were charged

from the feeding our future fraud probe,

70 were indicted by former President

Biden in February of 2024. That's the

last full year of Biden's presidency.

And Cash Patel and everyone could try to

say, "Oh, Biden covered it up." No, he

didn't. The prosecutions took place

then. By the way, the ring leader of the

fraud was not a Somali. The ring leader

was a white lady. And were Somalians

involved? Yeah, but you don't over uh

simplify something and generalize and

say, "Oh, all the Somalian people are

bad people." That's just being racist.

We can be able to call out fraud,

prosecute the fraud, prosecute the

criminals without them just doing

they're eating your dogs, they're eating

your cats, it's the Somali. And they

want to blame the Somali because they

realize, wait a minute, the Latino

community hates the Trump regime now

based on the fact that the Trump regime

has deported, thrown them into

concentration camps, profiled them. So

who's going to be their boogeyman? Their

boogeyman's going to be the Somali and

say they're the ones engaged in fraud.

No, Donald, you're engaged in fraud. You

are a felon, Donald. You are a sexual

abuser, Donald. You are a criminal,

Donald. You have been pardoning

fraudster after fraudster. A commonality

is most of them are white. By the way,

the Republican senator from Florida,

Rick Scott, was involved in the largest

Medicare and Medicaid fraud criminal

scheme in American history at that time.

But he got a $300 million golden

parachute to leave and became wealthy

and has doubled or tripled his net worth

since then based on that money. He

invoked the fifth amendment over 75

times when he was deposed in connection

with a case where they were prosecuted

for engaging in or his company was

prosecuted for engaging in Medicare and

Medicaid fraud. But you look at all of

Donald Trump's pardons. I mean, he's

literally pardoned people engaged in

tens of billions of dollars uh in fraud.

He's pardoned the biggest drug dealers,

the biggest fraudsters, the biggest

Medicare and Medicaid and healthc care

fraudsters. That's who the Trump regime

is. So, don't try to pretend that y'all

are the good guys. You're the bad guys.

And we can still take waste and fraud

very seriously and prosecute criminals.

And we can do it in a way that that

isn't racist and that isn't like, oh,

it's the Somali that are that are doing

all of this. And by the way, Governor

Walls requested that he get more power

to be a from the state legislature to be

able to go after uh potential fraud. And

guess what? The legislature blocked

that. Okay. So enough is enough. And as

Governor Wall says, you know what this

is really all about right here? It's

about these MAGA Republicans like Deputy

Secretary of Health and Human Services

Jim O'Neal. A guy who um previously

worked for Peter Teal. Look at this guy

on the left. Guy looks like a bad guy in

a freaking cartoon movie. Secretary Jim

O'Neal. And what Jim O'Neal says, "We

frozen all child care payments from the

state of Minnesota." And Governor Wall

says this is what the long game is.

We've spent years cracking down on

fraudsters. It's a serious issue, but

this has been the Trump regime's plan

all along. He's politicizing the issue

to defund programs that help motans. And

this is what the Trump regime is doing

the whole time. I'll do a whole other

video on it very soon. But you have

Donald Trump vetoing a bill unanimously

passed. Unanimous. every single person

in the House and Senate passed it to

provide clean water to 50,000 people in

rural Colorado, but because Lauren

Boowbert was the sponsor of it and she

supported releasing the Epstein files

and also because Donald Trump's mad at

the governor of Colorado for not

pardoning a felon, Tina Peters, who was

prosecuted and convicted of being

involved in January 6th related crimes.

Donald Trump vetoed the bill to provide

clean freaking water to Colorado is

going to triple or quadruple the cost

now there for people in Colorado or

potentially result in their physical

illness. That's who Donald Trump is. And

you know, my um my neighbor told me,

"Hey, Ben, when we've been watching your

videos, what resonated the most is when

you call Trump evil because he's evil."

And it's not framed that way a lot by

the media. They want to talk about ah

this party, that party, this they go,

"No, Ben, this was a great point by my

neighbor. They're evil. They're evil.

Evil people who do evil things. Why do

they do it? Because they're evil. They

they exist to cause harm and we have to

recognize that there's evil evil out

there and we have to stop it. We have to

stop it. That's my New Year's resolution

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