Sept. 8, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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As the President uh arrives, and I believe the uh Secret Service wish you to keep your seats. | |
| I believe that's the uh So just kind of sit there and we'll uh advise you very shortly. | ||
| So we'll take a brief break, gentlemen. | ||
| The war room. | ||
| It's Monday, uh September, eight September in the year of our Lord 2025. | ||
| Uh, President Trump is about to arrive at the Museum of the Bible to address the Religious Liberty Commission. | ||
| Uh you just heard Cardinal Dolan speak. | ||
| They're taking a short break while the Secret Service checks the room out in uh and the President takes the stage. | ||
| We've got a very special guest. | ||
| We were gonna open with this morning, but he got big footed by the President. | ||
| We'll get a little bit of it in. | ||
| Let's go ahead and play. | ||
| We've got a cold open and then live from the White House, Dr. Peter Navarro. | ||
| Let's go ahead and let it rip. | ||
| Look at the pictures that dominated this week's world news. | ||
| The vivid illustrations of the failure of Donald Trump's foreign policy. | ||
| The images that captured most attention were of China's massive military parade and of Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un striding together. | ||
| Those were to be expected. | ||
| A reminder that the West faces a determined set of adversaries who see it as their mission to destroy the Western-led international order. | ||
| What was surprising were the images from the days before, when the Shanghai Corporation Organization hosted leaders from India, Turkey, Vietnam, and Egypt, among others. | ||
| All these regional powers were generally considered closer to Washington than Beijing. | ||
| But a toxic combination of tariffs, hostile rhetoric, and ideological demands is moving many of the world's pivotal states away from America and towards China. | ||
| It may be the greatest own goal in modern foreign policy. | ||
| These are powers that have very different ideologies. | ||
| Nationalist, communist, theocratic in the case of Iran, which is sometimes part of this group. | ||
| What unites them is their dislike of us. | ||
| And by us I mean the democratic world, the language of rule of law, the language of transparency, the language of accountability. | ||
| Because of course that's the language of their own internal oppositions. | ||
| And China and Russia in particular, but the rest as well, have been working for many years to delegitimize that language, to get the idea of human rights, for example, out of international documents, international institutions, and instead promote an idea that using the word sovereignty, | ||
| which by the way is a word that the Trump administration also uses, by which they mean you can't no one can criticize us and and we we get to decide what happens inside our own countries, and also if we feel like invading other countries, nobody can object. | ||
| The White House says it will advance a five billion dollar pocket rescission. | ||
| It's a legally dubious attempt to claw back money that Congress has previously approved. | ||
| A pocket rescission is a rarely used maneuver. | ||
| Normally, if the president wants to rescind some funding, he can ask Congress to review it and authorize the change. | ||
| Congress typically has 45 days to consider it. | ||
| But a pocket precision attempts to bypass that by introducing the matter so late into the process that Congress doesn't have enough time to weigh in. | ||
| The fiscal year ends at the end of this month, 23 days away. | ||
| If the White House moves forward with that, is it essentially amounts to an authorit authoritarian attempt to strip away Congress's explicit power of funding the government, the power of the purse. | ||
| That's why it's more important than ever for Democrats to play hardball, to fight fire with fire. | ||
| And some are suggesting that that means being prepared to shut down the government rather than funding it on Donald Trump's terms. | ||
| Monday, 8th September, year of alert 2025, right there. | ||
| You heard a huge fight. | ||
| I'll give you some more information about that as the show progresses about the two alternatives or the two basic alternatives, but uh pocket rescissions. | ||
| In fact, the uh Trump administration just announced the Washington Post picked it up. | ||
| They're throwing down for a huge fight, continual fight on foreign aid doing pocket rescissions, rescissions, and and all else. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Uh we're gonna go live to the president as soon as he takes the stage at the Religious Liberties Commission. | ||
| This was just announced that he was gonna attend last night. | ||
| They've been working on it for a while, I think Vince Haley and the team over there, pretty good speech lined up. | ||
| Let's go to Dr. Peter Navarro. | ||
| Uh Doc, we were gonna spend the morning part of the morning with you. | ||
| Looks like you're you're getting big footed by your boss, but that's that's okay. | ||
| Um talk to me about where you you cut away till to the president when I'm here I mean I'm shocked hold it hold it hold it I am gonna tell the president later I'm gonna tell I'm gonna tell the president later in the day actually Navarra gets better ratings but we always cut to him and I'll see how that sets with him. | ||
| Peter you should do that I think you take away your red line there you have a red phone in there don't you when when there's a crisis they call Bannon is that how that works no no no no by the way you don't I want it for the record I wonder for media matters Navarro's Navarre gets high ratings here but nobody outrates the president. | ||
| Peter, I want to talk about the trade deals, your tariffs, because we saw today Semaphore has a lead story by Ben Smith and the team over there talking about the conference call that the BRICS nations had, the Zoom call they had the day after the parade. | ||
| So you had the Shanghai Cooperation Agreement for two days. | ||
| Then you had the military parade. | ||
| The next day, the BRICS nations got on the phone. | ||
| And it just wasn't talking about. | ||
| It was deeper than even taking on the USD. | ||
| dollar which they're doing with these bilat deals to try to hide the de-dollarization this is one of the reasons gold's blown through 3600 earlier in the morning uh but this is really where they talked about uniting to fight Dr. Navarro and and President Trump's uh terrace of which they called blatant protectionism your response sir let's see how this is gonna work out let's see like okay Russia getting into bed with China um China claims uh they own Vladivostok | ||
| the Russian port. | ||
| And they're already through massive illegal immigration into Siberia, basically colonizing Siberia, which is the biggest landmass of the Russian semi-empire. | ||
| So good luck with that, Putin. | ||
| And then India, of course, has been at war with China for decades. | ||
| And I just remembered, yeah, it was China that gave Pakistan a nuclear bomb. | ||
| You got ships flying around the Indian Ocean now with Chinese flags. | ||
| Modi, see how you kind of work that out. | ||
| I mean, rather, the Brazil economy is going down the tubes because of Lula's socialist policies. | ||
| Well, they keep the real leader of that country in a cell. | ||
| So let's see what happens. | ||
| But the bottom line is none of these countries can survive if they don't sell to the United States. | ||
| And when they sell to the United States, their exports, They're like vampires sucking our blood dry with their unfair trade practices. | ||
| So, look, let's see what happens. | ||
| But I don't see how the BRIC alliance stays together since historically they all hate each other and kill each other. | ||
| Look, there's pretty powerful economics that President Trump and yourself have laid out when you're talking to these partners. | ||
| We hear the BRICS nations, we hear that they're trying to unify against us. | ||
| But correct me if I'm wrong, you're still an active – they've either gotten a letter and laid out what the terms are. | ||
| And this is what we're implementing. | ||
| Or you're in active still discussions with India and others to pull deals together. | ||
| Are we correcting that? | ||
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Yeah, let's run them down. | |
| We got 50 percent plus tariffs on China and there's discussions ongoing. | ||
| But the reality with China is, first and foremost, they continue not only to kill us with fentanyl, but there's this new drug, adnitidine, that's like eight times more deadly than fentanyl that's coming at us. | ||
| So that's going on. | ||
| of course India they have the high I call them the Maharaja tariffs the Indian government takes offense to that but it's absolutely true they have the highest tariffs of any major country in the world against the United States. | ||
| We got to deal with that and then um this is you know buying Russian oil I Steve look they never bought Russian oil before Russia invaded Ukraine except for like little tiny drops of it and then they go into this mode of it profiteering with Indian uh with Russian refiners coming on to India soil and uh the profiteering so taxpayers here wind up having to send more money over there. | ||
| So um a lot of things going on the The good news here is like look at all the things we've done. | ||
| Great deal with the European Union, great deal with Japan, Korea, Philippines, Indonesia, all these countries are working very closely with us because one, they realize that they've been taking too much advantage of us, and two, they need our markets. | ||
| And uh I'm I think India must come around at some point. | ||
| Uh and if it doesn't, it's laying down uh with Russia and China, and that that that won't end well for India. | ||
| I don't want to get you ahead of the president on this, but you know, this is my favorite, the the the Financial Times of last week, which she said they're the China's their rise is an unstoppable power, and they had Putin and Kim on the uh on the podium. | ||
| It's interesting they did not have Modi, he opted out of that. | ||
| But uh a question comes up. | ||
| You you you guys have been particularly focused on. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| Why is it interesting? | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| I just I agree with you. | ||
| Modi not there, that's very interesting. | ||
| Go ahead, Sam. | ||
| Well, it it so you've been at the tip of the spear, not just uh in the working negotiations over there, but calling out India on secondary sanctions uh for taking Russian oil. | ||
| Correct me if I'm wrong. | ||
| You don't have the rise of China. | ||
| And I understand you and President Trump and and Besson and and others are trying to work at a very complicated deal with China, but I just look around the world and I see that they're they're buying they're buying their 100% energy source from three parties. | ||
| Uh Russia, which they should be sanctioned if we're going to sanction India, uh the Mulas in Persia, which we've already, I think technically sanctioned that, and I don't know why we're allowing oil to come out of the the Straits of Hormuz to China, uh, | ||
| both on on care on cargo ships we know or old tankers we see, plus black market, then we have an amphibious battle group, the Iwo Jima battle group with 4,000 uh Marines down there on a on an expeditionary force off of Venezuela, of which I believe China has also taken oil from Venezuela, which I think we kind of sanctioned that too. | ||
| Isn't isn't there a logic here that if we just implement the sanctions that I think we've talked about on Russia, the Moolas and Persia and Madara and Venezuela, that the Chinese Communist Party essentially has zero energy, and then you can bring them to the table a little bit easier, sir. | ||
| Look, uh, we're we're walking uh a fine line here with all this. | ||
| Uh I think that that what's gotta happen is India's gotta stop buying Russian oil. | ||
| That's gonna be good for the whole peace. | ||
| Uh the road to peace partly runs through New Delhi. | ||
| Europe certainly has to stop buying Russian oil and dealing with Iran and Venezuela. | ||
| I that's gotta happen. | ||
| I mean, look, with China, we got over 50% tariff uh on them, and we're doing the best we can in terms of negotiating to protect the American people without hurting the American people, and that's that's the that's the kabuki and and the art of diplomacy that we've got going on. | ||
| You just got to trust in Trump. | ||
| I mean, look at where we've come, Steve. | ||
| Okay, I just I mean, the difference between this administration and and uh 45. | ||
| I mean, I was this building here, I I had to fight everybody in this place to advance the president's agenda on trade. | ||
| Everybody now is pulling in the same direction, and what's happening here is it's gonna be for the history book, Steve. | ||
| This is a fundamental restructuring of the international trade environment in ways you can't even imagine uh could have happened. | ||
| And President Trump's pulling it off. | ||
| Yeah, I gave this speech the other day though to national conservatism, and I was talking about the troll is showing you and I talk about a lot that uh with with the Chinese Communist Party, particularly this was not a you know, President Trump said, hey, if you're gonna do a conspiracy, in fact, the headline says Trump sees anti-U.S. | ||
| conspiracy. | ||
| I said, I think this is more of a flex. | ||
| This is more up in your grill. | ||
| And we know, Peter, that uh you and Bob Lightheiser worked for two years, two years on a deal uh that President Trump was the master architect of for two years. | ||
| You guys negotiated with Lee Hu. | ||
| He did it with uh with uh she. | ||
| In May of 2019, after they agreed to the deal, right? | ||
| When they thought they had one belt, one road going. | ||
| In fact, it was at the same Shanghai cooperation agreement. | ||
| This is when they were really rolling out one belt, one road, and Putin was there, they tore the deal up and spit in our face. | ||
| I mean, can you the the it it just seems we're on a path with these guys that at some point in time, you know, we're the hard decouple uh group here, and I understand President Trump can't do that, you can't do that because you're trying to, you know, manage a world economy. | ||
| But do you believe or does the White House believe the senior people around President Trump that we can trust these guys? | ||
| Because now they feel they're on a roll, sir. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No, we no, look, uh, and and uh I am always here as long as I will be here to remind everybody about the history you've just gone through. | ||
| I mean, the problem is that you can negotiate and then they'll cancel a deal at the last minute. | ||
| That's one of the techniques. | ||
| So that was the first big trade deal. | ||
| Uh I worked with uh with Bob, and then once we got the skinny deal uh in January of 2020, you know, they come here um and they knew when they were sitting in the in the East Wing that the virus was about to descend on the world, you know, they they didn't tell us that. | ||
| Um they they took that deal and they basically didn't follow through on it, right? | ||
| And then, you know, we've had some issues with the whole rare earth deal where some letter versus spirit of the agreement and things like that. | ||
| There's like uh nobody can trust the communist Chinese. | ||
| I mean that's that's what they do, and they always like say, well, that's not what we went what we meant or whatever. | ||
| So I I guess my point here, Steve, is uh can you trust the Chinese communist? | ||
| No. | ||
| Full stop. | ||
| So it's gonna be trust and verify squared. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The um if you know the math term. | ||
| I want to no, I want to go back though for a second to because it's it's beyond trust. | ||
| And President Trump's as hard and toughen negotiation yet. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| But you go back to 2019. | ||
| 2019, I remember we used to have you on the show, and uh, and you would say you go on, you know, on on at CNBC and Squawk and everything on the 2019 deal. | ||
| Two people should understand. | ||
| What happened is that Peter and I stepped back in 17 and led Gary Cohen and the Commerce Department, Wilbur Ross, they they they wanted to do their thing after the Mar-Lago, after the Mar-a-Lago meeting, and of course it was an epic fail because it basically gave everything to the Chinese, and President Trump says, We're not doing that. | ||
| That was in June, July of 2017. | ||
| He says, No, no, no, we're not gonna do that. | ||
| He depuzed Leitheiser Navarro to work under him directly for two years, two years, and and made a deal that integrated the Chinese economy, the Chinese Communist Party into the global economy. | ||
| You had a great saying, it took care of the seven original sins of the Chinese Communist Party's, you know, not just counterfeiting, but state-owned industries, excess capacity dumping, all of it. | ||
| It was all negotiated over two years with Lee Hu, who was one of the senior guys. | ||
| In tearing that up, don't they show that they have no interest in being part of an organized entity that is the world economy? | ||
| I mean, they criticize you and President Trump for being isolationist. | ||
| You're anything but, right? | ||
| We we we are America first and want American sovereignty, but these deals, the restructuring of this commercial relationships with the world, are to also benefit the world to make sure that their economies appropriately, right, can grow. | ||
| Um but doesn't this show that we're we're we're we're chasing our tails here a little bit because the Chinese Communist Party is not only can't you trust them, and President Trump will work out trust but verify, but at the end of the day, they have no interest in being part of a system uh that the Americans control, sir. | ||
| Ship A, I I think you're missing uh one of the big parts of the story. | ||
| Remember what when Bob and I were negotiating with the Chinese to get that big deal at the time, we had already imposed significant historic tariffs on China through Section 301. | ||
| And that was our leverage. | ||
| And fast forward now, it's the same situation. | ||
| We've got over 50 percent tariffs on the Chinese as talks of a trade deal are are being uh uh floated out there. | ||
| So uh what the point here should have made is that that Donald Trump puts these actions in place on behalf of the American public, and only then does he continue these negotiations. | ||
| So let's see what happens. | ||
| But look um great point. | ||
| Let's let's remember too, sir, that after they broke the deal, what happened next? | ||
| I it was something called the pandemic. | ||
| And I remember very clearly standing right right here on this ground, the Chinese telling us they were gonna bury us in a sea of virus if we dared. | ||
| And I was the only one who dared in this administration to say that that friggin' virus came from Wuhan Wang. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So what am I saying here? | ||
| That we got supply chain issues with the communist Chinese that we've got to deal with. | ||
| We've got big issues. | ||
| It's a negotiating them is not the same as negotiating with just about any other country. | ||
| Uh but we do not, of course, you know, trust but verify. | ||
| This it's the ray the Reagan years. | ||
| The fifth but but the 50% tariffs. | ||
| Put stuff in place. | ||
| Over yeah, yeah. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| The 50% tariffs are clearly having an impact. | ||
| You can tell that that's one of the reasons she's starting to squirm. | ||
| Uh when okay, so you you you've essentially given the world, President Trump's given the world two options. | ||
| Either uh if you want to get through the golden door to the golden market, you're gonna have to pay a tolling fee, right? | ||
| Or you can shift your production over here. | ||
| Now let the hun the Yundai situation, it appears, at least from local people we're hearing in Georgia and people going by TikTok, that that that the reason it was uh people started calling ice was local people, | ||
| and I think Christian groups were saying the 400 of the 475, 300, I think were Koreans, that they weren't paying them any money, they had no food, they couldn't go to any food bank or how anything because they were here illegally. | ||
| How do you and President Trump sort out the sort out the reality? | ||
| I mean, he went up on uh on true social and said, yo, when you come here, you're gonna have to uh you're gonna have to train local Americans. | ||
| How do you walk me through this Hyundai, because they're one of the most powerful companies in the world, the one of the dominant countries in Korea. | ||
| And and Mo and Grace are just over at the at the you know, the great uh conference put on by Mina Kim uh, you know, with the young Korean people about turning that thing around from the C CP controlled government they have. | ||
| So walk me through the hyenda situation. | ||
| Well, I think here's what we have to understand. | ||
| Uh this used to be the Chinese model. | ||
| I think it's more appropriate to call the Asian model. | ||
| It's like to evade tariffs. | ||
| What these countries are doing is they're they're coming over to this country and other countries uh where they can trans ship from, and they bring their equipment locked, stock and barrel, they bring their management locked stock and barrel, and in this case, for example, uh they brought their own employees from their own country and it's exploited them. | ||
| So I think what's what's see we're we're in the wet west, we're sometimes Steve, we're just so friggin' naive, right? | ||
| And so going forward, as we welcome all these trillions of dollars of investment, I think uh there has to be some awareness that, hey, if they're gonna come over and invest over here, they're gonna use American workers and the American supply chain here. | ||
| You just can't set up a factory here and become like an assembly line using using cheap American labor. | ||
| You gotta have good jobs for Americans. | ||
| I mean, it's like the reason why why we have uh tariffs now on European autos is because they were turning South Carolina into a low-wage sweatshop assembly plant for Mercedes Benz. | ||
| I mean, there was like one model they sent over, it had 99% of all the content of the car was Sherman or Hungarian. | ||
| Uh and no, it's like, but the sheriff's in town, his name's Donald John Trump. | ||
| He's right about over there, although he's out and about now at that conference you're about to televise. | ||
| And um, I just want to assure everybody in the war room, we we know what uh people are doing out there, uh whether it's China or other trading partners. | ||
| We're not gonna let them get away with it, and uh the American worker in particular um is gonna see their wages go up and their job prospects expand. | ||
| No, the uh the employment numbers for NATO-born Americans is just enormous. | ||
| By the way, uh what Dr. Navarro is talking about. | ||
| We're gonna go live momentarily when uh president takes the stand, uh takes the uh takes the stage over at the religious liberties uh commission uh conference. | ||
| He's gonna say a few words so they can give some remarks. | ||
| Peter, uh, you know, they're all over the president has uh has um deputized or or or uh militarized the National Guard and and had him in DC to clean up this mess. | ||
| I was telling people in the Saturday show, I was with some folks, I think on Friday, in Georgetown uh at a dinner, who are uh I would say not Trump fans, and to a person, they were talking about how much safer uh the city was, how much safer Georgetown is, how much safer everything is what President Trump has. | ||
| I mean, they were singing as high Hosanna's, although not one of them would come out publicly and say that. | ||
| The Atlantic magazine, and and all the, you know, morning Joe and everybody's the authoritarianism, he's going to Chicago, he's going to New York, going to LA, the authoritarianism. | ||
| The Atlantic magazine is taking a different approach, but along the same lines. | ||
| They're calling what uh President Trump and and you and the team and Scott and the team over uh at the White House and Treasury are doing is Peronism. | ||
| That offense is basically you've got strongman economics. | ||
| When President Trump's picks the winners and losers, he takes a stake in Intel, he's gonna take stakes in more companies. | ||
| He he he every day gets up and puts a different tariff on somebody if they tick him off. | ||
| What what is your response to this? | ||
| Because I can see a very sophisticated and you and you hear it on Squawk Box, you you hear it uh on on uh on Bloomberg TV, you hear it all the time that they're now their line of attack here is gonna be this authoritarian economy uh based upon Peronism, where you have a strong man that just makes decisions, sir. | ||
| Well, let's let's talk about economics and let's talk about uh law and order. | ||
| Let's start with the law and order first. | ||
| I mean here in DC, uh what people have to understand is that uh years ago there was a significant crime rate, but it was isolated to certain neighborhoods. | ||
| Um and shame on the government of the District of Columbia for essentially letting black neighborhoods uh become just just shooting galleries, okay. | ||
| What's happened, uh particularly in since the post-pandemic and the flood of illegal aliens is the crime's everywhere. | ||
| It's it's in the subways, it's in the squares. | ||
| It's just like you just can't walk down the street without fear and free to life. | ||
| That's a real thing that doesn't show up in the statistics. | ||
| And it's been absolutely gorgeous having the National Guard here. | ||
| I mean, it they literally has turned everything around and people feel safe again. | ||
| And you can't really have a thriving functioning urban environment if people are afraid to go out and and do things. | ||
| It just doesn't work. | ||
| So if the left wants to call lat something bad, I I I encourage them to keep doing it because they're gonna get their friggin' ass kicked at the polls by people who understand the difference between violence and safety. | ||
| So have at it, Atlantic. | ||
| Have at it, morning show, have at it whoever you want. | ||
| It's like people want to be safe in their homes and on the streets and in their cars and not have to worry about their loved ones going out when they're home, and that's what DC um is like now, and it wasn't. | ||
| And and I think what the strong man Donald Trump shows, you can flip that on a dime. | ||
| All it takes is will and some National Guard or police. | ||
| Okay, now with respect to the economics, the Peron thing's kind of interesting, Steve. | ||
| I mean, you're a student of history. | ||
| Perune, Uh the first time in, which was a long time, he was in from 40, 1946 to 55, post-war, when countries were were uh getting getting like off the ground, haven't been knocked down. | ||
| And he instituted uh a regime of tariffs that was actually quite effective, Steve. | ||
| It brought back a lot of their domestic industries and workers who were Perone's main base, saw their real wages increase significantly. | ||
| It was a very successful policy, but Peron made one big mistake when he was doing that. | ||
| In addition to the tariffs, he uh aggressively taxed the exports of agriculture. | ||
| And that was that was uh that was a disaster. | ||
| Um so he just and now the the other thing to obviously say is that when you think about a country tariffing, small countries dependent on the rest of the world to export cannot do that. | ||
| They don't have the power and it shows up in things like elastic season supply and demand. | ||
| It's a stupid strategy. | ||
| Argentina is not the United States. | ||
| On the other hand, there's very good economic theory and practice that shows that the largest market in the world, the United States, actually benefits greatly by having tariffs. | ||
| There's a whole literature on optimal tariffs for dominant countries and dominant economies. | ||
| And that's why every other country in the world that we're negotiating with will negotiate with us. | ||
| I mean, if Denmark tried the same thing that Donald Trump is doing for the United States, people would laugh at Denmark. | ||
| They're not laughing at Donald John Trump. | ||
| They're working with Donald John Trump. | ||
| And uh it's just, I mean, it's a fundamental restructuring of uh a trade system that has been killing us uh since the end of World War II. | ||
| We liberated the world at the end of World War II, and they stole our economy. | ||
| It just uh you can't make that up. | ||
| Uh Dr. Navarro, the president's gonna start a momentarily. | ||
| I want to talk about uh you and I are gonna spend a lot of time this week in the run-up uh to uh very special event. | ||
| Uh we're gonna be there Friday, but uh on Saturday, uh you're gonna join us. | ||
| Uh talk to us about this event coming up uh in the importance of it and the importance of your book. | ||
| Well, the the book is called I Went to Prison So You Won't Have To. | ||
| I really encourage the posse to go to Amazon uh after the show and buy that book, but get it for yourself, get it for a friend. | ||
| It basically documents uh the kind of lawfare and weaponization of the justice system, what it's like to be uh a prisoner of conscience inside of jail. | ||
| And Steve, you and I went through that personally. | ||
| You and I went to prison because the person who occupied this White House before Donald John Trump came right at us. | ||
| And one of the messages of I went to prison so you won't have to, uh, is that if they can come for Steve Bannon, they can come for Peter Navarro, if they can come for Donald Trump, they can come for all of us, Steve. | ||
| All of us. | ||
| And so we have to fight back. | ||
| So you and I are gonna get on stage um at this great venue in Long Island uh for an hour on Saturday the 13th, who look at us as the pregame to the college football schedule that afternoon. | ||
| Um we're gonna we're gonna box it around. | ||
| We're gonna debate who had the uh the tougher time in prison. | ||
| I'm gonna knock you out on that. | ||
| And uh it's uh but but yeah, if look, Posse, if you want to know what it's like to have to go to prison for a misdemeanor defending the Constitution, I went to prison so you won't have to. | ||
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Hold it. | |
| I went to hang on. | ||
| I went to a tougher, I went to a I went to a prison. | ||
| You went to a club Fed, hang on, hang on. | ||
| But you had a tougher time because they picked on you. | ||
| You're an older man. | ||
| No, real quickly, you're all over the news this morning about you're all you're all over the news about your continuing to fight for constitutional. | ||
| The reason we went to prison was constitutional principles, right? | ||
| We weren't gonna back down. | ||
| We just said this thing's totally illegitimate. | ||
| Just get the d people, it's a little confusing because the Justice Department has kind of like dropped the charges, right, and are not going to pursue it as you appeal and go up to the Supreme Court. | ||
| So if they're not pursuing it, what are you arguing for now? | ||
| Is this is this is Navarre being honored, or is this is there some logic here? | ||
| So uh I went to prison so you won't have to. | ||
| I could have just said I went to prison so future senior White House advisors will not have to go to prison. | ||
| And what I'm fighting for on appeal, there's no reason for me to continue the appeal in a case uh for personal reasons, because I did my time, but I'm doing it for the Constitution. | ||
| It's like if I lose my appeal, then every senior advisor, regardless of party going forward, will face the same choice I did. | ||
| It's a Hobson's choice. | ||
| You either defend executive privilege and constitutional separation of powers and wind up going to prison, or you bend your knee to a partisan Congress. | ||
| I chose uh that the what what honor and duty required me to do. | ||
| Now, what's going on here? | ||
| This is really interesting, Steve. | ||
| Department of Justice, like they were adamant not only about prosecuting me, but here's the important point, Vince. | ||
| They argued against both you and me that we had to go to prison, serve time, even as our appeal was going on. | ||
| We we couldn't be released pending appeal. | ||
| And they argued that because there were no quote substantial constitutional issues in the case. | ||
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Well, of course there were. | |
| There's big issues about executive privilege, constitutional separation of powers. | ||
| And I'm taking it there. | ||
| Now the Justice Department withdrew their brief, which is a tacit admission that of course there's substantial issues, but by law and by ethics, they damn well gotta say why they did it, Steve. | ||
| So that going forward on the appeal, the appeals court understands, the amicus which they want to be understands, and we have something to fight. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So I uh read John Solomon's article. | ||
| It's it's a gorgeous thing uh as to how they they they've done what they did. | ||
| But we're we're gonna hold uh their feet to the fire, we're gonna get to the bottom of this, and and we're gonna do it for this country and the Constitution. | ||
| Um Peter, where do people, Dr. Navarro, where do people go to find out all of your uh analysis, all the clips you do from all the media you do? | ||
| Uh uh the war will push the book. | ||
| The book's gonna be a huge bestseller because it gives you an inside baseball account of the struggle uh when President Trump was out of office to make sure that he was properly defended and not crushed by Lisa Monaco, now the uh head of Microsoft's uh legal department. | ||
| Uh maybe the guys putting together the tech dinner should have thought of that before, putting Bill Gates next to the president. | ||
| Dr. Navarro, where do people go on your social media, sir? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Uh subset Peter Navarro.substack.com, Peter Navarro.subzack.com. | ||
| What's what's interesting there is I put everything up in terms of the things that are going on at the White House, so that's a really good way to stay abreast of that. | ||
| Um and then um usual uh ex getter uh true social and Instagram. | ||
| The ex is uh real Pete Navarro as his getter, and then Peter Navarro at uh true social. | ||
| But uh we gotta we got a lot of fights on our hands and uh and Steve, I the war room does does the leading edge in terms of making this fight. | ||
| Now we we appreciate you being there. | ||
| I'm still gonna kick your ass on the September 13. | ||
| No hope bar. | ||
| I'm gonna explain to everybody out there why having to sleep in a dorm with 40 guys is a lot more dangerous than having a bunky in a little cell where you were hiding out. | ||
| And we'll have that kind of argument. | ||
| But the book itself, well, I went to prison so you won't have to. | ||
| It's funny, it's it's but it's it's it's got a hard edge, too, brother, and I'm gonna hit you with it. | ||
| I'm gonna ask you, buddy. | ||
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It's it it it's it's also it's also uh uh uh I don't want to give up too much. | |
| It's also an amazing love story, believe it or not, with Dr. Navarre, it's amazing love stories of one of my favorite people who wrote Bobby. | ||
| I know you're watching. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Anyway, sir, thank you. | ||
| Thank you, brother. | ||
| Dr. Peter Navarro, what a way to start off the week. | ||
| My brother, we'll we'll talk again with you on the 13th, and uh no boxing gloves, we're going bare knuckle, buddy. | ||
| Okay, sir, thank you. | ||
| God, Navarro works out every day. | ||
| You've seen those TikToks of him pumping and lifting and riding that bike around. | ||
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Um Gold. | |
| Gold's blown through 3600. | ||
| I put up an article today from uh from another source, not Birch Gold. | ||
| In fact, I think it was uh the Financial Times. | ||
| I haven't gotten the Financial Times article up yet. | ||
| Another one, gold's at 3672, I think. | ||
| Um up 18, 20 bucks a day. | ||
| Uh that BRICS Nation, what the BRICS are doing on protectionism. | ||
| They're also here's what we as the Birchgold guys, because we sent a team down to Rio, and I was really proud of the fact that's one of the reasons we love the um the partnership we have with them is to um they sent Philip Patrick and the team down, and they reported exactly what was going on. | ||
| The de-dollarization effort is massive, but they're hiding it under these bilateral trade deals. | ||
| That's one of the things you saw yesterday about the protectionism. | ||
| The BRICS are trying to become a real anti-American force, an anti-American government. | ||
| By the way, we know that I think they're doing mic checks right now over at the Museum of the Bible. | ||
| Here comes the president right now. | ||
| Let's cut live to the Museum of the Bible, President Trump and the Religious Liberties Commission. | ||
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Go live. | |
| Well, thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| I said we'll have to cut Lee Greenwood a little bit short. | ||
| How good is he? | ||
| How good is he, right? | ||
| He's been with us right from the beginning. | ||
| And I wanted to stand and listen to the entire song, but people would have said, look at the ego of that guy. | ||
| He just wouldn't stop. | ||
| He just stood there and listened to the applause. | ||
| But I appreciate it very much. | ||
| And I want to thank you for uh doing an incredible job, Pam Bondi, the attorney general has been unbelievable. | ||
| Incredible job. | ||
| And thank you to all of the faith leaders, pastors, and patriots who have come to the Museum of the Bible for this historic meeting of the Presidential Commission on Religious Liberty. | ||
| These are incredible people. | ||
| And uh everybody wanted to be on this commission, and I made a couple of uh people unhappy, maybe even enemies for life. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| But they all wanted to be on the commission, but we picked the right ones, and uh they've done a really a profound, uh an amazing job. | ||
| But America was founded on faith, as we know, and I've been saying it for a long time, and when faith uh gets weaker, our country seems to get weaker. | ||
| When faith gets stronger as it is right now, we're having a very good period of time after some rough years. | ||
| Uh good things happen for our country. | ||
| It's amazing the way it seems to work that way. | ||
| And under the Trump administration, we're defending our rights and restoring our identity as a nation under God. | ||
| We are one nation under God, and we always will the need for this commission has never been more clear than it was last week when the ineffectual senator from Virginia, man named Tim Kane, stated that the notion, our rights come from our creator is quote, extremely troubling to him. | ||
| Very troubling, isn't it? | ||
| Troubling. | ||
| Isn't that terrible, though? | ||
| How we would say something like that and advocated really by uh totalitarian regime. | ||
| This is what they say. | ||
| But is everyone in this room understands it is tyrants who are denying our rights and the rights that come from God, and it's this declaration of independence that proclaims we're endowed by our creator with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. | ||
| The Senator from Virginia should be ashamed of himself. | ||
| For many things. | ||
| For many things. | ||
| For things even beyond that, but in its own way, nothing's more important than those words. | ||
| Terrible words. | ||
| As president, I will always defend our nation's glorious heritage, and we will protect the Judeo-Christian Principles of our founding, and we will protect them with vigor. | ||
| We have to bring back religion in America, bring it back stronger than ever before as our country grows stronger and stronger. | ||
| Our country is now the hottest nation anywhere in the world. | ||
| One year ago, our country was dead. | ||
| And I say it one year ago, our country was dead. | ||
| We had leaders from all over the world that talked to me, they say your country's in trouble. | ||
| And I just left the Middle East, King of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, a lot of the big countries. | ||
| Then I was with the heads of NATO, the NATO nations, all of them. | ||
| Everyone said essentially the same thing. | ||
| That a year ago your country was dead, and now you have the hottest country anywhere in the world. | ||
| It's true. | ||
| It's true in every way. | ||
| But to have a great nation, you have to have religion. | ||
| I believe that so strongly. | ||
| There has to be something after we go through all of this. | ||
| And that something is God. | ||
| We go through all of this for a reason. | ||
| It's not easy, Felipe. | ||
| But I want to thank the commission's chairman, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick. | ||
| He's been the chairman of my Texas campaign from day one. | ||
| He's been the chairman of my Texas campaign, and we went through six primaries, and we went through everything that we went through, and we won them all. | ||
| We won everything, including three elections. | ||
| Got the most votes in the history of Texas three times. | ||
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Can you believe that? | |
| That's pretty good. | ||
| I heard that the other day. | ||
| I said, I like that. | ||
| But I want to thank you, Dan. | ||
| You've done a great job and very instrumental in the creation of what we're doing today. | ||
| as well as a very special friend of mine, Dr. Ben Carson, so special that he's being honored. | ||
| He's being honored in a couple of weeks, and I was absolutely not here. | ||
| It was a very important mission for the country. | ||
| Because I usually take missions only for the country. | ||
| But uh, this was for the country, and I said, I can't do that one. | ||
| I'm gonna go back. | ||
| I'm gonna be with Ben Carson at Mount Vernon. | ||
| I believe it's going to be pretty good place, pretty good location, right, Ben? | ||
| But he's been my friend from the beginning. | ||
| Right from the beginning. | ||
| Uh shall I tell him the story about what you said to me, Ben? | ||
| The famous words. | ||
| He was a very tough opponent. | ||
| We were fighting it out, and we had actually 18 candidates, including me. | ||
| And Ben came up to me right after the first debate. | ||
| He said, Uh, you know you're gonna win, don't you? | ||
| And I said, No, I don't know that. | ||
| Think I'm gonna win, but I don't know it. | ||
| 18 people, and I had never done it before. | ||
| They had all done it, they were all governors and senators, talented people. | ||
| He said, no, you're going to win it because God wants you to win it. | ||
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Right? | |
| But that didn't stop him. | ||
| We went through. | ||
| I said, When is this guy gonna quit? | ||
| You know, he gave he gave me these words of beauty. | ||
| Then he goes for weeks and weeks, he was tough. | ||
| He was a tough one, but we love Ben. | ||
| Ben's special. | ||
| Oh, we appreciate it. | ||
| Thank you, Ben. | ||
| Thanks also to the commission members, including Secretary Scott Turner. | ||
| Pastor Paula White, who's been with me from the very beginning, right? | ||
| Pastor Franklin Graham, great, great chairman. | ||
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Great gentleman. | |
| Thank you, Fred. | ||
| A man I've watched for years on television, but you're not supposed to admit it. | ||
| You know, it's like with me. | ||
| People don't like to admit it, but we all watch Phil McGraw, Dr. Phil, Dr. Phil. | ||
| Thank you, Phil. | ||
| Great guy. | ||
| He came out early for me. | ||
| He did a uh a piece on me before the election that was different than any interview I've ever done. | ||
| He asked me the most personal questions. | ||
| I said, This guy's really getting personal. | ||
| But everybody that saw it loved it, so thank you. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Uh, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, highly respected man. | ||
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Great. | |
| And come from New York. | ||
| He was in his own right, the king. | ||
| He was uh great. | ||
| And we worked together in the first administration so much on going through that horrible epidemic that we went through. | ||
| A couple of epidemics we had to go through, a couple of really bad ones, but we worked together, and I helped. | ||
| I helped financially with your church and your schools, keeping your schools going, and it was an honor to do so. | ||
| Bishop Robert Barron. | ||
| Bishop. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
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Appreciate it. | |
| Great job you've done. | ||
| A man I watch on television a lot. | ||
| He doesn't believe it, and I do. | ||
| Eric attacks us. | ||
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Where is our Eric? | |
| I do watch. | ||
| He said, You really don't. | ||
| I said, I really do. | ||
| I say, you have to have more confidence in this. | ||
| Your show is excellent. | ||
| And he's a great guy. | ||
| And uh he wants me to call it the super centennial. | ||
| He said, super centennial. | ||
| And I think we're gonna do that. | ||
| Let's change it. | ||
| I really like that idea because we call it the 250 centennials, but it's really not. | ||
| It's really just below the try, right? | ||
| So we're gonna call it supercentennial then. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Let's do that. | ||
| Will you please make the changes? | ||
| All of my people that are all over the room, please make that change. | ||
| A wonderful person who I've known for a long time, Kelly Shackelford. | ||
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Kelly. | |
| Thank you very much. | ||
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Great job. | |
| Ryan Anderson. | ||
| Ryan, thank you. | ||
| Congratulations. | ||
| Carrie Bowler and Alison Ho. | ||
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Carrie. | |
| Two great people. | ||
| And we're also joined by the chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, Ralph Reed. | ||
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Ralph. | |
| You helped so much. | ||
| You know, Ralph, I think hit more doorbells than anybody else I know. | ||
| Millions and millions. | ||
| What was the number, Ralph? | ||
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Ten million. | |
| Ten million. | ||
| And and it's true. | ||
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You know, somebody else would say, well, was it really? | |
| And it was. | ||
| People are saying he was all over the place. | ||
| Thank you very much, Ralph. | ||
| I appreciate it. | ||
| We'll never forget it. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Let me also thank everyone at the Museum of the Bible, including Steve and Jackie Green. | ||
| The job they've done is just incredible. | ||
| It's uh, I want to say their entire families here. | ||
| I want to all hear it, but they founded this beautiful museum to honor the most widely read book in history, and the job they've done is amazing. | ||
| I asked, which museum does the best? | ||
| You know, I always like to find that out. | ||
| And numerous times they're saying to the museum of the Bible that more people come here than anyone else. | ||
| You probably won't read that in the newspapers or the media, but this is an amazing place, and it does tremendously well, so respected. | ||
| And they they built it up, and it was a labor of love. | ||
| Well, it's nice that he's rich as hell, too. | ||
| It always helps. | ||
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Where are you? | |
| Where are you guys? | ||
| Where are they? | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| They don't even get good location. | ||
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Okay. | |
| See, if I did the Museum of the Bible, it wouldn't be as successful, but I'd be sitting right here. | ||
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No, I'd be sitting up here. | |
| You've done a great job. | ||
| Everybody's talking about it. | ||
| It's uh I got a little involved with museums, you know, because I had a little problem with the Smithsonian. | ||
| We like like a little more positivity. | ||
| It was all about all the bad things in our country. | ||
| I said, what about the good things we've done? | ||
| So I got a little involved. | ||
| I got a little involved with that. | ||
| And they'll they're making honestly, they're making changes. | ||
| You know, they were also told what to do by people that came before me, in all fairness. | ||
| But they're making changes. | ||
| Big changes are being made at this Smithsonian. | ||
| But I just want to thank the Green family because what you've done here is incredible. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| For thousands of years, the Bible has shaped civilization, ethics, art, and literature, and it's brought hope, healing, and transformation to untold millions and millions of lives. | ||
| The Bible is also an important part of the American story. | ||
| That's why I'm delighted to announce it just moments ago. | ||
| I personally delivered the Trump family Bible given to me by my mother. | ||
| I remember the time she gave it to me. | ||
| But it was used in both my inaugurations and also uh display at the museum, and I guess it will now be displayed right in the heart of our nation's capital, right here, and that's an honor. | ||
| That's an honor. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| We're here this morning to discuss the grave threats to religious liberty in American schools, and you know what's going on. | ||
| We all know what's going on. | ||
| But I will tell you a lot of progress has been made in the last eight months. | ||
| Tremendous progress, more than I thought we could make in so many ways. | ||
| Not only that, the woke agenda is practically gone. | ||
| It's deep-seated. | ||
| We have to make sure it's out. | ||
| It's uh very bad. | ||
| It's like a weed. | ||
| You think you killed it, and then it starts growing again. | ||
| So we have to be careful. | ||
| But uh it's very, very different than it was. | ||
| You look at West Point, how proud they are of their heritage. | ||
| They did something this week, which I thought was appropriate. | ||
| Some of you know what that is. | ||
| Does anybody know what that is? | ||
| Yeah, I like it. | ||
| I like it. | ||
| Oh, look at who we have over here. | ||
| We have your associate, Pam, huh? | ||
| Leo 2.0. | ||
| Well, we have Leo here. | ||
| We have is he doing a good job, Pam? | ||
| It's great. | ||
| He's a DOJ. | ||
| He's a great man. | ||
| He's a great friend of mine for a long time. | ||
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President of all time. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| I'm glad I got to see him. | ||
| I would have been in big trouble, Pab, if I didn't say it. | ||
| Thank you, Leo, very much. | ||
| I appreciate it. | ||
| For most of our country's history, the Bible was found in every classroom in the nation. | ||
| Yet in many schools today, students are instead indoctrinated with anti-religious propaganda, and some are even punished for their religious beliefs and very, very strongly punished. | ||
| It's ridiculous. | ||
| Joining us this morning is Hannah Allen from Honey Grove, Texas. | ||
| A few years ago, Hannah organized a group of her classmates to pray for an injured peer. | ||
| The school principal declared that Hannah's generous act of love was prohibited from taking place in front of the other students. | ||
| Didn't like it. | ||
| The principal didn't like it, can you imagine? | ||
| But Hannah very strongly stood her ground and she won. | ||
| And Hannah, I just want to thank you for letting the light of your faith shine for all of those to see. | ||
| We really appreciate it. | ||
| And where is Hannah? | ||
| Is Hannah here someplace? | ||
| I think so. | ||
| Hannah, stand up, please. | ||
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Thank you very much. | |
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you, Hannah. | ||
| I know what you went through. | ||
| I know what you went through. | ||
| It's great. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
| To support students like Hannah, I'm pleased to announce this morning that the Department of Education will soon issue new guidance protecting the right to prayer in our public schools, and it's total protection. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you, Hannah. | ||
| Great job. | ||
| See what you did, Hannah? | ||
| Who knew? | ||
| Who knew that was going to happen, right? | ||
| Thank you, also with us is 12-year-old Shay Encinis from California. | ||
| Last year in fifth grade, Shay was forced to read a book to a kindergarten student promoting a message of radical gender ideology that is contrary to his religious beliefs and ours. | ||
| I'd like to uh have Shay come up and tell the story. | ||
| It's an amazing story. | ||
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shay please come up I love you. | |
| I like that hat. | ||
| Thank you again, Mr. President. | ||
| Hi, I'm Shane Seas. | ||
| I've been a Christian my whole life, and Jesus means everything to me. | ||
| When I was in fifth grade, my school forced me to teach my kindergarten buddy about changing his gender using a book called My Shadow is Pink. | ||
| The book said you can choose your gender based on feelings instead of how God made us. | ||
| I knew this was not right, but I was afraid of getting in trouble. | ||
| After my family spoke up, the school treated us badly, and kids started bullying me and my brother because of our faith. | ||
| And the school did nothing to stop it. | ||
| It hurt a lot, but I kept trusting God. | ||
| I believe kids like me should be able to live on faith at school without being forced to go against what we believe. | ||
| I hope no other family has to go through what mine did. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you, Shay. | ||
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Great job. | |
| I was delivered well, wasn't it? | ||
| On day one of my administration, I signed an executive order to slash federal funding for any school that pushes transgender insanity on our you. | ||
| We also banned the chemical and surgical mutilation of our children. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| We got men out of women's sports. | ||
| How tough was that? | ||
| But could you imagine, seriously? | ||
| I'm just thinking to myself, transgender for everybody, men playing in women's sports. | ||
| All of the different things we talk about, it's insane. | ||
| And uh if you were here 15, 20 years ago, and if somebody made a speech about transgender for everyone, I always say trans because for everyone. | ||
| Transgender, we have some states that actually can force it upon you without the parents' notification or approval. | ||
| It's not even believable. | ||
| But can you imagine uh men playing in women's sports? | ||
| So you're up 15 years ago, I guess, probably 10 years ago, but 15 years ago, and somebody said we will not allow men to play in women's sports. | ||
| People would look at the person and say, What's he talking about? | ||
| Is he crazy? | ||
| It happened. | ||
| And not only that, the Democrats don't want to give it up. | ||
| I watched the congressman fighting like crazy this weekend for men having the right to play in women's sports. | ||
| And they don't understand, but I don't want to really fight them on that. | ||
| I let them, I tell all the Republicans, let them go. | ||
| Let them go. | ||
| Just bring it up about a week before the election. | ||
| You don't want to talk about it, but they say it's an 80-20 issue. | ||
| I say it's I say, Dan, it's a 97 to 3 issue. | ||
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| And transgender is about the thing. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| It's sort of a crazy thing. | ||
| It's uh the world gone wrong, just the world gone wrong. | ||
| And I made the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders. | ||
| You're gonna hate this. | ||
| Male and female. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| And we got rid of a very sinister thing, the Johnson Amendment, so that pastors can speak the truth. | ||
| That's in their hearts. | ||
| You know, I'll tell you, I was in a boardroom early on. | ||
| Paula was there, a couple of people in the room were there, but we had about 50 pastors, some rabbis. | ||
| We had uh people from a few different religions, and I was just running. | ||
| I'd never done it before, so it was very early in the campaign. | ||
| It was in early 2016, and Trump Tower was 68 stories up in the air at a beautiful boardroom and places loaded up with these people, and they were all excited. | ||
| And then at the end I said, I'd love to have your support. | ||
| And the room went dead silent. | ||
| Do you remember? | ||
| It's like I said, what happened? | ||
| I know you like me. | ||
| What happened? | ||
| Well, uh, would like to talk to you about it later. | ||
| Anyway, I said, All right, but if we could leave and we'll have another meeting, maybe, but I would love to have your support. | ||
| And uh there was again no answer. | ||
| And I said, Well, we'll figure this out. | ||
| And I went to Paula and some of the others after. | ||
| And I said, Could I ask you? | ||
| I know when I'm doing well, when I'm doing poorly, and I was doing really well. | ||
| And then when I asked for support, it was like stone cold silence. | ||
| They said, We have something called the Johnson Amendment. | ||
| That if a pastor, minister, rabbi or imam, or anybody uh says anything about politics, you can lose your tax exempt status. | ||
| I said, You gotta be kidding. | ||
| So that's what happened. | ||
| And they were petrified of it. | ||
| Remember that? | ||
| Nobody wanted to talk about it. | ||
| They were absolutely uh, they became a different group of people. | ||
| And I pledged to them at the next meeting. | ||
| We had another meeting a couple of weeks later with a similar group of people. | ||
| I pledged to them that if I win, we're gonna get rid of the Johnson amendment. | ||
| This was Lyndon Johnson who had a tremendous fight with a minister from I believe it was Houston, Houston or Dallas, and uh they didn't like each other, and Lyndon Johnson was a very powerful president. | ||
| He had uh good power, good strength, good uh he uh ended up being very weakened by the position, but he had tremendous power, he was a big uh deal maker, and he got that done, which is pretty amazing that he could get that done. | ||
| Everybody fought him, but he got it done, he pushed it through, pushed it through Congress, where you lose your tax exempt status if you even utter a word about politics, and uh that was uh amazing when I heard that that I never heard of that before. | ||
| And I said, We're gonna get rid of it, and we got rid of it. | ||
| You have Scott, because you're the people we want to hear from. | ||
| We want to hear from you. | ||
| I don't want to hear from a lot of people. | ||
| I hear from too many people, but you're the people we respect. | ||
| Franklin is incredible. | ||
| All of the people that are up here, I want to hear from these people. | ||
| And uh they come from a different place than me. | ||
| I come from a business place where there's a lot of rough people, bad people, not really religious people. | ||
| There are some, but uh, you're the people that I want to hear from. | ||
| That's why we go to church on Sundays, or we go to wherever we are to to listen to people of faith. | ||
| And uh it was horrible. | ||
| I said, You mean when I heard that, and I said to the other people, that means that you should be the most powerful people on earth, in a sense, and yet you have less power. | ||
| And I pointed down to Fifth Avenue, which was 68 stories below, and I said, That means that anybody on Fifth Avenue in theory has more power than you do. | ||
| And that's not the way it's supposed to be. | ||
| It's supposed to be the opposite. | ||
| We have to give your voices back, and I've given you voices back, and that's one of the reasons that we see upticks now, I think, in religion. | ||
| So uh it's very important. | ||
| You remember that moment when I said, I'd love to have your support, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| And it was like dead silence. | ||
| I said, There's something going on, and we we figured it out, we did something about it, so thank you. | ||
| Thank you very much to Paula White, too. | ||
| But upon taking office, I also ended the weaponization of law enforcement against religious believers and pardoned the pro-life activists thrown in jail by Joe Biden for saying. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| You know, people don't realize about the Biden administration. | ||
| It was a very mean administration. | ||
| Uh he's a mean guy, actually, not a smart guy, never was, but he was a mean guy. | ||
| No, he was a mean guy, and he knew enough about what was going on. | ||
| He wasn't uh like some of the people that surrounded him on the resolute, the beautiful resolute desk in the Oval Office. | ||
| They were stone cold, mean. | ||
| Uh but Joe Biden and the Biden, they were mean people. | ||
| What they did to people, what they did to J6, what they did to so many people, they were mean people. | ||
| These were really radical, horrible people. | ||
| And he wasn't that way twenty years ago. | ||
| He was never the the brightest bulb in the ceiling. | ||
| But he was uh he was a man who uh wasn't overly mean that I saw, but boy, he became really mean, and his administration was one of the meanest we've ever had, and that's why they're out of here, and people they uh they're having a hard time getting jobs, and that's the way it should be, because they are they were bad. | ||
| They did tremendous disservice to this country, including allowing 25 million people into the from jails, from prisons, from mental institutions, drug dealers, all over the world, they were entered our country from jails. | ||
| Prison population of Venezuela was emptied out into our country, and that's what we're doing now. | ||
| I spent so much of our time, Tom Hallman and uh the people that have worked on this so hard. | ||
| You know, Christy Nohm, all of them. | ||
| They've worked on it so hard. | ||
| It's it's just it's like an unforced era. | ||
| And uh to allow people into our country who are truly there are evil people. | ||
| We're all people of religion, but there are evil people, and we have to confront that. | ||
| Uh I just give my love and hope to the family of the young woman who was stabbed this morning or last night in Charlotte by a madman, a lunatic, just got up and started, it's right on the tape. | ||
| It's not not really watchable because it's so horrible, but uh just viciously stabbed, she's just sitting there. | ||
| So they're evil people. | ||
| We have to be able to handle that. | ||
| If we don't handle that, we don't have a country. | ||
| and I created the first ever Department of Justice Task Force to eradicate anti-Christian bias. | ||
| And for those people that are a little bit naive or not well read, there is a tremendous anti-Christian bias. | ||
| We don't hear about it, we don't think about it. | ||
| You hear about anti-Semitic, but you don't hear about anti-Christian. | ||
| They have a strong anti-Christian bias, but we're ending that rapidly, I will tell you, it's a whole we're in a much different world today than we were one year ago. | ||
| This is like a different. | ||
| And to support parents' rights, we're fighting, as you know, for school choice, which most people want. | ||
| Most people want it. | ||
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I I'll tell you. | |
| Dan was responsible for getting it along with the governor of Texas. | ||
| Uh, they got it in Texas, and uh, we helped you a little bit. | ||
| They needed about 20 votes from the legislature. | ||
| He said, could you make a phone call to the whoever they were, the legislators who I like a lot. | ||
| But they were about 20 votes short, and they have been for about 10 years. | ||
| I said, All right, let's give it a shot. | ||
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So I gave a big talk to the who were they, uh senators or house members, but you also helped us defeat about 15 anti-school choice people. | |
| That's right. | ||
| We defeated a lot of anti-school choice, but anyway, he got it done. | ||
| So congratulations. | ||
| That was a big attack. | ||
| But as part of our tax cuts, we've created a massive tax credit for school choice scholarships so that you can send your child to a school that shares your values, and you get tax credits and all sorts of good things happening. | ||
| And uh I'm also taking action against anti-Semitic and anti-Christian bias in our institutions of higher learning. | ||
| You've been watching that play out. | ||
| They're making very substantial settlements. | ||
| And Leo's involved, and Pam Bondi's involved. | ||
| We've launched. | ||
| You know, we're getting hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements, Pam, and Leo called me up, sir. | ||
| You can do better than that. | ||
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I said, what am I gonna do? | |
| I'm gonna get one where he really likes it. | ||
| But he always said everyone else says, that's amazing. | ||
| Except for Leo. | ||
| He says, sir, you could have gotten more. | ||
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Oh, good. | |
| Thanks, Leo. | ||
| But we've launched sweeping civil rights and Title IX investigations into more than 60 colleges going on currently, and universities to stop their violations of civil liberties and First Amendment freedoms. | ||
| And you know, we're involved very much in Harvard. | ||
| That's one that people seem to be reading about more than others. | ||
| We have many going. | ||
| And uh, other than having a radical left judge, we have a very radical left judge, but you know, the appellate courts have been really good to us. | ||
| So you go before some of these judges, no matter how good a case you have, you can't win. | ||
| But we've uh we've had a lot of them, but we've done very well in the appellate at the appellate level. | ||
| And uh the case of Harvard, we have an absolute radical left judge, disgraceful. | ||
| I should not even be there. | ||
| But uh we have we're doing very well with Harvard, and we're doing very well with all of them. | ||
| And uh where we don't win at the lower courts, which sometimes we do. | ||
| Some in some states we get a very fair shake. | ||
| In other states, it's not even possible, but we we've done very well at the appellate level and at the United States Supreme Court. | ||
| But this includes an unprecedented 200 million dollar payment from Columbia University. | ||
| Columbia paid us 200 million dollars essentially in fines and penalties, but many more settlements are uh soon to follow. | ||
| And they're gonna be behaving because uh they understand we're coming back. | ||
| They would not let you have your voice. | ||
| They wouldn't let the people in this room, any of them have the voice, because that's not the voice they wanted to hear from. | ||
| They wanted to hear from a very uh sinister voice, and we're not gonna allow that. | ||
| In recent years, we've seen far too many violent attacks perpetrated against Americans of faith, beautiful Americans of faith, including in our schools and places of worship, and you know about it more than I do. | ||
| Two weeks ago in Minneapolis, a demonic killer shot 21 people and murdered the two precious children at a Catholic school. | ||
| Can you believe that? | ||
| Hard to believe. | ||
| And time goes by, and people say, Oh, I sort of remember it, but I remember it, I'll always remember it. | ||
| What a horrible thing. | ||
| Too many happens too much. | ||
| Our hearts are shattered for the families of those beautiful children. | ||
| And I've made clear that Attorney General Pam Bondi is working really hard that we must get answers about the causes of these repeated attacks, and we're working very, very hard on that. | ||
| The Trump administration will have no tolerance for terrorism or political violence, and that includes hate crimes against Christians, Jews, or anybody else. | ||
| We're not going to allow. | ||
| And there was also a horrible killing recently in Charlotte, where I talked about and so many others, and we will uh we're gonna get to the end of it. | ||
| And you know, when you have horrible killings, you have to take horrible actions, and the actions that we take are nothing. | ||
| We this uh cashless bail started a wave in our country where a killer kills somebody and is out on the street by the afternoon. | ||
| In many cases, going out and killing again, cashless bail, and you try and reason with people like in Chicago with the governor and the mayor. | ||
| You try and reason with them, and it's like you're talking to a wall. | ||
| It's just doesn't I assume it's just a political ideology. | ||
| They're not stupid people. | ||
| Must be an ideology that's just buried in their head, and you can't do a damn thing about it. | ||
| And uh, we'd love to go into Chicago and straighten it out. | ||
| You know, Washington, D.C., you'll be happy to know, is a free and safe zone. | ||
| It's so safe right now. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| It was it was one of the most dangerous. | ||
| Can you believe it? | ||
| So, you know, you see the beautiful buildings, but we're gonna also do an upgrade because a lot of the beautiful buildings have a little graffiti on them, they have roads that aren't proper, they have mediums that are bad and falling down into the road, the dividers. | ||
| We have uh things that we have to take care of and beautify. | ||
| We want to beautify it. | ||
| Very little work will be done. | ||
| I'm very good at that. | ||
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That's what I really did the best in life, probably. | |
| I said, was I a better builder or politician? | ||
| They said, I think you're a better builder, sir. | ||
| I said, I didn't know if I was happy about that or not. | ||
| But I was a really good builder, and I'll fix this place up for peanuts, I'll fix it up. | ||
| We'll figure we'll put in new dividers all the Evanos are all rotted, rusting and falling down on the road, potholes all over the place. | ||
| We're gonna have this place looking beautiful within 12 months. | ||
| Even the little white tiles in the tunnels, you know, you go through the tunnels, and there's a little white tiles have been up for about 60 years, and like there's pieces missing. | ||
| And you can't match them, believe me, you can't. | ||
| You try and match them, it never works. | ||
| You can't. | ||
| They've been up 60 years. | ||
| You don't get the same batch no matter what you do. | ||
| But uh, we'll take all those tiles off, and you're gonna have beautiful white tile tunnels again, and everything's gonna be really the way it should be. | ||
| Because when foreign leaders come, you know, I had to take down the tents. | ||
| We had over 58 tent cities that we took down, right in the middle of our parks, right next to our great buildings, Supreme Court, you'd have a tent city right there, and nobody would ever tell them to to do it. | ||
| We had a blue tent right on Lafayette, and they seemed to have a permit. | ||
| And one of the fake news media was asking me the other day, what about the blue tent? | ||
| What blue tent? | ||
| Because all the tents you got somehow these people were very well connected with the communist cause. | ||
| And I said, There's a tent up there, really, yeah. | ||
| And he was a friendly reporter for a change. | ||
| He said, It's terrible that the tent. | ||
| I said, I didn't know that. | ||
| I'm surprised. | ||
| And I checked, and it was, and uh, we got it down very quickly. | ||
| It's down. | ||
| It's down. | ||
| Was it easy? | ||
| People chained themselves to a tree and this and that, but that's okay. | ||
| They can chain themselves if they want. | ||
| That was a tough one. | ||
| That's been there for years. | ||
| It's been there for many years. | ||
| We took it down, it came down very quickly, Pam. | ||
| So I hope Attorney General Bondi will be looking into some of these things, and I really know that some of them she is. | ||
| She's she's done such an incredible job. | ||
| You know, she's got a lot of pressure on her not to do these things by a certain group of people that I guess don't love our country, or there's some ideology that they're just indoctrinated with. | ||
| But she's going to do a fantastic job, and we're waiting for a call from Chicago. | ||
| We'll fix Chicago. | ||
| And again, DC is right now so safe you can go out. | ||
| Friends of mine called one in particular. | ||
| He's been in DC for a long time. | ||
| And he said, I haven't got out in four years for dinner with my wife. | ||
| The restaurants were all closing because people were afraid, even if they're in the restaurant, it didn't matter. | ||
| They were held up. | ||
| You know, guys would walk in with guns into a restaurant. | ||
| And that's over. | ||
| It's not happening. | ||
| It's now safe. | ||
| And this man said, I've gone out to dinner in the last week and a half, four times, and I am so safe. | ||
| My wife could meet me at the restaurant. | ||
| She could walk by herself. | ||
| There was zero threat. | ||
| The National Guard working with the police, working with the mayor. | ||
| The mayor has, you know, that's not her ideology, and now I think it maybe is her ideology. | ||
| She's taking a lot of heat too from the radical left. | ||
| You know, they don't like that she's allowing it. | ||
| But look, she's gonna either allow it or we'll just do it, because you know, it's just but she understands. | ||
| She understands that. | ||
| But I can tell you the people of DC are thrilled. | ||
| I have never had so many people. | ||
| The other day I had a big scrum in front of me of the press. | ||
| And I said, you know, everybody here, or many of you have been mugged, right? | ||
| And they're all going like, and these aren't people necessarily on our side, they're all going, yeah, what about you? | ||
| Yes, it's true. | ||
| I was a couple of times. | ||
| Every one of them, it's crazy. | ||
| Not gonna happen anymore. | ||
| So right now we went from a one of the most, and some people say the worst, the most violent city. | ||
| Can you imagine our capital being the most violent city? | ||
| But it was it was really bad into a totally safe zone. | ||
| It's called a safe zone city. | ||
| There's no crime. | ||
| They said crime's down 87%. | ||
| They said, no, no, no, it's more than 87%. | ||
| Virtually nothing. | ||
| And uh, and much lesser things, things that take place in the home they call crime. | ||
| You know, they'll do anything they can to find something. | ||
| If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see, so now I can't claim 100%. | ||
| But uh we are we are a safe city. | ||
| You can walk to a restaurant, you can walk to the White House if you work there, you can walk to the Capitol, and even the Democrats say, I can't believe it, but they don't want to admit it, but I can't believe it. | ||
| We could do the same thing in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, we did it. | ||
| We saved, we saved Los Angeles. | ||
| We saved Los Angeles, Dan, you know that. | ||
| Los Angeles was a mess. | ||
| If we didn't send our troops in, Gavin Nurscom would have had a real problem. | ||
| We sent our troops at the head police officer, the top person said we could have never done this alone. | ||
| We sent our troops right in at the beginning and we killed it. | ||
| And it was nasty, but we killed it immediately. | ||
| Immediately. | ||
| And I don't know why Chicago isn't calling us saying, please give us help. | ||
| When you have over just a short period of time, 50 murders and hundreds of people shot, and then you have a governor that stands up and says how crime is just fine. | ||
| It's uh it's really crazy. | ||
| But we're bringing back law and order to our country. | ||
| And I began my remarks today by noting that the reverence for our creator. | ||
| I mean, that's we We have reverence for our Creator. | ||
| And it's inscribed into our Declaration of Independence, a copy of which I have very proudly hanging in the Oval Office, an original copy. | ||
| Very old, beautiful copy. | ||
| Next year we will celebrate 250 years since that declaration was signed as part of the grand. | ||
| Well, this is really a commemoration, like I think we're gonna do. | ||
| We're gonna try and do a commemoration like nobody's ever seen before. | ||
| But we've invited America's great faith communities to pray for our nation and for our people and for peace in the world, and it's gonna be an amazing, it's gonna be an amazing time. | ||
| We're gonna have an amazing time. | ||
| We have the Olympics, we have the World Cup, and we have 250. | ||
| OK, the supercentennial, as our men. | ||
| But and we're going to it's going to be it's going to be amazing. | ||
| It's going to be maybe bigger than the both of those events. | ||
| You know, when I was president, I got I got the World Cup and I got the Olympics. | ||
| I got I got them to choose us, Los Angeles. | ||
| And I was very proud of it. | ||
| The only problem was I wasn't going to be president because I would have served out normally my time. | ||
| And then you had some very bad people who rigged an election. | ||
| And look what happened. | ||
| I end up getting the Olympics, the World Cup. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Amazing the way God works. | ||
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Isn't it amazing the way God works? | |
| It's true. | ||
| I got the Olympics, you know, because I'm a little bit of a selfish person, I guess. | ||
| I said, you know, I got the Olympics, and Obama would not call. | ||
| I'll never forget the head of the Olympic Committee called, and the mayor of Los Angeles called me and he said, sir, the president will not talk to them. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| Because he traveled to Geneva or wherever to make the presentation, and he came in fourth. | ||
| Now, a president shouldn't do that. | ||
| The president should say, I will do that, I will make that journey, which has never been made before. | ||
| But if I make that journey, you have to pick me. | ||
| He didn't do that. | ||
| That's why we had a country that was going to hell, because he didn't do a lot of things like that. | ||
| So he ended up sitting there and they announced that we're fourth. | ||
| We were like almost last. | ||
| And uh so he didn't like the Olympic committee too much. | ||
| So he refused to talk to him. | ||
| So I get a call from the mayor of Los Angeles who said, please, sir, would you call? | ||
| We're ready to get it. | ||
| But and I spoke to a gentleman, and I believe it was Geneva, whatever, wherever they are. | ||
| And I couldn't get him off the phone. | ||
| He was so dying for love, he finally got finally got something anyway. | ||
| And he agreed that the Olympics would come to the United States, and I was so proud of it. | ||
| And then I realized even then I said, I'm not gonna be the president, and then the World Cup, we got the World Cup. | ||
| I did that one too with Johnny and uh got the World Cup, and I said, I can't believe it. | ||
| Can you hold it a little sooner, sir? | ||
| It's all given out at all these different places. | ||
| So I wasn't gonna get that either, and now I got them both. | ||
| And I can't say that I created 250. | ||
| That one is that one we have. | ||
| I'd like to say I created 250 years. | ||
| I can't say that, but we are gonna create a great party and a great celebration. | ||
| And I'd like to ask a very good friend of mine, Secretary Scott Turner to come up and say a few words about some of the things we're doing. | ||
| And Scott, please take it away. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Well, good morning. | ||
| So grateful to be here. | ||
| What an honor it is to stand uh with this commission and with our president. | ||
| You know, we're in the nation's capital. | ||
| We're at the Museum of the Bible. | ||
| We're together and we're talking about faith. | ||
| Did anybody else pick up on that? | ||
| I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. | ||
| We're right here. | ||
| So thank you, Mr. President. | ||
| It's an honor to serve under your leadership, sir, and to be a part of this tremendous cabinet. | ||
| How many know we have a godly faithful cabinet? | ||
| And a cabinet that prioritizes prayer. | ||
| On July 3rd, Mr. President of This year, you kicked off the year-long celebration of America's 250th birthday in Iowa. | ||
| You invited America's faith communities to come together to pray for our country. | ||
| Well, Mr. President, America's faith communities are responding with overwhelming enthusiasm, as you can see here today. | ||
| Today, more than 70 major faith organizations and churches have joined together to participate at what we're calling America praise. | ||
| In fact, many of you are here today, including leaders from Pray.com, Hallow, the National Religious Broadcasters, the Faith and Freedom Coalition, Intercessors for America, and many, many others are here with us. | ||
| And I want to take a moment. | ||
| If you are here today and you have joined this faith movement, America Place, please stand if you're here this morning, please. | ||
| If you're here, stand and let us see you. | ||
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Amen. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Well, together, we have our simple proposition. | ||
| Think about this. | ||
| What if one million people prayed for our country every single week between now and next July 4th? | ||
| More specifically. | ||
| What if believers all across this great nation got together with 10 people, friends, family members, colleagues, work associates, ten people each week to pray for our country and for our fellow citizens? | ||
| Let that sink in. | ||
| One million people every single week. | ||
| Ten people getting together to pray for our country and for her citizens. | ||
| Think about the miracles that would take place over the next year. | ||
| Think about the transformation that you and I could witness in communities all across the land. | ||
| Sons returning to their fathers, daughters returning to their mothers, families coming back together, health being restored, financial needs being met, mountains being moved. | ||
| Think about it. | ||
| If a million of us every week got together and prayed for this great country, how many know that God is well able to do it? | ||
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Amen. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| We're a nation that has always believed in the power of prayer. | ||
| During a constitutional convention when our founding fathers, and many of you know this, we're discussing the formation of our country. | ||
| Benjamin Franklin stopped the debate and asked the delegates to pray for guidance from the Lord God Almighty. | ||
| He famously said, if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? | ||
| How many are grateful that God put that on the heart of Benjamin Franklin on that day? | ||
| Prayer brings restoration. | ||
| It rebuilds what has been broken. | ||
| It ignites an indescribable power of hope within you and within me. | ||
| It's a light that's felt by all of those in whom we intercede and pray for. | ||
| And you've all heard faith leaders across the country, quote 2 Chronicles 7 14, which says, if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven. | ||
| And I will forgive their sins and will heal their land. | ||
| On behalf of President Trump and ultimately, the Lord God Almighty, who calls us to pray without ceasing. | ||
| I'm inviting all Americans to pray with unwavering faith for the renewal of our nation and our fellow citizens. | ||
| Amen. | ||
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all Americans. | |
| Will you all stand with me as we rededicate America to one nation under God? | ||
| Father, we thank you for this time that we have together. | ||
| Lord God, we thank you that we can gather together as faithful people, as faithful leaders, as denomination leaders, as religious leaders. | ||
| Father, we thank you for our president Donald J. Trump. | ||
| Father God, who you have anointed and appointed for this time, for such a time as this. | ||
| Lord, thank you that the president prioritizes prayer. | ||
| Father God, that he sees the power, the importance, the priority of praying together as a people, as a country, as a nation. | ||
| Father, we in this place today in this great museum of the Bible. | ||
| Father God, we lift up our president. | ||
| Lord God, we lift up his family. | ||
| We lift up God, our vice president of our cabinet, and everyone God who serves in this administration through all branches of government. | ||
| Father, help us to be godly men and godly women. | ||
| Father, help us to surrender to the power, to the presence and to the will of God. | ||
| And Lord, we pray this morning as we uh commemorate, Father God, as we call our nation to pray. | ||
| Lord God, as we rededicate our nation to one nation under God, Father, we pray for your forgiveness. | ||
| We pray, Lord Jesus, that you would uh uh give us great favor and understanding, Father God, as we bow our knee before you, as we humble ourselves before you. | ||
| Lord God, we thank you that starting even right now that families will come back together, sons return to fathers, daughters will return to mothers, healing and revitalization will take place, new life will come to our nation, and Father, we're so grateful that we can stand in the nation's capital as a people of believers in this great institution. | ||
| Lord God, in the presence of God Almighty, by the power of the Holy Spirit, Lord Jesus, we humble ourselves, we thank you. | ||
| And God, we know that from this day, until on that great day, July 4th of 2026, when we celebrate 250 years, that Lord God, from now to then and forevermore, you will be glorified and honored. | ||
| And Father, we pray for a sweet celebration. | ||
| And Lord God, that all people of all faiths, Father God, will come together, Lord, not just Democrat, not just Republican, but all American people will come together under the banner of Yahweh of God Almighty. | ||
| And Lord God, we praise you and we thank you and we love you in Jesus' name. | ||
| Amen. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Thank you very much, God. | ||
| So America has always been a nation that believes in the power of prayer. | ||
| And we will never apologize for our faith ever, ever, never, never. | ||
| We will never surrender our God-given rights. | ||
| We will defend our liberties, our values, our sovereignty, and we will defend our freedom. | ||
| And with the help of amazing faith communities across the land, so many are represented with us today. | ||
| We will truly make this the golden age of America. | ||
| That's what we're doing. | ||
| We're in a golden age. | ||
| We're at the very beginning of a golden age. | ||
| So much progress has been made in the last eight months. | ||
| Progress like nobody's ever seen before. | ||
| They're writing about it. | ||
| They're actually saying it. | ||
| They've never seen anything like what's happened in the last eight months. | ||
| And together we will make our country greater, stronger, more united, and more faithful than ever before. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| God bless you, and God bless America. | ||
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Thank you very much. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| The end was As we get ready to break, Our vice chair. | ||
| Let me take it. | ||
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Dr. Ben Carson. | |
| What a way to start a week. | ||
| Dr. P Peter Navarro live from the White House talking about trade and throwing it down hard as only Peter Navarro can do. | ||
| And then the President of the United States at the Religious Liberties Commission today, given uh you can't he can't say anything but an amazing speech uh and then some of the personal testimony. | ||
| Uh the young young boy, uh incredible about what the school look at look what the school made that kid do. | ||
| President Trump gonna set things right there. | ||
| Just absolutely, absolutely incredible. | ||
| Couldn't be prouder of the president. | ||
| Just a great day, great morning. | ||
| What a way to kick off. | ||
| That was over at the Museum of the Bible. | ||
| Our own Jack Pasobic was in the audience. | ||
| I'm gonna try to track down Jack. | ||
| If not, I'm sure he'd give you a full read out at two o'clock, and maybe we came back here at five. | ||
| Um just and and hey, is that not what you voted for? | ||
| President Trump right there uh gonna make sure that Christians are not discriminated against and that uh throwing down hard. | ||
| Not enough people will step up and uh and have the back of Christians. | ||
| And I mean Christians won't stand up. | ||
| They're like intimidated where President Trump's not intimidated. | ||
| Uh so much going on here in the nation's capital in the Imperial Capitol. | ||
| Uh number one, the um let's talk about the budgets and midnight on the 30th. | ||
| I think the reality, you're gonna have a um you're gonna have an unpleasant choice because the work hasn't gotten done. | ||
| They took six weeks off to go on um, you know, the holiday or vacation. | ||
| I know they were back in the districts working hard. | ||
| Um, but my understanding is that we're gonna you're gonna be facing two choices. | ||
| I guess three, they could shut down the government, but if they do shut if the Democrats do shut down the government, President Trump and I think Russ Vogt and others have a plan about um you've got essential personnel, you got non-essential. | ||
| I think the non-essential are getting bottom blown. | ||
| And you want to talk about deconstructing the administrative state? | ||
| Pfft, that's the way to do it. | ||
| Is to get rid of literally because remember, there's two and a half million civilians employees, there's two and a half million roughly uniform, and then there's about a five million, I don't know, consultants that are at the level of actually making some sort of administrative or managerial decision. | ||
| So that's about ten million people overall. | ||
| They covered a lot by having so many of those consultants or non-permanent employees working. | ||
| Uh that's option one. | ||
| Option two is they are working on an omnibus. | ||
| And right now, we're gonna focus this week on the NDAA, National Defense Authorization Act, which I continue to ask why is this a must-pass bill? | ||
| Because they don't authorize, they're supposed to reauthorize these other departments X amount of years. | ||
| Normally I think five. | ||
| They've never reauthorized EPA. | ||
| I don't think they've reauthorized the Justice Department. | ||
| Why don't they want to reauthorize? | ||
| Why would they just kind of skip it and go right to appropriations or right to a budget? | ||
| Because they understand that these things have had mission creeps. | ||
| These institutions, cabinet positions, etc. | ||
| have had mission creep, and now they're covering so much. | ||
| It's the power of Scott Bessant's Scott Bessant's uh amazing piece in the Wall Street Journal, I think on Saturday morning, came out Friday afternoon, and then it was in the I think Journal of International Economy, 27 pages long, where he goes to in detail breaking apart the Federal Reserve. | ||
| That has not gotten the coverage that it should have. | ||
| Number one, the media does not want to talk about it. | ||
| One of the ways they keep power here is the central bank. | ||
| Scott Bessant, first cut of his restructuring of the Federal Reserve, because he said the Federal Reserve has suffered from gain of function, gain of function uh issues. | ||
| They they've essentially weaponized the central bank against the people of the United States as uh Fauci would use gain of function to to take these viruses and weaponize them, to turn into biological weapons, of which you know from the COVID 19 got visited upon the American people through the Wuhan lab through the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| So your two alternatives, uh if you don't shut down the government, are going to be an omnibus, and they may have a cute name for it, but that's going to be presented to you. | ||
| An omnibus takes you all the way through the fiscal year, but is just packed with horrible things. | ||
| One thing on the NDA they're trying to slip in isn't artificial intelligence amnesty. | ||
| All those demons that were at um, all those demons that were at the um around the president's table the other night, foisted on him by David Sachs and others, are um, you know, absolutely outrageous. | ||
| I believe the president, I've asked my staff to cut, I think he made a comment in there about Biden's administration. | ||
| But people that had come after him, and I said, and he said, I think, quote, they're not getting any jobs, if I heard that correctly. | ||
| Somebody's got to tell the president, Lisa Monaco, who essentially ran the Justice Department, put Peter Navarre in prison, put me in prison, but more importantly, came after President Trump. | ||
| All the attacks of President Trump from Maine Justice came through her. | ||
| She was the deputy, she was the deputy attorney general of the United States. | ||
| She she's at Microsoft. | ||
| She's at Microsoft as general counsel. | ||
| They got to turf her out of there. | ||
| Mr. President, if you're under the under, if you're under the understanding that these people are not getting jobs, that just would not be correct. | ||
| The folks around you, particularly the tech bros, are not informing you because you had Bill Gates, not you know, Bill Gates and in uh in vaccines after Bobby Kennedy gets eviscerated that day in the star chamber that was the Senate with people that have taken millions of dollars, and it was tens of millions when you added all up historically, the whole crowd trying to have to go after Bobby Kennedy. | ||
| Well, Bill Gates is right there, and Lisa Monaco now is the is the uh general counsel of Microsoft. | ||
| That is a big league job. | ||
| Big lead job. | ||
| She's got to be turfed out of it or should be turfed out of it. | ||
| Your other alternative. | ||
| So take this one on board. | ||
| Your other alternative, because they haven't done the appropriations. | ||
| The other one is wait for it, a CR. | ||
| When your best options, now this is a CR with rescisions. | ||
| And as you know, these rescinds have gotten um in pocket rescissions, particularly where they don't go back to Capitol Hill, which is the moral equivalent of impoundment, has people on Capitol Hill, because here's their argument. | ||
| Well, we cut all these deals and we work so hard and we have bipartisan agreement on the appropriations, and then the president just comes in and essentially just takes out what he wants to take out. | ||
| You damn right, because you guys have not cut spending. | ||
| My understanding and great belief is that on the 30th of September at midnight, the deficit for fiscal year 2025, which is the one that we're in, will be about $1.8 to $1.9 trillion. | ||
| dollars. | ||
| I said it was gonna be two, hey. | ||
| Close, but we'll see when it's all added up. | ||
| I'm sticking with two. | ||
| That's my number. | ||
| They're saying it could be one-eight, but even a one-eight. | ||
| You can't and remember, we accepted Biden and Nancy Plosi's math. | ||
| At least this would be President Trump's math. | ||
| But my understanding is it's gonna be a two trillion dollar potential deficit in a fiscal year, fiscal year uh twenty-six, which is the one that starts October first. | ||
| Why do we spend so much time on this? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Let me think about this for a second. | ||
| Maybe inflation, maybe, you know, uh spending what, 1.4 trillion dollars now in interest payments on the debt. | ||
| Maybe it's because of the BRICS Nation, maybe it's because weakening of the dollar, maybe it's a cause the gold's on a run, all of those, because gold's been a hedge against this. | ||
| You can't continue on like this, but if you do the one nine and the two, right, that's what, 394, you get you understand, start to understand whether that signal was kicked up five trillion dollars. | ||
| At some point in time, somebody's gonna have to say stop. | ||
| Where you stop, you got to stop, you must start. | ||
| And where you must start is the defense budget. | ||
| If you do the defense budget, if you do the defense budget, we can then make the argument and get hands around the social welfare programs, and eventually when you prove to the American people that you were responsible and taking care of that, then you can get into a conversation about the entitlements and start redoing laws on that. | ||
| Right? | ||
| To make sure it's equitable and fair and all those sorts of things. | ||
| But you can't even have a discussion on that, and you shouldn't have a discussion until you prove that you can do something with discussionary spending. | ||
| Now, let me go back to the NDAA and defense spending. | ||
| Huge article and political and everywhere of how Bridge Colby, Bridge Colby has written this uh the defense policy statement, which is essentially the overall strategy coming from the Joint Chiefs of Defense Department of the United States. | ||
| When we uh took the White House the first time, President Trump said, hey, the global war on terror is no longer our top priority. | ||
| Uh taking on the Chinese Communist Party is, and of course, the apparatus had to throw in Russia. | ||
| So getting great power struggle. | ||
| Although Russia was not, I can tell you was not a priority uh at the time, as much as the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| Chinese Communist Party is still running the deal, and they're running the deal uh with the Russians right now, because they help finance them, they give them weapons, and they buy the they buy their oil and natural gas in huge output deals, and now they're actually financing the sub Siberian gas and oil fields. | ||
| I pull today's Monday's Financial Times of London, and lo and behold, look at that headline right there. | ||
| Russian energy giants turn to China for fundraising as economic ties grow. | ||
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| The Chinese Communist Party has been financing this, of course, up there also is the Prime Minister of Japan is uh resigning. | ||
| Why is he resigning? | ||
| Oh, wait for it. | ||
| Failed economic policy, deficit too big as percentage of GDP. | ||
| What's happening today in France or tomorrow in France? | ||
| Oh, wait for it. | ||
| Uh another government's gonna fall. | ||
| It's a parliamentary system. | ||
| The parliamentary government's gonna fall. | ||
| McCron's still gonna be there as president, but he may even get forced into a new election. | ||
| Why are they doing it? | ||
| Oh, wait for it. | ||
| 7% GDP deficit to GDP, not sustainable. | ||
| They're collapsing. | ||
| Great Britain, uh Starmer's approval now, I think is in sync, I think 11%, maybe going to single digits. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Oh, they just found a $50 billion hole in their budget, 50 billion pounds, maybe, that they didn't think about. | ||
| So eventually somebody's gonna have to get grips on this. | ||
| One way the Russ vote and those guys are doing now is rescissions. | ||
| Now they're relatively small, in fact, they're tiny. | ||
| They're dropping the bucket compared to the problem, but they showed that they're prepared to do more. | ||
| That's why you either have a CR, and I don't see getting a 60 votes, but hey, so you're gonna have a CR, which this audience hates, I understand that, but it'll have rescissions attached, or there'll be an omnibus, and we're gonna have to fight that because I think there's gonna be enough goodies in that for the Democratic senators, they're gonna say, yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll get on board that, we'll get on board that. | ||
| That's what we want. | ||
| Either way, there's gonna be a fight coming up. | ||
| And what's the downside of shutting down the government? | ||
| Force the Democrats, because then you got essential non-essential, and if you're non-essential, you gotta have a discussion of do we need this? | ||
| Because right now we should just be financing the essential. | ||
| When I talk about the essential, to go back to the NDAA, Bridge Colby writes this strategy paper about hemispheric defense, and everybody in political, oh, it's it's they're talking about the homeland and abandoning the rest of the world. | ||
| That's not what they're saying, and that's not what's happening. | ||
| But they are saying hemispheric defense. | ||
| We have to take care, it's kind of Monroe doctrine on steroids. | ||
| We have to take care of the hemispheric defense and the vast Pacific that connects our territories in the Western Pacific to us is the strategic pivot. | ||
| Uh, and you've got uh from the Panama Canal to Greenland, you got the Arctic. | ||
| Oh, by the way, you've got uh this is the situation happened in Venezuela right now, and I think that needs some clarity. | ||
| People are working through it, but they're saying, and this is the difference. | ||
| President Trump, when he talks fentanyl, he looks at that as a chemical weapon of the Chinese Communist Party, not just come something coming through a cartel, not just something they're making money on, which is bad enough, and he wants to stop. | ||
| So kinetic activity against the cartels uh is something that's part of hemispheric defense. | ||
| Now, if you're talking about regime change in Venezuela, that may be a different kettle of fish. | ||
| Because regime change that doesn't come from the grass doesn't come from the country's grassroots. | ||
| You know, decapitation leads to problems as Iraq and Afghanistan have shown us. | ||
| That it has to be really driven by the will of the people in these countries. | ||
| This is why I keep saying, hey, if you're focusing if you're if if the mulahs are a deal, just cut them off from the oil. | ||
| I still think it's almost 80%. | ||
| Maybe with Russian oil now, it's not as high, but I think at one time it was 80% of the CCP's energy needs. | ||
| Their energy needs were coming out of the Persians. | ||
| Uh Straits of Hormuz can be in the Gulf of the Persian Gulf and the Straits of Mews easily blockade, easily you can stop and turn those vessels around. | ||
| And you do the black black market that they get about half of it from the Mulas. | ||
| First off, you you you literally shut down the Mulas. | ||
| You'll have the Persian people overthrowing the cells, which is the way it has to happen. | ||
| You can't do a DCAP. | ||
| That's why I'm so adamantly opposed to this. | ||
| Getting involved in another another war. | ||
| And for Israel and for the Jewish people, hey, the the threat from you is coming Sadiq Khan in London. | ||
| And uh and Mom Donny in New York City. | ||
| That's the threat, and Mom Donnie is going to win unless something changes dramatically. | ||
| Unless they start to expose his financing sources of cutter. | ||
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| Jillian Barbery, now more than ever, uh credit card debt, I think is 1.2, 1.3 trillion. | ||
| I think there's eight, ten, eight to ten percent non-performing. | ||
| Uh, if you get a notification from your credit card company, or you get your monthly bill and you're late behind payment. | ||
| If you just put it in the drawer, do good things happen, ma'am. | ||
| No, that's a negative. | ||
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| Mike Lindell, you've had those problems in the past. | ||
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| We just had the religious commission today. | ||
| President Trump addressed it, sir. | ||
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