The Great America Show Friday Night with Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen Reports. President Trump's latest trade war with China and the reaction from the mainstream media, Wall Street, the stock market, and the rest of the world. Who's to blame here?
00:07:14.440I don't even know what the number is right now on how much debt we're in as a country, but $6 trillion has been pledged to America to bring jobs back here, to bring manufacturing back here.
00:07:28.460Now, in the midst of all this, you probably didn't hear about the jobs report for the month of March.
00:07:32.580228,000 jobs added to the books for the month of March, blowing out of the water the expectation of 140,000 jobs.
00:07:43.560Unemployment rate moved to 4.2%, up 0.1% from 4.1%.
00:07:48.280So, the exercise is about bringing jobs back to America.
00:07:52.860So, it's about nothing personal, nothing personal to Canada, nothing personal to Mexico, Vietnam, Cambodia, South Africa, the UK, nothing personal, folks.
00:08:33.280Again, it's always great to talk to you.
00:08:35.200My first question to you, why are these people so happy that America, at least in the stock market, is not doing too well right now?
00:08:44.120Now, again and again, they find themselves rooting against the interests of everyday Americans.
00:08:51.660It's literally Trump voters who are – you know, I took a little time trying to think about the current state of our politics and redefine the political spectrum, the axis upon which our politics is described.
00:09:05.140For a long time, it used to be the axis of authoritarianism versus economic freedom, and I don't think that's great anymore.
00:09:14.560Now, I think it's about how much grift you tolerate versus how much you trust authority.
00:09:20.160And so, what happens is MAGA voters, 65% of the country that support Donald Trump's policies, are in the lower left, which is people that don't want any grift and they don't trust any authority.
00:09:30.100Trump is the avatar of those people, but every other politician is in one of the other three axes.
00:09:37.800It's either part of the system, high grift tolerance, high trust and authority, or they want to take the system over for themselves, or they think the system could be run better by experts.
00:09:48.420That's every single person out there that's complaining.
00:09:58.900That's all these, you know, establishment economics professors and your Jim Cramers and all these people that think they know better than Americans.
00:10:25.460The reason we're in this situation, Mark, is over the last 25 years, what our presidents and what our politicians have done to this country.
00:10:34.060They've sold us out at every step of the damn way, Mark.
00:10:41.100Who the hell knew they sold us out to Vietnam and Cambodia as well?
00:10:43.960I mean, yet, as you heard Stephen Miller there in the monologue, these people all rely on America.
00:10:51.440Canada, if they ever went to war without America, there's no such thing as Canada.
00:10:56.180I mean, Mexico is the same exact thing.
00:10:58.860Yet these people time and time again think that they're going to get rich off the backs.
00:11:02.360And it's not just America they're getting rich off of, Mark.
00:11:04.920They're getting rich off the American people.
00:11:07.180They're getting rich off the farmlands of America because we may be the biggest importer of crude oil from Canada, which I'm not even going to get started on how that makes any sense.
00:11:17.260But the second biggest thing is poultry.
00:11:51.860And the just absolute smugness of all the, like, Republicans, the establishment Republicans that have come out against this is absolutely astounding as well.
00:12:01.480I mean, just the list, you know, Grassley was out there against this.
00:13:26.500I don't agree with you, but I understand it's an ideology.
00:13:28.960For guys like Ted Cruz to come out here, dude, you're out of touch with reality.
00:13:33.080Chuck Grassley, another one, doesn't even know what the hell is going on.
00:13:35.840If you want to talk about cars, exactly like you put it, Mark, nobody's going out there and buying $50,000 Porsches.
00:13:43.280This is about the hardworking American who's buying a used car every 10 or 15 years, the average hardworking American who's going out and buying a laptop from Best Buy for $500 every six or seven years or putting their kids through college, buying them computers, okay?
00:14:00.580This isn't someone going out and buying computers for the hell of it or cell phones for the hell of it or Caterpillar machinery for the hell of it.
00:14:09.740No, I'm telling you, listen, what globalism has gotten us, besides destroying the middle class, gutting it, concentrating all the wealth and power at the top, is when I grew up, I had one bike.
00:14:21.940I could afford one bike, and I loved it, and I took care of it, and I cleaned it, and I repaired it when it broke.
00:14:51.640The American dream isn't piles of crap shipped from overseas.
00:14:55.640It's being able to have a good family, financial security, a future, and not rely on the government dole while everybody in the world just leeches off you.
00:15:08.500You know, I wonder, do you think Ted Cruz is in one of these do-nothing jobs, these boards where he gets USAID money?
00:15:23.100I've heard a lot of – I like Ted Cruz, by the way.
00:15:25.580Full transparency, I voted for him in the 2016 primary here in New York.
00:15:29.100I've always looked up to him, and I've always liked him.
00:15:31.920I've been told stories about his personal life and possible infidelity, which makes me look at him a little bit differently now.
00:15:39.280But it's like you wonder, Mark, what the hell goes through these people's minds that makes them flip, that makes them come out a certain way.
00:15:48.940Ted Cruz is the smartest man in the Senate.
00:26:00.300He paid for his high schooling himself.
00:26:02.140He paid for his college himself, made his way, started at the bottom mark, working, you know, ridiculous amount of hours, was forced to go overseas and work for he was in banking, you know, most of his life, had to leave his family behind, worked over in Asia, worked over in London for the better part of his career.
00:27:23.700My father retired at the age of 64, 63, and has just been hanging out, you know, spending, making up for lost time with my mother and making up for lost time with all of us.
00:27:56.300They did bipartisan crisis response acts that stole your money to bail out banks.
00:28:02.640Then they flooded the money with dollars that were used by people to concentrate power and build portfolios of assets and concentrate wealth at the top.
00:28:12.140Then they took all that wealth and power and sunk it back into controlling the apparatus of government, expanding the size of government.
00:28:19.420Now you have all of these deep state actors putting their boot on your throat.
00:28:24.020Then they released a biological weapon in order to maintain power.
00:28:29.420Then they literally got like I could go on and on.
00:28:33.680It was fourth generation warfare against American taxpayers.
00:28:37.740Now, I want to give capitalism a little bit of benefit of the doubt here, because what I think we have now is not capitalism, period, whatsoever.
00:28:44.280And I agree we do have a crisis of integrity, but not necessarily a crisis of willingness to work hard, because society has failed Americans so much.
00:28:54.620My parents, like, first off, what happened back then is, oh, you worked in the company in the town and you worked there the whole time because the company, you know, they're not shopping all across the country.
00:29:06.340And with H1Bs and looking at a thousand resumes, they need to hire somebody and train you.
00:29:27.040And now it's like, no, you got to shop around for 15 years.
00:29:29.940It's like, well, like and again, like, you know, people can't you know, the companies can't bear the blame for all of that.
00:29:37.840But even like this, man, think about shopping for groceries.
00:29:41.020Maybe you don't remember this, but before the mega grocery conglomerates use predatory AI algorithmic pricing to squeeze every last drop out of the consumers like you're at war with your own grocery store when you go there.
00:29:57.280If that product's on like real close to the door, they're going to charge you a heck of a lot more than a reasonable margin because they can.
00:30:04.420So every it's like maximum rent seeking is what has got us gotten us here.
00:30:09.260And Trump is doing, I think, like the very first wave of what is necessary to right the ship.
00:30:14.480But I think we need to see a lot more massive creative destruction implosion of major corporations like aggressive anti-monopoly measures like on and on and on.
00:30:42.720And when I saw back, I mean, this had to be 15 or 15 or so years ago, United Airlines and Continental Airlines merged together, two of the biggest carriers in this country.
00:30:53.220And I sat there and I looked and I said to myself, how is that even possible?
00:31:11.640Let them merge into one pile of garbage.
00:31:13.480Yet, 15 years ago, you allowed United and you allowed Continental, two of the biggest airlines in this country, merge with no absolute problem whatsoever.
00:31:23.760So in me, I look at it and I say, well, that's got to be something happening there behind the scenes.
00:31:28.940Somebody was pushing through something that wasn't, you know, but that's what we see all across the board.
00:31:35.160It's three or four banks that run this country.
00:31:37.640It's two or three airlines that fly around this country.
00:31:40.300It's two or three poultry companies that run all the chicken in this country, regardless of what label it's under.
00:31:48.920You know, it's two or three companies that, you know, that we're getting our beef from.
00:32:27.360I can't tell you how many people I know who have tried to get into the corporate world and they've, you know, been stopped by their skin color.
00:33:23.620So I have a good friend, a black gentleman, and I'm only saying his skin color because it's part of the story.
00:33:30.160And we're talking the other day and we're watching Trump at his tariff unveiling and they show the picture and it's, you know, a bunch of union workers and old white men sitting in the front row, part of it, people, part of his administration.
00:33:42.880And my friend says, look at that, not one black person in the damn audience or whatever.
00:33:48.600And I said, what, what does that have to do with anything?
00:33:52.300First of all, and he says it has everything to do with it.
00:33:54.840This is a good friend of mine, a very smart guy, but he's, you know, he's drank the juice that these Democrats.
00:34:00.160Democrats have that into society that it matters what the skin color and he's sitting there and has everything to do.
00:34:05.680And I go, it has nothing to do with it.
00:34:07.680Those days have gone a half a century, over a half a century ago.
00:34:49.920My favorite thing is when I'll get someone write a comment to me or Twitter or something and tell me I'm a racist.
00:34:55.880And I just sit there and, you know, I'll joke with my friends and tell them that all of a sudden I'm a racist because I've got, I don't think I have many white friends.
00:35:03.940You're probably one of my few white friends.
00:35:15.240You know, and so I sit there and I joke and I'm like, I'm the worst person you could possibly call a whole racist to because I, in fact, don't have that many white friends.
00:35:51.740We want wages to go up and the price of assets to go down.
00:35:54.780In order to do that rapidly, the best way is to get as many people out of America as possible.
00:36:01.720And Tom Homan busting down doors is not enough.
00:36:05.960And so I'm calling on Congress to write a one-page bill to pass a verify mandate.
00:36:12.840Make it mandatory federally across the entire country for every company hiring people that they have to check that Social Security number immediately and can't hire an individual until their work status is clear.
00:36:27.340And what you're going to see, and this is a three-to-one popular thing.
00:36:31.400Like everybody wants this, including half of Democrats.