MAGA voters are snapping out of it, but what comes next is ugly

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**David Pakman** (0:29)
Pick up these may apply. Trump flew to China trying to fix the Iran disaster and came back with absolutely nothing. Oil is exploding, gas prices are crushing Americans. Trump is threatening even more war, even though he said he would be the antiwar president. And meanwhile, major polling collapses are happening with Latino voters, even among the very Latino men who helped Donald Trump become president in twenty twenty four. They are bailing. We're going to look at why and why it is surprising analysts and then rededicate to fifty, a completely ridiculous unconstitutional event held to rededicate the United States on its two hundred and fiftieth birthday to being a formally religious Christian country. What on earth are they doing? But there are more and more Trump voters regretting everything and we're hearing from them. Plus wait till I tell you about my MAGA stalker. Yes, leaving me angry voicemails for years without realizing no one was listening. We found out because of an accident. It is an insane story. All of it today.
You know, I've sometimes used the phrase on the show, he pooped in the sandbox and then went home and left everybody else to clean up his mess. And this is a very apt analogy for what happened with Donald Trump's disastrous China trip last week, the most embarrassing presidential trip overseas that I remember in the entire time that I've been covering American politics. The trip failed to achieve any of its goals. The trip exposed Donald Trump as a lover of dictators, as a suck up to dictators, and then it left them coming home with nothing but ready to do even more war, even though we were told that this is the anti war president. It's the opposite of everything that we were promised. It's the opposite of everything that we should want as Americans. So there were a few goals of this trip. Number one, Donald Trump flew to China to try to make some kind of a deal with President Xi, whether it's on tariffs, whether it's on what's going to happen with Taiwan, maybe with relation to China's involvement in Iran. But the idea was, let's get something. Let's project strength and make deals and get commitments. And Donald Trump embarrassed himself. He talked about Chinese food. He was totally emasculated by Xi from everything to on everything from, I should better say, from foreign policy to domestic policy to even the handshake games that Xi was having none of. Xi outgamed Trump. And I say this from an objective standpoint, that doesn't make me happy.
I don't like dictators. I like democracy. I prefer our system of government to China's. But I've got to hand it to Xi. Trump was completely outgunned here. Now we think about what's happening with Iran. The war started on February 28th. It was going to be a three week war. We are now entering week 12 I think I'd have to pull up a calendar to say exactly. But I believe we're now entering week 12 The Trump has ended this war seven times per his social media posts. But we are continuing to see strikes and we are continuing to see a straight of hormones that it's certainly not open. I guess we can't say it's completely closed, but it's certainly not open. Even though Donald Trump told us we've we've opened it and then they closed it and we closed it on top of that. But then it was back open and they said they would open it, but they didn't. So we did. And then it's closed in conceivably incoherent nonsense. But there's a factual reality, which is truth. Social posts aside, 20 percent of the world's oil goes through that straight. And so like it or not, and no matter how much oil we're getting from Texas, as Donald Trump said, this is arguably the biggest and longest supply disruption in history. And it was optional. This didn't happen because of media hit. This didn't happen because of some war that Trump had nothing to do with. And the United States is just sort of reacting to some. This was Trump's choice to do it. So he said it's going to take three to four weeks. OK, it's going to be four to six weeks. We're now in entering or almost beyond week 12