Speaker 1: By Billy Cunningham, the Great America, and welcome to this Guari.
Speaker 2: It's Friday, Emptonnon in the Tri State.
Speaker 1: Things appear great today, but all hell's about to break
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Speaker 1: Joining you and I now is Leland Vender of News
Speaker 1: Nation every Monday through Friday at nine o'clock, Leland Vidit
Speaker 1: welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show.
Speaker 2: And Leland.
Speaker 1: First of all, you did a segment the last couple
Speaker 1: of nights about about a wartime president, and I thought
Speaker 1: it was excellent because we may look back on the
Speaker 1: start of what's happening in the Ukraine. What's happening now
Speaker 1: Putin appears to of course, he likes peace, of course,
Speaker 1: but he has his certain conditions which make peace impossible.
Speaker 1: We're dealing with a maniacal mass murderer in Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 1: So before we talk about tariffs in Canada becoming our
Speaker 1: fifty first state, talk to the American people about the
Speaker 1: wartime president and your war notes dot Com and why
Speaker 1: you think this could be a precursor to something much
Speaker 1: more dangerous in the world.
Speaker 3: You know, Bill, American has been through some pretty difficult times,
Speaker 3: and we forget that, right the Revolution, Civil War to
Speaker 3: World Wars, the Great Depression nine to eleven, and every
Speaker 3: time our president has rallied us together and has told
Speaker 3: us that the times that we are in our difficult
Speaker 3: these are the sacrifices that are going to be required,
Speaker 3: oftentimes the ultimate sacrifice by brave Americans. But it's going
Speaker 3: to be worth it in the end.
Speaker 2: And here's why.
Speaker 3: And that I think is what's missing from Donald Trump's
Speaker 3: rhetoric right now, is that we are very much a
Speaker 3: wartime country. He is a wartime president economically, trade, warwise,
Speaker 3: certainly when it comes to Ukraine. There is a real
Speaker 3: war that America is involved in the Middle East, and
Speaker 3: we haven't yet heard that kind of rhetoric from Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: The American people are remarkably resilient and also remarkably accepting
Speaker 3: of sacrifice. Think about how Roosevelt getting re elected during
Speaker 3: World War Two when you know tens of thousands of
Speaker 3: Americans were dying. So America is will thinking about Nixon
Speaker 3: getting reelected. Americans are willing to sacrifice and to stick
Speaker 3: by their leader when their leader is telling them why
Speaker 3: they're sacrificing. I think, especially when it comes to the
Speaker 3: economy in tariffs, that is something really lacking right now
Speaker 3: from President Trump.
Speaker 1: And including George Bush and twenty oh four, Bush forty
Speaker 1: three was not much of an order. He was, I
Speaker 1: think a failed president for all kinds of reasons. But
Speaker 1: he was able to rally the nation in twenty oh
Speaker 1: four with the Trilateral, the Three Demons of deceit all
Speaker 1: over the Middle East and also in North Korea and
Speaker 1: China and Rondo. You know, he was able to do it.
Speaker 1: And I think Trump has it in him. When I
Speaker 1: watched about half of the speech and the Joint Session
Speaker 1: about ten days ago, he had soaring rhetoric at the
Speaker 1: end of a speech. But the character of Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is to punch and CounterPunch and keep punching and counterpunching
Speaker 1: until your opponent is gone.
Speaker 2: And I'm not sure he can.
Speaker 1: Be I suppose, but if you would ask the average
Speaker 1: person in New York, Atlanta, Cincinnati, or Las Vegas, hey
Speaker 1: are we.
Speaker 2: On a wartime footing?
Speaker 1: I think ninety nine percent would say no, the American
Speaker 1: people don't feel like we're on the beginning of World
Speaker 1: War three, which the Trumpster has talked about. But the
Speaker 1: American people don't appreciate the trade wars in the southern
Speaker 1: border Ukraine and Israel.
Speaker 2: We got North Korea.
Speaker 1: How about this that China has these large barges they've
Speaker 1: put off their coast to have a to have like
Speaker 1: a D Day invasion of Taiwan. I saw the photographs
Speaker 1: on a satellite last night. I'm thinking, you gotta be
Speaker 1: kidding me. These large barges are ready to launch against
Speaker 1: Taiwan with tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and also tanks.
Speaker 1: And why would they do that if they weren't planning
Speaker 1: soon on invading Taiwan. And if that happens, then I'll
Speaker 1: hell breaks list. Why don't the American people recognize what
Speaker 1: we're going to war somewhere in a big way?
Speaker 3: I think the American people recognize that they're hurting. You
Speaker 3: At the average American in any of the cities that
Speaker 3: you talked about, Hey does your paycheck last to the
Speaker 3: end of the month. Hey, are you better off now
Speaker 3: than you were before COVID? Do you feel do you
Speaker 3: feel economically more secure? Hey, how do you feel about
Speaker 3: the world right now? Feels kind of crazy, doesn't it.
Speaker 3: They may not articulate the wartime, they may not like
Speaker 3: the connection, but that's how they feel. And that to
Speaker 3: me is that the president needs to respond to how
Speaker 3: the American people feel, and he's not.
Speaker 2: Not at this point. Not at this point.
Speaker 1: And I pray to God China does not invade Taiwan.
Speaker 1: I like to think Vladimir Putin say, you know what,
Speaker 1: a million Russian soldiers have been killed and mained.
Speaker 2: It's time to stop that.
Speaker 1: I would like to think Hamas would say, okay, unconditional surrender.
Speaker 1: We lost the war Israel, you one come in, we
Speaker 1: will surrender our hostages and give up.
Speaker 2: I don't see that happening.
Speaker 1: And on the southern border, we're about to deputize I
Speaker 1: think large numbers of private contractors to exact from this
Speaker 1: country illegal aliens, which is going to cause more of
Speaker 1: a frame.
Speaker 3: Are you talking about the Eric Prince play.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Eric Prince, Yeah, it's not going to happen.
Speaker 1: I don't think so, but I know it's being discussed.
Speaker 1: But well, it's up to the leadership.
Speaker 3: Eric on this Eric on the show.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna happen, and I think that would cause turmoil.
Speaker 1: But at this point, we'll see. All I can say
Speaker 1: is we'll see what happens. Secondly, about Canada, you did
Speaker 1: a great segment on this, and I mentioned it about
Speaker 1: a week ago that why in the world would a
Speaker 1: Republican president every went Canada to become the fifty first
Speaker 1: state when they're a little bit bigger than California. Give
Speaker 1: us the numbers if this happens, which I think would
Speaker 1: be fanciful, that what would happen if Canada became the
Speaker 1: fifty first state?
Speaker 3: So Canada gets sixty seven electoral college fifty five members
Speaker 3: of the House, which ensures unquestionably no Republican ever wins
Speaker 3: the presidency and Republicans never control the House representatives again,
Speaker 3: and I'm likely to control the.
Speaker 2: Senate full stop right there, full stop.
Speaker 3: Look, math does not lie. So you can choose your
Speaker 3: own you can choose your own opinions, you can't choose
Speaker 3: your own facts. Those are the facts. It is perplexing
Speaker 3: to me. I guess the best argument Donald Trump could
Speaker 3: have if he wants to turn it into like a
Speaker 3: Puerto Rico like a territory or a protectorate, which again,
Speaker 3: why would you want to protect it. The fact that
Speaker 3: they have universal healthcare up there, which is our guest
Speaker 3: point out last night, is not universal. Less to healthcare
Speaker 3: is universal access to a waiting room and to high taxes.
Speaker 3: But I think the bigger point here is the Donald
Speaker 3: Trump trolling of Canada. It's kind of funny, but it
Speaker 3: might be missing the larger issue, which is that it
Speaker 3: is doing the opposite of what Trump wants to have
Speaker 3: happened in Canada. Because what Trump wants to have happened
Speaker 3: in Canada, it's a worthy goal, is to get rid
Speaker 3: of the liberal lunatic policies and government of Canada and
Speaker 3: replace it with a government that is more sane both
Speaker 3: on climate and therefore energy production, more willing to be
Speaker 3: an honest trading partner of the United States, more willing
Speaker 3: to commit to NATO, and more willing to have reasonable
Speaker 3: and tough immigration laws to stop the Chinese from exploiting
Speaker 3: Canada and from mass Muslim migration. Five very valid points.
Speaker 3: The problem is by continuing to call Canada the fifty
Speaker 3: first state, he is emboldening the liberal leadership in Canada.
Speaker 3: Canada we're about ready to elect a conservative prime minister.
Speaker 3: Now they're back on the liberal train. So we've got
Speaker 3: we may have to figure out how the art of
Speaker 3: the deal, the weed is going to come back here.
Speaker 1: In fact, months ago, it was an article of faith
Speaker 1: that liberalism had failed in Canada and their ex prime
Speaker 1: minister was to the left of Gavin Newsom, and that
Speaker 1: Canada was ready to try like constitutional conservatism, republicanism. That's out,
Speaker 1: that's out completely. And now the Canadians have united against America.
Speaker 1: And I would also point out, relative to the tariffs
Speaker 1: of this place into Canada, that I looked it up
Speaker 1: that Canada produces every year about two million automobiles, two
Speaker 1: million light vans, trucks and cars. Two million, the great
Speaker 1: majority come to America. And so a US senator friend
Speaker 1: of mine, I talked to him a couple of nights
Speaker 1: ago about this.
Speaker 2: I said, is Donald Trump this smart? He said, what
Speaker 2: do you mean?
Speaker 1: I said, Well, Canada produces two million vehicles, the great
Speaker 1: majority of which come to America, and that the two
Speaker 1: major imports into America from Canada are cars from four
Speaker 1: GM Stillanis and others. And the other thing is energy.
Speaker 1: And honestly, he wants those cars. There's two million vehicles
Speaker 1: to be made here. And he also we have all
Speaker 1: the energy that we need. However, it's much cheaper to
Speaker 1: have it from Alberta than to have these new plants
Speaker 1: and pipelines, et cetera.
Speaker 2: I said, but long.
Speaker 1: Term, does he hold Canada's economic future in the palm
Speaker 1: of his hand?
Speaker 2: Referring to Donald Trump?
Speaker 1: And if you eliminate automobile production in Canada, which is
Speaker 1: a huge business two million cars every year, and on
Speaker 1: top of it, energy production, Canada almost collapses. And that's
Speaker 1: not good either, to have a collapse failed state on
Speaker 1: our northern border. That's angry at us. So I would
Speaker 1: ask you Leland Venderte of News Nation. Is Trump that
Speaker 1: smart or is he blundered into this blindly? To this
Speaker 1: is something that's going to hurt us in the long
Speaker 1: run because we need a stable trading partner.
Speaker 2: But they've been taking advantage of us.
Speaker 1: But can you imagine the Canadian economy with two million
Speaker 1: less vehicles and all that entails, plus no energy coming
Speaker 1: from Canada, What does Canada look like?
Speaker 3: What does Canada look like? It looks like a country
Speaker 3: that then looks to China.
Speaker 2: Well, they're begun.
Speaker 1: That turned now that they're talking about having closer relations
Speaker 1: to China and maybe Invoo, right, and I'm thinking.
Speaker 3: What and they did all this? They did all this
Speaker 3: after Donald Trump started talking about wanting to fifty, wanting
Speaker 3: him to be the fifty first state.
Speaker 2: Well, but.
Speaker 3: The problem with treating the presidency like a reality TV show,
Speaker 3: And We've done a lot of stories that the chaos
Speaker 3: theory in Donald Trump's way of doing business works. A
Speaker 3: lot of times. It yields results, and it does, but
Speaker 3: it comes at a cost, which is you turn something
Speaker 3: into a reality show, and sometimes you get these unintended consequences.
Speaker 3: You start talking about Canada the fifty first state, it
Speaker 3: sounds funny, It sort of galvanizes public opinion. It gets
Speaker 3: everybody a flutter, and it owns the libs in the
Speaker 3: United States and gets CNN, MSNBC all a gas, which
Speaker 3: is what Donald Trump like. That's all fine. Sometimes it works,
Speaker 3: sometimes it yields big results. But in this case, what
Speaker 3: it's done I think is it's had an unattended consequence.
Speaker 3: And and clearly when you do the you know, ready
Speaker 3: firm routine you missed sometimes disappears to be a mess.
Speaker 1: And I would say that Trudeau is more popular now
Speaker 1: and Canada has ever been. That the new premiere is
Speaker 1: one hundred percent organizing Canada against US, and maybe in
Speaker 1: the long run some deal will be struck where they're
Speaker 1: going to lower their barriers a lot more of our
Speaker 1: products into Canada and vice versa. You also have picked
Speaker 1: a huge fight with the fight with the EU. You
Speaker 1: can't find a Chevrolet or a Ford anywhere in Europe,
Speaker 1: but BMW's and Mercedes they're all over the all over
Speaker 1: the world. Here Ferraris, they're here, And doesn't Trumpster have
Speaker 1: a point that reciprocal tariffs make sense and that we
Speaker 1: don't have reciprocity now, and that Europeans are now getting
Speaker 1: mad at them for all kinds of reasons. I don't
Speaker 1: care much about Europeans. It's basically Europe right now is
Speaker 1: a museum. It's not a compilation of countries that are functioning.
Speaker 1: Europe is largely a museum for tourists to go and
Speaker 1: look at the glories of the past. But he's picking
Speaker 1: fights with everybody all over the world. And I go
Speaker 1: back to my conversation with his US senator. Is he
Speaker 1: that smart? Can he look ahead? Four or five moves
Speaker 1: and say, all of a sudden, the EU is going
Speaker 1: to lower their tariffs and our forge and Showy's going
Speaker 1: to be there with Canada. He's got them all riled up.
Speaker 1: At some point in next year or two, there's going
Speaker 1: to be a deal struck, and that we're going to
Speaker 1: have more farming products going there, more lumber going there,
Speaker 1: and that maybe a million cars we made in Canada
Speaker 1: instead of two million. And then on the southern border,
Speaker 1: we're going to have no illegal immigration whatsoever. And I
Speaker 1: hope Donald Trump is that smart, and I think maybe
Speaker 1: he is. If I had to vote today for him,
Speaker 1: I'd vote for him again ten times rather than the alternative,
Speaker 1: which was a disaster on the southern border. And whenever
Speaker 1: I argue with somebody who said, men, it looks like
Speaker 1: a lot of chaos, I said, he imagined the other side.
Speaker 1: What would America look like?
Speaker 2: What's that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Joe Biden, these always say, don't compare me to
Speaker 3: the almighty, compare me to the alternatives, and everyone that's
Speaker 3: really great, and people came. It did work for a while,
Speaker 3: and that was how he talked about, don't compare me
Speaker 3: to Donald Trump and the chaos and it doesn't work
Speaker 3: because the American people don't think about the alternative. They
Speaker 3: think about their lives right now, and the blaming Joe
Speaker 3: Biden and the oh it could be worst line. It
Speaker 3: works on cable TV, and it is something that you
Speaker 3: know kind of right now because people still remember Joe
Speaker 3: Biden will have will be effective. It's not going to
Speaker 3: be effective in six months. It's just not That's not
Speaker 3: how the American people think. And Trump supporters can say
Speaker 3: it over and over and over again, but history tells
Speaker 3: us that that type of rhetoric just doesn't work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because Joe Biden didn't have the linguistic skills to
Speaker 1: overcome the arguments. And when Kamala Harris was talking about
Speaker 1: I promise to continue the Polish Joe Biden, that was
Speaker 1: the death knell of her campaign. If we could look
Speaker 1: at in six months, and let's say it's the middle
Speaker 1: of September and we have a the tax cuts are
Speaker 1: in effect, He's worked out trade deals all over the world,
Speaker 1: that Vladimir Putin has stopped his advances on the Ukraine,
Speaker 1: that Hamas largely has surrender had been obliterated by the
Speaker 1: by the Israeli military and the Chinese for those large
Speaker 1: barges off the east coast of their country ready to
Speaker 1: invade Taiwan doesn't happen, and there and there's flourish and
Speaker 1: there's great economy, the markets back up.
Speaker 2: Uh, would you be surprised?
Speaker 3: I think that is a awfully lot of bounces on the pool.
Speaker 3: Shot on the pool table, boom boom, Right? Is it?
Speaker 3: Is it possible? That? And I would think, really, we
Speaker 3: need to look to for a year, okay, and in
Speaker 3: that that Trump has brought about significant good change into
Speaker 3: your point, trade deals have have changed, that there's something
Speaker 3: different in Ukraine that the continuing meat grinder has stopped.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't. I would be surprised if Vladimir Putin had
Speaker 3: been put in his place. Really, that the Chinese, in
Speaker 3: one way or another, back down, and that Israel has
Speaker 3: wiped out her mind.
Speaker 1: Oh well, and and no illegal migration, that's all stopped.
Speaker 2: There's balanced budgets in the States, he's.
Speaker 3: On the border, he's won the board. And why they're
Speaker 3: not talking about that more? I don't understand. It's perplexing
Speaker 3: to me. Take your wins and celebrate your wins, which
Speaker 3: is rule number one in politics. He did what Joe Biden.
Speaker 3: He did in one month with Joe Biden said couldn't
Speaker 3: be done in four years. So that's an important point.
Speaker 3: But I think that did Donald Trump sort of legacy
Speaker 3: right is going to be written after for years and
Speaker 3: certainly after a year this all these like all the
Speaker 3: and I asked them Republicans yesterday, you know, the freak
Speaker 3: out in bed wedding for lack of a better term
Speaker 3: over tariffs, and that, you know, the the ten percent
Speaker 3: dip in the stock market and everything else, said get
Speaker 3: a grip, really like you may be right that this
Speaker 3: is going to be bad for the economy. You may
Speaker 3: be wrong, but we don't know right now. And the
Speaker 3: procrastinations are a lot. But the one thing that I
Speaker 3: think is clear about Trump. If he has a he
Speaker 3: has a game plan. He's following tune. You got it.
Speaker 3: You've got to see where this ends. And what is
Speaker 3: remarkable to me, and I think it's an undercovered story,
Speaker 3: is how Donald Trump has destroyed the Democrats. Democrats said
Speaker 3: Trump was going to destroy America. Trump has destroyed Democrats.
Speaker 3: They are right now. You've got Democrats rallying around a
Speaker 3: pro Haama Syrian and saying he can't be deported and
Speaker 3: refusing to vote for a bill that bans boys and
Speaker 3: girls sports. That's pretty impressive.
Speaker 1: That's real impressive, because when you rally around that Khalil
Speaker 1: character and say that boy, we're going to take our
Speaker 1: future on Khalil and boys playing girl sports and men
Speaker 1: playing in Wimbledon against women, and you stake your political
Speaker 1: life on that hill, you're going to die on that hill.
Speaker 2: But all right, we got to run.
Speaker 1: But Leland vetter to Warnotes dot Com Monday through Friday
Speaker 1: every night on News Nation, and to begin, you believe
Speaker 1: the president is a wartime president, and we pray that
Speaker 1: he wins these wars. As America generally does not accept
Speaker 1: World War two, but Leland vedit. Once again. Thank you
Speaker 1: for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. And Leland, you're
Speaker 1: a great American. Thank you very much. Always fell God
Speaker 1: bless you. Let's continue with more. If you would tap
Speaker 1: on the shoulder of the average American and say, you
Speaker 1: know what, are we in a wartime footing? No, we're
Speaker 1: not on a wartime footing. He's worried about prices, worried
Speaker 1: about the stock market, that.
Speaker 2: Kind of stuff. We'll see what happens.
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