Bannon's War Room - February 19, 2025


Episode 4282： Live From Force Multiplier


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In this episode of The War Room, host Stephen K.K. Bannon is joined by Natalie Winters and Brian Kennedy of the Claremont Institute and Frank Gaffney of the Nation to discuss USAID and the color revolution.

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00:00:01.000 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:00:06.000 Pray for our enemies,
00:00:08.000 because we're going medieval on these people.
00:00:11.000 I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
00:00:16.000 The people have had a belly full of it.
00:00:18.000 I know you don't like hearing that.
00:00:19.000 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that,
00:00:21.000 but you're not going to stop it.
00:00:22.000 It's going to happen.
00:00:23.000 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
00:00:26.000 MAGA Media.
00:00:28.000 I wish in my soul,
00:00:30.000 I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:00:33.000 Ask yourself,
00:00:34.000 what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:00:37.000 If that answer is to save my country,
00:00:40.000 this country will be saved.
00:00:43.000 War Room.
00:00:44.000 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:00:52.000 Welcome to the War Room.
00:00:54.000 There you go.
00:00:56.000 Obviously not Stephen K. Bannon.
00:00:59.000 It's Natalie Winters.
00:01:00.000 I will be hosting just for a little bit.
00:01:02.000 I think Steve will be joining us probably around 545.
00:01:06.000 I always hesitate to give an exact time,
00:01:08.000 because as you know in the War Room,
00:01:09.000 as guests who have come on the show,
00:01:11.000 you know you get,
00:01:12.000 oh, you're going to come on at 515,
00:01:13.000 and then you're waiting for 30 minutes.
00:01:15.000 But that's the joy, the bliss of the War Room.
00:01:17.000 We're unscripted.
00:01:18.000 We're unplanned.
00:01:19.000 We're unprompted.
00:01:20.000 But thank you so much for joining us here.
00:01:22.000 I'm already getting flashbacks to when I had to fill in for Steve in prison.
00:01:26.000 Thank God.
00:01:27.000 He will not be going back.
00:01:29.000 I'm honored to be joined on stage.
00:01:30.000 I know you guys are used to a Natalie Winters rant. 0.96
00:01:33.000 Okay, I guess I have a better microphone now.
00:01:35.000 But I feel insecure of being on stage with these two brilliant, brilliant, brilliant men.
00:01:42.000 So I'm going to let them do the majority of the talking.
00:01:44.000 I know you guys want to get into the ever exciting topic of World War III.
00:01:50.000 But until we get into that, we'll tease you guys just a little bit.
00:01:54.000 I want to go back to something that we were talking about earlier this morning,
00:01:57.000 which is all things USAID and color revolution.
00:02:00.000 Because what we hear, the sort of, you know, strapline defense coming from MSNBC,
00:02:05.000 from Democrats, establishment Republicans, is the idea that if we destroy USAID
00:02:11.000 or have it subsumed by the State Department, that America's soft power abroad
00:02:15.000 is going to absolutely dissipate and that we're going to have no ability to, what,
00:02:19.000 counter the Chinese Communist Party.
00:02:21.000 Because I'm sure you guys know our elites are very intent on countering the Chinese Communist Party.
00:02:26.000 So I'll start with you, Brian Kennedy, of the Claremont Institute, all those wonderful things.
00:02:31.000 Your thoughts on that sort of critique?
00:02:35.000 Yeah, it's the kind of thing the CIA would say in order to justify more spending.
00:02:40.000 I think one of the main things about USAID and everything they've been doing is they've done this for the,
00:02:50.000 you've heard this phrase before, the greater good.
00:02:53.000 We're doing this for the greater good.
00:02:55.000 And so we've spent money all over the world for the greater good.
00:02:58.000 And we've projected American power, but we haven't really made friends or allies of these people.
00:03:05.000 We've used this to corrupt the world, I think, in so many ways.
00:03:08.000 And I think that's really the danger of what the government's been doing all these years.
00:03:12.000 And I think one of the main things that Musk has gotten to is that there is so much money.
00:03:19.000 When you hear about condoms going to Mozambique, and it's our tax dollars doing that.
00:03:24.000 Hang on, I was told by a reporter in the White House that because the condoms were going to Mozambique and not Gaza,
00:03:31.000 that the American people should support it.
00:03:35.000 Do you guys agree with that?
00:03:37.000 Okay.
00:03:38.000 I didn't think so.
00:03:39.000 I didn't think so.
00:03:40.000 But continue.
00:03:41.000 No, no.
00:03:42.000 I think that's just the point, though.
00:03:44.000 Why are our tax dollars doing that?
00:03:47.000 I will say, you know, Frank Gaffney and I, Frank's one of my heroes.
00:03:52.000 And Steve's not here, so I can just say whatever I want to until you try to wrestle me to stop me.
00:03:58.000 We're living in this very precarious time where government is spending a lot of money.
00:04:05.000 And Frank and I were arguing earlier this week about how much money we're spending on defense.
00:04:10.000 And President Trump had this proposal with the Chinese and the Russians that if we cut 50% of our defense budget, they'll cut 50% of their budgets.
00:04:21.000 And Frank called me and he was in moral outrage about the whole thing.
00:04:27.000 And I thought, you know, this is Trump's genius that he's going to cut 50% out of our defense budget and it's going to be, you know, condoms to Mozambique or, you know, transgender surgeries in the military and all this wasteful spending.
00:04:45.000 We're going to cut 50% out of our budget that goes in those kind of crazy things.
00:04:50.000 And the Russians and the Chinese would have to cut 50% out of their budget.
00:04:54.000 And it would be actual programs they're using to build, you know, nuclear weapons or tanks or airplanes, what have you.
00:05:01.000 And so I think one healthy byproduct of finding out where the money goes is what can our priorities or what should our priorities really be?
00:05:11.000 Should they be these silly programs around the world or should it be what does it take to defend the United States?
00:05:18.000 And I know you guys might have a little bit of a debate over World War Three, but I'm curious if you agree with Brian's assessment of the concept of United States American soft power abroad.
00:05:29.000 I think it's sort of a, I would say, false projection, the idea that we are actively competing with the CCP in any meaningful way, shape or form on the world stage currently, or at least under Joe Biden.
00:05:42.000 Well, I just have to say, if I can.
00:05:45.000 It's the CCP.
00:05:46.000 Um, come on.
00:05:48.000 Um, Natalie was overheard off mic as we came up saying, I want some exciting guests.
00:05:57.000 That was not a nag of you. 0.99
00:05:59.000 And rather disappoint, let me try to make AID as exciting as one can.
00:06:05.000 I have high standards.
00:06:06.000 I have high standards.
00:06:07.000 I have high standards.
00:06:08.000 Okay.
00:06:09.000 Look, this has been a quintessential example of slush funds being abused by Democrats for their social engineering projects.
00:06:27.000 And the dead giveaway, which Natalie now, our White House correspondent.
00:06:34.000 Let's hear it for the White House correspondent in War Room.
00:06:37.000 Yay! 0.99
00:06:38.000 As Natalie can appreciate, it appears that about half of the people in the room she works with now were on the USAID payroll, for God's sake.
00:06:52.000 Now, it starts with the fact that that last time I checked was a program designed to pay for foreign activities.
00:07:06.000 And we can argue about the value of them and, you know, the merits of the way they did it in particular under the Biden years.
00:07:13.000 And I would just stipulate, it was waste, fraud, and abuse stem to stern.
00:07:22.000 I happen to believe that there are some places where you could usefully use foreign assistance, but I'm not convinced that they were doing much of it on those guys' watch.
00:07:34.000 And as a result, they've given the whole thing a bad name.
00:07:37.000 But what is absolutely unacceptable and should be criminal and should be prosecuted, something that Natalie is rather big on, as you know, is the fact that they were plowing some of this money into propagandizing the American people.
00:07:56.000 That is unbelievable.
00:08:00.000 And I don't think we've gotten an indication of the full measure of how bad it was.
00:08:06.000 Which brings me to another exciting topic, which is what we're doing with our defense spending.
00:08:15.000 Now, Brian and I did have a little bit of a debate.
00:08:20.000 My piece of the debate was mostly, I personally don't believe that there is 50% of the defense budget that is in condoms going to Mozambique or transgender surgery.
00:08:36.000 In fact, one of the things that I said to Brian that I'm hopeful of is if Elon Musk and his team do, as Steve has constantly now been exhorting them to do, to go into Virginia.
00:08:51.000 Have you heard about this?
00:08:52.000 Go into Virginia, just like in, you know, the Civil War.
00:08:57.000 If they do, and they actually can bring the kinds of techniques and technologies to bear that they've used handsomely on USAID and a number of other outfits,
00:09:10.000 maybe they will find what has been eluding us to this point, which are line items dedicated to waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:09:23.000 And if they do, we should strike them for sure.
00:09:28.000 And they might find other programs that they think are not meritorious or at least not as high a priority as they should be.
00:09:35.000 And we should have a debate about that.
00:09:37.000 But I would like to suggest, ladies and gentlemen, and this is a point on which Brian and I agree,
00:09:47.000 that as we are in a war, we ought to think very carefully about either taking the money out or being perceived as taking the money out,
00:10:01.000 rather than spending it more wisely.
00:10:04.000 And I just want to do a shout out to a really exciting person who unfortunately is not up here on the stage, but she's right over there.
00:10:11.000 Dr. Karen Sigamund, one of the war room favorites, ladies and gentlemen.
00:10:17.000 And I'm going to steal one of her lines because she's always stealing my damn lines. 1.00
00:10:22.000 Karen has a wonderful analogy.
00:10:27.000 You all are familiar with this question about if a tree falls in the forest, did anybody hear it?
00:10:36.000 If they weren't there, right?
00:10:38.000 Did it actually make a sound since nobody was there to hear it or something like that?
00:10:44.000 Anyway, the point is, she said, if there is a war underway and nobody is paying attention, can you still lose it?
00:10:54.000 And the answer, of course, is yes, you can.
00:10:59.000 And we're testing the proposition right now.
00:11:02.000 And one of the things, and I see the great Steve Bannon is in the house, for which I will always be personally grateful,
00:11:09.000 and I suspect the rest of you feel the same way, is he has helped people like our Committee on the Present Danger,
00:11:17.000 China, and countless others, elevating these sorts of issues that the American people have to know about.
00:11:26.000 Have to know that when we're deciding about defense expenditures, or what they should be, or how much they should be,
00:11:34.000 we're having it in the context of the fact that we have mortal enemies, starting with the Chinese Communist Party, 0.86
00:11:43.000 who are emboldened by what they see us doing.
00:11:47.000 And if they are emboldened, they will press forward, I'm afraid, from what I believe Natalie has done heroic work to describe,
00:11:57.000 the unrestricted warfare they've engaged in against us for 30-some years,
00:12:05.000 the people's war that they announced publicly, that they had declared against us back in May of 2019.
00:12:16.000 And yes, the shooting war that they have been preparing for inexorably,
00:12:22.000 and which could be upon us at any time, and last point, which is really exciting,
00:12:28.000 is we have barely had a conversation in this country about the fact that the Defense Department of the United States
00:12:39.000 had better be structured, equipped, trained, and prepared to contend with something that I submit to you they are not any of those things right now.
00:12:52.000 And that is dealing with multiple divisions of Chinese People's Liberation Army personnel in America right now.
00:13:04.000 How exciting is that, ladies and gentlemen?
00:13:07.000 We need to work it. Thank you.
00:13:10.000 You guys definitely were wonderful guests, I will give you that.
00:13:14.000 I think I hear Stephen K. Bannon is back, so I assume he'll be taking over in B Block.
00:13:19.000 We are getting ready at some point, too, for President Trump to speak down in Miami,
00:13:23.000 which we will be tossing to live, not just for you guys, but for the audience at home as well.
00:13:28.000 But before we jump to break, I think you guys are so correct, right?
00:13:31.000 The idea of waste, fraud, and abuse, but I think that that's almost too euphemistic, right?
00:13:35.000 It's weaponization of government against the American people. 0.83
00:13:38.000 Speaking of the Pentagon, it was less than a week after Russia invaded Ukraine
00:13:43.000 that they launched the Influence and Perception Management Office coming out of the Pentagon,
00:13:47.000 the Pentagon, which was responsible for weaponizing propaganda, not just internationally, but domestically.
00:13:53.000 Here at home, I think we've got to send DOGE right to that agency.
00:13:57.000 And I've been looking, too, at the mis- and disinformation grants coming out of all the various agencies.
00:14:04.000 And I remember there were about 1,000 of them, a little over 1,000.
00:14:10.000 And if you itemize them from when they were started, 98.6 of them began after President Trump was elected and sworn in.
00:14:20.000 If there's not a more telling statistic, the idea that misinformation is and always has been an astroturfed campaign
00:14:26.000 to come after this movement and silence the actual truth, people like you guys, what you were just talking about,
00:14:31.000 then I don't know what other evidence you could point to.
00:14:35.000 98.6% of grants dedicated to combating misinformation starting after President Trump was sworn in.
00:14:42.000 And 85.7% of them happened under Joe Biden. Right.
00:14:48.000 We will be back. I think Stephen K. Bannon will assume his rightful role as host.
00:14:54.000 And I think you guys made the cut. You'll get to stay on.
00:14:57.000 We will be right back after this short break.
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00:16:39.000 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:16:43.000 Thank you.
00:16:46.000 Welcome back to the War Room.
00:16:48.000 Have we had...
00:16:49.000 Has...
00:16:50.000 Has...
00:16:51.000 Has...
00:16:52.000 Has Derrick Harvey...
00:16:53.000 Is Derrick Harvey...
00:16:54.000 The Derrick...
00:16:55.000 Colonel Harvey speak?
00:16:56.000 Where's Colonel Harvey?
00:16:57.000 Where's Derrick Harvey?
00:17:00.000 Oh, wow.
00:17:01.000 We had Colonel Harvey here to talk about the deep state.
00:17:04.000 Have we guys...
00:17:05.000 Have we had the debate?
00:17:07.000 You got your mic there?
00:17:09.000 You have...
00:17:10.000 Okay, fine.
00:17:11.000 Hang on.
00:17:12.000 We're here in the War Room for the force multiplier event.
00:17:17.000 I want to tell the audience, President Trump is at Doral.
00:17:20.000 I think we're going to be going to Doral to pick up President Trump's comments momentarily.
00:17:24.000 Can we do a...
00:17:25.000 This is the...
00:17:26.000 This is the same crowd that was here at 8.30 this morning.
00:17:29.000 Right?
00:17:30.000 These are the workers.
00:17:32.000 I'm just kidding.
00:17:33.000 We had a tremendous...
00:17:34.000 I want to thank Real America's Voice, Parker and Rob Sieg.
00:17:38.000 Of course, Harry, our producer.
00:17:40.000 Our producer.
00:17:42.000 Harry's goes everywhere with us.
00:17:44.000 Cameron, our content producer.
00:17:46.000 The producer of the War Room.
00:17:48.000 Harry's from Real America's Voice.
00:17:50.000 So...
00:17:51.000 And they can set this thing up amazingly late last night.
00:17:53.000 Um...
00:17:55.000 Bolsonaro.
00:17:56.000 I stepped next door because Ed Warder is here.
00:17:59.000 And the point I wanted to make next door was that...
00:18:02.000 We're at war.
00:18:04.000 They indicted President Bolsonaro yesterday with a coup d'etat for contesting a stolen election.
00:18:14.000 Right?
00:18:15.000 40 years in prison.
00:18:17.000 And you know why?
00:18:18.000 Because he's winning in the polls on the rematch.
00:18:22.000 Just like they had the South Korea and they've had a coup there by the Chinese Communist Party.
00:18:28.000 You know, they've had a coup there.
00:18:31.000 They want to put him in prison.
00:18:33.000 President Trump from the J6 committee, when they gave the information over to Jack Smith.
00:18:41.000 Jack Smith's indictments.
00:18:42.000 It was 350 years imprisoning President Trump.
00:18:46.000 They wanted to imprison President Trump.
00:18:48.000 And just remember the work you did to guarantee and to make sure he had that victory in November.
00:18:55.000 Is that they were going to give a superseding indictment the next day on President Trump.
00:19:01.000 That's that whole report.
00:19:03.000 To expedite President Trump on conspiracy charges, insurrection charges.
00:19:09.000 They wanted, their number one objective was for Donald J. Trump.
00:19:16.000 The man you're going to see in a minute from Doral.
00:19:18.000 That's the President of the United States to die in a federal prison.
00:19:23.000 To die in a federal prison.
00:19:26.000 Don't, these people are at war with us.
00:19:29.000 This is why right now the first 30 days have been amazing.
00:19:32.000 Do you think, have you looked at their long faces on MSNBC?
00:19:35.000 Do you think they like what we're doing to them?
00:19:38.000 Do they think we like, they like what we're doing to the administrative state or to the deep state?
00:19:42.000 No.
00:19:43.000 And they still have immense power.
00:19:46.000 They have immense resources.
00:19:47.000 They have immense cunning.
00:19:49.000 And because they're the children of Satan.
00:19:52.000 Right?
00:19:53.000 They're demonic.
00:19:54.000 Purely.
00:19:55.000 If you didn't think they were demonic.
00:19:57.000 If you're just a regular everyday American.
00:19:59.000 Look at what they did to the country in four years.
00:20:02.000 Look at what they turned to the schools.
00:20:04.000 Look at this transgender, radical transgender ideology. 1.00
00:20:07.000 It's not just men and girls sports.
00:20:10.000 Look at the radical nature of everything they attempt to do.
00:20:17.000 This is why it's providential that they stole the election.
00:20:20.000 Because then you can see that average Americans who don't pay, the low information voters who don't pay a lot of attention can say, that is not my country.
00:20:29.000 That is not the United States of America.
00:20:31.000 And I don't know about all this stuff, but I want Trump.
00:20:34.000 And that's why they backed Trump.
00:20:36.000 And that's why Trump got 39% of African American men.
00:20:42.000 Right?
00:20:43.000 It's a new day that's gone here.
00:20:46.000 In Star County, Texas is 97% Hispanic.
00:20:52.000 It's hard scrabble.
00:20:53.000 It's tough to make a living down there.
00:20:55.000 Hillary Clinton won it by 60%. 0.94
00:20:59.000 Trump won it this time by 16%.
00:21:03.000 Hispanic citizens, Hispanic Americans are coming our way.
00:21:07.000 You know why?
00:21:08.000 They see these people are naturally socially conservative.
00:21:13.000 All we have to do is reach out to them on the economics.
00:21:17.000 We reach out to them on the economics.
00:21:19.000 We built a coalition.
00:21:21.000 You add the Make America Healthy Again.
00:21:23.000 You add those red-pilled mothers from the shutdown. 1.00
00:21:27.000 This is a coalition bigger than 1932.
00:21:32.000 And people say, well, it's so diverse, Steve.
00:21:34.000 You got all these oligarchs.
00:21:35.000 You got these crypto bros.
00:21:37.000 I said, yo, Roosevelt had, you know, KKK guys in the south. 0.66
00:21:43.000 He had the Harvard faculty.
00:21:44.000 He had Wall Street operators.
00:21:46.000 He had ranchers out west.
00:21:48.000 And they ruled the country for 50 years.
00:21:50.000 They kept a coalition together.
00:21:52.000 That's what President Trump's doing.
00:21:54.000 And we're not going to love it all.
00:21:57.000 We're not going to love it all.
00:21:59.000 But we're going to love enough of it to keep driving forward and to make it better and better and better and better.
00:22:10.000 I got Gaffney and Brian up here, two of the smartest guys I know.
00:22:15.000 President Trump, I mean, he has totally flipped the geostrategic nature of the country on its head.
00:22:22.000 He's talking a naval strategy from the Panama Canal to Greenland to Arctic, right?
00:22:26.000 Block off the Soviet submarine.
00:22:28.000 The Russian submarines coming down through Greenland.
00:22:30.000 Go to the third island chain, the first island chain in the Pacific, that vast desert in the Pacific.
00:22:35.000 You have hermetically sealed the United States.
00:22:38.000 You add in an Iron Dome.
00:22:40.000 Boom.
00:22:41.000 It is the Monroe Doctrine 2.0.
00:22:44.000 It's what James Monroe and our founders always thought of.
00:22:48.000 America as an island of sanity and safety.
00:22:51.000 And then we can pick and choose where we go throughout the world.
00:22:54.000 President Trump then sits there and goes, guess what?
00:22:56.000 We have an opportunity to beat our swords into plowshares.
00:23:00.000 Of course, Frank Gaffney has a stroke, right?
00:23:04.000 He's calling me.
00:23:05.000 What is Trump talking about?
00:23:07.000 I got a debate.
00:23:08.000 Give me somebody to debate.
00:23:09.000 We'll do that in a second.
00:23:10.000 We'll get one more point.
00:23:11.000 But my point is, Trump is totally changing that dynamic.
00:23:14.000 Look, in Riyadh, what do they do?
00:23:17.000 All of a sudden, we make that deal with the Russians and flip them against the Chinese Communist Party. 0.86
00:23:23.000 All of a sudden, you don't have the burning problems on the Eurasian land.
00:23:27.000 Yes, I understand.
00:23:29.000 We can't trust the KGB.
00:23:30.000 This is going to take years to do.
00:23:32.000 But his thinking is next level.
00:23:35.000 Now, I still don't totally understand the condos in Gaza.
00:23:40.000 But hey, Trump's rolling, baby.
00:23:43.000 Just tell me, just go with it.
00:23:45.000 Right?
00:23:46.000 I don't know.
00:23:47.000 Just go with it.
00:23:48.000 He's been right on so many things.
00:23:49.000 Who knows?
00:23:50.000 Been talking about Greenland forever.
00:23:52.000 Frank Gaffney.
00:23:53.000 Frank Gaffney.
00:23:54.000 Why are you apoplectic?
00:23:55.000 When President Trump says, I'm going to cut the defense budget.
00:24:00.000 I'm going to cut the defense budget by 50% because I'm going to make a deal with Putin. 0.89
00:24:05.000 And we're going to beat our swords in the plowshares.
00:24:08.000 I think as the Old Testament tells us.
00:24:11.000 Right?
00:24:12.000 Swords in the plowshares.
00:24:14.000 Did it work out in the Old Testament like that?
00:24:16.000 I don't know.
00:24:17.000 I think the swords won.
00:24:18.000 But I like the thought.
00:24:20.000 Why do you have conditions, sir?
00:24:23.000 The simple reason is this.
00:24:28.000 I spent almost all of my professional life working against addled-minded arms control.
00:24:39.000 And the idea you're going to get into one process, as they call it, with the Russians and the Chinese where they're going to actually agree to cut their military by half, ain't going to happen.
00:24:59.000 But what could begin happening, and I've seen it again and again and again, is it immediately starts constricting us.
00:25:05.000 So I've got a better idea.
00:25:07.000 And it's one you've talked about a lot on the program.
00:25:09.000 And our Committee on the Present Danger China has been all about. 0.97
00:25:12.000 How about this?
00:25:14.000 How about we cut the bad guys' defense expenditures, but not ours?
00:25:22.000 Could we do that?
00:25:23.000 Well, not through an arms control process, that's for sure.
00:25:26.000 But how about we just stop underwriting the enemy?
00:25:31.000 How about we stop giving your money to the bad guys to build weapons to kill us?
00:25:40.000 We could do that today.
00:25:42.000 And the President could make it happen.
00:25:44.000 Brian Kennedy, rebuttal.
00:25:47.000 Not so much a rebuttal as to amplify something the President said, which I think is the most important point he's made on national security.
00:25:58.000 He talks about an iron dome because you know about the iron dome that's in Israel.
00:26:02.000 He wants to make sure we're defended from ballistic missile attack from Russia, China, and Iran.
00:26:09.000 Today, right now, if Russia, China, or Iran launched a nuclear ballistic missile at us, we could not stop it.
00:26:18.000 Washington could be decapitated.
00:26:21.000 They might evacuate Washington.
00:26:23.000 They might evacuate the leaders, our political betters, to some special spot.
00:26:29.000 But all of us would be dead.
00:26:31.000 President Trump knows that you need a national missile defense.
00:26:36.000 You have a window to get it right.
00:26:39.000 It's a very short window to get it right.
00:26:42.000 But I guarantee you this.
00:26:44.000 The Russians and the Chinese do not take him seriously until that missile defense can be built.
00:26:51.000 You look at some of his top theorists and strategists that he's put in the defense department.
00:26:57.000 Some of them are very good people.
00:26:59.000 But not all of them are for a national missile defense, to be clear.
00:27:04.000 He is great.
00:27:06.000 Finally, we have a president who is going to get this done in a very short period of time.
00:27:13.000 We get that done.
00:27:14.000 We can do peace deals all throughout the world.
00:27:17.000 If we don't do that, no superpower will take us seriously, period.
00:27:23.000 Okay, great.
00:27:25.000 We're not going to go drow yet.
00:27:27.000 We're going to take a short commercial break here in a second.
00:27:30.000 We have two honored guests.
00:27:31.000 Spencer Morrison is the new Peter Navarro.
00:27:34.000 It's about reassuring and about tariffs.
00:27:37.000 President Trump, he doesn't think of those tariffs.
00:27:39.000 He thinks it's a geoeconomic rethinking of this country in the economic model.
00:27:44.000 I believe President Trump one day sees at least a third of revenue come from external revenue, right?
00:27:51.000 Not just on the backs of the American companies, American entrepreneurs and American citizens.
00:27:56.000 It's radical.
00:27:57.000 Spencer has forgotten more about tariffs than just about anybody I know ever has understood.
00:28:03.000 And he understands the simple fact.
00:28:05.000 It's not a tax.
00:28:06.000 And it's not a tax on consumers, which are trying to scaremonger.
00:28:09.000 And Colonel Derrick Harvey is still here.
00:28:11.000 Colonel Harvey is one of the leaders in President Trump's White House the first time to make sure he kept us out of trouble.
00:28:18.000 An absolute hero.
00:28:20.000 He is an expert on the deep state.
00:28:23.000 So we're getting back of both of them.
00:28:24.000 Take a short commercial break.
00:28:26.000 Let's hear it for this crowd.
00:28:28.000 You guys are amazing.
00:28:29.000 Nine hours and you're still going.
00:28:32.000 Short break.
00:28:33.000 Back at National Harbor Gaylord Hotel.
00:28:37.000 CPAC.
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00:31:11.000 Here's your host, Stephen K. BANNON.
00:31:18.000 Yeah.
00:31:19.000 No, we have a party.
00:31:23.000 We're going to have a party and somebody in the audience goes, is that Raheem's restaurant?
00:31:28.000 Because this is what Raheem's become.
00:31:30.000 He's like a restaurateur now.
00:31:32.000 Raheem, love you, brother.
00:31:34.000 Colonel Derek Harvey joins us.
00:31:36.000 Colonel Harvey, I've known, I've had the honor of knowing this individual for about 10 years.
00:31:40.000 One of the greatest patriots I've ever met.
00:31:44.000 A man that's put on the line many times for his country in uniform in the army, particularly in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
00:31:51.000 And really put it on the line in the White House.
00:31:55.000 If people had listened to Colonel Harvey, President Trump would have never been impeached the first time.
00:32:01.000 Colonel Harvey, his guys had it that wired.
00:32:04.000 And because why?
00:32:05.000 They know the deep state.
00:32:06.000 Colonel, we're pressed for time, but if you give us, I know you're fighting this.
00:32:09.000 If you give us five, six, seven minutes.
00:32:11.000 On the deep state and President Trump's effort and his team that are set up to try to take it down, sir.
00:32:17.000 Okay.
00:32:18.000 Thanks, Steve.
00:32:19.000 Really appreciate it.
00:32:20.000 Shout out to everyone here who's on team with President Trump.
00:32:24.000 One thing I like about what President Trump is doing is he is coming in bold, taking action and moving fast, keeping the enemy off guard.
00:32:33.000 And I'll use the term the enemy because the deep state, call it what you will, the administrative state, the bureaucrats, they are overwhelmingly aligned with the movement of the leftist Democrats.
00:32:47.000 That's what we find in there.
00:32:48.000 And when we first went in in Trump 45, they were very bold on the other side about what they were doing.
00:32:57.000 They were leaking classified information.
00:33:00.000 Hang on one second.
00:33:01.000 We just had the president's coming in live from Doral.
00:33:04.000 Let's cut to that on the two screens.
00:33:05.000 Okay, good.
00:33:06.000 We're going to come back to Derek Carvey on his discussion on the deep state here in a moment.
00:33:09.000 Let's go ahead and throw it up on the screens.
00:33:11.000 From Detroit down to Houston, and New York to LA, where there's pride in every American heart, and it's time we stand and say that I'm about to be an American where at least I know I'm free.
00:33:38.000 And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me, and I gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today.
00:33:51.000 Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land.
00:33:56.000 God bless the USA.
00:33:57.000 God bless the USA.
00:34:03.000 And I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free.
00:34:11.000 And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me, and I gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today.
00:34:25.000 Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land.
00:34:30.000 God bless the USA.
00:34:43.000 Thank you very much.
00:34:45.000 What a great group this is.
00:34:47.000 You have to see outside.
00:34:48.000 It's going wild outside with a lot of love for all of us, I guess.
00:34:52.000 But thank you, Richard, for the introduction.
00:34:54.000 And thank you to all for such a warm welcome.
00:34:58.000 It's great to be back in beautiful Miami where I've actually built a lot of great buildings with the desert family and some others. 0.99
00:35:05.000 We've had tremendous success in Miami.
00:35:07.000 We have Trump Towers and Sunny Isles Beach.
00:35:10.000 It's four beautiful buildings right on the ocean.
00:35:14.000 The Trump Grande.
00:35:16.000 Put the little E in the end for a little class it up a little bit.
00:35:20.000 Trump Grande and the 700 acre Dural.
00:35:25.000 It's a tremendous country club.
00:35:28.000 And it's actually the most successful country club in the U.S.
00:35:31.000 Where I was just given approval to build 1,500 units.
00:35:35.000 And I couldn't care less about building units when you're president.
00:35:38.000 Who the hell wants to build units?
00:35:40.000 I've been building units all my life.
00:35:42.000 I don't want to build units, but they gave us permission to do it.
00:35:46.000 But today is a tremendous honor to become the first American president to address the Future Investment Initiative Institute.
00:35:55.000 That's the first one.
00:35:56.000 That's very, it's always nice.
00:36:02.000 And I want to thank Mayor of Miami, Francis Suarez, for being here.
00:36:08.000 Thank you very much, Francis, wherever you may be.
00:36:10.000 Hi, Francis.
00:36:12.000 And thank you for the endorsement when I ran.
00:36:14.000 I was very appreciative.
00:36:16.000 Along with the mayor of Miami Beach, Stephen Minor.
00:36:20.000 Stephen, thank you very much.
00:36:21.000 Thank you.
00:36:23.000 Thank you.
00:36:24.000 Thank you, Stephen.
00:36:25.000 Thank you very much.
00:36:26.000 And numerous American business leaders.
00:36:28.000 Some of the biggest business leaders actually anywhere in the world.
00:36:32.000 And many distinguished guests from the Middle East.
00:36:35.000 And in particular, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a special place with special leaders.
00:36:44.000 And including FII Institute chairman and governor of the Public Investment Fund, which is a seriously big fund.
00:36:53.000 Yasser, I see you there.
00:36:54.000 Stand up, Yasser. 0.96
00:36:57.000 Everyone knows Yasser.
00:36:58.000 Thank you.
00:37:00.000 Great guy.
00:37:01.000 Great, great person.
00:37:02.000 And Finance Minister Mohammed.
00:37:05.000 Thank you very much.
00:37:06.000 Thank you.
00:37:07.000 Right.
00:37:08.000 Thank you very much.
00:37:09.000 Good to see you again.
00:37:11.000 That's pretty good.
00:37:12.000 Finance Minister of that part of the world.
00:37:14.000 That's not bad.
00:37:15.000 Other parts of the world, not so good.
00:37:17.000 But that one is good.
00:37:19.000 And many other senior government leaders.
00:37:21.000 I also want to recognize the Kingdom's ambassador to the United States, Her Royal Highness Princess Rima.
00:37:28.000 Ooh, very popular.
00:37:31.000 Very popular.
00:37:34.000 Wow.
00:37:35.000 That's very nice.
00:37:38.000 Sitting next to Elon.
00:37:41.000 Wow, that's...
00:37:42.000 You couldn't do better than that, huh?
00:37:44.000 As well as my own special envoy to the Middle East, who's really done a fantastic job.
00:37:53.000 Steve Whitcoff.
00:37:54.000 Thank you, Steve.
00:37:55.000 He's been busy.
00:37:57.000 And Michael Waltz is here.
00:37:59.000 Where is Michael?
00:38:00.000 Michael's been so busy.
00:38:01.000 They've been going back and forth and back.
00:38:04.000 And a woman who has just voted the most powerful woman anywhere in the world. 0.97
00:38:11.000 Suzy Wiles.
00:38:12.000 Thank you.
00:38:13.000 Thank you.
00:38:14.000 The most powerful woman.
00:38:15.000 Thank you, Suzy.
00:38:16.000 Thank you.
00:38:17.000 Thank you.
00:38:18.000 Most powerful woman. 0.96
00:38:19.000 That's pretty good.
00:38:20.000 We have to talk to you about that, Suzy.
00:38:27.000 That's pretty good.
00:38:28.000 And also, we all know Jared Kushner.
00:38:31.000 A very special guy.
00:38:32.000 Thank you, Jared.
00:38:35.000 Thank you, Jared.
00:38:36.000 And Elon Musk.
00:38:38.000 Musk. He's been making a little news lately, hasn't he, though? Very positive news. Stand up, Elon. He's a great guy.
00:38:50.060 We did a little show last night. I heard they got very good ratings, too, by the way. We did. Hannity. Sean Hannity is fantastic. A fantastic man, a fantastic guy, and he did a show, and it was great being on the show with you last night.
00:39:03.680 I come today with a simple message for business leaders from all across the nation and all around the world. If you want to build the future, push boundaries, unleash breakthroughs, transform industries, and make a fortune, because you want to make a fortune.
00:39:19.280 Most of you have already made a fortune. I don't want to say that. There's no better place on Earth than the current and future United States of America under a certain president named Donald J. Trump.
00:39:31.400 I think that you're going to do very well.
00:39:36.880 They're saying that November 5th, Election Day, 2024 will go down as one of the most important days in the history of our country.
00:39:45.000 They said in 129 years, the most consequential election. I don't know if they're right about that or not, but it sounds good.
00:39:54.120 I wanted to see if I could get a couple of more years tacked on, but I figured the fight wasn't really worth it.
00:39:59.440 129 is a lot.
00:40:01.240 And as of January 20th, 2025, the dark days of high taxes, crushing regulations, rampant inflation, flagrant corruption, government, weaponization.
00:40:11.580 Oh, I know about weaponization. And total incompetence will be gone forever.
00:40:17.460 They'll be gone forever.
00:40:20.900 Because the United States is back and open for business and the golden age of America has officially begun.
00:40:27.800 You see it happening.
00:40:28.540 Since my election, America's economic engines have come roaring back to life in just a very short period of time.
00:40:37.700 Think of it from November 5th.
00:40:39.820 The progress that's been made has been amazing.
00:40:44.080 The Nasdaq is up nearly 10 percent in just a few months.
00:40:48.040 And that's a lot.
00:40:50.240 The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 2,200 points.
00:40:54.620 And Bitcoin has set multiple all-time record highs because everyone knows that I'm committed to making America the crypto capital.
00:41:02.180 We want to stay at the forefront of everything.
00:41:06.140 And one of them is crypto.
00:41:08.400 And Miami seems to be the center of the action, come to think of it.
00:41:13.580 And maybe it'll stay there.
00:41:15.280 Business optimism skyrocketed 42 points.
00:41:18.680 Think of that in a single month, the most in history by far.
00:41:22.340 That's the biggest increase in history by not even close.
00:41:26.980 The ISM Index of Manufacturing Activity surged into positive territory for the first time in many years.
00:41:35.400 Amazing.
00:41:36.540 And it was just announced.
00:41:37.640 This is an interesting one.
00:41:38.940 I didn't realize it was that bad for so long.
00:41:41.160 But it was just announced by one of the nation's most historically accurate and respected pulses, Rasmussen,
00:41:47.140 that the number of Americans who believe our country is on the right track now exceeds those who think it's heading in the wrong direction for the first time in 20 years.
00:41:57.940 Can you believe that?
00:41:58.700 20 years.
00:41:59.260 And this is really a seismic 27-point swing from just before the election.
00:42:08.260 That's nobody's ever seen anything like that one.
00:42:10.240 Yes, sir.
00:42:10.620 I want to tell you that's a big one.
00:42:12.780 The best and most successful business leaders on earth are now racing to invest in the United States since November.
00:42:20.640 DeMac has announced plans to invest $40 billion in the U.S., creating at least 10,000 jobs.
00:42:26.940 SoftBank has announced investments of between $100 and $200 billion, creating at least 100,000 American jobs.
00:42:34.920 Oracle and OpenAI and SoftBank are now collectively committing $500 billion to keep the United States on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence.
00:42:45.360 And so many more.
00:42:46.840 I mean, so many companies, they want to come to the White House and have a little news conference all the time.
00:42:52.800 I said, why don't you just announce it?
00:42:55.420 But they want to come, and I'll do that.
00:42:57.020 I don't mind doing that.
00:42:58.040 I say anytime they want to go $10 billion or more, I'm there.
00:43:03.340 $10 billion or more.
00:43:06.260 But on his recent visit to the White House, the Prime Minister of Japan announced he anticipates Japanese investment to the United States of well over a trillion dollars.
00:43:16.160 And we're working on an Alaska pipeline already, which is the closest point to Asia.
00:43:21.640 And as you know, the ANWR, which we've started, Ronald Reagan couldn't get it approved.
00:43:27.680 Nobody could get it approved for so many years.
00:43:30.080 Couldn't get it approved.
00:43:30.820 I got it approved.
00:43:31.620 Actually, I got it approved twice.
00:43:32.880 I got it approved, and Biden ended it.
00:43:35.160 That was a shocker.
00:43:36.220 But we just got it approved again.
00:43:38.660 And we're going to be—
00:43:40.540 It's probably the largest deposit maybe anywhere in the world just by itself.
00:43:47.820 It's, they say, of similar size to Saudi Arabia, so we hope that's correct. 1.00
00:43:51.720 But all of this is only happening because of the world-changing results of the 2024 election.
00:43:59.120 We won the House.
00:44:00.680 We won the Senate, the White House, and the Electoral College, and the popular vote in a landslide.
00:44:07.020 We also won all seven swing states, and all 50 states shifted in the Republican direction for the first time ever.
00:44:14.880 So every state, every single state of the 50 states shifted Republican.
00:44:20.600 It's never happened before.
00:44:22.040 Either way, it's never happened.
00:44:24.360 And 85 percent of counties voted for Trump.
00:44:28.300 Think of that.
00:44:28.920 So you have 2,600 counties versus 525.
00:44:35.020 2,600.
00:44:36.400 Think of that.
00:44:36.880 That's why when you look at the election map after it was all done, the certified map, the whole thing was red.
00:44:44.440 2,600 versus 500.
00:44:49.200 It's a big, big div.
00:44:50.820 Nobody's seen anything like it, actually.
00:44:52.560 So as a result of this, very historic victory.
00:44:55.320 Investors from all over the planet once again have confidence in America's future and respect for America's leaders.
00:45:02.540 And it's about time we get a little respect.
00:45:05.360 The last administration was the worst and most incompetent in the history of our country,
00:45:11.120 but we are moving quickly to fix every single disaster Joe Biden created
00:45:14.980 and make America stronger and more prosperous than ever before.
00:45:19.160 Our first and most urgent mission is to remove the criminals that Biden allowed into our country
00:45:31.820 with the ridiculous and very dangerous open borders policy.
00:45:36.020 They came from all over the world.
00:45:38.780 They came from prisons and jails.
00:45:41.000 They came from mental institutions and insane asylums.
00:45:45.360 They were gang members.
00:45:47.340 They were drug lords.
00:45:49.240 They came from all over.
00:45:51.440 And they were allowed to come into our country. 1.00
00:45:53.680 And we're getting them out in record levels, just like they came in in record levels.
00:46:01.120 I want to thank Tom Holman and Christy, who is just doing, she's doing a fantastic job.
00:46:08.520 Governor of South Dakota and Tom Holman, you know.
00:46:13.500 And they are doing a fantastic job.
00:46:15.740 And the results are incredible.
00:46:19.720 And every country is taking them back.
00:46:22.780 They're sending their criminals to us, and they're all taking them back.
00:46:25.420 We had a little problem with a couple of them.
00:46:27.060 That ended very quickly.
00:46:29.440 And some said, we don't really want MS-13 back in our country.
00:46:32.900 But I said, congratulations, you're taking them back.
00:46:35.420 And they take them back.
00:46:36.460 And, by the way, Europe and other places ought to start also doing that.
00:46:41.980 They better start looking at immigration, because it's really hurting Europe very, very badly. 0.99
00:46:46.020 And they better get smart, and they better get tough before it's too late.
00:46:49.500 We're also working to end the highest inflation in our country's history,
00:46:53.240 all because they played with our energy policy and wasted money on the Green News scam
00:46:58.660 and other things such as that.
00:47:00.180 And they wasted money at never-seen-before levels.
00:47:06.020 If Joe Biden had simply held federal spending at the pre-pandemic levels we had in 2019,
00:47:12.960 we right now, we would have virtually no inflation.
00:47:17.460 We're trying to balance the budget immediately.
00:47:19.900 And because of the tariff income, which is really, it's already turned out to be amazing, actually.
00:47:27.580 It's really meant more for bringing countries and companies into our country.
00:47:34.640 But the numbers are rather staggering, because we're the big piggy bank that everybody wants to be.
00:47:42.200 And they can play games, and they can say, well, there'll be retribution and equal this and that.
00:47:47.100 But they can't be equal.
00:47:48.800 But we want to keep it so that we're the big piggy bank.
00:47:51.260 And if we had years like we did the last four years, that wouldn't have lasted too long.
00:47:56.520 We're not promising it.
00:47:59.640 But, you know, all of these things could happen.
00:48:01.960 We hope to balance our budget.
00:48:03.820 So I don't want to promise it, because if I do and we come about $10 short,
00:48:09.480 the fake news media back there would say, we have breaking news.
00:48:12.760 He did not make it.
00:48:14.140 He did not make it.
00:48:15.640 But we'll get it done very soon.
00:48:18.040 It might not be this year, but it could be this year.
00:48:20.020 Actually, we have a chance at getting it even this year, which people would be shocked at,
00:48:23.540 because they were talking about 10 years, 15 years, 20 years from now.
00:48:28.040 When I took office last month, we inherited the consequences of inflation.
00:48:32.700 That was more than four times what it was when I left four years ago.
00:48:37.180 Think of that.
00:48:38.140 I left.
00:48:38.600 It was at 1.4%.
00:48:40.200 And the annual government spending over $1.5 trillion more than projected in 2020 alone.
00:48:48.200 $1.5 trillion.
00:48:50.500 But under the Trump administration, all of that is changing faster and more dramatically
00:48:54.880 than anyone ever thought possible.
00:48:57.080 They didn't think it was possible to do what we've done in just a very short period of time.
00:49:00.940 We've accomplished more in four weeks than most administrations accomplish in four years.
00:49:07.100 On my first day in office, I imposed an immediate federal hiring freeze, a federal regulation freeze,
00:49:12.880 and a foreign aid freeze.
00:49:15.420 I signed an order creating the Department of Government Deficiency
00:49:19.120 and put a man named Elon Musk in charge.
00:49:22.260 Thank you, Elon, for doing it.
00:49:25.460 Thank you very much.
00:49:28.600 And he's doing a great job.
00:49:30.180 I wish you could have seen him last night.
00:49:32.600 It's really, you know, he's a very committed person.
00:49:35.240 He's a very serious person.
00:49:37.440 And he's a very high IQ people.
00:49:39.100 You know, I like high IQ people.
00:49:40.940 Not all have to be.
00:49:42.080 But, you know, it'd be nice to have some people up there that he's a seriously high IQ individual.
00:49:48.220 Now, he's got his faults also, I will tell you that.
00:49:51.900 But not too many of them, which is now really waging war on government waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:49:56.960 And they're curbing inflation and saving taxpayers billions and billions of dollars every single day.
00:50:03.140 And there's even, under consideration, a new concept where we give 20% of the Doge savings to American citizens and 20% goes to paying down debt.
00:50:14.000 Because the numbers are incredible, Elon.
00:50:16.800 So many billions of dollars.
00:50:18.440 Billions.
00:50:18.920 Hundreds of billions.
00:50:19.700 And we're thinking about giving 20% back to the American citizens and 20% down to pay back debt and pay down debt.
00:50:27.940 Which is, if you look at value, if it were a real estate balance sheet, the debt is tiny.
00:50:34.060 But we still want to pay it down.
00:50:36.200 It doesn't matter.
00:50:37.640 We don't look at it as a piece of real estate.
00:50:39.540 It's America.
00:50:40.260 We're going to get it down through intelligence, hard work.
00:50:43.340 And, as Elon said, a word called caring.
00:50:46.140 You have to care.
00:50:48.100 By doing this, Americans will tell us where there's waste.
00:50:52.420 They'll be reporting it themselves.
00:50:54.380 They participate in the process of saving money.
00:50:57.540 So many of the men and women in this room, as an example, they pay tremendous amounts of taxes.
00:51:04.000 And here are just a few examples of where your money was going before I came along.
00:51:08.500 So these are just some of the, just taken at random.
00:51:12.120 Oh, there are much worse examples than this.
00:51:14.700 I was just looking at them before the speech, and I can tell you they were much worse.
00:51:18.820 And there are some that are horrible, but I don't want to really say them because they're very, very embarrassing to people.
00:51:28.220 Very, very embarrassing.
00:51:29.880 And they're really something.
00:51:32.060 But you'll be seeing it, and you will be reading about it.
00:51:35.920 But just some taken at random.
00:51:37.260 $2 million for sex change operations in Guatemala.
00:51:42.060 $20 million for Sesame Street performances in Iraq.
00:51:46.820 $20 million?
00:51:47.520 That's a lot of money.
00:51:49.700 You know, I know what it costs to do those things.
00:51:51.820 You get a cast over for $50,000, give them a couple of bucks, tip, and that's it.
00:51:57.360 Not $20 million.
00:51:59.420 $20 million?
00:52:00.560 That's gone with the wind on steroids.
00:52:02.560 $101 million for 29 diversity, equity, and inclusion contracts at the Department of Education.
00:52:11.360 Wow.
00:52:13.100 And we've also canceled.
00:52:15.200 We've canceled all of these.
00:52:17.520 Saved all of this money.
00:52:19.320 And again, this is just a small sample.
00:52:21.240 This could go on.
00:52:22.060 I could read them all day.
00:52:23.020 $520 million for a consultant.
00:52:27.400 I want to know who is that consultant.
00:52:30.820 To do ESG.
00:52:32.700 That's environmental, social, and governance investments in Africa.
00:52:36.760 $25 million to promote biodiversity, conservation, and licit livelihoods by developing socially
00:52:45.200 responsible behavior in Colombia.
00:52:48.760 $40 million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants.
00:52:54.740 Nobody knows what that even means.
00:52:56.120 None of this stuff.
00:52:56.800 Nobody.
00:52:58.200 Everyone's trying to figure out what the hell does it all mean?
00:53:01.600 $42 million for social and behavior changes in Uganda.
00:53:06.760 $40 million is a lot of newspaper ads in Uganda.
00:53:11.180 $70 million for research of evidence-based solutions for development challenges.
00:53:17.180 $10 million for Mozambique medical male circumcision.
00:53:25.800 What does that mean?
00:53:28.980 $2.3 million for strengthening independent voices in Cambodia.
00:53:33.460 $14 million for improving public procurement in Serbia.
00:53:38.340 $486 million to the consortium for elections and political process strengthening, including $22 million for inclusion, inclusive, participatory political process in Moldova.
00:53:54.820 And $21 million for voter turnout in India.
00:53:58.700 What do we need to spend $21 million for voter turnout in India?
00:54:03.820 Wow, $21 million.
00:54:05.860 I guess they were trying to get somebody else elected.
00:54:08.200 Wow, we ought to tell the Indian government.
00:54:11.120 Because when we hear that, Russia spent about $2 in our country.
00:54:15.400 It was a big deal, right?
00:54:16.600 They took some internet ads for $2,000.
00:54:20.980 This is a total breakthrough.
00:54:23.080 $21 million for India elections.
00:54:25.940 $29 million to strengthen the political landscape in Bangladesh.
00:54:32.000 $20 million for fiscal federalism.
00:54:35.040 And $19 million in addition to the $21 million for biodiversity conversion in Nepal.
00:54:44.860 $1.5 million for voter confidence in Liberia.
00:54:48.460 We need voter confidence, too, when you read this list.
00:54:50.800 $14 million for social cohesion in Mali.
00:54:57.020 $2.5 million for inclusive democracies in South Africa.
00:55:02.080 $47 million for improving learning outcomes in Asia.
00:55:05.840 Asia's doing very well.
00:55:07.040 We don't need to give them money.
00:55:09.660 And in another program, $50 million plus another $50 million for condoms for Hamas. 0.65
00:55:16.060 You know about that?
00:55:17.640 $100 million for condoms.
00:55:19.580 Condoms.
00:55:20.760 Does everybody know what a condom is?
00:55:23.380 For Hamas. 0.97
00:55:25.120 $100 million.
00:55:28.040 And these are just some.
00:55:29.640 I could read this list all day long.
00:55:31.200 I just don't want to bore you.
00:55:32.980 But these are just some, and not nearly as bad as others.
00:55:35.500 And some are just, I just don't want to say them because they're too incendiary.
00:55:42.240 We're also finding tremendous abuse, waste, and fraud in Social Security.
00:55:45.900 Social Security is, what's happening there is going to be one of the great potential scandals
00:55:51.600 in history.
00:55:54.820 On the program there are over 4.7 million Social Security numbers from people from 100 years
00:56:03.020 old to 109.
00:56:04.900 Think of that.
00:56:06.440 Now, over 100, there aren't a lot of people that make it.
00:56:09.560 Hopefully, most of the people in this room will make it.
00:56:11.980 But historically, you don't have thousands and thousands of people.
00:56:16.460 But listen to this.
00:56:17.880 3.6 million people are on Social Security rolls from the age of 110 years old to 119.
00:56:28.340 Do you think there are really that many?
00:56:31.400 Those people are seriously old.
00:56:35.020 But it gets worse.
00:56:36.200 3.47 million, 3.47 million people are on Social Security from the age of 120 years old to 129
00:56:48.080 years old.
00:56:49.320 3.9 million people are on the age of Social Security from 130 years old to 139 years old.
00:57:01.280 Now, the all-time record I heard is a woman who was 127 years old. 0.99
00:57:09.440 That's the record.
00:57:11.080 A woman from a certain country where they have actually people that live pretty long, actually. 0.98
00:57:18.100 And she was 127 years old.
00:57:21.580 That's pretty old.
00:57:22.980 But we're topping her by millions, millions of people.
00:57:25.520 3.5 million people from the age of 140 to 149 years old.
00:57:33.200 1.3 million people are on Social Security from the age of 150 to 159.
00:57:41.800 And over 130,000 people are on Social Security over the age of 160 years old.
00:57:50.000 Including 1,039 people.
00:57:54.780 Think of it.
00:57:55.300 Over 1,000 people between the ages of 220 to 229.
00:58:02.400 And one person between the age of 240.
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