The Great America Show - MAINSTREAM MEDIA AND DEM PARTY CHEERING FOR AMERICA DECLINE

00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody, and welcome to The Great America Show.

00:00:05.000 It's great to have you with us tonight.

00:00:06.340 Thanks so much for joining us on this Friday night in America.

00:00:09.420 Very busy news week, very busy week for the White House, very busy week, I guess you can

00:00:13.960 say, for the rest of the world.

00:00:15.920 President Trump this week, of course, issuing his retaliatory tariffs, unleashing them on

00:00:20.240 the world, and the world not exactly reacting positively in America.

00:00:24.820 But the surprising aspect of it all is we're getting more of a reaction from our own mainstream

00:00:30.260 media and own Democratic Party, as if they want this country to fail.

00:00:35.540 I guess what they don't realize is when the country fails, they fail.

00:00:38.960 Their neighbors fail.

00:00:40.100 We all have 401ks.

00:00:41.340 We all have pensions.

00:00:43.880 We're all invested in the market somehow, some way, or we know someone who's invested in the

00:00:48.720 market somehow, some way, our children's future, whatnot.

00:00:52.440 But the Marxist Dems don't care. 0.66

00:00:54.080 They want to see Donald Trump fail so bad that they don't care at whose expense, whether

00:00:59.000 it be grandma, whether it be grandpa, doesn't matter.

00:01:02.280 They want this thing to fail.

00:01:04.400 You may ask yourself why.

00:01:05.680 And our guest, we're going to get to him in just a few moments here, Mark Mitchell, the

00:01:09.280 great Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen Reports.

00:01:11.780 I want to get his take on what the American people, what the American public, the general

00:01:15.820 public are saying about tariffs or saying about the direction of this country, the direction

00:01:19.840 of President Trump.

00:01:21.220 And are they getting what they voted for?

00:01:24.100 We all knew Donald Trump was going to do this before November 5th.

00:01:27.000 We all knew Donald Trump was going to do this before January 20th.

00:01:29.720 He told us he was one of the only people that I've ever seen as president or heard as president

00:01:34.700 that has done in the past and is currently doing what he promised he was going to do.

00:01:40.640 He told us he was going to tariff these nations.

00:01:42.500 He gave them a forewarning, you guys effed around and now you're going to find out these

00:01:47.820 people had months.

00:01:48.880 They had years to get rid of their tariffs on us.

00:01:52.280 100% tariff, 97% tariff, 200% tariff here.

00:01:56.400 They knew it was coming and they didn't heed the warning.

00:01:59.280 So who's to blame here?

00:02:01.220 Now we're going to get into the whole Wall Street aspect of it.

00:02:04.140 Wall Street, the market's collapsing and yada, yada, yada, yada.

00:02:07.900 But this isn't a Wall Street fight, folks.

00:02:09.480 This is a mainstream fight.

00:02:11.080 This is for the blue collar worker.

00:02:12.760 This is for the hardworking American who have lost their jobs over the course of the last

00:02:17.940 20 years to outsourcing to China, to Vietnam, to Cambodia, who's charged over a 90% tariff

00:02:23.720 to America.

00:02:24.660 That's what this fight is about.

00:02:26.280 So you know what?

00:02:26.920 The markets are going to hurt for a little while.

00:02:29.000 That's fine.

00:02:30.120 They will recover as they always do.

00:02:32.900 Wall Street, let's not forget, they make money on the way up and they make money on the

00:02:37.220 way down.

00:02:37.700 And let's not forget about a little something called shorting, which Wall Street does so

00:02:42.380 very well.

00:02:43.640 Nobody seems to understand the whole tariff thing, especially in the mainstream media.

00:02:47.180 So let's boil it down to a 50 second clip from Stephen Miller, because I think he explains

00:02:52.560 it so eloquently.

00:02:53.720 Take a listen to Stephen Miller today.

00:02:55.160 Can someone explain to me?

00:02:56.860 We protect and defend South Korea.

00:02:59.580 And in exchange, they steal our automobile industry.

00:03:02.380 They steal our electronics industry.

00:03:03.840 We protect and defend Japan and in exchange, they close their market to our cars. 0.98

00:03:08.800 We protect and defend Canada.

00:03:10.760 And they run up a massive trade deficit with us.

00:03:13.000 We protect and defend all of Europe at a cost of trillions of dollars over time.

00:03:17.180 And what do they do?

00:03:18.300 They run an over $300 billion trade deficit with the United States.

00:03:22.940 Why should America protect the world, send foreign aid to the world, defend the world,

00:03:28.520 provide for the world in exchange, get ripped off by every other country in the world?

00:03:33.280 And what do we have to show for it?

00:03:34.680 The deindustrialization of the heartland, the destruction of the American dream, the eradication

00:03:40.680 of our industrial and manufacturing base that we need for our national security and the crushing

00:03:46.680 of the American dream.

00:03:47.700 It has to stop, not to mention $36 trillion in debt.

00:03:52.560 I don't think there's any other way you could have put it simpler than that.

00:03:56.420 Take your tariffs off and we'll take hours off.

00:03:58.560 It's simple.

00:03:59.440 They're retaliatory.

00:04:01.020 There's nothing to retaliate against on 0%.

00:04:03.520 It's common sense, folks.

00:04:05.900 Now, China, who's probably the biggest currency manipulator in the history of the world, 0.92

00:04:11.520 the biggest liars in the history of the world, and I'm talking about not the Chinese people, 1.00

00:04:15.320 I'm talking about the CCP and Xi Jinping, of course, the biggest deceptive folks in the 0.91

00:04:21.060 entire world, today announced that they will be imposing a 34% tariff on all U.S. goods

00:04:26.700 in retaliation to the retaliation by Donald Trump.

00:04:30.300 Now, Donald Trump says they panicked and they acted too quickly, and it's going to hurt them

00:04:34.340 because now another 34% goes on top of them.

00:04:38.800 Remember, they need us more than we need them.

00:04:41.380 That's fine.

00:04:42.060 We have a massive trade deficit with them.

00:04:43.540 We'll pay it off and we'll tell them to hit the road.

00:04:45.740 The whole point of this exercise is to get these people, to get these companies out of

00:04:51.000 China in the first place. 0.96

00:04:52.200 We saw what happened during COVID with our supply chains.

00:04:55.460 You couldn't get masks.

00:04:56.680 You couldn't get gowns, pharmaceuticals.

00:04:58.620 They held it all over our heads.

00:05:00.120 We should have learned back then.

00:05:01.320 It's been five years, five plus years, actually, and we're still doing business.

00:05:06.600 They're like, it's nobody's business.

00:05:07.860 So it's either Nike, whose stock has absolutely been crushed by this, gets out of these countries

00:05:15.640 of slave labor and start producing in places like America.

00:05:20.140 There's no reason that Nike, an American-made company, should have 100% of their goods made

00:05:26.960 overseas, 100%.

00:05:29.360 I said the other day, you know, you see during the Olympics, those folks go out there and

00:05:33.460 compete for America, and they've got that big American flag on their chest or on their

00:05:38.260 back.

00:05:38.680 It says USA.

00:05:39.300 And then you look inside the tag, and it probably says made in Vietnam, made in Cambodia. 0.88

00:05:44.740 What a disgrace.

00:05:46.720 What an absolute disgrace.

00:05:47.940 Apple, another one, over 80% of their products made overseas, American companies overseas. 0.99

00:05:57.260 There's an old saying that the great Lou Dobbs used to say to me, and it was, pigs get fat

00:06:01.420 and hogs get slaughtered. 0.98

00:06:02.640 And that's exactly what these people are. 0.99

00:06:04.640 They're hogs. 1.00

00:06:05.700 They want to make the most amount of money they can possibly make.

00:06:08.280 And I'm all for capitalism.

00:06:10.580 You know, there's no doubt about that.

00:06:12.480 But these people have gone way past capitalism, and they've went into the territory of greed.

00:06:17.760 They don't care about anything.

00:06:19.060 And the masks are off.

00:06:21.040 All they care about is making the most amount of money.

00:06:22.820 It doesn't matter at whose expense, at what slave labor is making it. 0.95

00:06:28.820 That's all they care about.

00:06:30.480 But Donald Trump is turning the table.

00:06:31.920 So now let's talk about some countries that already wavered to the retaliatory tariffs.

00:06:37.240 Israel plans to draft all tariffs on the United States.

00:06:40.960 Vietnam, who's a very big abuser of the tariffs against us, is open to a zero tariff policy after talking with President Trump.

00:06:49.940 Cambodia is seeking to delay a 49% tariff on America.

00:06:53.900 UK is pushing for a new deal to soften tariff impacts.

00:06:57.220 Canada's vice premier, Ontario's vice premier, has said he's open to looking at tariffs.

00:07:02.580 Mexico has already told us that they will not retaliate.

00:07:07.140 Oh, did I mention the $6 trillion in investments that have been pledged to America since this whole thing started?

00:07:13.740 $6 trillion.

00:07:14.440 I 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.

00:07:28.460 Now, in the midst of all this, you probably didn't hear about the jobs report for the month of March.

00:07:32.580 228,000 jobs added to the books for the month of March, blowing out of the water the expectation of 140,000 jobs.

00:07:43.560 Unemployment rate moved to 4.2%, up 0.1% from 4.1%.

00:07:47.180 That was expected.

00:07:48.280 So, the exercise is about bringing jobs back to America.

00:07:52.860 So, it's about nothing personal, nothing personal to Canada, nothing personal to Mexico, Vietnam, Cambodia, South Africa, the UK, nothing personal, folks.

00:08:05.700 But the fun and games are over.

00:08:07.980 America is not rich, regardless of what you guys think.

00:08:10.940 We are not rich as a nation.

00:08:12.480 In fact, we're very, very poor.

00:08:14.120 If you look at the debt ratio that we're in right now, if you look at our trade deficits that we're in right now.

00:08:20.760 So, why does everyone think they're going to take advantage of America?

00:08:23.820 And why is the mainstream media and the Marxist Democratic Party so happy about this?

00:08:31.020 Mark Mitchell, welcome.

00:08:33.280 Again, it's always great to talk to you.

00:08:35.200 My 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?

00:08:44.120 Now, again and again, they find themselves rooting against the interests of everyday Americans.

00:08:51.660 It'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.

00:09:05.140 For a long time, it used to be the axis of authoritarianism versus economic freedom, and I don't think that's great anymore.

00:09:14.560 Now, I think it's about how much grift you tolerate versus how much you trust authority.

00:09:20.160 And 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.

00:09:30.100 Trump is the avatar of those people, but every other politician is in one of the other three axes.

00:09:37.800 It'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.

00:09:48.420 That's every single person out there that's complaining.

00:09:51.560 Oh, look at Trump did.

00:09:52.500 We need the system back.

00:09:53.620 That's the leftist Democrats, the Marxist.

00:09:56.060 Oh, look at him. 1.00

00:09:56.920 He's horrible.

00:09:57.620 He's undermining our economy.

00:09:58.900 That's all these, you know, establishment economics professors and your Jim Cramers and all these people that think they know better than Americans.

00:10:06.600 This is not about the stock market.

00:10:09.160 The stock market is not the economy.

00:10:11.460 The economy was worse than it's ever been for the preponderance of the voters, and that's why Trump's in office.

00:10:17.840 Yep, you're absolutely right.

00:10:19.160 And I spoke to you earlier today, and I've been saying it on the show all day, Mark.

00:10:23.060 This is not about Wall Street.

00:10:24.560 This is about Main Street.

00:10:25.460 The 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. 0.96

00:10:34.060 They've sold us out at every step of the damn way, Mark. 0.94

00:10:37.420 They've sold us out to China. 0.99

00:10:38.780 They've sold us out to Mexico.

00:10:39.920 They've sold us out to Canada.

00:10:41.100 Who the hell knew they sold us out to Vietnam and Cambodia as well?

00:10:43.960 I mean, yet, as you heard Stephen Miller there in the monologue, these people all rely on America.

00:10:51.440 Canada, if they ever went to war without America, there's no such thing as Canada.

00:10:56.180 I mean, Mexico is the same exact thing.

00:10:58.860 Yet these people time and time again think that they're going to get rich off the backs.

00:11:02.360 And it's not just America they're getting rich off of, Mark.

00:11:04.920 They're getting rich off the American people.

00:11:07.180 They'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.

00:11:17.260 But the second biggest thing is poultry.

00:11:20.740 It's cheese.

00:11:21.640 It's dairy.

00:11:22.340 It's any of that, which is off the backs of our farmers here in America.

00:11:26.680 Yeah, we are. 0.94

00:11:30.240 The American taxpayer donkey is the fattest host ever. 0.85

00:11:34.880 And every single institution, government, company has figured out a way to make themselves gorged on the lifeblood of these people. 0.83

00:11:44.320 I've driven around the Rust Belt.

00:11:46.460 People are dying of fentanyl.

00:11:48.920 There's broken families.

00:11:50.480 They can't afford jobs.

00:11:51.860 And the just absolute smugness of all the, like, Republicans, the establishment Republicans that have come out against this is absolutely astounding as well.

00:12:01.480 I mean, just the list, you know, Grassley was out there against this.

00:12:04.340 Rand Paul was against this.

00:12:05.920 Mitch McConnell tweeted something.

00:12:07.680 Even Ted Cruz.

00:12:08.980 Like, a lot of people who voted for Trump would have voted for Ted Cruz if Trump wasn't in the race.

00:12:14.040 And this guy's out there saying, oh, your car might go up $4,500.

00:12:18.200 These people aren't buying a new car every three years like you, Ted Cruz.

00:12:21.980 They're driving around 11-year-old jalopy because they don't have that manufacturing job.

00:12:26.280 They want that manufacturing job back.

00:12:28.720 Yep.

00:12:29.140 Yep.

00:12:29.440 They're so out of touch.

00:12:30.740 And it's Republicans and Democrats.

00:12:33.460 I was talking to someone the other day, someone very prominent in politics who I have on the show very often.

00:12:40.440 We see Kristi Noem out there going to do DOJ raids with a bulletproof vest on. 1.00

00:12:45.200 Mark, wearing a $75,000 Rolex.

00:12:48.340 I mean, the other day, we see Alina Hamba going out there doing the same thing with a $50,000 Rolex.

00:12:53.180 These people are so out of touch.

00:12:54.960 These Republicans, it's not just them.

00:12:56.200 I just use them as two examples.

00:12:57.960 Ted Cruz, another one, walks around with a $15,000 Hublot watch on, drives a nice car, lives in a million and a half dollar house.

00:13:05.680 They're so out of touch with what reality.

00:13:08.340 Now, Rand Paul, I give a pass to.

00:13:09.860 You know why?

00:13:10.240 Because Rand Paul has his ways, and he stays to his course.

00:13:15.980 That's the same Rand Paul you've got 15 years ago.

00:13:19.040 He's never changed his tune on certain things, and that's one of them.

00:13:22.360 Rand Paul, okay, I understand it's an ideology thing for you.

00:13:25.720 We don't agree.

00:13:26.500 I don't agree with you, but I understand it's an ideology.

00:13:28.960 For guys like Ted Cruz to come out here, dude, you're out of touch with reality.

00:13:33.080 Chuck Grassley, another one, doesn't even know what the hell is going on.

00:13:35.840 If you want to talk about cars, exactly like you put it, Mark, nobody's going out there and buying $50,000 Porsches.

00:13:43.280 This 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?

00:14:00.580 This 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.

00:14:09.020 Yeah.

00:14:09.740 No, 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.

00:14:21.940 I 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.

00:14:27.040 And you know what?

00:14:29.120 Now, my oldest kid, I bought him five.

00:14:31.480 Every time he gets two or three inches taller, I get another one shipped in for China for $65.

00:14:36.520 I would rather go back to the world where we had things of quality and our homes weren't broken.

00:14:44.280 There weren't people trying to put food on the table while they're swimming in Chinese garbage. 1.00

00:14:48.920 Like, it's sick. 0.99

00:14:49.880 We lost America. 1.00

00:14:51.640 The American dream isn't piles of crap shipped from overseas. 0.90

00:14:55.640 It'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.

00:15:08.500 You know, I wonder, do you think Ted Cruz is in one of these do-nothing jobs, these boards where he gets USAID money?

00:15:15.080 I wonder.

00:15:15.540 I really should look that up.

00:15:17.660 Well, we're going to take a quick break here, and we're going to give you a second to look it up if you can find it.

00:15:22.060 You know, I wouldn't be surprised.

00:15:23.100 I've heard a lot of – I like Ted Cruz, by the way.

00:15:25.580 Full transparency, I voted for him in the 2016 primary here in New York.

00:15:29.100 I've always looked up to him, and I've always liked him.

00:15:31.920 I've been told stories about his personal life and possible infidelity, which makes me look at him a little bit differently now.

00:15:39.280 But 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.

00:15:48.940 Ted Cruz is the smartest man in the Senate.

00:15:52.020 Make no mistake about it.

00:15:54.040 Intellectually-wise, intellectual-wise, he is the smartest man in the Senate.

00:15:57.960 He's probably one of the smartest men in Washington, D.C., as it comes down to not just politics but constitutional law, any sort of law.

00:16:07.320 We're going to take a quick break here.

00:16:08.340 We're talking with Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen.

00:16:10.800 We're going to come back, and we're going to take up these politicians.

00:16:13.240 We're going to take up rhinos. 1.00

00:16:14.460 The Republican Party is in a lot of trouble.

00:16:16.260 We're going to get to that later in the show, but we're going to continue on with this inflation.

00:16:20.880 Gas prices, are they through the roof or are they through the floor?

00:16:23.660 We're coming right back with Mark Mitchell.

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00:17:29.920 Folks, we're back with Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen Reports.

00:17:33.040 Mark, while we were in break, I think it's only right we tell the audience what we found

00:17:37.820 out about Mr. Cruz and company.

00:17:42.000 Well, daughters are too young, you know, but his wife, I forgot about this, but Heidi Cruz

00:17:46.340 is actually connected, really connected to the financial services industry, to Goldman Sachs

00:17:52.260 private wealth management, where she's the head of client development.

00:17:55.740 And, you know, I'm not making any accusations, but essentially her job sounds like it's to

00:18:00.060 go out and find new rich people that can be clients of Goldman Sachs.

00:18:04.520 And her husband's a U.S.

00:18:06.060 Senator.

00:18:07.520 And I'm sure they're pretty upset about the plunging stock market, especially her clients.

00:18:12.160 Oh, I would say so.

00:18:13.280 I haven't even looked at Goldman Sachs stock today, but it can't be pretty.

00:18:15.920 Prior to that, by the way, she was director of the Western Hemisphere for the White House,

00:18:20.180 also sat on the National Security Council, worked economic policy for Bush and Cheney

00:18:25.060 in 2000, and was an economic advisor.

00:18:27.380 So she's very entrenched in the establishment, we'll say.

00:18:32.200 The establishment folks are good friends.

00:18:35.760 You know, the Bushes, the Cheneys, the Mitt Romneys of the world, those folks.

00:18:41.640 Well, speaking of the economy, Mark, the price of oil has hit its lowest point since 2001.

00:18:47.880 Now, prior to today, you heard the Democrats crying about egg prices, which, by the way,

00:18:52.560 are down.

00:18:53.320 You heard them crying about gas prices, which are going to fall very rapidly over the next

00:18:57.580 few days, maybe weeks.

00:18:59.100 I haven't been out to gas my car up today, so I'm not sure if they fall up today.

00:19:02.700 But what more do they want?

00:19:03.820 This Wall Street thing will weed itself out.

00:19:05.960 It will eventually come back in probably the very short future.

00:19:09.760 We've seen how volatile the markets can go under President Trump both ways.

00:19:13.400 I mean, just as fast as they come down, they shoot back up.

00:19:16.240 It wasn't out of the ordinary for him to have an 800 point, 900 point swing on the up for

00:19:21.680 the Dow in his first administration.

00:19:23.840 So gas prices, what can the Democrats tell us about that?

00:19:27.180 He's getting them down.

00:19:29.320 Well, this is, you know, this is all about drawing blood, period.

00:19:33.820 They will use whatever tactic they can to try and inflict pain.

00:19:37.160 And they're getting it right now.

00:19:39.440 Egg prices wasn't effective for him.

00:19:41.540 Signalgate wasn't effective for him.

00:19:43.200 But what they have now is a whole ton of soundbites of experts and Republicans trashing Trump and

00:19:48.980 his chaotic take on the economy.

00:19:51.560 That's what they're going to use.

00:19:52.620 They're going to dredge all that stuff up.

00:19:54.340 And listen, I've been calling on Trump to crash this thing.

00:19:58.120 I told I said over a month ago that he it's coming right.

00:20:01.460 It's overvalued.

00:20:02.420 It's stagnating.

00:20:03.320 There's going to be a complete like we can get into all of the ways the Trump platform

00:20:07.840 attack on globalism.

00:20:10.700 This is the biggest attack on the status quo in like half a century.

00:20:15.140 There is no way you get out of this without financial pain and recession, like deport a million

00:20:20.340 people or like what happens to their debt.

00:20:22.720 It gets written off.

00:20:23.520 That's deflationary.

00:20:24.480 That's going to cause a collapse in the real estate market.

00:20:27.860 Every single one of his policies is like that.

00:20:31.440 Fire hundreds of thousands of federal workers.

00:20:34.460 You just took people out of the workforce and you're going to have like every single one

00:20:38.400 of these things.

00:20:39.460 And, you know, they're going to say, well, look, look at Trump.

00:20:42.400 We're better than him.

00:20:43.340 We're adults in the room.

00:20:44.260 We have better economic policies.

00:20:45.760 But I have a little laugh for you, John.

00:20:48.180 I have this pulled up because this is what Trump surrogate is going to be running against

00:20:53.940 in twenty twenty eight.

00:20:54.840 Probably this is Kat Abagazela, a fledgling congresswoman candidate from Illinois, the 0.99

00:21:04.140 one that they found pictures of her days from being a bartender.

00:21:07.220 So another bartender. 0.98

00:21:09.240 She describes her political ideology as a progressive flavor of libertarian.

00:21:13.420 Oh, yeah, right.

00:21:15.040 Leave people alone.

00:21:16.200 Ideal supported by a social safety net.

00:21:18.860 But a quote, there is absolutely no reason you shouldn't be able to afford housing, groceries

00:21:26.420 and health care with some money left over.

00:21:28.940 That's her economic policy. 0.99

00:21:30.320 Well, you should just be able to do that.

00:21:32.940 Let them eat cake.

00:21:34.180 Like that's literally the level of intelligence.

00:21:36.600 So I don't know.

00:21:37.940 I think Trump's going to create a new golden age, as did most voters a month and a half

00:21:42.440 ago.

00:21:42.740 And it's going to get bumpy.

00:21:45.400 Yeah, I mean, we had no choice.

00:21:46.980 I spoke to John Lonsky, who's my favorite economist, to bring on the show a few weeks

00:21:51.520 ago, and he said exactly what's going to happen.

00:21:53.260 He said he said as an economist looking at it, the prices of things have gone, Mark, so

00:21:59.140 far through the roof that everything is unaffordable.

00:22:02.680 A house is unaffordable.

00:22:03.720 Food is unaffordable.

00:22:05.280 Inflation was through the roof.

00:22:06.240 The only way to get this thing back down to restabilize is through a recession.

00:22:12.060 Whenever people hear recession, they automatically panic.

00:22:15.360 You know, sometimes it's needed for a panic, but sometimes it's not.

00:22:19.580 You have different kinds of recessions in different times.

00:22:22.220 2008, we had a housing recession.

00:22:24.360 This time around, it's looking more like it's going to be a market recession.

00:22:29.280 We'll see what happens with houses.

00:22:31.360 Interest rates are through the roof.

00:22:33.800 House prices are still through the roof.

00:22:35.960 Those two things don't necessarily add up, but nonetheless, they're still happening.

00:22:42.560 We're going to see, though, that we're going to see over the next few weeks, over the next

00:22:45.120 few months, the prices of food start, I believe, come down.

00:22:48.740 I already said the price of gas start to come down.

00:22:51.920 Eggs already starting to come down.

00:22:54.560 It's all going to start to fall.

00:22:56.580 Scott Besson, the Secretary of the Treasury, sat down with Tucker Carlson today and had this

00:23:00.780 to say about the markets and who's dominating.

00:23:03.620 Take a listen.

00:23:04.240 The distribution of equities across households, the top 10 percent of Americans own 88 percent

00:23:11.680 of equities, 88 percent of the stock market.

00:23:15.080 The next 40 percent owns 12 percent of the stock market.

00:23:19.560 The bottom 50 has debt.

00:23:21.440 They have credit card bills.

00:23:24.220 They rent their homes.

00:23:25.660 They have auto loans.

00:23:27.160 And we've got to give them some relief that I was struck by the statistic from last year.

00:23:34.180 That's the message right there.

00:23:35.220 Just as a bystander, I'm like, wow, OK.

00:23:37.000 All right.

00:23:37.260 Or that I like the examples.

00:23:41.960 And I was really struck by two different statistics last year.

00:23:46.300 Summer of 2024, Americans took more European vacations than they had in history.

00:23:53.340 Summer of 2024, more Americans were using food banks than they ever have in history.

00:23:59.860 I went into two food banks near my hometown to ask, what's the story?

00:24:06.740 And they said, you know, it really takes.

00:24:11.320 For a lot of people, it's a loss of dignity to walk in a food bank course.

00:24:15.060 And but they were seeing something, a new phenomenon that it wasn't their traditional clientele, wasn't people who'd lost their homes.

00:24:23.100 It wasn't people out on the street.

00:24:25.540 These were working families who could no longer a hundred dollars at the grocery store.

00:24:32.120 That basket of groceries every week, they were missing five, six, seven things.

00:24:37.400 And they were coming to the food bank to top up.

00:24:39.980 So that's not a great America.

00:24:42.020 So record European vacation, record food banks.

00:24:46.800 Your thoughts, Mr. Mark Mitchell.

00:24:49.360 Yeah, Tucker's right.

00:24:50.540 He gets it.

00:24:51.320 He gets it.

00:24:51.940 And he's within the administration and he's up against the entire establishment.

00:24:55.720 Who do you think those 12 people are that own 88 percent of the equities, the 12 percent of people?

00:25:01.840 It's Goldman Sachs bankers.

00:25:03.620 It's every single congressman and senator in Washington, D.C., every single, you know, education system administrator.

00:25:11.120 Like all the Fortune 500 CEOs, like the entire world is arrayed against the American worker who's trying to regain the American dream.

00:25:20.420 And this is why Trump won.

00:25:22.960 And Scott Besson knows it.

00:25:24.960 Only 22 percent of people think that today's children will be better off than their parents.

00:25:30.340 Wow.

00:25:30.520 That's the economic signal that Donald Trump won on.

00:25:34.440 Yeah.

00:25:34.620 I mean, if you look at it, 22 percent, that's an extremely low number, obviously.

00:25:40.880 But you think about it, Mark, how could we be better off than our parents?

00:25:45.360 And, you know, the distribution of wealth has only gotten worse over the last quarter century, half a century.

00:25:51.940 But you look at, you know, like my parents, at least, came from nothing.

00:25:57.040 My father built what was the American dream.

00:25:59.540 He came from nothing.

00:26:00.300 He paid for his high schooling himself.

00:26:02.140 He 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.

00:26:20.740 My mother understood.

00:26:22.160 My mother was a schoolteacher.

00:26:23.920 And, you know, he grinded and grinded and grinded.

00:26:27.960 And it's the work ethic, too, which I think is a big thing.

00:26:30.940 I don't know anybody who's worked harder than my father and the great Lou Dobbs.

00:26:34.640 And they were very similar people.

00:26:36.200 They talk a lot.

00:26:37.460 And it was scary how similar their personalities were.

00:26:40.680 But, Mark, the work ethic that both of them had, I don't know anybody.

00:26:44.720 I don't see anybody who has that and putting in the hours and working and knowing what it's like to work from the bottom to the top.

00:26:53.560 And my father retired as a chief financial officer of a top seven bank in the country from nothing to everything.

00:27:01.460 And I don't know anybody, I don't see anybody who has that work ethic, who's willing to put work before family.

00:27:09.000 It's obviously not ideal, Mark.

00:27:11.200 But you know what?

00:27:12.240 It's what sometimes what you have to do for your family and your wife and your kids.

00:27:17.540 I have three sisters.

00:27:19.000 We all understand it.

00:27:20.180 My mother has lived a great life.

00:27:21.780 She understands it.

00:27:22.800 And you know what?

00:27:23.700 My 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.

00:27:34.320 And I think it was all.

00:27:36.900 I got mixed feelings on this.

00:27:38.760 So I will say, first, though, I want everybody to internalize this very deeply.

00:27:45.220 It was a bipartisan attack on the nuclear American family.

00:27:50.000 And it was intentional.

00:27:51.200 It was done intentionally.

00:27:53.400 They took your jobs.

00:27:54.940 They shipped them overseas.

00:27:56.300 They did bipartisan crisis response acts that stole your money to bail out banks.

00:28:02.640 Then 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.

00:28:12.140 Then they took all that wealth and power and sunk it back into controlling the apparatus of government, expanding the size of government.

00:28:19.420 Now you have all of these deep state actors putting their boot on your throat.

00:28:24.020 Then they released a biological weapon in order to maintain power.

00:28:29.420 Then they literally got like I could go on and on.

00:28:32.620 It was war.

00:28:33.680 It was fourth generation warfare against American taxpayers. 0.80

00:28:37.740 Now, 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.

00:28:44.280 And 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.

00:28:54.620 My 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.

00:29:06.340 And with H1Bs and looking at a thousand resumes, they need to hire somebody and train you. 0.97

00:29:11.320 And now you work there.

00:29:12.580 And, you know, now it's like, well, the expectation is they'll use you for a year or two and then throw you out and find somebody else.

00:29:18.720 And the same thing is with relationships.

00:29:21.420 Now, my parents didn't have Tinder.

00:29:23.740 They like basically married the first person they met.

00:29:26.500 Right.

00:29:27.040 And now it's like, no, you got to shop around for 15 years.

00:29:29.940 It'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.

00:29:37.840 But even like this, man, think about shopping for groceries.

00:29:41.020 Maybe 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.

00:29:57.280 If 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.

00:30:04.420 So every it's like maximum rent seeking is what has got us gotten us here.

00:30:09.260 And Trump is doing, I think, like the very first wave of what is necessary to right the ship.

00:30:14.480 But 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.

00:30:25.540 Yeah, you're absolutely right.

00:30:27.080 And, you know, I don't think you're being pessimistic by any stretch of the imagination.

00:30:31.100 These companies have gotten far too big.

00:30:32.980 They've gotten far too much control.

00:30:34.360 You know, I see, you know, I obviously started my career working in aviation.

00:30:39.560 I went to school for aviation.

00:30:40.860 So it was always a passion of mine.

00:30:42.720 And 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.

00:30:53.220 And I sat there and I looked and I said to myself, how is that even possible?

00:30:57.600 How have we allowed that to happen? 0.99

00:31:00.860 And then I see the justice, the DOJ and SEC knock down JetBlue trying to merge with Spirit Airlines, two totally shit airlines. 0.99

00:31:10.900 Let them be. 1.00

00:31:11.640 Let them merge into one pile of garbage. 0.92

00:31:13.480 Yet, 15 years ago, you allowed United and you allowed Continental, two of the biggest airlines in this country, merge with no absolute problem whatsoever.

00:31:23.760 So in me, I look at it and I say, well, that's got to be something happening there behind the scenes.

00:31:28.940 Somebody was pushing through something that wasn't, you know, but that's what we see all across the board.

00:31:35.160 It's three or four banks that run this country.

00:31:37.640 It's two or three airlines that fly around this country.

00:31:40.300 It's two or three poultry companies that run all the chicken in this country, regardless of what label it's under.

00:31:48.920 You know, it's two or three companies that, you know, that we're getting our beef from.

00:31:52.880 Beef's a little bit more expansive.

00:31:54.480 You know, I'm just being.

00:31:56.020 No, it's the theme.

00:31:57.280 And it's because it's better to take, you know, they benefit.

00:32:01.760 They benefit from these deals and the American citizen doesn't.

00:32:06.360 And they don't feel an obligation to look out for them.

00:32:08.720 This is not capitalism.

00:32:10.460 This is corporate welfare, crony capitalism.

00:32:13.520 Capitalism is you get out of high school and you start a business.

00:32:16.300 Yeah.

00:32:16.600 It's not like you beg somebody with a resume to maybe employ you for two years.

00:32:21.580 And, oh, sorry, no, we're not hiring your race or gender right now.

00:32:25.380 Yeah.

00:32:25.720 That's not capitalism.

00:32:27.020 Yeah.

00:32:27.360 I 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.

00:32:33.640 And these are, let me correct that.

00:32:36.800 These are white folks, straight white folks who have been stopped because of their skin color.

00:32:40.980 And it's, it makes you wonder.

00:32:42.380 And I was talking.

00:32:43.880 I can absolutely tell you, I've applied for a ton of jobs over my, a lot of career switching.

00:32:48.220 And it all changed after 2020, it changed a little bit in 2016.

00:32:52.040 Like some of the tech companies started to wise up, but after 2020, it's like a stale male pill. 0.51

00:32:57.380 It's a real thing.

00:32:58.080 It is a very real thing because you can't just snap your fingers and say, oh, hey, I'm a big

00:33:02.660 corporation on the fortune 500.

00:33:05.720 I'm just going to decide to be not woke.

00:33:07.680 Well, you still have a hundred, you know, female 20 something HR talent agents with the pronouns in the bio. 1.00

00:33:16.760 You didn't get rid of them.

00:33:18.480 You didn't tell them to do anything different.

00:33:20.420 So what do you think is going to happen?

00:33:22.300 Yeah, it's true.

00:33:23.620 So I have a good friend, a black gentleman, and I'm only saying his skin color because it's part of the story.

00:33:30.160 And 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. 0.99

00:33:42.880 And my friend says, look at that, not one black person in the damn audience or whatever. 0.93

00:33:48.600 And I said, what, what does that have to do with anything? 0.99

00:33:52.300 First of all, and he says it has everything to do with it.

00:33:54.840 This is a good friend of mine, a very smart guy, but he's, you know, he's drank the juice that these Democrats.

00:34:00.160 Democrats have that into society that it matters what the skin color and he's sitting there and has everything to do.

00:34:05.680 And I go, it has nothing to do with it.

00:34:07.680 Those days have gone a half a century, over a half a century ago.

00:34:14.000 And it's reverted.

00:34:15.920 I grew up in a post-racial society, essentially in the 80s.

00:34:20.020 And we, of course, all made fun of each other.

00:34:23.120 But it's like nobody cared.

00:34:24.820 And it's gotten completely worse.

00:34:28.120 And the Navy in the 90s and 2000s was one of the most diverse organizations I've ever worked in.

00:34:35.520 And they didn't have any diversity programs.

00:34:38.360 You know, it's like, and it's, well, we all know it was a hustle.

00:34:42.980 It was a hustle and it was effective and it isn't done yet.

00:34:47.320 And here we are. 0.99

00:34:48.820 They're total buffoons, man. 0.99

00:34:49.920 My favorite thing is when I'll get someone write a comment to me or Twitter or something and tell me I'm a racist. 0.98

00:34:55.880 And 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.

00:35:03.940 You're probably one of my few white friends.

00:35:06.120 Most of my friends are Spanish.

00:35:07.400 I have a lot of European friends who are Muslim.

00:35:12.560 My goddaughter is black. 1.00

00:35:15.240 You 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.

00:35:23.140 But it doesn't matter. 1.00

00:35:24.840 It's the adjective that these idiots use to try to define you. 1.00

00:35:28.120 And I sit there and laugh and say, yeah. 1.00

00:35:30.520 I could say the same about me, but let me give them a reason to call me racist.

00:35:36.220 The problem we have now in our economy is that we have too many workers and not enough assets.

00:35:45.260 And so the prices of assets have gone up.

00:35:47.820 The wages have gone down.

00:35:49.920 What we want to do is reverse that.

00:35:51.740 We want wages to go up and the price of assets to go down.

00:35:54.780 In order to do that rapidly, the best way is to get as many people out of America as possible. 0.90

00:36:01.720 And Tom Homan busting down doors is not enough.

00:36:05.960 And so I'm calling on Congress to write a one-page bill to pass a verify mandate.

00:36:12.840 Make 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.

00:36:27.340 And what you're going to see, and this is a three-to-one popular thing.

00:36:31.400 Like everybody wants this, including half of Democrats.

00:36:33.780 Should be a no-brainer.

00:36:35.200 It should sail through Congress.

00:36:36.700 We could do it today.

00:36:38.400 Yeah.

00:36:38.720 And it would absolutely reverse this thing immediately.

00:36:41.480 You're absolutely right.

00:36:43.340 And believe it or not, V-Verify is not mandatory in every state.

00:36:46.420 To me, mind-blowing.

00:36:47.740 But the federal government doesn't care.

00:36:50.320 Even where it's like mandatory, there's like, oh, well, it's above 500 employers.

00:36:55.480 Like there's all these holes.

00:36:56.900 Yeah.

00:36:57.140 Yeah. 0.98

00:36:57.320 A bunch of stipulation garbage. 0.95

00:36:59.560 We're going to take one more quick break here. 0.95

00:37:00.720 We're talking with Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen.

00:37:02.580 When we return, we're going to talk about the Republican Party.

00:37:05.340 I did a stream the other night, and I came out and said the Republican Party is in trouble

00:37:08.840 because they only won the two seats in Florida by a small margin. 1.00

00:37:12.860 And I have people tell me I'm an idiot and I'm a jerk for saying that. 1.00

00:37:17.080 So I want to get your take on it when we return to see if I'm an idiot and I am a jerk. 1.00

00:37:21.000 We're coming right back. 1.00

00:37:21.700 Mark Mitchell.

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00:38:29.160 Let Donald Trump fix the American economy.

00:38:32.580 But just to follow up with you, when the first time he did tariffs,

00:38:35.000 we did see prices rise on products that were tariff.

00:38:38.540 That's according to Goldman Sachs compared to non-tariff products.

00:38:40.620 We have the lowest inflation ever.

00:38:42.140 The manufacturing sector went into a mild recession in the fall of 2019.

00:38:48.280 What gives you so much certainty?

00:38:50.280 And by the way, this is more aggressive and the economy is in a different place

00:38:53.060 with inflation and consumer sentiment.

00:38:54.880 What gives you so much certainty that this is going to work

00:38:57.800 and that this isn't going to hurt the everyday American?

00:39:00.000 The largest tariff and trade barrier country in the world is China.

00:39:04.640 And they don't have inflation.

00:39:07.640 So these things don't occur the way people suggest they do.

00:39:11.500 This is a reordering of global trade for the benefit of America.

00:39:16.520 We have been, these people have all been living in our house.

00:39:19.720 They've been driving our car.

00:39:21.140 They come by and visit, open our fridge and eat our food whenever they want.

00:39:24.520 They've taken advantage of us.

00:39:26.200 Today was the day of the beginning of saying, I'm sorry,

00:39:29.980 you can't just live for free off of us.

00:39:31.980 You have to pay.

00:39:33.340 And what's going to happen is the United States of America will get stronger.

00:39:37.220 Our economy will grow much, much faster than the rest of the world.

00:39:40.980 All right.

00:39:41.200 Right.

00:39:41.420 If you were going to say where we're going,

00:39:43.160 We're not going anywhere because we're going to continue this conversation.

00:39:44.800 Where we're going is our markets are going to be up.

00:39:46.780 And I understand that it's tough for the global markets.

00:39:48.940 But our market, you should be betting on Donald Trump and the United States market.

00:39:52.980 We are going to do much, much better.

00:39:55.600 Okay.

00:39:57.500 Mark Mitchell, the Republicans, Donald Trump, not shying away from this.

00:40:01.800 Now, when Biden was president and inflation was through the roof,

00:40:05.560 you had one person going on television.

00:40:07.140 It was Kareem Jean-Pierre, Kareem Jean-Pierre, whatever you want to call her,

00:40:11.320 who came out and just gave us a bunch of word salads.

00:40:15.220 They're owning it.

00:40:16.440 I mean, you see everyone before we rolled Scott Bessent,

00:40:20.200 Howard Lutnick, Commerce Secretary, the whole administration on TV every single day,

00:40:25.140 not hiding from it, owning it because they know it's for the betterment of this country.

00:40:29.640 Before we turn to the Republican Party, I want to get your thoughts on that.

00:40:34.600 Well, first, my thoughts are if I was Howard Lutnick,

00:40:38.680 I would have been really insulted at the tone of those questions.

00:40:42.140 I mean, I can't even.

00:40:45.820 But it's like, oh, you don't know what you're talking about.

00:40:48.300 I don't know why they're doing these segments, to be honest with you.

00:40:51.680 I think they just need to produce linear television that talks about their wins.

00:40:56.820 Like Tuesday night should be about commerce wins.

00:40:59.280 Wednesday night should be the DOJ or something.

00:41:01.300 They just need to get their information out, bypass these people,

00:41:04.420 and pretend they don't exist.

00:41:05.440 The idea that anybody in the Biden administration or any media organization

00:41:10.000 that carries water for them can attack somebody on their economic positions is laughable.

00:41:14.900 It should be laughed at.

00:41:16.620 Yeah.

00:41:17.000 By the way, Cantor Fitzgerald, where Howard Lutnick came from,

00:41:21.080 has a portfolio value of about $5 billion.

00:41:23.920 So Pamela Brown, I think the man knows what he's doing.

00:41:27.560 We'll just say that.

00:41:28.260 It was his white privilege, John.

00:41:30.100 That's why he's a billionaire.

00:41:31.660 Give me a break. 1.00

00:41:32.540 Oh, it's so pathetic, Mark. 0.99

00:41:35.700 It really is. 0.99

00:41:36.820 Speaking of pathetic, before we went to break, I came on here the other night after those 0.97

00:41:42.440 Florida elections and after that Wisconsin election, and I laid out for the audience 0.97

00:41:48.200 that the Republican Party's in trouble.

00:41:50.360 We had these two seats, Mark, in Florida, which were crucial to holding now to representatives.

00:41:55.500 Districts that Donald Trump carried by 15, I think 15 or so plus points, District 1, which

00:42:04.340 is Jimmy Patronis, and District 6, which is now won by Randy Fine, I think.

00:42:11.660 Randy Fine, right.

00:42:12.840 So Donald Trump won these respectively by 11 points more, both of them, than these guys

00:42:20.200 did with less, way less to worry about.

00:42:24.520 Now we have a Congress to worry about saving.

00:42:27.040 Tell me the state of the Republican Party, because I think these guys are in a lot of trouble.

00:42:30.880 Now, let me preface that with the Democrats are in just as much trouble, if not more, but

00:42:36.100 the Republican Party doesn't have smooth sailing and tailwinds ahead, Mark, in my opinion. 0.98

00:42:42.040 Mr. Polster, please tell me I'm not an idiot or tell me I am. 0.98

00:42:45.520 No, you're exactly right. 0.98

00:42:47.220 Here's the way I would look at it if you're a Republican, is that if you take away Donald

00:42:52.440 Trump, then no other Republican candidate has come within like 10 million votes of Kamala

00:42:58.820 Harris.

00:42:59.760 That's kind of sad.

00:43:01.480 You know, it's like directionally 10 million.

00:43:03.060 And so I understand how people who don't believe that the 2020 election was stolen can look

00:43:10.180 at Joe Biden and say, OK, he had decades of experience and people wanted less chaos than

00:43:15.420 Trump.

00:43:15.920 And so that explains 2020.

00:43:18.160 But we're talking about Kamala Harris here.

00:43:20.240 OK, and she did way better than. 0.96

00:43:23.360 And so what you're looking at with Trump not on the ticket is very much a return to complete

00:43:28.560 and utter losing for the unforeseeable future.

00:43:32.560 And none of them like outside of Trump's administration, none of them seem to be cognizant

00:43:37.760 of the great gift that Donald Trump has given them, which is now a platform that's way better

00:43:42.520 than the platform you've ever had.

00:43:44.720 Donald Trump's make America first agenda is like 60 to 65 percent popular, depending on

00:43:50.140 what tenant you look at.

00:43:51.240 That's more popular than Trump.

00:43:52.680 It's more popular than the Republican Party.

00:43:54.560 It's more popular than any Republican ever.

00:43:56.600 And so I think at this point they just plan on waiting for him to leave and going back

00:44:02.180 to losing, because when Trump's not on the ballot, as we just saw, people don't turn

00:44:07.360 out.

00:44:07.780 Now, there's I think there's an election integrity aspect to this, too, but none of the Republicans

00:44:12.320 are like really leaning into that either.

00:44:14.300 So it doesn't matter. 1.00

00:44:15.800 They're still losers. 0.98

00:44:16.440 Yeah, they don't get the Republicans don't care about electoral integrity, and they're 0.99

00:44:20.520 going to learn the hard way.

00:44:22.800 Nobody fights like Donald Trump at the end of the day.

00:44:24.960 That's just the truth of the matter.

00:44:27.600 Nobody has the fight in them.

00:44:29.740 I was talking with Grant Cardone the other day, and he had said something interesting.

00:44:33.980 Donald Trump's not a Republican.

00:44:35.180 He's MAGA.

00:44:35.980 And it's very true.

00:44:37.640 I don't even know what the Republican Party is anymore, Mark.

00:44:40.740 The way I see it is the Republican Party is an umbrella, and under this umbrella is two

00:44:46.400 factions, MAGA and RINOs, and that's what makes up the Republican Party.

00:44:51.560 The problem that I see going into 2026 and 2028, by the way, 2028 will be the first year,

00:44:57.660 first time in, I guess, 12 years, you can say, where Donald Trump won't be on the ticket.

00:45:01.780 He will not be at the top of the ticket for the presidential election.

00:45:05.180 But under this, the MAGA faction has not managed to not push out these RINOs who ruined the party. 1.00

00:45:14.620 Instead, they embrace Chuck Grassley.

00:45:16.960 What the hell are you doing? 0.74

00:45:18.580 Number one, what the hell do you know about tariffs that you're coming out here talking? 0.97

00:45:23.640 You know, there's no unity in this party.

00:45:25.820 We saw that there's times where there is, but generally speaking, I think when Donald Trump

00:45:30.500 leaves in 2028, this party is going to go right back to the business as usual, country

00:45:37.020 club Republicans with the same old nonsense, and they're going to do it to themselves.

00:45:41.280 And you know what, Mark? 0.99

00:45:42.020 It's a damn shame because the Democrats have performed so poorly and so terrible that they've 0.98

00:45:49.580 given it to the Republicans. 0.98

00:45:50.820 They've said, here, we concede.

00:45:52.880 You guys win. 0.95

00:45:53.660 We're retards. 0.81

00:45:54.740 We cannot win.

00:45:56.340 We're so off on messaging.

00:45:58.040 We don't know what the hell is up and what the hell is down.

00:46:01.180 We don't know what the hell to do.

00:46:03.040 But you know what?

00:46:04.040 Go ahead.

00:46:04.600 And the Republicans go, no, no, no. 0.94

00:46:05.880 We're retards.

00:46:06.620 We don't know. 0.99

00:46:07.200 And so pathetically sad.

00:46:09.840 Mark, what do you think? 0.68

00:46:11.920 I was trying to pull up quick, like how Trumpy Chuck Grassley's district is, but I didn't

00:46:18.720 get it up in time.

00:46:19.620 My point is, though, is he's out there virtually signaling.

00:46:22.760 Yeah.

00:46:23.600 Well, what was the pollster who said Trump was going to lose by 10 points?

00:46:26.520 Uh, and Seltzer had Harris up three in Iowa and he won by 14 points.

00:46:33.200 But like, my point is, Chuck is going coming from a state where his statements on Donald

00:46:38.520 Trump are overwhelmingly unpopular.

00:46:40.540 I can guarantee you that.

00:46:42.240 And so he's not representing his constituents.

00:46:44.940 And so who is he representing?

00:46:46.340 That's my question to Chuck Grassley by saying this stuff.

00:46:49.100 Who are you representing?

00:46:50.440 But I've talked a lot about this with guests.

00:46:52.500 I've talked to a lot of MAGA candidates that are trying to break in.

00:46:55.440 And basically what it comes down to is on the side of Republicans, you have the state

00:47:02.280 party apparatuses, the local, you know, assembly apparatuses, the, you know, this whole network

00:47:07.700 of state senators and assemblymen.

00:47:10.060 You have the RNC.

00:47:11.720 You have the National Republican Congressional Committee.

00:47:14.180 You have the Republican Governors Association.

00:47:16.300 You have all of the captive vendors that are part of that machine.

00:47:21.600 And then you have the whole Senate leadership fund.

00:47:24.180 And then not only that, you have all these PACs that have been attached to the Republican

00:47:27.660 Party this entire time.

00:47:30.380 All of those people will tell you that their job is merely just to win.

00:47:34.840 And so when Trump shows up and says, hey, I got a new platform for you, they're like, okay,

00:47:38.860 well, it's kind of weird, but we're just going to keep doing the same thing we've always

00:47:41.920 doing, which is just do what we think will win.

00:47:45.100 And in most circumstances as well, we'll just run a safe, moderate looking candidate, distance

00:47:50.060 themselves from anything that seems a little bit too overt, you know, oh, Trump, they don't

00:47:55.060 like Trump because of abortion.

00:47:56.420 So I've got to distance myself from abortion.

00:47:58.540 You know, it's like Trump just gave you the best socioeconomic platform to run on.

00:48:01.660 So why don't you do that?

00:48:03.020 And they won't do it.

00:48:04.320 And on Trump's side, all Trump has, all he has is his administration, you know, his insider

00:48:11.800 circle, and then a bunch of grassroots organizations.

00:48:14.140 That's it.

00:48:14.680 The entire middle is all about just running crappy candidates and pocketing consulting 0.93

00:48:19.720 money. 0.74

00:48:20.160 That's all it is.

00:48:21.500 We got to bring this up now.

00:48:23.060 You and I spoke on the phone for about two hours last week or the week before, something

00:48:27.480 like that, about consultants and the money that's poured in.

00:48:30.720 And I've looked past what we've spoken about.

00:48:34.600 Folks, if you're going to donate money, do not give a dollar to the NRCC.

00:48:38.500 Do not give a dollar to the NRSC.

00:48:41.260 Do not give a dollar to Congressional Leadership Fund.

00:48:45.080 Do not give a dollar to Mike Johnson's Leadership PAC.

00:48:48.920 The money gets funneled and circulated.

00:48:51.600 And don't take my word for this.

00:48:52.640 Go on OpenSecrets.com.

00:48:54.520 You can go through every single PAC because they have to report it publicly.

00:48:58.160 Mark and I spent two hours the other day just having some fun looking at, I'm not going

00:49:02.400 to say who we were looking at, but we were looking at some people and looking at the

00:49:05.800 precirculation of money.

00:49:07.140 And I had found that the NRCC and the NRSC promotes stuff and spends money back to their

00:49:13.540 own employees who run consulting companies as well, which is sort of unethical.

00:49:19.020 I don't think it's illegal, but highly unethical in my opinion.

00:49:23.280 Don't take my word for it.

00:49:24.540 Go to OpenSecrets.com.org.

00:49:27.760 I repeat, OpenSecrets.org.

00:49:29.680 And you can go look up any consultant, how much money they made, where the money came

00:49:34.700 from.

00:49:35.260 You can go look at any candidate, see where they were spending money on.

00:49:38.920 And I encourage you because, Mark, I have a very smart audience because they were an

00:49:43.540 audience of Lou Dobbs who had a very high IQ.

00:49:46.520 So I'm blessed.

00:49:48.000 But it's so imperative because the money is so not well spent, Mark, when you give it

00:49:54.640 to the NRCC, the NRSC, the Congressional Leadership Fund.

00:49:57.880 Well, it's not about incompetence or waste.

00:50:00.460 That's what I'm trying to get.

00:50:01.760 I want people to listen to this and then take a shower.

00:50:04.880 This is what it is.

00:50:05.840 I've heard this explicitly from a MAGA candidate.

00:50:08.980 They said, I tried to run.

00:50:10.940 I said, oh, I'm going to fund myself.

00:50:12.540 They're like, no, you got to take the deal.

00:50:15.120 You got to take the consulting package.

00:50:16.860 You're going to get money, but you got to use our consultants.

00:50:19.420 And then one of the discussions he had with one of these consultants is, oh, well, we're

00:50:23.500 going to like blanket this area with direct mailers.

00:50:25.620 And he's like, well, you know, I did some polling.

00:50:28.140 I don't think that area's got a lot of swing voters.

00:50:30.120 It's really safe. 0.99

00:50:30.740 Damn. 0.99

00:50:31.100 Like, we really should just target this and then spend the money on other things. 0.99

00:50:34.340 And they're like, oh, no, no, no.

00:50:36.280 Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

00:50:37.060 We have to do all of this direct mail in a markup.

00:50:39.900 It has to get spent.

00:50:41.100 And so we're just going to do that.

00:50:43.020 So that's what happens.

00:50:44.640 That is what happens.

00:50:46.360 Yep.

00:50:46.500 And that's what happens, folks.

00:50:48.280 When you give money, the NRCC, the NRSC, the CLR, the CLF, you know, any of them, the money

00:50:55.860 is not well spent.

00:50:57.080 It's backdoored back to donors, certain people, special interests.

00:51:01.660 And that's how they get their money, these big consulting fees and these big consulting

00:51:04.900 gigs.

00:51:06.020 Mark, as always, we can talk for hours as we do.

00:51:09.380 But I want to wrap up with this because it's Friday night and people want to get a head

00:51:14.500 start on the drinking and partying.

00:51:17.100 Yeah.

00:51:17.840 I got a natty daddy upstairs with my name on it.

00:51:20.220 So you've got some kids parties tonight for the kids and popcorn to be made.

00:51:25.720 And by the way, every time I'm talking to Mark, he's got to do something for the kids.

00:51:29.400 So I get a test.

00:51:30.560 Mark's probably a pretty good father if I had to take a guess.

00:51:34.020 I want to get your take on.

00:51:39.380 How the Republicans can turn this thing around and stop screwing up, how the Republicans

00:51:45.640 could win on messaging going into 2026, because if they lose in 2026, Mark, they lose the house

00:51:52.420 in 2026.

00:51:53.620 I will bet you or anyone who wants to take my action as a gambling man that the impeachment

00:51:58.980 hearings will start immediately.

00:52:01.520 Yeah.

00:52:01.720 And you want to see a stock market collapse?

00:52:03.560 There you go.

00:52:04.860 How can the Republicans turn this thing around?

00:52:06.920 Uh, I would suggest a two pronged.

00:52:10.600 Let me rephrase that.

00:52:11.820 I would suggest a three pronged approach.

00:52:14.020 Okay.

00:52:14.400 One of them is that there needs to be between now and 2026, a weekly release of people who

00:52:21.160 are now under investigation or indicted.

00:52:23.900 One has to be immediately starting now.

00:52:27.000 And that is what that is a major campaign promise promise.

00:52:31.080 That's an expectation, especially based on all the fraud that's come out.

00:52:35.100 Um, number two, like I said, Trump's got to get better at socializing.

00:52:38.700 He had really great optics in my opinion on Tuesday, April 2nd.

00:52:42.760 That was a great speech.

00:52:44.180 He's got to get past the media and put more stuff out.

00:52:47.320 It might not be him, but it needs to, I don't know if he's got to hire producers and sink a

00:52:52.100 lot of money into it, but he needs to flood the zone with MAGA information.

00:52:57.160 And because right now is, I think that again, I don't think it's a major loss, but I think

00:53:02.040 that this week was kind of an L for Trump in some scenarios, right?

00:53:05.860 Like did not have to play out this way.

00:53:08.000 And then the third, this needs to happen today.

00:53:11.740 Any billionaire who likes Trump right now needs to get together and they need to have like

00:53:17.140 weekly pitch meetings or something, and they need to be listening to a steady stream of

00:53:21.380 people who are pro MAGA, who want to come in and work for organizations that are going

00:53:25.900 to build a structure.

00:53:26.860 They're going to connect those grassroots organizations that are going to standardize, um, you know,

00:53:33.660 operations across like multiple different areas.

00:53:36.020 They're going to plan in advance, like what candidates they're going to go after.

00:53:39.720 They're going to plan on, on the right way to approach messaging for 2026.

00:53:44.100 The Democrats have a machine, the Republicans do not, and they're not just going to get

00:53:50.080 one.

00:53:50.580 It has to be built and it has to be built by MAGA money.

00:53:53.720 Yeah.

00:53:53.960 We spend more time fighting against our own party and rhinos than we do against the 1.00

00:53:57.420 Marxist Dems.

00:53:58.200 Go figure that Mark Mitchell, as always, it's great talking with you, uh, honest pollster on

00:54:03.740 Twitter to follow him on a rumble, which, uh, we encourage you to do highly Rasmussen reports

00:54:09.760 on rumble, uh, and on YouTube where Mark does his weekly show on YouTube.

00:54:13.400 You can catch him there on Twitter, honest pollster, Mark Mitchell.

00:54:16.940 We'll talk to you soon.

00:54:18.540 Great to be here.

00:54:19.440 Thanks, John.

00:54:20.780 Thanks everybody for being with us today here on the great America show.

00:54:23.500 And thanks to our great friend, the great Mark Mitchell, uh, second to none when it

00:54:27.980 comes to polling, the great American to actually cares about this country.

00:54:31.520 Uh, unlike a lot of people, I won't say any names, but, um, really good men folks.

00:54:37.100 We'll see you back here tomorrow for the great America show where our quest for truth,

00:54:39.620 justice and the American way continues same time, same place until then.

00:54:44.180 May God bless you.

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00:54:46.380 And may God bless the great Lou Dobbs.

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The Great America Show - April 04, 2025

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