Trish Regan analyzes President Trump's proposal to eliminate the federal gas tax, framing it as a strategic move within "Operation Economic Fury" against Iran while cornering Democrats. She criticizes European allies like Keir Starmer and Giorgia Meloni for failing NATO commitments and alleges Zelensky lies about security guarantees. The discussion pivots to speculation that Trump considers annexing Venezuela as the 51st state to access its Orinoco oil reserves, surpassing Saudi Arabia's capacity. Regan condemns Democrats Pramila Jayapal and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for opposing energy independence and misinterpreting American history, arguing their policies undermine national sovereignty and economic principles essential for future AI success. [Automatically generated summary]
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Lowering Gas Taxes00:02:27
You know, they just can't outsmart this guy.
They try and they try and they try and they try.
And then he comes up with something like this.
He's like, well, I'm just going to lower the gas taxes.
And then what is the left going to do, guys?
I mean, in all seriousness, if they come back and say, well, don't lower gas taxes, then they just look like a whole bunch of Scrooges that want to stick it to the American people.
I mean, I guess they've already made that clear.
They do want to stick it to us.
Now, do they not?
Welcome to the program, everyone.
I am Trish Regan.
This is the Trish Regan Show.
And the president has come up with a new idea, no tax on gas.
He's going to actually eliminate the federal tax.
We're going to get into all of that.
It's all happening as he tells Iran, no deal, okay?
No deal.
And we're not even going to entertain this offer that you're coming forward with.
And if you guys know what's good for you, you'll probably at some point acquiesce and deal with us because we're going to make your life a living hell on the economic front as only we can.
The blockade stays in action.
It all comes as the Europeans.
Try to sort themselves out.
They're getting a little bit of advice from their ambassador.
That would be Mark Whitaker.
We're going to go to some of that sound as well as the guy who just does about everything.
He's even a DJ on the weekends, I hear.
Yeah, for family weddings and as such.
That would be Marco Rubio, who's also trying to tell the Europeans, you know, if you guys know what's good for you, you're going to actually stand on your own two feet and take care of yourselves.
Tough love.
That's what I call it.
Tough love.
Anyway, Trump, absolutely humiliating or.
Trumping, shall we say, the Democrat Party right now with this whole no tax on gas.
First, we had no tax on tips.
Now it is no tax on gas.
Guys, it's what we call the Trump card he's been saying.
You know, I do hold all the cards, every single one of them, right?
That was first directed at Iran, but you could consider it being directed at the Democrats right now.
Again, the posturing here is important.
We are trying to, as a society, right, as an economy, deal with these higher gas prices.
I think he's made it pretty abundantly clear that we overtax Americans.
Especially when you find out that $19 billion is going courtesy of us taxpayers to the likes of Minneapolis fraudsters, not to mention everything that's unfolding in real time in California.
So, no, we don't want to actually have to turn over any more money than is absolutely positively needed.
Overtaxing American Citizens00:02:11
He said, I'm going to get rid of this thing, at least temporarily.
Trump's saying that federal gas prices, the tax bill will be reduced until it is appropriate to not reduce it any longer.
To this increase in fuel prices at the pumps.
18 cent federal gas tax is going to go away.
Yeah, I'm going to reduce it.
He said, I'm going to reduce it because you know what?
It's hurting people.
So, Democrats, you try and fight that.
Good luck.
I want to go to the president who spoke moments ago on this at the Oval Office.
He's being asked by a reporter, Are you really going to reduce the gas price?
Listen to what he says.
Are you going to suspend the federal gas tax?
Yeah, I'm going to reduce until the.
Let me tell you, as soon as this is over with Iran, as soon as it's over, you're going to see gasoline and oil drop like a rock, going to be dropping down like a rock.
I mean, already, look, just on the basis of.
You know, things have happened.
When it first came about, 20% of the oil came out of Hormuz.
That's a lot.
But, you know, with time, It's like they're going to Texas, they're going to Louisiana, they're going to Alaska, a lot of Alaska.
Alaska is, you know, sort of, it seems like very far away from Asia, but it's actually a relatively short trip by comparison to other locations they have to go to to get oil.
And they go into Alaska.
In fact, our big problem is we're building bigger docks, docking, you know, to fill up.
You hear that?
In other words, he's saying, we got oil.
We got oil right here in River City.
Music man Meredith Wilson, the composer, I do believe, for those of you that are interested.
In other words, we got this stuff, all right?
We got it in Alaska.
We got it in Texas.
and we can pump it like nobody's business.
Oh, by the way, we got it in Venezuela too.
He's talking about making Venezuela the 51st state.
I got more on that story coming up.
But the point just being, guys, yeah, I said that.
More details coming your way.
The point being, we got oil.
Alaska Oil Reserves00:13:29
Okay.
So 20% of the world's supply was coming straight out of the Strait of Hormuz.
But maybe in this new world where we're pumping and we're finding more of it, maybe we actually don't need all that.
I mean, hey, look.
We need all the energy we can get.
Don't get me wrong, I'll take it from any source anywhere, provided we have our national security where we need it to be.
So, if for national security reasons we can't get it from the Strait of Hormuz, then gosh almighty, we're going to get more of it right here from right here at home.
And that's the point he's trying to make.
So, Josh Hawley announcing today that he is now putting forward legislation because you see, as much as the president just wants to do this by executive order and get rid of the gas tax, da da da, gone, it actually does have to go through Congress.
And so now you have Senator Hawley.
Saying, okay, I'm going to introduce this legislation out of Missouri, he is, to make sure that this proposal is actually acted upon.
So, again, I'm just talking pure political theater for just a moment, okay?
Because this gets really political.
If you're the Democrat sitting there saying, no, I want everybody to pay gas taxes at a time when everybody's like, oh, and we're dealing with these national security issues, then you're kind of the problem now, aren't you?
All right.
So, I dare them to take that one on.
It's like no tax on tips.
I mean, that is your persona non grata if you're the one sitting out there saying, hey, I want that tax on tips, I want every waitress.
In America, to have to pay a portion of their federal income, which really tips are a kind of income, right?
And we can debate that another day because it's an interesting question.
But the point being, politically, it's a disaster.
And so he's got to know this.
And that's why it is kind of ultimately, right?
The Trump card, because he's backing them into a corner.
But they are easily, let's be honest, backed into a corner, are they not?
He's got a new word for them.
Dummer rats.
These are bad people, and they'll give you no support at all, no matter how good it is.
I mean, as an example, I don't know what the numbers are, but if we go to Congress to get something approved, which we get, but you can say that we're going to reduce drug prices by 80%, and we won't get one Democrat on.
I don't know how they get away with it.
That's why we call them the Democrats.
We have a new name.
They're Democrats, because they're dumb.
They're dumb people, and they just keep losing, and they're going to keep losing with their.
With their policies, the dumber rats that's actually pretty good.
That one might stay, you know.
He's very good at these nicknames, dumber rats.
Okay, the dumber rats, if they fight them on this one, I just don't know what to say, guys.
Like, they're really struggling.
I'm reading your comments in real time, and Wallace now is saying, Look, this is uh, you know, it sounds great, but America first, America should get its gas from America first and everybody else second.
What we need to do before we put it onto the world market now, I agree with you, okay, I agree with you, except that.
Oil is a commodity.
So, because it's a commodity, it's priced as a commodity.
And that pricing means it's very subjected to supply and demand.
So, if you have tons of supply, then the price goes down.
But when you don't have as much of supply, guess what?
The price goes up.
And so, even though it's located in a better proximity to us and you don't have to pay, say, as much in the way of shipping costs, et cetera, there is sort of an overall, unless the government were to subsidize it, an overall price level for oil.
And so, when you shut off 20% of the market, via the Strait of Hormuz, then you're actually putting this price pressure, right?
And so then oil prices go up.
But what's amazing to me is, and somebody's pointing this out, like it's still not as bad as it was.
Carl Turner saying, still not paying anywhere near what we did under Biden.
I was talking to the guy who works at the local gas station the other day and he fills his truck with diesel.
He said the same thing, Carl.
He said, you know what?
It was still worse under Biden.
So I'll take this any day of the week.
I think ultimately, and this is what he does for a living, right?
He runs and owns this gas station.
So he sees it day in and day out.
He's convinced it will come down and we'll be better off.
We all will be better off in the long run.
I do think that Iran's not going to have much of a choice on this.
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Shall we say?
Operation Economic Fury.
This is what they are unleashing right now in Iran.
And I got to tell you, it is working.
One of the problems you, however, have with Iran is that nobody sort of runs the place.
And so, even though you're on the third team, so we're on the third string here, you know.
First string got knocked out, second string got knocked out, and now we're on the third string.
We haven't yet seen the Ayatollah, but he allegedly has been somewhat maimed, somewhat hurt, and is still saying a few things behind the scenes.
He was out, well, by word only, not even his voice, on Iranian TV, issuing statements over the weekend.
And they're trying to play all tough and mighty, but I'm telling you, like, they're good luck with this because their economy is tanking and they've got all this oil that they're effectively having to throw straight into the ocean, not literally, but you get what I mean.
And yet they come back to Trump and they're like, okay, we're going to negotiate.
We're going to negotiate.
And they come back with a negotiating standpoint.
I'm guessing they're not willing to give up the uranium again.
He's like, sorry, game over.
How many times do I have to tell you, do you speak English?
Well, no.
So we need a really good translator because these people don't seem to get it.
The answer is no more uranium, no more enrichment.
Okay, it's over.
It's game over.
And no, you're not going to hold up the whole Strait of Hormuz.
That's not happening either.
And we're going to continue to make your life an economic living hell.
Did you see the story in the New York Times today?
They actually had a big front page piece about how the economy is tanking in Iran.
Well, of course it is.
They only have oil.
What do you think they got going on?
Oh, they have a few internet companies, this and that.
Well, the internet shut down there too because they don't want anybody actually getting real news.
And so they shut down the internet.
The place is a freaking mess.
Mike Waltz, you know Mike, he's the ambassador to the UN.
He was on Fox.
Over the weekend.
And he said, Look, we're strangling them, economically speaking.
I got some numbers to prove it.
Watch.
Well, I'm not going to comment on leaked intelligence reports.
What I can tell you is Operation Economic Fury is devastating the Iranian economy right now.
The currency is in free fall.
Their foreign currency reserves are near zero.
Even the New York Times is reporting today of mass layoffs across the Iranian industrial sector and factories.
What's left of it?
You're seeing, alternatively, you're seeing our Gulf Arab allies not only completely aligned with us, standing with us diplomatically, economically, and militarily.
And many of them often played both sides when it came to Iran.
Iran has now shown its true colors, and they are publicly saying, thank God we're taking actions now before Iran could hold the world hostage with a nuclear weapon.
And we shouldn't also discount the fact that you see the United Arab Emirates and even Israel working together with the Iron Dome system and other types of military cooperation.
So we're seeing the world align with us.
Iran has shown its true colors, yet President Trump is giving diplomacy a chance backed by our great U.S. military.
He is giving diplomacy a chance.
He does have a great, incredible military behind him.
And what does this country have?
Nothing.
I mean, Peter from my mind pointing out, yeah, you know, Iran's currency was basically zero before all this.
Well, certainly zero because you know what?
We weren't going to take it.
That meant nobody else could take it.
The only people that could transact together would be the Russians, the Iranians, and the Chinese because we had completely sanctioned Iran.
Here's Donald Trump speaking on Friday, I believe.
Actually, it might have been Thursday of last week about the blockade and how the blockade is working.
And you better believe it's working because, again, I'm going to show you some numbers that will just stun you.
The cost of everything has gone through the wazoo, just like they did in Venezuela.
You know, they started using the Bolivar as toilet paper down there because that's how bad it was.
Inflation was so outrageous.
That's what's happening to the equivalent currency in Iran right now.
Here is Donald Trump on the blockade.
We're dealing with people that want to make a deal very much, and we'll see whether or not they can make a deal that's satisfactory to us.
We have it very much under control.
The blockade is unbelievable.
The Navy's been incredible.
The job they did is like a wall of steel.
Nobody goes through.
In particular, the Iranians, they're not getting anything through one way or the other.
So they're out of business.
And we'll see whether or not they are agreeing.
And if they don't agree, they'll end up agreeing shortly thereafter.
So that's the way it is.
You know, it's like, let me make you a deal.
A deal you cannot refuse.
Because refusal is actually the complete destruction of your economy forever and your country forever.
One of you guys was just pointing out you had a view that perhaps part of what he's doing in China, don't forget, he's got a big delegation going to China.
Elon Musk is even going to China too.
So he's going to meet with Xi in China.
And I think a lot of what they're going to be talking about is AI and of course, energy, because I keep saying this over and over and over again.
AI, I realize, you know, there are a lot of people out there that don't like AI or scared of it, afraid of it, you know, and it's believe me, I mean, it is kind of scary at times, but I'm also very much a believer that you can't resist the future.
And if you try to resist the future, then you're going to get left behind.
So if we just start from the premise and we can have a debate another day about the rules and regulations you want to put around AI.
But if you start with the premise that AI is here and you want to win because you certainly don't want China winning that game.
And thank goodness we won with Donald Trump because if Kamala Harris had been in charge, all she would have been concerned about was making sure she had enough DEI inside all those AI algorithms to gaslight the world into, well, the utter destruction of our existence.
So that was her motivation with AI.
You need AI to be real, et cetera.
Don't get me wrong.
What I would say, though, is you need energy, right?
If you're going to have successful AI, you need energy.
And this is why, again, Kamala would have been a disaster because she would have said, we're going to shut.
down all our energy here in the US.
Oh, and we're going to be like Europe and go for windmills and this, that, and the other.
And oh, Iran, sure, you can have the nuclear weapon.
Fine.
You know, this is not what's happening right now.
So Donald Trump knows that, yes, the key to the future for AI, for all the crypto stuff that we talk about, all the tech stuff that we talk about, certainly over on my other company, 76 Research, you should go look at that.
I'm going to actually put that in the chat right now.
76 Research, that little channel, it's so small.
It's so small.
But the good news is you always get to talk to me.
I read everything over there.
I read everything here too.
76 Research.
It's debatable whether Trish Regan can actually spell, type, and talk at the same time.
And no, she clearly can't because take a look at that.
I wrote 76 research and I forgot my R.
Okay, so that's that channel.
But my point is AI is here, it's a big deal.
China wants in, China wants to control it, and we can't allow for that.
But what do we need?
Think of all the compute, as they call it, the processing speed, the GPUs.
You need energy.
energy and more energy.
Donald Trump knows this.
And so this is why it is so critical that we get Iran under control.
Now, if we can't get them under control, I say, hey, you know what?
We got other alternatives.
We got more right here.
We got some in Latin America, in Venezuela, and we'll get to that.
But I'm telling you, the economy cannot survive in Iran as it currently stands.
We're looking at an IMF forecast of 69% increase in inflation.
Food inflation is somewhere around 100% of an increase.
I was looking at what a family meal would cost in terms of dollars, just so we could do you know apples to apples?
You can't fully do it though, because the per capita income is so small in Iran.
On average, they're making about five thousand dollars a year per capita versus say eighty five thousand to ninety four thousand here in the United States of America.
So big spread, shall we say?
But think about this a family has to spend somewhere around twelve to twenty dollars now to buy one meal versus five dollars to eight dollars that they were buying before all this unfolded, and they only got five thousand per capita a year.
UK Prime Minister Crisis00:04:31
So you understand this.
Is causing a lot of pressure.
The unfortunate thing, of course, is that the high and mighty from the IRGC, you know, they're not worried about where their next meal is coming from the way the regular people are.
So these kinds of things are always tough on the regular folks.
And one of the points the president keeps making is that he'd like to see the rank and file, regular old Iranians that are so in favor of the U.S. doing this really take to the streets more.
It's hard.
It's hard because the IRGC, as you guys well know, has a very strong hold.
On them.
But you know, we're doing this.
We do need the cooperation of some other folks.
It would be nice if we could get Europe on board.
Good luck with that.
Maybe the answer is we've got to kick Europe out, right?
Before we get it on board, Europe needs to figure out the hard way that it is time to get out of the nest.
Here, Stommer is figuring out the hard way that he did not make very many good decisions, including.
His sort of FU to Donald Trump in the United States in the UK.
Yeah, because word on the street right now is that Kira Starmer is going to be out.
This is the prime minister of the UK who's just allowed for massive immigration and he's been hiking taxes every single chance he gets.
And even though the word on the street is he's out possibly this week, he's out there trying to put on a good face.
Oh, no, no, I'm here, I'm here, I'm here.
But listen, and this is well sourced.
I want to go to GB News what they're saying about Keir Starmer and his future being over as the prime minister of the UK as early as this week.
This is on the heels of that election they had.
Here we go.
Well, breaking tonight, Zakir Starmer looks set to resign as Prime Minister in this coming week.
I know you've heard it all before, but we've seen huge speculation this evening that suggests the Prime Minister's time has indeed run out.
Wes Streeting has told Zakir Starmer that he is preparing his case to be the next Prime Minister.
The Telegraph has indeed disclosed this evening.
Former Deputy Prime Minister Angela Reyner has also posted on X.
This evening, demanding that Starmer allows Andy Burnham to return to Westminster.
She's also criticised a so-called toxic culture in Number 10 and said it might be Labour's last chance to reverse its fortunes.
And a couple of hours ago, journalist Dan Hodges has reported that a cabinet minister has informed him that, quote, they believe Keir Starmer will announce he's standing down this week without the need for a contest.
He goes on to say that this is the first time he's heard this directly from a cabinet minister.
Well, he's also wrote this on X. Cabinet Minister tells me they are now confident a leadership challenge will be triggered this week.
As it doesn't end there, LBC journalist Andrew Ma has said on X, it appears to be happening.
Where's ready to move?
And perhaps Angela as well.
And breaking in the last hour, the far left MP for Norwich South has thrown his weight behind Andy Burnham in a very long post on X.
So, would Clive Lewis.
Be willing to stand aside as soon as tomorrow, perhaps to let Andy Burnham stand for parliament?
I think now, with a high degree of confidence, i'm willing to say and reiterate that I think the prime minister, Sakir Steimer, will resign this week and act as a caretaker in the meantime.
The question is, will he do it?
So the thinking is is, you know, the handwriting is on the wall.
Keir's out, don't forget.
He's like one of the most unpopular people in recent history.
I mean uh, I mean, not recent history, perhaps modern history.
He is literally like his poll numbers are in the tanker and he is just not good for Britain.
And don't forget, you've got parties like my friend Nigel Farage.
Okay, Nigel Farage, remember he came on the scene and he led the whole Brexit movement.
And you have basically his reform party that's sitting there saying, this immigration is out of control, these taxes are out of control.
And yet, Keir Starmer, what did he do?
He came in there and he just expanded immigration.
And he just expanded taxes.
And the people are like, what on earth is going on?
NATO Base Controversy00:15:12
I'm telling you, there's a whole theme here in all of Europe because they're all doing it.
Whether it's Sanchez over in Spain, 500,000, he's allowing in this year.
I mean, the lines in the Madrid Morocco embassy were all around the block for days.
When I was last in Spain just a couple of weeks ago, you have Georgia Maloney with her plan for three years we're going to bring 500,000 new migrants in.
You have, of course, Germany doing all of that, the UK doing all of it.
This is a disaster.
And so, Europe, while it is saying, hey, you know, Donald Trump, the US of A, we don't like that you didn't consult us on those Iran strikes.
Therefore, we're not going to give you any help whatsoever.
You're not even allowed to use the bases that you have set up and that you have spent so much money on over the years.
You're not allowed.
Okay.
Well, gee, maybe you guys need to think about everything that's happening as a wake up call, whether it's Keir Starmer getting tossed, he's going to have to resign, whether it's Georgia Maloney possibly falling, her most recent referendum did not work out so well for her.
Maybe people don't like that she campaigned on the idea of no more migrants and then said, We're going to bring 500,000 more in.
Or maybe the German guy, who's such an idiot.
I mean, honestly, Fred Mertz, Friedrich Mertz, what an idiot.
You don't get up there and say, You know, the U.S. is being humiliated and then expect that we're going to turn around and give you the red carpet.
No, we're taking 5,000 troops out, possibly more, and we're going to send them somewhere else.
Maybe Poland, because, you know, they're kind of nice to us.
And you know what?
They could actually use the help.
They're the ones that are right next to Russia.
Why on earth do we give them to?
Germany, come on, come on, come on.
Anton, you know what?
We've had it.
You've had it.
And this administration has had it.
Let's go to JD Vance speaking about this over the weekend, reading Europe, the Riot Act.
You guys, you know what?
We love you.
We love your culture.
We love your food.
We love your languages.
But for goodness sakes, guys, wake up.
You got to stand on your own two feet.
It's one of the big things that people don't understand about this administration.
They think that the president, or they think that I, or they think Marco Rubio, That we hate Europe or have some problem with Europe.
We don't.
We love Europe.
Why do we want Europe to control its borders?
Because we love European civilization.
We want it to preserve itself.
Why do we care about economic growth?
Because they're one of our most important allies in the world.
We share a common civilizational heritage.
You can't drive your economy off a cliff.
Why do we care about NATO?
Because we want Europe to be able to defend itself if, God forbid, they were invaded.
We actually love Europe.
We love Europe so much, we're actually demanding that they do.
What their own leadership refuses to do, which is look after themselves and be smarter.
You know what?
You get what he's saying?
They've got to be smarter.
And it's high time.
And so we're now in an environment right now where we're sort of like, okay, you showed us who you are.
You showed us when push comes to shove, you're really not there for us.
You're not even going to let us use your airspace, France.
I mean, what is that about?
So this is full court press.
You had Marco Rubio over there reading George Maloney, the Riot Act.
As recently as Friday.
Now you get JD Vance over the weekend saying this, and Mark Whitaker, who is the ambassador to NATO.
Imagine having that job.
He's sticking it to them as well.
Listen to the U.S. ambassador to NATO telling them it is time you people get your act together.
What we accomplished last year in The Hague by getting the 5% political agreement now has to turn into real capabilities.
Things like ships and tanks and air defense systems.
And those are the kind of issues that right now we are pushing our allies.
Hard to get that done.
And we're going to have a big summit in Ankara, Turkey, this summer, where we're going to get a report card on what our allies have done.
And we're expecting significant investments from last year in The Hague.
Yeah, where do you think our European allies and European countries stand when it comes to this vision?
Yeah, I think in the last year, they've spent $100 or $200 billion more than they had, all because of President Trump and what he's done to rejuvenate this alliance and to bring strength finally to this alliance.
And the commitments are there politically, but it's the year over year, the hard work.
And so I'm expecting this year we're going to see another more than $100 billion.
You know, that's they want another hundred billion.
By the way, did I tell you?
I think we talked about this a week or two ago.
The Europeans have actually canceled any future NATO summits.
So they used to have them once a year, but now they're going to do them every two years because apparently every time they sit down with the Americans, they wind up having to pay more money, at least with Donald Trump.
So he got them to commit to 5% of GDP at that Hague meeting.
And now they're going into Ankara.
And this summer, the expectation he's going to get them to commit to possibly even more.
But the reality is they're not even doing what they have to do.
I mean, Georgia Maloney is a great example.
Again, she campaigned on no more immigration in Italy.
And then she gets the gig.
And what does she do?
500,000 new migrants, Bloomberg reporting.
Entries to be allowed within the next three years, 165,000 this year.
And then she's going to round out the rest of the difference.
And I think a lot of people in Italy are like, what are you doing?
This is not what we signed up for.
Meanwhile, we are asking, what are you doing?
And we're asking, what are you doing?
Because guess what?
She's not even going to pay her bills.
She's stiffening us.
And she's looking at, well, you know what?
We've got a possible downturn in our economy.
Her equivalent of Treasury is warning that, you know, they're going to see a two-tenths of a percent reduction in GDP.
So she said, not only can we not do the 5%, we can't even do the 2%.
The 2%, like from a few years ago, she's looking at 1.79, nearly 1.8% GDP.
I mean, come on, right?
This is why Marco Rubio had to fly all the way over there and sit with Georgia Maloney.
And tell her not okay.
And he told her not okay.
And not only that, he actually looked at all the journalists in the room, including all the Italian journalists, and said, Yeah, it's not okay.
It's not okay that we spent all this money on bases and then we can't even use them.
We're going to have to sit down and rework this agreement because it's not working for us.
It's not acceptable.
And Spain, he called out Spain because Spain, of course, is one of the worst members, worst, worst, worst members of NATO.
And they've got that crazy liberal that was inviting Timmy Walsh to go over and speak.
Probably courtesy of the Chinese.
I'm sure they're paying him quite well with their Barcelona seminar and all the libs from all over the world.
I'm surprised Bernie didn't go to that one.
Anyway, here is Marco Rubio basically sending a message.
And I love how he says, hey, Spain didn't do this, all while talking to the Italian reporters.
Because remember, Italy did the same thing.
We're just a little bit more willing to give her a pass.
She's pretty.
And we like her because she used to be a conservative and we just need her to get her act straight.
I've been a strong supporter of NATO throughout my career in the Senate and even now.
One of the advantages of being in NATO is that it allows us to have forces deployed in Europe and bases that allow us a logistical ability to project power in case of contingencies.
Well, we had a contingency and some countries in Europe, some countries in Europe, like Spain as an example, denied us the use of those bases for a very important contingency that in some ways the denial of those bases actually impeded the mission, not severely, but had a cost and in fact even created some unnecessary dangers.
So, if one of the main reasons why the U.S. is in NATO is the ability to have forces deployed in Europe that we could project to other contingencies, and now that's no longer the case, at least when it comes to some NATO members, that's a problem and it has to be examined.
But ultimately, that's a decision for the president to make.
Yeah.
And they're going to advise him.
It will be his decision, but he's already told us over and over and over again.
He's not impressed, shall we say?
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Georgia Maloney.
Italy has not been of any help to us, and Spain has been horrible.
Yeah.
Horrible.
Okay.
And yet they're busy.
Inviting more migrants in and they're taking on more responsibilities while they're ignoring the responsibilities that we've set out for them.
We've got a whole bunch of bases, about six of them.
Sigonella is the important base in Sicily that she would not allow us access to.
So we say, Well, what are we doing?
Two to five million bucks.
What are we doing?
That's just the hard cost.
Think about the multiplier effect because for every family living on one of those bases, they spend money locally in the economy.
It's a big deal.
It's a huge multiplier effect.
And Georgia Maloney has the nerve to say, You can't use your base.
For refueling purposes, then why are we spending all of this money?
We've told her we're going to pull them.
And that was part of the message that Marco Rubio delivered, I'm guessing pretty bluntly, on Friday.
And she's like, no, no, no, I don't agree with this.
I don't agree with this.
You saw her in Armenia, right?
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.
Hmm.
I don't think that she's completely right on the whole, Italy has never stood anybody up because she actually is sort of stiffening us right now in real time.
Yeah, that's why she's already said she's not going to do the 5% of GDP.
So interesting.
On the one hand, she's like, okay, everybody needs to step up to the plate.
I guess she's looking at Germany.
And then on the other is not actually even committing to what she had promised to do.
So, you know, they're talking out of both sides of their mouth.
Marco might actually go so far as to call her a liar.
Yeah, like flat out a liar when you're saying that you are actually committing 5%.
And then you take it back and you say, yeah, we're not even looking at 2%.
Marco would say she's a liar.
Marco is also calling somebody else a liar right now.
Don't forget, Europe has been obsessed.
With Ukraine, right?
Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine.
And they just want to build NATO and build NATO and build NATO all at our expense because we're the ones footing the bill.
And so they're like, we're going to have a party all day long.
Mom and dad back in the US are going to pay for it.
And mom and dad have other expenses.
Let's just be very, maybe mom and dad want to diversify into some more interesting opportunities.
And yet we've got the kids that would be Europe, you know, at our coattails begging and begging and begging for this, that, and the other.
And so they've been wanting to.
Continue on with Ukraine.
And the president isn't convinced that that is really the best use, shall we say, of our resources.
I mean, it's a debate that's interesting and I'm sure worth having.
I just look at the numbers and I'm like, okay, so NATO was 12 countries when it started.
Now it's up to 32.
And now we've got this disaster with Russia, and thousands and thousands and thousands of people are dying.
I mean, that's never really ideal, right?
Because you don't want people dying.
I don't see the Pope saying a whole lot about Ukraine.
in the same way he is Iran.
But it's neither here nor there.
What I want to get back to is, is Zelensky lying to us?
Because this is what Marco Rubio had to say about one Mr. Zelensky regarding the negotiations of a peace deal there with Ukraine.
Don't forget, the president did negotiate that three-day peace deal.
And now he wants more.
Zelensky says there's all these strings attached.
And Marco says, nope, he's lying.
Did the U.S. tell Zelensky that security guarantees depend on withdrawal from Donbass?
That's a lie.
And I saw him say that, and it's unfortunate he would say that because he knows that's not true, and that's not what he was told.
What he was told is the obvious.
Security guarantees are not going to kick in until there's an end to a war, because otherwise you're getting yourself involved in the war.
What is a security guarantee?
It is troops that are willing to step in and secure.
If you put that in place now, that means you're injecting yourself in the war.
What he was told very clearly, and he should have understood it, is that security guarantees come only after there is an end to the war.
But that was not attached to unless he gives up territory.
I don't know why he says these things.
They're just not true.
What is the U.S. position on Donbass?
We've told the Ukrainian side what the Russians are insisting on.
We're not advocating for it.
We've explained it to them.
It's their choice to make.
It's not for us to make for them.
We've never told them they have to take it or leave it.
The role we have played is to try to figure out what both sides want and see if we can bridge the middle ground.
The decision ultimately is up to Ukraine.
If they don't want to make certain decisions or certain concessions, then the war keeps going.
The war keeps going.
Okay.
So, this was a little bit of an echo of what we saw maybe about a year or so ago when Zelensky was there in the White House and Trump really let him have it.
You got to wind down this whole ordeal because, one, too many lives are being lost.
And two, it's costing too much money money that we just don't have.
And we especially don't have it when our quote unquote allies are not willing.
To step up to the plate and do sort of the basics, right?
The very, very, very basics.
And by basics, I mean, yeah, can you just even like maybe act a little bit nicer?
Venezuelan Political Instability00:11:15
What about Germany?
You know, this guy, he's going to be out.
We're talking about Keir Starmer going out.
We're talking about George Maloney.
We'll see.
I don't know.
Well, Macron is done.
I mean, it's like a whole new Europe, right?
And this guy, Fred Mertz, he's allegedly on his way out too because even his own party's mad at him because, well, he said some things about the U.S. and the president he probably shouldn't have really, really dumb.
He is trying to sing a new tune.
He's out there like trying to say, oh, you know, Iran, they can't have a nuclear weapon now.
They can't do this.
They can't do that.
And we're going to be here.
We're going to help.
We're even going to lead the way for Europe by almighty.
Like he should.
He's like, we're going to take over.
I mean, gosh, Germany hasn't had a chance to do this since World War II.
Imagine that.
I think it's a different Germany now.
I'm going to give him a pass and say, hey, you know, if you guys want to take over the responsibility of security in Europe, be our guest.
A secure Europe is a better Europe for us.
We want our allies to be able to stand on their own two feet and not be sucking their thumbs and begging mom and dad every two seconds for more money for problems that we don't want to get ourselves in.
So, this is the guy in Germany, and you know the deal.
He went out there and started saying that, well, I'll play it for you a little bit because we don't want to listen to the Germans.
He said at the moment, I can't tell what strategic exit the Americans are pursuing.
He then went on to say, especially since the Iranians are obviously. negotiating very skillfully or perhaps very skillfully refusing to negotiate.
He went on to say they're letting the Americans travel to Islamabad only to come back empty handed.
And then an entire nation, he said, is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership, by the IRGC, these so-called Revolutionary Guards.
So yeah, that didn't go over well.
And the reality or the upshot of that one was Trump hit him with 25% tariffs and said, we're taking 5,000 troops out, probably more.
And right now, My intel is that they're looking at moving those troops, not actually entirely out of Europe, but actually moving them to Poland.
Where, if you think about it, like for two seconds, right?
I mean, let's assume that the boogeyman is Russia for a second.
If the boogeyman is Russia, then what are the troops doing in Germany anyway, right?
Wouldn't you want them kind of closer to the boogeyman, for goodness sakes?
Anyway, they're begging for forgiveness.
The FTs come out against him.
You've had, oopsie daisy, you can't see me there.
Let me move this over just.
A little bit.
This is the FT saying that it's, you know, handwriting's on the wall for this guy.
The Germans are like, what did you do?
And even the New York Times is like, yeah, you know, he kind of misjudged the entire situation and perhaps how annoyed Donald Trump would be.
And he's annoyed.
Trust me.
Don't trust me and listen to him.
The amazing thing is they use these straight of horror moves.
We don't.
We don't use it.
We don't need it.
We have a lot of oil.
We do.
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.
You better believe he's right, right?
We can't have a nuclear weapon in the hands of Iran.
So, hey, Germany, you know what?
If you're going to build up your military, by the way, why are you looking to us still?
They're all freaking out right now.
And by the way, they're super worried about this 25% tariff because it's going to hit their auto sector.
I spoke with a source from that area of the world this weekend who told me this is going to decimate.
This is going to send them into a recession.
It is 6% of the economy.
But those German automakers, they actually have complete like carryover, right?
It's so massive and so important.
And they are going to be in a very, very bad spot with those tariffs.
So, you know, if people aren't buying German automakers, then I don't know what to tell them.
On top of which, yeah, you're going to lose 5,000 troops, possibly more.
Oh, my gosh.
You know, and now the president is like, hey, we can make up the 20% difference that's coming from the Strait of Hormuz.
I'm pretty sure that we can find that somewhere right around here.
In the US of A.
And if we can't find it right here in the US of A, we got Venezuela in our back pocket.
He wants to make it the 51st state.
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Are we going to get a 51st state?
That's what's being floated right now.
Okay.
I know.
This is a little alarming.
Yeah, I talked to someone earlier who said, for goodness sakes, Venezuela.
That's the state we're looking at.
Venezuela only has 4% for 4K per capita income.
Actually, that makes it less than Iran now, doesn't it?
Which is at like 5K.
So it is not a wealthy state, but it could be.
It could be.
And I'm going to tell you why.
This is why Donald Trump likes it because of something called Orinoco.
You see the Orinoco River going through there?
In Venezuela, they have what's known as the Orinoco region.
I've been to it.
I've traveled to it.
I've seen this oil with my own two eyes and with my hands.
I actually had some in a cup.
This and I won't turn this down because it's got water in it, it will all come out.
But if I had Orinoco oil, tar, which is what this stuff is, sludge, if I turn this coffee cup upside down, nothing would come out.
This stuff is so thick and so heavy, and they get a ton of it.
They get something like 302 billion barrels, which is more proven oil reserves than they even have in Saudi Arabia.
Think about that.
And it's right here in our hemisphere.
Don Roe Doctrine at work.
Here is a report on Fox from earlier today where John Roberts is a smart.
Guy, I worked with him both at Fox and earlier at CBS.
He said he spoke with the president who kind of likes this idea.
This idea, he said, Don't laugh, Donald Trump, on the idea of Venezuela as a 51st state.
He kind of surprised me a little bit because he said, John, I just want to tell you, I'm very serious about this.
So you can talk about this.
I'm serious about beginning a process to make Venezuela the 51st state.
Now, there's a rich history in this nation of taking territories.
And absorbing them into the United States.
You know, Puerto Rico is one that people talk about.
But this would be the first time, to my knowledge, that a sovereign country was ever invited to join the United States of America.
How would that work?
Well, John, I won't get ahead of what the president was comfortable sharing with you as far as those plans go.
But look, this is a president who is famous for never accepting the status quo.
He is always considering a host of options to improve our country.
And of course, that's the PR person that is stepping in to take.
Caroline Levitt's plates.
She's probably like, whoa, what's that about?
Anyway, it's an interesting idea.
Again, I know why the president wants it because he's looking at that oil and he knows that this AI revolution is a big deal.
We need to have as much energy as we can possibly get our hands on.
And you think about what Venezuela was.
Guys, like back in the day in the 70s and 80s, it was a heck of a place.
I mean, you had the highest standard in all of Latin America.
You had a well-educated population.
And you had enormous growth in GDP.
Where'd it come from?
Oil.
And guess what?
Our oil companies were there along with some Europeans.
And we were drilling and drilling and drilling.
And it just, it was like a fortuitous cycle.
Everybody was making money.
And so Trump's looking at it and going, hey, you know, if we put all this investment in and we're putting a lot of investment in, we ought to be able to reap some rewards.
And maybe, maybe we want to really lock down those rewards.
Maybe we want to lock it down so that we don't ever get like a Chavez back in there or a Maduro who didn't really do so well by the country.
So I suspect that's part of his rationale and that's perhaps what he's thinking.
Again, you'd be taking on a lot of liabilities.
But when you go back in time, and I think about like the 80s, and I was in high school in the late 80s, and I went to a boarding school in New Hampshire, and there were a lot of kids there from around the world, including some from Venezuela.
And it seemed like a really affluent, kind of nice place back then, right?
The education, by the way, was tremendous as well.
Everything fell apart.
This should be a warning.
Think about this you know, you get the Mamdamis and the AOCs out there saying, hey, you know what, we're just going to tax and tax and tax, and we're going to take and we're going to redistribute.
And we think that's going to be some kind of panacea that's going to make it all wonderful for the rest of the world.
Well, I would say just look at Venezuela.
Because when I first worked in finance, this would be in the year 1999, summer of 1999, I was an analyst at Goldman Sachs on the Emerging Debt Market Desk, and we were trading Venezuelan debt.
And this was right around the time that Chavez was just coming into power.
And like Venezuela was the bomb back then, right?
Like that was a really phenomenal economy, the best in all of Latin America.
And then look what happened.
27 years later, well, fortunately, we're back there again.
It turned into a disaster.
And even although the Chinese were lending money, it didn't matter.
It didn't matter because you didn't have the ability with all that oil that they're sitting on to get any of it out of the ground.
Because as you heard me tell you, you put it in the coffee cup, you turn it upside down and it wouldn't come out.
And it's got to be thin, right?
Kind of like water in order for it to work.
And so they're sitting on all this oil.
They can't get it out of the ground.
Cuba Sanctions Debate00:03:29
We've got the technology.
This is like win win, kind of a no brainer.
And you know, some of you would get kind of mad at me during the Biden years because I said the same thing during that.
You know, why not?
Why not go to Venezuela and get the oil?
And this is what Donald Trump is thinking right now.
I don't know about the 51st state because, you know, that's going to require the breaking of some glass.
One, it would require Congress signing off and saying, yeah, we'll consider this being a 51st state.
Then it would require The people of Venezuela, who might love it, by the way, that's like getting adopted by a billionaire, for goodness sakes, right?
You're like, hey, the U.S. wants to take me under its wing.
You know, I want that all day long.
But maybe there's a way to do it that would ensure better stability for us in terms of us being able to access that oil and better stability for them.
So we'll see.
But this is very, very hot right now and brand new information just coming to us.
There's some people that won't like it, of course.
Ms. Jayapal, the representative who apparently wants to move to Cuba or something.
We'll get to her in a second.
And of course, AOC, who's out there trying to give us a history lesson, but apparently never studied the Revolutionary War.
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Founding Father Values00:12:06
Oh, this congresswoman, representative Jayapal, I think she might be in violation of what we call the Logan Act.
This is pretty serious.
You know, you're not supposed to be out there talking to foreign governments, and you're certainly not supposed to be out there talking to ones that we've sanctioned.
For goodness sakes, look at the sanctions we've put on Cuba.
And yet She's somehow running around with the Cubans trying to ensure that they get more oil.
This is a little weird.
I saw this and was like, huh?
I want to play it for you.
Here is Is she an honorary member of the squad or does she just consider herself an official member of the squad?
I'm not really sure, but you know, she's like besties with AOC and Rashida and the rest of them.
One, Jaya Paul, listen.
Trump issued an executive order threatening tariffs on any country's supply of fuel to Cuba.
This was this January, just a few months ago.
And oil shipments from Venezuela, that's where Cuba had been getting its oil, were halted after the U.S. operations to kidnap Nicolas Maduro.
Right.
Since January, only one Russian tanker of oil has made it to Cuba.
Right.
In fact, it landed just a couple of days before I landed.
And one tanker has enough oil basically for 10 to 14 days of Cuba's oil needs.
So, it's a very limited amount of time.
Now, Russia has said they're going to send another tanker.
I was in conversations with the ambassadors from Mexico and some other places.
And I know other countries in Latin America are trying to figure out how to get oil there.
But it is a crisis beyond imagination.
Just this past Friday, on May 1st, Trump signed a broad executive order that widens sanctions and allows for new penalties, similar to what we have for Iran and Russia.
Against foreign banks and firms that are dealing with Cuba, and it also reinforces the ban on US tourism.
I have called these sanctions an economic bombing of the infrastructure of Cuba.
It is illegal.
It is against the war.
We were talking about this in Iran, obviously, to bomb the infrastructure of any country.
That is against international law.
This is essentially doing the same thing.
It is bombing the infrastructure of Cuba with economic sanctions that essentially ensure that the infrastructure.
Collapses.
You see, because that's what we want.
That is the goal of the Trump administration.
That's the goal of the State Department.
And apparently, you're scurrying around behind their backs, cutting deals to get oil to a sanctioned country.
What are you, a spy for the bad guys?
Yeah.
So, as you might have seen, that was from my shorts feed because we taped that the other day.
I find this concerning.
I don't know if she's an official back channel, but I don't know how we have a back channel given that we have sanctioned Cuba and Cuba is definitely on the naughty list.
So you have this woman making it very, very clear.
She's somehow involved in these negotiations.
She considers it a humanitarian thing.
But don't forget, we put the sanctions in place for a reason.
We took over Venezuela for a reason.
All right.
And if Venezuela is no longer giving away oil to Cuba, I imagine that is part of the plan.
Right.
So now she's interfering with what Marco Rubio is trying to do.
And Marco Rubio wanted to make it clear.
exactly what this administration's position here is on oil and Cuba.
And sorry, Cuba, you're not going to get it.
Listen.
On Cuba, oil blockade on Cuba, there's no oil blockade on Cuba per se.
Here's what's happening with Cuba, okay?
Cuba used to get free oil from Venezuela.
Used to give them a bunch of free oil.
They would take like 60% of that oil and resell it for cash.
It wouldn't even go to benefit the people.
So the only blockade that's happened is the Cubans have decided, I mean, the Venezuelans have decided, we're not giving you free oil anymore.
And you can only imagine nowadays the way oil prices are, no one's giving away free oil, much less to a failed regime.
So the problem with Cuba is worse, okay?
Their economic model doesn't work.
It doesn't work.
And the people who are in charge can't fix it.
And the reason that I can't fix it is not just because they're communists, that's bad enough, but they're incompetent communists.
Incompetent communists?
Was that supposed to be like a compliment for China?
You guys are communists, but you're not as incompetent as the communists down in Cuba, for goodness sakes.
Listen, I mean, Cuba's going to have to come around sooner rather than later.
They got to eat, right?
And we just took away their energy supply because Venezuela's somehow working for us.
And I'm getting word that Dulcie's doing a really good job.
Dulcie Rodriguez, she was the vice president under Maduro.
And apparently, she's a-okay happy.
I mean, she gets to stay there, right?
She's not in prison a la Maduro.
But no, I'm told that she's actually been very cooperative in terms of getting these energy assets back up and running.
And that's, you know, I hate to be so blunt.
Yet that's what it's about.
Okay.
So as much as people want to say, ah, is democracy this, that, and the other, yes, it's great.
I mean, you know, the people will have more as a result of us being down there and being able to access that oil.
But it's also about us getting access to that and making sure that the Chinese are not the ones accessing it, right?
I mean, again, we go back to Monroe, Don Roe doctrine being kind of an important theme here.
And yet Jayapal doesn't get it.
I guess she wants China hanging out.
There and she wants China and Cuba and the Venezuelans in Cuba, and then you get AOC with a similar story.
AOC is humiliating herself, and I mean humiliating herself only as she can.
I mean, you know, there was the Munich situation recently.
Remember how she humiliated herself in Munich.
She didn't seem to really understand anything on the international front and even admitted as much.
She was like, Oh, you know, you shouldn't be looking to me for this.
But yet, this woman actually wants to run for president.
And her views on everything from what's happening internationally to what is going on economically are really pretty twisted.
And I would only say there's some kind of revisionist version of history that she's got going on because when she starts talking about great American revolutionary heroes, I'm sorry, she is just losing me, losing me fast.
Let's watch this whole clip.
It's just a couple minutes of one Alexander Ocasio Cortez speaking with the former campaign director for Barack Obama.
That's interesting.
Here we go.
Oh, yeah.
But last thing before we go to the students, because I would be drawn and quartered if I did not say this.
There are a lot of people who would.
like you to run for president in 2028.
You know, I'd actually like you to.
Apparently some of them are.
Because then we know we'd win, right?
You just know you'd win.
I mean, she would be worse than Hillary ever dreamt of being.
I mean, Hillary was bad.
Kamala was bad.
AOC would just take the cake.
We've got to hope that they do this, guys, okay?
We really do.
Here.
And there are people who, there are others who would like you to run for the United States Senate.
Senator Schumer's up in 2028.
I don't know, it sounded like even more.
Should we do it again?
Should we go to New York or to other parts of the country?
How many would like AOC to stay in Congress?
See?
They want you to make a move.
Yeah.
What say you about all of this?
You know, it's funny because in this op ed that Jeff Bezos paid for in the Washington Post, There was this line that you had mentioned earlier about, well, as a potential 2028 contender, XYZ.
And in the context of that, it was very clear this was a veiled threat, right?
This was the elite saying, if you want this job, you just stepped out of line.
And we want you to know where the real power is.
And it's in the modern day barons who own the post and own the algorithms.
We're gonna make an example out of you.
And what's funny about that is that they assume that my ambition is positional.
They assume that my ambition is a title or a seat.
And my ambition is way bigger than that.
My ambition is to change this country.
Okay.
Remember, we were just talking about Venezuela.
We were just talking about Cuba.
This woman actually wants that.
She wants socialism.
She wants communism for this country.
She's been somewhat successful in the city of New York.
Mam Dami was one of her guys, right?
And what's happening in the city of New York?
Everyone's leaving for Florida.
Uh-huh.
Just like everybody left Venezuela.
I mean, it's mind-boggling to me that these idiots.
People like an AOC, like a Bernie Sanders, like it's staring you in the face.
Like every single time throughout history, they have tried this.
It has always failed miserably, and yet they still keep dreaming of this utopia that will turn out to be hell.
And I mean hell fast.
Presidents come and go, Senate, House seats, elected officials come and go, but single payer healthcare is forever.
A living wage is forever, workers' rights are forever, women's rights, all of that.
Okay, nothing wrong with women's rights or even workers' rights, don't get me wrong, but I'll tell you what's also forever entitlements that we can't afford.
Just look at Italy.
They're gonna meet a rude awakening one day, and we might too if we have people like this in charge.
So, anyways, the way, but to a finer point to your question is that when you aren't attached, right?
When you haven't been like fantasizing about being this or that since the time you were seven years old, it is tremendously liberating because I get to wake up every day and say, how am I gonna meet the moment?
And conditions change radically all the time.
So I make my response less to an attachment to some positional, like, you know, title or position and working backwards from there.
But I make decisions by waking up in the morning, looking out the window, and observing the conditions of this country and saying, what move or what decision can I make today that is going to get us closer to that future?
Stronger, faster, better than yesterday.
Stronger, better, faster than yesterday.
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You know, I also got a kick out of her going on about the modern day barons and all this stuff, the elites, and they control everything.
And I think there's some sound of her as well complaining about how all of these elites are making too much money.
I mean, she did that the other day as well.
You know, it's not fair.
You didn't earn that.
You can't possibly make a billion dollars.
And that.
The founding fathers, this is part of her point.
Let me see if I have the sound for you.
Part of her point was that the founding fathers would never approve of all this money being made.
And I'm like, okay, did you not like take that part of American history?
Because as I recall, and I more than recall because I was actually, this was my specialty, I was an early American historian in my academic studies at Columbia University.
Let me go and see if I have her saying this because she's really proving once again how stupid she is.
Utterly, utterly stupid.
Oh, we got it, guys.
We got it.
Oh, this is good.
You got to listen to this, okay?
Because you'll get a good laugh.
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez needs to go back to fifth grade, fifth grade, or maybe even fourth grade.
When do they teach the American Revolution nowadays?
I don't know.
I feel like I just had it all through elementary school, but clearly she did not.
She's clueless and she embarrasses herself yet again.
Here we go.
The American Revolution was against the billionaires of their time.
And we are declaring independence from such an extreme marriage of wealth and power and the state.
Okay.
So she missed that part of history class, okay?
Because she seems to think that the American Revolution was against wealth and power.
No, no, no.
What it was against is taxation.
I mean, think about all the people that were living here that were producing all this wonderful stuff, right?
And then they had no say back in Parliament.
Back in Great Britain, they had no vote.
And they're like, well, this isn't fair.
How can we be a colony and not have a vote?
We're out here working our tails off, creating all kinds of things and growing your GDP, and we don't get to vote.
That's what that was about.
Remember, you know, when they threw the tea in the Boston Harbor and everything?
Again, I think she just missed that part of elementary school.
Maybe she missed all of her school, or maybe, I don't know, she just got indoctrinated somewhere along the way, or she figured out this was politically expedient for her.
I don't even want to surmise what is going on in that putrefy little brain of Juan Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, but I would say.
That she doesn't understand the fundamental reasons for the Revolutionary War.
It was all about acquiring, growing, owning your own stuff, not the government owning it.
The idea of a patent, they didn't have that in Europe.
That's Ben Franklin that we have to thank for that.
You know why?
Because he knew that if people had skin in the game and they owned it, as opposed to turning it over to the government or turning it over to your lord or lady, Who was presiding over that feudal land that you'd actually believe it or not have a very good shot of growing something and making it bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger?
And that is what is the American dream the chance to be a Jeff Bezos or an Elon Musk or a Mark Zuckerberg.
And she wants to kill it.
Everybody like her is just jealous and they want to kill it.
And I would just say, you know what, lady, go move to Europe, please go move to Europe and be on your way because America was built.
On the idea of greatness and that everybody can achieve it, and that you're not going to have the government out there preventing you from that.
I mean, it's why I'm so I get to, I don't know if I've told you about A250, the toolkit.
You can celebrate America, and it seems like an opportune time for me to remind you of that.
You remember Patrick Henry?
Remember, they actually celebrate all of our founding fathers and all of these great revolutionaries.
If, you know, if life is so dear or peace so sweet as I, As to be purchased, forgive me, let me go back and read that again because it's worth looking at right now.
Again, Patrick Henry saying, If life is so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery, forbid it, Almighty God.
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
Okay, so we come from a pretty good stock here in America.
You can learn more about all our founding fathers.
This is.
No cost to you.
Just go to a250toolkit.com forward slash Trish.
They're celebrating America all year long and all the tremendous values that have made us who we are.
And so it's pretty shocking when I see a noted politician who has presidential aspirations getting up on stage and trying to reinterpret and reinvent history in a way that is kind of sick and a little bit twisted because it has nothing to do with what actually happened.
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I mean, she is just.
I mean, it's sad.
How do we wind up with people in Congress like this, whether it's Rashida Tlaib or Ilhan Omar, who allegedly may have been involved in one of the biggest fraud schemes in history?
She doesn't want to turn over any documents right about now.
She's in a lot of trouble.
I mean, a lot of trouble.
And I think we're going to have a whole lot more coming on that within the next couple of months.
So stay tuned.
Stay tuned, everyone.
But it's pretty darn disappointing.
All these people really, really disappointing.
And I would just say, you know, we got to do better, right?
We got to do better.
And there's a whole lot of things that we need to do, including teaching our kids better, including about things like American history and what the Revolutionary War was and how unique and special and terrific this country is because of the sacrifices of others.
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