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Hollywood Tariffs and Unions00:14:32
Welcome to the big show, everyone.
Good to have you here.
Happy Monday.
We've got a lot going on.
I'll tell you, Donald Trump is getting some folks in Hollywood kind of worked up.
You may have seen the news.
We're going to get all into this.
The potential for some serious, serious tariffs to go on to Hollywood movies.
Welcome.
It's good to have you here.
I hope you had a great weekend.
I just want to give a quick shout out to our friends over at 76 Research, our friends being me and Rob, my dear friend Rob, who started the company with me.
We've been watching the markets, of course, and they've been rather volatile.
we still feel like there are good things ahead.
We'll get into that a little bit later in the program.
But beginning the day, first in Hollywood on the West Coast, where there's total panic right now, total panic because everybody's like, oh my gosh, what is Donald Trump thinking of?
What is he doing?
Well, what he's thinking of, frankly, ladies and gentlemen, is the right thing for the industry.
It's the right thing for America.
He's talking about saying, okay, you can't just go and shoot all these movies all over the place and not be employing American workers when you do.
So Hollywood's in a little bit of trouble and Hollywood's kind of freaking out at this moment in time.
Because here's what he said, and I'm going to read it to you.
This is the truth social that went out last night, like a ticking time bomb.
All of Hollywood, they're three hours behind, too.
They're like, oh my gosh.
So they had all Sunday night to worry about this, and of course, all of today.
The movie industry in America, he wrote, is dying a very fast death.
Other countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and our studios away from the United States.
Hollywood and many other areas within the USA are being devastated.
This is an effort by other nations and therefore a national.
security threat.
It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda.
Therefore, I am authorizing the Department of Commerce and the United States Trade Representative to immediately begin the process of instituting a 100% tariff, not 10%, a 100% tariff on any and all movies coming into the country that are produced in foreign lands.
We want movies made in America again.
Wow.
So a lot of people asking a lot of questions like, what would that look like?
Why is he doing this?
Don't forget, remember he got Sylvester Stallone, he got John Voigt, and he got Mel Gibson to join a committee and try and figure out like, what is it that we need to do to be more competitive?
Because don't forget, I've told you before, right?
All the money that went into producing some of these movies over the years, don't forget, this is what we exported so, so well via our CIA.
This is the Smith Month Modernization Act.
Well, we had the Smith Month.
Act, which allowed for taxpayer dollars to go into propaganda that would be used overseas to advance our message, whatever message that the State Department, the CIA wanted advanced.
And it wasn't allowed to be used back here on us, right?
Not until Obama came along and said, oh, we've got to modernize this thing.
Let's be able to use our taxpayer dollars to run a giant psychop on American citizens.
So when you wonder why it is that all the ladies on The View sound the same and everybody over at MSNBC sounds the same and CNN and the rest of it and Reuters and Bloomberg and you know.
It's because in part of this Smith-Munt Modernization Act of 2012.
Well, you wonder how much Hollywood got trapped up in that as well.
And so, you know, there's a message to woke Hollywood that, yeah, you need to get on the right page.
But there's also a message to woke Hollywood that you need to start doing the right thing vis-a-vis the entire film industry, right?
Like employ Americans.
I get it.
You're squeezing every little last profit out of this thing you can.
I mean, if you actually made good movies, maybe you wouldn't have to do that as much.
Snow White, I'm looking at you, right?
Captain America, I'm looking at you.
If you guys actually made good movies there in Hollywood, you wouldn't fall under the pressure of having to deal with this.
But this is where we are right now.
And Donald Trump's taken a look at it along with his committee.
And he's sort of like, gee, you know, we got to be able to do better.
We should be able to do better.
And this is not sustainable.
It's just not sustainable.
And he's right.
It's not sustainable because you need a successful entertainment industry.
It's critical to our economy overall.
We want that.
We love that.
And so why not have that?
Why have that taken from us?
You look at all the incentives, right?
All the incentives that all of these countries have been putting forward vis-a-vis carrots to say, okay, we'll give you a tax deduction if you come here and film it here.
And so what does everybody do?
They go to Canada.
They go to the UK.
They go to Ireland.
Everybody films all over the place except here in America.
And that's where he's sort of saying, you know, enough is enough.
Here he is.
It's a little bit hard to hear because he's outside the helicopter there.
I want you to hear him speaking about this, saying Hollywood's being destroyed.
We shouldn't just sit by and be so willing to take it.
The movie tariffs, what they've done is other nations have been stealing the movies, the movie making capabilities from the United States.
And I said to a couple of people, what do you think?
I've done some very strong research over the last week, and we're making very few movies now.
Hollywood is being destroyed.
Now, you have an incompetent, grossly incompetent governor that allowed that to happen, so I'm not just blaming other nations, but other nations, a lot of them, have stolen our movie industry.
And I'm saying, if they're not willing to make a movie inside the United States, and we should have a tariff on movies that come in.
And not only that, governments are actually giving big money, I mean, they're supporting them financially.
So that's sort of a threat to our country in a sense, and it's been a very popular thing.
I can tell you one thing, movie makers love it.
Yeah, so if every other country is offering a huge tax deduction for you to go and make your movie there, and if the labor is so much cheaper there, then why wouldn't you go, Unless there was some incentive to actually make it back here at home?
Now, a lot of people had hoped you'd see more incentives from states.
We did see some.
For example, New Jersey was offering some incentives.
Of course, New Jersey is just a train wreck when it comes to a lot of things.
Newark Airport and also taxes.
But they were trying to do things.
I think Tennessee also was making some advances in that department.
And we need to see more of that.
I mean, you can't make a movie in California anymore because the cost of living is so expensive in California.
And because there are no incentives to be able to do any of that.
So he's right.
Like the governor of California ought to step up to the plate and do a little bit more.
But what he's trying to do is say, okay, you better make them here because if you don't, guess what?
It's going to cost you twice as much.
Now, how does that work?
Logistically, people are saying, well, this gets a little tricky, right?
Because this is effectively intellectual property.
But if you're making that movie overseas, say like a Snow White that Disney made primarily out of the UK, you could say, all right, well, we're going to put a tax effectively.
On ticket prices, we're going to take a share of your revenue unless you make that here in the U.s.
So that's the idea that is being proposed and that's what he's trying to figure out.
In other words, can you find a way to incentivize these Hollywood studios to make things back here at home?
I mean I I, I don't know, as any movies are really made back here at home anymore.
Everything is made overseas especially, by the way, with the streaming units.
It's incredible when you look at where the streaming you know, Netflix and Disney PLUS and Apple TV, all the streaming entities are actually making a lot of things Overseas.
Again, because the thinking is it's cheaper and it's this race to the bottom.
And you've got to kind of walk a line, if you would.
And it is a line.
Remember Art Laffer with the Laffer curve?
And he was explaining to Reagan at some point, if you're taxing too much, you actually drive the incentive to create down.
So maybe 100% is not the level.
I don't know where it'll shake out at, but you got to be somewhere.
In other words, you've got to actually be in the game.
And if every other country is coming along and saying, hey, we can do this, we can do that, we can do this, and you can't compete, then what happens?
Especially in something like movies, which is intellectual property and actually is kind of what you want, right?
Don't you want that as a nation?
You want to have this influence on culture and you want to be able to export that and make it right here at home and employ people right here at home.
I'll tell you, a lot of it probably goes back to unions and a whole lot of other things, right?
You get a lot of problems and it goes back to California and it goes back to Gavin Newsom and Gavin Newsom's inability to really do the right thing by that state.
It's kind of a tragedy when you think about what California was back in the Reagan years, right?
And what it has become.
There is an opportunity there.
It's a massive industry.
And Donald Trump is basically freaking everyone out.
Can you imagine Bob Iger right now?
I mean, Bob Iger's sweating it, right?
Over at Disney because he's got earnings coming up on Wednesday morning.
Who knows how those things are going to look?
Disney.
They're still stuck with the ABC Newses of the world, the Whoopi Goldbergs of the world, the George Stephanopouloses of the world.
We're going to get to that in a second.
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Wow, Disney, Disney, Disney.
Disney is like freaking out because Disney is dealing with, oh my gosh, now he wants to tariff us.
I mean, hey, you know, woke universities, you're not the only one feeling the heat of Donald Trump.
The movie studios are.
Disney certainly is.
They've got the FCC breathing down their back, right?
Over at Disney right now, opening up investigations into the DEI practices of ABC News.
And now, and now they're looking to possibly tariff the Disney productions and the streaming productions that they're shooting overseas instead of in the good old US of A. Disney has earnings out this Wednesday morning.
Look for those ahead of the bell and they are certainly under fire for, as I said, a variety of reasons.
FCC being kind of a biggie, but also just the pure old reality that the company's not doing that well.
Not doing that well at all.
And it's like he knows it.
Did you see this one over the weekend?
Donald Trump trolling Disney and Iger.
You know, May the 4th, get it?
Force for the Star Wars geeks out there.
I'm not a Star Wars geek.
Definitely not.
But some of you may be.
So may the 4th be with you.
And including the radical left lunatics, he writes, who are fighting so hard to bring the cis lords, murderers, drug lords, dangerous prisoners, and well known MS-13 gang members back into our galaxy.
You're not the rebellion of the empire.
Okay.
So Star Wars is now a Disney product.
So kind of a fun troll from the White House over the weekend.
I'll tell you, they do have a good sense of humor.
You got to give them that.
If nothing else, they get a heck of a sense of humor.
But Disney may not have a sense of humor, nor do investors have a sense of humor about earnings right now, because their woke film division will pay the price in light of these tariffs.
So this is just one more thing.
You wonder why ABC News did not want Donald Trump winning.
You wonder why Bob Iger seemed to be totally okay with Whoopi Goldberg saying insane things like, oh, he's going to round you all up, all the gays, all the this, all the that, and he's going to deport you.
And we're looking at this guy, how can they actually say this stuff?
Like, this is so bizarre.
Well, I think it was because they really wanted to make sure that Donald Trump didn't win because they were so terrified of this moment in time that we're looking at now, where the SEC would be in there saying, what exactly do you have going on for DEI?
And why exactly do we need to have affiliates?
Paying you ABC for this.
I could say a bad word, but I won't.
Programming on top of that, you're making all your movies overseas.
That horrible Snow White that you made that you saved all that money on with tax breaks out of the Uk.
Well, we're going to make you make that stuff back here at home.
Thank you very much.
Maybe if you make it back here at home, you actually have to pay attention to profits a little bit more.
I mean, you should be paying attention to profits.
That's what investors want you to do, right?
We got the stock trading around 98 bucks.
It had been trading up around 200 and change, don't forget some five years ago.
So this is dead money, bad money, plunging money.
Disney has been a real mess.
And you know what else is tough for Disney?
The reality that they are no longer the only game in town.
You know, they've been trying this whole streaming thing.
They know they got to get out of the traditional television business.
They can't, of course, because nobody will actually buy their traditional television business.
Don't forget, I told you the other day, how it sold in the early 90s, ABC, the network for some $19 billion, that's with a B, dollars to Disney.
And apparently Disney got an offer.
from Nexstar for somewhere around $10 billion.
And so suddenly Bob Iger went from, oh yeah, I'm going to sell it, I'm going to sell it to maybe I'm not going to sell it.
Maybe we can actually make something of this here.
Maybe we can turn this into a streaming business.
Good luck.
Already Disney has lost that round to none other than Netflix and probably Apple as well because Apple has some really good streaming products.
I mean, they get the earnings coming up on Wednesday.
And one of the things that people keep saying is, can they actually even compete with Netflix?
Disney's Streaming Struggle00:14:58
I mean, that is a big problem.
They got dwarfed, you know, dwarfed, pun intended, Barron's rights over the weekend by Netflix.
What investors want to be seeing on earnings day?
Investors want to see that the parks division and the cruise division, right?
That basically the experiences division is holding up, but they're worried that maybe it can't hold up in light of the economic challenges that we're facing as a nation right now.
I don't know how true that is.
I'm going to be honest with you.
I looked at the visa numbers recently.
Rob and I wrote about this actually at 76 Research, and we were talking about how the visa numbers actually looked really, really, really good.
And so that was very encouraging to see because it shows you the U.S. consumer is still spending, spending, spending, spending and enjoys spending and likes spending and is going to probably continue spending unless things get really bad.
But Disney is already using this as an excuse.
Oh, if those park attendance rates are down and therefore earnings are down at the theme parks, they're going to point to the economy and they're going to say Trump's economy is killing us.
And it's the threat of Trump tariffs, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
So watch for that in the call.
I wouldn't be surprised.
It doesn't change how investors are going to feel if we hear that.
things are bad at Disney and people start selling off Disney as a result.
I think that, you know, it's still a bad scenario for one Bob Iger who has not been able to turn this thing around at all.
The other thing that came up in the Barron's article over the weekend, which I think is really interesting, is just how bad a disaster the film entity is.
So, you know, maybe they ought to sell off the film division as well.
Not just legacy media, but, you know, you guys have just, you jumped the shark in terms of the film division.
And Snow White was phenomenal proof of that.
Again, don't forget how they titled this at Barron's.
They did say, oh, that Disney is getting dwarfed by Netflix, getting totally dwarfed.
But they're saying, you know, one of the reasons for this is because of the challenges they've seen at the film box office with Snow White, which topped $200 million in worldwide box office receipts.
And before you say, woo, yay, you got to realize, as they write, hold the applause.
Industry reports say it cost about $250 million to make.
I don't even think that includes.
The marketing, etc.
I mean, they had a lot going on here and a lot that went into this.
But $250 million makes suggesting that it could need $500 million or more to break even.
But after six weeks in theaters, ticket sales are down to a trickle.
It is a poison apple.
In other words, they write Disney quickly halted Tangle, a live-action remake based on the Rapunzel story.
We told you about that right here, right?
Because there was no way.
When they saw how badly this one was doing, they realized they just couldn't have another bomb, another woke DEI.
nonsensical bomb out there that was not going to fly or play in mainstream America or elsewhere in the world for that matter.
So this film division is under a tremendous amount of pressure and it doesn't look like it's going to change anytime soon.
I actually think that maybe the tariff thing will shake things up and they'll start saying, you know, maybe actually we need to focus on creating movies that people want to watch because we can't sell our TV assets.
We tried.
We want to.
Bob Iger told, I've played you the sound by CNBC's David Faber at Sun Valley some year and a half ago, two years ago.
I really want to get out of this, you know, businesses that are not the opportunity businesses for our network.
They are not ones that are going to be crucial to us in the future.
And yet he couldn't.
He tried.
He couldn't.
And so now he's back to square one.
He's saying, okay, well, maybe I can change this into some kind of streaming business.
And they're all proud because ESPN.
I guess got 200 million views in a recent month, streaming views.
I just want to point something out, you guys.
This is really good news.
We're up to like 730,000 subs right here on this little channel.
I'm not putting out 300 to 400 pieces of content a day like ESPN is.
And guess what?
We did 98 million views right here on this little channel last month alone.
So that means I'm basically half the size of the streaming business of ESPN.
I would just say, ESPN, you got a ways to go, but this is fantastic.
And this is thanks to you.
And this shows you how much things have changed, and maybe it's the individual, as opposed to the network right, that matters in this kind of new world and in this new streaming environment.
So wow, 730,000 subs, 98 million views right here on the Trish Regan channel.
It's, it's incredible, and I think that Disney is now sort of in this mode where they're not going to be able to get out of this.
I don't know how they change, I don't know how they actually evolve, unless they say okay, we're going to double down on theme parks and cruises and the experiences.
And, you know, at some point you're going to go in, you're going to shake up the film division.
You're going to shake up the TV division.
You're going to actually get rid of all the wokeness that is weighing down your business and just look to turn a profit.
Is it that hard?
I mean, this is what they're dealing with over at CBS at this moment in time.
Sherry Redstone, who runs Paramount, is sitting here going, I mean, I got to save my company.
It's my company or it's 60 minutes.
Which one do you want?
Three guesses which way she's going to go on that.
So she's been trying to settle this $20 billion lawsuit with none other than Donald Trump, and understandably so, right?
Because she wants to get this deal done with Larry Ellison's son, who's got Skydance, and they're going to put a huge capital infusion in, and this is what they need, right?
Because you look at Paramount, which includes all those old cable channels like Viacom and MTV, and they do have Showtime.
That's really good, Showtime.
But then they got a ton of these sort of legacy cable networks that they've got to diversify away from.
I mean, they really do.
Why?
Charlotte, thank you so much for your generosity.
Much, much appreciated.
I'm going to get to all of your comments, by the way, guys, at the end.
But I just think that they've got to look at this and find a new future.
And so Sherry Redstone's like, oh, this is fantastic.
I got this deal with Skydance.
This is going to be the future for all of us.
And yet, you know what?
The FCC could be in the way of this because the FCC might say, you know what?
We're not going to approve this merger.
And so from her standpoint, she's like, all right, let's get this thing settled with none other than Donald Trump like fast, right?
Let's make President Trump happy.
Let's get this out of our way.
And the news division doesn't really like that.
So take a look at what happened.
You know the drill, the 60 Minutes producer.
He quit.
like two weeks ago.
And then the guy who was his talent, as they call you in the industry, his talent that he produced, Scott Pelley, went on television and was like, oh my gosh, and gave this big, wow, you know, our employer is trying to do a deal with Skydance.
And because Paramount, our parent company, is trying to do this deal and they're worried about whether or not Donald Trump's going to approve it, this is what's happened to us.
And now Bill Owens does not think that he can actually have editorial independence anymore, et cetera, et cetera.
He kind of sticks it to his employer.
He sticks it to Sherry Redstone.
She's sitting there going, oh my gosh.
Now the word is Sherry has actually put in charge a woman named Susan Sarinsky, who used to be the president of CBS News and actually ran 48 hours and kind of, kind of, kind of just gets which way the wind blows.
In other words, she's still a journalist with a capital J, but she understands that this is a business after all.
And you probably don't want to be mucking things up right around the time you're trying to get the merger going because if you don't have the merger. it is very possible that the entire company, Paramount, goes away.
It can't survive in this new environment without this merger.
So Sherry Redstone, Variety Had a Good Piece, is trying to look at this and make a decision.
And they're equating her with the Godfather too, where they have to make a decision and one of them has to go.
And the prediction is it's going to be 60 minutes it has to go.
In other words, you're not going to let the entire company fail, nor should you.
Shareholders don't want that.
because of a bunch of people over at 60 Minutes that have their view of the world and are stuck in this TDS on steroids environment.
Do not forget what this is all about, ladies and gentlemen.
This is the clip.
You have Kamala Harris with two different versions of an answer, speaking with a 60 Minutes reporter.
They were stupid enough, however, to release the original version on their Sunday morning Face the Nation show.
So by the time Kamala showed up on the airwaves Sunday night, the answer had been dressed up, cleaned up.
You got to hand it to the editor who managed to edit this thing and made it sound like something.
I mean, wow, this is word salad turned into something decently eloquent to which Donald Trump is suing them because he's saying you interfered with the election with that.
You're trying to make her into somebody she's not.
Here we go.
But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening.
Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.
But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening.
We are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.
I'm telling you that that editor deserves the Emmy.
Remember I told you on Friday, they're now nominated for an Emmy for that interview.
My goodness, it's like the whole industry is really trying to stick it to Donald Trump and perhaps to Sherry Redstone to a certain extent.
But my prediction is, you know what?
Sherry's going to go where the money is.
She doesn't really have a choice.
You're talking about an $8 billion company that basically is going to go down because some producers at 60 Minutes want their way.
I'm sure I can just see.
Good night, good luck, right?
The George Clooney film on Broadway, or film, play on Broadway, where he's playing the part of a CBS journalist and thinks he's just the cat's meow, for goodness sakes, and everybody taking the part of the journalists in this.
I mean, are they really journalists anymore?
When you cut up a soundbite like the one I just showed you and you reinvent it into something else entirely, how much of that is really journalism and how much is selling, right?
You are selling a candidate at that point.
Point, you wouldn't have done the same thing or afforded the same privilege as Donald Trump.
Are you kidding me?
No no, no.
They did that for Kamala Harris, because they wanted Kamala Harris to win, and they just keep beating up on Donald Trump as much as they can.
So to me that's really not journalism at the end of the day, that's something else.
I remember I did an interview right around the same time.
60 Minutes did an interview with Donald Trump and my interview I was like, oh gosh, do you have to do that?
It was like a Sunday with Leslie Stall and I think I was there at the White House on Monday turned out my interview made a whole lot more news Because he was bashing the FED and a few other things.
And he kind of got a kick out of it.
I remember we were talking after and he's like, you know, your interview actually did a lot better and had a lot longer legs.
It got a lot more attention than that interview I did with Leslie.
And what he was most struck by of all was that of the, say, 30 minutes or 33 minutes that he gave me on camera, I ran the entire 33 minutes.
And 60 minutes, on the other hand, came in and maybe shot for an hour, two hours, however long.
And then they only ran maybe five minutes.
of what he had said.
And he was like, you ran the whole thing, Trish.
And I'm like, well, of course, Mr. President.
I mean, I have the President of the United States to sit down with.
I have an hour of show.
Why wouldn't I?
If you had given me two hours, I would have run that over the next two nights, an hour of pop.
Because to me, that's authentic, actually seeing it in its raw form, as opposed to the cutting up and the massaging and then the inner, you know, the reporter comes in to voice something in the interim.
That's what they do at CBS.
That is old fashioned television, okay?
In the new world, we're right here.
We're streaming.
I'm live.
I have no scripts.
I kind of have an idea where I'm going.
I have a few elements I want to talk to you about.
But the reality is this is all live.
It's all real.
And authenticity is, I believe, what people actually respond to, which is how we've been able to create this channel with 730,000 subs and 98 million views.
Wow, I still can't get over that.
From last month alone, that's thanks to hopefully my authenticity, my realness, and your appreciation. for that.
So that's the new world in which we live.
And I think that CBS News versus Paramount, they're in this civil war there.
And Paramount, the parent company is saying, okay, we got to survive.
CBS is like, but we have TDS.
And they're like, get over it.
Get over it, baby, right?
We're moving on.
The world moves on.
And if they don't move on, then the whole thing really is going to fall apart.
So my expectation is they're going to settle that with Donald Trump.
My expectation is 60 Minutes is going to go away.
Okay.
And that was what I told you on Friday.
And then this article came out.
This is actually Brian Steinberg writing in Variety that, you know, they've got to make a choice.
And I'm telling you, the choice is not going to be for 60 minutes, which makes no money.
Okay, the choice is going to be for the survival of the company.
If you're a shareholder in that company, that's the choice that has to be made.
That's what you want.
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So people are making fun of CNN, so long as we're on this media craze right now.
CNN is being mocked for this outrageous interview that they aired over the weekend.
This is crazy to me.
So, you know, it's bad, right?
Because CNN's always taking the side of anybody who's basically not John Q. Public.
not the middle American.
They want to make sure that they're looking out for, oh, I don't know, the Sinaloa cartel?
This is unbelievable.
They went and did this interview with a cartel member and asked him how offended he was, like what that meant that Donald Trump was referring to cartel members as terrorists and, like, oh my gosh, oh my gosh.
And you're sitting there going, is this for real?
Uh huh.
This is CNN.
What's your message to Donald Trump?
So we've just entered an area of the city that is still very dangerous.
After weeks of trying, our contact here on the ground has managed to secure a meeting.
With a member of the cartel who's involved apparently in the production of drugs.
This man is talking to us on the condition we hide his identity and location.
Can I pull up a chair?
He says he produces fentanyl for the Sinaloa cartel.
How safe or dangerous is this area to be in?
I mean, according to the Trump administration, you are a terrorist.
I mean, the cartels have been labeled a foreign terrorist organization.
What do you make of that?
What's your message to Donald Trump if he's watching this?
According to him, he's looking out for his people.
But the problem is not that the consumers are in the United States.
If there were not any consumers in the stock.
Okay, and forgive me because those of you that are listening on audio, You don't speak Spanish and I'm looking at the translation and I do speak Spanish.
So basically he said that he had a message of respect for Donald Trump and that we have to eat.
I'm sitting here going, oh my gosh, like what is going on in the world?
Where CNN's like, what is it that you want Donald Trump to hear?
I mean, how dare he call you a terrorist?
You just happen to be one of the biggest crime organizations in the world.
But no, no, we can't go there.
We just can't, right?
Because somehow it's not your fault.
I mean, you have to eat after all.
We have to eat, the guy says.
And she's sitting there like, oh my gosh, you poor drug cartel member.
He's like, I mean, this is crazy to me.
So I'm not the only one who found this a little bit crazy.
If you go online, everybody had the same reaction saying this is pathetic.
Nothing like giving these people airtime.
So CNN is concerned about hurting the cartel's feelings.
This isn't the flex they think it is.
It is offensive to Americans.
You better believe it is offensive to Americans.
This is CNN, ladies and gentlemen.
And this is why nobody watches.
CNN anymore.
I don't know what they're going to do without whatever money they were getting from USAID.
I mean, again, it's very questionable how some of these organizations survive because when you're thrown out into the real world and capitalism matters and you actually have to turn a profit because you're not getting any money from, say, the U.S. government anymore, which is probably the reality of what's going on right now at CNN.
It's why right away after the election, they knew they had to pare down.
They started their layoffs.
Same thing over at ABC, same thing over at NBC, same thing over at CBS.
This is the reality of the world right now.
New York Times, all of these news organizations, they're getting their gravy train cut off.
Another commentator said, well, we need to be respectful and not hurt the cartel members' feelings, right?
I mean, this is this woke insanity that has just driven businesses further and further into the hole, whether it be Disney, whether it be these networks.
And then while simultaneously really hurting us, hurting us Americans.
Remember, you guys.
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Donald Trump is now out attacking the Murdoch empire.
This is interesting.
This is the Wall Street Journal and now Fox that he's gone after.
Fox, you know, who we thought he loved.
But, you know, the Wall Street Journal, if you look at some of their headlines, I said this actually to Rob at 76 Research the other day.
I was blown away by how negative, negative, negative everything was, like one story after another.
after another, after another, as I went down the page at the Wall Street Journal, I'm like, what is going on at the Wall Street Journal?
I'm apparently not the only one.
Donald Trump's noticed that something's going on at the Wall Street Journal, as well as Fox right now.
Here he is.
Again, you may have to turn up the audio just a little bit because there's a lot of interference on the sound.
He's on Air Force One, but he's talking to people, and there's a Wall Street Journal reporter that starts to ask him a question, and he's just repelled.
Listen to him go off on the Wall Street Journal as just a total garbage newspaper.
Here we go.
We won't have a country level.
We can't have that happen.
Who are you with?
The Wall Street Journal.
That's what I'm doing.
Well, you people treat us so badly.
Wall Street Journal has truly gone to hell.
Go ahead.
A rotten newspaper.
What I said, it's a rotten newspaper.
I wouldn't tell the Wall Street Journal because it'd be wasting my time.
There are talks, but I don't want to talk to the Wall Street Journal.
But look, Wall Street Journal.
Is China oriented and they're really bad for this country.
You say you want a fair deal.
You say you want a fair deal with China.
What is a fair deal?
Well, you know, I want a fair deal with China, but China's been ripping us off for many years, so maybe something should be thought about, you know, a little bit of retribution.
China's been ripping us off for many years, ever since they started.
To me, I think it was the worst thing that Richard Nixon ever did.
And it was Nixon, you know, he's the one that got it started.
Nixon China Policy Debate00:03:40
And they've taken advantage of it.
No.
Really interesting, really interesting.
His points, obviously, on Nixon, his points on China.
You know, don't forget one of the reasons.
Nixon went into China and opened it up was because there was fear that Russia was going to get too close, the former USSR at that time, to China.
And so in an effort to prevent that relationship from forging and therefore being more threatening to us, Nixon recognized the power of China and said, let me go in there and actually try and befriend them with this capitalism and this opportunity for prosperity.
And China took that opportunity, yet simultaneously never opened itself up.
fully because it's still a communist country.
I don't believe you can have capitalism and communism fully together, but they've got some version of it there in China.
And they just grew and they grew and they grew and they grew.
And so we used to look at it as an emerging market country.
Well, now you're looking at the world's second largest economy, which is why Trump is like, I don't need to give them any kind of special privilege anymore.
And he's accusing the Wall Street Journal of being more in bed for China than in bed for the United States of America.
Interestingly, that same day, just hours later, he came out. against two Fox News personalities, one who hosts a media show that would be Howie Kurtz.
Howie Kurtz was actually defending him a little bit, but kind of in like this passive-aggressive sort of, you know, half-hearted way because how he's like trying to be fair, etc.
And so somehow Donald Trump caught this show and he suddenly put out on True Social, and I quote, it is time for Howie Kurtz to retire.
Every woke anchor in the business, people that no one watched from CNN, MSDNC, and others. are plastered all over his show with all really negative and fake statements.
And then I'm weakly defended, he writes in quotations, by Howie and his group.
Although Ben Dominish has been strong, that's Meghan McCain's husband.
The case Howie makes for me is so pathetic that it would be a lot better if you just didn't say anything.
Anyway, that's the way it is.
Exclamation point.
So he didn't appreciate it.
You know, I can tell you that probably the method of madness for Howie is, well, let me bring on some guests and we have some feisty fireworks and we do this debate.
But in order to do that debate, you've got to be really strong, right, to be able to go back at them and at least have some conviction.
And if you don't want to play your hand, right, if you're like, okay, I'm a journalist and I'm not going to fully show what I really, really, really think, and, you know, to a certain extent he's doing that, well, then you're not going to be able to really take them on.
You can't be able to fight fire with fire, right?
In which case, you're going to need like a Ben Domino's or somebody else to then go after them.
But apparently every time Howie tried to go after him, Donald Trump didn't appreciate it so much.
And then the other thing I'd point out is that Carl Rove, oh, I know you love Carl, he was on another program on Sunday, and he suggested that the president focus mostly on poll numbers, which have been deflated recently because people have these concerns about the economy, which may be neither here nor there.
Again, I think that we're kind of out of the woods.
The expectation is we're going to get a lot of deals.
You heard him just say that to reporters.
We're getting more and more deals.
So consequently, he didn't appreciate.
Karl Rove saying that, you know, he just needs to focus on the economy.
He just needs to focus on poll numbers.
He put out also on Truth Social, quote, I don't need to have Karl Rove of Fox News to tell me what to do.
Belichick PR Demands00:10:26
The guy is a total loser who's been wrong about almost everything.
So Murdoch's organization took a hit over the weekend, but, you know, so be it.
Maybe that's for the best.
I like Newsmax anyway, right?
I used to work at Fox.
You probably know that.
Maybe you don't.
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Oh, Bill Belichick is in the news today, and this one's good.
So apparently he's absolutely desperate, just absolutely desperate to fix this PR mess he has gotten himself into.
Actually, it's not entirely he that's gotten himself into it.
It's that Jordan girl, the 24-year-old girlfriend.
That's a really, really big May, December.
All right.
So she's like a former cheerleader who was in college as a philosophy major at some branch of University of Massachusetts.
She's desperate to be Miss Maine, not in the Miss America system.
I just point that out because I was in the Miss America system, but in the Miss USA system.
There's no talent in Miss USA.
We won't hold that against them, but I'm just saying.
Okay.
So this girl, 24 years old, somehow winds up with Bill Belichick.
Uh-huh.
You know, you got me, but there's obviously some things that we could say.
Some things that we could say.
We're going to get to that because apparently she's got a $9 million real estate portfolio.
Oh my gosh.
You're talking about a sugar daddy on steroids, right?
Well, Bill is all of a sudden out trying to defend her, trying to defend her honor.
And it's getting more and more complicated to the point where now he's like, I think I need a PR person.
Like, in other words, he needs a pro.
Yeah, Jordan is going to get replaced by a pro, by an actual PR person.
Here she is in that Sunday morning clip that went totally viral.
Where she just shuts down the reporter.
And it's over kind of an innocuous question, remember?
Jordan was a constant presence during our interview.
You have Jordan right over there.
Everybody in the world seems to be following this relationship.
They've got an opinion about your private life.
It's got nothing to do with them, but they're invested in it.
How do you deal with that?
Never been too worried about what everybody else thinks.
Just try to do what I feel like is best for me and what's right.
How did you guys meet?
Not talking about this.
No.
No.
It's a topic neither one of them is comfortable commenting on.
Hmm.
Apparently they met on a plane.
It really shouldn't be that big a deal.
But for whatever reason, it was a sore subject.
And now he's breaking his silence.
He put out a statement basically saying, you know, she's just trying to protect me.
She's just trying to help me.
I thought it was just going to be a simple interview based on my book.
And then all of a sudden, they started taking it in this direction and that.
directions.
And then he starts blaming the media, right?
It's CBS's fault.
I get it.
Like, you know, the media is kind of an easy one to pick on.
I would just say that, unfortunately, Bill, you seem to be an easy one to pick on.
I mean, because this 24-year-old girl has you completely whipped, right?
Like, I mean, it's a little weird.
I'm just saying it's a little bit weird.
It's especially weird that she somehow is amassing property.
More on that in a second.
But he's concerned now, concerned enough that he's looking to get outside PR help.
NBC Sports had this story over the weekend, citing numerous sources saying Belichick is He's been talking to at least one experienced PR specialist in the hopes of boosting his book tour and the overall interest of the North Carolina football program.
And of course, his overall disaster of a self with this disastrous relationship because of this disastrous 24-year-old who nobody can quite figure out, you know, just exactly what her gig is.
How involved is Bill Belichick's girlfriend at UNC, University of North Carolina?
This is The Athletic, which is a division of the New York Times.
They were asking this question two weeks ago.
This was before.
this interview on CBS Sunday mornings.
So apparently they had gotten their hands on a whole bunch of emails and she had been CC'd on everything.
He demanded she be CC'd on everything.
And she's calling herself now the head of Belichick Productions.
And she's, you know, she's the head honcho and she's threatening, oh, this, that, and the other.
And you're not going to get access to him or you're not going to get some of his stuff if you don't do X, Y, and Z.
And so I think people were getting concerned, concerned because her only experience, say, doing anything would have been, well, being in the Miss Main pageant.
And well, having an Instagram account with 88,000 followers.
Not too shabby, okay?
Not too shabby.
But in other words, you're talking about a professional football program.
UNC kind of takes it a little bit seriously.
They don't want to be having to answer to a 24-year-old who doesn't know what end is up.
Or maybe she really does know what end is up, right?
Like maybe Jordan's smarter than any of us, heck.
I mean, because this girl's got some assets.
And I'm not just talking about the tush, okay?
Like this girl has got some assets here.
Wow.
Yeah.
This was great.
This was over the weekend.
I saw this and I just died laughing.
Sugar Daddy, as she's like half dressed out with, how old is he?
Like 74?
I mean, this is wild.
Anyway, she's worth a lot of money right now.
Somehow, miraculously, he's 74, I believe.
She met him when he was 73.
Suddenly, Jordan Hudson is worth somewhere around $9 million in her real estate empire ever since meeting one Bill Belichick.
Because you know, it was true love.
You know, can't you see that?
I mean, that was just too true, too love.
Bill, wake up.
I mean, come on.
Can you imagine if you're his daughter?
Can you imagine if you're his kids?
You're like, Dad, is everything okay?
I mean, I watched that clip and I'm actually worried for him.
I'm like, Bill, run.
Don't walk, run.
I remember he's 74.
Like, if he had gotten a 54 year old, we would have thought that was.
That was aiming pretty high.
But no, he's.
He's got the 24 year old and I have look, i'm not an ageist, I got I.
I realize love can happen in all shapes, forms and sizes like this one.
And now she's got a nine million dollar empire to top it off.
I mean, I think there's a little something else going on, just saying, just saying it is a little bit bizarre, and it goes back to this lovely little picture, Sugar Daddy and Jordan.
One thing that's also come out recently is that She apparently worked her way into a Super Bowl commercial.
Did you see the Dunkin' Donuts commercial?
It had him and Brady and actually not Brady.
It had Matt Damon, I should say.
Matt Damon.
He's no Tom Brady.
And they have this little skit and Belichick's in it.
And somehow she worked her way on.
According to the New York Post and a few other publications, she just demanded to be in this thing.
And somehow everybody was astonished.
She made her way in.
Let's watch a little clip of it here.
Where the hell are Matt and Tom?
Forget them suckers.
Matt Damon and Tom Brady don't have the heart of a champion.
We got a new squad, Dunkin's sequel Affleck's and Belichick.
Gun Kings!
A little more spirit on the charge next time.
We got a fourth thing.
You see her?
Okay, let's go back.
She had a little cameo there, so she's just on camera.
Oh, we don't want to cover up Bill.
There's Bill Belichick and the girlfriend, 24-year-old Jordan Hudson, who hopes to be Miss Maine.
$9 million real estate portfolio.
Did that commercial really pay that well?
Anyway, the point is the guy's totally whipped, okay?
Like, it's sad to say.
If I'm his family, I'm really concerned.
I mean, I'm concerned.
I'm concerned for UNC.
I'm concerned as a New Englander, somebody who grew up in New England.
We like the Patriots in New England.
This whole guy getting taken advantage of by a 24-year-old, I don't think it's so hot.
I don't think it's so good.
And you know who else doesn't think so?
The family.
Okay, so the daughter-in-law is now out on record saying that this was not good, what happened in that interview.
Because not only.
Remember, did she say, Oh, we're not talking about that in the Sunday morning interview?
She also apparently, ladies and gentlemen, got so frustrated with the reporter and his questions that she stormed out of the room and then was mad because her boyfriend, 74 year old Bill Belichick, didn't follow suit.
This is, of course, the clip that we've seen that went very viral.
Jordan was a constant presence during our interview.
You have Jordan right over there.
Everybody in the world seems to be following this relationship.
They've got an opinion about your private life, it's got nothing to do with them, but they're invested in it.
How do you deal with that?
Never been too worried about what everybody else thinks.
Just try to do what I feel like is best for me and what's right.
How did you guys meet?
Not talking about this.
No.
No.
It's a topic neither one of them is comfortable commenting on.
Well, I'll tell you who is commenting on it the daughter-in-law.
So he has two sons and a daughter, and the daughter-in-law came out and slammed the girlfriend for interrupting the CBS interview.
How do you like that?
So this is sort of interesting.
I mean, I think she's speaking for the whole family here.
I think she's speaking for all of America here.
We're like, what?
So apparently, like, this whole, like, exchange was going on on social media and there was a PR person who was trying to say, well, you know, this, that, probably trying to get the business, right, of Bill Belichick because this PR person knew that at some point he'd come pleading for some PR help.
Anyway, the PR person said, you know, when you look at the situation and you say this is his girlfriend jumping in, I think that's unfair, he said.
I think she's actually working with Coach Belichick in the professional world.