HasanAbi Trump is really losing it
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Jan 23, 2026 A heated take on Trump's Davos theatrics and Greenland maneuver. Fact-checking of economic boasts and the gap between market gains and everyday life. Discussion of energy policy, China’s renewable dominance, and the geopolitical stakes of minerals. Critique of migration rhetoric, austerity, youth unemployment, and theatrical foreign-policy proposals.
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Trump’s Growth Claims vs Rhetoric
- Donald Trump repeatedly frames strong GDP and market talk as evidence the U.S. is the "hottest country" and credits his policies for rapid growth.
- Hasanabi counters that these claims rely on rhetoric, selective metrics, and speculative market confidence rather than broad-based gains.
Welfare Cuts Dressed As Wins
- Hasanabi explains Republican cuts to food stamps are often celebrated as "lifting people" but actually reduce access and harm recipients.
- He highlights policy mechanics: making benefits harder to access results in poorer outcomes, not prosperity.
Europe’s Problems: Austerity, Not Race
- Hasanabi rejects Trump's racialized critique of Europe and reframes the real decline as austerity-driven erosion of public services.
- He links migration and service decline to Western interventions and neoliberal policy, not simple demographic change.