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in spite of absolute unfair hell that this man lived through from 2020 to 2024 and indictments and ridiculous charges, and we can talk about the lawfare and the weaponization,
all of which was to prevent him from ever running That interim made him that much stronger. I don't know if he had consecutive terms if he would be as competent as he is right now in every move that he's making. But the world is changing in a much better way. Now,
there is a group of people out there that totally misconstrue, and I think purposely so in many cases, for whatever reason. What the Trump Doctrine is, and they don't understand what this President fundamentally understands, he understands two things. One, the power of the U.S. economy. And you can see the economic numbers, and they bear out exactly what I'm saying. You know, last quarter, third quarter of 2025,
4.3% GDP growth. We're now expecting 5.4%. U.S. household wealth hit a record high of more than $180 trillion in the third quarter of 2025. And it's only going to be higher when we get the final fourth quarter GDP numbers. It's expected right now to be 5.4%. Everybody was out there predicting,
oh, these terrorists of President Trump, they're going to be a disaster. Nothing could be further from the truth. The need of the world to want and need access to American markets to sell their products. And it is a worldwide phenomenon. And that includes China. That includes all of Europe. And in most cases,
all of these countries were ripping us off and charging us tariffs, including Canada and Mexico. You know, president after president after president put up with this institutionalized rip-off against us,
and it only hurt American workers, American industry, and Donald Trump said no more, and the predictions of doom, gloom, and the economy was going to tank, none of which has come true. And the president now, we are, if we're at 5.4% this early, I had been saying, by the end of last year, I said, I know Scott Besson is saying second quarter GDP is going to be the breakthrough quarter,
but it's already breaking through. Third quarter GDP. Now, how does that impact your life? Because that's where it really matters. Okay, well, interest rates are coming down, and they're going to come down dramatically more in the months ahead. We're going to get a new Fed chair. I noticed that they're going after Jerome Powell. That's going to be fascinating. Uh, thing to watch and see, but you know, we've had three rate cuts already and, uh,
the next Fed chair I would imagine is going to push for much lower interest rates. The president actually is pushing for a cap of one year on 10% on interest rates for credit cards. Uh, I know some people don't like that idea either, but I mean, it's insane when you really stop and think about it. You know, Dave Ramsey, old friend of the program, I mean, he's not wrong. I mean,
if you listen to his program for any length of time, I don't think there's a show that goes by where he doesn't tell people to cut up their credit cards, and he's not wrong. I don't cut up my credit cards, but I pay off the balance every month. But for a lot of people that, you know, unfortunately suffered so dearly and unnecessarily, Under the Biden economy, they were putting bare necessities on their credit cards. So the president has understood the need of every other country around the world to have access to American dollars,
American consumers, and as a result, the president has been able to secure trillions and trillions of dollars in committed manufacturing investment money that is now coming online, coupled with the one big beautiful bill. In part, which includes 100% depreciation on new factories that are being built out. That's like putting accelerant on manufacturing and building because you incentivize companies. They get to deduct it all in one year,
not over the course of seven years, which prior bills had. And so that's a great incentive for companies to build it out. But we're going to bring back automobile manufacturing, pharmaceutical manufacturing. Semiconductor manufacturing. We have always been reliant on foreign countries for this. Rare earth mining is now beginning. The president has put in the most aggressive energy,
not only independent policies, but energy dominant policies ever, coupled with what he's done in Venezuela and what the impact there is going to be in terms of oil markets around the country. You are already benefiting. Now, all of a sudden, you're going to see more money in your paycheck, no tax on tips, overtime Social Security. That is looking out for working men and women, the heart and soul of this country, and people on fixed incomes, the elderly in this country,
If they want to work after they get a social security check, why do they have to pay taxes on that?
It's insane.
Um, the largest tax cut in history.
When Reagan did it, when Trump did it the first time, it resulted in massive economic growth.
In the case of Reagan, they doubled revenues to the government, 21 million new jobs longest period of peacetime economic growth in history.
Under president Trump he set record low after record low, unemployment for every demographic group in the country.
Oh, Republicans don't care about minor.
Well okay, record low unemployment, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, women in the workplace, African American, youth unemployment.
Now one other thing, this president understands that his predecessors, many of them, did not understand.
And this is where the Trump doctrine gets perverted and misinterpreted, I believe by some, purposefully and somehow not not getting involved in forever wars does not translate into isolationism.
And the president understands the might of the United States military to expand the long-term prospects of peace, peace and prosperity around the world and prosperity around the world and prosperity around the world.
and we see it playing out in real time in Venezuela, Cuba, and in Iran, all of which we're going to spend a lot of time on today. The president, for example, we see with taking out Nicolas Maduro, well, some might think, oh boy, we're going to get into a quagmire in Venezuela. Well, it hasn't worked out that way, I guess loyalists to Maduro, they're giving in to every demand Trump has put on them,
and they have been firmly warned they're next if they don't follow through. And that includes 50 million barrels of oil that will be sold at market prices for the benefit of the Venezuelan people and the American people, American energy companies that are willing to go in and invest and rebuild the infrastructure, the energy infrastructure inside of Venezuela.
They will be paid back the money that was stolen from them when the energy sector was nationalized in Venezuela.
Political prisoners have been released.
The president tomorrow will meet with Maria Corina Machado, which I think is great.
And as a result, now Cuba finds itself.
Cuba was providing all the security.
I mean, Maduro didn't even trust his own security forces.
So he made a deal with Cuba to provide them free energy or energy at very low, very low cost.
And they provided security for Maduro and Trump put out on truth, social Cuba lived for many years on large amounts of oil and money from Venezuela.
And they provided security for Maduro.
And Trump put out on Truth Social, Cuba lived for many years on large amounts of oil and money from Venezuela.
In return, Cuba provided quote security forces for the last two Venezuelan dictators, but not anymore.
Most of those Cubans are dead from last week's Usa attack and Venezuela doesn't need protection anymore from the thugs and extortionists who held them hostage for so many years.
Venezuela now has the United States Of America, the most powerful military in the world by far, to protect them.
And protect them we will.
There will be zero more oil or money going to Cuba zero.
I strongly suggest they make a deal before it's too late.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
which always cracks me up. I mean, the memes about Marco Rubio being the president of Cuba just crack me up. Um, but, you know, some have actually called all of this Marco's Revenge. There's no way that I can see that Cuba can survive without Venezuelan energy and oil. They're now basically cut off from the world,
and, you know, it is, it's not just the enforcement of the Monroe Doctrine, which, you know, is we're not going to allow outside influences within our hemisphere, but the drug dealing has got to stop, and The narco-terrorism has got to stop, and the gangs that have been entering our country because of the close proximity, that has come to a screeching halt because Donald Trump has closed the border,
and all of this is not happening in a vacuum. All of it is happening by design, and all of it is happening well within the Trump doctrine of no forever wars, and the president has shown this again and again,
Don't see the wisdom of taking out, for example, the Iranian nuclear sites. Okay, well, people will say, well, he's acting on behalf of Israel. No, he's acting on behalf of the United States. You know, when people chant death to America, not just death to Israel, but death to Israel, death to America, you should believe them. When they're targeting Americans, like the Iranians did inside of Iraq,
they are an enemy of the United States of America. When they're fomenting terror against American citizens and in the entire region, including building out new alliances with countries. In my lifetime,
I never thought we'd see alliances with to such a big extent. But, you know, the trillions of dollars that all these countries are investing in the United States is because they want U.S. involvement and they want a secure Middle East. The only way to secure the Middle East is for this Iranian regime ultimately to go. And we can only hope and pray that that in fact happens. Now,
we have the Iranians, we have reports, the morgues are full of people. The Iranian mullahs, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have unleashed the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, their most lethal forces,
to go after the Iranian people that have been protesting in every corner of Iran. Uh, the president has been very, very clear if there's much more death and destruction that he will get involved. Um, and you're going to see, and you know, I, I think the president really does have a pretty short window here. We'll talk to Newt Gingrich about it later in the program today, put out an ex post on this thing. It's not enough to sympathize with the Iranian people and their struggle. You know,
this is a window of opportunity to bring peace to the entire region. Israel was not the only country that celebrated the demise of the Iranian nuclear sites. Every other country did not want Iranian hegemony or a nuclear-armed Iran in the region. They all feared it. Everybody from Egypt to Jordan to Saudi Arabia to the Emirates to the Qataris even that have been,
you know, duplicitous and allies of the Iranians and have offered. Support on levels that I won't go into right now because I just don't have a lot of time, but what you see is the president now drawing a red line in the sand and saying that if protesters continue to die. Now, there are reports that the morgues are full,
that people are being shot in the head by the by the Quds forces, Iranian Revolutionary Guards forces. Apparently hospitals are being overwhelmed right now. And I'm going to tell you something. It looks like they are on the brink. These reports that the Ayatollah has a plan B to get out of Iran seems very,
very real. Reza Pavlavi, who's the crown prince, who was on with me last week, he's going to be on Hannity tonight, but protesters now renaming Tehran streets after Donald Trump, quoting Donald Trump and begging. That they're proposing nuclear deal talks. He said, no, we're examining strong options to protect the people and their right to have a change of government. And, you know, Polymarket, which is one of the betting markets,
Says they have it at a 62% chance, Ali Khamenei will be out as supreme leader at some point this year.
If it's going to happen, it's going to happen quickly, and this was Newt Kingrich's point is, there's only so many people that can be murdered before you know.
Other people are just going to say well, this isn't working and they're going to want to stay home anyway.
We're watching all of this, but the world is changing before our eyes.
The only thing I could think that is akin to this type of this level of change towards the cause of liberty and freedom, again in keeping with no forever wars, is maybe when the Berlin Wall came down and it's all.
It's all the Trump doctrine that's made all of this possible.
and all of it happening before our eyes. It is fascinating to watch, you know, Democratic committee chairs comparing the U.S. to Iran, claiming both are killing protesters. The rhetoric of the left knows no bounds at all anymore. They just don't care. It's gotten so sick. Well,
first of all, Donald Trump is calling on Elon Musk to restore Internet service to Iran, which I'm very glad to see. This is a Reuters report that came out. Yeah, Elon, first and foremost, if you don't really know a lot about him as a humanitarian,
I mean, that's why Neuralink should fascinate everybody. And I'm not sure, just because he got a little bit involved in politics, you know, it became the great demonization of a guy that the left wing used to love because of his electric cars. I have one,
a Tesla. I have the S-Plaid, fastest car I've ever driven. I mean, zero to 60 in 1.9 seconds. 1,024 horsepower. I mean, this thing, it's like a rocket ship. It has auto drive. You know, you put in where you're going, your navigation, it drives you right to the location. You don't have to touch the accelerator. You don't have to touch the brake. You don't have to do anything. It just takes you right there. It's the coolest thing ever. When you take somebody out for the first time, Linda,
they get freaked out. When I put it on auto drive, you know, put my hands on I'm not touching the accelerator, the brake, you know, puts on the blinker, makes its own turns. I mean,
it's amazing technology. Even if you don't have it on and you're about to run into a car, it'll stop on its own. It's just great, and it's much safer than driving on your own according to statistics and studies. But the Democratic left has gone so nuts. This is in Axios,
and they reported this back in July of last year. Anti-ice protester Rene Good in Minneapolis last week. You go back and you look at this headline, quote, Democrats told to get shot for the anti-Trump resistance. Town halls in their districts and one-on-one meetings with constituents, activists, Democratic members of Congress are now facing a growing number of demands to break the rules,
fight dirty, and not be afraid to get hurt. In this case, they're telling people to get shot, according to this Axios report. House Democrats telling Axios they see a growing anger among their base that has, in some cases, morphed into a complete disregard for American institutions, political traditions, even the rule of law. Well, that's what happens when you tell people that ICE is the Gestapo and ICE is, they're full of Nazis. Anyway, what we're hearing, the grassroots,
they want more. Some of them have suggested what we really need to do is be willing to get shot. When visiting ICE facilities or federal agencies, a House Democrat telling Axios, our own base is telling us what we're doing is not good enough,
that there needs to be blood to grab the attention of the press and the public. Another House Democrat said constituents have told them civility is not working and to prepare for violence to fight to protect our democracy. Another telling Axios, I actually said in a meeting, When they light a fire, my thought is to grab an extinguisher. And someone at the table said, have you tried gasoline? Is this supposed to be funny? Now, this could get very interesting. And like everything else,
Democrats are on the wrong side of every issue. But there is, on fake news CNN, they have a report that, you know, this radicalized Democratic Party, some of them are pushing for an all-out fight to rein in ICE. And that Democrats in Congress want to make defunding ICE part of the next government shutdown fight. Quote,
I think it should be a red line representative Jimmy Gomez, a California Democrat telling CNN when asked if his party should insist on changes to ice and the funding bill.
I think we should take a hard stand against this funding.
Oh, they don't want to enforce the laws of the land.
You know, when you look at the long extended version of what happened and I, I, I do feel bad when a life is lost.
I feel bad when law enforcement are attacked also.
And all of this was preventable.
You know, you see the ice agent, Jonathan Ross approaching in this case, Renee Nicole goods, SUV walking in front of her car on the driver's side.
Renee says that's fine, dude.
I'm not mad at you as, as he approaches.
Ross's attention then turns to Rebecca Good. Renee's wife, who's standing outside the car filming the encounter, Ross goes, and they showed minutes of this. And they're honking their horn and they're going crazy. And then standing there,
it's okay, we don't change our license plates as they're looking at the license plates. You want to come at us? Openly provoking, and this is all seen on the video, I say, get yourself some lunch, big boy. Go ahead. Obviously, ratcheting up tensions. The exact opposite of how you should interact with law enforcement, how we should teach our kids to interact with law enforcement. Another ICE agent approaches the car from the side, the driver's side,
tells Renee to get out of the car. That is heard clearly. Tries to open the door. Then Rebecca tries to open the passenger side door, and when she can't, she says, drive, baby, drive, drive. Renee then backs up and then turns her wheel to drive away, You can see Rene, you know, lurches forward and accelerates towards the officer. And you can hear it strike Officer Ross, Who's standing in front of the driver's side.
That is a weapon.
And new video shows, you know, all these minutes leading up to this.
And, you know, what you what you see is like three and a half minutes of footage taken by a citizen from inside near a nearby home showing ICE agents and multiple vehicles out on the street.
And the car is heard honking repeatedly while someone is actually heard continually blowing a whistle and disrupting law enforcement in in the performance of their duties.
You know, it's and, you know, for those on the left in Minnesota, like this idiot, you know, French fry mayor that they have, you know, saying that it will, you know, get the F out of Minneapolis.
They don't have any jurisdiction and they think they're going to bring charges.
Good luck with that.
A federal officer is immune to state prosecution as long as they're acting within the scope of their lawful federal duty.
Stopping a motorist who's obstructing ICE is a lawful duty and officers have a shield for the supremacy clause, which we have told you about repeatedly on the program.
I mean, it's this this whole issue is settled.
And what we were told by DHS was right.
What we were told by local officials was dead wrong.
I found this.
Did you see there's a law signed by Governor Walz if a driver accelerates towards an officer standing in front of a vehicle?
this creates an immediate life-threatening danger. The officer doesn't need to wait until impact. They can act based on the intent and proximity. Oh, sorry. That didn't work out for the narrative that they wanted. You know, there's actually a group, this was on foxnews.com, and there's apparently a group called Crowd for Hire. We've always talked about astroturfing and all these groups that are paid protesters,
anti-ice agitators disrupting the streets of Minneapolis all weekend. And the CEO of this national protest organization, what is a national protest organization? Crowds on demand telling Fox Digital. They would not touch Minneapolis protests with a 10-foot pole,
citing blocked roadways, obstruction of federal agents, and threats against authorities following a fatal shooting. Blocking roadways, obstructing federal agents, threatening authorities are illegal. We don't engage in any form. It's kind of like, but there are groups. I mean, they're taking a different position, but there are groups that, it's like rent-a-mop. It's insane. You know, ice out, you know, for good. There's rallies nationwide. There's going to be a thousand of them. I mean, they're just looking for trouble, and the likes of Mamdani, you know,
fanning the flames. There's incidents that happened in New York where, you know, there was a shooting, totally, apparently, by every measure, justified, and a Mamdani-tied socialist and CCP, apparently, The groups have been leading this war against Donald Trump on this ice shooting and Maduro's arrest.
I mean, there are people, this is like their full-time job.
And I guess they're not going to love the fact you had a pro-Tehran truck driver plowing into a crowd of Iranian freedom protesters in Los Angeles.
You know, so much for freedom of speech from the left.
They've just become so radicalized.
Iranian mullahs, according to the New York Post, they've slaughtered at least 5,000 people.
Now, I've heard reports as many as 2,000.
And as a result, you see that President Trump is not going to wait.
I mean, he says they have now crossed a line and President Trump is not Obama.
And he has stated unequivocally that he is going to support the people in their opposition to this tyrannical regime that is, you know, now unleashed the Iranian Revolutionary Guard against their own people.
He said.
we're examining very strong options regarding Iran. I'll make a decision. As these protesters are being shot, even Polymarket, the betting market, has a 62% chance that Ali Khamenei is going to be out sometime this year. If it's going to happen,
I think it's going to happen now. I think that if people keep getting killed and we're told the morgues are being overwhelmed, there are reports of that, reports that hospitals are overwhelmed because of the brutal regime and their crackdown. Uh,
one retired general, Jack Keane, has urged Trump to give Iran one more warning and then then it's time to weigh intervention. At what point are you going to let a slaughter of innocent people take place? It's in the world's best interest and this is where the,
you know, the isolationists and some even, you know, call themselves MAGA are so wrong and they don't understand the Trump doctrine. Whatever action Donald Trump takes is going to be in the short The president has never gone in that direction. And I don't think he ever will. And they just don't understand or they seem to want to understand it. And look at Venezuela. They're scared to death. The people that remain,
even Maduro loyalists, have given in to every Trump demand, including 50 million barrels of oil, a promise to only buy U.S. goods, and the release of political prisoners. We have ICE arrests in Minnesota surging. Homeland Security is showing photos of ICE deportation flights. I mean,
we're watching this corruption unfold. I could not believe what I read. By the way, Kristi Noem saying this weekend, and she had a showdown with fake Jake Tapper. We'll get to that. We'll play it later in the program. And Lake and Riley would have turned 24 on Saturday. Democrats, did they ever mention Lake and Riley? Jocelyn Nungary? You know, Rachel Morin? No. Are any of the other people that have been brutally murdered and raped and victims of other violent crimes,
do they ever care about all the drugs that have been brought into this country that's killing 200 Americans on average a day? Not a peep, not a word from them. The president and his economy is, you know, the U.S. trade deficit has now shrank to its smallest since 2009. Oh, the economy is not going to recover. The economy is recovering much quicker than I thought it would. 4.3%, quarter three last year, GDP growth,
trade deficit the lowest in over 20 years. You see gas prices now at five-year lows, interest rates now at the five-year lows. You know, the economy's beginning to turn. And when it turns, now we have the president's economic policies in place. That's going to benefit everybody. One thing that's happening as a result of this, you know, institutionalized fraud in Minnesota,
and Scott Besson is pummeling the coward Tim Walz for yanking his police protection in Minnesota while he's there.
But, you know, 89%, as high as 89% in the Somali community are getting welfare benefits.
You know, just watch how the left governs.
Look at California now.
They're proposing this billionaire tax.
All right.
Maybe that sounds great.
You're not a billionaire.
Maybe you don't like billionaires.
I don't know.
Most people, you create goods and services that people want, need, and desire.
Need and desire.
Nobody's forcing you to buy services or goods and they're successful at it.
Nobody's forcing you to buy services or goods and they're successful at it in a free country.
In a free country.
They pay taxes on the money.
They pay taxes on the money.
I assume they pay their taxes or they'd be in jail.
I assume they pay their taxes or they'd be in jail.
Um, most people that are wealthy that I know end up getting audited far more than people you know, the middle class in this country.
Okay, so now all these billionaires like Larry Page, co-founder of Google, Larry Ellison of Oracle they're leaving California and one article today on Foxnews.com, they had two trillion dollars of billionaire wealth that went into the coffers of California.
One trillion of it has already fled in anticipation of this tax.
It is insanity what they're, what the left is doing here, but i'll tell you.
the big picture is With a president that understands the might of America's economy and the need for every country to have access to our markets and the proper limited use of America's military to make the world a freer,