Dave Rubin analyzes President Trump's April 6, 2026, threat to destroy Iranian infrastructure during a 35-day war, framing his aggressive rhetoric as a calculated negotiation tactic while highlighting Democratic hypocrisy regarding the 25th Amendment and comparing current actions to Obama's Libya intervention. The episode covers the rescue of two U.S. pilots, critiques Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on birthright citizenship jurisdiction, and features Edward Coristine arguing that DEI programs foster resentment against white men, concluding with Arthur Brooks' emphasis on real-life meaning over digital simulation. [Automatically generated summary]
Hope you had a very nice and pleasant and blessed Easter and that you were with family and had a moment to get off the machines and be present and see what it's really all about and all of that stuff.
Of course, it is Monday, so we are diving right back into the madness.
One quick piece of housekeeping before we start we are going to restart our Tequila Thursdays.
Originally, we were doing them as tequila Tuesdays.
That does sound better, but frankly, I just don't want to drink on Tuesdays.
I just don't.
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And I, and it seems to me, I keep saying some version of this, but over the last few months it's become more stark.
The divide between what most of us are seeing on this thing, this little device in our pocket and social media, the divide between that and what is happening in the real world seems to be getting increasingly, uh, bigger and bigger and bigger.
And a lot of that falls on the fact that there are so many propagandists out there rather than truth tellers.
There's so much AI slop out there.
There are so many bots out there.
It's very hard to tell what is true.
But there is a lot of good stuff happening with this Iran war, which right now we are about 35 days into.
This is not a forever war.
This isn't an endless war or anything else.
As I keep saying, have a little faith in Donald Trump and a little imagination that America can still do good things.
And I think this thing will wrap up nice.
There is some breaking news that happened about two minutes before we started the show.
But let me dive in for a moment, and then we'll get you caught up on that.
You probably saw this.
Yesterday on Easter Day from Donald Trump on Truth.
I am going to curse here because I want to get it as clean and clear as possible, and this is coming right from the president.
Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day, all wrapped up in one in Iran.
There will be nothing like it.
Open the fucking straight, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell.
Just watch.
Praise be to Allah, President Donald J. Trump.
Then he, before I get into analyzing that, he then tweeted or Truth Social posted this Tuesday, 8 p.m. Eastern Time.
So that is, you know, what is that?
That's like 32 hours from now, something like that.
So, okay, so a lot of people, I was trying to stay off the Twitter machine on Easter and over the weekend, but I did jump on once or twice just to see what was going on.
And a lot of people were obviously freaking out over the choice language in that he drops an F bomb, he mentions Allah, it's quite, there's all the apostrophes and everything else.
So people were going, what is going on?
Is this Like a bit much.
Now, my position on all of the tweets is really the same thing that it's been for the last eight years.
Trump's been around doing politics for 10 years, and for the first two years, I don't think I quite got the everyone, oh, stop with the mean tweets, and I was probably one of those people.
And then at some point, I realized it's a game with him.
He leads with certain things, then he pulls back.
His greatest skill, perhaps more than anything else, is his ability to get people to go apoplectic about things that they probably shouldn't be freaking out about.
He uses language in a fairly liberal way, let's say.
But I thought this tweet, this is just from an ex commentator, Jake Hilton, I thought he nailed what the sort of genesis or the sort of important point of the tweet was.
He wrote back, he wrote exactly, and when President Trump says, Praise be to Allah, he's doing something very similar to what the prophet Elijah did on Mount Carmel with the prophets of Baal.
He's basically saying, Call on your God all you want.
He will not be there to save you from the fire and brimstone I'm about to rain down on you.
So, look, we can have an endless debate about whether the president should use the F bomb.
That's fine if we want to still do that.
I'm sort of past that point.
I'm not defending it or anything else, but we're past that point.
The point that Trump really was trying to make, Connor, can you put up the Truth Social Post again?
I don't have to read the whole thing again.
But the point that he was making with this, with the exclamation points, the F bomb, you crazy bastards, you'll be living in hell, all caps, praise be to Allah.
The real point is a negotiation point, which is you don't know what the hell I'm going to do, but you do know I'm a man of my word.
And if you guys do not negotiate now, if you do not come to some agreement now, I am going to do some crazy ass things.
And there is something interesting about using the Prophet Allah part of it, right?
Because saying, okay, pray to whoever you want.
We're in charge here.
And that actually is the truth, right?
Like that is the truth of what's going on here.
They can pray to whoever they want.
If their leaders make the wrong decisions right now, nothing is going to stop Donald Trump.
Here is a bit more from Rachel Scott, who's an ABC News correspondent.
She wrote, Spoke with President Trump.
He told me the conflict should be over in days, not weeks, but if no deal is made, he's blowing up the whole country with very little off the table.
If happens, it happens.
And if it doesn't, we're blowing up the whole country, he said.
I asked if there's anything off limits.
Very little, he said.
Now, again, Some of that may be negotiating posture, right?
It's Trump saying crazy things, and because you don't know what he might do, that is how he gets people to the negotiating table.
There was even, we didn't grab it, but I saw over the weekend someone grabbed from Art of the Deal, you know, his famous book about all this, that sometimes you want in negotiations to act a little crazy, right?
That's part of it.
You know, you're playing cards with someone.
If they know exactly what you're going to do every time, if you have a tell every time, if they think you're going to bluff every time or not going to bluff, then they can play you.
He is trying to play them and does it rather effectively.
Now, interestingly, we saw this quite literally, I don't know, a minute before we started the show from open source intel.
Iran rejects temporary ceasefire proposal.
Iranian news agency Erna reports that Tehran has rejected a proposal for a temporary ceasefire, demanding a complete end to fighting, removal of sanctions, and guarantees for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
So, by every account at the moment, if Trump is going to keep his word, It sounds like tomorrow night at 8 p.m., all hell is going to break loose.
Now, the question is if you're going to hit power plants and you're going to hit civilian infrastructure and things of that nature, how do you make sure it's not going to harm the people but just the regime?
He clearly, if we're understanding all of this correctly, we went through the top tier of people, Ayatollah and the mullahs, all gone.
Then there was the next Ayatollah and the next round of guys, all gone.
And we were talking to third or fourth level people here.
They seem to not be playing ball the way Donald Trump wants.
And now we will see what happens.
Of course, the broader point on the political side of this is that no matter, really know this point when you're in arguments or debates with your friends about what's going on here, no matter what Donald Trump does, the Democrats hate him.
The Democrats will try to stop him.
And at this point, I would say most Democrats, and I don't mean this to be hyperbolic or over the top, I would say most Democrats at this point actually want us to lose the war.
They want us to lose the war because that would be a loss for Donald Trump.
And they, their whole worldview is in contrast to what Donald Trump wants, right?
So Chris Van Hollen, this is that brilliant senator out of Maryland who had the, uh, margarita with the Brago Garcia, the guy who beat his wife with the boot and was a human trafficker and NMS 13 and the rest of it.
Uh, here he is.
He doesn't like Donald Trump very much.
He wrote this on Twitter.
Trump is clearly unfit to be president, but do not that, let that explain away the evil of his threatening war crimes against the Iranian people on Easter Sunday, no less.
We cannot let Trump Normalize this.
Now, interestingly, I did take a glance.
Van Hollen has no tweets about the war crimes on the Israeli people, who every single rocket that Iran shoots is shot at civilian infrastructure, and they're shooting cluster munitions designed to blow up as many things as possible and do as much damage as possible.
And quite literally, he had a rocket that fell, I think it was what, a thousand meters from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the holiest site in Christianity, not to mention the Western Walls right there, holiest site in Judaism, et cetera, et cetera.
Oh, and I suppose at least he would care about the Dome of the Rock.
All of that aside, it's interesting.
He thinks that Donald Trump is unfit.
That's quite a serious charge by a serious man out of Maryland.
Here's what he had to say about Joe Biden in 2024.
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Given the political questions that have come up repeatedly about Biden's fitness for office and questions about his memory, are you confident he is the best candidate to try and defeat Donald Trump?
I'm absolutely confident, based on his incredible record of success for the country, that he is the right person to lead the country for another four years.
This is going to be the official list of people that are completely ridiculous and your opinions don't matter anymore.
You, any one of you that thought, it doesn't matter what you think about Donald Trump's politics, it doesn't matter what you think about the war or how he tweets.
If you thought that Joe Biden was fit and he is not mentally fit to be president, a guy that's flying all over the place, that does press conferences relentlessly, takes questions from everybody, he's on the plane, he could be sleeping, he pops his head out, talks to everybody, you no longer matter.
You are irrelevant and ridiculous and buffoonish.
Speaking of irrelevant, ridiculous, and buffoonish, this one's a little sad for me because Roe Kahn was the only Democrat that would talk to me for about two years.
I had him on the show.
Many times, and we, you know, I think personally, he's probably a perfectly fine guy.
You know, when I chatted with him afterwards, a lot of times when I'd have him on air, I really didn't understand what he was saying, and I would push back on certain things.
He was still into DEI and a lot of the woke nonsense and all of that.
But here he is on one of the Sunday shows over the weekend, basically just saying the quiet part out loud that the Democrats are going to impeach Trump if they take back power, period, full stop.
I know you wanted to pretend you were one of the moderate Democrats, but you're not.
You're a far left loon who is telling us in advance that when you get power, you will try to impeach the sitting president.
And if not only if you get it in the House, but if the Senate is taken over by the Dems too, which is a longer shot than Congress, obviously, than the House, that then he could actually be fully impeached, meaning kicked out of office.
That is their plan.
And by the way, that has been their plan all along.
We went through two sham impeachments, something having to do with Russia.
Does anyone remember what the impeachments were about anymore?
Nobody even remembers.
We already did this.
And just because you don't like what Donald Trump is doing right now, are you telling me, Roh Khanna, that, um, when Barack Obama got us into Libya and didn't get congressional authority and caused that country to be a failed state, that Barack Obama should have been impeached?
You want to talk about impeachment.
I think it's far more worthy of impeachment if you have a president who isn't actually president and an auto pen is signing all of his documents or a president who, I don't know, opened up the floodgates to 20 million illegals to come into the country.
Those would be far more, uh, far more impeachable.
Offenses.
But one of the problems the Democrats have, as I said for years, is they never know when they've gone too far and they have nobody to regulate them.
So I thought this was rather interesting because further in this interview, Roe Kano was asked if he would apologize for going on Hassan Piker's show.
We've mentioned this guy a couple times.
He worked at the Young Turks when I was there.
He is an absolutely awful human who, I kid you not, when I was there was harassing all of the women and literally their response to that was have him work from home.
I used to play basketball with them on Sundays where he would bring his pit bull, he would tie against a tree.
And the dog would go crazy.
There's videos of him on playing his video games or whatever the hell he does on Twitch and electrocuting the dog with a shock collar.
Uh, he has said that nine, America deserved 9-11.
He has called for, well, you know what?
Here's, here's Roe first, not apologizing for appearing with this guy.
You know, because like the Taliban guy was like, oh, you have nuclear arms, but we have like suicide bombers.
Like, we'll just blow up your country with suicide bombers.
And it's like, you really don't need that anymore in drone warfare, right?
You don't need that at all.
Just make fucking drones.
Just, you can purchase them from, you know, you can purchase them in the online marketplace.
Like, China literally sells like explosive ordnance delivery mechanisms that you can put to a DJI drone that you can purchase like at virtually no cost.
Uh, significant cost in comparison to, like, you know, sophisticated equipment that you need to put.
Uh, but okay, so you guys, I would say, Roe and the rest of the dems, keep going with this guy.
Keep going with your socialist.
I love how she calls him a socialist.
I mean, he's a fake socialist.
He's a LARPing socialist.
We've tried to figure out the exact numbers, but the guy makes probably at least 500 grand a month on Twitch on top of all of his other deals.
So he, this is what we call a champagne socialist, right?
He's super rich while he does.
you know, communism, tourism in Cuba, which we covered a week or two ago.
Uh, but there he is, America deserved 9-11.
Uh, when, in the earlier in that clip, he's making fun of Dan Crenshaw, who obviously had his, uh, had to have his eye removed after an incident, I think in Iraq when he was on tour duty there.
Uh, and he's also telling his audience of young kids, his audience is very young, right?
It's this young video game socialist, whatever that is on Twitch, telling them quite literally, don't bother with the suicide vests anymore.
That's old school.
Uh, just build suicide drones.
So I would say to Roe and the rest of the Dems, you, Actually, stick with this guy.
What's her name?
Kirsten Welker?
Don't bother asking the question anymore.
Let them tie themselves to this guy and let's see how that works out.
The reason I bring all of that up, though, is that you can start to see what the next move is with the Democrats because when the war ends and it ends with an Iranian defeat and it ends with new peace deals in the Middle East and countries realizing they're not going to blow Israel off the map and that Israel isn't their enemy and that if you stick with America, good things are going to happen.
And why is it that Iran's been shooting rockets at a dozen?
Countries, etc., etc.
At the end of all of this, there's going to be something good, and the Democrats really don't want Trump getting a win before the midterms, literally and figuratively.
Okay, so allow me to show you this from the New York Times in 2017.
2017, the 25th Amendment solution for removing Trump.
That's what they were doing in 2017.
Where are we now?
We're in 2026.
Nine years later, they are doing the exact same thing.
They are telling you.
25th Amendment andor impeach him.
If we can't get to the impeachment part, let's 25th Amendment him.
There was a president that should have been 25th Amendmented, and by the way, the lady who replaced him, Kamala Harris, definitely threatened him with that, which is why he didn't run again, and he basically admitted that on The View.
You remember that.
Was that not last summer, the summer before?
But the point of all of this is that there's endless hypocrisy here.
This is all the Democrats have.
They have fear and hypocrisy.
So here's New York Representative Republican Mike Lawler pointing out.
That the Democrats are completely hypocritical on this because all of them were for Obama and his seven month war blowing up Libya, which nobody knew why he did.
Congress was lawfully notified within 48 hours of the initial incursion.
So for Tim Kaine or any other Democrat to say this is illegal, especially after so many Democrats, including Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, supported Barack Obama's seven month war in Libya, is just hypocritical at best.
And they are gaslighting the American people when they talk about this.
Again, this is a good one for when you get into debates with your friends.
So if you're sitting with a friend and they're saying, but Donald Trump didn't go to Congress to get authorization for the war, and you can point out Libya, and you can point out how Obama didn't do it, and you can point out how Clinton didn't do it, and George W. Bush actually did get approval for Iraq, but you can point out the presidents don't do it and whatever.
Here's a better point that you can point out Imagine if Donald Trump had to go to Congress for this war.
Imagine if there had to be a week's worth of discussions around this.
A element of surprise gone.
But B, there's a bigger issue, and we all know this, and the mainstream is really afraid to talk about it.
We have enemies of the state that are in Congress.
Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, you could probably argue AOC, Bernie on the Senate side.
And it's not because I disagree with them, but they are in cahoots and in more common cause with enemy actors than they are with the United States of America.
Do you think there is any chance in high hell that those members of Congress and probably many others on the Democrat side would not leak war plans to the media, would not leak Quite literally, to our enemies, to the NGOs and nonprofits that are funding all of the mayhem on the streets and everything else.
There is, and then meanwhile, think about the scale of this war.
Like, we have pulled off something so absolutely incredible that it will be studied for decades to come in terms of modern warfare, but all of it was based on the element of surprise.
So, you're basically saying take a bunch of people who have dedicated their lives to destroying the President of the United States, and the President of the United States should have to give them his war plans before we launch the war.
It's completely crazy.
Now, you may want And in some weird alternate universe, I would want the president to have to get congressional authority, right?
That's checks and balances and everything else.
But sadly, it's not the world we live in.
We have a branch of government, a party in a branch of government, whose only modus operandi is to take down the president.
This is a problem.
Another problem is that we have a media that just is, at this point, I would say, largely running cover for an Islamist regime, several Islamist regimes, actually.
So, in that, we've already dropped a couple F bombs on the show.
I do want to bring back our stinger for Scott Jennings over on CNN, the original one, because it's truly applicable here.
Watch as Scott and a former Obama staffer get into it.
And internet propaganda, which is something actually the Iranians have been known for and influencing.
And so they had, you know, for all of our talk on our side of all the people killed in the regime, they have been pushing out through multiple channels around the world images of the American army generals and military people who have also lost their jobs at this time.
So again, the way this looks out in the public is not a United States that is locked and loaded and working in one direction.
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Do you think that the Iranians would rather have their entire Navy back or their memes?
I mean, my God, do you see why we had to bring back the R word intro on that one?
Like, lady, like, first off, you can feel it.
She wants us to lose.
She wants us to lose.
But Scott brings up the point.
Would you rather win a meme war or a real war?
And that's also sort of what's going on with the Democrats right now.
We are winning the war.
There's not even a question about it.
Military leadership gone, Navy gone, Air Force gone, controlling airspace.
Space, all of those things, right?
A ballistic missile program gone.
These are all facts.
These are 100% pure facts.
There's just no doubt about it.
Now, not to say it doesn't have any headaches.
There are some headaches, for sure.
It's a freaking war.
But she thinks, and part of the Democrats think, if you can just win the narrative war, you don't have to win the real war.
Let's win the narrative war.
So they're putting out a lot of memes.
And it is true.
The Iranian regime and its proxies, and then some of its influencers that are Americans, are pushing out Iranian propaganda.
How many American generals have lost their job during all of this?
As she pointed out, many, she said, many American generals.
I don't know how many.
Do we know how many?
During this war, in the last, yeah, we're going to look.
I don't know how many American generals.
I like, they're just making up nonsense.
But even if they were winning, which would you rather win?
The click war or the war war?
I know which one I'd rather win.
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Speaking of memoirs, we're going to take that Scott Jennings clip and let's put the curb music to it at the end.
I mean, that's just perfect.
Here's a bit more.
So something else.
This absolutely is extraordinary and such a compliment and a testament to our brave warriors that are fighting this war that the Democrats seem to want us to lose.
But one of our, well, two of our fighter planes were shot down over Iraq over the weekend.
And there was a period of time where we did not know what happened to the pilots.
Let's get you caught up.
This is just so incredible.
This from NBC.
U.S. forces were searching for an F-15E crew member after a two-seater fighter jet went down over Iran, a U.S. official said Friday.
The other crew member has been rescued.
Iran shot down the F-15E Strike Eagle, a U.S. official said, and the American military was scrambling to find the second aviator after a regional governor offered a bounty for his crew.
A U.S. aircraft that was mobilized to support the search and rescue mission was also struck by Iranian fire after the F-15E jet was downed, a U.S. official told NBC News.
That aircraft, a single-pilot A-10 Thunderbolt, Known as a warthog, it made it to Kuwaiti airspace where the pilot ejected and the aircraft crashed, the official said.
The pilot is safe and the A 10 is down in Kuwait, according to the official.
Iran's media published photos alongside claims from the IRGC that it had shot down the F 15E.
The Pentagon and White House did not immediately comment on the claims.
Okay, so there were a few hours where we did not know where at least one of these pilots were.
And then Donald Trump posted this on Easter Sunday We got him.
My fellow Americans, over the past several hours, the U.S. military pulled off one of the most daring.
Search and rescue operations in U.S. history for one of our incredible crew member officers who also happens to be a highly respected colonel who I'm thrilled to let you know is safe and sound.
This brave warrior was behind enemy lines in treacherous mountains of Iran, being hunted down by our enemies who were getting closer and closer by the hour, but was never truly alone because his commander in chief, secretary of war, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and fellow warfighters were monitoring his location 24 hours a day and diligently planning for his rescue.
At my direction, the U.S. military sent dozens of aircraft armed with the most lethal weapons in the world. to retrieve him.
He sustained injuries, but will be just fine.
This miraculous search and rescue operation comes in addition to a successful rescue of another brave pilot yesterday, which we did not confirm because we did not want to jeopardize our second rescue operation.
This is the first time in military memory that two U.S. pilots have been rescued separately deep in enemy territory.
We will never leave an American warfighter behind.
The fact we were able to pull off both of these operations without a single American killed or even wounded just proves once again that we have achieved overwhelming air dominance and superiority over the Iranian skies.
This is a moment that all Americans, Republican, Democrat, and everyone else should be proud and united around.
We truly have the best, most professional, and most lethal military in the history of the world.
God bless America.
God bless our troops.
And happy Easter to all.
I mean That's one of his best posts ever.
I mean, he didn't need any choice language and he barely threw in any extra exclamation points or anything else.
Like, that's pretty freaking perfect, right?
We saved both of these guys.
One was seriously at risk.
We went in with overwhelming force.
You know, we got Maduro out of Venezuela without having one of our guys killed.
We've now gone deep into Iranian territory on the ground, not just in the air, and saved one of our warriors, as Donald Trump called them.
I mean, it really is phenomenal.
Here's a bit more from Trump.
We have rescued the seriously wounded and really brave F-15 crew member officer from deep inside the mountains of Iran.
The Iranian military was looking hard in big numbers and getting close.
He is a highly respected colonel.
This type of raid is seldom attempted because of the danger of man and equipment.
It just doesn't happen.
The second raid came after the first one, where we rescued the pilot in broad daylight.
Also unusual, spending seven hours over Iran.
An amazing show of bravery and talent by all.
I will be having a news conference with the military at the Oval Office on Monday at 1 p.m.
God bless our great military warriors, President Donald J. Trump.
So obviously, we'll cover that press conference tomorrow.
But it is rather, it's really important, guys.
It does not matter what you think about the war.
Does not matter what you think about Trump or anything else.
We will not let our soldiers, our warriors languish behind enemy lines.
Like, not only if there was a Democrat administration right now, the Iranian regime would be getting stronger.
They'd be killing more of their own people.
Their entire war machine and terrorism export machine would be running.
But we would never have the balls, even if we tried a little operation, to then go in on the ground and save our people.
But we have fine tuned our machine.
And this is what everyone fears.
Enemies fear it and the Democrats fear it because they fear a strong America.
Here's Fox News' Trey Inks with a bit more about how this all went down.
News can report that on Saturday morning, the CIA was able to locate and confirm this U.S. service member in a mountain ridge south of the city of Isfahan.
And that is when the appropriate calls were made to relevant parties, including the Secretary of War, the Joint Chiefs Chairman, and the President himself, who ultimately ordered this operation.
And within 12 hours, we can report there were U.S. special forces on the ground inside of Iran rescuing this U.S. service member.
Fox News has learned that after the fighter jet was shot down on Friday, the weapons systems officer hiked to an elevated mountain ridge where he hid and waited for retrieval.
The pilot of the jet was rescued by U.S. special forces on Friday, but President Trump said they waited to confirm as to not jeopardize this second operation.
The president added, quote, this is the first time in military memory that two U.S. pilots have been rescued separately deep in enemy territory.
The IDF said they avoided striking this area as American planes and helicopters flew at a low altitude.
That doesn't mean some weird things aren't going to happen.
And occasionally some of our pilots are going to be shot down.
Or as happened, we had Kuwait actually shot down one of our, I think two of our planes right at the beginning of the war, and both of the pilots were okay.
There are fog of war.
Things are going to happen.
But we have an administration that will back our people.
I mean, what an incredible Easter gift that our guys are back, right?
And I don't know where they are right now.
It wouldn't surprise me if Donald Trump at 1 p.m. today has one of them already at the White House.
We'll see about that.
All right, let's leave the war there for now.
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All right, so as we covered last week, the big fight now heading to the Supreme Court is over birthright citizenship.
And the simplest kind of, if you need like a one sentence bumper sticker on this thing, is do you think if someone comes to America for any reason, whether it's they're on vacation and they give birth, or they're illegal and they give birth, or they're on a temporary visa and they give birth, or just any other version that you can come up with of someone who's not a citizen and gives birth in the United States, do you think that that child should automatically have citizenship?
The answer is.
I think it is fairly obvious that it should be no.
And now this is being fought over at the highest court in the land.
Here's a bit more from Fox over the last week of what's happened.
On Wednesday, April 1st, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in what may be the most important case in decades.
The court will now consider President Donald Trump's executive order rejecting birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens, and the decision will have vast political and economic consequences for every American.
But this all important case should be open and shut.
The Constitution's text and history are on the president's side.
Nothing in the Constitution requires the government to give citizenship to the children of illegal aliens.
The case centers on the 14th Amendment citizenship clause, which states that all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States.
The key phrase in the dispute is and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.
A plain reading of the grammar and shows that birthright citizenship requires two conditions, not just being born here.
So did you really understand that?
And we should get a lawyer on.
Uh, to do, we'll do a quick 20 minute interview.
We'll get a constitutional error.
But the and word is the key part of the whole thing.
So being born here, that's one of the two things.
But and subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, that's the key part.
And just because you're born here, you are not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
That is the key part.
So now, We'll have to slow it down.
Let's slow down the show.
Do we have slow music we could put on this?
Or children's music actually would be more appropriate, because we're going to talk about Katanji Brown Jackson.
And this is a woman who was appointed to the Supreme Court by Joe Biden because he wanted a black woman.
And it's no problem with a black woman.
I know plenty of black women that are great women.
But that in and of itself is not a qualifier for why you should be sitting on the highest court in the land.
However, Joe Biden said he wanted a black woman.
And the thing is, she's not.
Particularly qualified, and it's fairly obvious she's not particularly good at this job.
So we have a couple audio clips here where she's just confused about the very, very basics of what makes someone a citizen.
He's saying right now, as it stands, because we've been giving everyone citizenship, you're getting that birth certificate, you're getting that social security number.
The issue now is the and that we talked about before.
And okay, you were born in the United States, that's one of two, but and are you subject to the jurisdiction of this land?
And from what I understand, most constitutional lawyers think the answer is no.
And putting aside constitutional law for a second, if we were just talking about common sense, which I know has very little to do with anything that we would normally talk about, do you think if someone literally is seven months pregnant, they hop on a plane from China or from Chile or from Chad, and they give birth here while on vacation, that the kid should be an American?
It's just simply crazy.
But the point is, this lady is not particularly bright and she's not particularly good at her job.
And did we have any signals that she wouldn't be particularly good at her job?
Was she ever asked?
Question in a confirmation hearing that was a very simple question, and she, yeah, can you provide a definition for the word woman?
You didn't have to get into all of the XYs and the XXs and everything else.
Just completely ridiculous.
Here's Donald Trump chiming in on truth about what's going on here.
Phoenix, you got a roll for me.
It's too bad that the Supreme Court can't watch and study.
The Mark Levin show tonight on the birthright citizenship scam.
If they saw it, they would never allow that money making hoax to continue.
They should use their powers of common sense for the good of our country.
They failed miserably on tariffs, needlessly costing the USA hundreds of billions of dollars in potential rebates for the benefit of haters and scammers.
Look, sometimes you're going to get decisions you like, and sometimes you get decisions you don't, right?
And we have a court that now.
Technically, it leans more on the conservative side, right?
It's thought of as a conservative court, but you know, John Roberts is very wishy washy.
Even Comey Barrett, Amy Comey Barrett, has turned out to be a little bit wishy washy.
But the court is going to make the decisions it makes.
Now, at the end of the day, at the end of the day, you end up in a fight between the branches.
And in some sense, that fight is good because that's how we don't end up with the king.
But the specific issue as it relates to birthright citizenship right now is what has happened in America.
And these numbers, just in the last three years, Are absolutely insane.
Take a little mental note right now.
How many people do you think, you person watching this right now, how many citizens, quote unquote citizens, were born in the United States over the last three years that now have citizenship, meaning they came in from temporary migrant mothers, illegals, etc.?
How many do you think?
Well, here's Fox giving you the answer, and it's impressive.
In 2023, over 300,000 babies were born to unauthorized or legal temporary immigrant mothers.
Add that in total.
It's 9% of the U.S. births in that given year.
When we look at how that shakes out over time, a clear spike in the number of births to unauthorized immigrant mothers in the United States from 2019 to 2023.
Could that have possibly been what the founders intended?
Could that possibly be what the 14th Amendment is all about?
And then when you bring in all of these people, well, then of course the other question is let's say you're on board.
You're just like, you know what, you get born here, good for you, you got here, okay.
Well, at least you have to assimilate.
But the other problem is we now have a massive assimilation problem in the country.
Check out this video of Mall of America in Minnesota.
This is Somalitown 101.
And the question is look, I'm not judging any of these people specifically.
But the question is, does this look like a mall in America?
How do you think long term a place like this, where women are in these outfits, will work out for quote unquote liberal democracy?
We also know that out in the Somali community, it sounds like about 85% of them are on some form of welfare.
We know that they have the Learing Center and a series of other highly scammed operations that we are looking into right now.
This is a problem over time.
America was founded to be a melting pot.
My great grandparents on both sides came from Eastern Europe.
They spoke Polish, they spoke Yiddish.
I think there were some, there were probably some other languages that they spoke.
And what they did was they came to America and they learned English and they wanted their children to know English and be part of America.
And that's what Italian immigrants did and that's what Puerto Rican immigrants did and Irish immigrants.
And we can go all the way down the line.
You come to America, it doesn't mean you can't eat the foods that you had before or listen to the music, but you fold into the American society.
And without language, without a common language, well, we then quite literally have nothing because we will not be able to communicate with each other.
So, this video was going super viral over the weekend.
This is a New Jersey congressional candidate.
His name is Jay Vangankar.
And here he is campaigning in Hindi.
And there's obviously a lot of Indians in certain sections of New Jersey.
But it's all in Hindi.
And also, note this is a very Zorhan Mamdami camera edit, angles, et cetera, et cetera, watch.
Sorry, I know nothing about this guy, but that does not work.
That does not work if you want America to continue.
Period.
We don't have to discuss it any further.
I don't know what he means about Desi voices haven't been heard, but what language?
Where do you think you are?
We are in America.
You want to speak Hindi at home?
You want to speak Hindi with your family?
You want that to be the second language in your household, in your community?
That's all fine.
But you're campaigning on it?
So who are you putting first?
And over time, how does that work?
If people from this country are only going to speak their language, and this country only can speak their language, et cetera, et cetera, then eventually what is America?
It's nothing, right?
It's nothing.
You got to put that aside.
So, somebody beat that guy, please.
I don't know.
I mean, not electorally.
Beat that.
Who's he running against?
Let's find out who he's running against.
I'm going to guess it's someone who's only speaking in Afghani.
Anyway, here's Tom Homan on why birthright citizenship is completely wrong.
I don't think the founders want to reward that type of behavior by giving citizenship to a child they have here.
Second of all, it's a major driver of illegal immigration.
It's a magnet.
A lot of people come here to have a child, to have a U.S. citizen child, to take advantage of the benefits here, the great benefits we have in this country for citizens.
Third, birth tourism has been a problem for the three decades that I've been enforcing immigration law, especially from Russia and China.
Where hundreds of thousands of their nationals come to this country just to give birth.
All right, so the question really is do you think he's a liar and a bad person for saying that illegals who come here shouldn't have citizenship just because they gave birth here, their kids should have citizenship?
Like, of course not.
He's also saying there are people that are gaming the system to get benefits.
After everything we know, post Doge, post all the Somali fraud, do you think that's probable?
Of course it is, right?
And at the end of the day, if the Democrats keep importing these people, And then keep giving them things.
Who do you think they will vote for?
And the answer obviously is the Democrats.
That is why this midterm election is so vital.
It's vital because not only are they going to try to impeach Donald Trump, don't take my word for it, listen to Rokhana, but also because then they will try to flood the country with illegals and make all the illegals who are already here citizens.
And again, don't take my word for that, take Chuck Schumer's word for that.
Do better, they do worse.
So let's go now to Eric Swalwell.
Eric Swalwell, who of course is running for governor of California.
May God have mercy on all your souls.
Here he is back in January threatening ICE agents.
I think he thinks he has a little bit of the Newsome glean or something.
He just doesn't.
Whatever.
Newsome slime, I should call it.
So I don't know what will happen in the Cali election.
But, like, when you hear something like that, and you hear him, and, you know, if you're working for fascists, and we're going to take your license away if you put on a mask, the reason the ICE agents are wearing masks is because their families are being docked.
And threatened you, imbecile.
And it's like, you know what?
At some level, it's like, okay, you guys want that?
You want to elect that guy after however many years of Newsom?
At some point, we're just not the United States of America anymore.
You want to do all that, Callie?
Fine.
You want to all be absolutely insane?
Go be insane in your insane asylum, and maybe we'll build a wall around that.
The problem here, of course, is that Democrats are trying to collapse the system.
I don't think I can say it any clearer.
That's what they're trying to do.
In a government, a partial shutdown.
DHS is still partially shut down now for over 90 days because the Democrats will not enforce immigration laws.
They hate ICE, even though it's fully funded, and they're going to try to exert maximum pain.
Here's New York Representative, Republican Mike Lawler.
Kristen, what's not acceptable is that for this fiscal year, Democrats have shut down the Department of Homeland Security for over 90 days, not paying FEMA, not paying the Coast Guard, not paying the Secret Service, and not paying critical operations within the Department of Homeland Security.
The fact is, Democrats made a very calculated decision to shut down the Department because they do not want to enforce our immigration laws.
Yeah, they do not want to enforce our immigration laws.
And as I've been saying from day one of this, the other thing is that they know that a certain amount of people, Especially their base is not particularly bright.
And when they feel the pain at the airport or elsewhere, they will blame President Trump because he's president, right?
They will not, the average person who gets on the long line there and then is like, wait a minute, DHS and TSA is shut down.
What's going on here?
Who's in charge?
Donald Trump.
And they'll go and they'll be angry at Donald Trump.
Every time we get to the table, what we start talking about, you know, coming together in some areas, they come back and they want more and more and more.
And that's the point because, again, ICE is fully funded.
So when they are holding up payments to the TSA agents, it's to extract some sort of concession from Donald Trump and the Republicans on ICE, which is already fully funded.
Let's continue with Democrat craziness.
Remember Stacey Abrams?
This is a woman who has done nothing in her life.
She has done nothing.
She has lost several elections over the years.
She has made an awful lot of money for nonprofits, which she, for whatever reason, refuses to put into simple orthodontic work that would close the gap in her teeth.
And also, from what I understand, she was the number one person at Golden Corral Buffet in 2024.
Here she is, very concerned that the U.S. is heading towards authoritarianism.
The 10 steps to authoritarianism, when you lose democracy and authoritarianism rises, it takes 10 steps.
And step seven is that you scapegoat the vulnerable.
And in the United States, that's largely been targeted at immigrants and DEI.
And if you do that component piece, if you can scapegoat these communities, we start becoming numb to our concerns about their humanity.
But voter suppression is very real.
And in elections that are decided on the margins, voter suppression comes together, whether it's ending mail in voting.
Using citizenship proof, although every citizen has to, you have to prove your citizenship to get on the rolls today, these more restrictive policies all come together to make it harder for average people to be heard.
If you're a senior, if you're rural, if you're disabled, if you're a student, if you're a person of color.
Man, that foreshot right there, like it is the Muppet Show, just with less talented people.
Okay, so let's just do this quick, lady.
And again, congratulations for the Golden Crossing.
You're scapegoating immigrants and DEI.
Well, okay.
You said immigrants.
You didn't say illegal immigrants.
We're talking about illegal immigrants, not immigrants.
Okay, that's one.
So you lied about that.
And then you said we're scapegoating as it pertains to DEI.
Well, DEI is institutionalized racism.
You want black and brown people to get benefits and get into schools easier and get into med school and get into college and you want them to get jobs easier.
You want them to get promoted at corporate, corporations easier all through DEI.
And that might sound nice to you, but of course when you artificially promote somebody, You have to artificially deflate someone else.
So, you want to be racist mostly against white people, Jews, Asians, and Indians.
Somebody should tell that to Dorcas Malarkis over there from the other video.
Also, thank you for acknowledging that elections are on the margins.
That might be why we want to secure elections.
And if you know somebody that doesn't have an ID, why don't you take a walk to a local place where they can get an ID or get a photocopy machine?
You could probably use the walk.
Okay, I've made enough jokes about that.
Now, let's go to Big Balls.
I'm going to end the show with Big Balls.
And that, man, I tried to clean up the show.
But Big Balls, you may remember Big Balls, his real name is Edward Coristeen.
And he was one of the young guys who was working on Doge under Donald Trump and exposed a huge amount of the fraud that the federal government was putting, which largely has now been cleaned up.
Anyway, he went on Nick Shirley's podcast.
Nick Shirley, you guys know Nick Shirley, is a kid who wandered to Minnesota with one of these and did more work.
Uncovering Minnesota fraud than mainstream media has done in a decade.
And so Nick talked to Mr. Big Balls about what is wrong with DEI, and we should probably clip this and send it to Golden Corral so that, well, you get the point.
We've actually transitioned this model to a model of equity, which just means that we're going to, instead of curving the incomes so we give people an equal chance to win, we're going to curve the outcomes.
And this is what the political left has been all about.
Where we are actually just going to villainize people who are successful, and we're going to prop up people based on their race, and they drop the accessibility component of it, which just shows how disingenuous they actually are.
And that's obviously racism, is obviously racism against white people.
Like that is just one example of how young men have been disenfranchised in our society.
And then you wonder why young men might be angry and why young men might turn to bad ideas when the system tells them that they're less than or they're quite literally going to be discriminated against because of the color of their skin or their sexuality or whatever else, any other immutable characteristic.
That they quite literally cannot control, but the system says is bad and you were born bad and now we're going to punish you for it.
And if you want to create a generation of racists, well, you might then artificially inflate one group over another group.
All the system can do is what our founders intended equal laws.
But once you start doing this, you want to create racists.
Let's see what happens if you have a generation of kids who are 15 to 21 right now who are Asian, who have busted their asses and done the proper work and come from good families and strong homes and all of that stuff.
And instead of going to camp at summer, go to math, mathnasium, which always made me nauseous when I saw it in a strip mall.
I was always afraid my mom was going to see it and then send me there instead of camp.
But the point is, you want to create a generation of Asian racists?
He's fighting the limp-wristed losers in his own party.
He's doing all of that stuff to the backdrop of our 250th anniversary, as I keep pointing out.
So let's see where it all lands.
Wouldn't it be awesome if at 1 p.m. today he has the fighter pilot?
If they could have somehow, that would be tough.
I don't know, between injuries and everything else, if they could have quite literally gotten him across the globe and into the White House today.
But I wouldn't put it past Trump to have him there.
That would be pretty freaking awesome.
You know he's going to do an event with Trump for sure.
Guys, that is our show.
We're going to cold close you today with just a quick blip of my interview that went up over the weekend with Arthur Brooks.
Who is just a phenomenal?
I would say he's a, he's sort of, in some sense, he's like a Jordan Peterson light.
I hope he understands.
I mean that as like the greatest compliment you could possibly give.
He is just an explainer of what is wrong with society and how you, instead of dealing with the political level all the time, how you can do things right for yourself that will make things a little bit better.
The full interview is up across the board, and we got a post game show in 30 seconds.
If you believe there are questions that can't be fed into ChatGPT, you're on the right.
The machines have taken over our private life.
Our machines have taken over our relationships, our work life as well.
And there's one thing, Dave, you can't simulate, and that's the meaning of your life.
People under 30 in general.
You know, since about 2008, depression is up by about a factor of three.
Generalized anxiety has basically doubled.
Higher levels of loneliness, higher levels of addiction and self harm.
Life, when it's meaningless, feels like you're stuck in an airport lounge and the flight, you're not getting any information, but it's just really late.
You're just waiting and waiting and waiting for something to happen.
So most actually will just like shrink into themselves and scroll social media.
The big Problem, however, is that it's not real life.
And so the result is that the neurochemistry of the human brain only works, the sense of mystery and meaning in life only works when we are in real life with other real life humans.