June 5, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| 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. | |
| Here's one time 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've tried 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 line? | ||
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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. Baff. | ||
| Baff. | ||
| Okay, welcome back. | ||
| It is Thursday, 5 June, Year of the Lord, 2025. | ||
| We've got a very special thing we're going to do here in Montreal. | ||
| I've got to talk. | ||
| Dave Bratt is up here. | ||
| When Dave is here as a co-host in the House, Dave is also working 24-7 everything to get information, understand what's going on, get the feel. | ||
| Your congressional badge right there, that allows you to have free access. | ||
| That is one of the... | ||
| Always a congressman. | ||
| Always a congressman. | ||
| Permanently go over there. | ||
| What is your feeling today? | ||
| Polly Pockets or Speaker Johnson, who I don't want to say we're in this situation because we got tapped along. | ||
| Far from me to say that. | ||
| But he's running around now in the House scene. | ||
| He's got every point. | ||
| He goes, I'm going to call Elon right now. | ||
| What are you going to call Elon about? | ||
| Elon said what he said. | ||
| He's trying to blow the bill up. | ||
| He told the president he had a trillion dollars of waste for an abuse. | ||
| He came up with zero. | ||
| I've asked Russ to vote. | ||
| I've asked everybody. | ||
| Show me the money. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Show me the money. | ||
| And don't send me – the rescission package has got to get passed. | ||
| By the way, you notice they're not saying we're going to vote on today when it showed up. | ||
| Oh, it's got to be next week. | ||
| It's $9 billion. | ||
| It's performative, but it's an important performance. | ||
| Every line item. | ||
| It's all a program. | ||
| Everybody knew about it. | ||
| It was all in a law called the Appropriations Bill, signed off by these guys, fought by Gates and MTG and Boebert and Biggs and all the typical budget hawks over there, and outvoted by the Republican Conference. | ||
| Okay, Democrats just sat there the entire time. | ||
| People remember this. | ||
| We had 20,000 people watching all night long. | ||
| The girl with the blue hair, the wobble from Rhode Island. | ||
| I cede my time to my Republican colleague and the establishment have been beating on them. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| So I don't know what Johnson's running around. | ||
| Oh, I'm going to call my good friend Elon. | ||
| If he's such a good friend of yours, bro, he'd have mentioned this months ago. | ||
| We've got a problem. | ||
| So you get full access. | ||
| Full access. | ||
| This is my friend Thomas Massey, who's also good on the budget, by the way. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| But he calls this thing the precious. | ||
| He won't wear it ever. | ||
| He puts it in his hand and shoves it in his pocket because it has a power like Sauron and Solomon. | ||
| In Lord of the Rings. | ||
| It just rings in your head with reeks of power and corruption. | ||
| Tom Massey's a good man, but sometimes he's a little too— Yeah, I know. | ||
| But I'll tell you, hard to dig them out. | ||
| They got a big following there. | ||
| They got a big following. | ||
| Mr. President got a big following in Kentucky. | ||
| Extraordinary event last night. | ||
| I want to give Ambassador Rick Grinnell a real shout-out here. | ||
| One of the things that, as you know, we're doing when President Trump took over, and this you saw last night on the immigration side. | ||
| We're trying to make sure that we take these institutions and we rejuvenate them. | ||
| And what I saw at the Kennedy Center last night, I was honored to go with Rahim, who's Butterworth, his restaurant's got now a special relationship with him over there. | ||
| It's reported by Access. | ||
| And Matthew Taylor, a filmmaker, one of the most brilliant young men I know, and I've been in business working with him, making films for 20 years. | ||
| We went to an extraordinary event last night. | ||
| But the event was extraordinary, and Kennedy sent one of these cultural things. | ||
| It was a screening of Amadeus, that amazing film on Mozart. | ||
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Love it. | |
| Now 40 years old, I think. | ||
| That I saw when I was at Harvard. | ||
| Plus the full National Symphony Orchestra, playing the entire musical score, and I think the National Cathedral's choir, doing the choir of all of Mozart's, from the Requiem, all of it, is one of the most powerful nights. | ||
| Because you understand Western culture and what's achieved. | ||
| Beauty. | ||
| Beauty. | ||
| And the music, the film. | ||
| These two guys went. | ||
| But particularly, the staff over at the Kennedy Center. | ||
| So enthusiastic. | ||
| One of the senior personnel told me, he's been there for 23 years. | ||
| He's an Army sergeant. | ||
| He's been there for 23 years. | ||
| He said, Mr. Bannon, in 23 years. | ||
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Wow. | |
| No president. | ||
| And he's very fond of all the presidents. | ||
| He's totally apolitical. | ||
| He said no president has ever come over and walked through and given us an inspection. | ||
| And he said President Trump came over like, because being a hotel guy he knows, he says the level of detail that President Trump pointed out that says we need this fixed, I want that changed, I need this cleaned, this has got to happen, he said it brought tears to his eyes because he loves this place. | ||
| Right? | ||
| And he said he got a guy over there that cares. | ||
| This thing last night was packed. | ||
| It was sold out. | ||
| You couldn't get a seat in the place. | ||
| It was magnificent. | ||
| And for the National Cathedral Choir, outstanding work. | ||
| And for the symphony, this is a three-hour movie. | ||
| They took a short, like, five-minute break, but they played and sang for three hours. | ||
| Raheem, let's go ahead and play. | ||
| Let's play the trailer for Amadeus, and then we'll bring in Raheem and Matthew. | ||
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Are we going to appall you with something confidential and disgusting? | |
| Let's hope so. | ||
| Because that is what you really like. | ||
| Unconfessed crimes of buried wickedness. | ||
| If that is what brings you to us, the prospect of hearing horrors, you shall not go unrewarded. | ||
| I don't believe it. | ||
| The whole city is talking! | ||
| You hear it all over! | ||
| What a story! | ||
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What a scandal! | |
| What a comedy! | ||
| What a tragedy! | ||
| Incredible! | ||
| I don't believe it! | ||
| Who can believe it? | ||
| What horrors have you heard? | ||
| Tell us! | ||
| Tell us! | ||
| Tell us at once! | ||
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Tell us about Wolfgang! | |
| Amadeus! | ||
| Mozart! | ||
| How good is he, this Mozart? | ||
| His remarkable is an unprincipled, spoiled, conceited brat. | ||
| He is divinely inspired. | ||
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He is arrogant, vulgar, obscene. | |
| He creates music for the gods. | ||
| He is passionate. | ||
| He burns with fire. | ||
| He is an angel. | ||
| He is a devil. | ||
| He claimed he'd been poisoned. | ||
| Some said he accused a man. | ||
| Some said the man was Salieri. | ||
| Salieri? | ||
| Salieri. | ||
| I don't believe it. | ||
| All the same. | ||
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Could it be possible? | |
| Did Salieri do it after all? | ||
| Did he murder Amadeus? | ||
| Did he murder Amadeus? | ||
| Amadeus. | ||
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The man. | |
| The music. | ||
| The magic. | ||
| The madness. | ||
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The murder. | |
| The mystery. | ||
| The motion picture. | ||
| Amadeus. | ||
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Everything you've heard is true. | |
| Ha ha ha! | ||
| you Okay, that's from the Academy Award. | ||
| Best Picture, Best Actor, all of it. | ||
| But what was stunning, Best Director, what was stunning, all that music you heard there in the trailer, that was all live last night by the National Symphony Orchestra and I think the National Cathedral Choir. | ||
| Rahim Kassam, a very special night. | ||
| I know your associate over there helping Ambassador Grinnell, and I texted him last night again this morning. | ||
| It's stunning. | ||
| The enthusiasm, what they've done already, some of the refurbishments they're doing, the staff couldn't have been more gracious, but also so enthusiastic that they've got a president that's engaged and wants to make it better and is going to be there. | ||
| your thoughts, sir. | ||
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Look, thank you, Steve. | |
| And thank you for, you know, And, you know, sitting there, you mentioned it was three hours. | ||
| That is no small feat for any orchestra, for any choir, and for an audience, quite frankly. | ||
| Because as far as the media has told us, nobody's going to the Kennedy Center anymore. | ||
| Everybody hates it. | ||
| It's crumbling because of MAGA, and that's the death of an institution. | ||
| And it couldn't be further from the truth, any of that stuff. | ||
| The Kennedy Center, as it is today... | ||
| They lie through their teeth about these things, and I was just so grateful and honored, not just by Ambassador Grinnell, by the way, but he has a fantastic team over there. | ||
| Rick Lockery, Roma DeRavi, Casey Flores, all of these ladies and gentlemen who work like hell every single day to restore that institution to cultural greatness. | ||
| Raheem, hang on a second. | ||
| I want to get him to do this right. | ||
| We've got Senator Josh Hawley just stepped off the floor. | ||
| He's going to join us. | ||
| He's got a few minutes. | ||
| So we can't play the cold open. | ||
| First of all, Senator Hawley, I know we got a lot about the big, beautiful bill, credits, all that. | ||
| Real quickly, Chris Hayes is playing last night. | ||
| I guess you got into a back and forth with his wife, but very important. | ||
| You're making the case about these judges shutting down. | ||
| Can you just make the argument for our audience? | ||
| And we'll play the clip later about what you guys went back and forth on this thing about these judge shopping and these judges shutting down President Trump's. | ||
| Yeah, we've never—it's great to be with you, Steve. | ||
| We've never seen this before, where we have all of these judges who are issuing nationwide injunctions. | ||
| Steve, they're purporting to set policy for the whole country. | ||
| They're doing it to Trump more than anybody else, more than any other president combined. | ||
| They're doing it to Trump. | ||
| And what I went back and forth on with Professor Shah, who's married to Chris Hayes, what I pointed out to her is that, gee, she said, she said, like a lot of other liberals just a year ago, nationwide injunctions are a travesty. | ||
| Her quote was— They are a threat to democracy. | ||
| And I said, what about now? | ||
| And now she's all for him. | ||
| Just like all the other liberals. | ||
| And what they won't tell you, Steve, is that these injunctions are coming overwhelmingly from liberal judges in liberal jurisdictions. | ||
| They say, oh, Trump is uniquely lawless. | ||
| Oh, give me a break. | ||
| Why is it then that only liberal judges in liberal jurisdictions are the ones out there abusing this power and issuing these nationwide injunctions, trying to play Supreme Court, trying to play president? | ||
| We have to stop this or it is going to absolutely wreck our system of law. | ||
| I want to go to her specific thing because you called her and you kind of froze her and she said, well, I'm for it now because you had to charge. | ||
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You had to quote. | |
| She goes, I'm for it now because Trump is uniquely lawless. | ||
| What is your response to that? | ||
| Give us to it again because this is very important. | ||
| That's what they're arguing. | ||
| Oh, we've changed because Trump is a dictator, sir. | ||
| Yeah, all it means is that they don't like Trump. | ||
| Trump, bad. | ||
| So since Trump is bad and we're not getting our way, therefore, we are now in favor of everything we were once against. | ||
| Now we are in favor of abusing the court system. | ||
| A year ago, Steve, these Democrats were howling and saying any nationwide injunction was a threat to democracy. | ||
| Those are their words. | ||
| Those are her words. | ||
| And when I confronted her with it, she said, OK, yeah, all right, fine. | ||
| I did say that. | ||
| But, you know, but Trump, it's the ultimate non sequitur. | ||
| What they won't admit is... | ||
| It's 100% politics. | ||
| You know it. | ||
| I know it. | ||
| The American people know it. | ||
| It's 100% politics. | ||
| And Steve, I've said it before. | ||
| The rule of law in this country is supposed to be blind, not blinded by rage. | ||
| And right now, these liberals are enraged, and they are willing to burn it all down just to stop Trump. | ||
| Senator, there's a firestorm up, obviously, on Capitol Hill about the big, beautiful bill. | ||
| You know, you have Ron Johnson and many people sitting there now saying we've got to rethink this. | ||
| You're sitting there saying, hey, we really got to be very judicious on this Medicaid, you know, particularly some of the Obamacare stuff, but particularly working class people. | ||
| You're also talking about tax credits. | ||
| Can you just give us a snapshot of where you see this right now? | ||
| Well, I just hope the Senate doesn't make it worse. | ||
| I mean, right now, Steve, I'm worried. | ||
| I listen to some of these Senate Republicans, to be honest with you, and they want to take out the president's tax cuts for working people. | ||
| I'm hearing talk about, let's get rid of the tax, no taxes on tips. | ||
| Let's get rid of no taxes on overtime. | ||
| Let's go back to baseline here. | ||
| Working people are our base. | ||
| And I will just tell you, if we cut Medicaid and if we give no tax relief to working people, we are going to lose the next election and every election for the next decade, and we will deserve to do so. | ||
| These people need to remember what President Trump ran on. | ||
| They need to remember who won the popular vote, Donald Trump. | ||
| And they need to remember what he said, that we are for working people, we're going to protect Medicaid, we're going to protect Medicare, and we're going to give tax relief. | ||
| I'm worried about the trend line right now. | ||
| These people need to knock it off. | ||
| Listen to the president. | ||
| This bill needs to deliver real relief for working people. | ||
| Otherwise, Steve, I mean, nobody's going to like it. | ||
| That's just the truth. | ||
| I know you've got to bounce just one last thing about process and timing. | ||
| There's been this effort that you guys are going to vote by July 4th. | ||
| Given all the difference, and we're talking to people behind the scenes about spending cuts and what's happening, is that likely – really? | ||
| Or do you think that timeline is realistic, a vote by the Senate to July 4th, to send it back to the House, and then figure out in conference something later? | ||
| I think the Senate can get it done by July 4th. | ||
| I hope we will. | ||
| I mean, I think we need to move on this thing, but I do worry what happens after that. | ||
| If the House then takes it back and makes more changes, then, as you know, Steve, it's got to go back through the House and back through the Senate another time. | ||
| At which point we're looking at like August. | ||
| I mean, this is a long, long time. | ||
| I mean, my view is people need tax relief right now. | ||
| And when I say people, I mean working people. | ||
| I don't have any sympathy for some of these Republican senators who say we need to give a whole bunch of businesses, a whole bunch of corporations more tax cuts, and we need to give no tax cuts to working people. | ||
| That's exactly opposite of what needs to happen. | ||
| We need to protect Medicaid. | ||
| We need to be giving working folks tax relief, and we need to do it as quickly as possible. | ||
| Last thing, Missouri is a MAGA state. | ||
| You're the leading populist in the Senate. | ||
| What are you hearing from your constituents? | ||
| Every day they're bombarded with different aspects of this. | ||
| What are you hearing from the good folks in Missouri? | ||
| Well, I think what they want is they want to see wasteful garbage spending that has been impoverishing them, like the Green News scam. | ||
| They want that gone. | ||
| They want that cut. | ||
| They want all of that stuff. | ||
| The USAID stuff that Doge identified, all of that stuff gone. | ||
| They want Medicaid protected. | ||
| They want Medicare protected. | ||
| These are social insurance programs that they pay into. | ||
| They want those protected, and they need some relief. | ||
| I mean, Biden has hammered these people. | ||
| Really, the Uniparty has hammered working people. | ||
| For 30 and 40 years, wages have been flat. | ||
| You've covered it better than anyone. | ||
| They need relief. | ||
| And that's why, I'll tell you right now, the most popular parts of this bill in my state are no taxes on tips, no taxes on overtime, no taxes on Social Security. | ||
| We've got to save that stuff. | ||
| See, that has got to be in there. | ||
| We need to give tax relief to every working family that has a kid with a child tax cuts. | ||
| If we don't do that and actually deliver something for working people, we will be betraying what President Trump ran on. | ||
| So it's time for Republicans in Congress to deliver here. | ||
| It's time for them to stand up and deliver, and we've got some work to do. | ||
| Senator Hawley, social media, website, where do people go to find out more about you? | ||
| Hawley Moe is my Twitter handle. | ||
| It's the same handle on all social media, Instagram, Facebook. | ||
| You can find me everywhere there. | ||
| Senator, thank you for stepping out and taking... | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
| A big warning there, Dave Brat. | ||
| We've heard a couple, and tell us one of them, we've heard a couple of guys come to the microphone in the Senate and say, hey, the math, this mechanics on this no tax on tip doesn't work. | ||
| I don't know about this no tax on overtime. | ||
| Hawley just told you right then. | ||
| You can tell behind the scenes. | ||
| You know how it is. | ||
| They're going to say, hey, you've got to extend these tax cuts for the wealthy. | ||
| But the little guy in the Social Security thing is already funky right now. | ||
| I would not say. | ||
| And to me, that's the big kahuna. | ||
| It does have write-offs, so you've got ways you can protect it, but it's not a total no tax on Social Security. | ||
| And now they're coming after no tax on tips, no tax on overtime. | ||
| Your thoughts? | ||
| Yeah, and the overarching deficits going forward of $2 trillion a year. | ||
| I think you've got several people now. | ||
| It's a no right now until they resolve this, and then it's got to go back to the House, and then that really opens a can of worms. | ||
| But they've got Mike Lee, Rand Paul, Cruz, I just saw. | ||
| We've got a bunch in the Cruz. | ||
| It's a long way from passing. | ||
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I'm surprised. | |
| Actually, because he laid out the process. | ||
| If you get it to 4 July with the Senate, which I think is hard, but if you do that – I don't think the House is going to take the Senate side. | ||
| And the way our process works, there's no conference. | ||
| The House is going to go back, and you're already hearing guys saying, you know, and of course, you know, behind the scenes, a lot of guys are saying now, hey, maybe we should have cut more. | ||
| This thing, I've said from the beginning, the vote on the big beautiful bill is going to be in September, I just think. | ||
| I just think the way this is, it's too complicated. | ||
| I found out, I found out this morning. | ||
| Because I don't go to many, as people know, many social events. | ||
| This was one because I love this film and didn't know it was going to be live. | ||
| I wanted to see the new Kennedy Center, at least the work that's started. | ||
| I didn't know until this morning when I got the long face from Dave Brack. | ||
| We're going through the show, and he goes, what are Raheem and Matthew coming on for? | ||
| I said, the Amadeus. | ||
| He got the long face. | ||
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He goes, Why wasn't I invited? | |
| And I forgot you have a musical background. | ||
| You played First Trumpet or something. | ||
| Minnesota Youth Symphony. | ||
| Way back. | ||
| Raheem, let's pick it up again. | ||
| I specifically want to give a shout out to the team over there. | ||
| Just incredible what Grinnell's doing. | ||
| Walk us through the Kennedy Center. | ||
| Then I want to get Matthew in here to talk about the creative. | ||
| Yeah, look, it's a perfect segue, actually. | ||
| I'm glad that Senator Hawley was in there on that because I have strong feelings. | ||
| We run this restaurant on Capitol Hill at the moment, and I'm here in part to mention that we are teaming up with Ambassador Grinnell's Kennedy Center to offer a discount to anybody who goes to the Kennedy Center. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because it's important that in addition to taking over the politics, we take over the culture. | ||
| You know, the right talk about this all the time. | ||
| But very rarely do we do anything about it. | ||
| That's why I love, you know, when we first met, I loved getting to watch all of your movies, Steve. | ||
| I loved getting to know Matthew through all of Matthew's movies and cultural impact. | ||
| And now I know that Dave Bratt plays the trombone. | ||
| I'll have to bring him in to Butterworth to perform a concert upstairs. | ||
| But we're doing this tie-in, right? | ||
| And what did Hawley just mention there? | ||
| He talked about them stripping the no-tax-on-tips thing out. | ||
| Well, let me tell you something. | ||
| As somebody who is now responsible for workers who rely on tips to make money, I can tell you, if you want to lose the cultural battle, if you want to lose service staff as voters, people who across the country, especially in places like Nevada, threw their lot in with President Trump and the MAGA movement because of that pledge, then you go ahead and start blocking. | ||
| Today, in Axios, they're saying that the Democrat congressmen are putting a boycott up against all of these places around Capitol Hill and wider Washington, D.C., because they're not recognizing their union. | ||
| Well, these guys are now, you know, they're blocking people from going to Le Diplomat, from the Occidental, all of these places that the Democrats have hung out on in Washington, D.C. for years and years. | ||
| So you can see that the high ground of culture is there to be claimed. | ||
| And that's what we're doing, whether it's in the food scene. | ||
| You know, we're in we're we are literally number six in the Washington Post's top new 20 restaurants in Washington, D.C. Would you ever have thought that that would happen, that I would be able to come on to the war room and say, hey, the Washington Post says that my restaurant is in, you know, top six out of the number six out of the top 20 new restaurants in the city? | ||
| And this is why what they're doing at the Kennedy Center is so important, impactful, and why I was so grateful to be able to go with you guys last night, because it doesn't stop. | ||
| You know, on the steps of the Capitol building. | ||
| This thing has to be full-spectrum dominance, and it's what we're seeing from Ambassador Grinnell and his team. | ||
| And again, I just want to reiterate and thank them, frankly, for doing the tie-up with Butterworths. | ||
| The deal term's very simple. | ||
| You go to the Kennedy Center, which everybody should be doing right now. | ||
| Go to the website, pick a show, and then you get a discount on your meal at Butterworths for going. | ||
| So, you know, we're really truly in the thick of it now. | ||
| Yeah, Raheem, Dave Bratt here. | ||
| Congratulations on this great success in teaming up with the Kennedy Center, but I disagree with you. | ||
| You should be number one on the war room. | ||
| After you've freed the British people, the expectations are high. | ||
| And so it's just a matter of time before you hit number one. | ||
| Yes, well, that's true. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| Good. | ||
| Hey, why don't you tie in the restaurant taxon tips to the overall architecture, what Trump's trying to do, what we've all been trying to do on the war room, and how we capture the American people's attention on these issues so that they light up the switchboards and keep the heat on in the Senate, in the House, so that this stuff goes through. | ||
| Everything in this town is weighted toward the financialization of Wall Street and their winning. | ||
| Besant came out and made great statements. | ||
| It's Main Street's turn. | ||
| So give us a little speak for Main Street. | ||
| Keep going for a minute or two. | ||
| Yeah, look, I'm grateful for that because I think... | ||
| And the true north is for the populist nationalist movement is the ordinary person, right? | ||
| Can we improve the lives of the ordinary person? | ||
| And again, I'll throw in a mention of what we're doing, whether that is in the culinary sense, whether it is in a culture. | ||
| And nickels and dollars in their pockets, right? | ||
| And this no tax on tips thing goes right to the heart of a new coalition of the willing that President Trump has now spent not four years, not eight years, not 12 years, but the best part of his adult life through all of these interviews he's done over decades and decades, putting those people together, putting them in the same room, understanding that those guys can be in the deal too, right? | ||
| The forgotten man who will be As he said so often, forgotten no more. | ||
| And if the Senate wants to come along and say, actually, we are going to kind of forget you, you know, scrap the no tax on tips thing, that pulls out a core constituent part of the new stool. | ||
| Of GOP politics. | ||
| Because the stool ain't the neocons anymore. | ||
| And the stool ain't the corporate, moneyed, globalist class anymore. | ||
| The Romneys of the world tried that. | ||
| That was the stool which they built. | ||
| This is the one that Donald Trump has built. | ||
| And you have to keep that coalition. | ||
| He didn't even just have a coalition of the willing. | ||
| He had a coalition of the unwilling. | ||
| Don't forget, he goes to Dearborn and brings the Arab-American vote to the table. | ||
| It was an extraordinary thing he was doing. | ||
| And if GOP lawmakers want to try and whip that away, then this audience, it is incumbent upon this audience to light them up. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Hey, Rahim, I don't know if I've got this right, but this – They're trying to tempt Putin into reacting toward one of the Article 5 NATO countries because then they're all in. | ||
| Then they have to weigh in as a NATO community, right? | ||
| And they're just licking their chops to just have a global reset, a global restart. | ||
| You'll never see any of this reported, right? | ||
| These globalists. | ||
| It's very hard to get our story. | ||
| I just want to know, do you agree that this, you know, the economy and all that, it's underneath this geopolitics thing. | ||
| If this thing blows up, all stability is shot. | ||
| And so give us your view on this, the bombing of Ukraine, you know, with our intelligence agencies not knowing. | ||
| I find that hard to believe. | ||
| What's your take on this? | ||
| How significant is it? | ||
| And how do we fix it quick so that we get taxed on tips in the American world? | ||
| Look, I'm a realist, and so I agree with you. | ||
| That there is no chance that senior officials within the US government were unaware of this. | ||
| I mean, it was a long, long, long way to go for Ukraine to achieve what they achieved last week in bombing these Russian planes, these bombers, and taking out a critical part of their nuclear defense system. | ||
| This would have started under the Biden regime. | ||
| There's no chance that it wasn't still going on under this new administration. | ||
| Those sorts of things we'll find out over the course of time. | ||
| I do happen to believe that President Trump is rightly frustrated. | ||
| We know he's been frustrated with Zelensky. | ||
| We remember the Oval Office meeting in the early moments of the new term. | ||
| But he's increasingly frustrated with Putin. | ||
| And rightly so, too. | ||
| J.D. Vance was out there a couple of weeks ago and he said, look, the problem with Putin is he doesn't know how to end the war. | ||
| He doesn't know what victory he can sell to his cadre of oligarchs. | ||
| And indeed, to the wider Russian public. | ||
| And that is something that we have to factor into his decision-making processes. | ||
| The other one is this. | ||
| The Wall Street Journal actually did. | ||
| They rarely, I think, in my mind, do very much good anymore. | ||
| But they did a satellite analysis of how many of these planes were actually hit in Russia. | ||
| And they said, well, you know, we can kind of verify. | ||
| I think it was about a third of them that Ukraine was claiming. | ||
| So the hit may not have been as large as the Ukrainian government. | ||
| We know this fog of war stuff happens all the time. | ||
| We've seen it, especially in this war, that it's so much more about propaganda than almost anything else right now. | ||
| So I'm not sure just how serious Putin is when he says, oh, well, of course, you know, we're going to have to retaliate for this kind of thing, because he also knows that depending on the scale of his retaliation will be the scale of President Trump's retaliation to try and force him back to the table. | ||
| And that could be in the form of new crippling sanctions. | ||
| That could be in the form of new aid for Ukraine. | ||
| Or that could be in the shape of attacking or restricting Putin's allies around the world. | ||
| Iran plays a major role. | ||
| We're all in this at the moment. | ||
| There are so many things in the Middle East that affect what's going on in Russia and, of course, China, India, Pakistan, you name it. | ||
| So a very interesting three weeks ahead of us, I think. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| One minute in closing. | ||
| I just have the feeling that the MI5, England, UK, France, Germany are sticking it to us. | ||
| Why do I have that feeling? | ||
| One minute to go. | ||
| Yeah, no, you're absolutely right. | ||
| That's very clear. | ||
| I think after the trade deal was announced with the United Kingdom, the UK basically went around the world saying, oh, you know, we basically got whatever we wanted because they were desperate for a trade deal. | ||
| They needed a situation to wave some flags around after Liberation Day and after the tariffs and after the media storm from that. | ||
| And so, yes, I think they are the European nations who are hostile towards Trumpism are certainly trying to do that. | ||
| And they're certainly trying to start more of a long-standing war that they can personally benefit from. | ||
| We have to keep our fingers on it. | ||
| Yep, more Republican wars and more Democrat USAID slush funds. | ||
| Raheem Kassam, thanks for being with us. | ||
| Thanks for all you're doing to ushering the arts into MAGA world. | ||
| Conservatism has always been about culture. | ||
| And the Judeo-Christian West, thanks for doing your part. | ||
| See you soon. | ||
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Stephen K. Band. | |
| All right, Dave Bratt sitting in with the great Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| And we've got to go back. | ||
| I had another friend of the War Room, Matthew Taylor, a filmmaker, artist, mega style, sitting in with Raheem. | ||
| He was at the Kennedy Center last night. | ||
| And so, Matthew, thanks for being in the War Room. | ||
| What's new and improved with culture in Washington, D.C.? | ||
| Over the last century or so, the arts have all been deconstruction, tearing apart critical theory, tearing apart every great thing in the Judeo-Christian West to the point that culture is no longer representing the beautiful, right? | ||
| The true, the beautiful, the good. | ||
| Give us some hope that we're really turning a corner here and what President Trump is doing for that. | ||
| Thanks, Matthew. | ||
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Thank you for having me. | |
| You know, this is an exciting time here because, again, I'm a local. | ||
| I was born in Alexandria. | ||
| My family is from D.C. as well. | ||
| And it's very rare that we have creative capital that comes to the city. | ||
| We have all these beautiful institutions that have been had a cultural rot for so long. | ||
| And this is a rare once in a lifetime opportunity where a president has come in and said, you know what? | ||
| These institutions matter. | ||
| What what they show and what they display matters. | ||
| I've always believed that art is at the top and it trickles down to mainstream. | ||
| And so to see a president not just take interest but to go and to attend. | ||
| I mean, look, he's a former New Yorker, right? | ||
| So he clearly loves Broadway. | ||
| He loves beautiful culture. | ||
| He loves art. | ||
| These are beautiful, important establishments. | ||
| And these establishments really start these ideas, these kernel of these ideas, these woke ideas, and then they trickle down into all of these other things. | ||
| So it is amazing to come back to Washington, D.C. and see all of these exciting things happening. | ||
| What Ambassador Grinnell is doing is absolutely fantastic. | ||
| I haven't seen the Kennedy Center in such a great shape in many, many years that I've been going there. | ||
| And, of course, you have people like Rahim who started cultural movements through his restaurant, Butterworth, and places like that. | ||
| So it's very exciting to see that he will be taking these institutions back. | ||
| He will be transforming them to be a pro-America, pro-culture, pro-family, and all these other things that are really important. | ||
| And, again, transforming them. | ||
| And this will permeate from D.C. and it will trickle out to the rest of the country and hopefully the rest of the country. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Because institutions are linked together. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Give us a little more. | ||
| One minute, Matthew. | ||
| How do people reach you on social media? | ||
| You know, John F. Kennedy came in, ushered in the arts with Jackie O, and really took things seriously and had that flair of Camelot going with them. | ||
| And so where do young people or anybody go to get a sense? | ||
| Where do they go online to follow you about this broader vision of what's happening in this country and what's possible? | ||
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Well, look, we're coming up on the 250, and the White House has some of the most amazing things planned. | |
| So I think coming to Washington, paying attention to your national monuments and other museums around the country that are federal buildings, federally funded, it's going to be very exciting to engage with the culture, the American culture. | ||
| And thank God it's happening under this president, because it's going to be a big party. | ||
| And you can find me on M.A. Taylor on Instagram. | ||
| All right, Matthew, thank you very much. | ||
| All right, we're going from the sublime over to economic charts. | ||
| Steve's been wanting me to hit these for a while, so I got a chance to hit some Federal Reserve speak. | ||
| I think we got a small box going up in the corner of your TVs anticipating the arrival of German Chancellor Mertz. | ||
| Will be very interesting. | ||
| We'll see how President Trump handles that situation. | ||
| The last few have been outstanding. | ||
| Can't wait to hear the diplomacy going on today. | ||
| All right, the other day I went over most of these charts, the early ones in a row. | ||
| I just want to present them all because it does tell us one big story, right? | ||
| In a nutshell, the Federal Reserve system, right, started about 1913. | ||
| It has two mandates, price stability. | ||
| And, you know, low unemployment, keeping jobs. | ||
| So those are the two responsibilities. | ||
| It looks over the past 40 years like the Federal Reserve has focused exclusively on the financialization of protecting Wall Street. | ||
| You will not see stable prices in what I'm about to show you. | ||
| And the jobs reports came out yesterday. | ||
| And the Fed doesn't want to lower interest rates. | ||
| And so I'm just going to give you the 30-second version of one simple explanation. | ||
| But one thing the Fed wants to do right now. | ||
| Right now is keep interest rates a little higher, right? | ||
| They don't want to cut rates right now to help the President Trump administration help grease the wheels for the tariff transition time period. | ||
| They want to keep rates higher most likely so that treasuries are higher, right? | ||
| 10 years, 30 years are higher interest rates so the rest of the world buys a treasury. | ||
| Who does that help? | ||
| That helps the financial system. | ||
| So when you hear financialization, we're talking about Wall Street versus Main Street. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Denver, you want to go to the first. | ||
| So if you feel like the dollar is losing its value, you would be very highly correct. | ||
| Second chart, consumer price index I showed last week. | ||
| And the key piece here is when do all these charts kick into overdrive? | ||
| When do they spike up like a hockey stick? | ||
| And the answer for all of these charts is 1971 when the Federal Reserve breaks under Nixon with a gold standard. | ||
| They're not tied down, right, to any stable fixed currency. | ||
| And then prices are not stable. | ||
| Look at that chart. | ||
| Most all of our history, prices are stable. | ||
| And then as soon as we get off the gold standard, prices go through the roof. | ||
| That just sounds theoretical. | ||
| What's that got to do with me? | ||
| Well, you're going to see the next chart. | ||
| Went over this one last time. | ||
| Home prices through the roof, starting at about when? | ||
| 1620. | ||
| It's at the far left. | ||
| 1620. | ||
| Home prices fairly flat for a few hundred years. | ||
| And spiking up on the far right. | ||
| Next one, Campbell's Soup Can going straight up after 1971. | ||
| We're keeping our eye on Chancellor Walsh. | ||
| And if he and President Trump start speaking, we're going to take a break from the Federal Reserve charts. | ||
| But I want to get through these. | ||
| Next chart, real quick, this one you've seen all the time. | ||
| This is federal debt as a percentage of GDP. | ||
| I'm not going to spend time on that when you know it. | ||
| Next one is national debt in trillions of dollars. | ||
| Look at the bottom, at that arrow in the middle, 1971. | ||
| And then what happens? | ||
| that blows up through the roof. | ||
| All right, now what... | ||
| The Federal Reserve, they act like they're all official. | ||
| They're all buttoned up. | ||
| They never take any blame for anything. | ||
| They never acknowledge any errors whatsoever. | ||
| I'm about to show you a lot of errors that have resulted from the Federal Reserve System. | ||
| Real quick, 1971 on this chart, Fred from the Federal Reserve System, all this data came from Powerline, by the way. | ||
| I want to thank them for posting all these charts. | ||
| But the federal deficits start moving away from balanced budgets in, guess what date? | ||
| 1971. | ||
| And look to the far right and you have massive deficit problems. | ||
| Underneath that, the next graph coming up. | ||
| All major currencies have depreciated. | ||
| All currencies crash in 1971. | ||
| All major currencies crash in 1971 in comparison with the gold standard. | ||
| Now, a little closer to home. | ||
| Next chart. | ||
| This is called the Gini ratio. | ||
| It's just an index of inequality. | ||
| So you can just think of it as the ratio of the top 10% of the families to the bottom 50%. | ||
| That gap between the rich and the poor, as we've shown on this show time and time again, has gone up. | ||
| When did it start going up? | ||
| Look down at the bottom of the chart. | ||
| This is what I'm trying to show in today's set of charts. | ||
| Everything. | ||
| I mean, in economics, correlation is not causation, right? | ||
| But when you have 30 charts in front of your eyeballs and they all start at 1971, correlation is getting pretty close to causation, right? | ||
| The Federal Reserve has messed things up. | ||
| You can also throw in the 60s Cultural Revolution and all that. | ||
| Next chart. | ||
| These are the various sectors in the economy. | ||
| There's only one line on that chart that's going up. | ||
| Sorry, it's a mess for the folks at home. | ||
| But look at the bottom. | ||
| It says financials in blue. | ||
| And that line, the financials go straight up. | ||
| All the other sectors in our economy are going down. | ||
| So as Scott Besant, our new excellent Treasury Secretary, has said, Wall Street, you've had your turn since 1971, apparently, if these charts are correct. | ||
| And now it's time for Main Street, right? | ||
| It's time for the working class, and that is the Steve Bannon populist nationalist revolution that cares about the American people. | ||
| And it's that simple. | ||
| Here are the next three charts I alluded to earlier in the show, which Steve was brought up by Japan. | ||
| And their childbirth problem, the marriage problem, the family breakdown problem we talked about. | ||
| Family is the key variable related to school performance for our kids. | ||
| And look at this chart, 1971 approximately up at the top of that chart, the red arrow, children per women at five back in the 50s and 60s in the old white picket fences that are mocked and ridiculed by the mainstream media. | ||
| But I think those children are also correlated with happiness, even if we didn't have all the fancy bells and whistles back then. | ||
| I think families with a stable job and a stable family and a bunch of kids running around were happier than today, perhaps. | ||
| right? | ||
| The psychological data seemed to Next chart, Denver. | ||
| Median age at first marriage, right? | ||
| The middle person, the average age at first marriage. | ||
| It looks like it used to be about 20 years old for women and 22 or so for men in the middle of that chart. | ||
| Then 1971. | ||
| Economic instability, job instability, economic instability. | ||
| And it's way harder to buy a house, as we just saw. | ||
| If it's harder to buy a house, it's harder to get married and have a stable family and have kids, so the kids go down. | ||
| So I'm just trying to show you, Steve would say, how all these variables are inextricably linked together. | ||
| And if we don't get it right, right, this current big, beautiful budget bill. | ||
| And the Fed has had no problem accommodating all of that debt by printing money. | ||
| And it's their job not to do that. | ||
| They're supposed to be the adult in the room and hold things together. | ||
| They have not done that in the past. | ||
| Next chart. | ||
| This one is pretty good. | ||
| This is the real deal right here. | ||
| Real GDP per capita, right? | ||
| GDP is gross domestic product. | ||
| That's how much the country produces in a year. | ||
| Goods and services. | ||
| Real per capita GDP is the blue line going straight up. | ||
| Right? | ||
| So it sounds good. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Good. | ||
| So real GDP per person, average income is going up, right? | ||
| Because income is tied to what you produce. | ||
| But the red line is the median male income. | ||
| Median. | ||
| So not the average where you average in all the trillionaires, right? | ||
| The Gateses and all the Facebooks and the Googles and all the Magnificent Seven. | ||
| Not the average where you throw them in the soup. | ||
| Now let's just look at the middle person. | ||
| What happens to the middle person, the middle class? | ||
| In this country, median male income is flatter than a pancake since when? | ||
| I mean, you can't really make this up. | ||
| If I had to construct fake charts to make up a story, I couldn't have produced any better charts than these, right? | ||
| Just look at that, 47 over to 70. Things are going up. | ||
| For the median male income, household income, where you could have a bunch of kids and have a house and have a family and get married at a younger age. | ||
| All gone. | ||
| It's all gone. | ||
| And the last one, just in terms of socioeconomic data, I'm going to be with Jack Brewer. | ||
| He's the President Trump's lead man for the election. | ||
| He's doing outstanding work. | ||
| I'm going to be with him for the rest of the day. | ||
| Look at this one. | ||
| Fast progress. | ||
| Average black income as percentage of average white income. | ||
| Black incomes, fast progress, 1948 at the far left, going all the way up to 1971, and then it starts slowing and flattening off drastically. | ||
| That is all the result of our Federal Reserve Bank. | ||
| If anyone ever asks you what's wrong with the Federal Reserve, point them to this. | ||
| I'll post it. | ||
| It's posted at Brad Economics on Getter and on X. Back after a short break, stick with us at The Wool Room. | ||
| A very respected man. | ||
| I can tell you, we've been on the phone many times talking about some of the problems of the world outside of Germany. | ||
| And it's very sad what's going on. | ||
| We both feel that way. | ||
| What's going on with Russia, Ukraine, and other things we talk about, but Russia, Ukraine in particular. | ||
| I'd like to see it end and maybe it'll end, but we get some news, there'll be some fighting. | ||
| Something happened a couple of days ago and now... | ||
| It's not good. | ||
| He's unhappy about it. | ||
| I'm unhappy about it. | ||
| But I think eventually we're going to be successful in stopping the bloodshed. | ||
| It's pure bloodshed. | ||
| 5,000, 6,000 young soldiers a week are being killed. | ||
| You know those numbers? | ||
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Yeah, we know the numbers. | |
| They're staggering numbers. | ||
| But, Chancellor, I just want to congratulate you, and I want to welcome you to the Oval Office. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| It's an Oval Office that's in very good shape. | ||
| We like fixing things up and having them tippy-top like they have in Germany. | ||
| They do that in Germany very much. | ||
| And we do it here. | ||
| We're having a very good run. | ||
| I also had a great election, great win. | ||
| Won everything. | ||
| Won the popular vote, the all seven swing states, which is a big deal. | ||
| It's pretty unusual to do that. | ||
| And we have a great mandate from the people. | ||
| And part of our mandate is we're going to have a great relationship with your country. | ||
| So I just want to thank you very much for being here, and if you'd like to say a few words. | ||
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Absolutely. | |
| Thank you, first of all, Mr. President, for your kind invitation to come to Washington, D.C. I was in this building first time ever in 1982, I told you, when former President Ronald Reagan was in office. | ||
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So I'm very happy to be here again and to offer our close cooperation with the United States of America. | |
| We are having so much in common, our history. | ||
| We owe the Americans a lot. | ||
| We will never forget about that. | ||
| And so with your German provenance, I think this is a very good basis for close cooperation between America and Germany. | ||
| So again, thank you. | ||
| Thank you for the hospitality and thank you for having your guesthouse for a night. | ||
| This is a great place. | ||
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Great place. | |
| Many thanks for that. | ||
| I really enjoyed it. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| It's a wonderful place. | ||
| It's a landmark also. | ||
| Blair House, it's a nice place to stay. | ||
| Thank you very much for saying that. | ||
| Would you have any questions, Chris? | ||
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Mr. President, on your new travel ban, why now, and if the Boulder attack was part of your reasoning, why not include Egypt on that list where the suspect is from? | |
| Well, because Egypt has been a country that we deal with very closely. | ||
| They have things under control. | ||
| The countries that we have don't have things under control. | ||
| And why now? | ||
| I can say that it can't come soon enough, frankly. | ||
| We want to keep bad people out of our country. | ||
| The Biden administration allowed some horrendous people. | ||
| And we're getting them out, one by one. | ||
| And we're not stopping until we get them out. | ||
| We have thousands of murderers. | ||
| I even hate to say this in front of the chancellor. | ||
| Of course, you have a little problem, too, with some of the people that were allowed into your country. | ||
| It's not your fault. | ||
| It's not your fault. | ||
| It shouldn't have happened. | ||
| I told her it shouldn't have happened, what she did. | ||
| But you have your own difficulty with that. | ||
| And we do. | ||
| And we're moving them out. | ||
| And we're moving them out very strongly. | ||
| But it can't come fast enough. | ||
| We want to get them out. | ||
| We want to get them out now. | ||
| We don't want to have other bad people coming into our country. | ||
| But using the word bad, I'm being nice. | ||
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The Democrat says a distraction. | |
| You put out on Truth Social a post regarding your conversation with President Xi. | ||
| Right. | ||
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Can you talk about whether or not you feel that trade talks, trade relations are back on track after appearing to be a little bit off track last week? | |
| A little bit off track. | ||
| It was only the complexity. | ||
| It's pretty complex stuff. | ||
| We had a very good conversation with President Xi a little while ago, just before your arrival. | ||
| In fact, we just hung up and they said, you're here. | ||
| I said, that's pretty good. | ||
| Two great leaders of the world in a very short period of time. | ||
| We had a very good talk, and we've straightened out any complexity. | ||
| It's very complex stuff, and we've straightened it out. | ||
| The agreement was we're going to have Scott and Howard and Jameson will be going and meeting with their top people and continue it forward. | ||
| But no, I think we have everything. | ||
| I think we're in very good shape with China and the trade deal. | ||
| We have a deal with China, as you know, but So those reduced trade tariff rates, they remain in effect? | ||
| We have the deal. | ||
| I mean, we've had a deal. | ||
| We announced the deal. | ||
| And I guess you could say, I wouldn't even say finalizing it up, Scott. | ||
| I would say we have a deal, and we're going to just make sure that everybody understands what the deal is. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| We had a really good conversation. | ||
| By the way, he invited me to China, and I invited him here. | ||
| We're both accepted. | ||
| So I'll be going there with the First Lady at a certain point, and he'll be coming here, hopefully, with the First Lady of China. | ||
| Go ahead, please. | ||
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Did you talk about the Chinese students? | |
| Are you allowing them to come? | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| No, Chinese students are coming. | ||
| No problem. | ||
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No problem. | |
| It's our honor to have them, frankly. | ||
| We want to have foreign students, but we want them to be checked. | ||
| You know, in the case of Harvard and Columbia and others, all we want to do is see their list. | ||
| There's no problem with that. | ||
| This is anybody outside of our country, international students, because when we see some of the people that we've been watching, we say, where do these people come from? | ||
| How is that possible? | ||
| We want to have foreign students come. | ||
| We're very honored by it, but we want to see their list. | ||
| Harvard didn't want to give us the list. | ||
| They're going to be giving us the list now. | ||
| I think they're starting to behave, actually, if you want to know the truth. | ||
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On Russia, are you willing to put more pressure on Putin to end the war by imposing new solutions on Russia and also on China? | |
| Well, remember, I'm the one that ended Nord Stream 2. Going to a place called Germany, come to think. | ||
| I'm sorry I did that. | ||
| But I ended Nord Stream 2. Nobody else did. | ||
| And then when Biden came in, he immediately approved it. | ||
| That's essentially the largest pipeline in the world, going to Germany and other countries. | ||
| And by the way, we have so much oil and gas, you will not be able to buy it all. | ||
| I mean, literally, we have so much. | ||
| And I hope we're going to make that a part of our trade deal, because we have more than anybody else. | ||
| We have actually the most. | ||
| By far in the world, probably double what anyone else has. | ||
| So we'll work on that. | ||
| I'm sure that's something we'll discuss today. | ||
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Mr. President, what do you expect from Germany and what do you expect from the Chancellor? | |
| Well, first of all, I'm glad to meet because I've been dealing with the Chancellor. | ||
| He's a very good man to deal with. | ||
| He's difficult, I would say. | ||
| Can I say that? | ||
| It's a positive. | ||
| You wouldn't want me to say you're easy, right? | ||
| He's a very great representative of Germany. | ||
| All we want is just going to have a good relationship. | ||
| The rest will just sort of follow very easily. | ||
| We'll have a good trade deal. | ||
| I mean, I guess that will be mostly determined by the European Union, but you're a very big part of that, so you'll be involved. | ||
| But we'll end up hopefully with a trade deal, or we'll do something. | ||
| You know, we'll do the tariffs. | ||
| I mean, I'm okay with the tariffs, or we make a deal with the trade, and I guess that's what we're discussing now. | ||
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Mr. President, please go ahead. | |
| Mr. President, no, no, thank you. | ||
| Is Germany doing enough on defense? | ||
| What? | ||
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Defense spending. | |
| Is Germany doing enough on defense spending? | ||
| The Chancellor wants to spend 3.5. | ||
| Well, I don't know. | ||
| I mean, I haven't discussed it very much. | ||
| I know that you're spending more money on defense now. | ||
| And quite a bit more money. | ||
| That's a positive. | ||
| I'm not sure that General MacArthur would have said it's positive. | ||
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He wouldn't like it, but I sort of think it's good. | |
| You understand what I mean by that? | ||
| He made a statement, never let Germany rearm. | ||
| And I said, I always think about that when he says, sir, we're spending more money on defense. | ||
| I say, oh, is that a good thing or a bad thing? | ||
| I think it's a good thing. | ||
| But, you know, at least to a certain point. | ||
| There'll be a point when I'll say, please don't arm anymore if you don't mind. | ||
| We'll be watching him. | ||
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Mr. President. | |
| Mr. President. | ||
| Mr. President, is that Biden, Mr. President? | ||
| Yeah, Biden. | ||
| You said Biden. | ||
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Mr. President. | |
| Well, look, the auto pen, I think, is the big scandal outside of the rigged election of 2020. | ||
| I think the biggest scandal of the last many years is the auto pen. | ||
| And who's using it? | ||
| I happen to think I know, okay, because I'm here. | ||
| And I'm not a big auto pen person, fortunately. | ||
| I'm glad. | ||
| I'm very glad. | ||
| It's an easy way out. | ||
| But it's a very bad thing, very dangerous. | ||
| You know, I sign important documents. | ||
| Usually when they put documents in front of you, they're important. | ||
| Even if you're signing ambassadorships or anything, I consider that important. | ||
| I think it's inappropriate. | ||
| You have somebody that's devoting four years of their life or more. | ||
| To being an ambassador, I think you really deserve, that person deserves to get a real signature, not an AutoPen signature. | ||
| And I can tell AutoPen easily. | ||
| I can look at it like two little pinholes from pulling the paper, right? | ||
| You always see the pinholes. | ||
| It's real easy to tell about AutoPen. | ||
| I think it's very disrespectful to people when they get an AutoPen. | ||
| Autopens to me are used when thousands of letters come in from young people all over the country and you want to get them back. | ||
| And, you know, people use Autopens for that. | ||
| To send a little signature at the bottom of a letter, we have thousands of them. | ||
| We get thousands of letters a week. | ||
| And it's not possible to, you know, I'd like to do it myself. | ||
| You can't do it. | ||
| To me, that's where auto pens start and stop. | ||
| But I don't think... | ||
| Look, he was never for open borders. | ||
| He was never for transgender for everybody. | ||
| He was never for men playing in women's sports. | ||
| I mean, he changed all of these things that changed so radically. | ||
| I don't think he had any idea that what was... | ||
| He didn't have much of an idea what was going on. | ||
| He shouldn't be. | ||
| I mean, essentially, whoever used the auto pen was the president. | ||
| And that is wrong. | ||
| It's illegal. | ||
| It's so bad. | ||
| And it's so disrespectful to our country. | ||
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Mr. President. | |
| Mr. President, will you meet the troops in Germany? | ||
| And if I may ask a question to the Chancellor to answer in Germany for the German audience, how is your first encounter vision? | ||
| The answer is yes. | ||
| We'll talk about that. | ||
| But if they'd like to have them there, yeah. | ||
| We have a lot of them, about 45,000. | ||
| That's a lot of troops. | ||
| It's a city, when you think about it. | ||
| That's good economic development. | ||
| They're highly paid troops, and they spend a lot of money in Germany. | ||
| But the relationship with Germany is very important. | ||
| Yeah, we'll be doing that. | ||
| No problem. | ||
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May I say a few words in Trump? | |
| Yes, please. | ||
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Thank you for the question. | |
| We are here in the White House and I thank you for the very friendly opportunity in this world-wide famous room. | ||
| I'm very happy to be here. | ||
| Mr. President, do you speak English because you speak such good English? | ||
| Is it as good as your German, would you say? | ||
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No, it's not my mother tongue, but I try to understand almost everything and to speak as good as I can. | |
| Very good. | ||
| You know, it's an achievement, actually. | ||
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
| The criticism that I've seen, and I'm sure you've seen, regarding Elon Musk and your big, beautiful bill, what's your reaction to that? | ||
| Do you think it in any way hurts passage in the Senate? | ||
| Of course, what is your seeking? | ||
| Well, look, you know, I've always liked Elon, and I was very surprised. | ||
| You saw the words he had for me, the words. | ||
| And he hasn't said anything about me that's bad. |
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