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April 4, 2025 - The David Knight Show
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Market Chaos Unleashed: Gerald Celente Slams Globalization and the Collapse of America’s Soul
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Alright, and joining us now is Gerald Cilenti of TrendsJournal.com and if you go there and use the code KNIGHT you can save 10% off.
It's amazing the amount of information he has.
It's about 300 page online magazine each week.
And as Gerald has talked about this many times, he doesn't do any fluff.
And yet, when you look at the big publications, they are focusing more on Taylor Swift than they are on the tariffs.
So we're going to focus on the tariffs with Gerald Salenti.
Thank you for joining us, Gerald.
Good to have you.
No, thank you for having me.
Thank you for all that you do.
Thank you.
Yeah, what do you think of this tariff stuff and the reactions to it that we had?
I don't know what the market's been doing.
The market opens up the time my show opens up, so I haven't checked it.
Are things still shaky?
Oh yeah, yeah.
The Dow was down just before I got on the air about 1400.
The Nasdaq is down almost 5%.
And again, one of our top trends that we had forecast on the cover of the Trends Journal February 4th dot-com bus 2.0 and it's on the way down.
As for the tariffs, I want to make this really clear.
As you well know, I'm a political atheist.
To me, anybody that calls themselves a Republican, a Democrat, a Liberal, a Conservative, grow up.
Could your mind get bigger than the little clown show you believe in?
So, I'm totally disgusted with Trump in his Zionist Support for the slaughter the genocide of the Palestinians and what they're doing in You know these throwing these kids out of the country and on and on if you if you if you if you oppose genocide by the definition You're an anti-semite.
How about you know, don't I don't want to hear this crap.
I'm a guy launched occupied peace You've been a speaker here.
I'm a totally opposed to these wars totally opposed to them Now, on the tariffs, I totally agree with them, on certain levels.
Number one, you go back to when we had tariffs.
We didn't have income tax.
We didn't have federal income tax when we had tariffs.
And, as William McKinley, the president, said back then, do you want cheap products or high wages?
Once upon a time, we had manufacturing in this country.
Now you got Russ Belch, remember?
And you had that guy Bill Clinton.
Every time he got caught with his pants down, bombs were ever begged, the idea of that guy.
He brought us NAFTA.
Where I am up here, there were factories all over the place.
Hey, we're going to get that cheap labor down in Mexico.
They paid off Clinton.
He's a multi-multi-millionaire, probably almost a billionaire now.
A little clown boy of nothing from Arkansas.
A little jerk of nobody.
Hey, but I do all these favors for them and I get paid off.
All right, so then he brought China into the World Trade Organization.
You look at China's GDP from 1970 to 2000.
It's a line like this.
They get into the World Trade Organization two weeks after 9-11 officially.
They skyrocket.
They didn't have The heavy industry technology or the high-tech technology until the Europeans and the American manufacturers gave it to them to get the cheap labor.
Vietnam, he put those high taxes on Vietnam.
Again, I grew up on the same age as Trump.
They taught us to hate them Vietnamese, those dirty commies.
If we don't stop them, those dominoes will keep falling, and before you know it, they'll reach the shores of California.
That's the lie they were selling, which I believed, by the way, as a young kid.
Anyway. We probably get our dominoes from Vietnam now.
Exactly. Our second largest importer of clothing, shoes, and furniture.
And toys.
And toys.
Like Dominos.
Yeah. And so, oh, but those dirty commies.
Oh, those dirty commie Chinese.
Remember they sell us the hatred of this stuff?
The dirty commies.
Hey, but we're making a lot of money.
Shut your mouth.
All right?
Shut your mouth.
We're taking the jobs out of here.
I'm a manufacturer.
I'm a big company.
I want to make all the money I can.
They destroyed this country.
Again, we go by the data.
You get the Trends Journal.
Every week, there's an article about how the middle class keeps shrinking and the billionaires keep getting richer.
You know, once upon a time, 40% of the new home sales went to first-time homebuyers.
40%. Now it's down to about 28%.
People can't afford to buy a home.
Yeah, that's right.
So yes, this thing is if, but now I'm going to give you the negatives.
What he's also doing is he's giving tax breaks and big deals to companies, foreign companies, that come over here and open up plants.
What do you mean you're giving them a tax break?
I'm not giving me a tax break!
Oh, who the hell are you?
Who the hell are you?
What do you mean a tax break?
Oh, oh, by the way, these are foreign companies, they're not American companies.
So now, to make it clear about I am against globalization, I have been since the beginning.
Again, I believe in America first and only.
I read, as you well know, I read George Washington's farewell address when he warns the American people not to get involved in these foreign entanglements.
They're going on for centuries.
Don't love a nation, don't hate a nation.
Yeah, let's do – like Trump, to me, is dumb as hell to say, oh, yeah, we're going to put a 200 tariff on like champagne or wine coming in from France.
Well, he's not even doing that to protect the domestic wine industry.
He's just coming after France.
That's the thing that concerns me.
I don't really even see – I had a guest on earlier this week, Gerald, who talked about the trade deficit and the importance of that.
And I agree with all that.
I think the tariffs would be a better way to tax than the income tax and things like that.
But I don't want to just add additional taxes.
And they're talking about how they're going to make up for the permanent tax cuts of the income taxes on this tariff revenue.
But you're talking about bringing in foreign corporations.
Trump on the airplane yesterday with the reporters – I played it earlier today – he gets out his gold card.
You've been talking about Trump being the wild card of 2025.
He's so unpredictable.
He's like – I'm calling him Jekyll and Hyde.
We don't know if we're going to have President Jekyll or President Hyde in any given day.
And it's not just about the tariffs, but it's about these other things.
But anyway, he pulls out his card, and it's bigger than a credit card.
It's got his face all over it.
It's got an eagle in the foreground in front of him, like the eagle that attacked him on the desk, if you remember.
But it's got his face there, his mug shot from where they took him in and he scowled at that.
And that's the Trump gold card that you can get for five million dollars.
So it's like, bring your foreign corporations in, bring your billionaires in, we want them here in America.
And you know, I agree with the trade deficit stuff, but just like I agree with capital punishment in principle, The problem is, how does it implement it?
You know, when I look at capital punishment, I'm not so much of a supporter of it when we've got a Justice Department like we've got now.
I've seen too many people railroaded.
I've seen too much exculpatory evidence denied, hearing.
And so, even though I agree with capital punishment in principle, I've got a lot of problems with it in practice.
That's the way I feel about the trade deficit when I look at what's happening with this stuff.
You know, let me make it clear about Becoming a self-sustaining economy.
And by the way, I don't know if we can do it anymore.
Yeah. Because when I look at what the people in this country look like and how it's declined so terribly and the stupidity and moronic things that they talk about, I don't think we have that culture anymore.
But I want to make it clear.
Again, tracking trends, you make connections between different fields.
You look at things for the way they are, not the way you want them to be.
Mm-hmm.
Let's go back to February 2022, not ancient history.
The Ukraine war begins.
The little clown boy, out of his mind, piece of garbage scum, past president Biden, they put sanctions on Russia.
Putin's gonna pay the price.
That's the quote.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
We said, no, they're not.
All these companies that are pulling out of Russia, remember all the companies that pulled out?
We said the Russians have all the human and natural resources they need to be self-sufficient and self-sustaining.
These are very advanced people.
They pull out of the McDonald's and they start, they take over the McDonald's building, they put a Russian sign on it, they keep running McDonald's, yeah.
Yeah, and then look what happened.
First year, yeah, the economy went down.
And then it went way up.
Not way up, but up.
It did better than the European countries.
They became more self-sustaining and self-sufficient.
The same thing is happening in China.
China has 1.4 billion people.
So, let's say you have a company that's making high fashion clothes.
Now, I'm not going to buy from Gucci.
I'm going to buy made in China.
It's self-sufficient and self-sustaining.
You have 1.4 billion people doing business with each other.
Again, going back to the wine and champagne.
Yeah, don't be stupid.
I want that French champagne.
That's not a tariff issue.
We're good at some stuff, man, but we can't compare to that French wine and champagne.
You don't put tariffs on this stuff.
You don't have competition there.
You don't do that kind of stuff.
But again, they sold us out.
They took our jobs away from us.
Again, when you remember, there were no Home Depots or Lowe's.
That's right.
There were hardware stores.
That's right.
Locally owned.
Not Wall Street entities.
They're changed.
Exactly. Yeah.
Exactly. And Wall Street owns the whole game.
Here, three companies, we've talked about this, own 88% of the S&P 500.
Vanguard, State Street, and BlackRock.
Three companies.
There were shoe stores, drug stores, grocery stores, stationery stores when we were young.
Again, they took the job and I remember that slimeball Bill Clinton saying, you don't want these dirty jobs, we're going to have clean jobs here.
You don't want these dirty manufacturing jobs.
And again, this is important.
Reagan and Bush Sr. couldn't push it through.
NAFTA. Clinton, they called him the new Democrat.
He became a sellout.
It's not the Democratic Party anymore.
And again, I don't know if I've showed you this, just to make it clear how I feel for a lot of years.
This is a t-shirt that I had made when Clinton was running for president in 1992.
Could you see that?
Yeah, yeah.
Yep. Beware Slick Willy.
Oh yeah.
Yep. Well, you know, when you look at this, a good example, when you're talking about Vietnam, I was just talking about this earlier.
In 2018, Trump was bragging about the fact that he put tariffs on China, and as a result, a lot of their manufacturing was leaving China and going to Vietnam or other places in Asia.
And yet now, the people that have relocated their clothing or their shoe plants for Nike or Adidas or whatever to Vietnam, now he's putting a tariff on them.
And so, I mean, it's the same type of thing we see with NAFTA and then the follow-on with USMCA.
You know, Trump did USMCA, which is basically a rebranding of NAFTA.
It's kind of like calling the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.
Oh, that's mine.
That's USMCA.
To be a deliberate case of creating chaos in the same way that five years ago he locked us down with this fake pandemic.
He's doing the same thing again to us with fake tariff rates that were created, I talked about earlier in the program, by ChatGPT.
It's amazing.
What they did was they took the trade deficit and they divided it by exports.
And they call that a tariff rate.
That's absolute nonsense.
And we've had about five different groups of people who follow trade.
They said, where do these numbers come from?
That's what I was saying yesterday.
Where do these numbers come from?
They're like an order of magnitude or more higher than what these various trade organizations have been saying are charged by these various states.
And so the people who do this for a living were looking at it and said, that doesn't make any sense.
That's not true.
And so they started looking at the numbers and there's about five different groups that have gone back and said, he's just dividing the trade deficit by exports and calling that a tariff rate.
And then somebody figured out that it came from ChatGPT.
ChatGPT pushed that out.
People started.
And it came up with that formula.
It said, nobody else has come up with this before.
I just came up with this.
You might want to use this.
And it's insane what is happening.
I'm looking at this and I just see Trump, Gerald, as a chaos agent.
I see him as a chaos agent for the globalists in 2020.
And I think the same thing is coming again.
This time, instead of it starting in China with the phony lockdowns and sealing people in their apartments, what he's going to do is he's going to create kind of a virtual wall of commerce around the United States, and it's going to kick off a trade war.
I think that's what the global trade war.
What do you think?
Well, the trade war has already begun.
I mean, what did China announce today?
They're going to put tariffs on U.S.
imports, I think, 34%.
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
I'm not for globalization.
I'm for self-sustaining and self-sufficient economies, and we have all the human and natural resources needed to do that.
As I watch the decline of this society in front of my eyes, it breaks my heart.
Yeah. You know, every time I go out, I go to places and I look at the way the men and women are dressed, and what they look like, and it's heartbreaking.
Yeah. Oh yeah, we've really gone down the hill.
It's heartbreaking to see the decline of this society in front of us.
Yeah. So I don't know if we have it to make it happen.
This isn't my parents' generation.
Well, you know, when we, I was talking about earlier, you know, a lot of people, and I agree, we look at the 19th century and, you know, a vital America, but the other things, it wasn't just that we had tariffs.
It's that we didn't have the boot of government I don't know.
If it's wrong, if it's hateful, whatever, the solution to bad speech is more speech.
So the solution is more freedom of speech, not less.
And I think the solution to what is happening here is more freedom, not less.
Free us from the government.
We have met the enemy and he is us, as Pogo said, right?
It's our government that has tethered us down.
I don't know if you ever saw Harrison Bergeron or read the novel by Kurt Monaghan.
They did a short film of it.
But in that they would take people who excelled and so that everybody would be equal they would make them compete in sports or perform ballet or whatever by putting chains all over them so that everybody was equally bad.
Well what we have And it's that that's killing us.
It's not even more so than any predatory practices by a foreign government.
It's the predatory practices, I think, of our own government, which they're not going to change.
That's really the thing keeping us from growing, I think.
But it's been going on forever.
Oh, yeah.
One, and Woodrow Wilson putting these kids that were reading the Declaration of Independence or something, or the Bill of Rights, whatever, and put them in jail.
Look at what they did with banning alcohol.
I mean, they've been doing crazy stuff like this forever.
Yeah, they they they again they didn't Smoking, you know, whether you like it or not, you know getting smoking Marijuana was was okay up until the 1930s when they made this other stupid thing up Yeah, you can't you can get cocaine and you can't wait and how about how about this?
I'm the president of the United States Franklin Roosevelt turn in all your gold.
Yeah. Yeah, you're not allowed on gold I'm the president, I'll tell you what to do.
I'm saying this stuff has been going on, it's just different now and worse in different ways.
I agree.
Yeah, it was H.O. Mencken who said a year ago, when FDR did that, he said a year ago, if I had a gold coin and a flask of alcohol in my pocket, the alcohol was illegal and the gold was legal.
Now, this year, the gold is illegal and the alcohol is legal.
It's just arbitrary.
And that's what we're seeing with Trump.
That's what I'm saying!
What I'm saying has been going on forever.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Wasn't the Civil War wonderful?
Where they killed about 700,000 people?
Destroyed the South?
A slime ball that was supportive of slavery before that?
And all he wanted was unionization?
There's that great book, The Real Lincoln, I forgot the guy's name.
Italian guy who wrote the book.
It was about unionization.
That's all it was.
And it was about trade as well back then.
I remember an alternative history book that I read by Harry Turtledove called How Few Remain.
And in it, the Civil War ends early because of a couple of things that happened.
And so you have all these characters that are alive.
And the Civil War ends, Lincoln is driven out of political life, but he comes back.
So this picks up like about 20 years later, right?
He comes back as head of the American Socialist Party.
I thought that was spot on.
Lincoln came back as an authoritarian socialist.
But you know, when you look at Trump's, basically what Trump is saying is that he can by himself With executive orders, set trade policy and tariffs, and he can do it because it's an emergency.
This is what Rand Paul was pushing back against.
He said, we don't want to be ruled by one person, because look at how arbitrary and back and forth he's been since he became president on the tariff policies.
We don't want to be ruled by one person.
It's going to be capricious, arbitrary, constantly changing, chaotic.
And he said, and the basis of this is by claiming that there's a national emergency.
What emergency?
Well, fentanyl.
And yet, Trump this week, as he's rolling out all of this stuff, he says to China, if you sell TikTok to my buddy, I'll get rid of the fentanyl tariffs on you.
So it's not an emergency, right?
It's not an emergency to him if he's just gonna wipe it off.
It's all a lie.
And when I look at this, it's like, so to me, this is not about manufacturing.
It's not about helping a particular industry.
This is about chaos.
Just like the lockdowns were five years ago, in my opinion.
That's why I see it.
Again, I support the tariffs if he does what he says he's going to do, but I don't support it by giving benefits to foreign countries opening up plants over here.
That's not made in America.
And again, I forgot the name of the company, one of the foreign ones, they opened up in North Carolina.
They're paying the wages only like $17 an hour.
You know, not a lot of dough.
And again, You go back to the facts.
When Clinton brought us into NAFTA and China into the World Trade Organization, the middle class has been shrinking right in front of everybody's eyes.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
No, it's about paying off, it's about crony capitalism and it's about corruption.
You look at TSMC, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, they offered them massive subsidies as part of the CHIPS Act.
with Biden, and so they're setting up in Phoenix, and Trump is about to double down on that policy of Biden's, because he said, hey, I've got some stuff that's coming up that's going to be bigger than anything you've ever seen, and it's going to be regarding chips and pharmaceuticals.
Because, you know, we've protected Pfizer and Moderna and Eli Lilly and all these companies from liability for the harm that they've done to people with vaccines and stuff like that.
So now we're going to protect them from competition.
And that's really, it's all about crony capitalism, and what's in it for their buddies?
Just like this, hey, you let my buddies buy TikTok, and I'll drop the fentanyl tariffs on you.
I'm totally opposed to that stuff.
Look, a guy over here is going to open up one of these buildings, going to redo a building over here and open up a hotel, and they give him a tax break.
What kind of crap is this?
What do you mean you're giving him a tax break?
Oh, he's going to create jobs.
Shove it!
I don't want to hear this bologna anymore!
I heard that for the longest time we had small retail shops and they wanted to raise taxes so they could hand over a massive amount of monies to billionaires so they could build a sports stadium.
Right? And again, it massaged the ego of the politicians.
That's our, you know, we've got a great sports team here and that type of thing.
But they would say, oh, it's going to be great for economic activity.
It's like, well, you know, what else is great for economic activity is for you to get the taxes and the regulations off of us that you put on us.
But, you know, they would always make that argument.
now look at how much they're giving them billions of dollars for these stadiums it's crazy they just went up in Buffalo another stupid thing you know all this
Yes. Yes.
We're encouraging that.
That slime ball, ugly piece of another scum crap that just became the Chancellor-in-Waiting over there in Germany.
Oh, you thought Olaf Schultz was a jerk?
Oh, you forgot Merkel before that?
Now you got this Merce character.
Oh, where did Merce come from?
Or Blackrock.
Did he really?
Blackrock? I thought he came from I Love Lucy.
His name is Fred Mertz.
That's from Blackrock.
Of course from Blackrock.
Yeah. Yep.
A trillion dollars.
Yeah. Germany, the third largest economy in the world, largest in Europe, are in a recession.
Two quarters in a recession.
And now you're going to borrow, you're going to go in debt a trillion dollars.
We gotta build up our military.
Oh, you mean the Germany World War I, World War II Germany?
Yeah, exactly.
That Germany?
You gotta build up your military?
That's right!
Seems like they did that in the 1930s.
I wonder how that worked out.
Yeah. France, that little Garcon Macron with a little jerk of nothing building up.
Oh, he looks tough now.
He walks around like...
They're all building up their military under the line That if they don't stop Russia, we talked about Vietnam before, the domino theory, they're going to take over all of Europe.
We've got to get ready for them.
All right, now, the mainstream media reporting this stuff and the crap spewing out of these clown boys' mouths, or by them building up the defense industry, they're going to build up the economy.
I'm not making this up.
Oh, yeah.
It's in your magazine, The Facts.
And we write, and we say, no, no, it won't build up the economy, we'll only enrich the military-industrial complex.
That's right.
You build up the economy, and I'm going back again to be self-sustaining, self-sufficient, is when the products that you manufacture, the public buys.
Got it?
You make it, they buy it.
You're just making it, and nobody's buying it.
These are weapons.
That's right.
No, but we've got the broken windows, right?
We can use these weapons to break windows everywhere, and then we'll all be wealthy when we rebuild it.
That's it, yeah.
Broken windows.
No, this is serious.
This is deadly serious.
As I keep saying, when all else fails, they take you to war.
And that is something that we've seen in both Trump's first No, no.
What happened in Ukraine and the guy who talked about that before it happened, you know, you go back to 2019 Zelensky ran on a campaign of peace and the guy that he sent to the peace talks Alexei Arestovich came back and on Ukrainian television they said so what are the chances of peace he goes none He goes and it's gonna get worse and we're gonna have Russia's going to invade us in three years How do you know that and then he says and it's gonna get and she said that's horrible.
He goes, oh, it's going to get much worse.
We're going to be completely devastated.
But the good news is we get into NATO.
Well, this same guy got fired from the Zelensky administration because he told the truth about a cruise missile that hit an apartment building.
He said that wasn't targeting the apartment building, which was the line of Zelensky's administration.
He said, we shot it and it veered off and hit the apartment building.
So they fired him.
Well, he just had a third interview.
And in it, he talked about the fact that you've got these generals in the Zelensky administration who got a plan.
Thank you.
It's kind of like the Samson option with Israel, right?
And he said, and the Biden administration knew about it, didn't do anything about it, the Trump administration knows about it, he said, they regard us as a monkey with a hand grenade.
That was probably the best way to describe Zelensky, as a monkey with a hand grenade.
But it's really on the edge, and it's not a domino thing, as you pointed out, it's not dominoes, it's these people who are pushing this stuff and giving hand grenades to monkeys.
What you just said about them blowing up a nuclear power plant, I said that two months ago.
I did a video, and we put it up on TikTok, and I've been permanently banned for saying that on TikTok.
Permanently banned.
I said that Ukraine is gonna do everything they can to keep this war going, blowing up a nuclear power plant, a major false flag event, Attacking more Russian oil depots, oil lines, etc.
They've already done that.
They're going to do everything they can to keep this war going.
And I got banned permanently from TikTok for saying that.
That's all I said.
It's a badge of honor, Gerald.
You know, you told the truth, they don't want the truth told.
I mean, you know, that's...
And by the way, again, if people want to trans-journal, we're also losing subscribers on being called an anti-Semite, because I'm against genocide.
My definition, it's genocide.
Not my definition.
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, one after another, ICC, it's what they're doing to the Palestinian people.
They just killed Wad over the last couple...
Since, again, not my language, from Haaretz, the Israeli newspaper, Israel has...
They are the ones that ended the ceasefire deal, not Hamas.
Because the deal was that it was going to be a permanent ceasefire.
That was the deal.
And Israel said no.
Since that time of March 18th, they've killed almost 1,500 Palestinians since March 18th.
1,500!
Yeah, they're going into...
I'm not making this stuff up.
Well, and, you know, throwing anti-Semitism out there, people, they're playing the race card in the same way that the leftists did, right?
You criticize their leftist policies or politics, and immediately you're a racist.
And they won't say anything to just call you racist, racist, racist.
We've seen these clips before, and conservatives went off on that.
Now that the people who are supporting, and not just Israel, it's Netanyahu.
There's a civil war about to break out, as everybody's saying.
You know, they're so close.
And so it's about Netanyahu's policy.
So if you criticize a political party in Israel, you are therefore anti-Semitic when half of Israel doesn't like what he is saying.
They're using that just like the left did.
You ready?
This is from Times of Israel.
Israel attack on Gaza school sheltering displaced Palestinians killed 33. More than a hundred were injured in Israeli air raids hit the Dar al-Agram school shelter on Thursday.
Aharetz. Israel Army helicopters targeted the town of Nakorda in southern Lebanon.
Israel has violated the Lebanese ceasefire agreement with hundreds of strikes, destroying entire areas.
But that's okay.
You ready?
Syria's state news agency, Sanaa, said Israel's shelling overnight Killed nine people.
And Israeli soldiers are moving closer into the area.
Oh, Israel could bomb Syria, they could bomb Lebanon, they could kill anybody they want, and if you're opposed to this, you're an anti-Semite.
Yeah, that's right.
That's right.
That's the way it is.
Even though, you know, you look at, you know, you've talked about this as well.
We talked about how Netanyahu had to have, like, I think it was like three elections before he cobbled together a coalition government.
And now you've got people who are high-ranking officials in Israel saying we're on the verge of a civil war.
He fired the head of Shin Bet when Shin Bet said, yes.
You were working with Hamas, and not only that, but they got something called Cuttergate, which nobody talks about here in the U.S., the paying of Hamas by the Netanyahu government.
And so that's been a big scandal in Israel, but nothing said in the press here at all, not left or right.
Nobody will talk about Cuttergate.
And so he fired Shin Bet.
They said, yeah, we made mistakes, but so did you.
He fired the guy.
Then he fired his attorney general.
The Supreme Court is looking at us.
And all of this stuff.
And you got people saying, we're on the verge of civil war.
But if you criticize Netanyahu, they call you anti-Semitic.
Yeah. How ridiculous.
Again, I am totally opposed to this murder going on in front of everybody else.
It's heartbreaking.
Yeah. It's heartbreaking to see this.
Yeah. Here.
Israel vows to take large Gaza areas as buffer zones.
This is from the Financial Times.
Buffer zones?
Take large Gaza.
You mean stealing more land?
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Now we can steal whatever we want.
Yeah. Again, it's, it's, it's, it's, yeah.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel's armed forces would seize more territory in Gaza.
As the military expands, it's a renewed offensive in the Palestinian enclave.
The announcement marks the latest intensification of Israel's Operations in Gaza since Israel, this is the Financial Times, broke a two-month ceasefire with Hamas last month and cut off supplies of food, fuel, humanitarian aid, and medicine to 2.2 million people living in the shattered territory.
That's Financial Times.
And electricity, too, in many cases, yeah.
Food, water, electricity, medical aid.
The bakeries are closing because they don't have any food that they can give people.
It truly is amazing.
And we saw this, you know, since I've last talked to you, we've had Signalgate.
Everybody is upset because, you know, somebody might have seen the big board, you know, the signal thing, might have violated national security.
But they're not upset about these people being bombed.
And one of the things that I thought was absolutely amazing, Gerald, was the fact that they are saying, well, we have to do this before Israel does it.
So they don't have any control over Israel.
They give Israel all this money, but they have no say as to when Israel is going to violate the ceasefire agreement.
So let's violate the ceasefire agreement before Israel does it so we can violate it on our terms instead of the violation that Israel is doing.
I mean, that's where we are.
And they're celebrating The bombing of civilians in Yemen, and then going to a million-dollar-a-plate fundraiser in Mar-a-Lago, right, as they're doing that.
Yeah. Well, you talk about decadence in government.
That's a great definition, isn't it?
This is from antiwar.com.
More U.S. airstrikes hit Yemen's province.
Civilians killed.
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
That's right.
Here, you ready?
This is from, again, antiwar.com.
Trump is preparing to bomb Iran with Israel.
This is a guy who saw himself as a peace candidate.
Yeah, yeah.
And then you saw what happened.
The Senate yesterday, they overwhelmingly rejected a bid by Bernie Sanders to block $8.8 billion in arms sales to Israel.
Yeah. It says that the Senate voted 82 to 15 and 83 to 15 to reject two resolutions of disapproval over sales of massive bombs and other offensive military equipment to Israel.
The resolutions were offered by Senator Bernie Sanders.
There you got it.
And Sanders says what is happening right now is unthinkable.
Today it is 31 days and counting with absolutely no humanitarian aid getting into Gaza, nothing.
No food, no water, no medicine, no fuel for over a month.
And this clown boy, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman James Risch, do you know who he is?
No, no.
Urged defeat of the senator's resolution.
You ready for this?
Saying, quote, They would abandon Israel, our closest ally in the Middle East, during a pivotal moment of global security.
What does this have to do with my security?
We've had a national security state since the end of World War II, and it seems like everything that they're doing is putting American lives at risk.
You know, we have the situation where it used to be a day of infamy if somebody attacked you before you attacked them, right?
Remember Pearl Harbor?
Well, that's infamy if you attack us and we haven't attacked you yet.
You know, we know the background, that there was stuff that was, you know, we'd done a lot of economic things and sanctions and that's really war.
But nevertheless, this whole idea, well, you hit us before we hit you.
You know, as passive-aggressive as you can be, you're not supposed to have anything push back against you.
And yet, what do we do?
We do that all the time now.
And, you know, it was before World War II, it was basically unthinkable to attack civilian populations.
That was also a crime.
And now what do we do?
We start wars, we do things, we bomb preemptively, we attack civilian populations, we have completely lost Any sense of restraint or morality being imposed even on these wars?
And that was something in Western civilization we had for quite some time.
At least some restraints on the evil of war.
Now all the restraints on war have been taken off.
You mean you didn't like Nakasaki or Hiroshima?
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah. Killing all those innocent people?
That's right.
What's wrong with you?
Yeah. Or Dresden, you know?
Dresden? I mean, lovely.
I mean, it's destroyed the whole place.
All civilians there.
Yeah. And again, they're doing the same exact thing in Gaza.
Yeah, that's right.
Oh, and you know again, there's one article after another, you know in the Trends Journal.
Katz declines to call settler rampage through Palestinian villages terrorism.
This is the Times of Israel.
Defense Minister Israel Katz on Thursday declined to characterize this week's latest settler rampage in the Palestinian villages terrorism.
They're going in there Destroying homes, throwing, they threw over 40,000 people, 40,000 people out of their homes in the West Bank.
40,000!
Yeah. That's not terrorism.
Hey, we can do anything we want.
And again, I don't want to make this really clear.
These are not Semites.
Semites are from the Mesopotamia region.
The people running Israel are Eastern Europeans.
What's Netanyahu's real name?
I don't know.
Milikowski. Milikowski.
Yeah. No, it wasn't Ben-Gurion.
It was Green.
They're making up this crap.
They're Eastern European.
Ashkenazi. Look it up.
A-S-H-K-E-N-A-Z-I.
Ashkenazis. That's who's there.
Well, and that's why when we say Israel, you know, are we talking about politics?
Because half the people there don't like Netanyahu.
Are we talking about ethnicity?
Because there's these issues.
Or are we talking about the religion?
Because you've got a lot of, you know, religiously they're very divided, and a lot of the ultra-Orthodox don't support this stuff either.
So, you know, when I say that to people, oh, you're against Israel, it's like, well, what is Israel to you?
You know, how do you define Israel?
Ethnically, politically, religiously, and so forth.
How do you define it?
Yeah. And so, you know, I define it as people who want land and are willing to do anything to anybody else in order to get it.
Anything to steal it.
That's right.
Anything. You know, to kill any number of people in order to get the land that they want.
And you've had Ben Shapiro make that very clear, you know, when he was on with Joe Rogan.
Oh, you believe that Moses is part of the Red Sea?
No, I don't believe that.
But that land is ours, you know.
Yeah, I don't want to hear that fairy tale either.
God told Abraham.
God had locked you and never spoke to anybody else?
3,500 years?
Well, actually, he's spoken to all of us through his son now, and that's what I think is the real Israel.
But, you know, this is, you know, we can get into that kind of stuff, and it's all, they just, you know, they don't believe any of this stuff except for that one thing that they want.
And that is the land.
You know, they don't want Christ, they don't want God, they want the land, and they'll kill anybody to get it.
And they're doing it!
Yeah. They're doing it in front of everybody's eyes, with our money to go do it.
I agree.
Stealing our taxpayer money to go do it.
Yeah. Again, here, this is an article.
This came out of Consortium News.
That's a great site, by the way, and Joe Laurie is a great guy that runs it.
Israeli lawsuits target Americans.
A wave of litigation against pro-Palestinian Americans could help the non-profit killer bill passed by Congress targeting opposition to Israeli policies.
This is by a guy, Robert Enlakish.
A wave of lawsuits filed by Israeli plaintiffs against pro-Palestinian American citizens, advocacy groups, and media outlets Last week,
the latest in a series of legal actions targeting the prominent New York-based activists within our lifetime, as well as Columbia University chapters of Jewish Voices for Peace, Students for Justice in Palestine.
According to the plaintiff, the groups were allegedly funded By Hamas they're saying.
So they're suing these people.
Hamas isn't funding Jewish voices of peace.
Yeah, I know.
Oh yeah, it's like you're either with us or you're anti-semitic.
Well if you're not, you know, or you're Hamas, right?
You're a terrorist.
Yeah. Wall Street Journal.
White House targets Princeton to stop the anti-semitism.
Harvard targeted by administration.
See, what bothers me, Gerald, is for years they've been getting billions.
Anti-Semitism.
Yeah. They've been getting billions of dollars.
I know, and why are these colleges getting all this money?
That's another thing.
That's right.
But if you bow to Netanyahu, they'll give you the nine billion dollars.
But if you don't, they're going to take it all from you.
You know, they have been racist and attacking other, you know, white people and Asian people, putting in their DEI, critical race theory, and all the rest of this stuff.
They've been pushing Marxism, and we keep giving them $9 billion at Harvard, $400 million at Columbia, and the Trump administration is fine with keeping the cash flowing as long as they bow to Netanyahu.
Yeah. It's amazing.
Hey, what are these companies, colleges, getting all this money for?
What the hell are they doing with it?
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Let's talk a little bit about...
I'm sorry, go ahead.
This is from the New York Times.
This is the only time I heard this.
London police stormed Quaker meeting house, arresting planners of Gaza protests.
Quakers in Britain are reeling from what they say is an unheard of violation of one of their places of worship by police officers who forced their
Yeah. Well,
And you saw that guy, Orban, with Netanyahu over there.
Mm-hmm. And now Netanyahu, they say, is coming back to America.
that's the thing, too.
When you look at what's happening in Europe, the absolute contempt that they have for free speech for protest, for the freedom of religion, these core values that have been the basis of Western civilization.
You can see it in the UK, in Germany, and you can see it here in America as well.
The absolute contempt for this, the West is falling, and it's falling from the inside, because the values that we built these civilizations on are now hated by our tyrannical governments, and they are setting up tyranny everywhere, and of course they're going to go to war.
Because that's what they're about.
They're going to go to war with us, besides other ones like Iran, and of course the Yemenis.
And that's the amazingly stupid thing about this, to me.
You look at what's going on with Yemen, and they're shooting down one of these Reaper drones, which 10 million, 20 million, I don't know how much these things cost, but it's tens of millions.
They're shooting one of these things down about once a month since we've been flying them over there.
And this is one of the poorest, most backward countries that are there.
They've got some weapons from Iran, but look, they can take down Reaper drones, and they're doing it at about one a month.
And so That's the insanity of this, and that's the arrogance.
You see it throughout the Trump administration.
Everybody is there with their finger on the trigger, wanting to go after Iran for Israel, and when they talk about it, you see Pete Hicks talking about it.
It's like, oh yeah, Israel, and he talks Israel first.
I mean, he mentions it first, everything about him is Israel first.
They want to have a war with Iran.
It's a huge country, it's advanced, and we can't even defeat their surrogates, can we?
You mean, we talk about the Vietnam War, we only killed three and a half million people there.
Yeah, yeah.
Poisoned a place with Agent Orange.
Yeah. Didn't win that one.
No. Couldn't win the, beat the Afghans, longest war in American history.
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Couldn't beat the Iraqis.
You're going to beat Iran, a nation of 91 million people, very advanced scientifically, technologically, and militarily?
Much bigger than Iraq, geographically.
And why is Iran the way they are?
Way more advanced.
And way more advanced.
These are the Persians.
Cats have been around a long time.
They really know their stuff.
And, as you mentioned, the Samson option.
If Israel feels they're losing, They go nuclear.
Yeah. And we're gonna lose.
Yeah. Oh, that little arrogant hex set.
Hey, look at me doing push-ups with the thing on my back.
Did you see that little clown?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I understand.
Absolutely. And yeah, he's got, I guess he wants to show us his tattoos while he's doing the push-ups.
Let's talk a little bit, before we run out of time, I want to talk a little bit about some of the financial stuff that's there.
Because I talked this week about this World Liberty decentralized finance, the DeFi thing that the Trump family is in.
It looks like an amazingly big grift.
But talk a little bit about stablecoin.
What do you think about this?
I'm kind of concerned about it.
They're moving very close, very rapidly towards a private digital currency.
policy.
And, or coin, or whatever, and everything about it seems fraudulent.
I mean, you know, first of all, none of this stuff is a coin, it's not physical, and it is not private, and it's not encrypted, and on and on and on.
Everything, all the aspects of central bank digital currency are there, and it seems like the Trump administration, certainly the Thank you.
else in other countries are saying we don't want that stuff anymore so they could sell it to the to the stable coins and kind of repackage this but i'm really concerned that About the surveillance and control aspects of these things.
What do you think is going to be happening with this crypto stuff?
Stablecoin? I mean, they're moving in a big way with this with the Trump administration.
What do you think the plan is?
Old news for Trends Journal subscribers.
Go back to 2020.
From dirty cash to digital trash.
That's right.
That's right.
Simple as that.
They'll know every penny you spent, where you spent it, what you spent it on.
They get all their tax money.
Yeah. And have total control over what you're doing, how you're doing it, and where you're doing it.
They're definitely going to go.
And they're going to do it as a way of trying to get rid of the federal debt.
They'll make up something.
This stable coin is worth, you know, 80 times what the dollar's worth.
You know, they'll make up something.
And you're going to see central bank digital currencies.
It's the future.
Again, going back, AI.
It's an AI world.
I mean, you even mentioned what Trump coming up, making up this tariff stuff, they're using AI.
Yeah, for shoes of AI for a tariff policy.
There we go.
And that's the future, love it, hate it or not.
Trends are born, they grow, they mature, reach old age and die.
AI has only been born in 2022.
It's just been born.
It's like you and I remember when the whole internet revolution began.
We couldn't be doing what we're doing now back in 1990s.
We couldn't be doing a podcast like this.
It was just beginning.
What do you think about the endgame with all this stuff?
There is no endgame.
Well, but I mean, let's say...
They're making stuff up!
They're making it up as they go along.
Wait a minute, hear me out here.
This is Scott Besant and Lutnick and we're talking about how they're going to put our assets to work.
And you had Doug Burgum, who in his confirmation hearing said, yeah, we got like $200 trillion worth of assets, natural assets we can put to work.
Later on, in an interview with Breitbart, he reduced it to $100 trillion.
Nevertheless, do you think We've had some documentaries out there about the great taking and how they're going to do a pump and dump and then they're going to sell off America to themselves or to other people and make a profit from it.
Do you think that's where they're headed?
Not necessarily as the endgame, but is that their plan?
Does that line up with a world economic forum and the rest of this?
I don't know.
I don't know.
A lot of this stuff is made up stuff.
Again, they're playing it day by day.
They don't have a great plan on this.
You could see what's going on.
And again, it keeps changing back and forth.
Like the tariffs.
Yeah. Again, Trump is now saying that he may reverse some of the tariffs things that he's talking about.
Yeah. So we don't know where it's going to go.
And but I don't, I think the, I really do think the end game is he does have concern about trying to make the country more self-sufficient.
And I think that's a positive element of it.
Again, I'm attacked because I say I'm for the tariffs, just to make it clear.
Just like I'm attacked for saying that I'm against the Israel war.
But I say what I believe by the facts.
And again, you go back to the facts.
When we had tariffs, we did not have federal income tax.
When we had tariffs, we had manufacturing jobs in America.
So I'm in favor of that.
The other thing, what they're going to do with the stablecoin, this and that, it's a homemade up thing and they're going to do everything they can to make the most money that they can make as the people are putting it all together.
And then you have to look at also, look at the hundreds of millions of dollars that Trump got from the crypto club when he was running for president and afterwards.
So they're in the team.
That's right.
We're about to run out of time.
I've got a comment for you, Gerald, on Rumble.
Cecilia14 says, David, I please tell Gerald my husband bought me his book about his Italian family for our anniversary, and it has your signature on it.
There you go.
They really enjoyed that.
And what was the name of that book again?
The very thing I've written.
This is by far my favorite.
Where is it over here?
Here we are.
What Zidzie Gave Honey Boy.
A true story about love, wisdom, and the soul of America, what America used to be.
And they did a TV show, Doris Roberts, who played the mother of everyone knows Raymond.
The last starring role was playing my aunt, but she died 15 minutes into the movie.
But you could get it by going to Trends Journal and go to the about, and you could see the books that we have.
Did they ever finish that movie?
No, she died 15 minutes, but you could get it on YouTube.
And it's about how I got blacklisted from all the media.
I used to be on Oprah, The Today Show, Good Morning America, when I said America would lose the Afghan war, and we had no business going there.
I was hated for that.
Oh yeah, yeah.
We're seeing that everywhere now.
You go against the government narrative, whatever, however absurd, however false it is, they will come after you one way or the other.
And so, I appreciate you being honest with your opinions, and I always, you know, I prefer to have people who know what they believe, will stand for what they believe, and will tell you why they believe it.
I have absolutely no use for Media that panders to the public who you know what's their finger and sticks in the wind and tells people what they want to hear That's a way to make a lot of money, but I have nothing but contempt for that type of thing so I really do appreciate you taking a stand for peace for what you believe and And you know and you've been right on so many things so again trans journal is where you can find Hello,
it's me, Volodymyr Zelensky.
I'm so tired of wearing these same t-shirts everywhere for years.
You'd think with all the billions I've skimmed off America, I could dress better.
And I could, if only David Knight would send me one of his beautiful grey MacGuffin hoodies or a new black t-shirt with the MacGuffin logo in blue.
But he told me to get lost.
Maybe one of you American suckers can buy me some at the davidknightshow.com.
You should be able to buy me several hundred.
Those amazing sand-colored microphone hoodies are so beautiful.
I'd wear something other than green military cosplay to my various galas and social events.
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