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because the chaos it's not stopping. And you know, I
want to get a little personal for a second. Literally
since we started this show seven months ago, which is
parroting what I have been saying for I don't know,
almost six years now, but more specifically two years since
Trump became the nominee, the Republican nominee. And I really
truly hate to do this to you, but I have to.
And what was it that I want to tell you?
I told you so. I have said this on basically
every television station, to every single newspaper, and billions of
times I have spoken and have been repeated. I told
you so. I told you what was going to happen.
And I've been criticized, I had been made fun of, mocked,
I've received all sorts of nasty adjectives describing me. But
I've been right. I've been right all along. I mean,
I told you that Trump was going to fill his
administration with loyalists, I told you, and that they were
going to do exactly what he said every single day.
That's all they're going to do is follow his lead,
fill the administration with loyalists, and that our country would
be thrown into chaos. Well, if you're not thinking that
this country is right now in chaos, maybe this isn't
the right show for you. But if it is, again
hit subscribe and share with your friends. I mean, just
think about the past two weeks alone had been nothing
but chaos. You go to bed to chaos, you wake
up there's more chaos. Trump's threats, for example, the most
recent one tariffs. And let me be very clear about this.
Trump's belief in tariffs. They are real. Even though after
allegedly having you know, his press secretarian, all of the
folks on the inside turned in saying that he is
implementing tariffs on Canada twenty five percent, on Mexico twenty
five percent, and then on China ten percent. He just
got off the phone moments ago after speaking with President
Shinebaum of Mexico, and you know what he did. He
paused Mexico's tariffs for a month. Now here's what Trump
posted on truth Social He turns around and he says,
I just spoke with President Claudius Shinbaum of Mexico. It
was a very friendly conversation, wherein she agreed to immediately
supply ten thousand Mexican soldiers on the border separating Mexico
in the United States. These soldiers will be specifically designated
to stop the flow of fentinyl and illegal migrants into
our country. We further agreed to immediately pause the anticipated
tariffs for a one month period, during which we will
have negotiations headed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary
of Treasury Scott Descent, and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnik,
and high level representatives of Mexico. I look forward to
participating in those negotiations with President Shinebound as we attempt
to achieve a deal between our two countries. Well, let
me go on further to say that Trump is supposed
to speak with Prime Minister Trudeau later today, but as
of this moment, right now, the twenty five percent tariffs
against Canada that are supposed to start tonight are still
starting now. Prime Minister Trudeau said that Canada will retaliate
with twenty five percent tariffs on approximately twenty billion dollars
worth of US goods on Tuesday, and further eighty five
billion more within three weeks. Now, let me be very
clear about something. Tariffs go two ways, and you've heard
me say it before. Who's going to end up paying
Who's going to end up suffering? You and me and
all of the non megabillionaires. Let me show you what
Trudeau had to say. Play the clip.
Speaker 2: I think Canadians are a little perplexed as to why
our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us
instead of so many other challenging parts of the world.
I don't think there's a lot of Americans who wake
up in the morning saying, oh, damn Canada, Oh we
should really go after Canada.
Speaker 1: Well, I know I don't. Half my family lives in Toronto,
so you know I'm not looking to go after them,
Nor am I looking for it to hit me in
the pocketbook. Last night, Trump posted this rant on truth
social He turns around and he writes, the tariff lobby,
headed by the globalist and always wrong Wall Street Journal
is working hard to justify countries like Canada, Mexico, China,
and too many others to name. Continue the decades long
ripoff of America, both with regard to trade crime and
poisonous drugs that are allowed to so freely flow into America.
Those days are over, thank you Donald. The USA has
major deficits with Canada, Mexico, and China and almost all countries.
Oh thirty six trillion dollars. Yeah, in part because of
the COVID pandemic that was I think eight trillion of year.
And we're not going to be the stupid country any longer.
Make your product in the USA and there are no tariffs.
Why should the United States lose trillions of dollars in
subsidizing other countries, and why should these other countries pay
a small fraction of the costs of what USA citizens
pay for drugs and pharmaceuticals as an example. This will
be the golden age of America. Will there be some pain, yes, maybe,
and maybe not. Well, that certainly answers my question. But
we will make America great again, oh, thank God, thank God.
And it will all be worth the price that must
be paid. We are a country that is now being
run with common sense and the results will be spectacular.
Now I'm not even sure where to start or where
to end with that post, and while speaking to the
press at Joint based Andrews Trump's said that Americans, well,
they're gonna feel a little bit of pain. Play the clip.
Speaker 3: No, no, I'm not gonna send We may have short
term some a little pain and people understand that, but
long term, the United States has been ripped off by
virtually every country in the world. We have deficits with
almost every country, not every country, but almost, and we're
gonna change it.
Speaker 4: It's been unfair.
Speaker 3: That's why we owe thirty six trillion dollars. We have
deficits with everybody. We help everybody. We've been helping everybody
for years, and to be honest, I don't think they
appreciate it. So we're gonna change that. We're gonna change
it fast.
Speaker 4: We're gonna make America great again.
Speaker 3: We have to focus on our country. We have tremendous
potential if properly used that we have to focus on
our country. Tremendous deficits with China, tremendous deficits with the
European Union, tremendous deficits with Mexico and Canada.
Speaker 1: And I feel so much more patriotic now as I
watched Trump, who's, by the way, wearing a tie manufactured
in China. I also want to show you, for example,
something that if I heard one more time, I was
going to lose my own shit about the price of eggs.
Here's a screenshot from CNN about egg prices to day,
egg price is likely to hit record highs in twenty
twenty five. What what? What about all the people who
voted for Trump because of the price of eggs, gasoline,
and groceries. Right, And he also then goes on to
say that Canada has been abusive to the United States.
Doesn't tell you how, but they're abusing us.
Speaker 3: Play that clip, Well, Canada has been very abusive of
the United States for many years. They don't allow our banks.
And you know that Canada does not allow banks to
go in. If you think about it, that's pretty amazing.
Speaker 4: If we have a US.
Speaker 3: Bank, they don't allow them to go in. Canada has
been very tough on oil and energy. They don't allow
our farm products in. Essentially, they don't allow a lot
of things in, and we allow.
Speaker 4: Everything to come. And it's been a one way street.
Speaker 3: We subsidize Canada by the tune of about two hundred
billion dollars a year and for what what do we
get out of it?
Speaker 4: We don't get anything out of it.
Speaker 3: I love the people of Canada. I disagree with the
leadership of Canada and something's going to happen there.
Speaker 4: But if they wanted to play the game, I don't mind.
We can play the game all they want.
Speaker 3: Mexico, We've had very good talks with them, and this
is retaliatory. This is retaliatory to a certain extent.
Speaker 1: No, it is retaliatory, but it's retaliatory on what what
the sick of fans in your inner orbit are directing you.
He also goes on to say that they owe us
a lot of money. Play that clip.
Speaker 3: I'm speaking with Prime Minister Dreudeau tomorrow morning, and I've
also speaking with Mexico tomorrow morning, and I.
Speaker 4: Don't expect anything very dramatic. And we put tariffs on.
They owe us a lot of money, and I'm here
they're gonna.
Speaker 1: Pay, okay. He's also asked what the countries actually need
to do to stop the tariffs? Right, isn't that something
that we should already know before the present? You see,
the president doesn't own the country, despite what his inner
group thinks he's the president he works for the people
of America, right, he is the CEO of our company,
the United States of America. Don't you think we should
already know what he wants on behalf of us, the
American people, to stop this tariff despite the fact that
twenty seven of the twenty nine top economists in this
country have said it is going to hurt Americans, that
it is going to create an unnecessary trade war. Play
that clip, President, whatever its.
Speaker 4: Deck to go he can do for you to er carry.
Speaker 1: What aren't specific with w that.
Speaker 4: Have to balance out there? Drede Number one, that we've.
Speaker 3: Got to stop people from boring into our country, and
we've stopped it.
Speaker 4: They haven't stopped it. We've stopped it. They have to
stop people for boring in. And we have to.
Speaker 3: Stop Ventanola that includes China, Ventanohaskill.
Speaker 4: This year at least two one hundred thousand people.
Speaker 3: It's boring in from China through Mexico and Canada, and
they've got to stop it. And if they don't stop it,
the tariffs are gonna get worse.
Speaker 4: A lot of works not going to stop boring it.
Speaker 1: By the way, none of that makes any sense at all.
So if we've stopped boring of migrants coming in thanks
to Tom Homan into ice and so on, and we've stopped it,
so what's the issue? Then what's the point then, as
an example, to have ten thousand troops in Mexico stand
by the border.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: Fox News then put up a list. Fox News put
up a list of the goods that are going to
be affected by the tariffs, which, by the way, it's everything, show.
Speaker 5: It, it's alike. And thank god for Doge. They're looking
at waste, fraud and abuse. Just got access to Treasury
payment accounts to showcase all of the fraud going on
billions and billions of dollars. They're already saving billions of
dollars a day. We have to look at spending. We
have to look at tax cuts as well. But it's
very important. There are multiple factors that go into inflation.
We have to recognize that and try to fight our
way forward and grow the economy in a way that
wages grow with the challenges we have ahead and that
people can afford eggs and gas. Again, we can't do
that right now until we fix the system.
Speaker 6: Now, we were just looking at a scrolling list of
some of the products and companies that are going to
be affected. It seems like virtually every sector of the
American economy potentially could be targeted by these tariffs and
the tariffs that Mexico and Canada have now announced that
they will institute against US goods.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and as I was saying, look, that list was
shown on Nancy Mace was on air there with Fox.
But if you really want to laugh or cry, this
is what she said about inflation. Play the clip.
Speaker 6: This trade war that has erupted involving the US, Mexico, China,
and Canada. Will it drive up consumer prices?
Speaker 5: There was a potential risk, as Donald Trump mentioned, But
Canada and Mexico, let's face it. These are the facts.
They made their bed and now they can lie in it.
I was just participated in a raid on Friday with
ICE and HSI Homeland Security investigations, and they were there
to deport an individual, a young man, eighteen year old
from South America who a week ago had three point
five a bental enough to kill one hundred, maybe a
thousand people or more. These cartels Trinaloa, Trineagua, TDA and
the Cineloa cartel MS thirteen gangs. They're everywhere across my
home state of South Carolina. They're everywhere across every community
across the country. And we have to play hard wall
with these countries. Who know where the meth labs are,
they know where fentanyl's coming in, they know where illegals
are coming in, pouring into our country, killing us, even
in many many of our communities.
Speaker 1: They I mean, if they figured it all out, they
have all the answers. Well, if they have all the
answers in terms of where it's coming from, who's doing it?
You really don't think that there's an easier way than
creating a trade war amongst the world. Donald seems to
have an issue with everyone EU, the UK, Canada, China,
He is an issue with Mexico, with Panama, with obviously Finland, Greenland.
He seems to have an issue with basically every single
old country. I guess America is going to become the
isolationist country that Project twenty twenty five called for. We're
in dangerous times, really dangerous times. And let me add
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