Trump Announces HALT To War! Iran’s Reaction is… 🔥
President Trump's five-day strike postponement against Iran, allegedly mediated by Turkey and Egypt, aims to drop oil prices from $84 to $60, aiding his 2026 re-election strategy. Meanwhile, Steve Hilton campaigns for California Governor, alleging election fraud in Project Home Key and proposing a "Cal Doge" audit initiative. Hilton blames Democrats for the LaGuardia plane crash via funding freezes and mocks opponents like Katie Porter, while promoting plans to visit Cuba to expose propaganda amidst his broader conservative platform of tax cuts and energy deregulation. [Automatically generated summary]
Trump posting to Truth Social just moments ago, quote, I am pleased to report that the U.S. and Iran have had over the last two days very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East.
This is a major development President Trump taking to Truth Social, not only to say there are very good and productive conversations taking place between the United States and Iran, but he goes on to say he's ordered the Department of War to postpone for at least five days strikes against Iran's energy and power infrastructure.
This comes after the president issued that ultimatum over the weekend about opening the Strait of Hormuz.
We don't have any additional information at this point into the president's thinking about this, but this is a president who has applied immense pressure on the Iranian regime through thousands of airstrikes over the past three weeks.
And this, again, is a president who in the past has indicated he prefers a diplomatic option when one is available.
The images you see here are Iranian ballistic missiles soaring through the skies of Israel over the weekend.
There were dozens of attacks that took place.
The Israelis striking back against Iran's storage facilities for these missiles, going after many of not only the production lines, but where they keep these missiles and launchers.
We understand they've been quite successful in those strikes.
Although the Iranians are still able to get off much of the incoming missile fire here to Israel, in the city of Arad over the weekend, we visited there yesterday.
More than 100 people were wounded in a single Iranian ballistic missile attack.
But while the focus was there in the south of Israel, regional focus also on the Strait of Hormuz, where President Trump referenced over the weekend the possibility of conducting additional strikes that appear now to be off the table at least for five days.
I asked Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about that post.
President Trump said that if in 48 hours the Iranians don't open the Strait of Hormuz, that there will be strikes against the power grids in Iran.
Will you participate in those strikes and what do you think should happen next in this campaign?
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I think President Trump knows exactly what he's doing.
And whatever we do, we do together and as far as possible in confidence.
So again, the president just breaking some news this morning saying that there will be a five-day delay to any strikes on Iran's power and energy infrastructure.
The Israelis not just looking to the east, but also north to the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group, Hezbollah.
You can see some of the exchanges of fire there in southern Israel.
As a top spokesperson for the Israeli military said this about the length of the campaign.
Again, though, the headline today: President Trump saying in a post on True Social just minutes ago that the United States and Iran and Iran have had very good and productive conversations over the past two days.
And again, President Trump is ordering the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to delay any strikes against Iran's power or energy infrastructure for at least five days.
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I'm getting out of here before any more missiles fall on my head.
So we went to the NCAA championships, collegiate wrestling, and hung out in Cleveland.
Is that the place that you want to hang out for the weekend?
Probably not.
I don't know.
No hate.
It was a great time.
We had a fun time.
But that's what I did.
Like, make sure that you lock off a little bit of time for the man that tried his hardest, right?
Like that just, it was his first time being a dad, too, right?
So he's just trying hard.
Make sure that you lock it in.
And make sure that you are locked in today for some glorious and good news.
Monday, March 23rd, 2026.
Trump halts all bombing of Iran and their critical infrastructure.
Well, there's no more infrastructure, right?
It's all critical.
So I guess that's good.
This is effectively a ceasefire in the war that President Trump has announced this morning.
Iran saying, like, that was Iran's response.
They are freaking out saying, no, it's not happening.
But actually, it is happening.
We have some great sources that tell us exactly how it's happening.
Iran's just trying to level up, right?
And to be the big, but you can't be the big when you got no air force, no air defenses, no army, no navy, when you got no bullets, when you got no drones, you got no ballistic, you got no missiles, you got nothing left.
What are you gonna do?
You're in no position to negotiate here.
You don't have the cards, as they would say.
So we'll see what happens, but I really like the direction that this is going.
Obviously, you need to refocus on domestic policy.
I drove in this morning looking at the gas science.
Yo, ooh, very close to $4 a gallon where I live.
What about where you live?
How expensive is it where you live?
Obviously, we had gas below $2 a gallon.
Remember that?
The $2 a gallon gas season.
It was the fall, and gas was plummeting.
Well, let's see if President Trump can lock it in.
Gas is actually cratering right now.
It's at like $84 a barrel.
That's good.
It was like in the $60 a barrel range.
That's when you get your $2 gas.
That's golden, ladies and gentlemen, for the golden era.
ICE deployed to airports, and we are going to be deploying to airports later today.
I'm telling you, I just yelled it as we were going through.
They had my camera, so I couldn't film it.
But I yelled it as they were going through that.
Elon is covering salaries of all of the TSA workers, and everyone cheered.
Yo, this is like what patriots do.
These are law enforcement agents.
TSA, you ever like gone through TSA and like talked to any of these guys?
You know, these guys are.
Like, these guys are a bunch of veterans.
They're a bunch of retired cops.
They're a bunch of people who serve their country.
To a man, a lot of these TSA agents, I mean, they come up, they talk to me all the time when I'm going through the airport.
These are great people.
And I'm a supporter of law enforcement.
Probably one of the most evil, vicious lies ever told by the corporate press was that somehow like the right doesn't support federal law enforcement.
In fact, we're the only ones who support federal law enforcement.
They're the only ones who support law enforcement at all.
The entire system collapses under the left.
The left is, of course, allowing for the attacking and the harassment of ICE agents and TSA agents and all federal law enforcement as long as it serves their political power.
And so we're going to support them today.
It ain't going to be, you know, it ain't much.
It's just a fried chicken sandwich and some salty, salty waffle fries.
Hot out to Greece, but it's going to be a free lunch for them.
So that's what we're going to do.
And they can just roll through and pick it up.
And so, you know, I don't have enough money to pay for all our salaries.
We'll have the richest man in the world do that.
You know, we're focused on covering the salaries that we have here at the show and then also some lunches for defunded law enforcement.
This is blowing back on Democrats.
Donald Trump dropped a bunch of ICE agents, sprinkled a bunch of ICE agents into the TSA checkpoints now.
Turns out they'll be doing full ID checks and then also arresting and potentially deporting people at the TSA checkpoints you can see here.
You can see the ICE agents that have been deployed, forward deployed at the Atlanta airport.
What is TSA like around you?
Have you flown?
Have you seen major delays?
We certainly saw some delays.
Look at that.
This is out the door, through the terminal, down the street, into the parking garage, and then out the back of the parking garage.
This is Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Airport at 5.02 a.m.
You know what they said?
They said arrive four hours early to the Atlanta airport.
And maybe your airport's a little different.
They said arrive four hours early.
I didn't have to wait in line for hours.
We waited in line, you know, approximately 10, 20 minutes for TSA where I was, you know, traveling this weekend.
But Atlanta's got this massive airport.
They got tons of people.
They got so many people that fly through Atlanta.
It's like one of the biggest hubs in the world.
And so their TSA is like stretched to the absolute, absolute breaking point and limit.
And so it's totally evil.
Again, it should be illegal to defund critical infrastructure.
They've also defunded the Coast Guard while we're technically at war, a war that I hope ends.
Why do I hope the Iran war ends?
Okay, let's pivot over to here.
Why do I hope the Iran war ends?
And by the way, I mean, goodness gracious, what like a, look at this.
I've got a super chat.
Buy a few sandwiches on me.
Well, thank you, Grimly, Anoku.
God bless you, man.
Thank you.
We will.
I mean, we will.
We'll be posting up the whole time, you know, about it.
I actually got a delivery right now.
Klein, we might get it in the middle of the live show.
So I got a bunch of patriotic balloons coming to the office.
We're going to put up a bunch of balloons, you know, and be like, hey, yo, come get your Chick-fil-A.
So thank you very much, Grimly.
Yeah, Grimly Anaku.
Thank you.
It's very kind of you.
This is what we're going to do, man.
We're going to use what God has given us to help in the way that God has called us to.
And today it's giveaway Chick-fil-A.
Why do I want the war to end?
I want the war to end.
Of course you want the war to end.
Of course you want the war to end.
You know, again, we've litigated, you know, for the last couple of weeks that I wasn't elected president, okay?
And I don't like forever war.
Looks like this ain't going to be a forever war.
We'll get into what Trump said just a second ago, but there's no way Trump's going to let this be in a forever war.
Just listen to the words he's saying.
Trump's wrapping this sucker up.
Sounded like they had a generation, based on all my phone calls with everybody at DOD and everybody inside of the admin and State Department and all that.
And we know so many people.
And we're like blessed to have it.
Like every single week, you have members of the administration on this show all the time.
Like, you know, based on my phone calls, they had a generational opportunity to straight up murder these people and they took it.
And that just is what it is.
It was gangster.
It was a gangster operation.
You know, it was like a stealth operation, kind of like with Maduro.
You have like just this opportunity and they just went, got going to take it.
And Trump does it.
He bases these decisions on his gut.
And why do I want it to wrap up?
Because these have perilous, determinating downstream effects on what actually matters to people when they vote in elections.
The reason why Trump is in office in a landslide is vastly due to the inflation numbers, the out-of-control spending numbers, the out-of-control war spending numbers.
Everybody saw billions of dollars going to Ukraine, hundreds of billions of dollars going to Ukraine.
And everyone said, enough of that.
It's America last.
So we don't want that.
We don't want that to be our thing.
We want our thing to be low gas prices, low interest rates, people getting homes, people getting mortgages.
We want people to buy cars.
We want people to be able to go on a vacation every once in a while.
Want people to be able to afford Chick-fil-A.
I'm going to go bankrupt.
Chick-fil-A is expensive these days.
So that's what, like, that, those are the policies that win us in 26 and 28.
I think it can be done.
They're just going to have to reverse it and reverse it quick.
Now, it's a beautiful thing.
What happened like instantly as soon as Trump announced, yo, we ain't going to war anymore.
Here we go.
If we could pop up my screen to pop up my screen, thank you.
I'm pleased to report the United States of America and country of Iran have had over the last couple of days very good productive conversations regarding the complete resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East.
Based on the Tenor and Tona, these detailed constructive conversations, which will continue, I have instructed the Department of War to postpone any and all military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure.
America, Israel, and like the Allied forces can just bomb you into submission.
They can take everything from you.
They can just put you right back in the Stone Age.
Is it going to do regime change?
Well, what is the regime exactly?
Some like some like guy in a coma, some gay MOA in a coma, like who doesn't even know where he is, sitting there like, you know, like it, like, doesn't have any legs or arms.
I think that's like what they're left with.
So nobody's even seen like the new guy.
Peace through strength, to put it mildly, it says Donald Trump.
Donald Trump on Friday saying we're getting very, very close to meeting our objectives and winding down our great military efforts in the Middle East.
This shows like kind of where the president's head is.
But let me just tell you, and I checked, this was written by President Trump himself.
I don't want, I don't like this, I don't like the, I don't like the downstream policies of it.
I want to win.
I want to win.
So, but I'm not going to burn my MAGA hat.
I'm a three-time Trump voter and I'm not going to like betray the base.
And the base is with Trump.
And we'll see if he can just wrap this sucker up.
Okay, back to me.
Thank you.
The White House now signaling for a ceasefire, effectively.
President Trump calls for a pause on all military strikes, right?
So the White House is hyping it.
Department of State is hyping it.
They're all hyping it.
And Iran is going, I don't know what Iran says, there's been no direct contact with President Trump.
President Trump is trying to buy time.
Buy time?
For what, dude?
You're like a sitting duck.
You're a sitting duck.
You ever seen the USC fight where the guy gets knocked out?
He's just kind of laying there with start with his eyes all glazed over.
That's Iran right now.
You don't got it.
You can't stand.
You don't got anything left.
You have nothing left.
President withdrew from power plant strike after Iran's firm warning.
Yes, okay, you're very scary.
Yes, you really scared us.
This, I love.
This, I think, is hilarious.
So the leaders of Iran are whining that Trump is engaging in psychological warfare.
Oh, that's great.
They're crying.
Hormuz will not return to pre-war conditions as long as psychological warfare continues.
Megan Rapineau and Ellen Generes and Rosie O'Donnell are now the leaders of Iran.
These are the leaders of Iran are now muling about Trump engaging in psychological warfare.
Well, it turns out that they're lying.
That's kind of a shock.
Turns out they're lying.
Okay, so we went and hunted this down.
And so here's what's actually going on.
Iran screamed and said, no, we're not talking with America.
Liars, they are.
They are.
What's happening is that Iran is like desperate to end this thing, to not like go directly back to the Stone Age and to try and look strong while doing it.
It's going to be a really hard task to look strong after the beating that they took, but there's a beating that Trump's going to take politically and domestically if you have five, $6 gasoline prices and the midterms.
That's just a matter of fact.
And if inflation shoots up, and if the government keeps spending, and if you don't have the mortgage rates go down from like they're so stubbornly stuck at 6%, you got to wrap this thing up.
So you had your fun, like you got to close it down.
Well, it turns out that's what's going on.
U.S. source told said that Turkey, Egypt, and Pakistan, they've all been working on peace with U.S. in Iran over the last couple of days.
Foreign ministers, three countries, held separate talks with the White House, Steve Witkoff, and Iranian foreign minister Abbas Agarachi.
U.S. source said.
So Steve Witcoff's directly talking with the Iranians.
The mediation is ongoing and making progress.
The discussions are about ending the war and resolving all outstanding issues.
Trump's probably going to open a Trump Tower Tehran.
You know what's going to happen.
TTT, they're going to do the Trump Tower Tehran.
But by the end of it, you know that's what's going on.
Egyptian foreign minister said on Sunday on a call with Witkoff that the Iranians and his counterparts from Pakistan stressed the importance of containing the broader effects of the conflict and preventing it from expanding.
So you just don't want all that war in the Mideast.
Smart, bro.
Smart.
Go for it.
And now things are responding.
Things are responding appropriately.
I mean, obviously, the stock market spiked.
Stock market went ballistic.
Oil crashed.
And Iran wheezing intensifies.
Iran's foreign minister says there have been no talks with Washington.
And how can you spin it into a massive election victory?
The way you end up totally on top and on like the other side of this issue is when you start negotiating trade with China.
Ultimately, China and Russia are the other poles of power on this earth.
It is a multipolar power structure that we live in, and it's not fun to play by their rules.
We've had to play by their rules in Ukraine.
We've had to play by their rules in the Pacific.
America doesn't like that.
And if you can leverage the destruction of their power vectors around the world, choke out their energy supplies, prove that you have the willpower to engage positively and aggressively with China and Russia.
You can end the Ukraine war.
You can dictate terms for the next millennia to China.
You can control economic flow throughout the world using the dollar and not some other alternative currency, which of course was founded effectively by Iran.
This is a battle for the dollar and dollar supremacy, if anything.
That's what this is.
And then you can position yourself for tripling this, you know, tripling the economy here in America.
The only thing that really like freaking matters in 2028.
And so cut it all down and give it to people plainly and explain the triangulation of what's happening.
It's the same thing that's happening with Cuba, Venezuela, South America.
Everybody's well aware of what the strategy is.
And it's also a critical strategy for the future of the country.
If you're thinking long-term and not short-term, it's very, very good to have control over Iran, to have control over the straits and have to have control over the region and to be rid of a bad actor in the region.
The only destabilizing actor in the region, quite frankly.
And now you can see that, well, you know, this is what you want to see.
If you can have, if you can have your cake and you can eat it too, then this is what you want to do.
And as we've said many times over, I wasn't elected president.
So we ain't going to set ourselves on fire over this.
I just want to win.
I just want to win.
Democrats tell us exactly what they're going to do.
If they win, it is a civilizational question at this point.
Civilizational.
Do we wish to continue as a people?
Or do we wish to destroy ourselves?
And Democrats, of course, will do the destroying if we let them back in.
Right now, they're destroying.
I mean, look what they're doing.
Look what the Democrats are doing right now.
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They're projecting exactly what's next.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I am really excited to announce that Steve Hilton is joining the program.
Steve Hilton.
Yeah, okay.
Unfortunately, Andy Ogles, we had a bit of a connection issue with our team, and the representative Andy Ogles will not be able to join the show today.
So on the heels of Nick Shirley's investigation, our investigation in the homeless fraud, thank you for joining and like helping us with this and uncovering the fraud.
You are back at it again, announcing more discoveries of more looting of the state treasury.
Could you and the taxpayers, could you please enumerate what you found, Steve, recently?
So Benny, as you know, we launched now, it's nearly two months ago, Cal Doge, the California Department of Government Efficiency, part of my campaign.
Obviously, we're doing it on a volunteer basis at this point.
We're not in the government, so we don't have the access to the complete books, but just already we found billions of dollars just by going through publicly available information.
This is, you got Gavin Newsom and the Attorney General and the idiots in charge of California.
They could have been doing this for years, but of course they don't because they are in on it.
And this is the latest example.
Homelessness, Project Home Key, it's called $3.8 billion starting in the pandemic that they took to buy up properties and hand it over to homeless people.
What actually happened was that they took these knockdown properties at knockdown prices, inflated the value.
It was pocketed by affordable housing developers, part of the homeless industrial complex, cronies and donors to Gavin Newsome and Karen Bass.
And now the taxpayers are on the hook for it, but these developers get the cash.
The properties, meanwhile, are almost all nearly empty, not even being used.
We stood in front of one of them on, you know, in Inglewood, not far from LAX the other day to announce this latest of our fraud reports.
But what's really, really exciting is that because of the attention that you're bringing, your investigation, Nick Shirley's investigation, just this weekend, I was with James O'Keefe.
He's doing amazing work in California, exposing the voting side of this, paying homeless people for signatures to register them to vote.
So what's being exposed is the business model of this corrupt Democrat regime.
For 16 years, they've been in power, one party rule.
They've never had any accountability, nothing.
And this year, it's all changed.
And what's happening is why I'm so excited about our prospects to actually win in November here in California, because the whole regime is crumbling because you and Nick and us with Cal Doge, we are exposing the corruption and exposing there's nothing there and answering that question, which Californians have.
How is it that we pay the highest taxes in the country for literally the worst results?
Well, because the money's going into the Democrat machine and into the corrupt cronies of the Democrat politicians.
So there's in California, a lot of the stuff that the Democrats want to make happen is put on there by ballot initiatives where they pay for signatures.
Now, you contrast that with the Republican initiative.
So just now, a few weeks ago, we confirmed that voter ID, whatever the idiots do with the SAVE Act in Washington or don't do, here in California, we've got voter ID on the ballot in November.
We will be able to vote to make voter ID happen in November.
That's going to be a huge reason I win because it's going to get a big Republican turnout.
That was achieved the old-fashioned way by volunteers collecting signatures, in particular, an organization called Reform California, led by a friend of mine, Carl DeMayo, a great campaigner, collecting signatures from real people, a real membership organization.
Same with another one to protect increases in property taxes.
It's called Save Prop 13.
That was put there through the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, which goes right back to the original taxpayer revolt in California in the mid-1970s.
By the way, I was just endorsed by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.
So those initiatives get there the right way.
How do the Democrats do it?
They pay scammers per signature.
And that's what we saw in action.
And it's supposed to be actual voters being paid.
So the money is supposed to go to the businesses that stand on the streets finding people to sign signatures.
What we actually saw, the money is going to the voters to pay for their signature on these ballot initiatives.
That's not how it's supposed to be at all.
It's literally buying votes.
And on top of that, it's not just any old voters, it's homeless people who aren't registered to vote.
So at the same time as buying their signature for the ballot initiatives that the Democrats are pushing, they're also registering them to vote, often with fake addresses.
The whole thing is just a complete joke.
And it's exposing the thing we've all been saying for years, which is how can you have any confidence in the voting system in a state where they endlessly change the rules and rig the system to favor themselves politically?
Governor Steve Hilton, when you get into office, what will you do first thing in order to shut down some of these obvious fraudulencies that we have seen captured live on camera?
And we can do that because what I'm doing differently this time in the race for governor than any candidate, Republican or Democrat, is putting together a team, just like President Trump.
It was so powerful, wasn't only 24, that team of rebels he put together, the Bobby Kennedys and so on and Tulsi and all of that, that and Elon.
So that's what we're doing.
And there's a position called the state controller, which is an elected position here in California that's usually filled with Democrat hacks that see it as a stepping stone for the next thing.
They're put there by the unions.
Not this time.
We've got a guy called Herb Morgan, you met him, who is a serious financial guy, was Howard Lutnick's business partner, sold his business to Cantor Fitzgerald.
And the state controller has the power not only to audit every organization receiving state money, but to stop the flow of money if we think it's suspicious.
That's number one.
Secondly, my running mate for Attorney General, Michael Gates, we are going to prosecute.
We're going to prosecute this and see what we can do to get the money back, to reclaim the money that was stolen from the taxpayers.
And then the third step is to totally clean up the voting system, to investigate the voter rolls, to make sure that we have citizen checks on the voter rolls and clean up this totally rotten, corrupt system.
And a lot of people said to me, oh, don't use Doge.
And it's not discredited.
Everyone understands that we need it more in California, even than I would say in the federal government.
Because at least in the federal government, over the years, you had the first Trump administration with an influx of conservative common sense ideas.
Okay, then you have Biden.
You have a bit of back and forth.
In California, it's been 16 years, left, left, left, one party rule, everything.
All the statewide offices, the state legislature, all these bureaucracies infected.
Well, not just with leftism, but the worst in the country, because that's what California's been.
So we need the Doge effort in California more than anywhere else.
And of course, if we do that in California, we're not only saving California taxpayers' money, but massively saving American taxpayers' money, because a massive part of this fraud is federal money.
When you're talking about Medicaid and all of that, which is a huge part of it, the hospices, you saw that with Dr. Oz the other week.
That's all federal.
So this is, and there's a national interest in Cal Doge being as effective as possible.
We've got to change the law, including, if necessary, with, as you need to do often in California, with a ballot initiative that we will get there for real, because millions of Californians are sick of this.
They know that the whole system's been scammed.
And so we have to clean it up completely.
We've got to give people confidence in our elections.
I mean, there was an estimate that in California, this is from my attorney general running mate, Michael Gates, who, by the way, just before jumping into the race for attorney general, running with me on a ticket, was in the Justice Department working with Pam Bondi and Leo Terrell and Hamit Dylan in the Civil Rights Division, leading on election integrity.
So he really knows what he's talking about.
In fact, he was the one behind one of the federal lawsuits against California on the voter rolls.
So you've got a pincer movement.
And so what you're seeing on a lot of issues right now in California, actually, is the Trump administration pushing common sense changes very aggressively, whether that's on opening up oil production or on this issue of voting or on forest management, a whole bunch of areas where you've got the Trump administration acting.
You've got the leadership in California today, the Democrats, pushing back, filing lawsuits and all the rest.
Imagine what we can do when we have a governor and a team in California that wants to work with the Trump administration to clean up California.
That could be months away.
I would take office in January.
And so this is going to be a new day, not just for California, for our whole country.
First of all, even since the last governor race in California in 2022, the climate of opinion in California has shifted very negatively against the Democrats.
When people ask that basic question, which determines if it's a change election where they kick out the incumbents, is the state or the country, whatever, going in the right direction, wrong direction, that's moved very negatively against the Democrats.
Number two, in a midterm, as you know better than anyone, it's all about turnout, getting your votes out.
Whoever does best getting their votes out will win.
Now, if we look at the numbers and you take the average of the midterm results in California 2018, 2022 to project the numbers for this year, the total number of votes we can expect, about 11.7 million, just as an estimate.
So to win, I would need just over half of that, 5.9 million.
That's the target number of votes that we will need to win.
President Trump in California in 2024 got 6.1 million votes.
In other words, the Republican votes are there in California.
We just need to get them to show up in a governor's race.
Voter ID on the ballot will really help with that.
So will that other proposition I mentioned on saving Prop 13 and capping increases in property tax.
So these ballot initiatives that are on the ballot in November will help Republican turnout, as will my candidacy.
I'm running on clear, strong, common sense, conservative platform.
$3 gas, cut your electorate bills in half, no more free healthcare for illegal immigrants, your first 100 grand tax-free, a home you can afford to buy, very practical things.
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This is my favorite story of the week, and I don't even know.
I don't know if we're going to do it or not.
I asked my wife, can I go to Cuba?
And she said, Yeah, sure.
Yeah, yeah, sure.
So, you know, I checked the flights this morning.
I'm so sick of this.
So, they got a bunch of Libtards in Havana.
You just can't, you can't beat it.
They're playing at the, they're staying at the only five-star hotel in all of Cuba.
It's the only hotel, it's the only building in all of Cuba that has power.
You can see here, it's the only, it's the only building that still has, that's not like in total blackout.
So, they're sipping lots, they're literally sipping lattes, they're complaining that they don't have enough internet to live stream, and they're supposedly there to save the communist regime.
And of course, they're blaming America for everything.
See, there's their hotel.
You can see like on this completely darkened street, the street is complete blackout.
You got one hotel, it's where all the libs are staying, and they're they're they're like, they're like bragging about how fun it is there with the rolling blackouts.
Here's Hassan Piker who leaves his dog at home if there's no electricity to electrocute it, uh, complaining about the rolling blackouts.
Like they're chilling, you know, they don't have any jobs, they don't have any electricity.
We're sitting there treating them like zoo animals.
It's like a safari, like a safari for pink-haired white people, filming the brown people who have no food, no gas, no future, no jobs in their crumbling nation.
It's been completely and totally raped by communism.
But yeah, we're sitting there.
You know, I'm sitting there with my steak tartare and my caviar and my little latte complaining about my internet, saying that people are partying.
People are just partying in the street.
Look at this hotel.
This is where Hassan Piker is staying.
The average Cuban lives on $156 a year.
They wouldn't be able to afford Hassan Piker's glasses that he's wearing in that club.
Hassan Piker's glasses in that class is a $1,400 pair of Cartier glasses.
These are glasses he's wearing.
So, what a complete clown car this operation is.
What a total and complete clown car.
So, I mean, this is what this is what they're doing.
And it makes me like they're lying and it makes me angry.
And I hate it when I see this kind of propaganda.
And it makes me feel like it makes me like, I get like an itch and I want to like go.
I could go and go on a flight and expose these people and show what's really happening in Cuba.
So I'm going to do that.
We're going to do that one of, like, as long as it's safe.
Like, we're going to do that one of these days.
Might be this week.
We have to travel to CPAC this week, so I don't know if it's going to be this week, but we're going to go do that.
I'm going to counter-program here.
We're going to counter program at the airport with TSA, ladies and gentlemen.
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Okay, so we're heading to the airport.
It's perilous out there.
We've shown you what the lines look like.
Breaking news, a lot of people are talking about this morning.
Two pilots dead.
41 people hospitalized after a Canadian plane hits a fire truck when landing at LaGuardia, causing airport closure.
I haven't actually read up on the story, so don't know who's at fault here.
Killing two pilots and hospitalized 40 others after an horrific crash obliterated the front of a jet, major travel hub.
The Bombardier, CRJ 900 jet landing in Montreal, landing from Montreal, correction, with 72 passengers, flew was landing shortly before midnight.
It smashed onto a truck responding to an unrelated emergency.
Audio caught an air traffic controller frantically trying to stop the deadly smash, repeatedly crying out, stop, He was heard later.
I assume they're talking about the air traffic controller saying, I messed up.
Yikes.
Horrific images showed the front of the commuter plane obliterated and tilted up in the air with debris and cables hanging off the mangled cockpit after a 24 mile per hour smash.
The pilot and co-pilot of the mangled were both killed.
It's like crazy.
Scary.
Many of the 72 passengers and four crew members on the jet were also injured, of course.
See, the entire nose of the jet was ripped off.
So it smashes into a fire truck when it was landing.
It's like, why is the fire truck sitting on the runway?
It's pretty late at night, too.
You just have to assume that the government shut down, the TSA funding freeze, that all of this has something to do with it.
Yes, just ain't good.
So Democrats need to be blamed for this.
We need to engage in political pressure and pain here and get back to sanity in our nation.
You shouldn't be able to defund critical infrastructure.
Speaking of critical infrastructure, White House has installed a Christopher Columbus statue.
The same statue that was toppled by BLM in the riots in Baltimore.
They took that statue.
Remember, they went and they hunted it down because literally because white people are evil.
Christopher Columbus, one of the straight up all-time most impressive people to ever walk the face of the earth.
He's a hero.
He's a hero of Christendom and Western civilization.
He is greater than, he's one of the greatest men to ever live.
A bunch of libtards and orcs toppled his statue.
Again, because they're just racist and they hate white people and they hate accomplishments of white people.
They hate Christians.
And the White House got back at him by putting this up right out front of the executive office building.
ALX knows this staircase well.
I know this staircase well is where you go to all your meetings.
So everybody who's going to a meeting at the White House effectively has to walk by Christopher Columbus and put up mad respects for one of the greatest humans to ever live.
It was installed as part of the White House's celebration of America 250th anniversary.
Alpha move there, ladies and gentlemen, alpha.
U.S.-Cuba economic deal done by when?
Let's look.
You know, as somebody always knows, man, I was checking the markets this weekend.
There's dudes that were betting on a ceasefire.
That ceasefire is going to happen by the end of March in Iran.
And boom, you know, boom, it happened.
Like it practically happened this morning.
And that's true, by the way, no matter what the Iranians say, it's happening.
U.S.-Cuba economic deal by June 30th.
Like, will Cuba do the pull of Venezuela, right?
Kick out their corrupt ass leader, change their ways, open up their economy, become a vassal state of America.
I'm getting out of here before any more missiles fall on my head.
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