Dave Smith and Roland Solo dissect Donald Trump's disastrous Davos speech, arguing his incoherent performance signals a total merger with the political establishment. They critique his failure to prosecute RussiaGate figures or deliver on war-ending promises, noting the irony of praising Marco Rubio despite his 2016 opposition. The hosts contend that Trump's support for Rubio, his $1.5 trillion defense budget benefiting weapons corporations, and his alignment with neocons prove he is no longer an adversary but a key pillar of the swamp he once vowed to drain. Ultimately, the episode suggests Trump's transformation validates the view that systemic power absorbs even its most vocal critics. [Automatically generated summary]
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Trump's Incoherent Speech00:03:48
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So earlier today, Donald Trump spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
We're going to go through some of the clips of this speech that Donald Trump gave.
But I look, let me just give you my thoughts on it before we even get into this.
And I know that people, some people certainly, I mean, some people are very refreshed by it.
Some people don't like that I've been so harsh on Donald Trump for the last year.
I don't know, the last eight months or something like that.
I gave him a little bit of a grace period there in his second term, but, you know, look, I just, I got to call him like I see him and tell you guys what I think.
And I do think that for a growing number of people, this is becoming more and more obvious.
This, this speech was horrible.
And it's not like, I'm not saying this because I just want to be against Trump or bash him now.
If Donald Trump had gone there and said some good things, I'd admit that.
And like, sure enough, he did say a few good things.
But I don't know.
Look, just my kind of meta overall thought of this.
Donald Trump, and I just think this is kind of like objectively true.
He looks the worst he's ever looked as president or in the in the last 10 years since he's been a political figure and not just like a businessman slash cultural figure.
He, you know, obviously it's nothing like Joe Biden's collapse in office, at least yet.
I guess he's still got three years in there.
But, you know, there were lots of signs of this last year, but this one to me, I thought was almost like the most like, oh yeah, Trump is 80, you know, and he just he's, he seems to be more incoherent and rambly than he's ever been before.
And obviously, Donald Trump was always like, you know, had this, he always had this like stream of conscience like style of speaking.
And so he was always rambly.
Left Wingers and Token Gestures00:08:48
But you know, there's this thing.
And again, I'm not trying to be petty.
I'm just honestly giving you my thoughts from this.
But you know, you know, when old people start sounding like their teeth are loose?
You know what I mean?
Like, and it's not that they have dentures because, like, I know older people who have dentures who don't sound like they're loose, but like as they get older, it just sounds like everything's kind of mumbled.
And like, Joe Biden really had that bad, much worse than Trump, but Trump's getting it too.
And anyway, I just, I look, I thought the speech, I thought it was terrible.
Um, it, it, there were parts that were unhinged.
And then, of course, what I see is, you know, some right wingers kind of eating up the slop that he's throwing down.
And it does, it, I don't know.
I guess what I was thinking about is like, if you remember, this was, this was something that the left really spiraled into for many years, where they were essentially like they would just be, they would be won over by token gestures without anything ever having to be done.
Like, and it was actually very effective for a little while.
But so, for example, right, like you'd have left wingers who, you know, look, I disagree with them on a lot of their issues, but like they'd have issues of substance that they cared about, maybe even some that I agreed with them on.
But like left wingers, you know, opposed banker bailouts, like there's one that I'd agree with them on.
Now, I may not agree with them on their solutions, but they certainly would have ideas about healthcare and housing and education and daycare and things like this, inequality, you know, income inequality or criminal justice reform or whatever the topic is.
And they'd be issues of substance.
Like you may, maybe you agree with them, maybe you disagree with them.
Certainly I disagree with them on most of that stuff.
But there'd be like an issue where, look, there is a real issue there and this is something that actually matters.
And okay, you know, whatever.
But then you would essentially have like Democratic politicians who are like, okay, I'm not going to address any of those issues, but I will, you know, I don't know, make a pride month, you know, we'll, we'll make pride month and we'll all go out on floats and wave a pride flag.
And like that would be enough to get left wingers to support them.
And a lot of us, people who hadn't lost our minds at that time, we would, we would just like point and laugh at them.
Like, how stupid are you?
If you remember, we used to mock them all the time when at the gay pride parade, at the gay pride parade, there'd be like a Bank of America float.
And then there'd be like a JP Morgan float at the Pride Parade.
And you'd be like, you'd look at it and you'd be like, hey, left wingers, like how fucking retarded are you?
Are you really this dumb that you'll get bought off by the big banks, the guys who are obviously supposed to be your enemies, but what they just, they did something that cost them nothing.
It's not even like, it's not even like there was a there was any type of action attached to that gesture.
Like it's not like they went like just for example, right?
Like if you were a left winger who was big into like the gay pride parade or pride month or something like that.
And you were like, okay, I really care about those issues.
And then Bank of America was like, all right, well, this is what we're going to do.
We're going to, you know, put away a fund of $30 million for gay kids who got kicked out of their house because their Christian dad hated that they came out of the closet.
So he kicked them out of the house.
We're going to put together a fund to try to get those guys some housing.
Like it's not even attached to anything like that.
It would just be like, we'll sponsor a float at your parade.
And that would be enough to keep them from protesting the big banks.
And instead, they'd be protesting, you know, whatever, whatever the other thing was.
And there would be things like this all the time.
You see it all the time where there'd be like, um, during Black Lives Matter, they would like, uh, you know, they'd be talking about like blacks or cops killing unarmed black people in the country.
But then somehow like a big corporation would be like, we're going to get rid of Aunt Jemima.
And like left wingers would be like, all right, we got rid of Aunt Jemima.
And you're like, are you so fucking stupid that you can't see that they just totally threw you off course with this meaningless gesture?
Like at the end, and look, I'm not saying like there are certain things like you can get into the argument of like tearing down statues and whether a shared tradition and history really matter.
And so I'm not like saying it's not important, but like even from the left wingers point of view, like who really gives a shit if a statue gets torn down?
What does that matter?
You know, like what, like a policy that's actively fucking people over is much more important than that.
But anyway, they had no, they had no way to kind of like, it was almost like they, they lost their defensive ability to like prioritize, like create a hierarchy, which is something left wingers struggle with, but like to create a hierarchy of values and to go like, okay, this, while we may agree with it, is not actually that important.
This is much more important.
And they lost their defense, their like capability of not being tricked by someone just throwing red meat to the base, but that you'd actually demand some action.
And I don't know, I just, I can't help but see the parallel between that and how some of these like right-wing accounts are reacting to Donald Trump's speech today.
It's like he'll go in there.
He's betrayed you on everything, like everything.
But then he'll go in to the World Economic Forum and he'll say something like, you know, Canada is only safe because of our might.
So keep that in mind, Canada, you're just a bitch and we're the big, strong, tough country.
And I just see the slop like on Twitter and people are like, yeah, Donald Trump went and stood up to those guys.
Like, wow.
Okay.
It just becomes, it's almost like, it's like, are we like eight with these like eight year old boys?
There's, by the way, there's nothing about being a right winger that means you have to be a child.
In fact, I always thought it was the opposite.
I guess maybe I was wrong about that.
But there are that, it's like, oh, he just said something nice.
It's like one explosion or one tough guy talking point, and that's enough to just bring you back in.
You know, the it's just so funny because, and again, I had the same experience in Trump's first four years.
I mean, it was a little bit different, I guess, because I supported him this time and I hadn't the first time.
But by the end of Donald Trump's first four years, you know, it was 2020.
He was the guy who championed lockdowns and in fact mocked other countries for not locking down way past the point of where it was like, dude, this was obvious.
Obviously, like this totalitarian solution was not working to this nasty flu that was going around.
But and he kept Fauci on the job for all of 2020.
And there were like all these, you know, things.
And I, all the Trump supporters would agree with me that they're against lockdowns and against Fauci, but they'd make an excuse for Donald Trump.
You know, it'd always be an excuse.
Here we have a situation where a year ago, if I was talking to like, if I was doing like a focus group with a whole bunch of Trump supporters, you know, if I was going around the place just talking to Trump supporters, which I kind of did, I mean, not a scientific focus group, but I talked to a lot of people.
They all would have agreed with all for with all of the reasons why I was supporting Donald Trump.
When I first said I was supporting Donald Trump, I remember I went on Charlie Kirk's show pretty shortly after that.
And it was like, he just loved everything I had to say.
All the Trump supporters.
It was like, look, man, here's what we want.
Okay.
We want no new wars.
That's what Donald Trump was running on.
We want to break from the war party.
We want to do America first stuff.
We got enough concerns here in America.
We don't have to worry about the rest of the world.
We got to worry about solving the problems here.
Like, damn near 100% of Trump supporters would have agreed with me on that.
Not a single one of them would have gone, well, you know, I really think we need to take Greenland until Donald Trump told you that we're taking Greenland.
And then you went, okay, that's what we're going to do.
America First War Stance00:03:16
And then, and then you come up with a justification for why that's okay.
Obviously, if we had said, hey, we're going to go after the deep state criminals.
You know, the people who framed Donald Trump for Russia Gate.
You know, the people who interfered in the 2016 and the 2020 election.
You know, all these deep, all these people, all these clappers and comies, they're all lied through their teeth in front of Congress.
We can go after all these guys.
They all would have agreed.
We're going to get to the bottom of Epstein.
All would have agreed.
We're going to get to the bottom of what happened in Butler.
All would have agreed.
You know, Doge says they're going to cut $2 trillion out of the budget.
We're going to go into every department and find fraud.
We're going to prosecute the people who are defrauding the taxpayer.
We're going to drastically cut spending.
We're going to abolish a bunch of these agencies.
Agreed on all counts.
Agreed on all counts.
Donald Trump's done none of it.
None of it.
And on half of them has turned around and spit in your face and told you he doesn't want your support if you feel the same way we all felt a year ago.
So I said he doesn't want your support if you want to get to the bottom of the Epstein thing.
And you'll trade that.
You'll take all of that because he called Europe a bunch of pussies.
Like, I don't know.
To me, it's it's that is on the level of being about as serious as transgender activists on the left were over the last 10 years.
My honest opinion.
Like, if you could get fooled by that shit at this point, I don't know what to tell you.
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Giving Kash Patel a Pass00:10:54
Anyway, there was a whole bunch of just incoherent, wild stuff that was said.
We could get into some of it.
Here, let's play the first clip.
Thousands of miles away, separated by a giant ocean.
It's a war that should have never started, and it wouldn't have started if the 2020 U.S. presidential election weren't rigged.
It was a rigged election.
Everybody now knows that.
They found out people will soon be prosecuted for what they did.
It's probably breaking news, but it should be.
It was a rigged election.
Can't have rigged elections.
You need strong borders, strong elections, and ideally a good press.
I always say it.
Strong borders, strong elections, free, fair elections, and a fair media.
The media is terrible.
It's very crooked.
It's very biased, terrible.
But someday it'll straighten out because it's losing all credibility.
Think of it.
When I went in a landslide, a giant landslide won all seven swing states, won the popular vote, won everything, and they only get negative press.
That means that it has no credibility.
And if they're going to get credibility, they're going to have to be fair.
So you need a fair press, but you also need those other elements.
And I inherited a terrible, terrible situation.
If you look, the border was open.
The inflation was raging.
Everything was bad with the United States when I came into office.
But I also inherited a mess with Ukraine and Russia, something that would have never happened.
And I know Putin very well.
He and I would discuss Ukraine.
It was the apple of his eye, but he wasn't going to do anything.
I said, Vladimir, you're not doing it.
He would never have done it.
It was terrible what happened.
I could see it happening too.
After I left, I could see it happening.
Biden had given Ukraine an all right.
So Donald Trump here, there's a few things to take apart.
Number one, he announces, here's some red meat for the base, that arrests are coming very soon for the 2020 election.
Are you guys still buying this?
Are you still buying that that's coming?
I mean, I don't know, dude.
Can someone give me a date?
Can somebody just give me a date of when I'm allowed to point out that none of this is going to happen?
I mean, who would like, I don't even know what, like, obviously Russia gate is the slam dunk here, not the 2020 election.
But if you were going to go after the 2020 election, like, who's he going after?
I mean, are you going after the dozens of intelligence officials who signed that letter saying that Hunter Biden's laptop for interfering in the election?
Because I'd really support that.
What do you think the odds are, guys?
Who's going to go down?
I mean, maybe best case scenario, what I see coming out of this is that like some like worker in Georgia or something like that, they get on some type of like crime, if anything.
But are they really taking down the people at the top who really went in and interfered with that election?
How many times can you guys be told this is on the doorstep?
You know, I was arguing.
There was someone on social media the other day.
Oh, man, I can't remember who the guy's name is who said it.
But anyway, it was from when I was arguing with Dan Bongino, you know, and I was, you know, calling him out for, you know, protecting pedophilia, which is a bad thing for the record.
If you guys weren't on the fence on that, that's a bad thing to do.
And so I called him out for that.
And, you know, as you guys know, me and Dan Bongino had the whole back and forth where he crashed out pretty hard.
And then someone sent me this video and they go, yeah, Dave, you might want to hold off a little bit on that.
And it was a guy who I guess was like close friends with Kash Patel and Dan Bongino.
And he was saying, dude, Kash Patel's FBI, he goes, give this thing a few weeks here, maybe a few months.
You're about to see massive Russia gate arrests.
They're about to really get everybody.
And he goes, so he sent it to me being like, hey, you know, like, just hang on.
It's coming.
And then I mentioned to him that this video is from a year ago.
It's from a year ago.
The guy, I was like, look at the little bottom right-hand corner there.
You see how that says 2025?
This is last year.
Maybe not a year ago.
I think it was like last summer.
This is like six, seven months ago.
But you're like, oh, okay.
Yeah.
So actually, this is kind of evidence in on my favor, right?
I mean, like, why exactly?
Please, somebody explain to me why the 2020 election was stolen.
Donald Trump wins the presidency in November of 2024.
We're now at the end of January in 2026.
Not a single indictment has come down yet.
Why exactly?
You know, if you want to see an administration, however you feel about them, if you want to see an administration who's serious about holding people accountable, you could look at examples of that.
Okay.
The Joe Biden administration, no matter how you feel about them, they were serious about holding January 6thers accountable.
And you know what the evidence for that was?
They all went to jail very swiftly.
Does anybody at this point still believe this?
That Donald Trump is serious about holding the deep state to account?
Just not the Jeffrey Epstein portion, but the rest.
I mean, I don't know who's supposed to still believe this.
But at this point, I will say, I also, I did, I wanted to mention this because there was, well, there were two people who I saw.
Okay.
It was Glenn Beck, who I should give some credit to.
And then it was, God damn, I'm blanking on his name.
Sean is the military guy who's Tucker's been on his show a few times.
I'm blanking on his name.
I'll remember in a second.
Sean Ryan.
I'm sorry.
I apologize.
I do know his name.
I just, I'm stupid.
But I saw he's really been going on a tear lately about how like, yo, this administration is covering up for pedophiles.
Like, what?
What are we doing here?
This is crazy.
And I appreciated that.
I appreciate some of these people who like, all I'm asking you to do is have a little bit of self-respect and still believe the shit you believed last year, this year, when all that's changed is Trump told you, no, we're not believing that anymore.
So he's been real, he's been solid on this, I've seen over the last week.
And, you know, I saw Glenn Beck had a whole thing.
And, you know, Glenn Beck, I got some mixed feelings about Glenn Beck.
You know, he was real cool to me.
Like I did his show a couple of times.
I've met him a couple of times and he loved me.
But then he was, I forget exactly what he said, but he was talking some type of shit about me that kind of pissed me off over the last year.
But whatever.
That's just petty shit.
I mean, it wasn't just petty.
It was, there was something to it.
But he went on this whole long thing about how like, look, I said I'd give Pam Bondi a year, but what the fuck?
You know, a year's up.
And we're, we put up a donut so far on like deep state arrests.
And he went through all the things, the things that we go through on this show all the time.
But it was like, hey, like, here are all these things.
And by the way, we could add a lot more.
We could add a lot more that like Donald Trump just could go after.
I mean, it's like maybe not as personal to him.
Like he cares about Russia Gate because he was the one who was framed.
And he cares about the 2020 election because he was the one who lost.
And so like those are, but like, for example, if you, if you could imagine a world where what Donald Trump cared about the most was the American people and not his own ego.
Like if you could imagine a world where Donald Trump didn't have to brag about his election victory, it didn't have to brag about how nice the White House is when he designs it or didn't have to brag about how smart he is and how stupid everybody else is.
Donald Trump, like if you wanted to go after deep state criminals, it'd be like, hey, do you remember when Clapper was the director of national intelligence?
And you remember how the director of national intelligence oversees the NSA?
And then you remember how before Snowden released all that stuff, he testified before Congress that there is absolutely no program of collecting America's metadata.
He lied through his teeth to Congress.
That is a crime.
You could go prosecute that.
George W. Bush's administration tortured people to death, lied us into wars.
There's lots of shit that the deep state criminals have done that you could go prosecute.
He hasn't moved on any of that.
We're entering his sixth year as president of the United States of America.
Okay.
There's no, there's no political will.
It's not happening.
That's not what Donald Trump wants to do.
But anyway, so Glenn Beck goes through a lot of this.
And he, he, you know, he mentioned Epstein, he mentioned Russia Gate.
He mentioned the 2020 election.
He mentioned a whole bunch of this stuff.
And he goes, oh, look, you've put up, you guys ran on, we're going to drain the swamp.
We're going to get the deep state criminals.
And you've gotten none.
And you don't even have anything to say about that.
You just turn around and start bragging about whatever, you know, like the murder rates down or something, which is good.
It's good when the murder rate goes down.
But this is a separate issue from what you guys ran on.
And, but then, of course, what Glenn Beck does is the whole thing's about Pam Bondi.
And that's it.
That's the level of bravery that Glenn Beck will demonstrate.
This is about Pam Bondi.
He even gives Bongino a pass.
He goes, you know, I heard rumors that there was a lot of friction between Bongino and Pam Bondi, which is like, well, okay, well, I've heard rumors that Dan Bongino was the one leading the charge to cover up Epstein.
So I don't know what rumors you're hearing, but forget rumors.
What's Dan Bongino done since leaving?
He's not coming out.
He's not disgusted with the administration that he worked for.
He didn't leave because, no, he's come out to attack the Black Pillars and the constant negativity.
Every day he's retweeting Kash Patel about their crime stats.
Every day he's saying that the administration's doing amazing things.
No, dude, he's still working for the administration.
He's just working on the outside now.
So I don't know how the fuck you give that guy a pass.
I don't know how do you give Kash Patel a pass?
But most importantly, how do you give Donald Trump a pass?
This is not a tiny issue.
How to Give Trump a Pass00:15:54
This is like a central issue to, if, you know, Donald Trump sits there and he says, well, in order to have a country, you need, what was it, strong borders, strong elections, and a good press.
Okay.
Fair enough.
I mean, who can really argue with that?
We certainly should have strong borders.
We certainly should have fair elections.
I mean, if we're going to have elections, you probably want to make sure that the right people are voting in them.
And yes, you'd, of course, like to have a media that does a good job.
But you know what else you need is you need to know that when people in positions of power, particularly unelected, unelected government officials who operate in secrecy, when they commit profound crimes against the American people, there have to be consequences for that.
That is every bit as important as strong borders and strong elections and a good press.
Every bit as much important.
Every bit as much important as those things.
And what do we got here?
We're going into year six of Donald Trump being president.
And what did he just say?
Breaking news.
I'm announcing we're going to do it.
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I mean, again, Trump supporters, for the people who get frustrated with me over this, when is an appropriate time period where we can say he was lying about that?
You decide now.
You tell me if it's six months or if it's a year, whatever you want to say.
And when that time's up and we come back and Clapper and Brennan and Obama and all of them are still free and haven't even been indicted, what do you say then?
Like at a certain point, you have to admit he's just talking shit and he's not going to follow through on any of this.
I don't know how anyone's not at that point, you know?
And I mean, so I give a lot of credit to Sean Ryan and I give some partial credit to Glenn Beck.
At least they're nudging in the right directions.
But, you know, I think it's just, it's like, I think it's degrading.
You're degrading yourself if you're going to hear this promise and still go, yep, he's about to do it.
Hey, listen, again, I'd be happy to be proven wrong about this.
If I'm eating crow in three weeks, because Donald Trump's got that, I'll be happy to admit I was wrong and I'll be glad that I was.
But come on, man.
Does anyone really think that's going to happen?
And, you know, Donald Trump can sit here and like, you know, he's sitting here and talking about how bad the press is, right?
And, but what's really his beef with the press?
Like, it doesn't even seem to be like when Donald Trump, I mean, this is why the whole thing is so pathetic.
This is why it's so degrading to your soul to still support Trump at this point.
Because like, look, what's what's my beef with the media?
Like, you know, look, I've been, I said this on the last episode.
I've been accused of making it about me too much.
And that's probably a fair criticism.
I probably do.
I did that a little bit with the Glenn Beck thing just now.
It's kind of hard not to.
I have plenty of flaws and an ego is certainly one of them.
It's something that I try to keep in check.
But it's a little bit hard sometimes when you're in the story to any degree, or when you're insulted, or you're to not, you know, make it about yourself.
But hey, man, if I'm given a speech somewhere, right?
Like if I was given, which I've done lots of, but if I was, if I was given a speech somewhere or I was on a big podcast or I'm doing my show or something like that, and I was talking about why I hate the media, it would always be about what they've done to the people.
Like they lied us into this war.
They lied us into this lockdown.
They lied us into about taking this vaccine.
They tried to shame all of those of us who stood up against it.
Like they lied to the American people as their country was stolen from them.
And then if you had the balls to stand up and say something about it, they called you a racist.
They called you a terrible person or something like that.
It's like, that's always the beef with the media.
What's Donald Trump's beef with the media?
They didn't give favorable coverage to me.
And I won so bigly.
I won a huge election and they still said bad things about me.
That's his beef.
Well, you know, the thing is, Trump, first of all, you got Fox News is the biggest cable news channel, and they just blow you all day long.
That's all they do.
No matter what you say, they're going to be on your side.
CNN and MSNBC, ABC, CBS, I guess CBS likes him again now.
But no one watches that shit anymore.
Like they've been getting destroyed.
The whole, at least for certainly 40 and under, everybody's getting their news on the internet now.
And actually, the internet media scene, whatever you want to call that, was overwhelmingly favorable to Donald Trump a year ago.
A year ago, Donald Trump was like the bell of the ball in the podcast scene across almost all of the biggest podcasts in the world.
Donald Trump was, first of all, a whole bunch of them were having him on and were very much on his side.
A huge percentage of them openly endorsed him.
And I mean, of the biggest podcasters, like openly endorsed him.
And I think, and on top of that, just a huge percentage of them gave either favorable or at the very least, very fair coverage of Donald Trump.
I think I would include us in being very fair and at times favorable, at times critical.
But certainly, like on our show, we really stood up for Donald Trump when the deep state was sabotaging him and when he was being, you know, impeached over bullshit, just insane.
Both of the impeachments were absolutely ridiculous.
Russia Gate was a gigantic hoax where the deep state was trying to unseat the president.
I think we were pretty fair to him on that.
Obviously, we hit him for Fauci and lockdowns and things like that and Yemen.
But he deserved all that.
Okay.
So that's the situation, dude.
You actually had a whole bunch of people who were either favorable or very fair to you.
The reason why you're getting negative coverage from them now is because they're kind of disgusted with what they see.
And why wouldn't they be?
All right.
Here, let's go to the let's go to the next clip.
And I've been settled other wars that were Vladimir Putin called me Armenian, Aber Bajan.
He said, I can't believe you settled that one.
They were going on for 35 years.
I settled it in one day and President Putin called me.
So, yeah, so this is, again, he's just sitting here bragging about how he essentially what happens here is Donald Trump jumps on the phone.
And then, if a conflict ends, he takes all the credit for it.
I mean, like, Vladimir Putin called him.
It's like, look, the reality here is, and anybody who's not dealing with this, I mean, like, I um, I remember saying, I guess it was when I was on Crowder, like, I, he was like, Donald Trump's ended eight wars or something like that.
And I was like, wait, what?
What wars has he ended?
And then he said the 12-day war.
And I was like, yeah, well, it doesn't really count if it's a war you start, that you end it.
That's a weird thing to get credit for.
But then he starts going through all these phone calls.
You're like, oh, well, I thought we were talking about like wars that the U.S. was involved in.
Not just like, oh, Donald Trump got on the phone and then gets to brag about it.
I mean, that's nice, I guess.
Who knows in any of these, like how much Donald Trump actually played a role?
You can guarantee not as much as he claims.
But the actual reality here, what's really going on is that Donald Trump campaigned on a promise that he would end the war in Ukraine on day one.
He's failed to do that.
Again, this is objective fact territory.
There's no opinion in there.
And in fact, by the way, this is not, if you notice, this is not one of the things I typically hit Donald Trump for because promising to end it on day one was always stupid, Trumpian bluster.
No one ever thought that was really going to happen.
And he has kind of tried to work toward that, I think, and he's just kind of failed at it.
So I don't really hit him for that.
But the bottom line is you promised you'd end it on day one and you failed to do that.
The thing is still raging on to this day.
So we've got this huge war in Europe with this new nuclear suit with the nuclear superpower in Russia.
And at this time, Donald Trump has decided to go around and flirt with wars of choice all over the place as he drives us further and further into debt, just risking catastrophes all over the place with no real upside for the American people.
None of this has done anything to make your life better.
And if he's claiming it's going to in the future, it's bullshit.
It won't.
He backed Netanyahu as he completed his fucking genocide in Gaza, backed him to destroy the whole fucking place.
He bombed the Houthis.
He bombed Iran.
He bombed Venezuela, killed a whole bunch of people in boats.
They claim they're drug dealers.
They've never actually proved that.
Who the hell knows?
But that's actually Donald Trump's track record.
And now he's talking about regime change.
And I mean, like, he's flirting with regime change in Iran, in Venezuela, taking Greenland, all these things that had nothing to do with what anyone voted for him over.
So that's his actual track record here.
You could sit here and try to brag about how great I've done with all of this shit.
This is fantasyland stuff, man.
This is just not living in reality.
All right, let's go to the next clip.
Here.
Yes, he's here.
Hello, Mark.
We never asked for anything and we never got anything.
We probably won't get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force, where we would be, frankly, unstoppable.
But I won't do that.
Okay.
Now everyone's saying, oh, good.
That's probably the biggest statement I made because people thought I would use force.
I don't have to use force.
I don't want to use force.
I won't use force.
All the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland where we already had it as a trustee, but respectfully returned it back to Denmark not long ago after we defeated the Germans, the Japanese, the Italians, and others in World War II.
We gave it back to them.
We were a powerful force then, but we are a much more powerful force now.
After I rebuilt the military in my first term and continue to do so today, we have a budget of $1.5 trillion.
We're bringing all right.
So, I mean, this, by the way, is part of, I go watch the whole thing if you're interested in it.
This is kind of what I meant by saying, like, Donald Trump just seems old and incoherent and quite frankly, kind of low energy.
Kind of got a little bit of low energy Jeb Bush going on here.
Maybe a little sleepy Joe.
But the incoherence, did you catch what he said there?
He goes, we'll never get anything unless we use unbelievable force, but I'm not going to do that.
I'm not going to do that.
That's big news.
I'm not going to use force because if we did, no one could mess with us.
But you just said we won't get anything unless we use force.
And now you're saying we won't use force.
So you're saying we won't get anything.
And then just a line about how strong we were in World War II and how we never should have given it to you.
We're even stronger now.
I rebuilt the military.
Oh, I asked for a $1.5 trillion budget.
Is that where, is that where America first is now?
Wow, a $1.5 trillion budget.
You know, I've, I never realized before that, you know, the problem has been in America.
It's really been an issue here is that we've just never had enough military spending.
We've never had a high enough defense budget, a little more government spending.
That really ought to solve our problems.
Like, you know, like, what is you ever look at?
Like, we spend more money on military than like every other country combined.
And then like the number, like, like 10 of the next 12 are allies or something like that.
We spend more money on militarism than any country that's ever existed in the history of the world.
And that was true.
That was true long before Donald Trump, long before Donald Trump.
And the idea that this is what's just going to solve the problem.
Why would it be that we need to have a defense budget that dwarfs the defense budget during the global war on terrorism?
Anyone explain that to me?
And how is that winning exactly?
You understand the defense budget being increased to $1.5 trillion.
This is literally money that is extracted from the working class of America is taken by Washington, D.C., and is then given to weapons companies.
It's a transfer of wealth from the working people to big giant corporations.
And you think that's draining the swamp?
Is that the swamp?
People do realize that, right?
That's the swap.
When Donald Trump brags about a bloated defense budget, this is true for any government budget.
But when Donald Trump brags about a bloated defense budget, he's bragging about increasing the swamp.
That's what Drain the Swamp guy is doing right now.
Oh, isn't this wonderful?
Marco Rubio Praising the Swamp00:13:52
Yes, that is wonderful news for Lockheed Martin.
It's wonderful for Raytheon.
It's wonderful for the Pentagon.
It's not good for anyone else.
This is where we've gotten just a little over a year in, right?
Just a little over a year into his second term.
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I was, I became a diplomat for the first time.
Well, you know, taught me that, Marco Rubio.
Marco Rubio.
He said, let me teach you about diplomacy.
Hey, any guy that gets approved by 100% of the votes, think of it, he got liberal Democrats and radical right Republicans to approve him.
He's the only one.
The next one was like lost 45 votes, right?
But he got all 100 votes voting for him.
And at first, I wasn't happy about it.
I said, wait a minute, I don't like that.
And now it turns out that the Democrats probably wish they didn't do that.
And Marco has been fantastic.
Marco, stand up, please.
You have done a great job as Secretary of State.
He's going to go down as the best secretary of state.
And I was, I became a diplomat for the first time.
This is just, oh my God.
Just think about this, guys.
Think about this for a second.
Marco Rubio is so wonderful.
What an impressive diplomat Marco Rubio is.
If this is the case, why did we ever need Donald Trump?
Why did he, why did we ever need him to run for president or do any of this?
We already had Marco Rubio.
Marco Rubio might as well be praising Paul Ryan or Mitt Romney or something like that.
Remember, I'm just saying there was this guy who ran against Donald Trump in 2016.
Little Marco made fun of Donald Trump for all his terrible policy ideas.
He was against Donald Trump in every single issue that Donald Trump was breaking from the Republican Party on.
He was the guy who the establishment wanted, Marco Rubio.
So what the fuck?
I mean, why not?
Why did we even need Donald Trump?
And look at the logic of Donald Trump here.
Look at how ridiculous this is.
You know how, you know, Marco's so good.
Every senator supported him.
The whole swamp supports him.
Yeah.
Can you believe that?
The way Donald Trump puts it.
He carried liberal Democrats and far-right wing Republicans.
No, dude, there's no such thing as a liberal Democrat.
And there's no such thing as a far-right Republican.
There are literally none.
There's no one in the Senate who's liberal.
And there's no one in the center, in the Senate who's far right.
They're all part of the establishment.
It might be the establishment Democrats or the establishment Republicans, but one thing they have in common is 100% of them like Marco Rubio.
Does that tell you Trump supporter?
Does that tell you he's a good guy or a bad guy?
Is that a point of pride or is that a badge of shame?
Like, and then, you know, for him, he throws in a little thing.
It's almost like he kind of, you know, because this is Donald Trump.
He's not scripted.
So it's almost like as he's saying it out loud, it does dawn on him that that doesn't sound quite as good as he would want it to sound.
And so then he turns around and goes, at first I thought that wasn't a good thing, you know, but then I realized it's just because Marco Rubio is so great.
And let me tell you something, those Democrats are regretting voting for Marco Rubio.
Like, really?
Are they?
You know, just think about this for a second, okay?
When think about use the media, you know, the lying fake media who hates Donald Trump and always wants to get him, use them in some way as a guide here.
When Donald Trump first started picking his cabinet, you remember all of them flipping out about Rubio?
You remember how his confirmation hearings were like a really big deal and we didn't know if he was going to get in or not?
And the media was just going crazy attacking him.
Oh, no, none of that happened.
None of that happened.
It was the smoothest confirmation process ever with every single senator voting to confirm.
Now, who were the controversial ones?
Okay, Bobby Kennedy, Tulsi Gabbard, Matt Gates, Pete Hegseth, maybe even a little bit.
But there was nothing like that for Rubio.
Look, you can think about it like this, right?
Donald Trump, when he was after campaigning in 2016 on training the swamp and ending wars and all this stuff, locking up Hillary Clinton and all this stuff.
They flipped the fuck out.
They impeached him over the Ukraine phone call.
Remember how ridiculous this was?
After framing him for RussiaGate, okay?
After framing him as a Russian spy and that culminating in the Mueller report, which demonstrated nothing, demonstrated they had nothing.
They had no evidence on a conspiracy, Donald Trump being involved in a conspiracy with the Russians.
So after that completely fell apart, they just pivoted to impeach him over UkraineGate.
And what UkraineGate was, was the most ridiculous thing ever, is that Donald Trump had essentially attempted to put some pressure on Zelensky to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden's business dealings in Ukraine.
And at one point, he kind of threatened to hold back a weapons package if he didn't get the investigation.
But he never got the investigation and he did send the weapons package in.
So there was no quid pro quo.
He just kind of like tried to pressure him a little bit and they tried to impeach him over that.
How ridiculous is that?
There was like like there wasn't even a thing there.
You know what I'm saying?
Like there wasn't even like, and by the way, if that had been a quid pro quo, it's still not an impeachable offense because you could obviously argue, even though that what they tried to argue is that it was a quid pro quo just means like getting something in return for something.
But they tried to argue the only thing that would make it impeachable is if it was like something for yourself, right?
So like if you, if the president, if the president were to say to a country who he's given like a weapons package to, if he was to say, hey, I won't give you this weapons package unless you lower tariffs on the United States of America, or I won't give you this weapons package if you keep getting into military conflicts with an ally of ours or something like that.
That's completely legitimate because that's the president doing the business of the American people.
Now, if the president were to say to a foreign leader, I won't give you this weapons package unless you buy me a Rolex and a Ferrari or something like that.
No, that would be an impeachable offense.
That's a quid pro quo.
You're getting something personal out of like your public negotiating.
So, they were trying to make the argument that him going after Biden was that.
That it was like, oh, because this is going to be the guy who you're most likely running against.
Therefore, it's a quid pro quo.
But obviously, the complete flaw in that is that he was also the former vice president.
And so, if he was involved in corruption, you could certainly argue that no, that is the nate, that is the president doing the business of the nation.
Like, that's in our interest to know that.
So, anyway, they had nothing, but that's not really the point.
The point is they were going after Donald Trump.
Now, cut to this Venezuela capture of Maduro.
Totally unconstitutional, totally illegal, not even in a gray area.
Black and white.
The president absolutely does not have to.
Listen, it is an act of war to go capture the leader of another nation.
And don't give me any of this shit about democracy or the last election being stolen.
There's tons of states all around the world who never even pretend to hold elections.
And it's always been the norm of this country.
It's always especially the Constitution.
By the way, if you think about the Constitution of the United States of America, the people who wrote it, they weren't, they didn't hold an election over the Constitution and say, you get to vote whether you want this Constitution or not.
There's what Benjamin Franklin said, We've given you a republic if you can keep it.
We've given this to you.
This is what we're deciding the new government's going to be.
They didn't ask, you know.
Now, anyway, it's never been the standard that we don't recognize a government unless they have democratic elections.
And in fact, in this country, the Constitution had very limited democracy, right?
I mean, we had only white male landowners were allowed to vote.
So we didn't, by today's standards, have elections at all back then.
But anyway, so this is all, it's clearly illegal.
Why aren't they impeaching Donald Trump over this?
Hmm.
Same thing in Iran.
Why aren't they impeaching Donald Trump over this?
Why aren't they impeaching him over Greenland?
Why aren't they impeaching him over any of this stuff?
Because they don't actually regret.
Like, they're not actually in opposition to this.
They're not actually in opposition to Marco Rubio.
And if they were, you would know it because you would see them going after him in a frenzied way that they simply don't.
Like, I mean, I'm not saying like no one on CNN will ever like give a pretend hardball interview to Marco Rubio, but that's just kind of political theater to the extent that you're on Trump side.
We're supposed to be adversarial to them.
I got to make it seem like I'm giving you a tough grilling here.
But that none of that was ever, it's not even in the same category.
They're not flipping out about any of this shit.
And that's because essentially Donald Trump is merged with the swamp.
They know they don't see him as a threat to the swamp anymore.
They see him as somebody who's trying to grow the thing.
Let me tell you something, man.
For all that shit, when you start talking about, which is what Donald Trump ran on in 2020, he said, let's get all of our troops out of Syria, all of our troops out of Iraq, all of our troops out of Afghanistan.
Let's make a deal with Putin.
This is what he ran on.
Let's have détente with Putin, with Russia.
Let's get along with them.
Oh, he really doesn't like ISIS.
We don't like ISIS.
Okay, cool.
We don't need to overthrow Assad.
Like, what is that?
Now, Donald Trump probably didn't even know that that was part of the clean break strategy and this is what the Israelis wanted or anything at the time.
But he was like, why do we care?
We care about some secular dictator in Syria.
Whatever.
We care about the bin Ladenites.
That's our issue.
So this is what he ran on.
Now, that will piss a lot of people off.
Donald Trump said only a couple years after Obama and John Brennan had been knowingly arming al-Qaeda and ISIS in Syria.
Donald Trump came on TV and said Obama created ISIS.
A slight exaggeration, but he was directionally correct.
That'll get a lot of people to fucking hate you in Washington, D.C. That's something that might get you impeached.
That's something that might get you, you know, charged with some bullshit crimes.
That's something that might get you shot at.
Asking for a $1.5 trillion military budget will not.
Asking for a $1.5 trillion military budget is what's going to get you loved in Washington, D.C.
And the idea, the idea that the media and the Democrats just hate a neocon like Marco Rubio is fucking ludicrous.
What?
Look at all of them.
Look at the way they covered George W. Bush and Dick Cheney today.
They don't really have a problem with those guys because they are making, they are of the establishment.