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Trump on the World Stage - January 23rd, Hour 1

President Trump made waves today by telling global business leaders that they should really start thinking about making their goods in the United States as he pivoted America away from a world minimum tax.  This is part of the America First strategy that won President Trump his landslide victory. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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There's so much news.
He is like breaking news and keeping promises at the speed of light.
It's it's hard to keep up with it.
I mean, just uh just for me to list all that he has done in these first few days in office would take the better part of the show.
Um the big news, obviously, is Donald Trump has been raiding sanctuary cities and deporting illegal immigrants, and now he's putting 10,000 troops on the border, and it's it's like shock and awe, and nobody in the state run legacy media mom.
They they have no idea how to handle it.
So they've been resorting to calling him a Nazi or him or Elon a Nazi.
I mean, and focusing on everything as trivial as they always do, which has rendered themselves irrelevant in the minds of the American people.
After nine years of doing this and failing so spectacularly, you would think they'd learn a lesson, but they haven't.
But as promised, Donald Trump and his deportation push began in earnest yesterday.
I ran into Tom Holman when I was at the White House, and he was listing how many hundreds of people that they already have captured, criminals that they have deported.
I have some statistics I'll share with you in the course of the uh program today.
Uh, but they've been in Baltimore, Atlanta, Philly, uh, Boston, I believe they were in earlier today, and and they're just moving it at the speed of light, and they're rounding up as many people as they possibly can.
And by the way, good luck to the New York City police commissioner who's not on board with Mayor Adams' pledge to cooperate with the ICE removals.
Well, what do you mean you're not going to cooperate?
New York City will coordinate with ICE, the U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement on deporting illegal immigrants, according to Eric Adams.
We're still analyzing that executive order.
He said we've been constant in constant communication with the New York City police chief, a woman by the name of Jessica Tisch is not on board.
And in an internal NYPD operations memo obtained by Fox Five, the local Fox News station in New York, the police commissioner reminds officers that local police should not be assisting federal authorities when it comes to immigration enforcement.
The memo emphasizes to officers that immigration status is a civil matter, not a criminal one.
Officers are instructed to focus solely on criminal investigations without interfering in federal immigration enforcement efforts.
I mean, I I guess this is the beginning of the resistance.
You know, you had, for example, also in the New York Post, immigration officials hit the ground running, arresting multiple violent offenders in sanctuary cities.
One hostile Haitian gang member with a lengthy rap sheet who said he's not going back to Haiti, enraged F. Trump.
I want Biden forever without missing a beat.
The gangbanger added, Thank Obama for everything he did for me, bro.
That's a quote.
ICE officers in Boston made eight noteworthy arrests, including multiple MS-13 gang members, murder and rape suspects.
Uh, and one guy with 18 convictions.
I mean, why are these people in our country?
I don't, it's it's hard to comprehend.
What was the purpose of leaving the borders open to allow terrorists, gang members, cartel members, murderers, and rapists in our country?
Did anyone ever think there'd be any good that came out of that?
Alabama Republican Senator Katie Britt introducing legislation to finish the wall construction, so that's moving forward.
And, you know, at the speed of light, Donald Trump is is keeping his pledge and his and his promise.
And we're now up to over 500 illegals, many criminals from countries all over the world are being removed, including countries with terror ties, are being removed.
And it's clear no one is above the law here.
If you don't respect our laws, borders, and sovereignty, then you will be asked to go home.
And you aren't not going to be asked, you're going to be taken home.
And that is in law enforcement.
When it comes to Donald Trump, they want to throw the book at Donald Trump, so I'm sure they're perfectly fine with the laws of our land finally being enforced.
The Trump administration has canceled travel for refugees already cleared to resettle in the U.S. ICE is resuming the term illegal alien and dropping non-citizen for people that are illegal aliens, which has always been a part of the vernacular of our federal government.
One Afghani refugee stabbed a caseworker at a pro-refugee group at the Justice Department's emphasis, uh emphasizes immigration threatening to prosecute state local officials that resist the Trump agenda.
Let me tell you what that's called.
It's called aiding and abetting criminal behavior.
And that's what a sanctuary state and city is by definition.
Mexico's building giant shelters to prep for Trump's promised mass deportations, as they're the ones that have also aided and abetted in this process.
Refugee flights canceled.
Congress passed the Lake and Riley Act, an early win for Donald Trump.
I mean, that poor girl, you know, she should be alive today.
Rachel Morin should be alive today.
Jocelyn Nungarry should be alive today.
And so all of this is happening at the speed of life.
Um anyway, this Trump showdown looms with Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass in California because President Trump's about to visit North Carolina.
He's going to visit California.
And I assume, you know, he's going to maybe they won't see him.
Who cares if they see him or not?
That's up to them.
If if Gavin Newsom wants to trump proof California, not me with the president of the United States, that's fine.
If Mayor Bass doesn't want to meet with the president, that's fine.
Over 150,000 signatures in two less than two days to get rid of her.
We got almost 500 arrests made in the first 33 hours.
And then you just look at the background.
They're coming from Afghanistan, Angola, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Senegal, Venezuela.
Where are the people I want to find them from Iran and Syria that we know are in this country?
I want to find those people.
But anyway, the federal officers now sweeping into these sanctuary cities, you know, and getting a lot of these illegal immigrants, including those that are charged with attempted murder, one of child molester, holding them all for deportation, and they will be deported.
And they're going all around the country: Boston, Denver, Philly, Atlanta, Seattle, Washington, D.C., Miami, and is soon to come to a city near you.
If they've been aiding and abetting in the law breaking, then this is going to happen.
In Philly, ICE nabbed a 22-year-old who was detained after violating the terms of release of the immigration agency's custody.
Authorities in Seattle arrested a Mexican national who was convicted of sexual abuse of a minor in Miami.
ICE arrested six illegal immigrants from Guatemala who were living in Martin County, Florida, with a lengthy rap sheet, including battery, child abuse, fraud, resisting arrest.
And, you know, whenever Donald Trump actually said, excuse me, we're they were taking in the worst of the worst in this country.
He was not lying to anybody.
And all of it is being now, you know, it's it's all moving at lightning speed.
Um there was a hell of a day for the president when it comes to uh his position on the world stage.
I gotta tell you that.
As, you know, Trump not only has moved forward with his executive actions, but I mean, he is absolutely going, you know, changing the the world order in dramatic ways as well as the president, you know, talked uh via satellite to this group in Davos is one one participant said, yeah, Trump won and globalism lost.
Well, we knew that on day one when he got us out of the World Health Organization, a globalist organization, got us out of the ridiculous climate Paris Accords, another ridiculous idea.
Anyway, so Trump put world leaders, business leaders on notice at Davos, and he outlined a tax cut plan telling the World Economic Forum, make your product in America.
And that is happening.
I have some economic news to share with you.
And what the president is saying by not going long with what Kamala Harris desperately wanted was to join the European Union in this worldwide minimum a corporate minimum tax.
Well, okay, let's say all of Europe wants to charge corporations, you know, a 25% tax rate, 30% tax rate.
What if the U.S. offers a 10% tax rate?
What does that mean?
Then businesses will take out their calculators and they'll they'll run the numbers and they'll see if doing business in America will benefit them financially and they can make more money and have a better bottom line, and that makes America more competitive, and that means more Americans will have better job opportunities, career job opportunities with big companies that spend a lot of money.
It's just simple common sense.
And then Trump slammed the Bank of America CEO, Brian Moynihan, while he was speaking virtually to the World Economic Forum, by the way, in Davos, Switzerland.
As far as I'm concerned, we we need to get out of all these globalist organizations.
The UN in particular, they have historically been anti-American and anti-Semitic.
He said, and by the way, speaking of you, and you've done a fantastic job, but I hope you start opening your bank to conservatives because many conservatives complain that the banks are not allowing them to do business within the bank, and that place included, a place called Bank of America.
They don't take conservative business.
He goes on to say the message also applies to JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Diamond.
And I don't know if the regulators mandated that because of Biden or what, but you and Jamie and everybody, I hope you will open your banks to conservatives because what you're doing is wrong.
Wow.
I do know John Rich and a bunch of other investors.
They they opened some conservative bank.
I don't know all the details of it, but he just keeps moving, you know, including, by the way, signing that executive order requiring federal employees to show up for work.
He keeps moving at the speed of light.
Now Canada, the Trump effect in full force.
You know, we have uh Canadian leaders now saying they want to work with Trump.
They want to resurrect the Keystone XL pipeline.
You know, you're talking about 900,000 barrels a day.
I mean, that's that's a serious amount.
We've got to build refineries also in this country, especially if we're going to produce more energy.
Uh anyway, I love what this uh Davos Switzerland attendee said.
Yeah, Trump won.
Globalists lost.
Thank God.
We don't, we're the United States of America.
This is what being America first means.
And if it's in America's best interest to offer businesses a greater incentive to build their factories, build their manufacturing centers, make their products here, then why don't we do it because that will benefit the American people?
If they want a worldwide corporate minimum tax, let them let them have it.
Samsung is now weighing whether to reclo uh locate their dryer production to the U.S. because they don't want to pay the tariff that Trump is going to put on foreign countries that don't have free and fair trade.
I see they're going to reopen a Jeep plant in Illinois and produce Dodge Durangos in Detroit after meeting with Donald Trump.
I see that the Saudis, again, more of the Trump effect.
They have pledged $600 billion in U.S. trade and investment because they see the canary in the coal mine and that the world's changing and that they want to be a partner with the United States.
That's all that means.
They're acting in their best interest as the U.S. should act in our best interest.
Even Siria's Jahadi boss said, yeah, he's the guy that's going to end up bringing peace to the Middle East because he's going to put the fear of God into anybody that's not willing to be peaceful.
You know, he now has an executive order designating the Hooti rebels just like he did with Cuba in the final hours.
Joe Biden took that designation away and he put it right back in because they support Hamas.
Anyway, he's going to re-designate the Hooties as a foreign terrorist organization.
That's kind of a no-brainer.
He has given China until February one, or he's going to put 10% tariffs on Chinese imports because of their unfair fair trade practices, their hostile maneuverings against Taiwan and our American Air Force and American Navy.
And of course, the communist Chinese, their intellectual property theft has to stop.
Trump was very clear with a Post yesterday to threaten Russia with tariffs to force Putin to end this war.
How many people have to die?
He wrote in that post.
How many more people have to die here?
Hundreds of thousands dead for what?
Well, what what's ultimately going to be a negotiated settlement in the end anyway?
Trump put higher education on notice for dangerous, demeaning, immoral DEI teachings.
He revoked Biden's order allowing transgender troops in a bid to rid the military from DEI.
He is now seeking to stop gain of function research.
We're getting back in the space race, which I think is a great thing with Elon Musk and Trump together, partnering at the helm.
He's calling in doge to offload all these unused federal buildings that we've been telling you about.
I mean, this is just the news since yesterday.
This is what's going on.
It is, I've never seen anything like it.
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Uh also, while I was in DC, I sat down with the Senate majority leader, John Thune.
And we had a very blunt, honest discussion with him about the Senate.
And Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump had what's what seemed like a never-ending feud, and we're never on the same page.
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I think the best part, we talked a lot about personal stuff with him.
Because after all that he's been through and things that, you know, I wanted answers to.
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Again, back to I love this statement uh that took place in Davos.
Yeah, Trump won the globalists lost.
I love McCron's statement telling Europe to wake up and lift their defense spending and and and pay the appropriate amount for NATO and stop being so reliant on the U.S. One of the best deals hopefully we'll be able to make in in the next year,
two years, hopefully sooner than later, is as soon as we can increase the output of energy in this country, you know, rather than Europe being being dependent on Vladimir Putin and other countries for their sources of income, well maybe that could be the U.S. And maybe we will provide the lifeblood of their economy.
Do you remember when Angela Merkel, when Donald Trump handed her a white flag?
This is a true story.
And she goes, what's this?
Well it's a white flag.
Well why why did you give me this?
Because you just surrendered.
Well what do you mean by that?
She was surrendering her sovereignty because she was she was going into this multi, multi billion dollar energy deal to make Vladimir Putin and Russia rich.
Do you see it's not a coincidence that has Russia made you know billions of dollars off using their energy resources.
They had the money to build out their military which enabled them to fight this very expensive war that they thought would be easier against Ukraine but with Biden and Harris providing the weaponry on the other side unfortunately we became a proxy and it became a basically a proxy war between the U.S. and Russia which we couldn't afford and don't need and the answer is what Donald Trump has been saying and the war.
And that means they'll probably have a negotiated settlement and there is the there is a deal to be had out there.
You know a vast majority of the Donbass region of Ukraine for example is Russian.
But there's got to be protections for you know Ukrainian sovereignty you don't want to reward people like Putin he's a murdering dictator thug.
However, if this keeps going there's not going to be any country left in Ukraine and all the people that have died and all the people that are leaving I mean it's become an unmitigated disaster.
But you have half simultaneously Russia got rich because of Western Europe and selling energy.
The Iranians were on the verge of bankruptcy until Joe Biden and Kamala Harris got into office and they were bankrupt because Donald Trump was enforcing sanctions preventing them from selling their energy their oil on the world markets.
Well those sanctions were lifted and ignored by Biden and Harris that allowed the Iranians to get rich.
That allowed and and then of course they got special waivers for billions and billions of dollars from countries like Iraq et cetera it's like but Biden did everything he could do to get the number one state sponsor of terror rich again.
And what were the consequences in that case?
Not it very similar to what happened with Putin in Europe and Ukraine and that is that the number one state sponsor of terror built up their military they started supplying their proxies with the weaponry, the intelligence, the military strategies to go after their arch nemesis nemesis,
which is Israel, but it's also America I mean little Satan Big Satan that's very real in their world death to America, death to Israel that's very real in the minds of these insane mullahs but they do have a common denominator is they had the money to build the weaponry to go after and fight these conflicts the money came in both cases from energy that should be a sign for every American that maybe uh a guidepost
if you will that American wealth and America could be because of the the vast resources we have with with gas, oil and coal we can be the most energy rich country on the face of the earth.
Donald Trump in his first term accomplished something I didn't know if we'd ever see in our lifetime and that is we became energy independent for the first time in 75 years.
Now we are producing because of those strategies more money because of contracts that from the Trump era but the next step is not only energy independence the next step is energy dominance what is energy dominance Means.
Well, that means exactly what Trump is doing.
He's opening up Anwar.
He's called declared a national energy emergency, which will give him a lot of latitude to give out contracts to these energy companies.
And by the way, energy companies are not evil.
Energy is the lifeblood of our economy.
Energy fuels our cars.
It heats our homes.
It cools our homes.
And without it, we're, you know, we're we're at third world nation status.
We're not a developed nation at that point.
And every country needs it, not every country has it.
And it could give us leverage for enemy countries as well.
If we force the Iranians and the Russians, if we shut down their energy production, they're going to look to China to be their best customer.
Well, maybe we should make that deal with China.
And maybe China should start pulling back the tariffs that they put on American cars and American products.
Maybe they should stop the intellectual property theft.
Maybe they should stop the hostile military maneuvers against our fighter jets in an international airspace and our Navy in international waterways.
Maybe they should stop saber rattling when it comes to Taiwan.
Maybe maybe China, maybe it's in their best long-term interest not to have a race war, uh, meaning a uh weapons race war with the U.S. Maybe maybe it should be, you know, that America and China and Russia, you know, maybe maybe it's time that, you know, America have some conversations with these people and realize that they can't win that battle.
We will be better, especially in under Donald Trump.
I'm not worried.
I've had conversations with people about our ability to catch up with hypersonic missile technology.
I've had conversations about the next generation of warfare.
Uh I'm not wrong in believing that future wars are not gonna be fought necessarily on a battlefield, but with drones and and buttons being pushed, unmanned drones in most cases, and buttons being pushed in air conditioned offices.
That's going to be the future.
President Trump's vision of an iron dome is something that if he is able to get that technology and put it together and it is effective, especially against hypersonic technology.
I mean, you know, we could protect the entire United States of America and prevent, you know, uh what would be just a 9-11 times a thousand from ever happening.
There are bad actors on the world stage.
Bad actors only understand one language, and that's the language of strength.
And, you know, with all of what we're watching unfolding before our eyes, you are watching history at the speed of light.
I mean, I haven't even gone over half the list of things that Donald Trump has done just in the last 24 hours.
He sent veil warnings to Mexico's drug cartels.
Get out of here.
You know, he's also clearing out the deep state.
Career Justice Department officials are being reassigned to different physicians.
These are people he can't fire.
He's already fired over a thousand people and more firings to come.
And he ordered all DEI offices to begin closing by the end of business yesterday.
And then his executive order is signaling a crackdown on pro-terrorist college students.
Which it's not anti-free speech.
It's it's if you're if you're threatening people on a college campus uh with such hatred, vile bigotry, you're a threat to those people and their liberty and their freedom to get an education.
It was awful when these, you know, Ivy League schools were sending Jewish kids home.
You know, because they uh the pro Hamas wing of the Democratic Party is represented by these, you know, spoiled brat Ivy League college students.
More and more parents that I know, they're all doing the same thing.
They're not even where they might have in the past thought about, oh, what a dream it would be to send my little son, my little Johnny or Susie to an Ivy League school.
No, they're not looking there anymore.
They're looking south.
They're Looking at the UVAs of the world.
They're looking at the Vanderbilts of the World, the University of North Carolina's of the world, the Wake Forests of the world.
They're looking at, you know, schools that reinforce values.
You know, the USCs of the world.
They're looking, not the one in California in South Carolina.
They're looking at the Clemens of the world.
They're looking at other state schools.
They're looking in South Carolina, North Carolina.
They're looking in Tennessee.
They're looking in Florida.
They're looking at University in Miami.
You see record high applications for students now.
Also, the Trump State Department is telling under Marco Rubio, that's Secretary of State Rubio now, that they're telling embassies and outlets fly the American flag, the stars and stripes only.
No more pride, no more BLM flags.
It really also Biden has reversed Joe Biden's EV mandate.
By the way, I'm not against electric vehicles.
I'm actually in favor of them.
I think if you want an electric vehicle, you should live in a free country and be able to choose the vehicle of your choice as long as it meets whatever the minimal safety standards are.
If you want to drive a hybrid, drive a hybrid.
If you want a gas guzzling, you know, massive pickup truck, you ought to have the freedom to have that too.
Maybe you need it for your job.
Maybe you need it for work.
Maybe you're haul horses in it.
You know, truck drivers don't want to switch to, you know, truckers don't want to switch to electric vehicles.
I can tell you, we talk to them often.
You know, the left hasn't learned a thing.
We find out Biden granted clemency to a drug dealer convicted in a double slang of an eight-year-old boy and his mom.
You know, Trump did last night in my interview, take a swipe at uh at Joe Biden.
Now he didn't uh he forgot to pardon the most important person himself.
And I could tell you, people are saying, well, you know, yes, the president wants the weaponization of the DOJ to stop.
However, that does not mean that we should not have full complete historical knowledge of everything that the Biden syndicate did.
And now that all these family members have been pardoned, I want to see all of them go up to Capitol Hill and have to testify.
They can't plead the fifth and tell the world exactly what it is that they did for the tens of millions of dollars that James Comer often talks about and what did Joe know and when did he know it?
And the country needs to know that he lied when he denied ever speaking to his son or brother or anybody about the foreign business deals now that we have pictures after the election released by the National Archives.
I mean, it's absolutely insane.
Uh, we do have a terrifying new LA fire, wildfire that is spreading and could go absolutely insane again.
I know President Trump will be stopping in North Carolina, out in California.
I don't know if Gavin Newsom or Mayor Bass will even meet with them.
Uh one ACLU lawyer calls females non transgender women in a rant about Trump's executive order.
Uh we have one government agency caught deploying a sneaky tactic to get around Trump's anti-woke purge.
Tell you more about that later.
I mean, we just got so we got just so much on the on the on the table.
It just never ends.
And the media and Democrats, you know, they're just obsessed with their Nazi fetish.
Now they just want to call Elon Musk.
Elon Musk is not a Nazi.
You know who said so?
Prime Minister Netanyahu said so.
And you know what?
He's not.
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