EZRA LEVANT ｜ Trump protects women's sports from out-of-touch feminists
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Trump and the feminist governor of Maine are sparring over transgenderism in sports. It's classic! And it shows. With COID behind us, who knows what the globalists are planning next?
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Hello, my friends. What a fun show today. A great conversation with our friend Mark Morano about
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Donald Trump's environmental and energy policies. So exciting. But I want to show you a great video
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of Donald Trump sparring with the left-wing feminist governor of the state of Maine.
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They're sparring over transgenderism in sports. Oh, it's classic. It's one minute long, but you
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Tonight, Donald Trump makes an all-out assault on environmentalist extremism.
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It's even better than Ronald Reagan. It's February 21st, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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Hey, check this out. It's from a meeting of Donald Trump with the U.S. governors, Democrats and
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Republicans both. And Trump heard that one of his executive orders about keeping men out of women's
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sports was being ignored in the state of Maine. So take a look.
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The NCAA has complied immediately, by the way. That's good. But I understand Maine. Is Maine here,
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the governor of Maine? Are you not going to comply with it?
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Well, I'm... We are the federal law. Well, you better do it. You better do it because you're not
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going to get any federal funding at all if you don't. And by the way, your population, even though
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it's somewhat liberal, although I did very well there, your population doesn't want men playing in
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women's sports. So you better comply, because otherwise you're not getting any federal funding.
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Every state... Good. I'll see you in court. I look forward to that. That should be a real easy one.
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And enjoy your life after governor, because I don't think you'll be in elected politics.
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Every state has a responsibility to comply with Title IX. They have an obligation, a legal obligation.
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That voice in the background is Janet Mills, the governor of Maine. She says she'll see Trump in court.
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I'm sure she will. And I'm sure she will be able to keep men in women's sports if it's very important to her.
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Sure, she can. But I'm equally sure that Donald Trump will do what he promised he would do.
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Stop sending federal money to Maine if they don't comply with his executive order.
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So either one could actually win, no matter what the court says. Remember this?
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The administration will not stand by and watch men beat and batter female athletes. From now on,
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women's sports will be only for women. In recent years, the radical left has waged an all-out campaign
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to erase the very concept of biological sex and replace it with a militant transgender ideology.
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We're honored to be joined today by many incredible advocates for women's sports, including the brave
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swimmer at the forefront of this battle. And Riley Gaines is a person that I've been watching.
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In my action this afternoon, we're putting every school receiving taxpayer dollars on notice that
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if you let men take over women's sports teams or invade your locker rooms, you will be investigated
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for violations of Title IX and risk your federal funding. There will be no federal funding.
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With this executive order, the war on women's sports is over. We are restoring sanity and
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common sense, defending the rights and safety and pride of the American people, including our
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great, great, great female athletes. Thank you, President Trump!
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That was an incredible visual image. All those young women and girls around Trump,
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like he was a grandpa or something, protecting them, because no one else would. No left-wing
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feminists would. It was just amazing that Trump took the women's vote because he was protecting women
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against men. Even more amazing is that it's a Democrat woman, a feminist, the governor of Maine,
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who would be against that. It's so weird. It's so upside down. I've never been to Maine, actually.
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It's a small state, 1.4 million people, just a little bit bigger than Calgary. It's the whitest
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state, if I'm reading my statistics correctly. And I mention that only because that's sort of a
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classic recipe for what is sometimes called luxury beliefs. There's not a lot of poverty in Maine.
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There's not a lot of social friction in Maine. There's not a lot of crises. Everything's pretty good
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in Maine. There's a lot of room for virtue signaling because of that. So they can afford
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to care deeply about global warming and whatnot, except for that the whatnot here includes letting
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physical men box or wrestle against women, letting physical men interchange rooms with women.
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And Trump is here to say no to that. Trump ended, as you saw his statement there, with a kind of threat.
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That's how Trump operates with people who challenge him. The threat was more of a prediction
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that if she's on the wrong side of that issue, she won't win again. Now, I'm not sure if she's
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planning to run again. Her term is up next year when she'll be almost 79. Not sure if she'll run again.
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I mean, Trump is almost that exact same age, but he seems to have unlimited energy. But I think Trump is
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right. Is Maine so left-wing? I'm not even going to say liberal because the liberals, a true liberal
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would be for women's spaces and women's right. Is Maine so left-wing, so radical? That's a better way
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to put it. That they'll go so far as to be anti-feminist. And by that, I mean to let men
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dominate women's sports. I'm not so sure that it is. And in the meantime, are they fine losing
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up to $5 billion a year, which is what a curse research tells me the feds pay to Maine every
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year? That works out to about $4,000 for every man, woman, and child. Around $14,000 a year for
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a family of four. Now, I doubt that Trump would be able to cut everything off. But even if it was
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only a tenth of that, would every family in Maine lose, give up $1,400 a year because their hardcore
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left-wing, virtue-signaling, luxury-beliefs governor wanted men to be able to wrestle with or play rugby
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against girls? Or maybe she's just anti-Trump. Maybe she doesn't actually believe in that. I don't know.
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But here's what I think. I think that Maine is more sane than their governor. I mean, I just
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think of what Steve Jennings, he's such a great spokesman. He's on CNN. Here's what he said the
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other day about Trump and these 80-20 issues. Trump is like the 80-20 president. He gets on the right
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side of all these 80-20 issues. Democrats knee-jerk and take the 20. And then what happens? Today,
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CBS News poll this morning, Donald Trump's sitting at a 53% approval rating, the highest he's ever
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recorded in that survey. Why? Because Democrats are taking the wrong side of all of these obvious
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issues, number one. And number two, they're giving him an enormous amount of latitude to move fast and
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break things, which I heard used in a pejorative fashion. But when you're talking about the government,
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that's what people want. And Democrats keep Trump to do. So yeah, in the last election, I checked,
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the governor of Maine was elected 56% to 42%. So that's a fair spread, 14%. But it's not like
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70-30 or anything. If the number one issue in sleepy little Maine is men and women's sports teams and
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men and women's change rooms and men and women's prisons, I don't know if I'd be so sure to bet on
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the Democrats, especially if their incumbent governor runs again, and especially if Trump manages to punish
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the state for her, I'm going to call it anti-feminism. But here's my point, besides showing you that
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wonderful, wonderful video. Trump is so good on his feet. But here's my point. Could we get this same
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sort of thing happening here in Canada? If Pierre Pauly were elected prime minister, could we ever get to
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a position where our prime minister would come face to face with an intransigent opponent? In this case,
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someone who seems to be violating a legitimate federal order? And would Pauly have say, I'm going
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to punish you with the full force of the law? I don't care that you're a governor. Because I'm not
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an expert, but I think it's fair to say that Canada's prime minister actually has more power within our
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system than the U.S. president has in their system. Not in all regards. But let me just, let me give you
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one example, the appointment process. We've just seen Trump's nominees go through a vetting by the
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Senate. One of them was withdrawn. I'm talking about Matt Gaetz. We don't have any vetting of
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cabinet picks or of judges in Canada in the same way that they do in the U.S. That's just one example.
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I think the Canadian prime minister actually, in many ways, has a lot more power in Canada than the U.S.
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president does in their system. So I think a lot of people around the world are looking at Trump
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moving fast and breaking things, as Scott Jennings said. And I think a lot of people in Canada and the
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U.K. and Australia and around the world are thinking, hey, why can't that be us too? If
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Peter Pauly have wins this year, and I think he will, he should take Trump's approach, move fast,
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break things, ignore the media, and do so many things so fast using his executive authority that
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the liberals don't have time to react to the latest thing because he's already moved on to the next
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thing. It's the only way he'll be able to fix what's so deeply broken.
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Donald Trump has a war on all fronts. He is making so many announcements every day. It's putting all of
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his critics on the back foot. By the time they respond to one thing, there's another thing. It's
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like whack-a-mole squared. And it's so hopeful. It's clear that Trump has been thinking about things
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for years, plotting what he would do even minute by minute on his first day. And it feels like every
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day since. The pace of things is incredible. And so I see this headline in Politico, which, by the way,
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received $8 million worth of, quote, subscriptions, basically money laundered to it by the Biden
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administration. That's one of the discoveries of Trump's inquiries into waste. But here's the
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headline in Politico. Trump's 30-day climate assault. Trump has done more to unravel U.S.
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climate policy in the past 30 days than during the entirety of his first administration. And we
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find that story where we always find our stories about global warming and the like on our favorite
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website, climatedepot.com. Joining us now is the boss of Climate Depot, who is at the CPAC
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convention. I believe that's in Washington. It's the great conservative convention. Mark,
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great to see you. I see you have a smile on your face. Now, you always do. But I think it's because
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you're in the middle of the best news that freedom advocates on the energy file have had ever.
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Ever. Yeah. Let me unpack this in a way. Just let me explain where I'm coming from. I have been
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in politics since 1980. As a young kid, my brother worked in Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign
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and later his inaugural committee. But I was a volunteer in the fall of 1980 at Ronald Reagan's
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headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, just across the bridge. And I did media for Reagan. I would do
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reel-to-reel tape. Governor Reagan spoke about his tax cuts and send it off to like Detroit radio
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station at the time. I would cold call all these producers. It was a very, very eye-opening
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experience for me. Anyway, I say that to say that in my lifetime, I don't know of any president who
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could be more consequential than Donald Trump. And I'm including Ronald Reagan in that. I'm
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including even pre-my lifetime JFK. I think you'd have to go back to Franklin Delano Roosevelt to get
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as consequential as what Donald Trump is doing. And I'm talking broadly. He's the most
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consequential president of our lifetime. But beyond that, on the specific focus, as you
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mentioned, the Politico article on climate, energy, the environment, it has been... Here's another
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embarrassing revelation. This is not another one, but here's an embarrassing revelation.
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I work with a team. We came up with a top 10 list for Donald Trump to do as president. And it was
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everything from withdraw the United Nations from the Paris Agreement, submit it to the Senate,
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go after the endangerment finding, which we think is happening in the process of happening at this
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moment as we speak, which is CO2 can be regulated as a pollutant. We're going to hopefully statutorily
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get that killed in the United States. And going through everything from all the energy restrictions.
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But here's the part that's in my lifetime I can't even believe. We as activists, and as many would
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say, utopian vision, trying to get things, you know, giving politicians a vision, we aim too low.
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Because as you mentioned, in the first 30 days, Donald Trump has exceeded everything he did in his
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whole four years the first time around with much better cabinet picks this time. And I don't even
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want to say... I'm going to rephrase that. They're not necessarily better cabinet picks,
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but the framework upon which they're working, and this is important, is they are serving Donald
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Trump and his vision. There's no rogue cabinet members who we had last time who just sort of were
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dragging the ball. I mean, everyone is on the same page and they're like corporate men.
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Yeah, I just say corporate yes men. But they're corporate men doing the company policy. And the
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company policy is make America great again. So it is just absolutely shocking. And you think back
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to JFK and all his speeches and inspiring. We weren't inspiring enough. I mean, we should aim too
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low. And it's incredible. This morning, Trump is telling people that they're not going to be
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sending U.S. delegations to these U.N. climate summits anymore. The first time in my lifetime,
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I've been to 23 of these, or 22 out of the last 24, 21 allies. And every single time there's been
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a U.S. delegation. And secondly, there's now a bill in both the House and the Senate by Marsha
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Blackburn and Mike Lee and Roy... Chip Roy of the House to withdraw the United States from the United
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Nations. I mean, it is like boom, boom, boom, boom. He's talking about actually abolishing departments
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like education, stuff that Ronald Reagan talked about, but never even got off the ground. So I am blown
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away. So I don't want to be hyperbolic, but I know I am being hyperbolic.
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Well, it's amazing. You know, I read that Politico article because the Politico article,
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of course, was saying this in a critical way. You and I are jubilant, but the other side is ashes.
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Let me just read three things that stuck out. You already alluded to one or two of them.
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The core EPA, that's the Environmental Protection Agency, finding from 2009 that greenhouse gases
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endanger human health. And we have the same BS regulation in Canada. CO2 is natural. I'm exhaling
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it now. Plants breathe it in. It's plant food. It's the stuff of life. Without carbon, almost everything
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we do and eat and use is carbon. The idea that it's evil is such a bizarre thing. But that's in our laws.
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I mean, to undo that keystone foundation stone. Let me just rattle out two more things,
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then I'll throw right over to you, Mark. In the first term where Trump was president,
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he waited four months to withdraw from the Parrot Climate Agreement. He did it day one this time.
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And finally, he's a, I'm just quoting from the Politico article, quote, net zero 2050 is a sinister goal,
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright told conservative leaders. So all of these sacred cows, he's just
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doing away with them. And he's doing it all at once with a great speed. Sorry, you were about to say
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something and I interrupted you. Go ahead, Mark. Well, no, I was just going to say, before we even
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get to the policy, the other thing that's stunning me as a longtime Trump observer, and I've been
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observed, I've been, in terms of politically, I've interviewed him in 1999. Let me think, I think
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1999 at Sting's Rainforest concert. And he was, you know, he was always in America first, but he was
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just there as a celebrity to support the, save the rainforest. And then I saw him later for Rush Limbaugh's
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TV show. I met him, I saw him on Capitol Hill one time. But I just want to say that whatever happened
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last year, and I think it's the threat of jail and getting shot at, this is the best version of Donald
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Trump, at least politically, that anyone has ever seen. I mean, he is mature, he's focused, he's not
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making any kind of rookie mistakes, he's not derailing his own agenda. It's just amazing. And
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that's the first thing I want to mention. Now, in terms of this political article, first of all,
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the sinister goal of net zero, that's what I've been saying for a decade now. And it's the same thing,
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I say it's Soviet style, central planning, rebranded and saved the planet. And to have our energy
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secretary, remember, just the contrast, you want to talk about Ying Yang, Ezra? We had
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Jennifer Granholm with Biden's energy secretary. She did a video with Bill McKibben, the climate
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activist, singing about keep oil in the ground right before she became energy secretary. You
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got to keep it in the ground, singing and dancing. Like, this was our energy secretary. And what
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could better do that? One of the, the political article was hilarious because they said, just as
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the extreme weather is getting worse, Trump is pulling out of all these climate, you know,
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like somehow if we'd stayed in and he had allowed this, like the weather would get better. Like
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it's truly modern witchcraft. The media has not gotten the message that they are completely
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anti-science and embarrassing themselves. You know, there's so many things you said there.
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I want to get back to what you mentioned earlier about how Trump's cabinet appointments are Trump's
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men. And some people say, oh, they should think for themselves. I remember Howard Lutnick,
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the who is the head of the transition for Trump and now commerce secretary was asked, well, do you
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want a couple of Democrats in there? He said, what are you talking about? If the CEO of a company has
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a vision, the CEO appoints vice presidents and delegates the vision. It's an order. Like you
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elect the president. He's the head of the executive branch and everyone in the executive does what he
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says. Anything else would be undemocratic. Only hiring Republicans. Yes. What a shock. The
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Republican president is going to hire Republicans who are going to be fidelity to him, his policies
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and him because he's the CEO. Why would you pick someone who's going to try to go the other direction?
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That would be silly. And we saw it with all these generals. They just they thought I knew better than
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him. I knew better than him. That's just not true. They went the wrong way. And that's what was the
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mistake. You can see that in every department. And it may sound flattering that they all say
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President Trump has authorized me, President Trump. But they're always remembering where their source
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of executive power comes from. Lee Zeldin, the EPA administrator, interesting guy from New York,
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ran for governor, came very close to winning in New York to watch that guy in action. He is battle
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trained and bruised himself in his own way. He was like a mini Trump. And like so many people who have
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been given this opportunity, he's taken advantage of what I like about Lee Zeldin is he's focused on
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EPA stuff for sure. But he's also focused on finding wealth, fraud, corruption. And not only does that put
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the bad guys in the deep state on the back foot, but it actually defunds them. I think he's discovered
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a $2 billion shell organization that was going to find climate extremism, like just off the books.
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Like he's, they're not just doing positive stuff. They're defunding the deep state as they go. And
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I am enjoying, I can't wait to read the news every day. Every day is a month's, a month's worth of
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Exactly right. And you mentioned earlier, it's just a form of shock and awe, to use another phrase,
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where they, you have the Democrat chairmanship meeting, this was about, I guess, three weeks ago now,
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where they literally like, we have to have one candidate from each gender, and then we have to have a
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non-binary. I mean, it's like, they're still like, they've lost their voice. I've never seen in my lifetime
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the opposition so steamrolled and flat. You had Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrat House minority leader,
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basically say, what are we going to do? We have no leverage. We have, we can't do anything.
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I mean, they are just steamrolled by this. But I want to mention two cabinet appointees to support
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what you said about Lee Zeldin. Lee Zeldin just seems to be coming into his own. And a lot of this is,
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these are politicians to begin with, you know, whether Doug Burgum, as I mentioned, Doug Burgum and RFK,
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along with Lee Zeldin, but not RFK, but Lee Zeldin was a congressman and Doug Burgum is a governor.
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They have to deal in balance and all that. But now they're given a singular central focus.
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And you can almost say like, wow, they really are rising to the occasion. Doug Burgum, by the way,
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is going against some of the things he's advocated. He's advocated for net zero standards. I'm just
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telling you, this is the interior secretary. He's advocated for net zero standards stricter than
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California. He was trying to do it as a sort of an accounting trick, an ideological game where
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he embraced the climate agenda, but his solution wasn't cutting back on energy. His solution was
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carbon capture and storage. And that's the problem.
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That's just a accounting trick. That's a real Enron trick. And Canada's tried to do that too.
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Canada's oil patch. It's busy work. It's fake. Yeah, I don't like that either. But you know what
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I love is how you're right. In the past, conservatives had to make these moral bargains,
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put water in their wine. But Trump is all about the opposite. He's about going as distilled and
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pure as you can be. And that's how he operates as a negotiator. Remember, Donald Trump is a master
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negotiator. I went back, I ordered, I couldn't find my old copy. So I reordered Art of the Deal.
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And I started reading it again. And that's a good read to remember how Trump operates. He always
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goes as far as he can. He likes to destabilize the other side by going so far and being adamant
00:24:43.080
about it and using the media for it. And then maybe he'll get half as much as he asked for.
00:24:48.820
Because he went so far in his original demand, it's astonishing how much he got done. And by the
00:24:54.880
way, working with Elon Musk is so incredible. I just hope that that's like a binary star. You have
00:25:02.260
two high energy personalities, two alpha dogs. And by the way, I think Elon Musk is probably going to
00:25:10.320
be the single most effective person in the Trump administration other than Trump himself. If what
00:25:14.900
he if he can keep up what he's doing, I mean, I don't want to say he'll cut the size of government
00:25:21.300
by 80 percent, which is what he did at Twitter. But I'm not even kidding when I say he could cut half
00:25:26.620
the government in half if he keeps going to the pace he's going. I'm impressed. Yes. What I like
00:25:33.220
about it is, first of all, everyone's deriding at the media. Oh, he's got teenagers working for him.
00:25:38.600
No, he's got people outside the system who don't give up. And they're coming in. And the other
00:25:44.620
interesting thing he said, and this is astute of Elon Musk, a man who can't, you know, by his own
00:25:48.780
admission, doesn't necessarily pick up on social cues. He picks up on human nature. The agencies that
00:25:53.940
balk the loudest at him and his team getting involved in, those are the ones he actually
00:25:58.880
expands the investigation because he figures if they're this upset, they must have something
00:26:03.400
to hide that they don't want us to see. In the case of places like USAID, they were able to
00:26:07.380
actually dig deeper and deeper on that. And I think Elon Musk and what he's doing, this is like
00:26:12.280
a circuit break. Again, Ronald Reagan tried to cut budgets in the 1980s. You can read David Stockman,
00:26:17.800
his management and budget director, who basically just said, we failed. I mean, you know, we ended up
00:26:21.880
with deficits and he just never was able to cut the social spending at the time. It wasn't,
00:26:26.240
it was a different era. 1990s, Bill Clinton came up with Al Gore and the reinvent government
00:26:31.460
initiative. And they talked all about it with more gimmick, but apparently that even reduced
00:26:35.340
the size for about a year. What I think Elon Musk and Donald Trump need to think about is permanence.
00:26:39.560
They need to make it so that the next president or even the next Congress in two years can't come
00:26:45.580
in and expand the spending. And just, we go on like this was just a momentary pause.
00:26:49.320
Historically, that's literally what happened. Or there's some kind of major war that just blows
00:26:55.060
it all to pieces. Remember, before 9-11, the United States through the late 90s under Bill Clinton
00:27:02.340
and the Republican Congress had budget surpluses. We had generally peace and then 9-11 came and blew
00:27:10.780
everything to hell. So you always have to, you know, there's no permanence when it comes like that
00:27:16.240
in Washington. There's always things that can come reset everything. But Donald Trump needs to just
00:27:19.800
keep this going. Again, I've never seen anything like this. And I'm excited about RFK Jr. I like
00:27:25.160
that Donald Trump told him to stay off of the environment and climate issues in general.
00:27:28.560
But to focus on health. And I love it. And it feels so inclusive in a good way. I don't use the
00:27:34.400
word inclusive like affirmative action. He's bringing in people who would not have traditionally seen
00:27:39.460
themselves as Republicans or Trump people. He's talking about moms who were worried about what their
00:27:44.620
kids are eating and people who are like, he raises a good point. Why is America spending so much on
00:27:49.860
health, but getting such poor results? And I've never met him. Maybe he's a really good trickster,
00:27:55.400
but I've never met a politician who feels as genuine and truly public service oriented as RFK Jr.
00:28:02.800
I mean, it really does have the best of the Kennedys. We've seen a lot of the worst of the Kennedys
00:28:07.860
in recent years. RFK Jr. in cabinet is amazing. And I actually thought they were going to
00:28:13.320
find a way to block him. Remember, they blocked him in the Democrat Party.
00:28:17.580
He and Bernie Sanders tried to run in the primaries. It's sort of incredible. Trump has built this
00:28:25.820
Yeah. Yes. I would say this, though. Both you and I have talked about this. I remember my first
00:28:30.380
interview, probably on the COVID lockdowns, was with your program. And I think it was like March 14th,
00:28:35.560
2020. Right. You were ahead of the curve. I was nervous. You could see the scam. I couldn't see it yet.
00:28:42.240
Well, what I was going to say is that looking back now was probably had so many positives. The fact
00:28:51.760
that they overreached and did medical tyranny and bureaucratic public health tyranny on the public
00:29:00.480
all over the world is probably the reason for Trump 2.0, probably the single greatest reason he was
00:29:06.620
reelected. And it's probably the single greatest reason that RFK Jr. came around. He was red-pilled
00:29:12.780
by it. I mean, he won't even talk about climate anymore. So it's been hijacked by totalitarian control
00:29:18.340
by the UN Health Organization, the World Economic Forum. So you look back, COVID really, the lockdowns
00:29:26.160
may not have been a bad thing because it red-pilled so many people that we were able to build this
00:29:30.740
coalition. It was painful as hell to go through. But it's something to consider when you look back
00:29:34.860
because of those tyrannical overreach, we were able to basically recapture our government and
00:29:40.500
recapture the bureaucracy, at least here in America. I think that's a very interesting
00:29:43.720
observation. Hey, I just published a new book called Deal of the Century, The America First Plan
00:29:50.560
for Canada's Oil Sands. Let me throw it at you. I'll send you a copy of the book, Mark. We just released
00:29:54.880
it moments ago, really. And Donald Trump loves tariffs. And I understand it because a lot of countries
00:30:01.540
have a trade surplus with America, he's saying, if you're going to sell stuff to us, build the factory
00:30:05.860
here. I get it. But the oil sands, which is by far Canada's largest export to America, you can't just
00:30:12.180
move the oil sands. They're where they are. You can't move Saudi Arabia's oil or Venezuela's oil either.
00:30:18.660
But when Trump says he's going to put tariffs on Canadian oil, I just think, well, it's not going to
00:30:26.160
get the desired effect of moving the oil sands to America. The customers are the U.S. refineries.
00:30:32.100
And if they don't buy Canadian oil, they're going to be getting it from, I don't know,
00:30:35.060
Venezuela, if it's the same heavy oil as comes from Canada or some other OPEC place.
00:30:39.320
And the thesis of Deal of the Century is that Trump should think like the dealmaker,
00:30:44.080
like the real estate man, like he wants to buy Greenland. He wants the Panama Canal.
00:30:49.380
Think of the oil sands as a real estate deal. Lock it in. Lock it in for 50 years.
00:30:54.540
There's 170 billion barrels there. If the oil sands were to double production, which the
00:31:00.140
Alberta Premier, Danielle Smith, says she wants to do, that would displace all foreign
00:31:05.900
conflict oil in America. Right now, Canada produces about half of U.S. imports. Why not double it?
00:31:12.600
Instead of pushing it away, pull it in. And I reread the USMCA trade agreement, and there's a special,
00:31:19.220
they call it a side letter on energy. And it gives America preferential access to Canadian
00:31:25.520
energy. And my thesis is Trump, instead of slapping, like I get the instinct to slap Trudeau
00:31:32.180
around. We all hate him. He's going to be gone in a few weeks. Don't push away the oil sands because
00:31:37.280
you hate Trudeau. Pull the oil sands closer. Double the imports, ink a 50-year, $13 trillion deal for all
00:31:45.960
of it. Like literally buy all of it. Don't let China get a toehold. So that's my case to America
00:31:52.460
first friends is, look, we all hate Trudeau. He's going to be gone soon. Don't throw the baby out with
00:31:58.260
the bathwater. The opposite. I agree with you. Yeah. I would tell you in Canada, I wouldn't worry too much
00:32:04.800
necessarily about these tariffs. I think this is all just a way of him to renegotiate and put his mark
00:32:11.880
on trade agreements and deals. I just can't see him ever going through with that on Canada at this
00:32:17.700
point. I just think it's, I don't want to use the word bluster, but you know, it's a negotiating tactic.
00:32:22.580
Well, I absolutely agree with you. Well, thank you. I'll send you a copy of the book. It's a short book.
00:32:26.900
It's less than a hundred pages. But I just feel like Trump is so focused on other bigger deals like
00:32:33.080
Russia, Ukraine, Gaza, China, that I don't think he actually spends a ton of time thinking about
00:32:40.880
Canada when in fact it would solve one of his problems. Because one of the things I do in the
00:32:44.980
book is I say, look, the amount of money the U.S. spends patrolling the Persian Gulf sea lanes
00:32:49.860
to protect that oil. If you're sourcing your oil from Canada, you can free up your U.S. fifth fleet
00:32:58.400
for other things. Anyway, I'll send you a copy of the book. I'd love your view on it. Great. Yeah.
00:33:02.240
Yeah. Thank you. Congrats on the book. Thank you. Give me one last word from CPAC. Has there been
00:33:06.960
anything interesting that you've heard over the last day or so? Well, we had J.D. Vance come speak
00:33:12.620
here and Donald Trump himself will be here tomorrow morning. And yeah, this is a great crowd that likes
00:33:19.480
him. I've just it's I think everyone even here is in shock and awe. It's almost like these are
00:33:25.680
and again, I've been coming to this since the 80s, these events, actually early 90s, to be fair.
00:33:30.380
And it's amazing because no one's ever experienced a time like this where you wake up and are excited
00:33:36.800
to see the news every day. I mean, it's just incredible. So everyone here is ecstatic. It's
00:33:41.100
almost like pinch me to see if I'm awake. So you figure at some point and not just Democrats, but I
00:33:47.160
think the deep state, as it were, you know, is going to it's going to try to derail Trump. They can't
00:33:53.020
allow this to continue. And I don't I don't mean that in a sinister way. I just mean it and where it's
00:33:59.020
going to be either they're going to try to break a news cycle and get him off and get him distracted
00:34:03.600
or do something. But I just can't imagine this being allowed to continue. Or the deep state was
00:34:08.800
never as powerful as we thought. Or maybe they've just been broken. And that's what we can always
00:34:12.380
hope for that option is that they've been broken. This whole unelected, unaccountable bureaucracy that
00:34:16.940
has run Washington for decades. You know, you're so right. It feels jubilant right now. I'm reminded of
00:34:22.740
that old apocryphal story of King Solomon asking for a ring with an inscription that's always true.
00:34:32.520
And the inscription was, this too shall pass. And in times of sorrow, it picked up his spirits.
00:34:40.100
But in times of elation, it brought him down to earth a little bit. And it's so incredible what's
00:34:46.420
going on right now. I am starting my natural worrier inside me is thinking exactly what you're
00:34:52.640
thinking. Are they going to do something to stop him to stop Elon Musk to stop RFK Jr. They've already
00:34:58.660
tried to assassinate Trump several times. It's so not only are trillions of dollars at stake,
00:35:05.960
but the entire rise and fall of of countries of of civilizations is at stake. And I don't think
00:35:12.840
that's too dramatic to say so. So I just hope that he we can continue on this. And I'm saying
00:35:20.500
this is a Canadian because I know we'll benefit from it as the whole world will. Last word to you.
00:35:26.620
The last word is this. The biggest thing Donald Trump's doing, you can talk all about all the
00:35:30.340
actions he's taken, the man is he's reframing the narrative and changing the narrative. He's changing
00:35:37.500
culture. Just like in the 19 by the 1980s, Reagan changed the culture for the 70s. Think of the free
00:35:43.660
love hippies. They were considered a political force, viable. So by the 1980s, they were the butt of
00:35:49.080
jokes, you know, like a hippie. And, you know, they'd have they were like a comedy, comic relief by that
00:35:54.160
point. And I think that's what Donald Trump has done. He's going to make, you know, the woke,
00:35:58.540
the Black Lives Matter, transgenderism, the climate accuracy. They're going to be just losing all
00:36:04.060
credibility in pop culture. And that is what I think that shift in the paradigm, that shift in
00:36:08.820
the narrative. You can't even put a quantify an impact on something like that. We are a changed
00:36:15.340
nation, I believe, just in the last 30 days. Again, I could be drinking the Kool-Aid here,
00:36:20.520
you know, and maybe I'm just too exuberant. But that's how I feel at the moment. So I'll allow that
00:36:24.900
I am too exuberant. But that's it's a change in culture and narrative, which to me is one of the
00:36:30.260
most important things you can do. Amazing. Mark, it's great to see you. And I think this is the best
00:36:35.540
time for American energy and hopefully for Canadian energy, as you say, that we've ever
00:36:40.540
experienced. Mark, great to see you. And we'll let you get back to the conference there.
00:36:44.780
Thank you, Ezra. Appreciate it. All right. That's Mark Morano. He's the boss of
00:36:48.620
climatedepot.com. It's an essential website to understand the battles over climate, energy,
00:37:00.260
Hey, welcome back. Your letters on the hostages. Jeanette Rempel says the woman's body that was
00:37:12.180
returned was not the children's mother. She is not one of the known hostages. I saw that insane news.
00:37:18.240
They put another anonymous woman's corpse in the coffin. And the only explanation I can think for
00:37:25.520
that is that they tortured or did such terrible things to the body that they were trying to hide
00:37:32.360
that from the public. I don't know. That's my guess. It's so atrocious, the whole thing.
00:37:38.560
A letter about Trudeau's monorail project. Ken Vanderbilt says he doesn't have the parliamentary
00:37:44.520
authority to make any spending announcements. Well, he can make all the announcements he wants.
00:37:49.700
I don't know if he can get the spending out the door without parliament reconvening. The whole thing
00:37:54.920
is so bizarre. I mean, isn't he supposed to be gone by now? Timothy Baker says, probably working with a
00:38:01.540
Chinese-owned railroad manufacturer. Well, I'd have to do some more deep research on the different
00:38:06.960
consortium members. But one of them is SNC-Lavalin, just renamed.
00:38:11.180
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