Trump’s Triple Play: Economic Rebalance, Border Crackdown, and Ukraine Aid Pause

This pod­cast high­lights Trump’s agen­da as out­lined by Trea­sury Sec­re­tary Bessent: rebal­anc­ing the econ­o­my by boost­ing small busi­ness­es and man­u­fac­tur­ing jobs, revers­ing Biden’s Wall Street-enrich­ing mon­ey print­ing. BKP pre­views a con­tentious State of the Union, expect­ing Demo­c­rat back­lash and fired fed­er­al work­ers’ pres­ence. Trump’s poli­cies include paus­ing Ukraine aid to pri­or­i­tize peace, redi­rect­ing focus to crash the car­tel economy—labeled ter­ror­ists on day one—via tar­iffs and 3,000+ troops (Stryk­er Brigade, avi­a­tion bat­tal­ion) to the Mex­i­co bor­der, where cross­ings hit his­toric lows. Amid unknowns about car­tel arse­nals from Biden’s tenure (10–20 mil­lion got­aways), Trump aims to halt fen­tanyl, weapons, and bor­der oper­a­tions, poten­tial­ly requir­ing mil­i­tary action in Mex­i­co. Zelensky’s pes­simism con­trasts Trump’s peace push, while uni­ver­si­ties are slammed as Demo­c­rat “petri dish­es.” Mexico’s pres­i­dent speaks at noon.

• Bessent is say­ing that the Trump admin­is­tra­tion is going to rebal­ance the econ­o­my, focus on small busi­ness and bring man­u­fac­tur­ing jobs back home. Biden made wall street very very wealthy by print­ing all that mon­ey. And he killed all the chick­ens so the sound­bites can be pro­duced about egg prices. 
• Tonight will be a bid night. Trump will tell it like it is. Democ­rats will not be able to take it. They will whine and cry. Fired fed­er­al work­ers to join democ­rats at Trump’s State of the union address. 
• Mex­i­co may require mil­i­tary inter­ven­tion. 
• Trump paus­es Ukraine Mil­i­tary aid. The pres­i­dent has been clear that he is focused on peace. We need our part­ners to be com­mit­ted to that goal as well. WE are paus­ing and review­ing our aid to ensure that it is con­tribut­ing to a solu­tion. It is not Ukraine that we stopped the ship­ments to yes­ter­day, it was the car­tels. We are not sure what the car­tels have. We know that car­tels are in all 50 states. Trump is going to crash the car­tel econ­o­my. It will result in mil­i­tary oper­a­tions. 
• Zelen­sky is say­ing that the end of the war is very far away. 
• The Pen­ta­gon is send­ing about 3000 more active duty troops to the US Mex­i­co bor­der. 
• When Trump signed imme­di­ate­ly on day one to iden­ti­fy the car­tels as a ter­ror­ist orga­ni­za­tion, it changed things. Sec­ond he iden­ti­fied the south­ern bor­der as a cri­sis and inva­sion. When you have the com­man­der in chief iden­ti­ty an inva­sion in the coun­try and a ter­ror­ist orga­ni­za­tion. There has been a change in the rules of engage­ment in ter­ror­ist orga­ni­za­tions. So you have the troops, tar­iffs, and the Pen­ta­gon deploys the Stryk­er Brigade, an avi­a­tion bat­tal­ion to the south­ern bor­der, a com­bat team. Each bat­tal­ion is about 4400 sol­diers. 
• What we know is what we don’t know of what real­ly has gone into the hands of the car­tels through the Biden admin­is­tra­tion. We all know that there are 10 mil­lion, 20 mil­lion that came across the bor­der and got­aways. We do know Trump is stop­ping fen­tanyl and stop­ping the bor­der crossers, and stop­ping the weapons, and we know Trump is stop­ping their busi­ness oper­a­tions. Trump is tak­ing mon­ey out of their pock­et. 
• We are hop­ing that we can stop all this at the south­ern bor­der but Trump has every­thing in place to react. 
• Ille­gal bor­der cross­ing hit his­toric low in Feb­ru­ary. Bor­der cross­ings reach all time low under Trump. 
• The Mex­i­can pres­i­dent is to make a speech today at noon. 
• The uni­ver­si­ties are not there to edu­cate our chil­dren but are gov­ern­ment infused economies of demo­c­rat growth, like petri dish­es.