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Speaker 2: How lucky we are to be alive right now?
Speaker 1: To paraphrase Hamilton, though, I think that's verbatim, What a
Speaker 1: time think about what we're living through, right And it's
Speaker 1: exactly what we talked about when Trump announced the quote
Speaker 1: tariff play. Though it's much more than that, and it's
Speaker 1: unfolded just as we predicted it would, which is really
Speaker 1: not that hard to predict, right because you look at Trump,
Speaker 1: it's always been the art of the deal, and you
Speaker 1: need leverage to make the deal. And he sees smart,
Speaker 1: he's successful, yet you know that he is going to
Speaker 1: win one way or the other. So when he needed
Speaker 1: to pivot today, and I think he did, I think
Speaker 1: he pretty much admitted that he needed to pivot today,
Speaker 1: needed to have some tariff relief in order to politically
Speaker 1: keep enough people on the reservation, et cetera.
Speaker 2: He did that.
Speaker 1: And that's why from the very beginning I've said brilliant play.
Speaker 1: Use the leverage. We're going to come out better than
Speaker 1: where we started. It's just a matter of how much better.
Speaker 1: And we can trust Trump to adjust along the road
Speaker 1: as he needs to. And that's what we're watching unfold.
Speaker 1: Love your thoughts. We have great text as well, the
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Speaker 1: back to the phone lines in a second. Three oh
Speaker 1: three seven to one three A two five five the number.
Speaker 1: And again, you know, I think we called this one
Speaker 1: right from the very beginning in terms of what would
Speaker 1: likely happen in the market, and that's unfolded.
Speaker 2: Nobody could be precise on the timing, but the flow
Speaker 2: of this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but hey, I think there's going to be chop ahead.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: You've still got China out there, You've still got this
Speaker 1: trade war I want to call it that with China.
Speaker 1: It needs to be fought, and Trump's the guy to
Speaker 1: fight it. But that isn't necessarily going to end painlessly.
Speaker 1: So I'm not saying we're going to see every day
Speaker 1: is going to be an upday on Wall Street. The
Speaker 1: futures right now are up a tick across the board,
Speaker 1: but I don't read anything into that. I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: surprised if tomorrow's a down day, if tomorrow's an up day,
Speaker 1: if tomorrow's a mix.
Speaker 3: All.
Speaker 1: I'm saying that overall because I think that's what most
Speaker 1: people invest for, right, is not day trading.
Speaker 2: Overall. Trump's in control here and for.
Speaker 1: All the reasons we've discussed, this thing is going to
Speaker 1: land well. And then there are going to be other
Speaker 1: major events as a backdrop for this, including Aron. So
Speaker 1: we'll talk about all that and some important local stuff.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Jim in Denver. You're on the Dan
Speaker 1: Kaplis Show.
Speaker 2: Welcome Jim, Hi, Dan, how are you.
Speaker 1: I'm living the dream, and thank you for calling earlier. Normally,
Speaker 1: Jim Cole, we love Jim. He calls to disagree, but
Speaker 1: normally it's at like five point fifty seven. So we
Speaker 1: have thirty seconds left, so laid on me.
Speaker 2: Brother.
Speaker 3: You know two things that Donald said at the Republican
Speaker 3: dinner last night. I thought we're just utterly disgraceful. He
Speaker 3: said that by using our towerff threat, but we were
Speaker 3: going to be able to start ripping off these countries,
Speaker 3: and that those were his words.
Speaker 2: He's ripping off, We're going to start.
Speaker 3: Ripping them off.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, I thought that was that in full context?
Speaker 2: Is that in full context? Full? Unfair?
Speaker 3: CONTI they've been what he said was they've been ripping
Speaker 3: off us off. Now we're going to start ripping them off.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's just looking up because your enthusiasm is so admirable,
Speaker 1: but it's led you to be a not so reliable
Speaker 1: historian at times.
Speaker 2: Jim, So, I just want to check that, all right?
Speaker 2: And you got a problem with.
Speaker 3: That, oh Dan. I don't want us to rip anybody off, Okay,
Speaker 3: I want a fair deal. That's all ripping off. I mean,
Speaker 3: if it was wrong for them to rip us off,
Speaker 3: it's wrong for us to rip them off. What We're
Speaker 3: the richest country in the history of the world. What
Speaker 3: do you want to rip off countries poorer than us?
Speaker 1: My friend, my friend, it wouldn't be my choice of words.
Speaker 1: But did the president define ripping off? Because here's where
Speaker 1: I think your premise is flawed. And I'm trying to
Speaker 1: find the quote right now. What Trump has often said,
Speaker 1: right is, Okay, China's been ripping us off for years,
Speaker 1: and I don't blame them if they can get away
Speaker 1: with it. But I'm not going to let him get
Speaker 1: away with it is normally what he says, and he
Speaker 1: normally expands on his belief that nations have a right
Speaker 1: to act and their best interest. I mean not talking
Speaker 1: about wars but starting wars, but nations have a right
Speaker 1: tect and their best interest. And that's normally even his pitch.
Speaker 1: He doesn't fault the people out there, other nations who've
Speaker 1: been ripping us off, but says it's time to stop
Speaker 1: that and we need to start acting in America's interest.
Speaker 1: Where his comments in that context.
Speaker 3: He didn't confine it to China. He says the EU,
Speaker 3: the Europe has been ripping us off for years. He says,
Speaker 3: Canada's been ripping us off. He says Mexico has been
Speaker 3: ripping us off off. Yeah, you know, and so anyway,
Speaker 3: the term ripping is off. I don't want to see
Speaker 3: the I think you can agree you don't want to
Speaker 3: see the United States off.
Speaker 1: And I'm still trying to find the quote, my friend,
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying you're wrong, but I can't find
Speaker 1: it anywhere.
Speaker 2: It might very well be there.
Speaker 3: We'll see it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but listen, when we come back to like,
Speaker 1: Trump's a disruptor, right, so sometimes he uses language to
Speaker 1: get attention. If he uses typical economic jargon, then is
Speaker 1: Jim talking about it on some radio show.
Speaker 2: So listen.
Speaker 1: If the idea is cheating people, no, we don't cheat.
Speaker 1: That's not who we are as Americans. If the idea
Speaker 1: is we're not going to be cheated and we're going
Speaker 1: to make sure that we act in this nation's interest. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think that's what he's been all about.
Speaker 3: But he said on something even worse than to my mind.
Speaker 3: He said these countries. He said, I announced the tariffs,
Speaker 3: and now all these countries are looking to negotiate. They're
Speaker 3: all trying to kiss my ass and they say, hey, sir, please, sir,
Speaker 3: could you please give us these tariffs? And I mean,
Speaker 3: he was mocking them. And he's talking about Japan and
Speaker 3: South Korea and Vietnam, these countries that have already, you know,
Speaker 3: tried to negotiate some kind of settlement on this, and
Speaker 3: he's mocking them in a really vulgar way. He's humiliating them,
Speaker 3: and I think it's disgraceful.
Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you what's more disgraceful Trump using
Speaker 1: language like that or the other countries doing to us?
Speaker 2: What they've been doing.
Speaker 4: I have no idea I have.
Speaker 2: Oh you do, Jim, you just don't want to admit it.
Speaker 1: You know that the actual actions, rather than some rough words,
Speaker 1: are much more disgraceful.
Speaker 2: And we can all agree on this.
Speaker 1: Right If Donald Trump talked like every other politic ever,
Speaker 1: would have been president and the good things he's doing
Speaker 1: would not be happening. Now, it's not the way I
Speaker 1: choose to talk. But last I checked, I'm not president.
Speaker 1: Ryan may correct me on that sometime soon.
Speaker 2: But but no, I don't mind. I don't mind some crudity.
Speaker 1: I don't mind some rough language as long as the
Speaker 1: underlying actions are doing good and stopping evil in a
Speaker 1: perfect world. Would you love to have that without anybody
Speaker 1: ever saying a curse word?
Speaker 2: You bet?
Speaker 3: I just don't think humiliating our allies, you know, would crude,
Speaker 3: schoolyard bully language. Is that any president should do that?
Speaker 3: As what he's saying, we're going to take your lunch.
Speaker 1: Money, Well that's not what he's saying. What he's saying
Speaker 1: is he wants a fair deal for America. But what
Speaker 1: I think is so revealing, Jim, and this isn't meant personally,
Speaker 1: just actually is that you're unwilling to condemn the underlying
Speaker 1: conduct of the allies who've been taking advantage of us.
Speaker 2: I mean, what do you think a trade deficit is
Speaker 2: with France?
Speaker 3: I had no idea.
Speaker 2: It's big, it's it's very big in Japan.
Speaker 1: I love the Japanese people, But what's the trade deficit
Speaker 1: with Japan?
Speaker 2: So you know you finally got a guy. Oh, it's
Speaker 2: not a problem. Problem.
Speaker 3: Oh, okay, power kind of our wealth. We have a
Speaker 3: lot more money than to take myself from us.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you, my friend Jim, and I'm only
Speaker 1: interrupting because we're up against a heartbreak. Let me ask you,
Speaker 1: do you get to spend much time in the Midwest?
Speaker 1: Do you get to spend much time in those areas
Speaker 1: of the country that that are doing pretty poorly right now?
Speaker 1: Where you've got a lot of towns that have been
Speaker 1: hollowed out, You've got a lot of opioid addiction, you
Speaker 1: got an awful lot of problems because so many of
Speaker 1: our good and best paying jobs average manufacturing job paid
Speaker 1: about one hundred and two thousand with Betty's so many
Speaker 1: of our best jobs have now gone over to our allies.
Speaker 1: I think you need to spend some more time in
Speaker 1: those parts of the country because we have paid an
Speaker 1: enormous price for the wealth of some of our allies, and.
Speaker 3: We out manufacture every single one of our allies. China's
Speaker 3: the number one manufacturer in the world. The United States
Speaker 3: is number two.
Speaker 1: But you're not basing that, Jim. I'm sorry interrupt, but
Speaker 1: you're not basing it per capita. You got it, base
Speaker 1: it on per capita. Yeah, we have a whole lot
Speaker 1: of people. So when you got a whole lot of people, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe the top line number is we're doing more of that,
Speaker 1: but when you break it down to per person that
Speaker 1: there is no denying, Jim. There's no denying the six
Speaker 1: million manufacturing jobs we've lost. That manufacturing is about a
Speaker 1: third of what it used to be. How well most
Speaker 1: of those jobs, there's no denying all that, Jim. So
Speaker 1: all I'm saying is, let's have a heart. Let's have
Speaker 1: a heart for the American people first, That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean we mistreat the rest of the world, but
Speaker 1: I'd love to see the same kind of passion and
Speaker 1: concern that you have for our allies directed to our
Speaker 1: American brothers and sisters. Hey, Jim, you're welcome to hang,
Speaker 1: but I got to hit this brake. You're on the
Speaker 1: Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 5: And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast.
Speaker 6: I'll tell you why she can only stay the Supreme
Speaker 6: leader if people are employed, if we wipe out any
Speaker 6: business there, Because we are still thirty nine percent of
Speaker 6: all consumables on Earth and twenty five percent of the
Speaker 6: world's GDP. America is the number one economy on Earth
Speaker 6: with all the cars.
Speaker 2: We will not have that forever.
Speaker 6: It's time to squeeze Chinese heads into the wall.
Speaker 2: Now, Kevin O'Leary, Hey, linezer Jam.
Speaker 1: We'll give Jim a few seconds to complete he held
Speaker 1: through the break, and then we'll get onto our other callers.
Speaker 2: So, Jim, what's your wrap? Hello Dan?
Speaker 1: Hey Jim, do you have a quick wrap up on this,
Speaker 1: my friend? Because we've got gem lines and want to
Speaker 1: get to everybody.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I did you have a chance to listen to
Speaker 3: Trump's speech from the things he said last night?
Speaker 2: Jim?
Speaker 1: I did not during this break, but I have had
Speaker 1: texters say Jim is wrong.
Speaker 2: Trump said, Hey, now we're going to do the ripping. Yeah, Okay, Jim.
Speaker 1: Sorry, sorry, we don't have time to kind of litigate
Speaker 1: what he did or didn't say. But your your bottom
Speaker 1: line point is you don't like his you don't like
Speaker 1: his rough language, right, and you don't like the idea
Speaker 1: of Trump saying, Okay, now we're going to rip people off.
Speaker 1: But Jim, gratefully you called hope, you call again off
Speaker 1: and we always appreciate that. I want to try to
Speaker 1: get everybody in. Let's go to a Jill. You're on
Speaker 1: the Dan Kaplas.
Speaker 2: She'll welcome.
Speaker 7: Oh, hi, Dan, I'm to talk to you again.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, poor poor Jim. Seriously, I feel sorry for him, Uh,
Speaker 7: because you know our president, he he doesn't talk like that.
Speaker 7: He doesn't say that. He says what he says, and
Speaker 7: then other outlets tell you that he said this or that.
Speaker 7: But if you watch him, you know what he said,
Speaker 7: and he's saying, we need to be equal, we need
Speaker 7: to we need to go back. I wasn't in favor
Speaker 7: of this thing to begin with, back in the day
Speaker 7: of this thing with China, and UH ended up losing
Speaker 7: losing a marriage over it, actually over China, but over yeah,
Speaker 7: over like implementing trying to take over our lives, you know,
Speaker 7: back in the day. And my husband and I at
Speaker 7: that point in time, I didn't you know, politics wasn't
Speaker 7: in my life. I didn't know you had to be
Speaker 7: politically related to be married because I love the guy,
Speaker 7: you know. I thought he was wonderful. She's been a
Speaker 7: good dad, all those things. But and he was pro
Speaker 7: China and pro shipping our jobs and everything. And I
Speaker 7: told him, I said, this is not going to be
Speaker 7: bode well for America.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 7: That ended up being a major event in our lives.
Speaker 7: And yeah, so you had.
Speaker 1: A marriage break up over politics. It wasn't something else
Speaker 1: in politics.
Speaker 2: It was just like an aggravator. It was politics.
Speaker 7: It was politics, and it was well it started in
Speaker 7: eighty nine.
Speaker 1: Well, Jill may ask you this, and I'm starting to
Speaker 1: interrupt just because we've got these gam lines. But okay,
Speaker 1: but my wife and I that the way we resolved
Speaker 1: it would not this have worked for you and your
Speaker 1: husband was we just don't talk politics.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, that would be smart.
Speaker 2: So maybe there was something else going on.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but good for you, you know, I mean, I'm
Speaker 7: glad you were able to have that, But I'm saying
Speaker 7: that we were so I was so vital and this yeah,
Speaker 7: you know, I had a child. I was thinking, are
Speaker 7: you kidding? This is not going to bode well for
Speaker 7: my son, who is now forty one years old.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 7: But wigged me out and I realized what a different
Speaker 7: person he was. And yes it was you know, it
Speaker 7: was me doing the okay standing up?
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, Well I admire the strength of your convictions.
Speaker 1: I do, and just out of curiosity, because I know
Speaker 1: every listener is wondering, chill your child.
Speaker 2: Did your child turn out to be conservative? To be liberal?
Speaker 2: More like you? More like your ex husband?
Speaker 7: Oh, he was very conservative until they went to college.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm serious.
Speaker 7: He's an attorney now.
Speaker 2: Okay, and.
Speaker 7: He was a very very conservative. Yeah, and then he
Speaker 7: goes to college. Well he didn't know. Let's not do that.
Speaker 1: And Jill, I am, I'm so very sorry I let
Speaker 1: you down that path. Thank you for colling. I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people probably have to balance that issue
Speaker 1: at home with politics and relationships. So I would guess
Speaker 1: probably about eighty percent of the people marry somebody politically
Speaker 1: aligned just happened to be my soulmate had different political views,
Speaker 1: and yet we've been able to thrive.
Speaker 2: Thank God, let's go to Mike. You're on the Dan
Speaker 2: Caplis Show.
Speaker 4: Welcome Mike, hey dand to talk to you again.
Speaker 2: You too.
Speaker 4: You know I'm calling Tumps me good because he's got
Speaker 4: me listening to some of these people are really getting
Speaker 4: to me. I'm older, I'm not in my age.
Speaker 8: And when they say we're the richest nation, do people
Speaker 8: out look at this street? We are out the riches
Speaker 8: around everywhere nations because there's space as you can go
Speaker 8: and I've been there, they don't have to say atm
Speaker 8: they're not ATMs that stood out though, not say for
Speaker 8: money that's been made up seven of all? What about
Speaker 8: all of the US When we have to rebuild.
Speaker 4: The path, rebuild Germany, we never got where. I think
Speaker 4: they're still time to collect on some of that. So
Speaker 4: now we've got a president that's trying to bring it
Speaker 4: back to America. People don't want to give him a chance.
Speaker 4: He'd been a chance even in his life. They want
Speaker 4: to cut him down. Are they afraid to be able
Speaker 4: to say, maybe we were wrong?
Speaker 1: You know what they're afraid of, Mike. They're afraid, as
Speaker 1: I said, from day one, they're afraid the tariffs will work.
Speaker 1: They're afraid that Trump's power play will succeed.
Speaker 2: That's what they've been afraid of.
Speaker 1: That's why they've been generating this panic porn, hoping that
Speaker 1: it would force Trump to stop.
Speaker 2: That's what they're afraid of.
Speaker 1: Hey, Mike, where where can you go where there's gold
Speaker 1: coming out ATMs?
Speaker 2: That's got to be our next feel really? Wow?
Speaker 4: Yeah, some of the some of the areas, uh you know,
Speaker 4: some of Asia, different places in Asia.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's for good, you know, you.
Speaker 4: Go and there you put in because it's not so
Speaker 4: much money.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying we're we're not the parish, but we're
Speaker 4: not the richest. And look for all the countries we
Speaker 4: help out all the time. That's these people see that that,
Speaker 4: like you said, I think what it is they're saying
Speaker 4: it it is a chance all working already. So that's
Speaker 4: time to knocking dollar, the time of not sucked down.
Speaker 4: How's anybody going to do anything if you don't give
Speaker 4: them a chance and get rid of some of these judges,
Speaker 4: federal judges that don't only have the rights in their state.
Speaker 4: They have the right to say something, but how are
Speaker 4: they going and saying, oh, why are here in Colorado,
Speaker 4: but you've got to buy my state wife of fifty.
Speaker 2: No, hey, I might appreciate the call. Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 1: The music means we've got to hit our break, come
Speaker 1: back and talk to everybody else filling our lines.
Speaker 2: And I do want to get some time.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're in the middle of this major play
Speaker 1: by Trump, so that might have to wait a day
Speaker 1: or two. But the US Supreme Court stepping in and
Speaker 1: starting to decision by decision make it clear how it
Speaker 1: views the role between you know, different district court judges,
Speaker 1: pellet levels and the Supremes.
Speaker 2: Here on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 5: You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1: The second Trump announced Liberation Day and the left launched
Speaker 1: its panic porn because it's scared to death that Trump's
Speaker 1: going to succeed with this play, which has been labeled
Speaker 1: a tariff play, but it's broader than that. It's about
Speaker 1: economic justice for the United States of America across the globe,
Speaker 1: and tariffs are a tool to get the leverage you
Speaker 1: need to cut the deals you need to cut, which
Speaker 1: are broader than just tariffs. So that's what we're in
Speaker 1: the middle of. And the reason on day one, I said, hey,
Speaker 1: this is a smart play. Trust Trump. It's going to work.
Speaker 1: Is because Trump's can control and he can adjust as
Speaker 1: we go along. And as he said today, Hey, he
Speaker 1: needed to adjust today. So what he did today he
Speaker 1: left the ten percent tariffs in place most places across
Speaker 1: the globe, but he brought down some of the extra
Speaker 1: tariffs for a ninety day period.
Speaker 2: So people could come and cut deals.
Speaker 1: And he did that because he had some Republicans getting shaky.
Speaker 1: And that's what he said today when he said that
Speaker 1: some people were getting yippie. So that's why from the
Speaker 1: beginning I felt that this was going to be a
Speaker 1: very successful play, and that it was at least in
Speaker 1: my mind, you know, save to layer some more money
Speaker 1: into the market, because Trump would be in control of
Speaker 1: all of this.
Speaker 2: So, hey, do I expect every day to be like today? No,
Speaker 2: of course not.
Speaker 1: I expect there are a lot of ups and downs
Speaker 1: ahead as Trump takes on the big Kohuna, which is China,
Speaker 1: the Communist Party of China, the big cheater, and it's
Speaker 1: not going to be as easy to hammer out that deal,
Speaker 1: but it will get done. So yeah, a brilliant move
Speaker 1: by Trump, one way or the other. We're going to
Speaker 1: come out far ahead of where we were when we started.
Speaker 1: And the only issue is how ahead, because you know,
Speaker 1: you rarely get one hundred percent of what you're after.
Speaker 1: But it's going to be a lot better than it was,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. So let's get to some of these
Speaker 1: great texts. Three oh three seven one three A two
Speaker 1: five five, the number Oh, I love this one. Dan,
Speaker 1: please remind anyone offended by Trump of the topless transgender
Speaker 1: people dancing around outside the White House in response, we
Speaker 1: love our color. Jim, he always calls to disagree. He
Speaker 1: was offended by some gruff language from the president. And
Speaker 1: what a great point the text are make. Now, I
Speaker 1: had asked, Jim, is is he more offended by the
Speaker 1: bad conduct of the country's Trump was.
Speaker 2: Aiming the bad language yet? But I guess not for Jim.
Speaker 1: And listen, that's the reality, right is there going to
Speaker 1: be some people out there, as Trump said, you know,
Speaker 1: he could cure cancer, bring total peace to the world,
Speaker 1: all in the same day, and you're going to have
Speaker 1: forty seven percent of the people who.
Speaker 2: Are still going to hate him.
Speaker 1: And part of the magic of Trump, right, Ryan, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's and this is such an interesting just part of
Speaker 1: human nature is that he has never let the haters
Speaker 1: control him.
Speaker 2: He is never he has never let pleasing others.
Speaker 1: Dictate how he acted, and that's why he has become
Speaker 1: this successful, great disruptor.
Speaker 5: He doesn't let the haters get him down.
Speaker 9: He does it with a twinkle in his eye, and
Speaker 9: he's got a sense of humor about it.
Speaker 5: And then he makes fun of the haters. Maybe they
Speaker 5: like me a little bit now, you know, he's always
Speaker 5: open to having them come back in the fold, like
Speaker 5: he wants to be my friend Bill Mark and have
Speaker 5: dinner with me.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, Because my theory on Trump is that his
Speaker 1: default is affection.
Speaker 2: Yes, that he's a lover at heart.
Speaker 1: And now, listen to some of the greatest fighters I've
Speaker 1: ever known are lovers at heart. And I consider myself
Speaker 1: a kind of a lover at heart, and it's one
Speaker 1: reason that I'm so passionate and so aggressive when it
Speaker 1: comes to certain things. But yeah, I think that's his default,
Speaker 1: that's his setting. Now, we all know a lot of
Speaker 1: people who are not lovers at heart. They're kind of
Speaker 1: angry haters at heart, Biden, and then they kind of
Speaker 1: mask it with this passive, aggressive phony smile stuff Joe
Speaker 1: Biden and and well this is one example. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get to some more texts. We'll work in some
Speaker 1: more calls. It's been just a fiery day on the phones.
Speaker 1: Three h three someone three eight two five five have
Speaker 1: some more hot sound. I want to bring you as well.
Speaker 2: Dan.
Speaker 1: What Trump said is these countries have been ripping us off.
Speaker 1: Now it's our turn to do the ripping Dan. Trump
Speaker 1: reiterated being fair the whole time. And I don't doubt
Speaker 1: that for a second, because you know, Trump has lived
Speaker 1: in the real world, right and anybody who lives in
Speaker 1: the real world, as I assume most of our listeners do,
Speaker 1: they know that for something to work long term, any
Speaker 1: deal to work long term, that's in your best interest,
Speaker 1: or your client's best interest, your country's best interest, whatever.
Speaker 2: That deal has got to be roughly fair or it's
Speaker 2: not going to preserve long term, you know.
Speaker 1: So with any kind of ongoing relationship, you know, and
Speaker 1: Trump has always understood that. So I don't think Trump
Speaker 1: is looking at this point to disadvantage the rest of
Speaker 1: the world. I think Trump wants to use American might
Speaker 1: to rebalance the scales and get a fair deal for
Speaker 1: the American people, because we have been getting ripped off
Speaker 1: over and over and over again.
Speaker 2: All over the world. And part of it is Ryan.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to get all philosophical, but everybody
Speaker 1: knows it's true. Part of the reason for that is
Speaker 1: because the modern Democratic Party wants a smaller, weaker America.
Speaker 1: I mean Barack Obama, right, he said it. He said
Speaker 1: it at the United Nations. No world order that elevates
Speaker 1: one nation or group of people over another will succeed.
Speaker 1: And that has been the rallying cry of the Democratic
Speaker 1: Party since at least two thousand and nine, which is
Speaker 1: America cannot have any more economic influence, or might any
Speaker 1: more military influence might than any other nation on Earth.
Speaker 1: And we have got to reverse that or we don't
Speaker 1: survive as a nation. And Trump is the guy to
Speaker 1: reverse it. That's what he was elected to do. Dan,
Speaker 1: can you please give me a list of players, young
Speaker 1: and old that can hit a golf ball three hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy five yards?
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, where do you want to start it?
Speaker 5: Tiger Woods in his prime? How far did he ot it?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean I thought you were going to start
Speaker 1: it right here. Well, you of course, Dan, Well, no, listen,
Speaker 1: I mean come out. We play at altitude here right, correct,
Speaker 1: So that distorts it about ten percent. But I'm routinely
Speaker 1: driving the ball three point fifteen to three forty five.
Speaker 1: You know, you catch something downhill, maybe you're not into
Speaker 1: a win, maybe a little tailwind, you get it out
Speaker 1: to three point fifty and you know I'm over fifty
Speaker 1: right now. So yeah, I think there are an awful
Speaker 1: lot of people who can hit it long. I just
Speaker 1: think the short game's tougher. And by the way, we
Speaker 1: got off on this because President Trump used a golf
Speaker 1: term today in describing why he was, you know, pausing
Speaker 1: some of these higher terrorists today because some Republicans were
Speaker 1: getting quote yippie, which is a golf term for you
Speaker 1: got a three foot put and you hit it thirty
Speaker 1: feet because you know, your nerves fire up and it
Speaker 1: looks like you had a stroke the Hey, by the way,
Speaker 1: I don't want to digress, but did I tell you
Speaker 1: what my uncle's telling me that story about his friend
Speaker 1: who died on the golf course.
Speaker 2: What was this?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, my uncle, who Ryan knows, is.
Speaker 1: A Catholic priest and still does multiple masses a week
Speaker 1: and big crowds. He's awesome about my uncle Roger. Yeah,
Speaker 1: buddy of his priest, Buddy, he's you know, because these
Speaker 1: guys love to go down to Florida in the winter.
Speaker 1: I mean they're over ninety now, they deserve a little break.
Speaker 1: So buddy of his, he's out there, avid golfer like
Speaker 1: my uncle. They're not together. The buddy, he's feeling bad,
Speaker 1: eventually dies of this heart attack. But he lays down
Speaker 1: next to the ninth green and he sees laying there
Speaker 1: and he looks over and he says to the guy
Speaker 1: next to him, why is that angel.
Speaker 2: In the golf cart?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah? And then he dies. Wow.
Speaker 9: So now not quite like the Caddyshack scene with the
Speaker 9: Catholic priest out there.
Speaker 2: You know what?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm gonna do. I got all these
Speaker 1: trials coming up, but then I'm gonna take a break. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to write a book. Oh, I got
Speaker 1: to write a book. Have nothing to do with me,
Speaker 1: just about all the stuff I've seen on the golf course.
Speaker 5: Yes, what agree on me?
Speaker 1: Caddying for years and then working as a car parker
Speaker 1: at the same country club. You got it, Dan I
Speaker 1: mean all the stuff I've seen on the golf course
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, no, gotta do that, gotta do that, Okay,
Speaker 1: I digress Tara three is someone three eight two five
Speaker 1: five takes d an five seven seven three nine. But
Speaker 1: you got to understand this, this course that I caddied
Speaker 1: at and the members so generous they sent me to
Speaker 1: college like the movie Caddyshack on what's called the Evans Scholarship,
Speaker 1: which is one of the greatest things ever created. If
Speaker 1: your kids looking for a summer job, have them looking
Speaker 1: to cadding because that's how you can win the Evans
Speaker 1: Scholarship eventually, but yet just a tremendous experience.
Speaker 2: When we come back.
Speaker 1: No more golf talk, unfortunately, but I want to get
Speaker 1: you some some of this hot takes. Dound of the Day,
Speaker 1: give you a little preview on what polus it looks like.
Speaker 1: Is ready to threaten one of the top priorities, the
Speaker 1: veto pardon me threatening to Vito one of the top
Speaker 1: priorities on the left. You're on the Dankaples.
Speaker 5: Show and now back to the Dan Kapless Show podcast.
Speaker 10: Wall Street has grown wealthier than ever before, and it
Speaker 10: can continue to grow and do well. But for the
Speaker 10: next four years. The Trump agenda is focused on main street.
Speaker 10: It's main street's turn. It's main street's turn to hire workers,
Speaker 10: it's main street's turn to drive investment, and it's main
Speaker 10: street's turn to restore the American dream.
Speaker 2: Boy, I love hearing that.
Speaker 1: And it needs to go beyond the purely economic as
Speaker 1: well into, for example, school choice. Because President Trump talked
Speaker 1: about the tariff play on April too. Right, But you
Speaker 1: talk about liberation like, the true, lasting, profound liberation in
Speaker 1: America will come when we have the tipping point breakthrough
Speaker 1: to true school choice. Charters are awesome, different forms are awesome, awesome,
Speaker 1: but pure level the playing field unleash the massive potential
Speaker 1: of all these kids in America who have not had
Speaker 1: a fair chance to compete because they don't get a
Speaker 1: fair chance to compete in education. Man, you talk about
Speaker 1: the next big liberation in America, it's going to be
Speaker 1: true school choice. Just financially empower all of those working family,
Speaker 1: class families, middle income families, all of the economically disadvantaged
Speaker 1: family in America. All of a sudden, you give those
Speaker 1: parents this massive purchasing power that they can use in education,
Speaker 1: and you just watch the free market rise up to
Speaker 1: serve those people and their children.
Speaker 2: And once these.
Speaker 1: Kids, all of these kids you know who are locked
Speaker 1: right now into non competitive government run schools, you just
Speaker 1: watch them as their potential gets unleashed and see what
Speaker 1: it does for this country. That that is truly exciting,
Speaker 1: and that day will come and Trump is committed to
Speaker 1: that as well. Three out three someone three eight two
Speaker 1: five five text d A N five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 1: Want to get to some more of these great texts,
Speaker 1: but also some of the hot take sound of the day,
Speaker 1: and I really want to get your take on Okay,
Speaker 1: where does it go from here?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: I mean, you've still got this major economic battle going
Speaker 1: with the Communist Party of China, and you know, those
Speaker 1: tariffs have just been increased. That's not over, and there's
Speaker 1: still aren't deals with you know, Vietnam for example, where
Speaker 1: we have this one hundred and twenty nine billion trade
Speaker 1: deficit each year and a lot of China cheating going
Speaker 1: on through Vietnam.
Speaker 2: So still a lot of work to be done.
Speaker 1: But I like that President Trump has now given the
Speaker 1: administration these ninety days to work with to cut deals,
Speaker 1: and I think you're going to see a parade virtual
Speaker 1: as well as physical, of other nations coming to Washington
Speaker 1: to cut those deals. But China, Yeah, that's the one
Speaker 1: eventually that just has to be done and has to
Speaker 1: be done the right way.
Speaker 2: Dan, China holds a lot of our debt.
Speaker 1: What happens if they call our debt because of this
Speaker 1: trade war and we can't repay? A great question, But
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any chance of that happening right because,
Speaker 1: first of all, China needs to China needs to be
Speaker 1: able to cash in on that. They need a financially
Speaker 1: healthy America to do that. Second, there is is so
Speaker 1: much that America can do right now, you know, to
Speaker 1: undermine g and his very you know, leadership in China
Speaker 1: is very survival in China. You know, for example, how
Speaker 1: about cut sixteen. Kevin O'Leary's take on that, well.
Speaker 2: Maybe cut eighteen.
Speaker 1: Let's stay on cut eighteen, because he assumes that she,
Speaker 1: you know, because he is an evil, brutal dictator, is
Speaker 1: just guaranteed to stay in power, but not necessarily, and
Speaker 1: I don't think he can toy with the US the
Speaker 1: way you're suggesting.
Speaker 2: Four hundred percent.
Speaker 6: Tomorrow morning, he'll tell you why she can only stay
Speaker 6: the supreme leader if people are employed, if we wipe
Speaker 6: out any business there, Because we are still thirty nine
Speaker 6: percent of all consumables on Earth and twenty five percent
Speaker 6: of the world's GDP. America is the number one economy
Speaker 6: on Earth with all the cars, we will not have
Speaker 6: that forever. It's time to squeeze Chinese heads into the wall, now, Yeah.
Speaker 1: And you know that's Kevin O'Leary with his take on it.
Speaker 1: And I think the bottom line is nobody's denying, right.
Speaker 1: Have you heard anybody from the left try to deny
Speaker 1: that the US has been taken advantage of four years
Speaker 1: by China, by the Communist Party of China and many
Speaker 1: of these other nations, including allies. I don't think anybody's
Speaker 1: denying that. The question is just how you go about
Speaker 1: dealing with it. And Trump he's got this window, he's
Speaker 1: using the leverage, and we're going to kind of come
Speaker 1: out better where we started.
Speaker 2: And I think we already are there.
Speaker 1: It's going to take some pain along the way, but
Speaker 1: every great accomplishment does right, particularly when you're riding wrong.
Speaker 1: So then Ryan, this is against the backdrop of other
Speaker 1: major things that may very well be happening on the
Speaker 1: international stage. I mean, Trump is in a hurry for
Speaker 1: good reason, and he's going to deal with Iran. I
Speaker 1: don't think you're going to see American troops go to
Speaker 1: war in Iran. I certainly hope not. But I think
Speaker 1: Iran's either going to cut a deal where they agree
Speaker 1: not to get nuclear weapons, or Trump is going to
Speaker 1: fully back Israel and taking out Iran's nuclear weapons. Because
Speaker 1: this we've been talking about for years. This is as
Speaker 1: true as any statement you can ever conceive of. Israel
Speaker 1: is not going to sit back and allow Iran to
Speaker 1: get nuclear weapons. Israel is not going to sit back
Speaker 1: and allow Israel to be destroyed, because the two are
Speaker 1: the same. So I think something major is going to
Speaker 1: happen with Iran in the next six months.
Speaker 9: It just makes me wonder, too, Dan, why the Obama administration,
Speaker 9: John Kerry, Joe Biden, we're so hell bent on trying
Speaker 9: to open those floodgates, those doors for Iran and remove
Speaker 9: the shackles on them. It doesn't make any sense that
Speaker 9: it would be in the United States interest to do that,
Speaker 9: but they don't.
Speaker 1: Well, it doesn't make any sense to you, because you're
Speaker 1: a great American and you want a strong America. But
Speaker 1: if you're Barack Obama and Barack Obama acolytes, you want
Speaker 1: a weak America.
Speaker 2: And he said it.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's dead wrong, but he at least said
Speaker 1: it to the United Nations verbatim. No world order that
Speaker 1: elevates one nation or group people over another will succeed.
Speaker 1: So he made it very clear he wanted the United
Speaker 1: States of America to have no more military or economic
Speaker 1: influence than any other.
Speaker 2: Nation on Earth.
Speaker 1: And the quickest way to accomplish that is gives psychotic
Speaker 1: enemies nuclear weapons.
Speaker 2: Foggles the mind.
Speaker 1: Well, but that was the play, right, That was the play,
Speaker 1: was to neutralize America by giving our enemies nuclear weapons,
Speaker 1: but particularly unstable psychotic.
Speaker 2: Enemies like that regime. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So well, lots ahead tomorrow, Glad you were here today,
Speaker 1: and we will talk about Polis. Looks like he's ready
Speaker 1: to veto some top priorities from the left. Will dive
Speaker 1: into that tomorrow. Thank you, Ryan, Thank you Kelly. Please
Speaker 1: join us tomorrow on The Dan Kaplo Show.