Jimmy Kimmel faces potential firing after a fake Melania Trump video sparked President Trump's outrage, with host Trish Regan linking the rhetoric to a recent White House assassination attempt. The discussion expands to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's declining support, NATO tensions involving Italy's Giorgia Meloni and Germany's military expansion, and Argentina's Falkland Islands dispute. Regan also critiques Georgia Maloney for shifting pro-Trump stances amid an economic recession, warning that migration policies threaten Italy's stability while urging nations to secure Persian Gulf oil against Iranian missile threats. [Automatically generated summary]
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Jimmy Kimmel Firing Fallout00:15:27
Welcome to the big show.
What a weekend.
What a weekend we had.
Jimmy Kimmel, as classless as ever, is now being slammed by pretty much everyone.
And everyone's saying the same thing.
Enough is enough.
I mean, this guy's got to go.
Time is up, Mr. Kimmel.
Plus, you got a new CEO over there at Disney, Josh Tamara.
You know, he may not be as patient with the so called talent as Bob Iger was.
No, no, no.
He's from the Parks Division, okay?
He just wants to make a profit.
And you're not even making a profit, from what I can tell.
Welcome to the program, everyone.
We are all over Jimmy Kimmel's possible firing.
We're going to talk about the events of the weekend.
I have been to that dinner many, many times.
I was fortunately not there.
I was in North Carolina with my son, actually, at a wonderful speaking event celebrating America's 250th anniversary.
Just a wonderful time we had with Americans for Prosperity.
But I'll tell you, I've been to that many, many times.
I've stayed in that hotel.
I've always wondered why it is that a regular old guest can stay in that hotel, right?
While you have the White House correspondence dinner going on, it's kind of a big deal.
You get a lot of important people there, a lot of cabinet members, a lot of senators, congresspeople, and of course the president of the United States, for goodness sakes, and the VP.
Anyway, we're going to talk all about that.
And then I just have to tell you, I mean, Ilhan Omar, it's getting ugly.
I mean, Nick Shirley is knocking on her office door.
This is just fantastic.
I got to show you that video, and we're going to talk.
Little bit more about Georgia, Maloney and Europe.
You got the king and queen of England there at the White House today and i'll tell you, the Uk sure isn't what it once was.
No, we begin on Jimmy Kimmel.
Jimmy Kimmel, possibly getting the heave ho.
You have a new ceo at Disney who has very little patience with the so-called talent.
Yeah that's, that's what Jimmy's called talent I.
I think some people would say he's actually not all that talented at all, but I don't think that management is going to be able to put up with any of this too much longer.
Possibly, affiliates might be coming out of the woodwork doing exactly what they did with Charlie Kirk.
And that would be saying, hey, we don't want this thing on the air.
We don't want it on the air because it's one hot potato.
It's just not worth it in terms of ad dollars, in terms of ratings.
Enough is enough.
The president actually putting this out on True Social today saying, wow, Jimmy Kimmel, who is in no way funny, as attested to by his terrible television ratings, made a statement on his own show that is really shocking.
He showed a fake video of the first lady.
Melania and our son Baron, like they were actually sitting in his studio listening to him speak, which they weren't and never would be.
He then stated, Our first lady of Melania is here.
Look at Melania, so beautiful.
Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.
Wow.
And then, of course, you know what happened a day later with that total lunatic.
You know, with I mean, we talk about TDS and we kind of laugh about it and joke about it.
It's really no laughing matter because it's gotten to the point where these people are so crazy, they do things like that guy did.
And you had the White House correspondence dinner with this guy who was all loaded up with his handgun, shotgun, many knives, and he was obviously there for a sinister reason.
The president writes, and he continues, very obvious and sinister reason.
I appreciate that so many people are incensed by Kimmel's despicable call to violence and normally would not be responsive to anything that he said, but this is something far beyond the pale.
Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Zizzi and ABC.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Did you hear that?
Josh Tamar, new CEO at Disney.
He's just been there about a month.
Huh?
Wow.
So he's going to have to make a decision on this one.
Melania Trump was actually the first to call this out earlier this morning, both on True Social and on Twitter, writing that Kimmel's hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country.
His monologue about my family isn't comedy.
His words are corrosive and deepen the political sickness within America.
People like Kimmel shouldn't have the opportunity to enter our homes every evening to spread hate.
A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him.
Will it?
Will it?
Mr. DeMorrow, you're up.
Enough is enough.
It is time for ABC to take a stand, she writes.
How many times will ABC's leadership enable Kimmel's atrocious behavior at the expense of our country?
Well said, Mrs. Trump, Melania Trump, making the first move on this.
And this is all after Kimmel ran what he thought was funny right before this big event.
And that was his own White House Correspondence Dinner sort of rebuttal, if you would, in which he did say, he did say that the.
The first lady was looking like, you know, a wonderful widow, like this expectant widow.
Our first lady, Melania, is here.
Look at Melania, so beautiful.
Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.
What is that, canned laughter?
I think it's canned laughter.
I mean, he's not funny.
It's a stupid thing to say, especially when we're talking about a president who has already twice had assassination attempts on his life.
And now you're going to make another quote unquote joke about it.
And then look at what happened, for goodness sakes.
I got the news.
I just couldn't believe it.
I mean, I could, but I couldn't.
And I was horrified.
And you think what could have been.
Thank goodness for our Secret Service.
I mean, I like many of you are saying, hey, why was it held in that particular Hilton ballroom where there are many opportunities?
The fact that you can just actually go and stay there as a regular guest, and I have, even though I was staying at the dinner.
Anybody could come.
And it's a huge hotel.
It's not like the whole hotel is rented out, just the ballroom section and and enough is enough.
Like this is, by the way, and he hated to say, and he's like I hate to say it that evening, but this is exactly why we need the White House ballroom that he's building, because you need a secure perimeter, you need something that you can control.
All right, like this is.
It's not even about this grandeur and this, that and the other anymore.
It's about let's make sure that we have a safe environment for all the world leaders that come here, for all the cabinet members that come here.
I mean, this is not cool.
But back to Jimmy for a second, because I think Jimmy's on last legs.
It's a new CEO.
This is not Bob Iger's game anymore.
The stock is getting crushed, including today.
And now you have the president of the United States, the first lady of the United States of America, and now the press secretary who was supposed to be on maternity leave, but was there that evening, was nearly, I mean, what was going through her head?
A lot, I'm sure.
And she's angry, as we all are.
And Jimmy, it's not cool.
We expect an apology on tonight's show.
I'm telling you, if we don't get an apology, this guy is out.
Listen to Caroline.
Much of the manifesto of the would be assassin is indistinguishable from the words that we hear daily from so many.
For example, as the First Lady of the United States pointed out this morning, just two days prior to the shooting, ABC's late night host Jimmy Kimmel disgustingly called First Lady Melania Trump an expectant widow.
Who in their right minds says a wife would be glowing over the potential murder of her beloved husband?
And having experienced what I did with the First Lady on Saturday night, I can tell you that she was anything but that.
This kind of rhetoric about the President, the First Lady, and his supporters is completely deranged, and it's unbelievable that the American people are consuming it night after night after night.
As President Trump said on Saturday night at this podium, we as Americans must recommit ourselves to resolving our differences peacefully and uniting around the shared values that make our country great.
The deranged lies and smears against the President, his family, and his supporters have led crazy people to believe crazy things.
And they are inspired to commit violence because of those words.
It has to stop.
Yeah, it has to stop, okay?
It's not funny anymore.
Not when this president's life has been put in jeopardy, along with everyone in that room, the third time.
Enough is enough is enough.
You saw what happened to my friend Charlie Kirk.
I was here live on the air with you that day.
Horrible, horrible, horrible day.
The day before, the SPLC had just put him on the list of, dare I say, quote unquote targets.
I mean, for goodness sakes, they're turning these people into targets.
Enough is enough, guys.
It's got to stop.
It's just got to stop.
And this CEO better be on the phone with Jimmy right now.
I don't know.
Has Jimmy taped his show?
He probably already has.
Saying, We want one hell of an apology.
You better go down on your knees.
And this is not just me as somebody who cares about our country, cares about the nation, our president.
As a patriot, it's not just me saying that.
Look at shareholders there trading this stock down.
It was down another quarter of a percent today.
Market was flat.
Disney was down.
Look at this year to date.
Disney's shares.
I remember it was back over 200.
This is one dead stock.
That's why they brought the new CEO in, right?
Bob Eicher couldn't get a hold of the place.
The other Bob couldn't either.
It was Bob 1 and then Bob 2.0, 2.0 because Bob Eicher had actually, I guess the first Bob would have been 2.0.
I don't know.
It was Bob and then Bob and then Bob.
All right.
Now you get Josh.
So, Josh is coming in and he's going to make something of this crapola company, which it's become because it's so woke.
It's disgustingly woke with shows like The View and shows like Jimmy Kimmel on the air.
And fine, like that's their prerogative, I guess.
But at some point, push comes to shove.
And yeah, maybe the FCC does need to stand in.
I don't think this is a free speech thing.
I think this is a, you know what?
This is just no longer decent programming kind of thing.
It's not decent.
It shouldn't be on the air for family values' sake alone.
You can say what you want in other platforms, but the FCC still has some control over those good old networks ABC, CBS, and NBC.
I nearly forgot about them with good reason.
Here's the SP, okay?
It's up 4.6% to date.
So, you know what?
Disney, that hurts even more, right?
You're down 8.5%, another quarter of a percent slipped today.
Josh DeMorrow, who just came in, he ran the parks division, okay?
The parks division, they turn a profit.
He's used to having the cruises and the parks, and he wants things to run well and lines to go smoothly and the rides to work, and he wants to make a lot of money.
Well, the entertainment division, ABC, not making so much money.
Jimmy Kimmel Show, very costly, not making a whole lot of money now, is it?
Now, the ratings haven't been great.
Jimmy's not so great, and so they should be taking a good long break.
Hard look at this, as I'm sure he is.
The president has been saying this over and over and over again.
I mean, obviously, during the days of Charlie Kirk, he called on them multiple times, and we actually saw the affiliates pull back.
The affiliates were like, we're not taking this thing after what he did about Charlie.
I mean, that was unacceptable, outrageous.
I'll never get over that.
And then to be saying this about the president.
Again, enough is enough.
Here's the president back in November saying, why does ABC News or ABC fake news keep Jimmy Kimmel, man, no talent, very poor television ratings on the air?
Why do the TV syndicates put up with it?
Also, totally biased coverage.
Get the bum off the air.
Well, maybe that's what it's coming to.
And if disney were smart with its new CEO there, it wouldn't let it get this far because Brandon Carnew, head of the FCC, he's coming for you guys.
Here he is a few months ago on my friend Benny's show.
I want to play this sound again.
You know, when you look at the conduct that has taken place by Jimmy Kimmel, it appears to be some of the sickest conduct possible.
As you've indicated, there are avenues here for the FCC.
So there are some ways in which I need to be a little bit Because we could be called ultimately to be a judge on some of these claims that come up.
But I don't think this is an isolated incident.
I mean, you go back to Representative Swalwell, you know, emphasizing that Charlie Kirk's killer was a straight white male from a Republican family that voted for Donald Trump.
In some quarters, there's a very concerted effort to try to lie to the American people about the nature, as you indicate, of one of the most significant newsworthy public interest acts that we've seen in a long time.
And what appears to be an action, appears to be an action by Jimmy Kimmel to play into that narrative that this was somehow a MAGA or Republican motivated person.
If that's what happened here with his conduct, that is really, really sick.
And I've been very clear from the moment that I have become chairman of the FCC, I want to reinvigorate the public interest.
And what people don't understand is that the broadcasters, and you've gotten this right, are entirely different.
Than people that use other forms of communication.
They have a license granted by us at the FCC, and that comes with it an obligation to operate in the public interest.
And we can get into some ways that we've been trying to reinvigorate the public interest and some changes that we've seen.
But frankly, when you see stuff like this, I mean, look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way.
These companies can find ways to change conduct, to take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.
I mean, the warnings have been out there.
He's been told repeatedly by someone, I would hope, you know, you might want to back off a little bit because this is a team that's getting kind of a little bit sensitive to this.
And now they're really sensitive to it because look what happened.
And somebody's got to be held responsible for this.
Now, I'm all for freedom of speech, all right?
Don't get me wrong.
But, you know, there's plenty of places where you can have that.
You can have that right here.
I hope you're subscribed to my YouTube show.
Please make sure you subscribe.
Do me that favor.
You can have that in podcasting world.
You can have that in cable world.
But when it comes to the broadcast networks, they are actually governed by the 1934 Communications Act.
And that's what you heard Brendan Carr getting at.
Like there's a sense of decency and you're supposed to have some obligation to your community to be providing them good programming for the community.
And it's gotten to the point where it's no longer good programming.
It's like programming from the SBLC and from the Democrat Party.
Media Decency and Responsibility00:04:30
And at that point, you've lost us.
Okay.
And you have lost us.
Just look at the ratings.
So, Jimmy, enough is enough is enough, but this is symbolic of overall everything that we're seeing, right?
Consider the reaction that we saw over the weekend.
I want to go to Obama's tweet.
I mean, the SPLC is under fire, and a lot of people are saying that they have contributed to this.
But you've got President Barack Obama yesterday.
Okay, so we knew all day what the manifesto was, the nut job that this guy was.
We knew all about it.
And I don't want to actually get into it all because it's the same old damn talking points that we get from the left nonstop.
I mean, it's like right out of Kamala's playbook.
And it's everything that we've heard.
From the left over and over and over and over again.
The guy's a total nut job, completely non religious, awful.
You know, I don't want to even just say woke because he's drinking all the woke stuff and then he's having it empower him into insanity.
But Barack Obama knew the manifesto, it was out, guys.
And yet he put this up.
This is last night.
Take a look at the timestamp on it, 5 15 p.m.
So he put this out.
Although we don't yet have the details about the motives.
Behind last night's shooting at the White House Correspondence Center, it's incumbent upon us all to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy.
Come on.
You knew what that was about.
You're just doing a CYA move all over again.
All you people with your CYA, CYA, you got the TDS, and you can't actually call it for what it is.
That is disgusting in and of itself.
For goodness sakes, you're a former president.
We expect more, a little more transparency and a little less politics.
But this is what it is guys.
This is a look at the mainstream media.
Here's AP on the night it happened.
I couldn't believe this.
They sent out They sent out an alert both President Trump and Vice President JD Vance are uninjured after an incident at the correspondence annual dinner Okay, by then we knew it was a shooting.
We knew it was an assassination attempt and they're just calling it an incident It's like Ilhan Omar, you know, some people did something It's just a little incident.
Nothing to see here.
You know, let's move on.
Come on.
This got me really angry, really disgusted.
I mean, even more so than usual.
You know, there have been a lot of calls from those of us on the right saying, enough is enough is enough is enough, right?
Get rid of Kimmel.
Send a message to the world, for goodness sakes.
You know, you're the new CEO, Josh Tamara, over at Disney.
Maybe do something right.
Send a message so that then all the ladies on the view hear it loud and clear.
This is not a message about regulating speech.
This is about having some decency.
As a human being, period.
Jay Clayton, who is the guy who's running the U.S. Attorney's Office there in New York, he would be the guy that needs to go after Letitia James for having singled out the president for purely political reasons, therefore for violating his civil rights.
Jay Clayton, attorney Jay Clayton, was on CNBC this morning saying, Hey, you know, we all need to do this soul searching.
I want to play this because this is the right answer, right?
Barack Obama did not have the right answer.
AP doesn't have the right answer.
None of the Dems have the right answer, but Those on the right, and Jay said this quite well.
I want to play it again for you.
As I said, you know, maybe they're, I mean, I don't think it's our responsibility.
I think actually I'm pretty darn nice.
I was certainly never calling to do things to Joe Biden like they have.
I mean, it just would never go through my head to say those kind of things.
He's still the president, after all.
Or about Kamala.
I mean, but the rhetoric from them is violent and ugly and super dark.
And they've encouraged that.
And they're still encouraging it because you should see their response to things like this.
And I'm about to play again here's logic, here's common sense, here's decency.
I want to play Jay Clayton.
I think that we all need to take a step back.
I need to take a step back.
Everybody in the media needs to take a step back and say, you know, are we amplifying hate and fringe elements in the United States?
You really don't know the answer to that?
We are.
Violent Rhetoric Against Leaders00:03:42
People are.
I know.
But let me tie this to a recent event.
I mean, this was horrible.
Amplifying somebody like this is a message.
You know, just stupid.
Let's just call it what it is stupid.
Okay, we had a case in the Justice Department last week, the Southern Poverty Law Center.
At bottom, and these are allegations, but at bottom, the allegations are that this organization was creating hate in order to expand their mission of combating hate.
If that's going on, and it is, it's going on in America, it's going on through organizations like that.
It's also going on with foreign actors funding these types of organizations because they want us to fight with each other.
So everybody needs to take a step back and say, who is causing me to have these emotions?
And are we creating an environment where those emotions are causing us to do things that are harmful to the American public?
Really well said, right?
And you heard him call out SPLC, you heard him call out anybody who might be taking money from foreign actors.
Or even foreign actors in and of themselves with their bot farms, doing who knows what, to push this kind of rhetoric and this kind of hate.
And it's wrong.
And so that is the logical, humane response to what is going on right now.
And do we see that from both sides?
Absolutely positively not.
I'm not going to bore you with all of it because most of them are just doubling down.
I was watching Pritzker.
You know from Illinois, the chubby little Pritzker guy.
He's the governor because you know his family made a heck of a lot of money and somehow wants him in politics.
He doesn't have the looks for it or the personality, I'll tell you that.
But he's out there on CNN saying, I stand by everything I've said about Trump being a racist and this and that.
I mean, all of them, all of them are just doubling down on this, blaming Trump for what happened.
And then Jamie Raskin, who that little rascal Raskin, that little rat is out on, was it CNN again?
I think.
And they're like, well, gee, do the Democrats have any responsibility?
And it's like he doesn't know what they're talking about.
You don't know what they're talking about.
You're kidding me, right?
Watts.
You have, as many of your fellow Democrats, have used some heated rhetoric against the president.
And do you think twice about that when something like this happens?
What rhetoric do you have in mind?
Just talking about some of the fact that he is terrible for this country and so on and so forth.
I understand that that's your democratic right.
But overall, do you have a responsibility?
I have a personal problem with Donald Trump.
I have no personal problem.
You know, he's like, What are you talking about?
And she's like, Well, you know, some of the rhetoric that's been out there, but they're, it's like, We don't know what you're talking about.
You don't know what we're talking about.
Has it just been one big blur?
I mean, I don't want to play all these clips and I'm not going to.
So I'm going to save you that because I don't want to watch them and you don't want to see them.
But how many times, and we've seen, like, I've got three minute long clips I could play for you of just everyone on the left calling him a racist.
I mean, you know, because of Charlottesville, where they misquoted him and took him completely out of context.
And then, oh, we find out that Charlottesville was a creation of the SPLC, for goodness sakes.
Security Concerns at Events00:03:22
You just pay someone 200 and some odd grand and they start you a good old-fashioned, you know what, tiki tortures and everything.
I mean, please.
Enough is enough is enough is enough.
Meanwhile, you know what?
We need that ballroom.
I mean, he's not wrong.
We need the ballroom, okay?
And then, in such poor taste, the National Trust, which is fighting them, just came out minutes ago and said, We're not dropping our suit against you.
We don't want that ballroom happening.
And it's like, guys, all right, fine.
Like, we won't have any parties.
We don't need to invite world leaders here.
The Secret Service has said they need the ballroom.
We're living in a brave new world, okay?
Where apparently, It's just, you know, an everyday thing to take a shot at the president.
Oh, and then have Democrats say it's his fault.
So I would say we really need that more than ever.
And I completely agree with what he's saying.
You know what else?
I have tremendous respect for what the president did.
He didn't have to come out there and do another press conference.
He wanted to actually come back.
The show must go on, right?
And the reason he wanted to do that was because he wasn't going to be intimidated by anyone.
Not some crazed left wing lunatic.
Not Iran.
Not anyone.
We're the United States of America.
We don't bow to anyone.
You can't take us down.
Secret Service did a great job.
I would say, you know what?
That hotel has security leaks, problems, vulnerabilities.
I've stayed in it for one of those dinners.
I stayed in it once.
I wouldn't stay in it again.
Full disclosure, not my favorite place.
And I thought, wow, like, you know, there's all these people here, kind of, you know, a lot of important people.
You get cabinet members, you've got senators, congressmen, you've got the president, the vice president, first lady, the second lady.
I mean, all these people, right?
Staying.
So why would you just allow John Q. Public to come on in and get a room at the Hilton?
I wouldn't.
Somebody ought to just buy out the whole hotel.
Maybe that's too much money for the media groups.
I don't think so.
You know, the media has plenty of money.
Make them buy the whole hotel if you have to.
If you want to have that event, you got to just block out the whole hotel.
You can have the media stay there if you want, but you got to have a better security system.
I mean, it was good in that they made sure he didn't get as far as he could have, right?
I mean, I think that that's a testament to indeed things working as they should.
eventually, but maybe we need a little bit of pre-planning, which gets us back to the ballroom, right?
Like that's why you would want a ballroom.
And so they're like, oh, no, we're going to continue on with this suit.
I don't think that they're going to win it.
I really don't.
And I certainly hope they don't because I think that it's high time.
UK Falkland Islands Crisis00:09:11
We're living in a different kind of world.
I mean, you nearly had King Charles and Camilla cancel their trip amid this.
They were so worried about security.
They got a big old motorcade escort into town.
And moments ago, The president, the first lady they met with, they greeted King Charles and Queen Camilla there at the White House.
You know, they're greeting them at a very tumultuous kind of time, a very difficult time for the UK.
The UK increasingly under fire as NATO looks like it may just erupt.
Like NATO could go up in smoke any minute at this point.
I mean, the president's just over it, right?
So you see here, we've got the video coming in of the First Lady looking quite beautiful and the president quite gracious after his third assassination attempt.
You know, just a few hours later, there he is greeting the King and Queen of England.
You see Queen Camilla there giving First Lady Melania a big kiss.
This just happening, as I said, moments ago at the White House.
But think about the different position that the UK is in right now.
Part of this is because Keir Starmer is under fire.
I'm going to show you his poll numbers, just a disaster.
But the majority of the reason is because the UK has allowed so much immigration to happen in their country.
And perhaps because of that immigration, has a very different kind of polling base, et cetera.
And because of that immigration now does not want the U.S. involved in the Iran.
Excursion.
All right, we're going to go with his word here.
Excursion.
They don't want the US involved and they don't want to be involved themselves in any way, which is certainly very, very concerning.
Well, the US is saying, okay, fine.
You guys don't want to help?
Well, we don't necessarily want you having the Falkland Islands off the coast of Argentina.
No, you know, why should you have these?
Well, this has become a big, big thing in the UK.
Just in the last 48 hours, we first reported on this here on this show on the Trish Regan show on Friday.
You know, that maybe the Falkland Islands were up for grabs because there was a Pentagon memo that was making some rounds and they were trying to improvise some ideas on how to punish NATO amid NATO's refusal to allow us the use of various bases and various airspaces.
And so, one of the things was, well, why not just say, hey, we don't necessarily think you deserve the Falkland Islands?
Argentina is making Claim to these things.
And maybe Argentina has a point.
Argentina's our friend and it's right here in our hemisphere.
And maybe that gives us a little bit more control over things.
Here's the Pentagon so called leak.
I say leak somewhat facetiously because this is what you call a deliberate leak.
They like wanted this out there, right?
Because they're trying to send a message to Europe.
And that message, I think, is being heard.
We'll talk about how we know it's being heard.
But in this little article that came out on Friday, you see that they're reviewing the U.S.'s position on Britain's claim.
To the Falkland Islands.
Don't forget, there was a war in 1982.
This has been contested like forever.
Argentina is like, wait, it's ours, right?
Like, it should be ours because we've been there since the 1800s.
And Great Britain's like, no, no, no, it's ours.
And so, Islas Malvinas, as it's known for most Argentines, is very much a sore spot and they want it back.
So, here's an article that appeared today, in fact, in the Buenos Aires Times.
And in Buenos Aires, they are trying to say, okay, it's, you know, they're trying to like figure this out.
Well, in the UK, they're trying to say maybe it's not that big a deal.
In Buenos Aires, they'd love to get those things back.
They consider them theirs.
I spoke with a source from Argentina this weekend and she was telling me, like, the Islas Malvinas, they're ours.
They have been since the 1800s, you know, if it weren't for the UK doing that little thing in 1982, that war, we would still have them.
And so this is very much a sore spot.
Now the US has just said, well, you know, hey, maybe you don't deserve them after all.
Well, that's the position that's getting leaked out from the Pentagon memo.
The official position of the United States is to, in fact, confirm its neutrality on.
You see how they write about it in the Argentine press?
On the Malvinas.
Those are the Falkland Islands.
So they call them the Malvinas, the Islas Malvinas in Argentina.
In the UK, they're referred to as the Falkland Islands.
We historically have called them the Falkland Islands because we've sided with.
The UK, but maybe not for long.
The UK is figuring out, oh my gosh, we may actually have to stand up and do something.
Hey, if we can't rely on mom and dad, the United States of America anymore, then maybe we might actually have to start taking care of ourselves.
I mean, they're freaking out.
They're freaking out over the idea that they could lose those Falkland Islands.
I mean, freaking out.
I want to go to a commentator on GB News who's like, I can't believe this.
Watch them.
When I first heard that the United States might reconsider its support for British sovereignty over the Falklands Islands, I'll be honest, it hit a nerve.
It hit a nerve, huh?
I mean, that's why you read from your notes.
I won't pick on his presentation, but boy.
Anyways, it hit a nerve, it hit a nerve.
And then apparently he started doing some thinking.
Watch out.
And the thinking brought him to this conclusion.
You know what?
I'll give you a little precursor.
It's a conclusion that many in the UK ought to soon come to.
I think Germany's getting the message loud and clear.
Anyway, we'll go back to this guy.
I guess his name is Trey Lau from GB News.
Maybe this isn't just an insult.
Maybe this is a wake-up call.
Because for too long, we've leaned on the idea that someone else will always have our back.
And the truth is, that's not strategy.
That's hope.
Now, I'm not saying we walk away from this special relationship.
Of course, not far from it.
But it cannot come at the expense of our own strength.
This should be the moment that Britain decides we defend our interests, our territory, and our future on our own terms.
Well, good.
You know what?
I'm glad you're finally waking up to the idea that you should determine your own future on your own terms because I don't know about this 5% of GDP thing.
I mean, have you guys been contributing it?
I don't think so.
And Italy just told us on Friday that they can't do it.
They won't have the money.
Spain already made that one clear.
I mean, how do you have a group of NATO countries that are supposed to be contributing to defense?
By the way, at a time of war with Russia and Ukraine, I mean, they're the ones at the war needing to help Ukraine.
It's more important for them than it is for us.
And then they don't have any money.
And then, I mean, I get it.
Like, you don't have any money.
Like, maybe, maybe, given that your friend.
Well, more than your friend, you're like mom and dad.
The United States is saying, Hey, you want to show up for Sunday dinner and give us a little help in Iran?
And they're like, Bye bye, see ya.
I mean, the UK apparently only has six boats, four of which are out of commission.
They had to borrow one from Germany just to meet their NATO obligations.
I mean, wow.
You wonder why Keir Starmer is just falling and falling and falling and falling in the polls.
Look at this.
Even CNN is noticing how bad it is for Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the UK.
For Keir Starmer right now.
You think things are bad here in the United States?
Why don't you just go across the pond over to the UK because things are just downright atrocious over there for Keir Starmer?
Just take a look here.
Britain's satisfied with Keir Starmer.
Overall, 18%.
You can't even drink or smoke anymore when you're 18%.
You're below that line.
That's not good.
How about his own party, the voters who voted him in back in 2024?
Less than 50% of Labour Party voters back in 2024 actually are satisfied with the job that Keir Starmer is doing.
When less than 50% of your own party voters, are satisfied with what is shaken.
You know you're in bad, bad shape, wildly unpopular right now.
How does it compare to something in American history?
Okay, so you see this 18 right here and I just went, oh gosh, wildly unpopular.
What more unpopular than any U.s president has ever been?
I mean so the Uk is in a bad spot, very bad spot, but all of Europe is in a bad spot.
I think the Uk might be getting the message, or somebody in the Uk like that little commentator Trying to give a Message.
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Can we?
Can we?
I mean, I'll tell you why.
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We reported this on Friday.
Germany's defense minister is like, woohoo, I get to write the first plan for the German military since World War II.
If that doesn't give you shivers, I don't know what does.
But the point is, like, somebody has to step up, okay?
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Anyway, I digress.
Germany, I want to get to Germany because Germany is now like, okay, we're going to rev up.
We're going to actually expand for the first time since World War II.
All right, that's a big deal.
The German defense minister, I keep joking, he must be like, oh my gosh, finally, finally, like I have a purpose.
I can do something.
Here's what they're talking about.
This is the article in the FT on Friday.
They plan to take more responsibility for Europe's defense.
And that's a big deal, right?
They think they are now responsible for all of Europe.
Because they see the U.S. as being relevant, but maybe not there for them as much.
So they're going to be expanding their German army from 185,000 professional soldiers to now 260,000.
And they want to double the number of activist reservists they have to 200,000.
It's a 35-page plan put out by the defense minister.
Much of it is classified, but overall, they're sort of saying, hey, you know what, we've got to take on more responsibility within NATO.
We've got to lead the way because the U.S. may not be there for us always.
And that's important.
I mean, that is a It's the truth, right?
I don't know as we should be there.
I mean, we'll be there somewhat, right?
Because they're the Europeans and they're our allies.
I get it.
But in terms of where we commit resources right now, the question becomes, is it the smartest to commit so aggressively to Europe when there are plenty of other opportunities out there that may strategically, as we go into the next 250 years here, be more valuable to us in terms of economic assets and also strategic assets in terms of where they are?
So, what you have the president working on and Scott Besant, the Treasury Secretary, working on is how to secure the Persian Gulf for the future, which means secure the Strait of Hormuz, make sure that you choke off any power, so to speak, that Iran has, economic power.
And they're doing that quite well, by the way.
They're costing them something around 13, 14 billion, billion with a B, dollars a month in economic activity as a result of this blockade.
So, it's quite important what's going on.
And while we don't have a peace deal just yet, I would say that at some point, Bush is going to come to shove, and these guys can't handle it.
They just can't handle it on Iran.
And that's important.
Look, I'll say this if Germany had had to be responsible for itself before, do you think Merkel would have done that deal with Putin?
I mean, if Putin is your enemy, then why the heck are you doing a natural gas deal in which you're going to be completely dependent on your so called enemy for natural gas?
I realize, you know, in the globalist scheme of things, this idea that somehow we're all codependent on each other.
That didn't work out so well.
All right.
Like, I'm just going to be honest.
I don't think you ever really, totally, fully trusted Putin.
Now, did you, Germany?
So then, why'd you do an energy deal where you would be completely reliant on him for liquefied natural gas?
Makes no sense.
So, the thought here is to kind of one, the US of A is going to expand and expand and expand its own energy supply here in our country, as well as Latin America, as well as Canada.
That's part of the idea, right?
Let's shore up the whole Western Hemisphere, Monroe Doctrine or Trump Doctrine, we should be calling it.
And that In turn, helps us solidify our place in the future.
And we want to see Europe do the same kind of thing.
But as long as mom and dad, the US of A, is always there to bail them out, then what incentive do they have to actually do anything that makes sense for them?
They can keep executing stupid agreements and keep going with the windmills.
And, you know, the next thing you know, we have to step in to save them.
So maybe they should think about saving themselves first.
We can't keep pouring money, hundreds of billions.
Millions of dollars, and it's actually billions at this point.
And people have had it.
I mean, think about how people think about Italy right now.
Italy, my goodness.
Georgia Maloney, what happened?
Really, what happened?
Georgia, I don't even know who you are.
Georgia was in Cyprus over the weekend.
Trump's been slamming her in the Italian newspapers.
It's pretty great.
And now there's like a meme going around from the lefties in Italia in which they're quoting her.
She said, Being allies does not mean there are no red lines, and it certainly does not mean being vassals or subjects.
So in Italian, It means studiti means subjects, and they've now translated that subjects to slaves.
So there's memes going around online where they're saying, you know, Italy's not going to be the US's slave.
Non siamo schiavi, is what they're saying.
And she didn't actually say that, but she's kind of inferring this, and she seems to be trying to distance herself from Trump.
Well, I'll tell you, you know what?
This lady's going to pay.
She's going to pay big.
That's not working out for her so well.
She's the one that said, nope, you can't go to the Sigonella base in Sicily.
Even though we're the ones that pay for the base, we run the base.
It's a really important base.
We got like nearly 5,000 troops over there at that base, and we can't even access that base to get to Iran right now.
She decided in late March it wasn't happening.
And so that wonderful relationship that we had with her, she seemed to be the only right winger over there.
Right winger?
That's not even fair.
I don't mean to say like right winger.
On the right, which in Europe means you're just a little bit right of center.
Okay?
So, George Maloney. had been calling out immigration, had been saying, yeah, it's not right that no one pays their fair share in NATO.
And we were like, yeah, this lady thinks she makes sense.
And now when push comes to shove and she's up against some challenging times, and she is up against challenging times because, you know what, 54% of the voters just voted against one of her referendums.
I'm telling you, she's going to face more challenging times because she's going to be losing a lot of money that the U.S. brings in for those bases.
We have multiple bases there in Italy.
And if we cut those and we cut the troops, that's a huge, huge hit.
She ought to get this.
She ought to know this.
The president calling her out in the local press.
And yet she seems to be just continually pushing back.
I mean, he called her out over here, too, on Fox Business.
We've already seen the clip, so I won't play it again.
But he told Maria Bartiromo, you know what?
Italy's not there for us.
We're not going to be there for them.
I'm really disappointed.
He told the press in Italy he was shocked at Georgia Maloney.
He thought they were friends.
And then she's like, nope.
And he said Italy wasn't there for us, we won't be there for them.
He's made that very, very, very clear in numerous interviews one with The Guardian, I think he did something in The Telegraph as well, and then in Corriere della Sera, that's their Italian newspaper, right?
And they suddenly, I can't figure this out, suddenly they like Georgia Maloney now.
They even like Tucker Carlson.
All of a sudden, it's funny, like these lefties, what's going on?
What's going on is that she took a stand up against Trump, and so they figure that's good.
But I'm telling you, it's going to cost her because she's not going to have.
The money she needs flowing into the economy.
He's making it very clear.
Oh, and then she's doing this too, on top of it all, right?
Saying, well, maybe we can't pay our NATO bill.
I mean, what is going on with her, right?
I guess they're looking at a recession, maybe a decline of two tenths of a percent growth.
We've been talking about this.
I get it because, yes, it's tough.
Energy prices are higher.
But all the more reason, Georgia, that you ought to want to see a fast resolution to this crisis.
And guess what?
We remember our friends and we take care of our friends.
And those that are not our friends, well, We don't take such good care of.
So you might want to think about that.
I really question her choices right now.
She's over in Cyprus, seemingly trying to distance it.
There was an EU summit of some kind, some informal summit where they all got together.
And apparently they're getting to her.
They're really, really getting to her.
And I know they're getting to her because she is now allowing for half a million migrants to come into Italy.
This was never her plan, right?
This was never her plan.
She was always about being more Italia.
And now 500,000 immigrants coming in, migrants, because why?
I mean, think about the kind of country it is.
And they have so many social welfare programs that they cannot afford.
It's going to get harder if you don't have the U.S. bases there and the influx of capital coming from the U.S. of A.
And if you get on the wrong side of Trump and Besant, I'm thinking tariffs, lady, tariffs, tariffs, tariffs.
Boy, do they love tariffs, right?
Like, that's not going to be good for Italy.
So, what are you thinking?
Why are you bringing in 500,000 people into your country in the next three years?
That's basically 1% of your population at a time when Your resources are going to be dwindling.
You've already said you're going to be looking at a possible recession with a decline of 2%, 2.2% GDP.
I just don't get it.
And you know what?
Trump doesn't get it either because he called her out again in Corriere della Sera, the newspaper, saying Italy's not the same country.
Immigration is killing Italy and all of Europe.
She's not the same person.
Wow.
So, what happened?
You know, you spend a weekend with Macron and suddenly you're speaking French.
I mean, come on.
I just, I got to tell you, it's really disgusting what has happened to Europe.
And I think it's high time that we think through all of the implications of this, really and truly, all of the implications of it, because this is not good.
This is not good for us.
It's not good for Italy.
It's not good for Germany.
It's not good for the UK.
It's not good for France to not actually care enough about what's happening in Iran.
They need that oil even more than we do.
All right?
They need it.
They get a lot of oil from the Persian Gulf.
So they ought to be more focused on this, not to mention from a pure raw security standpoint.
I mean, who do you think those missiles are going to hit first?
Not us.
Okay?
Not us, Italy.
Not us.
Maybe.
I don't know what she's thinking.
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I'd also say that we've been very prolific on our concerns about the U.S.'s relationship with NATO, in that it's really worth taking a moment in time to step back and reassess.
And think about what this means financially for us going forward.
I mean, that's just critical.
And I think you also just have to remember there are a lot of different forces at play right now in this world.
And so I'm so glad that you're here.
I trust my instincts and that I only care about what's good for America and good for Americans.
And I'm convinced that this president is good for America and these policies from this president.
Are excellent for America.
We need to do everything we can, guys, to preserve our greatness, which means preserving our creativity, our innovation, our flexibility, all of the things that have made us who we are.
The left is trying to diminish all of that.
They don't want free enterprise to exist.
They want everything controlled by the state.
They want to be Europe.
So, Kamala, I think you ought to go live there.
Gavin Newsom, you know, I'm sure they'd love you over in the UK.
Why not?
They could use some help, right, with their political party.
Maybe you can find a new life for yourself there.
I'm just saying, this is not American in spirit.
And what we're seeing from the likes of the mainstream media, Including one Jimmy Kimmel, is not very American.