Donald J. Trump's plan for peace in the Middle East is blowing brains across the conventional wisdom spectrum, and it's doing so because Donald J.J. Trump doesn't think inside the box. He thinks outside the box, and that has led to more peace and prosperity in the region.
00:00:03.000So, last night, President Trump gave a press conference, an absolutely stunning, groundbreaking, timeline-changing press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in which he announced his plan for the day after in the Gaza Strip.
00:00:19.000And people are going absolutely insane over this plan in the Gaza Strip.
00:00:23.000Now, before we get to what exactly that plan is, the first thing that we have to understand is that all of the conventional wisdom, all of the State Department approved conventional wisdom for decades has led to full scale disaster in the Middle East.
00:00:36.000It has led to an intractable multi-decade problem of a radicalized Palestinian population that supports terrorism rather than any regime that would actually allow for peace, prosperity and the building of a livable life.
00:00:50.000Hamas was elected by the Palestinian people.
00:00:53.000Today, by polling data, the Palestinian people still support Hamas after the complete destruction of the Gaza Strip, after and in response to Hamas killing 1,200 Israelis and taking 250 into captivity, where many of them were murdered, many of them were abused, and many of them still are, including American citizens.
00:01:12.000So, whatever the conventional wisdom says is wrong, and it has been wrong, and this is where President Trump has always had a different way of thinking about this.
00:01:22.000He's always had a different way of thinking about this.
00:01:24.000President Trump thinks outside the box, and what that has led to is more peace and prosperity in the region.
00:01:30.000People who think inside the box have led to some of the most intractable, most violent, worst conflict in humanity.
00:01:38.000Donald Trump has thrown the conventional wisdom out, and what he has replaced it with...
00:01:43.000is common sense understanding of reality and outside-the-box thinking, and the result was the Abraham Accords.
00:01:48.000If you look back to Trump term number one, perhaps the most stunning example of President Trump thinking differently was the Abraham Accords.
00:01:54.000Everybody said he was not going to be able to get any sort of deal done in the Middle East.
00:01:57.000Instead, he ended up with the first true Arab-Israeli peace deals in modern history.
00:02:03.000He didn't win the Nobel Prize for that because the left hates him too much, but that was all Nobel Prize worthy and everyone knows it, including the left.
00:02:10.000Barack Obama won the Nobel Prize for existing.
00:02:12.000Donald Trump did not win the Nobel Prize for a variety of peace agreements between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
00:02:18.000And if Donald Trump had been re-elected in 2020, he was just weeks away from brokering a Saudi-Israeli Abraham Accord.
00:02:25.000That is because Donald Trump does not think inside the box.
00:02:28.000So here's what the conventional wisdom says, and then we'll get to what exactly Donald Trump is proposing that is just exploding brains across the conventional wisdom spectrum.
00:02:37.000The conventional wisdom has said, One, the way that you get to Middle Eastern peace is by solving the Palestinian problem first.
00:02:50.000By solving the intractable Palestinian issue first, and then peace blooms across the Middle East.
00:02:54.000This has been the going conventional wisdom for decades in the Middle East.
00:03:04.000The Oslo Accords, which were originally put forward in the early 1990s, President Trump, throughout that conventional wisdom, what he said was, listen, we have an intractable problem over here.
00:03:27.000A deeply radicalized population that wants to completely destroy its neighbor.
00:03:31.000The Palestinian population has no interest in a quote-unquote two-state solution, living side-by-side in peace and prosperity.
00:03:36.000And so, if there's going to be peace in the Middle East, we are going to take that issue, we're going to put it to the side, and instead, we are going to look to the common security and economic interests of Israel and its other Arab neighbors.
00:03:45.000And the Abraham Accords was the result.
00:03:50.000Everybody said that it was backwards and wrong and unsophisticated and naive and not nuanced.
00:03:55.000And it turns out it was exactly right, because Donald Trump took the conventional wisdom and he set it on fire.
00:04:00.000John Kerry, moron that he is, historic dolt, wrong about every single thing in his entire long, useless life.
00:04:07.000John Kerry, former Secretary of State, he said that peace would never happen in the Middle East unless the Palestinian issue was put front and center.
00:04:16.000And he was proved wrong at every single turn.
00:04:44.000Today, there could be an independent Palestinian state in Jordan, and the Hashemite dynasty says no, despite the fact that the vast majority of the population of Jordan actually is Palestinian.
00:04:56.000Are the surrounding Middle Eastern states uninterested in a Palestinian state?
00:04:59.000They don't want one because they know that it will be a terror haven.
00:05:03.000The big reason that so many Arab countries, Muslim countries in the region, don't want to take in Palestinian refugees is because they are afraid it will destabilize their country, and they are right.
00:05:12.000It destabilized Jordan when the PLO was located there in the early 1970s, leading to the full-scale expulsion of tens of thousands of Palestinians as well as the PLO. Lebanon, which used to be a Christian state, was completely overrun by the PLO and turned into a hellhole.
00:05:27.000There are Syrian refugee camps that still contain Palestinians because no matter how hellish Syria is, whoever has been in charge there, whether it's Assad or now whether it's HDS, they're not particularly interested in fighting another front war with a radicalized Palestinian population.
00:05:42.000In the aftermath of the Gulf War, Kuwait expelled tens of thousands of Palestinians who had sided with Saddam Hussein.
00:05:48.000So the idea that anyone in the Middle East is deeply interested in the establishment of a Palestinian state is a lie made up by Westerners.
00:05:55.000And Middle Eastern states have gone along with that lie because it's been a convenient way of shifting blame to Israel for their own internal failures and of prying concessions out of Westerners.
00:06:19.000That the way that you upset the Arab street is when you acknowledge reality.
00:06:23.000That if you acknowledge reality, the Arab street will go wild.
00:06:25.000It will be gigantic war in the Middle East.
00:06:28.000The most obvious example of this being the conventional wisdom that if the United States actually moved its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the eternal capital of Israel and the Jewish people.
00:06:38.000That if that were to happen, then the entire Middle East would go up in flames.
00:06:45.000And acknowledging reality on the ground is smarter than pretending reality away.
00:06:50.000Similarly, the conventional wisdom said that any move to acknowledge territorial sovereignty by Israel in disputed areas, like for example the Golan Heights, would end with further war.
00:07:01.000Not only is that untrue, it is the reverse.
00:07:04.000When Israel has been able to defend territory, the world gets more peaceful, not less.
00:07:10.000The world will be more peaceful because Israel is currently occupying the other side of Mount Hermon in Syria rather than, for example, HTS or Al-Qaeda.
00:08:03.000So to give up that aspiration, Would be to recognize a thing that is unrecognizable for the vast majority of Palestinians.
00:08:11.000There is yet to be a single poll ever, ever showing that Palestinians favor a two-state solution with Israel and the Palestinians living side by side.
00:08:21.000Yet the conventional wisdom likes to pretend that's not the case and then bang their head consistently against a wall and then yell at the Israelis for being so intransigent about not wanting to exterminate themselves.
00:08:30.000Donald Trump does not accept that conventional wisdom.
00:08:36.000Other conventional wisdom, that the Palestinians must never be allowed to leave a rubble-strewn, war-torn area, even if they want to, because somehow it facilitates peace, to keep would-be refugees in an unlivable situation for a decade, with no infrastructure, with no jobs, with no economy other than the trash foreign aid.
00:08:59.000That has been used historically by terrorist groups to build terror tunnels and stock up on weaponry.
00:09:04.000The conventional wisdom is that the best plan in the Gaza Strip was to pour billions of dollars into Hamas to facilitate humanitarian aid, which went directly to building terror tunnels.
00:09:42.000Why is this the only area on earth where even if people want to leave, you can't facilitate the population movement?
00:09:47.000Israel not only facilitated the population movement of Jews out of Gaza, it forced people who didn't want to leave.
00:09:53.000Out of Gaza in 2005. Literally took cities filled with 8,000 Jews and removed them forcibly with Israeli soldiers.
00:10:01.000It turns out that according to the conventional wisdom, the only people who can be forcibly removed from a particular area in this particular area are Jews.
00:10:10.000And the people who certainly cannot be moved under any circumstances are Palestinians living.
00:10:17.000Between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
00:10:38.000But the minute anybody says that people who even want to leave the Gaza Strip because they don't wish to live in the rubble of Khan Yunus under the thumb of Hamas.
00:10:45.000Then, all of a sudden, the conventional wisdom says, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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00:13:13.000And simply saying, like a mantra, two-state solution, democracy, living side by side, peace, doesn't make it magically happen.
00:13:24.000If you just say it over and over and over, not only does it not happen, it ends up facilitating the opposite.
00:13:29.000Because it turns out that terrorist groups and radicalized populations take advantage of your naivete and your stupidity in order to build up their own weaponry so as to do things like October 7th.
00:14:10.000Underlying so much of the discussion over the past several decades has been this idea that if Israel just keeps giving up land and makes itself more and more unsafe, that magically peace will break out.
00:14:47.000And Trump plays in the world of reality.
00:14:49.000And finally, President Trump understands, again, that the conventional wisdom that all of this is central to the Middle East is wrong and a lie.
00:14:57.000He recognizes that it turns out Saudi Arabia has its own priorities that don't actually involve the Palestinians.
00:15:02.000Like, for example, economic development.
00:15:05.000That is the big priority of Mohammed bin Salman.
00:15:09.000What he wants more than anything is a non-oil-based economy with a future.
00:15:14.000Because one of the things that's happened that's totally transformed the Middle East over the course of the last couple of decades is the fracking revolution in the United States.
00:15:20.000The complete revision of global oil dominance by the Middle East so that actually the United States is a net exporter of LNG has completely reshaped how the entire globe does energy.
00:15:31.000And so Mohammed bin Salman, who's sitting on a bunch of oil, is recognizing that technological developments Mean that he must move along with the tech or he's going to lose out and his regime becomes unstable.
00:15:44.000The same thing is true of UAE. The same thing is true, yes, even of Qatar, which is going to be made to come around.
00:15:52.000The reality is that people in the Middle East have interests that are completely disconnected and, in fact, antithetical to the interests of the terror state that a state of Palestine would be.
00:16:05.000All of this is lead up to Trump's actual proposal.
00:16:42.000What I do know is that all of the same conventional wisdom morons who said that the Abraham Accords would never happen were wrong.
00:16:50.000All those same conventional wisdom morons who said moving the Jerusalem embassy would set the entire Middle East on fire were wrong and stupid.
00:16:57.000All the same conventional wisdom dolts who suggested That pressuring Israel in the middle of a war was somehow going to result in more peace rather than more war.
00:17:14.000He did it better than you, and he's doing it better than you.
00:17:17.000Okay, so that brings us to the actual proposal.
00:17:19.000So, President Trump yesterday did a press conference.
00:17:22.000At this press conference, he made the announcement that the United States would take over the Gaza Strip.
00:17:28.000Now, I don't know what this looks like in practicality, and President Trump didn't spell out any details.
00:17:32.000But the vision is basically that the United States, presumably getting security help from the Israelis, private contractors, and all of the rest, would essentially turn this into an investment area because it's border territory with the Med.
00:17:49.000This is all the same coastline as Tel Aviv.
00:17:53.000And so here's President Trump explaining his plan.
00:17:56.000I also strongly believe that the Gaza Strip, which has been a symbol of death and destruction for so many decades, and so bad for the people anywhere near it, and especially those who live there, and frankly, who's been really very unlucky.
00:18:13.000It's been an unlucky place for a long time.
00:18:15.000Being in its presence just has not been good, and it should not go through a process of rebuilding and occupation by the same people that have...
00:18:26.000Really stood there and fought for it and lived there and died there and lived a miserable existence there.
00:18:35.000Instead, we should go to other countries of interest with humanitarian hearts, and there are many of them that want to do this, and build various domains that will ultimately be occupied by the 1.8 million Palestinians living in Gaza, ending the death and destruction and, frankly, bad luck.
00:18:55.000This can be paid for by neighboring countries of great wealth.
00:18:59.000It could be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12. It could be numerous sites or it could be one large site.
00:19:07.000But the people will be able to live in comfort and peace.
00:19:11.000And we'll make sure something really spectacular is done.
00:19:49.000A beautiful area with homes and safety and they can live out their lives in peace and harmony instead of having to go back and do it again.
00:19:57.000The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too.
00:20:02.000We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site.
00:20:10.000Level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings.
00:20:27.000If you go back, it's going to end up the same way it has for 100 years.
00:20:31.000I'm hopeful that this ceasefire could be the beginning of a larger and more enduring peace that will end the bloodshed and killing once and for all.
00:20:41.000So everybody who is against this, I have a question.
00:20:50.000Maybe the alternative that will be put forward by the Arab states is, okay, we don't want this, so now we're going to go in and we'll volunteer to clean it up, in which case President Trump gets a win.
00:20:58.000But the alternative cannot be continued Hamas rule because that is not going to happen.
00:21:01.000And just imagine for a second if, wait for it, President Trump was actually right, since he has been right on the Middle East many times before.
00:21:09.000Imagine if this actually became an economic development zone where there were, in fact, hotels, where there were, in fact, casinos, where there were houses, And schools.
00:21:19.000I know, a crazy idea that a beautiful piece of beachfront property might actually be a beautiful piece of beachfront property as opposed to a giant terror hellhole.
00:21:30.000But, is anyone else thinking differently about this?
00:21:33.000Because it turns out that you thinking the same way brought us here.
00:21:35.000You thinking the same way brought us here.
00:21:37.000Now, thinking differently might be a better idea.
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00:24:07.000You know, this bizarre idea that people need to be trapped in this zone.
00:24:10.000There's polling data, by the way, showing that a huge percentage of Palestinians, if they could get out, would want to.
00:24:17.000Here is President Trump saying, listen.
00:24:19.000Population movement is the constant of human history.
00:24:22.000There's no right to live in a terror hellhole, backing Hamas, building terror tunnels, and basically driving millions of people into despair, poverty, and death.
00:24:33.000And if people want to live there, they can live there.
00:24:35.000And if they don't want to live there, they can't live there.
00:24:36.000But there's going to be a rebuilding time, so let's get real about this.
00:24:39.000Caitlin Collins was very upset about this because, again, conventional wisdom is you have to keep millions of people suffering in an area dominated by terrorism so that, what, a terror state can be built?
00:25:46.000You know, you just can't let it keep repeating itself.
00:25:49.000We have an opportunity to do something that could be phenomenal.
00:25:54.000And I don't want to be cute, I don't want to be a wise guy, but the Riviera of the Middle East, this could be something that could be so bad.
00:26:00.000But how do those people go in the meantime, Mr. President?
00:26:03.000But more importantly than that is the people that have been absolutely destroyed, that live there now, can live in peace in a much better situation because they're living in hell.
00:26:15.000And those people will now be able to live in peace.
00:26:17.000We'll make sure that it's done world-class.
00:26:25.000And I have a feeling that despite them saying no, I have a feeling that the king in Jordan and that the general president, but that the general in Egypt will open their hearts and will give us the kind of land that we need to get this done.
00:26:41.000And people can live in harmony and peace.
00:27:23.000Israel is not allowing work visas from the Gaza Strip.
00:27:27.000That is not a thing that is going to happen under current situations or any time in the future, so long as the status quo ante is returned to.
00:27:34.000So what exactly is the alternative plan?
00:27:37.000All the people who are, oh my God, let them cook.
00:28:03.000It's been one of the meanest, toughest places on Earth.
00:28:08.000If we can build something for them in one of the countries, and it could be Jordan, it could be Egypt, it could be other countries, and you could build four or five or six areas.
00:28:18.000It doesn't have to be one area, but you take certain areas and you build really good quality housing, like a beautiful town, like someplace where they can live and not die.
00:28:32.000Okay, again, the question would be the alternative.
00:28:36.000What is the conventional wisdom that's been tried for 80 years, gang?
00:28:49.000Hey, so, President Trump says, you know, what's the United States' role in all this?
00:28:52.000Why is he a long-term ownership position, is what President Trump has to say.
00:28:55.000Now, again, there are a lot of details that have to be filled in.
00:28:58.000There has to be a plan that's filled in.
00:28:59.000And again, this could be a negotiating gambit in order to get the Arab states to actually say, we don't want what Trump is talking about, so we are going to get involved in the rebuilding and guarantee the security of the Gaza Strip.
00:29:08.000This could be a lot of different things.
00:29:10.000What it isn't is the conventional things that have already been tried and have failed 100,000 times over the course of the years.
00:29:18.000I saw a tweet last night from one of these conventional wisdom fools saying, well, why don't we just say that the people in Gaza get to stay in Gaza and live side by side in peace with the Israelis?
00:29:53.000And Mr. Prime Minister, do you see this idea as a way to expand the boundaries of Israel and to have a longer peace, even though the Israeli people know how important that land is to you and your citizens?
00:30:08.000The space is inherited by the Palestinians as well.
00:30:12.000I do see a long-term ownership position, and I see it bringing great stability to that part of the Middle East and maybe the entire Middle East.
00:30:23.000And everybody I've spoken to, this was not a decision made lightly, everybody I've spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land, developing and creating thousands of jobs with something that will be magnificent in a...
00:30:37.000Really magnificent area that nobody would know.
00:30:40.000Nobody can look because all they see is death and destruction and rubble and demolished buildings falling all over.
00:31:20.000I mentioned again tonight our three goals.
00:31:25.000And the third goal is to make sure that Gaza never poses a threat to Israel again.
00:31:31.000President Trump is taking it to a much higher level.
00:31:34.000He sees a different future for that piece of land that has been the focus of so much terrorism, so many attacks against us, so many trials and so many tribulations.
00:32:28.000You keep saying the same thing over and over and over, like a fool or a madman, and then nothing changes.
00:32:34.000The place keeps being a terror-ridden hellhole, and your response to the possible changing of that area into something that could actually be good is that you're upset about it in some way?
00:32:50.000I have a feeling that maybe you might have a slightly different agenda.
00:32:53.000President Trump made some other announcements at this press conference.
00:32:56.000He announced that the United States would be ending its support for the awful and evil UN Human Rights Council and the UN Refugee Works Agency, which is a corrupt tool of Hamas.
00:33:06.000I ended the last administration's de facto arms embargo on over $1 billion in military assistance for Israel.
00:33:15.000And I'm also pleased to announce that this afternoon the United States withdrew from the anti-Semitic UN Human Rights Council and ended all of the support for the UN Relief and Works Agency which funneled money to Hamas and which was very disloyal to humanity.
00:33:30.000Today, I also took action to restore a maximum pressure policy on the Iranian regime.
00:33:36.000And we will once again enforce the most aggressive possible sanctions, drive Iranian oil exports to zero and diminish the regime's capacity to fund terror throughout the region and throughout the world.
00:33:55.000The conventional wisdom that you have to keep funding evil institutions to do evil things with American taxpayer dollars is pretty incredible.
00:34:02.000President Trump also had some comments about getting the rest of the hostages out.
00:34:05.000What he said is, listen, Hamas should move on to a phase two here because what's going to come if they don't?
00:34:13.000We're working very hard to get all the hostages.
00:34:16.000The word is all, and we are working very hard.
00:34:19.000So far it's been moving along fairly rapidly, pretty much on schedule.
00:34:25.000I'd love to have them all out at one time, but we're taking them out.
00:34:29.000And tomorrow more are being released, and over the days more, and then we're going to a phase two.
00:34:35.000But we'd like to get all of the hostages.
00:34:37.000And if we don't, it will just make us somewhat more violent.
00:34:43.000I will tell you that because they would have broken their word.
00:34:46.000And the meeting between President Trump and Netanyahu and the entire team was, of course, very warm.
00:34:52.000President Trump shouted out other members of his administration in the middle of this press conference, pointing out the solidity of his administration in pursuit of these new ideas.
00:35:14.000Okay, perhaps the funniest moment came when President Trump was asked at this press conference a question by a female Afghani reporter who apparently wanted him to recognize the Taliban or something, and it didn't go amazing for her.
00:36:16.000We'll get to President Trump's Iran policy, which he also announced yesterday, and it is a return to the maximum containment, maximum pressure campaign against...
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00:36:55.000Meanwhile, President Trump did announce yesterday an executive order cracking down on Iran.
00:37:00.000He has said he doesn't want war with Iran.
00:37:01.000He's not interested in a military strike if one can be avoided.
00:37:05.000But he's putting significant pressure on Iran, maximum pressure on the government of Iran, to deny all of their path to a nuclear weapon.
00:37:13.000And President Trump was asked in the Oval Office while signing this executive order, Now, Mr. President, there's a lot of talk about Iran trying to assassinate you.
00:37:52.000According to this brand new executive order from the White House, the Iranian government, including the IRGC, is using agents and cyber-enabled means to target United States nationals living in the United States and other countries around the world for attacks, including assault, kidnapping, and murder.
00:38:04.000Iran has also directed its proxy groups, including Hezbollah's Islamic Jihad organization, to embed sleeper cells in the homeland to be activated in support of this terrorist activity.
00:38:12.000Iran bears responsibility for the horrific Hamas massacre is committed on October 7th, 2023, and bears responsibility for continued Houthi attacks against the United States Navy, Allied navies, and international commercial shipping in the Red Sea.
00:38:23.000Since April 2024, the regime has twice demonstrated its willingness to launch ballistic and cruise missile attacks against the state of Israel, but...
00:38:29.000Iran commits grievous human rights abuses and arbitrarily detains foreigners, including U.S. citizens, on spurious charges without due process of law, subjecting them to abuse.
00:38:36.000The United States stands with the women of Iran who face daily abuse by the regime.
00:38:40.000Iran's nuclear program, including its enrichment and reprocessing related capabilities and nuclear capable missiles, pose an existential danger to the United States and the entire civilized world.
00:38:49.000It is therefore in the national interest to impose maximum pressure on the Iranian regime to end its nuclear threat, curtail its ballistic missile program and stop its support for terrorist groups.
00:38:57.000So maximum pressure is back on the Iranian regime.
00:39:00.000At this point, I'd like to point out, President Trump is no one's tool.
00:39:05.000There are a lot of people out there, many of them don't like Israel, many of them don't like Jews, who seem to think, That President Trump is a mirror of their ideology.
00:39:15.000There are isolationists who like to think that.
00:39:16.000There are interventionists who like to think that.
00:39:18.000There are a lot of people who like to think that President Trump is simply an avatar for their particular philosophy.
00:39:23.000As I've said many, many times, President Trump is an avatar of no one's philosophy.
00:39:28.000President Trump does not have a thoroughgoing ideology.
00:39:57.000It could be the opening of a bargaining session with the Saudis.
00:40:00.000It could be an attempt to put pressure on the Iranians.
00:40:01.000It could be an attempt to get the hostages out, or it could be face value, an attempt to actually do something extraordinary with a hellhole that has been turned into a hellhole by the population that decided to elect Hamas and the Hamas government that decided to turn it into a terrorist haven.
00:40:23.000But bottom line, as I said, right at the top, let Donald J. Trump cook.
00:40:28.000And meanwhile, your quick update on President Trump's nominees.
00:40:30.000They are getting through at a staggering rate.
00:40:32.000Pam Bondi is your new Attorney General.
00:40:34.000She was, in fact, confirmed yesterday.
00:40:36.000Meanwhile, RFK Jr. has been moved out of committee.
00:40:39.000There was a lot of question about whether he was going to make it out of committee for Health and Human Services Secretary.
00:40:44.000But last-minute lobbying from the White House has put him on a glide path to his actual job as the head of HHS. Meanwhile, Tulsi Gabbard also made it through committee with help from Senator Tom Cotton, who, of course, is quite hawkish on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
00:40:59.000So it looks as though President Trump is going to get his cabinet.
00:41:03.000The three candidates who are the most likely to go down were Gabbard, RFK Jr., and Kash Patel.
00:41:09.000All three look like they are on a glide path to confirmation.
00:41:12.000All the betting markets suggest they will be confirmed.
00:41:13.000And, of course, Pambani was confirmed yesterday.
00:41:15.000So all the people on the right who wanted Trump to get his cabinet, he's going to get his cabinet.
00:41:19.000Now, speaking of the president and cooking, the president is set to issue an executive order today barring trans girls and women from female school sports.
00:41:30.000The actual real headline there is men don't get to play with the girls.
00:41:33.000Which, I mean, that used to be commonsensical.
00:41:36.000The order is titled Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports is to be signed Wednesday afternoon.
00:41:44.000It's not exactly clear what the order would entail, but one option is to direct the Education Department to interpret Title IX rules as borrowing the participation of trans girls and women in female sports categories, which, of course, makes perfect sense since Title IX was designed to protect actual biological women.
00:41:57.000It was not designed, in fact, to protect men.
00:42:04.000The NCAA has already indicated it will move rapidly to change its rules to comply with federal law.
00:42:10.000So the thoroughgoing defeat of the trans agenda is extraordinary.
00:42:38.000At this company, we have stood strong against a wide variety of crackdowns by big tech, by advertisers, who have attempted to target us multiple times on the basis of our unwillingness to lie and say that men can be women and women can be men.
00:42:52.000And President Trump is doing the right thing there, as he did a couple of weeks ago in fighting, quote-unquote, gender-affirming youth.
00:43:10.000And now she is claiming that hospitals must be allowed to cut the breasts off healthy young women and to cut the penises off healthy young men and to shoot kids full of hormones because every kid she knows is trans.
00:45:56.000People are no longer going to go along with this nonsense, and kudos to President Trump again on doing the right thing.
00:46:02.000Meanwhile, it is hilarious to watch Democrats respond to the massive changes that are now being effectuated by the Trump administration.
00:46:10.000The federal government is now being told that if you don't quit, some of you can get fired.
00:46:15.000According to the Washington Post, a supervisor in a government agency now run by allies of Elon Musk told staff earlier this week layoffs across the federal government are likely, after Thursday's deadline, to accept the deferred resignation offer, according to an email obtained by the Washington Post, a step toward forcibly removing many of the 2.3 million civilian federal employees.
00:46:32.000Well, yes, if you won't quit, then some of you will undoubtedly go.
00:46:37.000The CIA, too, has been offering sweeping buyouts to the entire workforce.
00:46:40.000Again, the idea here isn't to clear out the entire CIA.
00:46:42.000It's to say if you don't want to work for President Trump and do his priorities, since he's the head of the executive branch, well, don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you.
00:46:57.000The goal is to clear out the people who don't want to do the thing the CIA was actually designed to do, namely target our enemies abroad using the intelligence apparatus rather than people at home using the intelligence apparatus.
00:47:34.000As it relates to lowering the high cost of living.
00:47:38.000At the same time, they are raiding the government, attempting to steal taxpayer money.
00:47:48.000That's what the situation at the Treasury Department is all about.
00:47:56.000We will introduce the Stop the Steal Act in short order to prevent Unlawful access with respect to the Department of Treasury's payment system connected to people who are trying to steal personal, sensitive, and confidential information.
00:49:04.000But, Mr. Musk, this isn't a tech startup.
00:49:07.000These are public institutions that deal with things like Social Security and Medicare and national defense and provide for the well-being of the American people.
00:49:17.000And the American people have a right to be part of that debate.
00:49:26.000The American people have a right to be part of the debate about the spending, but you don't want it ever cut because the bureaucracy is there.
00:49:32.000Democrats are in a state of panic, and that means that they are getting dumber and dumber and dumber.
00:49:37.000Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, widely perceived on the left as a possible presidential candidate, is perhaps the dumbest member of Congress.
00:49:43.000I mean, truly a stupid human being who's trotted out only because she was basically cast in Hollywood.
00:49:52.000Went to Instagram, which is where she truly wants to be a star, not in Congress, to call Elon Musk stupid, which is legitimately like finding a 900-pound man who has grown into his couch criticizing the V-shred guys for their standards of fitness.
00:51:04.000Every 19-year-old he's bringing in is like a world-class caliber coder.
00:51:08.000One of them, a 19-year-old kid, used actual AI technology to decrypt a piece of, like, Greek writing that's 2,000 years old and nobody been able to actually make out the writing.
00:51:20.000Those are the people that Alexander Ocasio-Cortez is criticizing.
00:51:28.000Meanwhile, Jasmine Crockett, another one of the Democratic Party luminaries, she went on CNN where she complained about how tired she was of white tears.
00:51:45.000When I walk into Congress every single day, you know why I don't feel a way and why you can't make me doubt who I am?
00:51:52.000It's because I know that I had to work 10 times as hard as they did just to get into the seat.
00:51:57.000When you look and you compare me to Marjorie Taylor Greene or me to Lauren Boebert, there is no comparison.
00:52:02.000And that is the life that we have always lived.
00:52:05.000So the only people that are crying are the mediocre white boys that have been beaten out by people that historically have had to work so hard.
00:52:26.000Meanwhile, Ilhan Omar was caught on tape at some sort of seminar recently, telling people, giving advice to Somalis who are in the United States illegally on their legal rights in helping to avoid deportation.
00:52:40.000So much pro-America happening, so much.
00:52:48.000She says, I advise the Somalian people that if ICE attempts to question you, you're not obligated to answer their questions.
00:53:01.000Just state that you are advised by a lawyer not to answer questions.
00:53:06.000Disclosure of your name, immigration status, motive entry is not mandatory.
00:53:18.000Learn the laws and prepare yourself, she says, about illegal immigrants.
00:53:22.000And refrain from disclosing information you would prefer them not to know.
00:53:27.000Well, maybe she'll be nice and offer these illegal immigrants a fake marriage so that they too can become citizens of the United States under false pretenses.
00:53:44.000It turns out that all it took to get the recruitment crisis pretty much done over at Department of Defense was it not being headed by a bunch of political generals who were worried about white rage.
00:53:52.000So Pete Hegseth took over and it turns out the recruitment has skyrocketed.
00:53:56.000In fact, recruitment has been skyrocketing ever since President Trump won.
00:54:00.000According to Secretary of Defense Hegseth, in December 2024, the U.S. Army had its best recruiting number in 12 years.
00:54:06.000In January 2025, the army had its best recruiting number in...
00:54:20.000The Army ad is about members of the military kicking ass and taking names and not about exploring their LGBTQ identities and the possibility of free hormone treatment.
00:54:44.000These are guys who are firing mortars, and then you see them fighting, doing sit-ups, tanks, guns, people climbing walls, bazookas, grenades, night crawling.
00:55:21.000Well, folks, on the line, joining me to discuss the end of their possible sporting dreams, Jake Crane.
00:55:29.000Blaine Crane, David Cohen, the hosts of our very own Crane& Company, said by some to be the most passionate 90 minutes of sports talk in existence.
00:55:35.000They are also stars of Lady Ballers, a film about their own athletic aspirations.
00:55:40.000Guys, I mean, I hate to break to you the news of the executive order today that President Trump is putting forth, suggesting that Title IX will no longer apply to men who want to play with the women.
00:55:51.000I know that's the entire premise of Lady Ballers.
00:55:55.000Explain your feelings on learning that your hopes and dreams have been dashed by the President of the United States.
00:56:00.000Well, Ben, first off, thanks for having us, even though it's under these circumstances.
00:56:04.000It took a lot of personal reflection when I heard about this.
00:56:08.000You know, sitting in my house, looking outside, wondering what's next.
00:56:12.000When you dream so much about being able to take over women's sports as a biological man.
00:56:17.000But then it hit me and I came to the realization that...
00:56:20.000At the end of the day, it's something that had to happen, but I think the saddest part is that it needed to happen, is that we've gotten to a point in society where somebody, a president with this type of power, had to sign an executive order to keep men out of women's sports, even though my dreams are dashed, Ben, and it hurts.
00:56:39.000I've come to the realization that I think the saddest part is we actually had to do this because this is actually a real thing that exists in society.
00:56:46.000So I'm willing to put my dreams on hold.
00:56:59.000So, Blaine, obviously, it's a blow to you as well, especially since you were actually wrestling the ladies in Lady Ballers, and it seemed like you were on a smooth glide path to a gold medal at the Olympics, actually, until this moment happened.
00:57:12.000Well, you know, I never thought Donald Trump would come after my career, and we're seeing this now.
00:57:17.000And to make it even worse, I mean, here in Nashville, they just had a women's basketball team that's going to be coming here, so now they're just throwing it in my face.
00:57:24.000Ben, I will find every way, every way I can to keep this dream alive, and sir, I hope you're in my corner.
00:57:34.000Well, David Cohen, who actually did play college sports.
00:57:37.000And was nearly the starting quarterback of a major team.
00:57:42.000David, what do you make of this moment?
00:57:44.000Obviously, it actually is pretty incredible that we actually had to come to the point as a country where, seriously speaking, where we had to somehow tell colleges that it was wrong to allow biological men to compete with the ladies.
00:57:58.000Nearly the quarterback, but I at least am grateful that we were able to make the global games before this move was initiated, because that's still one of the highlights of my life, being able to lose the championship to a team called the Cowgirls.
00:58:10.000But good on President Trump for making this move, for keeping his word on this issue.
00:58:18.00099% of the American public knows that men shouldn't be competing in women's sports or changing in their locker rooms, or women in men's sports, for that matter.
00:58:26.000That's a side of this we don't talk about too often.
00:58:30.000But they were silenced by a powerful 1% minority with corporations and with politicians, Hollywood celebrities.
00:58:38.000And so while this is a huge political move, this is even a bigger cultural move.
00:58:42.000And you say all the time that politics is downstream of culture.
00:58:47.000And this is going to give people their voices back to be able to speak out.
00:58:51.000Because I think when people speak out, it's the best way for this history to keep from repeating itself.
00:58:58.000So, while I have you guys here, because our get-togethers are rare, I do have to ask you about this Lakers-Mavericks trade, because, I mean, honestly, it was probably the biggest story of the weekend.
00:59:07.000A lot happened over the weekend, including the possibility of the United States taking over the Gaza Strip.
00:59:11.000But I think the biggest story of the weekend was Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers.
00:59:17.000So, Jake, on a scale of rigged to WWE, how rigged is the NBA? That this trade happened to allow a 25-year-old superstar coming off a near MVP season to go to the Los Angeles Lakers, who it seems every generation get a generational talent just by coincidence through some sort of wildly unfair trade.
00:59:37.000Yeah, I mean, I don't even want to disrespect the WWE. This is more a bunch of guys back where I'm from deciding to put a platform up and do a wrestling show for the neighborhood fake.
01:00:25.000You have to keep doing bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger things to surprise people and shock people, and they're going to run out of stuff.
01:00:32.000I mean, LeBron's letting his kid play in the NBA, and he's half the player that I am, and I'm 6'1".
01:00:44.000That he made his first three the other night, which, again, I feel like if you put me in an NBA game for as many minutes as he's been in, I would have a shot just by chucking the ball at some point down the court.
01:00:58.000And that's the real question is, how many more Hall of Fame players does LeBron James need to team up with before he can actually try and chase down Michael Jordan?
01:01:06.000But everyone wants to criticize, like my co-host over here, Blaine, wants to criticize.
01:01:10.000Oh, well, Michael Jordan played with Scott.
01:01:12.000Scottie Pippen, while LeBron's over here playing with every single Hall of Fame player of his generation.
01:01:16.000Do you want to walk down this path right now?