And I am Stephanie Rule, and I don't care if you need one, but I am definitely taking a deep breath right now.

I suspect you need one, too.

It is day 81 of the second Trump administration, and we've got a lot of money-power politics to talk about.

Look for historical parallel, and it's really, really hard.

The closest thing you can come to would be wartime, perhaps, perhaps,

you know, getting into a war we didn't need to get into. We could say Vietnam, we could say Iraq. But outside of that, outside of a, you know, a national security wartime kind of thing,

I can't think of a president who has done more to undercut his own, you know, presidency so early,

so dramatically and affect so many other lives, right?

A lot of presidents make mistakes in their early days, although not usually in their second term.

They nominate somebody who gets in trouble.

There may be a scandal, something they forgot to tell us, or they didn't want to tell us.

But I can't think of anybody who has done more to sort of so

worldwide uncertainty, you know, drain out literally trillions of dollars worth of market cap

for all these companies, essentially retirement savings for many Americans, not to mention the

uncertainty in Washington where tens of thousands of people have suddenly been told

they're out of a job and services are no longer going to be provided that they come to

depend on and foreign aid to places that, you know, are suffering from disease and hunger.

So much has happened in just 11 weeks.

There is no parallel, I think, of, and in American history.

Here's what I want to say. It has been over a week since this trade disaster began.

And I have spent that week speaking to investors here and abroad. And what I feel most tonight

is scared, scared that what we are facing is a crisis of confidence, confidence in us, the United

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