Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Trump protects women's sports from out-of-touch feminists

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. What a fun show today. A great conversation with our friend Mark Morano about

00:00:05.400 Donald Trump's environmental and energy policies. So exciting. But I want to show you a great video

00:00:11.640 of Donald Trump sparring with the left-wing feminist governor of the state of Maine.

00:00:17.820 They're sparring over transgenderism in sports. Oh, it's classic. It's one minute long, but you 1.00

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00:01:29.100 Tonight, Donald Trump makes an all-out assault on environmentalist extremism.

00:01:44.220 It's even better than Ronald Reagan. It's February 21st, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:52.320 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:02:04.040 Hey, check this out. It's from a meeting of Donald Trump with the U.S. governors, Democrats and

00:02:10.040 Republicans both. And Trump heard that one of his executive orders about keeping men out of women's

00:02:15.820 sports was being ignored in the state of Maine. So take a look.

00:02:20.820 The NCAA has complied immediately, by the way. That's good. But I understand Maine. Is Maine here,

00:02:27.920 the governor of Maine? Are you not going to comply with it?

00:02:32.740 I'm complying with state and federal laws.

00:02:35.120 Well, I'm... We are the federal law. Well, you better do it. You better do it because you're not

00:02:39.820 going to get any federal funding at all if you don't. And by the way, your population, even though

00:02:43.760 it's somewhat liberal, although I did very well there, your population doesn't want men playing in 1.00

00:02:49.200 women's sports. So you better comply, because otherwise you're not getting any federal funding. 1.00

00:02:55.260 Every state... Good. I'll see you in court. I look forward to that. That should be a real easy one.

00:03:01.580 And enjoy your life after governor, because I don't think you'll be in elected politics.

00:03:05.760 Every state has a responsibility to comply with Title IX. They have an obligation, a legal obligation.

00:03:12.580 That voice in the background is Janet Mills, the governor of Maine. She says she'll see Trump in court.

00:03:20.220 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. 0.98

00:03:27.440 Sure, she can. But I'm equally sure that Donald Trump will do what he promised he would do.

00:03:33.140 Stop sending federal money to Maine if they don't comply with his executive order.

00:03:37.880 So either one could actually win, no matter what the court says. Remember this?

00:03:41.660 The administration will not stand by and watch men beat and batter female athletes. From now on,

00:03:47.720 women's sports will be only for women. In recent years, the radical left has waged an all-out campaign

00:03:55.480 to erase the very concept of biological sex and replace it with a militant transgender ideology. 0.97

00:04:02.600 We're honored to be joined today by many incredible advocates for women's sports, including the brave

00:04:08.540 swimmer at the forefront of this battle. And Riley Gaines is a person that I've been watching.

00:04:14.540 In my action this afternoon, we're putting every school receiving taxpayer dollars on notice that

00:04:20.400 if you let men take over women's sports teams or invade your locker rooms, you will be investigated

00:04:26.200 for violations of Title IX and risk your federal funding. There will be no federal funding.

00:04:31.040 With this executive order, the war on women's sports is over. We are restoring sanity and

00:04:37.440 common sense, defending the rights and safety and pride of the American people, including our

00:04:42.620 great, great, great female athletes. Thank you, President Trump!

00:04:47.200 That was an incredible visual image. All those young women and girls around Trump,

00:04:53.340 like he was a grandpa or something, protecting them, because no one else would. No left-wing

00:04:59.920 feminists would. It was just amazing that Trump took the women's vote because he was protecting women 0.73

00:05:06.240 against men. Even more amazing is that it's a Democrat woman, a feminist, the governor of Maine,

00:05:12.720 who would be against that. It's so weird. It's so upside down. I've never been to Maine, actually.

00:05:19.360 It's a small state, 1.4 million people, just a little bit bigger than Calgary. It's the whitest 1.00

00:05:25.980 state, if I'm reading my statistics correctly. And I mention that only because that's sort of a

00:05:31.740 classic recipe for what is sometimes called luxury beliefs. There's not a lot of poverty in Maine.

00:05:38.900 There's not a lot of social friction in Maine. There's not a lot of crises. Everything's pretty good

00:05:44.760 in Maine. There's a lot of room for virtue signaling because of that. So they can afford

00:05:51.220 to care deeply about global warming and whatnot, except for that the whatnot here includes letting

00:05:57.980 physical men box or wrestle against women, letting physical men interchange rooms with women.

00:06:06.280 And Trump is here to say no to that. Trump ended, as you saw his statement there, with a kind of threat.

00:06:12.300 That's how Trump operates with people who challenge him. The threat was more of a prediction

00:06:16.820 that if she's on the wrong side of that issue, she won't win again. Now, I'm not sure if she's

00:06:22.640 planning to run again. Her term is up next year when she'll be almost 79. Not sure if she'll run again.

00:06:29.380 I mean, Trump is almost that exact same age, but he seems to have unlimited energy. But I think Trump is

00:06:35.940 right. Is Maine so left-wing? I'm not even going to say liberal because the liberals, a true liberal

00:06:43.380 would be for women's spaces and women's right. Is Maine so left-wing, so radical? That's a better way 0.99

00:06:48.340 to put it. That they'll go so far as to be anti-feminist. And by that, I mean to let men

00:06:54.280 dominate women's sports. I'm not so sure that it is. And in the meantime, are they fine losing 1.00

00:06:59.920 up to $5 billion a year, which is what a curse research tells me the feds pay to Maine every

00:07:05.980 year? That works out to about $4,000 for every man, woman, and child. Around $14,000 a year for

00:07:13.420 a family of four. Now, I doubt that Trump would be able to cut everything off. But even if it was

00:07:19.800 only a tenth of that, would every family in Maine lose, give up $1,400 a year because their hardcore

00:07:30.280 left-wing, virtue-signaling, luxury-beliefs governor wanted men to be able to wrestle with or play rugby

00:07:37.980 against girls? Or maybe she's just anti-Trump. Maybe she doesn't actually believe in that. I don't know.

00:07:44.060 But here's what I think. I think that Maine is more sane than their governor. I mean, I just

00:07:51.160 think of what Steve Jennings, he's such a great spokesman. He's on CNN. Here's what he said the

00:07:56.900 other day about Trump and these 80-20 issues. Trump is like the 80-20 president. He gets on the right

00:08:02.180 side of all these 80-20 issues. Democrats knee-jerk and take the 20. And then what happens? Today,

00:08:07.880 CBS News poll this morning, Donald Trump's sitting at a 53% approval rating, the highest he's ever

00:08:13.140 recorded in that survey. Why? Because Democrats are taking the wrong side of all of these obvious

00:08:18.340 issues, number one. And number two, they're giving him an enormous amount of latitude to move fast and

00:08:23.740 break things, which I heard used in a pejorative fashion. But when you're talking about the government,

00:08:28.240 that's what people want. And Democrats keep Trump to do. So yeah, in the last election, I checked,

00:08:33.560 the governor of Maine was elected 56% to 42%. So that's a fair spread, 14%. But it's not like

00:08:42.940 70-30 or anything. If the number one issue in sleepy little Maine is men and women's sports teams and

00:08:51.920 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

00:08:58.160 the Democrats, especially if their incumbent governor runs again, and especially if Trump manages to punish

00:09:05.300 the state for her, I'm going to call it anti-feminism. But here's my point, besides showing you that 0.99

00:09:13.140 wonderful, wonderful video. Trump is so good on his feet. But here's my point. Could we get this same

00:09:20.920 sort of thing happening here in Canada? If Pierre Pauly were elected prime minister, could we ever get to

00:09:26.480 a position where our prime minister would come face to face with an intransigent opponent? In this case,

00:09:32.940 someone who seems to be violating a legitimate federal order? And would Pauly have say, I'm going

00:09:39.080 to punish you with the full force of the law? I don't care that you're a governor. Because I'm not

00:09:45.820 an expert, but I think it's fair to say that Canada's prime minister actually has more power within our

00:09:52.700 system than the U.S. president has in their system. Not in all regards. But let me just, let me give you

00:09:58.760 one example, the appointment process. We've just seen Trump's nominees go through a vetting by the

00:10:04.440 Senate. One of them was withdrawn. I'm talking about Matt Gaetz. We don't have any vetting of

00:10:09.440 cabinet picks or of judges in Canada in the same way that they do in the U.S. That's just one example.

00:10:17.660 I think the Canadian prime minister actually, in many ways, has a lot more power in Canada than the U.S.

00:10:23.020 president does in their system. So I think a lot of people around the world are looking at Trump

00:10:28.240 moving fast and breaking things, as Scott Jennings said. And I think a lot of people in Canada and the

00:10:34.700 U.K. and Australia and around the world are thinking, hey, why can't that be us too? If

00:10:41.440 Peter Pauly have wins this year, and I think he will, he should take Trump's approach, move fast,

00:10:46.520 break things, ignore the media, and do so many things so fast using his executive authority that

00:10:52.700 the liberals don't have time to react to the latest thing because he's already moved on to the next

00:10:58.160 thing. It's the only way he'll be able to fix what's so deeply broken.

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00:12:12.320 Donald Trump has a war on all fronts. He is making so many announcements every day. It's putting all of

00:12:20.140 his critics on the back foot. By the time they respond to one thing, there's another thing. It's

00:12:24.420 like whack-a-mole squared. And it's so hopeful. It's clear that Trump has been thinking about things

00:12:30.440 for years, plotting what he would do even minute by minute on his first day. And it feels like every

00:12:37.320 day since. The pace of things is incredible. And so I see this headline in Politico, which, by the way,

00:12:43.640 received $8 million worth of, quote, subscriptions, basically money laundered to it by the Biden

00:12:49.360 administration. That's one of the discoveries of Trump's inquiries into waste. But here's the

00:12:53.860 headline in Politico. Trump's 30-day climate assault. Trump has done more to unravel U.S.

00:13:01.160 climate policy in the past 30 days than during the entirety of his first administration. And we

00:13:07.020 find that story where we always find our stories about global warming and the like on our favorite

00:13:11.680 website, climatedepot.com. Joining us now is the boss of Climate Depot, who is at the CPAC

00:13:18.220 convention. I believe that's in Washington. It's the great conservative convention. Mark,

00:13:22.840 great to see you. I see you have a smile on your face. Now, you always do. But I think it's because

00:13:27.560 you're in the middle of the best news that freedom advocates on the energy file have had ever.

00:13:35.540 Ever. Yeah. Let me unpack this in a way. Just let me explain where I'm coming from. I have been

00:13:40.500 in politics since 1980. As a young kid, my brother worked in Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign

00:13:49.160 and later his inaugural committee. But I was a volunteer in the fall of 1980 at Ronald Reagan's

00:13:55.740 headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, just across the bridge. And I did media for Reagan. I would do

00:14:01.440 reel-to-reel tape. Governor Reagan spoke about his tax cuts and send it off to like Detroit radio

00:14:06.000 station at the time. I would cold call all these producers. It was a very, very eye-opening

00:14:10.460 experience for me. Anyway, I say that to say that in my lifetime, I don't know of any president who

00:14:17.480 could be more consequential than Donald Trump. And I'm including Ronald Reagan in that. I'm

00:14:22.740 including even pre-my lifetime JFK. I think you'd have to go back to Franklin Delano Roosevelt to get

00:14:30.200 as consequential as what Donald Trump is doing. And I'm talking broadly. He's the most

00:14:35.500 consequential president of our lifetime. But beyond that, on the specific focus, as you

00:14:40.660 mentioned, the Politico article on climate, energy, the environment, it has been... Here's another

00:14:46.420 embarrassing revelation. This is not another one, but here's an embarrassing revelation.

00:14:49.980 I work with a team. We came up with a top 10 list for Donald Trump to do as president. And it was

00:14:56.220 everything from withdraw the United Nations from the Paris Agreement, submit it to the Senate,

00:15:00.420 go after the endangerment finding, which we think is happening in the process of happening at this

00:15:05.140 moment as we speak, which is CO2 can be regulated as a pollutant. We're going to hopefully statutorily

00:15:09.800 get that killed in the United States. And going through everything from all the energy restrictions.

00:15:14.700 But here's the part that's in my lifetime I can't even believe. We as activists, and as many would

00:15:20.540 say, utopian vision, trying to get things, you know, giving politicians a vision, we aim too low.

00:15:26.920 Because as you mentioned, in the first 30 days, Donald Trump has exceeded everything he did in his

00:15:31.140 whole four years the first time around with much better cabinet picks this time. And I don't even

00:15:36.200 want to say... I'm going to rephrase that. They're not necessarily better cabinet picks,

00:15:40.000 but the framework upon which they're working, and this is important, is they are serving Donald

00:15:46.280 Trump and his vision. There's no rogue cabinet members who we had last time who just sort of were

00:15:52.940 dragging the ball. I mean, everyone is on the same page and they're like corporate men.

00:15:57.140 Yeah, I just say corporate yes men. But they're corporate men doing the company policy. And the

00:16:01.160 company policy is make America great again. So it is just absolutely shocking. And you think back

00:16:08.320 to JFK and all his speeches and inspiring. We weren't inspiring enough. I mean, we should aim too

00:16:13.940 low. And it's incredible. This morning, Trump is telling people that they're not going to be

00:16:18.360 sending U.S. delegations to these U.N. climate summits anymore. The first time in my lifetime,

00:16:22.480 I've been to 23 of these, or 22 out of the last 24, 21 allies. And every single time there's been

00:16:27.980 a U.S. delegation. And secondly, there's now a bill in both the House and the Senate by Marsha

00:16:32.380 Blackburn and Mike Lee and Roy... Chip Roy of the House to withdraw the United States from the United

00:16:38.140 Nations. I mean, it is like boom, boom, boom, boom. He's talking about actually abolishing departments

00:16:43.660 like education, stuff that Ronald Reagan talked about, but never even got off the ground. So I am blown

00:16:49.080 away. So I don't want to be hyperbolic, but I know I am being hyperbolic.

00:16:53.980 Well, it's amazing. You know, I read that Politico article because the Politico article,

00:16:57.980 of course, was saying this in a critical way. You and I are jubilant, but the other side is ashes.

00:17:03.420 Let me just read three things that stuck out. You already alluded to one or two of them.

00:17:08.180 The core EPA, that's the Environmental Protection Agency, finding from 2009 that greenhouse gases

00:17:16.400 endanger human health. And we have the same BS regulation in Canada. CO2 is natural. I'm exhaling

00:17:24.000 it now. Plants breathe it in. It's plant food. It's the stuff of life. Without carbon, almost everything

00:17:31.360 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.

00:17:39.680 I mean, to undo that keystone foundation stone. Let me just rattle out two more things,

00:17:44.140 then I'll throw right over to you, Mark. In the first term where Trump was president,

00:17:47.640 he waited four months to withdraw from the Parrot Climate Agreement. He did it day one this time.

00:17:54.040 And finally, he's a, I'm just quoting from the Politico article, quote, net zero 2050 is a sinister goal,

00:18:04.660 Energy Secretary Chris Wright told conservative leaders. So all of these sacred cows, he's just

00:18:11.320 doing away with them. And he's doing it all at once with a great speed. Sorry, you were about to say

00:18:16.900 something and I interrupted you. Go ahead, Mark. Well, no, I was just going to say, before we even

00:18:21.860 get to the policy, the other thing that's stunning me as a longtime Trump observer, and I've been

00:18:27.980 observed, I've been, in terms of politically, I've interviewed him in 1999. Let me think, I think

00:18:35.280 1999 at Sting's Rainforest concert. And he was, you know, he was always in America first, but he was

00:18:40.020 just there as a celebrity to support the, save the rainforest. And then I saw him later for Rush Limbaugh's

00:18:45.760 TV show. I met him, I saw him on Capitol Hill one time. But I just want to say that whatever happened

00:18:51.500 last year, and I think it's the threat of jail and getting shot at, this is the best version of Donald

00:18:57.300 Trump, at least politically, that anyone has ever seen. I mean, he is mature, he's focused, he's not

00:19:04.240 making any kind of rookie mistakes, he's not derailing his own agenda. It's just amazing. And

00:19:11.900 that's the first thing I want to mention. Now, in terms of this political article, first of all,

00:19:14.900 the sinister goal of net zero, that's what I've been saying for a decade now. And it's the same thing,

00:19:20.340 I say it's Soviet style, central planning, rebranded and saved the planet. And to have our energy 0.58

00:19:26.140 secretary, remember, just the contrast, you want to talk about Ying Yang, Ezra? We had

00:19:31.040 Jennifer Granholm with Biden's energy secretary. She did a video with Bill McKibben, the climate

00:19:35.540 activist, singing about keep oil in the ground right before she became energy secretary. You

00:19:40.240 got to keep it in the ground, singing and dancing. Like, this was our energy secretary. And what

00:19:44.740 could better do that? One of the, the political article was hilarious because they said, just as

00:19:49.540 the extreme weather is getting worse, Trump is pulling out of all these climate, you know,

00:19:55.220 like somehow if we'd stayed in and he had allowed this, like the weather would get better. Like

00:19:59.820 it's truly modern witchcraft. The media has not gotten the message that they are completely

00:20:04.860 anti-science and embarrassing themselves. You know, there's so many things you said there.

00:20:10.420 I want to get back to what you mentioned earlier about how Trump's cabinet appointments are Trump's

00:20:16.560 men. And some people say, oh, they should think for themselves. I remember Howard Lutnick,

00:20:21.080 the who is the head of the transition for Trump and now commerce secretary was asked, well, do you

00:20:26.380 want a couple of Democrats in there? He said, what are you talking about? If the CEO of a company has

00:20:31.300 a vision, the CEO appoints vice presidents and delegates the vision. It's an order. Like you

00:20:38.420 elect the president. He's the head of the executive branch and everyone in the executive does what he

00:20:43.100 says. Anything else would be undemocratic. Only hiring Republicans. Yes. What a shock. The

00:20:50.300 Republican president is going to hire Republicans who are going to be fidelity to him, his policies

00:20:56.780 and him because he's the CEO. Why would you pick someone who's going to try to go the other direction?

00:21:01.660 That would be silly. And we saw it with all these generals. They just they thought I knew better than

00:21:06.720 him. I knew better than him. That's just not true. They went the wrong way. And that's what was the

00:21:12.460 mistake. You can see that in every department. And it may sound flattering that they all say

00:21:17.120 President Trump has authorized me, President Trump. But they're always remembering where their source

00:21:22.820 of executive power comes from. Lee Zeldin, the EPA administrator, interesting guy from New York,

00:21:28.660 ran for governor, came very close to winning in New York to watch that guy in action. He is battle

00:21:35.700 trained and bruised himself in his own way. He was like a mini Trump. And like so many people who have

00:21:42.360 been given this opportunity, he's taken advantage of what I like about Lee Zeldin is he's focused on

00:21:47.360 EPA stuff for sure. But he's also focused on finding wealth, fraud, corruption. And not only does that put

00:21:53.700 the bad guys in the deep state on the back foot, but it actually defunds them. I think he's discovered

00:21:59.200 a $2 billion shell organization that was going to find climate extremism, like just off the books.

00:22:06.320 Like he's, they're not just doing positive stuff. They're defunding the deep state as they go. And

00:22:14.360 I am enjoying, I can't wait to read the news every day. Every day is a month's, a month's worth of

00:22:21.740 news in a day. Back to you. Go ahead.

00:22:23.440 Exactly right. And you mentioned earlier, it's just a form of shock and awe, to use another phrase,

00:22:30.000 where they, you have the Democrat chairmanship meeting, this was about, I guess, three weeks ago now,

00:22:34.320 where they literally like, we have to have one candidate from each gender, and then we have to have a 0.99

00:22:38.000 non-binary. I mean, it's like, they're still like, they've lost their voice. I've never seen in my lifetime

00:22:43.440 the opposition so steamrolled and flat. You had Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrat House minority leader,

00:22:50.920 basically say, what are we going to do? We have no leverage. We have, we can't do anything.

00:22:55.700 I mean, they are just steamrolled by this. But I want to mention two cabinet appointees to support

00:23:00.580 what you said about Lee Zeldin. Lee Zeldin just seems to be coming into his own. And a lot of this is,

00:23:05.600 these are politicians to begin with, you know, whether Doug Burgum, as I mentioned, Doug Burgum and RFK,

00:23:10.820 along with Lee Zeldin, but not RFK, but Lee Zeldin was a congressman and Doug Burgum is a governor.

00:23:18.120 They have to deal in balance and all that. But now they're given a singular central focus.

00:23:25.760 And you can almost say like, wow, they really are rising to the occasion. Doug Burgum, by the way,

00:23:30.200 is going against some of the things he's advocated. He's advocated for net zero standards. I'm just

00:23:35.420 telling you, this is the interior secretary. He's advocated for net zero standards stricter than

00:23:40.500 California. He was trying to do it as a sort of an accounting trick, an ideological game where

00:23:45.080 he embraced the climate agenda, but his solution wasn't cutting back on energy. His solution was

00:23:50.840 carbon capture and storage. And that's the problem.

00:23:54.240 That's just a accounting trick. That's a real Enron trick. And Canada's tried to do that too.

00:23:59.880 Canada's oil patch. It's busy work. It's fake. Yeah, I don't like that either. But you know what

00:24:06.060 I love is how you're right. In the past, conservatives had to make these moral bargains,

00:24:12.080 put water in their wine. But Trump is all about the opposite. He's about going as distilled and

00:24:18.180 pure as you can be. And that's how he operates as a negotiator. Remember, Donald Trump is a master

00:24:23.480 negotiator. I went back, I ordered, I couldn't find my old copy. So I reordered Art of the Deal.

00:24:29.140 And I started reading it again. And that's a good read to remember how Trump operates. He always

00:24:35.360 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

00:28:22.060 cabinet of stars.

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.

00:30:48.160 Yeah.

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 0.52

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 0.99

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 1.00

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,

00:36:55.700 and the environment. Stay with us. More ahead.

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.

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Rebel News Podcast - February 22, 2025

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Trump protects women's sports from out-of-touch feminists

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