June 12, 2025 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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| Yeah, guys, good morning. | ||
| Today, a U.S. district judge will hold a hearing over California Governor Gavin Newsom's attempt to block the military from supporting ICE. | ||
| But President Trump isn't letting this legal battle stop him from trying to restore law and order and stop the violent rioters wreaking havoc in L.A. Listen. | ||
| What we have is a situation in Los Angeles that was caused by gross incompetence. | ||
| They didn't have the police to handle it. | ||
| The police were asking us to come in. | ||
| They were very late. | ||
| We had to go in to save a lot of ICE officers, as you know, who were held up in a building and they were being attacked. | ||
| And the military went in, the National Guard went in and got them. | ||
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We are going to have law and order in our country. | |
| And as other major cities like Seattle prepare for more protests, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the military is ready to send in backup. | ||
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Do you just potentially mobilize every guard everywhere and every service member everywhere? | |
| I mean, create the framework for that. | ||
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The orders that have been issued, which are publicly available and known, relate to an ongoing situation in Los Angeles, which could expand to other places. | |
| This comes as the U.S. Northern Command says that Marines have completed their required training. | ||
| They're now expected to hit the streets of L.A. within the next 48 hours. | ||
| Now the Marines are expected to complete the same mission as the National Guardsmen. | ||
| My God, I actually pity those poor bastards we're going up against. | ||
| My God, I do. | ||
| We're not going to just meme those globalists. | ||
| We're going to meme them until they cry? | ||
| and use their tears to crease the treads of our takes. | ||
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*Mario's fire* | |
| You're running us over. | ||
| You're shooting us all because of the color of our skin. | ||
| That was a movie. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| That was a movie. | ||
| That was like a movie. | ||
| We're going to talk about Blackout Coffee. | ||
| This is my Blackout Coffee, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| That was a movie. | ||
| I'd watch that. | ||
| Saving Priot. | ||
| Zem, saving privates... | ||
| How about that? | ||
| That would be the movie. | ||
| Saving They Them's Privates. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, today is Thursday, June 12th, 2025. | ||
| Glorious year of our Lord. | ||
| Trump will be speaking live momentarily on the show, his scheduled speech from the Oval Office at 11 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. | ||
| So ladies and gentlemen, that'll be live on our show today as Donald Trump is in a massive showdown, Western shootout with the liberal leaders of California who have bent the knee. | ||
| Both Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom has just given up. | ||
| They've just given up. | ||
| And now they are groveling. | ||
| Along with Walmart. | ||
| Very interesting. | ||
| We'll cover that in just a moment. | ||
| Is Israel about to launch World War III? | ||
| All of the word on the street is that Israel is about to start World War III with Iran. | ||
| God help us. | ||
| We're going to talk about that today. | ||
| Harmeet Dillon from the Department of Justice, head of the Civil Rights Division, joins the program along with... | ||
| He, of course, lives in the area. | ||
| Maybe we'll be able to see the smoke from his house. | ||
| Lee Greenwood also joins the show to just do cool Lee Greenwood stuff. | ||
| Talk about God blessing the USA, man. | ||
| My name is Benny Johnson, and this is The Benny Show. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Times are topsy-turvy. | ||
| We didn't even preview that there's been a massive commercial airliner crash. | ||
| Why the hell does this keep happening? | ||
| We're going to talk about that too. | ||
| 242 souls on board of a massive Boeing 787 airliner that smashed into a building, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| So get ready. | ||
| It's going to be a wild one. | ||
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| Right? | ||
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| Ladies and gentlemen, let's rock and roll. | ||
| Okay, so I talked about yesterday how there is left-wing Marxist violent revolutionary protester fatigue. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| And ALX, can you grab me those videos of the three protesters from yesterday? | ||
| The discharged army chick. | ||
| The couple that was stopping the black lady from getting to work. | ||
| And then cheesy gordita crunch. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| There's fatigue right now. | ||
| Everybody's done with this. | ||
| We're done with having our cities burn. | ||
| We're done with having cities It's a great post this morning from Stephen Miller. | ||
| Let's grab that and pop it up. | ||
| Stephen Miller saying, Joe Biden brought in half a million criminal aliens per month. | ||
| Half a million per month. | ||
| Not vetted. | ||
| Just dropped into your hometown and mine. | ||
| They don't love this land. | ||
| In fact, they probably despise it. | ||
| They're here to be parasites. | ||
| They're here to glean and suck the blood out of the bloodstream. | ||
| They come here because we have goodies. | ||
| Free healthcare, welfare, free cars and housing. | ||
| Remember how the lavish life was for these criminal aliens? | ||
| And Stephen Miller says, you know what? | ||
| Removing the same number monthly as Biden admitted would be an incredibly modest position. | ||
| Stephen Miller saying at least we got to send home half a million criminal aliens at least per month. | ||
| Who's in favor of that? | ||
| What should be the target range per month? | ||
| Because what you're seeing right now is the Donald Trump was right button. | ||
| We got to get that, Killer Kline. | ||
| We got to get that. | ||
| We got to get like a button. | ||
| We should get like a red button that we can hit. | ||
| That's like the Donald Trump was right. | ||
| And we can go like, you're right. | ||
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We can hit that. | |
| We can hit it. | ||
| You know, like that? | ||
| Donald Trump was right. | ||
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Boom. | |
| Donald Trump is your president. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Like, we get a sound effect for it. | ||
| You know? | ||
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Boom. | |
| That's probably it. | ||
| The rap horn. | ||
| And we hit the red button, okay, and it's Trump was right. | ||
| Because what is Miller saying here? | ||
| Stephen Miller's saying they brought in an invasion army. | ||
| It's the same way that Rome fell. | ||
| Same way the Greece fell. | ||
| Same way the Peloponnesians fell. | ||
| It's the same way You have your land invaded by foreigners. | ||
| We talked about Deuteronomy yesterday. | ||
| I'm going to knit this all together quite nicely here. | ||
| Deuteronomy says don't let foreigners into your land. | ||
| They'll conquer you. | ||
| You let too many foreigners in, they'll take all your money, they'll take all your resources, and they'll parasitically eat you from the inside, and then you'll be their slaves. | ||
| It's a great verse from Deuteronomy, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| 45, I think, was the chapter. | ||
| So here we are, Stephen Miller out and out this morning saying, we are planning on a half a million deportations a month at the minimum. | ||
| That should be our threshold, says Stephen Miller, who according to the New York Times, his voice cracked as he ripped through ICE and Homeland Security in a scorched earth call talking about how they need to ratchet up the deportations and do it now. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, these are people who are set. | ||
| Will to power. | ||
| You've never seen anything like it for Republicans. | ||
| Republicans are always just total cucks. | ||
| And this is what this moment is. | ||
| This moment, and if we could play some of the criminality, if we would play the foreign invader army footage, please. | ||
| I just want to talk through this. | ||
| What this is, is not like people are upset at George Floyd. | ||
| People are upset at the police. | ||
| They're upset at inequality. | ||
| They're not upset at any of that. | ||
| They hate America. | ||
| This is not like we're doing our best to try and fix this broken system. | ||
| No, it's like we're a foreign army that's here and you're trying to remove us so we'll fight you in order to keep the ground we've conquered. | ||
| It's a war. | ||
| It's a literal war. | ||
| And President Trump is calling in the Marines, the National Guard, our service members, to defend America. | ||
| That's the point, by the way. | ||
| What's recruitment numbers going to look like for the Marines? | ||
| When people start seeing the real devil dogs locking in to defend American cities from the aliens. | ||
| It's always Marines vs. | ||
| Aliens in L.A. There's like 10 movies where it's Marines vs. | ||
| Aliens in L.A. And here it is. | ||
| It's called predictive programming. | ||
| When you fly a foreign country's flag in this country, after coming here illegally from that country, parasitically sucking the blood out of our nation, burning our streets, cars, and businesses to the ground, attacking Americans, and then shrieking like demons when we try and send you back to the country whose flag you're waving, well, it just gives us all the extra pleasure to see it happen. | ||
| And what you're seeing right now is a total and complete destruction of any last visage of the Democrat Party pretending to care about not the working class, not blacks, not whites, not like poor people, just Americans, okay? | ||
| So let's zoom out here. | ||
| Democrats have always tried to, like, cobble together these little, like, influence groups, right, that we care about. | ||
| It's just prima facie Americans. | ||
| Do you care? | ||
| Like, the question at hand has now been zoomed out to do you care about Americans or do you care about criminal aliens from the third world who are here because the Democrat Party flew them here, brought them here, flung open our doors, and allowed them to infest your city. | ||
| And now look at what they've done. | ||
| This is the Trump was right. | ||
| I'm going to try it. | ||
| Trump said... | ||
| They're foreign. | ||
| It's a foreign army. | ||
| ALX Science. | ||
| One more. | ||
| One more, I promise. | ||
| Just one. | ||
| Donald Trump, his first speech ever after a declared... | ||
| Into declaring his candidacy for president in 2015, 10 long years ago, he said they're not sending their best. | ||
| Trump was right. | ||
| In the long arc of history, how many times have we had to hit this button, the Trump was right button? | ||
| I'm not one of those red buttons. | ||
| Let me get a nice red button that we can hit. | ||
| President Trump warned us on his first minutes running for president. | ||
| But they're not sending their best. | ||
| They're sending murderers, rapists. | ||
| They're sending invaders. | ||
| Let's grab that clip because I'd actually like to live in the nostalgia for that one. | ||
| The point is that he's right again. | ||
| And what they've done here is they've proven Trump right. | ||
| Some people are like, some people are like, eh, you know, I wanted Trump because I wanted a good economy again. | ||
| But maybe he went a little hard on the immigration stuff. | ||
| Now people are fighting back. | ||
| It's incredible. | ||
| Check out this footage. | ||
| Check this out. | ||
| Here's a dude. | ||
| There's a someone. | ||
| It's a hooligan. | ||
| I don't know if he's a criminal alien or not. | ||
| Okay, I don't know. | ||
| I don't know his immigration status. | ||
| But a hooligan, a domestic terrorist, throws a bottle at cops in L.A. And he throws that bottle and they shoot a couple paintballs at him, right? | ||
| Or whatever. | ||
| You know, what you'll see is, like, a couple of, like, little, you know, smoke grenades go off. | ||
| So he assaults an officer. | ||
| And then watch what happens when a citizen decides they've had enough. | ||
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Watch. | |
| Boom! | ||
| Whoa! | ||
| Can the Green Bay Packers hire this guy? | ||
| Yeah, that's a nice boom. | ||
| That's a nice one. | ||
| Look at him go. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| And then, watch them go. | ||
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Go! | |
| I'm sure the chat is melting down. | ||
| Can we get love for this guy in the chat? | ||
| Can we get some love for this man in the chat? | ||
| I don't know who this man is. | ||
| Find me this man. | ||
| Find me this man. | ||
| Find him. | ||
| Find me that man. | ||
| We'll take care of him. | ||
| I want to give that guy an award. | ||
| I want to have him on the show. | ||
| I want to say thanks. | ||
| Because this is what fatigue looks like. | ||
| Eventually, what's going to happen is when you lose enough people, we realize that what these criminal individuals are doing. | ||
| Again, I don't know the guy's immigration. | ||
| Look at that form, Klein. | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| Eventually, what's going to happen? | ||
| The American public is already fatigued entirely on this. | ||
| And people are going to say, we're through. | ||
| We know what this does to our communities. | ||
| We know what this does to our nation. | ||
| We know what you're doing. | ||
| You're a foreign invader. | ||
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And you're finished here. | |
| You're starting to see the fraying, the pulling apart. | ||
| This is what's called a 90-10 issue. | ||
| It's when 90% of the country says, we've heard it off! | ||
| And that 10% is going to get rocked. | ||
| And you're seeing it. | ||
| We had the pollster, the best pollster in America on yesterday, telling us they're done. | ||
| The American public is sick. | ||
| There is total and complete fatigue right now for left-wing Marxist radicalism burning down our cities and torturing our people. | ||
| We're done. | ||
| So in the name of Lake and Riley, sit your ass down, son. | ||
| Let him go. | ||
| Boom. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| Find me that man. | ||
| It's not just him, too. | ||
| We've had a couple tackles, actually, out of L.A. Here we go. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, check this dude out. | ||
| Dude on a scooter went and assaulted cops, was thrown rocks at cops. | ||
| And the dude on the scooter tried to go zipping through and got... | ||
| Bam! | ||
| Oh, yes. | ||
| Oh, yeah, let him go. | ||
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Boom! | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| This is an AI. | ||
| I think that the AI, I think the AI, so what we did was we prompted AI. | ||
| We said, AI, what does Donald Trump want to do to these Mexican flag-waving protesters? | ||
| This is the AI. | ||
| Just reload it. | ||
| Just reload the window, please. | ||
| Yeah, the one that you have up. | ||
| So what does Trump want to do here? | ||
| What does Trump wish to do? | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| This is what AI gave us. | ||
| What would Donald Trump do if given the chance to stand in the streets in these protests? | ||
| Sometimes AI really just really nails it. | ||
| Really nails it. | ||
| Well done, Jerry. | ||
| Well done. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know it's true. | ||
| Yeah, you know it. | ||
| And this is emblematic of all of America right now. | ||
| It's just, we're done. | ||
| Trump has been proven right. | ||
| They were criminal invaders. | ||
| This was true. | ||
| He was right all along. | ||
| Here's President Trump. | ||
| In his earliest speech to America, his earliest speech, his first speech. | ||
| Ever. | ||
| As a presidential candidate. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| Trump to Jeb Bush. | ||
| This was the conversation at the time. | ||
| His first speech ever as a presidential candidate, Donald Trump said this. | ||
| When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. | ||
| They're not sending you. | ||
| They're not sending you. | ||
| They're sending people that have lots of problems. | ||
| And they're bringing those problems with us. | ||
| They're bringing drugs. | ||
| They're bringing crime. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, that was cut off unnecessarily early. | ||
| That's all right, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Uh-oh, there it is. | ||
| There we go. | ||
| But you get the point. | ||
| You've all seen it. | ||
| They're not sending their best. | ||
| They're not sending their best. | ||
| Okay, do we want to do it just because we're in a tackling mood? | ||
| Do we want to do this one? | ||
| All right. | ||
| Jerry has something special for all y 'all. | ||
| You know, if you're new here, you know that Jerry is our in-house meme maker. | ||
| And he makes custom memes every single show. | ||
| We're the only show in the world that has a custom meme every single show for you. | ||
| Nothing but love for you. | ||
| And Jerry says, if you're going to do tackles, you can't miss this one. | ||
| So ladies and gentlemen, a special treat from our in-house meme master. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
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Wearing number one for the Los Angeles traffic today is nine-year-old Tommy Douglas. | |
| Tommy has lived most of his life in the hospital after being born with a potato for a heart and will undergo a heart transplant surgery next weekend. | ||
| He's about as big of a traffic fan as they come, so in partnership with the Grant-A-Wish Foundation, both teams have agreed to come together and have Tommy run the first play of the game. | ||
| And he got the handoff, and there he goes! | ||
| Made a little cutback move and it looks like he's gonna go all the way. | ||
| Look at him go. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| This is really one of those heartwarming moments in sports where you just... | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| That was just, that is. | ||
| A perfect, a perfect explainer of how the 2020 happened. | ||
| All right, ladies and gentlemen, President Trump. | ||
| Last night on Truth Social, here's the updates. | ||
| And again, the president will be speaking live on the show. | ||
| We're really excited to have Harmeet Dillon joining us from the Department of Justice. | ||
| We have so many questions for her. | ||
| Let's rock and roll. | ||
| Los Angeles was safe and sound for the last two nights. | ||
| Our great National Guard, with little help from the Marines, put the L.A. police in a position to effectively do their job. | ||
| They worked well together, but without the military, Los Angeles would be a crime scene like we haven't seen in years. | ||
| Governor Gavin Newscum has totally lost control of the situation. | ||
| He should be saying thank you for saving his ass instead of trying to justify his mistakes and incompetence. | ||
| And he did have incompetence, as we played you yesterday. | ||
| He did a live stream without any audio. | ||
| Klein, do we got audio? | ||
| Yeah, okay, great. | ||
| We got sound effects too. | ||
| We got memes. | ||
| We're letting her rip. | ||
| And we even do guests and so on. | ||
| We do a lot of special stuff and we'll be live, like just in this stream alone. | ||
| We'll be taking Trump live. | ||
| We'll do a bunch of, we'll have three guests. | ||
| We'll do audio, sound effects, memes, live adding clips. | ||
| Gavin Newsom can't do a single pre-recorded, pre-recorded message correctly. | ||
| What a coward. | ||
| This is, I mean, again, you know, listen, live by the DEI. | ||
| DEI by the DEI. | ||
| President Trump at the Kennedy Center last night, he was going to Les Miserables with the stunning Melania Trump. | ||
| You'll love to see it. | ||
| They went to the opening of the Kennedy Center. | ||
| They've done a lot of cleaning of the house there. | ||
| And President Trump commenting about the riots last night. | ||
| ...to the ground, just like it was a number of months ago with the housing. | ||
| In fact, the police chief said so much, and you look at his statements where he said we're very lucky to have had that. | ||
| If we weren't there, that city would have been burning to the ground. | ||
| We'd be burning right now. | ||
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Mr. President, if this turns into another summer of unrest, what are you prepared to do, sir? | |
| About what? | ||
| If this turns, well, the protests have spread now to 16 cities across the U.S. Do I believe you? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
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Well, I got that from the Fox News brain room. | |
| What we have is a situation in Los Angeles that was caused by gross incompetence. | ||
| They didn't have the police to handle it. | ||
| The police were asking us to come in. | ||
| They were very late. | ||
| We had to go in to save a lot of ICE officers, as you know, who were held up. | ||
| They were held up in a building. | ||
| And they were being attacked. | ||
| And the military went in. | ||
| The National Guard went in and got them. | ||
| The police weren't able, unfortunately, to move fast enough. | ||
| But we moved fast enough. | ||
| And while we were there, we stayed there. | ||
| And we stopped tremendous destruction and death. | ||
| We stopped death. | ||
| We stopped a lot. | ||
| And if you look at them cutting up and breaking up the sidewalk and getting it and using it as a weapon, did you see that? | ||
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With the curb? | |
| Where they're breaking up the curb. | ||
| Nice curb. | ||
| And they break it up with a hammer because they couldn't get the bricks in. | ||
| You know, they got caught with the bricks. | ||
| We have them under arrest. | ||
| They were bringing bricks in to throw at our police, to throw at our National Guard, and to throw at people. | ||
| And they couldn't get them in because we got them. | ||
| And after we got them, they went and took a big hammer and started breaking up the concrete sidewalk and curved. | ||
| And they were handing it out to people to throw and drop on cars. | ||
| You saw what they did, the damage. | ||
| So if you don't do something about that, there's something very wrong. | ||
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We are going to have law and order in our country. | |
| Ladies and gentlemen, the question that we've had for quite a number of days is who the hell is funding all of this? | ||
| How are these protesters getting leaf blowers and expensive gas masks? | ||
| And how are bricks being dropped in these very special little locations where they can be thrown and hurled at cops? | ||
| That is, of course, what's happening here. | ||
| Our military members' lives are at stake. | ||
| It is a war. | ||
| Make no mistake about it. | ||
| It's not people protesting over the price of coffee or something that they don't like inside of the, you know, political ecosystem, little law. | ||
| No, it's a war. | ||
| It's an insurrection against the United States itself. | ||
| And he needs to be put down like a dog. | ||
| Carolyn Levitt yesterday... | ||
| Carolyn Levitt going completely and totally scorched earth on this. | ||
| And it is utterly indefensible, the actions of these foreign insurrectionists. | ||
| But boy, have you ever given the Trump administration plenty of landing room! | ||
| The president views himself as the president of the United States of America. | ||
| This is a constitutional republic and we want to see all of our citizens be proud of the country in which they are given the privilege and the blessing to live. | ||
| And I think that those images of foreign flags being waved by illegal criminals and by violent rioters in the face of cars blowing up. | ||
| and of flames in the city. | ||
| I have photos of that here to show you with this violence and destruction that occurred is an image that Governor Gavin Newsom owns. | ||
| This is his city and President Trump saw these images and he said that is not going to be accepted or tolerated and hence why he deployed the National Guard and United States Marines. | ||
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The President warned that any protests on Saturday would be met with force. | |
| Can you clarify what kind of protest President Trump does support or find acceptable? | ||
| The President absolutely supports peaceful protests. | ||
| He supports the First Amendment. | ||
| He supports the right of Americans to make their voices heard. | ||
| He does not support violence of any kind. | ||
| He does not support assaulting law enforcement officers who are simply trying to do their job. | ||
| It's very clear for the President what he supports and what he does not. | ||
| Personally for Democrats, that line has not been made clear, and they've allowed this unrest and this violence to continue, and the president has had to step in. | ||
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So if there were peaceful protests on Saturday for the military parade, President Trump would allow that? | |
| Of course the president supports peaceful protests. | ||
| What a stupid question. | ||
| Raquel. | ||
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Thank you so much, Caroline. | |
| What a stupid question. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, in just a moment, we're going to be joined by the great Harmeet Dillon. | ||
| Who, of course, heads the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice. | ||
| We have so many important questions to ask. | ||
| One of them is about Brandon Johnson. | ||
| He's the mayor of Chicago. | ||
| And he's actually, I believe, under investigation by the DOJ. | ||
| Can't wait to talk about this. | ||
| But I just have to get to this clip. | ||
| Very spicy clip where he says that Donald Trump is a Confederate. | ||
| This is what would happen if the Confederacy won. | ||
| Which is a fascinating thought experiment here. | ||
| In the way that, like, the left-wing hive mind. | ||
| Broke brain? | ||
| The dual capacity to hold two thoughts? | ||
| Because actually what's truly happening in this country is a literal insurrection against the power of the United States of America, the power of our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, and so on. | ||
| So which side is Brandon Johnson on? | ||
| You really need to ask that question in the context of, well, the historic realities of the Civil War. | ||
| Whose side is insurrecting? | ||
| Against the American people. | ||
| The American founding documents. | ||
| Against law and order. | ||
| And against, most importantly, the will of the American people. | ||
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| Because we voted for this. | ||
| Got what I voted for. | ||
| Again, metal. | ||
| I voted for mass deportations. | ||
| We weren't subtle about this. | ||
| They were holding up signs at the RNC, you might recall. | ||
| Mass deportations now were the signs. | ||
| And people voted for Donald Trump in a massive landslide. | ||
| It's why I continue to have this map up here on the wall to show you what country you live in. | ||
| A country that wants and demands these mass deportations. | ||
| But it's Brandon Johnson's side that is insurrecting against the will of the American people. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| They are absolutely terrified. | ||
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This is it. | |
| There should be no question to what our country would look like have the Confederacy won. | ||
| We're seeing it on full display. | ||
| All right. | ||
| This is what would happen if the Confederacy won. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| What an important way to kick off our conversation with the great Harmeet Dillon, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Harmeet Dillon is the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice. | ||
| We're so honored to have her on our program live now. | ||
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We're so honored to have you. | |
| Harmeet, we've had multiple members of the Trump administration on. | ||
| None of them have shown us backyard cooking, gardening, and knitting content. | ||
| And so we just want to say thank you for that. | ||
| You're welcome. | ||
| Yeah, it's fun to follow along. | ||
| And good luck there in D.C. We try to get a garden to grow there. | ||
| Tough soil in that city. | ||
| Yeah, it is. | ||
| I had to actually truck in some good soil to make that happen, but it's going well. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| You're trucking quite a bit in your new role. | ||
| And you have taken a pretty aggressive stance in favor of law and order in this country against, let's start with Brandon Johnson. | ||
| He's the mayor of Chicago. | ||
| And he bragged about hiring based on race and how excited he was about that and discriminatory policies against white people, Hispanic people in his city. | ||
| Can you give us an update on that investigation? | ||
| Well, we are investigating. | ||
| I can't really talk about the content of the investigation at this time but what I can tell you is that You're absolutely correct. | ||
| The American people voted for the equal application of our civil rights laws in the United States. | ||
| And that is what they're getting from this Department of Justice. | ||
| Without fear or favor, we are going to go after people who discriminate on the basis of race. | ||
| And in this country, in 2025, that is typically people like Brandon Johnson, like, frankly, big American corporations, and like the elite universities in the United States. | ||
| They are very comfortable with decades of court-sanctioned discrimination. | ||
| Which is now ending. | ||
| A Supreme Court one by one is knocking down the precedents that have allowed this type of discrimination. | ||
| Just last week, the Supreme Court ruled that Sort of majority or mainstream plaintiffs who are suing for discrimination in a company don't have to prove a higher standard of discrimination. | ||
| They simply have to prove that they were discriminated against. | ||
| That is the American way. | ||
| That is how the statutes were written. | ||
| And Brandon Johnson and every other big city mayor who is engaging in this type of discrimination is going to be held to the standards of the Civil Rights Act. | ||
| Now, I find that very natural and comfortable. | ||
| He finds it very uncomfortable. | ||
| Welcome to the new reality, Mayor Johnson. | ||
| Yeah, I'd love to get you just your take on this ruling. | ||
| It seems like a very common sense ruling. | ||
| A woman in Ohio who was discriminated against because she was straight, got passed over and then demoted for employees who were gay multiple times. | ||
| And she sued and the Supreme Court sided with her 9-0, which was a shock to me. | ||
| Maybe it wasn't to you, Harmeet, your take on this ruling. | ||
| Look, there's probably some politics behind the scene and the fact that one particular justice signed the opinion, and that's probably some maneuvering by the Supreme Court to show that it, too, can actually come out with widely popular rulings occasionally. | ||
| That's been a bit of a failure at some points recently. | ||
| But this ruling tracks exactly what the language of the Civil Rights Act says. | ||
| It doesn't say that certain races or certain characteristics have a higher standard of proof than others. | ||
| It simply says that it's illegal in America to discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics. | ||
| And the Supreme Court has included those characteristics, has included sexual orientation of those characteristics, so that means Both sides, if you will, have the right to equal opportunity, and you should not get a job or be denied a job on the basis of who you choose to sleep with. | ||
| This seems very common sense to me, and I welcome that. | ||
| And by the way, that's already how we were operating in the United States Department of Justice. | ||
| It was already my ruling. | ||
| I've already brought cases in California and other jurisdictions for majority plaintiffs who have been the victim of DEI policies. | ||
| And we've won some of those cases. | ||
| And so this is now going to be the new. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Okay, so let's talk about California real fast. | ||
| So what's going on with some of these Mexican nationalist groups and some of these Hispanic supremacist groups that are openly advocating on the street that California belongs to Mexico? | ||
| That Americans need to all leave California. | ||
| We're hearing some unbelievably radical talk, and that's followed up, of course, by very violent action. | ||
| Action against our own American military, which prima facie seems like an open attack against America itself. | ||
| Well, Benny, when I saw the scenes on Los Angeles of people waving these giant Mexican flags, I had PTSD because we saw the exact same scenes in San Jose, California, during one of President Trump's first rallies in California during the 2016 election cycle. | ||
| The date was June 2nd. | ||
| And out of nowhere, we don't typically see organically people waving these giant Mexican flags in California. | ||
| And I call it riot in a box. | ||
| Provided the rioters in that case with these giant flags and a whole playbook. | ||
| And that playbook is playing out here. | ||
| So this is not organic, what you're seeing here. | ||
| We don't see these scenes in California on a rolling basis. | ||
| Someone provided the flags, someone provided the accelerant, and someone provided those expensive face masks that deter facial recognition technology. | ||
| And so this is a well-funded insurrection in the United States. | ||
| It is not organic. | ||
| It is not coming from, you know, sort of nascent unrest in California. | ||
| But it is divisive. | ||
| It could be foreign-funded. | ||
| I don't know that. | ||
| I'm confident that my friends in the FBI are aggressively tracing the sources of the money. | ||
| Just this morning, less than an hour ago, my dear friend Bill Asaley posted on X that they arrested an agitator who was distributing these masks. | ||
| These masks are expensive, so I am sure that the FBI is going to get to the bottom of all those communications with this criminal who tried to help | ||
| And between Pam Bondi, the president, and all the folks here at the DOJ, this is really job one, putting down this unrest in the United States and making sure that Yes, even in beautiful California, California is worth saving and worth fighting for. | ||
| And if anything, I think that these riots and the pallid, lame response from the governor is actually turning, is actually radicalizing everyday Californians against these sanctuary policies, which will be a great thing for America. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, we've we've we started the show off by playing video. | ||
| I think there's absolute and total fatigue against Marxist revolutionaries in this country. | ||
| Totally agree. | ||
| And I think even the citizens of California have had enough. | ||
| Okay, so this is very interesting. | ||
| We have the post-up right here of the arrest. | ||
| This is the gentleman who dropped off what had to have been tens of thousands of dollars worth of very expensive gas masks. | ||
| And he drove a truck right into the protest and he started giving away gas masks so that people could agitate against the police. | ||
| He looks like he's wearing some type of paramilitary uniform here. | ||
| And according to some of the research that I've seen, he's part of a Mexican nationalist group. | ||
| He's part of a radicalized Mexican nationalist group that, of course, is calling for Mexico to retake over California. | ||
| Is this going to stand here? | ||
| You know, and more importantly, you know. | ||
| Do you have any instinct as to how this is being funded? | ||
| Look, there are several suspects for the funding. | ||
| Like I said, what I saw on the streets there looked identical to what I saw in 2016. | ||
| And we've seen it during BLM protests as well. | ||
| This is opportunistic Marxism, bringing in every movement. | ||
| That's why you see people wearing keffias joining the fray. | ||
| These are costumes. | ||
| These are costumes. | ||
| These are signaling for a media narrative. | ||
| And I think the looting and so forth is incidental to that. | ||
| It's opportunistic. | ||
| But really, the imagery we're seeing is planned and deliberate. | ||
| And it is the divisiveness, I think, that is the goal here. | ||
| It is the design of dividing and terrorizing Americans. | ||
| And frankly, what is the most shameful and shocking about this is elected leaders in California, the governor, the mayor of Los Angeles, others, effectively saying that a condition of ending the rioting is that we stop enforcing Our borders in the United States, which, as you said, people voted for. | ||
| I think your everyday American does not want looters and rioting in their neighborhoods. | ||
| And so this is blackmail. | ||
| And so Americans are being conditioned to watch their TV screens and see their elected leaders say the only way this radical criminal behavior that people are getting used to in Europe, we do not want to get used to it here in the United States, it'll only stop. | ||
| If we stop enforcing the laws, well, that is an unacceptable condition because that is the beginning of the end of the United States. | ||
| This is the greatest country in America, and under no circumstances can we allow those circumstances to thrive here. | ||
| And so this will not deter us in the DOJ. | ||
| From doing our job. | ||
| And if anything, if Governor Newsom had any sense, he would have been the first person to pick up the phone and call the National Guard. | ||
| He would have been a hero in California if he'd done that. | ||
| But he missed his opportunity. | ||
| And I think he is seeing, like those flames in Los Angeles, his presidential aspirations go up in smoke. | ||
| So much to be said about the state of California and the happenings at a place not too far from where you're from, Berkeley. | ||
| Berkeley had Brandon Tatum on campus and he was attacked violently by what you just called a Marxist rent-a-mob. | ||
| And this was an organized attack. | ||
| He's, of course, there to speak on behalf of a minority political opinion on that campus. | ||
| And he was physically assaulted by this group and the police did nothing. | ||
| In fact, the police protected the protesters instead of Brandon Tatum on campus. | ||
| Now, this happens regularly with Turning Point USA. | ||
| I know you're familiar with the group, but this happens across the nation. | ||
| Is this going to simply just be something that we allow forever? | ||
| That any Turning Point table or any table with Republicans or any kid wearing a MAGA hat on a college campus is a target? | ||
| For Marxist and left-wing extremism, I mean, if there's ever a protected minority class, if there's ever a class that can be considered a true minority, deeply outnumbered, it is a conservative wearing a MAGA hat on Berkeley's campus. | ||
| Well, so this is a complex issue. | ||
| I actually went to court in 2017 to sue UC Berkeley because they refused to allow certain conservative speakers on campus, including Ann Coulter, David Horowitz. | ||
| You know, these folks were not allowed to speak on the campus at all. | ||
| So we went to court, we sued them, and we want on behalf of the Berkeley College Republicans and Young Americans Foundation that when there are applications to speak on the campus in an official capacity, Berkeley has to Provide equal protection and not charge extra for security. | ||
| This seems to be a slightly different kind of event involving tabling, which is in a free space, sort of a free speech zone on the campus. | ||
| And so the different problem here is that It actually lies with the Department of Justice in a way, because for decades, the United States Department of Justice, you know, liberal activists here in this building have gone after the police. | ||
| They've joined hands with BLM movement and other movements before that to say that police are bad. | ||
| When police exercise force to quell disturbances, that's a violation of people's civil rights, their right to protest. | ||
| Of course, you don't have a right to be violent and disrupt other people's speech. | ||
| That's a classic norm of the First Amendment. | ||
| And so the police have been conditioned for decades now to sit on their hands and not take any action. | ||
| I witnessed this in San Jose in 2016. | ||
| We've seen it in the BLM riots in 2020. | ||
| And now we're seeing it today on these campuses. | ||
| As a legal matter, the police in Berkeley cannot be forced to, you know, sort of enforce the law. | ||
| They can have their policies from above. | ||
| But to the extent that they can create dangerous conditions, that's not protected by the law. | ||
| And so, you know, I'd be interested to know whether they contributed to the dangerous conditions there by blocking off exits or anything like that. | ||
| That's something that's not allowed. | ||
| Ultimately, we have to empower the police in our country | ||
| we have actually been systematically withdrawing consent decree filings by the prior administration and dismissing Flawed factual findings, claiming that the police were engaging in unlawful conduct by simply engaging with wrongdoers and arresting them. | ||
| So it will take many years, I think, to change people's attitudes on this issue. | ||
| And so we need to start this process, but ultimately want to empower police all over the United States. | ||
| To endorse and follow the law. | ||
| But look, in Berkeley, if the police chief is ordering the police to arrest and rough up these criminals, they may lose their position. | ||
| And so there's a political angle to this as well. | ||
| So until we change the laws that really force the police to be held accountable, this is what you're going to see in Berkeley. | ||
| It just seems like there's no Republican or conservative or red community in this country. | ||
| Where you see open and active attacks against leftists or liberals, but you can find them even on the streets right outside of the building that you're in right now. | ||
| One of your colleagues, Ed Martin, where he got assaulted live on TV. | ||
| This is how empowered the left feels to attack and assault Republicans that are just standing, that their crimes are just standing in the street, whether it's Brandon Tatum on Berkeley or whether it's this individual here in Washington, D.C. Would you be in favor of amending the Civil Rights Act to include political protection? | ||
| Because this is a hate crime. | ||
| The way that we see it is it's a hate crime, Harmeet, where someone is saying this black conservative wearing a MAGA hat doesn't have a right to exist. | ||
| So we're going to physically attack them based on their immutable qualities, right? | ||
| And it's the same as a religious attack or a racial attack. | ||
| And we've done years of coverage of this. | ||
| Nothing seems to be changing. | ||
| I'm wondering your take on that. | ||
| Well, look, I can't speak to legislation or changes of that nature, but I will tell you that in California Discrimination in employment on the basis of politics is illegal. | ||
| And so that actually has been the basis of several lawsuits that I filed when I was a plaintiff's lawyer in California successfully. | ||
| And so it's easy to expand that if legislatures want to do that, but that's not my purview. | ||
| I'm working for the executive branch right now, so I'll decline to take a position on that. | ||
| But what I will say is that setting aside the hate aspect of it, spitting on people and attacking people, Like the DOJ has been saying in recent days, if you spit, we hit. | ||
| They're following that in protests throughout the United States. | ||
| I mean, I've been heckled at the DMV here in D.C. And so it is a risk that every person takes when they're serving in this administration that they may be publicly harassed and attacked. | ||
| It is something that I'm on high alert on all the time. | ||
| In San Francisco, you know, interestingly, I could walk around and nobody really harassed me too much. | ||
| But here in D.C., it is a very divisive environment. | ||
| And so anyone serving in this administration is at risk on the streets of being harassed, attacked and so forth. | ||
| And so it is a tense situation here. | ||
| Yeah, it is awful to see. | ||
| And it's terrible to see it not improve. | ||
| We all remember when Sarah Sanders was chased out of a restaurant in the first administration. | ||
| She wasn't allowed to eat there. | ||
| It's like going back to the old, like the worst stories of the pre-civil rights era. | ||
| Yeah, we've seen it. | ||
| Okay, so it'd be really nice to get heavy enforcement against some of these individuals to deter this, because I think that's probably the best deterrence, is going to jail. | ||
| I think so. | ||
| You can see our administration is not pulling any punches in these riots in Los Angeles. | ||
| If anything, the governor still has the ability to call out the majority of the National Guard. | ||
| I think they've only called out about a quarter of it. | ||
| Or the president could do that, too, if necessary. | ||
| You know, we're going to see some protests here in D.C. this weekend with the 250th anniversary of the Army celebrations here. | ||
| There will be, as was mentioned in the White House press conference, there'll be some unrest here. | ||
| I'm planning to attend those celebrations with a lot of my colleagues here at the DOJ. | ||
| We're proud of our military here in this administration. | ||
| But, you know, everyone has to be on alert about these things. | ||
| Final question, and it's one that we've been asking on the show. | ||
| There was a high-profile murder that occurred in Texas. | ||
| The murderer was, his name is Carmelo Anthony, and he stabbed a young white student to death over what seems to be like the smallest of possible disputes at a track meet. | ||
| People are a little concerned about this case because you're starting to see major leniency. | ||
| And people are rightly very upset that, of course, he's had his bond lowered and that he's able to just go hang out at home and go graduate and so on, saying this, of course, these are not the things that would have been. | ||
| This seems to be a dual standard here. | ||
| I'd just like to get your take on this case. | ||
| Is the Civil Rights Department looking into this? | ||
| Do you have any instinct that this might have been a hate crime? | ||
| Can you comment on the Carmelo Anthony murder? | ||
| Well, what I can say is that, first of all, the United States Department of Justice will typically only come in and prosecute a crime where we have Jurisdiction and where the facts are very clear and also where the local authorities haven't taken care of it properly. | ||
| So we would have to reserve judgment on that issue as we see what happens in this prosecution. | ||
| But what I can say is that you have to understand that throughout the United States, thanks to, again, liberal activists that have come out of this DOJ and gone on to form nonprofits, be funded by Soros, et cetera, is that bail standards have systematically been changed throughout the United States through litigation. | ||
| And I believe Texas is actually one of those places where at the county level this has happened. | ||
| It's happened in California as well, starting with San Francisco and moving out. | ||
| Bail has effectively been destroyed in many parts of the United States, monetary bail. | ||
| And this is a sort of criminal justice reform. | ||
| Again, form of Marxism, really, where the idea is that we don't, you know, assume this person is a danger to society. | ||
| I think we can assume this person is a danger to society. | ||
| I certainly assume that. | ||
| But, you know, judges have been habituated. | ||
| And in some counties in, yes, red Texas, there have been elections for judges where all the people who won the election were progressives. | ||
| And so, you know, Texas needs to get its house in order and stop electing woke people To the bench, who then make decisions like the ones that you're commenting on here. | ||
| And that's not really something that the DOJ can control at that level. | ||
| But at the end of the day, if justice is not had in any particular case and would believe that a hate crime occurred and it was not properly prosecuted, there could be a hate crime claim being brought. | ||
| But I'm going to reserve judgment on that until we see what happens at the end of the day here. | ||
| Good. | ||
| I mean, listen, all we're calling for is just blind justice, right? | ||
| You murder somebody in cold blood, you need to get the book, you know, you need to spend the rest of your life. | ||
| You took someone else's son, you took someone else's life, you need to not be given any favors, right? | ||
| And that's, I think, that's all anyone's ever asking for. | ||
| One quick thing, you talked about elections, and we did have a case here, the DOJ, right here on justice.gov, about looking into the Wisconsin elections. | ||
| Justice Department announces action against Wisconsin elections today and making sure we have free and fair elections. | ||
| This is from your division. | ||
| I want to give you an opportunity to comment. | ||
| We've talked quite a bit about the mess of the Wisconsin election process here. | ||
| Can you explain what's happening here, Carmine? | ||
| Yeah, so this is going to be the first of probably many enforcement actions like this. | ||
| United States Department of Justice, people have to understand, we're not these sort of election integrity monitors of America. | ||
| The majority of the election laws in the United States are actually administered and enforced, and the rules are set at the state level. | ||
| That's in the Constitution. | ||
| However, we do administer several federal statutes that govern voting in federal elections for the most part, and occasionally a little bit beyond that. | ||
| So there's the Voting Rights Act, Help America Vote Act, the National Voter Registration Act, and UOCAVA, which governs overseas voters, and there's a couple of other things like that. | ||
| So in this case, the Help America Vote Act requires states to have complaint procedures when it comes to their voter rolls. | ||
| And, you know, Wisconsin has tried to be cute. | ||
| And respond to voters making complaints about bloated voter rolls by simply saying, oh, you know, LOL, we can't investigate ourselves. | ||
| So sorry, there's no complaint procedure here. | ||
| That's illegal. | ||
| And that's the basis of this complaint. | ||
| Now, other states have different problems with their voter rolls. | ||
| And so we are sort of one by one taking on these things. | ||
| I mean, I've got a great head of the election law practice here. | ||
| And so we are. | ||
| Ramping up, you're going to see a number of different enforcement actions and maybe even litigation out of the DOJ to help enforce our federal election laws. | ||
| Ultimately, I'd love to see Congress take some stronger measures on some of these things. | ||
| Until they do, we actually have some good laws on the books and we're going to enforce those to the fullest extent possible by the United States Department of Justice. | ||
| Like, only American citizens can vote in the election. | ||
| Like, that seems like a no-brainer. | ||
| Seems like it actually deprives me, an American citizen, of my right to vote when there's an illegal that votes and then cancels out my vote. | ||
| That seems like the most basic civil rights violation in America, actually. | ||
| I went to court just last week to argue for the one-person-one-vote standard. | ||
| Believe it or not, you still have to argue that here in the United States in 2025 when a woke legislature in Maine stripped Laura Libby. | ||
| And all of the voters in Maine District 90 of having a voice in the legislature for a two-year period. | ||
| This is insane. | ||
| And this is the kind of things that, you know, some people in our country feel very comfortable stripping certain people based on their viewpoints. | ||
| In that case, Laura Libby's crime, if you will, was saying that boys should not take girls' trophies in girls' sports, something that the United States Department of Justice is also suing over through the Civil Rights Division. | ||
| So we are really taking on all of these issues, Benny. | ||
| It's a joy. | ||
| It's a challenge. | ||
| Every few minutes, some new civil rights violation comes in my door and I have to, you know, scramble the jets and allocate resources. | ||
| But we're loving it. | ||
| And it is a tremendous privilege every day to get up in the morning and fight for the United States voters and citizens and girls in sports and just taxpayers to be safe. | ||
| And be free from the harassment and chaos that some elements in our country would like to see us get used to. | ||
| We're not going to get used to living like that. | ||
| It's our great honor to be here and support you and to support your work. | ||
| And we're deeply thankful for it. | ||
| It seems like there's a spiritual exorcism going on, actually, in the country. | ||
| And things are going back to the way they should be. | ||
| And that's all we've ever wanted, right? | ||
| Fair, blind, justice, law, and order. | ||
| Everybody follow Harmeet. | ||
| Millions! | ||
| 1.2 million to be exact. | ||
| Patriotic Americans already do. | ||
| Make sure you're giving power to the people who are fighting for you and a safer, better America. | ||
| Godspeed, Harmeet. | ||
| Thank you so much, Benny. | ||
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| you you you Ladies and gentlemen, always our great honor to have such a capacity to go. | ||
| It seems like a bizarro world where we can go multiple times on this program. | ||
| We've gone into the Department of Justice. | ||
| We've been there as a speaker. | ||
| We've never been there once. | ||
| We've been there as a speaker. | ||
| We've been there as an attendee at events like President Trump's speech at the DOJ. | ||
| We were there speaking on stage with Steve Bannon about weaponization. | ||
| And never once were we in handcuffs. | ||
| Not once did we have to go into the Department of Justice while I was cuffed, which is a miracle. | ||
| I mean, I thought it was a miracle. | ||
| I went, wow! | ||
| We're going to the Department of Justice on our own accord? | ||
| Incredible! | ||
| And then also we have these wonderful guests who join our program to describe the fight against darkness. | ||
| in Washington, D.C. It's very, very special. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, getting our house in order in this nation, Harmeet Dillon is just one of those people, right, who's locked in and who's cleaning house and setting the tables right again. | ||
| I thought that was particularly interesting that she said that there are, it's clearly this is an organized protest and they're looking into who is funding all of this, who's funding the insurrection into this country. | ||
| Such an important question, right? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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| All right. | ||
| We didn't get to all of the things that we wanted to talk about with these riots. | ||
| We wanted to talk about, and it's perfect, on the heels of Harmeet, Senator Hawley, Josh Hawley, is saying, no, no, no, what we need is full-scale investigations into Where all the money is coming from? | ||
| Because if you're funding an insurrection that's harming American troops, soldiers, cops, burning great American cities to the ground, what wants great American cities, you can go look at footage from L.A. in the 1950s, 1960s. | ||
| It's like paradise on earth. | ||
| How quickly everything gets destroyed under Marxism. | ||
| Let's go find out who's doing it. | ||
| Let's prosecute them. | ||
| You know, if you cut the money off, then you fix the problem. | ||
| By and large, here we go. | ||
| Senator Tulsi Gabbard just said that these riots in LA and all over the country are orchestrated. | ||
| Can you tell us anything about that? | ||
| Yeah, I think that's absolutely right, Jesse. | ||
| These aren't spontaneous at all. | ||
| They're about as authentic as AstroTurf. | ||
| They are bought and paid for flash mobs. | ||
| And I want to know who's doing the buying and the paying. | ||
| That's why today I've launched an investigation. | ||
| I've sent multiple investigative demands today to various groups out on social media claiming they are paying for this. | ||
| They are organizing it. | ||
| They are financing it. | ||
| We've all seen the videos of vans driving up, handing out gas masks right before somebody blows up a car. | ||
| It's time we found out. | ||
| Where's the money coming from? | ||
| Who's really behind this? | ||
| I think the American people deserve answers. | ||
| Well, you know, there's a dude who's been arrested. | ||
| Here's a photo of him right here. | ||
| Breaking exclusive. | ||
| The driver who went viral dropping off bionic shield face masks, which are very expensive, by the way. | ||
| They're like 80 to 100 bucks a pop. | ||
| This dude drove an entire truck full of them. | ||
| So, like, let's just round it up, right? | ||
| Sales tax. | ||
| So you got $100 per mask. | ||
| Drop off $10, that's $1,000. | ||
| You're spending then, you know, if you're dropping off hundreds, then you're spending tens of thousands of dollars, potentially hundreds of thousands, because who knows if he was the only truck? | ||
| I mean, if they're dropping it off in one location, how many other locations are there? | ||
| Who's dropping off the bricks? | ||
| Who's dropping off those giant pallets of bricks and cinder blocks that, like, sit there in the middle of the road for them to throw at the cop cars? | ||
| So you're doing tens of thousands. | ||
| So this individual is spending maybe hundreds of thousands of dollars on bionic masks to just give to people? | ||
| Oh, no, no, no, no, no. | ||
| That's not how it works. | ||
| I mean, unless this guy's a multimillionaire. | ||
| That's not pocket change for anyone. | ||
| He had hundreds of them. | ||
| Tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in face masks given to a bunch of people. | ||
| Here's a good example of what a bionic face shield looks like. | ||
| This was caught on camera. | ||
| Again, very expensive item there. | ||
| About 100 bucks each. | ||
| You can see on camera here a dude that you can see him pulling up in the truck and then dropping off all of his masks. | ||
| He's got a black truck and he's just handing out. | ||
| He's got a black truck and he's handing them out. | ||
| So all the protesters are running over, grabbing box after box after box. | ||
| Here. | ||
| There we go. | ||
| Who's paying for that exactly? | ||
| He really dipped into his pocket out of the goodness of his heart and went and paid for hundreds, if not thousands of these masks. | ||
| This is just what we have on footage. | ||
| No, dude. | ||
| There's nothing natural about this. | ||
| At all. | ||
| At all. | ||
| ALX, I want to do the Assault That Lib with Nicole Wallace. | ||
| My question to you is, do we have the hilarious video from yesterday? | ||
| Can we play it from yesterday of ICE hunting down the criminal aliens? | ||
| Because it's awesome. | ||
| It went viral on our pages. | ||
| And the amazing Ashley put it up. | ||
| Yeah, the TikTok. | ||
| Do we have that? | ||
| And if we have that, I want to play it because I want to do a massive shout-out to our boys. | ||
| Because we got these boys, okay, who are up in the White House digital and social teams. | ||
| And they're making some incredible content. | ||
| Just incredible content. | ||
| Let's just pop it up. | ||
| Send in the asset, please. | ||
| I want to play it because this is Nicole Wallace. | ||
| We are going to play Nicole Wallace melting down over this. | ||
| It's an amazing video. | ||
| It's about hunting down criminal aliens, catching them, and deporting them. | ||
| Oh, it's just a beautiful thing. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
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| Mm-hmm. | ||
| Mm-hmm. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, we got to get better with timing without. | ||
| No, no. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Like this is the content that I live for. | ||
| This is the content I live for. | ||
| There are a couple more that are so good. | ||
| You can grab some of those Border Patrol ones. | ||
| This is the criminal aliens getting carted off. | ||
| Who's going to run this town tonight? | ||
| We are going to run this town tonight. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| Exciting. | ||
| Also, wow, there's quite the height differential there. | ||
| That is really... | ||
| That is an American... | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Versus churros diet. | ||
| Good for you. | ||
| Okay, here we go. | ||
| This is the cartel party next door. | ||
| And let us know, we'll bring ice. | ||
| This is when they busted the cartel nightclub and then deported everybody. | ||
| Amazing. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, we're witnessing amazing times. | ||
| This is the Homeland Security meme that went viral yesterday. | ||
| Help your country and yourself. | ||
| Report all foreign invaders. | ||
| Call ICE. | ||
| Going back. | ||
| Going back. | ||
| Rewind back into the good old days. | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| Nicole Wallace is our Salt That Lib of the day. | ||
| She is very salty. | ||
| Please get out your salt shakers. | ||
| If you're new here, then what we do is we flood the comments with salt. | ||
| The reason we do that is because we salt our libs on this program. | ||
| We're so nice. | ||
| When the libs are crying, screaming, shrieking, they need salt, extra salt, extra sodium, because they're crying all their tears. | ||
| And so that's how polite we are. | ||
| That's how nice we actually are on the show. | ||
| So, ladies and gentlemen, please help assault Nicole Wallace, the lib, crying about all the memes. | ||
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| I have very mixed feelings about showing this to both of you. | ||
| It is news, but it is news from the Trump administration. | ||
| It's a post from the Department of Homeland Security that they put on X advertising a tip line with a poster that reads, quote, help your country and yourself report all foreign invaders. | ||
| This is your taxpayer dollars, regardless of who you voted for if you pay taxes. | ||
| Your taxes are paying for this ad being disseminated on Elon Musk's Platform X that says, quote, help your country and yourself report all foreign invaders. | ||
| General, did Vladimir Putin write that? | ||
| He might very well have. | ||
| I'll tell you one foreign invader we could deal with is Elon Musk. | ||
| But having said that, I mean, it's just absurd that we would, that America's and our strength and our democracy is our ability to take so many different cultures and so many different religions and make something great. | ||
| And that's what we've done throughout our entire, diversity has been our strength. | ||
| And when you look at that, it taps into the isolationist impulses of a lot of people, the inner racism and hatreds that a lot of people have, unfortunately. | ||
| And so many of those people have not had the courage to speak up and to stand up for democracy. | ||
| And the American way of life. | ||
| And unfortunately, the Republican Congress might be the greatest offender in this regard. | ||
| No one in the Senate or the Congress is standing up against our dear leader when he tries to tap into these isolationist impulses and use our military to further his political means. | ||
| Is diversity our strength exactly? | ||
| We have a great mind on the program, ladies and gentlemen, right now. | ||
| The great Mike Cernovich is here. | ||
| And maybe we should start off with that. | ||
| Is diversity our strength? | ||
| Has diversity ever been a strength? | ||
| Well, well, well. | ||
| Let's bring on Mike and chat about it. | ||
| Mike Cernovich joins us live. | ||
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| Mike, if you were running a business or sports team or commanding an army or running a nation, has diversity ever been the strength of any of those businesses? | ||
| Well, we know how the left uses it, which is jamming a bunch of people with different value systems and different cultures together, and then they call that diversity. | ||
| That's the left's definition. | ||
| I don't know if you can see the flames or the fires from the beautiful part of California that you live in, but not too far down the road in LA, the city has been torched. | ||
| I would say torched the ground, but there wasn't much left there in the first place. | ||
| We were just in LA. | ||
| And went through Skid Row in downtown LA. | ||
| I mean, the entire place, even pre-these riots, were like a boarded up sort of post-apocalyptic disaster. | ||
| What do you make of these riots? | ||
| Was this inevitable eventually in California? | ||
| Well, we had them actually. | ||
| what got me involved in media to a degree that a lot of people don't even know. | ||
| This might have been even before you, but I had videos and everything, and this was before I knew how to use Twitter. | ||
| I just took videos and was interviewing people. | ||
| I was on Periscope live streaming, and you saw the same kind of elements. | ||
| I mean, unfortunately, what's happened is that a lot of bad history has been taught to people, and people are under the impression that like we, | ||
| There's so many things wrong, but they've been completely indoctrinated into it, where when you look at the real history, Spain had California for a while, and then Mexico became Mexico and was released from Spain, Spanish colonialism. | ||
| And then California was unsettled. | ||
| There was a whole swath of land in the Southwest that everybody in Mexico was afraid to go to because of the Comanches and the Apaches. | ||
| So then there was a war. | ||
| And I can't say my people because my people came over in like 1911 and the original settlers who had won the Civil War, General Sherman went through and wiped everything out, which is why I always think it's funny that the We love General Sherman. | ||
| It's like, well, turn the history book page to after the Civil War. | ||
| And then you can, he obviously did great things after the Civil War, but they don't know that. | ||
| So what we have now are a war of cultures, which could be a hot war at any time where people think, well, you stole our land, and therefore we're allowed to use force. | ||
| to take the land back. | ||
| It's completely incoherent, but that's how they've been indoctrinated. | ||
| So these riots and this other violence has been programmed for a while and is unsurprising, unfortunately. | ||
| Can you find for me the limiting principle there, Cerno? | ||
| You're very good at, like, reducing things down to its basic atoms and elements. | ||
| So does that mean that – so we're supposed to – so the argument is we give the land back to Mexico. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But then following that conclusion, then Mexico has to give the land back to a European power, which is Spain. | ||
| It's Spain. | ||
| And then Spain has to give it back to the Native Americans. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And then the Americans need to walk off their reservations or wherever they live. | ||
| They need to walk back over the Bering Strait into Russia. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And then all of the land needs to go back to Mother Nature. | ||
| Is that the limiting principle? | ||
| Or the Apaches. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Yeah, it's fundamentally, that's why there's been a lot of debate over the years about what it means to be a leftist, what woke means, and I had always said they just hate white people, and I've always felt, maybe because I'm, you know, cucky, but I've always not liked that rhetoric to just say, no, they just hate white people, but I've always said it because it's true, but it felt, it always felt so racially charged in 2015. | ||
| That's why I think it's funny, people are like, oh, wow, look at, look at what Posobiec's saying in 2025. | ||
| It's like, dude, In 2015, everybody in OG MAG was like, no, they just hate white people. | ||
| It's not any more complicated than that. | ||
| None of you little edgy 15-year-olds came up with this stuff. | ||
| This was being talked about a long time ago. | ||
| And you see that, for example, in California. | ||
| California used to be 80% white, right? | ||
| So if California was stolen from Mexico, then it didn't go from 80% Mexican, and then it was repopulated by 80% white people. | ||
| It was just mostly an empty land. | ||
| There's some missions in Orange County and other parts of California, San Diego. | ||
| I mean, that's what's so funny about all this is if you trace the history of California, it was a Catholic colony from Spain, and then the Spanish came in and converted people. | ||
| And it's actually interesting. | ||
| We were in Peru. | ||
| We were in Peru. | ||
| Should we give it back to the Vatican? | ||
| No, hold on. | ||
| So really, are they arguing to give it back to the Vatican? | ||
| So the Vatican should control California? | ||
| I might actually be down with that. | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Right, and that's why when you do any kind of Socratic interrogation, you realize there's no philosophical principles at work. | ||
| It's just, no, they just hate white people. | ||
| They want white people to leave, but then when white people do leave, then they call that white flight. | ||
| And then they say all the racist white people are leaving, but wait a minute. | ||
| So, yeah, if you looked at it philosophically, and this is kind of where I frustrate people, I think, on both sides of Israel and Gaza, is because I'm like, look, Israel took the land and they have it and I'm okay with it. | ||
| And my pro-Israel friends get really mad at that because they're like, no, no, no, it was promised to them by God and all they're doing is... | ||
| And then I have people on the Gaza side saying, well, you're so cruel. | ||
| People just can't take land. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| How do you think we all ended up there, right? | ||
| So I have a pretty coherent, even if people don't like it, I have a pretty coherent view on Israel-Gaza, on the Spanish-American War, on the Mexican-American War, and people take your land. | ||
| And even right now, the land in Britain, the West, and even in America, our land is being taken. | ||
| Our country is being taken from us. | ||
| And it's a unilateral situation where So it's a unilateral disarmament. | ||
| It's actually a very disgusting and evil form of ethnic cleansing happening to Americans right now in their own countries and in our own countries because under my worldview, I would just say, okay, let's just have it out. | ||
| Let's just have it out. | ||
| You guys want to get wild in the streets? | ||
| That's fine. | ||
| Let's just all get wild in the streets and let's just see what happens, right? | ||
| But that could never happen because then that would also show who deserves the land and who could actually take the land and keep the land. | ||
| So it's like we've often talked about this on the program that South Africa is the model. | ||
| I mean the model would be – And that is actually happening here in real time. | ||
| It was amazing yesterday, you know, we talked a lot about Minneapolis, Minnesota, and how it's just not Minneapolis anymore. | ||
| Because you brought Somalia to Minneapolis, you turned it into Somalia. | ||
| Like, the place isn't the culture. | ||
| It's not the rocks and the sticks. | ||
| It's the people. | ||
| And you bring all the people, and you bring the language, and you bring the culture, and you bring the histories and the traditions. | ||
| They travel with the people. | ||
| And so what you've done is you've turned Minneapolis into Somalia. | ||
| And we saw yesterday, of course, the high school shooting. | ||
| Two Somali young boys that were planning on shooting up their entire graduation. | ||
| They got charged yesterday. | ||
| And it's like, you import the third world, you'll become the third world. | ||
| This isn't hard math. | ||
| Well, and where we lost the plot as a country is because, and that's why I've never ridden a big high horse on, that's what's unfortunate about how the left has radicalized people in a lot of ways. | ||
| I never rode a high horse on immigration because I always thought, well, I had one set of grandparents come over from England and Ireland in 1911. | ||
| Another set came over from Serbia. | ||
| Who am I to ride some big high horse about immigration, right? | ||
| That's why I was sort of moderate on immigration, because if you're a colonial American, then, you know, I understand. | ||
| Like, your ancestors literally built a place. | ||
| That I get. | ||
| So people like me, I always felt like should be a little bit more moderate on it. | ||
| But the difference is that when, when my ancestors came over, You had to learn English. | ||
| There was no welfare system. | ||
| Most people, I didn't know any of this. | ||
| I had to relearn history in my 40s. | ||
| As well educated as I was, you realize you didn't learn any real history. | ||
| And you can look this up. | ||
| A third of Ellis Islanders returned home to Europe. | ||
| I didn't believe it when I first read it. | ||
| I thought, oh, this is just some sketchy anonymous account I'm reading late into the night because my kid can't fall asleep, but I'm on the dark corners of Twitter. | ||
| No, no. | ||
| So a third of Ellis Islanders went back to Europe because if you came here, you didn't have welfare. | ||
| You had to actually board a ship. | ||
| You had to go into the unknown. | ||
| It was a real unknown. | ||
| Now you have an app plugged in. | ||
| You're getting flown in by these NGOs. | ||
| You're given money the minute you arrive. | ||
| have an anchor baby and then that anchor baby is entitled to welfare which flows to the parents. | ||
| So it's a completely different culture. | ||
| culture is a completely different type of person. | ||
| You're not getting people... | ||
| He said, oh, you know, leaving your home to come to America is some huge thing. | ||
| It's like, no, they're taking apps from Mexico, and they're coming up an hour. | ||
| Like, me going to Tijuana is not an adventure, right? | ||
| Unless the cartel catches me. | ||
| You just cross a border from San Diego. | ||
| Right? | ||
| It is not some unknown frontier. | ||
| And you have your phone to give you maps. | ||
| But in the Ellis Islanders and then, of course, the original settlers, you got on a boat and you came over and you had to figure things out. | ||
| Or you were going to starve or you were going to die. | ||
| And this is no longer the case at all. | ||
| because of that, you had assimilation. | ||
| And what we're seeing now when you just import people and you let them live like from where they came from, you do, you end up with Minneapolis is Somalia. | ||
| And Somalis don't want to live in Somalia. | ||
| So why should I have to live in Somalia? | ||
| Why should the Germans who founded Minnesota have to live in Somalia when even the Somalis don't want to live there? | ||
| But the answer is F you. | ||
| You're white. | ||
| You're not allowed to have an opinion. | ||
| We hate you. | ||
| Deal with it. | ||
| Mike, I hate to leave it there, but the president is live and speaking, and we're going to cut over to this. | ||
| God bless you, Mike. | ||
| Please stay safe. | ||
| I'm glad you're in a safe part of California. | ||
| See you, buddy. | ||
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| To do with the California auto-regulation, CRA, it's been a disaster for this country. | ||
| President Trump live now. | ||
| I want to thank everybody for being here. | ||
| Officially rescue the U.S. auto industry from destruction by terminating California electric vehicle mandate once and for all. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| They said it couldn't be done. | ||
| But boy, it's had us tied up in knots for years. | ||
| And they'd pass these crazy rules in California. | ||
| 17 states would go by them. | ||
| The automakers didn't know what to do because they're really building cars for two countries. | ||
| When you have 17 states, you're building cars for two countries. | ||
| I want to congratulate you all. | ||
| The Senate, the House, the whole thing. | ||
| It's incredible. | ||
| I was going to sign an executive order and give it a shot. | ||
| But the one good thing with this, number one, it holds up forever. | ||
| And number two, unless somebody votes it out, they'll never do that. | ||
| And it's just so much better, huh? | ||
| So much better. | ||
| That's so great. | ||
| Very proud of you. | ||
| We're joined today by... | ||
| I think he's going to go down as a great Speaker of the House, too. | ||
| I may be wrong. | ||
| I may be wrong. | ||
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Who knows? | |
| Who the hell knows? | ||
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I think he is. | |
| And he's doing something. | ||
| The only thing I would say is more important than this one. | ||
| And I'll tell you what, it's almost close. | ||
| That's how big this is today. | ||
| But the great, big, beautified the word great. | ||
| You know, I use the word. | ||
| The great, big, beautiful bill. | ||
| I said it this morning to a group. | ||
| I think it's one of the most important pieces of legislation ever signed, ever approved. | ||
| It's going to be something very special. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Secretary Sean Duffy. | ||
| They had a problem in India today. | ||
| Sean's doing a tremendous job. | ||
| Secretary Chris Wright, everybody said you'd never be able to get him. | ||
| He's the most talented man, they say, in the oil and gas industry. | ||
| I'll let you know in about two years if that's true. | ||
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| Well, Doug Burgum, you know, I wanted Doug Burgum to head up energy because he was so successful in North Dakota. | ||
| He's governor. | ||
| And he said, sir, there's one person who's much better than me. | ||
| They said, "Who?" They said, "Chris Wright." I said, "Who the hell is Chris Wright?" I had no idea. | ||
| Now everyone knows Chris Wright. | ||
| He's going to be more famous than me. | ||
| But he said, "There's a guy named Chris Wright, and if we could get him, he'd be better than I am, sir." And if you know Doug, Doug's not here, is he? | ||
| If you knew Doug, he's always working someplace. | ||
| But if you knew Doug, you'd know that he doesn't say that often. | ||
| And he did. | ||
| And Chris, you're doing great. | ||
| But I don't like it. | ||
| The oil prices have gone up just a little bit over the last few days. | ||
| I was going to call and just really start screaming at you. | ||
| Are we okay? | ||
| Nothing wrong, right? | ||
| It's going to keep going down a little bit, right? | ||
| Because we have inflation under control perfectly. | ||
| You probably saw the records. | ||
| Everyone's on television saying, what's going on here? | ||
| Trump has proven to be right. | ||
| You know, all of these things. | ||
| We've taken $88 billion in tariffs. | ||
| In two months. | ||
| $88 billion with no inflation. | ||
| And if we're smart, there won't be. | ||
| Now, I would like to get this guy to lower interest rates because, you know, if he doesn't, we have to pay. | ||
| We have a lot of short-term debt. | ||
| Obama gave it to us originally, and Biden carried it on. | ||
| They like short-term. | ||
| I like long-term cheap debt. | ||
| But a lot of the debt comes through because Biden, that's what, well he didn't do it. | ||
| I'm sure he didn't know anything about it. | ||
| But somebody approved short-term debt. | ||
| It's all over the place. | ||
| And it comes through starting very soon. | ||
| And if we would lower the interest rates by one point, we'd pay about one point less. | ||
| That's $300 billion a year. | ||
| Can you believe it? | ||
| One point. | ||
| If he'd lower it by two points. | ||
| We pay $600 billion a year. | ||
| That's for years, 10 years, 12 years, whatever we make it. | ||
| But we can't get this guy to do it. | ||
| And the fake news is saying, oh, if you fired him, it would be so bad. | ||
| It would be so bad. | ||
| I don't know why it would be so bad, but I'm not going to fire him. | ||
| I just want him to, you know, we call him too late, right? | ||
| Too late is his nickname, like Too Tall Jones. | ||
| He was too tall, T-O-L. | ||
| And I just say this because... | ||
| But we're going to be paying more for debt. | ||
| And all he has to do is lower it. | ||
| Europe's done 10 lowerings. | ||
| We've done none. | ||
| And nobody understands it. | ||
| Actually, today, when the numbers came out, they were so good. | ||
| You saw yesterday's numbers. | ||
| Incredible. | ||
| No inflation. | ||
| Today's numbers. | ||
| Today just came out, same thing. | ||
| No inflation. | ||
| They're all shocked. | ||
| All these guys are watching from business, CNBC, and all of these different networks. | ||
| Maria Bartiroma actually got it right. | ||
| She's been getting it right for a long time, that one. | ||
| I hope she's appreciated. | ||
| Joe Kiernan has been very good at CNBC, I must tell you, but other people aren't so good. | ||
| I will say that they are But if I could, because we can discuss, oh, we've got a lot of press, we've got a lot of cameras rolling right now. | ||
| Not that I like doing it, because I don't. | ||
| But if we cut our interest by one point, for years, we save $300 billion. | ||
| If we count it by two points, we save, because it's pretty equivalent, we're going to save, we're going to spend... | ||
| $600 billion because of one numbskull that sits here. | ||
| I don't see enough raisin to cut the rates now. | ||
| And the problem he's got is that, and I explained to him, look, if inflation went up, cut your rates now. | ||
| There's no inflation. | ||
| We got it down. | ||
| We got prices down. | ||
| We got gasoline down. | ||
| And you'll keep it going down. | ||
| Put gasoline's down. | ||
| It's drill baby drill. | ||
| That's why it's going down. | ||
| But we're all that. | ||
| But think of it. | ||
| I said to him, he was in my office a couple of days ago, I said, if you think there's inflation, let's find out. | ||
| Because I think we're going to keep it down. | ||
| I think gasoline's going to be so far down. | ||
| Oil energy, we have so much energy, we don't know what to do with it. | ||
| But let's say there was inflation in a year from now. | ||
| Raise your rates. | ||
| I don't mind. | ||
| Raise your rates. | ||
| I'm all for it. | ||
| I'll be calling you. | ||
| He'll be too late for that too. | ||
| But raise your rates. | ||
| You don't have to keep them up here. | ||
| If it's going to go up, I'm okay with you raising, but it's down. | ||
| And we're going out to financing. | ||
| And I may have to force something. | ||
| Somebody said, who's the genius that thought of that? | ||
| I said, it's me. | ||
| Unlike Biden, I stay awake at night thinking about how to save our country. | ||
| He was much better at sleeping than me. | ||
| He could sleep on a beach. | ||
| He could sleep on a beach with cameras rolling. | ||
| I can't do that. | ||
| But I had an idea. | ||
| I gave it, they said, this is really, Let this guy get out of office. | ||
| Somebody will come and cut it a couple of points, and we'll save ourselves seven, eight, maybe even $900 billion a year. | ||
| What is he doing? | ||
| Why doesn't he lower these rates? | ||
| And with that, we'll get on to the California standard, which is a disaster, okay? | ||
| So, Chris Wright, you're going to get the numbers down. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Lee Zeldin, one of the most important men in this room. | ||
| He's the man I get nervous when I talk to. | ||
| He's doing a great job. | ||
| Nuclear, I say, okay, you can take two weeks for that approval. | ||
| It used to take 20 years, then they wouldn't approve it. | ||
| Now I say, Lee, nuclear, I'll give you two weeks for approval. | ||
| A coal-fired plant, you only get a couple of days. | ||
| And oil and gas will give you a week, okay? | ||
| Something like that. | ||
| But he's doing it so fast, and we have so many plants being built right now, it's so beautiful to see. | ||
| And one of the reasons they're coming here is because they have to produce tremendous, especially the AI. | ||
| They have to produce beyond believable amounts of electricity. | ||
| I said to them, I think this was more or less my idea. | ||
| They didn't have the idea only because they didn't think a thing like this was possible. | ||
| I said, as you build your plant, you're going to become a utility. | ||
| And you're going to build a separate plant right alongside of it. | ||
| You're going to build it. | ||
| You're going to build a plant that produces electricity. | ||
| And you'll produce it through natural gas, coal, nuclear. | ||
| We don't want to produce it through wind because we don't feel like ruining 50 miles of beautiful plains and beautiful vistas. | ||
| But we want to produce it. | ||
| You know, interestingly, China is opening up a coal plant every single week. | ||
| But now I'm finding out it might be two plants every single week. | ||
| And, you know, usually that's a good gauge. | ||
| If they're using coal, I guess we're supposed to use coal. | ||
| And, you know, we went to a coal standard. | ||
| And not that you have to use coal. | ||
| You're going to use whatever's best. | ||
| I want to introduce also Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, who's a tremendous guy, doctor. | ||
| And he is a tremendous guy, tremendously talented doctor. | ||
| When I have a medical situation for the country, for myself, I haven't used them, but I might have to. | ||
| Maybe I'll do that. | ||
| If it's serious enough, I think I'd probably do that. | ||
| But he's a tremendously talented gentleman who happens to be a senator and one that's very respected. | ||
| Chairwoman Shelley Moore Capito, and congratulations. | ||
| I just endorsed your son. | ||
| Did you know that? | ||
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I endorsed your son. | |
| I endorse your son, who's running in West Virginia, and he's great. | ||
| In fact, he's all Trump all the time. | ||
| I think much more so than you, actually. | ||
| You were his largest impediment. | ||
| No, I'm only kidding. | ||
| He's all Trump all the time, and he's going to win big, and so congratulate him. | ||
| Okay, he's really been fantastic. | ||
| So many people have told me. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| And House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, who's a brave man. | ||
| He went through hell. | ||
| Steve went through hell. | ||
| And we have a lot of other people here that I won't be able to because they don't have your name down, and I'm looking, and I see people's names. | ||
| I'll do a couple of you, but thanks as well to Mark Wayne Mullen, Senator. | ||
| Mark Wayne. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Sit up, Mark Wayne. | ||
| Don't fight him. | ||
| He's a serious fighter in a lot of ways, and he's a great guy, too. | ||
| Thank you, Mark Wayne. | ||
| Deb Fischer. | ||
| Deb? | ||
| Thank you, Deb. | ||
| Pete Ricketts, who's going to do very well in the upcoming election. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Thank you, Pete. | |
| John Husted, who's really moving along in Ohio. | ||
| John, good luck. | ||
| You're going to do well. | ||
| All endorsed people. | ||
| John Curtis, who's doing terrifically. | ||
| John, thank you. | ||
| Good job. | ||
| They all say excellent. | ||
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What can I tell you? | |
| Good job. | ||
| And Bernie Marino, who won a race that was not winnable. | ||
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They all said it's not winnable. | |
| He won in Ohio. | ||
| They said you can't win that race. | ||
| It's a waste of time. | ||
| You're just wasting your time. | ||
| Right, Bernie? | ||
| Wasn't a waste of time, was it? | ||
| And he won by like five points, too. | ||
| Won by a lot. | ||
| Along with representatives Kevin Kiley, Vince Fong, Jay Obernolte, Doug LaMatha. | ||
| Darrell Issa Wisdale. | ||
| I haven't seen you in such a long time. | ||
| Look at you. | ||
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How good you look, huh? | |
| Good when you have those big margins. | ||
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It's easier. | |
| John Joyce. | ||
| Great guy. | ||
| John, thank you. | ||
| Thank you, John. | ||
| Dusty Johnson. | ||
| Morgan Griffith. | ||
| Troy Balderson, Troy from... | ||
| And he played very cute at one time, but then he got, boy, I tell you, he's become a good politician. | ||
| Where is Troy now? | ||
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| I haven't seen him used for years. | ||
| I endorsed you early when he was early and younger. | ||
| But you still look young, and you've done fantastically. | ||
| Good. | ||
| Good work. | ||
| Really good work. | ||
| Claudia Tenney, New York. | ||
| Claudia. | ||
| Thank you, Claudia. | ||
| John James. | ||
| John James. | ||
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I don't know. | |
| You know, he's running for governor, but I'm not sure I'm happy about that, John. | ||
| Do we have somebody good to take your seat? | ||
| Because otherwise we're not letting him run for governor. | ||
| You have somebody good, right? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| As long as you like him, they'll win. | ||
| Tracy Mann. | ||
| Tracy, thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
| Michael Baumgartner. | ||
| Michael? | ||
| Thank you, Michael. | ||
| Good. | ||
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Good job. | |
| David Rausser. | ||
| Rausser. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Glenn Grothman. | ||
| Hi, Glenn. | ||
| Thank you very much, Glenn. | ||
| Brett Guthrie. | ||
| Brett? | ||
| Thank you, Brett. | ||
| Rudy Yakum. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you, Rudy. | ||
| And I want to thank you all. | ||
| There's some additional people in the room, but we have to get back to it. | ||
| This is, like, so big. | ||
| This is a big one. | ||
| Under the previous administration, the previous administration, I could go point after point everything they did. | ||
| Open borders, men playing in women's sports, transgender for everybody, everybody. | ||
| Let's go transgender. | ||
| What a group of people you had over there. | ||
| They must have hated our country. | ||
| Under the previous administration, the federal government gave left-wing radicals in California dictatorial powers to control the future of the entire car industry all over the country, all over the world, actually. | ||
| Because they have to build a car. | ||
| They can't build 19 different cars called the same thing. | ||
| And really, it was all over the world what was happening. | ||
| They approved. | ||
| Governor Gavin Newsom's ridiculous plan to impose a 100% ban on all new gas-powered cars within a very short period of time. | ||
| Think of this. | ||
| You couldn't buy any other car except an electric-powered car. | ||
| And in California, they have blackouts and brownouts. | ||
| They don't have enough electricity right now to do the job. | ||
| And countrywide, you'd have to spend $4 trillion to build the... | ||
| Firing plans to build, to be able to, they go to firing, they call them a lot of things. | ||
| Charging plans, firing plans. | ||
| Four trillion dollars you'd have to spend. | ||
| In the Midwest, they built nine of them. | ||
| Nine individuals, it's like a pump. | ||
| Just like a pump, except instead of gas, electricity comes out. | ||
| They spent, actually they built eight of them. | ||
| Nine billion dollars they spent. | ||
| For eight. | ||
| Eight little hoses. | ||
| Nine billion dollars. | ||
| Now, I'm sure they could have done it for about, you know, one thousandth of that. | ||
| But even if they did, it's unaffordable. | ||
| They approved Governor Gavin's ridiculous. | ||
| It's so ridiculous. | ||
| By the way, you would, if I didn't bring the military in. | ||
| Los Angeles would be burning down right now, be burning just like his damn houses burned down because he didn't have the water that he should have had. | ||
| They have so much water. | ||
| We had to send in the military to free up the water. | ||
| And we did that right after the fires. | ||
| We told them to do it in the first term. | ||
| But just like that ridiculous plan, this is a plan to ban, think of it a plan to ban 100, and they call it the 100% ban. | ||
| Want all new gas-powered cars and abolish 75% of the gas-powered trucks. | ||
| 75%. | ||
| The trucking industry saw me. | ||
| They said, sir, it doesn't work. | ||
| Number one, the trucks are so heavy. | ||
| They're two and a half times heavier than a diesel-powered truck. | ||
| So one of the big truckers, 28,000 trucks, big company, tremendous company. | ||
| He said, I go out of business immediately. | ||
| I mean, did you explain these things to the government officials? | ||
| Like the truck weighs two and a half times more, two and a half times more than a regular truck, a gasoline powered diesel. | ||
| And he said, based on that, we have to rebuild every bridge in the United States of America because it wasn't designed to hold cars and trucks that heavy because the batteries are very heavy. | ||
| They're, you know, probably lead. | ||
| They have a lot of things in those batteries that weigh a lot. | ||
| But it's two and a half times. | ||
| It's a simple number, two and a half times. | ||
| And if you want to do this, you have to spend trillions and trillions of dollars on rebuilding every bridge in the United States, and I guess throughout the world, because they do follow us. | ||
| And the big rig buses and even cement trucks, they want to abolish certain categories of truck. | ||
| But they want to go 75% of all of these trucks have to be abolished almost immediately. | ||
| I mean, the time is just crazy. | ||
| And they don't go far. | ||
| Another little problem. | ||
| With a tank of diesel, you can go from New York to Los Angeles if you want to go to Los Angeles right now. | ||
| But New York to Los Angeles, and you can go back a little bit. | ||
| With the electric truck, you'll stop approximately six times. | ||
| Enjoy your stop. | ||
| And the trucker saw me and I said, did you just explain this? | ||
| Because this is like, you know, if you explain it, if a person's reasonable for this, we explained it, they didn't care. | ||
| They said, we're going all electric. | ||
| But they must hate our country. | ||
| But I said to this big truck, he said, sir, I've been buying trucks my whole damn life. | ||
| He's a rough guy, smart guy. | ||
| He said, I got thousands of them. | ||
| I've been buying them for 50 years. | ||
| And every single year they got better. | ||
| They got more efficient. | ||
| They got bigger. | ||
| They got stronger. | ||
| I build apartments in my trucks now for the drivers. | ||
| I said, what's an apartment? | ||
| That's on the cab. | ||
| They put this in. | ||
| And sir, I know you like luxury, but you wouldn't mind living in one of these. | ||
| I said, maybe I would, maybe I wouldn't. | ||
| I mean, it doesn't sound too appealing, but I said, so what's the problem? | ||
| He said, so I noticed one thing. | ||
| For 50 years, every single year, one thing happened. | ||
| They got better. | ||
| They got stronger. | ||
| They got more efficient. | ||
| They got faster. | ||
| They could carry any load. | ||
| If we went to this standard, we'd go back beyond 50 years. | ||
| They wouldn't go as far as a truck from 50 years ago. | ||
| It would be too heavy and have all the other problems. | ||
| He said, we'd be going backwards. | ||
| We'd be taking a truck in. | ||
| industry would be starting all over, but actually it would be worse because it was better 50 years ago than This was before the election. | ||
| He said, you don't win the election. | ||
| I'm going to close up my business because I'm not going to lose my I know exactly what's going to happen. | ||
| It's going to be a catastrophe. | ||
| It's the craziest thing I've ever heard. | ||
| They're making you buy stuff that doesn't work. | ||
| It's no good. | ||
| It doesn't work. | ||
| And I'm all for electric. | ||
| If you want to buy electric, you can buy electric. | ||
| Cars are great. | ||
| If you buy the right ones, your cars are great. | ||
| And you should be given the option, buy the electric car, buy a gasoline-powered car, buy a hybrid. | ||
| Probably not hydrogen, because hydrogen has a tendency that when it blows up your gonzo, it's over. | ||
| They find you 75 yards down the road, you know. | ||
| Where is he? | ||
| Well, I think that's him, but I'm not sure. | ||
| So, you know. | ||
| They said, we think we can solve the problem. | ||
| I said, that's not good enough when they think. | ||
| No, it sounds like it's quite severe. | ||
| If it doesn't work, Steve, it'll work most of the time, but if it doesn't, it's over. | ||
| It'll make your accident look like peanuts compared. | ||
| You wouldn't be around, I'll tell you, because it's pretty bad. | ||
| But some people like it. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Let's see what happens. | ||
| I would say it's off to a bad start. | ||
| But because of the size of California's population and the fact that 17 other states follow California, that's the problem. | ||
| 17 other states follow California. | ||
| They have the most ridiculous laws I've ever seen for a lot of things. | ||
| This is just cars and trucks. | ||
| They have a lot of them for other things. | ||
| It's called the California car standards. | ||
| A horrible scheme would effectively abolish the internal combustion engine, which most people prefer. | ||
| Like, so far, I'd say about 90%. | ||
| In fact, General Motors announced yesterday they're going to spend about $6 billion because of tariffs and maybe because of my election on November 5th. | ||
| But because of tariffs, I think, more than anything, they're all coming back. | ||
| They're coming back from other countries that took them 25, 30 years ago. | ||
| They're all coming back. | ||
| We have now almost 15 trillion dollars. | ||
| They had almost nothing last year and the year before, very little. | ||
| Nobody wanted to be back here. | ||
| Nobody wanted to come to our country anymore because we were like stupid people. | ||
| We looked like stupid people. | ||
| We were laughed at all over the world. | ||
| Now we're not laughed at anymore, I can tell you that. | ||
| But they wanted to shatter our domestic supply chains and literally grind civilization to a halt. | ||
| We would have gone so far back. | ||
| It's hard to believe, actually. | ||
| Hard to believe when you don't have enough electricity to give a person a little air conditioning in the summer, and now they want you to take electricity and fire up all these cars. | ||
| But we're not going to let that happen. | ||
| Meanwhile, all of the auto jobs would be shipped to China because they're very strong on electric. | ||
| Lives off an estimated 200,000 American autoworkers would be destroyed. | ||
| It's one of the reasons I did so well with the United Autoworkers. | ||
| And now I'm really doing well with them. | ||
| I did phenomenally with them. | ||
| No Republican ever got any numbers like that. | ||
| I got the Teamsters, too. | ||
| Sean O 'Brien, the head of the Teamsters. | ||
| These guys, they like Trump because I produce jobs. | ||
| They know that. | ||
| Everybody knew that the other workers knew better than anybody how good the tariffs were and they had Now he's going around saying, this guy's unbelievable. | ||
| He was very nice to me the last few months. | ||
| During the campaign, no, but I've proven, you know, I've proven it. | ||
| I've done what I said I was going to do, and we've brought back tremendous numbers of jobs. | ||
| And you're having auto plans built all over the country. | ||
| All over. | ||
| There's never seen anything like that. | ||
| They're leaving from Mexico. | ||
| They're leaving from Canada. | ||
| They're leaving from other parts of the world. | ||
| If they want a Mercedes-Benz, you're going to have it made here. | ||
| It's okay to have a Mercedes, but they're going to make it here. | ||
| Otherwise, they're going to pay a very big tariff. | ||
| They already are. | ||
| That's one of the reasons we have $88 million. | ||
| It's a lot of money. | ||
| But that's peanuts compared to what we're going to be making in another few months. | ||
| They haven't even kicked in yet. | ||
| But we're not going to... | ||
| I think these people are either corrupt or really dumb. | ||
| And they're supposed to be economists. | ||
| And the campaign, I promise, to end this disaster. | ||
| And today, our Republican majorities in Congress have delivered. | ||
| And I don't know. | ||
| I can't imagine. | ||
| It's so obvious. | ||
| It's so good. | ||
| Did we get any Democrat votes? | ||
| Did we get one? | ||
| Two? | ||
| Who? | ||
| 35. I think that's great. | ||
| You know, I think that's great. | ||
| You've got 35 Democrats. | ||
| I think that's great. | ||
| That, as far as I'm concerned, one in the Senate. | ||
| On something that's so good. | ||
| But who is the one? | ||
| I congratulate her. | ||
| I don't care. | ||
| I think it's great. | ||
| It's very interesting. | ||
| Why did I ask that question, Mr. Smith? | ||
| But in a few moments, I'll sign three pieces of legislation that will kill. | ||
| Totally killed. | ||
| Can't do anything about it. | ||
| They can't take us to court. | ||
| They can't do any of the things they can do with the executive orders. | ||
| And it's permanent. | ||
| I'll sign three pieces of legislation that will kill. | ||
| The California mandates forever and they're never coming back. | ||
| Now the auto companies are the most happy because now they're going to be designing and building one auto. | ||
| It will be much cheaper. | ||
| It's much less expensive. | ||
| They were showing me, one of the most respected people, was showing me that to save a little, like a half a glass of fuel. | ||
| It costs them thousands of dollars with new computers and stop it. | ||
| The engine has to stop and then turn on and blah, blah, blah. | ||
| And I said, does it work as well? | ||
| No, it's terrible. | ||
| It's terrible. | ||
| And that's to save a little bit of fuel, this much fuel, that Chris Wright can produce with one extra little oil well someplace, right? | ||
| One little, a small one, a very small one. | ||
| But think of it. | ||
| Your cars are going to cost you $3,000, $4,000 less, and you're going to have what you want. | ||
| And again, you can get any car you want. | ||
| You can get electric. | ||
| A lot of people love the electric. | ||
| They like Tesla. | ||
| So do I, in all fairness. | ||
| I like Tesla. | ||
| And I like others, too. | ||
| But I also like combustion engines. | ||
| And, you know, there are reasons for a lot of things. | ||
| When I was in Iowa, we had an unbelievable victory, if you remember. | ||
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| That was nice. | ||
| You won by like so much nobody But it was unbelievably cold that night, and I was going to watch my victory in the area where I was going to make a speech, and the whole place was littered with cars. | ||
| I said, what happened? | ||
| They were electric cars, and they don't work in cold. | ||
| I said, I didn't know that, and they don't work in extreme heat either. | ||
| Other than that, they're wonderful. | ||
| No, but if you're in a cold climate, you know, how do you do that? | ||
| But they're electric cars. | ||
| And I noticed that, and then I didn't pay much attention because we won by about 65 points. | ||
| So I was more interested in that. | ||
| But I do remember that scene. | ||
| I said, "What the hell is going on over here?" This historic action will also help us reduce inflation and bring down the price of You know, we're building massive electricity right now. | ||
| It's already started because of that guy right there, Lee Zeldin. | ||
| By far the most important man in the room, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| Stand up, Lee. | ||
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| He blows you guys away, John. | ||
| He blows the politicians away. | ||
| I'm sorry right now. | ||
| Actually, he's a great politician. | ||
| He almost won for governor in New York, which just missed by a few points. | ||
| And that was another race that was not winnable, but you almost got it. | ||
| But I think what you're doing now is even bigger, if you want to know the truth. | ||
| I think it's actually more important, if you can believe that. | ||
| Under the previous regime, car prices skyrocketed as a direct result of the mandates. | ||
| These mandates, this nonsense that you had to do. | ||
| And there's so many other rules and regulations that the car companies who are here today appreciate that. | ||
| And Susie Wells is here today. | ||
| Stand up, Susie. | ||
| Most incredible woman. | ||
| Most powerful woman in the world, they say. | ||
| She was rated the most powerful woman in the world, Susie Wells. | ||
| One phone call and the nation is destroyed. | ||
| She destroys. | ||
| She could destroy five nations with five calls, and she's doing a great job. | ||
| More importantly, right? | ||
| Doing a great job. | ||
| Nobody likes it. | ||
| Energy prices would likewise, sir, as a radical left force, more electric vehicles onto the grid while blocking approvals for new power plants. | ||
| They want to block the approvals. | ||
| They want you to have a car with electric, but they block. | ||
| The production of the juice that runs the cars and all of them, all forms of cars. | ||
| It's just the craziest thing. | ||
| We're in a different sphere now. | ||
| We're in a whole different planet right now. | ||
| The result would be rolling blackouts and a collapse of our power systems. | ||
| We'd have a total collapse. | ||
| You couldn't do it. | ||
| You couldn't even do it. | ||
| Think of it. | ||
| They're forcing you to do something. | ||
| And they want you to do boats also. | ||
| I assume boats are being covered by this. | ||
| And boats, they want you to go all electric. | ||
| The batteries are so heavy, the damn boat practically doesn't float. | ||
| I used to have a lot of fun talking about that one on the tours. | ||
| We'd talk about it. | ||
| I said, what would happen if the boat sank? | ||
| Because we went to North Carolina, South Carolina. | ||
| We visited boat factories. | ||
| Unbelievable guys. | ||
| And they said, sir, we have one problem. | ||
| They're forcing us to go electric for the boat. | ||
| They said, how's it going to work? | ||
| The boat will not float, sir. | ||
| It's so heavy. | ||
| And it won't go fast and lots of other. | ||
| And I did ask him a question because I have a lot of background. | ||
| My uncle was a big shot at MIT, the smartest guy. | ||
| He never had a smarter guy. | ||
| And I guess I have a little of that. | ||
| My first question was, what would happen if the boat sank? | ||
| Do you get electrocuted? | ||
| Remember I said that? | ||
| And I used to be decimated by these people back here, right? | ||
| I used to be decimated. | ||
| They'd say, what? | ||
| Kind of a crazy question. | ||
| I'm actually serious. | ||
| What happens if you're an electric boat and the boat is going down, you're in trouble, Susie. | ||
| And I used to say, remember, oh, I'd get decimated. | ||
| The audience loved it, but the press would laugh at it. | ||
| I said, so if I have my choice of going down, we're jumping five or six yards away from the boat, but there's a shark there. | ||
| What do I do? | ||
| You know what I said? | ||
| I'd rather be electrocuted. | ||
| But actually, he said, nobody's ever asked me that question, sir. | ||
| He makes boats. | ||
| Nobody ever asked me that question. | ||
| That's really an unusual question. | ||
| He said, and honestly, I don't have the answer. | ||
| He wasn't able. | ||
| I said, don't worry about it. | ||
| If I win, you won't have to worry about it. | ||
| But today we're saving California and we're saving our entire country from a disaster. | ||
| Your cars are going to be thousands of dollars less money. | ||
| And even the ones that, if you buy electric, we're not going to make you do certain things that are just a waste of money and just time-consuming waste of money. | ||
| They make you do things that are no good for anybody, make the car worse, and make it much more expensive. | ||
| Over the past five months, our administration and Republicans in Congress have fought for the American autoworker and for Teamsters and for, by the way, right to work. | ||
| We have them all. | ||
| We have, you know, we just call them just workers. | ||
| We fought for workers like no one has ever fought before. | ||
| I understand that. | ||
| It's why we won. | ||
| We won with workers. | ||
| We won with young people. | ||
| I just saw with TikTok, I was number one on TikTok in its history. | ||
| Can you believe that? | ||
| So I guess I like TikTok. | ||
| That's why they're saying, are you saving? | ||
| We probably will save TikTok, actually. | ||
| But on my first day in office, I ended the Green News scam and abolished the EV mandate. | ||
| At the federal level, we abolished it, which is basically that everybody would be driving an electric car within a very short period of time. | ||
| Now I know why Elon doesn't like me so much, which he does, actually. | ||
| He does. | ||
| And he never had a problem. | ||
| You know, it's very interesting. | ||
| This is not something new. | ||
| This has been there from day one, Speaker, right? | ||
| We're going to abolish the EV mandate. | ||
| And Elon still endorsed me because, honestly, he never, ever spoke to me about that. | ||
| And I used to say, I'm amazed that he's endorsing me because that can't be good for him. | ||
| I'm abolishing the EV mandate. | ||
| And I once asked him about it. | ||
| You never talked to me about that. | ||
| He said, well, as long as it's happening to everybody, I'll be able to compete. | ||
| It was a very interesting answer. | ||
| I thought it was a very honest answer, to be honest with you. | ||
| And I talked about it, that incredible, you know, you would have thought he would have been, from day one, you got to make sure you don't do the EV mandate. | ||
| The abolishing. | ||
| Never did. | ||
| Very honest in that sense. | ||
| And he did say to me, I actually asked him because it was like really strange how I'm with him. | ||
| He's very, you know, a friend of mine and he makes electric cars. | ||
| And we're saying, you're not going to be able to make electric cars or you're not going to be forced to make all of those cars. | ||
| You can make them, but it'll be by the market, judged by the market. | ||
| And that's what he said. | ||
| He said, as long as I'm on the same plane as everybody else, we're going to... | ||
| We make a better product. | ||
| I said, that's very cool. | ||
| That was my answer. | ||
| After that, he got a little bit strange, but I don't know why, over much smaller things than that. | ||
| As part of the one big, beautiful bill, we'll also further slash the funding for the Green New Scam. | ||
| As you know, it's the greatest scam in history, saving American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. | ||
| The windmills are killing our country, by the way. | ||
| The fields are littered with them, junk. | ||
| They're littered with them. | ||
| And they get older and they get rusty and they get bad and they get It's the greatest scam in history. | ||
| It's the most expensive energy you can buy. | ||
| They're ugly. | ||
| A friend of mine comes from Minnesota. | ||
| He's been in New York. | ||
| He hit it big. | ||
| He's a very successful guy, actually. | ||
| And he wanted to go back, see his mother, who's not well. | ||
| And he went back to Minnesota. | ||
| Hasn't been back there in 20 years. | ||
| And he said, it's unbelievable what happened. | ||
| He said, I'm driving down a highway and up a certain road and the most beautiful fields. | ||
| I remember them so well. | ||
| And I was so looking forward to seeing them again. | ||
| And I looked at them and they had windmills all over them. | ||
| These horrible, horrible structures. | ||
| Very smart guy, this guy. | ||
| And he said, these ugly, horrible things. | ||
| And he said, it was so bad I actually drove back to see it because I couldn't believe it. | ||
| Before I even got to my mother, I drove back. | ||
| I said, how much do you like your mother? | ||
| But no, it hurt him to see it. | ||
| He said, I looked at this field that was one of the most beautiful places in my own mind and imagination that I've ever seen. | ||
| And I said, it's littered with this garbage. | ||
| It looked like a junkyard, he said, and some... | ||
| Even if they're white, one's a beige white, one's a darker white, one's a lighter white, and then they start to rust after four or five years. | ||
| And then they start to wear out, and nobody takes them because you're not allowed to bury the propellers, the props, right? | ||
| Can't bury the props for some reason. | ||
| I don't know why, but they say that you can't bury a certain type of fiber, and if it goes in the ground, we're all going to die. | ||
| It's what bullshit this is, okay? | ||
| They can't bury. | ||
| So what they do is they leave them up. | ||
| If you go to Palm Springs, California, take a look. | ||
| You go into this beautiful community. | ||
| It's like you're riding through a junkyard. | ||
| Windmills all over the place. | ||
| Tall ones, short ones. | ||
| Dead ones are all dead. | ||
| Some are hanging over by a thread. | ||
| They never take them down. | ||
| They just leave them there and they start to rust. | ||
| It's one of the greatest scams. | ||
| And it's also the most expensive energy. | ||
| And the environmentalists say, oh, we love wind. | ||
| It sounds so good, but it's a horrible thing. | ||
| Environmentally, it's a horrible thing. | ||
| I say that to you. | ||
| It's wind. | ||
| And we are going to have virtually no one mandate we have. | ||
| We're going to... | ||
| Nuclear, we just had a big signing with nuclear, making it easier and safer and better. | ||
| It's really, I would say, probably more than any other form of energy that's come about. | ||
| It's been amazing what's been done. | ||
| It's very safe, very good, and very inexpensive. | ||
| But we're not going to let windmills get built because we're not going to destroy our country any further than it's already been destroyed. | ||
| You go and look at these beautiful plains and valleys and they're loaded up with this garbage that gets worse and worse looking with time. | ||
| It starts when the rust comes. | ||
| 4.5 years it starts to rust and it's very expensive to paint them. | ||
| So they don't paint them and they're horrible. | ||
| What's happened is horrible so we're not going to approve. | ||
| Windmills. | ||
| Unless something happens that's an emergency, I guess it could happen. | ||
| But we're not doing any of them. | ||
| I hope the Senate will soon pass a bill. | ||
| The House can quickly approve and get to my desk by the 4th of July. | ||
| We'll have this done. | ||
| And to further defend our auto workers, I imposed a 25% tariff on all foreign automobiles. | ||
| investment in American auto manufacturing a surgeon because of it. | ||
| They have... | ||
| They pay 25% if they don't make the car in the United States. | ||
| And because of that, and this could have been done long before Trump, this could have been done by any one of the presidents. | ||
| I did it with China. | ||
| The reason you don't have Chinese cars here is because I imposed it my last term. | ||
| I actually asked the question, I said, do we have any Chinese cars here? | ||
| No. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because you imposed a 25% or 27.5%. | ||
| Tariff on Chinese cars, so they're not coming here. | ||
| But they are going to Europe all over the place. | ||
| But I love China. | ||
| We just made a deal, and I respect President Xi a lot. | ||
| And we made a deal that's good for both countries. | ||
| The deal we made with China is good for both countries. | ||
| It's going to be a lot of money made, and it's going to ultimately open up China, which is the ultimate thing. | ||
| And I'm going to be working with President Xi. | ||
| We had a long talk about it. | ||
| And that's going to be good for China. | ||
| It's going to be good for us. | ||
| But we're going to be opening up China. | ||
| That's bigger than what we signed. | ||
| And I think, had we not signed it, that wouldn't be happening. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| It's going to happen fairly soon. | ||
| But to further defend our autoworkers, I impose this 25% tariff on all foreign automobiles and investments in American manufacturing and auto manufacturing. | ||
| All manufacturing is surging. | ||
| And I might go up with that tariff in the not-too-distant future. | ||
| The higher you go, the more likely it is they build a plant here. | ||
| Ford has just announced that it's going to invest $500 million in some of the things involved in what we just did. | ||
| General Motors is going to spend $4 billion. | ||
| They just announced that yesterday. | ||
| Stellantis announced that it's going to reopen its Belvedere assembly plant. | ||
| That's good. | ||
| I know the plant very well. | ||
| Had a lot of problems. | ||
| They're going to spend Five billion dollars. | ||
| And Hyundai announced that it will invest 21 billion dollars in America. | ||
| They wouldn't have invested 10 cents if we didn't have tariffs, including for manufacturing American steel, which is doing great. | ||
| American steel is doing great now because of what we did. | ||
| You wouldn't have, if I didn't put tariffs on steel, they were dumping steel. | ||
| China and a lot of other countries were dumping steel in our country. | ||
| Garbage steel, dirty steel. | ||
| Bad steel. | ||
| Not structurally sound steel. | ||
| Real garbage. | ||
| But it was still there. | ||
| Lots of it. | ||
| And if I didn't put tariffs, I'd put 25% and 50% tariffs on steel, right? | ||
| John James, we put tariffs on steel, and we were doing great with steel. | ||
| Now we're really doing great. | ||
| Big investments being made in Pennsylvania. | ||
| You've been reading about it. | ||
| They're going to spend $17 billion on U.S. steel. | ||
| And all the steel workers wanted it. | ||
| And we have a golden stock. | ||
| We have a golden share, which I control or president controls. | ||
| Now, I'm a little concerned whoever the president might be, but that gives you total control. | ||
| It's 51% ownership by Americans. | ||
| And we have a company, a great company, Nippon. | ||
| They're coming in from Japan. | ||
| They're going to spend $17 billion. | ||
| And somebody said, well, what happens if it doesn't work out? | ||
| I said, they spent $17 billion. | ||
| We can't put it on a trailer and drive it to Japan. | ||
| This is a steel mill. | ||
| You know, some businesses you can move. | ||
| You move your office and that's where the business is. | ||
| With this business, they're spending $17 billion. | ||
| They're going to have them all over the country. | ||
| I want to introduce several of the great Americans representing the millions of people whose livelihoods we're saving with today's action. | ||
| I just can't tell you how incredible this action is because nobody thought this was one that I wasn't so... | ||
| Bill Kent runs a chain of family-owned convenience stores that opened in West Texas in 1957, known as Kent Quick. | ||
| And Bill, if you could come up and say a few words about what the signing means to you, please. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Wow, you're probably wondering why I've called you all here today, right? | ||
| What a great day. | ||
| From my perspective, I'm in the convenience store and trolley marketing business, and what this does is it gives us freedom. | ||
| It gives the consumers freedom to pick what kind of car they want, but more importantly for us, it gives us the ability to plan going forward, because with mandates, We were forced to have to look at putting in infrastructure that, frankly, is extremely expensive and doesn't give you any return. | ||
| So this allows us, it's going to free me up and our companies up to invest in what people want, in the cars they want, and it's a great day. | ||
| So, Mr. President, Congress, thank you, Steve. | ||
| Everybody, thank you so much. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| And a friend of mine for a long time is John Hess. | ||
| He's one of the top CEOs in the country. | ||
| And he's now the CEO of Hess Corporation, one of the biggest oil producers. | ||
| And he's a fantastic person with great knowledge of the subject matter. | ||
| Can you say a few words, John? | ||
| I see you in the audience. | ||
| Come on. | ||
| Thanks. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Hi, I'm John Hess, CEO of Hess Corporation, a proud producer of oil and gas in North Dakota and the Gulf of America. | ||
| And so you all know, I was born in New Jersey, grew up in New York, and my father started our company by driving a second-hand oil truck. | ||
| So, Mr. President, it's an honor to be before you today, and thank you for that. | ||
| Mr. President, during your campaign you made a commitment to the American people to repeal unworkable and costly mandates for cars and trucks and let the consumer choose what type of vehicle they drive. | ||
| Today, with the bipartisan support of Congress, you're making good on that promise. | ||
| I'd like to recognize Speaker Johnson. | ||
| Leader Thune, other members of Congress whose tireless efforts were critical to the outcome we're celebrating today. | ||
| And a special thank you to Senator Capito for her leadership. | ||
| This announcement today is about consumer choice and affordability for American families. | ||
| It's also about making our country Auto industry more competitive, Mr. President, and you said that very eloquently. | ||
| As you know, Mr. President, one size fits all policies like those adopted in California do not work. | ||
| America in every state, every American should be able to choose what they want to drive, not the government. | ||
| We as a country would be... | ||
| Oil and gas are a strategic industry for our country, underpinning energy dominance, economic prosperity, and national security. | ||
| We are truly Mr. President, on behalf of Hess Corporation, on behalf of the oil and gas industry, and every family across our country, thank you for your courageous leadership and your commitment to consumer choice and energy affordability. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you, Gary. | ||
| Very respected guy. | ||
| The California EV mandates would also have devastated our nation's incredible truck drivers and the trucking industry. | ||
| And I gave you a little bit of a rundown on that. | ||
| But a diesel-powered semi-truck can drive from Reno, Nevada. | ||
| I'll give you some other locations. | ||
| Nevada to Los Angeles, California, and back on a single tank of diesel oil, diesel fuel. | ||
| The same exact journey would require an electric truck driver to stop also six times at recharging stations, adding an estimated nine hours to the trip. | ||
| I don't know too much about the trucking industry, but this is not sounding good. | ||
| Here to discuss a little bit about the trucking industry, Gina Jones. | ||
| And Gina, a real expert on trucks, I can tell you that. | ||
| She's going to come up and tell us about trucks. | ||
| Thank you, Jamie. | ||
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Thank you, Jamie. | |
| Thank you, Mr. President. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
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And thank you, members and Congress. | |
| The trucking industry has America's back, and we are grateful that a president and the administration that have our back, too. | ||
| Today, trucks. | ||
| Are 99% cleaner than a generation ago. | ||
| We need great partners in government to continue that process. | ||
| We cannot allow one state's regulations to disrupt our entire nation's supply chain. | ||
| Allowing California to do so would have negativity. | ||
| Impacted the hundreds and thousands of truck drivers who deliver critical goods across the country each and every day. | ||
| In order to deliver for American families and businesses, we need realistic national standards. | ||
| With the signing of this resolution, Mr. President, You have delivered the leadership that trucking industries need. | ||
| Promises made, promises kept. | ||
| On behalf of the eight... | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
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Great job. | |
| So just to wrap it up, I say under the Trump administration we will restore the full strength, might and glory of the American auto and trucking industry. | ||
| We'll protect our truck drivers, auto workers, small business people and manufacturers all over our country and actually All over the world, and that's okay, too. | ||
| They'll be doing a product that works, a product that's much more efficient, that's better. | ||
| It's much better. | ||
| Less expensive. | ||
| And we'll put affordable energy and affordable car ownership back on the center of the American dream as we make America great again. | ||
| And that's what's happening. | ||
| We're making America great. | ||
| You know, when I went over to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, just a couple of weeks ago, The leaders of those countries, and they're very smart people, they said, you know, you've made, in a short period of time, America the hottest nation in the world. | ||
| It's the hottest nation. | ||
| You're the only one we talk about now. | ||
| And six months ago, it was a laughingstock. | ||
| They said that to me. | ||
| Those words, it was a laughingstock. | ||
| And it was an absolute laughingstock. | ||
| We've got the hottest nation right now in the whole world. | ||
| And the numbers are reflecting it, too. | ||
| So I just think it's great. | ||
| And what I'll do is I'll sign this, then we can take a couple of questions if you want. | ||
| And we will be finished, and you're going to go off, and you're going to build the most beautiful automobiles for 20% less money. | ||
| And I want to thank you, man. | ||
| You have done some job. | ||
| Thank you, Mike. | ||
| Thank you, everybody. | ||
| Do you guys want to come up here? | ||
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Come on, sit around. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Okay, we're going to sign three bills and do everything I just said. | ||
| No auto pens allowed. | ||
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No auto pens allowed. | |
| That's for you. | ||
| Keep that mic. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Yeah, that pen was so good. | ||
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Give it back to him. | |
| That was a good one. | ||
| No, I'll sign all three of them. | ||
| You never know what you get with the door. | ||
| number two Very steady hand. | ||
| It's very important. | ||
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Only a steady hand can sign like that, right? | |
| I've been told that, actually. | ||
| And here's number three, and it all goes into effect. | ||
| Everything I said goes into effect. | ||
| Lower prices, better cars, and choice. | ||
| You can say choice. | ||
| We have choice for education, and you have choice for cars now, right? | ||
| Common sense is right. | ||
| You're right. | ||
| Common sense is right. | ||
| Okay, now I can give you the pen. | ||
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And I'll give you these. | |
| Kelly. | ||
| Congratulations, John. | ||
| Okay, you'll take these. | ||
| Cast these around for us. | ||
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With John James'response. | |
| Yeah. | ||
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Yes, sir. | |
| Do you have one, John? | ||
| Okay, everybody. | ||
| Thank you, everybody. | ||
| I asked you actually, you're gonna take'em? | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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I don't know if someone will take you. | |
| Okay? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Go ahead, please. | ||
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Mr. President! | |
| Mr. President, help! | ||
| I have some very close friends who run some of the largest auto dealerships in Southern California. | ||
| They're a message to you. | ||
| They're 100% behind you right now. | ||
| They know they're going through some soft sales period. | ||
| They're in it for the long haul. | ||
| What's your message to thousands of auto dealerships across this country that are kind of navigating through this territory? | ||
| Yeah, they're going to do better than ever before. | ||
| They're going to sell cars in America at levels that they've never Even thought of before. | ||
| And they're going to make more money than they ever made before. | ||
| It's going to be great. | ||
| They're going to be selling a better car, too. | ||
| It's going to be a better product. | ||
| I know. | ||
| I know that. | ||
| They have been behind me. | ||
| They knew it was right. | ||
| They've been asking for this for 25, 30 years, in all fairness. | ||
| No, they're very happy. | ||
| I told you, the Auto Workers Union, we got tremendous votes. | ||
| But they like me today even better than they did on Election Day on November 5th. | ||
| Because they see the results now. | ||
| They're all happening. | ||
| Yeah, and they have plants moving in, Brian. | ||
| A lot of plants are moving in. | ||
| Thank you very much for that question. | ||
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| Oh, he was killing the auto-winder. | ||
| I don't think he knew it. | ||
| I think he's a guy who... | ||
| you look at that train, the train is the most But this thing is costing 20 times more. | ||
| It's the most incredible disaster I've ever seen. | ||
| That's one. | ||
| The cars are just as bad. | ||
| Everything's bad. | ||
| And now you have this situation. | ||
| So his own sheriff, who's a good man, by the way, said two days ago, three days ago, that we could not have done this without the military. | ||
| They were going to take over this whole thing. | ||
| Now, today they got him to change his tune. | ||
| He said, oh, I think we could have handled it. | ||
| So sad. | ||
| He was so honest. | ||
| I was using his quote all over the place that they got him to change. | ||
| But he knows. | ||
| Los Angeles would be right now burning to the ground just like the houses burned to the ground. | ||
| It's so sad what's going on in Los Angeles. | ||
| Think of it. | ||
| They had a fire that should have never had because they should have listened to me in the water. | ||
| Eventually, we broke in and we had the water come down from the Pacific Northwest. | ||
| I can show you pictures now with the half pipes, the big half pipes coming all the way down California. | ||
| Water, so much water. | ||
| They don't have any droughts. | ||
| They have so much water. | ||
| They sent it all out to the Pacific Ocean for 20 years. | ||
| So ridiculous. | ||
| And we got them to take it now. | ||
| But what they do and what they're doing, this is a big problem. | ||
| And what they really want to do is keep criminals because they're trying to protect criminals. | ||
| Sanctuary cities are a disaster in this country. | ||
| And most of the voters don't want them. | ||
| Politicians like them for whatever reason. | ||
| But I think the politicians are wrong. | ||
| That's why we won in such a convincing fashion. | ||
| We won all seven swing states. | ||
| We won by millions of votes. | ||
| We won 2,750. | ||
| Districts as opposed to 505. | ||
| That's why when you look at the map, it's almost all red. | ||
| It's got two little blue stripes on each side of it. | ||
| almost all red but now you have to I like Gavin. | ||
| I've liked him always. | ||
| He said I never called him. | ||
| You know, they asked him a question on Fox, I guess. | ||
| I never spoke to him. | ||
| He doesn't remember the call. | ||
| He doesn't remember. | ||
| I never spoke. | ||
| And then I produced a phone call. | ||
| I had it. | ||
| It took me about two minutes. | ||
| I said, well, here's the call. | ||
| It lasted 16 minutes and four seconds, and it was at 12:30 in the evening. | ||
| I actually made a call. | ||
| It didn't pick up. | ||
| I called him a second time, and he picked up. | ||
| And I told him, I said, you have to get your ass in gear because you're going to have a problem there. | ||
| And he would have. | ||
| If we didn't bring the military in, he would have had, you would have right now, something. | ||
| And I went through it. | ||
| Because I follow the rules 100%. | ||
| And I watched in Minnesota where you have the man who ran for vice president of the United States. | ||
| Fortunately, he was a disaster. | ||
| But he wouldn't call in the National Guard. | ||
| And I eventually called in the National Guard. | ||
| But it was seven days late. | ||
| I said, I'll never do that again. | ||
| Because that city, Minneapolis, burned down. | ||
| Do you remember the CNN anchor? | ||
| He was standing there saying, yes, this is a peaceful rally. | ||
| And behind him, the entire city was on fire. | ||
| It looked like World War II. | ||
| And I appreciate the question. | ||
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Thank you very much. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| First, the terrible, horrific plane crash in India today. | ||
| I'm sure you saw the images on TV. | ||
| Your reaction to that first, and will you speak to Prime Minister Modi? | ||
| The plane crash was terrible. | ||
| I've already told them anything we can do. | ||
| It's a big country, a strong country. | ||
| They'll handle it, I'm sure. | ||
| But I let them know that anything we can do will be over there immediately. | ||
| But it was a horrific crash. | ||
| It looks like most are gone. | ||
| They actually maybe have a couple survivors, which is just hurt. | ||
| But that was a horrible crash. | ||
| Nobody knows. | ||
| Nobody has any idea what it might be. | ||
| I gave him a couple of pointers. | ||
| I said, maybe you'll look at this or that. | ||
| You know, we saw the plane. | ||
| It looked like it was flying pretty well. | ||
| It didn't look like there was an explosion. | ||
| It just looked like the engines maybe lost power. | ||
| But boy, that is a terrible crash. | ||
| It's one of the worst in aviation history. | ||
| Yeah, second. | ||
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Well, I'd love to avoid the conflict. | |
| Iran's going to have to negotiate a little bit tougher. | ||
| Meaning they're going to have to give us some things that they're not willing to give us right now. | ||
| I'm the last person. | ||
| I've kept us out of wars. | ||
| We defeated ISIS completely, 100%. | ||
| And I haven't had a I believe in peace through strength. | ||
| We're the greatest military in the world. | ||
| I rebuilt the military, as you remember, for four years. | ||
| I rebuilt the military. | ||
| And then we gave a chunk of it away, but it was still peanuts. | ||
| It was a lot, but it was peanuts compared to what we rebuilt. | ||
| Gave it to Afghanistan. | ||
| One of the most embarrassing moments in the history of our country with the whole withdrawal, the way they withdrew, was very embarrassing. | ||
| But we rebuilt the military. | ||
| We have the greatest, strongest military. | ||
| We defeated ISIS. | ||
| We defeated ISIS. | ||
| We defeated ISIS in four weeks. | ||
| It was told to be five years. | ||
| It was going to take five years, anywhere from four to five years. | ||
| We did it in four weeks. | ||
| By the way, headed by the general who's now the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. | ||
| That's why he's there. | ||
| He said it would take four weeks, and he did it in four weeks. | ||
| He did actually a little bit faster. | ||
| So we have a great country, and we're going to keep it that way. | ||
| And when it comes to Los Angeles or other cities, if we see other cities are gearing up, and these people are agitators. | ||
| They're paid. | ||
| They're professionals. | ||
| They're insurrectionists. | ||
| They're troublemakers. | ||
| They're all of those things. | ||
| But I believe they're paid. | ||
| And we're going to find out through Pam Bondi and her great staff, her great people at Justice, who they are. | ||
| Mike, I think you're doing some investigations in that in Congress, but we're going to find out who they are because they're really, I think what they're doing is unbelievably illegal. | ||
| So they took the bricks away from people. | ||
| They're walking in with satchels of bricks. | ||
| Now, why do you have bricks? | ||
| You have bricks because you throw bricks. | ||
| They're very potent. | ||
| If they hit you, they kill you. | ||
| And they took them away. | ||
| The military took them away. | ||
| They saw them. | ||
| What the hell is this? | ||
| The guy could hardly carry me. | ||
| Many bricks. | ||
| He's a strong guy. | ||
| Couldn't carry him. | ||
| And they saw that and they took them away. | ||
| Then they found others with bricks. | ||
| They're ingenious. | ||
| They also brought hammers along, very heavy hammers. | ||
| And I saw them pounding the curb and pounding the sidewalk. | ||
| And it was like a military operation. | ||
| This guy's pounding strong, boom, big shots. | ||
| And it was breaking up granite, the granite curbs. | ||
| And the granite was breaking up and the concrete was breaking up. | ||
| And there was lines of people standing there and handing them. | ||
| And then he stopped handing them. | ||
| It was so professional. | ||
| I said, "That's a professional organization. | ||
| This is not like people at random. | ||
| This guy's breaking up because they couldn't use the bricks." So who would think of this even? | ||
| Did a lot of damage. | ||
| A lot of curbs are broken. | ||
| A lot of sidewalks broken. | ||
| But I never saw that before. | ||
| That's one I haven't seen. | ||
| I thought I saw it all. | ||
| And they have it on tape. | ||
| And with that, people get killed. | ||
| You know, they go to the bridges and they drop. | ||
| The concrete off the top of the bridge with a car coming along at 70 miles an hour and the person dies. | ||
| We had a lot of car problems. | ||
| You saw that. | ||
| They were littered all over the road where the cars got stopped by concrete going through the front windshield. | ||
| These are bad people. | ||
| If we didn't go, Los Angeles right now would be on fire. | ||
| It would be a disaster. | ||
| And we stopped it. | ||
| And last night was very good. | ||
| Nobody showed up. | ||
| You know why they didn't show up? | ||
| Because we were there. | ||
| If it was just the police, because the police are great. | ||
| I know those police, they're great, but they're told not to do anything. | ||
| They're not allowed to act. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Mr. President, how imminent is an Israeli strike on Iran? | |
| Well, I don't want to say imminent, but it looks like it's something that could very well happen. | ||
| Look, it's very simple, not complicated. | ||
| Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. | ||
| Other than that, I want them to be successful. | ||
| I want them to be tremendous. | ||
| We'll help them be successful. | ||
| We'll trade with them. | ||
| We'll do whatever is necessary. | ||
| You know, I stopped a war between India and Pakistan. | ||
| And I stopped it with trade. | ||
| I don't think I've ever seen a story written about it, but it was pretty cool. | ||
| They were getting ready. | ||
| Pakistan was their turn to hit, and eventually they're going to go nuclear. | ||
| And I stopped it. | ||
| I called each. | ||
| I respect each leader greatly. | ||
| I know them. | ||
| And I spoke to them and I talked about trade. | ||
| I said, but you're not trading with us if you're going to go to war. | ||
| If you're going to start throwing nuclear weapons around. | ||
| And I said it to both of them. | ||
| And they were both unbelievable, actually. | ||
| They understood it exactly. | ||
| They stopped. | ||
| I stopped at war with phone calls and trade. | ||
| And India's here right now negotiating a trade deal, and Pakistan's coming, I think, next week. | ||
| And I'm very proud of that. | ||
| Nobody died. | ||
| And I think we should get some credit for that. | ||
| You know, the whole Republican Party should, because that's their mindset. | ||
| Please. | ||
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Mr. President. | |
| On your China deal, Mr. President, are you still concerned about the national security issues with Chinese students studying in the United States? | ||
| Well, I've always been in favor of students coming in from other countries. | ||
| That includes China. | ||
| And we have 500,000 Chinese students coming in. | ||
| I've always been in favor of it. | ||
| Does it mean that you have to watch people? | ||
| Yeah, you have to watch students, but you have to watch other people also. | ||
| I've always been strongly in favor of it. | ||
| I think it's a great thing. | ||
| It's good for our schools. | ||
| I think it's good for our country. | ||
| I'm also in favor of having them stay. | ||
| I've been in favor of letting them stay. | ||
| If you get educated for four years, you're willing to get educated for four years. | ||
| I like people being able to stay. | ||
| They have some great students. | ||
| These are Republicans clapping because a lot of Republicans don't like that idea. | ||
| I happen to like it. | ||
| I'm a real Republican, believe it or not. | ||
| But I like the idea. | ||
| They go four years. | ||
| To me, that's almost like, you know, getting your, just buying your way in in a very legitimate way. | ||
| And, you know, you have stories where Apple wants to hire somebody and they can't hire him because he can't stay. | ||
| He went to a great school. | ||
| He finished first in his class. | ||
| They made him a big offer. | ||
| And everything's done. | ||
| But he has no idea whether or not he's going to be able to stay. | ||
| And I'm all for making sure that people like that can go to work for all of our great companies. | ||
| And you know what they do? | ||
| They go back to their country and there are stories that are all over the place. | ||
| They go back to their company and they start a company just like they were going to start here. | ||
| They end up starting it in China or India or someplace else. | ||
| And now they're among the richest people in the world. | ||
| They've got thousands and thousands of employees that make it great. | ||
| This is happening all the time because they're not allowed to stay. | ||
| I think we'll probably end up doing something about that, right? | ||
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Yeah, go ahead. | |
| Go ahead. | ||
| You in the blue, please. | ||
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Light blue. | |
| Thank you, Mr. President. | ||
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How close are you to step back between Ukraine and Russia? | |
| We see a very bad escalation. | ||
| Are you going to leave it in the hands of the Europeans? | ||
| I'm very disappointed in Russia, but I'm disappointed in Ukraine also, because I think Deals could have been made. | ||
| And, you know, we're losing 5,000, 6,000 people a week, soldiers mostly, but also people living in towns because they're getting hit by missiles again. | ||
| How would you like to live in a building and you think a missile has a good chance of hitting your building during the evening? | ||
| It's horrible. | ||
| It must be horrible to live like that. | ||
| But, I mean, we'll get it, but I'm disappointed that it's not done. | ||
| We did great with India and Pakistan. | ||
| We did very good with Israel. | ||
| I thought, look, October 7th was a disaster. | ||
| People forget, you know, they like to forget. | ||
| That was a horrible thing. | ||
| But, you know, none of these things would have happened if I were president. | ||
| If I were president, none of it would have happened. | ||
| You wouldn't have the Israel problem. | ||
| Iran was broke. | ||
| We had no money. | ||
| We had big sanctions on them. | ||
| Biden immediately let them get rich. | ||
| $300 billion they have right now. | ||
| But they had no money for Hamas or Hezbollah. | ||
| They had no money for anything. | ||
| It was perfect. | ||
| We wouldn't have had inflation that was caused by oil, Chris. | ||
| The oil price went through the roof. | ||
| It was also caused by their spending, but it was caused more by oil than anything else. | ||
| The oil went so high. | ||
| It got close to $100 a barrel. | ||
| And that also kept the war going with Putin, because at $100 a barrel, that was a big money-making experience. | ||
| But now it's down to where it's not so good for them anymore. | ||
| No, it's very important to get that solved. | ||
| That's a bloodbath. | ||
| That's a terrible bloodbath that's going on. | ||
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yeah please go ahead For stopping the war between them. | |
| India says that they cannot talk to Pakistan unless Pakistan takes action against J.B.S. | ||
| I said I can solve anything I'll be your arbitrator I will be your arbitrator I can solve anything And I started the first question, "How long has this been going on?" They said, "2,000 years." I said, "Oh, that's incredible." | ||
| Peter? | ||
| Thank you, President Trump. | ||
| First, on immigration. | ||
| What made you change your mind about targeting in California farmers and people in the hotel and leisure business? | ||
| Well, we're not targeting. | ||
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In fact, if you look today, I put out a statement today about farmers. | |
| Our farmers are being hurt badly by, you know, they have very good workers. | ||
| They've worked for them for 20 years. | ||
| They're not citizens, but they've turned out to be, you know, great. | ||
| We're going to have to do something about that. | ||
| And you know what's going to happen and what is happening? | ||
| They get rid of some of the people because, you know, you go into a farm and you look and people don't, they've been there for 20, 25 years and they've worked great and the owner of the farm loves them and everything else and then you're supposed to throw them out and you know what happens? | ||
| They end up hiring the people, the criminals that have come in, the murderers from prisons and everything else. | ||
| So we're going to have an order on that pretty soon, I think. | ||
| We can't do that to our farmers. | ||
| And leisure, too. | ||
| Hotels. | ||
| We're going to have to use a lot of common sense on that. | ||
| And my other question about the Middle East. | ||
| As the Israelis apparently gear up for some kind of an attack, a possible attack on Iran, are you trying to talk Netanyahu out of doing that? | ||
| Are you so against Iran having a nuclear weapon that you're okay? | ||
| He does his thing because it's not an American war. | ||
| Yeah, it's a very fair question. | ||
| Look, I want to have an agreement with Iran. | ||
| We're fairly close to an agreement. | ||
| We are fairly close to a pretty good agreement. | ||
| It's got to be better than pretty good, though, but it's got to be, I'd much prefer an agreement. | ||
| As long as I think there is an agreement, I don't want them going in because I think I would blow it. | ||
| It might help it, actually. | ||
| Also could blow it. | ||
| But we've had very good discussions with Iran. | ||
| Whether or not we get there, I can't tell you, but it'll happen soon. | ||
| I say this, Peter, very strongly. | ||
| They can't have, whether it's going in or not going in, they can't have a nuclear weapon. | ||
| I'd prefer the more friendly path. | ||
| Can you tell us what the Israelis told you? | ||
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They didn't tell me anything, but I said, look. | |
| There's a chance of massive conflict. | ||
| We have a lot of American people in this area. | ||
| And I said, we've got to tell them to get out because something could happen soon. | ||
| And I don't want to be the one that didn't give any warning and missiles are flying into their buildings. | ||
| It's possible. | ||
| So I had to do it. | ||
| You know, I had the choice. | ||
| Do I do it or not? | ||
| Doing it has its downside, but it also has its upside. | ||
| Like, you're going to save a lot of lives if it should happen. | ||
| Hopefully that doesn't happen. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Mr. President! | |
| What would you like folks to take away from that day? | ||
| What would you hope that they would remember? | ||
| And also, Mr. Brett, our country is. | ||
| And how strong our military is. | ||
| We have the strongest military in the world. | ||
| You know, it's very interesting. | ||
| Three weeks ago, It was the end of World, anniversary, end of World War II. | ||
| And I called France and Macron was a good man. | ||
| I said, "What are you doing?" He goes, "We're celebrating World War II, our victory." I said, "You're a victory. | ||
| You're a victory. | ||
| Tell me about that." And then I called somebody else and I happened to speak to President Putin at the time. | ||
| Now, in all fairness to him, he lost 51 million people and he did fight. | ||
| Russia fought. | ||
| Sort of interesting, isn't it? | ||
| He fought with us in World War II, and everybody hates him. | ||
| And Germany and Japan, they're fine. | ||
| Someday somebody will explain that. | ||
| But I like Germany and Japan, too. | ||
| But Putin is a little confused by that. | ||
| He said, we lost 51 million people, and we were your ally. | ||
| And now everybody hates Russia, and they love Germany and Japan. | ||
| I said, let's explain that sometime, okay? | ||
| But it's a strange world. | ||
| But I will say this. | ||
| Look, I want them to go away saying how great our country is and how great our military is. | ||
| And I was making all these calls. | ||
| For some reason, I spoke to like four different places. | ||
| Sir, are you celebrating? | ||
| And I said, you know, we won World War II and World War I. Right? | ||
| We won them. | ||
| And yet we're the only country that doesn't celebrate. | ||
| Everybody's celebrating except us. | ||
| And I said, we should celebrate too. | ||
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There are several no-kings protests planned across the country on Saturday as well. | |
| What are your thoughts on those? | ||
| No kings? | ||
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No kings. | |
| I don't feel like a king. | ||
| I have to go through hell to get stuff approved. | ||
| A king would say, I'm not going to get this. | ||
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A king would have never had the California mandate to even be talking to him. | |
| He wouldn't have to call up Mike Johnson and Thune and say, fellas, you've got to pull this off and after years we get it done. | ||
| No, no, we're not a king. | ||
| We're not a king at all. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
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Mr. President, sir, you made a lengthy posting today on Truth Social about Senator Rand Paul. | |
| Do you expect to see him at the picnic tonight, sir? | ||
| I do. | ||
| I look forward to seeing him, actually. | ||
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I like him. | |
| He's the hardest vote in the history of the U.S. Senate to get. | ||
| Probably won't get him. | ||
| But he's a very tough vote. | ||
| I mean, he's a very tough vote. | ||
| He's always been a friend of mine. | ||
| You know, I endorsed him and got him elected. | ||
| I got him elected twice. | ||
| But I don't think he understands how great this bill is. | ||
| This is a great bill. | ||
| No tax on tips. | ||
| No tax on, you know, the Social Security payments. | ||
| It's unbelievable what happens. | ||
| No tax on overtime. | ||
| You work overtime. | ||
| no more taxes. | ||
| So those are big, but they're minor compared to the Taxes reduced. | ||
| And let's look at the other side. | ||
| If it doesn't get approved, a 68% tax increase. | ||
| 68%. | ||
| Including the fact that the Trump tax cuts kick in. | ||
| But it's a 68% tax increase. | ||
| And many other bad things. | ||
| Some of them are so bad, I don't even want to talk about them. | ||
| I think it's one of the greatest bills we'll ever pass in this country. | ||
| And I think that Leader Thune This gentleman right here, what he's gone through on this, you know, we started off with a majority of one, now I guess we have seven, so it's like easier, but it's really sort of three. | ||
| It's seven, but it really equates to three, right? | ||
| And we have great support. | ||
| I mean, I can't tell you, I can't guarantee, but when you have a majority of essentially three, where you can't lose anything more than three votes, and you get it passed, it's pretty amazing. | ||
| And I think it's going to haunt the Democrats because most of the bill is common sense. | ||
| It's tax cuts. | ||
| It's border wall funding. | ||
| It's military funding properly spent. | ||
| It's all things that are like common sense. | ||
| They're all good. | ||
| There's nothing tricky about it. | ||
| It's basic stuff. | ||
| And we don't intend on getting one. | ||
| Think of it. | ||
| Not one Democrat vote in the House. | ||
| Mike, not one. | ||
| Maybe somebody will come along. | ||
| I don't know how they can run for office. | ||
| So many different things. | ||
| Very important, Medicare and Medicaid are going to be strengthened, not hurt. | ||
| They're using fake narrative. | ||
| No, they're going to be strengthened. | ||
| We're going to strengthen them. | ||
| They're going to destroy them because under their policies, Medicare and Medicaid go away. | ||
| Social Security under them is going to be devastated. | ||
| With us, it's going to be kept much stronger than before. | ||
| Very interestingly, I saw this and I proved it because for four years I never hurt Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security. | ||
| I've already been there. | ||
| But they're going to destroy Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. | ||
| They're going to wipe them out, in my opinion, because their policies are so bad the country will have no money to pay for them. | ||
| We're going to make them stronger than ever before. | ||
| Thank you very much, everybody. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Ladies and gentlemen, President Trump, how does he get the energy, man? | ||
| How does he get the energy? | ||
| He was at the Kennedy Center last night. | ||
| Stunning Melania. | ||
| He was with us at Fort Bragg like 24 hours ago. | ||
| This is incredible, giving this roaring speech to 20,000 members of the 82nd Airborne. | ||
| Incredible moment. | ||
| I don't know how I guess the energy, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| We were there to cover it, and we have an entire... | ||
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| Patriot Mobile goes with us everywhere, even inside of Special Forces vehicles. | ||
| It's going to be an epic week. | ||
| I think producer ALX is already in D.C. for the massive parade. | ||
| The United States Army will have Lee Greenwood joining the program in just a second. | ||
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| Okay, ladies and gentlemen, speaking of a Patriot who will be there this weekend singing in the great birthday. | ||
| For the United States Army in Washington, D.C. I think you could definitely say it's Donald Trump's favorite musician. | ||
| Lee Greenwood, live on the program right now. | ||
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Lee Greenwood, live on the program right now. | |
| Lee, it's an honor to have you on the show, and I apologize. | ||
| You just never know. | ||
| How long the president's going to go. | ||
| And you've performed with the president maybe dozens or hundreds of times. | ||
| And so you just never know with the president. | ||
| So we appreciate your patience. | ||
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You're welcome, and I agree with it. | |
| I don't know how he has such energy. | ||
| He's a Gemini, and of course, his birthday is the same day as the flag day, June 14th, but I have to mention my wife's birthday is tomorrow, so I'm married to a Gemini, and I understand that kind of energy and where it comes from, but yeah, I'll be in Washington. | ||
| As a matter of fact, I said to my wife, Kim, we've been married 33 years, a wonderful woman. | ||
| Oh my gosh, I love her so much. | ||
| I said, I'm going to give you something special for your birthday tomorrow. | ||
| What would you like to do? | ||
| She said, I'd like to go to Washington, D.C. Well, there happens to be a little event happening over there. | ||
| How about we go on a parade? | ||
| Everybody loves a parade, right? | ||
| Yes, that's right. | ||
| So tell us, Leon, I got to tell you, man, we were there for a very special performance just last week at Kid Rock's new Detroit Cowboy Bar, and you just let her rip, man. | ||
| It was a beautiful, beautiful rendition. | ||
| And you played the piano, and it was just spectacular to see it in such an intimate setting. | ||
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Yeah, that was kind of fun. | |
| Here's our footage of you singing there. | ||
| Maybe the first musician to perform at the bar. | ||
| I know that it's brand new, so congratulations. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Yeah, I like the club, and Kid Rock's a friend of mine. | ||
| You know, Bobby and I have been friends a long time. | ||
| I do some of his shows, Rock the Country. | ||
| There'll be one coming up in Arkansas soon. | ||
| And so we've been a good association, both supporting the president. | ||
| And that just happened spontaneously because I'm there in the club with my wife, Kim. | ||
| We're kind of walking around. | ||
| It's a lot of people I knew. | ||
| And as a matter of fact, I was last night when the president was at the Kennedy Center watching Les Mis, which I should have been at, I was actually singing for the governor of Tennessee at the governor's mansion last night instead. | ||
| So, you know, we could have got Trump, but we didn't. | ||
| And so I'm in the club walking around and I see the governor of Tennessee. | ||
| And he's there as well at Kid Rock's club and a few of our other friends in the business. | ||
| And I said, well, there's a piano right there. | ||
| Has anybody got to sing? | ||
| And the people running the place said, "Well, no, I don't think so." And I said, "Well, I think they'd make this, I mean, You know, why don't we just do something? | ||
| And so I talked to Bob and he said, "If you want to." He said, "That's cool." And so it's funny because as the place erupted, I'm singing God Bless USA, which everybody, of course, knew I was probably going to sing. | ||
| And at the very end, I just took the mic off the stand and stood up and I said, "Okay, let's make this happen. | ||
| Let's everybody do this together. | ||
| No music, just to sing it." And that was really cool. | ||
| It was fun for me to do. | ||
| It was beautiful, man. | ||
| It was an incredible rendition. | ||
| And I think if there's somebody who is in Trump's echelon of energy, it's you. | ||
| We saw you in the Middle East performing for the troops. | ||
| Must have been just a few weeks ago. | ||
| And then here, ping-pong balling between Kid Rock's bar, the Governor's Mansion, and now the White House for the Army 250 birthday celebration. | ||
| Can you give us a preview of what your weekend's going to look like? | ||
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I was a drum major for my high school marching band. | |
| And I used to march right alongside military bands. | ||
| For the past 25 years or so, I've been an advocate for military, particularly wounded warriors. | ||
| We build them homes all over the southeast, thanks to Lenar Homes and a few others. | ||
| Helping a Hero is our charity. | ||
| But we work alongside other charities as well in the same regard. | ||
| So when I'm going to Washington, D.C. and I'm gonna get in a parade for the United States Army, 250 years for the United States Army. | ||
| And I didn't know that they were actually a standing army a year before it became a country. | ||
| Of course, we had to defeat the British before we had the Declaration of Independence. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| And I've been in all those vehicles. | ||
| I shot an M1 tank out at Barstow and been on aircraft carriers and airplanes and stuff and shot, you know, the weapons and all. | ||
| But let me tell you, these guys, That march in that parade, that's our first line of defense. | ||
| These men and women put their lives on the line for us. | ||
| And they proudly will march in the parade. | ||
| They proudly will get all of our applause because we honor them for their job. | ||
| And the president is all believing about the military. | ||
| As you know, he's strengthened the military now. | ||
| And to be there with him and be able to sing and honor the army, it'll be a great day, a day I won't forget. | ||
| So you will be in the parade and performing? | ||
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Yes. | |
| Fantastic. | ||
| It looks like President Trump has truthed about you performing and how excited he is for it. | ||
| I believe it's also the President's birthday. | ||
| So what a banner day. | ||
| Can you give us a, since you spent so much time with the President, can you give us what story comes to mind? | ||
| That happens like maybe behind the scenes or something that we couldn't see on the live stream? | ||
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He's a disarming guy. | |
| He's a very big fella, by the way. | ||
| And in many of our performances, he'll come on the stage and walk the red carpet while I'm singing. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| It's just how it's happened. | ||
| I was actually in my living room with my feet up one time when the first time I saw him using my song. | ||
| And I thought, boy, that's really cool. | ||
| And then we got the call and asked if we would sing again and again and again and again. | ||
| And so several times I'll be on stage. | ||
| Particularly, let's talk about Madison Square Garden, okay? | ||
| He could have easily played my track and walked on stage with the track and not have, but he asked me to be there in person. | ||
| So I'm standing at the edge of the arena, where the Secret Service is all around the edge, and believe me, that was a huge crowd, by the way. | ||
| We thought it was going to turn New York red. | ||
| And my wife is there with me, and I'm walking past the Secret Service, who are kind of just giving me one of those little eye looks, you know. | ||
| I'm the only one allowed into the compound and there's a secret service guy standing at the steps. | ||
| Melania is upstairs The music starts, he starts walking out, and I can't get past the Secret Service guy. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Excuse me. | ||
| Pardon me. | ||
| And he gave me that look like, who the hell are you? | ||
| And I guess then somebody had said to the ear, stand aside and let him get up there. | ||
| Okay, fine. | ||
| So then I walk up there. | ||
| And the media had already told me, they said, stand to the left. | ||
| We want to make sure we have the shot with just the president and the first lady. | ||
| And so there I am singing. | ||
| And so after he's been introduced and they got the shot, he turned Melania to face me and then let me finish the song. | ||
| Of course, you walk up, he shook hands with me. | ||
| And I think I shook hands with the first lady as well. | ||
| And then when I finished, he just gave me a slap on the back. | ||
| It's like I just finished the basketball. | ||
| You know, get out of here. | ||
| And he's like that in person. | ||
| He's so genuinely honest with people around him, almost to a fault. | ||
| But a big happy birthday to Mr. President. | ||
| I'll see you on the 14th and Saturday. | ||
| Just wanted to ask one final question about the entertainers and musicians who took the stage for Kamala Harris while she was running for president. | ||
| I guess you saw Eminem and Beyonce, Lizzo. | ||
| Going up there, maybe they made a lot of money. | ||
| You never know. | ||
| You saw her announce her campaign with Megan Thee Stallion and a twerking army in Atlanta. | ||
| Certainly the left attempts to use music in order to engage their voter base, but it didn't work this time. | ||
| It's quite interesting. | ||
| It failed miserably. | ||
| Your take on this? | ||
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Well, it looks to me like it's obviously a show. | |
| I mean, they're putting on some kind of a thing to draw attention to the candidate. | ||
| It was way over the top. | ||
| And just to make sure that you know, I'm never paid for my performances with the president. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| I do not. | ||
| But there is a perk. | ||
| And I'm going to mention the perk. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| And that is, God bless USA Bible. | ||
| Now, I'm mentioning this because, first of all, I'm a conservative and I'm a Christian. | ||
| And I'm going to sign this particular Bible for the president. | ||
| This is the presidential edition of the God Bless USA Bible. | ||
| And I'm going to give him my signed copy because I don't think he's seen this yet. | ||
| And proudly let you know that if your audience would like to pick up one of these, there's only 5,000 of them. | ||
| It's a limited edition. | ||
| So GodBlessUSABible.com or LeeGreenwood.com and pick up one of these for the president. | ||
| All right. | ||
| And your message to the Lizzo's and Beyonce's and Megan Thee Stallions and M&M's of the world? | ||
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Become a conservative. | |
| It'll do you well. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Kid Rock told me that he's going to work on the next dinner at the White House. | ||
| He's going to work on the M&M dinner at the White House. | ||
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Oh, good luck. | |
| You can bring them together. | ||
| That's right. | ||
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Thanks, baby. | |
| Well, you're a complete legend, Lee. | ||
| We deeply appreciate you on the show. | ||
| Here's the website right here, and then also Lee's website. | ||
| You can see him performing this weekend at Saturday, and it's going to be a banner day. | ||
| Thank you, Lee. | ||
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No, thank you very much, Benny. | |
| Godspeed, man. | ||
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Bye. | |
| you you you Ladies and gentlemen, we are on hour three of our broadcast today. | ||
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| Okay, ladies and gentlemen, I did want to touch on something because we teased it and we've been talking about it. | ||
| It's the number one trend in the world right now, so let's freaking go. | ||
| And the president was asked about it and brought it up twice during his, how long was that, Klein? | ||
| It was at least an hour plus. | ||
| It was an hour plus with President Trump. | ||
| How he has the energy, I don't know, man. | ||
| How he has the energy, I don't know. | ||
| So here's what happened. | ||
| There was a horrific plane crash in India. | ||
| This plane crash was a Boeing 787. | ||
| This crash happened right after the plane had left the runway and had 242 souls on board. | ||
| The death toll is now at 290, horrifically, creeping up to the 300 people mark due to the fact the plane crashed into buildings. | ||
| Here's footage of the plane crash itself. | ||
| It's a terrible fireball, an explosion, as the plane slammed into a series of taller towers moments after takeoff. | ||
| It barely got a half a mile from the runway. | ||
| What happened here? | ||
| And more importantly, there was a survivor? | ||
| Somebody survived that? | ||
| This is insanity. | ||
| Here's what we know right now. | ||
| Man has escaped seat 11A. | ||
| A British man who's a dual citizen of Britain and India. | ||
| He walked away from that crash. | ||
| This is incredible. | ||
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I don't know how it's possible. | |
| But here we go. | ||
| A British father miraculously walked away from the Air India plane disaster, which believed to have claimed the lives of at least 290 people, according to the authorities in India. | ||
| His name is Vishwash Ramesh. | ||
| He's 40 years old. | ||
| He spoke from the safety of a hospital bed hours after making an incredible walk away from the doomed flight that was going to Gatwick. | ||
| This is an airport in London. | ||
| It's called Flight 171 earlier today. | ||
| Astonishing footage showed the passenger, with visible injuries, hobbling away from the scene of the crash. | ||
| He reportedly sustained injuries to his chest, eyes, and feet. | ||
| Police found the passenger, who had been in seat 11A when the jet came down in a residential area. | ||
| He had been transferred to him to a nearby hospital for treatment. | ||
| 30 seconds after takeoff, there was a loud noise and the plane crashed. | ||
| It all happened so quickly, he told the local media. | ||
| When I got up, there were bodies all around me. | ||
| I was scared. | ||
| I stood up and ran. | ||
| There were pieces of the plane all around me. | ||
| Somebody grabbed hold of me and put me in an ambulance and brought me to the hospital. | ||
| Mr. Ramesh lives in London with his wife and child. | ||
| He was traveling home after seeing family in India when the plane crashed, hitting buildings, They confirmed the death toll climbed to 290 people, according to the police. | ||
| Before the discovery of the British survivors, a authority said they believed no one had escaped alive. | ||
| The plane had been carrying 244 passengers, according to the police. | ||
| There were 53 British citizens on board, 159 Indian nationals, Portuguese, and Canadian citizens as well. | ||
| It was very much an international flight. | ||
| Again, it was traveling to London. | ||
| Eleven of those on board were children, including two newborns. | ||
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Oh, it's just terrible. | |
| Rescue teams reported by the military have recovered 204 bodies have seen so far casualties from the plane in the area surrounding the crash. | ||
| Aviation experts say the Boeing 787 Dreamliner may have suddenly lost power at the most critical phase of the flight. | ||
| Show me his seat. | ||
| Show me his seat right there. | ||
| There is where he was sitting. | ||
| That's insane. | ||
| Show me him walking away. | ||
| This is wild. | ||
| So here's this dude walking away. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Here's the footage right here. | ||
| Here he is. | ||
| The guy in the white t-shirt that has all the smoke and scarring blood on it. | ||
| That dude is the astonishing survivor, lone survivor, of this plane crash. | ||
| Mr. Ramesh. | ||
| He's 40. He's a dual Indian and British citizen. | ||
| And he survived. | ||
| I mean, you can see he sustained injuries to his face. | ||
| He's obviously got beat up on the crash. | ||
| But he is somehow, as the plane smashed into the building, survived. | ||
| Remarkable. | ||
| We have breaking news on this. | ||
| Here's him potentially speaking to the media. | ||
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Go. | |
| Remarkable story of survival, it seems. | ||
| We can now bring you a name that's been reported now by the Hindustan Times and other outlets now of that survivor, 40-year-old Vishwas Kumar Ramesh. | ||
| There you see him in hospital, his face a bit bloodied and battered, but he was able to walk away from this. | ||
| Boeing 787, as it burst into flames, he was sat, we're told, in seat 11A. | ||
| There are other images that show a man in a white T-shirt limping, but otherwise able to walk away from that scene, from that aircraft crash. | ||
| With some bloodstain on his white T-shirt, a bit of blackened suit, the odd mark on the white T-shirt, but really just able to walk away from that aircraft. | ||
| So somehow he was flung free of the aircraft before it was engulfed in this fireball and that millisecond before that happened. | ||
| But he is a 40-year-old man. | ||
| Crazy. | ||
| Just insane. | ||
| How is it even possible? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| You can see, again, you can see the footage of the plane crash is just totally horrific. | ||
| I mean, it's a massive, just massive fire. | ||
| How any single human being survives this? | ||
| How is that possible? | ||
| Not just survives, but walks away? | ||
| You can see footage of the aircraft littered all over. | ||
| How is that possible? | ||
| This is nuts. | ||
| Here's the CCTV footage. | ||
| Shows you exactly how doomed this plane was. | ||
| It barely got lift, and then you can see it immediately lose power and collapse here. | ||
| The plane goes for like a quarter mile and then crashes down. | ||
| This is footage from the airport itself. | ||
| And there it goes. | ||
| And then it crashes into buildings, housing units, and other buildings. | ||
| How do you survive? | ||
| How do you survive that? | ||
| That's wild. | ||
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Is this a hoax? | |
| Just like just the amount of fuel, just the amount of. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Crazy. | ||
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Guy walks away. | |
| Listen to this. | ||
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A9 speaking to A9 on a phone call. | |
| Ahmedabad police commissioner says, G.S. Malik, the police have found one survivor in seat 11A. | ||
| One survivor has been found in the hospital and is under treatment. | ||
| Cannot say anything about the number of deaths yet. | ||
| The death toll may increase as the flight crashed in a residential area. | ||
| So that's the big news that we are getting at this moment. | ||
| There is hope. | ||
| One survivor has walked out unscathed. | ||
| How it's possible, I'm not sure. | ||
| What the hell happened to this plane? | ||
| Let's talk about this. | ||
| It's a Boeing plane. | ||
| 787. | ||
| Preliminary flight tracking data from flight radar reveals the plane reached an altitude of 600 feet after takeoff, a height far below standard for a commercial aircraft several minutes into departure. | ||
| A former senior pilot told them that the footage shows a terrifying descent looked like the case of multiple birds wherein both engines have lost power. | ||
| Takeoff was perfect, he said, and I just believe the short of taking off the gear of the aircraft started descending, which can happen. | ||
| In the case that engines lose power and the aircraft stops developing lift. | ||
| Aviation expert Sanjay Lazar noted that the Dreamliner was only 11 years old, so unlikely to have underlying technical issues. | ||
| The plane was under the command of Captain Sumit Subwar, who had nearly 10,000 hours of experience. | ||
| lot of flight time. | ||
| A bird strike would explain why the aircraft did not have the power to lift. | ||
| If there were multiple birds hit during takeoff, it probably could not have gone beyond six to seven minute threshold before it started falling. | ||
| The pilots forum aviation experts sounded the alarm, uh, sounded like the plane's Ram air turbine rat is what it's called. | ||
| An emergency wind turbine had deployed it shortly before the crash. | ||
| Okay. | ||
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| What is RAT? | ||
| B-787, Boeing 787. | ||
| Some people think they hear the characteristic sounds of a RAT, RAM air turbine, hydraulic energy pump being deployed at the beginning of the crash video. | ||
| And I agree. | ||
| So you can see here what that looks like. | ||
| It looks like there is a deployment of what is a safety system. | ||
| Left antenna, right antenna, R-A-T. | ||
| R-A-T, RAM air turbine. | ||
| What is this? | ||
| Ram air turbine hydraulic energy pump seems to be deployed at the beginning of the crash video. | ||
| This is what a RAT is from the Boeing company website. | ||
| In flight, a RAT deploys automatically if any of the following occur. | ||
| Both engines have failed. | ||
| All three hydraulic system pressures are low. | ||
| Loss of electrical power to the captain's and first officer's flight instruments. | ||
| Loss of all four EMPs. | ||
| Falls to the flight's control system, a current approach. | ||
| Loss of all four EMPs and engine fails on takeoff of landing. | ||
| The RAT can be deployed manually if necessary by pushing the ram air turbine switch in the hydraulic panel. | ||
| I am not a professional pilot. | ||
| However, what this says is that this is a safety and emergency system in case the plane loses power terminally. | ||
| And it begins to lose airspeed and altitude. | ||
| So, effectively, when both engines have failed, this is the deployment system. | ||
| And airline experts are saying that they hear this system being deployed. | ||
| Apparently, there is something audible to it, and then you can see it up here, potentially in footage of the crash. | ||
| Obviously, you have a situation here where a lot of people are wondering, like, one, how does some dude escape? | ||
| Two, how did this happen in the first place? | ||
| Right? | ||
| How does this happen? | ||
| I mean, there's thousands and thousands and thousands of flights a day all around the world. | ||
| Many of those planes are Boeing planes. | ||
| What's going on here? | ||
| Is it pilot error or is it something more technical? | ||
| Well, there's a survivor, I guess. | ||
| I mean, again, I find it... | ||
| The temperatures there have got to be extraordinary inside of that fireball. | ||
| You'd have to be inside the fireball. | ||
| Again, miracles happen. | ||
| Maybe it's a literal miracle. | ||
| Apparently the guy is talking to the media and is explaining what happened. | ||
| I want to just go over to this other Daily Mail article just to show you the wreckage. | ||
| You can see the wreckage here from the plane. | ||
| You can see the tail. | ||
| The plane crashed into the side of a building. | ||
| You can see the tail sitting there hanging off the side of the building. | ||
| And obviously everything just in ash. | ||
| So what you're looking at is the atomized fuselage of the plane. | ||
| And you scroll down here and you can see some parts of the plane are still operational. | ||
| This would be the tail of the plane. | ||
| Not operational, but it hasn't been burned to a crisp. | ||
| So maybe. | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| I mean, there are visible parts of the plane that are, you know, that surfaced. | ||
| Go down farther in the article, please. | ||
| You can see a wing here. | ||
| There's the wing of the aircraft. | ||
| The tail of the aircraft. | ||
| And I guess miracles do happen, right? | ||
| So there's obviously the burning charred remains, but you can look here. | ||
| There's the wing. | ||
| And again, it's intact, I suppose. | ||
| And here's the tail of the plane that is also relatively intact. | ||
| I mean, you can see it. | ||
| So I don't know. | ||
| This is insane. | ||
| Miracle in seat 11a. | ||
| British survivor walking away from the crash. | ||
| All right. | ||
| That's the news, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| If you believe in miracles, then maybe our verse of the day is for you. | ||
| Isaiah 41. Do not fear, for I am with you. | ||
| Do not be dismayed, for I am your God. | ||
| I will strengthen you and help you. | ||
| I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. | ||
| Make sure that you are upheld by God, by believing in God, by believing in the Savior, Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, and by ensuring that we put our faith not in men, but in the everlasting. | ||
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Later chat Oh We got a bogey. | |
| Ballroom, this is Whiplash One. | ||
| I've got the bogey in my sight. | ||
| Whiplash One, what is it? | ||
| I've got no idea. | ||
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And you are clear to engage. | |
| Hit it. | ||
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Well, he just went super sonic. | |
| I got a lock. | ||
| I got a lock. | ||
| My God, I actually pity those poor bastards we're going up against. | ||
| My God, I do. | ||
| We're not going to just meme those globalists. | ||
| We're going to meme them till they cry and use their tears to crease the treads of our takes. | ||
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You're running us over. | |
| shooting us all because of the color of our skin. | ||
| The strength of the wolf is the pack and the strength of the pack is the wolf. | ||
| Diversity is our strength. | ||
| The farmer keeps the gate open because it's good for us. | ||
| It's not safe for us in the wilderness. | ||
| The farmer's land is where we must, let's say, assimilate. | ||
| I can't wait to meet our new neighbors! | ||
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