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Jan. 21, 2026 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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‘The View’ Hosts Jaws Drop as Zohran Mamdani Accidentally Reveals How Radical He Really Is
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Previously, on the Rubin.
I have a constitutional right to rip off the country.
Constitutional right.
Look at me, Nicka.
He did an act of journalism.
It's just journalism.
He's just journalist doing journalism.
You're a gay black man in America.
Please place your left hand on the Koran.
How do we live in a country where we're from anymore?
What is up, people?
I'm Dave Rubin.
This is the Rubin Report.
It is January 21st, 2026.
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And last night, I was like, you know what?
I don't want to watch another episode of Seinfeld for the 478th time.
And I started scrolling through the comments on the YouTube and on Rumble.
And I've said this before, but I really am just so freaking proud of the community that we have built here.
I really mean that.
Like the level, sort of the tenor that you guys talk, that everything is on point.
We're not burning everybody down, destroying everybody, attacking everybody.
There's a true appreciation for what we do here and an acknowledgement that's a little different and lighter and perhaps a bit more fun than most of the other news shows.
And I'm very aware of that.
And I appreciate it.
And I was talking to Joseph.
We're going to start doing something with the comments.
We don't know exactly what we're going to do, but we do want to figure out some ways that you guys can be a little more directly involved so that we can make this a little more of a two-way exchange.
So stay tuned on that.
And you know, yesterday it was kind of funny, the way the show sort of went over the course of the hour.
By the end, it was a bit of a depressing show in some sense.
Like, yeah, we had our usual silliness, but it was sort of just like, oh man, is everything just going off the rails?
I think we can course correct on today's show because Donald Trump, as we speak right now, is in Davos at the World Economic Forum.
Abolishing ICE's Duties 00:06:01
And that's the bulk of today's show.
And really just laying out the new American vision for the world.
And it's completely congruent with everything he's done for the last year.
It's very much in line with that speech.
You remember that speech basically a year ago now when he went to Saudi Arabia and said, guys, we're leading the world again.
Get on board if you want to share an American success.
And a lot of good stuff will happen.
Well, now he's laying that out to the Europeans as well.
But we will start with moron Zamboni.
He went on the view.
So this has really got, this is, this is thick.
You know what I mean?
And of course, if you're going to get the commie jihadist on the view, they are going to have to talk mostly about how much they hate America and how they want to flood it with illegal immigrants and destroy the economy and, you know, bring in the drugs and the rapists and all the stuff.
But here he is doubling down, doubling down just two weeks after the ICE shooting when that woman, Renee Goode, was about to plow her car into an ICE officer and he shot her, which he did not wake up that morning and think, I'm going to shoot one of these people.
She put her car in forward and was about to kill him.
Here is Zorhan or Moron, depending on what you want to do today, doubling down on his language about the ICE shooting, implying, or not implying, insisting that, yes, it was murder.
Let's talk about the unfortunate situation unfolding in Minnesota since the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Goode, which you bluntly called a murder.
Look, I think first, I don't know how else to describe what we saw in Minnesota.
People asked me, why did I say the word murder?
I asked them to look at that video and tell me what they would call it.
And we are being asked to not believe our own eyes.
It's time to be truthful with people.
All right.
First off, I'm going to allow you to believe your own eyes.
We're going to show you the video again in just a second, the five-second slow-motion video, but I have a phone here and it's connected to the internet.
It's wild.
And I just Googled the dictionary definition of murder.
Murder is the unlawful premeditated killing of one human by another.
So now before I add any other commentary on the dribble that he just put out there, let's show you the five-second video again.
And of course, as you can see, she's in the middle of the road.
She's backing up.
They're asking her not to.
And then he does not pull out his weapon until she moves forward when his life, watch, backing up.
And now she's turning and that's when his weapon comes out.
If you think that that was premeditated, thus qualifying as murder, putting on top all of the ways that you people have ramped up the rhetoric and just created a general sense of chaos on the streets so anything might happen at any point, right?
It's a powder keg out there.
You're an idiot, but you're a liar.
Of course, you're a liar.
And everything you do, Zorhan, is an effort to continue the revolution, right?
You want people to think that it was murder or even premeditated murder because you want more chaos on the streets because what you are trying to do is collapse the system.
You're not just trying to collapse the system in New York where you'll have a heavy hand in it, but you'd love the system to collapse in Minnesota and in other places as well.
So no, it was not murder.
It was not premeditated.
And Renee Goode would be alive had she not done several illegal things there.
It is illegal for anyone to just pull your car into the middle of the street to block traffic.
That is illegal.
It's illegal when a law enforcement officer approaches you to then put your car in forward and try to hit them, et cetera, et cetera.
But he continued, here he is saying that he supports abolishing ICE because it's not fulfilling its duties.
I want to know where you come down on abolishing ICE and if you believe that ICE has any legitimate law enforcement role.
You know, I am in support of abolishing ICE and I'll tell you why.
Because what we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist.
We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people, no matter their immigration status, no matter the facts of the law, no matter the facts of the case.
He is such a wolf in sheep's clothing.
I know you guys see it, but if you have friends that don't see it, you really have to.
Now, he says that they have no interest in fulfilling their stated duties.
I think we have a screenshot of ICE's stated duties.
The agency enforces immigration laws and conducts investigations into undocumented immigration.
It also plays a role in removing undocked immigrants, undocumented immigrants, from the U.S. ICE was formed as part of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, a response to the terror attacks on September 11, 2001.
So if you just read what I just read to you right there, if you just understand that, that is quite literally exactly what ICE is doing right now.
It is you who is in violation of the Constitution, right?
It is you who have decided that as a mayor of New York City, and this is applicable obviously to the people in Minnesota and elsewhere, that you guys have decided that your authority supersedes the federal government when it comes to immigration.
So not only is LICE is ICE legal, they are doing exactly what they set out to do.
You guys are actually criminals for allowing sanctuary cities in the first place.
And again, he's doing this, all of his double speak and everything is because it's all about the revolution.
He was also sitting next to a gem, you know, this sunny Hostin woman.
So of course she had to also make it about race.
White Male Grievance 00:09:08
I think, you know, Equality feels much like oppression when you have always had the privilege of being ahead, even if you were mediocre.
And I think that's what we're talking about here.
White men as of 2023 were 76% of the workforce and in all sort of top positions where people of color and women were not.
And so what we're learning, I think, from this interview is that this administration kept on talking about a meritocracy and that things should be merit-based.
And they felt that it never was.
Now we really know that this attack against diversity, equity, inclusion is based on white male grievance.
You know, one thing I did see in the comments yesterday was a lot of people, it's interesting.
You guys are very split 50-50.
When I curse, because I try not to curse, people find it very, it's a release.
You know what I mean?
It's like I'm holding it in and then I got to get it out.
And you feel that release.
And then the other half are like, it's nice if you don't curse.
I might be watching this with my child, or I'm just trying to not cuss too much in life.
So I'm going to try not to today.
Now, obviously, Zorhan wasn't sitting there.
That was a little bit later in the show.
But everything she says there, I mean, it's so thin.
It's so thin and boring.
You know, you have a chance in America, regardless of your skin color or your generals, to do whatever you want.
That would explain why her, despite having no discernible skill, could be the host of that show and be worth millions and millions of dollars.
If you're upset that women aren't necessarily at the highest levels of the business echelon as men are, well, that might have something to do with that women generally tend to be childbearers and take care of the family a little bit more than men.
Now, you as a sort of modern feminist probably think that that's evil, but there's a lot of people that don't.
It's pretty good.
You know, I grew up, my parents have now been married for 54 years, something like that, still live in the same house that I grew up in since 1979.
My mom, she worked before she had three kids.
Then for the years, the 15 years or so of young children did not work so that we would all come home and there would be snacks ready for us and there would be a meal cooked and we knew that somebody was home and we didn't have to, you know, we weren't latchkey kids or anything else.
And then when my sister, who's the youngest, when she was old enough, then my mom went back to work and was a nursery school teacher.
Like you seem to think that people only derive value from work.
Also, that she's even saying diversity, equity, and inclusion at this point in 2026 as if it's anything positive.
Yes, if you want systemic racism to ensure that white people will become racist because they, because institutions will discriminate against them and they will discriminate against Asians and they will discriminate against Jews and they will discriminate against Indians and then all of those people will kind of become a little racist.
Well, I suppose maybe that is what you want, but it's just consistent with these people.
So now we're going to lady eyelashes.
Here's Jasmine Crockett as if what Sonny said there wasn't just kind of ridiculous and confused enough.
Here's Jasmine Crockett talking about all the lynchings that are happening these days.
They're not even going to, honestly, they're about to outlaw the idea of white supremacy and white hate.
Like they are about to be like, oh, that's not a thing.
Forget the fact that you're talking about getting rid of like the classification for nooses in a time in which we have seen these random black bodies be strung up down south.
Random black bodies being strung up down south.
Joseph, you did a little research for me on that, didn't you?
Well, we checked and, well, according to Google, as of January 21st, 2026, there are no recorded instances of lynchings in the United States in 2025.
So it's just not true.
What I would ask you, Jasmine, is why do you want us to think that black people are being lynched?
If black people were being lynched by members of the KKK or whatever, I would cover it.
It would be horrendous and it should be addressed.
But instead of addressing racism where it really exists, you're making up stuff to gin up people into thinking that black people are just being strung up in the South.
It's not true.
And by the way, this is what you guys did for years and years.
When you see the sort of ascendancy of what you think is a kind of racist thing, let's say on the right these days, it's because for years and years and years, you guys kept lying, said that the cops were just running around killing all these black people and systemic racism and blah, And then people started seeing the actual evidence, the numbers, right?
Larry Elder is the king of laying out these numbers.
And people were like, wait a minute, none of it is true.
So they've been lying about everything.
But let's jump back.
Sorry, I'm going to do it.
Let's jump back to Sunny for a second because this woman seems to think that black people and women can't have, can't seem to figure out how to get an ID.
We're still doing this.
People don't have cars, don't have driver's licenses.
So it's sort of a vestige of, I think, post-slavery laws where black people had to prove their right to vote.
And oftentimes they couldn't vote because they couldn't pass some crazy test or they didn't have the appropriate ID.
It also affects women, women that are married.
Maybe your passport reflects something that's different on your birth certificate or on your driver's license.
So really the bottom line is voter suppression.
And I agree with him 100%.
It's a brilliant notion that less voter ID laws allows more people to vote.
You know, it's so interesting because she's smiling as she's saying it as if she knows that it's BS.
Are you telling me that black people don't get on planes?
Do women not get on planes?
I've been on planes, believe it or not, with black women.
I saw, I'm not kidding, guys.
I'm not kidding.
What was that last flight that we took?
I went up to New York for a couple of days and there was, hand to God, I sat next to a black woman.
She must have been the Einstein of black women.
I mean, it was incredible.
She figured out how to get an ID.
It's completely, completely absurd.
Some woman who has a different name on her passport.
What are you talking about?
Show up with the passport at the airport and you're going to get on the plane.
So if these people, it's like, I keep using the example of this.
We used to go to a mini golf place in LA and to get to rent the miniature golf club, in case you didn't have your own just miniature golf club set, you would have to hand them your ID.
That was kind of the collateral so that they knew you weren't going to run off with the miniature golf club set.
What are you talking about?
The only reason you guys don't want people to have IDs is so that you can create fraudulence in the elections.
We know it.
We see you.
You're not going to get away with it.
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I wish I would have chatted with that black woman that I sat next to on the plane and just been like, how did you do it?
How did you get on?
Get an ID and get on this plane.
How'd you do it all by yourself despite your oppression?
Let's talk about more self-proclaimed oppressed people.
This is illegal Somali Representative Ilhan Omar.
That's my impression of Trump doing the Somali accent.
And this is this, we're going to start.
We have a few things of her.
This is from a few months ago.
She wants to freak you out about white men.
They're always coming around a corner.
Boom!
Right!
Back!
I would say our country should be more fearful of white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country.
Ill-Gotten Gains 00:09:32
Okay, so you should be more fearful of white men.
The gall of this woman that she came here, and we're going to talk about some of her probably ill-gotten gains since she's been in power, but that she came here as a first-generation immigrant to hate our country and hate the people who founded this country and hate the people who live in this country and do it with a smile and talk about 9-11.
Some people did something.
It's just, I just can't imagine, I can't imagine that.
If I suddenly left and was in another country and then attained the, even if you didn't attain the power, but particularly if you attained the power and notoriety and influence that she has, that you would endlessly lie about that place.
It is profoundly, profoundly evil.
And speaking of profoundly, profoundly evil, it's also a little bizarre that her husband, who was worth probably less than six figures just a couple of years ago, is now worth about 30 mil.
And, you know, there's this giant money laundering operation in Minneapolis and in Minnesota.
And Jesse Waters shed some light on that.
Fox News Alert, Ilhan Omar under investigation after racking up millions while she was in Congress.
What's the old saying?
Follow the money?
Well, that's precisely what the House Oversight Committee is doing.
They are probing squad member Ilhan Omar's skyrocketing family wealth, Jesse, especially in the wake of that $9 billion, some would argue $19 billion, Somali social services fraud scandal that exploded in her district in Minnesota.
The oversight chair, James Comer, says his team's lawyers are exploring the extraordinary step of subpoenaing Omar's spouse over his curious business practices.
Republicans want to know how the Somali-born Omar and her politically connected husband, Tim Minette, went from being nearly broke to being worth around 30 million bucks in just a year, according to her 2024 disclosure forms.
Guys, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that there is some connection between the $19 billion fraud going on in her district, deeply connected to the Somali community of which she is a part, and the fact that she and her husband went from being worth less than $100,000 to now $30 million.
I don't know who her husband is, but I'm going to guess this guy isn't a wizard.
And he didn't do it on his own merit.
And she damn well didn't do it either.
One thing that's really positive about all of this as we transition a little more towards Trump now is that Trump is calling this out.
He's made a point of saying she married her husband and broke illegal, broke federal law.
He's pointing to the fraud.
He's pointing to the illegal situation over there.
And it's not going away.
And as I said, I think I said it yesterday, you know, we're sort of between a rock and a hard place right now, or an immovable object and an unstoppable force.
The ground troops in Minnesota are not going to stop.
And Trump cannot stop.
So there is a fight that, right, like Trump can't cut and go.
He can't be like, all right, I, you know, there's some chaos there, and I guess I'm going to give up and go.
And we know that the activist class never goes.
So this Somali Minnesota thing is just not going anywhere.
Here's Trump with a bit more on Minnesota and the Somalis.
They want to keep those people in Minnesota, but they really don't.
I don't think the real people of Minnesota, very corrupt place, and the elections are totally corrupt.
I feel I won it all three times.
Nobody's won that state since Richard Nixon.
It's a rigged state.
And the Somalians vote as one group, even if they're not citizens, and they vote as one group.
And, you know, you get 600,000 votes against you.
They all ought to get the hell out of here.
They're bad for our country.
All right.
I'll try to give the devil his due.
The last line there.
They all better get out of here.
They're bad for our country.
You know, there's undoubtedly some Somalians, of course there are, who are good, decent citizens, who are proud to be Americans, who understand what, you know, the, in essence, war zone, the sort of sectarian Klan war zone that they left of Somalia to come here and are very appreciative of that.
I don't include Ilhan Omer in it.
As a matter of fact, I interviewed Ayan Hirsi Ali, who is like an angel.
If you think an angel can be here on earth, she is from Somalia, underwent female genital mutilation as a child, fled.
You know her story.
I've had her on the show many times.
We're going to put that up in a couple days.
But she really went in depth into the Klan nature and some of the inner workings of how the Somali community actually works and why she's not surprised by this fraud thing at all, that there's actually reasons for it that go deep into how the Klans operate in Somalia.
But okay, I gave the devil his due there that maybe Trump was a little bit overboard.
But the broader point is that it is very obvious that this is a community that largely is not assimilating, that is taking advantage and in outright crawl and fraud and criminality as it relates to these financial programs.
And then you have someone like Ilhan Omar, who again went from being worth less than $100,000 to suddenly worth $30 million in the midst of a $19 billion money laundering scheme.
Like you think something's going on there?
But let's put a pin in that for now and shift to Donald Trump's other favorite topic, which is Don Lemon.
And well, Donald Trump doesn't like Don Lemon very much.
So this is what the people are trying to protect, because all ICE wants to do is get them out of our country, bring them to prisons and jails and mental institutions from where they came.
That's all they want to do.
They're patriots and they have to be abused by guys like Don Lemon, who's a loser, lightweight.
I saw him the way he walked in that church.
It was terrible.
I have such respect for that pastor.
He was so calm.
He was so nice.
He was just accosted.
What they did in that church was horrible yesterday.
Yeah, it was horrible.
And as we pointed out yesterday, according to Harmit Dylan, it might be criminal, actually, because it is not your protected First Amendment right to free speech to go into a place of worship.
And that's exactly what Don Lemon did while pretending to be a journalist, as he's acting as an activist, getting in the face of the pastor.
And we showed you that image yesterday, which I just think, Connor, maybe we can grab that image again, the still shot of the parishioners there and the young kids.
Like you are just no matter, and this is what they do.
They think they are so freaking self-righteous that they have a right to interrupt people as they worship on a Sunday.
And I would be saying the same thing whether this was a temple or a mosque or anything else.
And by the way, if it was a mosque and it had been a bunch of white people that walked in, we know that Don Lemon would be calling them racists.
everything that these people do.
I mean, the pointing out the hypocrisy often is sort of pointless.
Here, Connor, you got the image?
Yeah.
I mean, this image right there, I mean, I think this just captures it.
Just think about that father with that kid right there in the front.
And the mother appears to be the mother, maybe a sister with her hand on the kid.
Like they're terrorizing these people.
They came there to worship.
We have no idea what their feelings are on immigration or anything else.
They were doing something that is far above and more lofty than politics.
So you guys, congratulations, Lemon and the rest of you.
You probably radicalized a bunch of them.
I thought this was interesting from Polymarket.
Will Don Lemon be criminally charged?
At the moment, according to Polymarket, 26% of people think that Harmit Dylan will drag Don Lemon away in handcuffs.
We shall see.
Noted retired lesbian, Ellen DeGeneres, who fled to move to, where'd she go to?
She went to the UK, right?
Because that's a great, as the Islamists take over, that's going to work out well for the Lesbos.
She is back on camera, apparently with a little less makeup than the old days.
And here she is.
She's just so proud of the anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis.
Hey, everybody.
I just wanted to say I am so sorry for what is happening in Minneapolis and our country, really, but specifically in Minneapolis right now, because it's where I shot my last stand-up special.
And everybody there couldn't have been more lovely.
I shot it there because they say it's the happiest city in America.
And I found that to be true.
So my thoughts and my prayers are going out to everyone.
And I'm proud of everyone who's protesting peacefully.
And I am sorry for anyone who has been hurt.
I do have to say, devil is due.
It is nice that she says she's proud of everyone who's protesting peacefully.
If you want to peacefully protest and not take over streets and not throw ice at these guys and all of the things that they're doing, you want to peacefully do it.
That is your First Amendment Right.
Now, you can't do it in a church.
I don't know what has happened to her.
I mean, she just looks so haggard and everything, but you know, it's just so interesting.
Again, taking the position.
You are as elite as it gets, Ellen.
You are worth $500 million.
Is anyone in this room worth?
Europeans Decide 00:07:02
No, nobody in this room is worth $500.
That's an awful lot of money.
Your house in, was it Montecito?
Was it Montecito?
She sold this when she moved to the UK to flee America.
$96 million?
Is that what you told me?
That was a $96 million house.
Think of the amount of illegals that she had working on that house.
Like, think of the amount of crew.
I don't know how many acres that is and everything else, but she had tons of illegals working there, obviously, obviously.
So you're fine with illegals as long as they stay in your perpetual servitude, right?
And also, I would imagine that there was a hefty fence around that thing, and it was probably in a gated community.
And I can only imagine, Ellen, how many security guards you had at that place, because you wouldn't have wanted criminals and rapists and, I don't know, the average jihadi who's not too thrilled with a lesbian to break into your house.
And I would tell you, you are right for that.
So why is it that you are so radically against the average person of Minnesota who does not want fraud and does not want illegals running around their city?
Maybe you should think about that just a little bit.
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All right, so the World Economic Forum is doing their annual meeting in Davos.
And you know what this is.
This is where George Soros and/or his son or his acolytes and Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates and Emperor Palpatine, they all show up and they give their big scary speeches about how they're going to rejigger the world and you're going to own nothing and be happy.
They're going to own a lot of shit and be real happy.
You're going to own nothing and just be regularly happy.
And they bring on all of the bad guys and they say all of the bad things.
And one of the bad guys that they brought on was Gavin Newsom, a man who destroyed San Francisco, who destroyed California, who has a goal to destroy America.
So they gave him the mic and here he is basically instigating Europeans to turn against America.
Do you have a message for Europeans who are concerned about the messages from the White House around Greenland this week?
Yeah, it's time to fuck up.
It's time to get serious and stop being complicit.
It's time to stand tall and firm, have a backbone.
You know, I've seen this in the United States.
The supine Congress playing both sides, you know, say one thing on a text or a tweet and another publicly.
Shoot time to have a home principle.
It's time to stand tall, tall, and strong.
Does that mean more than that?
It's time to stand united.
You make that determination.
I don't make that determination.
When you say standing united, what do you mean?
Just I can't take this complicity.
People rolling over.
I should have brought up a bunch of knee pads for all the world leaders.
I mean, handing out crowns and handing out, I mean, this is pathetic.
Nobel Prizes, they are being given away.
Neepads?
E-Pads?
Gav, I heard there were some knee pads at your old parties in San Francisco.
The fact that he goes to Davos, which the whole purpose of the World Economic Forum is that they want a globalist agenda, right?
They don't want America to lead the world and they really don't want sovereign nations.
They want to rethink the entire globe, meaning that there will be a globalist, up-down way of looking at the world, and we will all be subservient to that.
Donald Trump represents the complete reverse of that.
We'll have a bit from his speech in just a second.
And there's Gavin Newsom telling them that they should basically buck up against Donald Trump and fight Donald Trump.
Are you an American or are you?
Well, you're an alien, actually.
You're an evil alien lizard person, but I think you have American citizenship.
Even he could get an ID, which probably says American on it.
And it's like, and there you go.
You go to Switzerland to tell the Europeans that they should fight against the United States of America.
Here's a bit more on his position as it pertains to the Europeans and Donald Trump.
And I hope people understand how pathetic they look on the world stage.
I mean, at least from an American perspective, it's embarrassing.
So what should Europe?
I'm doing.
You should decide.
The Europeans should decide for themselves what to do.
But one thing they can't do is what they've been doing and they've been playing.
This guy is playing folks for fools.
And it's embarrassing.
European state misses diplomacy.
I think this will all take a long time.
Diplomacy with Donald Trump.
He's a T-Rex.
You mate with him or he devours you.
One or the other.
and europeans could be if they continue to look down this path and process they need to stand tall stand firm stand united you know it's interesting He did say one thing there.
Europeans should decide for themselves.
Actually, you're right.
Sovereign nations should decide what their borders are.
For example, there's a small country in Central Europe called Hungary, and Hungary pays 1 million euros a day to keep their borders closed as a tax that they are paying to the European Union because the European Union wanted everybody's borders to be open.
So they pay 365 million Euros a year just so that they can have access to European markets because they're keeping their borders closed.
So Hungary is doing what it has to.
That's not fair at all, and it's actually profoundly evil.
But all of these European nations, they all decided, oh, no, we'll be part of the European Union.
We'll listen to bureaucrats in Brussels and everything else.
We'll let all these people into our countries.
We'll basically become failed states.
France will basically be a Muslim nation within a decade or two.
It's like, you're right.
They should have, well, I suppose you're right in some sense.
They should have made some decisions for themselves.
But instead, their leaders decided to make decisions that were in line with what the WEF wants, not what the average German or Frenchman or Brit wants.
That is the problem.
And again, this thing, this thing that he would have the gall to go across the world as Donald Trump is fighting for America.
In The Midst Of Rupture 00:15:41
We're the last great nation on earth.
We really are.
We are the last great superpower.
And without us, this thing spins out of control at a degree that would be almost unthinkable.
And there he is, basically with a little hatchet, little chisel, going after Trump's Achilles while he's there.
It's absolutely disgusting.
Here is Trump speaking sort of directly to Newsom in some sense.
We're going to help the people in California.
We want to have no crime.
I know Gavin was here.
I used to get along so great with Gavin when I was president.
Gavin's a good guy.
And we're going to, if he needed it, I would do it in a heartbeat.
I'd love to see, we did help them a lot in Los Angeles, a lot with the early in my term when they had some problems.
But we would love to do it.
I will say this, if I were a Democrat governor or whatever, I would call up Trump.
I'd say, come on in, make us look good because we're cutting crime down to nothing.
And we're taking people out, career criminals who are only going to do bad things and we're bringing them back to their countries.
There's Gav.
Look at me, look at me.
You know, it's so interesting.
And again, there's Trump, and it's a little hard to tell, like it's not prompter, not prompter, but his comfortability up there, just going, it's not easy.
Just anyone think of this, even if you've never publicly spoken in your life, to just walk into a room of people that basically hate you.
Donald Trump represents everything that is complete 180 polar opposite of what these people want.
And even at this point, through all the hate Trump's been through for the last decade and all of the evil things, and they try to shoot him and all the rest of it, it's still not that easy to do that sort of thing, right?
Like I've spoken in front of loving crowds usually, and sometimes I've spoken in front of hostile crowds.
And it's not that easy to do, actually, and confront people with the truth.
So there's, and again, he has this way of saying something that's like so honest as a throwaway in some sense.
He's basically like, look, if you're a governor in one of these places, I'll help you.
So all Gavin, if Gavin, if you want to clean up, you want to be president of the United States, right?
So at some point over the next three years, you're going to have to show some receipts that things aren't going completely haywire in California.
Now, we know it's going haywire economically and crime-wise, and the amount of people that you've lost and all of the pet projects that are going nowhere.
And as Dr. Oz pointed out a couple days ago, there's going to be a massive fraud investigation that he says is going to completely dwarf what's going on in Minnesota, in California.
So you have all of these problems.
It's like, okay, you don't want to clean up the streets.
You don't want to look like the bad guy.
You want to keep all the drug addicts out there.
You want all the urban people to flee and all that stuff.
How about then just bring in Donald Trump, make him look like the bad guy, if that's what your vision is.
Just completely backwards.
And speaking of backwards, the real issue as it pertains to the sort of globalist government is that the further the United States steps away from the world, if we just say we're going to have no moral authority, we're going to abandon all our allies, we're going to have nothing to do with the Western hemisphere, we're not going to influence anyone or anything, someone will step in.
And who's that someone going to be?
Well, everyone knows that's going to be China.
Here is Emmanuel Macron.
I didn't do it, didn't do it.
Emmanuel Macron, he's wearing aviator sunglasses, which a lot of people are saying it's because his wife punched him right before this thing.
It's unclear.
Some other people are saying because he does so much coke that his eyes were all bloodshot.
I don't know.
But here he is for some reason wearing aviator glasses and begging China to help him.
China is welcome, but what we need is more Chinese foreign diet investment in Europe, in some key sectors to contribute to our growth, to transfer some technologies, and not just to export towards Europe some devices or produces or products which sometimes don't have the same standards or are much more subsidized as the one being produced in Europe.
Was I supposed to understand anything he was saying there?
In effect, he was saying, hey, we need more of your shit, China.
You got to help us.
So whether we like it or not, if we step away from the world, China steps in.
And even as we are encouraging, I mean, this is what Trump is doing more than anything else.
He's encouraging the Europeans, just like he did in the Middle East a year ago.
Hey, we won't tell you how to live.
You can do a lot of shit without us.
Let it be.
It's okay.
But if you want to share in our success, the economic engine, and it's really the dream engine of the world is still what America is, then you're going to have to play ball with us.
And that these people cannot see that.
And that you've got Gavin Newsom attacking Trump as Trump's telling them, hey, join us.
Let us help you.
It's just crazy.
Here's a bit more of Trump just having fun.
We're building a golden dome that's going to just, by its very nature, going to be defending Canada.
Emmanuel Macron, I watched him yesterday with those beautiful sunglasses.
What the hell happened?
But I watched him sort of be tough.
But he was at $10 for a pill.
And I said, Emmanuel, and I have all the big pharmaceutical companies are in total agreement.
It wasn't easy, by the way.
They're tough, smart.
They've been getting away with this scam for a long time.
Sorry, sorry, for a moment, we threw to the wrong video there.
But he was, you know, he's basically saying, oh, he's a tough guy with his glasses and everything.
Like, everyone knows you're nothing at this point, Europe, not to be a dick.
But you guys aren't much without us.
You can't save yourselves.
And you might want to start looking towards America again and saying, boy, you know, America did close its borders.
America is getting its illegals out.
America is fixing its economy.
America is doing things through a peace-through strength strategy to help the world and stop wars.
And America is starting to look in its own backyard, the Western Hemisphere, and take out a guy like Maduro as Russia and China are encroaching on Venezuela.
Like there's a different sheriff in town, and you might want to be a bit aware of that.
Now, a guy who seems to be completely unaware of it or who has just completely abandoned the American alliance and is also looking towards China.
It's not just Macron, but here is Mark Carney.
The last name is just perfect for this guy of Canada.
And here he is going after the U.S. because we're doing things a little bit different these days.
And American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security, and support for frameworks for resolving disputes.
So we placed the sign in the window.
We participated in the rituals.
And we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality.
This bargain no longer works.
Let me be direct.
We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.
But more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons.
Tariffs as leverage.
Financial infrastructure is coercion.
Supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited.
You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.
All right, Carney.
So we're in the midst of a rupture.
Is that what you're telling us?
Who do you think that's going to work out for?
I love Canadians.
I say it all the time.
We have so many snowbirds down here that come down here that many of them now don't even go back to Canada anymore.
I've always loved the Canadian sense of humor and the great movies that have come out of Canada.
And John Candy was one of my heroes growing up.
And all the, I do the laundry list of great Canadians.
Not a big fan of hockey.
And it's a little odd to me that you put poutine on your fries instead of ketchup, but it is what it is.
But good luck, man.
It's a rupture.
You don't like that we've decided to make trade deals that are a little fairer to us.
You know, some of the deals were like if Canadians were to sell cheese in America, there would be no tax added to the cheese.
But if we tried to sell cheese to Canada, it was at like a 50% tax.
We just zeroed it out.
And you're upset about that?
What he said, the exact line that he said there was, we're in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.
Well, it's only a rupture if you want it to be a rupture.
If you want it to be a transition where things are just going to be a little more different and a little fairer.
And by the way, to the backdrop of the sort of endless jihad that you now have on your streets and the immigration problems, you might want to learn a little something from America.
You might want some of the protections that America can offer, not just the economic ones, but also the security ones.
But okay, you seem to have made your choice.
And I would say, and this is not a shot at the good Canadian people.
This is a shot at Carney.
Good luck with that.
Trump basically made the same point.
We're building a golden dome that's going to, just by its very nature, going to be defending Canada.
Canada gets a lot of freebies from us, by the way.
They should be grateful also, but they're not.
I watched your prime minister yesterday.
He wasn't so grateful.
But they should be grateful to us.
Canada, Canada lives because of the United States.
Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements.
So there's Kearney being all tough.
It's a rupture.
We don't need you.
We're going the other way.
Sure, we can, like, like, what do you want?
If you're the average Canadian, I would love to hear from some Canadians in the comments today.
Like, if you're a Canadian, do you think that you're, is there some scenario?
I'm a simple guy.
Lay it out to me simply.
Is there some scenario where if things are worse between the United States and Canada, Canada is better off?
I don't really, I can't really envision what that means.
Meaning, what?
That you'd be closer to China and you'd take more money from China and China would have more influence over your country and that would be good.
So, you know, we are building this golden dome thing.
You can like it or not like it, but it's going to offer some protections to Canada.
But again, it's about the economic stuff.
It's about the trade stuff and everything else.
And why is Carney upset?
It's a rupture.
He's only saying it's a rupture because for the last three, four decades, we've had completely lopsided trade deals with these people.
So they love, you can't blame them in some sense.
The Europeans and the Chinese and the Canadians and everyone else, when America was just a bunch of suckers, right?
When we were just like, oh, we'll have lopsided trade deals with everybody, meaning we'll just keep buying stuff at premium prices and you're going to tax the hell out of it to get into your countries so our economy is barely even open to you.
They were all thrilled.
Now Trump comes in and is like, we're going to at least try to make it a little more even, which is exactly what's happening.
And now it's a rupture.
So who is to blame there?
Well, I would blame our old American leaders.
I don't blame the Europeans who took advantage of us.
Here is Trump basically saying that without the U.S., the world is effed.
The United States is keeping the whole world afloat.
Many places, I could give you six, seven places, just in the people in this little area.
I know every one of them.
They're sort of looking down.
They don't want to see me and they don't want to stare me in the eyes.
But they're taking advantage of.
Everybody took advantage of the United States.
But I've been very fair and I gave them a tariff and it was fine.
But I realized that without us, it's not Switzerland anymore.
Without us, it's not any of the countries that are represented here.
And we want to work with the country.
First off, six, seven countries.
I don't know.
That's what the kids are doing.
Was that pretty good impression of a 15-year-old?
But of course, he's right.
Like, the implication is without us, guys, you think the world, you think you can all be Switzerland?
You think you can all go back to like pre-World War II.
I'm not going to bother anybody.
Nobody will bother me.
I think it's pretty clear that that's not how it works anymore.
There are people out there, there are bad guys out there who are, there are hordes of people who are invading countries for bad reasons.
Then you have China pushing drugs through our borders and everything else.
And if you think you can do this without the United States, as Trump basically said, good luck.
He's not going to force anyone to do anything.
I think that that's pretty clear.
Maybe that's a way, maybe that's something that he has to illustrate a bit more.
You can join us.
Like, he's pretty good at the you can join us and be part of our success thing.
But maybe he has to just show a little more of the other side of that.
Well, we won't force you.
And good luck.
I mean, actually, he's doing a pretty decent job at that too.
I'm going to show you two clips now of Howard Lutnick, our commerce secretary.
And I thought he perfectly, perfectly explains in the room that birthed globalization, which is now the top-down way of looking at the world, so that America will not be America.
America will just be a cog in a system.
He goes into that room and tells them, you guys have failed and America is back.
We are in Davos at the World Economic Forum.
And the Trump administration and myself, we are here to make a very clear point.
Globalization has failed the West and the United States of America.
It's a failed policy.
It is what the WEF has stood for, which is export offshore, far shore.
Find the cheapest labor in the world, and the world is a better place for it.
The fact is, it has left America behind.
It has left the American workers behind.
And what we are here to say is that America First is a different model, one that we encourage other countries to consider, which is that our workers come first.
We can have policies that impact our workers.
Sovereignty is your borders.
You're entitled to have borders.
You shouldn't offshore your medicine.
You shouldn't offshore your semiconductors.
You shouldn't offshore your entire industrial base and have it be hollowed out beneath you.
Phoenix, what was the book that Yoram Hazoni wrote a couple of years ago?
Not the sovereignty.
The case for nationalism.
He basically, what Lutnik just read, what laid out right there is basically a very short synopsis of a wonderful book, which I've read several times by Yoram Hazzoni, who maybe I'll have on the show again, who is part of the sort of brain trust at NatCon.
And it basically is that, yes, we are, no one's denying that we are a global world now, and especially because of this freaking phone.
We are all interconnected and I could be talking to someone in China just as easily as I could be talking to my next door neighbor.
That's absolutely, absolutely incredible.
The title of the book is The Virtue of Nationalism, and it's a fairly easy read.
It's not a dense book.
I highly recommend it.
But what he's saying there is the only way that we can be part of a world community is if each of our micro communities first take care of ourselves.
So what should the United States do?
Well, the United States should care about Americans.
We should care about our workers.
We should care about our economy.
We have to have borders so that we're a sovereign nation.
Maybe We Could Collaborate 00:01:43
And then when our house is in order, if you now want to do a Jordan Peterson version of it, when we've cleaned our room, we can open up the door, look into the hallway, and be like, all right, there's some other people here.
They've all got their own rooms.
And the guy next door to me, you know, he's pretty good.
He cleaned up his room.
Maybe we could work together on a project.
I don't know.
Maybe we could, I don't know, put a second level on this house.
And then you might go a little further down the hallway.
And then you open up a door and this guy's laying there.
And, you know, the room's upside down.
He hasn't made his bed and it's chaos and whatever.
Like this is, you know, like some version of what a country could be.
And you're like, you know what?
I can't work with you right now.
But if you start taking care of your stuff, maybe you could get, come on upstairs with us too.
Like that, it's so, it's basic human interaction.
Again, the book is virtue of nationalism.
That's what Lutnick laid out.
And then I thought this was also quite good, just as it pertains to sovereignty, which is the most important thing.
You know, we're always told international law and all these things and it's all nonsense.
National sovereignty is what matters.
Go.
You should not be dependent for that which is fundamental to your sovereignty on any other nation.
And if you're going to be dependent on someone, it darn well better be your best allies.
Okay.
And so that is a different way of thinking.
It is completely different than the WEF.
I viewed the WEF as not a flagpole in the middle, but in fact, they are the flag.
Whichever way the wind blew, so it blew.
Threats And Pushback 00:15:53
You should have solar.
You should have wind.
Why are you going to do solar and wind?
Why would Europe agree to be net zero in 2030 when they don't make a battery?
They don't make a battery.
So if they go 2030, they are deciding to be subservient to China who makes the batteries.
Again, you got to give credit to these guys.
They show up in a place where their eyes, their ideas are completely at odds with all of these people.
And you can even see in the body language of these guys, the way they're looking at him.
They don't want to hear this shit, but he's completely right.
You know what will happen if you go net zero by 2030, which is just completely absurd?
And it's, by the way, it's pushed by China.
It's pushed by China.
This was a massive issue when we were in Australia a couple weeks ago, a couple months ago.
Why would you do it?
When you don't produce the stuff, you will starve.
You will freeze in the winter.
Is that what you want to do?
But they've signed on to all of these treaties and we're a part of all of these accords and the climate change thing.
And we're just so good people because we keep putting our names on things that are slowly killing us.
Aren't we great?
No, you're not great.
And without us, you're seriously screwed.
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All right, so the WF stuff, or WEF, as Lutnick calls it, is still unfolding right now.
There are speeches happening right now.
So some of this is happening on the fly, and obviously we'll cover a bit more of this tomorrow.
But one of the things that really has taken center stage is that Donald Trump is saying that America has a strategic interest in Greenland, which is run by Denmark.
I don't want to do an entire history lesson on that, but the short of it would be: if we want Greenland, we're going to take it.
It's as simple as that.
I don't think the Danes are going to stop us.
But Donald Trump has also made the point that we are going back to a sort of revised version of the Monroe Doctrine, which is completely in line with everything that Lutnick said right there, which is that we are going to take care of ourselves and we are going to take care of our part of the world, our neighborhood, which is the Western Hemisphere.
And we're also not going to allow the encroachment of Russia and China to continue anymore.
So here, now let's jump back to Canada's Mark Carney, who does not want America to take Greenland because he, in essence, is a tool of China.
So listen to his sort of word salad around this.
And when President Trump says, oh, you know, Greenland's under threat from Russia, even from China, is that for real?
I would say that there are threats.
Russia is without question a threat in the Arctic, without question.
They are a real threat in the Arctic, one against we need to protect, which is why we have 364 five-day air, sea, and land presence.
No, he just said nothing.
Are Russia and China threat?
He then says Russia is a threat.
Russia is a threat.
He acknowledged it.
As if Canada is going to do anything.
Do you think Canada is going to do anything as Russia keeps encroaching on the Arctic, right?
So we wouldn't want Russian bases on Greenland.
We wouldn't want Chinese bases.
So it's word salad in that it doesn't mean anything.
So you're acknowledging reality, and I will give you credit for that.
But that's why we've got people patrolling and everything else.
Yes, like the Mounties are going to do anything.
They're not.
And that's not a shot to the Canadian people.
Again, it's the way your military is set up, certainly the way your leadership is set up.
It's like America, if anyone's going to stop Russia from taking over Greenland, right?
Or if anyone's going to stop Russia and China from taking over Venezuela, is it going to be Canada?
My God, the Canadians are here.
Here's Trump on Greenland.
It's located in such a place that is literally so important for national security.
When you come to Russia, when you come to China, a lot of Chinese boats, a lot of Russian ships, military ships.
It's in a location that is very important for our national security and also for the international security of the world, literally.
We're building a golden dome, and having Greenland makes it a much more effective golden dome.
All right, before I even comment on that, let me throw in one more of Trump trying to explain why we would want Greenland and why sort of Denmark in some sense is irrelevant in the conversation.
In 2019, Denmark said that they would spend over $200 million to strengthen Greenland's defenses.
But as you know, they spent less than 1% of that amount.
1%.
There's no sign of Denmark there.
And I say that with great respect for Denmark, whose people I love, whose leaders are very good.
It's the United States alone that can protect this giant mass of land, this giant piece of ice, develop it and improve it and make it so that it's good for Europe and safe for Europe and good for us.
After the war, we gave Greenland back to Denmark.
How stupid were we to do that?
But we did it.
But we gave it back.
But how ungrateful are they now?
All right, even putting aside ungrateful, the point is that Denmark hasn't done much with Greenland, 1% of what they promised to put in.
Why, in essence, other than they've planted a flag there after the war, do they operate in Greenland and they barely operate there at all?
We'll just throw a map up for just a second because maybe we should throw, should show a little more of this in general.
But you can see, look, do you see what's kind of below Greenland?
First off, Greenland's massive.
It's absolutely massive.
But do you see what's below it right there?
That's Canada.
So if, and if you go across the ocean over there, Denmark, is Denmark even?
Yeah, Denmark's visible there.
Denmark's a very, very small country.
So Denmark is very, very small, you know, basic Nordic country there.
You got Norway and Sweden.
Those countries don't do much outside of their borders.
Somehow Denmark is in charge of Greenland.
But look, Greenland is in our part of the world.
And if Russia, which is a little off the map there, but you'd have to go past Sweden over there.
If Russia and China started encroaching more and more, and as Trump said, there are ships and soldiers, et cetera, and they started encroaching a little bit more and more, who do you think that would be bad for first?
It would be bad for Canada first.
So when Carney sits there and he's like, yeah, Russia is a threat, but we've got patrol boats.
It's like, it doesn't matter.
You're not going to do anything.
So you might want to be a little bit grateful.
Here's Trump with a bit more on this on how an acquisition of Greenland not only could potentially benefit the people, but how it would reflect on a future of NATO.
The consequence of your determination to take control of Greenland is the ultimate breakup of the NATO alliance.
Is that a price you're willing to pay?
You mean the breakup of the nation?
So I think something's going to happen that's going to be very good for everybody.
Something's going to get worked out in Greenland, but Greenlanders have made it clear they don't want to be part of the U.S. When I speak to them, I'm sure they'll be thrilled.
All right, first off, I don't know where she came up with that.
There's a lot of evidence that Greenlanders really like the idea of being part of America.
And also many of them, there's not how many people are in Greenland?
It's a very small amount of people, right?
Is it like 100,000 or something?
It's not many.
57,000.
57,000.
Like, if America comes in and takes over and by, and we're not going to do it through military force, everyone calm down.
Like, they're going to get some cash, too.
Like, they're going to feel pretty, pretty good.
We're 57,000 people.
That's number one.
The earlier question, which was about NATO, it's like NATO, I'm not for or against NATO.
Like, the idea of NATO is good, that a bunch of hopefully good Western nations could all lie, and that if a bad guy attacks one, that everyone is in on it.
But we, you know, in on the defense of that nation.
But we know that's not really how it works because the United States foots most of the bill.
That's changed in some sense because of Trump.
But we also know that no one's going to do jack shit for anybody except the United States.
Look what's happening in Iran right now.
I mean, the internet is still off.
There's still a hell of a lot of killing.
We haven't even shown, we haven't even discussed it in the last day or two.
But it's only because if America doesn't do anything, no one's going to do anything.
You think the Canadians are going to send some people to help the Iranians?
Do you think the French are going to send some people or anyone else?
No.
So they could say, oh, we love NATO.
We love international agreements.
We love all of these things.
And Russia's encroaching, but I've got a boat because I'm Canadian.
No, none of it means anything.
It's America or bust, whether you like it or not.
And that's something for us as Americans to grapple with.
It just is the reality.
It doesn't mean everything that we do is good or positive or works out, but it does mean that if we don't do anything, it most likely gets worse.
Here's Scott Besson telling Kristen Walker that we have to get Greenland because there are some problems.
Just want to ask you big picture.
Is this a negotiating tactic, Mr. Secretary, or is President Trump serious about annexing Greenland?
President Trump strongly believes that we cannot outsource our security because, Kristen, let me tell you what will happen.
And it might not be next year, might not be in five years, but down the road, this fight for the Arctic is real.
We would keep our NATO NATO guarantees.
And if there were an attack on Greenland from Russia, from some other area, we would get dragged in.
So better now, peace through strength, make it part of the United States, and there will not be a conflict.
Connor just pointed out to me that the population of Flagstaff, Arizona, to where I've been and enjoyed the people, is larger than the entire country of Greenland.
Okay.
I'll address what he said there, but just again, so put up the map and I'll address it.
So what he's basically saying is, and this is again, completely consistent with what Trump laid out with the new Trump addendum to the Monroe Doctrine, is we are taking care of our part of the world.
Does it make sense that a tiny little country, Denmark, over there, is basically the custodian of this giant landmass called Greenland with 57,000 people where we know the Russians and Chinese want to take root in, right?
Or does it make more sense that we, as the superpower of the world, would have a little more vested interest in it?
And again, what's right beneath it?
It's Canada.
And I'm sorry with your little boats and all of your things.
You are not going to stop the bad guys.
So Besson is completely right.
If China and Russia just start putting more bases there, whatever they might start doing as affecting trade routes, et cetera, et cetera.
And let's say it's five years from now and they've beefed up their presence over there.
Canada isn't going to do anything about it.
So we're trying to nip this in the bud right now.
Here's a bit more about from what's going on from Donald Trump.
I had a very good telephone call with Mark Rutt, the Secretary General of NATO, concerning Greenland.
I agreed to a meeting of the various parties in Davos, Switzerland.
As I expressed to everyone very plainly, Greenland is imperative for national and world security.
There can be no going back.
On that, everyone agrees.
The United States of America is the most powerful country anywhere on the globe by far.
Much of the reason for this is a rebuilding of our military during my first term, which rebuilding continues at an even more expedited pace.
We're the only power that can ensure peace throughout the world, and it is done quite simply through strength.
Like, yeah.
Yeah.
It's just true.
It's just true.
Here's Dan Bongino, who I cannot wait in about 10 days is making his return to the online space after serving his country for the last year.
He wrote, President Trump's hemispheric security strategy is geopolitical common sense.
I've seen the threat picture and it's ominous.
We cannot, in an age of both advanced tactical and digital threats, allow sworn enemies of the United States to set up playgrounds in our backyard.
It will not end up well if we do.
This isn't the roaring 20s anymore.
Although the economy is roaring, the threats are expanding too, and distance buys us time.
That evaporates in our own backyard.
This should not be a partisan issue.
God bless America and all those who defend her.
Well, all right, first off, the fact that he's talking about having seen the threats and just sort of anecdotally, again, you just kind of know it.
You're living your life in your house with your family and your yard and three houses over is just utter chaos and it's a drug den and bad people are showing up and there are gang bangers and everything else.
It's eventually going to be a problem for you.
So, Besson is saying we are trying to nip it in the bud now.
Bangino is saying, hey, this isn't the old world anymore.
Like, threats have changed.
There is something different in the world.
And America, and again, it's completely consistent with what Trump laid out in this new updated Trump-Monroe doctrine.
All right, one more clip for you that I thought ties all of this together.
Is there a difference between Donald Trump 47 and Donald Trump 45?
And is there, and I would say even more broadly than that, is there a difference between the America that exists right now under 47 versus pretty much every administration before it?
Is there a difference?
I think the answer is obviously yes.
And is there a reason for that?
Well, listen to Trump.
Thank you very much.
First of all, last year you told me that you believe that the reason you won election is because God put you in this place so that you could save the world.
Looking back one year, do you feel like God is proud of the effort that you've placed?
I do, actually.
I think God is very proud of the job I've done.
And that includes for religion.
You know, we're protecting a lot of people that are being killed, Christians, Jewish people.
Lots of people are being protected by me that wouldn't be protected by another type of president.
No, I think a lot of people are very proud of the job we've done.
We've had an amazing year.
This has been one of the greatest years.
Even some people that wouldn't necessarily love me instinctively, they're saying this was an incredible year.
We've had an incredible year economically.
Look at our border.
Our border was a disaster.
People poured.
It was an invasion into our country.
All right.
So look, I can't speak to whether God's proud of Donald Trump.
I suspect he is, actually.
But, you know, remember the end of last year?
It's not too long ago, only the last two months or so ago, that there was a serious narrative problem happening that I kept talking about that everyone kept saying, well, the economy is sucking and he's focusing too much on foreign affairs and da-da-da-da-da.
And it was like, well, we got to just wait because we're rolling into our 250th anniversary.
There's going to be a resurgence of patriotism, patriotism.
Let's see what happens with the big beautiful bill.
Let's see what happens with inflation, which was really going down.
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And maybe now interest rates will start coming down.
I think most people, even the most Trump-deranged people, are making, and you can hear it even a little bit on the view, like they weren't that upset about some of the Venezuela stuff, right?
Anna Navarro, complete Trump derangement maniac, but she's Latina, Cuban, there's an association in that part of the world with Venezuela.
She was coming around a little bit.
And then what I think really, and this will be the key to saving the country before these midterms.
If the economy keeps rolling, if the foreign affairs stuff just calms down, which it is, now Iran is still a big one out there because they're still killing their own people.
And what do we do about that, if anything?
But if everything internally keeps going well, then the midterms will not be a disaster.
And the goodness that we imagine Trump, imagine Trump totally unleashed in a final term, having won the midterms and not having anything to worry about.
Do you think he would become an evil authoritarian leader who will stamp down on that?
Or do you think he would just go all in on saving America and the world?
I'm pretty sure it would be that one.
That is our program for today.
I thank you for watching.
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