In this episode, we dive into the first 100 days of the Trump administration, reflecting on the significant changes and policies implemented. We discuss the administration's achievements, including economic growth, border security, and foreign policy initiatives. The episode also highlights the administration's efforts to reduce federal bureaucracy, secure foreign investments, and address issues such as inflation and energy prices. Additionally, we touch on the administration's approach to tariffs and the impact on international relations, particularly with China and India.
We also explore the challenges and controversies faced by the administration, including media scrutiny and polling discrepancies. The episode features discussions on the administration's transparency, the role of alternative media, and the ongoing political dynamics within the U.S. government. We conclude with a look at the broader implications of the administration's policies on the American economy and society, emphasizing the importance of staying informed and engaged in the political process.
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(00:01:21) Introduction and Podcast Overview
(00:11:36) Reflecting on Trump's First 100 Days
(00:24:30) Economic Achievements and Tariff Policies
(00:48:23) Media and Polls: Navigating Public Perception
(01:14:10) Challenges in Texas Politics
- Wayne Rankin
- Rosanna Rankin
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(00:01:21) Introduction and Podcast Overview
(00:11:36) Reflecting on Trump's First 100 Days
(00:24:30) Economic Achievements and Tariff Policies
(00:48:23) Media and Polls: Navigating Public Perception
(01:14:10) Challenges in Texas Politics
- Wayne Rankin
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(00:01:21) Introduction and Podcast Overview
(00:11:36) Reflecting on Trump's First 100 Days
(00:24:30) Economic Achievements and Tariff Policies
(00:48:23) Media and Polls: Navigating Public Perception
(01:14:10) Challenges in Texas Politics
- Wayne Rankin
- Rosanna Rankin
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Alright. Not sure exactly what that was all about. But, hey, folks. Welcome. It is Tuesday night, day 100 of the current Trump administration, and what a beautiful day it is. We are really thrilled to be here with you tonight and, hope you guys are ready for a show. We got one for you. Got a bunch of stuff to talk about. We're gonna talk a lot about tonight, a lot about, day 100 and what has taken place over the one hundred days of this administration. So I hope you guys are ready for that. We are gonna get started here momentarily. But just really quickly, just wanna remind you folks to head over to our website, joroos.com.
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Now, I really don't know why or when it started that, they measured the administration's performance by the hundred days. I really don't know when that started. But, it's interesting. You remember when Joe Biden was leaving office, Barack Obama sent out a message, a statement, about Joe Biden where he said that Joe Biden was the most consequential president of our history. Well, that exactly didn't age well. It really didn't. Because he may have been consequential, but not consequential in a good way. Consequential in a way that he almost destroyed this country.
And, when President Trump went before the joint session of Congress back in February was it February? Yeah, it was February. He said it turned out that all you needed was a different President, a new President, and thank God we got a new President. If it was anybody other than Donald Trump, say Joe Biden did run for reelection, that he didn't drop out of the race or was forced out, and they stole the election again and, installed him as the President and whoever it was that was signing everything with the auto pen still had full reign and full control over everything they were doing at the White House.
It's really scary to think where we would be today at this point. You know, the Globalists talk about austerity measures. You know, I would imagine that The US economy would continue to tank. Taxes would go through the roof. You would have unchecked migration at the borders. The United States itself, and this is no knock on, you know, people who live in in Detroit. You know, it's it's but you would have what Detroit has become. Abandoned homes, extremely high poverty rates, high crime, high drug use, you know, and it's I mean, I understand that's the, like, that's the worst case scenario, but it could very well easily have happened.
Or if, the cackling communist from California was, installed. It could have been very similar. So, we need to be thankful that we have President Trump and this administration. Now, is it a perfect administration? No. Not by a long shot. You know, there's there's a there are a few things that I disagree with. And, there's there's one or two that we're gonna point out, at some point this evening. But, when you think about where we are now as compared to where we could be or where we have been, we're in a much better place. A much better place.
You know, it's yeah. I was looking over some of these lists that some of the, that some of the, news news outlets that I that I check regularly have put out. And, they all vary from point to point, you know, certain things and some a little more humorous than others. But, one of the lists that I was looking at had some very good points on it. So here are the highlights of the one hundred days. So you have a closed border. Alright. Trump's full first month, border crossings dropped to their lowest in twenty five years. More Americans are happy with the direction that the country is going.
He closed, effectively closed, the Department of Education, which is something that Ronald Reagan had wanted to do, during his two terms. Inflation is lower, much lower than expected. Under Joe Biden, inflation hit 9% in June 2022, but in March 2025, it's just 2.4%. Now, when you think about that, that is outstanding. That is an absolutely incredible, incredible achievement in a hundred days. You're also not hearing too much about the price of eggs anymore, thank God. Again, a manufactured crisis by the previous Administration when they called, like, was it 15,000,000 or a hundred and 50,000,000 chickens because they were concerned about bird flu?
Which, by the way, the chickens can can recover from bird flu and doesn't get passed on to the eggs, so they would have been perfectly fine and perfectly safe. We you know, deportations of gangbangers, foreign criminals, murderers, rapists, child predators. And that also, of course, includes the ones that, you know, the loving husbands who beat their wives
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were human smugglers and human traffickers, you know? You know what I'm talking about? And of course, you know, the, the, the, the, the hundreds of the TDA and MS-thirteen gangbangers that were, provided a free trip to El Salvador. In the first hundred days, they forced the immediate to to, to, to kinda reconcile their their, Biden cover ups and corruptions. Influence, in some ways, from a list, influenced the Canadian elections and pretty much ended the career of Justin Trudeau. And, we know, we understand, of course, that the Canadians had a snap election with the parliamentary system, today yesterday rather and, unfortunately, Mark Carney was elected, who was a even further left than Trudeau.
So that should prove to be interesting coming down the road. We'll see how well that pans out. He put expansionism on the national agenda with, talking about inviting Greenland to The United States and inviting Canada to The United States and then, the Panama Canal. Basically, with the Panama Canal, he was effective in pushing the Chinese out. Peace negotiations with with Russia, Ukraine. You know, I don't think there's anybody else that could actually sit down with Russia and Ukraine and try to pull off a peace deal. It looks like there's gonna be one. Russia announced a, a a ceasefire, May 8, and, Ukraine signaled that they're looking for a permanent ceasefire.
So that's that's a huge step. Huge step. And I'm kinda wondering if it had anything to do with the conversation that, that President Trump had with Zelensky at, at Pope Francis' funeral. He liberated American hostages around the world. He signed the Lake and Riley Act into law, which protects Americans from dangerous illegal aliens. And, of course, you know, one of my favorites is he introduced Carolyn Levitt to the world. Then, of course, you have Maha, Make America Healthy Again, Robert Kennedy Junior doing a fantastic job over at, at, at the health department.
He's gotten his enemies to meet with him at the at the White House. Like, think about Bill Maher. He broke bread with Bill Maher for crying out loud. And then just recently, just a couple days ago, he invited, Jeffrey Goldberg, the, the editor from the from the from, the the Atlantic. You know, the whole single gate one and two guy, invited him to the White House for a sit down for an interview. He, he brought transparency back to the presidency. And you can't tell me that he didn't because when have you really ever seen a cabinet meeting?
A cabinet meeting being broadcast for for the American people to see, to listen to the questions and the conversation and the discussions and the reports going around. If that's not transparent, folks, I don't know what is. And I and I know a lot of people are concerned about the tariffs. There's, I'm sure, some still some some things that still need to be worked out with the tariffs, but you're starting to see the the, the the you're starting to see the reward for the tariffs though. And we're gonna get to some clips about that in a little bit. And despite everybody complaining about, you know, how, you know, tariffs are 140%, so the average tariff is 28%.
Canada still tariffs The United States on poultry and dairy and and some other products at 300%. Let's see. He signed, a record setting 142 executive orders, including 37 executive orders in his first week. He also rescinded 78 of Biden's executive orders within hours of his inauguration, including all of those ridiculous COVID nineteen, restrictions. And then also, you know, I don't know if you've noticed, but there's actually a White House website page, giving you the truth about COVID-nineteen and where it came from and its origins. He's turning the world away from Russia, from China, rather.
He has Iran in a in a in in in a very uncomfortable situation right now. Let's see what else. He convinced the world's wealthiest men man, to not only come to DC and work for him, but to do a tremendously high, to do so at a tremendously high personal cost. And we know who that's talking about. He's talking about Elon Musk. And, of course, you know, as with the work that Elon Musk is doing with Doge, you have the, the liberal Democrats, the liberal socialist, national socialists, virtue signaling by selling their Teslas. I mean, these are the folks that that, you know, were the biggest fans of Tesla, you know, because of, you know, save the environment. Save the environment. Save the environment. Global warming. Global warming. Climate change. Climate change. Gotta go electric. Everybody has to get an electric car. Remember that one?
The Biden administration tried to mandate everyone to have an electric car by 02/1930. But now you have these lunatics, these liberal socialists out there vandalizing, torching, car dealers, Tesla dealerships, protesting Tesla, protesting Elon Musk, selling them. You know, the how many of them have sold their Teslas and went out and bought SUVs? You know, gas guzzling SUVs. Shame on you. It's the environment. And when you think about it, it really kinda shows you just how serious they take their environmentalism, doesn't it? It's all about money. It's all it is. It's all about your taxes. It's all about you getting to pay for stuff that you don't that you would never pay for on your own.
You save TikTok for whatever that's worth. Hate TikTok. I I do. I have my unfortunately, I have a TikTok for the show, but I don't know when the last time I even looked at it. Let's see. Elevated alternative media organizations. That's big. That's big. Elevating those media, the alternative media. And, you know what I'm talking about, and how he did that, was he, he set up a seat in the White House Briefing Room and they rotate the alternative media folks into the press briefings, on a daily basis, which is amazing because, you know, it was always, always preoccupied or or or, not preoccupied but, it was always loaded up with the old legacy mainstream media people and, you know, it was the same people over and over and over again. But, this brings a fresh perspective to it and it brings people that are closer, I think, to the American people than the mainstream media folks, than the legacy media folks, you know, the podcasters.
Not quite there yet. I'm not not ready for that. Not by a long shot, I'm sure some of you are saying, but I digress. What about, rescuing the astronauts that Joe Biden left stranded up in space supposedly for, what, almost a year? That, actually, Elon Musk offered the Biden administration to go up and get them and the Biden administration said no because he didn't wanna make Elon Musk and Donald Trump look good. So for political reasons, he left these folks stranded up in space, supposedly. And one of these days, I'll do a show on why I say supposedly. What about the Gulf Of America?
That's interesting. Now, as somebody who's affiliated with Texas, the Texas Nationalist Movement, that wants to see a free and independent Texas separate from The United States, I would like to see it called the Gulf Of Texas, which, I think, at some point, once Texas takes its place among the nations of the world, we'll see that and I'm excited for that. But, I do like the fact that we changed it to the Gulf Of America. It's a start. It's a start. What about the pardoning of the January 6 protesters? What about the fired prosecutors of the January 6 protesters?
What about getting rid of all the DEI nonsense? The paper straws. Stopping biological men from competing against women in sports. Actually protecting women. Something that the Left has always championed. That they were the defenders of women. They were the defenders of the rights of women. That the Right is trying to strip women of their rights. But it took a Republican president to defend women from biological men pretending to be women because they weren't good enough to succeed as a man in men's sports. So a mediocre male athlete goes into women's sports and dominates, of course.
What about ending all that stupid pronoun shit? He, they, theythem, all that bullshit. Someone aptly pointed out, You know, in the Bible, demons refer to themselves in those pronouns. He fired the entire Board of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, working with the Saudis to normalize relations with Israel, advance the Abraham Accords. And, you know, Trump was actually nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Let's see what else. The nationalization of America's supply chain. And it's cut of course, that's tied to tariffs. And what about the fact that since, in his first hundred days, he brought in almost over $5,000,000,000,000 in new investments?
$5,000,000,000,000 in a hundred days in new investments. A rare earth deal with Ukraine, which is great because, you know, China is gonna suspend or has already suspended exports. The, the picking up of the two post election seats in Florida, the congressional seats, kind of expanding the, expanding a little bit, giving us a little bit more room in the House. You know, putting pressure on colleges and universities, to do something about antisemitism, which I get it, I understand it, I just don't think that I think it's a free speech issue. I don't like it.
I think antisemitism is wrong and I think that the violent rhetoric that gets spoken is reprehensible. But unfortunately, I, you know, I we well, I'm not gonna say unfortunately. Fortunately, we have the First Amendment and that type of speech is protected. I'm sorry. You may not agree with me, but it is. He's been holding media, outlets accountable for their false reporting. He's holding, law firms accountable. He got rid of, the stifling, the economy stifling environmental regulations. Remember, drill man, drill baby, drill. He's pushing for the death penalty for Luigi Mangione And that's important.
And I say it's important because it is ridiculous how many Democrats are okay with assassinations now. I mean, you hear them all the time talking about, you know, wanting to kill Elon Musk and they wanted, you know, wanting wanting to kill, Donald Trump and or or or hurt them in some way. Or how the support they that that this guy, Mangione has for for for killing the CEO of a health care of a health insurance company, ending birthright citizenship. Big. Huge. Making the tax the the the Trump tax cuts from 2017 permanent. Expanding school choice.
He got NATO to finally spend more money on defense. He forced federal employees to either get back to work or get out. Under Joe Biden, fewer than 10% of America's Two and a half million federal workforce worked full time in the office. Trump ordered 2,400,000 workers to actually return to the office and to do actual work. He pulled us out of the, the the the very, very pro China Paris, climate treaty, the Americanization of AI, a blockbuster, huge investment program. Nvidia announced it'll be building AI servers worth $500,000,000,000 in The United States.
He's got Sam Altman of, Chat GPT is a Trump fan now. He got Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook. He got Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos. Let's see, I'm looking down the list here. There's some funny stuff in here too, so I'm just This is a funny one actually. He helped, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer take her best photo ever. Remember that one? She was in the she was in the Oval she was in the Oval Office in the White House to meet with the President, which is something that a Governor is supposed to do representing your State. There was nothing wrong with that. And supposedly, she didn't realize that there was gonna be the press there. And when she came out, she hid she took a folder or something and put it up in front of her face, kinda like that, so that they couldn't take pictures of her in the White House. Are you a fucking idiot?
Or the fact that it that that that he turned Bernie Sanders and AOC into the last best hope of the Democratic Party. He target he he triggered a civil war in the Democratic, National Committee. You have the, you have the Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, now David Hogg, Hoag, whatever, announcing he's gonna be spending $20,000,000 to target Democrat incumbents and primary them. He's still fighting the Democrat appointed judges? James Boasberg, that guy? Hey. He got Rosie O'Donnell gone. Right? He got her to move to it move to Ireland. Ellen DeGeneres ran to, to England, so that's good.
And he kept Kamala Harris and Tim Walz out of the White House. That was one list Or some of them some of some of the things from one list. There was, like, a hundred of them. Here's another list from, Just the News. This is, it's a little bit more of a serious one. Let's see. Immigration. Trump declared national emergency at the southern border, reinstated his Remain in Mexico policy, ordered the end of catch and release, overhauled vetting of entrance to The US, cracked down on drug trafficking, and moved to end birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens. He was similarly aggressive in dismantling the Federal bureaucracy, implementing a Federal hiring freeze, creating Department of Government efficiency, reducing Federal worker protectants to allow for substantial staff reductions, and moving to eliminate entire agencies.
He also pursued the elimination of the Department of Ed, moved to reform the higher education accreditation system, froze Federal funding for institutions that he deems had failed to address discrimination on campus, particularly the rabid antisemitism at Harvard and Columbia University. The Pentagon has perhaps witnessed one of the most dramatic transformations with Trump directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to root out wokeness in the form of diversity, equity, inclusion, critical race theory and other divisive ideologies from the service. He also moved to ban transgender service members from the military, reinstated personnel who had who had to leave the armed forces over the COVID nineteen vaccine mandate, and fired a host of senior officers, many of whom were DEI proponents.
During Trump's first one hundred days, border encounters along the Southwest land border fell by as much as 94% from the same time of the prior year. The administration has made at least a 13,000 arrests conducted, at least a hundred thousand deportations. We don't have the information yet for April, but that'll be coming out shortly. Homeland Secretary, Kristi Noem, put the figure at more than 150, alien arrests, which would theoretically put the Administration on pace for 2,200,000 arrests in four years. Trump also secured foreign investment pledges from partner nations totaling roughly $3,000,000,000,000.
That figure includes 1,400,000,000,000.0 from, The United Arab Emirates, a 600,000,000,000 pledge from Saudi Arabia, a 1,000,000,000,000 pledge from Japan, corporate entities like Nvidia, five hundred billion, Apple, five hundred billion, IBM, a hundred fifty billion, Taiwan Semiconductor, a hundred billion. The White House's running tally of investment pledges currently totals more than 2,000,000,000,000 from corporate entities alone. One of the biggest efforts involved drastically reducing the size of the federal government and has seen the administration eliminate tens of thousands of positions. The administration confirmed that 75,000 employees had accepted a voluntary buyout after the first round, the second of which is ongoing. A report from, Challenger, from Challenger, Gray and Christmas Inc. Put the figure at 216,670 jobs cut from Doge related efforts.
And, of course, Democrats have vowed to resist and obstruct Trump's policy changes, mostly through the use of lawfare. AP reports 49 executive orders have been partially or fully blocked by the courts. 39 of the executive orders have been upheld by judiciary. And 72 cases against this policy are still pending. Trump made let me see, Trump made efforts to pursue a ceasefire in the Russia Ukraine war and advanced nuclear negotiation with Iran. Trump has managed to secure negotiations directly with the Russians and separately with Ukrainians to attempt to bring warring nations to the table. As a side benefit to talks. Trump envoy Steve Witkoff secured the release of American history teacher Mark Fogel from Russian authorities, convicted of a marijuana possession, and had been in prison for years.
The tariffs. Trump's Liberation Day, announcement, of reciprocal tariffs in early April. The declaration impacted nearly every country on Earth. Trump made good on his campaign promise with those actions, though he prompted considerable recoil from key American trade partners and some of his own backers in the financial sector. Tariffs ignited a week of wild volatility in stock market. Standard and Poor's five hundred index stock market ended attracting stock performance of 500 leading companies. Listened on stock exchange, The United States fell more than 10% in just three days. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen, and we're gonna hear from him shortly, suggested that tariffs have set the stage for favorable agreements in recent speech in a recent speech saying, there's opportunity for a big deal here that The U. S. Is looking to rebalance to more manufacturing.
The identity of that would be less consumption. So, that's another list. A little bit more of a serious list than the one I we had gone over previously. The Federalist had another piece. Tom Homan had this to say about President Trump. President Trump's leadership continues to break records. Border Patrol encounter to the North at the for the month of March was 7,181 total. I started as a Border Patrol agent in '84, which was forty one years ago. I cannot recall a single month since then that the numbers have been that low. It's a far cry from the more than 11,000 a day that we saw for a time period under under Biden. Men and women of the border patrol have proven what they can accomplish when they're allowed to do their job and com and complete the mission of their agency.
Thanks to President Trump and his game changing policies, those days are over. Thank you to the patriots of the Border Patrol who are making this country safe again. In his first one hundred days in office, Biden took 94 executive actions on immigration according to the leftist Migration Policy Institute. The actions included ending Trump's Remain in Mexico policy, reinstating catch and release, and of course, Trump, when he, was inaugurated, reversed all of those executive orders. And, you see, I'm gonna just kind of jump off the train here for a second and I'm just gonna make one comment about that. See, this is the problem though with executive orders because and we have talked about this before and you know it's going to be an ongoing thing. The problem with the executive order situation is very simply this. One administration comes in, undoes what the previous administration did by executive order and it just keeps following down the line. There's no stability. It makes things kind of difficult to to get some balance. And, and we need to get these policies and these executive orders codified into law, so it's harder to overturn.
So, I'm I'm hoping that that's gonna happen somewhere down the line because a lot of these executive orders are great. They're doing great work for the country. But should should the left retake the White House in, in in three and a half years or less or more rather, all this stuff is gonna be undone, and we're gonna be right back where we were under under Biden, maybe worse. So hopefully, we'll get these things codified. So the Heritage Foundation put out a a account of 100 wins. Not gonna go through them all, but, again, signed the Lake and Riley Act, deported more at large illegal aliens, those arrested in the Interior US, in February 2025 than Biden did in all of fiscal year '24, reimplemented the Rohingya Mexico program, moved to end birthright citizenship, opened Guantanamo Bay for illegal alien detention, turned the CBP one app into the CBP Home app to facilitate self deportations, issued executive order preserving federal benefits for American citizens only, revoked visas of foreign students at American universities, who support Hamas and exhibit antisemitic behavior.
And it it just goes on. Just just this past Monday, Trump signed, another three executive orders related to immigration, one on a federal one on federal authority over immigration enforcement requiring state and federal officials to publish lists of sanctuary cities where officials, refuse to cooperate in the enforcement of federal immigration laws, an order requiring truck drivers to be proficient in English. The White House press release notes that some state and local officials continue to violate, obstruct, and defy enforcement of federal immigration laws. A lot of the actions though, on securing the border and staunching the flood of illegal immigrants have been challenged by liberal activists and blocked by federal judges issuing broad injunctions. And again, another issue, another issue where a district court judge can issue an injunction that affects the entire country.
And, of course, the administration is taking steps to combat that. And, I know Mike Johnson had said, prior to Congress going on vacation again, that, they would be moving to defund, which is within the authority of the Congress, these districts where these judges are taking these activist positions. So the list can go on and on and on. The first one hundred days of this administration has been just one hit after another hit after another hit, and I and the the left and the media just don't know how to respond to it. Because once they once it seems like they got some footing on one ground, the the narrative changes again and they're off balance and that's a it's a it's a great strategy.
It's a great strategy. Let's see. So White House secretary, Carolyn Levitt and Treasury secretary Scott Bessen gave a briefing today, Tuesday, about the economic achievements of the administration's first one hundred days. So let's, let's let's take a listen to Carolyn Levitt.
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And President Trump's efforts are working. 345,000 jobs have already been added since the start of President Trump's term. Last month's jobs report saw nearly 100,000 more jobs than economists predicted. And it was the fourth highest month for private payroll growth in the past two years. Nine thousand manufacturing jobs have been added to the economy already. This is a sharp contrast to the 6,000 manufacturing jobs that were lost each month in the final two years of the Biden administration. The US employment rate remains at historic lows. And thanks to President Trump, Americans are seeing price relief for the first time in years. The last inflation report showed the first consumer price decline since the COVID pandemic, a decrease in energy prices, and real average hourly wage growth. President Trump is delivering on his promises to lower costs for American families and businesses.
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So she also went on to explain that, that the last inflation report showed that the first consumer price decline since the COVID pandemic, there there was a decrease in energy prices and, real average hourly wage growth. So what does that mean? Well, that means that it's a big change from from Joe Biden who drove it up to 9% during his time in the Oval Office. Now under the Trump administration, it was at 2.4%, which is better expect better than expected after years of more than expected of Joe Biden. She also went on to talk about, investments that the that the administration had secured over the first one hundred days.
And, and like we said earlier, more than what Joe Biden did in four years. Here's Carolyn Levitt.
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President Trump has secured more investments in The United States Of America in one hundred days than Joe Biden did in four years. President Trump is America's Businessman In Chief, and that's why these trillions of dollars in investments are flooding to our country.
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So she's talking about $5,200,000,000,000 in domestic and foreign investments since January 20. And it's only the first hundred days. This is only the first can you imagine what what the next three plus years are gonna be? And then, Scott Bessent came out, and he laid out another plan that, that's gonna probably bring in even more investment and more jobs. If companies move their manufacturing back to The US,
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Well, how about we let him say it? What we are going to do, one of the most powerful parts of president Trump's two thousand seventeen tax bill was full expensing of equipment. We are going to make that as president Trump said in his speech to Congress, that will be retroactive to January 20. The other thing that we are looking to add is full expensing for factories. So bring your factory back. You can fully expense the equipment and the building. We will couple that with deregulation, cheap energy, and regulatory certainty, and that will continue to make The US the greatest destination for domestic and foreign investment.
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So that means all that money comes back to you. So that means all that money comes back to you. That's a that's a huge incentive for a business, for a manufacturing business to come to The United States. That's huge. And then, Besson also went on to talk about the the tariffs, and he explained that the, that, the way they see that the combination of revenue and and deals to reduce tariffs, which are gonna help reduce income tax on Americans, Social Security, remember? President Trump campaigned on no income tax on tips, no income tax on Social Security, no income tax on overtime. He also talked about, restoring the auto loan interest deductible for, American made vehicles.
And and all of the tariff revenue can be used for those things immediately, for that relief immediately. Let's take a listen.
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China Chinese tariffs are unsustainable for China. I saw I've seen some very large numbers over the past few days that show if these numbers stay on, Chinese could lose 10,000,000 jobs very quickly. And even if there is a drop in the tariffs that they could lose 5,000,000 jobs. So remember that we are the deficit country. They sell almost five times more goods to us than we sell to them. So the onus will be on them to be a take off these tariffs. They're unsustainable
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for them. And they are saying you guys are not talking about it. So is that true?
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They have a different form of government. They're playing to a different audience. So, I'm not gonna get into, the the nitty gritty again of who's talking to whom. But as I said, I believe for the Chinese,
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these tariffs are unsustainable. And very quickly, two days ago, you said you didn't know if president Trump had spoken to Xi Jing
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And then we also have
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this. Here. Just a little insight baseball. In India, in a funny way, is easier to negotiate with than many other countries because they have very high tariffs and lots of tariffs. So it's much easier to confront the direct tariffs when, as we go through these unfair trade deals that have been put in over decades that the non tariff trade barriers can be much more insidious and also harder to detect. So a country like India, which has the, you know, posted and ready tariffs, it's much easier to negotiate with them. So, you know, I think the Indian negotiations are moving well.
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And then I had this one clip that I wanted to show you, but I don't seem to have it in my in my clip list. So I'm gonna I'm gonna screen share it with you from the article that I'm looking at right here. Alright. And that's this one right here. Treasury secretary Scott Bessent, talking about, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime. Tariff income would be used for tax relief on all.
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On tariffs, the president said over the weekend that we are hoping that maybe tariff revenues could replace income tax. But we also keep hearing about the deals that the administration is pursuing. So my question is, what is the White House's ultimate objection objective here? Do you want to have long term tariff revenue or deals that might reduce those tariffs? Now, I just wanna say that,
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that seat right there, that's what we were talking about earlier. That's the alternative media asking this question. Nobody else asked that question, but the alternative media people did.
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I think it's a combination of both. So we're gonna take in long term tariff revenue. We put a process in place. We have 18 important trading relations. Yesterday. Yesterday. We will be speaking to all of those partners, or at least 17 of them. They over the next few weeks, many of them have already come to Washington. What president Trump is referring to is the ability for tariff revenue to give income tax relief, and I think there's a very good chance that we will see this in the upcoming tax bill. The president campaigned on no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime, and the restoring interest deductibility for autos, for American made autos. So, tariff income could be used for tax relief on all those immediately.
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So which is amazing news. It's great news. The administration is going in the right direction. The economic policies are going in the right direction. And look, there's gonna be some bumps in the road. There's gonna be some some, you know, they say the pain of the pump kind of stuff. You know, the markets are gonna fluctuate. It's gonna happen. But we need to stay focused on this. We need to stick with it. The benefits are gonna far outweigh the struggle that we might pick up here and there. You know, just a couple of days ago, the president, mentioned, with the with the amount of money coming in from the tariffs, he's gonna move to eliminate income tax, the federal income tax on folks earning $200,000 a year or less, which is the majority of Americans.
Personally speaking, they should eliminate the income tax altogether. And, I went on that rant, yesterday. But, the tariffs are gonna work. We just have to let them work and get out of the way of it. Now, of course, you know, the you're you're getting all of the negative information from the, from the media, the mainstream media. You're hearing all of these negative numbers. You're hearing all of these polls are coming in. They're saying that that the American people are disappointed, that the American people are turning on Trump, that the American people are, are unhappy with the the administration and how it's it's it's it's, it's dealing with with the economy.
And they're and the left is doing everything they can to take down this administration and slow him down. They're using the the drug they they're they're using the activist judges. They're using all of these things. But the one thing that they come to all the time is the polls. Look at the polls. You have to look at the polls. Now the problem is pollsters rarely, if ever, speak favorably of Donald Trump. And you know that. That's not that's not any great revelation. Donald Trump even took to, Truth Social and, commented on this. We don't have a free and fair press in this country anymore. We have a press that writes bad stories and cheats big on polls, and cheats big on polls.
It's compromised, corrupt, and sad. Now, we all know, if you remember back over the campaign, they had pollsters had Kamala Harris, up in double digits in Iowa. Do you remember that? That they had, they had her leading by, by two points or 2% in in a number of states, in battleground states, in in in, you know, all all the states that president Trump won. So pollsters historically have not been favorable to Donald Trump. Alright. Trump's approval rating. Now here. In anticipation of Trump's first one hundred days in office, the propaganda press whipped up stories about his approval ratings using using shaky polling as the foundation of their reporting. Each used different parameters. But when a poll is purchased or administered by a biased news outlet, the results are skewed.
Trump's approval rating has fallen to 39% according to a joint ABC News Washington Post poll by the left leaning pollster Ipsos. Ipsos is not known to be a reliable polling, organization at all. The previous quote, the previous low approval for a president at or near a % at at at a hundred days in office in polls dating to 1945 was Trump's forty two percent in 2017. It's hard to trust ABC's news coverage, after his biased moderation against Trump in the twenty twenty four presidential abates or after the 15,000,000 defamation settlement ABC agreed to pay Trump.
CNN's poll by SSRS Research, an online and telephone poll of just 1,678 people, reported Trump's approval raising rating had fallen to 41%. SSRI let me show it to you. SSRS is also is so accurate that it cons that it consistently found losing presidential candidate Kamala Harris had a slight edge in the 2024 race that Trump had resoundingly won. The New York Times, Siena College poll of just 913 people, including a 90 who did not complete the entire survey, was conducted on the phone and had reached a mix of English and Spanish speakers, it found Trump's approval rating had fallen to 42%. NBC wrote its own poll and put out put it out on SurveyMonkey for nine days. It got almost 20,000 respondents who gave Trump a 45% approval rating. Not bad for a poll of NBC consumers who are unlikely Trump supporters.
Donald Trump then went to, of course, to Truth Social and he posted, a great pollster, John McLaughlin, one of the most highly respected in the industry, has just stated that the failing New York Times poll that the failing New York I can't see it on my screen so I gotta look up it this way. At the where was I? At the the failing New York Times poll and the ABC Washington Post poll about a person named Donald J. Trump, me, are fake polls from fake news organizations. The New York Times has only 37% Trump, twenty twenty four voters, and the ABC Washington Post poll has only 34% Trump voters, unheard of numbers unless looking for a negative result, which they are.
And exactly right. Exactly right. The coordinated polls trotted out this week came to the same conclusion. Trump's approval rating is tanking. His base is losing faith in them, and Trump is freaking out about it. So they seem to be telegraphing. You may as well give up on them. But the polls are garbage. And even if they warrant, they don't matter because they don't sway Trump off course. But remember, because the polls will be treated as truth and used as a basis for future propaganda in an attempt to shape policy, It's already happening with headlines that claim Americans are losing faith, or that his favor with Hispanics is collapsing, or that Americans are going sour on Trump's economy.
But the greater question is this, and and I love the way the article ends. Ask yourself which is more plausible, that the lying media has suddenly presented a highly accurate and not at all slanted polling data, or that the majority of people who support Trump's policies are not being polled? And, if that's true, why not? That's a great question. That's a great point. It's a fantastic point. How do you trust this media? You can't. You can't. Look. Just as an example, we talked about yesterday, the the the the controversy. The evil Donald Trump wore a blue suit to Pope Francis's funeral.
Even though the Vatican issued a request for everyone to wear a black suit, The New York Times selectively cropped a picture of Donald Trump wearing a blue suit surrounded by people in black, but the larger picture, the one that they actually cropped it from, shows many people wearing blue suits, including Joe Biden, Prince Andrew, and others. Many others. So now, if the media is gonna lie to you about that, something that trivial and that small, do you really think they're gonna tell you the truth with these polls? Of course not.
Absolutely not. And then, of course, today we had this this whole row with, with Amazon. I'm sure you heard about it, that, that Amazon was, going to, start to post the, tariff price of items now on their website. And, well, let's go here. Let's see. So Amazon had announced to, to that they had plans to display the added cost of tariffs, in prices for goods in their online shop. Alright. Amazon. Well, the White House apparently got wind of this and jumped into action on this one. And let me see where is that. So there was a press conference held this morning, and, Carolyn Levitt addressed this issue with Amazon. Let me just make sure I got the right one here.
Yep. Here we go.
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I will, take this since I just got off the phone with the president about Amazon's announcement. This is a hostile and political act by Amazon. Why didn't Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation to the highest level in forty years? And I would also add that, it's not a surprise because as Reuters recently wrote, Amazon Amazon has partnered with a Chinese propaganda arm. So this is another reason why Americans should buy American. It's another reason why we are onshoring critical supply chains here at home to, shore up our own critical supply chain, and boost our own manufacturing here. Is is Jeff Bezos still a Trump supporter?
Look. I will not speak to the president's, relationships with, Jeff Bezos, but I will tell you, that this is certainly a hostile and political action by Amazon. And, secretary, if you have anything to add? Yeah. I would also add that the bring bringing down the the terrible Biden inflation has been a priority for
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the first hundred days of the Trump administration, and president Trump has done a great job of leading that, since January 20, interest rates.
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So, of course, folks jumped all over this on on, on on x. Richard Grenell posted this. How about displaying upfront where the product is made? Amazon is almost all made in China. And then you had, you had this, from, a man named Rob Schmidt, saying this will backfire. Amazon buys Chinese trash for 70¢, pays 50¢ tariff, sells to you for $18 plus the 50¢. Customer realizes they're buying Chinese trash. So this you know what the solution to the problem is? The solution to the problem is that if they did if they did do this, which they have since backtracked, okay, Amazon has, issued a statement that said that, the team that runs our ultra low cost Amazon Haul store has considered listing import charges on certain products. This was never a consideration for the main Amazon site and has nothing and nothing has been implemented on any Amazon properties. So, they immediately, immediately backtracked.
But a very good point was made. The point was, and the point is, folks, if you are on Amazon or any website that shows you the the the the cost with the tariffs, Or if you're looking at any items that are not manufactured in The United States, there obviously gonna be more money because of the tariffs. Just buy American. Save the money. It's that simple. Buy American. So, of course, this whole thing is gonna is, you know, backfired. And, after Donald Trump spoke with, Jeff Bezos, this retraction came out immediately. Amazon denies report that Amazon denies report that tariff costs will be shown next to products.
The price of products Amazon Inc. Displays online store may soon include list of price. Punchbowl news reported on Tuesday that that would be today. According to a source familiar with the matter that the ecommerce giant will start showing figure added to the value, because of the duties right alongside product's total price. And these are the clips we already looked at. So, of course, after that happened, shares of the online retail giant found a bit to drop more than 2%. So, not going to happen. And even if it did, buy American.
By American, again. Thanks, Amazon. Tower of transparency might backfire bigly. The White House on Tuesday called it a hostile political act by Amazon, but it just might wind up being the biggest cell phone since Bud Light decided to go all in on Dylan Mulvaney. We already saw that. So it's a big own. It it truly is. This is the article I was looking for. If Amazon lists tariff prices, don't buy the foreign products. Tech and shipping giant Amazon is reportedly considering displaying tariff prices next to the items to hit back at Donald Trump's tariffs in other countries, which, by the way, already tariff our goods. So there you go.
Buy American. Like I said, buy American. Alright, I think, I don't think we're gonna finish everything I have here for us tonight. I got a lot more to go, and it's already one it's already an hour fifteen. So, just want to touch this really quick and then one more thing and then we'll save the rest for another night. But, yesterday I reported to you well, I reported to you like I'm a reporter. Yesterday, I mentioned to you a story about the blackout in Spain and Portugal. Didn't really have too much information on it for myself at the time, so I kind of just kind of glossed over it. But, so apparently, this blackout occurred six days after Spain celebrated 100% renewable power and, they blamed this blackout on a rare atmospheric phenomenon.
But, you see, this whole thing doesn't only affect Spain. It had ripple effects all across the continent. Alright? So, six days ago, the media was absolutely celebrating in Spain, a significant milestone. That Spain's national grid operated entirely on renewable energy for the first time during a weekday. At 12:35PM local time, lights went out across Spain and Portugal and parts of France. Let me, let me share this with you. So, massive blackout in Europe. Residents in Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium report major outages. Airport, subway shutdown, communication networks hit. Madrid's, Barajas Airport is out of service, El Mundo reports, no official call is confirmed yet, chaos unfolds.
Now, Michael Shellenberger said that, this wasn't just a Spanish blackout. It shook the entire European grid. None of this should have been a surprise. The underlying physics had been understood for years. The specific vulnerabilities have been spelled out repeatedly in technical warnings that policymakers ignored, As countries replaced heavy spinning plants with lightweight inverter based generation, the grid became faster, lighter, more sensitive to disruptions. That basic physical reality was spelled out in public warnings as far back as 2017. Public leaders promised that renewable energy would provide stable, affordable power in practice.
Spain grew more reliant on the remaining nuclear and natural gas plants to sustain inertia even as the government pushed them to closed. Despite all these warnings, political and regulatory energy in Europe remained focused on accelerating renewable deployment, not upgrading the grid's basic stability. In Spain, solar generation continued to climb rapidly through 2023, early '20 '4. Coal plants closed. Nuclear units retired. On many spring days by 2025, Spain's midday solar generation exceeded its total afternoon demand, leading to frequent negative electricity prices.
The system was being pushed to the limit. And then today, at 12:35, it broke. Spain's blackout wasn't just a technical failure, it was a political and strategic failure. Unless Spain rapidly invests in synthetic inertia, maintains and expands its nuclear fleet, or adds some other new form of heavy rotating generation, the risk of future blackouts will only grow worse. Alright, and Michael Shellenberger's piece is amazing. So, if you want to read this, you really you could spend a lot of time, reading all this. So this, I found also very very interesting too.
A frequency drop of 0.15 hertz was enough to take down Spain and Portugal. So, before the outage hit, Spain was running its grid with very little dispatchable spinning generation and, therefore, no not much inertia. And, it gives you the numbers. Okay? So so, right now, it's a race against the sunset to restore power in Spain. In about four hours, Spain will lose more than a third of its current electricity generation. Sunset is around 9PM Madrid time. Spanish National Grid is trying to reactivate or black start as much spinning generation before that. So, so, basically, what they're saying is that unless they can get their generators up and running, their power generators up and running, they're gonna be in the dark. And they're also saying this is gonna take more than a week to correct.
This is the problem dealing with strictly renewable energies. The demand is too high. It can't support it. And this is what the left would love to bring to The United States. That's why I'm so thankful that that Texas has its own power grid, is not part of the national grid, and we can stand on our own. Another tweet, another message. I'm in Spain, and trust me. The issue is in the darkness. No payments possible without cash, so no food, no transportation, very limited Internet, and no clue whether it'll actually be resolved. Blackout highlights just how fragile the new digital and green society has become.
And this is a great piece. You can find this at Zero Hedge, by the way. Zero Hedge has great reporting on this. Alright, should I do this one? Oh, yeah. I'll do this one. So, yesterday, this, relatively unknown Congress member, Representative Sri Thanadar from Michigan, announced that, he is filing a motion for impeachment of Donald Trump. So, again, like I've said, we cannot sit back and rest on our heels because if we lose the house or the senate at the midterms, this is what you're gonna be dealing with for the next two years. Impeachments after impeachments after impeachments. And even though the Democratic Party has beaten the impeachment thing to death, they're still gonna use it. They have totally destroyed what impeachment really is all about and the severity of impeachment.
They really have. They've damaged it beyond repair, I think. But, so this is representative, Sri Thanedar. Alright? Just this is not a joke.
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This is congressman Srinathar. Donald Trump has already done real damage to our democracy, But defying a unanimous nine o Supreme Court ruling, that has to be the final straw. It's Okay. I can't.
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Alright. I I can't. This guy's a clown. He's a joke. He's looking for his ten minutes, fifteen minutes of fame. I mean, honestly, when I look at him first of all, the hair. Alright? The hair the hair's an issue for me. And then if you look at this guy see if I can get a get a good picture here. Here. Okay. There. The hair and all that stuff, can can I can I show you something else that goes with that? This is hysterical. Where is he? There he is. It isn't that Kenan Thompson from Saturday Night Live? See that? That's hysterical. I mean, that's absolutely hysterical.
So, I don't know. I just wanted to laugh a little bit before we, wrap this thing up here. But, let me just touch on this really, really quickly. This is out of the Texas State House. Alright? Like I said, I've been trying to cover some Texas stuff, some local stuff. We have a big problem here in Texas. Alright? And and as great as Texas is, as much as I love being here in Texas, Texas has some issues. Alright? And one of the issues is is that the Republican party, even though they control the State House, the the current, speaker of the Texas House, Burrows, has basically ceded a lot of control of the of the proceedings of the House to the Democrats, the minority party.
And, there are many, many frustrations with with, speaker Burrows, Dustin Burrows, and how he handles the, the the Texas House business. Well, Burrows or let me back it up this way. State representative Andy Hopper took to the floor, sought recognition to make a motion requiring the House, Committee on State Affairs to report out House Bill thirteen oh eight. Basically, it's a bill that would mandate employers to use E Verify to prevent, the hiring of illegal aliens. And, it is a legislative priority for the Republican Party of Texas. Alright. It was scheduled for a hearing this week, but it was withdrawn from the schedule before beforehand.
So, Burrows so Hopper took to the floor. Burrows refused to recognize Hopper for the motion. Hopper then went through a series of parliamentary inquiries trying to, you know, trying to tie the bills importance to the Republican party platform and asking whether or not the bill is meeting the same standard or would be heard. But then, Dustin Burrows repeatedly ruled that each inquiry was not, quote, proper parliamentary inquiry, basically shutting down conversation, shutting down this the discussion on this. And I wanna show you, this this quick clip here from the Texas State House.
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Drop it for what purpose? Mister speaker,
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would you recognize me for a motion to require the Committee on State Affairs to report House Bill 13 o eight? No. Mister speaker, parliamentary inquiry? State's your inquiry. The Republican Party of Texas platform plank two thirty two says that Texas shall require all employers to screen new hires through the free E Verify system to present the hire prevent the hiring of illegal aliens and of anyone not legally authorized to work in The United States and to protect the jobs for American Mister Hopper, that's not a parliamentary inquiry. Is the chair Mister Hopper, for what purpose? Mister speaker, is the chair aware of any whether any bills that meet this standard have been heard or will be heard by Mister Hopper, for what purpose?
Parliamentary inquiry. Greater inquiry. Is the chair aware of whether any bills that meet this standard have been heard or will be heard by a committee in this chamber? That is not a proper parliamentary inquiry, mister Hopper. Mister speaker, parliamentary inquiry. State your inquiry? The Republican party has identified h b thirteen eight as a legislative priority. H house bill 13 o eight was referred to the committee on state affairs on 03/10/2025.
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Mister Hopper, that is not a proper parliamentary inquiry. Mister speaker, parliamentary inquiry? State's your inquiry. Is the chair advised as to whether this committee intends to hear this bill at all? Mister Hopper, that is not a proper parliamentary inquiry. Mister speaker? Mister Hopper,
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State your inquiry? This bill is a legislative party for the Republican Party. If you won't recognize me at this time, is there a time you would recognize me? Inquiry. Is there a time mister speaker, parliamentary inquiry. State your inquiry. Is there a time that you would recognize me for this That is not a proper parliamentary inquiry. Thank you.
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Mister Money, for what purpose? Mister speaker,
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will you recognize me to make a motion to re refer one of the bills to ban taxpayer funded lobbying, to a different committee? No. Mister speaker, parliamentary inquiry. State your inquiry. Mister speaker, is the chair aware that senate bill 19 by senator Mays Middleton was referred to state affairs on March 25 over one month ago? Mister Wright, that's not a proper parliamentary inquiry. Mister speaker, my notes show that you are, Mister money for what purpose? Mister speaker, parliamentary inquiry. State your inquiry? My notes show that you were a joint author of the bills to ban taxpayer funded lobbying in both the eighty seventh and eighty eighth session.
Mister speaker, is there a way to get this bill from state affairs into a committee that might hear and refer that bill to the house? It's money that is not a proper parliamentary inquiry. Mister speaker, parliamentary inquiry. State your inquiry. Am I to take from from your, position here that you will not be taking any motions, to refer bills or do anything unusual, as far as
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moving and advancing Republican priorities. He sure he declines to answer hypothetical questions and that is not a proper parliamentary inquiry, mister Money. Thank you, mister speaker.
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So the Republican speaker of the house shuts down any questions, any inquiries by the Republicans that have the majority of the house, refuses to answer questions, refuses to recognize bills that are being brought forward. And we don't see we don't think that there's a problem with this. There's a month left in the legislative session in the Texas state house, and there's there's key planks of the Republican Party of Texas positions are not being addressed. And what I find even more upsetting, and this is a place where I am going to, like I said, disagree with this administration is that president Trump, for whatever reason, has decided to endorse speaker Dustin Burrows.
I don't know why, But I'm very disappointed in that. This is this the the current speaker of the Texas House is doing everything he can to make sure that the Republican Party of Texas's agenda is not being heard and voted on. Why is president Trump endorsing him? I mean, I understand it's it it could be over the, the school choice issue. Could it could be for that. I I I don't know. But it's very disappointing to see that. And I and I hope that I hope that the president refinks that position and and and reverses that. Alright, folks.
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night.
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Now, I really don't know why or when it started that, they measured the administration's performance by the hundred days. I really don't know when that started. But, it's interesting. You remember when Joe Biden was leaving office, Barack Obama sent out a message, a statement, about Joe Biden where he said that Joe Biden was the most consequential president of our history. Well, that exactly didn't age well. It really didn't. Because he may have been consequential, but not consequential in a good way. Consequential in a way that he almost destroyed this country.
And, when President Trump went before the joint session of Congress back in February was it February? Yeah, it was February. He said it turned out that all you needed was a different President, a new President, and thank God we got a new President. If it was anybody other than Donald Trump, say Joe Biden did run for reelection, that he didn't drop out of the race or was forced out, and they stole the election again and, installed him as the President and whoever it was that was signing everything with the auto pen still had full reign and full control over everything they were doing at the White House.
It's really scary to think where we would be today at this point. You know, the Globalists talk about austerity measures. You know, I would imagine that The US economy would continue to tank. Taxes would go through the roof. You would have unchecked migration at the borders. The United States itself, and this is no knock on, you know, people who live in in Detroit. You know, it's it's but you would have what Detroit has become. Abandoned homes, extremely high poverty rates, high crime, high drug use, you know, and it's I mean, I understand that's the, like, that's the worst case scenario, but it could very well easily have happened.
Or if, the cackling communist from California was, installed. It could have been very similar. So, we need to be thankful that we have President Trump and this administration. Now, is it a perfect administration? No. Not by a long shot. You know, there's there's a there are a few things that I disagree with. And, there's there's one or two that we're gonna point out, at some point this evening. But, when you think about where we are now as compared to where we could be or where we have been, we're in a much better place. A much better place.
You know, it's yeah. I was looking over some of these lists that some of the, that some of the, news news outlets that I that I check regularly have put out. And, they all vary from point to point, you know, certain things and some a little more humorous than others. But, one of the lists that I was looking at had some very good points on it. So here are the highlights of the one hundred days. So you have a closed border. Alright. Trump's full first month, border crossings dropped to their lowest in twenty five years. More Americans are happy with the direction that the country is going.
He closed, effectively closed, the Department of Education, which is something that Ronald Reagan had wanted to do, during his two terms. Inflation is lower, much lower than expected. Under Joe Biden, inflation hit 9% in June 2022, but in March 2025, it's just 2.4%. Now, when you think about that, that is outstanding. That is an absolutely incredible, incredible achievement in a hundred days. You're also not hearing too much about the price of eggs anymore, thank God. Again, a manufactured crisis by the previous Administration when they called, like, was it 15,000,000 or a hundred and 50,000,000 chickens because they were concerned about bird flu?
Which, by the way, the chickens can can recover from bird flu and doesn't get passed on to the eggs, so they would have been perfectly fine and perfectly safe. We you know, deportations of gangbangers, foreign criminals, murderers, rapists, child predators. And that also, of course, includes the ones that, you know, the loving husbands who beat their wives
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and, you know,
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were human smugglers and human traffickers, you know? You know what I'm talking about? And of course, you know, the, the, the, the, the hundreds of the TDA and MS-thirteen gangbangers that were, provided a free trip to El Salvador. In the first hundred days, they forced the immediate to to, to, to kinda reconcile their their, Biden cover ups and corruptions. Influence, in some ways, from a list, influenced the Canadian elections and pretty much ended the career of Justin Trudeau. And, we know, we understand, of course, that the Canadians had a snap election with the parliamentary system, today yesterday rather and, unfortunately, Mark Carney was elected, who was a even further left than Trudeau.
So that should prove to be interesting coming down the road. We'll see how well that pans out. He put expansionism on the national agenda with, talking about inviting Greenland to The United States and inviting Canada to The United States and then, the Panama Canal. Basically, with the Panama Canal, he was effective in pushing the Chinese out. Peace negotiations with with Russia, Ukraine. You know, I don't think there's anybody else that could actually sit down with Russia and Ukraine and try to pull off a peace deal. It looks like there's gonna be one. Russia announced a, a a ceasefire, May 8, and, Ukraine signaled that they're looking for a permanent ceasefire.
So that's that's a huge step. Huge step. And I'm kinda wondering if it had anything to do with the conversation that, that President Trump had with Zelensky at, at Pope Francis' funeral. He liberated American hostages around the world. He signed the Lake and Riley Act into law, which protects Americans from dangerous illegal aliens. And, of course, you know, one of my favorites is he introduced Carolyn Levitt to the world. Then, of course, you have Maha, Make America Healthy Again, Robert Kennedy Junior doing a fantastic job over at, at, at the health department.
He's gotten his enemies to meet with him at the at the White House. Like, think about Bill Maher. He broke bread with Bill Maher for crying out loud. And then just recently, just a couple days ago, he invited, Jeffrey Goldberg, the, the editor from the from the from, the the Atlantic. You know, the whole single gate one and two guy, invited him to the White House for a sit down for an interview. He, he brought transparency back to the presidency. And you can't tell me that he didn't because when have you really ever seen a cabinet meeting?
A cabinet meeting being broadcast for for the American people to see, to listen to the questions and the conversation and the discussions and the reports going around. If that's not transparent, folks, I don't know what is. And I and I know a lot of people are concerned about the tariffs. There's, I'm sure, some still some some things that still need to be worked out with the tariffs, but you're starting to see the the, the the you're starting to see the reward for the tariffs though. And we're gonna get to some clips about that in a little bit. And despite everybody complaining about, you know, how, you know, tariffs are 140%, so the average tariff is 28%.
Canada still tariffs The United States on poultry and dairy and and some other products at 300%. Let's see. He signed, a record setting 142 executive orders, including 37 executive orders in his first week. He also rescinded 78 of Biden's executive orders within hours of his inauguration, including all of those ridiculous COVID nineteen, restrictions. And then also, you know, I don't know if you've noticed, but there's actually a White House website page, giving you the truth about COVID-nineteen and where it came from and its origins. He's turning the world away from Russia, from China, rather.
He has Iran in a in a in in in a very uncomfortable situation right now. Let's see what else. He convinced the world's wealthiest men man, to not only come to DC and work for him, but to do a tremendously high, to do so at a tremendously high personal cost. And we know who that's talking about. He's talking about Elon Musk. And, of course, you know, as with the work that Elon Musk is doing with Doge, you have the, the liberal Democrats, the liberal socialist, national socialists, virtue signaling by selling their Teslas. I mean, these are the folks that that, you know, were the biggest fans of Tesla, you know, because of, you know, save the environment. Save the environment. Save the environment. Global warming. Global warming. Climate change. Climate change. Gotta go electric. Everybody has to get an electric car. Remember that one?
The Biden administration tried to mandate everyone to have an electric car by 02/1930. But now you have these lunatics, these liberal socialists out there vandalizing, torching, car dealers, Tesla dealerships, protesting Tesla, protesting Elon Musk, selling them. You know, the how many of them have sold their Teslas and went out and bought SUVs? You know, gas guzzling SUVs. Shame on you. It's the environment. And when you think about it, it really kinda shows you just how serious they take their environmentalism, doesn't it? It's all about money. It's all it is. It's all about your taxes. It's all about you getting to pay for stuff that you don't that you would never pay for on your own.
You save TikTok for whatever that's worth. Hate TikTok. I I do. I have my unfortunately, I have a TikTok for the show, but I don't know when the last time I even looked at it. Let's see. Elevated alternative media organizations. That's big. That's big. Elevating those media, the alternative media. And, you know what I'm talking about, and how he did that, was he, he set up a seat in the White House Briefing Room and they rotate the alternative media folks into the press briefings, on a daily basis, which is amazing because, you know, it was always, always preoccupied or or or, not preoccupied but, it was always loaded up with the old legacy mainstream media people and, you know, it was the same people over and over and over again. But, this brings a fresh perspective to it and it brings people that are closer, I think, to the American people than the mainstream media folks, than the legacy media folks, you know, the podcasters.
Not quite there yet. I'm not not ready for that. Not by a long shot, I'm sure some of you are saying, but I digress. What about, rescuing the astronauts that Joe Biden left stranded up in space supposedly for, what, almost a year? That, actually, Elon Musk offered the Biden administration to go up and get them and the Biden administration said no because he didn't wanna make Elon Musk and Donald Trump look good. So for political reasons, he left these folks stranded up in space, supposedly. And one of these days, I'll do a show on why I say supposedly. What about the Gulf Of America?
That's interesting. Now, as somebody who's affiliated with Texas, the Texas Nationalist Movement, that wants to see a free and independent Texas separate from The United States, I would like to see it called the Gulf Of Texas, which, I think, at some point, once Texas takes its place among the nations of the world, we'll see that and I'm excited for that. But, I do like the fact that we changed it to the Gulf Of America. It's a start. It's a start. What about the pardoning of the January 6 protesters? What about the fired prosecutors of the January 6 protesters?
What about getting rid of all the DEI nonsense? The paper straws. Stopping biological men from competing against women in sports. Actually protecting women. Something that the Left has always championed. That they were the defenders of women. They were the defenders of the rights of women. That the Right is trying to strip women of their rights. But it took a Republican president to defend women from biological men pretending to be women because they weren't good enough to succeed as a man in men's sports. So a mediocre male athlete goes into women's sports and dominates, of course.
What about ending all that stupid pronoun shit? He, they, theythem, all that bullshit. Someone aptly pointed out, You know, in the Bible, demons refer to themselves in those pronouns. He fired the entire Board of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, working with the Saudis to normalize relations with Israel, advance the Abraham Accords. And, you know, Trump was actually nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Let's see what else. The nationalization of America's supply chain. And it's cut of course, that's tied to tariffs. And what about the fact that since, in his first hundred days, he brought in almost over $5,000,000,000,000 in new investments?
$5,000,000,000,000 in a hundred days in new investments. A rare earth deal with Ukraine, which is great because, you know, China is gonna suspend or has already suspended exports. The, the picking up of the two post election seats in Florida, the congressional seats, kind of expanding the, expanding a little bit, giving us a little bit more room in the House. You know, putting pressure on colleges and universities, to do something about antisemitism, which I get it, I understand it, I just don't think that I think it's a free speech issue. I don't like it.
I think antisemitism is wrong and I think that the violent rhetoric that gets spoken is reprehensible. But unfortunately, I, you know, I we well, I'm not gonna say unfortunately. Fortunately, we have the First Amendment and that type of speech is protected. I'm sorry. You may not agree with me, but it is. He's been holding media, outlets accountable for their false reporting. He's holding, law firms accountable. He got rid of, the stifling, the economy stifling environmental regulations. Remember, drill man, drill baby, drill. He's pushing for the death penalty for Luigi Mangione And that's important.
And I say it's important because it is ridiculous how many Democrats are okay with assassinations now. I mean, you hear them all the time talking about, you know, wanting to kill Elon Musk and they wanted, you know, wanting wanting to kill, Donald Trump and or or or hurt them in some way. Or how the support they that that this guy, Mangione has for for for killing the CEO of a health care of a health insurance company, ending birthright citizenship. Big. Huge. Making the tax the the the Trump tax cuts from 2017 permanent. Expanding school choice.
He got NATO to finally spend more money on defense. He forced federal employees to either get back to work or get out. Under Joe Biden, fewer than 10% of America's Two and a half million federal workforce worked full time in the office. Trump ordered 2,400,000 workers to actually return to the office and to do actual work. He pulled us out of the, the the the very, very pro China Paris, climate treaty, the Americanization of AI, a blockbuster, huge investment program. Nvidia announced it'll be building AI servers worth $500,000,000,000 in The United States.
He's got Sam Altman of, Chat GPT is a Trump fan now. He got Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook. He got Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos. Let's see, I'm looking down the list here. There's some funny stuff in here too, so I'm just This is a funny one actually. He helped, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer take her best photo ever. Remember that one? She was in the she was in the Oval she was in the Oval Office in the White House to meet with the President, which is something that a Governor is supposed to do representing your State. There was nothing wrong with that. And supposedly, she didn't realize that there was gonna be the press there. And when she came out, she hid she took a folder or something and put it up in front of her face, kinda like that, so that they couldn't take pictures of her in the White House. Are you a fucking idiot?
Or the fact that it that that that he turned Bernie Sanders and AOC into the last best hope of the Democratic Party. He target he he triggered a civil war in the Democratic, National Committee. You have the, you have the Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, now David Hogg, Hoag, whatever, announcing he's gonna be spending $20,000,000 to target Democrat incumbents and primary them. He's still fighting the Democrat appointed judges? James Boasberg, that guy? Hey. He got Rosie O'Donnell gone. Right? He got her to move to it move to Ireland. Ellen DeGeneres ran to, to England, so that's good.
And he kept Kamala Harris and Tim Walz out of the White House. That was one list Or some of them some of some of the things from one list. There was, like, a hundred of them. Here's another list from, Just the News. This is, it's a little bit more of a serious one. Let's see. Immigration. Trump declared national emergency at the southern border, reinstated his Remain in Mexico policy, ordered the end of catch and release, overhauled vetting of entrance to The US, cracked down on drug trafficking, and moved to end birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens. He was similarly aggressive in dismantling the Federal bureaucracy, implementing a Federal hiring freeze, creating Department of Government efficiency, reducing Federal worker protectants to allow for substantial staff reductions, and moving to eliminate entire agencies.
He also pursued the elimination of the Department of Ed, moved to reform the higher education accreditation system, froze Federal funding for institutions that he deems had failed to address discrimination on campus, particularly the rabid antisemitism at Harvard and Columbia University. The Pentagon has perhaps witnessed one of the most dramatic transformations with Trump directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to root out wokeness in the form of diversity, equity, inclusion, critical race theory and other divisive ideologies from the service. He also moved to ban transgender service members from the military, reinstated personnel who had who had to leave the armed forces over the COVID nineteen vaccine mandate, and fired a host of senior officers, many of whom were DEI proponents.
During Trump's first one hundred days, border encounters along the Southwest land border fell by as much as 94% from the same time of the prior year. The administration has made at least a 13,000 arrests conducted, at least a hundred thousand deportations. We don't have the information yet for April, but that'll be coming out shortly. Homeland Secretary, Kristi Noem, put the figure at more than 150, alien arrests, which would theoretically put the Administration on pace for 2,200,000 arrests in four years. Trump also secured foreign investment pledges from partner nations totaling roughly $3,000,000,000,000.
That figure includes 1,400,000,000,000.0 from, The United Arab Emirates, a 600,000,000,000 pledge from Saudi Arabia, a 1,000,000,000,000 pledge from Japan, corporate entities like Nvidia, five hundred billion, Apple, five hundred billion, IBM, a hundred fifty billion, Taiwan Semiconductor, a hundred billion. The White House's running tally of investment pledges currently totals more than 2,000,000,000,000 from corporate entities alone. One of the biggest efforts involved drastically reducing the size of the federal government and has seen the administration eliminate tens of thousands of positions. The administration confirmed that 75,000 employees had accepted a voluntary buyout after the first round, the second of which is ongoing. A report from, Challenger, from Challenger, Gray and Christmas Inc. Put the figure at 216,670 jobs cut from Doge related efforts.
And, of course, Democrats have vowed to resist and obstruct Trump's policy changes, mostly through the use of lawfare. AP reports 49 executive orders have been partially or fully blocked by the courts. 39 of the executive orders have been upheld by judiciary. And 72 cases against this policy are still pending. Trump made let me see, Trump made efforts to pursue a ceasefire in the Russia Ukraine war and advanced nuclear negotiation with Iran. Trump has managed to secure negotiations directly with the Russians and separately with Ukrainians to attempt to bring warring nations to the table. As a side benefit to talks. Trump envoy Steve Witkoff secured the release of American history teacher Mark Fogel from Russian authorities, convicted of a marijuana possession, and had been in prison for years.
The tariffs. Trump's Liberation Day, announcement, of reciprocal tariffs in early April. The declaration impacted nearly every country on Earth. Trump made good on his campaign promise with those actions, though he prompted considerable recoil from key American trade partners and some of his own backers in the financial sector. Tariffs ignited a week of wild volatility in stock market. Standard and Poor's five hundred index stock market ended attracting stock performance of 500 leading companies. Listened on stock exchange, The United States fell more than 10% in just three days. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen, and we're gonna hear from him shortly, suggested that tariffs have set the stage for favorable agreements in recent speech in a recent speech saying, there's opportunity for a big deal here that The U. S. Is looking to rebalance to more manufacturing.
The identity of that would be less consumption. So, that's another list. A little bit more of a serious list than the one I we had gone over previously. The Federalist had another piece. Tom Homan had this to say about President Trump. President Trump's leadership continues to break records. Border Patrol encounter to the North at the for the month of March was 7,181 total. I started as a Border Patrol agent in '84, which was forty one years ago. I cannot recall a single month since then that the numbers have been that low. It's a far cry from the more than 11,000 a day that we saw for a time period under under Biden. Men and women of the border patrol have proven what they can accomplish when they're allowed to do their job and com and complete the mission of their agency.
Thanks to President Trump and his game changing policies, those days are over. Thank you to the patriots of the Border Patrol who are making this country safe again. In his first one hundred days in office, Biden took 94 executive actions on immigration according to the leftist Migration Policy Institute. The actions included ending Trump's Remain in Mexico policy, reinstating catch and release, and of course, Trump, when he, was inaugurated, reversed all of those executive orders. And, you see, I'm gonna just kind of jump off the train here for a second and I'm just gonna make one comment about that. See, this is the problem though with executive orders because and we have talked about this before and you know it's going to be an ongoing thing. The problem with the executive order situation is very simply this. One administration comes in, undoes what the previous administration did by executive order and it just keeps following down the line. There's no stability. It makes things kind of difficult to to get some balance. And, and we need to get these policies and these executive orders codified into law, so it's harder to overturn.
So, I'm I'm hoping that that's gonna happen somewhere down the line because a lot of these executive orders are great. They're doing great work for the country. But should should the left retake the White House in, in in three and a half years or less or more rather, all this stuff is gonna be undone, and we're gonna be right back where we were under under Biden, maybe worse. So hopefully, we'll get these things codified. So the Heritage Foundation put out a a account of 100 wins. Not gonna go through them all, but, again, signed the Lake and Riley Act, deported more at large illegal aliens, those arrested in the Interior US, in February 2025 than Biden did in all of fiscal year '24, reimplemented the Rohingya Mexico program, moved to end birthright citizenship, opened Guantanamo Bay for illegal alien detention, turned the CBP one app into the CBP Home app to facilitate self deportations, issued executive order preserving federal benefits for American citizens only, revoked visas of foreign students at American universities, who support Hamas and exhibit antisemitic behavior.
And it it just goes on. Just just this past Monday, Trump signed, another three executive orders related to immigration, one on a federal one on federal authority over immigration enforcement requiring state and federal officials to publish lists of sanctuary cities where officials, refuse to cooperate in the enforcement of federal immigration laws, an order requiring truck drivers to be proficient in English. The White House press release notes that some state and local officials continue to violate, obstruct, and defy enforcement of federal immigration laws. A lot of the actions though, on securing the border and staunching the flood of illegal immigrants have been challenged by liberal activists and blocked by federal judges issuing broad injunctions. And again, another issue, another issue where a district court judge can issue an injunction that affects the entire country.
And, of course, the administration is taking steps to combat that. And, I know Mike Johnson had said, prior to Congress going on vacation again, that, they would be moving to defund, which is within the authority of the Congress, these districts where these judges are taking these activist positions. So the list can go on and on and on. The first one hundred days of this administration has been just one hit after another hit after another hit, and I and the the left and the media just don't know how to respond to it. Because once they once it seems like they got some footing on one ground, the the narrative changes again and they're off balance and that's a it's a it's a great strategy.
It's a great strategy. Let's see. So White House secretary, Carolyn Levitt and Treasury secretary Scott Bessen gave a briefing today, Tuesday, about the economic achievements of the administration's first one hundred days. So let's, let's let's take a listen to Carolyn Levitt.
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And President Trump's efforts are working. 345,000 jobs have already been added since the start of President Trump's term. Last month's jobs report saw nearly 100,000 more jobs than economists predicted. And it was the fourth highest month for private payroll growth in the past two years. Nine thousand manufacturing jobs have been added to the economy already. This is a sharp contrast to the 6,000 manufacturing jobs that were lost each month in the final two years of the Biden administration. The US employment rate remains at historic lows. And thanks to President Trump, Americans are seeing price relief for the first time in years. The last inflation report showed the first consumer price decline since the COVID pandemic, a decrease in energy prices, and real average hourly wage growth. President Trump is delivering on his promises to lower costs for American families and businesses.
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So she also went on to explain that, that the last inflation report showed that the first consumer price decline since the COVID pandemic, there there was a decrease in energy prices and, real average hourly wage growth. So what does that mean? Well, that means that it's a big change from from Joe Biden who drove it up to 9% during his time in the Oval Office. Now under the Trump administration, it was at 2.4%, which is better expect better than expected after years of more than expected of Joe Biden. She also went on to talk about, investments that the that the administration had secured over the first one hundred days.
And, and like we said earlier, more than what Joe Biden did in four years. Here's Carolyn Levitt.
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President Trump has secured more investments in The United States Of America in one hundred days than Joe Biden did in four years. President Trump is America's Businessman In Chief, and that's why these trillions of dollars in investments are flooding to our country.
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So she's talking about $5,200,000,000,000 in domestic and foreign investments since January 20. And it's only the first hundred days. This is only the first can you imagine what what the next three plus years are gonna be? And then, Scott Bessent came out, and he laid out another plan that, that's gonna probably bring in even more investment and more jobs. If companies move their manufacturing back to The US,
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Well, how about we let him say it? What we are going to do, one of the most powerful parts of president Trump's two thousand seventeen tax bill was full expensing of equipment. We are going to make that as president Trump said in his speech to Congress, that will be retroactive to January 20. The other thing that we are looking to add is full expensing for factories. So bring your factory back. You can fully expense the equipment and the building. We will couple that with deregulation, cheap energy, and regulatory certainty, and that will continue to make The US the greatest destination for domestic and foreign investment.
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So that means all that money comes back to you. So that means all that money comes back to you. That's a that's a huge incentive for a business, for a manufacturing business to come to The United States. That's huge. And then, Besson also went on to talk about the the tariffs, and he explained that the, that, the way they see that the combination of revenue and and deals to reduce tariffs, which are gonna help reduce income tax on Americans, Social Security, remember? President Trump campaigned on no income tax on tips, no income tax on Social Security, no income tax on overtime. He also talked about, restoring the auto loan interest deductible for, American made vehicles.
And and all of the tariff revenue can be used for those things immediately, for that relief immediately. Let's take a listen.
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China Chinese tariffs are unsustainable for China. I saw I've seen some very large numbers over the past few days that show if these numbers stay on, Chinese could lose 10,000,000 jobs very quickly. And even if there is a drop in the tariffs that they could lose 5,000,000 jobs. So remember that we are the deficit country. They sell almost five times more goods to us than we sell to them. So the onus will be on them to be a take off these tariffs. They're unsustainable
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for them. And they are saying you guys are not talking about it. So is that true?
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They have a different form of government. They're playing to a different audience. So, I'm not gonna get into, the the nitty gritty again of who's talking to whom. But as I said, I believe for the Chinese,
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these tariffs are unsustainable. And very quickly, two days ago, you said you didn't know if president Trump had spoken to Xi Jing
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And then we also have
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this. Here. Just a little insight baseball. In India, in a funny way, is easier to negotiate with than many other countries because they have very high tariffs and lots of tariffs. So it's much easier to confront the direct tariffs when, as we go through these unfair trade deals that have been put in over decades that the non tariff trade barriers can be much more insidious and also harder to detect. So a country like India, which has the, you know, posted and ready tariffs, it's much easier to negotiate with them. So, you know, I think the Indian negotiations are moving well.
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And then I had this one clip that I wanted to show you, but I don't seem to have it in my in my clip list. So I'm gonna I'm gonna screen share it with you from the article that I'm looking at right here. Alright. And that's this one right here. Treasury secretary Scott Bessent, talking about, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime. Tariff income would be used for tax relief on all.
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On tariffs, the president said over the weekend that we are hoping that maybe tariff revenues could replace income tax. But we also keep hearing about the deals that the administration is pursuing. So my question is, what is the White House's ultimate objection objective here? Do you want to have long term tariff revenue or deals that might reduce those tariffs? Now, I just wanna say that,
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that seat right there, that's what we were talking about earlier. That's the alternative media asking this question. Nobody else asked that question, but the alternative media people did.
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I think it's a combination of both. So we're gonna take in long term tariff revenue. We put a process in place. We have 18 important trading relations. Yesterday. Yesterday. We will be speaking to all of those partners, or at least 17 of them. They over the next few weeks, many of them have already come to Washington. What president Trump is referring to is the ability for tariff revenue to give income tax relief, and I think there's a very good chance that we will see this in the upcoming tax bill. The president campaigned on no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime, and the restoring interest deductibility for autos, for American made autos. So, tariff income could be used for tax relief on all those immediately.
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So which is amazing news. It's great news. The administration is going in the right direction. The economic policies are going in the right direction. And look, there's gonna be some bumps in the road. There's gonna be some some, you know, they say the pain of the pump kind of stuff. You know, the markets are gonna fluctuate. It's gonna happen. But we need to stay focused on this. We need to stick with it. The benefits are gonna far outweigh the struggle that we might pick up here and there. You know, just a couple of days ago, the president, mentioned, with the with the amount of money coming in from the tariffs, he's gonna move to eliminate income tax, the federal income tax on folks earning $200,000 a year or less, which is the majority of Americans.
Personally speaking, they should eliminate the income tax altogether. And, I went on that rant, yesterday. But, the tariffs are gonna work. We just have to let them work and get out of the way of it. Now, of course, you know, the you're you're getting all of the negative information from the, from the media, the mainstream media. You're hearing all of these negative numbers. You're hearing all of these polls are coming in. They're saying that that the American people are disappointed, that the American people are turning on Trump, that the American people are, are unhappy with the the administration and how it's it's it's it's, it's dealing with with the economy.
And they're and the left is doing everything they can to take down this administration and slow him down. They're using the the drug they they're they're using the activist judges. They're using all of these things. But the one thing that they come to all the time is the polls. Look at the polls. You have to look at the polls. Now the problem is pollsters rarely, if ever, speak favorably of Donald Trump. And you know that. That's not that's not any great revelation. Donald Trump even took to, Truth Social and, commented on this. We don't have a free and fair press in this country anymore. We have a press that writes bad stories and cheats big on polls, and cheats big on polls.
It's compromised, corrupt, and sad. Now, we all know, if you remember back over the campaign, they had pollsters had Kamala Harris, up in double digits in Iowa. Do you remember that? That they had, they had her leading by, by two points or 2% in in a number of states, in battleground states, in in in, you know, all all the states that president Trump won. So pollsters historically have not been favorable to Donald Trump. Alright. Trump's approval rating. Now here. In anticipation of Trump's first one hundred days in office, the propaganda press whipped up stories about his approval ratings using using shaky polling as the foundation of their reporting. Each used different parameters. But when a poll is purchased or administered by a biased news outlet, the results are skewed.
Trump's approval rating has fallen to 39% according to a joint ABC News Washington Post poll by the left leaning pollster Ipsos. Ipsos is not known to be a reliable polling, organization at all. The previous quote, the previous low approval for a president at or near a % at at at a hundred days in office in polls dating to 1945 was Trump's forty two percent in 2017. It's hard to trust ABC's news coverage, after his biased moderation against Trump in the twenty twenty four presidential abates or after the 15,000,000 defamation settlement ABC agreed to pay Trump.
CNN's poll by SSRS Research, an online and telephone poll of just 1,678 people, reported Trump's approval raising rating had fallen to 41%. SSRI let me show it to you. SSRS is also is so accurate that it cons that it consistently found losing presidential candidate Kamala Harris had a slight edge in the 2024 race that Trump had resoundingly won. The New York Times, Siena College poll of just 913 people, including a 90 who did not complete the entire survey, was conducted on the phone and had reached a mix of English and Spanish speakers, it found Trump's approval rating had fallen to 42%. NBC wrote its own poll and put out put it out on SurveyMonkey for nine days. It got almost 20,000 respondents who gave Trump a 45% approval rating. Not bad for a poll of NBC consumers who are unlikely Trump supporters.
Donald Trump then went to, of course, to Truth Social and he posted, a great pollster, John McLaughlin, one of the most highly respected in the industry, has just stated that the failing New York Times poll that the failing New York I can't see it on my screen so I gotta look up it this way. At the where was I? At the the failing New York Times poll and the ABC Washington Post poll about a person named Donald J. Trump, me, are fake polls from fake news organizations. The New York Times has only 37% Trump, twenty twenty four voters, and the ABC Washington Post poll has only 34% Trump voters, unheard of numbers unless looking for a negative result, which they are.
And exactly right. Exactly right. The coordinated polls trotted out this week came to the same conclusion. Trump's approval rating is tanking. His base is losing faith in them, and Trump is freaking out about it. So they seem to be telegraphing. You may as well give up on them. But the polls are garbage. And even if they warrant, they don't matter because they don't sway Trump off course. But remember, because the polls will be treated as truth and used as a basis for future propaganda in an attempt to shape policy, It's already happening with headlines that claim Americans are losing faith, or that his favor with Hispanics is collapsing, or that Americans are going sour on Trump's economy.
But the greater question is this, and and I love the way the article ends. Ask yourself which is more plausible, that the lying media has suddenly presented a highly accurate and not at all slanted polling data, or that the majority of people who support Trump's policies are not being polled? And, if that's true, why not? That's a great question. That's a great point. It's a fantastic point. How do you trust this media? You can't. You can't. Look. Just as an example, we talked about yesterday, the the the the controversy. The evil Donald Trump wore a blue suit to Pope Francis's funeral.
Even though the Vatican issued a request for everyone to wear a black suit, The New York Times selectively cropped a picture of Donald Trump wearing a blue suit surrounded by people in black, but the larger picture, the one that they actually cropped it from, shows many people wearing blue suits, including Joe Biden, Prince Andrew, and others. Many others. So now, if the media is gonna lie to you about that, something that trivial and that small, do you really think they're gonna tell you the truth with these polls? Of course not.
Absolutely not. And then, of course, today we had this this whole row with, with Amazon. I'm sure you heard about it, that, that Amazon was, going to, start to post the, tariff price of items now on their website. And, well, let's go here. Let's see. So Amazon had announced to, to that they had plans to display the added cost of tariffs, in prices for goods in their online shop. Alright. Amazon. Well, the White House apparently got wind of this and jumped into action on this one. And let me see where is that. So there was a press conference held this morning, and, Carolyn Levitt addressed this issue with Amazon. Let me just make sure I got the right one here.
Yep. Here we go.
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I will, take this since I just got off the phone with the president about Amazon's announcement. This is a hostile and political act by Amazon. Why didn't Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation to the highest level in forty years? And I would also add that, it's not a surprise because as Reuters recently wrote, Amazon Amazon has partnered with a Chinese propaganda arm. So this is another reason why Americans should buy American. It's another reason why we are onshoring critical supply chains here at home to, shore up our own critical supply chain, and boost our own manufacturing here. Is is Jeff Bezos still a Trump supporter?
Look. I will not speak to the president's, relationships with, Jeff Bezos, but I will tell you, that this is certainly a hostile and political action by Amazon. And, secretary, if you have anything to add? Yeah. I would also add that the bring bringing down the the terrible Biden inflation has been a priority for
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the first hundred days of the Trump administration, and president Trump has done a great job of leading that, since January 20, interest rates.
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So, of course, folks jumped all over this on on, on on x. Richard Grenell posted this. How about displaying upfront where the product is made? Amazon is almost all made in China. And then you had, you had this, from, a man named Rob Schmidt, saying this will backfire. Amazon buys Chinese trash for 70¢, pays 50¢ tariff, sells to you for $18 plus the 50¢. Customer realizes they're buying Chinese trash. So this you know what the solution to the problem is? The solution to the problem is that if they did if they did do this, which they have since backtracked, okay, Amazon has, issued a statement that said that, the team that runs our ultra low cost Amazon Haul store has considered listing import charges on certain products. This was never a consideration for the main Amazon site and has nothing and nothing has been implemented on any Amazon properties. So, they immediately, immediately backtracked.
But a very good point was made. The point was, and the point is, folks, if you are on Amazon or any website that shows you the the the the cost with the tariffs, Or if you're looking at any items that are not manufactured in The United States, there obviously gonna be more money because of the tariffs. Just buy American. Save the money. It's that simple. Buy American. So, of course, this whole thing is gonna is, you know, backfired. And, after Donald Trump spoke with, Jeff Bezos, this retraction came out immediately. Amazon denies report that Amazon denies report that tariff costs will be shown next to products.
The price of products Amazon Inc. Displays online store may soon include list of price. Punchbowl news reported on Tuesday that that would be today. According to a source familiar with the matter that the ecommerce giant will start showing figure added to the value, because of the duties right alongside product's total price. And these are the clips we already looked at. So, of course, after that happened, shares of the online retail giant found a bit to drop more than 2%. So, not going to happen. And even if it did, buy American.
By American, again. Thanks, Amazon. Tower of transparency might backfire bigly. The White House on Tuesday called it a hostile political act by Amazon, but it just might wind up being the biggest cell phone since Bud Light decided to go all in on Dylan Mulvaney. We already saw that. So it's a big own. It it truly is. This is the article I was looking for. If Amazon lists tariff prices, don't buy the foreign products. Tech and shipping giant Amazon is reportedly considering displaying tariff prices next to the items to hit back at Donald Trump's tariffs in other countries, which, by the way, already tariff our goods. So there you go.
Buy American. Like I said, buy American. Alright, I think, I don't think we're gonna finish everything I have here for us tonight. I got a lot more to go, and it's already one it's already an hour fifteen. So, just want to touch this really quick and then one more thing and then we'll save the rest for another night. But, yesterday I reported to you well, I reported to you like I'm a reporter. Yesterday, I mentioned to you a story about the blackout in Spain and Portugal. Didn't really have too much information on it for myself at the time, so I kind of just kind of glossed over it. But, so apparently, this blackout occurred six days after Spain celebrated 100% renewable power and, they blamed this blackout on a rare atmospheric phenomenon.
But, you see, this whole thing doesn't only affect Spain. It had ripple effects all across the continent. Alright? So, six days ago, the media was absolutely celebrating in Spain, a significant milestone. That Spain's national grid operated entirely on renewable energy for the first time during a weekday. At 12:35PM local time, lights went out across Spain and Portugal and parts of France. Let me, let me share this with you. So, massive blackout in Europe. Residents in Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium report major outages. Airport, subway shutdown, communication networks hit. Madrid's, Barajas Airport is out of service, El Mundo reports, no official call is confirmed yet, chaos unfolds.
Now, Michael Shellenberger said that, this wasn't just a Spanish blackout. It shook the entire European grid. None of this should have been a surprise. The underlying physics had been understood for years. The specific vulnerabilities have been spelled out repeatedly in technical warnings that policymakers ignored, As countries replaced heavy spinning plants with lightweight inverter based generation, the grid became faster, lighter, more sensitive to disruptions. That basic physical reality was spelled out in public warnings as far back as 2017. Public leaders promised that renewable energy would provide stable, affordable power in practice.
Spain grew more reliant on the remaining nuclear and natural gas plants to sustain inertia even as the government pushed them to closed. Despite all these warnings, political and regulatory energy in Europe remained focused on accelerating renewable deployment, not upgrading the grid's basic stability. In Spain, solar generation continued to climb rapidly through 2023, early '20 '4. Coal plants closed. Nuclear units retired. On many spring days by 2025, Spain's midday solar generation exceeded its total afternoon demand, leading to frequent negative electricity prices.
The system was being pushed to the limit. And then today, at 12:35, it broke. Spain's blackout wasn't just a technical failure, it was a political and strategic failure. Unless Spain rapidly invests in synthetic inertia, maintains and expands its nuclear fleet, or adds some other new form of heavy rotating generation, the risk of future blackouts will only grow worse. Alright, and Michael Shellenberger's piece is amazing. So, if you want to read this, you really you could spend a lot of time, reading all this. So this, I found also very very interesting too.
A frequency drop of 0.15 hertz was enough to take down Spain and Portugal. So, before the outage hit, Spain was running its grid with very little dispatchable spinning generation and, therefore, no not much inertia. And, it gives you the numbers. Okay? So so, right now, it's a race against the sunset to restore power in Spain. In about four hours, Spain will lose more than a third of its current electricity generation. Sunset is around 9PM Madrid time. Spanish National Grid is trying to reactivate or black start as much spinning generation before that. So, so, basically, what they're saying is that unless they can get their generators up and running, their power generators up and running, they're gonna be in the dark. And they're also saying this is gonna take more than a week to correct.
This is the problem dealing with strictly renewable energies. The demand is too high. It can't support it. And this is what the left would love to bring to The United States. That's why I'm so thankful that that Texas has its own power grid, is not part of the national grid, and we can stand on our own. Another tweet, another message. I'm in Spain, and trust me. The issue is in the darkness. No payments possible without cash, so no food, no transportation, very limited Internet, and no clue whether it'll actually be resolved. Blackout highlights just how fragile the new digital and green society has become.
And this is a great piece. You can find this at Zero Hedge, by the way. Zero Hedge has great reporting on this. Alright, should I do this one? Oh, yeah. I'll do this one. So, yesterday, this, relatively unknown Congress member, Representative Sri Thanadar from Michigan, announced that, he is filing a motion for impeachment of Donald Trump. So, again, like I've said, we cannot sit back and rest on our heels because if we lose the house or the senate at the midterms, this is what you're gonna be dealing with for the next two years. Impeachments after impeachments after impeachments. And even though the Democratic Party has beaten the impeachment thing to death, they're still gonna use it. They have totally destroyed what impeachment really is all about and the severity of impeachment.
They really have. They've damaged it beyond repair, I think. But, so this is representative, Sri Thanedar. Alright? Just this is not a joke.
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This is congressman Srinathar. Donald Trump has already done real damage to our democracy, But defying a unanimous nine o Supreme Court ruling, that has to be the final straw. It's Okay. I can't.
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Alright. I I can't. This guy's a clown. He's a joke. He's looking for his ten minutes, fifteen minutes of fame. I mean, honestly, when I look at him first of all, the hair. Alright? The hair the hair's an issue for me. And then if you look at this guy see if I can get a get a good picture here. Here. Okay. There. The hair and all that stuff, can can I can I show you something else that goes with that? This is hysterical. Where is he? There he is. It isn't that Kenan Thompson from Saturday Night Live? See that? That's hysterical. I mean, that's absolutely hysterical.
So, I don't know. I just wanted to laugh a little bit before we, wrap this thing up here. But, let me just touch on this really, really quickly. This is out of the Texas State House. Alright? Like I said, I've been trying to cover some Texas stuff, some local stuff. We have a big problem here in Texas. Alright? And and as great as Texas is, as much as I love being here in Texas, Texas has some issues. Alright? And one of the issues is is that the Republican party, even though they control the State House, the the current, speaker of the Texas House, Burrows, has basically ceded a lot of control of the of the proceedings of the House to the Democrats, the minority party.
And, there are many, many frustrations with with, speaker Burrows, Dustin Burrows, and how he handles the, the the Texas House business. Well, Burrows or let me back it up this way. State representative Andy Hopper took to the floor, sought recognition to make a motion requiring the House, Committee on State Affairs to report out House Bill thirteen oh eight. Basically, it's a bill that would mandate employers to use E Verify to prevent, the hiring of illegal aliens. And, it is a legislative priority for the Republican Party of Texas. Alright. It was scheduled for a hearing this week, but it was withdrawn from the schedule before beforehand.
So, Burrows so Hopper took to the floor. Burrows refused to recognize Hopper for the motion. Hopper then went through a series of parliamentary inquiries trying to, you know, trying to tie the bills importance to the Republican party platform and asking whether or not the bill is meeting the same standard or would be heard. But then, Dustin Burrows repeatedly ruled that each inquiry was not, quote, proper parliamentary inquiry, basically shutting down conversation, shutting down this the discussion on this. And I wanna show you, this this quick clip here from the Texas State House.
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Drop it for what purpose? Mister speaker,
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would you recognize me for a motion to require the Committee on State Affairs to report House Bill 13 o eight? No. Mister speaker, parliamentary inquiry? State's your inquiry. The Republican Party of Texas platform plank two thirty two says that Texas shall require all employers to screen new hires through the free E Verify system to present the hire prevent the hiring of illegal aliens and of anyone not legally authorized to work in The United States and to protect the jobs for American Mister Hopper, that's not a parliamentary inquiry. Is the chair Mister Hopper, for what purpose? Mister speaker, is the chair aware of any whether any bills that meet this standard have been heard or will be heard by Mister Hopper, for what purpose?
Parliamentary inquiry. Greater inquiry. Is the chair aware of whether any bills that meet this standard have been heard or will be heard by a committee in this chamber? That is not a proper parliamentary inquiry, mister Hopper. Mister speaker, parliamentary inquiry. State your inquiry? The Republican party has identified h b thirteen eight as a legislative priority. H house bill 13 o eight was referred to the committee on state affairs on 03/10/2025.
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Mister Hopper, that is not a proper parliamentary inquiry. Mister speaker, parliamentary inquiry? State's your inquiry. Is the chair advised as to whether this committee intends to hear this bill at all? Mister Hopper, that is not a proper parliamentary inquiry. Mister speaker? Mister Hopper,
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State your inquiry? This bill is a legislative party for the Republican Party. If you won't recognize me at this time, is there a time you would recognize me? Inquiry. Is there a time mister speaker, parliamentary inquiry. State your inquiry. Is there a time that you would recognize me for this That is not a proper parliamentary inquiry. Thank you.
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Mister Money, for what purpose? Mister speaker,
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will you recognize me to make a motion to re refer one of the bills to ban taxpayer funded lobbying, to a different committee? No. Mister speaker, parliamentary inquiry. State your inquiry. Mister speaker, is the chair aware that senate bill 19 by senator Mays Middleton was referred to state affairs on March 25 over one month ago? Mister Wright, that's not a proper parliamentary inquiry. Mister speaker, my notes show that you are, Mister money for what purpose? Mister speaker, parliamentary inquiry. State your inquiry? My notes show that you were a joint author of the bills to ban taxpayer funded lobbying in both the eighty seventh and eighty eighth session.
Mister speaker, is there a way to get this bill from state affairs into a committee that might hear and refer that bill to the house? It's money that is not a proper parliamentary inquiry. Mister speaker, parliamentary inquiry. State your inquiry. Am I to take from from your, position here that you will not be taking any motions, to refer bills or do anything unusual, as far as
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moving and advancing Republican priorities. He sure he declines to answer hypothetical questions and that is not a proper parliamentary inquiry, mister Money. Thank you, mister speaker.
[01:27:49] Unknown:
So the Republican speaker of the house shuts down any questions, any inquiries by the Republicans that have the majority of the house, refuses to answer questions, refuses to recognize bills that are being brought forward. And we don't see we don't think that there's a problem with this. There's a month left in the legislative session in the Texas state house, and there's there's key planks of the Republican Party of Texas positions are not being addressed. And what I find even more upsetting, and this is a place where I am going to, like I said, disagree with this administration is that president Trump, for whatever reason, has decided to endorse speaker Dustin Burrows.
I don't know why, But I'm very disappointed in that. This is this the the current speaker of the Texas House is doing everything he can to make sure that the Republican Party of Texas's agenda is not being heard and voted on. Why is president Trump endorsing him? I mean, I understand it's it it could be over the, the school choice issue. Could it could be for that. I I I don't know. But it's very disappointing to see that. And I and I hope that I hope that the president refinks that position and and and reverses that. Alright, folks.
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[01:31:01] Unknown:
night.
