My father seems to have an extraordinary talent, more so perhaps than ever before, for forcing the left to make the most unpopular positions, as they melt down at each and every turn. I know, I've said he's the 80/20 president, right? He picks an 80% issue, goes all in, the Trump derangement syndrome, the Democrats forced to take the 20% because they literally cannot help themselves. But now, it may be more like 90-10. And by the way, has anyone, anyone, like in the history of the world, maybe Hirohito in Japan, maybe Napoleon going into Russia? More than Vladimir Zelensky?
00:05:25.000Welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.
00:05:28.000Another day with another big batch of breaking news.
00:05:34.000And my father seems to have an extraordinary talent, more so perhaps than ever before, for forcing the left to make the most unpopular positions as they melt down at each and every turn.
00:05:49.000I know I've said he's the 80-20 president, right?
00:05:53.000He picks an 80% issue, goes all in, the Trump derangement syndrome, Democrats forced to take the 20% because they literally cannot help themselves.
00:06:05.000And by the way, has anyone, anyone, like in the history of the world, maybe Hirohito in Japan, maybe Napoleon going into Russia, but like, has anyone overplayed their hand?
00:06:19.000More than Vladimir Zelensky on Friday.
00:06:23.000So we're going to get into all of that in the news rundown.
00:06:29.000And later, we'll shift gears and sit down with meteorologists to Joe Bastardi to discuss all things weather, climate, climate hysteria, and so on and so forth.
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00:11:12.000Maybe he's used to dealing with the other clown who we could come in and he could browbeat and get hundreds of billions of dollars and no pushback, whatever it would be.
00:11:23.000Maybe Joe was getting 10% for the big guy or Hunter was going to be put on a board.
00:11:30.000Imagine former actor Vladimir Zelensky.
00:11:36.000Imagine thinking that it's a great idea to have a deal that was supposed to be signed in Munich and that was supposed to be signed in Paris.
00:11:44.000Then it's going to come to D.C. to sign.
00:11:47.000And in the press briefing and in a conversation in front of the world, he tries to renegotiate a deal that had been agreed on with Donald Trump?
00:13:14.000And what we're hearing in terms of alternatives, whether it's the Democrats or leaders around the world, is essentially continuing this grinding.
00:13:23.000World War I-style trench warfare that is a meat grinder of people, munitions, and national treasure.
00:13:31.000The president campaigned on ending this war.
00:13:38.000But it was really confounding to us that Zelensky could have left the White House Friday having the U.S. And Ukraine bound together economically for a generation.
00:13:49.000You have the British talking about troops on the ground and a security guarantee.
00:13:53.000The French talking about troops on the ground and security guarantee.
00:13:56.000We even had the NATO Secretary General talk to the President just before the Zelensky meeting.
00:14:06.000And I think President Zelensky truly did his country a real disservice by not having a positive outcome Friday.
00:14:14.000We'll see where things are going forward.
00:14:18.000After Zelensky's disaster meeting last week, my father is reportedly meeting with key officials today to discuss the possibility of winding down the endless taxpayer-funded aid.
00:14:43.000I can see that based on there's no reports of them ever gaining ground, although it would be interesting.
00:14:48.000I know Starlink and Elon is basically their comm system, so I wonder if we could objectively ask, because it's nothing the Russians don't know.
00:14:55.000We wouldn't be giving up any kind of national security or Ukrainian security.
00:15:11.000Because I think that would help them formulate a decision.
00:15:14.000Because right now it feels like so many on the left are basing this on the, in my mind, incredibly ridiculous and false notion that Ukraine is somehow winning.
00:15:23.000If we've given them a quarter of a trillion dollars and they're still losing, what's the cost to actually win?
00:15:32.000Has anyone even bothered to ask those questions?
00:15:35.000Because I've been asking them for three years, including to high-powered people in Washington, D.C., and no one seems to know the answer.
00:15:43.000But I think the way to get them to the table is to wind down the aid, because you know that Europe's not stepping up.
00:15:51.000There was an interesting chart I posted on my Twitter today that says, a majority of the Europeans really want to help increase the aid of Ukraine.
00:15:59.000The only problem with the second part of the chart was very few of them actually wanted to do that by paying for it with their own country's money.
00:16:24.000I mean, the virtue signaling is insane, but that's exactly what they're saying.
00:16:29.000So, winding down the aid may be right.
00:16:33.000The New York Post is reporting that this may be the start of a pivot away from the Ukraine conflict and a pivot towards building alliances across Latin America with leaders like Bukele, Mille, and Maria Corina Machado, who we had on the show last week from Venezuela.
00:16:59.000Before this conflict, I guarantee you the vast majority of Americans couldn't have found Ukraine on a map.
00:17:04.000And while Kiev's a beautiful city, I was there in the early 2000s, I don't think it's worth mortgaging our future and our children's future.
00:17:15.000Just look at our own governmental agencies talking about Ukraine, even relative to Russia, before they somehow became the deity of Western civilization.
00:18:12.000And speaking who must be the president and whether I shall resign, I can...
00:18:20.000Give him the citizenship of Ukraine, he will become the citizen of our country, and then his voice will start to gain weight, and I will hear him as a citizen of Ukraine on the topic of who must be the president.
00:18:40.000But Lindsay represents the party that fights for democratic values.
00:18:48.000Anyway, the president of Ukraine will have to be chosen not at home, at Lindsay's grand home, but in Ukraine.
00:19:13.000Zelensky is so unpopular in Ukraine, many polls have him at 16% if he were to run today.
00:19:18.000And by the way, his only chance to probably win an election would be to cede the eastern half of Ukraine to Russia because they're ethnic Russians who are probably sick of dying for something they don't even believe in.
00:21:01.000Because you'll get a ceasefire faster than any...
00:21:04.000And Vice President J.D. Vance, well, he's showing why he's the perfect VP. Why conservatism now actually...
00:21:15.000Has a bench and a future beyond Trump that just doesn't revert back to neocon warmongering, weak conservatism that we've seen from so many in the past few decades.
00:21:26.000And just more importantly, how much of an upgrade we've gotten for our country in the number two spot.
00:22:10.000Although, I guess if you've watched anything that has come out of Europe in the last few years, you realize why there are a civilization that is probably gone, and it probably explains so much.
00:22:20.000Meanwhile, a new report finds that the Pentagon and officials there were caught using taxpayer-funded credit cards at casinos, bars, and clubs.
00:22:31.000These cards need to be turned off, and the taxpayers need to reimburse for this insanity.
00:22:42.000I mean, they're going to casinos, bars, and whatever else on American taxpayer dime having nothing to do with the purpose of the credit card.
00:22:50.000And no one was even watching, including Republicans.
00:22:58.000How many other agencies and departments are doing this too?
00:23:02.000It's just another reason why we need Doge more than ever.
00:23:07.000I hope those kids on those computers find it all.
00:23:12.000I hope we expose it for everyone to see, because I can guarantee you this, when even the hardcore, ridiculous Democrats, unless they're on the take, unless they're the indirect or direct beneficiaries of this waste, fraud, and abuse, which I imagine many are, I imagine even they too will recognize that this probably is not the best use of their funds.
00:23:34.000In just six weeks, Doge has saved American taxpayers an estimated $105 billion.
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00:27:05.000Well, you're also in the private sector, so there's consequence to being wrong, unlike in government, where they just brush it under the table and move on, right?
00:27:12.000Well, yeah, the crucible competition, it's a good thing I wear the cross of my calling here.
00:28:29.000I know, you know, there's a lot of issues in some of the agencies and some of the administration and, you know, whether it's NOAA or any of these other things.
00:28:37.000So, you know, hopefully there's some talent there, but it's probably the leadership that seems to be the overarching theme.
00:28:44.000It's leadership in government that's lacking.
00:28:46.000So even if you have talent, they're not allowed to do things because they're beholden to, you know, whatever the woke talking points may be.
00:28:52.000Yeah, well, they have to think about if they put something out.
00:28:57.000You know, if you're actually a scientist, you can't sit there and say, well, I'm coming up with a forecast and the storm's aimed here, but I have to consider what that means to the people looking at it.
00:29:09.000Now you say, Joe, that is a harsh, a very harsh way of looking at things, because you've got to consider the people, right?
00:29:15.000But what you have to do is make the accurate forecast, and then the people in the way of that will decide.
00:29:22.000We put out a forecast December 7, 2023, outlining in red what was going to happen in the hurricane season of 2024. Now, I don't have a forecast out like that this year because I'm not certain, but I was darn certain of what I was looking at back in 23. We call it the hurricane season from hell.
00:29:42.000It looked like 2017, 2020, and by gosh, it turned out that way.
00:29:47.000You can do that sometimes, and when you get way out in front of something, You literally set traps for the climate hysterics that come back and say, well, look what's going on.
00:30:03.000So what happens is, one of the biggest things that I've always been not upset about, we're punching bags.
00:30:14.000I was never taught to be a punching bag.
00:30:16.000We wait for something to happen, like the Tennessee flood or the wildfires or whatever, and then the media gets right out there with the climate change agenda, right?
00:30:24.000And this is what NOAA, the top of NOAA pushes this.
00:30:27.000You know, it's not like the FBI. You have a lot of great agents in there, and you have a lot of guys that know and just love the weather.
00:30:34.000They want to forecast the weather, but you just watch constant, constant repetition.
00:30:40.000Climate change, climate's worse than ever.
00:30:42.000And what happens is you have to change your focus.
00:31:04.000If a problem comes in your way, you have to advance.
00:31:06.000The weather's causing your problem, and the weather's always going to cause your problems, Don, because We've got three times as many people living in the way of stuff with infrastructure that's much more important.
00:31:20.000Myrtle Beach, October 50, 1954. By far, my opinion, the latest, greatest hurricane on record.
00:31:28.000A Category 4 hurricane in the middle of October hitting North Carolina, South Carolina.
00:31:32.000If it hit today, it'd probably be a quarter trillion dollar storm because Myrtle Beach in that area was not...
00:31:40.000Built up the way it was, the way it is now, right?
00:31:44.000So what happens is, guys like Al Gore, who have a very interesting philosophy on climate, they're the kind of guys that they would put three times the amount of pins on a bowling alley and say, look, I'm knocking down more pins every time I throw a ball.
00:32:00.000We've got more in the way, so there is more risk involved, and that involves getting out in front in the forecast and also educating people as to why these things are happening.
00:32:38.000Those floods are there, and the temperature contrast was even greater than the temperature contrast we see today.
00:32:44.000In fact, 36-37, back-to-back, was probably the worst winter flooding in two winters in a row that we've seen in the Ohio River Valley in those areas.
00:32:53.000We have a similar weather pattern, except it was on steroids.
00:32:56.000A lot of people say to me, the weather is going crazy.
00:33:00.000I go back and I look at the maps, and that's because my father was a meteorologist, and he always preached to me, look, the weather is an infinite system.
00:33:07.000You're not going to be able to get it right all the time because it's always changing.
00:33:10.000But if you go back and look at what happened, you have a basis of it.
00:33:14.000But how many Americans know what happened in 1937 in Tennessee?
00:33:28.000One of my favorite hurricane maps of all time, and I don't want people to get the wrong impression about me, I am a weather geek, is September 4th, 1933. There was a hurricane hitting, Category 3 hitting at Mar-a-Lago, all right?
00:33:41.000Another Category 3 was hitting at Brownsville.
00:33:44.000Two Category 3s hitting the U.S. within 18 hours down along the Gulf Coast or the South...
00:34:05.000And today you get punished for knowing stuff as opposed to before you used to get punished for not knowing it.
00:34:11.000Yeah, well, we were supposed to be underwater a few years ago, according to some of the great meteorologists of our time, Al Gore and Greta Thunberg.
00:34:18.000But last week, J.D. Vance told the Munich Security Conference.
00:34:22.000That if we could survive a decade of Greta Thunberg being sort of the end-all be-all of meteorology, they could handle a few minutes of Elon Musk doing what he's doing.
00:34:32.000And the left is now attacking the Trump administration and specifically Doge, suggesting that the cuts to government waste could be bad for the climate.
00:34:43.000I mean, that seems to me to be insane.
00:34:46.000But there's a recent article in Forbes titled, "Are tariffs a bad idea for climate change?" Suggesting that tariffs are bad because we can't import many Chinese solar panels.
00:34:57.000I mean, are these people just absolutely insane?
00:35:00.000Well, you know, I have learned over the years that I try to figure out, well, what's the other guy looking at?
00:35:08.000And see, with me, the only reason I'm involved in climate is because I need it for what I do, which is forecasting the weather.
00:35:17.000Most of these people that you're talking about...
00:35:19.000If the whole climate argument went away tomorrow, what would they do?
00:35:23.000So they continually, they always feed back toward what their lifeline is.
00:35:53.000So you've got to understand, you're dealing with people who are fighting as if they're fighting for their very lives because of the way it is.
00:36:00.000See, no matter what the climate does, I get up the next morning and I have to forecast the weather, right?
00:36:08.000And that's the one thing I wanted to say, you know, you need people in NOAA that love the weather so much that they think they hit the lottery.
00:36:46.000Greta Thunberg as the high priestess of climate change, that becomes the gospel.
00:36:51.000It goes, you know, Zelensky as the lord of Ukraine, and it's the most wonderful thing in the world.
00:36:58.000We must now go for this, you know, corrupt nation and support them at all costs.
00:37:02.000You have numerous other, you know, Anthony Fauci as the high priest of COVID. It's like they're replacing the god that they forgot all about or disavowed.
00:37:14.000The reason that happens is they're lacking, and it's our education system and our belief system that has really taken a hit over the last 40 to 50 years.
00:37:24.000I think that when the Vietnam War came around and people realized that the government may be lying to them, we lost faith in our government.
00:37:34.000We started losing faith in our government, and then we started losing faith in our God.
00:37:38.000And so what happens is you have to, there's something God has put in all of us to reach for something bigger than ourselves.
00:37:45.000So what happens is if you don't have the centering point that you're supposed to have that you were blessed with, you go look for something else.
00:37:53.000It'll be climate, it'll be, you know, the whole trans issue or whatever.
00:37:57.000And you have to have something that is bigger than you that you can go for.
00:38:02.000And the problem is, you know, I look at everything as spiritual combat.
00:38:06.000The problem is, I don't believe a person's inherently evil, but I think there's evil out there.
00:38:10.000You know, one of the wrestling coaches at Penn State used to say, if something distracts you, it's destructive.
00:38:16.000So what is your true mission in life, any of us, right?
00:38:20.000If there's something that's distracting you from that, that you're worshipping, that you're actually, this is more important than anything, guess what?
00:38:28.000It turns out to be destructive to what your true cause is.
00:39:32.000You know, I want to be friends with Barack Obama so I can go ride out a hurricane in his place.
00:39:39.000Yeah, we've brought up some of the most egregious examples, but can you explain where the left goes wrong in their hysterical climate predictions?
00:39:47.000Again, according to Al Gore, we should already be underwater.
00:39:51.000I mean, I live at sea level in Florida.
00:39:53.000I mean, I haven't seen much of a change in the few years that I've been here.
00:39:56.000They said we should have been underwater a few years ago.
00:39:59.000They always sort of then move the goalposts, and it's going to be 10 more years until it is going to be, and then another 10 more years.
00:41:17.000And so, I mean, someday, Mar-a-Lago is liable to be underwater.
00:41:21.000As a matter of fact, you know, it's kind of funny.
00:41:26.000I look at the tracks in the 1940s, the hurricane.
00:41:31.000Everybody's going to use Mar-a-Lago because that's where you guys live, right?
00:41:35.000Of course they're going to use that, right?
00:41:37.000But if I looked at those tracks, I'd go, how the heck is it not underwater by now?
00:41:42.000And here's the interesting thing, Don, is that that part of Florida has not been hit by a major hurricane since 1992. We're on the West Coast.
00:41:54.000We've been with cycles on the West Coast.
00:41:56.000But it's remarkable that the area from West Palm Beach southward has not had a major hurricane hit.
00:42:02.000They're in a hurricane drought compared to what's happened before, just like New England and Long Island.
00:42:53.000Every year I look at Greenland and it's above normal snowfall up there.
00:42:57.000And that's the other interesting thing that when I was a kid, my dad gave me a bunch of books because he's a meteorologist and he knew his son right off the bat from when I was three.
00:43:11.000He gave me this book called, I think it was Why the Weather, and there was a chapter on climate change.
00:43:16.000And this is 1963, saying exactly what you're seeing now would be going on, that it would snow more.
00:43:22.000In the northern areas, right, when there's more water vapor in the air, it's warming up, snows more, and so what happens is that starts fighting back.
00:43:53.000And when you realize that that is their game, that their game has nothing to do with the weather and climate, and a lot of guys don't, on my side of the issue, and a lot of the scientists, they don't like when I say that because they're involved in the fight.
00:44:44.000Now, which is more impressive, a city on the Gulf of Mexico, meteorologically, the city on the Gulf of Mexico, a lot of it's below sea level getting flooded, or someplace up in New England that's 10 feet above sea level getting 13 feet of water into downtown Providence.
00:44:58.000So when you start looking at things that way, folks, you understand that their agenda...
00:45:06.000Has nothing to do with climate or science or weather.
00:45:10.000Has everything to do with this entire idea.
00:45:58.000So America basically is willing to destroy their middle class.
00:46:03.000To subsidize those who are going to do nothing.
00:46:05.000And then when it comes time for them to actually do something about it, they'll renegotiate at that point and start the whole process over again.
00:46:10.000I mean, it is a little bit ridiculous.
00:46:30.000And then we're going to have to adapt when it gets colder.
00:46:32.000By the way, you know, the scary thing is...
00:46:35.000To continue to warm the planet, the reason why the planet got so warm the last two years, we saw the spike, was the volcano went off and we had a very strong El Nino.
00:46:45.000So you pump so much water vapor into the air.
00:46:47.000Water vapor releases energy, the release of heat through water vapor.
00:46:50.000And water vapor is the big controlling, it's the head honcho as far as climate goes, right?
00:46:56.000So excess water vapor, we have this spike.
00:47:09.000The warmer it gets, the harder it is to get warmer.
00:47:12.000The problem is, if you cut out one of the inputs to the warming, the temperature will crash pretty quickly.
00:47:20.000Now, if it crashes quickly, that's going to affect a lot of people in an adverse manner.
00:47:25.000Cold kills a lot more than heat does, for instance.
00:47:28.000And, you know, it is a worry, not in our generation, I don't think it's going to happen in my lifetime, that down the road we're going to have to face the fact that the planet's a little bit cooler than what we want it to be.
00:47:40.000By that time, there may be 10, 11, 12 billion people on the planet.
00:47:55.000I'm just shoving climate down your throat, making you feel guilty about the fact that you might be getting ahead, because it has nothing to do with that.
00:48:03.000It has everything to do with the limitations that are being put on us because of people who are on this massive guilt trip that America has been blessed the way it is.
00:48:54.000If you're a great chess player, I used to be pretty good, but I'll probably just try to simplify the board.
00:48:59.000Just take off as many pieces as I can so it just comes down to your piece against my piece, right?
00:49:04.000But then again, if that's the attitude, if it's supposed to be simple, there are a lot of people who rely on complexities that they need complexities to increase their importance.
00:50:59.000Well, big forcing leads to big results in the weather and climate.
00:51:03.000So it's the simple big forces, the sun, the oceans, stochastic events, which are random events, that is a big forcing idea.
00:51:11.000And also, you know, the very design of the system.
00:51:15.000What makes you think that the planet is designed for, oh, it's going to be 73 for a high, 57 for a low, and it'll rain on my plants from 3 to 6 o'clock every morning, and I can just go out with my unicorns and lollipops and just dance around in the sun?
00:51:28.000See, that's what people think, and that's not the way it is.
00:51:32.000Everything in life is designed for conflict.
00:51:40.000It's a great design, and the weather is a great design, too.
00:51:44.000So, you know, there's obviously a lot of debate on how NOAA should be reformed and how DOGE may look at increasing the efficiency of that agency like they're doing across the board.
00:51:54.000They're trying to eliminate the Department of Education by making themselves obsolete by actually getting real results.
00:51:59.000You know, what would reform at NOAA look like to you?
00:52:04.000Because, you know, for me, I see some of these things, you know, they don't want people using private boats.
00:52:09.000You know, at more than 10 miles an hour because of the right whale, and, you know, there's never been a reported, like, boat hit of a right whale, but, like, we're going to change the laws that affect every person who's ever had a boat to accommodate these things.
00:52:22.000It seems like there's just way overstepping their bounds.
00:52:26.000You know, what would that reform look like to you?
00:52:28.000Well, first of all, they're way overstepping their bounds because that's where the money is, right?
00:52:33.000You know, when I look at NOAA, first of all, let's get something straight.
00:52:38.000I could not do what I do without Noah.
00:52:41.000You cannot believe how much great stuff Noah has done.
00:52:44.000I live on a lot of their sites, not so much their forecasting sites, but their reanalysis sites, their history sites, and there's a lot of great stuff.
00:52:53.000So what happens is you can't use a blunt hammer and say, I'm just going to cut this thing.
00:54:30.000You have to try to educate the public.
00:54:32.000And you need a director of communications that can get that out there.
00:54:37.000You need someone in charge of NOAA that knows something about business, but that loves the weather and loves the mission and has to define the mission.
00:56:49.000I'm saying stop with every single little thing.
00:56:53.000The statistics I read show something like literally the climate has risen by like 0.2 degrees in like the last 75 years or whenever they were able to record it accurately.
00:57:04.000I mean, that does not seem statistically significant.
00:57:08.000Well, it rises much more in the coldest, driest areas, temperatures.
00:57:19.000If we're going to build a, let's say, a Vostok, we decide to work a deal with the Russians where we want to build a resort at Vostok, we still have about a billion years to go before Vostok and Antarctica or whatever or something like that.
00:57:34.000But it does rise quicker in those areas, and that gets incorporated in the total temperature.
00:57:38.000So there might be a 7, 8 degree rise in the Arctic in its wintertime, and that then...
00:57:44.000It translates to the whole entire global temperature when from 30 north to 30 south, the rise may be one-tenth of a degree, right?
00:57:54.000And you can't feel that over a generation.
00:57:56.000That's why I'm going to use this term.
00:57:58.000Stone stupid to try to claim that the migrant crisis is from climate change.
00:58:04.000Those people over a generation, first of all, they're more profitable and they're growing more food than ever in Central America, all right?
00:58:24.000So the whole thing again, please, the whole thing again, and people have to realize it, it has nothing to do with climate, weather, science, or making your life better.
00:59:10.000Joe, do you see in NOAA or some of the other weather agencies the same kind of fraud and abuse that you saw, you know, that has been discovered in the last few weeks at USAID? I don't know.
00:59:20.000I haven't looked into what they're doing.
00:59:22.000I think, again, I look, you know, listen, Don, I mean, I came out of the private sector with AccuWeather.
00:59:30.000But let's remember AccuWeather and the National Weather Service.
00:59:33.000For years, we're at each other's throats.
00:59:36.000So much so that when the last director of NOAA, the last person to be nominated by your father, Barry Myers, who was the CEO of AccuWeather, and think about what AccuWeather did.
00:59:48.000I mean, he had 50 great forecasters under one roof, forecasts for the entire planet, right?
00:59:55.000So, I mean, they knew how to run things very, very efficiently over there, but there was great objection to it.
01:00:02.000And it was sort of, you know, by that time I was out of AccuWeather, but I had a smile on my face because the government union, there were three attempts at putting a union into AccuWeather, which would have destroyed AccuWeather because we were in the private sector.
01:00:43.000Well, of course, you're feeding off the public trough.
01:00:47.000Right off the bat there, just think about this.
01:00:51.000The argument would have instantly been if someone...
01:00:54.000And the government looked at that and said, well, how come we're paying all this money to so many more people when these guys are doing things that are a threat?
01:01:02.000Because after all, if our forecast is beating your forecast and you're the public forecast, you feel threatened.
01:01:10.000So when you look at that, I'm not going to look at the books.
01:01:14.000What I want to look at and what I want to help out with is advising on who has the right attitude to run it.
01:01:59.000There's plenty to cut, I'm sure, right?
01:02:01.000But you have to do it in a way where you're looking at the New York Giants or the FBI, and you know you've got a lot of good people in there, and you've just got to make it efficient.