President Donald Trump on Monday signed a sweeping executive order setting a 30-day deadline for drugmakers to electively lower the cost of prescription drugs in the U.S. or face new limits down the road over what the government will pay. The order calls on the health department, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to broker new price tags for drugs over the next month. If deals are not reached, Kennedy will be tasked with developing a new rule that ties the price the U.S. pays for medications to lower prices paid by other countries. Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss the high prices of pharmaceuticals in the United States and whether Trump’s executive order will have the intended effect. Plus segments on Trump bypassing Netanyahu to negotiate the release of the last U.S. hostage in Gaza and reports in the Jerusalem Post suggesting that Trump is planning to declare U.S. recognition of an independent Palestinian state. Also featuring Stef Zamorano and Mike MacRae. And a phone call from Andrew Cuomo!
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Hey, this is Jimmy.
Who is this?
Hello, Jimmy.
It's your favorite New York mayoral candidate.
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
How are you?
Oh, I'm on top of the world, Jimmy.
I heard you were just talking about the mayoral race in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Horse League, Tin Horn.
Jimmy, let's talk about a mayoral race with balls.
Yeah.
Big Apple.
Fine.
Are you still liking your chances there?
Liking my chances?
Jimmy, good lord.
Have you seen the polls?
I've got this thing wrapped up like a Christmas present.
No kidding.
At this point in the race, the only purpose I serve is to induce the entertaining spectacle of my various opponents tripping over each other like the Keystone cops to secure some sort of footing with ranked voting.
Yeah, I see.
They're not going to win, but some may get on the November ballot.
So they're all fighting over the crumbs that I deigned to toss them.
How arrogant of you, Jimmy.
I have in my veins the blood of Roman generals and emperors.
Humility in the public square is a genetic impossibility for me.
And it is genuinely funny.
Oh, is it now?
Jimmy, needless to say, I have a super PAC.
So far, it has spent $2.4 million on my behalf.
On my money, mind you, just on my behalf.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right.
Now, old political enemies of mine have formed a pack solely for the purpose of opposing me in this election.
Jimmy, I want you to guess how much money that pack has.
I'm going to guess it's embarrassingly low.
Let's, I don't know.
Let's.
How about $2 million?
Oh, so close, Jimmy.
$2,000.
$2,000.
That's how much the Stop Cuomo Pack has raised.
So my old political enemies can rent an apartment in Manhattan for approximately one and a half weeks.
Are we not admitting that is kind of funny, just in a simple numbers gag kind of way?
Yeah, fine.
I do concede that's funny.
You got me.
Now we're getting somewhere.
And Jimmy, get this.
These various bozos who think they can take down a fucking New York bull in the New York mayoral race, rumor has it, have been talking about joining forces, pooling their meager resources, and taking out attack ads on yours truly.
They think they can gang up on me.
The very idea.
Okay.
But the one guy who has refused to join them supposedly is this Zoron character who is polling the best out of all of them.
Can you believe it?
The one guy whose name sounds like Voltron is the one refusing to join forces with four other candidates.
Too bad.
I'd like to see these ads, though.
What would an attack on me even be?
What?
They show a black and white, unflattering photo of me.
Voiceover comes on.
Andrew Cuomo's balls are so big.
The city budgetary committee projects a seven-finger renovation of the mayoral office would be required to even accommodate them.
Andrew Cuomo, New York City can't afford him or his balls.
Paid for by four losers who are going to lose to said balls.
You're really shameless.
You know that?
I mean, I'm pretty sure the attack ads would be about your record as governor and how you, you know, screw things up.
Ancient history.
New Yorkers don't care.
Yeah, and they can't afford these ads anyway, so they resort to taking ridiculous pot shots against me in the press.
Yeah, like what kind of pot shots are they taking against you?
Well, I'm glad you asked, Jimmy.
Take my opponent, Jessica Ramos.
State Senator Ramos is polling 3% and has $1,039 in her campaign.
You gotta be kidding me.
Nope.
She couldn't afford an attack ad on a bazooka Joe rapper.
So she accuses me of publicly of losing my mental acuity and said that we can't have a Joe Biden moment in the mayor's office.
Well, is it true?
Are you losing it?
Jimmy, don't be don't be ridiculous.
My intellect is as keen and sharp as my virility.
The years have been very good to me.
Nice try comparing me to Biden, but the joke is on her.
How, how?
How so?
The only guy that New Yorkers would love more than a bull mayor like Andrew Cuomo would be an Andrew Cuomo who is kind of going crazy.
The rest.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
The residents of the Big Apple love a spectacle.
This town was built on the bowery vaudeville and Broadway.
Can you imagine anything more operatic than a Roman-featured strongman slowly losing his mind?
It sounds like a political liability to me, but what do I know?
You don't know New York City, my friend.
I know entire neighborhoods in Queens who would pay money to see that, let alone cast a free vote.
Yeah.
It would be like Caligula all over again.
Yeah.
Fuck it.
I'll make my favorite horse comp troller.
I'll replace the Columbus Circle Fountain with red wine and 100 days of gain.
Oh, my God.
Okay.
My old brother, how about that?
How about if I just give you an old brother?
My brother.
Sorry, Mr. Memory.
The point is, they can't even smear me in ways that would make me look bad.
Look, Jimmy, I know you also have little obsequious peons out there who are trying to take you down, smear you.
Don't you get a little kick out of how desperate they come across?
I don't think that's the same thing, though.
I mean, you're a political figure with a very compromised record, Andrew.
Jimmy, we are not so different, you and I. Don't start with this again.
We couldn't be more different.
You always try this.
We're bulls crap with me.
Come on.
Yeah, okay.
All right, we got to go.
I got a show to do.
Goodbye, disgraced former Governor Cuomo.
Jimmy, I feel like I'm going mad.
My grip on reality is slipping.
Who knows what I'll do?
This is going to be fun.
He's going to be freaking mayor, isn't he?
Of course.
Yeah, of course he is.
Let's hope so.
Ha ha ha ha.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Ha ha ha ha.
Establishment media sucks.
August light and so good luck.
Bullshit we can't afford.
Fomenting this.
Whoa.
Watch and see as a jack off.
The medium speeds and jumps the medium and hits him head on.
It's the chimney tour show.
According to the Vigilant Fox, everything changed today.
Everything.
What?
What happened?
Well, something that should have happened, I don't know, 40 years ago, Trump finally did with an executive order.
This could go down as the biggest healthcare shift in the model world.
Trump just did what every other politician promised to do but failed.
He took a wrecking ball to Big Pharma, has executive order to slash drug prices by up to 90%.
Up to the then RFK Jr. exposed why no one else, not even Bernie, ever followed through.
So you know all my shitlib friends are going to say he's only reducing the drug prices so that we'll get everybody else going to get hooked on those drugs.
That's what this is about.
That's like saying don't smoke weed around Seth Rogen because we don't want him getting involved in drugs.
Trump signs executive order setting a 30-day deadline for drug makers to lower prescription drug costs.
This is real.
This is real.
Let's hear.
This is real.
It's right there from the AP, so that's how you know it's real.
Here we go.
But starting today, the United States will no longer subsidize the health care of foreign countries, which is what we were doing.
We're subsidizing others' health care, countries where they paid a small fraction of what for the same drug that what we pay many, many times more for, and will no longer tolerate profiteering and price gouging from big pharma.
But again, it was really the countries that forced big pharma to do things that, frankly, I'm not sure they really felt comfortable doing, but they've gotten away with it.
These countries, European Union, has been brutal, brutal.
So for the first time in many years, we'll slash the cost of prescription drugs, and we will bring fairness to America.
Drug prices will come down by much more, really, if you think.
59%, if you think of a drug that is sometimes 10 times more expensive, it's much more than the 59%.
You know, it depends on the way you want to analyze it, but in one way you could analyze it that way.
But between 59 and 80, and I guess even 90%.
So what he's really doing.
You want to know what he's really doing?
Okay.
President Trump on Monday signed a sweeping executive order setting a 30-day deadline for drug makers to electively lower the cost of prescription drugs in the United States or to have to face new limits down the road over what the government will pay.
So most of at least half of the people who take pharmaceuticals in this country are paid for by the government.
So 70 million people are on Medicare, 80 million people on Medicaid.
That's like half the country already is on government health care.
Why don't we just go the rest of the way?
Why not just go the rest of the way?
It couldn't get, I love how people go, oh boy, if the government took over pharmaceuticals, they would really have a field day.
What do you think they're doing now?
The order calls on the health department led by RFK to broker new price tags for drugs.
So it's the price tags that the government is willing to pay.
So they're going to set the standard.
So you know how Joe Biden said, oh, we're going to, so there's a law.
Literally, this is how corrupt your government is.
That doesn't allow the government to bargain for prescription drugs for Medicare.
Did you know that?
No.
So that's why it was a big deal when Joe Biden said we're going to get 10 drugs phased over a bunch of years that we're going to actually be able to negotiate them.
So what that means is the pharmaceuticals, they get to charge whatever they want to Medicare for the drugs.
Sometimes it's 200%, 300, 400% more than the rest of the world pays.
That's what Trump is talking about.
So if you want to get a drug to give it to a senior citizen on Medicare, the government can't negotiate the price of that with the pharmaceuticals.
Because that's how corrupt your government is.
They passed a law that made that illegal.
And so that's why other countries pay a fraction of the cost for their pharmaceuticals than we do in the United States.
And Trump is saying this has to end.
And you have to do this voluntarily, or we're going to just start.
So he's given them 30 days and RFK is going to broker it.
If the deals are not reached, Kennedy will be tasked with developing a new rule that ties the price of what the United States pays for medications to lower prices paid by other countries.
So he's like saying, hey, you either lower these prices voluntarily or we're just going to pass a regulate, a new rule saying we don't pay any more than Switzerland pays for these drugs.
Uh...
Thank you.
And pharmaceutical shareholders, I bet, are standing on their balconies jumping for joy.
Here's what RFK said about it.
Here we go.
Is that not RFK?
Who is this?
That's Oz, and that's RFK.
This is an extraordinary day.
This is an issue that, you know, I grew up in the Democratic Party and every major Democratic leader for 20 years has been making this promise to the American people.
This was the fulcrum of Bernie Sanders' runs for presidency, that he was going to eliminate this discrepancy between Europe and the United States.
But as it turns out, none of them were doing it.
It's one of these promises that politicians make to their constituents, knowing that they'll never have to do it.
And the reason they'll never have to do it is because they know that Congress is controlled in so many ways by the pharmaceutical industry.
There's at least one pharmaceutical lobbyist for every congressman, every senator in Capitol Hill, and every member of the Supreme Court.
Some estimates, three.
Pharmaceutical companies, the industry itself spends three times what the next largest lobbyist spends on lobbying.
So this was an issue that people talked about, but nobody wanted to do anything because it was radioactive.
They knew you couldn't get it by Congress.
We now have a president who is a man of his word, who has the courage.
President Trump was taking money from the pharmaceutical industry, too.
I think they gave you $100 million.
But he can't be bought, unlike most of the politicians in this country.
And he is standing here for the American people.
There has never been a president more willing to stand up to the oligarchs than President Donald Trump.
And I'm very, very proud of you, Mr. President, for your courage.
I'll say, because I don't want to be crude, your intestinal fortitude, your stiff spine, and your willingness to stand up for the American people.
We have 4.2% of the world's population.
Our country represents 75% of the revenues for pharmaceutical companies.
We spend in our country $1,126 per capita on drugs.
In Britain, they spent about $240,000.
They spend one-fifth of what we do.
And this is true across Europe.
And the drug companies, Europeans, if you ask them, it made no sense what they were saying.
America has to pay for this innovation or it's not going to happen.
President Trump is saying to our European partners is you've got to raise the amount that you're paying for those drugs and pay for your share of the innovation.
That the United States is no longer subsidizing that.
If the Europeans raise the price of their drugs by just 20%, that is $10 trillion that can be spent on innovation.
And the health of all people all across the globe is going to increase because we're going to have better products.
So what he's talking about there is that I'm going to show you in a second.
The pharmaceutical companies say, well, if we don't overcharge the United States, then we're not going to have any money to develop new drugs.
And that you guys are going to be.
So that's what he's saying.
He's like, hey, well, let's spread this out.
Let's spread it out.
The problem isn't Europe.
That's a straw man.
The problem isn't Europe.
That's a red herring, maybe.
The problem is our corrupt government.
And so we allow big pharma to corrupt our government by bribes.
And then they pass stupid laws like we can't negotiate for drug prices.
And then we end up paying $4,000, $5,000 and $600,000 more than Europe.
That's not Europe's fault.
That's our fault.
Europe has universal health care in most every country.
We don't have that here.
So that's not Europe.
So they're trying to do this thing where I'm not blaming the pharmaceuticals.
I'm blaming Europe.
Now, it's not Europe's fault, but I get why they have to do this for politics.
So I'm just so grateful to be here today.
I never thought that this would happen in my lifetime.
I have a couple of kids who are Democrats or big Bernie Sanders fans.
And when I told them that this was going to happen, they had tears in their eyes because they thought this is never going to happen in our lifetime.
And we finally have a president who's willing to stand up for the American people.
So almost everything he said was true, except blaming Europe for it.
But you want to see how much more we pay?
Here's Dr. Roz.
Dr. Ross has a chart.
You want to see the chart?
Here we go.
I left.
It's a list of the 10 drugs that were negotiated in the IRA.
So this was when Biden said, oh, we're going to be able to negotiate prices for 10 drugs.
Here we go.
This is the bill, the law that regulates a negotiation process.
This is the best price that was able to be obtained by the Biden administration.
So after they said we're going to negotiate the prices of these 10 drugs, look how much they negotiated the price.
Ready?
And if you look at these numbers, they actually reflect how much on top of the most favored nation price was being paid by the United States.
So the closest to me, Bob, you can point to the Jordanians, the closest one, 289%, the one that's closest to you.
That means that we are paying in America four times more.
than that drug costs in other countries.
Again, 100%.
So that's 400% more.
Four times equals 400% more, even after they negotiated.
After, remember, Biden, we beat big pharma.
This is how they beat them.
We're only going to pay 400% more for that drug than the rest of the world does.
That's the baseline.
It's 289% above that baseline.
It goes all the way down to where we're paying 50% more than any other country.
So the lowest is right here.
After they negotiated, the Biden administration, we're paying 50% more than any other country.
So that's the lowest.
Do you understand how corrupt our government is?
Doesn't sound like negotiations are really happening.
It sounds like Pharma.
It sounds weird.
Doesn't sound like it.
It sounds weird that Trump is the guy who's going to do this.
Well, we'll see what happens, but we'll see what happens.
That's the range.
As was pointed out by President Trump, half the time we're paying three times more than is paid in other countries.
It doesn't make any sense for the system.
That stated, President Trump has over and over again indicated, and Secretary Kennedy reflected as well.
We want innovation.
We want our technology partners doing the best they can to make the best solutions for drugs to cure as many people in America and around the world as possible.
By getting our allies to pay a bit more, as they should be, and they should have for many years been doing, we'll, of course, correct a problem that's gotten out of hand.
And by doing that in a thoughtful, effective way, we're going to be able to get the pharmaceutical industry whole.
Those jobs will still be here.
We'll still be productive.
We'll still be curing cancer and a slew of other ailments that plague humanity.
America will still be the leader in this space, but we'll be paying the appropriate amount, the right-sized amount for those tasks.
So over the next 30 days, the four of us up here, together with people standing in the back of this room, who are doing a lot of the heavy lifting, are going to be approaching pharmaceutical companies to talk specifically about what we want the most favored nation price to be based on the best data we have.
We're looking forward to a thoughtful interaction with these corporate leaders, many of whom we've spoken to and in quiet will agree the system is not right the way it is.
They're patriotic Americans.
They want what's right.
But the fact that in my lifetime, as Secretary Kennedy said, for the first time, we have a thoughtful and aggressive.
I like how he says that the people I talk to in the pharmaceutical industry, in quiet, in private, they will admit that this is a screwed up system.
But in public, they rape the country.
Isn't that funny?
In private, they know it's screwed up because they're patriotic Americans.
But in public, they screw over the taxpayer horribly.
That's basically what he just said.
That's kind of funny.
I didn't catch that the first time I listened to it.
Thanks to President Trump on taking on the special interests.
It should give all Americans confidence that this is an administration that stands for fairness and should chill the waters for those who believe they can push us away from our North Star, which is to take care of the American people.
Ms. President, God bless you.
And here's what Trump had to say at the end when he's signing it.
When now, on top of the tax cuts and regulation cuts, all the things, now you're going to say that the price of your medicine is going down by 60, 70, 80%.
You're going to vote against it?
I think a lot of Democrats are going to be forced to do something that their leaders are going to beg them not to do.
And that's vote for the bill.
I don't see how they can vote against it.
How can they vote against it when drug prices, drugs, and pharmaceuticals are going to be down 70, 80%?
Believe me, they're going to find a cockamamie reason to.
No, I don't want to stop research on cancer.
I don't want to stop research on diabetes.
That's what they're going to say.
This is going to take away all that research.
This is going to talk, so nobody's going to have any more innovations of people who are just going to die.
That's what they're going to say.
They're going to say it.
They're going to say it.
So just to show you how bought they are by Big Pharma, ABC News asks a question.
Is it about this?
Is it about how Big Pharma's been raping the taxpayer?
Is it about how corrupt the Congress is in letting Big Pharma rape us?
No, watch what.
Watch what the question is.
It's going to be very interesting.
Mr. President, we can say people who view that luxury chat as a personal gift to you.
They didn't ask about this.
They're asking about Qatar or Cotter or Gutter that just gifted the United States.
Some people say Trump.
Some people say the defense.
They gave it to the country.
Trump gets a free airplane.
He doesn't have to pay for Air Force One.
And so Cotter just gave them a free airplane.
I don't know how much it's worth.
Some people say $400 million.
I don't know.
Doesn't matter.
It's not Trump's.
Trump gets a free airplane.
He gets a fly run on Air Force One.
So Cotter wants to give one to the United States.
That's the dumbest, stupidest thing.
They're acting like that's going in Trump's bank account.
Or when he leaves office, he's going to take it with him.
That's what their question is.
So it's a dumb question.
It's a question meant to incite.
It's not meant to give information or to shed light on anything.
It's a political gotcha question, which it isn't, because I don't think anybody gives a shit.
I certainly don't.
Cotter wants to give a plane to the United States for the president to use.
Go ahead.
Why not?
Only ABC.
Well, a few of you would.
Let me tell you, you should be embarrassed asking that question.
They're giving us a free jet.
I could say, no, no, no, don't give us.
I want to pay you a billion or $400 million or whatever it is.
Or I could say thank you very much.
You know, there was an old golfer named Sam Sneed.
Did you ever hear him?
He won AG tournaments.
He was a great golfer.
You know what he said?
And he had a motto: when they give you a putt.
Pick it up and go.
You say thank you very much.
You pick up your ball and you walk to the next hole.
A lot of people are stupid.
They say, no, no, I insist on putting it.
Then they putt it.
They miss it.
And they miss the putt.
And their partner gets angry at them.
You know what?
Remember that Sam Sneed?
When they give you a putt, you pick it up and you walk to the next hole and you say, thank you very much.
We're segregating as a businessman.
Some people may look at this and say, have you ever been given a gift worth millions of dollars and then not receive it?
It's not a gift to me.
It's a gift to the Department of Defense.
And you should know better because you've been embarrassed enough and so has your network.
Your network is a disaster.
By the way, ABC just had to pay Trump $15 million for defamation.
Did you know that?
That's what Trump should have said.
Didn't you guys just have to pay me $15 million for defamation?
So they're acting.
So now the news, because they don't want to cover actual news, now they're spinning this as, oh, this is a gift from another country to the president.
ABC is a disaster.
Here is the Bill Bobby.
Come on over here.
Now you're talking about Trump's got his own private jet, plus he gets the private, he gets the U.S. Air Force One.
This is not a jet.
He's going to take, is this the dumbest thing?
Anyway, so he's in the middle of doing something historic, and that's what they want to talk about, a non-story.
They're not talking about, hey, why didn't Joe Biden ever do this?
Why didn't Barack Obama do this?
How could our government be so corrupted that it takes Donald Trump to do this?
That's their question.
The headline here should be: Wharton Business School grad takes down Ivy League grad in mere seconds.
So the AP says, hey, it's unclear what, if any, impact the Republican president's executive order will have on millions of Americans who have private health insurance.
So they jump right to, well, what?
So it's, of course, it's unclear.
So they're downplaying this immediately.
Instead of saying, yes, thank God, somebody finally is talking about this.
The federal government has the most power to shape the price it pays for drugs covered by Medicare and Medicaid.
Trump's promise, new but uncertain, savings on drug prices just hours after the Republican Led House released its new plan to trim $880 billion from Medicaid.
Taxpayers spend hundreds of billions of dollars on prescription drugs, injectables, transfusion, and other through Medicare, which covers 70 million people.
Medicaid covers 80.
So that's 150 million people, right?
What are there?
330 million Americans?
That's almost half the country is already covered.
So let me ask you really quickly, Jimmy, on something like this.
I just wanted clarification.
If he reduces these drug prices, is that only for MAGA?
No, it's for everybody.
What?
He's doing something for everybody?
That's what it seems like.
That sounds like bullshit.
The nation's pharmaceutical lobby, which represents the top U.S. drug makers, immediately pushed back against Trump's order, calling it a bad deal for Americans.
Drug makers have long argued that any threats to their profits could impact the research they do to develop new drugs.
See, you guys have to pay 400% more than the rest of the world because then we won't be able to do our research.
Importing foreign prices from social, oh, it's socialist countries.
Do you hear what they're doing, Big Pharma?
Aren't they the scum of the earth?
Yes, they are.
The answer is yes.
Hey, you better keep the system just the way it is, or we're going to make you some really dangerous drugs.
How about that?
It's going to be all side effects, no benefits.
Next thing you know, you're going to wake up gambling in Las Vegas in your pajamas with anal leakage, and that's just what the commercial says it's going to do.
It would mean less treatments and cures, and it would jeopardize the hundreds of billions our member companies are planning to invest.
We're planning on investing that money.
It's amazing the balls on these pharma guys, right?
This is exactly what the mafia would say: no, we're going to help you with that money.
The narrow executive order faces hurdles.
With a court order that blocked the rule from going into effect under President Joe Biden's administration, the pharmaceutical industry argued that Trump's 2020 attempt would give foreign governments the upper hand in deciding the value of.
So Trump tried this once.
He did, however, Trump did.
So he blamed foreign countries.
He's not blaming McPharma, which I think is quite a sleight of hand.
But, however, he did threaten the companies with federal investigations into their practices and opening up the U.S. drug market to bring in more imported medications from other countries.
That sounds like that should be the lead.
The pharmaceutical companies make most of their profits from America, Trump said.
That's not a good thing.
That's not a good thing.
Trump played up the announcement over the weekend boasting in a post that his plan would save trillions of dollars.
But on Monday, the White House offered no specifics or how much money the administration anticipates it could save.
The health department's top leaders will be meeting with drug company executives over the next 30 days to offer new prices on drugs that are based off what other countries pay.
Wow.
It's got to be a catch.
There's always a catch.
Are we going to see Bayer NRA children's aspirins with real orange flavor?
So anyway, that's good news that AP tries to turn into bad news and ABC tries to make it about a plane that has nothing to do with anything.
So we'll see.
Isn't it something they're going to cut $880 billion out of Medicaid, but they're not going to cut that out of the Pentagon?
They're actually going to increase the Pentagon's campaign.
Nobody wants to increase their.
It's just amazing.
Believe me, that would Amazing.
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So I don't know if you heard the news, but Trump negotiated directly with Hamas to get an American prisoner released or hostage.
So that's a big deal that he cut out BB, right?
So that's what that's the super good news here.
There's also a couple of twists to this story.
He's here.
I'm happy to announce that Eden Alexander, an American citizen, but he's also more than that.
And I'm going to tell you that in a second, who has been held hostage since October 23 is coming home to his family.
I'm grateful for all those involved.
This was the step taken in good faith towards the United States and efforts of its mediators, Cotter and Egypt.
Hey, Cotter, I'm also vocally against this brutal war.
Can I have a private jet too now?
Come on.
Am I right?
Come on.
I got a lot of rogue gigs coming up and poof.
Hey, Gutter, I'll say your name right.
Gutter.
Gutter.
Semi-jet.
To put an end to this brutal war and return all living hostages and remains of their loved ones.
Hopefully, this is the first of those final steps necessary to end this brutal conflict.
I look very much forward to the day, this day of celebration.
So he negotiates.
So Trump negotiates directly with Yemen and says, hey, just don't bomb us.
We won't bomb you.
We're done having Israel's back over here in this fight.
So cuts out.
That's great.
He then does a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia and says, hey, you don't have to recognize Israel.
So that's two.
And now this is the third one.
That's like just in a couple of days.
Now, some people are saying this is all theater to make it look like there's a split between BB and Trump, and it really isn't.
But I'll take the theater at least.
I guess I can't.
We'll find out whether it is or not, you know, from whatever actual results come of it.
Netanyahu claims Israel breaking the ceasefire, imposing a starvation siege and killing 2,500 people is why Hamas will release Eden Alexander.
So that's what he's trying to say.
Right.
Netanyahu, like, see, us starving them worked.
They're releasing a guy.
Yeah.
He didn't want them to release the guy, by the way.
By the way, he did not want them to release them.
Of course he doesn't.
Hamas has said it would release him right before the ceasefire was broken.
He would have been home two months ago if it wasn't for Netanyahu.
And I think most everyone knows that now, except demented psychopathic Zionists.
And you have to be, you have to be a serious psychopath to be still a Zionist at this point.
Well, that's pretty strong programming.
I mean, people say, how did the, how did the Holocaust happen right in front of everyone?
Well, you're letting this happen right in front of everybody.
And there are people defending it all over the place.
How did Hitler happen?
Well, you're seeing how it happened.
They're literally starving a group of women and children.
Kids are literally.
I am not going to show you the pictures because it's too heartbreaking.
But you see them on Twitter.
Little babies literally starved to death.
And this isn't like I'm putting this together.
The Israeli officials are saying we are starving them on purpose.
Well, I know you.
So there's no hospitals.
They flattened all the hospitals.
There's no food.
There's no medicine.
There's no nothing.
This is called a genocide.
That's what it's called.
So you could quibble over that word or not, but it's the textbook definition of what it is.
Well, I know you have a left-wing take on it.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
No, I would agree to disagree.
You know, you have the left-wing take that don't do that, genocide.
So this guy, Eden, what's his name?
Eden Alexander.
You might as well call him Chip because that's what BB's bargaining with him.
He's a bargaining chip.
Max Blumenthal says, Netanyahu freaked out when Trump's team initiated direct talks with Hamas for Eden Alexander, who is a duel.
Yeah.
U.S. and Israeli said now you're stopped.
There's more of the story comes out.
Yeah, my ex-girlfriend was.
A lot of people are.
Yeah, but that's just more of it's coming.
Hold on.
Now it appears Israel has targeted the site where Alexander was held, raising new questions about its use of the Hannibal directive to kill hostages in Gaza and thereby reduce the main point of political leverage for Hamas.
So now what Max is saying is that Israel's now bombing where they were keeping those hostages to try to kill the hostages.
It's called the Hannibal Directive.
It's called the Hannibal Directive.
And you can watch their news and their talk shows and see the guy that, who's the guy that Bibi fired?
They go, was it the Hannibal Directive give?
And he goes, it does give it.
And so he was like, yes.
It was given when it should be given.
So that's why those guys that were waving the IDF down with their shirts off.
And they killed him.
And I was like, why would they do that?
I just bet, no, they've got a Hannibal directive to do that.
So Max goes on to say, since October 7th, Israel has killed dozens of Israeli citizens in Gaza.
And there is every reason to believe it was done according to official Hannibal orders.
So there you go.
But the bigger news is that Trump went straight to Hamas.
And so I saw somebody say on Twitter that this says a couple of things, that Hamas actually still has a lot of power because you don't negotiate with a group of people that don't have any power.
And the second thing was that I forget what the second thing was.
Well, they made every living person there into Hamas.
Israel did.
So they killed them.
That's right.
So once you do that, now, by de facto, they're the most important entity there.
Right.
So here's from CNN.
He was held for 18 months.
They announced on Saturday night it had agreed to free him.
He's 21 years old after several days of talks with the United States as part of an effort to reach a ceasefire and resume the flow of humanitarian aid.
So they've stopped medicine and food and water into Gaza.
So they're trying to, so that's called siege warfare, which is a war crime.
You know, yeah, okay.
No one cares.
The group handed Alexander to the Red Cross on Monday, and he returned to Israeli soil shortly after, shortly later.
He later arrived at an Israeli military base for a medical assessment and a long-awaited reunion with his family.
The hostages and missing families for him said he has spoken with his mother, Yale, over the phone.
Alexander, wearing a black Adidas t-shirt and a baseball cap, was photographed during his handover to the Red Cross shortly before his convoy left Con Yunus and headed towards Israel.
Hold on.
In the living room in Tel Aviv, footage showed his family celebrating.
His release comes just days after U.S. President Donald Trump begins his Middle East tour with stops in Saudi Arabia, Gutter, and the United Arab Emirates.
Here it comes.
A New Jersey native, he was serving in the Israeli military, Kurt.
Oh, that's an automatic thing.
So he was more than a U.S. citizen.
He was one of those crazies.
Well, thank you for your service.
Well, thank you.
Thank you for your service.
So he was serving in the Israelites.
He went from the United States to Israel to serve in their military, and he got abducted near the Gazan border on October 7th.
Everybody has to serve.
So that's why when you see the Hannibal Directive is for IDF, that means everybody because they all get the way a terrorist would target all your citizens.
That's right.
They do to their citizens.
So as foretold in the Old Testament, Kurt, he was from the original tribe based out of New Jersey.
Ah, yes, the tribes of Haganah and Sterngang.
The lost tribes.
So now you know the rest.
So that's there.
That's what I was saying.
Hold on.
He's more than a U.S. citizen.
He's Wonder Woman.
That's what Trump said.
Trump didn't ask.
Trump didn't tell you.
He was also a guy, one of those nuts who goes over there to fight in somebody else's army.
You know, helps an occupation.
Following Alexander's release, 58 hostages are still being held in Gaza, with at least 20 believed to be alive.
Benjamin Netanyahu called Monday a very emotional moment.
Yeah, emotional for you because now, you know, when you go back to Washington, D.C., Trump's not going to, Trump's not going to do your laundry for you.
I hope.
I hope.
He effusively praised Trump for securing his winning combination.
This was achieved thanks to our military pressure and the diplomatic pressure applied by Trump.
This is a winning combination.
Oh, really?
I don't like that talk.
When he says it's a winning combination, it has always meant a losing combination.
Yeah.
It was very emotional for Netanyahu because now he's losing reasons to continue the slaughter.
That's what that means.
I spoke with President Trump today.
He told me I am committed to Israel.
I'm committed to continuing to work with you in close cooperation in order to achieve all of our war objectives, releasing all of the hostages and defeating Hamas.
His statement can you, this goes together.
They are combined with each other.
Trump hailed the development as monumental news in a post on True Social where he's Hamas leader Mahmoud Mardwai told the Hamas-affiliated TV station that the militant group, classified as a terrorist organization by the United States and Israel, directly negotiated with the United States to free Alexander in exchange for the resumption of humanitarian aid into Gaza.
Trump, that guy Witkoff, Trump's guy, he told CNN that the talks with Hamas were indirect.
He is expected to meet with Netanyahu on Monday afternoon, according to it.
So really, okay.
All right.
Well, Gaza is on the brink of famine.
I don't think it's the brink anymore.
The brink of famine was like a year ago.
Yeah, I think they're famined.
As Israelis' blockade of humanitarian aid and commercial goods stretches into its second month, depleting food warehouses and soup kitchens and sending the cost of basic goods skyrocketing.
Israel says it cut off the entry of humanitarian aid to pressure Hamas to release Haz.
So that's, again, that's a war crime.
You can't cut off medicine, water, and food to women and children and elderly men for a political outcome.
That's called siege warfare.
That's called a war crime.
That's called you are the Nazis.
But what if I want to kill the hostages too?
Yeah, right?
But international organizations, that's like saying I'm angry at this guy, so I'm going to starve his baby.
And they'll never forgive him for making me do that to his baby.
International organizations say its actions violate.
So CNN won't say it.
They'll say some international organizations say it violates international law.
You think?
The results of the Nuremberg trials?
The genocide definition comes from that.
I didn't make it out.
Some are accusing Israel of using starvation as a weapon of war.
That's obviously what they're doing.
CNN's like, well, some people say.
Yeah.
We're not going to say it.
But tell me somebody's spreading a thing.
Hey, some people say Macron was doing blow with those guys.
Some people say Macron's wife is a dude.
Israel has not said it will resume humanitarian aid into Gaza.
Netanyahu's office said in a statement on Monday that Israel has not committed to a ceasefire nor the release of any Palestinian prisoners, only to a safe corridor that will allow for Eden's release.
Only actual humans would restore humanitarian aid.
So, of course, Netanyahu is not going to do that.
In a post on social media, Trump said he hoped the release would lead to the end of this brutal conflict.
But the longtime Israeli prime minister said that the negotiations will take place under fire.
Mahmoud Abbas, he's the president of the Palestinian Authority, the PLO.
He said in a Monday statement he welcomed efforts to halt the war and issued rare praise for Trump.
Abbas commented that the commended U.S. President Donald Trump for his position in which he later hopes to bring the end to the vicious conflict and the war that has been going on for two years.
Okay, well, that's nice.
AIPAC Tracker says, reminder that Eden Alexander is a dual American-Israeli citizen who moved overseas to join the Israeli military so he could take partake in ethnic cleansing and genocide.
He was a prisoner of war.
He's not an innocent hostage.
Well said.
Do you remember when they were threatening the hostages who were saying they were treated well?
Yeah.
Better not say that.
That's why they have a Hannibal directive because it's a hassle when they live.
That's right.
And they don't feed into your narrative.
Stu Peters says Eden Alexander is a dual citizen who was serving in a foreign military where he participated in committing genocide against innocent Palestinian kids.
The kid is a traitor and shouldn't be allowed back on U.S. soil.
That's according to Stu Peters.
He's a super right-winger.
Well, is he a traitor?
Israel breaks Gaza's ceasefire, killing more than 400 in a wave of strikes.
That was from March 18th.
Israel did that.
Let's see.
This person just repeats Trump's post about it and says, no mention of Palestinian hostages being released.
Isn't that interesting?
No, I think they marched for the right for the IDF soldiers to rape them in prison, if you recall.
Yeah.
Come on.
So then the prime minister releases their stupid thing that makes it sound like Jeremy Scahill says El Qassam brigades on release of the, this is what they say.
We affirm that serious and responsible negotiations achieve results in the release of prisoners.
However, continuing the aggression prolongs their suffering and may kill them.
Of course it does.
We affirm the movement's readiness to immediately begin negotiations to reach a comprehensive and sustainable ceasefire agreement.
We urge the Trump administration to continue its efforts to end this brutal war waged by the war criminal Netanyahu against children, women, and defenseless civilians in the Gaza Strip.
And everybody is saying the problem is Netanyahu, even the former prime ministers.
Ehud Barak, is that his name?
Is saying, yeah, the problem here is Benjamin Netanyahu.
It's not Amas.
It's not the Palestinian babies.
It's Net Netanyahu because he's wanted this all along.
They want to make it so unlivable in Gaza, which they've done, and now they're starving them, so that it'll be such a horrible disaster that they'll leave and go to other countries.
That's what this is all about, so that the Israeli Zionists can take over Gaza 100%.
By the way, don't forget there's half a trillion dollars worth of gas underneath Gaza.
Half a trillion.
And so they could also take over the West Bank.
There are reports that Trump is going to recognize Palestine as its own state.
Kenneth Rossweets out.
It's good that Trump wants the Nobel Prize.
To merit one, he needs to stand up to Netanyahu.
No ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
No forever war there so Netanyahu can avoid prison.
No more Israeli opposition to a Palestinian state.
The headline here is Trump wants a Nobel Peace Prize.
Here's how he can earn one.
So this is from the Jerusalem Post.
Gulf diplomatic sources debate if Trump will announce U.S. recognition of Palestinian state.
Saudi Arabia will host a Gulf U.S. summit in mid-May during Trump's Mideast visit.
Speculation swirls over a major announcement on a Palestinian state and peaceful U.S.-Saudi nuclear cooperation.
This follows the summit held on May 21st, 2017, during Trump's first term.
The summit hosted by Saudi Arabia and its capital, Riyadh, was preceded by numerous predictions regarding the announcement that Trump referred to, describing it as a very important announcement during a meeting with most important announcement ever.
Everybody's talking about this announcement.
It's a phenomenal announcement.
We've never seen an announcement like this.
Describing as a very important announcement during a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House on Tuesday, May 6th.
In addition to what Trump intends to announce, the summit's agenda and the deals and agreements expected to take place have become the talk of the town, ranging from security and military deals to technology deals and artificial intelligence deals.
A lot of deals.
Some of these are some of the best deals.
We've got multiple deals.
Everybody's excited about no one's ever seen deals like these.
These are phenomenal deals.
All Gulf leaders are scheduled to participate in the Gulf U.S. summit, with the exception of King Salman, bin Abdullah Zizi, who has not participated in public events or meetings for a long time due to his health.
Okay.
I thought he was going to be there, even though he had bad health.
I heard he was going to be there, but Jerusalem Post says he's not.
A Gulf diplomatic source who declined to be named or disclosed his position told the media line, President Trump will issue a declaration regarding the state of Palestine and American recognition of it.
So that's an anonymous source.
That's an anonymous diplomat.
Is that real?
I don't know.
Is that hopeful thinking, wishful thinking?
Wouldn't that be amazing?
That would be amazing.
That would screw up Zionism.
And that there will be the establishment of a Palestinian state without the presence of Hamas.
I'm sure Hamas would disband if Trump negotiated.
Hey, we're going to turn things over to the PLO, or we're going to have a new election, and Hamas can't be on the ballot.
But in exchange, we're going to give you, the United States is going to recognize you as a state.
100% they would go along with that.
The source also added: if an announcement of American recognition of the state of Palestine is made, it will be the most important declaration that will change the balance of power in the Middle East, and more countries will join the Abraham Accords.
The source confirmed that economic agreements will certainly be present, but many of them have already been announced, and we may witness the Gulf states being exempted from tariffs.
U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, denied this stuff.
Of course, he did.
He's more of Zionist than Netanyahu is.
He said Israel has no better friend.
Ahmed El-Ibrahim, a former Gulf diplomat, told the media line, I don't expect it to be about Palestine.
Oh, really?
So now we have conflicting.
Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, I love their names.
And it's like, you know, you know how they gave Fat Tony.
That's what all this is.
That's El-Sisi.
Hey, you know, like Joey the nose.
That's what all this shit is, right?
And King Abdullah II of Jordan have not been invited.
Oh, really?
So the Egyptian president and the Jordanian president have not been invited.
They are the two countries closest to Palestine, and it would be important for them to be present in any event like this.
So that's why that guy says I don't think that's happening.
Because if it was, those guys would be there.
Al Ibrahim also said there will be major deals coming, perhaps similar to what happened in 2017 Gulf U.S. Summit with the Saudis' deals worth more than $400 billion.
Let's not forget that the United Arab Emirates announced investments in the U.S. worth more than a trillion dollars.
And Saudi has announced investments worth more than $600 billion.
That's not a small change.
This is clear because President Trump intends to visit the United Arab Emirates and Qatar after concluding his visit to Saudi Arabia.
These are two important economies with significant financial resources and major investments in the United States.
This other guy, Ahmed Bushoki, have you ever had the Bashokis?
Just last week.
They pan-fry him with that sauce.
Fantastic.
They melt in your mouth.
The Bashokis.
I remember my grandma used to make the Piyogis and the Bashokis.
They were fantastic.
A Saudi political analyst told the media line: this is about major economic deals that will take place in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Perhaps U.S. President Trump hinted at this when he told the American people to buy stocks now before his big announcement in the next two days.
Remember that?
Regarding the news of peaceful U.S.-Saudi nuclear cooperation to generate electricity in Saudi Arabia, Bushauki said, Saudi Arabia has had a program announced since 2010, and it has been discussed several times before.
International companies are now working to implement these.
So Saudi Arabia wants to go to nuclear power?
You'd think they'd want to use oil.
No, we're going to sell our oil and we're going to go to nuclear.
Is that what they're doing?
Plans are currently underway in Saudi Arabia to build the kingdom's first nuclear reactor with several international companies competing to design and build the reactor.
Meanwhile, the neighboring Gulf country, the United Arab Emirates, already owns the Barakag reactor and is the only Arab country with a four-reactor nuclear power plant in collaboration with a Korean company.
Get the F out of here.
Breaking after the information from Jerusalem Times that Trump is planning to recognize the Palestinian state, Israel foreign minister came out with a threat.
Unilateral recognition of Palestine state will force unilateral actions in response.
So these guys are just terrorists.
Israel are just Mel, our friend, the village crazy lady, says this is from February 2024.
These were the conditions the Saudis committed to then.
No relations with Israel without the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 borders.
The Trump team accepted this as a precondition for normalcy is a big deal.
I know it's not as much as some wanted.
I get it.
I do.
But the Biden administration did everything short of threatening KSA with military action to get them to drop this demand, and they wouldn't do it.
So Trump acknowledging it and saying that the official U.S. position is to respect that request is a big step in the right direction.
So here she links to it.
Saudi Arabia says no relations with Israel before recognition of a Palestinian state with 967 borders.
And here it is.
In a statement released earlier, Wednesday, the Saudi foreign ministry said the kingdom has informed Washington that it will have diplomat relations with Israel, that it will have no, I got to read this.
I got to look at it.
That it will have no diplomatic relations with Israel until an independent Palestinian state is established on the 67 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, and Israel ends its offense on the Gaza Strip and withdraws its troops from the enclave.
So good on Saudi Arabia, I guess.
And good on Trump.
We'll see what happens.
This is a fingers crossed moment.
I don't have faith, but I have hope.
At least there's some hope.
So that's great.
Great hope.
All right.
We'll see what happens.
If Trump does this, he will get the Nobel Prize.
I bet he wants one.
I bet he'll be sticking it to Obama.
I bet nothing matters more than him right now than to try to figure out a way to get a Nobel Prize.
I bet you that's what he's going to try and do.
We'll see.
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