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April 9, 2025 - Rudy Giuliani
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America’s Mayor Live (643): President Trump Announces 90-Day Pause on All Tariffs Except for China
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Hello! Excuse me.
Hello! This is Rudy Giuliani and this is America's Mayor Live.
On the screen I have a sissy boy.
Now this sissy boy believes that men are no stronger than women and that women who become men should be allowed to be in...
Or men who become women, right, should be allowed to be in women's sports, I assume also in their bathrooms.
So, pervert, speak for yourself.
It's probably true that in your case, women are stronger than men, you, and men like you, which is why women say they can't find good men anymore.
And that's also why a lot of these guys want to get in the bathrooms.
45 minutes on this subject?
And America finds you funny?
You're pathetic.
That guy is absolutely pathetic.
Jeez. Oh well.
He's from Britain anyways.
Not made in America.
Thank God.
We don't have to claim them.
We got enough of our own.
Well, the other one that gets me is Obama, the prince.
So Obama, whose popularity now among Democrats is below AOC, Sanders, and Kathleen Kamala, has In a speech that he gave,
imagine if I had pulled the Fox News credentials from the White House press corps the way Trump did with the AP, which the Supreme Court reversed yesterday, and we'll talk about that in a minute.
Well, the guy is about as hypocritical as you can get.
The guy lives a phony life because he does exactly what he did in 2018.
He pulled the credentials of Fox because he didn't like what they were asking.
Of course, nobody points that out except my good friend Jason Reilly.
There's a guy that is really, his whole reputation is made on the fact that he was a black communist.
There's not much there.
I used to count with my ex-wife his ums when he didn't have a teleprompter and he was being interviewed.
We'll get one out sometime.
Mr. President, what are you going to do about Syria?
You've now laid down seven red lines that if they use chemical weapons, you're going to take strong action.
You haven't done anything.
What are you going to do?
We will address that when we address it.
It'll be a teaching moment for us.
Mr. Mayor, his um is a little more staccato than that.
Oh yeah, of course it is.
He's not as smart.
What about...
Did we get any word on the bill?
On the budget bill?
Senate has passed it and now I guess they're waiting for the House.
Senate passed it.
So now it's got to go to the House.
And if the House passes it without any substantial amendment, then it'll be the law.
And the budget will be taken care of until, I don't know, about the end of the year.
And we'll also have the Trump tax cuts for another, I think, 10 years.
So... Obviously, you are a big supporter of the bill.
Following the brilliant strategy of today, which pushed the market up, did you say 8%?
Well, it depends what index, but yeah, the Dow.
I always use the Dow.
What about the others?
The others were actually up higher.
No kidding.
Makes sense.
Wow. Now, I just described that strategy on the Rudy Giuliani show.
And you may have been listening to it, so I'm not going to go into detail on it.
But, I mean, it was brilliant.
What the president did was totally unexpected and brilliant.
And when you do the unexpected, it's really shocking.
I mean, what guts to do that?
Who the hell else would turn on a dime when he saw the opportunity?
I'm telling you, I described it as like a football quarterback calling an audible.
All of a sudden, he sees there's a guy opening the end zone.
But there are two guys right near him, and he has to know he can put it over those two guys.
And like a Tom Brady or Peyton Manning or my old friend, his brother, they can do it to win a Super Bowl.
It's amazing.
That's what Trump is like.
And you think about it, he said, there's going to be a tariff on everybody.
No exceptions.
Unless you want to negotiate.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I mean, I'll ask him.
I don't know if he and all the boys and girls around him anticipated that 75 countries, which is virtually all the countries that mean anything, and it's really about 30 of them that really mean anything in terms of the economy, would call him and say,
please, please, please, please, negotiate with me, negotiate with me.
I'll go to zero.
I'll go to zero.
He even turned the European Union down and said, I want more than that.
And they said, okay, we're going to do retaliatory tariffs, but we're still willing to do zero if you change your mind.
And they did like retaliatory tariffs on five items, which I actually think he should ignore.
So ridiculously silly.
On the other hand, China, which seems completely baffled by him.
They are completely outsmarted, completely baffled, because he is, and he has with him, a large group of creative thinkers, and they have wrote, memorized automatons who are products of a murderous,
homicidal, communist regime.
They have no idea how to react to them.
They take weeks.
I mean, this will have to go to the...
They'll have to write a couple of research papers and then Politburo 1, 2, 3, and 4 will have to go over it.
And then everybody will sit around and they'll take a look at Xi Jinping's face and they'll say, let me tell him what he wants to hear.
What do we think he wants to hear?
And ultimately, they're going to cave.
They just don't know it.
Because their economy is in much worse shape than they admit.
This is a...
Massive blow like it was to Canada.
And Canada, we've ameliorated some of it, and they're having a terrible time.
China lives on exports.
We don't.
Now, having a trade deficit has a lot of detriments, but it has some benefits too, right?
Now, unless we can't buy what we need somewhere else, we'll be fine without China.
And I think we can.
And also it'll force us to discipline ourselves.
To wean ourselves from a country that wants to take over the world.
And why would Americans be friendly with them?
They want to destroy us.
They want to destroy us.
This idea of we'll have a peaceful relationship with China, we'll trade with...
They don't want to trade?
I want to take over.
Did you ever read Xi Jinping?
Did you ever read his reports and his speeches?
He just says that for fun?
Like Hitler did?
Can you guys explain to me?
Can you guys explain to me?
Too bad we don't have Dr. Maria around because I've got to get a woman's perspective.
What's going on with this Massive, massive, almost virtual sexual thing with Mangione, the killer, the murderer.
The cold-blooded killer and murderer.
Look at that girl.
I mean, that's a pretty girl.
And she's got him dressed up like St. Francis.
The guy murdered an innocent human being in cold blood.
And then they go around saying he was the head of an insurance company that killed people.
The insurance company didn't kill anybody!
The insurance company denied coverage.
We have no idea if they were right or wrong in denying coverage.
I assume they were right sometimes and wrong sometimes.
You want to take a look at all the people who make phony claims?
Hey, sweetheart, did you ever think of that?
You should go interview her and ask her, does she know in New York about three-quarters of the claims are phony?
I would tell you, I had 90,000 cases against New York City.
I can't tell you how many times we caught the guy that claimed that he couldn't walk again.
Running track.
We caught a guy in the New York Marathon who wanted four or five million dollars.
And he had a lawyer and a doctor helping him phony it up.
There's a whole industry of crooked lawyers and crooked doctors who make a fortune suing.
And in New York, a lot of crooked judges.
In fact, if you get on in four of the five boroughs, you have to be.
So this Mangione guy,
this is like...
Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, The Beatles.
Like the Bobby Soxers and the...
Look, look at that.
Look at this moron.
Look at that moron.
Complete moron.
Now, he looks to me kind of scurvy, but I don't know.
He doesn't look to me like he's...
I don't think of him as like a really handsome guy.
People were infatuated with Jeffrey Dahmer, too.
It looks to me like a scurvy...
He's kind of handsome, objectively.
Really? Well, they're saying, too.
So the unibrow, that's one thing that they're actually saying.
It might not have been him that did it.
Oh, yeah, right.
Because the unibrow is different in the surveillance picture.
Yeah, okay.
Yeah, sure, sure.
He didn't do it.
Yeah, right.
That's what they're saying.
Everybody I convicted was innocent.
5,000 convictions.
Everybody was innocent.
You know what I used to do?
I used to go out in the street and I'd say, Stephen, you're a mafia.
I'm going to prosecute you.
Well, that's how you know which cops are good.
You're a terrorist.
I'm going to prosecute you.
Oh, you just killed somebody.
I'm going to prosecute you.
Not the ones they brought in who actually did it.
I let them all go.
And I just went after the people who were innocent.
There are so many guilty people to prosecute.
You don't have to prosecute innocent people.
This guy is guilty.
You see him on TV.
The unibrow.
It's different.
Well, he is being...
Yeah, right.
They do have the death penalty on the table for this person.
Yeah, they made it a federal crime because it's a politically inspired crime.
And for Luigi, which now you're not seeing as much, but that outpouring of support from more of the disturbed corners of the internet.
Probably isn't helping them, right?
Because the law enforcement probably wants to make more of a point here.
These girls look like they need help.
Yeah. I mean, this girl here needs help.
Yeah. She needs to read a book.
How about this one here?
She needs the help, too.
Defiling the saint, and I don't know.
Empty inside.
This is fulfilling some sort of void in their lives, right?
There's obviously something else going on.
Chances are she's single.
I'm willing to wager she's single.
Everyone's got a type, and Luigi Mangione fits a certain type, so maybe this girl is just like, wow, how dreamy.
The bad boy.
Disturbed. This is a disturbed individual.
Anyone that's praising and holding up such a ridiculous...
Someone in Holland, Michigan...
I love Holland, Michigan, by the way.
In Holland, in Michigan, Redmond, and Oregon, and elsewhere, grinning marchers wore shirts and carried placards emblazoned with the number 8647, pairing the old slang term for murder with a 47 for Trump.
The 8647 protest has stood right alongside Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison in Minneapolis.
Okay, let me just say, first of all, that the people of Holland, this is uncharacteristic for them.
That is traditionally right up in our camp.
We do a lot of Republican-related things out there.
It doesn't sound like...
How about hands-off or heads-off over the weekend?
Pictures of guillotines in Denver.
Protesters vandalizing ICE and DHS vehicles in Washington, D.C. I mean, the Democrats have gone completely bonzo.
I mean, they've gone completely violent.
This is like a violent revolution in Portland after one guy used a laser to attempt to bind a Tesla employee.
Another guy in Lafayette, Indiana head-butted a driver.
We know about the woman who, the pro-choice woman.
Who head-butted and did great damage to a woman who was pro-life.
And the pro-life people go to jail for sitting there praying.
You don't have any situation where they have had any kind of physical contact, but Attorney General Garpupo put them in jail for life.
Because they're Catholics.
Bad, bad, bad.
Latin mass.
But Trump's made some good moves on pardoning some of these.
He's pardoned everybody.
Every single one.
He's pardoned all of them.
I hope he didn't miss anybody.
A report.
Oh, by the way, this comes from a column.
This comes from a column.
I want to make sure.
By Carol Markowitz.
There's a report that From the Network Contagion Research Institute, more than half of left-leaning Americans say political violence is acceptable.
And 55% of them see some justification for assassinating Trump.
There's a large number of people that fantasize about killing Trump.
They have signs like guillotines for a better America.
How about one sign?
Instead of fruitlessly waiting for wealth, beat the rich with blunt instruments until the gold flows.
Sounds like communism to you?
Eat the rich.
Then they did a mock on the Simpsons showing a blood-covered Trump in a casket with the date April 12, 2025.
Remember in 2020 they killed at least 25 people and nobody went to jail because Soros fixed the cases with his crooked DAs and cackling Kamala and Biden got him out of jail on bail.
They killed 25 people.
The J6 people killed nobody and didn't burn anything either.
They burned down billions of dollars worth of damage and thousands of people went to the hospital.
Yeah, Kamala offering to pay those legal bills definitely was a liability later in the campaign.
Then you have people like Chris Van Hollen saying we have to fight in the streets.
Another one, Monica McIver from New Jersey called Trump a hostile takeover.
That doesn't gin people up to be the 55% that think it's okay to assassinate Trump.
Of course it does.
Well, Israel has now moved into Gaza and is occupying or will soon occupy about 50% of it.
And they're really eliminating just about the rest of Hamas.
And if they're not eliminating it, the Palestinians are.
There's a lot of infighting now going on among the people in Palestine with protests and the Hamas killing the protesters and the protesters killing Hamas.
Man, if that had happened a while back, things might have gotten settled.
The city of New York, which I left a while back, is a disaster.
And a lot of it goes right back to Andrew Cuomo, who's running for mayor, which is totally absurd.
And he's leading, which is another indication of a totally brainwashed city.
I'm sorry, my old constituents.
You're brainwashed.
That guy is responsible for most of your crime problems.
He passed the bail law.
So yesterday, yesterday they arrested Muslim Brunson, 46. Muslim Muslim Brunson was arrested for a horrific attack.
Just a random attack on Monday.
So, I mean, so what?
That's not news in New York, right?
However, how about he's been arrested numerous times.
He was arrested shortly before for assaulting a civilian police officer and gave her broken facial bones and he was let out.
So we could walk around and do it again.
In 2022, he hit a woman so hard he knocked her eye out.
He's been referred 36 times for mental health hearings.
In 2019, he committed a robbery of a 13-year-old boy.
He also broke his eye socket.
He also stole an iPhone in 2019 and he shoved the boy on the tracks.
And he gets out.
What I'm explaining, he does these things and they put him out so he can do it again.
It's like the judges that want to bring the people from Venezuela back so they can rape you.
Can you tell me what the hell is wrong with the Democrat politicians?
Don't they like you?
Don't you?
30 times.
This guy's been, this guy has been, this guy has been sent for evaluations 30 times.
And here's the, here's the arrest.
Yeah, there he is.
One of the nation's nobles.
He's wearing an NYPD on the website.
What's it?
And then here, we're going to see the glass bottle too.
There. There.
I think they're going to do a statue for him.
August 17, 2019, there was a 911 call involving Muslim Brunson.
This is one of the situations where he knocked the eye socket out.
Then the attack on the 13-year-old.
And then he's had a couple of incidents where he hears voices telling him to kill people.
then he's had a couple of incidents where he hears voices telling him to kill people.
He shoves a civilian employee of the NYPD on the subway, breaking her eye socket.
Somehow he specializes in breaking eye sockets.
When he gets arrested in 2022, he kicks one of the police officers on the right knee, spit on the police officer.
Thank you.
And the crime now was throwing a glass bottle at a woman on the street in Soho.
There's the bottle.
Then he picks it up and slashes another female in the neck, critically wounding her.
That is the result, 100%, of Andrew Cuomo and the law that he had passed in 2018-2019.
That woman would not have been slashed if I were the mayor or Bloomberg were the mayor.
He'd have been in jail or in a crazy house.
There are 20,000 beds available.
They closed them all down.
We have criminally insane people in New York.
It's far better to have them locked up than taking a glass.
Slashing somebody's innocent woman's throat for no reason because you're freaking nuts.
They are trying to pass a law to make it possible to do involuntary commitment.
Albany lawmakers are nearing a deal for involuntary commitment laws.
We'll see.
We'll see.
The majority leader, or the Assembly Speaker, rather, Carl Hastie, says it's close.
That'd be the first thing they did in a long time that had anything to do with keeping you safe.
Also, parole is also because of the changes made by Andrew Cuomo, who wants to be mayor, and 42, I'm sorry, 44 cop killers have been released since Cuomo did that to us.
One of them is getting out, or has gotten out this week, who killed police officer Eddie Byrne, which was a very, very notorious killing in 1989.
I know it well because I knew the family and his brother worked with me in the U.S. Attorney's Office.
But that's number 44. We have 44 cop killers running around the city of New York where the people were promised when we didn't do the death penalty, they'd never get out of jail.
Which is a complete lie.
Which is why we need the death penalty.
You know, they don't tell you, they don't tell you the truth.
You remember, and you probably don't remember because nothing, it was kind of, you remember the Nashville convent shooting in 2023?
Murdered six people at the Nashville convent school.
And they never put out the diary?
Well, the guy is a trans.
And in the diary, a thousand pages, he says he wants to kill all white people.
Sixteen notebooks are filled with deranged writings.
I wanted to kill my own race, destroy all white people who are teachers.
Being white sucks, but being black is so cool.
Black people should rule.
White people should fail.
Every white person who lived and died, I hate you all.
I hate the American people.
America is not the land of the free.
It's a land full of idiots.
It will only get worse in this country.
Wasn't he taught that?
By Democrats?
By left-wingers?
Those are the current common core standards for U.S. history.
Yeah, not near enough gods like me.
America and its people, all destined to soon be destroyed.
Yeah. Well, that was the Department of Education at work, right?
And then it also has a lot of things about his gender frustration.
It was miserable being raised a girl because I had no choice.
Parents better understand transgender.
How about if they understand you're a violent, wacko criminal?
Transgender, my backside.
You're a wacko, dangerous criminal that should be locked up.
And the parents, let's not give them a free pass here.
How much did they know?
I don't know.
I mean, this guy sounds like he was pretty out there or him or her or whatever the hell it is.
Yeah, well, you're using the politically correct.
But because it's politically correct to be transgender, they didn't pay any attention to this killing.
TSA has now enacted a law that you're going to need real ID starting on May 7th, which means that you're going to need your passport if you don't get your driver's license stamped by the state.
Did you know that, Ted?
Did not.
We knew it.
I just had to get the passport.
How about you get a passport, Ted?
Real ID compliant.
You must be real ID compliant.
I got like three of them now.
Maybe I just go to the Motor Vehicle Bureau here and I think they just stamp it for you.
They're not bad.
Florida's not bad.
I got in and out.
Oh no, it's not like New York.
I bet Palm Beach County's a little harder.
I was up in Pasco County.
They spend less than half the money on all that stuff than New York.
I mean, Florida and New York City spends the same amount of money as Florida does.
And Florida has 21 million people and New York has 8. And New York State spends more money than Florida.
And New York State has 3 million less people.
Because we steal.
When we lead the country in stealing money.
Because we have Democrats.
So Zelensky says he caught two Chinese fighting for Russia.
I wouldn't be surprised.
I wonder if they're as clueless as the North Koreans were, who were shooting each other.
That worked out well, Putin.
You must be in pretty damn desperate shape to be getting all these people.
10,000, 12,000, 15,000 South Koreans that didn't know the difference between Russians and Ukrainians?
North Koreans, North Koreans.
Yeah, North Koreans.
You must have been in desperate shape, Putin.
It's like getting a Boy Scout camp to come out and start shooting for you.
They don't even know who they are.
I mean, they live in a country that's the most isolated country in the world with one television station where the leading broadcaster is...
The little fat boy.
Yes, I do admire that they all get up and do calisthenics in unison in the morning, and I actually think that's a pretty healthy...
Well, of course they do, because it keeps you alive, because if you don't do it, they kill you.
Yeah. Well, nearly 7 million men in the United States are neither working nor looking for work.
That's a lot of freeloaders, huh?
Wow! They've dropped out of the workforce.
It's the largest percentage we've ever had.
Whatever happened to the work ethic in America?
Democrats happened to it.
That's what happened.
The Great Society happened to it.
Teaching people dependency happened to it.
Giving people more money during the pandemic than they would get if they were working.
And letting them stay home forever.
That's what happened to it.
We don't know how many people are getting benefits.
We don't know.
The systems are too old to tell.
If the president wants to know how many people are getting SSDI, SSI, Social Security, Veterans Benefit, state-level disability benefits, workers' comp, we don't know.
And we don't know how many are legitimate.
I can just tell you a lot aren't.
The disability rolls grew sevenfold from 65 to 2023.
Seven times.
We got that much more disabled?
Or did we learn how to cheat better, with many more opportunities to cheat?
So, the point is that we do not have an unemployment problem.
We have a problem of lazy bums who don't want to work.
And they should be kicked in the ass and made to work.
You shouldn't get any of those benefits if you don't work.
And if you're disabled, you should work at home.
I'm sorry.
It'll teach you.
Then maybe the half of being fraudulent will give it up.
Well. We have John Tobacco?
That's right, man.
We have a very special guest.
I'm going to take a short break, and we'll get ourselves ready for the one and only John Tobacco.
Maybe he can help us.
We had a little tussle.
He did.
We'll have to bring that up, too.
A muscle tussle.
We'll be right back.
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Way more channels for This is Rudy Giuliani and we're back with America's Mayor Live and we have on the screen two extinct animals who have been genetically engineered They are wolves who
have been genetically engineered to look like or to be like extinct dire wolves who have been extinct for 10,000 years.
Now, if you ever watched...
If you ever watched...
Game of Thrones?
Yeah, Ice and...
What was that called?
The whole trilogy?
Ice and something?
Yeah, Game of Thrones.
You know that they had dire wolves back then and the dire wolves were extremely...
Extremely loyal and helpful, but very vicious.
But those guys look pretty good, huh?
That's right.
My understanding is this is a little overblown, and I don't think that they can reproduce.
What they did is they took some DNA from the bones of a dire wolf, which are 10,000 years old, and they put it in the semen of a wolf somehow, and they did an artificial insemination of a female wolf with the...
Semen that had the DNA of a dire wolf.
And they did it with, and they used as the female mother, they used the thing that's closest to the dire wolf today, the gray wolf.
Right. And these guys turned out bigger than the gray wolf.
Right. The genetically engineered ones turned out to be bigger than the gray wolf.
But I don't think you can really tell them apart except they're bigger.
They certainly are good looking though.
And I remember on Game of Thrones, the dire wolves were pretty darn good looking too.
Right. So we have a guy who's really good looking.
We got to see what he's wearing tonight because he always surprises me.
John? How are you, John?
Hold on, hold on.
Let's do better than that.
Let's do better than that.
No, you're looking good.
Are we okay?
I can't see my camera shot.
You look great.
You're looking great.
We don't have a suit and tie, though.
We were looking forward to seeing what suit and tie you were wearing.
The other day, I saw you on Newsmax.
You were talking about the market.
You did a great job, by the way.
And then a few minutes later, you're outside and you got this ridiculous hat on.
Ridiculous hat.
I love that hat.
Did you see what I tweeted you?
Of course I did.
You said I was like a Swiss boy.
Who's that yodeler?
Who's the yodeler?
Well, listen, Rudy, let me tell you.
I'm on the Florida Exchange covering it from morning, afternoon, close, right?
I wasn't there today, but the other day with the hat, they said, hey, At 4.15, you gotta go outside.
We want you to do a live shot outside.
I said, okay, fine.
They said we have a camera location outside.
So I'm walking out there, and when I went in that day, it was raining, so I brought a nice gentleman's cap that's called a press man's cap.
It's a press cap.
In the old days, they would put the little press thing in it, right?
I brought it instead of carrying an umbrella like a girl.
Um, I brought, I wore my cap.
So, when they told me to go outside, it was pouring rain.
Um, and I, I, I was like, well, do we have like a Newsmax umbrella or something?
They said, no umbrella.
I said, okay, well, I gotta wear my hat.
Otherwise... All the shoe polish that I put in my hair is going to be running down my forehead and everything else, and I'm not going to stand for that.
So I left the hat on, and believe it or not, I got a lot of positive...
I know you did.
It really looked good.
I'm bringing it up here.
Steven liked it a lot.
I love the hat.
I love the whole look.
We had a couple of people here who really thought it was sharp.
Well, thank you.
You know, it just followed.
I saw you with a regular suit and tie on, and I said...
Oh my goodness, he looks like the great financial advisor that he really is.
And then you show up with that stupid hat on.
Yeah, well, as soon as I got off the air, not my head boss, but the guy right below him texted me and said, you were fantastic.
Oh, you were?
But please don't wear that silly hat anymore.
And I said...
And I said, well, then get me somebody down here that's going to hold a big umbrella over my head because I ain't standing in the rain.
So what's going on with you and...
It's Jon Stewart, right?
I don't know.
Is that who he is?
Is he Bill Maher?
Is it Jon Stewart?
Is he Don Lemon?
Sorry, I'm a little bit behind here.
Jon Stewart, I think he's Undertaker.
Yeah, they're all the irrelevance now, Rudy.
He's as funny as an undertaker.
We have video of that, but I was a little behind, but I want to get this.
This is what we were talking about here.
There's the great Johnny Tobacco.
What an outfit from yesterday.
Beautiful. Alright, come on.
That's a good hat right there.
Look, people remember you.
That's right.
And so let's play now, catching back up here, let's play clip one of two.
This is The once well-known Jon Stewart on his...
He wasn't ever well-known.
You know, I've never watched him.
This is the big game of economic operation.
He's sticking things into the tariffs.
It's like, you know, when you're my age, you gotta get a call and ask a bee.
You need a full colonic.
You know what I mean?
But we didn't get the part with Stewart.
Yeah, we're going to play it again.
But we don't need to.
John took them apart.
The thing is, being shared millions and millions of times, if Jon Stewart thinks he got the best of me, I think we got the last laugh.
Because probably five years ago, Jon Stewart wouldn't even know what Newsmax is.
But now we're so relevant that they're finding time to put their teams of writers onto figuring out ways to discredit
Of course they are.
Of course they are.
Now, you know what I was saying, Rudy, and you know because I was with you the other night and what I was saying that they clipped out of the whole thing, I was saying what Trump was saying.
I had said, everyone, you should be invested for 10-year intervals.
I said this on your show.
So everybody, regular people at home.
Namaste. Stay calm.
This is not just, this is all theater right now, right?
And I said, quite frankly, the market, it was a sick patient and it needed a cleansing.
And I'm older, I'm 57, sometimes I need a colonoscopy.
So before that, you gotta get a colonic.
You gotta clean everything out of the system.
And I was referencing the market and I said, after this cleansing, Then Trump may just hit the pause button, and then we get the big beautiful tax bill by June, and the markets are way past where they were, but they're healthy because we got the cleansing.
He just snipped in on me saying colonic cleansing.
Yeah, I know.
I heard your original broadcast, and I just heard him on clips.
I've never seen him, other than when conservative commentators make fun of him.
There's one guy that does it all the time.
I'm trying to think who it is.
He does his whole show about him.
Just makes fun of the jackass all the time.
But what did you make it today, John?
With that big bounce.
My God.
Is that also overdone?
The bounce?
No, I don't think it's overdone.
And it goes back to exactly what I was saying that I got kind of lampooned for.
That, you know, once we got that big rinse...
Yeah. Everyone came to the table.
We exposed China as the horrible nation mutts that they are because Trump said, don't retaliate and we'll all play nice and we'll be fair.
China, they retaliated.
Not many others did.
And now we know.
I know we're not going to go to nuclear war, Rudy, but now we know where Xi stands and Trump knows where we stand.
I think we have the upper hand.
I know Xi Is not used to feeling over leveraged by someone else.
But at this point, I think Trump's in the driver's seat.
I know Trump knows that he has to give Xi kind of a way out where he can look still honorable in his home country.
But to me, I think the whole world knows Trump didn't blink.
I think Xi has to blink.
So, I think, you know, I said last week when I was on with you that the one thing the market hates most is uncertainty.
Now they're certain.
Trump, everyone came to the table.
Trump's going to be fair.
And China's the real problem.
Now, if China wants to start getting aggressive militarily or geopolitically, which I don't think they can afford to do, all bets are off.
But I think we saw the lows at $36,000 and change there.
And now I really think that there's some fertile ground.
We get the big, beautiful tax bill.
This market will be over $45,000 on its way to $50,000 in my view.
So the bill passed the Senate, right?
Rudy, I'm so confused these days when I'm looking for people to get confirmed, and I see confirmed, but they're only confirmed in the committee, then the House committee, then the House confirmed it,
but they don't have...
I think Trump has gone under the support of the Senate.
You probably know better than me.
The one big, beautiful bill.
Which means that you can leverage whatever...
I usually am more agreeable with the House than the Senate, but this time I think the Senate is right.
I think you've got one chance to get this through.
You've got to get the tax extension through.
Why wait until the end of the year?
And if you've got the votes, damn it, get it through, get it over with.
There's no reason for it.
And, you know, Rudy, I've said this many times.
Like, over history, they get power, they stay united, they jam their policies, no matter how much we hoot, holler, and scream, they jam their policies down our throat.
And then when we get in, we got all three houses and the Supreme Court right now, you know, theoretically.
And when we get in sometimes, we splinter ourselves.
And we don't show the same solidarity that the Democrats do.
And then all of a sudden, we want to become the nice guys or the high road guys or the philosophical guys.
To me, it should be one team where we got everything.
Let's jam the tax bill down their throat.
And then Congress people that are not along with it, they can come back and get some assurances for slight amendments.
But we got to jam it down their throat.
Because that's what they do to us, Rudy.
100%. 100%.
That's what they do to us.
You know, the congressional people want more cuts, and they're probably right.
But you can't get them right now.
And when Musk and his people are finished, first of all, the president's going to be able to do a lot of these cuts on his own.
And we'll see what happens in court.
And when he's finished, there's going to be plenty of support for tax cuts.
You look at the stuff that's coming out.
I mean, it's ridiculous what we're spending money on.
It's insane.
I mean, look, I think, you know, like last week when the market just spit the bit early this week, we kind of needed that.
But, you know, the future looks so bright because we're going to have all this, you know, Trump said today we're plus $2 billion a day, right?
$2 billion a day.
That's $60 billion a month.
That's $720 billion a year.
We're in a hole for like 40 trillion.
720 billion is almost one of those 40 that we can knock out this year just with the 10% tariffs.
So imagine how our bond rating becomes, you know, we got downgraded a little bit a few years back.
Imagine how Jerome Powell can have the safety and security of lowering rates because we're actually going net deficit on paying down the debt.
You know, I think Trump, everyone says he's an exaggerator, Rudy, but the truth of the matter is, like, when he says this is going to be the golden age of America, knowing what I know, seeing what I see, I
feel like it really is.
Like, I'm not being a Trumpaholic or something.
There's just so many factors now.
And with these, like, really...
These really drastic actions.
Sometimes you got to just rip off the band-aid from your kid.
Let him scream for a minute.
The hysteria about tariffs was ridiculous.
I mean, the percentage that tariffs affects our economy is not going to make us or break us.
And second, he's now gotten everything.
He's got 75 countries that are willing to negotiate with us.
I mean, you don't need any more.
You don't need the whole world.
And you got one country hanging out there that is in terrible financial condition.
China is in terrible, terrible condition.
And there was a great article in the Wall Street Journal, and they're mostly all awful, by I think a Chinese writer who said that they can't keep up with him.
Xi Jinping and his people can't keep up with Trump because the Chinese communists are rote learners.
You know, they learned 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. They're not creative thinkers, which is why they had to steal everything from us.
Well, Trump is just the opposite.
Trump isn't a creative thinker.
Right. So this was like a football fake, right?
All of a sudden, Trump says, big tariffs on everybody.
Everybody comes in except China and says, OK, we agree.
You can have what you want.
And he sees China hanging out there and he zaps him.
Yeah, and Rudy, one other thing,
you know, there's some really serious financial tumult going on in China.
In fact, one of my friends who trades foreign currencies was telling me that one of his colleagues over in China China is lowering the bank reserve rates.
So, you know, like, if you put your money in the bank, they only have to keep 20% of your money, like, actually on premises or whatever.
So, China is lowering that from, like, 20 to 10, 20 to 15 to 10, because so many people are coming into the bank, small businesses, to the extent they're allowed to be small businesses in China.
Yeah, really bad when your economy is in terrible shape.
Now, and now your banks are on the, your banks only have 10% of the deposits on hand.
You're almost, you're almost out of weaponry.
You know what I mean?
And your economy is based on exports and you just got 120% tariff placed on your exports to the richest country in the world.
I'm thrilled.
I'm thrilled.
I hope it doesn't go geopolitical where Xi overreacts and maybe attacks Taiwan or does something like that.
But I do think that Xi is not used to being challenged.
Rudy, you know he has the...
He has that Belt and Road Initiative going for years and years.
They pay off all these countries by giving them airports and seaports and all this money.
And then they shake them down like the mafia used to do.
That's what I mean.
But they have all those leaders who've gotten the graft for building the roads and building the airports.
They got all those countries.
Some in the EU.
Many in the Caribbean.
They practically own the freaking Caribbean.
The Chinese.
So Xi is used to I think Trump is still respecting their customs and trying not to humiliate them.
Yeah, 100%.
He keeps saying he's his friend.
You know, if I were him, I might have done the same thing, but we have to stop him.
I mean, it's very, very artful the way Trump is handling this.
Indeed. Indeed.
I thought this strategy was one of the most brilliant I've ever seen.
And I think he called that play...
First of all, he couldn't have anticipated that all 75 countries were going to come in.
And he couldn't have anticipated completely that China wouldn't try to make some accommodation.
So he got both of those and he saw...
He saw what he could do, and I think he made up his mind today, only today, to do that moratorium.
I mean, he saw the opportunity, and I'm going to guess it was his idea, not Musk, not even my friend Peter Navarro.
It was his idea.
Well, I would just say this to you, and I mentioned this the other night when I saw you in New York.
The other day when that rumor floated out about the 90-day pause, Yeah, I said on your show the other night that the fact that Trump saw that,
now he knows he has the antidote at his fingertips at any time.
He saw it happen.
We were down almost 1,000, then we went like plus 300.
There's 1,300 points, and I thought that told him I got a safety net, and any time I can let the pressure off because I can say pause, and then the market will just go back to green.
So I think you're right.
I think he masterfully played it, and I thought today you're right.
Every part of it was right on the money, and I think between, I know there's some stuff floating around out there, but I think between Navarro and Treasury Secretary Besson, who I have a lot of respect for, I think we got kind of,
you know, just right.
You know, like the three little bears, like, not too hot, not too cold.
You know what I mean?
Like, I think we got it right here, just right, with some really good people like Peter, and I think Bessington's doing a really good job, too.
Yeah, I wish they'd stop.
I wish Musk had stopped calling them names, but I like Musk a lot, but I didn't like the stuff he said about...
My hero, Peter Navarro.
Peter Navarro gave blood for us.
Oh, without question.
I mean, I took a pretty bad beating, but I didn't go to jail.
Yeah. Hey, listen, I spoke to Peter Navarro on my show, and he said that, you know, he lived, like, you know, very close proximity to, you know, where he would turn himself in to the U.S. attorneys, and his lawyer told those guys, hey,
if you guys are gonna, you know, come for him, just let me know.
We'll walk on over.
And then they wait till the guy gets on a plane in a public area, in an airport, and then they give him the shackle treatment.
You know what I mean?
John, I was a U.S. attorney, and U.S. attorney, assistant U.S. attorney for 17 years.
I don't remember shackling anybody in the legs.
You do that in prison.
You don't do that.
I didn't do that.
I didn't do that for terrorists and mafia guys.
You do that on a civil indictment for a white collar crime, you know?
And I thought, you know, look, you know, in New York, you can't even perp walk people anymore.
So I think that was, you know, I followed your case.
I watched every minute of that kangaroo court in the D.C. Bar Association where they screwed you over.
I remember you came and visited me during the trial with the case that I finally settled.
That's right.
That's right.
Cara and I came.
We sat in the courtroom with you guys.
And I remember when we walked in that day, the other side had like 14 lawyers and they had all people in the stands.
And Cara and I came in.
I think like Ted, Maria, me and Cara were the only ones in there.
And I was like, you know.
I feel like shit for Rudy, man.
He doesn't have anybody even rooting for him.
But then when I asked you about it later, you said, John, this is a kangaroo court here.
We don't need to bring a crowd.
We're going to come out on top of this one.
You remember we talked about it.
They were trying to annoy you.
Remember I pulled my car up that day and we just popped you right in the car.
We took off.
Well, John, you're doing a great job and congratulations on all your strategy for Newsmax.
I know You have a lot of...
A lot of your thinking went into this great, great IPO.
It's terrific.
It's terrific what's happened.
We now have all that money going into free speech.
Right? Chris is the mastermind.
I'm thankful and grateful for my nine years there and happy to say that I...
Added, I hope, some complementary value to what looks like a tremendous thing for Newsmax.
And for us, this is just the beginning.
Imagine Trump starts the golden era now, right when we're public and the market's healthy again.
My God, Rudy, we got a lot to do, my friend.
You know that.
I see Jon Stewart.
I'll punch him in the mouth.
I'm a lover, not a fighter.
I have extended an invitation to come on my show.
Show him my boxing glove.
Let me get my boxing glove.
I don't know if Jon Stewart has the balls to come into Spark.
There you go.
I don't know if he has the balls.
Rudy, I don't know if he has the balls to come to my show in Spark Steakhouse.
You know what I mean?
All right.
Excellent. Thank you, Johnny.
This is great.
Okay, John.
All right, my friends.
Thank you so much.
God bless.
Great job on Newsmax, by the way, covering all this confusing financial stuff.
People need you because you make it accessible and understandable.
Thank you.
God bless you.
I'm trying my best.
God bless you.
Thank you, Rudy.
Thank you.
And let's just play the end of that clip.
So... By the way...
The colonoscopy guy?
His name is John Tobacco?
Huh.
That's it.
That's a witness protection thing, isn't it?
Here's how it's going to go.
Your new name is John Tobacco.
Say it back to me.
John Tobacco.
Your name is John Tobacco.
Say it back to me.
John Tobacco.
Your new profession is you do anus metaphors on Newsmax.
Your name is John Tobacco.
You do anus metaphors.
Say it back to me.
Say it back to me.
And your name is John Liguli.
What are you embarrassed of it?
My name is Giuliani.
Giuliani. Never changed it.
Your name is John Liebowitz.
Stewart. You want to explain why you changed it?
Or if your family did, why you didn't change it back?
That'd be good.
You want to make fun of Italians?
Screw you.
Well, why don't you now go to Lindell TV or I think on Rumble too, right?
And you can get Dr. Maria's show and this way I'll be able to save my voice because I have a cold.
And you'll hear me for about 20 minutes because she interviewed me today.
So why don't you go to...
And you're going to love her show once you find it.
It's on Lindell TV.
How do they do it?
They just put in Lindell TV?
And tonight's show is going to be an excellent one.
No, tonight's show is fabulous.
I've heard it all.
It's fabulous.
So go to Lindell TV for Dr. Maria and we'll see you tomorrow night.
Here at 8 and then at 7 on Lindell TV ourselves.
And let's see, maybe we'll have a tax bill by then.
That'd be nice for everybody because what you saw today, man, every time we've done a tax cut, Kennedy, Reagan, Trump, economy went up for three, four years.
God bless America!
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America was created at a time of great turmoil, tremendous disagreements, anger, hatred.
There was a book written in 1776 that guided much of the discipline of thinking that brought to us the discovery of our freedoms, of our God-given freedoms.
It was Thomas Paine's Common Sense.
Written in 1776, one of the first American bestsellers, in which Thomas Paine explained, by rational principles, the reason why these small colonies felt the necessity to separate from the Kingdom of Great Britain and the King of England.
He explained their inherent desire for liberty, for freedom, freedom of religion, freedom of speech.
The ability to select the people who govern them.
And he explained it in ways that were understandable to all the people.
Not just the elite.
Because the desire for freedom is universal.
The desire for freedom adheres in the human mind and it is part of the human soul.
This is exactly the time we should consult our history.
Look at what we've done in the past.
And see if we can't use it to help us now.
We understand that our founders created the greatest country in the history of the world.
The greatest democracy, the freest country.
A country that has taken more people out of poverty than any country ever.
All of us are so fortunate to be Americans.
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