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| C-SPAN viewers are very familiar with our next guest. | ||
| It is author columnist Substacker Ann Coulter. | ||
| Ms. Coulter, the last time you were on this program was a couple months before the 2024 election. | ||
| As we sit here today, close to 100 days into the second Trump administration. | ||
| What do you think these first 100 days will be remembered for? | ||
| The most wonderful 100 days in United States history. | ||
| I can't believe how great Trump is. | ||
| If you've followed my work assiduously, you know, I campaigned with Trump when he was running in 2016. | ||
| He did ask for a copy of my book, Adios America. | ||
| A lot of the immigration stuff came from that. | ||
| Huge fan. | ||
| I was ecstatic the night he won. | ||
| And then he hired Jared Kushner and Gary Cohn and turned the keys of the kingdom over to Wall Street. | ||
| And it was basically, you know, Jeb Bush. | ||
| So I gently encouraged him to go back to the great stuff he had campaigned on. | ||
| I showed up in the Oval Office. | ||
| I didn't release this, but it came out. | ||
| I think the yelling and cursing was so loud in the Oval Office about three months into his first term and just yelled at him. | ||
| And I wasn't the first one to use the F word, but oh boy, did that fly because he wasn't keeping his promises on trade, on anchor babies, and especially the wall, the wall, the wall. | ||
| I say that to say I think we're actually kind of lucky that he lost in 2020 and that the left spent four years absolutely persecuting him, prosecuting the absurd things they went after him and his supporters for. | ||
| And apparently that made him mad. | ||
| So term two, I'm getting everything I voted for. | ||
| I mean, even more. | ||
| I can't believe it. | ||
| Every day, it's things I didn't even think of. | ||
| Yes, the water pressure, the showers, the toilets, the going after the universities, the anchor baby executive order, which I understand as of yesterday will be going before the Supreme Court. | ||
| I'm very happy about that. | ||
| Congress should pass a law to make it permanent, but hopefully the Supreme Court will rule the right way because I believe the law, as I described in Adios America, is absolutely clear on that, which I'm happy to elaborate on. | ||
| And I want to get to that, but you say you can't believe it. | ||
| I want to show viewers just 30 seconds from just a couple months before election 2024, and we were talking about your views on Donald Trump being re-elected. | ||
| I want to show viewers what you had to say back then. | ||
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Ms. Coulter, who are you going to vote for in this election? | |
| Well, Donald Trump, because if he loses, he will be running again in four years. | ||
| And then he will have lost four successive elections for us. | ||
| And, you know, truthfully, I really like his choice of JD Vance, which I had recommended back in May. | ||
| Can't trust Trump as far as I can throw him, but I do trust JD Vance to care about the left-behind people. | ||
| Ed Coulter, what was it that caused this change from your opinion to today? | ||
| Was it a JD Vance pick? | ||
| Is it the people that Donald Trump is surrounding him with? | ||
| Or is it he's just unexpectedly running the country different than he did last time? | ||
| Oh my gosh, is it different? | ||
| I mean, all of those things. | ||
| But apparently, you don't want to make Donald Trump mad because, I mean, I don't even want to remember the things I didn't like about him first term because I'm so ecstatic second term. | ||
| But, you know, I mean, he won in 2016 with regular Americans, with the working class, with the left behind, with people like me and all of my friends in New York who've been waiting for a Republican candidate or any candidate our entire lives to run on the basket of issues that Trump was running on. | ||
| No more permanent wars. | ||
| Immigration, immigration, immigration, and bringing manufacturing and trade back to America. | ||
| Those were the three big things Donald Trump ran on in the end of political correctness. | ||
| And then he gets into office and he's on the horn with Maggie Haberman every day and sucking up to the New York Times and sucking up to Wall Street. | ||
| And hey, where's the wall? | ||
| What happened to the wall? | ||
| So let's just put that behind us. | ||
| The good news is he's come out of the gate firing on all cylinders this time. | ||
| I mean, every day, I'm in heaven. | ||
| I can't believe how magnificent he is. | ||
| This is absolutely what I voted for in 2016. | ||
| Took a little while, but we got the real Donald Trump now. | ||
| I think it's the real Donald Trump. | ||
| You mentioned the birthright citizenship case. | ||
| Do you think that the Trump administration and the federal judiciary are on some sort of collision course here for some sort of constitutional crisis? | ||
| No, no. | ||
| I think the constitutional crisis is district court judges and the judiciary defying the powers of the presidency. | ||
| I mean, it's really unbelievable. | ||
| The Supreme Court has repeatedly held for 100 years, immigration is part of the plenary power of the president, and sometimes in surprising extensive ways, because it's part of his control over foreign policy. | ||
| So, for example, under Clinton, Janet Reno and Bill Clinton sent a poor little eight-year-old boy back to a communist dictatorship. | ||
| And the families had won in court, one in court, one in court. | ||
| The father he was being sent back to was not married to the mother under standard American state law on that. | ||
| He didn't have rights to the kid. | ||
| But courts ruled, nope, immigration is totally up to Bill Clinton. | ||
| If they want to send the eight-year-old boy back to a communist dictatorship, they win over state law. | ||
| That Arizona, I won't go through all of them, but that famous papers please law by Arizona written by the magnificent Chris Koback, denounced right and left. | ||
| It was the papers please part of that law, and that was when Arizona law enforcement officials, if they pull over someone for a reason, and he seems to be, they have probable cause to believe it's an illegal, they can ask for him to prove his citizenship. | ||
| And by the way, immigrants are required to carry papers with them. | ||
| That's been the law for a long time and hold him. | ||
| So their position was, okay, Obama is not enforcing federal immigration law written on the books. | ||
| Obama has decided not to follow it. | ||
| But we're going to follow it. | ||
| We won't go beyond federal law. | ||
| Goes up to the Supreme Court and they say, nope, if the president doesn't want to follow immigration law, well, that's his prerogative. | ||
| Plenary power. | ||
| So those are just a few examples of this is 100% in the president's presidential powers. | ||
| The court, district courts do not have authority to do this. | ||
| And just one other quick point on that. | ||
| Something that I think all Americans have lost sight of because the Supreme Court's kind of lost sight of it. | ||
| And that is the Supreme Court, all courts, are not supposed to be writing law. | ||
| They are not supposed to be writing policy. | ||
| What they are doing is deciding cases between two people, two or institutions, the parties. | ||
| And that's it. | ||
| They are ruling on a case between two parties. | ||
| So for example, quick, easy example, the Supreme Court's affirmative action decision, or race discrimination decision, a couple of years ago against North Carolina and Harvard. | ||
| Technically, the court's ruling applied only to North Carolina and Harvard. | ||
| But by implication, that meant other universities probably shouldn't keep discriminating on the basis of race because you could just keep taking those cases up to the Supreme Court. | ||
| But it wasn't announcing a policy the way Congress can write a law. | ||
| And people have forgotten that. | ||
| And these district court judges seem to want to take presidential powers and also not just decide cases between the two parties, but nationwide injunction, which is the equivalent of writing a law. | ||
| No surprise, phone lines lit up for you, Ann Coulter. | ||
| I can promote them as well, though. | ||
| Republicans, Democrats, and Independents, we'll put the numbers on the screen. | ||
| But we'll start on our line for Democrats. | ||
| This is Raymond in Florida, in Seminole, Florida. | ||
| You are up first with Ann Coulter. | ||
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Hey, guys, how you doing? | |
| Doing well. | ||
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Yeah, Ian, I just want to push back a little bit on something you said as far as the wall and being disappointed with him in the first term. | |
| I don't know what else the guy could have done. | ||
| He offered him, what, $1.2 million instead of $800,000 on the DACA. | ||
| He got the military involved, the OD. | ||
| He tried to pass all sorts of laws. | ||
| I mean, as president, he can only do so much, so you've got to admit that. | ||
| As far as the judiciary, I agree with you 100%. | ||
| You can't have a guy with one district basically dictating the law for the nation. | ||
| So that stuff needs to stop. | ||
| And I'm actually very proud of the Supreme Court. | ||
| I think they've done a wonderful job. | ||
| Tony Barrett, I'm a little disappointed with her. | ||
| Not that she needs to stick with the conservative judges, but I think she's kind of been all over the board. | ||
| So I'm kind of interested. | ||
| And Raymond, you say that as a Democrat, you're calling on our line for Democrats. | ||
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Democrat. | |
| I don't know if you know what that means or not, but basically you put this out of the party. | ||
| I'm from Massachusetts, obviously. | ||
| You can hear my accent. | ||
| I can't live in that domain anymore. | ||
| Those people are like whack jobs up here. | ||
| Now, my best friend Kevin up there, we talk all the time. | ||
| He still lives up there. | ||
| He's moving to Florida. | ||
| That's where I'm from, obviously. | ||
| I call it the free state of Florida. | ||
| So I just want Ann's opinion on Cody Barrett. | ||
| Ann Coulter. | ||
| Okay, first of all, Raymond, you are so my favorite kind of Democrat. | ||
| And I'm only slightly joking when I say that obviously we agree on a lot of things there. | ||
| That was, I think, the great thing about Trump from 2016 and now, or Trump campaign, and now the actual Trump. | ||
| The parties really had become the unit party. | ||
| No matter which party won the presidency, we were going to be going to war. | ||
| Taxes would be cut for Wall Street, and really nothing else would get done. | ||
| Your kids would still be discriminated against applying to college. | ||
| Criminals and illegals would still be moving into your neighborhoods. | ||
| I mean, it's like a nightmare remembering Jim Bush talking about illegal immigration being an act of love. | ||
| And that was the big thing in W's second term as soon as he got re-elected. | ||
| Okay, we're going to push amnesty. | ||
| It was just unbelievable. | ||
| And I mean, before the 2016 election, I felt like my, I don't know, a month before the election, my entire job was going out every night in New York and persuading Bernie Sanders supporters that they were way closer to Donald Trump than to Hillary Clinton. | ||
| Trump and I think JD Vance have moved the Republican Party obviously in the direction of a populist party that ought to be appealing to old-time Democrats. | ||
| I mean, one of the most obvious examples that kind of blew me away, that what's his name, the head of the UAW, Sean Fane, maybe. | ||
| Yeah, that's it. | ||
| Oh man, when I'd watch him at Kamala rallies during the campaign, I wanted to shoot my TV. | ||
| He was so obnoxious. | ||
| Trump comes out with the tariffs to bring auto manufacturing back to America, something I highly approve of. | ||
| And suddenly, Sean Fane is singing his praises. | ||
| I want a party of the American people, the middle class, the working class that have genuinely been left behind over the party of elites and their foreign servants. | ||
| To Humble Texas, this is Thomas Independent. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
| You're on with Ann Coulter. | ||
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Hey, good morning, America. | |
| Hey, Ann. | ||
| I love you, boy. | ||
| You're just amazing. | ||
| I've won all kinds of bets. | ||
| I met a friend of mine the other day. | ||
| I said, well, wouldn't America become energy independent? | ||
| And he said, oh, well, Trump's. | ||
| I said, no, it's been that way for the longest. | ||
| And so that was another $50 bet. | ||
| But anyway, is this now Trump's economy and oh, yes. | ||
| And when will he end the wars in Gaza and Israel? | ||
| Because he said, you know, on day one, we'll get this together. | ||
| We're 100 days in counting. | ||
| I love you, Ann. | ||
| Man, great. | ||
| Keep up the good work. | ||
| And, hey, change your mind anytime you get ready. | ||
| Take care. | ||
| Ann Coulter. | ||
| As for the economy, I mean, obviously, I think these tariffs are really important and vital. | ||
| And I think it's really important to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. | ||
| I would think everyone would think that after COVID, you have this supply chain disruption, and suddenly for the first time, I find out we don't make any of our own medicine. | ||
| We don't make our own aspirin. | ||
| I mean, this is a national security issue in many ways when we're not building our own ships. | ||
| A country should be largely self-sustaining. | ||
| This is a particular beef of mine. | ||
| It's always annoyed me that when Democrats act like they're offering these wonderful things to the American people, we'll give you family and medical leave. | ||
| And here's another ground on which you can sue your employer for discrimination. | ||
| Hey, yay, isn't that great? | ||
| Okay, every time Democrats pass these things, making it more expensive to hire an American worker, Republicans shouldn't just be saying, oh, this doesn't make sense economically. | ||
| They should be saying, Democrats are sending your job to China. | ||
| They're sending your job to Mexico. | ||
| And I firmly believe, and I wish someone smarter than I am who's an economist would run the numbers on this. | ||
| I think an awful lot of the cost of hiring Americans isn't the wages. | ||
| It isn't standard medical care, that sort of thing. | ||
| It's having to have a phalanx of lawyers on retainer the entire time for when you get sued by your employees. | ||
| It's having lawyers to deal with OSHA, with EPA. | ||
| Now, obviously, some regulations are necessary. | ||
| We don't want to have China's slave labor, and we won't. | ||
| But these gifts the Democrats claim they are giving employers have just put them out of work. | ||
| To New York, this is Jim, Republican Line. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Is that me? | |
| That's you, Jim. | ||
| You're on with Anne Culture. | ||
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Hi. | |
| This is great, Anne. | ||
| You know, I can't think of a better guest I'd want to talk to because they always have these pencil pushes and everybody else on here who don't know what's going on. | ||
| Now, let me give you an example of something you left out in your book. | ||
| And I don't know how you know all this stuff. | ||
| I'm steeped in this stuff right here in this town. | ||
| I go to all the town meetings. | ||
| We're now censored on the government channel. | ||
| Here's an example of something that's going on around here that nobody's talking about. | ||
| Many of these houses are single-family houses where I live right now. | ||
| You'd love to get out of here, but who can afford it? | ||
| So the thing is, you've got nine adults or more in a single-family house. | ||
| And the house is taxed as a single-family house. | ||
| And just as an example, my school taxes are about $3,600 a year. | ||
| So you got nine people, nine adults paying that. | ||
| They're paying $400, and I'm paying a full price. | ||
| And I'm subsidizing their kids because they've got nine adults plus kids in these houses. | ||
| You wouldn't believe how packed this neighborhood is. | ||
| Cars on the sidewalk, cars on the lawn. | ||
| It's a mess. | ||
| I got parties and so on. | ||
| And Jim, what neighborhood in New York are you in? | ||
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Centralized. | |
| Look, it's a disaster. | ||
| I go to all the town hall meetings. | ||
| You were talking about town hall meetings. | ||
| But we have been censored. | ||
| They have a government channel. | ||
| Wait, could I ask you a question? | ||
| These nine people in the house, are you talking about immigrants? | ||
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Oh, yeah. | |
| It's all Spanish here. | ||
| You know, I mean, you go to the. | ||
| Well, that's kind of a crucial point. | ||
| You dropped. | ||
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Well, you're gone. | |
| Yes, that's a huge problem. | ||
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We got evicted. | |
| We got evicted in the 60s from East Meadow. | ||
| And I said it to town hall when we got the eviction notice because my father lost his job. | ||
| We didn't call up our relatives in Europe and say, could you come over here and live in our house and get a job and help pay for the mortgage? | ||
| Jim, got your story out on Long Island. | ||
| Ann Culture, give you a chance to respond. | ||
| He dropped the crucial point. | ||
| I was guessing when he was talking about nine people in a house, because, yeah, that's a huge problem. | ||
| And as I and my friend Ryan Jorduski and others keep pointing out on Twitter, the reason housing costs have gone through the roof is, well, for one thing, we have at least 40 million illegal aliens in this country. | ||
| That was true in 2015 when I wrote Adios America. | ||
| The explanation is in that book. | ||
| The way they do it now, it's been 11 million my entire life, allegedly. | ||
| They ask people, are you an immigrant and are you here legally? | ||
| Okay, there might be a better way to count this. | ||
| So a couple of economists from Bear Stearns have done some studies on this. | ||
| Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists studied the issue for a year. | ||
| And the figures they came to in 2015 was 40 million. | ||
| So yeah, get rid of an extra 50 million people. | ||
| And what the caller was mentioning is absolutely true, and not just in central Icelip. | ||
| I have a friend in Brooklyn whose house kept burning down because these illegals don't have, they're not paying for electricity. | ||
| They're stealing electricity. | ||
| They're fiddling around with electric lines. | ||
| Fires are constantly going off. | ||
| He's totally right about, I mean, okay, I admire people for working hard if they are working and not collecting welfare, but not our problem. | ||
| It makes the mass of both legal and especially illegal immigrants are creating fire hazards. | ||
| They are bringing diseases, as many medical journals, they probably aren't admitting it now, they've all gone PC, bringing diseases that were long eradicated in this country. | ||
| They're not being checked. | ||
| I mean, we have to get COVID cards to go into a restaurant in New York. | ||
| But no, they're not checking the illegals, the 10 million, 20 million that Biden was bringing in. | ||
| They're not being checked for COVID, for measles, for leprosy, for Ebola. | ||
| So you have the diseases, you have the unfair or rather unsafe electricity, and you have housing costs through the roof because we have an extra at least 50 million people here now. | ||
| Nacy is next out of Southfield, Michigan, Line for Democrats. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
| You're on with Ann Coulter. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| I wonder, do Ms. Carter know that coming across the border illegal is not a felon, is a misdemeanor. | ||
| And for her to talk about immigrants like that, we all are immigrants. | ||
| The only true Americans are. | ||
| We're not all Indians. | ||
| Yes, we are. | ||
| No, they're not Americans. | ||
| We're not living in Navajo Nation. | ||
| We're living in the United States of America. | ||
| It was created. | ||
| It was built. | ||
| It was founded by Western Europeans. | ||
| That's what made it America. | ||
| You're not living in Cherokee Nation. | ||
| So yeah, we're not all immigrants. | ||
| In fact, I think at least half of all Americans trace their ancestry back to people who were here in 1790. | ||
| And that's about when we probably should have cut off immigration. | ||
| Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Nixon. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
| You're on with Ann Coulter. | ||
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Yeah, good morning, Ann. | |
| I spoke to John about this a while back. | ||
| Why do we have military bases all around the world? | ||
| We only should have military bases on our borders. | ||
| I couldn't agree more. | ||
| I could not agree more. | ||
| I am 100% with you. | ||
| When you look at, I mean, I don't remember now, but every once in a while I look it up and put it in a column. | ||
| It's absolutely enraging how many troops we have around the world. | ||
| I mean, I really think our military at this point, I really like Pete Hegseth, and hopefully he can do a lot about this, but our military has become a gigantic welfare program with a tiny little group of warriors attached. | ||
| And you are completely right. | ||
| The point of the military is to defend this country. | ||
| It is not to be flinging troops around the world. | ||
| And by the way, when we have these bases all over the world, okay, you know, somebody, I'm not saying this is deserved, but you're sitting ducks. | ||
| You have some other country fire at one of our troops, and suddenly we have to go to war because, oh, they killed an American or they wounded an American or they bombed an American base. | ||
| Well, maybe don't have bases all over the world. | ||
| Just be Fortress America. | ||
| You mentioned Pete Hegseth. | ||
| Coming back to the first 100 days, what was your take on the signal chat leak story? | ||
| I think it was entirely Tim, no, his name is Mike Waltz. | ||
| He was the one who invited Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic, an absolute ferocious lunatic opponent of Donald Trump's. | ||
| He's the one who pushed what I consider a defamatory lie about Trump calling our troops suckers and losers. | ||
| I mean, you don't have to watch too much of Donald Trump to see how he reveres the military. | ||
| That I am just absolutely not believing. | ||
| And that's who this guy, former representative, Mike Waltz, he has this guy on the speed dial. | ||
| And I think he does have him on the speed dial because contrary to my preference and the preference of several of the callers so far, I don't think we should be constantly at war with pipsque little countries that pose no danger to a hair on any American's head. | ||
| But Waltz was a big, a big permanent war guy. | ||
| So yeah, of course he had Goldberg on a speed dial. | ||
| I can't believe Trump hasn't fired him. | ||
| He has no self-respect. | ||
| About 15 minutes left with Ann Coulter this morning on the Washington Journal. | ||
| A good way to connect with her if you'd like to do that is via her substack. | ||
| It is unsafe is the name of the sub stack. | ||
| And one thing you do on that sub stack is often talk about the five stories that we may have missed this week. | ||
| What are going to be your five stories this week? | ||
| You know, I was realizing, thinking about her, maybe doing them last week, that sometimes some of the five stories, I mean, they're not all like stupid stories about, oh, the chess champion. | ||
| So sometimes it's a big story that you've heard of, but you haven't heard the points I need to make about it. | ||
| So maybe I should rename it. | ||
| Not just the usual conservative blather. | ||
| Because I will mention the big stories, mention them. | ||
| So I'm thinking this week, real ID. | ||
| This is, oh, this is driving me crazy for two reasons. | ||
| One is instead of having, boy, talk about papers please, forcing Americans to give all this information to the government and prove to them who we are. | ||
| How about we get rid of airport security altogether? | ||
| I mean, the record on airport security, for one thing, wastes an enormous amount of time. | ||
| It's a ridiculous hassle. | ||
| Whenever they do tests on airport security, they have, you know, their test people getting through with every possible form of armament there is. | ||
| So it stops nothing. | ||
| The TSA, Homeland Security itself, admitted just a few years after 9-11, you know, they're listening to all the chatter among the terrorists. | ||
| Nobody's planning on doing that again, and for good reason. | ||
| That was a sucker punch, 9-11. | ||
| You can't pull that off twice. | ||
| It used to be that, you know, you'd hear of a hijacking. | ||
| It was, take me to Cuba, take me to Algeria. | ||
| There had never been one where a commercial airline was turned into a missile like that. | ||
| Now you would need at least half the plane to be terrorists in order to take over the plane. | ||
| Otherwise, they're going to, I mean, even the fourth plane on 9-11, they couldn't pull it off because the passengers found out what was in store for them. | ||
| So of course that's what everyone is going to be anticipating. | ||
| We don't need it at all. | ||
| There's no chatter that anyone is trying to do. | ||
| They have not stopped weapons getting through. | ||
| Let the airlines do their own security. | ||
| Their business will go down rather dramatically if one of their planes is overtaken by a terrorist and flown into the World Trade Center. | ||
| They know most of their passengers. | ||
| I think I looked up, this was in a column recently, 70 to 80%, I think it might be 80%, of travelers in the U.S. belong to a frequent flyer program. | ||
| The airlines know 80% of the people flying with them. | ||
| But we have to go through and take your shoes off and be sexually molested, little old ladies going through. | ||
| It's preposterous. | ||
| But now this is the problem. | ||
| Government programs never ever go away. | ||
| Okay, Trump's done a lot of great things. | ||
| Get rid of the TSA. | ||
| Let airlines do their own security. | ||
| And, oh, other point about real ID. | ||
| And this is my main point. | ||
| I already have a real ID. | ||
| It's called a driver's license. | ||
| But why do we need an extra real driver's license? | ||
| Because about 20 states are giving driver's licenses to illegal aliens. | ||
| Hey, don't give them to illegal aliens. | ||
| So, when these same states give the real ID to illegal aliens, are we going to have to get a real, real ID? | ||
| A real, you know, real ID? | ||
| How long will this go on for us to accommodate people who have no right to be in our presence? | ||
| Second story, I'm thinking, I don't know what order this will be in. | ||
| I've been giving updates on Maryland man, mostly because, I mean, this is just my little vindication story. | ||
| I've always insisted I could decide every immigration case before breakfast, and I could do it on Tinder. | ||
| Just give me a picture, and I'll let you know: is this an immigrant that's going to, I want immigrants who are better than us, not worse than us, not immigrants we need to support. | ||
| And I'm talking about legal immigrants. | ||
| The Maryland man, Garcia, he is an illegal alien, and two immigration judges have found that he was a member of MS-13. | ||
| We find out this week that his wife brought domestic, got a restraining order against him, and her own handwriting said how he hit her, he scratched her eye, he did it all in front of their infants. | ||
| And the Democratic Party has staked its claim. | ||
| I love Representative Van Holland flying to El Salvador to bring a criminal back to America. | ||
| Okay, what was a third story I was thinking of? | ||
| Well, I'll tell you: the big finale is going to be the big finale of my, not the finale of the religion, but the finale of the story of my religion. | ||
| It's Easter this weekend. | ||
| So I have a little rap on Christianity at the end. | ||
| What else am I going to do? | ||
| Do you want to save the last two for unsafe readers if they want to come to the sub stack and find out? | ||
| Yes, be surprised. | ||
| There's some great stuff there. | ||
| And it's coming out today. | ||
| I talk about five stories you may not have heard of, but some of them, stories big, but my take isn't. | ||
| Plenty of callers here, and just about 10 minutes left. | ||
| This is David in Independence, Louisiana, Independent. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
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Good morning, you Scots. | |
| Happy Easter. | ||
| Mr. John, look, I've been paying my service provider bill since it was $18 a month. | ||
| So please give me just a second without turning my channel. | ||
| Good morning, Miss Ann. | ||
| My mama was named Miss Ann. | ||
| Look, I appreciate your attitude, and I appreciate Washington Journal having someone like you on. | ||
| I have nothing to do with the Wall Street Journal. | ||
| I hate the Wall Street Journal. | ||
| I'm at war with the Wall Street Journal. | ||
| They are the permanent war open borders crowd. | ||
| I think he said thanks to the Washington Journal for having you on. | ||
| Oh, that may just be my ears that I'm about to attack the Wall Street Journal anyway. | ||
| David, what's your question? | ||
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Well, I'm missing a few teeth here in the front. | |
| I must sound a little bit different. | ||
| God bless y'all. | ||
| But look, you talking about Trump is fantastic as 100 days. | ||
| I prayed for years, man, all through most of my life, to see a real leader. | ||
| Instead of these talk out of both sides of their mouth at the same time and lie at both times, I can't tell you. | ||
| I don't have enough time to explain to you how I know Trump is the right person. | ||
| That's just unbelievable. | ||
| But look, Mr. John, if you could get some more conservative people, it's like Mr. Bob Woodson. | ||
| I happened to see him on Fox last night for a couple minutes. | ||
| David, I appreciate the recommendations. | ||
| And Coulter, anything you want to follow up on? | ||
| No, but his breathless enthusiasm for Trump term two, I totally agree with. | ||
| Terrell is in Owingsville, Maryland. | ||
| Democrat, good morning. | ||
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Ann, I know Ronald Reagan is turning over in his grave. | |
| I was a steel worker back in the 80s. | ||
| And under Ronald Reagan, you know, I was laid off from 82 to 84. | ||
| I went back to work six months in 84 and was laid off from 84 to 87. | ||
| Ronald Reagan did not believe in terrorists and another thing, Ronald Reagan also had dementia. | ||
| You hear about Ronald Reagan? | ||
| I hear people talk about Ronald Reagan when he legalized 3 million immigrants, okay? | ||
| And I know why he legalized 3 million immigrants because he couldn't remember. | ||
| So, Ann, I'm asking you. | ||
| And listen, babe, who was running the White House? | ||
| Who was running White House when Ronald Reagan forgot that he legalized 3 million immigrants? | ||
| Ann Coulter. | ||
| I find that totally hilarious. | ||
| That's totally going to be my defense of Ronald Reagan now for his absolutely worst act, his amnesty. | ||
| I will say, I loved Reagan, but he was no Trump, and flew out to meet him six months, at least six months after he was president. | ||
| It may have been a year later. | ||
| And he didn't get the dementia until after he left office. | ||
| But the amnesty thing is, well, that and Sandra Day O'Connor were the biggest mistakes he made. | ||
| And the only defense I can make of it is that, as with the 1965 Immigration Act, we were absolutely lied to. | ||
| For one thing, the deal was there only, I think there were only supposed to be like 800,000 illegal immigrants in the country at the time, maximum 3 million. | ||
| And that was, of course, a lie. | ||
| That first amnesty, you know, they go to court, as we're seeing now with the district courts. | ||
| People will go, and under the Agricultural Adjustment Act, for example, that was one. | ||
| Oh, if you've been working hard in the field, yes, you can prove you've been in the country for X number of years. | ||
| Most of the last year you only got here recently. | ||
| Then, okay, you get amnesty. | ||
| You've been a hard worker. | ||
| Oh, no, we had like Nigerians flying in 10 years later saying, going to immigration court and saying, no, it's not fair that I wasn't here when this amnesty was issued. | ||
| And having judges saying, you're right, that was unfair. | ||
| You get amnesty too. | ||
| So it just, it led to the, you can't pass any kind of amnesty for anyone, everyone, ever, ever, because the courts will take it over and say, yeah, that's unfair that you don't technically qualify. | ||
| Also, under the Agricultural Adjustment Act, letting in amnestying this small number of agricultural workers, we got a whole slew of terrorists coming in. | ||
| Cab drivers in New York, when they were asked questions during their interviews, they'd say, you know, corn was purple, grew in the ground. | ||
| They had to pull out of the nothing, no idea about any kind of agriculture. | ||
| And the Immigration Service itself admitted that 90% of the applications were fraudulent, and they approved 90% of the fraudulent applications. | ||
| So you can never do this. | ||
| The defense I'll say of Reagan is, I don't know, I think some people knew what was going to happen, but we know what's going to happen now. | ||
| The other thing is that as with every amnesty, and that was one of the bigger ones, it's always a trade-off. | ||
| Okay, we'll amnesty some people, but in return, we're going to get really strong E-Verify. | ||
| We're going to have protection at the border. | ||
| And somehow you always get the amnesty and you never get the other end. | ||
| So no, no amnesty ever. | ||
| Deport them all, build a wall. | ||
| Columbia Station, Ohio, Ed Republican. | ||
| You're on with Ann Coulter. | ||
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Oligarchy, oligarchy, boy. | |
| Another one. | ||
| I tell you, Ann Calter is my favorite columnist forever alive. | ||
| And I miss, God rest his soul, the Rushi, the great Rushi. | ||
| But I'd like to have Ann's opinion. | ||
| Who do you think the Democrat Party, when it's all done and said, is going to run for president due to primaries? | ||
| Or who would she like to see him run? | ||
| I'm going to stop there. | ||
| Have a great safe with your loved ones. | ||
| Oh, tell Bill Marhei. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| You are a wise and insightful man. | ||
| Thank you on the column. | ||
| For some reason, we love talking about this. | ||
| And who knows? | ||
| It's three and a half years away. | ||
| I tend to think that the smart guys in the Democratic Party are going to put their foot down this time. | ||
| And we're going to get, well, some of the ones, the New York Times manifestly, and big Democratic donors really wanted to replace Biden. | ||
| Someone like Andy Bashir or Mark Kelly. | ||
| I'm not praising any of them. | ||
| Gretchen Whitmer. | ||
| But these were the ones, right, the day Biden pulled out. | ||
| I was reading just live updates in the New York Times for the next couple of hours. | ||
| And it was funny, they didn't even talk about Kamala. | ||
| They were explaining how, you know, someone other than Kamala could take over from Biden and still get his money. | ||
| They so did not want Kamala. | ||
| And then, you know, two hours later, Biden, I'm endorsing Kamala, and then nobody could go against it. | ||
| So I would think that, and the Democrats do this to their voters a lot. | ||
| Republicans let voters choose whomever they want. | ||
| But Democrats, I think after the McGovern catastrophe, they sort of fiddled with, I don't know if these are still in place, but they fiddled with the rules to make sure the smart guys in the smoke-filled rooms would be able to pick the candidate. | ||
| If that happens, it's going to be a moderate Democrat. | ||
| If I were Democrats, I'd run Ned Lamont, governor of Connecticut. | ||
| But I don't think they will be that smart. | ||
| Whom I would like them to run, AOC would be fantastic. | ||
| But caller said that you're his favorite columnist. | ||
| Who are your favorite columnists? | ||
| I tend not to read conservative columnists. | ||
| I sort of skim to see what they're saying. | ||
| You don't want to get it in your head and then end up writing a column and, oh my gosh, that was what I just read. | ||
| So I mostly both watch MSNBC and CNN religiously read the New York Times. | ||
| And thinking of a columnist I actually like in the sense of liking. | ||
| Well, some are not safe for work. | ||
| Like David Cole at Tacky Magazine. | ||
| He's pretty funny. | ||
| Obviously, I read like the Ryan Jorduski Substack. | ||
| Who else do I go to when I want to know something I actually will enjoy reading? | ||
| It's funny, although my go-to place is the New York Times. | ||
| Do you think people will be surprised to hear that? | ||
| Well, they shouldn't from my reading. | ||
| Half my oeuvre is attacking the New York Times. | ||
| I mean, and there's a reason for that. | ||
| I'm not just being a brat. | ||
| It is an incredibly influential newspaper. | ||
| You read it in the New York Times, suddenly it's being regurgitated everyplace else. | ||
| And I would say, I mean, I think their standards have fallen a little since 2020, but the New York Times is probably the most articulate expression of liberal thoughts in America. | ||
| So that's what you want to go to first. | ||
| Also, they had, ooh, this is going to be one of my stories. | ||
| Can't believe I forgot this. | ||
| This just took me by storm. | ||
| And you still get these articles in the New York Times, which is what drives you crazy. | ||
| Some of the reporting is really, really first class fabulous. | ||
| And then, you know, they start talking about Trump and they all lose their minds. | ||
| But anyway, there was an amazing magazine piece last week on the truth of ADHD. | ||
| I can never remember what it stands for, so I'm just going to call it Attention Deficit Disorder. | ||
| Turns out, totally fake, doesn't exist. | ||
| Adderall makes it worse, not better, does not help at all. | ||
| We have drugged up these kids. | ||
| Oh, and you know what else Adderall does? | ||
| It makes you shorter. | ||
| So this is just a few of the takeaways. | ||
| And these were, this isn't somebody just, you know, trying to make a political point. | ||
| The author, I forget who it was, but he goes to long-time attention deficit disorder researchers who have been researching it since the 90s. | ||
| And apparently, and I'll leave it with this so you can read the article. | ||
| They all believed back then this is medical. | ||
| We are going to find something in the genes. | ||
| We're really making so many advances looking at the genetic code. | ||
| We're going to be able to see attention deficit disorder on an MRI. | ||
| We're going to find some proof that it's real way they've been looking for 30 years and they can't not find it. | ||
| Turns out, little boys are just fidgety. | ||
| And when they get into something they're into, they can focus fine. | ||
| I'm sorry, one more point from this article that I thought was just amazing. | ||
| So it's good for the teachers and it makes the parents happy, I guess, because the Adderall, or before that, I guess it was a riddle, and it makes kids seem to be really focused on their homework and they're working frenetically, but they do worse on the tests. | ||
| You mentioned the New York Times. | ||
| I think you're up to 13 New York Times bestsellers. | ||
| What's the next book about? | ||
| I think I've said it all. | ||
| I genuinely think I've said it all. | ||
| I mean, when you look at everything happening now, Guilty is about the victim culture. | ||
| Godless about how so much of liberalism, that's a really fun book, is like a cult religion. | ||
| All the ridiculous foreign wars and also just the left-wing, sorry, hates America. | ||
| That's in treason. | ||
| I also have the attack on Darwinism in Godless. | ||
| And the last three books are incredibly pertinent right now. | ||
| First, Adios America, then in Trump We Trust, written for the most magnificent presidential campaign in history. | ||
| And then about a year into his administration, even when he was really annoying me, you know, he'd do something that was sort of a jackass thing to do, send out some stupid tweet. | ||
| And I'd be thinking, okay, I'm with the New York Times. | ||
| That was a stupid thing to do. | ||
| But liberals could never just limit it to what Trump actually did. | ||
| They'd have to like add on, and he killed a nun, and he nailed a kitten to a church door. | ||
| And, you know, stop making me defend this guy. | ||
| It was bad, but he didn't do that. | ||
| But Trump has just driven liberal minds crazy. | ||
| So that was resistance is futile, how the left lost their collective minds over Donald Trump. | ||
| And it goes through a lot of these examples. | ||
| I mean, the Nazi stuff, the authoritarian, oh, come on. | ||
| Just if you're going to criticize him, just stick to what he actually did and don't call him a Russian agent. | ||
| As usual, short on time. | ||
| Let me try to get one or two more calls in. | ||
| Michael, thanks for waiting here in DC. | ||
| Go ahead, Independent. | ||
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Hey, good morning, John, and John. | |
| I would just like to applaud your patience this morning. | ||
| And by your own definition, I am actually a true American. | ||
| Both my mother's and father's families trace themselves to pre-revolutionary war. | ||
| Both families fought in the Revolutionary War on the side of patriots. | ||
| And as a true American, I can tell you what the current administration is doing is as un-American as it gets. | ||
| Now, because I believe in civic discourse, I would like to ask you a question. | ||
| The Trump administration, specifically President Trump, recently stated that he would be open to allowing migrant workers who work on farms and hotels to stay and not get deported. | ||
| What's your opinion on that? | ||
| Thanks. | ||
| I'll listen offline. | ||
| Yeah, we have some bad ones. | ||
| Even who can allegedly trace their ancestry back to the revolutionary area, just not as many as among immigrant voters who just worth saying, pre-1970 immigrants were better than us, smarter than us, made more money, bought more houses. | ||
| Whoa, as that flipped with the post-1970 immigrants. | ||
| And yeah, as for the migrant workers, okay, he's not perfect. | ||
| He's still not perfect. | ||
| You know, the farmers are driving me crazy. | ||
| I mean, it's a joke among immigration, I don't know, patriots, I guess you would call people like myself, that the moment we talk about farmers not being able to farm the way their ancestors did in 1800, no, we need people outraging. | ||
| Have you heard of computers and robots? | ||
| 10 years ago, there were machines that can perfectly pick a strawberry. | ||
| They have like three little cameras on it. | ||
| You do not need people for this. | ||
| We are bursting into the future. | ||
| We're worried about what kinds of manual jobs will be left, and I think there will be plenty. | ||
| With AI and with more and more things being done robotically, like my precious Roombas for every room in my house. | ||
| But farmers, no, we need this vast army of small people from Latin America doing the raking and the hoeing. | ||
| Oh, come on, just upgrade. | ||
| And yeah, if you cut off the cheap labor that we are subsidizing, I think farmers will, farms, there aren't that many like regular farmers anymore. | ||
| They're huge conglomerates. | ||
| Yeah, they're going to have to modernize. | ||
| Oh no, what a mistake. | ||
| But we're going to be left with, as everything is modernized, this huge mass of cheap manual laborers, laborers whom we absolutely do not need. | ||
| And we're paying for them. | ||
| We're subsidizing, well, all of their anchor babies, their hospital care, their medical care, the SNAP program, the schools. | ||
| When they commit crimes, well, that's going to require they're going to have a court-appointed attorney. | ||
| We have the prosecutor. | ||
| We have the police, the jailroom. | ||
| No, we are subsidizing farmers' cheap labor so that they can farm the way their great-great-great-grandfathers did and not move into the 21st century. | ||
| We'll have to end it there this morning with Ann Coulter. | ||
| The substack, if you want to follow, is unsafe, the website andculture.com. | ||
| And we always appreciate your time on the Washington Journal. | ||
| Good to talk to you, John. | ||
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Thank you. | |
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