America's Mayor Live (906): President Trump Warns Iran as US Blockade on Iranian Ports Takes Effect
Rudy Giuliani discusses Peter Magyar's election in Hungary, claiming it ended Viktor Orban's 16-year rule and criticized Western nations for becoming "Muslim empires" under Sharia law. He details President Trump's naval blockade on Iranian ports, orchestrated by Scott Bessent and Mike Waltz after UN vetoes, asserting Iran lost control of the Strait of Hormuz while JD Vance negotiates in Islamabad. Giuliani condemns Pope Leo XIV for failing to address Nigeria's Christian killings, praises Trump's defense of Christians, and highlights domestic migration from high-tax blue states to Florida and Texas. Ultimately, the episode frames these events as evidence of a collapsing Western order requiring decisive American intervention. [Automatically generated summary]
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Hungary's Defeat and Europe00:14:56
Welcome to America's Mayor Live.
This is Rudy Giuliani, and we're coming from Palm Beach, Florida.
Well, one of America's closest friends, and also one of Europe's closest friends to President Trump, Viktor Orban, was defeated in Hungary after 16 years of being its prime minister and leader that has.
Rendered Hungary free of any of the Islamic problems that beset England, France, Germany, Italy, because he basically lets them in sparingly, if at all, because he's a learned man and he's read the Koran and he knows that any of them that are loyal to their religion have to be dedicated to wiping out his.
Not just his religion, but his civilization.
Well, he was defeated by a former member of his party, a younger man, Peter Magyar, who wants to get closer to the failed European Union.
Now, that's great, but the people of Hungary just voted to get on the Lusitania.
Yeah, they voted overwhelmingly.
Let's see if we can jump on the sinking ship.
Boy, we want to be there with those Europeans when they go down.
Have you taken a look, Hungarians, at England?
Have you taken a look at France, Italy, Germany?
Chaotic Germany?
They can't defend themselves.
They're overwhelmed in the case of England and France in particular.
There's real doubt that they aren't going to become Muslim empires in 10 years.
They allow Sharia law to operate in various parts of their country.
They double-cross their real only defense, the United States of America, and show no loyalty for what America has done for them, largely because they are cowardly, useless people, just the opposite of leadership.
They are complete victims of the woke combination of communism, Marxism, and Islamic extremism.
And are mostly, I guess, the biggest characteristic that they display is complete absolute cowardice.
They're afraid of their own shadows, which makes for a very, very kind of useless country who is turning on its own civilization and culture.
Who's that up there, Ted?
The new incoming prime minister.
Yeah, well, he double crossed Victor.
He double crossed him.
His.
His wife also worked for Orban, if I'm not mistaken.
Hmm.
Was he going to say something?
No, no.
Does he talk or is he just down there?
I do think, I do think, though, the thing that defeated him, I think the thing that defeated him was he didn't know when to pull back from Russia.
Russia is, we are unpopular, so that didn't help him.
I mean, maybe it wasn't so smart to have a representative of President Trump to go to Hungary right now.
I don't know.
But really, Hungary, he has remained rather loyal to Putin as well as Trump.
And he's undercut a loan to Ukraine to help them finish out the war with Russia.
And he does business with Russia because he claims he's not going to have anyone tell him where he can get his oil and gas.
And we have actually tried to, I mean, the United States has tried to back him off from that.
And I think that kind of really was the coup de grace.
Because on the other side of what's going on in Europe is a realistic fear of Russia.
Because what they're alienating the United States, they couldn't possibly defend themselves against Russia.
I mean, they can't defend themselves against the small, what still is a small number of Islamics who are pungent way above their weight, largely because they know that they have a confidence in what they believe in, even though it's sinister.
And the Europeans haven't believed in anything for 200 years.
They've given up on Christianity, which is a tragedy.
So I would imagine that's in Hungarian, right?
We have subtitles on, so let's play it.
Okay, let's just hear a little something from one or the other of them.
This is going to make a big difference in Europe.
Well, it's going to be very interesting to see how Magyar organizes himself.
I would have to look at polls and other things.
I do think that America is still much more popular in Hungary than it is, let's say, in other parts of Western Europe.
It may not be as popular as it is in Poland and the Czech Republic and Lithuania and Latvia and Finland and places like that.
But I think it's a lot more popular than it is in France and England in particular.
So, plus, Magyar's platform of wanting to be close to a sinking ship.
Whoa.
Whoa.
I don't know.
I don't know how long that lasts.
So, that gets us to the Islamification of Britain.
If you listen to my interview with Piers Morgan, you might have noticed how defensive Piers was about England turning Islamic.
And he's concerned about it.
But he's saying people overdo it.
It isn't that great.
And they're only a small percentage.
And hey, the mayor of London's been a Muslim and a practicing Muslim now for eight years.
That's a long time to let it sink in.
And he has holidays.
So.
Hey, what's yours, Morgan?
What's my little question?
Should we?
Go ahead, man.
In 10 years.
I mean, the Anglican Church, I have people from England telling me you're going to be a Muslim country in 10 years.
I mean, the Anglican Church, the Roman Catholic Church is bigger in England now than the Anglican Church.
And Charles III might be the Muslim monarch of England.
I mean, they're taking over.
And they want to take over, and it's their aim.
And Iran is the fuel behind that.
You take out the Islamic Republic of Iran, the whole thing moves in the other direction.
You realize, Rudy, only 5% of the UK is Muslim, do you?
It doesn't matter.
I mean, they have tremendous power.
How many mayoralties do they have?
They have a few mayoralties, but the most significant.
But this idea, there's a lot of Americans.
I'm increasingly concerned that a lot of you guys seem to have this idea that we're literally being overrun by Muslims.
And I don't know where it's coming from.
Because I live in London.
I don't get any feeling I'm being overrun by Muslims.
Well, I was in London about a year and a half ago, and it seemed to me there were an awful lot of women with veils on that I had never seen before.
And we're back.
Well, I mean, here's an article about London, not from me, just last week by Joanna Williams.
In Britain, March meant Ramadan.
My local supermarket advised me.
This is a person from England with a different view than Pierce.
In Britain, March meant Ramadan.
My local supermarket advised me to make this holy month meaningful and offer it everything you need for iftar, suhor, and beyond, including a range of halal foods at televised premiership football matches.
Listen to this.
Play stopped to allow Muslim prayers to break their fast.
Days before Id, Muslims gathered in London's Trafalgar Square to pray in public.
The mayor of I wonder if they say at the end of their prayers like they do in Tehran death to America and death to Israel and death to the MEK.
The mayor of London, Sir Sadiq Khan, hailed the power of being Muslim.
as he addressed thousands at the biggest Iftar in the Western world.
A growing Muslim population has become more confident in asserting its identity while Britain's political and cultural elite increasingly insist upon respect for Islam as a show of or support for the supposedly progressive values.
Well, there's nothing progressive about Islam.
Nothing.
The result is not just tolerance of Muslims, but an extending Islamification of all aspects of British society.
The education system plays a very important role in normalizing Islamic religious practices.
Halal meat is served in school dinners.
Muslim girls as young as five wear hijab in the classroom, or they ban all girls from wearing skirts.
Government guidance to teachers.
In areas with large Muslim communities, warns that art produced by children, as well as music and dancing lessons, may be considered blasphemous or even idolatrous under Sharia law.
Other advice to schools introduces double standards.
One London council urged teachers not to punish Muslim pupils with after school detentions during Ramadan.
One reason is obviously a growing Muslim population.
According to the most recent national census, Carried out in 2021, 3.9 million people, that's 6.5%, just a little more than he said, described themselves as Muslim.
But that's up 3.9 from only 2.7 million in 2011.
But these statistics don't capture how recent migrants, remember that goes back to the last count was in 2021.
But these statistics don't capture how recent migrants and second and third generation citizens from predominantly Muslim countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan tend to concentrate in certain towns and cities, particularly in the north of England.
In the 2021 consensus, found that the Asian or British Asian population of Bradford stood at 32%, while Birmingham is home to 195,000 Pakistanis, or 18% of the population.
A recent election of Manchester constituencies of Gordon and Denton highlighted the extent of ethnic and religious segregation.
So, what they do is they concentrate in certain areas and they do not integrate, they do not assimilate.
And they are all, as they are here, they all join, of course, the communist, amoral, left wing, crazy, insane Labor Party.
80% of Muslims vote for labor.
Now, there is a kind of a division going on with labor because some of the labor members are getting upset about just how far they have gone in supporting Hamas, hating Israel.
They either support or they're silent.
About the terrorism that goes on in a large portion of the Islamic religion.
They're absolutely silent about it.
And the police are afraid of them.
Christians are prosecuted twice as many times as they are, and many of their crimes are overlooked for fear, like even rape, which has gone up by astronomical amounts since they came to England.
Insurance Crisis and Trauma00:08:33
In just one town, Rotherham, conservatively estimated that approximately 1,400 children were sexually exploited between 1997 and 2013.
They have a large number of grooming gangs, rape gangs.
They're grooming these girls for sex trafficking.
And there, of course, was a very, very deeply held 15 year secret.
Of Muslims going to the towns and very poor towns in northern England and kidnapping white girls and using them in sex trafficking and human trafficking.
So, this is what's going on in England, and it is not being made up by, look, I'm just telling you what I've been told by people who go back and forth there quite a bit.
And what is being recorded.
So the White House ballroom, they can proceed to finish up what they're doing right now, because if they don't, they're going to expose to public view the secure area, this gigantic secure area.
That has been opened.
Also, as a result of these ridiculous lawsuits, the whole issue of the bunker has been revealed.
And Judge Leon has decided that he can stop construction on the ballroom.
I don't know how, where these judges got the power to do that.
The prime minister or president, I guess it's the president of Cuba, Is going to, Miguel Diaz Canal is going to fight to the death for Cuba.
Now, I don't know if we're going to invade him.
You might disappoint him.
As far as I can tell, Trump and Marco probably has the best handle on this figure, they're just going to implode.
America has demanded, if they want the blockade ended of Cuba, that they release their political prisoners, allow multi-party elections, and permit a free press.
So far, Canal is not willing to do that.
Jonathan Turley wrote a piece today pointing out that the candidate for governor of Maine is the secretary of state who unilaterally took Trump off the ballot.
Which was declared in Constitution by nine justices of the Supreme Court, including the three liberals.
Now, shouldn't that just qualify you for running for governor when you blatantly violate the Constitution?
You would think.
Yeah, and she's, you know, no reason to spend any time on her, but she's really just another crazy nutjob who says the electoral college is a result of white supremacy.
Now, she probably has never read the Constitution or the history of it.
Probably.
She probably thinks it's a university somewhere.
Yeah, right.
Swalwell is gone.
I want to clap, Mayor, but isn't this just like this guy's been doing this apparently for a dozen years?
And he only goes out when it seems to be part of a larger plan by the government.
I guess it has gotten up to what?
Four women?
It's gotten up to four.
Yep.
And there's one tomorrow morning.
We'll be watching that Beverly Hills press conference.
A new one?
And that must be the big one because he resigned today.
The rape one?
We don't want to.
Some, some, some.
Yeah.
One so far has been straight out and out rape.
Right.
And the others are more ambiguous sexual harassment.
But I mean, the guy should be in jail for treason with Fang Fang.
Absolutely.
And he's the big, he's only, I bet he is only the second biggest liar in the California delegation.
And that's.
Shifty Schiff is an even bigger liar.
Right.
And that is the question now.
Will more heads roll over this?
Another Democrat today resigned, Tony Gonzalez from Texas.
What did he do?
He, uh, that's a nasty.
Is that the staffer killed herself?
Is that the staffer who was in love with him and killed herself?
Yeah.
Well, that's the question.
How much of it was abuse?
How much of it was consensual?
Either way, right?
Well, there were love letters.
I mean, it wasn't as if.
Yeah.
We're not putting him in the same category as.
Well, nobody's in the same category as Swallwell and Shifty Shift.
Right.
And the question is.
Well, I tell you, I'm pretty sure this isn't the reason for it.
There are bigger reasons than this, but.
There are two political points that came out today.
One from the USA today.
Progressive states like New York and California are losing population in increasing numbers to states like Texas and Florida.
The thing that New York and California have in common is they're among the highest tax states in the country.
And they're also two of the most corrupt and poorly run states in the country.
Texas and Florida have in common, they have no income tax.
And both have very, very good, on the merits, governors who work on the problems that affect their citizens.
Florida, also, in comparison to New York, New York has two plus times the budget of Florida and two million less people.
And the reason for that extra 130 billion or whatever it is, is because New York steals more than Florida does.
I mean, some of it is inefficiency.
Some of it is cost of living, although cost of living in Palm Beach and Miami is pretty damn high.
And they have crooked politicians here in Florida.
They're just not all over the place and in every part of the state.
You can see what's going on with this whole insurance issue.
Hoko Poko wants to see if they can investigate and stop all this fraud that's going on with liability insurance because people in New York pay.
About 20% more than anybody else for liability insurance because the companies have to pay so much in New York.
And they know they're being cheated.
They know that the guy who claims he has a broken leg doesn't have a broken leg.
He just goes to a lawyer like this IFCAR law firm that's being prosecuted, all politically hung in with the Democratic Party.
And it works out easily because the judges that get put on the bench get put on the bench by the Democratic political bosses in the counties of New York and the Bronx and Queens and Brooklyn.
And then when one of the politically tied in personal liability lawyers wants a nice big settlement, the judge will get it for you.
He'll break the insurance companies back unless they give the favored law firm big money.
And the lawyers walk away with a third of it.
So, somebody gets a $10 million judgment, which in New York is nothing, right?
The lawyer walks away with $3 million, and that's a settlement.
They don't even go to trial.
Most of these guys wouldn't know how to go to trial.
Most of them are so shitty as lawyers, you can't believe it.
Whenever I see those advertisements on the side, you know, bring your injuries to me.
The other day we were driving along and I saw one.
I don't want to tell you where I saw it.
Lawyers Take Third of Funds00:02:54
It wasn't here in Florida, it was someplace else.
I said, what they really should say is, Somebody should put up a sign saying, you know, you can go to them if you're injured, but if you're not injured, come to me.
Because I'm the guy who gets you million dollar settlements when you're not injured.
I got doctors, I've got nurses, I got the judges in my pocket, like the Godfather did.
Now, not only are they shifting from blue states to red states to the point where the Brennan Center, which is, of course, very, very left wing, that's a name for justice.
Brennan, Justice Brennan was not a communist and a Marxist, but the people at the Brennan Center are.
And even they admit that Florida will probably pick up three seats and Texas will pick up four seats to the disadvantage of California and New York.
Now, that means we still got to get through 28, but these numbers should start to straighten out.
So the migration to Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Texas.
Has been very heavily plus and away from the blue states.
Now, not only are they moving out of the blue states, they're moving out of the blue cities and counties.
Of the 50 counties, listen to this, of the 50 counties with the biggest net gain of population, all but four voted for Trump in the past three elections.
So you have 46 counties that voted for Trump and only four counties that voted against Trump who had the biggest gain in population.
Now, you want to work it the other way around?
Of the 50 counties that lost the most population, all but five voted against Trump.
We keep hearing how unpopular Trump policies are, but millions of Americans would rather live among Trump supporters than those voting for Pamela.
Russia is.
You might be running again.
Russia is.
No, she isn't running, she stumbles.
Well, she might be stumbling again.
Again.
Well said.
So I told you before that Trump is, and now maybe this is a practical example so that you get it.
Trump is playing 10 card Monty.
And he's got another seven strategies to go.
Trump Policies and Russia00:07:53
He may or may not utilize them.
They're sitting in reserve, like in as a response to, are they going to shoot at us?
Are they going to shoot?
Are they going to try to attempt to break up or taking, in essence, the Strait of Hormuz away from them?
Now, they never had the Strait of Hormuz.
It doesn't belong to them.
They didn't build a canal there.
They didn't put any money into it.
What they did was, like pirates and gangsters, took it over and started charging people for going through it.
They're not going to be able to do that anymore.
Now let's see if they can defend themselves.
According to all the liberal newspapers, they won the war.
They should be able to destroy us.
I mean, those tankers that went through yesterday, I mean, the destroyers that went through the other day should have been blown up by this massive, victorious, asymmetrical victory from Iran.
Except we went through giving them a fair.
And all they do, they don't know what that is.
You know, they were just yelling Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar, and chanting death to America, death to Israel, and death to the MEK.
Um, so, um, one day Iran's got the straight of Hormuz, and everybody is saying they won the war because they have the world in a straitjacket.
Now they don't have it anymore.
And so far, to do that, he hasn't fired a shot, right?
Now, uh, that's a little deceptive, as I told you before.
Again, I'm so surprised at how bad the coverage of this war is.
But both the dishonesty of it and then just the plain, we just don't have war correspondence anymore.
What all of these make believe stations should be telling you now is there is a question as to whether, and look, they might be able to.
Number one, can they fire back from the shores of Iran?
Into the strait.
Do they have guns there anymore?
We have for 10 days been periodically with the Israelis hitting.
Now, want to look at the map?
10.
We've been hitting.
That's Iran.
Okay.
That's.
And there's the strait right here.
Okay.
Right here.
Now, right along here, actually, strangely, starting from about here, every day for the last 10 days, most of that has been covered with multiple bombing raids, both missiles, jets, and drones.
The exact number?
If it's not a thousand, I'd be shocked.
If it's not a thousand, I would be shocked.
Now, what was the reason for that?
Well, the reason for it that most people thought, because Trump didn't give away the blockade reason, although many people recommended it, that blockade was not as much of a surprise as you think.
I mean, many, many people said that that was one of the weapons he had available to him.
But in any event, most people attributed that to because if you go slightly further.
In that direction, you're going to get to Charge Island, right?
And this, by the way, is the Emirates.
But if you go there, you're going to get to Charge Island.
And where I drew that line along here, it goes all the way down there.
So a lot of people thought that that was being done so that we would clear out any possibility of there interrupting a landing.
Or attacking effectively a landing at Charge Island.
But of course, that should have been sort of modified by the fact that we were taking out the shore armaments 100 miles from Charge Island.
I mean, really, all the way, as I said, all the way along here, even down to here.
Because we wanted, and of course, this part is ours.
We wanted, obviously, this idea was on our mind for quite some time.
That we want, in order to effectively do this blockade, you got to make sure that they don't take your ships out of the water.
Now, even if they have something left, President Trump yesterday, and I have no reason to believe it's too far off.
Said that we have in that area, we have 158 ships.
And they range from multiple armed, lethal destroyers that could take out entire cities to much smaller vessels that are going to be used to clean out.
Particularly any of the mines that might have been put right in there or in here.
This is really the.
This is 20 miles.
This here is 20 miles.
Shall we look at this again, Ted?
I hope I'm not doing this to my husband.
This is 20 miles.
From here to here.
And really, effectively, this is even smaller, isn't it, Ted?
Right here.
Yep.
So, I mean, this is.
What is that landmass like?
Because that appears to almost be an island.
This is a peninsula.
This here is a peninsula, a little peninsula.
I think it's connected.
It looks like it's connected.
It could be an island.
It looks to me like it's connected.
It almost looks like they have a second little canal in there, waterway.
Yeah, let's open it up more.
No, it looks like it is.
I think there's a bridge there.
In there.
I'm talking about in there, right?
Yep.
But so let's check.
Let's check and see has there been any firing on the, as we're going along, has there been any firing on our ships?
Let's take a look.
Iran Signs Economic Death Warrant00:11:23
So as Miranda Devine in her excellent column today says, Iran thought they had the world over an oil barrel.
Turns out they signed their own economic death warrant.
The blockade is an inspired tactic pushed by Treasury Secretary Scott Pissent and former Green Beret turned U.N. Ambassador Mike Walls as the logical next step after the Chinese and Russians last week vetoed the U.N. Security Council resolution led by the Gulf States for international cooperation to open the Hormuz Strait.
With half the U.S. Navy positioned just outside the narrow strait, a teeny exaggeration, but Miranda's entitled to poetic license.
Everything is in place to stop the ships Tehran needs to serve the biggest customer, China, which buys about 90% of Iran's oil.
Hey, you've got economic problems now.
You're going to have economic problems next week, even worse.
You ain't getting your Iran oil.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Not gonna have them.
As an ebullient Trump told Fox News yesterday morning, the naval blockade, it's called all in and all out.
We think that numerous countries are going to be helping us with this also, but we're putting on a complete blockade.
We're not going to let Iran make money on selling oil to people that they like and not people that they don't like or whatever it is.
It's going to be all or none.
I predict they'd come back and give us everything they want.
I predict we're going to have to bomb them.
Trump's other masterstroke was sending the administration's biggest peacenik, Vice President JD Vance, to lead talks with Iran in Islamabad alongside Scott Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
So he could see for himself how deluded the Iranians are about the cards they hold.
And so the Iranians could see that there are no cracks in the administration's resolve.
21 hours of talks.
Vance called as many as a dozen times.
And he told the president the Iranians came in as if they're holding the cards and they're being very arrogant.
They have agreed to most everything, but they're unwilling to do anything on their nuclear ambition.
And that's the most important point for the president, for Vance, for Whitgoff, Kushner, for all of them.
Now, the Wall Street Journal. Of course, has this thing, an article that says that they control the Strait of Hormuz.
This is before the blockade was announced, but after we had sent two American destroyers through, arrogantly giving Iran the finger.
So, how can they control it when we can get our two destroyers through?
So, why does the Wall Street Journal write a headline like that?
Why do you want to make it look like Iran is winning a war?
Or whatever part this would be of the war.
Why do you want to write, Iran controls the Gulf of Hormuz?
And then in the same article, you say that two American destroyers were able to get through without anything happening.
Now, the reporters didn't write that.
The headline writer wrote it.
And his headline is contradicted by the fact that the reporters wrote that the two destroyers went through.
Now, if there's a distinction there that I'm missing, you have to explain that to me.
How can you say they controlled the Straits when America's destroyers went defiantly through on Saturday?
Now, of course, your article looks ridiculous because the blockade is ongoing and they can't do a damn thing about it.
I don't even know if they've attempted to.
She very, very presciently points out that Tom Friedman of the New York Times told CNN last week he very much wants to see Iran defeated militarily because this regime is a terrible regime for its people and the region.
You might as well say the world, too, Tom.
But listen to this imagine having such struggles.
What kind of an American you are.
So he says that the regime is horrible and should be destroyed.
Mm hmm.
But the problem is I really don't want to see Bibi Netanyahu or Donald Trump politically strengthened by this war because they are two awful human beings.
I can't point out all the things that are sick about that.
He shouldn't be writing for a newspaper anymore if he's that effed up, right?
Well, let's see what happens.
There's no question that this is a much bigger damage to Iran, even before the blockade than the United States.
But they can't take too much of this.
And I do think there was talk that he might do limited strikes.
I don't think so.
I think the next thing is Charge Island.
I think he's going to take it and he's really rendered them.
I think he wants to make sure that he's rendered them completely impotent.
Because if we can sail up and down that coast without there doing anything, first of all, we'll get a better chance to look more carefully at the product of our bombings.
And by the time we take Charge Island, there'll be no opposition, God willing, right?
Mm hmm.
The Iraqis are trying to help.
A good portion of Iraq is.
I mean, for a while, Iran was controlling Iraq.
It was part of its little empire.
Now it still has a lot of control there, and the president of Iraq goes back and forth getting pushed around by the United States and Iran.
So there was an attempt, a drone attack near Baghdad International Airport that attempted to kill.
An American hostage who had been released, Shelly Kittleson, who was a freelance journalist who was taken as a hostage by the Iraqi proxies for Iran.
And they released her.
Who knows what the threats were.
However, this terrorist group, what remains of whatever proxy groups they have in Iraq, Tried to kill her with a drone.
And the drone didn't hit the target, I gather.
It reveals the limited control that Baghdad has over militias.
I don't know.
I think you're making too much of that.
It's one attack that failed.
The idea that you're going to zero them out is kind of a little crazy.
You get them down to one attack every week.
That's a little different than one attack every week doesn't make them a world power.
Right.
Also, what Trump has done here, you know, Trump has really made tremendous strides in the attempt that China and Russia, in particular, but the BRIC countries that also strangely include India, we should get them the hell out of there.
They are trying very, very hard to, really, Russia and China, to get rid of the dollar as the world currency.
Now, one of the things that really Makes the dollar the world currency is that ultimately you do your oil trades in dollars.
So if you're doing your oil trade in trades and gas trades in dollars, which dominate the world economy so much, not just the world economy, the functioning of the world, and particularly now that we're moving into the supercomputer and we're going to need two to three times more energy than we have right now.
If you keep that trade in dollars, the dollar remains the currency of the world.
And Basically, all the people that now have been saying up until now that Iran won the war were saying that the dollar would no longer be the world currency, that the Russians were, and we could go through this at some point, you know, going to use the oil industry and the petrodollar and eventually the yuan to replace the dollar.
Good luck.
Right now, as he has pointed out, America has more oil and gas than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined.
America also controls Venezuela's oil now.
And right now, we are effectively in control of Iran's oil.
They can't get it out unless we let them out.
They're not going to get past that Navy.
Even if they do fire on it, whoever fires on it is going to be dispatched in 20 minutes.
If anything remained on those coasts, they're going to have to reveal them by shooting, right?
God forbid they kill someone.
We don't want that to happen.
But I mean, if they have arms there and they don't use them, so what?
It's just like the tree falling in a forest.
If they have so few there, they're afraid to use them because they'll be discovered and taken out.
They might as well not have them there.
So I think the next couple of days will be very, very interesting because the first couple of days of this blockade probably is not going to have.
A tremendous impact on their economy because they were making sales up until now, although reduced.
But at least they were functioning on that reduced level.
Waiting to Feel the Impact00:03:10
It's going to take a couple of days, if not a week, to really feel it.
And maybe even shorter than that because their economy is in such bad shape.
But they're not going to feel it today, tomorrow, and the next day.
And when they feel it, then there's going to be, if there's If there's any possibility that they have of getting our ships out of there, they're going to have to make some kind of an attempt to do that or some kind of symbolic attack on somebody that they hope is going to come to us and ask us to let up.
Let's see if they're capable of that.
I don't know.
I don't know if they're capable of that.
The president and the pope.
There we go.
This reminds you of.
This reminds you of the Dark Ages going into the Middle Ages and when the Holy Roman Emperor had to come and bow down in front of the Pope, or they put the Pope in prison and there were two popes in Avignon.
I don't know.
I don't know.
My comment is really simple.
Did Pope Leo XIV make any comment about the 36 Christians that were killed, slaughtered by followers of Muhammad and Allah?
In Nigeria, as the head of Catholicism and really the singular most important and best known Christian in the world.
Did he make any comment?
I'm looking for it.
Well, we're going to take a short break and I'm going to check that.
And I'm not, I mean, this is very difficult for not just a Roman Catholic.
I'm perfectly capable of disagreeing with the Pope and perfectly allowed to if it isn't a matter of faith and morals.
And he pronounces it ex cathedra.
And this is not even anywhere near there.
In fact, one questions whether a pope should be involved in these subjects or not.
Now, it does have to do with life and death.
And war, I would say, is a subject that fits into morality and religion as well as politics.
There is an overlap.
So obviously, he has a right to make the statement.
And I don't know that he's overstepping his bounds as a.
A Pope.
But as a Catholic on this issue, I'm entitled to disagree with him, as I disagreed with Pope Francis when he said there was no just war.
Sorry, Pope Francis, God bless you, you're gone, but I actually think St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas were somewhat better theologians than you were, or at least they have a little more world recognition, and they are very confident that you have to have a just war to carry out your obligation to innocent people to protect them.
But in any event, let's take a short break and we'll be right back.
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This is Rudy Giuliani back with the concluding part of America's Mayor Live.
We want you at 9 o'clock to go over to Lindell TV and listen to Dr. Maria, whose show starts at 9, and it's going to be really excellent tonight.
I think her shows are better when I'm on, but that's okay.
No, it's going to be an excellent show and it's going to follow up on a lot of the themes that we're talking about.
Augustine on Just War00:12:16
But let me conclude my thought about the Pope, Bishop Barron, and Donald J. Trump, President Donald J. Trump, three people that I admire very, very much.
So it's quite difficult for me to express my opinion about this.
And there's nothing personal about this.
Bishop Barron said that the president. should apologize to the Pope and then went about explaining all the good things the President has done for Christians and Christianity and how much he admires him and how much he appreciates President Trump.
And I thought that was very nice.
I mean, he tried to bridge the gap between the two of them.
I don't think anybody has to apologize to anybody.
The Pope did not speak In his authoritative way as Pope.
Every Catholic has every right to disagree with him on this if they want, if they do.
They have the right to make up their own conscience on this.
And I disagree with him.
I disagreed with his Easter sermon in which he stated things that conflict with the Christian and Catholic theology that I learned as a student, a four year student of theology in college.
This is directly contrary to the justification for war, first developed, but really first developed by fathers of the church who didn't really put it in as organized a way, but eventually developed by St. Augustine of Hippo, who was the bishop in Africa and the great saint of the church, great saint of Christianity.
He's a saint recognized in all of the Protestant churches as well because his theology is the background of.
Of Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, and Protestantism.
Nobody broke with Augustine when they broke with the Catholic Church.
So, Augustine's view is that if it is, I'll simplify it, if it in essence is legitimate self defense, and here we have a country that has committed serial atrocities against us, against many, many innocent people.
And has kind of engaged in a mini genocide of their own people.
And it's a religion that is dedicated to wiping out the adherents of your religion, which Roman Catholic hierarchy doesn't seem to recognize.
They have an awfully friendly relationship with a religion that wants to destroy them.
At least I see it that way.
So the Pope on.
On Palm Sunday, he delivered a homily rejecting the idea that God justifies war.
He recognized Jesus as the King of Peace and stated that God does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war.
He prayed especially for Christians in the Middle East suffering from conflict, but made no mention of Nigeria or the reported Palm Sunday attack in Plateau State, where gunmen killed between 11 and 28 people.
In a Christian community.
Also, we should point out they specifically attacked two churches.
Now, Easter of 2020, in his Easter address, Pope Leo renewed calls for peace and condemned violence while expressing concern over indifference to ongoing conflicts.
He made no mention of the Nigerian attacks on Easter Sunday or the prior attacks on Palm Sunday.
Now, he has in the past, in 2025 and in February of 2026, Spoken out against the persecution of Christians in Nigeria and massacres in states like Banu.
Banu is one of the places where the attacks took place on Easter Sunday.
I'm not sure if it was Easter Sunday or Palm Sunday.
But he has never addressed the killing now of about 36 Christians on Easter Sunday and Palm Sunday.
Nor has he done anything to give them any kind of additional protection.
The churches there were seeking that.
And the Nigerian church, I'm talking about the Catholic church now, the Protestant church also.
The Nigerian church and local leaders expressed alarm and called for additional protection and investigation.
But the Vatican did not seem to address itself to that.
Well, I don't know.
Maybe that should come first, and then he should.
Express his opinion on Trump.
Or, as I recommended on X, he can have his opinion on Trump about these wars, but he should give him the medal for defender of the faith, like a prior pope gave to Henry VIII when he defended him against Luther.
So far, the only one who's really stood up to defend us, us Christians in Nigeria, is Donald Trump.
The pope of the church did in the past do it.
But not on Easter Sunday and Palm Sunday.
It's like they don't want to rile up the Muslims who want to kill them.
Or it's a little like letting China have something to say about the appointment of bishops.
I hope we've stopped that.
The secretary of state that the Pope has was the person who did that.
How you can have communists have a say or any government official in the naming of a bishop?
I mean, what the heck is this?
And not just a government, an atheistic, homicidal government.
Probably the only government in the world that's killed more of its own people than Iran.
But they seem to have a soft spot.
Go heavy on Trump, but leave the Iranians alone, who would slaughter us in a second and are.
Have any idea how many Christians they've killed?
You don't think they've given money to the African terrorist groups?
That are slaughtering Christians all over Africa.
If you didn't have a Muslim religion, you wouldn't have wars in Africa, or you'd have maybe 80% less.
And Africa would much more easily be able to move on.
I mean, they never accomplished in Africa what they accomplished in Persia, because they weren't able to do a complete genocide of the religions in Africa.
In Persia, the Muslims did do a complete genocide, they got rid of the Zoroastrians.
Well, we're going to pray to God who is on top of all of us.
Certainly me.
Bishop Barron, who I admire, I think maybe as much or more than any prelate in the United States.
I think the man is brilliant and I think he's kind and generous and right about almost everything.
And he's probably for himself right about this.
I just think that, you know.
It's like when I was mayor of New York and I kissed the ring of the Pope, I did not bow.
When I was a layman, I did.
An American official doesn't bow to anybody.
And the person who really understands the best interests of this country is not the Pope, it's the President.
The Pope spent most of his time in South America, and although he isn't anywhere near as bad as Pope Francis, He does appear to have been somewhat affected by the liberation theology.
And I think his position on this war, particularly given the terrorist nature of Iran, is really naive and not at all even moral.
To allow them to control the war, just think of all the people they kill.
We're just going to allow them to continue to do it.
Think of what they do to women.
And think about the fact that when they attack, they rape.
Muhammad taught him to do that.
Well, okay.
You go over to right now, go over to Lindell TV, pray later tonight before you go to bed.
Pray for the people of Iran, pray for the people of Israel, pray for the people of Ukraine.
Please pray for us.
Pray for our president.
Pray for the Pope so he can be a little more open minded about these things.
It would be nice.
Only you can affect him.
I can't.
And pray for Bishop Barron because he's a gem.
And yeah, I can disagree with him and still admire him immensely.
See you tomorrow night.
Be a lot to talk about.
Who knows what's going to happen?
These are very sensitive days with this blockade going on.
And what Iran does is going to tell us a lot about what they have left.
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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.
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.
But a great deal of the reason for America's constant ability to self-improve is because we're able to reason.