Nick Fuentes dissects the RNC Day 1, critiquing Trump's "America First" rhetoric as hollow while analyzing Vance's VP selection as a betrayal of nativism. He mocks diverse speakers like Harmeet Dhillon and Amber Rose, arguing the party is captured by an Indian-Jewish elite including the Adelsons and AIPAC. Fuentes condemns Vance's foreign policy as a proxy war for military contractors and asserts that proposed deportation plans lack the necessary funding to succeed. Ultimately, he concludes the convention prioritizes Big Oil interests and establishment loyalty over genuine immigration restriction or economic sovereignty. [Automatically generated summary]
The more that a broken system tells you that you're wrong, the more certain you should be that you must keep pushing the more certain you should be that you must keep pushing Because it's the outsiders who change the world, and who make a real and lasting difference.
Nothing worth doing ever came easy.
Great American Destiny00:03:44
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Treat the word impossible as nothing more than motivation.
Well, hey, thanks, love you too, but sorry, I believe in religion in the next sense, so... Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Donald Trump were all cut from the same cloth, and that cloth is very, very large.
The mission is to create a Christian, The only way we're going to do it is not by infiltrating, not by subverting, not by lying, which is what a lot of people do.
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The only way that we're going to make this happen is with the fullness of a real Christian.
The only way.
We have got to be willing to die for Jesus Christ.
We have to want it more than they do because there are thousands and millions and tens of millions and hundreds of millions of Christians ready to meet their final destiny that nothing can stop us and nothing will.
They've been put on notice here.
If you fuck around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before.
Don't sit yet.
I feel like this.
I feel like this.
I feel like this is a noise.
They cannot even begin to imagine the brave and righteous spirit they've unleashed in men and women.
But they're going to find out the hard way.
They will find out like never before.
This nation belongs to you.
to you, belongs to you.
It was patriots like you that built this country, and it's patriots like you that are going to save our country.
To all of those who think that they can coerce and subjugate the citizens of this land, hear these words.
For me tonight, the people of America will not surrender our borders.
We will not surrender our culture.
We will not surrender our faith.
We will not surrender our values.
We will not surrender our history.
We will not surrender our liberty.
And above all, we will not surrender our children.
We are done with their distorted visions for America.
It's time to start talking about greatness for our country again.
We want our country to be great again.
We want our country to be respected.
The time for action has come.
As long as we are led by politicians who will not put America first, then we can be assured that other nations will not treat America with respect, the respect that then we can be assured that other nations will not treat America Years from now,
The more that a broken system tells you that you're wrong, the more certain you should be that you must keep the more certain you should be that you must keep pushing ahead.
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Thank you.
Because it's the outsiders who change the world and who make a real and lasting difference.
Well, hey, thanks, love you too, but sorry, I believe in a religion that makes sense, so... Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Donald Trump were all cut from the same cloth, and that cloth is very, very large.
The mission is to create a Christian, The only way we're going to do it is not by infiltrating, not by subverting, not by lying, which is what a lot of people do.
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The only way that we're going to make this happen is with the fullness of a real Christian.
It's the only way.
We have to want it more than they do because there are thousands and millions and tens of millions and hundreds of millions of Christians ready to meet their final destiny that nothing can stop us and nothing will.
And they've been put on notice If you fuck around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before.
Don't sit yet.
You're not like this.
You're not like this.
America First Rises00:04:26
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We are attacking our civilization.
Have no idea of the sleeping giant they have awoken.
They cannot even begin to imagine the brave and righteous spirit they've unleashed in men and women.
But they're going to find out the hard way.
They will find out like never before.
This nation belongs to you.
Belongs to me.
It was patriots like you that built this country, and it's patriots like you that are going to save our country.
To all of those who think that they can coerce and subjugate the citizens of this land, hear these words.
For me tonight, the people of America will not surrender our borders.
We will not surrender our culture.
We will not surrender our faith.
We will not surrender our values.
We will not surrender our history.
Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo!
It's going to be only America first.
America first.
The American people will come first once again.
With respect, the respect that we deserve.
From this day forward, it's going to be only America first.
We are coming to you live with our first day of live coverage of the Republican National Convention.
And it looks like we're about to start the program here, so we're just going to jump into it.
We'll do a little live reaction, and then during the breaks, we'll be analyzing some of the speeches.
And of course, we also have to talk about the vice presidential nominee, J.D.
Vance.
So we're going to dive in, we're going to watch this speech, and then in the next intermission, we're going to get into it a little bit and talk about some of the news from today.
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I am Mark Robinson.
I am the first black lieutenant governor of North Carolina.
And come November, I plan on being the first black governor of North Carolina.
But I am not one of the political elite.
I grew up poor as the ninth of ten kids in Greensboro with an alcoholic father who beat my mother.
I love to tell you that I graduated from high school, found success, never worried about money again, but I can't.
I lost two jobs, two manufacturing jobs because of NAFTA, which by the way Joe Biden voted for.
Politicians in D.C.
made bad decisions.
People like me suffered.
I lost my car and my house.
I was desperate.
But you know, my story isn't unique.
A couple of months ago in my travels, I stopped at a gas station.
As I was leaving, a man walked out with a beard.
He looked very stressed.
He got in his car, and I could see him holding an envelope.
My heart dropped.
Because years ago, I held one just like it.
It was bankruptcy papers.
I can see the fear on his face.
It took me back to lying awake at night with that gnawing worry and debating which bills weren't going to get paid.
Unfortunately, many families today are having that same experience.
Under Joe Biden, grocery prices have skyrocketed, and gas has nearly doubled.
In North Carolina, factories just like the one I worked at are closing, leaving families feeling hopeless.
But there is hope, and I'm proof.
My wife and I never gave up.
We kept our faith.
We worked hard and made it through those tough times.
Now I stand before you on the verge of becoming the first black governor of North Carolina.
Watch next time when they zoom out, he's standing in front of the all-seeing eye from the dollar on the pyramid.
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The Press: Under President Trump, the American Dream was alive and well.
Under President Trump, there was hope.
And we need that now more than ever.
Surprise Assassination Attempt00:04:32
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So this November, let's elect the brave heart of our time, Donald J. Trump, to get our economy back on track, restore the American Dream, and make America great again.
God bless you all, and God bless the United States of America.
I know that's just, like, the money, but... Why that?
Alright, so our first speech... Uh, was that Tim Scott, or was that Ben Carson?
I don't- I couldn't really, um... I missed the intro, so I couldn't tell.
Or was that, uh...
Was that Kanye?
Anyway.
So, whatever.
That's a very standard speech.
But we're here.
We got interrupted a little bit.
We had to watch the first speech.
But it's the first day of our coverage of the Republican National Convention.
Just so you know, I'll be here all week.
This program tonight is supposed to go until, I think, 10 o'clock.
But we'll be back here tomorrow, Wednesday, and Thursday all week covering every speech of the RNC.
I believe the programming starts a little bit later tomorrow, but it's roughly around the same time.
So if you are just joining us, this is the official nominating convention for the GOP.
This is the week when Donald Trump becomes the official presidential nominee.
And as we've just learned today, J.D.
Vance will be nominated as the vice presidential nominee.
And so that is the business of this convention.
So we'll be covering, it's a stacked lineup.
Basically, every Republican is gonna be here.
It's 50,000 people in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
It's a who's who.
Many of the donors will be speaking.
Dozens of senators, congressmen, governors, celebrities.
And we're expecting an appearance from Donald Trump on Thursday, although he might make a surprise appearance maybe earlier.
And historically, the nominee speaks at the very end of the conference on the last day, which is Thursday.
But Donald Trump, at least in 2016, made a surprise appearance on the first day of the convention on a Monday.
That was his famous WWE entrance.
So we'll see.
Trump has promised many surprises.
So we'll see if that's one of them.
Maybe a surprise early appearance tonight.
It would be pretty remarkable.
And of course, we're coming on the heels of the assassination attempt on Thursday.
I did a special show on Saturday night covering the assassin.
Did I say Thursday?
The assassination attempt on Saturday.
I did a show covering it Saturday night.
As you may have already learned, the president is OK.
He sustained minor damage to his right ear, upper right ear.
They say he's missing a small piece of it.
So it'll be interesting to see what that looks like when he walks out on the stage, if that's tonight or Thursday, how intact the ear is, or if they'll get some kind of prosthetic or... I don't know anything about that Hollywood stuff, but it'll be interesting to see if there's any lasting damage or scarring.
But the good news is Donald Trump has survived.
After the assassination attempt, he flew back home on his private jet to New Jersey.
And then he flew to Milwaukee today, undeterred.
Initially, he planned on maybe delaying his visit to Milwaukee, but he said that he would not live in fear.
He said he would not allow the assassin to change his plans.
So he is in Milwaukee.
Thank you.
Thank you, Texas.
and he's expected to speak.
The whole city is on lockdown.
I was considering going to the convention, and I might still, but if you don't know how this works, when the convention comes to town, they lock down the entire city.
You can't get in or out of the downtown without a credential.
You have to be a delegate, a volunteer, or an alternate.
All right, but it looks like we have another speech.
All right, man, just go fly the Apaches, all right?
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We got to meet a quota.
I have the honor of representing Michigan's 10th congressional district, the number one manufacturing district in the best state in the entire unit.
My family's story is the American dream story.
But my biggest concern right now, my biggest fear, is will children today be able to look back and share that same story?
Look, I firmly believe Americans have not given up on the American Dream.
Joe Biden and the Democrats have given up on the American Dream.
Joe Biden and the Democrats think they know how to spend your money better than you do.
They want to take your dollars, they want to take your voice, they want to take your control and give it back to D.C.
bureaucrats to execute their woke and green New Deal agenda.
Well, that plan doesn't work because hope is not a plan.
Black people were sold on hope.
Now our streets are rife with crime, our kids can't read, and illegals are getting better help from Democrats in four days than we've gotten in 400 years.
To all white people in the audience, to all black people on the stage.
Look, it's literally not one black person in the crowd.
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The biological males.
America was sold on hope.
And now the world's on fire.
Our borders are wide open.
And Americans are going into debt to pay for their groceries.
But look, look, look, look.
We don't even have to imagine a brighter day.
We just have to remember under President Donald J. Trump, we have secure border.
Under President Donald J. Trump, we have peace in Europe.
And under President Donald J. Trump, we had an economy so good.
We had an economy so good, Democrats are trying to give Obama the credit for it.
Look.
Yeah, I heard a little bit earlier today.
Look!
If you don't vote for Donald Trump, you ain't black.
But see, here's the thing.
By the grace of God and the proven leadership of Donald Trump, for every American, regardless of race, color, and creed, we can once again have a land where a child's outcome isn't determined by their zip code.
We can once again have a land where hard work truly does get you ahead.
We can once again have a land where you can go from poverty to prosperity in a single generation.
America, I believe deeply in my heart, America is the greatest idea that's ever been It's worth fighting for, it's worth sacrificing for, and it's worth getting out to vote for, because I truly believe in the deepest heart of hearts that with Donald J. Trump back in the White House, the best is yet to come.
To show families just how much more they're spending on gas under Biden and Harris than they did under President Trump, we placed these signs at gas pumps.
When President Trump left office, gas cost only $2.20.
Under Biden and Harris, gas skyrocketed to the highest price in history, over five bucks a gallon.
Five dollars a gallon is the highest historically it's ever been.
It was three black guys in a row and they all had the exact same deal.
But you know what it is?
It's they're not even people confuse this.
When the GOP puts black people on the stage, they think they're pandering to black people.
They think that black people are going to watch this and say, oh, gee, look, black people, the Republican Party isn't racist.
I think I'm going to vote for them.
They think that's what they're doing.
What they're actually doing is pandering to white people who want to feel good and not feel racist, who crave to be accepted by black people and liberals.
That's who it's really for.
That's not the intended target, but that is effectively the target.
Because look at the audience at the RNC.
It's all white people.
And if you go back to 2016, The people that voted for Donald Trump were 90% white.
90% of Trump voters in 2016 were white, according to the exit polls.
So when they roll out these black people to go up and say, I was the son of a bartender and a maid, you know, like Rubio.
I'm a grandson of a slave.
My daddy worked for everything he had.
And they talk about how they're in the military and this, this is not a racist country.
They all say that.
That's when white people, white people, their hair stands up on the back of their neck.
When an articulate black man in a suit and a red tie gets up on a stage and says, I believe in America!
This is not a racist country!
The hair on boomers' necks stands straight up.
A chill goes down their spine.
They're elated.
This is how it feels to chew five gum when you get a black person, whether it's Tim Scott or John James or Wesley, whatever, you know, any of these guys, when they get up and say, the American dream is alive.
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My grandfather was a slave, but I got, but I believe in the Lord.
That is what this election represents for all of us who have been forgotten over the last four years.
Hope.
We need God in our hearts and Donald Trump back in the White House.
Let's go.
If you're watching tonight and you hear your own story and mine, Donald Trump put me on this stage to show that he hears us, he sees us, and we are forgotten no more.
I find peace in God's promise that says, if my people who are called by my name would humble themselves and pray, I will heal your nation.
We're not deciding simply the fate for the next four years.
We're setting a course for the next 40 years.
I see our heartland filled with huge American factories, powered by abundant American energy, building what America needs, building what America needs, creating generational wealth for blue-collar workers.
You see, We are the Republican Party of Frederick Douglass and of Abraham Lincoln.
And there's only, hear me clearly, and there's only one person who can make that vision a reality. and there's only one person who can make that vision Donald J. Trump!
But anyway, so what I was saying before he came up there is, you know, I actually, it's good, I think, that black people can succeed in America.
The problem, which I didn't get to, everybody's like, oh, you're cucking.
No, no.
Here's the problem.
The reality is the genetic IQ gap.
And so no amount of this kind of wish-casting and opportunity zones and freedom and all this talk is going to bridge that gap.
The reality is that IQ is a determinative for what you are able to do, what kind of jobs you're able to work, and how well you are able to integrate in society, how groupable and sociable you are.
And so when the average IQ is a full standard deviation below white people, you cannot expect there to be equal outcomes.
That's the reality.
There are millions of black people It's not going to happen for them.
And it's not their fault.
It's sort of a tragic and sad thing.
But the idea that we're going to put guys like Tim Scott on the stage and they're going to be good Republicans and start small businesses, it just belies the reality of the situation.
So, you know, don't get me wrong.
I think there should be opportunity for people to succeed.
But by the same token, Expecting there to be equality of outcome just by liberalizing regulations and things like that, it will never happen.
I'm Glenn Youngkin, the governor of the home of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, the great Commonwealth of Virginia. the great Commonwealth of Virginia.
A Nation's Prayer00:15:23
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Tonight we stop for a moment.
We ask for God's grace to be on innocent victims.
We ask him to be with their families.
We thank him for this moment of unity.
And we thank him for protecting our next president, Donald J. Trump.
And tonight, our nation can have the conversation that so many families have at their kitchen tables.
Yes, those tough conversations.
How do we make it all work?
The conversation young families from Midlothian, Virginia, to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, whose dreams of buying a home have been shattered by 7.5% mortgage rates.
The veterans from Fredericksburg, Virginia, to Phoenix, Arizona, whose raises can't keep up with 30% increases in grocery prices and 40% increases in gas.
The retirees from Roanoke, Virginia, to Reno, Nevada, whose fixed income has been crushed by the silent thief of inflation unleashed by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Tonight, America, the land of opportunity, just doesn't feel like that anymore.
But eight years ago, Eight years ago, there was an outsider, a businessman, who stepped out of his career to rebuild a great nation with the strongest economy, the mightiest military, energy independence, unlimited opportunity, lifting up every American.
That outsider businessman was Donald J. Trump, and he will do it again.
I'm proud to be a homegrown Virginian, from a family like a lot of families, with ups and downs and highs and lows.
My mom was a nurse, and she was my hero.
She pulled our family together after my dad lost his job.
At 15, washing dishes and flipping eggs, I learned that there is dignity in work.
At the height of the pandemic four years ago, I asked my amazing wife Suzanne to go on a walk with me.
I told her I planned to quit my job and run for governor.
She looked at me with tears in her eyes and a quivering lip and asked, Governor of what?
We want the freedom to worship, to love, and to work in a way that gives us purpose, gives us a reason to get up every day.
Thank you.
The Biden-Harris administration disrespects our values and has abused our community.
They buried our businesses with inflation and government red tape.
They even used the FBI to go after traditional Catholics as if we were terrorists.
Let's go.
They put out the welcome mat for drug cartels.
Biden's open door policies is all the more insidious.
Let's go.
In soft terms like compassion and sanctuary.
In reality, it is cruel.
Joe Biden's open southern border facilitates the largest criminal enterprise in the world, which disproportionately victimizes Latinos, especially children.
Last year, an HHS whistleblower testified that the United States was the middleman in a large-scale child trafficking operation.
So I understand they're all talking about inflation, unemployment, and so on.
Here's the problem.
That message is actually not very based.
Like, we have structural economic problems.
Structural.
In other words, we need a total overhaul of the economy, and it has a lot more to do with currency and trade than it has to do with taxes and spending.
And this is something that Trump was talking about.
Notice the difference.
When Trump came in 2016, he did talk about deregulating and he did talk about cutting taxes, but he also mainly talked about trade.
The first thing he said when he announced he was running in 2016, he came out and said, when was the last time you saw a Chevrolet in Tokyo?
It doesn't exist.
That was like the first or second thing he said in his announcement speech in 2016.
When do Republicans talk about trade?
When do Republicans talk about the trade deficit?
Or what America exports?
Republicans always talk about taxes.
They talk about cutting taxes and deregulating.
But they almost never talk about trade.
And Trump came out there very strongly and said, we're not selling cars to the world.
We have a trade deficit.
He said, everything we make, we make in Mexico, or we make in China, and we're losing manufacturing.
And he said, if an American automobile company opens up a factory in Mexico, he said, I'm going to put a tariff on their cars and say you're going to make it in America.
When do Republicans talk about tariffs, trade, exports?
They never do.
And Trump actually said that we would use tariffs to make our country rich.
He said we would use tariffs to fund the government.
We would tax remittances to fund the border wall.
He said and we would use trade to reindustrialize America.
That is actually a revolutionary platform and that's actually a platform that speaks to the people that have really been screwed over.
Because the people that have been screwed over, it's the next generation.
But in the older generation, it's the manufacturing workers that used to have jobs.
25, 30 years ago, there were small workshops across America.
There was manufacturing in America.
But all those jobs got sent overseas.
And even now, they're not even bringing them back.
They're doing friend-shoring or near-shoring, where they bring in Mexico or Malaysia or Indonesia.
So the GOP without Trump, without 2016 Trump, is just right back to the neoliberal ideology where it's all about cut the corporate tax rate.
It's literally just trickle-down economics.
Cut taxes on corporations.
That's what the 2018 tax bill was about.
Cut the corporate tax rate.
And then the theory is that when these companies have more capital, that they're going to be able to invest and they're going to be able to create jobs and so on.
But I don't think that that actually tracks with American prosperity.
Because yes, nominally the GDP has gone up over the past 45 years.
But in real terms, America is a lot less wealthy now than it was 40 years ago.
The only reason that America has a nominally higher GDP is because of the tech companies, because of the shale oil boom.
But we don't make anything anymore.
If you actually look at the structure of our economy, we don't make anything.
The productive sectors of the economy only account for 15% of the GDP, and that's agriculture, construction, and manufacturing.
85% of the economy is services.
And if you look at the leaders of the stock market, it's all software companies.
It's all tech companies that make their stuff elsewhere.
So this whole neoliberal doctrine of cutting taxes and financialization and the rise of private equity and venture capital, it actually hasn't made America richer.
And you could see that this is what happened in Europe.
We can see this in the war in Ukraine.
When we put all these tariffs on Russia, guess what?
Russia was fine.
Or rather, not tariff sanctions.
When we put all the sanctions on Russia, Russia was fine.
It was Europe that got destroyed.
Because Russia has fertilizer.
And Russia has nickel.
And Russia has natural gas and oil.
And Germany found out that you can't print money and use money to power your factories.
You need natural gas.
And natural gas comes through pipelines which take years to build.
And it can't be easily or cheaply replaced by LNG.
So Trump came in with this revolutionary Protectionist policy in the GOP and realigned the GOP into a protectionist party.
Said maybe we get rid of income tax altogether.
Maybe we fund the government through tariffs because the world needs our markets.
And the world needs our goods.
So maybe we put up all these tariffs and we can fund the government that way, and then use that to diminish the tax burden on Americans.
And we could also use that, by the way, to bring back manufacturing and give Americans manufacturing jobs, which has all sorts of benefits.
So in the absence of that, you get the platform that we've heard today, which is all about, oh, inflation is bad.
But guess what?
The GOP, somebody sent me this article, Lea McGrath, who, she's liberal, but I actually like her.
She sent me this article right before I went live.
They're talking about devaluing the dollar when Trump gets back in.
They talk about inflation, but they don't talk about the root cause.
Why is inflation out of control?
Because 80% of the money that exists today was printed during the pandemic.
Because we had record deficits.
We had five, six trillion dollar deficits during the pandemic while we shut down the economy, while we expanded the money supply.
And people say, oh, inflation, inflation.
Yeah, that tends to happen when there's no productivity for a year, but consumption is subsidized by printing and by spending.
So yes, of course there's inflation.
It's because of the COVID lockdown and the subsequent bailout.
So they're talking about the same playbook.
They complain about inflation.
They complain about people dying of fentanyl in the Rust Belt or in the interior of the country.
But they're not talking about the real problem, which is that America has been de-industrialized.
We have a financialized economy.
It's all services.
There's no production happening.
And on some level, it's deeply related to the military.
They talk about having a mighty military.
Well, how mighty is your military when the things that you need for optics, the things that you need for airplanes and for nuclear reactors and even the nuclear arsenal, all those raw materials we get from China.
Yeah, we could probably make them in America, but all the raw materials, the rare earths, and everything else, it's all in China, it's all in Congo, it's in Zimbabwe.
So, I wish that at this convention... You know, the problem is, here we are, nine years later, after Trump came down the escalator, and it's the same GOP.
That shows the changes were not institutionalized.
I never even defined what an essential business was, because I don't believe that the government has the authority to tell you that your business isn't essential.
When other states were pushing mandates and lockdowns, instead in South Dakota, we hit the gas.
We embraced liberty.
We told our story and we invited people to come and to enjoy our beautiful state.
Now, all of the things that conservatives have always talked about, we just did it.
Now at that time, President Lincoln encouraged us to take increased devotion.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.
and that a government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from this earth.
Like Lincoln in the midst of our pain and division, Donald Trump is calling us to be touched by the better angels of our nature.
As Paul wrote in 2 Timothy, God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and a sound mind.
We must not be afraid.
Even in our darkest days, we have never once given up hope.
So don't quit on America.
If we lose this country, where else will we go that provides more freedom and opportunity for our kids and our grandkids?
And I've got three grandkids, and I'm counting on a whole lot more.
And yes, democracy can be messy, but there is a great, invisible strength to a people's union.
We have shown the world that we can endure sacrifice, and that we can still unite.
We should still aspire to be worthy of this union.
America.
President Donald J. Trump is the leader we need for such a time as this.
So now, I need you to get to work.
Get out there.
Go do it.
Don't quit.
Keep fighting, keep uniting, keep talking to people, win the hearts and minds, and may God bless you, and may God continue to bless the great United States of America.
Thank you.
unidentified
Donald Trump's surprise visit to a construction site.
Hundreds of cheering union members turned out to meet the former president, who's quite a scene.
These are hardworking New Yorkers, okay, union members who have been working on this big construction site here.
Yeah, like, there's just nothing being said here that is really landing for me.
You compare the rhetoric of Trump in 2015 and 2016 to now, it's just, it's completely different.
In 2015 and 2016, it was about, it was about something tangible, which is American greatness.
It was the idea that we would make things and there would be a new city and the city would be beautiful and it would be orderly.
That's really what Make America Great Again was about.
It was about imagining and experiencing imminently a tangible future that was far better than this one.
Bridges, highways, new buildings, you know, a thriving city.
And where we are now is just more talk about freedom.
Freedom and opportunity.
What does that even really mean?
People say freedom and opportunity, freedom and opportunity.
You're going to cut taxes?
That's not freedom and opportunity.
They're going to cut taxes and cut regulations?
That's not... People say, oh, they're coming to South Dakota for the freedom.
No, I think they're coming to South Dakota because of the fracking, right?
unidentified
All right.
Union guy.
Bobby Bartels Jr., business manager of Steamfitters Local 638.
All right.
Union guy.
Good evening, everyone.
My name is Bobby Bartels.
I'm a proud member of Steamfitter's Local Union 638.
And like many of my fellow union members, I've been a Democrat my whole life.
And like so many of my fellow union members, we have come to expect empty promises from Democratic politicians.
In 1986, after a decade of Democratic politicians' mismanagement, Central Park's iconic Wolman Ice Rink had fallen into an unusable state of disrepair.
Politicians made promise after promise to fix the rink, and yet they did nothing.
That's when Donald Trump stepped up.
He wasn't mayor.
He wasn't running for anything, but he was a guy who cared about people and he knew how to get a job done.
He put his money and his reputation on the line and committed to getting it built.
He did it using skilled local union labor like the men of Local 638.
Together, we worked tirelessly on that project, completing it on time and ensuring kids would be skating that fall on that rink.
And a quick note to President Biden, that involved working outside the hours of 10 a.m.
Early one hot summer morning on that job, I saw Donald Trump visiting the site.
I yelled out, are you here to buy us coffee?
President walked right over, he wasn't a president at the time, but he walked right over, grinning, and handed me some cash, and told us it was too hot for coffee.
Out-of-control inflation is squeezing budgets, and both violent crime and drug epidemic are pushing people out of our cities, all while Democrats do nothing.
Love it.
That's why this union Democrat will be voting Trump along...
Love it.
Love it. Love it.
Love it.
Love it. Love it. Love it. Love it.
So that's why this union Democrat, along with many of my local union members, will be voting Trump this November.
Words cannot describe how deeply grateful I am to be your son.
When I was in the seventh grade, my mom lost her job.
We went on government assistance and my grandma helped us pay for private school.
My mom and my grandma sacrificed to ensure that I could build a successful future through a commitment to academic achievement and hard work.
I'm standing here today as a result of their good and safe schools and great teachers.
And to the teachers of America who pour your heart and your soul into your students and teach the next generation to love, honor, and serve our great country, we all say thank you. and serve our great country, we all say thank you.
I was gonna say that before Byron Donalds came up.
But no one is talking about immigration!
Why is nobody talking about immigration?
Immigration is obviously a major, major factor in why our country is not wealthy anymore.
Because it's a glut of labor.
Okay?
Labor is a commodity.
Labor is a market.
Just like there's a market for dollars.
Just like there's a market for milk.
Labor is a market.
If there's more of it, the price goes down.
The price of labor is wages.
I know this is like common sense, but some people need to hear it.
Firms pay for labor, just like we pay for goods.
Firms want more labor, because the more labor there is in the country, the cheaper it is.
And cheap labor means low wages.
So people say, well, there's no jobs.
There's no jobs for low-skilled people.
There's no jobs for seasonal jobs for high school students.
There's no low-skill, high-paying jobs for high school graduates.
There's no jobs even for college graduates.
College graduates are underemployed.
That has everything to do with immigration.
Because the jobs, the seasonal jobs that high school students would have, or that people might have for part-time work, are being taken by illegals.
And illegals can live off of the low wages because one, they're used to a much lower standard of living, and two, because the difference is made up by government subsidies.
Subsidized housing, subsidized healthcare, subsidized education, and so on.
So while the middle class has to pay for housing and doesn't have food stamps and so on, and they pay taxes, illegals can come here.
They're used to a very low standard of living.
They have a million people in the household, and it's all subsidized.
That's one reason why wages are low, because there's downward pressure on wages from endless immigration of every category.
Legal, illegal, high-skilled, low-skilled, work visas, people overstaying their work visas.
It's another reason, by the way, why education is so expensive, because foreign students who have money pay more than out-of-state students at major universities.
So you go to a major university, in-state tuition is low, out-of-state tuition is high, foreign students pay the most.
So colleges are incentivized to bring in as many foreign students as they can.
Why do they want American students?
American students don't even pay as much even if they're from outside of the states.
That's one of the reasons, by the way, why they're talking about stapling green cards to diplomas.
It's all sponsored by rich people in India and China.
So, you're talking about Make America Wealthy Again.
And the two pillars of Make America Wealthy Again from 2016 were trade and immigration.
Stop the people coming here.
Stop the goods from coming here.
Stop the cars from coming here.
Stop the foreign students from coming here.
Stop the illegals from coming here.
Now it's all about taxes.
Now it's all about inflation.
Now it's all about school choice.
And by the way, American public schools are good.
The American education system is good.
Just like everything else, it's racial.
If you exclude black students, From our education metrics, our education system is better than any European country.
Our students perform better in science, math, and English than any country in Europe, if you exclude the black students.
It's just that black people who have a standard deviation IQ lower than white people, you look at these schools like in Maryland, like in Baltimore, and none of them can read.
That's got nothing to do with the education system.
And it's got nothing to do with school choice, and it's got nothing to do with the system.
It's the fact that they don't have dads.
It's the fact that they're drinking Kool-Aid.
It's the fact that their lunch is Coca-Cola and a bag of Cheetos.
And they're lower IQ to begin with.
I know nobody wants to admit that, but it's just true.
I'm David Sachs, a legal immigrant who worked hard to achieve the American dream.
Now...
Thank you.
Now I'm concerned those same opportunities won't be there for future generations.
As I look out at this convention, I see a party that is strong and unified behind President Donald J. Trump and his pick for Vice President, Senator J.D.
Vance.
More on that in a moment.
Thank you, David Sachs, for letting me on rumble. David Sachs, for letting me on rumble.
Abroad.
will install as their nominee.
But we know what their agenda will be.
Four more years of chaos and failure, both at home and abroad.
Abroad, like in Eretz Yisrael.
Hamas' invasion on October 7th.
Democrat rule has turned the streets of our beautiful city into a cesspool of crime, homeless encampments, and open drug use.
Democrats, led by Border Czar Kamala Harris, have allowed millions of illegal migrants to invade our country.
They passed Homeland Security, not with stopping the illegal aliens, but with busing them all over our country.
Democrats have recklessly spent trillions of dollars of wasteful and unnecessary government programs, setting off the worst inflation since Jimmy Carter.
But worst of all, the Biden-Harris administration has taken a world that was at peace under President Trump and they lit it on fire.
Afterward, he rejected every opportunity for peace in Ukraine, including a deal to end the war just two months after it broke out.
Now the war is deep into its third year with no end in sight.
How?
Hundreds of thousands of people are dead.
Hundreds of billions of our taxpayer dollars have gone up in smoke.
President Biden sold us this new forever war by promising it would weaken Russia and strengthen America.
Well, how does that look today?
Russia's military is bigger than before, while our own stockpiles are dangerously depleted.
Every day, there are new calls for escalation, and the world looks on in horror as Joe Biden's demented policy takes us to the brink of World War III.
In the Middle East, America is now losing a war with the Houthis.
And the administration's policy towards Gaza has been so incoherent that the only thing that pro-Israel and pro-Palestine protesters agree on is the chant F. Joe Biden.
Rather than bolstering confidence in American leadership, as he promised, President Biden has become the symbol of an America in decline.
This may be our present, but it does not have to be our future.
Okay.
Thank you.
We can replace the Biden-Harris cabal with a president who is strong and smart, rather than sleepy and senile.
To my fellow Hispanic Americans and to all Americans, if you believe in faith, family, freedom, freedom, financial stability, join me in voting for Donald Trump this November.
He might be the most based speech, which is ironic.
unidentified
Good evening, I'm Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action, together the largest conservative grassroots organizations in the country.
Thanks to our work, I talk to a lot of young people on campuses, at our events, on my radio show, podcast, and social media.
Said differently, I visit college campuses so you don't have to.
I hear a lot from young people about their hopes, their dreams, and their fears.
You see, young people are idealists.
They respond to vision.
For the past four years, they've seen the vision of the Biden-Harris regime.
That vision is, you'll own nothing and be happy.
The Democrats say instead of owning a home, you'll rent a 400 square foot studio apartment.
Instead of owning a car, you'll rent a scooter using some app.
Their vision is this.
Limit your dreams.
Give up.
Aim lower.
Be content with less.
If you're a 20-something in America, life has been really tough.
You've watched home prices rise 47% since 2020.
47%!
Home ownership is now out of reach unless you make over $106,000 a year.
Since I last spoke at the Republican convention four years ago, I've become a husband and father.
In fact, we have two under two.
I think I get extra points for that.
For millions of people my age, that is a dream that feels farther away than ever under the Biden-Harris administration.
According to current projections, one-third of today's young Americans will never get married.
The average American is having fewer children than ever before.
Why?
It's because, for far too many, they simply can't afford them.
I don't think that's true.
The basic things our parents enjoyed are increasingly out of reach for Gen Z and millennials.
You see, the American dream has become a luxury item for the wealthy elite.
Happy countries have children.
Broken countries have addiction, depression, and suffering.
Okay.
Democrats have given hundreds of billions of dollars to illegals and foreign nations, while Gen Z has to pinch pennies just so that they can never own a home, never marry, and work until they die, childless.
Under Biden, our young people own nothing, and they are miserable.
Donald Trump refuses to accept this fake, pathetic, mutilated version of the American dream.
When he was president, young people were richer than ever before, and he will do it again.
Thank you.
Donald Trump is on a rescue mission to revive your birthright, one your grandparents and those before them gave everything to hand down to you.
And listen carefully, everybody.
This is why young men are the most conservative that they have been in 50 years.
Hello?
Is that Patrick Casey?
No way.
To all the Gen Zers watching this convention on TikTok right now, I have a message just for you.
You don't have to stay poor.
You don't have to accept being worse off than your parents.
You don't have to feel aimless and unhappy.
You don't have to support leaders who lied to you and took advantage of you for your votes.
America's future is a series of choices Our current state of slow-motion national decline is a choice.
This November, we're going to choose success.
We're going to choose to put the future of Americans first.
We are going to choose to no longer be spectators this election.
We together are going to do the work to save America.
We are going to choose to work harder than ever before, to chase ballots, to vote early, to register new voters.
And all of us together, working harder than ever, we will fire the Biden-Harris regime and put Donald Trump back in the White House where he belongs.
I have to say, because if you go back and watch his speeches, even from like a year ago, it sounds like he's imitating Trump.
He's imitating Tucker.
And he's obviously borrowing extensively from Tucker with the rhetoric.
But that delivery was very solid.
The message was better than everybody else's.
I mean, for the most part, other than the union guy, I think.
So it was an adequate speech.
I mean, I feel like here's the thing.
I think that when people talk about the birth rates and the unhappiness and everything, they're leaving out that it's actually feminism.
You know, to say like, the fertility rate is low and there's no home ownership, I don't actually feel like those are connected.
I think that the fertility rate is almost all due to sociological factors because of modernity.
It's not because of economics, because poor countries have kids.
When he says that it's out of reach, then why is it that the poorest groups have the most kids?
And the poorest countries have the most kids.
So it's not a question of means.
He's really mixing the message there and saying, well, we have this low birth rate because people are unhappy, people are unhappy because they're poor.
And this is where, and so that's where it's like, you know, it sounds correct, but directionally it's off.
Because this is really a class argument.
It's saying that it's a class struggle, and it's really not.
So by the end of the Obama-Biden administration, massive government spending and overregulation almost put him out of business.
But things changed when we elected Donald Trump.
Thanks to President Trump's tax and regulation cuts, Brad and those that worked for him prospered.
He hired new workers, expanded the business.
Life was good and getting better.
But Bidenomics was a four-letter word for Bordeaux Metals.
So low IQ.
Green New Deal?
More like Green New Scam!
More like Green New Shit!
high taxes and green new scam are destroying small businesses biden and harris so low iq green new deal more like green new scam more like green new shit the day like really that's not even clever It's not even good wordplay.
It'd be one thing if they said, like, Green New Steel.
At least it, like, rhymes.
unidentified
We will make America energy dominant.
You know?
And let me hear you now.
You know who will make that happen?
Donald Trump.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris also think that small business owners are wealthy, and they should pay their fair share.
We all know that's left-wing code for you gotta pay more taxes.
Well, in Tennessee, I led the fight against a proposed state income tax.
We killed that thing.
We are income tax-free in Tennessee, so when Donald Trump was president, I helped him spread economic prosperity with the largest tax cut in American history.
Now, President Trump will make those tax cuts permanent.
The Paul Ryan tax cut.
It's a Paul Ryan tax cut.
It's a corporate tax cut.
to an era of prosperity.
Donald Trump.
Bless Their Hearts, Harass Small Businesses00:06:29
unidentified
Now Joe and Kamala, bless their hearts, Bless your heart.
They couldn't help themselves.
They hired 85,000 new IRS agents to harass hardworking Americans.
IRS penalties have surged 300 percent.
And they're not on big corporations.
They're on gig workers, freelancers, small business owners, and the self-employed.
Let me ask you a question.
Who is going to look at those 85,000 IRS agents and say, you're fired, Donald Trump?
Really?
- Thank you. - Thank you.
Under Biden and Harris, people are also crushed by more regulations than at any time since Jimmy Carter.
Their regulations aren't just burdensome.
Often, they include racist DEI requirements.
Many small businesses are going bankrupt.
Some are throwing up their hands in disgust.
Vance, Mike Johnson.
Who's the girl?
To cut regulations that are killing jobs and costing you thousands of dollars.
Now, you know who will slash that red trach and return this country to economic greatness?
Donald Trump.
The harmful Biden-Harris policies are why so many small business owners, like Shana Gray.
She is a black female owner of Gray Jet Cafe right here in Milwaukee.
She She voted for Biden in 2020 and in 24 she is voting for President Donald Trump.
Our platform is a promise to people like Shana, people like Brad, and President Trump will keep his promises just like he did the first time.
So I've got one more question for you.
Who should be the next president of the United States?
Donald Trump!
God bless you, protect you, and God bless and protect the United States.
David Sachs worked with Peter Thiel on Founders Fund, Palantir.
Thiel was part of the PayPal Mafia.
He's German, but South African roots, just like Elon Musk, who's from South Africa.
Palantir is a contractor for the CIA, NSA, Pentagon, winning $100 million contracts, $500 million, $800 million contracts with CIA, NSA, Pentagon.
J.D.
Vance is the protege of Peter Thiel.
So Peter Thiel founds Palantir.
Peter Thiel founds Founders Fund and a whole suite of tech companies that are connected to the national security apparatus.
Peter Thiel is a billionaire He was the single biggest individual donor in the 2022 midterms.
He gave $30 million.
Peter Thiel put up $10 million for J.D.
Vance's Super PAC.
Okay, that made J.D.
Vance a contender for the Republican primary in the Ohio Senate race.
Donald Trump's endorsement elevated J.D.
Vance and made him a senator.
Now J.D.
Vance, protege of Peter Thiel, is tight with David Sachs, business partner of Peter Thiel.
Remember, though, that David Sachs initially backed DeSantis.
Back in 2022 in the spring, or I'm sorry, 2023 in May, David Sachs hosted the announcement of Ron DeSantis for president with Elon Musk on Twitter Spaces.
David Sachs, this Jewish donor right here, who's tight with JD Vance, actually hosted a fundraiser in San Francisco So these guys are all connected.
David Sachs couldn't get Ron DeSantis to be the nominee, so David Sachs is now behind Donald Trump.
David Sachs hosted a fundraiser for Donald Trump in Silicon Valley with Jacob Helberg, with Keith Raboi, his husband.
With those members of the All In podcast, where Donald Trump then went and said that he's in favor of stapling green cards to diplomas.
I'm surprised that he would come out with the bandaged ear.
That's very unlike him.
So there he is, President Trump, bandaged right ear, alive, after being shot on Saturday.
Literally shot with an AR-15.
I'm surprised, though, that he would come out with a bandaged ear.
That's very unlike Trump, you know, because Donald Trump is very conscious of optics.
Very conscious... Who's that?
Is that Laura Trump, or...?
That's one.
Tiffany Trump, I think that is.
Anyway, Donald Trump is very optics conscious.
And I believe he hates any display of weakness, so I'm actually very surprised that he would show his face with the bandage on.
That's why I said earlier I would think maybe he'd show up after he had it surgically repaired or a prosthetic attached or something.
I know that sounds maybe far-fetched, but Trump is very optics conscious.
Of course, that's why he raised the fist, but that's also why I believe that he would try to go out With an intact ear without a bandage because a bandage kind of indicates he's wounded.
I know it sounds counterintuitive.
He did just get shot, but it does indicate that he's wounded, that he's weak.
So I would think that he would not want to be photographed at all with the bandage.
I feel like I'm not alone in that.
Maybe many Trump supporters would believe the same thing.
On the one hand, you know that he wanted to make a public appearance as quickly as possible because that demonstrates strength.
He wanted to show that he's undeterred, he's unafraid, he's strong.
And that's why people said he wanted to fly to Denver right after he got shot and show up to the UFC.
I'm sure the Secret Service said that's not going to happen.
But that's why he's here making an appearance in Milwaukee, and we'll see if he speaks.
unidentified
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Lee Greenwood.
Is there any doubt who's gonna be the next president of the United States?
Ah, true.
Prayer works!
This nation, based on faith, prayer works.
Because he was sure, as Donald Trump turned his head just slightly, that the bullet missed him just enough to save his life to be the next president of the United States.
We have believed for so long...
That God will make some changes in this country.
And he's about to make a change in the current administration and send them home.
Thank you everybody for being here tonight.
Tonight we make the decision on what's right for America.
More prosperity.
Less gas prices.
Less food prices.
Help for our veterans.
And God bless our military wherever they are in this United States.
He has the courage, the strength, and he will be the next president of the United States.
That's the ticket.
To the hills of Tennessee.
I'm sorry.
Across the plains of Texas, from sea to shining sea.
Ladies and gentlemen, the 45th President of the United States, and soon to be the 47th President of the United States, please welcome Donald J. Trump!
Come on.
I'm an American state.
Oh, am I proud to be an American?
Well, at least I know I'm And I won't forget the men who died Who gave that right to me And I gladly stand up Next to you When you've been hurt Vance is such a dork Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land God bless the USA
Oh and I'm proud to be an American Where I can't stop though I'm free And I won't forget the men who died Who gave that right to me And I gladly stand up Next to you I don't know, this isn't really working for me I don't know, this isn't really working for me
It's got me thinking, I've been hoping for better days, but life is happening right now and we can't waste any more time on the big boy Joe terrible economic policy.
I hope there's something awesome by the end of this.
That was the lamest thing I've ever seen.
I guess I can kind of get where they're coming from.
That's the song he plays at every rally.
They have the live performance.
But so the idea was he was going to walk out to the song after being shot in the face when everybody wants to see and hear from him.
He's going to stand there awkwardly and then just sit down and watch a random guy and let the program resume.
Whose idea was this?
I don't know how they thought that would work or how they thought that was going to go, but it's obvious that after Trump gets shot, everybody wants to hear from him.
So why would he walk out just to sit there and of all speeches, listen to some guy?
I'm the owner of a home remodeling business that my father Steve started in 1972.
During the Trump boom, we were thriving.
Under Biden, we are surviving.
I know other business owners like many of you in this room can relate.
With the financial strain caused by the Biden-Harris economy, many clients are tightening their belts, closing their wallets, and cutting back on their home remodeling projects.
To keep work coming in, I've had to lower my margins.
And I mean lower them.
I'm now barely making payroll, and our family just has enough to live on.
We can't build up any savings, and we can't move forward.
As parents, we want to provide for our children.
But more and more parents like myself have to look their little girl or their little boy in the eye when they're asked for something and say... But Tucker's on his phone.
Tucker's litera... And by the way, I don't even have a phone, Tucker says.
And bro's on his phone.
I don't even have a phone.
unidentified
I don't even watch TV.
Okay, bro.
is a businessman, not a crooked career politician.
President Trump understands what business owners need to succeed because he is a business owner himself and has succeeded.
He knew we could create millions of great jobs if given the chance, and we did.
The Trump's tax cuts and regulation cuts empowered entrepreneurs like you and me and enabled us to expand our businesses.
We need him back in the White House.
Awesome.
Yeah, that's great.
As a representative of Michigan at this convention, I want to give a special Michigander thank you to President Trump for being our champion Apparently J.D.
to step up and get involved in the fight to save america with his leadership and our help we will make america affordable again wealthy again and great again
i feel bad for these guys because they're like a regular guy does not have the experience to speak in front of 50,000 people and the president who just got shot on a national stage to protect president trump and his family.
Why would you do that to these people?
Put these people on the stage in the afternoon, not in prime time when everyone's watching with the president.
Like, I mean, these speeches are not good.
They're not working.
They don't meet the gravity of the moment.
But it's not even their fault.
You're almost putting them in a bad position.
You know, put on a politician who has experience with public speeches.
One of my sons works three jobs, and the other holds down two.
That makes Steve's judge for three people just to survive in Biden's economy.
Our open borders are making this problem worse.
It's upsetting.
It's upsetting to see millions of dollars being sent to help immigrants who came here illegally while hard-working families who did it the right way are left struggling.
Awesome.
Estrago.
A million of dollars.
The fact is that illegal immigration hurts legal immigrants the most.
I'd like to give my peeps from the greatest state in the nation, Massachusetts, some props.
What's up?
What's up?
First, I want to thank the hard-working Teamsters and union members here in Milwaukee who play vital roles in the building and operations of this convention.
President Trump had the backbone to open the doors to this Republican convention, and that's unprecedented.
No other nominee in the race would have invited the Teeps into this arena.
Now, you can have whatever opinion you want, but one thing is clear.
President Trump is a candidate who is not afraid of hearing from new, loud, and often critical voices.
And I think we all can agree, whether people like him or they don't like him, in light of what happened to him on Saturday, he has proven to be one tough S.O.B.
As a negotiator, I know that no window or door should ever be permanently shut.
In my administration, the Chiefs has reached out to eight Republican senators who stood up for railroad chiefs over our fight for paid sick leave.
Josh Hawley was one of them.
We started talking.
Senator Hawley changed his position on national right to work.
Then we started walking.
Senator Hawley walked a Teamsters picket line in St.
Louis and a UAW picket line in Wentzville, Missouri.
More than that, I want to recognize Senator Hawley for his direct, relentless, and pointed questioning of corporate talking heads, lawyers, CEOs, and apologists.
He has shown he is not willing to accept their pillaging of working people's pocketbooks.
I know from a career in negotiating that you get nowhere by slamming your fist on the table.
The first step is to listen.
The Teamsters and the GOP may not agree on many issues, but a growing group has shown the courage to sit down and consider points of view that aren't funded by big money think tanks.
Senators like J.D.
Vance, Roger Marshall, Representatives Nicole Malliotakis, Mike Lawler, and Brian Fitzpatrick are among elected officials who truly care about working people.
And this group is expanding and is putting fear into those who have monopolized our very broken system in America today.
There are far too many people on both sides of the aisle still caught up in knee-jerk reactions to unions, who subscribe to the same tired clap-trap that unions destroy American companies.
Take a moment to consider United Postal Service, which is the largest private sector logistics company, and it's been unionized for more than 100 years.
More than 350,000 Teamsters make it run.
We work for good middle class wages, quality health care, and secure pensions.
There are work rules that ensure fairness and due process for both sides.
UPS is the most efficient package delivery company in the world.
But let's not forget that UPS is the most efficient package delivery company in the world.
UPS doesn't provide these great wages and benefits out of the kindness of its heart.
UPS does it because the Teeps' fight for it, all 350,000 of us.
You know, corporatists hate when working people join together to form unions.
But for a century, major employers have waged a war against labor by forming corporate unions of their own.
We need to call the Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtables what they are.
They are unions for big business.
And here's another fact.
Against a gigantic multinational corporation, an individual worker has zero power.
It's only when Americans band together in democratic unions that we win real improvements on wages, benefits, and working conditions.
Companies like Amazon are bigger than most national economies.
Amazon is valued over $2 trillion.
That makes it the 14th largest economy in the world.
What is sickening is that Amazon has abandoned any national allegiance.
Amazon's sole focus is on lining its own pockets.
Remember, elites have no party, elites have no nation.
Their loyalty is to the balance sheet and the stock price at the expense of the American worker.
Mmm, based rhetoric.
In my office in Washington, D.C., I can see the United States Capitol from my window.
The responsibility to average Americans takes a back seat.
The objective now becomes survival.
Fundraiser after fundraiser.
Corporate consultants hedge every initiative.
The hill crawls with lifers, bouncing from government jobs to corporate jobs and back again.
I think we can all agree, D.C.
is a pretty treacherous area.
Most legislation is never meant to go anywhere, and it's all talk.
And in America, talk isn't cheap.
Working People Know00:15:05
unidentified
It's very expensive, and it comes at the cost of our own country.
Working people know our system is broken.
The elites are not laboring on behalf of workers.
There is a political caste system that prevents citizens from accessing their representatives to hold them accountable.
For a moment in time, working people in America were seen as essential.
Sadly, it took a global pandemic for political and corporate elites to notice this fact.
But ask yourself this question.
Since the end of the pandemic, when was the last time you heard major news outlets regularly refer to workers as essential?
You haven't.
The men and women who provide goods and services, deliver packages, stock grocery shelves, care for patients, pick up your trash, and keep our communities safe are taken for granted.
All the while, the stock market booms, housing prices hit record highs, and corporate salaries skyrocket.
But the income of everyday Americans are shrinking in the face of inflation.
At the gas pumps, at the grocery store, with the electrical bill, and with the car insurance.
We are not tenants, but the corporate elite treat us like squatters, and that is a crime.
We've got to fix it.
Now this will shock you.
This will shock you.
To paraphrase Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, it's time for both sides of Congress to stand their butts up.
We need trade policies that put American workers first.
It needs to be easier for companies to remain in America.
We need legal protections that make it safer for workers to get a contract.
We must stop corporations from abandoning local communities to inflate their bottom line.
We need meaningful bankruptcy reform.
Today, corporate vultures buy up companies like Yellow Freight with the intent of driving them into bankruptcy and feasting on their remains.
The courts leave workers begging for crumbs as third-tier creditors.
Labor law must be reformed.
Americans vote for a union but can never get a union contract.
Companies fire workers who try to join unions and hide behind toothless laws that are meant to protect working people but are manipulated to benefit corporations.
This is economic terrorism at its best.
An individual cannot withstand such an assault.
A fired worker cannot afford Corporate delays, and these greedy employers know it.
There are no consequences for the company, only the worker.
We need corporate welfare reform.
Under our current system, massive companies like Amazon, Uber, Lyft, and Walmart take zero responsibilities for the workers they employ.
These companies offer no real health insurance, no retirement benefits, no paid leave, relying on underfunded public assistance.
And who foots the bill?
The individual taxpayer.
The biggest recipients of welfare in this country are corporations, and this is real corruption.
We must put workers first.
What could be more important to the security of our nation than a long-term investment in the American worker?
In 2021, Teamsters nationwide elected me to fight for them, and that's precisely what I'm doing.
Something is wrong in this country, and we need to say it out loud.
I will always speak for America and the American worker, both union and non-union.
I challenge each and every one of you, and especially my friends on the Democratic side, to embrace cooperation.
To truly collaborate to achieve meaningful and productive change.
To ensure we make this great nation, and this world, the bigger, faster, and strongest nation in the entire world.
I love this country.
The Chiefs love this country.
Our 1.3 million members move America on the roads, in the ports, on the rail, and in the air.
And at the end of the day, if the powers that be stop me from raising my voice on behalf of American workers, I will not have one single regret.
I still carry my commercial driver's license.
I still have my place on the union seniority list.
You'll find me back in Boston driving a tractor-trailer, delivering equipment for Shaughnessy and Ahern.
Because I have the protection of a union contract that gives me the freedom to speak my mind and to fight like hell.
God bless the greatest nation.
Thank you very much.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back RNC Chairman Michael Watley. - That was insane.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.
Almighty God, you have given us this good land as our heritage.
Grant that we remember your generosity and constantly do your will.
Bless our land with honest industry, truthful education, and an honorable way of life.
Save us from violence, discord and confusion, from pride and arrogance, and from every evil course of action.
We give thanks to you for keeping President Trump safe.
We pray for the families of those affected by the demonic violence at the rally on Saturday.
And we pray you would send your holy angels to guard and keep President Trump from all harm and danger.
Grant that we who came from many nations with many different languages may become a united people.
Support us in defending our liberties and give those to whom we have entrusted the authority of government the spirit and wisdom that there may be justice and peace in our land.
When times are prosperous, may our hearts be thankful.
And in troubled times, do not let our trust in you fail.
These last 48 hours have been some of the most intense, yet most prayerful of our lives.
The heinous attack on President Trump and his supporters made all of us pause and seek answers and comfort.
I come from a family of sick immigrants.
I am honored to share with you, my fellow Republicans and guests tonight, a prayer from my faith tradition, practiced by over 25 million worldwide.
Oh my goodness.
No way.
Are you for real?
A lot of thunder going on.
new endeavor giving thanks to god and asking for his protection and help to uphold the values of humility no way truth courage service and justice for all to show respect we cover our heads when we pray are you for real a lot of thunder going on i'm freaked out
are you serious Are you joking?
CHOIR SINGS: Wow.
What?
Receive your blessings and guidance for our beloved country.
Please bless our people with wisdom as they vote in the upcoming election, and please bless with humility, honesty, skill, and integrity all those who conduct the election.
This is total blasphemy.
Finally, we thank you for the Chardikala spirit that we have witnessed in President Trump.
That is, the tireless and uplifting spirit that is sustained even in the face of violent adversity, like a founding father centuries ago.
And we thank you, dear God, for protecting his life.
We thank you for his examples of Nirbha, fearlessness, and Nirver, the absence of hate when faced with vitriol.
These examples of extraordinary calm inspire us.
Nanik nam chardikala terebane sarbatapala.
May your name forever be exalted, spreading happiness and blessings and good spirit, that everyone may prosper and enjoy the grace of your peace.
President Trump, We are honored to have you here tonight.
And on behalf of the entire Republican Party all across America, we are grateful for you to be our nominee for the 47th President of the United States of America.
Trump is a demon who only destroys and couldn't wait until the day we don't have to talk about Trump.
J.D.
Vance who said that Trump is like Hitler and a noxious racist and didn't even vote for him.
This is the click.
So yeah, I think that about sums it up.
Traitors.
Sluts.
GOP shills.
Endless diversity.
Blasphemy.
You know, but here's the problem.
What a lot of people need to realize about Trump is that Trump wants to be liked by everybody.
And that is at the root of the problem.
In his mind, his fantasy is that he will be beloved by liberals.
And that's why he does this.
He puts the unions up.
He puts Amber Rose up there.
He puts an immigrant who can barely speak English up there.
Because in his mind, he wants to beat the racism allegation.
He wants to beat the Nazi allegation.
So that's why the convention needs to be as big and diverse as possible.
That's why it needs to have a hundred black people.
That's why it needs to have a total slut.
But that's not what we should be striving for.
The other side of the country is motivated by evil.
And I don't mean people necessarily that want legal immigration, but people that are promoting... When Amber Rose goes up there and says gay or straight, that's evil.
When they're promoting abortion, that's evil.
There's no unity with evil.
There's no unity with people that want and celebrate abortion, transgenderism, pedophilia, homosexuality.
There's no unity with people that want crime, that seek vengeance against decent people, decent white people, with this retributive crime.
Because that's what it is.
When you look at Chicago, when you look at all these cities run by black mayors, that's what it is.
They see the stealing and the carjacking as a form of redistributive justice.
And that's why they don't want to police the cities.
They think it'd be wrong to have too many black people in jail.
On some level, they see it like Robin Hood when they see a car drive through a nice store on Michigan Avenue and they loot some designer clothing store.
That's evil!
You can't unite with that!
And those people never like you, and they shouldn't if you're a righteous person.
So, yeah, this convention, it just goes to show it hasn't happened, okay?
Trump ran in 2016 on immigration restriction and nativism.
Implicit white identity, nationalism.
He ran on trade restriction, a kind of anti-corporate populist sentiment, and anti-war.
And what we heard tonight was all the GOP platitudes.
GOP platitudes about taxes and spending, inflation and gas prices, endless pandering to black people desperately trying to prove we're not racist.
How many black men How many white men spoke?
I think there were fewer white men than almost any other demographic.
There was Glenn Youngkin, there was the retiree, there was the union guy who's not even a conservative.
It was a lot of women.
It was two Hispanic women that can't speak English, a Jewish guy, David Sachs, and about a half dozen black people talking about how poor their mothers were and how they worked hard.
And so the main policies were cut taxes, school choice, deepen the Paul Ryan tax cut, energy dominance, unleash American energy.
These are all canned talking points from the big energy lobby.
So it goes to show that Trump changed.
Trump went from an independent talking about immigration and tariffs to a Republican talking about taxes and inflation.
And he went from an independent talking about white people to a Republican pandering endlessly to black people and legal immigrants.
One of the only times we heard about immigration tonight was we heard a legal immigrant say that those most affected by illegal immigration are legal immigrants.
Seriously?
So you come here as a legal immigrant and now you're the most affected by illegal immigration?
What about the native people that have been here for generations?
What about the founding stock Americans?
What about people that have been here for five or six generations or even longer?
People that were here since the Civil War?
Or people that built the country during the Industrial Revolution?
Really?
It's the legal immigrants from Nicaragua from the 90s that are most affected?
Seriously?
What an insult.
What an insult to real Americans.
She can barely speak English.
You're the most affected?
We have an Hispanic immigrant from New York who's gonna complain, the country looks like Mexico.
Yeah, I wonder why.
That's crazy.
Maybe it's because everyone from Mexico moved here.
So, you know, that's just for openers.
We hear nothing about tariffs and trade except for from the communist who's not even going to vote for Trump.
We heard nothing about immigration other than from immigrants in broken English complaining about illegal immigration.
Nothing about white people.
It was all black people and about school choice, which is a spook for the G- You know, that's like a Betsy DeVos, uh, you know, Grand Rapids thing.
Republican wet dream from the Heritage Foundation.
That's your economic agenda.
Devalue the currency, cut taxes, cut regulation, school choice.
And then at the end, the greatest insult of all, you're going to bring up a total slut, Amber Rose.
And I'm not just saying that.
She calls herself a slut.
She said it's a slut walk.
She goes to the slut walk, now she's at the GOP convention with the face tattoo on her forehead, talking about how it doesn't matter if you're gay or straight.
And then at the very end, you get a prayer to a false god.
You get this blasphemous, alien prayer to a false god, which is so unconscionably disrespectful.
And consider the circumstances.
Saturday, it literally was divine intervention.
I actually believe that.
That Trump turned his head in a twentieth of a millisecond and didn't get his head blown up.
And that's how you thank God, is to come in and end the convention, end the session of the convention today, with a prayer to a false god.
She says, the one and only God, blah blah blah.
No, I'm sorry, the one and only God is Jesus Christ, that's who saved your life.
But we're gonna have some, there's no place for that, there's no room for that, and why?
You wanna know why?
J.D.
Vance's wife and Vivek and the Indians that are now in control of the party.
Indians and Jews.
That's who runs our country.
Anybody but Christians.
God forbid.
It's all Indians and Jews praying to their false gods.
So that's just really sick.
That's really sick and really sad.
You know, there was some hope that this near-death experience would have changed Trump and maybe he becomes more spiritual and maybe he leans into a more socially conservative agenda because they removed that from the GOP platform.
But now we get this.
We get a slut talking about gays, we get a communist, and then we get an Indian prayer to a false god.
It sucks.
That just goes to show the GOP has not been captured by Trump.
Trump has been captured by the GOP.
I've been saying this for a long time.
And I and again, I'm glad he's alive.
It made me very emotional that he almost died.
A lot of people said, oh, you switched up.
You're so critical of Trump.
But when he almost got shot in the face, you're giving him a message of support.
Well, obviously.
They're like, Trump just got shot in the face and you're tweeting in support of him.
Why aren't you criticizing his personnel policy?
It's like, well, because he almost got shot in the face and actually it's a big deal.
But it just goes to show he's the same thing.
And that is, by the way, that is the central, central question.
Will Trump conquer the GOP?
Or will the GOP conquer Trump?
Because they are at odds.
Trump has a pro-America, pro-worker, pro-white, non-interventionist, nativist, immigration restrictionist, trade protectionist agenda.
And the GOP has a neoliberal, neocon...
Globalist agenda.
So the question is, who wins the battle of wills?
Does Trump bring his people into the GOP and make the GOP a party that represents his vision?
Or does the GOP fill up his campaign and administration and make Trump work for the GOP?
And we can clearly see it's the latter.
We can clearly see that nine years in, Trump has not institutionalized his revolution, rather the institutions have made the revolution serve them.
And now Trump has trotted out in a normal GOP convention.