Donald Trump enters into the situation room frequently in the past week. He has already given an ultimatum to Nicolas Maduro the Venezuela president to leave the country for war would start at once. But Maduro kept stay in his country and led people to sing Imagine by Elton John. During the last days of Saddam Hussein of Iraqi, he also led his people to sing Imagine in the presidential square.
Situation room is the room that Trump watched the attack of B2 spirit stealth bombers to carry fourteen GBU-57A/B MOP “bunker buster” bombs to destroy the nuclear plant of Iran. Also, Barrack Obama watched the SEAL squad to kill Bid Laden.
Donald Trump, Nicolas Maduro, Saddam Hussein and Barrack Obama are all wanted to get a higher approval rate by such actions. Now the whole Venezuela is a non-flying zone, any flying object seen will be knocked down by US. Smuggling drugs is now classified as terror attack. In the Trump 1.0 era, he said he is the only US president that had not started a war in the century. He is a peace maker, and is nominated to run for Noble Prize of Peace 2026. China is a great supporter of Venezuela and dare not utter a single word for they want to keep in good relation with Trump as they know Trump is backing up the Iron Lady of Japan, Sanae Takaichi for she is the strictest Japanese prime minister after World War II.
If Trump starts a military action, it must be having a full victory in a few weeks like the Gulf War of 1992 or Iraqi war of 2003 or else it would affect the mid-term election. Trump has no right to declare war, only the Congress has such a power. The Congress has no right to order the military force only the president has such a right. But the Congress can stop paying salary to the military force if the military action cannot stop within 90 days and do not declare war. They can still get basic salary, but no overseas allowance, no war time allowance. Fighting still can carry on, but soldiers would have no mood to fight when the allowance is in zero.
The approval rate of Donald Trump is as low as 36%, in the time of Joe Biden, the lowest was 35%. In Trump 1.0, the lowest was 35%, that is after Jan 6th the protesters entered into the Capitol Hill. When a president is in low approval rate, one of the most common methods is to start a war, no matter in whatsoever country, in western democracy or in dictatorship country are all the same.
But one more favourable hope is that Trump is going to announce to nominate Kevin Hassett as the chair of Federal Reserve. This will be good news to the market. So, when Powell stepped down in May, Hassett will take up the office and have rate cut in June. Even is Powell firmly said he would not have any rate cut in his term, no problem, beams of hope can be seen, end of tunnel is not so far away.
So, investors better use this weekend to study the recommendation of AI and full digest them. In 2026 there will be another era. Bank of Japan will increase interest rate and US Federal Reserve will decrease rate. Therefore, great turmoil will be in crypto market. Bank of America just suggested general investors should have 1%-4% in the total investment, but some people still do not want to buy the coin or paper coin, they still can buy the ETF. Some even say XAU (spot gold) will rise to US$10,000. Once Catherine Wood said if she is only allowed to buy one stock, she would buy TSLA, now I added if two stocks should be NVDA & TSLA.