The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Trump Inauguration Livestream

00:00:00.400 Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to what I'm expecting to be a very cozy live

00:00:05.320 stream where we just watch the presidential inauguration and take a series of victory

00:00:09.460 laps because, of course, we've been supporting Trump for years.

00:00:12.880 And we have, in fact, taken a few blows on the chin for Trump.

00:00:16.900 When the question was, did he lose in 2020?

00:00:19.520 We got two strikes over that.

00:00:21.160 Nearly lost our bloody YouTube channel.

00:00:22.680 And we got demonetized blatantly for that as well.

00:00:24.620 Yeah, possibly.

00:00:25.320 And so we've been firm supporters and we're just very glad to see our American friends winning this hard.

00:00:33.720 Of course, we're not winning this hard in Britain, but, you know, who knows what happens in the future.

00:00:37.660 But for now, I think it's just important to just enjoy what's going on.

00:00:41.600 So we're going to be looking at PBS's coverage because, of course, we don't think they'll strike us.

00:00:46.500 And we'll be talking about lots and lots of other things that we've got just planned and in the downtime.

00:00:52.500 Oh, look, there's Vivek Ramaswamy.

00:00:55.320 Did he get fired from Doge?

00:00:57.700 I don't think so.

00:00:58.400 Yeah, what happened with that?

00:00:59.220 He's just gone silent.

00:01:00.720 Yeah.

00:01:01.940 Well, that's the thing.

00:01:02.860 Isn't he running for governor of a state now?

00:01:05.320 That's right, yeah.

00:01:06.280 Yeah, he is.

00:01:07.780 Which state?

00:01:08.680 So it seems that he might have been sidelined after his disastrous PR.

00:01:13.080 Isn't it Ohio?

00:01:14.180 Harry's joining us via Zoom.

00:01:16.320 Oh.

00:01:16.840 Hello!

00:01:17.900 Hi, Harry.

00:01:18.500 How's it going?

00:01:18.900 I forgot that you were there.

00:01:20.560 Hi, everyone.

00:01:21.040 Oh, cheers, Carl.

00:01:22.140 Thanks.

00:01:22.460 Sorry, I can only...

00:01:24.700 I haven't got you in front of me.

00:01:26.140 He's speaking out of the table.

00:01:27.360 Yeah, exactly as well.

00:01:29.160 But no...

00:01:29.640 Oh, am I not on the screen in front of you there?

00:01:31.820 No, no.

00:01:32.320 We're watching the coverage, I'm afraid.

00:01:34.880 But yeah, there's Vivek and a bunch of very serious-looking grey-haired guys in the background.

00:01:42.640 Is that lots of men?

00:01:43.240 Is that DeSantis he's talking to?

00:01:45.620 No.

00:01:46.020 I don't know who that guy is, but I reckon he's ordered to bomb somewhere.

00:01:51.220 Sorry.

00:01:52.000 Jump scare.

00:01:54.360 But yeah, so this has just been a long time coming, really, hasn't it?

00:01:59.960 Yeah.

00:02:01.300 After the eight long years of war against the entire American establishment, Democrats and rhinos,

00:02:09.000 the media, academia, Hollywood, like the three-letter bureaus, like who hasn't Trump beaten at this point?

00:02:18.520 It is a remarkable vindication that he, after the events of 2020, it is a remarkable vindication to come back.

00:02:26.920 An assassination attempt.

00:02:28.440 Yeah.

00:02:28.820 Losing a chunk of...

00:02:29.720 Several.

00:02:29.820 Well, yeah, several, but one really serious one nearly took him out.

00:02:34.160 But for the grace of God, frankly, like this is just, and every knee is bending to him now.

00:02:41.740 You know, Mark Zuckerberg's there, Jeff Bezos there, Bill Gates came to visit him in Mar-a-Lago,

00:02:47.380 like the whole, and you notice the tone of the media reporting has tempered down a lot.

00:02:53.060 I get the sense that fear is palpable.

00:02:55.140 I think so, and good.

00:02:57.280 Trump feels like he's coming in with a vengeance at this point.

00:03:00.300 Because there are all sorts of parallels with 2016.

00:03:04.160 But, of course, the real reality is that we're in a completely different world.

00:03:08.820 It is very, very different in all sorts of ways.

00:03:11.500 Least of all, the state of the Senate and Congress.

00:03:14.360 Yeah.

00:03:14.880 So, Trump is much, much more powerful this time on a couple of different metrics.

00:03:20.660 Yes, he is.

00:03:21.920 Least of all, public opinion.

00:03:23.460 Yeah.

00:03:23.640 Least of all, the general air of what he's expected to do and all that sort of thing.

00:03:29.960 And also the sort of moral legitimacy of it.

00:03:31.860 But, I mean, the popular vote doesn't count for anything in the United States except for that general sense of right and wrong.

00:03:39.100 Right.

00:03:39.260 And so, in 2016, he lost the popular vote.

00:03:41.460 So, it's like, well, a mandate, but only so far.

00:03:44.220 A legal mandate, essentially.

00:03:46.000 But now he's got the popular vote.

00:03:47.600 He's got the House, the Senate, the judiciary, the presidency.

00:03:51.120 And you notice they're not disputing it.

00:03:54.160 I mean, they're not.

00:03:54.840 I mean, last time around, what was it, Russia collusion?

00:03:57.160 We had to sit through that for ages and the argument that it wasn't genuine.

00:04:00.980 And right from the beginning, everybody wanted to fight him.

00:04:03.800 The deep state wanted to fight him and big tech wanted to fight him and the censorship and stuff.

00:04:08.040 And now we've got, you know, for example, Mark Zuckerberg.

00:04:10.860 One narrative is he went to the gym and he became based.

00:04:13.860 Another is he's worried about Trump stamping on him.

00:04:17.100 Yes.

00:04:18.260 Yes.

00:04:18.640 Well, I mean, on the day of the election, apparently all the big seven rang Trump.

00:04:23.920 So, Google and Amazon and all the rest.

00:04:25.640 And they all rang him up and said, congratulations.

00:04:28.140 What can we do to help you?

00:04:29.760 And Trump was basically like, well, you're going to start playing ball.

00:04:33.400 I'm going to destroy you.

00:04:34.460 You love it.

00:04:35.000 You love to see it.

00:04:35.940 And then all of a sudden Zuckerberg's on Rogan telling us about how he's stopped doing the censorship that apparently he wasn't already doing.

00:04:43.460 There's two ways to see this, really.

00:04:45.300 There's the optimistic way, which I'm going to be inclined to believe until proven otherwise, that everyone smelt the way the wind is blowing and have bent the knee.

00:04:54.340 And the more cynical version is that the person who bent the knee was Trump behind the scenes.

00:04:59.980 And they've all been given the green light that now he's OK.

00:05:03.760 I don't see it.

00:05:04.900 And that he's been taken in by the regime.

00:05:08.560 Where's the evidence for that, though?

00:05:10.400 Yeah, I feel like there needs to be more, but it pays to bear it in mind.

00:05:15.680 Trump has not been holding back there.

00:05:17.280 I watched this victory speech yesterday.

00:05:19.340 He's just going full throated.

00:05:21.960 Just, no, we're going to do everything.

00:05:23.940 Mass deportations.

00:05:25.160 We're going to pardon our guys, imprison those guys.

00:05:28.220 We're going to sort everything out.

00:05:29.100 We're going to keep winning and we're going to carry on winning forever.

00:05:31.980 And, like, there's been no sort of walking back on Trump's part at all of any of this.

00:05:38.660 It's his style to over-promise and under-deliver.

00:05:42.160 I don't think he's really going to invade Canada, Mexico and Greenland.

00:05:45.060 Well, he didn't promise that in the victory speech, actually.

00:05:47.480 But the point being, it doesn't feel like anyone's got anything over on him at this point.

00:05:53.720 It feels like he's got everyone under the thumb, very much so.

00:05:57.360 And they seem to know it.

00:05:58.660 You know, publicly, they look like they're very much under his thumb.

00:06:01.240 Well, he could scarcely be more powerful.

00:06:03.240 There's a few things where you need a two-thirds majority in Congress to do stuff.

00:06:06.900 Really?

00:06:07.540 We'll talk about that a little bit later.

00:06:09.360 So, short of that, he obviously hasn't got that.

00:06:10.860 But, you know, short of that, it's about as powerful as a president gets.

00:06:16.820 Yeah, short of actually amending the Constitution.

00:06:19.460 Well, he could try to do that and he says he's going to.

00:06:22.020 Well, yeah, we'll talk about that later.

00:06:24.140 14th Amendment, actually.

00:06:25.200 So, just for the people watching, hello, Rumble.

00:06:29.320 And hello, of course, lotuses.com subscribers and website viewers.

00:06:33.320 We will be watching your comments and stuff like that.

00:06:35.940 So, leave comments on the webpage, send them super chats, whatever.

00:06:38.780 However, in fact, also, go and get some of our merch.

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00:06:46.060 Exclusive, just as a celebration of Trump.

00:06:48.520 Because we love everything that's happening.

00:06:50.220 And we love to see everyone winning.

00:06:51.980 We do have that one.

00:06:52.900 I know, I don't think we have that one.

00:06:54.360 We've got the Arthur the Grill one, actually.

00:06:56.100 But that's my favourite.

00:06:56.980 I've got this at home.

00:06:58.180 Love this show.

00:06:59.060 Harry borrowed it off of me on the election stream and still hasn't given it back.

00:07:02.340 Harry, I will give it back.

00:07:05.080 Just keep reminding me.

00:07:06.100 Thank you.

00:07:06.260 And eventually, someday, this year, maybe, it'll return.

00:07:13.100 So, yeah, everything seems to be turning up.

00:07:16.520 So, as we were waiting to go live, we saw a few interesting people going in.

00:07:21.320 Hillary and Bill Clinton.

00:07:24.280 Must have been awkward.

00:07:26.080 I think that's just because there's a satanic ritual taking place later in Washington.

00:07:29.420 So, they needed an excuse to get their flights covered.

00:07:32.840 Entirely possible.

00:07:33.740 We saw, what, Boris Johnson?

00:07:36.420 Yeah.

00:07:38.000 I think all living ex-presidents are obliged to go.

00:07:42.940 I'm pretty sure.

00:07:44.700 So, they didn't drag up Jimmy Carter.

00:07:47.240 But while Hillary didn't decline the invitation, I'm not sure it's another thing.

00:07:52.320 She was all smiles as well.

00:07:53.520 Yeah, it wasn't mandatory for her to go, was it?

00:07:58.160 No.

00:07:58.480 How are Biden going?

00:08:01.000 I assume he's gone.

00:08:02.080 Isn't it lunchtime?

00:08:03.260 He has to be there.

00:08:04.000 It's hand over.

00:08:05.340 Yeah, I think he will have his nap.

00:08:07.120 Having his nap be there.

00:08:07.640 Yeah.

00:08:08.040 With his lunchtime, he should be all right.

00:08:09.500 I think it's after four that he's a bit dodgy.

00:08:12.100 I know the feeling, yeah.

00:08:12.920 I know even right at the beginning of the Republic, there was questions over it.

00:08:18.560 Yeah.

00:08:19.220 John Adams didn't want to go to Jefferson's inauguration.

00:08:23.580 Right.

00:08:24.220 The second and third presidents.

00:08:25.920 I don't know if he actually ended up going or not, but I know he didn't want to.

00:08:32.200 Weren't they friends for years?

00:08:34.560 Well, no.

00:08:35.240 So, they were friends for years and then bitter, bitter enemies for a few years, for many years.

00:08:40.860 And then right at the end of their lives, they both lived to be in their 90s.

00:08:43.860 And the last sort of 10, 20 years of their lives, they were really good friends again.

00:08:47.220 Right.

00:08:47.680 So, yeah.

00:08:49.300 A bit like Bush and Clinton then.

00:08:53.000 Probably not really.

00:08:53.820 No, yeah.

00:08:54.660 Probably not quite exactly.

00:08:58.780 Yeah, no.

00:08:59.500 So, at the moment, for anyone listening, they're just filing in to the hall.

00:09:04.760 You know, those uniforms are interesting, looky, aren't they?

00:09:07.540 The red ones.

00:09:08.420 I like the red coats, yeah.

00:09:09.920 Yeah.

00:09:10.460 Yeah, interesting.

00:09:11.800 Looks like sort of 18th century British military uniforms, don't they?

00:09:15.060 Weird.

00:09:15.940 I wonder what they are, exactly.

00:09:17.740 Well, it'll be like Sergeant at Arms or something.

00:09:20.480 Ceremonially guarding the thing.

00:09:21.600 But there's David Starkey's, by the way, a lot of this is very English.

00:09:26.080 FYI.

00:09:27.240 Coming back here.

00:09:28.880 We've got to take some credit for something that's been had nothing to do with.

00:09:32.420 Well, yeah, I mean, why not?

00:09:34.720 Well, they're saying that.

00:09:35.280 I've been reading, what's his face?

00:09:41.180 Why is it suddenly the French guy who went to America and wrote Democracy in America?

00:09:45.320 What's his name?

00:09:45.780 De Tocqueville.

00:09:46.740 That's it, De Tocqueville.

00:09:47.560 He's been reading his democracy in America, and he just describes the Americans as Anglo-Americans

00:09:51.100 to differentiate them between the Spanish and the French.

00:09:54.340 Or the Dutch or the Irish.

00:09:56.200 Yeah.

00:09:56.860 So it's interesting.

00:09:57.660 Because he visited before they let all the Germans and Chinese in.

00:10:00.800 Yeah.

00:10:01.380 Yeah.

00:10:02.060 The collectivists.

00:10:03.380 I wonder what Americans, or any foreigners for that matter, think of the opening of Parliament.

00:10:09.980 The sort of kind of ridiculous pageantry.

00:10:12.140 Because I'm both proud of that, but can also see that, yeah, like when the state, the carriage

00:10:19.680 of state turns up, and the king gets out in his ermine robes and everything.

00:10:24.620 It's some good bling, though.

00:10:25.800 I think they can respect the bling.

00:10:26.840 Oh, the drip is off the scale.

00:10:28.080 Yeah.

00:10:28.200 But you can imagine some people, you can imagine some foreign people being, this is silly.

00:10:33.320 I mean, we've had a bit of that.

00:10:34.420 We had a bunch of kind of Tomlinson lookalikes marching up and down with their swords and

00:10:38.860 their rifles and stuff.

00:10:39.760 I mean, maybe that's what he's doing there at the inauguration.

00:10:43.440 It's pretty understated, considering, isn't it?

00:10:45.480 You'd think, you know, I suppose it's...

00:10:48.320 To be fair, they've got to do it every four years.

00:10:49.740 That's true.

00:10:50.260 Where's Kid Rock?

00:10:51.740 Yeah.

00:10:52.080 Yeah, that's a good question.

00:10:53.060 There needs to be explosions, fireworks.

00:10:54.760 Where's the Hulk?

00:10:55.380 Yeah, I was just going to say that.

00:10:56.780 I was waiting for a moment to say that.

00:10:59.640 Yeah, Paul Kogan and Arnold Schwarzenegger need to go there and do a pose off.

00:11:04.420 But just we were waiting, there's a more file in.

00:11:06.660 One anecdote I will share is I've been listening to a whole bunch of Democrats going on various

00:11:11.580 podcasts lately, just to kind of get a feel for, you know, where are these guys at at the

00:11:16.180 moment?

00:11:16.840 And the interesting thing is, I mean, they're not holding back with throwing Biden under

00:11:20.080 the bus.

00:11:20.800 And Camilla is so far under the bus, she's wrapped around the axle at this point.

00:11:23.740 Kamala.

00:11:24.300 And, you know, stuff like...

00:11:25.840 Oh, you're Kamala.

00:11:26.500 I can never remember her name.

00:11:27.620 I just call her Camel Laugh or something.

00:11:28.880 But anyway, so, you know, they would ask questions like, you know, how do you think...

00:11:33.880 Kamala did.

00:11:36.640 And now, if I was a Democrat politician, I'd give some, you know, answer like, oh, well,

00:11:41.240 you know, there should have been a process.

00:11:44.740 And because she didn't go through that, you know, she wasn't the strongest candidate.

00:11:48.400 I would have, you know, gone for something like...

00:11:50.340 But no, they're just straight away throwing under the bus and saying, you know, she had

00:11:53.280 the wrong ideas.

00:11:54.100 She didn't connect with people.

00:11:55.180 She had the wrong priorities.

00:11:56.100 So, I mean, on the point of total victory, I mean, even the Democrats have realised that

00:12:02.840 they need to run and not walk from their former positions.

00:12:05.460 They haven't figured out what they are going to do.

00:12:08.380 They haven't figured out the new line to take, but they are at least completely abandoning

00:12:12.400 everything that they said they were for for the last, maybe, or four years.

00:12:15.960 Yeah, sort of moral legitimacy of the Biden regime has just completely collapsed.

00:12:19.580 I mean, it was pretty propped up anyway.

00:12:20.920 The fact that there was, you know, no primaries and everything about them is just kind of

00:12:26.260 weird and fake and gay.

00:12:28.200 And it's like, okay, but nobody asked for this.

00:12:30.120 This wasn't, you know, what people were voting for.

00:12:32.640 But anyway, so the Associated Press here have got a little schedule that we can have a look

00:12:36.560 at just to see what happens.

00:12:38.180 So you've got the church service, which has already been done.

00:12:40.500 Apparently there's a White House tea where they're meeting Joe Biden and Jill Biden in the

00:12:44.600 White House for a tea that's traditionally held to welcome a new president.

00:12:47.520 And then there's the swearing ceremony inside the Capitol Rotunda.

00:12:53.500 There's going to be a choir, music, more bands.

00:12:58.080 Call to order by Klobuchar.

00:13:00.480 Great.

00:13:01.860 And then various other things.

00:13:04.960 The nice presidential oath of office administered by Brett Kavanaugh.

00:13:08.820 America beautiful.

00:13:10.080 Presidential oath of office.

00:13:11.200 Shut up, APM.

00:13:11.960 We'll give you an evening.

00:13:13.520 Would you like to give money to the snake?

00:13:15.680 No, not really.

00:13:16.520 Thank you.

00:13:18.020 Then Trump's inaugural address after some more music.

00:13:21.660 Various other oaths of office.

00:13:24.160 And then a farewell to the former president.

00:13:27.000 And then signing room ceremony.

00:13:29.520 And then probably don't need to watch the lunch and the parade and stuff like that.

00:13:34.920 But who knows?

00:13:35.620 The main thing, the highlight is the presidential address.

00:13:38.980 Of course.

00:13:39.280 Yeah.

00:13:39.620 That's sort of, that's the main thing.

00:13:41.460 That's when you get a flavor for what he's going to be like.

00:13:43.500 Yeah.

00:13:43.560 That's the main event, isn't it?

00:13:45.120 So where's the deportations on this?

00:13:47.960 Well, that comes on Tuesday.

00:13:50.540 Oh.

00:13:50.660 So I thought we'd begin by just talking about, well, the circumstances actually around what's happening, right?

00:14:00.520 Okay, there's still talking heads, waffling.

00:14:04.420 But so one thing that's interesting about this is the fact that it's indoors, whereas his first one was outdoors.

00:14:13.300 And this was moved in for concerns about the weather.

00:14:17.400 It's not the weather.

00:14:18.620 Yeah.

00:14:19.140 Well, I'm going to agree with the establishment for once in my entire life.

00:14:25.280 And I saw a video comment from Washington, D.C. where there was a lake ice stover with ducks stood on it.

00:14:31.500 And you could see the ground in some of the clips as being covered in snow.

00:14:35.900 So I think it's just really cold outside.

00:14:37.880 And you look at some of the fossils that are filing in, and they're not going to make the evening, are they?

00:14:43.140 And haven't they been doing this outside for, like, 250 years or something?

00:14:46.520 It's very dependent on the weather, though, isn't it?

00:14:48.260 Have they ever done it outside before?

00:14:50.060 No, it's always done outside.

00:14:51.880 This is the first time I'm aware of it being done inside.

00:14:55.480 Because I'm pretty sure at some point in the last 250 years there have been cold ducks before.

00:14:58.720 I mean, it's a cliche, or it's a truism or whatever, that it's going to be freezing standing outside waiting for the inauguration.

00:15:06.820 And in all clips you find of inaugurations, all the people sitting behind all the important VIPs,

00:15:12.340 they're all wrapped up in big, thick coats and massive scarves.

00:15:16.420 It does seem to be sus, right?

00:15:19.300 I suspect it's inside for security reasons.

00:15:22.420 Yeah.

00:15:23.000 But because it does look cold, I'm sure it's freezing in Washington right now.

00:15:27.040 But it's not actually blowing a blizzard.

00:15:29.640 Yeah.

00:15:30.320 And I've seen it done in, like, rain and blizzard.

00:15:33.140 Not a blizzard, but I've seen it done while it's snowing and stuff.

00:15:35.900 Yeah, if there was, like, a massive hailstorm or something.

00:15:38.320 Okay, fair enough.

00:15:39.660 I reckon if you've got to choose between cold ducks and there are seven deep state sniper teams that are hunting this man,

00:15:45.880 I would go with the latter.

00:15:49.300 And in fact, I don't even have a problem going further than that.

00:15:52.500 I don't think it is.

00:15:53.640 I'm not saying this is my base case.

00:15:55.400 I'm not saying this is going to happen.

00:15:57.100 But I think you have to consider within the range of probabilities that in the last two months,

00:16:01.140 somebody in the deep state has gone and acquired an ex-Soviet nuke

00:16:04.080 and set it up in a hotel around the corner from this place.

00:16:07.020 Does it have to be a nuke?

00:16:07.840 Well, if you're going to be two blocks away, presumably it does.

00:16:11.520 Chat are saying LBJ had one inside.

00:16:13.800 Reagan had one inside.

00:16:15.380 Oh, did it?

00:16:15.940 So.

00:16:16.660 Oh, right.

00:16:17.740 So, fact check.

00:16:18.740 Although Reagan did get shot eight times.

00:16:21.560 Yeah.

00:16:22.020 Who was the other guy?

00:16:23.020 I think it's fair.

00:16:23.900 He almost got his head blown off.

00:16:26.100 Somebody should have shot him.

00:16:27.280 Say again, Harry?

00:16:29.780 I was just saying, I think it's a fair bet that seeing as he already almost had his head blown off,

00:16:34.500 that might be informing this.

00:16:36.980 Yeah, I think so too, to be honest.

00:16:38.520 You know, the fact that he's got literally a chunk missing from his ear

00:16:41.880 suggests that in fact they're being careful, right?

00:16:46.100 So, um, uh, that's a random name says, uh, crime, a Harry arc wasn't on my 2025 bingo card.

00:16:52.120 Well, we've got the bingo card all written up.

00:16:54.260 So, uh, bald eagle says, I think they had to move the ceremony inside because Democrat

00:16:57.600 leadership and Republican rhinos would have been frozen by the end of the ceremony since

00:17:01.060 they're all fossils anyway.

00:17:02.180 Well, that's possibly, possibly on the same wavelength there.

00:17:06.040 And, uh, Bali says anyone else have a bad feeling about this suddenly taking place

00:17:10.280 indoors?

00:17:10.780 Michelle Obama isn't there.

00:17:11.920 Game of Thrones season eight vibes.

00:17:13.120 Big Mike didn't turn up.

00:17:15.860 I did.

00:17:16.960 Well, I guess Big Mike has got other places to be like the gym.

00:17:20.440 It's leg day.

00:17:23.660 No, it's always back there for Big Mike.

00:17:26.360 Launching his WWE career.

00:17:28.180 Did you see the picture of Michelle Obama the day that was on Twitter?

00:17:31.740 Jesus.

00:17:32.320 Oh God.

00:17:33.400 Like, um, Samsung.

00:17:34.480 Strongback.

00:17:34.940 Samsung, can we pull that up?

00:17:36.080 It's just horrific.

00:17:37.720 That was the one for a birthday, wasn't it?

00:17:39.320 Yeah, I think so.

00:17:39.860 Yeah.

00:17:40.080 The Michelle Obama birthday.

00:17:40.840 This is supposed to be a happy stream, Carl, not a horror stream.

00:17:44.140 I'm just like, if I ever published a picture of my wife like that, she would flip out.

00:17:49.760 It's horrific.

00:17:50.620 Well, she just looked really rough or what?

00:17:53.300 Just looked really...

00:17:54.220 I would search birthday as well.

00:17:55.740 Yeah.

00:17:56.180 Yeah.

00:17:56.500 Birthday.

00:17:58.860 Also, it looks like you actually wrote Michael Obama there.

00:18:02.000 You know.

00:18:03.340 That one.

00:18:04.060 In the middle.

00:18:04.820 In the middle.

00:18:06.220 Oh, you had it.

00:18:06.840 Lost it.

00:18:07.300 You had it.

00:18:07.580 Don't worry.

00:18:09.440 There it is.

00:18:10.180 Yeah.

00:18:10.420 There it is.

00:18:11.200 Just, like, bad lighting, basically.

00:18:13.680 But I, my wife would kill me.

00:18:15.360 She looks like she's slinging rocks in the hood.

00:18:19.680 I mean, we've all been in some pretty bad lighting over the years, Carl.

00:18:22.940 That's true.

00:18:23.600 I could be being a bit generous, mate.

00:18:24.880 I've never worn a do-rag, though, so there is that.

00:18:28.320 Anyway, moving on from Michelle Obama.

00:18:30.160 She's not there, apparently.

00:18:31.600 But, yeah, we saw Bezos and Zuck go in earlier, didn't we?

00:18:35.900 Bending the knee.

00:18:37.240 Yeah.

00:18:37.560 It's good to see that.

00:18:39.600 Again, I'm more sympathetic towards Zuckerberg than most.

00:18:44.540 But it's just good to see them all, like...

00:18:46.760 Why are you sympathetic to Zuck?

00:18:48.260 I think he's just a man of weak characters who's been raised by women.

00:18:52.440 Yeah.

00:18:53.160 And so, he's surrounded by, like, essentially feminine culture.

00:18:58.060 And he's just...

00:18:59.760 Like, he never meant to be the guy at the top of the world's largest social media platform.

00:19:05.040 Right.

00:19:05.280 Yeah.

00:19:05.700 He didn't...

00:19:06.320 He was just a nerd.

00:19:08.360 I don't think it's that...

00:19:09.060 That's the word, I think, that you want to emphasize.

00:19:10.620 Yeah, just a little nerd.

00:19:12.240 Well, that's a good point, actually.

00:19:13.220 I mean, in all prior human civilizations, he would have been at most, like, the court scholar

00:19:17.740 or the court wise man.

00:19:19.420 And a strong man would have led.

00:19:20.640 But in the culture that we've got, he's also meant to be the strong man.

00:19:25.160 And maybe his going to the gym and doing all this stuff is a recognition that he needs

00:19:28.880 to be the strong man, but it's not his natural archetype.

00:19:31.360 Yeah.

00:19:31.540 And I think...

00:19:32.420 Like, I did...

00:19:33.340 I watched his Joe Rogan interview, and I do believe him when he talks about just essentially

00:19:38.840 his feminine, feminized upbringing, and how he thinks that we need masculinity in society.

00:19:43.640 And that's, you know, going to the gym, getting into MMA and stuff.

00:19:46.180 It's all just kind of...

00:19:46.640 I do think there's something true about that.

00:19:51.560 Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that excuses anything that he's done or the weakness that

00:19:55.040 has enabled people to make him do these things, perhaps if we're being super charitable.

00:20:00.680 Isn't he like a BJJ or jiu-jitsu black belt or something like that?

00:20:07.160 He is, yeah.

00:20:07.880 I think he is a jiu-jitsu black belt.

00:20:10.520 I'll look it up.

00:20:11.020 It's annoying because I like to think I could beat him up, but the reality is no.

00:20:15.060 I said that about Lex Friedman once on Twitter.

00:20:17.340 I was like, I'll bloody knock him out, piece of shit.

00:20:19.060 Surely you hate him.

00:20:19.880 And they were like, dude, he would tie you up into a pretzel in two seconds flat.

00:20:24.260 He's a black belt.

00:20:25.580 He's an actual black belt.

00:20:26.720 I was like, oh, yeah, he's younger than me and he's a black belt in jiu-jitsu.

00:20:31.280 Yeah, I'd leave.

00:20:32.540 Yeah, but that's maybe.

00:20:34.180 So Zuckerberg is a blue belt in jiu-jitsu, actually.

00:20:38.240 So that's not a very high level belt, right?

00:20:40.360 Because he's not been doing it for very long.

00:20:42.000 But this was from July of 2023.

00:20:46.440 So he might have gone up in the world.

00:20:48.860 It's one of those things, if someone's got even a bit of jiu-jitsu training, it's a significant advantage.

00:20:54.540 And I'm guessing the people that he's brought into training were probably quite good.

00:20:59.320 Yeah.

00:20:59.520 Okay.

00:21:00.140 So can we get the...

00:21:02.040 There we go.

00:21:03.120 On inaugural ceremonies, Ms. Emily Leviner, the Senate Secretary for the Minority, the Honorable Gary Myrick,

00:21:10.040 the House of Representatives Chief Administrative Officer, the Honorable Catherine Spindor, and Mr. Bruce Fisher.

00:21:17.260 I love the very boring bits of ceremonies.

00:21:26.600 So yeah, now everyone has to stand around.

00:21:28.240 That's part of it.

00:21:29.040 Ladies and gentlemen, Dr. Jill Biden and Mr. Douglas Emhaw.

00:21:33.080 That's the good thing.

00:21:35.400 Everyone has to stand around.

00:21:37.160 At least at a funeral, you don't have to be happy to be here.

00:21:39.900 And for them, this is the end of four years since they were here on this same day.

00:21:46.340 Dr. Jill and witness.

00:21:47.300 Yeah, that's Dr. Jill and Bill.

00:21:50.420 Bill Biden.

00:21:51.220 President Biden.

00:21:52.120 And Vice President Harris.

00:21:53.960 Oh yeah, did Joe ever pardon his brother in the end?

00:21:57.060 I don't think he did, did he?

00:21:58.480 His brother?

00:21:59.160 He's not been convicted of anything, I don't think.

00:22:01.200 None of them have been...

00:22:01.840 Well, most of them haven't been convicted of stuff yet.

00:22:04.140 That's true, yeah.

00:22:05.000 I was going to say, Joe hasn't been to pardon a few people today, hasn't he?

00:22:09.320 Say again, Harry?

00:22:11.400 Joe's pardoned a few people today.

00:22:14.020 Oh yeah, well, should we...

00:22:15.980 While the people are filing in on the boring ceremony,

00:22:19.240 let's talk about some of the people that Joe Biden has bloody well pardoned.

00:22:22.920 Because this is just a remarkable thing.

00:22:25.880 I'm just going to get the link up so I'll play.

00:22:27.600 But I mean, the most high-profile ones are, of course, General Mark Milley.

00:22:31.060 It's like, what did he do wrong?

00:22:33.840 Like, don't get me wrong.

00:22:34.540 He was insanely cringe, utterly woke,

00:22:37.540 was sick of, like, white privilege in the military and stuff.

00:22:39.840 But, like, none of that's a crime.

00:22:43.000 It's just really embarrassing.

00:22:44.580 Was Milley the guy who Trump gave the order to

00:22:47.900 to pull out of whatever it was, Afghanistan,

00:22:50.300 and he lied and said, we've done it, but actually left them there?

00:22:52.600 Was that Milley?

00:22:53.940 I'm not sure about that.

00:22:55.000 It might have been.

00:22:55.460 But he certainly was in charge when they did,

00:22:58.300 when Biden did pull out of Afghanistan.

00:23:00.520 Okay.

00:23:00.920 Which, now there's a different administration in charge.

00:23:04.220 They could look back on and say you did all sorts of things wrong

00:23:08.240 and maybe get prosecuted for something like that.

00:23:11.020 So Milley is either being prosecuted for lying to Trump,

00:23:14.140 which is a courts-martialable offence,

00:23:16.680 which is actually, isn't it federal offences only,

00:23:19.140 not military offences?

00:23:20.780 So surely he can still be courts-martialed for that.

00:23:23.380 Or the chat saying it was Syria that you're on about.

00:23:25.800 Oh, Syria.

00:23:26.560 Right.

00:23:26.840 That's the one.

00:23:27.780 And, or the other thing is for COVID crimes,

00:23:30.560 and that's why it ties into Fauci,

00:23:32.040 because they basically use COVID as a way to purge the military

00:23:34.980 of anyone who was on the right.

00:23:36.520 And if there was, I mean,

00:23:39.360 if there's any paperwork anywhere that indicates

00:23:42.620 that that explicitly was Milley's goal,

00:23:45.760 then that's something that you would need preemptive immunity for.

00:23:49.900 Okay.

00:23:50.600 Well, then the next one,

00:23:52.660 the next high-profile one is Anthony Fauci, of course.

00:23:55.540 Again, thought he didn't do anything right.

00:23:58.940 But he didn't.

00:24:00.000 I think RFK Jr.

00:24:01.880 has got a very specific personal boggle with Fauci, right?

00:24:05.760 Oh, really?

00:24:06.340 Yeah, really.

00:24:08.980 You're picking up that from the two books that you wrote?

00:24:10.880 Yeah.

00:24:12.100 And the grillings they gave him in open hearings.

00:24:14.980 I feel like if the Trump administration, stroke RFK,

00:24:18.840 could get Fauci on something, they would.

00:24:21.600 Yeah.

00:24:21.960 They absolutely would, I believe.

00:24:23.700 So I guess Biden's just getting out ahead of that.

00:24:27.020 But again, as you say, it's federal stuff.

00:24:29.080 So you can tweak and tinker with the law.

00:24:33.180 They could try and get him on something that's state.

00:24:36.240 Al Caponum.

00:24:37.340 Right, yeah.

00:24:38.160 Al Caponum somehow.

00:24:40.100 But this is my problem, though, with this.

00:24:42.240 And this is what really annoys me,

00:24:44.080 is for four straight years,

00:24:46.280 they were like,

00:24:46.760 Fauci's the most wonderful man alive.

00:24:49.240 He's saving the world.

00:24:50.920 Everything's brilliant.

00:24:51.820 And suddenly it's like, yeah, I'm also going to pardon him.

00:24:54.060 It's like, right.

00:24:54.620 So that was all lies.

00:24:56.060 You're all a bunch of liars.

00:24:57.140 And again, my support for Trump is vindicated time after time after time.

00:25:02.620 Every single goddamn thing they do, it's like, yeah, no, this guy needed it.

00:25:06.140 He needed to be pardoned.

00:25:07.000 Sorry.

00:25:07.460 It's like, oh, well, there we go.

00:25:09.020 I mean, there are clips of Trump saying things about Fauci when he was president.

00:25:14.660 Like what?

00:25:16.540 Like, you know, this guy, he's a great guy.

00:25:19.640 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:25:20.240 That sort of stuff.

00:25:20.960 No, no, of course.

00:25:21.540 Because, absolutely.

00:25:22.740 But then it was revealed that Fauci had been funded gain-of-function research and things

00:25:27.420 like this.

00:25:28.140 And all the various ties to Wuhan lab with Peter Daszak and all that sort of stuff.

00:25:31.920 And it's like, oh, well, you know, any amount of pulling on the string, you know, is going

00:25:36.420 to start unraveling a web of unbelievable corruption that may, honestly, it may end up turning out

00:25:42.760 that literally Fauci funded Daszak to pay the Chinese to create a virus that was intentionally

00:25:48.500 released.

00:25:49.560 And he also kills dogs.

00:25:51.020 Well, yeah, the murder of the dogs is also awful.

00:25:53.440 But like, you know, like genuinely, that's probably what I think they're getting ahead

00:25:58.720 of there.

00:25:59.800 But there is an interesting follow on from that, because now that he's been pardoned

00:26:03.460 for this stuff, he can't plead the fifth on anything.

00:26:06.680 Now, he can still turn up and say, I don't remember.

00:26:09.700 But if he just says, I don't remember to every question, then they can get him on perjury

00:26:13.920 charges.

00:26:14.620 So he's going to have to give up some stuff.

00:26:16.440 And actually, what you want to do is you want to, I mean, there was, I'm sure some

00:26:19.900 of the other names you're going to talk about, there's a whole bunch of people you can start

00:26:22.880 pulling in, you can start having inquiries, you can say, you know, what happened here?

00:26:26.040 What happened here?

00:26:26.800 May I remind you that you're not going to be perjuring yourself, there are going to be

00:26:29.360 no legal complications for you.

00:26:30.700 And one of them is just going to spill the beans on everything.

00:26:33.140 And then they're all going to have to come out and spill all the beans on this stuff.

00:26:36.220 And what Trump has the opportunity to do on the back of these Biden pardons is do a reputational

00:26:42.480 demolishment job on basically the establishment.

00:26:48.020 Well, Biden, do you say?

00:26:49.540 Well, so Biden has given these pardons.

00:26:51.600 So it takes away the defense from the Fifth Amendment of self-incrimination.

00:26:55.420 So they can hold inquiries or whatever the US call them, and they can really drill down

00:27:00.260 into this stuff.

00:27:00.840 And these people are going to start spilling on all of this kind of stuff.

00:27:03.280 And it will be, it will be just a body blow after body blow to the establishment of the

00:27:07.520 crimes they committed and covered up.

00:27:09.700 Excellent.

00:27:10.180 It does still speak volumes though, doesn't it?

00:27:11.820 It's like, this man is the voice of science.

00:27:14.720 Also, he's not guilty.

00:27:15.960 He protected us from something absolutely terrible.

00:27:20.380 Psych, he's an unconvicted criminal.

00:27:21.600 Well, it's funny to see, funny to see that Baron is literally head and shoulders above

00:27:29.740 everyone else.

00:27:30.400 He's towering above everyone else, isn't he?

00:27:31.540 It's like 6'9".

00:27:31.820 It's crazy.

00:27:33.100 I think he's 6'8".

00:27:33.880 Yeah.

00:27:34.240 Yeah.

00:27:34.460 So he's mental how big he is.

00:27:37.700 But hello, Flan the Man.

00:27:39.040 We are enjoying the world's biggest soap opera.

00:27:41.300 And GG for Vendetta.

00:27:44.600 Congratulations.

00:27:45.500 It's something we'll have to talk about another time.

00:27:47.480 But we will have advice.

00:27:49.180 But apparently, Bald Eagle says President William Harrison died from pneumonia after giving

00:27:53.740 his inauguration speech.

00:27:55.120 So the weather has killed a president.

00:27:56.740 But you've been fact checking real time, bro.

00:27:59.540 One thing that is worth noting here, as it was scrolling while you were talking about

00:28:03.720 how Fauci is a criminal, obviously, pay attention to how many bad sort of cosmetic surgery

00:28:11.320 jobs have been done in the crowd.

00:28:13.820 My goodness, have I seen many so far.

00:28:16.780 I saw some familiar faces of Baron, Elon, saw, I think, we saw Gingrich as well, didn't

00:28:23.780 we?

00:28:23.960 And a few other key politicians.

00:28:26.600 But there's a sort of gaggle of orange-faced women there that, you know, Silicon Valley have

00:28:32.280 really been putting the silicon in them.

00:28:33.680 Freddie sends $50, thank you, Freddie, and says, celebrating our new president.

00:28:39.620 I will have to re-watch this later, but I want to say thanks for all you guys do.

00:28:42.280 God bless.

00:28:42.620 Well, thank you so much.

00:28:43.520 That's very kind.

00:28:44.240 It's very, honestly, we're very happy to be able to cheer you guys on with all of this.

00:28:48.420 This is wonderful.

00:28:49.920 There's Melania.

00:28:52.000 She's very well-dressed.

00:28:53.840 Snazzy.

00:28:54.720 She looks like Carmen Sandiego.

00:28:57.380 Who's that?

00:28:58.320 Oh, my God.

00:28:59.420 She looks like a Chicago lobster.

00:29:00.960 I'm sure someone in chat must know Carmen Sandiego.

00:29:05.880 Is this a Boomer reference, Carl?

00:29:08.100 It's a Gen X reference, but yeah.

00:29:10.440 She looks like a remake of Mary Poppins.

00:29:13.080 Looks classy, though.

00:29:14.460 Good.

00:29:14.860 Yeah, I like it.

00:29:16.760 Very stylish.

00:29:20.120 The cartoon character.

00:29:21.720 No, don't worry.

00:29:22.920 Don't worry.

00:29:24.180 No one will get it.

00:29:25.520 It's fine.

00:29:27.780 Is that massive head there slightly shorter than the statue?

00:29:30.520 Is that Baron?

00:29:33.140 I don't know.

00:29:33.680 Yeah, just second in from the left.

00:29:34.800 No, Baron's nearer the front of the...

00:29:38.880 Second left.

00:29:39.920 Oh, the other really...

00:29:41.140 They've got two of them now.

00:29:42.600 Two really tall guys.

00:29:44.360 If they show you a camera angle from ground level, you'll see by far the tallest human being there.

00:29:51.320 It is, yeah.

00:29:52.260 He's enormous.

00:29:53.160 Yeah, he's enormous.

00:29:57.380 There are some familiar faces there.

00:29:59.100 Don Jr., is it?

00:30:02.320 One funny line that I did, because like I said, I've been listening to a whole bunch of Democrats on point.

00:30:06.320 Basils?

00:30:07.240 Is when they're asked about DEI, they say, oh, we're still going to have DEI, except now it's going to be Don, Eric, and Ivanka.

00:30:14.100 That's quite a funny line.

00:30:15.320 I like that.

00:30:15.700 I know people talk about Baron as sort of the chosen one, but surely Don Jr.'s got to have a shot before Baron does.

00:30:27.620 Maybe.

00:30:28.060 No?

00:30:29.140 Who's this chap?

00:30:29.680 If Baron lets it.

00:30:33.000 Who's this scruff bag?

00:30:34.240 Yeah.

00:30:34.960 Who's the tie?

00:30:35.720 Is he going to sing a song or something?

00:30:37.640 No, that's the thing.

00:30:38.460 Oh, he's a creative, that's why we're doing it.

00:30:40.680 No excuses.

00:30:49.860 At first I thought it was Mark Cuban.

00:30:54.980 While he's singing, I want to carry on with Biden's pardons, because some of these are just remarkable.

00:31:00.740 The next notable one is the January 6th Committee.

00:31:06.120 Yeah.

00:31:06.280 Yeah, the whole committee.

00:31:08.300 Yeah, the people investigating the January 6th riots need to be pardoned, do they?

00:31:14.160 Yes.

00:31:14.500 Why do investigators need to be pardoned?

00:31:16.260 That is an interesting question.

00:31:17.440 Yeah, that's very, very, very strange.

00:31:20.900 Unless, of course, they were just making it up and then they destroyed all the evidence afterwards.

00:31:24.740 Yeah, unless there's a series of crimes they committed to persecute, like, 1,500 American citizens.

00:31:32.240 In order to set up the narrative to be able to imprison your main political rival.

00:31:39.200 Yeah, in fact, here's the guilty party now.

00:31:42.760 Biden and Harris.

00:31:45.480 Okay, he looks like he's as old as the bloody hills.

00:31:48.660 I wonder who's wearing the Biden mask today.

00:31:50.760 I'm very, I've been very persuaded by this latex mask, I can suppose.

00:31:56.580 Biden bought serial number 007 today.

00:31:59.320 Yeah, because there are some times where his eyes are so weirdly deep set, and he's got like a shadow around his eyes.

00:32:06.380 Look at Camilla trying to stay strong.

00:32:08.180 Yeah, what a false grin.

00:32:09.120 She is a false grin.

00:32:11.260 Because, obviously, we've seen her a lot over the course of the last year, and she's always got that smug, shit-eating grin on her face.

00:32:18.420 She's always so pleased with herself.

00:32:20.700 But look at her now.

00:32:21.460 That's a set of facial expressions I haven't seen before on The Woman.

00:32:24.580 Not even she can hide it.

00:32:27.660 But, I mean, the question is, is she sober?

00:32:31.460 I think she might, maybe that's just her sober face.

00:32:33.880 God, look at it.

00:32:34.620 It's so great, though, isn't it?

00:32:36.140 Like, all of these defeated Democrats.

00:32:38.240 I've got to say that.

00:32:38.960 I just saw Bill Clinton and Hillary, just like, and then there's just Trump and Vance and all the Republicans just like, yeah, dunked.

00:32:45.440 You absolutely losers.

00:32:48.560 You lost everything.

00:32:50.280 Dickie Attenborough.

00:32:52.880 But, yeah, so if the Jan 6th committee themselves, the investigator, if they've been pardoned, I mean, presumably, then there would have been some false testimony supplied to them.

00:33:04.060 So who has been supplied this false testimony?

00:33:06.720 Well, we know, because Biden pardoned them, too.

00:33:09.680 The police officers who testified before the Jan 6th committee have also been pardoned.

00:33:14.780 It's like, well, what did they do?

00:33:15.800 Hang on.

00:33:16.360 The police officers who testified, they get a pardon?

00:33:20.420 They got pardoned.

00:33:21.140 As well as the people taking the statements.

00:33:24.080 But they would only need a pardon if they all lied under oath.

00:33:29.100 That's true.

00:33:30.240 It's almost like they did.

00:33:31.060 Funny, that, isn't it?

00:33:32.320 Hmm.

00:33:33.000 Weird.

00:33:33.440 That is interesting.

00:33:34.060 It's almost like all of Jan 6th was just a intelligence, yeah, intelligence trap.

00:33:40.400 Or a kind of, and also a kind of like vindictive political theatre by the Democrats.

00:33:46.060 Well.

00:33:46.940 But again, it goes back to my self-incrimination thing.

00:33:52.020 They can't use that argument anymore.

00:33:53.720 You can't tell me that at least one of those, they can't identify one of those cops to go and sit in a committee and ask questions and explain to him,

00:34:01.860 you're not going to get prosecuted for this, and one of them at least will start spilling.

00:34:05.760 Most evil man in the world there.

00:34:07.260 Yep.

00:34:07.600 Charles Schiller.

00:34:09.380 Correct.

00:34:10.280 Yep.

00:34:11.040 I base that on just the look on his face.

00:34:14.060 Just a quick aside.

00:34:15.400 Loads of people in the chat are speculating on how tall we all are.

00:34:18.960 And I'll just say, Harry's ridiculously big.

00:34:23.760 Josh and Rory are quite tall.

00:34:25.400 And the rest of us are normal.

00:34:26.900 Yeah.

00:34:27.200 That's all you need to know.

00:34:28.120 Harry, you're what?

00:34:28.820 6'3", 6'4", I'm 6'2".

00:34:30.860 I'm 6'3".

00:34:32.740 Are you?

00:34:33.360 Yeah.

00:34:34.900 You don't look at him.

00:34:36.540 Will we just stand up?

00:34:38.240 Are you sure?

00:34:39.900 Fine, we believe you should do.

00:34:43.420 But yeah, so the tall ones like Josh and I, we belong to the superior flares.

00:34:48.900 Yeah, that's fine.

00:34:50.160 But the point being, Biden is incriminating all of the people who were used to persecute Trump supporters.

00:34:58.060 That's, I mean, that's literally as...

00:35:01.220 The boss man enters.

00:35:03.060 There he is.

00:35:06.340 I, uh...

00:35:07.980 No, he's not smiling.

00:35:09.080 Like, he was very cheery the first time.

00:35:11.580 It's like he did that mugshot that one time and he's like, yeah, I like that.

00:35:14.720 Yeah, but it's a very different Trump, right?

00:35:16.900 It is supposed to be, uh, you know, quite a serious thing.

00:35:20.980 It's not supposed to be like a victory lap.

00:35:22.760 I know that's what we're doing, but it's not supposed to be a very solemn thing being sworn in as a head of state and commander-in-chief, isn't it?

00:35:29.760 He's identified his blue ice look and he's just going to keep wearing it.

00:35:33.560 Yeah, yeah.

00:35:33.900 I think you don't want to look too happy to be president because you want to look like you're carrying the burden of responsibility, don't you?

00:35:41.320 He looked quite happy the first time, right?

00:35:45.200 You know, he looked cheery.

00:35:46.480 I always remember George W. Bush's re-election.

00:35:50.540 He was, like, cracking up all over the place, laughing and smiling and he was clearly over the moon.

00:35:59.540 I just remember that quite clearly, that one.

00:36:01.780 Who's what's in store for him now, though?

00:36:04.540 What?

00:36:04.940 Trump.

00:36:05.360 Yeah.

00:36:05.660 Right.

00:36:06.160 Trump looks like a man who's at the end of the journey.

00:36:09.580 Yeah.

00:36:10.000 He's like, no, I've fought all the battles.

00:36:12.560 I've conquered all the enemies.

00:36:13.720 I've come back from the netherworld and we're going to fix all of them.

00:36:18.260 He's Mel Gibson in Act 3.

00:36:20.220 He's broken into the enemy hideout, but he's covered in bruises to get to that point.

00:36:23.900 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:36:25.160 Punished Trump has come back and he's hopefully going to extract some vengeance on his enemies.

00:36:29.240 Because also, remember, whenever a president is re-elected, even if with a hiatus of four years in between, this is the end of your career, political career.

00:36:40.220 You will never hold office again, high office again.

00:36:44.000 This is sort of, it's sort of the end in various ways.

00:36:48.920 So, again, quite a solemn thing.

00:36:51.240 Yeah.

00:36:51.580 Thing.

00:36:52.660 It couldn't have really gone better for Trump, when you think about it.

00:36:55.780 Oh, no.

00:36:56.320 Like, he's got everything at his disposal, you know.

00:37:00.020 This is much better than winning in whatever it was, 2020.

00:37:03.060 Yeah.

00:37:03.360 Because he could have lost the House or the Senate or whatever and not had the power that he's going to have now.

00:37:08.140 Now he can literally make anything happen.

00:37:10.300 He's had four years to brew on it.

00:37:14.100 And more importantly, he's had four years for that guy to screw it up so that everyone came round to his side.

00:37:20.860 And the team he's put together now, you know, I wouldn't be surprised if there's 100 plus executive orders before the end of the night.

00:37:28.220 So, I hope I'm not so irretrievably partisan of the right.

00:37:35.240 But I do think the Biden administration will go down in history as one of the more embarrassing failures as a presidency.

00:37:44.160 I hope that's not just, I can't see the wood from the trees at the moment, but I'm pretty sure that will be the case.

00:37:48.960 It will go down as a rank failure.

00:37:52.060 What do they have to their name?

00:37:53.480 Right.

00:37:54.240 Yeah.

00:37:55.260 They don't have any accomplishments.

00:37:56.600 They have lots of ruinous things that have millions and millions of illegals in.

00:38:00.660 10,000 murderers.

00:38:03.000 And, you know, various other just, like the Afghanistan withdrawal.

00:38:06.620 What was wrong with you?

00:38:08.360 You know, nobody had to die there.

00:38:10.080 The Taliban didn't have a massive army about to take Kabul.

00:38:13.220 It was just, you got flighty and incompetent and people died for no reason.

00:38:18.500 You left them tens of billions of dollars in equipment.

00:38:20.660 And they abandoned those of their own people.

00:38:21.820 It was because Biden changed the date to the anniversary of 9-11 to withdraw.

00:38:27.160 And so he, a lot of the infrastructure was set up to withdraw earlier than that.

00:38:32.280 And so they sort of had to scramble to meet this new deadline that they'd received relatively quickly.

00:38:38.420 Because at some meeting in the White House, they came to the conclusion that that would be a good thing to do for messaging.

00:38:44.540 Incompetent morons.

00:38:45.940 Quick point of order.

00:38:46.740 Can I just say how much I hate that there's all these people in the audience with their bloody phones out?

00:38:51.300 I mean, I can, I can, you look at that.

00:38:53.660 Yeah.

00:38:53.860 What are you doing?

00:38:54.680 Yeah.

00:38:55.380 You've been invited to the inauguration.

00:38:56.880 I mean, I can understand people doing that at a concert or something, even though I don't like it there.

00:39:00.460 Yeah.

00:39:01.020 I think I should be kicked out even at a concert.

00:39:04.840 See some neckbeard representation.

00:39:06.480 Is he wearing eyeliner?

00:39:07.200 Everyone thinks that.

00:39:08.920 I don't know.

00:39:09.620 He's just got very dark eyes.

00:39:10.860 It's like Andy Burnham.

00:39:11.900 Andy Burnham looks like he wears eyeliner.

00:39:14.160 But anyway.

00:39:16.000 He's thick and luscious eyelashes.

00:39:18.960 He's just never got out of the emo phase.

00:39:24.960 That's good.

00:39:25.800 Good to see.

00:39:29.120 Bald Eagle points out that you're wrong again, Bo.

00:39:31.240 John Adams was a senator, became president, then went back to being senator.

00:39:34.880 He could start on a political crew.

00:39:36.740 Well, that's wrong, I'm afraid.

00:39:39.120 Go on.

00:39:40.060 Well, John Adams was vice president under Washington.

00:39:43.980 So whoever said that?

00:39:45.460 He's kind of in the Senate then.

00:39:47.480 Well, yeah.

00:39:48.260 The vice president leads the Senate.

00:39:50.180 Yeah.

00:39:50.660 But he wasn't a senator.

00:39:51.560 He was VP.

00:39:52.220 John Adams was Washington's VP.

00:39:53.940 But did he go back to being a senator afterwards?

00:39:56.480 I don't think so.

00:39:57.860 I'm not 100% sure about that.

00:39:58.900 Well, I don't think so.

00:39:59.540 I think he just retired as a private individual afterwards.

00:40:01.980 I think I might be wrong about that.

00:40:06.460 Nadia Whitton, Labour MP in Britain, has weighed in.

00:40:09.640 She says, quote, as Donald Trump has inaugurated today, we should remember that his presidency was like last time.

00:40:14.880 A disaster for women, people of colour and the LGBT community.

00:40:18.400 I am.

00:40:19.160 Thank you, Nadia.

00:40:20.700 Why do you think I'm so happy?

00:40:29.120 So while some of the people are...

00:40:31.480 Oh, God, there's Amy Clover.

00:40:32.460 These people are giving bad vibes.

00:40:33.700 Are these all Democrats that are tired of us?

00:40:36.640 You can tell by the smacked-ass face look.

00:40:39.120 Yeah.

00:40:39.920 There's a lot of lizards in that audience.

00:40:41.560 There are a lot.

00:40:42.160 If you were to put those special glasses on, whatever they are.

00:40:44.600 A lot of people sucking on lemons today.

00:40:46.820 Yeah.

00:40:47.080 Which is great.

00:40:49.140 But yeah, that's another thing as well.

00:40:50.680 Just like the general sort of positive physiognomy of the Republicans or the Trump Republicans

00:40:55.020 compared to the sort of lizard man physiognomy of the Democrats.

00:40:59.740 Look how happy Don is.

00:41:00.800 But it must be really nice to know that all of your enemies have essentially got to sit

00:41:08.000 there and suck it up as you smile at them.

00:41:10.940 It's like, yeah, we won.

00:41:11.620 And they have to stand there while you give a speech or whatever that speech is.

00:41:15.220 How great you are and how awful they are.

00:41:17.920 How they've ruined the country and how you're going to fix it.

00:41:19.920 It's like, yeah, losers.

00:41:21.860 Love it.

00:41:23.040 Anyway, I want to go through some more of Biden's pardons because some of them are just, why?

00:41:29.520 Right, so there's the obvious political ones.

00:41:32.500 But then you've got Shannon Wayne Agofsky in the Eastern District of Texas, who was sentenced

00:41:37.800 to death in March 2007.

00:41:40.200 He's been on death row.

00:41:41.740 Pardon for murdering the first degree.

00:41:45.000 Why would you pardon that guy?

00:41:48.640 There's this just random murder on death row.

00:41:51.120 I want to pardon him.

00:41:52.360 Surely he's the only one.

00:41:53.360 He's the only murderer on there.

00:41:54.540 Trump and Biden.

00:41:57.320 I see Trump's looking a little bit smug there.

00:42:00.440 I think he's earned it.

00:42:01.680 Nice purple tie, too.

00:42:03.300 I really don't like that.

00:42:04.200 Royal.

00:42:04.920 I really don't like that JD Vance is in the same room while this is taking place.

00:42:08.220 Because, like I say, it's not my base case, but I don't think it's impossible that Deep

00:42:11.840 State has secured a nuke.

00:42:13.200 I think it's pretty safe to say with all of these big people in the same room, it's going

00:42:17.700 to be the most secure place probably in the world.

00:42:20.440 What good does that do you if there's a nuke in a hotel half a mile up the road?

00:42:24.040 Why are you so certain that it's a nuke, then?

00:42:26.460 Do you have some sort of inside information?

00:42:28.380 Well, no, it's just that have you been the one arranging this?

00:42:31.640 I'm just saying that I don't put anything past the Deep State at this point.

00:42:36.160 Or if Putin just drops a giant piece of ordinance.

00:42:41.860 I don't think it's going to be Putin.

00:42:43.160 I think it's going to be the Deep State and they were going to immediately blame it on

00:42:45.940 Putin.

00:42:46.340 Because that gets rid of all the people they don't like and gives them a war.

00:42:50.980 I mean, that would, but I don't think it's going to happen.

00:42:53.440 Politics is very interesting, wouldn't it?

00:42:55.780 I would just feel better if JD Vance was in a bunker.

00:43:00.220 The only thing that might happen is an Israeli missile might fall through the roof.

00:43:03.900 And if it does, it will only crush Kamala Harris.

00:43:08.760 What, like the Iranian one?

00:43:11.860 A lot of milling around going on.

00:43:19.440 Yeah, there is.

00:43:21.260 It's like a London tube station here.

00:43:25.220 I mean, he's still spry, but he is notably older than the first time around.

00:43:29.820 Again, it's been a man who's had to touch here.

00:43:31.840 Yeah.

00:43:32.440 And calm.

00:43:33.940 Before we witness.

00:43:34.960 He seems perfectly fine, though.

00:43:38.300 You know, you are getting out of the age where you've got to watch out.

00:43:41.860 I've still got a mental fucking piece, haven't you?

00:43:43.540 I don't charge my fucking piece.

00:43:45.680 What is she doing?

00:43:46.960 Good morning, everyone.

00:43:48.920 Welcome to the 60th presidential inauguration.

00:43:54.000 Today, President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect Vance will take their oath of office.

00:44:01.180 And we will witness the peaceful transfer of power at the heart of our democracy.

00:44:07.520 I went with Budwiser because Americans assure me that this is actually good.

00:44:10.460 I just want to point out that we can't hear her.

00:44:12.900 This is not our fault.

00:44:14.700 So, the Sky News.

00:44:15.620 For the past year, I've chaired the inaugural ceremony committee, which includes the leadership of Congress from both parties.

00:44:23.640 We thank the committee and capital staff and law enforcement who worked so hard over the last year, and especially the last three days.

00:44:34.180 You've done a beautiful job and you have shown grace under pressure.

00:44:41.420 What?

00:44:42.260 How have you not heard her speaking in those times?

00:44:44.640 It's like Skylar White.

00:44:45.640 Our theme this year is our enduring democracy.

00:44:49.480 The presence of so many presidents and vice presidents here today is truly a testament to that endurance.

00:44:57.740 We welcome President Biden and Dr. Biden.

00:45:01.600 We welcome Vice President Harris and Doug Emhawk.

00:45:04.980 President Obama.

00:45:06.420 That's such a bold take.

00:45:08.280 I almost admire it in a sort of sick way.

00:45:12.340 I'm in shock.

00:45:13.260 I'm genuinely shocked.

00:45:14.260 It's a bit worse than his take on stakes that he put up on Twitter.

00:45:16.500 I don't think Kamala's a bad looking lady.

00:45:18.240 The justices of the United States Supreme Court are with us.

00:45:22.020 All nine of them, I counted.

00:45:24.080 And of course, the Trump and Vance families.

00:45:26.800 Kamala.

00:45:27.040 She doesn't, does she?

00:45:27.900 This ceremony marks what will soon be 250 years of our democracy.

00:45:34.540 Yeah, furious.

00:45:35.160 It is the moment when leaders, elevated by the will of the people, promise to be faithful to our Constitution.

00:45:42.440 Can we please mute this?

00:45:46.120 Her voice is going right through.

00:45:47.540 I know, it's great, isn't it?

00:45:49.480 The only one who's happy on that side of the aisle is Biden.

00:45:53.000 He's very happy with this election.

00:45:53.960 Yeah, he is, isn't he?

00:45:55.180 Now, that's an interesting thing.

00:45:58.040 He's done.

00:45:58.540 He's retired.

00:45:59.060 After this, he goes home.

00:46:00.420 Yeah.

00:46:00.580 A private citizen.

00:46:02.000 And it's all over.

00:46:03.700 Everyone pardoned.

00:46:04.780 The best case scenario was that he got to fight the election and win.

00:46:11.380 But if he's going to be deposed by a coup, the next best outcome is that that coup falls apart flat on its face.

00:46:18.040 Clarence Thomas looks bored.

00:46:19.560 He's just on his face, I think.

00:46:21.700 Yeah.

00:46:23.260 I'm going to write a hundred words as to why this is good and then sign off.

00:46:27.280 I love Clarence Thomas, man.

00:46:29.580 Yeah, we're not going to listen to Amy Klobuchar.

00:46:31.340 No.

00:46:32.300 Thank goodness.

00:46:32.740 So, I want to keep going through this list because, honestly, I just can't get over this pardon list, right?

00:46:38.300 So, Billy Jerome Allen, on death row again, bank robbery by force or violence, carrying a firearm during a crime of violence and committing murder.

00:46:47.940 Why are you pardoning him?

00:46:49.600 And he was successfully convicted.

00:46:51.760 Yeah, yeah, convicted in 1998 of killing two people.

00:46:55.000 Well, wait, he killed two people in a bank robbery and he's got pardoned.

00:46:58.920 Yes.

00:46:59.280 Joe Biden, for some reason, was like, that guy, come on.

00:47:01.660 Yeah.

00:47:01.860 Is he a Democrat donor?

00:47:03.600 I can only assume that's what he did with the money.

00:47:05.820 He's a demographic that votes Democrat 90% of the time.

00:47:10.100 Yeah.

00:47:10.300 Ah.

00:47:11.300 These are crazy.

00:47:12.480 Aquilia Barnett, right?

00:47:15.820 Three murders.

00:47:17.280 Interstate domestic violence, two counts, use and carrying a firearm during a crime of violence.

00:47:21.000 Arson in the commission of a felony, providing false information to acquire a firearm, making a firearm, felon in the possession of a firearm, carjacking, first degree murder by use of a firearm,

00:47:29.880 and interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle.

00:47:32.280 Biden's like, get that guy off.

00:47:33.500 It sounds wonderful.

00:47:34.040 That sounds like a full GTA spree.

00:47:36.780 Yes, it does.

00:47:37.960 So he just walked up to somebody's car, shot them, stole their car, and Biden was like, yeah, that guy.

00:47:42.840 Went on a crime spree, killed three people.

00:47:44.680 And there was arson I heard in there.

00:47:46.020 Yeah, yeah, set something on fire.

00:47:47.780 Like, crazy.

00:47:48.540 Brandon Basham killed two people.

00:47:51.820 Carjacking, resulting in death.

00:47:53.980 Kidnapping, resulting in death.

00:47:55.880 So he killed someone, took their car, kidnapped someone else, killed them.

00:47:59.620 And Biden's like, well, obviously he needs to be pardoned.

00:48:02.900 What the hell is happening?

00:48:04.500 The only thing I can think of is that it just certainly hasn't got anything to do with Pizzagate and the Podestas.

00:48:10.800 That's all we can say for sure.

00:48:12.380 Definitely nothing like that.

00:48:13.580 If there's one thing I can be sure of, nothing about Comet Ping-Pong is tied to this.

00:48:21.000 So, again, there are loads of these.

00:48:23.080 Antony Battle, murder while confined in a federal correction institution.

00:48:27.180 So he murdered another prisoner and he's on death row.

00:48:29.600 And Biden's like, nah.

00:48:31.420 Why?

00:48:32.020 Gentlemen.

00:48:32.380 What could possibly be the reason?

00:48:34.840 The only possible reason I can think of is Biden thought to himself, right, I'm going to pardon Fauci and Millie.

00:48:43.580 And I don't want the media to talk about that.

00:48:46.160 So at the same time, I'm going to pardon 2,000 of the most prolific, awful people on death row.

00:48:52.380 And then hopefully that will be the story and not Millie and Fauci.

00:48:55.760 Some people are saying in chat, and I think they might be right, that he's merely commuted their death sentence to life imprisonment rather than they just walk free.

00:49:04.240 I'm not saying they're walking free.

00:49:05.940 But still, no.

00:49:06.880 Yeah, still it's crazy.

00:49:08.220 Why does Biden even know about these guys?

00:49:09.480 It's like Carlos Caro, first degree premeditated murder.

00:49:13.000 So he just murdered someone in 2007.

00:49:15.300 Just why, why not just, a lot of these are, yeah, commutations for the death penalty.

00:49:20.460 But like, why would the, why would you want these guys to your name?

00:49:24.840 There are just so many.

00:49:25.840 Chat is suggesting it's because it's going to be MLK Day.

00:49:28.640 Maybe, but a lot of these are Hispanic.

00:49:33.040 Well, that's definitely what Martin Luther King always wanted, right?

00:49:37.140 Murderers to have their death sentence commuted to life imprisonment, merely life imprisonment.

00:49:40.960 He talked about that all the time, didn't he?

00:49:43.080 Privately, perhaps.

00:49:44.400 Yeah, actually, he might have.

00:49:45.800 But I mean, a lot of these aren't black.

00:49:47.580 A lot of them are Hispanic.

00:49:48.480 So it's just like, why would MLK, you know, mental?

00:49:52.180 They all fall under the bane.

00:49:53.560 So yeah, it's like, yeah, it's literally 2,490 murderers that Biden's like, yeah, not those guys.

00:50:02.280 Like the worst kind of murderers too.

00:50:05.060 It's just, it's, it's like he's been possessed by the spirit of Keir Starmer.

00:50:09.000 Well, there's that thing that on the left, there's just like this endless faux clemency towards the worst people in the world.

00:50:18.440 It's hard to explain.

00:50:19.680 It's not even faux clemency.

00:50:20.680 They genuinely believe it.

00:50:22.340 Keir Starmer sees those Jamaican child murderers and rapists and is like, oh my God, look how they're suffering.

00:50:28.700 We need to abolish the death penalty in Jamaica.

00:50:32.240 Well, and you say it's faux, but actually that's, that's the only time they show genuine empathy.

00:50:37.680 Yeah.

00:50:38.660 Is towards child murderers.

00:50:40.400 Yeah.

00:50:40.940 The only time Keir Starmer's ever a good lucky human.

00:50:44.520 It's just mental, Ian, right, isn't it?

00:50:47.140 I was talking about his brother.

00:50:48.160 Someone in the chat just said, it looks like Biden did just pardon his brother.

00:50:51.260 It must have been in the last.

00:50:51.940 Oh, did he?

00:50:53.300 I was looking at that on Polymarket and I thought, well, he's not good.

00:50:56.760 He did it right.

00:50:58.040 I could have made a packet on that.

00:51:00.200 What did Biden's brother do?

00:51:01.960 Well, nothing yet.

00:51:02.880 Yeah.

00:51:03.080 He hasn't been convicted, but obviously.

00:51:04.840 Allegedly.

00:51:05.160 He's involved in all the Hunter Biden, Burisma, money, tax, all sorts of things.

00:51:13.400 He was another conduit for 10% of the big guy.

00:51:15.820 There you go.

00:51:16.380 James Biden's been pardoned as of 12 minutes ago.

00:51:20.080 Don't know how Biden did that.

00:51:21.280 It's there.

00:51:22.060 So it was literally just before he came out.

00:51:23.560 Almost literally just before.

00:51:24.240 That's why he was so happy.

00:51:25.920 Issues of pardon get saunters up to the inauguration.

00:51:29.620 Dirty, dirty bastard.

00:51:32.300 Has he gone to sleep?

00:51:32.900 He looks like he's about to.

00:51:36.540 Biden's gone to sleep again.

00:51:38.660 So it's true.

00:51:39.520 When he had to get up early this morning to sign all those pardons.

00:51:42.280 Yeah.

00:51:42.720 Oh, yeah.

00:51:43.900 So you've got two and a half thousand murderers to pardon.

00:51:47.000 Yeah, I think James Biden, a lot of the companies that this stuff went through, he was the owner

00:51:52.660 of the company type.

00:51:53.880 Right.

00:51:54.200 He's in it as deep as it could be.

00:51:56.600 Right, right, right.

00:51:57.300 He was holding the bags for Joe, wasn't he?

00:51:59.320 Yeah, yeah.

00:51:59.660 Do you think they actually made Joe sign all two and a half thousand pardons?

00:52:02.900 Or did they get one of those things with ten pens on an arm and you...

00:52:07.780 Oh, just a stamp.

00:52:09.020 Yeah.

00:52:09.380 Oh, yeah.

00:52:10.100 So we've got a bunch of super chests.

00:52:11.360 I think we'll go for a few.

00:52:14.120 Sigil Stone says, I'm convinced during Trump's first time the CIA secretly fed super chemicals

00:52:18.140 to Barron see how tall they can make him.

00:52:20.340 It is peculiar how he's so much taller.

00:52:22.540 It's not like Melania's particularly tall.

00:52:24.220 So it's like, where did this...

00:52:25.460 Well, both of them are quite tall.

00:52:27.640 I think Trump is quite tall and Melania is quite tall.

00:52:31.160 She's like six.

00:52:32.520 And also...

00:52:33.240 I think she's reasonably tall for a woman, isn't she?

00:52:34.840 I mean, she's not a giant.

00:52:35.740 I mean, I'm head and shoulders above my parents.

00:52:38.180 It's possible.

00:52:39.140 Yeah, I'm taller than my parents as well.

00:52:42.200 Fair enough.

00:52:42.540 And the shadow ban says, John Quincy Adams served in the US House of Representatives

00:52:47.100 from 1830 to 1846, winning nine elections after his presidential term ended in 1829.

00:52:52.800 Dan, Bo, they've really covered for yours.

00:52:54.660 Don't confuse John Adams with John Quincy Adams, two completely different names.

00:52:58.880 Sorry, he did say John Quincy Adams.

00:53:00.460 Oh, okay.

00:53:01.620 So they're different.

00:53:02.440 John Quincy Adams is like the sixth president or something.

00:53:05.340 John Adams is his father, the second president.

00:53:07.320 So they are completely different.

00:53:08.880 Just saying, Bo, what you need to do is just give more...

00:53:11.320 Very slightly incorrect presidential statements, so people send more soup chats.

00:53:15.820 Okay.

00:53:17.500 Talk more about John Quincy Adams.

00:53:19.300 I just call him John Adams.

00:53:21.220 And so people, a lot of Fedora tippers...

00:53:23.320 It's like, you know, Abraham Lincoln being assassinated by someone else.

00:53:27.700 And then people have to correct us.

00:53:29.700 Abraham Lincoln wasn't real.

00:53:31.680 I don't believe in him.

00:53:32.760 Where's the evidence?

00:53:33.840 Yeah, so Jim Biden this morning on Polymark, it was trading at 2.5% and he's now gone to 100%.

00:53:39.760 So I could have made whatever his name is.

00:53:42.200 Well, he pardoned James Biden rather than Jim Biden, so...

00:53:45.000 Well, same.

00:53:46.020 Are they the same person?

00:53:47.140 Jim is a short version of James.

00:53:48.380 Jim and James, same.

00:53:49.180 Jim is short for James.

00:53:50.780 I've never known this.

00:53:51.880 Yeah, Jimmy.

00:53:53.040 Someone called James, you can call Jim.

00:53:54.300 How did you not know that, Josh?

00:53:56.000 How does that work?

00:53:57.320 Yeah, I know.

00:53:57.840 I don't know, actually.

00:53:59.140 I'm walking through.

00:53:59.600 How does Richard get short into Dick?

00:54:01.760 I think that's just an excuse if you're being rude to someone, isn't it?

00:54:06.560 The point is, I missed out on an easy 40X.

00:54:10.140 Well, that sucks.

00:54:12.140 Anyway, Sir Thomas Drake says, happy inauguration day, but even better, my issue of Islander 2

00:54:17.220 has arrived to Seattle.

00:54:18.560 Cheers.

00:54:19.100 Yeah, again, really sorry about the delay.

00:54:20.760 The company screws over with change companies for our issue three.

00:54:23.420 But I'm really glad you got it and enjoy it because I'm really proud of it.

00:54:28.120 Bald Eagle says, John, we are stepping over the US presidents in this past question.

00:54:35.780 Reba, for $20, thanks, dude, says, I watched coverage of election night and Timcast.

00:54:40.360 I love you guys and appreciate your support from Prescott, Arizona.

00:54:43.920 I love American and pray for the UK.

00:54:45.460 Well, honestly, it's all mutual, man.

00:54:47.580 You know, we've been praying that Trump pulls it out and by God, did he?

00:54:52.120 And we're just really happy that everything's going great for you guys.

00:54:55.060 Really, honestly, really pleased.

00:54:56.280 I've said before where, I mean, coming from me, who's a true Anglo-American, my dad was born

00:55:00.320 and raised in the United States.

00:55:01.360 But I feel like if the Germans or the French are our cousins, the Americans are our brothers.

00:55:08.560 Yeah.

00:55:09.680 It is that close.

00:55:11.060 Anglo-Americans, anyway.

00:55:12.280 Not like Cherokee.

00:55:14.440 I quite like the natives.

00:55:19.020 Rumble says, greetings from Las Vegas.

00:55:21.660 Stacking up for a few minutes, but we'll be back with you for all the big event.

00:55:24.400 It's a great day in America.

00:55:25.220 Yeah, I bet, honestly, I bet, I mean, all I've seen from the British people have gone

00:55:30.100 to the inaugurations, but wow, everyone seems really happy and optimistic.

00:55:34.700 Like, you know, the thing that can actually have a future in the United States at this

00:55:37.920 point.

00:55:38.340 God.

00:55:38.940 That must be nice.

00:55:40.700 Hang on.

00:55:41.440 At least Hillary didn't get a pardon, but then I suppose she's got her own death squad,

00:55:44.880 so she doesn't really.

00:55:46.440 Yeah.

00:55:47.740 And SPF didn't get a pardon.

00:55:49.540 She's got an occult god on her side, hasn't she?

00:55:52.820 Yeah, it's called the Deep State.

00:55:56.060 Windy Hillhouse says, JD man-spreading to establish dominance.

00:55:59.400 You've got to make them understand how this is going to work.

00:56:03.940 There's a prayer, which we're not going to listen to.

00:56:06.640 Connor Smug Mug says, Gary, prepare for gay arch Sargon fanfics.

00:56:11.120 What the hell are you talking about?

00:56:13.580 What's he saying?

00:56:14.600 I don't know.

00:56:15.920 Zari says, hello from Maryland.

00:56:17.600 There are so many ex-clips of Bill Clinton ogling Milani Trump today.

00:56:20.660 She's elegant.

00:56:21.140 He must be 90.

00:56:24.160 How old's Bill Clinton?

00:56:25.900 I'll have a look.

00:56:26.320 He must literally be coming on 90.

00:56:29.740 78.

00:56:30.520 Oh, God damn.

00:56:31.140 78 years old.

00:56:31.980 But still, like, even then, he's just absolute dog.

00:56:37.240 Come on, Bill.

00:56:38.480 You're saying that as if you're surprised.

00:56:40.160 He had Monica Lewinsky in the presidential office.

00:56:43.540 But just, like, he looks like he's barely alive, right?

00:56:48.280 Bill Clinton looks skeletal.

00:56:49.780 He's not a good 78.

00:56:51.120 No.

00:56:51.680 You know, like, Biden's a better 78 than Bill Clinton.

00:56:54.320 Even then, Bill Clinton's like, it's like, you look like the Crypt Keeper.

00:56:59.640 Calm down.

00:57:00.160 Your presidents are going to have vices.

00:57:02.640 And if their vice is adult women, that's, like, probably the best vice you could have.

00:57:07.380 Yeah.

00:57:07.840 That's true.

00:57:09.540 That is true.

00:57:11.480 What's the bets that Biden is going to try and turn up for work tomorrow?

00:57:14.660 Yeah.

00:57:15.300 Well, I mean, I don't think he's going to turn up for work for any other day.

00:57:18.020 Well, he might just sleep in.

00:57:19.180 He might go for his nap or something.

00:57:20.580 Yeah.

00:57:21.000 Yeah.

00:57:21.540 They can't shift him.

00:57:22.760 But look at the smirk on his face.

00:57:24.780 He's quietly so happy with this.

00:57:27.380 He looks like a child who's nicked a cookie from the cookie jar and don't want to tell the parents.

00:57:31.700 So I go along with the theory that they booted him out and they wanted to get their preferred candidate in.

00:57:39.680 And when he found out that he'd been booted out by Twitter, rather than fight it, he immediately went in with Kamala because he knew that that would torpedo them.

00:57:47.640 And that was his best way of getting a comeback.

00:57:49.320 And all the smirks and the happiness that I see from him ever since makes me think that, yeah, he sabotaged it by making them go with Kamala.

00:57:56.920 Oh, by the way, Joe Biden has pardoned his entire family.

00:58:00.200 All right.

00:58:03.280 Joseph Biden Jr., President of the United States.

00:58:05.680 To whom may concern, James Biden, Sarah Biden, Valerie Biden, John Owens and Francis Biden.

00:58:11.920 No Jill Biden.

00:58:13.640 I guess she's not complicit.

00:58:14.680 Talk about Biden's sort of smirk, barely concealed smirk.

00:58:18.060 It must be a massive weight off, though.

00:58:22.120 Yeah.

00:58:22.880 A massive.

00:58:23.980 Like, you go from about as much responsibility as one single human being is capable of putting up with to none.

00:58:31.700 Yeah.

00:58:32.240 And you're really old and decrepit.

00:58:33.920 Imagine how far his mental decline is going to be now, though, because at least he had that keeping him.

00:58:39.600 At least he was using the neurons.

00:58:41.220 Something he had to do.

00:58:42.740 He's got to pay attention to keeping his bowels in order now.

00:58:45.040 Well, now you can go and enjoy a nice slice of pizza at Comet Ping Pong in peace, can't you?

00:58:50.240 Do you remember when Boris was cooed and ousted, his speech outside number 10, accepting that there will be a leadership challenge and all that.

00:59:00.160 He was so happy, it seems to me.

00:59:02.460 It's like almost bouncing with delight that he was leaving office.

00:59:05.640 But Boris didn't really seem to want to be prime minister.

00:59:07.920 That's the thing.

00:59:08.440 He wanted the title, but he didn't want to do the work.

00:59:10.440 Right.

00:59:10.760 He didn't have an agenda.

00:59:11.680 I don't always remember how odd that was, though.

00:59:15.400 Because do you remember when Theresa May left?

00:59:17.200 She was pretty much crying.

00:59:19.300 Yeah.

00:59:19.500 Very, very nearly crying, if not actually crying.

00:59:21.740 And Boris seemed really up for it.

00:59:26.040 Like the lazy, feckless twat that he is.

00:59:29.320 That's the problem.

00:59:30.540 Yeah.

00:59:30.800 It's really the problem.

00:59:32.460 Yeah.

00:59:32.760 Weak butterball of a man.

00:59:33.920 Sorry, we're swearing in now.

00:59:35.280 From Kavanagh.

00:59:37.680 I'm about to enter.

00:59:38.840 So help me God.

00:59:40.020 So help me God.

00:59:40.680 Try not to start too much, Mance.

00:59:45.900 And Biden looks happy.

00:59:53.240 I didn't know they swore in the vice president before the president.

00:59:56.120 That's interesting.

00:59:57.140 It's called hierarchy, Dan.

00:59:58.220 Yeah, it's supposed to be the main event, isn't it?

00:59:59.920 The big man, but...

01:00:01.040 I always just assume that he got sworn in, like, by Trump afterwards or something.

01:00:06.160 Or, I don't know.

01:00:06.580 So I wonder if in four years it will be Vance's turn.

01:00:11.840 But if Biden were to have a heart attack right now, J.D. Vance would become president?

01:00:17.440 Or do you think they would just, like, go without a president for, like, another half hour?

01:00:21.000 A slight interaction.

01:00:21.760 If Trump had a heart attack.

01:00:23.380 No, because at the moment, J.D. Vance has been sworn in as vice president and Biden is still president.

01:00:28.080 Well, no, he'd go to Kamala, wouldn't he?

01:00:30.680 Well, no, because J.D. Vance has been sworn in.

01:00:32.620 Oh, okay.

01:00:33.340 Sorry, I get it now.

01:00:34.200 Sorry.

01:00:34.600 Sorry.

01:00:35.200 Yeah, maybe.

01:00:36.260 Maybe.

01:00:36.580 I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear.

01:00:40.460 I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute.

01:00:45.840 That I will faithfully execute the office of the president of the United States.

01:00:50.880 The office of president of the United States.

01:00:54.140 And will, to the best of my ability.

01:00:56.220 And will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend.

01:01:01.060 Preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.

01:01:04.640 The Constitution of the United States.

01:01:06.900 So help me God.

01:01:07.820 So help me God.

01:01:08.920 Congratulations, Mr. President.

01:01:11.060 Cheers.

01:01:11.980 Cheers.

01:01:12.820 Cheers.

01:01:17.680 So thank you, Joe.

01:01:22.940 We are firing on the White House.

01:01:29.880 Firing at AOC's office.

01:01:34.640 Light of rounds.

01:01:36.920 That's right.

01:01:38.060 In that office.

01:01:38.980 Oh, glorious.

01:01:44.200 That's on the chat, it says it's officially Joe over.

01:01:47.060 Yeah, it's officially Joe over.

01:01:48.520 It's true, yeah.

01:01:49.060 Joe over.

01:01:49.920 I'll tell you, this is going to be good for me.

01:01:52.180 Because I remember, like, the first term.

01:01:55.060 From 26 on, I was just generally in a good mood day to day.

01:01:58.220 Because I knew that Trump was in.

01:02:00.620 And then I've been a bit depressed for the last four years.

01:02:03.060 Because not only did we have COVID, but we had Biden.

01:02:05.600 And it just sets him alive.

01:02:07.000 I think I'm going to be in a good mood for four years now.

01:02:10.180 Oh, let's hope so.

01:02:11.700 I'm just as miserable as before.

01:02:13.680 No, no.

01:02:15.040 I'm going to change.

01:02:15.860 I think my spirits have lifted.

01:02:17.260 I already feel better.

01:02:24.000 That's it.

01:02:24.520 He's back.

01:02:25.420 I'm going to get the address in a minute.

01:02:26.900 That should be good.

01:02:28.620 Yeah.

01:02:31.140 Maybe I massively overestimated how long it would take before she speaks.

01:02:35.320 Yeah, well, these sounds nice.

01:02:36.780 You can also take in every single possible variant of Old White Man in the background.

01:02:40.920 Not to sound like a wokist there, but turn off the street.

01:02:44.780 The music.

01:02:47.300 So, apparently one of the things that Millie did is back channel messages to China.

01:02:55.980 Oh, right.

01:02:57.300 That's full-time treason, right?

01:02:58.420 Yeah, it is treason.

01:02:58.980 I mean, it does sound a bit...

01:02:59.820 Hang on, that's what they got General Flynn on.

01:03:04.740 Well, he was trying to negotiate on behalf of the government without the president's knowledge.

01:03:10.900 That's what he was guilty of originally, I think.

01:03:14.780 Hmm.

01:03:25.400 Very good.

01:03:27.460 I'm going to even say...

01:03:28.980 Just want to listen to the sound, shouldn't we?

01:03:33.100 So, for those of you who are listening, there's a bit of marching and singing of what looked like naval cadets.

01:03:38.720 Very diverse bunch.

01:03:41.240 Definitely not selected.

01:03:44.780 Races, colours, creeds and heights are what you saw.

01:03:47.840 And women.

01:03:48.980 Yeah, I know, yeah.

01:03:52.620 I suppose it makes sense to have dwarfs in the navy, because there are some very short people, though.

01:03:56.620 You don't have to feed them as much when you're at sea, do you?

01:03:58.720 The doors are low.

01:04:01.200 Fewer naval biscuits.

01:04:02.220 It does strike me as odd that they have to do this every four years, though.

01:04:06.720 It seems like a lot of work, doesn't it?

01:04:08.860 Well, yeah, we do the state opening of parliament every four or five years.

01:04:12.960 Every year.

01:04:14.240 Oh, every year, yeah.

01:04:15.280 Every year.

01:04:15.900 Yeah, you're right.

01:04:16.240 I mean, the Americans, they're going to hate me for saying this, but the Americans, compared

01:04:24.640 to us, anyway, compared to a lot of European nations, haven't got much, much pageantry.

01:04:30.300 No.

01:04:31.020 Compared to somewhere like France or Britain.

01:04:35.300 No, this is very pageant-lite.

01:04:36.800 This is diet pageant.

01:04:37.980 Right.

01:04:39.040 So, I'd say let them do it.

01:04:41.860 I'm just glad to hear the final takeover of America.

01:04:44.160 So, don't crop that.

01:04:48.460 Well, I mean, they were all calling him.

01:04:49.880 Oh, he's, I mean, literally, just before the election, he's literally Hitler, all of them.

01:04:53.980 Suddenly, like, yeah, by the way, he's a Nazi.

01:04:55.740 It's like, okay, now they're all bending the knee.

01:04:57.340 Now, Joe Biden's like, thanks very much.

01:04:58.820 Like, okay, you've just handed over America to Hitler, you liars.

01:05:02.800 I like the paintings in the back.

01:05:03.860 Did you catch those paintings?

01:05:05.100 They're huge.

01:05:06.420 I didn't, actually.

01:05:07.580 Yeah, I think they're from the Revolutionary War, aren't they?

01:05:10.600 They're, like, the images around them.

01:05:13.140 You'll see them in a minute.

01:05:14.040 Yeah, they've got some enormous paintings.

01:05:16.440 Painted.

01:05:16.880 There we go.

01:05:17.220 Look at that.

01:05:17.820 Look at them.

01:05:19.380 The size of the painting does dictate how good it is.

01:05:22.860 It's definitely one of the factors.

01:05:24.440 I pay for the art by the pound.

01:05:25.920 Thanks very much.

01:05:30.640 To be fair, when I went to Venice and went to lots of the art galleries, I was struck by

01:05:34.480 how big some of the paintings are.

01:05:36.220 Yeah.

01:05:37.120 Yeah.

01:05:38.280 I mean, you know, fair enough.

01:05:40.460 I appreciate it.

01:05:41.760 They're not very practical in this day and age, but on a nice manor house wall.

01:05:45.640 Yes.

01:05:46.140 You just need a bigger house.

01:05:48.320 Or a house full stop.

01:05:49.340 God, I really hope that just the, there's just the sort of cascading effect of Trump basically

01:05:56.860 speaking and the rest of the world being like, okay, you know, we kind of have to do something

01:06:00.840 about this.

01:06:01.780 As in, like, Keir Starmer.

01:06:03.000 Just, I hope he's, one of the first things grills Keir Starmer.

01:06:07.040 Chews him out.

01:06:07.920 Keir, why are you being tired?

01:06:09.460 Because remember, we are supposed to have the, quote unquote, special relationship,

01:06:13.440 which has never really been particularly special from our point of view, to be perfectly honest.

01:06:16.960 They've thrown us under the bus a number of times.

01:06:18.140 Well, no, I mean, we are the ones who think it's a special relationship.

01:06:21.640 Yeah, American.

01:06:22.040 We fool ourselves into thinking of it.

01:06:23.140 As far as the American is concerned, they only have a special relationship with Israel.

01:06:26.620 They don't have a special relationship with us.

01:06:28.220 So Biden was a bit different, but usually, often, the first phone call to a foreign head

01:06:33.080 of state is Britain.

01:06:34.320 Right.

01:06:34.780 Often.

01:06:35.040 I mean, as I say, Biden was different, because Biden was, he thought of himself as Irish.

01:06:39.580 So he hates Britain.

01:06:40.380 Even though he wasn't born in Ireland, got an Irish passport, or could speak Irish or

01:06:44.340 anything, but he's Irish, yeah, right, okay.

01:06:47.140 He particularly hates England, but otherwise, it's often to the PM.

01:06:52.060 It's safe to say that Keir Starmer is not getting the first phone call.

01:06:56.380 I wouldn't have thought so.

01:06:57.440 I wouldn't have thought so.

01:06:58.400 Unless it's to chew him out.

01:06:59.680 Yeah.

01:07:00.620 It would be funny if it's like, Keir, I hate your fire.

01:07:03.280 Yeah.

01:07:05.040 Just a one word, beginning with C, insult, slam the phone down.

01:07:09.540 Glory, glory, and a year performed there by the Armed Forces Chorus and the United States

01:07:14.560 Navy.

01:07:15.400 It would be funny if he just said, look, we're stopping all the Trident missiles that we

01:07:19.640 sell you.

01:07:20.960 We get all our nukes directly from America.

01:07:23.200 I know, but imagine what the stock was.

01:07:25.000 We're going to stop all of that.

01:07:25.940 Wait until the current stock is sort of past its sell-by date.

01:07:29.360 Yeah.

01:07:30.400 So we've got no nuclear coverage.

01:07:31.800 And then he's like, right, now you're doing what I say, or I'm sending in the Atlantic

01:07:35.880 fleet.

01:07:36.940 How about that?

01:07:37.780 Well, I mean, I don't really want that, but I do.

01:07:40.020 Don't give them ideas.

01:07:41.280 I do want Keir Starmer to be forced out of office, basically.

01:07:45.940 Well, I mean, he's doing a good job by himself.

01:07:47.780 Yeah, yeah.

01:07:48.240 I mean, to be fair, if Trump does nothing, Keir Starmer's probably on borrowed time.

01:07:52.180 And the 47th President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump.

01:08:06.320 It's the one you're swearing in.

01:08:07.700 It's funny that the political language in Britain...

01:08:16.220 Thank you, by the way, it's coming, Keir.

01:08:18.020 Happy inauguration day to you, too.

01:08:19.820 Yes.

01:08:20.500 We're here in Parliament, by the way.

01:08:24.320 Oh, look at that face.

01:08:28.160 Winning.

01:08:30.000 That's a rare Pepe right now.

01:08:31.460 Thank you very much, everybody.

01:08:32.660 Wow.

01:08:32.880 Thank you very, very much.

01:08:37.200 Vice President Vance,

01:08:39.580 Speaker Johnson,

01:08:41.400 Senator Thune,

01:08:43.620 Chief Justice Roberts,

01:08:46.160 Justices of the

01:08:47.960 United States

01:08:50.160 Supreme Court,

01:08:52.740 President Clinton,

01:08:54.340 President Bush,

01:08:56.000 President Obama,

01:08:58.040 President Biden,

01:09:00.400 Vice President Harris,

01:09:02.880 and my fellow

01:09:04.000 citizens.

01:09:06.000 The golden age of America

01:09:07.560 begins right now.

01:09:13.200 That's funny.

01:09:14.960 Biden and Kamala not clapping.

01:09:16.720 Yeah.

01:09:17.020 Who are you guys holding back the golden age?

01:09:18.240 It's over.

01:09:19.240 Our country will flourish

01:09:20.800 and be respected again

01:09:22.560 all over the world.

01:09:24.840 We will be the envy of every nation

01:09:26.580 and we will not allow ourselves

01:09:28.720 to be taken advantage of

01:09:30.460 any longer.

01:09:31.380 during every single day

01:09:34.440 of the Trump administration,

01:09:36.340 I will very simply

01:09:38.280 put America first.

01:09:41.060 Our sovereignty

01:09:50.760 will be reclaimed.

01:09:53.220 Our safety

01:09:54.000 will be restored.

01:09:55.960 The scales of justice

01:09:57.160 will be

01:09:58.180 rebalanced.

01:10:00.200 The vicious, violent,

01:10:01.700 and unfair

01:10:02.200 weaponization

01:10:02.980 of the Justice Department

01:10:04.760 and our government

01:10:05.660 will end.

01:10:09.800 It is a harsh environment

01:10:11.440 when it comes to

01:10:12.000 the environment.

01:10:12.340 It's brilliant.

01:10:12.780 It is a harsh environment

01:10:13.480 when it comes to

01:10:13.720 the environment.

01:10:14.220 It's brilliant.

01:10:14.620 And our top priority

01:10:16.400 will be to create a nation

01:10:18.100 that is proud,

01:10:19.620 prosperous,

01:10:20.040 and free.

01:10:21.080 America will soon be greater,

01:10:30.040 stronger,

01:10:30.520 and far more exceptional

01:10:32.940 than ever before.

01:10:35.180 I return to the presidency

01:10:41.520 confident and optimistic

01:10:43.240 that we are at the start

01:10:45.040 of a thrilling new era

01:10:46.320 of national success.

01:10:47.900 A tide of change

01:10:50.100 is sweeping the country.

01:10:51.500 Sunlight is pouring

01:10:52.580 over the entire world.

01:10:54.660 And America has the chance

01:10:56.180 to seize this opportunity

01:10:57.660 like never before.

01:10:59.860 But first,

01:11:00.700 we must be honest

01:11:01.560 about the challenges

01:11:02.700 we face.

01:11:04.300 While they are plentiful,

01:11:05.780 they will be annihilated

01:11:06.920 by this great momentum

01:11:08.320 that the world

01:11:09.420 is now witnessing

01:11:10.380 in the United States

01:11:11.720 of America.

01:11:13.500 As we gather today,

01:11:15.000 our government confronts

01:11:16.280 a crisis of trust.

01:11:17.900 For many years,

01:11:19.040 a radical and corrupt

01:11:20.300 establishment

01:11:21.060 has extracted power

01:11:23.140 and wealth

01:11:23.580 from our citizens

01:11:24.420 while the pillars

01:11:25.260 of our society

01:11:26.200 lay broken

01:11:27.340 and seemingly

01:11:28.040 in complete disrepair.

01:11:31.420 We now have a government

01:11:32.460 that cannot manage

01:11:33.560 even a simple crisis

01:11:34.740 at home

01:11:35.300 while at the same time

01:11:37.080 stumbling into

01:11:37.900 a continuing catalog

01:11:39.260 of catastrophic events abroad.

01:11:42.140 It fails to protect

01:11:43.640 our magnificent

01:11:44.520 law-abiding

01:11:45.440 American citizens

01:11:46.680 but provide sanctuary

01:11:48.700 and protection

01:11:49.680 for dangerous criminals,

01:11:51.480 many from prisons

01:11:52.520 and mental institutions

01:11:53.980 that have illegally entered

01:11:56.120 our country

01:11:56.700 from all over the world.

01:11:58.980 We have a government

01:11:59.780 that has given

01:12:00.580 unlimited funding

01:12:01.700 to the defense

01:12:02.700 of foreign borders

01:12:03.700 but refuses to defend

01:12:06.060 American borders

01:12:07.400 or, more importantly,

01:12:09.540 its own people.

01:12:11.320 Our country can no longer

01:12:12.540 deliver basic services

01:12:14.000 in times of emergency

01:12:15.460 as recently shown

01:12:16.900 by the wonderful people

01:12:19.560 of North Carolina

01:12:21.160 who have been treated

01:12:22.100 so badly.

01:12:22.840 and other states

01:12:28.880 who are still suffering

01:12:30.020 from a hurricane

01:12:30.820 that took place

01:12:31.720 many months ago

01:12:32.640 or more recently

01:12:34.420 Los Angeles

01:12:35.240 where we are watching

01:12:36.480 fires still tragically burn.

01:12:39.680 From weeks ago

01:12:40.440 without even a token

01:12:42.400 of defense,

01:12:44.300 they're raging

01:12:44.900 through the houses

01:12:45.780 and communities

01:12:46.700 even affecting

01:12:47.500 some of the wealthiest

01:12:48.880 and most powerful individuals

01:12:50.480 in our country

01:12:51.340 some of whom

01:12:52.060 are sitting here

01:12:52.880 right now.

01:12:54.680 They don't have a home

01:12:55.700 any longer.

01:12:57.080 That's interesting.

01:12:58.940 But we can't let this happen.

01:13:01.540 Everyone is unable to

01:13:03.680 do anything about it

01:13:05.440 that's going to change.

01:13:07.220 We have a public health system

01:13:08.760 that does not deliver

01:13:09.880 in times of disaster

01:13:11.080 yet more money is spent on it

01:13:12.880 than any country

01:13:14.260 anywhere in the world.

01:13:15.760 And we have an education system

01:13:17.960 that teaches our children

01:13:19.160 to be ashamed of themselves

01:13:20.760 in many cases

01:13:21.720 to hate our country

01:13:23.300 despite the love

01:13:24.380 that we try so desperately

01:13:25.960 to provide to them.

01:13:28.120 All of this will change

01:13:29.820 starting today

01:13:31.540 and it will change

01:13:32.840 very quickly.

01:13:36.560 What sort of Biden

01:13:37.880 and Kamala's bases

01:13:39.060 they look

01:13:39.580 It's a very American thing

01:13:41.940 to weep.

01:13:43.240 They're sat behind them

01:13:44.320 and they look

01:13:44.740 My recent election

01:13:45.700 is a mandate

01:13:46.500 to completely

01:13:47.500 and totally reverse

01:13:48.900 a horrible betrayal

01:13:51.940 and all of these

01:13:54.140 many betrayals

01:13:55.620 that have taken place

01:13:57.020 and to give the people

01:13:59.080 back their faith

01:14:00.220 their wealth

01:14:01.340 their democracy

01:14:02.660 and indeed

01:14:03.920 their

01:14:04.600 from this moment on

01:14:06.840 America's decline

01:14:08.840 is over.

01:14:10.300 Our liberties

01:14:21.140 and our nation's

01:14:22.300 glorious destiny

01:14:23.460 will no longer

01:14:25.140 be denied

01:14:25.920 and we will immediately

01:14:27.480 restore the integrity

01:14:28.880 competency

01:14:29.640 and loyalty

01:14:30.580 of America's government.

01:14:33.580 Over the past

01:14:34.200 eight years

01:14:34.800 I have been tested

01:14:35.740 and challenged

01:14:36.440 more than any president

01:14:37.700 in our 250 year history

01:14:39.720 and I've learned a lot

01:14:42.120 along the way

01:14:43.080 the journey

01:14:44.440 to reclaim

01:14:45.600 our republic

01:14:46.480 has not been

01:14:48.120 an easy one

01:14:49.040 that I can tell you.

01:14:50.660 Those who wish

01:14:51.700 to stop our cause

01:14:53.340 have tried

01:14:54.400 to take my freedom

01:14:55.720 and indeed

01:14:57.240 to take my life.

01:14:59.660 Just a few months ago

01:15:01.300 in a beautiful

01:15:02.060 Pennsylvania field

01:15:03.260 an assassin's bullet

01:15:04.380 ripped through

01:15:05.060 my ear

01:15:06.020 but I felt then

01:15:08.860 and believe

01:15:09.320 even more so now

01:15:10.620 that my life

01:15:11.600 was saved

01:15:12.260 for a reason.

01:15:14.420 I was saved

01:15:15.260 by God

01:15:16.020 to make America

01:15:17.660 great again.

01:15:22.260 Look at your faces.

01:15:28.700 Jesus.

01:15:30.060 Even Bill Clinton

01:15:31.020 was leaning into Hillary

01:15:32.060 instead of giving her

01:15:32.820 a nudge

01:15:33.120 and I went

01:15:33.420 that was good.

01:15:35.060 I didn't see that.

01:15:36.900 I don't vote

01:15:37.340 for this guy.

01:15:38.440 Thank you very much.

01:15:49.160 That is why

01:15:50.120 each day

01:15:50.780 under our

01:15:51.680 administration

01:15:52.380 of American patriots

01:15:54.980 we will be working

01:15:56.680 to meet every crisis

01:15:57.940 with dignity

01:15:58.780 and power

01:15:59.540 and strength.

01:16:01.080 We will move

01:16:02.260 with purpose

01:16:03.160 and speed

01:16:03.840 to bring back hope

01:16:04.920 prosperity

01:16:05.960 safety

01:16:06.600 and peace

01:16:07.500 for citizens

01:16:08.220 of every race

01:16:09.660 religion

01:16:10.720 color

01:16:11.380 and creed.

01:16:13.400 For American citizens

01:16:14.800 January 20th

01:16:16.560 2025

01:16:17.320 is

01:16:18.360 Liberation Day.

01:16:20.200 victory.

01:16:20.580 It is my hope

01:16:30.820 that our recent

01:16:31.560 presidential election

01:16:32.780 will be remembered

01:16:33.840 as the greatest

01:16:34.780 and most consequential

01:16:36.200 election

01:16:36.740 in the history

01:16:37.760 of our country.

01:16:39.480 As our victory showed,

01:16:41.120 the entire nation

01:16:41.980 is rapidly unifying

01:16:43.440 behind our agenda

01:16:45.020 with dramatic increases

01:16:46.560 in support from virtually

01:16:47.960 every element

01:16:48.820 of our society.

01:16:49.740 Young and old,

01:16:51.300 men and women,

01:16:52.680 African Americans,

01:16:53.900 Hispanic Americans,

01:16:55.140 Asian Americans,

01:16:56.700 urban, suburban,

01:16:57.880 rural,

01:16:58.840 and very importantly,

01:17:00.040 we had a powerful win

01:17:01.560 in all seven swing states

01:17:03.800 and the popular vote

01:17:05.840 we won by millions

01:17:07.200 of people.

01:17:13.140 To the black

01:17:14.200 and Hispanic communities,

01:17:15.700 I want to thank you

01:17:17.280 for the tremendous

01:17:18.380 outpouring of love

01:17:19.660 and trust

01:17:20.280 that you have shown me

01:17:22.460 with your vote.

01:17:24.000 We set records

01:17:25.280 and I will not forget it.

01:17:28.240 I've heard your voices

01:17:29.560 in the campaign

01:17:30.500 and I look forward

01:17:31.280 to working with you

01:17:32.340 in the years to come.

01:17:34.780 Today is Martin Luther King Day

01:17:36.580 and his honor,

01:17:38.100 this will be a great honor,

01:17:40.040 but in his honor,

01:17:41.060 we will strive

01:17:42.040 together to make his dream

01:17:44.220 a reality.

01:17:46.240 We will make his dream

01:17:47.700 come true.

01:17:54.620 Thank you.

01:17:59.500 Clap, Biden.

01:18:01.360 Come on.

01:18:02.920 Clap, Biden.

01:18:05.320 Making Martin Luther King's

01:18:06.720 dream come true,

01:18:07.480 that's not what I signed up for.

01:18:08.740 Unity is now returning

01:18:10.920 to America

01:18:12.880 and confidence

01:18:14.300 and pride

01:18:15.240 is soaring

01:18:15.940 like never before.

01:18:18.540 In everything we do,

01:18:19.660 my administration

01:18:20.360 will be inspired

01:18:21.600 by a strong pursuit

01:18:22.800 of excellence

01:18:23.440 and unrelenting success.

01:18:26.080 We will not forget

01:18:26.960 our country,

01:18:28.340 we will not forget

01:18:29.240 our Constitution,

01:18:30.980 and we will not forget

01:18:33.260 our God.

01:18:35.320 Can't do that.

01:18:36.840 Thank you.

01:18:39.500 Thank you.

01:18:40.240 Thank you.

01:18:42.560 Thank you.

01:18:43.300 Thank you.

01:18:47.600 Today I will sign

01:18:48.680 a series of historic

01:18:50.360 executive orders.

01:18:52.000 With these actions,

01:18:53.400 we will begin

01:18:54.140 the complete restoration

01:18:55.540 of America

01:18:56.560 and the revolution

01:18:58.180 of common sense.

01:19:00.380 It's all about

01:19:01.100 common sense.

01:19:02.100 First, I will declare a national emergency at our southern border.

01:19:16.100 The voters are completely impassioned.

01:19:19.100 Completely.

01:19:20.100 Not a flicker.

01:19:21.100 Yeah.

01:19:22.100 Joe Biden, president, responsible for nothing.

01:19:27.100 Pana Lamey didn't thank all the white people that turned out to vote for him.

01:19:31.100 The black and Latinos, everyone else are too bad.

01:19:36.100 All illegal entry will immediately be halted,

01:19:40.100 and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions

01:19:44.100 of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came.

01:19:49.100 We will reinstate my Remain in Mexico policy.

01:19:57.100 I will end the practice of catch and release.

01:20:07.100 And I will send troops to the southern border

01:20:10.100 to repel the disastrous invasion of our country.

01:20:14.100 Music to my ears, man.

01:20:16.100 We have a Navy.

01:20:18.100 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:20:19.100 Under the orders I signed today, we will also be designating the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.

01:20:29.100 Our segment.

01:20:30.100 Earlier.

01:20:31.100 Oh, he must have been watching.

01:20:35.100 It's so good, though.

01:20:36.100 I've said all of this stuff, man.

01:20:37.100 Imagine Delta, the Navy Seer, which is taking on the cartels.

01:20:41.100 Off.

01:20:42.100 We love them.

01:20:43.100 We love them.

01:20:44.100 Yeah, we love them.

01:20:45.100 And by invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, I will direct our government to use the full and immense power of federal and state law enforcement

01:20:57.100 to eliminate the presence of all foreign gangs and criminal networks, bringing devastating crime to U.S. soil, including our cities and inner cities.

01:21:09.100 Good place.

01:21:10.100 Absolutely.

01:21:11.100 It's just hard force on the General Mall.

01:21:16.100 I'm missing a man.

01:21:17.100 We're sending in the military.

01:21:18.100 Commander in Chief, I have no higher responsibility than to defend our country from threats and invasions, and that is exactly what I am going to do.

01:21:27.100 We will do it at a level that nobody's ever seen before.

01:21:30.100 Next, I will direct all members of my cabinet to marshal the vast powers at their disposal to defeat what was record inflation and rapidly bring down costs and prices.

01:21:49.100 The inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices.

01:21:55.100 And that is why today I will also declare a national energy emergency.

01:22:00.100 He has this whole time.

01:22:01.100 We will drill, baby, drill.

01:22:04.100 It still looks like he's on an E or something.

01:22:07.100 Yeah.

01:22:08.100 He's over the main.

01:22:09.100 And Bill's just like, well, this is a brilliant idea.

01:22:11.100 Why didn't you ever be there?

01:22:14.100 To be fair, Trump donated to Clinton in the 90s.

01:22:17.100 He definitely did.

01:22:18.100 I know he did.

01:22:19.100 And so he probably sees him as his guy in a way.

01:22:22.100 Bill Clinton's, like, 90s pulses.

01:22:24.100 America will be a manufacturing nation once again.

01:22:27.100 And we have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have.

01:22:32.100 The largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth.

01:22:36.100 And we are going to use it.

01:22:39.100 We will use it.

01:22:40.100 We will bring prices down.

01:22:45.100 Fill our strategic reserves up again, right to the top.

01:22:50.100 And export American energy all over the world.

01:22:55.100 We will be a rich nation again.

01:23:00.100 And it is that liquid gold under our feet that will help to do it.

01:23:07.100 With my actions today, we will end the Green New Deal.

01:23:10.100 And we will revoke the electric vehicle mandate.

01:23:14.100 Saving our auto industry and keeping my sacred pledge to our great American autoworkers.

01:23:20.100 Detroit what, baby?

01:23:21.100 Detroit.

01:23:22.100 I need your hat backwards for that one.

01:23:23.100 In other words, you'll be able to buy the car of your choice.

01:23:38.100 We will build automobiles in America again at a rate that nobody could have dreamt possible just a few years ago.

01:23:45.100 And thank you to the autoworkers of our nation for your inspiring vote of confidence.

01:23:51.100 We did tremendously with their vote.

01:23:56.100 I will immediately begin the overhaul of our trade system to protect American workers and families.

01:24:05.100 Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens.

01:24:15.100 For this purpose, we are establishing the external revenue service to collect all tariffs, duties and revenues.

01:24:32.100 It will be massive amounts of money pouring into our treasury coming from foreign sources.

01:24:39.100 The American dream will soon be back and thriving like never before to restore competence and effectiveness to our federal government.

01:24:47.100 My administration will establish the brand new department of government efficiency.

01:24:54.100 So any Americans watching, please send a donation or super chat now before tariffs are enforced.

01:25:00.100 After years and years of illegal and unconstitutional federal efforts to restrict free expression,

01:25:13.100 I will also sign an executive order to immediately stop all government censorship

01:25:19.100 and bring back free speech to America.

01:25:25.100 Indeed.

01:25:26.100 Yeah.

01:25:27.100 Get her done.

01:25:32.100 That's the way it should be.

01:25:33.100 A travesty there.

01:25:34.100 A person has to stand up and say that.

01:25:35.100 Yeah.

01:25:39.100 Super.

01:25:40.100 That again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political abonnements.

01:25:45.100 Thank you.

01:25:48.100 Something I know something about.

01:25:50.100 We will not allow that to happen.

01:25:51.100 It will not happen again under my leadership.

01:25:55.100 We will restore fair, equal and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law.

01:26:01.100 We are going to bring law and order back to our cities.

01:26:10.780 It's just everything.

01:26:14.540 It's just the Democrats suck and I'm going to destroy them.

01:26:17.340 I will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender

01:26:23.420 into every aspect of public and private life.

01:26:26.380 I like the fact that he's not leaving anything out.

01:26:32.380 He's literally doing everything everyone wants.

01:26:34.380 We will forge a society that is colorblind and merit-based.

01:26:40.380 Merit.

01:26:41.380 Merit.

01:26:42.380 So on your point, Karl, Polly Market has got all the base things that he could do

01:26:46.380 and he's just batting greed.

01:26:48.380 It will be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders,

01:26:54.380 male and female.

01:26:56.380 You know, 100 years time people, why would he have to say that?

01:27:02.380 Yeah.

01:27:03.380 Like, what was that?

01:27:04.380 That's weird.

01:27:05.380 Yeah.

01:27:06.380 The lecturer will have to pause and go deep on a few bits.

01:27:09.380 Little asterisk note.

01:27:10.380 There were people who believed there were more than two genders back then because they were

01:27:13.380 mental.

01:27:14.380 I will reinstate any service members who were unjustly expelled from our military for objecting

01:27:20.380 to the COVID vaccine mandate with full back pain.

01:27:24.380 Nice.

01:27:25.380 Nice.

01:27:26.380 And John, do the Bitcoin reserve and Jan 6 pardons.

01:27:32.380 That's what I'm looking for now.

01:27:35.380 And I will sign in order to stop our warriors from being subjected to radical political theories

01:27:42.380 and social experiments while on duty.

01:27:45.380 It's going to end immediately.

01:27:46.380 Literally what I would ask him to say.

01:27:48.380 Just hang on.

01:27:49.380 Woke stuff.

01:27:50.380 Just calm.

01:27:51.380 Our armed forces will be agreed to focus on their sole mission.

01:27:56.380 Defeating America's enemies.

01:27:58.380 Mexicans.

01:27:59.380 I don't know who he's pointedly staring at there.

01:28:00.380 All the Democrats see this.

01:28:01.380 I love how purposefully he looks though.

01:28:02.380 Yeah.

01:28:03.380 Like he could be saying this in a much more flippant way and he's like, no, no, no, no.

01:28:19.380 Set jaws.

01:28:20.380 Yeah.

01:28:21.380 This is happening.

01:28:22.380 You can imagine a season of speeches.

01:28:23.380 Like in 2017, we will again build the strongest military the world has ever seen.

01:28:30.380 We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that

01:28:37.380 we end and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.

01:28:52.380 Thank you.

01:29:02.380 My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier.

01:29:06.380 That's what I want to be, a peacemaker and a unifier.

01:29:10.380 I'm pleased to say that as of yesterday, one day before I assumed office, the hostages

01:29:17.380 in the Middle East are coming back home to their families.

01:29:24.380 That gets a clap.

01:29:29.380 Oh, Biden's going to stand.

01:29:30.380 Oh, oh, oh.

01:29:31.380 Here we go.

01:29:32.380 Hurting the American people, totally fine.

01:29:36.380 Hey, Israelis.

01:29:37.380 No, no, no.

01:29:38.380 Thank you.

01:29:39.380 Everyone gets unified.

01:29:40.380 America will reclaim its rightful place as the greatest, most powerful,

01:29:46.380 most respected nation on earth, inspiring the awe and admiration of the entire world.

01:29:54.380 A short time from now, we are going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to

01:30:00.380 the Gulf of America.

01:30:02.380 And we will restore the name.

01:30:05.380 Oh, Jesus.

01:30:07.380 He's laughing his head off.

01:30:08.380 William McKinley to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs.

01:30:13.380 Why not?

01:30:15.380 It's great.

01:30:16.380 He loves McKinley, doesn't he?

01:30:17.380 We were talking about that earlier today that Trump's inspiration for the tariffs comes

01:30:20.380 from McKinley.

01:30:21.380 Oh, does it?

01:30:22.380 Yeah.

01:30:23.380 This is fantastic.

01:30:24.380 This is fantastic.

01:30:25.380 He's got to be very rich.

01:30:26.380 He's got to be very rich through tariffs and through talent.

01:30:28.380 He was a natural businessman and gave Teddy Roosevelt the money for many of the great things

01:30:34.380 he did, including the Panama Canal, which has foolishly been given to the country of Panama

01:30:40.380 after the United States.

01:30:43.380 The United States, I mean, think of this, spent more money than ever spent on a project before

01:30:49.380 and lost 38,000 lives in the building of the Panama Canal.

01:30:55.380 Panama Canal.

01:30:56.380 We have been treated very badly from this foolish gift that should have never been made.

01:31:02.380 And Panama's promise to us has been broken.

01:31:06.380 The purpose of our deal and the spirit of our treaty has been totally violated.

01:31:11.380 American ships are being severely overcharged and not treated fairly in any way, shape or

01:31:20.380 form, and that includes the United States Navy.

01:31:23.380 And above all, China is operating the Panama Canal.

01:31:27.380 And we didn't give it to China.

01:31:29.380 We gave it to Panama and we're taking it back.

01:31:34.380 Oh, this is new.

01:31:36.380 Pretty new.

01:31:37.380 This is the Palpatine segment of the speech where he talks about the new empire.

01:31:42.380 I mean, everybody thought that was a negotiating tactic, but no, we're taking it back.

01:31:48.380 I mean, they might send in the Marines to Panama.

01:31:50.380 Yeah.

01:31:51.380 What about my message to Americans today is that it is time for us to once again act with

01:31:56.380 courage, vigor and the vitality of history's greatest civilization.

01:32:01.380 So as we liberate our nation, we will lead it to new heights of victory and success.

01:32:08.380 We will not be deterred.

01:32:10.380 Together, we will end the chronic disease epidemic and keep our children safe, healthy and disease-free.

01:32:17.380 The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation.

01:32:22.380 One that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations,

01:32:29.380 and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons.

01:32:33.380 And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars.

01:32:46.380 America.

01:32:47.380 I wonder where you got that idea from.

01:32:48.380 America.

01:32:49.380 Yeah.

01:32:50.380 Whose idea that was.

01:32:51.380 Ambition is the lifeblood of a great nation, and right now our nation is more ambitious

01:33:12.380 than any other.

01:33:14.080 There's no nation like our nation.

01:33:16.260 Americans are explorers, builders, innovators, entrepreneurs, and pioneers.

01:33:23.640 The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts.

01:33:27.160 The call of the next great adventure resounds from within our souls.

01:33:34.820 Our American ancestors turned a small group of colonies on the edge of a vast continent

01:33:41.260 into a mighty republic of the most extraordinary citizens on earth.

01:33:46.640 Oh no, it's Sky News, what's going on?

01:33:49.640 Duke went off, Jesus.

01:33:51.640 Yeah, that's the EMP.

01:33:53.640 Yeah.

01:33:54.640 Come on Sky.

01:33:55.640 Yeah.

01:33:56.640 Samsung, can you find a different one?

01:33:57.640 Oh.

01:33:58.640 So I've got-

01:33:59.640 He was hitting the-

01:34:00.640 Yeah.

01:34:01.640 He was getting-

01:34:02.640 ...of human knowledge into the palm of the human hand.

01:34:07.020 Yeah.

01:34:08.020 If we work together, there is nothing we cannot do and no dream we cannot achieve.

01:34:13.760 Many people thought it was impossible for me to stage such a historic political comeback.

01:34:21.180 But as you see today, here I am, the American people have spoken.

01:34:35.560 I stand before you now as proof that you should never believe that something is impossible

01:34:49.980 to do.

01:34:51.540 In America, the impossible is what we do best.

01:35:02.200 From New York to Los Angeles, from Philadelphia to Phoenix, from Chicago to Miami, from Houston

01:35:09.220 to right here in Washington, D.C., our country was forged and built by the generations of patriots

01:35:17.040 who gave everything they had for our rights and for our freedom.

01:35:23.040 They were farmers and soldiers, cowboys and factory workers, steel workers and coal miners,

01:35:29.240 police officers and pioneers who pushed onward, marched forward, and let no obstacle defeat

01:35:35.460 their spirit or their pride.

01:35:38.600 Together, they laid down the railroads, raised up the skyscrapers, built great highways, won

01:35:45.600 two world wars, defeated fascism and communism, and triumphed over every single challenge that

01:35:53.880 they faced.

01:35:56.380 After all we have been through together, we stand on the verge of the four greatest years

01:36:00.940 in American history.

01:36:03.360 With your help, we will restore America's promise, and we will rebuild the nation that we love,

01:36:09.600 and we love it so much.

01:36:11.980 We are one people, one family, and one glorious nation under God.

01:36:16.820 So to every parent who dreams for their child, and every child who dreams for their future,

01:36:23.140 I am with you, I will fight for you, and I will win for you.

01:36:28.040 We are going to win like never before.

01:36:34.280 Thank you, thank you.

01:36:47.280 Thank you.

01:36:48.960 Thank you.

01:36:51.040 In recent years our nation has suffered greatly, but we are going to bring it back and make

01:36:56.160 it great again greater than ever before.

01:37:00.660 We will be a nation like no other, full of compassion, courage, and exceptionalism.

01:37:06.340 Our power will stop all wars and bring a new spirit of unity to a world that has been angry,

01:37:12.540 violent, and totally unpredictable.

01:37:16.120 America will be respected again and admired again, including by people of religion, faith,

01:37:22.780 and goodwill.

01:37:24.220 We will be prosperous.

01:37:25.920 We will be proud.

01:37:27.740 We will be strong, and we will win like never before.

01:37:31.860 We will not be conquered.

01:37:33.700 We will not be intimidated.

01:37:36.380 We will not be broken.

01:37:38.580 And we will not fail.

01:37:40.200 From this day on, the United States of America will be a free, sovereign, and independent nation.

01:37:46.440 We will stand bravely.

01:37:48.300 We will live proudly.

01:37:50.540 We will dream boldly.

01:37:52.820 And nothing will stand in our way because we are Americans.

01:37:56.440 The future is ours.

01:37:58.880 And our golden age has just begun.

01:38:01.960 Thank you.

01:38:02.960 God bless America.

01:38:04.220 Thank you all.

01:38:05.220 Thank you.

01:38:06.220 Thank you very much.

01:38:08.220 Thank you very much.

01:38:09.220 Thank you very much.

01:38:10.220 Thank you very much.

01:38:11.220 I can't argue with it really.

01:38:13.220 It's quite inspiring.

01:38:14.220 Yeah.

01:38:15.220 Um.

01:38:16.220 That is newly sworn in.

01:38:18.220 Right.

01:38:19.220 Now President Trump speaking to the American people for the first time as the 47 President

01:38:24.220 of the United States.

01:38:25.220 So I really need to go take this.

01:38:26.220 Promising what he called the golden age of America beginning today.

01:38:31.220 Well, that means you guys can get to talk to him.

01:38:35.220 I'm not going to say no.

01:38:37.220 Um, but, uh, yeah, so we, we will be back with you very shortly folks to discuss Trump's

01:38:43.220 speech because I thought that was really good and there's a lot in there that's really

01:38:46.220 worth pulling out.

01:38:47.220 The Panama thing.

01:38:48.220 I know.

01:38:49.220 Massive.

01:38:50.220 He didn't announce the invasion of Mexico on that bit when it was buffering.

01:38:53.220 Did he?

01:38:54.220 Well, he did.

01:38:55.220 He basically did, didn't he?

01:38:56.220 When he was like, I'm going to go after the games and cartels.

01:38:57.220 Oh yeah.

01:38:58.220 Yeah.

01:38:59.220 Yeah.

01:39:00.220 So we've got two invasions.

01:39:01.220 Yeah.

01:39:02.220 He didn't mention green man, which is surprising, but, uh, there was loads there.

01:39:06.220 He didn't mention the Bitcoin reserve, which is a bit, a bit of a shy.

01:39:09.220 Yeah.

01:39:10.220 But just, and the total condemnation of the Democrats.

01:39:13.220 Oh, no, no, no, no.

01:39:14.220 Just like, okay.

01:39:15.220 You know, like, uh, someone sent a super chat.

01:39:19.220 Um, there's a whole bunch of super chat.

01:39:22.220 Yeah, there are, but there was one particular one.

01:39:24.220 Um, I can't see now.

01:39:26.220 Uh, but, uh, it was the sheer exuding of confidence.

01:39:30.220 Oh yeah.

01:39:31.220 And the set jaw.

01:39:32.220 This was.

01:39:33.220 Yeah.

01:39:34.220 Nothing is over.

01:39:35.220 Oh yeah.

01:39:36.220 It begins.

01:39:37.220 And, and just before we go to the break, I've got a theory about Kamala and Biden.

01:39:41.220 I, I reckon that Biden has been given something and that's why I look so chilled out.

01:39:45.220 And that Kamala was offered some of the same, but she was told that you won't be able to hit the vino afterwards if you take this stuff.

01:39:52.220 And that's why she's looking like she looks like at the moment because she's getting ready to hit the bottle.

01:39:56.220 She really is.

01:39:57.220 That's my theory.

01:39:58.220 She's going to get out of there and be that right.

01:40:00.220 Yes.

01:40:03.220 Just open everything.

01:40:04.220 Right.

01:40:05.220 Are we, are we cutting to a break?

01:40:06.220 Are we on a break?

01:40:08.220 Hi folks.

01:40:09.220 Welcome back.

01:40:10.220 We are all refreshed.

01:40:11.220 And now we're going to go through some of your comments and then we're going to talk about Trump's speech because of course it was brilliant.

01:40:18.220 And there's a lot there.

01:40:20.220 In fact, there's a lot of fun stuff.

01:40:21.220 So anyway.

01:40:24.220 I've got to scroll down the list.

01:40:26.220 Sorry.

01:40:31.220 Where was I?

01:40:32.220 There we go.

01:40:33.220 The shadow band says, do you think the speech was too political and divisive or is it deserved?

01:40:38.220 Yeah.

01:40:39.220 That's the whole point of it.

01:40:40.220 Yeah.

01:40:41.220 I mean, they had it coming.

01:40:42.220 No.

01:40:43.220 It's the whole point of it.

01:40:44.220 You're supposed to like the opening of parliament.

01:40:45.220 You set out your political agenda.

01:40:46.220 That's the, that's what it is.

01:40:48.220 Just bury the Democrats.

01:40:49.220 Yeah.

01:40:50.220 Scoop dirt on their grave.

01:40:54.220 Joe looks so happy.

01:40:55.220 You know, he voted Trump.

01:40:56.220 Yeah.

01:40:57.220 There is this weird sort of satisfaction about Biden at this point, which is bizarre.

01:41:03.220 I wonder, I do wonder about the kind of structure around Biden and how much he may have ended

01:41:09.220 up coming to dislike it.

01:41:10.220 Right.

01:41:11.220 There's a lot of like, you know, the Jean-Pierre, whatever woman her name is, Kelly, the diversity

01:41:16.220 eye.

01:41:17.220 Oh, the woman who betrayed him.

01:41:18.220 Yeah.

01:41:19.220 Yeah.

01:41:20.220 Who was obviously in control of his Twitter account.

01:41:21.220 Sacked him.

01:41:22.220 Like, like, I wonder how much he've, why have I got these really annoying immigrant women

01:41:26.220 around?

01:41:27.220 Well, he totally got cooed whilst in the White House.

01:41:30.220 Yeah, exactly.

01:41:31.220 Having a nap.

01:41:32.220 Yeah.

01:41:33.220 By his own team.

01:41:34.220 So, like maybe, maybe this is.

01:41:35.220 The thing is he knew, he knew that he needed these people because he was only conscious

01:41:39.220 like half of the day.

01:41:40.220 So he couldn't get rid of them.

01:41:41.220 But at the same time, I think, I think you're right.

01:41:43.220 He resented them.

01:41:44.220 Yeah.

01:41:45.220 I get the feeling he may have done.

01:41:46.220 Do you mind if I filter in some from our subscribers as well?

01:41:49.220 Yeah, of course.

01:41:50.220 William Woods says, Carl was completely right.

01:41:52.220 History is a narrative.

01:41:53.220 And now we get to enjoy the return of the king.

01:41:56.220 Yes.

01:41:57.220 Everything humans do is a narrative, to be honest.

01:42:01.220 The, like, there are lots of people saying thank you to us.

01:42:05.220 So thank you to you back.

01:42:07.220 Yeah.

01:42:08.220 We hope the UK gets some incredible changes that we're seeing.

01:42:10.220 Yeah.

01:42:11.220 God, if only.

01:42:12.220 But I mean, who knows?

01:42:13.220 You know, 2025 is just the beginning of the year.

01:42:14.220 Things might happen.

01:42:15.220 I'm sorry.

01:42:16.220 Samson, would you mind on the screens putting the chat up for me?

01:42:19.220 On the screens in the desk screen.

01:42:22.220 Sorry, Carl.

01:42:23.220 That's all right.

01:42:24.220 Binary says, I know the theatre is spectacular, but we should judge Trump on what he does in

01:42:28.220 the first 30 to 90 days.

01:42:29.220 Not what he says.

01:42:30.220 J6 ponds for all involves when.

01:42:32.220 Well, that's the, that's the point.

01:42:33.220 Obviously we are going to judge Trump on what he does, but there's no real reason to think

01:42:37.220 he's not going to just do a bunch of the stuff that he's saying.

01:42:40.220 So that was a common theme emerging in the, in the live chat while we were going through,

01:42:45.220 which is judging more what he actually does.

01:42:47.220 Sure.

01:42:48.220 Now, when I first saw that, my first reaction was to sort of poo poo it and come back on

01:42:51.220 it.

01:42:52.220 But then actually the people were saying that to them, they are right in 2016.

01:42:56.220 He said a lot and he didn't do it.

01:42:57.220 So the wall, for example, bits of wall got built, but the wall did not get built.

01:43:01.220 Yeah.

01:43:02.220 But I think, I think, I do think the circumstances are different.

01:43:04.220 He's, he's far more powerful.

01:43:05.220 Yes.

01:43:06.220 He's crushed the opponents in the institutions, but there isn't the, the, the, the organized

01:43:11.220 resistance on the part of the establishment and the Democrats has just collapsed.

01:43:14.220 Well, and, and also I think in 2016, he was, he thought that because he was the leader

01:43:19.220 of the executive, he could issue an order and the order would be followed.

01:43:22.220 Whereas now he realizes that he has to go through the establishment.

01:43:25.220 And if you listen to his speech, it's all things like I will command the military to use

01:43:30.220 the full force of the U S reserve, the U S forces to go after the hotels.

01:43:35.220 And I mean, he's not talking about, I want this to happen.

01:43:38.220 I'm going to give an order.

01:43:39.220 He's saying, I'm going to make this happen.

01:43:41.220 And also a second term president is a different president to a first term president

01:43:48.220 always.

01:43:49.220 Especially when he controls.

01:43:50.220 Once again, you know, this is your last throw of the dice.

01:43:52.220 This is it.

01:43:53.220 Yeah.

01:43:54.220 You'll never have this.

01:43:55.220 You'll never be in that seat again.

01:43:56.220 So if you're going to do anything, if you're going to leave it all out on the field,

01:43:59.220 so to speak, now's the time.

01:44:01.220 And, um, so yeah, you have to be a bit more cautious as a first term president,

01:44:06.220 hoping to get reelected second time.

01:44:08.220 Balls to the wall.

01:44:09.220 Yeah.

01:44:10.220 Right.

01:44:11.220 Johnny says, uh, MAGA making everyone rich.

01:44:12.220 Well, they finally, um, uh, but binary is like, well, Trump just flopped it out on

01:44:17.220 China's breakfast table and said mine now.

01:44:19.220 Interesting.

01:44:20.220 That's the binary.

01:44:21.220 It's like, you know, I, I, I'm as cynical as anyone, but like, there's just no reason

01:44:26.220 to think that he's not going to do any of these things at this point.

01:44:29.220 To be honest, he seems to have been stewing for four years.

01:44:32.220 Yeah.

01:44:33.220 Planning vengeance.

01:44:34.220 He's had plenty of time to get everything prepared.

01:44:36.220 Hasn't he?

01:44:37.220 Yeah.

01:44:38.220 A team around him who, who themselves wants to make things happen.

01:44:42.220 Like, you know, I don't doubt that RFK is going to get a beef tallow and the fries

01:44:45.220 again.

01:44:46.220 He is much, much more savvy this time, obviously.

01:44:49.220 Yeah.

01:44:50.220 First time round, like putting Scaramucci in and as press secretary and all that stuff.

01:44:54.220 He made some real like day one, one Oh one sort of errors first time round.

01:44:59.220 Well, it's just simply not going to do that.

01:45:01.220 He's not doing that this time.

01:45:02.220 So an XCO says, Dan, use your network and get Anton Creel of BBC Million Dollar Traders

01:45:09.220 and a Raoul Paul to talk macros to Trump being in.

01:45:12.220 Uh, I could probably get Raoul Paul.

01:45:14.220 I don't know who the other guy is, but okay, fine.

01:45:16.220 Yeah.

01:45:17.220 I'll have a look from our, from our subscribers.

01:45:20.220 Uh, Dan is super duper ultra mega based.

01:45:23.220 Good name says we should remind ourselves that this is only happening because Trump's

01:45:27.220 head was a few inches to the side.

01:45:29.220 We easily could be living in the world where Trump was murdered on TV and Kamala is being

01:45:34.220 inaugurated as president.

01:45:35.220 It is in fact remarkable that we're not living in that world.

01:45:38.220 Yeah.

01:45:39.220 I mean, at every opportunity for the last, like what, four years, whenever the timeline

01:45:44.220 has had an opportunity to screw us, it's done that.

01:45:47.220 Apart from that one time.

01:45:48.220 Yeah.

01:45:49.220 It's funny.

01:45:50.220 It's the way with history that both, for example, Churchill, Stalin, and Hitler all

01:45:55.220 escaped death by a millimetres, various times, all of them.

01:45:59.220 Hmm.

01:46:00.220 And that's what history is.

01:46:01.220 That's what history is made out up of that.

01:46:03.220 Yeah.

01:46:04.220 Yeah.

01:46:05.220 The world would be a better place if they didn't.

01:46:07.220 Spread that one out there.

01:46:09.220 Sure.

01:46:10.220 I mean, you know, at the end of the day, we're in the timeline we're in.

01:46:12.220 That's true.

01:46:13.220 Maybe that artillery shell had landed on Churchill's tent an hour earlier.

01:46:17.220 So, uh, we've got a, we haven't got a full transcript of the speech yet.

01:46:21.220 Um, if anyone finds one, do send it across.

01:46:23.220 Um, but I thought we'd go through just some of the things, uh, that he's pointing out.

01:46:27.220 Uh, cause they've got some clips and, uh, you know, he said a tide of change is sweeping

01:46:32.220 the country.

01:46:33.220 Someone is pouring into the entire world in America's chance to seize this opportunity

01:46:35.220 like never before.

01:46:36.220 Uh, but first must be honest about the challenges we face.

01:46:38.220 And then he begins just literally laying into Biden.

01:46:41.220 I mean, this was just, I really enjoyed it.

01:46:45.220 Uh, just to, again, it wasn't a unifying speech, right?

01:46:48.220 What he was doing is naming the previous establishment.

01:46:53.220 Biden, all of the people below me and the, the heads of the agencies, all of these people

01:46:58.220 who were part of like the Biden.

01:47:00.220 No, they're all under the bus and everyone else is with Trump.

01:47:04.220 They are yesterday's men.

01:47:05.220 They're all gone.

01:47:06.220 They're all out.

01:47:07.220 It's basically what you're saying.

01:47:08.220 Well, that, that is a lot broader than Biden cannot handle a simple crisis.

01:47:12.220 That's the government cannot handle a simple crisis.

01:47:14.220 The entire government, everything complicit with Biden's regime under the bus.

01:47:20.220 One thing that I got from all of that was that he's setting up a sort of cast's belly

01:47:24.220 for radical action.

01:47:26.220 Yeah.

01:47:27.220 He's sort of gathered from the tone of his speech, all of these failures.

01:47:31.220 He kept it as broad as possible to justify his actions against as many people as possible.

01:47:36.220 Really?

01:47:37.220 I mean, it was sort of scathing criticism and deserve it.

01:47:41.220 Of course.

01:47:42.220 Yeah.

01:47:43.220 Completely.

01:47:44.220 Yeah.

01:47:45.220 Not really pulling any punches.

01:47:46.220 Well, no, it's not criticism of Biden specifically.

01:47:49.220 It's criticism of the entire structure that propped Biden up.

01:47:53.220 And so you are right.

01:47:54.220 I think he is essentially giving himself cast's belly to fire anyone he wants in these institutions

01:48:01.220 and saying no, because it failed to protect our magnificent law abiding citizens, but provided

01:48:05.220 sanctuary and protection for dangerous criminals.

01:48:07.220 Yeah.

01:48:08.220 I mean, what backwards, mental, demented organization was Biden running?

01:48:14.220 And if Trump just flips the entire thing essentially on his head and says no, all the

01:48:17.220 criminals are getting punished and all the citizens are being protected, then that just

01:48:21.220 invalidates everything Biden did to bring social justice to America.

01:48:25.220 This is complete invalidation of everything about Biden's regime.

01:48:28.220 What I quite enjoyed watching, well, it was frustrating, but enjoyed watching over the

01:48:32.220 last four years is all sorts of Democrat nominees, appointees, largely for sort of the higher

01:48:41.220 circuit of judges and all that sort of thing.

01:48:43.220 And they're picking the most, the most sort of insane, not literally blue haired, but blue

01:48:49.220 haired type crazed, globalist, feminist, Karen, weirdo freaks.

01:48:56.220 High BMI diversity kind of thing.

01:48:58.220 Yeah.

01:48:59.220 Yeah.

01:49:00.220 And so, yeah, it's the entire edifice that sat below Biden.

01:49:03.220 Yes.

01:49:04.220 Is, is, is to blame.

01:49:06.220 It's not, it's obviously not really Biden, is it?

01:49:09.220 He was just this doddery old.

01:49:11.220 He's just a figurehead.

01:49:12.220 Something from the crypt sitting on top of it as a figurehead.

01:49:15.220 He's a mascot really.

01:49:17.220 Yeah.

01:49:18.220 Yeah.

01:49:19.220 And then, then he just started listing Biden's numerous failings and the Biden regime's

01:49:22.220 numerous failings, obviously the entire structure.

01:49:25.220 Um, but this, the, I mean, again, we have a government that has given unlimited funding

01:49:29.220 to defense of foreign wars, but refuse to defend Americans, borders or its own people.

01:49:33.220 I mean, that is just like you, it's hard to find a more damning indictment.

01:49:39.220 Yeah.

01:49:40.220 And again, in a hundred years time, people are like, well, how could that have been?

01:49:42.220 So yeah, that great question.

01:49:44.220 Your main charge, your only real charge is to protect the American people.

01:49:48.220 Of which.

01:49:49.220 It's literally your only job.

01:49:50.220 Yeah.

01:49:51.220 You've signally failed to do for straight years.

01:49:53.220 Also throughout this, listen to how weighty each of these points are.

01:49:56.220 When it's the other way around, when it's a Democrat president giving the speech while

01:50:00.220 a former Republican is having to sit there, the Democrat gets to say things like, okay,

01:50:05.220 now we're going to have hope.

01:50:06.220 Now we're going to have change.

01:50:07.220 Now we're going to have justice.

01:50:08.220 It's hairy.

01:50:09.220 It's all this Millie Mouse stuff, but this is just solid.

01:50:13.220 All of it.

01:50:14.220 Yeah.

01:50:15.220 Yeah.

01:50:16.220 Health and education system, of course, needs overhaul.

01:50:18.220 Clearly.

01:50:20.220 We have an education system that teaches our children to be ashamed of themselves.

01:50:23.220 In many cases, they hate our country.

01:50:25.220 But that is such a powerful point.

01:50:27.220 Like you say, it's so direct and it's, it's directly condemning everything the left

01:50:32.220 has been doing for the past 20 years.

01:50:33.220 It's just like, no, that's, that's stops now.

01:50:36.220 And I've, that's like the eye of Sauron is now controlled by Trump.

01:50:40.220 And so when we were like, Oh God, it's looking at us.

01:50:42.220 They must be like, Oh God, it's looking at us.

01:50:44.220 And so, yeah, no, it's, that's it.

01:50:45.220 It's looking at you.

01:50:46.220 You know, you blue haired teacher who's more concerned about making sure the kids get

01:50:50.220 your correct pronouns.

01:50:51.220 Yeah.

01:50:52.220 The eye of Sauron's on you now.

01:50:53.220 You know, how do you feel about this?

01:50:55.220 You know, you better, better be prepared.

01:50:57.220 Hopefully again, come on, Trump.

01:50:59.220 You've got to make this happen.

01:51:00.220 I mean, there are actual adults in the room now.

01:51:02.220 Yes.

01:51:03.220 I literally had the case where white boys would have to stand up in classrooms and apologize

01:51:07.220 for what they are.

01:51:08.220 Yes.

01:51:09.220 And it stops.

01:51:10.220 I was disappointed.

01:51:11.220 He didn't announce the implementation of whaling battalions to deal with the, the woke

01:51:16.220 school teacher crisis.

01:51:18.220 Well, that's implied.

01:51:19.220 I don't mean it explicitly, but all of this will change starting today and it will change

01:51:24.220 very quickly.

01:51:25.220 I can't believe that to be honest.

01:51:26.220 You know, I think this could change really, really quickly.

01:51:29.220 It was just will from the top.

01:51:31.220 And if, why would he be saying all of this if he didn't have it?

01:51:34.220 Yeah.

01:51:35.220 Well, you've got to think there's a lot of people in all of these organizations who are

01:51:38.220 desperately uncomfortable with what's going on, but they just haven't dared speak out

01:51:42.220 where he's now just giving them air cover to, you know, stop, start sorting this out

01:51:46.220 and I've got your back.

01:51:47.220 Unfortunately, that's all they've got in this one.

01:51:49.220 It is often the way that the average person who's got no direct influence on policy or

01:51:55.220 government in any way, they're looking for an indication of carte blanche from the government

01:52:01.220 that it's okay to do this or say this now.

01:52:04.220 Right.

01:52:05.220 And so the left have had that for the last four years.

01:52:08.220 Yeah.

01:52:09.220 It's okay to shame white boys for being born white and a boy.

01:52:12.220 Okay.

01:52:13.220 So now it's.

01:52:14.220 Well, Biden did that very explicitly.

01:52:16.220 With Elon, he stood up and said, we've got to go after this guy talking about Elon.

01:52:21.220 And that's when all the sort of legalistic bullshit started happening and they started

01:52:24.220 going after him because his rockets might be deafening a shark or something like that.

01:52:28.220 All sorts of crazy stuff.

01:52:30.220 Whereas Trump's just done the kind of opposite of it.

01:52:32.220 While Carl's pulling up a longer list of this, I saw another interesting comment from

01:52:36.220 our lovely subscriber, George Christmas, who said, quick fun fact, the Capitol building

01:52:41.220 is older than the Palace of Westminster.

01:52:43.220 Yeah.

01:52:44.220 The Palace of Westminster was built in the 18th century.

01:52:46.220 The rebuilt Palace of Westminster.

01:52:47.220 Yeah.

01:52:48.220 Not the, not the great hall or something.

01:52:49.220 There has been a Palace of Westminster there for centuries longer than the Capitol building.

01:52:54.220 Yeah.

01:52:55.220 If you go back to the late 18th century, there was, Washington DC was a marsh.

01:52:59.220 Yes.

01:53:00.220 Nothing but a marsh.

01:53:01.220 But, but the palace.

01:53:02.220 Technically speaking.

01:53:03.220 Okay.

01:53:04.220 But in reality, you're out by centuries.

01:53:07.220 That's brutal dishing out of history today.

01:53:12.220 Full text of the speech.

01:53:14.220 Basic Base Ape says, it might be cold in Washington, but lizards don't feel the cold.

01:53:19.220 My better security reasons.

01:53:20.220 I think lizards do have a cold.

01:53:22.220 I imagine lizards probably do feel the cold.

01:53:24.220 They're going to be warmed up by the sun, don't they?

01:53:26.220 Yeah.

01:53:27.220 Otherwise they can't move.

01:53:28.220 Human mammals, don't they?

01:53:29.220 Yeah.

01:53:30.220 In a sense.

01:53:31.220 Let's call up David Icke.

01:53:32.220 I get the point they're making though.

01:53:33.220 It's a funny point anyway.

01:53:34.220 But okay.

01:53:35.220 So just other, other amazing points from this feature.

01:53:37.220 The, the Panama Canal stuff.

01:53:39.220 Right.

01:53:40.220 Yeah.

01:53:41.220 Go for it.

01:53:42.220 I want to go off on that.

01:53:43.220 Um, well, so they built that it was, wasn't it largely under, um, Teddy Roosevelt, but anyway,

01:53:48.220 it was an American project really.

01:53:50.220 Um, but it was, it's all the Noriega story.

01:53:53.220 I love the Noriega story.

01:53:54.220 I want to do an epochs.

01:53:55.220 We could maybe even do, uh, prokonomics on Noriega one day.

01:53:59.220 That'd be fun.

01:54:00.220 Um, you get a bit of that Escobar in there and everything.

01:54:03.220 Oh, it's thrown in there.

01:54:04.220 Yeah.

01:54:05.220 All the Nicaragua, all the Reagan.

01:54:06.220 Yeah.

01:54:07.220 So it was under George W.

01:54:08.220 But it was under George Bush senior in what?

01:54:11.220 1989.

01:54:12.220 Was it?

01:54:13.220 Um, where Noriega, general Noriega had basically just taken control of Panama.

01:54:18.220 Yeah.

01:54:19.220 Like illegally, really.

01:54:20.220 And he was bound up in all sorts of stuff.

01:54:23.220 Drug cartels, illegal seizures of power.

01:54:26.220 He was a bit of a scumbag to be fair.

01:54:28.220 A bit.

01:54:29.220 Yeah.

01:54:30.220 I think the canal had already been given up by the time we got to.

01:54:33.220 Yeah, that's right.

01:54:34.220 Yeah.

01:54:35.220 Was it his predecessor Jimmy Carter?

01:54:36.220 Was that?

01:54:37.220 I think so.

01:54:38.220 Yeah.

01:54:39.220 But so by, by the late eighties, it was not only not directly in the hands of the United

01:54:44.220 States is now in the hands of some douchebag like Noriega.

01:54:47.220 Yeah.

01:54:48.220 I mean, he's dead now, isn't he?

01:54:49.220 He's dead now.

01:54:50.220 Yeah.

01:54:51.220 Yeah.

01:54:52.220 Yeah.

01:54:53.220 Yeah.

01:54:54.220 Uh, senior, uh, invades Panama.

01:54:57.220 Right.

01:54:58.220 It was a, it was a walkover.

01:54:59.220 Obviously it was a complete piss militarily.

01:55:01.220 Like the Americans lost like 20 guys or something.

01:55:04.220 It was over in a few days.

01:55:05.220 Sure.

01:55:06.220 Even though some of their special forces sort of bungled a couple of bits and bobs.

01:55:09.220 It was still over in a day or two or whatever it was less than a week.

01:55:12.220 And I think like two or 500 odd, uh, Panama people was killed and 20 American soldiers.

01:55:18.220 Anyway, it's all done.

01:55:19.220 They, they get Noriega, they put him in prison and that's the end of your story.

01:55:22.220 But so the idea of America sending in the Marines or the seals or Delta or whatever,

01:55:30.220 and just, just pwning Panama militarily overnight.

01:55:34.220 It wasn't that long ago, right?

01:55:36.220 No.

01:55:37.220 1989.

01:55:38.220 I think it was.

01:55:39.220 Um, so they could do that.

01:55:41.220 They didn't keep it.

01:55:42.220 They didn't keep it.

01:55:43.220 Well, no, they changed the government.

01:55:44.220 Yeah.

01:55:45.220 They changed Noriega out for some friendly.

01:55:47.220 And then they left Panama with control.

01:55:49.220 Yeah.

01:55:50.220 Yeah.

01:55:51.220 Yeah.

01:55:52.220 So, but with a friendly government, so they can essentially.

01:55:53.220 But my understanding of the situation today is as, as Trump was talking about American

01:55:57.220 ships get charged more for going through it, but even more egregiously, the, um,

01:56:02.220 Chinese have been allowed to set up compounds either side of the, of the, of the, um, uh,

01:56:08.220 canal.

01:56:09.220 And they're not as such military compounds that they're supposed to be civilian, but they

01:56:14.220 could very easily be converted into military compounds.

01:56:17.220 And then, so basically China does control the Panama Canal.

01:56:21.220 The only thing is, is that they're actually building another bigger one just to the north.

01:56:26.220 Right.

01:56:27.220 So if they take back the Panama Canal, I don't know how much good it does them other than

01:56:30.220 the fact that at least they have that, even if they do open a bigger one to the north.

01:56:34.220 Yeah.

01:56:35.220 Well, if they do take it back, I think the obvious thing to do is just to keep the territory

01:56:38.220 for the United States.

01:56:40.220 I know it would be a difficult thing, but from a strategic point of view, if you handed

01:56:45.220 it over to a friendly government and within what, 30 years, all of a sudden that, you

01:56:50.220 know, they're charging you more than China.

01:56:53.220 Well, it sort of suggests that you can't go down that same diplomatic.

01:56:56.220 I mean, there's almost a lesson for the Chagos islands in there.

01:56:59.220 There is.

01:57:00.220 Yeah.

01:57:01.220 I just feel like, cause I didn't know he was going to say anything like that.

01:57:05.220 I haven't heard any sort of soundings about Panama before.

01:57:08.220 I've heard him mention Panama, but I didn't think it was particularly serious.

01:57:12.220 I mean, we just, we just had him announce an invasion of two different countries.

01:57:18.220 Yeah.

01:57:19.220 I really don't want to get involved in any foreign wars apart from Mexico and Panama,

01:57:23.220 which we will dominate if needs be.

01:57:27.220 I say, okay.

01:57:28.220 So the thing about this is these are totally justified and long overdue.

01:57:31.220 Right.

01:57:32.220 Uh, the, the cartel.

01:57:34.220 Well, yeah.

01:57:35.220 Very nice.

01:57:36.220 Right.

01:57:37.220 Like it, it speaks to Mexico's lack of power as a state.

01:57:41.220 This is the problem.

01:57:42.220 It's sort of a failed state.

01:57:43.220 Yeah.

01:57:44.220 It's essentially a failed state.

01:57:45.220 Well, the cartel do control the state.

01:57:47.220 Yeah.

01:57:48.220 The, um, was it Claudia Scheinbaum, the leader?

01:57:51.220 She's basically in cartel pay as explicitly as human.

01:57:56.220 I thought she was under other influences, but maybe I'm just misremembering.

01:57:59.220 It's all a giant car crash.

01:58:02.220 Yeah.

01:58:03.220 The Mexican government has been for a long, long time, a dumpster fire.

01:58:07.220 Yeah.

01:58:08.220 Yeah.

01:58:09.220 Cartels are like essentially control the north of the country, don't they?

01:58:12.220 So it's just, and it, and like, I've, I've seen like bizarre stories where it's like,

01:58:16.220 there's a town in Mexico without mayor because no one's got the balls to try and become the

01:58:20.220 mayor because the cartels just killed them.

01:58:21.220 It's like, okay, well that's a problem.

01:58:23.220 And essentially there's, you know, you need the Bekele solution to this.

01:58:27.220 Just go in and deal with them.

01:58:29.220 You know, they're all bad.

01:58:30.220 There's no, you know, don't worry about like, you know, we'll, we'll settle the difference

01:58:33.220 afterwards.

01:58:34.220 Kill anyone who resists and arrest every single one of them.

01:58:37.220 It's like, forget the police.

01:58:38.220 Yeah.

01:58:39.220 Forget the equivalent of the home office.

01:58:40.220 You need the full military might to just round up everyone involved in this and put

01:58:45.220 them in prison till they're either dead or very, very old men.

01:58:47.220 Yeah.

01:58:48.220 And if that's what you have to do.

01:58:49.220 And if Mexico is not capable of doing this, then sure, why not ask the United States

01:58:53.220 to do it?

01:58:54.220 Like what else are you going to do?

01:58:55.220 Essentially like narco states to exist in just South America's border?

01:58:59.220 America's border?

01:59:00.220 No.

01:59:01.220 And they already do this to a very, very limited degree.

01:59:03.220 Anyway, when things get entirely out of hand, like, um, um, uh, who's the Colombian

01:59:10.220 guy who blew up airplanes and stuff in the, Escobar.

01:59:13.220 Escobar.

01:59:14.220 In the end, it was the DEA and special forces, essentially us, the US stepped in and dealt with

01:59:20.220 it on a very limited basis.

01:59:23.220 I would love to see America, the United States of America, uh, get heavily involved to clean

01:59:30.220 Mexico up.

01:59:31.220 Yeah.

01:59:32.220 Just a hundred thousand troops, month long campaign across Mexico.

01:59:34.220 It's terrible.

01:59:35.220 Like a real, real, real crying shame.

01:59:37.220 What's happened to Mexico.

01:59:38.220 I'll tell you what I'd love about that.

01:59:39.220 The number of civilians that are murdered.

01:59:41.220 Yeah.

01:59:42.220 Civilians are murdered all the time.

01:59:43.220 And that's in Mexico themselves.

01:59:44.220 But you could, you could, from the, from the American perspective, this is the drug problem

01:59:48.220 that we have to deal with.

01:59:49.220 Right?

01:59:50.220 These are, you know, God, who knows how many millions of people have died because of Mexico's

01:59:55.220 drugs being punted to the United States.

01:59:56.220 We're not having anymore.

01:59:57.220 Like if you need moral carte blanche to do it, well, you've got it, you know, and it's

02:00:00.220 actually a, a, an embarrassment to the United States that they didn't deal with it

02:00:05.220 sooner.

02:00:06.220 It's nice to see that Trump is prepared to use hard power for a good reason on an actual

02:00:11.220 problem that will make things better.

02:00:12.220 And it will be so good for America because at the moment, I mean, if, if you sign up for

02:00:16.220 the US military, oh, you might get sent to Ukraine to fight alongside Nazis for a coke

02:00:22.220 sniffing president, um, against Russian lads who you really haven't got a problem with,

02:00:27.220 you know, and it's, it's like, who wants to sign up to do that?

02:00:30.220 But if it's sign up and you are going to be parachuted over the mansion of a drug cartel

02:00:35.220 house and you're going to spray him and his, his Sicarios down with your machine, I mean,

02:00:40.220 and think of the, and think of the movies that we're going to get coming out with a

02:00:45.220 five year lag, the movies that we're going to get if the US military go in, it's going

02:00:48.220 to be epic.

02:00:49.220 And, and like, if, if you were, you know, like American forces traveling through France

02:00:53.220 to liberate them from Nazi Germany, right?

02:00:54.220 Yes.

02:00:55.220 It's going to be Mexicans cheering on the street for you because you wiped out the gun,

02:00:59.220 the, the drug cartels.

02:01:00.220 Oh, and we're going to get body cams as well.

02:01:02.220 We're going to get body cams on the troops.

02:01:04.220 Yeah.

02:01:05.220 It's worth mentioning as well that these Mexican cartels, there are lots of cases where a

02:01:09.220 small Mexican town doesn't play ball.

02:01:11.220 They murder all their children.

02:01:12.220 Yeah.

02:01:13.220 Every single child is killed.

02:01:14.220 Like these are the worst people you can possibly imagine.

02:01:17.220 Some of the most brutal things I've ever seen or heard of are what Mexican cartels do

02:01:21.220 to each other and, and innocent people in Mexico.

02:01:24.220 So it couldn't happen to a worse person or worse people.

02:01:29.220 So for example, like this is how bad it is.

02:01:31.220 Like the police just can't deal with it.

02:01:33.220 Well, for a start, they're already completely infiltrated and even if they weren't, even

02:01:36.220 if you did find some, some, uh, police department somewhere that are prepared for, they're fighting

02:01:42.220 paramilitaries, full blown paramilitaries.

02:01:45.220 We've sort of, um, uh, radio scramblers, heavy weaponry, like 50 cal machine guns, their own

02:01:52.220 armored Humvees, the whole lot.

02:01:55.220 Right.

02:01:56.220 And so sometimes you'll get, uh, uh, a cadre within the Mexican military, like some Navy

02:02:03.220 special forces dudes, the equivalent of Navy SEALs or something or other.

02:02:06.220 They'll have a bit of a go, uh, like really taken out of cartel.

02:02:09.220 Sometimes they win.

02:02:10.220 Sometimes they don't.

02:02:11.220 Yeah.

02:02:12.220 There'll be like a giant firefight with hundreds of guys aside and heavy weaponry.

02:02:15.220 And cartels have got helicopter gunships and crap.

02:02:18.220 Yeah.

02:02:19.220 Even Escobar was hiring, um, Israeli military, um, mercenaries.

02:02:25.220 Right.

02:02:26.220 Back, back in his day.

02:02:27.220 And that was, that was like in the very beginning of this thing.

02:02:30.220 These days that does, they're just having whole X special forces, you know, units shipped

02:02:35.220 in to, to fight for them.

02:02:37.220 So, I mean, this is going to be a really interesting fight to watch.

02:02:39.220 And the thing is, um, I don't want to be too much of a sycophant, but if the, if the

02:02:44.220 Pentagon decides they're going to send in the hundred and first.

02:02:47.220 Yeah.

02:02:48.220 They're going to send in like all of the Navy SEALs or whatever it is.

02:02:53.220 There's, it's no, it won't be a contest actually.

02:02:55.220 No.

02:02:56.220 It won't be a contest actually.

02:02:57.220 It's one thing America do have done very well is special forces stuff.

02:03:00.220 When they decide that it's no holds barred now and we are taking you out, they're going

02:03:06.220 to get you.

02:03:07.220 Yeah.

02:03:08.220 Who is it?

02:03:09.220 Who is the guy back in the sort of mid two thousands who was like, Oh, we've, we're

02:03:14.220 going to topple seven governments in seven years or something.

02:03:16.220 Who's general.

02:03:17.220 And, uh, they, they got this message down from the Bush administration.

02:03:20.220 Uh, and he was just like, well, why are we doing this?

02:03:23.220 It's like, well, I guess we don't know what else to do.

02:03:25.220 You know, we've got a military that can topple governments, but that's about what we can

02:03:28.220 do with it.

02:03:29.220 And so this is basically a good application of that military base.

02:03:33.220 I know after nine 11 people like Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz and Richard.

02:03:37.220 It wasn't those.

02:03:38.220 It was, you know, they, they had sent the message down to this general.

02:03:41.220 I can't remember which general was.

02:03:42.220 Well, that's what the military is all about.

02:03:45.220 Well, yeah, they're just waiting for the green light from the politicians.

02:03:48.220 Yeah.

02:03:49.220 Now you've put it in our hands.

02:03:50.220 Now it's a matter of kinetic force.

02:03:52.220 Yeah.

02:03:53.220 Uh, which is leave it to us.

02:03:54.220 We've got this covered this bit of it.

02:03:56.220 If you green light it, we, we got it covered.

02:03:59.220 I would love to see them do that in Mexico.

02:04:01.220 I really would.

02:04:02.220 Yeah.

02:04:03.220 These cartels are the scum of the air.

02:04:04.220 Absolutely.

02:04:05.220 Absolute scum of the air.

02:04:06.220 Look, for some reason, allowing them to flourish has been policy.

02:04:09.220 It's like, no, Trump's going to stop that.

02:04:11.220 So good.

02:04:12.220 It's a great start.

02:04:13.220 So that's, I mean, just again, it's a, it's a, it's a policy.

02:04:18.220 It's a, it's a policy with no downsides, right?

02:04:20.220 Yeah.

02:04:21.220 Yeah.

02:04:22.220 Who's, who's defending the cartels?

02:04:24.220 Well, I mean, lefty lawyers.

02:04:25.220 They're like, well, what about the human rights?

02:04:27.220 It's like, what about the human rights?

02:04:29.220 Yeah.

02:04:30.220 They sacrificed those when they, when they killed a whole bus full of school kids for

02:04:33.220 no reason or whatever.

02:04:34.220 It's again, it's the, the Bukele model is a brilliant model.

02:04:37.220 Cause it's just like, what was the downside?

02:04:39.220 Well, the downside is all the criminals are in jail.

02:04:41.220 Oh, that's great.

02:04:43.220 Yeah.

02:04:44.220 And you can see how this is a much needed refresh for the American system because

02:04:47.220 so many people have checked out, especially white young men are just completely checked

02:04:51.220 out of this process.

02:04:52.220 And if, if Trump goes through all of this and he's serious about this, then you could see

02:04:56.220 a resurgence in military recruitment.

02:04:58.220 Oh yeah.

02:04:59.220 Um, you know, a whole belief in the States.

02:05:01.220 I mean, this is, this is exactly what the U S system.

02:05:04.220 So it is true that Trump is the guy who renews the system rather than destroys it.

02:05:08.220 Yeah.

02:05:09.220 Yeah.

02:05:10.220 Absolutely.

02:05:11.220 But I mean, nobody thought he was, well, I mean, who thought that Trump was here to

02:05:12.220 destroy it?

02:05:13.220 Um, this is, he's very clearly here to, uh, essentially renovate the entire thing, but

02:05:18.220 like, and you are, I think you're exactly right.

02:05:20.220 The fact that he's like, right, DEI woke, all that sort of stuff is just going to be pulled

02:05:24.220 out by the roots and be merit only.

02:05:26.220 Well, okay.

02:05:27.220 I mean, I assume that he's going to do it.

02:05:28.220 There's no reason to think that he won't do it.

02:05:30.220 And well, that was the thing that was making people not buy into the system.

02:05:34.220 As in, you know, why, why would I want to fight for a country that is acting with discriminating

02:05:38.220 against me?

02:05:39.220 Well, now the country is not going to be, it's going to be working in your favor.

02:05:42.220 You will be able to succeed as a white man in America again, is what Trump is essentially

02:05:48.220 saying with the anti-DEI stuff.

02:05:49.220 So it's like, yeah, why wouldn't it pay dividends?

02:05:53.220 Just for the record, a couple of people in chat saying that was General Wesley Clark you

02:05:57.220 were talking about.

02:05:58.220 That sounds right.

02:05:59.220 That sounds right to me.

02:06:00.220 It was General Wesley Clark.

02:06:01.220 Exactly.

02:06:02.220 Seemed like a lovely chap.

02:06:03.220 And like, it's just like, yeah, well, there was clearly some ulterior force operating,

02:06:07.220 wasn't there, Mr. Clark?

02:06:09.220 But yeah, so getting rid of the DEI stuff is just superb, obviously, has to be done.

02:06:15.220 I thought it was very interesting how he said, I'm going to executive order to stop government

02:06:20.220 censorship, because that surely could have gone further.

02:06:23.220 Right.

02:06:24.220 As in, that's First Amendment violations.

02:06:26.220 This is literally, this is violations of the Constitution.

02:06:29.220 So he could have gone a lot further on that, surely.

02:06:32.220 Right.

02:06:33.220 But that got a standing ovation from like, you know, Vance was straight on his feet as soon

02:06:38.220 as he said it.

02:06:39.220 I was like, oh, okay.

02:06:40.220 There's something close to Vance.

02:06:41.220 That felt like a bit of a response to all the tech pros that backed him.

02:06:47.220 It does.

02:06:48.220 But also, like, it's a response to the fact that we know the Biden regime was directly

02:06:53.220 interfacing.

02:06:54.220 I mean, like Zuckerberg and Musk have just been like, yeah, we had loads of fits.

02:06:58.220 Yeah.

02:06:59.220 Well, the reason that a lot of the tech side of things have sided with Trump is that they're

02:07:03.220 facing a lot of legislation and fines from Europe.

02:07:07.220 And so if they can approach it under free speech grounds, well, all of America is basically

02:07:13.220 backing them there.

02:07:14.220 And so it's basically a license for them to expand their remit and not have all of these

02:07:23.220 massive penalties.

02:07:24.220 Because I think the fine that was put towards, I can't remember which company it was, I think

02:07:29.220 it might have been Facebook, was like 800 million euros, which is just entirely unreasonable.

02:07:36.220 And if the cost of operation there is so high, well, they're going to lose a massive portion

02:07:42.220 of their customers.

02:07:43.220 And so it's an existential problem for their companies.

02:07:46.220 And the free speech issue is a nice sort of wrapping paper and bow to tie on what is

02:07:52.220 ultimately a financial decision for them.

02:07:54.220 Well, the way that Zuck explained it on Joe Rogan was that if the US government is not

02:07:58.220 going to back free speech, they're left out on the cold when the EU wants to go after

02:08:02.220 them.

02:08:03.220 So now the US government is going to be very clearly, no, we've got your back.

02:08:07.220 And then the EU has to sort of back off, or at least they're going to be much more out

02:08:10.220 on a limb when they do it.

02:08:11.220 And I don't want to be the Mark Zuckerberg defender either, but like, I don't know how

02:08:16.220 I would feel if I'm, because I mean, Mark Zuckerberg is not even 40.

02:08:20.220 Like he became one of the world's richest men in his twenties with a platform of three and

02:08:25.220 a half billion users.

02:08:26.220 And suddenly he's got the US government, literally the president in his ear being like,

02:08:29.220 you're going to take that down or else.

02:08:32.220 Yeah.

02:08:33.220 I don't, I don't give him a hard time for that.

02:08:34.220 I, yeah, I don't even think that's unreasonable.

02:08:36.220 Cause I mean, especially as like, it's not like the Biden administration didn't, you know,

02:08:41.220 you are probably going to be privy to a bunch of things that normal people aren't privy

02:08:45.220 to as someone like in his position.

02:08:48.220 So, okay, Biden's on the phone.

02:08:50.220 He's screaming, you take that down.

02:08:51.220 What are we going to do?

02:08:52.220 Are we just going to let it go?

02:08:53.220 No.

02:08:54.220 Let's take that straight.

02:08:55.220 Does anyone else find it slightly odd that Facebook's still a thing?

02:08:58.220 Why did it not go the way of my space?

02:09:00.220 Um, it feels like it's like a boomer book.

02:09:02.220 It's like, I haven't used it for 10 years.

02:09:04.220 Yeah.

02:09:05.220 I haven't.

02:09:06.220 I haven't.

02:09:07.220 Yeah.

02:09:08.220 I use it.

02:09:09.220 No, no, no.

02:09:10.220 I use it because it's how I keep in contact with my friends and family.

02:09:13.220 Right.

02:09:14.220 It's just, and a few years ago, Zuckerberg said that what he was trying to do is essentially

02:09:19.220 manage it.

02:09:20.220 So it's like bubbles.

02:09:21.220 So you've got your bubbles of friends and family.

02:09:23.220 You add them to your Facebook to just literally be a social platform rather than a sort of mass

02:09:29.220 interaction platform like Twitter is.

02:09:31.220 Um, and I think that's why it's successful still, uh, because you know, how am I going

02:09:36.220 to contact my mum?

02:09:37.220 You know, it is boomer book as well.

02:09:39.220 Yeah, I know, but I don't.

02:09:40.220 Send a letter.

02:09:41.220 I don't, I don't, I don't like doing that.

02:09:42.220 It's easy.

02:09:43.220 I just send a text message, right?

02:09:44.220 Um, I still call my parents a landline and they're both on Facebook and I'm not.

02:09:48.220 I'm not saying I don't do it.

02:09:49.220 I'm just saying it's easier to, to message or on Facebook.

02:09:52.220 It's just when I deleted my Facebook, like nothing changed seemingly in my life.

02:09:55.220 My life got better actually.

02:09:57.220 Yeah.

02:09:58.220 It got noticeably better.

02:09:59.220 But, um, but the point is I, I like Zuckerberg, I don't think was ever like a political agent,

02:10:03.220 right?

02:10:04.220 I'm going to insert myself into the highest echelons of international politics.

02:10:08.220 So the U S government will be listening to me and stuff like that.

02:10:11.220 And I don't think that's what he's after.

02:10:12.220 I think he's a pervy nerd.

02:10:14.220 He was just like, I just want to check out these chicks.

02:10:17.220 And suddenly he's in the, so anyway, um, so yeah, the, the, I, I think that's essentially

02:10:25.220 this is Trump's very effective way of just a, I mean, I also, it's a condemnation of

02:10:30.220 Biden as well.

02:10:31.220 So how could you do this?

02:10:32.220 You know, this is very anti-American or the tech bros suddenly flipped.

02:10:36.220 There's no reason not to flip to Trump at this point.

02:10:38.220 Right.

02:10:39.220 You know, it's like, look, you don't have to be a part of their regime.

02:10:41.220 I'm going to bury their regime.

02:10:42.220 You can just come over and sit next to me and be like, yeah, no, he's, he's right.

02:10:46.220 Very sad.

02:10:47.220 On the theme of burying regimes.

02:10:49.220 Uh, Kevin Fox, one of our subscriber asks, uh, would you guys be happy paying higher prices

02:10:53.220 in the short term if Trump imposed stringent tariffs on the UK to force labor out of power?

02:10:59.220 Yes.

02:11:00.220 I mean, I personally would, but I can understand why there would be people who wouldn't be

02:11:04.220 happy with that.

02:11:05.220 Right.

02:11:06.220 I'd be happy.

02:11:07.220 I'd also be happy.

02:11:08.220 They started bombing.

02:11:09.220 I've got nothing to lose.

02:11:10.220 Yeah.

02:11:11.220 I don't, I don't think we should.

02:11:12.220 Um, I mean, remember we are still living under Keir Starmer's dictatorship.

02:11:15.220 Well, yes.

02:11:16.220 Yeah.

02:11:17.220 So we obviously don't want Donald Trump to stop bombing Westminster.

02:11:19.220 Um, no, just, just a surgical insertion.

02:11:23.220 The 101st dropping on Whitehall.

02:11:25.220 I'll take it.

02:11:26.220 Where are the Mexican cartels operating?

02:11:28.220 Well, uh, you know, Tijuana and Westminster.

02:11:31.220 Is there going to be a tip down the street?

02:11:32.220 How did that happen?

02:11:33.220 Yeah.

02:11:34.220 I've seen some suspicious Mexican gentlemen going into number 10.

02:11:38.220 Yeah.

02:11:39.220 Yeah.

02:11:40.220 Hero Starmer.

02:11:41.220 Oh, suspicious Mexican gentlemen wearing a red dress in 11 Downing Street.

02:11:45.220 No.

02:11:46.220 Um, so, uh, yeah, no, would we be happy with him?

02:11:51.220 I mean, I, like I said, I personally would, I would just, I get it suck, but like, okay.

02:11:56.220 You know, prices are through the roof anyway.

02:11:58.220 How much worse can it get?

02:11:59.220 Yeah.

02:12:00.220 And I do.

02:12:01.220 I would love to see Keir Starmer.

02:12:02.220 Well, we don't, none of us personally, I don't think, uh, personally export anything to

02:12:06.220 the United States.

02:12:07.220 So.

02:12:08.220 We all do.

02:12:09.220 We export merch.

02:12:10.220 Right now.

02:12:11.220 Well, no, this is not a commodity though, is it?

02:12:12.220 No, I suppose not.

02:12:13.220 Right.

02:12:14.220 The magazine and merch might go up.

02:12:15.220 Yeah.

02:12:16.220 I guess the magazine.

02:12:17.220 Are tariffs going to get applied to Lotus Eater subscriptions?

02:12:19.220 No.

02:12:20.220 Yeah.

02:12:21.220 By the way, go and get the mug and the t-shirts before the tariffs come in.

02:12:25.220 Seamless transition.

02:12:26.220 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:12:27.220 Beautiful.

02:12:28.220 Beautiful.

02:12:29.220 I'm a professional.

02:12:30.220 More expensive.

02:12:31.220 Get the t-shirt before he makes it five pounds more expensive.

02:12:34.220 Exactly.

02:12:35.220 Otherwise we're going to have to pay tariffs and that'll be all.

02:12:37.220 Yep.

02:12:38.220 Um, but, uh, also you might just buy British things then.

02:12:41.220 Yeah.

02:12:42.220 Yeah.

02:12:43.220 Good.

02:12:44.220 Buy an Aston Martin instead of a Cadillac or whatever.

02:12:46.220 I'll take that.

02:12:47.220 Yeah.

02:12:48.220 Right.

02:12:49.220 I'm having your offering.

02:12:50.220 Josh.

02:12:51.220 But yeah, no, I, I would, I would, uh, not be a poster.

02:12:54.220 There are going to be people that are going to find that awful and ruin us, but.

02:12:58.220 But is he, is he speaking again?

02:13:01.220 He's going towards the microphone.

02:13:02.220 Let's turn that on.

02:13:03.220 Oh.

02:13:05.220 Look at this beautiful sunny day.

02:13:08.220 We blew it.

02:13:09.220 We blew it.

02:13:10.220 And then I went outside and we were freezing.

02:13:12.220 You would have been very unhappy.

02:13:14.220 The sun was very deceptive.

02:13:16.220 I will tell you it is cold out.

02:13:18.220 And I'm sort of saying, you know, that was so beautiful today.

02:13:21.220 Maybe they should do it there every four years.

02:13:24.220 Does that make sense?

02:13:25.220 I don't know.

02:13:26.220 Cause you know, the outdoor thing is really good, but it gets a little cold around this

02:13:29.220 time of the year.

02:13:30.220 As some people have noticed.

02:13:31.220 And a lot of times they suffer through it.

02:13:34.220 There was no suffering in that room.

02:13:36.220 It was 72 degrees.

02:13:37.220 As you can tell, he was no longer on the telecom.

02:13:39.220 The best acoustics I think I've ever heard in a room.

02:13:42.220 This is not so bad either.

02:13:43.220 But I just want to say you're a younger, far more beautiful audience that I just spoke to.

02:13:52.220 And I want to keep it off the record.

02:13:55.220 I want to keep that off the record.

02:13:58.220 Off the record.

02:13:59.220 Because I don't want to have all those big shots up there.

02:14:02.220 I don't want to think you're more powerful than them.

02:14:04.220 You look better than them.

02:14:05.220 And I love you.

02:14:07.220 So good.

02:14:09.220 No one does it.

02:14:10.220 No, we just had a great time.

02:14:12.220 We just had a great day.

02:14:14.220 This was amazing.

02:14:15.220 You know, when you think we took a journey.

02:14:18.220 I mentioned in the speech, a lot of people said that was not a journey that was possible.

02:14:23.220 And it was indeed possible.

02:14:25.220 I didn't really know too much about what they were saying when they say that.

02:14:28.220 But a lot of people felt it.

02:14:30.220 And we hooked up with J.D. very early.

02:14:33.220 I watched J.D. over a period of time.

02:14:35.220 I endorsed him in Ohio.

02:14:37.220 He was a great, a great senator.

02:14:39.220 And very, very smart.

02:14:42.220 The only one smarter than him was his wife.

02:14:44.220 That was...

02:14:45.220 I would have chosen her, but somehow the line of succession didn't work that way, right?

02:14:51.220 But now she's great and he's great.

02:14:53.220 This is a great, beautiful couple and unbelievable career.

02:14:58.220 I just said to him, you are very upwardly mobile.

02:15:01.220 Because he hasn't been doing it that long.

02:15:03.220 But he picked it up so quickly.

02:15:05.220 Remember, the first week was a little bit like the fake news was hitting him really hard.

02:15:10.220 And I said, ooh, this may be tough.

02:15:13.220 But after that, it was smooth sailing for him.

02:15:16.220 He took on everybody.

02:15:17.220 He took on the meanest.

02:15:19.220 I don't want to use the word corrupt because we're into a new system.

02:15:23.220 So let's wait till the corruption begins, because it will.

02:15:27.220 But he took on some pretty mean people and he handled it well.

02:15:30.220 I want to also congratulate Mike Johnson for the job that he's doing.

02:15:39.220 Steve, we gave him a majority of almost nothing.

02:15:43.220 And then I said, to make it tougher on him, let me take two or three of the people, right?

02:15:48.220 I said, he'll only have to suffer with that for about three months.

02:15:51.220 How are they doing, by the way?

02:15:52.220 Are they...

02:15:53.220 Is that moving along?

02:15:54.220 Totally uniform.

02:15:55.220 I said, do you mind if I take this one, that one, and a couple of others?

02:16:00.220 He didn't mind.

02:16:01.220 He can handle it.

02:16:02.220 No, he's a man that's liked by everybody.

02:16:04.220 I've never met a man like this.

02:16:05.220 You've got two...

02:16:06.220 How many is it?

02:16:07.220 219 or 220 or something?

02:16:08.220 220.

02:16:09.220 220.

02:16:10.220 And of the 220, 219 really like him.

02:16:12.220 I noticed he got one negative vote once about two weeks ago.

02:16:15.220 But I think even 220 like him, if you want to know the truth.

02:16:18.220 And that's very unusual.

02:16:19.220 I know a lot of nice guys in Congress, and they have 35 people that hate him.

02:16:24.220 So if you have 35 people that hate you, and you only have one or two or three votes, you'll

02:16:28.220 have five, I think.

02:16:29.220 But that's going to be like, you know, the good news is, when we get to that five number,

02:16:34.220 it's going to feel like a massive majority.

02:16:37.220 You can be really nasty to a couple of them at least, you know?

02:16:44.220 So it's going to feel like kidding your head on the wall and stopping.

02:16:48.220 It feels so good to stop.

02:16:49.220 But he's done a fantastic job.

02:16:51.220 And Steve Scalise is...

02:16:53.220 He's our hero.

02:16:54.220 Because, you know, I was with him.

02:16:57.220 You talk about being shot.

02:17:02.220 I was with him.

02:17:03.220 He got some bad ones.

02:17:05.220 And his incredible wife.

02:17:07.220 And she really loves him.

02:17:10.220 You know?

02:17:11.220 You never know about that.

02:17:12.220 I've been with other people.

02:17:13.220 They were doing poorly.

02:17:14.220 And the wife is like, looking at her watch.

02:17:16.220 She can't get out of the hospital fast enough.

02:17:19.220 How's he doing?

02:17:20.220 I don't know.

02:17:21.220 He's all right.

02:17:22.220 That woman was a mess.

02:17:24.220 She was crying and crying.

02:17:27.220 No, they're going to take him.

02:17:28.220 They're going to take him.

02:17:29.220 I told Steve when he finally woke up.

02:17:31.220 It was in a while, too.

02:17:32.220 All right, guys.

02:17:33.220 Sorry about that.

02:17:34.220 We had a bit of a technical problem.

02:17:35.220 We had to reset the stream, but we are back.

02:17:38.220 Right.

02:17:39.220 So, as we were saying, well, Trump was saying.

02:17:43.220 Let's carry on watching.

02:17:44.220 The doctor told me it was the most blood they've ever transfused in any patient.

02:17:49.220 What a point to come back in on.

02:17:52.220 And here he is, the picture of strength, right?

02:17:54.220 And he's been a great friend of mine.

02:17:56.220 The best blood.

02:17:57.220 Greatest blood.

02:17:58.220 We're the family.

02:17:59.220 It was the most blood.

02:18:00.220 It was the best blood.

02:18:01.220 It was the most American blood.

02:18:02.220 And what a job you did.

02:18:03.220 Pretty much better than we even thought.

02:18:06.220 Right?

02:18:07.220 And I did have a couple of things, you know, to say that were extremely controversial.

02:18:12.220 And between J.D. and Melania, and anybody else that heard, please, sir.

02:18:18.220 It's such a beautiful, unifying speech.

02:18:20.220 Please, sir, don't say these things.

02:18:23.220 I said, I'm telling you, it's going to play great.

02:18:28.220 They say, you're right.

02:18:29.220 For this group of people, it's going to play great.

02:18:32.220 You're the only ones I heard by not.

02:18:34.220 Oh, but we had some beauties, didn't we, Melania?

02:18:36.220 She said, sir.

02:18:37.220 Calls me sir when she's angry.

02:18:40.220 I said, no.

02:18:42.220 No, I'm only kidding.

02:18:43.220 No, I'm only kidding.

02:18:44.220 I better say I'm only kidding or the press is going to pick that one up loud.

02:18:48.220 No, but she said, no, I think it's, it would be terrible.

02:18:53.220 It's such a nice speech.

02:18:54.220 I think it's, you know, it all depends on your delivery.

02:18:57.220 How was the delivery?

02:18:58.220 Was it good?

02:18:59.220 Do we think Trump should have done the proper speech without a teleprompter like this?

02:19:04.220 It's such a beautiful speech.

02:19:05.220 You can't put things in there that you are going to put in.

02:19:10.220 And I was going to talk about the J6 hostages, but you'll be happy.

02:19:17.220 J6 hostages.

02:19:18.220 Because you know, it's action, not words that count.

02:19:21.220 And you're going to see a lot of action on the J6 hostages.

02:19:27.220 A little bit non-committal there.

02:19:29.220 And I was going to talk about the things that you did today with the pardons of people that were very, very guilty of very bad crimes, like the unselect committee of political thugs, where they literally, I mean, what they did is they destroyed and deleted all of the information, all of the hearings, practically not a thing left.

02:19:56.220 They deleted all the information on Nancy Pelosi having turned down the offer of 10,000 soldiers.

02:20:02.220 You wouldn't have needed 10,000.

02:20:03.220 You could have had 500.

02:20:05.220 So those guys got pardoned this morning, but Trump is here saying he's going to go after them anyway.

02:20:09.220 Because we had a million people that day, the people that were there.

02:20:11.220 You don't see any photographs.

02:20:12.220 But we have a lot of great photos.

02:20:14.220 But you don't see those photographs.

02:20:16.220 They don't put them in.

02:20:17.220 They show the people at the Capitol.

02:20:19.220 But I was talking about that.

02:20:22.220 I was going to talk about that.

02:20:24.220 They said, please don't bring that up right now.

02:20:27.220 You can bring it up tomorrow.

02:20:28.220 I said, how about now in front of the very, I'll bring it up right now.

02:20:34.220 You know, this little time delay is good because we're getting great reviews on the speech.

02:20:38.220 Now watch.

02:20:39.220 They'll take the speech and say, I didn't like it because he left there and he's talked to people.

02:20:43.220 But we're giving you a little more information than we gave upstairs.

02:20:46.220 But no, they pardoned a lot of people.

02:20:49.220 They pardoned, before we even get to today, they pardoned, what is it, 33 murderers?

02:20:55.220 Absolute murderers, the worst murderers.

02:20:58.220 You know, when you get the death sentence in the United States, you have to be bad because they don't give it much.

02:21:04.220 And he pardoned almost everybody having a death sentence.

02:21:09.220 And if you went through the crimes that were committed, you wouldn't even believe them.

02:21:13.220 The level of violence, the people that were killed, the innocence of people that were killed and children killed by these people.

02:21:21.220 And he pardoned them for whatever reason.

02:21:23.220 He spared them.

02:21:25.220 And but they didn't spare the people that they killed.

02:21:28.220 And, you know, who knows what happens.

02:21:30.220 It's one of the worst because a lot of times they let them out early after that.

02:21:33.220 You know, they say you're going to be in for life.

02:21:35.220 But then all of a sudden they get let out for good behavior.

02:21:39.220 And then they go on a rampage.

02:21:41.220 It's one of those little things.

02:21:42.220 Right.

02:21:43.220 But I was going to talk about that.

02:21:45.220 This should have been.

02:21:46.220 I was really going to talk about the the level of, you know, what's going on?

02:21:51.220 Why are we doing this?

02:21:52.220 Why are we trying to help a guy like Millie?

02:21:56.220 Why are we doing Millie?

02:21:57.220 He was pardoned what he said.

02:22:00.220 Terrible what he said.

02:22:01.220 Why are we helping some of the people?

02:22:04.220 Why are we helping Liz Cheney?

02:22:06.220 I mean, Liz Cheney is a disaster.

02:22:07.220 She's a crying lunatic and crying, crying Adam Kinzinger.

02:22:12.220 He's a super crying.

02:22:13.220 Did Liz Cheney get a pardon?

02:22:15.220 He's always crying.

02:22:16.220 I look at him.

02:22:17.220 I remember years ago he was actually on my side.

02:22:19.220 She endorsed Biden Harris though, isn't she?

02:22:21.220 And then one day, you know, when you don't want to kill people in wars, they turn against you.

02:22:24.220 Liz Cheney hated the concept of, of not going to war with everybody.

02:22:29.220 Let's kill everybody.

02:22:30.220 Let's spend a lot of money on military equipment.

02:22:33.220 You know where her father works, right?

02:22:35.220 And, but what she did was incredible.

02:22:38.220 Apparently she was.

02:22:39.220 She was pardoned.

02:22:40.220 Think of it.

02:22:41.220 They destroyed and deleted all of that information that went on for almost two years against Trump.

02:22:46.220 And the reason they did, because it was all false.

02:22:49.220 Like the person that said, I tried to strangle a secret service agent.

02:22:54.220 That's one of the toughest human beings I think I've ever seen.

02:22:56.220 Yeah, I remember that.

02:22:57.220 In a car.

02:22:58.220 I actually had a friend trying to strangle a secret service agent.

02:23:00.220 He said, please don't change anything.

02:23:01.220 I've never heard of that one.

02:23:03.220 Oh, there was something with a car.

02:23:05.220 Remember she said, I put my hands around his neck.

02:23:07.220 It led us to attack a secret service agent.

02:23:08.220 That's what's happening.

02:23:09.220 Made up fiction.

02:23:12.220 And I was rebuffed.

02:23:14.220 And the guy on the right is a massive weight lifter.

02:23:17.220 Probably stronger than me.

02:23:18.220 Do you think he's stronger than me, honey?

02:23:20.220 You know who I'm talking.

02:23:22.220 Possibly stronger than me.

02:23:23.220 Looks like PBS is going to have to choose between Biden's exit speech.

02:23:28.220 I won't say how many years.

02:23:29.220 I don't want to talk about that, but a lot of years.

02:23:32.220 Trump is just staring at the window.

02:23:33.220 Biden is just staring out the window at the moment.

02:23:35.220 That's the coolest story I've ever heard.

02:23:38.220 That I would attack a karate champion, get slightly rebuffed,

02:23:42.220 and then throw my arms around a guy with a neck about this big.

02:23:46.220 Even though there are bars.

02:23:48.220 You know, there are bars.

02:23:49.220 You can't really do that anyway.

02:23:52.220 So I wanted to talk about that.

02:23:55.220 But all of that stuff got deleted.

02:23:57.220 And the reason it got deleted is they were all caught in lies.

02:24:00.220 You know, Secret Service testified and they said it didn't happen.

02:24:04.220 Actually, the two guys were very embarrassed.

02:24:07.220 They're suffering because their friends are saying,

02:24:11.220 did Trump really do that to you?

02:24:13.220 But they gained a whole new respect for me.

02:24:16.220 But it was just make-believe stuff.

02:24:18.220 There were a lot of old make-believe stories made up.

02:24:21.220 So rather than suffer the wrath, like the story with Nancy Pelosi, I offered her 10,000 soldiers.

02:24:27.220 She knows it.

02:24:28.220 She admitted it on tape that her daughter made.

02:24:31.220 She's a videographer or whatever you call her, which I'm glad she is.

02:24:36.220 Oh, she can't be in good stead with Nancy.

02:24:39.220 But Nancy said it was my responsibility as she's leaving the Capitol.

02:24:43.220 She said it was.

02:24:44.220 And it was.

02:24:45.220 She's in charge of security at the Capitol.

02:24:47.220 But I offered them up to 10,000 soldiers.

02:24:50.220 Even more.

02:24:51.220 One time I said more.

02:24:52.220 I'd been shattered there.

02:24:53.220 But you needed four or five hundred.

02:24:55.220 Four or five.

02:24:56.220 You had 10,000.

02:24:57.220 Compared to the golden glow around Trump.

02:24:59.220 By life.

02:25:00.220 Just riffing away.

02:25:01.220 We offered her 10,000.

02:25:02.220 This is such an aesthetic pairing.

02:25:04.220 10,000 soldiers.

02:25:05.220 In other words, J6 wouldn't be J6.

02:25:07.220 There would have been no J6.

02:25:08.220 I really miss listening to Trump.

02:25:10.220 She didn't like it.

02:25:11.220 Do this from behind the presidential seal for four years.

02:25:13.220 She wanted that to happen.

02:25:14.220 He's saying Pelosi completely triathed January 6 from start to finish.

02:25:17.220 Yeah.

02:25:18.220 Pelosi personally.

02:25:19.220 We would have to go through the process because they destroyed all evidence.

02:25:22.220 They deleted everything.

02:25:24.220 There's virtually nothing left.

02:25:26.220 And he's quite clear that he wants to go after it to spite the pardons.

02:25:29.220 And many people came out on our side.

02:25:32.220 And those people now would get to find them.

02:25:35.220 There's nothing left.

02:25:36.220 So that's a criminal offence.

02:25:38.220 If that were a civil case, it would be a criminal offence.

02:25:40.220 President Trump is delivering unscripted remarks there in Emancipation Hall to a number of his supporters.

02:25:44.220 At the same time, former President Biden is delivering brief departure remarks at joint base handers.

02:25:50.220 It looks like they're coming to Biden.

02:25:52.220 It looks like tails from the clip.

02:25:53.220 He does.

02:25:54.220 Thank you for the sacrifices you've made.

02:25:56.220 I mean it.

02:25:57.220 Oh, I've got him hooked up on...

02:25:58.220 It's a great part of this journey.

02:26:00.220 Every day, I'm deeply moved by all we all did for this country.

02:26:06.220 I really mean it.

02:26:07.220 History's going to mark down just what you did.

02:26:10.220 You know, but the point I want to make today is to make clear my farewell address as we all do have more to...

02:26:17.220 We have a lot more to do.

02:26:19.220 We heard the inaugural address today.

02:26:21.220 You know, we've got a lot more to do.

02:26:24.220 It's over, Biden.

02:26:26.220 What are you talking about?

02:26:28.220 I know.

02:26:29.220 I know for many years of experience, they're up and down.

02:26:32.220 But we have to stay with it.

02:26:34.220 My dad taught me the measure of first.

02:26:36.220 You heard me say this before is how quickly they get back up when they get knocked out.

02:26:40.220 That's what we have to do right now.

02:26:42.220 What about when they get shot in the air?

02:26:43.220 We've always done our best as Americans.

02:26:45.220 We never, never, never give up.

02:26:47.220 Ever.

02:26:49.220 We're leaving office.

02:26:50.220 We're not leaving the fight.

02:26:51.220 You're smart.

02:26:52.220 You're skilled.

02:26:53.220 You're passionate.

02:26:54.220 The country needs you again.

02:26:55.220 So all you can, stay engaged in all the ways you can.

02:26:56.220 Whether it's a public service or the private sector or...

02:26:57.220 Former President Biden addressing supporters...

02:27:12.220 The lighting on Biden is awful.

02:27:14.220 His hair looks like a force ghost.

02:27:16.220 Yeah.

02:27:17.220 Chief Washington for California.

02:27:20.220 Meantime, President Trump is still addressing supporters inside Emancipation Hall.

02:27:23.220 These are unscripted remarks.

02:27:24.220 We're going to go back now to President Trump.

02:27:27.220 PBS got bored of Biden.

02:27:29.220 Yeah.

02:27:30.220 But Biden is desperate.

02:27:32.220 Oh, just don't give up for a second.

02:27:34.220 It's over, Biden.

02:27:35.220 Come on.

02:27:36.220 Trump has the high ground.

02:27:37.220 He hasn't done anything like this.

02:27:39.220 He hasn't done anything like this.

02:27:40.220 This has been a movement like no movement ever in history for probably any country, let alone

02:27:44.220 this country.

02:27:45.220 You know, if somebody is running for president and if they go out and they announce they're going to Arizona, they're going to Nevada, they're going to someplace.

02:27:55.220 If you have 200 or 300 people, that would be standard.

02:27:58.220 Ronald Reagan would go out.

02:28:00.220 I mean, outside of the last couple of days where people get a little excited.

02:28:03.220 But even then, you have a couple of thousand people.

02:28:05.220 But if you're going to go someplace, any place, any one of the swing states, any one of the other states.

02:28:13.220 I mean, how about the non swing states?

02:28:15.220 We won Alabama by 48 points.

02:28:17.220 We won Tennessee by massive numbers.

02:28:20.220 Wyoming, we've won by numbers that are...

02:28:23.220 Nobody's ever seen numbers.

02:28:24.220 He never said rigged.

02:28:26.220 He said rigged.

02:28:27.220 And, you know, places like California, we did great, but when they send out like 38 million ballots, nobody knows where the hell they're sending them and then they come pouring back the whole thing.

02:28:36.220 Is he inching the world saying rigged now?

02:28:38.220 You know, they passed a law in California that if you work in an election bureau and if you so much as asked for a voter ID, if you say, sir, ma'am, could I please look at your voter ID?

02:28:50.220 But in the last speech, he didn't, he didn't, he hinted that he won the previous elections, that he didn't quite go there.

02:28:57.220 So they had it where voter ID wasn't accepted.

02:29:01.220 But now if you even ask for it, this is seriously a bill that was just signed.

02:29:05.220 It passed in their legislature and it was signed.

02:29:10.220 And I think when we get things cleaned up and we get back to a little bit of normalcy, I'm going to ask the speaker to really get involved because I think we would have won the state of California.

02:29:20.220 Because, you know, if you look at my numbers with Hispanic, we're 56%.

02:29:25.220 And we were winning, we won the Texas border that had never been won, as the governor said, he's doing a good job, the governor, by the way, of Texas.

02:29:33.220 But as the governor said, it hasn't, oh, did I get lucky?

02:29:39.220 So he's saying that he's going to get Speaker Johnson to get involved.

02:29:44.220 So he's going to hold congressional inquiries into the 2020 election.

02:29:48.220 Wow.

02:29:49.220 I think that's what he means.

02:29:50.220 Look at you.

02:29:51.220 You mean we couldn't get you up in the front row?

02:29:54.220 I'll tell you.

02:29:55.220 Supposing I said, J.D., the governor of Texas, he's not doing his job.

02:30:02.220 You heard what I said?

02:30:04.220 See, I didn't know you were there.

02:30:06.220 I said, he's doing, he's doing a great job.

02:30:09.220 He's doing a phenomenal job.

02:30:10.220 But now you're going to have a partner that's going to work with you because you didn't have, not only didn't he have a partner, he had people selling the wall.

02:30:19.220 Right?

02:30:20.220 We have a fence structure that we worked on, the governor worked on with me.

02:30:24.220 And I didn't love it, to be honest with you.

02:30:26.220 I wanted a nice precast concrete, you know, 40, 50 feet high, like a beautiful, could have been a T-shaped, Y-shaped.

02:30:34.220 I love construction.

02:30:36.220 I wanted that sucker to go up maybe 50, 60 feet.

02:30:39.220 It would have looked beautiful.

02:30:40.220 A nice Y-shape.

02:30:42.220 And they said, the problem is, sir, they climbed that like a rabbit.

02:30:46.220 I said, what do you mean?

02:30:47.220 No way.

02:30:48.220 And they brought some of these guys out.

02:30:49.220 They climbed it like.

02:30:51.220 And the other thing is you hit it with acid and the thing will disintegrate.

02:30:55.220 You know, they have things for concrete.

02:30:57.220 So they needed very hardened steel, very special steel.

02:30:59.220 Trump going into the acid resistance of his art deco wall construction.

02:31:03.220 And then they have a rebar that's the toughest steel made, very hard to cut.

02:31:11.220 So this is why very little is cut.

02:31:13.220 I mean, it's right.

02:31:14.220 And then they put a anti-climb panel on top.

02:31:16.220 I hated it.

02:31:17.220 I said, it's so unattractive.

02:31:20.220 And I said, why would that work?

02:31:22.220 I don't believe it works.

02:31:23.220 And I went to watch the Border Patrol, gave a display.

02:31:26.220 We had actually two sets of climbers.

02:31:29.220 The guys that climb up walls with drugs on their back.

02:31:32.220 I mean, they got like 60, 70 pounds of drug.

02:31:34.220 And they go as fast as you can walk.

02:31:36.220 They go bop, bop, bop.

02:31:37.220 Or we have Mount Everest type climbers.

02:31:40.220 And honestly, the drug guys were much better.

02:31:43.220 I couldn't mind.

02:31:44.220 The drug guys blew them away, right?

02:31:46.220 But it's true.

02:31:47.220 The anti-climb panel, they couldn't get around it.

02:31:50.220 They just couldn't.

02:31:51.220 You didn't have it.

02:31:53.220 So sometimes you sacrifice beauty for efficiency.

02:31:57.220 And we did.

02:31:58.220 So we built this wall.

02:32:00.220 And we had, we built over 500 miles of wall.

02:32:04.220 That's why we had such good numbers.

02:32:05.220 The famous chart that came down very thankfully.

02:32:08.220 The chart that came down on my right governor.

02:32:11.220 Had I not looked over there.

02:32:12.220 I'm not speaking right now.

02:32:13.220 You might be speaking here.

02:32:14.220 You want to know the truth.

02:32:16.220 You, JD, you've got a lot of great people in this party.

02:32:19.220 But it was, I got very lucky.

02:32:21.220 But we had the best numbers we've ever had.

02:32:23.220 But I bought, you know what happens is when you fill it up,

02:32:26.220 it's like water.

02:32:27.220 You fill it up.

02:32:28.220 Now we have 571 miles of wall.

02:32:31.220 And they would always say, you know, when we renovated a wall.

02:32:35.220 So there'd be like a piece of plywood sitting there for 60 years.

02:32:40.220 Or a two by four sitting for 60 years on the ground and rotting.

02:32:45.220 Because, you know.

02:32:47.220 And they'd say, you didn't build a new wall.

02:32:49.220 Here we're building 50 feet up in the air.

02:32:51.220 And 30 feet sections.

02:32:52.220 50 foot sections.

02:32:53.220 All steel.

02:32:54.220 All concrete.

02:32:55.220 All everything.

02:32:56.220 And all, by the way.

02:32:57.220 They don't even want me to say this.

02:32:58.220 But what the hell.

02:32:59.220 Doesn't take that long time.

02:33:00.220 They're all wired for all of the equipment.

02:33:02.220 We put wires in everything.

02:33:04.220 So they can easily wire for all the different types of equipment.

02:33:07.220 So Trump is just getting going.

02:33:09.220 But Biden has finished.

02:33:11.220 And he's now going to bed.

02:33:12.220 Yes.

02:33:13.220 We put wires all over the place up top.

02:33:14.220 So we could just hook it up.

02:33:16.220 We don't have to have wires on the outside, which wouldn't do too well.

02:33:20.220 Right?

02:33:21.220 So anyway, so we built an extra 200 miles of wall.

02:33:26.220 And the governor wanted to buy it.

02:33:28.220 He tried to buy it.

02:33:29.220 And they wouldn't sell it to him.

02:33:30.220 He wanted to put it up himself.

02:33:31.220 Could have been done in three to four weeks.

02:33:33.220 200 more miles.

02:33:34.220 Because when you do it now, they just keep going further out, further out,

02:33:38.220 further out, getting around.

02:33:40.220 So we did an extra 200 miles.

02:33:42.220 And it was all bought.

02:33:45.220 And they announced that they're not going to put it up.

02:33:48.220 This is quite a bit of detail for Trump.

02:33:49.220 And that's when I realized they wanted to open orders.

02:33:51.220 It is.

02:33:52.220 And that's when I realized that people are going to...

02:33:54.220 Yeah.

02:33:55.220 I was enjoying that.

02:33:56.220 You don't need to know the exact grade of steel and...

02:33:59.220 So the funner thing I want to talk about then is

02:34:03.220 Trump's manifest destiny comment.

02:34:06.220 Hmm.

02:34:07.220 So this was interesting.

02:34:08.220 As in the manifest destiny of America to land the man on the moon

02:34:11.220 and put an American flag at the moon.

02:34:13.220 On Mars.

02:34:14.220 Put an American flag on Mars.

02:34:16.220 Must have been, you know, music to Elon.

02:34:18.220 See?

02:34:19.220 It cut to him and he was beaming.

02:34:21.220 Yeah, yeah.

02:34:22.220 Absolutely.

02:34:23.220 What do we think of the plausibility of this?

02:34:24.220 Four years?

02:34:25.220 Four years.

02:34:26.220 Oh.

02:34:27.220 Oh, well.

02:34:28.220 I doubt that it will be on Mars in four years, but we will go there.

02:34:31.220 Humanity, that is.

02:34:32.220 Sure.

02:34:33.220 Or the United States, largely.

02:34:34.220 The Mars mission will be a joint American, Russian, European, Japanese.

02:34:40.220 It will...

02:34:41.220 And things like SpaceX.

02:34:43.220 It will be a whole world thing, even if NASA leads it.

02:34:47.220 Yeah.

02:34:48.220 I'm sure we'll land on Mars, perhaps in our lifetime.

02:34:51.220 Four years is optimistic.

02:34:53.220 Very optimistic.

02:34:54.220 Very, very optimistic.

02:34:56.220 Especially now...

02:34:57.220 They need to do loads of stuff before we actually go to Mars.

02:35:00.220 And we don't even have Stanley Kubrick to fake it.

02:35:02.220 Right.

02:35:03.220 Yeah.

02:35:04.220 I mean, they need to build...

02:35:05.220 They need to build much bigger space stations in low Earth orbit, refueling things for the

02:35:12.220 Starship, a lunar base on the surface of Mars, and a lunar space station in orbit around

02:35:19.220 the moon.

02:35:20.220 Lots and lots of things need to happen.

02:35:21.220 I doubt it will happen in the next four years.

02:35:23.220 But hopefully it will happen in our lifetimes.

02:35:26.220 The engineer...

02:35:27.220 It's an engineering possibility.

02:35:29.220 Absolutely.

02:35:30.220 But that's a payback for...

02:35:31.220 I mean, there was two bits of payback.

02:35:32.220 One was the free speech comment, which was payback to the tech bros for supporting him.

02:35:36.220 And that was obviously the payback for Elon.

02:35:38.220 It's like, yeah, you helped out.

02:35:39.220 You made a difference.

02:35:40.220 I'm going to back your Mars thing.

02:35:42.220 Yeah.

02:35:43.220 Should be Venus, obviously.

02:35:44.220 But...

02:35:45.220 Why?

02:35:46.220 Yes, Carl's uncle.

02:35:47.220 The busman's on my side.

02:35:48.220 Yes, that's insane.

02:35:49.220 You're insane there.

02:35:50.220 Because Venus is a better option.

02:35:51.220 It's not.

02:35:52.220 Why?

02:35:53.220 It's not.

02:35:54.220 It's a hell world.

02:35:55.220 Do you really want to get into that here?

02:35:56.220 I mean, we could be wild.

02:35:57.220 Isn't it?

02:35:58.220 It is.

02:35:59.220 It is.

02:36:00.220 I think the Mars option is much better.

02:36:03.220 You haven't heard the argument.

02:36:04.220 Me and Bo did a segment on it.

02:36:05.220 I'll send you the clip.

02:36:06.220 I prefer minus 20 over 400 degrees.

02:36:09.220 Yeah.

02:36:10.220 No, you float on the cloud tops and it's the same temperature as Nevada.

02:36:13.220 Okay, but how do you stay on the clouds?

02:36:15.220 The atmosphere is sulfuric acid.

02:36:17.220 No, over the clouds.

02:36:20.220 But the atmosphere is still sulfuric acid.

02:36:22.220 But the atmospheric density is such that a normal sphere filled with a normal atmosphere,

02:36:26.220 an Earth atmosphere, floats.

02:36:28.220 To be fair, Dan isn't speaking complete nonsense, but it's just the engineering is hundreds

02:36:32.220 of years in the future.

02:36:33.220 It really is.

02:36:34.220 It is.

02:36:35.220 It's really not.

02:36:36.220 It is.

02:36:37.220 I think Mars is the first step.

02:36:39.220 We could go to Mars today in an engineering sense.

02:36:45.220 I just think you're wasting your time.

02:36:47.220 It's Venus.

02:36:48.220 Plus Mars is the planet of war and God and men.

02:36:53.220 Venus is beautiful women.

02:36:54.220 Yeah, and Venus is beautiful women.

02:36:55.220 Yeah.

02:36:56.220 So you can go and have your rough men.

02:36:58.220 I'll go and have my beautiful women.

02:36:59.220 I have fun.

02:37:00.220 It's very stinky and hot there, isn't it?

02:37:02.220 Have fun on Venus.

02:37:03.220 Hopefully.

02:37:04.220 But no, the manifest destiny thing.

02:37:05.220 Of course, going back to the early sort of 19th century or even late 18th century,

02:37:12.220 some of the founding fathers, they did envision that the United States, when it was still

02:37:17.220 only sort of the 13 colonies, it was their manifest destiny to control all of what we

02:37:22.220 call today Canada and Central America.

02:37:26.220 At some point in the future, they would, the United States would be all of that.

02:37:31.220 Yeah.

02:37:32.220 So to bring, and in the post-war period.

02:37:34.220 I mean, it was the justification that was used to move to cross the west of the continent.

02:37:38.220 Yeah.

02:37:39.220 Least of all to say, yeah, go all the way to the west coast.

02:37:42.220 Yeah.

02:37:43.220 Yeah.

02:37:44.220 That's just the start of it.

02:37:45.220 And anyway, since World War II in the post-war period, certainly in the, by the sixties and

02:37:50.220 seventies, this sort of cynicism and Duma downerism, it was sort of scoffed at the idea

02:37:56.220 of manifest destiny.

02:37:57.220 What hubris that was to have a manifest destiny.

02:37:59.220 Well, bring it back, make manifest destiny great again.

02:38:03.220 Why not?

02:38:04.220 I mean, you know, they're not doing anything else with their time.

02:38:06.220 What would mean incorporating Mexico now?

02:38:08.220 Well, if you made sort of Puerto Rico, the 51st state, Canada, the 52nd, Greenland, the

02:38:13.220 53rd, United Kingdom, the 54th.

02:38:16.220 No, I mean.

02:38:17.220 I think to balance out the demographics, you'd want Sweden, Denmark, Norway in there as well.

02:38:23.220 Why stop there?

02:38:24.220 Yeah.

02:38:25.220 No.

02:38:26.220 No, but as Carl said, a dog whistle there, the manifest destiny thing that it's like,

02:38:33.220 it's shorthand really for if the United States decides it wants this thing, it's going to

02:38:37.220 do this thing.

02:38:38.220 Yeah.

02:38:39.220 There's no stoppiness sort of, sort of a mindset.

02:38:42.220 I mean.

02:38:43.220 Also just putting people on notice.

02:38:45.220 Like, I mean, there are, there are loads of, you know, articles going around about what's

02:38:50.220 Trump going to do.

02:38:51.220 And I, one of them is of course the Ukraine war.

02:38:54.220 And he said, look, I'm just going to end it.

02:38:56.220 And I saw a headline go past.

02:38:58.220 I haven't been able to read, I haven't had time to read the thing.

02:39:01.220 But apparently Putin is amenable to this because of course, why wouldn't you be?

02:39:06.220 Because what I think is essentially going to happen there is just a negotiated settlement.

02:39:10.220 You know, Putin will keep Crimea and Donbass and the other one.

02:39:13.220 And that'll be it.

02:39:15.220 He's taken four provinces.

02:39:16.220 So he wants all of them, but.

02:39:18.220 Yeah.

02:39:19.220 But that's, that's, that's going to be like the, you know, the obvious and easiest way

02:39:24.220 of settling it.

02:39:25.220 Putin gets what he wants.

02:39:26.220 Trump gets what he wants.

02:39:28.220 If Trump does it early and quickly, it will be a thing in the news and then it will just

02:39:32.220 go away.

02:39:33.220 Exactly.

02:39:34.220 And it will be like, it never happened.

02:39:35.220 And no one will think about it.

02:39:36.220 And maybe you could normalize relations with Russia.

02:39:39.220 I don't know.

02:39:40.220 You know, so not just a new Cold War or something.

02:39:42.220 I don't know if there's any chance of Russia.

02:39:43.220 To be fair, Dr. Parvini totally called that.

02:39:46.220 He said, they'll just put Ukraine away.

02:39:48.220 Yeah.

02:39:49.220 And it will be like many other of America's foreign adventures is we just don't talk about

02:39:54.220 it.

02:39:55.220 You put it is they're wrapping up in a boat with Biden and throw the both out together.

02:39:58.220 Right.

02:39:59.220 Yeah.

02:40:00.220 But Trump has been saying that he'd like to do that for a while now.

02:40:02.220 You know, so it's not like this is a surprise or it's not like this takes a genius to prognosticate

02:40:08.220 or anything.

02:40:09.220 Yeah.

02:40:10.220 This is a fairly obvious thing he's going to do.

02:40:11.220 So he's going to resolve a bunch of America's immediate problems probably quite quickly.

02:40:15.220 I mean, like tomorrow, he's going to be signing probably at least a hundred executive orders

02:40:20.220 to get stuff done.

02:40:21.220 Yeah.

02:40:22.220 Or not tomorrow.

02:40:23.220 Now.

02:40:24.220 Well, yeah.

02:40:25.220 I mean, after his speech.

02:40:26.220 In an hour or two, he should be in the Oval Office signing stuff.

02:40:30.220 Yeah.

02:40:31.220 By the time we do the podcast tomorrow, there's going to be a flurry of things that he has

02:40:35.220 done that we'll cover.

02:40:36.220 Is it literally the inauguration day is the first day for executive orders?

02:40:41.220 Yeah.

02:40:42.220 He's president.

02:40:43.220 No, legally when they, he's got a party to go to.

02:40:46.220 Sure.

02:40:47.220 But he's, he said he didn't want to wait.

02:40:48.220 Fair enough.

02:40:49.220 No, legally he is the president now and Biden is a private citizen.

02:40:53.220 So yeah.

02:40:54.220 Might as well get signing then.

02:40:55.220 Yeah.

02:40:56.220 Okay.

02:40:57.220 So, uh, right.

02:40:58.220 Well, any, any final thoughts on the day's events?

02:41:03.220 Um, it was all very promising, wasn't it?

02:41:06.220 I suppose.

02:41:07.220 General feeling of, um, optimism with a slight bit of cynicism, which is not really surprising

02:41:13.220 for me.

02:41:15.220 I've just got my fingers crossed that, um, over the next few days and weeks, he actually

02:41:18.220 does this stuff.

02:41:19.220 I was really hoped to hear him explicitly mention, uh, JFK, RFK senior, uh, documents,

02:41:26.220 and also his pledges, various pledges to break up and scatter to the winds in all sorts

02:41:32.220 of ways, the intelligence services.

02:41:34.220 I think he did mention that in the victory speech yesterday.

02:41:37.220 Oh, sorry.

02:41:38.220 He did in, yeah.

02:41:39.220 Yesterday, yesterday.

02:41:40.220 I'd hoped for something in the formal inauguration.

02:41:42.220 He does have a stack of, to do this.

02:41:44.220 Yeah, sure.

02:41:45.220 Sure, sure.

02:41:46.220 And, and we're going to be filming a Brokonomics on that sort of subject, the conspiracy theories

02:41:49.220 that might come out tomorrow, aren't we, Bo?

02:41:51.220 So, so the audience can look forward to that next week.

02:41:53.220 We could do a Noriega thing.

02:41:54.220 We'd love to do a Noriega thing.

02:41:55.220 Yeah.

02:41:56.220 Well, we do that as well, but tomorrow we're filming the one on the conspiracies that might

02:41:59.220 get proved right.

02:42:00.220 Okay.

02:42:01.220 So any final thoughts, Dan?

02:42:03.220 Yeah.

02:42:04.220 Return to confident masculine energy, because I know the, I know America technically has

02:42:09.220 been ruled by a man for the last four years, but it was all feminine energy.

02:42:13.220 It was, it's, it's been entirely feminine.

02:42:15.220 And we're in the UK, of course, led by Keir Starmer, who is technically a man, but again,

02:42:20.220 it's feminine energy.

02:42:21.220 This is a return to masculine energy and I like it.

02:42:24.220 Yeah.

02:42:25.220 Very, very much the lion back in charge.

02:42:26.220 We're going to use hard power to get what we want.

02:42:28.220 Yes.

02:42:29.220 If you don't like it, well, that's your problem.

02:42:30.220 Um, yeah, no, this is good.

02:42:32.220 Very good start.

02:42:33.220 Um, yeah.

02:42:34.220 I mean, I, I haven't got much to add to that to be honest.

02:42:36.220 Like this, honestly, if Trump does half of what he's promising, it'd be a massive success

02:42:41.220 and it will go down in history as legendary, you know, be a very difficult act to follow.

02:42:46.220 And Trump's deserves it as well.

02:42:48.220 That's the thing.

02:42:49.220 Trump deserves everything he's getting here because I, I can't even imagine the hell that

02:42:53.220 he's had to go through for the past four years.

02:42:55.220 It's the constant investigations, constant persecution from the legal system.

02:42:59.220 The hundreds of hours he's had to spend sat in court.

02:43:02.220 Yeah.

02:43:03.220 And, but, and then like the media, just for the eight years of the media every day,

02:43:08.220 flashing your name, it's just like, God, that is just, you know, so much stress, you know,

02:43:13.220 so much hassle and then to come back and have a massive victory where he's got everything

02:43:16.220 and now he can put the world right.

02:43:18.220 That is totally deserved, man.

02:43:20.220 Massively heavily armed FDI team storming your properties and stuff.

02:43:24.220 Yeah.

02:43:25.220 Yeah.

02:43:26.220 Yeah.

02:43:27.220 Yeah.

02:43:28.220 Yeah.

02:43:29.220 Trivialities, you know, a trifle.

02:43:30.220 And so Trump absolutely deserves this.

02:43:31.220 So I'm, I'm very happy.

02:43:32.220 And yeah, we'll, we'll cover tomorrow what his sort of first actions are on the podcast.

02:43:35.220 So tune in one o'clock British time, which is about eight o'clock in the morning,

02:43:40.220 Easter time for that.

02:43:41.220 And, uh, do we have, Oh, we do have some rumble checks.

02:43:44.220 Sorry.

02:43:45.220 I forgot about those.

02:43:46.220 Um, well, there's only a couple left.

02:43:47.220 Um, so hopefully Linkara doesn't pop out and cause kerfuffle.

02:43:50.220 I don't know what that means.

02:43:52.220 Um, and that's a random name, Dan.

02:43:54.220 Why are you trying to convince both of them the validity of Venus when they believe in

02:43:57.220 the moon landing?

02:43:58.220 Well, that's a good point.

02:43:59.220 Well, you've got us on that.

02:44:01.220 Um, but, uh, yeah, we'll be back.

02:44:03.220 So, uh, go over to the merch store, get the Trump merch while it's still there.

02:44:06.220 Cause it will be down very, very soon.

02:44:08.220 And, uh, thank you everyone for joining us.

02:44:10.220 I hope you're having a great day and we'll see you tomorrow.

02:44:12.220 Bye.

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - January 21, 2025

Trump Inauguration Livestream

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