In this episode of the Great America Show, I discuss the latest in the Iran situation and how President Trump has handled it so far. I also give my thoughts on the recent Israeli rocket attack on Iran and why I don't think it was a good idea.
00:06:53.080With what this man is able to accomplish, with what this man is able to do, with how he's able to negotiate.
00:07:01.880It is truly, as I said, it gives me chills and it should give you chills knowing that we're in this position right now.
00:07:09.080And I didn't ever think we were going to be there.
00:07:10.820Before we get back into this and get to some more news of the day and everything that's going on around the world, we're going to have a really great guest today.
00:07:17.940A good friend of mine, Stephen Gardner, the host of The Stephen Gardner Show.
00:07:21.160One of my favorite guests to talk to, to lighten the mood.
00:07:53.700You were the leading member of Congress on that issue.
00:07:56.040Since then, you've accepted $2 million from pharmaceutical companies in contribution, more than any other member of this committee.
00:08:04.220And your enthusiasm for supporting the old ACIP committee, which was completely rife and pervasive with pharmaceutical conflicts, seems to be an outcome of those contributions.
00:09:37.280The news happens to be like 90% on the side favoring the Republicans.
00:09:42.600But when it doesn't, I'm going to be here just to call them out just as much as I do with the Democrats, because that's what you folks deserve out there.
00:10:35.080This week is starting out rather interesting.
00:10:38.620I thought Saturday night when I was out about to go get a drink with one of my buddies and I got the news that America has just blown up the nuclear facilities in Iran.
00:11:05.700Donald Trump departed for the Netherlands for a summit earlier this morning and had this to say about this new ceasefire that he secured between Iran and Israel.
00:11:14.640Israel says that Iran violated the peace agreement and the ceasefire agreement.
00:11:19.240Do you believe that Iran is still committed to cease?
00:11:47.020But I'm really unhappy if Israel is going out this morning because the one rocket that didn't land, that was shot, perhaps by mistake, that didn't land.
00:12:21.280You know, I tell my kids because we don't use curse words very often, but those are a pressure relief valve or a punctuation on a sentence.
00:12:32.220And I think what President Trump is trying to say is I am bending over backwards to bring peace.
00:12:39.440And you guys are making my life really hard.
00:12:42.340It's like a parent that's like, I just clean this kitchen.
00:20:53.760And I keep trying to reiterate this, that not one country surrounding them came to their defense, not Pakistan, not Afghanistan.
00:21:03.380That's run by terrorists right now, not Qatar, not Saudi Arabia.
00:21:07.300And I think Donald Trump's trip to the Middle East a month or two ago has a very big part of this.
00:21:14.020Yeah, I believe the Abraham Accords from his first term played a huge role.
00:21:19.920And then going over there, my first thought was, oh, my gosh, how is Qatar going to react to being attacked because of America's presence in their country?
00:21:30.780Then I started thinking, well, wait a minute.
00:21:33.060They just committed one point two trillion dollars to invest in the United States because of Donald Trump.
00:21:39.260Two hundred and fifty billion dollar airplane package with an American company, Boeing.
00:21:45.420Then you find out that Iran actually gave the Qatari government a heads up.
00:21:53.760We're going to hit a nonpopulated area.
00:21:55.980I promise you they were very cautious to not kill an American soldier because we would have seen a very different Donald Trump had an American been killed.
00:22:06.060So I think that Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, all of those surrounding areas, they don't want war, but they're also not going to go against America.
00:22:27.880But you don't want to poke him too hard because when push comes to shove, he will go full force.
00:22:34.420But he doesn't want to, in my opinion, and this is not confirmed, this is not told to me by anybody.
00:22:39.040I think that Donald Trump has come out so against George Bush, as the world has right with with Iraq, that he's terrified of being George Bush.
00:22:48.980He doesn't want to get us into an endless war because he's spoken out against and so many of us have spoken out against it for years that he does not want to be George Bush 2.0.
00:22:58.280And based on his strikes over the weekend, he's doing everything he can to not be.
00:23:03.940Yeah, I saw a meme from Dave Smith and others that are, you know, more libertarian minded.
00:23:10.580But, man, as soon as Trump said, we might have to do something with the military, like all of these independent libertarian types, they just turned on him.
00:23:21.360But then they start putting out these memes where they have AI blending the face of Trump and George W. Bush.
00:23:27.960And they're calling him George W. Trump. And they are saying that now this morning, Jeb Bush put out a message saying that this was one of the best military strikes, one of the cleanest, that for many, many years, previous presidents have said they're going to deal with Iran.
00:23:46.700And President Trump actually did it. And he did it without a shot fired or an American injured or killed.
00:23:53.260And President Trump said, thanks, Jeb. I really appreciate that.
00:23:57.160So I know that there's bad blood because Trump was very much against the war in the Middle East.
00:24:02.540He said, if you're going to be there, you might as well take the oil. Like, what the heck are we doing there?
00:24:07.480He was against it. And so I do believe he wants to be known as the president of peace.
00:24:13.000At the same time, I see this as President Trump knows that sometimes you got to punch a bully in the nose really hard and then they go, OK, I don't want to I don't want to fight anymore.
00:24:24.140I think that's what he did here. He hit Iran really hard.
00:24:27.740And now they're saying, hey, we want to come to the table.
00:24:30.660So now now he's dealing with Israel that doesn't want this war to end, but they still want American support.
00:24:36.760They're going to lose the support of America if they continue to fight wars that we don't want them involved in.
00:24:43.000Yep. And I think public opinion polling is going to show just that.
00:24:47.100Mark Mitchell of Rasputin assures me that's what his polling that's not out yet is currently showing.
00:24:51.860He said I can I can say that, but that's what it's currently showing.
00:24:55.480Donald Trump's not asking for much. Just get rid of the nuclear weapons.
00:24:59.600America's never going to use a nuclear weapon.
00:25:02.340And the reason why everyone's like, oh, well, why can Pakistan have one?
00:25:05.860Why could Russia have one? Why could it so?
00:25:08.380Because they're not going to use them that they're they're they're maybe crazy in these regimes,
00:25:13.600but they're sane enough to know that once one nuclear weapon is launched, even one is all that we need in order to ruin this world.
00:26:21.880President Trump does not want this war.
00:26:23.640You know, I read online a lot of people were mad that President Trump thanked God that the the mission to hit the three nuclear sites went well.
00:26:34.100He then said, may God bless Israel, may God bless Iran and may God bless America.
00:26:43.340But the problem is, as soon as you make another human, an animal or a number or, you know, some some kind of, you know, bad word, it's it's really easy to just think you can just kill them.
00:26:57.240And so I think Trump is trying to normalize that.
00:27:00.020I think he's going, hey, you know what everyone wants?
00:27:02.540They want safety for their family and they want to make money.
00:27:05.860So why don't I lead with business and trade versus bullets and tanks?
00:27:12.400And I think most people are used to fighting to avoid war or fighting for war.
00:27:19.300They're not used to somebody saying we're going to be we're going to do peace through strength.
00:28:24.180I mean, that's the first thing that they turn to when it's something that they don't want.
00:28:29.060I mean, listen, they've become they have become the party of war.
00:28:33.460You know, they always say, John, oh, I wish these members of Congress would wear stickers on their on their suit of who really represents them like NASCAR.
00:29:48.420You could have hollered at us on Monday.
00:29:50.400If you truly felt like there was something like there is nothing that they will say that will make me believe that this action needed to take place and it needed to take place without the consultation of the Congress.
00:30:29.160He did call on Hakeem Jeffries, even though they tried to lie.
00:30:32.480They got busted because of the White House records.
00:30:36.200The people that are in top positions were alerted that this was happening.
00:30:41.240But the main reason that he didn't tell them until right before it happened is they leak everything to the New York Times, to Politico, to Atlantic.
00:30:54.820So why on earth would you trust a leaker who would leak the plan that everyone now is going, oh, my gosh, this is such a brilliant military move.
00:31:07.960Like much of the Democrats, I don't understand how these people even made it into Congress, how they get top secret national security briefings.
00:31:14.780We find out this week, a professor at Georgetown University, one of the most elite universities in America, Professor Jonathan Brown, who serves as the university's chair of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies,
00:31:34.520and is the director of the Prince Bin Talal Center for Muslim Christian Understanding, posting a message on truths on X, I rather quote, I'm not an expert, but I assume Iran could still get a bomb very easily.
00:31:49.280I hope Iran does some symbolic strike on a base and then everyone stops.
00:31:55.680And then lo and behold, that strike comes on a U.S. base.
00:31:58.580This is a professor teaching our children here in America.
00:32:03.420Yeah, I why why would you wish for our own country to be bombed?
00:32:10.620Like I even Tucker Carlson, as crazy as he's gone over this Iran situation, bad mouthing Trump, even at least he has the intelligence to say, I'm going to pray that American soldiers, men and women that that put on the uniform are kept safe.
00:32:29.580And this guy's saying, actually, you know, I do hope we get bombed.
00:34:05.340Maybe you shouldn't just leave your house.
00:34:06.720It's like people don't learn from the nonsense and lies and stuff that we've been told over the last, you know, four, eight years, whatever it's been.
00:34:16.160It's truly pathetic that Americans are this brainwashed by whatever the Democrat leaders tell them to do.
00:34:23.460I mean, all the data shows the more boosters you get, the more likely you are to be sick.
00:34:29.300But, you know, I do have a mask that I plan to wear on the airplane.
00:35:39.220But I don't even know that we need to be in NATO.
00:35:41.480But the thing that's crazy is, like, what if we use that money to just make our own military great again, you know, get rebuild our stockpiles that we drained for Zelensky?
00:35:56.160So, yeah, I'm not a big fan of NATO because here's the thing.
00:36:00.640If there was a new Hitler that broke out and there was a major war, countries are going to come to their neighbor's rescue anyway.
00:36:07.060So why are we wasting money on this NATO situation?
00:36:11.480We've got hundreds of thousands of troops sitting in Europe just waiting for a war instead of making America great again, doing infrastructure, going after terrorists, making sure our border is safe.
00:36:25.760Like I could I could think of a lot of ways that hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops could be in America making America great instead of sitting in Europe waiting for the next Hitler.
00:36:36.740How about securing our southern border?
00:36:40.420I say this all the time on the show and everyone I speak to.
00:36:43.440I was talking with Colonel Doug McGregor last week about this.
00:36:46.880We have a war here at home on our southern border that we can win.
00:36:50.600It's a very winnable, very easy war to take out these drug cartels.
00:36:55.260And we've taken our eye off the ball to go send them everywhere else.
00:36:58.380But then where it benefits the American citizen.
00:37:00.860I'd argue with anybody that wants to argue with me that NATO has done more harm to America than that's been worthwhile since since 1990.
00:37:10.180I believe they're the root of the problem in Ukraine right now.
00:37:13.540I don't believe there's an issue between Russia and Ukraine right now without NATO pushing up on Russia's borders.
00:37:19.760And that's not me being a Vladimir Putin apologist.
00:37:22.520It's just the truth of the matter is that NATO has pushed its boundaries and its borders every single day, every single minute, every single year since 1990 towards Russia.
00:38:33.900Should another world instance happen like that, like what you mentioned, Hitler, Hitler did.
00:38:39.940I think the entire world would rise up to eliminate that threat immediately without having to have NATO.
00:38:48.520It's like the Paris, not to get off here on a tangent, but it's like the Paris Climate Accord.
00:38:52.500Well, you've got to dump hundreds of millions of dollars into this fund to ensure that you guys don't pollute.
00:38:58.100Well, wait, what? You're telling me I've got to pay all this money to bring down my pollution levels.
00:39:04.100Well, why don't we just if you want to bring down pollution levels, why don't you regulate at home and say, hey, this is what the standard should be.
00:39:10.120You guys should be here and you guys should be here.
00:39:38.960This is an incredible victory the Supreme Court win.
00:39:42.740It allows President Trump, as the law has long said, but the courts have blocked.
00:39:47.720It allows President Trump to send illegal aliens convicted of rape, murder, homicide, assault, battery, crimes against children to any country around the world that is willing to accept them.
00:39:59.660So whether that be South Sudan or whether it be Somalia or whether it be Ethiopia, any country in the world that is willing to accept these monsters, we can get them out of our country and be free of them forever.
00:40:11.600The only thing I have to share tonight, Sean, in a little bit of breaking news is that the district court judge in Boston has said he's going to defy the Supreme Court's ruling.
00:40:20.100So expect fireworks tomorrow when we hold this judge accountable for refusing to obey the Supreme Court.
00:41:30.660So, yeah, if you remove the golden carrot that American taxpayers are going to be forced to be charitable and allow you to live here better than they do,
00:41:42.700like that doesn't sit well with the American people.
00:41:48.760I'm not worried about the person that's picking strawberries.
00:41:52.100I am worried about the person that is trafficking children, trafficking drugs, that has a rap from coming up from Honduras for killing people.
00:42:03.920Like, those are the people that I'm concerned with.
00:42:06.700So, yeah, if you're a pedophile and a child trafficker, I think you should be shackled, kicked in the crotch a couple times, and then sent off to Sudan.
00:42:16.900Yeah, these are the worst people imaginable.
00:42:18.760We need to focus on them first, get them out of here first, and then figure out what the next steps forward are for the rest of them.
00:42:24.560Because at the end of the day, you know, I say this all the time.
00:42:27.300We have a heart, and nobody's got a bigger heart than me.
00:42:29.540And I'm sure you can say the same thing about yourself, about people who want to come here for a better life.
00:42:43.960You know, we are a nation of law, order, and borders.
00:42:47.680And, you know, it sucks that that's what it is.
00:42:51.240And that's the reason we're the greatest country on earth.
00:42:54.280So, like I said, we have a war here at home that needs to be fought.
00:42:58.980And I say we fight that one before everything else.
00:43:03.000In just a few short years, Stephen, we have some midterm elections coming up.
00:43:08.320And Lisa Murkowski, who's been a thorn in the side of every Republican from Alaska, is now open to maybe caucusing with the Marxist Dems under a certain scenario.
00:43:33.100But if you caucus with us and provide the sort of fourth vote that we need to get from where we are now, and you can pass legislation that helps Alaskans, would you do it?
00:44:25.060I don't think she should actually be in office.
00:44:27.140Doesn't Alaska have like a weird weighted way of voting that.
00:44:31.360Yeah, they do this thing called the rank choice voting, Stephen, where let's the Democrats vote in Republican primaries so that the Democrats can vote for Lisa Murkowski so that she's their Republican in the Senate.
00:44:46.740Yeah, you know, Trump Trump was was just battling rhinos.
00:44:52.140Now he's battling rhinos and minos, MAGA in name only.
00:44:56.640And that's a T-shirt that I trademarked.
00:44:59.480But yeah, Murkowski, I would get rid of her tomorrow if we could.
00:45:05.140I'm surprised that Trump is pushing so hard on Thomas Massey.
00:45:08.780He should be pushing more on Murkowski and Collins and and those that seem to betray him every single time.
00:45:16.340And, you know, members of Congress are so interesting, you know, just when I think like, oh, man, Rand Paul is my hero.
00:45:22.300Then he goes and like betrays Trump and then he's mad that he's not invited to a picnic.
00:45:27.300And then Trump's like, I didn't uninvite you to a picnic.
00:45:31.580It gives me an opportunity to talk to you.
00:45:33.920Like, I don't know, members of Congress, I swear, they're like these rudderless boats that are kind of just floating wherever the current pushes them.
00:45:41.560And by current, I mean insider trading and, you know, under the table handouts.
00:45:46.800But, you know, I just wish one one thing that I respect about Trump is he has a vision for where he's going.
00:45:54.320This probably comes from being the CEO of a billion dollar company for so many years.
00:45:59.140But if you don't know where you're going, I guess it doesn't matter where you go.
00:46:02.800Right. Right. Out of Alice in Wonderland.
00:46:04.860They need to know where they're going or they're going to lose the twenty twenty six election.
00:46:09.780What they need is more doge brag about it.
00:46:13.160They need more Trump policy than brag about it.
00:46:15.780Then you say, look at what the Democrats voted against.
00:46:18.820And then you brag about it like it's really not that hard.
00:46:21.660But they they're they're so unincorporated that they're just all going in different directions.
00:46:27.280And then they wonder why the Republican voters are frustrated with them.
00:46:31.920Yeah. And I don't I don't hate Rand Paul. I don't hate Thomas Massey.
00:46:36.080I think there are two principled people who believe in things.
00:46:39.260And at the end of the day, both of them want the same thing that Donald Trump wants,
00:46:43.800with the exception of a few fundamental differences they have.
00:46:47.360But I think at the end of the day that Massey and Paul both need to just put those differences aside for the betterment of the country,
00:46:55.080for the betterment of the Republican Party.
00:46:57.600It does them no good. It does the Republican Party no good.
00:47:00.540It does America no good when they're at war with Donald Trump.
00:47:04.740Put those differences to the side. Talk about it in private with Donald Trump.
00:47:09.340Come to there's nobody more willing to come to a consensus than Donald Trump.
00:47:13.180That's why when I hear these things, he's a dictator and he's a king.
00:47:16.060It's like the total opposite. He's a man who's willing to come to consensus on certain things.
00:47:21.240Sit down with him. Talk about your fundamental differences.
00:47:23.960Don't take it to the media. Don't take it to Twitter and and embarrass the Republican Party.
00:47:29.300We have massive midterm elections coming up in twenty twenty six that will maybe decide the fate of the country, which direction it takes.
00:47:37.980Just unite. Come together. This fighting is so stupid.
00:47:42.040Yeah, I know. But one of one of my worries is they don't some of these people, they don't really care if Trump's last two years get anything done as long as they get to stay in Congress.
00:47:53.680Right. It's like when I first learned that 90 percent of children in Baltimore don't know how to read.
00:48:00.820And I said, why aren't government leaders doing anything about this?
00:48:03.620And my guest said, oh, they don't care. All they care about is power and money.
00:48:08.460And I was like, dang, dude, that sucks. Like I want someone that really cares about America.
00:48:14.020But a lot of these people, they're so willing to go against Trump because at the end of the day, all they care about is they keep getting their multiple six figure check.
00:48:23.000The influence, the praise. But it's time to vote some of these people out again.
00:48:28.440I like Rand Paul. I actually like Thomas Massey.
00:48:31.080Rand Paul wants more done for America and Massey wants less done for Israel.
00:48:36.200So, I mean, they're like not that far off the beaten path.
00:48:39.280But come on, let's just get some stuff done. Let's be united.
00:48:43.120One thing I say all the time to family and friends is, you know, the Democrats are evil, but at least they stick together.
00:48:50.120Yeah. You know, you're absolutely right.
00:48:54.320Before we wrap up, let's have some fun with a Democrat who's lost their absolute mind.
00:49:00.360None other than Rosie O'Donnell, who's currently got me blocked on Twitter.
00:49:04.940I don't know what I said to her, but I made her very upset, I have to assume.
00:49:08.220But, you know, I'm sure it's for the best.
00:49:11.000Let's take a listen to what Rosie O'Donnell had to say, who, by the way, fled the country when Donald Trump won.
00:49:20.680Do you accept their right to do that and their opinion of him?
00:49:25.360Well, I respect their right to do that.
00:49:27.740I question why the first time in American history a president has won every swing state
00:49:33.400and is also best friends and his largest donor was a man who owns and runs the Internet.
00:49:40.100So I would hope that that would be investigated and that we would see whether or not it was an anomaly or something else that happened on election night in America
00:49:49.460when Kamala Harris was filling up stadiums with people who supported her and Donald Trump was not able to do that.
00:49:56.800So it's curious to me and as an American and a believer in democracy,
00:50:03.680I would hope that we would be able to look at all of the reasons why this happened in our country.
00:50:10.720I'm sorry, I can't get me together there in our country that I fled real quick, filled up state.
00:50:21.080I had to write this down because there are so many lies in that.
00:50:23.240Number one, filled up stadiums when Donald Trump couldn't.
00:52:42.140And as you mentioned, he had so many people against him.
00:52:45.720The only reason that Amazon and Zuckerberg are kissing his butt now is because they don't want to get hit with antitrust lawsuits and other issues.
00:52:55.480And then what was the last one that I wanted to talk about?
00:52:59.080Oh, she didn't question the fact that Joe Biden lost 18 of the 19 bellwether counties and still miraculously won.
00:53:10.220And she didn't have a problem that every swing state that stopped counting that Trump was winning in magically went to Joe Biden in the middle of the night.
00:53:19.680But again, bless her heart over there in Ireland.
00:55:13.660I don't believe he's going to betray himself in order to selfishly do something that he wants or that some other country hopes or wants him to do.
00:55:23.700He is going to do what he thinks is best to make America great again.
00:56:05.620He won't be compromised regardless of who you are.
00:56:08.080And that's why he is the greatest president, in my opinion, this country has ever seen.
00:56:14.280Stephen Gardner, the host of The Stephen Gardner Show.
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00:56:27.340Stephen, we'll have you back here soon.