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Dec. 13, 2024 - The David Knight Show
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INTERVIEW Gerald Celente: Syria, Gold, Trump Cabinet
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The problem in the United States is about the whole political system.
It's not about one person.
Trump's election has proven again for us, again and again, that the president is only a performer.
He's not the decision maker.
He's part of different lobbies and the deep states or the deep regime, as we can call it, who implement And dictate on the president what should he be doing.
And the proof to what I'm saying is that Trump, after he became president, he swallowed most of the promises and the word that he was boosting during his campaign.
He made 180 turns in nearly every promise.
So why?
Because the deep state wouldn't allow him to go in a certain direction.
That's why, for me, dealing with him as a person, it could be.
But can that person deliver?
No.
In the United States, the president cannot deliver.
The whole state, the deep state, only is the one who can deliver.
And this is the problem.
This deep state doesn't accept partners around the world.
They only accept puppets.
Well, and again, that's Assad, talking about what was happening.
Can't you work with Trump?
Well, Trump is being controlled by the deep state.
We can tell that because he's done a 180 degree turn from most of the things that he said.
I could talk to him, but he's not the one who's really making these decisions.
He's being run, and boy, was that...
Never more obvious than in Syria.
Joining us now is Gerald Salenti.
We're going to talk about this and going to talk about the economy as well.
Gerald Salenti, Trends Journal.
And again, if you go there, you can get the excellent Trends Journal at 10% off if you use the code NIGHT. Thank you for joining us, Gerald.
No, thank you.
Yeah, it's 10% off, which brings it to $2.50 a week.
Or you can get the, I can't say the proper word, Wall Street Journal, but it begins with an S and an H and has an I and another letter in it.
You're talking about what's going on in...
In Syria, this is the front page of today.
Five dollars a day.
Five dollars a day for this crap.
I get the journal because I need economic data.
The big story, missing U.S. citizen emerges in Syria.
Yeah, yeah.
You look at this guy, it doesn't look like he's been missing much.
He's in great shape.
And I'm paying for economic data and you're shoving this crap down my throat?
Hey, how about the 88 Palestinians that were murdered yesterday by Israel?
Why, you anti-Semite?
Israel can kill anybody that they want!
How dare you talk about that?
Not a word.
Not a word in the world.
Crap Journal.
The Wall Street Journal.
Yep.
And this, the toilet paper of record, the New York Times.
They call themselves the paper of record.
Not an art.
Here.
No more printing of information.
Now they just got big pictures because they fire all of the...
The writers, yeah.
The writers.
Well, they're going to end the transition period to artificial intelligence, right, in their articles.
Yeah.
Russian troops close in on key hub in Ukraine.
Humbled in Syria, Putin may intensify pressure on Ukraine.
You ready?
Man found in Syria appears to be missing American.
Huh.
Why are you telling me one damn die out of 8 billion people that may have been missing and you're calling that news?
Don't subscribe to the Trends Journal.
Subscribe to the toilet paper record.
Subscribe to the Wall Crap Journal.
One lousy story after another.
U.S. and allies raced to shape new Syria.
Oh, yeah.
What right do we have to shape Syria?
Yeah, that's right.
What right do we have?
Oh, we have our soldiers there stealing oil in eastern Syria.
We've been there since 2011, robbing their oil.
As I say, you think we would have invaded Iraq if their major export was broccoli?
Yeah.
And you know, I've been talking about this a long time, about the pipelines.
This is about wars over pipelines.
Just like we had Nord Stream and the gas pipeline.
Is Russia going to sell them gas or is the United States going to sell them gas?
Same type of thing in Syria.
That fight over that pipeline that's there.
That's right.
Iran was going to put a pipeline through because then they'd get right out to the Mediterranean.
Yeah.
And they stopped it from happening.
And Turkey, United States...
And Israel.
Here, look.
Search continues for U.S. journalist who was abducted in Syria in 2012. You're calling this news?
Yeah.
What does this help me know of what in the world is going on, what it means, and what's next?
Nothing.
And this is the only article they have about the Israeli genocide, and they blame the Hamas.
Records seized by Israel show Hamas was in a UN school, that they bombed to smithereens.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Hospitals, schools, churches, mosques, bomb to ruin.
Genocide in front of everybody's eyes.
But nothing reported.
Nothing, nothing, nothing.
And now a massive bombing campaign in Syria as well.
Israel has wiped out over 80% according to the data from Times of Israel.
Over 80% of Syria's military equipment, plus knocking out all of their radar and all the other stuff.
Yeah, we're starting to see, you know, as I said, well, we were attacked by Gaza, so we've got to attack them and keep attacking and keep killing civilians for over a year.
And then, you know, there's been some attacks coming from Lebanon, so now we need to destroy that part of Lebanon, and now they're going into Syria.
And as they continue to do this, I guess most people, except for the media and the American government, most people see it for what it is.
A big land grab and a power grab, and they don't care who dies, whoever gets in their way.
Most people don't see anything.
Yeah.
Now, what happened to Taylor Swift last night?
I mean, you know, they don't know what's going on.
People don't have a...
That's crazy.
They don't have a...
It's like the Ukraine war.
People don't know how it began.
They don't know about the United States overthrowing the democratically elected government of Viktor Yanukovych in 2014. Yeah.
They don't know about what was a Victoria Nuland...
Speaking in December 2013, you could Google it up, saying that the United States has sent $5 billion to non-governmental organizations in Ukraine.
Quote, teach them democracy.
Ha!
That's how our democracy works.
You give money to politicians who keep it for their own personal use.
That's it.
Yeah.
That's how it works.
And so people don't have a clue what's going on.
And it's very, very heartbreaking.
Again, what's going on to the Palestinian people, if there's no outrage at the bombing of this place to ruin and Israel stealing more and more land every day.
You know, I was just thinking, you know, Christ wasn't born in Bethlehem.
It's the West Bank.
Merry Christmas.
It's the West Bank.
It's stolen land.
And I'm tired of this fairy tale that God told Abraham 3,500 years ago that this land is your land.
Is that the only person God ever spoke to?
Yeah, well, you know, I think a lot of people misunderstand the promises that were made to him, and even ultra-Orthodox Jews who believe that they're going to get the land given to them don't support the way that Netanyahu and the government is doing that.
And that's the key thing.
Regardless of what you think with this, you know, we don't interpret the Bible to contradict itself on basic moral principles.
And that is what people are doing.
They're throwing out these clear moral guidelines that have been the basis for just war.
And they're excusing anything as long as it's done by a group that they identify with, a group that they like, or a politician that they like or identify with.
And we see that with Netanyahu.
We see it with Israel.
We see it with the Republican Party.
You know, we see it with Trump.
We see it with all this stuff.
If they like the person, they don't care about morality anymore.
It's just situational ethics.
They don't really care.
No, this is what's going on over there.
There should be outrage that that's beyond the belief.
And what's happening to these people, could you imagine living there?
Yeah, no.
You know, when you look at it, there was an article on RT this week that I thought was good.
They always use the term, Gerald, of a rules-based international order.
They don't refer back to any morality from the Bible anymore, any of the people in the West.
But they'll say, we've got this rules-based international order.
They said, what a sham this is.
Who sets up these rules?
The rules are always in the favor of NATO and the U.S.
When you look at what is going on, for example, as we've been talking about with Syria, when the U.S. goes in there and invades in Syria, even though Russia was there at the invitation of the government that was there and in compliance with the U.N. rules, right, But that's not the international rule of order, not the U.N. or anything else.
I said, so where are these rules coming from, right?
They're not coming from God.
They're not coming from the U.N. These people are just making this stuff as they go along.
And they said...
When you compare that to the criticism of what's going on in Ukraine, I mean it's rank hypocrisy and it's just a lot of jargon to give themselves an excuse to do whatever they wish.
Yep.
It really is.
Thou shalt not cover thy neighbor's property.
Oh, that's in the Torah, huh?
Yeah.
Oh, but you're stealing all that land now in Syria.
That's all right.
Oh, God gave you that land, too, right?
That's in the good book, chapter 6, section 8. I mean, you're stealing, robbing, killing, but you're selling one line, but you forget the other one.
Yeah, yeah.
Selective.
They're selective about what they want.
When you look at our allies there, and I talked about this before Syria fell, you could see the A-10 warthog, a very effective weapon that is used for close ground support of, guess who?
Al-Qaeda.
The Mujahideen.
I mean, when this guy takes power, this guy Jolani, when he takes power, he refers to himself and these others as Mujahideen.
That's where this has been from the very beginning of all this stuff, when you had John McCain going around to Republican women's groups telling them, hey, you can adopt a Muj, right?
And then they just keep changing the name, but it's always the same group that's there.
They go from Mujahideen to al-Qaeda to ISIS to al-Nusra, and now they've got this thing called HTS. It's just, we have engaged in piracy in Syria.
We've engaged in an illegal invasion according to consistently applied rules.
And yet, you know, this is something, as you point out, all the mainstream media is cheering this on.
Yep.
And you talked about the Mujahideen.
Who created that?
Who supported that?
Oh, that was Jimmy Carter.
Yeah, it goes back a long way.
That arrogant, arrogant guy, Brzezinski, remember him?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, his daughter, the one that does the clown show with that other clown on MSNBC. What's her name?
Yeah, Mika Brzezinski.
Yeah, yeah.
I always talk about his first thing was Zbigniew.
He was the big news.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, because I always made a big deal out of everything he had to say.
But of course, he goes back.
He got put in that position of really running the Carter administration like Kissinger is running the Nixon administration.
He got in that position because of his trilateral commission stuff, you know, creating that and his idea of creating three regions that could then eventually be united.
But he was also If you remember, between two ages, he talked about the technocracy.
And he said, we're going to be able to tell what people want to do before they do it.
I mean, he's describing all the stuff that's rolling out now, and this form of digital slavery that they're trying to enforce on all of us.
He was talking about that in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
I didn't know that.
Yeah, the technocratic age.
But he called it between two ages.
And so he said the technocratic age, which is what's coming, and he talked about everything in the technocracy right now, all this digital ID and CBDC and all the rest of these things.
Wow.
Yeah.
I didn't know that.
Yeah, they love that guy.
Yeah.
Him and Qatar brought us the Mujahideen to fight the Russians in Afghanistan.
Yeah.
That's right.
Oh, Osama Bin Laden?
Oh, the one you mean, Osama Bin Laden that they killed, that they also supported to help overthrow the government in Afghanistan?
Yeah.
I got to tell you, Jimmy Carter, you know, people do so, he went on slimeball.
He's the guy, by the way, I'll never forget the guy's name, Alfred Kahn.
Kahn.
It should have been C-O-N. It was K-A-H-N. It was a professor or something at Cornell University.
They're the ones that deregulated the airline industry.
And back then, when I was a young man, and I was flying first class, I was the number two guy running a trade association.
Flying was fun.
There was Allegheny, there was Mohawk, there was Eastern, Pan American, over 100 airlines in America.
They deregulated it, and now the bigs own everything.
A couple of companies own it all.
What, two or three?
Own all the airlines.
And that's...
Oh, he's also the guy that allowed interstate banking and did away with the usury laws.
Yeah.
Back in the day, there were only intrastate banks.
Bank of America was only in California.
Yeah.
That's right.
That's right.
There were about 14,000, 15,000 banks back then, but now there were like 4,000 or something.
Look at what has happened to interest rates.
I tell you, it's like organized crime.
It's worse than organized crime.
It's worse than the loan sharks used to be.
And then they don't pay you anything on the money that you have in the bank either.
It's criminal.
It really is.
No, you're right.
As I said, if the politicians were Italian, they'd call it the mafia.
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Yeah.
This is worse than the mafia.
It is.
39% interest rates on some of these things?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
What is the average now?
About 23%?
Yeah.
That's right.
That's right.
Yeah, and of course, what do they pay you?
You know, like a fraction of 1%.
Teeny, tiny amount.
It's just, they own everything, and they certainly own the politicians, and that's how they do it.
You know, we look at Elon Musk.
I was talking about this earlier.
Yeah.
Look at how much money he made.
He put in $250 million or whatever for Trump.
He's already made $200 billion.
And that's before the new rules kick in.
He's going to use his position and say, hey, it's efficiency.
We're not going to give any subsidies to my competitors that I maxed out for EVs and all the rest of the stuff.
He's got a lot of things.
He talked about how Trump has said if anybody invests a billion dollars, we're going to get rid of all the environmental regulations for him and everything.
Yeah, let's do this.
That's the way he's going to make his money.
Yeah.
Only if you invest a billion dollars.
The rest of us can invest nothing.
We get nothing.
You've got to be the billionaires to invest a billion.
Then the government will give you money.
That's right.
That's right.
Yeah, the rest of us are not worth anything.
We used to always see this with the sports stadiums, you know.
You've got these billionaires who come in.
They've got multi-million dollar contracts with their players, you know.
And then the rest of us have to pay for their stadium.
Because, you know, the small businesses are not essential, and we don't do anything in terms of economic activity.
It's only this sports stadium that is going to make jobs and make money for the economy.
All the mom and pops out there, they need to go out of business.
And, of course, that was one of my other big gripes with Trump, was what he did to them.
But, you know, it's interesting.
I saw an article from Roger Stone, and he was dressing down Zelensky because Zelensky didn't dress up.
You know, he went to Notre Dame, and he's wearing his standard khaki t-shirt and all the rest of the stuff that he's worn for several years like he's some character off a Bonanza.
He's got this one uniform that he wears day in and day out everywhere for three years.
And Roger Stone was saying, how dare him show no respect whatsoever to this?
And I thought, well, Roger, what is the appropriate attire for World War III? Is it formal?
Is it semi-formal?
How should we dress for World War III? That's what we're really talking about here, but nobody wants to mention that, I guess.
But it is amazing to me to see these terrorists, and this group, this HTS group, is still listed by the State Department as a terrorist group, while they're giving them air support with A-10 Warthogs and other things.
They don't even try to hide it anymore.
Yeah.
The United States is bombing Syria as well.
Yeah.
Along with Turkey.
That's right.
Yeah.
And now they're putting this group in, and they're not going to like Israel very much.
They're going to be more anti-Israel than Assad was.
Well, they were very complimentary at this point, but we'll see what happens down the road.
And, of course, I'm reminded that Israel put in Hamas because they wanted a more radical group there.
They thought it would make it easier for them to do what they wanted than if they had moderates in.
So they pushed for the more radical group, Hamas.
In Gaza.
So, you know, this is the geopolitical games that these people play.
And they don't care anything about our lives.
They don't care about the lives of innocent people.
And they don't care about the lives of their own people either.
Let's talk a little bit about what's going on with the economy, because we're getting here to the end of the year.
And, you know, what do you think about gold, Bitcoin, all the rest of this stuff?
What do you think is going to happen with the tariffs?
What is your economic forecast as we're looking at the end of the year here?
It's a wild card with Trump.
I mean, he says one thing and does another.
Some tariffs he put through, others he didn't.
Our forecast is that the equity markets will do relatively well next year because Trump will do everything he can to keep boosting up the economy because he's invested into it.
And you look at the facts.
Let's go back.
We're in December now.
Let's go back to December 2018. I know that's ancient history for a lot of people.
The equity markets were at their worst level in that December from any December since the Great Depression, 1931. That's how bad the equity markets did in 2018. What did Trump do?
He pressured Jerome Powell to lower interest rates.
In January, Powell lowered interest rates.
Artificially boosted up the markets again.
The economy was getting weak.
And what happened?
Oh, the repo crisis in September of 2019. Trump will do everything he can to pump up the economy.
Everything.
And so we see it positive for the equity markets.
On the Bitcoin numbers, you know, we've been bullish for Bitcoin for many years.
And we're very bullish on it because, you know, he's in the game.
And do we know if he's invested in it or not?
And he brought people in that are pro-crypto into his government.
And they're very invested in it.
I mean, you look at all the people around him that are anything that has to do with any of the financial aspects of it, they're all heavily involved in crypto and stablecoin and tokenization, all of that stuff.
Yep.
So you've got to look for what it is, not for what you want.
And so we see it.
Again, we're talking about Musk.
We gave him $250 million.
He's worth almost a trillion dollars.
That's like leaving a big tip at a restaurant.
Yeah.
You have that kind of money.
Exactly.
Exactly.
No money at all.
Yeah.
Nothing.
But the point being, look at all the billionaires that Trump has brought into his team.
Mm-hmm.
The billionaires, they could speak, they could say anything that they want.
We have no right to say anything or be involved in any decision-making.
We are pieces of nothing crap.
By the way, it's fascism, according to an Italian guy I don't like called Mussolini, the merger of state and corporate powers, by definition.
The corporate powers run the government.
You want to run for president?
I'm Kamala Hilarious.
I got, what, $2.3 or $4 billion.
Hey, I'm Trump.
I only got $1.4 billion.
Billion.
Yeah.
Billion.
It's not a democracy.
You want to run for any office, you don't have the money behind you.
You don't go anywhere.
That's right.
That's right.
And this is right in front of everybody's eyes.
It's another...
It's the robber barons.
Nothing has changed.
It's only gotten worse.
Because once upon a time, there used to be, as you remember, we talked about this before, stationary stores, hardware stores, grocery stores, drug stores, shoe stores, all chains.
Chains on everything.
Chains own everything.
And by the way, people forget this too.
That's why they wanted all the cheap labor coming in here, the immigration.
You go to any one of these stores, watch what I mentioned, all the chains, the Lowe's, the Marshalls.
Every time you walk in the door, help wanted, full-time, part-time.
Because they don't pay the people anything.
Oh, yeah.
I agree.
And so they're going to have this very public, probably combative TV footage about how they're throwing immigrants out and everything.
While in the back door, they're bringing in all the people, the H-1B visas and all the rest of this stuff, giving them green You know,
by the way, I support tariffs And I'll tell you why.
Because once upon a time, going back to the late 1800s, early 1900s, the money that came in for the government came in through tariffs, not taxes.
That's right.
They invented the tax thing that slimeball made rot in hell, Woodrow Wilson, who gave us the Federal Reserve, Federal Income Tax, the IRS, and World War I. Mm-hmm.
And that's why, you know, they call it the Internal Revenue Service, because our revenue for the federal government was almost all external.
It came from other countries.
And that allowed this to be essentially a free trade zone.
Jefferson said when his second inaugural address, he said, well, I've been able to eliminate all useless offices, and by doing that...
No farmer, no laborer, no mechanic knows the tax man.
We've eliminated all internal taxes, and it pretty much ran that way.
But, you know, once they made the shift to globalism, they wanted to have free trade and internal taxes, and that's what they've done.
So, yeah, that's an important thing.
But the difficulty is, how do we switch it?
And how do we wind up not paying the—you know, we're still going to have this army of 80,000 IRS agents— And we're still going to be growing the IRS to be seven times bigger than it is today.
And I don't see anybody on the Republican side talking about cutting that back, but we know that the tariffs are going to add taxes to us.
And that's always been the thing.
If we change the form of taxation, even if they went from an income tax to a consumption sales tax, the danger is that you always wind up getting both of them, rather than changing one out for the other one.
What do you think about that?
What do you think the economic consequences of these tariffs, if Trump does them, how do you think that's going to transition?
Well, let's go back to the beginning of the Ukraine war.
Was it February 24th, 2022?
Biden and the West put serious sanctions on Russia.
Quote, Putin's going to pay the price.
They didn't pay the price.
We said...
Russia has the human and natural resources they need to be self-sustaining.
These are very advanced people technologically and scientifically.
And again, it's a huge country.
They have the natural resources as well.
Look what happened to Russia's economy.
It went up.
They became self-sustaining.
All the companies that left, the Russian people took over the companies.
So McDonald's left, they'll take over.
They'll call it something else.
They just took over these businesses.
They call it McPutin's, I guess.
So now, the United States has all of what we need to be self-sustaining.
Once upon a time, as you remember, there used to be things, you know, made in America.
Yeah.
Up in Syracuse, Corning, all the places.
Oh, right here in Kingston.
Gantt Shirt Factory.
They had shirt factories all over the place over here.
So, oh, there was a thing, now they call it the Rust Belt.
Used to be manufacturing.
We need to bring manufacturing back to this country.
Here, to show you the hypocrisy, Again, I grew up at the height of the Vietnam War.
We got to get those dirty commies before we don't stop them.
Those dominoes are going to keep falling.
And before you know it, those commies will take over Asia.
That was the line being sold.
Vietnam, still run by the commies.
That's our second largest importer.
We import clothing and shoes from Vietnam.
The second largest country that we buy shoes and clothing from.
But they taught us to hate those commies to go to war.
That's right.
Yeah, and it was never about the domino thing.
You know, it was McNamara said before he died, he was interviewed in a documentary, and he said he went back and the guy slammed his fist on the table and said, domino theory?
Don't you know anything about our history?
For a thousand years, we've been in conflict with the Chinese.
And now, as you point out, that it's an independent country that is manufacturing a lot.
They're still having conflicts with the Chinese.
Yep.
McNamara, page 148, 149. Hold on.
And this is from my book, Trends 2000, which was an international bestseller.
Here we go.
Robert McNamara now states that, quote, we were terribly wrong Here.
In his 1995 book, in retrospect, The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam, former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara finally revealed what an entire generation had known for 30 years, that our, quote, democratic government foisted the Vietnam War upon the public, knowing full well that Vietnam posed no threat to our national security, and that, quote, the war was wrong, terribly wrong.
and could not be won anyhow.
Robert McNamara now states we are terribly wrong.
He should be tried as a war criminal.
His dogmatic policies resulted in the most terrible tragedy this country has suffered since the Civil War.
We call for a tribunal for Bosnia.
Why not for McNamara?
McNamara ranks with Hitler and Stalin as the perpetrator of crimes against humanity, Curtis D. Westfall, retired Air Force Colonel, Austin, Texas.
Letter to the editor, USA Today, 4-11-95.
Wrote about it in my book.
Excellent.
Yeah.
And you know, when he did that documentary, as you're pointing out, he deserved to be tried as a war criminal.
And he kind of referred...
he kind of tried to give himself some legal cover by saying that when you look at dresden so many people died in dresden dresden he said the firebombing there he said if we'd lost that war we would have been tried as war criminals so he goes yeah what we did in vietnam was bad but not nearly as bad as what we did in world war ii type of thing right trying to to buy some time there but you know when we talk about this domino theory what do we hear the argument for this continued war in ukraine all the time from the u.s from the uk from france it's
It's the domino theory.
And it's not a domino theory.
This is this internal struggle that's been there between Ukraine and Russia.
Ukraine is part of Russia.
As long as the United States has been in existence.
And so it's this ethnic conflict that is really a part of that area.
And we went in there with the coups and all the rest of the stuff.
But now they're back to this same thing about the domino theory.
It's like, I've heard this all my life.
This is the lie that they always resort to.
Yep.
And same thing with the Middle East.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, you know, you're talking about manufacturing, and I've said this before.
Unless they get rid of this green agenda, we're not going to have any manufacturing.
It'll all be in China.
And that's really, I think, what the purpose of this was.
You go back to 2015, the Paris Climate Accord, which is a treaty that was never ratified, but Trump pretends and everybody else pretends, even all the people in the Senate.
Not one senator came up and said, wait a minute, we have a say in this.
None of them have said that, Republican or Democrat.
But when you look at what is happening, I reported yesterday, China is adding two coal power plants a week.
And they've already got 48% of the world's coal power plants.
And yet, Biden has got a plan to get rid of 80% of our remaining coal power plants in the next five years.
We've got about 200 of them, and he's going to get rid of 80% of them in the next five years.
If we don't do something about that, we're going to be in the same situation as the UK and other places in Europe where they can't afford to manufacture anything because their price of energy is so high.
I mean, to me, that's the fundamental thing.
And yet, you know, when you talk about, when Trump talks about the tariffs, I look at it and I say, I just see an additional tax coming.
I don't see any focus on what the true problem is.
He says, drill, baby, drill.
Well, that's not the issue.
You know, you can drill, but if you don't get rid of the Paris Climate Accord, they're not going to let you use it.
So, again, it's just misdirection and a big con, I think, is what this is all looking like to me.
You know, you talk about burning coal, burning oil.
If...
There's a quote.
Oh, by the way, they just passed the bill, $900 billion more for the military-industrial complex.
Almost a trillion dollars.
Yeah, yeah.
And Trump is going to keep, as they're cutting government jobs, they're going to keep promoting the military-industrial complex to get bigger.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Remember this quote.
And again, it goes back...
To what you're talking about, because we could be going in a different direction.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.
The world in arms is not spending money alone.
It is spending the sweat of its labors The genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
This is not a way of life at all in any true sense.
Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, five-star general, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, and two-term president.
So let's take one thing that he said here.
The genius of the scientists.
If we were spending...
A trillion dollars a year on a new science to develop a new energy that was truly clean and truly safe, we'd have had it 40 years ago.
Yeah, or if somebody developed it 40 years ago, they would suppress it.
They would have got rid of it.
That's right, they would have covered it up.
Tesla, the real guy, what was his name?
Nikolai Tesla, yeah.
Yeah.
So what I'm saying, the money isn't going into this.
Yeah.
Yeah, we don't have to be burning.
It could be something that's totally different.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, absolutely.
But the money's not going to it.
The money's going to hell.
That's right.
And that's the truest word.
Our money is going to hell.
They're stealing our money to go kill people all over the world.
That's right.
And again, I launched Occupy Peace, so it's not just words.
I put my money where my heart and soul are.
And by the way, you gave $250 million to Trump.
How about giving $250 million to Occupy Peace, Tesla?
That's right.
That's right.
Or even just give a little bit of money to the people in Western North Carolina.
I talked about it earlier, Gerald.
They've got people who are freezing to death there, and they've got the local officials who came in and they're tearing down the houses that the Amish built for them because they don't have running water or electricity.
But they're not going to have it when they have the house torn down either.
I mean, it's just what our government is doing is just directed against us.
You know, Mike Johnson can't do anything at all to help these people in Western North Carolina.
And yet he just passed nearly a trillion dollars for war.
This is so typical.
It's typical of both of these parties.
They have nothing but contempt for the American people.
They've got their own agenda, their little geopolitical agenda, and to redraw the lines on the map and to be able to boss people around, they don't care how many people they kill, including their own people, how many of them die.
That's what's really involved here.
I got a comment here.
I guess the way we pronounce the name.
Sorry, I don't know how to pronounce that.
But he says, Tell Gerald Salenti saw his picture hanging at the National University of Health Sciences in Lombard, Illinois, when I walked in.
He's a huge health guy.
So there you go.
Did you know that?
That they had your picture there.
I didn't know that, but they gave me an honorary doctorate.
Oh, wow.
Because of the work I've done in...
Integrative and natural healing.
Integrative and complementary medicine.
Here, this is one of the first books I worked on called Natural Healing back in the 1980s when people weren't talking about that.
That's so nice to hear that.
Yeah, they were wonderful to me.
And again, we talked about, yeah, remember, this is very important.
Please pay attention.
Don't forget when you masturbate, don't forget to sanitize your hands.
Remember that?
Oh yeah, I remember that.
Everybody had hand sanitizer everywhere.
We had a fire, I think, somewhere because that stuff is pretty volatile and flammable and big storage of that.
But not as bad as lithium.
And I don't want to catch COVID from you because it's going around again, so I've got to put this on because, you know, it could come through the microphone and kill me.
Well, you know, they're ramping this stuff up, and it looks like they're targeting raw milk.
I think that targeting raw milk is really about targeting local food production in general.
What do you think?
Yeah.
Again, they've knocked out...
Look who...
Yeah.
Again, I wrote about it in this book, Trends 2000, how the bigs took over all of the farming industry, Tyson's and all these other companies.
Look at it.
I don't eat that crap.
And again, I'm talking about with natural healing, there was never a word, not one word, From the prostitutes who sold the COVID jab about getting in the best health you can.
Yeah, that's right.
About taking vitamins and supplements.
You know, I only go out to eat when I go out on a date or with buddies, you know, or friends, you know.
But I don't go out to restaurants.
I don't want to eat that stuff.
Yeah.
You know, I only eat, you know, organic foods, and I'm very careful where...
Like, for example, if I go and...
I always read the label on the organic.
Oh, it comes from...
Oh, these grapes come from Peru.
The grapes are calling them organic.
They come from Peru?
How long does it take to get the grapes from Peru to New York?
How old are these things?
They're aged.
They're just about to become wine when you get them, right?
And I eat seasonally, too.
I won't eat lettuce in the middle of the winter.
Where did the lettuce come from?
You go out, when you grow your own lettuce, you pick it, it's dead within five minutes if you don't put it in the refrigerator, put some water, clean it.
And you mean now you're telling me I'm eating lettuce in the middle of the winter?
How do they keep this stuff alive for so long as they shipped it from wherever they shipped it from?
So while I eat organic, you know, it's very careful of what I buy.
And by the way, I don't know how people could afford it.
I mean, I bought some grapes and a couple of this and that.
All of a sudden, like $55.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, the price of groceries just threw the roof now.
Let me ask you this, because I know that, you know, you support RFK Jr. and then his position on Israel, you unsupported him.
What do you think now?
Do you think that he's...
You know, my take on it was I thought Trump was kind of leading him along and that maybe, you know, they'd kind of sabotage his appointment.
Do you think he's going to make it?
And do you think that if he makes it, he's going to make a difference with any of the food or with any of the vaccine stuff?
What do you think about that?
I think he will.
I think he will.
And, you know, and there's some positive things I said, you know, I don't like Trump as a person, and I don't support him, I wouldn't vote for him, but there are things, if he follows through with him, again, as you said, I stopped supporting Kennedy, and I spoke with him, and I had Dennis Kucinich up here, as you know, as one of the speakers who was his campaign manager, and...
I stopped supporting him because of his stance on the war.
And now, with Trump on the war, he just came out with Time Magazine.
Big deal, he's the man of the year.
Who reads Time Magazine anymore?
Well, so was Adolf Hitler.
Maybe they're trying to send us a little message.
I mean, their man of the year can be anybody that affected the news, you know.
But Trump came out and said that he wants peace.
And he said he wants peace in the Middle East.
They asked him about, do you trust Netanyahu?
He said, I don't trust anybody.
And he said, I don't want to see the Palestinians or the Jewish people killed.
I don't want to see the Russians or the Ukrainian people killed.
And so, if he lives by his word and has peace, boy, I'm totally pro-Trump.
But will he live by his word?
Because now he's saying, I just came out in the Wall Street Journal today, actually, about him possibly bombing Iran.
It's nuclear facilities.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I don't know.
So if he's going to do that, then how are you going to talk about peace?
He'll say anything to anybody.
My Trump BS meter is fully pegged all the way, as full as it'll go.
I don't believe a thing the guy says about anything, you know?
If it comes out, great.
I'll be happy to congratulate him for it.
Right?
Right now we're in this kind of weird honeymoon period where everybody is able to project whatever they want to on him.
And that's what they're doing.
You know, everybody takes whatever he says that they like and they're projecting it on him.
And, you know, there's no reality check.
And, of course, there really won't be much of a reality check, I think, once he becomes president.
Because look at all the stuff that he's gotten away with.
He's the father of the jab.
He still loves all that stuff.
So there's going to be so many people who are going to be covering for him with all of this stuff in the media.
We'll just have to wait and see how it turns out.
What do you think of this guy who worked with Soros to break the Bank of England, Besant, who's going to be his Treasury Secretary?
What do you think is going to happen to the dollar in the next few years?
Are they going to completely trash it and try to move into some kind of a cryptocurrency?
A lot of people are talking about using Bitcoin as a reserve.
Even Russia is talking about using Bitcoin as a reserve.
Where do you see the dollar and these types of things?
It all depends.
Where the dollar goes depends on what they do with interest rates.
End of story.
And they're going to lower interest rates apparently next week by 25 basis points.
And we believe that Trump is going to continue to push to lower interest rates because he wants to boost the economy up.
Very important to also understand the lower interest rates go, the higher inflation is going to go.
Yeah, that's right.
So that's the other side of it.
And on a digital currency?
Absolutely.
Absolutely, positively, that's the future.
It was one of the covers of our Trends Journal.
And again, you could get it by going to your link there.
You get 10% off.
It's $2.50 a week.
One of the covers was From Dirty Cash to Digital Trash.
Mm-hmm.
We're looking at the real numbers, by the way, of the United States debt when you put in like Social Security, all the other stuff they have to pay out, is about $260 trillion, not $36 trillion.
There's no way in the world that they're ever going to pay this debt off.
They're going to make up a digital currency.
They're going to make up something like the Russians hacked our banking system.
You lost all your money, but don't worry about it.
We're coming up with a new coin.
And the people will accept it because the country, the world has gone digital.
It's been digital.
Everybody's digitized.
That's right.
Everything.
Little kids, little infants playing with the little, you know, I think that's a big part of what we see coming up with the Trump administration.
He's got all these pro-crypto people.
It's kind of a controlled, two-step process here with the Segelian dialectic.
You've got Biden who will come at them directly, and I'm going to ban everything, and I'm going to force you to do this and force you to do that.
Then they pull back.
And with crypto or even with the climate stuff, I think that Trump is going to pull back on a lot of these Biden mandates and say, hey, you can do anything that you want.
Of course, you may have to pay a carbon tax or you may have to pay for carbon sequestration that my buddies are running and all the rest of the stuff.
Or when it comes to crypto, he said, hey, you can have anything that you want out there.
And then they set up this...
The system, not only are people getting acclimated to it, you know, that's a big part, I think, of a lockdown, getting people acclimated to universal basic income.
But, you know, moving this Overton window is a very important thing for them.
And so if they open everything up and let everybody play with crypto, and now everybody's really excited because all the walls are coming down and it's going to be, you know, some freedom for a while, kind of like what they did with the Internet, then they'll drop the hammer at some point in the future.
Maybe a false flag, like you said.
Yep.
And again, it's going to happen.
It's only going to be a matter of when.
Look what's going on in China.
Nobody uses cash anymore.
You put your palm out and they pay your thing.
So cash is going to go away.
And everything becomes digitized.
And once it becomes more and more digitized, then they don't care.
They don't care what's backing it.
Yeah, if anything.
Yeah.
Oh, and by the way, how come we're not allowed to go into Fort Knox to see where the gold is?
It's virtual gold now.
It's like the paper gold in the Shanghai Gold Exchange, right?
Is it really there?
It doesn't track the spot price of gold.
It's doing its own thing.
I think they're using that to manipulate the price of gold.
Yeah, gold prices.
Again, when Trump came in, that changed the gold rally.
I mean, gold, you know, in the last two days, it's down almost like $100, you know, the last three days.
But our top trend for 2024 was a golden year for gold.
Well, gold's now about $2,670 an ounce.
It was up to about $2,800.
But it's still up from when we made that forecast about $640 an ounce.
You know, there's all this expectation again in this honeymoon period, but the fundamentals are still there.
I mean, we still have everybody running away from the dollar.
We still have inflation.
We still have the deficit and debt.
And there's still the privacy issue as well that is there that I think gold, to me, wins on.
But, you know, a lot of these fundamentals are still there, and you've got a lot of analysts who are still saying that they think that next year is going to go up close to $3,000.
I mean, what do you think about gold for next year?
Again, it's a—you've got to see what Trump is going to—if he lowers interest rates, gold prices are going to go up because the dollar is going to go down.
But right now, the dollar is very strong.
Mm-hmm.
And you just saw the ECB lowered interest rates yesterday 25 basis points, but they're still high compared to where they were in negative territory back in the 2022. And then you have Canada just lowered their interest rates 50 basis points.
And look at the loony, look at the euro, they're going down.
And so it costs more because gold is dollar-based for other countries to buy it when the dollar is so strong.
But that's what keeps the prices down.
And with the fear of inflation, at this point, is negative for gold because they fear that if inflation has gone up, like the last numbers to produce a price index was higher than anticipated, that brought gold prices down because they feel the Fed won't lower interest rates because inflation's going up.
Who do you think he's going to get from Powell?
Is Powell going to fight him?
Powell said, I'm not leaving and he can't fire me, that type of thing.
Do you think he's going to get what he wants out of Powell?
Take a look at Powell.
Take a look at this guy.
Is he a fighter?
Is he a fighter?
He doesn't look like it.
Doesn't look like it.
You don't get in those jobs by being a fighter.
Yeah.
You get in those jobs by being a member of the club.
You're in the fraternity.
Yeah.
That's all it is.
It's one big club and you ain't in it, as George Collins said.
That's right.
No, no.
Trump, again, Trump pushed Powell to lower interest rates in December of 2020. 18, when the markets were crashing and power lowered them in January.
And that created a false boom again in the economy.
And they had the repo crisis.
You look at the data going back to 2019. This country was going down economically.
And then the COVID war breaks out on January 2020 on Chinese Lunar New Year, the year of the rat.
And everybody forgot about that.
Germany was going into a recession in 2019. Right now, you're looking at the top 10 countries in the world that their economies are going down other than the United States.
We have the strongest economy, again, who's artificially propped up, keeps being artificially propped up, just like the equity markets are artificially propped up.
Yeah, I agree.
Well, it's going to be interesting to see what happens, and we're going to see a lot of things changing very quickly.
When you look at the people that Trump's got in there, pretty much, you know, if RFK Jr. doesn't do any of this stuff, at least the things that he has said— Have moved the public expectation in a positive way, I think.
You know, there's a lot of things that I'd like to see him do that he hasn't done, and he can be a bit of a limited hangout on a lot of this stuff.
But still, there's a lot of positive that could come out of that, so we'll just hope that that's going to be the case.
And again, what else is on your radar there?
And again, what do you think of this guy Besant, this Soros guy?
I mean, he was...
He was there with Soros when they broke the Bank of England.
Is he going to break the bank here?
Another positive thing is, yeah, I really believe in bringing down the government.
Get rid of all these stupid jobs.
Look at the numbers of jobs that were created.
Look at the number of government jobs that were created in the last round.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
That's basically all the jobs created were government jobs.
Yeah.
You know, government jobs, social service job, which pay nothing, health care, that social service ends, and restaurants and service industries that pay nothing.
But we don't need these government jobs.
I am in total in favor of Bringing down all of these stupid government jobs.
You know, I was the assistant to the Secretary of the New York State Senate, as you know.
The people, the bureaucrats are the lowest life pieces of scum you could find out there.
They can't get a job in the real world.
They suck into the political system, and they become the most arrogant.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, just look at what we were talking about earlier.
They go in and knock the houses down that the Amish built for these people.
What kind of a person does that?
Yeah.
The most arrogant.
So I'm in total favor of them bringing down, cutting out these government jobs and Department of Education.
What education?
It's a government school system.
Yeah.
Well, the thing is, though, I don't think that, you know, when you look at it, they're talking about two trillion.
I don't see two trillion that's there unless you do structural changes of the entitlement programs.
It's just not there.
And then whatever Ramaswamy and Musk and their people...
Talk about it's going to be chump change if they don't do some major structural change.
I mean, you've got to get rid of some major bureaucracies, as we were talking about earlier, the different things like the EPA or, you know, the Department of Energy, all these things that came about, you know, only about 30, 40, 50 years ago.
And they have been a thorn in everybody's side all of this time.
Those entire agencies need to go.
But all that has to come from Congress.
And you've got Mike Johnson who wants to operate like Nancy Pelosi doing omnibus bills and just running everything through.
I'm very pessimistic about any reform with that.
David, Mike Johnson will fold like that.
He's not his own man.
Oh, yeah.
But he doesn't do anything.
Unless they stop with the omnibus bill stuff, they're not going to be able to cut expenses anywhere.
They can make their recommendations, but if these guys do nothing, you know.
I think Trump's going to have the power of Congress.
And a guy like Mike Johnson, he's a nobody.
He'll just do what he's told.
You see him photobombing all the pictures of Trump and Elon Musk on the plane and everything else, Mike Johnson.
How about getting rid of Homeland Security, something they invented after 9-11?
Oh, yeah.
What the hell has Homeland Security done for us?
Yeah.
Get rid of the FBI and the CIA. How about getting rid of those?
Yeah.
Oh, no.
Kash Patel's going to make it work good.
He's going to keep it around.
He's going to fix it.
You know, it's like the meme going around.
It's like Bormir.
He's going to get the ring of power.
And I know I can use this for good.
Yeah, that's the problem with all this stuff.
They don't want to really cut the size of government.
They don't want to really restore the rule of law.
They just want to make sure they use these things for their own purposes.
That's really what I think we're going to see with it.
Well, we'll see what happens, and it's always great talking to you, Gerald.
Thank you so much, folks.
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Thank you so much, Gerald, for coming on.
Appreciate that.
Oh, thank you.
And thank you for all that you do.
I really appreciate being on with you.
Thank you.
And I don't know if we're going to see you before Christmas.
If not, have a Merry Christmas.
I don't know where our schedule is.
Do we have you every couple of weeks?
I don't know if we've got two weeks before that or not.
But have a Merry Christmas if we don't see you then.
Thank you so much.
All right, folks.
And let me say thanks to Brian for the tip and to Sandy Hayes.
Thank you so much.
And we also know the drones in New Jersey elsewhere aren't aliens.
And we know the government is lying to us up one side and down the other.
Like they do everything.
Mark Bender, thank you very much.
Joining me late today.
Loves the album.
Says you're my go-to guy for information.
It's clear your passion is musical.
Thank you very much.
Karen, play the Jimmy Stewart commercial as we go out here.
If you can.
Alright, I'll do that.
And we'll play that on the way out.
I wish I had the Christmas Night album.
Hot dog!
You can get the Christmas Night album at thedavidknightshow.com for just $13.99.
It's right in the second floor there, see?
What'd you wish, George?
Well, not just one.
Wish a whole hat for them.
First, I'm going to thedavidknightshow.com and purchase the Christmas Night album.
Then I'm gonna listen to Christmas classics, like...
Are you gonna throw it up?
I want the Christmas Night album, too.
Hey, that's pretty good.
Puffalo gals, can't you come out tonight?
David's Christmas Night album includes 21 instrumental Christmas melodies like God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Silent Night, and as all new, I'll be home for Christmas.
What do you want?
You want the moon?
Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
I'll take it.
Then what?
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