MARXIST MAGA MELTDOWN - TRUMP GETS DEMS TO SELF DESTRUCT AT SOTU
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Summary
Donald Trump addressed a joint session of congress last night and boy was it a rough one for the Marxist Dem's. Not for the republicans, not for the congress, not the country, but for the marxist dems.
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hello everybody and welcome to the great america show it's great to have you with us thanks so
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much for joining us on this beautiful night in america it's beautiful wednesday in america
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president trump addressing a joint session of congress last night and boy it was a rough one
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for the marxist dems not for the republicans not for the country but for the marxist dems the
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marxist dems were uh forced to sit there and face the reality reality that their party had this
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country going in the wrong direction wants to continue this country in the wrong direction
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and doesn't care about the american people or anything that we stand for as americans they want
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mass migration from illegal immigrants they want endless wars overseas with americans involved
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they want high inflation which is what they've given us over the last four years of joe biden
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they want china to continue to eat our lunch they want canada to continue to eat our lunch they want
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drugs to continue to pour through our southern border with mexico they don't care how many americans
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die of fentanyl overdoses they don't care um how many kids are indoctrinated in schools with dei and
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transgenderism uh they don't care about the health pandemic in our country and why uh 30 years ago
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the the number of children uh with autism is disgusting to compare to what it is today
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one in 30 something today 30 years ago is one in every few thousand the numbers are disgusting but
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the democrats don't care about that what they care about is putting on a good show a charade
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for their audience the only problem is folks is their audience is running out the american people have
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had enough it's the reason why donald trump had that resounding victory on november 5th uh nobody ever
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thought donald trump could win the popular vote here in america and when he mentioned it last night the
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democrats absolutely lost it they started booing and from the beginning for those of you who watched
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it you saw the democrats they only cared uh you know to put on their show put on their show for their
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fans so that they could go ahead uh make them happy get a quick sound bite al green one of them the man
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is reprehensible he's disgusting the man has not an ounce of respect honesty integrity honor not an ounce
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of it in his body standing up getting thrown out doing exactly what he wanted to do it's what he
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always does puts on a show but the american people as i said are on the side of donald trump and they're
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on the side of the republican party take a look don't don't take my word for it i always i always tell you this
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on the show here take a look at what americans had to say take a look at that folks 76 of the american
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people approved of his speech last night to a joint section of congress this is from yougov with the
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margin of error of just about three and a half points three and a half percent 76 percent approved
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23 percent disapproved so i'd love to see those 20 uh 23 percent uh who disapproved because it's clear
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of what their political party is their political affiliation but uh to get that high of approval rating
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on anything at this day and age folks is very very very difficult the democrats don't care about
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giving donald trump a win because if they give donald trump a win they give the country a win and
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they don't care about this country so why would they and donald trump actually addressed that last
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night i want to play a clip for you guys here of donald trump looking at the democrats in their
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eyes in their face pointing at them and addressing them and telling them it doesn't matter if i cured
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cancer if i cured any disease you guys would sit here you wouldn't clap you wouldn't cheer on this
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country and of course the mainstream media the marxist left mainstream media uh took it as the
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headline donald trump complaining that nobody wanted to applaud for him that the democrats didn't want to
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applaud for him but take a listen to the clip yourselves and you make the determination and once
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again i look at the democrats in front of me and i realize there is absolutely nothing i can say to
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make them happy or to make them stand or smile or applaud nothing i can do i could find a cure to
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the most devastating disease a disease that would wipe out entire nations or announce the answers to
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the greatest economy in history or the stoppage of crime to the lowest levels ever recorded and these
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people sitting right here will not clap will not stand and certainly will not cheer for these
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astronomical achievements they won't do it no matter what five five times i've been up here
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it's very sad and it just shouldn't be this way and once again i look at the democrats in front of me
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and i realized you know that's why donald trump resonates so well with the american people he
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looks at them in the eye he tells them exactly how it is and if you don't like it figure it out and move
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on um but good on donald trump looking them in the eyes and telling them exactly how it was how it is
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it's the truth of the matter these democrats these marxists hate america they hate america
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they came last night ready to argue uh they came ready to fight they came ready to stage a war against
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him the women some of the women dressed in pink some of them dressed in black holding up ridiculously
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stupid signs elon musk is a thief lies this this this and that the truth of the matter is though
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folks last night uh wasn't really for donald trump it was for the american people look at it take a
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look at the dais of who donald trump invited there i want to go through some of these folks uh for you
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guys uh to take a look and take a listen to who was invited uh to this uh supreme this um joint session
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of congress uh if you're joining us on video you have the picture here in front of you so you can follow
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along with us if you're joining us on audio i apologize you'll just have to follow along with us
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starting in the bottom left corner peyton mcnab volleyball player injured by a transgender opponent
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a woman who's live uh probably took a turn for the worse playing against transgender athletes being
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injured uh by a transgender athlete uh to the right of her you got january little john her daughter who
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was 13 years old was transitioned in her school indoctrinated in her school without her consent
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without the parents consent she lost her daughter uh to a transgender woke ideology
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with no consent from the parent imagine that folks under these marked systems this is what has
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continued to happen in this country unbelievable uh to the right of melania trump elliston berry a deep
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fake victim uh who has been fighting with melania trump for legislation for those of you who don't know
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what a deep fake is a deep fake is something uh that's ai computer generated uh could be a pornographic
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image created of you with you not even being the image but these folks these deep fake psychopaths
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make it look so real um that nobody can really tell the difference this girl right here a victim of it
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uh to the right of her uh alexis nungary the mother of the 12 year old girl named jocelyn who was killed
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by two illegal migrants and donald trump announcing last night he was making a nature reserve named
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after jocelyn in her honor because she loved nature uh so much loved animals so much they were renaming
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that after her to the right of her laura laura and allison phillips the sister and mother of rate lake and riley
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you folks remember lake and riley was the girl who was brutally murdered a nursing student in georgia
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brutally murdered by an illegal immigrant okay that's just five people i'm going to go on continue because
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i think this is important uh to to show you guys show the american people just who was there last
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night who was there uh representing uh president trump there was no lobbyists there no corporate
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elitists elon musk was there but we'll get to him in just a moment roberto ortiz border patrol agent
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whose partner was under fire by cartel members being shot at ortiz risking his own life to return
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fire to these cartel members uh ultimately saving his his partner's life selfless of the man stephanie
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diller she's the widow of jonathan diller that nb nypd officer who was killed so brutally in a traffic
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stop in new york city president trump uh went to that funeral uh up in new york for that family okay
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that's who's on the dais folks continuing on uh you have haley ferguson fostering the future scholar uh
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scholarship resist recipient haley ferguson also another victim of a deep state was awarded a
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scholarship from president trump uh in his first administration uh going on cory compitory's
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family cory compitory that was the fire department uh the fdn fdn what that that fireman who was so
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brutally killed in butler pennsylvania by the trump assassin i won't even say his name to give him
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uh any sort of uh fame or glory but that man who was so brutally shot in his head uh that's who was
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on the dais continuing forward mark fogel the former russian hostage you know the one that joe biden left
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there to rot in hell the one that joe biden left the teacher who joe biden said forget about him don't
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worry about him as he freed britney griner the american hating uh marxist yeah that's who was there folks
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that's who was there uh jason hartley high schooler who trump revealed would be accepted to west point
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a man who's going to be leading this country both in war on the front lines a great american mark fogel
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as we said a good former russian hostage jeff denard steel worker and foster father this is a man who's got
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seven children he's a steel workers worked at the same steel factory for over three decades volunteer
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firefighter captain folks and has fostered over 40 children 40 children folks to the right of him you
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have elon musk of force the head of doge doing the lord's work and as you often hear it elon musk
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doesn't need this he doesn't need this life that's uh that he's taking on right now he really doesn't
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it's absolutely ruined his life and you lastly you have dj daniel a 13 year old boy who was diagnosed
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with terminal brain cancer terminal brain cancer folks this is who the democrats went after this is
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a dais of people he was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer last night uh president donald trump
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making his night we're going to tell you how we're going to take a quick break here uh we're going to
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tell you how donald trump made this 13 year old boy's night um and why the democrats just continue to
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hate on america when you hear this young boy's story uh after this quick break stay with us folks we're
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breaking down president trump's joint session of congress speech last night and just why the
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marxist dems i hate america so much i can't seem to figure it out if you guys have any idea shoot me a
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tweet shoot me a message give me your best guess because i just truly can't figure it out right
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before we went to break there i mentioned dj dj daniel the 13 year old boy who was diagnosed
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as a young boy given just five months to live now years later he's continuing his fight a boy who has
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been a victim of bullying disgusting a man a boy who has just been gone through hell and back with the life
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you're going to see him in just a few moments massive scar on the top of his head from
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all the surgeries that he's gone through very very sad and that's who donald trump invited on his desk
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take a listen to donald trump making this young boys night last night joining us in the gallery
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tonight is a young man who truly loves our police his name is dj daniel he is 13 years old and he has
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but in 2018 dj was diagnosed with brain cancer the doctors gave him five months at most
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since that time dj and his dad have been on a quest to make his dream come true and dj has been
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sworn in as an honorary law enforcement officer actually a number of times peace the police love
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him the police departments love him and tonight dj we're going to do you the biggest honor of them
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all i am asking our new secret service director sean curran to officially make you an agent of the united
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It brings a tear to my eye and gives me goosebumps and chills
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because I think that's who the Democrats sat there and booed and rooted against
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He's an honorary member of over 900 police departments.
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And just listening to that young boy talk, 13 years old,
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but honestly, and I can relate to him because people have always made fun of me
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that I'm a 50-year-old man trapped in a 20-year-old's body.
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And I sit there and I listen to this 13-year-old boy talk,
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and I'm like, this guy is just way ahead of his time.
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I mean, he's far too intellectually competent for his age.
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Tough young fighter, as I mentioned, a victim of brutal bullying.
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I refuse to put up the videos, but there's videos out there
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that you can find on Twitter, on the deep web, deep web,
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on the web of this poor child and what he's gone through.
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So, you know, brain cancer, brain tumor aside, strong fighter, great American,
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But it wasn't just the Marxist Dems who were in attendance there,
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who couldn't seem to cheer, couldn't seem to be happy.
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This 13-year-old boy who's against all odds, fought and fought and fought.
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Take a listen to MSNBC, Nicole Wallace, and her take on this boy.
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She tells him she hopes he doesn't kill himself.
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I think this was a lesson in finding one thing that you let yourself feel.
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And I hope he's alive for another, you know, 95 years, right?
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And maybe when you have childhood cancer, that crystallizes for you.
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And I hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer.
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But I hope he never has to defend the United States Capitol
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And if he does, I hope he isn't one of the six who loses his life to suicide.
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And I hope he isn't one who has to testify against the people
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and then lived to see Donald Trump pardon those people.
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And that's what Nicole Wallace on MSNBC had to say.
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As the firings continue throughout these Marxist-run news networks,
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that's one you've got to look at if you're a network executive.
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That woman is a disgrace to us as American people, to us as a human species.
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You're a disgrace to even think or say something like that,
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How do you – I don't even want to go any further
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because I don't want to stoop down to her level about it.
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But there's so much to talk about today as we continue to dig in
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to President Trump's joint session of Congress.
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We're going to go a little bit further into that with our guest
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who's going to be joining us in just a few moments.
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It's Professor Nicholas Giordano, great American.
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He's going to join us in just a few moments to discuss everything that's going on,
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DEI, wokeism in schools, our school system that's been failing the American people for years now
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But before we move on to further joint session news,
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I want to get to another important news story of the day.
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has ordered the President Trump's administration to immediately unfreeze foreign aid payments,
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of course, with two conservative justices siding with the Marxist Dems.
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This was a Wednesday morning, this earlier this morning.
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They must immediately release the $1.9 billion in foreign aid payments.
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This maintains a decision from a district court judge
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that ordered the administration must honor the foreign aid agreements
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So, in other words, anything, any free giveaway, free money giveaway
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that Joe Biden wanted to give out to anybody, it was a 5-4 ruling.
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John Roberts, as expected, but Amy Coney Barrett, another one,
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Coney Barrett has proven to be nothing more than a lackey for the Marxist left,
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Coming to their rescue whenever she needs them, whenever they need her.
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Also happening in D.C., Mayor Merrill Bowser, that Marxist Dems, you know,
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who was partially to blame for that January 6th insurrection,
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is now looking at removing the Black Lives Matter plaza that's just outside the White House.
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It's that big Black Lives Matter mural that's painted on the street just in front of the White House.
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It was done to try to, I guess, spite Donald Trump during the summer of love
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where Black Lives Matter and Antifa decided they were going to burn down cities across America.
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They happened to do it right in front of Trump Tower.
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D.C. happened to put it right in front of the White House.
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But the American people, as I've said before, are on Donald Trump's side overwhelmingly.
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I mean, poll after poll after poll, they're on Donald Trump's side,
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whether it be the Ukraine war with Russia, whether it be the border, whether it be deportations,
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From CNN, Donald Trump is more popular when it comes and more favorable when it comes to handling this war in Ukraine and Russia
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than Joe Biden and the popularity of both those countries combined.
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They trust him that he's going to do the right thing, that he's going to do a great job for this country,
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as he's continued to do alongside Donald Trump since day one, really since that assassination attempt on in Butler, Pennsylvania,
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has been Elon Musk, who's, of course, head of the powerful Doge, whatever you want to call it, committee,
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Doge announcing this week the cancellation of NIH grants for transgender experiments of animals.
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Now, why would you be doing experiments on animals with such a ridiculous way?
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Now, I can understand the whole animal testing when it comes to cancer research
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and things that are going to save mass amounts of people.
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But when you're curing things like cancer for the general public, for the American people, I understand it.
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Okay, but you move on to animals and gender transitioning them.
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Who wins from transitioning animals into a different gender?
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It's not the animals who go through the pain and suffering of it.
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So Elon Musk, like I said, doing the Lord's worth work in D.C. with President Donald J. Trump.
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Also some news today, President Trump is actually reportedly negotiating directly with Hamas
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to release those hostages who have still yet to be released by the Hamas terrorists.
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Benjamin Netanyahu, it makes you wonder and makes you worry.
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It's been over a year and a half since that disgusting attack on Israel.
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It seems like he sat back and waited for Donald Trump to come in to fix it for him.
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He had said it was going to take him days to clear out the Hamas terrorists in Gaza.
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It's taken him over a year and a half and they're still running free.
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It really makes you wonder as his time in Israel may be coming to an end, folks.
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Maybe Donald Trump is losing patience with him.
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I'm not entirely sure, but I think his time has come to an end.
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Donald Trump's patience is definitely running thin with Marxist dictator up north of the border, Justin Trudeau.
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President Trump reportedly spoke with Trudeau today for almost an hour and sent this message out on Truth Social regarding those tariffs.
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Quote, Justin Trudeau of Canada called me to ask what could be done about the tariffs, told him that many people have died from fentanyl that came through the borders of Canada and Mexico, and nothing has convinced me that it has stopped.
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He has said it's gotten better, but then I said, quote, that's not good enough.
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The call ended in somewhat of a friendly manner.
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He was unable to tell me when the Canadian election is taking place, which made me curious.
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I then realized he's just trying to use this issue to stay in power.
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And in another post just shortly after that, President Trump saying, quote, for anyone who is interested, I also told Governor Justin Trudeau of Canada that he's largely caused the problem we have with them because of his weak border policies, which has allowed tremendous amounts of fentanyl and illegal aliens to pour into the United States.
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These policies are responsible for the depths of many people, and it's far more than many people for anyone who's caught an interview with Howard Lutnick on Fox News.
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Over 100,000 people die each year of overdoses.
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But think about the amount of people, and that's just because of autopsies.
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Think about the amount of people whose children, family members die, and they don't do autopsies because they say, you know, it was clearly foul play or whatever.
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We just want to move on from the situation and keep it rolling.
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It's probably double, triple of what we're being told, which is somewhere in the 100,000 range.
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Truly, truly sad and sickening that Justin Trudeau and the president of Mexico have allowed this to go on for years and years and years.
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When we return, we're going to be joined by our guest, Professor Nicholas Giordano.
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We're also going to take up a little bit more in depth about President Trump's joint session of Congress address last night and some of the things he addressed when it came to spending and how they're going to go ahead and cut that and wasteful spending and what Elon Musk has his eye on now.
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I want to continue on with our conversation that we've been talking about here for the last almost half hour.
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I've got some new numbers for you that we're going to go through when we bring in our guest here in just a few moments.
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He's Nicholas Giordano, professor, host of the PAS Report podcast, wherever you guys get your podcasts.
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But I want to continue on this conversation about his joint session of Congress speech last night in the Marxist Dems.
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And there was a good two minutes or so where he just went through number after number after number.
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And the Democrats in the mainstream media are losing their minds.
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Rachel Madcow, I watched her last night after after the speech, and she's sitting there going through all these things.
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But she's sitting there lying as she's saying Donald Trump, what Donald Trump said was false.
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She's sitting there lying completely about what she's saying is the truth.
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A man who's sitting there running down statistic, running down numbers.
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Take a listen to this little short clip of Donald Trump running through the wasteful spending of this government, the money.
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You're going to hear countries, folks, that you've probably never heard of before.
00:29:21.260
And don't be offended because I've never heard of them either.
00:29:25.600
Just listen to some of the appalling waste we have already identified.
00:29:30.840
$22 billion from HHS to provide free housing and cars for illegal aliens.
00:29:39.900
$45 million for diversity, equity, and inclusion scholarships in Burma.
00:29:46.640
$40 million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants.
00:30:01.880
In the African nation of Lesotho, which nobody has ever heard of.
00:30:08.400
$60 million for indigenous peoples and Afro-Colombian empowerment in Central America.
00:30:27.260
$32 million for a left-wing propaganda operation in Moldova.
00:30:33.580
$10 million for male circumcision in Mozambique.
00:30:39.020
$20 million for the Arab Sesame Street in the Middle East.
00:30:48.100
$1.9 billion to recently created decarbonization of Homes Committee headed up.
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Just at the last moment, the money was passed over by a woman named Stacey Abrams.
00:31:07.220
A $3.5 million consulting contract for lavish fish monitoring.
00:31:26.580
$59 million for illegal alien hotel rooms in New York City.
00:31:37.820
$250,000 to increase vegan local climate action innovation in Zambia.
00:31:45.760
$42 million for social and behavior change in Uganda.
00:31:51.560
$14 million for improving public procurement in Serbia.
00:31:55.500
$47 million for improving learning outcomes in Asia.
00:32:09.080
$101 million for DEI contracts at the Department of Education.
00:32:18.820
Under the Trump administration, all of these scams.
00:32:21.460
And they're far worse, but I didn't think it was appropriate to talk about.
00:32:29.040
And that some of those things you raffled off there are under that $2 billion, that nearly $2 billion, $1.9 billion.
00:32:36.380
Now the Supreme Court has greenlighted to go ahead and keep spending because Joe Biden said it was OK.
00:32:41.520
The money Stacey the Tank Abrams got, the learning in Asia, the Hamas Sesame Street.
00:32:47.180
All that good stuff is allowed to go forward because the Supreme Court says so.
00:32:56.820
He's the host of the PAS Report, good friend of mine, great American, and he's also a professor, Nicholas Giordano.
00:33:03.600
Nick, thank you so much for joining us today on this monumous day in America.
00:33:08.180
Well, John, it's great to be on the Great America Show.
00:33:11.300
And it's interesting that Trump gives this litany.
00:33:14.200
Every semester when I get to the bureaucracy in my class, I do actually a litany of wasteful spending programs in the government.
00:33:22.460
And Trump was right when he said that there's far worse out there.
00:33:26.100
You know, we spent $2.3 million injecting dogs with cocaine to study overdoses.
00:33:31.580
$3 million injecting hamsters with steroids to watch them fight.
00:33:35.660
$2.3 million spent on Chinese prostitutes to study Chinese prostitutes and HIV AIDS.
00:33:46.340
Yes, Fang Fang may have been included in that study.
00:33:50.820
But there are reports that maybe she's involved.
00:33:54.220
And this is the ridiculous nature of government.
00:33:56.560
I mean, you know, we spent $3.3 billion as a federal government on office furniture in a three-year period.
00:34:05.240
Were they, like, working on milk carts before that?
00:34:07.420
I mean, it's insane when you look at the ridiculous spending.
00:34:11.560
But what Trump did was brilliant because he's connecting with the people.
00:34:16.720
The people at home, doesn't matter if they're Democrat or Republican, when they hear this, they get aggravated.
00:34:24.400
So I have plenty of students that have to go to college and take out student loans.
00:34:28.380
But when you hear the United States government's giving the country of Egypt $15 million for Egyptian students to get scholarships to attend Egyptian colleges, it begins to open people's eyes.
00:34:42.280
Is it serving we, the people, or is it serving nefarious nonprofit organizations, other governments, corporations?
00:34:50.920
It really is a big problem in Washington, and it's gotten so out of hand.
00:34:55.080
You know, the crazy thing to me is, I say this all the time, the crazy thing to me, because I wake up each day and I read the news for a few hours, and I go, oh, my God, this is crazy.
00:35:07.720
Is the hatred the Marxist left has for Elon Musk?
00:35:12.320
He doesn't need this headache, just like Donald Trump didn't need this headache to run for office again.
00:35:18.420
Elon Musk is another one, a career, lifelong Democrat, gave to Democrats.
00:35:23.100
After President Trump was nearly assassinated, he decided to change his mind and join the right side of history, doing a lot for Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, helping him carry that state, in my opinion.
00:35:36.800
He doesn't need this drama, and he doesn't need what they're going to do to his company.
00:35:40.700
People are saying, oh, he's doing it for the government contracts.
00:35:48.560
Obama got rid of NASA, so we no longer have NASA.
00:35:51.040
We have Elon Musk, a man who I trust probably more than NASA, a private corporation, to go ahead and run our space missions and do everything we have to do up in space.
00:36:01.660
He's the only man I've ever seen land a rocket on its tail.
00:36:03.780
A man I've always seen land a rocket in a cradle.
00:36:07.320
If you look at both President Trump and Elon Musk, they're two people that went into government and actually lost money, right?
00:36:14.200
I mean, you look at the former Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
00:36:22.380
Well, they got extremely wealthy off the backs of the American people.
00:36:25.520
Yet you look at someone like President Trump and Elon Musk.
00:36:31.500
They're actually losing money by doing this, and it shows you their commitment.
00:36:35.980
And I think it was hysterical when Elon Musk is like, I'm not trying to steal Social Security numbers and steal people's identity to buy stuff.
00:36:44.060
But what's revealing was Senator Schumer a few weeks ago, as he was screaming into a microphone, that, of course, there's wasting government, that everyone knows there's wasting government.
00:37:00.620
And it's like you've been there for 30-some-watt years, just like many of your colleagues, and you're acknowledging the waste, and yet you haven't lifted a finger over that 30-year period.
00:37:15.000
And I think that a lot of these politicians have forgotten who they serve.
00:37:24.480
But it shows you how little regard they have for the American taxpayer.
00:37:31.300
And this money is just flowing out to things that are not improving American society.
00:37:38.840
The only thing it's doing is mortgaging our future, as we have a $36.5 trillion national debt that we have to spend a trillion dollars a year in interest on.
00:37:47.540
And it's slated to go up to $2 trillion in the next five years if we don't do anything about it.
00:37:52.120
Yeah, and President Trump mentioned something last night you hadn't heard a long time from a Republican or a Democrat.
00:37:57.540
Balancing the budget is something he's interested in doing.
00:38:00.000
It's the first time I've heard a candidate talk about balancing a budget in a very, very long time.
00:38:04.380
And he wants to do it in a few short years, where most Republicans, when they even bring it up, it's usually a 10-year period.
00:38:10.040
Or 20 or 100 or whatever, or whenever their time on expires or when they're going to die.
00:38:22.040
I don't know another 84-year-old woman or man who travels 12 hours a week, six hours each way from D.C. to San Francisco for $174,000 a year when I'm worth over $200 million.
00:38:37.740
And I ask everyone to look at it of the side of common sense because Donald Trump rules predominantly on common sense because everything that's done in the government,
00:38:47.180
if you look at it from a common sense perspective, it's like, oh, well, maybe things should be done this way.
00:38:53.040
It doesn't take a brain scientist to come here and sit that and say we shouldn't be spending billions of dollars a year on transgender mice and not billions of dollars on just the mice,
00:39:04.240
but just overwhelmingly on stupid things, Sesame Street overseas, whatever the heck it is.
00:39:10.620
Well, this was never the intent of government when we were founded as a country.
00:39:14.680
And that's part of the problem that the government has gotten its hands in all these different areas that it was never designed to be in.
00:39:22.620
And it's not like government ever provides good service.
00:39:27.600
It has nothing to do with the federal government.
00:39:29.060
But nobody goes to the Department of Motor Vehicle and leaves there saying, oh, that was a great experience.
00:39:35.880
You're leaving DMV and you're angry at something.
00:39:43.840
It's grown too oppressive and it needs to be pared down.
00:39:47.520
And Donald Trump, when he was giving a speech yesterday, it was brilliant.
00:39:51.580
He was talking about getting rid of a waste that connects with people.
00:39:55.160
And if you look at every issue we hit on, it's issues that won him the election.
00:40:00.100
But more importantly, it's issues that are overwhelming.
00:40:03.880
Eighty percent of the American people don't believe men should be competing in women's sports.
00:40:08.660
Seventy percent of the American people want to see waste, fraud and abuse be cut out of your government.
00:40:15.240
You look, 70 percent want to see the war in Ukraine end.
00:40:19.460
So he was picking up on what the American people want.
00:40:22.300
Seventy percent of the American people want to see a secure border.
00:40:25.800
And I think that the president hammered all those for a specific reason last night because he knew.
00:40:31.380
So it's funny you say the DMV because that's what I use all the time here.
00:40:37.560
They've really stepped up their game and they've gotten really, really good.
00:40:40.700
I actually leave that place not mad at the world anymore because they've gotten it down to simple.
00:40:45.980
Maybe they privatize something because now they do appointments.
00:40:55.800
Luckily, I don't really break the law that much.
00:40:57.700
So it's usually just a license renewal or whatever.
00:41:00.940
But I got some new numbers for a good friend of mine.
00:41:06.000
The great Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen before we got on the show, the right track, wrong track of the country.
00:41:11.120
And President Trump's overall approval rating as it sits today, right track of the country, overall 44 percent.
00:41:17.460
But I want to narrow it on a little bit, a little number, 54 percent approval over the age from the ages of 18 to 39.
00:41:24.780
And I'll tell you why that's so important, because over the last year,
00:41:27.700
two years going back to looking at these elections, the Republican Party was dying, Nick,
00:41:34.040
because the overwhelming majority of Republicans are older people.
00:41:38.380
Sixty five plus is statistically what the average voter is for the Republican Party.
00:41:54.380
But quite honestly, the way this country is going, I don't want to be around forever.
00:42:00.340
But the reason that the 18 to 39 is very important is because that's the future of our country.
00:42:05.220
That's who's going to run this country one day.
00:42:06.860
It's scary to think that a Gen Z or a millennial is going to be in the White House one day.
00:42:16.020
But President Trump, what do you think he's done for the Republican Party, for the MAGA movement that's got him so highly approved by this this margin of people of 18 to 39?
00:42:30.640
Whereas five years ago, Nick, it was a dying breed.
00:42:33.480
It was a dying demographic of people who supported the Republican Party.
00:42:39.120
The Democrats have had a stranglehold on that age demographic for at least 50 years.
00:42:44.720
I mean, you could actually go back further than that.
00:42:46.860
Look at Winston Churchill, who said, you know, at 19, if you're not a liberal, you don't have a heart.
00:42:52.120
If you're not a conservative by 40, you don't have a brain.
00:42:54.940
But we are seeing this major shift amongst young people.
00:42:58.540
And there's a reason why we're seeing this shift.
00:43:01.260
Part of the reason is simply that they've been ignored.
00:43:04.100
The Democrats will pay lip service to the young generation.
00:43:07.640
But under Democrat leadership, the American dream has gotten further out of reach.
00:43:12.280
The cost of everything has increased dramatically.
00:43:14.540
They don't want to live in their parents' basement, but they can't afford rent.
00:43:19.560
They're told that they had to go to college and take out massive student loans to be successful.
00:43:23.660
And then they graduate with this piece of paper with some stupid degree program and they can't find the job.
00:43:30.460
At the same time, Trump is pointing out that, hey, they're giving 40 million dollars in scholarships to Burmese students to go to school in Burma and 15 million in Egypt for Egyptian students to go to school in Egypt.
00:43:41.620
Well, why do I have to take out student loans and we're providing them with scholarships?
00:43:45.900
So I think we are starting to see a sea change.
00:43:48.880
But I think what nobody paid attention to was locking them down during the coronavirus.
00:43:55.880
This is an age demographic, particularly those between the ages of 15 to 25 that had two years of their life stolen from them.
00:44:06.040
They missed out on the major life milestones all because of the Anthony Fauci's, the Randy Weingarten's, the Democrats, Emperor Cuomo, all because of that.
00:44:15.860
And I don't think people realize how bitter and resentful young people are for that, that they lost two years of social development, two years of education, that they're further behind the wheel because of all the things that were done for them.
00:44:31.440
And Republicans need to continue to tap into that bitterness and that resentment, remind them every single day of what was done to them, because I think that that was a turning point in our society.
00:44:46.200
When we return, I want to go into some new polling that I just got out of, sent over to me from Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen.
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Immigration numbers, where Americans stand on the gold card visa program, all that good stuff.
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When we come back, we're talking with Nicholas Giordano, professor, and he's host of the PAS Report podcast, wherever you guys get your podcasts.
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Folks, we're back with Nicholas Yerdan, a professor of political science.
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As I said, we'll post the link in description for you in this podcast episode, so you can join Nick for his podcast.
00:46:32.740
Nick, as I mentioned before we went to break, I got some new numbers from my good friend, Mark Mitchell at Rasmussen,
00:46:37.080
and I want to get your take on some of these numbers that we're witnessing.
00:46:41.740
This is from February 27th, conducted by Rasmussen Reports.
00:46:46.840
And the first one we're going to go through is President Trump and his green card program, the $5 million, or his gold card.
00:46:52.800
The question Mark asked to the recipients, President Trump has suggested replacing an existing visa program for foreign investors with a, quote, gold card visa that would cost $5 million.
00:47:03.640
Now, President Trump mentioned last night, this is all part of his balancing the budget to raise over a trillion dollars in these gold cards.
00:47:20.440
22%, so let's do some math in public, about 41% of likely voters either strongly approve or somewhat approve, okay?
00:47:29.560
Now, if we go into a little bit further down to which is better for America, poor, now this one's interesting,
00:47:38.460
poor migrants who work for a living or rich immigrants who bring investment money to the country.
00:47:45.160
Among likely voters, 43% say poor immigrants who work for a living, okay?
00:47:52.800
Now, if you go ahead and look at it a little bit further on the tab, 62% of those respondents, Nick, are Democrats.
00:48:00.340
Why do you think it is that the Democrats want to bring poor migrants into this country to work,
00:48:04.480
rather than these rich people who are going to invest billions and billions of dollars into the country?
00:48:09.660
I have my suspicions, but I want to hear yours first.
00:48:14.900
One is the Democrats are known to be virtue signalers, right?
00:48:18.000
That they want to seem like they're the moral holy warriors of the 21st century.
00:48:21.760
They want to pat themselves on the back as if they're high and mighty and noble,
00:48:27.860
But secondly, and I think more importantly, is because if you bring in people that don't have any money,
00:48:35.680
that they don't have any resources, they have to depend on government.
00:48:39.340
And that's what it comes down to, the big government apparatus.
00:48:41.820
The more people that depend on government, the more reliant they become on government,
00:48:48.320
Let's understand that there are many countries out there that have this idea of the gold card visa program,
00:48:57.940
They get to determine who comes into their country and who doesn't.
00:49:01.440
Now, just with common sense, again, Trump is bringing that back.
00:49:04.540
When we look at common sense, why wouldn't you want to bring in financially capable people
00:49:10.120
who can invest in your country and make it a better, stronger place?
00:49:13.360
I mean, that was the point of the immigration system.
00:49:19.060
As a matter of fact, if you go back in our immigration history,
00:49:22.320
you were penalized if you couldn't take care of yourself.
00:49:26.000
If you had to access a government service, you were actually banned from getting citizenship.
00:49:31.000
If you accessed more than one or two government services, you were done.
00:49:34.300
You weren't going to be able to become a citizen.
00:49:36.340
And you want people to come that are going to benefit society.
00:49:40.700
It doesn't make sense to import a bunch of people that you're going to end up having to take care of.
00:49:45.440
And that's why we do need some type of immigration reform, both with the legal immigration,
00:49:50.680
because you look at it, it doesn't make any sense.
00:49:53.240
So we grant citizenship to an individual that's 45, 50 years old.
00:49:58.400
And then that individual could sponsor their parents that are 75, 80 years old to come to the United States.
00:50:05.580
A 75 or 80 year old is not going to be able to contribute to the benefits of the United States.
00:50:16.160
In fact, when you get that age, you're going to be costing society money.
00:50:21.200
And this is one of those areas that's very easy.
00:50:24.120
I mean, you know, 90 percent of people should support this idea of a gold card visa.
00:50:29.080
You know, 10 percent you're never going to get, period.
00:50:31.140
But 90 percent should support it because it benefits our country, greater investment.
00:50:35.380
Now, if you look a little bit further into these numbers on these crosstabs, and I apologize, folks,
00:50:39.080
it's hard for me even to see, and I have younger eyes.
00:50:42.100
So I'm sorry for everyone who's sitting here struggling to read, but we're giving you the
00:50:46.780
If you look at these numbers, so the 43 percent of likely voter respondents who said poor immigrants,
00:50:55.500
The smallest demographic is one that we had just spoken about, Nick.
00:50:58.780
Thirty-nine percent from 18 to 39 is the smallest out of the three demographics.
00:51:10.720
And it's because they know that their jobs are at risk.
00:51:13.420
We all worked some low-level paying job in our lives.
00:51:17.260
I used to sweep tennis courts for a living when I was younger.
00:51:26.000
As I got older and more advanced, I started DJing in nightclubs, and I thought I was the
00:51:31.020
But, you know, we've all worked jobs, Nick, that were low-paying, but they got us to where
00:51:37.880
And based off of this polling from Rasmussen, 39 percent are a little nervous that these poor
00:51:44.300
migrants that have come here are going to take their jobs.
00:51:46.540
Now, you mentioned something else, which we have some numbers on as well, and that's
00:51:50.680
Social Security and the Social Security benefits that may be there or may not be there when
00:51:57.520
The first question he asked, how confident are you that Social Security system will pay
00:52:01.060
you all the promised retirement benefits during your lifetime?
00:52:08.520
26 percent say also not very confident, 15 percent not confident at all.
00:52:12.820
So a pretty mixed number there, you know, pretty close to 50-50 on people who don't
00:52:21.700
Yeah, well, I mean, you kind of see the hypocrisy in the American people there, right?
00:52:25.300
Because everyone is concerned about Social Security, yet it's considered the third rail
00:52:30.800
The second you try and touch it, you're getting thrown out of office because the AARP is going
00:52:37.880
But the reality is that Social Security cannot continue in its current format.
00:52:41.640
Now, what you paid into the system, the government does have to give you backs.
00:52:48.880
We're going to have to sacrifice and cut every single other program in order to pay Social
00:52:55.820
So when people complain about, you know, cuts now, well, we're going to have to gut entire
00:53:04.700
Both Democrats and Republicans have manipulated our economy for so long.
00:53:09.520
They manipulated the Social Security system and they spent that money.
00:53:13.880
And now we're running out of deficit because we're not making enough babies.
00:53:17.880
There's not enough workers to replenish the baby boomers that are going to be retiring over
00:53:31.320
You have politicians that have tried to speak up about this for a long time.
00:53:35.400
Right now, Rick Scott, Senator Rick Scott, is actually one of the leaders trying to get
00:53:39.680
some type of Social Security reform, but it cannot remain the same.
00:53:43.980
And we can do something where we can lift the caps on taking Social Security out of people's
00:53:49.540
We could, you know, maybe do some means testing for the extremely wealthy, but that still won't
00:53:55.560
What we have to do is reform it for those that are younger.
00:53:58.780
OK, for those that have time in the system and not for nothing.
00:54:02.280
The reality is that if you were to put this money aside and allow people to use it in
00:54:07.720
their own investments, maybe a 401k or something like that, the return on investment would have
00:54:12.360
been far greater than what Social Security is going to pay you out.
00:54:15.260
And so why not give the younger people an opportunity to actually have a stake in their
00:54:19.860
investment, to actually learn how to invest in finance and compound interest?
00:54:25.020
And maybe it's better that they get to keep the money and put it in a retirement account
00:54:29.780
rather than have the government handle it and spend it on, you know, hamsters taking
00:54:37.260
The next question he asked will move past because it's a pretty, pretty even response.
00:54:43.420
Forty three percent say Democrat, 44 percent say Republican.
00:54:47.860
But this next one is to me is very interesting.
00:54:50.120
Would you support or oppose having the Department of Government Efficiency, also known as Doge,
00:54:53.780
which is headed by Elon Musk, do an audit of the Social Security system?
00:54:57.300
OK, 41 percent strongly support, 18 percent somewhat support.
00:55:02.760
So you're about 60 percent there who support it.
00:55:06.780
Somewhat opposed, 12 percent strongly oppose, 23 percent.
00:55:17.100
Now, the number that stands out to me that's sort of interesting is 62 percent of Republicans
00:55:23.720
Only 22 percent of Democrats strongly support it.
00:55:27.720
But the one that's very interesting is strongly oppose.
00:55:30.720
Thirty four percent of Democrats strongly oppose an audit of the Social Security system.
00:55:41.120
Well, I think that's the best question to follow up with in these polls is, well, why?
00:55:47.620
Why are you against an audit that could expose some of the ways for an abuse?
00:55:51.920
I mean, listen, President Trump gave out a number, you know, one person that's older than
00:55:55.740
the country that was in the Social Security system.
00:55:58.220
It doesn't necessarily mean that they were receiving it, but they were in the Social Security
00:56:04.000
That shows a major breakdown within the system.
00:56:07.620
And Trump ticked off a lot of numbers in different age groups, those over 100, 150.
00:56:11.780
And why wouldn't you want to clean up the system?
00:56:15.440
It's the same thing with like voter rolls, right?
00:56:20.260
If it's going to fix some of the waste, fraud and abuse that's occurring, we have to get
00:56:26.160
And those that oppose it is there's only two reasons.
00:56:31.620
Well, maybe the second reason is they're the ones scamming the system and they don't want
00:56:36.680
You know, that's the only way, the only thing I can logically think of, because nobody should
00:56:42.200
be opposed for the government ordering the system.
00:56:44.700
Listen, I was a consultant with the government in Homeland Security Emergency Management Arena
00:56:57.600
OK, the computers we were working with just to log in took about a half hour just to upload
00:57:13.520
So why can't we modernize the equipment in order to save money?
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And I think that when we look at the idea of people being against an audit, it's ignorance.
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It's people that are corrupt and scamming the system.
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And as we saw last night in his speech, you have to resist anything that comes out of Trump's
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Lastly, the last question he answered, which is a perfect segue here, is how likely is
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that the audit of Social Security system would reveal widespread fraud in the program?
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I did some math here while you were working because I didn't want to embarrass myself on
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61% of likely voters say it's either very likely or somewhat likely.
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So you've got double the amount of people who have distrust in this government and the
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If we look into these entitlement reforms and we find that we're wasting billions of dollars
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a year over the course of five years, 10 years, we may not have to reform entitlements.
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If there's that much money in waste, fraud and abuse, that's a great point.
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The Government Accountability Office has been warning about fraud for years.
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I mean, they estimate Medicaid alone, Medicaid, one program that costs about $600 billion per
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They estimate between the Medicaid claims that between 10 and 30 percent of all claims are
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fraudulent, that it's either people that shouldn't qualify for Medicaid, it's doctors defrauding
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That's an enormous number on a $600 billion program when we look at disability, right?
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So the workplace has gotten safer over the course of the last 100 years.
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I think everyone would agree with me out there.
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Well, then why have workplace accidents, disability claims increased every year?
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If the workplace is getting safer, why are there more claims than ever before?
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And I think when you start to approach it from that perspective, you see that there is massive
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And I think you're on to something that maybe if we could root out most of the fraud, maybe
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And that's a key point that most people don't talk about.
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Instead, what's been told to us over the course of the last 30 years is that, well, it's more
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expensive to tackle the fraud rather than just let it happen.
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That has been a lie for decades, yet that's what they push.
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As we wrap up here, I want to get your thoughts on one more thing.
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Is this too much to ask for that we just trust our government, whether it be secure elections,
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whether it be entitlement programs, whether it be where we're spending money overseas, here
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at home, I mean, is it too much to ask for our government to be transparent with us, to
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I think, and I'm going to push this along to the Trump administration, that each and every
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year that a budget comes out, it should be broken down in layman's terms for the American
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Line one, line two, line three, this is how much money is being spent in the military combined.
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This is how much money is being spent on entitlements combined.
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This is how much money we're sending overseas combined.
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And then on a crosstab, this is how much money is going to Ukraine.
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This is how much money is going to Israel, X, Y, and Z, so on and so forth.
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So the American people can appreciate the transparency of a government because we've
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Well, I constantly say that there should be a law that no bill is larger than 20 pages
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and written in fifth grade language, fifth grade education reading levels, because
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And listen, part of this is our fault because the American people have disengaged from the
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political process over the last several decades.
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And at the same time we've been disengaged, we've been taught that we should trust government.
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Meanwhile, our founding fathers had the exact opposite.
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Even if you agree with the policy, it's incumbent on you to ask the questions and hold them
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I believe that transparency is how you fix the corruption that has been built in, not
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just in the last couple of years, not just under the Biden administration, but decades
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One of the first things I learned as an adolescent, as a kid, is my parents told me trust is earned.
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What has the government done for us transparency wise that and like I said, everything is common
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And you said fifth grade, it's sad to think of it that way, but everything could be boiled
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down to fifth grade education so that it's understandable for everyone to read.
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It shouldn't be written for lawyers only to be able to read.
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We should be teaching this in schools for fifth graders and sixth graders so that they have
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And we don't have to go to India or Asia to get our our tech workers or our high performing,
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But what has the government done, Nick, as we wrap up here to earn our trust?
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I mean, you look at the NSA with the prison program and spying on the American people.
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You look at the FBI targeting parents at school board meetings.
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The FBI labeling traditional Catholics as potential domestic violent extremists.
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You look at the IRS and how they targeted conservative groups.
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I could go on and on and on with government abuses.
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They are the reason that there is so much distrust against the government right now.
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And the only way to clean it up, and I think that's what Trump is doing,
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He wants to show how this sausage is made, how ugly it is, and then begin to fix it.
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