America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - Grading the State of the Union | America First Ep. 97

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00:00:04.000 Good evening, everybody.

00:00:06.000 My name is Nicholas J. Fuentes.

00:00:08.000 We have a great show for you this evening.

00:00:10.000 We're talking about responding to the State of the Union Address, which just concluded just a moment ago.

00:00:18.000 Donald Trump's first State of the Union Address as president, January 30th, 2018.

00:00:24.000 An historic moment, a great speech, and we're going to just jump right into it.

00:00:29.000 Obviously, we're not here at our regular time of 7 Central Standard, but that's all right.

00:00:34.000 We just got through with this very powerful speech, and Right out of the gate, I have to say, this was a good speech.

00:00:40.000 The overall judgment, the overall conclusion, before we get too into the fine details, is that this one was a winner.

00:00:48.000 And the reason that we know it's a winner and how we determine this is we have to understand what the speech sought to do.

00:00:56.000 And in the context of the DACA negotiations, in the context of the 2018 midterm elections, which are coming up, in the context of everything that the president wants to get done in the next six to nine months before those elections, This was effective.

00:01:12.000 Consider what the president has tried to do the entire month of January and a little bit in the end of December, tail end of 2017.

00:01:21.000 The object here was to present a unified, unifying bipartisan appearance, to present as bipartisan.

00:01:30.000 The attempt so far in the month of January with the DACA negotiations has been a play to frame the Democrats as obstructionist.

00:01:40.000 As reflexively anti Trump, as anti or un American?

00:01:45.000 And does this speech do that?

00:01:47.000 Will this speech do that?

00:01:49.000 And I think the answer is unequivocally yes.

00:01:51.000 My first takeaway from the speech, some first thoughts on it, some adjectives to describe the speech overall were positive, optimistic, unifying, not ideological, bipartisan.

00:02:04.000 Think of everything that was present in this speech.

00:02:07.000 It started off very good, touting the accomplishments, how the economy is doing very well.

00:02:13.000 How ISIS is defeated, how unemployment is low, not just for whites, but for blacks and Hispanics and others.

00:02:19.000 How he wants America and the Congress in particular to defend the interests of all Americans of every color, race, creed, how we all share the same destiny, and so on and so forth.

00:02:29.000 So you look at the whole of the speech, and it was a very forward looking, very positive, very optimistic message.

00:02:35.000 And I don't think many people can doubt that.

00:02:37.000 We remember the response to his inaugural address, and the words that were used to describe it by the progressives and the liberals, of course, was that it was dark.

00:02:47.000 Phrases like American carnage were dark and scary and spooky.

00:02:52.000 And this was a dramatic departure from that.

00:02:55.000 Whereas I think the first year was framing as we've got lots of problems, there's lots of work to do.

00:03:01.000 I think this State of the Union speech, this was the first one.

00:03:05.000 Last year was the joint session, technically speaking.

00:03:08.000 But this State of the Union was a message of it is working.

00:03:12.000 We are making America great again.

00:03:14.000 And there's much work to be done.

00:03:16.000 But Americans can do it and they have done it and we're doing that.

00:03:20.000 On top of that, it was a unifying message.

00:03:21.000 It was a bipartisan message.

00:03:23.000 We heard things throughout the speech that were not particularly Republican, that were not your traditional Christian conservative type talking points.

00:03:32.000 When he said that he wants people to be allowed to try new medications, he wants to lower the cost of pharmaceutical drugs.

00:03:40.000 That's something straight out of Barack Obama's State of the Unions.

00:03:42.000 And that's not even, I don't think, a bad thing.

00:03:44.000 I think that's something that Republicans and conservatives can rally behind, but that was typically.

00:03:51.000 Held as a monopoly talking point, or the Democrats have a monopoly on that talking point by the Democrats.

00:03:57.000 So that was a major thing.

00:03:58.000 Talk of paid family leave.

00:04:00.000 That's huge.

00:04:01.000 Bernie Sanders ran on this.

00:04:03.000 This is what far left Democrats, even Hillary Clinton ran on in 2016, and something that the Republicans have paid for electorally for a long time.

00:04:12.000 Something that is, in the opinion of the neoliberals, a small cost, but to the pronatalists, a very big boon to families and people having children.

00:04:21.000 And he took that, he owned that, and he said, We want paid family leave, which is a massive thing.

00:04:25.000 That's something that the far left would go for.

00:04:29.000 Prison reform, he talked about.

00:04:30.000 I wasn't expecting that.

00:04:31.000 And he talked about that.

00:04:33.000 I think there are rumors.

00:04:34.000 That was going to begin last month or in the past 30 days, but he talked about that.

00:04:39.000 That's another left wing kind of a thing.

00:04:41.000 And then, of course, at long last, the most important bipartisan outreach tonight was the four pillars for the DACA deal.

00:04:48.000 And people might say, I know people, this is the most contentious thing, probably.

00:04:52.000 I'm sure this is the most contentious thing.

00:04:54.000 This is the thing that the most people would have had a problem with.

00:04:57.000 I know a lot of people have said it was a great speech, except for that.

00:05:00.000 It was a great speech, except for the 1.8.

00:05:04.000 And right when he said that, I knew, I knew, you know, my mentions were toast.

00:05:08.000 I go into Twitter and I see all kinds of people in all caps.

00:05:11.000 Nick, is this, are you still being vindicated?

00:05:13.000 Nick, is this still America first?

00:05:14.000 And so on and so forth.

00:05:16.000 And people who didn't even stop for a second and think about what was said, how it was said, what the reaction was, what the reaction will be.

00:05:24.000 This was a proposal, this was a framework that was laid out last week, which has already been rejected.

00:05:30.000 Has already been rejected.

00:05:31.000 And think of this think of this.

00:05:33.000 The president laid out the four pillars, and how did he lay them out?

00:05:36.000 How did he lay them out?

00:05:37.000 How did he frame it?

00:05:39.000 He said, Congress needs to get the job done.

00:05:43.000 That's what he said.

00:05:44.000 Congress needs to get the job done to protect American jobs, to protect the interests of the American people, to protect the interests of American lives, to make sure Americans are safe.

00:05:54.000 He said that this is a problem that hasn't been solved for years and years, and we need to finally do it.

00:05:59.000 He said, and I have been willing to meet the Democrats halfway.

00:06:02.000 He said, I have doubled the amount of people that even the last administration would have given amnesty.

00:06:08.000 He said he would give a pathway to citizenship.

00:06:11.000 For 1.8 million people.

00:06:13.000 That was one of the pillars.

00:06:14.000 And so imagine you're the American people sitting at home, and this is the biggest opportunity in prime time with pomp and circumstance for the President of the United States to reach across the aisle, and you're the American people sitting at home and thinking, yeah, okay, I'm with this guy.

00:06:32.000 The liberal media, CNN, had said for the longest time that he was unwilling to negotiate, that he was pushing a hard line thing, but I don't know.

00:06:38.000 I'm watching this speech, and he wants the wall, and he wants.

00:06:42.000 An end to chain migration and diversity visa, which he also offered some very powerful rhetoric against those things, against the maintenance, the continuance of those programs.

00:06:52.000 But he's also offering amnesty for 1.8 million people.

00:06:55.000 He's offering them a great deal.

00:06:57.000 And here's the best part conservatives will think that as well.

00:07:01.000 They'll say, well, he's offering us amnesty for 1.8 million people.

00:07:01.000 Liberals will think this.

00:07:07.000 That's pretty good.

00:07:08.000 And Republicans will say, he's offering amnesty for 1.8 million people.

00:07:12.000 He's giving them a liberal deal.

00:07:14.000 Liberals and conservatives will say he's offering them a real compromise.

00:07:19.000 He's offering them a real deal.

00:07:21.000 And Donald Trump said it's split right down the line.

00:07:23.000 We want a deal that's right down the middle.

00:07:25.000 And this is masterful framing.

00:07:27.000 This is masterful framing and a perfect opportunity for it.

00:07:31.000 What better opportunity than the State of the Union?

00:07:34.000 He gets up in front of both parties in Congress, in front of millions of American people.

00:07:39.000 He got hundreds of thousands of people watching online, millions of people watching on television.

00:07:44.000 And he gets up in front of both parties, and he gets up there and he's in a suit.

00:07:49.000 He's disciplined.

00:07:51.000 He's got restraint.

00:07:52.000 It's not the usual off the cuff kind of stuff.

00:07:55.000 It's from the teleprompter.

00:07:56.000 It's a very positive, optimistic speech.

00:07:59.000 Not a lot of divisive stuff, not a lot of even ideological stuff.

00:08:03.000 And he says, You know what?

00:08:04.000 I'm going to make a deal.

00:08:05.000 I'm going to make this four pillar deal.

00:08:07.000 And Democrats, I'll do double what Obama did.

00:08:10.000 I'll meet you halfway.

00:08:12.000 But we got to secure the border.

00:08:14.000 And look, we have to have a merit based system.

00:08:17.000 And you see that the Democrats are sitting there, arms folded.

00:08:20.000 They're not standing up.

00:08:21.000 They're not clapping.

00:08:22.000 They're not happy.

00:08:23.000 And they won't do the deal.

00:08:24.000 They've already rejected the deal.

00:08:26.000 We knew this since last week.

00:08:28.000 Chuck Schumer said, We'll never fund the wall.

00:08:30.000 We'll never do this deal.

00:08:31.000 They will never do.

00:08:32.000 And I said this on Twitter.

00:08:34.000 They wouldn't do any of these items by themselves.

00:08:37.000 They wouldn't do DACA for the wall.

00:08:39.000 They wouldn't do DACA for diversity visa.

00:08:41.000 They wouldn't do DACA for chain migration, let alone DACA for all of those things together.

00:08:45.000 And you saw that tonight.

00:08:46.000 They already rejected it last week.

00:08:49.000 They were silent through the four pillars at the State of the Union address tonight.

00:08:53.000 And the American people see this a deal that, you know, for people who have been watching has already been rejected.

00:08:58.000 They say, wow, the Democrats, they're the ones holding this up.

00:09:01.000 They're the obstructionists.

00:09:03.000 They're reflexively anti Trump.

00:09:05.000 He's giving them $1.8 million and they don't want to budge.

00:09:08.000 They won't give it to him.

00:09:09.000 And so when these negotiations break down, remember, government shuts down on February 8th.

00:09:14.000 It is January 30th.

00:09:16.000 They have nine days.

00:09:18.000 They have nine days to come up with a long term fix for our immigration system.

00:09:25.000 That is something that hasn't been done in 50 years.

00:09:29.000 We haven't had major immigration legislation, major game changing immigration legislation.

00:09:34.000 We're going to get it done in nine days.

00:09:36.000 When Democrats have just shot down a real bipartisan compromise, a real bipartisan framework?

00:09:41.000 I don't think so.

00:09:42.000 Government shuts down February 8th.

00:09:44.000 Democrats are blamed.

00:09:46.000 Democrats take the heat.

00:09:47.000 They get killed.

00:09:48.000 They now own President Trump's framing of them as obstructionists, as they just want to stop and impede progress.

00:09:56.000 And March 5th, DACA expires.

00:09:58.000 DACA is as good as dead.

00:10:00.000 So we'll see how that develops.

00:10:01.000 But that was probably the biggest contention.

00:10:03.000 Let me fix my brightness here.

00:10:05.000 It looks like we're a little bit dark.

00:10:08.000 Talk about.

00:10:09.000 American Carnage.

00:10:10.000 We're a little bit dark on the stream here.

00:10:12.000 Let me adjust that a little bit.

00:10:14.000 Okay.

00:10:15.000 And so that was probably the biggest thing.

00:10:17.000 But let's go through and let's look at generally what was said here.

00:10:20.000 So it was basically, I think, a lot of the stuff that he started out with.

00:10:24.000 If you look at the structure of the speech, and I was taking notes as the speech progressed, he starts out with natural disasters.

00:10:32.000 And this is really key because what are you going to boo natural disasters?

00:10:36.000 You're going to boo first responders, victims of wildfires, hurricanes, earthquakes.

00:10:40.000 So he starts out the speech, I think, very poignantly with a message of unity.

00:10:44.000 Starting out by saying, we've been through a lot, folks.

00:10:47.000 We've all been through it together.

00:10:49.000 We have this shared struggle.

00:10:51.000 We have this shared fight that we're all going through, shared tragedy.

00:10:57.000 And let's all come together.

00:10:58.000 We've been through hurricanes.

00:10:59.000 We've been through wildfires, and we've had a tough year.

00:11:02.000 We've all been through this together.

00:11:03.000 And that's the kind of thing which really forges unity.

00:11:05.000 If you look at even interpersonal relations, let alone nations, the thing that forges closer relationships is that shared struggle, is that shared struggle.

00:11:16.000 Opposition.

00:11:16.000 He also then went on to Steve Scalise.

00:11:19.000 And this was a really great moment because he says, you know what, Steve Scalise?

00:11:22.000 And this was an endearing moment.

00:11:24.000 This was a really heartfelt moment that everybody could say, this guy's a real human being.

00:11:28.000 Because he says, you know what, Steve Scalise, this tough, this tough guy.

00:11:32.000 And you could see Steve Scalise, he gets up and there's a real smile on his face.

00:11:37.000 And the people around him are like, yeah, come on, you're our guy.

00:11:40.000 And this so changes the paradigm that Republicans have been labeled as.

00:11:45.000 For 20 years, which is as mean and evil, and they're the evil white men, they're the corporate interests.

00:11:52.000 And so when President Trump opens right out of the gate with, you know, look, we've all been through a lot.

00:11:56.000 Let's have this message of unity.

00:11:58.000 And look at our guy, Steve Scalise.

00:12:00.000 He's a real fighter, and they're all buddy, buddy.

00:12:03.000 They're giving him a noogie, and he's like, oh, you know, thank you, President Trump.

00:12:07.000 Very powerful moment there.

00:12:08.000 He then goes on to the economy.

00:12:10.000 He lists a number of things employment numbers, stock market numbers, the tax cuts, the kinds of bonuses that have been given out.

00:12:17.000 Really solid stuff there because, and a lot of people on the alt right and the dissident right don't like to hear this because, of Of course, we tend to focus on the social and the demographic type issues because these are the things which have been ignored for 50 years at the expense of posterity, at the expense of young people.

00:12:34.000 So it's understandable, but I think people don't pay the due attention to the economy for the majority of voters.

00:12:40.000 And so he starts out with the economy, which is the most resonant and universal thing.

00:12:45.000 I don't care if you're black, white, red, brown, yellow, if you're old or young, you're influenced, you're impacted by the economy every day.

00:12:53.000 This is your job, this is your expenses, this is your taxes.

00:12:57.000 This is when you go to pump gas.

00:12:58.000 This is when you go and you pay for food, for groceries.

00:13:01.000 You know, this is everybody's life every day.

00:13:04.000 And he comes out strong with the numbers, which aren't reported in the mainstream media, and says, look, unemployment is low.

00:13:10.000 Stock market is doing well.

00:13:11.000 We're getting these bonuses.

00:13:13.000 And that's a really solid thing.

00:13:14.000 That's a very strong track record.

00:13:16.000 Obama couldn't say the same thing.

00:13:18.000 Obama had a terrible recovery.

00:13:20.000 People weren't feeling it.

00:13:21.000 And he might have played it up, but people are not feeling it.

00:13:24.000 People are genuinely feeling it.

00:13:25.000 There are real brick and mortar examples, real solid concrete examples like the.

00:13:31.000 Toyota plant in Alabama, the new Apple plant that's coming here, the plants that are being revamped in places like Wisconsin.

00:13:38.000 So that's very solid.

00:13:40.000 He talked about Obamacare getting rid of the individual mandate, something that was very unpopular in great measure.

00:13:47.000 Obamacare is what got the Republicans elected to the House in 2010, to the Senate in 2014, and ultimately, I think, a great deal to the election in 2016 with President Trump.

00:13:58.000 And people might doubt that.

00:14:00.000 I know in Nationalist Review and our year end, our year in review, Podcast, me and James talked about how health care wasn't really important.

00:14:07.000 But if you look at the polling, health care is actually the most important issue in the minds of voters.

00:14:14.000 You look at the numbers in terms of voters were polled on what issue they care about the most.

00:14:19.000 And this was shocking even to me.

00:14:21.000 I didn't think this until I saw the numbers.

00:14:23.000 But health care was head and shoulders above things like immigration, above things like North Korea.

00:14:30.000 Health care was the highest concern.

00:14:32.000 I believe it was 86%.

00:14:34.000 Said that was a major concern.

00:14:36.000 So that he touted the Obamacare achievement, the individual mandate, which was gutted as a part of the tax cut.

00:14:42.000 That was a very solid thing.

00:14:44.000 Talked about the corporate tax cut, which was another big thing.

00:14:47.000 The veterans, another unifying thing.

00:14:50.000 And you see in the structure of the speech, when you go from the natural disasters to the Steve Scalise economy, Obamacare, corporate tax cuts, veterans, we are building a case here.

00:15:00.000 You have to understand the speech in its chronology.

00:15:04.000 It's very important, the order of things.

00:15:06.000 It's very important.

00:15:07.000 The words that are used, the issues that are tackled.

00:15:10.000 If you're somebody who's maybe skeptical watching this, you're being led.

00:15:14.000 You're being led very slowly, very deliberately, very persuasively, along things that everybody agrees with.

00:15:20.000 Natural disasters, wow, we have a strong president who's unifying the country.

00:15:24.000 Steve Scalise, you know, I don't like the Republicans, but he's a real trooper.

00:15:28.000 Economy, I have to say, I'm going to get more money in my taxes.

00:15:32.000 Obamacare, my premiums are going up.

00:15:32.000 That's good.

00:15:34.000 Veterans, who doesn't love the veterans?

00:15:37.000 So he's building this case here for people that might be skeptical, for people that.

00:15:41.000 Maybe watching this, I'm sure even in the liberal press, who are watching this and want so badly to be opposed to the president, and he's not giving them a lot of room.

00:15:49.000 He's not giving them a lot of things they could object to, and that's powerful rhetorically.

00:15:54.000 He gets into the veterans, which is very powerful, but typical Republican stuff.

00:15:58.000 Then the opioid crisis.

00:16:00.000 This is big.

00:16:02.000 This is big.

00:16:02.000 And there was a statistic that was quoted by Stefan Molyneux during the State of the Union address, which said, and I didn't quite believe this when I read it, but more people have died as a result of opioid addiction last year alone than in the entire duration of the Vietnam War.

00:16:20.000 20 years.

00:16:22.000 The Vietnam War lasted.

00:16:23.000 That was our last major military engagement, last major ground conflict, even in much greater scope than Iraq or Afghanistan, at least in terms of actual boots on the ground.

00:16:35.000 In one year, opioid addiction has cost more lives than that whole conflict.

00:16:39.000 So, to give you a sense of the gravity of that and who that's appealing to, you also look at this in terms of skeptics, but also in terms of the midterm voters, in terms of these contested states electorally, both in 2018 and in 2020.

00:16:56.000 You know, places that are hit by the opioid epidemic, places that are hit by Obamacare, places that have been hit economically and by trade.

00:17:03.000 Which states are these?

00:17:04.000 Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa, North Carolina.

00:17:10.000 These are the states that Donald Trump is appealing to with these messages.

00:17:14.000 And that's a powerful thing.

00:17:15.000 Again, you have to understand the purpose of the State of the Union.

00:17:19.000 This is not, you know, I don't think Donald Trump sees this as the big speech like maybe Barack Obama did.

00:17:26.000 Barack Obama and George W. Bush see this as a pageant, as a necessity.

00:17:31.000 This is part of the job.

00:17:32.000 President Trump is using this.

00:17:34.000 He's using this not only to appeal to the voters for electoral action coming up imminently, but also for the midterms and for 2020, appealing to these particular states.

00:17:45.000 When he talks about the forgotten men and women, this gives a lot of credence to that kind of rhetoric.

00:17:50.000 The forgotten men and women, we know who these are.

00:17:52.000 They know who they are in Ohio, in Pennsylvania, in Wisconsin, in Michigan.

00:17:57.000 And so when Trump takes on the opioid addiction, which was completely ignored for eight years by Barack Obama, that's big.

00:18:04.000 That's acknowledgement that resonates with people in the swing states, which are crucial.

00:18:09.000 He goes on to another masterstroke here the vocational schools, vocational schools, and paid family leave.

00:18:18.000 This is stuff that then appeals to the youth.

00:18:20.000 And I love the smugness.

00:18:21.000 Richard Spencer's tweeting the talk about the economy falls flat for our young people that are paying student loans and so on.

00:18:29.000 And then, you know, before.

00:18:30.000 People could even read that tweet.

00:18:32.000 He's talking about vocational schools and technical training for jobs.

00:18:36.000 And he delivered that, I think, in a very powerful way.

00:18:38.000 That was one of those exclamatory lines there, which is another thing that wasn't talked about so much under Barack Obama.

00:18:45.000 And that, in my estimation, is the kind of thing that will heal the economy for young people.

00:18:51.000 That combined with education, but also this in a big way deconstructing the college system where everybody's expected to become a white collar professional.

00:18:59.000 The jobs just aren't there.

00:19:01.000 And the money just isn't there to support that kind of a system.

00:19:03.000 So that's very good.

00:19:04.000 The paid family leave, I already said, is a big overture to women, to families, to moderate type people who are saying, you know, look, the economy is bad.

00:19:15.000 And even this comes up on this show a lot when I say that women should be at home raising the kids and that's good for the family.

00:19:22.000 A lot of people say to me, well, Nick, in this economy, you can't survive with just one income and women need to be working.

00:19:30.000 Well, this appeals, of course, to those people.

00:19:32.000 This appeals to.

00:19:33.000 The families, the women that have been hit very hard, and so that's good.

00:19:38.000 The prison reform, again, I'm not wild about that.

00:19:41.000 I don't think anybody on the right is so wild about that.

00:19:43.000 We don't see that as a priority, of course, when we have much more pressing concerns with immigration and economy and even foreign affairs.

00:19:52.000 That prison reform, that's really a black issue, you know, to be quite frank.

00:19:55.000 That's something that appeals to the black vote and also to Democrats.

00:19:59.000 But he captured that in a big way.

00:20:01.000 Can't ignore that.

00:20:02.000 On immigration, and here it is finally, he arrives at immigration.

00:20:06.000 And the buildup to immigration is almost as important as the rhetoric on immigration itself, which is to say that President Trump is coming to your living room on the television with a message of unity.

00:20:18.000 With a message that is not ideological, that is not partisan, that is pragmatic, that is American, that's saying, you know, look, we've been through a lot, but here's where we can work together.

00:20:29.000 We all agree the economy should get better, and it is getting better.

00:20:32.000 We all agree about veterans, they should be taken care of, and opioid.

00:20:36.000 You know, these are all nonpartisan things.

00:20:38.000 These are things where there's significant overlap here, where people could say, okay, I'm starting to like this.

00:20:43.000 I'm not hearing anything objectionable.

00:20:45.000 And then finally, he arrives at immigration, and he says, quote, Another powerful line here.

00:20:51.000 Open borders have allowed drugs and gangs to pour into our most vulnerable cities, which is a great line because nobody was talking about open borders eight years ago, right?

00:21:02.000 George W. Bush was not talking about open borders.

00:21:04.000 Mitt Romney was not talking about open borders.

00:21:08.000 I think, with few exceptions, nobody in the 2016 field, one of them being Donald Trump, was talking about open borders.

00:21:14.000 So here we have this powerful rhetoric again.

00:21:16.000 Open borders have allowed drugs and gangs.

00:21:19.000 And again, this captures, I think, the Strategy of the president, which is to attack these mainstream left wing default positions from their most vulnerable angles, which is to say that he could go out there and oppose legal immigration, and people would take issue with that.

00:21:35.000 They would say, Oh, my grandparents are immigrants.

00:21:37.000 Oh, I don't know about that.

00:21:38.000 Everybody should come here.

00:21:39.000 Even, I think, moderates and right leaning people, even the quote unquote conservatives, would take issue with this if he addressed legal immigration head on.

00:21:48.000 But he's going through the back door.

00:21:49.000 He's saying, Look, we can all agree illegal immigration is a problem.

00:21:52.000 We can all agree.

00:21:53.000 Drugs and gangs are a problem.

00:21:55.000 And again, this is a way to kind of subvert, and this is a workaround for a more ideological message to get people on his page to get some momentum against immigration more broadly.

00:22:04.000 And he brings up, of course, this black family who is weeping because their daughter was killed by MS-13 kids, young people.

00:22:13.000 I think that's a very powerful thing.

00:22:15.000 They were childhood arrivals, the MS-13 kids who killed the daughter and this black family.

00:22:20.000 And again, you've got to think of the visual here where you have this black family.

00:22:24.000 Normally, you would think of immigration.

00:22:26.000 The nativist rhetoric, at least in the left wing perspective, is hateful, it's bigoted, it's white supremacist, it's make America white again.

00:22:34.000 Well, here he has the black family going to show that illegal immigration harms everybody, you know, even the blacks, even the Hispanics that are here, you know.

00:22:44.000 So to show the black family crying and to show that it was a young person that was brought over here and who killed somebody and a young person that was killed.

00:22:52.000 And he brought back the long clap again for this one.

00:22:55.000 We remember last year we had the long clap.

00:22:58.000 I forget who it was for in the joint session, but there was an applause for one of the guests that went on way too long, and we saw the return of that to really bring home the point.

00:23:08.000 And it sounds very kind of cynical to look at it in this context, to look at it as a political prop, because watching it was very moving.

00:23:16.000 I have to say, as somebody who is very political and who watches this stuff every day and you kind of get a little bit desensitized, it was a powerful moment.

00:23:25.000 The way he described it to watch this family break down.

00:23:30.000 Very slowly, because it sets in the tragedy that has struck in their lives.

00:23:34.000 And he describes a young girl who simply didn't return home because somebody who shouldn't have been in the country, evil people who shouldn't have been in the country, were here, were admitted here.

00:23:44.000 It's a powerful moment, really powerful for even people that are for immigration, even people who might be sympathetic to illegal immigrants.

00:23:52.000 They could say, this is a problem.

00:23:54.000 This loophole has to be closed.

00:23:55.000 And so that's the first part of the presentation presenting the problem.

00:23:59.000 And then he presents the fix, sets up the problem, and everybody says, okay, well, this.

00:24:04.000 Can't happen.

00:24:05.000 I may be for, you know, and skeptics and moderates and left wing people might say, okay, maybe I'm for DACA.

00:24:12.000 Maybe I'm sympathetic to illegal immigrants, but this is not okay.

00:24:15.000 Drugs and gangs, not okay.

00:24:17.000 Well, then he says, this is the problem we agree on.

00:24:20.000 Here's the fix close the loopholes.

00:24:22.000 I propose new legislation.

00:24:24.000 We're going to support Border Patrol.

00:24:26.000 We're going to support ICE.

00:24:27.000 And then he gets into the rhetoric.

00:24:29.000 Here's the first real, I think, turn away from this unifying, or not away from unifying, away from this totally centrist.

00:24:38.000 Totally nonpartisan message towards kind of usual rhetoric, which is that as president, my concern is the American people.

00:24:47.000 And that was a very big thing because that's something that, again, everybody intuitively understands what this means.

00:24:52.000 Everybody knows what that means.

00:24:54.000 Everybody, I think, is on the same page in the sense that this is shifting the paradigm.

00:25:00.000 Whereas the Democrats have made us look at these issues as look at these poor people, look at the poor people in Africa, look at the poor Hispanics, look at, oh, they're so sad and it's terrible.

00:25:12.000 And President Trump acknowledges that.

00:25:13.000 He says, that is very bad.

00:25:15.000 It really is.

00:25:15.000 But my concern is the American people.

00:25:18.000 That's my concern.

00:25:19.000 That is what keeps me up at night.

00:25:21.000 And that's something I think that is really shifting the paradigm there, where people say, I didn't really quite think of it in that way.

00:25:28.000 I agree with this.

00:25:30.000 And then he said, he is extending an open hand to both parties to protect every American.

00:25:35.000 Again, here's the framing he's extending an open hand to both parties.

00:25:40.000 Bipartisan, I'm willing to work with Democrats so we can protect Americans.

00:25:44.000 Who doesn't agree with that, right?

00:25:46.000 And then he jumps into the, he jumps into, and this was the best line of the night.

00:25:51.000 Before he jumps into the pillars, he says, Americans are dreamers too.

00:25:55.000 And that was a subtle thing.

00:25:57.000 That was something that wasn't so overstated in the sense that you compare it with even the vocational training line.

00:26:04.000 And the vocational school line was, and how about vocational training?

00:26:07.000 There was this emphasis, there was this, this is a profound statement here.

00:26:11.000 With this, Americans are dreamers, it was kind of subtle, it was kind of understated the way it was, blah, blah, blah.

00:26:17.000 And Americans are dreamers too.

00:26:19.000 And that was one of those kill shots where it's like, oh, well, yeah, it's true.

00:26:24.000 We are dreamers.

00:26:25.000 And again, this is another one of those things that changes the way people look at it.

00:26:29.000 I think for people that are really, and this is the vast majority of people, by the way, who are not so much right or left, but more just want to see a good paycheck, just want to be safe.

00:26:29.000 I think.

00:26:39.000 So that was very good.

00:26:40.000 He went into the story about the ICE agent who said that, you know, we're just tougher, another great line for morale.

00:26:47.000 And then he jumped into the immigration framework, the actual legislation that he's proposing, which was.

00:26:51.000 The four pillars.

00:26:53.000 This is where things started to get rocky, admittedly, for a lot of people.

00:26:57.000 Where he said that the first pillar was a pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million illegal immigrants, which is three times more people than the previous administration.

00:27:05.000 Remember, only 600 and some thousand people were eligible for DACA under the Obama era program.

00:27:12.000 So he said, Look, I'm willing to give three times more people as Obama, not just legal protection, but in 12 years, a pathway to citizenship with education, work requirements, and a good character requirement.

00:27:24.000 The second pillar was to fully secure the border, to end catch and release, to implement a border wall, to have more ICE and border patrol.

00:27:32.000 Then he moved on to the third pillar, ending the visa lottery system, which randomly hands out green cards.

00:27:38.000 They want to move to a merit based system.

00:27:40.000 Again, these kind of euphemisms, these kinds of political phrases are very powerful.

00:27:45.000 Merit based system.

00:27:47.000 I think everybody can agree with that.

00:27:48.000 And then lastly, of course, the end chain migration when the Democrats openly started booing the president.

00:27:55.000 And again, that's where you get the idea that you look at this proposal, how it was laid out, in what context, and how it was received, and you know this framework will not be accepted.

00:28:04.000 It was built up with this unifying.

00:28:06.000 This centrist, this non ideological, this I'm going to reach across the aisle, we're going to get the job done, we're going to do it together.

00:28:14.000 And his first pillar, notice the first pillar was not build the wall.

00:28:18.000 It wasn't to pander to his base.

00:28:19.000 The first pillar was, and look, before we even get into the things I want, here's what I'm willing to give you.

00:28:25.000 I'm willing to give you not just the thing that I took away, I'm willing to give you that and three times that and pathway and all the rest.

00:28:33.000 And at the end of the proposal, the Democrats are booing it.

00:28:36.000 At the end of it, they're sitting with their arms crossed.

00:28:38.000 Booing, boo.

00:28:39.000 We don't want to protect Americans.

00:28:40.000 We don't want bipartisanship.

00:28:42.000 We don't want 1.8 million to get amnesty.

00:28:45.000 And you notice that the Democrats will be ripped to pieces because you have two polls here for the Democrats.

00:28:51.000 You have one poll, which is Trump and the Republicans and the general moderate consensus, which is fix the immigration system.

00:29:00.000 And I almost slipped there and said fix the immigration system and get it passed.

00:29:05.000 And we'll look like we did a great thing.

00:29:07.000 And the pressure is on to do that, obviously, because.

00:29:10.000 Shutdown is coming and dock expiration is coming.

00:29:13.000 And then the other pole is the far left.

00:29:16.000 And they created this.

00:29:17.000 They created their own problem here.

00:29:19.000 They dug their own grave.

00:29:20.000 They created this super dense far left base that is constantly colliding in on itself.

00:29:28.000 It's like a sun, it is like a star.

00:29:30.000 Nuclear fusion, all these different forces blacks, Hispanics, trans, gay, women, black women, you know, and they're all pedophiles.

00:29:40.000 They're all colliding up against each other.

00:29:42.000 All the time, they all want more.

00:29:44.000 It's all consumption.

00:29:45.000 It's all consuming.

00:29:46.000 And so, while the pragmatic side is saying, make a damn deal, you're going to pay for it dearly.

00:29:53.000 The moderates, the centrists, they would be willing to vote for you.

00:29:57.000 They would be willing to do it if you could present a positive alternative, if you could not be the party of obstruction.

00:30:03.000 That's pulling them in this direction towards the deal.

00:30:05.000 And then you have their base, their base, the people that they expect to go over and overturn the results of 2016 and 2018.

00:30:15.000 The Latins, you know, the Marxists, the students, and so on, who are saying, you can never build the wall.

00:30:21.000 You can never give an inch.

00:30:23.000 And not only can you not give an inch, but we don't just want DACA and we don't want a pathway to citizenship in 12 years.

00:30:28.000 We want citizenship now.

00:30:30.000 And we don't just want it for 1.8.

00:30:31.000 We want it for everybody.

00:30:33.000 And we won't stop until we get all of it.

00:30:36.000 And so now George Soros is going up against Schumer.

00:30:38.000 You have the dreamers outside Schumer's house protesting, demanding they get amnesty.

00:30:44.000 And these two polls, these two forces, and Democrats have to answer to both.

00:30:49.000 If they want turnout in the midterms, it's going to rip them in half.

00:30:53.000 And so you have people like Luis Gutierrez who's saying, just give them the damn wall.

00:30:58.000 We need citizenship for our people, for los persones, you know, for the Mexicans that I represent.

00:31:04.000 And then you have the pragmatists in the party who are up for re election in 2018 in contested swing states.

00:31:10.000 And they're saying, what the hell are we doing?

00:31:13.000 We're going to get killed in the midterms if we keep this up.

00:31:16.000 And so this is ripping the party apart.

00:31:19.000 And you can already see this.

00:31:20.000 You can already see this.

00:31:22.000 The messages are dissonant.

00:31:23.000 There is no clear leader of the party.

00:31:25.000 You know, Chuck Schumer's leader of the party.

00:31:27.000 Where's Barack Obama?

00:31:28.000 Where's Hillary Clinton?

00:31:30.000 You have tonight six responses, six responses to the State of the Union by the Democrats.

00:31:36.000 You have one by Bernie Sanders.

00:31:38.000 You have one by Maxine Waters.

00:31:40.000 You have one by some Hispanic who got elected in Virginia who hasn't even taken office yet.

00:31:45.000 You got one by Joe Kennedy.

00:31:47.000 So you have six different responses to the State of the Union.

00:31:50.000 There is no better contrast here than Donald Trump getting up at the State of the Union, one president, one party.

00:31:58.000 Everybody's cheering for him.

00:31:59.000 Look at all that I've done.

00:32:00.000 Look at my accomplishments.

00:32:01.000 ISIS is defeated.

00:32:03.000 Economy's going strong.

00:32:05.000 I want to reach out.

00:32:06.000 I want to solve the problem.

00:32:08.000 And Democrats are, and he's being very presidential and very disciplined and not very ideological, not the usual Twitter stuff that people take issue with.

00:32:15.000 And Democrats are booing and jeering.

00:32:17.000 And Nancy Pelosi's playing with their dentures.

00:32:20.000 They got their arms crossed.

00:32:21.000 And after the State of the Union, they couldn't decide on one person to deliver their response.

00:32:26.000 That's how fractured they are.

00:32:28.000 And this is the inevitable result, which I predicted in 2016, which would happen to the Democrat.

00:32:33.000 The Democratic Party, which is a splintering along these fault lines, along these ideological, sometimes racial fault lines.

00:32:41.000 And so this is very good.

00:32:42.000 People might think this is very bad.

00:32:44.000 Trump is cucking.

00:32:45.000 Nothing of the sort.

00:32:46.000 This is a decisive blow.

00:32:48.000 He is, you know, and Robert Greene writes about this in the 48 Laws of Power.

00:32:53.000 One of the rules is that if you submit yourself, if you lay yourself at the feet of the enemy and show absolute mercy and say, okay, chop my head off, okay, Let's take a deal and I'll give you $1.8 million.

00:33:06.000 We'll get amnesty.

00:33:07.000 I'll never, I'll be a one term president.

00:33:09.000 Chop my head off.

00:33:09.000 Do it.

00:33:10.000 And Democrats are saying, you know, they're missing the opportunity essentially here.

00:33:14.000 So that's the play, I believe.

00:33:15.000 But that's immigration.

00:33:16.000 We'll see how that plays out.

00:33:17.000 You know, we've been talking about that all week.

00:33:20.000 He went on to talk more about the opioid addiction.

00:33:22.000 He talked about Russia and China who challenge our interests.

00:33:26.000 And he told Congress we need to end the defense sequester, which is, of course, the automatic spending cuts which have been triggered.

00:33:34.000 And those are, of course,.

00:33:36.000 Taking away money from the military.

00:33:38.000 He wants to modernize the nuclear arsenal to deter threats.

00:33:42.000 A small, interesting thing here.

00:33:44.000 He said to deter any acts of aggression by any other nation or anyone else.

00:33:48.000 And the international relations major in me sort of caught that because, you know, normally people would talk about, maybe 20 years ago, people would just simply say other nations.

00:34:00.000 But then he said anyone else.

00:34:01.000 Who is anyone else?

00:34:02.000 Non state actors.

00:34:04.000 And this really reflects, I think, the changing nature of conflict.

00:34:07.000 This reflects the changing nature.

00:34:09.000 Of the world order, that we have to account and deter not only national threats, not only nation states that are solid like China and Russia, but also non state actors, lone wolves, terrorist organizations, and so on.

00:34:22.000 So, just a little interesting thing.

00:34:24.000 Then he went on to talk about ISIS, how close to 100% of Iraq and Syria have been liberated.

00:34:30.000 Again, he's kind of sealing it back up.

00:34:32.000 He's couching very neatly the immigration thing, where he might have gotten a little ideological with the economic stuff before, the foreign policy stuff after.

00:34:42.000 Talked about the United Nations and how, and this is, I think, really, it just goes to show that on the foreign affairs stuff, it's all gestures.

00:34:52.000 President Trump said, you know, look, we made Jerusalem the capital of Israel, and the UN got mad at us, and now we're defunding the UN.

00:34:59.000 And I think you start to understand that that had a lot less to do with Jerusalem and Israel and a lot more to do with the UN, right?

00:35:05.000 Because, in effect, what Trump has done so far is simply announce we recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, which.

00:35:13.000 Was mandated by law in 1995.

00:35:15.000 It has been the official legal policy, congressional legal policy of the United States, that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel since 1995, that Jerusalem should have the embassy for the United States since 1995.

00:35:31.000 This was passed by the Congress 25 years ago.

00:35:34.000 And so Trump simply announced, okay, we're going to make good on that promise.

00:35:38.000 And what has that afforded him the opportunity to do?

00:35:40.000 To defund the United Nations.

00:35:42.000 So that's very big.

00:35:43.000 On Iran, again, this might be the other snag people might take issue with.

00:35:47.000 They might say, President Trump says he supports the protesters in Iran, and that's hawkish.

00:35:54.000 That's neocon talk.

00:35:55.000 That's George Bush talk.

00:35:57.000 And again, this is another gesture.

00:35:59.000 He said, Unlike my predecessors, I stood with the protesters of Iran.

00:35:59.000 What did he say?

00:36:03.000 What does that mean in practice?

00:36:05.000 He says he stood with them.

00:36:06.000 What does that mean in practice?

00:36:07.000 Did he give them arms?

00:36:09.000 No.

00:36:09.000 Did he give them money or monetary support?

00:36:12.000 No.

00:36:13.000 Did he do an airstrike?

00:36:14.000 Did he do any kind of direct military engagement with Iran?

00:36:17.000 No.

00:36:18.000 Did he release an official statement?

00:36:20.000 Was there an official condemnation?

00:36:22.000 Was there a big speech?

00:36:23.000 Was there Did he call up and say, I'm addressing the nation at 8 o'clock?

00:36:27.000 No.

00:36:28.000 He simply said, I support the protesters.

00:36:30.000 And all this does, in effect, is put more pressure on Iran.

00:36:33.000 And that's in the context, of course, of the current renegotiation of the Iran nuclear deal.

00:36:37.000 And the Iran nuclear deal is being renegotiated, of course, in the context of the denuclearization of North Korea.

00:36:45.000 And so this is gestures, this is strategic stuff.

00:36:48.000 I stand with the people of Iran.

00:36:50.000 I could say that, too.

00:36:51.000 It would mean, in effect, it would mean, in practice, the same thing.

00:36:55.000 As President Trump saying that.

00:36:56.000 So don't be too phased by that.

00:36:58.000 On terrorism, he said that terrorists are evil.

00:37:01.000 That's a big departure from Obama and the Democrat rhetoric, which was these are violent extremists and they're troubled and so on.

00:37:09.000 And Trump said, no, evil exists in the world and they're evil.

00:37:12.000 So that's significant.

00:37:14.000 And he also said that they will be treated as unlawful enemy combatants, which is very technical language.

00:37:20.000 People might think this is an arbitrary thing, unlawful enemy combatant.

00:37:24.000 People might say, well, that's a weird way to say terrorist.

00:37:28.000 That's kind of a.

00:37:29.000 Jargony way?

00:37:30.000 Well, that's actually a technical definition.

00:37:32.000 That's a technical legal definition that enemy combatants, when identified, are not afforded the same constitutional rights as citizens.

00:37:41.000 So if you have a murderer, for example, they still have constitutional protections.

00:37:45.000 They still have the Fifth Amendment, the Sixth Amendment, the Seventh Amendment, and so on.

00:37:51.000 Unlawful enemy combatants do not have those same protections.

00:37:54.000 That's why we're able to send them to Guantanamo Bay and do dubious torture things to them and all the rest because they're They're not citizens.

00:38:03.000 They're not protected.

00:38:05.000 They're enemy combatants in the same way that ISIS or others are enemy combatants.

00:38:09.000 So that's very technical language, and that's a good sign.

00:38:12.000 That shows where we're going with the war on terror.

00:38:15.000 He just signed the law to keep Guantanamo Bay open, which is, you know, I don't think it was going away.

00:38:22.000 Barack Obama made no attempt to make it go away, but I mean, that's a very solid thing regardless.

00:38:27.000 Shows that we're tough on terrorism and that in effect we will be.

00:38:30.000 And then lastly, the North Korea auto warm beer stuff, the maximum pressure line.

00:38:35.000 He says we're going to.

00:38:36.000 Put maximum pressure on North Korea.

00:38:38.000 Nothing really game changing here.

00:38:40.000 Kind of more of the same rhetoric that he had out of Warmbier, and then that he also had a North Korean dissident.

00:38:47.000 That's a big thing.

00:38:48.000 People might say, oh, well, that's a good political prop.

00:38:51.000 That was a smart move.

00:38:52.000 To have a dissident from North Korea, somebody that escaped, somebody that was caught stealing and was like going to be put to death, who was shot, that is, in terms of diplomacy, in terms of how diplomacy is conducted, that's a major statement.

00:39:06.000 You know, and think of it in the sense that.

00:39:08.000 What if North Korea had an American prisoner present at a Kim Jong un speech?

00:39:13.000 I mean, that's the kind of thing we're talking about.

00:39:14.000 So that was significant.

00:39:16.000 And then, of course, he ended.

00:39:18.000 He ended on the very powerful USA chant, which was the perfect way to top off this speech.

00:39:25.000 It was perfect optics.

00:39:27.000 He has, over the course of this year, I think more importantly than many of the legislative things he's done or even the executive orders, he has reframed the conversation.

00:39:37.000 He has reframed the institutions, the factions in the country.

00:39:42.000 And I said this as far back as May of 2016.

00:39:45.000 This was the original reason that I went from Ted Cruz to Donald Trump.

00:39:48.000 I said, You need Donald Trump to change the paradigm.

00:39:52.000 Maybe you get Ted Cruz in there.

00:39:54.000 And at the time, I was a libertarian.

00:39:55.000 I was a constitutionalist, unfortunately.

00:39:58.000 I said, you may get Ted Cruz in there.

00:40:00.000 He's not going to be able to pass what he wants.

00:40:02.000 He's not going to be able to pass the flat tax.

00:40:04.000 He won't be able to pass these other things.

00:40:07.000 He's not competent enough.

00:40:08.000 And in this atmosphere, it would be impossible.

00:40:11.000 Maybe even he gets to do it if he has time.

00:40:14.000 It would get overturned in the next administration.

00:40:16.000 And also, there's a demographic situation as well, which I became hit to later.

00:40:20.000 And then I saw Donald Trump, and I said, We need this guy to go in there and destroy the media and destroy the Democrats and blow up the system so that we can chart a new course.

00:40:30.000 And that is the most successful thing that he's done and that he's doing right here.

00:40:34.000 Think of the optics of this.

00:40:35.000 The Democrats have been the party of the NFL kneelers, people kneeling during the national anthem.

00:40:41.000 They've been the party of Barack Obama, who was so clearly against American exceptionalism.

00:40:48.000 They were the party that rejects Trump's Americanism.

00:40:51.000 There were no flags.

00:40:52.000 The Democratic National Convention, and there are so many examples of this.

00:40:56.000 And so, President Trump is making the Republican Party and himself in particular the party of America, of USA, of bipartisanship.

00:41:04.000 He talks about how the Capitol is a monument to the American people.

00:41:08.000 What a fabulous piece of rhetoric there!

00:41:10.000 What a fabulous, terrific, populist piece of rhetoric slogan there.

00:41:16.000 And then the ending with the USA chant that simply vindicates and illustrates what the president has been saying for the past.

00:41:25.000 Which is, we are the party of America, and they are the party of kneeling during the NFL.

00:41:28.000 They're the party of obstruction, of party over country, of illegals over citizens.

00:41:34.000 That's the framing here, and it's so powerful.

00:41:36.000 It's so beautiful.

00:41:37.000 It's so smart, so damn strategic.

00:41:40.000 Watch how this plays out.

00:41:41.000 Mark my words.

00:41:43.000 This is the play.

00:41:44.000 And I was calling this in, in summer, and then again in winter.

00:41:49.000 I said, look, what he's doing is he's playing for the midterms.

00:41:52.000 Everything that you see from summer until.

00:41:55.000 November of 2018 is framing for the midterms.

00:41:58.000 It's all setting up.

00:41:59.000 It's all setting up so that he'll have a stronger majority.

00:42:02.000 And then we don't have to contend with this kind of stuff.

00:42:03.000 We don't have to contend with, you know, the filibuster and all these other things.

00:42:08.000 And so that's what he's doing.

00:42:09.000 He has pigeonholed the Democratic Party while the Republicans are out there hooting and hollering, chanting, USA, economy's doing great.

00:42:16.000 They're passing bills.

00:42:17.000 They're getting their shit together.

00:42:19.000 And Democrats are shutting down the government.

00:42:21.000 They're kneeling during the NFL.

00:42:22.000 They come on during the Grammys.

00:42:24.000 They don't go away after they lose with this snarky, Kind of bitchy little joke thing that Hillary Clinton does.

00:42:31.000 And now they'll give their six responses, and one of them will be in Spanish.

00:42:35.000 And I think that says it all right there.

00:42:37.000 So a beautiful speech overall, incredibly effective.

00:42:41.000 People might have thought it was boring.

00:42:43.000 It certainly wasn't as grandiose.

00:42:45.000 It wasn't as grandiose in vision, in scale, in terms of being abstract, as was the first joint session speech.

00:42:53.000 The first joint session speech was America first, let's beat the hell out of these people.

00:42:58.000 It was really a pump up, very much in line.

00:43:00.000 A more refined version of his inaugural, which was the fist pump, we're taking our country back, we're going to destroy the politicians.

00:43:07.000 And Trump has done a very good job of constructing narrative here.

00:43:11.000 He has done a very good job of showing a progress, showing an evolution here.

00:43:16.000 And that's why he hasn't gotten stale like Barack Obama.

00:43:19.000 Barack Obama wrote in on hope and change, and within two years, forget all that.

00:43:24.000 Forget it.

00:43:25.000 It was done.

00:43:26.000 Hope and change my ass.

00:43:28.000 He bailed out the banks, and there were more drone strikes.

00:43:32.000 He kept the wars going.

00:43:34.000 By 2010, all the energy was sucked out of that.

00:43:38.000 People hated this guy.

00:43:39.000 Defending him was a chore for the most ardent supporters in the New York Times.

00:43:44.000 The 2012 election was like.

00:43:46.000 Well, Mitt Romney's bad.

00:43:48.000 It sucked.

00:43:48.000 It was terrible.

00:43:50.000 And Donald Trump has done such a good job of keeping the energy up, of keeping this tempo going, of crescendos and decrescendos, of showing progress, keeping it interesting, changing it up, showing that we went from the campaign and we were fighting and we were fighting for our lives, and now we're here.

00:44:08.000 We're going to clean house.

00:44:09.000 Changes have to be made.

00:44:10.000 We're going to kick some ass.

00:44:12.000 And then he comes out tonight and he says, We've had a lot of success, but we can't do it if the country's divided.

00:44:18.000 Let's come together.

00:44:19.000 Let's unify.

00:44:20.000 And this is just fantastic stuff.

00:44:23.000 This is politics.

00:44:25.000 This is politics.

00:44:26.000 It's not meta politics.

00:44:27.000 It's not philosophy.

00:44:29.000 This is just straight up concrete politics.

00:44:32.000 And Trump is a master at it.

00:44:33.000 He's the best at it.

00:44:35.000 And we'll see how it plays out.

00:44:37.000 I think it'll play out in the way that the Dead Sea Scrolls have prophesied, as I've talked about on the show.

00:44:44.000 We're really winning here.

00:44:45.000 We're really winning the battle of ideas, but really, moreover, the battle of appearances, the battle of presentation.

00:44:53.000 And people get this stuff.

00:44:54.000 People understand this.

00:44:56.000 They see the results.

00:44:57.000 They see their taxes getting cut.

00:44:59.000 They see the stock market doing well.

00:45:00.000 They see what goes on in the media.

00:45:02.000 And the last thing I want to say about the State of the Union before I jump into Super Chats is contrast this image, contrast this picture of President Trump at the State of the Union.

00:45:14.000 And we've gone over what the kind of look we had tonight is with Hillary Clinton's appearance at the Grammys on Sundays.

00:45:20.000 Compare and contrast that.

00:45:22.000 You have the Grammys and you have Kendrick Lamar, you know.

00:45:26.000 And he's this black anti cop rapper.

00:45:29.000 And I like Kendrick Lamar's music, but think of the optics of this.

00:45:31.000 He gets up, and it's a stupid art thing.

00:45:36.000 You have all these celebrities up there who just cannot relate to the American people.

00:45:41.000 They are so out of touch with the American people.

00:45:43.000 They get up in this glitzy, glamor, liberal fest where every other line is, LOL, at least Trump wasn't president 20 years ago, and all this.

00:45:53.000 And it's blacks and whites and gays and browns and transsexuals, and it's the usual Hollywood cultural.

00:46:00.000 Fanfare type stuff.

00:46:01.000 And then you get Hillary Clinton.

00:46:03.000 And we haven't seen her in months.

00:46:05.000 And she's there doing a little joke with fire and fury, badly delivered, silly little joke, being goofy, being silly, with this snarky little snide thing about Trump.

00:46:15.000 And lol, isn't Trump so silly?

00:46:17.000 And this comes after her comments over the weekend where she said something about, like, where are all my bitches at or something.

00:46:23.000 Just so lowbrow, so, you know, classless.

00:46:27.000 And then compare that to President Trump, who he gets a bad rap.

00:46:31.000 Taking it like a champ.

00:46:32.000 He comes out to the State of the Union shaking hands.

00:46:34.000 He's doing the point.

00:46:35.000 He's never looked better.

00:46:37.000 He's not, you know, a year in and he still has this glow.

00:46:41.000 He's 71 years old.

00:46:42.000 He gets no sleep.

00:46:43.000 He eats McDonald's, but he gets up there and he's as strong.

00:46:46.000 He's as healthy looking as ever.

00:46:48.000 He gets up there and there's a chance of USA.

00:46:51.000 It's all smiles, it's all clapping and cheering.

00:46:55.000 Economy's doing great.

00:46:56.000 ISIS is destroyed.

00:46:57.000 I want to work with the Democrats.

00:46:59.000 We're going to solve long term problems.

00:47:01.000 And look at all these people.

00:47:03.000 We're going to protect you.

00:47:03.000 We're going to help them out.

00:47:06.000 And earnest, earnest and humble and presidential.

00:47:10.000 Just contrast these two images.

00:47:12.000 We are winning so hard here.

00:47:14.000 We are winning so hard.

00:47:15.000 And anybody that tells you otherwise, anybody that tells you otherwise is a fool.

00:47:22.000 And they are counterproductive.

00:47:25.000 And maybe they're just flat out incompetent.

00:47:27.000 Because if you can't see what is going on here, these are the same people that told us Hillary Clinton was going to win because of the polls, because of what the mainstream media said.

00:47:38.000 Just look at what is occurring here.

00:47:40.000 It is very big, it's very profound.

00:47:42.000 That's the state of the union.

00:47:43.000 That's the reaction.

00:47:44.000 Overall, my overall determination is less exciting than the previous year, but that's to be expected, but supremely effective in what it intends to do.

00:47:55.000 The purpose of this speech was to reframe along DACA, along midterms, and just more broadly about media and about Democrats.

00:48:04.000 They'll play right into his hands again.

00:48:06.000 And in that sense, it was effective, 100% effective.

00:48:10.000 Nobody does it better than this guy.

00:48:12.000 Nobody does it better.

00:48:14.000 And for everybody that says, I doubt this.

00:48:16.000 I doubt the strategy.

00:48:17.000 I doubt that he's totally competent.

00:48:19.000 This may be accidental.

00:48:20.000 Look at the restraint that he showed tonight.

00:48:23.000 For anybody that says Donald Trump is firing tweets off and he's so undisciplined, he's such a child, he gets up there tonight.

00:48:29.000 There's not one slip up, not one gaff, not one off the cuff, not one.

00:48:33.000 It just goes to show that that whole thing about, oh, he can't control himself, it's a lie.

00:48:38.000 Because when he understands the time and place is to be disciplined and restrained and presidential, he does it better than anybody else.

00:48:46.000 More earnest, more real.

00:48:48.000 The conviction shows through.

00:48:50.000 Without gas, even Barack Obama, if you go back and watch his inaugural, he was stuttering, he was stumbling.

00:48:56.000 He does it confidently, President Trump.

00:48:59.000 And nobody's better at that.

00:49:00.000 So, for everybody that says he's undisciplined or whatever, that's part of it.

00:49:04.000 That's part of the strategy.

00:49:05.000 If that were the case, when the Democrats were booing, you would have seen something tonight.

00:49:09.000 When he was talking about these other things, you would have seen a little snarky thing.

00:49:13.000 But he knows.

00:49:14.000 He knows.

00:49:15.000 So, that's the president.

00:49:16.000 Very good stuff.

00:49:17.000 Very solid stuff.

00:49:18.000 Let's jump into the live chats.

00:49:19.000 We'll see what people are saying about this.

00:49:22.000 We'll see where our Mogapeds are at.

00:49:24.000 If they're Agreeing, if they're disagreeing.

00:49:28.000 Alcia Badi says, Comment on the absolute state of Ivanka's milkers.

00:49:32.000 Oof, oof.

00:49:33.000 I saw a little red bracelet.

00:49:34.000 I saw something in her clothes.

00:49:36.000 Is she a Kabbalist?

00:49:37.000 I don't know.

00:49:38.000 The Javanka stuff, I'm not wild about.

00:49:40.000 And the other thing was, Melania wasn't standing up during the standing ovations.

00:49:45.000 Is that tradition?

00:49:46.000 I don't know.

00:49:47.000 But she was frowning the whole time.

00:49:49.000 She was sitting down the whole time.

00:49:51.000 I don't know.

00:49:52.000 Is that cause for concern?

00:49:53.000 Wouldn't it really be something?

00:49:55.000 If what sunk this unstoppable train or this unsinkable ship, rather, got my analogies mixed up there, what stopped this unstoppable train would be like a woman being dissatisfied.

00:50:07.000 Could you imagine?

00:50:08.000 Wouldn't that be a tragedy?

00:50:10.000 So I don't know what that was all about.

00:50:11.000 Maybe that's just what happens.

00:50:14.000 Matthew with a $5 super chat says, You owe me $5 now, bitch.

00:50:19.000 All right, I guess.

00:50:20.000 We're going to have to take a little bit off the top because Google takes a little bit.

00:50:24.000 Brosif says, The Chad self clap versus the Jeb virgin please clap.

00:50:29.000 There you go.

00:50:30.000 Brosif, fact, Trump has the foundation we haven't seen in a long time.

00:50:35.000 He has true Christian humility and recognizes a higher power, confident yet calculated.

00:50:41.000 Well, and I will say this about Trump, and this is something that's true about me as well.

00:50:46.000 Trump is a confident person.

00:50:48.000 When he goes out there and he presents as this very arrogant, pompous guy, and I hear low IQ people say this all the time Trump is arrogant.

00:50:55.000 Trump is a pompous prick.

00:50:57.000 He's a jerk.

00:50:59.000 There is a vast difference.

00:51:00.000 When you're arrogant, when you're pretentious, it shows.

00:51:03.000 Like you wouldn't believe.

00:51:04.000 You see this in somebody like Hillary Clinton.

00:51:06.000 The contempt, you can feel it.

00:51:08.000 You can feel it in your core.

00:51:10.000 You can feel it in your collarbone.

00:51:11.000 You can feel it all over the place.

00:51:13.000 You can feel that she resents you.

00:51:15.000 She doesn't give a shit.

00:51:16.000 You see this, you know, in my state.

00:51:18.000 J.B. Pritzker is running for mayor.

00:51:20.000 He's so full of it.

00:51:21.000 This fat billionaire Jew, you can tell that he has just such contempt.

00:51:26.000 It's all an act.

00:51:27.000 When President Trump gets out there and he does this kind of thing, it's all tongue in cheek.

00:51:31.000 It's all part of, and I hesitate to say an act because that maybe presupposes that it's phony or something, but it is an act.

00:51:38.000 It is.

00:51:39.000 It is a character that he's playing.

00:51:39.000 It is an appearance.

00:51:41.000 And we all do this.

00:51:42.000 We all have a character that we play.

00:51:44.000 We're going to pretend like one mask is different than another because one is very effective.

00:51:48.000 And when he goes out there and he talks about things about these matters of life and death, of the troops, veterans, people that have died, it really shines through the humility before life, before the mysteries, before a higher power.

00:52:02.000 And that's so true.

00:52:03.000 And something that really strikes me is in his book and in interviews, he talks about this.

00:52:08.000 In his book, one of the trump cards he talks about.

00:52:12.000 It is to never take it too seriously, is always to have fun.

00:52:14.000 He says, At the end of the day, I recognize how fragile it all is.

00:52:17.000 And that's really a profound thing.

00:52:19.000 You wouldn't expect that from the kind of caricature the media creates that he's this low IQ, watches television all day, is kind of a child.

00:52:27.000 This is a very profound thing that he says in the book and in interviews that life is a very fragile thing.

00:52:32.000 It's a one time go around.

00:52:33.000 It could all come crashing down in an instant.

00:52:35.000 And that's why it's important just to have fun.

00:52:37.000 And that is, I think, really a profound reflection of kind of his driving force, his driving ethos, and a little bit more about.

00:52:44.000 His character, his persona, and all of that.

00:52:48.000 And I think we all recognize that.

00:52:49.000 That's a big motivator for why I am a traditionalist.

00:52:53.000 You know, this really struck a chord in me.

00:52:57.000 I saw maybe a month or two ago there was this case in California where a guy went into a gas station, he got the nacho cheese dip there, and he ate it, and it turned out it was contaminated, and he got botulism, and he died within two days.

00:53:12.000 And I think to myself, this can happen to anybody.

00:53:15.000 You go to Panera Bread, you get the cream cheese, and you get listeria and you die.

00:53:21.000 I saw a story the other week where a kid falls off his bike, he gets a scrape, he gets some kind of flesh eating bacteria while he's in the hospital, he's dead within two days.

00:53:31.000 And you see these kinds of things, and you must be humbled.

00:53:34.000 Atheists, secularists, all these people out there, these progressives that say, We can fix all the problems, we can fix everything, if only this, if only we fix the system.

00:53:43.000 This is the nature of life.

00:53:45.000 It is chaotic, it is unexplainable.

00:53:47.000 Tragedies happen and they strike without warning and for no reason.

00:53:51.000 And you must be humbled by that.

00:53:53.000 You know, you can be a rich guy, you could have it all figured out, and you fall off a cliff one day.

00:53:57.000 You know, you slip on a snowbank, your car crashes, you scrape yourself, you have a flesh eating virus.

00:54:04.000 And I guess that's really off topic, but that's kind of how I see it.

00:54:08.000 BTK, DM at the BTK on Twitter.

00:54:12.000 You are being targeted.

00:54:14.000 Uh oh, I will have to check that out.

00:54:17.000 I'm being targeted by a lot of people.

00:54:19.000 Rick Smith, I think God put Trump into office.

00:54:21.000 Do you agree?

00:54:22.000 I think, you know, everything's part of the plan.

00:54:25.000 So perhaps.

00:54:27.000 Eric Wright, Nick, you're pissing off Spencer and TRS lately.

00:54:31.000 Are you starting to lift because you're worried they're going to send the SPURG something after you?

00:54:36.000 Extremely Richard Spencer voice.

00:54:38.000 Watch out, big guy.

00:54:41.000 No, no, that's not totally it.

00:54:42.000 I mean, in terms of protection, I mean, trust me, we're pretty armed over here.

00:54:47.000 And we have dogs, we have our share of guns.

00:54:51.000 And so we're not too worried about that over here, trust me.

00:54:54.000 A very pro gun family.

00:54:56.000 I don't think, you know, if anybody were to try something, I don't know if they'd fare so well between the many layers of defenses here over at the fort.

00:55:05.000 But with regard to the Spencer and TRS and the working out, I'm working out because it's time.

00:55:10.000 It's time to work out.

00:55:12.000 And I said the other day, who knows why I start working out?

00:55:15.000 Is it for aesthetic purposes?

00:55:16.000 Is it because of deals that were struck?

00:55:18.000 Is it because of other things going on?

00:55:21.000 Who knows?

00:55:22.000 Who could say?

00:55:23.000 But it's just time for a change.

00:55:24.000 New year, new me, 2018.

00:55:27.000 Nick is going to get his neck muscles in, Nick is going to get jacked.

00:55:30.000 Nick is going to be Macho Man, Randy Savage.

00:55:34.000 Ian Weber, we've got some feds in the chat defending Hitler, naturally.

00:55:40.000 It wouldn't be America First if he didn't have federal agents in the chat defending Hitler, right?

00:55:46.000 Phantom Groyper, don't worry about Matthew's $5, Nick.

00:55:50.000 He's going to be taking a Zyklon B shower soon.

00:55:53.000 That's pretty rough.

00:55:54.000 That's pretty rough.

00:55:55.000 I don't even know what Zyklon B is.

00:55:56.000 I don't even know what you're referring to.

00:55:59.000 Alci Abadi says, Did the Dems boo when Trump talked about MS 13?

00:56:03.000 I heard them boo at some point.

00:56:04.000 Also, Kate Steinle had dreams too.

00:56:07.000 No, it wasn't during the MS 13.

00:56:09.000 It was about the bit about chain migration, I believe.

00:56:13.000 My audio and video were out of sync while I was watching it, so it was kind of hard to tell.

00:56:17.000 But I believe it was after the chain migration bit, the fourth pillar there of immigration.

00:56:24.000 So that is what I believe it was.

00:56:26.000 I'm not totally sure.

00:56:27.000 And it looks like that's going to do it for us here tonight on the stream.

00:56:31.000 We've been on for about an hour.

00:56:33.000 If those are all our super chats, those are all.

00:56:35.000 Let's jump into the live stream and let's just see.

00:56:37.000 Let's get a feel for the general mood here.

00:56:39.000 We're having a fun little stream here.

00:56:43.000 And let's see.

00:56:46.000 Let's take a look.

00:56:49.000 Fuentes, do you want to put America first?

00:56:50.000 Of course, of course.

00:56:52.000 Said this yesterday.

00:56:53.000 I'll say it again.

00:56:54.000 I just can't picture Nick being buff.

00:56:56.000 That's a pretty rough neck.

00:56:57.000 I think it's part of it is because of my youth.

00:56:59.000 You know, people, we're living in this weird world where people have this expectation that you're going to be throwing back the iron and everything.

00:57:06.000 You know, we are in a traditional country, in a regular country, our young people are going to be lanky, high metabolism, high energy.

00:57:13.000 When you're running on, when you're running on, uh, what do you call it, adrenaline like I am 24 7, it tends to eat away at your gains there.

00:57:21.000 Um, picture Nick being white, another tough neg there.

00:57:27.000 Uh, Paul Town to Gitmo, it might, you know, Paul Town's a dangerous man, who knows?

00:57:34.000 Nick, make sure you prioritize neck over every other muscle.

00:57:37.000 I will.

00:57:39.000 Eric Wright, also, I've noticed your stream digits are way up since the split with James.

00:57:43.000 Onwards and upwards.

00:57:44.000 Hey, I couldn't comment on that for legal and other reasons, but hey, I mean, it's an observation.

00:57:50.000 Definitely interesting there.

00:57:52.000 Falagos, Paul Nealon on David Duke's show.

00:57:55.000 Well, I addressed this on my show last night.

00:57:55.000 Thoughts?

00:57:58.000 But I'm still fighting for Paul Nealon.

00:58:00.000 We're still going to keep the faith.

00:58:01.000 We're going to see what's going to happen.

00:58:03.000 But I don't think that was the best decision.

00:58:07.000 Scott Smith, atheists are the real Americans, just like our founding fathers, Nick.

00:58:11.000 You effing cuck.

00:58:13.000 I believe you're wrong about that.

00:58:14.000 There's a very good book about this subject.

00:58:16.000 It's called Liberty's Secrets by Joshua Charles, and it addresses these arguments.

00:58:21.000 But, you know, I would simply appeal to the first sentence of the Declaration of Independence, which is We are endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights.

00:58:28.000 I believe Creator presupposes intelligent design and therefore theism at the very minimum.

00:58:35.000 So, obviously, the 250 IQ restriction is not being enforced here on the program, but that's all right.

00:58:41.000 It's a special stream.

00:58:44.000 What else?

00:58:45.000 The founders were Christians, exactly, and a Protestant country at that.

00:58:49.000 And look, I think it's fundamentally irrelevant whether the founders were this or that.

00:58:52.000 The people that founded the country, 98% Protestant at the time of the founding, at the time of the first sentences in 1790.

00:59:00.000 Red Daikini says, quite the flurry of Twitter exchanges between Nealon and Shapiro Inc. today.

00:59:06.000 Yes, I love the facts don't care about your feelings line.

00:59:09.000 That was very powerful.

00:59:11.000 Snuffle something says, Nick, read this.

00:59:14.000 There it is.

00:59:16.000 Ray Cloud, Nick, you said the ship has sailed on women's sexual liberation.

00:59:21.000 Don't you think the ship has sailed also?

00:59:24.000 On a God fearing population?

00:59:25.000 Not at all.

00:59:26.000 Not at all.

00:59:27.000 And when I say the ship has sailed on sexual liberation, I don't mean it's totally, we cannot totally recapture a more traditionalist axiom or axiomatic truths about men and women and relationships, but simply that the kind of modernist sexual atmosphere, I don't think there's much turning back on that.

00:59:44.000 I think we can rebuild marriage, we can rebuild courtship, we can rebuild men and women, but are we ever going to get back to the point where we were in the 1920s?

00:59:52.000 Probably not.

00:59:53.000 And with regard to religion, The second religiosity is coming in terms of.

00:59:58.000 I mean, you can say, you can say, is it, you know, are you a hypocrite on this?

01:00:01.000 Well, the studies show that Generation Z, in terms of church attendance, is more religious than any generation since the generation which preceded the boomer generation than the baby boomer generation.

01:00:13.000 39% of Generation Z report regular church attendance, which is in contrast to less than 20% for the three previous generations.

01:00:21.000 So the second religiosity is coming here.

01:00:28.000 Nick, were there any topics you would have liked to have seen covered during the State of the Union that wasn't?

01:00:33.000 Yeah, legal immigration would have been nice, but can't make perfect the enemy of the good, right?

01:00:38.000 Nick, do you think this was something that would sway undecided people towards Trump?

01:00:42.000 It's tough to say sway.

01:00:43.000 I think the passions, I think the cycle is definitely in his favor.

01:00:47.000 You know, I don't know if people would say, I don't know if people have these complex, like, I really like Trump or I really don't.

01:00:53.000 I think the vast majority of people are basically ambivalent about these things, and it's really governed more by moods and things.

01:00:59.000 I don't think anybody is really a diehard Obama fan outside of the periphery.

01:01:03.000 And the same is true with Trump.

01:01:04.000 I think the majority of people have kind of this nuanced media position take where it's, I don't like the tweets, but I like some of the things he's doing.

01:01:14.000 And I think this certainly would lead them towards the latter.

01:01:21.000 Nick missed the super chat from the Daily Oven.

01:01:23.000 Let me peep that.

01:01:25.000 Do you like the Beastie Boys?

01:01:26.000 If so, fave song.

01:01:28.000 Well, I do like the Beastie Boys, even though there is something about it.

01:01:33.000 Them, but I do like the Beastie Boys.

01:01:35.000 Fave song.

01:01:37.000 I haven't listened to them in a long time, so it's tough to say.

01:01:42.000 Only work on your legs if you have stick legs.

01:01:45.000 I'm going to work on everything in the gym.

01:01:47.000 I'm going to be working on everything.

01:01:48.000 I'm going to be hitting the iron, getting pretty pumped, getting pretty jacked, getting pretty juiced.

01:01:55.000 Mick, do you have a Minecraft server?

01:01:56.000 Important question.

01:01:57.000 No, we took over the R the Donald Minecraft server.

01:02:01.000 And I think that's going to be it for us.

01:02:03.000 I think we've passed about the hour mark here of content.

01:02:08.000 And so I think we'll call it a night here.

01:02:10.000 It looks like that's everything on the State of the Union.

01:02:12.000 We're kind of degenerating into the usual super chat type stuff, but there'll be plenty more of that tomorrow on the show.

01:02:18.000 And, well, we got one more.

01:02:19.000 Ian Weber says, Due to the state of things, I think it's impossible that we won't have a second religiosity soon.

01:02:24.000 If we don't have one, the rapture will happen in less than 200 years.

01:02:27.000 Probably true.

01:02:28.000 You're seeing it happen in Poland.

01:02:30.000 You're seeing it happen in Russia.

01:02:31.000 You see with the Islamic resurgence, which could be a precursor to what we're seeing in the West.

01:02:36.000 But that's all for us tonight.

01:02:38.000 I think that'll be our last super chat.

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America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - January 30, 2018

Grading the State of the Union | America First Ep. 97

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