Jake and Roger discuss President Trump's trip to China, the media's handling of the story, and whether or not the mid-term elections are really as bad as they seem to think they are. Plus, a new segment from the Red Apple Podcast Network.
00:00:52.940This is The Stone Zone with Roger Stone.
00:00:56.680People love him and respect him. Roger Stone.
00:00:59.400Now, get in the zone. It's the Stone Zone. Here's Roger Stone.
00:01:05.900And I'm Jake Novak in for Roger Stone on this Tuesday night, May 12th.
00:01:11.300And I guess the biggest story internationally, also here in the U.S., is that President Trump has gone off to China to begin that big summit.
00:01:20.380I mean, it's always a big summit, especially these are the two biggest powers in the world.
00:01:23.980I don't think anyone denies that anymore.
00:01:25.760uh and uh the summit actually doesn't start until thursday but that'll still be like wednesday our
00:01:31.480time because of the time difference nevertheless the president won't be going directly into
00:01:35.920talks with president xi jinping going right in there i want to talk a little bit for a moment
00:01:41.740about the way that the news media has decided to cover uh the story so far and of course the story
00:01:47.900the only story right now the only documented thing that we can talk about is that president
00:01:51.920trump's gotten on air force one on his way over there and that's usually big enough as i just
00:01:56.240said this is a summit between the two biggest nations in the world the leaders of the two
00:01:59.700biggest nations in the world in the case of china it's a um it's a dictatorship i don't like to say
00:02:06.840the chinese government it implies that there's a democracy so i like to say the beijing regime and0.81
00:02:12.040for that i'm sure the ccp doesn't like me i've also done entire podcasts where i kind of pretended0.97
00:02:18.680to be war from Star Trek and talked about how the Chinese government has no honor, the Chinese
00:02:23.140regime, because they don't. They don't have any honor. They have a culture of victimhood there.
00:02:26.740By the way, if you think America's African Americans or America's Jewish people or any0.99
00:02:31.360other minority has a sense of victimhood, we got nothing on the Chinese. The Chinese really play0.99
00:02:36.680the victim card big time. We're not aware of that in this country because most of us are not educated1.00
00:02:41.180properly, but the Chinese did take a good deal of victimization from the Japanese, from the British,
00:02:47.000not really so much from us they the victimization China has taken at our hands which was somewhat0.73
00:02:52.820during the Korean War was entirely China's fault no one asked them to cross the Yalu River and get0.82
00:02:57.860involved in the Korean War which was a big L for everyone by the way involved but they really0.91
00:03:03.480believe that the rest of the world has wronged them and because of that they believe they have
00:03:06.640no moral morality that they have to uphold because everyone has got it coming but so this
00:03:13.500is a big story it's a big story as it is but the mainstream news media has decided to really put
00:03:18.540in what i consider to be some ridiculous editorializing in their headlines to the point
00:03:24.120that it's almost ridiculous so all and by the way they all march to the same drummer i mean i don't
00:03:29.320know if they all get a memo they probably do there's probably some think tanks in dc left
00:03:33.780wing or supposedly moderate ones the brookings institution is a big left wing think tank that
00:03:39.920still comes off or at least tries to pretend that it's a moderate think tank it is not
00:03:44.200but okay uh i'm convinced that some of these think tanks send talking points to all the
00:03:51.160mainstream media outlets and a lot of them use the same ones i think that's where the
00:03:54.080sources of this are and places like the brookings institute of course institution would be
00:03:57.920a logical source of them because it's been shown that they get a massive amount of funding from
00:04:02.240our foreign enemies so i'm sure some of the other think tanks do too but anyway the headline i'm
00:04:06.840seeing a lot is stung by the iran war president trump goes to china summit how is president
00:04:13.680trump stung by this war i'd like to know well jake his approval ratings are down well he's not
00:04:19.780running for re-election uh and he also has more approval from the republicans in this country
00:04:26.720than he's ever had before so i don't really know if that's the case uh the people who believe that
00:04:32.700these midterm elections are going to be decided by what's going on in iran i think are completely
00:04:36.820completely diluted. That's not really going to be a factor one way or the other. Even if we
00:04:41.300have a major, major victory in the next couple of weeks and gas prices start coming down,
00:04:45.740I still don't think that that's going to be a major factor in the midterm elections.
00:04:49.260All politics are local, except for when the DNC tries to nationalize everything from
00:04:53.320dog catcher up to governor, which they try to do. So, you know, every year, every other year
00:04:59.500during the midterm elections, you hear about, for example, a district that's really red or really
00:05:03.660had an opportunity to go republican or really had an opportunity to be democrat and they run
00:05:07.660some coup candidate i mean maine is a good example you know the republicans were on the ropes in maine0.88
00:05:14.820with the susan collins who doesn't have maga support because she doesn't deserve it she's
00:05:18.280not a supporter of the president and everyone has a right not to support the president if they want0.99
00:05:22.600to but she's chosen some stupid battles to fight against trump and she chose a stupid battle in the0.99
00:05:29.240years before trump on obamacare thinking that this was going to help her state and it didn't1.00
00:05:33.820but now the democrats have accommodated uh this whole situation for susan collins by0.95
00:05:40.260they're going to back this this nazi who has not just a nazi tattoo on his chest but he has an ss
00:05:45.520tattoo of the specific ss division that ran and operated the death camps that's not like a tattoo
00:05:52.060that you get by accident it's much worse than a swastika by the way i mean talk about coups0.65
00:05:59.240kooks changing a whole tide of possibilities for the democrats in in maine and the republicans
00:06:04.480have run some kooks of their time too where they snatched victory from uh sorry defeat from the
00:06:09.940jaws of victory when they could have easily won something so i i'd like to know exactly where
00:06:14.780president trump is stung by the iran war the iran milit the iranian military is badly defeated
00:06:19.360yes they can restock and maybe they still have a lot of missiles but most of their missiles have
00:06:24.720totally missed the mark their military is tremendously depleted their nuclear program
00:06:29.500is definitely set back right now the only discussion is will they hand over the nuclear
00:06:33.940dust or the uranium that they still have enriched uranium or not
00:06:37.700they're the only reason why they sort of control the country right now is that they had to import1.00
00:06:43.880a bunch of hezbollah and houthi thugs into the streets of tehran the best they're doing right0.98
00:06:50.240now is just licking their wounds and sitting away president trump isn't stung by the iran
00:06:54.580war and i i really don't want to jinx it folks but have you noticed that we haven't really had
00:07:03.880that many casualties at all on either side where are the big civilian casualty numbers
00:07:10.060among the iranian people oh but jake there was that school on the first day well first of all
00:07:14.420we don't really know who was responsible for that school bombing and as tragic as that was
00:07:18.200that seems to be the only event in this you know how many bombing sorties have gone over iran since
00:07:23.660day one where are the big civilian deaths where are u.s we're still stuck at 13 on u.s deaths
00:07:31.300that that's one too many i get it but come on a major military engagement for this much time
00:07:37.540and that's what we're talking about in terms of casualties uh folks oh gas prices are up yes
00:07:45.240they're up and it's not and it's not great and inflation is up but it's still not as high as it
00:07:50.160was under joe biden and gas prices by the way don't go up every single day we've had four straight
00:07:55.600days of them going down slightly i know it's still really way high i'm not making an excuse for it i'm
00:08:00.040not hiding it i do a business report every single morning and every single morning for the last 18
00:08:05.380years i've told everyone what the national average gas price is i don't need a war to tell me to do
00:08:09.460that it's very important to me and to the economy so don't remember who you're talking to if that's
00:08:14.140what you think you're going to push back on me but folks president trump's not stung by this
00:08:20.920you know who's stung by the iran war china it's china that's having problems with their supply
00:08:28.640chain much more than we are because of the war it's china that's had their own tankers either
00:08:32.780accidentally or not attacked by iranian ships in the last couple of weeks china's the one that's
00:08:39.200stung by the iran war much more than we are i mean it's it's just not honest if you want to
00:08:47.100say that president trump is stung by the war and it's not great that gas prices are going up
00:08:50.300okay but that's like saying well you know uh the champ knocked out the opponent in 30 seconds and
00:08:57.740he chipped a nail chipped a nail the champion takes and who cares it's missing the forest for
00:09:03.520the trees this has been an incredibly successful military campaign the politics of it are harder
00:09:09.680the economics of it are harder but this lie that the mainstream media is trying to push through
00:09:16.140that this war is a failure and that we're dying in droves and that everything's wrong uh is is
00:09:22.340really scary these people i these people must be terrible in a crisis i would not want to be in
00:09:27.460the middle of a hurricane or a fire or a blackout with these people it's like that character in the
00:09:35.560movie aliens i don't know why hbo is showing every single aliens movie this week is there a new one
00:09:40.040coming out does anyone know they're showing every single aliens movie all week on all the hbo channels
00:09:45.740so i'm seeing aliens for the first time since it came out in 1986 and the bill paxton character
00:09:50.500remember him the entire movie he just wise oh we're dead man we're dead why they didn't shoot
00:09:54.700him in the first scene i don't know that's the american news media we're dead man we're left
00:09:59.160i just did bill paxton's great actor by the way uh rest in peace right he passed away
00:10:05.720um great actor by the way but that wasn't his best that his best role
00:10:09.760no i mean he's really annoying in that movie and why they didn't like knock him off right away i
00:10:14.660don't know um but that's the american news media the american news media is bill paxton in the
00:10:19.1401986 movie aliens i think i think i finally got the guy i don't know why this didn't hit me before
00:10:24.420It's been a long time since I'd seen the movie until recently, so that's why.
00:10:28.480Listen, folks, this summit's going to be interesting.
00:10:31.200China is the one that is really hurting from this war more than we are, I promise you.
00:10:37.040And China has the ability to help dial it down.
00:10:41.620And President Trump is just what the doctor ordered.0.57
00:10:44.700If you wanted a president, an American president, to bluntly tell the Chinese,0.83
00:10:48.200hey listen you want your oil prices going down you want some of your problems to go away then0.93
00:10:55.440stop supplying the iranians tell the iranian regime that maybe we'll find them a girlfriend
00:11:00.220and a little villa to live in in turkmenistan if they just leave and that's and and let's all0.58
00:11:05.660let's all get along after that by the way that's kind of what george hw uh w bush should have said
00:11:11.900to the saudis after 9-11 he should have sat down with the king at the time king fad and said listen
00:11:16.320most of the people who did this were your people i know that they're not exactly great people in
00:11:21.960your society either they don't like your kingdom either uh you're going to help us get rid of them
00:11:26.980you're going to get rid of all your anti-semitic and anti-israel and anti-american stuff in your
00:11:31.180textbooks and you're going to reform saudi arabia and we didn't do that instead we decided to focus
00:11:36.440on iraq focus on afghanistan made a lot of sense to focus on and that kind of thing we could have
00:11:40.980saved a lot of lives if we had done that if you think that that wouldn't have worked i give you
00:11:45.080Mohammed bin Salman who was a teenager at the time one of the princes at the time there's no way that
00:11:50.020he was the only one who thought the way that he does now which is exactly what I just said get1.00
00:11:53.640rid of the anti-Israel stuff in the textbooks get rid of the anti-semitism get rid of the stupid0.99
00:11:59.120anti-Americanism and we're going to move ahead as a country well so we can do that with the Chinese0.98
00:12:06.140that would be nice all right I want to hear what a lot of you have to say about this 800-848-9222
00:12:12.580We're going to tell you about some other big stories going on right now when we come back.
00:12:16.060But I also want to hear from you on the eve of this summit, if you want to talk about that, anything else you want to talk about.
00:14:18.720And I'm Jake Novak filling in for Roger Stone this evening on the Stone Zone.
00:14:22.420Thank you so much for the opportunity to get your time and your consideration.
00:14:26.520A couple of other stories I quickly want to do before I go to calls.
00:14:28.920First off, I was talking about China before, and we got an interesting story out yesterday
00:14:34.260that I don't think enough people made enough of a big deal about.
00:14:36.840You have the mayor of Arcadia, California, her name, Eileen Wang.
00:14:41.460She abruptly resigned yesterday as she admitted that she's been a she pled guilty to being a paid agent of China and promoting the Chinese communist agenda in this country.
00:14:56.620Now, of course, Eileen Wang is Chinese American, but honestly, I don't think that has almost anything to do with it.
00:15:02.340If you think that the Chinese government is only concerned with people who are mayors of mid-level cities like Arcadia, California, I mean, come on.
00:15:12.000I think that there are a significant number of our elected leaders at much higher levels in government, particularly in Congress.
00:15:19.460And yes, I believe it's mostly Democrats, although there's definitely a couple of Republicans I can think of who are significantly under the influence of China.
00:15:27.460And then there's a bunch of people who don't even know that they're under the influence of China because they've been getting donations from organizations like ActBlue, which we know has been basically a money launderer for foreign political donations, a lot of them coming from China.0.99
00:15:38.500so we have been infiltrated for many years in this country by the chinese which is why there's0.98
00:15:46.800been among the the lunatics online lately the tucker carlsons the candace owens and all those0.99
00:15:54.060other lunatics which is why there's been such a focus on another country influencing us because
00:15:58.280they don't even make the top 20 of the big donors via american organizations to this country it's0.85
00:18:36.080Now, before all this happened, with all this tax stuff and the bailout, all he could do
00:18:40.720was talk about some of the, you know, a little bit of the anti-Semitism and the socialism
00:18:44.440of Zora Mamdani, but you've now been given an issue where it's clear that Zora Mamdani
00:18:48.760is a menace to the taxpayers throughout the state.0.77
00:18:51.040So go to Rochester. Go to Buffalo. And I know you've done this, Mr. Blakeman, but do it more. Go to Albany and tell the taxpayers, if you don't want New York City to bilk you dry, I'm your man. And that ought to make this race a close one. It really should.
00:19:08.520But imagine how stupid Zoran Mamdani has to think the voters are to make a video like that.0.99
00:19:13.460We reduced, we reduced the, you didn't reduce anything you stole from the rest of the taxpayers of the state.1.00
00:19:19.560And now the whole state is on the hook for you.
00:19:23.080All right, going to get to your calls when we come back.
00:28:26.600In other words, nothing that Jews do or don't do has anything to do with it.0.69
00:28:30.880As I've been telling my fellow Jews for years, we should be good people because we're commanded to be good people, not because we're worried about the anti-Semites maybe not attacking us.
00:28:38.400In fact, I think they want to attack us more when we do good, frankly.
00:28:43.140Now, another inkling that I'm getting as far as the timing of this, it turns out that this ridiculous editorial comes out a day before we are getting actual journalism about what's going on in the region.
00:28:55.540It turns out, and this is not easy to hear, I'll use the same terminology as Nicholas Kristof, this is not easy to hear, I'm going to tell you anyway.
00:29:03.020It turns out that we now have evidence documented by people who are on the record about it, who actually were hostages.
00:29:10.000It turns out that Hamas forced family members to have sex with one another during their captivity.
00:29:18.360And if you think that this is something that you've never heard before, again, if anyone is listening from Long Island, perhaps you remember one of the most infamous crimes in the history of Long Island in the 1980s, a diner on the North Shore with mirrored windows was taken over by a bunch of robbers, and they made the related members of the hostages do the same thing.0.53
00:30:06.620An incredible ignoramus by the way1.00
00:30:09.740they get a useful idiot to publish this the day before this other true account comes out0.98
00:30:16.020that's probably what happened here and uh what can i tell uh what can i tell you randy in0.96
00:30:25.140manhattan uh there's protesters outside your hotel right now harassing people is that what's
00:30:29.720going on randy no i've had a lot of protests at fbi level arrests for a jewish family
00:30:36.920own business um i am also a writer i wrote about a book about gana recently between the altar and
00:30:46.100the sanctuary exactly what you're talking about why we are where we are how we got here and how
00:30:53.900the hell we're going to get out of it what um i mean the the loss of honor in the world is a big
00:31:01.020deal i mean you know we could use a little cling on right now for you star trek fans
00:31:04.860i mean honestly where is the where is the honor here people don't want to go on the record
00:31:11.760people want to claim that they're victims and they don't have to follow the rules
00:31:16.060people who are so angry at civilization are so resentful and i want everyone to understand the
00:31:23.520difference between resentment and jealousy the politics of an aoc the politics of a zoran
00:31:30.800mom donnie the politics of a china it's not jealousy we keep thinking and i've heard a lot
00:31:37.800of people say oh anti-semitism is also about jealousy the jews are so successful no it's not
00:31:42.700it's not about jealousy first of all jealousy ain't all bad jealousy and a lot of people can
00:31:48.880be a positive motivator oh i really want those air jordans that my neighbor has i'm going to go
00:31:53.520out and get a part-time job and get air jordans resentment is oh my neighbor has those air jordans0.88
00:31:59.420and i don't i'm going to steal them and and tear them up and rip them throw them in the garbage0.90
00:32:03.980aoc zora mamdani the china that's the politics of resentment and the politics of resentment0.97
00:32:10.380which is basically communism is destructive which is why when you tell people and you're
00:32:15.800having a debate and you tell people hey by the way this communist policy is going to destroy
00:32:19.280the whole economy that's why most of the people who are listening to that and debating you
00:32:22.660that doesn't faze them turns them on oh yeah widespread destruction sign me up
00:32:29.920these are the people who don't just flip over the chessboard when they lose
00:32:34.060they flip it over and then they set it on fire and that has a lot to do with what we're dealing
00:32:39.100with in this situation Lamar in Macon Georgia you want to talk about the war in Iran go ahead Lamar
00:32:45.960oh sir it is a thing remarkable to behold we have troops in the field in a combat theater
00:32:53.420and all people in this country are talking about his gasoline prices one of the signatories of our
00:32:59.220sacred documents once said that in order for people to be free they must first be virtuous
00:33:04.540and moral the american people are not immoral people there are depraved reprobate people
00:33:09.880Donald John Trump, the greatest man alive in the world today, who is on his way now to China, God bless him, has an admirable goal to make America great again.
00:33:20.500But a great man once said that no nation can be greater than the people who reside within her frontiers.
00:33:26.580you know how would i like how would you like to tell our grandparents who rationed during world
00:33:32.960war ii for not just gasoline but sugar and silk stockings and and all kinds of other things to
00:33:41.020and it took them four long years of that kind of rationing because the rationing by the way lasted
00:33:47.180well after the war ended truman was under a lot of pressure to end the rationing he's like listen
00:33:51.720we don't have the supplies that there'll be hyperinflation and uh how would you like to tell
00:33:56.820them yeah uh we've had five weeks of of gas prices that aren't even the highest that we've had in the
00:34:01.520last three years and they'd be like what so iran and by the way it's important to remember that
00:34:08.660these comparisons between iran and nazi germany are absolutely apt the nazis trained funded0.86
00:34:18.080and guided the muslim brotherhood which is the beginning of islamism in the in the world0.98
00:34:22.760the muslim brotherhood is the parents of hamas the parents of of isis the parents of al-qaeda
00:34:28.840the parents of the iranian regime ayatollah khomeini who founded the iranian islamist
00:34:34.160regime was a follower of the nazi-funded grand mufti of jerusalem who from berlin during world
00:34:40.380war ii had a daily radio program that was broadcast throughout the world that's why they
00:34:45.200act so much like nazis that's why they sound so much like nazis are you a harry potter fan0.98
00:34:49.080islamists are yeah well i'm talking to everyone islamists are the last horcrux of hitler
00:34:56.780you know you're harry potter it's a piece of his soul and lamar i love your i love your your0.99
00:35:04.540emotion you know uh we we don't have to be blind followers of anything fdr did not have the blind
00:35:11.980following of the american people when he was president during world war ii but they sure as
00:35:16.020heck weren't giving him a hard time about six weeks worth of higher gasoline prices for crying
00:35:20.920out loud and they sure is and the mainstream media wasn't making points about every little
00:35:25.980weakness that he might have had i mean you know we had we had some failures in the beginning of
00:35:32.360world war ii we have failures going all the way through 1943 the news media didn't hide them
00:35:40.740but they didn't make it the headline every single time the overall story was the overall story which
00:35:45.840wasn't as bad and there are a lot of people in journalism and i've been in this business for
00:35:51.660over 32 years who think that the job of journalists is to just find problems that's part of our job