The Dan Bongino Show - Riots Explode Across the Country | Episode 65

Episode Date: June 16, 2025

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Welcome to Vince on a Monday. Great to have you with us as always. So nice to see all of you here. And by the way, happy Father's Day to all the dads. A belated happy Father's Day. Thanks for being who you are, raising great American children. As always, great to have you with us.

I've got a lot of updates for you from the weekend, including the president throws a very successful honor of the United States Army, 250 years of the United States Army. How about that? A big parade in Washington DC. I had a great vantage point for some of that. I'll tell you about that in just a moment. Also, the left decided, as it always does, to riot on Saturday under the astroturf so-called no kings protests. And also the president this morning with some breaking news about where mass deportations are going to concentrate.

I've got details on that ahead. Also, Kurt Schlifter is joining us on the show. Kurt is both informative and hilarious. I can't wait to talk to Kurt. It's ahead on this edition of events. Hey, I've been using the Bone Charge infrared sauna blanket at home. Bone Charge, they're great.

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able to watch all of the helicopters flying in to President Trump's honors for the United States Army. It's the 250th birthday of the United States Army and again as I was saying last week I'll say again happy birthday soldiers for the great United States Army. Very, very cool to see. And the president, he did a great job here of putting together, I think, a fitting event to honor our nation's army. And that really was what it was all about. I mean, the whole thing was just dedicated to celebrating the army.

And the left was going crazy over this. They were saying things like, oh, this is like the Soviet Union. This is like something out of North Korea. In fact, Rand Paul for some reason has been going with this line of attack. But take a look here, fellas, if you could just pull up my screen.

This is my vantage point. We were watching these helicopters flying right towards Washington, DC, and the flight path was right next to our building as we were standing on top of the roof. It was so cool to see. And we got to watch as the fireworks were going up. We got to watch, the show was so epic actually

that I kept thinking that the grand finale had arrived. And the grand finale had not arrived yet. I kept clapping. I was like, well, that was amazing. And then of course it keeps going. It was wonderful. It was wonderful. And you see these soldiers who were out there on Saturday, these guys waving to the crowd, marching. They took everyone through the history of the United States Army all the way from 1775 onward. There's Jasmine Gladding. Jasmine is in onward. There's Jasmine Gladding. Jasmine is in my chat. The reason she's yelling, yes Vince, in my Instagram post, I posted for those of you who are listening on the

audio podcast, I just posted this video of the helicopters flying by and Jasmine who works with us here at Silverlock, she was very excited by my perspective but I'll give you some behind the scenes. She's more excited than I posted anything to Instagram. Jasmine is excited. So the guys have been telling me, like, Vince, you need to post more stuff to social media, you know, just like random stuff from your life. And I said to the guys, I was like, guys, I don't, I don't like doing that. I'm not a big, I've never been a big fan of sharing random stuff from my life on social

media. And they said, no, no, no, it's really important you should do this and so I said okay for you Gee told me to do this I was like for you Gee I'll do it and Jasmine's been rooting me on so the reason Jasmine is in my comments I haven't talked to her about this but the reason she's in my comments with 15 exclamation points is she's stunned that I'm actually doing it so Jasmine also had a good Saturday because I did some social media posting. Really, really funny. And anyway, great perspective. And the left turned this into

something crazy. They were straight up claiming that this was just going to be, you know, like this tyrannical military event. It was meant to honor Trump. Like he was Kim Jong-un. And it was nothing like that. President Trump's birthday was barely mentioned at this thing. As you saw, so many thousands of American patriots show up in the streets to honor the army. The soldiers had a great time. The president's birthday, yes, it was acknowledged, but again, it was a very small thing. And rightfully so. It was meant to honor the army.

So again, happy birthday to the Army. What a wonderful turnout. How patriotic could this possibly be? It was awesome. There we go. All right, well, thank you to all of you. I don't know, did you guys watch it on television or did you go in person?

It was great, it was really, really great. All right, so that's how normal people celebrated the weekend. It was Flag Day, it was the Army's birthday, it was President Trump's birthday, it was my brother Anthony's birthday, happy birthday, Anthony. Normal people were like, hey, this is a great country,

let's celebrate it, let's wave the American flag and support the Army. But the left is populated by a lot of not normal people. And the left spent this weekend basically screaming at the sun. They went outside to just yell at the sky. Because what we got with these lefties is they were shouting at the sky from these community parking lots and being completely emotionally incontinent.

And there were a lot of these emotionally incontinent anti-Trump lunatics taking to the streets to blow off steam paid for by people like George Soros and Reid Hoffman and Mark Zuckerberg. This whole no-kings protest that took place on Saturday, no-kings, was orchestrated by the institutional left, like the biggest billionaires that they have funded this astroturf movement to get weak minded lefties into the streets shouting out the sky about how much they hate Trump. That's what this was this weekend. And when they say no kings, I love that these people say no kings, they say no kings, you

know what they really mean? They mean no democratic process, no constitutional republic, no political opposition. How dare you vote for the other guy? They claim as they go out there that they're standing up for quote, this is what they say, they said, we're just standing up for democracy.

But if they were, they would support the other team occasionally winning by virtue of the votes. That's not what they support. They're furious that voters elected President Trump and destroyed Kamala Harris. They hate that. So of course, they took to the streets and the parking lots of communities, perhaps near you. Did you see one of these at all? in the parking lots of communities, perhaps near you. Did you see one of these at all? Saying that they were marking no kings, no kings. That was the big event. A party that refuses to allow their own base

to have a vote in the primary contest. They appointed Kamala Harris to be the nominee. This party tried to fight to keep President Trump off of the ballot entirely in various states. They arrested President Trump and charged him over and over in an effort to stop his ascendancy back to the White House. And then of course they arrest all their political opponents in the form of January 6 detainees and Christians who sing church hymns outside of abortion mills. Not exactly a pro-democracy party. No, they're not big on the Constitutional Republic.

In fact, they want to crush dissent whenever possible. No, King's Day, they project. And so that gave us images like this. Here's a video of a grown man smacking a Trump doll against a stool. Take a look at cut one here. How about this? Look at this guy. There's a little booth set up. You have to pay a nickel

and then you get to take a doll of President Trump and then this man who is clearly in his maybe 60s or 70s is taking a little voodoo doll of Donald Trump, President Trump, and it's smacking his head over and over and over again against a stool, and then he turns around and he looks at the camera that captured all of this, and then he gives this wide-eyed, deranged stare into the camera, really proud of what he's doing.

So this is basically the scene all over the place. These guys, look at cut five. Let's take a look at cut five. Here's a crowd beating an effigy of President Trump, giving children a stick so they can whack at a pinata of President Trump. They're inculcating violence among the youngest people that they brought to these events.

Look at this, smacking the President. Oh, isn't that wonderful? No, it's not wonderful actually. You have a violent assassination culture that's on display at each one of these delusional no kings events. This was all over the place. This was all over the place.

And it was whipped up by lefties who we all know the leadership of that party Here is lunatic Jamie Raskin. He's a Maryland congressman. Sometimes he wears a do-rag right now. He's not wearing one He was in Philadelphia Screaming about how we need to impeach and convict Donald Trump for what he didn't give a justification He just said we need to do it cut to to. Take a look. Jamie Rasko. No kings and we've got no slaves. We've got no masters and no serfs. Those of us who aspire and attain a public office are nothing but the servants of the people. And the moment that somebody in public office begins to act like the master of the people,

that is the moment to evict, eject, reject, impeach, try, convict, and start all over again. Okay, so that's it. Again, was there a reason offered by Congressman Raskin? No, there was not. He didn't bother to offer a reason. No, we just need to stop the President of the United States.

How's that for no kings? How's that for standing up for democracy? What Jamie Raskin is advocating for is straight up taking away the duly elected president of the United States, canceling out the vote of the last election because he doesn't like that the other guy won. Yeah, tell me more about no kings, would you? Tell me more exactly about what's going on.

All right, so we've got more here. So the left doing all of this, all of this craziness, they, let me see, I've got another one for you. Here's cut 17, here's Eric Swalwell, Eric Swalwell, you know, Fang Fang's boyfriend, who decided to say straight up that, you know who Donald Trump is? Trump is Hitler.

This is the violent rhetoric of Eric Swalwell and the Democrats. Look at this. Donald Trump is America's Hitler. Yeah. That's Swalwell. That's Swalwell at one of these so-called no kings protests again.

Really, what is that? Oh, that's an invitation to violence. That's what that is. Swalwell inviting a base that is consumed by assassination fantasies into violence. That's Eric's well-well. So they're not slowing down at all. They're actually accelerating the chaos

and they spent the weekend doing it. So those crazy protests, those crazy no-kings protests that were taking place all across the country, paid for by the billionaires on the left, they started as protests where people were saying crazy things and beating effigies of President Trump, but then they descended into full-blown riots in America's major left-wing cities.

In fact, let's go, well, let's, before I get to the riots, I have one more video from the, from the No Kings protests. Here is a cut for, here's a woman who believed Eric Swalwell. Take a look at her. I just, I just, I'm just so scared. I'm 74 years old. I worry about everything. And I just, I just, I just am so scared and upset.

And I don't, and I don't understand why people voted for this person. Chat, what do you think of that video? What do you think of that video? What's your first reaction to seeing that video? There's somebody who says here, hidden Deku scrub writes, lady, turn the TV off. Lady, turn the TV off. Ron Dock says, stop watching CNN. Lady, stop watching CNN.

JDD 64 says, so sad to be so weak. Yeah, these are all my reactions too. I had the same reaction. When I saw that video this weekend, I thought, that lady is a sheep and she's being lied to. She's being lied to. The left has whipped her into a frenzy. That poor woman, her stress levels must be off the chart.

She's going crazy. She's driving herself crazy. And the left is taking advantage of her. Whatever it is that she's consuming is lying to her, suggesting that something awful is happening. And of course, nothing awful is happening. President Trump is trying to undo the awful that's occurred to our country, undo the chaos, deport the murderers and the rapists and the child predators, restore order to our country, restore sovereignty, deport the murderers and the rapists and the child predators, restore order to our country, restore sovereignty, fix the economy,

get rid of the out-of-control inflation, bring about some order at the national security level. This is all basic stuff. President Trump was elected on that basis, and she is practically catatonic about this, distraught. And so I feel sad for her. The truth is I feel very sad for that woman. There's something that she's being lied to and she's believing it. It's awful.

Now that may be her reaction, sadness, but violence is also on the menu for the left. Boy, we saw a lot of that this weekend. In a moment, I'm gonna take you through what is happening in major Democrat cities right now. And President Trump has a new statement today on what needs to happen next in these major Democrat-led cities.

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some lefties who are smacking effigies of President Trump, and then other lefties who are crying in the streets, some lefties who are smacking effigies of President Trump, and then other lefties who are just taking it to the next level, which is destroying stuff, destroying America's cities. Let me start here with cut six. This is a bike share station in LA, fully engulfed in flames. Look at this. There you go. Of course, they start a fire.

They're screaming obscenities in the background. People taking pictures. Look at all these lefties in masks, concealing their identities so they can commit crimes. Unlike ICE, which has to, ICE officers have to conceal their identities to protect themselves from lefties, from violent people. Look at this, burning everything, burning everything.

So finally, some of these, some of the protesters show up and they try and put the fire out, but those are the rioters who are with them starting all of these fires. So that's just a very small portion of this. Trust me, there's a lot more violence than just a bike share station being set on fire. Here's also a man who laid his hands on a police horse,

cut seven, as the cops finally shove him back. They're trying to push the crowd back and this guy decides, you know, it'd be good to shove a horse. Take a look at this. Not a good move. Look, he puts his hand on the horse. He catches a whack here with the police baton and then a cop comes up to him and just gives him a hoop and pushes him back right into the crowd. Of course, the crowd acts like it's a great scandal. Like, oh no, why would you push him? Because you need to back off of the police line.

You've got a full blown riot going on. What a lunatic, would you shove a horse? What is wrong with you? I mean, how much do you have to drink to get up there and start a fight with a horse? That's crazy. He's lucky that the only thing that happened is that he got shoved backwards and got hit in the knuckles.

He got wrapped in the knuckles. So there you go. A guy trying to shove a police horse. What a lunatic. What a lunatic this guy is. Whack right to the knuckles with that police baton. That's gonna, he's waiting, he's feeling that this morning. He's definitely feeling that this morning.

And then we get rioters at an ICE facility in LA and with hundreds of these rioters around the Federal ICE Detention Center being shoved back by police. Take a look here, this is cut eight, LAPD pushing back against these guys. And rightfully so. Look, rioters, they've gotta deploy all of this tear gas

to get everybody out of there. Look at that. Everything is destroyed. They've put graffiti all over everything. Now, compare and contrast that, if you will, with the kinds of people who went to the military parade, the US Army's birthday parade in Washington DC on Sunday people they show up it's all clean and wonderful and patriotic and

loving and supportive of our country and orderly and little kids are out there and they're waving at the soldiers soldiers riding on on tanks meanwhile in LA you have left these look at that there's like was that a Palestinian flag or something in there? I mean you've got flags of other nations being flown, Mexican flags, dude in a scream mask. Yeah it's completely out of control and so that's what the left represents. It's not order, it's disorder. And there they are taking to the streets of Los Angeles yet again this weekend. It wasn't just contained to LA either. It was also in Seattle, Washington, of course, Seattle.

Anti-ice rioters took over the streets of Seattle this weekend, cut nine. Here they are on Saturday going after this lefty run city. Look at this. Look at this, attacking an ice facility. They're putting spray paint all over the building, they're banging on the windows. They were actually not only attacking from the outside using their fists and punching the thing and yelling at the cops and causing a scene, a ruckus in the streets, setting stuff on fire.

But they also started lighting fireworks and using them as like mortar rounds, firing them directly into the federal building in lawless Seattle. Take a look here, cut 10, a rioter shooting fireworks into a federal building. Look at that. Look at that. Fireworks being launched right a federal building. Look at that. Look at that.

Fireworks being launched right into the building. Over and over. Just lawlessness in Seattle. We need a real crackdown on this. We need a crackdown on this lawlessness. I know that there are some arrests being made, the occasional arrests, but not only should there be arrests made,

they need to straight up perp walk all of these guys and demonstrate that there are meaningful consequences to this type of chaos going on. And these are people who are just trying to be out there in many cases, just to create more chaos. This is what the left has been funding. It's grotesque. Not only are they firing fireworks

into the federal billing in Seattle, rioters were storming Cut 11, the ICE facility in Portland, Oregon. Take a look, this is Portland. Remember I told you Seattle is gonna happen, Portland is gonna happen? Here it is happening in Portland Saturday. There's rioters in the streets of Portland.

They say they stormed the federal building there in Portland, Oregon. They stormed the ICE facility. DHS announced after they launched fireworks and hurled smoke grenades and they threw rocks at federal law enforcement. They say that DHS's heroic law enforcement secured the facility.

Four officers were injured in those riots. Four police officers injured in those riots. Secretary Kristi Noem's message to the rioters is, you will not stop us or slow us down. ICE and our federal law enforcement partners will continue to enforce the law. If you lay a hand on a law enforcement officer, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

To the fullest extent of the law. In Washington, D.C., the rioters actually slammed through, cut 12, a security perimeter outside of the United States Capitol building, and then they charged the Capitol. Take a look at the insurrection. building and then they charge the Capitol. Take a look at the insurrection. There they go.

So they blast through the barriers. They rush the Capitol building and they start charging up the steps of the United States Capitol to get into the building. Look at all these lefties, what they're doing. We got people rushing to the Capitol steps right now. Now, what do you think's gonna happen to the people who rushed the United States Capitol building? Are they gonna have SWAT teams sent to all of their homes?

Are they gonna be put in handcuffs with long guns drawn in front of their families? Are they gonna be put in handcuffs with long guns drawn in front of their families? Are they gonna spend all their time inside of? the DC jail in a crappy wing of the jail treated like garbage Even by the standards of people who are held in jail are they gonna have to sing whatever? Whatever national anthem they sing each and every night into jailhouse telephones as they can't see their families for years on end.

Is anything like that gonna happen? Nope, unfortunately says little Lisa 56. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just think insofar as that we have any sort of treatment under the law, what I'm looking for is equal treatment under the law. So hello, we have an insurrection at the United States Capitol this weekend. And what's gonna happen about that?

What is gonna happen about that? So the left charging the damn building, going after the building, blasting through the barricades, that was happening in Washington, DC this weekend. Now, there is some good news in the midst of all of this. You have police officers who are handing out taxpayer-funded vasectomies right now, which is very generous of them.

But take a look at some of these lefties having their nuts blown off. Here you go. Here's Cut 13, cops giving out yet another taxpayer funded vasectomy this weekend. And then they started shouting, move back. But I'm still like fixing myself up, my backpack, my bike.

And then they just pushed me. And I'm just, just instinct, just I tell the cop like, don't push me, I'm already moving back. And then the cop right next to him had a gun and just aimed and shot. He was like, what, like two, three feet away? After I got hit, I couldn't really walk. I was just like too much in shock.

And then they're still pushing me. I know some other protesters were trying to help me like walk, but they're still pushing me. I know some some other protesters were trying to help me like walk but they're still pushing them too and everyone's shouting like yo he just got hit like let him breathe let him breathe like and like I needed to sit down for a bit but they just they just kept pushing. Yeah right now. I'm at home The injury was sustained to my my groin. Um, I have a bruised Left testicle and my right testicle was actually shattered They said that they somewhat fixed it So it should have some function, but it's still

very badly damaged somewhat fixed it. So it should have some function, but it's still very badly damaged. All right. So there you go. We they're handing out castrations at some of these protests free of charge. I mean, remember, remember at the DNC, they were doing free vasectomies for the dudes who showed

up at the Democrat convention. So this is par for the course. This is that's practically a feature of a lefty rally. That guy had his nuts blown off. He's this is par for the course. This is that's practically a feature of a lefty rally. That guy had his nuts blown off. He's not alone, by the way. Apparently, this has become a trend. Cut 14 years, another rioters saying that ice agents blew one of his nuts off.

Take a look. I shot me in the nuts and now I'm losing a ball. Surgery is tomorrow. There you go. Alright, so this has become something of a trend, and I think we can all agree. The lefties want the vasectomies. The right wants consequences for people who have F.A. They want you to F.O.

And it's at taxpayer expense, so, you know, the left is happy with that. How could this go wrong? How could this possibly go wrong? In a moment, I've got some updates on how the president of the United States is addressing illegal immigration in America's cities. We've got Kurt Schlickter standing by. We're gonna talk to the great Kurt Schlickter, find out what he thinks of all this madness,

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Joining us now, retired Army Infantry Colonel, town hall columnist, the great Kurt Schlichter is here. Kurt, so nice to have you on the program, sir. Good to see you. It's how you doing, man. I'm doing so good, Kurt. How is California these days? I'm seeing riots in the news.

Are you safe out there, buddy? Oh yeah, I'm walking on the edge, man. I'm a snail crawling across the edge of a straight razor out here. No, no, look, the whole theater of the absurd is taking place in downtown LA, which is entirely composed of a few hipster urban pioneers, a bunch of hobos, and lawyers who have to go down there

to the courts. And since I am no longer one of those degenerate perverts, I'm not practicing law actively. I don't have to go down there. So, yeah, you don't see, I haven't seen anything. You aren't going to see anything. Yeah, I live in the land of the hate has no home here sign with the SSRI ridden Chardonnay women, you know,

down by the beach. Yeah, it's nonsense. It doesn't occur here. It's not allowed. by ridden Chardonnay women, you know, down by the beach. It's nonsense, doesn't occur here, it's not allowed. Were they out in the street on Saturday, those crazy ladies, were they out on the street Saturday for their no kings protests? Were they shouting at the sun? You know, I didn't see any of them, which I don't know.

Maybe word didn't get to the old folks home. Did you see that demographic? Holy cow, it was like, I was like, oh, the star of Up. It's, I mean, it was, you know, I don't know. It was like Golden Girls meets Cocoon meets Reds. It was really weird. No, it's a, it struck me. So we've kind of talked about this. Peter Schweitzer has a great piece at Breitbart this weekend

about the funding that went into these so-called protests, these astroturf events, which includes funding from Arabella advisors and George Soros and Reid Hoffman and Mark Zuckerberg. And apparently what we've learned from all of this is that the only people that they're able to target are elderly left-wing white boomers. That's it, because it seems like every other demographic

decided, yeah, I have no interest in this. Well, look, I mean, you know, the mill of time grinds finely. By the time that JD Vance is running for president in 2028, I expect about a third of them to be pushing up daisies. I mean, that was one crusty crew. I mean, you know, if Wilford Brimbley stumbled on it, homeboy would be like the youngest and the most ethnic guy among them. Uh huh. Yeah, that's right. You definitely. There's a lot of white people. That's unbelievable.

There was a lot of white people. So totally. That was a lot of white people. That's unbelievable. That was a lot of white people. So, totally. That was a lot of white people, which, of course, what we've learned from the left is that's a bad thing. Too many white people in one place. That's a very bad thing going on. I'm just saying. Hey, speaking of the... Speaking of the riots that we're seeing, although they're contained to just a couple of blocks in L.A., as you point out, they are spreading to other cities.

We saw rioting going on in places like Seattle and Portland and Washington, D.C. You know, how how badly do you think the left wants this phenomenon to spread? I think they're going to want to tamp it down because I don't think it's helping them. I think it makes them look bad. I mean, you know, Gavin Newsom looks totally impotent, almost as impotent as when, you as when Don Jr. took his wife. But it is... Look, the Democratic Party has this military wing, which is these violent protesters.

And they have done identical goals all their goals are exactly the same and the riot stuff doesn't happen unless somebody wants it to happen and somebody doesn't want it to happen if it's going to start hurting overall and I think it's starting to hurt them because normal people are looking at it going, yeah, I'm not down with this. You run around with a Mexican flag. There was some guy hassling a Marine today on video. You're a disgrace. You suck.

And the Marine's sitting there and you can just see like a little mental crosshair on him. And he's just holding back. And you know, this dude is like and every American who looks at that is like I'm siding with a guy in camo because he's not a schmuck the other dude's a schmuck and I think I think a lot of this stuff's going over poorly start talking badly about the you know the Army parade, by the way, great, happy birthday Army, 250 years of kicking commie ass. Happy birthday.

You know, I mean, it takes the guy who had a brain injury, John Fetterman, to be smart enough to go, well, I like the Army. I think they're great. They're great Americans. Congratulations. Yeah. You know, and the rest of them are like, this is the worst. Now, I understand Elizabeth Warren being a little upset

with the Army. There's a little bad blood there. Sure, I get it. I was a cavalry officer. I wish you'd get over it, Liz. All right, don't hold a grudge. But it's just bad politics, Vince. Yeah, Vince.

Yeah, okay, but I don't, I haven't detected the point at which they're gonna stop with the bad politics. So I'm almost like, this is a weird circumstance because I feel like you have more faith in them making a course correction than I do. Because I look at like guys like Chris Van Hollen, he's a sitting United States Senator, and he's paying conjugal visits to MS-13 gangsters

in El Salvador and thinking that this is good politics. You know what I mean? And they keep doing it. They keep doubling down on the most insane policies. So maybe you're right, maybe at some point they're like, hey, maybe this rioting is bad for us. But right now it strikes me that they have shown no sign of soul searching because the prerequisite for that

is you have to have a soul. Well, that's true. And I think I wasn't taking fully into account. Another key factor is that a lot of these people are very, very dumb. I mean, Chris Van Hollen, it's not like if he leaves the Senate, he's going to go back to MIT to continue his pioneering particle physics work. All right? Yeah. You know, he's an apiopahimer of the Senate. He's not as dumb as Maisie Hirono, but I mean, what a buffoon. And look, I think it's part of the niche problem of our society.

You remember, like 30 years ago, everybody watched Carson, right? Everybody watched Carson. Now, everything's divided up into niches because of social media and cable and everything. So, instead of having to appeal to a large number of people, you can be very popular with 3% of people and do very, very well. I mean, we see that on social media with grifters all the time.

OK. That marter-maid guy gets along just fine with 1% of people who are stupid enough to listen to his nonsense. So I think Chris Van Hollen and a lot of these others can appeal to this niche group and somehow, you know, manage to at least maintain enough visibility and get what they need. Sadly, he's, you know, in a state like Maryland, it's going to vote for any Democrat, so he doesn't really have to have particularly high standards.

But that is a problem. You can appeal, much like Spinal Tap, appeal to a more narrow demographic, a more elite audience of like 2% of people and still be in the... a more narrow demographic, a more elite audience of like 2% of people and still be in the. Yeah, and it seems to me that that is part of the strategy here. They're trying to wring every last dollar out of gullible suckers on the left.

I just played a video earlier in the program of a woman just absolutely in tears, devastated by the fact that President Trump is in office. She's just miserable. She just seemed, I felt so sad for her that she's being lied to this aggressively and now she's emoting the results of those lies on national television.

And there's a lot of these lefties who are out there. I mean, even after one of your senators, I don't even know if you knew his name, I didn't know his name before, Senator Alex Padilla goes rushing the DHS secretary and people are like, who the hell is that guy? Tackle him. And to this day, we still don't actually know

if that's his real name or if that's what he actually looks like, but they arrest this guy and the DNC was instantly fundraising off of it. They were sending little poor old ladies who cry about Trump being president, emails saying, give us money because Alex Padilla, who you've never heard of was just arrested.

So I'm looking at this Kurt going, they're still taking advantage of a lot of people and trying to really scare the hell out of them and scare the dollars out of their pockets. Well, look, I think the problem with the Democrats, one of the many problems, is they're still in a 20th century mode, appealing to 20th century people. She's 74.

It's not like she's on rumble. It's not like she's... She's listening to one of the networks and getting fed this propaganda. She remembers when Cronkite was out there, it's some level in her mind she still thinks that if a talking man on TV say bad must be bad. Again, you know, remember 50% of people are on the dismal side of the bell curve so you add like the natural dumbness to growing senility and you get women like her. I mean, I saw it was pathetic. She's sitting there crying, right?

As she's out protesting, this has become a dictatorship, which, you know, I guess I get I, you know, I'm getting older, too. I hope I don't lose my sense of irony like she did. And as far as Alex Padilla, my gosh. Talk about bad timing. Over this weekend, this is a guy who is trying to make bank over the idea

that you could run at a government official in a threatening manner. And if you just pretend to be another government official, you've got to get through. Not great timing, dude. Not, not great. That's not, no. I mean, I think he,

and I think he even figured out over the weekend that he was totally full of crap because on one of the Sunday shows, somebody asked him, do you think that Kristi Noem should resign? And he took a pass on that. And so if he was all in, he would double down. He'd be like, yeah, yeah, yeah, she should resign.

I think he realized over the weekend, he's like, I look like an idiot. No, of course you shouldn't resign. I'm the one who's charging the DHS secretary. So the whole thing collapsed. And I bet you, honestly, I think the thing he's probably grumpiest about, Kurt Schlechter, is that Israel struck Iran and stole whatever news cycle he was hoping was going to fill his campaign coffers.

Yeah, he I mean, that the only good luck this guy has had this week is that Christie Noam didn't treat him like a bad dog. As far as the Iran thing, yeah, I mean, poor guy. It's like this is the one time anybody's ever going to hear from him. And you know, America's great. One of America's greatest enemies over the last 40 years is being pummeled into dust. And you know, he's, he's, you know, going on an NBC, uh, MSNBC show at, you know, four 30 in the afternoon to complain he's being oppressed.

That's pretty pathetic. It's too much. It is pathetic. All right, well, while we're on this subject, I want to ask you about Israel and Iran. I know you've been following this really closely. We've seen Iran launch a ton of missile strikes into Israel over the weekend,

the two countries having a bunch of these volleys. I was stunned by, I was actually not stunned, impressed by once again, Israel's ability to specifically pick its targets and take them out in that initial volley on Tehran. They took out all of the top leadership of the Iranian military, and they took out a couple of nuclear scientists.

And so starting there, what do you think of Israel's strike? And then, what capabilities do you imagine that Iran has here? How debilitated are they by having their entire leadership structure taken out by Israel? Well, first of all, this just shows what you can do if you have two factors in your favor. First, 20 some years to plan this.

I mean, they've been refining this op plan and logistically setting it up, including smuggling drones into the country for decades. So they had this nailed, but they also had audacity. They did things that, you know, a lot of American intelligence and military people say, well, oh, you just can't do that. No, no, no, no, no. Winners do things that no one expects. Winners push the envelope. And hopefully Pete Hegseth and the folks in our intelligence community trying to rebuild that shattered, broken institution will learn from that, that we need to start thinking outside

the box. I mean, it's right up there with the beeper bombs. This is great stuff. It's also a warning to us about our incredible vulnerabilities here in the United States. If you don't think, and I wrote a book about it, The Attack. If you don't think there are sleeper cells in the United States prepared to attack our infrastructure and leadership, although in the Biden administration, I would not target the leadership because they're going to do a terrible job on their own. But you're crazy.

You're dreaming. And we need to learn from this. As for Iran, they're a dictatorship, so they are not going to be as decentralized as an American force, at least in the good old days, would be. That is, if you're a dictatorship, you need to maintain a very close hold on all the levers of power. And of course, the military is a huge lever of power. You don't want to get out of control. So you're going to have very, very tight controls, and you're not going to allow a lot of personal initiative. So they are very vulnerable to decapitation strikes.

Very vulnerable. If you have an American unit and it's a good unit and you manage to take out, say, the battalion headquarters, immediately somebody else is going to take charge and continue the mission, if you have a good unit. Because we decentralize, because we trust our people. I'm not worried about a clue. You decentralized. So they've got a lot of problems. They also have a lot of missiles. Israel is taking a lot of missiles. It is, and I don't want to be cold hearted about it. I'm talking as a military man. It's irrelevant. It is a small tactical problem. It's killing civilians. It's causing damage. All true. It is strategically irrelevant. It does not change the balance of power. significant depreciation of enemy combat power in Iraq. It made Iran be in a worse position where it had fewer options to do fewer things.

All the missiles they're shooting at Israel, and they're just basically shooting at random, are almost completely irrelevant. Yes, it kills a few people. You got 10 million people, it kills 50. That's bad. It doesn't matter as far as Israel's ability to fight and win.

Israel now has total air superiority, complete air dominance. It is, you know, it's flying its planes over the cities to show the impotence of the Iranians. And don't underestimate the power of the information operation here. There's a kinetic operation, that's when you go kill people. Information operations when you set the narrative by showing things. And flying F-35s over Tehran without opposition shows that the people who kept power because they gave the impression that

they couldn't be challenged can be challenged. I'm hoping the Iranian people, the Persian people, overthrow these semi-human seventh-century scumbags and hang them from the nearest crane. Hopefully the cranes where they murdered their political opponents because that would be a sweet sweet justice. This is a chance for the Iranian people and I hope they take it and re-enter civilized society. What happens if the Iranian regime is supplanted, if the Ayatollah is killed? What happens next? That's a great question. is supplanted if the Ayatollah is killed. What happens next? Because the key question, Kirk, of course, is what fills these vacuums?

We've been through this a bunch of times in places like Iraq and Syria and Libya. So what happens in Iran? How do we plan for that future? Well, look, I don't think we have control over that. It's hard to imagine worse than death to America, death to Israel. I mean, where do you go from there, right?

It's like when you call Trump literally Hitler, you're kind of done. You can't call him like Hitler twice. You know, something like Syria, which has been taken over by Islamic fanatics, who are absolutely behaving right now. They're letting Israel fly on over, not allowing the Iranians to do stuff. They are behaving. I don't know if we're going to get a friendly regime. We don't have to get a friendly regime. We have to get a regime that is not actively an enemy. And I can't imagine

a worse one than the mullahs who literally want to murder every Jew in Israel and then murder every American here in the United States. So, I mean, I don't think we can do much worse. But, you know, I mean, look, it's risky, but I think the Persian people have enough exposure now to a civilized society where they want to rejoin it. So I would be cautiously optimistic. And Iran that is not supporting terrorists, that's a huge win. And Iran is not building nukes, a huge win. If it was friendly, I mean, that's like gravy. So let me finish with you on the domestic concern.

We saw recently the Ukrainians, in the midst of their war with the Russians, were able to bring in Trojan horse-style semi-trucks full of drones in order to conduct attacks inside of Russian soil and you just mentioned a moment ago that you're very concerned about the domestic threat yes here in the United States we've had wide open borders we've had foreign nationals who hate this country pouring into it from places like the Middle East from China. What are how vulnerable are we right now to an attack like this? Well, I wrote a book called The Attack, a nice bestseller, and it's all about this.

We are it's a novel because better to tell the story that way than the dry facts. But the dry facts are those borders are open, like you said. You do not need super complex weapons to cause incredible damage. You just need people who are willing to die for their cause, which is kind of the whole thing about Islamic fanatics. The Ukrainians showed us The Ukrainians showed us the power of asymmetrical warfare, that is going against a stronger enemy using its weaknesses against them. Our weakness is we believe we're invulnerable here at home. We don't act like we have enemies. That was a viable strategy in the 70s, 80s, 90s. Stop being vulnerable, stop being viable

about September 11th, 2001. But I think we've forgotten that. Right. And look, I'll tell you, when I'm in a place where I can carry concealed, I do. Because it is not outside the realm of possibility that somebody with a gun starts shooting because hundreds of them across the country, because that is a very easy, simple, tactically uncomplicated way to cause mass casualties and mass panic in the United States.

I think the more complex things, drone attacks, specific sabotaging of key infrastructure, that requires more planning, but that is not anywhere near outside the realm of possibility. So I think, I hope we can learn from other people's mistakes like the Russians, like the Iranians, okay? It's always better to learn from somebody else

tripping and falling on his face. I don't wanna learn from our own mistakes, not again. All right, Kurt Schlichter, thank you for always, for your wit and your wisdom, appreciate you. You can find Kurt Schlichter over at Town Hall, get one of his great books, and of course, just happy birthday, Kurt, great to have you on, sir sir and appreciate you. On behalf of the army thank you. Thanks very much there he is Kurt Schlichter okay before we go we've got

breaking news this morning from the President of the United States that I want to get to with you he is he has announced that he is now reallocating ISIS resources to go specifically after the major left-wing power centers in the country, after America's largest cities. The president's saying this morning on Truth Social that the ICE officers who work in this administration for the federal government have shown incredible strength, determination, and courage as they facilitate the largest mass deportation

operation of illegal aliens in history. Every day the brave men and women of ICE are subjected to violence and harassment and even threats from radical Democrat politicians but nothing is going to stop us from executing our mission, he says. So he announced this morning that ICE officers are ordered by notice of this truth to go after illegals for the biggest mass deportation program in history. He says, in order to achieve this, we must expand our efforts to detain

and deport illegal aliens in America's largest cities. That includes Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where millions upon millions of illegal aliens reside. Now he gets to one of the most important elements here. Not only is this about restoring law and order, it's about unwinding the election rigging the left has done in these cities. The president says these are the core of the Democrat power center where they use illegals to expand their voter base, cheat in elections, and grow the welfare state, robbing good paying jobs and benefits from hardworking American citizens. So a huge announcement this morning from the president saying ICE resources, what they have right now are gonna be further concentrated

on these major American cities now. And in particular, to unwind the election rigging that's taking place in those cities, in our system. This is important stuff. The speaker of the house, Mike Johnson, offers that he not only supports this, but he wants to get that big beautiful bill passed quickly So the president has more resources to go after all of this

So here this is a huge component to the president's agenda and that's a big update to it I've got a lot more news for you. We're gonna hit it today on the radio show and then again on tomorrow's edition of Vince I'm grateful for you as always