Tucker Carlson faces an "Antichrist" scandal involving contradictory statements and potential FARA violations, while his net favorability among Republicans plummets. Simultaneously, the FCC investigates Disney's DEI practices rather than free speech, and Donald Trump withdraws 5,000 troops from Germany amid rising tariffs on European cars. Tensions escalate as Italy refuses U.S. refueling access, Iran's oil exports are blockaded following naval attacks, and skepticism grows regarding European allies' reliability amidst global trade and security fractures. [Automatically generated summary]
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Tucker's Humiliating Memory Fail00:15:00
Oh, just when you think it can't get any crazier, suddenly it does.
For one podcaster in particular that I used to work with, shockingly enough.
Yeah, Tucker Carlson, he's in just a little bit of hot water now because you see, it seems he can't remember what he says from day to day or week to week.
And he just got exposed in a pretty humiliating way.
I mean, I almost feel bad for him, and yet I don't.
We will talk about the fall of one Tucker Carlson.
Carlson imploding in real time before our eyes, ladies and gentlemen.
Meanwhile, Jimmy Kimmel is also imploding.
I mean, you know, Tucker's in good company, I guess.
Jimmy Kimmel manages to do it again, somehow with another off color, tasteless joke about one Rudy Giuliani, right as Rudy Giuliani was going into the hospital.
We'll talk about that.
Europe's panicking right now because Donald Trump is pulling all the troops out.
Yeah, 5,000 here, 5,000 there, maybe 5,000 for you, Italy.
Is that next?
Georgia Maloney suddenly sounding normal again.
I mean, it's like she's doing a Tucker thing too, you know, like these 180s.
They're doing puret.
What's like skating figure eights all around each other, twisting and turning?
First, Georgia was anti immigration, and then she was pro, and now this week she's anti again in English this time.
I've got the clip, and we are, whether anyone wants to admit it or not, winning this war in Iran because the blockade is working and oil prices will be coming down.
I've got some terrific sound from The brilliant Scott Besant talking all about it.
Welcome to the program, everyone.
Please make sure you subscribe, share, like, make a comment.
Maybe you don't agree with what I'm saying, but I'm telling you, you know what?
This is a big old reality check.
Tucker Carlson in hot water right now because it seems it's all spilling out.
I don't know what's going on.
I don't, you know, people are like, what happened to the guy?
Like, really and truly, what happened to the guy?
When did he suddenly go off the reservation?
And I think, well, ka-ching was the answer.
That's why he suddenly is off the reservation right now.
I mean, Let's not kid ourselves.
This guy is in it to win it.
And I mean, not to win it, anything other than his bank account.
I really actually, at this point, and I spoke to sources on Friday in the DC intel community who basically said, yeah, the word on the street is he is one gun for hire, shall we say.
The problem is when you're lying that much, and I suspect he is because I don't think he really believes anything.
And I think this is, I mean, maybe at one point in time he did.
which is why he got into this business, but somehow he lost his way.
Funny thing happened on the way to the forum.
And now, I mean, of all things, the New York Times, really, the New York Times is going to be the one to take you down, Tucker, really and truly.
Oh, this was ugly.
I mean, really, really, really ugly.
But you might as well see it because he's out there calling Donald Trump, who, by the way, I personally think, and I say this with a lot of conviction, and you know, you know, you know, I will call him out when I need to call him out.
I mean, you know, I have no bones about it.
But I actually think he's doing very much the right thing on Iran.
Very much the right thing for the world.
We need to get this under control.
We need to make sure we have a non-nuclear Iran.
I think, by the way, everybody used to agree on that.
And I think that, you know, you have that opportunity.
You need to take it because this is what's going to benefit the country for generations to come.
And yet, Tucker Carlson, who may have thought that at one point in time, in fact, I know we thought that.
We've got plenty of videotape where he said as much.
And yet, all of a sudden, he's doing this twisty turn.
And it's like, why, And why can't you, buddy, even remember the little twisty turns that you do?
Because the New York Times reporter is going to catch you in them.
And boy, did she ever.
This is ugly.
This is brutal.
I don't know what to say other than, you know, maybe when you lie that much, you just can't keep track of it anymore.
Here we go.
You've been talking on your show about whether Trump is the Antichrist.
I have not said that.
On your show the day after Easter, you noted he did not put his hand on the Bible during his swearing in ceremony as president.
You said, and I'm quoting, maybe he didn't put his hand on the Bible because he affirmatively rejects what's inside that book.
And then on a recent show, you went further saying, here's a leader who's mocking the gods of his ancestors, mocking the God of gods, and exalting himself above them.
Could this be the Antichrist?
I actually did not say, could this be the Antichrist?
Here's a leader who's mocking the gods of his ancestors.
Mocking the God of gods and exalting himself above them.
Could this be the Antichrist?
Well, who knows?
I don't know where that comes from, but I know that those words never left my lips because I'm not sure I fully understand what the Antichrist is.
If there's just one, I actually tried to understand it.
I may have said some are asking that.
I'm not weighing in on that because I don't understand it.
I'm just a dumb little Tucker over here.
I just ask questions.
I don't really understand anything that I'm saying or anything.
I mean, buddy.
Come on.
Okay.
Like, just come on.
I mean, I mean, she got him.
She got him.
She got him hard.
I didn't say that.
I didn't say it.
And then after she plays the clip, I mean, what is she trying?
Is he trying to say that that's AI?
I remember when he said it because you guys were all talking about it.
You're like, I mean, and then his son got fired thereafter or quit one or the other.
I mean, the son, frankly, should have quit a long time earlier.
I mean, if you think Trump is the Antichrist, what the heck are you doing working for him?
Okay.
So that was a big issue.
And then his son quit.
And then it just got worse and worse and worse, right?
Like then the little Buckley guy gets involved in the job.
That would be the uncle.
So little Buckley is the son.
Big Buckley is the uncle, who apparently does all the speaking events with him.
I'm just saying.
I think there's some ka ching somewhere, somehow going around.
Again, this is just, I mean, it's honestly brutal.
I don't know what to tell you, buddy.
I really don't.
His ancestors mocking the God of gods and exalting himself above them.
Could this be the Antichrist?
I actually did not say, could this be the Antichrist?
Here's a leader who's mocking the gods of his ancestors, mocking the God of gods, and exalting himself above them.
Could this be the Antichrist?
Well, who knows?
I don't know where that comes from, but I know that those words never left my lips because I'm not sure I fully understand what the Antichrist is.
If there's just one, I actually tried to understand it.
I may have said some are asking that.
I'm not weighing in on that because I don't understand it.
Oh my gosh.
I shouldn't laugh.
I really shouldn't because as you guys are saying, like this guy might actually have dementia.
I don't think he has dementia.
I think he's actually demented, but he doesn't have dementia.
Tucker is either a liar.
He's having schizoid delusions to the point that he's having blackouts.
Or C, that was when his demon took over.
I mean.
The scratches are starting to hurt.
What can we say?
Those demons, those demons are having some powers.
He apparently did a follow-up interview, you know, because he's some kind of glutton for punishment and he hadn't had enough.
And so he went back and did something again with this woman where she was trying to clear or clarify some of what he said.
I mean, I can't even imagine.
Like he goes off on all these bizarro tangents and just, oh, I'm just asking questions.
I'm just asking questions.
I don't really know anything.
Okay, fine.
Ask all the questions you want.
But you're getting kind of psycho.
I mean, when you don't remember what you say from minute to minute and it happened again, watch.
This is not fine, is the truth.
So, again, long winded answer to a short question, but the future that I imagine is not a future in which we're yelling at each other about race.
It's a future in which people are legitimately revolutionary, maybe even violent, on the basis of thwarted economic opportunity.
You said in our previous interview the future that I imagine is not a future in which we're yelling at each other about race.
It's a future in which people are legitimately revolutionary, maybe even violent, on the basis of thwarted economic opportunity.
I certainly didn't.
Mean to endorse violence.
I can't imagine I would ever, I would never say that intentionally.
I'm amazed that you have a tape of me saying that and I just want to disavow it.
Wow.
Okay.
So I guess his issue is that he doesn't really know what he's saying.
Nah, he knows what he's saying.
I mean, he literally was just saying maybe people will just become revolutionary and get violent because, you know, Is that what his handlers tell him to say?
Is that what the paycheck is giving?
I mean, they're playing them on Iranian state TV, guys.
I mean, they're playing his podcasts and they're translating them so everybody in Iran can listen.
And I mean, it was brutal.
It was just brutal, brutal, brutal, brutal online.
I saw things like even Tucker can't believe the nonsense Tucker says.
People were showing him debating himself.
There were all these clips over the weekend, Tucker versus Tucker.
As a rule, treat all media personalities like cheap entertainers.
That's probably fair to say, except for me.
When you understand Tucker, Candace, they're just Kim Kardashian, but instead of showing nudes to get intention, they say shocking things to get attention, and then you find it bothers you less.
Possibly.
I mean, it's sort of sad, right?
Because one would hope and imagine that people go into this profession for the right reasons, but I do think there's a lot of that.
You know, I've called him sort of P.T. Barnum and the Circus Act before, and there's a lot of Circus Act going on.
Tucker is now more of a parody.
Of himself than the actual parodies that exist, people were saying.
And then, you know, I don't know where that came from.
He was busted and he doesn't have the character to admit his own error.
This may be the most damning thing I've ever seen from Tucker.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything, writes someone named Brian Mark Twain.
Tucker Carlson lies so much he doesn't remember his own lies.
You know, I just want to know what happened, writes David.
He was so good at Fox and so good shortly after, but then he just spiraled once Hamas attacked Israel.
And I think that.
There's something to that.
A lot of people are like, What happened?
What happened?
What happened?
And this was the best.
Someone writes, I'm starting to think that Tucker might be the Antichrist.
And then includes from ChatGPT.
Yes, theoretically, that could be highly plausible.
They say, You know, theoretically, if there was an Antichrist, would this be one of the tactics?
Would he be accusing someone else of being the Antichrist?
And the ChatGPT writes back, or if it was Grok, I'm not sure, one of the AIs.
Yeah, you know, it would be a great tactic for the Antichrist, I'd say.
But I think it's a little bit more simple than that.
I do think it has a lot to do with who is looking out for Tucker's bottom line.
And we may be seeing some, I don't know, generational wealth being created.
That's all I can think.
Tucker also has put his money on one JD Vance, which I think is going to be very hurtful for JD Vance.
And I think a lot of people within the administration are struggling to really trust JD Vance as a result of this affiliation that he has with Tucker and some other members of.
Well, could we say they were ever MAGA?
I don't know as they necessarily were.
I mean, I go back in time to having worked with Tucker and he never liked Trump, okay?
Like he just never liked Trump.
I'll tell you that.
I mean, he just never liked him.
And I always thought it was like an attention thing because Trump was taking all the oxygen out of the room.
And Tucker didn't want to have to take his rallies at night, at eight o'clock at night.
I was on Fox Business opposite him at eight o'clock at night.
And he really wanted it, all the focus on him.
And he wanted to do whatever he wanted to do.
And like, you know, you have to cover the news when you get a president like Donald Trump because he is the news, for goodness sakes.
And so he's been backing JD.
His son was actually working for JD.
And he now is coming up with this.
whole conspiracy theory that like everybody's against JD.
Well, a lot of people might be against JD right now, especially in the Marco Rubio camp, especially in the Scott Besson camp, especially in the, well, people who have a brain camp, because yeah, it doesn't make sense that JD is close to the guy who's calling Trump his boss the Antichrist.
I mean, I'm going to go out on a limb and say, yeah, that doesn't really add up.
Here we go.
Tucker saying, oh, they're all trying to take it out on JD.
And she's like, who?
Who's they?
They, they, they.
I'll tell you who they is.
Okay.
I know who they is.
They is anybody else.
That's not in JD's office.
That would be like the rest of the administration that's looking over there going, gee, this isn't good.
JD's close to the guy who's trying to take down our boss, for goodness sakes.
Duh.
JD has been subject to, this is well known, but I'll just confirm it, nonstop treachery from people on the neoconservative side.
Who are these people?
Around Marco Rubio.
And they have been totally against JD Vance from the very beginning.
Okay.
He did say around Marco Rubio.
So.
There's something there, but she keeps pushing him.
And he's like, I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Who do you mean specifically?
You know, I don't know is the real answer.
I don't know.
You're accusing people of treachery.
So I'm wondering.
Well, I know there's been a lot of treachery for sure.
And I know they've been, they were so mad about JD getting that job.
I mean, they, who's they?
Within the White House?
I don't, you know, I don't know the answer to that.
I've never worked there.
So, like, if you don't work there, you can say, you know, you can say what you think you know, but it's hard to really know.
This is me looking skeptical.
Yeah.
Well, no, it's me being honest.
Like, I don't really know.
Wow.
Okay.
I mean, did you have to go down with the New York Times of all places?
You know, it's entirely possible that he did that deliberately.
There's like a psychosis there, I swear.
And perhaps the answer was, let me go with the New York Times because maybe my audience won't ever believe the New York Times.
So I can kind of do whatever I want.
I will tell you this a lot of people that were once close to him are ditching him big time.
I mean, Dinesh, Dinesh D'Souza, who's a really smart conservative.
He writes, the giveaway here is not Tucker's denial.
He called Trump the Antichrist.
It's his response when he's confronted with a video showing that he did that.
At that point, like a normal and decent person would say, you got me, or well, I guess I did.
Not Tucker.
Not Tucker, who's trying to gaslight you and turn the craziness back on you.
Like maybe you created that, New York Times.
And all you viewers who are watching that, maybe you're not seeing what you're seeing.
Paid Agents and Political Moves00:16:43
I mean, this is kind of really wacko stuff.
I mean, I'm not a psychiatrist, but is this a form of extreme narcissism?
It might be, which would make sense.
That's why when I worked with him opposite him, eight o'clock, Fox Business versus Fox News, he had such a hard time.
We'd get like 200,000 viewers and it was like the end of the world for him because he figured, well, 200,000, you know, I want to be up 200,000 over Rachel Maddow.
He wasn't even on opposite Rachel Maddow.
She was on at a different time, but he used to look at her numbers and then he used to look at his numbers.
And when it was tight, who was he mad at?
Yeah, yours truly.
I'm like, listen, I didn't even want this job.
I just want to go on at two o'clock and talk about the markets, for goodness sakes.
Yeah, they just wanted to pull a number at eight o'clock and they figured they had a better shot with yours truly.
And we did get a number.
We did.
But the better numbers we got, boy, the more this guy was just going bonkers over it.
I mean, and that told me then and there, he wasn't so stable.
He just wasn't so stable.
So none of this comes as a surprise to me.
I'm just going to tell you.
Like, I know a lot of people are surprised.
I'm watching Benny Johnson and I love Benny and I like his producer a ton, Alex.
They're good guys.
I'll tell you this, that he was shocked, like shock, shock, shocked.
Benny was like, I can't believe this.
You know, I can believe it.
I really can.
I don't think this has ever, ever, ever been about anything other than Tucker wanting all the attention.
And now Tucker's figured out maybe he can get paid for it too.
I mean, that's the word on the street.
Okay.
So you remember he did that speaking gig in Cutter, bought an apartment and everything there, apparently, and he got a little bit of a deal.
Shall we say on the apartment.
I mean, what was that?
Who's paying him?
Because i'm not saying that it's the Cutter government, although I have heard reports that the government of Cutter is actually paying some influencers and I have that through very well confirmed sourcing um, and so that that does happen apparently.
But there's also things like you have other actors involved and so the money sort of you know, it's like a little shell game.
Oh, could we actually say that's maybe money laundering?
There's a guy Rivera, who's a former congressman from Florida who just got busted for that On FARA regulations.
Yeah, because he was supposed to have apparently registered as a foreign agent, but he didn't.
And he was setting up meetings with this, that, and the other.
He got Delzy Rodriguez apparently some meetings and some of her people meetings with Pete Sessions.
And then he's like going to jail for it because there was something like $20 million that was exchanging hands.
I mean, this is bad stuff.
So you have to register as a foreign agent if you're going to do that kind of stuff.
And it includes the media.
Now, this is tricky.
So I actually spent some time.
Over the weekend, looking into this.
22 U.S.C. 611D.
The term agent of a former, forgive me, foreign principal does not include any news or press service or association organized under the laws of the United States of any state or any other place subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S.
So you see, journalists get cut some slack.
So he can say, I'm just a journalist.
Okay, so they're paying me for my opinion, but I'm just a journalist.
So that's where it gets a little tricky.
Now, some people are taking issue with this.
Ted Cruz is like, you're not just a journalist because at this point you've turned into a full fledged lobbyist because for whatever reason you are trying very deliberately to create this sort of dissent within the MAGA movement.
You are trying to, now again, you can, you know, I don't have a problem with people being able to voice their opinion, but think about it.
If you're actually getting paid to voice a certain opinion, Well, like, don't you think you have to disclose that?
I mean, I'm going to do an ad for Balance of Nature a little later in the program.
You know, I'm going to disclose it, right?
I don't know how you actually could go and take money from these organizations.
Maybe you would say, oh, it's a speaking fee.
And trust me, Tucker got paid for his speaking fee in Cotter.
I mean, if he didn't, then there's even less hope for him than we thought.
I mean, nobody does his speaking fees without getting paid for them.
It just doesn't, that's not how it works.
Go and your time is worth money, and you go and you are paid to do an interview like that on a big stage.
I know, right?
I've done plenty of speaking gigs.
I know because Tucker has worked with some of the agencies, the exact same agencies that I've worked with.
I know that he's getting paid for his speaking gigs.
So you can't tell me you're doing this and it's all gratis?
I don't think so.
And so this is where you say, okay, is he in violation of any kind of laws?
And this is what's coming up.
And he's very mad about it because he was tipped off about it, apparently.
But I don't even think he needs to be tipped off.
I think Senator Ted Cruz has been pretty darn vocal about this.
Like, you know, if you're taking money from a foreign organization, at what point are you becoming a lobbyist for the Foreign country.
I would just think it's probably not a good idea to take any money from a foreign actor that is, say, our enemy.
I mean, like, you know, really.
I mean, if it were a country we got along with, you know, maybe that would be a little bit better.
But somebody that we're actually truly at odds with and historically have been at odds with, if you're taking money from anything connected to them, that could be problematic.
Now, I don't know for sure he is.
But I suspect some funny stuff might be going on, and sources are telling me some funny stuff is going on.
Anyway, here's Ted Cruz.
That every podcast he has, he's attacking Israel, he's attacking Jews.
Jews are the source of everything wrong.
Every problem we have in America came from the Jews, according to him.
It's not just that.
Look, anti Semitism is a gateway to anti capitalism and anti Americanism.
And so Tucker is also, he interviewed the president of Iran.
And it was a softball interview.
He asked him no hard questions.
This is the same president of Iran actively trying to murder Donald Trump.
Tucker didn't ask him about that.
Tucker has praised Nicolas Maduro, the communist dictator of Venezuela who we just arrested.
He's praised Comrade Mandami, the communist and Islamist mayor in New York.
Tucker has said he thinks we should apologize to the family of Osama bin Laden.
I don't think we should apologize.
Osama bin Laden murdered nearly 3,000 Americans on 9 11.
I am very glad the military took a mouth.
That's the military's job to protect our nation.
Tucker has said he doesn't know that Hamas is a terrorist organization.
He thinks they might just be a political movement.
Right now, I'll tell you something amazing, David.
The Iranian TV is playing Tucker's podcast in Iran.
The Ayatollah and the Mallahs have said, ooh, you need to listen to this guy.
The Muslim Brotherhood.
Is pushing Tucker's broadcasts out on social media.
The Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization.
To be clear, Hamas is the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine.
They've looked at what Tucker said and said, This is exactly what we believe.
That is dangerous.
And I got to say, part of the challenge is a lot of folks remember Tucker from when he was on Fox a few years ago.
And he wasn't all crazy and out there.
On Fox, he was terrific.
I actually think during the COVID lockdowns.
His monologues were the single best thing on television.
I mean, they were destination TV.
And so there's a little bit of a disconnect.
Although I would point out the night that I went on TV and said, This is ridiculous.
We're going to have a national lockdown.
This was like right, I want to say it was like March 12th or something, 2020.
And he went on.
He had, I'm sure, seen my script because I, for whatever reason, he would lock his scripts, but they wouldn't let me lock mine.
And He went on and delivered exactly the opposite.
And he basically wanted the entire country shut down.
Now, me being a free market capitalist who looks at the stock market going down 2,000 points and says, everybody is completely way, like, you know, you are blowing this way out of proportion.
And look, you know, hindsight's 20 20, right?
Like, I didn't know quite what was coming, but I knew that we probably shouldn't lock down the entire country for it, for goodness sakes.
And he said exactly the opposite, exactly the opposite.
And the next thing I knew, I got the phone call he eventually got, which was, We're going to be parting ways.
They couldn't fire me.
I was under contract.
So the good news is I got to set this whole thing up.
Hey, quick reminder make sure you subscribe, share, like, all that good stuff.
Make a comment.
Let me know what you think.
But it all worked out in the end, right?
Thank goodness.
And I thank my lucky stars that it all went down the way it did.
But I'm just saying, yes, Ted Cruz is right.
Eventually he got around to some decent monologues, but not in the beginning.
Not in the beginning.
He was all for this lockdown while yours truly said it was completely insane.
Watch.
Interesting.
There's a generational problem.
People who are older, they remember Tucker from Fox and they're like, oh, I like that guy.
He had good things to say.
They're not online hearing him attack President Trump every single day.
And to be clear, Tucker Carlson is waging a war online against President Trump's foreign policy.
Now, he's too much of a chicken to call Trump out by name.
So instead, he attacks me and Mike Huckabee, who are supporting President Trump's foreign policy.
But Tucker doesn't have the courage to actually admit that it's Trump he's attacking.
I think we need to address the lies and the poison he is spreading because I think it is an existential threat right now.
Should the foreign ties potentially be investigated?
Absolutely.
Whoa.
Okay.
So that's what really had Tucker upset that they might investigate his foreign ties.
And look, I mean, Paul Manafort, remember what happened with Paul Manafort?
Because it turned out the guy who was running Trump's campaign back in 2016 was taking money from Ukraine.
And he was basically a lobbyist for Ukraine.
There's a lot of this funny stuff that's going on.
Or Rivera, right?
The congressman, Republican congressman out of Florida who just went down, who just was, I mean, that happened on Friday.
They said he was taking millions and millions and millions of dollars from Maduro's team.
I know that Tucker is very close to a lot of people that were taking money.
I'm just going to say, okay, we're taking money from Maduro's team.
So, you know, here I was saying we need to, and I'm just a logical person.
I've been to the Orinoco region down in Venezuela.
I know how much oil is there.
Hey.
If I'm the US of A, I want that oil, right?
So we should have a good relationship with Venezuela for obvious reasons.
And so I, hey, they win, we win, we get the oil, they make a little bit of money.
It's better for their economy.
It's good for our economy.
It makes all the sense in the world.
But for whatever reason, there were Iranians, Russians, Chinese that did not want us down there in Venezuela.
So when I was on Fox, I was doing tons of stories every single night at eight o'clock on why we needed to be there and what was going on and how this was tremendous in terms of getting freedom for the people and possibly the oil for us.
He was doing the opposite.
But again, he had a lot of friends on the other side.
It was like anybody who's against America basically was like somehow in that wing of things.
Yeah, like a little click.
So I'm just saying, I don't know, but I have serious suspicions about the guy.
Serious, serious, serious suspicions.
And I think it's basically over.
I was looking at his numbers and he actually had been holding steady up until now.
Up until now, now he's not gaining any followers.
And I think that a lot of people are leaving him.
And so he better have gotten.
He better have gotten paid big time, like generational wealth kind of money, because I don't know as he gets to survive, shall we say, with his reputation intact, all of this.
I mean, I'm sure he'll pivot.
He'll do the pirouette and he'll, you know, do a little dancing in his little tutu move and laugh hysterically and say, oh, it was all a joke.
I didn't mean it.
But I think that people at this point have gotten to the, you know, the point of no return and they're not going to forgive him so easily.
Remember, here's what he used to say on Islam.
And we're not even going back to Fox.
We're going all the way back to like a young, promising Tucker Carlson just after he lost the bow tie on MSNBC.
Watch.
The irony for me has always been that, you know, if the jihadists ever took power in this country, the first people who'd be rounded up and executed, probably slowly, would be liberals, would be secularists, would be gays, would be the very same people who are always making excuses for radical Islam.
It seems like almost like masochism to me or self hatred or something.
Yeah.
Maybe that's what you have.
Those demons really causing you to hate yourself.
It's weird.
Okay.
It's weird.
And I just keep looking at, I'm like, does he really want Don Lemon's audience that badly?
Maybe.
But where's that going to get you?
Like, how far do you take that?
You're going to just leave all the people that actually liked you?
I know a lot of you guys didn't.
You know, I've done stories on him before and you're all like, The laugh alone, right?
The laugh alone.
He's always very, very hyped up too in real life when you meet him.
It's like, ooh.
And I've known people like that on television before.
And sometimes they need that adrenaline rush that you get from TV.
And they come off TV and they're still like, ah.
But there's a lot of that.
And somebody said, oh, was he a drinker?
I think he used to be.
I think he had to give it up.
I had an agent once that used to represent him.
And he always said he was one drink away from a giant bar fight.
I don't know what that meant exactly, but I think he always felt like he was ready to just pop.
And maybe this is the popping.
Unfortunately, that agent is no longer alive.
I mean, he was just the greatest guy in the whole wide world.
I loved him.
And he represented Tucker for a hot minute and was like, this guy, like this guy is, as he said, these were his words.
He's one drink away from a giant bar fight.
And I'm wondering if this is that bar fight, so to speak.
I think he's losing a lot of credibility and he's losing a lot of fans.
Again, I was looking at.
There's like some data points that you can see on YouTube just to see how various YouTubers are doing, and he's not doing well.
And I'm not surprised because I think the base is like, who are you?
Carlson's net favorable.
Back in March of 2024, when he and Donald Trump were very close friends, look at this.
He was at plus 54 points.
Look at where he is today at only plus seven points among Republicans, and that includes GOP leaning independents.
I mean, that is a drop of what?
40%?
Seven percentage points.
My goodness gracious, when you go up against Donald Trump and you want to appeal to the Republican base, to quote the movie Good Burger, you go on the grinder.
And that is exactly what has happened to Tucker Carlson, who has absolutely collapsed among Republicans.
So, if it is a choice between the president and Tucker Carlson among these voters, what do they basically say?
Yeah, they choose Donald Trump basically every single time.
Look at this.
Okay, the exact same poll, this UMass Law poll.
Look at this.
Net favorables among Republicans.
Again, this is Republicans.
Plus Republican leaning independence.
You see Carlson on the right side of your screen at plus seven points.
Look at where Donald Trump is at plus 61 points.
And this is actually a little bit low for Donald Trump.
In other polls around the same time, he was even higher than this.
Again, he is crushing, crushing Tucker Carlson.
What is this?
This is a 54 point advantage for Donald Trump over Tucker Carlson when it comes to who is more popular among Republican voters.
And of course, this is even just talking about the MAGA base, where Donald Trump is running an approval rating somewhere between 97 and 100%.
Bye bye, Tucker.
FCC Case and Free Speech00:14:11
It's been nice.
I don't quite know where you're going with this, but you know what?
If Iran ever makes it out of what it's going through, I think you might have a big future.
It is my understanding.
You're getting great ratings in Iran because they're playing you on state TV.
You know, if I were you, I'd have Brother Buckley looking for a licensing fee.
I think you can make money off of that one too.
I mean, they're translating your podcast, for goodness sakes.
All right, we do it the old fashioned way.
We got real advertisers.
Again, I don't know that for sure, but I have had a lot of sources say it's looking really, really sus and they think there's some funny money going on with Tucker Carlson.
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You know, Tucker Carlson isn't the only one that's in the hot seat right now.
We also got one, Jimmy Kimmel.
Jimmy Kimmel doing it again.
Oops.
Oopsie daisy, oopsie daisy.
This guy just keeps landing himself in more and more and more trouble.
His timing is quite impeccable, is it not?
He made a really kind of bad, crass joke about Rudy Giuliani the other day.
And this comes as the FCC launches this full-on investigation into DEI and ABC and Disney.
And it's not good.
He accused Rudy Giuliani like the day before he went into the hospital.
That is where he is right now, ladies and gentlemen, in critical condition, reportedly with pneumonia, complications related to pneumonia.
Giuliani, by the way, wonderful man.
I've known many, many, many, many years.
And I'm heartbroken.
I am hopeful that he makes it out okay.
They say today's going to be a very, very important day.
But for some reason, Jimmy, it's like he keeps having these premonitions.
Maybe he and Tucker together are the Antichrist.
Here he is talking about the nation's mayor, right?
That's kind of as he became known, just a wonderful mayor in those tough days of 9-11.
Rudy Giuliani, as Rudy Giuliani really thought it was tasteless that he went after him.
Went after him because of what he said about Melania Trump.
So here we go.
America's Mayor Rudy Giuliani rose from the grave to weigh in on the ongoing drama involving me.
Dad, I want you, if you don't have it, I want you to dig out the one from maybe one of the most distasteful human beings in this country, Jimmy Kimmel.
Oh.
What was that sound?
You didn't.
Wow.
I have to say, it hurts to be called distasteful by a man.
Who farted his own pants off in front of Borat's daughter?
Yeah, like I said, pretty tasteless guy.
And unfortunately for Jimmy, the timing was really bad because Giuliani is actually in very, very critical condition at this moment.
So he went on and did his podcast.
You got to give him a heck of a lot of credit, right?
As pneumonia was kicking in.
And here we are just days later, and he's in the hospital, and they don't know if he's going to make it.
Now, this is the man who got the Medal of Freedom from Donald Trump, who said back on September 1st of this past year, as President of the United States of America, I am pleased to announce that Rudy Giuliani, the greatest mayor in the history of New York City and equally great American patriot, will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, our country's highest civilian honor.
Details on time and place to follow.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Make America great again.
And just think about this, guys, because Giuliani was allegedly, if you were listening to.
The whole deep state that was part of, you know, Team Obama and Team Biden, they were saying that he was a Russian spy and that he was bringing you that laptop that actually did belong to one Hunter Biden, that he was bringing you false information courtesy of the Russians.
And, you know, I'm sure Jimmy Kimmel had that line on his show too.
Pretty, pretty gross, right?
Thinking about that.
I'm looking at some of your comments in real time.
Gerald Hammond, thank you for pointing that out.
He's talking about how sad it is that.
Some of the young people actually buy this quote crazy crap from Tucker and Candace.
I can't get them to believe anything that's scary to me.
And I agree, scary, scary stuff.
And I think that I don't know why that is.
I don't know why.
And sorry, I can't quite spell and type at the same time.
So you'll see I'm just writing your back, Gerald.
But you've got Jimmy Kimmel spouting this stuff.
I mean, Jimmy ought to do a show with Tucker.
Why not?
I mean, Tucker could have Ilhan on at this point too, Ilhan Omar.
You know, you get all your great Americans there on the Tucker Carlson show, and it would be quite a little festival.
But I would say that, you know, Rudy Giuliani is very, very much admired by the current president of the United States.
So none of this is good for Jimmy because, as I said, his timing is quite bad and it seems to keep getting worse.
The FCC now giving us the first details on Friday about its investigation into Disney and ABC.
For DEI issues.
They were asked about the timing.
I want to go to Brendan Carr.
He is head of the FCC, who said, No, there's nothing here about timing.
I mean, it just so happens that we had this investigation and it was coming to a head.
And yes, it seemed to come out right around the time Melania Trump was like, Oh, why is this guy on TV saying these things about my husband?
And now he's saying these things about Rudy Giuliani just as Rudy Giuliani goes into the hospital.
Not good.
Jimmy, I realize maybe you're just lucky.
Maybe you're a Prophet, maybe you are the Antichrist too.
Like I said, bring Tucker on your show and you guys can have quite a festival.
I want to drill down on the question.
Did you get any pressure from the White House to take this action on Disney?
Did you speak to President Trump?
Did any of the White House direct you to do this?
And I think one thing the critics have raised is that in November, when President Trump asked you and the commission to revoke Disney licenses after an ABC reporter asked a question in the Oval Office of the Saudi Crown Prince, that the following day you announced you were opening a new review.
Of the agreements between the local broadcast groups and the national broadcasters.
So, was there any connection?
Did you feel any pressure?
Was the timing at all, you know, as a result of White House pressure or what happened on Saturday night?
No, this was a decision that we made inside this building based on where we were in the enforcement matter.
There was no pressure from the outside.
There was no suggestion from the outside.
There was no call for agency action from the outside.
This was based on our assessment of where we were.
In respect to President Trump, obviously, he has every right, First Amendment right.
To express his position on this.
One of the great things about President Trump is he's very transparent.
He has told publicly his position.
He has every right to make the decisions that he's made, to make the public calls that he's made.
Same with the first lady.
And there's a lot of people out there that agree with them.
And just can I ask on.
So you have a lot of people saying, How dare he?
I mean, like all the mainstream media and a few podcasters saying, How dare the president say this?
Well, if you're the first lady, Melania Trump, and you just went through what you went through a couple of weekends ago.
And it turns out there's something going around online that you happen to see on Monday morning, or maybe you see after the fact.
I mean, a normal person, right?
A normal, kind, generous person would have taken that post down or would have apologized for it.
And Jimmy Kimmel did neither.
I mean, would it cost you that much to say, gee, that was really unfortunate timing?
I feel really bad about that.
No, it wouldn't cost you much.
But if you're an egomaniac narcissist, then you're not willing to do it because you're going to stand up on principle and you're going to make it into a whole thing.
They're making it into such a whole thing, guys, that do you know moveon.org actually bought a billboard and they put it up?
Yeah, they put it up out in LA because they're somehow trying to send a message to the new CEO of Disney.
That would be Josh tomorrow, who came from the parks.
Okay, like this guy's been running cruise ships and parks.
And now he gets to deal with the crazies in the entertainment division there at Disney and ABC.
So let me see if I can find this billboard for you.
They put up a billboard there, so they wanted to make sure that everybody at ABC and Disney saw it.
But I would just say, think about how political this has gotten.
With moveon.org, a very lefty organization putting something up.
Okay, here we go.
I got it for you.
Oops.
Let's take another look here.
It says, Don't cave to government censorship.
Keep Jimmy Kimmel on the air.
Moveon.org, free speech.
So, this is their billboard that they're putting up all over LA.
They want to make sure that CEO, brand new CEO, Josh Tamaro, welcome to the gig, buddy.
That would be nice if you could actually get the stock price in decent territory.
You know, it's half what it used to be back in 21.
So here it is.
Don't cave to blank government censorship.
Keep Jimmy Kimmel blank on the air blank, Because you need a few blanks in there, apparently.
So Jimmy never met a story, apparently, he didn't want to make into something else either.
Again, the normal course of action would have been to say, gee, I'm sorry, and to take it down.
Or if you can't take it down because it's all over the internet, You say, gee, I'm really sorry.
And he never said that.
And now you've got moveon.org embracing this as a political issue with everybody saying, oh, this is free speech, free speech.
But well, you know what?
The president has free speech too.
He has a right to say, gee, I don't think this guy should be on TV.
And Brendan Carr certainly has a right at the FCC to legally look at what's going on because the way the law stands, 1934 Communications Act, guess what?
He's got jurisdiction over broadcast airwaves.
You see, that's what makes it very different from cable or very different from YouTube.
The FCC does have jurisdiction.
I want to make that distinction.
Like, people keep forgetting that because you have all the free speech you want over on cable and in print and here in the internet.
Reminder, subscribe, share, like.
But you don't necessarily have it to the same extent over FCC controlled airwaves because you see, according to Section 309A, 47 USC 309A, again, Subject to the provisions of this section, the commission shall determine in the case of each application whether the public interest, convenience, and necessity will be served by the granting of such application.
All that said, that's not actually what Brendan Carr's using to go after ABC and Disney right now.
He doesn't need this.
I mean, it may be in his back pocket.
We'll see.
But he doesn't need it because he's got this whammy.
The DEI investigation that was opened about a year ago into Disney and ABC, that's coming to a head to the point now where they have to review the licenses.
For all this ABC affiliates, I think there's about eight of them, OOs they're known as, owned and operated, because they've apparently violated all kinds of, well, employment law that would be on the books for both the FCC and, of course, the Constitution, because you can't discriminate.
But apparently they did.
And that's what they found out.
So he said, I'm concerned about their DEI practices that they may violate FCC prohibitions on invidious forms of discrimination.
So there you have it.
So, hey, Jimmy can make this about free speech.
Podcasters can say this is about free speech.
It's not.
It's actually about discrimination.
That's what the FCC case is about.
If they wanted to make it about whether or not the guy is decent enough to be on television on FCC controlled airwaves, they could, but that's not what they're doing.
This is about discrimination at Disney and ABC, and ABC may lose its licenses.
Those specific affiliates, not because of what they're putting on the air, but because of their hiring practices.
That's the issue.
And they're in big, big trouble over that.
NATO Troops and German Trouble00:10:40
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I want to get to NATO imploding in real time after Donald Trump said, hey, we're taking 5,000 troops out of Germany.
And guess what?
I may have more where that came from.
I'm taking more, because we're not going to give you guys anything, anything going forward, especially considering how you treat us, right?
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NATO imploding in real time.
I mean, this is unbelievable.
We've been talking about this one for weeks.
And then, of course, on friday afternoon, you had news that Donald Trump was pulling 5 000 troops out of Germany.
But guess what?
Here's what I gotta tell you today, this isn't it.
He's not done, and he made this very clear.
I want to go to the tarmac where he spoke to reporters about the 5 000 that were coming out.
Listen up.
Why is the U.S. Removing troops from Germany?
We're going to cut way down, and we're cutting a lot further than 5,000.
Thank you very much.
A lot further than 5,000.
You heard of it.
So you're listening to President Trump just make a few remarks there as he boards Air Force One from Palm Beach, Florida.
So, again, he mentioned 5,000, but now he says it's even more than 5,000.
This comes on the heels of one Friedrich.
I know you're probably not supposed to roll your R there, but it's so much fun, right?
Merz, the German chancellor, who I don't know what he was thinking.
Like, this was not a good idea.
I think he thought it'd be kind of fun to poke at Trump.
And so he suggested that we were being humiliated.
Again, not a good idea.
Friedrich.
What a language, right?
Friedrich Merz, German Chancellor, he said, especially since the Iranians are obviously negotiating very skillfully, or perhaps very skillfully refusing to negotiate and are letting the Americans travel to Islamabad and only sending them back home empty handed, an entire nation is being humiliated.
He's saying that we're being humiliated by the Iranian leadership, he says, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, and that the IRGC, well, they're just brilliant, right?
They're so brilliant, they got themselves no economy right now.
They're losing something like 14 billion dollars a month.
Alphonse, good to see you here.
U.s basis he writes in Italy have more than 15 000 personnel and their families.
Great contribution to the local economy.
Yeah, it is a great contribution to the local.
I mean, I had seen 13, but 15 might be a more um accurate number, as the 13 000 might be a bit dated.
You've got a lot of troops over there roughly 100 000 or more in Europe right now and he's taking them out everywhere he can.
And so Friedrich, Not a good move, okay?
Just not a good move.
You don't poke the bear like that.
You're trying to get along with us.
We finally had you up to 5% of GDP.
But now Germany's like, we're not really sure that we can meet that.
You got Italy saying, well, we're not sure we can meet that.
I mean, come on.
And so Trump has had it, understandably so.
Just had it.
The amazing thing is they use these straight-of-hour moves.
We don't.
We don't use it.
We don't need it.
We have a lot of oil.
We can.
Well, wait a minute.
And they use it.
We don't.
And you would have thought they would have said, We would love to help you.
But they didn't, which I think was averse.
And Germany, I mean, he's doing a terrible job.
He's got immigration problems.
He's got energy problems.
He's got problems of all kinds.
And he's got a big problem with Ukraine because they're in that mess.
And he criticized me for doing the whole thing with Iran.
But I said, Would you like to have a nuclear weapon in the hands of Iran?
He said, No, I don't.
I said, Well, then I guess I'm right.
He didn't have any answer to that.
It's sort of unbelievable because none of them want Iran to have a nuclear weapon.
And yet, none of them are willing to do what it takes to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
And when the knight in shining armor comes along and says, hey, you know, we'll help, we'll take care of this for you.
Can you help a little bit, you know, on the margin?
Maybe just not insult us publicly over and over again.
They're like, nope, no can do.
So, this is what's so bad.
We do have news today that we did sink six.
I've also read seven in some places of those small boats that were trying to interfere with traffic there in the Strait of Hormuz.
You may have heard earlier in the day, Iran was trying to say, oh, we.
Hit a U.S. boat.
That actually was not the case.
That was not true.
They are masters at propaganda.
Just ask Tucker, who's apparently on the team.
And you've got to be very, very cautious and careful as this news comes out to just try and figure out what's true, what's not true.
But, you know, I would start with a certain bias built in, which is that the Iranians are always going to try to push various forms of propaganda.
The UAE says it was attacked.
You have the U.S. again sinking those Iranian boats.
Boats, so there is a truce that allegedly was happening, right?
That ceasefire, which seems to be up in the air at this point, um, because well, we have had to sink various boats and they are attacking the UAE.
I mean, they really, in some ways, aren't that smart because I don't think you should be going after, say, the UAE, the UAE, which has already made its allegiance extremely clear to us, to the U.S., they're leaving OPEC.
I mean.
Donald Trump is busting up OPEC.
That in and of itself is massive, right?
UAE is like, we don't want any part of OPEC anymore because we're willing to pump more.
We're not going to hold back.
OPEC is going bye-bye.
You know, and this is a big deal.
You also have Trump very, very annoyed at Mr. Friedrich Mertz.
He actually decided to put some tariffs on Friday onto German goods, specifically German car manufacturers, the luxury car makers like BMW and Mercedes and VW, which makes Audi and others, Porsche, they're all in trouble right now because he said they haven't been following through with their end of the deal.
They signed this Turnberry agreement in summer of last year and they were supposed to put all this investment into the U.S.
They were supposed to make their cars in the U.S. Like Mercedes, for example, makes some of their cars in the U.S. He's like, I want the whole thing being made right here in the U.S. You were supposed to invest that money.
You didn't.
So guess what?
We're upping the tariffs.
Carl, President Trump says he's going to raise tariffs on European cars and trucks in a social media post just a couple of moments ago.
Here's what the president says.
He says, I'm pleased to announce that based on the fact that the European Union is not complying with our fully agreed to trade deal, next week I will be increasing tariffs charged to the European Union for cars and trucks coming into the United States.
The tariff will be increased to 25%.
It is fully understood and agreed that if they produce cars and trucks in the USA, Plants, there will be no tariff.
So the president here suggesting that he's going to raise those tariffs.
Not clear, Carl, what authority the president is using here.
Remember, the Supreme Court struck down his authority to do unilateral tariffs that he had claimed last year.
Now he'll have to use some other authorities if he wants to move tariffs up and down like this, a 301 investigation or other authorities that are possible to use.
We'll ask the White House exactly how he's structuring this.
But he says as of next week, those tariffs are going to go up on European cars and trucks.
Yeah, I mean, okay.
So that would be this week at this point.
German car manufacturers are going to feel the pain.
You've got a very heavy reliance there.
On the European car production for the German economy.
It's roughly 6% of their GDP.
So that's a big deal.
They get hit with 25% auto tariffs.
That's not going to be good for them.
And so it almost makes you wonder, right?
You know, as we watch all of this and we see the president saying 5,000 troops out of Germany, I'm going to take more.
I'm going to take more.
All while he's sending a message to Italy and sending a message to Spain, I think Europe's getting pretty nervous.
I mean, don't forget, Italy's Georgia Maloney had.
Said that we couldn't actually access our bases, our bases, which Alphonse was saying we have about 15,000 troops there, 15,000 troops, if you would, in Italy.
I had banked it somewhere around 13,000, but whatever it is, it's a lot of troops.
I think I have a graphic for you.
I'll show you just how many different bases we have, a number of bases.
These are the most important ones.
I think we have about five of them up there.
One of them was a place called Sigonello, which is in Sicily, and she would not allow us to refuel.
In Sigonella.
Italy, Spain, and EU Standards00:10:30
I mean, that's a little bizarre given that we are the ones that spend all the money there and we're pretty important to them.
So I think that she just saw what happened there with Germany, with us pulling 5,000 and saying, hey, we're going to pull more.
And I think she's getting the message.
And I say that because wait till you see this soundbite.
Georgia Maloney, who kind of has been a little rude lately and a little.
Like, she's doing pirouettes.
I mean, like, she's pulling a Tucker Carlson.
All of a sudden, she doesn't like Trump.
All of a sudden, you know, it's the U.S.'s fault.
All of a sudden, we can't use our bases.
All of a sudden, she's pro immigration.
Oh, yeah.
I showed you that soundbite last week.
She was saying it in Italian, but she's like, we need immigration.
And then guess what she did?
She brought in 500,000 migrants, 165,000 or so thousand are coming in this year alone.
So she commits to this three year plan for migration.
And yet today, There's this sound that just came out.
She's meeting with some other European leaders, and she starts going on about how immigration is bad for Europe.
And I'm like, well, lady, which is it?
Which is it?
Here we go, Georgia Melanchthon.
Obviously, we know that uncontrolled migration flows put citizens' security under pressure, and when exploited as a hybrid threat, even the stability of the states.
But it's not all.
It also affects economy, straining public resources and impacting on labor market.
It weakens competitiveness.
This weakens competitiveness by increasing uncertainty and social tensions.
It has also a link to energy, for we have also to face the fact that many flows come from unstable regions that are key to our energy supplies.
Ultimately, all of this affects the quality of our democracies.
For when citizens feel that important challenges are not governed, they lose faith in institutions.
And when trust erodes, people become more vulnerable to manipulation, including the malicious use of artificial intelligence.
So it's not migration.
It is migration, it is economy, it is democracy, it is competitiveness, it is energy, it is security.
And if I take one of the other topics, I can link them all the same way.
So, first of all, we cannot face only one piece of this poly crisis.
Second, migration is integral part of the poly crisis.
Third, no one can face it alone.
So, cooperation on that is a precondition.
Okay, so that's really different than what.
We have a lot of people who have a lot of immigration.
Per questo, noi non possiamo dare to have a lot of immigration.
She's talking about the need for legal immigration in both.
Italy and all of Europe.
I mean, this was like a week ago, okay?
So, I mean, is this the Trump effect?
I mean, he came out swinging last week.
He's like, hey, Italy, Spain, I'm mad at you.
I'm mad at you, Georgia, because we needed to get to Sigonella and you wouldn't let us use it.
And hey, you know what?
We spent a lot of money there.
We spent like estimates are between two and five billion dollars alone in Italy.
And you know, if she was getting along with us, I bet you he would have upped it because he wants to have friends in good places, right?
I mean, why do you think we're allowing this credit swap with Argentina and Malay?
Because we like Malay.
We like Argentina right now.
Like in countries with leaders we like, we'll do nice things.
I mean, we might question whether we should be that nice, right?
Like, because, you know, I think that there are some real questions as to whether they even need it, to be honest.
I mean, they ought to be able to stand on their own two feet.
They are a developed country after all, and it's been a lot of years since World War II.
So come on, move on, move on, right?
And yet, you know, we're spending all this money and she's trashing us.
So notice how she did that in English.
I think that that was actually quite telling as well because she's out there in Italian talking up a good game about how, you know, you need more immigration, more immigration, 500,000 coming in.
And this is so critical to the European and Italian economies.
And then she literally does exactly the opposite in English.
In the most recent presentation from her, which has me saying, okay, apparently she's getting the message, which I guess is good news, but I'll tell you, it's really hard to figure out who your friends are these days.
Really, really hard.
I mean, he did give her a warning, though.
You talked about possibly pulling out some troops of Germany.
Would you be considering the same thing for Spain and Italy?
I mean, they haven't been exactly on board.
Yeah, probably.
Yeah, I probably will.
Why should I?
You know, look, why shouldn't I?
Italy has not.
Been of any help to us.
And Spain has been horrible, absolutely horrible.
You know, it's NATO.
It's not even the fact that they've been, it's one thing if they said nicely, or if they said, okay, we'll help, but the help's a little slow.
But the level, and we helped them with Ukraine, you know, they made a mess out of Ukraine, a total mess.
And we helped them with Ukraine.
Ukraine has nothing to do, you know, we're an ocean apart.
It has to do with them.
It's like for them, it's their front door.
We help them.
And Biden gave him $350 billion, which was insane.
It's one of the reasons the war went on.
But when we needed them, they were not there.
We have to remember that.
And so if we ever have a big one, because we didn't need any help with Iran, we had Iran right from the first day it was over.
It was over.
And now it's even more so.
We're so locked and loaded if we want to do.
But we didn't need the help.
And to a certain extent, I asked him, I didn't need the help, but I said, yeah, we'd love to have your help.
Because I wanted to see if they'd do it.
And they, in all cases, they said, We don't want to get involved.
And you know, the amazing thing is they use these straight of horror movies.
We don't.
We don't use it.
We don't need it.
We have a lot of oil.
We do.
And, well, wait a minute.
And they use it.
We don't.
And you would have thought they would have said, We would love to help you.
But they did.
No, they didn't.
They didn't.
And so he's sending her a warning, a very, very serious warning.
She's now responding to that warning.
Georgia Maloney out today with new comments talking about Donald Trump and that warning.
I'm sharing this in real time as I have not yet seen them myself, but I want to play them for you.
Let's take a look together.
The Prime Minister of Italy.
Look, I can't tell you what will happen.
As I've said many times before, we know that for some time now, the United States has, shall we say, been discussing a withdrawal from Europe, which is why I believe we must strengthen our security and, let's say, Develop our capacity to respond in this regard.
That said, it is clearly a decision that does not depend on me, and one that I personally would not support.
But there is one thing I would like to make clear Italy has always honored its commitments.
Italy has honored every commitment it has undertaken.
It has always done so.
We have done so particularly within NATO.
We have done so even when our direct interests were not at stake.
We did so in Afghanistan.
We did so in Iraq.
And so, let's say, I do not consider some of the things that have been said about us to be fair, not least because.
Within the Atlantic Alliance, no one has ever appeared in a formal setting to ask the Allies' support regarding the choices they were making.
Okay, so again, brand new statement from Georgia Maloney, who seems to be saying now that Italy is going to honor its obligations.
And as I said, it's almost like a form of schizophrenia because just last week, we learned that she was actually considering not paying.
In fact, Italy was saying the energy crisis was so severe that they would not be able to pay its obligations to NATO.
That they were looking at possibly a two-tenths of a percent decline in the economy and that they would not be able to meet the demand for five percent of gdp to NATO.
So now she's trying to tell us she's going to meet the demands, that Italy always meets its demands.
I don't think so.
By the way, Italy's in like deep duty with the overall EU right now, because it's actually running deficits that are too extreme.
And the deficits are coming from where?
Oh, it all makes sense, right, 500 000 migrants coming in and they're going to get all kinds of goodies, plenty of goodies, because you know that's how Italy rolls.
Europe in general rolls this way, and so you get All kinds of social programs, pension programs, vacation.
I mean, you name it, right?
You get all kinds of benefits.
They now have to take on that welfare for the 500,000 people that are coming.
They're not meeting the EU standards that they should have fiscally.
And they're continuing to bring in migrants, all while kind of talking out of both sides of their mouth or her mouth.
I mean, because on the one hand, she can't meet the obligations.
And then today, she tells us.
And I think that was it in Albania that she's visiting at right now.
Now she's telling us, yeah, you know, we're going to be able to do it.
We always honor our obligations.
Which is it, Georgia?
The Bank of Italy, meanwhile, urging her to keep an eye on those deficits because they don't have the money.
And we don't.
I mean, we just can't.
We can't do these giveaways, especially for people that don't want to actually honor their obligations quite literally.
I mean, all you had to do was allow us to refuel in the Sigonella base.
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Again, you can go to KEPM.com forward slash Trish today.
A lot of news to tell you about today on the war front.
Scott Besant really coming in for the win here, reminding everybody where this is heading overall.
how this is going to actually create a much, much lower price point for oil as soon as it is finished.
Okay, so I guess that's the question.
How long is it going to take to finish the deal?
We did have six small Iranian boats that Trump warned would be blown off the face of the earth, or rather, he, I think he warned a little more than that.
We took the six boats out, and Trump is warning today that Iran, if they keep up this stuff, is going to be blown off the face of the earth.
So he's really not mincing words there at all.
In fact, he told a reporter at Fox News exactly that.
I want to go to Trey Yingst, who has the story and his conversation.
With Donald Trump from earlier today.
Let me bring it up to you and we will listen in.
Sandra, good afternoon.
I spoke with President Trump for 20 minutes about the situation with Iran.
He talked about Project Freedom and the U.S. efforts to guide vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, issuing a new warning to the Iranian regime, saying if the Iranians try to target U.S. ships in this area, they will be, quote, blown off the face of the earth.
Remember, this was a project implemented by the Americans overnight.
To assist the hundreds of vessels that are currently trapped in the Persian Gulf.
We're talking about more than 20,000 sailors.
And the president told Fox he's doing this for humanity.
Some of these sailors were running out of food and supplies on these vessels due to the Iranian threats that are ongoing in this area.
And again, the president's saying that if U.S. ships in the region are targeted, the Iranians will be blown off the face of the earth.
Now, I also asked President Trump about the possibility of negotiations with Iran succeeding.
He said the Iranians are being far more malleable than they were being in the past.
Showing flexibility given the U.S. pressure that continues as part of the American blockade of Iranian ports, President Trump called that blockade the greatest military maneuver in history.
As it relates to the combat preparations that continue across the region, President Trump understands there are two paths here.
The Iranians either make a good faith deal or ultimately combat operations could resume.
And President Trump told Fox News that right now they have bases all over the world.
There are American preparations underway.
He said they're all stocked with equipment and we can use all of that stuff.
And if he needs it, he will use it.
But the headline here, Sandra, the president issuing a new warning to the Iranian regime if they do fire on U.S. vessels in the Persian Gulf or near the Strait of Hormuz.
And today we can report, according to CENTCOM commander Admiral Brad Cooper, there were multiple attempts on American vessels and merchant ships in this region.
And Cooper says that there were U.S. efforts to shoot down both missiles and drones in the Persian Gulf as these Iranian efforts to attack vessels in the region continue.
Sandra?
All right.
So, Trey, is it fair to say you got a sense of optimism as this continues from President Trump in that phone call?
Yeah, absolutely.
The president is in charge here in terms of not only the negotiating table, but also the U.S. military posture across the region.
You have the excellence of the U.S. Navy on display here.
And the president even talked about how just two weeks ago there was that vessel that tried to break through the U.S. blockade.
And ultimately, American forces fired into the engine room after giving the vessel four separate warnings.
And it stopped that vessel.
In its tracks.
And this is a display of what will happen if the Iranians try to test the U.S. blockade.
So far, it's been quite successful in stopping these vessels, specifically from Iranian ports.
Remember, this is very important to note here.
The United States is not trying to stop any sort of merchant vessels who are going through the Strait of Hormuz.
They're actually trying to help these vessels make their way through this area, despite the Iranian threats.
It's the vessels that are coming from Iranian ports that are being stopped.
And we're talking about a lot of oil that is currently in the Persian Gulf that now the United States has control over when and where it moves.
And the president talked about this as well.
The Iranians tried to put pressure on the United States and the military in the region, and their plan backfired.
And ultimately, that led to President Trump controlling the Strait of Hormuz.
And that is what we are seeing right now.
Iranian ports are totally stopped at this moment.
They cannot move vessels out through the Strait of Hormuz due to the U.S. Navy blockade.
And the president now is issuing this new warning to the Iranian regime if they try to escalate in the Persian Gulf.
Okay.
So the president is making it very clear that Iran does not have much of a future if it doesn't actually relent here.
He put this out as well earlier today, this afternoon, on True social Iran has taken some shots at unrelated nations with respect to the ship movement project freedom, including a South Korean cargo ship.
Perhaps it's time for South Korea to come and join the mission.
We've shot down several small boats, or as we like to call them, fast boats.
It's all they have left other than the South Korean ship.
There has been at this moment no damage going through the strait.
Secretary of War Pete Hegze, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Kang have been will have a news conference tomorrow morning.
So thank you for your attention to this.
Again, the president saying that.
The future is not going to be looking so good, threatening total destruction there of Iran.
We have sunk six small ships there as of today, and we are making it clear that we're not going to stand for the UAE being attacked.
The UAE, which is now increasingly our ally in all of this, increasingly many of these Middle Eastern countries signing on to things like the Abraham Accords, right?
So Iran's being left in the dust.
The whole world is kind of moving on, and they're struggling.
And they're fighting and they're trying, you know, they've got a few clients, right?
China is one.
Well, Scott Besson came out today and said, Hey, China, you know what?
You better get with the program because you're not getting any oil from them.
None.
Zip zero.
Nada.
We have a blockade up and that blockade is staying.
Here's the president putting this on True Social, pointing out how basically Iran has nothing.
All their leaders are dead.
The Navy's destroyed.
The Air Force is destroyed.
The air defense is destroyed.
So they got these little teeny boats, right?
That they can whiz around and try and Create havoc with, or they've got a few leftover missiles that they can launch over into UAE.
But overall, they're pretty poorly equipped at this moment in time, and there's no way to get them anything.
Don't forget, you had the Tosca ship recently that had been making a whole bunch of stops in China, and it was trying to get them some stuff to help make some ballistic missiles.
And what did we do?
We prevented that ship from getting into any Iranian port.
We are also preventing any ships from getting out of these Iranian ports, so they are not able to get their oil.
To China, which means they got no economy.
They got Zip Zero Nada.
All they had was oil, and we have shut that off.
And that is a stronghold that's going to work.
Don't ask me.
I'm going to let the Treasury Secretary explain this one.
Here he is from this morning.
Watch Scott Besson.
Would you say to the American consumer that help is on the way?
You have it in mind.
Help is on the way as of today.
The way to think about it is the market, because of the conflict around the Strait, is in deficit about.
10 million barrels a day, between 8 and 10 million barrels a day right now.
So every crew carrier that goes through has about 2 million barrels.
So four or five crew carriers a day coming through of the pent up demand.
We think there are more than 150, 200 crew carriers that can come out.
So I think the market's going to be very well supplied.
The other thing, too, is I am confident on the other side of this, the world's going to be awash in oil.
That the UAE has come out of OPEC, they're going to be pumping more.
Just announced they're going to be pumping more, and the U.S. has record crude deliveries.
We are the number one energy superpower in the world, and we have never delivered so much crude.
We got all the crude, okay?
We got all the oil.
And as I've told you before, and I'll front all Fons in the chat is pointing out, don't forget, we also get the Venezuelan oil too.
And we kicked China out of Venezuela.
And we kicked Iran because they were down there too.
We kicked them all out of Venezuela.
Guess what?
It's all ours now.
Dulcie reports to Donald Trump.
Sorry.
I mean, Maduro, you had your chance.
Apparently, his wife was too into the Russian and Chinese money and they couldn't get her to come around.
They tried, they tried, they tried.
They were so close.
And, you know, Nick seemed like he was willing, but Celia was tough to deal with.
Well, we got in there.
Pretty quickly, I'd add.
And we took over.
And now we have that whole Orinoco region, which has more proven reserves than all of Saudi Arabia.
Plus, we got everything we got here.
And whether Gavin likes it or not, we're going to be drilling off the coast of California pretty soon, too.
We got a lot of oil right here.
Can we make up for the 20% of the supply that goes through the Strait of Hormuz?
Forgive me.
Perhaps not.
But that's why we're locking that down.
And that's why once that comes back online, plus everything else is out there, hey, this is going to be all of us sitting pretty.
And so I would say and I would urge patience.
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