The David Knight Show - Celente4Apr25

Episode Date: April 4, 2025

     Gerald Celente of TrendsJournal.com, as he predicted Dot Com Bust 2.0, with the trigger of tariff tempest rocking the markets—Dow plummeting 1,400 points, NASDAQ down nearly 5%, and a Bust 2.0 looming on the horizon!     Celente rips apart the hypocrisy of Trump’s trade wars, the genocide in Palestine, and the corporate sellout that gutted America’s middle class. From Clinton’s NAFTA betrayal to Vietnam’s rising from the ashes of the Dominoe Theory to making dominoes, shoes and clothing — the dirty truth behind globalization’s collapse. It’s a nation on the brink, where billionaires soar, the rust belts rot, and the American Dream drowns in a sea of chaos!For 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHTIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @[e-mail] App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off supplements and books, go to RNCstore.com and enter the code KNIGHTBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

Alright, and joining us now is Gerald Slenty of TrendsJournal.com. And if you go there and use the code NIGHT, you can save 10% off. It's amazing the amount of information he has. It's about 300 page online magazine each week. And as Gerald has talked about this many times, he doesn't do any fluff. And yet, when you look at the big publications, they are focusing more on Taylor Swift than they are on the tariffs. So we're going to focus on the tariffs with Gerald Salinti.

Thank you for joining us, Gerald. Good to have you on. No, thank you for having me. Thank you for all that you do. Thank you. Yeah, what do you think of this tariff stuff and the reactions to it that we had just I don't know what the market's been doing. The market opens up the time my show opens up so I haven't checked it. Are things still shaky? Oh yeah, yeah. The Dow, you know, the Dow was down when just before I got on

the air about 1400. The Nasdaq is down almost 5%. And again, one of our top trends that we had forecast on the cover of the Trends Journal, February 4th, dot com bus 2.0. And it's on the way down. As for the tariffs, I want to make this really clear. As you well know, I'm a political atheist. To me, anybody that calls themselves a Republican, a Democrat, a liberal, a conservative, grow up. Could your mind get bigger than the little clown show you believe in? So there's, I'm totally disgusted with Trump and his Zionist support for the slaughter, the genocide of the Palestinians and what they're doing in, you know, these throwing these kids out of the country and on and on.

If you if you if you if you oppose genocide by the definition, you're an anti-Semite. How about you know, don't I don't want to hear this crap. I'm a guy launched Occupy Peace. You've been a speaker here. I'm totally opposed to these wars, totally opposed to them. Now on the tariffs, I totally agree with them on certain levels. Number one, you go back to when we had tariffs. We didn't have income tax. We didn't have federal income tax when we had tariffs. We didn't have income tax. We didn't have federal income tax when we had

tariffs. And as John William McKinley, the president, said back then, do you want cheap products or high wages? Once upon a time we had manufacturing in this country. Now you got Rust Beltz, remember? And you had that guy Bill Clinton, every time he got caught with his pants down, bombs were everywhere, that guy. He brought us NAFTA. There were, where I am up here, there were factories all over the place. Hey, we're going to get that cheap labor down in Mexico.

Hey, they paid off Clinton, he's a multi-multi-millionaire, probably almost a billionaire now. A little clown boy of nothing from Arkansas. A little jerk of nobody. Hey, but I do all these favors for them and I get paid off. All right. So then he brought China into the world trade organization. You look at China's GDP from 1970 to 2000.

It's a line like this. But they get into the World Trade Organization two weeks after 9-11 officially, whoo, they skyrocket. They didn't have the heavy industry technology or the high-tech technology until the Europeans and the American manufacturers gave it to them to get the cheap labor. Vietnam, they put those high taxes on Vietnam. Again, I grew up on the same age as Trump.

They taught us to hate them Vietnamese, those dirty communes. If we don't stop them, those dominoes will keep falling. And before you know it, they'll reach the shores of California. That's the lie they were selling, which I believe by the way, is the young kid. Anyway, we probably get our dominoes from Vietnam now. Exactly. The real dominoes. Yeah. Our second largest importer of clothing, shoes and furniture and toys and toys.

Like like dominoes. Yeah. And so, oh, but those dirty commies. shoes and furniture and toys and toys like like dominance yeah and so oh but those dirty commies oh those dirty commie Chinese remember they sell us the hatred of this stuff the dirty commies hey but we're making a lot of money shut your mouth all right shut your mouth we're taking the jobs out of here I'm a manufacturer I'm a big company. I want to make all the money I can. They destroy this country. Again, we go by the daddy, you get the Trends Journal. Every week there's an article about how the middle class keeps shrinking and the billionaires keep getting richer. You know, once upon a time, 40% of the new home sales went to first-time home buyers.

40%. Now it's down to about 28%. People can't afford to buy a home. Yeah, that's right. So yes, this thing is if, but now I'm going to give you the negatives. What he's also doing is he's giving tax breaks and big deals to companies, foreign companies that come over here and open up plants. What do you mean you're giving them a tax break?

Not giving me a tax break. Oh, who the hell are you? Who the hell are you? What do you mean a tax break? Oh, oh, by the way, these are foreign companies, they're not American companies. So now to make it clear about I am against globalization, I have been since the beginning. Again, I believe in America first and only. I read, as you well know, I read George Washington's farewell address when he warns the American people not to get involved in these foreign entanglements They're going on for centuries

Don't love a nation don't hate a nation Yeah, let's do bit likes trumpet to me is dumb as an hell to say Oh, yeah, we're gonna put a 200 tariff on like champagne or or wine coming in from France well, he's not even he's not even doing that to protect a domestic wine industry tariff on like champagne or wine coming in from France. Well, he's not even doing that to protect a domestic wine industry. He's just coming after France. That's the thing that concerns me. I don't really even see, I had a guest on earlier

this week, Gerald, who was, who talked about the trade deficit and the importance of that. And I agree with all that. I think that tariffs would be a better way to tax than the income tax and things like that. But I don't wanna just add additional taxes, you know, and they're talking about how they're going to make up for the permanent tax cuts of the income taxes on this tariff revenue. But you're talking about bringing in foreign corporations. Trump on the airplane yesterday

with the reporters, I played it earlier today, he gets out his gold card. You've been talking about Trump being the wild card of 2025. I mean, he's so unpredictable. He's like the, I'm calling him Jekyll and Hyde. We don't know if we're going to have President Jekyll or President Hyde any given day. And it's not just about the tariffs, but it's about these other things. But anyway, he pulls out his card and it's bigger than a credit card. It's got his face all over it. It's got the Statue of Liberty there in the background. It's got an eagle in the foreground in front of him, like the eagle that attacked him on the desk, if you remember that. But it's got his face there, his mugshot from where they took him in,

and his scowls at that. And that's the Trump Gold Card that you can get for $5 million. So it's like, bring your foreign corporations in, bring your billionaires in, we want them here in America. And I agree with the trade deficit stuff, but just like I agree with capital punishment in principle, the problem is how does it implement it? When I look at capital punishment, I'm not so much of a supporter of it when we've got a Justice Department like we've got now. I've seen too many people railroaded. I've seen too much exculpatory evidence denied, hearing, and so even though I agree with capital punishment in principle, I've got

a lot of problems with it in practice. That's the way I feel about the trade deficit when I look at what's happening with this stuff. You know, let me make it clear about becoming a self-sustaining economy. By the way, I don't know if we can do it anymore. Yeah. Because when I look at what the people in this country look like and how it's declined so terribly and the stupidity of moronic things that they talk about, I don't think we have that culture anymore. But I want to make it clear.

Again, tracking trends, you make connections between different fields. You look at things for the way they are, not the way you want them to be. Let's go back to February, 2022, not ancient history. The Ukraine war begins. The little clown boy out of his mind, piece of garbage scum, past president, Biden, they put sanctions on Russia. Putin's going to pay the price, that's the quote. We said, no, they're not. All these companies that are pulling out of Russia, remember all the companies that pulled out? We said the Russians have all the human and natural resources they need to be self-sufficient

and self-sustaining. These are very advanced people. They pull out the McDonald's and they take over the McDonald's building and they put a Russian sign on it and they keep running McDonald's. And then look what happened. First year, yeah, the economy went down. And then it went way up, not way up, but up. It did better than the European countries. They became more self-sustaining and self-sufficient. The same thing is happening in China. China has 1.4 billion people. So let's say you have a company that's making

So let's say you have a company that's making high fashion clothes. Now, I'm not going to buy from Gucci. I'm going to buy made in China. It's self-sufficient and self-sustaining. You have 1.4 billion people doing business with each other. Again, going back to the wine and champagne. Yeah, don't be stupid. I want that French champagne. That's not a tariff issue. We're good at some stuff, man, but we can't compare to that French wine and champagne. It's like getting a prosciutto made in America or made in Italy. You don't put tariffs on this stuff.

You don't have competition there. You don't do that kind of stuff. But again, they sold us out. They took our jobs away from us. Again, when you remember, there were no home depots or Lowe's. There were hardware stores. That's right There were no there were no locally owned locally owned not not wall street entities. They're changed exactly Yeah, exactly and Wall Street owns the whole game here

Three companies we've talked about this owned eighty eight percent of the S&P 500, Vanguard, State Street, and Blackrock. Three companies. There were shoe stores, drug stores, grocery stores, stationary stores when we were young. Again, they took the job. I remember that slimeball Bill Clinton saying, you don't want these dirty jobs. We're going to have clean jobs here. Mm-hmm. You don't want these dirty manufacturing jobs. And again, this is important. Reagan and Bush Sr. couldn't push it through.

NAFTA. Clinton, they called him the new Democrat. Mm-hmm. He became a sellout. It's not the Democratic Party anymore. And again, I don't know if I've showed you this, just to make it clear how I feel for a lot of years, this is a T-shirt that I had made when Clinton was running for president in 1992. Could you see that? Beware slick Willy.

Oh yeah. Yep. Well you know, when you look at this, when you're talking about Vietnam, I was just talking about this earlier, you know, in 2018 Trump was bragging about the fact that he put tariffs on China, and as a result, a lot of their manufacturing was leaving China and going to Vietnam or other places in Asia. And yet, now, he has the people that have relocated their clothing or their shoe plants for Nike or Adidas or whatever to Vietnam, now he's putting a tariff on them. And so I mean it's like same type of thing we see with NAFTA and then the follow on with

USMCA. You know Trump did USMCA which is basically a rebranding of NAFTA. It's kind of like calling the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. Oh that's mine. That's USMCA. And so they were telling the automobile companies to distribute their manufacturing over the US, Mexico, and Canada. Now they want to drop all of that stuff, just like that.

And so that's the real concern that I have. It's not so much the trade policies or the trade deficits, but the ways being rolled out by Trump appears to me to be a deliberate case of creating chaos in the same way that five years ago he locked us down with this fake pandemic. He's doing the same thing again to us with fake tariff rates that were created, I talked about earlier in the program, by chat GPT. It's amazing. What they did was they took the trade deficit and they divided it by exports, and they call that a tariff rate. That's absolute nonsense.

And we've had about five different groups of people who follow trade. They say, �Where do these numbers come from?� That's what I was saying yesterday. �Where do these numbers come from?� They're like an order of magnitude or more higher than what these various trade organizations have been saying are charged by these various states. And so the people who do this for a living were looking at it and said, that doesn't make any sense. That's not true.

And so they started looking at the numbers and there's about five different groups that have gone back and said, he's just dividing the trade deficit by exports and calling that a tariff rate. And then somebody figured out that it came from ChatGPTT. Chat GPT pushed that out and people started asking it, you know, what do I do if I want to come up with a tariff regime against all the different countries so that we can have a fair and level trading thing? And it came up with that formula. It said nobody else has come up with this before. I just came up with this. You might want to use this. And it's insane what is happening. I'm looking at this and I just see Trump, Gerald, as a chaos agent.

I see him as a chaos agent for the globalists in 2020, and I think the same thing is coming again. This time, instead of starting in China with the phony lockdowns and sealing people in their apartments, what he's going to do is he's going to create kind of a virtual wall of commerce around the United States, and it's going to kick off a trade war. I think that's what the global trade war. What do you think? Well, the trade war has already begun.

Yeah. I mean, what did China announce today? They're going to put tariffs on US imports, I think 34%. Mm hmm. You know, but again, I totally I'm not for globalization. I'm for self-sustaining and self-sufficient economies. And we have all the human and natural resources needed to do that. But I don't, but again, as I watch the decline of this society in front of my eyes, it breaks my heart. You know, every time I go out, I go to places and I look at the way the men and women are dressed and what they look like and it's heartbreaking.

Yeah. Oh yeah, we've really gone down the hill. Heartbreaking to see the decline of the society in front of us. So I don't know if we have it to make it happen. This isn't my parents' generation. Well, you know, when we – I was talking about earlier, you know, a lot of people – and I agree – we look at the 19th century and, you know, a vital America, but the other things, it wasn't just that we had tariffs. It's that we didn't have the boot of

government kicking us in the face and standing on our throat. And to me, I look at it and it's like, you know, okay, so we got some problems here. I think that the solution to the problem, just like when we talk about free speech and say, I don't like what you're saying. I don't like what you're saying about the pandemic. I don't like what you're saying about the vaccines. I don't like what you're saying about Israel. The solution to speech like what you're saying about the vaccines. I don't like what you're saying about Israel. The solution to speech, if it's wrong, if it's hateful, whatever, the solution to bad speech is more speech. So the solution is more freedom of speech, not less.

And I think the solution to what is happening here is more freedom, not less. Free us from the government. We have met the enemy and he is us, as Pogo said, right? It's our government that has tethered us down like I don't know if you ever saw Harrison Bergeron or read the novel by Kurt Monagat. They did a short film of it. But in that, they would take people who excelled and so that everybody would be equal, they would make them compete in sports or perform ballet or whatever by putting chains all over them so that everybody was equally bad. What we have is a government that has put chains on us, and many times those chains

are put on businesses and entrepreneurs for the benefit of people that they want to compete with who have bought political influence. And it's that that's killing us it's not even more so than any predatory practices by a foreign government it's the predatory practices I think of our own government which they're not going to change that's really the thing keeping us from from growing I think but it's been going on forever you look at world one and and uh uh Woodrow Wilson putting these kids that were reading the declaration of independence or something or the bill of rights whatever and put them in jail you look at what they did with

they gave us uh uh what they did with them uh banning alcohol yeah oh, I mean they've been doing crazy stuff like this forever Yeah, they they they again they didn't Smoking, you know, whether you like it or not, you know getting smoking a marijuana was was okay up until the 1930s When they made this other stupid thing up. Yeah, you can't you can't Wait and how about how about this? I'm the president of the United States. Franklin Roosevelt, turn in all your gold. Yeah, yeah. You're not allowed to own gold.

I'm the president, I'll tell you what to do. I'm saying this stuff has been going on. It's just different now and worse in different ways. I agree. Yeah, it was H.O. Minkin who said a year ago if I had, when FDR did that, he said a year ago if I had a gold coin and a flask of alcohol in my pocket, the alcohol was illegal and the gold was legal. Now, this year, the gold is illegal and the alcohol is legal. It's just arbitrary. And that's what we're saying with Trump. That's why you keep saying it. That's what I'm saying. What I'm saying is going on forever.

Oh yeah. Yeah. Wasn't the Civil War wonderful? Where they killed about 700,000 people, destroyed the South. Yeah. A slimeball that was supportive of slavery before that and all he wanted was unionization. There's that great book, the real Lincoln, I forgot the guy's name, Italian guy who wrote the book. It was about unionization. That's all it was. And it was about trade as well back then.

I remember an alternative history book that I read by Harry Turtledove called How Few Remain and in it the Civil War ends early because of a couple of things that happened. And so you have all these characters that are alive and the Civil War ends, Lincoln is driven out of political life but he comes back. So this picks up like about 20 years later, right? He comes back as head of the American Socialist Party. I thought that was spot on. Lincoln came back as an authoritarian socialist. But you know, when you look at Trump's, basically what Trump is saying is that he can, by himself, with

executive orders, set trade policy and tariffs. And he can do it because it's an emergency. This is what Rand Paul was pushing back against. He said, we don't want to be ruled by one person, because look at how arbitrary and back and forth he's been since he became president on the tariff policies. We don't want to be ruled by one person. It's going to be capricious, arbitrary, constantly changing, chaotic. And he said, and the basis of this is by claiming that there's a national emergency. What emergency? Well, fentanyl. And yet Trump this week, as he's rolling out all of this stuff,

he says to China, if you sell TikTok to my buddy, I'll get rid of the fentanyl tariffs on you. So it's not an emergency, right? It's not an emergency to him if he's just gonna wipe it off. It's all a lie. And when I look at this, it's like, so to me, this is not about manufacturing, it's not about helping a particular industry, this is about chaos. Just like the lockdowns were five years ago, in my opinion, that's why I see it. Again, I support the tariffs, if he does what he says he's going to do, but I don't support it by giving benefits to foreign countries opening up plants over here. That's not made in America. That's only another kind and again, I forgot the name of the company one of the foreign ones

they opened up in North Carolina. They're paying the wages only like $17 an hour. You know, not a lot of dough. Mm-hmm. And again, $17 an hour. You know, not a lot of dough. And again, you go back to the facts. When Clinton brought us into NAFTA and China into the World Trade Organization, the middle class has been shrinking right in front of everybody's eyes. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. No, it's about paying off. It's about crony capitalism. It's about corruption. You look at TSMC, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, they offered them massive subsidies as part of the CHIPS Act with Biden, and so they're setting up in Phoenix, and Trump is about to double down on that policy of

Biden's because he said, hey, I've got some stuff that's coming up that's going to be bigger than anything you've ever seen, and it's going to be regarding chips and pharmaceuticals. Because you know, we've protected Pfizer and Moderna and Eli Lilly and all these companies from liability for the harm that they've done to people, vaccines and stuff like that. So now we're going to protect them from competition. And that's really, it's all about crony capitalism and what's in it for their buddies, just like this, hey, you drop the, let my buddies buy TikTok and I'll drop the fentanyl terrace on you. Yeah, again, I'm totally opposed to that stuff.

Yeah, oh yeah. And doing it all on... Look, a guy over here is going to open up one of these buildings, going to redo a building over here and open up a hotel and they give him a tax break. What kind of crap is this? What do you mean you're giving him a tax break. What kind of crap is this? You mean you're giving him a tax break. Oh, he's going to create jobs. Shove it. I don't want to hear this baloney anymore.

I heard that for the longest time. We had small retail shops and they wanted to raise taxes so they could hand over massive amount of money to billionaires so they could build a sports stadium. Right? And again, it massaged the ego of the politicians, that's our, we've got a great sports team here and that type of thing. But they would say, oh, it's going to be great for economic activity.

It's like, well, you know, what else is great for economic activity is for you to get the taxes and the regulations off of us that you put on us but you know they would always make that argument and now look at that how much they're giving them billions of dollars for this crazy yeah Buffalo another stupid thing yeah yeah all this money yeah but going back by the way about the what's gonna happen and economy, and we're talking about spending money, very important what's going on in Europe right now. Again, Senior Trends Journal, this is going on now for the last month. One country after another are going deeper in debt to build up their military. Yes, yes.

We're encouraging that. That slimeball, an ugly piece of another scum crap that just became the Chancellor-in-waiting over there in Germany. Oh, you thought all of Schultz was a jerk? Oh, you forgot Merkel before that? Now you got this Merce character. Oh, where did all of Schultz was a jerk. Oh, you forgot Merkel before that now you got this Mers character Oh, where did Mars come from or black? Did he really black rock? I thought he came from I love Lucy. His name is Fred Mertz. I thought That's from black rock, of course from black rock, yeah. Yep trillion dollars. Yeah

Now Germany the third largest economy in the world, largest in Europe, are in a recession. Two quarters in a recession. And now you're gonna borrow, you're gonna go in debt a trillion dollars? We gotta build up our military. Oh, you mean the Germany, World War I, World War II Germany?

Yeah, exactly. That Germany? You gotta build up your military? That's right! Seems like they did that in the 1930s. I wonder how that worked out. Yeah. Brands, that little got son macron with a little jerk of nothing building up the way he looks tough now he walks around like they're all building up their military under the line that if they don't stop Russia we talked about Vietnam before the domino theory they're gonna take over all of Europe we gotta get ready for them

mm-hmm all right now the mainstream media reporting this stuff in the crap spewing out of these clown boys mouths are by them building up the defense industry, they're gonna build up the economy. I'm not making this up. Oh yeah. So you magazine the facts, and we write and we say, no, no, it won't build up the economy,

it will only enrich the military industrial complex. That's right. You build up the economy, and I'm going back again to be self-sustaining, self-sufficient, is when the products that you manufacture, the public buys. You got it? You make it, they buy it.

You're just making it and nobody's buying it. These are weapons. That's right. It's gonna bring these countries. But we got the broken windows, right? Well, we can use these weapons to break windows everywhere and they'll all be wealthy when we rebuild it. That's it, yeah.

Broken windows. No, this is serious. Yeah. Oh, yeah. This is deadly serious. As I keep saying, when all else fails, they take you to war. And that is something that we've seen in both Trump's first term and now in his second. It's been a recurring theme consistently pushing Europe to rearm and saying, if you don't rearm,

I'm going to get out of NATO and so forth. Well, they did rearm and it seemed like it was in preparation for what happened in Ukraine and the guy who talked about that before it happened. You know, you go back to 2019, Zelensky ran on a campaign of peace. And the guy that he sent to the peace talks, Alexei Restovich, came back and on Ukrainian television they said, so what are the chances of peace? He goes, none. He goes, and it's gonna get worse and we're gonna have Russia's going to invade us in three years. How do you know that? And then he says, and it said, �That's horrible.� He goes, �Oh, it's going to

get much worse. We're going to be completely devastated. But the good news is we get into NATO.� Well, this same guy got fired from the Zelensky administration because he told the truth about a cruise missile that hit an apartment building. He said that wasn't targeting the apartment building, which was the line of Zelensky's administration. He said, �We shot it and it veered off and hit the apartment building. So they fired him. Well, he just had a third interview and in it he talked about the fact that you've got these generals in the Zelensky administration who've got

a plan to blow up nuclear reactors if they lose. Kind of like the Sampson option with Israel, right? And he said, the Biden administration knew about it, didn't do anything about it. The Trump administration knows about it. He said, they regard us as a monkey with a hand grenade. That was probably the best way to describe Zelensky as a monkey with a hand grenade. But it's really on the edge, and it's not a domino thing as you pointed out. It's not dominoes.

It's these people who are pushing this stuff and giving hand grenades to monkeys. What you just said about them blowing up a nuclear power plant. I said that two months ago. I did a video and we put it up on TikTok and I've been permanently banned for saying that on TikTok. Permanently banned. I said that Ukraine is going to do everything they can to keep this war going, blowing up a nuclear power plant, a major false flag event,

attacking more Russian oil depots, oil lines, etc. They've already done that. They're going to do everything they can to keep this war going. And I got banned permanently from TikTok for saying that. That's all I said. It's a badge of honor, Gerald. You know, you told the truth, they don't want the truth told. I mean, you know, by the way, again, if people want the to transjournal we're also losing subscribers on being called an anti-semitic because I'm against genocide. My definition is genocide not my definition as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, one after another, ICC. It's what they're doing to the Palestinian people or they just killed what over the last couple since since again not my language from Ha Ha that's

the Israeli newspaper Israel has they are the ones that ended the ceasefire deal not Hamas because the deal was there was gonna be a permanent ceasefire that was the deal and Israel said no since that time of March 18th, they've killed almost 1,500 Palestinians since March 18th. 1,500. Yeah, they're going into articles. I'm not making this stuff up. Well, and you know, throwing anti-Semitism out there, people, they're playing the race card in the same way that the leftists did, right? You criticize their leftist policies or politics, and immediately you're a racist.

And they won't say anything to just call you racist, racist, racist. We've seen these clips before, and conservatives went off on that. Now that the people who are supporting, and not just Israel, it's Netanyahu. There's a civil war about to break out, as everybody's saying, you know, they're so close. And so it's about Netanyahu's policy. So if you criticize a political party in Israel, you are therefore anti-Semitic when half of Israel doesn't like what he is saying. They're using that just like the left did. Yep, here. You ready? This is from Times of Israel. Israel attack on Gaza school sheltering displaced Palestinians Palestinians killed 33.

More than 100 were injured in Israeli air raids. Hit the Da Agra school shelter on Thursday. Aharetz. Israel army helicopters targeted the town of Nakorda in southern Lebanon. Israel has violated the Lebanese ceasefire agreement with hundreds of strikes destroying entire areas. But that's okay. You ready? Syria's state news agency, Sana'a, said Israel's shelling overnight killed nine people.

And Israeli soldiers are moving closer into the area. Oh, Israel could bomb Syria, they could bomb Lebanon, they could kill anybody they want, and if you're opposed to this, you're an anti-Semite. Yeah, that's right. That's right. That's right. That's the way it is. Yeah.

Even though, you know, you look at, you know, you've talked about this as well. We talked about how Netanyahu had to have, like, I think it was like three elections before he could cobble together a coalition government. And now you've got people who are higher ranking officials in Israel saying we're on the verge of a civil war. He fired the head of Shin Bet when Shin Bet said you were working with Hamas and not only that but they got something called Cuttergate which nobody talks about here in the US. The paying of Hamas by the Netanyahu government and so that's been a big scandal in Israel but nothing said in

the press here at all. Not left or right. Nobody will talk about Cuddergate. And so he fired Shin Bet. They said, yeah, we made mistakes, but so did you. He fired the guy. Then he fired his attorney general. The Supreme Court is looking at all of this stuff. And you've got people saying, we're on the verge of civil war.

But if you criticize Netanyahu, they call you anti-Semitic. Yeah. Are you ridiculous? Again, I am totally opposed to this murder going on in front of everybody. war but if you criticize Netanyahu they call you anti-semitic. Yeah. How ridiculous. Again, I am totally opposed to this murder going on in front of everybody. It's heartbreaking. Yeah. It's heartbreaking to see this.

Yeah. Here. Israel vows to take large Gaza areas as buffer zones. This is from the Financial Times. Buffer zones? Take large Gaza? You mean stealing more land? Now we can steal whatever we want.

Again, it's, yeah. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel's armed forces would seize more territory in Gaza. As the military expands its renewed offensive in the Palestinian enclave, the announcement marks the latest intensification of Israel's operations in Gaza since Israel – this is the Financial Times – broke a two-month ceasefire with Hamas last month and cut off supplies of food, fuel, humanitarian aid and medicine to 2.2 million people living in the shattered territory. That's financial times. And electricity too in many cases. Yeah.

Yeah. Food, water, electricity, medical aid. The bakeries are closing because they don't have any food that they can give people. It truly is amazing. And we saw this, you know, since I've last talked to you, we've had Signalgate. Everybody is upset because, you know, somebody saw, might have seen the big board, you know, the Signal thing, might have violated national security. But they're not upset about these people being bombed.

And one of the things that I thought was absolutely amazing, Gerald, was the fact that they are saying, well, we have to do this before Israel does it. So they don't have any control over Israel. They give Israel all this money, but they have no say as to when Israel is going to violate the ceasefire agreement. So let's violate the ceasefire agreement before Israel does so we can violate it on our terms instead of the violation that Israel is doing. I mean that's where we are.

And they're celebrating the bombing of civilians in Yemen and then going to a million dollar a plate fundraiser in Mar-a-Lago, right, as they're doing that. Well, you talk about decadence in government. That's a very definition, isn't it? This is from antiwar.com. More U.S. airstrikes at Yemen's province. Civilians killed. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's right. Yeah, you ready? This is from, again, antiwar.com. Trump is preparing to bomb Iran with Israel. This is the guy who saw himself as a peace candidate. Yeah, yeah.

And then you saw what happened. The Senate yesterday, they overwhelmingly rejected a bid by Bernie Sanders to block $8.8 billion in arms sales to Israel. Hmm. Yeah. It says that the Senate voted 82 to 15 and 83 to 15 to reject two resolutions of disapproval over sales of massive bombs and other offensive military equipment to Israel. The resolutions were offered by Senator Bernie Sanders. There you got it. And Sanders says, what is happening right now is unthinkable.

Today it is 31 days and counting with absolutely no humanitarian aid getting into Gaza, nothing. No food, no water, no medicine, no fuel for over a month. And this clown boy, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman James Risch, do you know who he is? No. No. Urged defeat of the senators resolution. You ready for this? Saying quote, they would abandon Israel, our closest ally in the Middle East during a pivotal moment of global security.

What does this have to do with my security? It seems like all the national, we've had a national security state since the end of World War II. And it seems like everything that they're doing is putting American lives at risk. We have the situation where it used to be a day of infamy if somebody attacked you before you attacked them, right? Remember Pearl Harbor? Well, that's infamy.

If you attack us and we haven't attacked you yet. We know the background that there was stuff that was, you know, we'd done a lot of economic things and sanctions and that's really war. But nevertheless, this whole idea, well you hit us before we hit you. As passive aggressive as you can be, you're not supposed to have anything push back against you. And yet what do we do? We do that all the time now. And, you know, it was before World War II, it was basically unthinkable to attack civilian populations. That was also

a crime. And now what do we do? We start wars, we do things, we bomb preemptively, we attack civilian populations, we have completely lost any sense of restraint or morality being imposed even on these wars. And that was something that in Western civilization we had for quite some time, at least some restraints on the evil of war. Now all the restraints on war have been taken off. You mean you didn't like Nakasaki or Hiroshima? Yeah, that's right.

Killing all those innocent people? That's right. What's wrong with you? Yeah, or Dresden, you know? Dresden, I mean, lovely. I mean, it's destroyed the whole place, all civilians there. Yeah, that's right. And again, they're doing the same exact thing in Gaza.

Yeah, that's right. And again, there's one article after another in the Trends Journal. Katz declines to call settler rampage through Palestinian villages terrorism. This is the times of Israel. Defense Minister Israel Katz on Thursday declined to characterize this week's latest settler rampage in the Palestinian villages terrorism. They're going in there destroying homes, destroying, they've threw over 40,000 people. 40,000 people out of their homes in the West Bank. 40,000!

That's not terrorism, hey, we can do anything we want. And again, I want to make this really clear. These are not Semites. Semites are from the Mesopotamia region. The people running is really Eastern Europeans What's what's Netanyahu Israel name I Don't know Milik house Milikowski yeah, no wasn't Ben Goury it was green

They're making up this crap their Eastern European Ashkenazi look look it up, A-S-H-K-E-N-A-Z-I, Ashkenazis. That's who's there. Well, that's why we say Israel. You know, are we talking about politics because half the people there don't like Netanyahu? Are we talking about ethnicity because there's these issues? Or are we talking about the religion? Because you've got a lot of, you know, religiously they're very divided, and a lot of the ultra-Orthodox don't support this stuff either. So, you know, when I say that to people, oh, you're against Israel, it's like, well, what is Israel to you? You know, how do you define Israel ethnically politically religiously and so forth how do you define it and so you know it's um it's a I define it as people who want land and willing to do it do anything to anybody else in order

to get it anything to steal it that's right anything you know they're killing me number of people in order to get the land that they want and and you've had Ben Shapiro make that very clear you know when he was on with Joe Rogan. Oh you believe that Moses is part of the Red Sea? No, I don't believe that but that land is ours you know. Yeah, yeah I don't want to hear that fairy tale either. God told Abraham. God had locked you and never spoke to anybody else in 3,500 years. Well actually he's spoken to all of us through his son now and that's what I think is the real Israel.

But you know, this is, you know, we can get into that kind of stuff and it's all, they just, you know, they don't believe any of this stuff except for that one thing that they want and that is the land. You know, they don't want Christ, they don't want God, they want the land and they'll kill anybody to get it. And they're doing it. Yeah. They're doing it in front of everybody's eyes without our money to go do it I agree stealing our taxpayer money to go do it. Yeah again

Here this is an article This came out of consortium news, that's a great site by the way and Joe Laurie is a great guy that runs it and Israeli lawsuits target Americans. A wave of litigation against pro-Palestinian Americans could help the nonprofit killer bill passed by Congress targeting opposition to Israeli policies. This is by a guy, Robert Enllakish. A wave of lawsuits filed by Israeli plaintiffs against pro-Palestinian American citizens, advocacy groups, and media outlets is paving the way for a nonprofit killer bill backed by AIPAC. Last week, the latest in a series of legal actions targeting the prominent New

York-based activists within our lifetime, as well as Columbia University chapters of Jewish Voices for Peace, Students for Justice in Palestine. According to the plaintiff, the groups were allegedly funded by Hamas, they're saying. So they're suing these people. Hamas isn't funding Jewish voices of peace. Yeah, I know. Oh yeah. It's like, you're either with us or you're anti-Semitic or you're Hamas, right? You're a terrorist. Wall Street Journal. White House targets Princeton to stop the anti-Semitism. Harvard targeted by administration.

See what bothers me Gerald is for years they've been getting billions. Anti-Semitism. They've been getting billions of dollars. I know and why are these colleges getting all this money? That's right. That's right. But if you if you bow Sorry, sorry, go ahead. No, no, if you bowed in Netanyahu, they'll give you the nine billion dollars But if you don't they're gonna take it all from you, you know

They have been racist and attacking other you know White people and Asian people putting in their DEI critical race theory and all the rest of this stuff They've been pushing Marxism and we keep giving them nine billion dollars at Harvard, four hundred million at Columbia, and the Trump administration is fine with keeping the cash flowing as long as they bowed Netanyahu. Yeah, it's amazing. Yeah, whether these companies, colleges, getting all this money for, what the hell are they doing with it? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Let's talk a little bit about... Hey, Gary. Oh, sorry. Go ahead.

This is from the New York Times. This is the only time I heard this. London police storm Quaker meeting house arresting planners of Gaza protests. arresting planners of Gaza protests. Quakers in Britain are reeling from what they say is an unheard of violation of one of their places of worship by police officers who forced their way into a meeting house in London and arrested activists gathered there to plan a Gaza war protest. Yeah. And it goes on and on and on. They're doing the same thing over there in Germany. They're throwing people out of Germany that are protesting the war. And you saw that guy, Orban, with NetYahu over there. And now NetYahu, they say, is coming back to America.

Well, that's the thing, too, when you look at what's happening in Europe. The absolute contempt that they have for free speech, for protest, for the freedom of religion, these core values that have been the basis of Western civilization – you can see in the UK, in Germany, and you can see it here in America as well – the absolute contempt for this, the West is falling, and it's falling from the inside. Because the values that we built these civilizations on are now hated by our tyrannical governments and they are setting up tyranny everywhere. And of course they're going to go to war, because that's what they're about. They're going to go to war with us besides

other ones like Iran, of course the Yemenis. And that's the amazingly stupid thing about Of course, the Yemenis, and that's the amazingly stupid thing about this, to me. You look at what's going on with Yemen, and they're shooting down one of these Reaper drones which, 10 million, 20 million, I don't know how much these things cost, but it's tens of millions. They're shooting one of these things down about once a month, since we've been flying them over there. And this is one of the poorest, most backward countries that are there. They've got some weapons from Iran,

but look, they can take down Reaper drones, and they're doing it at about one a month. And so, why would we think that we're going to be able to beat Iran when we can't even beat their poor proxy? That's the insanity of this, and that's the arrogance. You see it throughout the Trump administration. Everybody is there with their finger on the trigger, wanting to go after Iran for Israel, and when they talk about it, you see Pete Hegs is talking about it, it's like, oh yeah,

Israel, and he talks to Israel first. I mean, he mentions it first, everything about him is Israel first. They want to have a war with Iran. It's a huge country, it's advanced, and we can't even defeat their surrogates, can we? You mean you we talk about the Vietnam War. We only killed three and a half million people there. Yeah. Boys in a place with Agent Orange. Yeah. Didn't win that one. Couldn't win the, beat the Afghans, longest war in American history. Couldn't beat the Afghans, longest war in American history, couldn't beat the Iraqis, you're going to beat Iran, a nation of 91 million people, very advanced scientifically, technologically

and militarily. Much bigger than Iraq, geographically. And why is Iran the way they are? Way more advanced. And way more advanced. These are the Persians cats been around a long time They really know this stuff. Yeah, and and as you mentioned the Samson option Mm-hmm, if Israel feels they're losing they go nuclear. Yeah

And we've gonna lose. Yeah, oh that little arrogant heck set. Hey, look at me doing push-ups with the thing on my back. You see that little clown? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I understand. Absolutely. And yeah, he's got, I guess he wants to show us his tattoos while he's doing the push-ups. Let's talk a little bit before we run out of time. I want to talk a little bit about some of the financial stuff that's there. Because I talked this week about

this world liberty decentralized finance, the DeFi thing that the Trump family is in. It looks like an amazingly big grift. But talk a little bit about stablecoin. What do you think about this? I'm kind of concerned about it. They're moving very close, very rapidly towards a private digital currency, or coin or whatever, and everything about it seems fraudulent. I mean, first of all, none of this stuff is a coin. It's not physical, and it is not private, and it's not encrypted, and on and on and on. Everything, all the aspects of central bank digital currency are there.

And it seems like the Trump administration, certainly the Congress is moving very rapidly. They just approved the Genius Act, which is to push them over to a stablecoin. I think the first part of this is that they want these stablecoins there to buy their treasury bills because everybody else in other countries are saying we don't want that stuff anymore. So they could sell it to the to the stable coins and kind of repackage this but I'm really concerned about the surveillance and control aspects of these things. What do you think is going to be happening with this crypto stuff? Stable coin, I mean they're moving in a big way with this with the Trump administration. What do you think the plan is? Old news for TransJournal subscribers go back to 2020.

Dirty cash to digital trash. That's right. Simple as that. You'll know every penny you spent, what you spent it on, they get all their tax money. Yeah. And have total control over what you're doing, how you're doing it, where you're doing it. They're definitely gonna go. And they're gonna do it as a way of trying to get rid of the federal debt. They'll make up something. This stable coin is worth, you know,

80 times what the dollar's worth. You know, they'll make up something. And you're gonna see, central bank digital currencies, it's the future. Again, going back, AI, it's an AI world. I mean you even mentioned what Trump coming up making up this tariff stuff they're using AI. Yeah, for shoes of AI for a tariff policy, there we go. And that's the future, love it, hate it or not. Trends are born, they grow, they mature, reach old age and die. AI has only been born in 2022.

It's just been born. It's like you and I remember when the whole internet revolution began. We couldn't be doing what we're doing now back in 1990s. Oh yeah. We couldn't be doing a podcast like this. Yeah.

No, it was just beginning. What do you think about- Just a slide in the thing. What do you think about the end game with all this stuff? You know, we've had Besant, The Treasurer- There is no end game. Well, but I mean, let's say- They're making stuff up.

They're making it up as they go along. Wait a minute, hear me out here. This is Scott Besant and Lutnik, and we're talking about how they're going to put our assets to work. And you had Doug Burgum, who in his confirmation hearing said, yeah, we've got like $200 trillion worth of assets, natural assets, we can put to work. Later on, in an interview with Breitbart, he reduced it to $100 trillion. Nevertheless, do you think that, you know, we've had some documentaries out there about

the great taking and how they're going to do a pump and dump and then they're going to sell off America to themselves or to other people and make a profit from it. Do you think that's where they're headed? Not necessarily as the end game, but is that their plan? Does that line up with a world economic forum and the rest of this? I don't know. I don't know.

A lot of this stuff is made up stuff. Again, they're playing it day by day. They don't know. I don't know. A lot of this stuff is made up stuff, you know. Again, they're playing it day by day. They don't have a great plan on this. You could see what's going on. Yeah. And again, it keeps changing back and forth. Like the tariffs. Yeah. Again, Trump is now saying that he may reverse some of the tariffs things that he's talking about. Yeah. So we don't know where it's going to go. But I don't, I think the, I really do think the end game is he does have concern about trying to make the country more self-sufficient. And I think that's a positive element of it.

And again, again, I'm attacked because I say I'm for the tariffs, just to make it clear. Just like I'm attacked for saying that I'm for the tariffs, just to make it clear. Just like I'm in attack for saying that I'm against the Israel war. But I say what I believe by the facts and again you go back to the fact so we had tariffs we did not have federal income tax. Right, right. When we had tariffs we had manufacturing jobs in America. So I'm in favor of that. The other thing what they're going to do with the stablecoin, this and that, it's a homemade up thing and they're going to do

everything they can to make the most money that they can make as the people putting it all together. Do you think this... You have to look at also, look at the hundreds of millions of dollars that Trump got from the crypto club. Oh yeah. When he was running for president afterwards. So they were in the team. That's right. We're about to run out of time.

I've got a comment for you, Gerald, on Rumble. Cecilia 14 says, David, I please tell Gerald my husband bought me his book about his Italian family for our anniversary, and it has your signature on it. There you go. They really enjoyed that. So, and what was the name of that book again? The very thing I've written. this is by far my favorite. Where is it over here? Here we are.

What Zidzi gave Honey Boy, a true story about love, wisdom and the soul of America, what America used to be. And they did a TV show, Doris Roberts, who played the mother of everyone, Liz Raymond. Her last starring role was playing my aunt, but she died 15 minutes into the movie. But you could get it by going to Trends Journal and go to the About, and you could see the books that we have. Did they ever finish that movie, or they just stopped it?

No, she died 15 minutes, but you could get it on YouTube. And it's about how I got blacklisted from all the media. I used to be on Oprah, The Today Show, Good Morning America, when I said America would lose the Afghan war, and we had no business going there. I was hated for that. Oh yeah, yeah. We're seeing that everywhere now.

You go against the government narrative, whatever, however absurd, however false it is, they will come after you one way or the other. And so I appreciate you being honest with your opinions. And I always, you know, I prefer to have people who know what they believe, will stand for what they believe, and will tell you why they believe it. I have absolutely no use for media

that panders to the public who, you know, wets their finger and sticks it in the wind and tells people what they want to hear. That's a way to make a lot of money, but I have nothing but contempt for that type of thing. So I really do appreciate you taking a stand for peace, for what you believe and, you know, and you've been right on so many things. So again, Trends Journal is where you can find, TrendsJournal.com is where you can find the Trends Journal. You can see a sample of it that's there. It's an excellent publication, and you can save 10% off with the code NIGHT.

And it is a tiny fraction of what you'd pay for what has now become a pop publication, Wall Street Journal. Thank you so much, Gerald. It's always great having you on. Thank you so much and thank you for all that you do. I very much appreciate it. Thank you, have a great weekend. Hello, it's me, Vladimir Zelensky. I'm so tired of wearing these same t-shirts everywhere for years.

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