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The David Knight Show -1/24/2025

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	The End
	In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
	It's The David Knight Show.
	As the clock strikes 13, it's Friday the 24th of January.
	Year of our Lord, 2025.
	Well, today we've got more pardons, and that's where we're going to begin today.
	And we're going to have very important pardons, the ones for pro-lifers that we were talking about yesterday.
	We're going to take a look also at some reform that has been proposed.
	As I said, it's not enough just to pardon the people who have been trounced on.
	We need to have some reform.
	We need to have some prosecutions.
	We've got people talking about lawsuits now and retaliation.
	But we're going to focus on Davos.
	Davos, where Trump kind of laid out his agenda.
	And guess what?
	What was important from it is not what the media was talking about.
	But we'll talk about the economic aspects of it, but we'll talk about what's truly important, what they had to say.
	And, of course, all of the people at Davos building him up as the anti-globalist and even building him up as a resurrected savior.
	Yes, he came back from the dead, they say.
	It's disgusting.
	But we are, folks, winning on abortion.
	Turns out the younger generation is not buying into this.
	Exactly the opposite of what Trump had said.
	be right back that's right now That was a J6 prisoner, but the same thing is true of many of these people who've just been pardoned, pro-lifers.
	And Trump took his time.
	To me, I looked at it, this is my number one priority.
	And I'm kind of surprised, I shouldn't be surprised, that it's not his number one priority.
	He didn't care about the J6ers before he left, let them suffer for four years.
	It hasn't been as long for the pro-lifers, and that wasn't his issue.
	That was 100% Biden.
	Trump didn't have anything to do with that.
	He's now made that right, and so I'm glad that he did.
	I will say that people are starting to wonder.
	I read you the essay yesterday when a person said, I'll gratefully accept a pardon, but I'm ready to stick this out on principle if necessary, and I will suffer in the way that Christ suffered for doing the right thing.
	You had Josh Hawley saying, you know, come on, let's pardon these people and so forth.
	Why did he wait so long?
	Why was it not a top priority?
	Why didn't he do that on day one?
	I mean, he pardoned the J6ers on day one, even though it was at the very, very end of the day.
	But when you look at these guys, I think it has a lot to do with the fact that today is going to be the March for Life in Washington.
	And he wanted this to be hot news.
	I know that's a cynical take on it, but folks, I've seen presidents do cynical things.
	I talked about how Reagan and Bill Casey, OSS, and then one of the key people beginning the CIA, but became his campaign manager.
	While Bill Casey had, and we found this out because of Iran-Contra, he went to Iran after they took the hostages and said, don't release them.
	And we'll do a deal with you.
	We'll sell you spare parts.
	And, of course, then the CIA takes any of the money that they make from selling spare parts or selling drugs or whatever, and they use it for their black ops or secret wars or assassinations.
	And, you know, take a nice cut themselves individually as well.
	You see these people who come out of the CIA. Lieutenant Governor in Texas.
	I'm trying to remember his name.
	I wasn't planning on talking about this.
	He spent more money on his campaign than anybody had ever spent in Texas at that point in time for a statewide office.
	And he was the one who shut down the pushback against TSA and some other things like that.
	But he was a CIA guy.
	Had been a CIA guy all of his life.
	And then when he retires, all of a sudden he becomes an oil baron.
	Just like that.
	Wow.
	Shades of Hunter Biden.
	Corruption to see here, right?
	But these people who do this stuff, it's always the same thing with them.
	Reagan and Bill Casey, again, said leave them there as prisoners.
	Don't even release them after he won the election.
	They left him there for another couple of months.
	I want you to release them right as Reagan is taking office.
	And so they let these people basically rot there for about 14-15 months.
	And another two or three months, even after Reagan won, just to make Reagan look good.
	They're working with our great enemy, Iran, with all this stuff.
	And so when I look at this and say, you know...
	Kind of like what Reagan did.
	Reagan was much worse about this stuff.
	Make these people wait another four days to make Trump look better.
	But at least they've been pardoned.
	And the important thing is that we've now got bills in both the House and the Senate to actually reform and get rid of this heinous law that was put in by the Democrats and Bill Clinton back in the 90s.
	23 people were prosecuted, Trump said, in a signing ceremony.
	They should not have been prosecuted.
	Absolutely right.
	Many of them are elderly people.
	They should not have been prosecuted.
	This is a great honor to sign this, he said.
	I absolutely agree.
	Counsel for the Thomas More Society said the heroic, peaceful pro-lifers that were unjustly imprisoned by Biden's Justice Department will now be freed and able to return home to their families, eat a family meal, enjoy the freedom that should have been never taken away from them in the first place.
	Prosecuted?
	No, I would say persecuted.
	It's a persecution.
	This is Newsmax, but, you know, I always call it a persecution.
	Look, under the Face Act, they didn't come after arsonists on the left.
	The Biden administration, the FBI, these politicized crooks.
	They didn't come after arsonists, but they came after people who were peacefully obstructing an abortion center for a day.
	And they even came after other people who did not violate the FACE Act.
	People who had done absolutely nothing in violation of the FACE Act.
	The feds came against him, gave him a SWAT team raid in front of his 11 children.
	We'll talk about that in a second.
	But the activists were persecuted by the Biden administration's Department of Justice using the FACE Act, and they call it the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances.
	And it was supposed to protect people.
	Who wanted to go to a crisis pregnancy center.
	But, you know, hey, if they do vandalism, if they do burglary, if they, you know, commit arson, not a problem.
	So it goes back to 1994, Democratic-controlled Congress and Bill Clinton.
	It prohibits the use of force, threats of force, or physical obstruction.
	That's the issue right there, physical obstruction.
	Against anyone who is seeking or providing reproductive health services.
	And look, you don't have to.
	We've already got laws against the use of force and threats of force, right?
	Salt and battery.
	You don't need another law about that.
	They needed the law because they wanted to say, well, if you're physically obstructing this, we're going to throw you in prison.
	This is Merrick Garland again, who Biden did not pardon.
	And it's also corrupt justices.
	So-called justices, judges that should be impeached and imprisoned after they're impeached.
	Remove them at the very least.
	Impeach them and remove them.
	But they should be prosecuted.
	That's part of the reform, you know.
	When people violate the law, I don't like this sovereign immunity nonsense that's given to cops who are bad or judges who are bad.
	Judges, the rightful way to proceed with this is to impeach them.
	Then after you impeach them, Trump addressed pardons for anti-abortion activists during a Faith and Freedom Coalition event back in June.
	He raised the case of Harlow, who was a 75-year-old Catholic convicted of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinics Entrance Act.
	Sentenced to two years in prison.
	75-year-old.
	And of course, you know, as we get older, we've got all kinds of health issues.
	And her name is Paulette Harlow.
	Trump said she's one of many peaceful pro-lifers who Joe Biden has rounded out, sometimes with SWAT teams and thrown them in jail.
	Many people are in jail over this.
	This is just crazy.
	We're going to get that taken care of immediately.
	And then...
	The best news out of all this, well, I mean, it's great to have these people out, but we've got to stop this pattern of abuse that is there and the bad law.
	So Chip Roy in the House and Mike Lee in the Senate have reintroduced legislation to repeal the FACE Act.
	But as I said before, an important part of reform is to punish the people who did this stuff.
	This was an attorney for Heather Adani.
	He called the pardons tremendous, but listen to what he had to say.
	He said, I've tried hundreds of cases throughout my career.
	That trial in Washington, D.C., and again, they moved them to Washington, D.C., out of the area where it had happened, and that's what needs to be rooted out, is these corrupt courts.
	And prosecutors in Washington, D.C. But he said, I've tried hundreds of cases throughout my career, and that trial in Washington, D.C. was the most unfair trial I have ever been a part of.
	We were not allowed to do our job.
	That's what I say.
	You've got to get rid of these kangaroo justices.
	They need to be impeached and removed.
	And then they need to be punished.
	After the pardons were signed, LifeSite News spoke with the imprisoned pro-lifer Joan Andrews' husband, Chris Bell.
	He said that he believes his wife is still in federal custody at a prison facility near Philadelphia.
	He was uncertain when she would be released again.
	Same thing we were seeing with J6ers.
	Vindictive wardens.
	Dunn, the lawyer that said it's the most unfair trial that he'd ever been a part of, he said, eventually we all get justice.
	If we don't get it here, we're going to get it on Judgment Day.
	Thomas More Society's Martin Cannon, attorney for Lauren Handy, said this, and she's not a Christian, she's an atheist left wing.
	I think this is the lady who ran for Congress so she could show abortion pictures.
	And she was, if this is the one that I'm thinking of, I believe that was Lauren Handy.
	I apologize if I got the name wrong.
	But he said, this is a motley crew of people.
	They're conservatives, liberals, atheists, Christians.
	You just can't believe the mix.
	And he said, these are amazing people.
	They don't agree on much, but they all agree on one thing.
	These babies that we're talking about.
	And if all of these people can agree on that, it deserves everyone's attention.
	They have been willing to be the ones to fall on their swords for babies.
	And for that, they all deserve our appreciation.
	Absolutely right.
	It was a just cause.
	January the 6th was not a just cause.
	It was a grift.
	It was a lie.
	It was entrapment.
	And it was there to support someone who had betrayed this country throughout Operation Warp Speed and the lockdowns and the rest of this stuff.
	But this was a just cause.
	The journalist had maintained that two unnamed sources Assured their outlet that the plight of the former of the pro-life prisoners is, quote, an immediate priority to Trump's team, and they will likely be pardoned within days.
	Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri mentioned on Wednesday that he had spoken to Trump about the imprisoned pro-lifers.
	He said, I had a great conversation this morning with Trump about the pro-lifers, prisoners, unjustly persecuted and imprisoned by the corrupt Biden administration.
	I urged him to pardon them swiftly.
	And on the fourth day after taking office, he finally did.
	Americans just spent the last four years, says Chip Roy, last four years being targeted by a weaponized justice system.
	The FACE Act was one of the primary weapons of abuse being used to politically target, arrest, and jail pro-life Americans for speaking out and standing up for life.
	We in Congress need to do our part to eliminate the laws used for the weaponization, including the FACE Act.
	Absolutely right.
	Chip Roy is a pretty good guy.
	There's a couple that are there.
	Thomas Massey.
	I can name the politicians that I have respect for on one hand and have fingers left over.
	But he's one that I do have respect for.
	I'm sure that if we look, we can find something we disagree with him on, but overall, I think he's a good guy.
	Now that we have a Republican trifecta in the House, the Senate, and the White House, he said, Congress should move quickly to repeal this law and ensure that no future president can weaponize it against pro-lifers ever again.
	Under Biden's Department of Justice, the overwhelming majority of FACE Act cases were brought against peaceful pro-lifers despite the fact that hundreds of attacks on churches and pro-life pregnancy centers went without prosecution during his term, including, folks, arson.
	Arson.
	Because, you know, when Black Lives Matter rioted and they're burning buildings and committing arson, they're mostly peaceful, they say, as the buildings are burning in the background.
	And then there was a guy who was swatted.
	And this is a case where the local law enforcement and district attorney had looked at it and said, no, you didn't do anything wrong.
	I mean, they had video footage of the situation.
	He was well away from the clinic, and this guy gets up and gets in his face and is assaulting him.
	And he gives the guy a little bit of a push, but the guy is elderly.
	He falls back, because his son was there.
	This pro-life guy had his young son with him.
	So, local law enforcement, local district attorney said, nothing to see here.
	We're not going to do anything about that.
	It's not an assault and battery.
	The other guy was in his face and pushing up against him.
	But the Department of Justice, the people who need to be impeached, came after him.
	Paul Vaughn, Christian father of 11, peaceful pro-life demonstrator who suffered a SWAT-style FBI raid in October.
	In front of his wife and children.
	So, first this guy gets in his face and assaults him.
	And then he gets a SWAT team from the federal government.
	One of the things that needs to be done is we need to reform and stop these SWAT teams.
	That's an abomination.
	It doesn't belong in America.
	I'd never seen that before until 1984 when...
	Terry Gilliam did Brazil, and it was so over the top, but we do it all the time now.
	It is the hallmark of totalitarianism.
	That's the way Terry Gilliam chose to start his dark comedy on totalitarianism, is with a SWAT team raid.
	But it was a couple of years later that Daryl Gates in L.A. started doing that, militarizing his police, creating SWAT teams, and now everybody's got them.
	He was then charged under FACE Act and under, quote, conspiracy against rights.
	But I tell you, these people who like to throw conspiracy around, right?
	They like to charge you with it, both as an insult, as an attack on your character, and they like to legally charge you with conspiracy, like I was pointing out the other day, Joe Biggs.
	He had a conspiracy to combat violence, or to use force, or whatever, right?
	He didn't use force.
	He had a part of a conspiracy to use force.
	So they said, this guy's got a conspiracy against rights.
	You know who's got a conspiracy against rights?
	Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, all these judges and prosecutors.
	So anyway, they swatted him.
	He's going to face more than 10 years in prison with those charges.
	But a jury found him innocent because he was, obviously.
	The first pro-life bill of a new Congress, however, fails in the Senate.
	Here's a reality check.
	They may have a trifecta.
	But try to get something through the Senate.
	It's not enough just to have a majority.
	Because the stuff can be blocked without having a filibuster.
	So, for the third time, a coalition of Republican senators revived the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Act.
	Is that really hard?
	To vote for?
	You know, I've played clips of many people who have survived abortion.
	Sometimes they are severely injured, they've got cerebral palsy, or they've got a missing arm or leg that was ripped off of them, but they survived somehow.
	Penny, I can't remember her last name, very effective speaker.
	She has talked about it, many have.
	And so that's what this is about.
	You attempt to kill a child in the womb.
	They survive.
	And then you are supposed to help them ethically.
	Of course, if you had any ethics, you wouldn't be trying to kill them in the womb either.
	The bill would penalize health care providers who do not provide adequate care to babies who survived attempted abortions.
	Doctors who fail to do so would face up to five years in prison.
	47 Democrats voted against this bill.
	To help babies survive.
	Isn't that amazing?
	Your definition of life is getting outside of the womb, right?
	And as I said before, that was the thing that woke me up to abortion.
	I'd never thought about it from a personal standpoint until I ran for Congress.
	Incidentally, against Virginia Fox that they put in the Rules Committee and threw Thomas Massey out, put her in because, I guess, well, first they wanted to have somebody to replace him with.
	Rewarded her for being a cheerleader for the Israeli government.
	But when I was running against her in 1996, all this partial birth abortion stuff came up.
	What in the world do they talk about?
	What's partial birth?
	Either born or not born, I guess.
	So when I looked at it, I said, well, that's simply murder.
	This isn't a case of trying to decide when life begins.
	They know that this child is fully, can survive.
	And they play these semantic games, you know, we'll leave a foot inside the mother and then murder the baby on the outside.
	No, no.
	These people have been lying to us about all of this.
	They said Democrats will oppose legislation to provide appropriate medical care to newborn children who survive abortions because they're afraid, said Senate Majority Leader John Thune.
	He said Democrats are afraid that by recognizing the humanity of the newly born child, they will inadvertently point to the humanity of the unborn child.
	And so, because there is nothing more important to Democrats than abortion, they will vote against legislation to provide appropriate medical care to babies born alive in an abortion clinic, just in case such a law ends up jeopardizing their cherished so-called right to an abortion. just in case such a law ends up jeopardizing their Yeah, that's when you've got a partial birth abortion thing.
	That's where these people are coming from.
	The 2002 Born Alive Infants Protection Act legally recognizes an infant as a person at the moment of birth, as long as signs of life are present.
	Senators endorsing the current bill said it would close a loophole because the 2002 law does not require intervention, meaning that doctors could leave babies exposed to die if the mother was attempting to abort.
	And that's exactly what happened to Melissa Oden, founder of the Abortion Survivors Network.
	During Lankford's news conference, Oden said that a saline abortion failed to kill her.
	When she was born at 30 weeks, 30 weeks gestation, a nurse defied the doctor's orders and cared for her.
	She said the words born alive are seen as a polarizing term.
	Thanks mainly to Democrats who continue to dehumanize us and to use us as pawns in the political game of abortion.
	I was accidentally born alive, but I deserve to be seen and heard.
	And so, as one person said, I think it's just a reminder that even though Republicans are in control of all three branches, There's going to be challenges.
	And they couldn't get even this through.
	Not even this through.
	We have a lot of work to do to strengthen the resolve among Republican members, and then at the same time continue to educate Democrat lawmakers.
	We can't give up on half the country and think that they're never going to work with us on this issue.
	And yet when we talk about, what is it, you know, when does...
	Life began.
	The majority of millennials and Gen Zs and polls have a pro-life position.
	A new survey finds that the majority of millennial and Gen Z people support abortion restrictions.
	67% of voters, registered voters, between the ages of 18 and 42. This is a YouGov poll done for a pro-life organization.
	So they support some abortion limits up from 65% in 2024. You see, when Trump said, we lost that election not because of the idiots that he got behind.
	You know, people like Dr. Oz and people like Blake Masters and things like that.
	We didn't lose that election because of the bad people that I put forward.
	No, no, we lost that election because of the pro-life issue.
	Remember that?
	Not at all.
	They said the best news for political leaders is that voter support is on the table for those who protect women and pre-born babies.
	Abortion was Lala's entire campaign.
	And she lost bigly, right?
	So let's put that issue to rest.
	These are spineless people.
	If you won't stand up against the murder, Of an innocent baby.
	What does that tell you about these people?
	Well, it tells you they might do something like create a bioweapon vaccine and tell you that it's good for you and push it around the world.
	You know, that kind of person might do that.
	Yeah, don't talk about being pro-life if you're not going to oppose these vaccines and the Operation Warp Speed depopulation agenda that was there with the ventilators and the remdesivir and the denial of medical treatment and the lockdowns.
	I mean, Let's talk about being pro-life.
	I would like to see these things done by the Republicans, but if they don't pull back on what was done under Trump in 2020 that they've never criticized, they have no interest in reforming, if you don't pull back on that, you're not pro-life.
	So, remarkably, the survey found that only 9% favored abortion without limits.
	See, that's why.
	La, la, lost.
	And here's an idea.
	They're looking for ways that they could save money.
	How about Doge?
	How about Speaker Johnson?
	How about you defund Planned Parenthood finally?
	They played these games all along saying, well, you know, in places where we, you know, we get, we do abortions, but we also do women's health care.
	And so the money that you're giving us, it's going to women's health care.
	It's not going to the abortions that we're doing in the same clinic.
	What nonsense.
	It's all fungible.
	It can go from one thing to the other.
	Even the New York Times is now admitting that the unborn are children in an attempt to fear-monger over Trump's immigration reform.
	This is coming from the Postmillennial.
	So the Times has long been a proponent of the idea that unborn children are nothing but a clump of cells.
	But the headline is, Undocumented Woman Asks...
	Will my unborn child be a citizen?
	Times has long been a proponent that they're just a clump of cells.
	The article discusses a woman, quote, who is undocumented, in other words, here illegally, and just a few months into her own pregnancy and faces a prospect that her child will not be able to become an anchor baby.
	And bring everybody back in.
	It worries me that the new president doesn't want to give citizenship to our baby.
	This is where he will go to school and where he will grow up and you will pay for it.
	That citizenship would guarantee their children access to health care and other vital benefits during their childhood.
	And it would provide a foundation for them to build successful lives as fully integrated Americans.
	Well, that's not really what this is about.
	And of course, we've always had this double standard that the post-millennial doesn't talk about.
	The fact that if you've got a pregnant woman, and let's say that somebody's robbing a bank, and they shoot the mother, and she loses the baby, they're charged with murder.
	If they kill the mother, they're charged with two counts of murder, right?
	The mother and the baby.
	And the idea is that, but that same mother could go to an abortion clinic down the street and kill the baby and it'd be no problem.
	As a matter of fact, it'd be a virtue to the Democrats.
	The idea is that the woman decides whether or not the baby is a child or not, which is utter nonsense.
	How did we get to the point where you get to decide what gender you are, right?
	Well, it becomes that kind of subjectivism.
	It's just kind of another logical outcome of that.
	Once you have a subjective determination of objective realities that are there, it's just half a step away from the transgender nonsense.
	So, as we look at all this, the real reform that needs to come is there needs to be some pushback against the people who do these politicized prosecutions.
	And Trump implied that Biden's biggest mistake was not pardoning himself.
	He said, funny thing.
	And funny thing is that he didn't pardon his hitman, Merrick Garland, either.
	But he also didn't do the judges, the prosecutors, the wardens, the guards, all the rest of them.
	All of them need to be looked at.
	Trump said, This guy went around giving everybody pardons, and you know the funny thing, maybe really sad thing, is that he didn't give himself a pardon.
	And you look at it, and it all had to do with him.
	Yeah, it did.
	Kind of like Operation Warp Speed, and Trump forgot to give himself a pardon for that.
	He handed out commendations and awards, and I'll call them medals, okay, to the people who did Operation Warp Speed.
	He handed out...
	Commendations to people like Fauci and Burks and Redfield and all the rest of them.
	Yeah.
	Look in the mirror, pal.
	After the pardon, January the 6th defendant from Chicago is now eyeing a lawsuit against prosecutors.
	So, this is a guy who was in the process.
	Trump's order not only pardoned the people, But is that anybody who is currently in the indictments against individuals that are pending?
	He directed the Attorney General to pursue dismissal with prejudice.
	That's a legal term that means that you can't try it again.
	Once some charges are dismissed with prejudice, there is no retrial for that.
	This particular guy, Larry Legas, Said he wasn't at the Capitol with any group that day.
	He was just there by himself to try to have conversations about policy issues with legislators and others.
	Later, he was charged and said that he was further pursued for challenging the charges.
	When I refused to weaken, to sit down with the FBI agents that I believed at that time were corrupted, he said.
	They came after him with a vengeance.
	And trumped up more charges.
	They physically damaged me.
	They emotionally, psychologically damaged me.
	And I am still trying to recover from a lot of these damages.
	Defending against the charges also brought a toll, as did an additional charge.
	And so he is exploring suing the prosecutors.
	I am seriously looking at it, he said.
	Right now, I'm just trying to recuperate a little bit because my team and I, we were focusing on going to trial.
	And so, again, I hope that there's enough people that are involved in that, 1,500 or so people, that will be able to start a movement to have some serious reform of this.
	I mean, you know, people in the future are going to have a hard time believing that the phrase trumped-up charges didn't come from the things that were done around Donald Trump.
	We had that idiom long before, but it certainly does fit, doesn't it?
	January 6th defendants are reflecting on crime and punishment, looking at remorse, looking at gratitude, and again, what we're seeing with these people being left in holding cells and slow-walking the release.
	And one of the individuals, a Concordia University professor of law, Said the pardon is one of the few presidential powers that is clearly set forth in the Constitution, and it's unlimited.
	Yeah, you could pardon yourself.
	Excuse me.
	Trump is going against the normal Republican support for the police and law enforcement, however.
	And that's one of the reasons why he's gotten a lot of pushback from these senators.
	They're just reflexively.
	And support of police and law enforcement regardless of what right and wrong is.
	So he said he was surprised that this also surprised some of the members of Congress.
	Of course, we talked about J.D. Vance saying, well, obviously the people who are peacefully protesting will be done, but we'll have to look on an individual basis about the violence.
	But they wound up just doing a blanket pardon.
	And it surprised J.D. Vance.
	It surprised Tommy.
	And I think it's Tuberville, somebody said.
	I think I should say Tuberville, but it's Tuberville, I guess.
	Anyway, he, from Alabama, the senator, he had told World Magazine he thought that the Trump team was looking at pardons on a case-by-case basis.
	Pam Bondi said the same thing in her confirmation hearing.
	She didn't think there'd be blanket pardons out there.
	It's going to be interesting to see how they move forward.
	Are they just going to drop this and move along?
	I think a lot of these people have suffered enough that they're going to push back on this.
	And, of course, we also had toll road Tom Tillis out of North Carolina.
	Anybody who's convicted of assault on a police officer, I can't get there at all in terms of pardoning them.
	What about if it was a false conviction?
	What about if there wasn't any assault at all?
	What if it was a kangaroo court?
	Is that okay?
	Okay with you?
	One person, Rachel Powell, known on the internet as the Pink Hat Lady or the Bullhorn Lady, videos taken during the riots showed her carrying an ice axe and a pipe into the Capitol and using them as a battering ram.
	She was found guilty of three felonies and six misdemeanors.
	Including civil disorder.
	She was sentenced to 57 months in prison and 36 months of supervised release.
	Now, think about this.
	You know, she's got weapons and she's battering the door and all the rest of this stuff, right?
	And yet, Joe Biggs is just walking around smiling.
	And they gave him 17 years.
	She got 57 months and 36 months of supervised release.
	She says, I regret that we didn't just sit down Martin Luther King style.
	Thousands of patriots just sitting.
	I feel like a fool, she said, because I walked into something unexpected.
	It doesn't excuse my behavior that day, but I can't go back because I can only go forward.
	So let's just go forward in our country and heal and make America great again.
	So she is refusing the pardon.
	And I want to be punished for this stuff.
	She got swept up in all of this, and that's the key thing.
	Well, we're going to take a quick break, and we're going to come back.
	Before we take the break, though, I want to get your comments.
	Octo Spook says, political prisons are empty.
	I have to eat my words.
	I did not expect this of Trump.
	It was a great good.
	I agree.
	I'm glad that he did this.
	And I said, you know, in both of these cases, it was severely late with the J6ers.
	They didn't need to go to prison at all.
	They didn't suffer for four years.
	For the other people, it was a little bit late, a few days late.
	Again, for political purposes.
	But I'm glad they did the right thing.
	The key thing now is to push for reform of some of these laws, reforms of the Justice Department and the abusive kinds of prosecutions that folks are not limited.
	To even the pro-lifers of the J6 people, as I've pointed out.
	I've seen this over and over again.
	Ross Ulbricht is one.
	But I saw it with the Bundy people.
	I've seen it with Schaefer Cox.
	I've seen it with Marty Gottesfeld.
	And over and over again.
	Every time I get involved in one of these cases, it's just unbelievable how rigged the courts are.
	We need some major reform.
	And part of the reform needs to begin with fully informed juries.
	Somebody needs to pick that up and run with it.
	That was the first report I did that got me hired at InfoWars, was a fully informed jury.
	That's an important issue.
	The juries were set there as a check against bad laws, like the FACE Act.
	If you had independent, critically thinking jurors who were told the truth, that the purpose of the jurors is not just to judge the facts of the law, But to judge the law itself and how the penalty was going to apply.
	And judges will typically tell them exactly the opposite.
	You're not here to judge the law or what the penalty is going to be.
	You're here just to look at the facts and say, don't think about this law.
	No, if it's an unjust law, that is the veto power.
	The jury is the veto power of the people.
	And it was used that way to shut down alcohol prohibition long before they backed off of it.
	It wasn't working.
	You know, alcohol is a horrible thing, I think.
	I don't drink it.
	But it doesn't help people to lock them up.
	It's a spiritual issue.
	And the prohibition only made it worse and gave us organized crime and corrupted police and courts and the rest of this.
	Do not obey.
	Fauci the fraud needs punishment.
	Yes.
	Along with the willing, complicit bad actors performing this nefarious act, his nefarious acts, about the SWAT raids.
	WFV, I guess WF8, Cops TV show.
	Surely program people to think it's cool.
	Yeah, they did, didn't they?
	And you know, I always looked at Miami Vice.
	I remember when that was out.
	People that I worked with.
	Loved that show.
	And it bothered me because, you know, the civil asset forfeiture, we take these guys' speedboats and their hypercars and we drive around in them and all the rest of this stuff.
	It's like, doesn't that kind of corruption bother you?
	Doesn't this whole war on drugs, don't you see what this is really about?
	It really bothered me.
	But yeah, they use entertainment as propaganda.
	Absolutely.
	Don't frag me, bro, says abortion clinics equal child murder to their God.
	They do.
	And I've said many times, when they talk about a right, an abortion right, they mean R-I-T-E. It's like a religious exercise.
	They made it pretty clear.
	And, you know, the Richards woman, what was her name, Cecile, I think, who just died.
	For her, it was her life cause.
	Killing babies, how sad.
	S.A. Moore, in North Carolina, the pro-life issue was stripped from the Republican platform.
	And a lot of them are pulling it back, and they stripped it, you know, Marshall Blackburn basically stripped it out of the Republican national platform at the behest of Trump.
	Don't forget that, folks, in Tennessee.
	You know, they ran from it.
	And I said, it's not something that you have to run.
	Nobody, if you show them what an abortion is, even that cartoon version of it, you know, the procedure that I've shown many times, the majority of people are not going to support.
	Murdering and ripping children apart.
	Birdhouse Blues.
	Baby breathing is a government privilege, not a right.
	Mark Young.
	J6 was a just cause.
	Protesting election fraud.
	Becoming violent was not a just cause.
	Well, you know, here's the other thing.
	I think the election fraud was engineered by Trump.
	That's another reason why I had no support of this.
	But I saw what was happening.
	And there was no way that anything was going to happen at J6. I put my job on the line, and I got fired for trying to warn people about that.
	The fraud was having a lockdown and a vote-by-mail election.
	And then there was fraud afterwards because Trump never proved fraud.
	Never proved it.
	None of them.
	Steve Bannon was, okay, we've got Mike Lindell, he's got all the stuff.
	He didn't bring the receipts, said Steve Bannon.
	So he hyped it up.
	He's going to show us all the stuff that he's got.
	He had nothing.
	And you've got all of these people who have...
	Dinesh D'Souza did a documentary.
	He walked it back.
	There was a lot of innuendo.
	They couldn't prove a thing.
	And they didn't bother to prove it to the Republican legislatures.
	They didn't get a just hearing at most of the courts.
	But they didn't bother to try to explain it to the Republican legislatures.
	And that's what I said on December the 14th when they turned in the electors.
	I said, you've only got one slate of electors officially.
	From each state, if they would have convinced the Republican legislatures in some of these states, if the Republican legislatures were convinced of fraud, then they could have sent a slate of electors, and you would have had, on January the 6th, Mike Pence and others, and even Thomas Massey said they didn't give us anything to work with.
	If they'd sent two slates of electors, one of them from the legislature and another one from the executive branch, which is where the Board of Elections is, and it's like, well, which one do I do?
	But there was only one slate of electors from each state.
	There wasn't anything that could have been done.
	And that's why I said, at that point, December 14th, I said, folks, because it had been a grift from the beginning, I knew it.
	I saw Alex Jones and Roger Stone, all these people, just salivating over all the money they're going to make, and I knew that Trump was doing the same thing.
	And I said, okay, now, folks, there's nothing that's going to be done on January the 6th.
	There's only one slate of electors from each state.
	So I said, now at this point, can you see that it's a grift and nothing but a grift?
	And yet people went.
	And I said, it's going to be an entrapment.
	And it was.
	Even to the extent, meet me over there, right?
	Yeah, right.
	And he didn't show up.
	Exercising rights to peaceful assembly, says Mark Young.
	To protest tyranny as a just cause.
	And I agree with that.
	And what Biden did and the department there, they absolutely need to be prosecuted for locking people up who peacefully protested.
	Absolutely.
	And all this idea that the Capitol building is some sacred ground like it's a temple or something like that is absolute nonsense.
	Never forget the magnitude of J6. I was not there for Trump just to protest election fraud.
	We should not be cowed into staying out of D.C. No, but it's stupid.
	Look at these, look, you've got people that were drawn into D.C. from other jurisdictions on these pro-life charges, these pro-life prisoners, because the courts there are so corrupt.
	Look, you can get TV cameras to cover your protests anywhere in the country.
	Stay out of Washington, D.C. I say it again.
	If you want to go, it's on you.
	We should not be cowed into staying out of D.C., but you should be smart about what you do.
	Pick your battlefields.
	Pick your battles.
	And where are you going to fight them?
	Don't be stupid.
	He says, that was their purpose in painting J6 as an insurrection, to scare Americans away from our capital.
	I don't want to have anything to do with Washington.
	None at all.
	It's not my capital.
	It's the capital of a foreign-occupying government that is at war with the American people and the Constitution.
	Cut them off.
	Cut them off with nullification.
	Cut them off by exercising your rights at the state and local level.
	Cut them off by focusing bottom-up, not top-down.
	That's a foolish idea.
	You think you can fix things in Washington and go vote for Trump to the end of your days.
	And people like him.
	It's people who focus these January the 6th people who went there think they're going to get everything fixed if the right person is in the presidency.
	Well, who are you going to vote for, David?
	I'm going to vote for people at the local level if I'm going to vote.
	If I think there's somebody to vote for, I'll vote at the local level.
	That's where we're going to get anything changed if anything changes.
	It's not going to change in Washington.
	What we're going to wind up with It's somebody who rules by executive order.
	Let's see, who would that be?
	Biden?
	Trump?
	We're going to have a dictator, a Caesar, who dictates what we're going to do with executive orders.
	Do you really want that?
	Do you really want that when a Democrat comes in?
	You're going to love the executive orders of the next Democrat, I tell you.
	And he's setting that precedent.
	Trump is setting that.
	Just like he set the precedent.
	To do gun control by executive order.
	Don't give me this stuff.
	Don't defend January the 6th to me.
	Don't defend that.
	Don't defend this foolish idea that we want to have a centrally controlled government.
	That's nonsense.
	That's not the American standard.
	And it doesn't work.
	And I don't care which party or what politician is in there.
	I will never support this J6 stuff.
	What was done to them was wrong.
	These people should be punished for that.
	But it was beyond stupid.
	And this idea of supporting Trump is beyond stupid.
	It's all the way to MAGA. That's what's stupid.
	That's an extra, extra, extra stupid MAGA. Teresa Andrea says, Gotta keep those baby bio-identical stem cells available to big boys and girls.
	They use them for spare parts.
	That's what Fauci did.
	Abortion by order.
	And what happened to the people who exposed that?
	They went to jail.
	Lala Harris.
	Javier Becerra.
	The whole Biden crowd.
	Jason Barker.
	Good to see you.
	Nights of the Storm on Twitter.
	And at the Nights of the Storm, he says, Life begins when two halves of DNA become one.
	If NASA found a complete DNA strand on Mars, they would call that life.
	Good point.
	He says, How do I go?
	From documented to undocumented.
	I'm tired of being overtaxed.
	We're going to talk about that next.
	Because what we're going to talk about when we come back is what Trump said at Davos.
	And, you know, we'll have...
	Gerald Senti is going to be joining us in the third hour.
	We hope.
	I think we've got that scheduled.
	But we're going to talk about economics that he put out at Davos.
	But I'm telling you that...
	That's not the worst thing that came out of his Davos speech.
	We'll talk about that after the break.
	Mark Young, we should pray that Trump diligently seeks God so that God could use him to do God's will.
	Yes.
	But, as Whistler said, Trump may have done it for a political expedience, but the Lord did it for good.
	That's right.
	right when we look at these pardons don't forget that uh trump uh trump hated the fact that roe v Wade got overturned, and so did all the Republicans.
	They immediately started modifying their websites and running from it.
	They're not pro-life.
	It was God who used it for good, and it was God who answered prayers to overturn Roe v.
	Wade.
	I don't give any credit to Trump.
	He is a shifting politician, just doing whatever he wants to do at any given time.
	We're going to take a quick break and we will be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	And as it's reported by CNN, their headline is, Make products in America or else.
	And a large part of it was focused on that.
	But there's another thing that he said that was far more dangerous than that.
	Well, let's focus on the tariffs and the economic aspects first of this.
	He believes...
	That tariffs will help to solve the inflation crisis for good and will fund his massive tax cut proposals.
	By the way, all the people correcting me on Twitter, telling me that, no, Trump is really going to get rid of the income tax.
	When he talks about making tax cuts permanent, how does that work if you don't have the tax being permanent?
	He never, never said he was going to get rid of the income tax.
	It was some of the sycophant MAGA press that said that he was going to get rid of the income tax.
	I said, we're going to wind up with both of these taxes.
	He's saying, well, I'm going to cut the corporate tax rate down again.
	And I'm going to bring back and make permanent my tax cuts from 2017. Well, then he's going to keep the income tax.
	And the income tax cuts that he did did not help us a great deal.
	I mean, Salenti and I were talking about that back in 2017. He's making all the, you know, he's giving corporations so much money that Apple would say, oh, we're going to have to give some of this stuff away because we're going to look bad to our fellow liberals if we don't give away this money.
	And they were using it to buy back their stock.
	They were not using it to build in America.
	Come back and, you know, look, I'm going to lower the tax rate so corporations will come here.
	They'll build up their business here in this area.
	Because the taxes are low.
	Well, they didn't do that.
	They just bought their stock.
	And so now he's coming back with tariffs.
	So this is his second attempt to try to coerce him into doing that.
	But look, it's not just the taxes.
	It's the regulations that need to be cut.
	Maybe he will cut some of those regulations.
	He talked about some of those regulations.
	But that's more important to cut the regulations.
	And that would be a move towards freedom.
	Then to add a new layer of taxes.
	And it is sheer demagoguery to say that the tariffs are going to be paid by foreign countries.
	It's not going to be paid by, and everybody knows that, except for the people who are cheering him.
	Trump spoke from Washington in a live via satellite question-and-answer session with Davos.
	But of course, you know, when Trump goes, this is now his third time at Davos.
	He didn't go, you know, first two times in 2018 and 2020. He went in person, so we don't know what was said behind closed doors.
	We do know that when he went in 2020, 10 days later, his HHS, Big Pharma Health Secretary, kicked off the COVID pandemic with an order, January the 31st.
	He speaks on January the 21st.
	On the 31st, they kicked off COVID, even though they said they only had six cases in the United States.
	Oh, we've got to lock everything down.
	And he did lock everything down.
	And pay people to lock everybody down by March the 13th.
	But that happened after Davos.
	So what is going to be the situation coming out of this one?
	As I cover it, the people on Davos had dour expressions on their face and talking about how he's won.
	He's beat us.
	He's come back from the dead and all the rest of this stuff.
	You really fall for that?
	Are you a professional wrestling fan if you fall for that?
	Come on.
	It was beyond ridiculous.
	And I'll tell you why it was beyond ridiculous.
	But anyway, here's what he focused on.
	He wants to lower taxes within America's border.
	But we're talking about not to zero.
	Take the corporate taxes from 21% down to 15%.
	He wants to raise taxes on businesses that are outside of America.
	That's called a tariff, and that's going to be inflationary.
	As a matter of fact, some of the people went through, cranked through the numbers.
	One of them, I think, is a very conservative number.
	Add 1.5% to the inflation rate, said one of them.
	I think that's a very conservative number.
	Because we add 25% to the cost of goods, especially since when you're talking about Canada, especially.
	Remember the Ambassador Bridge?
	Where the trucker convoy stopped because there's so much traffic going back and forth.
	That's like what was happening there.
	That went into Detroit.
	And of course, the automobile industry is still not primarily in Detroit, but a lot of trade is going back and forth there.
	And things are constantly...
	Going back and forth between Canada and the U.S., they bring something in, and they modify it, and they send it back into Canada, then it comes back in for the next step of assembly or something like that.
	And that is happening with a lot of things.
	A lot of things.
	And so every time it's going to cross a border, it's going to get a tax.
	And so this thing is going to work out like a value-added tax.
	And so I think the knock-on effect is going to be much worse with this.
	His next thing is he wants to produce more oil to lower energy costs.
	That's a good thing.
	I would like to see them focus on coal.
	He never talks about coal.
	He always talks about oil and gas.
	And we have more coal than we have oil and gas.
	But anyway, it's cheaper to use.
	And to lower interest rates, which is arguable as to whether or not he could do this.
	There's going to be a fight between him and Powell, obviously.
	As Gerald Sinti said, Powell caved in and did it for Trump last time.
	We'll see if he does it this time.
	And Powell even made it clear that it's illegal, he says, for Trump to remove him as Federal Reserve Chair.
	So it sounds like he's setting himself up for a bit of a fight.
	But this is what Trump had to say at Davos about taxes.
	And let's see if I can find...
	Here we go.
	I think it's going to actually bring down inflation.
	It's going to bring up jobs.
	We're going to have a lot of jobs.
	We're going to have a lot of companies moving in.
	You know, Brian, we're at 21 percent.
	It was at 40 percent, and I got it down to 21 percent, the corporate tax.
	And it was actually, if you look at state and city, it was in many cases much higher than 40%.
	I got it down to 21%.
	And now we're going to bring it down from 21% to 15%, if, there's a big if, if you make your product in the U.S. So we're going to have the lowest, just about the lowest rate.
	It'll be, the 21 is on the low side, worldwide.
	The 15 is about as low as it gets.
	And by far the lowest of a large country, a large...
	You know, rich, powerful country by far, not even a contest.
	So we're going to bring it down to 15 percent if you make your product in the USA. So that's going to create a tremendous buzz.
	We're also probably going back to the one year deduction where we deduct, you know, we did that originally.
	And that was amazing what the impact that that had, the one year deduction, which built up over a period of time and then it expires.
	But we're going to go back to that.
	Yeah, so we'll see what happens with it.
	I mean, you know, when he did the last time he ran the stuff through, my tax rates went up.
	And the corporations had so much money that they didn't know what to do with it.
	And that was certainly Gerald Slenty's take on it before it ever happened.
	So he's going to go back to that.
	He's going to bring back his tax cuts, and he's going to make them permanent for individuals.
	And he made people think that he's going to get rid of the tax cuts by saying, well, I'll remove the tax on tips.
	Oh, look, he's getting rid of the income.
	No, he's not.
	I mean, if he's going to rearrange the deck chairs here on the Titanic, if he's getting rid of the tax on tips, he's very specific, that one thing.
	The rest of them are going to stay.
	Trump predicted tariffs would bring in hundreds of billions of dollars, perhaps trillions of dollars, he said, into the U.S. Treasury.
	I think he's right.
	I agree with that.
	But where are those dollars going to be coming from?
	That's the question.
	It's going to be coming not from multinational corporations.
	You can't tax a corporation.
	Republicans know that, but Democrats like Trump don't.
	They demagogue about this stuff.
	Those bad people, they're going to pay the taxes for you.
	It's not going to be a tax on you.
	Don't worry about it.
	Forget about it.
	It's fine, you know?
	No, it's going to be paid by the consumers.
	And as I said, you know, when we were in the UK, I went there on our honeymoon 45 years ago.
	And I spent a lot of time there.
	I spent about six weeks.
	I was waiting to, between the time we got married and the time my job started, and we just, you know.
	Hung out there, lived as cheaply as we could, did a lot of free stuff.
	And some of the stuff we do, just go around and look at what it was like to live there.
	And I could not believe the price of electronics and computers and things like this.
	I said, there's no way I could afford any of this stuff if I lived here.
	Why?
	Because of tariffs.
	Anyway, lower the energy costs.
	He thinks that he can make a deal with OPEC. We'll see.
	Lower interest rates.
	That's going to be a big inflation boost, if you lower the interest rates.
	Big inflation boost.
	Part of Trump's plan has some high-profile proponents.
	As Tony Arterman said yesterday, wait a minute, I'm on the same side with Jamie Dimon, he said?
	We're looking at this stuff.
	And I would like to see the...
	We've talked about this for the longest time.
	Look, I think I could come up...
	With a dozen ways to collect taxes that would be better than the income tax.
	But always the question has been, how do we get from here to there without winding up with both?
	So Jamie Demon, though, says, well, tariffs can be an effective economic tool or weapon.
	He said, I'd put it in perspective.
	It's going to be a little inflationary, but it's good for national security.
	I mean, get over it, right?
	Yeah, we're going to screw the little guys, but it's good for national security, and it's good for the guy that I want to flatter, so, you know, get over it.
	He's there to kiss the ring now, just like all the other people at Big Tech.
	So, in 2017, the corporate tax rate, he took it from 35% to 21%.
	He's talking about going down to 15% now.
	But when they analyzed this, CNN says, well, it wasn't nearly enough to offset the losses in tax revenues that have widened the U.S. deficit.
	Since when does CNN and the Democrats care about the deficit?
	Never.
	Never.
	Did they say that about Biden's plan?
	Because the Democrats have bought into the modern monetary theory, the magic money tree.
	Deficits don't matter, according to them.
	It's even worse than Keynesianism, far worse than Keynesianism.
	And, of course, Trump doesn't care either.
	Because he wanted to have a two-year removal of the debt ceiling.
	So none of them care about it, except when it comes to taking taxes away from us.
	And then they get really tight-fisted.
	So who cares about a little inflation?
	Who cares about the deficits?
	As long as it's good for the multinational corporations, right?
	And as they point out, rightfully so.
	A lot of people say, why, when the Federal Reserve has dropped interest rates the last couple of times, why have we seen home mortgage rates go up?
	Well, because of this, the problem with bonds.
	They said the more you flood the market with bonds, the more their price falls, and yields, which are pegged to all kinds of consumer loan rates, including mortgages, go up.
	That's not exactly right.
	It's not that you're flooding the market with bonds.
	The market is getting flooded with bonds because nobody is buying them at the rate that, you know, when they drop the rate, people are looking at this and the market looks at it and says, okay, so you drop the rate that you're going to pay me on your treasury bonds, but I see this stuff as being inflationary, right?
	When you lower the interest rate, you're going to kick up inflation.
	And so you're going to pay me less on a treasury bond when I'm looking at this and seeing that inflation is going to go up.
	I don't want to buy into that.
	And that's why, in order to get people to do the home mortgages, the market is looking at this and saying lowering interest rates is actually inflationary.
	So we're going to charge people more for their home mortgage loans.
	We don't want to get locked into a 30-year loan at a lower interest rate.
	We know that in 30 years there's going to be a lot of inflation.
	And so we're going to jack up the rate.
	And that's what's really happening here.
	Tariffs are also potentially problematic.
	Their costs are paid by American importers, which means that the costs get passed on to American consumers.
	CNN will tell you the truth when it comes to a Democrat, won't they?
	They would never say that.
	But CNN and the Democrats will always deny that taxes are always passed on by corporations.
	So that you don't see the full effect of it.
	And that's one of the reasons why they do that, tax corporations in the first place.
	They quoted a professor at Georgetown who said, I think his economic policies are insane.
	They choke off world trade.
	If you choke off imports, you choke off our ability to export, and that's going to cause a lot of job losses.
	I'm not an open border free trade guy, really.
	Like I said before, I think there'd be a better way to collect taxes.
	And yet, how do you get to that point?
	When I look at this, it's kind of like what Biden was doing with electric cars, right?
	Well, I got this goal.
	I want everybody to drive electric cars.
	And, you know, we talk about, you know, the climate change nonsense that's driving that.
	But he wants everybody to drive electric cars.
	Okay, fine.
	If we had electric cars that didn't have engineering issues with them, range issues, charging issues, infrastructure issues, all those different issues that are there and have not been solved, that'd be fine.
	But because we have people in Washington that are going to centrally plan our economy for us, and that's where we are right here with this, and they've got these grandiose plans of what they would ultimately like.
	To get to.
	I don't agree with Biden's net zero.
	I absolutely oppose every aspect of that.
	But I would agree with the idea that we want to, eventually, we would like to get rid of the income tax and have tariffs.
	But that's not what Trump is proposing.
	And how does he get there?
	That's the other part of it, right?
	You know, you could theoretically, if you remove the technological problems that are the reality of the electric cars, you could get to their ideal society.
	But the reality is that that has to be solved somehow.
	It has to be really solved by the people.
	It can't be solved by an edict out of the Oval Office.
	And that's the fundamental flaw with both of these radical changes, is that they just want to jump from where we are today to where they would like us to be.
	And that just doesn't work.
	And that's the fundamental problem that all these central planners make.
	You know, the communists would always have their five-year plan, wouldn't they?
	And it constantly failed.
	And it failed because it was communism.
	It failed because it was central planning.
	And now we have our dictators in Washington.
	You've got to get that guy in the Oval Office and everything will be great.
	But if the other guy gets in, it's the end of the world, right?
	We hear that every election.
	Every election we hear that.
	And yet, what we have instead of a five-year communist plan, we have a four-year presidential plan.
	And guess what?
	It's going to fail as well.
	Central planning is the issue.
	No matter how smart these people are, they simply can't do it.
	They don't have enough information, and the free market always works better when people are given an opportunity to make the decision and have the economic ability to do that.
	Energy companies are not clamoring for new oil leases either.
	As evidenced by Alaska's recent wildlife refuge drilling auction receiving zero bids.
	Now, why would they have zero bids?
	Well, because these people know that this stuff can be turned on and off.
	Why would you bid on something that can be shut down by the next Democrat watermelon environmentalists?
	Thin veneer of green on the outside and total red Marxism on the inside.
	Why would you bid on something like that?
	If we're going to have a complete whiplash in the economy, every time the Oval Office occupant changes, we're going to have hundreds of executive orders, and everything the other guy did is now out, and now I've got my new executive orders, and there's no stability, there's no planning, there's no investment in any of this stuff.
	And that's the problem with central planning, and the problem with having the vision that all of our problems rest with the government in Washington.
	To the people who, that's where the problems come from.
	The problems are not going to be fixed there.
	Lowering interest rates is the Fed's job, not the President's, they said.
	And so, you know, we'll see what happens with that.
	As I said before, when I talked to Salenti, he said, well, I think that, you know, he'll yield to Trump.
	I'll see if he still thinks that.
	And so then Trump had something to say about Canada.
	So we don't need your energy or your cars.
	One thing we're going to be demanding is we're going to be demanding respect from other nations.
	Canada, we have a tremendous deficit with Canada.
	We're not going to have that anymore.
	We can't do it.
	I don't know if it's good for them.
	As you probably know, I say you can always become a state.
	And if you're a state, we won't have a deficit.
	We won't have to tariff you, et cetera, et cetera.
	But Canada has been very tough to deal with over the years.
	And it's not fair that we should have a $200 billion or $250 billion deficit.
	We don't need them to make our cars, and they make a lot of them.
	We don't need their lumber because we have our own forests, et cetera, et cetera.
	We don't need their oil and gas.
	We have more than anybody.
	Yeah, who needs them, right?
	That's Canadians.
	Who needs them?
	And, you know, when he says, if you join us, if you become a state, we won't have a deficit.
	Who's the we?
	USA. I mean, right now, Canada's looking at this and saying, well, we're making money selling them oil.
	As the Alberta premier went to Mar-a-Lago and made the case, she said, look, you know, we're...
	Selling you oil at a very heavy discount.
	Yeah, we're selling you a lot of it, but, you know, you're buying it and getting it at a discount.
	Isn't that good?
	And so he says, yeah, we won't have a deficit.
	We won't have a trade deficit.
	But, you know, if they joined us, they would have a deficit.
	They would have a giant federal deficit that would be a burden to them and their children just as it is to us.
	But hey, they could help us to pay that off, right?
	That'd be great.
	He's threatened to impose a 25% tariff on Canadian imports, possibly by the 1st of February.
	Roughly 75% of Canada's exports head south.
	In contrast, a much smaller 17% of the U.S. exports go to Canada.
	So 75% of their exports come to us, but only 17% of our exports go to them.
	But they're still the second largest trading partner behind Mexico.
	He said, we don't need them to make our cars.
	We don't need their lumber.
	We don't need your oil.
	We don't need your gas.
	We've got more of this stuff than anybody else, right?
	He reiterated the assertion of the trade deficit with Canada of between $200 and $250 billion.
	It's not clear where he got that figure.
	The trade deficit with Canada is expected to be $45 billion in 2024. So he overstayed it by a factor of about, you know, five.
	Mostly driven by the oil.
	North American auto industry also has a highly integrated supply chain going back and forth with Canada.
	And again, as it's going back and forth over the Ambassador Bridge, it's going to be like a value-added tax.
	And, you know, that Ambassador Bridge, remember when they were talking about that, one of the reasons that they strategically decided to shut that down.
	It was because of the border restrictions that were put on by COVID. And, you know, that's the only time that Trump closed the border was with COVID. Trudeau was closing the border.
	So they closed.
	They said, all right, you want to close the border?
	You're harassing the truckers?
	I think we'll just close it down altogether.
	That was 25% of all of the merchandise exchanged between the U.S. and Canada.
	You know, pretty much everything, I guess, except for the oil that comes over.
	They shut that down.
	That went into Detroit because in the early 20th century, as the automobile industry was ramping up, a lot of businesses in Canada started supplying that.
	So there was a lot of trade going back and forth and back and forth as they would add it.
	And the same thing is true of Mexico.
	It goes across the border multiple times before a vehicle is finally assembled.
	And you can say that about a lot of different things.
	Trudeau has repeatedly said that everything is on the table with response to the tariffs.
	And so here we have economic warfare, right?
	We're going to bully people into going our way.
	And how did that work out when Biden did economic warfare against Russia?
	We lost big time and did damage to the dollar itself.
	Tariffs are a central part of Trump's economic vision.
	He sees them as a way of growing the U.S. economy, protecting jobs, raising tax revenue.
	But here is, I think, when we look at the bigger picture here of what he's talking about, this whole talk about tariffs, it's total disregard for economic reality.
	It's a demagogic lie to people about who's going to pay this stuff.
	And I think it's born of a total disregard for consumers, as we've seen in 2020 as well.
	It's going to wind up locking down our supply chains to some degree, just as he did in 2020. He didn't bat an eye when he was told to do that.
	He doesn't want to change the tax structure, right?
	We can clearly see this.
	And we can see that this is all about bullying people.
	With geopolitics.
	Exactly the same types of stuff that Biden did, but in different ways and for different reasons.
	But it's still offering people sticks instead of carrots, really.
	And it's a repeat of the tax cuts.
	All of it for corporations.
	Like Biden, he weaponizes our financial system.
	And like Biden, there will be blowback that he doesn't think about.
	Like Biden, he wants to...
	Have radical change happen immediately, but he doesn't really have a good transition path for it.
	And like Biden, he wants a centrally planned economy.
	Rather, a four-year presidential plan instead of a five-year Marxist plan, right?
	But he's talking about how he's going to shut down the green agenda as if he was already out.
	We were never in the Paris Climate Accord.
	And he didn't get us out the first time.
	It was all a head fake.
	Now, supposedly, one year after he declares us, we'll be out.
	But when you...
	I'll believe that it's all real when they have shut down all these different measures.
	When he shut down the EPA, that's where this stuff is coming from in the Department of Energy.
	When you get rid of those two departments, when you take away their power to regulate us based on the fantasies of emission from the EPA, or based on not letting us make decisions about our power requirements, how do you justify the Department of Energy banning certain appliances because they use too much energy?
	When what he's going to talk about next is how we can get How do we get unlimited amounts of energy to artificial intelligence?
	Everything for these AI overlords.
	And that's really what the AI is about.
	It's about empowering overlords and taking power away from you.
	They're going to take away your ability to have the kind of appliances that you want.
	They'll mandate all this stuff, either because of emissions or because of energy usage.
	But they don't care about either of those when it comes to Artificial intelligence.
	But here's what he has to say about the Green Agenda.
	I terminated the ridiculous and incredibly wasteful Green New Deal.
	I call it the Green New Scam.
	Withdrew from the one-sided Paris Climate Accord and ended the insane and costly electric vehicle mandate.
	We're going to let people buy the car they want to buy.
	I declared a national energy emergency, and it's so important, national energy emergency to unlock the liquid gold under our feet and pave the way for rapid approvals of new energy infrastructure.
	The United States has the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth.
	And we're going to use it.
	Not only will this reduce the cost of virtually all goods and services, it'll make the United States a manufacturing superpower and the world capital of artificial intelligence and crypto.
	That's the goal.
	It's not about us having power.
	And it's very troubling, I think, that it keeps leaving out coal.
	Coal can be made clean as well.
	And should be because we've got so much of it.
	But notice he talks about how we have an energy emergency.
	And when he was making the case for this Stargate type of stuff, but more in general, their own personal power grid.
	And he talks about how the power grid is just, our infrastructure is just falling apart.
	Now, we don't want to do anything to fix that, right?
	Just forget about the grid.
	And let's see here.
	Forget the grid.
	Here it is.
	I told them that what I want you to do is build your electric generating plant right next to your plant.
	There's a separate building connected.
	And they said, wow, you're kidding.
	And I said, no, no, I'm not kidding.
	You don't have to hook into the grid, which is old and, you know, could be taken out.
	If it's taken out, they wouldn't have any way to get any electricity.
	So we are going to allow them to go on a very rapid basis to build their plant, build the electric generating plant.
	They can fuel it with anything they want, and they may have coal as a backup.
	Oh, coal, finally.
	Coal, you know.
	Even coal, if it's AI. And a pipe gets blown up or for some reason doesn't work.
	There are some companies in the U.S. that have coal sitting right by the plant so that if there's an emergency, they can go to that short-term basis and use our very clean coal.
	So that's something else that a lot of people didn't even know about.
	But nothing can destroy coal, not the weather, not a bomb, nothing.
	That's why we can't have it.
	A little smaller.
	Might make it a little different shape, but coal is very strong as a backup.
	It's a great backup to have that facility, and it wouldn't cost much more money.
	And we have more coal than anybody.
	We also have more oil and gas than anybody.
	So we're going to make it so that the plants will have their own electric generating facilities attached right to their plant.
	They don't have to worry about a utility.
	They don't have to worry about anything.
	And we're going to get very rapid approval.
	Yeah, nothing for us.
	It's all for the corporations, especially for the big tech corporations, especially for the ones who are creating the eyes and ears of Big Brother AI. We're going to fund the surveillance state no matter what, because you know that, as he said, the grid, it's old, it's not reliable, we're not doing anything to maintain the grid for everybody else, right?
	Individuals, small businesses, eh, forget about it.
	We don't care about you having any power.
	We're not going to fix the roads.
	We're not going to fix the power grid.
	All that infrastructure is just old and crumbling, and forget about it.
	We're not going to do anything about it.
	So I told the people that I like, corporations that I like, you need to have your own power plants right next to your facility there, right?
	Is he the one who came up with this?
	No.
	You know, they've been talking about this for quite some time.
	I think he's lying about that, but I imagine what probably happened was, if you believe in the election paradigm, then you had these people come to him and say, you know, we're going to give you all kinds of money and support and all the rest of the stuff, but we want you to remove all of the rules for emissions and all the rest of the stuff.
	You can still burden everybody else with that, and you can still let their infrastructure rot.
	But you're going to get the regulations out of the way for us, right?
	I mean, that's what he's really bringing to the table.
	You know, he's not, at this point, necessarily kicking in money like he did with Pfizer and Moderna and the rest of them.
	But he's saying, oh, we're going to deregulate this stuff for you.
	And so, you know, you deregulate that stuff for us and we'll support you.
	Or it might be that the people who really control everything.
	We're telling all these people, whether it was Trump or Trudeau, exactly what to do in 2020 with the so-called pandemic.
	Maybe they came to him and told him, here's the new plan.
	Funny thing happened on the way to net zero.
	We realized that our artificial intelligence mechanism that's going to be used for a securitized state is going to use so much energy.
	That we're going to have to do something different.
	And we're not going to abandon net zero.
	We can still do that for the peasants.
	They can have nothing.
	But we're going to have to exempt our AI people.
	Because that's what we're talking about with national security.
	You know, when he said, well, you know, that infrastructure there is old, it can be taken out.
	So what he's saying is, is that artificial intelligence is our national security interest here.
	And it's not just their...
	National security interests in terms of foreign enemies, but against domestic enemies.
	This is going to be turned towards us.
	Sauron's eye turned toward us.
	And to have that move forward, they will let them have anything, even coal.
	He mentions coal for the first time right there.
	And talks about, yeah, coal is wonderful.
	Hey, coal can be made very clean.
	Well, then why don't you let us have it?
	Why is it taken off the table?
	Always, the first thing.
	We've got so much coal.
	Yeah, you know, these magazines, Time, and Newsweek that I had in 79, they said, oh, we're going to be out of oil and natural gas in the mid-1980s.
	But, you know, coal, we've got 666 years.
	666. And they've been demonizing coal ever since then, including him.
	So, yeah, we're going to target the grid.
	And he claims that it was all his idea.
	I know whose idea it was.
	It's just coming out of the UN and coming out of the rest of these people.
	And so then his reception there that he had.
	We're going to talk about that when we come back.
	I'm going to take a quick break.
	Dustin Helm, thank you very much for the tip.
	I appreciate that.
	GDP330 says, Trump met with Klaus Schwab at Davos and said, fine guy.
	Doing extraordinary work, yeah.
	And he did their job for them.
	As I said, Trump was at the epicenter of all that happened with this scandemic.
	You know, he kicked off the bioweapon, he funded it, he distributed it.
	He did everything these other people did in lockstep with them.
	And I'm absolutely convinced that he would have done everything else that Biden did if he had stayed in.
	But they put him out because they wanted to take it to the next step.
	You can see that.
	And the people that they had over HHS, as I said, Trump's got a pharmaceutical executive.
	But then they needed to go to the next step, where they were going to use lawfare against people.
	No jab, no job, and all the rest of the stuff.
	So that's why they brought in Javier Becerra, a hack attorney general from California, who was going to be lawfare at that point in time.
	That's why they switched horses there.
	And now they're back to Trump.
	Whatever reason.
	Chefkin says, I can't believe it.
	Already at Davos.
	No time lost as well.
	We're all dead says, if you need ammo or reloading supplies, get them now.
	It's going to go way up at a minimum.
	Absolutely.
	Also says, presidents are selected.
	Always have been that way.
	If they get out of line, they get the Kennedy treatment.
	Look, that reminds me.
	Everybody's really excited about the JFK files being released.
	Do you really think that...
	Do you really think that somewhere along the way, the CIA wrote down, and then I told him to do this and that and shoot him, right?
	Do you think they documented that and didn't destroy that 60 years ago?
	Right after they did it, right?
	Burn after reading, okay?
	Those records probably didn't exist, even if they'd had done an investigation right after the assassination.
	They were already gone.
	Nobody's going to do something like that and leave it sitting around in files for people to find.
	No way at all.
	As a matter of fact, you remember when J. Edgar Hoover died, and as Truman said, he's got files on everybody in Washington.
	He's blackmailing everybody.
	And you had Nixon criticize him.
	You had Harry Truman say, yeah, he's got files on everybody in Congress and all the rest of the stuff.
	When J. Edgar Hoover died, his loyal secretary went there and Basically destroyed all the files.
	Reported by many people.
	So there's nothing in the RFK, JFK, Martin Luther King stuff.
	There's nothing at all.
	And it's all been thoroughly investigated anyway.
	When you look at, especially the RFK assassination, the Martin Luther King assassination, you had, I can't remember his first name.
	His name was Dr. Pepper.
	I remember interviewing him.
	I thought it was really funny.
	Imagine having to go through a life with the name of Dr. Pepper or the soft drink or whatever.
	It's tough to get people to take you seriously.
	But he was a serious guy, and he did a great investigation and a trial.
	Just as we've had a trial in the UK with Tony Rook.
	I think his first name was Tony.
	Talked to him about that.
	They did a trial with a lot of judges, retired, and retired police officers and retired firemen, and they had them on the jury.
	And a bigger jury than usual.
	And presented the evidence of 9-11.
	And they all agreed that it was an inside job and all the rest of the stuff.
	Well, you know, Dr. Pepper did the same thing.
	And about both the Martin Luther King thing as well as RFK Jr. People aren't going to look at that.
	This stuff is not going to give you any other information.
	Release the Epstein files.
	There you go.
	His diary.
	If that hasn't been destroyed already.
	I'm sure that's already gone as well.
	Let's not forget that Trump's first three years on his first term were okay, but nothing was permanent.
	Then as last year, he burned it all down with his warp speed pandemic.
	Absolutely right.
	And so, you know, there's some things here that we like.
	Absolutely.
	And, you know, I like the pardons, and I like what he's doing on the transgender stuff, but, you know, what is coming with this AI stuff?
	is really very serious.
	And he's there to make that come through.
	And to sell it.
	He's a salesman.
	And he's going to sell everybody on how this is wonderful.
	This is how we're going to compete with everybody.
	Guard Goldsmith.
	Good to see you, Guard.
	Liberty Conspiracy Evenings on Twitter and on Rockfin.
	He says, Jamie Demon's position, tariffs fits with the dark nature of tariffs that most Corporate government banking parasites don't want people to discuss.
	It means harder times for American consumers.
	It absolutely does.
	Especially in the magnitude that Trump is talking about.
	Angry Tiger.
	Good to see you.
	Again, the Knights of the Storm and Angry Tiger Report says, Powell will act like he is putting up a fight to lower interest rates, but he'll do it.
	Gerald said that too, and I think he's going to probably say that today again when I talk to him.
	This empowers the Fed to devalue the currency even more.
	He says, if the president can change the country that much, we're on the wrong course.
	I agree.
	Yeah.
	Got a four-year plan instead of a communist five-year plan.
	The American people have accepted this dictatorship of their presidency.
	That's what I said.
	It's funny.
	We've crossed the Rubicon.
	They want a Caesar.
	I just want to say...
	This is a stealth patriot.
	If Trump had a real cure for cancer, the big pharma mafia would kill him.
	That's absolutely true.
	We're going to take a quick break.
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	We'll be right back.
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	Trump blasts the Bank of America CEO right there.
	They had a question-and-answer period, right?
	And they give the Bank of America CEO a chance to say something.
	And it wasn't confrontational, but Trump was loaded for bear because of what Bank of America has done in terms of deplatforming people, debanking them, I should say.
	And we've had documented cases of this.
	They always deny it.
	They always call it a conspiracy theory.
	And, of course, Bloomberg did the same thing as expected.
	They did the same stuff with Nigel Farage, and the press came out, and he proved it.
	So it's been proven.
	And so Trump answers this question and then says this.
	By the way, speaking of you, and you've done a fantastic job, but I hope you start opening your bank to conservatives, because many conservatives complain that the banks are not allowing them to do business within the bank, and that included a place called Bank of America, the Skulls.
	conservative they don't take conservative business and i don't know if the regulators mandated that because of biden or what but you and jamie and everybody i hope you're going to open your banks to conservatives because what you're doing is wrong yeah it was wrong And, of course, it wasn't just the debanking.
	Bank of America also partnered with the corrupt Justice Department to implicate.
	Anybody that had conservative views that had traveled to Washington on January 6th and even went back and said, and also, notice that we found out that this person had used their credit card to buy firearms or something like that, right?
	I mean, Bank of America is really bad.
	And so he was right to criticize them.
	And by the way, I want to apologize to Mark Young if I got hot.
	It's like, I'm not angry at you.
	What is happening in Washington?
	And I just feel like it needs to be cut off.
	Nullification and the rest of the things that we can do at the local level.
	But, you know, if you're going to rightfully lecture Bank of America, fine.
	I agree with that.
	But how about this?
	Do you think that behind the scenes, Trump would say anything to his PayPal friends?
	The PayPal mafia and everything?
	I know Peter Thiel doesn't run PayPal anymore.
	That's where they made all their money, and of course, you know, they've identified people like me and debanked me from Venmo as well as PayPal, because they own both of those things, because of my political positions, because I criticize them.
	But no, no, no.
	He's not going to step in there and say anything about this to his friends in big tech as his PayPal's that are there.
	Trump referred to his re-election.
	In the ensuing flurry of executive orders, he said this is a revolution of common sense.
	No, I see it as a communist revolution, frankly.
	I don't really care about the philosophies that people use.
	People can use a fascist argument to get to totalitarianism, or they can use a socialist or a communist argument to get to totalitarianism.
	They can institute it with a technocracy or whatever.
	I'm opposed to totalitarianism, and the way that you get to totalitarianism...
	Is a big part of all of these systems, whether you're talking about communism, fascism, technocracy, socialism, it's all about central planning.
	And that's exactly what he's doing here, is central planning.
	He said to them, he said, what the world has witnessed in the past 72 hours is nothing less than a revolution of common sense.
	Well, it should be revolting to anybody who has any common sense or any sense of the Constitution.
	How about that?
	And so then you have all these people, as he dresses down this Bank of America guy, they have their little sessions that are televised where they talk about how badly they're being beaten by Trump.
	This headline from Breitbart.
	World Economic Forum.
	Davos attendee admits that Trump won and we lost.
	The globalists lost.
	Do you believe that?
	I mean, seriously, this is professional wrestling at its best.
	They would never say that if they really believed it, first of all.
	And it isn't true.
	As I said before, he led and supplied the vaccine holocaust.
	He did everything that all the global tyrants did at the same time, in lockstep.
	And he's defended it.
	Even after he left office, he defended the vaccine holocaust.
	The global managerial philosophy...
	Favored by the European Union, says Breitbart, and they're going to cheer Trump, has lost.
	And Trump has won, said a panelist at the World Economic Forum.
	This is a Harvard professor.
	He doesn't know anything.
	Walter Meade.
	I'm sorry.
	It was a Yale.
	Same thing.
	Yale University professor.
	Same thing, both places.
	A somber mood appears to have descended upon the Swiss ski resort, writes Breitbart.
	Well, now, this is what they had to say.
	And listen to this as they build him up as some kind of a messianic figure, like Jesus, who comes back from the dead to save everybody.
	And I guess they see themselves as on Satan's side.
	I don't know.
	Trump has done something no person in the world has ever done before.
	A dead man, a dead politician has risen.
	Somebody who, a year, if we were four years ago at Davos, he's buried, dead politically, known to me.
	He's now returned.
	This is the greatest comeback in political history.
	Of a politician.
	And then, therefore, he thinks he can do anything.
	We need to also factor in not only who's won, which is Trump, but who's lost, which is to say, us.
	Yeah.
	We've lost.
	And he's come back from the dead.
	Even Davos.
	It's not just Breitbart, you know, and the MAGA media that's building him up as some kind of a savior.
	They're building him up because he's their Judas goat.
	He's their fifth column.
	Just as they were telling us all along, no, he's anti-globalist.
	He's anti-globalist.
	And then what does he do?
	He's the guy who funds and supplies the globalist depopulation shot, the vaccine holocaust.
	He's the guy who did it for them.
	He couldn't possibly be on their side.
	Any Republican who goes to Davos, they're denounced as a sellout, right?
	Except when Trump goes there.
	He's there to show them, put them in place.
	And that's what this is all about.
	It's just professional wrestling.
	Who is losing here in Europe?
	The European Union, and by and large, its member states have misread the direction of where events are going.
	He says, at this kind of moment, when a technological transformation is really biting into the economy on all kinds of levels in a transformational way.
	See, Trump is a guy who's going to build up their next big weapon.
	Besides the genetic code injection.
	And that's going to be the artificial intelligence police state.
	He's going to build it because, hey, it's good for the economy.
	What was the World Economic Forum about?
	Economics.
	They always justify these demonic, totalitarian, dystopian, nightmare scenarios.
	They always justify it by, oh, it's economics, and it's technology.
	It's great.
	We need to have more of this.
	Here's the Harvard professor.
	Another one of the panelists.
	He's the one who said that he'd come back from it.
	So you've got Yale saying he beat us.
	And you've got Harvard saying he came back from the dead.
	Harvard that began as a seminary, right?
	First private university about 400 years ago.
	And now it is an antichrist seminary.
	Pushing this guy, this antichrist.
	One of the leaders who did not receive an invite was German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, whose leftist government collapsed the day after Trump's victory in November.
	And again, Trump was there 2018, 2020, and 10 days later, the vaccine holocaust kicked off that they've been practicing for 20 years.
	And so we look at the Davos private jet arrivals, soaring by 70% despite...
	Free trains.
	And this is the article that you see done every year, right?
	Every year.
	Look at all of the private jets, blah, blah, blah.
	Well, let me tell you what Trump is talking about with AI and their private power plants while the grid falls apart and can't be relied on and is going to be destroyed in the next conflict, he said.
	But, hey, let's get AI, its own private...
	Nuclear reactor or whatever it takes.
	I mean, we could even use coal, but we got to keep AI going.
	What he's doing with this, folks, is the equivalent of these people flying around in their private jets and telling you that you can't heat your home and you can't have a car.
	But they can have a private jet.
	You won't be able to heat your home or do anything with any of this stuff, any of these appliances.
	They're going to take it all away from you.
	You're not going to have the electricity to run your electric appliances once they get rid of all the gas and the rest of the things.
	But there won't be any electricity on the grid for you.
	But they'll have the electricity for the people who are going to be big brother for them.
	That's the article that needs to be written.
	Forget about this Davos private jet thing.
	Talk about what Trump is setting up with these AI people.
	That's the issue right there.
	And that's what they're not going to talk about.
	Yeah, we can talk about tariffs.
	We should talk about tariffs and the rest of this stuff.
	But the key issue that he is so proud of, they are fully on board.
	And that's why when they sit around and say, well, he won.
	Well, he showed us.
	He's come back from the dead and everything.
	That's what they wanted.
	They wanted that model.
	And you'll see everybody else following that model as well.
	Mark Young.
	It says, I agree we should not count on good from D.C. I know all about D.C. living in Arlington.
	I'm sorry.
	But I held many peaceful demonstrations on the West Lawn for parents' rights.
	Well, thank you for doing that.
	I appreciate that.
	That is really important.
	That's not something...
	They've got a right to abortion, right?
	But parents don't have a right to parent.
	Dougalug.
	As if he's going to bring manufacturing back from China.
	I don't see that happening.
	No, and that's the key thing.
	Look, we know...
	That in the early parts of this, China's price was not only intellectual property theft, but it was also in currency manipulation, but it was also slave labor, obviously, right?
	Really, really cheap labor where they don't pay people anything.
	They put them in these slave factories and all that.
	Well, that's rapidly going to be replaced with robots.
	What do robots need?
	Electricity.
	They need cheap electricity.
	And so, you know, that's where they've got their advantage, because of the Paris Climate Accord.
	They're allowed to put up any of this stuff.
	And even if Trump gets out of the Paris Climate Accord, if he doesn't shut down the EPA, and if he doesn't shut down the Department of Energy, or at the very least, take away the legislation that was put out there giving them...
	The EPA, you can make legislation about emissions.
	And the Department of Energy, you can make regulations about efficiency.
	If you don't take away that legislation, even taking away the Paris Climate Accord isn't going to change anything.
	That was the justification for these people to hit us with a hammer, the Paris Climate Accord, and to push us to net zero.
	But it's not going to change anything.
	But they will have all the power.
	And if they've got cheap electricity, They not only have something that they can run the robots with, because they're not going to be using people in the factories.
	That's why the people that are being brought in, they don't need them for labor.
	They need them for revolution.
	They need to have everybody fighting everybody else when they take all the jobs and give them to the robots and to artificial intelligence.
	That's what that is ultimately about.
	Brian and Deb McCartney, this is where he said, coal will be backup, not a main fuel source.
	That's right.
	It's not a good thing for coal-fired plants.
	Coal should be the main source where natural gas is not.
	He will then take out the people's power and the AI will continue on.
	And let me just say this, too, in terms of it being a backup.
	And I've shown this a couple of times.
	A video that I did for the people who, you know, the group that I was in, besides coming after Michael Mann for the show-us-the-data thing, right?
	But we also got in the very first renewable energy mandates were coming out of the state of Colorado.
	So there was a lawsuit involved in that.
	And I produced videos that they would show people to try to help to fund the lawsuit and that type of thing.
	And in that video, what we explained was that when you have coal as a backup or any kind of power plant, It's the same as if you've got to back up these renewable energy devices and stuff like that.
	It's the same as if you're driving in the city with your car.
	You're going to get less fuel economy.
	You're starting, you're stopping, you're starting, you're stopping.
	You're taking it up and down.
	Just like everything else, they're a lot more efficient when they run steady state and are not used as a backup.
	You use them as a backup, you're going to use more fuel, and you're going to produce more emissions if that's really what you're trying to do.
	Of course, they don't.
	12 June 1776. Again, the MAGA monkeys never explain how a private electric plant for a private corporation accomplishes anything except for the oligarchy swamp stock prices and the surveillance and police state.
	Yeah, they're going to have a private grid.
	And that's even worse than these private jets going to Davos.
	Why don't the conservatives get...
	Nobody is going to talk about...
	Anything that Trump says is negative.
	And, of course, give him free reign to do whatever he wants without any opposition whatsoever.
	Timed Non-Tides says, Trump's popularity and disarming of the right is deadly to Americans, more so than anyone else.
	Somebody who is a fifth column, somebody who is not coming at you with a flag and uniform and an obvious agenda, is always more dangerous.
	That's the way that it always works.
	That's one of the reasons why I said, you know, Give accommodations to prisoners of war who are wearing their uniforms.
	But for a spy, you just take them out and shoot them because they are so dangerous.
	We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.
	Here's a little song I wrote.
	You might want to hear it in your pod.
	You know nothing.
	And be happy.
	Ain't got no cash, ain't got no car, but 24 booster shots in your arm.
	Oh, nothing.
	Be happy.
	You can't even buy s*** in the store because of your low social credit score.
	Oh, nothing.
	be happy you will own nothing And be happy.
	Be happy and eat some bugs.
	First day on the job, President Trump signed an executive order, you know, the U.S. government only recognizing two genders, male, female.
	They're unchangeable.
	You know, if elected as prime minister, is that something that you're going to...
	Well, I don't know.
	Do you have any other genders that you'd like to name?
	Me personally?
	Yes.
	I'm just asking more so if you're in line with what he is saying.
	Do you agree with what he's saying?
	Is that something that you would be lockstep with if elected as Prime Minister?
	Well I'm not aware of any other genders than men and women.
	I mean if you have any other that you want me to consider, you're welcome to tell me Well, personally, I am a man.
	I am a people who say cis man.
	There are people there who, you know, they say they're gender neutral.
	You are a man, yes.
	There are people there who say they're gender neutral.
	Yeah, they say they're gender neutral.
	They're, you know, they're a trans person.
	Is that something that you would recognize here?
	Whereas in the States, at least with their U.S. government, the way they're seeing it, there's only two.
	I'm only aware of two, but if you come up with another list, then you're welcome to do that, but I'm aware of two.
	And as far as I'm concerned, we should have a government that just minds its own damn business and leaves people alone.
	Oh, that's classic.
	That's going to be right up there with that other interview that he had where he's eating an apple and trolling that reporter who's asking him questions.
	Again, I'm only aware, do you got some other Genders that I need to know about?
	Well, actually they do.
	And it was funny, that really got to Drudge, you know, and people were coming after Bruce Gender.
	I've always called him Bruce Gender since he did this stuff, right?
	So, it was, at the top of Drudge was, they're calling him Bruce to mock him.
	Caitlyn Jenner.
	Says Daily Mail.
	Is brutally mocked online for supporting Trump as fans point out details in the inauguration speech.
	And so, I say, congratulations, Mr. President.
	Thanks be to God, said Jenner, after Trump was inaugurated.
	And then when he puts out this executive order saying there's only two genders, these people, Daily Mail says, many people are calling her Bruce, calling her a hypocrite.
	They'll hurt, but they keep using these, they're so afraid of this nonsense.
	And that's the key thing that is going to work in the favor of Trump, it's going to work in the favor of Polyev, anybody who refuses to play this game of 2 plus 2 equals 5. That's all this is.
	This is about dominating you to the extent that you deny obvious reality.
	One person says, so, Bruce, how does it feel now that Trump signed an executive order that there's only two immutable genders and your gender will need to be reflected accurately?
	How does it feel to be a guy again?
	He just EO'd you, executive ordered you back to Bruce, said another.
	And a picture of Jenner from the 1990s years before she underwent her transition, as the Daily News says.
	Now, you've got about a half hour left as ma'am.
	And then it's back to Sir for you, Bruce.
	As I pointed out the other day, we had the Egyptian princess, they thought, based on what was going on with Cleopatra and the grave and all this kind of thing.
	They finally did a DNA. They found the DNA that they took of the skull that was all that was left.
	They found it was a teenage boy.
	I said, there you go.
	That's a lesson for the ages, for the trans insanity that's out there.
	Even 2,000 years later, it's in the bones, and you can tell men from women, even if it's just a skull that's left.
	But, you know, it's kind of interesting, Bruce Gender.
	Karen saw this article about Linda Thompson, who was married to Elvis.
	And, you know, in his stage where he's eating himself to death with drugs and all the rest of the stuff and didn't do anything about it.
	And then she marries Bruce Jinder, and he starts with the cross-dressing things and everything.
	And she said, gee, I thought it was just me, but all right, I'll go along with it.
	And then he leaves her, and then he marries, you know, the Cardassian mom or whatever.
	Has two children with her.
	So he goes back.
	So he's cross-dressing with Linda Thompson, and then he goes back to being a man again.
	So this is not unprecedented.
	If he's going to cheer the Republicans, he's going to have to go back to being a man.
	And then he decides that he's going to be Caitlyn again.
	So on Wednesday night...
	She posted a picture of herself, says the Daily Wire, outside the Starlight Inaugural Ball alongside Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi, Trump lawyer Alina Habba, Jeanine Perrault, and a longtime friend.
	And of course, you know, you look at all of the Fox people and the Republicans and everything.
	Sean Hannity.
	Sean Hannity loves Bruce Gender and would always have Bruce Gender on, not to talk about...
	But elevate it.
	And Bruce would come on and say, yeah, they shouldn't be participating in sports.
	Sports is sacred, you know.
	Sports is sacred.
	But two genders is not sacred.
	That's what Sean Hannity and Fox News are selling people.
	And of course, Melania has been given awards from this crowd for the longest time.
	Perhaps that was why she wore her spy versus spy hat at the inauguration.
	Because she was...
	She was undercover for the LGBT, or at least she had it pulled down over her eyes because she was so ashamed of the whole thing.
	But anyway, he put out this executive order.
	And then we find out that this is from W&D. Deeply concerning, they said Democrats quietly use a little-known NIH office, back at the NIH again, to fund child sex change experiments with taxpayer cash.
	As they were also paying for contract abortions on kids so they could take babies' organs and create humanized mice.
	Oh, what a cesspool.
	Shut down the NIH and the FDA and HHS. I mean, it's just, anyway.
	A billion dollars they put into sexual and gender minority research over the last 10 years, according to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
	Founded in 2015, the...
	Sexual Gender Minority Research Office was there.
	And oh, by the way, 2015, you know who was there even before that?
	Michael Flynn was pushing transgenderism with a Navy SEAL in 2014. And it was the second of the Pride Months that they'd had at the Department of Defense.
	Now, this guy here, Kristen Beck, He's now Chris Beck again.
	He's now gone back.
	And he said, they did this to me.
	He said, I was gaslit even as an adult.
	Even as an adult Navy SEAL, they gaslit me.
	And guess who was part of that?
	Michael Flynn, the guy who goes around with all the God talk everywhere, with these phony political religious revivals everywhere.
	Yeah, that's where he's really coming from.
	And Melania's getting awards from these people.
	He's handing them out to these people and pushing the transgender stuff.
	And he was doing it in 2014. Then in 2015, you have this NIH thing.
	They point out that they had at least 100 more conducted experiments from the NIH-funded thing annually from 2021 to 2024 when Biden was president, compared to 2017 to 2020, and they don't say that Trump was president there.
	They Hector Biden, but the Daily Caller won't talk about Trump being a part of it.
	And again, it's like the wars that Obama started.
	Trump didn't shut any of those down.
	Well, we've got to be worried about, while we've got an artificial intelligence Big Brother surveillance network being set up with its own private power grid, what we should be worried about is all this nonsense about Elon Musk and his SIG HAL, except occasional cortex calls it a SIG HAL. That's why I say she's got occasionally, only occasionally, does the cortex...
	Actually fire on this woman.
	Most of the time, it doesn't.
	She doesn't know the difference.
	She doesn't even know what she's talking about.
	Sig Hale.
	S-I-G-H-A-L-E. Sig Hale was Hale Victory, right?
	But she doesn't.
	I don't know what Sig Hale was.
	She doesn't either.
	But while this is happening, and they're shutting down TikTok, And you have people who are absolutely livid about TikTok existing.
	Some people are upset about it being shut down.
	And it is, I think, an attack on free speech and so forth.
	All of the stuff that is coming out of TikTok, that's easily scraped off by the NSA, the CIA, all these people.
	They can grab all of that stuff.
	There's nothing at all about it.
	That's another one of these misdirections.
	There's a commentator out of RT saying, you know, Most people in the U.S. would rather be spied on by China than by their own government.
	That's where I fall.
	The left gets all torn pieces about corporations that are spying on people.
	And I've said for the longest time, if they're spying on me because they want to sell me something, I don't find that as problematic as a government that is spying on me because they want to lock me up like they did the J6ers or whatever, right?
	That's the real issue.
	But I don't know.
	I saw this and I thought, well, maybe I could apply for this job.
	WorldNetDaily is hiring.
	They said, now you can run the Trump Chronicles.
	I'd like to do that.
	I'd like to do the Trump Chronicles for them.
	But they're not actually looking for some honest reporting.
	You know, the first time I ever got published was by WorldNetDaily back in 2008. When Romney was running, people were talking about religion and that type of thing.
	I said, no, religion is not the litmus test, you know, what people want to.
	But I said, the real litmus test should be principles.
	And you ought to be looking at what the principles are.
	And I wrote it as a letter to them because WorldNetDaily was, at the time, talking about the election and talking about the back and forth over Romney.
	But they picked it as the letter of the week, and they put it up.
	But I don't think they would hire me for this.
	Here's the qualifications.
	Have a good working knowledge of social media, including X and Truth Social.
	Okay, I do pretty good at that, I guess.
	And have an excellent proficiency in and command of the English language.
	Okay, I could do that.
	Be able to write brief news summaries and headlines quickly.
	Okay.
	Be able to edit one's own work.
	All right, all right.
	Checked all these boxes.
	And then there's the killer.
	We need you to document the spectacular details of Donald Trump's 47th presidency as a victory.
	This could be your dream job.
	Well, there we go.
	That's the one I flunk.
	And as Mediaite is saying, I said, can conservative media survive Trump's presidency?
	The leftists did not survive his presidency.
	And, of course, all these people have moved into one...
	One of these paradigms, they look to see what people, what they're reporting is not what's happening, but they're reporting what people want to hear, right?
	Because they pick a side and then they feed them into their biases.
	And if you push back against that...
	They get very upset about it.
	And so, this is Mediaite.
	This is on the left.
	And they called out Jim Acosta for being an idealist.
	They said Acosta suffered from the most acute delusions of grandeur since Don Quixote roamed La Mancha.
	And I saw that and I thought, yeah, you know, what's wrong with Don Quixote and La Mancha?
	When we played, used to, when I was in engineering at Data General, we would play, during our lunch break, we would play, Trivial Pursuit.
	And I usually did pretty good at it.
	There was one question in it that I didn't know, but I guessed it.
	And it was, who was the Spanish equivalent of William Shakespeare?
	I didn't know too many Spanish authors, but I knew that Don Coyote, the man of the mantra, I knew that Don Coyote was...
	Incredibly famous and been done by everybody in both English and Spanish and other languages.
	So I guessed who it was.
	Wow, that's truly amazing.
	But it is an excellent example of idealism.
	If you remember the Man of La Mancha, based on Cervantes' Don Quixote, if you remember that, There was a great song in it that I thought really fit for Christians.
	And every time I look at it, it is so important.
	And I don't think that you can, in the political sphere, if you don't understand that it's a spiritual war, you're not going to really make any difference with anything.
	And you're not going to make a difference in the spiritual war if you're going to be a pragmatist.
	And Don Quixote was not a pragmatist.
	And it was really captured in that song, The Impossible Dream.
	And when you look at the words, you know, they accuse Jim Acosta of being Don Quixote for the left, and they just dismiss him as being a useless idealist.
	But the words are very powerful if you think about it.
	To fight the unbeatable foe, to right the unrightable wrong.
	Was that what these people were trying to do, the pro-lifers?
	Die.
	So that honor and justice could live.
	And he says, I know that if I'm through this quest, that my heart will lie peaceful and calm when I'm laid to my rest.
	Isn't this the Christian song, right?
	And of course, it also reflects on Christ.
	That the world would be better for this.
	That one man, scorned and covered in scars, still strove with his last ounce of courage.
	That's the key.
	We've got people who are willing to sell out so that they can sell you some toothpaste or something, or worse than that now.
	A dangerous drug on CNN and the rest of these places.
	And we look at this and they say, can conservative media survive?
	They don't deserve to survive if they are going to simply sell out their principles and applaud people based on a commercial calculation.
	And that's what this is truly about.
	A Syrian girl.
	It says, David raises an excellent point.
	Parents in the U.S. have a right to kill their kids, but not to raise them.
	That should be on bumper stickers.
	That's right.
	The only right that they ever want parents to have is the right to kill their kids.
	All the rest of this stuff is taken away from you.
	S.A. Miller, one, two, three.
	Thank you very much for the tip.
	I appreciate that.
	He says, thank you, David, for keeping us in the mix.
	Prayers for Karen and your family continue.
	Thank you so much.
	I appreciate that.
	And we do need your prayers.
	Again, for people who do not know Karen, she was out working with the chickens and fell down a hill.
	And she broke her ankle and severely injured her knee and hip.
	But they're not broken.
	And so she's in a great deal of pain.
	We're hoping that the ankle is going to heal and she won't have to have surgery.
	And we would appreciate your prayers for Whistler, who is working the board today.
	And I appreciate him standing in for her.
	She can't do it.
	So she can't stand in, period.
	She's seated now.
	She is with a boot.
	She is standing up occasionally, but in a great deal of pain.
	We're going to take a quick break and we will be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	All right, joining us now is Gerald Salenti of Trends Journal.
	And, of course, if you go to Trends Journal and use the code NIGHT, you can save 10% off.
	And I've really been anxious to talk to Gerald.
	We weren't able to do it in our last scheduled one.
	And so this is the first time we've had Gerald on in 2025. And, of course, he's published his predictions for next year.
	But I wanted to talk to him about those and what he sees coming up in 2025. Last year, he said gold is going to be the year of gold.
	It was spot on with that.
	Thank you for joining us, Gerald.
	Well, thanks for having me on.
	And again, it's always great being on with you.
	And this is a whole different time.
	Yeah.
	The Trump presidency, I wouldn't call him a president.
	I would call him King Trump.
	Caesar.
	He's a Kaiser.
	Yeah.
	No, this guy's going to do everything he wants, any way he wants, any time he wants.
	That's right.
	And that's the reality of it all.
	That's what I was just saying.
	I said, you know, I don't understand people cheering that.
	I don't want to have a government that's run by executive order.
	What happens when the next guy gets in?
	I said, you know, we've crossed the Rubicon.
	And the right is cheering this.
	They love the fact that he's ordering everybody around.
	He's going to bully other countries and all the rest of this stuff.
	That's not a winning formula.
	And we don't want to be governed that way.
	It's no different with the other guy.
	Yeah.
	It's no different.
	He's just doing it differently, that's all.
	The people that believe in one side believe in their side.
	The other people that believe in the other side believe in their side.
	That's right.
	I'm telling you, the whole game's changed.
	By the way, you were talking before about this transgender stuff and all of that.
	We're changing the name of the Trans Journal to the Trans Journal.
	I'm sure don't love that.
	Well, that was last year.
	That was 2024 to do the Trans Journal.
	I mean, you were talking about it before I got on the air.
	And then the other thing, too, you were talking about TikTok.
	I am permanently banned from TikTok.
	What'd you do?
	We put up a clip where I said that...
	Trump said he was going to end the Ukraine war in 24 hours.
	And then he said, after he got elected, I'm going to end that war.
	That war's going to end before I get into office.
	Yeah, that's right.
	The war's still going on.
	That's right.
	So we said, Ukraine's going to do something to escalate this.
	Something like a false flag attack, like bombing a nuclear power plant, to get the people to support.
	Ukraine.
	That's it.
	That's all we said.
	We put the clip up of one of my podcasts, and boom, I'm blacklisted.
	Wow, that's amazing.
	So you think that's because they're trying to curry favor with Trump?
	I don't know, but as you know, I used to be on Alex Jones every week for years.
	I used to do a host an hour show.
	They haven't had me on since October.
	Really?
	Wow.
	Yep.
	And I think it's because I won't suck up to Trump or bow down to Musk.
	That's right.
	And I only call it like it is.
	There are positive things that I like that Trump is doing.
	I happen to be, all my libertarian friends, and Judge Napolitano being one of them, they're all opposed to the tariffs.
	I totally support them.
	You do?
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	That's one of the things I wanted to ask you about, because that's a key part of what he's doing.
	I see it as just another tax that's being added without taking away the income tax.
	But I agree that, you know, and I've talked about it many times, Thomas Jefferson said that he had eliminated all these useful offices in his second inaugural address.
	He said in the first term, we eliminate all these useless offices, and so we've now eliminated all internal taxes so that no...
	One knows the taxman from the federal government, right?
	No farmer, no laborer, no mechanic.
	And so I think that that's a better system.
	I think any tax is a better system than the income tax.
	But what I'm concerned about is winding up with both of them, which is what my concern is with this.
	Again, I'm just saying if he does what he says.
	I agree with the tariffs because I'm up here in Kingston, and you've been here.
	You used to have Gantt.
	Shirt factories up here.
	All over.
	All over.
	Factories everywhere.
	Once upon a time, there was no such thing as rust belts.
	It used to be made in America.
	And again, I'm a trend forecaster.
	I only look at facts.
	When all things are connected, as we say in trend research, an opportunity misses those who view the world through the eyes of their profession.
	So let's talk about tariffs.
	And having it made in America.
	Let's go to the Ukraine war.
	Began on February 24th, 2022. What did that little stupid, out of his mind, slimeball Biden, we're going to put sanctions on Russia, and Putin's going to pay the price.
	Remember that?
	Yeah, oh yeah, that's right.
	And what happened?
	All those companies, whoop, from Europe to the United States pulled out of Russia.
	We said, this isn't going to hurt Russia at all.
	As a matter of fact, it's going to help them.
	They're going to become a self-sufficient economy.
	They have all the human and natural resources that they need.
	And that's exactly what happened.
	Yeah, that's right.
	So, going back to the United States, we have all the human and natural resources we need to be self-sufficient.
	We don't need globalization.
	Here, you and I, I mean, I'm older than you.
	I grew up during the Vietnam War.
	Those dirty commies.
	We don't stop them.
	They're going to take over all of Asia.
	And those dominoes are going to keep falling.
	And before you know it, they'll hit the shores of California.
	I'm not making that up.
	Yeah, I know.
	Right?
	I remember that even though I was a little bit younger.
	I remember that.
	All right.
	We import, other than from China, our second biggest importer of clothing and shoes and furniture.
	Comes from those dirty commies that's still there in Vietnam.
	Yeah, that's right.
	All these corporations are interested in making money.
	That's all they want to do.
	Hey, what does Trump have in there?
	All the billionaires.
	And everybody listening, get this in your head.
	You have no right to talk.
	You have no right to meet with the leaders unless you got a lot of money.
	Kaboosh?
	Yeah, that's right.
	Yep.
	You don't have a million dollars to donate to the inauguration?
	Get the hell out of here!
	That's the America today.
	So going back to Trump, the tariffs, if they go into place and America becomes, again, I want it made in America.
	I have plates over here for my aunt, Zidzi, may she rest in peace, made in Syracuse, right north of us.
	Things used to be made all over, all over, everywhere.
	They were manufacturing.
	Bring it back.
	The jobs that we have stink, and that's why they wanted all the cheap labor, because you go to Target, you go to Marshalls, you go to Coles, you go to Lowe's, help wanted, help wanted, help wanted, help wanted, full-time, part-time, because we're paying you nothing.
	And we control everything.
	We've done away with mom-and-pop businesses, or transgender businesses, too.
	You've got to only be a chain.
	So now...
	If he imposes these tariffs and brings back manufacturing, it could be a very positive element for America.
	If he lives by his word, he wants to rename that mountain the McKinley Mountain in Alaska, there were no income tax when McKinley was president.
	The government got the money through tariffs.
	The income tax is brought to us by a murderous bastard, may he rot in hell, who gave us World War I, federal income tax, the Federal Reserve and the IRS, Woodrow Wilson.
	That's right.
	Yeah, I agree.
	The income tax and the Federal Reserve and the open borders for trade and everything, that is all one package.
	And that was a massive sea change from where we were.
	And I agree with that vision, and I've talked about it even before, you know, Trump was talking about it, that, you know, that would be a much better way for us to operate, get rid of the IRS. My problem is, is that he's talking about how he's going to make the tax cuts permanent.
	Well, that means he's going to make the income tax permanent.
	And, you know, all the rest of the things, he's rearranging the deck chairs, he's playing a little bit of...
	of a democratic demagoguery, I think, in terms of telling people, well, all the taxes will be paid by the other people.
	All of the tariffs are going to be paid by us.
	And so it's going to be a second form of taxation because you're going to see the price of goods go up.
	And a lot of times, and I imagine how it's going to work, I was talking about with Canada, you know, the traffic going across the Ambassador Bridge.
	When they're making auto parts, these things are going to be going back from Canada to the U.S., then back from the U.S. to Canada and so forth.
	The same thing with Mexico.
	Every time it passes, it's going to be like a VAT tax.
	And I think the key thing that they're looking at it from is not even from an economic standpoint.
	I think Trump sees the tariffs as a weapon, as a stick.
	For his geopolitical purposes.
	He's threatening sanctions and tariffs on Russia, just like Biden did.
	And I've pointed out how that backfired, how he had a windfall.
	Yeah, he had a windfall in the oil stuff.
	They sanctioned his oil, and he had a windfall.
	He said, hey, pay me in gold, and that's the price of oil shoots up.
	Pay me in gold, and I'll give you a big discount.
	And he made way more money, and he got it in gold instead of in federal fiat currencies.
	So it's kind of a win-win situation for Putin.
	Again, I'm just saying it's going to take, if he does it and it's done the proper way, no, you won't be importing him from Mexico.
	And again, you can start with what really began under Nixon.
	I think that was the worst of it.
	And then Reagan and then Clinton was the worst of the worst with NAFTA, bringing China into the World Trade Organization.
	You know, it's going to take time, but if he does it and the products are made in America, we could become a self-sufficient economy.
	Again, bringing that prosciutto from Italy and that fine wine from France, I'm all in favor of that.
	Oh, I agree.
	We have the other products made in America.
	Well, you know, the thing, though, is that he could go a long way towards helping America build up.
	Just in family farms, like I was talking about yesterday.
	Farms are going out of business by the hundreds.
	Independent farms.
	And what's driving them out of business is not so much foreign competition as it is regulation.
	And the fact that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is forcing them to use the meat processing plants, and two of them are gigantic American corporations, and the other two are foreign-owned corporations, JBS out of Brazil and others.
	So, you know, it's that type of thing that's creating kind of a monopoly, an oligarchy, via regulation.
	Now, if he does deregulation, that'd be far more effective than adding another layer of taxes, I think.
	But hopefully somebody will recognize what is really happening with it.
	But even something as basic as making our own food can be strangled not by necessarily foreign competition, but by domestic regulation and the way they rated the Samish farmer and that type of thing.
	And so they've turned the ranchers into basically sharecroppers.
	for these gigantic meat processing places.
	That's a key part of this.
	That's why I said I think that really his tariffs are more of a geopolitical approach really than a, you know, let's make America first or let's do something that's going to help us economically.
	It's going to require massive deregulation.
	I hope he does that.
	Maybe he will because I think he's going to want to look good for the first couple of years at least.
	I don't know.
	He's against deregulation, he says.
	And again, by the way, in my book, Trends 2000, which was an international bestseller, I wrote about how the farms were being taken over by the bigs.
	Back then.
	It was 1996 I wrote this book.
	They started it in the 50s.
	It really started, the bigs started taking over everything in the farming business.
	And it just kept getting worse and worse.
	But you're talking about the regulations.
	Look what's going on.
	Again, we look at the world.
	Germany, the third largest economy in the world.
	It's in recession.
	The bureaucracy in Europe is at the worst.
	I spent a lot of time in Italy.
	I can't stand it anymore.
	It's one of the most bureaucratic places on earth.
	I'm telling you, I got friends that live there.
	They can't do anything.
	You can't cut down that tree.
	You can't do this.
	You can't do that.
	You can't do that.
	On and on and on and on and on.
	The bureaucracy is terrible.
	I believe, again, I am no...
	As a trend forecaster, it's not what you like, what you want, what you wish for, it's what is.
	So only look at the facts.
	We're talking about the positive things I think about Trump, the negative things, and how about what he's doing over there in Israel?
	That's right.
	Oh, the people that Biden put sanctions on, what they call settlers in the West Bank, Trump took them off.
	And look what they're doing now in the West Bank.
	Oh, they only killed about...
	30 people in the last two days, robbing, stealing, and they're not settlers, they're land stealers.
	And Trump, when he talked about what was going on in Gaza, he said, it's kind of like a demolition, you know, that place could be a real vacation resort or something, you know, essentially like that.
	His son-in-law, Jared Kushner, we wrote about in the Trends Journal back in 2024, in March, when he spoke at Harvard University.
	Saying that this is very valuable waterfront property and that the Palestinians should be moved out into the Negev Desert.
	All right?
	Yeah.
	So what I'm saying is, again, just looking at what I said, what I think is a positive and a negative.
	And they're not settlers.
	They're in violation of the Geneva Convention and Article 242 of the United Nations.
	They're stealing land.
	Yeah.
	I agree.
	So anyway, so I'm just saying the things I agree.
	And again, if I said to you, listen, I'm going to end that Ukraine war in 24 hours.
	You vote for me.
	And I didn't do it.
	You'd say, hey, Salenti, you promised to do this.
	How come you didn't do it?
	Yeah.
	Where's the outrage?
	That's right.
	That's right.
	Yeah, there's one side that doesn't want the war to end, and the side that said that they wanted the war to end isn't going to call him out on it.
	He kind of walked that back a little bit before he became president.
	He said, well, it might take a few months now, you know?
	First it was going to be before I even become president.
	I'm going to have that settled, and then it was going to be day one, and now it's like, well, it might be a few months, and he stopped talking about it.
	Yeah, I'm very concerned about the wars, yeah.
	Now, another Trump thing.
	You go back to our Trends Journal.
	And you go back to a number of interviews I've done, and I do a lot of them.
	We were saying back in October that if Trump gets elected, he will do everything he can to lower interest rates.
	Wall Street, the bet was up until yesterday that The Federal Reserve will only lower interest rates twice in 2025, 25 basis points each time.
	That was the bet on Wall Street.
	Trump came out at Davos, said he's going to lower interest rates.
	We have been writing about this in the Trends Journal since November, November 12th.
	So when Trump gets in, he's going to do everything he can.
	To boost the economy and the equity markets.
	Because he's invested in both of them.
	That's all he's interested in.
	And the billionaire gang, that's with him.
	All they want is more money.
	So, everybody says, no, no, no.
	He can't force the Federal Reserve to do that.
	Oh, no?
	And then we said, let's go back to December 2018. The stock market in America in December 2018. The Dow had its worst December since the Great Depression, 1931. What did Trump do?
	He forced Jerome Powell to lower interest rates, which Powell did in January 2019. So now, we have been saying, I just talked about Germany.
	It's not only Germany, it's the UK. They're in dragflation.
	Economy's going down, inflation's going up.
	Germany's in a recession.
	The Indian economy has its worst year in two years.
	They have to lower interest rates.
	Trump even mentioned this in Davos, that other countries have to lower interest rates to increase their economic growth.
	They can't lower interest rates if the United States' interest rates are high.
	Because their currency goes way down and inflation spikes.
	Now he's going to lower interest rates.
	Look at gold prices.
	Just before I got on the air, $2,777 an ounce.
	We went up $23 today, about $18 yesterday.
	Because they're going to lower interest rates.
	We've been saying this.
	It's in your Trends Journal.
	It's right there.
	We said that when he says this, gold prices are going to escalate rapidly.
	And that's exactly what's happening.
	The lower the interest rates go, the deeper the dollar falls.
	The deeper the dollar falls, the higher gold prices go up.
	This isn't rocket science.
	It's a fact.
	I did a commercial for Tony Arterman before Christmas, and it took Yukon Cornelius from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, right?
	And he's prospecting.
	And we changed the voice with AI. And he says, well, boys and girls, right now, Trump Euphoria is driving the price of gold and driving up crypto.
	So it's a perfect chance for you to jump in and buy some gold.
	And that's exactly what it is.
	Trump Euphoria has gold on sale.
	It was dropped down to what?
	It would drop down to like $2,500.
	High 25% is now like up 200 bucks from the low that it had post-election, I think, isn't it?
	Up in the high 2700s.
	I'm telling you, I didn't think gold would boom as much as it is, and we said it, until Trump lowers interest rates.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Because, again, you go back, gold went down because when Trump got in, he said he was going to impose these tariffs.
	He said that he was going to impose those 25% tariffs on...
	Canada and Mexico, the day he took office.
	And now he lied about that.
	And Davos, now he's saying, well, we're going to talk to China about the tariffs.
	So what happened was, gold prices went down because the dollar went way up because of his imposition of tariffs.
	Now he's not imposing, then the dollar went down.
	Mm-hmm.
	Mm-hmm.
	And I think you had a lot of people who jumped into crypto as well because, you know, they were going to do a whipsaw from Biden, who was doing everything he can to ban it or to regulate it out of existence, and now Trump is going to do everything he can to hype it.
	What do you think about that Trump coin?
	It went from zero to $72 billion market cap in just 48 hours.
	And they're going to do some more.
	He did like a Melania meme coin, and then somebody did some fake Trump and Melania coins.
	How do you tell a fake coin from a real coin if it's a meme coin?
	Somebody did a Barron coin and made several million dollars.
	And so a lot of people who are pro-Bitcoin are looking at this and saying, This is such rampant corruption.
	It's going to be a real black eye to the crypto market.
	What do you think about all that?
	This is from...
	I just printed this out before I got on the air.
	Trump crypto plans have Wall Street CEOs ready to jump into digital assets.
	CNBC. Just days into President Trump's second administration, Wall Street is singing a...
	Different tune on crypto.
	Oh, Wall Street's singing a different tune?
	So is Trump.
	When he was president, he was totally anti-Bitcoin.
	It's all about money.
	The biggest contributors were the crypto people.
	One of the biggest groups of contributors to his campaign.
	Goes on, quote, For us, the equation is really around whether we...
	As a highly regulated financial institution can act as trans actors, Morgan Stanley CEO Ted Pick, might as well throw a PR in that, told CNBC on Thursday at the World Economic Forum.
	The president on Thursday issued sweeping executive orders on crypto with an emphasis on, quote, protecting and promoting the use and development of digital assets.
	So, here's the deal.
	I believe, and I'm not saying this is going to happen immediately, but here's our trend forecast.
	They're going to go to CBDC. Yep.
	Central Bank Digital Currencies.
	We're going to get away from that Dirty cash and they're going to go to digital trash.
	We got a new coin.
	We don't need those dollars anymore.
	You go to China, you can put your hand out and they take your money.
	Nobody's using money anymore.
	That's right.
	The whole world is digitized to the AI far out degree.
	The whole world is going digital.
	And we're already way down the road to CBDC, even though it's not necessarily a formal, official thing.
	And you've got the five eyes of five English-speaking countries that their intelligence agencies are united together.
	They said, we're not going to do CBDC. They're doing it already, and they're going to do it in a de facto way.
	Now, Europe, because they love regulation and they love coming right at you in your face, they're talking about instituting a digital euro and a CBDC. They're still going down that road.
	But, you know, the intelligence agencies have been looking at the way people have been reacting to this, and we've had a few states that have come back and banned CBDC and other things like that.
	So they're going to call it something different, and they'll kind of do it in a public-private partnership.
	Don't you agree?
	It'll be kind of de facto.
	I think, here's what I'm saying.
	They're going to create, Trump will create a digital coin to replace the dollar.
	And the reason being, there's no way in the world, That America's going to be able to pay off its deficit.
	It's not $36 trillion.
	When you put in all the money owed, it's like $220 trillion.
	And by the way, it went up over $9 trillion during Trump's administration.
	The government debt.
	They come out with a new coin and they'll value it way higher than the dollar to buy out their debt.
	That's my belief.
	Yeah, Mark Cuban, after Trump made all this money, Mark Cuban came out and some people said, well, he's joking.
	I said, I'm not so sure he's joking.
	He said, hey, we could pay off the national debt with a meme coin, you know, kind of trolling him.
	But I think that's going to...
	We've already had some people seriously suggest that the Treasury could print a $1 trillion coin, a physical coin, and then carry it over to the Federal Reserve and say, here, you're paid.
	That's what I'm saying.
	Yeah, yeah.
	That's exactly what I'm saying.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it's crazy.
	It's definitely crazy.
	And I'm going to tell you, Trump is...
	Again, it's not President Trump.
	It's King Trump.
	Yeah, that's right.
	It's King Trump.
	This guy's...
	You know, I had lunch with his brother.
	I don't know if I told you that.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Back in 2017. Robert.
	He had a restaurant over here in Wasaac, which is on the other side of the river from us.
	And the brother told us that when the father died, I think it was like 2002. He left over half a billion dollars to the family in real estate.
	So Trump is, you know, he's only interested in money.
	That's right.
	And look at, oh, this is the other thing.
	Look at oil prices, how they've gone down.
	Drill, baby, drill.
	He's also telling Saudi Arabia to lower their oil prices.
	Oh, what happened?
	Oh, Saudi Arabia gave his son-in-law Two billion dollars to start up this firm?
	Yeah.
	Oh, now he's saying Saudi Arabia may invest a trillion dollars into the United States?
	Mm-hmm.
	And again, let's go back, make connections between different fields.
	Where were the Arab nations to unite against Israel's genocide of Gaza?
	Yeah.
	They never united.
	Yeah.
	Because all they're interested in is money.
	That's right.
	Because back in 1973, they united against Israel, and they put the embargo on, and that forced Israel to stop.
	They didn't unite this time.
	The slaughter that's happened in Gaza breaks my heart.
	And by the way, the media is now putting up the photos, like the toilet paper record, the New York Times.
	They have a big photo of the destruction in Gaza.
	How come you weren't putting this up every day?
	How come you weren't putting this up?
	Yeah, yeah.
	So, going back, they're going to do, Trump is going to do everything he can to keep this economy up.
	Because the bottom line is money.
	And he's heavily invested, his family's very heavily invested, and the gangs that support him are heavily invested.
	Oh, I absolutely agree.
	Yeah, I think he's going to keep it going.
	What do you think happens for crypto?
	So you've got Larry Fink at Davos saying, I think we could see it going up within a year or two to 700,000 Bitcoin or something like that, because he's talking about not only just inflation, which is definitely going to be there in a big way, as you pointed out, but also the loss of confidence in the currencies and things like that with the massive deficits that we've got and that type of thing.
	So what do you think is going to...
	Happen with crypto?
	What's going to happen with gold based on inflation, based on the deficit and the rest of the stuff?
	Going up.
	All of them, yeah.
	Yep.
	What about the stock market?
	We've been bullish in the Trends Journal on Bitcoin since 2017. We call the tops the bottoms.
	We said, wait, if it goes below this, it's going to go here.
	If it goes above this, it goes there.
	And then Trump again.
	As I say, two of our top trends this year.
	One is the Trump card.
	And another's the wild card.
	Those are different things?
	Anything can happen.
	Yeah, that's right.
	Again, he does a 180. He said he was totally against the cryptocurrencies when he was president.
	Yes.
	The crypto club comes in.
	They give him all this dough.
	He's totally positive.
	And they make up their own coin.
	He makes himself a couple of billion bucks.
	That's right.
	Yeah, especially if you look at his treasury, his commerce secretary, right?
	Howard Lucky Lutnik.
	I call him Lucky because he didn't show up on 9-11 to his office.
	Everybody else died.
	But, you know, he's the crypto guy.
	He's the stablecoin guy.
	And I saw one person this week I talked about said, That, you know, stablecoin has been stabilized, you know, by the dollar, so-called, but they would anchor it to the dollar.
	He said, it may go the other way around now.
	You might have the dollar actually stabilized by the stablecoin, but either way, this guy with Tether and all the rest, he's been at the epicenter of the stablecoins as well as being at the epicenter of the memecoins.
	I wouldn't be surprised if he had his fingerprints all over these Trump memecoins as well, Lutnik.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Again, it's the wild card.
	And it's going to be, Trump is going to do everything he wants to do.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	And there's no stopping him.
	Yeah.
	No stopping him.
	Yeah, truly it's amazing, you know, the inauguration.
	Seeing the billionaire club lined up there.
	I mean, you know, you had everybody.
	You had Bezos standing next to Elon Musk, standing next to Zuckerberg.
	And then you've also got Sundar Pichai from Google.
	They're all there, all together, all at once.
	And they're all kissing the ring.
	It's amazing to see how it's just been this monolithic thing.
	Nobody's opposing him.
	Jamie Demon is not opposing him to J.P. Morgan either.
	He says, yeah, I like what he's doing.
	I like these tariffs and all that kind of stuff.
	Who cares if we have some inflation with it?
	That it's going to be good for national security.
	And of course, the other thing I wanted, what about the stock market?
	What do you think is going to happen in the stock market?
	Again, he's going to do everything possible, everything possible to keep the equity markets up.
	The lower interest rates go, the more the equity markets go up.
	This is from yesterday.
	Donald Trump says, quote, he'll demand that interest rates drop immediately.
	And this is from your Trends Journal, November 12th.
	With Donald Trump being re-elected, now the question is, will he push the Federal Reserve to continue to lower interest rates, which will be positive for the U.S. equity markets, which have strongly spiked since he won the race to the White House?
	And we go on.
	Considering how Trump pressured Fed head Jerome Powell to lower interest rates when the U.S. equity market sank into correction territory in December 2018, the odds are high that interest rates will continue to decline during the Trump presidency.
	That's in your trends journal.
	No one anywhere, anyplace said this was going to happen.
	And again, when you subscribe by putting, what is it, the night, it comes to, what, $2.50 a week.
	Yes, yes.
	And now when we made the forecast for golden year for gold, gold was at $2,041 an ounce.
	$2,041 an ounce.
	Now it's $2,777 an ounce.
	Wow, yeah, yeah.
	Again, nobody, nobody, nobody said what I just read you.
	No one.
	Trump is only interested in himself and the bottom line.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	And when you look at the stock market, the stock market has really been driven off of AI and off of NVIDIA and everything, and his comments bringing out Stargate and hyping that up.
	I think that's got a couple of purposes there.
	He wants to hype up AI and keep that going because that's driving the stock market as well.
	And I think he also wants to, you know, kind of troll Elon Musk a little bit.
	I remember the first time he got in, Steve Bannon was holding court and talking about philosophical things and all this other kind of stuff.
	And everybody was saying, well, he's the real brains of the operation and Trump is blah, blah, blah.
	He got rid of Bannon because people started trolling him.
	They're trolling him on Elon Musk now.
	The fact that Musk has got...
	White House email, and he's got an office at the White House complex, and he's been hanging out at Mar-a-Lago and all the rest of this stuff.
	And so I think a little bit of that was kind of to push him back a little bit.
	But I think he was also trying to prop up AI. And that's the next thing I want to ask you about in terms of trends.
	Artificial intelligence.
	You know, we talked about manufacturing.
	I had several comments here from Angry Tiger and a Syrian girl saying, we'd love to see Americans become creative again.
	We'd love to start building things here again.
	But for us to be able to afford to do that, we've got to get rid of these regulations that are strangling us and benefiting the big corporations, and I agree with that.
	But I think there's something else that's going on that he tipped his hand to yesterday at Davos when he started talking about AI and how, you know, it's my idea that we've got to—it wasn't his idea, but he took credit for it—that we're going to have to have, because AI is using so much power, we're going to have to have their own power plants, and they're going to be attached to them.
	And I thought it was interesting what Trump said.
	He said, yeah, the grid, it's old, it's unreliable, it's very vulnerable to attack and everything.
	So these people need to have their own power plants.
	And he even talked about it, not just from an AI standpoint, but he talked about...
	As in manufacturing.
	Because I think as we look at what has happened with taking the jobs away, China has exploited cheap labor, slave labor, in their country.
	And of course, robot is the word for slave.
	And check, you know, it came out of that play.
	And I think that as they move into, when the manufacturing comes back, it's not going to come back so much with jobs as it'll come back with robotics.
	And that's why these people need to have their own personal power supplies, because they're going to...
	Make it unreliable and extremely expensive for the average American.
	So that's why the companies who are manufacturing things, they need to have their own power.
	What do you think about that?
	What do you think is going to happen with robotics and with artificial intelligence and all the rest of this stuff from a standpoint, not just of an investment standpoint, but how it's going to be rolled out in society and how they're going to use that against us?
	Let's go back to the power plants.
	That's one of the things that he's saying that Saudi Arabia is going to invest like a trillion bucks into building these power plants.
	And AI is the future.
	There's no question about it.
	Love it, hate it, it's going to be.
	But is it going to do away with all the jobs?
	To some extent it will.
	I mean, we had an industrial revolution.
	Look how that changed everything.
	They used to make things on their own.
	But life keeps going on.
	I see the...
	This is very important.
	We could talk about everything that we're talking about, but there's other sides.
	There are the cards that are being played that no one's talking about.
	And that is what only the Trends Journal's talking about.
	The office building bust.
	Yeah, that's right.
	Yeah.
	What's going to happen this year and next year?
	There are over $2 trillion worth of commercial real estate loans coming due.
	Remember, when they closed down the offices back in 2020, how many years ago was that?
	It was 2025?
	Yeah.
	Now these leases are coming due.
	They don't need all this space anymore.
	You're going to start seeing defaults on office buildings.
	That's going to bring down the banks.
	Yeah.
	There's no way they're going to be able to get out of this.
	Yeah.
	And that's coming around this year because you're talking about five years.
	I imagine a lot of these things are like in a five-year cycle.
	So that dam that you've been talking about for five years is going to burst this year.
	Exactly.
	Yeah.
	And again, let's go back to 2023. Not ancient history.
	Three banks failed.
	Burst republic.
	Signature and Silicon Con Man Valley Bank.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Silvergate or something like that.
	Equity markets and gold prices spiked.
	That was three banks.
	Everybody Google up Castle Systems with a K and see what the office occupancy rate is.
	It's under 50%.
	I didn't look today, but as of...
	Yesterday, it was 43%.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	Now, let's look at the office.
	Vacancy rate.
	Ain't nobody there.
	In the top 10 cities in America, 20% vacant.
	Vacant!
	We're going to convert them to hell.
	No, you're not.
	The buildings built in the last 50 years are non-convertible.
	Again, the facts.
	Let's go back to 2024. On 50th Street, New York City, midtown Manhattan.
	A building that sold for $320 million in 2006, went up for auction, and it was sold for $8.5 million.
	Sports Illustrated used to be there one after another.
	They moved out.
	The building is in the middle of the block.
	No windows on one side, no windows on the other side, no windows in the back.
	Only windows in the front.
	Non-convertible to anything.
	They've got to knock it down and build something else.
	Look what they're doing now.
	Trump is saying you've got to go back to work with all the people working for the federal government.
	They know how bad it is.
	That's not going to make any difference at all.
	It may help Washington, D.C., but it ain't going to make any difference anyplace else.
	So those are the wild cards that you have to look at.
	That no one's talking about.
	They're only looking at the positive elements.
	And they don't want to look negative into this.
	And by the way, the media's finished.
	What is the Cartoon News Network, CNN, firing how many people?
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	What, did Washington Post just fired another 4%?
	That's right.
	Journalism's gone.
	Here, here.
	You ready?
	And then, of course, you know, I just read something from Mediaite saying, you know, They were laughing at Acosta because he was such a diehard supporter and apologist for the Democrats.
	And they said, well, the same thing is going to happen to the conservatives.
	They go out there and they become Trump cheerleaders.
	And then when this stuff goes sideways and goes down, then the conservative media is going to be completely discredited because they kept telling you, hey, it's just 4D chess and everything is fine because Trump's in control, right?
	Yep.
	Yeah.
	This is $5 for the...
	Sunday New York Times.
	You ready?
	This is the business section.
	You see this picture?
	Yeah, I see it.
	That's the business section.
	Look how much print they have here.
	Yeah, wow.
	Page after page.
	Yeah, look.
	They're kind of going USA Today.
	Yeah, look.
	Look at this.
	Yeah, look.
	There's the business section.
	A woman on her porch standing and looking at her phone.
	That's almost the entire page.
	Yeah.
	So what I'm saying is journalism's dead.
	You're not getting anything anymore.
	We're giving people what they're not getting anywhere else.
	That's the key thing, because you're calling it as you see.
	Like you said, I don't necessarily like what's happening, but this is what I see happening, right?
	And you're not going to cheer for one side.
	I remember you always talk about how you were a political atheist.
	You don't believe in either one of these sides, and you've kept it consistent with that.
	So again, would I agree with you?
	As I say, I agree with it.
	You don't have to, but if this happens, then that'll happen.
	Again, I'm totally, as a man who puts my money where my heart is and launched Occupy Peace, I am totally opposed to the genocide being committed, and now Israel ramping up the war, stealing more land in the West Bank, killing more people, breaking the ceasefire deal in Lebanon, stealing more land, killing more people, bombing it, and now going into Syria.
	They control over 30% of the water in Syria now.
	Wow.
	And stealing more land.
	Wow.
	So you think that we'll get drawn in soon?
	I think eventually we'll get drawn in with war with Iran on behalf of Israel.
	Looks like Russia is, the Russia-Ukraine thing is going to be slow walked if it happens at all.
	What's that?
	Not going to happen.
	Not going to happen.
	Here's the deal.
	There's no way, no way...
	That Russia is going to give back the 20% of the land that they've conquered so far.
	And again, they keep selling the lie that they took over Crimea.
	They had a vote in Crimea.
	That's right.
	They voted.
	That's right.
	And the world organizations were there to monitor the voting.
	Over 96%, about 96% or 97% of the people voted to reunite with Russia.
	But we don't support democracy like that, do we?
	We did the coup to put that government in that said, and the rest of you, you can't leave us now, because that's the way the American government's been since Lincoln.
	You don't have a right to self-governance, and you don't have a right to leave.
	We don't care that you want to stay with Russia or whatever.
	Yeah, this was the Trends Journal back in 2014. Mm-hmm.
	You see how happy that guy is?
	It's the United States overthrow of the democratically elected government, the Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine.
	Yeah.
	People have no idea about it.
	That's right.
	And here, Washington is driving the world to the final war.
	Article done by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	You know, so, I mean, the facts are here, but people don't care about the facts.
	And about Lincoln had nothing to do with slavery.
	It was all about unionization.
	That's right.
	Yeah.
	It was pro-slavery.
	Consolidation of power and all that kind of stuff.
	And as I've talked about, too, you know, there was a Civil War in Italy.
	1861, 1865. Didn't have anything to do with slavery.
	It had to do with the Industrial Revolution and the consolidation of political power.
	And it was happening all over the place.
	They destroyed Italy.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Talk a little bit about, as a matter of fact, my aha moment with that came, Karen's brother.
	I went to college in Italy and spoke Italian fluently, and the relatives that were still there, they gave him a diary of...
	One of the people that had been in one of the armies there.
	It was Garibaldi's army.
	I don't even know what side he was on.
	But they gave him the diary of Garibaldi's army.
	And I was not aware that there had been an Italian civil war at that point in time.
	It's like, wow.
	As I looked into it, it was pretty amazing.
	1861 to 1865, just like ours.
	Same time frame.
	Exactly.
	Let's talk a little bit about, before we run out of time, Greenland and Panama and the Gulf of America.
	What do you read?
	What is Trump angling for with all this?
	Yeah, the guy's out of his mind.
	He just says crap.
	That's the wild card, right?
	Yeah.
	It's the wild card.
	The Trump card and the wild card.
	The Greenland.
	I mean, again, of course, after he said that, I started looking up all the data.
	The mining companies that are up there, they're having difficulty mining this stuff because there's hardly any infrastructure up there.
	People don't want to invest.
	Yeah, the minerals are there, but the place is 3,000 miles away from us.
	What right do we have to be there?
	And I keep hearing national security.
	And we've got military bases up there.
	Yeah, we've got a military base there, and the military base after World War II, they had 10,000 people at the military base, and they've taken that down to 400. They know that it's not a strategic place to have a military base.
	It's just that they won't ever close a military base.
	But all this stuff about having to have Greenland because of national security is utter bunk.
	So what do you think?
	It's an ego trip with him?
	What do you think he's really after?
	Yeah, it's just talk.
	It's not going to go anywhere.
	I kind of look at it, and I kind of think, well, maybe what he's going to do is spend a lot of money to buy this because of an ego trip, and then he'll turn over all the exploitation of the minerals that are there to private companies.
	But I know it's difficult for him to get it out.
	I'm trying to say, it's not like they haven't been trying to get the minerals out from everything I've been reading.
	That's some of the biggest companies there.
	It's not working.
	What about Panama?
	What do you think he's after in Panama?
	Panama used to say, get the hell out of here.
	It's our country.
	I'm not going to give it back to you.
	Yeah, we've invaded them once before.
	I saw an article, I think it was Forbes magazine, sent to me by someone who knows Panama and spends about half the year there.
	And he said, look at this, the Panamanian government, their equivalent of the IRS, just audited this Hong Kong company.
	It's not, you know, mainland China.
	They've had it since the early 90s.
	Just audited them.
	So what is this about?
	Are they trying to appease Trump?
	You know, are they trying to, well, we're going to find them guilty of corruption so we can turn this over to something that pleases Trump?
	I don't know what's going on with that.
	I kind of think that it kind of falls into...
	Kind of this, you know, trying to present himself as a strong man.
	As part of America is expanding again and all the rest of this kind of stuff.
	We've got a manifest destiny to go north and south.
	You know, I think it's partly that.
	Same thing, the reason that he's trying to rename the Gulf of Mexico.
	I think it's kind of an ego trip and PR stunt.
	Yeah, Golf of America.
	I mean, what are you kidding me?
	Who cares?
	I mean, really, what the hell do I care about his name?
	I wouldn't think that he would change it to the Golf of Trump, you know?
	He just spelt it, right?
	You've got to get rid of that U and put it over there.
	That's right.
	Let's see, what else do we have here?
	What else is on your agenda coming up in the next year that you think is going to happen in terms of trends?
	The biggest thing right now is we're in a situation, we've never had a president like this in our lifetime.
	This is going to be a control of the government over the people like we've never seen before.
	That's right.
	And you look at all this immigration stuff.
	I think that's going to be there to get everybody fired up and angry and fighting.
	It's going to be a distraction they can throw out there.
	Something else to try to make himself look strong.
	But I think it's also going to be...
	Another way for them to take us into this digital surveillance control grid, because, hey, we're going to have to have IDs already.
	The Republicans are saying we're going to have to have mandatory e-verify.
	You're going to have to get permission from the government in order to get a job.
	It's just going to be another one of these paths to that type of thing.
	What do you think?
	Yeah.
	Again, everything's going digitized.
	It's the world of the future.
	As I said, they say in the King James Bible, the meek...
	Shall inherit the earth.
	I said they misspelled it.
	The geeks have inherited the earth.
	That's right.
	Yeah.
	Again, look at all the geeks that were at the inauguration.
	That's right.
	Look how Zuckerberg became Suckerberg.
	Yeah.
	Going to make America a geek again, right?
	Yeah.
	A little Suckerberg.
	Look how he changed, right?
	One after another.
	Look how they all changed and suck up to Trump.
	Yeah.
	That's right.
	No, they're in charge, man.
	This whole thing is going to keep going on, but again, there's overinvestment right now in the AI. And there can be a bust from all this overinvestment.
	That's a reality.
	Yeah.
	And if that bust, that's going to take down the stock market.
	It's going to take down the stock markets, but again, Trump will do everything he can to keep the markets up.
	Everything, everything, everything.
	And I think there's a lot of what this hype about Stargate stuff is.
	But I still see it.
	You know, they look at AI. That is an issue of national security for them because that is their surveillance grid.
	And Control Grid.
	I mean, propaganda, lies, censorship, surveillance, Big Brother, it's all there in AI, so it's like everything for AI, and they want to keep that going.
	They'll do everything they can to prop that up.
	Well, it's always great talking to you, Gerald, and I'm very interested in seeing what you see coming up in the next year.
	And, of course, you're going to be, as we see things developing, we'll be getting updates from you throughout the year.
	Trends Journal folks, you can get...
	10% off with the code KNIGHT. Very interesting read, and Gerald tells it like he sees it.
	And that's a very rare thing anymore.
	You hardly find anybody that isn't a partisan cheerleader, and Gerald has never been a partisan cheerleader at all.
	So thank you for that.
	And giving us your honest opinion, telling us what you see happening, even if it's looking bad.
	You tell us what it's going to be.
	So thank you so much for joining us, Gerald.
	I appreciate it.
	Thank you for all that you do.
	Thank you.
	Appreciate that.
	And before we end, I want to just read a couple of comments here that we have from B1. Thank you for the tip.
	SWB Jams, I guess.
	I'm not sure what that is.
	Thank you for the tip.
	He says, Alex Jones showed his true colors when he sent David Knight to cover the Bundy Ranch standoff while he stayed at the luxurious studios to LARP as a warrior.
	Well, yeah, that was an interesting back and forth.
	And, you know, when people talk about a rigged...
	Department of Justice, we can't forget what happened to, is that just the J6ers, the pro-lifers of this group, or they're certainly not Trump, but this has been just an intrinsic politicized FBI and Department of Justice, and it continues, and nothing is changing.
	A lot of people have said, oh, look at this, he's pulling back the security clearance of Mike Pompeo.
	And you realize that Mike Pompeo wanted to kill Julian Assange, right?
	Yep.
	And again, you know, Gerald, we've talked about this before.
	Trump had Gina Haspel, and I think she was the one who was really running the CIA while Pompeo was there.
	She was number two, and then Pompeo moves to Secretary of State, and he put her in charge of it.
	Trump had said, yeah, they lied us into the war on Iraq, and yet it was Gina Haspel who sold us those lies, wasn't it?
	People will never look at what Trump actually did.
	And really, I think, who is controlling him.
	And I think it's those people in those intelligence agencies.
	Well, that's the end of the show.
	Thank you so much, everyone, for joining us.
	And again, thank you, Gerald, for all of the insights that you have and for Trends Journal again.
	TrendsJournal.com, you can see a sample of it there.
	And you can save 10% with the code NIGHT. Thank you so much, Gerald.
	Have a good day, everyone.
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