Jack Posobiec, senior editor of Human Events, a Navy intelligence officer, a proud Catholic, a MAGA patriot, and New York Times bestselling author, joins me to talk about his trip to Poland and Hungary, and the mass riots in Paris.
00:04:59.960Oh, Roger, I think it seems to be very personal on the perspective of Elon Musk.
00:05:06.080And I think that anyone reading this seems to think that it has a lot more to do.
00:05:11.300Certainly, the way he reacted is a bit more than just having a disagreement over spending.
00:05:16.680And in fact, this bill isn't even a budget bill.
00:05:20.340The budget bill comes up later in September.
00:05:22.220In fact, this is the bill regarding deportations, regarding President Trump's agenda, regarding no tax on tips, regarding no tax on overtime.
00:05:33.740And I certainly agree, by the way, that I would like to see a lot of the Doge Cots, all of the Doge Cots really codified into law.
00:05:41.300But clearly, I think there's a lot more going on.
00:05:44.240And what I hear, there's a lot more going on behind the scenes.
00:05:47.360One of the top issues, of course, being this easy tax credit being removed as part of the bill.
00:05:54.040A huge blow to Tesla as a company, as well as Elon's pick for the NASA director, ultimately being removed from his potential appointment, his nomination going in, which, of course, would have been a huge leverage point for SpaceX as well.
00:06:12.180So, Jared Isaacman, who the White House actually announced that he would be the NASA director, and then it was pulled back when it was learned that he had given money to numerous Democrats, including Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, the senator from Georgia, Adam Schiff, and others.
00:06:35.780So, I think Elon's nose was out of Jordan about that.
00:06:39.380Also, they rejected his bid to have the air traffic controllers across the country use Starlink in their technology.
00:06:51.580Look, I do think that he's done a tremendous service for his country.
00:06:57.020When I met him at DeMar-Lago, I said, you've done more for free speech than anyone in the history of the country other than the founding fathers themselves.
00:07:57.960And I think it's something that Elon Musk did years before the election that really created the conditions for President Trump to be able to return to the political sphere.
00:08:11.020Because it was during that time that the truth about COVID was finally able to be told in a public dissemination, a public manner.
00:08:18.620It was during that time that the truth about President Trump's lawfare was able to come to light.
00:08:24.240They were going to put President Trump in jail for the rest of his life.
00:08:27.620They tried in four different times in various states and locations to put him away and obviously tried to strip him from the ballot and even got to the point where they attempted to kill President Trump multiple times.
00:08:41.940And so it obviously was a key effort by President Trump, Elon Musk, and, of course, Bobby Kennedy and the Maha movement, which I think really gets discounted a lot when people tell the story of 2024.
00:08:55.280But many people and certainly the media completely discount the fact of the Maha movement and the strength and the importance of Bobby Kennedy's endorsement crossing the line for the first time that Kennedy has ever really publicly endorsed a Republican in such a way and did so at just a seminal time for the United States of America.
00:09:17.500And so certainly I, like many others, do hope that there can be a way to mend this great schism.
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00:10:40.920But I think it is not good for the movement overall.
00:10:45.480Let's talk for a moment about the tariff war.
00:10:51.420The tariff war kind of got moved to the back burner here.
00:10:55.480But how do you think the president is doing in his efforts to make our trading partners pay their fair share or to give us an even deal, I guess I should say?
00:11:04.800Well, I think the president is doing very well.
00:11:07.780And for folks who have been keeping score, even though it's not really in the headlines, and people say, oh, well, he walked back to 150 percent tariffs.
00:11:16.220And I've seen a lot of people say they'll be very upset to say, oh, well, he had these tariffs and the formula wasn't using the proper tariff formula for the net balance of trade.
00:11:27.380Look, the trade deficit is actually flipping for the first time ever in years in the United States on the back of the tariffs.
00:11:37.400The Atlanta Fed is now forecasting an incredible explosive growth for the U.S. GDP in terms of Q2 in the United States.
00:11:46.880And we currently still have tariffs that are, in some cases, 20 percent or more on these trading partners, including the additional tariffs that were labeled on to China.
00:12:01.080This, of course, is also coming at the same time that the Chinese are begging President Trump for a meeting.