Dave Rubin opens the July 1, 2025 episode by analyzing Donald Trump's response to Elon Musk's threats regarding the $5 trillion debt ceiling and the "Big Beautiful Bill." The discussion critiques Zohran Mamdani's socialist platform and connects his rhetoric to Yuri Bezmenov's destabilization strategies, while contrasting Mayor Eric Adams' past sanctuary city support with current political maneuvering. Rubin highlights how Trump's tariff threats forced Canada to drop digital taxes and notes $121 billion in U.S. tariff revenues driving record markets, ultimately urging Trump to ignore critics like Bill Maher and embrace support from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. [Automatically generated summary]
All right, all right, before we begin today, before I say my name, title of the show, date, you don't know what day it is.
You have no idea what's going on until I say the date.
We have to explain what that cold open was about because I know some of you are probably not on the internet 24 hours a day.
You know what I mean?
You're out there.
You see sun, you touch the grass, et cetera, et cetera.
So that pink, what looked like a sort of diseased phallic-shaped thing that Tim Walls was just holding right there is actually a new art installation in New York.
Look at this thing.
It sprays when you walk by.
It's supposed to be like a diseased foot.
You can decide what you think it actually looks like.
But this is apparently modern art in New York City.
May God help us all.
As if the angry black woman, that was the fat, angry black woman in Times Square who was staring down all the tourists wasn't bad enough.
Leftism, progressivism, it just destroys everything, including art.
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And let's dive into it because there's a lot going on in the world right now.
The Elon versus Trump fight is back.
The 2.0 version of this thing is back.
Obviously, we have a whole bunch on the disaster that is seemingly out of control in New York City or the upcoming disaster, I should say.
And then we'll get into some of the positive things that Donald Trump is doing.
But let's just dive right into it because the Elon Trump thing, which, you know, I was away.
We were on the way back from Israel when that whole Elon Trump thing broke out a couple weeks ago.
So I had 10 hours flying over the Atlantic with no internet.
I didn't really know about it, which I'm kind of happy about because I largely tried.
I was like, either way, I would have tried to have waited it out a little bit.
And then calmer heads did prevail.
Elon deleted some tweets.
They seem to have got there.
But now there's a little gasoline on those embers because the big, beautiful bill is back.
Elon obviously doesn't like it because even though he likes the Doge cuts and likes the tax cuts and things like that, he does not like the amount of spending in the bill.
And this is a position that he has held openly and honestly the entire time.
Donald Trump has a different position.
And what I'm going to try to do today is make kind of arguments for both of them and see if these two guys who I'm sure are watching the show right now going, Dave is the only person that can solve this.
Let's see if we can pull this thing together so we can keep that wide tent afloat.
This is from Elon Musk on X. Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame.
And they will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this earth.
I'm going to read you a couple more from him, but just to be real clear on this thing, as I think you know, you're getting a lot of cuts.
There's a lot of spending cuts.
There's a lot of tax cuts across the board.
That is all good.
I think if you're watching this show, you're on board.
All of that.
Most of us will keep more of our money.
The government cut a lot of programs.
All good.
The issue is the spending on top of that, because it's not just about letting you keep more of your money, which is your, you know, should be the first thing the government should be doing is, hey, how can we keep as much money in the people's pockets as possible?
But then there is spending, a massive amount of spending.
Much of it, about $60 billion on the wall, and then other programs.
So a bit more from Elon.
If this insane spending bill passes, the America Party will be formed the next day.
Our country needs an alternative to the Democrat-Republican Uniparty so that the people can actually have a voice.
And let's keep going because he was on its air.
It is obvious with the insane spending of this bill, which increases the debt ceiling by a record $5 trillion, that we live in a one-party country, the Porky Pig Party.
Time for a new political party that actually cares about the people.
How can you call yourself the Freedom Caucus if you vote for a debt slavery bill with the biggest debt ceiling increase in history?
And a bit more here.
This one, he included a graph.
When are they going to flatten this curve and what you are looking at there in a rather hockey stick-like motion?
When you're building a company, you want hockey stick-like growth, meaning, you know, you want that sort of slow part at the beginning and then this real burst up.
That's what makes it look like a hockey stick.
What you don't want is when it comes to, say, increasing the debt, a hockey stick like that.
But that is what we have here.
Okay, so that's Elon's position on all of this.
I think it's fair to say that's completely consistent with everything he has said all along.
And now here's Donald Trump on Truth Social.
Elon Musk knew long before he strongly endorsed me for president that I was strongly against the EV mandate.
It is ridiculous and was always a major part of my campaign.
Electric cars are fine, but not everyone should be forced to own one.
Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history by far, and without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa.
No more rocket launches, satellites, or electric car production, and our country would save a fortune.
Perhaps we should have Doge take a good hard look at this.
Big money to be saved.
I would like everyone to calm down for a moment.
I'm talking to Elon and to President Trump for just a second, because...
Those of us watching, you, me, these guys in this room, we all want to keep more of our money.
Most Americans, I think, at this point realize the government has become a giant slush fund.
We saw all the USAID stuff.
We saw all the Doge stuff.
So we're going to give credit to Elon on that part.
Now, Trump is responding to him on the EV mandate, which Elon's moving.
So he's basically arguing Elon's pissed because we're removing this EV tax rebate, basically, which means that less people will buy electric cars.
Obviously, Elon wants people to buy electric cars because of Tesla.
Like, is it that?
Could we whittle it down just to that, that that's what Elon's going for here?
I don't know.
We'd have to decide.
But then to argue about taking away some of the other subsidies and things.
Look, we can have a conversation about government subsidies and who should get tax breaks and what should the government do when it comes to helping businesses build and everything else.
But the things that Elon's doing, interplanetary travel, I don't know, catching the rockets, saving astronauts who were stuck at the International Space Station, et cetera, et cetera, these are all good things.
So I really, really want this fight to resolve itself.
As I said the first time around, I think in this case, it's kind of good what we're seeing on the right.
We're seeing a lot of forward-facing fights on the right, right?
Whether it was thermonuclear World War III from Tucker versus, say, some of the things that I was saying about Iran or whatever else.
We're seeing fights in front of our eyes, as opposed to what the Democrats have done for years with an autopen and a cadre of people that were covering up for a guy with dementia and who installed a woman based on DEI to be the next president and all of those things.
So there is something healthy here, but clearly there's a lot of tension along with that.
Throw to this tweet now.
This is Thomas Massey is now going to get, appears to be getting the endorsement from Elon Musk.
So Thomas Massey, congressman from Kentucky, I've had him on the show many, many times.
He is, you know, I always say Rand Paul is the most libertarian member of the Senate, and he voted against the Big Beautiful Bill.
Thomas Massey, I would say, is the most libertarian member of Congress.
He's not happy with it either.
And here's Elon Musk saying that he will throw money towards Thomas Massey's reelection campaign, which Donald Trump is now basically openly courting people to run against Massey.
Now, the strange thing about all of this is politics, politics makes strange bedfellows, right?
You have people that you're fighting with one day that you're best friends with the next day.
And then the day after that, you're backstabbing them and everything else.
And Trump really, there's probably nobody in the history, maybe literally in the history of the world, who has done a better job at taking his pure enemies and bringing them into the fold.
You look at somebody like Marco Rubio, who he ran against, and it was Lil Marco.
You look like somebody like Ted Cruz and it was Lion Ted.
You look at some of his fights with Rand Paul.
The list goes on and on, the people that he has now brought in.
Somebody like Tulsi Gabbard, who was saying terrible things about Donald Trump years ago, who's now his director of national intelligence.
So he is a master at this.
But now I want to show you another version of it, because as this little fight between Elon and Trump happens, you can see how the Democrats really want to drive a wedge between the two of them.
What I'm trying to do here is say, hey, you both got good points.
Do we want more tax cuts?
Yes.
Do we want a wall?
Yes.
Do we want the debt ceiling increase and then increasing with $5 trillion of debt?
Probably not.
Is there a way to work some of this out?
I hope so.
Does everybody do the debt ceiling increase?
Did the Democrats do it right before the election?
Yes.
All of that's fine.
But we're all roughly on the same side here, which is, I would say, on Team America here.
The Democrats, though, desperately want the Elon Trump thing to blow up.
And watch this interview with fake Indian Elizabeth Warren.
Suddenly, she cares about government spending.
This is a woman who has never taxed someone too much, who loves every big government program, who has never done anything to cut the debt or anything else.
They love printing money.
Suddenly, because she sees a little daylight between Trump and Elon, she's on Team Elon.
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Did you ever think that you and Elon Musk would find yourself on the same side advocating against a bill?
The idea of borrowing $3.5 trillion on the nation's credit card in order to be able to give tax breaks to the likes of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg is financially nuts.
First off, what she's doing is like the most cynical political thing.
Weeks ago, she's calling Elon basically a Nazi and encouraging people to burn down his Tesla charging stations.
Now she sees a political expediency in it, so she's going to be all about him so she can turn it against Trump, who is her true enemy here.
Also, it's just dishonest.
Look, tax cuts.
Again, I'm for tax cuts.
I want you, every single person watching this, to keep more of what you earn.
It's not my money and it's not the government's money.
It's your money, right?
So that's number one.
But the idea that the tax, what Donald Trump really wants here is tax cuts for billionaires so that he can then increase, so that he can, in Essence, just increase the debt, right?
Because he just wants to spend and spend and spend.
You may not like some of the spending in there, but allowing people to keep more of their money is just good.
She has never cared about any of this stuff.
There's never been a time when the Democrats were like, oh, the debt is a problem, or we're taxing people too much, or whatever else.
So it's just completely, completely fraudulent.
But now I will also show you that there are some serious problems with this bill outside of what Elon is talking about.
Elon's talking about it purely on the spending side, right?
He likes all of the cuts.
He doesn't like the extra spending.
That's what leads to the debt.
But then yesterday, this is crazy.
I mean, this just shows you how broken the Senate is.
The Senate actually rejected the provision in the big, beautiful bill to kick illegals off Medicaid.
Okay, so they somehow, the Senate could not figure out a way to make sure that illegals would be kicked off Medicare.
Like, think about that.
You're here.
I know they don't get it, but if you're here illegally, you shouldn't get the benefits of being an American because that means they take your dollars as a legal American and give it to somebody else.
But they couldn't even get that.
Joseph just crunched some numbers on me for me here.
So in June of, what do you say of June of 20?
In June of 23, so Joe Biden was president, they in essence increased the debt ceiling $4.7 trillion.
Do you think Elizabeth Warren had a problem with it then?
She's talking about 3.5 now.
So when her people are in power, when the Democrats are in power, she doesn't care how much more debt we get into or anything else.
Now she sees a wedge and she's going to take the hammer and hit that wedge so that Elon and Trump go their separate ways.
My hope is that they will realize what's going on here.
And as they buried the hatchet once, I think they will bury the hatchet a second time.
We shall see.
Now, I want to throw to this video, you know, we've shown you portions of this video probably, I don't know, maybe a dozen times over the years.
There was a former KGB agent defector by the name of Yuri Besminov, who, I think in the early 80s, basically started explaining how authoritarian systems are installed in free societies.
And what he talks about are there are phases of it.
You don't just do it overnight, but you demoralize first, you destabilize, then you have a crisis, and then you normalize.
So I want to show you about a minute and a half of one of his talks because I want to now connect why it is so important that we don't let fights between Elon and Trump and this new wide tent MAGA thing, why we don't let it break everything, because what they are trying to usher in on the other side is exactly what's going on in New York City right now.
Okay, there's a lot more of that, and we're going to keep showing it to you, but I want to go through that and sort of connect it to where we are at right now.
Think about what we've been dealing with in America for just, say, the last decade.
Well, first off, the left came in with all of this America is fundamentally evil, right?
We're a colonial settler state.
Our founding was based on slavery.
They took generations through public education and they told them that we are bad, right?
That might be called demoralization.
That's number one.
Then they destabilize.
Well, I think we have a lot of evidence of destabilization over the last couple of years with BLM and Antifa and Hamas on the streets and just everything feels chaotic.
And if you live in a city, you never know if your city's functioning that day or not, or they can take over the streets, et cetera, et cetera.
Then crisis, well, right now we're sort of in between crisis moment, whether it's that they're going to get much more violent.
I mean, they have been violent, but do they decide to give us another summer of love and create enough crisis out there, enough feeling of crisis, that then you get normalization, that then the new heroes come in, and it's only they who can save you.
And of course, that's big government.
And rarely does big government, I would argue probably never, does big government actually save you.
So now we will connect all of this to the lunacy that is happening in New York City.
As you know, this guy, Zorhan Manbdani, is the Democrat nominee to be mayor of the once greatest city on the face of the earth.
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Okay, so via a KGB agent, we just explained a little bit of how it slowly happens.
Things happen kind of slowly and then they happen very quickly.
Well, New York City might be veering into when the bad stuff happens very quickly via a guy named Zorhan Mamdani, who is a full-on admitted socialist.
I would say he's also a communist and a Marxist, but don't take my word for it.
What the purpose is about this entire project, it's not simply to raise class consciousness, but to win socialism.
And obviously, raising class consciousness is a critical part of that.
But making sure that we have candidates that both understand that and are willing to put that forward at every which moment that they have, at every which opportunity that they are given.
We have to continue to elect more socialists.
And we have to ensure that we are unapologetic about our socialism.
There are also other issues that we firmly believe in, whether it's BDS, right, or whether it's the end goal of seizing the means of production.
And with every battle that we fight as socialists, we need to remember what the stakes are and ground ourselves in them and why those stakes are important and critical to us as individuals.
Guys, you have to give this guy credit in that he's not hiding it.
They usually are better about hiding it.
He's telling you, I'm a socialist.
We need to elect more socialists.
And by the way, what do socialists do?
Well, socialists get in legally via elections, and then they usually cancel elections.
He hasn't gotten to that part yet.
But then, of course, he somehow combines running for New York City mayor to BDS, boycott, divest, sanction Israel, because the key thing of being a progressive is you have to hate the freest country in the Middle East more than anything else.
And then he wants to seize the mean of productions.
Is there a guy with a long beard who used to say, yeah, that's Karl Marx.
We're seizing the means of production.
And of course, it does actually come with a gun because you're going to have to kill a lot of people to get them to behave in your socialist fairy tale.
I believe this is AI.
I can't swear to anything, but Joseph put together a little eight-second video about what the future of New York City could look like.
They don't need, you know, in all the old sci-fi movies, you'd have to reanimate the dead Karl Marx to have him take over, but now you just have to bring in sort of an Islamist communist lunatic like Zorham Mamdani.
Now, if you want to see how radical this guy is, and they just, the Democrats just don't know how to stop him, listen to this.
On his website from his own platform, the administration will shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods.
Connor, I think we have the image on this one, right?
The property tax system is unbalanced because assessment levels are artificially capped.
So homeowners in expensive neighborhoods pay less than their fair share.
The mayor can fix this by pushing class assessment percentages down for everyone and adjusting rates up, effectively lowering tax payments for homeowners in neighborhoods like Jamaica and Brownsville, while raising the amount paid in the most expensive Brooklyn brownstones.
Advocate for the inclusion of circuit breakers to ensure that low and moderate income homeowners, like many of our seniors living in gentrified neighborhoods, are not cost burdened by the changes.
Stop treating co-ops and condos as if they were rentals.
The Momdani administration will work with lawmakers to abolish real property tax law section 581, which compares condos and co-ops to rental properties and creates arbitrary Phoenix, you're going too fast for me there, and creates arbitrary and inequitable tax burdens on moderate and low-income owners.
Let's focus on that thing about they're going to tax outer boroughs to expensive homes in richer and wider neighborhoods.
I think I've said it seven times on this very show.
I want you to keep as much of your money as possible.
I want lowest taxes for everybody.
I want a slim and trim government to whatever extent we have to have a government.
He wants the complete reverse of that on top of what you would then call cultural Marxism because he also adds race on top of it.
So you might say, okay, he's just a socialist or a communist.
This is all based on economics.
I don't agree with this, but the argument would be something like, well, he's a socialist and a socialist does want to take from those who create and have more and just redistribute it.
And then you have more equity in the system.
It's a horrible idea, but that would be their basic argument.
What a cultural Marxist does is take that idea, but then also attach it to race or gender or sexuality, et cetera, et cetera.
This is what wokeism is.
So he's not just saying, oh, these rich people over there in those boroughs.
He's saying those white rich people.
And guess what will happen if you eventually start taxing white people more?
They will become racist.
Kind of like the Indian kid or the Asian kid who doesn't get into Harvard anymore because you wanted more black kids in there.
You say to him, oh, the system is rigged against you.
And eventually he will start being a little racist.
So everything that these people purport to want to do to get us to the era utopia will only lead us to dystopia.
But again, I do give the guy credit because he's not hiding the evil nature of what he is.
Here he is blaming capitalism for why New York City doesn't have enough renewable energies.
So he's now an eco-socialist too, whatever the high hell that means.
Wasn't there a cartoon, Captain Planet or something?
Was he fighting eco-socialists when we were kids?
Yes, yes, you're right.
They don't have renewable energy, enough renewable energy in New York because of capitalism.
The ability for people to build things and trade freely with each other without an over-incumbent government grabbing everything from them and forcing them into relationships.
That's what's stopping green power.
Again, this is very much like an AOC Green New Deal thing.
We're going to end things that work to usher in our utopian fantasy.
But it gets even worse with this guy.
Here he is talking about how the state will buy up private housing and convert it into, it sounds very lovely, community ownership.
Further toward the Vienna model, we'll have to go beyond the market.
We can establish community land trusts to gradually buy up housing on the private market and convert it to community ownership.
We can give tenants a right of first refusal to buy out their landlords when buildings go up for sale.
And we can fully commit to a new era of social housing, ending subsidies for luxury housing development and using our wealth to build beautiful, high-quality social housing projects that offer good homes and strong communities to everyone.
We won't decommodify housing overnight, but we know what we have to do and we have history to guide us.
Listen, I just want to be really clear with this guy.
He is evil.
Everything that he is saying is evil.
Yes, I get it.
He smiles when he's saying it and he talks like this and they use fancy graphics and his mom was a Hollywood producer and he also went to a $60,000 a year school and da-da-da-da-da.
So this is very well trained and rehearsed and recited and all of those things.
And because the public education system has been so evil for so long, an awful lot of young people are going to hear all of those things and be like, oh my God, I would love that.
There'll be no more luxury housing and they're going to buy it and they're going to give us housing and it'll be really nice.
And I'll stand outside with a watering pot and I'm going to water my flowers and the government won't it be wonderful?
So we are up against something that is real.
Again, this is the alien.
You have to respect what it is doing as evil as it is.
But what do you think is going to happen in New York City over time?
Do you think people who are industrious, who are on the front edge of innovation, who want to build new things and who want competition because competition is what breeds greatness, do you think they're going to take their projects to New York anymore?
Do you think there's literally anyone, anyone other than one of his like socialist Patsy buddies who will get a great government contract to build a very average building?
Do you think there's a great builder out there anywhere that's like, boy, I really want to start building in New York City right now?
And particularly would you want to do it if you were, say, white?
Would you want to do it?
Because you know, that's not going to be good for you either.
So this guy is, he is the new face of woke.
As I said on the show yesterday, we defeated wokeism in many ways, but they've now figured out how to usher it in here.
And I will reiterate something I said on the show yesterday because I have not heard anyone else say it.
But my guess is if he wins, they have a good year because they will shut off all of the rioters because they control them and they will fake it for about a year so that in other cities like Portland and Seattle and all the other wackadoodle blue cities, they'll be like, see, it's working in New York.
And by the way, it might work for a little while.
It can artificially be floated for a little while until over time, because people are individuals, they start realizing, boy, I have no skin in the game because the government controls everything.
And oh, could this start leading to a social credit score?
And suddenly I said something bad about non-dami or said something that was politically incorrect.
And I go into a government grocery store and I keep swiping my shit and it ain't working.
That is what is coming here.
Like that is the thing.
That's not Alex Jones' craziness.
That is fairly obvious if you just watch the movie that is being laid out in front of us.
And by the way, now the Democrats, because there are no sane people left and because it is just a clown car and because they never knew when to say too far is too far and let's just keep progressing off the off the cliff, they don't have anyone to stop him.
So here is Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, who five years ago I would say was like a sort of do-nothing Democrat moderate.
And now here he is basically saying we need more Mom Danny's.
There are certain things that he stands for and says that I don't agree with, but I think you have to pay attention to the fact that you had a candidate in New York City that was talking every single day about the cost of living.
And he was proposing really big, sometimes radical ideas to take power from folks who have way too much of it, like the big realty companies that are jacking up rents in New York City and transferring it to regular people.
He did have a laser-like focus on cost of living, on shifting power to people who don't have enough of it.
And I think if the Democratic Party writ large spent as much time or as big a percentage of our communications time talking about the cost of living as Mom Dami did in New York, we'd probably win a lot more elections.
Like there's no way to sugarcoat what's happening here with the Democrat Party.
It is here.
That guy, again, who was just like a nothing Democrat a few years ago, he's basically fully endorsing socialism.
He was talking about cost of living.
And we want to take away the power from the big realty companies.
Think about it, guys.
If you're in New York City or you're in any city and someone starts building buildings, right?
Now, would we all like rent to generally be cheaper?
I rented for many years, but I always have liked it to be a little bit cheaper.
Yeah, of course you do.
But what you want, the way rent gets cheaper is you create the economic conditions on the ground so that more and more people start moving to your city.
So more and more dollars are being spent so that more people build and then more housing comes in and everything else.
And that competition causes prices to go down.
This is basic economic stuff that everyone learns if you understand that capitalism is the best of a bunch of probably bad systems, but capitalism is probably pretty great.
What they're trying to do is the reverse of that.
Do you think any realtor gets into, he's like, yes, I'm going to build a building and I'm going to charge rents that are so high that nobody will be able to afford it.
That would make a hell of a lot of sense.
Then you're just going to have a building that nobody lives in, right?
But what they want to do is basically make sure that nobody will build anything because the government's going to control everything.
And then, how long will that work when you're living in your little community that nobody really has any movement before you start getting jealous of somebody else, right?
Because, of course, you always will.
And now, to his real radicalness, because if you think the economic stuff is obviously really radical, but I think one without any daylight, I think this guy is actually being installed because he wants to destroy the United States of America.
And one of the ways he is trying to do that is the reason that he keeps talking as the New York City mayor, which has the highest percentage of Jewish people in the United States, of any city, he is obsessively focused on Israel and wants to destroy Israel and wants to globalize the intifada.
So here he is being asked if he will condemn the phrase globalize the intifada.
Do you condemn that phrase, globalize the intifada?
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That's not language that I use.
The language that I use and the language that I will continue to use to lead this city is that which speaks clearly to my intent, which is an intent grounded in a belief in universal human rights.
I found him to be incredibly savvy, actually, in how he answered that, Caddy, both for the reasons you said, but also because of clearly who he's talking to.
He's trying to build a coalition, to use that word, a cohesiveness on the left.
And he knows that the people he's trying to persuade that, look, I'm not your typical candidate, is in fact a population of people that do not see the ideological, or in this case, the verbal, the rhetorical purity test in the same way that I think people who understandably, by the way, just wanted to condemn it.
I understand that completely, but Molly, he is playing a bit of chess here.
And I think the larger move, the larger metaphor here is that he's seeing what Donald Trump has promised, right?
Freedom of speech and populism.
And he's saying, I'm going to actually use those weapons against the right.
That's the opportunity here, right?
Collective self-interest rooted in the 99%.
And that's why he's refusing to fall into these traps that he knows are going to end in one particular direction.
This guy mayor, it's going to decline even more from that.
You know, I mean, we've paid, I'm going to talk about with this budget.
We'll have paid off almost half of Florida's debt over 180 years just since I've been governor.
But, you know, I could probably extinguish the other half if I just charge an entry tax from all the New Yorkers that are going to flee this guy, especially those rich people.
And Brian Griffin, who's DeSantis is comms guy, he commented on my tweet.
So I'm glad that made it up over there.
And it's kind of a joke.
And yes, could it be great, DeSantis, in basically six years of being governor, that he has eliminated half of the state's debt here?
Because we actually believe in economics here.
And Florida is now first in education, and Florida is first in economic growth, and all of these things that we now know about, right?
And we don't let protesters take over the streets and all of those things.
But do we want these people here?
Look, there might be, there probably are actually constitutional issues about an entry tax because of interstate commerce and things of that nature.
But I really do think they should look into it.
At this point, or maybe if you're a registered Republican fleeing to a red state, you don't have to pay it.
But if you're a registered Democrat or something, I don't know exactly how they do it.
Like I'm literally just doing a thought experiment with you guys.
But if you are someone fleeing a place that did everything wrong, then maybe you should have a little more skin in the game.
And I say that as someone that came here three years ago and I would have.
I really would have.
I think I was making jokes about it years ago that I would pay to get in.
Like, how about, okay, your first year income is, you get an extra 1% comes out.
We don't have state income tax, but we'll take 1% and it goes directly to Florida state infrastructure or it goes directly to policing or something like that.
Where in this state, I would believe in some level of taxation because we will do proper things with it, right?
Not that I like taxation as a general means of making things happen.
But otherwise, what we're going to get is all of the people who ushered in all of this nonsense and then nonsense.
And then finally, at zero hour, right when all hell was about to break loose, they come here and then they ruin this place too.
And just ask the people of Colorado about that, ask the people of Utah about that, and ask the people of Montana about that as the Californians have spread across the country.
So we're going to have to start thinking about these things.
We'll have more on the guy that apparently is the great white, although not white, hope, to stop Mom Donnie.
That's Eric Adams.
We'll have more on him in a second.
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All right.
So look, impending disaster in New York.
Florida is getting stronger and stronger.
Actually, by the way, right now, I think it just happened.
I think Trump and DeSantis are at Alligator Alcatraz.
If there's anything we can get on that, that maybe we can throw in video.
If there's anything that they've put up already, that would be great there.
And if not, we'll cover it tomorrow, obviously.
But the great white hope to stop the full-on explosion of Marxism and communism and socialism in New York is Eric Adams.
Eric Adams, a man who has been a pretty terrible mayor, a man who's been all for Sanctuary City, who's allowed the criminality and all of the stuff, who's, yes, he's gotten a little bit better, at least in messaging over the last couple of weeks.
And now you can see a whole bunch of people are suddenly Eric Adams supporters because they're like, oh my God, we're on the gates of hell are about to open on us.
Eric Adams went on Fox, was asked if he would seek Trump's support.
Martha said yes or no, and he wouldn't just say yes.
Now, I get it.
He's a politician first, which is why he's not that great.
So he won't say yes because he knows if he says yes, well, there's a certain amount of New Yorkers that have Trump derangement syndrome.
And this is the fucking bananas hellhole that you people have all created.
You have a guy who's the moderate now who's not great.
And he knows that in reality, in like put aside electoral reality, like what's going to get you elected?
Like what would be the best thing to happen for New York?
It would be someone who has Trump's backing, who is a sane person, blah, blah, blah.
But he's afraid to say that, even though he knows he wants the Trump supporters, right?
Because he knows that a certain amount of them have Trump derangement syndrome.
And that has just put such a stank on what is going on in New York City.
Now, I want to show you some headlines from the New York Times and New York City Gov. Look at this.
So after meeting with Trump's Borders Are, Adams opens Rikers to ICE agents.
So that's, again, that's good Eric Adams.
But again, how good is he?
Well, he's a guy that made it to Sanctuary City in the first place.
And here's another one.
Mayor Adams announces removal of over 100,000 illegal vehicles from city streets since start of administration, improving quality of life for all New Yorkers.
That was a couple weeks ago.
That's great to see, but why didn't you do that years ago?
So suddenly, again, just as they're looking at the black hole, they're like, oh, well, we don't know what's on the other side of that, or we do.
And it's Marxism and we better not do it.
So is he the hope?
I don't know.
We just thought we throw this wind because when you think of Eric Adams, it's hard not to think of this video.
This is from 14 years ago.
This is Eric Adams doing a little public service announcement about what parents should watch out for because, you know, these kids are always up to no good.
The fact that this is not, well, it's parody, but the fact that it's not parody is extraordinary enjoy.
A jury box of this nature, maybe a simple jury box, but if you look through it closely, you don't know what your child may be hiding.
For instance, a gun.
Look at picture frames and behind them, cameras.
Try to determine what's taking place.
Behind a picture frame, you can find bullets.
You should always, when your child bring in his popular knapsack with many different locations, look through it to see what exactly is your child carrying in addition to a book.
Something simple as a crackpipe.
Something simple as a baby doll.
could be just a baby doll, but also it could be a place where you can secrete or hide drugs.
Run your hands over the pillows and see if you feel anything that's unusual.
Like a pillow like this with a button is a perfect invitation to hide something.
It was always illegal to cross the border illegally.
Border crossings are low because Trump sent out a signal to the world and said, don't come here.
And then they started sending troops there and they started monitoring the border.
You people are awful.
And since DeSantis is clearly listening to some of my messaging here, how about we ban Chris Murphy from ever vacationing in the state?
Sorry, buddy, you'll have to stick with Connecticut's Long Island Sound.
Good luck up there.
The beach ain't bad, but okay, bye.
Interestingly, CNN, which is not a news organization, it's a Democrat, I would say a Democrat media operation, basically.
They were promoting an app that, I mean, this is crazy that this is true.
CNN was promoting an app that shows location of ICE agents.
Caroline Levitt was asked about that.
unidentified
Thanks, Caroline.
I just watched a CNN segment on a new app called Ice Block, and it kind of appeared to be promoting this app where you can tell people where ICE agents are.
Given the recent rise of an app that tells people where ICE agents are?
unidentified
Yes.
And given the rise, I believe a 500% increase in assaults on ICE agents, I want to see if you could comment on that and why CNN would be promoting such an app.
I'll have to go back and watch the clip myself, but surely it sounds like this would be an incitement of further violence against our ICE officers.
As you know, as you stated, there's been a 500% increase in violence against ICE agents, law enforcement officers across the country who are just simply trying to do their jobs and remove public safety threats from our communities.
And that's something we as Americans, including journalists at CNN who live in many of these cities where illegal aliens are hiding and were let in from the previous administration, should be very grateful for.
So we haven't seen the clip.
We'll take a look at it.
But certainly it's unacceptable that a major network would promote such an app that is encouraging violence against law enforcement officers who are trying to keep our country safe.
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Okay, so you know, we had the whole brouhaha as it relates to Donald Trump's tariffs and trying to get some of these trade deals to fall into place.
And as I said all along, it was a loose quote off something that David Sach said.
We have to just wait to see where the trade deals land.
Well, Canada's been sort of one of the main ones in that the new prime minister, the, let's say, Justin Trudeau, just kind of in a more mature body, Mark Carney, he's been very Loudly against Donald Trump.
So I just want to show you how quickly things flip.
So here's truth from Donald Trump yesterday, and then we'll read subsequently what happened.
Donald Trump wrote this, We have just been informed that Canada, a very difficult country to trade with, including the fact that they have charged our farmers as much as 400% tariffs for years on dairy products, has just announced they are putting a digital services tax on our American technology companies, which is a direct and blatant attack on our country.
They're obviously copying the European Union, which has done the same thing and is currently under discussion with us also.
Based on this egregious tax, we are hereby terminating all discussions on trade with Canada effective immediately.
We will let Canada know that the tariff that they will be paying to do business with the United States of America within the next seven-day period.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
So Canada basically tried to play hardball with us and people, you could see all the Dems in the mainstream media, was like, see, Canada's winning.
And a few hours later, this happened.
unidentified
What's the President's reaction to this?
Can you tell us more about his call with Prime Minister Kearney over the weekend?
How did he get Carney to drop it?
And also, what's the impact on American tech companies given this latest progress as the president says he has been fighting for American tech companies?
Prime Minister Kearney in Canada caved to President Trump in the United States of America.
And President Trump knows how to negotiate, and he knows that he is governing the best country and the best economy in this world, on this planet.
And every country on the planet needs to have good trade relationships with the United States.
And it was a mistake for Canada to vow to implement that tax.
That would have hurt our tech companies here in the United States.
The president made his position quite clear to the prime minister.
And the prime minister called the president last night to let the president know that he would be dropping that tax, which is a big victory for our tech companies and our American workers here at home.
So the president sent this note to the Fed chair today.
And if you look at this chart, this is a chart of all of the interest rates of many countries throughout the world.
At the top is Switzerland.
They're only paying a quarter for interest rates.
Cambodia, Japan, Denmark, Thailand, Botswana, Barbados, Taiwan, Bulgaria, Cuba, Sweden, Morocco, Cago, Verde, South Korea, Algeria, Canada, Albania, Libya, Malaysia, China, New Zealand, Trinidad, and Tobago.
Czechia, Bolivia, Australia, Costa Rica, the Bahamas, Kuwait, Papua New Guinea, Bosnia, United Kingdom, and the UAE are all paying lower interest rates than the United States of America, which has one of the hottest and strongest economies in the world.
The President sent this note to the Fed chair.
It says, Jerome, you are, as usual, too late.
You have cost the USA a fortune and continue to do so.
You should lower the rate by a lot.
Hundreds of billions of dollars are being lost, and there is no inflation.
And the president is right.
There is historically low inflation thanks to his policies.
She's reading that list and she can't even believe that half of those places are countries.
Cabo Verde.
Whoever heard of that?
Is that near regular Cabo?
Like, what's going on over there?
Trinidad and Tobago.
But yes, why is it that all of these other countries right now, as we see our economy chugging along, we're going to show you a couple things in a moment to show you how strong the economy is right now.
But as we see our economy doing better, why is it that interest rates are still high?
The higher interest rates are, the less that people can borrow, the less that it allows you to borrow so that you can do more.
And once you can do more in your own personal life, you can spread money around and then other people can start spreading it around.
Companies can start expanding, et cetera, et cetera.
But when rates are high, it makes it harder to borrow money.
Like it's just basic stuff.
So what is Jerome Powell doing?
I'm not exactly sure.
Now, check this out.
This is really incredible.
So remember all of the people who were screaming about Trump's tariffs and it's going to tank the economy and everything else.
We had those three rough days, which we've more than made up for in terms of the stock market, but they were saying it's going to destroy everything and we're going to be screwed and we're going to lead.
It's going to recession, depression, blah, blah, blah.
Check this out yesterday, CNBC showing how tariff revenues, which again, Trump was just using tariffs as a negotiating point.
And we don't even have all the deals back.
But listen to how many dollars have been brought in subsequently.
How much we've been collecting in revenues, and I did this in part because Wilfred's here and he can talk about the UK trade deal.
But just this is the monthly numbers.
And they have gone up a lot.
June is actually set for another big increase of $27 billion.
That is money coming into U.S. coffers from tariffs.
We are collecting a lot of revenues.
So far, guys, $121 billion has flowed into the U.S. government since the start of the fiscal year.
It's still a tiny portion of the overall revenues that the U.S. government gets, but it's increasingly a lot, especially if we haven't seen it in terms of the consumer paying off higher inflation.
He said something like everyone that I've talked to.
Okay, well, then your network is bad, your projections are bad, and you're not particularly good at your job.
I'm not an economic expert, and I don't pretend to be.
But again, why is it just, again, I didn't get it wrong?
Because you people are activists and you're bad, bad, bad people.
So what's the lesson here to close the show?
The lesson, I think, is that Donald Trump right now has to realize that whether it's a little bit of a squabble with Elon over spending and cuts or whether it's them lying about what he's doing with the economy or anything else, Donald Trump has to just realize, stay the course and level up.
This is a man who for 10 years has been called a Nazi.
He's been called Hitler.
They tried to shoot him.
They tried to impeach him.
They tried to end all of his businesses.
And he survived all of that.
But not only did he survive it, I can't say more importantly, not only did he survive it, he managed to change the culture to the point that when he came in, he was all of the evil things and he's not anymore.
They want him to still be the evil things, but he's not.
So I want to show you these two quick videos.
This is Bill Maher and SNL.
So this is the way culture has changed.
These are two videos from 2016.
They didn't destroy you back then when they called you Trump and Hitler Trump.
When they called you Trump Hitler.
So don't let them destroy you now.
But look how much things have changed in nine years.
Whatever you think about, there's a new feeling in America now that, you know, we're back on the upswing again.
You know, as he says, the country is hot again, you know.
And all around the world, people see that too.
And, you know, a lot of things have surprised me about the president because I, you know, bought into this fact that he was this one-dimensional character, that he was kind of a bombastic narcissist and all this.
And, you know, and part of it is hearing it all the time on TV, but also, you know, the way that he conducts himself sometimes validates those.
If you have that narrative, you can find things what he does that validate that narrative.
But what I've been surprised in getting to know him is what a kind of deep, multi-dimensional, and thoughtful character he is.
And how well I also thought, oh, he doesn't read, and, you know, he's not interested in anything.
He's immensely curious, inquisitive.
And also the most surprising thing is because I had him pegged as a narcissist, but narcissists Are incapable of empathy, and he's one of the most empathetic people that I've met.
Don't listen to the people that want to destroy you and Elon right now.
You did it once.
I think you'll resolve it again.
And then we will continue to build a good, positive vision for America that actually will be the force field against the crazies on the right, to whatever extent they exist, and the very, very obvious crazies on the left.
That is our program for today.
I thank you for watching.
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