All right. I think we're live. Here we go.

Wow.

Hi, everybody.

I'm Andrew Eger with the Bullwark. This is our fearless leader, JVL.

We are coming to you live because we just sat through a very remarkable event that Donald Trump was doing today in Memphis.

The event itself, not so interesting on the merits, just an opportunity for him to sit in front of a bunch of supposedly seized weapons and drugs and things like that and talk about what a good job fighting crime he's doing.

More interesting because of when it's happening, right?

We're just getting through a insane, insane, insane weekend when it comes to the war in Iran.

It is coming home to everybody

just how bad of an economic disaster and ongoing closure of the Strait of Hormuz is going to be,

already is, but especially is going to be. And Donald Trump spent the weekend, basically

making incredibly grandiose threats against Iran any time the markets weren't currently in

operation, meaning all weekend long. And then as the markets prepared this morning to reopen again,

suddenly backing off of all of those and basically saying, well, we'll give you one,

we'll give Iran one more work week, one more week, five more days of market activity to get their act together before we follow through on my threats of bombing Iran's energy infrastructure if they will not reopen the straight.

So Donald Trump was going live this afternoon, and it was going to be kind of interesting what he had to say about all of that.

And I'm not sure, JVL, before we start to actually break it down a little, maybe just suffice to say it was not exactly reassuring.

What were your broad strokes takes at the top?

If you went into this concern that the President of the United States is waging a war with no

fucking idea what he's doing this event did not make you feel better I mean we just say

that he he's all over the map he takes like four different positions in the course of 30

seconds he's slurring his words and getting his dentures back in.

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