Glenn Beck analyzes President Trump's aggressive Easter threats against Iran, interpreting them as a strategic bluff to force negotiations while warning Democrats might invoke the 25th Amendment. He contrasts this with astronaut Victor Glover's unifying message from Artemis II and critiques Canadian leadership failures regarding Air Canada and Jeremy Hansen. The host debunks misinformation about Prince William, exposes media spin on the Charlie Kirk bullet evidence, and argues that true citizenship requires allegiance, urging listeners to rebuild trust against agents of chaos spreading lies to erode societal stability. [Automatically generated summary]
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I'm going to give you both of them here in just a second.
Let me start with this one.
We have rescued the seriously wounded and really brave F 15 crew member and officer from deep inside the mountains of Iran.
The Iranian military was looking hard in big numbers and getting close.
He is a highly respected colonel.
This type of raid is seldom attempted because of the danger to man and equipment.
It doesn't just happen.
The second raid came after the first one, where we rescued the pilot in broad daylight, also unusual, spending seven hours over Iran.
An amazing show of bravery and talent by all.
I'll be having a news conference with the military at the Oval Office on Monday, 1 p.m.
God bless our great military warriors, President Donald J. Trump.
So we rescued, and it is an amazing rescue, and I want to concentrate on that before we get to the second tweet that Donald Trump gave on Easter of all days yesterday.
The Decision to Rescue One Man00:10:36
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Somewhere over the Isfahan province, over the weekend, an American F 15E fighter.
One of these jets doesn't just fall out of the sky, it's hunted down, and gravity does all of the work.
Two men punched out into the night.
Two parachutes opened over enemy territory.
One was found and rescued right away, the other disappeared.
He was wounded, he was alone, and he was hunted.
His body hit the earth hard enough to remind him that he's still alive, but not much more.
Spraying an ankle, maybe worse.
No time to check.
He has got to get on the move.
In war, the clock doesn't start when you land, it starts when someone sees you land.
And somewhere in war, someone always sees.
So he's got to move.
He moves up, way up into the mountains.
7,000 feet of rock and silence and nowhere to hide.
So he has to hide in plain sight.
He can't trust the radio.
He can't trust that anybody is coming for him and find him.
All he can do is trust the math.
How long can I stay ahead of the men coming for me before the good guys come?
Because I know the good guys are coming.
But so are the bad guys.
And they're not just soldiers, they're bounty hunters.
These are not people who are in uniform, these are people that just want the money.
A captured American is a big prize, a very, very big prize.
So he goes up the mountain and he finds a break in the rock, barely wide enough for him to breathe.
And he is jammed for 36 hours.
He stops being a man and he becomes part of that rock, part of that terrain.
No movement, no sound, no second chances.
Because if they find him, it will not be good.
There's only a video.
A thousand miles away, something flickers.
It's a signal, weak, intermittent, but real.
It's a beacon.
You don't run to the signal if you're in his situation, I understand.
At least not immediately.
Because in a war like this, the signal might not be friendly.
It might be waiting for you.
So the United States did something that we always do in war.
Everybody always does.
It lies.
The Central Intelligence Agency began pushing out noise into the system, whispers, signals, digital breadcrumbs, telling everybody listening that we've discovered the airman and he's already been recovered.
The story is over.
Nothing left to hunt.
A ghost rescue, if you will, fiction.
It was designed to keep this guy hidden in the rock until we could find him.
At the same time, a battlefield is closing in around him.
Communications are jammed.
Roads are disrupted.
Some sources say that it was the common Iranian that were disrupting the roads, trying to keep people off of that mountain.
One way or another, whoever was doing what, eyes were diverted and everybody was looking in a wrong direction.
This wasn't just about a rescue, this was about control and shaping a reality so one guy could slip through it.
Then night falls.
And with it, the part of the story that never makes the headline.
Nearly 100 special operations forces, trained, disciplined, very well aware of the odds, go in.
They go in, quietly, deliberate, across a sovereign border that does not welcome them, and they begin to climb the same mountain.
Step by step, they close in the distance with a man they can't see, but a man they've already decided they are not going to leave behind.
The middle of the night, they find him alive.
This is where we always think the story ends.
You know, once you find the man, the hard part is over, but it's not.
Never is.
We had planes on the ground.
We had two MC 130 aircraft.
That's their lifeline.
They fail mechanically on the ground inside Iran.
Does any of this bring back memories of Jimmy Carter?
Understand the weight of all of that.
A hundred of America's best suddenly not a rescue team, but now a target, waiting for rescue themselves.
And daylight is coming.
Enemy forces are now adjusting.
There is no easy exit.
There is no margin of error.
This is the moment that history turns on.
Have to make a decision.
Somebody has to make a decision.
Somebody has to make that decision who understands what failure looks like.
And that decision is made.
And they choose risk anyway.
Send in more aircraft.
Again, more aircraft go in, in contested airspace, in the middle of the night.
A hundred of our soldiers, our special operators, there on the ground rescuing one guy.
Send in more aircraft.
And then destroy the aircraft.
We can't leave a man behind, but we also can leave aircraft.
And for a few men, as those aircraft are coming in, 101 weight, no movement, no guarantees, just the quiet agreement that all of them have already made if this goes bad.
We go bad together.
One official said, if there was a holy crap moment, that was it.
He's right.
That was the edge.
That was the razor.
And then again, with precision, the American military.
Smaller aircraft, lower, faster, come in pieces and they leave in waves.
And before they go, they erase all the footprints.
They destroy the aircraft, the helicopters that were there on the desert, burned.
Nothing left that can be studied, used, or turned.
Because in this what you leave behind will fight you tomorrow.
We know that because of Afghanistan.
And above all of it, while this is going on, no victory parades, no immediate leaks, nothing, no chest pounding, so quiet it feels like nothing happened until it's all over.
And our one man is out alive.
And then, and only then after the risk is passed, does the president say what can be said?
This was one of the most daring search and rescue operations in U.S. history.
And it was.
But if that's all you take from this, you've missed it.
Because this wasn't clean, it never is.
Aircraft were hit, helicopters took fire, another jet went down, 13 Americans already gone, hundreds wounded, and in Iran.
They're still there.
They're still capable.
They're still calculating.
They're still watching.
So what do we call this?
A victory?
Yeah.
A warning?
Also, yes.
This is modern war.
Not lines on a map, but a single human being bleeding, hiding, waiting, while a nation bends itself to bring him home.
And others walking into the dark fully aware they may not walk back out.
This is the line.
This is the line between chaos and order.
Chaos Versus Order in Modern War00:02:13
Between abandoning somebody and refusing to.
If you get anything from this story, you should get that.
Boy, you change presidents, you change whoever is running the Pentagon, and it's easy to go back to what took us centuries to become an honorable military that never, ever leaves one man behind.
That's the line, and for one night, on a mountain, on the side of a mountain in Iran, in between two rocks, we held that line.
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So that is the first tweet from Donald Trump.
We rescued and we did something that only America does.
That sets us apart.
Now let me give you something else apparently only America does.
President Trump tweeted something this weekend on Easter, mind you.
And I'm going to quote Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day, all wrapped up in one in Iran.
There will be nothing like it.
Exclamation, exclamation, exclamation.
Open, open, and he says the whole thing, the effing straight, you crazy bastards, or you'll live in hell.
Just watch.
Praise be to Allah, President Donald J. Trump.
Now, there are several ways to look at this, okay?
Oh dear God, the president's gone insane.
Oh my, a man who has never had a drop of alcohol in his life, somehow or another, on Easter decided to drink.
Or he's doing something else.
Now, I'm not claiming to know what exactly that tweet is all about, but I'd like to tender a guess here.
This sounds like a man who is trying to compress time, okay?
A deadline.
He named targets, power plants, bridges, infrastructure.
Dems, of course, are screaming for the 25th Amendment because they think he lost his mind.
And that is an important subcategory of this story.
I'll get to it here in a second.
But let's assume that this is intentional.
He didn't lose his mind, okay?
Because Donald Trump is not careless.
Whatever you think, when it comes to war, he takes it very seriously.
To the leadership in Tehran, especially the IRGC, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, the tone is not the headline.
The clock and the specific bombing targets are.
That's the headline.
Because they have to ask themselves a simple question right now Is this guy serious?
Is this the last warning or is this the first move?
We don't know.
And I have always said that I've wanted our enemies to always look at our president and go, would he do that?
And them not know.
Okay.
It's kind of this.
You remember this from the movie Dirty Harry.
It's like this.
I know what you're thinking.
Did he fire six shots or only five?
Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kind of lost track myself.
But Ian, this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off.
You've got to ask yourself one question.
Do I feel lucky?
Well, do you, punk?
That is exactly what the president did.
Do you feel lucky?
Well, do you, punk?
Now, would Dirty Harry have pulled the trigger?
Did he have?
What?
How did that scene end?
Dirty Harry, the secret to that character is he's just crazy enough to do it.
And you don't know.
So that's what they're doing.
They've seen threats before, they've survived.
How many presidents?
They are now asking themselves wait a minute, is this backed by strike packages?
What is the Navy positioning?
What are the quiet messages we're getting from behind the scenes?
Remember, this is a very dangerous territory because I've been telling you over the last year or so that wars, especially world wars, Are all started by a simple miscalculation.
If they believe this is a bluff or pressure just for negotiation, like all the other presidents, they just might test it.
And then what does the president do?
If they believe it's real, what they're going to do is they're going to look for the smallest possible concession to avoid a strike without appearing weak.
They're going to, like, hey, let's try to bleed some time here.
This is the razor's edge we're on right now.
Now, there is a third option, and I want to come back to the 25th Amendment.
There is the third option.
They may think that our Congress and our people do not have the stomach for any of this, and so they'll just wait it out.
This is honestly, this is going to be the big story of 28 29.
If Donald Trump can be replaced by someone else who understands this method of MAGA and everything else, if he, if JD Vance or Marco Rubio or somebody like that win and we go down this same path, you are going to see those people who are just digging in right now begin to slip away.
Because I think almost the entire world, Is thinking there's only two and a half more years left.
We can outlast him.
That's what's happening with NATO.
That's what's happening with Europe.
It's happening with Russia.
It's happening with those people in the United States of America who have been playing fast and loose with our money and corruption and everything else.
We just have to wait him out.
Only two and a half more years.
So you're going to see things change dramatically.
In two and a half years, you're going to see a gigantic swing back the other way if we lose this next election.
If we win the next election, things are going to change and you're going to see these people go, Oh, crap, I can't last another four years or a possible another eight years.
And that's when this is why I believe we need 12 years to totally wipe this thing out.
We've got now two and a half years or two years almost in our hip pocket.
We need about 12.
We need just another 10 more and we can wipe this out.
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Is he serious?
Is he not?
But what about the Iranian people?
That's really important that we look at what are the Iranian people taking from this, quite honestly, crazy ass tweet from the President of the United States?
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I believe so.
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All right, so we're just talking about the president's tweet, the kind of nasty one that used all kinds of language and an approach I've never seen any president ever make.
And I want to get into that in a minute about the language that he chose to use because it is a little unnerving.
But I think that's the point.
I'll get into that here in just a second.
But first, let me pick it up where I left off and what are the American people?
I told you, or what the Iranian people.
I told you what the IRGC is mostly thinking, and they're saying, is there going to be any movement?
Is this just a threat or is this real?
Is he crazy?
Will he do it?
Remember, he's dealing with crazy people.
They have to believe he's just as dedicated to his crazy idea of wiping them out as they are to their crazy idea of wiping us out.
That's what he's dealing with.
That message was not for you, it was for them.
This is the part that it gets dicey for me because there is this scenario, this one scenario that Washington has always hoped for, we have hoped for, where the pressure cracks the regime and the people see it and they go out on the street, you know, and there's a moment that, you know, they go out on the street and they free themselves.
That's what we hope.
Okay.
That's optimistic.
That's, I mean, it could happen, but it could happen.
But President Trump understands something that.
I don't think most presidents have, or at least would admit it out loud.
And that is breaking a country is really super easy.
Rebuilding it is where you bleed for decades.
And this is why Marco Rubio is so important because he has changed all the upper floors of the State Department and gotten all of those people out like, we'll just rebuild it and bring them democracy and they'll love it.
They'll be just like us.
That never works.
We've seen it.
The Iraq war, the war in Afghanistan, over and over and over again.
Regimes fall, power vacuums open, militias rise, civil wars begin, and then suddenly what was supposed to be a decisive strike becomes generational in its entanglement.
He knows this.
He said it for years.
He campaigned against those stuff.
So if he knows that collapsing Iran outright would trigger exactly that kind of long, grinding chaos, why is he speaking this way?
Why threaten the infrastructure, you know, but not total regime destruction?
Really critical.
He's saying, I'm going to knock everything out, but I'm not going after a total regime change.
The reason why he's doing it, I think, is because this is the narrowest path left between humiliation and full scale war.
You can't humiliate them.
We don't want a full scale war.
So think of the structure of the threat.
He's not saying we're invading, we're toppling your government.
Instead, he's saying we're going to make the cost of your behavior in the street unbearable super fast.
That's not regime change language, that's coercion.
This is what it looks like when a president is trying to force a decision without triggering total collapse.
Now, I'm saying this and I am trying to, because for me, at least, the president has earned my respect and he has earned enough trust from me to make these decisions.
I mean, and by the way, what am I going to do about it?
Protest?
We're in it.
We're in it.
We have to make the best of it and hope for the best and plan for the best, but also know that it could fall apart at any time, but not root for it as some people are.
He's trying to cause pain, targeted, visible, undeniable pain without crossing the line into occupation or nation building or open ended war.
It's a brutal calculus.
And it may work, it may not work.
Hurt him enough to change the behavior, but not enough to shatter the state.
Because once that happens, we don't control what comes next.
We control the rebuilding of it.
But Iran is not Iraq.
It is, it's over, I think it's almost twice the size of Texas.
It is a massive place.
much more complex, more ideologically driven, far more embedded in the regional proxy networks.
If it fractures, it doesn't just fall, it spreads, and it spreads all over the Middle East.
So what the president is not seeking is recklessness.
But this may be the last rung on the ladder of what you can do before it's a point of no return.
So what do we do about this?
Well, we watch.
Okay.
What do we watch for?
For the next 48 hours until tomorrow at 8 p.m. Eastern Time, we watch the Strait of Hormuz is the center of gravity.
So we watch the water the first thing.
If tankers begin to move, even quietly, even selectively, that tells you something has shifted behind the scenes.
And we're getting word today from Pakistan that they have a good offer on the table that we are negotiating right now that would be a ceasefire and would open the Strait immediately.
We don't know.
But we'll see.
Second, watch what's coming out of Tehran.
If you hear words like technical arrangements, temporary access, maritime safety, they're looking for a way out.
If you hear words like martyrdom, final resistance, punishment, you know what that means.
Third, watch for military posturing, actual movement, okay?
Naval repositioning, airspace closures.
This is a big one.
Embassy warnings, cyber disruptions, militaries don't bluff in logistics.
And then we have to watch Washington.
If the tone shifts from threat to explanation, if you start hearing justification, framing, legal language, I think that means that action is closer.
That's how modern our public, at least, is prepared for conflict.
So tomorrow's the day.
Tomorrow night, 8 p.m.
Best case.
Narrow opening, face saving compromises, ships move, both sides claim victory, the crisis bends, but it doesn't break.
The middle case, more pressure, more signals, maybe limited action, but nothing game changing.
Clock resets, tension stays.
We all know what the worst is.
The deadline holds, the strikes begin, infrastructure is hit.
Iran responds, maybe not necessarily where we're looking, but maybe where it hurts us the most, because once that first strike Lands, if it lands the way he is outlining here, this is no longer about the straight.
This is about credibility.
This is about survival.
This is about response.
I mean, he put a lot of chips on the table.
He cannot become Barack Obama.
Narrow Openings and Critical Points00:07:45
That's what they're really weighing right now.
Is this Barack Obama?
I got a line in the sand.
And you don't cross that line.
Then they cross it.
And he's like, I got another line in the sand.
This one's more of a fuchsia.
Don't cross that one.
And then they cross that one.
That's what they need to know.
Is he just Barack Obama or does he?
Mean it.
So, what should you take from this?
Well, it's not normal presidential language.
It may be a signal that we're no longer in a normal phase of diplomacy.
And there is a difference between strength and volatility.
Strength says, I know where the line is, and we're never going to cross it.
Volatility says, I don't know, I might redraw it at any moment.
Right now, the world in Iran is trying to decide which one it is seeing from the president.
And tomorrow is going to answer that question.
You know, because by then we'll know.
Was this a threat designed to force an off ramp or is this final warning before impact?
Watch the ships, watch the language, watch the actual movement, watch for signals.
And only those paying attention are going to see it before it arrives.
Let me see if I can get Jason in on this.
Before I talk about the language, Jason, do you agree with that analysis?
Yeah, 100%.
I think that the things that we really actually should be watching right now, very specifically the Strait of Hormuz.
Everything that's going on within the negotiations right now, as reported through Pakistan, which is the intermediary, is that it's the Strait of Hormuz and the ceasefire as being the two biggest items that are on the table right now.
The problem is, I don't, again, we're getting mixed signals because I'm seeing that the Iranians are rejecting that.
That's per Al Jazeera, but that's Al Jazeera, so who really knows?
And that the president is just kind of saying, well, this is one of the options that are available, but we'll see.
I don't know how you can actually trust the Iranians on the Strait of Hormuz issue.
So this brings me right back.
To what I said about the Democrats.
This is such a critical point.
What did you just say?
That Pakistan is saying one thing, we're hearing that, but the other side, the other voices are saying, we're not doing that.
And so you don't know.
The president needs this to be credible.
He needs everyone in the leadership of Iran to actually believe.
And that's why I believe he used the language that he did.
He needs them to go, the guy is freaking unhinged.
I've never seen a president say that.
He can't play it.
As business as usual.
This is my guess.
The guy is a negotiator and a brilliant negotiator.
So, my guess is he knows I have got to convince them that I am just crazy enough to do it.
The problem is they're hearing two voices.
They're hearing the president say one thing, and then they're hearing our media and our Democrats and everybody else saying we might evoke the 25th Amendment.
That gives them hope.
That gives them hope.
You don't want those voices.
Look, Tomorrow comes and he starts to break international law, then we deal with that tomorrow.
Not today.
Not today.
Let the president's threat play out.
And I just don't know why we, it just seems to me that we just have a bunch of politicians that never think of anything beside their own career and their own party.
They never put country first.
Even if you disagreed with this, you would go look, it's only until tomorrow night at 8 p.m.
Hey, everybody, shut your mouth.
The president may be playing a negotiation game that could end this thing tomorrow night by 8.
You don't have to get on board.
Just don't say anything until 8 p.m. tomorrow.
Then we'll know.
And if it doesn't work out, we can toast him for that.
If he does start breaking international law, we'll go after him on that.
Just shut your mouth for 24 hours.
Can you do that?
The answer is no.
They can't.
Nor will they.
It's nuts.
It's absolutely nuts.
So, Jason, let's talk about the other part of this because I don't like the fact that in the last 20 years, our presidents have become very, very coarse.
But our society has become coarse.
I don't like the fact that everybody is using the F word and everything else all the time in regular business and everything else.
Can we not?
Can we stop with this?
And President Trump has gone down this road.
Other presidents have started to go down this road.
And there's a lot of people, especially on Easter, that looked at that and went, okay, that's not real Christ-like.
No, but Christ never fought a war.
With an actual military.
So it is different.
I don't personally like it.
However, that message was not intended for a Western audience.
That was intended to go directly to a bunch of crazy bastards that don't have any idea.
They need to understand, they need to believe this guy is serious and just crazy enough.
I think every word in that was strategic.
That was just not off.
That was not him in a moment of frustration sitting on the John going, you know what, these bastards, you better open up the.
Would you agree with that or not?
Yeah, and that's really the Trump doctrine.
Trump is the bull in the China shop that is so unpredictable that even our allies, but most importantly, our adversaries have no idea what he wants to do.
Two examples of that, if I have the time, was that NATO, for decades, foreign presidents have been trying to get NATO to dedicate more of their budgets towards defense.
None of them were successful.
The Trump doctrine worked and he was able to do that.
Iran, on the other hand, for the foreign example or enemy example, they thought that everything they'd been preparing for decades would work.
They thought that closing the Strait of Hormuz pretty much would halt everything and the war would stop.
Now they're discombobulated.
They have no idea what to expect.
We actually have some basis for saying that, right?
Aren't there reports that say when they closed the Strait, they expected him immediately to back off?
And when he didn't, they were like, wait, wait, hold it.
What's going on here?
Oh, yeah.
That's been their Trump card since 1980.
They thought that was their ultimate, haha, they've got it done.
Now they don't really know what their next move is.
They really have no idea.
It's all about being that bull in the china shop, being that unpredictable person.
And right now, the president is playing it to a T, even though a lot of us don't like how it sounds.
I really want the outcome.
The ends do not justify the means, but I kind of agree with Patton.
I mean, Patton was known as, I mean, you want to talk about foul mouthed.
He said, you know, an army that can't handle, you know, foul language is an army that can't fight its way out of a piss soaking bag.
You know, he was very foul mouthed, but it actually was in some ways used strategically because Remember, he was known as a guy.
Operating at Full Capacity Again00:03:04
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I want to go back to Patton here for a second, because if you look and judge a man by his language, Patton was a very, very bad guy, okay?
And Patton, it makes everybody uncomfortable.
At one point, he goes into a hospital and he sees a young soldier who is in the hospital with PTSD.
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Germans thought he was the best general we ever had.
They didn't believe that we would actually demote him or not.
That's why when they put him in Calais and it was all a feint, that's why the Germans kept everybody in Calais and we won D-Day.
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In this war over the weekend, I just told you the story of the colonel that we saved who was hiding up in the mountains for 36 hours.
Seeing the World Clearly Together00:12:58
An incredible story.
A hundred special forces and the decisions that we made as a military to risk it all to go save one guy.
On the other hand, you have people who are providing chaos all over the world, who are evil and scheming.
You have people who are now the Twelvers in Iran who are trying to bring back the Mahadi, the Twelfth Imam, which would usher in the end of the world in their holy book, which is suspiciously like the exact opposite of our holy book, which is weird.
But then we also have something happening up in the sky.
Since man has existed, Before there was language, before the cave drawings, man at night would look up and wonder what that big white thing is up in the sky that we call a moon.
Through all of our advancements, we walked on the surface of the moon in 1969, 1970, 73.
We had men on the moon, but it took until this morning for us to actually get a picture of the entire backside of the moon.
For the very first time in human history, we can see the entire picture of the dark side of the moon.
That's incredible.
And we all kind of just are like, yeah, what else?
It's an incredible thing.
I want to spend just a couple of minutes on Artemis 2.
If they were landing on the moon, it would either be tonight or tomorrow that they would be actually going down to the surface.
And landing on the moon.
It's taken from the launch until today to get there.
Now they're flying around and then they're heading on back.
But I want to tell you something I think remarkable that happened yesterday up in the lunar capsule.
We'll talk about that in 60 seconds.
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All right, so I want to talk to you about Victor Glover because I think this guy is absolutely amazing.
He is the pilot of Artemis II.
And yesterday there was a message from him in space, and I want you to hear the whole message.
Listen to this.
As we are so far from Earth and looking back at the beauty of creation, I think that for me, one of the really important personal perspectives that I have up here is I can really see Earth as one thing.
And when I read the Bible and I look at all of the amazing things that were done for us who were created, you have this amazing place, this spaceship.
You guys are talking to us because we're in a spaceship really far from Earth, but You're on a spaceship called Earth that was created to give us a place to live in the universe and the cosmos.
Maybe the distance we are from you makes you think what we're doing is special, but we're the same distance from you.
And I'm trying to tell you just trust me, you are special.
In all of this emptiness, this is a whole bunch of nothing, this thing we call the universe.
You have this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist together.
I think as we go into Easter Sunday, thinking about all the cultures all around the world, whether you celebrate it or not, whether you believe in God or not.
This is an opportunity for us to remember where we are, who we are, and that we are the same thing and that we got to get through this together.
Amazing.
Amazing.
Now, remember, this is the same man who went viral last week for saying that he was, yes, proud to be the first black man going around the moon, but I don't want you to think of that.
I don't want to be known for that.
He said, I don't want this to be about race.
He said, This needs to be about human history.
It's not the story, it's the story of humanity, not black history, not women's history.
But human history, oh my gosh, how long have we been pining for somebody to say that?
Right now, everything in our world is trying to shrink all of these stories, break it apart, divide it, turn it into smaller and smaller pieces until all we can see is us, me, myself, and I.
But then you get 240,000 miles away and suddenly none of that holds.
From that distance, you can't see red states and blue states.
You barely see countries.
There's no trending outrage, no cultural tribes.
It's just a blue marble hanging in the black sky.
And if you're honest and you really look at it, there's no political argument there.
You see a miracle.
Glover just said, when you look back at Earth from space, that's what you feel.
And he would know.
I wish I knew it like that.
This is a man who has spent six months on the International Space Station.
On the International Space Station, he took communion every single week, every Sunday, in space.
Think of that.
Floating above the world, circling it every 90 minutes, watching sunrises and sunsets stack up like seconds, and choosing every week to stop and remember something eternal.
What a story.
He said something else there too.
He said, we've all heard the phrase, there are no atheists in a foxhole.
He said, there aren't any atheists at the top of a rocket either.
Because when you see creation like he's seeing it now, when you see the scale, the precision, the beauty, there's no guesswork in any of this.
It's math.
The whole thing is math.
You don't feel bigger.
You feel smaller.
And somehow or another, more connected at the same time.
I think that's the part that we have lost if you live in a big city.
I remember living in New York and the first time I went out to the mountains with my family and we sat around a campfire, we did what everybody does, what cavemen used to do, I'm sure, sit around and say, what is up there?
I mean, look at the vastness of this.
We are super small in the grand scheme of things and it puts the world into perspective.
When we stop looking up, we start looking in.
And when everything turns inward, our problems, our identity, our grievances, our egos, everything, it becomes the entire universe to us.
Our own little gravity well.
And you get stuck there.
And you just begin orbiting yourself and your problems.
But space, if we allow it, has a way of breaking that.
It forces perspective.
Imagine being in that capsule and looking and seeing the side of the moon that no man has ever seen completely.
Not even in pictures.
We have never seen it.
seen it.
They are seeing something no human eye has ever gazed on, and most of the world is yawning.
But if we can take that one moment and really imagine it for ourselves, it reminds you, you are part of something huge, and you're part of something.
You're not the center of everything.
You're part of something.
And perhaps if we let it, that's why this mission matters right now.
Not because of the rockets or technology or what SpaceX is going to do or anything else.
It's just the simple reminder, look up again.
Look up.
Look up.
Not just at the stars, but look up.
Who made them?
The book of Romans says, For since the creation of the world, God's invisible attributes have been clearly seen.
Being understood by what has been made.
In other words, you don't need a rocket to find him.
You don't need to go to space.
It's all right here, but we get so lost.
But it's all right here in the order, in the design, in the mathematics.
In the moments we usually rush past.
I made a promise to myself just recently.
I am not going to be the first one that stops hugging.
Do you know, in Disney, If you're a princess or a character, you're not allowed to stop hugging before the child does.
If that child hangs on to you for 20 minutes and is hugging you, you hug them for 20 minutes.
You are not allowed to break the hug first.
And I thought that spoke volumes.
They know psychologically.
This is all, that's all business.
They know psychologically what that means to the kid.
And I decided when I heard that, I am not going to be the first to break a hug.
And my son is a good hugger.
And he came home for Easter, and I hugged him, and I thought we were going to be there all day.
But we didn't rush past that moment, and it was nice.
It was special.
Victor Glover didn't find God for the first time in orbit.
He found him the same place that you and I can at home, with his family, in the ordinary.
Space didn't give him faith, space gives him perspective.
Is it, perhaps, what Easter is really all about?
Not escaping the world, but seeing it clearly.
So right now, as he's looking down on us, maybe we should do something we haven't done in a while.
Look up.
Look up with humility and gratitude and the understanding that we are all part of a story that is much, much, much bigger than ourselves.
Not black history, not white history, not men history, female history, not political history.
Human history.
And it is still being written today.
I don't know about you, but with all the problems in the world, we are so blessed to live at this time.
We are seeing history written in so many different ways, good and bad.
We are seeing human history written in gigantic, bold, capital letters.
Letters that you could eventually, we will see it from space.
The story of humankind.
And we're writing it.
And part of me says, when I look at the bad stuff, it's going to be interesting to see what that story says.
Another part says, I know humans.
I know Americans, especially.
We eventually get it right.
It's going to be exciting to see what and how we write in this next chapter.
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So now let me be petty for a second.
Let me talk about the Canadian astronaut for the love of Pete.
Do you remember last week?
And this to me showed that Canada is beyond repair or damn close to beyond repair.
Do you remember when the Canadian airliner crashed in New York and we're still scrambling to find answers on what happens?
And the CEO of Air Canada, the CEO of Air Canada, Is actually fired or has to resign because when he came out with a statement, he didn't issue it in French as well.
So their plane is still smoldering on the tarmac.
They have no idea what's going on.
And Air Canada and Canadian government forces this guy to resign because he wasn't inclusive.
He didn't also issue his statement in French.
That's how crazy it is.
So we're up talking over the weekend about.
The dark side of the moon.
Nobody's ever thought about it.
You know, Victor is up there saying, listen, listen, let me give you some perspective.
What do the Canadians do?
Well, listen, here it is.
For me, one thing that is really important is to find your passion and to follow your passion, but also to share it with others.
First of all, stop, stop.
First of all, this guy is like me speaking French, okay?
I mean, this is the worst French I've ever heard.
It sounds like he's a butcher.
He sounds like me, honestly, speaking English, let alone French.
So we're saying, you know, we just put four astronauts, we're just seeing the moon.
And they're literally tweeting, we spoke French in space.
Wow, Canada, really?
You've come to that?
Now, it's not just me saying this.
Ricky, can you give me the tweet from.
Yeah, it's from the Prime Minister, Mark Carney.
He is super.
Super proud of the fact that the first astronaut in history to speak French while en route to the moon, Canada's very own Astro Jeremy.
And, you know, Jeremy, thanks for hanging out with our astronauts up there.
No, this is not something to celebrate.
No, did anybody say when the Chinese go up in space, did anybody say, you know, they're the first people to speak Chinese in space?
We never said that when we went to the moon.
We're the first English people to speak English.
We're the first people to speak English in space.
That's not true.
The big deal.
I don't know if you know that.
That's not the big deal.
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In accordance with Canadian law, the crew of NASA's Artemis 2 mission successfully euthanized Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen after discovering he had suffered a light bruise during takeoff.
Artemis 2 is NASA's first mission to the moon since 1972, a truly historic launch for everyone involved except for Hansen, who is now deceased.
No one should have to live like with this kind of an injury, said Canadian Prime Minister Martin.
Carney, when I heard about the bumpy launch, I contacted NASA immediately to make sure that they put Colonel Hansen out of his misery right away.
I mean, to have a bruise like this?
According to reports, Hansen's colleagues initially resisted the order to kill him, citing the lack of proper equipment on board the shuttle, but with assistance from ground control, the crew successfully re engineered hardware from the life support systems to create the necessary equipment to administer a deadly toxin into his bloodstream.
In his final communication to Earth, Hansen reportedly said, Please, it's just a bruise.
I want to live.
A poignant message which Canadian experts attributed to space madness.
At publishing time, the remaining members of Artemis 2 crew announced its plan to honor their fallen Canadian crewmate by using extra maple syrup with their next pancake breakfast tomorrow morning.
I mean, that's hysterical.
What's so sad is it's true.
I mean, they are almost to bruises.
They are almost to bruises.
100,000 people have died.
It is the fourth or fifth leading cause of death now in Canada, and they are celebrating it.
They're going they're going even deeper on this you can go in for depression What kind of why have any psychiatrists seriously why have any psychiatrists?
What what does psychiatry do?
It's you know, you have a problem You are thinking crazy things like I don't know I want to cut all my body parts off and become something I can't become We can't talk about that and up in Canada now they're saying you come into a doctor for depression even as a teenager and They will offer you made So, I came into the hospital because I've been having these thoughts about killing myself, and, you know, well, we can do it for you.
Citizenship, Allegiance, and Loyalty00:17:31
Would you like some help on that?
That's insanity.
We actually are going to interview a woman who went in with back pain.
Back pain.
She'll be coming up this week.
Back pain.
And their first offer was, we could kill you.
No, I mean, first do no harm.
No, it's back pain.
I want to live.
I mean,.
But I don't want to compare back pain with a nasty bruise that Jeremy Hansen might have had after liftoff on Artemis 2.
Oh my gosh.
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I don't know if you saw Jonathan Turley in the Hill, but he is saying we need a 28th Amendment.
Not going to happen.
We're going to need a 28th Amendment to clear up the 14th Amendment because this is not what it was meant to do.
And everybody knows that.
And it's so disingenuous.
I mean, there is a difference between what the law says and what the law was built to do.
And when you lose the distinction, you flatten history into slogans, you don't just misunderstand the law.
You begin to dismantle the country piece by piece.
Okay, that law was there to protect something.
What?
I don't know last time you looked up Dred Scott, but you need to look up Dred Scott.
Refresh your memory because it was just one of the most shocking, horrific decisions the Supreme Court ever made.
It declared that an entire class of human beings, even if they were free, could never be citizens of the United States.
Never.
And it was that class of people were.
Former slaves, even if you were free, you could not be a citizen.
And that ruling didn't just bind the slaves, it poisoned everything.
It told generations of Americans that citizenship was not a matter of principle, it was a matter of permission.
And it dragged the entire country into complicity, especially when it was paired with the Fugitive Slave Act that happened, what, 10 years before the Civil War?
The Fugitive Slave Act forced citizens in free states to participate in the machinery of slavery.
Or go to prison themselves.
And that was the crisis.
That was the fire.
And so we fight the Civil War.
And then people in the South, Democrats, are like, no, you can't vote unless you're a citizen.
Oh, geez, do we really, really, we have to do this now too?
And so they came up with the 14th Amendment.
That was the answer.
And it wasn't an open invitation to the world, it was a moral correction to a very specific and horrifying wrong.
When Congress drafted the 14th Amendment to the United States, They answered a single urgent question.
Can a nation that once enslaved people now deny them of citizenship forever?
And the answer, thank God, was no, of course not.
And that's why the language matters.
The language subject to the jurisdiction thereof.
That phrase is not accidental.
It was debated.
It was argued.
It was clarified on the floor of Congress.
How are our Supreme Court justices going to, what pretzel do they have to twist themselves in this?
The authors made it really clear they were talking about people who owed full political allegiance to the United States, not people who were temporary visitors, not some foreign national passing through, not somebody who was under the power of a sovereign power, not enemies.
They were talking about freed slaves and people who had no other country, no other protection, no other place to go.
So now, because of progressives, we have taken a surgical correction to one of the greatest injustices in human history, and we've turned it into a universal rule that almost no other nation on earth follows.
Most countries anchor all of their citizenship in blood, with very, very few exceptions.
Canada is one of them.
You want to be Canada?
A couple of other nations in South America do because we had this, and so they interpreted it that way.
But they stopped it.
Most of these nations stopped that half a century ago because they saw what it was doing or could do to their countries.
Why?
Because citizenship is not just a benefit.
It is a bond.
It's a shared future.
It's an idea.
It's an agreement that says we're taking this idea and building something together.
And we're all responsible for its survival.
Now imagine.
Just for a minute, the next generation, 20 years.
A child born today will vote in 20 years.
And we are living in times where our adversaries, the people who are currently trying to wipe us out, think in those kinds of timelines.
We don't think past, you know, the next car in front of us at the drive-through window.
We don't plan, you know, we plan maybe in the next political cycle.
They plan in decades.
And you don't have to assume, you know, malice to see the risk.
You only have to acknowledge the reality that policies can be used and shaped and exploited by people who don't share your values or your long-term interests.
You can have people coming from countries that despise the United States of America, have them birthed here on a birth tourism, which is not a conspiracy, by the way, it's a business model.
You can't have them come here on tourism to give birth here, then go back, raise their child in China, and then send them here in 20 years so they can vote.
They don't understand America.
If anything, they despise America.
And already a million Chinese children have been born through the birth tourism loophole.
A million.
And they're being raised by their communist parents in China.
But they're American citizens who will be sent here to vote.
What do you think is going to happen in 20 years?
And all of this exists because of our current interpretation of the 14th Amendment.
That's what makes that possible.
So, what is your citizenship worth?
If it can be obtained without allegiance, slaves wanted, former slaves wanted to stay here.
They wanted to be part of America.
If it can be granted without any connection at all, if it can be claimed without commitment, then can I ask you, what exactly are we passing on to our children?
Because a nation's not just lines on a map.
It's not a resort.
And by the way, remember, the people who are pushing for all of this, they don't even believe in borders or lines on a map.
There is something unique in this country.
If you talk to people over in Europe, the people who are awake on what they're facing, they know it.
And they're begging us to wake up because they don't have the rights and the freedoms that we have.
We have to pass on those rights, but we have to pass on trust and memory and a shared understanding of who we are and what we're trying to preserve.
And most Americans don't even know that now.
Are you going to make that better or worse with birthright tourism?
I don't think our country has ever been this fragile, with an exception of maybe the Civil War, but I think it's getting close.
You can feel it.
We argue about everything.
Elections, institutions, the truth itself.
And then into that fracture, we pour one of the most consequential questions any country can face.
Who are we?
And who becomes one of us?
How do you join us?
There's a ton of people that are trying to sow division, trying to make this about us rejecting people or fear of the outsider.
It has nothing to do with that.
America has always been a nation of immigrants.
Now, with that said clearly, we never meant that to be a nation without definition.
You know, the Statue of Liberty.
Has a plaque at its base.
Emma Lazarus wrote the poem.
Bring me your tire, your poor, your huddled masses.
But she says, I stand here beside the golden door.
There is a difference between a door and no walls at all.
A door implies you don't rush it, you go through it.
You've got to go through the door.
A door invites, walls protect.
You must have both.
And what we're wrestling with right now is it's so damn evil because we have confused openness with the absence of structure.
And it's been intentional.
They have engineered us to be this way, to think this way.
Look, the people who are trying to transform us or destroy us are playing us.
They're playing on our emotions and they're playing on our strengths.
We sit here and we do everything we can to prove that we're good.
Stop trying to prove you're good.
Stop trying to prove you're not a racist.
You're not a racist.
I mean, unless you are.
But generally speaking, Americans are not racist.
Generally speaking, have we made mistakes as a nation?
Yes.
But generally speaking, all Americans, this is why I have a hard time condemning everybody who is a Democrat.
I can't do it because I know people who are Democrat.
I think we misunderstand each other.
I think they're misguided.
I think many of them have gone down a road and they don't even know how they got there.
But they think they're doing the right thing.
But everybody's trying to prove that they're on the right team.
Stop it.
Because as we're doing that, we've stopped asking, what does my team even stand for?
What is wise?
If we can't sustain the country, if we can't sustain our own laws, our own culture, our own unity, we don't really have a nation.
And that's exactly the point.
What are you protecting?
First of all, we're never going to get a 28th Amendment.
It's never going to happen.
Progressives have just torpedoed the amendment process.
When Woodrow Wilson came in, he was like, stop with the amendment stuff.
It's too hard.
We'll just do it through a giant state.
And then we'll do it by changing constitutional law into case law.
That was never the way we behaved.
What is constitutional?
Not what?
Can you imagine?
We're going back and saying, well, Dred Scott said this, so it should always be that way because that was decided.
No, it was wrong.
Go back to the original source.
Compare it the 14th Amendment.
Compare it.
What was it for?
The 14th Amendment was a promise.
It was a promise that we would never again deny citizens to those people who belong here, who were bound to this country under its full jurisdiction.
With no other sovereign claim.
Doesn't it bother anybody that Ilan Omar keeps talking as a Somali citizen, that she got elected so she could further the agenda and viewpoints of the Somali nation?
That's not your job.
Your job is to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
You're supposed to get rid of all of those other things.
The 14th Amendment was.
Was built or written to make sure that those people who wanted to be a part of this and had no other, no other place to go, this was the nation they chose.
This 14th Amendment was not a declaration that citizenship is automatic or universal or detached from allegiance, it must be attached to allegiance.
If we pretend that the 14th Amendment had nothing to do with any of that, we risk undoing not just the amendment, but the very idea that a nation capable of making such a promise in the first place can exist.
I was talking to my son.
He's back from college and he said, Dad, I'm not trying to make enemies.
I'm really trying to make friends, but it's not really popular in college.
And I said, oh, geez, what are you doing?
And he said, all I'm trying to do is ask people to think.
I'm not trying to say this is right, this is wrong.
I'm just trying to.
And I was so proud of my son.
I was like, good or bad, dude, you're not going to be very popular because the apple doesn't fall far from the tree right now.
Trying to get people just to think and not be on a team.
This isn't a partisan question.
This is a moral question.
It's a stewardship question.
We are stewards of this freedom that was bought and paid for with treasure and blood over the last 250 years.
What we're doing, are we preserving it?
Are we making it stronger?
Or are we weakening it and dissolving it?
Here's the real key.
America likes saving people.
We have this savior thing going on, I think.
We like saving people.
We like freeing people.
We like taking people who are, bring us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
We like that.
But if we're to be that place where those people can come and be their best self, if we're to be a light, if we're to help others in the future, we must first remain a country.
And to remain a country, we must not allow people to have free citizenship who are living under the jurisdiction of some other power.
They must have loyalty to our system and our country.
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Next 36 hours are going to be pretty incredible.
Tomorrow, 8 p.m., is the president's latest deadline.
And he wrote an unhinged tweet.
I think it was very strategic.
It was not meant for you.
It was meant for the IRGC to think this guy might be crazy.
We're dealing with a crazy man.
And he just might mean it.
How it works out, I don't know.
But you saw a, I think, a very strategic move yesterday from the president.
Others see it as, well, we've got to evoke the 25th Amendment because he's crazy.
You know, Biden, he was in total control, but, you know, a tweet from Donald Trump, he's crazy.
And then there are all kinds of other rumors that we now know online are coming from foreign nations that are meant to destroy us.
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All right, let me just go through some of the lies that I'm seeing online right now, and they are very well crafted.
One, we're sending 100,000 troops into Iran.
We're not sending 100,000 troops into Iran.
That's not happening.
But if you look at that, If you look on social media, you will find that Trump was a Walter Reed this weekend.
Something's seriously, seriously wrong.
He might be catching what Benjamin Netanyahu has, which is death.
The latest coming out today is Trump is crazy and he's going to nuke Iran tomorrow.
Okay.
How about this one?
Artemis is not in space.
Really?
Of course, you have the super classics of Israel is responsible for Charlie Kirk's death.
But now the latest is that Israel employed, and I'm not making this up, somebody else did, employing the Mormon Mafia to do it.
Now, being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I've not heard of the Mormon Mafia.
I mean, unless it's there to, you know, change people's minds through the force of, you know, eating jello with. carrots in it or, you know, having funeral potatoes.
I don't know how that is, but the Mormon mafia apparently is the one that killed Charlie Kirk.
That's the latest.
They seem to be everywhere online.
You look at just go through X just as a test and just look at the comments of even the most inane stories.
It is all division and hatred.
And I mean like I've never seen it before.
And we are just slowly sliding into it as if nothing has changed.
Now, most of this stuff, it's coming out in studies that the most viral, the most divisive, especially on things like war and our politics, all originating from foreign sources and bots.
But we just shrug that off like, oh, well.
And yet we argue about what's real and what's not online.
I saw a story this weekend and I showed it to my wife and I'm like, this can't be true, right?
It said that Prince William and Princess Catherine or whatever her name is, Kate, yeah, whatever.
that they're separating and they're living separate lives.
They're headed for divorce.
They've already, you know, you know, split up all of the, you know, castles or whatever.
And my first reaction was not outrage.
It wasn't even skepticism because I just, I just didn't think who would make that up.
You know what I mean?
My first reaction was sadness.
I'm like, oh, you've got to be kidding me.
Almost an automatic acceptance that something stable has just broken.
And then I find out it's not true.
I mean, because I start looking into it.
I think I contacted Ricky and I'm like, Ricky, is this true at all?
Total fabrication.
Another rumor.
Another ghost story dressed up as news.
But it was really well done.
Really well done.
So my question was over the weekend that I kept kicking around all weekend was, who would do that?
Who makes that up?
Why would you make that up?
Years ago, I said that there is a phase civilizations enter before real collapse, before war, before economic failure.
And I called it the trust implosion or trust.
So I want the anatomy of that story.
What was that?
Because it's such a ridiculous, stupid story.
Why would you do that?
Well, first, it targets a symbol of continuity, stability, tradition.
Even that is collapsing.
Now, you could make a real case that it's collapsing because, oh, I don't know, the defender of the faith, King Charles, is a lunatic and didn't even issue an Easter message and instead is busy with Islam.
I mean, he's the defender of the faith.
You could make that case and that's real.
No, no, no.
This one was emotionally loaded and it was believable the way it was done.
Spreads fast, verifies very slowly.
And most importantly, It leaves something behind even after it's disproven.
Doubt.
It leaves doubt.
Now let me turn to the war with Iran.
This weekend, rising tensions again, centered around the Strait of Hormuz.
A narrow strip of water quietly determines the price of your gasoline, your groceries, our future, all of that.
But here's the thing.
Americans aren't just debating what's happening.
We're now debating whether or not we can trust what we're being told is happening.
And it's not just, you know, the government's doing propaganda.
No, no, you don't even know where this is coming from.
One side says this, we have to go in.
One side says we were tricked to go in.
Another side says the whole thing was a lie.
Another side says, you know, America is bad and it's all of these.
It's crazy.
And I don't know about you, but the more I read, the fewer and fewer of them that I read, I believe that any of the people that are writing this are acting in good faith.
People are not making mistakes.
This is intentional.
Look at Europe.
Immigration tensions, protests, government saying one thing publicly, doing another privately.
Public knows it.
Not because they trust official statements, but because they see contradictions that no longer line up.
So trust erodes.
Look at your own life.
Inflation is cooling.
Is it?
My grocery bill is not cooling.
Insurance isn't cooling.
Cost of a house isn't cooling.
Everything I see in my life tells a different story.
So you're not just questioning the numbers, you start to question who's giving you the numbers and why they're doing this.
And then comes the accelerant, the environment that we live in.
AI-generated content, conflicting narratives, entirely different versions of the same reality, each presented with absolute certainty and done in such a way that, you know, if you're my age, you just don't think you could fake because it's just too good.
It's too elaborate.
I told Stu once back in the 1990s, I said, there's going to come a time before 2030 where you will not be able to believe your eyes or ears.
And when that happens, all bets are off.
We're there, gang.
You know, there was a time when we argued interpretation, but now we're not even getting to interpretation.
We're getting to, is that story even real?
So who's doing it?
Who benefits?
This one, I can usually say, well, that would benefit this group or this group.
But who creates a lie about the royal family?
Because it seems ridiculous.
Now, maybe not in England, but over here, it seems pretty ridiculous.
I find the answer to this a little uncomfortable because it's not just one group.
There are state actors, countries like Russia and China and God knows who else.
Iran, they understand that you don't have to defeat a military of a nation if you can fracture the country psychologically.
Then there are ideological movements that believe chaos is necessary.
That's the Twelvers in Iran.
That's the Marxists and the Communists.
That a system has to be destabilized before it can be replaced.
Then there are algorithms that reward outrage over truth because outrage spreads.
Truth takes time.
It's a little boring sometimes.
And then there are just individuals.
Some of them cynical, some of them broken, some of them, honestly, this is the most frightening, just bored.
They've decided watching things burn is its own reward.
All of those agents of chaos.
Who is the author of Chaos?
Agents of Chaos and Broken Trust00:10:09
I ask you that because it is so important to realize that.
When you click on a story and send it and you don't know if it's true, you are an unknowing agent of chaos.
Because it's not just the chaos that is being created.
It is the chaos that has become its own ecosystem.
And the real damage is not the lie itself.
It's what it does to each of us.
You read the story, you believe it, you feel it, then you correct it.
And then comes the final step.
What else isn't true?
That's the purpose of all of this.
What else isn't true?
I can't believe anything.
When I saw that, I'm like, I can't believe anything.
Who would do this?
Who would do this about something so stupid?
Why would you lie about that?
And they're everywhere.
They're everywhere about stupid stuff.
But those agents of chaos know that when enough people reach that point, when suspicion becomes the default setting, that's when trust implodes.
And then what happens?
Well, Not necessarily immediately, not always dramatically, but always consistently, consistency, consistently, the society loses.
It loses trust in institutions, in its information, and ultimately with one another.
You can't believe one another.
And what adds to that?
We already don't trust one another.
We already don't trust our own family members, some of us.
We already are hostile to the people that we're around all the day.
We don't trust people who vote differently than us.
So they're part of the problem.
We all have somebody in our life that we feel that way about.
So then our life, our own connections, sometimes to our own family is unstable.
There's no cohesion on anything.
And in that environment, every new event, like the ones we saw this weekend, doesn't resolve the tension.
It adds pressure.
Crap.
This is not abstract anymore.
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Okay, so what do you do?
What do you do?
Well, first thing you do is you slow down.
You slow down.
If something hits you emotionally really fast, it was designed to.
Truth can withstand scrutiny, but manipulation depends on speed.
So slow down.
Second, ask a better question.
Not just, is this true?
But who benefits if I believe this?
Who benefits if I spend any time on this?
Because you already know the answer.
Agents of chaos.
And you don't want to be anywhere near chaos.
Third, you have to rebuild the trust where you actually can.
And I can't rebuild your trust in any of the institutions.
It's not going to happen nationally, at least not yet.
So you think locally, friends, family, community.
Civilizations don't rebuild trust from the top down.
They rebuild it from the inside out.
That's also how you destroy it.
You rot it from the inside out.
Fourth thing you need to do is reduce your own fragility.
Less debt, more stability, more awareness of where your essentials come from.
Because when systems wobble, resilience becomes freedom.
And this matters.
Because with that, you start to demand something different from leadership, clarity.
You know, you watch what's actually happening.
You match words with actions.
You stop managing perception and you start rebuilding the credibility.
Because the American people can handle the hard truth.
They can.
What we cannot survive against is this constant contradiction.
And beyond Washington, the states, community, churches, they all have a role.
Local governments have to bring decisions closer to the people.
Communities must rebuild civic life that isn't just political theater.
And churches, especially the churches, must remember who and what they are.
That is a place where truth is not negotiated.
It's a place where people can disagree without becoming enemies, where moral clarity exists without hatred, and it must always be that way.
But it starts with tell the truth.
Because when trust collapses in a culture, people begin to look for anything solid.
And if they don't find it there, They will find it somewhere else, and that is already happening.
So that story about the royal family, it looks small, it seems small, but it's not.
I mean, that's what bothered me, I think, so much about it.
I've seen all the big stories, but that one seems so like such a waste of time.
It's a single thread, but if you start pulling on it, you realize, oh my gosh, look at how many threads are already loose.
Trust collapse doesn't arrive with one headline.
It arrives as a quiet belief, a quiet correction, a lingering question.
If I can't believe this, what can I believe?
What else is breaking that I can't see?
Trust collapse, it doesn't come with a parade.
And it's happening right now.
It comes in quietly.
It's when you assume you're being misled.
You expect institutions to fail.
You stop believing that things can be fixed.
If we have enough people that reach that point, you know how it ends.
And it doesn't end necessarily in war.
but conditions where war becomes possible.
So I want to urge you to slow down because this is not inevitable, but it is directional.
We're going in that direction, and the direction can only be changed the same way it was lost, not from the top down, but from the inside out.
One person, you, telling the truth, no matter how unpopular it makes you, and say it with love and respect.
Don't try to win.
Don't try to win.
One family choosing stability, one house, one neighborhood, rebuilding trust with the neighbors.
It's much slower than collapse, but it is the only thing that history has ever shown that stops it.
Start building that in your own family and building that in your own community.
Honestly, it's why I have a house and I've spent my summers in a town of 400 people.
Because while we don't all know each other, we don't all agree with each other, we all have the same basic principles and we're all looking out for one another.
And it doesn't matter if we agree or disagree.
We're all a member of the community and we know what is generally true.
Focus on those things.
You know, tomorrow I'm going to talk to you about some things that the central bank and the European Union are saying that is really disturbing.
Really disturbing and it to me it shows, um, there is some other little game that they're playing here um, and we're gonna need to know we can trust one another.
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So I want to take you back to what we were just talking about for a second and show you how you can see through a lot of bullcrap in the media pretty quickly if you are open-minded.
I am convinced that that is the secret to life is remaining open-minded.
There are things that I know to be true and things that I, I mean, I believe with everything in me.
But if God came down or somebody came down and said, look, you got it all wrong, I die.
I go to heaven and God is like, yeah, you needed to be Hindu.
I would be wildly surprised by that, but I would have to accept the truth if I'm standing there in the presence of God.
Spinning Stories vs. Real Facts00:15:24
Okay.
That's a ridiculous kind of thing, but you need to look at it.
You need to look everything in life as I'm doing the best I can.
This is where my knowledge is right now.
There is going to be new information that comes my way.
And I have to be able to make the little adjustments based in fact.
So I can have a full understanding.
The minute you harden, you become somebody who eventually is going to deny that the earth is round.
Because, no, I've made my decision on this and no facts come in that we can change my mind.
But right now, you're being played.
And it's weird because it's for clicks, it's for popularity, for fame, for fortune, but also because there are people with really bad intent as well.
So let me give you two stories here.
And they're saying exactly the same thing.
Let me give you the headlines of these two stories.
Bullet used to kill Charlie Kirk did not match rifle allegedly used to suspect Tyler Robinson, new court filing claims.
Wow, wait a minute.
What?
Bullet used to kill Charlie Kirk did not match rifle allegedly used by suspect Tyler Robinson, according to new court filings.
Well, that is a game changer, right?
If I read that story, I'm like, wait a minute, it didn't match the rifle.
But is that the story?
Now, let me give you the other headline Charlie Kirk's accused assassin's lawyers question the inconclusive link between bullet from autopsy and rifle found near the scene.
Wait, keyword here is inconclusive, not in the first story.
They use this.
As fact.
So let me just go through this here because there's a trick to spotting media spin.
And once you see it, you can't unsee it.
And I want to take this case.
Two outlets, same facts, same court filings.
They're talking about the same court filing, the same evidence, and yet two completely different realities.
One headline tells you evidence is inconclusive, the other one tells you it's a bombshell.
Wait, there's your first test.
Are they describing what is known or are they trying to tell you how to feel about it?
Because inconclusive means the science isn't settled.
Bombshell means somebody wants your heart rate up.
Second test, sizes confusion.
You have to start thinking differently.
And it took me a long time to learn this.
That's not reporting.
That is framing.
And framing is so critical.
We think of stories.
We don't think, how is somebody trying to frame this on the first shot at me?
Okay.
The third test is watch how certainty is handled.
Real reporting uses phrases like, according to court documents, investigators say, tests are ongoing.
Spin takes all those guardrails away.
It says it did not match, raises serious doubt, changes the case, even when the underlying fact hasn't changed at all.
So, what is the story of this bullet not matching?
The bullet was so smushed.
You know, when you're looking to match a rifle, what happens?
You're looking for the rifling, the fingerprint that is unique to every rifle, of how that bullet spins out of that rifle and the markings that it leaves on the shell as it's coming out, on the bullet itself as it's coming out.
So, Why couldn't they match it?
Well, it didn't match, didn't match.
No, no, no, no.
The results were inconclusive.
They couldn't see any markings.
Not that they were different, they couldn't see.
The bullet was too smushed to be able to find any markings.
Well, isn't that entirely different than it doesn't match?
Yes, entirely different.
So, this is the most important part of this.
Ask yourself, When you read a story, what story are they trying to build in my mind?
Is it, we don't know everything yet?
Or is it, this proves something?
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I am working really hard because the times are so serious.
I'm working harder now than I ever have in my life, by far.
Because I've always tried to be careful, but the times are so serious right now, I want to make sure I am de escalating as much as I can.
That I'm not trying to get you to feel something, I'm trying to get you to learn how to spot truth because feelings are what's getting us into trouble here.
Truth is what will save us, facts are what will save us.
And so.
I try really hard, and I've said this all the way through with this war, because I honestly don't know how it's going to come out.
I know how I hope it's going to come out, but it's really bothered me how many people are speaking from a place of absolute authority.
I mean, unless you're with the president and you are getting a briefing with him every day, you have no idea what he's doing.
You have no idea what he's reacting to.
You have no idea.
It's pure speculation.
And you want to talk about unqualified to speculate?
That would be me.
And so I can tell you what I think.
Is happening.
I can tell you what I think it means.
I can tell you what to watch for.
You know, I've been saying a lot lately here's what you need to watch for.
If it's going this way, you're going to see these things.
If it's going that way, you're going to see these things.
I just did this in the monologue about the war today and about Donald Trump's tweet that he put out.
It was a crazy tweet, or was it?
I don't know.
Might have been born out of frustration, might have been born out of anger.
I don't think it was.
But that's my speculation.
I can explain it another way, but that doesn't make it true.
And this is the way we all need to be when it comes to things that we don't, you know, there's math and then there's opinion.
And we live in a society where we tried to make math an opinion.
It doesn't have to be right.
You just tell us how you got there.
That's an opinion.
That's not mathematics.
Don't strap me in a rocket that you've built if you think math is an opinion.
We need more math and less opinion.
Most modern media doesn't out.
Out and out lie to you.
Some do, but they don't.
They select, they emphasize, they arrange, they frame.
It takes uncertainty and points it in a certain direction because they think they know.
And that's fine if they tell you, like I try to.
I'm an opinion guy, I am not a journalist, and I'm a recovering alcoholic that somehow or another stumbled into this job and.
It worked somehow or another.
And believe me, I understand it less than you do.
But what I try to do is make sense of the world.
But I'm doing my best to figure it out for myself.
And then I'll share that with you.
You should never take anything I say as gospel.
You shouldn't take anything from any of us clowns that do this job on any side as gospel.
We're here to tell you how we view it.
And then you're supposed to take that and go, I think he's right maybe about this and this.
I could be wrong about that too.
Once you understand the difference on what media is supposed to do and what they actually are doing, once you understand how they do it, you're going to stop being led by headlines.
And you're going to start reading things like an investigator.
Not what are they saying, but how are they saying it?
Why are they saying it this way?
That's the only way you will see spin.
Why are they saying it this way?
I told you today that the left is trying to, they're going to go for the 25th Amendment.
They're now pushing for the 25th Amendment because they thought that Donald Trump's tweet was crazy.
And I told you early today, it could be.
I don't think so, but it could be crazy.
I don't know.
He might have written it in an absolute fit of rage or whatever, but I don't think, I just don't think that's true.
He is a negotiator above all things.
He wasn't aiming that tweet to you.
It wasn't for your consumption.
I learned this from President Bush one time.
He was yelling at me for like 45 minutes.
And then I said, Mr. President, you know, you've got all the facts and figures about what you're doing.
That's the president that the people need to see.
And then he yelled at me for another 10 minutes, telling me, I can't be that person.
I can't say these things because everything I say, and this is one of the first things you learn as a president, everything you say, everything you do is scrutinized by our enemies.
Okay.
Donald Trump knows that.
And, you know, I have to tell you, he is, he may seem like he just shoots from the hip and sometimes he does.
He just says it.
But when it comes to something important, like people getting killed, he's not doing that.
I've never had any indication he would do that.
Maybe things have changed.
Maybe he woke up crazy yesterday.
I don't think so.
But it is important that you understand that, yes, it will mean this to these people.
And if you look at it that way, let's play that out.
Who benefits from that?
You look at it this way, how does it play out?
Who benefits from that?
Which one is more likely to be happening?
Because no one can tell you it's one or the other.
I can't.
Only President Trump can tell you that.
And you know what?
In war, he's not going to tell you.
Not going to tell you.
Because if he's crazy, he's certainly not going to tell you he's crazy.
And on the other end, if it's negotiation, really shrewd negotiation, you think he's going to let you in on that and blow that?
You'll know tomorrow.
You'll know tomorrow at eight.
Can you wait?
Ricky.
Actually, you might know today at the Easter egg roll at the White House, Trump said that Iran negotiators made a significant proposal, a significant step following his ultimatum he issued on Easter morning.
Now, is that true?
Could be more strategy.
It could be more strategy.
I don't know.
I don't know.
But, you know, let's just have things play out and.
And maybe it's just me and maybe I'm being unfair because I see it on our side happening to us all the time.
But can somebody just give some people the benefit of the doubt occasionally?
Just occasionally, can you give somebody the benefit of the doubt?
Wouldn't that be refreshing?
I mean, we are told we have to give people the benefit of the doubt who, did you see in Los Angeles, the latest in California is the corruption is so bad.
We don't have the number of prosecutors to be able to prosecute all of the fraud.
They are talking about a quarter to a third of the California budget being lost or given away to graft and corruption.
A third.
And you know that's not just California.
I'm telling you, that's going to be happening in red states too.
I don't know about that big.
I hope not.
But it's going to be happening all over because people are people.
They'll see somebody getting away with it and they'll be like, oh, if everybody's getting away with it, why don't I do it?
It's going to happen.
It's going to happen.
Let's all just say to each other, can we not assume the worst unless you have a long, long history of everything you do?
Like, you know, Joe Biden, he kept saying, I'm making the country stronger, I'm making the country stronger, you know, militarily.
How?
How?
You had a long train of things that were like really, really frightening.
And it always, America always lost at the end.
Donald Trump, he's doing some.
Very frightening things.
But so far, America has been on the winning end of that.
It may end up horribly.
But can we at least admit that some of the things that he has done has been done unconventionally?
But it actually seems to be playing in America's favor.
At least some of it.
Can we get there?
I don't know.
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