All Episodes
March 3, 2025 - Triggered - Donald Trump Jr
01:03:30
Zelensky Overplays His Hand, More Trump Wins, Plus Interview with Joe Bastardi | Triggered Ep.221
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
Thank you.
Welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.
Another day with another big batch of breaking news.
And my father seems to have an extraordinary talent, more so perhaps than ever before, for forcing the left to make the most unpopular positions as they melt down at each and every turn.
I know I've said he's the 80-20 president, right?
He picks an 80% issue, goes all in, the Trump derangement syndrome, Democrats forced to take the 20% because they literally cannot help themselves.
But now, it may be more like 90-10.
And by the way, has anyone, anyone, like in the history of the world, maybe Hirohito in Japan, maybe Napoleon going into Russia, but like, has anyone overplayed their hand?
More than Vladimir Zelensky on Friday.
So we're going to get into all of that in the news rundown.
It's wild what's going on.
And later, we'll shift gears and sit down with meteorologists to Joe Bastardi to discuss all things weather, climate, climate hysteria, and so on and so forth.
So you're going to learn a lot.
So guys, make sure you're liking, sharing, subscribing so that you never miss one of these major episodes.
If you miss one of the shows here on Rumble, you can also get it on Apple.
You can get it on Spotify podcasts.
If your friends get their podcasts that way, make sure to let them know.
Subscribe.
That's how we get it out there.
For all of the top headlines we'll cover here on this show, also check out my news app, MXM News.
A little bit better than the mainstream media.
We'll show you everything.
And you can actually make an informed decision for yourself.
Yet another brand new sponsor, Berna Technologies.
They make these.
We talk about it all the time, protecting yourself in a time of crisis and doing it with companies who support you.
That's why I've partnered with Berna, a leader in self-defense and an alternative to lethal force.
For those of you who maybe don't like guns or don't want that, there's still ways that you can protect yourself.
They're created by an avid group of gun owners.
Burna provides civilians, law enforcement officers, and security professionals with a safe and reliable and effective non-lethal alternative to traditional firearms.
The Burna launchers are effective, easy to use, and legal in all 50 states.
And most importantly, they will stop a threat when it matters most.
Burna's powerful kinetic and tear gas ammunition will incapacitate attackers.
And with no background checks and the ability to ship directly to your doorstep, Burna ensures that safety is never out of reach.
Burna is American-made in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and they share your values and understand the importance of self-defense.
So have peace of mind and protect yourself.
Visit Burna.com slash Don Jr., B-Y-R-N-A dot com slash D-O-N-J-R, and receive 10% off my curated Burna bundles.
That's B-Y-R-N-A dot com slash D-O-N-J-R. So check them out.
Support those who support us.
Now, guys, let's take a look at the top headlines.
And we'll start off the week with another round of major wins for the Trump administration.
For example, automaker Honda announced today that it will make its new Civic in Indiana, not Mexico.
To be clear, Indiana is a state.
It's in the Midwest.
It's beautiful.
It has a lot of great hardworking people who would love those jobs.
So, another huge win for America.
Energy storage company Clarios announced a $6 billion plan to expand American-based manufacturing.
And the leading Taiwanese microchip manufacturer just announced a $100 billion investment in the United States This is what America first looks like, guys.
Protecting American business interests.
Protecting American security.
Protecting and creating American jobs.
and not sending blank checks to the rest of the world at the expense of the American taxpayer.
Which inevitably brings us to Ukraine, where my father is showing exactly what American strength looks like.
First of all, during the war, everybody has problems.
Even you.
But you have nice ocean and don't feel now.
But you will feel it in the future.
God bless.
You don't know that.
God bless.
God bless.
You will not have the war.
Don't tell us what we're going to feel.
We're trying to solve a problem.
Don't tell us what we're going to feel.
I'm not telling you.
Because you're in no position to dictate that.
Remember this.
You're in no position to dictate.
What we're going to feel.
Honestly, again, as I said earlier, I'm not sure if anyone in the history of cards has perhaps overplayed their hand like Zelensky.
He walks into the Oval Office.
He makes maximum demands with no leverage and derails the entire mineral deal and ultimately a path towards peace.
Does Zelensky even want peace?
Maybe he's used to dealing with the other clown who we could come in and he could browbeat and get hundreds of billions of dollars and no pushback, whatever it would be.
Maybe Joe was getting 10% for the big guy or Hunter was going to be put on a board.
Who knows what was extracted from it?
But think about this.
Imagine former actor Vladimir Zelensky.
Imagine thinking that it's a great idea to have a deal that was supposed to be signed in Munich and that was supposed to be signed in Paris.
Then it's going to come to D.C. to sign.
And in the press briefing and in a conversation in front of the world, he tries to renegotiate a deal that had been agreed on with Donald Trump?
Like, that's the place to do it?
I mean, it only shows you how incompetent this guy is.
It's so obvious to the world.
You're gonna do that?
You're gonna renege on an agreement in front of people live with Donald Trump?
Like, it's not like, hey, we gotta change some nuance.
It was like, we're just gonna start over from scratch and forget all those weeks of work that you guys have been doing.
What exactly is he thinking?
Well, here's National Security Advisor Mike Waltz earlier today.
Success looks like...
President Zelensky sitting down and talking the terms of peace.
Talking about what he needs to see, Ukraine needs to see to get to a partial ceasefire, a permanent ceasefire, and an end to this war.
And what became so evident to us in that session was he's not ready to talk peace at all.
But here's the problem.
Time is not on his side.
Time is not on the side of just forever continuing this conflict.
The American people's patience is not unlimited.
Their wallets are not unlimited.
And our stockpiles and munitions are not unlimited that we need for all kinds of contingencies around the world.
So the time to talk is now.
And what we're hearing in terms of alternatives, whether it's the Democrats or leaders around the world, is essentially continuing this grinding.
World War I-style trench warfare that is a meat grinder of people, munitions, and national treasure.
The president campaigned on ending this war.
He was elected to end this war.
He will be the peacemaker-in-chief.
But it was really confounding to us that Zelensky could have left the White House Friday having the U.S. And Ukraine bound together economically for a generation.
You have the British talking about troops on the ground and a security guarantee.
The French talking about troops on the ground and security guarantee.
We even had the NATO Secretary General talk to the President just before the Zelensky meeting.
So this was no ambush.
This was an opportunity and a moment.
And I think President Zelensky truly did his country a real disservice by not having a positive outcome Friday.
We'll see where things are going forward.
After Zelensky's disaster meeting last week, my father is reportedly meeting with key officials today to discuss the possibility of winding down the endless taxpayer-funded aid.
Zelensky says half of it's missing.
He wants to keep the war going on forever.
He said that he doesn't see peace anytime, anywhere soon, even remotely.
I mean, well, he's losing ground.
I can see that based on there's no reports of them ever gaining ground, although it would be interesting.
I know Starlink and Elon is basically their comm system, so I wonder if we could objectively ask, because it's nothing the Russians don't know.
We wouldn't be giving up any kind of national security or Ukrainian security.
Where are the terminals moving?
Are they advancing forward towards Russia to regain all the ground that they lost, or are they regularly moving back?
Maybe the American public should actually...
Know that.
Because I think that would help them formulate a decision.
Because right now it feels like so many on the left are basing this on the, in my mind, incredibly ridiculous and false notion that Ukraine is somehow winning.
If we've given them a quarter of a trillion dollars and they're still losing, what's the cost to actually win?
What does victory look like?
Has anyone even bothered to ask those questions?
Because I've been asking them for three years, including to high-powered people in Washington, D.C., and no one seems to know the answer.
But I think the way to get them to the table is to wind down the aid, because you know that Europe's not stepping up.
There was an interesting chart I posted on my Twitter today that says, a majority of the Europeans really want to help increase the aid of Ukraine.
The only problem with the second part of the chart was very few of them actually wanted to do that by paying for it with their own country's money.
Huh?
We got America to be the schmuck for the world.
America could just keep doing it.
Who cares about their kids and their schools and their hospitals and their infrastructure?
I mean, of course, I want to help feed starving people all over the world.
I'd love to do that.
Am I ever going to give up a meal?
Probably not, guys.
I mean, the virtue signaling is insane, but that's exactly what they're saying.
So, winding down the aid may be right.
The New York Post is reporting that this may be the start of a pivot away from the Ukraine conflict and a pivot towards building alliances across Latin America with leaders like Bukele, Mille, and Maria Corina Machado, who we had on the show last week from Venezuela.
That's a big deal.
That's pretty useful.
That's in our backyard.
That's relevant to us.
Before this conflict, I guarantee you the vast majority of Americans couldn't have found Ukraine on a map.
And while Kiev's a beautiful city, I was there in the early 2000s, I don't think it's worth mortgaging our future and our children's future.
You don't have to believe me.
Just look at our own governmental agencies talking about Ukraine, even relative to Russia, before they somehow became the deity of Western civilization.
And get this, guys.
Zelensky was asked about his future and the calls for him to resign, or at least hold an election.
And here's how he responded, guys.
You're really going to get a kick out of this one.
Since the incident, Senator Lindsey Graham said that perhaps you should consider resigning.
Speaker Mike Johnson today said that maybe you should consider resigning.
Is your attitude it's not their business?
Lindsay Graham is a very good guy.
He's a very good guy.
Very nice.
And speaking who must be the president and whether I shall resign, I can...
Give him the citizenship of Ukraine, he will become the citizen of our country, and then his voice will start to gain weight, and I will hear him as a citizen of Ukraine on the topic of who must be the president.
But Lindsay represents the party that fights for democratic values.
Anyway, the president of Ukraine will have to be chosen not at home, at Lindsay's grand home, but in Ukraine.
So let me get this straight.
We're not going to hold an election to preserve democracy.
I mean, it sounds almost like the Democrats in, well, for the last few years.
Explain that to me.
Please.
The reality is this.
Zelensky is so unpopular in Ukraine, many polls have him at 16% if he were to run today.
And by the way, his only chance to probably win an election would be to cede the eastern half of Ukraine to Russia because they're ethnic Russians who are probably sick of dying for something they don't even believe in.
Maybe that...
Maybe that's the way to do it.
Maybe that's his actual out where he can remain in power and the world will feel really sorry for him.
Not because it's real, not because it represents all of Ukraine, but because that's probably his only actual chance of winning anything.
And of course, guys, the memes, the memes and the reaction to this whole sequence have been incredible.
Here's one video I posted on X. We're at a UFC press conference.
How many pay-per-views would that sell?
I think it'd be pretty epic.
You're not in a good position.
You don't have the cards right now.
With us, you start having cards.
Right now, you're playing cards.
You're playing cards.
You're gambling with the lives of millions of people.
You're gambling with World War III.
You're gambling with World War III.
And what you're doing is very disrespectful to the country, this country.
People are dying.
You're running low on soldiers.
Listen, you're running low on soldiers.
It would be a damn good thing.
And then you tell us, I don't want to cease fire.
I don't want to cease fire.
I want to go and I want this.
Look.
If you could get a ceasefire right now, I tell you, you'd take it so the bullets stop flying and your men stop getting killed.
Of course we want to stop the war.
But you're saying you don't want a ceasefire?
But I said to you, waste guarantees.
Because you'll get a ceasefire faster than any...
And Vice President J.D. Vance, well, he's showing why he's the perfect VP. Why conservatism now actually...
Has a bench and a future beyond Trump that just doesn't revert back to neocon warmongering, weak conservatism that we've seen from so many in the past few decades.
And just more importantly, how much of an upgrade we've gotten for our country in the number two spot.
And just check out this chart.
This is what I was talking about earlier, right?
The chart's popping up here.
I forgot that this was going to be in the intro, so I already talked about it, but Europe keeps saying that Ukraine needs more support.
But looking at these numbers, they don't actually want to do it if it comes out of their own countries.
Think about that.
They love it.
I want to support everything.
Everyone can win.
I don't want to pay for it.
They want America to keep spending while they virtue signal about saving democracy.
You can't make it up anymore.
Although, I guess if you've watched anything that has come out of Europe in the last few years, you realize why there are a civilization that is probably gone, and it probably explains so much.
Meanwhile, a new report finds that the Pentagon and officials there were caught using taxpayer-funded credit cards at casinos, bars, and clubs.
These cards need to be turned off, and the taxpayers need to reimburse for this insanity.
And how long has this been going on?
Who was controlling it?
Did anyone even care?
I mean, they're going to casinos, bars, and whatever else on American taxpayer dime having nothing to do with the purpose of the credit card.
And no one was even watching, including Republicans.
No one even cared.
There was no oversight to any of it.
How many other agencies and departments are doing this too?
It's just another reason why we need Doge more than ever.
I hope those kids on those computers find it all.
I hope we expose it for everyone to see, because I can guarantee you this, when even the hardcore, ridiculous Democrats, unless they're on the take, unless they're the indirect or direct beneficiaries of this waste, fraud, and abuse, which I imagine many are, I imagine even they too will recognize that this probably is not the best use of their funds.
In just six weeks, Doge has saved American taxpayers an estimated $105 billion.
B. B. Billions.
Not millions.
Billions.
$105 billion.
In a few weeks, they've covered it up.
They've seen it.
They realize how ridiculous it is.
Imagine what four years of this can do.
You need to support them.
You need to not buy into the nonsense.
Look into the details.
Look into the list of the things that are finding.
I'm literally starting to write a new book about it.
It's that bad.
It's that egregious.
Government spending is down.
Illegal border crossings are down like 95%.
I mean, think about that.
So it was doable all along, right?
We could do this.
There's nothing we can do.
I mean, you know, can't build a wall.
I mean, historically, it's never worked, especially like the 3,000 long mile wall in China.
I guess it worked then.
It wouldn't work now.
Deportations are up.
Investments into America are up.
And the Democrats are melting down.
As my father once wrote, change your attitude and gain some altitude.
You'll love it up here.
And he couldn't be more right.
And we have so much more coming up with Joe Bastardi.
But first, another word from a really important sponsor.
Now, like I always say, we're cleaning out the waste inside the IRS. But if you are still overwhelmed with back taxes or unfiled returns, Tax Network USA is here to help.
Tax Network USA is the nation's premier tax relief firm and has negotiated over $1 billion in tax relief for their clients.
Their services include penalty forgiveness, hardship programs, compromise solutions for lump sum settlements.
So whether you owe $10,000 or $10 million, their experts are ready to assist you.
To schedule a complimentary consultation, visit tnusa.com.
That's TN, like Tax Network, TNUSA.com slash Don Jr. It's a complimentary consultation.
You have nothing to lose.
If you have stuff outstanding, don't take any chances.
Don't try to deal with the IRS alone.
Speak to the guys at Tax Network USA. Prepare for the future and diversify your savings with the Birch Gold Group.
Look, in the new year with my father back in office, you're going to have a lot more money in your paycheck.
And that means you're going to have a lot more opportunity to plan for the years and the decades ahead.
One way you can do that is by diversifying your portfolio into gold.
For over 20 years, Birch Gold Group has helped thousands of Americans protect their savings by converting an IRA or a 401k into an IRA in physical gold.
You can do that tax and penalty free, which is a big deal.
So to learn more, text Don Jr., D-O-N-J-R, to the number 989898 and claim you are free.
No obligation.
That's Don Jr. to the number 989898. What do you have to lose?
Educate yourself.
Check it out.
So joining me now, the founder of weatherbell.com, meteorologist Joe Bastardi.
Joe, good to have you back, man.
How's it going?
It's excellent.
I want to say I'm one of the sort of co-founders in that my CEO was the founder, but I am...
Directly involved.
I was there at the beginning.
In fact, I tell people...
Well, you're also in the private sector, so there's consequence to being wrong, unlike in government, where they just brush it under the table and move on, right?
Well, yeah, the crucible competition, it's a good thing I wear the cross of my calling here.
I used to wrestle Penn State.
I'm around all the time, and you realize that both wrestling and the weather, you have to be right, or be right most of the time.
If you're in the private sector, why pay me?
Why pay me for anything if I'm not adding value?
So that's an interesting situation since I'm the oldest guy left on the block now.
Yeah.
Well, that's always the joke.
I always wanted to be the weatherman because you can be right 10% of the time and still get paid.
So I'm wondering...
Not in the private sector.
It's not like that at all.
There's immense competition.
I think a few years ago, there were...
1,700 different meteorologists or weather organizations that were considered private sector.
So there's a lot of competition among us.
And of course, the National Weather Service is good.
It's not that, you know, people rip on them all the time.
And I've found over the years that their forecasts are improving.
But that's good.
I never wanted to beat somebody because they were bad.
I always wanted to beat someone because they were good.
And I do like to compete.
Wow.
Listen, I think it's important.
Hopefully we fix some of that stuff.
I know, you know, there's a lot of issues in some of the agencies and some of the administration and, you know, whether it's NOAA or any of these other things.
So, you know, hopefully there's some talent there, but it's probably the leadership that seems to be the overarching theme.
It's leadership in government that's lacking.
So even if you have talent, they're not allowed to do things because they're beholden to, you know, whatever the woke talking points may be.
Yeah, well, they have to think about if they put something out.
What the repercussions are.
You know, if you're actually a scientist, you can't sit there and say, well, I'm coming up with a forecast and the storm's aimed here, but I have to consider what that means to the people looking at it.
Now you say, Joe, that is a harsh, a very harsh way of looking at things, because you've got to consider the people, right?
But what you have to do is make the accurate forecast, and then the people in the way of that will decide.
We put out a forecast December 7, 2023, outlining in red what was going to happen in the hurricane season of 2024. Now, I don't have a forecast out like that this year because I'm not certain, but I was darn certain of what I was looking at back in 23. We call it the hurricane season from hell.
It looked like 2017, 2020, and by gosh, it turned out that way.
You can do that sometimes, and when you get way out in front of something, You literally set traps for the climate hysterics that come back and say, well, look what's going on.
I say, well, wait a minute.
How come this was out a year in advance?
Why didn't you take a look at that?
So what happens is, one of the biggest things that I've always been not upset about, we're punching bags.
I was never taught to be a punching bag.
We wait for something to happen, like the Tennessee flood or the wildfires or whatever, and then the media gets right out there with the climate change agenda, right?
And this is what NOAA, the top of NOAA pushes this.
You know, it's not like the FBI. You have a lot of great agents in there, and you have a lot of guys that know and just love the weather.
They want to forecast the weather, but you just watch constant, constant repetition.
Climate change, climate's worse than ever.
And what happens is you have to change your focus.
Weather, weather, weather.
I think you know Alex Epstein, for instance.
He wrote a great book, Moral Case for Fossil Fuels.
And Alex is right.
No matter what's causing it, simply adapt to it.
That's what problems and adversity are about.
They are about us advancing.
If a problem comes in your way, you have to advance.
The weather's causing your problem, and the weather's always going to cause your problems, Don, because We've got three times as many people living in the way of stuff with infrastructure that's much more important.
I always use Hurricane Hazel.
Myrtle Beach, October 50, 1954. By far, my opinion, the latest, greatest hurricane on record.
A Category 4 hurricane in the middle of October hitting North Carolina, South Carolina.
If it hit today, it'd probably be a quarter trillion dollar storm because Myrtle Beach in that area was not...
Built up the way it was, the way it is now, right?
So what happens is, guys like Al Gore, who have a very interesting philosophy on climate, they're the kind of guys that they would put three times the amount of pins on a bowling alley and say, look, I'm knocking down more pins every time I throw a ball.
We've got more in the way, so there is more risk involved, and that involves getting out in front in the forecast and also educating people as to why these things are happening.
Yeah, that's actually really interesting.
I never thought of it that way.
Hurricanes seem to be more, you know, more violent.
But you're right.
If you're living in South Florida, your population has tripled in the last 20 years.
Well, actually, the last 40, 50 years.
But what happens is, if you're a geek like me, for instance, you see these Tennessee floods that just happened?
This is child's play compared to what happened in 37 in the Tennessee and Ohio River Valleys with that.
I was looking at that today.
Those floods are there, and the temperature contrast was even greater than the temperature contrast we see today.
In fact, 36-37, back-to-back, was probably the worst winter flooding in two winters in a row that we've seen in the Ohio River Valley in those areas.
We have a similar weather pattern, except it was on steroids.
A lot of people say to me, the weather is going crazy.
I go...
I go back and I look at the maps, and that's because my father was a meteorologist, and he always preached to me, look, the weather is an infinite system.
You're not going to be able to get it right all the time because it's always changing.
But if you go back and look at what happened, you have a basis of it.
But how many Americans know what happened in 1937 in Tennessee?
Nobody.
I know it.
So when someone comes out and tells me, well, that's climate change, I go, what are you, crazy?
I mean, you know, it's interesting.
One of my favorite hurricane maps of all time, and I don't want people to get the wrong impression about me, I am a weather geek, is September 4th, 1933. There was a hurricane hitting, Category 3 hitting at Mar-a-Lago, all right?
Another Category 3 was hitting at Brownsville.
Two Category 3s hitting the U.S. within 18 hours down along the Gulf Coast or the South...
The Gulf of America coasts there.
And all I'm saying is if that happened today, do you realize what the media would do?
And yet someone like me goes, wait a minute.
I've seen things far worse than this.
And today you get punished for knowing stuff as opposed to before you used to get punished for not knowing it.
Yeah, well, we were supposed to be underwater a few years ago, according to some of the great meteorologists of our time, Al Gore and Greta Thunberg.
But last week, J.D. Vance told the Munich Security Conference.
That if we could survive a decade of Greta Thunberg being sort of the end-all be-all of meteorology, they could handle a few minutes of Elon Musk doing what he's doing.
And the left is now attacking the Trump administration and specifically Doge, suggesting that the cuts to government waste could be bad for the climate.
I mean, that seems to me to be insane.
But there's a recent article in Forbes titled, "Are tariffs a bad idea for climate change?" Suggesting that tariffs are bad because we can't import many Chinese solar panels.
I mean, are these people just absolutely insane?
Well, you know, I have learned over the years that I try to figure out, well, what's the other guy looking at?
And see, with me, the only reason I'm involved in climate is because I need it for what I do, which is forecasting the weather.
Most of these people that you're talking about...
If the whole climate argument went away tomorrow, what would they do?
So they continually, they always feed back toward what their lifeline is.
And I hate to say it.
I know, I'm sure we have people on the left that listen to this because they want to pick out every word someone says.
But you know what?
I understand what your problem is.
If your problem is that you have invested your entire life, if your God is the climate...
Then, God forbid, someone takes that away from you.
What are you going to do?
So you've got to understand, you're dealing with people who are fighting as if they're fighting for their very lives because of the way it is.
See, no matter what the climate does, I get up the next morning and I have to forecast the weather, right?
So every day is Christmas to me.
And that's the one thing I wanted to say, you know, you need people in NOAA that love the weather so much that they think they hit the lottery.
See, that's how I think.
I have eternal gratitude toward my Heavenly Father for giving me whatever talent I have.
And you need people like that.
And when you have people like that that love something so much, they'll do anything to make it right.
And that's what we've got to do.
Yeah, I think you're 100%.
Right.
The left has replaced God with various deities.
They're sort of always ever-changing.
I've used the example.
Greta Thunberg as the high priestess of climate change, that becomes the gospel.
It goes, you know, Zelensky as the lord of Ukraine, and it's the most wonderful thing in the world.
We must now go for this, you know, corrupt nation and support them at all costs.
You have numerous other, you know, Anthony Fauci as the high priest of COVID. It's like they're replacing the god that they forgot all about or disavowed.
The reason that happens is they're lacking, and it's our education system and our belief system that has really taken a hit over the last 40 to 50 years.
I think that when the Vietnam War came around and people realized that the government may be lying to them, we lost faith in our government.
We started losing faith in our government, and then we started losing faith in our God.
And so what happens is you have to, there's something God has put in all of us to reach for something bigger than ourselves.
So what happens is if you don't have the centering point that you're supposed to have that you were blessed with, you go look for something else.
It'll be climate, it'll be, you know, the whole trans issue or whatever.
And you have to have something that is bigger than you that you can go for.
And the problem is, you know, I look at everything as spiritual combat.
The problem is, I don't believe a person's inherently evil, but I think there's evil out there.
You know, one of the wrestling coaches at Penn State used to say, if something distracts you, it's destructive.
So what is your true mission in life, any of us, right?
If there's something that's distracting you from that, that you're worshipping, that you're actually, this is more important than anything, guess what?
It turns out to be destructive to what your true cause is.
And that's what you see.
I mean, a 17-year-old female is screaming and yelling at people.
I'm sitting there going, wait a minute.
First of all, I found out later she was a depressed person, and that's always a hard thing to do.
But that sort of cured her depression.
Every time you have anger and rage, those endorphins get set off and you feel better about yourself and all this other stuff.
It was a giant—20, 30 years from now, people go, look, that was a giant exercise in simply trying to correct a problem she had, right?
And yet the entire world just piles in after her, or a lot of people did.
And then there's Al Gore.
When has he been right about anything?
Or even Barack Obama.
If you're telling me the sea levels are rising, what are you doing?
Building a mansion or buying a mansion that's at the top of a funnel-shaped bay at Martha's Vineyard, right?
You know, a funnel-shaped bay facing south.
You know what happens to water when it enters a funnel-shaped bay?
Let's say like the 1938 hurricane.
It goes up.
You know, I want to be friends with Barack Obama so I can go ride out a hurricane in his place.
Yeah, we've brought up some of the most egregious examples, but can you explain where the left goes wrong in their hysterical climate predictions?
Again, according to Al Gore, we should already be underwater.
I mean, I live at sea level in Florida.
I mean, I haven't seen much of a change in the few years that I've been here.
They said we should have been underwater a few years ago.
They always sort of then move the goalposts, and it's going to be 10 more years until it is going to be, and then another 10 more years.
But what?
Aren't they telling us?
And what's the scam behind all of it?
Well, are they really going wrong?
They still have a great deal of the population believing all this stuff.
So what is their real goal?
They don't care about being actually right about the weather.
Are they getting paid?
Are they getting paid to be right?
Because if they were, that's not what they're getting paid for.
They're getting paid to promote an agenda, and that agenda wants to put shackles on the American freedom.
That we have, okay, wants to stop us from advancing.
Remember, this country is sort of like what Browning said.
A man's reach must exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for, right?
As a country, we should always be trying to exceed our grasp.
Our reach should exceed what we can actually grab, because that's where God comes involved.
So what these people are actually doing is they don't care about the answer.
They just want to get the horse out of the barn and get people.
In this soundbite society, this very distracted society, to just buy into it.
And that's where we've gone wrong.
We've never understood that it's not about the science.
It's about their agenda, right?
And so, I mean, someday, Mar-a-Lago is liable to be underwater.
As a matter of fact, you know, it's kind of funny.
I look at the tracks in the 1940s, the hurricane.
Everybody's going to use Mar-a-Lago because that's where you guys live, right?
Of course they're going to use that, right?
But if I looked at those tracks, I'd go, how the heck is it not underwater by now?
And here's the interesting thing, Don, is that that part of Florida has not been hit by a major hurricane since 1992. We're on the West Coast.
We've been with cycles on the West Coast.
But it's remarkable that the area from West Palm Beach southward has not had a major hurricane hit.
They're in a hurricane drought compared to what's happened before, just like New England and Long Island.
They're in a hurricane drought.
They used to get hit once every seven years up until 1991, and then there's nothing since then.
So what people don't understand is they don't care about the reality.
Think about this.
So the Arctic ice cap is going to melt, right?
And that's going to flood your house, right?
Well, how is that possible?
If you put ice cubes in water, or in a glass of water, when the ice cubes melt, does the liquid overflow?
No.
The ice cap could melt tomorrow, and you're not going to have any problems.
Where you would have problems is if the glaciers and all that stuff, a Greenland ice cap melted, or the Antarctic ice cap melted.
Because they're above the surface.
Yeah, and that's not happening.
Every year I look at Greenland and it's above normal snowfall up there.
And that's the other interesting thing that when I was a kid, my dad gave me a bunch of books because he's a meteorologist and he knew his son right off the bat from when I was three.
This is all I ever wanted to do.
So I was eight years old.
He gave me this book called, I think it was Why the Weather, and there was a chapter on climate change.
And this is 1963, saying exactly what you're seeing now would be going on, that it would snow more.
In the northern areas, right, when there's more water vapor in the air, it's warming up, snows more, and so what happens is that starts fighting back.
Now, what does the left do?
They say, oh, more snow.
First, there was going to be no snow.
Now, oh, more snow.
That's a sign of climate change.
That's like if I were wrestling, right?
By the way, everything is a sign of climate change.
It doesn't matter.
Good, bad, or indifferent.
If I were wrestling...
Every time my opponent scored on me, I would get the points.
That's how they score things.
And when you realize that that is their game, that their game has nothing to do with the weather and climate, and a lot of guys don't, on my side of the issue, and a lot of the scientists, they don't like when I say that because they're involved in the fight.
You see what I'm saying?
It's sort of a cottage industry on both sides, right?
So what we do is, hey, okay, whatever's causing it.
Adapt and move on.
We've got the ability to move on.
I mean, you look at New Orleans, right?
Who had the bright idea of building a city 10 feet underwater on the Gulf of Mexico?
Which it basically is, right?
So guess what's going to happen?
So what people say to me, well, look at what Katrina did to New Orleans.
I go, far more impressive is what the 38 hurricane did to Providence.
Providence is at 41 degrees north.
It's not surrounded by 90 degree water.
It's 12 feet above sea level.
And they went under 13 feet of water.
Now, which is more impressive, a city on the Gulf of Mexico, meteorologically, the city on the Gulf of Mexico, a lot of it's below sea level getting flooded, or someplace up in New England that's 10 feet above sea level getting 13 feet of water into downtown Providence.
So when you start looking at things that way, folks, you understand that their agenda...
Has nothing to do with climate or science or weather.
Has everything to do with this entire idea.
Limit America.
We've stolen.
You know, Barack Obama said, we have 4% of the population, but we use 25% of the resources.
Oh, yeah?
Well, guess what?
We're not being selfish.
We export all our knowledge to other countries.
Where would we be without that?
Where would the world be without America?
So think back to what I'm saying.
They believe that we're guilty of stealing.
And that's what this is all about.
They're trying to stop us from stealing.
It's not anything to do with climate and science and weather.
Well, Paris Climate Accords, right?
China doesn't have to sign on.
They say, yeah, we'll look at it in 2030. In a few years, we'll keep firing up coal fire plants.
India equally guilty.
So America basically is willing to destroy their middle class.
To subsidize those who are going to do nothing.
And then when it comes time for them to actually do something about it, they'll renegotiate at that point and start the whole process over again.
I mean, it is a little bit ridiculous.
Well, it's a top-down control idea.
I mean, you know, I was never really into this stuff.
And then I, you know, I used Ackman's razor.
I simply eliminated every other motive, all right?
So what?
So what's a little bit warmer, right?
We can adapt to that.
That's what we have to do.
And then we're going to have to adapt when it gets colder.
By the way, you know, the scary thing is...
To continue to warm the planet, the reason why the planet got so warm the last two years, we saw the spike, was the volcano went off and we had a very strong El Nino.
So you pump so much water vapor into the air.
Water vapor releases energy, the release of heat through water vapor.
And water vapor is the big controlling, it's the head honcho as far as climate goes, right?
So excess water vapor, we have this spike.
Oh my gosh, how did this happen?
It can't be.
That actually proved it can't be CO2, right?
But you adapt to the situation.
But think about this.
The warmer it gets, the harder it is to get warmer.
The problem is, if you cut out one of the inputs to the warming, the temperature will crash pretty quickly.
Now, if it crashes quickly, that's going to affect a lot of people in an adverse manner.
Cold kills a lot more than heat does, for instance.
And, you know, it is a worry, not in our generation, I don't think it's going to happen in my lifetime, that down the road we're going to have to face the fact that the planet's a little bit cooler than what we want it to be.
By that time, there may be 10, 11, 12 billion people on the planet.
But you know what?
You've got to wrestle the match in front of you.
And that is, right now, make America strong again.
Do not have people...
I'm just shoving climate down your throat, making you feel guilty about the fact that you might be getting ahead, because it has nothing to do with that.
It has everything to do with the limitations that are being put on us because of people who are on this massive guilt trip that America has been blessed the way it is.
And you want to know something?
Every blessing has its appointed time, and if you don't take care of those blessings, you can't be trusted with them.
So what happens, right?
100%.
I mean, you use history, science, etc., to guide your predictions.
I mean, you're naming storms going back 100 years and using it to predict future hurricanes and floods.
Why aren't others doing that?
What is it that you see that others in weather, the business, so to speak, don't want to admit?
Because it seems like you're saying everything is so obvious, it's so common sense, but it seems to be totally disavowed.
Well, let me ask you a question.
If it's common sense and it's simple, It's relatively simple.
It's like playing chess.
If you're a great chess player, I used to be pretty good, but I'll probably just try to simplify the board.
Just take off as many pieces as I can so it just comes down to your piece against my piece, right?
But then again, if that's the attitude, if it's supposed to be simple, there are a lot of people who rely on complexities that they need complexities to increase their importance.
You can't do this.
You don't know what it is.
You're not following the science.
You're just someone that's just, you know, out there trying to earn a paycheck, right?
So you've got to understand, you know, I have a philosophy.
I remember my wrestling coach at Penn State was a guy named Bill Cole.
He was one of the first men on the beach in Normandy.
And, you know, he's in the – the reason we have a slam rule in wrestling is he was so mean.
That's why he was that.
He used to always say a good coach makes himself obsolete, right?
Now think about that.
If you're a scientist and you solve the problem, your goal should make yourself obsolete.
The Department of Education, what you guys are trying to do with the Department of Education.
You solve the problem, you make yourself obsolete.
That means you're successful.
But what happens to all these guys who their only importance is attached to the fact that you can't figure it out.
I'm the scientist.
And that's that, you know?
And it's funny because most of the time, the first answer, the simplest answer, is the correct answer.
But, you know, if you make it more and more complex, then people have to rely on you.
This is all about getting away from self-reliance.
You know, the common farmer in the Midwest knows what's going on, right?
But he can't get up and explain it mathematically or through equations.
And so people say, well, He can't do this or he can't do that.
But it comes down to simple, basic forcing.
It's like, you know, I'm still in the bodybuilder.
Big weights lead to big results.
Well, big forcing leads to big results in the weather and climate.
So it's the simple big forces, the sun, the oceans, stochastic events, which are random events, that is a big forcing idea.
And also, you know, the very design of the system.
What makes you think that the planet is designed for, oh, it's going to be 73 for a high, 57 for a low, and it'll rain on my plants from 3 to 6 o'clock every morning, and I can just go out with my unicorns and lollipops and just dance around in the sun?
See, that's what people think, and that's not the way it is.
Everything in life is designed for conflict.
The weather, your personal life.
Why is that?
So you can respond and become better.
It's a great design, and the weather is a great design, too.
So, you know, there's obviously a lot of debate on how NOAA should be reformed and how DOGE may look at increasing the efficiency of that agency like they're doing across the board.
You're right.
They're trying to eliminate the Department of Education by making themselves obsolete by actually getting real results.
You know, what would reform at NOAA look like to you?
Because, you know, for me, I see some of these things, you know, they don't want people using private boats.
You know, at more than 10 miles an hour because of the right whale, and, you know, there's never been a reported, like, boat hit of a right whale, but, like, we're going to change the laws that affect every person who's ever had a boat to accommodate these things.
It seems like there's just way overstepping their bounds.
You know, what would that reform look like to you?
Well, first of all, they're way overstepping their bounds because that's where the money is, right?
You know, when I look at NOAA, first of all, let's get something straight.
I could not do what I do without Noah.
You cannot believe how much great stuff Noah has done.
I live on a lot of their sites, not so much their forecasting sites, but their reanalysis sites, their history sites, and there's a lot of great stuff.
So what happens is you can't use a blunt hammer and say, I'm just going to cut this thing.
You have to look at it surgically.
You have a tremendous amount of talent.
Now, I suggested, you know, this whole buyout.
If you don't want to work...
Because you think that the current president doesn't agree with whatever philosophy you have.
Okay, fine.
You know, you get your buyout and you leave.
You want people that are lean and mean and dedicated to the mission.
Well, what is the mission?
The mission is not to scare the wits out of people.
It is to become better and better and better at forecasting and warning and also getting out in front.
You know, I've watched the NOAA publication, and there's always something about climate.
This was the first warmest ever.
And I'm like going, okay, well, everybody that's reading your thing is alive, and they're probably having a paycheck.
If it's the first warmest ever, are you trying to tell me that life is not as better back in 1930 than what it is now?
So you have to look at things sort of individually.
I think our warning centers, Our warning centers are absolutely valuable.
National Hurricane Center, but they're things I do with the National Hurricane Center.
I'd like them to reanalyze storms based on their size, not just on what the wind is right at the center, for instance.
That'll give people a better perspective.
So when Hurricane Milton shows up and says, how did it go from a Category 3 to a Category 5 and back to a 3 in 12 hours?
How the heck did that happen?
Because they're just looking at one wind speed, right?
They're not looking at the size of the storm.
Things like that.
You have to try to educate the public.
And you need a director of communications that can get that out there.
You need someone in charge of NOAA that knows something about business, but that loves the weather and loves the mission and has to define the mission.
And the mission cannot be...
You've got to understand.
NOAA has to understand that they are essential no matter what.
That the climate doesn't have to change for NOAA. All that has to change is the more prosperous America gets, the more essential NOAA is.
If we have more people, if we have more infrastructure, more property, guess what?
You're worth more if you can nail a forecast and get people prepared.
And the further out you can go, the better.
So they have to do that.
They have to be able to do stuff like we do, like September 8th, say, you know, I put it out over 100 times on Twitter.
Southeast part of the United States, last week of September, first week of October, multiple hurricane hits coming, right?
I used to do attention Governor DeSantis to try to get his attention that Florida was going to get hit for this two weeks in advance.
So you get out in front with Helene.
If you go out and say biblical flooding coming out four days away, people can get ready for that kind of thing.
So you have to look at it in a way where, let's say you took over a football team.
What's your favorite?
What's your favorite football team?
The Giants.
The Giants.
First of all, you don't trade away Saquon, although I was glad they did because I'm a Pennsylvania guy.
But the fact is, you go, okay, what talent do we have?
Why are we not excelling with the talent we have?
And what do we have to replace?
Who do we have?
It's no different than that.
You know what, Don?
It's really weird.
People scream and yell over their football teams and whatever, basketball teams.
Yet they don't apply the same standard to how the country should run.
How would the country be most successful?
Well, obviously put the best people with the most love in the best places, the people that want to do stuff.
NOAA definitely has the core.
They're already good, but good's the biggest enemy of best, all right?
So they definitely have the core to be great, and they've got to get out of the whole climate thing.
I'm not saying don't research it.
I'm saying stop with every single little thing.
The statistics I read show something like literally the climate has risen by like 0.2 degrees in like the last 75 years or whenever they were able to record it accurately.
I mean, that does not seem statistically significant.
Well, it rises much more in the coldest, driest areas, temperatures.
And that's due to water vapor.
That's the thumbprint of water vapor.
So I would say that if we're...
If we're going to build a, let's say, a Vostok, we decide to work a deal with the Russians where we want to build a resort at Vostok, we still have about a billion years to go before Vostok and Antarctica or whatever or something like that.
But it does rise quicker in those areas, and that gets incorporated in the total temperature.
So there might be a 7, 8 degree rise in the Arctic in its wintertime, and that then...
It translates to the whole entire global temperature when from 30 north to 30 south, the rise may be one-tenth of a degree, right?
And you can't feel that.
And you can't feel that over a generation.
That's why I'm going to use this term.
Stone stupid to try to claim that the migrant crisis is from climate change.
Those people over a generation, first of all, they're more profitable and they're growing more food than ever in Central America, all right?
But secondly, secondly...
You can't feel the difference in one-tenth of a degree.
You can't feel it yourself in a day and over multiple generations.
You can't feel that.
So the whole thing again, please, the whole thing again, and people have to realize it, it has nothing to do with climate, weather, science, or making your life better.
Quite the contrary.
It's likely to try to discourage you from making your life better because, after all, we've got all these kids with climate anxiety.
Right?
You know what my climate anxiety was?
If my dad told me we're getting six inches of snow, I was always worried, well, why can't we get a foot?
I wanted more.
Never mind.
What do you mean the wind's only going up to 40 miles an hour?
What about 50?
I had the exact kind of opposite anxiety because I like when the weather did extremes.
I make a joke about that, but kids couldn't.
Kids shouldn't have climate anxiety.
The whole thing is nuts to me.
Joe, do you see in NOAA or some of the other weather agencies the same kind of fraud and abuse that you saw, you know, that has been discovered in the last few weeks at USAID? I don't know.
I haven't looked into what they're doing.
I think, again, I look, you know, listen, Don, I mean, I came out of the private sector with AccuWeather.
I'm still in the private sector.
But let's remember AccuWeather and the National Weather Service.
For years, we're at each other's throats.
So much so that when the last director of NOAA, the last person to be nominated by your father, Barry Myers, who was the CEO of AccuWeather, and think about what AccuWeather did.
I mean, he had 50 great forecasters under one roof, forecasts for the entire planet, right?
So, I mean, they knew how to run things very, very efficiently over there, but there was great objection to it.
And it was sort of, you know, by that time I was out of AccuWeather, but I had a smile on my face because the government union, there were three attempts at putting a union into AccuWeather, which would have destroyed AccuWeather because we were in the private sector.
We couldn't pay people as much.
Basically, you had to really love the weather to go to work there at the time, right?
So the third time the union came in was the Government Weather Service Union.
They tried to come in.
I couldn't believe it.
There were big advertisements in the paper.
The average five-year government weather service guy is making, at that time, $52,000 a year.
Average at AccuWeather, $29,000.
Well, of course, you're feeding off the public trough.
Right off the bat there, just think about this.
The argument would have instantly been if someone...
And the government looked at that and said, well, how come we're paying all this money to so many more people when these guys are doing things that are a threat?
Because after all, if our forecast is beating your forecast and you're the public forecast, you feel threatened.
So when you look at that, I'm not going to look at the books.
What I want to look at and what I want to help out with is advising on who has the right attitude to run it.
Communicate.
And also, specific changes involved with the way things are done, as far as, you know, the Hurricane Center and the Severe Storm Center.
And that's not actually, that may not be cutting.
Listen, the Hurricane Center is really good at what they do.
You know, I used to get into arguments with Rush.
Because I said, Rush, go over to the National Hurricane Center, because you live, what, 30 miles away.
And go talk to them, and you'll realize they're not trying to scare the daylights out of people.
They're putting out a forecast they want to verify.
So it comes down.
There's plenty to cut, I'm sure, right?
But you have to do it in a way where you're looking at the New York Giants or the FBI, and you know you've got a lot of good people in there, and you've just got to make it efficient.
Well, Joe, great to have you back.
Always appreciate it.
Joe Bastardi, guys.
Thank you very much, man, and I'm sure we'll talk soon.
All right.
Enjoy the weather.
It's the only weather you got, brother.
Thanks, man.
Guys, thanks so much for tuning in.
Be sure to like, be sure to share, subscribe.
Check us out on Apple or Spotify if you get your podcasts or your friends do that way.
It's so easy to do, but you guys are the ones that help us get this message out.
Also, make sure to check out our incredible sponsors below in the video description.
You're going to love them.
And they had the guts to support programming like this when it wasn't always that popular.
So check them out.
Make sure to support them.
And make sure you check out my father's State of the Union address tomorrow in Washington, D.C.
I will be there with bells on, and I'm sure it'll be a blast.
We may have to do...
We may have to do a show on Wednesday just talking about that before everyone gets to all the other ideas.
But we may want to think about that.
But guys, thanks so much.
I will talk to you all again very soon.
If it's not Thursday, it'll be tomorrow.
Or Wednesday.
I forget where I'm at.
Maybe I'm getting Joe Biden syndrome.
Maybe it's sort of, I've talked about him so much, I've actually absorbed some of the insanity.
But guys, you're the best.
I'll talk to you soon.
Export Selection