Joe Kent Resigns + Trump's Cuba Takeover | PBD #761

**Patrick Bet-David** (0:30)
All right, Business Wednesdays, with lots going on. Bob Iger today apparently resigned, today's his last day, I don't know if he got served or not. We got Snider in the house, Aceto and Ellsworth, we're all gonna get smarter today. And gas hits, diesel, what was it Tom? Diesel hit five, was it gas hit?

**Tom Ellsworth** (0:46)
$5 national average.

**Patrick Bet-David** (0:48)
$5 US, diesel prices soared to $5 national average. We're gonna look at the numbers to date, the numbers are high, as we're going through how people are being affected by these gas prices. I think today the number is what, $96? Is that what it is, $96? Oil right now, as of right now? Right.

**Tom Ellsworth** (1:09)
$10 more in Europe.

**Patrick Bet-David** (1:10)
So that's that. So we'll talk Disney with Bob Iger. We'll talk about gas prices. We'll talk about how NATO kinda pushed back and said we're not gonna get involved. And even Starmer came out and is like, we're not gonna get involved in your war. We have to react to that. Joe Kent, not the great Jeff Kent from The Giants. We don't want to undermine Jeff Kent. Jeff, you were great when you played. We watched you.

**Tom Ellsworth** (1:32)
Hall of Fame, finally.

**Patrick Bet-David** (1:33)
Joe Kent comes out and calls out the president and the White House on the decisions that were made. And he worked directly with head of DNI, which is Tulsi Gabbard. And then Tulsi Gabbard had to come out and post a tweet about it. This video, this tweet, if I'm not mistaken, I don't know how many views it got, but it's got nearly 800,000 likes on X alone. And we haven't talked about it yet. Let me go to it. Yeah, 800,000 likes on X. And still going, 86 million views is what this one tweet got and a letter, which we will read. And Speaker Johnson reacted to it. The president reacted to it. The market reacted to it. Left, right, and center. Even some baseball players thought he was Jeff Kent. They're like, wait a minute, is he back running? We had no idea as this, but it's not Jeff Kent. It's Joe Kent. I want to make sure we qualify those two very clearly. Then US economy. We have to talk about McDonald's, how closely they're paying attention to the affordability, as well as coal, as well as dollar store. They're making moves. Everyone's trying to find a way, because this affordability conversation is no longer just the thing people are talking about. They're starting to realize, there is something here, and we have to definitely talk about it. And then you have the chief of Intel in Iran was taken out, you know, the more you talk, it's like, you're next. And he's the guy that said to Trump, you better watch your life, because we're coming after you. And then next thing you know, there's this thing called Karma. It's happened into a lot of Iranians with the threats. It's coming back now. We'll see if any of that's going to come back to us as well or not. Post came out, WAPO and CNN poll of where Americans are for the Iranian war, where they support and they don't. We'll talk about that. I think it's 53 to 59 percent that don't as of today. So we'll address that as well. Aside from that, we got a bunch of other stories to get into.
Billionaire, Uber co-founder, Travis Kalanick, admits strategically moving to Texas before California's wealth tax goes into effect. Washington actually passes millionaire tax despite concerns of the wealth flight, and they're not worried about it. Even Forbes came out and did an article. It's an interesting way the article is written, saying only six billionaires left the state of California, but of the six that left, they generate $27 billion of revenue in taxes for the state, allegedly. We're going to look at that and what that number is. And then aside from that, we got a few other things we'll get into as well as it's going on.
If we're able to make these stories, if we're able to make these stories, time for it, we'll get into it. I do want to talk to you guys about something. A lot of you guys DM me and message me and say, hey, how do I become a member of the cigar lounge, the boardroom that you have here? Last night, I can't tell you how many people were here watching the great game of Venezuela against US. When Bryce Harper hit the home run, I mean, it was beautiful. And I was, I'm like, this is the moment. My son Dylan called it that he was going to hit the home run. He hit the home run. But then we fell one short and the score ended up being 3-2. Congratulations to Venezuela. I know how much this means to Venezuela. Venezuela's had a great 2026 Some may call it the greatest year 90 days Venezuela's had in 20, 30, 40 years, is what people are talking about. The way they're celebrating. So congrats to the Venezuelan team. As much as I'm, was rooting for America, I want to judge to hit that home run and have that victory. But you got to recognize it. A ton of people were here watching it. You know, just yesterday I did a podcast with Joey Merlino here, the, the allegedly, Rob, we have to say this correctly.