May 31, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
54:56
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| I guess you saw that, but the exemptions that they gave allowed foreign competitors to come in and steal our industry, steal our jobs, and bring them back home and bring them home by the boatload. | ||
| Crippling imports of foreign steel skyrocketed over the last four years like you have never seen before by over 30%. | ||
| That's an incredible, crazy number. | ||
| And imports of steel and rebar from Mexico exploded by more than 1,000%. | ||
| We were getting our steel from Mexico. | ||
| We were getting our steel from Canada. | ||
| We were getting our steel from every place. | ||
| But right here, it was then that we announced the crown jewel of our steel industry. | ||
| U.S. steel was being sold into foreign hands with no protections for our great steel workers. | ||
| And I said, there's no way we're going to let that happen. | ||
| I was watching over you. | ||
| You don't even know it. | ||
| I was watching over you. | ||
| Best people. | ||
| You're the best people. | ||
| You built this country. | ||
| You know, you people built this country. | ||
| You people and others like you built this country. | ||
| By the time I came into office, many feared that the Mon Valley would lose up to 3,000 steel jobs, that U.S. Steel would close. | ||
| Pittsburgh, skyline, it may never live for another week. | ||
| We, at times, we thought we were going to live. | ||
| You weren't living for another week. | ||
| But I promised the people of western Pennsylvania that I would never, ever let that happen. | ||
| And as president, I kept that promise. | ||
| Boy, did I keep that promise. | ||
|
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Thank you. | |
| So soon after initially taking office, I imposed powerful 25% tariffs on all foreign steel and ended each and every one of the Biden exceptions and exclusions. | ||
| And today I have a major announcement. | ||
| And are you ready to hear this? | ||
| This is on behalf of Scott, Secretary of Treasury, Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce. | ||
| And all of the great geniuses and people we have working, and they are smart, but I don't think you'd be a good steel worker, Scott. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
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I'm going to have to put a little more muscle content into that guy. | |
| But he's great. | ||
| He's great at what he does. | ||
| We are going to be imposing a 25% increase. | ||
| We're going to bring it from 25% to 50% the tariffs on steel into the United States of America, which will even... | ||
| Nobody's going to get around that. | ||
| So we're bringing it up from 25 percent. | ||
| We're doubling it to 50 percent. | ||
| And that's a loophole. | ||
| And by the way, I have to tell you, I believe that this group of people that just made these investments right now are very happy because that means that nobody's going to be able to steal your industry. | ||
| At 25%, they can sort of get over that fence. | ||
| At 50%, they can no longer get over the fence. | ||
| So congratulations to everybody and to you for making a great deal. | ||
| You just made a better deal, right? | ||
| I said to the group, would you rather have a 40% increase? | ||
| Because I was thinking about 40 when I came. | ||
| I said, would you rather have a 40% or a 50%? | ||
| They said, we'll take 50%. | ||
| I said, I had a feeling you were going to say that. | ||
| So congratulations. | ||
| Also, congratulations to Dave, because you got this whole thing started. | ||
| Congratulations. | ||
| Great job. | ||
| Great job. | ||
| The people here understand the word tariff. | ||
| And you understand it better than the people on Wall Street. | ||
| But now the people on Wall Street are finding out. | ||
| They're saying, wow, you know, Trump was right. | ||
| You saw today they had an announcer, Joe Kiernan, CNBC, Maria Bartiromo, who's so fantastic on Fox Business. | ||
| And they were saying, you know, Trump was right. | ||
| Look at these numbers. | ||
| The numbers got released today at 8 o'clock in the morning, and it showed no inflation and tremendous income jumps for... | ||
| And they go, wow, he was right. | ||
| He was right. | ||
| But you knew that. | ||
| You knew that before Wall Street. | ||
| The workers knew that. | ||
| We don't want America's future to be built with shoddy steel from Shanghai. | ||
| We want it built with the strength and the pride of Pittsburgh. | ||
| It's Pittsburgh steel. | ||
| It's U.S. steel. | ||
| And it's going to be something even more special when you get all that. | ||
| Billions of dollars of new equipment that they're going to be investing right here. | ||
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Billions and billions of dollars. | |
| Since I opposed our steel tariffs, and you know, I said that tariff to me is the most beautiful word in the dictionary. | ||
| I love the word so much. | ||
| I've always loved it. | ||
| For 40 years, I've loved it. | ||
| For 40 years, I didn't understand why people weren't in this country using tariff. | ||
| They used tariffs to kill us. | ||
| They use tariffs to take our businesses, not only steal, other businesses do. | ||
| And we never knew how to use tariffs back because we had people in the White House that either didn't care or weren't very smart or both. | ||
| And it really starts with the White House. | ||
| It's very simple. | ||
| It starts with the White House. | ||
| But I said, it's my favorite word in the dictionary, the word tariff. | ||
| And I got slaughtered in the fake news. | ||
| I got killed. | ||
| They said, what about love? | ||
| What about wife and family? | ||
| What about God, they said. | ||
| So they made the word tariff be my fourth favorite word. | ||
| And now I have no complications. | ||
| It's my fourth favorite word. | ||
| God, wife, family, all of the different things. | ||
| But they did. | ||
| It's not even believable. | ||
| I said tariffs is my favorite word and I got slaughtered by these people. | ||
| But we've had a lot of fun. | ||
| We've jousted for a long time with the fake news. | ||
| But companies all over the world have announced nearly $10 billion in new investments in steel, just in steel alone. | ||
| But the Nippon investment we're announcing today blows them all away with a record setting. | ||
| And this was just heard of. | ||
| We just came out a little while ago. | ||
| $14 billion commitment to the future of this company. | ||
| That is the single largest investment of any kind in any industry. | ||
| So not only steel. | ||
| Go all the way back. | ||
| You go into fracking. | ||
| You go into anything you want to go into because you're a good fracking state, too. | ||
| We love fracking, by the way. | ||
| But think of this. | ||
| Think of this. | ||
| The largest investment of any kind in the history of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. | ||
| And we also will be the largest investment in the history of American steel industry. | ||
| There's never been a $14 billion investment in the history of the steel industry in the United States of America. | ||
| And Pittsburgh will very soon be respected around the world as... | ||
| So I want to congratulate you. | ||
| I want to congratulate you. | ||
| As part of this monumental commitment, Nippon will also invest $2.2 billion to increase steel production here in the Mon Valley Works, specifically allocated to Mon Valley, along with $200 million for the Advanced Technology Research and Development Center. | ||
| That's being built already in Pennsylvania. | ||
| So I want to congratulate you. | ||
| And in addition, another $7 billion to modernize steel mills, expand ore mines, and build state-of-the-art facilities in Indiana, Minnesota, Alabama, and Arkansas. | ||
| So I want to thank you and congratulations to those states. | ||
| Congratulations. | ||
| And the bulk of these expenditures will be made in the next 14 months. | ||
| It's going to happen fast. | ||
| You're going to be very busy watching trucks go back and forth, loaded up with cash, or its equivalent. | ||
| And it will create and save over 100,000 American jobs, including 14,000 jobs in Pennsylvania. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Very good. | |
| And by the way, your local union But your local union, I want to tell you, is so unbelievable. | ||
| They've been great. | ||
| I have to tell you that this is an incredible deal for American steelworkers and it includes vital protections to ensure that all steelworkers will keep their jobs and all facilities in the United States will remain open and thriving. | ||
|
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U.S. fear will maintain. | |
| USA! | ||
| I don't want to fight with those guys. | ||
| They look pretty well. | ||
| I'll never fight them. | ||
| U.S. Steel will maintain all of its current operating blast furnaces at full capacity for a minimum of the next... | ||
| and we have that as a commitment, but I don't even think that's... | ||
| You're not going to have to even think about that, frankly. | ||
| It won't matter, because they're going to be here for a long time, a lot longer than that. | ||
| There will be no layoffs and no outsourcing whatsoever. | ||
| And every U.S. steel worker will soon receive a well-deserved $5,000 bonus. | ||
| That's very right. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| That's great. | ||
| That's important. | ||
| For what you've gone through, you've gone through a lot. | ||
| It's closing. | ||
| It's not closing. | ||
| It's opening. | ||
| And you want to stay here. | ||
| People say, well, we'll move to another place and we'll do chips. | ||
| We'll do something like chips. | ||
| Somehow you don't want to do chips. | ||
| I'm looking at these giant guys with the giant arms. | ||
| You're not going to like doing chips. | ||
| Most importantly, the U.S. deal will continue to be controlled by the USA. | ||
| Otherwise, I wouldn't have done the deal. | ||
| I wouldn't have done it. | ||
| But the USA, and we're going to be working together, and you're going to look at your board. | ||
| You have a great board, and we're going to have an amazing alliance. | ||
| In this audience are many of the incredible workers who will really be bringing our steel industry roaring back to life, and it's going to roar, including a man who has supported me from the very beginning, the founder and steelworker of Steelworkers for Trump. | ||
| In this area, I have some of these guys. | ||
| They're great. | ||
| And I had somebody in Michigan that was so great. | ||
| I love that guy. | ||
| And I love this guy. | ||
| He's been with me from the beginning. | ||
| Brian Pavlik. | ||
| Brian, come up here. | ||
| Come up here, Brian. | ||
| Brian's been with us from the beginning. | ||
| Oh, look at him. | ||
| Big guy. | ||
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Thank you, Brian. | |
| Appreciate it. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, you did. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| It's a great day to be an American steelworker. | ||
| It's an honor to be on the stage with my hero and the greatest president ever, Donald J. Trump. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Hello, my name is Brian Pavlak. | ||
| I'm a third-generation steelworker and the president and founder of Steelworkers for Trump. | ||
| The attempted assassination of then-president candidate Donald J. Trump prompted me to establish still workers for Trump. | ||
| Our membership now exists to 2.5k. | ||
| In my opinion, President Trump has demonstrated remarkable support. | ||
| for the American steel industry, surpassing the collective efforts of all other presidents combined. | ||
| Through tariffs, he has fought to keep still being made in America rather than being dumped onto us by China. | ||
| Through this deal, he has fought to keep us Billions of dollars in investments will secure jobs for generations to come. | ||
| Thank you, President Trump, for your commitment to revitalizing the American steel industry and restoring its greatness and making American steel great again. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you, Brian. | ||
| Great guy. | ||
| And he was with me right from the beginning, I think, Brian, right from day one. | ||
| And I appreciate it. | ||
| We won't forget it either. | ||
| So let me also bring up real fast a few guys that I met backstage that I was very impressed with. | ||
| Jack, Jason, Scott, Donald, and Kurt. | ||
| Come on up here, fellas. | ||
| Get up here. | ||
| Come on up here. | ||
| These guys are great. | ||
| Come on. | ||
| They're happy people. | ||
|
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you, Mr. President. | ||
| I'm not prepared, but I can tell you I would rather be nowhere than where I am today with all of my U.S. Steel family, friends, and everybody that I love. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Berg. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Maury. | ||
| And most of all, thank you, Donald J. Trump. | ||
| We did it. | ||
| I want to thank everyone for coming. | ||
| Today is a great day. | ||
| For those of you who don't know me, my name is Jason Zugai. | ||
| I'm the former president, current vice president of Local 2227, and I've worked at this great plant for 28 years. | ||
| I'm a third-generation steel worker working for U.S. Steel. | ||
| And by the way, I'm damn proud of that. | ||
| When we decided to stand up for the men and women of the Mon Valley, we knew it wasn't going to be easy. | ||
| Almost every day there were obstacles in our way. | ||
| At any point we could have chosen to give up, but we are steelworkers and giving up just isn't something we do. | ||
| These investments will ensure steel will be made right here in Pittsburgh for years to come. | ||
| And I want to take this time to thank a lot of people that were crucial to getting this partnership to the finish line. | ||
| First and foremost, I want to thank God. | ||
| For giving me the strength, courage, and wisdom to fight day after day. | ||
| I want to thank my family for their support. | ||
| They were always patient with me when I'd be constantly on the phone, night after night, discussing this partnership, talking to politicians, or easing the mind of a union member. | ||
| Jack Maskell, we've been together from the beginning through this. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| From the many meetings together, DC trips that were nothing but business, to just brainstorming daily. | ||
| Thank you, my brother. | ||
| There's no one I'd rather have gone to this fight with. | ||
| We did it. | ||
| And I told you how bad I hate to lose. | ||
| And we won, brother. | ||
| We won. | ||
| Thank you guys from Clareton and ET that fought side by side with us from the beginning. | ||
| It was an honor and I'll never forget our journey. | ||
| I want to thank the local mayors who have stood toe to toe with us from the beginning. | ||
| We greatly appreciate it. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Mayor Kelly, thank you. | ||
| And thank you for your friendship, sir. | ||
| I want to thank my union brothers and sisters for believing in us and trusting us to get this done. | ||
| My campaign slogan when I ran for office was, "I will fight for you." I hope that I have proven that to you. | ||
| It was my honor. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Selena Zito, thank you. | ||
| From the wonderful articles you wrote and the social media posts and everything you have done behind the scenes, you are a rock star. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Senator Kim Ward, thank you for fighting for us as hard as you did. | ||
| You are one feisty lady, and I say that with the utmost respect, and we appreciate it. | ||
| The state of Pennsylvania and your constituents are so proud to have you represent us. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Chris Hall, just a small town guy from Shelfont that made it out and wanted to give back to his community. | ||
| Thank you for your words of wisdom and unwavering support for your community. | ||
| You did a good thing. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Congressman Dan Muser, you took our meeting in D.C. personally. | ||
| And never wavered after that meeting. | ||
| You fought for us in public, and that means the world to us. | ||
| We will never forget your support, and you can count on ours as well. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Mr. Morey, I love this guy. | ||
| Thank you for taking the time to listen to our concerns and always making yourself available to answer all of our questions. | ||
| This man has been disrespected and didn't deserve that. | ||
| And I feel horrible that that happened to you. | ||
| We will do everything in our power to see that never happens again. | ||
| You have my word. | ||
| These investments are life-changing for all the men and women here today and for our communities. | ||
| I personally look forward to working with you for years to come. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I want to thank the men from New York and D.C. that call me every day. | ||
| Every day. | ||
| They gave me breaking news, advice, and guidance through this process. | ||
| You might have been behind the scenes, but you definitely had a hand in getting this partnership to the finish line. | ||
| Paul, Curtis, Chris, thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| U.S. Senator Dave McCormick. | ||
| I met the senator at a Trump rally in Latrobe before we were both getting ready to speak. | ||
| He introduced himself to me and asked about the Nippon merger and what I thought about it. | ||
| As you know, I'm pretty passionate about it, and let him know that. | ||
| He told me, after I win, you will be my first meeting. | ||
| I was his first meeting. | ||
| He kept his promise. | ||
| He asked all the tough questions during the meeting, and he gathered the facts. | ||
| We met again last week to touch base, and he took it from there. | ||
| Without his help, this partnership doesn't get done. | ||
| Thank you, Senator, from the bottom of my heart. | ||
| And last but not least, President Trump. | ||
| What can I say? | ||
| I never doubted you'd be there for us when we needed you. | ||
| When our international endorsed Harris, we decided to take a stand for what we believed was right. | ||
| That was to come out publicly and boldly in support of you. | ||
| Although we aren't public speakers, we tucked our fears aside and did what any proud American would do. | ||
| We thank you every day for risking your life and laying it all on the line for this country. | ||
| You wouldn't let us down. | ||
| And for that, I will be forever grateful. | ||
| From every steel worker that supports you and every family you saved, I want to say thank you, Mr. President, for making U.S. Steel great again. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| God bless America. | ||
| God bless U.S. Steel. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| So my name is Don German. | ||
| I am the plant manager for this Urban Works here. | ||
| I had 35 years with U.S. Steel. | ||
| I'm a first-generation U.S. Steel worker. | ||
| It is an honor to host you, Mr. President, today. | ||
| And let me tell you, it was a lot of work, but it was well worth it. | ||
| But I will always tell people that, you know, it is for the workers that are out on this floor. | ||
| It is for our families that are out here who support us. | ||
| It is for the community members in our community. | ||
| And our state and our country. | ||
| And I thank you from the bottom of my heart. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Good afternoon. | ||
| As you know me, I'm Kurt Barshik. | ||
| I'd like to tell, Mr. President, the day I started at U.S. Steel, my supervisor at the blast furnace told me, kid, what are you doing here? | ||
| Do you think this mill will be here? | ||
| Look at Homestead. | ||
| Look at Duquesne. | ||
| They're not here. | ||
| You're wasting your time. | ||
| And I can stand here years later and think about our children, our grandchildren, our great-grandchildren. | ||
| They're going to have family-sustaining, good-paying jobs, all because of President Trump. | ||
| Thank you, President Trump. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Great people. | ||
| These are great people. | ||
| I want to just say, I mean, I just saw them. | ||
| I think this is their 156th rally. | ||
| I don't know what the hell their husbands are doing, but they come from North Carolina, the beautiful women of North Carolina. | ||
| They're over here. | ||
| And I just want to thank them very much for being here with us. | ||
| It's been unbelievable. | ||
| This is 126. | ||
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Or something like that. | |
| And, you know, they're happily married, from what I understand. | ||
| But I'll tell you what, that must be a little bit of a strain on the relationship. | ||
| They've followed me all over the world for nine years now. | ||
| I go to so many rallies, and we appreciate it's called love. | ||
| And there's so much love in this room. | ||
| It's incredible. | ||
| The men and women here today, they work every day to keep America powerful and strong. | ||
| And for decades, you watched us. | ||
| One globalist politician after the next sold you out and sent your dreams to China and to many other foreign countries. | ||
| But now you finally have a president who's working for you and fighting for you. | ||
| And we're going to be watching over you. | ||
| This is going to be so successful. | ||
| You're going to be so proud of this. | ||
| This is going to be a very big day. | ||
| I hope it's going to be one of the biggest days in your life. | ||
| I don't want it to be the biggest, you know? | ||
| You've got married, you have children. | ||
| I guess we've got to give that to them and give that to you. | ||
| But this is going to be truly one of the biggest days in your life. | ||
| I feel sincerely I have such confidence in this group of people. | ||
| Since my election, we've created nearly half a million new jobs, including 10,000 manufacturing jobs. | ||
| And those numbers are going through the roof. | ||
| We're going to have close to $11 trillion invested in new investments in the United States. | ||
| And you can look at And by the way, that's essentially in two months, not four months, because it took me a little time to get acclimated. | ||
| But over the last two, two and a half months, we're over $11 trillion is going to be coming. | ||
| Apple is spending $500 billion to invest in America, not in China. | ||
| NVIDIA, $500 billion. | ||
| TSMC, if you look at this one. | ||
| TSMC, and this is a company the biggest in the world for chips, $200 billion at least. | ||
| Amazon, $4 billion. | ||
| Johnson& Johnson, $55 billion. | ||
| Merck, Stellantis, General Motors are putting in billions and billions of dollars. | ||
| We have it all done. | ||
| It's going to be all with very little inflation. | ||
| In fact, it was 2.1% in April, way down. | ||
| You went through. | ||
| Inflation, that was probably the greatest inflation in the history of our country over the last four years. | ||
| And now we have it down to around 2%. | ||
| Grocery prices are down. | ||
| Mortgage rates are down. | ||
| Energy prices are down. | ||
| And gasoline prices over Memorial Day weekend were the lowest they have been since 2003. | ||
| Think of that. | ||
| In fact, in a couple of states, gasoline, $1.98 a gallon. | ||
| When have you heard that number lately? | ||
| Income soared in April up 0.8%, almost triple expectations, and we achieved the largest drop in consumer prices and the largest increase in consumer confidence since the pandemic, and actually probably about 20 years before the pandemic last month. | ||
| We also cut the trade deficit in half, and that's the story of today. | ||
| They can't believe it. | ||
| The numbers just came. | ||
| We cut, before we even get started, actually, we cut it in half, the trade deficit. | ||
| And very importantly, I've stopped the invasion of illegal aliens who are undercutting your wages and stealing your job. | ||
| You saw that last month. | ||
| 99.999%. | ||
| Can you imagine? | ||
| That was our cut. | ||
| The border is closed, but it's open, and it'll always be open to people that want to come into our country legally. | ||
| We want to have people come in legally, but we don't want to have them come in the way they allowed to come in. | ||
| We've ended the flood of criminals, gang members, murderers, drug dealers, and human traffickers, and we're sending them back to the places from which they came. | ||
| And the future of American workers is only getting brighter. | ||
| I said before, and I'll say it again, we have the hottest country right now in just four months. | ||
| But actually, you have to go back to November 5th. | ||
| Since November 5th, that was Election Day. | ||
| We had the greatest election victory, they say, in 129 years. | ||
| The most consequential election in 129 years. | ||
| I don't know what 129 years was, but we'll check it out later on. | ||
| We'll find out. | ||
| Must have been something pretty good. | ||
| But we have the most consequential. | ||
| We won every swing state. | ||
| We won the popular vote. | ||
| We won the districts 2,750 to 505. | ||
| We're doing a job, and you're doing a job, and it's only because of you that we could have had that success. | ||
| We're right now on the verge of passing. | ||
| The largest working class tax cuts in American history. | ||
| We've got to get that beautiful, big bill. | ||
| Beautiful, beautiful as it is. | ||
| We've got to get it passed. | ||
| The Senate, call your senators. | ||
| And I'll tell you, you have great people representing you. | ||
| Your senators, your congressmen, you have great people. | ||
| Every single Democrat House member voted to impose the largest tax hike in history. | ||
| The Democrats are voting. | ||
| For the largest, highest tax hike in history. | ||
| I've never heard of it before. | ||
| Meanwhile, our one big, beautiful bill will keep income taxes at the current rates and deliver no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security for our seniors. | ||
|
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Thank you. | |
| And we're going to make the interest payments, as you know, on cars. | ||
| We're going to take the car payments and we're going to make them those interest payments. | ||
| You buy a car, you borrow money. | ||
| We're going to make interest payments tax deductible. | ||
| But only if the car is made in America, and that means made with American steel and steel from U.S. steel. | ||
| And we're permanently expanding the child tax credit, and we're creating a special Trump account for every newborn child, starting them off with a... | ||
| A little baby is born. | ||
| They're gonna start off with $1,000. | ||
| And if we do a good job of investing their money, we're gonna go with one of the investing guidelines. | ||
| Who the hell knows if they're any good, but they have a chance to be very rich. | ||
| It's gonna be very cute to see. | ||
| We're gonna follow it very closely. | ||
| And critically, the bill includes the largest reductions to wasteful spending in a generation or more, slashing more than $1.6 trillion in waste, fraud, and abuse. | ||
| And the one big, beautiful bill, and get out there and get your congressmen and your senators and any other senator or congressman you know, get them to vote for it because the Democrats are willing to vote against the biggest tax. | ||
| Deduction or tax decrease in history. | ||
| This is the biggest tax cut. | ||
| Think of it. | ||
| In the history of our country, if it doesn't get approved, you're going to have a 68% tax increase. | ||
| Lots of luck. | ||
| And the Democrats would rather have you have a tax increase. | ||
| Think of that. | ||
| Of 68%. | ||
| They would rather have that happen. | ||
| Then vote for a bill where you get the biggest tax cut. | ||
| So there's something wrong. | ||
| You know, all my life I grow up, I watch politics. | ||
| And I've always watched politicians say, we will cut your taxes, we will cut you. | ||
| And in theory, a 68% increase. | ||
| One other thing I did, and you probably saw it last week. | ||
| You know, we pay the highest drug prices and pharmaceutical prices anywhere in the world by far. | ||
| Other countries pay sometimes one-tenth of what we pay, a pill that costs $20. | ||
| We spend $200, $250, $270 in many cases. | ||
| It's the most unfair thing I've ever seen. | ||
| And last week, I did what had to be done. | ||
| And it wasn't easy against the biggest lobby anywhere, probably in the world, most powerful lobby, the drug companies. | ||
| And I'm not even calling them bad. | ||
| But they were able to do things. | ||
| They're going to be fine, by the way. | ||
| They're going to just stabilize. | ||
| But we're going to now call a favorite nations where we will pay the lowest price anywhere in the world. | ||
| And they have to match it. | ||
| We will be cutting your drug bill back. | ||
| by 85 and even 90 percent. | ||
| You know, I was very proud in my first administration, you may have remembered. | ||
| I called for a major press conference because we were They were lowered one quarter of one percent over a period of a year. | ||
| And I was so proud of that because nobody had ever had an administration where prices of drugs went down. | ||
| One quarter of one percent, not much. | ||
| Now we're going to be lowering your drug costs by 90%, by 85%, by 75%, by numbers that nobody's ever heard of before. | ||
| We will be paying equal to the lowest price of drugs and pharmaceuticals anywhere in the world. | ||
| Have fun, because that's a lot of money. | ||
| That's going to bring down Medicare. | ||
| It's going to bring down the cost of, think of it, Medicaid. | ||
| It's going to have an effect on everything, but it's going to have the biggest effect on your wallet. | ||
| You're going to be saving a tremendous amount of money. | ||
| And nobody else would do that but me. | ||
| I have taken on some rather harsh critics over that because, again, that's the biggest lobby. | ||
| They spend billions and billions and billions of dollars a year not to have that done. | ||
| But I said it's really time to do it. | ||
| So you're going to have the lowest drug prices anywhere in the world. | ||
| With one big, beautiful bill, we will protect over 7 million jobs, raise take-home pay for American families by up to $13,000 per household, and reduce taxes for working-class Americans by as much as 13%. | ||
| Those are big numbers. | ||
| The bill will also remove 1.4 million illegal aliens from Medicaid and protect the programs for truly needy Americans. | ||
| It includes funding to hire 3,000 new Border Patrol agents and 10,000 new ICE agents. | ||
| And these people like you, these are heroes. | ||
| The jobs they have done, they go into areas that are so dangerous. | ||
| It's unbelievable, but they're tough, they're smart, and they love our country. | ||
| So I want to just thank ICE, and I want to thank the Border Patrol, and I want to thank law enforcement in general. | ||
| They've been incredible. | ||
| Really incredible. | ||
| I'll never forget our firemen. | ||
| I don't know if we have firemen here today, but we're never going to forget our firemen. | ||
| They do a great job. | ||
| Over the past four months, we've accomplished more than most administrations. | ||
| It's even four years or even eight years. | ||
| We've done this in four months. | ||
| We've done something on spirit and optimism and pride, which is sweeping across our land. | ||
| And with the announcement, it's surging like never before here in western Pennsylvania. | ||
| Remember, the entire world is watching us today. | ||
| I'm making a speech, and I have millions and millions. | ||
| Look at all the fake news back there. | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| That's a lot of fake news, come to think of it. | ||
| Now, they've been pretty good to us here. | ||
| They've, you know, gave us a reasonably accurate display. | ||
| But all over the world, look at that. | ||
| All over the world, they're watching your local region and how well it's doing and how well it's going to do for generations, the workers of this region. | ||
| Have always been there for our country when we needed you most. | ||
| You built this country from Pittsburgh to Pottstown, from Bethlehem to Hopewell, and from Washington County to right here in Western Mifflin. | ||
| The foundries and blast furnishes of Pennsylvania have smashed foreign armies, strengthened the hulls of the world's greatest navy, raised up majestic cities, won two world wars. | ||
| And made America into the richest, strongest, the most powerful country on the face of the earth. | ||
| And it's suffered greatly over the last four years. | ||
| But we're going to get it back, and we're going to get it back fast. | ||
| It's almost back already. | ||
| It's suffered, though. | ||
| It's suffered. | ||
| I'm not going to make any excuses. | ||
| It's suffered with incompetent, radical left lunatics. | ||
| But under our leadership, we're making it richer, stronger, and more powerful than ever before. | ||
| And that's why I want to thank you very much. | ||
| And thank you, Prime Minister. | ||
| And thank everybody. | ||
| They all knew what was happening here. | ||
| With the help of patriots like you, we're going to produce our own metal, unleash our own energy, secure our own future, build our country, control our destiny. | ||
| And we are once again going to put... | ||
| The golden age of America has only just begun, and together we are going to make America great again, greater than ever before. | ||
| Thank you very much, Pennsylvania, and God bless America. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Welcome back to The Boar Room. | ||
| We are still holding the fort down here. | ||
| It's now Natalie Winters filling in for Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| But don't go anywhere. | ||
| We still have a show packed out for you for the duration of the Battleground Hour. | ||
| I guess that's the very least we can do. | ||
| I don't know if you guys have seen the clips of all the hardcore MAGA patriots waiting in the long lines, enduring and braving the onslaught of rain just to see President Trump speak. | ||
| What a wonderful speech. | ||
| I don't know about you guys. | ||
| I get deja vu to the good old campaign days, the rallies, which who knows? | ||
| You know, I'm just echoing the sentiments of my wonderful boss, Stephen K. Bannon, Trump 2028. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Maybe he's starting the primary, though. | ||
| I think that would be an uncontested primary. | ||
| We'll get into some. | ||
| I think there's some breaking news after this, but Ben Berquam, I think we have you. | ||
| Give us your rundown, your assessment, and give us maybe a post-speech vibe check. | ||
| Yeah, by the way, I did wear my Trump 2028 shirt out here, flew out yesterday, and the look on the Liptard's faces, these guys losing their minds, excuse me, if it's offensive to some out there, they have lost their minds. | ||
| I actually had a guy who's, I can't believe people still wear masks. | ||
| There was a guy on a plane with a mask behind me. | ||
| And when he got up, he shoulder-checked me because I was wearing the Cup 2028 shirt. | ||
| It's the best. | ||
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Okay. | |
| That's all for right now. | ||
| But I'm going to rock that all over the country. | ||
| Just, you know, whether or not Trump runs again. | ||
| He's got a son. | ||
| He's got Junior. | ||
| He's got, you know, Eric. | ||
| He's got a whole line of Trumps that are in the wing. | ||
| But the event today, the big takeaway for me, by the way, Natalie, I don't know if you heard that. | ||
| That was breaking news. | ||
| A 50% tariff on steel coming into America. | ||
| That's going to be a wall, an unsurpassable wall for foreign manufacturers to overcome. | ||
| That's a big deal. | ||
| To the people out there that don't like tariffs, that's a big deal for them, too. | ||
| But what it does is it puts American workers first, and clearly that's what President Trump's doing. | ||
| The difference between this one, Natalie, and other rallies I've been to were, you know, you had the local unions coming up. | ||
| There's this major shift happening, and it hasn't caught up to the national union yet, but man, if you listen to the union representatives of the local unions here, whoo! | ||
| Democrats better be afraid, because the people, the workers, they get it. | ||
| The Democrats have betrayed them, and MAGA is on their side, and so it was a big day, big event here. | ||
| As you see behind me, the golden age, the next golden age in America. | ||
| I'm just curious, Ben, when you talk to the people on the ground there, the people who are, you know, compelled or motivated enough to show up to an event like that, what are the issues that they're most concerned about, that they think President Trump needs to fix, or where are they, you know, happiest and proudest with what he's already delivered on? | ||
| The general sentiment I got in speaking to several people before this event, got a lot of interviews, was that it's the Democrats and these activist judges and the rhinos, everyone you and I and Steve talks about every single day, the turncoats and the traitors in our own government that are the problem. | ||
| Really, the sense I get is just let MAGA work. | ||
| Get out of the way. | ||
| It's kind of the sentiment that I think most Americans have about government. | ||
| Just get out of our way. | ||
| Let us live our lives. | ||
| You know, you could see the look in the eyes of the workers here that really felt like their lives were going to be uprooted, that they really felt the last two years that uncertainty was so high here, especially during Joe Biden's time. | ||
| They just thought that they weren't going to have jobs. | ||
| Some of these people you heard on the stage were fifth-generation workers, not to be able to continue that legacy, working hard to produce the products that Americans use every single day, being proud of that legacy. | ||
| There was a real sense of despair, and now there's this sense that that yoke has been lifted off their shoulders, like they can finally breathe again, that they can look downrange and say, for at least, you heard President Trump say, for at least the next ten years, you guys will have jobs. | ||
| I mean, assuming you do good work, you know, you've got to fire the bad ones. | ||
| But, assuming you do good work, you're going to have a job. | ||
| And that's something that these guys have not had. | ||
| American manufacturing has not had. | ||
| They have had uncertainty for decades, and now there's finally a sense of we can breathe again. | ||
| We actually are going to do this in America, and you can't underestimate the impact that has on somebody's mind, on their life, on their family, on their morale, on moving forward. | ||
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It's a huge deal. | |
| Patriotism is a hell of a drug, and it's no wonder that they've tried. | ||
| To quash it or try to ram through the idea that we need to import foreign workers and foreign-born talent to maintain our hegemony as the United States of America. | ||
| Historically, empirically, that ain't true. | ||
| This country didn't get to where it is because of immigrants. | ||
| Sorry, Media Matters. | ||
| Sorry, Democrats. | ||
| That's not true. | ||
| Immigrants did not build America. | ||
| Legacy Americans, like Stephen K. Bannon always says, did. | ||
| Ben, if you can hang with us through the break, I'm sure the audience is enjoying your shot, watching everybody funnel out. | ||
| I know they waited hours to be there. | ||
| I would appreciate it. | ||
| Until then, we got a short break. | ||
| Don't go anywhere, War Room Posse. | ||
| We're going to get into all things steel. | ||
| You know, I always love talking about Rare Earths and the processing, that aspect, how the PRC has just completely dominated. | ||
| Really, by design, right? | ||
| Not just elite capture, but elite merger. | ||
| People like Hunter Biden profiting off of this. | ||
| I bet he's seething at the idea of jobs in the United States and bolstering America's national security. | ||
| And there we go. | ||
| We'll be right back. | ||
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No more, let's take down the CCB. | |
| Day of all life for too long. | ||
| We're your host, Stephen K. Mann. | ||
| you Welcome back to the War Room. | ||
| I guess I'm having a Pavlovian response to President Trump speaking, making me think we're back in campaign season, if only. | ||
| But hey, maybe we are, Trump 2028. | ||
| Ben Berkman, we still got you on the ground there. | ||
| I'm curious, the audience, what lines got the most applause? | ||
| And give us sort of a teaser of what you've been working on. | ||
| I hear you're going to be hanging out with some ICE agents again. | ||
| Actually, part of your last question, what are the issues that mattered in talking to them? | ||
| Well, outside of when President Trump talked about steel and their jobs directly, the loudest applause in this room was deporting illegals. | ||
| And when you talk about understanding, you were just talking about that. | ||
| Immigrants didn't build America. | ||
| Legal immigrants had a part to play in that. | ||
| But it's always been this understanding of this contract. | ||
| That if you come into our country, you become a citizen, you go through that process, you add to the fabric of our society. | ||
| They get this. | ||
| What Joe Biden and the Democrats have done, they've totally bastardized that system to where now we celebrate illegals that come in, take jobs, commit crimes, destroy our workforce, take away our education and our health care and the rest of it. | ||
| That line on deportations, on supporting ICE, on supporting Border Patrol. | ||
| Got the loudest applause in this room, and it's no wonder, because it affects everywhere. | ||
| I'm flying in here, driving around the city. | ||
| There are illegals everywhere around Pittsburgh, and the people here get it. | ||
| They've been seeing it for decades, and they're sick of it. | ||
| And it segues right into what's coming up. | ||
| So June is going to be the month of ICE ride-alongs, Border Patrol ride-alongs. | ||
| What we're doing, ICE is doing. | ||
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Hang on, Ben. | |
| I was told June is Pride Month. | ||
| You're telling me we don't celebrate Pride Month? | ||
| No. | ||
| No, in fact, we're changing that. | ||
| I saw somebody's post. | ||
| We're making June Veterans Month. | ||
| We're getting rid of the pride crap. | ||
| We're not celebrating sin. | ||
| Maybe we'll add Border Patrol and ICE into that. | ||
| It's going to be Deportation Month. | ||
| Actually support the things that make America great. | ||
| Yes, you heard it from here. | ||
| War Room Live officially. | ||
| We're taking back. | ||
| And we're going to take back the rainbow at the same time. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| But yes. | ||
| That's what we're doing. | ||
| Real America's Voice News, Law& Border. | ||
| Actually, our next episode of Law& Border is going to be airing next Saturday, the 7th. | ||
| So, a lot coming up here on Real America's Voice News when it comes to deportations. | ||
| All things putting America first again. | ||
| Got a killer soundtrack going. | ||
| Ben, if people want to follow you, stay up to date with, it sounds like, everything you've got going, I want to. | ||
| Where can people go to do that? | ||
| The best place is America's Voice, americasvoice.news. | ||
| If you don't have the app on your phone, you need that, obviously, to watch War Room Live every single day. | ||
| You can also follow me on Substack, Frontline America Substack, on my personal, at Ben Burkwam social media, at Real AM Voice, Real America's Voice, and at Ben Burkwam. | ||
| Thank you, sir, for joining us for the pregame and the postgame. | ||
| I really appreciate it. | ||
| I know the audience does, too. | ||
| Loved your insights. | ||
| We will see you. | ||
| I'm glad you don't have to go to the border as much anymore. | ||
| That is what I voted for, MSNBC. | ||
| Ben Berkowitz not having to go hang out with a bunch of illegals down in the Darien Gap. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| I had a good time. | ||
| We will have you back. | ||
| But I don't mind either. | ||
| Yeah, hopefully we don't go back to that. | ||
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That's why we need to make sure these deportations actually go through. | |
| And we hold the people who orchestrated this invasion accountable, I'm all for, right? | ||
| There you go. | ||
| I'm all for the mass deportations, but I'd like to get the names of some of the people who were intimately involved with orchestrating this. | ||
| I guess we could start with Mayorkas, but that's the tip of the iceberg. | ||
| And more importantly, the elites who invited these people in, whether short term under Biden or systemically set up these programs, they should certainly be investigated, I would argue, probably go to jail for... | ||
| It's all pretty disgusting, if you ask me. | ||
| Something else that is disgusting, how is that for a segue, is probably everything that these same global elites want you to eat and put in your body and the air you breathe. | ||
| You know, we're strong Maha advocates here in the war room, which is why I'm honored to bring on Trevor Comstock of Sacred Human Health. | ||
| Trevor, before we get to the super good stuff, which is the beef liver, real quick, your thoughts on the Maha Commission. | ||
| The media is in full meltdown, attacking it left and right. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, it's ridiculous, but what do you expect? | ||
| That's kind of what you're going to get with the big media against Trump or anyone associated with him. | ||
| But what RFK is doing is absolutely awesome, in my opinion. | ||
| I mean, the stance that he's taken with trying to remove the chemicals in food and the preservatives and everything else that's essentially artificial to get out of our diets is a big win. | ||
| And we're not fully there yet, but, you know, time will tell when we can start making real, real progress. | ||
| But at least for us, too, I mean, I'll never compare myself to RFK Jr., but we're at least trying to take the same route with what he's doing with eliminating the chemicals and foods to supplements, because you do find a lot of those same, like, food dyes, binders, artificial ingredients, and preservatives in supplements. | ||
| And unfortunately, it's pretty widespread if you go to, like, Walgreens or search it on Amazon. | ||
| For us, we eliminate all that junk from our products. | ||
| We only give you the raw, natural ingredients. | ||
| And we promise to make everything right here in the USA, whereas a lot of other companies just outsource all their production to China because it's much cheaper. | ||
| And that really does go for all of our products as well. | ||
| And like you mentioned, of course, our flagship product is our beef liver, which I really can't recommend enough. | ||
| You know, it contains a ton of ingredients and nutrients such as iron, zinc, vitamin A, B12, CoQ10, folate, etc. | ||
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| So things like choline, K2, selenium, as well as copper. | ||
| On top of that, just one thing that people always mention and love about the beef liver is the natural energy boost that it gives them. | ||
| You can sift through some of our reviews and see what they have to say, but people really rave about that, which is pretty cool. | ||
| There's a ton of information on our site if you want to check it out. | ||
| Like I said, I can't recommend it enough. | ||
| The beef liver or collagen is also really popular. | ||
| We've had a lot of great feedback on that. | ||
| Along with our other products. | ||
| But like I said, you can check out all the information if you just click on the products, and it'll give you a little rundown. | ||
| But on top of that, you can just use code WARROOM at checkout for any one-time purchase. | ||
| Again, just go to sacredhumanhealth.com or type in Sacred Human at Google. | ||
| We'll be the first page that pops up. | ||
| And then if you do subscribe to any of our products, you're automatically locked into that 10% discount. | ||
| So we got you covered there. | ||
| Trevor Comstock, thank you so much for joining us. | ||
| We will have you back on soon. | ||
| I'm a big fan of all things beef liver and collagen and maha. | ||
| I would ban seed oils if I could. | ||
| One day, one day. | ||
| Warren Posse, thank you for hanging with me and watching President Trump's speech. | ||
| Steve will be back tomorrow. | ||
| Don't worry. | ||
| And we are going to roll right into the wonderful programming of none other than Grant Stinchfield tonight. | ||
| Have a great show. | ||
| Grant and Warren Posse, have a wonderful weekend. |
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