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Sept. 30, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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Episode 4815: Trump Addresses Military Officers
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donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Uh they they have some scammer reporter who started saying, without any knowledge that he may not have hit the targets as well as they thought.
It may not have been obliteration.
He did hit the targets.
They got to give us a little credit, right?
It was obliteration, it turned out.
The Atomic Energy Commission said it was...
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Watching President Trump address all the flag officers of the United States military at Quantico, the Marine base down there...
We're going to uh cover this into its conclusion, and then we will start the war room.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
But they had, I guess, a beam going right into these chutes.
Every single one of those bombs went right down those chutes into a granite mountain.
I think it's the last time they're going to build air chutes.
They had these air chutes that were nice, beautiful.
They were meant for us.
But it was total obliteration.
And now they give us credit for that.
But these people were phenomenal.
I tell you, for the Air Force people here.
You can be very proud.
That veto, we just ordered a lot of uh new ones.
New ones and uh updated ones, but I'd be I'd take the other ones, let me tell you, they couldn't have worked any better.
So they flew for uh 37 hours total back and forth, no stops, no nothing.
We had 52 tankers loading them up.
And that's a job I wouldn't necessarily want too much flying a tanker, loaded up with hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel.
I don't know if I'd do that job, General.
I asked the question, what happens if it gets hit?
Sir, you don't want to know about that, right?
I don't want to know about that.
But those guys, they just hear us.
They're incredible.
I had them all to the Oval Office.
We had the B-2 pilots and a lot of the people, even the people that uh took care of them, the maintenance people, just as important.
We had them all to the White House, gave them a big party on the lawn, brought some of them into the Oval Office.
But on top of all this, we'll deliver a hard-earned pay raise of 3.8 percent to every soldier, sailor, airman, coast guardsman, space guard, and marines, something you weren't getting from the past administration.
They did not treat you with respect.
They're Democrats, they never do.
Not only are we rebuilding our great strength, but for the first time in years, my administration is actually using that strength to defend the core and vital interests of America, and very simply we are putting America first.
And I have since I've been elected, I've always put America first.
It's sort of simple, you know, when you think.
It's my campaign was run on common sense, and we did great.
We've got the highest numbers ever received in terms of uh districts, you know, they have it broken up 2,000 five hundred versus 525.
We won every swing state, we won the popular vote, we won everything.
We won everything.
You have to take a look at the map.
It's almost entirely red, except there's a little blue line on each coast, and I think that's gonna disappear too.
We did really great, and part of it is because of our success with the military, the rebuilding of the military, the vote that I got from the military, and they were the vicious people, you know, that we have to fight, just like you have to fight vicious people.
Mine are different, a different kind of vicious.
But uh they spread all these horrible, you know, they made up statements and said what I said about everything, but even about the military.
But fortunately the military didn't believe it.
It's hard.
You know, they make up a statement and they said you say it.
We had 25 people that said he never said that.
Twenty-five.
We had twenty-five affidavits, and they said, Well, we're going with it anyway.
You know, these sleeves bags.
And that's why the press is really losing all power, because people aren't believing it.
We need an honest press.
We need borders.
We need borders, we need an honest press, we need fair elections.
I mean, those three things.
And we we don't have an honest press, we have a really corrupt press, but we fight through the corrupt press.
And the people understand you have to do this stuff a lot.
You have to go on television a lot because you can't get a fair shake if you're gonna rely on somebody else.
It's they're just uh they don't understand.
They've destroyed the the image of media now is at the lowest point it's ever been.
It's lower than Congress.
Can you believe that?
It's something.
But together with many of you in the room, we've brought back the fundamental principle that defending the homeland is the military's first and most important priority.
That's what it is.
Only in recent decades did politicians somehow come to believe that our job is to police the far reaches of Kenya and Somalia while America is under invasion from within.
We're under invasion from within.
No different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in many ways because they don't wear uniforms.
At least when they're wearing a uniform, you can take them out.
These people don't have uniforms.
But we are under invasion from within.
We're stopping it very quickly.
After spending trillions of dollars defending the borders of foreign countries, with your help, we're defending the borders of our country from now on.
We're not going to let this happen.
Biden let people come in from prisons, mental institutions, drug dealers, murderers.
You know, we had 11,488 murders allowed into our country by this guy who had no clue.
He had no clue.
He shouldn't have been there in the first place, but he had no clue.
The people that ran the de the office, the White House were people that surrounded him, radical left lunatics that are brilliant people, but dumb as hell when it came to policy and common sense.
And uh they allowed people from all over the world, from the Congo, they opened up prisons in the Congo.
They came into our country totally unmatched, unvetted, unchecked, and uh from all over South America, not just South America.
You know, you think South America, no, but from all over.
A lot came in from Venezuela.
Venezuela emptied its prison population into our country.
That's why they have Trend de Aragua, one of the worst gangs ever.
But we took care of them.
We took good strong care of them.
And I just want to thank the National Guard in Washington, D.C. It was it's embarrassing to say this.
Now I can say it because we solved it.
But Washington, D.C. was the most unsafe, most dangerous city in the United States of America.
And to a large extent, beyond.
And beyond that, go to some, you go to Afghanistan, they didn't have anything like that.
You go to countries that you would think there's problems, they didn't have that.
And now Washington, D.C., after 12 days of serious serious intensity.
We took out 1,700 career criminals.
If you have five career criminals, they can make your numbers look very bad because they'll commit many crimes a day.
But we took out 1,700 and they took them out.
There was no doubt who the boss was.
They did an unbelievable job.
Then they started even cleaning.
I said, I don't want them doing that, sir.
They want to, they were cleaning it up.
I I drove through it two days ago.
It was beautiful.
People are walking down the street holding hands.
Man and wife coming from Iowa, they're not worried about being shot.
Washington, D.C. is now a safe city.
In fact, I went out to dinner with my crew.
I haven't done that.
In theory, I wouldn't do it.
And I felt totally safe.
And nobody's been attacked, nobody's been hurt.
Washington, D.C. went from our most unsafe city to just about our safest city in a period of a month.
We had it under control in 12 days.
But give us another 15, 16 days.
It was it's it's perfect.
And people other than politicians that look bad, they think, you know, the Democrats run most of the cities that are in bad shape.
We have many cities in great shape, too, by the way.
I'll let you know that.
But it seems that the ones that are run by the radical left Democrats, what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, they're very unsafe places.
And we're gonna straighten them out one by one.
And this is gonna be a major part for some of the people in this room.
That's a war, too.
It's a war from within.
Controlling the physical territory of our border is essential to national security.
We can't let these people in.
You know, we had no people enter in the last four months.
Zero.
Even I can't believe that, you know, we had millions coming in pouring it.
Twenty-five million all told, and of those twenty-five million, many of them should never be in our country.
They would take their worst people and their people from prisons and jail, and they put them in a caravan and they'd walk up.
CNN was interviewing one person.
Oh, why are you coming?
I want freedom.
Good.
Were you in jail?
Yes.
For what?
Murder.
I said, you're in for you had to see this anchor, a young woman.
She's like, I couldn't believe.
She'll probably lose her job.
But because the left doesn't want to hear that.
But we're running it based on common sense and based on love of our country.
But I want to salute every service member who has helped us carry out this critical mission.
It's really a very important mission.
And I told Pete we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military, National Guard, but military.
Because we're going into Chicago very soon.
That's a big city with an incompetent governor.
Stupid governor, stupid.
They threw him out of his family business.
He was so stupid.
I know the family.
Not money that he made, but he ran for governor.
He won, and now he criticizes us all the time.
And last week they had 11 people murdered, 44 people shot.
The week before that, they had five people murdered, 28 people shot.
Every weekend they lose five, six.
If they lose five, they're considering it a great week.
They shouldn't lose any.
You shouldn't lose any.
This is civilization.
And he's always up there saying, We're in uh very good shape.
We don't need the military.
No, they need the military desperately.
How about Portland?
Portland, Oregon, where it looks like a war zone.
And I get a call from the liberal governor.
Sir, please don't come in.
We don't need you.
I said, well, unless they're playing false tapes.
This look like World War II.
Your place is burning down.
I mean, you must be kidding.
Sir, we have it under control.
I said, you don't have it under control, Governor, but I'll check it.
And I'll call you back.
I called her back.
I said, You this place is a nightmare.
It's probably, it's certainly not the biggest, but it's one of the worst.
It's brutal.
They go after our ICE people who are great patriots and tough job too, but they love it.
They love it because they're cleaning up our country.
And so you look at some of the things where they took over parts of Seattle.
They actually took over a big percentage of Seattle.
Think of that.
You remember that?
That was a while ago.
And I sent in the troops and they were gone as soon as they sent them in.
Oh, when we send in the troops, if you have a real leader that says you've got to do what you have to do.
I put that out the other day.
You got to do what you got to do because we don't want our people hurt as they stand by.
I was watching during Biden.
They had troops standing up like this, brave, standing up attention, the way I should stand all the time.
And I'm like this.
And people are standing there, their mouth is this far away from their mouth, and they're spitting at them, and they're screaming at them.
And that soldier standing there, he wants to knock the hell out of the person, but he's not allowed to do anything.
So they just stand there and they they get abused, and the a woman was this far away from his face, and she starts spitting in his face, and he's not allowed to do anything.
If it's okay with you, generals and admirals, I've uh taken that off.
I say, they spit, we hit.
Is that okay?
I think so.
They spit, it's a new thing.
They spit, we hit.
How about the cars where the cars are coming out?
They get brand new cars, border patrol, ice, beautiful, nice new cars.
And they're driving along, and they have to go through a gauntlet of rocks being thrown at the car.
So here's this beautiful brand new car.
By the time it goes a hundred yards, it's destroyed.
These guys have pretty good arms, some of them.
And they're throwing bricks at full force into the window and into the car.
It looks like it's a war zone.
And I said, never let that happen again.
From now on, if that ever happens, and I say it here, you get out of that car and you can do whatever the hell you want to do.
Because those people are, you know, you can die from that.
Those bricks go through the windows.
You can die.
They'd like it to.
They'd like it to go through the window.
But this was a couple of months ago.
They just kept driving, and bricks are hitting the car.
And I said, why aren't they stopping?
Because they were under orders from the past Administration never stop.
But that's different with us.
We we stop.
And since I gave that order, we haven't had that problem.
It's very interesting.
It's amazing.
It's just like uh in Venezuela.
You've seen the boats going.
We can't find any more boats there.
They're carrying drugs.
Massive, every boat kills about 25,000 people.
That's what they have.
They had fentanyl mostly and a lot of other drugs.
And we take them out, and we've taken out four, so, and it's on air.
Everybody gets to see it.
Not that we like to do that.
But every boat kills 25,000 on average, 20, some people say more.
You know, you see these boats, they're stacked up with bags of white powder.
That's mostly fentanyl and other drugs too.
And now we have a problem.
General Kane says, sir, there are no boats out there.
Not even fishing boats.
They don't want to go fishing.
I don't blame them.
There'll be no fishing today, you know.
But it's uh amazing what strength will do because all we want to do is stop drugs from flowing into our country.
It's destroying.
We lost 300,000 people died last year.
Everybody knows friends, many friends probably, that you lost a child or adults too, but you lost a son or daughter because of what's coming into our border.
And uh we're making it very hard.
Oh, and we haven't even started yet.
Last month I signed an executive order to provide training for quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances.
This is gonna be a big thing for the people in this room because it's the enemy from within, and we have to handle it before it gets out of control.
It won't get out of control.
Once you're involved at all, they all joke, they say, Oh, this is not good.
You saw it in Washington.
We had gangs of trendy around, we said 10, 12, 15 kids, and these military guys walk up to them, and they treat them with disrespect, and they just got pounded.
They just got pounded, the gang just pounded, then thrown into paddy wagons and taken back to their country.
Some are so dangerous we don't want to even do that because we don't want to, some of uh stone coal murders.
We don't have the confidence, even though they're not coming back very easily.
Uh, we don't have the confidence.
We put them in jails.
But these service members are following in a great and storied military tradition, from protecting frontier communities to chasing outlaws and bandits in the wild west, and our history is filled with military heroes who took on all enemies, foreign and domestic.
You know that phrase very well.
That's what the oath says, foreign and domestic.
Well, we also have domestic.
George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Grover Cleveland, George Bush, and others all use the armed forces to keep domestic order and peace.
Many of our leaders used the military to keep peace.
Now they like to say, oh, you're not allowed to use the military.
And you know what the people say?
The people in those cities where they're being raped and shot and beat up.
You know what they say?
We love the military.
You ever see where they interview the people on the street?
I've never seen somebody say they don't, unless they're radical and paid off because a lot of these insurrectionists are paid by, whether it's Soros or other people, but they're paid by the radical left.
So today I want to thank every service member from general to private who has bravely helped us secure the nation's capital and make America safe for the American people.
It's amazing.
The whole world is watching.
Everybody in the White House, they come up to me, young women, sir, thank you.
I know immediately what they're thinking about.
They don't have to say it.
They walk to work now to the White House.
We haven't had a crime in Washington in so long.
Because we got the careers, we call them the careers.
We got these lunatics out.
And they'll never be any good.
You know, I hate to tell this to the to the liberal media.
You could spend time with them.
You could do whatever you want.
You could send them to the finer schools, which they couldn't get into anyway, mentally.
They couldn't get in.
But no matter what you do, they'll never be good.
They're bad.
They're they're career criminals.
So I don't know, maybe they were born that way.
Some people don't like me to Say that, but maybe they were, certainly some were.
Together with the leaders here today, we're also restoring a needed focus on defeating threats in the Western hemisphere throughout this region.
Cartel terrorists have been allowed to wage a relentless campaign of death and destruction on our country.
All because we had weak leadership on top.
And we did a great job with it first term, but uh this is something else what we're doing now.
We're taking it to the next level, probably next level times three.
But we had COVID come up, and we had to take care of that.
We did a great job with COVID.
We had the uh therapeutics, it was just regenerating.
So many things we did for COVID, but we had to focus on that, and every other country in the world was being decimated by COVID.
So we had to change gear a little bit to take care of that.
But under our leadership, the military is now the knife's edge in combating this sinister enemy.
We have to put the traffickers and cartels on notice, and we've done that.
And we put them a lot of them, we've uh called them a terrorist organization, which is actually a big thing to do, and nobody's done it, but I've done it with a lot of them.
It gives you a tremendous advantage.
If you try to poison our people, we will blow you out of existence.
Because that's the only language they really understand.
That's why you don't see any more boats on the ocean.
You don't see any boats around Venezuela, there's nothing.
As president, I will never hesitate to defend our people from threats of violence from the uh the horrible plague that's taking place from within the Iran nuclear power, the Iran, all of the the great power that we thought existed.
We blew it out to kingdom.
We took advantage of it, and we just really took advantage of it, and it was a beautiful thing to see, and that's what military power can achieve.
That's why I chose raising Cain.
He's fantastic, by the way.
I hope you all agree.
If anybody disagrees, could I please have your hand?
Who disappears at raising Cain is no good?
Just raise your hand.
I don't see any hands raised, all right.
That means you're okay.
That means that he's okay now.
But I saw his results.
You know, he he took out ISIS.
I was told it was going to take four years, it took four weeks.
I went to see him, and he took them out in four weeks, knocked him out, knocked him to hell.
And I was told by military people it was going to take four to five years to do it.
And I don't even know if we'll have it then, sir.
These were the Washington generals.
I call them the television generals.
But Raisin Cain did it in four weeks, took out 100% of the ISIS Caliphate.
As a result of these actions and many others since my inauguration, we're witnessing the triumphant return of peace through strength.
We have great peace through strength.
America is respected again as a country.
We were not respected with Biden.
They looked at him falling downstairs every day.
Every day, the guy's falling downstairs.
I said, it's not our president.
We can't have it.
I've I'm very careful.
You know, when I walk downstairs for, like I'm on stairs, like these stairs.
I'm very, I walk very slowly.
Nobody has to set a record.
Just try not to fall.
Because it doesn't work out well.
A few of our presidents have fallen, and it became a part of their legacy.
We don't want that.
Walk nice and easy.
You're not having you don't have to set any record.
Be cool.
Be cool when you walk down, but don't bop down the stairs.
So one thing with Obama, I had zero respect for him as a president, but he would bop down those stairs.
I've never said, he'd go down the stairs, wouldn't hold on.
I said, it's great.
I don't want to do it.
I guess I could do it, but eventually, bad things are going to happen.
And it only takes once.
But he did a lousy job as president.
A year ago, we were a dead country.
We were dead.
This country was going to hell.
We were dead in every way, from immigration to military.
We didn't have the weapons.
We're given everything to uh we were given everything to Ukraine.
We had nothing.
And by the way, I have to tell you, now, as you know, I went over and I met with NATO, and NATO raised from two to five, which everyone said 5% of GDP.
Millions and now trillions of dollars are pouring in.
They didn't pay the 2% because they know we were there to pay it.
And now they paid the 5%.
That's trillions of dollars.
And we're not spending any money on that war, not 10 cents.
We sell our equipment to NATO.
NATO pays us for the equipment, and they give it to Ukraine or whoever they give it to.
They can keep it, but we're not involved.
We have no money going out.
Biden gave 350 billion dollars.
Not sustainable.
350 billion.
And uh we have a war that should have never started, but we're not doing that anymore.
So I just want you to know we're selling equipment.
Our people are buying equipment, they're buying, uh, they are buying the equipment at full price, a fair price.
So I don't want to say we're making money because I don't want to say, I don't want to be making money on a war.
It's too many people dying.
They're losing 7,000 soldiers a week.
A lot of them are Russian soldiers, but between the two countries, mostly soldiers, by the way.
Sometimes, you know, in Kiev, they'll lob a missile in or some drones in, kill some people.
But mostly it's soldiers.
Russia and Ukraine are losing 7,000 souls.
And you know, they're not uh, they're not American, they're not us, they're not you, or have a special obligation.
But they're soldiers, they're young people, they leave their parents, they wave goodbye, and then two days later they're blown up so unnecessarily.
And so that's the primary reason I want to get it done.
Uh we got to get it done.
It's crazy what's going on.
That's the worst war that there's been since World War II.
The number of soldiers that are being killed there is just crazy.
From five to seven thousand soldiers die a week.
Think of that.
So I think we'll get that done.
But that's turned out to be the toughest one.
I'm so disappointed in President Putin.
I thought I I thought he would get this thing over with.
He should have had that war done in a week.
And I said to him, you know, you don't look good.
You're four years fighting a war that should have taken a week.
Are you a paper tiger?
And uh it's a shame.
But I think eventually we'll get that one done just like we in theory.
I want to knock on wood, because you never know.
It's like we're gonna have the Middle East done, which is actually a much harder thing to do.
I mean, thousands of years.
But we have to get that war done.
So now we're just think of it, we're a dead country.
I was with the King of Saudi Arabia, great guy.
I was with the emir of Qatar.
I was with the great leadership of UAE.
I was over there.
We brought back uh two trillion dollars and more.
They ordered 200 planes, Boeings, they order so much, and they were great.
But they all said essentially the same thing.
They said, one year ago, you were a dead country, and now you're the hottest country anywhere in the world.
We are we're the hottest country in the world right now.
The absolute hottest country in the world.
We have there's nobody even close.
Putin said that to me.
We met in Alaska, we had a good meeting.
Then he went back and started sending drones into Kiev.
I said, I thought we had a good meeting.
But it's one of those things.
But we were a dead country a year ago, and now we're the hottest country anywhere in the world.
Think of that.
You could be proud of that.
And you must have felt like hell when you have a wife or a husband at home, and you used to read the numbers that we can't get people to join the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard.
Uh you must have felt like, you know, I have a job that nobody wants.
That doesn't feel good.
Well, now you have a job that is brimming over with people wanting it.
They want it.
And you're able to get a much higher quality because now you have your choice.
You know, you want so many, and we're gonna have many, many people that aren't going to be able to join because of the fact that we don't, you know, we don't need them at this moment.
But think of it, how what a difference that is from I could just imagine two years ago, you're reading front-page articles in the New York Times, of course, and Wall Street Journal.
They always give us unfair stories.
But they played it so big, they were playing it so big.
Nobody wants to join the Army, the Marines, the Air Force.
They want to, they don't want to join.
They don't want to join the Coast Guard at all.
Nobody wants to join.
Nobody wants to join our police forces.
Our police forces also.
It's almost went hand in hand.
And I used to say, boy, uh, you know, I'm speaking in front of the military today, and it's embarrassing because I'm speaking in front of people who have a job that other people don't want, but now you have a job that everybody wants.
So I think that has to make you feel good.
It's one of the reasons I love being here today because I wanted to say that.
I have to say that everybody wants to be in the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marines.
If you think the Coast Guard and Space Force, our beautiful Space Force.
It's a whole different world.
And now they're signing up, by the way, seriously, big numbers for the police.
Dangerous job, isn't it, huh?
Fire department.
But that's the paving the way for progress once thought almost impossible.
I mean, a year ago, you wouldn't have thought that was possible.
A year ago, uh, they were talking about making the military smaller because they can't get the people to join.
We're thinking about making it larger because we have so many people.
And it's nice to be able to cut people because of merit that aren't really qualified for any reason.
A physical reason, a mental reason.
You don't have to take them anymore because you have you have the pick of the litter.
And they all want to be with you.
They all want your job, they want to be with you, they want to work with you.
They'll even take your job, you know.
Gotta be a little bit sharp, you gotta watch it.
But everybody wants to be doing what you're doing now.
What a difference.
When I speak to you, and I can say that as opposed to a couple of years ago when I was talking to rooms where they were desperate to get people and they couldn't get them.
What a difference a presidential election can make.
That's all it is.
It's just a presidential election.
Yesterday at the White House, we put forward a plan for peace in Gaza.
We announced it, and we're going to create something that was my idea, but unfortunately I got drafted.
It's going to be called the Board of Peace.
And it's going to reign over that territory, and uh we're going to get that done.
And they asked if I'd be the chairman of the Board of Peace.
I wasn't counting on that.
I had the idea for the Board of Peace.
But I'd said yes, and I guess because of that, every leader, every everybody wants to be on the Board of Peace.
And we're going to watch over that very volatile part of the world and keep it non-volatile.
So you don't have to get involved.
We want to save you for other things or save you for nothing from that standpoint.
We don't want you fighting wars.
But if you have to, you're going to be you're the most lethal fighting force in the world.
And I would say that even two, three years ago.
But now I say it with great enthusiasm.
It's so true.
And we're striving tirelessly to end the terrible war in Ukraine.
And as you know, we're also working hard to get the Allies to share more of the burden of our defense.
Much of that has really already taken place.
But all NATO members have committed to the increase that I talked about.
Think of that.
That was unthinkable.
It used to be 1%, then we got it up to two in my last term.
And uh they did not like it.
And now I got it to five.
And I get along great with all of them.
In fact, they call me the president of NATO.
I said I don't think so.
But they're great.
They're great people.
And they're spending a lot of, they're spending a lot of money and a lot of money that they should have been spending in the past.
But I think Putin was a wake-up call for them, really.
We're now selling large quantities of American-made weapons to NATO, and we're getting uh really fair pricing.
We're making a lot of money.
It's my hope that from Europe to Asia to the Middle East, our allies will make similar commitments to increase their military capabilities.
And this will greatly strengthen our alliances and also it'll make war far less likely.
You know, if you have a strong, if you're a strong uh presence like we are, we are such a strong presence now.
And I go around Bragging about that.
I've said we have the strongest military anywhere in the world.
I say it.
You never heard Biden say that.
Never heard him say anything.
But you never heard him say, did you ever hear him say we have the strongest military?
He doesn't say that.
I say it.
We have the strongest military anywhere in the world.
We have great leadership, and I'll tell you Pete and General Cain and all of the people that I've met that have been lifted up in rank.
And we got many of them out of here, too.
I'll be honest with you.
Didn't like doing it, but we got many of you out of here because we weren't satisfied.
We have we know everything about everybody.
It'll also help the United States rapidly rebuild our defense industrial base.
Each of you can play an important part in getting allies to do their part, so to that end.
Secretary Hegsteth will soon be announcing major reforms to streamline military acquisitions and expedite foreign military sales.
We have tremendous numbers of countries that want to buy our equipment.
And you know, many cases it takes too long.
They have backlogged, we're backlogged on all the equipment, which is something that's new to us a little bit.
And I told those companies, you better get your ass going because we're saying, you know, we're buying, we're selling you a lot of equipment.
We're getting countries to buy your equipment.
You got to produce the equipment.
Some of the countries I want to mention, but some of the countries are buying a lot.
And that's a good thing.
They're on our side 95%.
I'll never say 100%, because they can always turn, right?
You know about that.
But they're on our side.
The problem is we have to get the companies that make this equipment, and we we make the best equipment in the world, but they got to make it faster.
We have orders for the F-35, we have orders for everything, the new F-47, we have orders for everything.
They got to make it faster.
A lot faster.
Ammunition they have to make faster.
In the coming months, we'll be making even more historic announcements to fully embrace the identity of the Department of War.
I love the name.
I think it's so great.
I think it stops wars.
The Department of War is going to stop wars.
If we are as ruthless and relentless as our enemies, the United States Armed Forces will be totally unmatched in the future.
We have a group of enemies that are very ruthless and very smart, but they can't match us.
They can't match us, they don't even come close to matching us.
Again, you know, it's very important for me to say we are the greatest military in the world, but we make the best equipment in the world.
I watched our anti-missile missiles.
I watched our Patriots just knock things out like a needle hitting another needle on the stage.
There's a needle up there, and you send another needle up and it hits it every time.
During the war we went 14 for 14.
We had 14, this is where they ran.
We had 14 missiles coming at us.
All 14 were knocked out of the sky, every one of them.
We make the best equipment.
From Sparta to Rome to the British Empire, to the United States of America.
History has shown that military supremacy has never been simply a matter of money or manpower.
At the end of the day, it is the culture, spirit of our military that truly sets us apart from any other nation.
Our ultimate strength will always come from the fierce people and those brilliant people with such pride and the unbending will and the traditions of excellence that have made us the most unstoppable force ever to walk the face of the earth.
And that's what we are.
Remember, we never want to use it, but we have the most powerful nuclear capability, and I call it nuclear deterrent of any other country, nobody close.
The men and women in this room inherit the legacy built and won by Washington and Jackson, Grant and Pershing, Eisenhower and Patton, Nimitz and Lemay.
We carry forward the majestic military heritage passed down from father to son, soldier to soldier, and one generation of warriors to the next.
You are warriors, you know that, right?
You're great warriors.
Well, you wouldn't be in this room.
You're the best of the best.
From Concord Bridge to Fort McHenry, From Gettysburg to Manila Bay, from Normandy to Sicily, and from the jungles of Vietnam to the dusty streets of Baghdad.
America's military has charged into hellfire, climbed up jagged mountains, crossed roaring oceans, and thundered across open deserts to defend our flag, our freedom, and our homeland.
Nobody does it like you.
Now we are discovering American muscle, reasserting American might and beginning the next story chapter in American military legends and lore.
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That's L-O-R-E.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
It is lore.
When it comes to defending our way of life, nothing will slow us.
No enemy will stop us.
They're not they cannot stop us.
And no adversary will stand in our way.
They won't stand in our way.
We don't want them to stand in our way.
We don't want to even put them in that position, but they're not going to stand in our way ever again.
You'll never see four years like we had with Biden and that group of incompetent people that ran this country that should have never been there.
Because we had the United States military, the best of oldest, the bravest that the world has ever seen, that the world has ever known.
With leaders like we have right here in this beautiful room today, we will vanquish every danger and crush every threat to our freedom in every generation to come.
Because we will fight, fight, fight, and we will win, win, win.
I want to just thank you once again, and God bless the United States military and God bless America.
God bless you all.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
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Thank you.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Okay, President of the United States, that's not our feed, so obviously they always cut the music much quicker than we do here in Real Mercury's Voice.
President of the United States' historic um event today at Quantico, every flag officer in the United States military in attendance.
And the president, first the Secretary of War, then the uh president of the United States, and the president went over an hour.
Uh we have Senator Tuffer, we're gonna do a cold open in a moment.
Let's go to let's go to Senator Tupperville.
Senator Tupperville, uh, you're you've been very involved with the military since you came to the United States Senate.
Uh, give give me your assessment of what you heard this morning.
tommy tuberville ▲ ● ▼
Well, uh, I just heard a very very small part of it, Steve.
We've been in some classified hearings about uh a few things in the military, but at the end of the day, I really like what Pete uh uh said, or Secretary of uh war.
Uh we are no longer a woke military, and he said that to the leaders.
We've got a lot of leaders in this military that still believe in the Joe Biden Kamala Harris nonsense, and uh, we need to get that straightened up because it's about like a football team.
It's about your players, it's not about your coaches.
You gotta have good players, you gotta have good military people.
They got to believe in purpose.
They got to believe in our country, America first.
And uh I think he put his foot down.
Uh, I know he's been trying to do that across uh all of our military, but at the end of the day he had all the leaders there, and I didn't get to hear much of President Trump's speech, but uh I know we're in a scary world right now.
A lot of fires are burning.
President Trump's trying to put them out.
Russia won't cooperate.
Israel looks like we've got a chance there, but it better be about us.
We've got to get our team going.
We've got to get our military going.
We've got to put our foot down, and we got to start training more and not worrying about all the things that go along with this woke establishment.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
One of the things that Pete uh that Secretary of War hit him with, not just the woke and Web and I were getting rid of DEI, all this, no more guys walk around in dresses, that's all going away.
But he also directly addressed them about uh basically coming across as warriors, not just in the way they carry themselves, but also their physical fitness.
Uh, and he kind of left it out there that there may be there, there may be some folks in that room and not making the traveling squad.
Any thoughts on that?
tommy tuberville ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, uh exactly right.
I mean, you you get we you gotta be in shape.
Um, he's he's breaking down to where everybody's gonna have the same physical requirements.
Uh he's gonna put uh discipline back into the area of hey, you just can't turn into a slob, you know, just because you're uh even a uh three or four-star general.
You you've you've got to go by the rules, the regulations.
You've got to we gotta put together a military that's capable of fighting.
Uh Steve, just in the the hearings I've been in the last few weeks, it's getting more and more volatile across this across the world.
Number one, we got to protect ourselves here at homeland, but we also got to help help our allies to some degree.
But number one is America first, and President Trump continues to say that, and we can't fight unless we're in good shape, good physical shape, and understand that the young men and women that come out of high school or college, uh, you're here to represent the United States of America, but you have to be able to do the job and and be able to pass all the physical requirements.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Let's talk about the uh uh our strategy here.
Uh there's uh a bunch of articles today that talk about the national defense uh plan or the national defense policies, which is an annual.
Uh when uh we got to the White House in 17, we shifted from the war on terror to talk about great power struggle.
Of course, I pushed that the Chinese Communist Party is the focus that they also put where they forced uh some of the uh neocons forced the Russia situation in there too.
That was fine.
But there's now reports coming out that this new plan that you guys are gonna take a look at is coming out of the White House has really focused on hemispheric defense, which we think is great, but at the same time has even downplayed the situation in in China and look at China just as a potential Pacific threat and not a global threat.
Your your your thoughts on that you've been as close to this as anybody, particularly about defending the homeland.
But are you concerned that maybe we're we're de-emphasizing the Chinese Communist Party too much?
tommy tuberville ▲ ● ▼
Steve, at the end of the day, you're exactly right.
China, China, China.
You can talk about Russia all you want.
Uh Russia's economy is the size of California's.
Uh they can't uh they can't function.
Russia can't function unless China helps them.
And that's the reason President Trump's going after NATO saying, listen, quit buying Russian oil.
You're funding uh the Ukraine war.
Uh we're pumping money in, and but uh so is uh Europeans, but they're pumping money to Russia because they they're hard-headed and trying to buy all this oil from Russia.
But China is the problem.
We got to get over all that and start understanding China has an economy that's not very good, but whatever it is, they're taking almost 90 cents out of every dollar and putting it towards our military.
They are building for a war.
They are building to take over uh the free world.
Uh this president has made himself president of lifetime, uh Xi Ping, and uh he means business.
And the only way he can stay in that power is continue to build that military and show that he's somebody that means business.
So uh we can worry about Russia, we can worry about the Middle East, but at the end of the day, the people that can really do damage to us in a in a way that uh uh would be very harmful to the United States, America, and the free world is China.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
You know, there's uh some rumors coming out of Capitol Hill that the arms packages for Ukraine are are going through or at least being put together.
There's uh another arms package for Israel, but there's a potential hang up on a uh arms package for Taiwan.
Uh now I'm not asking to disclose any confidential, but is is that smart actually in the world we live in today, isn't shouldn't the Taiwan arms package take priority over Israel or Ukraine?
tommy tuberville ▲ ● ▼
Well, Taiwan has paid a lot of money to us for weapons.
Uh we have been slow go on delivering weapons to Taiwan.
Uh and that's happened ever since I've been here for the last four or five years.
Uh I don't know why that's happened, but that just it was caused by the Biden administration.
They just drugged their feet on it.
I think President Trump is updated.
He understands uh the significance of what would happen if China went into Taiwan.
Uh But at the end of the day, I have not voted for a dime to go to Ukraine.
And I know that Russia is trying to push the narrative here of of flying these drones over Poland and some of these other countries.
But again, I'm going to go back to my uh original thought here.
It's about China.
It's about China.
We cannot get our eye off the ball.
That's what Russia is doing.
They're trying to get us to take our eye off the ball, knowing that China is building up, and we're not going to be able to stay up with them if we continue to flush money to uh Ukraine.
I don't think the president's gonna give money.
I think he went to Europe a couple of weeks ago and said, listen, y'all gonna y'all are gonna have to step up to the plate here and start paying your own way.
We can't do it anymore.
We've got to build a golden dome.
We've got to help uh build up our military because we are not near where we used to be, and we've got to make sure that we put America first, especially the American military.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Uh Senator, can you hang on for one second when I hold you through the break?
Uh got a couple more questions and particularly want to ask you about the government shutdown and maybe some uh activity down in uh the great state of Alabama.
Real quickly, have you with the with the Alabama being one of the most MAGA states with the great Patriots?
Have you ever gotten any blowback from folks down there about your sitting there going, I'm not voting for any of this Ukraine stuff?
We got about 30 seconds.
tommy tuberville ▲ ● ▼
Not one time, not one part of I've been able been pushed back on.
And we've got what, six military bases, we've got defense contractors, we have uh now we have space command coming back.
Uh I think people understand it.
I think people in Alabama understand it more than a lot of people, because we are a military state that uh China is the one that we gotta uh push back on.
And we just waste money, Steve.
We waste, waste, waste more money, and we can't continue to do that and be the world uh power that we need to be.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Senator Tubberville, hang on for one second.
We'll take a short commercial break.
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Uh Senator, midnight tonight, government shut down the great Russ vote, one of our contributors here for years, uh, has got a plan to say, hey, essential, non-essential, and uh nonessential.
You know, maybe we start having some reductions in forces, maybe we have mass layoffs.
Reuters are reporting and verifying this rumors going around.
I think up to a hundred thousand Federal employees, it looks like according to Reuters, have tendered their resignations because they want to get out on this fiscal year and not wait around till any kind of challenges to whatever they're doing next fiscal year.
Your your sense of how President Trump has played this and tell me, do you support Russ Votes plan?
tommy tuberville ▲ ● ▼
Oh, 100%.
Uh this is a bloated government, Steve.
We cannot continue down this same path.
We've got way too many people that are in position, have been here too long, and you can't fire them.
Uh, you know, I don't know how they get in a position where if you don't do your job or you're not adequate or you're not needed anymore, uh, you can just sit there and remain in in uh in a role and take the taxpayers' money.
Uh you know, I just I don't believe in that.
So this would be a great opportunity if they did shut it down.
And again, I'm I'm not for shutting it down just to be shutting it down.
I think the really shut big shutdown is gonna be the next one.
But if they want to shut it down now, uh they give give Russ uh an opportunity to start combining agencies.
Uh let's let's put energy with the EPA.
Uh let's do all kinds of things where we can cut back on this bloated government.
The American taxpayers can't afford this nonsense.
And this would be a great time.
So please, Chuck Schumer, talk your folks into shutting it down and let's shut this thing down and start cutting people and sending them and and doing other jobs.
There's a lot of jobs out there.
And so uh yeah, I uh again, I I think the best time to shut it down would be the next uh uh vote, which would be what, a month, month and a half.
But uh if they want to shut it down now, that's so be it.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
You're giving folks inside baseball.
I want to just explore for a second.
You're saying, hey, look, this is a CR that goes to the 21st of November, clean CR.
we hate CRs, but clean CR to 21st of November.
These guys want to continue to fund illegal alien health care and other craziness, so that's not gonna happen.
But your point is the next one, when you gotta look at they're gonna try to jam an omnibus.
Your your colleagues up there in the Senate.
Uh one of the reasons you're leaving and going to run you're running for governor of Alabama is that you you've you've had enough of the madness up there.
But that's going to be the big one, right?
When we have to face because they refuse uh the the legislature up there, the House and the Senate to refuse to make any significant cuts, and Russ and the president had to depend upon rescinds and pocket rescissions, but these are symbolically important, but they're kind of on the margin.
So that's what you're saying next time in mid-November.
If we if we go with this today, by 21st of November is going to be the uh that's gonna be the big fight.
tommy tuberville ▲ ● ▼
Oh, that's gonna be the showdown uh because they want another trillion dollars there for illegals getting all kind of uh welfare and insurance, and uh again that they want to cut back on on one of the few good things uh that they even looked at is is the money now for rural health care.
But at the end of the day, Steve, they they want a bloated government.
They don't want to do a budget.
The American taxpayers deserve a budget.
We haven't done one since I've been here in five years.
Chuck Schumer, all he wanted to do was these bloated omnibus bills where you put all this stuff in there, and we can't afford it.
We don't have any money.
I don't know where they think they're gonna get money.
Uh but you know this this place lives on in a in a in a in a fairy fairyland world up here.
And uh if we don't do something, like combine agencies, cut people back, put them out in in uh in public life, uh, we're not gonna have the world that uh or the country that you and I had an opportunity to grow up in.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
No, you're not covered with the productivity.
Before I let you go, uh there's some discussion that uh the Paul Feinbaum, the uh the amazing football analyst down in uh Alabama that now's a national figure is on ESPN.
He has said that the Charlie Kirk assassination has moved him so much in the response of the country and particularly the memorial service, he's actually thinking of getting in and running for the United States Senate.
Uh your thoughts, sir.
tommy tuberville ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, it would be my seat, and we've had two or three people already running, qualifying ends at the end of January.
So he's got time to get in.
Then it's a five-month race to uh May with where you have the primary.
I've known Paul a long time, and Paul would is just a commentator that created uh division between uh uh fans on both sides of whatever teams he wanted to talk about that day on the radio or TV.
And he he had a dialogue.
I'm gonna tell you, Paul's smart, uh he loves the country.
Uh again, been a friend of mine for a long time.
I have not talked with him about it.
I did an interview with him about 30 minutes about uh two months ago, uh face to face, and it went well.
But uh uh, you know, I tell you he's got a hundred percent name ID in Alabama, and he'd have a lot of big people behind him.
He would be a force in the race if he decided to get into it.
But uh again, I'm I'm for people that comes up here that don't want to be in politics.
They want to come up and help.
And so uh I'm I don't support any of them.
I don't there's no reason for me to get involved, but uh uh Paul's a good guy, a good friend.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Uh but your experience was you came up there, and I think the reason that you've been such a big hit here on the war room, you talk very straight, you don't mince words, you're you you just tell it like it is, and you've been shocked, like this whole thing with the budget.
You've been shocked that that the Democratic Party and even part of the Republican establishment will not address the fundamental needs of the country.
One is that we've got to stop printing money.
If we don't do that, we're gonna destroy this country.
And I think you've been shocked about that, haven't you?
tommy tuberville ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, quantitative easing, you know, was has been a disaster.
Uh the open borders, the the law enforcement.
There's no Democratic Party anymore.
It's all a bunch of communists and socialists, and they can't tell the truth.
They will look you in the face and they'll lie when the truth they know the truth is better.
Uh Steve, but uh, you know, it's a that this place is a god awful mess.
And that's the reason President Trump had to get elected.
Uh he had to come in and restore some order to it.
Now he's got people fighting him from both sides from the Senate and Republicans and the House.
I mean, and the and Democrats, uh, they want it their way.
They come up here to get reelected instead of doing what they should be doing is make a decision for their state and their country.
Um That's your job.
But we don't do that.
We've got these people that know better than everybody else, and they fight back against President Trump.
And and uh, but again, uh it it's uh it's better since President Trump's here.
But now we got a chance.
Please shut this government down and let's start cutting folks.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Midnight tonight.
Senator Tubberville, social media, where do people go to follow you, sir?
tommy tuberville ▲ ● ▼
Uh at Senator Tupperville.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Pretty simple.
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate you coming on.
tommy tuberville ▲ ● ▼
Thanks, Steve.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Thank you.
Father was a D-Day.
Man has a great love for his country and is a great patriot.
Short commercial break.
We're gonna break down Pete Hexeth's talk to the flag officers.
Senator Josh Hawley's gonna join us also.
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