John Bolton - June 16, 2025


President TRUMP - Welcome to Alberta - WONDERFUL to have you!


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6 minutes

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Word count

1,063

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93

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Trump is Canada's greatest economic ally and I stand by it. I'm not here to hurt anyone, I'm here to help and I'm proud to have him as a guest on the show. I think I said 4 months ago that Trump was the best economic ally Canada has ever had.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. Great to have you along today. Monday, June the 16th,
00:00:04.720 5.48 a.m. I've got my big blue mug of coffee. Hope you're having a great start to your week.
00:00:11.380 And just before I get into my video today, I wanted to show you I've changed the picture on
00:00:17.360 the wall. You may not have been here yesterday. I have a big blow up of this album cover that was
00:00:21.820 on the wall over there. Some people questioned whether I was a nice person for having King
00:00:27.160 Crimson's album cover up there. That's Billy Joel's River of Dreams. I would like to wish best wishes
00:00:32.200 to Billy, who's my favorite artist, who is not in good health right now. But you can't be offended
00:00:36.940 by that. There's even people under a tree on that making love. I think it's Adam and Eve. Okay, so
00:00:43.220 I hope you like that. Let me know what you think in the comments. So today I wanted to welcome
00:00:48.620 President Trump to Alberta. Mr. President, it's so good to have you here. Thanks for coming to my
00:00:55.040 neck of the woods, Kananaskis country, just outside Calgary. I ride my bike there often.
00:01:00.680 I ride from Kananaskis Village, where the G7 is being held, all the way up to Highwood Pass,
00:01:06.560 which is the highest road crossing here in Canada. 2,206 meters, 7,239 feet above sea level.
00:01:15.180 I know it well. I've taken pictures at the sign at the top of Highwood Pass many times. Mr. President,
00:01:20.560 great to have you here. Now, back on January 30th, I did a video called Trump is Canada's
00:01:28.180 greatest economic ally. And that was before I had 32,000 plus of subscribers here. It's got less
00:01:35.020 than 4,000 views. You may want to go back and watch it. It's prior to the leadership campaign
00:01:40.020 with Carney winning and the election and whatnot. But I think I was rather prescient in that video.
00:01:46.460 And I think a lot of people didn't click on the video because it had this picture on the front.
00:01:52.600 But I said this in that video and I stand by it.
00:01:56.860 Premiers out east are now calling for previously banned pipelines to be approved immediately.
00:02:01.800 Aboriginal groups who oppose pipelines out in the west now saying that they've changed their mind.
00:02:06.940 They're afraid because of Trump tariffs. The threat of Trump tariffs now has many Canadian
00:02:12.100 leaders realizing they've been rather short-sighted by not taking in all of the above attitude when
00:02:17.740 it comes to talking about energy here in this country. Perhaps banning pipelines and passing
00:02:22.580 laws to keep oil from getting to Tidewater wasn't the smartest plan after all. Canada now realizes it
00:02:29.280 is vulnerable to its biggest trading partner. And that's because of Donald Trump.
00:02:34.440 I stand by what I said four months ago. Donald Trump revealed a lot about this country.
00:02:39.660 And he's doing it again in another way, which I'll get to in just a moment.
00:02:44.060 You know, he's like an ultraviolet light that reveals things that are hidden beneath the surface.
00:02:48.920 You know, the dirty things. And now there are those of you who are saying I'm being an a-hole,
00:02:54.460 but Trump is hurting people, John, with the tariffs. I understand that. I'm not unsympathetic
00:03:00.420 to people losing their jobs or it having an effect on the economy. I understand that. I'm also not
00:03:06.080 forgetting the joke that drove millions of Canadians crazy, crazy enough to vote for the liberals who
00:03:13.880 abused them for 10 years. But Trump lit a fire under Canada when he was elected in November,
00:03:19.120 started talking about tariffs. And when he threw out that joke about the 51st state
00:03:23.740 to Justin Trudeau at Mar-a-Lago. You see, the liberals all of a sudden realized that maybe carbon
00:03:29.060 taxes weren't a good idea. And they got rid of the consumer carbon tax, at least. Pipelines were 0.83
00:03:35.300 being discussed as essential to Canada's national interest. Interprovincial trade barriers, bad.
00:03:40.860 They've got to be removed. All of the things the liberals created, high taxes, the housing crisis,
00:03:46.480 drugs, border deficiencies, high immigration levels, many other things were now being discussed
00:03:51.860 as things that needed to be addressed. Donald Trump shed a light on all of these problems,
00:03:58.360 along with another guy who should have been elected on April the 28th. Team Canada promised
00:04:04.020 a new way. Trump was vilified, mocked, insulted. Instead of talking to him, we huffed and puffed.
00:04:10.160 Some politicians took advantage of that and got re-elected. Others installed as leader of a party
00:04:15.560 and voted in by the elbows-up crowd. These things Donald Trump did. Only one leader chose diplomacy,
00:04:21.600 she's being vilified to this day for doing the right thing. That would be Danielle Smith,
00:04:26.560 who did the right thing when she welcomed Donald Trump to Alberta when he stepped off Air Force One.
00:04:32.760 Well done, Madam Premier. But now Trump has done something else. He shed that light on those same
00:04:39.720 people who a few sure months ago were claiming they were different, that they had seen the light.
00:04:45.540 You see, they haven't changed at all. Suddenly, the national interest isn't quite so important.
00:04:50.680 Consensus is needed before anything can get done. Team Canada members are now balking at pipelines.
00:04:57.700 The national interest now falls to the same ideology that got us into this situation in the first place.
00:05:05.440 Trump also stoked a fire here in Alberta. Now, I was an independent-minded Albertan before Carney got
00:05:12.800 elected back in late April. But plenty of Albertans now realize they want to be free from Canada,
00:05:19.040 from the Liberals, and from the people who voted for them for the fourth straight time.
00:05:24.560 If that's what you want, Eastern Canada, all the more power to you. We can still be friends,
00:05:29.900 but Trump made us realize you let your heart get ahead of your head.
00:05:35.420 Trump may be unpredictable, but he made many of us sure Canada hasn't changed at all. So welcome,
00:05:43.920 President Trump, to Alberta. It's great to have you here. Thank you very much for watching. I do
00:05:50.580 appreciate it. If you like the video, please give it a thumbs up. It helps out in a big way.
00:05:55.120 If you haven't subscribed, please subscribe as well. Ring the bell for notifications, and I will see you
00:06:00.220 in the next one.