The Daily Signal - Pope Leo XIV Elected, Trump Announces UK Trade Deal, "Trantifa" Riots | May 9, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:25 We'd love to talk. Business. The College of Cardinals elects the First Pope from the United States. The U.S. and the U.K. reach a crucial trade deal, and Andy Noe joins us for exclusive reporting on the trans-Antifa riots in Seattle. I'm Tony Kennett of the Daily Signals Tony Kennett cast, syndicated nationally at 7 p.m. Eastern. It is Friday, May 9, 2025. This is the Daily Signals top news in 10. As I'm very sure you've seen by now, the conclave, the College of Cardinals, has elected Cardinal Robert Francis Provost. age 69, as Pope Leo the 14th.

Starting point is 00:01:07 The Cardinal was born in the United States and was chosen from a short list of candidates that represented Catholics from around the globe. In a speech given from St. Peter's Basilica, the new Pope greeted the crowd with a Peace Be With You and discussed how God loves everyone unconditionally as well as building bridges with dialogue. The Pache is with all of you.

Starting point is 00:01:35 Fratelli, sorrele, carisimisci. He was elected prior general of the Augustinians, heading the religious order from 2001 to 13. He also served as Bishop of Chic Leo in Peru from 2015 to 23. The new Pope has served in a variety of leadership roles throughout the Catholic Church in addition to his pastoral ministry, including as a seminary teacher and administrator. He was made a cardinal by Pope Francis in 2023. President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social,

Starting point is 00:02:02 congratulations to Cardinal Robert Francis Provost, who was just named Pope. It is such an honor to realize that he is the first American Pope. What excitement and what a great honor for our country. I look forward to meeting Pope Leo the 14th. It will be a very meaningful moment. Vice President J.D. Vance, a Catholic convert, tweeted, congratulations to Leo the 14th, the first American pope on his election. I'm sure millions of American Catholics and other Christians will pray for his successful work leading the church.

Starting point is 00:02:28 May God bless him. President Trump also announced yesterday that the United States in the United Kingdom had reached a crucial trade deal amid the United States' ongoing tariff and trade wars. Here's the president. This morning, I'm thrilled to announce that we've reached a breakthrough trade deal with the United Kingdom, incredible country. Today is a victory day for World War II. We won the war together exactly 80 years ago, so there could be no more perfect morning to reach this historic agreement. And it's a beautiful weather out.

Starting point is 00:03:02 I will tell you that here. Beautiful weather is so perfect outside. But it's really in particular the agreement with one of our closest and most cherished allies. And we're so happy that that's the way it worked out. I want to thank Prime Minister Starrmer and his very talented team for their outstanding work and partnership. Today's agreement with the U.K. is the first in a series of agreements on trade that my administration has been negotiating over the past four weeks. With this deal, the UK joins the United States in affirming that reciprocity and fairness is an essential and vital principle of international trade.

Starting point is 00:03:45 This trade deal maintains a 10% tariff on many goods from the UK into the United States and in reverse lowers the existing tariff from the UK on many U.S. goods, including a lot of those in the U.S. agricultural sector. We spoke with our White House correspondent Elizabeth Mitchell to get a little warm. insight. Yeah, I really enjoyed seeing this news today because the last, the first time that I was in the Oval Office with the president was the president's first meeting with Kier-Starmer, in which they kind of laid the groundwork for the deal that was unveiled today, where it's a great deal, they say, for both the U.S. and the U.K., going to open up a lot of great trading

Starting point is 00:04:21 deals. Of course, the president has said that the U.S. has been ripped off by countries all across the globe, and great to see that today that has ended with the U.K., and free trade will be available between the two nations. We've received a statement from the Director of Policy over at the National Catalan's Beef Association earlier today. They were celebrating this major push, like 11,000 tons of American beef is for the first time going to be not tariffed as heavily in the UK market. This is a pretty big win for farmers. What are you hearing from the rest of the Trump administration? I know there are some other trade deals in the work.

Starting point is 00:04:59 Scott Bessent pushed back heavily. with members of the House trying to pry on other deals that are in the works. Have you seen any other foreign delegations? What's the buzz? We're definitely going to be seeing more deals in the upcoming days. I'm sure countries will be quick to want to line up to be right behind England for second, third, and fourth trade deal. Of course, the president has plans to speak with China in upcoming days as well. He's going to Saudi Arabia next week, where I'm sure he's going to be having similar

Starting point is 00:05:26 conversations with Middle Eastern countries. So I think we can expect to see a lot of updates here. And a series of Antifa and transgender riots have been occurring in Seattle, Portland, and other West Coast cities over the last couple of days due to a series of right-leaning speakers going to speak at several universities. We spoke with Andy Noe of the post-millennial a little bit about this recent phenomenon, the damage, and what is being done next. So there were back to back to back instances of political violence from the radical left Antifa. Shocking. And their comrades, Trantifa, I call them. And it started off on Monday this week where at Portland State, Raleigh Gaines was a speaker at an event organized by TPSA.

Starting point is 00:06:18 and there were militants who responded to the call to try to shut down the event. They were unable to shut down the actual speaking events. So what they did was assault law enforcement that were protecting the building and harassed attendees going in and out. And simultaneously at the University of Washington, three hours north in Seattle, a band group called Super S-U-P-E-R-U-W, which is a radical Palestinian advocacy extremist group, I would call them. They expressed support for the October 7th attacks. Of course.

Starting point is 00:07:02 They celebrate the Hamas terrorism. They took over an engineering building and came with Antifa, dressed in black block wearing masks and started fires and destroyed the science and engineering equipment inside. I was going to say, you realize how accurate that is to what Hamas does over in Gaza taking a bunch of engineering equipment that was meant to build and create and setting it on fire and turning it into weapons for their political protest. That's a little on the nose for the American version of something, wouldn't you say? Yes. And the occupation lasted for several hours, and in that short amount of time, they were able to do about a million dollars worth of damage.

Starting point is 00:07:53 There was a very large fire that was set, and around 34 people were arrested, just over half were students. And they've only been charged with misdemeanors, even though there were really serious damage as being done. Of course. I mean, you know, setting fires and, again, misdemeanors. Washington is such a clown show. It is not funny. The political violence, again, actually befitting the definition for the FBI of domestic terrorism and then to be charged with misdemeanors. Again, setting a building on, or setting parts of a building on fire, destroying expensive engineering equipment. And then, of course, there's the manner of political intimidation through

Starting point is 00:08:41 violence. I mean, does Washington think, at least from the prosecutorial side, that slapping them with a misdemeanor is going to make them any nicer and huggable? So you're bringing up an important point, which is that we shouldn't be surprised that these attacks happened. And because last year, when there were violence that broke out both at Portland State and University of Washington and many other universities, those prosecutors and those liberal areas chose not to hold the riot suspects accountable. So are we really surprised that they would remobilize again after some amount of time and carry out more acts of violence and escalation? No, we shouldn't be surprised. And we're not done. I provide a very long-winded answer on what was happening on Monday night,

Starting point is 00:09:31 but it continued. Then on the 6th of May, so after the fiery attack, the occupation of that building, the destruction of very expensive science equipment. Riley Gaines spoke at University of Washington and some of the videos of how the attendees were really horrifically and cruelly stalked and harassed as they were leaving the event and walking to their cars and to follow them with the purpose of broadcasting to their comrades what the license plates were and they do this. so that people online will look up the names of the attendees and potentially addresses and other information like that.

Starting point is 00:10:16 Before you go, check the description to make sure you're subscribed to the Tony Kennedcast. And join us tonight at 7 p.m. for a quick wrap-up on a very news-heavy week and a special treat just for the Daily Signal audience. I'm Tony Kinnett and this has been the Daily Signal's top news in 10. Take care.

The Daily Signal - Pope Leo XIV Elected, Trump Announces UK Trade Deal, "Trantifa" Riots | May 9, 2025

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