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April 17, 2026 - The Trish Regan Show
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🚨 Feds CLOSE IN?! Ilhan Omar Goes on Lefty Media Blitz Amid Looming Arrest Rumors

Ilhan Omar faces federal scrutiny over alleged immigration fraud, money laundering, and foreign influence ties while promoting anti-Semitic streamer Hassan Piker. Amidst these controversies, Donald Trump brokers a historic 10-day Israel-Lebanon ceasefire, potentially integrating Lebanon into the Abraham Accords despite ongoing Hezbollah rocket fire. The episode contrasts U.S. military dominance and economic strength against European NATO dissatisfaction, highlighting Spain's refusal to host bases and arguing that progressive welfare dependency threatens national security foundations. [Automatically generated summary]

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Scary Rhetoric and Radical Left 00:15:04
You're starting to see it all right now.
This is not just one story, not just eight stories, but a very big pattern here overall, a theme, because right across the board, the left has started to become far more radical, far more defensive, and frankly, more exposed.
Because we've cut on, and systems are catching on.
Ilhan Omar, one great example.
The feds are closing in.
There's a reason why she's on a media blitz right now.
We'll talk about that.
But also think about what has just happened at Yale University.
Hassan Piker, learn that name.
The Democrat Party thinks that he is the future.
A nutjob, an anti Semite, a guy who believes in the importance of ending the American empire.
His words right there at Yale University while openly praising.
The Soviet Union saying the worst thing that could have ever happened was the destruction of the Soviet Union.
This isn't fringe anymore.
I mean, you'd think it's fringe, right?
But this is the guy that the Democrats are campaigning with.
This is the guy that they're holding up, that Ilhan Omar thinks is the future of the party that embraces the party.
So we're not just talking about elite campuses, we're talking about mainstream Democrats, the Democrat Party's base.
This is not normal.
Okay, this is not normal.
This is not who we are.
Justice Thomas, Clarence Thomas, making this very clear today in an outstanding, outstanding editorialized comment.
I'm going to get to that.
I promise you, I'm going to play you that sound because he really captures the essence of why these insane progressives are so inherently wrong.
At the same time, you look at what's going on in Minnesota and they don't want to investigate the massive amount of fraud there that may be connected to Keith Ellison and Governor Tim Walz.
$9 billion, it's estimated, with ties back to walls looking the other way.
Well, why aren't we investigating this?
I mean, no accountability, that's communism for you, right?
And Ilhan Omar, for goodness sake, she's suddenly everywhere.
I mean, she can't get enough of the media going on these crazy shows like Hassan Piker's show.
She's suddenly everywhere with this full blitz, and you've got to ask yourself why.
And I'm going to tell you why.
Because the pressure is mounting.
They're closing in on her with greater scrutiny, greater questions, and concerns even about her family, whether it be the hubby, hubby number three, and his alleged money laundering, or even her daughter, who may have ties to China.
She was just spotted down in Cuba campaigning with a China backed group.
So, you got to ask yourself what's going on here.
And I'm going to tell you.
You've got foreign influence from all over the world that is permeating our country.
But you know what?
It's not working.
It's really not working because, as much as they're doing that, as much as they're pushing these radical ideas in New York City with Mam Dami in New York State, with Kathy Holkle now promising to tax anybody who's got property there, who doesn't live there full time, a pretty penny.
All this communist economic rhetoric is coming back to haunt them because we're winning.
It's success after success after success after success.
You look at what's going on with the strikes in Lebanon, forgive me, in Iran, but Lebanon as well, because we're looking at a possible peace deal, a ceasefire now for the next 10 days between Lebanon and Israel.
Donald Trump, very, very proud of that, hoping to solve that war.
All while we take hold there of the Strait of Hormuz.
You've got ships going through that we want to get through.
But no Iranian oil is getting out.
It's an economic chokehold.
So we're winning.
And Donald Trump is winning with the American people.
New polls out today, shocking the Dems and shocking some of the CNN analysts.
We are winning despite their aggressive attempts to shut us down.
And that is where we begin the program today.
Welcome to the Trish Regan Show, everyone.
I am Trish.
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Live from Europe, from the UK, from London to be exact, where they're very, very worried that the president is about to rip up that agreement.
Yeah, you know, that he made with the UK on tariffs.
Well, that would be something.
They're getting a little nervous about that, but you know, they're all very, very nervous right now.
NATO is very, very nervous.
We've been talking about that all week long because the thinking is they're not going to get all that money, that nearly trillion dollars worth of money from the US of A because, well, why should they?
I mean, after all, It's of no use to us when we need them.
They're not there.
They just have their hand out all the time.
More on that coming up.
But first, we begin on Ilhan Omar.
Ilhan Omar getting kind of desperate.
Ilhan Omar suddenly doing a media blitz, going on every single lefty show she can imagine.
Well, there's a reason for that.
She's desperate.
She's nervous because she knows they're closing in.
You heard what JD Vance recently said about her and the belief now that she committed immigration fraud?
You know that he's very worried.
About why the $250 million feeding our future thing came right out of her district, and why suddenly, if you connect the dots, she's worth $30 million after having been down about $50,000.
It doesn't make sense, right?
Well, I mean, unless it does, and I mean, really does.
So she's getting desperate.
She knows they're onto her, and she's trying to like just toss off this feeding the future thing.
Look, she's pretending like she doesn't even know how much money it is.
Commit this to memory.
I certainly have $250 million, a nice round number, easy to remember.
Somehow she thinks it's $230.
I mean, the The anchor guy had to even correct her.
What now?
230 million.
Um, that has been, um, is it well, well, 250 is what they take, yeah, yeah, yeah, 230 to 250.
Um, there's been about 77 or so, um, yeah, that have been, um, uh, indicted.
Many of them have taken plea agreements.
Um, that makes it they gotta make it hard for you, right?
Just in general, not because you're you got anything to do with it, yeah, but when he can point and say, well, this is this actually happened.
I mean, it doesn't make it hard for me, but it does make it hard for the average Somali business owner.
There you go.
It makes it hard for the average immigrant business owner.
It makes it hard for the average black business owner because it does create this cloud of suspicion.
And obviously, it's become very politicized.
And it will continue to be politicized as we get closer to November.
And the level of harassment people are dealing with, you know, even.
Well, okay, so now she's going to go into harassment because.
coffee shops.
We need to feel bad for her, right?
It's so harassing for her.
We need to feel so, so bad.
So she's going to hit the harassment thing, you know, poor me, my poor community, but she's also sort of tossing it off like, oh, it's just a political thing.
It's just a political thing.
250.
$50 million that she initiated.
And that's just a political thing.
And by the way, all the people, she can't remember how many people, right, have been indicted either.
It's somewhere around 84, but she's trying to downplay that.
She's trying to 230 million.
Oh, maybe it's 70 something.
She can't remember any of the numbers.
She doesn't want to remember any of the numbers.
She's trying to brush it off like it is politics as usual.
I'm telling you, this is not politics as usual.
You have $19 billion total that's missing in the state of Minnesota.
They're talking about estimates from the Manhattan Institute of $180 billion missing in California.
By the way, you're not hearing this on the mainstream media.
No one's doing it.
I mean, this was actually reported just the other day, I think, by our friends over at Media Research Center.
They are not covering this at all.
In fact, ABC and NBC, here we go, they have refused to recover any of it ever since Dr. Oz sounded the alarm on what was going on in California.
Here we go.
They have not bothered.
ABC and NBC have not spent a second on their flagship morning or evening newscasts.
Informing any viewers of the billions of dollars that have been scammed from US taxpayers.
You see, there's a reason for that.
They are trying to pretend it is politics.
And this is what she's out trying to do at this moment in time on various programs.
Let's go back.
She wants to have everybody feel bad for her, you see, and her community, you see, because it's really just costing her community.
And she expands the community.
It's not just the Smollies, it's the immigrant community, it's the black community, it's everyone that she wants on her side kind of community.
Ill high.
Their cameras harassing all of these business owners.
And daycares.
And daycare centers where people have not been able to take their children because they're scared.
I mean, did the daycares even exist, right?
I mean, the daycares we saw, there were no children inside.
No, no.
The Leering Center, they weren't doing any learning or any leering or anything, it seems, inside that center.
But she's out.
She's pushing herself with this narrative and trying to gin up support among the base.
And you know this because it wasn't just that little podcast.
It was this guy's podcast, Hassan Piker, where she's touting him, putting him up on a pedestal, saying he's the future of the party.
Well, you know what?
I'll take that.
I'll take that all day long because I want him to be the future of the party.
I want her to be the future of the party.
I want all the nut jobs out there as the future of the party because the nuttier they are, the more we win, okay?
In the end, this is actually good for us, but it's a little bit scary because on the way to this is some scary rhetoric and some scary stuff.
And she does actually think he's the future.
Watch this.
That should be the problem.
The problem shouldn't be the streamer who understands where the base is, who's coming from a place of integrity and honesty and supporting a candidate that really fits that 90 10 issue the exact way that it should.
Because if we are to have a representative democracy, the people have to represent the interests of those that they are seeking to govern.
Yeah.
No, and somehow he does.
Hassan Piker is who she is holding up as the guy who is representing the interests of the entire base of the Democrat Party.
Okay, I'll take it.
I'll take it.
Like I said, you want all the crazies representing the Democrat Party.
But I'll tell you, there's a reason she's doing this now.
And it's because of one thing and one thing only.
You've got Treasury, you've got the IRS, you've got the White House with JD Vance and his entire team of investigators.
I include Stephen Miller in that because he's.
He's high up in that chain, and they get 100 investigators on the ground there in Minneapolis.
You've also got.
Did I miss anyone?
Wait a second.
We've got IRS.
We've got Treasury.
Oh, the FBI.
You get the FBI as well and the Justice Department looking into it.
So it's a lot of groups, okay?
The feds are all over this.
I mean, Minnesota can pretend like nothing happened, but the feds are on it.
JD's leading it.
I'm worried about the immigration fraud.
I'm also worried about what did Ilhan Omar know?
About what was happening in the Somalia community and why was nobody looking into it until, frankly, Donald Trump came along?
Unbelievable.
Again, I go back to that filing.
She did this to herself, right?
She really did.
I mean, for goodness sakes, why did she tell us all she was worth $30 million?
Unless, of course, you have to be worth that much if you're going to be purchasing, the valuation has to be high.
If you're going to purchase a share in her husband's company, his venture capital firm, and if he's going to, I'm saying, theoretically, cleanse it for you, maybe over in South Africa where they were working on some South African.
Solar panel ideas and ventures.
I mean, or if he's going to cleanse it allegedly in places like Somalia or in Kenya where they have very loosey goosey banking laws, well, then guess what?
You're going to have to have a very high valuation.
So she may not have had a choice there, may not have had a choice.
Carter, thank you for the generosity.
Yeah, I don't know if she believes in democracy at all.
I mean, I don't think any of these people.
Wait till you hear what I'm going to play you from this Hassan Piker dude.
I mean, they don't believe.
In a democracy, they believe in we take from you and we redistribute as we see fit.
And by the way, if we land our pockets along the way, so be it, because that's exactly what was happening and that's exactly what they were doing.
There are a lot of concerns as well that there was fraud involved in her immigration, et cetera.
I'm telling you guys, she's in a lot of trouble.
She's in a lot of trouble.
And it's coming at a time when the nation is looking to purge ourselves of any of these so called traitors that do not have America's best interests at heart.
And what you're seeing is that there is an influx.
Of these so called traitors and these so called influencers that are trying to indeed influence public opinion.
It's like a giant psychop, okay?
You just keep telling people that guys can have babies and maybe at some point they'll believe it.
You just keep telling people that they don't have a gender, like we wanna be a genderless society.
We don't really know what day it is.
Is it nighttime?
Is it daytime?
We don't know.
You confuse people enough and you actually really reduce a society basically to nothing.
And I think that's part of the motivation.
And I think it's coming from China and I think it's coming from Iran and I think it's coming from bad places.
And I think it's also beginning to stop.
More on that in a moment.
But first, consider why they're trying to make it go away.
I mean, if people, in fact, were on the take, that's going to come out and the feds are going to expose that.
But right now, the state of Minnesota is turning a blind eye.
In Minnesota, they had the chance to investigate Timmy Walls and Keith Ellison, and they chose not to.
Why They Hide Corruption 00:05:24
This was right down party lines, actually.
So I guess in that sense, it is political.
But I want to play for you the vote.
Here they are deciding whether or not.
And the roll call has been requested.
The clerk will take the roll.
Chair votes out.
Mr. Chair, do we get a closing statement?
So they took the roll call.
They took the roll call.
And ultimately, the Democrats decided that they did not want to investigate Timmy Walls or Keith Ellison, despite hearing from numerous witnesses and whistleblowers that these guys were looking the other way.
So, despite having what seemed to be the appearance of total negligence right in front of them, they're choosing not to even ask questions.
Because they don't want to ask questions.
Because if you're asking questions, then somehow that's going to implicate other Dems, and they can't have that because that would be bad for the party.
Maybe they won't get elected.
I mean, think about how twisted and messed up that is.
Shouldn't you want all this to come out?
Shouldn't you want to make sure that your people in charge, your politicians, are not somehow on the take?
But no.
There being eight ayes and eight nays, the motion does not prevail.
That concludes our agenda for today.
Okay, so the motion did not prevail.
But you know what?
You still got the feds.
And that's why she's nervous because she knows the feds are in on it.
They're also in on it in that they are investigating her very seriously.
They're also looking at all these traitors that are believed to be in the country right now.
We got traitors everywhere people that do not believe in what this country was set up to be.
So why the heck are you here?
I mean, go someplace else, really.
Really.
I mean, you know, look, I guess they don't want to go to Venezuela anymore now that Dulcie's in charge.
But you know, Dulcie's still pretty hardcore.
Socialista.
She's a Chavista.
You could still go down there, Hassan.
I bet she'd be willing to give you some citizenship.
Hassan Piker saying some really disgusting stuff at Yale University, Yale, which, by the way, gets public funds.
Maybe that one needs to be up for consideration as well.
I know it has been.
I think that they worked out a deal of some sort.
But think about Hassan Piker, this nut job on the left that is basically being touted as the future of the party.
He's anti Semitic, he's a communist, and he wants you to know.
That America is a bad place and the American empire, the American empire must end.
Listen.
Empires never die quietly, and we must end the American empire regardless.
But we must manage the retreat of a superpower from the world stage.
This is a challenge for our time.
Actually, this is the challenge for our time.
Because if we do not do this, Then the American empire will come to an end in a much more violent way.
Wow.
Okay.
Like, you know, look, I'm all for diversity of opinion.
But this guy's getting a little too popular, okay?
A little too popular, shall we say.
I mean, you won't have conservatives on campus, but you invite this nut job?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, and he wasn't done.
Like, it went from nutty to nutty er.
Here he is again saying, oh, gosh, darn it, couldn't we just get that Soviet Union back?
That's where it all went wrong.
If we'd only had a USSR, everything would have been perfect.
But do we have them?
Maybe the forces that be don't want me.
I mean, none of us really, really want to hear rhetoric like that.
But you know what?
I am a big believer in all sides being heard, at least so that you know what's being talked about, okay?
So we are going to listen to it.
Here's this nut job on the fall of the USSR being the worst thing that could have possibly ever happened.
The fall of the USSR was one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th century.
Just wait, listen, maybe you'll agree.
Not only was there incalculable harm done to every single country under its banner child prostitution, skyrocketing suicide rates, life expectancy plummeting but America was no longer contested around the globe.
Okay.
Massive poverty, famines, wars, theft.
I mean, think about everything that goes along with communism, Mr. Piker, and maybe you get an education.
But so what's he about?
Money and clicks, okay?
Money and clicks.
And I have a feeling there's a lot of money in this frame of thought, if you would, because, and probably a lot of clicks.
You know, you got Chinese bot farms, click, all day long.
So he's heard somewhere.
And he's making money doing it.
And so he's riding it, funny enough, all the way to the bank, right?
Funny how that communism thing works.
They keep talking about communism, but they're never willing to give out any of the money.
This leftist progressivism, this extremism, is taking over the party.
And I believe, hey, while politically speaking, maybe it's a good thing, it's not a good thing in that it's dangerous, in that this kind of sentiment is out there and perpetuated.
Shifting Minds to Communism 00:02:39
And if you go to any high school in America, you see kids being brainwashed.
I mean, brainwashed with this nonsense.
And they forget why we are the great country we are.
They want to sit there and trash America with the likes of Hassan Piker and Ilhan Omar.
Oh, and MSNBC while we're at it.
At least there's some responsible people.
Responsible people, more than half the country, electing one Donald Trump as president.
Responsible people on our Supreme Court.
I want to go to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
He said something pretty simple, but also pretty remarkable today.
And it's going viral.
People are like, here, here, yes, yes.
Thank you, sir.
Watch.
Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence and hence our form of government.
It holds that our rights and our dignities come not from God but from government.
It requires of the people a subservience and weakness incompatible with a constitution premised on the transcendent origin of our rights.
Think about that.
Think about that.
Think about that for just a minute.
What he said is really important because if you were to assume that the only thing that gives you rights and worthiness as a human being is the government, then the government is always the one in charge, right?
Then you are left worshiping the government as opposed to God and knowing that you come with those rights.
They are built in, they are intrinsic to you.
Again, as specified in the Declaration of Independence.
That every human being, right, is worthy of this just by the pure fact that they are human and they are created by God, as opposed to saying we are going to seek all our worthiness and our rights through the government.
There's a very serious, significant distinction, and I don't care if you're an atheist.
Well, I mean, I guess it makes it a little bit hard if you're an atheist, but even if you're an atheist, you ought to think about just the fact that you are human.
As extraordinarily significant and deserving in and of itself.
And if you're religious, yes, you believe in something bigger than all of this in the here and now.
And you know that your rights come from God and not from Kamala Harris or Joe Biden or the King of England, where the King doesn't have any power anymore over here where I am.
The Tax Wrecking Ball 00:14:16
You see how the left is trying to literally shift and change the minds of our young people right now in hopes that they can create a new kind of world, a kind of world that's filled with communism, poverty, and despair.
But we're not letting it happen.
No matter how many traitors they seem to have among us, including some family members with Ilhan Omar, another reason why she's so worried right now, the daughter.
You guys familiar with her daughter?
We've talked about her a little bit before.
She went to, not Columbia, Barnard College, which is part of Columbia.
Anyway, the daughter is working with Code Pink.
Code Pink is a group out of China, well, backed by China.
It's led by an American named Jodie Evans, who married Neville Singman, who actually Congress is investigating and has demanded come in for questioning, but he doesn't dare step foot in the United States of America because he knows he's going to get his, you know, what, hauled right in.
They are questioning him because he.
He sits out there in Shanghai and runs a major global operation of influence.
You see where I'm going?
The bot farms, the click things.
That's what's alleged about him.
The New York Times did a very deep dive investigation, the Daily Beast as well.
So we're talking about lefty publications, okay?
And even they know what's up.
So this young woman, who is Ilhan Omar's daughter by the first guy, remember she was married to the first Ahmed and then she took up with the second Ahmed that's allegedly her brother and then somehow went back and had more kids with the first Ahmed.
Anyway, this is one of Ahmed's daughters.
And she was down in Cuba with the likes of Jody Evans.
And oh, you know who else?
Hassan Piker.
Yeah, he was there as well because, you know, he's living it up, hanging out with the Chinese.
I'm telling you, there's money in this, guys, okay?
Like, don't kid yourself.
It's not like they're doing this out of the goodness of their heart.
Here we go.
You see, here we have Hassan Piker and Jody Evans.
She kind of looks like a 70s folk singer.
Like, I can just see it, can't you?
Anyway, so Hassan Piker and the 70s folk singer, backed by China with Code Pink, hanging out with Ilhan Omar's daughter, treating her to a very luxurious five star.
Well, they even have five stars as close as it's going to get to five stars in the likes of Cuba down there.
Well, by the way, you had an outage, like, nobody had any power.
And this girl's down there, and she's, you know, oh, you know, let me do my.
My influencing, my influencing, right?
Because that's what it's about trying to convert young people by putting all your stuff on Instagram.
I guess this is one of her Instagram posts.
It's really, it's pretty disturbing because this is big money, Chinese money coming from these two.
You see them?
The woman on the left of Neville is his wife, Jodie Evans, aka 1970s folk singer.
He, I don't know what to call him, but he is the guy who's sort of Mr. Moneybags, courtesy of China.
Running all this, allegedly.
He disputes that, but I mean, come on, we weren't born yesterday.
And when the New York Times is onto you, I'm sorry, buddy, they're onto you.
Okay, they were the ones financing the whole No Kings thing, the No Kings rally.
It's all coming from China, guys.
And look at it, it almost looks communist.
Remember when Ilham was out there ranting and ranting against the president?
Look at the drabness of it.
Like the whole spirit of it feels communist in style.
But we are here because Donald Trump.
Just has not chipped away at our democracy.
He has taken a wrecking ball to the very foundation of what we are.
No, the very foundation of what we are.
No, you're trying to change.
You guys are the ones with the wrecking ball.
Did you hear?
Hassan Piker, we just heard him.
He wants the end of the American empire.
The worst thing that could have possibly happened was the USSR was not successful.
You want to talk about taking a wrecking ball to our foundation and our democracy and our great republic?
That's the wrecking ball.
Okay.
And by the way, the wrecking ball, it keeps on coming because the corruption keeps on coming.
Again, remember how much this woman is suddenly worth 30 million bucks.
How did that happen?
How did that happen?
It's going viral right now, what she's still attempting to do.
Because just about six weeks ago, in the height of this entire controversy, they found out, the Senate found out, she was trying to squeeze another million bucks through for a mental health clinic for one of her Somali restaurant owner friends.
I mean, thank goodness we got some smart people there, including Joni Erst.
Who went on to Fox Business and said this listen.
One of our spending bills making its way through Congress was a $1 million earmark from Representative Ilan Omar of Minnesota, which was an earmark that was supposedly going to a substance abuse clinic, which actually happened to be housed in a restaurant and run by three individuals that share the same residential address, according to their IRS paperwork.
Tons of red flags.
So, this is what we saw with the fraud involving the daycare centers.
Now we see other earmarks coming directly from members of Congress where it seems fraud is being perpetrated as well.
So, I.
It's amazing to me that it was still going on.
Well, all this is becoming more and more of a problem, you see, for Ilhan because her buddy Eric Swalwell, well, they ignored him forever, right?
They ignored him because he was somehow the hired gun that you get to go on Fox, like the only Democrat that would go on Fox, right?
And he'd be willing to just spew a bunch of nonsense everywhere.
I mean, he was basically your go to person to talk bad about Donald Trump over and over and over again.
I mean, besides Ilhan, I guess.
So, they would put him up there on that pedestal, and he would do this over and over and over again.
And they ignored the reality of what was going on behind the scenes that we've now heard from so many Democrats was actually well known.
Well known.
So, why did they ignore it?
Because he served a purpose of some sort.
And you got to ask yourself is this why they're ignoring the alleged money laundering from Ilhan Omar because she's serving a purpose as well, or because they're afraid to go after her because she's Somali?
The demographic is too important to winning Minnesota.
Well, they're going after her, all right.
It's going to take the feds to do it because Minnesota is nowhere.
This has gone global and they're looking into bank records all over the world, all over the world.
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I want to turn to just the sort of ripple effect, if you would, that's going on all around the country because.
From Minnesota to California to now New York, you've got a lot of questions about this so called communism coming into effect.
Here we've got the governor of New York, Kathy Holkle, who's promised us over and over and over and over again.
In fact, I remember when she was on CNN with Erin Burnett, and she said, No, I'm not going to raise taxes.
Ma'am Dami wants this, that, and the other you know, free buses, free grocery stores, free daycare.
And I'm not going to do it because I'm not going to raise taxes.
So she's said this over and over and over again.
Well, guess what?
She's got a brand new plan, ladies and gentlemen.
Check it out.
New York Times writing on this.
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But Kathy Holkle proposing taxes on New York City second homes that are worth $5 million.
So she's like, How can I get more money?
I don't have any money in New York right now.
How can I get more?
How can I get more?
I mean, this has been a problem for her.
She's been thinking about it for some time, remember?
What I want to make sure we are smart about is having a system in place where it's not just taxing for the sake of taxing and being conscious of the facts that I need people who are high net worth to support the generous social programs that we want to have in our state.
Right?
Now, there are some patriotic millionaires who stepped up.
Okay, cut me the checks.
I mean, just if you want to be supportive, but maybe the first step should be to go down to Palm Beach and see who you can bring back home because our tax base has been eroded.
So I philosophically don't have a problem.
It is like I have to look at the fact that we are in competition with other states who have less of a tax burden on their corporations and their individuals.
And I would say remote work changed everything.
There were people who could only work in an office in Manhattan or work in New York State.
And they were captives to our state, they were going to stay.
We saw that that's not the case.
I mean, you know, Wall Street businesses looking at Texas, they're not going there because they have a nicer governor.
I know that for sure.
But they're going there because of the tax rate.
We have to be smart about this.
But we can fund what we want to fund with what we already are taking in.
I mean, this is a couple weeks ago.
I mean, she's like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Odd, right?
I mean, she's just changing on a dime because she just told us we've got to be more competitive.
We can't have high tax rates.
You know, then we're going to lose all our money and all our people.
And what does she do?
She's got a new idea today.
Hoko proposes tax on New York City second homes that are worth $5 million.
So just think about it for a second, okay?
Like, let's just be a little bit logical.
She even said it herself you know, you keep taxing, you're going to lose everybody.
And yet she wants to keep taxing.
What happens?
Okay, somebody's got a second home in New York City that they maybe visit now and then.
And they spend a lot of money when they're in New York City because, you know, they have money.
And now she's going to put on a Tax, I think it's about 0.5%.
Well, what does that do?
It makes everybody want to get rid of their property.
So now they're going to sell their second homes.
Well, what's that going to do?
It's going to put a ton of inventory on the market.
All the prices are going to go down.
And one of the things that you may not know I've bought and sold homes in New York City, so I know this, but if you have a certain valuation on a home, the city comes in and they charge an extra tax, right?
When you trade that home.
So because the values are going to go way down, They're not going to get as big a slice of the pie.
So they're going to basically make sure all the billionaires leave and all the millionaires leave.
And by the way, you just watch.
First it's $5 million, then it's going to be a million, then it's going to be $500,000.
Like, this is the slow creep.
The New York Post is like, what is she thinking?
It's the pied-a-terre tax pivot.
And it shows that Mamdami is pulling her, right?
More and more to that hard left, more and more into that Hassan Piker crowd, into the Ilhan Omar crowd, into the communist.
Crowd.
Well, good luck, Kathy, because everybody's going to Texas and everybody's going to Florida and everybody's going to Tennessee and everybody's going to New Hampshire and everybody's going anywhere they can except for New York because of the policies that you have created and you have allowed to flourish.
And instead of doing the right thing, you're doing the wrong thing and it's going to cost you.
Okay, so this is the op ed there by the Post editorial board saying that she's, you know, announcing this new pivot and that she thinks it's going to get her one and a half billion dollars a year.
Good luck.
You're going to get maybe a little bit of money right off the bat and then it's going.
Poof, gone.
You're going to go back to New York in the 1970s, lady.
No good, no good.
You know who knows this?
Dr. Kirk Elliott.
He's going to be on the show actually next week.
We're going to talk a little bit about gold, but I want to go to him because he's got a good capitalist sensibility about him.
And we spoke recently about Kathy Holkle, my team did.
I want to play you this sound bite.
So, when Governor Hochul basically said, people vote with their feet, is what she's saying.
Because she's saying, yeah, people are going to these amazing states where they might not like their governor, but they're going there because there's a lower tax rate.
Well, this is a problem in today's world where people don't have a lot of extra disposable cash.
Right now, all of a sudden, people say, well, maybe taxes do actually matter.
Right.
And because ultimately, what grows the economy is when people spend money.
If people don't have money to spend, the economy is not going to grow.
If people go to other states because taxes are lower, states like New York and California and others are going to really have a fiscal crisis because they're losing tax revenue.
Yeah.
And yet, Kathy's doubling down on her stupidity, okay?
Stupidity.
By the way, have you seen the polls with Kathy?
She's slipping.
I don't know if she's even going to get elected again.
So, this may be part of it, right?
She's trying to inch towards this progressivism, thinking that that's going to get her somewhere.
Well, I'm sorry.
When you have no police in New York City, when you have no basic services and your education is just awful and you have everybody fleeing, anybody who can, anybody who has any kind of money, any kind of net worth is just leaving the city.
I mean, I'm like, thank God I got out of there and.
Was it 2017?
I think.
Oh, boy.
Like, I thank the Lord every day, like, every single day.
I'm like, gosh, I'm so lucky.
I am so lucky.
But you know what?
She's going to be left with people that can't actually contribute to the tax base and that can't actually make that city a success.
And they have done it to themselves.
It's a communist sensibility.
And that's why this has got to be rooted out.
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This is crazy to me that we're seeing this rise and this desire to go back to a system of government, communism that has never worked.
Never, ever, ever, ever.
Ever worked.
You know that.
I know that.
And you know what?
American voters know it, especially the older ones.
Okay, this is great.
This is a shock poll.
I mean, CNN's like, woo, okay, I think the anchor, I don't know, but Harry takes things in stride, but the other anchor, John, is like, hmm, I don't know.
Because all of a sudden they're seeing that it's going to be an uphill battle for the Democrats at midterms.
This progressive nonsense, it's like garbage for the rest of America and certainly among a very important demographic.
I'm talking like the people that actually go out and vote.
They have no use for any of it.
And I imagine neither do you.
And you know where I stand.
Let's go to Harry Anton.
I'll answer your question, Mr. Berman.
And that is because President Trump is more than holding his own amongst a very large portion of the electorate, a very reliable voting block, and that is senior citizens.
Take a look here, okay?
Trump's approval rating age is 65 plus.
In March of 2025, 46%.
Look at where it is now.
It's basically.
The same.
Seniors have not moved.
He's at 44% now.
And the key nugget here is for all this talk about young people in the electorate, such as myself, or at least I like to include myself in that block, it turns out that older voters, senior citizens, vote in far larger numbers.
So Republicans look at this number and they say, hey, you know what?
We can actually potentially do some real damage or at least hold our own in the midterms because President Trump is holding his own with this very important voting block.
So, how does that number 44%?
Compare historically to other presidents.
Okay, this is where it gets even more interesting.
It turns out if you look at all the 21st century second term presidents and you look at senior citizens, Trump actually has the best approval rating at this point in the second term of all of them.
Donald Trump at 44%.
Obama was under 40% at 39%.
George W. Bush was way down there at 34%.
So Donald Trump is beating other presidents this century at this point in their second term, beating all of them, and therefore, as I said, holding his own amongst a very key.
Voting block, the president of the United States and the White House should like this number, especially compared to Obama, who Trump, of course, always likes to be.
And this was George W. Bush after he started talking about reforming Social Security.
That's a bad idea.
Among seniors, it certainly is, the so called third rail of politics.
All right, talk to me how his number may have moved a little bit, President Trump's, and what that might mean.
Okay, so, you know, we spoke about the midterm election.
So, you know, oftentimes I ask myself, okay, you know, the president isn't obviously up for election this November, but Republicans in the House are.
And so I think just making this comparison right, You know, we've seen a lot of folks saying, oh, Republicans doom when it comes to midterm elections.
But just take a look at this choice for election among age 65 plus.
Back in November of 2024, Trump won that group by one point.
We've seen some movement, but really not that much movement.
Democrats ahead by three in the race for Congress.
And as John and I were talking about, this could cost Republicans the House.
But a number like this suggests to me that Republicans very, very well and are likely to hold the Senate.
This is what we've seen in the polling data when we look nationally.
We see that the movement simply put isn't there.
And when you get the most reliable voting block, Basically, Republicans holding their own with maybe some slight movement of Democrats.
These are the types of numbers that I think Republicans have to be pleased with.
I will say, though, I'm not sure.
And I think that they're going to hold the Senate without a problem.
I think there's still a real chance in the House.
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And it's in part because there are so many good things that are happening right now.
What is the alternative?
The alternative is more Ilhan Omar's, right?
That's the alternative, guys.
And AOCs and this progressive nonsense that's being spouted by the likes of Mamdami, who wants his communist grocery store, for goodness sakes.
Thanks to Wood Schultz.
Good to see you back in the program, by the way.
Topic.
Okay, we'll get to that later since it's off topic, but appreciate the generosity.
I want to just point out, though, this is a country that is in a very good place, not this where I am right now, because I'm in the UK and they get all kinds of problems here, but this, meaning our America, is a very good place to be for the future.
And this is all in part because of just what Donald Trump has been able to accomplish in the last couple of years.
And you think about how we're coming up on this very, very big, very, very big birthday.
And the timing is quite special.
Have I told you about my A250 toolkit?
If I haven't, you got to hear.
This is, you know, this quote, right?
Patrick Henry, what did he say?
What did Patrick Henry say in March of 1775, actually standing outside St. John's Church in Richmond?
He rose to speak those words that would help give way to, of course, the American Revolution and have been echoed throughout American history.
And those words were give me liberty or give me death.
So, as we celebrate America's 250th, remember those words.
It's never been more important than now to reflect on our nation's values, what makes us the success we are, and commit ourselves to those values and commit our children to those values.
My friends over at Americans for Prosperity have done a great job.
They put together this little toolkit, which I love.
Like, there are all these different things you can click on with all these great ideas on how you can embrace America in this 250th year.
They call it their One Small Step Initiative.
So, one small step is to just go on there.
And click on one of these ideas.
For example, click on Give Me Liberty and think about what that means.
I mean, a great way to teach your children, to just teach your neighbors, to have a little party.
I mean, why not a little tea party, right?
Where you talk about things like what is great about America?
We don't do enough of that.
I mean, I think we need to because they're not doing it in school for sure.
We have been able to preserve this tremendous liberty for 250 years, and now it's on us to make sure we keep preserving it for 250 more.
So I want you to go over.
To this website and just check it out when you can.
A250toolkit.com forward slash Trish, A250toolkit.com forward slash Trish, and celebrate.
I mean, America is back.
I think that's part of our theme that we're really talking about this week.
Because when you look at how Europe has disintegrated in front of us, I mean, really disintegrated and lost its way and lost its culture, if it ever really, I mean, they had a culture, right?
They had a culture, not like us, not like, you know, we started America for a reason.
They've lost whatever they had, and they're increasingly losing it.
And I don't know how they're going to quite fight back against it.
I mean, you've seen some upward mobility in terms of what they like to call them right wing movements that are just demanding a little bit more security for the people of Europe.
Europe Lost Its Way 00:14:56
But this is very important at this moment in time.
I would say more good stuff for America, more good stuff for the Trump administration, and more good stuff for the world.
A possible peace deal here between Lebanon and Israel.
Did you ever think this one was possible?
Donald Trump.
Out on True Social earlier today to declaring the ceasefire for the next 10 days.
He wrote, I have just had an excellent conversation with the highly respected president of Lebanon as well as Bibi Netanyahu of Israel.
And guess what?
Beginning, we're beginning a formal 10 day ceasefire.
So isn't this terrific?
And all of that, we're going to get together here.
They're going to come to DC and the two of them are going to get together for the first time in 34 years.
Amazing news, right?
Our great secretary of state, Marco Rubio, will be with them.
We've got the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan.
Raising Cain, as he likes to say, to work with Israel and Lebanon to achieve a lasting peace.
It's been my honor, he writes, to solve nine world wars or nine wars across the world.
And this will be my tenth, so let's get it done.
Oh, and then he wasn't done, okay?
And then he wasn't done.
He had one more he wanted to get out there.
He said, In addition to the statement I just issued, I will be inviting Prime Minister of Israel, Bibi Netanyahu, and the President of Lebanon to the White House for the first meaningful talks.
I thought he said that, but I guess he just wanted to drill it down.
It's the first time since 1983.
So that is a big deal.
Both sides want.
Peace to happen, he said.
So let's get it done.
They could sign on to the Abraham Accords.
Amazing.
I mean, wow.
What's the left going to say then?
Watch this from Fox News.
A historic opportunity unfolding right now in the Middle East.
Israeli sources telling Fox News they believe that talks between Israel and Lebanon could lead to Lebanon joining the Abraham Accords.
It's still early, but following direct conversations in Washington earlier this week, President Trump overnight on True Social posted, quote, trying to get a little breathing room between.
Israel and Lebanon, it has been a long time since the two leaders have spoken, like 34 years.
It will happen tomorrow.
Nice.
As Israeli ground forces continue to operate in southern Lebanon, Hezbollah is still firing rockets and drones over the border.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying this about the situation.
We are about to overcome the southern Lebanon town of Benjabil.
We are, in effect, about to eliminate this great stronghold of Hezbollah.
At the same time, I gave instructions to the IDF yesterday to continue widening the security zone.
And to also spread it eastward toward the slopes of Mount Hermon so that we can better assist our Druze brothers in their time of distress.
New video released by a Lebanese paramedic group shows an evacuation of wounded men, clearly marked medic vests they're wearing, taking place in Nabatia, southern Lebanon.
While the wounded are being.
The bottom line here is that this president is getting something done that no That no one else could do.
And I can't state enough how critical that is.
I mean, not that they'll ever give them credit for it.
I mean, maybe one day.
I do think the history books at some point will write down that this was a momentous time.
I know it's momentous.
I say to you guys all the time we're living on the front lines of history, and it's good history.
It's the history that you want.
I mean, it's life changing, life changing history.
You know, Stephen Miller's talking about the change for the next.
100 years.
I will say, you know, the Iranians aren't giving up.
Here's the FT today.
Again, I'm in London.
I like the FT in general, but, you know, they have their biases.
These days, it seems everyone has their biases.
Even the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, I mean, Reuters.
It's like, guys, come on, enough.
Anyway, Tehran deploys Chinese satellite to target U.S. bases across the Middle East.
This is what they're telling you.
It's like they really want some kind of World War III, right, with China.
And they're trying to say, okay, so maybe China's helping them be seen.
Behind the scenes.
The president yesterday coming out and saying, no, that that's in fact not what's happening at all.
You do not have China helping them out.
They've promised us that they are not doing that work behind the scenes.
Let's hope that's the case.
Again, I don't think they'd tell them if it really was.
And I do think that some of these weapons have been in the past either smuggled into Iran or openly brought into Iran.
Because don't forget, you had that so called axis of evil between Russia, China, and Iran going on.
And so Why wouldn't Iran be buying missiles, et cetera, from the likes of China?
Anyway, the White House wants you to know: Iran, if you mess with us, and if you mess with any of those bases, there's going to be hell to pay.
And we're talking H-E-L-L in all capital letters.
Let's go to my former colleague, Pete Hegseth.
Now, Department of War Chief Watch.
We'll start with a message to Iran's military leadership, to the KH leadership and IRGC leadership.
We're watching you.
Our capabilities are not the same, our military and yours.
Remember, this is not a fair fight.
And we know what military assets you are moving and where you are moving them to.
While you are digging out, which is exactly what you're doing, digging out of bombed out and devastated facilities, we are only getting stronger.
You are digging out your remaining launchers and missiles with no ability to replace them.
You have no defense industry.
No ability to replenish your offensive or defensive capabilities.
You only have what you have.
You know that, and we know that.
You can move things around, but you can't actually rebuild.
No.
We got the upper hand on this one, guys.
Don't let anybody tell you otherwise.
I mean, media just doesn't get it, right?
You go over to CNN, and thank God they got Scott Jennings on there because, well, for one thing, you know, they can't barely get a rating as it is.
They do a little better on that show that they put him on on nights when he's on because I think Americans like to see a little bit of both sides, right?
I tell you all the time, it's far more interesting that way.
Anyway, they got all these libtards that are just jumping all over.
This whole Iran thing, say, oh, it's going to ruin the economy, this, that, and the other.
Do you see the market?
Market's doing just great, okay?
Market's doing just great.
Energy prices are coming down.
The president even told another one of my former colleagues, Maria Bartiromo, just yesterday, hey, you know, I thought oil might even be higher than it was right now.
We're actually doing pretty darn well.
New highs on the SP.
Who can complain except, of course, the libtards on CNN?
Watch this because Scott, oh, he just put this guy in his place in like three seconds flat.
Anyone with an elementary school understanding of foreign policy, Could have told you the Strait of Hormuz was going to get shut down, and that is exactly what happened.
And who controls it right now?
Who controls the Strait of Hormuz?
How high are gas prices so high then?
Why were they high during Biden's administration?
Did you like that?
It wasn't because of a geopolitical fumble.
Here's the deal.
Who controls the Strait?
You're using last week's talking points, David.
We control the Strait.
We are in charge of this conflict right now.
Yeah, I mean, it's us, okay?
It's us.
We're controlling the Strait.
We're actually running the show.
We're not allowing any of the Iranian oil out.
And I'm looking at oil today at $93 crude right now, trading around $93.
You know, look, in the scheme of things, that's not that bad, guys.
You've got the market closing again higher.
Wow.
I mean, SP up about a quarter percent.
Same story over on the Dow and the NASDAQ up three tenths of a percent.
So a lot of reason to be encouraged in this moment in time.
A lot of reasons to be encouraged.
And yet, you know, the left, it's like they are rooting.
Against the president.
They're rooting against peace.
I mean, think about all the beauty pageant contestants, and I know this world well.
When they say, What is it that you wish for?
World peace.
And it's like, if you were to ask the lips, What do you wish for?
It would just be for Donald Trump to go up in flames.
They don't want world peace.
They want to have some kind of World War III, I guess, because they don't want peace, because that would actually mean they'd have to give some credit to the guy that they hate more than anything.
And they've pinned their entire livelihoods and careers on hating.
All right, you understand what's really at stake.
I'll just say this listen, people better wake up and smell the coffee.
Over here in Europe, you better wake up and smell the coffee because we don't need you.
The US is actually really pretty darn powerful.
We don't need you, Europe.
Maybe you're starting to get the hint.
I know that here in the UK, they're very worried about that trade agreement being ripped up by Donald Trump, and it could happen.
I mean, they're already out in the cold given Brexit, et cetera.
So they're getting kind of nervous.
On top of which, now they are helping to lead the charge alongside Germany for a post US NATO.
Because Donald Trump has said over and over and over again, he's really not too happy with NATO.
And why should he be?
Did you see this chart?
This is a good one here.
You've got the United States of America contributing nearly a trillion dollars last year, while the rest of these schmoes are contributing like barely anything.
I mean, how is it that Spain gets away with 36 billion and we're contributing nearly a trillion?
I realize they're a tiny little itty bitty economy, but come on, enough already.
At least if we're going to spend that much money for NATO, and we're actually going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on our bases there in any given year, which is meaningful for your GDP and those communities.
In those bases, hey, at least let us use the bases when push comes to shove.
But they wouldn't.
No, Spain said you can't use them.
And that, in and of itself, I think is highly problematic.
I'm talking about the Spains.
I was just there over the weekend, nearby anyway.
Rota and Moron.
I keep saying this, but I kind of have some fun with it.
If you can't remember, it's moron.
In English, not really.
It's just a neat way to remember.
It's kind of like when I couldn't remember Timmy Minette's name, that's Ilhan Omar's husband.
And it was like, my net.
Oh, yeah, she realized my net worth is going up as soon as I marry this guy, right?
So I have little ways of remembering things.
In my case, I do speak Spanish, but for you, just remember moron.
So Moron and Rota, those are the two areas there, jointly operated bases where we have poured all this money in.
But because Spain, which also has a lot of soft influence, including in the media from the likes of Iran, they've spent a little money there over the years and they do have an influence campaign going on.
Well, now the politicians don't feel that they can embrace.
What the US is doing.
I mean, all through Europe, you're seeing this, right?
Because they also have populations that are very tied to some of the ideals that govern Iran.
And consequently, they don't feel that they can get elected, I guess, unless they come out and say, oh, this is America's war.
This is Israel's war.
It's not our war, even though you kind of are our partner.
And by the way, it wasn't our war in Ukraine, right?
But we helped you, right?
Because that's how it's supposed to work, you know?
That's the deal.
We help you, you help us.
And yet, they won't even let us use our bases.
So, who needs them, right?
Do you even need these bases?
I mean, I've argued that it's kind of a strategic location.
You probably do want them, but maybe you don't spend as much money on them.
Or you go back to the table, you revisit this agreement, and you say, hey, Spain, you know what?
Going forward, we're going to get to use our bases.
We're not going to have you tell us over in France, we can't fly through your French airspace.
And we're not going to find out that we can't use the Moron and Rota air bases and naval bases.
In Spain.
Simple, right?
Or you're not getting any money.
You're just not getting it because we're not going to continue pouring our hard earned cash into nothingness.
It's kind of like the daycares.
I mean, there's some symbolism going on here.
You know, the daycares that aren't out in Minneapolis or the bases you can't use over here in Europe.
Let's go to the president speaking with Maria Bartiromo just yesterday morning.
watch.
I'm doing a great job for the country and for the world.
You know, we've had no help, zero from NATO.
We're there for them.
They're not there for us.
We spend, you saw the chart that came out a couple of days ago with a big monster red ball.
That was us and all these little satellite balls.
And it represented the money spent on military and NATO.
And it's ridiculous.
And they should have been better.
They should have said, we'll send somebody.
It's a small operation compared to a big operation.
But NATO was not there for us.
And what it means, if they're not there for us here, they're not going to be there for us.
So, why are we spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year on NATO if they're not going to be with us?
If they're not going to be with us on Iran, they're not going to be with us on a much bigger subject than Iran.
So, we don't need them.
Again, you look at that chart because it kind of says it all.
It really says it all.
The Wall Street Journal now reporting exclusively that Europe is accelerating its plans to figure out a fallback position.
We can call it NATO 2.0, right?
NATO 2.0, what are they going to do without the US of A?
I don't know.
I really don't know what they're going to do because, you know, they've been importing so many migrant populations.
I don't know.
Does Germany have like a guilty complex or something?
Look at what Angela Merkel did bringing all those Syrians in.
I guess somebody had to take them, but for goodness sakes, it was Germany.
And now you look at Germany and they're a total complete mess.
You look at all of the socialism that has taken over the likes of Europe right now.
And I'm telling you guys, it's a complete mess.
And let it Be a warning sign because we can't go there.
We don't want to go there.
Absolutely can't go there.
You think about where Europe is spending its money.
And by the way, they got pretty hefty tax rates, right?
Where do they spend their money?
Social welfare programs.
Overwhelmingly on social welfare.
I mean, they only spend 1% to 3% on defense.
You compare and contrast that with, say, the US.
I mean, we spend a lot on social welfare programs as well.
Let me put this one up here.
And you can see that a lot of money, probably too much money, goes to all these social welfare programs.
And that's part of what we're We're trying to clamp down on, especially when you get the kind of fraud levels that we've seen.
But consider that we're at least putting, what, 12 to 15% of our money into defense, and you've got Europe basically putting 1 to 3%.
And that's because we make them, all right?
We're like, you guys got to do it.
And they don't want to.
But here we are spending all of our money on retirement stuff and healthcare stuff.
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That's going to probably change.
I'm not saying Social Security, because as we heard from the pollsters earlier, that's kind of a dead in the water argument.
It's going to be a tough one for anybody to take on.
But you do have to think about whether or not there's fraud within the Social Security program or fraud within the Medicaid and Medicare programs or fraud within the daycare or the feeding our future programs, right?
That's actually going to be quite meaningful once we get to the bottom of that.
But we do spend 12 to 15 percent on defense.
They're spending one to 3 percent.
They're going to have to change that.
They're going to have to step up.
To the plate, and they're going to have to do something more meaningful.
They're going to have to be looking at 10 to 15 percent spent on defense if we're not there to help them.
And so that's an important sort of moment in time, I think, for everybody to recognize.
We are on the cusp of a very new world.
The United States will continue to be in charge.
The United States will continue, I think, to be the parent, but we're going to be the parent with a little bit of tough love.
We're not going to be the one that's doting and just willing to give you whatever allowance you want, no matter how badly you're doing in school or How much you want to live on the couch, we're going to say, hey, kiddo, you know, we will help those that help themselves.
And Europe, if you can get it together and help yourself a little.
And also, you know, as I said yesterday, come to Sunday dinner with the parents, okay, with the Padres.
You're going to actually show up now and then and show a little respect.
And if you do that, then we'll be there for you.
But we got to kind of give them a nudge.
And that's what's happening at this moment in time.
And this nudge is important because we don't want.
To continue subsidizing a system that doesn't work, just like we can't continue subsidizing New York, California, or Minnesota.
The progressivism, as Justice Clarence Thomas said, is threatening the foundation of who we are.
It is threatening the ideas of the Declaration of Independence, our power, our rights, our very essence comes from God, not from a communist government.
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I mean, Europe has a whole lot of challenges.
And Unc Andy writing Sunday dinner is not McDonald's.
You're right.
We got to have a really good Sunday dinner with these Europeans.
I mean, they got to know that this is a big deal and we expect something in return.
And you're not going to shut us off and tell us we can't use our own bases, for goodness sakes, or your airspace.
Come on.
Enough is enough.
Good to have you here.
I'm learning so much about Europe.
You know, I've spent time here, of course, in the past.
I'm not Kamala Harris, but I will say it's changed a lot.
It's changed a lot.
I remember really spending time for the first time in Spain when I was about 14 years old, and I went there to learn Spanish.
And you think about Spain now and Spain then, and, you know, I'm not 14 anymore, and I'm not 24 anymore.
So it's been a few years, and things have really changed.
And yes, the demographics have changed.
And as a result, they have a lot more liabilities.
And you look at parts of France, you look at parts of the UK, London, where I am, you look at parts of Belgium, for example, where 70% of the population now in Brussels is actually migrant.
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And the majority of them are on benefits, and those social benefits are built in.
Well, we don't have the money to contribute to that.
We don't have the money to contribute to our own social benefits.
They don't have the money to contribute to it.
So we've got to actually start to engage in some reforms, both for ourselves.
And indeed, for the world.
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