Dave Rubin addresses a tsunami evacuation controversy where Oprah Winfrey's private road remained closed on Oahu despite pleas, contrasting her actions with Democratic leaders like Corey Booker and Gavin Newsom whom he accuses of narcissism. The episode also examines Cincinnati jazz festival violence, criticizes media downplaying of a mob attack, and highlights ICE detentions in Florida under Trump and DeSantis. Finally, Rubin discusses favorable EU trade deals and rising U.S. tariffs, concluding that current administration policies effectively restore order and economic stability while exposing the fragility of progressive narratives. [Automatically generated summary]
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We're going to start with what could have been an unbelievably horrific tragedy that actually now probably is only at least a mini tragedy to some extent.
This tsunami that happened after an earthquake off the shore of Russia.
And we will connect it, of course, to Oprah and the leftists who pretend to be nice, but when push comes to shove, they usually aren't, including possibly killing people.
Here's Sean Hannity, who was live on air when this 8.7 magnitude earthquake hit near Russia.
A massive 8.7 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia has now issued tsunami advisories and watches, including Japan, Hawaii, the entire west coast of the U.S. This could be one of the top 10 earthquakes ever recorded.
The waves that are pushing in towards Russia for Japan, they're expecting nine-foot waves to impact the islands.
As we look at the Aleutian Islands there, south of Alaska and the peninsula, tsunami warnings for the western edge of that because of the proximity to the earthquake.
We get down into Hawaii, they are also in a tsunami warning.
This has been a confirmed wave that is moving in, likely to make impact just after 7.15 local time.
The Oahu emergency management said, this is what you got to do.
You got to get to at least a 10-story building and get to four floors or above that.
So people are seeking higher ground right now.
You'll look at the west coast of the lower 48.
Everyone is under a tsunami watch right now for the Pacific Northwest.
Washington and Oregon, arrival time, 1140 p.m.
Local time for that initial wave down towards Northern California, San Francisco and those areas around the bay, about 1230, midnight.
That's when you're looking at that potential wave.
And then Southern California, right after 1 a.m.
So when we're looking at this, it is expecting flooding along those coastal areas.
Okay, so fortunately, as I said, what could have been a major tragedy, at least from an American perspective, turned out to be virtually no tragedy at all.
A tsunami never hit.
There were about six foot waves ultimately that hit Hawaii, as Connor, former Hawaiian, just said to me.
You know, it's funny, you lived in Seattle.
They rescued you from there, but you could still be living in Hawaii right now.
Well, this is still pretty good here in Florida.
But in any event, pretty good surfing weather and everything's basically okay.
But obviously in those hours, it hit at about, I think it was around 9 p.m., if I'm not mistaken, Eastern.
But in those hours where you're just waiting, basically, like, holy cow, is a massive tsunami going to hit Hawaii?
Is it going to hit Japan?
Is it going to hit the west coast of the United States?
Obviously, people start freaking out.
So quickly, we'll show you, and then you'll see where we're going with all of this.
We're going to show you some traffic gridlock in Oahu, Hawaii.
Okay, so obviously people in those hours, then they're used to this, and you can hear the siren in the background.
They're used to going to evacuation zones and they want to get further away from the coast, et cetera, et cetera.
And now here's where the story gets kind of interesting and what caught the internet last night into today, which is that Oprah has one of the most expensive houses on all of the islands and apparently has a road.
I mean, this is wild.
She actually has a road that basically intersects.
I hate the word intersectionality, but it intersects the island.
We'll show you a map in just a second.
But people basically wanted to take a shorter route.
They either were going to have to take the main road and basically go all The way around the island to get to a safer area, or they could have taken Oprah's Road, which basically runs right through the island.
Except her road was not open to the public and they did not seem to want to open it.
Here is a man in his car trying to get through Oprah's Road.
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look at this i think they're trying to open oprah's road Come on, Oprah.
Save us.
Road to all the way up country, bro.
All the way up country.
She got it all to herself.
And everybody trying to get in.
Cops trying to open it.
Nope.
Still closed.
Man.
She got her own road from Wailea all the way up country, which is a safe zone.
You know, if you were sitting in a coastal area in Hawaii, so you're this guy, let's say, and you're in your car and you think a tsunami is coming.
And I get it, there's cops there.
But at the end of the day, you got to save your life.
And I don't know why you wouldn't just plow through the barrier.
Like at the end of the day, I don't know why the cops wouldn't do it too.
I don't know why you'd be waiting to call somebody.
I'm not a big fan of eminent domain, but like if there was ever a reason to open up a private road, I think it would be to save people.
Anyway, let's show you a map here that sort of explains what I was talking about.
So you can see everyone on the coast over there, they want to get to high ground.
The main road is the red one that you're looking there.
So think about it.
If you're down south there, right, you're going to have to drive all the way up and all the way around.
Oprah's Road literally goes right across.
Anyway, we have a little bit more of an update on this.
This is from Nick Sorter on the X. Oprah's Road before X versus Oprah's Road after X, meaning people started tweeting about it.
That video that we just showed you right there started going viral, a whole bunch more.
We, the people, forced Oprah to open the road, allowing folks to escape the incoming Hawaii tsunami and get to higher ground.
Well done, holding the elites accountable.
Now, we should note a couple things here.
First off, Oprah did open that very road in previous crises.
You know, there was the fire in 2019 and 2023.
She opened the road both times.
And just for a little context, because who knows?
We don't know where Oprah, at this moment, we don't know where Oprah was.
We don't know if it had anything to do with her opening up or not.
I'm talking about this just because of the way the internet works.
It was like you could see all these people like, oh, there's the rich elitist Oprah, who, by the way, I have no real like love for Oprah.
I have nothing really against her, but she's kind of in that cloony Hollywood lefty thing, right?
She's always in a forest, eating bread, losing weight somehow, and then she gains it back when she leaves the forest.
That's a funny idea for a German fairy tale.
But a quick note here, people started evacuating at 2.43 p.m. local time.
Her road was opened at 7.16, so about four and a half later, four and a half hours later.
So there is some questions as to whether, you know, should a single individual have that much power over an evacuation route?
What happened in those four hours and everything?
But you can see why we're covering the story.
First off, thankfully, nothing truly tragic happened as far as we know.
But the way the internet then jumps in on things, and maybe Nick Sorter is right.
Like, it might be possible that had the internet not shamed Oprah, again, whether she knew about it or not, that the road wouldn't have been opened.
I would leave it to the Hawaiian authorities to decide whether they think that that's a great idea that one person can control that much land when it comes to evacuation routes.
But let's connect this to the larger thing about the Democrats these days, which is an endless hysteria, right?
They're sort of nice on the outside, and then underneath that very thin veneer is something sort of hysterical and crazy.
So we have a long list of people we could show crying or over-remoting or whatever.
Let's start with New Jersey's Corey Booker, a man who once did not urinate for 25 hours, and he's never going to stop talking about it.
Here he is yesterday giving a speech that's mostly a crazed diatribe about Donald Trump, completely disconnected to reality, but he's very emotional about it.
And thus, I think a certain set of people think anything he said here is true.
I see law firms bending a knee to this president, not caring about the larger principles that those free speech rights, that you could take on any client, why are you bending the knee?
I see universities that should be bastions of free speech bending at the knee to this president.
I see businesses taking late-night talk show hosts off the air because they dare to insult a president.
I see people who want mergers suddenly think that they have to pay tribute to this president.
And what are the very people here elected to defend the Constitution of the United States saying, oh, well, today let's look the other way and pass some resources that won't go to Connecticut, that won't go to Illinois, that won't go to New York, that will go to the states he likes.
That is complicity with an authoritarian leader who is trashing our Constitution.
It's time for Democrats to have a backbone.
It's time for us to fight.
It's time for us to draw lines.
And when it comes to the safety of my state being denied these grants, that's why I'm standing here.
If we don't stand as Democrats, we deserve to lose.
First off, when it comes to trampling all over the Constitution and all that, both sides are guilty of this, but do you guys have any recollection of COVID and locking people in their house and not letting people to assemble together publicly and the government working with big tech companies to silence people?
I don't know, maybe injecting, forcing people to inject their kids with some shit.
Does any of that, you have any recollection of any of that?
And again, I'll blame that on everybody, not just you.
Then everything he said related to free speech is complete nonsense.
What law firms are suddenly not defending free speech because they're afraid of Trump?
I haven't heard of one.
All of the stuff happening at the universities, the fines that Columbia and Harvard, et cetera, et cetera, are paying are not because of free speech.
They are because of behavior.
Behavior, when you take over a campus and you do not let students on the university grounds, when you literally lock janitors into buildings, when you violate other students' first right amendments, et cetera, et cetera, it's nothing to do with speech.
You want to run around, say all the horrible things about Israel.
So everything, of course, that he said there, but he motes a lot.
And my feeling is that's not a man who can get a boner.
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I wear my glasses like this, and I went there skipping.
It's like, come on, man.
They don't want black people to vote.
Actually, the problem that you're having is black people are waking up to the policies of the Democrats.
They are waking up to the perpetual cycle of poverty that you have kept much of the black community in.
They are waking up to the fact that identity politics is actually, I would say, radically against people of color, your phrase, right?
And what is it?
They don't want poor people to vote.
They don't want poor people to vote.
It's just so stupid.
And of course, you conflate poor people and black people always.
And they don't want Democrats to vote.
I mean, frankly, I don't want Democrats to vote, but so I'll grant him that one.
But everything that they do is basically taking place in a fantasy land of their mind.
It's not what's happening in reality.
What have we been doing on this show every day since Trump has become president?
I am laying out good, positive things that are happening constantly, and they are everywhere, whether it's the border, whether it's the economy, whether it's the trade deal, whether it's what's happening in the Middle East.
Like it's absolutely everywhere.
But because they exist in their little fantastic voyage mind where Donald Trump is the sun and the moon, they have to make up stories to validate their ridiculousness.
Here's Amy Klobuchar with a completely fabricated story.
Unless it could have been like I could have set that one up better.
I kind of dropped the ball on that one.
We'll bring that one back.
Anyway, here is a man who had sex with a Chinese spy who also farted live on MSNBC and apparently doesn't have much to do at work because he's doing this.
We got Phoenix over here pumping 170 and he weighs $1.25.
Okay, so you got nothing over there, Swalwell.
That's one thing.
Number two, oh, so he sent you home so you can't do work?
What the high hell are you talking about?
And why didn't you want to release the Epstein files when it was your guy who was president?
I mean, we could just, it's just nothing.
But this is, you know, it's so interesting.
How is it for the last 10 years, the most authentic person in public life, not just in politics, in public life, is the billionaire with hair plugs who is orange?
Like, we can do the entire thing about policy, right?
We can talk about taxes, or we can talk about abortion, or we can talk about foreign policy, whatever you want to do, border, blah, blah, blah.
But there is also something else happening here.
Show me a male Democrat who really comes off like a man.
And by the way, that has nothing to do with sexuality or anything else.
What that has to do with like these people, why are they all always crying?
Why are they all always emoting?
Why are they all hysterical?
Why can't they say basic truths?
There is something wrong with these people.
And I think when you really understand that psychological condition, you also understand why they want the government to be their master.
And if they only had the power of the government, right, if they could just attain that control, then they could control the universe.
But these are people who can't even clean up their room.
Here's Gavin Newsom, who is likely the Democrat nominee for president in 2028, who is an evil reptile-like snake person sent from another planet to put on a human skin to ruin California, then America, then the entire world.
Clean your room before you clean the world, right?
But these people who think it's all about them, the endless navel-gazing.
And if they only had the power cloaked in, we care about you and we care about you, we care about you and we care about you.
But when they get the power, what happens?
Well, then they're going to have to kill an awful lot of people because what starts happening is a couple people are like, you know, I'm not so into this.
And then you got to kill people, which is why communism and Marxism has killed hundreds of millions of people every time it has been tried.
And is there any better example of that than the clip we just showed you before, that Gavin Newsom?
He is obvious.
I don't even know if it's malignant with him, but he is a narcissist in the most strict possible clinical sense.
And what is it all guised in?
It's all guised in we care about women and we care about gays and we care about trans and we care about, but all of his policies, the things that he does, the left-wing authoritarianism, what have they done in reality?
I welcome you to go to San Francisco if you'd like to be injected with meth while you're trying to go to McDonald's.
So you get the point, although his winery is doing just fine up there.
Don't worry about it.
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Okay, so you probably remember a story we covered a couple days ago.
It originally took place over the weekend at a Cincinnati jazz festival where afterwards a gang of, I don't know what you want to call them, gang of thugs, drunken maniacs, hoodlums, blah, blah, blah.
It happened to be apparently all black people, young guys for the most part, attacked a couple white people and basically kicked the shit out of them, potentially could have killed them.
And of course, the media starts running cover for it and nobody knows who did it or why they did it or anything else.
Of course, we know the reverse.
If it had been a bunch of white people attacking a couple of random black people, this would be the most important thing.
We'd be burning down pet boys and looting a Circuit City.
Does that even exist anymore, Circuit City?
I didn't want to say Best Buy anymore.
Remember Circuit City?
But if there's a Circuit City anymore, it would have been looted in the name of you get it.
Yeah, so I think by the irresponsibility with social media is it just shows one side of the equation quite frequently without context, without factual context.
And then people run with that and then it grows legs and it becomes something bigger that we then have to try to manage as part of the investigation.
Adults fighting would be two guys that would be like, you said that about her and that's her and your mama and this.
And then that would be a fight.
It's not a fight when a mob just mauls people for no reason.
Now, I want to connect this to more broadly what's kind of happening in the country right now.
You remember, what was it, six months back when that guy, Luigi Mangion, in the middle of Times Square, I think 48th and 7th, shot dead the CEO of United Healthcare.
He had his problems with his own healthcare.
He had a back problem and he was pissed and he killed the CEO in broad daylight.
And there were many leftists that were celebrating that.
And they've been celebrating violence for quite some time.
And we've seen the way they take over the streets and they don't let people drive by and they chant all these things and blah, blah, blah.
But they are full on allowing.
It's not just allowing.
They have full on embraced violence.
And the problem with the left is the left never knows when the left has gone too far.
So what starts as like a really weird fringe thing with the left always takes over the host, right?
If you were looking at like a bunch of cells, like you'd see some like little cells dividing and you might think the host could control it, but it always eats the entire thing.
So you know about the shooting a couple days ago in New York City where a guy who apparently had some grievance with the NFL went into a building and the NFL is housed there and also Blackstone Investments is housed there.
And he apparently got into the wrong elevator.
He shot a couple people and killed, including killing a New York City police officer.
But there was a rumor going around online that he actually shot a Blackstone executive.
And this compilation, I mean, this is almost hard to watch, actually.
So I'll give you a little trigger warning.
It's actually kind of hard to watch.
This is a compilation that's been making the rounds.
It's about a minute long of leftists online celebrating that a random Blackstone executive had been shot.
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They're the reason why there's a housing crisis.
So hey, you know what?
Let's get more against those Blackstone people.
Let's take them out.
If you're having a bad day, I just wanted to hop on to let you know that the CEO of Blackstone, a private equity real estate firm, was one of the victims in the recent shooting.
And I'm not saying she deserved it, but I'm saying God's timing is always right.
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Let's go.
It's CEO season again.
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Okay, so first off, the CEO of Blackstone was not shot.
A female executive by the name of Wesley Lepatner was shot and she is dead.
The reason I'm showing you that, and I don't know how to analyze this properly.
We have, she has two kids, by the way, who no longer have a mother, and those people are happy about that.
They know nothing of her, know nothing of her life, her family, the good deeds she might have done, probably a good boss and colleague and friend and daughter and sister and all of those things.
The reason I'm showing you that is because of what I mentioned before, that the left never knows when the left goes too far.
So when you see these kids, and by the way, if you noted, that crossed, it seemed to cross genders, it probably crossed sexualities, it probably crossed socioeconomic means and all that.
You know, you have the white girl sipping her white wine, she's happy that someone died, and then you've got the other guy with the beard sipping, so it's excited that this person died.
They are celebrating the fact that someone that they do not know, they know nothing of, they know nothing of her work or anything else, because she worked at a corporation that they don't like, they are celebrating that she is dead.
This is, I'm telling you, this is part and parcel of the progressive movement.
And this is why I said the other day, you know, as much as we're cleaning up the immigration stuff right now, so we're getting the illegals out, we have not only a mass mental health crisis in this country and we have an over-medication crisis and everything else.
But what are we going to do?
What are we going to do when that generation, because the left has no ability to control them, right?
There's no adults left there.
The inmates are running the asylum.
What are we going to do as the boomers die out and then the Gen Xers age out and everything else?
That's a scary thought.
But like, what are we going to do when these people who think the political violence is fine, who are all in on identity politics, who seem to want socialism and everything else, like it could go away like that.
Now, I think America has some great systems built in and we're rolling into our 250th year.
And my hope is that in that 250th year next year, our anniversary, that we're going to get another resurgence of a MAGA populism around the greatness of America.
But we really have to watch out for this because they don't know how to control their own children.
And here's Andrew Cuomo, a man who was a failure as a governor, who then was a failure as a mayoral candidate, but he's still in the race.
Here he is trying to wants to be mayor of New York still.
Here he is talking about how the left has gone bananas, but unfortunately he has no juice.
And something like this happens, and then it really is a reality check for all this political theory and political hype that we have going on in this country with the extreme left postulating these theories that have no connection to reality.
Well, all right, Andrew Cuomo, I'm with you on that.
And by the way, I don't think Andrew Cuomo is like an unbelievably horrible person.
I think he did some terrible things with COVID.
He sent all of those old people back into the homes, and he probably regrets it because when you killed all those old people, they do come out and vote.
So you might have done better.
But there he is saying the truth.
Now, the problem is that's exactly why he lost in the primary because the base is a bunch of radical progressive nutbags, right?
They are Hamas supporting.
They are socialists and worse than socialists.
So that is nice that you're going on CNN and saying something, you know, basically true.
Yeah, these people are kind of bananas.
But how are you going to win in New York City?
How are you going to stop the Marxists from taking over?
I don't think you have a plan, buddy.
Actually, you've already announced that if you lose, you're going to move to Florida, which that's quite a winning message you got right there.
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All right, so we've talked enough about the crazy people.
Let's talk about some sane people.
So right down here in Florida, we have a governor by the name of Ron DeSantis.
And he has decided that if you are illegal in this country and we catch you, whether it's the feds that catch you or it's our state troopers or it's our local police or anything else, we're going to send you to a place called Alligator Alley.
And it is a place where there are beds and toilets.
It's not so terrible, but if you try to escape from there, you might be eaten by an alligator.
So you got to think about that.
There's also lawyers there and a processing facility.
And after a couple of days, they're going to figure out what to do With you and send you home to your home country, which the Democrats think all of that is just very terrible.
It's going so well here in Florida with this program that we are now rounding up more illegals than the DHS knows what to do with.
We're apprehending faster than DHS can hold and process.
And so the results in Florida and the efforts in Florida have been so far above and beyond any other state in the country.
And it's really we're pointed to as the model for what DHS wants to see all around the United States of America.
And so that was part of the reason why under my leadership with the Division of Emergency Management, we set up this processing site at the Dade Collier Airport in the Everglades to be able to have a place where illegals could go, get them processed, and then literally there's a runway and they can be flown out immediately.
And it's interesting because, you know, you hear this different stuff.
You know, the people that are going to the Alligator Alcatraz are illegally in the country.
They've all already been given a final order of removal.
That's a line from DeSantis that I love, and it is absolutely true.
So we're doing it right here.
We're exceeding the federal numbers, and we're working with the feds to do everything possible.
And that's not how it's going to be done in the blue states.
It's just obvious.
They are focused on all of the wrong things, whether it's Spartacus screaming on the House floor or whether it's Gavin Newsom overly emoting and trying to hold the reptile in from breaking through his skin.
I tweeted this about that video, and I think there's a reason I'm going to read it to you.
Thank God Donald Trump became president and Ron DeSantis remained governor of the free state of Florida.
You know, obviously, I think one of the only sort of political calculations I've gotten wrong in the last however many years, I'd love in the comments.
If you can think of a bunch of others, please offer them up, is that obviously I supported DeSantis in the primary.
I have no regrets about that, by the way.
DeSantis, although maybe he wasn't a great candidate in some sense, or people wanted it to be looser or whatever else, or Trump just knew how to do it better.
And clearly, Trump's moment was here.
I miscalculated, but I didn't do it because he wasn't a good candidate or didn't get all the things right or anything else.
And I am thrilled.
When I watched that video yesterday, I thought, man, I am thrilled.
I don't know that anyone's supporting Donald Trump more than me right now.
I got the president I want and I got the governor I want and they're working together.
It doesn't get better than that from a political perspective.
And many other states could have that if they want it, but unfortunately, it seems that many do not.
However, in Dallas, not Dallas, in Houston, in Houston, Texas, ICE has been going in and they're doing some good work and getting rid of some child sex offenders.
President Trump's immigration crackdown continues with ICE agents in Houston, Texas reporting more than 200 migrants apprehended by this field office alone are child sex offenders.
214 people detained by ICE in Houston over the last six months have either been charged with or convicted of child sex crimes.
The press release from ICE says the arrest number over the past six months surpassed the amount of child sex offenders nabbed by the office in all of 2024.
And you've got Democrats up there screaming that ICE either should be abolished or should have to take their masks off or defund it or whatever it might be.
Why is it that they don't care about the 214 kids?
And it's probably more than that because many of these guys probably took advantage of plenty of other kids.
But let's say at least 214 kids who were molested or whatever by illegal immigrants, they don't care about that.
And there's other benefits.
You know, when you start cleaning up the cities, when you start cleaning up your states, your roads, your infrastructure and everything else, when you start getting people who shouldn't be here off the roads, well, then all sorts of other things happen.
I thought this was interesting from Zero Hedge from Financial News.
Auto accidents fall 10% in major cities amid reports of lighter traffic.
A few weeks ago, reports began circulating, thanks to ICE, roundups in major cities.
The notorious parking lot traffic in Los Angeles was suddenly cleared out, allowing people to jet around the city like the old days.
And yes, it is true.
There are less cars on the road because illegals now are, and there are an untold amount of them, are a little leery, particularly criminal, double criminals, because they're all criminals in some sense.
But double criminals are very leery of just driving around because you might get picked up in a place like Los Angeles, not because of the LAPD, because they're working against ICE, but because Trump actually sent the feds in there.
You may remember this video.
This is from about two months ago, a month and a half ago maybe.
A guy driving down in LA's 110.
I mean, this is one of the most trafficked, believe me, I lived there, one of the most trafficked roads in the country.
Rush hour, you do not want to be on this thing.
Look at this at 8 a.m.
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I don't know if anybody's familiar with Los Angeles, but I'm actually on the 110, literally about five miles from downtown.
And it's like, again, it doesn't matter what your feelings exactly are on deportations or anything else.
And we can all have those conversations about the people who've lived here for a long time who haven't broken other laws or who are not dealing drugs or, I don't know, molesting kids.
But sorry, we're doing something about the problem that you all created.
And this is exactly what Donald Trump was elected for.
So even if on the margins there was some version of this that I wasn't thrilled with, it's like, this is what he was elected for.
So suck it, bitch.
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Let's jump over to some other good things that are happening right now.
We've talked this week about the EU trade deal that came in and Trump basically rolled over the entire EU.
We basically got everything we want.
And in some sense, the Europeans are kind of like, thank you, sir.
Here's Kevin O'Leary, one of my favorites, talking about how the Germans and the French, they're kind of pissed now because they're going to get the short end of the stick.
But you know what?
They're going to do it, suck it up, and as I just said, say, thank you, sir.
And I think most Europeans are realizing that they should not have signed on board the giant EU project because you basically outsource control of your country to bureaucrats in Brussels.
And of course, that's what Brexit was all about.
And I think most European countries, in retrospect, if they could go back and had maintained more sovereignty over their countries and particularly their borders, I mean, that is largely what led to their open border project.
As you know, Hungary, which is part of the EU, they pay 1 million Euros tax every single day, 365 million Euros a year to keep their borders closed.
That's what they have to pay and a penalty to control their own borders just to be part of the EU because they want to be part of the broader trade deal.
So they don't want to not be in the EU.
But that just shows you the crazed competing interest of how ridiculous the whole EU concept was in the first place.
But basically what Mr. Wonderful just laid out there was, yeah, the Germans and French, there was no choice.
They were going to take this deal and the deal is really good for the U.S. And when we start moving some of those manufacturing plants, particularly the pharmaceutical ones, we're building plenty of cars here.
But when we move pharmaceutical plants here too, because of these deals and the investment that's going to come here, it's going to be even better for us.
And we're going to find out more over time as to what happens there.
I know there's people who want to keep you just like completely apoplectic about little minute nonsense, but there are incredibly good things happening in this country, particularly if you live in red states.
And I wouldn't live in New York City and I'd be getting out.
But I get it.
If you live in a place that you have all your reasons to have been there for a long time and your family's there and your businesses are there and your roots are there and your kids are in school and they're playing sports and all of those things, I get it.