Conor McGregor slams Ireland’s elite for rigging democracy—selling toll bridges to foreign firms, exempting immigrants from traffic laws while locals pay, and using taxpayer cash to house newcomers’ vehicles. He ties the EU’s migration pact to cultural erasure, calling mass immigration "treason," and compares his plumber-turned-developer background to ministers appointed without expertise. Praising Trump’s "America-first" policies, he demands deportations, an end to illegal migration, and a halt to subsidies for immigrants’ housing—all while branding himself a centrist fighting "spiritual warfare" against Ireland’s secular decline. His whiskey brand’s rise over Guinness underscores his defiance of colonial-era dominance, with Carlson linking his fight to Hillsdale’s push for American economic nationalism. [Automatically generated summary]
You know, like a lot of countries in the Western sphere, it is being governed by...
You know, people with ill intentions of its people.
Yes. And, you know, they have not got the interest of their people at its heart.
However, our country stays strong.
Our people are strong-willed, strong-minded.
And we are of amazing spirit.
And it's about highlighting the issues that are going on.
And as we have been doing, it's turning.
We will get there.
I am not going to sit here in front of you with a doom and gloom about the things that are going wrong.
I will highlight for sure.
But I will highlight...
The solutions and the resolutions and where we are headed and keep the outlook positive.
That is what has worked for me my entire life and my entire career where I was able to rise up and do things that were once considered unattainable.
I kept a positive outlook and that's what I will urge my citizens and my countrymen, my fellow countrymen and women to do.
And that's what we are doing.
We had a great moment in the Oval Office with President Trump and before the press in the White House where we got to speak our case.
It was the first time it had happened in our history, really, where we felt as a people, someone spoke up about our issues.
We hear about it so much that we are left scratching our head.
Well, what about our issues?
Exactly. What about the issues the people of Ireland face?
And that is a rising sentiment that is taking place behind the doors of every household in the country.
What about us?
And right now, the citizens of Ireland, not only do we not feel like first-rate citizens, we don't even feel third-rate citizens in our own country.
So, you know, we continue to highlight.
The wrongdoings of a minute government elite, and it is minute, you know, on what they are doing.
You know, they are using intimidation tactics, they are using bullying tactics, they are using diversion tactics, they are using public funds and public wealth to enrich private people and private industries to alter the thinking of the public.
And we say no more.
And we are in the midst of highlighting it and continuing our motion towards the betterment of our country and the saving of our great country.
Ireland is God's country and you will not go against the nation of Ireland.
That is, I feel it's even magnified the more here.
I feel in this administration currently in the United States, it seems an America-first stance.
And it's a very welcome sight for us over here.
We wish that for us.
Ireland first, you know, but I feel, and as many of my countrymen and women feel, there is almost like an incentive to speak your piece on foreign issues.
You know, if you think about a raise or your next job or your next position, that is where we feel our government elite have their eyes on.
They have their eyes on the next role for themselves.
In order to get that next role, they must speak their peace on foreign issues and nothing to do with Irish issues.
And then, you know, lo and behold, an announcement of a raise or an employment in the European Union delegate and then off they go on their merry way after a running riot on Ireland and, you know,
zero accountability of doing so.
And it's no more.
I'm not sure where people think they will go in this small island.
You will not.
You will not destroy Ireland and be free to walk away.
I mean, I've only been here two days, but I'm a little bit confused by it, because Ireland is not like the United States, in that you have an indigenous population of Celtic people called the Irish, who've been here since the beginning of known history.
And so it's not like you were invaders.
You were also never a colonial power.
You never invaded anybody else.
You didn't have overseas colonies.
You just kind of stayed on your island and brewed alcoholic beverages.
And you have a very distinct thousand-year-old or older culture that's based on Irishness, the indigenous population of the island that we're on right now.
And they're being replaced at super high speed.
So you have said immigration is treason, mass migration is treason.
Describe the scale of it to Ireland and its effects.
Well, in the olden days, my family, the MacGregor clan, you know, treason is, you're hung drawn and quartered if you commit treason against your nation.
So, you know, what is going on here is an abomination, a travesty, and it cannot continue for much longer.
As you said, we are an island unto ourself, a small island, and we are being governed.
By a small people who are in turn being governed by another minute group of people.
And it must stop.
And that's it.
There is so much worry in this government elite circle about myself running for president.
And if we are a true democratic nation, which we are not, and I don't believe so, and it's becoming more and more clear and more evident, and the more Irish people are being awakened to this fact.
But if we are, let the people decide.
You know, it is this cozy clique where you have to almost bend the knee, you know, to even have a shot at this.
We should be on the ticket.
And a citizen of Ireland should be allowed to be on the ticket above a certain age.
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So in the conversations I've had with people in Dublin, every single person I've talked to has said the same thing, which is Irish people can no longer afford houses.
Their kids can't afford to get married, and their kids can't afford to have kids, and they can't afford to have kids.
The Irish family of 12 children doesn't exist anymore, in part because no one can afford that, and yet your government is subsidizing immigrants to have kids.
And that's true in my country too, in Australia, in New Zealand, in Canada, in the UK.
Another thing, the traffic car on Garda Sia Khan is one of the most successful divisions in the Gardaí, in the police force, in our police force, for convictions.
And, you know, it is the most successful.
And it has caused untold stress onto the people of Ireland.
I could...
I wonder the amount of suicides and the amount of lives lost and families destroyed over the stress of the traffic car institution.
You know, you get caught driving without tax or, you know, no NCT.
But on this day and age now, we've got our new visitors to the island who get fully exempt from driving without tax, insurance, NCT and even on Irish reg plates.
Free as a bird.
Right through.
The immigrants don't have to.
After our nation has gone through the most stressful periods of our life, lives have been lost due to the stress caused of this branch in Angadashia Corner.
And yet now our neighbours from other countries are moving here and with full exemption to drive around our roads with supercharged vehicles that have been imported on the taxpayers' dime and then also even another.
Crazy statement is if something happens to your vehicle, if you're a nice, friendly visitor or potential new member of our country, you get your vehicle repaired at a cost to the state.
But if they're paying foreigners to have kids while you can't afford to have kids, if they're shaking you down with the armed police, but allowing foreigners...
A pass.
If they're paying to fix foreigners' cars but not yours, they hate you and they're trying to kill you, right?
If I think about these tariffs, what's going on right now, while their money dries up and they're panicking about their money, our government elite, our money rises up.
And that is an exciting thing for the people of Ireland to hear.
And that's what this is.
My funds are infinite and I'm all in for the country of Ireland.
And I've got...
Incredible backing from your country and other countries that wish to support our cause.
So let me ask you, so a lot of political movement, or one political movement in particular in Ireland, had support from rich Irish-Americans for years.
The Republicans, the nationalists here, had support from donors in the United States.
Do you think Irish-Americans in the U.S., a lot of whom are rich, understand what's happening to this country?
And when I seen Michal Martin, our Taoiseach, our rotating Taoiseach, grace the Oval Office on March 12th, five days before St. Patrick's Day, five days before myself, I saw softball.
I saw a game of softball by Vice President Vance and President Trump, and almost a little bit of pandering to him, being safe with him, because you cannot speak to Ian.
That's 40 million Irish Americans, and that vote is very strong for the administration.
You know, you need that on strong.
You need that on side.
So they couldn't be seen.
Although their feelings are well known, you know, they're well against what's going on here in this country, they could not be seen to be tearing through an Irish delegate on the St. Patrick's Week.
So they played it correct.
And then when I seen this, I said, OK.
And I got my call to go and show up.
I said, I'm going to highlight this to the Irish-American people.
This is what's really going on.
You know, some people are saying, hey, I'm from Wexford.
I'm from Wexford.
My grandmother's from Wexford.
I said Wexford was the sunny southeast, is what we used to call Wexford.
Well, we do call it a holiday destination.
It is now...
No more.
There is no hotels available in Wexford.
They're all transferred into IPAS centres, which are International Protection Applicant Services.
It's this racket where they're all getting housed.
It is an office block.
It is a hotel.
It is even a school.
Even schools now are being transferred into these IPAS centres.
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So you believe that Irish Americans, again, who've funded a lot of stuff in Ireland over the years, a lot of investment...
So, for me, if I get in, I'm going to be exerting my influence to turn off the tap.
If you think about what Trump has done, they're actually stopping coming in.
Because it's not there no more.
The gravy train isn't there no more.
What is there is actually resistance.
You know?
And that's where it's at.
Now, there is a human...
There's compassion.
For me, there's compassion.
I employ people from all walks of life.
So there is a compassion element.
Many people who have emigrated here have done great things for our country.
And that has to be highlighted also.
But it's like at a stage now where the great people who have came here and emigrated and contributed greatly to our society are now feeling the strain of...
and are feeling the wrath almost because of this social unrest.
It has to stop.
It has got to stop.
We're at our limit with it.
We are really at our limit with it.
How'd the next few years go?
It's worrisome.
It is worrisome.
This EU pact, this EU migration pact, that as a president I could get in and I could really rattle it and put it to a stop, push to stop it, which would be the main thing.
They're trying to now hurry it through, which if it goes through...
It's changing the religious composition of your country, which since St. Patrick has been a Catholic country, you had Anglican overlords from across the water, but it's been a Catholic country for over a thousand years.
So now they're trying to put a refugee center at a Christian holy site town in Ireland, I was reading this.
Our children were stabbed outside of an Irish school on Parnell Street and a teacher was stabbed trying to fight them off and then an Irish man jumped in and then an immigrant from Brazil jumped in and together they wrestled them down and then it was...
You know, hide it and blame my tweets as the reason it kicked off.
I'm actually at a stage now where I'm cautious of highlighting the benefits of arriving here because it's only going to attract more.
If I look at Trump's situation, it has decreased the amount of people who are attempting to immigrate to the United States of America because of what's going on.
This is what I wish would have happened.
If you turn off the tap, they go.
Or they stop coming.
If you show a basket full of golden eggs...
You know, they just arrived for it, you know, and that's kind of what it is.
So how did you, just back to my original question, you're a plumber's apprentice on an industrial site in Ireland, cutting cast iron pipes and replacing them or whatever you're doing, probably something like that.
And then you wind up here thinking about running for president with these very evolved political views.
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So when you started fighting, as you said, you're a plumber's apprentice on an industrial site, and then you announce in public a few years after that, you haven't heard of me, but I'm going to be the world champion.
You know, for social housing, I get my money back if I'm lucky.
You know, maybe a little, a little, a little sweetener, a little drink, we'll say, here in Ireland.
Yeah. So, but for the stress it does cause, and the time, it's a difficult task, but it's worth it.
You know, there was a time, there was one I'd done, I completed a build of eight houses.
It was actually my very first one, it was maybe two years ago.
I'm only, I've only, I'm only, maybe four, three, four years ago, but it was in a part of Dublin called Santry, and there was eight homes, and I had got them completed.
Just before Christmas.
So there were eight homeless families that were brought into their new forever home right before Christmas.
And that filled me with such energy to continue and go and do it.
And I went full steam ahead.
And like I said, now I'm in the process.
I've got 300 strong now in construction close to finish.
And, you know, more than a thousand being built already.
And that's what me, my own self, able to do this with every block in my way.
You know, as one individual citizen of Ireland, if I was to get in and to have influence, I really fancy my chances.
I mean, the bar is so low.
Every statistic, every metric is on the floor.
Every metric is on the floor.
I'd get in and I'd be able to decrease our homelessness, you know, build our housing, you know, slow down the role of influx of illegal migration, control the spending.
I fancy it.
Our country has not been run correct.
And it is clearly evident to everybody outside of the political paywall.
You know if you're not held accountable or you've got, you know, you're free to do as you will.
That is what it is with Guinness.
Even as they go in, I'm a publican also, so I own pubs.
So I deal with Guinness and I serve Guinness.
I serve my competitor, no problem.
We outsell it 10 to 1. 10 points to 1 we outsell it on site.
You know, other publicans are dealing with Guinness distributors and they're not friendly, they're not supportive, you know, because they've never had to have been.
And then when I came onto the scene with Forge Irish Stout, all of a sudden they start coming and shaking the publicans' hand a little bit differently.
You know, looking at the bright side kind of guy, but Rosie O'Donnell has moved here.
If you're president and you tackle the immigration crisis, and I do think Pakistan and India take a lot of the blame for it, Africa, but also Rosie O'Donnell, like, would you deport her?
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