Glenn Beck is back with a special Christmas edition of the Glenn Beck Program. He's joined by Stu and Sarah to talk about the new administration and what it means for the country. Glenn also talks about the New York Times and how they should be ashamed of themselves.
00:02:35.540I like to come on and say, hey, here are all the ways we could quickly be destroyed.
00:02:39.420But today, I mean, I'm going through the show prep that you could get at Glenn Beck.com.
00:02:44.020I'm going through today's show prep, and I'm like, I don't have enough time to tell you about all of the amazing things that are happening.
00:03:17.380I mean, we spent the time flying back from Washington, D.C. to Dallas, and I don't think there was any part of the conversation that wasn't about God and country.
00:03:28.220These people passionately defend our God-given constitutional rights and freedoms, and they are there every step of the way.
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00:05:35.960Um, Julie Turskin, uh, um, Sarah Fitzpatrick and Courtney cube have all worked together on a story that just came out, uh, about, uh, Daniel, uh, Danielle Hegseth.
00:06:12.600Pete was involved in behavior that caused his second wife to fear for her safety.
00:06:18.940Uh, and she describes in an affidavit allegations of volatile and threatening conduct by Hegseth that made his second wife, Samantha, fear for her safety.
00:06:31.580Now, I want you to know, uh, Samantha denies all of this.
00:13:43.940But those who are leftists, those who only seek to destroy what has been built, those who want to change and throw out policies that haven't been working.
00:13:58.580As long as you want to save the things that have been working or the things that are our mission statement and say, you know what, we've never really made it to all men are created equal and down by their creator with certain inalienable rights and all of the Bill of Rights.
00:14:13.260We we are striving to build a more perfect nation, meaning we're never going to make it.
00:14:19.520We always have to strive to be better.
00:14:21.760You understand that concept as a Democrat.
00:15:52.380There is still the reality that the damage we have done to the U.S. dollar is too great to overcome.
00:15:59.680Now, silver is something that is used by industry, and they're now saying that it's going to go over its all time high of fifty dollars an ounce, moving all the way to seventy seven dollars an ounce.
00:17:37.280This is strategic maneuvering to counter Chinese and Russia ambitions, both places, Greenland and the Panama Canal.
00:17:46.120I'm going to explain to you what's at stake in these two things and why the president is right about these.
00:17:52.200I'll take you through the history, which is the key to understanding the Trump administration's ambitions for both regions that are vital to protect America from our biggest enemies.
00:18:04.060All part of the growing struggle to protect America's economic and national security.
00:21:24.240Whether you like it or not, you have to admit he's coming in here with a real plan and attempting to execute it quickly.
00:21:30.560In an overwhelming way, I tend to like a lot of the stuff he's doing.
00:21:36.520But even if you even if you look at this, because we've looked at this from the other side with with a sort of like admiration in a way, like an annoyed admiration of what the left has done.
00:21:57.300I will tell you that I was talking to somebody who was in on the planning yesterday and they said that President Trump made a list of every campaign promise that he made.
00:24:37.360According to the Blaze today, the new chairman of the FCC, who I love, Chairman Brendan Carr, is has announced the end of all diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the FCC.
00:24:53.960He said he was erasing DEI as a priority of the commission's strategic plan.
00:24:59.520He said he would end DEI advisory group at the FCC and any mention of DEI in the commission's budget.
00:25:07.300Also, DEI will be excised from the performance reports at the FCC, as well as all economic plans.
00:25:16.700Now, let's go to Trump ending affirmative action for federal contractors and universities.
00:25:22.500He's just signed an executive order rescinding Lyndon Johnson's executive order of 11 to four six, which established affirmative action and bans all federal contractors and publicly funded universities from practicing race based discrimination, including DEI.
00:25:40.280This is a massive shift that came under Lyndon Johnson.
00:25:46.000Uh, these guys, thank God they, they are going for the roots of these problems.
00:25:54.320This is not somebody that is just, uh, you know, cutting the hedges.
00:25:59.220These guys are going down into the soil and pulling it up by its roots.
00:26:04.900Uh, the Coast Guard, uh, as soon as he took his oath of office, uh, just within hours, the head of the Coast Guard, uh,
00:26:15.780was, uh, was, uh, was relieved of command.
00:26:19.160The commandant of the Coast Guard, Admiral Linda Fagan, um, apparently Department of Homeland Security first reported her ouster a minute after midnight on Tuesday.
00:26:32.100She was fired, uh, and told she was going to be fired right after he was sworn in leftist outlets and everybody else is like, oh, you can't do that.
00:26:41.140She's the first female leader of a military service.
00:26:47.740She didn't address any of the threats of border security.
00:26:51.340She didn't hit any of her recruitment or retention goals.
00:26:54.960Uh, she did not adequate adequately equipped, uh, the Coast Guard stations in the Arctic.
00:27:03.200Why do you think we're going for Greenland?
00:27:05.300Because China and Russia are coming over the pole into the Arctic and she didn't, uh, she didn't protect that.
00:27:13.660She also mishandled the operation, operation fouled anchor, which was an investigation into the coverup of sexual misconduct at the Coast Guard Academy, uh, and excessive focus on DEI.
00:27:26.540She said, uh, one of her famous quotes, something like, uh, uh, our diversity is our strength.
00:29:02.280And it's happening through Congress and the Senate.
00:29:06.700So they're being, they're hitting on all fronts so far.
00:29:10.440Uh, the Trump administration told all of the state department, uh, through Marco Rubio, all of the state department, every embassy, you are no longer allowed to fly the LGBT pride or BLM for flags at the embassies.
00:29:25.640You can fly the POW flag, but that's it.
00:29:30.460You're can, it's the flag of the United States of America.
00:29:33.820And that's the only other flag you're allowed to fly is POW.
00:29:40.300I mean, we're in countries now where they do not want to hear the preaching from the United States of America, especially in places like Africa.
00:29:54.900You know, I, it's not, even if you completely support every one of those causes, why on earth would we be hanging the flag of them in, in our foreign embassies?
00:30:10.740So, um, Marco Rubio issued the statement starting immediately.
00:30:15.340The only the United States of America flag is authorized to be flown or displayed at U S facilities, both domestic and abroad, uh, and featured in U S government content.
00:30:26.080So in other words, there's, you can't put any of those markings now on any of our websites, the flag of the United States of America, united all Americans under the universal
00:30:35.240principle of justice, liberty, and democracy.
00:30:38.140These values are the bedrock of our great country and are shared by all American citizens past and present.
00:30:44.160The U S flag is a powerful symbol of pride, and it is fitting and respectful that only the U S flag be flown or displayed at U S facilities, both domestically and abroad.
00:30:55.380And anyone who transgresses this new policy will face disciplinary action, including termination of employment contract or reassignment to their home agency.
00:31:06.280Now this stands in Lincoln said that, uh, for may and June, uh, the rainbow flag had to be flown, uh, at all U S embassies all around the world for pride month.
00:48:03.280I don't think that's exactly what he said or how it came across to his supporters.
00:48:13.640It didn't with me, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt here.
00:48:17.840I understand what he's trying to say as somebody who's never supported Donald Trump.
00:48:20.980Trump was also everything his adversaries feared.
00:48:24.340Messianic in tone, lovingly protective of his grievances, wholly uncharitable to the people sitting just feet from him under the Capitol Rotunda, who he defeated so convincingly.
00:48:36.300But, the second occasion of Trump taking the oath of office also put him in an entirely new light.
00:48:44.360For the first time, he is holding power under circumstances in which reasonable people cannot deny a basic fact.
00:48:51.140He is the greatest American figure of his era.
00:48:58.540Great in this context is not about a subjective debate over whether he is a singularly righteous leader or a singularly menacing one.
00:49:07.060It is now simply an objective description about the dimensions of his record.
00:49:12.060He began a decade ago by dominating the Republic Party.
00:49:15.380He soon advanced to dominating every discussion of American politics broadly.
00:49:19.720Now, his astonishing comeback after his defeat by Joseph Biden in 2020 and the notoriety of January 6th riot makes it clear there are certain things he is not, and one big thing he is.
00:49:34.460He is not a fluke who got elected initially in 2016 almost entirely because of the infirmities of his opponent.
00:49:43.060He is not someone the American public somehow misunderstands as though Democrats and news media have not spent 10 years forcibly highlighting the risks of his record in character.
00:49:58.680He is someone with an ability to perceive opportunities that most politicians do not and forge powerful, sustained connections with large swaths of people in ways that no contemporary can match.
00:50:11.420In other words, he is a force of history.
00:50:15.080This is something his most ardent supporters, still shy of a national majority, have never doubted, but something others, myself included, have been slow to reckon with.
00:50:26.280This is an article, by the way, from the global editor-in-chief of Politico.
00:50:30.980The inaugural address and a raft of hundreds of executive orders Trump has promised for his opening days in office make it impossible to avoid.
00:50:40.360For Democrats, and most excruciatingly, Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris, the inaugural ceremony and all it symbolizes were a meal made of ingredients scraped off the kennel floor.
00:50:52.800Once they gargle and spit, however, the opposition party may find something liberating about this moment.
00:50:59.800That is because they can no longer place confidence in a strategy that once looked plausible, but has now been exposed as an illusion.
00:51:13.780They cannot push Trump to the margins by treating him as a momentary anomaly or simply denouncing him as a lawless or illegitimate president.
00:51:24.800Some voters bought that, but not enough to win the election.
00:51:29.280Opponents have no choice but to acknowledge he and his movement represent a large historic argument.
00:51:35.520And then they rally similarly large arguments to defeat it.
00:51:40.800Trump in 2020 showed himself ready to undermine democracy for his own purposes.
00:51:45.740Trump in 2024 showed that he is also a potent expression of democracy.
00:51:50.440The most flamboyant rhetoric of Donald Trump's inaugural address, drill, baby, drill, retaking the Panama Canal, renaming Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America,
00:52:00.460sending federal troops to the border, all expressions of his genuine worldview.
00:52:05.520Thank you for acknowledging at least just that.
00:52:08.960I can't tell you how many times I heard CNN in the last couple of days say he doesn't believe any of this stuff.
00:52:14.300He absolutely believes all of this stuff.
00:52:17.060What part of this is giving you any indication he doesn't believe this?
00:52:22.320And how explain to me exactly how both he doesn't believe any of it and he's a Nazi.
00:52:33.860That leaves plenty of room for argument.
00:52:36.180Trump has transcended his vulnerability to criminal penalties for January 6th.
00:52:41.460It is not possible for him to transcend a genuine contest over competing visions of the better America.
00:52:47.760The contest may be more effective if opponents embrace the reality that Trump has already demonstrated some familiar signatures of the most consequential presidents.
00:52:56.680Like influential predecessors, his arguments have shifted the terms of debate in ways that echo within both parties.
00:53:03.700In this case, on issues such as trade, China, and the role of big corporations.
00:53:07.780Like other large presidents, Trump has been communications innovator and exploited technological shifts more effectively than his rivals.
00:53:17.300In that sense, Trump's use of social media recalls Franklin D. Roosevelt's mastery of radio, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan's mastery of television.
00:53:26.440And even as his banter and insults don't aspire to anything like traditional presidents eloquence.
00:53:32.460One more signature shown, the most consequential presidents only, uncommon psychological toughness.
00:53:40.480Have you ever known anyone who is facing similar legal hurdles?
00:53:45.240In many cases, even if people ultimately win the case, they end up being consumed and shrunken by the searing nature of the experience.
00:53:54.020The same guy who's making the case that he can't shake his grievances is saying, in many cases, even if people ultimately win the case, they end up being consumed and shrunken by the searing nature of that experience.
00:54:12.160So he's recognizing what he just went through.
00:54:15.920Imagine running for president amid huge civil suits, criminal prosecutions, even felony convictions, then emerging from the morass as a larger figure than before.
00:54:26.560No one needs to admire the achievement to recognize that Trump is possessed by some rare traits of denial, combativeness, and resilience.
00:54:34.840About that combativeness, could someone so zealously divisive ever join the roster of presidents who even schoolchildren can typically recite as the nation's greatest?
00:54:46.760My mind goes back to a conversation just before Bill Clinton in his second term.
00:54:51.920The liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., he inherited a tradition from his father, also a renowned scholar, conducting surveys of historians asking him to rank American presidents from best to worst.
00:55:04.280Of course, Clinton was promising in his first, Clinton was promising in his second term to be a great national unifier, unifier.
00:55:10.140Schlesinger, who wished greatness for Clinton but mistrusted his ideological centrism, was skeptical.
00:55:17.400Great presidents are unifiers mostly in retrospect, of course, because he is changing things.
00:55:38.700Aren't we judging Donald Trump a lot on the enemies that he has made?
00:55:43.100Now we're starting to see him and do things that you're like, OK, he understands the enemies.
00:55:51.720But more importantly, he understands what the enemies have done to our country and can stop those and what we need to do to build a more unified and better country to form a more perfect union.
00:56:06.640I'm telling you, I said this to him and I even said, I can't believe I'm saying this to you.
00:56:13.940But if you accomplish these things, you will be on the on the same ground as some of our founders and Abraham Lincoln and the greatest presidents to ever live.
00:56:27.000He is going to do more in fundamental transformation of this country than Barack Obama did, by far, than Joe Biden did in destroying it.
01:03:53.800The media is going to make that case and your stupid friends are going to say, you need to understand what's going on.
01:04:01.100These are both vital reason regions that are under threat from America's biggest enemy.
01:04:06.160It is why it's why one of the first things he did was fire the commander or the commandant of the Coast Guard, because one of the things she wasn't doing was protecting the Arctic Circle.
01:06:20.080If everything goes mostly to plan, it's kind of like entirely dead and mostly dead.
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01:07:58.980Uh, but, uh, nothing is worth it going to Washington anymore.
01:08:03.140But what a week it has been to see the transformation of not only, uh, our policies happening so rapidly, but the transformation in Donald Trump.
01:08:13.760I mean, Donald Trump is not the same president we had as, uh, 45.
01:48:10.560Right after Donald Trump raised his hand and took the oath of office, some things began to happen.
01:48:18.000One of the first steps he took, didn't really get a lot of attention, was his firing of four leaders of the Executive Office of Immigration Review.
01:48:42.560And this is the president trying to remake American immigration and the way we operate with the legals and the way we oversee things in courts.
01:51:13.620And saying, you have to come up with a regulatory framework that is clear, concise, and, uh, regulates things.
01:51:24.760So we know exactly where the government is going.
01:51:27.620That's been one of the problems, uh, with, uh, cryptocurrency is we didn't know where cryptocurrency really sat with the United States government.
01:52:02.320He had a lot of donors who were there.
01:52:04.820He's worked with a lot of people who care about it.
01:52:06.780And like, you know, putting something together that's smart, that allows this to still be an innovative field, that allows it to be as dynamic as possible, and to let the United States lead the world in this emerging technology is something he's trying to do seemingly with AI as well.
01:52:26.040And if they can nail this, which is, of course, not always easy when it comes to legislation, but if they can nail this, it's going to be really, really good, not only for the industry, but also America.
01:52:33.900So, they're now saying, who was it that said yesterday it's going to be in the millions?
01:52:40.140The coins will be, Bitcoin will be in the millions of dollars.
01:53:41.060Wait until he, when they finally put the framework in, that's going to be another reason why people are going to start coming in as, you know, industrial investors.
01:53:51.520Uh, and then I, I really believe the United States, uh, should and will start to invest itself in Bitcoin.
01:54:01.300Uh, you know, we have a bunch of Bitcoin now, not a ton, but it's all the stuff that we were, uh, uh, we had taken from criminals.
01:54:37.920Um, will it become, will it strategic, you know, that's the Texas one.
01:54:43.080I'm trying to see if there's one, I don't see one on, on, uh, uh, on Bitcoin particularly, but, uh, that, uh, a strategic Bitcoin reserve where, let's, here we go, 64% chance is what the markets are saying on a national Bitcoin reserve this year.
01:54:58.060Uh, if that happens, you think Bitcoin will double overnight.
01:55:01.600Well, number one, it will go up a lot.
01:55:04.080Number two, a lot of countries will follow us.
01:55:22.600And some countries, by the way, are buying it quietly, not necessarily talking about it, but like, this is a way to offset all of the dumb policies that the next 10 administrations might put in when it comes to debasing the currency.
01:55:37.280And that's one that Trump can really, I think, get over the finish line this year.
01:55:40.000Uh, also, he has, uh, unleashed American fossil fuels.
01:55:45.460Uh, there are people that say they're going to sue him over this, but he's declared a national emergency, uh, to accelerate the permitting of oil, gas, and power projects.
01:55:54.920Uh, he is going to use it, uh, it's development in Alaska.
01:55:59.980Uh, he's reversed all of Biden's stuff to, uh, protect Arctic lands and coastal waters from, uh, drilling.
01:56:09.300Uh, he suspended offshore wind lease sales.
01:56:12.540Those, that thing is, those things are killing the whales.
01:56:15.560Just the vibration of that, you know, what a surprise, uh, a consequence you didn't see coming is killing the whales.
01:56:23.860Uh, he also lifted the freeze on LNG export permitting, which is absolutely fantastic.
01:56:29.680There's also some other things that he has done, uh, to unleash American energy section two F in this says it is the policy of the United States to safeguard the American people's freedom to choose from a variety of goods and appliances, including, but not limited to light bulbs.
01:56:50.680Dishwashers, dishwashers, dishwashers, washing machines, gas stoves, water heaters, toilets, and shower heads to promote market competition and innovation in between in within the manufacturing and appliance industries.
01:57:05.280So all of the, I don't know if you know this, but your shower head, if you had a new shower head, there was a regulator in that.
01:57:14.900And it's what made your shower really, really wimpy, uh, because we have to save water.
01:57:20.100Well, if you want to save water, save water, I'm paying for my water, so I'm going to pay for it.
01:59:24.040It does feel like a lot of it's almost being lost, right?
01:59:27.120Like, you know, we talked yesterday about the Paris Accord and, you know, the two genders situation.
01:59:35.240You know, there's so much that I think, honestly, we're missing a lot of it.
01:59:39.840You know, we didn't even, we didn't even talk about the fact that we have halted all U.S. aid to countries until we can get our arms around it.
02:00:12.060That's not the nine-year-old one, is it?
02:00:14.540Iraq's parliament passed three divisive new laws, including amendments to the country's personal status law that opponents say will affect legalized child marriage.
02:00:22.540The amendments give the Islamic courts increased authority over family matters, including marriage, divorce, and inheritance.
02:00:29.740Iraqi law currently sets 18 as the minimum age of marriage in most cases.
02:00:34.020The changes passed would let clerics rule according to their interpretation of Islamic law, which interprets marriage of girls in the early teens or as young as nine.
02:00:47.680There is nothing like a 30-year-old guy marrying a nine-year-old.
02:00:52.480I mean, that's perfectly in line with God.
02:00:56.320That's a quote from Sheik Jared from Subway.
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