The Great America Sunday Show： June 15, 2025
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Summary
Sen. Rand Paul and his mini meltdown at the White House, and why he doesn t agree with President Donald Trump on tariffs. Also, why the Democratic Senator from New York has been kicked out of the picnic and why the Republican Senator from Virginia has been banned from attending.
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hello everybody welcome to the great america show it's great to have you with us on this beautiful
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thursday night in america last night the marxist dems faced off against the republicans the party
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of truth justice and the american way in the congressional softball game the marxist dems
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getting absolutely annihilated 13 to 2 top of the first inning i'm sorry bottom of the first inning
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marxist dems up at bat bases loaded two outs august pfluger at third base take a watch what
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happened the democratic shortstop pretty much played everywhere last year catcher known for
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making great contact oh robbed at third what a play
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great defense there by august pfluger diving stop goes to the bag gets the runner ends the inning
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gets out of the jam absolutely awesome baseball i told you we'd have some fun tonight and how
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about augie what a move there stab dive done we're back with the bottom growing up in new york i was
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always a big alex rodriguez fan and august pfluger made that play look far too easy as i said the
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marxist dems losing 13 to 2 their star dan goldman let's take a look and see what he did last night
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one ball and two strikes here on dan goldman from new york and a swing and a miss that will end the
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inning the democrats threaten but do not score seven to five the republicans
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greg stewby there hitting them with that uh 25 mile an hour change up uh not able to handle the heat
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uh you know i always learned in my years of playing sports especially baseball the trust fund babies who
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had the nicest bats and gloves were never usually the good ones hence mr dan goldman but after
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watching that 13 to 2 defeat it made all the more sense to me why the marxist dems want men in women's
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sports uh 13 to 2 i guess it speaks for itself also happening this afternoon at the white house earlier
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this afternoon the white house picnic president trump invites the marxist dems and the republicans to
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all congregate bring their family their friends everyone gets a few tickets uh ran paul having a
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little bit of a mini meltdown yesterday because he says he was uninvited to the picnic let's take a
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listen to ran paul from my office and um you know it's kind of a great time of the year in the summer
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my family comes up uh my son and daughter-in-law and grandson are coming up because we were going to
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the white house picnic but i've just been told that i've been uninvited from the picnic i think i'm the
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first senator in the history of the united states to be uninvited to the white house picnic uh the
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white house is owned by the taxpayers we all are members of it uh every democrat will be invited
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every republican will be invited but i will be the only one disallowed to come on the grounds of the
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white house i just find this incredibly petty i mean i have been i think nothing but polite to
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the president i have been a intellectual opponent a public policy opponent and he's chosen now to
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uninvite me from the picnic and to say my grandson can't come to the picnic i just just the level of
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immaturity is beyond words i just i you know i've been here long enough that if anybody has ever
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followed me i've been a critic of obama i've been in a critical biden i've been in a critic of the
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previous trump but always in a i think a reasonable fashion along policy and so they've decided they
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they want to declare war on my family and exclude us from the white house and i just think it's
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incredibly petty so it turns out rand paul comes out does that whole little song and a dance
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and donald trump says that's not even true rand paul reportedly heard it through a streamline
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somewhere hearsay that he was uninvited president trump tweeting out before the picnic this afternoon
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that he's happy to have rand paul there because it'll give him some time to speak with the senator
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about getting him on board with the bbb the big beautiful bill so uh these nonsense from these
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republican senators it's just so unnecessary the crying the nonsense you know i get a lot of crap
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on this show when i go after thomas massey or or rand paul but the truth of the matter is i'm just
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reporting the news and that's the news there was really no reason for rand paul to come out there
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and do that whole song and a dance he mentions he's a trumper he's not really a trumper he waited
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till the last minute till donald trump had secured every single vote that he knew donald trump was
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going to win and then came out and said he endorsed him i mean that's that's not a supporter and his big
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critical issue by the way is on tariffs he doesn't agree with donald trump on tariffs in april he went on
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fox news with tim kane yes the same tim kane uh senator from virginia that ran for president with
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hillary clinton take a listen but on the tariffs in particular on the idea of trade trade is proportional
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to wealth the last 70 years of international trade has been an exponential curve upwards and the last
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70 years of prosperity has been upwards also we are richer because of trade with canada and so is
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canada whenever you trade with somebody when an individual buys somebody else's product it's
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mutually beneficial or you wouldn't buy it if the trade is voluntary it's always beneficial there is
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no canada versus the u.s the consumer wins when the price is the lowest price okay so his problem
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main problem with president trump is on tariffs right but the numbers came out just yesterday for may
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inflation is at its lowest point since 2020 now ran paul for the last few months has run around saying
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that donald trump is going to drive inflation through the roof and that consumers in america
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would be paying 125 percent more on certain products that never happened here's some of the
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numbers that came out for the month of may gas year over year is down 12 and a half percent
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smartphones are down 14 percent uh fuel oil is down eight percent airfare is down seven percent public
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transportation is down five percent leased vehicles is down four percent energy is down three and a
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half percent vegetables down two percent hotels down one percent price of eggs goes on and on and on
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so if ran paul is a man of principle come out and say you were wrong because you were wrong
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if you're a man of principle and you you you are what you say you are and that you just oppose
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donald trump because you're practicing what you preach then come out and admit that you were wrong
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that's all you have to do to be a man there's no need for passive aggressiveness going out there
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and doing all that nonsense it's so necessary so ran paul i think is the lone gop standout
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on the big beautiful bill scott bessen was on capitol hill yesterday discussing the big beautiful bill
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take a listen the one big beautiful bill will make the 2017 tax cuts permanent this will provide
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individuals and businesses with certainty and build economic momentum the legislation is clearly
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clearly and squarely aimed at boosting the working and middle class and reinvigorating american
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manufacturing according to the council of economic advisors the one big beautiful bill will raise
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take-home pay between seventy eight hundred and thirteen thousand three hundred for the average family
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of four it will increase wages between six thousand one hundred dollars to eleven thousand six hundred for
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the average worker and it will cement no tax on tips no tax on overtime and tax cuts for seniors
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the one big beautiful bill will also incentivize unprecedented unprecedented investment in u.s manufacturing
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the legislation will provide a hundred percent expensing for new factories as well as existing
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factories that expand operations and support made in america and it will streamline burdensome
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permitting processes that often stand in the way of new manufacturing products it's time for this country to
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start building things again and the one big beautiful bill makes this possible the administration is
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grateful for the house's efforts to advance the one big beautiful bill we now look forward to working
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closely with this committee and other members of the senate to get this legislation to the president's desk
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simple why would ran paul be against that now i'll agree it's not everything that we wanted it's not
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the tax it's not the cuts that we want not tax cuts but it's not the cuts and spending that we wanted but
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nothing is ever going to be perfect especially in this uh congress that we have congressman green
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announcing uh mark green announcing he's going to be leaving congress in the next two weeks
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brings the majority down even more because these people are so selfish he probably got himself a
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nice high-paying lobbyist job so i guess we can't blame him right truly truly ridiculous president trump
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was at the kennedy center last night for a play a broadway play he was asked about some of these
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actors and boycotting him brilliant response as usual mr president it's been reported that some actors
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may be boycotting i couldn't tell us honestly all i do is run the country well the economic numbers
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you saw them today they're setting records we took 88 million dollars in tariffs in two months
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far beyond what anybody expected there's no inflation people are happy people are wealthy
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the country is getting back to strength again that's what i care about and we're going to have a
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safe country we're not going to have what would have happened in los angeles remember
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if i wasn't there if i didn't act quickly on that los angeles would be burning to the ground right
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now he's absolutely right los angeles would look right now like minneapolis looked in the summer of
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love if you don't believe me watch what happens to some of these insurrectionists who think that
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they're going to go after police officers and ice agents
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that's what the kevlar is for i have kevlar tights on under my pants
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it's a news reporter there you hear us yelling stop stop stop we'll get out of the line of fire
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you just watch this insurrectionist throw a bottle at the at the police officer you should
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be yelling at him and great on that that american citizen who spearheaded that guy and absolutely
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t-boned and laid him out we're gonna take a quick break here folks when we return ronda santis has an
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idea on what we should be doing with these protesters also elon musk says he's sorry but is it too late
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now to say sorry we're gonna be joined by my good friend and radio legend rich valdez on the other
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thanks for staying with us folks so ronda santis down in florida and i'm very critical of ronda santis
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very often because of how he opposes donald trump and behind the scenes opposes donald trump
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but he's got a very good idea i must say and i've got to give credit where credit is due
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let's take a listen on what government santis has for these insurrectionists and we also have a policy
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that if you're driving on one of those streets and a mob comes and surrounds your vehicle and
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threatens you you have a right to flee for your safety and so if you drive off and you hit one of
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these people that's their fault for impinging on you uh you don't have to sit there and just be a
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sitting duck and let the mob grab you out of your car and drag you through the streets you have a right
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to defend yourself in florida sounds like everyone in florida needs to do exactly what i did go out and
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buy yourself a jeep wrangler put some big tires on it and a uh one of those cattle herders on it
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just in case people decide to get out of control uh great on governor de santis no american should
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live in fear because of these insurrectionists who want to destroy our country folks as promised
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our guest today is my good friend and new york city radio host syndicated radio host i should say
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not just new york city rich valdez with an s what's up john rich there's so much to talk about and we're
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going to get to it all today but i got to start with first the summer of love it's happening all over
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again but it seems that it's going to be cut just a little bit short because of what do you call
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donald trump el trumpito donaldus magnus so what what say you uh rich uh listen i'm hoping that
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the summer of love is cut short i can't believe that there are people out there i've had so many
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messages and texts from our friends from folks on the right uh hitting me up saying i can't believe
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trump's being such an a-hole he's crazy i can't believe he's sending the marines and i thought to
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myself man i don't i don't see it that way at all uh i mean you know i interviewed um somebody on my
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show a couple of days ago he was in the rodney king riots back in the 90s and he was explaining how
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back then they were saying the same exact thing president uh then president uh hw bush had used the
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insurrection act to bring in uh the the national guard and sent in i think it was something like a
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thousand marines and uh not a word of that in the media so i think the media like always they're full
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of it they're fake they're phony they're fraud um i i think they're not doing enough i think we need
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to get them a little more power and and get a little more aggressive and really put this thing
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down i don't understand why we're not using water cannons why we're not you know macing uh en masse
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you know we need to get this thing wrapped up and wrapped up quick and and the idea that you're
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stifling somebody's free speech when they're pelting people with frozen projectiles rocks bricks
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whatever i mean that's an all-out war and that can't be tolerated yeah how many people should die
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how many innocent americans should die because of these illegals that come here they're rich it's it's
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so black and white at the end of the day you're here illegally it doesn't matter what you're here
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to do if you're one of these people who's a gangbanger or you're you broke the law you came to this
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country i understand that that all of us have a heart right but at the end of the day we're a
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nation of law order and borders if we don't abide by that then really what is america rich what what
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difference is america from uh venezuela or or cuba or columbia or you know one of these other nations
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i was reading something today rich in london uh more than 50 percent of their public housing
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is occupied by illegal migrants is that what we're supposed to be listen john the reality is this
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isn't about logic and it never was uh the left will find any think just think about past arguments
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summer of love they were breaking and killing people and burning things and looting all in the
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name of what honoring the the martyrdom of george floyd it didn't make sense then it never makes sense
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the reality is this is the marxist left looking to divide and conquer looking to create an oppressor
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an oppressed uh scenario every step of the way so they can continue to build uh a movement for
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themselves that if without the emotion and without uh a a presumed bad guy they don't have a movement
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so they need to constantly keep making things up yeah you're absolutely right but the difference is
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this time rich is i'm not going to say the media is fair because they'll never be fair towards
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donald trump but the media this time around i think learned some of them learned their lesson
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we watched terry get fired the other day for his comments that's what it should be you're supposed
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to be in now if you're on fox news and you're an opinionated host after the hours of 6 p.m or
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whatever okay if you're on cnn and you're rachel maddow that's fine you run opinion-based shows
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you have your audience that tune in they're either marxist dems or they're republicans okay yeah but
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when you're terry moran you're supposed to be a cbs journalist you're not opinionated on air
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off air you're allowed to believe whatever you want you're not supposed to come out here and
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and and lay out your opinion on the american people you're supposed to be a news reporter
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and that's what you are that's the difference between cbs and fox news and cbs and abc this time
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around donald trump i think is getting a little bit more of a fair shake from uh the mainstream media
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i'm not going to say it's 100 turnaround but i think he's getting a little bit more of a fair shake
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what do you think you know i mean that's probably a true statement but i don't think it's because of
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anything that they're doing i think it's twofold one one side of it is trump holds their feet to
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the fire he literally has the masses and the ability to reach the masses through true social
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through multiple media outlets so i think they've realized wow um he can get the message out irrespective
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of our lies and then b the other side of that coin is they've realized well you know uh part of it is
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if you can't beat him join him right you know it's like we need this guy we need to talk about
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orange man bad because he's good for our ratings and without us talking about him they would love
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to ignore him i think they just can't afford to ignore him the crazy thing rich is how accessible
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of a person he is i saw uh the other day he called gavin newsom at two o'clock in the morning hour time
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so now you rewind back three hours for the west coast time change called gavin newsom once he
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enhanced the phone called him again spoke to him for 16 minutes whatever he said to him we don't know
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but he gavin newsom says he that i never spoke to donald trump it was all a lie john robertson fox
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news texts donald trump on his cell phone hey did you speak to gavin newsom donald trump texts him
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back a screenshot of the conversation i've never seen in my life rich a politician let alone a president
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of the united states so transparent and so easily accessible to the american media as donald trump
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well you know i mean again you know you and me are both new yorkers when i was a kid in brooklyn
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i remember you know i love trump i thought trump was terrific way before any politics i was just he's
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he's a pimp he's a playboy he's the man he's in every rap video he was just a cool dude i love the
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apprentice and he was always that guy and he understood the media he understood what it was to
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be famous he gets that and he's really good at it he's good at managing the media like a famous
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person that's something i think that the uh the others don't have that luxury no politician they
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work hard and hire pr firms and say crazy things just to get a little ink in the press so trump gets
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it for breathing and and i think he uses that to his advantage every single day and he's a master at it
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so i think that's a big part of it the other part of it is that he truly is entertaining and and and
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why wouldn't you want to hear that and i think the last part is he's a businessman and those that's
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how those guys work you know they're like oh i'm building this the guy says that the the quotes
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coming in higher he's like no hold on that's bs i got the screenshot right here on my phone
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right that's how regular people in the private sector work and he's never abandoned that to
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to cross his legs and take a deep breath and act like a real stuff suit politician say well you know
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let's see maybe we can figure a way around this what's the most diplomatic solution he cuts out all
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the bs and gets straight to the point which is why i'm a huge fan he's just a normal dude rich
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i've been around him i had the the honor and pleasure to be around him a lot over the last
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uh eight years nine years i mean on the golf course with him i've watched him in locker rooms in golf club
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locker rooms in his golf clubs just strike up conversations i'll never forget i'm in trump
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jupiter in in florida and there's a guy sitting down on the couch watching television locker room
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and trump goes up to him and like starts strikes a conversation with this guy like he's just a man's
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man a down-to-earth guy and which is why like it annoys me so much that the mainstream media just
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doesn't give this guy a fair shake he's a normal dude a fast food eating diet coke drink new yorker
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and they do not give this guy if they gave this guy a fair shake rich i think things can be so much
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different in this country there can be so much more unity but you know what we're what's the saying
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we're delta we play with the hand that we're dealt not the one we choose is what it is now there's
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some marxist damn governors which of course this is not making the news because it doesn't benefit
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them uh um waltz pritzker and newscom they're in the process right now rich of removing illegals now
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i'm all for this i think that it's a great job but it should be broadcast they're in the process of
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getting rid of uh state-funded health care for illegals why is there no riots about that right right
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where's the riot on these guys well again i think they're just they're they realize we're losing
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federal funding we can't really continue uh these games that we're playing through our the s chip
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program right the state child health insurance program and other similar programs that come from
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federal block grants and and largely from from other grants that come from the feds so they've got to
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figure something out and again what do they do what did newsom do right he said oh my gosh there's
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chaos in the streets this is trump's fault uh cameron bass uh this is trump's fault
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they're blaming trump for the chaos in their streets even um again it's sad to say but i i get
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these pitches for guests on my show uh that i know are conservative that i know are uh you know
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republican leaning at at worst and the things that are in the pitch the things that say like you know
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given that things have gotten worse since donald trump sent the marines i'm thinking i don't think
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they're getting worse i think that they're being judicious and they're not using a very heavy hand
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to make sure things don't get worse but it's just amazing to see how many people are are really uh
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i'm gonna say deep state right you know closetedly against um doing the right thing when it's trump's
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idea if it was somebody else's idea i think they'd be all for it yeah my favorite thing is is watching
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these riots and these loots and of course they go looting they go shopping i i mean i guess you
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really can't blame them at the end of the day they're criminals for looting but why wouldn't you go
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shopping for free if you can if nothing's going to happen to you rich and someone tells you you can
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go to the apple store and take as much as you want to go to the adidas store and you go to they always
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this is the best one to me is they always go to cvs what are you stealing from cvs deodorant
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dirt bags really you're going to cvs like what the hell are you stealing from cvs so that's always my
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the funniest one to see um but you know what if he didn't send in the marines rich i think that city
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would have been burnt to the ground if he didn't send in the national guard i think they would have
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started to burn that city to the ground just as they've done sure minneapolis just as they've
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tried to do in new york city and to eric adams's credit uh new york has not i have a lot of friends
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who are police officers here new york has not seen anywhere near as bad as what california is seeing
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right now because of uh eric adams and him allowing ice to come in here and start detaining some of these
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people i've got to say hats off to the marches dems in new york well listen i mean eric adams
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overstate is welcome with the marxist dems his friends don't like him anymore so i think you
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know he realizes that his only shot is is um trying to ingratiate himself with trump and to have trump
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say hey you know i'm not going to say to vote for you but i won't say not to and um you know and just
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on that election i was looking at some numbers curtis lee was doing great he's above 30 percent it's a
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four or five way race uh it looks really good for him i mean brian lair ero lewis these are big time
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lefties uh saying sliwa has a solid shot to getting into gracie mansion so uh it seems like the tide is
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turning in new york and thank god for it you know one thing i can say and you know this as good as
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anybody uh new yorkers can be all sorts of political uh stripes but most of them don't take bs from a lot
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of people and this stuff i don't care what side of the fence you're on you see that and you're like
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bro you don't do that and and that's that crazy california marxist stuff that's pouring over into
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the city and it's got to be rejected yeah i i have to assume a lot of people who don't like being
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what for doing this show is is probably because of my brashness of being in new york and it's not
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something we can really control rich it's like right and you can't even explain what it is it's just the
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way you're born the way you're brought up and the way you're raised you're raised to be street smart
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you're raised to be street tough uh because of you know what new york is it's not exactly the easiest
00:24:35.280
place to live there's parts of new york that are probably worse than some of the worst parts of
00:24:39.260
haiti or dominican republic or or cuba or or venezuela you know it's just the way it is so
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you know i think we're brought up a different way than you know most people uh throughout the country
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are and now is it a good thing i'd say it's probably good in some senses and it's probably
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better because we're more brash uh i first talk later exactly and we're more really honest than
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we probably should be uh so you know that's what we get for being new york but like i said
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hats off to um to eric adams for allowing this to go on uh biden's border patrol chief uh raul ortiz
00:25:15.380
was on fox news the other day and he says that there's more than 20 million illegals in this
00:25:19.460
country right now this is something we've all known it's probably close didn't hear it while he was in
00:25:24.640
office no why is it now this is like the same thing rich we're hearing from jake tapper now that he's
00:25:30.180
got a book out that biden was uh not mentally fit well no shit sherlock we all do that you know john
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a lot of people i've learned when i worked in government are willing to trade a lot for a pension
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and a paycheck yep and some will and some won't and i'm not going to criticize those that do but i
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think that's usually the answer you know they look at their wife they look at their kids and they say
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ah i can't let these people down um i couldn't ever do it i mean i spent uh two years maybe a
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little more in in um in the state house in trenton new jersey and in a republican administration but the
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democrats the deep state there is so powerful i mean they're everywhere for every one republican
00:26:09.380
there's like 10 democrats and it's hard to do anything and if they don't want you they get rid of
00:26:14.280
you they'll figure out a way and and you realize you're totally outnumbered and in many ways it's why i do
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what i do where i can reach more people on the outside than i could ever reach on the
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inside of government but it it's a sad truth that pension and a paycheck hold a lot of people
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hostage yeah it's uh speaking of paychecks the houses have voted to advance some doge cuts for
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npr pbs and usa id expected to go to the house floor later today or tomorrow it's about time this
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is we're going to get to elon musk right after this but it's about time that these these republicans i
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mean they've sit there i was in dc last week rich and i had some meetings with some members of
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congress and you know i brought mark mitchell of rasmussen you know mark uh down with me and
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mark's not a stupid guy he's probably one of the people i know yeah extremely high iqed individual
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and i'm just watching mark's reaction to him sitting in these meetings with me and uh he was
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just aggravated and annoyed and he's not an easy person to aggravate he's just a very easy dude to hang
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out with and that's the general sentiment in dc and i asked these people these members of congress
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some of them very very very high up do you guys want to lose 2026 like what are you guys doing
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to advance winning in 2026 and rich i can't think of one of them that had a straight answer for me that
00:27:39.640
this is what we're doing the truth is hard to tell sometimes john but i think of it like you know
00:27:46.400
it's your first day of school and new school big tallest kid in the school yard comes up to you
00:27:51.540
starts bullying you and you think to yourself this guy's gonna wipe the floor with me what do you do
00:27:56.480
you swing as hard as you can for his jaw you know to prove your own to say look i took him on
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maybe he wins maybe right i think that's what they're doing they're like we can't beat these guys
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people want their paychecks to to look bigger people want no tax on tips people want this stuff
00:28:10.900
they're crazy but they want it so now their only job let's continue burning stuff down let's do as
00:28:16.600
much damage as we can on the way out they're getting evicted from their home and they're like
00:28:20.700
you know what sure let's uh go ahead and pour cement into the drain and steal the copper pipes and ruin
00:28:27.140
this thing for the next guy and i think that's what the democrats are doing it's complete sabotage
00:28:30.880
only new yorkers know about the copper pipes rich we're gonna lose a lot of the audience on that one
00:28:36.220
sorry guys the copper pipe thing is uh is a big new york thing that uh back in the day and i think
00:28:42.620
it probably still happens today is people steal copper pipe uh and they sell it because it's worth
00:28:48.480
a shit ton of money i have a buddy rich who owns a uh sell site tower upgrading service and he stores
00:28:54.580
all the copper pipe in his garage till it gets like two hundred thousand dollars and then he goes and
00:28:58.860
sells it he buys himself a new car there was one problem is he told too many people that he was doing
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this he robbed him one day he got in there and his g-wagon wasn't in there and neither was the
00:29:08.340
copper piping so it's a it's a big big big uh new york thing
00:29:13.520
rich we're gonna get to elon musk because there's so much to talk to about there and
00:29:22.460
the fallout he had with donald trump but now he's sorry all of a sudden best inflation numbers since
00:29:27.960
2020 rand paul in my monologue i pointed out you know always crying about these numbers thomas
00:29:34.060
massey another one thomas massey by the way voted to raise the debt ceiling for joe biden back in
00:29:38.960
2023 for him to go on and keep spending spending spending under kevin mccarthy kevin mccarthy was
00:29:44.580
ultimately ousted for it um so these people claim to be fiscal conservatives but they're not always the
00:29:50.380
case but rand paul nonetheless says that donald trump was going to kill this economy things were going to
00:29:55.740
go down the drain because of tariffs some of the numbers gas prices down 12 and a half percent year
00:30:00.520
over year smart fuel oil airfare uh eggs democrats wanted to talk about eggs for some reason right
00:30:06.020
everything is down under donald trump and we have the highest tariffs rich that we've had in my
00:30:12.480
lifetime at least on these nations so which one is it is donald trump driving this economy into the
00:30:18.360
ground or is he have does he have it prospering and and rip roaring yeah well look i think the last
00:30:23.660
tariff number i saw is 88 billion dollars um nothing to sneeze at the um the the last four
00:30:30.480
months have shown pretty steady um uh growth on everything right on on 4.6 growth on the economy
00:30:38.040
the um the cost of goods has not gone up at all pretty much stayed flat the last four months which
00:30:44.060
everybody thought they're going to pass on the price of tariffs to the consumer that also did not uh pan
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out to be the case and you look at that gas continues to be consistently low uh inflation numbers
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consistently low and i think sometimes you got to take a gamble to see the result and i would put my
00:31:01.300
money on trump not because i like trump but because trump was president already and did this already and
00:31:06.000
he he knows what's going on and if you look last night they announced the uh the framework for the china
00:31:10.520
deal uh 55 is going to be what china's paying i think we're at 10 uh that sounds like a really good
00:31:17.880
deal to me it sounds like they negotiated it really well and great bringing china i'm going to say
00:31:23.660
bringing china to their knees because as much as we need cheap chinese plastic and dollar store items
00:31:28.640
and whatever do we really need all that i think we could live without it if we're faced with knowing
00:31:32.900
that we're funding one of our biggest enemies so i think uh trump has been right across the board
00:31:38.060
um certain things maybe he wasn't right on uh like how quickly he could end the ukraine war and i think
00:31:43.420
that was a little bit outside of his purview these guys are adamant about killing each other and i think
00:31:47.560
they're more adamant about staying in war because the war machine makes the money so with that being the
00:31:54.360
case for both of them they don't care about the the lives they're losing they care about all the
00:31:58.780
investment they're getting in in defense and they're going to keep killing yeah two numbskulls putin and
00:32:06.100
and zelinski both i don't know what the heck is wrong with those people but there's something
00:32:10.120
seriously wrong with both of them enough is enough get this thing over with man there's really no sense
00:32:15.380
in in this war to be fought over absolutely nonsense get it over with be done with it and move on
00:32:21.540
and uh nato's got to cut out their nonsense let's talk about elan musk is it too late to say sorry
00:32:27.760
i'm gonna test my spanish out here es tarde para pedir pardon yeah that was really good uh yeah i
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don't i don't know if it's too late or not i think there was a lot of people on the strength of trump
00:32:40.580
out of love for trump that were like i don't like elan musk he's a silicon valley weirdo but we'll get
00:32:46.220
on board i wasn't necessarily one of those um wasn't a fan but i wasn't a hater um i tried to invite
00:32:53.620
him on my show a few times never responded so i'm less of a fan now but i think you want to give us
00:32:59.380
his phone number we can have the audience reach out yeah yeah give him a call guys text him for me
00:33:04.020
but ultimately i think uh elan musk i think maybe believed that because he has a lot of money and a
00:33:11.040
lot of you know twitter followers or whatever the case is that he was somehow more popular more
00:33:17.440
powerful than trump and i don't think that's the case at all and i think his um apology um is is
00:33:24.800
proof of it i also think president trump's reaction people like to say trump is this and trump is that
00:33:29.180
trump took it like a champ and just said oh it's too bad you know whatever made a couple of matter
00:33:33.480
of fact statements but they weren't childish i thought they were presidential and um and i was i was
00:33:39.380
proud of it honestly to tell you the truth and and i think uh elan musk for whatever the case was
00:33:44.520
why he did what he did i have no idea but i don't think it was a good move i think you're you're
00:33:49.120
better off having an ally in the white house than not and i think he blew it yeah donald trump this is
00:33:54.960
one of the the few times where we saw donald trump take the high road he usually will hit back but i
00:34:00.980
think he actually does truly feel bad for elan musk donald trump was his only friend you don't see
00:34:06.380
elan musk out here he's an oligarch for sure but usually the oligarchs hang together he's the outsider
00:34:10.920
they don't like him for whatever reason it's weird or whatever but they didn't like him before
00:34:15.080
donald trump either so it's not just because he's friends with donald trump that that they don't like
00:34:19.400
him it's something probably deeper than that um but the guy's got no friends donald trump was his
00:34:25.940
only friend and donald trump time and time again this is what annoys me so much rich is he gets
00:34:30.520
backstabbed he does all this stuff for these people he does all this good for these people
00:34:34.320
and they stab him in the back it's like enough's enough and and you can't even tell him like did you
00:34:40.060
learn your lesson now because you can't you know why it's because no risk no reward yeah i think
00:34:47.320
trump understands that i'm gonna take a risk on these people each and every time because there's
00:34:51.900
too much upside to be afraid of the downside i don't think you're as successful a man as he is
00:34:56.620
uh unless you really put that aside and say let's do it and the reality is most of us aren't
00:35:02.120
that uh risky right most of us go nah too much downside i'm not involved i think trump is that guy
00:35:07.480
let's give it a shot see what happens yeah it's risky there's nothing more risky than opening a
00:35:13.560
casino in atlantic city donald trump did it and that's what you often hear about when the on the
00:35:17.860
left rich yeah he's a failure he failed at uh uh opening a casino in atlantic city okay well you
00:35:24.340
show me a casino that hasn't failed yet in atlantic city and i'll tell you you're copernicus because
00:35:29.280
atlantic city is a dying place rich valdez the host of america at night rich you get the last word here
00:35:35.280
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00:35:39.180
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00:35:45.120
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00:36:05.320
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