Speaker 1: So the government has officially been shut down now for
Speaker 1: more than thirty four days as of today, thirty four days.
Speaker 1: But what's Trump up to this weekend? Well ask me, so,
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you hosting an insane Great Gatsby
Speaker 1: themed Halloween party at mar A Lago as well as
Speaker 1: hosting a car show. Let me turn around and show
Speaker 1: you some of the photos. Here's the first photo breaking
Speaker 1: Trump blew three point four million dollars of taxpayer dollars
Speaker 1: on his trip to mar A Lago for his taxi
Speaker 1: Great Gatsby Halloween party, while seven hundred thousand Americans miss
Speaker 1: paychecks in his shutdown Trump parties, while families is suffering.
Speaker 1: Disgraceful and that's from Morgan Freeman. Let me show you
Speaker 1: another photo. Oh yeah, living it up, lopping it up
Speaker 1: with the billionaires. And the next photo why stop there,
Speaker 1: but wait, there's more here he is again up people
Speaker 1: get dressed up. How so, very very nice of them.
Speaker 1: And finally, Trump's hosting a car show at his golf
Speaker 1: club today as millions of American struggle under his economy.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. Every one of those vehicles,
Speaker 1: every one of them, minimum half million dollars plus and
Speaker 1: welcome back to the Michael Cone Show. On our continued
Speaker 1: journey to half a million subscribers. We had an incredible weekend.
Speaker 1: We're getting there, so hit subscribe, watch, comment, and share,
Speaker 1: because this lunacy, this stupidity, it's got to come to
Speaker 1: an end now. Last night, literally this is the craziest part.
Speaker 1: Between six fifty two pm that's Eastern Standard time, of course,
Speaker 1: and ten twenty one pm Eastern Standard time, she talked
Speaker 1: about just about three and a half hours, maybe close
Speaker 1: to the four Trump posted fifty three truth social posts
Speaker 1: fifty three complementing different GOP politicians. He also goes on
Speaker 1: in the posted about getting rid of the filibuster. Let
Speaker 1: me show you what he wrote. Terminate the filibuster not
Speaker 1: just for the shutdown, but for everything else. We will
Speaker 1: get all of our common sense policies approved voter ID anyone,
Speaker 1: and make America great again. Remember the Democrats will do
Speaker 1: it immediately, as soon as they get the chance. Are
Speaker 1: doing it. Will not give them the chance. Republicans be
Speaker 1: tough and smart. The Dems are crazed lunatics. They will
Speaker 1: not open up our country, no matter how many people
Speaker 1: are irreparably harmed. Let me be very clear, all right again,
Speaker 1: the vast majority, about seventy percent now in terms of
Speaker 1: the recent poll, understand, not believe, understand that Republicans are
Speaker 1: at fault that this government shut down. Now on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: there's going to be an oral argument in front of
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court of the United States about Trump's tariffs.
Speaker 1: Let me show you what he posted in anticipation. He writes,
Speaker 1: next week's case on tariffs is one of the most
Speaker 1: important in the history of our country. If a president
Speaker 1: is not allowed to use tariffs, we will be at
Speaker 1: a major disadvantage against all other countries throughout the world,
Speaker 1: especially the majors. In a true sense, we would be defenseless.
Speaker 1: Tariffs have brought us great wealth and national security. In
Speaker 1: the nine months that I have had the honor to
Speaker 1: serve as president. The stock market has hit all time
Speaker 1: highs many times during my short time in office, with
Speaker 1: virtually no inflation, and national security that is second to none.
Speaker 1: Our recent successful negotiation with China and many others put
Speaker 1: us in a strong position only because we had tariffs
Speaker 1: with which to negotiate fair and sustainable deals. If a
Speaker 1: president was not able to quickly and nimbly use the
Speaker 1: power of tariffs, we would be defenseless, leading perhaps even
Speaker 1: to the runation of our nation. The only people fighting
Speaker 1: us our foreign countries who for years have taken advantage
Speaker 1: of us, those who hate our country, and the Democrats,
Speaker 1: because our numbers are unsurmountably good. I will not be
Speaker 1: going to court on Wednesday in that I do not
Speaker 1: want to distract from the importance of this decision. It
Speaker 1: will be, in my opinion, one of the most important
Speaker 1: and consequential decisions ever made by the United States Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: If we win, we will be the richest most secure
Speaker 1: country anywhere in the world by far. If we lose,
Speaker 1: our country could be reduced to almost third world status.
Speaker 1: Pray to God that doesn't happen. Well, let me also
Speaker 1: be very very clear again, nothing in that text or
Speaker 1: that post has any semblance of reality. Our country has
Speaker 1: been and will continue to be great so long as
Speaker 1: we don't allow them, meaning Republicans, to destroy it. Now,
Speaker 1: another big thing that Trump did this weekend was go
Speaker 1: on sixty minutes. Yeah, sixty minutes, despite, of course, as
Speaker 1: you know, them, having to pay him fifteen million dollars
Speaker 1: and one million dollars in legal fees. Because of George Stephanopoulos,
Speaker 1: or at least that's his line. So he goes on
Speaker 1: sixty minutes with Nora O'Donnell. Now, I want to be
Speaker 1: clear again. This is the first time on the show
Speaker 1: after he sued them for the interview that was done
Speaker 1: between Kamala Harris and CBS. Ron Philipkowski posted this. Let
Speaker 1: me show you in it, he writes, So CBS settled
Speaker 1: Trump's lawsuit where he furvously sued because they edited Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris's interview so it would fit into their airtime. Then
Speaker 1: CBS does a seventy three minute interview of Trump where
Speaker 1: they made big edits from the version that was broadcast
Speaker 1: they aired. Get a load of this twenty eight of
Speaker 1: the seventy three minutes. Well, I don't know, maybe now
Speaker 1: we should all sue CBS. Now let me also go
Speaker 1: on and say this. I want to show you parts
Speaker 1: from the interview where Norah asked Trump about the ongoing
Speaker 1: government shutdown and his healthcare plans. Play that clip.
Speaker 2: We are now approaching the longest shutdown in American history,
Speaker 2: Democrats world, under your presidency. We're talking about more than
Speaker 2: a million federal workers who are not getting a paycheck,
Speaker 2: including our air traffic controllers. You see there's traffic snarls
Speaker 2: out at the airports now. This weekend, food aid for
Speaker 2: more than forty two million Americans is set to expire.
Speaker 2: What are you doing as president to end the shutdown.
Speaker 3: What we're doing is we keep voting. I mean, the
Speaker 3: Republicans are voting almost unanimously to end it, and the
Speaker 3: Democrats keep voting against ending it. You know, they've never
Speaker 3: had this. This has happened like eighteen times before. The
Speaker 3: Democrats always voted for an extension, always saying, give us
Speaker 3: an extension, we'll work it out. They've lost their way,
Speaker 3: they become crazed lunatics, and all they have to do,
Speaker 3: Nora is say let's vote.
Speaker 2: But so you're saying your plan is to tell the
Speaker 2: Democrats to vote to end the shutdown, correct, for example,
Speaker 2: and that you will put forward a healthcare plan.
Speaker 3: Oh, we will work on fixing the bad healthcare that
Speaker 3: we have right now. We have terrible health care at
Speaker 3: too expensive for the people, not for the government, for
Speaker 3: the people.
Speaker 2: You've been talking about fixing the healthcare.
Speaker 3: Future because of the Democrats.
Speaker 2: But since twenty fifteen, you've said you think.
Speaker 3: Talking about it for a long time. We almost did it.
Speaker 3: We were one vote short. We would have had great healthcare.
Speaker 1: Okay, once again, when you hold him to account, these
Speaker 1: are the type of interests that you get. I mean,
Speaker 1: this goes back to twenty fifteen, that's ten years ago.
Speaker 1: And guess where that policy is. Oh yeah, right nowhere.
Speaker 1: They also spoke about inflation and grocery prices. Play that clip.
Speaker 2: When the stock market is doing well. That doesn't affect everybody.
Speaker 2: Not everybody's invested stocks, but there have been grocery props four.
Speaker 3: Oh one case people are four oh one k's. The
Speaker 3: four oh one k's are double what they were a
Speaker 3: year ago.
Speaker 2: But for people that don't have four to oh one k's,
Speaker 2: we're not invested in the stock market. But they've seen
Speaker 2: their grocery prices go up inflation.
Speaker 3: Oh you're wrong. They went up under Biden. Right now
Speaker 3: they're going down. Other than beef, which you were working on,
Speaker 3: which you get selve very quickly.
Speaker 1: Okay, again, it's a lie. I mean, for God's sakes,
Speaker 1: if you're going to make up a story, make up
Speaker 1: a story about one that's not so easily disprovable simply
Speaker 1: by just hitting Google or more importantly, forget about Google.
Speaker 1: Don't you at least know it yourself? Do you not
Speaker 1: see that prices have gone through the roof. I went
Speaker 1: to the grocery store the other day. Literally, over the
Speaker 1: course of the last four months, the price has gone
Speaker 1: to at least twenty percent.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Norah also brought up Maga's desire for a Trump third term.
Speaker 1: Play the clip.
Speaker 2: There's been a lot of talk about twenty twenty eight
Speaker 2: and who will be at the top of the Republican ticket.
Speaker 2: Can you set the record straight you're not going to
Speaker 2: try and run for a third term?
Speaker 3: Well, I don't even think about it. I will tell
Speaker 3: you a lot of people want me to run. But
Speaker 3: the difference between us and the Democrats is we really
Speaker 3: do have a strong branch. I don't want to use
Speaker 3: names because it's inappropriate, but it's too early.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So let me be clear about something too. The
Speaker 1: United States Constitution says that you can't now the fact
Speaker 1: that a lot of people are telling you. Sure, of course,
Speaker 1: your kids maybe maybe not Milania. Certainly you have jd Vance,
Speaker 1: Marco Rubio, Pam Bondi, Scott Bessant, of course, Howard Lutnick.
Speaker 1: They're all telling you sure, mister president, you should definitely run.
Speaker 1: You're the most loved president in the history of the world. Well,
Speaker 1: let me be also clear, not one of them is
Speaker 1: acknowledging the Constitution. Nora also asked Trump about Putin and
Speaker 1: the other wars that he has allegedly solved.
Speaker 2: Play that clip in August. I mean, you rolled out
Speaker 2: the red carpet for Vladimir Putin in Alaska, but there's
Speaker 2: been well, I roll.
Speaker 3: Out the red carpet for everybody, but.
Speaker 2: There's been no big fire.
Speaker 3: Yes, because because I inherited a country where he thinks
Speaker 3: he's winning. That was a war that would have never
Speaker 3: happened if I was president. So this war, but Norah,
Speaker 3: that was Joe Biden's war, not my war. I inherited
Speaker 3: that stupid wood. But I brought I mean, just a
Speaker 3: little list of look at this wars.
Speaker 2: President Trump wanted to make sure we saw the list
Speaker 2: of eight international conflicts he says he's been able to
Speaker 2: end since returning to office.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and as you've heard me say on this program,
Speaker 1: before the India Pakistan one, he had nothing to do
Speaker 1: with it. The fact that it resolved or partially resolved.
Speaker 1: While he's how about Israel Kamasius. We have the beginnings
Speaker 1: of a cease fire, but what about what happened just
Speaker 1: the other day where Israel went ahead and they attacked
Speaker 1: Gaza again because they're waiting for the return of the bodies.
Speaker 1: How is that the end of a war unconditionally, the
Speaker 1: same way that he claims that he completely destroyed all
Speaker 1: of the nuclear silos over there in my God, it
Speaker 1: doesn't stop. It's like one lie after another after another.
Speaker 1: And I'm talking about those silos that he claims that
Speaker 1: he destroyed in Iran. Just not true. They also, of
Speaker 1: course spoke about deportations, something I talk about in my
Speaker 1: sub stack of today. Play the clip.
Speaker 2: Have some of these raids gone too far?
Speaker 3: No? I think they haven't gone far enough because we've
Speaker 3: been held back by the judges, by the liberal judges
Speaker 3: that were put in by Biden and by Obama.
Speaker 2: You're okay with those tactics.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because you have to get the people out, you know,
Speaker 3: you have to look at the people. Many of them
Speaker 3: are murderers. Many of them are people that were thrown
Speaker 3: out of their countries because they were you know, criminals.
Speaker 2: Well, you promised in your campaign that you were going
Speaker 2: to deport the worst of the worst, violent criminals, rapist.
Speaker 2: But a lot of the people that your administration has
Speaker 2: arrested and deported aren't violent criminals. Landscapers, nannies, construction workers, landscapers, arms.
Speaker 2: Now look, look the family if.
Speaker 3: You farmers more than anybody.
Speaker 1: Okay, is it.
Speaker 2: Your intent to deport people who do not have a
Speaker 2: criminal record.
Speaker 3: We have to start off with a policy, and the
Speaker 3: policy has to be you came into the country illegally,
Speaker 3: you're going to go out.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, that's not a policy, that's a dicta that's
Speaker 1: an executive statement, has nothing to do. Show me the policy.
Speaker 1: You know why you can't do that because there is none.
Speaker 1: And finally Trump then rambled about I mean, could you
Speaker 1: imagine this president of the United States rambling about not
Speaker 1: being a Nazi? Could you imagine anybody should have to
Speaker 1: then turn around and defend I'm not a Nazi, right
Speaker 1: and blaming of course the fake news on it. Play
Speaker 1: the clip a.
Speaker 3: Lot of the rhetoric. Look, they call me a Nazi
Speaker 3: all the time. I'm not a Nazi. I'm the opposite.
Speaker 3: I'm somebody that's saving our country. But they call me nazi.
Speaker 3: They have talking points. You know, they have just talking points,
Speaker 3: and the press is largely responsible for it. The fake news.
Speaker 3: What they've done, I think one of the greatest terms
Speaker 3: I've ever come up with is fake news. What they've
Speaker 3: done to our country is very bad. They have to
Speaker 3: change around.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: Nobody believes the fake news. Nobody believes them. I mean
Speaker 3: they've gone You talk about popularity, you talk about approval.
Speaker 3: Their approval numbers have gone from like in the nineties
Speaker 3: to in the teens.
Speaker 1: Now yeah, well, okay, then maybe they're lower than your favorability,
Speaker 1: which is right now sitting at somewhere about thirty two percent.
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