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So I want to talk today about the discussion of
the number of billionaires that are receiving appointments in Trump's
cabinet and in his administration, and how the MAGA supporters
and those representing them are not even from the same universe.
So first I want to show you some clips, and
here's a clip of Representative Derek Van Orden discussing, as
an example, John Fhalan, someone who I happen to know
for over twenty years, who's going to be Secretary of
the Navy. Play that clip.
Speaker 2: I wanted to start there first. Thank you so much
for joining us your thoughts on the president alex recently
announced pick for Secretary of the Navy.
Speaker 1: John Feelin.
Speaker 2: He's not someone who has military experience or any significant
public connection to the Navy or the Pentagon. He's someone
who founded a private investment company. He was a large
donor to Trump's reelection campaign, we should note, do you
think Phelan has the right qualifications to be Secretary of
the Navy.
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, Happy Thanksgiving to everybody. I'm also
in the House Agriculture Committee, So when you're eating your
Thanksgiving feast tomorrow, make sure you think it farmer. You
know what, I'm the longest serving enlisted member of the
United States military to ever be elected to Congress in
the history of our nation. I have multiple combat tours
as a United States Navy seal, and I'm completely comfortable
with our incoming second now. The reason being is that
we need somebody that's able to make sure that they
can lay out a strategic vision and then follow through that.
That's what the Navy's about, projecting strategic power through keeping
sea lanes open. And I have the utmost confidence that
our incoming secretary is going to be able to do
just that, because he understands that in order to get
things done, you have to be able to put something
above yourself. He's done that in the private sector, putting
in the company and the welfare of the stockholders above himself,
and he's going to be able to do that as
the incoming sect now by putting the United States of America,
our well being and the well being of our allies
above himself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so let me start by saying I don't agree
with Representative Ordon at all, other than to say I
do think that John Fhalan can do a good job. Now,
if it has to do with the construction of a
boat or something to do with Navy ordinances, he'll have
to learn that on the job. But John is very
good at organization. He ran a massive organization. But then again,
what the hell do I know about what's needed. If
it requires having Navy experience in order to be Secretary
of the Navy, then he's certainly not the right guy.
If it's more of managerial and budgeting and so on,
he is exactly that, And he's going to make the
right because, look, like I said, I know him. He's
a fair minded he is an intelligent guy. He is
going to do what's right for the Navy, regardless of
who tells him what that they want to do, and
so on. So again, we will see what ends up happening.
But I also want to show you a clip of
Steven Miller confirming that Mark Zuckerberg went to mar A
Lago in order to let's just say, bend the knee.
Play that clip. Steven real Quick.
Speaker 4: Politico is reporting that Mark Zuckerberg was at mari A
Lago today meeting with President Trump.
Speaker 5: Can you confirm that, yes, that's correct. And Mark Zuckerberg
has been very clear about his desire to be a
supporter of and a participant in this change that we're
seeing all around America, all around the world with this
reform movement. Donald Trump is leading. Mark Zuckerberg, like so
many business leaders, understand that President Trump is an agent
of change, an agent of prosperity, and so business leaders
CEOs everywhere they want to be an element, a supporter,
a booster of making our economy prosperous, delivering for American workers,
and making sure that America is the most powerful, wealthiest,
freest nation on the face of the earth. So we'll
see what comes of that. And Mark, obviously he has
his own interests, and he has his own company, and
he has his own agenda, but he's made clear that
he wants to support the national renewal of America under
President Trump's leadership.
Speaker 4: Good, it's good for the president. He turned the page
with some talk show hosts on another channel, and he
might be maybe getting over the fact that Zuckerbucks really
impacted the twenty twenty election in those very in the
battleground areas.
Speaker 1: So of course Zuckenberg is to go there, right, He
wants to continue in order to be in the good
grace for fear, for fear that his business is going
to get hammered by Donald Trump and this new administration,
as well as you know, losing market share to others
who are and have remained in Trump's camp. Now, look,
do you blame Zuckerberg for doing that? I don't. I don't,
I don't. He cares about the profit of his company
for his own personal and the one thing I'm going
to agree with Steven Miller and I can't believe I'm
saying it, Yeah, Mark Zuckerberg went there for his own agenda,
plain and simple. Now, I want to show you a clip,
for example, of another enormously wealthy guy, Scott Bissent, Who's
Trump's pick for Treasury secretary, saying that Trump is the
most sophisticated leader that he has ever met in his
entire life. Play that clip.
Speaker 6: Donald Trump is the most sophisticated leader on economics, that
I've met, and he's also the most open minded. So
the idea of bringing back tariffs. You know, Alexander Hamilton
was the original tariff man, and why did he like tariffs?
Two reasons, One to fund the treasury, two to protect
nason US industries.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, let me just say that's going to be
a problem for this country. It's going to be a
problem for Donald Trump. If I was sitting there at
the table, I would turn around and I would say, Okay, look,
you talked about tariffs during the campaign. Don't concentrate on
that one. Talk about other things that you've concentrated on
that could actually bring you a benefit. Tariffs are going
to hurt. As I have explained on other shows, the
Michael Cohen Show, in other segments, I've explained how tariffs
are going to whack the little guy right in the ass.
All right, it is one hundred percent not going. Twenty
seven of twenty nine of the top economists in this
country have turned around and said this is problematic. In
twenty seventeen, when Trump, as an example, put a tariff
on Canada for aluminum, in lumber and so on, what
did he end up doing Almost within a month within
a month thereafter he started handing out waivers. So first
you put a tariff, and then you give everybody a waiver.
So what the hell is the point? It diminishes what
he's intending to do. There are a thousand things that
he can do. Tariffs is not the way to go. Now,
let me just finish this by turning out and telling
you I want to show you an article because as
we as I've said before, and I've only picked out
two of the billionaires, there are a dozen, dozens of billionaires,
from Linda McMahon all the way to all the way too.
Let's say, know who else do they have over there?
There's just a dozen billionaires, Howard Lutnik for example. Right,
these are all billionaires, Young Charlie Kushner. Now who's going
to be the ambassador to France. There's billionaires all over
this administration. You know where you know? And who's right
now freaking out over the whole thing. The Democratic billionaires
because they pumped a shit ton of money into Kamala
Harris's campaign and they got absolutely nothing from it. You
see the billionaire class they like to see Richard. Oh,
of course, I forgot about Elon Musk and vivik Ramaswami, Right,
I mean talking about you know, the guys that are
front in center Democrats want to see some benefit these
Democratic billionaires. They all want to see some sort of
return on their investment in But the Democratic billionaires aren't
seeing that, and they're nervous right now. So I want
to show you an article as an example that the
New York Times put out. It's entitled right, What's a
Democratic billionaire to do? Now? All right? This is a
really interesting article. The party's donor class is still wrestling
with Donald Trump's victory, worried about retribution and sluggish liberal energy.
Some rich Democrats are even pondering leaving the country. Here's
the second part to it. Mister Hoffman, and let me
remind you he is the founder of LinkedIn declined to
comment through a spokeswoman, has helped to pay for some
of the most aggressive private litigation against Donald J. Trump,
and he's worried about retribution from a president who has
promised to go after his political opponents, including major Democratic donors.
Mister Hoffman's reaction is dramatic, and it's unclear how much
moving abroad would protect him or his assets. From mister
Trump's wrath. He is hardly alone in a liberal, big
money world still stunned by Vice President Kamala Harris's defeat. Now,
let me go on and say this, He's not the
only one. For example, there's a guy by the name
of Seth London who's an advisor to some of the
Democratic Party's biggest donors. He wrote in a private memo
that was addressed to there's a group there it's called
Discourage Democrats, arguing that the party should begin with a
complete rejection of race and group based identity politics. What
they've done is they turned around and they took a
look and saw that the things that we Democrats were
running on right as the Republicans are woke, woke ism
and so on, that this isn't working, that people care
about gas and groceries, and despite the fact that the
economy is doing well, didn't matter. It didn't matter. And
one of the other things that he said, Democrats have
increasingly focused on the priorities of core party activists over
the common voters we claim to represent. Yes, it's something
I tried to reach out to Jamie Harrison on and
when I would turn around say to them what are
you guys doing? What are you doing? Couldn't get in
touch with anybody. That's also the difference here there. And
this is why I turn around. I say, we all
just need to take the temperature down. What's going to happen?
I don't know. I really don't. Nobody does. All I
can say is the following some of the things that
Donald Trump has said that he intends to do, Like what,
for example, Reid Hoffman may be concerned about he is.
He has the right to feel that way. He most
certainly does and do. I think, as The New York
Times wrote, that by running off to another country can
stop him, not unless you runs to a country that
doesn't have extradition to the United States. There's only a
handful of those countries which I don't think read Hoffman
tends to live. So, you know what, relax, calm down.
Maybe he won't end up doing that. Maybe there's so
much going on right now in this country that needs fixing,
Maybe there's so much around the world that needs to
be fixed as well. Then he'll put all this shit
aside and say, you know what, I'm President of the
United States enough, regardless of what these sycophans, these hanger
ons are going to try to get him to do
Maybe he turns around and he says, I actually want
to be a president for all Americans. Now, there's a
difference between being hopeful and optimistic, but what else can
we be? And as always, thanks for listening. Hey everyone,
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