The Ben Shapiro Show - February 03, 2025


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Trump has made some significant gains with regard to the Panama Canal. President Trump has been issuing a lot of threats over the canal, which of course was built by the United States back in the early 20th century. The Panama Canal is really important because it cuts down shipping time across the bottom of South America by 27 days. It allows instead all sorts of shipping traffic to be pushed through Panama.

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00:00:00.000 Well, folks, it was a very hot weekend in the news.
00:00:03.000 President Trump has made some significant gains with regard to the Panama Canal.
00:00:07.000 So President Trump has been issuing a lot of threats over the Panama Canal, which of course was built by the United States back in the early 20th century, late 19th century.
00:00:15.000 And President Trump has wanted to maintain control over the Panama Canal.
00:00:19.000 It was handed over to the Panamanian government by Jimmy Carter.
00:00:23.000 And that final facilitation of transfer happened in the 1990s over the course of time.
00:00:28.000 And in the meantime, the Chinese have been using extraordinary power, bribery, graft, in order to take control of two ends of the Panama Canal. 0.97
00:00:39.000 We have here a map of the Panama Canal.
00:00:42.000 The Panama Canal is really important because it cuts down shipping time across the bottom of South America by 27 days.
00:00:48.000 It allows instead all sorts of shipping traffic to be pushed through Panama.
00:00:52.000 It's an amazing thing.
00:00:54.000 I mean, I've been down to Panama.
00:00:55.000 I've seen the Panama Canal in person.
00:00:57.000 As it's locks on both ends, the water level is increased and lowered in order to facilitate shipping.
00:01:02.000 You have to pay a fee in order to go through if you are a shipper or if you are the U.S. military.
00:01:07.000 Apparently, one of the victories that President Trump has now won is that some of the fees will be gone for U.S. military shipping across the Panama Canal.
00:01:14.000 What you can see in this map, there are two sites on this map that are really important for folks who can't see it.
00:01:19.000 Panama, of course, is a very narrow bridge of land, a spit of land that exists between A 0.90
00:01:52.000 subsidiary of C.K. Hutchinson Holdings Which is a Chinese-run company out of Hong Kong, controls that port.
00:01:59.000 They also control the Cristobal port, which is on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal.
00:02:03.000 Why is that a concern?
00:02:05.000 Well, the concern was that in case of some sort of serious conflict between the United States and China, the Chinese could use those cutout companies to basically obstruct traffic in the Panama Canal, preventing American warships from being able to transit that at a stretch of one day or two days, as opposed to...
00:02:21.000 27 days.
00:02:22.000 So President Trump said, listen, we're not going to allow the Chinese to effectively control ingress and egress from the Panama Canal.
00:02:28.000 Here's President Trump talking about this yesterday.
00:02:32.000 Secretary of State Rubio is in Panama right now, and we're talking about the Panama Canal.
00:02:39.000 What they've done is terrible.
00:02:40.000 They violated the agreement.
00:02:42.000 They're not allowed to violate the agreement.
00:02:45.000 China's running the Panama Canal.
00:02:47.000 That was not given to China.
00:02:49.000 That was given to Panama foolishly. 1.00
00:02:51.000 But they violated the agreement.
00:02:54.000 And we're going to take it back or something very powerful is going to happen.
00:02:58.000 Okay, so the question is, what is that threat designed to do?
00:03:03.000 So, Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, he said in his confirmation hearing...
00:03:07.000 That Beijing has the ability to turn the canal into a choke point in a moment of conflict.
00:03:10.000 That's what I'm talking about.
00:03:11.000 They could theoretically, for example, sink barges at both ends of the canal and prevent shipping traffic.
00:03:16.000 You remember just a few years ago when the Suez Canal was blocked by one ship that went sideways?
00:03:21.000 That could easily be done at certain choke points in the Panama Canal, which actually does get incredibly, incredibly narrow near the ends, both ends of the Panama Canal.
00:03:30.000 Over the past two decades, China has developed many economic ties with Panama.
00:03:34.000 Including through its Belt and Road Initiative.
00:03:36.000 The Chinese Belt and Road Initiative is a giant influence operation in which China, quote-unquote, gives you things.
00:03:41.000 There are always strings attached.
00:03:42.000 Those strings attached may be surveillance of your country.
00:03:45.000 It may be control over significant national resources.
00:03:48.000 That's what the Belt and Road Initiative is.
00:03:49.000 So, the victory that President Trump just won is that Panama has just announced that they will not renew the Belt and Road Agreement with China.
00:03:56.000 This makes it the first Latin American nation to leave the Belt and Road Initiative.
00:04:00.000 Panamanian President José Raúl Molino.
00:04:02.000 He said his country would not renew its agreement with the Belt and Road Initiative following a visit from Secretary of State Rubio over the weekend.
00:04:08.000 weekend, here was Molino.
00:04:09.000 Which is a decision that I adopted and communicated to him, this is Marco Rubio, the Memorandum of Understanding of the Year 2017 on the Road, Belt and Road Initiative, the Memorandum of Understanding of the Year 2017 on the Road, Belt and Road Initiative, will not He says we're going to study the possibility of whether can be finished earlier or not.
00:04:39.000 But I think it's his turn.
00:04:41.000 In one or two years, the renewal, because it is every three.
00:04:44.000 So this initiative that was signed, when it was signed, at the time it was signed, will not be renewed by my government.
00:04:52.000 So there are other countries in Latin and South America who are looking at the possibility of joining the Belt and Road Initiative, and they are no longer.
00:05:00.000 Presumably going to do that, or at least they're going to take very seriously the possibility of not doing that.
00:05:05.000 Secretary of State Rubio tweeted, quote, I met with Panamanian President Jose Rubio Molino and Foreign Minister Javier Ciampa to make clear that the United States cannot and will not allow the Chinese Communist Party to continue with its effective and growing control over the Panama Canal area.
00:05:17.000 We also discussed efforts to end the hemisphere's mass migration crisis and ensure fair competition for U.S. firms.
00:05:22.000 This is an unmitigated good.
00:05:23.000 And President Trump throwing the United States' weight around with regard to Panama and achieving some quick results that is also apparently happening with regard to Venezuela.
00:05:31.000 According to Mediaite, six Americans were freed from captivity in Venezuela on Friday as President Trump concluded his second week back in office.
00:05:38.000 The government of President Nicolás Maduro freed them after receiving pressure from the Trump administration.
00:05:43.000 There's been a lot of talk about President Trump, what his foreign policy looks like.
00:05:47.000 When it comes to the Monroe Doctrine, he takes that very seriously.
00:05:49.000 The idea that the Western Hemisphere is a United States pond.
00:05:53.000 That, of course, has been the stated goal of the United States since the early 19th century.
00:05:58.000 But that is something that is being reinvigorated by the Trump administration.
00:06:01.000 Secretary of State Rubio put out an entire piece in the Wall Street Journal explaining that the United States was going to be shifting a lot of resources and attention to the Western Hemisphere, which, of course, makes perfect sense since we have mass migration crises, huge illegal immigration crises that are springing from the lack of American influence in places like Latin and South America.
00:06:20.000 Now, meanwhile.
00:06:22.000 Elon Musk is moving to blow up the U.S. Aid and Development Agency.
00:06:27.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Elon Musk's allies are moving swiftly to exert control over vast swaths of the U.S. government.
00:06:33.000 Musk oversaw a successful effort by his representatives to get direct access to a payment system that distributes trillions of dollars to Americans every year.
00:06:40.000 Individuals working for Doge accessed the U.S. Agency for International Development following a clash with security officials.
00:06:46.000 The moves marked the start of a far-reaching campaign by Musk to upend the federal government agency by agency, according to his allies.
00:06:52.000 The effort prompted outrage from Democrats and some Republicans, who said that Musk doesn't have the authority to overturn programs and spending priorities decided by Congress.
00:06:59.000 They also raised concerns about the nature of Musk's operation because, of course, he has not been Senate-confirmed in any way, shape, or form.
00:07:07.000 Doge had initially been conceived as a sort of advisory outside panel, but Doge instead is actually operating inside the U.S. government in many ways, which, of course...
00:07:15.000 Violates the Senate's advice and consent procedures.
00:07:17.000 So if we're going to do this, then it should go through Senate advice and consent.
00:07:20.000 Now, what is Musk doing?
00:07:22.000 Well, some of what Musk is doing is obviously great.
00:07:24.000 He's going through it and he's cutting an enormous amount of waste and fraud in the program.
00:07:28.000 He's shutting down programs that are wildly inefficient.
00:07:31.000 Musk said he was on track to cut federal spending by $4 billion a day.
00:07:36.000 He said career Treasury officials were routinely making illegal payments.
00:07:39.000 The Treasury press office didn't respond on Sunday to a request for comment.
00:07:43.000 Now, meanwhile, this is broken out into the open because of controversy over USAID. On Saturday, roughly eight Doge representatives sought access to classified systems and floors at the USAID building in downtown Washington.
00:07:54.000 Security officials initially resisted Doge representatives' requests.
00:07:59.000 The security officials, John Voorhees and his deputy, were then put on administrative leave for not complying.
00:08:03.000 Now, let's be real about this.
00:08:04.000 The president of the United States is in control of the Treasury Department and USAID. So if the president of the United States decides to quote-unquote declassify material, he can.
00:08:14.000 He has the summary power to declassify material, as we learned to our great chagrin over the course of the last four years when we had many, many conversations about what the president could and could not do in declassifying material.
00:08:25.000 The Doge representatives were given access to at least the executive secretariat and nerve center for coordination and communication for the agency's highest levels in the office of the general counsel, the current USAID official and Senate Democratic aide said.
00:08:37.000 Now, USAID. is filled with extraordinary graft.
00:08:41.000 It is a 10,000-person, $40 billion agency.
00:08:45.000 Musk posted on X over the weekend that USAID was a corrupt organization filled with Marxist staffers providing no evidence for his broadsides, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:08:52.000 But it is true that the USAID has given enormous amounts of aid, billions of dollars in aid, to foreign organizations, non-governmental organizations, many of whom are dedicated to doing left-wing agitprop work abroad.
00:09:04.000 Now there is one problem.
00:09:06.000 The problem is that if you actually destroy USAID as a functioning agency, rather than going in with a scalpel, then what you actually could be doing, unfortunately, is sort of an unintended consequence of breaking things and moving fast, is opening the door to things like China's Belt and Road Initiative.
00:09:22.000 Because if USAID is giving aid, and a lot of that aid is crap and should go away, but if it's giving some aid that is good to countries, for example, that are wavering between United States influence and Chinese influence, and then you withdraw, Chinese influence grows.
00:09:37.000 If you don't like the Belt and Road Initiative in Panama, you shouldn't like the Belt and Road Initiative in Africa or in Southeast Asia or in any other place that China is attempting to spread its tentacles.
00:09:47.000 Again, in the world of tech, moving fast, breaking things, blowing things up, having to rebuild them, that's just the way that business is done.
00:09:53.000 In the world of government, if you are, for example, a foreign country that is reliant on USAID to sort of prop you up, and that goes away.
00:10:03.000 Do you think you're just going to sit there and wait for the United States to figure out its bleep?
00:10:07.000 Or are you just going to turn to China?
00:10:08.000 China is quite happy about this particular move.
00:10:12.000 One particular account on Twitter, which is, shall we say, very, very Chinese-friendly, is celebratory about the death of USAID. Quote, Because USAID isn't really a humanitarian aid agency.
00:10:21.000 It's a covert intelligence arm funding coups, protests, and regime changes.
00:10:25.000 What exactly are some of the things that this person objects to?
00:10:28.000 That USAID opposed the Cuban regime, the Venezuelan regime.
00:10:32.000 Opposed the Bolivian regime.
00:10:35.000 Opposed, for example, the Taliban in Afghanistan.
00:10:39.000 That it was a front for counterinsurgency operations.
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00:12:38.000 So China could be Two things can be true at once, as always, as always. 0.92
00:12:42.000 And this is, I think, really important when it comes to the policy of an administration that I support.
00:12:46.000 Many things can be true at once.
00:12:48.000 Policy is complex and shaded.
00:12:50.000 It's not all good, and it's not all bad.
00:12:52.000 When it comes to things like USAID, again, going through in targeted, precise fashion and nuking programs within USAID that need to die would be a wonderful good, and Doge can do an amazing amount of good there at the same time.
00:13:06.000 Nuking the entire agency, for example, could be opening the door to Chinese influence operations in a wide variety of areas all over the globe that the United States is then going to have to backfill.
00:13:17.000 And that could be a problem because China is fully stalwart about all this stuff.
00:13:20.000 China will always offer you a check. 0.95
00:13:22.000 China is perfectly willing to bribe anyone. 0.91
00:13:24.000 China is corrupt.
00:13:25.000 China is tyrannical. 0.86
00:13:26.000 The Chinese regime, the CCP regime, is evil, full stop. 0.95
00:13:29.000 It is an evil regime.
00:13:30.000 It is not our friend.
00:13:31.000 It is not our friendly competitor.
00:13:33.000 The Chinese regime is an oppressive communist tyranny that steals IP, undercuts American markets, and targets all of America's interests for destruction. 0.98
00:13:43.000 That is what China does. 0.93
00:13:44.000 Okay, so, just recognize that we live in a world filled with harsh enemies who are perfectly willing to fill gaps left by the United States.
00:13:51.000 Now, you may be willing to say, okay, fine, whatever.
00:13:53.000 We leave a gap.
00:13:53.000 China fills it.
00:13:54.000 Do we really care enough?
00:13:55.000 And that's an open question.
00:13:56.000 Depends on the interest.
00:13:57.000 Some interests just aren't worth it.
00:13:59.000 However, We should be at least smart enough to acknowledge that there are effects of a vacuum created by the United States.
00:14:07.000 That is a rather important thing.
00:14:10.000 Okay, back on the good side of the ledger, President Trump is apparently killing aid to South Africa.
00:14:16.000 This, of course, is a good thing because when it comes to South Africa, South Africa has become an increasingly racist state focused on expropriating the property of whites. 0.84
00:14:26.000 Now, you can talk about the evils of South African apartheid, which of course were tremendously evil.
00:14:31.000 And you can also point out that the way to come together after the demise of an apartheid regime would not be confiscatory policy designed to harm the white people in Africa in racist fashion.
00:14:44.000 That's exactly what the South African government has done.
00:14:47.000 That's what the Zimbabwean government did also, by the way, completely destroying the country in the process.
00:14:52.000 South Africa has pushed forward an expropriation measure signed by the president Cyril Ramfosa designed to bring land reform in the public interest, meaning just seize property, presumably from white farmers disproportionately.
00:15:03.000 South Africa, by the way, because it is impoverished itself in ways that it need not because South Africa has pursued a racialist policy because South Africa's identity is largely tied up in sort of anti-colonialist mindset.
00:15:15.000 It has also become a plaything of places like Iran and China.
00:15:18.000 who very often are funneling money into South Africa.
00:15:21.000 President Trump was like, no, we're done with this.
00:15:22.000 We're not going to give aid to a country that is... 0.99
00:15:25.000 In racist fashion, seeking to expropriate property from white farmers. 0.54
00:15:29.000 You said that you were going to cut aid from South Africa.
00:15:33.000 Will you plan to cut aid across other African nations?
00:15:36.000 And why South Africa?
00:15:37.000 No, it's only South Africa.
00:15:38.000 Terrible things are happening in South Africa.
00:15:40.000 The leadership is doing some terrible things, horrible things.
00:15:47.000 So that's under investigation right now.
00:15:49.000 We'll make a determination.
00:15:51.000 And until such time as we find out what South Africa is doing, they're taking away land, they're confiscating land.
00:15:58.000 And actually, they're doing things that are perhaps far worse than that.
00:16:04.000 He's absolutely right about this.
00:16:06.000 And the fact that it was ignored, nay, forwarded by the Secretary of State under the Biden administration is a trap.
00:16:12.000 South Africa is a deeply corrupt, criminality-filled state.
00:16:16.000 It is a failing state.
00:16:18.000 And the fact that we've been pouring money into it is a disgrace.
00:16:21.000 So good move by the Trump administration on that.
00:16:23.000 Speaking of other good foreign policy moves, I think all of the talk about President Trump being in isolation as president, it's kind of weird because what we're seeing so far is definitely not isolationism.
00:16:32.000 President Trump on Saturday announced that he had ordered military airstrikes in Somalia, taking out a senior ISIS attack planner and other terrorists the planner had recruited, according to Fox News.
00:16:40.000 The strikes come just weeks after an ISIS-inspired terrorist killed 14 people and injured dozens more after plowing a truck into New Year's Eve revelers in New Orleans.
00:16:49.000 Trump said, quote, these killers, we found hiding in caves, threatened the United States and our allies.
00:16:54.000 Trump said the strikes destroyed the caves the terrorists were living in and, quote, did not in any way harm civilians.
00:16:59.000 He said our military has targeted this ISIS attack planner for years.
00:17:02.000 Biden and his cronies wouldn't act quickly enough to get the job done.
00:17:04.000 I did.
00:17:05.000 The message to ISIS and all others who would attack Americans is we will find you and we will kill you.
00:17:09.000 This is very, very good, obviously.
00:17:12.000 Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who, of course, is excellent, put out a statement saying, I authorized U.S.-Africa Command to conduct coordinated airstrikes today targeting ISIS-Somalia operatives in the Golis Mountains.
00:17:25.000 Our initial assessment is that the multiple operatives were killed in the airstrikes.
00:17:28.000 No civilians were harmed.
00:17:30.000 This action further degrades ISIS' ability to plot and conduct terror attacks threatening U.S. citizens, our partners, and innocent civilians.
00:17:37.000 He said that strikes should send a clear signal.
00:17:39.000 The U.S. stands ready to find and eliminate terrorists who threaten the country and its allies, even as it carries out robust border protections at home.
00:17:44.000 So again, this sort of isolationist notion that that is what Trump is all about.
00:17:48.000 I have yet to see the evidence of that.
00:17:50.000 Well, meanwhile, the big story of the weekend is that President Trump was going to launch these massive tariffs on Canada and China and Mexico.
00:17:58.000 And the tariffs were basically 25% tariffs blanket on Canadian product, 25% blanket tariffs on Mexican product, 10%.
00:18:06.000 Blanket tariffs on Chinese product.
00:18:08.000 There were some exceptions for oil that was coming in from Canada.
00:18:11.000 And the big question when it comes to tariffs is whether President Trump is using them as leverage or whether he is doing this ideologically.
00:18:16.000 This is always the big question with President Trump.
00:18:18.000 Because using them as leverage, he's been quite successful.
00:18:21.000 There is no one in the business world who is better at leverage than President Trump when it comes to making deals.
00:18:26.000 President Trump loves the leverage and he gets what he wants.
00:18:28.000 He did this just a couple of weeks ago with regard to Colombia.
00:18:31.000 The country, not the university.
00:18:33.000 He threatened them with 25% tariffs and said they would escalate unless they took back illegal immigrants, and they immediately caved.
00:18:38.000 Well, it seems as though that may be what is happening as of Monday.
00:18:43.000 Now, President Trump was sending some vague signals.
00:18:44.000 Here he was announcing, and he sent a few different signals here.
00:18:48.000 He said, listen, I like tariffs.
00:18:49.000 Now, maybe, again, the reason that he is talking up tariffs as a policy is because this is a great strategy when you're playing chicken.
00:18:55.000 You put a brick on the accelerator and say, listen, I'm perfectly happy to go off this cliff.
00:18:59.000 You want to go off the cliff?
00:18:59.000 Let's do this thing, man.
00:19:00.000 Let's make it happen.
00:19:02.000 And so he talks up tariffs as a way of saying, listen, I don't mind.
00:19:05.000 We'll do it.
00:19:05.000 You think we won't do it?
00:19:06.000 We will 100% do it.
00:19:08.000 Right?
00:19:08.000 This is not a bluff.
00:19:09.000 I'm happy.
00:19:10.000 I'd rather do it.
00:19:11.000 And then when he gets what he wants, he can back off the tariffs.
00:19:14.000 That seems to be the strategy he's employing here.
00:19:16.000 Here is President Trump announcing the tariffs.
00:19:18.000 This would have been on Saturday.
00:19:21.000 Mr. President, is there anything China, Canada, and Mexico can do tonight to forestall your implementation of tariffs tomorrow?
00:19:30.000 No, nothing.
00:19:31.000 Not right now, no.
00:19:32.000 Not a negotiating tool?
00:19:34.000 No, it's not.
00:19:34.000 No, it's pure economic.
00:19:36.000 We have big deficits with, as you know, with all three of them.
00:19:40.000 And in one case, they're sending massive amounts of fentanyl, killing hundreds of thousands of people a year with the fentanyl.
00:19:47.000 And in the other two cases, they're making it possible for this poison to get in, number one.
00:19:53.000 And number two, we have big deficits, and it's something we're doing.
00:19:58.000 And we'll possibly very substantially increase it.
00:20:02.000 We're not.
00:20:03.000 We'll see how it is.
00:20:04.000 But it's a lot of money coming to the United States.
00:20:08.000 As you know, we have about a $200 billion deficit with Canada getting close to $200 billion.
00:20:16.000 They've treated us very unfairly.
00:20:19.000 And I say, why should we be subsidizing Canada?
00:20:22.000 You know, it's wonderful.
00:20:23.000 I have so many friends in Canada.
00:20:25.000 It's a great place.
00:20:25.000 Is there a concession you're looking for, sir?
00:20:27.000 No, we're not looking for a concession.
00:20:29.000 And we'll just see what happens.
00:20:32.000 We'll see what happens.
00:20:33.000 And with Mexico, it's the same thing. 0.85
00:20:34.000 We have a $250 billion deficit, and we have a lot of people coming into the border. 1.00
00:20:41.000 And now we've largely stopped that, but we've stopped that ourselves.
00:20:45.000 I think they've done a fantastic job.
00:20:47.000 You've seen the numbers.
00:20:48.000 They've dropped to almost zero.
00:20:50.000 But we've suffered under the past administration for years and years.
00:20:54.000 We've suffered with millions of criminals coming into our country.
00:20:57.000 Criminals, people from jails from all over the world. 0.99
00:20:59.000 They come through Mexico and they come through Canada, too.
00:21:02.000 A lot of them come through Canada and a lot of fentanyl comes through.
00:21:06.000 Canada and China makes the fentanyl.
00:21:08.000 You know, China makes the fentanyl, gives it to Mexico, puts it through Canada, puts it through different places, mostly Mexico, but also a lot through Canada.
00:21:18.000 And so all three haven't treated us very well.
00:21:23.000 Okay, so a bunch of different things happening here.
00:21:25.000 So President Trump is saying, listen, I love the tariffs.
00:21:27.000 Nothing can make me remove the tariffs.
00:21:28.000 Nothing, nothing.
00:21:29.000 And then we found out on Monday morning after the markets immediately dipped at open because they thought maybe these tariffs were permanent.
00:21:36.000 That they were anything but permanent.
00:21:37.000 In fact, President Trump was able to leverage major concessions out of the Mexican government.
00:21:42.000 We'll get more into tariff policy in a moment.
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00:23:45.000 According to President Trump's Truth Social Feed, quote, I just spoke with President Claudia Scheinbaum of Mexico.
00:23:51.000 It was a very friendly conversation wherein she agreed to immediately supply 10,000 Mexican soldiers on the border, separating Mexico and the United States.
00:23:58.000 These soldiers will be specifically designated to stop the flow of fentanyl and illegal migrants into our country.
00:24:03.000 We further agreed to immediately pause the anticipated tariffs for a one-month period, during which we will have negotiations headed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Treasury Scott Besant, and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and high-level representatives of Mexico.
00:24:15.000 I look forward to participating in those negotiations with President Scheinbaum as we attempt to achieve a deal between our two countries.
00:24:21.000 So remember, President Trump had used his emergency authority to stop fentanyl, illegal immigration, in order to... 0.61
00:24:28.000 Make the tariffs happen.
00:24:29.000 And he's now saying that because Mexico is alleviating the emergency, presumably, this is going to be delayed by a month so a new trade deal can be negotiated.
00:24:37.000 So it was all leverage.
00:24:38.000 So it was not, in fact, a sort of overall love for tariffs as President Trump saying he likes tariffs overall in order to gain leverage.
00:24:44.000 Meanwhile, he's now starting to make clear exactly what he wants from Canada.
00:24:48.000 He said, quote, Canada doesn't even allow U.S. banks to open or do business there.
00:24:51.000 there.
00:24:51.000 What's that all about?
00:24:52.000 Many such thing, but it's also a drug war. 0.61
00:24:54.000 Hundreds of thousands of people have died in the United States from drugs pouring through the borders of Mexico and Canada.
00:24:59.000 Just spoke to Justin Trudeau.
00:25:00.000 We'll be speaking to him again at 3 p.m.
00:25:02.000 Now, presumably, there are other concessions that the Canadians could make that would mean that the tariffs end up being relieved with regard to Canada.
00:25:10.000 Okay, which, again, all of that is good and fine.
00:25:13.000 Using tariffs as a form of leverage is something President Trump is very good about.
00:25:17.000 He's very good at it.
00:25:19.000 As overall policy, it should be noted, by the way, tariff policy, Trade wars are bad and not easy to win.
00:25:25.000 Trade wars tend to impoverish people.
00:25:26.000 Trade wars tend to impoverish the American consumer in particular.
00:25:30.000 Here, for example, is a map of what happens with just the auto parts in your car if a trade war were actually to take place.
00:25:37.000 This is a map of a capacitor's journey through North America.
00:25:41.000 A Michigan circuit board manufacturer buys a capacitor for a company in Colorado which imported it from Asia.
00:25:46.000 Let's say it came from China.
00:25:47.000 That's a 10% tariff.
00:25:48.000 It goes down to Ciudad Juarez in Mexico where it's inserted.
00:25:51.000 In a circuit board, when it comes back up through the board, that's another 25% tariff.
00:25:55.000 Then, when it goes to Canada, it'd be inserted into a seat, for example.
00:25:58.000 That is another 25% tariff when it comes back down.
00:26:01.000 So you're talking at that point about an aggregated 60% tariff on the product.
00:26:05.000 These sorts of things have a major impact on American markets, which is why you saw the stock market take a dump at the very beginning of the day when it looked as though Trump was in principled fashion pushing tariff policy as sort of a net good to the United States.
00:26:19.000 But again, President Trump...
00:26:21.000 It looks like he's doing this as a leverage play.
00:26:23.000 It looks as though President Trump is pushing these tariffs specifically in order to get something out of Canada.
00:26:30.000 That, by the way, was the take of Conrad Black, who was a journalist up in Canada.
00:26:34.000 He said, like, what are you guys worried about?
00:26:36.000 This is about shutting down the border, spending 3% on NATO defense.
00:26:39.000 Get some concessions for Trump.
00:26:40.000 It's a big win for him.
00:26:41.000 He gets the victory.
00:26:42.000 He chalks that up and the tariffs go away.
00:26:45.000 The Canadians, for their part, are getting very militant.
00:26:49.000 Justin Trudeau.
00:26:52.000 Tonight, I am announcing Canada will be responding to the U.S. trade action with 25% tariffs against $155 billion worth of American goods.
00:27:11.000 This will include immediate tariffs on $30 billion worth of goods as of Tuesday.
00:27:19.000 Followed by further tariffs on $125 billion worth of American products in 21 days' time to allow Canadian companies and supply chains to seek to find alternatives.
00:27:33.000 Now, of course, the reality is that that would hurt Canada more than it would hurt us.
00:27:37.000 If they tariff American products, then they're taxing their own consumers.
00:27:40.000 But this is what happens in a trade war.
00:27:42.000 You increase your tariffs.
00:27:43.000 The other countries that are being targeted increase their tariffs to retaliate because they say, OK, well.
00:27:48.000 We're not going to let your goods in our market if you're not letting our goods in your market. 0.96
00:27:51.000 And then if this sort of thing were to be carried out over a long period of time, it would be a real problem because China particularly is more than happy, just as with USAID going away, more than happy to fill that gap with cheap free trade with, say, Canada or Mexico or the Europeans.
00:28:05.000 The Europeans, by the way, are already setting up for this. 0.93
00:28:07.000 The Europeans are already anticipating that President Trump is going to try tariffing the Europeans.
00:28:11.000 And so they've been creating more free trade agreements with themselves and presumably also with China.
00:28:18.000 But, when it comes to playing chicken, President Trump is very, very good at playing chicken.
00:28:22.000 Mexico sending 10,000 troops to the border.
00:28:24.000 Mexico pledging to stop the flow of fentanyl.
00:28:27.000 These are big wins for President Trump.
00:28:29.000 There's no other way to put it.
00:28:30.000 Again, I've said this all along.
00:28:32.000 When it comes to many of the things that Trump does, if you did them in a vacuum without trying to use them as leverage, there would be a major problem.
00:28:38.000 And many of the things that Trump says in order to get those things done are things I disagree with.
00:28:42.000 So, for example, you heard him railing against trade deficits.
00:28:45.000 Trade deficits are not...
00:28:46.000 A trade deficit is when you buy a thing from someone else and you gave them money and they gave you the good.
00:28:52.000 You have a trade deficit with your grocery.
00:28:53.000 If we buy a bunch of stuff from Vietnam, that doesn't mean that Vietnam has ripped us off in some way.
00:28:59.000 The United States can still be the world's leading economy while having a giant trade deficit.
00:29:03.000 And meanwhile, there are a bunch of poor countries that have trade surpluses.
00:29:06.000 That's not the point.
00:29:07.000 For President Trump, it's the effect of what he's attempting to do that matters.
00:29:10.000 It is not what he says about the thing, apparently, that matters.
00:29:14.000 He gets a win out of Mexicans. 1.00
00:29:16.000 Presumably, he will get a win out of the Canadians as well.
00:29:18.000 The United States throwing its weight around, particularly in the Western Hemisphere.
00:29:21.000 I'd like to see what it looks like when the US throws its weight around with regard to, say, China as well.
00:29:26.000 We're doing a little bit with that 10% tariff on China.
00:29:29.000 I'm hoping that one is more permanent.
00:29:31.000 Meanwhile, Democrats are poorly positioned to take advantage of any of this.
00:29:35.000 this.
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00:30:03.000 All right, meanwhile, the DNC remains absolutely out in the wilderness.
00:30:06.000 So the Democratic National Committee had to pick a next chair. 0.97
00:30:10.000 Who did they pick?
00:30:11.000 They picked a guy named Ken Martin.
00:30:12.000 Ken Martin says that the Democratic Party is doing just fine.
00:30:15.000 He, in fact, was the leader of the Democratic Party organization in Minnesota.
00:30:20.000 He was a deputy to Tim Walsh.
00:30:23.000 And he basically said we did amazing.
00:30:24.000 Kamala Harris was amazing. 0.99
00:30:26.000 Tim Walsh was amazing.
00:30:29.000 He said the fight right now is against Donald Trump and the billionaires.
00:30:32.000 Who bought this country?
00:30:35.000 They have nothing.
00:30:37.000 They have literally nothing.
00:30:39.000 He said, quote, Donald Trump, the Republican Party, this is a new DNC. We're not going to sit back and not take you on when you fail the American people.
00:30:46.000 But he had also said that there was nothing wrong with the party.
00:30:49.000 Quote, we don't call it a post-mortem or autopsy.
00:30:51.000 Our party's not dead.
00:30:52.000 It's still kicking, right?
00:30:53.000 What we really need to do is get a handle around what happened last election cycle.
00:30:57.000 We know we lost ground with Latino voters.
00:30:58.000 We know we lost ground with women and younger voters and working class voters.
00:31:01.000 We don't know the how and the why yet.
00:31:02.000 Now, we kind of know, but you guys keep doing it.
00:31:05.000 Here is some evidence for why that is, in fact, the case.
00:31:09.000 So Jamie Harrison, who's the outgoing DNC chair, at one point they had to select the top committee at the DNC, and it has to be gender balanced according to the DNC. And so he announced...
00:31:22.000 That they didn't know what to do because they didn't have enough non-gender binary, non-binary gender queer people on their executive board.
00:31:30.000 Good luck to the Dems, man.
00:31:31.000 Wow.
00:31:34.000 Rules specify that when we have a gender non-binary candidate or officer, the non-binary individual is counted as neither male nor female and the remaining six officers must be gender balanced.
00:31:48.000 With the results of the previous four elections, Our elected officers are currently two male and two female.
00:31:57.000 In order to be gender balanced, we must elect one male, one female, and one person of any gender.
00:32:13.000 Why are they losing?
00:32:15.000 Amazing.
00:32:16.000 Wow.
00:32:16.000 Wow.
00:32:17.000 Meanwhile, who are the other candidates for DNC chair?
00:32:20.000 Well, there's one DNC chair candidate named Gina Repas who gave her pitch as to why she should be the chair of the DNC. Hello, Democrats. 0.99
00:32:30.000 Hey, I am speaking, and I would love your attention.
00:32:33.000 There is a black woman at this podium, and I deserve your attention like the 11 people who went before me.
00:32:40.000 Yes, I am speaking.
00:32:43.000 Oh, my God.
00:32:45.000 Oh, my God.
00:32:46.000 So, Ken Martin is the new chair.
00:32:48.000 Congrats, guys.
00:32:49.000 Bye.
00:32:49.000 Even better is the new DNC vice chair.
00:32:53.000 You're not going to believe it, but it's wonderful.
00:32:56.000 It is the inestimably stupid David Hogg.
00:33:00.000 Yes, you remember David Hogg, the failed pillow company guy?
00:33:03.000 Remember the guy, the kid who was a student at Parkland over here in South Florida during the Parkland shooting?
00:33:11.000 But he became world famous for stumping against guns and shouting about gun control and being a theater kid about all this sort of stuff.
00:33:19.000 Remember this?
00:33:20.000 And then he was admitted to Harvard despite what apparently was a 1270 SAT score.
00:33:26.000 He'd been rejected, I believe.
00:33:27.000 And then he got admitted based on his activism.
00:33:29.000 Meanwhile, Kyle Kashuv, another student at Parkland, who'd scored, I believe, 1,600 on his SATs, was rejected because they uncovered some bad old texts.
00:33:37.000 Well, now this schmuck has somehow parlayed his apparent victimization at Parkland into the vice chairmanship of the DNC after a career of stupid tweets at Harvard University.
00:33:49.000 Man, oh man, you guys.
00:33:52.000 He's supposed to be, by the way, driving young men back into the arms of the DNC. This one.
00:33:58.000 This one.
00:33:59.000 This stick figure of a human.
00:34:01.000 Like, oh my god.
00:34:03.000 This is really just amazing, amazing stuff.
00:34:05.000 I just want to point out, before we hear his victory speech, and again.
00:34:08.000 He is literally only famous because he was a student at a school where a school shooting took place.
00:34:13.000 That is the only reason.
00:34:14.000 There is no other reason.
00:34:16.000 Hey, here are some of his better tweets over the course of the last few years.
00:34:20.000 This deeply stupid human.
00:34:22.000 Quote, Those who say defunding of the police doesn't pull well, so we shouldn't talk about it, are wrong.
00:34:28.000 It's our job as organizers to talk about what matters and how to stop the police from murdering people and terrorizing communities.
00:34:33.000 We don't follow the pulls.
00:34:34.000 We change them.
00:34:35.000 So, you've got to defund the police activists.
00:34:38.000 As your vice chair of the DNC. Here he is on his future hopes for life.
00:34:45.000 Quote, I'm never planning on having kids.
00:34:47.000 I would much rather own a Porsche and have a Portuguese water dog and golden doodle.
00:34:51.000 Long term, it's cheaper, better for the environment, and will never tell you it hates you or ask you to pay for college.
00:34:57.000 Wow, DNC. You're really representing those blue-collar working people who go to church, aren't you, right there with this David Hogg?
00:35:02.000 My goodness.
00:35:03.000 He's like if Timothee Chalamet somehow got even more fragile and annoying.
00:35:08.000 Truly an amazing, amazing example.
00:35:11.000 David Hogg tweeted, February 2020, Lincoln was a really good president.
00:35:17.000 People got mad at him.
00:35:18.000 So then he tweeted, actually, I was not aware of the scope of how detrimental he was to so many Native American populations.
00:35:23.000 He was really not a good president.
00:35:26.000 Lincoln was not a good president.
00:35:27.000 From the vice chair of the DNC, I thank my indigenous peers that brought my attention to Lincoln's atrocities committed against Native Americans.
00:35:33.000 I'm deeply sorry for not acknowledging these crimes that I was unaware of until now.
00:35:36.000 I will do better.
00:35:37.000 In the future, David Hogg, 2020, your new vice chair.
00:35:41.000 How about this one?
00:35:44.000 Quote, I'm one of the most politically toxic people in the country.
00:35:47.000 I'm too radical for American politics.
00:35:48.000 No, I'm not running for office.
00:35:50.000 We have enough straight white men in power. 1.00
00:35:54.000 He ran for vice chair of the DNC and then was made vice chair of the DNC, David Hogg.
00:36:00.000 Man, oh man, these geniuses.
00:36:02.000 Here he was with Bill Maher attacking Israel.
00:36:05.000 This is just a few months ago.
00:36:06.000 These are the people.
00:36:07.000 I can't imagine why the Democratic Party has an approval rating beneath that of prostate cancer.
00:36:12.000 Do you believe Israel has a right to be a state? 0.61
00:36:14.000 Absolutely.
00:36:14.000 I believe in a two-state solution, but what I don't believe is productive.
00:36:18.000 What I don't believe is productive, Bill, is when we continuously focus on what these students that are still trying to figure out who the hell they even are a lot of the time and talking about that instead of the people that are actually responsible for these atrocities continuing, whether that is us not having a two-state solution or our leaders that fail to meet this moment over and over and over and over.
00:36:37.000 I'm glad that my generation knows that what the current course that we've been on of just enabling the government of Ben Gavir, the government of Netanyahu that was being protested by the Israeli people leading up to October 7th, just acting like everything's normal is not the answer.
00:36:51.000 Unbelievable.
00:36:55.000 Great job, guys.
00:36:56.000 Slow clap for the DNC. As always, doing amazing.
00:36:58.000 Congrats to David Hogg.
00:37:00.000 I hope he has a long and unsuccessful tenure as the vice chair of the DNC. You guys are just doing great.
00:37:06.000 You're just doing great.
00:37:07.000 Okay, well, meanwhile...
00:37:09.000 The Grammys were last.
00:37:10.000 Speaking of people completely disconnected from everyday life, the Grammys.
00:37:13.000 Now, I didn't know they were happening.
00:37:15.000 You didn't know they were happening, but my producers knew they were happening.
00:37:17.000 And so I'm going to need my producers to join me for this one to help walk me through what happened at the Grammys when a bunch of people whose music I don't care about and whose names I don't know decided to wear, as it turns out, either the most garish stuff imaginable or nothing.
00:37:33.000 So apparently they're going to lead me through a series of pictures.
00:37:37.000 Various artists, most of whom I don't know, and what they wore at the Grammys.
00:37:42.000 So guys, why don't you just go for it?
00:37:44.000 Tell me what you got.
00:37:46.000 Well, I think the first one to start out with is definitely Chapel Rhone.
00:37:50.000 Okay.
00:37:51.000 Do you know any of her songs?
00:37:52.000 No.
00:37:53.000 H-O-T-T-O-G-O. No. 0.99
00:37:57.000 No.
00:37:57.000 Stop.
00:37:58.000 Stop.
00:37:59.000 Stop that.
00:38:00.000 That's enough of that.
00:38:01.000 Okay.
00:38:01.000 What do you think?
00:38:02.000 Why does she look like... 1.00
00:38:04.000 A terrible painting of Marie Antoinette if Marie Antoinette was a trans man. 1.00
00:38:10.000 Why is that what she looks like? 0.99
00:38:11.000 I'm confused.
00:38:12.000 It's feeling like trans Mad Hatter. 1.00
00:38:14.000 Yeah, I could see that.
00:38:16.000 I could see that.
00:38:18.000 She looks mentally healthy, is what I'll say right here.
00:38:22.000 That's a look right there.
00:38:23.000 For those who can't see, she's wearing just a hideously ugly yellow dress, and it's got some sort of black straps that are holding it up. 0.99
00:38:32.000 And then she's wearing a mop on her head and some really overdone makeup. 0.97
00:38:36.000 She seems well.
00:38:38.000 Thank you, Chapel Roan.
00:38:41.000 I don't care.
00:38:42.000 Okay, next.
00:38:43.000 Enough of that.
00:38:44.000 Alright, next.
00:38:44.000 You actually like her.
00:38:45.000 So, we got Cynthia Erivo, ya girl. 1.00
00:38:48.000 Okay, Cynthia Erivo, who's immensely talented. 0.57
00:38:50.000 I don't know what she's wearing here, though.
00:38:52.000 It could be worse, but we really wanted you to focus on, if you guys could close up on her nails there.
00:38:57.000 Yeah, I was wondering what's going on with the nails.
00:38:58.000 Check those babies out. 1.00
00:38:59.000 I mean, she's famous for these bizarre nails. 1.00
00:39:01.000 In her interview, she's got a wizard hat, and then she's got some jewelry going on.
00:39:08.000 How do you type with these?
00:39:10.000 That's always what I want to know.
00:39:11.000 Alright, next up we have Billie Eilish. 0.98
00:39:13.000 Oh, Billie Eilish.
00:39:14.000 She's a classic.
00:39:15.000 Yeah, she is.
00:39:16.000 What a great look.
00:39:17.000 So people are saying that on the Twitters...
00:39:21.000 Go to the next photo.
00:39:23.000 That's funny.
00:39:24.000 They're saying Billie Eilish stuns on this year's Grammys red carpet as one of the members of the Three Blind Mice.
00:39:30.000 I could see that.
00:39:32.000 Alright, next up my personal favorites.
00:39:34.000 Jaden and Willow Smith.
00:39:35.000 But let's start with Jaden first.
00:39:37.000 Oh boy.
00:39:38.000 Oh, well.
00:39:42.000 He walked out of the house and he was like, you know what?
00:39:44.000 For those who can't see this, Jaden is wearing a house on his head.
00:39:46.000 I'm not even kidding.
00:39:48.000 You think that that's a joke or that I'm being figurative.
00:39:50.000 I am not, if you're just listening.
00:39:52.000 He's wearing an actual model of a house on his head.
00:39:57.000 His house head.
00:39:58.000 It matches.
00:39:59.000 I mean, I will say the color scheme matches.
00:40:01.000 I don't understand.
00:40:03.000 Honestly, it's like my four-year-old daughter when she makes a house out of a box and just kind of puts it on her head.
00:40:08.000 What is happening right now?
00:40:10.000 The tux is nice.
00:40:12.000 It's like the Wicked Witch of the East got hit by a house in the head.
00:40:18.000 I would be concerned with him going through any doorways, but he's relatively short, so I don't think he's having any issues.
00:40:23.000 Sucks if you're sitting behind him.
00:40:25.000 Yeah, exactly.
00:40:29.000 That's a hell of a look.
00:40:30.000 Okay.
00:40:31.000 These are all people.
00:40:32.000 But why is the Democratic Party failing to connect with people?
00:40:34.000 I don't understand.
00:40:36.000 I mean, isn't this going to be on your must-wear list this season?
00:40:38.000 Let's see Willow, because this is a look.
00:40:44.000 What?
00:40:45.000 And there's Willow, who's wearing a bra under a jacket, but none of that's relevant.
00:40:50.000 Relevant is what's happening with the teeth right there.
00:40:53.000 What is that?
00:40:54.000 Does Willow play hockey in 1977?
00:41:00.000 That is a look.
00:41:03.000 Okay, man.
00:41:04.000 Jafar in the prison scene.
00:41:07.000 Dressed as the old man giving the lamp to Aladdin.
00:41:10.000 Happening over here.
00:41:11.000 Alright.
00:41:13.000 Next is Lady Gaga.
00:41:15.000 Unfortunately, she's not dressed in meat.
00:41:18.000 I feel like Lady Gaga's really toned it down, you know?
00:41:21.000 She really has.
00:41:22.000 She's just going as Wednesday Addams now.
00:41:24.000 But I'm just wondering, like, what happened to the old Lady Gaga, the one who would show up in a bubble or in a meat dress? 0.93
00:41:29.000 I think she's coming back.
00:41:30.000 Oh, you think she's coming back?
00:41:32.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:41:32.000 I think old Lady Gaga is on her way back.
00:41:35.000 Well, she probably is.
00:41:35.000 I think this is preliminary stages.
00:41:37.000 I mean, she's tried the acting thing, and it worked out for her pretty well, but maybe she has to get back into the shock.
00:41:43.000 Like, there's only a couple of trajectories for these pop stars as they age out.
00:41:47.000 One is that you become a...
00:41:49.000 An elderly matron who can act and you move into that realm, which would be the smart move. 1.00
00:41:54.000 And the other is your Madonna and you're still twerking on stage at the age of 92. Alright, next is...
00:41:58.000 Let's see Chrissy Teigen.
00:41:59.000 Alright, moving on to naked people.
00:42:04.000 Oh, Chrissy Teigen.
00:42:05.000 Wow.
00:42:06.000 What a charm where Chrissy Teigen is. 1.00
00:42:09.000 So, naked person attacked by jellyfish.
00:42:13.000 That's what I'm getting here.
00:42:14.000 And kind of pained look of smiling.
00:42:18.000 Like, again, there's so many dead eyes at the Grammys.
00:42:20.000 So many people who are deeply unhappy.
00:42:22.000 That's, yeah.
00:42:24.000 Imagine this is your life.
00:42:25.000 I mean, I guess she's real rich, but who cares?
00:42:27.000 I mean, that can't be a particularly happy person.
00:42:29.000 And speaking of unhappy people, Kanye West, who I have been reliably informed is a deeply religious Christian by all the best sources.
00:42:41.000 This is what a deeply religious Christian would do.
00:42:43.000 Would be to trot out his wife fully naked at the Grammys. 0.97
00:42:47.000 Before being arrested for indecent exposure.
00:42:50.000 I'm going to say, this is not legal.
00:42:51.000 That is not legal.
00:42:53.000 And also, he is a horrifying person.
00:42:56.000 Before she met Kanye, was this her normal mode of dress?
00:42:59.000 No.
00:43:00.000 Definitely not.
00:43:01.000 He styles her.
00:43:02.000 And then, the way he styles her is by apparently just trotting out his wife completely naked, which makes him a complete piece of shit.
00:43:09.000 I'm sorry, that makes you a complete piece...
00:43:11.000 There's no other way to put that.
00:43:12.000 He's a complete piece of shit.
00:43:13.000 If you, like...
00:43:14.000 The disrespect to women is disgusting.
00:43:17.000 Disgusting.
00:43:17.000 He's a terrible person.
00:43:19.000 Forget about what he says.
00:43:20.000 Look what he does.
00:43:21.000 Look what he does to this woman. 0.99
00:43:22.000 And I understand she consents.
00:43:23.000 It doesn't matter.
00:43:24.000 Consent is not the only standard of treating people decently.
00:43:26.000 If somebody consents to you beating the shit out of them, you still shouldn't beat the shit out of them.
00:43:30.000 He's a terrible person.
00:43:31.000 Let's move to performance.
00:43:32.000 Okay, time for some performances.
00:43:34.000 We're doing a nine-hour review of the Grammys here.
00:43:36.000 Time for some performances.
00:43:37.000 We have, apparently, Charlie XCX, who doesn't know how to do Roman numerals.
00:43:42.000 That is not how you do Roman numerals.
00:43:44.000 Okay, but Charli XCX showed up and did something that approximated singing. 1.00
00:43:52.000 It's like a full rave happening?
00:43:56.000 It's just people banging on stage.
00:44:02.000 And now I'm making out with Vapid Nance.
00:44:04.000 By the way, this is also old.
00:44:06.000 Remember that time when it used to be transgressive and now it's just old?
00:44:08.000 This is like old when Madonna did it in 1993. Bring back Britney with the snake. 1.00
00:44:13.000 Am I right?
00:44:13.000 Honestly, God, nothing has changed.
00:44:15.000 It's all just...
00:44:16.000 Here's the thing.
00:44:18.000 It's boring.
00:44:19.000 It's boring.
00:44:20.000 Because once you've transgressed all the rules, there's nothing left to transgress.
00:44:23.000 It's boring.
00:44:24.000 You know what the new transgressive is?
00:44:25.000 Getting married and having children in a church.
00:44:28.000 And going to church with your family.
00:44:30.000 That's transgressive.
00:44:31.000 Normie is transgressive.
00:44:33.000 This is not transgressive.
00:44:34.000 It's just boring.
00:44:36.000 Okay.
00:44:37.000 Meanwhile...
00:44:38.000 There was more politics.
00:44:40.000 So Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars showed up without, unfortunately, sexy red.
00:44:45.000 And apparently were dressed like in the background, like the Osmonds from 1975. But then they showed up to talk about, I don't know, politics or something.
00:45:00.000 Great.
00:45:00.000 Want to hear from these schmucks?
00:45:02.000 Trans people are not invisible.
00:45:07.000 I think the problem is that they were very not invisible, actually, during the last election.
00:45:14.000 Music is love.
00:45:15.000 Thank you.
00:45:16.000 Oh, boy.
00:45:17.000 Okay, well, you know, keep going with this.
00:45:19.000 See how it works out for you.
00:45:19.000 Alicia Keys showed up, apparently, dressed as Xerxes, and explained that DEI is not a threat.
00:45:27.000 It's a blessing.
00:45:28.000 It's a magical, magical blessing.
00:45:30.000 You're saying the quiet part out loud, lady.
00:45:32.000 I mean, like, if that's the way that Hollywood views DEI, we can understand why all the art is...
00:45:36.000 Terrible.
00:45:37.000 This is not the time to shut down the diversity of voices.
00:45:43.000 We've seen on this stage talented, hardworking people from different backgrounds with different points of view and it changes the game.
00:45:52.000 DEI is not a threat, it's a gift.
00:45:55.000 And everybody's cheering that.
00:45:58.000 Man, when's Leonidas gonna show up and fight off Xerxes over here?
00:46:02.000 That's a hell of an outfit.
00:46:04.000 DEI is not a threat.
00:46:05.000 It's a gift.
00:46:06.000 Fine, you do it then.
00:46:08.000 Okay, the rest of us will just do merit over here.
00:46:09.000 How about that?
00:46:10.000 Meanwhile, speaking of terrible hosts, Trevor Noah was the host, which the fact that he's still working is, I think, we need to deport him.
00:46:19.000 President Trump wins a third term if he deports Trevor Noah.
00:46:21.000 And Noah joked about it, by the way, but we can make this joke a reality if we try hard enough, gang.
00:46:26.000 We're going to make tonight special.
00:46:27.000 We're going to try and have some fun, and we're going to do something different, right?
00:46:30.000 I don't know if you know this, there's been a few changes in Washington, so I'm going to enjoy tonight because this may be my last time I get to host anything in this country.
00:46:37.000 Well, I can only hope.
00:46:38.000 Is he here on some sort of talent visa?
00:46:40.000 Because I figure if he's on an O-1, then that is a completely misapplied O-1.
00:46:43.000 I'm all for deporting many of the Hollywood people who are here on talent visas.
00:46:49.000 He also suggested, he was very angry about the tariffs, of course, because he understands tariff policy, I'm sure.
00:46:55.000 Here we go.
00:46:58.000 Yesterday, Beyonce announced her new tour.
00:47:00.000 Yes.
00:47:02.000 Everyone saw that.
00:47:04.000 I will say, though, Beyonce, there's tariffs.
00:47:06.000 We can't afford a new tour.
00:47:07.000 Maple syrup is about to be $50.
00:47:09.000 Okay, now, speaking of Beyonce, Beyonce also showed up. 0.99
00:47:14.000 She won some sort of award.
00:47:17.000 Album of the year.
00:47:17.000 She won album of the year for this?
00:47:19.000 Oh, no, no.
00:47:19.000 This actually, backtrack, sorry.
00:47:21.000 This was when she won, I believe it was...
00:47:25.000 It was for one of her songs.
00:47:27.000 It was a country album.
00:47:30.000 That's what it was.
00:47:31.000 Best country album.
00:47:31.000 That's what it was.
00:47:32.000 Beyonce won best country album?
00:47:33.000 Yeah, that's why she went into the whole genre is not a code. 0.93
00:47:36.000 I'm not saying that because she can't do country.
00:47:39.000 I'm doing it because her country album sucks.
00:47:41.000 Yeah, and it seems like the other country artists were pretty pissed too.
00:47:45.000 I mean, they should be pissed because her album's terrible.
00:47:47.000 It's one of the few things that I actually know about in the Grammys.
00:47:50.000 I've listened to a couple songs on it and it's garbage.
00:47:52.000 It's truly bad.
00:47:53.000 Beyonce's a really talented person.
00:47:55.000 Like, Cynthia Revo, talented.
00:47:56.000 Like, very, very talented and used to be able to actually show off her pipes and sing. 1.00
00:48:00.000 Okay, here we go.
00:48:01.000 I think sometimes genre is a cold word to keep us in our place as artists.
00:48:08.000 And I just want to encourage people to do what they're passionate about.
00:48:14.000 And to stay persistent.
00:48:19.000 Well, you know, that's the thing that...
00:48:21.000 Wow.
00:48:22.000 Wow.
00:48:22.000 She's making country terrible again.
00:48:25.000 So that's exciting.
00:48:26.000 Guys, thank you so much for torturing me and the audience with that.
00:48:29.000 I really, really appreciate it.
00:48:30.000 That was just great.
00:48:31.000 Folks, believe it or not, there's even more to today's show.
00:48:33.000 We haven't even gotten to the immigration plans of the administration, which we'll get to in a moment.
00:48:38.000 Hopefully it involves deporting pretty much everybody at the Grammys.
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