Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - Communism vs Common Sense, What's Next for NYC? | TRIGGERED Ep.289

00:06:23.000 Hey guys, welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.

00:06:27.000 As you can see, I'm not in the studio today.

00:06:30.000 Far from it, actually.

00:06:31.000 I've been on the road pretty much non-stop, but it's great to be with all of you guys and to catch up with what's going on in the world.

00:06:39.000 I was going to start by saying, I hope you all had a great Halloween, but we already have something way scarier, and it's happening.

00:06:49.000 It's happening all over the place, and that's communism going mainstream in New York City and across the entirety of the Democrat Party.

00:07:01.000 So, today we're going to do a deep dive into all of that because I think we all have to hear about it.

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00:10:07.000 And now, guys, let's get into all of the top headlines that the mainstream media simply won't tell you the truth about.

00:10:16.000 And we'll begin in New York City, the city I grew up in, the city I love, or at least loved.

00:10:26.000 Now it's probably pretty different, where it is now clear and perhaps more clear than ever that we are in an all-out battle between common sense and communism.

00:10:38.000 And I'm not even being hyperbolic here at this point.

00:10:41.000 I mean, this is not, you know, a raid cycle.

00:10:44.000 This is just what's actually happening.

00:10:46.000 The newly elected mayor, Zoran Mandani, is making it crystal clear that he wants to impose government-run everything.

00:10:57.000 Everything.

00:10:58.000 Government is going to do this. 0.77

00:10:59.000 They're going to do that.

00:11:00.000 You're going to be dependent on them.

00:11:01.000 They're going to give you whatever you need and no one has to be productive and the usual stuff.

00:11:06.000 They're going to impose government-run everything into America's largest city. 0.86

00:11:12.000 This isn't progressivism anymore, guys.

00:11:15.000 It is so far beyond that, it's insane.

00:11:19.000 Let's talk about what this guy actually wants to do.

00:11:22.000 We'll go through the list.

00:11:24.000 He actually wants to freeze the rent.

00:11:28.000 I mean, that sounds great.

00:11:29.000 I mean, I don't like when rents go up.

00:11:30.000 I mean, I get it.

00:11:31.000 Until you realize that every single time rent control has been tried, it destroyed the housing market and creates shortages.

00:11:42.000 You have people gaming the system.

00:11:44.000 Ask me how I know.

00:11:45.000 Before I got to go on this last decade journey into politics, I used to build buildings there all the time.

00:11:51.000 That's what we did.

00:11:53.000 He wants free buses, which means working people will pay for them through higher taxes while the quality of service goes down.

00:12:04.000 It all sounds good when you hear about it until you realize the unintended consequences.

00:12:11.000 He wants to look the other way on crime.

00:12:14.000 So they'll do what they usually do, right?

00:12:17.000 They're going to tell you that crime went down because they're just not going to arrest people for doing criminal stuff.

00:12:23.000 So again, he wants to look the other way on crime because apparently the real victims here, the real victims of crime, are the criminals, not the hardworking New Yorkers getting mugged on their way to work, on the way to go get groceries, whatever it was.

00:12:40.000 He wants government-run grocery stores.

00:12:43.000 I'm sure that'll work out great.

00:12:45.000 Because again, if history is any guide, those are actually called breadlines.

00:12:52.000 For those of you who didn't know this, my mom actually escaped communist Czechoslovakia.

00:12:57.000 As a kid, she made me go over there to appreciate fully how awesome we had it in America.

00:13:03.000 I've waited in those breadlines.

00:13:05.000 I promise you, there's nothing glorious or glamorous or great about them.

00:13:10.000 It's an abject disaster.

00:13:13.000 And of course, he wants to globalize the infitada.

00:13:17.000 I mean, those are actually his words, not mine.

00:13:20.000 They're his words to globalize the infitada and try to hinder ICE operations in the five boroughs.

00:13:28.000 So while regular New Yorkers are struggling to pay their bills and to stay safe, this guy's priority is protecting people who shouldn't even be in the country and spewing off every cliche far-left slogan day in and day out.

00:13:48.000 But if you notice this in his speech on Tuesday night, the mask completely came off.

00:13:54.000 All the happy talk, all the feel-good rhetoric turned into something that sounded more like a threat from a communist dictator.

00:14:05.000 When he said, we will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve.

00:14:12.000 What do you think he meant by that, guys?

00:14:14.000 I mean, that seems like something right out of the Marx playbook.

00:14:19.000 Think about that statement, guys.

00:14:21.000 There's no problem the government can't solve.

00:14:25.000 I mean, it's sort of like the opposite of like Reagan's slogan, right?

00:14:29.000 Like the seven worst words in the English language or whatever the number of words is, like, you know, I'm here from the government, I'm here to help, like, whatever it is.

00:14:35.000 Like the government has not had a great history of solving a lot of problems for regular people.

00:14:41.000 It's not what they do.

00:14:42.000 That's not what our system is about.

00:14:44.000 Again, what does history tell you?

00:14:48.000 Watch Zoharon in his own words and see for yourself.

00:14:53.000 We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about.

00:15:02.000 And guys, his supporters are taking it even further.

00:15:06.000 They're openly praising the USSR, the Soviet Union.

00:15:14.000 They're openly praising it.

00:15:16.000 The regime that murdered millions, that built the gulags, that turned Eastern Europe into a literal prison. 0.77

00:15:25.000 These people are standing in the streets of New York City, the beacon of capitalism and freedom, praising Stalin's legacy.

00:15:35.000 Watch.

00:15:37.000 What do you think it means that this guy ran out of socialists and anti-communism didn't work to stop him?

00:15:42.000 That's good.

00:15:44.000 Yeah, I think we are in the heart of the imperial core.

00:15:49.000 This is the country that defeated the USSR, unfortunately.

00:15:53.000 And the reality of the matter is, there's a lot of antagonism.

00:15:57.000 There's no class consciousness in the United States of America.

00:16:00.000 It's one of the things I try to address every day with my commentary.

00:16:03.000 And I will say this.

00:16:06.000 The conditions have deteriorated so much that everyday Americans, in spite of their lack of class consciousness, are finally arriving at the conclusion that perhaps there is an alternative out there.

00:16:18.000 There is an alternative that focuses on them as opposed to the interests of the billionaires and the millionaires, as opposed to the interests of the capital owners.

00:16:26.000 And I mean, you can't help but notice that.

00:16:29.000 You can't help but feel at least a little bit of excitement around that.

00:16:34.000 And the guy you saw in that video is the same guy being slammed for abusing his own dog during a live stream.

00:16:44.000 And communists, they don't exactly have a great history with how they treat their pets.

00:16:52.000 The same people claiming to be so threatened and opposed to the millionaires and the billionaires, the same people who rail against the 1% have absolutely no problem cozying up to them the second they smell power or opportunity.

00:17:14.000 It's the oldest trick in the socialist playbook, guys.

00:17:18.000 Claim you're for the working class while you're dining with the elite.

00:17:22.000 Case in point, Alex Soros.

00:17:25.000 Yes, George Soros' son, the heir to billions, posted a photo with Mamdani congratulating him and saying he was so proud to be a New Yorker.

00:17:37.000 Really?

00:17:38.000 Alex Soros is suddenly the champion of the working class?

00:17:42.000 The guy who's inherited more money than some countries' GDP is now standing with the people against the elites.

00:17:51.000 I'm not buying it.

00:17:52.000 I don't think I've seen Alex Soros ever hang out with a regular person in his life.

00:17:56.000 Give me a break, folks.

00:17:58.000 This is what it's always been about. 1.00

00:18:00.000 Rich socialists using idiots to gain power while they keep their penthouses and their private jets. 1.00

00:18:10.000 Okay. 1.00

00:18:11.000 And that's the same old playbook, day in and day out.

00:18:15.000 Story as old as modern time.

00:18:18.000 And yesterday, my father spoke at the American Business Forum in Miami, Florida.

00:18:23.000 Here's how he perfectly summed up all of this insanity.

00:18:27.000 This is what real leadership actually sounds like, folks.

00:18:31.000 Our opponents are offering an economic nightmare.

00:18:33.000 We're delivering an economic miracle.

00:18:35.000 We have delivered in nine months.

00:18:37.000 This is an economic, the biggest investment of funds in a country in history by many times.

00:18:45.000 That's good.

00:18:47.000 They want higher spending for government and illegal aliens. 0.81

00:18:51.000 We want bigger paychecks for American workers and American families.

00:18:54.000 And that's what we're delivering.

00:18:55.000 You see that?

00:18:57.000 They stand for crime and chaos and corruption.

00:18:59.000 We stand for law and order and justice.

00:19:02.000 Also, strong borders.

00:19:04.000 Boy, do we have strong borders?

00:19:06.000 They put America last.

00:19:07.000 We put America first.

00:19:09.000 We put America first.

00:19:14.000 And as long as I'm in the White House, the United States is not going communist in any way, shape, or form.

00:19:20.000 We're going to stop it.

00:19:20.000 We'll stop it.

00:19:22.000 Stop this nonsense.

00:19:24.000 Now, just consider the stark juxtaposition here.

00:19:28.000 You've got that message in Miami delivered in a room full of business leaders, entrepreneurs, job creators, risk takers, many of whom fled communist regimes in places like Cuba and Venezuela.

00:19:42.000 People who have seen firsthand what socialism does to a country.

00:19:48.000 They know the smell of tyranny.

00:19:51.000 They've lived it.

00:19:53.000 They've been through it.

00:19:54.000 And they don't want it back.

00:19:56.000 And then you've got Mandani in New York speaking to a bunch of Champaign socialists, trust fund revolutionaries who have never worked a real job in their lives.

00:20:09.000 They're talking about basically seizing the means of production while they sip their $15 lattes.

00:20:18.000 These people think that breadlines are a theoretical concept from a history book somewhere, not something that actual human beings suffered through.

00:20:28.000 Again, I've witnessed it with my own eyes.

00:20:31.000 There's a reason, folks.

00:20:32.000 There's a reason that none of those people that champion the new communism in America have actually ever lived under those systems.

00:20:42.000 There's a reason that no one ever escaped Venezuela and then tried to bring it here. 0.99

00:20:46.000 There's a reason for that, folks.

00:20:47.000 No one escaped Eastern Europe under the USSR and said, you know what, we got to try that in America. 0.74

00:20:55.000 Not a single person, only the Bernie Sanders of the world, the academics, the AOCs, the Mandanis, they're the ones that want to do it here.

00:21:05.000 And here's the really telling part.

00:21:09.000 The voter analysis of the mayor's race shows that his weakest support was among those actually born and raised in New York City.

00:21:20.000 Huh, sounds familiar.

00:21:21.000 It's like the rest of the Democrat Party, folks.

00:21:24.000 If we can't get those people to vote for it, we're just going to make sure we take care of illegals and then they'll vote for us and we'll make them citizens and they'll vote for us and then they'll bring their friends and they'll vote for them. 0.95

00:21:33.000 You know, they'll drain the coffers. 1.00

00:21:35.000 They'll burn the health care system, the education systems that are already failing.

00:21:41.000 We'll flood it with more people rather than actually take care of real New Yorkers. 0.56

00:21:44.000 The real New Yorkers, they rejected him.

00:21:48.000 His strongest support, you guessed it, people who've been in the city less than five years.

00:21:55.000 The transplants, the temporary residents who treat New York like it's their personal social experiment before they move back to their parents' homes in the suburbs and start a real life. 0.99

00:22:07.000 What does that tell you guys?

00:22:09.000 It tells you that the voters who actually know the city, the people who are actually vested, who have skin in the game, who are raising their families there, who own businesses there, okay, they have a real stake in New York's success.

00:22:28.000 They know how catastrophically bad his agenda really is.

00:22:34.000 They understand it and they know they're going to be there for the long term.

00:22:37.000 They remember the bad old days of the 70s and 80s.

00:22:41.000 They remember what Democrat incompetence did to this city before Giuliani saved it.

00:22:47.000 And they're not buying what Mandani is selling.

00:22:51.000 I lived through those times in New York City.

00:22:54.000 My father changed the skyline of New York City.

00:22:57.000 When Walman Rink couldn't get fixed by the government, he did it himself.

00:23:02.000 And he did it in months, not the years that it lay there stagnant.

00:23:07.000 It's probably why Florida realtors are getting absolutely flooded with phone calls about relocating.

00:23:14.000 It sounds like it is.

00:23:15.000 Good afternoon, Sandra.

00:23:16.000 Realtors in this exclusive area say there's a new sense of urgency for wealthy New York buyers.

00:23:22.000 These are families, empty nesters, looking to buy a home like this and gain residency.

00:23:28.000 So some New Yorkers are taking a closer look at Florida's no-state income tax, especially as a potential tax hike looms.

00:23:36.000 Raising taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers has been one of Momdani's key campaign promises.

00:23:41.000 Luxury real estate agent Johnny Del Pretty says this is a main concern.

00:23:47.000 I networth people, you know, they're paying those taxes.

00:23:50.000 So they really want to know what they are getting for what they're paying.

00:23:54.000 There definitely has been more traffic, more flow through here in regards to showings.

00:23:59.000 And it's not just the realtors seeing the shift.

00:24:02.000 Local officials say they're feeling it too.

00:24:04.000 The mayor of Boca Raton says the Momdani effect is real and he's been fielding calls from worried New Yorkers.

00:24:11.000 In June, the city launched a New YorkTaboca.com, which has seen thousands of views, also igniting a billboard in Times Square.

00:24:22.000 We're getting people concerned about the potential of 17% tax rate just in city-state alone, potential of higher crime with comments about defunding police.

00:24:31.000 Boca Raton is a stark contrast.

00:24:33.000 The lowest property tax rate of any full-service city in Florida.

00:24:39.000 And Sandra, this home behind me is listed for $73 million.

00:24:42.000 Although that price tag may seem high, realtors say this is on par for the competitive market down here.

00:24:48.000 And the real problem is New York City, the people who pay the vast majority of the taxes, the elite, they can actually just get up and move.

00:24:57.000 They can leave.

00:24:58.000 It's the hardworking people.

00:25:00.000 And honestly, in New York City, if you're making a quarter of a million dollars a year, you're still a hardworking family.

00:25:05.000 I mean, that's how crazy it is.

00:25:06.000 Those people are the ones that are stuck.

00:25:08.000 The millionaires can move.

00:25:10.000 They can go elsewhere, whether it's Florida or North Carolina or all of Georgia, the other places that people have been flooding from New York City.

00:25:18.000 It's the hardworking people that don't have the ability to be that mobile and have to show up to the office because they need that job, not something else.

00:25:25.000 They can't work from their phones or remotely.

00:25:28.000 They're the ones that are going to get screwed hardest.

00:25:32.000 Reports also say that parents are desperately looking for new schools outside the city and in other states because they see exactly what's coming.

00:25:42.000 They know.

00:25:44.000 And the same goes, unfortunately, for police officers who actually qualify for a signing bonus if they sign up to work in Florida.

00:25:54.000 Watch this one.

00:25:56.000 He's going to make the de Blasio years look like the golden age.

00:26:00.000 And I can tell you in Florida, we're affected by this just with the law enforcement alone.

00:26:05.000 If you're working in NYPD, do you want to go out there and risk your life knowing that the mayor hates you?

00:26:13.000 No, a lot of them are not going to want to do that.

00:26:15.000 And in Florida, we've established a $5,000 recruitment bonus.

00:26:19.000 So if you are somebody that doesn't want to serve under that guy as mayor, you come to Florida, any state or local law enforcement agency, you get $5,000 right at the top.

00:26:30.000 Think about that, guys.

00:26:31.000 People are just going to leave New York.

00:26:33.000 You know, if you're a cop in New York and you actually do your job, you'll probably get in trouble for it.

00:26:37.000 You'll lose your job, your pension, your mortgage, your family because of it.

00:26:40.000 Why would anyone stay there?

00:26:42.000 You know how many people I know in Palm Beach and the areas around that are New York City cops that moved down there, and they're like, this is the greatest thing I ever did.

00:26:50.000 Business owners are looking at Miami.

00:26:52.000 They're looking at Texas.

00:26:54.000 They're looking anywhere but New York.

00:26:57.000 People are going to vote with their feet and with their wallets.

00:27:01.000 And New York is about to experience an exodus that will make COVID migration look like nothing.

00:27:09.000 You know, communism used to be the punchline of a joke in this country.

00:27:15.000 We used to laugh about it.

00:27:16.000 Seinfeld did an entire episode mocking it.

00:27:20.000 Remember this one?

00:27:21.000 Kramer as Santa and the means of production? 0.93

00:27:24.000 We laughed at it because it was so absurd. 0.99

00:27:27.000 It was so ridiculous. 0.97

00:27:28.000 It was so far from the truth. 0.94

00:27:30.000 could never happen here.

00:27:32.000 But now it's turning into a dangerous reality.

00:27:36.000 And that's happening in our largest cities.

00:27:38.000 It's actually happening.

00:27:41.000 And to be fair, I want to be clear about this.

00:27:45.000 Voters didn't have a lot of great choices here, folks.

00:27:50.000 Cuomo wasn't a strong candidate.

00:27:52.000 He carried a ton of baggage from his family name and from the first terms and the scandals and the me too stuff and putting people in nursing homes.

00:28:02.000 And he ran as a third party, which already split the vote.

00:28:06.000 And of course, Republicans are far outnumbered in New York City to have a realistic shot at winning in the current environment.

00:28:15.000 The registration, you know, disadvantage is hugely massive.

00:28:22.000 So it's really more of an indictment of the entire Democrat Party and what they've become.

00:28:28.000 They could run a moderate and win.

00:28:30.000 They don't need to do these things, but they don't even have them.

00:28:33.000 They don't exist in the party anymore.

00:28:36.000 They don't get funded by Soros if you're a reasonable individual, if you don't take the extreme radical communist Marxist stance.

00:28:43.000 This is what happens when you let communists, the actual communists, take over your entire movement.

00:28:50.000 This is what happens when AOC becomes one of your thought leaders instead of your cautionary tale.

00:28:58.000 The Democrat Party of JFK, who fought communism, would be horrified at what their party has become.

00:29:08.000 Honestly, even Van Jones at CNN is saying Mandani is completely missing the mark.

00:29:15.000 And when you lost Van Jones, you've lost something.

00:29:17.000 Check this out.

00:29:19.000 First of all, you've got to give the guy the credit.

00:29:22.000 He defeated Democratic Party royalty, the Cuomo.

00:29:26.000 That's a royal family in our party.

00:29:28.000 Defeated them.

00:29:29.000 Defeated the oligarchs and rich folks who jumped in to try to stop them and then defeated Donald Trump.

00:29:35.000 So the triumphalism that you see there is earned.

00:29:38.000 A year ago, nobody ever heard of the guy.

00:29:40.000 And the younger people who I'm hearing from feel a great deal of relief and pride and they're fired up and they feel they've been silent for too long.

00:29:50.000 So that speech appealed to some.

00:29:53.000 But I think he missed an opportunity.

00:29:56.000 I think the Mamdani that we saw in the campaign trail, who was a lot more calm, who was a lot warmer, who was a lot more embracing, was not present in that speech.

00:30:08.000 And I think that Mamdani is the one you need to hear from tonight.

00:30:12.000 There are a lot of people trying to figure out, can I get on this train with him or not?

00:30:17.000 Is he going to include me?

00:30:19.000 Is he going to be more of a class warrior, even in office?

00:30:23.000 I think he missed a chance tonight to open up and bring more people into the tent.

00:30:28.000 I think his tone was sharp.

00:30:32.000 I think he was using the microphone in a way that he was almost yelling.

00:30:36.000 And that's not the Mam Daniel that we've seen on TikTok and the great interviews and stuff like that. 0.59

00:30:40.000 So I felt like there's a little bit of a character switch here where the warm, open, embracing guy that's close to working people was not on stage tonight.

00:30:50.000 And there was some other voice on stage.

00:30:52.000 That's it.

00:30:53.000 He's very young.

00:30:54.000 And he just pulled off something that's very, very difficult.

00:30:57.000 And I wouldn't write him off, but I think he missed an opportunity to open himself up tonight.

00:31:02.000 And I think that that will probably cost him going forward.

00:31:04.000 And what about the NYPD, guys?

00:31:06.000 What about the brave men and women who keep 8 million people safe every single day?

00:31:13.000 Mandani wants a complete handoff approach to crime.

00:31:18.000 He wants it handled by social workers.

00:31:21.000 Remember when this didn't work the last time?

00:31:23.000 Remember, defund the police?

00:31:24.000 We're going to have social workers do it. 1.00

00:31:26.000 How'd that work out?

00:31:27.000 Remember, the mayor of San Francisco came back and said, hey, maybe that wasn't a great idea when crime skyrocketed?

00:31:32.000 I mean, he wants it handled by social workers.

00:31:35.000 He doesn't even think crime is much of an issue.

00:31:39.000 Despite the fact that if you can't walk through Times Square without stepping over someone shooting up or witnessing a violent assault, it's probably a problem, guys.

00:31:49.000 He sees the criminals as the victims, not the people getting pushed on the subway tracks.

00:31:55.000 He won't even commit to putting more officers on the streets when they're already down thousands of cops from where we should be.

00:32:05.000 Look, the day-to-day job as mayor isn't even as much about ideology as it is about getting things done.

00:32:14.000 I know this city.

00:32:16.000 I spent most of my life there.

00:32:18.000 If you can't get something done there, they're going to walk all over you.

00:32:23.000 Having a clown show in there with no real world experience, I promise you is not going to take you to the promised land.

00:32:29.000 Being mayor is a job where you need to make sure the snowplows are running when they're supposed to, when it's winter.

00:32:38.000 Not writing manifestos about climate justice while people are trapped in their homes.

00:32:43.000 That's not the way to get there.

00:32:45.000 It's making sure the schools are open on time, that kids can get an education.

00:32:50.000 It's making sure you're working with the governor to make sure that the subways are safe and also running on time.

00:32:57.000 Not hosting seminars on why punctuality is white supremacy.

00:33:03.000 Yes, apparently that's a thing, folks.

00:33:05.000 It's not a job to just experiment with your crazy communist ideas while real people actually have to suffer the consequences of those things.

00:33:15.000 Making life more affordable and safe for working people doesn't come from liberal academia or from pie in the sky socialist fantasies that have failed everywhere they've been tried.

00:33:30.000 It comes from actual work to incentivize business growth, slash the regulations that are strangling small businesses and increase safety so people actually want to live and work on your city.

00:33:44.000 That's like common sense, folks, but it's not so common in the Democrat Party.

00:33:49.000 You can't tax and regulate your way to prosperity.

00:33:52.000 That doesn't work.

00:33:54.000 It never has and it never will.

00:33:57.000 Anywhere, ever.

00:33:59.000 That's the core of my father's historic election, a victory that happened a year ago.

00:34:07.000 It was about having a real commitment to actually getting things done for the American people, not to virtue signal while the country burns down.

00:34:18.000 It was about ending the failed status quo that enriches politicians while impoverishing citizens.

00:34:28.000 Closing the border so American workers aren't competing with illegal, cheap labor.

00:34:34.000 No tax on tips so bartenders and waitresses can keep what they earn.

00:34:40.000 No tax on overtime.

00:34:42.000 So when you work hard, you actually get to keep the rewards.

00:34:46.000 I know, I know, it's shocking.

00:34:49.000 I saw that one in communism too.

00:34:51.000 Really smart, intelligent people didn't put in any effort because there was no incentive to do so.

00:34:57.000 You got nothing more from working harder.

00:35:00.000 You all got the same whether you worked hard or not.

00:35:02.000 So why bother working hard?

00:35:05.000 Investing in America, in American workers, in American families, not some globalist fantasy.

00:35:12.000 That's how we get ahead.

00:35:13.000 Socialism promises everything from free health care, free housing, free food, free everything, guys.

00:35:22.000 I mean, why not?

00:35:23.000 I mean, free everything.

00:35:24.000 And delivers absolutely nothing except poverty and tyranny.

00:35:30.000 And once you lose that success, once you lose those freedoms, folks, they don't come back easily.

00:35:37.000 It's the biggest scam in human history.

00:35:40.000 Every single time it's been tried, without exception, it turns into tyranny and human suffering on a mass scale.

00:35:51.000 If you were watching the remarks yesterday at the business conference in Miami, where my father spoke, you heard those stories firsthand from people who actually lived through it.

00:36:02.000 These aren't theoretical discussions for them, guys.

00:36:06.000 They have the scars.

00:36:07.000 They have the battle wounds.

00:36:09.000 They've been through it.

00:36:11.000 Cuba under Castro seized private property.

00:36:14.000 They destroyed human rights.

00:36:16.000 They inflicted tremendous suffering on generations of Cubans. 1.00

00:36:22.000 Families torn apart, dissidents thrown in prison.

00:36:26.000 An entire island turned into a prison.

00:36:30.000 And for what?

00:36:31.000 So the Castro family could live like kings while everyone else starved? 0.85

00:36:35.000 I mean, it doesn't seem like a great plan.

00:36:38.000 Just decades ago, Venezuela was the absolute richest nation in South America.

00:36:43.000 They had everything: oil, natural resources, an educated population, a thriving middle class.

00:36:52.000 But now, after just a few years of socialism, 90% of the country lives in abject poverty, crushing poverty, and inflation rates that's the highest in the world.

00:37:07.000 No food, no business, no industry, no opportunity.

00:37:14.000 That's the real legacy of socialism and communism.

00:37:18.000 Like I always say, and this is important, folks: the migrant boats only go in one direction.

00:37:26.000 Have you ever seen someone in a raft out of Miami trying to go to Cuba or Venezuela?

00:37:30.000 No, it doesn't happen that way.

00:37:32.000 No one's floating on RAS to Cuba, folks.

00:37:35.000 Nobody's walking thousands of miles to Venezuela.

00:37:39.000 There's a reason for that.

00:37:41.000 And it's why the free enterprise system, capitalism, the American way of life and system is the only hope for lifting up a society and achieving true human greatness.

00:37:54.000 It's the only way.

00:37:56.000 Again, don't take my word for it.

00:37:59.000 Listen to those who are actually suffering under it right now, fighting against it with their lives on the line.

00:38:07.000 If a system is so great, you don't risk your life to fight against it.

00:38:11.000 That doesn't happen.

00:38:13.000 Here's Maria Carina Machada, great friend of the show, speaking yesterday at the American Business Forum.

00:38:21.000 So we talked about your first week when you come back.

00:38:25.000 What about the next five years?

00:38:26.000 What's your vision for the next five years of Venezuela?

00:38:32.000 Well, I will be with my family united and my loved ones in a free country.

00:38:41.000 And I will tell you something.

00:38:42.000 Venezuela will be the envy of the world.

00:38:46.000 They would look and say, How did you do that?

00:38:50.000 How did you turn a country in ruins into a beacon of hope, of prosperity, of security?

00:38:58.000 I know many people feared that the destruction and devastation have been so huge in our institutions, in our infrastructure, in our resources, in our families, in our soul.

00:39:15.000 But believe me, this has brought a country united as never before.

00:39:20.000 We turned down the barriers the regime had built to divide us for racial or ideological or social issues.

00:39:31.000 And the country is united around values, human dignity, justice, responsibility, solidarity, freedom, and love.

00:39:41.000 And this, you know, this urge, this need to bring our children back home.

00:39:47.000 So Venezuela will turn into a country of prosperity that will be a living example of what citizens organize with their, you know, will and genius to turn into a great nation that will also be recipient of citizens that come all over the world because they want to invest,

00:40:15.000 to create, to live their dreams in a land of grace.

00:40:21.000 Guys, let this be a warning to every single one of you watching.

00:40:26.000 Do not get complacent.

00:40:28.000 Do not think it can't happen here.

00:40:31.000 I mean, Mandani's opening lines in his speech referenced like the guy that ran failed, luckily, many times as a leader of the Socialist Party in America.

00:40:42.000 He's a socialist.

00:40:44.000 It's not pretend.

00:40:45.000 It's what he is.

00:40:47.000 The election last November was awesome and historic.

00:40:52.000 We crushed them, but that was just the beginning.

00:40:56.000 We have midterms coming up.

00:40:57.000 We have to stay on the offense and keep our foot on the gas pedal.

00:41:02.000 We can't let the Democrats get away with shutting down the government over their radical agenda, stoking violence in the streets when they don't get their way.

00:41:13.000 And we especially can't afford to be fighting amongst ourselves while they're plotting their comeback.

00:41:21.000 Here's my father speaking to Fox's Brett Baer on the road ahead.

00:41:25.000 You know, I'm so torn because I would like to see the new mayor do well because I love New York.

00:41:32.000 I really love New York.

00:41:33.000 When I left New York for Washington, New York was doing really well, but there were some bad signs.

00:41:39.000 The bad sign was a guy named de Blasio.

00:41:42.000 So the signs of de Blasio, that was the beginning and it was bad.

00:41:47.000 This one, we're going to look, for a thousand years, communism has not worked.

00:41:52.000 It just, communism or the concept of communism has not worked.

00:41:56.000 I tend to doubt it's going to work this time.

00:41:58.000 Did you see his victory speech?

00:42:00.000 No, it's literally never worked.

00:42:01.000 Yeah, I thought it was a very angry speech, certainly angry toward me.

00:42:05.000 And I think he should be very nice to me.

00:42:06.000 You know, I'm the one that sort of has to approve a lot of things coming to him.

00:42:09.000 So he's off to a bad start.

00:42:11.000 I also want to take a moment here to talk about something that shows you what real leadership looks like, what actual, what actually caring about people looks like.

00:42:22.000 Scott Adams, the Dilbert creator, a few days ago publicly opened up about an issue he was having, navigating some healthcare bureaucracy and getting treatment scheduled in his battle with cancer.

00:42:38.000 It was heartbreaking seeing what Scott's going through.

00:42:41.000 It was heartbreaking to read the guy's fighting for his life and dealing with insurance companies and medical bureaucracy.

00:42:49.000 I had posted about it trying to help, and it made its way to my father's desk and to RFK, and people saw it, and they immediately started working on getting him everything that he needed.

00:43:01.000 Not for publicity, not for political points, but because that's what you do when someone needs help and you have the ability to actually do that.

00:43:09.000 He wanted to get on something to try it.

00:43:09.000 He's dying.

00:43:12.000 Remember, my father was the guy that got right to try legislation passed in his first term to get through the bureaucracy.

00:43:17.000 I mean, people on their deathbed couldn't try drugs that could potentially save them because it hadn't gone through the rest of it.

00:43:23.000 They didn't care.

00:43:24.000 They wanted any shot at life.

00:43:27.000 And Scott told the story this week about a couple of phone calls he received from your favorite president.

00:43:34.000 I spoke to him as well.

00:43:35.000 And this is really worth watching because this is who my father really is when the cameras aren't rolling.

00:43:42.000 I know he doesn't love to show his empathetic side.

00:43:45.000 He sometimes looks at that as weakness.

00:43:47.000 I've told him a lot of times, I was like, man, you have that.

00:43:49.000 If you listen to the stories from people who worked for him for years and decades, they tell these stories and he's just unwilling to actually show that side because he's like, how do I negotiate with Putin and these dictators around the world if they think I'm soft?

00:44:00.000 But this is who he really is when the cameras aren't rolling.

00:44:06.000 The first sentence is, this is your favorite president.

00:44:11.000 And I thought to myself, no, did I just send the most important person in the world to voicemail?

00:44:21.000 And it turns out that I had.

00:44:23.000 It was Trump.

00:44:24.000 And he was just calling to check in.

00:44:27.000 Now, he left a semi-lengthy little voicemail just saying he was checking on me.

00:44:33.000 He heard about my health situation.

00:44:36.000 And then he says, you can call me back on this number.

00:44:43.000 Now, obviously, I don't call him back, right? 0.93

00:44:46.000 Because that would just be ridiculous.

00:44:48.000 It just was a nice thing for him to say because, you know, because he called me, you could call me back on this number.

00:44:55.000 So I didn't call him back on that number because I thought I'd, you know, it's not like he's sitting at the resolute desk waiting to do for my call.

00:45:06.000 I thought that whatever it is he's doing has got to be more important, you know, than randomly taking a call from me.

00:45:15.000 So I don't call him back.

00:45:18.000 Hours go by.

00:45:19.000 It's the afternoon, same day.

00:45:21.000 It's the afternoon.

00:45:23.000 And all of a sudden, another call comes through, also from Florida. 0.98

00:45:29.000 And I thought to myself, no fucking way. 0.97

00:45:33.000 There's no way he's calling me again. 0.98

00:45:36.000 And I answer it.

00:45:38.000 And it's Trump.

00:45:40.000 And apparently, he'd heard my situation and he had lots of questions.

00:45:45.000 I won't get into the details of our conversation because that would be inappropriate.

00:45:50.000 But he was just checking on me.

00:45:52.000 And he had, you know, he wanted to make sure that I was getting everything I needed.

00:45:59.000 And that was it.

00:46:01.000 You know, but at the end, the strangest thing happened at the end.

00:46:07.000 At the end of the call, you know, when he found out, you know, the situation was kind of dire.

00:46:14.000 And I was still checking out some things that might help.

00:46:18.000 He said, if you need anything, I'll make it happen.

00:46:23.000 And he meant it.

00:46:26.000 That's really what this movement is all about, guys.

00:46:30.000 For all the fighting and the division, even amongst ourselves, sometimes when we come together Is when this movement is the most powerful.

00:46:43.000 It's the most powerful force on earth when we do that.

00:46:47.000 When we remember that we're fighting for each other, that we're fighting for our families, that we're fighting for our communities, for the American dream.

00:46:56.000 That's when we're unstoppable.

00:46:59.000 So stay vigilant, stay engaged, and remember what we're actually fighting for.

00:47:06.000 It's a big deal.

00:47:08.000 It's so important.

00:47:09.000 Don't ever give it up.

00:47:11.000 So, guys, thanks so much for tuning in.

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