Hey, everybody, welcome back to another edition of the Enemies List podcast on the Lincoln Square Network.

I'm your host, as always, Rick Wilson.

I wanted to start today by just saying that

Donald Trump cannot gaslight the economy into his preferred form of reality. These are actual

numbers that are starting to come out now. We're seeing the decline in job numbers. We're seeing

the damage the trade war has done. We're seeing the chaos it's caused. There's going to be a lot

of talk in the next few weeks where Trump asserts, U.S. economy is doing better than it's ever been. It's all magical. It's all perfect. It's all lovely.

Don't buy it. Don't fall for it. It's horse shit. And you know it. We are going to have a lot of numbers.

He's going to try to go to war with the Fed again. He's going that start to pop up as they try to distract from Elon as they try to

distract from the damage of the big beautiful bill. And I think that we're right now in a moment

where Trump's really going to need somebody to try to tell an optimistic story for him and it's

real hard to find one right now. You know, boo-hoo, pal. We're going to be back here today again

with another edition of questions from the audience. We've been refining this process a little bit

because it's such a popular segment. And oh my God, we had like 250 questions. I can't get to

them all in one thing. Keep sending him in. It's fantastic. I love the interaction. Okay, from Adam Berg.

He asked, is Trump a Russian spy? The real question, Adam, is if he was not a Russian spy, how could you tell?

It's not that he's a spy.

A spy is a specific person recruited by an intelligence officer to steal classified information from a foreign power.

Trump volunteers it.

He gives it up.

Why buy the cow when the milk is free, as they say?

Look, Trump loves Putin.

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