The Benny Show - Trump Speaking to ALL U.S. Military Generals LIVE Right Now | Going To War or Woke PURGE? Get Ready… with Guest Senator Rick Scott

Episode Date: September 30, 2025

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Middle East, potentially. Jimmy Kimmel's ratings crashing through the center of the earth and also YouTube settling a Trump lawsuit for $25 million. Goodness gracious. We have a fantastic show lined up. We have Representative Mark Harris, Chairman Rick Crawford, and Senator Rick Scott all on the show. But of course, we are going to bring you President Trump as soon as he takes the stage. My name is Benny Johnson, and this is The Benny Show. Make sure, ladies and gentlemen, that you are getting your house in order, much like President Trump is getting his house in order inside of the U.S. military, is the commander-in-chief after all. American financing is who helps our listeners and our viewers get their houses in order. And what I mean by that is ensure that you are debt-free.

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Again, it is a historic speech, and it's going to be happening live in moments. Again, you've just seen them affix the presidential seal to the podium. But that stage was on fire, was on fire. Can I get some flames in the chat? Can I get some flames in the chat? Because Pete Hegeseth was just letting her rip. Klein and my team, I mean, Hegeseth just left the stage. We didn't get like a readout for when the speeches would be this morning.

So again, we're live an hour early for Trump speech. Hexeth's speech started at 8 a.m. And so we just let it go. Look at all those beautiful flames. Let's go, baby. Here's the flames. We got flames for you. Klein, just let a rip with Heg Seth clips.

Seth, the point of Heggseth speech was to just rip the guts out of DEI in the military and wokeness in the military. The point of Hegseth speech was to just blame Mark Millie. He went after Mark Millie. He went after the fat generals, the slovenly generals. Our incredible production team here has a wonderful, wonderful highlight reel for you. Let's just rock and roll. Again, Heg Seth just left the speech.

So we're loading up the clips, let's rock. That are arriving at your commands as we speak and in your inbox. Today, at my direction, each service will ensure that every requirement for every combat MOS, for every designated combat arms position, returns to the highest male standard only. Because this job is life or death. Standards must be met. And not just met, at every level we should seek to exceed the standard. to push the envelope, to compete, its common sense, and core to who we are and what we do, it should be in our DNA.

Today at my direction, we are also adding a combat field test for combat arms units that must be executable in any environment at any time and with combat equipment. These tests that look familiar, they'll resemble the Army expert physical fitness assessment, or the Marine Corps, combat fitness test. I'm also directing that warfighters in combat jobs execute their service fitness test at a gender neutral age-normed male standard scored above 70%. It all starts with physical fitness and appearance.

Baby, we're rocking. I will, I will, and you've heard me before, go off on these fat generals. Could you have like a little bit of pride I'm not in the military, but I'm well aware that, like, to seize your American dream and have the energy to, like, raise a family, have kids, like, project, like, strength through life. You have to, like, take care of yourself. And if, but if you are in a war fighting role and you can't do a pushup and you're going to sit there, like, everyone's seen a photo of Mark Millie, right? We all, anybody seen a photo of Mark Millie?

Like, do you think that guy can do a push up? One of the last time you did a push up, much less they pull up. much less they like run down a flight of stairs no way dude the guy is pulling himself up only to the buffet at golden corral and so i'm sitting there saying you're in charge of hundreds of millions of men that are supposed to go fight wars and you look like the war that you're fighting is with a five dollar foot long a five for five menu at McDonald's And I'm telling you that that's like a bad look. And everybody knows like subject old dude.

Everybody knows like like that that's not a guarantee. You don't have to look like that. That you can like take care of yourself. I'm thinking about my grandfather who fought in World War II. I lived out of days in Mississippi, tending to a civil war cemetery actually. And it was like that dude built every house he ever lived in. that dude was fit as a fiddle through his 90s same thing with my wife's grandfather like he doesn't

have to doesn't have to go like this right and so why do all of our generals why are all of our generals looking like such slobs obviously represented by mark milly and so it's good for head like good for heggs okay let's continue we got a ton of great clips here from uh heggseth okay woke department is that where we're going woke department i'm going to follow a script here now klein as we're putting this together All right, woke department. Or actually, no fat generals. We have that clip. All right, great.

Klein, no fat generals. Since we're on the subject, let's rock and roll. Thank you, Hex, and appearance. If the Secretary of War can do regular hard PT, so can every member of our joint force. Yes. Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations

or really any formation and see fat troops. Whoa. Likewise, it's completely. It's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon. Whoa. And leading commands around the country and the world. It's a bad look. It is bad and it's not who we are.

So whether you're an airborne ranger or a chairborn ranger, a brand new private or a four star general, you need to meet the height and weight standards and pass a PT test. And as the chairman said, yes, there is no PT test. But today at my direction, every member of the joint force at every rank is required to take a PT test. required to take a PT test twice a year, as well as meet height and weight requirements twice a year, every year of service. Also today at my direction, every warrior across our joint force is required to do PT every duty day. Should be common sense. I mean, most units do that already.

Baby. It's amazing. I mean, listen, this is like exactly what we should be doing. Why on earth would anybody ever argue against this? And this is not middle management at J.P. Morgan. I mean, like, what are you? Like, this is not like enterprise rent a car. This is America's military. You know, the taxpayer, the taxpayers are lavishing you with a trillion dollar budget a year in order to go and be dangerous and scary and prepare for. that's going to be our next clip climb thank you this is like this is exactly why we are paying more than i think the next like five nations combined for our military so that we can have top lethality so that we can have peace not war so we can prepare for peace because we're able to wage war but unfortunately the way that it works in the federal government is that kind of lavishing of taxpayer funds often gets squandered, wasted, the people who are using them, get lazy, slovenly entitled. And that is what's happened to America's military generals.

Pete Hackseth says no more. He says, prepare for war. This may well be my favorite clip yet from the speech. Again, Pete Hagseth, if you're just joining us, Pete Hagseth just left the stage. We're going through the highlights of Pete Higseth's speech as we prepare for Donald Trump to speak to every American flag officer, general admiral, in the U.S. military, the first time it's happened since World War II. Pete Hegseth telling all of his generals, prepare for war. Let's go. Truth. To ensure peace, we must prepare for war. From this moment forward, the only mission of the newly restored Department of War is this. War fighting. Preparing for war and preparing to win.

and uncompromising in that pursuit. Not because we want war, no one here wants war. But it's because we love peace. We love peace for our fellow citizens. They deserve peace, and they rightfully expect us to deliver it. Our number one job, of course, is to be strong so that we can prevent war in the first place. The president talks about it all the time.

It's called peace. through strength. And as history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace are those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous. It ignores human nature, and it ignores human history. Either you protect your people and your sovereignty,

or you will be subservient to something or someone. It's a truth as old as time. And since waging war is so costly in blood and treasure, we owe our republic a military that will win any war we choose. My favorite line of the speech thus far. That's my favorite line. You will be a slave. You don't deserve peace if you can't wage war. Pacifism leads to slavery.

the pacifism leads to you being subservient to the stronger power genius perfect absolutely rings like a bell ladies and gentlemen a perfect note from pete hegessev prepare for war so that we can be at peace of course they're talking about communist china there and they're talking about remaking the American military. Speaking of the people who he's remaking it from, Pete Higgs-Seth went directly at Mark Millie, which is quite a move here, said, we need less Mark Millies and more general patents. And to say it in a room of Mark Millies like besties and friends,

I mean, this is really something. To say it in a room of people who work with Mark Millie and probably like either owe their careers to Mark Millie or, you know, how to kiss his ass at one point or another. And this is an amazing, amazing commentary. Let's go. Our job together is to ensure our military is led by the very best, ready to answer the nation's call. Fifth, as you have seen and the media has obsessed over, I have fired a number of senior officers. officers since taking over. The previous chairman, other members of the Joint Chiefs,

combatant commanders, and other commanders. The rationale for me has been straightforward. It's nearly impossible to change a culture with the same people who helped create or even benefited from that culture, even if that culture was created by a previous president and previous secretary. My approach has been simple. When in doubt, assess the situation, follow your gut and if it's the best for the military, make a change. We all serve at the pleasure of the president every single day. But in many ways, it's not their fault. It's not your fault. As foolish and reckless as the woke department was, those officers were following elected political leadership. An entire generation of generals and admirals were told

told that they must parrot the insane fallacy that, quote, our diversity is our strength. Of course, we know our unity is our strength. They had to put out dizzying DEI and LGBTIQI-plus statements. They were told females and males are the same thing. Or that males who think they're females totally normal. Ooh, cooking, bro. They were told that we need a green fleet and electric tanks. They were told to kick out Americans who refuse an emergency vaccine.

They followed civilian policies set by foolish and reckless political leaders. Oh, man. Our job, my job, has been to determine which leaders simply did what they must to answer the prerogatives of civilian leadership and which leaders are truly invested in the woke department and therefore incapable of embracing the war department and executing new lawful orders. That's it. It's that simple.

So for the past eight months, we've gotten a good look under the hood of our officer corps. We've done our best to thoroughly assess the human terrain. We've had to make trade-offs and some difficult decisions. It's more of an art than a science. We have been and will continue to be judicious, but also expeditious. The new compass heading is clear. Out with the Shirelli's, the McKenzie's, and the Millies, and in with the Stockdale's, the Schwartzcofts, and the Pattons.

Yes. I'm like, see, I'm saying they're like, please don't let the clip end. Please don't let that. I want to keep going. Actually, we have a fantastic three-minute scorched earth against the woke department versus the war department. We'll play you that. sort of like the penultimate cornerstone of the entire speech. What a beautiful takedown.

You got to understand what woke is. Woke is religion for people that don't believe in God. Woke is the ability for those people to try and conquer through the sword as they have proven. They are very, very violent and malevolent individuals or through institutional capture and then to project their pagan worldview on all of us. Alex Carp of all people like had a wild speech on this. Anyway, like there's a tone change

here. Woke is a religion. Woke is a religion for people that don't believe in God. They believe in themselves. They believe in humanism and transhumanism. And they are doing whatever religion tries to do, which is conquer.

conquest conversions and the way that they do it is they go through institutions and they rip through those institutions whether it's a bank or a sports team what's the NFL you know just hired some like cross-dressing Satanist to play at the Super Bowl to be the Super Bowl half the guy that doesn't even like that guy doesn't sing in English and he doesn't tour in America but they play in the Super Bowl that's woke that's like the that that's what woke is, right, total and complete institutional capture. And that's what they did in the military. And what Pete Hexon is doing there is bulldozing that diseased temple into the ground, desecrating their idols before them, listening to the weeping and lamentations of their women. What is a woman? They don't even know.

we all remember mark milly i want to understand white rage we all remember all the like pregnant fighter pilot suits right we remember all these the insanity the insufferable nature of wokeness in the military and if you know somebody who's in the military you'll understand how out of control it really got how it did in fact become the religion of the military because that's just the way that these institutions are it's heavy top down and people follow orders and so when those orders come from these pagans and these hedonists then you're able to just convert because everyone must do what you say and so that's what they did in the military they actually targeted the military specifically installed the wokeest weakest saddest

most wicked generals in American history and they used the military not for warfighting before societal and social experimentation with their pagan religion. Remember the recruitment ads from the Biden era? I marched for free, I marched for civil rights with my two moms. And that's why I'm in the army. What? What is this? that had to do with war fighting this has not i mean again it was a contagion a wokeness

contagion that traveled through the ranks of the military at light speed by design because they were able to perform institutional capture and try and convert this entire organization to their religion that's what they did and it was very dangerous and it weakened america and everybody watched what happened in afghanistan and everybody was watched what has seen what's happened over the last couple of years with our military recruitment numbers falling through the floor because young men who fight and die in all your wars don't want to sign up to serve under someone who attacks white rape white rage is how you win a war that's how america's always won wars idiots attack white people they don't want to serve

for leader young white men don't want to sign up for leadership that doesn't know what a man is or that hates white people. And then they're going, why do we have a recruitment problem? Because we don't want to be part of your pagan religion. I mean, because we want to live normal lives, upstanding moral lives. We have no moral and good nation. That's why.

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You can see all of the admirals and generals and so on. We just got ripped to shreds for being fat by Pete Higgs-Seth amazing. And then Pete Hegseth teaching him some slang. First time ever, the Department of War, Secretary of War, said F-A-F-L. Let's go. Precision and ferocity of the War Department. In other words, to our enemies, F-A-F-O.

If necessary, our troops can translate that for you. Another way to put it is, peace through strength, brought to you by the warrior ethos, and we are restoring both. ALX actually grabbed it. A-L-X actually grabbed the ad. Remember this ad?

Oh, man. the ad of uh like like look i'm in the i'm in the military because i i marched for civil rights it this is what they were created they were creating like little cartoons like woke cartoons can we listen to it klein let me just hear it Took ballet. All right, right. Hey, hold on. You've all seen this.

Look at this. Look at this. Okay. Contrast this with Pete Hegsteth now. Pete Hexeth is live right now speaking. Introducing President Trump. He just started. The 45th and 47th President of the United States,

our commander-in-chief, Donald J. Trump. Thank you very. Thank you very much, Pete. Great job you're doing too. Fantastic job. I've never walked into a room so silent before. This is very, don't laugh. Don't laugh if you're not allowed to do that. You know, I just have a good time. And if you want to applaud, you applaud. And if you want to do anything you want, you can do anything you want. And if you don't like what I'm saying, you can leave the room. Of course, there goes your rank. There goes your future. But you just feel nice and loose, okay, because we're all on the same team. And I was told that, sir, you won't hear a, you won't hear a murmur in the room. I said, we have to loosen these guys up a little bit. So you just have a good time. But I want to thank Secretary Hickset and General Kane, General Raising Kane for a reason, they call him that. When I heard his name, I said, you're the guy I'm looking for.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff and so many others in this room, who together represent the greatest and most elite fighting force in the, history of the world, the United States military. We're very proud of our military. We built the military during my first term. It's one of the greatest achievements. We had the greatest economy in history, and I built the military.

Those are the two things I say more than anything else. And I also kept us safe at the borders. We had very good borders. We didn't have people coming in from jails and prisons and everything like took place over the last four years. I'll never forget what happened to this country over the last four years with the income. competence.

There could be no higher honor than to serve as your commander in chief. It is a great honor. I look at you just incredible people. Central casting, I might add. To each and every one of you, I thank you for your unwavering devotion to the armed forces and to the country that we've all sworn a sacred oath to defend. We all have that oath, every one of us. I'm thrilled to be here this morning to address the senior leadership of

what is once again known around the world as the Department of War. I know Pete spoke about it. He gave a great speech, I thought. Great speech. I don't want him to get so good. I hate that. I hate it. I almost fired him. I said, you can't. I don't want to go on after that. Now, he gave a great speech, but he talked about Department of War. We were sitting there. I said, didn't it used to be called the Department of War? And then he goes, yes, sir. They changed it like in the Air. early 50s. So we won the first world war. We won the second world war. We won everything in

between and everything before that. We only won. And then we went in a way woke. That was probably the first sign of wokeness. And we changed it to defense instead of war. And I said, what do you think? How do you think if we changed you back? Would that be a nice idea? And Pete loved it immediately. Some people thought about it. You know, they gave it a little thought. But in the end, And we did it. And I have to be honest, it's so popular. I thought it would be met with fury on the left. But they're sort of giving up. I must be honest with you. They've had it. They've had it with Trump. They've been after me for so many years now. Here we are. Come to the White House anytime you'd like. No, they've given up. They had a lot of bad people. But all over that's been so popular, it's been a very popular. I really thought that we were going to have to sort of fight it through. there's been no fight. There's been no fight. Like what I call the Gulf of America, the Gulf of America,

because to me it was always the Gulf of America. I could never understand. We have 92% of the frontage. And for years, actually 350 years that were there before us, it was called the Gulf of Mexico. I just had this idea. I'm looking at a map. I'm saying we have most of the frontage.

Why is it Gulf of Mexico? Why isn't it the Gulf of Mexico? Why isn't it the Gulf of America? And I made the change and it went smoothly. I mean, we had a couple of fake news outlets that refused to make the change. And then one of them, AP, took us to court and we won. And the judge, who was a somewhat liberal judge,

said the name is the Gulf of America because AP refused to call it the Gulf of America. They wrote, they're not a good outfit, by the way. They call it the Gulf of Mexico. I said, no, the Gulf of America is the name. of America's the name. And the judge actually said that, in fact, you can't even go into the room because what you're doing is not appropriate. The name is the Gulf of America. Google Maps changed the name. Everybody did, but AP wouldn't, and then we won in court. How about that? Isn't that so

cool? The Secretary Hector beautifully described the name change reflects far more than the shift in branding. It's really a historic reassertion. of our purpose and our identity and our pride. That's when we go with the word war. And you know, we want war because we want to have no wars, but you have to be there. And you know, sometimes you have to do it. I have settled so many wars since we're here.

We're here almost nine months, and I've settled seven. And yesterday we might have settled the biggest of them all, although I don't know. Pakistan, India was very big. Both nuclear powers, I settled that. But yesterday could be the settlement in the Middle East. That hasn't happened for 3,000 years. I said, how long have you been fighting 3,000 years, sir?

That's a long time. But we got it, I think settled. We'll see. Hamas has to agree. And if they don't, it's going to be very tough on them, but it is what it is. But all of the Arab nations, Muslim nations have agreed. Israel has agreed. It's an amazing thing.

It just came together. War is very strange, you know. You never know what's going to happen with war. The easiest one of them all is Putin. I said, number one, it's a war that would have never happened if I were president. The election weren't rigged. If I were president at war, would have never happened.

Not even a little chance. And it didn't happen for four years. But I knew Putin very well, and I thought that would be easy because I know him so well. Well, that wouldn't turn out to be the hardest of them. We had some that were not settleable, and they all got settled. So if this works out,

works out that we did yesterday with the Middle East, then that's more than a war. That's lots of wars. That's all combined. That's a lot of wars. Many of you are over there in many different capacities in many different countries. That's a big part of the earth.

But if that works out, it would be eight plus. I'm going to give myself two or three for that one. And then we just have the one to settle, and we have to settle it up with President Putin. And Zelensky, got to get them together. and get it done. But the only way we can do that is through strength. I mean, if we were weak,

they wouldn't even take my phone call, but we have extreme strength. We had the horror show in Afghanistan, which is really the reason I think that Putin went in. He saw that horror show by Biden and his team, incompetent people. And that showed, I think it gave him a path in. I wasn't there any longer.

I watched that and was so, so horrible. I think it was the most embarrassing day in the history of our country. And now we're back, and that's it. We're not gonna have any of that crap happen, I can tell you. That was terrible, so terrible. Together we're reawakening the warrior spirit,

and this is a spirit that won and built this nation. And from the cavalry that tamed the Great Plains to the ferocious unyielding power of Patton Bradley and the great General Douglass Douglas McArthur, these are all great men. In this effort, we're a team, and so my message to you is very simple. I am with you, I support you, and as president,

I have your backs 100%. You'll never see me even waver a little bit. That's the way it is. And that includes our great police officers and firemen and all of these people that are doing so well. Together over the next few years, we're going to make our military stronger, tougher, faster, fiercer, and more powerful

than it has ever been before. I rebuilt our nuclear, as you probably know, but we'll upgrade that also and just hope we never have to use it. We have to hope we never have to use it because the power of that is so incredible. I see things, I don't think they show it to you. I really want them to show it to you.

But when you see the result of what's left, You never want to use that. Never, never, ever. We were a little bit threatened by Russia recently, and I sent a submarine, nuclear submarine, the most lethal weapon ever made. Number one, you can't detect it. There's no way.

We're 25 years ahead of Russia and China in submarines. Russia is actually second in submarines. China's third, but they're coming up, they're coming up. They're weight lower in nuclear, they're way to lower a nuclear two, but in five years they'll be equal. They're coming up. And you don't have to be that good with this. So that works for, I mentioned the word nuclear, a submarine or two.

I won't say about the two, over to the coast of Russia, just to be careful, because we can't let people throw around that word. I call it the N word. There are two N words and you can't use either of them. Can't use either of them. And frankly, if it does get to use, we have more than anybody else. We have better, we have newer,

but it's something we don't ever want to even have to think about. But when somebody mentions that that submarine started immediately thereafter. And it's just lurking, but I'm sure we're not gonna have to use it. But it's an amazing, it's undetectable, totally ours is. There's a totally detectable, we can detect them easily. We go right to the spot, but we have genius apparatus that doesn't allow detection at all by anybody

above water or below water, it's incredible. We're way ahead of everybody on that. and other things as a result of the exciting renewal of the spirit of our own forces, and that's what it is. It's really reaching at spirit unprecedented heights. Over the past eight months, new enlistments, I'm so proud of this, have surged to record highs

the highest we've ever had. And we used to have recruiting shortages. If you remember about a year and a half ago, I was at the beginning stage of a campaign, And things came out that you couldn't get people to join the armed forces. And by the way, the police also. Fire department.

I always put the fire department in because they're great. They're great. And I got 95% of their vote too. That helps. When you get 95% of the vote, you always have to mention them. But they're great.

And they're brave in our inner cities, which we're gonna be talking about because it's a big part of war now. It's a big part of war. But the firemen go up in ladders and you have people shooting at them while they're up in last. I don't even know if anybody heard that, but, and I said, don't talk about it much, but I think you have to,

firemen are incredible. They're up in one of these ladders that goes way up to the sky, rescuing people, and you have animals shooting at them, shooting bullets at firemen that are way up in death territory. You fall off that ladder, it's over. It's over. They don't even have to inspect you when you hit the ground. And you have people shooting bullets at them in some of these inner cities. We're not going to let that happen. So I always mentioned the firemen because that's actually a big problem we have. They are unbelievable. Like you, they're unbelievable people. For the first time on record in 2025, the Navy Air Force and Space Force all met or surpassed their recruiting goals three months early. That never happened before. And the Army did even better.

congratulations army they met everything and these were the highest standards because we're making it larger so these were much higher standards that you had four years ago three years ago during the sleepy joe biden era and the army did it four months early and you remember a year and a half ago they said the big stories that were way behind with the army air force the navy the marines were We're way behind Coast Guard, and even Space Force. I love Space Force because that was my creation. You know, when you create something, I love it. And the people we put in there were good.

I got that right. We put in great people initially, and we really dominated. We really dominate in that sphere now. We're way behind China and Russia, and now we dominate. Space Force turned out to be a very important thing. I said from the beginning, you know, when Biden came into office, he wanted to determine there. and distinct all space force so we could get rid of that and he got hammered by the people in this room for even suggesting it because it's very important one of the most important and as time goes by it'll get more and more important but we're now at a hundred and six percent of our recruiting targets for the year and that's the best in far more than a generation and for the marines morale is so strong that the Marine Corps will meet its 2026 retention targets before the end of October, which never happens. And that's the earliest

it's ever happened in the history of our country. And it makes you feel good, you know. I felt guilty. I'd go make a speech in front of never people like you. You are the leaders, but people, soldiers. And I felt embarrassed because there'd be stories about, you know, we couldn't fill up our Army, Navy, Air Force, we couldn't fill them up. And it was headlines, his headlines. It was during Biden's four years, the auto pen. I call them the auto pen. It's, how would you like to have your thing signed

by an auto pen? You know, when I have a general, and I have to sign for a general because we have beautiful paper, the gorgeous paper. I said, throw a little more gold on it they deserve it. I want the A paper, not the D paper. We used to sign a piece of garbage.

I just said, this man's going to be a general, right? Yeah, I don't want to use this. I want to use the big, beautiful firm paper. I want to use the real gold writing when you talk about the position, and they're beautiful. And, but how would you like to have that way? Some kids sitting in the back office

is having it signed with an order pen. And I thought about it, and I thought about you people first, admirals, generals. I said, somebody works his whole, life he gets into maybe the academies or wherever but however you got there and you go through years of work and now you become an admiral or a general or whatever and when you do the president of the united states signs your commission as you know and that commission is beautifully displayed and i sign it actually i love my signature i really know everyone loves my signature

but i signed it very proudly and i always think to myself how can you have an auto pen signed this. It's just so disrespectful. To me, it's just totally disrespectful. And it turned out that almost everything he did was signed by auto pen, except for what he gave his son, Hunter, pardon. He signed that one. And that's actually the worst signature I've ever seen. That was the pen. The auto pen looks much better. But as leaders, our commitment to every patriot who put on the uniform is to ensure that American military remains the most lethal and dominant on the planet, not merely for a few years but for the decades be so strong that no nation will dare challenge us so powerful that no enemy will dare threaten us and so capable that no adversary can even think about beating us and we got down seven planes seven planes it was starting there was a lot of bad blood and i said you do this was not going to be any trade

And I stopped the war. It was going, it was raging for four days, but that was just the beginning. And we stopped it was a great thing. And the Prime Minister of Pakistan was here, along with the Field Marshal, who's a very important guy in Pakistan, and he was here three days ago.

And I didn't even realize it as beautiful as he said it, but he said that to a group of people that were with us, two generals, but a group, He said, this man saved millions of lives because he saved the war from going on, and that war was going to get very bad, very, very bad. President Trump saved millions and millions of lives. That was a bad war. And I was very honored. I loved the way he said it.

Susie Wiles was there. She said that was the most beautiful thing. But we saved a lot of them. Saved a lot of them. Even in Africa, we saved the Congo with Rwanda. They've been fighting for 31 years, 10 million people dead. I got that one done. And very proud of it.

So if this works out, we'll have eight. Eight in eight months, that's pretty good. Nobody's ever done that. Will you get the Nobel Prize? Absolutely not. They'll give it to some guy that didn't do a damn thing. They'll give it to a guy that wrote a book about the mind of Donald Trump and what it took to solve the wars and he'll get the Nobel Prize we'll go to, a writer. No, but we'll see what happened.

But it's a big insult to our country. I don't want it. I want the country to get it. It should get it because there's never been anything like you. Think of it. So if this happens, I think it will. I don't say that lightly because I know more about deals than anybody. This is what my whole life was based on.

And they can change and this can certainly change. but we have just about everybody we have one signature that we need and that signature will pay in hell if they don't sign I hope they sign for their own good and create something really great but to have done eight of them is just like such an honor and then we have Putin and Zelensky the easiest one of them all I said that one I'll get done I thought that one I'll get done I thought that was going to be first. The other was much harder. Some of them. Azerbaijan was going on for 36 years. They said, it's not solvable, so you can't. Don't do it. I said, I will do it. I will do it. And then I got on the phone with the two countries. They were great. They were great.

I knew immediately. I knew as soon as I started talking to him, we're going to solve that war. We did. Now they're so happy. Now they're friends. One said he's been president for 32 years. 22 years. He said, you know, for 22 years, I did nothing but kill his people. They were in the room together at the Oval Office. And they started off spread like this at the beautiful resolute desk. And one was here. And one was here. You couldn't get further away. That's the furthest I've ever seen two people in front of me. And as the hour went by, they got closer, closer, closer. And at the end of the hour, we had it done. And they hugged and hugged and hugged. And I said, that's so nice and you're going to remain friends and i spoke to them one of them the other day he said no he's now my friend but for 22 years he's been the head of Azerbaijan for 22 years and the other guy great guy to seven and you know that war that was a war that was not solvable he said for seven years the other one said for 22 years all i did was kill his people that's all i've done i said well we're going to put a stop to that so we solved that

So it's a great thing, it's a great feeling. You know, you're saving Kosovo and Serbia. You're saving so many lives doing this if you can do it. But our people deserve nothing less than the very best, and we're never going to let them down. And if we can solve wars instead of you having to fight wars, wouldn't that be wonderful, right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?

That's why one of the first executive orders I signed upon taking office was to restore the principle of merit. That's the most important word. Other than the word tariff, I love tariffs. Most beautiful word, but I'm not allowed to say that anymore. I said, tariff is my favorite word. I love the word tariff. You know, we're becoming rich as hell.

We have a big case in front of the Supreme Court, but I can't imagine, because this is what other nations have done to us. And we have, you know, great legal grounds, but you still have a case. case would be very bad if something happened but i said my favorite word in the english dictionary is the word tariff and people thought that was strange and the fake news came over and they really hit me hard on it they said what about love what about religion what about god what about wife family i got killed when i said tariff is my favorite word so i change it's now my fifth favorite word

And I'm okay with that. I'm okay with that. But they hit me hard. But it is. I mean, when you look at, we've taken in trillions of dollars. We're rich, rich again. And they'll never be, when we finish this out, there'll never be any wealth like what we have.

Other countries were taking advantage of us for years and years. You know that better than anybody. And now we're treating them fairly. But the money coming in is we've never seen anything like it. The other day they had $31 billion that they found $31 billion. So we found $31 billion and we're not sure from where it came. A gentleman came in a financial guy. I said, well, what does that mean? He said, we don't know where it came. I said, check the tariff shelf. No, sir. The tariffs haven't started in that sector yet. I said, yes, they have. They

started seven weeks ago. Check it. Comes back 20 minutes like, sir, you're right. It came from tariffs. 31 billion. That's enough to buy a lot of battleships, Admiral, to use an old term. I think we should maybe start thinking about battleships, by the way. You know, we have a secretary of the Navy. He came to me, because I look at the Iowa out in California,

and I look at different ships, the old pictures. I used to watch Victory at Sea. I love Victory at Sea. Look at these admirals. It's got to be your all-time in black and white. When I look at those ships, they came with the destroyers alongside of them, and man, nothing was going to stop. There were 20 deep, and they were in a straight line, and there was nothing going to stop them. And we actually talk about, you know, those ships, some people would say, no, that's old technology.

I don't know. I don't think it's old technology when you look at those guns. But it's something we're actually considering the concept of battleship, a six-inch side solid steel, not aluminum. aluminum that melts if it looks at a missile coming at it starts melting as the missiles about two miles away now those ships they don't make them that way anymore but you look at it and your secretary likes it and I'm sort of open to it and bullets are a lot less expensive than missiles a lot of a lot of reasons I should take a vote but I'm afraid to take that vote because I may get voted out on that one but I

tell you it's it's something we're seriously considering There were powers. There were big powers. They were just about as mean and scary as you could be. So we'll look at that. One of the biggest cases that we won was the decision of the United States Supreme Court to allow us to proceed on the word merit.

Merit. So those two words are right up there. So this is, I would say, the opposite of you ask for a definition. The opposite of political, correctness we went through political correct where you had to have people that were totally unfit to be doing what you're doing for many reasons i won't get into them but for many reasons they were unfit now it's all based on merit that was such an unbelievable decision i didn't expect we were going to win that one we went in we said we needed we went in for colleges you know

where kids with a sea average are getting into the best colleges and the kids with eight averages won't get in and kids with the highest boards and the highest marks of the best marks couldn't get into the best schools and people that had not good boards and not very good marks i mean okay but nothing special they were getting into our best colleges i said this is just crazy we can't run you can't run a country like this and it's it was lingering for years and And it got to the Supreme Court and we won that decision. Everything's based on merit. You're all based on merit.

We're not going to have somebody taking your place for political reasons because they are politically correct and you're not. We take the people that are going to do the best job. It's very simple. And that's the way our country was built. We were built on merit. We got away from it for a long time. And everyone understands it. and it was done. It was approved. I give great credit to the Supreme Court because I thought

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Almost more than anything, because it's a hard decision to make. It's really hard. The apparatus of our country was not set up for merit. It was set up for political correctness. And you can never be great. if you're going to do that and we're going to be greater than we ever were before. We're bringing back a focus on fitness, ability, character, and strength

and that's because the purposes of American military is not to protect anyone's feelings. It's to protect our republic and it's the republic that we dearly love. It's to protect our country. We will not be

politically correct when it comes to defending American freedom and we will be a fighting and winning machine. We want to fight, we want to win. And we want to fight as little as possible. You have to count on people like me to keep you out of wars because we don't want to go into wars. Many of the wars that I just told you about,

we could have entered those wars and settled them in a different way, lose a lot of our troops. And we could have settled them, I guess, differently. Maybe not, actually. Actually, you might not have been able to settle him. We just would have been in the middle of a lot of firepower. But when we do need it, you're going to be so ready. And you know it.

But very importantly, with that goal in mind, I've committed to spending over $1 trillion on our military in 2026, and that's the most in the history of our country. One trillion dollars, that's a lot of money. I hope you like that. Mams and sirs, I hope you like it. That's a hell of a lot of money. We have the best of everything.

every branch is seeing major investments and as I announced in the Oval Office in March, we are rapidly moving forward with the first ever sixth generation fighter jet. I didn't name it. I did not name it. Boeing came in and they said, sir, this is our submittal. It's the greatest fighting jet ever done. And, you know, they're testing all these plans and all the companies are testing. And this one tested like through the roof.

And they said, we'd like to name it. name at the F-47. I said, let me think about it. And after thinking for about two seconds, I said, OK. You know what that means 47, I'm 47. So I'm 45, 46, and 47, yeah, if you think about it. I just don't want the credit for 46. I don't want to have their open borders and people coming in

from all over the world, including jails and mental incidents. I don't want that on my record, but I like having it. We're investing tens of billions of dollars in modernizing our nuclear deterrence capabilities like never before. And we've begun construction on what we call the Golden Dome Missile Defense Shield. It'll be the most sophisticated in the world. You watched it do well until they had some problems at the end with a little bit of a lack of ammunition, defensive ammunition, but they've got that taken care of. But I tell you, what we're doing is so good.

And we deserve it. You know, we help other countries with it. We don't have it ourselves. And Canada called me a couple of weeks ago. They want to be part of it, to which I said, well, why don't you just join our country? You become 51, become the 50 first state, and you get it for free.

So I don't know if that made a big impact, but it does make a lot of sense. It actually makes it because they're having a hard time up there in Canada now. Because as you know, with tariffs, everyone's coming into our country. We have more investment than we've ever had before. $17 trillion is coming in. As an example, in four years, Biden didn't have $1 trillion.

We have $17 trillion more than that in eight months coming in. And they're coming in from Canada, Mexico, from Europe, from all over, AI, auto plants. Everybody's coming back to the United States. Under my budget, we will be expanding the U.S. Navy by at least 19 ships next year, including submarines, destroyers, assault, ships, and more. And it's going to be much more than that as we go along, because we basically don't build ships anymore. We do build submarines, but we don't build ships.

Do you know, in the Second World War, they were freighters and different types, but we were doing a ship a day, and now we don't do ships. And I'm not a fan of some of the ships you do. I'm a very aesthetic person. I don't like some of the ships you're doing aesthetically. They say, oh, it's stealth. They say, that's not an ugly ship. It's not necessary in order to say your stealth.

By the way, the B-2 bombers were incredible. That is stealth. They went into that. I was with General Kane and Pete, we're in the, we go at the war room. But we're watching them go in, and they were totally untouched. They were not seen. They were literally not seen.

They dropped their bombs. They hit every single one of them hit its target. It was total obliteration. CNN, when we came back, fake news, CNN. Oh, their camera just went off. You know, their camera, every time I mention they turn the camera up because it's never good. They said, this is a problem. But I don't blame them.

You're better off keeping it off. But they have some scammer. reporter who started saying, without any knowledge, he may not have hit the targets as well as they thought. It may not been obliteration. He did hit the targets. You know, I got to give us a little credit, right? It was obliteration.

It turned out. The Atomic Energy Commission said it was obliteration. They had not only did they hit the target, they had these shoots. And think of this here, way up in the sky, there was no moon, it was dead dark, couldn't see a thing, you couldn't see them. But they had, I guess, a beam going right into these shoots.

Every single one of those bombs went right down those shoots into a granite mountain. I think it's the last time they're going to build air shoots. They had these air shoots that were nice, beautiful. They were meant for us. But it was total obliteration. And now they give us credit for that. But these people were phenomenal. I tell you, for the Air Force people here, you can be very proud.

That beat till we just sorted a lot of new ones, new ones. and updated ones, but I'd take the other ones, let me tell you, they couldn't have worked any better. So they flew for 37 hours total back and forth, no stops, no nothing. We had 52 tankers loading them up, and that's a job I wouldn't necessarily want too much, flying a tanker, loaded up with hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel. I don't know if I'd do that job. I asked the question, what happens if it gets it? Sir, you don't want to know about that, right?

I don't want to know about that. But those guys, they just hear us. They're incredible. I had them all to the Oval Office. We had the B-2 pilots and a lot of the people, even the people that took care of them, the maintenance people, just as important. We had them all to the White House,

gave them a big party on the lawn, brought some of them into the Oval Office. But on top of all this, we'll deliver a hard-earned pay raise of 3.8% to every soldier, sailor, airmen, Coast Guards, space guard and marine, something you weren't getting from the past administration. They did not treat you with respect.

They're Democrats, they never do. Not only are we rebuilding our great strength, but for the first time in years, my administration is actually using that strength to defend the core and vital interests of America. And very simply, we are putting America first. And I have since I've been elected, I've always put America first.

It's sort of simple, you know, when you think. It's my campaign was right. on common sense and we did great we got the highest numbers ever received in terms of districts you know they have it broken up 2,500 versus 525 we won every swing state we won the popular vote we want everything we want everything you have to take a look at the map it's almost entirely red except there's a little blue line on each coast and I think that's going to disappear or two. We did really great. And part of it is because of our success with the military, the rebuilding of the military, the vote that I got from the military. And they were, the vicious

people, you know, that we have to fight. Just like you have to fight vicious people. Mine are a different kind of vicious. But they spread all these horrible, you know, they made up statements and said what I said about everything, but even about the military. But fortunately, the military didn't believe it. It's hard. You know, they make up a statement and they said, you say, We had 25 people that said he never said that. 25. We had 25 affidavits. And they said, well, we're going with it anyway.

You know, these sleeves bags. And that's why the press is really losing whole power, because people aren't believing it. We need an honest press. We need borders. We need an honest press. We need fair elections. I mean, those three things.

And we don't have an honest press. We have a really corrupt press, but we fight through the corrupt press. And the people understand, You have to do this stuff a lot. You have to go on television a lot because you can't get a fair shake if you're gonna rely on somebody else.

They just, they don't understand. They've destroyed. The image of media now is at the lowest point it's ever been. It's lower than Congress. Can you believe that? It's something. But together with many of you in the room,

we've brought back the fundamental principle that defending the homeland is the military's first and most important priority. That's what it is. Only in recent decades that politicians somehow come to believe that our job is to police the far reaches of Kenya and Somalia while America is under invasion from within. We're under invasion from within. No different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in many ways because they don't wear

uniforms. At least when they're wearing a uniform, you can take them out. These people don't have uniforms. But we are under invasion from within. stopping it very quickly. After spending trillions of dollars defending the borders of foreign countries, with your help, we're defending the borders of our country from now on. We're not going to let this happen. Biden let people come in from prisons, mental institutions, drug dealers, murderers. You know, we had 11,488 murders allowed into our country by this guy who had no clue.

he had no clue he shouldn't have been there in the first place but he had no clue the people that ran the office the White House were people that surrounded him radical left lunatics

that are brilliant people but dumb as hell when it came to policy and common sense and they allowed people from all over the world from the Congo they opened up prisons in the Congo they came into our country totally unmatched, unvetted, unchecked, and from all over, South America,

not just South America, you know, you think South America, no, but from all over. A lot came in from Venezuela, Venezuela emptied its prison population into our country. That's why they have Trindaragua, one of the worst gangs ever. But we took care of them. We took good, strong care of them. I just want to thank the National Guard in Washington, D.C. It was, it's embarrassing to say this. Now I can't say it because we solved it. Washington, D.C. was the most unsafe, most dangerous city in the United States of America.

And to a large extent, beyond, and beyond that, you go to Afghanistan, they didn't have anything like that. You go to countries that you would think there's problems. And now Washington, D.C., after 12 days, of serious, serious intensity, We took out 1,700 career criminals. If you have five career criminals, they can make your numbers look very bad because they'll commit many crimes a day.

But we took out 1,700, and they took them out. There was no doubt who the boss was. They did an unbelievable job. Then they started even cleaning. I said, I don't want them doing that, sir. They wanted, they were cleaning it up. I drove through it two days ago. It was beautiful.

People are walking down the street holding hands, man and wife coming from Iowa. They're not worried about being shot. Washington, D.C. is now a safe city. In fact, I went out to dinner with my crew. I haven't done that. Theory, I wouldn't do it. And I felt totally safe.

And nobody's been attacked, nobody's been hurt. Washington, D.C. went from our most unsafe city to just about our safest city in a period of a month. We had it under control in 12 days, but give us another 15, 16 days. It was, it's perfect. And people other than politicians that look bad, they think, you know, the Democrats run most of the cities

that are in bad shape. We have many cities in great shape too, by the way. I want you to know that. But it seems that the ones that are run by the radical left Democrats, what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, they're very unsafe places.

And we're gonna straighten them out one by one. And this is gonna be a major for some of the people in this room. That's a war, too. It's a war from within. Controlling the physical territory of our order is essential to national security. We can't let these people in. We had no people enter in the last four months. Zero. Even I can't believe that, you know, we had millions coming in, pouring it. Twenty-five million all told, and of those twenty-five million, many of them should never be in our country. They would take their worst people and their people from prisons and jail, and they put them in a caravan, and

And they'd walk up. CNN was interviewing one person, oh, why are you coming? I want freedom, good. Were you in jail? Yes, for what? Murder. She said, you were in for,

you had to see this anchor, a young woman. She's like, I couldn't believe. She'll probably lose her job. But because the left doesn't want to hear that. But we're running it based on common sense and based on love of our country. But I want to salute every service. service member who has helped us carry out this critical mission.

It's really a very important mission. And I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military, national guard, but military, because we're going into Chicago very soon. That's a big city with an incompetent governor. Stupid governor, stupid. They threw him out of his family business. He was so stupid.

I know the family. He becomes governor. He's got money, not money that he made. But he ran for governor, he won. And now he criticizes us all the time. Last week, they had 11 people murdered, 44 people shot. The week before that, they had five people murdered, 28 people shot.

Every weekend, they lose five, six. If they lose five, they're considering a great week. They shouldn't lose any. You shouldn't lose any. This is civilization. And he's always up there saying, we're in a very good shape. We don't need the military. No, they need the military desperately.

How about Portland, Portland, Oregon, where it looks like a war zone. And I get a call from the liberal governor, sir, please don't come in, we don't need you. I said, well, unless they're playing false tapes, this looked like World War II. Your place is burning down. I mean, you must be kidding.

Sir, we have it under control. I said, you don't have it under control, Governor, But I'll check it. And I'll call you back. I called it back. I said, you, this place is a nightmare. Probably, it's certainly not the biggest, but it's one of the worst.

It's brutal. They go after our ICE people who are great patriots and tough job too, but they love it. They love it because they're cleaning up our country. And so you look at some of the things where they took over parts of Seattle. They actually took over a big percentage of Seattle. Think of that.

You remember that. that was a while ago. And I sent in the troops and they were gone as soon as they sent them in, oh, when we send in the troops, if you have a real leader that says, you gotta do what you have to do. I put that out the other day,

you gotta do what you gotta do because we don't want our people hurt as they stand by. I was watching during Biden. They were troops standing up like this, brave, standing up in tension, the way I should stand all the time. And I'm like this and people are standing

Their mouth is this far away from their mouth, and they're spitting at them, and they're screaming at him. And that soldier standing there, he wants to knock the hell out of the person, but he's not allowed to do anything. So they just stand there, and they get abused, and a woman was this far away from his face, and she starts spitting in his face, and he's not allowed to do anything. If it's okay with you, generals and admirals,

I've taken that off. I say they spit, we hit. Is that okay? I think so. They spit, it's a new thing. They spit, we hit. How about the cars where the cars are coming out? They get brand new cars, Border Patrol,

ice, beautiful, nice new cars. And they're driving along and they have to go through a gauntlet of rocks being thrown at the car. So here's this beautiful brand new car. by the time it goes 100 yards, it's destroyed. These guys had pretty good arms, some of them. And they're throwing bricks at full force into the window and into the car.

It looks like it's a war zone. And I said, never let that happen again. From now on, if that ever happens, and I say it here, you get out of that car and you can do whatever to how you wanna do. Because those people are, you can die from the, those bricks go through, through the windows, they'd like it to.

They'd like it to go through the wind. But this was a couple of months ago. They just kept driving and bricks are hitting the car and I said, why aren't they stopping? Because they were under orders from the past administration, never stopped. But that's different with us, we stop. And since I gave that order, we haven't had that problem.

It's very interesting, it's amazing. It's just like in Venezuela, you've seen the boats going. We can't find any more boats. They're carrying drugs massive. Every boat kills about 25,000 people. That's where they have. They have fentanyl mostly and a lot of other drugs. And we take them out, and we've taken out four.

So, and it's on air. Everybody gets to see it. Not that we like to do that, but every boat kills 25,000 on average 20. Some people say more. You know, you see these boats are stacked up with bags of white powder. It's mostly fentanyl. and other drugs, too. And now we have a problem.

General Keynes and sir, there are no boats out there. Not even fishing boats. They don't want to go fishing. I don't blame them. There'll be no fishing today, you know. But it's amazing what strength will do because what we want to do is stop drugs from flowing into our country.

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There's many friends probably that you lost a child or adults too, but you're not us to son or daughter because of what's coming into our border. And we're making it very hard. Oh, and we haven't even started yet. Last month, I signed an executive order to provide training for a quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances. This is going to be a big thing for the people

in this room because it's the enemy from within and we have to handle it before it gets out of control. It won't get out of control. Once you're going to be able to control, involved at all. They all joke. They say, oh, this is not good. You saw it in Washington.

We had gangs of Trenda-Rug with 10, 12, 15 kids. And these military guys woke up to them. And they treat them with disrespect, and they just got pounded. They just got pounded. The gang just pounded, then thrown into paddy wagons and taken back to their country. Some are so dangerous, we don't want to even

that because we don't want to have some of stone coal murders we don't have the conference even though they're not coming back very easily we don't have the conference we've put them in jails but these service members are following in a great and storied military tradition from protecting frontier communities to chasing outlaws and bandits in the wild west and our history is filled with military heroes who took on all enemies foreign and domestic you know that phrase very well that's what the oaths as foreign and domestic. Well, we also have domestic. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Grover, Cleveland, George Bush, and others all use the armed forces to keep domestic order

and peace. Many of our leaders used the military to keep peace. Now they like to say, oh, you're not allowed to use the military. And you know what the people say? The people in those cities where they're being raped and shot and beat up. You know what they say? You know what they say? We love the military. You ever see whether interview the people on the street? I've never seen somebody say they don't unless they're radical and paid off because a lot of these insurrectionists are paid by whether it's Soros or other people, but they're paid by the radical left.

So today I want to thank every service member from general to private who has bravely helped us secure the nation's capital and make America safe for the American people. It's amazing. The whole world is watching. Everybody in the White House, they come up to me, young women, sir, thank you. I know immediately what they thank you. They don't have to say. They walk to work now to the White House. We haven't had a crime in Washington in so long

because we got the careers. We call them the careers. We got these lunatics out. And they'll never be any good. You know, I hate to tell this to the liberal media. You could spend time with them. You could do whatever you want. You could send them to the finest schools, which they couldn't get into anyway, mentally. They couldn't get in. But no matter what you do, they'll never be good. They're bad. They're career criminals. I don't know. Maybe they were born that way. Some people don't like me to say that, but maybe they were. Certainly, some were. Together with the leaders here today, we're also restoring a needed focus on defeating threats in the Western Hemisphere. Throughout this region, cartel terrorists have been allowed to wage a relentless campaign of death and

destruction on our country, all because we had weak leadership on top. And we did a great job with it first term, but this is something else what we're doing now. We're taking it to the next level, probably next level times three. But we had COVID come up, and we had to take care of that. We did a great job with COVID. We had the therapeutics. It was just regenerate on so many things we did for COVID. But we had to focus on that. And every other country in the world was being decimated by COVID.

So we had to change gear a little bit to take care of that. But under our leadership, the military is now, the knife's edge in combating the sinister enemy. We have to put the traffickers in cartels on notice, and we've done that. And we put them, a lot of them, we've called them a terrorist organization, which is actually a big thing to do. Nobody's done it, but I've done it with a lot of them.

It gives you a tremendous advantage. If you try to poison our people, we will blow you out of existence, because that's the only language they really understand. That's why you don't see any more boats on the ocean. You don't see any boats around Venezuela, and there's nothing. As president, I will never hesitate to defend our people

from threats of violence, from the horrible plague that's taking place from within the Iran nuclear power, the Iran, all of the great power that we thought existed. We blew it out to kingdom. We took advantage of it and we just really took advantage of it. And it was a beautiful thing to see. And that's what military power can achieve.

That's why I chose raising Raisin Cain, he's fantastic, by the way. I hope you all agree. If anybody disagrees, could I please have your hand? Who disappears at Raisin Cain is no good? Just raise your hand. I don't see any hands raised, all right. That means you're okay.

That means that he's okay now, but I saw his results. You know, he took out ISIS. I was told it was gonna take four years. It took four weeks. I went to see him, and he took him out in four weeks, knocked him out, knocked him to hell. And I was told by military people who was gonna take four to five years to do it.

And I don't even know if we'll have it then, sir. These were the Washington generals. I call them the television generals. But Raisin-Kane did it in four weeks, took out 100% of the ISIS caliphate. As a result of these actions and many others since my inauguration, we're witnessing the triumphant return of peace through strength.

We have great peace through strength. America is respected again as a country. We were not respected with Biden. They looked at him falling downstairs every day. Every day the guy's falling downstairs. He said, it's not our president. We can't have it. I'm very careful, you know, when I walk downstairs,

like I'm on stairs, like these stairs, I'm very, I walk very slowly. Nobody has to set a record. Just try not to fall, because it doesn't work out well. A few of our presidents have fallen and it just became a part of their legacy. We don't want to walk nice and easy. You don't have to set any record.

Be cool. Be cool when you walk down, but don't pop down the stairs. So one thing with Obama, I had zero respect for him as a president, but he would bop down those stairs. I've never said, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-pup. You go down the stairs, we wouldn't hold on. I said, it's great, I don't want to do it. I guess I could do it, but eventually bad things are going to happen.

And it only takes once. But he did a lousy job as president. A year ago, we were a dead country. We were dead. This country was going to hell. We were dead in everywhere from immigration to military. We didn't have the weapons. We were given everything to Ukraine.

We had nothing. And by the way, I have to tell you, now, as you know, I went over and I met with NATO, NATO raised from two to five, which everyone said five percent of GDP. Millions and now trillions of dollars are pouring in. They didn't pay the two percent because they know we were there to pay it. And now they paid the five percent. That's trillions of dollars. And we're not spending any money in that war, not 10 cents. We sell our equipment to NATO.

NATO pays us for the equipment and they give it to Ukraine or whoever they give it to, but they can keep it. But we're not involved. We have no money going up. gave 350 billion dollars not sustainable 350 billion and we have a war that should have ever started but we're not doing that anymore so i just want you to know we're selling equipment our people are buying equipment they're buying they're buying the equipment at full price a fair price so i don't want to say we're making money because i don't want to say i don't want to be making money on awards too many people dying they're losing 7000 soldiers a week A lot of them are Russian soldiers,

but between the two countries, mostly soldiers, by the way. Sometimes, you know, in Kiev, they'll lob a missile in or some drones in, kill some people. But mostly it's soldiers. Russia and Ukraine are losing 7,000 souls. And, you know, they're not American. They're not us. They're not you or have a special obligation.

But they're soldiers. They're young people. They leave their parents. They wave goodbye. And then two days later, they're blown up, so unnecessarily. And so that's the primary reason I want to get it done. We've got to get it done. It's crazy what's going on.

That's the worst war that there's been since World War II. The number of soldiers that are being killed there is just crazy. From 5,000 to 7,000 soldiers die a week. Think of that. So I think we'll get that done. But that's turned out to be the toughest one. I'm so disappointed in President Putin. And I thought he would get this thing off a way.

He should have had that war done in a week. And I said to him, you know, you don't look at your four years fighting a war that should have taken a week. Are you a paper tiger? And it's a shame. But I think eventually we'll get that one done just like we, in theory, I want to knock on wood because you never know. It's like we're going to have the Middle East done, which is actually a much harder. thing to do. I mean, thousands of years, but we have to get that war done.

So now we're, just think of it, we're a dead country. I was with the King of Saudi Arabia, a great guy, I was with the Emir of Qatar, I was with the great leadership of UAE, I was over there. We brought back $2 trillion and more. They ordered 200 planes, Boeing, they order so much, and they were just. great. But they all said essentially the same thing. They said, one year ago, you were a dead country, and now you're the hottest country anywhere in the world. We're the hottest country in the world right now. The absolute hottest country in the world. We have, there's nobody

even flows. Putin said that to me. We met in Alaska, had a good meeting. Then he went back and started sending drones into Kiev. I said, I thought we had a good meeting. But one of those, things, but we were a dead country a year ago, and now we're the hottest country anywhere in the world. Think of that. You could be proud of that. And you must have felt like how when you have a wife or a husband at home, and you used to read the numbers that we can't get people to join the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, you must have felt like, you know, I have a job that nobody wants. It doesn't feel good. Well, now you're not. You know, you must have a job that nobody wants. So does it feel good?

Now you have a job that is brimming over with people wanting it. They want it. And you're able to get a much higher quality because now you have your choice. You know, you want so many. And we're going to have many, many people that aren't going to be able to join because of the fact that we don't need them at this moment. But think of it. What a difference that is from, I could just imagine two years ago,

you're reading front page articles in the New York Times, us in Wall Street Journal. They always give us unfair stories. But they played it so big. They were playing it so big. Nobody wants to join the Army, the Marines, the Air Force. They want to, they don't want to join. They don't want to join the Coast Guard at all. Nobody wants to join. Nobody wants to join our police forces. Our police forces also. It's almost went hand in hand. And I used to say, boy, you know, I'm speaking in front of the military today, and it's embarrassing because I'm speaking in front of people who have a job that other people don't want, but now you have a job that everybody wants.

So I think that has to make you feel good. It's one of the reasons I love being here today because I wanted to say that. I have to say that everybody wants to be in the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marines, if you think, the Coast Guard and Space Force, our beautiful Space Force. It's a whole different world.

And now they're signing up, by the way, seriously big numbers for the police. dangerous job isn't it a fire department but that's the paving the way for progress once thought almost impossible i mean a year ago you wouldn't have thought that was possible year ago they were talking about making the military smaller because they can't get the people to join we're thinking about making it larger because we have so many people and it's nice to be able to cut people because of merit that aren't really qualified for any reason a physical reason, a mental reason? You don't have to take them anymore because you have the pick of the

litter and they all want to be with you. They all want your job. They want to be with you. They want to work with you. They'll even take your job, you know. Got to be a little bit sharp. You've got to watch it. But everybody wants to be doing what you're doing now. What a difference. When I speak to you and I can say that as opposed to a couple of years ago when I was talking to rooms where they were desperate to get people and they couldn't get them. What a difference a presidential election can make. That's all it is. It's just a presidential election.

Yesterday at the White House, we put forward a plan for peace in Gaza. We announced it, and we're going to create something that was my idea, but unfortunately, I got drafted. It's going to be called the Board of Peace, and it's going to rain over that territory, and we're going to get that done. and they asked if I'd be the chairman of the Board of Peace. I wasn't counting on that. I had the idea for the Board of Peace.

But I'd said yes, and I guess because of that, every leader, everybody wants to be on the Board of Peace, and we're gonna watch over that very volatile part of the world and keep it non-volatile so you don't have to get involved. We wanna save you for other things or save you for nothing from that standpoint. We don't want you fighting wars, but if you have to, you're gonna be,

you're the most lethal fighting force in the world. And I would say that even two, three years ago, but now I say it with great enthusiasm. So true. And we're striving tirelessly to end the terrible war in Ukraine. And as you know, we're also working hard to get the allies to share more of the burden of our defense. Much of that has really already taken place. But all NATO members have committed to the increase that I talked about. Think of that. That was unthinkable.

It used to be 1%. Then we got it up to two in my last term, and they did not like it. And now I got it to five, and I get along great with all of them. In fact, they call me the president of NATO. I said, I don't think so. But they're great. They're great people, and they're spending a lot of money and a lot of money that they should have been spending in the past.

But I think Putin was a wake-up call for them, really. We're now selling large quantities of American-made weapons. to NATO, and we're getting really fair pricing. We're making a lot of money. It's my hope that from Europe to Asia to the Middle East, our allies will make similar commitments to increase their military capabilities. And this will greatly strengthen our alliances,

and also it will make war far less likely. You know, if you have a strong, if you're a strong presence like we are, we are such a strong presence. And I go around bragging about this. I've said, we have the strongest military anywhere in the world. I say it. You never heard Biden say that.

Never heard him say anything. But you never heard him say. Did he ever hear him say, we have the strongest military? He doesn't say that. I say it. We have the strongest military anywhere in the world. We have great leadership. And I'll tell you, Pete and General Kane,

all of the people that I've met that have been lifted up in rank. And we got many of them out of here, too. I'd be honest with you. like doing it but we got many of you out of here because we weren't satisfied we have we know everything about everybody it will also help the united states rapidly rebuild our defense industrial base each of you can play an important part in getting allies to do their part so to that end secretary haggseth will soon be announcing major reforms to streamline military acquisitions and expedite foreign military sales we have tremendous numbers of countries

that want to buy our equipment and you know in many cases it takes too long they're backloged we're backlogged on all the equipment which is something that's new to us a little bit and i told those companies you better get your ass going because we're you know we're buying we're selling you a lot of equipment we're getting countries to buy your equipment you got to produce the equipment some of the countries i'm not going to mention but some of the countries are buying a lot and that's a good thing they're on our side 95 percent. I'll never say 100 percent because it can always turn, right? You know about that. But they're on our side. The problem is we have to get the companies that make this equipment.

We make the best equipment in the world, but they've got to make it faster. We have orders for the F-35. We have orders for everything. The new F-47. We have orders for everything. They've got to make it faster, a lot faster. Ammunition, they have to make faster. In the coming months, we'll be making even more historic announcements to fully embrace the identity of the Department of War. I love the name. I think it's so great. I think it stops wars. The Department of War is going to stop wars. If we are as ruthless and relentless as our enemies, the United States Armed Forces will be totally unmatched in the future. We have a group of enemies that are very ruthless and very smart, but they can't match us. They can't match us. They don't even come close to matching us.

Again, you know, it's very important for me to say we are the greatest military in the world, but we make the best equipment in the world. I watched our anti-missile missiles. I watched our patriots just knock things like a needle, hitting another needle on the stage. There's a needle up there, and you send another needle up, and it hits it every time. During the world, we're on 14 for 14. We had 14. This is where Iran. We had 14 missiles coming at us. All 14 were knocked out of the sky, every one of them. We make the best equipment. From Sparta to Rome to the British Empire to the United States of America, history has shown that military supremacy has never been simply a matter of money or manpower. At the end of the day, it is the culture, spirit of our

military that truly sets us apart from any other nation. Our ultimate strength will always come from the fierce people and those brilliant people with such pride and the unbending will and the traditions of excellence that have made us the most unstoppable force ever to walk the face of the earth. And that's what we are. Remember, we never want to use it, but we have the most powerful nuclear capability, and I call it nuclear deterrent of any other country. nobody close. The men and women in this room inherit the legacy built and won by Washington and Jackson, Grant and Pershing, Eisenhower, and Patton, Nimitz, and LeMay. We carry forward the majestic military heritage passed down from father to son, soldier to soldier, and one generation of warriors to the next. You are warriors. You know that, right? You're great warriors. Well, you wouldn't be in this room. You're the best of the best. from Concord Bridge to Fort McCann... Did you lock the front door?

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you. Now we are discovering American muscle, reasserting American might, and beginning the next story chapter in American military legends and war. That's L-O-R-E. It is lore. When it comes to defending our way of life, nothing will slow us. No enemy will stop us. They cannot stop us. And no adversary will stand in our way. They won't stand in our way. We don't want to stand in our way. We don't want to even put them in that position, but they're not going to stand in our way ever again. You'll never see four years like we had with Biden and that group of incompetent people that ran this country that should have never been there. Because we had the United States military, the best of oldest, the bravest that the world has ever seen, that the world has ever known. With leaders like we have,

right here in this beautiful room today, we will vanquish every danger and crush every threat to our freedom and every generation to come because we will fight, fight, fight, and we will win, win, win. I want to just thank you once again and God bless the United States military

and God bless America. God bless you all. Thank you very much. Thank you. Oh, hell yeah. Do my best to not say amen during that speech and I like shout audibly. Sorry that we had a little glitching with the feed. The feed that we were using was the Pentagon feed.

So I don't know. Someone's getting fired. But we switched over to the White House feed and that feed was clean as whistle. President Trump waxing poetic for an hour and 20 minutes to the generals. An hour and 20 minutes to every single general admiral flag officer and United States military. president Trump dropping truth nuke after truth nuke and just sort of like giving a state of the military play like just saying we're going to lead through strength we're going to abandon some of the horrible policies that led to a woke military and a military that doesn't win

wars that is far more concerned yeah about like having transgender bathrooms and pregnant pregnant fighter pilot suits and woke advertisements getting activists into the military you talk to anybody in the military they'll tell you that the biggest issue right now in the military, the people who signed up actually during the Biden era

that signed up because they thought that this would be a woke welfare program for them and that they never had to fight wars. I'm on a text chain right now and I'm talking with a couple of guys, real skull crackers, military, GWAT veterans, people that are so. and people still go fight and do very, very dirty and dangerous things to keep us all safe at night.

Very mean men. And they're saying their biggest problem is that the people who signed up during the Biden era that President Trump just spent most of the speech talking about, those people don't want to kill. They don't want to fight. They didn't sign up to kill. This is something that they hear regularly. And these are men who are in command in the military and they have hundreds, if not thousands of troops under them. and they're saying that this is the biggest problem is that because the military projected

itself as some type of woke social experiment that everybody who signed up during that time believe that they were signing up in order to embrace some type of Pixar version of the military Pixar movie version of the military like love and feels and like handing out like aid packages that's not what the military does and president Trump coming in over the top after the Pete Hegseth absolute barn burner of a speech and President Trump coming in over the top and saying let's freaking rock it's beautiful between the two of them very interesting Pete Hegseth took sort of the uh the stick approach right Trump took the feather approach right carrot approach president Trump was like very calm like

you actually after Pete Higgs says like general patent style speech you didn't need someone to come in over the top and like scream and yell and rage and rant Pete Hegeseth did enough like masculine energy and Donald Trump came in like very cool and chill like joking a little bit like loosening everyone up and then being like if you don't like if you don't like what I have to say here then you're all going to lose your ranks and you'll be fired this is how Trump starts the speech but sort of like giving what seemed like not a scripted speech at all and just Trump off the top of the dome where he is the absolute best speaking to his generals just as people and like talking through the issues of the world, whether it be Gaza or Ukraine, Putin,

his relationships with various African countries, how the American military is advancing in technology, how we're behind in technology, and then the culture changes that need to happen. It was pitch perfect between Trump and Hegsef, pitch perfect. Well done. I can understand why young men would want to sign up to the military. In fact, young men are signing up with military in record numbers. It has been one of the single highest recruitment seasons by percentage ever for the American military. And it's because of Trump's guidance. Now maybe you're not going to sign up for the military. Maybe that's not for you.

I can tell you this. I come from a military family. Many members of my direct family fought for this country. It's something that is incredibly proud. And I got to tell you, This like, if this version of the Pentagon goes forward, I have two sons, like I would be very proud of they enlisted in the military as well. Ladies and gentlemen, if that's not for you, then you can still enlist for Trump. You can still own, well, a little piece of American, American strength. This is my, look at the size of this thing. That is a massive tumbler. This is my Trump tumbler in the morning.

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Ashley, this is our mission today. Forgive us. We've been letting a rip over the last couple of weeks. So thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, President Trump, is well getting paid holy moly youtube will pay president trump 25 million dollars to settle a lawsuit over 2021 account suspension this is now donald trump has made a hundred million dollars off lawsuits from either corporate media companies or social media platforms that banned him

the total and complete absolute reversal and it has been an amazing thing to watch a hundred million dollars man trump sued the alphabet owned video sharing platform in july 2021 alleging that YouTube unlawfully silenced his conservative viewpoints, the company suspended his account. The lawsuit was originally for 200 million, and Donald Trump has settled for 25 million. Nice. The settlement happened yesterday evening. The bulk of the money will go towards construction of the new White House ballroom. Now, that's nice. Wow, that's interesting. Some of this money may also go towards his presidential library. Nice. We actually have a big announcement on that. Can you please grab that Eric Trump tweet? I want to make sure that everybody understands

that there's been a massive announcement. We are not even through year one of the Trump administration and they're already building his presidential library. Presidential libraries often take decades. Obama's is not even close to done. It is a hideous, brutalist cement block that looks like a toll booth or a trash can in Chicago. There's no end in sight. I think Donald Trump's presidential library will probably be done by the time he leaves office in 2008. Eric Trump announcing that Miami is, they have begun breaking ground on Trump's presidential

library. Do you understand this? This is so awesome. Get the cheers ready. This is so amazing. The efficiency of this family. I am extremely proud, says Eric Trump, to announce a unanimous vote by the Florida cabinet of conveyance.

on the land for the Donald Trump presidential library, which will be located in Miami, Florida. Very nice. Not terribly far from us. Very quick flight. There's like 200 a day from Tampa to Miami. Takes like 30 minutes to get there, so we look forward to being there a lot.

It will be the greatest presidential library ever built honoring the greatest president our nation has ever known, and we want to thank DeSantis and the Attorney General of the state. His name's James Uthmire. He's been on the program. He's been physically in our studio. Great. dude, who have been incredible partners in this endeavor, consistent with the families, with our

family's DNA, this will be one of the most beautiful buildings ever built, an icon in the Miami skyline. Rest assured, it will not look like Obama's prison-like structure. Oh, that's good. Oh, I love that. Oh, that's amazing. Things are happening, ladies and gentlemen, things are happening and they're happening at a wild and exciting rate. I cannot tell you the speed at which everything is moving right now. I have an important update about the news that we broke yesterday, quite organically, actually, with Nicole Shanahan about saving California. I'll get to that in just one moment. Speaking of moving quickly and adapting quickly, Allio Capital helps us adapt quickly with our portfolio.

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Text Benny to 5-E-1-1. Download the All-Eo app today. All right, ladies and gentlemen. I have announcements, and then we have some great guests that are lined up. I'm just checking in with my producers. Fantastic. Congressman Mark Harris is getting ready to rock. Okay.

So let's talk about what's been happening. Hey, Alex, could you grab my tweet about Kid Rock? Rock and California. We're going to make some announcements today. So yesterday we talked or maybe just grab like the Nicole Shanahan. I want Nicole Shanahan tweets, Steve Hilton tweets. Just grab a couple of those just to pop up because I want you to understand what the show is going to be about. Yes, the show is about memes.

Yes, we want to have fun here in the stream. Yes, we want to take Trump live and like have like a great obviously like look at the chat. Love the chat. We love the chat. We've added new emojis to the chat. Ladies and gentlemen, I think Jerry has added a Christiandom emoji. A Christian, Christ-Crist-Centered emoji. We'll see.

Jerry's designing one right now. But anyway, the point is that the show is here for us to have community and to organize. That's the purpose of the show. What do we want? We want to leave our country better for our children. Then we found it. That's the goal. That's the mission of the show.

We want to leave a functional country to our children. We want to deport the communists, okay? It's a great thing. And we want to do this through victory. We want to do this not through like, like there's, it's like what we did with Jimmy Kimmel. Everyone in yap, yap, yap, yap, yep, yep. No, you have to actually fight.

You have to actually leverage and wield power. You have to find pressure points and use them. Republicans are such weaklings. So much like we did this weekend with Penn. state and much like we're about to do in new jersey we're going to announce something very big in new jersey we're going to do something very big because new jersey can be one new jersey we can have a republican governor in new jersey we can flip that state red and we can flip california red and we talked about this with the cole shant an yesterday Nicole popped up the post and went

thermonuclear Nicole popped it up and she was like you know who wants us to save california with Benny Johnson and Scott Pressler. And boy, this thing cooked. Steve Hilton posted it as well. Please click on the original tweet here. Boy, this sucker, look at that. Millions of views. We posted it as well, millions of views, and we mean it.

So we are about, like, here's what the show is going to do. And this is what, of course, somebody who very much served as a brother and a mentor to me, Charlie Kirk, taught me, quite frankly. And so we're doing it in honor of him. You have to take that digital energy. You have to take the clicks and the views and the likes and the comments and you have to turn it into something real. The left would like for everything to just stay in a digital ecosystem and for us to not actually organize, for us to not actually register voters, for us actually not to push signature petitions to get voter ID on the ballot in California. They don't want that.

The right has all the digital energy. We have the biggest creators. We have the most robust ecosystem. We are the smartest. When it comes to free speech, it's the most attractive for young people. Nobody wants what the left is selling. Nobody wants anything that they're doing. Everybody can see that the left is in wholesale collapse,

that their policies have utterly failed the American people. They want liberty. Liberty provided to them by their Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, but also exercised through a constitutional government morally run by people who love this land. I don't hate it. And so we have so many events. but the one thing that the left does that we don't do is organize and so this show is going to be

taking the enormous amount of digital energy that we have and if you know someone tell them to download the podcast if you know someone tell them to subscribe tell them to pour in to this program because we are going to be using this energy and we're going to be following simply the incredible guidance of the servant leader charlie kirk was a servant leader Charlie Kirk would show up and was straight up. Man, I wish you could just, you should go find it. You should go find this photo of Charlie Kirk on election night. Where was Charlie Kirk on election night?

He should have been inside of a massive rally. He could have been at Marlago, you know, sipping a seltzer with a little lime spritz. Charlie Kirk could have been in an arena with 70,000 people cheering for him. But on election night, on the day of the election, 24, Charlie Kirk was like in Yuma, Arizona, talking like 17 pink-haired old ladies who were there to like knock doors for Trump.

And he was on a park bench. Charlie understood that like the vast majority of the work is going to be like thankless. It's going to take hitting the bricks, doing the work, signing people up, going town to town, person to person,

like being real, like creating something real in the real world. That's what we did with the 5,000 shirts at Penn State. We were able to get their shirts on national TV. We were able to change, we were able to get, we got the number one sports story in the world. We're not a sports site. We had the number one sports story in the world, not barstool, not outkick. We did.

Through our partnership with Turning Point USA and the incredible structure that's been built there, we were able to go and change culture. So we're going to like continue to do that. We're going to hit the bricks. We're going to do the work. We're registered the voters. We're to sign the petitions. We're going to give the speeches.

We're going to do rallies. big and small, in your hometown. And we're going to give touch points for you to understand that it's not only this movement real, but this movement is here to have a real world effect and change your life for the better, change my children's lives for the better, your grandchildren, children, or perhaps future children, lives for the better. And you're going to be able to see that real world effect. I want a million Charlie Kirk Freedom shirts worn with pride.

I want hundreds of millions of MAGA hats. worn with pride. And I want to scare the hell out of the left. Because quite frankly, it's a spiritual war, and a lot of this stuff does come straight from hell. And so that's the war that we're fighting, a war of darkness versus light, good versus evil,

and we're going to take that evil energy and we're going to turn it into good. That's a promise Christianity. And so yesterday with, it was just like natural with Nicole Shanahan, she's like, I want to put voter ID on the California ballot. Well, guess what? If you get voter ID on the California ballot, here's what you got to do. You got to get a million signatures. And if you get a million signatures, then it gets placed

as a question on the ballot during the election, 2016 election. And that question, you know, you got to get the signatures in this time frame of October to March. You got to get a million signatures. They're going to throw some out. So you got to get, you got to get more. It's actually 825,000, but you got to get more than that because they're going to try and throw them out. Remember, Democrats don't care about signatures as long as there are people voting for Democrats in Maricopa County. They could care less about like the little scribbles, right, on all the mail and ballots. But if it's something like this, they're going to track every single name, every single signature. They're going to do everything they can. So you've got to like flood the

signatures in California. If you get mandatory voter ID on the ballot in California, by the way, this was just done in Wisconsin. It can't be done. Yeah. they did in Wisconsin, Democrats didn't even fight it because they know how terrible it's going to look if they try to actually run a campaign against mandatory voter ID. Voter ID, as we have demonstrated on this program, is the possibly the single most lopsided issue in America. Grabbing the polling. It's the most lopsided issue in America. It's a 90-10 issue. Democrats are often on a 20-80 or 70-30 split. This is a 90-10 issue. We are going to get the signatures to place that question on the ballot. will win overwhelmingly. As long as we get the signatures, they have to place it on the ballot.

They don't have a choice. It's the way California works. So that's what we're going to do. And I'm telling you the way that God works is remarkable. I'm probably saying too much here, but I've already had people offering millions of dollars to help out. I've had donors come to us and say, we are ready to give you whatever it takes to get this done. I've had some of the biggest superstructures and some of the biggest names in the world, in politics and in entertainment. Come to me and say, we will do whatever it takes in order to get this done. So prepare, prepare for massive rallies, prepare for a massive operation,

prepare for us to be the cheerleader, ringleader for this issue. this is actually how we, in a real world way, save the country. And let me present to you something remarkable about the state of California. You know, state of California has 54 electoral votes, there are actually the single most lopsided and gerrymandered state in the country when it comes to the allocation of those house seats by congressional. you could potentially add 10 to 20 house seats. If you had fair elections in California,

you could add 20 more votes for Republicans in the House of Representatives. You could throw the House of Representatives not by redistricting, but by literally just having fair and free elections without illegal criminal votes in California, you could win the House forever. You could make it so out of bounds

if you just had fair elections in California. Imagine how terrified Democrats would be. If you had fair elections in California, pardon me. And if California went into play, do you realize like how impossible it would be for a Democrat to win without California? They're already going to lose like five electoral votes

in the 2030 census. So it already had a disadvantage. And then if you put California in play, if you started winning there in the culture war and if Democrats had to go defend California do you realize how broke they would already be they'd go there and trying to like

have to defend their home territory this is what winning a war is we just were at the Quantico with Trump and Hagseth this is like a culture war I am not a military man I have not served in the military

I got friends and brothers who have I love them all. But we have a different battlefield, and I'm pretty good at fighting on it. And we've gotten real results in our culture war against the left. And our tactical culture war against the left, because frankly, culture matters more than politics. And California is the epicenter of culture, and we're going to go, we're going to go deliver a California revival. That's what I'm going to call it. I made that decision right now live on the show.

We're going to call this the California Revival Movement. And we're going to be working with some of the biggest names in California, some of the biggest names in all politics, some of the biggest names in culture. And this is going to scare the hell out of the left. I use that term on purpose because it is a spiritual battle. When you're assassinating people and when you're killing, and shooting up churches, and when you're continuing to use the language, of course, that begets assassination as Gavin Newsom's team has done to Stephen Miller over the last 24 hours.

It makes me very angry. Stephen Miller is my friend. Charlie Kirk is and was my friend, Charlie Kirk, alive in heaven with his Savior, Jesus Christ, but gone for this mortal plane. Like, that's just evil. That's what Gavin Newsom is doing right now. so it's time ladies and gentlemen you wouldn't believe the phone calls i've gotten over the last 24 hours we're going to be using the power of this audience for good remember when you subscribe when you like when you follow the show when you share a clip when you tell your friends to do the same that's what you are encouraged this is what you are building into it costs you absolutely nothing i don't ask anyone for anything you know the like and the subscribe they're totally free

on any platform that you're watching on, but that's what you're helping us build. That's what you're helping us build is the power to go and do this and have a real world. You'll be part of it. You'll be part of it. You'll have a say.

You'll have a piece of that history. With me, us, together. We're going to go stage of revival in California. Get ready. California revival. Ladies and gentlemen, It's going to change the country forever.

Okay. Very excited about that. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, it looks like I'm just checking in. I'm checking in with my team here. After that little rant, how to give you update. Looks like Crawford, Chairman Rick Crawford is set and ready. We had a wonderful congressman, Congressman Harris,

but I've heard that his internet has gone completely out. Yeah, where he lives. And so, unfortunately, we're going to, he's from North Carolina. We're going to be asking, we were going to be asking him about obviously the arena and so on. But unfortunately, Congressman Harris will not be able to join us. His internet is completely out. Thankfully, we have Rick Crawford.

Fantastic Congressman for Arkansas, a place that we're going to be spending. a little bit of time. He's also somebody who has a spectacular tie-in with the Pentagon Intel community with so much of what we've just spent the show chatting about. And ladies and gentlemen, I can't wait to talk with them today. So ladies and gentlemen, Intelligence Chairman Rick Crawford on the show live now. Thank you so much for joining us. I love the background, Congressman. This is fantastic.

Hey, Congressman, be there with us? Can you hear the show? All right, we're going to pop them off the screen, and we're going to do our best to ask, do our best to ask our producers to please make sure that the congressmen know when they're about to go on. And we apologize for that,

to the congressman and his team. We have a tighter production schedule than that around here, and so we apologize again, and we'll make sure that the congressman is set and ready because we certainly would like to hop on. It sounds like he couldn't hear us. And so ladies and gentlemen, we will make sure that the congressman is ready and bring them back. All right. Are you excited about that in California? You excited about the California revival? Oh, man, I am. What about illegal aliens. Look at this. You're going to love this. This is one of the happiest stories of the day. Illegal alien suspects detained after pointing laser at border patrol helicopter. Okay. So there's this one illegal alien that was shooting a laser up at a helicopter. Now,

this is something that could crash the helicopter. We've seen some helicopter crashes that are horrible. This is something that clearly is intended to harm the pilot. If you point the laser at the wrong, you know, at the, if you, if you hit it just right, I mean, this is like bad things can happen. Another thing that could happen is the helicopter, you know, you could assume that perhaps someone intends you harm or is trying to target you, right? And so then the helicopter, you know, so then the military helicopter may well, you know, have to engage, right?

It's a terrible thing to do. So there was a, so the one, this criminal aliens doing this, like shining a laser at the helicopter. So they raid him and they find a bunch of other criminal aliens. It's amazing. It's like a Joseph A. Banks suit sale. You get three for one. Four people are in custody. After one of them allegedly pointed a laser at law enforcement aircraft flying over Portland, of course it's Portland.

Federal Bureau of Investigation, Portland Division announced on Monday that they, They located and searched the home of a suspect who's accused of aiming a laser at Customs and Border Patrol helicopter. The helicopter, as well as another aircraft, was being used to conduct law enforcement activity. They were pointing a laser at it, according to the FBI. And the FBI raided the home and found a bunch of other criminal aliens. Come on, man. Agents contacted the suspects as well as other people who lived at the home on Monday morning to determine and determine that they were all. in the United States illegally. All four of them are now in ICE custody and their identities

have not been released. Very good. I believe we have a local news report. Let's rock. Enforcement agencies have taken four people into custody after they say they pointed laser pointers at a border patrol helicopter over the skies of Portland. The FBI Portland division says Customs and Border Patrol were in the sky Saturday when several people aimed laser pointers at them. The FBI Homeland Security and in other federal agencies serving a search warrant at a home that they say was connected to this incident. They say those four suspects that they took into custody

are also undocumented and were transferred to ICE enforcement and removal spots. Oh boy. Well, you know what? I hope they have a very Felice Navidad, wherever they happen to be going next. What did Pete Hedgeseth Hayes say today? You F around?

you find out. F-A-F-O. Do we have that clip, Klein? Let me just put that up one more time. I promise. I don't normally replay clips, but it's just such a beautiful clip, and it's only like 10 seconds long. Give the people, one more Pete Heggseth, F-A-F-O, go. Precision and ferocity of the War Department. In other words, to our enemies, F-A-F-O. if necessary our troops can translate that for you that's great another way to put it is peace through strength brought to you by the warrior ethos and we are restoring both boom very good they after round and they found out ladies and gentlemen i say felice novidad on purpose because well christmas is coming up we are going to be launching

our Christmas store all over again. Last year, we were the number one Christmas ornament salesman in the world because of our Donald Trump electoral map. I used to have one in here. I have a little I have a standing desk here and I have a drawer, but I don't have anymore. So let's make sure that we have the ornament. I want the ornament in the actual desk. But anyway, it was this, you know, maybe you have one. People come up and like show me pictures of their Christmas ornament. We sold Well, we sold a lot. I mean, we sold like, I think, 55,000 of these Christmas tournaments. And we're, we don't do that professionally.

We sold them for literally at cost. We sold them for five bucks, right? We sold them. We've handmade them. We made them here in America and we sold them for five bucks. Anyway, it was a massive success for our team and we're so excited about it. And we have new stuff that's going to be the same thing. We're just going to sell it at cost.

We want every Christmas, we want every hat to have, we want every head in America to have a MAGA hat. We want every chest in America to have a Charlie Kirk, Kirk Freedom shirt on it. There's a, there's a good example right there. And we want every Christmas tree to have our Christmas ornament. I know we have, we filmed like a promo video. Can you grab that? It was a year ago. We filmed like a really nice, very, like, crispy promo video for the Christmas ornament.

I'm just so proud of it. And we're going to do it again. Every tree should have one of these. And it's five, but there's a good. there's a good one there's your there's your country by the way that little like that the blue close blue coast over there that's going to red we're going to help maybe we should do that this year maybe we should do like coming soon states that we will flip red should we do that new jersey and california anyway the point is that we're that makes us very proud uh and get ready for more of that

shopify is the company that helped us deliver these christmas ornaments we could not do it without shopify we could not do it alex find the video i want the i want that video that we like made a video we made a promo video for the actual ornament we're going to be opening up our store uh Shopify is going to be helping us they're actually helping us right now build the backbone and infrastructure making sure that we can ship quickly accurately and get these ornaments out to everyone we are not going to do what happened last year what happened last year is like we were like we were like up all hours of the night we like never stopped we like made or not we would be The weed redlined for 24-7.

No, man, we are preparing this year, and Shopify is helping us. They helped us last year, but the inventory part is up to us. Shopify not only allowed us to have one-click ordering for these ornaments. Again, we're just going to do them at cost. There are five bucks. Made 100% here in America by veterans. There are five bucks. One-click, Shopify.

Caching! There we go. One-click. That's Shopify for us. Not only that, they were able to, like, help us. with marketing, the backend on our website, like ensure that we had like easy integration into the show. They have a bunch of other like incredible new widgets now to assist in this.

It's going to be amazing. You should use it for your business. What I'm saying is this is how I use it for mine. You use it for yours. Everybody's got a great business idea, right? Shopify can help you do that. They can turn your dreams into an actual. Caching in your bank account.

Give you a success. story. Use Shopify. Make the world a better place. You probably have a great business idea. Again, use Shopify to make that business idea come true. So go to Shopify.com slash Benny. Find out for their $1 per month trial. Start selling today. Shopify.com slash Benny. Shopify.com slash Benny. Let's go. Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, we hear that my producers tell me that our wonderful member of Congress is back in action. let's see we have chairman Rick Crawford from Arkansas chairman of the Senate Intel Committee and also a United States Army veteran joining us right now

Mr. Chairman how are you can you do you got us now Mr. Chairman how are you doing can you hear us I mean, I love the background. Listen, I love the background. I love the nature show background. It's beautiful. Producers, I'm sorry, but something's just not right. And we're not going to keep doing this to the poor chairman.

I would love to hear what he has to say. But unfortunately, this is number two and he just can't hear the show. Maybe it's in his, you know, sometimes when they're using the wireless headset, it's just the way it goes. We do it live here on the program in case you're wondering. We do actually literally do it live. and make sure that those who are joining us are doing it in an authentic way

and sometimes from their backyards and beautiful Arkansas. And that's just like sometimes the way it goes. You have technical, you have technical difficulties. So I'm sorry, producers. We normally have, we normally have like really crisp, clean guests, but perhaps, perhaps there is a problem with the connection there for the chairman.

So unfortunately, I think we're going to just going to have to move on. And we have Senator Rick Scott, who will also be joining us in just a few minutes. So why don't you go ahead and jump on the horn and see if Rick Scott can join us? We had a technical error with our first guest, massive power outage in North Carolina. That's been happening quite a bit, obviously. A lot of those areas are still reeling from the hurricane that happened a year ago. And now we've had, unfortunately, another technical error. And that's just the way that it goes.

Okay. Well, ladies and gentlemen, President Trump has every right to talk about the Nobel Peace. Peace Prize. He has every right to want the Nobel Peace Prize. Yesterday, he unveiled his 20-point Gaza ceasefire plan running for the Board of Peace. He's not running for it. He will be running the Board of Peace. And he says that Israel will finish the job if Hamas objects. So let's go ahead and look at the map. All right. Let's go ahead and look at the map. And we did a hit yesterday, talked about, you know, the differences between this in the Ukraine war and the war in Gaza. So here's the map that was proposed by the White House. What you can see here in this map is that, well, Hamas has lost the war. You know, you're not winning the war here. You've lost all your territory. And, you know, most of it's just rubble anyway. And we're not here to debate that. What I'm here to say is that the desire of this show is to not have foreign wars that potentially entangle America.

and cause a new forever war, I am in my late 30s. My entire life, America has practically been in forever war, either in Desert Storm or in Iraq or Afghanistan. My entire life, there have been some kind of idiotic forever war that has plunged our nation's treasure, treasury, and then our greatest treasure, like the lives of our men and women, like the lives of our men and women,

that is our single greatest treasure, cutting them short, court. Yeah, I'm done. I'm done with Forever War. I don't want it. So what you're going to find on this program is you're going to find that I want the wars to end. I want the war in Gaza to end. I want the war in Ukraine to end. And I don't want these things to spiral out of control as they tend to do. We have allies in both scenarios. And America, you know, you can get hooked and suckered in to broader regional conflicts very quickly. So that's what I want, right?

Israel's sitting here proposing, hey, yo, listen, you lost the war. This is what's fundamentally different about Ukraine, where Russia is gaining territory. Hamas is losing territory. So it's kind of hard to actually compare the two. It's what makes Russia and the Ukraine war such a more difficult negotiation. But nonetheless, here's what was proposed yesterday. Yo, we will give, we will give back Gaza to, you know, like Palestinian control. I'm not sure what you really want to call it here, but it's not going to be a terror state.

There's going to be a zone where we will retreat back, we will give back the territory. When the hostages are released, you still have hostages. And then when you have mobilized a. Trump plan that has been mobilized so that you don't become a terror state. This I can totally agree with. Then there's going to be like a third withdrawal, which is going to be a security buffer zone. Can we do this with Mexico? Like, are we allowed to do that?

Can I, am I allowed to say like, can I, I want the same thing with Mexico? You shouldn't have terror cells operating on your border. Only if you're an idiot. Would you allow that? That's what's happening in Mexico. The cartels. Can we do the same thing? Can we have our own Gaza plan on the border with Mexico?

goodness gracious like no no rational nation wants to exist like that president trump proposing this according to a axios president trump bringing to bear a considerable amount of pressure on bvina and yahoo to end this war and to be done to be rid of it all the arab nations support this which is wild go ahead and read this this is from the ministry of foreign affairs Qatar. Joint statement from the foreign ministers of Qatar.

ALX, help me out here. I know the comment section is probably screaming at me. Everyone who screams at me when I say nuclear. Everyone yells at me. I know. I know I say it wrong.

Is it Qatar? Is it Qatar or is it Qatar? I'm trying to be an educated man here. I'm trying to be a respectful man. An international man of mystery. Qatar or Qatar? Let's go with Qatar right now. Foreign ministers of Qatar, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt.

They all welcome Donald Trump's sincere efforts to end the war in Gaza. Whoa. That's wild. Now all of my, now all of my, now all my producers are yelling. about what it is, whether it's Qatar or Qatar. Now, everyone's, everyone's screaming at each other. All my producers are in the producer chat, like, arguing amongst each other.

No, we're going to have to get an actual answer on this. We're going to have to get an actual, we're going to have to figure it out. All right. So we'll see. Ladies and gentlemen. We'll be joined, we'll be joined by Rick Scott here

in what should be right now. But like, tell the senator, right now, Qatar, officially Qatar. Okay. What does the statement say? The statement says that all the Arabs love Trump's plan. Let's do this thing.

Let's give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize and just lock it in right now. 20-point Gaza ceasefire plan. Good. Libs should be celebrating in the streets right now. They won't. They deserve to give Donald Trump the Nobel Peace Prize for this. Donald Trump saying he's had frustrations with Vladimir Putin in his speech today. But, man, this.

What a run! This champ is picking up speed. But they found a lane. Phenomenal launch into the air. Absolutely incredible Air Transat. Fly the seven-time world's best leisure airline champions, Air Transat. This one seems. like an easy negotiation because Hamas is like just lost right you've lost the war so it's

probably best to just say let's let's end the slaughter right let's end the death let's end the destruction um and nobody wants to have a terror state on their border hello Mexico hello the foreign ministers of Qatar Jordan UAE Indonesia Pakistan Turkey Saudi Arabia Egypt welcome Donald Trump's leadership in the sincere effort to end the war in Gaza and assert their confidence in his ability to find a past peace. They emphasize the importance of the partnership of the United States and securing peace in the region. Along with these lines, the ministers welcome the announcement of President Trump regarding the proposal to end the war, rebuild Gaza, prevent the displacement of Palestinian people in advance comprehensive peace plan as well

as an announcement that he will not allow the annexation of the West Bank. The ministers firm their readiness to engage positively and constructively with the United States. It's a beautiful thing. this is actually how you de-escalate this is how you prevent forever war and that is what this channel wants excellent okay President Trump

banging his chest and saying yo all the Arabs are on board the Israelis are on board he announces this of course with BB at the White House the Arabs the Israelis are on board new Abraham Accords like let's do peace in the Middle East let's not do forever war

let's everyone go make a giant bag this is a region where like there's tons of resources and money and and motion and people investing in and let's like find a way for everyone to live peacefully and to not have Americans spend another like seven trillion dollars in the desert and leave all of our equipment to the Taliban and a bunch of go herders that'd be awesome for me okay I'd rather like take my kids there you know on vacation someday when they're older than to like have to worry about my sons being sent over there, right, to be buried in the sand. I don't want that. That's my take, right? Thank God for President Trump, President of Peace. Here's President Trump saying the Arabs and the Jews,

they love my plan. Let's go. I'm pleased to report that earlier today, we took another important step toward greater understanding of the region. A short time ago, we had a historic phone call in the Oval Office with Prime Minister Tani, who's really, who's really, a great person so we had a great talk and I was on the phone and Bibi was talking

Prime Minister Al-Tani was of Qatar was they really had a heart-to-heart conversation. It was a great conversation I thought it was productive it was everything that you need

to have something turn out to be successful and I want to thank Bibi and I want to thank the Prime Minister that was fantastic We agreed to launch a formal trilateral mechanism between Israel, Qatar, and the United States to begin a dialogue to enhance mutual security, correct misperceptions, and avoid future misgivings. And I want to thank Qatar its leadership. And the Emir, he's a fantastic person. I think, you know, I'm going to be his public relations man because I know him differently that a lot of people know him.

But he wants peace. he wants to see peace and its people and they really acknowledge the critical role that they've played as mediator. And again, we're not quite finished. We have to get Hamas, but I think they're going to be able to do that. Get you a president who can do both.

And I got to say just before we get to the senator because I want him to respond, you know, obviously to this very important, like obviously President Trump, the President of Peace, negotiating peace in the Middle East, and also meming his enemies. enemies. I've often advocated for the Department of Memes. Department of War very important,

but meming your enemies is what actually most dictators fear. Xi Jinping fears being compared to Winnie the Pooh. Kim Jong-un was called Little Rocket Man, said his little red button doesn't work. Donald Trump actually works. Trump memed Kim Jong-un into peace. Trump memed Chinese leaders to their knees. And Trump is now meming Chuck Schumer. and Hakeem Jeffries with an AI-generated video after failed government shutdown meeting. Now, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem-Jeffries want unlimited money for criminal aliens. Donald Trump is, you know, going to do the full Wakanda, right? We don't do that here.

We don't do that here. And Donald Trump has decided that the memes are memes of warfare. again, I will gladly serve. I'm not going to serve in federal government, but I will gladly accept the role of the chairman of the Department of Memes. If the president will so happy, I will humbly put my hat in the ring for that.

Trump mocks Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, nay, I generated video, failed government shutdown meeting, and we have the meme for you. It is one of the funniest things we've ever seen in our lives. And since Senator Rick Scott has to work with Chuck Schumer every single day, We thought we'd just play it, and then we'll go to Senator Rick Scott and ask him about this.

It does have a naughty, naughty language warning, right, ALX? Naughty language warning. But nonetheless, the President of the United States has made a statement, and here it is. Look, guys, there's no way to sugarcoat it. Nobody likes Democrats anymore. We have no voters left because of all of our woke trans bullshit. Not even black people want to vote for us anymore. Even Latinos hate us.

So we need new voters. And if we give all these illegal aliens free health care, we might be able to get them on our side so they can vote for us. They can't even speak English. So they won't realize we're just a bunch of woke pieces of shit, you know, at least for a while until they learn English and they realize they hate us too. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us live right now. This distinguished senator from Florida, Rick Scott.

Senator, you know, I guess I, you have the honor of responding to that meme from the president of the United States. Given the fact that you have to work with Chuck Schumer every single day, how do you think he liked it? Oh, he wants nice. I don't actually work with Chuck Schumer. He doesn't talk to me. He won't. The only time he ever said his name is when he attacks me on the center floor. He won't get on the elevator with me. So it's actually, it's actually not that hard. I don't know what's distinguished to be to laugh at that mean, but actually you have to laugh about it because unfortunately, there's probably a lot of truth said and just. Yeah, okay. So I guess let's start with the government shutdown. I know that you yourself are actually a military veteran. So I'd love to get to President Trump's Pentagon speech at Quantico to all of the generals.

But let's start with the government shutdown because that's, I think, going to start ticking away tonight. We may be facing a government shutdown. So the battle lines are that Democrats want to give infinity money to criminal aliens to come here and to legally break our laws. Is that it? That's pretty much it. So here's the deal. we are supposed to pass a budget. I've been up here six half years, no budgets.

So the Chuck Schumer wants a $3, I think it's a $3.5.5. Health care for illegals, I guess they think that they're going to vote for them somehow. But with Trump's work to make sure people, illegals don't have the right to vote, I think that might be a little bit harder going forward. So I don't think there's any question. Schumer's going to shut down the government tonight at midnight. I don't know how he's going to get out of this because Republicans are united

that we're not going to we're not going to give in to continue unbelievable wasteful spending. We did have a vote last night on a bill that would never allow us to shut down government. Unfortunately, we didn't win that vote either. Democrats completely voted against it and a few Republicans.

Ron Johnson led that effort, but it's a way to stop this craziness of potentially shutting down government. We shouldn't shut down government, Although maybe if this gives Trump the opportunity to reduce the size of government and get us to a balanced budget, maybe it's going to pay off. Yes. 100,000 federal workers leaving the federal workforce. Can you update us on that? Are those numbers real? What's the status there? We'll find out. So think about how many how many more federal workers do we need? When I was governor of Florida, we went from I think about 127,000 workers when I got elected and down to about 112,000. We've got to. reduce the size of government. We're running two trillion dollar deficits. We have $37 trillion

with a debt. So, you know, it's like I love everybody that works their butt off, but government is too big. We've got to get the private sector to grow, not government to grow. So I talk to I talk to Russ Foe quite a bit. He's doing everything and can run O&B to figure out how do we get to a balanced budget. If this gives Trump the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending and have non-essential workers not employed by the federal government. Think about this. How would you feel, right, if in your show, how many non-essential workers do you have? We have most people at my company do like the jobs of four or five other people, right? You know, normal employees in the economy. Yeah. In the employment sector, every employee is essential. Otherwise, they wouldn't be an employee.

Yes. So how in federal government do we pay for non-essential workers? I mean, I feel like Most workers in the federal government are non-essential. I think Muslim could be replaced by an AI chatbot, frankly. Yeah, well, it looks like that might happen. But we've got to get to a balanced budget. We're hurting the poorest families in this country with this ridiculous inflation. President Trump is committed to a balanced budget. I know Russ voted.

OMB is working on it. There's a few of us in the Senate. They're working hard to get this done. We have got the balance of budget. So, and we've got to understand, we've got risk out there. We got China's a risk. Russia is a risk. Iran's a risk. So we got at least we have a president that's trying to bring peace. Yes, that's exactly right. Again, I want to get to the comments at Quantico in just a

moment. But before we move off the shutdown question, so you say there is going to be a shutdown. Are there going to be any Republicans who vote with Democrats to give criminal aliens infinity money from the taxpayers? I hope not. I don't, I think, well, no, there's going to be, there might be, unfortunately, some Republicans are going to try to extend the COVID tax credits, which ultimately will get money to illegal aliens. So, but we'll see, we'll see if that happens.

We're going to have two votes today. Chuck Schumer, let's go spend another $3.5. dollars and the house plan, which will continue existing spending, which is too high, but it's the only chance we have of keeping government going. Yes. Okay. All right. Well, Godspeed and that endeavor.

You have served in the United States. You served in the United States Navy. Yep. Petty officer, third class USS Glover. Is this correct, Senator? Yes. Okay. And so.

18 years old had Benny how much do you think i got paid my first month in the service what's your guess probably less than a government employee 24 bucks i got married when i was 19 my wife married before my money i was making a whopping $332 a month that wouldn't even you wouldn't be able to order off the McDonald's menu with that these days no we did not eat out yeah yeah all right well the horrors actually of inflation and what they've done to the dollar you know you were able to survive though right you weren't living in a box on the street you weren't living in cardboard box like you were able to at least live you didn't have a lot of i mean my wife and i both worked um she actually made 75 bucks a week as a legal secretary

um and eventually we both finished college and and i went on to get to build businesses and things like that so that's the dream of this country i'm i'm in politics for this reason i want every child in this country to have the same opportunity to live the dream of this country that I had. My mom, she said, you can be anything you want. We live in public housing. You don't even know your natural dad, but guess what? You can be anything because you live in America. That's what I believe in. Yeah, it's just so, you know, it's a conversation that we, that for another time, but because you say that, it's just so hard for young people. Look at a house. It's like, like you being able to live off of a, you know, what, a $200 budget

per month in the 70s? You know, you're talking about the 70s here. I mean, that, again, like that kids can't get by a day, you know, on that. now that's the but it's not because of them it's because actually of how horrifically the dollar has been managed inflation and uh the value of the dollar is collapsing through the floor so it's it's i mean it sucks and the expense the cost of everything just exploding obviously because of the only creator of inflation which is the federal government and government spending yeah um anyway i hope that you come back to talk about that but i wanted to talk about the military speech that you you heard from Heggseth and from Donald Trump.

I assume that you were giving a big old, a big old, uh, or whatever the Navy's version of that is when you were listening to these speeches. Don't just make you feel good. I mean, this is the president that wants peace, uh, but he knows, uh, and the secretary of war said the same thing. We're going to get peace by strength. We're going to get peace because people do not want them crosses. And so I think, I think the secretary did a great job.

I think Trump did a great job. Uh, I think when I talked to our military today, they're excited. They have a commander-in-chief that cares about them, that wants them to be able to do their job. Does one end up in forever wars? We don't need to be sending our troops all over the world to be fighting somebody else's war. Let's get peace through strength. So what would be your message to a young man who wants to enlist in the military today? Oh, I think it's a great opportunity to serve our country. And here's what you know. Your life is not going to be wasted. We're not going to, you're not going to be sent, sent someplace where it's a forever war that we can't win.

You're going to go, you're not going to have to go fight for somebody else's freedom when they don't want to fight for their own freedom. So you're going to defend the freedoms of this country. That's what you're going to do. That's going to be your primary and your only responsibility. That's beautiful. All right. Well, Senator, Godspeed in the Senate. I know you may not be working with Chuck Schumer, but you definitely do work with Mitch McConnell.

And for that, you know, sorry, I'm sorry. And I guess I guess we'll see how Mitch votes, right, in these shutdown votes. And we'll see what happens. But we want to sturdy up the right flank of the Republicans in the Senate. It's going to get better, many. Yes. That's the, that's the right attitude to have for sure. It's easy.

It's easy in the state of Florida. Perhaps a final comment on some big news that came out of a town. that you know very well, Miami this morning, announcing that they're breaking ground on the Trump presidential library, that it's going to change the skyline of Miami. Well, you've seen a lot of change in the skyline of Miami. You actually brought great change to the state of Florida and great building to the state of Florida. Now, what say you about this, former governor and now senator from Florida? It's exciting. It's exciting for Miami for Florida and for the president. You know, when I got elected it back in 2010, there was a 20-year supply of condos on the market in Miami. And we changed the

market. We changed it by cutting taxes, reducing regulation. And we added 1.7 million jobs. And Miami became probably one of the hottest cities we live in in the entire world. So Miami is an exciting place to be. It's a great melting pot. We've got some of the smartest people in the world living there that are very entrepreneurial. Any idea what this library is going to look like? Have you seen any plans? No. I mean, I can, I'm sure it's going to be magnificent. there will be a lot of gold. So it's going to be a big golden tower in the middle of Miami? I'll bet so.

What do you think about? By the way, you should see, you should see the Oval Office now. Trump added the gold leaves in the, in the, in some of the, the roof, the ceiling area. And look, Trump has done an unbelievable job. Everything he touches, he makes better. Okay. All right. Well, I'm sure AI can help us imagine what it look like to have a massive golden Trump

tower. smack dab in the middle of Miami. A growing skyline, that's for sure, and a very impressive one. Don't sleep. Don't sleep on Florida in Miami, man. All the smart money, all the smart people coming down here. They know it's next. So Godspeed, Senator. Thank you for making

this such a great state to live in. We're proud to call it home. And ladies and gentlemen, Rick Scott is our senator from Florida. He's got 700,000-plus subscribers here on X. You should be one of them. Five with the people fighting for us. Thank you, Senator. See, Benny. Have a good day.

I love that meme. I love that meme. That's just such a great. That's just great. I saw it. It just brought warmth to my heart. The senator now is the fact that a Hakeem Jeffries has a little mustache and a sombrero. Oh, man. Oh boy. Okay. Well, it's been a lot of fun. Ladies and gentlemen, obviously we are not going to leave you without our verse of the day, but our verse of the day is going to be read by me when it's on screen here because it's not in the script. Producers, we have had a real one on this show. Unfortunately, that's just the way it goes when we have when we're live. So let's pop up the verse of the day, please. And we will rock and roll. No? Anyone? No? Let's put up our verse of the day. There we go.

It's the actual verse. Come on, boys. Yeah, all right. Genesis. Okay. Genesis. And, okay. I'm reading the chat now. Got it, got it, got it. All right. Well, we'll do our verse of the day. We're rock and rolling. from Genesis 50-20 You intended it to harm me But God intended it for good To accomplish what is now being done

The saving of many lives You intended to harm me What man intends for evil God intends for good To accomplish what is being done It's saving of many lives And what a profound verse Especially after everything that we've seen

over the last month Especially after everything that we've seen I mean, it's the last day of September today. Goodness gracious. It has been a profound ride. It has been a profound ride. Powerful one. It's been a ride that, well, haven't gotten a lot of sleep.

And haven't gotten, frankly, you know, gotten no time to rest because evil was, we witnessed evil move throughout the world. We witnessed evil, take our future. president, a friend of mine, a brother to me. And I said, like, I told my wife, like, get ready for battle, like, because we're going to go fight evil. And so we've just been doing our level-headed best to do one thing is the one thing I want to do. I just want to defend my friend. And I just want to, like, in our own poor way, take that energy that he brought to everything, that Charlie brought to everything and like in again in our own way like continue on that energy that's it that's all we want to do we just want to you know make charlie proud charlie was never down i never saw the dude in a

fetal position he had so much to lose i saw so many lost battles right after 2020 they investigated him they were going on coming to ban him social media like i never saw him crying i never saw him broken i never saw him like broken down i never saw him like depressed so we are not going to do that it's like a to Charles like to to his legacy to do that Benny how you holding up how you doing how you do like that that actually because I worked closely with him and I all got to witness it true warrior ethos talked about that's what Pete Heggseth was talking about two three hours ago on the stream true warrior ethos maybe line that clip up maybe line that clip up let's do that let's line that clip up we there was a clip that we wanted to play for you

We wanted to play you a clip of Hegsef. It's a little bit of a longer one. And we didn't want to have to interrupt President Trump. Clip zero, I think. Ladies and gentlemen. We wanted to play you that. And maybe we'll play you out with this, like a true message from the warrior ethos.

Pete Heggseth, we got to sit next to him, actually at Charlie's Memorial, got to really, like, connect with him. Had a wonderful chat. And, man, I think this is the one that we need to close the show on, okay? And we appreciate you rolling with us. We really appreciate you rolling with us during this show.

Obviously, whenever you're going live with President Trump for 90 minutes, live with Pete Heggseth, we have a bunch of live guests and ups and downs, you know, members of Congress. And we really appreciate you, like, just letting us, like, chill here together and build this movement. Before we get to the Scorch Earth clip of Pete Heggsuff, that will hopefully rip your face off. Certainly has done that to the woke generals. Something that won't rip your face off. The bond charge red light mask that I use every single night.

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Use the coupon code Benny to save 15% these statements. Products have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. disease, just meant to help you feel good, right? Especially at a time when, man, everyone is, everyone's going hard, right? And that's what we're going to do. That's what we're going to do for Charlie. That's what we're, that's what the Secretary of War has instructed all of his generals to do. Ladies and gentlemen, that's how we're going to roll. So without further ado, the Secretary of War, Pete Heggseth, the one clip that I wanted to share with you that we

didn't get to, is going to take us out today. Pete Hegseth, explaining how he is going to remove wokeness and DEI from the military forevermore, what a curse and a cancer at all was on the purpose of our military, which is to fight and win wars and be lethal to protect America. Boy, that's a mission we can get behind. Here, ladies and gentlemen, is Pete Hegseth. And remember, when we fight, we win. ladies and gentlemen onward christian soldier and in the end we will win and we'll make sure of it

God makes sure of it God makes sure of it right and we're humbled by God's grace so here we go it's been an honor to be with you this morning here's the Secretary of War this speech today

as I drink my coffee this speech today is about people and it's about culture the topic today is about the nature of ourselves because no plan no program no reform

no formation will ultimately succeed unless we have the right people and the right culture at the war department if I've learned one core lesson in my eight months in this job it's that personnel is policy personnel is

policy. The best way to take care of troops is to give them good leaders committed to the war-fighting culture of the department. Not perfect leaders, good leaders, competent, qualified, professional, agile, aggressive, innovative, risk-taking, apolitical, faithful to their oath and to the Constitution. Eugene Sledge in his World War II memoir wrote, quote, war is brutish, glorious and a terrible waste. Combat leaves an indelible mark on those who are forced to endure it. The only redeeming factors are my comrades incredible bravery and their devotion to each other. In combat, there are thousands of variables, as I learned in Iraq and Afghanistan, and as so many of you did in so many more places. Leaders can only control about three of them.

You control how well you're trained, mostly how well you're equipped, And the last variable is how well you lead. After that, you're on your own. Our war fighters are entitled to be led by the best and most capable leaders. That is who we need you all to be. Even then in combat, even if you do everything right, you may still lose people because the enemy always gets a vote. We have a sacred duty to ensure that our warriors are led by the most capable and qualified combat leaders. This is one thing you and I can control.

and we owe it to the force to deliver it. For too long, we have simply not done that. The military has been forced by foolish and reckless politicians to focus on the wrong things. In many ways, this speech is about fixing decades of decay. Some of it obvious, some of it hidden. Or as the chairman has put it, we are clearing out the debris, removing the distractions, clearing the way for leaders to be leaders.

You might say we're ending the war on warriors. I heard someone wrote a book about that. For too long, we've promoted too many uniform leaders for the wrong reasons, based on their race, based on gender quotas, based on historic so-called firsts. We've pretended that combat arms and non-combat arms are the same thing. We've weeded out so-called toxic leaders under the guise of double-blind psychology assessments, promoting risk-averse go-along to get along conformists instead.

You name it, the department did it. Foolish and reckless political leaders set the wrong compass heading, and we lost our way. We became the woke department. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. My God, I actually pity those poor bastards we're going up again. By God, I do. We are advancing constantly and we're not interested in holding on anything except the enemy. We're going to hold on to him by the nose and we're going to kick him in the ass.

We're going to kick the hell out of him all the time and we're going to go through him like crap through a goose. He good. I'll be proud. to lead you wonderful guys into battle anytime, anywhere. That's all. It's all. It's the Benny Shoals, where the truth's gonna be. Faith and freedom on your TV screen.

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