Pearl - October 22, 2026


“Trump Promised AMERICA FIRST… Then Became the Establishment” @NickJFuentes @JustPearlyThings

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Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

179.69

Word count

512

Sentence count

49

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

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Hate speech

10

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Transcript

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00:00:00.000 So I was always very critical of Republicans. You basically have what the base wants,
00:00:06.980 what their voters want, and what they consistently want is less immigration.
00:00:11.620 They don't want free trade. They don't want all these wars in the Middle East, things like that.
00:00:17.200 And yet the Republican Party always delivers the opposite, more immigration, amnesty for
00:00:21.800 illegals, free trade, all this kind of stuff. And so when Trump came out of the scene,
00:00:26.560 Trump said, we're going to reverse all that. We're going to build the border wall. We're
00:00:29.860 going to deport the illegals. We're going to have tariffs. We're going to bring industry back to the 1.00
00:00:33.980 country. And what Trump represented fundamentally was a radical departure from the establishment
00:00:40.700 Republican Party, which really represents the business interests. That's what the Republican
00:00:45.300 Party is, is the Chamber of Commerce, Wall Street. And so, for example, why are they in favor of
00:00:50.880 immigration? Because their donors are. And who are their donors? The big agriculture interests
00:00:55.880 in these rural states.
00:00:58.080 Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, this is all pasture.
00:01:02.100 It's all farm.
00:01:03.940 Who do those industries employ? 1.00
00:01:06.000 Seasonal, low-skill, illegal immigrants. 1.00
00:01:08.980 And that's profit. 1.00
00:01:09.940 If you have a low labor cost, you make more money.
00:01:12.380 Right.
00:01:12.720 So it's the big farms, the big pastures. 1.00
00:01:15.960 They hire the illegals. 1.00
00:01:17.320 Low labor cost means big profit. 0.99
00:01:19.440 And so they lobby Republican politicians 0.99
00:01:21.820 to bring in illegals and amnesty them from time to time 0.64
00:01:25.660 or give them these specialized work visas, things like that.
00:01:29.220 And so Trump came in in 16 and said, no, we're not doing any of that.
00:01:33.180 And the reason I'm not going to do that is because I don't need money from donors.
00:01:38.200 He said, I'm a billionaire.
00:01:39.760 I'm rich.
00:01:40.480 I'll self-fund my campaign.
00:01:42.100 So we will just bypass.
00:01:43.620 We'll just go around Wall Street, big agriculture, the rest of it.
00:01:47.540 And I can actually put America first because I'm not beholden to the rich,
00:01:51.380 which all Republicans are.
00:01:53.320 So in 16, I said, oh, it was a great idea.
00:01:55.660 So we can do all these things that we were kind of restrained from doing by the moneyed interests.
00:02:00.560 And that's just one example.
00:02:01.780 But you also have the defense contractors like Lockheed Martin, and you have the foreign interests like Israel and their lobby.
00:02:08.860 So Trump was a radical departure, not just from the left, fighting the left, but also from the establishment right.
00:02:15.360 What happened, though, over time is that he began to become more like the establishment.
00:02:21.280 So he gets elected in 16, takes office in 17, and who fills up his administration?
00:02:27.260 Well, it's the Republican Central Committee.
00:02:30.440 So Reince Priebus was doing all the hiring.
00:02:32.660 He was the head of the RNC. 0.60
00:02:34.000 So even though Trump won the election and became president, it was all of the Bush and
00:02:38.900 Rubio staffers that served in his White House.
00:02:42.660 And they had the same policies as Rubio and Jeb Bush.
00:02:46.060 So he kind of had the same people under him, like working him as other administrations?
00:02:49.940 Exactly, yes.