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April 14, 2025 - Rudy Giuliani
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America’s Mayor Live (646): Inside President Trump’s Ongoing Efforts to Reclaim American Greatness
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It's Rudy Giuliani, and this is America's Mayor Live.
Live from Palm Beach.
That's right, from Palm Beach.
I'm going to begin with going back to my New York roots and showing a young lady who I knew when she was about...
17 years old.
She was the star of the play Guys and Dolls, in which my daughter, who was only a freshman at the time, had a small role.
Eventually, my daughter played Juliet in Romeo and Juliet.
But here's this young lady.
I want to know, just show that, Ted.
What the hell is that?
Coachella? Bad romance?
I'm going to call Caroline and find out what that's all about.
Her fingers kind of look like the Grinch.
Coachella is a music festival in California.
A what?
It's a music festival in California.
But why is she dressed like some kind of a scary person that little children would cry if they saw her?
You know, that's actually toned down for Lady Gaga, believe it or not.
Oh, really?
I think if Raleigh were here, he'd be whimpering.
Oh, he would not like that, especially live.
He would be freaking out.
Yeah, he wouldn't like that at all.
I don't know why you're doing that, sweetheart.
You're a cute kid, I mean.
Well, her father expresses these things himself, so I don't feel bad doing that.
She is a great talent.
Who's her father?
Her father.
Who's her father?
A restaurant tour.
Yeah. Oh, yeah, he voted for Trump.
Not only that, endorsed him.
To counter her endorsement.
Very interesting family.
Very, very intelligent young woman.
I mean, extremely intelligent, extremely talented, unbelievably musical.
At 15 or 16 years old, she was Broadway quality.
She could have just left high school and just gone right to Broadway.
And of course, she ended up being Hollywood quality and whatever else.
Well, it's nice to know that our president is in good health because he plays golf.
And because he wins, he does win.
And the reality is he's finally being recognized as a legitimately quite superior golfer, which he is.
Looks like he's got nothing of any serious nature.
Blood pressure, just a teeny bit abnormal, but it's kind of ridiculous blood pressure for the job he has.
It should be five times higher than that.
His cholesterol.
Well under control with a medication and everything else, perfectly fine.
Also, his mental acuity, bragging about he was 30 out of 30, you know, he got the highest score.
Who does, I mean, who is required to use their brain more than he is?
It's got to be the best exercise brain in the world.
We've got to be working every day, and it's fabulous how it works for us, right?
Now, I want to pick on my colleagues, Stephen and Ted, because they come from Michigan.
First of all, I know you were extremely upset at the team that was at the White House today.
You actually made remarks about it.
Even I didn't.
I would rather have had Notre Dame there.
But you were really more angry than I was.
Right. But what we didn't see, this is breaking, late breaking news.
And I don't mean to pick on our vice president here.
Of course, he hails from the state of Ohio.
And so he was obviously there today to commemorate the championship.
But he had an interesting moment with the championship trophy that I'd like to share with you today.
And I think this is probably making the rounds throughout Michigan as we speak.
I'd like to get your reaction to this, Mayor.
Oh, my God.
Make a big screen.
Make a big screen.
Did you see that?
Hey, bro, watch it.
He's powerful.
Yeah, that's what he said.
Must have been made in China.
Oh, the kid.
No, no.
It was just not connected correctly.
Oh, come on.
No, you're right.
So what happened was...
That's actually just the base of the trophy.
Yeah, the kid.
No, it wasn't the kid.
It was the vice president.
No, no.
The kid pulled it off.
The kid pulled it off the base.
Okay. He pulled it off the base.
Look, we're all different.
Well, he thought it was connected, you know, hardwired.
It wasn't.
And probably a heavy base and a thin top.
He pulled it off.
I think some people are going to get in trouble for that.
The people who handle the trophies.
No, not really.
Obviously not.
Look, I just want to take a moment.
When Ohio...
You know, we love all 50 states, but Ohio, they can't celebrate right.
They dropped the trophy.
It falls in two pieces.
I'll tell you what.
It's Ohio for you.
You'd rather have that trophy than not.
Right. Broken or not, you'd rather have that trophy.
It's two trophies now, really.
And I tell you what, I'd rather see it in West Bend.
Look, the vice president goes down, gets it, and holds it.
Oh, he does a good job.
He's a good sport about it.
I will.
Oh, and there's the head coach.
That's Ryan Day at the very end running over to face him.
That coach worked hard to get that trophy.
He's running back to get licking him.
But you're right.
They could have made one complete trophy and I'd screwed around with it.
It's two pieces.
You're right.
So it's not on the vice president.
It's on the trophy makers.
So now I want to go to Michigan.
Okay, here we go.
I want to show Witless.
Oh, yeah.
Governor Witless.
Witless. Get it?
Witless. Not Whitmer.
Witless. Right.
You'll see why.
This is a picture here.
This picture is making the rounds.
She's the one that was with Kamala Harris at the bar trying to get picked up during the campaign in order to get men's votes.
Right. Here she is.
Trying to zoom in on this picture.
We've got to zoom in on the picture, so give us a second shot at it.
But that's her at the lineup.
Wait a second.
You've got to be kidding me.
I actually haven't seen this.
Yeah. Let me see this again.
You haven't seen it either?
No, no, I haven't seen.
I heard about it.
Yeah, this is a real picture, Mayor.
The New York Times photographer, Eric Lee, saw her, noticed her in the corner.
This is Gretchen Whitmer at the White House last week.
Now, I've always thought of her as being overrated as a candidate and a politician.
Did you see this, Mayor?
Look at her.
You know, I was like with Ted.
I wasn't sure if that was real.
It's real.
Is she trying to hide?
Yes. Well, also, did someone tell her, putting the binder in front of your face doesn't remove you from the room.
And they did a coordinated spray, too, because she was there for business.
So they did press.
I've got to get the mayor's face on.
She was there for business.
She's supposed to be there for business.
She is a governor, Democrat or not.
And finally, finally, she actually got in trouble originally before people saw that because she praised his tariffs.
Right. Well, she better praise his tariffs because her party ruined her state.
Look, this is going to be gold for not just Republicans, but for her Democrat competition.
This is what she'd do in China.
Yeah, compare the photo ops.
Governor Shapiro is enjoying the...
You know, victim of violence.
We're not enjoying it.
Well, I mean, it's good press for him.
And this is what happens to Whitmer.
Strictly politically speaking, Stephen makes an interesting point.
And it'll be curious to see what Shapiro does with that story, Mayor.
What do you mean?
It's going everywhere.
So let's say Whitmer, let's say you in a crazy world had to now advise Governor Whitmer on this.
How would you try to...
What would you recommend she does in this situation?
And how you respond to something like that?
Put your political hat on.
I'd just let it go by.
I wouldn't try to explain it.
The more that you say about it, the worse.
Just let it go by.
That alone is not going to stop her from being president.
If she acts like an airhead dodo bird, then that'll be used against her.
If she acts like a very serious...
Intelligent person, it'll be seen as a stupid thing that she did.
We have four mics.
Right. There isn't much she can do with that.
You know, bad hair day, or I didn't have my makeup on.
It all makes it sound frivolous and stupid, right?
Which I think she is, by the way.
Right. I think that the way she has to play it is that she...
We'll work with Trump, but she doesn't like it.
And I made a silly mistake at the White House with these binders.
Oh, and that's the way you express you're not liking the president.
You really are a 14-year-old, aren't you?
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
It would be illegal for you to be at that bar with Kamala Harris trying to pick up men in order to get the men's vote.
The whole crew in charge of Michigan right now is a bunch of 14-year-olds.
Jocelyn Benson, Dana Nestle, Gretchen Whitmer.
It's like an episode of Mean Girls.
Essentially. Jocelyn Benson is the one who disqualified Trump for being in an insurrection.
What insurrection?
I mean, the woman should be in jail for doing that.
Right. I remember that happening.
She takes a person off the ticket based on her singular analysis that he was involved in an insurrection when a FBI and Justice Department Spends $100 million trying to prove it and can't.
Right. Never charges it.
Never charges anybody with it.
Never proves it.
And she says he was in an insurrection.
He's off the ticket.
And I think 13 of her crooked state-similar Democrats did the same thing.
You know, she does.
She has turned...
You just don't appreciate, ladies and gentlemen of America, just how crooked the Democratic Party is.
She turned the Michigan Secretary of State's office into a...
Shady political operation.
And you know, President Trump has the fortitude and the capacity to fight back.
A lot of activists throughout Michigan have been targeted who don't have the resources, who have been bankrupted based on political attacks.
So these people are not, they're not innocent.
They're not innocent.
No, they're not innocent at all.
Well, as long as we were talking about Governor Shapiro, that's his home.
Now, that's a public entrance, a study that leads to a ballroom, if I recall correctly.
So he lives on the other side of the mansion.
So this did not really affect his family.
But it did in the sense that they were awakened with a telephone call at 2 in the morning on Saturday saying that there was a fire.
In the mansion.
And it was a very big fire, as you can see.
Now, the mansion is big enough so that it didn't have an immediate impact on them.
But any fire has an impact on you.
We don't know the cause of it yet.
They arrested the boy, the young man who did it.
There's speculation that it has to, because of the very nature of anti-Semitism and the prevalent anti-Semitism in the country, there's...
Speculation that that's what it is.
But so far, I've heard no evidence to that effect.
So it's ridiculous to chalk it up to that.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, we can chalk it up, first of all, something shouldn't happen no matter what.
For whatever reason, insane or some politically motivated garbage.
It shouldn't have happened.
Of course not.
And she doesn't deserve that.
Nobody deserves that.
And just an example of how out of control this society is, right?
Ridiculous. Right.
We have some pictures from that.
Yeah, some more pictures?
Oh, we played them last time.
Yeah. Oh, you have them up right here.
Yep. That's not centered.
Yeah, I remember being in that room when...
when Richard Thornburg was the governor.
Let's see if we got some comments from...
So this is Josh Shapiro.
He made a few comments today.
Sure. Following this attack, which took place overnight, while him and his family were actually home at the residence.
So let's play the clip.
We announce all by the Treasury Board.
This is not okay.
This type of violence is not okay.
This kind of violence is becoming far too common in our society.
And I don't give a damn if it's coming from one particular side or the other.
Directed at one particular party or another or one particular person or another.
It is not okay.
And it has to stop.
We have to...
He's absolutely right.
It's out of control, and I'm not even going to say who does more of it.
It's obvious who does.
But in any event, he's absolutely right.
It just has to stop.
And whoever does it's got to be put in prison for such a long time it scares the living daylights out of everybody else.
And gets them out of commission and out of society.
You combine this with all the Tesla things going on and the attack on Trump people and the general crime that takes place anyway and the crazy insane judges trying to bring the criminals back from El Salvador.
Bizarre. We're out of our minds.
Still smells a little fishy to me.
And I think we need to wait to see how this develops to see what happens.
No, I wouldn't say that.
Let's get, before we say that, let's have a, let's have a, you know, a little more analysis of it.
You know, the tariff thing is turning out very, very strange.
I must say, it's very, very strange.
First of all, the weekend was a wild weekend because I guess people are more worried about the cost of cell phones than anything, right?
So the question was, would a new super-duper cell phone cost you $2,500 or something, right?
As opposed to $1,900 or whatever.
And it went back and forth all weekend, whether it was or it wasn't.
And then the president and...
Maybe the vice president, but someone put out the fact that they were going to be exempt and a couple of the others were going to be exempt.
And it calmed that down and the market went way up today.
But now there's talk that they might be included later anyway, but we'll have to see.
Don't get crazy because I think these are all working out.
But where they're going is very, very simple.
The tariffs with most of the countries are going to work out to be favorable economic deals for both of us.
When I say most, 90%.
If you haven't figured it out yet, you're not astute.
Want to make it simple?
This is all about China.
This is all about...
Taking out the cancer that began with Nixon and Kissinger going to China, unwittingly, for good reason, I think.
But never making a course correction, and China playing us for a fool, tariffs not being the only thing, infiltration of our schools, elementary, high school, colleges.
Owning our colleges.
Infiltration of our businesses.
When they came over there, they had to share their intellectual property with China.
We gave it to them willingly.
Becoming part of our trading group.
Stealing all of our technology, which they're incapable of developing.
Stealing our military secrets, infiltrating every part of our society, putting police departments here in the United States so that they could take advantage of their second and third generation Chinese and turn them against us by frightening the hell out of them.
That's what the president's facing.
He's facing a country that has been infected by red Chinese.
And one of the things we do is we give them the money to do it to us.
We give them an additional billion dollars a year or more just to destroy us.
And they do.
They plan and plot to do it every day.
And once COVID happened, they've been knocking the hell out of us.
They killed almost a million of us, right, with COVID.
You know they did COVID, right?
Yeah, Nick Adams.
And you know that the Democratic Party covered it up, which has to tell you that the Democratic Party is their operative.
And so is the media.
The media will not report the things that I know, as a matter of fact, about China.
Well, we have with us a very special guest who...
Who I've been wanting to have back on for a while, Nick Adams.
Nick, are you there?
Here, Mr. Mayor, live and talking to one of my favourite people.
Where are you?
I'm in Houston, Texas.
All right.
You're in Houston, Texas.
What are you doing?
Well, right now, I just finished up a speaking event to the Northwest.
Forest Republican women here in the great city of Houston.
I've come to have a little bit of rest before I head to San Antonio and speak to the San Antonio Republican women, Mr Mayor.
And I've got to tell you, they are big fans of you here in the great state of Texas.
So you speak only to women's groups?
Well, I like women, Mr Mayor.
I talk to everybody.
So how's your book doing?
The book's great.
From Mar-a-Lago to Mars, President Trump's great American comeback.
Mr. Mayor, before we get to the book, I want to tell you, because you don't know this, but you, sir, are greatly responsible for my love of books, my love of writing, and my love of American politics.
Because when I was in the 12th grade in 2002, I read your book, Leadership.
And it genuinely changed my life.
And I learned so much from that book and they are lessons that I have held ever since that time and I probably will hold until the day that I die.
So from me to you, Mr Mayor, thank you so very, very much for having such a big impact on a young man.
18, 19 years old at the time.
It meant a lot, and to be able to be here speaking with you is very, very special indeed.
Well, we'd like to have you here in person when you get to Palm Beach, all right?
I would love that.
That'd be great.
I was actually with Johnny Tobacco the other day, and he was telling me that he's going to be spending some time with you.
Yeah, Johnny is terrific.
We love Johnny.
He's a great guy.
We always are anxious to see what he's wearing.
Well, he's almost as flamboyant as me, Mr. Mayor.
You look good.
Thank you, sir.
So what do you think of this whole tariff?
Look, I love it.
I love it, Mr. Mayor, because the reality is that America and Americans have been ripped off for several decades now, and President Trump is the only one with the testicular fortitude, the courage, the brilliance.
And the preparedness to not blink who can change this.
And you're very right when you say that all of this is about one player and one player only.
There's a lot of different ways to get to the one player, but it's all about China.
And at the end of the day, Americans have really got to ask themselves, do we want this 21st century to be a Chinese century?
Or do we want it to remain an American century?
And it's one of the big issues and topics that I explore in my new book, From Mar-a-Lago to Mars, President Trump's Great American Comeback, because I really believe, Mr Mayor, that President Trump is the only man that can make sure that we don't end up living the Chinese nightmare with social credit scores,
with communism, with...
No happiness, no ownership of just about anything.
What a great title.
We've got the book up on the screen right now.
What a great title.
I think you're absolutely right, and it's all coming out.
You can see it.
The opposition to him is gigantic, and they're all coming out frightened and worried.
Whether it's the academics or media, business.
On the other hand, most of them are, he's winning most of them over.
I don't know if he's winning them over legitimately, but I mean, they have to, like the nations, have to go along with him.
That's the beauty of it, Mr. Mayor, and that's what President Trump has understood.
From the very beginning and unfortunately a lot of people are either too stupid or simply unwilling.
To understand and accept that reality.
There are countries coming to the table, lots and lots of them.
They know, I mean, at the end of the day, the United States of America is an economy that the rest of the world's countries need.
We are the heartbeat.
We are at the epicenter.
We are the largest customer base.
Without the United States of America, you can forget everything else.
And that's why President Trump...
To quote him in his interview, in his meeting that he had with Vladimir Zelensky, President Trump is actually holding the cards as opposed to the Ukrainian Prime Minister.
He is holding the cards, President Trump, when it comes to this trade war.
So tell me about, you grew up in Australia and you came to the United States.
When? Mr. Mayor, in 2009, I came over to the United States of America for the first time.
I was 24 years old.
I had been inspired by you, so at the age of 19, I ran for local government in Sydney, Australia.
You were the youngest deputy mayor in Australia.
Correct. Yes, sir.
21 in eight days, September the 13th, 2005.
I was when I was elected.
But to be honest with you, that early success is really what made me realise that Australia was not the place for me to be in the future.
And I always felt like I was an American trapped inside an Australian body.
I was entrepreneurial.
I wanted to blaze a trail, leave a legacy, colour outside of the lines.
And Australia is a lovely place, but it's not the place to do all of those things.
There's only one country, one culture that embraces and rewards people that take risks, people that are bold.
People that are innovators, people that have got an unorthodox approach to doing things, and that's this country.
And so I came over on a speaking tour, and one thing led to another, Mr Mayor, and I've been...
Just enormously blessed to live the American dream.
President Trump appointed me to the board of the Wilson Centre in the Smithsonian in 2020.
In his first term, I have over 3.5 million social media followers.
I'm a best-selling author.
Nine governors have given me honorary status in their states.
I've gone on to do tremendous things, Founding and running a very large national non-profit that teaches K-12 American students about the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence,
and the Federalist Papers.
It's called the Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness.
And it's my way of giving back.
Thank you.
Our students have to be taught to love...
People are shy about this, but...
Public education when it started in the 1850s and 1860s was justified by the fact that we had to teach people love of America, to be patriots.
And until all of this started 50 years ago, public schools were intended to teach you to be a good American citizen.
I mean, you would begin every day with the Pledge of Allegiance.
Which is why when I finally got to the United States, Mr. Mayor, I was shocked because that was the reputation that the United States of America and the American education system had worldwide.
Americans were patriotic.
They were civic-minded.
They were articulate.
They were extremely aware and knowledgeable about their own history.
But when I got to the United States of America and I started
into different areas,
K-12 schools, elementary, middle, high schools, speaking at colleges.
I couldn't believe that there are young Americans that don't even have the faintest or foggiest idea of what the First Amendment is or the Second Amendment is, let alone the Tenth Amendment or something else.
Well, it's very, very good that you're doing that.
It really is very, very helpful.
We get kind of a view from the outside, too.
You know, people that live here, if they are patriotic and that's the way they were brought up, they may not even notice that things have changed until you get into a crisis.
I don't think we understood how bad our education was until the pandemic because the parents didn't really...
They didn't realize how bad the school was until they watched it on television at home.
I couldn't agree with you more.
You're absolutely right.
That was a moment, COVID was a moment when the penny dropped and they realised just how bad things were and that something needed to be done about it.
But it's a shame, Mr Mayor, and I know you agree with me, that it takes something like a pandemic, like a September 11, for the penny to drop.
For there to be this awareness and change.
We need to be citizens.
I'm a very proud citizen of the United States now.
And we need to be...
Thank you very much.
We need to be citizens that are not ambivalent, not complacent, not neutral about the United States of America's destiny.
We need to be all over it.
We need to realise that decline is a choice, not a condition.
And when, you know, a lot of people don't realise this, but President Trump's message might sound simple, but it is in fact the most profound thing that any modern statesman has ever uttered, make America great again.
When he first said this, Mr. Mayor, as you well know, he was doing the opposite of what most politicians do.
He was being honest with us.
He saw that we were losing that which made us great.
And by leaving his business empire behind, by leaving his career as a beloved entertainer behind, by leaving a good and happy life behind, President Trump took it upon himself to push back against the decline that many
felt was...
But he didn't only just take it upon himself to restore his national greatness.
He took it upon himself, Mr. Mayor, to make America greater than it had ever, ever been before.
And that's why I wrote this book, From Mar-a-Lago to Mars.
Donald Trump is a true survivor in the sense of the word.
This in itself makes him a figure of fascination, an almost beguiling character.
I wanted to dig deeper this time.
This is not just a political book.
And really understand what makes him so great.
So unbelievable and unique how he's managed to not only survive but thrive.
And there are invaluable lessons in it, in Donald Trump's life for all of us.
Well, you know, Nick, we're only three months into it.
Well, we're three months into this particular term, yes.
It's remarkable how much he's taken on in three months.
Every issue, even though you can't engage all of them every day, although he seems like he does, they're all out there.
All of them are battling on all fronts to try to make America greater again.
We certainly are.
We certainly are.
But what I really think about, Mr. Mayor, and I think what set him up now for success...
In these first three months and way beyond, I think we can all agree that this second term is even better than the first, is what he had to endure and what he had to come back from.
I mean, this is a man who was impeached twice, sued, indicted, arrested, convicted.
They tried to kill him twice.
And for him to just keep fighting.
To have this unshakable self-belief, to never back down, to never apologize, to never retract, to just keep on fighting for the American middle class.
Keep on fighting for what he believes in.
Keep on fighting when everyone else was trying to take him out.
That is some...
Unbelievable resilience, some next-level strength, and that's what this book explores.
It's a self-help book.
It's a manual on how to win based on Donald Trump's life.
And what Donald Trump has been able to do, he's faced more adversity, Mr Mayor.
You've shared your own, a lot, fair share of adversity.
President Trump has, I think, had more adversity than anybody.
He has.
And how he's able to just keep on going.
I mean, it's a thing to marvel at, but also I think it's a good time for us to adopt a lot of the mindset that he has and apply it to our own lives, whether we're raising children, whether we're founding, running or growing a business.
These are all principles that can be applied to our lives.
Well, thank you very, very much, Nick.
Good luck with your speeches in Texas.
Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor.
I'll be challenging your great oratory.
And when you head to the great free state of Florida, let me know, all right?
100%. It's been a pleasure.
We'll go to Mar-a-Lago, not Mars.
Sounds good, Mr. Mayor.
From Mar-a-Lago, and then we'll go to Mars.
Okay, I'll go to Martha.
What a great guy, huh?
You see, when we talk about American immigration, my friends, that's what we're talking about.
We're talking about a guy like that.
We're talking about a guy who brings...
He's actually bringing us something, isn't he?
By coming here.
It's a little bit of what I would call like a slap in the face.
Do you realize what a great country you got, jerks?
What are you running it down for?
I'm in Australia and I'm looking at you.
You people are running it down because some guy was a slave owner 300 years ago.
What are you, crazy?
We don't have anything like that in Australia.
We don't have the rights that you have and the benefits that you have and the capacity to do things that you have.
That's where immigration...
I mean, I was and I am about as big an advocate of immigration as...
And I was as the mayor of New York of anyone in the country.
But I wasn't talking about indiscriminate immigration.
I wasn't talking about any jackass who wants to walk in can walk in.
Any moron can walk in.
Any criminal, any insane person, anyone that wants to hurt my family can walk in.
Of course I wasn't talking about that.
I'm not crazy.
I was talking about people, and I believe we should be talking about people that add to what we have, that improve us.
At least let's make sure they don't destroy us, which is what the Democrats have done to us.
So tariffs have very quickly brought us To the point that we were going to get to, I thought, a little bit later, but I'm glad we did now.
And that is, yes, tariffs are important, and tariffs are going to get worked out between us and now 95 different countries on a case-by-case basis that is sensitive to our economy,
their economy.
What they need, what we need, and our national security, their national security.
And that's all important, and it all has to do with our economy, and it has to do with making sure that we're not in debt to other nations.
I mean, the people who make tariffs like...
Oh, my God, terrorists are the worst.
The Wall Street Journal is so insane about terrorists.
Whatever else you think about terrorists, and there are a lot of things to think about it, and we'll talk about it, but just the fact that they brought us to this point is a damn good thing.
A lot smarter than the Wall Street Journal could have ever done.
So look at how we've cornered China.
We've got them with their back against the wall.
So last time when Trump had a deal with China, he waited toward the end to do his deal with China, and China got what they wanted and never did what they promised to do.
They never invested in the United States.
So I don't know if he did this on purpose or not.
I'll ask him.
It sure worked out that way.
From the very beginning, their back is against the wall right now.
They're looking at 140% tariff at the top.
The best they can do is about a 60% tariff.
Even their cheap little crap they were tariffs on, like those little stupid things that unfortunately a little baby could swallow so don't buy them.
Have tariffs on them.
We are now taking a look at putting tariffs on people who buy from China and try to sell to us.
Because we don't want a secondary...
They're doing a secondary sale to us.
That's not economic.
Come on.
That's political, isn't it?
Now, why?
Why is that justified?
Because, damn it...
They've been trying to destroy us from the day the Chinese Communist Party started in China.
When they threw out Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong took over.
They want to destroy us.
The goal of Xi Jinping is to destroy the United States of America, the country that you love.
He has said that.
He's written it.
He lectures on it.
He says it openly.
He acts on it.
He's done things to effectuate it, like fentanyl, COVID-19.
I've killed many, many Americans.
He made sure as soon as COVID became apparently a...
A great danger for us.
He made sure he got people here to America.
Trump very quickly cut them off, remember?
And all of the China apologists condemned Trump as a xenophobe.
A xenophobe.
For not wanting infected people to come in the United States and kill us.
That cutoff a month earlier than anyplace else saved 500,000 lives.
So what Trump was able to do this time is to start the clock running against them rather than us.
So now they're the ones that are isolated.
They're the ones that are out of the game.
They're the ones that have to try to find people to sell to.
They're the ones whose economy is, unlike when Trump was first in office, in much worse condition than it's been in a very, very long time.
Much worse condition.
Their growth rate is who knows what.
You never know.
Their numbers don't mean a damn thing, but their growth rate is less than ours.
The situation of their population has always been a very, very false picture presented of China.
So you look at 1.4, it's hard to know what they really are because their population is declining and India is now the largest nation on earth.
Let's say it's 1.3 billion.
Okay. Of that 1.3 billion, 600 million are poverty line?
They're not in the poverty line.
That's America.
They're in third world poverty.
If you were to try to fix their situation all at once, you would knock China's GDP in half.
Which is why China's GDP is phony.
It's why it's not the United States.
So there are probably about 600 million people in third world poverty and 700 million people anywhere from poverty to lower middle class, middle class, upper middle class and fabulously wealthy Communist Party elites.
When we come back, we're going to show you a very, very, we're going to bring you some facts about a situation going on in China that may indicate that Xi Jinping is in a lot of trouble.
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back with you on America's Mayor Live.
And, um...
This is, um...
This is actually crystallized very, very clearly.
And I don't know that I want to call it a Cold War.
Yes, it is a Cold War.
But because it's a Cold War, it doesn't mean it's exactly like the other one.
It's being fought on different...
It's actually being fought in a much more complex way than the old Cold War was.
Yes, there's a military competition going on.
That we have to be concerned about.
The Chinese military is growing.
Ours is shrinking.
They've passed us in terms of Navy numbers.
They haven't passed us in terms of Navy sophistication or the sophistication of weapons, and we're not going to let them do that.
A recommendation was made the other day that we should have a $1 trillion defense budget going forward every year.
It's the only way to do it.
It's like rebuilding infrastructure.
The only way we could rebuild infrastructure in New York, you can't do it in one day.
You can't do it in one budget.
We had to do it in 20 years of budget with a constant infusion every year.
Growth, growth, growth, growth.
And we never failed.
And it didn't start with me.
I was in the middle of it.
I was in the middle of the relay race.
And it made New York, New York has obviously a large set of problems, but it has a very, very fine infrastructure to some extent.
It's getting old, but you can't believe what it would be like if billions of dollars hadn't been invested in it.
In order to make it better, it has the best water in the country, largely because we built another aqueduct, which is impossible to do.
It has a new subway.
Many things that would not have taken place.
Military is the same thing.
We've got to commit ourselves to whatever it takes to cut other things so that we spend $1 trillion on our defense.
The only way we're going to be able to keep this world from atheistic Chinese communism is by being the strongest nation on Earth.
Xi Jinping is convinced that by 2048, China will be.
And he's said it.
He's used it as a date.
And he's trying very hard to get there.
And everything they're doing is aimed at that, which we only started to realize, well, I did some years ago, but other people within the last several years.
But now we've got to organize behind that.
Senator Scott, the other day, Senator Scott, who is a great senator, who doesn't get the credit he deserves because he's a very, very low-key man.
He's a great governor of Florida, too.
As good as Bush and DeSantis, who had more of an outgoing personality.
Senator Scott had Paul Atkins.
The new Trump nominee, and I guess, if not already, soon to be chairman of the SEC.
He had him commit on ramping up scrutiny on Chinese companies, getting the hell off our markets, and removing those that are violating U.S. laws,
which Senator Scott says of almost all of them.
Because almost all of them are owned by the government.
And almost all of them are required to turn over anything the government wants to the government.
China is not a private economy.
China is a controlled, top-down dictatorship.
You have a Chinese company on a capitalist free market exchange.
You distort it.
You bastardize it, and you make it into something they can manipulate.
Throw them out.
Let them go find money somewhere else.
Why the hell are we financing our own demise?
Which is what we've been doing.
Nearly 300 Chinese companies representing more than $1 trillion in market value trade on U.S. markets.
I'd throw them all out.
Out. Go find the money in Bangladesh, jackasses.
Go find the money in Bangladesh.
Many, or maybe all of them, depending on whom you speak with, could be delisted.
Trump assigned in his first term provisions that allowed the regulators to delist Chinese companies.
For violating disclosure rules.
To failure to account for Chinese Communist Party influence and ownership of their enterprises.
To not account for the use of slave labor.
Then the Biden administration changed all that with Gary Gensler, who is basically a communist sympathizer.
Well, it's going to change back, and we should get them the hell off our markets.
That'd be one way to...
Destroy their ability to overtake us and take over the world.
One company after another should be on that list, and Senator Scott's got a good handle on it.
There's an article today in the Post about small firms that are tied to China are going to lose their business.
These are firms that make toys that come from China.
Tough shit.
Sorry, I don't want any toys from China, okay?
And why the hell were you getting toys from China anyway?
Don't you know that the Chinese kill more people than any group on Earth?
What the hell is wrong with you?
Are you a moral savage to do business with them?
You see some of these people here that are doing business with them, they look like idiots.
Artistic toys and promotion.
This one here is in a fast-sinking boat that's doing business with China.
Sorry. Sink.
Overall, the U.S. toy industry relies on China for 80% of its production.
I don't know.
You think maybe we could sacrifice a couple of toys?
You don't think we can get our toys from somewhere else?
Gee, if we can't do that, we're really in bad shape.
This is what Trump...
Don't you realize what's going on?
This is fabulous!
Get the hands out of our pockets!
Get their hands off our televisions.
And with toys getting more sophisticated, the data that they are acquiring about our kids...
Yeah, but just get rid of them.
Get rid of them.
That's why I...
One thing I disagreed with Trump is TikTok.
Out. I don't want to even hear from them.
That's poison.
Out. Out.
Gone. Somebody else will pick up that group of people.
Out. Also, they're sick.
I don't know.
Whatever happens on that thing is sicker than other places.
China increased tariffs on all U.S. imports to 84% as a response to our increase.
Depending on what we're talking about and where they increased, we're up to 145%.
This is not a joke.
This is not kidding.
They're not prepared for this.
They're not prepared for this.
The Chinese said if the U.S. insists on its own way, China will fight to the end.
Good. Fight to the end.
We have a trade surplus in services.
So the New York Post thinks we should be really happy about that.
We shouldn't have any deficit with China of any kind.
We shouldn't even be doing business with them.
They're too savage a country, and they hate us too much for us to do business with them.
And what we should do is try to wipe them out, destroy their economy, so they're going to have to destroy the way in which they conduct their economy, which is socialism and communism.
Jay:
The place where we're having a lot of difficulties, of course, is with these cell phones because Americans feel like, oh my gosh, you know, they can't...
I guess the Apple cell phone will go up about $400 or $500 if...
It's worth it.
Apple shouldn't be making that many cell phones in China.
What happened?
Top of Apple become...
Who runs Apple?
Tim Apple.
What? A man named Tim Cook.
President Trump renamed him Tim Apple.
And a consortium of large investors.
Is he a communist?
Does he hate America?
We'd have to...
That's a good question.
Yeah. I mean, look...
Why would he make all of his...
To be fair, they have actually recently been branching out to try to look at India and other locations just because of the geopolitical risk.
Yeah, I mean, Tim Cook, I would say, yeah, he's a profiteer before he's a patriot, that's for sure.
Yeah, I think it's whatever way the wind blows with these guys.
So, um...
Why don't we go to the video of Trump on China?
Number four.
We had number four.
Say it again?
Number four.
Yep. Well, it's masterful the way that Trump has been handling this, backing him into a corner like that.
Well, this is from last week.
This is President Trump.
And again, it's a master class on negotiating.
It hasn't changed since last week.
has been as successful as he has in business.
Right now is technically embargo on China with 125%.
On China, some economies are saying that right now is technically embargo on China with 125% serious.
Are you concerned of escalation beyond the trade war with China?
No, I'm not concerned.
I think President Xi is a very smart guy, and I think we'll end up making a very good deal for both.
But, you know, we've been treated so badly for so many years.
Again, we allow that to happen.
We've been treated so badly for so many years.
But, no, I don't expect that.
I think President Xi is one of the very smart people of the world.
And I don't think he'd allow that to happen.
And we're very powerful.
This country is very powerful.
It's far more powerful than people understand.
We have weaponry that nobody has any idea what it is, and it is...
I mean, the simple fact is that he's in a corner.
He's in a very, very serious corner.
The tariff, he has to work now.
To get it down.
We don't have to work to get it up.
And with those numbers, he can't trade with us.
And it's apparent that Trump doesn't want to trade with him.
And he's trying to...
I don't think there's anyone that doubts that he's trying to decouple the two economies that had ridiculously been coupled together.
Because we lived on the fiction of the Nixon-Kissinger-went-to-China thing.
You cannot close your eyes to a country that slaughters 100 million of their own people.
What Nixon and Kissinger did in the height of the Cold War to defeat Russia, no one's criticizing.
What Kissinger, and Nixon was sort of out of it at the time, but what Kissinger and then all the people that fell in love with China, including President Bush, did is very,
very serious.
They drank the Kool-Aid, and they thought they could make China into a...
Mercantile Nation.
And they didn't read.
Oh gosh, it's so important that you read.
They didn't read Xi Jinping's biography.
They didn't read what he was writing and take it seriously.
Just like nobody else in the 1920s read, except Churchill.
So something's going on in China right now.
And I know about it because I read.
He Wing Dong.
Now, you wouldn't know who He We Dong is.
Let me spell it.
H-E-W-E-I-D-O-N-G.
He's a close ally of Xi Jinping.
He's the vice chairman of the Central Military Commission.
Okay, he hasn't been seen.
Since his last appearance on March 11th at the closing ceremony of the National People's Congress.
On March 13th, independent journalist, I don't know what that means, independent journalist.
Yeah, that's a good point, Mayor.
he, that's his name, he, Weedong, had
arrested.
He's the third ranking figure in the CCP military.
On March 27, during a press briefing, a spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Defense said, there is no such information.
We are not aware of the situation.
They're not aware of the situation that he's been removed, but he's nowhere.
Nobody can find him.
So we don't know why.
What has happened to him?
This is what used to go on with the Soviets, because these are very closed, secret societies that take advantage of people, prey on them, and dictate to them.
So we don't know whether this is because Xi himself is suspicious of He Weedong's loyalty to him.
Or are there anti-Z forces who have gotten control of a lot of the party apparatus and are removing Z loyalists.
And the speculation among the naval gazes and tea-leave readers, I guess is the better one for China, the tea-leave readers is, it could be either.
Well, they're right for it.
It is not...
The author of the article, Wang Yi in New Epoch Times, Tends toward the latter, which is that this is part of a very, very orchestrated effort to remove key people so that Z can be removed.
Now, there are about four or five other examples of that.
Now, Z has always moved people out.
This could be Z doing it, but it also could be being done to him.
And these are people extraordinarily close to him.
Some distancing, some strategic moves.
They're in financial...
I don't even know what to call it.
They are not on sound footing financially.
So if there were to be a time to go after the king, now would be a good time for it.
Well... You know, I guess...
I guess...
I guess if we're on the China side of this, The way we get upset with our presidents and leaders, if they don't anticipate, one could say that he didn't anticipate correctly the situation that was going to happen with Trump.
After all, he did deal with Trump for four years.
He should have been ready for the fact that Trump was going to come in and jump right on him and hit him with a tariff that he couldn't even negotiate with, much less talk about.
Right. So...
Yeah, their models are based on weak leadership by Washington.
Z's strength and his security is dependent on his very close relationship with the military.
And the positions that are being moved, which include some lower positions...
Of his loyalists seem to be in the military so that if and when they throw him out, the military will not revolt.
So he just lost his best friend in the military.
Did he throw him out or did they throw him out?
He's not necessarily replaced with a best friend.
you.
And now I could give you a couple of others.
The names wouldn't mean anything.
Zhang Xiaojun, which is also a loyalist, who is a medical doctor in the military.
He was the director of the CMC's general office and major general.
He's been missing.
He's been missing.
There's no question that his control of the military, they seem to be weakening his control of the military, which would be very, very smart, because the thing he's always had to secure his position was the military would react if he were removed.
Remember, we're talking about a dictatorship here, a brutal, homicidal dictatorship.
And their moves are unbelievable.
Well, we'll keep watching this.
There are a couple of others that I'll bring to you tomorrow that of a lower level in the military that also indicate that it could be It could be that they're softening things up.
The general consensus is that the difficulty is there's no agreement, even a merging agreement yet on a successor.
And you can't take the king down without a king, right?
And this guy is very resourceful.
So you make a mistake here, you're dead.
So this is...
But he has put the country in a very, very difficult position and has not anticipated or played the Trump thing correctly, particularly as Trump emphasizes what good friends they are, which I think he does on purpose.
Like, you can't get anything better out of your friend?
This is the best you're going to do for us?
Thank you.
Wow. Quite something, man.
Yeah, a lot developing in China, and I'm looking forward to seeing everything shake up.
We'll have to stay on it all week and maybe try to do some more research on our end.
Well, and really, it's hard to do research on China because it's so closed off and so controlled.
Wall Street Journal columnist for the China Bureau.
I can't believe a darn thing that she says, right?
Because it's all just scripted straight out of the Communist Party.
You know where to go, right?
What is her name?
Ling Ling?
You know where to go.
Epic Times!
Oh, yeah.
Want to know about China?
They'll tell you about China.
They've got plenty of sources in there.
Some have been killed.
Some have had their organs taken out.
All of them have had family members destroyed by these communist animals that want to destroy us.
According to the experts, Trump has made the tariff so high so Xi can't negotiate because what he wants to do is decouple from China.
He doesn't want the U.S. doing any business with China.
He wants to remove all connections to China.
At the same time, I don't know if you've noticed it, but we are turning down visas and canceling visas for Chinese students.
We shouldn't have a single damn Chinese student at any American university.
Not one.
Not a single one.
Not until the country stops being dedicated to overthrow America's position as the leading economy in the world.
And why is America's position as the leading economy in the world so important to the world?
Because we're the one that assures that the world is free.
That isn't just a, look, if somebody else was going to take over that was as benign, And as democratic and as principled as we are, fine.
But not if this miserable, murderous, 100 million people killed group wants to take over.
This isn't some kind of a high school president election.
One wants to destroy all of the advances we've made in Western civilization for 2,000 years, and the other wants to increase it.
Why? Because one of them doesn't come from Western civilization.
Or I have to amend that.
It doesn't come from Western civilization, but it has Western civilization.
Embedded in it, a bastardized version of Western civilization called Marxism.
It's the Chinese arrogance and the Marxist insanity that Mao built into their country and all the insane things he did to them.
What Trump wants to accomplish now It was to just cut it off with China.
Right away with Panama, first thing he did, right?
And they're now being pushed out of the Panama Canal.
Every place he finds them, he wants them out, isolated, on their own, requiring a change completely in their method of operation.
Why is he doing it?
To save our country.
And the Europeans, so we read today that some of the Europeans are flirting with China, including the Prime Minister of Spain.
He's a damn communist!
Of course he's sitting there with Xi Jinping.
They're probably French kissing.
Creeps? Yuck.
Very similar COVID strategies, if we look back to it, too.
Spain isn't far off from China.
Spain has a very socialist.
And to be socialist now is to be China.
Because Russia has its own problems.
Who knows what the hell it is?
Is it communist?
Is it nationalist?
Is it fascist?
It's also very, very intelligent to try to wean Russia away from them.
And it's not going to be easy.
It's not going to be easy because there's more resistance in Putin than I thought there would be on Ukraine.
And we've got to figure out what that is.
What he did over the weekend is intolerable.
Attacking Ukraine on Good Friday.
attacking Pearson, attacking Kiev, attacking Suma.
These are now the killings of a murderer, not a world leader.
This is a guy who likes murder, that's doing murder, as opposed to someone who is turned off by murder and has to do it maybe as the leader of a country, but isn't going to do it if he doesn't have to.
And it's the disturbing thing about Putin.
And it is what I think makes people nervous when Trump says, you know, that he's a friend or that Xi is a friend.
Now, I don't know exactly what that means.
They're not friends.
When's the last time you saw them at Mar-a-Lago?
Yeah. They're not friends.
I haven't seen them at the golf course of Mar-a-Lago in four years.
I know his friends.
Steve Witkoff is a friend.
Darn good, intelligent man.
He's one of his friends.
Steve Shinming isn't one of his friends.
I don't know why he says that.
I understand it is.
Negotiating. Deal-making.
Ronald Reagan was friends with Tip O'Neill, but he really brought it down to him.
That's a little bit different, though, than the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party.
Tip O'Neill you could be friends with.
He was another politician.
American politician, yeah.
So, Mayor, I would suggest maybe this is all for deal-making and negotiating.
It is.
It is.
It's for deal-making and not really quite making the transition to what he's in right now.
Right. Because he's not in business now.
Xi Jinping is not just another businessman.
Right. Xi Jinping is a mass murderer.
Right. And what we do sometimes when we deal with them that way is we create kind of a euphemism, a shadow of euphemism for them, and they don't seem so bad.
Right. You know, you don't see Xi Jinping.
With fangs and teeth hanging out and all the Uyghurs that he's killing, all the Christians that he's killing, all the Muslims that he's killing.
I mean, he's killing 1,000 people a day.
Right. And he does it with a smile on his face, too.
Yeah, I mean, none of us has friends.
None of us has friends that kill 1,000 people a day, at least that we know of.
And one of the biggest things, so he doesn't look like a vampire.
He actually looks like Winnie the Pooh.
And he hates that comparison and actually banned Winnie the Pooh from China because people were making fun of him for looking so similar to him.
Like Winnie the Pooh?
He looks like Winnie the Pooh.
He has the same grin as Winnie the Pooh.
That's funny.
They are so...
The way...
Put his picture up.
Let's try to find...
Ted, if we can find the Winnie the Pooh Xi Jinping comparison, it's spot on.
Yeah, he doesn't like it.
He really doesn't.
Yeah, that's got to be going...
That's too funny.
Show one of those.
The top one right there.
It's coming.
It's coming.
Now, these images are more than banned in China.
I bet you'd get disappeared very fast.
If you did this one?
Yep. Why are you in jail?
Why are you here?
What did you do to get here?
I posted a meme of Winnie the Pooh in China.
That's all.
Just a little meme.
So this is Xi Jinping.
Sorry, it takes a while.
What was it?
Here it is.
You see it, right?
Oh, he's such a friendly little guy.
Look at him!
Such a nice little murderer.
Yeah, as long as you're not, as long as he's not an Uger or a Christian, as long as you don't believe in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, you're okay.
Of course, that was my problem with the Biden administration, too.
Biden claimed to be a Catholic.
But everybody who went to Latin Mass was some kind of a terrorist.
And the guy who ran that division or ran that thing is now, I'm told, head of the Washington field office.
And I can't get Josh Patel or Pam Bondi to tell me that that's not true.
I think there's more to this.
And as Cash even said, we need to stay tuned because who knows what's going down in the Washington field office.
It could be reduced to nothing, to be honest with you, as it probably should be.
Why would you keep a guy in the FBI who was going after Catholics for going to Latin Mass?
I mean, I'm really upset about that.
Maybe they're putting the case against him together.
I don't know.
Well, you suspend him.
We'll see.
We'll see.
I have faith still that Director Patel is going to be doing the right thing here.
And we'll see.
So I thought the headline in the post today that Trump should keep Witkoff from selling out to Iran was unfair.
I just want to tell you I think that's unfair.
And I'll tell you why.
Every indication is that we're down to one of two things in this deal.
And this is what you report.
So I'm basing this on whether you have the facts to write that and hurt the man's reputation.
Here's what you report.
What you report is that Trump has decided that one of two things are going to happen with this.
One. They're going to dismantle their nuclear weapons.
They're going to let us do it or watch it and assure ourselves they've been dismantled.
Number two, if they don't, Israel or the U.S. or both are going to do it involuntarily.
Militarily. Now, I have no reason to believe there's any other option.
And you don't say here there's any other option.
So what are you talking about?
You just want to be pricks?
That's not nice.
I think this issue of dismantlement is a very intriguing one.
I just be careful of it.
Particularly since it comes from John Kerry.
I would be careful of it
it may be a delusion.
you.
As I said, Witkoff has made it clear that we will not allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.
It's a red line.
I think our position begins with the dismantlement of your program.
That is our position.
Okay. I mean, it sounds pretty straightforward to me.
I don't know how more straightforward you can be.
So, Ted?
Yep. What do you have?
Anything you want to get off your chest?
Any confessions from the weekend?
No, very...
Well, what did you do this weekend, man?
Happy Bombs Monday to everyone.
It's a holy week.
Happy holy week to everyone.
Happy holy week.
Holy holy week.
Hosanna. Holy Thursday.
Good Friday coming up.
Easter Sunday.
We've got to kick that cough, maybe.
We'll limit your words here on out, maybe.
We'll limit your words here on out for tonight.
We want to keep your voice good for the week.
It's only Monday, Mayor.
Oh, yeah.
I can't do too much today.
Yeah.
Terrible, right?
Very terrible.
Ecuador has elected another tough That's a call.
Latin American president.
That's right.
Daniel Neboer.
That's right.
Wants to crack down on gangs.
Containing cocaine.
Yeah. Sounds good.
Yeah. It's, I mean, look, I think if today's any indication, we're off to another busy news week.
Of course, the president hosting President Bukali today and continuing His promise to remove dangerous, illegal aliens from the country, that seems to be going forward full speed ahead.
With the complete disagreement of the Democrat judges on the court, and Caitlin, your friend Caitlin...
Caitlin Collins.
I don't know that we're friends anymore.
I can't even remember the last time we talked.
Caitlin Eagleface.
She looked like an eagle today.
Well, they really piled up on her today.
Ooh, the president really.
The president?
President Bukali?
I think Marco Rubio got in on it.
Pam Bond?
They all kind of went in on her.
Well, you know, I tell you.
I wish I was there.
I really did.
In some ways, he should have sort of a fondness for her.
What? I would say she makes...
Oh, you're not thinking with me.
No, no, I am.
She almost serves a role for the president, right?
In that if he wants to get something off his chest, he can go right into her.
And he knows she's going to ask a very biased question, and he can hit her on that, too.
First of all, she's nicer than Acosta.
If that's...
If she's not...
If there's anything about her...
Acosta, okay, I'll agree with that.
She's not as bad as Acosta.
I just know Acosta, personally.
You know him, probably.
You have to know him a little bit, right?
You saw him a lot every day over there.
Yeah, yeah.
I didn't have to deal with him.
There are times in which I'm just lucky I didn't...
People don't know this.
Caitlin Collins, she probably hates when I say this, but Caitlin Collins worked with me at the Daily Caller.
People don't know that about Caitlin Collins.
She was a conservative writer for the Daily Caller.
She worked for Tucker Carlson.
She sat right next to me.
So she'll go whichever way they pay her.
Well, the reason I say he should be somewhat grateful to her is...
The interview she did on CNN, remember?
Oh, yes.
Now I know what you're referring to, Mayor.
He just ate her lunch.
He just wiped the shit out of her.
And they went ahead and they gave her a...
I never understood her.
I thought they were going to fire her.
Yeah, a bunch of people got fired.
You don't put a weak intellect against a strong intellect.
Remember that?
I mean, he just ate her up.
It was, you know, he...
Some of those people are smart.
I mean, they're hard to eat up.
He just ate her up.
Right. And she was nervous.
She's always nervous, it seems like.
Well, she's lying all the time.
Wouldn't you be nervous if you were lying all the time?
So I'm going to conclude with a column from the New York Post from one of the wisest men in America, Victor Davis Hanson, from...
From the West Coast.
I don't know how that could be, but he is.
Here are a couple of questions he posed.
I'm going to do all of them.
Did President Trump, did Donald, President Donald Trump so-called trade war?
That's what they call it.
It's a trade war.
But then what do they call the policies of the past half century by Europe, Asia, China, and others?
To assure asymmetrical tariffs that stole money from us.
Theft. Victor, I'd say theft.
Do nations prefer surpluses or deficits?
I don't have to answer that, do I?
Would our trade partners prefer to trade places with us?
Thank you.
So, is the Trump agenda bad economic news?
In the sudden end of 10,000 illegal entries a day, the Red Sea is suddenly navigable.
The Houthis in Yemen are stopped.
$200 billion in budget cuts have already been targeted, and they're moving up to $500 billion.
Victor, you're right.
It's all there.
It's all right below the surface, and it's what really the ship is sailing on.
Not all this.
As they say, My Jewish friends say Mishigas.
So we got a nice week ahead leading up to the most glorious holiday in my calendar and many of yours and one of the saddest,
of course, Good Friday.
But a great week.
I think, to remember what we're about.
And a great week also to concentrate some thought on how we bring God back into America in the right way.
It's easy.
The way we always did.
This idea that you can't say prayers or...
You can't teach religion.
Religion is as integral part of our history as...
I don't know.
There's nothing more integral.
There's probably nothing that shaped the world more than the various beliefs that people develop in God.
And before we sign off really quick, if you head to lindeltv.com right now, you can still catch the second half of the Dr. Maria show that's on there.
Is she on tonight?
She's on tomorrow night.
Monday. Monday night.
Oh, okay.
Well, go ahead.
You go ahead.
Do that.
Go to Lindell TV.
I've been sneaking a little bit watching here as we've been on.
How does she look?
Tonight is a good episode.
I would highly recommend checking it out.
It's about the Boston bombing, which I think was one of the FBI disgraces in not sharing that information with the Boston police.
Let's see what she comes up with.
Let's pray for the people of Israel.
Let's pray for the people of Ukraine in this holy week.
Let's pray even for the people of Russia and China, that they be delivered from that.
And, of course, Iran, America.
And God bless America.
We'll see you tomorrow night.
It's our purpose to bring to bear the principle of common sense and rational discussion to the issues of our day.
America was created at a time of great turmoil, tremendous disagreements, anger, hatred.
It 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.
But a great deal of the reason for America's constant ability to self-improve is because we're able to reason.
We're able to talk.
We're able to analyze.
We are able to apply our God-given common sense.
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