The David Knight Show - Global Chaos Ignites Gold Surge as Trump’s Unpredictable Tariffs Create Economic Firestorm

Episode Date: April 18, 2025

     Gerald Celente, the trend forecasting legend TrendsJournal.com, exposes a media conspiracy silencing the gold’s meteoric rise as it rocketed from $2,041 to $3,327 an ounce.   Wall Street Journal and New York Times are still ignoring spikes of over $100 a day!     Celente warns of a collapsing dollar, nuclear war risks, and Trump’s chaotic tariffs shaking markets.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.

Joining us now is Gerald Salente. Always a pleasure to have Gerald on and we've had so much that has happened economically, especially in the last couple of weeks. I wanted to get Gerald's take on it. TrendsResearch.com is where you can find his publication. You can see a sample of that. It's a magnificent and thorough, very lengthy weekly journal that comes out now and you can save 10% off with the code NIGHT and I think

Gerald, what does that work out to be about for the week? It works out to be half the price of the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times for a day, something like that. Good to have you on. $2.50 a week. Yeah. And the magazine's over 200 pages of the Trends Journal. And no fluff. You know, that's the other thing too. You're focusing on what's really happening. And you know, I talked about this last couple of weeks. We now got people talking about the commercial real estate issue because that's really surfacing. And you know, you've been talking about that for years, way ahead of the curve, saying this is what's going to happen. It's going to affect the banks and many other things as well.

And look at our forecast for gold. Yeah. When we made it, the forecast would be golden year for gold in 2024. were $2,041 an ounce. And today, I just looked. It's been up in the $3300. $3327 an ounce. That could pay for a lot of subscriptions for a lot of years, couldn't it? Now this is very important Couple of days ago price of gold went up over a hundred dollars an ounce

One day went like a hundred and seven dollars an ounce Not a word in the Wall Street Journal. Really? That you pay $5 a day for. Wow, wow. Not a word last week, last weekend, when gold prices spiked with the, throughout the week.

Not one word in the Wall Street Journal that you pay six dollars a day for on the weekend edition. Not one article before we went on the air today in the Wall Street Journal about the spiking prices of gold or the toilet paper record, which people call the New York Times they call themselves the paper record this is yesterday's edition this big stupid little cartoon for little girls and boys with brains the size of the P the reason they had these big cartoon pictures here is because they don't have journalists anymore. Yeah. Yeah. So they fill up the space with stupid pictures on every page. Yeah, look, look. I'm not making this up. Yeah. You see it? Yeah. Oh yeah. It looks like USA Today. Not a word, not a word, not a word about gold.

The mainstream media is silencing this. I've been at this for 45 years. I made my name buying gold. And when I booked Trends 2000, Trend Tracking, I told the story back in 1978 when the Iranian conflict broke out and they taught us to hate the Iranians, of course, without telling us how the United States and the MI6 overthrew the democratically elected government of Mosaddegh in 1953 because that lousy Iranian piece of scum said, no, that oil doesn't belong to Anglo-Iranian oil, better known today as BP, or ExxonMobil, excuse me, Standard Oil, better known today

as ExxonMobil. It belongs to the Iranian people. No it doesn't. We're gonna steal your oil and we're gonna kill everybody that supports you. And now we're gonna bring in the Shah and the Savak, the secret police that made the SS look good. So when the revolution happened, you know, I knew this thing is real. But they just taught the people to hate the Iranians so I did oil and gold futures put a $5,000 bed into each one and brought it almost up to three quarters of a million dollars. This is 1970s Wow, I lost most of the money. I'm gambling away. I know it's still here as a young guy Mm-hmm, but my first buy of gold was around $163, $173 an ounce.

I've been following gold since then. Wow. Yeah, the revolution was not televised in Iran, right? Americans are clueless about it. They don't talk about it in the media either. But yeah, yeah, it's amazing when you look at what has happened with gold over the last couple of years and especially over the last two years, you know, when you talk about in 2024, it truly is amazing. We used to have commercials at the end of the Trends Journal thing, you know, just promoting the Trends Journal. And I had Eric King, King World News, Salenti called the bottom of gold.

I called the bottom of gold a couple of years ago. This is the bottom. I've never seen gold take off like this. And this is the important element to what you were listening before about the uncertainty with Trump. Every day changes his mind because he's out of his mind. But that's another story. The uncertainty is we are on the verge of nuclear annihilation and the end of life on earth. And the people that are watching the geopolitical without swallowing the stupid crap that they're

shoving down people's throats know how bad it is and the worst of the worst is the disgusting murderous Israel genocide slaughter of the people in Gaza and maybe they'll throw me out of the country for saying that. Yeah. How dare I'm an anti-Semite. Shove it. Save your anti-Semite crap for some little gutless clown. Because number one, number one, the people running Israel, they're not Semites. Semites are people from the Mesopotamia region. These are all Eastern European Jews, people. Where's Netanyahu's real name? Milikowski? Oh, Ben-Gurion? Oh, you made that name up, Ben-Gurion Green. These are Eastern Europeans. They're not Semites.

Number two, you're against the massive slaughter and starvation of people. Oh, not my language, United Nations. I went on one after another right in front of everybody's eyes. And you're saying by definition oh I forgot Donald Trump's little arrogant son-in-law boy Jared Kushner oh that's very quote valuable waterfront property yeah and that was only a year ago oh yeah we had wanted to turn it into the Riv's right. Yeah, that was the amazing thing, Trump coming out with that. And as I talked about earlier, you know, they have put a, you know, the defense minister of Israel has said no humanitarian aid whatsoever.

We've got children who are starving and they're going to starve them to death so that Trump can what, set up a casino there? You know, is that what they're going to do? Is it a real estate development project? Where is the anger of people? Oh, by the way, they had that, again, you can't make this crap up, but everything's turned to crap so you can make it up.

They, about how Bernie Sanders and that Cortez thing, how they're enlightening the democratic people. Yeah, all right. These are the two jerks that you could look to. Oh, Bernie Sanders, they had a big rally, these big rallies he's having. And the people put up the flags, free Palestine, they got thrown out.

And you know what Bernie Sanders came out and said? I hate this line. You could shove it up your you know what? Israel has the right to defend itself. How many times have they repeated that propaganda line of crap? Oh, Israel bombing the hell out of Syria now? You got to stop them. They can't come near our borders.

Oh, you're in violation of ceasefire agreement in Lebanon? Bombing the hell out of Lebanon? We can bomb anybody we want! And shove your chosen people line up your you-know-what. Oh, I'm just a guinea from the Bronx? You're a chosen people? I'm just a guinea from the Bronx. You're a chosen people. I'm just a piece of scum. Oh no, let's listen to Naomi Wolf, a Jewish woman. She's that's a lot of baloney, this chosen people.

God shows it chooses people by their morality and how they live in the spirit of God has nothing to do with a religion. Got it? Well yeah, God chose to take them out of the land because of immorality. He'll, and he can choose to put them back in if he wishes, but it's not, they don't, they want the fruit of this without having the root of it, which is, which is God. But you know, you mentioned earlier that criticizing, as we've seen now, people being snatched off the street. And there's a smear campaign that happens in the conservative media to try to justify Trump snatching people off the street because they wrote an op-ed piece or snatching them

off the street because they were exercising free speech on the college campuses. And when I look at the obscene amounts of money that are being given to Columbia University, $400 million, and the even more obscene amount of money, $9 billion being given to Harvard, but they're going to keep giving them that money as long as they don't criticize a foreign political entity. And that's the issue here. But it's also the issue that when people are here legally, this last guy they pulled off, I talked about this yesterday, he was on his way to an interview for citizenship.

He'd been here for 10 years, and you don't get that interview unless you have a clean record and so forth. And he was here legally. The people who are here legally have a right to speak just like Americans do. They have a right to due process. And yet when we see Trump doing this to everybody they immediately tar and feather them as terrorists, as violence and all the rest of stuff and that's not true. But what's really frightening and you alluded to it is the fact that Trump has said to this guy in El Salvador, you're going to need to build some more prisons because we're going to send some American

citizens there. What do you think about that? I mean, it's amazing. I know. Yeah, I'll be on the list. Yeah, I know. Me too. Yeah. Well, it goes back to, you know, his Alien Enemies Act, which he's deported these gang members with.

And I'm all for deporting the gang members, MS-13 and the, you know, the trendy guys, the trendy, Aragwa or whatever they call them. I'm all for deporting those types of people, but we need to have some due process if they're gonna be sent into an extremely harsh environment there in those prisons. It's more than just deporting somebody who's here illegally. And the Trump administration even said

they made a mistake on it. But now they're talking out of both sides of their mouth. They say, well, we had him on a watch list. It's like, I began at InfoWars with a story about a guy who was put on a no-fly list, wrongfully put on a no-fly list. He doesn't know how he got on. They wouldn't tell him. This is a star chamber process.

That was happening in 2012. He was vetted by the TSA. He was vetted by the FBI, he had a firearms license, he was flying on a military plane to visit his wife who was in Japan working for the military, and he gets to Hawaii and as that intermediate flight is about to take off again for Japan, the last leg, some guys come on and pull him off and say, you can't fly, you're on a no fly list. And he's stuck in Hawaii, he can't fly. And he can't get any information from

anybody about how he got on that. That kind of star chamber process is not what we want to have in this country. And the problem is, is that Trump is taking this Alien Enemies Act, which is part of the Alien and Sedition Act. He's accusing CBS and other news media of being treasonous, which is basically sedition. And so what he's doing is he's taking the old Alien and Sedition Act, which Jefferson and Madison hated, and he's starting to apply that in the 21st century. And he wants to apply it to American citizens, not just to people who are here for foreign entities, foreign citizens. foreign citizens. No, the guy is a three months. He's an office at three months and look at what he's done in three months. He's wrecking ball isn't he? Yeah, he's an arrogant, arrogant, narcissistic guy. End of story. You I had I told you I'd lunch with his brother Robin

yeah back in 2017 and the brother told me that the father when he died left the family over half a billion dollars worth of real estate. This Abigail Disney or Walt Disney's niece or something, she wrote an article in The Guardian, I read it, and she wrote about Trump. Basically what a spoiled boy he is. He inherited everything. She would know about that, right? Yeah, but she fights with some good things. And, you know, I applaud her on that end. Not everything, but who does everything everybody likes, you know? But anyway, and that's all, again, I tell the story.

I'm the same age as Trump, 78. When I was a young, I wrote it in my Zizzi book, which by the way of everything I've written is my favorite. When Zizzi gave Honey Boy a Zizzi book. I found the trailer online, Gerald, and I played that on Monday. And I played a little bit of an interview with a guy who did the movie. He was at a film festival and he was talking about when he talked to you and how you were reluctant to have him do it It was very interesting and

Anyway, I write about how I Grew up in the Bronx born in the Bronx. You're not from the Bronx man Save it. It's a different trip And I'm born right after the war the energy is at the height America's at the top They couldn't control me. They used to tell me they used to tie me to the crib with nylon stockings because I'm out the window You know, they have my mother and father arrested now for doing that Anyway, I ran away from kindergarten across the Boston Post Road in the Bronx at four and a half years old

I hated every day of school. I They used to threaten me and my brothers. We had enough of your crap. You go in a military school That was the threat we used to get I Write about in the book how they took us to Botanical Gardens, which we thought was the military school They're these big things and they'll can't get ahead of car what was the military school that these big things and they can't get ahead of car Trump was so arrogant they sent him to military school now imagine being a teenager a young kid I'm not talking about girls cars sports you know my

mother wow everybody loved Aunt Mary's She was the best cook of everybody. I'm gonna eat this crappy food at military school, get dressed up in military drag. Time to get up, time to go to bed, do this, do that. I'm not gonna, all right, I'll be good, I'll be good. Trump was so out of his mind, so narcissistic. They sent him to military school. It's about 30 minutes south of me over here,

in what the hell's the name of the place? Not Gardner. Cornwall. Cornwall, New York. In the middle, we're talking the 1960s, right? The middle of nowhere. That's how arrogant and narcissistic he is. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, it's interesting. You talked about how they're going to make sure that you always mention how the bigs are going to get their special treatment. Well, you know, Trump pulled back and he said, well, I want you guys to soak the rich. Now, you know that's not going to happen, but that was the one time that we saw Sean Hannity come out and really got his hackles up.

He says, it seems to go against everything that Donald Trump has ever believed in. It's pretty unbelievable to me, to be honest. Finally complaining about taxes. Why? Because it's kind of, you always hear this nimby stuff, you know, not in my backyard. Well, you know, for Sean Hannity, it was like not in my back pocket. Yeah. I don't want to have to pay that stuff. Not in my backyard. Well, you know, for Sean Hannity, it was like, not in my back pocket. Yeah.

I don't want to have to pay that stuff. And out of the woodwork, you got all these Republicans out there saying, don't raise taxes, don't raise taxes. When for the last couple of weeks, they've been telling us, no, raise taxes. It's good for us. It'll, it'll help you to grow. You know, we've got Benny Johnson saying, well, you know, this may, you may be losing money in the stock market because of Trump's volatility and indecision and all the rest of the stuff.

But hey, it's a growing experience. It's going to build character to lose your money in the stock market. It's like, give me a break. These people will cheer anything, won't they? Again, Sean Hannity. Look at that little, look at that little, how could you be so dumb to swallow crap coming out of that clown's mouth? And what, look at the money that he's worth.

Oh yeah. Look what they pay these. That's right. And again, you were talking about that guy when you were on Infowars, and you know what the TSA did to them. Yeah. It's like that from your city, local government

all the way up to the top. from your city local government all the way up to the top. The power that these people in bureaucrats have taken, the laws, the restrictions they put on you. Yeah. It is disgusting. I talked this week about a case in Hawaii, and I think it was on Reason, and this guy bought a house from the,

and he had a permit for it. They were in the middle of doing a remodeling. And the bureaucrats, they're local bureaucrats, put out a, they changed their accounting system, their tracking system, they computerized it. And they said, well, we're going to, you're going to have, you know, a certain amount of time, like a month or two to re-up your permits, and if you don't, they're going to expire. Well, he didn't know that. And so they started giving him grief and he said, �Well, wait a minute. I had this and we checked this all before I bought the house.� And so then finally they come back and go, �Oh, no.

You didn't get the final inspection when this house was built 47 years ago.� It's like, �What are you talking about?� And so they put him through all this grief. They're going to tear down his house and everything. He wins and court after a long fight. They're still coming after him because these people are going to continue to come after him. They're going to find one thing or the other after him. They're never going to leave him alone, especially because he beat them in court. That's what I'm saying is everywhere. It's not only at the federal government. This country's

gone down to crap. It's finished. It's done. Look at the people the way they dress. As I said, the Ringling, remember when we were young guys, they had the Ringling brothers in Bonham and Bailey Circus? It went out of business. You don't have to step right up, step right up. See the fat man. See the tattooed lady.

See the lady with the beard. You don't have to step right up. They're out in the street all over the place. I gotta tell you, Gerald, when I was in college, I was in bands, right? I played bands. And we had a New Year's Eve gig with the retired Circus Freaks home in Sarasota. Okay?

It was one of the strangest things ever. We played their New Year's Eve party and I'll never forget that. They wanted waltzes from us. We were not a waltz band, but we put together a trombone player. I was playing keyboards and so we put together the Blue Daniel Waltz and that was when we got everybody to dance. It was really, that was so strange. You talk about circus freaks, I can't stop but think about Ringling Brothers there in Sarasota. Yeah. I mean, it's so sad. Now it's everywhere, yeah.

The way the people dress. Yeah. I've grown men wearing baseball caps. Grow the hell up, what do you look like a joe? Oh, and the chicks look so hot with their baseball caps with the hat with the hair coming out the back. Yeah, the women I have pictures of my aunts and how gorgeous they dressed.

How dignified the people were. Oh yeah. The whole country's gone down. Yeah. It's the end of it. Without a Renaissance, to me, it's all over. Facts don't mean anything. The Renaissance followed the

black plague, they killed people were killing themselves the filthy sanitation, but you can't do without the dough, the Medici's made it happen. We need a Renaissance, we have to, again you're a musician, look what the geeks did to music. Oh yeah, yeah. And look what the geeks look like. You want to look like a sucker boy? No, I want to look like a peach eye. How about a cook? Look at these dead in-your-face arrogant pieces of crap. The geeks, as I said, they got it wrong in the King's James Bible. They say the meek shall inherit the earth the geeks have inherited the earth Yeah, they brought down the level of this country to the low level of who they are. Hey, is it?

Artificial intelligence so much better than natural intelligence Why do you need artificial flavors, artificial colors, artificial intelligence? All right? Yeah. Yeah, it's about surveillance and control, I think, is really what that's ultimately about. Of course, there's going to be a lot of money in that.

I was talking earlier about how we've got, they just, Wall Street Journal, as well as, it was Forbes that started it, they looked at the claims that are being made by the guy that runs Figure Robots, and they're basically a lot of BS. We have so much hype in all this stuff, and you talked about a.com 2.0, and a lot of this stuff has been hyped to the extreme. He was saying that he had robots in the BMW automobile factory in South Carolina that were working you know throughout the process and it turns out that he's only got

two or three that they're using to sort a couple different packages that are there. You know, that's all that they're doing and so he was about to get an amount of money that would give him more capital than Ford Motor Company. And so it's a tremendous amount of hype that they put, expectations that they put. And a lot of this stuff, like, you know, some of these EV companies was based on hype and even fraud in terms of where they were going. What do you think is going to happen to the stock market now? We've had a lot of uncertainty because of this tariff thing.

We've also got issues with the tech companies being overbought, as you've talked about, you know, dot com bus 2.0 with artificial intelligence. What do you see happening with the economy and with gold? Has gold maxed out or is it going to keep running as long as there is this kind of uncertainty and chaos? It's going to keep running as long as there's this uncertainty and chaos. And before I was talking about nuclear annihilation, when Trump started talking about having a negotiation with Iran, we said, we wrote in the Trends Journal, this is a fraud. They have absolutely no intention of making peace with Iran. I began the conversation about talking about Iran and they taught us to hate it all our lives.

Yeah. And everybody get this in your head. These are the Persians, the very advanced people. And particularly scientifically, technologically, and militarily. These are not dumb people. They've been around a long time. Very advanced in a lot of ways. This is a country of 91 million people.

91 million versus 7 million Jewish people in Israel. Who's going gonna win? Mm-hmm. And the flattens flatten blow out Israel to nothing in a blink of an eye Now Trump is making this deal With this guy Wittgoff is it I can't say there's a jerk off Wittgoff whatever, you know A real estate guy a real estate guy. Of course, you would make him your ambassador It's all about real estate, isn't it? And again, another Zionist doing the deal and then he comes out and says, well, we're not going to pressure Iran to get

rid of all their nuclear reduction. And then he did it 180 like that. Why isn't Iran allowed to have nuclear power plants or nuclear development? That's right. But Israel's allowed to have nuclear bombs. That's right. I forgot they're the chosen people. I was stupid in there. Gart Goldsmith said, yeah, they're intentionally blurring the, muddying the water, blurring

the lines by just talking about nuclear sites. And everybody goes, oh, well, it's nuclear bomb sites. It's nuclear energy sites. I guess they're not allowed to do that. We're going to change everything over to nuclear energy and it's going to be run by our technocrats over here, but they're not allowed to have nuclear energy there, right? No. Then going back to Trump, he's the one that killed the deal when there was the nuclear agreement that was signed under Obama. And they had the nuclear inspectors going to the Iranian plants continually, showing that they were not making nuclear bombs. And Trump killed that deal, what, back in 2018? Trump is totally pro-Zionist.

Oh, so is Joe Biden, he called himself a Zionist. And Zionism has nothing to do with religion. It's a political movement. Right, right. Yeah, there's anti-Zionist Jews, just like there's a lot of anti-Zionist Christians, and I was talking about that earlier as well. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, the rabbis hate the lot of rabbis can't stand the Zionists. Made up thing. Yeah. What's that guy? What's that Theodore? Theodore Herzl? Mm-hmm.

Yeah. 1890s. Yeah. A guy from like Austria or Hungary Hungary somebody made up this whole thing invented and then the Rothschilds and all the other ones supported gave them all the money as I said You can't do anything without money. Look at a pack runs the country. Yeah when it comes to elections Look at the money they give That's right

And now that deadhead Stefanik, whatever her name is, she's going to be running for governor of New York. Oh great. We got one more run. She put another one. It's a freak show. Yeah. Look at the freaks running the show. It's in front of everybody's eyes. Yeah. As I said, the Ringling Brothers in Barnum and Bailey Circus went

out of business because you don't have to step right up and see the freaks. Oh, you like little Mikey Johnson? Look at that little out of business because you don't have to step right up and see the freaks. Oh, you like little Mikey Johnson? Look at that little nothing of a clown boy. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah.

So going back to Iran, Israel's going to ramp up this war. They just came out with this BS line that Trump stopped Netanyahu from bombing Iran. Did you see that a couple of days ago? Yeah, I saw that. Are you buying that line? No, it's total baloney. They tell him what to do. They tell him what to do. Total baloney.

But even though they say that, that they're thinking of bombing Iran. I'm telling you that's why gold prices are going up like this. Yeah. And don't forget, hey, you will let me I'm gonna end that Ukraine war in 24 hours after I get into office. Okay. Yeah, he stopped talking about that, hasn't he? 24 hours. How did he get away with this crap? Yeah. 24 hours you get away with this crap yeah I make a miss yeah call something wrong oh my god so lent he called it wrong hey I'm a human being I can't get everything right all the time right all right but look at my track record but

I'm not lying to you in front of your eyes yeah that's right and I want you remember this now that I'm elected that Ukraine was gonna end before I get into office mm-hmm a fat mouth going on yeah that's right here's the deal Europe writing about in the Trends journals pumping more and more money into the Ukraine war. Kyle Hitlers back in Germany with this guy Mertz building up the military and in warning his government, a former Black Rock guy.

Black Rock. We got to watch those Russians, they're gonna try to invade Europe. They're selling the domino theory that they sold during the Vietnam War. Yeah. And if we don't stop those Russians, this coming out of the mouth of the Germans,

they're building their defense budget, what, a trillion dollars? Oh, we're gonna put money into infrastructure, too Wait a minute. You're in recession for two years You're going into your third year recession third largest economy in the world and the largest in Europe And now you're going into a trillion dollars worth the debt to build up your defense. That's right We got to stop them Russians. Hey, wait a minute. You killed over 25 million in World War II, Operation Barbarossa, and

you're talking about you have to stop the Russians? World War III has begun. There's going to be a false flag event or something that makes it official. This is why gold prices are going up. That plus, look at two of our top trends. Again, I'm at this 45 years. Never did we come out with a top trend wild card because of the Trump card. Nothing like this in my lifetime. Yeah, that's right.

That's right. Totally unpredictable what he's going to do from one hour to the next. You know, you look at this tariff stuff I was just talking about that. Changing his position within 24 hours. He got two different takes on this stuff. But when you go back and you look at the rearmament of Europe, it seems to me like this is, I think these guys are selected. I think they intentionally put Trump in and then took him out and put Biden in and then

put him back in again. And I think he's there as an agent of chaos and I think he's there to push into this world war. He was a hero to a lot of people who were saying, well, look, he's complaining about Europe not carrying their weight in NATO, and so we might just get out of NATO. Well, he had no intention of getting out of NATO. I think what he was just doing was just to tell them that they've got to spend more money. And that's a constant recurring theme now in his second term. You've got to rearm. And as we look at Volkswagen and these other car companies that can't compete with China

on EVs, and they can't economically really manufacture anything because they've put restrictions on their energy usage, now they're moving into, you know, Volkswagen and these other companies are now moving into making military equipment. So it is a huge rearmament and it's a huge repositioning. This is something that's been sold by Trump all the way through. Again think of the stupidity of this. You're building bombs, rockets, planes, ships, whatever. This is World War III. Grow up. Why don't you use bow and arrows,

all right? Yeah. It's gonna be new millennium warfare. All this crap you're doing is totally worthless junk. It's gonna be nuclear annihilation in a blink of an eye. Yeah. But meanwhile, they're putting in a trillion dollars on the defense budget for the first time. And you don't see any of, you don't see Elon Musk, who is a military industrial contractor himself, you don't see him looking at the Pentagon spending for efficiency or waste at all, do you? No. Yeah. And look at the little clown boy that's our secretary of defense. A little arrogant nothing of a jerk. One after another. One after another. Could you get dumber, stupider,

loser than Marco Rubio? That's right. A little nothing of a boy. It's a freak show. Step right up, step right up. In a country near you, little Katz and McCrone over there. A little nothing of a boy, if he is at all. Starmer over there in the UK and who was before him, the best cartoonist in the world could not have come up with a freaky looking clown figure than Boris Johnson. He really leaned into that cartoon look, didn't he?

I always called him Bojo, you know, Boris Johnson, Bojo the clown. Again, it's one jerk after another running a country near you. Yeah, I agree. What about what is happening in the last 24 hours? We had Powell come out and say that he's not going to pay any attention to Trump. He got a lot of applause when he said that. He said that as he was speaking to the group, he says, I'm not going to bow to any political pressure from Trump.

Got a lot of applause with that set Trump off. And he said, he's playing politics. And if I tell him to leave, he's going to leave. What do you think is going to happen? And what's the impact? Trump, certainly with all of the uncertainty, is wrecking the markets. And we've talked about whether or not, what the Federal Reserve is going to do, because they can wreck things or create inflation with their quantitative easing or interest rates or whatever. So what do you think is going to play out

with this competition between Powell and Trump? What do you think they're going to, what do you think the Fed's going to play out with this competition between Powell and Trump? What do you think they're going to, what do you think the Fed's going to do? We've been writing about it in the Trends Journal now since Trump got, before Trump got elected. Mm-hmm. We said that he's going to do everything he can to lower interest rates and juice up the economy if there's any kind of danger of it going down or the market's going down. And we said, he's done it before and he'll do it again. Let's go back to December 2018. The Dow had its worst December since the Great Depression, 1931. What did Trump do?

He pushed Powell to lower interest rates, which Powell did in January 2019, and it's used to markets. Remember the repo crisis? Oh, forget about that. Oh yeah. Powell is nothing more than a little nothing of a boy. As George Carlin said it's one big club and you ain't in it. Who was the fed head

that became the Treasury Secretary? Janet Yellen. Yeah. Remember her? Yeah. Did mushrooms in China. Couldn't stop bowing. Yeah. As we say, Miss Vatsha Brut. The, a clown that was the Fed head becomes the Treasury Secretary. All right? Mm-hm. It's the same club. Powell will do what he's told to do. He's a gutless little nothing of a boy.

And Trump will lower interest rates for another reason. In selling his tariff deal, they want to devalue the dollar so that American products are cheaper to buy. Just like China did. We said China was going to do it. And before you talked about Volkswagen and these other companies whose car sales are going way down. These are the Volkswagen, the BMWs, the Chevrolet, the Ford's, the General Motors that had great, great years in China when Bill Clinton brought China into the World Trade Organization. And all these Western companies wanted cheap labor. They went over to China and gave China all the high tech and heavy industry technology they never had.

And now 25 years later, they got it all. And you got to put this stuff into perspective as trend forecasters. You make connections between different fields. All things are connected like the blood which unites us all said Chief Seattle, but I think he was wrong with that because we're not connected at all. But anyway, go back to 2000. Ten percent of Chinese 18-year-olds went to college. Now, 70%. This is a country 1.4 billion people. They're very smart. America's dumbing down in front of your eyes. Oh yeah. We got 347 million, 345 million. 345 million against 1.4 billion that are very advanced technologically, high tech and heavy industry.

Goes back to AI. Oh, there's gonna be a dot com bust because of all the over investment in the first AI companies that came out. Trends are born, they grow, they mature, reach old age and die. The AI trend was only born in 2022. And everybody invested in these IPOs, these IPO wannabes and the new tech.

Oh, no, we don't need these big chips. No, it doesn't cost us 100 million dollars. Only cost us six million dollars to do what you did. With the chat. We could we could outdo you. Yeah. This is just the beginning. They're gonna outdo, Germany was at the height

of engineering and advancement for decades. No more, because of the bureaucracy. I can't stand going back to Italy because of the bureaucracy. It's one of the worst in the world. I got friends that live there. They complain all the time. The bureaucracy is going back to what you said about that guy that got the TSA, what they did to him. Yeah. Yeah. It's gone going on all throughout the Western world. It's going on all throughout the Western world. Well, let me ask you, when we go back to interest rates and Powell and all the rest of stuff and as you pointed out, we know that Trump wants to get the interest rates lowered, helps

him with the interest on the debt, which is getting very significant. And yet, when you look at people's trust in the dollar, when we saw him reverse very quickly as the stock market was crashing for two days in a row, that first day when it was crashing, he came out and essentially alluded to the fact that it was bonds. Other people said that it was Japan that was dumping the bonds. If he lowers interest rates, if he devalues the dollar, that makes it harder for him to sell bonds. So what's the follow-up with that? I've suggested that perhaps this whole stablecoin stuff is an

opportunity for them to get the stablecoin to buy their bonds when other countries don't want to buy it and other investors don't want to buy it. And then if they can move it over to that, that also gives them all the functionality of CBDC or digital currency. What do you think about that? I think you're 100% right. And by the way, I will go back to that, but also the deeper the dollar fall, again, you go back to your Trends Journal, the death of the dollar. We've been saying this is going to happen. The world has had enough of America's economic and geopolitical

hegemony. It had it. Going back, the lower the dollar goes, the higher gold prices spike. Gold is dollar-based. So now it becomes cheaper for other countries to buy gold because their currencies have gone up. So going back to what you said about CBT, absolutely. They'll invent one. The Trump team will capitalize on it. And we're doing away with the dollar. We're coming out with a new currency, a digital currency. We'll know every penny you spent, what you spent it on, we get all our tax money from you, and my family's very heavily invested in this coin, that coin, this thing, that thing, and we're going to make more billions of dollars. Yeah, I agree. They're going to definitely go CBDC, there's no question the world is going to go into

it. China's already there. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and Europe is not even making any bones about it. They're still calling it a CBDC. I think what'll happen here is that Trump will have to do it stealthy. You know, people around Trump will do it stealthily. They'll also do it in a way in which they make money, I think, as well. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, personally they make money. Don't you think that his family knew

when he said what he was going to do and his friends to pump the market up before the market skyrocketed? Oh yeah, absolutely. Don't you think his friends or anybody knew, hey listen, you might want to buy the market tomorrow because… Even said that, even said that. Now's a good time to buy. I said, okay, even if that wasn't, knowing Trump, I think that was a signal to sell.

But even if he wasn't intentionally trying to send a signal to people, when he takes all of this power to himself, to be able to put the tariffs on, take the tariffs off, set the rates, arbitral, this and that, That leaves him open even if he was trying to honestly do that. Accruing all that power to himself puts him in that position where, of course, they're going to investigate him, his political enemies are going to investigate him for rigging the markets. It's just a given with him taking all of that power. He'll do whatever he wants. And again, the reality is, we're talking about this guy's been here for only three months It's gonna be a long time, isn't it? Oh my god. Are you kidding?

And he again this guy's power hungry as could be. Yeah Yeah, and so this is I'm telling you that's why I I would not have thought gold prices would have spiked the way they have. But when you look at it, if he's able to lower the rates, you know, putting pressure on Powell and Powell wants to, you know, not fight him, or if they devalue the dollar or whatever, all of that stuff is going to help gold, every bit of it. Yeah, it's going to really shoot it through the roof. Yeah, a lot of people have been saying they think gold is getting ready to go hyperbolic.

Yeah, it may well. It may well. And you can easily see $3,500 an ounce gold. Oh, it's not that far now. Yeah. Remember the BS line? We're going to go into Fort Knox? Yeah, they stopped talking about that, didn't they? Yeah. Don't draw any more attention to gold, I guess.

They know what's in there. Yeah, right. And we wouldn't know anyway if they went in there. I mean, it'd be like Al Capone's vault, right? If they walked in and there was nothing there, they'd come up with an explanation. If they walk in and we see some gold stuff, we don't know if it was painted or not. I mean, there was a picture I saw, Gerald, of how Trump has changed the Oval Office, you know, where he has all these press conferences and everything. And he's got his gold guy that makes everything gold in Mar-a-Lago. King Midas came in and so you got, he's painting everything with gold leaf all through the Oval Office and everything. I mean he

loves gold, he talks about where he's gonna have a golden age, well I guess maybe that was the tip that he, you should buy gold, I don't know, but he loves gold everywhere doesn't he? Except we see it in Fort Knox, we wouldn't know if that was his gold guy that just went in there and painted some bricks. How would we know the difference with it, right? You know, before we went on the air you said, hey how you doing? I said, I'm doing all right. I have to tell you, you know, the magazine comes out every Tuesday. This past Tuesday I was so depressed. I got to write about this and read about this stuff every day Yeah, the massacre going on in Sudan in in in

Gaza the death of people The slaughter of people starvation of people you mentioned that clown cats the defense guy in Israel what do you say he's gonna cut off all humanitarian aid. That's right. Yeah It could you imagine let's reverse this Let's suppose his name was in cats and we'll make up some Arab name for him Muhammad with Jewish people in Gaza were Jewish people in Gaza. Yeah. Suppose these were Jewish people in Gaza that were being,

and they're not Palestinians. The outrage that would be there, they would call this Holocaust 2.0. Yeah. But they're only Palestinians, their lives don't matter. Yeah. I'm heartbroken. I am so heartbroken to see this. And again, I launched Occupy Peace well over a decade ago. And now we're going into a Good Friday. Where are all these religions that believe in the Prince of Peace. Darrell Bock Yeah, well Zionism is really taking over Christianity here in America. It truly is. And it's not Christian at all. And I talked about that in the first part of the program. And you know, when I look at this, I absolutely feel the same way you do.

People say to me, you know, the news is just too dark and too depressing and everything. And it is depressing even more so when you and I look into it all the time and as much of it as we see. It's even more depressing than what I cover on the show here. And yet the only thing that I have, I have a hope that is outside of this life, and that's the key thing for me. And you know, I really couldn't do this if I didn't have the hope of Christ.

And I know that this stuff that is happening now, it has, we're in a period of time where there's a battle that's going on, and I just see it as being a part of that battle. And I know what is going to happen after I die. I know this life is very short. But I am absolutely confident. That's what hope is.

That word is confident expectation. That's what I have, confident expectation of what's going to happen. I just know that I'm in the fight. I look at the disease and the suffering in this fallen world. And I know that it's not in my power to change it, but that there is a purpose ultimately that is going to be made out of this in this time of struggle. And we're just here to try to show people what is happening.

We don't know if we're talking to people who have ears to hear and eyes to see or not, but we're called to just tell people what we see. That's what you're trying to do with this, I think. And it certainly is what I'm trying to do. Well, you see, I believe that we can change it. I mean, was Trump better than you and me? Mm-hmm. Yeah, I think we need to warn people, you know, whether we can change it or not.

We need to warn people about it. Yeah, but again, this is the other thing. I'm hearing from people, I can't do this, they say, I'm so depressed with this I'm tuning out. Oh great, tune out. Yeah, great, let Hitler take over. Don't do anything. Don't do anything. Don't do a damn thing.

You can't do anything. That's who you believe? Fine. Everybody else could do anything. Oh, we talked about the Zuckerbergs, the Musks, the Peach Eyes, the Cook. Oh, they could do things. You can't. Yeah.

You're powerless. Everybody out there, you can't. You're powerless. Everybody out there you're powerless. That's what they put into the people's heads because they use these words celebrities. What's celebrities? What the hell are you talking to? Celebrities. Oh, officials. Dignitaries. That's bullshit crap words. excuse the language, BS crap words about putting people at a higher level than anybody else and that we're supposed to follow them. We're still in kindergarten. I agree. Yeah.

Yeah, I've talked to people. We went into the pharmacist and I've told the story on air, my son who is injured with antibiotics and we were talking to the people there at the pharmacy because they were asking us why we were buying some of the stuff that we were buying. And she said, oh wow. I said, yeah, it's on the warning label but they don't give you the black box warning label but she said, oh, that stuff on the label, this is the person at the pharmacy. The labels are so scary, I just don't read them anymore.

And I thought, wow, you know, that's the way people are with news as well. The news is so scary, I just don't wanna know. I want everything to be nice and happy, I wanna pretend that this stuff doesn't exist. Well, you can pretend that it doesn't exist, but that's not gonna make it go away. It's only gonna get worse, isn't it?

Again, it's Easter time, and I consider myself a warrior for the Prince of Peace. And when I say warrior, I mean it because this is one of the covers of the Trends Journal back in 2011. The Prince of Peace made a whip to drive the money changes out of the temple. Right? Right, right. To drive the money changes out of the temple. Yeah, that's right Right, right, right the same money changes that are running the world today

So as I said, where are all the religions that believe in Christ and how come they're not out there saying Stop this slaughter of human beings? I agree. To bring peace on earth. I mean it's because they're being run by people like Paula White and Hagee and these, you know, these big name preachers out there who are friends of... I have friends that go to the Catholic Church over here that were totally pro-Ukrainian war.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, for many of the people who are pushing this stuff, it's the love of money. Yeah, it's pushing it. What? I said for many of the people who are pushing this, it's their love of money, right? They want to be a part of the system just like you're talking about. They want to be a part of the club.

They can make a lot of money if they are pushing Ukraine war, they're pushing the Israel war. And so they push it to their people and other people are being led by them, you know, and they're being led by people who are at the root of all evil. Money's not evil, it's the love of the money and that's what's turning these people, I think. Well, again, you look at the people listening to your show and mine, there are enough people that have had enough of this and if we united under a banner, a real peace banner of reality, we could change this. The people, look, if Trump wasn't there, let's pretend he's not there, nobody would want to vote for the Democratic, for the Republicans.

There's nobody there that's a standout. And again, they're pumping up this Cortez and Bernie Sanders on the Democratic Party. Are you kidding me? party. Are you kidding me? Yeah. Yeah. Are you kidding? Look at the, look at the little jerk show over here.

The people, there are a load of people that are ready for a new way. I agree. And, and that's what I'm fighting for. I'm fighting for peace and a new way to bring back the true American spirit that I grew up with that made me the man that I am and the family and blessed to come from that really gave it to me. And that's how

I grew up. You be who you want to be. Don't you tell me who to be or tell me what to do. I agree. That's the life that I live. Matter of fact, my father, may he rest in peace. I get in a fight with him. He said to me, a little S-O-B. You think I'm telling you what I'm telling you because I want you to be like me? I want you to become yourself. Mm-hmm. Yeah. That's right. Well, again, it's always great to have you on, Gerald. And if you use the

Code Night, folks, you can get Trends Journal 10% off. And it is filled with a wealth of information. It's this is truly amazing. As you pointed out to all that wall street journal doesn't even talk about what's going on with gold. How could they miss that? I guess the, you know, there's, there's, they can hype the vaccines, but they don't want to tell you about gold. Thank you so much for joining us.

Have a great weekend. Thank you, Gerald. And thank you everybody. Have a great weekend.