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Okay, because Donald Trump could blow up his own trade deal with Mexico and Canada. | |
Can we just talk about the kind of damage that these tariffs could do to our relationship with our closest trade partners? | ||
Like Mexico, $400 billion with a B worth of goods are imported from Mexico to the United States. | ||
That's a lot of stuff. | ||
I think it's really worth highlighting here just how we are not talking about a repeat of Trump's first-term tariffs. | ||
In his first term, Trump definitely expanded the remit of U.S. tariffs, targeting, for instance, Chinese steel and other Chinese products, imposing about tariffs on around $300- $350 billion worth of Chinese tariffs. | ||
That is peanuts compared to the disruption that Trump is promising now. | ||
Maybe he'll still pull back from the brink. | ||
We'll have to see what he does, obviously. | ||
But he's now talking about tariffs on close to $2 trillion worth of goods just from Mexico and Canada. | ||
And China is our third biggest trading partner, and that could be subject to another 10%, as you mentioned. | ||
Really worth getting in people's heads that this is really not a similar thing that Trump did last time. | ||
It's a category different to say, I'm not going to just target these sectors that we want to bring back U.S. production of, but I'm going to target everything that These countries ship to the U.S., including, you know, as that opening segment alluded to, things like avocados that we import from Mexico but don't really have the capacity to make here in terms of what domestic consumers want. | ||
So this is a really big threat to the economy. | ||
It is something that economists thought that maybe Trump was bluffing in the campaign show or hoped that he was bluffing on during the campaign trail. | ||
But he's making clear that, at a minimum, he's going to walk up to the ledge and a lot of people are going to be in the crosshairs. | ||
Mexico and Canada are two of the biggest exporters of fresh fruit and vegetables to the United States. | ||
In 2022, Mexico supplied 51% of fresh fruit and 69% of fresh vegetables imported into the U.S., while Canada supplied 2% of fresh fruit and 20% of fresh vegetables. | ||
Think about that. | ||
A combined 53% of all of our imported fresh fruits and a combined 89% of all of our imported fresh vegetables. | ||
89% of all imported vegetables. | ||
That is a lot of vegetables. | ||
But I don't know, maybe you're someone who likes the sound of that. | ||
Maybe you think the U.S. should grow more of its fruits and vegetables domestically and just stop importing so much. | ||
Well, the problem there is that Trump's other signature promise could destroy that option too. | ||
According to the Departments of Labor and Agriculture, nearly half of the nation's nearly two million farm workers lack legal status. | ||
The same is true of the workforce that makes up our domestic dairy and meat packing industries. | ||
Now, I am no professor of economics. | ||
Who am I to say that that would make American grocery prices skyrocket? | ||
Luckily for me, Reuters talked to a food economics and policy professor who told Reuters that mass removal of farm workers would shock the food supply chain and drive consumer grocery prices higher. | ||
It's not just grocery bills that will feel the impact of Trump's agenda here. | ||
Take housing costs. | ||
Not only does the US get the majority of its imported lumber from Canada, which Trump's tariffs would make 25% more expensive, but Trump wants to deport the labor force that builds a gigantic portion of America's housing. | ||
This weekend, Texas's construction industry sounded the alarm about just how devastating Trump's promised deportations would be for the industry's capacity to build. | ||
The CEO of the construction giant, Merrick, told NPR, it would devastate our industry. | ||
We wouldn't finish our highways. | ||
We wouldn't finish our schools. | ||
Housing would disappear. | ||
They'd lose half their labor. | ||
Tariffs on their own could devastate our economy. | ||
Mass deportation on its own could devastate our economy. | ||
And Donald Trump says he wants to do both on day one. | ||
This threw necessarily on the deportation side, and it's anywhere from 11 to 20 million individuals, as has been targeted by President Trump and some of his potential cabinet picks or deputy chiefs of staff. | ||
The industries that will be affected, so agricultural, hospitality, healthcare, housing construction. | ||
When you have a labor shortage then in multiple industries, it's not just that the price goes up. | ||
Things don't get done that everybody seems to rely on. | ||
There are 33 million non-native workers in the U.S. labor force of 168 million. | ||
Eight million of those are undocumented. | ||
So if they're going to round them all up, we're going to be doing a lot of things on our own that we didn't do on our own in the past. | ||
Yeah, and firing 50,000 federal workers is not going to put those people in the field. | ||
Where is China? | ||
China is at the forefront of this fentanyl thing. | ||
And I think the real tariff war is not going to be on Mexico or Canada. | ||
It's focused on a cheater, a liar, a stealer since 1999 when they came into the WTO. This is a country, not the people, but the leadership, that just doesn't want to play by the rules. | ||
And I live it in my businesses every day. | ||
I would like to go to DEFCON 1 with China. | ||
Tariffs, 400%. | ||
I brought it up. | ||
Bring the Supreme Leader to Washington or crush his economy until he has riots in the streets for food. | ||
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Again, we've had strategies to deal with China. | |
No, we haven't. | ||
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Oh, absolutely we haven't. | |
Not one administration since 99 has dealt with it. | ||
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I thought Trump was going to be tough on China. | |
He had four years to do that. | ||
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I was going to say the TPP. This is time to really put the screws in. | |
So is 35% tariff enough for China then? | ||
Because he says it's going to be 10% higher than Mexico and Canada. | ||
No, it's not enough. | ||
What you have to do is target parts of their economy where there's a lot of workers. | ||
Just for an example, let's say yoga mats. | ||
Let's say we import a million yoga mats a month. | ||
All the yoga mat factories, 400% tariffs on yoga mats. | ||
They all get unemployed. | ||
They go to the streets. | ||
They scream at Supreme Leader, I'm starving, riots. | ||
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That's what he wakes up and says, wow, I can't just save my Supreme Leader. | |
Can I just ask? | ||
No, no, I do want to ask one thing, because for people at home, they're wondering how this works. | ||
When this happened last time around, when Trump launched tariffs against China, they retaliated. | ||
Were they effective at politically targeting return tariffs? | ||
Like, was China able to say, well, then the tariffs on you... | ||
No, we had kind of a BS deal where they were going to buy more soybeans. | ||
They lied, they cheated, they steal. | ||
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Okay. | |
Stole. | ||
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I think we all... | |
Excuse my language. | ||
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
Pray for our enemies. | ||
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Because we're going medieval on these people. | |
I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people. | ||
The people have had a belly full of it. | ||
I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
It's going to happen. | ||
And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | ||
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Mega Media. | |
I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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War Room. | |
Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. | ||
It's Wednesday, 27 November in the year of our Lord, 2024. | ||
Welcome. | ||
You're in the War Room. | ||
Um... | ||
Two things. | ||
A sea change last night with all the networks, MSNBC, the official propaganda department of the dying regime. | ||
30 minutes on every show yesterday was actually a detailed policy discussion on economics. | ||
Now, they still had Trump pain. | ||
I'm going to talk about that. | ||
But for the first time... | ||
Since President Trump came down the escalator in June 17th or June 15th of, I think the 17th of 2015, it wasn't just unchained hatred. | ||
It was actually a quite sophisticated, although they're totally wrong, I'm going to get to that in a second, of how we got them jammed up. | ||
But for 30 minutes, whole segments talking about economics, tariffs, Global economy. | ||
Where do we get from our trading partners in Mexico? | ||
What do we get in our trading partners in Canada? | ||
What do we get from the China and the Chinese Communist Party? | ||
Kevin O'Leary giving one of the most succinct and smart analysis of the Chinese Communist Party, the fascist economy built on the slave labor allowed by Jing. | ||
Last night, by the way, for the new federal state, I talked to thousands of people in one of these Zoom calls to talk about going forward and everything we're working on. | ||
And the Lao-Beijing is more dedicated than ever because they understand that the shaky... | ||
The question of legitimacy and illegitimacy, the Chinese Communist Party that talk about the $1 trillion that Xi's had to infuse into the local economy, everybody understands that China's right on the edge. | ||
This is why President Trump, they can't take a 24% tariff. | ||
The tariff discussion is getting back now to actual thing called policy, not just raw hatred, policy. | ||
In a sophisticated analysis, for every show, Chris Hayes, Joy Ann Reed, Lawrence O'Donnell, and particularly Stephanie Ruhl in her show last night, and Simone was on there. | ||
Simone, good on you. | ||
It was brilliant. | ||
You had Stein from the Washington Post. | ||
You had very sophisticated people. | ||
And Stein brought the key point. | ||
This is why what President Trump said yesterday is so different. | ||
He's not talking about, I'm going to put tariffs on avocados. | ||
Remember when we had the situation with the wall, and they had Peter Navarro, and Peter Navarro went down there and they started talking about potentially blanket tariffs, and all of a sudden you had 10,000 Mexican Marines deployed to the border with the whole thing to remain in Mexico, the first part of it. | ||
using tariffs as a blunt force tool, right? | ||
We really haven't had discussion. | ||
Stein at the Washington Post brings it up. | ||
His 25% tariffs on Mexico, the 25% tariffs on Canada, the 25% tariffs on China are blanket tariffs on our three largest trading partners. | ||
I don't know. | ||
It's $2 or $3 trillion of trade. | ||
What was his message? | ||
His message to Mexico and the Chinese Communist Party? | ||
I've had it with the fentanyl. | ||
I've had it with the 70,000 people dying a year. | ||
I've had it with the Vietnam War every year. | ||
We're not going to tolerate it anymore. | ||
And you're not listening to me. | ||
Just like the American people in the 5th. | ||
Do you hear me now? | ||
Do you hear me now? | ||
But here's the beauty politically. | ||
MSMEC, and it was a reasoned debate and discussion. | ||
But here's the beauty of it. | ||
What's the one thing they keep talking about? | ||
Chris Hayes and Alex Wagner, two of the smartest. | ||
Oh, we're in the unenviable position of having to defend a system that's not working for the American people. | ||
We're having to defend institutions that need reform. | ||
Last night, MSNBC, when you see this, MSNBC and CNN, they took the Wall Street party line because they added the deportations. | ||
And you're hearing the Wall Street Party line. | ||
This is why they initiated and exacerbated an invasion of the southern border was to break, to break the African American and the Hispanic working class. | ||
Powell and Yellen were up front and they just reiterated and doubled down on MSNBC and CNN. Hey, you can't deport anybody because your wage is going up. | ||
Now they're all worried about inflation. | ||
They're worried about inflation from tariffs and they're worried about inflation. | ||
If you deport people, it's going to be inflationary. | ||
What does that mean? | ||
Oh yeah, that's right. | ||
That means wages of citizens of this republic and particularly low-skilled citizens of this republic, their wages will go up. | ||
They have backed themselves, and this is because their producers are so lazy and so stupid that they've taken the Wall Street line. | ||
They're now defenders of an institution you cannot possibly defend. | ||
Because Wall Street's not about the smart allocation of capital at the lowest possible price. | ||
This is late-stage finance capitalism. | ||
This is Larry Fink and the oligarchs. | ||
They're pitching the oligarch's line. | ||
That, oh, the whole world has to come in and compete against the people most vulnerable. | ||
Why do you think the 10 or 15 million that are here under Biden's watch were all to drive down the wages of the low-skilled workers? | ||
They talked about it all the time. | ||
And it worked. | ||
It drove down their wages. | ||
And now they're all panicked that your church, your school, your construction workers, the building, the people picking the vegetables, all of it's going to rise. | ||
They never talk about the reverse, that you actually have increased wages for American citizens. | ||
We got them. | ||
We've backed them into a corner. | ||
We've backed them into a corner they can't defend. | ||
This is about the 1932, the 50-year realignment. | ||
No, Richard Maddow, this is not an autocratic breakthrough. | ||
This is about economics. | ||
It gets us past race. | ||
It gets us past gender. | ||
And we own it. | ||
We own the moral high ground. | ||
We own the high ground in this. | ||
They're just nothing but stooges. | ||
Stooges for their advertisers and their corporatist bosses. | ||
On a couple of days before Thanksgiving, a major, major, major sea change around tariffs, around protectionism, around bringing back high-value-added jobs to the United States of America. | ||
And Kevin O'Leary, I could hug him. | ||
Let's go to DEFCON 1. You go to DEFCON, you put 25% tariffs on the Chinese Communist Party right now, you will break the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
Short commercial break. | ||
Cary Lake... | ||
It's on deck in the war room. | ||
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What to watch for next. | |
I think we need to be watching for something that they call autocratic breakthrough. | ||
Autocratic breakthrough is when the party in power uses the power they do have in government to make sure they can never be dislodged from government. | ||
I'll give you a concrete example. | ||
You've already seen in the House of Representatives now that Mike Johnson is back in as Republican House Speaker, they changed the rules in the House to make it much harder to remove him as Speaker. | ||
So that's them digging in, planning to stay for the long run. | ||
Now we're here. | ||
You're not going to be able to get us out. | ||
You've seen Trump, quote, joking, end quote, about expecting to stay in office for a third term once the second term is up. | ||
And that's, of course, against the Constitution. | ||
But he keeps repeatedly bringing it up that that's his expectation. | ||
Trump advisor, his one-time campaign manager Steve Bannon, saying things in public about how they're going to be ruling for 50 years. | ||
There won't be any way to dislodge them from power. | ||
Autocratic breakthrough is when they use the powers they've achieved through winning elections to cement themselves in power so they can't be removed by future elections or by other democratic means. | ||
So we are watching the efforts to consolidate power. | ||
We are watching for signs of autocratic breakthrough, trying to entrench themselves in power so they can't be removed. | ||
This is just the way these things go. | ||
This is how strong men rule. | ||
These are the things that they are trying. | ||
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Yeah, but I think Steve Bannon actually wants it. | |
I think Trump wants to be popular, and you are not made popular by having a Justice Department that can't deal with crime. | ||
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Well, I think it's even deeper. | |
I think it includes that. | ||
But look, what Donald Trump has always wanted is what's good for Donald Trump. | ||
And that means many things. | ||
I mean, he used to talk about the swamp and like many things, the swamp is usually what he wanted as long as it was for him and anything that benefited him. | ||
I mean, being able to interrupt the Department of Justice's going after antitrust, being able to interrupt the Department of Justice going after anyone who is a friend of his, anything that carries favor. | ||
The, um... | ||
It's concerning. | ||
It also sounds like Congress is losing some of their footing here. | ||
How worried are you about this, and do you think we expect to see any hemming and hawing from members of the legislative branch on this one? | ||
Well, this is from Project 2025, right? | ||
And this talks, you know, you'll notice that, you know, who is heading, Trump wants to head the OMB, the Office of Management and Budget, Ross Vogt. | ||
And Ross Vogt has, is a One of the authors of Project 2025, he likely will sail through Senate confirmation because he's been in this department before and he, compared to a lot of the other cabinet members, he has a much more genteel profile. | ||
But his ultimate, you know, he's written a lot about this and he's talked about it, you know, not funding the federal government, taking away the power of the purse from Congress and giving the president that power. | ||
And I think that that, you know, is part of Doge But, you know, again, with these people from, you know, these Project 125 people like Ross, this guy is pretty smart, and he's very ideological, right? | ||
He's been writing about this for a long time. | ||
You know, I read a quote he had today about how, you know, the only way to honor the Constitution is to sort of work around it. | ||
Oh. | ||
This is a real ideological thing that's really explained in Project 2025 and talks about, you know, this fundamentally is about dismantling the administrative state. | ||
And this is, you know, quite worrying. | ||
If it works, it will really strip a lot of power from Congress. | ||
And it will also reshape the way the federal government spends money. | ||
Okay, so this is the other line of work, and this is the deconstruction of the administrative state. | ||
Remember, this is the fourth branch of government that the framers and the founders never intended to happen, right? | ||
And it's got the rogue element, the deep state, as part of it. | ||
It's full-on right now because Russ Vogt is the centerpiece, as we've talked about. | ||
You have three elements of this that are all going to converge, right? | ||
You have the executive branch, and that's OMB. And remember, the guys at Doge, Vivek and Elon, their contract is, they're advisors and consultants to, wait for it, OMB. OMB is 600 to 1,000 people on the White House campus over in EOB that manage every program. | ||
When we talk about deconstructing the administrative state and actually get, from a financial point of view, getting the cost down, getting the six and a half or seven trillion dollars down to four and a half or five trillion dollars, but also just to get it out of your life. | ||
Get back to limited government. | ||
The blessings of liberty with doing this. | ||
You have to do it programmatically. | ||
Don't talk about, it's not just firing individual bureaucrats who happen to be bad actors. | ||
Obviously that has to happen. | ||
It's also not about deregulation. | ||
Forget deregulation. | ||
That is a term and a concept from the Reagan era. | ||
This is about a massive taking apart brick by brick those elements of the government, of the administrative state, that is too much in your life. | ||
And getting back to a limited government. | ||
Conservatives have talked about this for years and they've never done anything about it. | ||
And most of the people that are the theoreticians and the smartest guys in the room, i.e. | ||
Russ Vogt, were movement conservatives that are now populist and economic nationalist. | ||
So vote at OMB. And they've conceded now on every show that Russ Vogt is brilliant. | ||
Russ Vogt, that's Molly Fash Young, who hates us more than anybody. | ||
He's genteel, and she's very smart. | ||
She sees what's coming. | ||
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Right? | |
Russ knows all the numbers. | ||
He had OMB under President Trump in the first term. | ||
And this is the power of Russ' vote. | ||
He's not looking for, oh, I want to go to Treasury. | ||
I want to do this. | ||
Russ' vote is for the cause. | ||
He's not for Russ' vote. | ||
That's the power of Russ' vote. | ||
These guys like Navarro and Russ' vote, they are true believers in what we're doing. | ||
They're not looking for their own self-aggrandizement. | ||
That's the OMB part. | ||
You have two other elements. | ||
You have the Doge, which is Vivek and Elon, and they have a whole team. | ||
They will partner with OMB and additionally have the appropriations process. | ||
And this is what I keep saying. | ||
We should take a CR. Okay, folks, don't melt down. | ||
On the 20th when we run out of money, just do a CR and kick it 90 days into Trump's term. | ||
So President Trump, Russ Vogt, Scott Besant, and his cabinet are actually doing the budget with people on Capitol Hill in the appropriations process. | ||
In the appropriations process, this is where Vivek, this is where Elon, this is working with Vogt, these are the things I don't think we need to fund. | ||
We don't need to pass, and we shouldn't pass, A bill with six, six and a half trillion of spending than just to go back over the year and have the Doge guys take it out. | ||
We have an opportunity to do this all in the first hundred days. | ||
And Vivek and Elon have teams up there, and this is what I said, I think the interview was in Puck last night with the great Peter Hamby. | ||
One of the last what we call boys on the bus, the old-fashioned kind of journalists that really do the old-fashioned journalism. | ||
I told him one of the things that's impressed me with Elon, and look, we have huge ideological differences, including about the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
Let's put a pin in that for a second. | ||
I said, what's fascinating to me is that he put money up for the least glamorous part of the victory. | ||
And I said, hey, if it was without Elon and Charlie Kirk and Miriam Adelson putting that money in and you, this audience, or the hoplites for the get-out-the-vote, the going door-to-door, the canvassing that got the low-propensity voters to the polls, we wouldn't have had the massive victory. | ||
So he deserves to see the table. | ||
Also, what he's doing on Doge is this is picking shovel work. | ||
This is not glamorous. | ||
And not just that, you're going to get amazing blowback. | ||
You see what they're blowing back on tariffs right now? | ||
They're taking the Wall Street line, but last night, and I appreciate it, you had 20 or 30 minutes of every one of these shows talking about tariffs, but the hair's still on fire about Trump. | ||
You wait till you start taking apart the government and we start doing less. | ||
They're going to be more on fire. | ||
This is what I call the line of work, the three lines of work right now. | ||
Just like I gave the speech at CPAC back in 17. It is the national security aspect of it. | ||
With Biden trying to see, you know, the national security aspect and particularly not so much the Middle East, that's big, but in Ukraine with The New York Times reporting, The New York Times, not Breitbart, not Gateway Pundit, not Revolver, but The New York Times, our beloved paper record. | ||
They're reporting that American officials in the Biden regime and NATO officials and the elites of Europe, along with Zelensky and the Ukrainians, are talking about forward deploying the potential for deploying tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine. | ||
If you want to have metastasized in the beginning of World War Three, as the former chief of staff of Ukraine is saying, I think that might be a way to do it. | ||
That might be the Cuban Missile Crisis on testosterone. | ||
Okay? | ||
That's one line of work. | ||
The other is the economic nationalism. | ||
And this is what you're seeing on the tariffs. | ||
President Trump's throwing it out there. | ||
Maybe a blanket tariff on $2 trillion of trade. | ||
Hey, I'm just thinking about it. | ||
Let me tweet that out. | ||
Let me put that out on truth. | ||
Suck on that. | ||
But this is all about economic policy. | ||
This is all what Besson's thinking about. | ||
You just had Kevin Hassett last night announced his NEC, another CEA. He ran the Economist panel over in the White House in the first term. | ||
Another solid guy. | ||
And not just that. | ||
The reason he's so important, he's a convert from Austrian School of Economics to Populist Economics. | ||
So that's the second line of work, right? | ||
The economic nationalism. | ||
And the third line of work is the deconstruction of the administrative state. | ||
Hello, Doge, Russ Vote, the appropriations process. | ||
This is the Trump plan from the first term, and now it's more mature. | ||
It's got more, as Robert Bartley in the Wall Street Journal used to say, it's got muzzle velocity. | ||
You have personal, and how do we do that? | ||
For four years, you've been working to become subject matter experts. | ||
This was the whole training program of AFPI and Project 2025 to get the 3,000 non-Senate confirmed landing teams, beachhead teams to hit the beach on the 20th, to bridge and go. | ||
We also signed the transition, signed the transition documents last night, but what did they avoid? | ||
No FBI investigations, and we're not going on their computer system. | ||
So the administrative of a deep state cannot see anything the Trump transition is doing. | ||
It's happening, folks. | ||
It's converging. | ||
We're converging on a point. | ||
That point? | ||
High noon on the 20th of January in the year of our Lord, 2025. Cary Lake joins us next in the War Room. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. | |
Okay, I know I said the magic term, CR. Just, you know, take a powder here, chill. | ||
You know, we hate CRs here. | ||
And you guys, and the next man up, Natalie and Grace and others, you guys did a fantastic job during the summer trying to fight the CR. I thought it was great. | ||
All the games that were played. | ||
The reason we need the CR... Because otherwise you're going to get an omnibus where you're going to try to get it all done. | ||
And that's the concept of clearing the decks. | ||
When you hear clearing the decks, that means they want to take power away from President Trump. | ||
We have the opportunity for Russ's vote to actually do this budget and to start to get us back to pre-pandemic levels. | ||
That's the key thing here. | ||
We've got to get back to the four and a half or five trillion dollars. | ||
We spent pre-pandemic not the six, six and a half, seven that Biden wants to spend. | ||
That's the two trillion dollar deficit that gets added to the face amount of the debt. | ||
You got to finance it. | ||
Can't happen. | ||
So we do support a CR that just kicks it into President Trump's term. | ||
Because we run out of money on the 20th, on Christmas Eve. | ||
It's coming. | ||
As soon as we get back, as soon as they get back from Thanksgiving, this will get to be a big thing. | ||
But don't think we're going soft. | ||
We're not going soft. | ||
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This is all strategery. | |
Kerry Lake, you've been down at Mar-a-Lago. | ||
You're very close to the transition, obviously very close to President Trump. | ||
There's all kind of rumors out there, things in the air about how you may join the administration and help President Trump. | ||
Just give me your thoughts. | ||
You see that taking down the administrative state, people like Russ Vogt, even the opposition agrees is a brilliant guy. | ||
Just give me your thoughts of the transition so far, what you're seeing, the cut of the jib of the people coming on board now. | ||
I think it's incredible. | ||
I got goosebumps listening to the first two segments of your show about how incredible this movement is going to be, and we're actually going to get things done. | ||
We're going to thin out the bureaucratic state, maybe do away with much of the bureaucratic state. | ||
Russ is brilliant. | ||
I agree with you, Steve. | ||
He's not in this for his own ego. | ||
He truly wants to get things back to where they should be, what our government should look like, not this out-of-control bureaucracy that's costing us and bankrupting our country. | ||
I can't think of a better fit than him. | ||
And I thought all of the picks were good. | ||
I mean, I was actually excited about Matt Gaetz. | ||
I think Pam Bondi is going to be great. | ||
So we've got incredible picks. | ||
What's interesting, though, is how the American people are watching this. | ||
It is like the center of the world. | ||
Everyone is watching what President Trump is doing. | ||
And he's got a great plan. | ||
It's going to get busy and get kicked off on the 20th at, as you said, high noon. | ||
And I think things are going to happen very quickly, whiplash fast. | ||
And we're going to start seeing the economy turn around. | ||
It's hilarious, Steve, to watch these MSNBC and CNN contributors trying to push for the administrative state. | ||
Their hero is the administrative state, if they don't realize how stupid they sound. | ||
It's remarkable, because they're now cheering on this out-of-control government bureaucracy, and they are acting like President Trump didn't have that first term. | ||
You know, they were trying to warn us about his first term. | ||
He's going to crash the economy, etc., etc. | ||
We ended up having the strongest economy. | ||
We ended up having the lowest unemployment. | ||
We ended up having our dollar going a whole lot further than it did before. | ||
And they were warning us that he wasn't going to be able to do it. | ||
And now they're trying to heed that warning again. | ||
And we know that what they're saying are lies. | ||
Hang on. | ||
I gave this speech a year ago in Pinehurst. | ||
It talked about on the 20th, two things are going to converge. | ||
You're going to have, and you're having an economic issue you have to deal with, and that's threefold. | ||
Number one, we run out of money on the 20th of December. | ||
Government runs out of money. | ||
You've got to see our, if you don't, if they try to do an omnibus, that's a swamp. | ||
So you kick that in. | ||
So you've got to kick that in, but Trump still has to deal with, he's got to put together a budget, number one. | ||
The debt ceiling, Kevin McCarthy, the reason Kevin McCarthy is not Speaker of the House, the only time in the history of this republic, ladies and gentlemen, and this audience removed him through the instrumentality of Matt Gaetz, the brilliant Matt Gaetz, but this audience was the one that took on Fox and took on the Murdochs, and we won. | ||
Why? | ||
Because Kevin McCarthy gave an unlimited cap and for two years. | ||
And when does the debt ceiling come off? | ||
The 3rd of January. | ||
So President Trump immediately 3rd of January. | ||
Right. | ||
And then you have the reversion of the tax cuts, which is April 15th. | ||
But that all merges into an economic issue and kind of crisis that has to be dealt with. | ||
At the same time, the second conversion thing is you have to deport 11 to 15 million people here in And Kerry, so you're a frontline. | ||
We'll get to it. | ||
A couple things I think is imperative for us right now. | ||
We have to have very precise nomenclature. | ||
And I'm afraid that this thing's getting a little soft and a little squishy. | ||
Number one. | ||
This is just my recommendation. | ||
I'm just a humble soul. | ||
I think that we need to define... | ||
But the deportations should focus on everybody that came here starting at one minute afternoon on the 20th of January 2021, when Biden took out 80 executive orders to get rid of everything Trump had done to secure the border, everything when Biden took out 80 executive orders to get rid of everything Trump had done And he basically initiated and then exacerbated the invasion from that date until high noon on the 25th. | ||
I believe if you look at the math that Todd Benson's, that's somewhere around roughly 10 million people. | ||
OK, that is a massive amount that you have to deport. | ||
We shouldn't go back in time. | ||
I'm not saying we don't eventually do that, but let's take care of the problem we've got now. | ||
Okay, number two, and now I said it has to be humanely, and here's why. | ||
The people that came across, it's not their fault. | ||
They were invited here by the Wall Street oligarchs. | ||
They were invited here by the instrumentality of the illegitimate Biden regime that didn't win the 2020 election. | ||
They were here because they wanted the votes, but Wall Street wanted the cheap labor, and they wanted the consumer where they're buying the Doritos and renting the apartments and all that, spending every penny they have. | ||
We have to, I believe, Kerry, I would recommend having a summit meeting, and let's pick a random place, McAllen, Texas. | ||
The capital of the Rio Grande Valley that now President Trump is winning because in South Texas, Hispanic American citizens sitting there going, I can't take this anymore. | ||
Somebody's got to save me. | ||
That guy is Donald Trump. | ||
You have the frontline nations of Central America. | ||
You have Mexico. | ||
You have maybe Brazil and a couple nations in Latin America where the Haitians are hanging out to wait to come here. | ||
You have them all down. | ||
And Donald Trump, the dealmaker, Walks through his proposal on how we're going to work as a group collectively and humanely have their citizens go back to their countries to make their countries great again. | ||
And maybe there's some economic incentives to do that. | ||
But the hammer he's got is the tariffs. | ||
If you want access to the best market in the world, that would be the United States of America. | ||
We're going to have to work collectively to do that. | ||
Now, Kerry, you were at the cutting edge of this, and it was the centerpiece of your campaign. | ||
Okay, so walk me through your thought. | ||
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Wait a minute. | ||
The tariffs, but also foreign aid. | ||
Foreign aid should be contingent on... | ||
These countries taking back their citizens. | ||
And, you know, you can look at it in a beautiful way. | ||
We're going to be creating, you said, 10 million, 10 million amazing homecomings. | ||
These people are going back to their country. | ||
And I agree. | ||
I've always said that along when I was on the campaign trail. | ||
We need to send the people back who poured in during the Biden invasion. | ||
Because these people came over and we have not properly vetted them. | ||
We know that there were, what, 325, 350,000 children who were trafficked across. | ||
We got to try to find those kids and get them back to their loved ones. | ||
I do believe it needs to be done humanely, of course. | ||
But it's going to have to be a combination of tariffs and it's going to have to be a combination of foreign aid not going to countries that refuse to take their citizens back. | ||
These aren't all people going to Mexico. | ||
You know, I remember talking to many Border Patrol who said it's very rare in the last three and a half years for anybody Coming here illegally from Mexico. | ||
These are coming from 170 different countries around the globe. | ||
We're talking China sending in spies across our southern border. | ||
We've got to make sure that we're sending these people back to their homeland, the ones who came in during the Biden invasion. | ||
I'm not talking about going back 20 years ago. | ||
You agree with that. | ||
Look, you're Arizona. | ||
That we have, look, I don't know, it's 6, 8, 10 million. | ||
I have no idea because Biden, but it's somewhere around there. | ||
And that is the biggest mass deportation in the history of the world. | ||
Yeah, somebody knows how many. | ||
I mean, they all did get processed, you know, especially using the CB1 or, you know, the app that Kamala Harris and Borders are created to help people come in and assist. | ||
It was kind of like the Expedia for people coming here illegally. | ||
You know, these apps can work both ways. | ||
If they came here illegally and signed up through that app, we can find them and send them back. | ||
Buses and planes go in both directions. | ||
And, you know, I really believe that President Trump will, and I'm hearing Tom Homan talking about this, we are going to be sending people back. | ||
And I think that we have to do that in order to save our country. | ||
And I believe that at the end of the day, being the master negotiator that he is, President Trump will get these countries to cooperate and take back their citizens. | ||
But we have to start, I agree with Tom Holman, with the most dangerous people out there, the criminals that we know are here. | ||
We need to get them sent back immediately, whether they came from Venezuela, whether they came from, you know, whatever country they've come from, El Salvador. | ||
We got to get them sent back immediately and make our streets safe as quickly as possible. | ||
You mentioned something, and this is quite interesting, right? | ||
Walk me through your concept, because President Trump's saying, hey, I've got tariffs, I have economic policy, Navarra did this before, but you brought up something. | ||
You're talking about foreign aid and maybe even military assistance. | ||
What do you mean by that? | ||
Where would you go? | ||
That seems like a U.S.- AID thing, which many people are saying has always been a front for the CIA. I don't know. | ||
It's $40 or $50 billion. | ||
Is that the State Department, the Defense Department, is that what you're talking about, to bring those forces together also, ma'am? | ||
Well, you mentioned USAID. I mean, the $50 billion budget, 10,000 employees. | ||
This was started, what, 60-plus years ago by JFK as a way to stop the spread of communism. | ||
And what it's doing now is just pushing DEI and difficult, horrible climate change policies that are actually crippling other nations, not helping them, not assisting them, making life more difficult, making the economic factors even more difficult. | ||
We're glaring for these poor countries. | ||
And so we got to look at, you know, you mentioned the CCP and the Belt and Road Initiative and the trillion dollars that they put into that to help build up these other countries and really take control of these other countries. | ||
And we're pushing gender ideology as part of our foreign aid. | ||
We got to get smart. | ||
And we're not smart right now with the Biden administration. | ||
And that's why I think President Trump, with the help of people like Vivek and Elon, Taking a look at all of these different departments that have just grown out of control. | ||
Can you imagine 10,000 employees in this foreign aid outfit called USAID, or as you mentioned, maybe a CIA slush fund? | ||
We've got to cut down on this bloat. | ||
And if we are sending foreign aid, it should be to stop the spread of communism. | ||
It should be to help people be pulled up from immense poverty, starvation. | ||
And actually help them not be a welfare program, but actually help them so that they can actually become a functioning economy, a functioning society, and then create middle class for these countries. | ||
Make their countries great again. | ||
Okay, Kerry, hang on for one second. | ||
I want you for the next break. | ||
This is why the one disagreement we did have with the president when he said, hey, on the college graduates and the community college graduates, we ought to staple a green card. | ||
We said, Mr. President, we love you. | ||
We got another recommendation. | ||
Why don't we staple an exit visa, right? | ||
Folks need to go home to make their countries great again, and we need to work in conjunction to make sure that that happens. | ||
There's going to be turbulence. | ||
You know there's going to be turbulence. | ||
Already a little turbulence in the bond market. | ||
They're sitting there going, man, are Trump's terrorist inflationary or Trump's deportation going to raise wages after Wall Street crushed the working class, the black and Hispanic working class in this country? | ||
It's going to be inflationary. | ||
The bond market a little turbulent. | ||
Gold has been a hedge against that for 10,000 years of man's recorded history, or 5,000 years. | ||
Check it out. | ||
Birchgold.com slash bandit. | ||
The end of the dollar empire. | ||
Rachel Madden, your team, has it wrong. | ||
We're not trying to destroy the dollar. | ||
We're trying to save it from the elites in our country. | ||
Short break. | ||
Carrie Lake on the other side. | ||
To go to DEFCON 1 with China, tariffs 400%, I brought it up. | ||
Bring the Supreme Leader to Washington or crush his economy until he has riots in the streets for food. | ||
Again, we've had strategies to deal with China. | ||
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No, we haven't. | |
Oh, absolutely we haven't. | ||
Not one administration since 99 has dealt with it. | ||
I thought Trump was going to be tough on China. | ||
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He had four years to do that. | |
He's going to get tougher on China. | ||
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I was going to say the TPP. So is 35% tariff enough for China then? | |
Because he says it's going to be 10% higher than Mexico and Canada. | ||
No. | ||
Okay, Kerry Lake, you've been at the front line of this, of the fentanyl situation. | ||
President Trump yesterday, the primary driver of action here was President Trump saying, hey, I've had it with the fentanyl. | ||
And remember, folks, the fentanyl is the opium war in reverse. | ||
The British East India Company, the Brits, such lovely folks, how they controlled India. | ||
Remember at the time in the history lesson, we had our revolutions. | ||
It was India and North America. | ||
We broke off because the revolutionary generation and our framers and founders of the nation didn't want to be even on the ground floor of a vast empire because it's a worthless landed aristocracy that has totally corrupted commons. | ||
So the little guy has no real voice. | ||
And they've given these charters monopolistic power to things like the British East India Company. | ||
The tea that was thrown into Boston Harbor was off a British East India Company ship. | ||
And the smugglers that were John Hancock and Sam Adams and the Sons of Liberty said, hey, we're freebooters. | ||
We're entrepreneurs. | ||
We're not going to take this. | ||
Let's get rid of these guys. | ||
So what they did, the British East India Company going to China, they sent a delegation to, I think, Nanking at the time. | ||
And they were there for two weeks. | ||
And the imperial power came back and said, hey, we don't want any of this stuff. | ||
All your stuff is crap. | ||
We don't need it. | ||
We don't want it. | ||
We're not going to trade. | ||
So get the hell out of here. | ||
And so what the British do, well, we're still going to do it. | ||
So, hey, they started importing opium. | ||
And this is what broke the Chinese and destroyed China. | ||
The addiction to opium. | ||
That was the opium wars. | ||
This is what the Chinese Communist Party, the Chinese think in centuries. | ||
This is what they refer to as the second or their opium war in reverse. | ||
This is fentanyl to poison the United States through Mexico with their partners in the cartels up to... | ||
So Kerry, President Trump's saying unless you knock this off and we're going to stop fentanyl 100% because we're having more casualties, twice as many casualties every year in fentanyl than we had in the Vietnam War. | ||
Trump says, I will put a 25% tariff, and I will put it in Mexico, and I will put it in China, and I will break you. | ||
And O'Leary's saying, that's not enough. | ||
Let's take them down. | ||
Let's take the Chinese Communist Party and go 400%, and they'll be done in 90 days. | ||
Your thoughts, ma'am? | ||
Well, I mean, I don't know if 400% is right, but definitely I believe the CCP is on the verge of collapse. | ||
And with a little prodding, we could help bring that down and truly free the people of China. | ||
The people of China are good people. | ||
This regime is absolutely, probably the most cruel regime. | ||
We've ever seen in our lifetimes. | ||
What they're doing with organ harvesting, what they're doing with the slave labor, and the people are on the verge of saying enough is enough over there. | ||
I think that with a little bit more pressure, we could bring down the CCP. But the fentanyl, you know, I have... | ||
I've met so many moms and dads, Steve, along the way in the last few years of parents who've lost a 16-year-old son or a 20-year-old daughter, an 18-year-old, even 14-year-olds who are just gone because of this fentanyl. | ||
Can you imagine? | ||
And this is why I'm glad the president is going to get tough Amen. | ||
And there has been no justice for all of these people who've died. | ||
And, you know, why are we not seizing some of these freighters that are bringing the ingredients over? | ||
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Amen. | |
We seize one freighter. | ||
The Seventh Fleet and the Coast Guard will be off the coast of Mexico. | ||
I was there as a naval officer. | ||
We were down there for the Tunnel Wars. | ||
So, Kerry, can you hang through the first opening segment? | ||
There's no truth to the rumor that I'm getting Carrie Lake ready to take her Newsmax gig, that we're just getting her some reps here on War Room. | ||
There's no truth to that rumor whatsoever. | ||
We are going to talk about Carrie Lake and her future. | ||
She's one of the greatest pieces of manpower in our nation and one of the greatest pieces of manpower in the MAGA movement. | ||
Carrie Lake's going to stick around. | ||
Natalie Winters is going to join us at the bottom of the next hour. | ||
She's got a lot to say about the autocratic breakthrough of the color revolution that's being run on the American people. | ||
By Victoria Nuland and Rachel Maddow and that crowd. | ||
And Applebaum. | ||
All of them. | ||
All the demons. | ||
Okay, we're going to take a short break. | ||
I want to play, as we do our out song, from St. John the Evangelist in the Book of Revelations. | ||
An original from Johnny Cash. | ||
Now covered... | ||
What is it? | ||
T-Bone Burnett and Billy Strings. | ||
When the man comes around, he's going to take you out. | ||
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We've got a whole hour packed... | |
We're going to go through and deconstruct how they're trying to take down the second Trump term, his third victory in his second term, before he even gets started. | ||
Short break. | ||
Return to the War Room in just a moment. | ||
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The hairs on your arm will stand up. | |
The terror in each sip and in each suck. | ||
You partake of that last offered cup. | ||
Or disappear into the potter's mouth. | ||
When the man comes around. | ||
Hear the trumpets, hear the piper. | ||
One hundred million angels singing Altitude of martyrs to the big hell drum Voices calling, voices crying Some are born and some are dying But Salfa and Omega's kingdom come And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree. | ||
The virgins are trimming their wicks. | ||
The whirlwind is in the palm tree. | ||
It's hard for thee to kick against the bricks Till Armageddon, no shalom, no shalom Then the Father will he call his check and tone. | ||
The wise men will bow down before the throne. | ||
And at his feet we'll cast the golden crowns When the man comes around Whoever is unjust, let him be a just still Whoever is righteous, let him be righteous still. | ||
Whoever is filthy, let him be filthy still. | ||
Listen to the words written down when the man comes around. | ||
Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers. | ||
One hundred million angels singing. |