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	Democrats fuming.
	You know who the Linda?
	Guess who they're fuming at?
	Who?
	Take a guess.
	You're smart.
	You have multiple, you know, advanced degrees.
	You should be able to figure this out.
	Who are Democrats mad at right now?
	You're that's a good point.
	I mean, it's a good I think it's a good guess.
	You talk about the hate list, which I'm I'm not listening upon this whole thing.
	Already no, we'll get to it later.
	We'll get to it later.
	But however, they're furious at Biden because he won't go away.
	He won't he just won't go.
	He's the rash that just won't leave.
	He won't leave.
	He's like a hemorrhoid for crying out loud.
	He is a hemorrhoid.
	Oh, geez.
	Anyway, they're blasting him and there's interview on the view.
	We'll go over it later with uh our friend Miranda Devine and complaining that this guy is a drag on the party as they seek to rebuild their their following.
	And then uh we'll play.
	He he uses the old racist, sexist you know, closing argument lines to explain away Kamala Harris's law.
	So who who made uh racist or sexist statements about Kamala?
	Because I don't know, I don't remember that being uh a focus of any prominent conservative voice that I know of.
	I just don't remember it.
	You know, but the Democrats they're they're pissed, they're complaining.
	The president's but a drag on the party.
	Elections are about the future.
	Every time Joe Biden emerges, we fight an old war, said Anthony Coley, I don't know who he is, democratic strategist who worked for the Biden administration.
	Every interview he does provides a contrast to Trump.
	Yeah, it's one between life and death.
	Somebody that's alive full of of vigor and energy versus somebody that has no energy.
	I mean, say what you will about Bernie Sanders' view, and I love Bernie defending his private jet use to bread bear this week, but you know, it Bernie's got his faculties together.
	He still has the same energy he had from ten years ago when he was running for president.
	Gotta give that to the guy.
	He's not, he's not a cognitive mess.
	Nobody's ever claimed that he is.
	He's older, but he's sharp as attack.
	And he's just nuts, but that's separate and apart from the issue.
	Uh quote, there is a way for Biden to build his post-presidency.
	This isn't it.
	Steve Shell, longtime Biden ally, who ran a pro-Biden super pack.
	And by the end of his life, we were reminded of the decent and humble nature of the man that uh, thanks to his acts, not his work.
	He's with a disaster.
	He left the president, an unmitigated disaster.
	And now Donald Trump will spend most of his presidency first year cleaning up the Adam shit shift show that he that he left him.
	It's it was a disaster.
	Anyway, um look at look at the the illegal immigration front.
	By the way, Trump DOJ has now prosecuted 1,300 Biden illegals unvetted.
	In just the first week of May, the DOJ announcing U.S. attorney several border states charging 1,300 people with immigration related crimes.
	How many this is what infuriates me?
	He's just such a nice humble man, Joe.
	Just never once could this nice humble man pick up a phone and call a family whose whose whose loved one was murdered by his unvetted illegals.
	And then of course we have known terrorists and murderers and rapists and you know other violent criminals.
	Never called the victims of any of these crimes, any of these rapes, any of these murders.
	And we have cartel members and the gang members, and and look at Democrats fighting to for the rights of gang members in this country, admittedly illegally, even accused of domestic violence, uh, you know, trying to get them back in the country.
	That's that's their cause celeb.
	It's pretty incredible.
	Um anyway, wild brawls.
	You want to talk about radicalism.
	I'm gonna focus a lot on this on TV tonight.
	I mean, the the rage, raging left wing in this country that has been taken over by the most radical people.
	I mean, you could see this now on college campuses.
	That is that is now re-emerged as an issue.
	Anti-Israel agitators brawling with cops at Brooklyn College uh late yesterday after they set up a tent encampment and disrupted final exams, one officer being forced to fire a taser.
	By the way, a taser is the worst thing in the world.
	Taser means you're a close quarters.
	Taser means you're too close.
	If you can hit somebody with a taser, you're too close to them.
	And that's why I like burner and the technology fires projectiles that can incapacitate any perpetrator.
	You know, that's why all these if over 500 government agencies, police departments, private security firms, I'm telling you, just better technology.
	Um, and if you haven't seen it, go to BYRNA.com and I'm I'm I'm plugging it because I believe in it.
	Anyway, so this happened at the request of SUNY College uh late yesterday afternoon.
	They found the demonstrators occupying trespassing on school grounds.
	At least 14 people taken into custody during the melee.
	Video from the scene shows an officer using a megaphone trying to warn these people to disperse immediately or face arrest as defiant protesters, you know, screaming, free Palestine.
	Another clip then shows officers wrestling a man before unleashing a taser on them.
	Let him go.
	You're hurting him.
	Someone could be heard yelling from the crowd.
	A woman could be also seen recording the tents altercations on a cell phone in one hand as she held a toddler in the other arm, screaming at the cops to stop, and the protesters standing, quote, for human rights, and an officer was heard yelling at the woman to get the baby out of here now.
	Yeah, maybe you could where's the maternal instinct?
	Don't put your kids in the middle of a melee.
	I mean, do you have to actually have to be, you know, do you actually have to be told that?
	Don't bring your kids to protest.
	Not a good idea.
	Especially ones that might have a tendency or propensity to be violent.
	By the way, town hall held by the New York Attorney General Letitia James Thursday night disrupted when a Trump supporter stood up to challenge uh uh her to apologize to the president.
	My question for Tish James, will you apologize to President Trump for wasting millions of dollars and the state of New York for a witch trial?
	The guy asked, and how does it feel to know that you're gonna go to prison for mortgage fraud?
	The crowd erupted with booze, the man was escorted out.
	I mean, if you I'm I'm sure they're gonna come up with an excuse.
	I don't know how this is all gonna play out here, but if it's true, the allegation that she said this house in Virginia was going to be her residence at a time she's a politician in New York, you that you you can't lie on mortgage applications.
	Gee, sounds an awful lot like the case that she was trying to bring against Donald Trump, uh, the civil case, but you know, we'll wait and see.
	And of course, she ran on a platform.
	Get Trump, get Trump.
	Uh, as part of the mess, uh If you look at all that the president has inherited and and all the work that he's putting in.
	Now next week, uh I won't be on the air Monday because I will be traveling uh to report on with the president and uh to report on this trip.
	There are three stops that we are making.
	One in the first one in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia.
	The Linda accused me yesterday of going on a vacation.
	It's not exactly the place I'd pick for a vacation.
	Just say I'm just saying.
	I'm pretty sure I didn't say that.
	I would say um you're having a lot of people you should just go and enjoy the moment.
	I'm like well the reason no I said you should go and enjoy the moment of being with the president and on Air Force One and with the president's detail and all that that encompasses four hours to my dream TV is is a lot.
	Well what's the point of me not reporting to my own interviews they'll have more flexibility with the schedule I'm not worried about flexibility.
	There's a seven hour time difference and I'm sure by the time that we get on this radio program uh which would be what seven o'clock it's a seven and eight hour difference depending on where you are I I can't figure it out.
	I'll let you I'll let you go great if you're already confused about that.
	Well right ten o'clock uh nine or ten o'clock at night I think is when I'll be doing the radio program.
	Everything's gonna be done by then and I will have had the opportunity I'm not gonna slip it up.
	What if it's not what if there's a big difference with like a king like a dinner or like drinks or tea or okay I don't think I'm gonna be invited to uh dinners with kings and crown princes you're traveling with the president.
	I don't know.
	It doesn't feel like a stretch to me.
	Okay I am there to the whole purpose of this and by the way the second stop will be Doha and in Qatar, Qatar, whichever you prefer and the third stop will be the UAE and that would be uh Abu Dhabi um what what's what's so interesting about it is there is such an amazing transformation that really started under Trump's first term and and and and
	trust me I'm not I I am a trust but verified guy.
	I want to say that up front but there certainly is dramatic transformation coming.
	Trump got the ball rolling and he is by far the peace president and not the forever war president which I'm in full agreement with we can't we can't send our national treasure and ever go through Iraq again.
	Now the only I would say is we didn't have the military technology that we do now I believe future wars will be fought in air conditioned office offices uh certainly intelligence assets will probably always be needed on the ground.
	However, I don't think wars are going to be fought that way that's why I keep talking about the next generation of weaponry.
	But the whole purpose of this is, yes, I will be interviewing the president.
	Yes, I will interview the people that are around him.
	I actually, thanks to a connection, there is a New Yorker, a guy with the thickest New York axis, the coolest guy ever, lives there, very close with the crown prince, has one of the biggest jobs to build out the entire country into what will be the biggest resort-style uphide
	high end everything to attract tourism kind of like what they've done in Dubai in the UAE and I can tell you that you know the fact that Saudi Arabia is pledging a trillion dollars in investment in the U.S. the UAE a trillion five in investment in the U.S. Uh shows me a lot about about what they think of us and wanting to to be here and do business here.
	And trust me it's it's a lot a lot of people want to do business here.
	I mean the most amazing thing I think that is underreported is the threat of terrorists by President Trump that got everybody so worked up and Wall Street so skittish resulted in eight trillion dollars in committed investments in the next four years in manufacturing which is also good for national security also great for job creation but if we're gonna start building our own cars here and and uh not outsource pharmaceuticals,
	which are critical to the the health of this nation and and semiconductor chips here, which is critical uh for the age in which we're living in.
	Uh and then of course you can add to that artificial intelligence.
	Uh I I'm we're getting ahead of the game and but and also getting on a hold of rare earth minerals.
	We have plenty of them.
	I've spoken to the problem is is we just were too many people, again, institutionalized thinking, they were just willing to accept that it was going to come from China.
	Uh, there was a New York Post article today about how the White House Tech Czar wants the U.S. to continue to lead in AI use and development.
	If I will tell you, all of you, I don't care how old you are.
	If you can afford it, you know, just do it for a month.
	You don't have to get the year plan.
	I got the year plan for Groc, which is Elon Musk's, I think it's the best one, my personal opinion.
	And I've tried others.
	And and just start playing with AI.
	And you will see how different the world is going to be in a very short period of time.
	It is unfolding before our eyes.
	Steve Moore mentioned this company that if you put in architectural plans, that they will they will build the it they can build almost 60 plus percent of uh a home with robots.
	I mean, what when Elon Musk says the best surgeons will be robots, they're not kidding.
	I mean, the world's gonna change.
	That's why, by the way, the manufacturing things that we're gonna need humans to do, et cetera, et cetera, you know, is gonna be very critical with an adjusting economy and workforce, and everybody's got to be ready for it.
	Uh my funniest story is that talk show host in Australia that was AI generated, and the people in Australia didn't know for six months, they go pissed when they found out.
	Oh man, they were pissed.
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	It's almost a dirty word.
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	I mean, between the border between war in Europe, war in the Middle East, uh, an economy that's a disaster, you know, uh a country that's getting ripped off by the world, you know, what what did Joe Biden ever do that's successful?
	Now we're finding out I had Sean Duffy on last night, the transportation secretary.
	I cannot believe because we now have a control tower radar at Newark Airport, went dark for now a second time in two weeks.
	You know what he told me last night that he asked May Mayor Pothole Pete about the job.
	He said, Well, basically a department that runs itself.
	Everything that they have in terms of radar in spite of all the advancement of avionics and technology and computers, they've got computers that have five and a quarter inch floppy discs for crying out loud.
	They haven't upgraded anything for since the 50s and 60s.
	I mean, and they did nothing.
	And now we're having and they handed him off a shortage of 3,000 air traffic controllers.
	Want to know why your flights delayed?
	That's probably a big part of the reason.
	And people are being stranded at airports, left, right, and sideways.
	There's not anybody that I know that travels on a regular basis that's not frustrated as hell.
	And and pothole Pete wants to be president, and his big infrastructure project was what, 60 charging stations, and he spent billions to do it and DEI this and DEI that and oh, you know, racist races roads, Whatever the hell that means.
	A lot of news.
	We'll get to with the president's trip abroad.
	Obviously, all these countries in the Middle East are gonna want to talk about not just the economy and their investments in America and but Iran.
	We'll get to some more of that uh later.
	Gotta give a shout out to my friend and and colleague at Fox News, Judge Janine Pierrot has now been appointed the interim U.S. attorney in DC.
	Um and uh I hate that we hate to lose her on the five, uh, but uh she's been a friend for many, many years, and you always want people to do what they are called to do in their life.
	And I know this has been her personal passion.
	I can't think of anybody better for the job, you know, obviously expect and you know, when you go into public service, not only you're gonna make a lot less money, it's a sacrifice for a lot of people for successful people.
	If the right people are picked, if you're just a bureaucrat, you know, that's that that's the best you're probably ever gonna do in life.
	And that means Congressmen and women.
	That'll be the most money they make in any given year, because some of them are just, you know, they're just politicians.
	And what other skills they have, I don't know.
	What other entrepreneurial endeavors they may be involved in.
	Now some people go to Washington and they get very wealthy.
	Nancy Pelosi, great case in point.
	She just happens to have the the mightest touch when it comes to her and her husband and their investments, which infuriates the heck out of me.
	Um Trump's terrorists have foreign car makers now an update on the success.
	Remember, eight trillion dollars committed investments.
	By the way, from two of the countries that I'll be going to next week, uh Saudi Arabia and the UAE, uh, combined 2.5 trillion.
	But then you have all these other companies from Apple to Nvidia, pharmaceuticals, AstraZeneca announced that they're building facilities here in the U.S., and of course, auto auto manufacturers, Honda Nissan, uh BMW now, I believe, is joining the list, uh uh Hyende is joined the list um and report out today in the uh Daily Mail,
	but the second largest automaker, Volkswagen, and their luxury brand Audi are now planning to make some of their crossover SUV electric models in America.
	Uh quote, we want to localize more strongly in the U.S. Oh, I'm sure this has nothing to do with Donald Trump.
	Nothing at all.
	We we just decided we'd do that.
	Audi scouting potential locations.
	One, Chattanooga, Tennessee, where Volkswagen currently builds an electric crossover model.
	Anal analysts say it could easily adapt to the Audi manufacturing platform, another potential site, South Carolina, where uh VW is breaking ground on a new factory to build electric-based pickups and SUVs under the Scout Motors name in response to tariffs, Honda, Hayende, Nissan, all announcing plans to manufacture their electric or hybrid vehicles state side.
	Uh I I'm I'm the most surprised person of anybody.
	Uh when I got my Tesla, I just wanted to uh it just shows solidarity because I felt Elon Musk was being treated so awful for no reason at all, except that he's associated with Trump and he's identifying all the corruption, waste fraud, and abuse in Washington.
	And in the meantime, in his spare time, he's saving astronauts.
	In the meantime, he's helping Americans with communications after natural disasters, like in North Carolina and Tennessee and Pacific Palisades out in California.
	And then, of course, he's working on important things like seeing if he can use artificial intelligence to help the blind see again and people with spinal cord injuries walk again.
	They're just little things that he's working on.
	By the way, Doge has deactivated 500,000 credit cards that have been issued to 32 federal agencies.
	That's a lot of credit cards to monitor.
	How much you want to bet people didn't really monitor them?
	I'd bet almost anything.
	The president has cut Joe Biden's out of control spending so dramatically, the national debt is now shrinking.
	This was in the Washington Examiner today, a stunning fiscal success for the you know Trump administration.
	We're now learning that the sky high deficit spending under Biden has been slashed uh so dramatically.
	America's national debt, now over 37 trillion, is now actually declining.
	That's not happened since Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton balanced the budget four straight years.
	It's not been balanced since uh even without any new budget cuts enacted, the Trump White House will have slowed the growth of federal debt so dramatically that the total national debt is actually shrunk since inauguration day, and while the $5.5 billion decline is a drop in the bucket, it shows that the second Trump administration that they are taking a machete to federal spending or a chainsaw that the media made fun of.
	You know, for example, if you look last year under Biden, the national debt went up a staggering $478 billion.
	That's a 92% year-over-year reduction in the growth rate of our national debt.
	Tax revenue is soaring.
	Uh, I know there's a lot of talk that the president is considering raising taxes on the wealthy.
	Every time it's been tried, that always has the negative effect.
	Every time you I don't care if it's JFK, Calvin Coolidge, Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump himself.
	You cut taxes, top marginal rates, revenues to the government go up dramatically.
	They went up dramatically in Trump's first term.
	They went up dramatic doubled in the eight years Reagan was president.
	Uh and it just works every time.
	Every time you raise taxes, then you head into Herbert Hoover territory.
	It just doesn't work.
	And it never has worked.
	That's that's why I believe in lower taxes, greater freedom, less government spending, eliminating waste fraud and abuse, returning to constitutional order, all the things.
	You know, it in many ways this is a great reset.
	This is this is the end of establishment institutionalism, at least for the time Trump is in office.
	This is our this is our moment to get it right.
	This is our moment to fix what has what has been accepted by both parties.
	It's sort of like the uniparty belief.
	And it's just sad.
	You know, that you only get certain movements, not a movement like this.
	This is unprecedented.
	We've never seen a movement like this.
	And I was I grew up, you know, watching Reagan so closely.
	I can give you every statistic you want on Reagan.
	On the economy, Reagan dropped the top marginal rates from 70 to 28%.
	And after a hiccup, because it took a couple of years for his plan to get implemented in first two years of his administration or inflationary, then it was like, you know, the sky's the limit.
	Revenues to government dropping taxes that dramatically doubled at the time, believe it or not, it sounds like nothing.
	500 billion to over a trillion dollars.
	And it was The longest at that time period of peacetime economic growth in history.
	And it resulted in the creation of 21 million new jobs.
	And those policies still work today.
	By the way, apparently Ross Story has an article about Ed Martin, who had been the president's acting U.S. attorney for D.C., apparently somebody spit on this guy is spit on by an irate woman while giving an interview.
	I'm like, you gotta be kidding me.
	Maybe my favorite story of the day.
	Do we have Bernie Sanders on with Brett Bear refusing to apologize for flying on his private jet for oligarchy?
	Donald Trump during a campaign mode at National Airport.
	No, no, no.
	It doesn't.
	But he's also not fighting the oligarchy.
	No.
	You and you run a campaign and you do three or four or five rallies in a week.
	The only way you can get around to talk to 30,000 people.
	Think I'm going to be sitting on a waiting line at United, waiting, you know, what 30,000 people are waiting.
	That's the only way you can get around.
	No apologies for that.
	That's what campaign travel is about.
	We've done it in the past.
	We're going to do it in the future.
	Oh.
	I mean, it's just like John Kerry's answer.
	I need a private jet because I my work is so important.
	By the way, Bernie Sanders, eight top Democrats pressuring CBS, the new owner, Paramount not to settle Trump's lawsuit.
	Who cares what Bernie Sanders says?
	I mean, you how do you how do you justify you know, if you're fighting the oligarchy, you know, that the you know everyone else can wait at United and get stuck at Newark Airport or any of the big airports in the country and have to deal with,
	you know, equipment and and control towers with a shortage of of contrers and and and they could sit there for hours and hours on end, but the fight the oligarchy tour, oh, that that transcends all importance.
	You know, John Kerry, climate czar, tri he spends his private time on private jets and his public time on private jets.
	Al Gore, same thing.
	They just they don't want an estimate, they want an electric vehicle, they want to shove it in your driveway.
	They want to take away your gas stove.
	They want to take away your refrigerator, your washer, dryer, and air conditioner, and your plastic straw.
	I hate paper straws.
	I don't like them.
	I don't what are you laughing for so much for, sweet baby James?
	I can't, it makes everything taste like crap.
	I can't see.
	Can we talk about the fact though that you get your drink in a big plastic cup with your paper straw?
	In the land of irony and liberal logic.
	Oh, yeah, but that's well, you know, that's how they serve.
	Sometimes it's a paper cup, which by the way, let's say you have a coke and a paper cup.
	I I've never had that ever.
	You've only had a plastic cup?
	Always.
	Okay.
	Do you ever go to Shake Shack or every year?
	McDonald's?
	No, they're paying.
	No, of course you don't go to McDonald's.
	You you've you have you have literally abused your child.
	You won't give him a happy meal.
	At least he hasn't deal with the paper straw.
	If it wasn't for me, that kid would not know what good French fries taste like.
	I forgot to know what I'm issue because you you air fry them and he and you brainwashed, oh, these are the best fries ever until he tried my happy meal and my happy meal.
	I ask him, Liam.
	I don't know, what is he, six years old at the time when I asked him, Liam, what do you like better?
	That the happy meal or your mom's French fries.
	Which French fries?
	Oh, McDonald's French fries are much better.
	Yeah, it's a happy meal served with a side of heart attack.
	It's very nice.
	It's wonderful.
	It's a six-year-old not gonna have a heart attack.
	Thank you.
	Stop being so the crazy kale drink shaking, putrid green projectile vomiting.
	Some of them were orange all the time.
	By the way, it was Josh Holley.
	I was talking about the Pelosi's.
	They beat every hedge fund with their stock trading.
	I'm sure there's no insider trading going on there.
	Unreal.
	And this is now what we have.
	Democratic Senator tells the New York Times why their approval for their party is in the in the toilet.
	Chris Murphy explaining to the New York Times, uh, saying that they could be, you know, what they could be doing to get the public back on their side.
	Uh I don't know.
	I I don't know that anyone was ready for Trump in his second term.
	Uh I think there was an assumption, both in the public within the Democratic Party that Trump too would look very much like Trump won, and it'd be a lot of rhetoric and bluster, but it it wouldn't be matched by actual action.
	Actually, he did have a lot of action.
	Democrats trying to force retailers to display the cost of Trump tariffs.
	First of all, this issue is going away.
	I will say this.
	Um, all this rhetoric towards your senator, I'm beginning to really feel bad for John Fetterman.
	Because what they are doing to him is vile.
	It is just vicious.
	Um, and I I think it's just horrible.
	I really do.
	Did you see what Dave McCormick put out?
	Dave McCormick actually tweeted out it's time to put politics aside.
	Stop these vicious personal attacks against Senator Fetterman, his wife, and his health.
	While we have many differences, we are both committed to working together to achieve results for the people of Pennsylvania and make their lives better.
	There's really only two issues that I find myself in agreement with Fetterman on, but they are profound.
	One is he wants secure borders.
	Actually, three.
	Two is he supports Israel.
	And three, he recognizes that we can't allow Iran to ever get a nuclear weapon.
	By the way, Aaron's but the hip pieces are on his health.
	And if they cared about health and not cognitive issues, then they would have paid attention to Joe Biden.
	But they didn't.
	Let me tell you something.
	If he agrees, if he agreed with the squad AOC and Jasmine Crockett and Grandpa Bernie, he wouldn't be attacked.
	He he is he was I can't believe the level of recovery this man has had.
	It's been miraculous.
	People should be happy for him.
	They're only attacking him because they hate him.
	That's all there is.
	Because he dares to call out their extremism.
	You know, speaking, uh, Israel is saying they're going to take Gaza if if they don't release these hostages.
	This is the last straw.
	This is it.
	And, you know, Israel in a fight for their very survival.
	You may not know it, like the U.S., Israel has their own independence day.
	It was May 1st.
	But for the people of Israel, freedom is nothing more than a daily struggle, survival struggle, and there's no peace, only terror, and it's hard for them to find moments of joy while there's so much suffering.
	Tens and tens of thousands of Israelis have been displaced.
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	Call the IFCJ, 888-488 IFCJ is the number.
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