This week, Gerald and Josh are joined by special guest and friend of the show, Charlie Chaplin. They discuss a variety of topics, including: - What's going on with the Trump administration - Who's the worst world leader outside of Justin Trudeau? - Why do our veterans wear green? - What does it have to do with war? - Who is our favorite president outside of Donald Trump? - How do we feel about the way our veterans are treated? - Is it a good or bad thing that our soldiers wear green or is it a bad thing? - Does war make you stupid?
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00:00:27.000I wanna tell you my secret now Okay I see not funny people Like on your Facebook timeline On your Instagram?
00:04:05.000That's changing right now with President Trump and social media, with Truth and X. We'll get into that.
00:04:11.000Spoiler alert, Donald Trump is actually the most consistent president on authoritarians, on dictators, on foreign adversaries that we have seen in our lifetime.
00:04:20.000A lot of people just don't necessarily know that because we have a short attention span.
00:04:25.000Also, I want to get into the trade war a little bit and explain who Canada hurts with their policies.
00:06:21.000If you are the party of the people, if you are the party who's representing the rest of us, if you are the party who has our best interest in mind, I need you to do something.
00:12:02.000We know that late-night shows haven't been funny for a very long time.
00:12:06.000And this used to be a late-night show until we moved to the morning and during COVID found out that most of you watch this in the morning.
00:12:12.000You know, we see them often as worthy adversaries.
00:12:15.000The issue that we are seeing now is the laziness and the blatant plagiarism.
00:12:20.000I understand people run into the same topics, especially in the year 2025 where you have people memeing and every half-baked premise online.
00:13:18.000After the interruption, Trump whined about the opposition.
00:13:21.000Once again, I look at the Democrats in front of me and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy or to make them stand or smile or applaud.
00:15:01.000He is more transparent because he has to speak directly to you.
00:15:05.000Comment if you disagree with that premise.
00:15:07.000This has also changed international diplomacy to a tremendous degree and I would argue in a way that's pretty damn good.
00:15:15.000Because we can see the results in real time.
00:15:18.000How often have you heard people say, like, I don't know, politicians, they're all useless, right?
00:15:21.000People don't have faith in their institutions.
00:15:23.000When you see something coming directly from the president, the man, not a committee, not, you know, a PAC during an election, from the man, and then you see a response from the man or woman he was calling out, you get to see results in real time.
00:15:37.000So let me give you some examples here.
00:15:39.000President Trump put this on truth to the mayor of D.C., not the one doing crack.
00:19:46.000One more truth to get to, and this brings me to something that I want to discuss, and I know it's been made to seem very complex, the trade war with Canada.
00:20:49.000Frankly, I prefer him, Des Moines, but we're talking about Canada.
00:20:55.000Justin Trudeau of Canada called me to ask what could be done about tariffs.
00:20:59.000I told him that many people have died from fentanyl that came through the borders of Canada and Mexico, and nothing has convinced me that it has stopped.
00:21:07.000He said that it's gotten better, but I said...
00:23:06.000Secure your border, stop the drugs, no more tariffs.
00:23:10.000But now you have people saying that Trump has started a trade war and that we already have free trade with Canada and really they've been our ally and Trudeau said I've been stabbed in the back and you even have people virtue signaling in the Canadian Conservative Party.
00:24:22.000They say, well, hold on, the tariffs that exist, for example, like on dairy, because you've seen numbers come out from the right, and those aren't fully accurate.
00:24:29.000So people on the left say, well, those aren't real.
00:24:30.000Like the dairy tariffs, they only exist at certain quotas, it's tiered, so really they're insignificant.
00:25:05.000And the reason I'm using dairy is because you've heard people say, well, really, without the oil, we don't have a trade deficit with Canada.
00:25:38.000Why would you export dairy to Canada, for example, if you know that you're going to hit that ceiling really early on and you're going to be paying 240%?
00:25:46.000There's no way for it to be profitable.
00:25:48.000We create more dairy in the state of Wisconsin than all of Canada.
00:25:52.000If they didn't have that tariff, let me ask you this.
00:25:53.000You don't think that dairy farmers in Wisconsin would love to have an open new market of 30 million new people?
00:26:00.000And by the way, 30 million new people, or 40 million I believe in Canada now, 40 million people who would be ecstatic!
00:26:07.000To pay the prices that Americans pay for milk.
00:26:37.000If we just allowed the United States, really, when we're talking about anything, energy, beef, exactly, you would be the 51st state.
00:26:43.000If we had truly free trade, you wouldn't be able to sustain yourself because you're a giant country with no defenses of which to speak, and the United States would effectively run all of your markets.
00:27:51.000The United States, the average price right now, excluding California, because they're more like Canada, and it's an outlier, it's under $3.
00:29:54.000What would make us more equipped to be ready for China than taking over a country to our north that could not defend themselves, that has been a horrible neighbor playing unfairly?
00:30:05.000We could more than double our land capacity.
00:30:09.000More than double our resources, natural resources, and open up a market which, by the way, would make goods and services cheaper for Canadians and Americans alike.
00:30:16.000If the United States was an empire, Canada is a 51st state.
00:30:20.000If there is true free trade, Canada is a 51st state.
00:30:24.000They subsidize, protect, tariff, blame us if we match it.
00:30:29.000Because they know if they didn't do that, they are the 51st state.
00:30:32.000And that's also why they desperately don't want Canadians to know this.
00:30:34.000Because you'd have a lot of Canadians in Western Canada, this sense of pride.
00:30:38.000If they understood how much they're overpaying, might actually want to become a part of the USA. Comment if you're Canadian.
00:31:28.000But do you really want us to do digging into the economics?
00:31:32.000You subsidize a welfare state for your country at the cost of the American worker and our tax dollars going to a military that protects your country because you can't do it.
00:31:43.000Stand there with your hand out and bitch about how we do it.
00:31:46.000You're going to turn off American power?
00:32:13.000I think it should become the 51st state.
00:32:15.000I think it's really interesting to consider.
00:32:17.000That if they didn't have any of those protections in place, they would be the 51st state.
00:32:20.000And I think it's understandable to say, hey, if you want free trade, that's fine, but you can't be pissed off at us to just reciprocate what you're doing.
00:32:26.000And Donald Trump, I think, when he gave that speech, that was the only good thing in my fever dream that I saw was Donald Trump giving that speech.
00:32:33.000He was one of the first leaders that I've heard in a long time in America say, look, there's going to be some disruption from this, but it's going to get better.
00:32:40.000You're going to have some short-term pain with tariffs.
00:33:20.000Yeah, and this is one of those, like, you can't really prove a negative, right?
00:33:22.000It's like when I said, there's so little fentanyl that's come through the Canadian border.
00:33:25.000Well, that's because most of it's been coming through the southern border because it's a quicker path, and in Canada it sucks and it's cold.
00:34:04.000So you're telling me 43 pounds, which I think is enough to kill 10 million people technically in the United States, that's a lot, obviously, is being seized at the border?
00:35:29.000If it's at the cost of the American taxpayer and they don't really know, they get to present themselves as diplomatic and as successful as it relates to international relations.
00:35:37.000Well, there's no easier path to being successful than to lay down and take it.
00:36:36.000I'll make the references available, as I always do.
00:36:38.000But I'm going to disabuse you of this notion if you believe it that Donald Trump cozies up to, creates alliances with, or in any way favors dictators.
00:36:49.000That's what the left wants you to believe, just like they wanted you to believe that dictators favor Donald Trump because Putin something something, Russiagate, you know, all about this fusion GPA. All right, Steele dossier.
00:37:01.000But now they're trying to say, actually, it's not them who want Trump, it's Trump who wants them, because he's a fascist at heart, so he prefers dictators.
00:37:08.000It's not true, but listen to their argument.
00:37:11.000Donald Trump attacking constantly democratically elected leaders in Europe in the first term, and then saying extraordinarily nice things about dictators like Vladimir Putin, autocrats like Orban in Hungary.
00:37:29.000This bully, this dictator who Donald Trump seems to be interested in finding friendship with.
00:37:35.000We have a president who is turning his back on democracy and allying us with authoritarianism.
00:37:42.000The dictator who Donald Trump seems to think of as a comrade in arms.
00:37:49.000Everybody watches President Trump become a lapdog for a brutal dictator in Moscow.
00:37:55.000Clearly Donald Trump Ah, well, don't let this can I'm about to kick hit you in the teeth, because honestly, the more we did some digging, these claims couldn't be further from the truth in direct comparison to previous presidents.
00:38:27.000The claim, you've heard this quite a bit, is that President Trump, we'll make it one more time because I can't stand this lady, Trump is Putin's hoe.
00:38:37.000If you could tell Donald Trump anything tonight, what would you tell him?
00:38:43.000I would tell him to grow a spine and stop being Putin's hoe.
00:39:37.000But right now, I am living not in the overflow.
00:39:41.000They tried to rig the game, but you can't fake influence.
00:39:44.000And I'm not saying that the founding fathers, obviously they were primarily white, and I'm not saying that they didn't want any representatives who were not white.
00:39:58.000But Crockett would make a strong case.
00:40:04.000Everything is antithetical to America.
00:40:09.000If you're an alien who landed and you thought that represented the American people, I mean, that would be a great disservice to the American people.
00:40:44.000In 2018, slap some major sanctions on seven Russian oligarchs, 12 Russian companies, 17 government officials.
00:40:52.000The Trump Treasury Secretary, Stephen Munchen, said, Russian oligarchs and elites who profit from this corrupt system will no longer be insulated from the consequences of their government's destabilizing activities.
00:41:02.000From 2017 to 2019, Donald Trump sold anti-tank javelin missiles to Ukraine.
00:41:16.0002019, President Trump pulled out of the INF, the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, with Russia, and he accused Russia, very blatantly, of violating the treaty with a new missile.
00:41:27.000In 2019, and this is a big one, this is one that really bothers, and probably bothers you, and you may not necessarily be able to articulate it, well, here, now you will be.
00:41:36.0002019, he sanctioned Nord Stream 2. Remember when Germans laughed at President Trump when he said that, hey, you guys are actually too dependent on Russia.
00:42:38.000Oh, see the American, don't you know in a globalized world, the Cold War called, they want their policy back.
00:42:47.000Oh, that's right, you guys spend more money, all of Europe, you spend more money purchasing Russian energy than you gave to Ukraine collectively.
00:42:59.000Yeah, didn't Joe Biden remove some of the sanctions on Nord Stream and immediately put them in place on Keystone XL by canceling the first thing he did?
00:43:28.000Remember that when the weak and ineffective Democrats criticize and the fake news gladly puts out anything they say, and if anyone else out there tells you that President Trump's rhetoric, let alone his policies, are too friendly toward Russia, again, I always tell you, facts don't exist in a vacuum.
00:43:49.000And it's not just President Trump versus Biden.
00:43:52.000it's President Trump versus every president, and by the way, most presidential candidates who came before him in the preceding two decades.
00:44:02.000Mr. General Secretary, though my pronunciation may give you difficulty, dovii no provi, trust but verify.
00:46:27.000Probably for some kind of electric Russian nesting dollar javelins or something.
00:46:31.000Blame the Chinese, because batteries not included.
00:46:34.000And by the way, also we don't have it in that montage, but Bernie Sanders, he honeymooned in the USSR. Just to make it clear, What he's complaining about when he complains about Putin is that today's Russia isn't communist enough.
00:48:44.000If you can believe it, the left is actually trying to claim that President Trump is actually friends with, he's cozying up to, because he's a dictator, Xi Jinping!
00:48:58.000Truly effusive praise for authoritarian leaders from former President Donald Trump during an interview last night on Fox News.
00:49:44.000You already know this, but President Trump is the first president in our lifetime to take the threat of China seriously.
00:49:49.000He's actually the only person I would say...
00:49:52.000On our national stage who has highlighted it.
00:49:54.000Before President Trump, everyone just assumed it was inevitable that China was going to be the next great superpower, that the U.S. currency was no longer going to be used as standard.
00:50:03.000Look, let me provide some context here.
00:50:05.000He is commenting there on the intellect.
00:53:08.000In 2018, he launched a trade war against China.
00:53:12.000The same thing that people are complaining about now.
00:53:15.0002020, he called out China for its crackdown and violation of human rights in Hong Kong.
00:53:21.000Today I signed legislation and an executive order.
00:53:26.000To hold China accountable for its oppressive actions against the people of Hong Kong.
00:53:33.000The Hong Kong Autonomy Act, which I signed this afternoon, passed unanimously through Congress.
00:53:40.000This law gives my administration powerful new tools to hold responsible the individuals and the entities involved in extinguishing Hong Kong's freedom.
00:53:54.000Not to mention, remember in 2020, it's not just that Donald Trump was calling out China, it's that he was being attacked by the left for calling out China.
00:54:02.000You guys know that the Kung Flu fighting video we did during COVID, it was banned because it was considered anti- it was Asian hate or something like that.
00:54:11.000People said that it was racist for Donald Trump to call out China because he was the only one doing it, saying, hey, this country is responsible for spreading COVID. Why do you keep calling this the Chinese virus?
00:54:23.000There are reports of dozens of incidents of bias against Chinese Americans in this country.
00:54:29.000Your own aide, Secretary Azar, says he does not use this term.
00:54:33.000He says ethnicity does not cause the virus.
00:57:51.000President Trump has always and will always be much harder on Iran and the Islamic regime there than any Democrat and largely most Republicans.
00:57:59.000Though most Republicans, that's one thing the party has been pretty consistent on.
00:58:14.0002018, he withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal.
00:58:16.000Remember that deal that was signed with Obama that we all thought was a disaster?
00:58:19.000Barack Obama, yeah, $1.7 billion approximately in cash was given to Iran by Barack Obama from 2018 to 2021. Donald Trump imposed a total of 1,500 sanctions against Iran, give or take.
00:58:32.000According to Iran's foreign minister, that cost their economy about $1 trillion.
00:58:49.000Yeah, Donald Trump was the one that killed Soleimani.
00:58:53.000Last night at my direction, the United States military successfully executed a flawless precision strike that killed the number one terrorist anywhere in the world, Qasem Soleimani.
01:00:04.000But again, you have to remember that front page news and all of cable news, remember they were covering Bitch Cassidy when she was saying, and Donald Trump jerked the wheel.
01:00:13.000That's all they need to run on, and you're seeing the headlines.
01:01:29.000He removed the sanctions on Venezuelan exports ahead of their elections.
01:01:34.000And if you want to know how the left felt about Maduro, well, have you forgotten how the left felt about Chavez, whether it was Oliver Stone or Sean Penn?
01:01:46.000This should never go away because it shows how, yeah, let's just say, how morally, how devoid of any morals or intellect.
01:03:29.000That's what Maduro has in common with Xi Jinping and Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton or Tim Walz.
01:03:36.000They always manipulate people by saying, actually, I'm going to give you free stuff.
01:03:39.000You're going to have to give up some of your rights.
01:03:42.000Contrast with Donald Trump saying, hey, there might be some growing pains here because we need to become more independent of some of our international ties.
01:03:56.000When the left accuses you, and yes, when they accuse Donald Trump, they are accusing you, conservative, populist, libertarian, they are accusing all of you, at large, of exactly what it is that they do.
01:04:07.000When they accuse you, when they accuse Donald Trump of something, just remember this, they're telling on themselves.
01:04:13.000So when they say Donald Trump is a fascist dictator, you know exactly what they're doing.
01:04:19.000They call him Hitler, a dictator, a Putin lover, and an oppressor.
01:04:25.000Now, Putin called me a genius, by the way.