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What a half-time show it was for the NFL.
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Well, welcome to February 9th, 2026.
Yesterday, the Super Bowl happened.
And in case you watched it, maybe it was just me.
Bad Bunny and TPUSA.
That's what I want to talk to you about.
And I want to talk to you also about the NFL and what message is the NFL sending.
Okay.
So here's what happened last night.
Last night, Bad Bunny comes on stage and he is getting the most prestigious venue of the year.
There is no place that a star wants to be more than playing at the Super Bowl.
When you've played at the Super Bowl, that's kind of a sign that you are a cultural icon.
Okay.
Bad Bunny.
I mean, he's won a Grammy, but so did Millie Vanilli.
So he's won a Grammy.
But has anybody listened to his music?
Really?
Well, yeah, I guess he's charted all the way up to number 85 on the Billboard charts.
That's his highest position, number 85.
You remember Casey Kasim, American top 40?
That's more than twice the distance from number one.
This is America's top 85?
Nobody knows what's number 85.
That's not playing a role in the culture of America.
And this is supposed to represent our culture.
And for a long time, it has represented our culture as we just fall into just Babylon, I guess.
So it has reflected our culture in all of the worst ways.
But this one, this one went the extra mile, I think.
First of all, there was no English on American television at the biggest American sporting event for about 10 minutes.
No English, not a word of English, except God bless America, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Panama.
I mean, okay, that doesn't make it American.
That makes it about the Western hemisphere.
But maybe that's what Roger Goodell is trying to say.
We're not an American sport anymore.
I mean, we know the NFL has already sold their soul to China.
So, you know, NFL is trying to get people in Europe, but Europe culture, that culture is over.
So maybe he's just saying we're going to just, we're going to be the Western Hemisphere sport.
Good luck with soccer.
But, you know, go ahead.
Go ahead.
So let me tell you what happened yesterday.
Green Day comes on, and Green Day doesn't do what they always do.
I mean, they're such rebels.
I mean, unless they have a Super Bowl contract, then they're not so rebellious, I guess.
Bad Bunny then comes on during halftime.
And if you don't speak Spanish, which I don't, you had to go back and read the lyrics of what was being said.
Now, because I don't speak Spanish, I just have to assume none of these lyrics were said on national television.
Because if I do speak Spanish, I would be writing the FCC if I had children in the room.
But these are the lyrics that supposedly were said, and I can only read a few of them.
Yes, so that your panties get wet, get horny and versatile, more slutty than Betty Boop.
The one who got horny, mammy was you, stay killing with you.
P with D, P with A, P with D D with A.
Yes, push it in.
I mean, okay, your T's are rubbing my ends.
This year I don't want sluts.
I see you with a lot of jewels and they want to stay, push it in.
I see you really active and they want to stay, push it in because you look hot, because you look hot, push it in completely.
And then it goes to big A's and big T's and big P's and big C's.
And okay, that's really that.
Here's number one that Robert Roger Goodell is saying.
That's the American culture.
That's family entertainment.
Because remember, the Super Bowl is the one time where we all gather as families.
Older, younger, we all get together.
We all have chips and dip and we all watch the game.
We watch the commercials, but it's a family night.
That's what the NFL thinks is appropriate.
At least he wasn't wearing a dress.
And I have to be completely fair here.
It was good production value.
It was really good.
He completely transformed the look of everything.
You know, I mean, it was good.
It was good.
But if those were the lyrics, no, I don't think that's appropriate.
Then he went on to, you know, make a comment about how the Puerto Rican culture is being appropriated.
And during the, you know, during the hurricane, you know, I guess America, you know, wasn't there.
I don't know.
I mean, honestly, I don't care that much.
But let me show you on the flip side what TPUSA was saying.
And everybody got offended at first because Kid Rock started his set with a song that came out in 1999.
It's vulgar.
It talks about topless dancers drinking, crooked cops, you know, bastards, all of this stuff.
And everybody's kind of like, what is Kid Rock doing?
Why?
Okay.
But then, if you follow the story arc, what happened?
There's an acoustic set with two people playing a Christian hymn, which was meant to be, this, according to John Root on X, meant to be a bridge, an emotional bridge.
Okay.
Comes back to Kid Rock with his stage name, instead introduced back to the stage as Robert Ritchie, which is his real name.
Then he plays a revised version of Till You Can't, which now the revised version ends with lyrics about Jesus Christ.
And it talks about his sacrifice on the Christ and encourages people to follow Christ, read their Bibles, blah, blah, blah.
This was a redemption story.
And nowhere was it, push it in, yeah, push it in.
So what happened yesterday?
Well, I mean, the Super Bowl is always the biggest of the year.
Probably have 100 million people watching globally.
Probably had 50 million people, I would imagine, watching the halftime show.
Maybe, maybe as much as 100 million.
But today, if you go and you look at the halftime show on YouTube, you'll see that it has 11 million views.
Last night, TPUSA had about 6 million people watching it live.
However, if you go to YouTube and you see the number of views today, 12 hours later, that number is now over 25 million.
I want to give you some perspective.
You want to talk about affecting the American culture because you can deride TPUSA all you want.
But let me just give you some perspective of what that actually means.
Do you know how many people would watch any of these shows like I don't know, American Idol?
The average American Idol was getting about 6 million views.
Remember the cultural impact that had?
That was about 6 million views.
On their biggest night of all time, they had 38 million views for the finale.
Their end of the show would go about 30 million views.
Notice what I said.
In the last 12 hours, TPUSA's halftime show is up almost to where their final episodes of American Idol were.
That was at 30, highest being 38.
They're at 25 this morning.
By the way, Matt Lock, which is, I guess, one of the biggest shows on CBS, 9.6 million views.
So online, they did almost as much as, well, definitely top five TV shows.
And in the first 12 hours, did almost exactly what American Idol was doing when it was at its peak.
That is affecting the culture.
Now, let me tell you about the culture that the NFL is pushing because they sent us a few messages.
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So what is the NFL doing?
Well, let me start here.
Let's just say you're invited to somebody's, invited to somebody's house, okay?
And it's a really big night at their house.
They do this party every single year, and they've invited you to come for years, and it's always been great.
You know, you brought your friends and your family, your neighbors, and you bought whatever Tupperware he's selling, literally and figuratively.
And you've helped make the house the place that everybody wants to be because you've been going.
You've been sharing it with your friends, right?
And you don't agree on everything, but that's never been the point.
The point is for one night, everybody's welcome.
Everybody just comes together and has a good time at this host's party, right?
But this time, this time, when you get there, instead of hospitality, he starts lecturing you.
As soon as you get in, he starts lecturing you.
Instead of warmth, he mocks the things that you and your friends hold dear.
He doesn't argue.
He assumes.
He signals that your values are outdated, embarrassing, maybe even dangerous.
You've brought your kids, but this year he's bringing strippers.
And he's been going that way for a while, but now it's just completely over the top.
And you look around the room and some people are nodding, other people are quiet, but you and your friends now didn't expect to feel this in a place that you've been welcome, you know?
I mean, it's been going that way for a while, but now, I mean, it's really kind of hostile.
Then the host gathers everybody for the centerpiece of the night, moment he's been hyping all year, and he delivers it in a language that you don't speak at all.
Now, how out of place do you feel?
There's no transition.
There's no bridge.
There's no translation.
No acknowledgement that half the room doesn't speak that language.
Now locked out of the conversation.
And while you're trying to figure out, is this guy, does he have different motives or is he just careless and thoughtless?
He keeps going, unbothered by your confusion, unbothered by, you know, your silence or your discomfort.
At that point, you're not asking political questions anymore.
You're just asking a human one, or you should be.
Why did he invite me here?
Is it just because I'll buy his Tupperware?
Because he's insulting me and my family and my values.
He's cutting me out of the biggest part of the night by doing it in a language I don't speak.
Was this a shared night?
Or was I just invited to have my money taken from me and then be corrected, not tolerated, not welcomed, but to pay the bill and then to make sure that I understand I don't really belong?
Or was I invited to be mocked and humiliated by this elitist host who wants all of his cool friends to see him mock me like all bullies do?
Is that why I'm here?
I think that's the moment a lot of Americans experienced during the Super Bowl last night.
And the NFL should hear something.
You're not a preacher.
Okay.
You're not a church.
You're not a preacher.
We didn't come to you to hear lessons.
You're not a teacher either.
You're not a cultural re-education program.
You're the host of a stupid game where people make millions of dollars based on my attendance and my watching you.
And the host as the host, your first duty is not to instruct the guests, is to hold the room, is to make space where wildly different people can sit at the same table without feeling targeted, diminished, or deliberately excluded.
And when you as the host repeatedly signal contempt for me, my values, my friends' values, I'm not going to riot.
I don't flip tables.
I'll just stop coming.
I'll just leave.
I'll go find another room, which is what happened last night at halftime.
Anything that can be replaced that you're doing will be replaced.
And then you turn down the next invitation.
And once that happens, the host, you know, you can keep the house, but you lose the gathering unless you're a drug dealer and you know that everyone that you've invited is addicted to your product and they'll never stop and kick the habit or so you think.
Personally, I think you're mistaken.
You know, 6 million people last night peeled away from the network.
What's that do to your ratings?
5 million, 6 million peeled away from the network, went online to watch something that doesn't hate them.
That speaks volumes about your theory.
Eventually, you're going to figure out you're incorrect and it's going to be devastating to you.
So if you're asking what all of this means today, it's simple.
The NFL declared last night that America is over as you understand it.
That the dominant culture is going to be Spanish speaking.
And that might be true at some point.
It's not today, but that may be true at some point.
But that wasn't an easy transition.
That was like a hostile takeover.
And the NFL was saying, we as Americans, we as the NFL, the National Football League, have decided to declare, you're outdated.
This is the dominant culture.
Get used to it.
Wow.
Oh, oh, oh, okay.
And they did it with a guy who charted number 85.
They might be a little early on this.
But people did not feel included.
If I speak Spanish and those were the lyrics last night, I have to tell you, I am outraged.
I'm outraged.
Those couldn't have been the lyrics because the network didn't bleep any of the words.
Did you notice that?
There wasn't a single bleep.
Well, you couldn't have.
So what did he change the words to?
At best, if you were watching last night, you felt a little managed.
You didn't feel celebrated.
You felt a little spoken over.
And the question that everybody at the NFL should ask, any host should ask before the house empties out is this.
If I were treated this way in somebody else's house, would I come back?
The only logical answer to that for the NFL is, yeah, if all of my clients are drug addicts.
If they just, if I know they'll be jonesing so bad, I can do, listen to this.
The only reason why a host would do this to the people he's invited into his house is because they think you're a drug addict that is addicted to their product and they can do anything to you and you won't care.
You'll never leave.
That's not hospitality.
That's a drug dealer mentality.
Because hospitality is about respect.
And the Super Bowl of all nights should know the difference here.
The left thinks they own the culture.
They preach to us at the Grammys.
They preached to us last night at the Super Bowl.
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You know, last night after the Super Bowl, I started thinking about watching the Super Bowl with my dad and my family at the house and what it was like.
And how everything was just simpler back then.
I mean, I want to talk to you about culture and childhood.
Not childhood as an idea, but what it actually felt like.
And it doesn't matter what language you speak or where you're from.
The culture we all should be striving for is the one that doesn't expose children to grinding and songs about push it in, push it in, push it in.
When did we stop saying, this is not appropriate?
When did we stop saying, let kids be kids?
You know, in the 1980s, when I was growing up, 70s and 80s, you got up in the morning and you walked to school alone, maybe, or with your sister or brother.
And it could be a mile.
I think my walk was about two miles.
I don't know.
Maybe it was only a mile.
But you didn't think twice about it.
This is the way it was.
When you got old enough, you took your bike.
But you didn't need to take your lock for your bike.
You didn't need a lock.
You leaned it against the rack or a fence or, you know, a tree, and it was still there when you came back because the culture was different.
In the summer, you'd wake up early.
You'd pour yourself a bowl of cereal.
You'd dig around for the prize at the bottom of the box.
That mattered, by the way.
You got dressed fast.
Not because anybody told you to, but because the day was waiting.
You walked to your friend's house.
You didn't call first.
You just, you know, you just knocked.
Hey, can you come out and play today?
I'm not even sure what we did all day.
I don't even remember.
What we did all day in the summer, every day, I honestly don't know, but we were out every day.
Sometimes we walked around.
Sometimes we would play ball, sometimes frisbee, but nothing organized.
There were never any adults hovering.
There was no schedule.
Nobody was driving us.
I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, so it rained a lot there.
But on rainy Saturdays, I remember if we were lucky, we'd turn on channel 13.
Not that there were actually 13 channels, kids, but there was four, channel four, channel five, channel seven, and 13.
Okay.
Channel 13 was the odd man out.
It wasn't one of the networks, so it didn't have any new shows.
But once in a while on a Saturday, they would run like a Twilight Zone marathon or a Godzilla marathon.
And all of my friends would come over and we'd all sit on the floor.
It's raining outside and we'd eat snacks.
And honestly, the snacks that I think we probably bought ourselves.
I mean, we could get cookies, but, you know, snacks.
I mean, not that we were poor, I don't think.
But, you know, our moms didn't buy chips and soda.
That was something special, like, say for Super Bowl days, okay?
But today's, by today's standards, I think maybe we were poor, but I didn't know it.
I mean.
I don't know.
Everybody felt the same back then, you know?
I had friends whose dad, one friend, his dad was a lawyer, later a judge.
He drove a Cadillac.
I had another friend whose dad was a doctor.
Their houses were bigger than ours, but not entirely.
It didn't have different lives, you know.
I guess the difference was they took vacations to exotic places like California, where we didn't take vacations, you know?
Summer vacation with my family growing up, my grandparents' farm where you worked, you know.
But even there, after you worked, I mean, we were allowed to play.
And, you know, on days we could play, we would just leave the house and wouldn't come home until the streetlights were on.
That was the thing.
That was the agreement.
When the streetlights come on, be at home.
That was the rule.
And maybe it's because we didn't stress over so much.
I mean, kids talk about global warming today and the stress.
You don't know what the stress is like global warming.
I don't even know if we can have families when we grow up.
What are you talking about?
I mean, I understand that feeling.
We had nuclear war.
Okay.
Let me tell you about the global warming that we were worried about as kids.
Not a temperature rising a fraction of a degree over a century, but the temperature rising 10,000 degrees in 12 minutes.
Okay.
Terrified of nuclear war.
And we'd go to school and we'd practice drills and, you know, we'd hear about it on the news.
We lived in the quiet knowledge that the world could end before dinner time, before the streetlights came on.
But that just was, you know, and we weren't brought into it.
Yes, our schools did drills, but the adults dealt with this.
We weren't trained to march in the streets against nuclear war.
It wasn't brought up to us as kids every day because we would have freaked out.
Kind of like our kids are freaking out now.
We concentrated on the little things like the sound of the screen door slamming shut as we were running off the porch to start the day.
And I don't want to sound, you know, like an old guy, but I am an old guy.
Things were simpler then.
We didn't have phones with us all the time.
We didn't have social media all the time.
I mean, it sounds boring when you say it out loud, but we were never bored.
And I mean, partly because if you ever said, I'm bored out loud, your parents or an adult would immediately find work for you to do.
Oh, you're bored?
Here, come on.
You'd be like, I'm not bored.
What do you?
But they never suggested activities.
They would just say, go outside.
We didn't have organized sports.
No one drove us everywhere.
We made the games.
We were the players.
We were the refs.
We were the crowd.
That was it.
And I don't remember getting bored.
I remember when we got cable TV and we thought, wow, we're going to have so many channels.
Something will always be on.
Now, no.
No.
Didn't change.
I had a phone, mainly because of my sisters.
We had one in our hallway that had a really, really long curly cord that was so stretched out because it wasn't far enough away from the family for my sisters.
So they would stretch it all the way around the corner and sit in a closet and they would talk.
I remember a friend of mine in high school got her own phone line in her own bedroom.
Wow.
What?
Thought that was incredible.
And I'd call her and we'd talk for hours.
And sometimes we'd be on the phone, but we wouldn't be talking.
Silence wasn't awkward.
It was normal.
And we didn't send pictures of ourselves.
We didn't talk about sex the way kids talk about it now.
We weren't distracted.
The silence wasn't because we were distracted.
There was nothing demanding our attention every five seconds.
Silence was part of being together.
And then things started to speed up, overnight delivery, fax machines.
Who needs paperwork overnight?
I don't know, lawyers, maybe.
But as these things happen, every invention felt exciting, like progress, like confidence in the future.
When cell phones came along, man, it's going to save us time.
Dad can do work in the car and perhaps leave the office earlier.
Remember that lie we told ourselves?
It wasn't that dad could work all the time, which is exactly what happened.
Doctors had beepers, so if they were out at dinner or a movie or playing golf, the hospital could reach them and call them in for emergencies.
Now everybody's got that beeper.
When social media was introduced to us, it was promised that its main gift would, it would help us reconnect with our friends that we had lost touch with, or we could become more deeply involved and aware of what our family and extended family were doing.
Uh-huh.
Has social media brought our families closer together or broken our families up?
And most of our time online is not with friends at all.
That word doesn't even have meaning anymore, does it?
Friends are followers now.
When I was growing up, followers meant something entirely different.
It meant you followed a religious leader, as in I'm a follower of Christ, or you were a follower of people and it tended to mean that you were about to be in a cult.
Okay?
What started out as being a way to reconnect with our friends and family now has us texting friends who are sitting right next to us and scrolling while the family is together.
I'm not sure things are getting better anymore because we don't seem to set any boundaries at all.
Did anybody set a boundary last night watching this at the Super Bowl?
All these modern conveniences, they're not making life simpler.
They're making it heavier.
They're making it more complex, harder to keep up, harder to find real friendship, real people.
And we fill every second of silence.
We walk around with a phone that sounds like a casino in our hands.
It's in our hands or in our pocket every day, and it sounds like a casino.
It's got all the bells and whistles, all the endorphin rushes.
You know, just, and it's built.
It's designed.
They tell us this and we do nothing about it.
It's designed to keep you pulling the arm of the new slot machine.
And we're walking around with these phones and claiming that we're poor, but everybody seems to have a phone that's at least $500.
I mean, I guess, I mean, in my childhood, people that live like the average person lives today would have been, would have seemed wealthy beyond imagination.
And maybe that's because we just didn't buy things on credit at the time, you know?
So now everybody's buying everything on credit because they want it now.
And so we all just look wealthy, except we're just deeper in debt.
Simpler times do not mean better times.
They just mean clearer times.
And the more I look at our society, I think maybe the real difference between my childhood and my children's childhood is just clarity.
Because there were monsters under the bed when I was growing up.
We outgrew the monsters under the bed.
But when we did outgrow those monsters that were hiding in our closets, we knew what monsters were real and what monsters were not real.
And today, the battle is not between good and evil.
It's about what's real and what's not.
What's real and what's artificial.
We're raising children in a world that no longer knows the difference between the two.
Last night, that was a performance on stage, and it was pushing our culture.
And we didn't even notice it.
I guess that's everywhere now.
That's just the way it is today.
so it becomes our reality.
Maybe the real value, because if you read scriptures, it's always saying, remember, remember.
I think it's one of the most used words in scriptures.
Remember.
Maybe the value of remembering isn't about going backward.
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Today, I want to talk to you about the F-22s that did not show up for the Super Bowl yesterday.
Apparently, they were needed elsewhere.
Gee, I wonder where those F-22s might be needed.
Today is a big week on Iran.
Also, we, you know, I talked to you on Friday when we found out that there was like this orange dot that was moving up the stairs.
I don't know.
Maybe it's Orange Man Bad.
Did the Orange Man kill Jeffrey Epstein?
There was this orange shirt of some sort going up the stairs right around the time that we think that Jeffrey Epstein may have been killed.
And the FBI knew it.
The investigators knew it.
And they never told us anything.
And you can see it on the video.
And we just find out about it after we were told by everybody there's nothing to see here.
Well, what about that?
You still don't have an explanation.
Who the hell is that that went up?
No idea.
Okay, well, then that's not nothing to see here.
There's a big question there.
We don't know who that is, right?
Then we found out on Friday that, oh, by the way, the noose, yeah, the noose we found in his room was not the noose that actually he used to hang himself.
Well, what happened to the noose he used to hang himself?
Anybody want to answer that question?
Nope, apparently not.
Wait until you hear the latest that came out over the weekend.
Oh my God, this just gets worse and worse and worse.
No way to move past it.
Sorry, Pam.
No way to move past this.
We'll get into that here in just a second.
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Okay.
Where do I begin?
Let's start with Iran.
Okay.
Planes are moving now towards the Middle East.
We found out that the F-22s that were supposed to be going in kind of an interesting detail.
I mean, Donald Trump's not trying to keep this secret.
He knew this wasn't going to happen and they made the special patch with the F-22 shadow on it, knowing that part of the conversation would be, wow, the F-22s were supposed to be here, but they weren't here.
They didn't do the flyover.
Why?
Where were the F-22s?
Well, I can tell you, I think I know where they're going, but let me tell you where the C-17s are.
So the C-17s, these are major, massive planes, okay?
112 C-17s are on their way to the Middle East now.
That's equivalent to Desert Storm.
That is a lot of C-17s, a lot of C-17s.
So what are we doing?
Well, those C-17s deliver massive, huge amounts of equipment and troops as well.
I don't think that we are putting troops on the ground, but, you know, we're putting something on the ground.
Why are we putting all these over here?
If I were Iran, I would be crapping my pants right now because we're in negotiations.
So the negotiation with Iran is happening now in Oman.
I think it starts tomorrow, I think.
There were some this weekend, and it didn't sound like we got anywhere, but they go in tomorrow.
And then Benjamin Netanyahu is coming to the White House, I think on Wednesday or Thursday.
Well, gee, that's a perfect time to say we've either just bombed or we're about to at some point.
And here, here's your last chance, but we'll see.
I just don't know how we are going to, how do you negotiate with a country that just killed 35,000 of their own citizens?
35,000 of their own citizens that were marching in the streets.
You know, and we said we're not going to tolerate this.
And I believe Donald Trump, we're not going to tolerate that.
I don't know how we're not going to tolerate it.
But, you know, we always say we're not going to tolerate things.
And then we then we do.
So Donald Trump, first thing he has to do is restore deterrence.
Yeah, we tell you something, we mean it.
We mean it.
And he's done that.
This is the longest I have seen him take on, well, no, I guess Venezuela was like this.
You got to get out.
You got to get out.
We're building up.
You got to get out.
And then what happened?
Well, he should have gotten out.
I don't want war, and I don't want any of, I don't want any of the troops on the ground.
I don't.
but I also don't want to encourage people to protest and then they do it because they think they're protected by us and then they get slaughtered and we do nothing.
We just can't target the civilians.
We have to target the mullahs.
And I think we're going to go in again, you know, on their nuclear.
But I just, I don't think it's going to be like what we've seen before.
You know, any regime that can kill in the dark and then get everybody arguing about the number is a regime that needs to be stopped.
Needs to be stopped.
So what is Donald Trump doing?
Let me take you to a story unrelated to Iran, kind of.
What is the UN known for?
Besides corruption and everything else, what are they known for?
Sternly worded letters?
We're not going to tolerate this or we're going to write a sternly worded letter.
Oh.
So no action, no teeth, nothing.
And they're taking the world in a completely different direction.
So last week, we heard that we were not paying our bill and no other country of the 180 countries part of the UN, no other country was willing to step up and pay their bill.
So it wasn't just the United States.
Although we owe $3 billion, and if they don't get our $3 billion, they shut down.
And I thought, yes, yes.
And then this weekend, I read a story that we're now writing a check for $3 billion to the UN to keep the doors open.
And I'm like, wait a minute.
What?
Why?
We just pulled out of the WHO.
The UN was on the ropes.
What did they do?
They had to slash their budget or they would have gone out of business really fast, slash all their budget.
They had to cut a bunch of jobs.
They had to reduce their peacekeeping missions, like those are actual missions.
And just as it looks like, wow, the curtain is coming down on the UN, America writes a check to save it?
What are we possibly thinking?
I'm going to give you an idea.
Don't know if it's true.
Trump is now in this position where he is either feared or respected in the world.
It's better to be respected, but if they won't respect you, they should fear you.
Okay.
I told you last week, here at home, he's softening the PR.
He's not, I mean, look how he's handling Minnesota.
He is not compromising his values, but he's changing his tactics to get the job done.
Okay.
Unlike those on the left, he's not a destroyer.
He's a builder.
And in this case, he's going to be the savior of the UN, which is weird.
But let me look at long-term thinking, the way I think he's looking at this.
You have to understand first, A, he's a negotiator, right?
B, he's a deal maker.
C, he's a builder.
He takes things that are wrecks and builds them into stunning new destinations.
Okay.
So he's building things.
He's not just dismantling.
He's building.
A lot of things were like, why isn't he moving faster on this?
I mean, as fast as he's going, we actually are going, why didn't he do this faster?
Why Saving the UN Is Dangerous00:12:44
So why would Trump get this close to shutting the UN down only to pay when no one else will?
Why rescue an institution that has spent decades bloated, ideologically hostile to us?
Here's the answer, I think, and it's not what you think.
This is not a bailout.
This is not a retreat.
This, again, he's a negotiator.
This is leverage.
When you're destroying and building at the same time, you don't pull the plug when your hand is still on the switch.
Because when institutions like the UN collapse outright overnight, they don't disappear.
They metastasize into really nasty cancers.
Because power doesn't vanish, it moves.
And when it moves like this, it rarely moves in our direction.
So a sudden UN implosion does not produce sovereignty and sanity.
It produces chaos and power vacuums and regional strongmen and a global narrative, hear this, that blames one country for the destruction of the UN, and that is the United States of America.
Donald Trump understands something that Washington forgot a long time ago, and those Democrats who are in bed with the far left may have never learned.
You don't burn the building down if you're still trying to decide who controls the land underneath it.
Don't burn the building down.
Who owns the land?
Where is everybody going?
What's next?
So instead of burning it down, he's doing something I think far more dangerous to the UN.
He stopped playing unconditionally.
And look what happened.
For the first time in 80 years, the UN has cut its own budget.
We didn't have to pressure him.
We just said, we're not doing anything anymore with you.
Thousands of jobs at headquarters, gone.
Peacekeeping forces slashed by a quarter.
Redundancies exposed.
Seven climate offices gone.
None of this happened because the UN suddenly found religion.
It happened because the check stopped coming.
This is the way Trump plays.
Now suddenly the money comes back.
Well, kind of, only partially, only conditionally, only with massive strings and reforms already locked in.
That's not surrender.
That's a demonstration.
That's a redesign made possible because you told them no more.
And they knew this president means it.
And so they began making the moves the U.S. wanted because they had, this is the art of the deal.
Everyone assumes that Trump wants the UN gone.
I believe he does.
But his genius is always killing two or five or a thousand birds with one stone, right?
So if he threw the rock saying, we're done and we're out, they had no choice but to make critical changes.
But if we really were out and it collapsed, what would the world say?
The world would say it's America.
It's Donald Trump.
But what does the world say when he comes back in?
Okay?
He strips the UN and all those on the left of its favorite lie, that the reason the UN is failing is because of us.
Instead, he steps up to save the UN because the world didn't do it.
So the question turns outward.
Where are the other 180 countries?
Why are we the only one?
Because we're not going to do this.
Why does the entire system collapse without American money?
That doesn't make sense.
It makes his point and clearly makes his point.
Why is global cooperation impossible?
unless the United States underwrites it.
That's not going to last.
This is not an argument for the UN.
That's an argument against the UN.
And every institution is watching.
The WHO, NATO, the alphabet soup of NGOs, forums, councils, you know, panels that grew fat on American compliance.
They're all learning the same lesson.
America will engage, but only if you change, because we're not doing this anymore.
This is not the end of global institutions.
It's the end of the blank check.
Trump is trying to destroy the post-war order, but he's not doing it overnight.
He's dismantling the assumption underneath it that America is always the one who has to pay, always has to apologize, never demands results.
We're just the whipping boy of everybody else, and we're going to pay for it.
So if you were hoping for fireworks, if you wanted to watch the UN simply collapse on live television, which I'd pay money to see, it would have been satisfying, but I have a feeling this is much more effective.
I think this president, well, I know this president, for me at least, has earned my trust.
On these things, he's earned my trust.
Like, I'm not happy the way we're dealing with Iran because I would have, they started killing people.
I would have liked to see us go in and stop them.
But I'm okay with the president doing it because he's earned my trust on he knows what he's doing and he's he plays cards differently than anybody else.
But a weakened, shrinking, exposed institution forced to justify every dollar is far easier to replace than a martyr blamed on America.
This is not a rescue.
This is a containment of the UN.
And for the very first time in a generation, the world is being told by an American president, adapt, shrink, or you're irrelevant.
And this time, for the first time in my lifetime, America means what it says and says what it means.
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I could be wrong on this, but I don't think I am.
The guy is so damn strategic.
And you just, we never expected that we should have.
We should have.
Because, I mean, if you read Art of the Deal, this is the way this guy operates.
He's so strategic and he can juggle a thousand things at once.
And he knows what's coming into his hand next.
It's really remarkable.
I don't, he's not saving the UN.
I think he is managing the decline, exactly what the UN was trying to do to the United States.
Think of this.
They were trying to manage our decline.
He's now managing their decline.
That's how much has changed.
I think that is a, I think this is remarkable.
I think this guy is going to go down.
Assuming this stuff works, I think he's going to go down as one of the greatest presidents of all time.
And I mean, if you listen to me in 2016, I can't believe I'm saying that.
But it's true.
You got to look at what he's doing.
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And I want to talk to you about his savings accounts, his Trump RX, et cetera, et cetera.
What is he doing now?
People are seeing these things as one-offs.
And I took a different attitude towards them this weekend and said, let me look at several of these pieces.
Instead of just treating this as a one-off, let me take all of these pieces and put them together.
What picture does that now give us?
Because you can look at the UN just as the UN and say, oh, we want out of the UN.
Good, we were almost there.
And now he's rescuing it.
Why?
Why the UN?
No, no, no.
Look at the whole picture.
What is he trying to do?
He's managing the decline of the global world order.
He's doing it with the UN.
He's doing it with the WEF.
He's doing it with NATO.
And so far, he's done it.
It has been disruptive, but it's not imploding.
He's managing this decline of all these world powers as he's building our world power up, as he is putting together the entire Western hemisphere and saying, this is our game plan, guys.
This is what we're doing.
I mean, I've never seen anything like it.
Never seen anything like it.
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The country is an English-speaking country, but that's just me.
Let me talk to you about some people I don't think speak English, and that is Pam Bondi and the people at the DOJ.
The Innocent Prisoner's Mistake00:12:56
Here's the lady.
Well, let me start with this.
In case you missed the Epstein episode on Friday, the FBI in the document dump, it came out now that the film that they showed us, and remember, Dan Bongino, everybody else said, I watched it.
I watched it.
I watched it.
I watched every second of it.
And there was nothing.
There was nothing.
I just thought of something.
Can somebody check?
Jason, can you check today?
Remember, there was that edit?
That was at the top of an hour, though, wasn't it?
Wasn't that right at the top of an hour?
It was like at 58 or something.
They said they.
Oh, and it resets?
Video resets.
I think it's at the top of hour, so it wouldn't work.
But just check it for the correlation of the time of the orange blob.
So we find out Friday that on the video, there is an orange blob that is going up the stairs.
Now, you could call Ghostbusters, and maybe it was a ghost, but it appears to either be a prisoner or somebody dressed like a prisoner that is going up the stairs to Epstein's cell block.
Okay.
There's no record of it.
They've all seen it.
CBS analyzed the digital and said, yep, that's clearly, in fact, they had an analyst come in and say that is not just somebody carrying towels.
It appears to be on a body because they can tell the way it's moving that it's moving in the way a body would move.
So you can only see like maybe the shirt on the body, the side of the sleeve or something, but it's moving up the stairs.
They saw this early on.
They asked.
Nobody had an answer.
They blamed it first on one of the guards who was, quote, sleeping.
She said, no, I don't bring towels up.
I don't bring bed sheets up.
And that would be a complete, you know, a complete deviation from what I do.
I don't do that.
That happens in the shift before.
So where would I be bringing the sheets at 10.30 at night?
Okay.
Then we find out on Friday, not only is the orange blob thing we find out that they've never answered and they just don't know, but nothing to see here.
Then we find out that when they found him at 6.30, one of them, the guy who said he was sleeping all night, he took the body down from the noose, but he doesn't recall removing the noose.
And his partner, who was awake and apparently, you know, making all the documents, falsifying the documents, and she got it like 3 o'clock in the morning.
She said there's 21 prisoners now on the cell block instead of 22.
Oh, that was just a mistake.
Okay, well, there's another bad mistake.
He's sleeping.
You're screwing up the logs.
We don't know who the little orange blob is.
And you say you were wide awake.
Where were you?
Who was that?
How did you not see that?
How is this jail still operating if all of these things are truly just mistakes?
Anyway, so she's standing there watching him.
She said, I don't remember a noose.
They take the body.
The coroner can't tell a time of death because the body was moved.
What do you mean you can't tell the body?
You could tell about the time of death just by the temperature.
You'd at least be able to get a ballpark.
It happened 15 minutes ago.
It happened six hours ago.
You could at least do that.
Nope.
No idea what time he killed himself.
That doesn't make sense to me at all.
Now, I'm not obviously a medical examiner, but I am a doctor.
So, you know, I would think that you could give some ballpark of an idea whether the body was moved, you know, from hanging to laying down on the floor or not.
But she said, I don't remember seeing a noose.
Then when they take the body, they come back.
They seal the room off.
They come back.
And then there's a noose that's found on the floor of the cell.
Except in the documents they've just released, they verified that that is not the noose that hung him.
I mean, I think third graders could do a better job at saying, no, there is something here to ask questions about.
If that wasn't the noose, where was the noose that he apparently hung himself with?
Where did that go?
Who was in?
Who brought a new noose in?
Why would you bring a new noose in?
What the hell is that all about?
I mean, is there any good explanation that you can think of?
A single innocent, a single innocent explanation.
There's a noose found, but it's not the noose that hung him, and they can't find the noose that hung him.
Huh?
Okay, so now let me give you the latest mistake.
This one came out over the weekend.
United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York, U.S. Attorney Jeffrey S. Berman for immediate release.
Friday, August 9th, 2019.
Statement of Manhattan U.S. Attorney on the death of defendant Jeffrey Epstein.
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jeffrey S. Berman said earlier this morning, the Manhattan Correctional Center confirmed that Jeffrey Epstein, who faced charges brought by this office of engaging in sex trafficking of minors, has been found unresponsive in his cell and pronounced dead shortly thereafter.
Today's events are disturbing, and we are deeply aware of their potential to present yet another hurdle to giving Epstein's many victims their day in court.
To those brave young women who have already come forward and to the many others who have yet to do so, let me reiterate that we remain committed to standing for you and our investigation of the conduct charged in the indictment, which includes a conspiracy count, remains ongoing.
We continue to urge anyone who feels that they may be a victim to call blah, blah, blah.
Okay, so what's wrong with that?
I said it right at the beginning.
Friday, August 9th.
He died, and the release that looks like this one is clearly marked on the day he died, Saturday, August 10th.
Now, this is being reported as not a mistake.
This is just part of the dump.
Can you give me a time stamp on when this was done?
The answer is yes, you can tell when a document was drafted.
Why is there no time stamp?
If it's a mistake, why not include a time stamp?
Or was this a rough draft just in case something might happen?
You know, you shouldn't put prisoners into a cell where you have to write their death story just in case.
What the hell is that all about?
Jason, can you think of other than they just got it wrong and it was written actually that morning and then somebody went in, corrected the date?
And if that's true, why would you include this?
Why did this circulate?
Why, why, why?
So, yeah, again, total incompetence is almost to be expected here, right?
Because everything has just been screwed from the beginning.
So that would make sense.
But then some of the inconsistencies still kind of scream something else here.
Like, do you remember that one of the guards that wasn't asleep at the job actually miscounted and counted it down by one, which you pointed out?
So, okay, so that almost putting into context of this, you know, DOJ release, it almost sounds like they did know.
So, you know, if you take all of these together, it makes it seem like they're scrambling for an answer that no one's going to want to hear.
And instead of just telling us that this is what happened, we're just being lied to about it.
That's the appearance.
Now, could it be incompetent?
Sure, it could be incompetence because, you know, it's the government and they haven't gotten to think about this right.
Let me give you a bad answer.
It's still bad, but not maybe as bad as, you know, Hillary Clinton crept in in an orange jumpsuit, which I hope she gets to wear someday.
She looks beautiful in orange.
But let me take a conspiracy out and add it with a less dangerous conspiracy, still bad one.
They die.
He died.
The orange jumpsuit guy went up, killed him, got out.
Nobody saw it.
Nobody caught him.
They didn't fall asleep.
They go and they do their regular checks.
They do their regular checks.
They see he's dead.
They immediately alert the FBI and the people in charge.
It goes all the way to the DOJ.
Somebody is hearing about it.
Got to write this.
Might be in the middle of the night, but got to write this because he died the night before, the 9th.
Okay.
And what they decide to do is, look, this is going to be such a mess.
Just give us until the morning so we can get our crap together.
And so they concoct this story that they just didn't go on their rounds.
They missed all their rounds.
Look, we're going to give you immunity so you're not going to get in trouble for it.
But you were sleeping and then you just missed your rounds and you falsified the stuff.
Don't worry.
We're not going to charge you with anything.
Just go along with this.
I mean, that doesn't seem feasible only because you just don't want to have that many people in on a secret.
You know, you can't, secrets like that don't last.
But that's the best innocent explanation besides this particular thing.
Somebody just got the date wrong.
They circulated it and they're like, you got to change the date.
And he changed the date.
But I'd like to see the time stamp on it.
But that doesn't excuse all of the other things like the orange jumpsuit going up.
Can you think of anything, Ricky?
Can you think of anything that is innocent that is, I mean.
Just a typo, but again.
What about the rest of it?
On the blob.
Yeah.
On the orange blob.
It's a prisoner.
It has special privileges.
Like, he's going to come up and visit you maybe tonight, huh?
Yeah, that kind of special privilege.
Jason?
Yeah, I've always thought that, I mean, there's very specific rule.
So if this is not a conspiracy, except for the hiding of everything, if it's not that, I've always, I mean, if you watch any, like, there are a lot of YouTubers out there for X-Cons talking about the rules of prison, and they would never have allowed someone like Epstein with everything he's accused of to get off scot-free and just to continue living his life without suffering.
And that's just the rules of prison.
So the way the government has always talked about this, like, of course we didn't do this, of course, we didn't do that, whatever.
I always thought that it would have been a, I assumed it was going to be a prisoner that had done something, was kind of allowed to do something.
This is not going to be Hillary.
This makes the most sense.
Yeah, no, this makes the most sense.
And now, because of everything else that happened with all the convenient things that happened with cameras being down or, you know, guards asleep, miscounts, all this stuff, that they just don't want to show how ridiculously corrupt and incompetent the prison system really is.
And that to me is what I think happened.
And now they just don't want to admit it.
The problem is you're making the conspiracy worse and worse and worse and worse as more disclosures come up.
Somebody should go into those prison records and find out if somebody has been pardoned that had a really violent past, had a really had the ability to do these kinds of things that was in that prison that suddenly found themselves pardoned or released.
Because I haven't heard anybody look into that.
But I mean, if it was a prisoner, you're not going to keep that guy in prison because he'll tell everybody in prison.
He'll let everybody know.
Yeah, I killed him.
I killed him.
He'll start saying those things.
You either have to kill him or you have to reward him, get him out of jail.
What's crazy is.
All right.
Let me tell you about our what, go ahead.
I was going to say, what's crazy is every time a new prisoner shows up to a prison, they have to, what's called show their paperwork, which is show why they're there.
If there's anything involving children or rape or anything like that, those people are marked.
He didn't have to show his paperwork because everyone already knew it since it was so public.
It's just, yeah, it seems kind of obvious to me.
But you don't put him in that cell block and expect him not to have that happen to him.
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That's why, you know, why do you put, you know, Mr. Sleepy Time, you know, up guarding on the first day he's there, really?
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So, Jason, help me out on this.
Ricky was just looking.
Ricky is our executive producer.
In case you don't know, she's been, she's actually head of content for all my companies and kind of playing radio executive producer here.
But she was just looking through the archives, right?
Tell me about archive.ph.
Yes.
So I wanted to take the original press release URL from that actually said August 10th versus August 9th, which is what got dumped yesterday.
I went to the original URL.
I put it in archive.ph.
I asked it to find any changes to the URL or that page since 2019.
And there was a change made yesterday, according to this archive program, on February 8th at 2026 at 7.07.
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That was yesterday.
Yes, I don't know.
I can't yet tell what change was made, but it's weird that they would update the URL after so many years.
Especially this last weekend.
Yesterday?
Yesterday.
So this is what came out from Mario Noffel from X. We've compared the text.
They're exactly the same, except two things.
One, the date is different.
The one that was released over the weekend says Friday, August 9th, Jeffrey Epstein wasn't dead.
And it says pronounced dead shortly thereafter.
In the final release, it says of an apparent suicide.
This first one does not.
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Let me tell you about Bitcoin and what the real problem is that nobody is talking to you about.
Everybody is worried about what is going to happen to Bitcoin, what's going to happen.
Is it going to go back up?
It's going to bounce up.
I've heard people say that it could go to $40,000 before it starts to bounce up.
I don't know.
My wife won't let me sell Bitcoin.
She's like, we put, you know, a small amount of money into it when it was very, very cheap.
And she's like, just leave it alone.
You know, we lose it all, we lose it all.
And I'm like, yeah, but it's a lot now to lose.
And she's like, if we lose it all, we lose it all.
Just leave it alone.
Stop trying to guess what the market's going to do.
She's probably right.
Well, she's always right, but let's not spread that word.
Okay.
But I want you to look at the bigger picture here of what's really going on because we are one real event away, a big event.
And this could be it, may not be it.
But we're one big event away from everything changing.
Okay, so I'm going to try to explain this in a way that everybody can understand without all of the Wall Street talk.
I want you to imagine a big, big, beautiful old theater.
Okay.
Holds 20,000 people.
Everybody is calm.
Everybody is seated.
Music playing.
Lights are up.
It's great.
But there's only one exit door.
Now, in the real world, that would be illegal.
In the financial world, one exit door is a really bad idea.
That's called diversification.
But you're sitting in this theater and there's only one and nobody notices the door because everything is fine.
But if something goes wrong, let's say Bitcoin, you know, for most of its life was a small little club, lots of doors, lots of flexibility.
People came in, they came in and went, prices moved, no big deal.
But then the doors were closed because something changed.
Bitcoin grew up.
The money still arrived, but Wall Street arrived as well.
Corporations arrived.
Pension funds arrived.
Remember when we all thought that would be a good idea?
Quietly and without most people noticing, Bitcoin stopped being something just people owned and started being something that people borrowed against.
That's when the theater filled up.
Different people, different reasons, but they're all sitting in the same room.
They all share one exit door, and that is turn your Bitcoin into dollars.
Now, let me tell you who's sitting in the front rows.
These are the people who really matter.
This is where all the stress is coming from right now.
There are four big groups, and they look separate, but they're not.
First, there's a company called Strategy.
Years ago, this was a software company, and it was like an unremarkable software company.
But along the way, they started, you know, hey, maybe we just buy Bitcoin.
Okay.
Today, it's something entirely different.
It doesn't make money anymore selling software.
It makes money by holding Bitcoin.
People bought the stock, often at a premium, because it was an easy way to own Bitcoin without holding Bitcoin themselves.
So, you know, you could buy Bitcoin or you could just buy this stock because this company, all it did was hold the Bitcoin stock.
And as you bought stock, sometimes, let's say, you know, with a premium, they would take that premium and they would take that money and they would then borrow more money and buy more stock, buy it on the margins.
No wallets, no keys.
You don't have to worry about anything.
It's just a stock ticker.
A lot of people got into that.
Here's the danger.
The company's health now depends almost entirely on Bitcoin's price staying high enough so they don't get a margin call.
If Bitcoin falls far enough for long enough, the premium disappears, which it now has.
Raising money gets really, really harder, which it is.
And the pressure quietly shifts from confidence to contracts because they made contracts with banks.
We will be good for this money that we borrowed to buy all this Bitcoin.
That makes strategy the most sensitive piece of this system.
Well, there's problem number one sitting out there.
Now let me take you to problem number two.
Bitcoin ETFs.
This is you're not buying Bitcoin.
You're buying paper Bitcoin.
And these were sold as simple, safe, and very boring.
Don't worry, don't worry.
This brings stability.
But here's how an ETF works.
When people want out, Bitcoin has to be sold.
That selling doesn't care about what you believe about Bitcoin.
It doesn't care about long-term conviction.
It only cares about matching buyers and sellers that day because the seller wants out.
When prices fall and people begin to redeem, selling becomes automatic.
Not emotional.
It's just mechanical.
That's number two.
Third, Bitcoin miners.
Now, this one's simple.
These are people who go mine Bitcoin.
And how do they do it?
They use these computer systems and it's gigantic.
And, you know, in China, they're living by a dam because they live on electricity.
Well, every month, the power company sends them a bill.
Not in Bitcoin, in dollars.
Pay this.
Well, when the price is high, miners can save.
When prices fall, miners have choices.
Shut the machines off and pay the bill or sell the Bitcoin.
Again, not panic.
It's just survival.
Sell Bitcoin, pay off the electricity, and let's do the math.
This is why miners, Bitcoin miners, are often the first domino.
That's number three.
Last one, four.
Stable coins, the digital dollar of crypto.
These, again, are supposed to be very boring.
A dollar stays worth a dollar.
But some of them hold Bitcoin as part of their reserves.
That's fine unless Bitcoin starts to lose confidence and it starts to go down in value, which means they've got to sell something to replace that value and raise more capital to make it stable.
If people start questioning the stability, redemptions rise, assets have to be sold.
Again, not fear, mechanics.
So what do all these have in common?
Because all four of these groups are different.
They look different.
They speak different languages.
They have different motives, right?
But what do they all have in common?
They all rely on exactly the same thing at the same moment.
The ability to turn Bitcoin into dollars without crashing the price.
They've got to get through that single exit door.
Now, let me give you history.
1929.
Why did the market collapse?
Markets didn't collapse because people were scared.
They collapsed because loans were called in.
You bought this on the margins.
Sell something and pay the bank.
Okay.
In 20, in 1998, the same thing happened.
Margins were called.
They needed to raise money.
In 2008, the same thing happened.
98, Brilliant Hedge Fund didn't fall because it was stupid.
It failed because everybody needed cash at the same time.
Same thing, 2008.
Same pattern, different decades.
Here's what's already happened, and this is really important.
This is what we've already seen.
ETF outflows during decline.
So it's money is leaving this.
Mining companies selling Bitcoin to pay the bills.
Strategy stock falling faster than Bitcoin itself.
Credit agencies openly warning about crypto-link balance sheets.
That's not a collapse.
That's stress testing.
And so far the bridge is held.
But the weight is real, which brings us to something everybody is mentioning and nobody really understands it.
The price of $80,000.
The price of Bitcoin under 80, once it hits under 80, something changes.
Not emotionally, contractually.
Below that level for at least two of these institutions I just told you about.
If it falls below 80, 79,000, especially if it lasts weeks, like 30 days, some loans start to look unsafe.
Margins get reviewed.
Grace periods quietly end.
Some boards stop saying wait and start saying prepare.
Now, 30 days is not a magic number, but it is long enough for the patience to turn into paperwork.
So people who are like, okay, all right, we'll give you a few more days.
But now Bitcoin is under 80.
It's at 69,000.
That's when people who have loaned all this money go, what are you going to do?
Paperwork has teeth.
Markets don't break when prices fall.
They break when obligations activate.
When people who never wanted to sell are forced to consider it.
And when forced selling starts, it pressures the price, which activates more obligations, which pressures the price again.
It's a loop.
It just keeps going.
It's not hysteria.
It's not conspiracy.
It's just physics.
Back to the theater.
One person leaves, no problem.
10 leave, fine.
A thousand stand up at once.
Nobody gets out quickly.
The problem isn't the fire.
The problem is the door.
And this cuts both ways.
If Bitcoin rises and stays high, the pressure completely disappears, just as quietly as it was built.
No explosion, no drama, just relief, okay?
This is not a prediction.
This is an explanation to you of what's happening.
People say, what is happening?
Is it different this time?
Yeah, it is.
And it's not about the price.
It's about what I believe really irresponsible people did in building the structure of all of this.
These are the kinds of things that happened in 1929, 1987, 2008.
These are the kinds of things.
I'm not saying this is going to happen, but it's at 69,000 and 79, 80,000.
That's the benchmark where some of these, like strategy, what are you going to do?
What are you going to do?
You're going to be in a loop.
Let's just hope it goes back up over 80,000 quickly, but it may not.
This may be a big deal.
This may be a little deal.
I just want you to understand what's actually happening.
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And so this, you don't have to own Bitcoin to care about this.
This is just one of those things.
Everybody should be aware.
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I mean, trapped.
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You work, you show up, you do what you're supposed to do.
And then every month it gets tighter anyway, right?
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I want to explain this to you so you understand this is the problem that Donald Trump is betting on and betting against.
He has been working on this big global problem.
And now I think he's turning his sights to the street problem because you couldn't fix Main Street without really busting up some of the bad stuff that was going on in Wall Street.
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That only makes sense if that pressure works.
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They don't even have a plan to live there.
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If that sticks, it doesn't magically make houses cheap, but it gives working buyers a chance, you know, to fight for that house again.
He's also with immigration.
He's also trying to get people out, remove people so you don't have so many people competing for the same house or the same apartment.
And the fourth thing he's doing is credit.
The high interest rates don't hurt billionaires okay, they hurt people who carry balances, because life happened.
Trump has openly floated floated uh, capping credit card interest.
This makes me nervous.
Or or at least putting banks on notice that the days of 25, 30, 35% annual rates are not politically safe anymore.
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Even the threat matters.
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Now here's the part Wall Street understands very clearly.
When those big costs come down or even stop rising so fast, small and mid-sized businesses breathe again.
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That's where the disconnect is.
Small businesses have not been able to breathe yet.
But that's why he's using this strategy to help Main Street companies more than massive corporations.
Big firms thrive on financial tricks.
Small ones thrive when customers have the money and the costs are predictable, so they can come into your store and buy something.
This is the political gamble that he's working on.
If it works, even a little, people don't vote on speeches.
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And here's the part that matters after the election.
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I want to play something that's played on Super Bowl as a commercial for Trump accounts.
Listen to this.
Here, America.
If I start investing when I'm 16, 9, 7.
It could change my future, all our future.
I want to be a nurse.
Go to college.
Be a businesswoman.
I can save for a house with a trampoline.
Two trampolines.
This year, every American child gets an investment account and millions will be pre-funded.
That's free money.
We can all expand Symantec.
Sign me up.
So the savings accounts.
We have one of my dear friends, Stevens Moore, on with us now, the economist extraordinaire.
Stephen, can I ask you before we get into the Federal Reserve, what are your thoughts on the Trump savings account?
I love it.
I mean, look, it's amazing.
Glenn, you and I have known each other a long time.
I arrived in Washington in the early 80s, believe it or not, so over 40 years ago.
I've become a swamp creature.
But when I first came to Washington, do you know what the Dow Jones was?
I'll take a guess.
Oh, 1,000?
2,000?
Yeah, 1,000.
It was 1,000.
Now we're at 50,000.
So this has been one of the most spectacular, probably the greatest wealth creation in the history of the world.
It started with Reagan.
Reagan did the tax cuts, and we sweated the inflation out of the economy that we'd had under Nixon and Ford and Carter.
And we did the tax rate reductions.
We limited the size and scope and regulation of government.
And it's been an amazing period.
This is just red, white, and blue stuff, Glenn.
But if you look at the worth, the value of all American corporations today, publicly traded companies, they're worth $70 trillion.
China's $20 trillion.
The EU's maybe $22 trillion.
Canada's like $4 trillion.
I mean, we're so blowing away the rest of the world.
And so I'm really just, it's incredible that, and, you know, Trump said the other day, we could go to $100,000 by the time he leaves office.
Now, you know, you know Donald Trump, he never exaggerates, right?
But even if he came close to that, it would be an amazing thing.
And so the trap.
So that's the really, really good news.
And by the way, we have 140 million Americans that are in the stock market.
So it's not just rich people who benefit when the market goes up, your 401k plan, your IRA, all of those go up.
But I like this idea of these putting money into these accounts when a child is born.
And, you know, I think it's going to do.
Who pays for it?
I'm not sure how much the money will go into those accounts.
I like the fact that Michael Dell contributed $6 billion to low-income families.
I love that.
It's one of the most impactful philanthropic contributions ever.
But my point is, great idea.
Yeah, let's let that.
So by the way, the time someone is 20 years old, even if you just start with $1,000, if you put $1,000 in each year, you're going to have $1 million by the time you're 22, 25 years old.
So I like that.
But my only frustration is that we should have, you know, George W. Bush back in 2004 wanted to put money, allow every individual to take 10% of their paycheck and instead of sending it into the black hole of Social Security, put it into an index fund.
And, oh, no, it's too risky.
You know, the Paul Krugman's and the Chucky Schumer's and, oh, no, that would be a terrible thing to do.
And what a disgrace that we didn't do that.
By the way, do you know who the original supporter of that idea was with Steve Forbes, my good friend Steve Forbes?
He proposed that in the early 90s.
So I'm just frustrated that we haven't democratized the stock market more than we have.
All right, let me switch gears.
You think that Kevin Warsh is the best man to be the chairman of the Federal Reserve?
I don't know anything about him.
The only person who would be better than him is me.
I would love for you to be the chairman.
I'd love for you to be the chairman.
If it can't be me, Kevin Worsh is fantastic.
Yes.
Okay.
Why?
Because he believes.
Look, first of all, let's keep this really simple because sometimes when you talk about monetary policy, people's eyes glaze over and they run for the exit.
I'm going to try to make this really simple.
Why do you have a currency?
Why do we have currencies?
So you have something stable that you can count on to buy and sell.
Yes.
If it weren't for currencies, we'd probably all still be living in caves.
So you can trade.
And the point of having a currency is it has to have two functions.
Number one, it has to be a store of value, right?
Because if it loses value, nobody's going to want to hold on to dollars.
If it just, you know, it's like, would you want to hold on to Venezuelan pesos?
Probably not.
Or Zimbabwe.
You know, I have a bill in my wallet, Glenn.
I think I've shown this to you.
It's a trillion Zimbabwe dollars.
It's probably worth about 36 cents.
I think I have a $2 trillion note.
Right.
So it doesn't matter how many zeros you put on the bills.
Does it retain its value?
And is it a means of exchange?
And so the only way that a currency can function is if it fulfills those two missions.
And the dollar, one of the most important things for the United States in terms of our monetary policies is to make sure, Glenn, that the dollar retains its World Reserve currency status.
So in other words, all transactions that are international, they don't happen in pesos.
They don't happen in Euros.
They don't happen in the wand.
They happen in dollars.
And that's a huge advantage to America.
But that can only happen if the dollar remains stable in price.
And so I think what you're going to get out of Kevin Worsh is somebody who understands that you need to keep inflation under control and that growth does not cause inflation.
Growth does not cause inflation.
Okay, so help me out on this because Donald Trump wants the rates lower.
I know.
I know.
The rates being lower, typically, generally, people will say that's going to lead to inflation because it's cheaper money.
Right.
Yeah.
Borrow money, et cetera, et cetera.
So why do we think that's not the case here?
So I hope Donald Trump, by the way, I love Donald Trump as, you know, I've served as an economic advisor.
I think he's on amazing things.
I don't entirely agree with him on this.
So he, every time, you know, I see him, as long as I've known him, he's always wanted lowered rates because he's a, you know, he's a real estate guy.
You know, real estate guys love low interest rates.
The problem is, again, I'll try to make this really simple.
Do you remember back in 2024, right before the election, when Kamala Harris was running against Donald Trump, what did Jerome Powell did?
He lowered the interest rates.
Gee, funny how he did that just six weeks before the election.
You think he might have been trying to give a little boost to Kamala.
But the point is, it didn't work.
You know why?
What happened to mortgage rates after they cut the Fed funds rate?
They go up.
They went up.
No, they went up.
They went up?
Why did they go down?
Mortgage rates should go down.
Because, well, except that when the Fed funds rate is cut, that pushes more money into the economy, right?
It's a short-term sort of stimulus because you get this more money in the economy, but that tends to lead to what?
More inflation, right?
Because as Nilton Friedman taught us, inflation has too many dollars chasing too few goods.
So my point is, I'm not so sure that lowering rates, and I'm not against a rate cut, but it's not like people think that the Fed chairman is like the wizard of Oz behind a curtain.
Why Mortgage Rates Stay High00:05:40
He could just push a button or pull a lever and make the economy work.
I mean, that's not the way it happens.
And so I think what we want is stable prices.
We want to get that inflation rate down to 2%.
I think we're headed there.
So I'm fine with lowering the rates maybe once or twice, but don't do it too much or else you're going to get a recurrence of the high inflation that we had under Biden, which is the last thing we want.
So what is Kevin Worsh going to do that besides what other tool does he have?
Well, first of all, he can he you know, there's two things.
He can adjust the interest rates up and down, but he has to monitor.
He wants to keep the inflation in that right target.
The other thing is, you know, the Fed has a massive balance sheet of trillions and trillions of dollars.
And why?
Why?
Sell them.
We don't have the government owning assets.
And the other thing, you know what he should do?
Brian, you know how many people work in that Mataj Mahal that Jerome Powell is building right off of Pennsylvania Avenue?
It's like last year.
3,000 people.
3,000.
I told Kevin Worshipper, and he said, let's just fire half of those people.
What do they do?
Is he one of us?
Yeah, he is.
He's a free market guy.
Total.
I think he's going to be excellent.
I think he gets everything that we've been talking about.
If we get a stable and strong dollar, and that's the other thing.
Keep the dollar, the world reserve currency.
We will continue to be the global leader around the world.
Look, I'm super bullish right now.
I really am.
I think Trump is, I don't always agree with everything he does or says, but for the most part, this is a Trump boom right now we're in.
It really is.
And I don't understand why the public, you know, you look at the consumer sentiment and it's down.
And, you know, now half the people just hate Trump no matter what he does, right?
So, you know, he's got a cap at about 50% approval.
But I think you're going to start to see people really realize, hey, this is about as good as it gets in an economy.
You know, you've got a booming stock market.
You got inflation coming down.
You've got gas prices at $2.69 a gallon.
I mean, it's just a beautiful picture.
I think the problem is that nobody feels, they all feel, my job could go away tomorrow.
This could end tomorrow.
Yeah.
You know, we still have inflation.
It's, you know, it's close to zero as you're going to get it.
But we didn't go back.
So, you know, except in some things we went way back.
But, you know, so it's not back to the way it was in 2019, which you wouldn't expect it to.
But so they're seeing that.
By the way, Bren, you don't want that.
The worst, you know what's even worse than high inflation?
It's deflation.
You know what?
We had deflation in the 1930s.
So we want that.
We just want to, and we all make this mistake.
I mean, Trump made this mistake today.
I made it earlier on a show this morning.
I said, well, we want falling prices.
No, we don't want falling prices.
We want falling inflation.
That's different.
In other words, we don't want things to depreciate in value.
We just want to keep them steady.
And I think Trump is on that course and he gets it.
And look, he's a businessman.
That's what's so unique about Trump as a politician.
He actually understands business.
How many of these doofuses in Congress do you think understand business?
None.
Very few.
Let me ask you.
I wouldn't say no.
Yeah.
Let me ask you this.
I have been saying for a while that Trump has been breaking up the international order in his first year.
That's what he was doing.
He was breaking all of that up.
And he's doing a brilliant job.
Now he's softening and he's turning his attention to Main Street this year, but he couldn't turn his attention to Main Street until he got the people out of the way who were trying to say Main Street doesn't matter.
And so he's turning it to Main Street now and doing things.
Do you think that's accurate?
Yeah, and what's going on in the world right now is there's United States Envy.
And so our economy is growing much faster than any other country.
We're growing faster than Canada.
Europe is flatlined.
China is not doing very well.
Japan's been flatlined.
And I got to tell you, everywhere around the world, though, because I do travel around and people, when I talk to just average people on the street, you know, I go to Canada or I'll go to Britain or I'll go to Asia.
What do you think about Donald Trump?
They love Trump.
You know why?
And I predicted that we are going to see a Trumpian power to the people movement all around the world.
And we're seeing that already.
Look what's happened in Argentina.
Look what's happened in Costa Rica.
Look what's happening in almost all of Central America.
They're moving towards away from these arrogant, out-of-touch politicians that are self-serving.
And I think you're going to see in Britain.
Do you know Nigel Farage?
Have you met Nigel?
I do.
I do.
I think he's going to be the next leader of Britain.
I really do.
And so what I'm saying is what's so exciting is we could see this kind of power to the people Trumpian revolution all over because it's working in the United States and everybody's looking like, remember that famous scene in the movie when Harry met Sally when Meg Bryan says, I'll have what she's saying.
Exactly.
That's what the rest of the people are saying.
I'll have what they're having.
Yeah, I'll have what she's having.
Stephen, always great to talk to you.
Thank you so much for phoning.
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Okay, Glenn.
Have a great week.
Take care.
Stephen Moore, good friend of the program and a really smart economist.
All right.
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Anybody watching the Olympics, I can't, I mean, I can't find anything.
You go to Peacock and you're like, I just want to just edit it down for me.
Just show me the highlight.
I just want to watch the figure skating and, you know, like just the gold winners and, you know, especially when America wins.
That's all I really want to see.
You know, I spent like 20 minutes watching curling.
I'm like, my wife had never seen curling before, and I'm trying to explain the brush makes the stone go faster.
She's like, this a sport?
And I'm like, I grew up near the Canadian border.
It was a sport every Saturday on the CBC.
God only knows why.
But anyway, and by the way, Canada, Lululemon, we have Ralph Lorraine.
He does all of our uniforms.
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