The David Knight Show - Interview: This Is What System Failure Looks Like

Episode Date: January 16, 2026

Gerald Celente warns that the world is sliding toward war, depression, and authoritarian control as collapsing currencies, runaway debt, and elite greed collide. He explains why gold and silver are surging as trust in the dollar dies, how looming wars with Iran and Russia could detonate oil prices and crash global markets. Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to https://davidknight.gold/ for great deals on physical gold/silver For 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to https://trendsjournal.com/ and enter the code KNIGHT Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @[e-mail] App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

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able to talk to Gerald. Actually, a little bit longer than that, because we usually do it every other week. But it's been longer now just before Christmas. And everybody has been dying to hear what Gerald sees coming in terms of trends for 26. Of course, he doesn't do predictions, but he does trends. And we can infer a lot from the trends if we look at it. So we're going to talk about a lot of different things.

We're going to talk about the economy. We've got so many different wars to pick from. It's like a smorgasbord in terms of commentary. It's not a good thing, but it certainly has a lot to talk about. Trump always does put a lot of stuff on our plate. So without any further ado, Gerald Salenti at trendsjournal.com. And just a reminder, if you use the code night, you can save 10% on a subscription to this, and you can get the stuff right away.

If you don't have to wait for an interview, you can find out what Gerald thinks the trends are going to be in the next year right there. And it's a wealth of information that comes every week. And with the code, it is very very. very, very affordable. Again, 10% off of the code night. Thank you for joining us, Gerald. And of course, you've already put out your trends journal for the trends that you see coming up in 2026, right? Oh, yeah. And by the way, when they put your code in, it costs them the grand total of $2.50 a week. Wow. Paying today. Pays. Yeah, that's amazing. And go to YouTube and, you know,

look at the comments that people have subscribed. I'm not bragging. There's no magazine like it in the world. That's right. You know, high tech to AI, to socioeconomic, geopolitical, on and on and on. And it's a magazine. You read what you want. This week's magazine, by the way, 240 plus pages. Wow. Wow.

Yeah. Well, it certainly isn't any, certainly isn't a quiet period of time. That's one thing you can say about Trump. But, you don't want to subscribe to AI to get, you don't want to subscribe to the Trends Journal to get the top trends for 2026. What you want to do is you want to go to Google and Google top trends for 26 and when the magazine

came out, this is what AI came up with. You ready? Yeah, yeah, I'll say this. AI top trends for 2026 point towards a shift from 2025's quiet luxury

to quote loud luxury. You ready? Featuring bold colors, exaggerated embellishments, tassels and bows. Go AI. Go AI. Get stupid like the rest of everybody.

No, no, no, no. Hey, Solentie, I'm going to go to the Washington Journal. No, I'm going to go to New York Times. Not a word about the top trends in 2020. Wow. Barely a peep. This is what happened in 2025. fun.

This is like going, you might as well go back and watch pale face with Bob Hope and say that the trends are going to be buttons and bows this year. That's what we're going to have this year, right? You got it. The reason they don't do it is, and I'm, is simple. They don't know how to do it. Yeah. Yeah.

Trends 2000 international bestselling book. That's right. Trend tracking, far better than Megatrends, Time magazine. Publishing the Trends journal since 1999. They don't teach trend forecasting at Harvard. They don't teach you to Yale. They don't teach you to Princeton. They don't teach you at Oxford,

to Cambridge. They don't know how to do it. And they don't teach you at OpenAI either. They don't know how to do it. The AI is basically going to plagiarize what other people put out there. They're not thinking. They're just collecting what other people put out. And if the New York Times,

other people like that aren't paying attention to it either, you're certainly not going to get it from AI either. And it's not the New York Times. It's the New York Slimes. Yeah, that's right. Get it straight, right. That's right. Well, let's talk about the trends coming up.

You know, we've had an amazing year for gold and silver. And it kicked off again at the beginning of this year. Already the predictions that we saw from a lot of the different banking institutions and their analysts, that's already back in the rearview mirror. We've already sailed past a lot of those that have been been. other, what do you think is going to happen with gold and silver? And this is the key thing, because instead of predicting a price, I mean, I'm looking at gold and silver. I'm not looking at it like some kind of a commodity that's going to be going up and down, up and down. I see this

as a part of a reset of financial system. I imagine you do too. How do you see it? All right. Again, I mentioned the book, Tread tracking, 1989. I began to buying gold in in 1978 when the Iranian conflict broke out. And it forced to hate Iran without anybody knowing how the AI, the AI, the CIA and the MI6

back in 1953, the Mossadegh government, because he said the oil belongs to the Iranian people, not BP, or standard oil. Back then it was Exxon, Exxon Standard Oil and

Anglo-Iranian oil. He said, belongs to the Iranian people. Same mistake as Chavez, right, in Venezuela. Yeah, same thing. So what happened, I started buying gold back then. What's going on now has nothing to do back then. Back then, the United States was number one. China's gross domestic product back in 1978,

under $150 billion. And this is a million people under $150 billion. Today, when you put the, the real numbers and it's way above 20 trillion. Wow. Wow. The United States ruled the world back then. Now we have the death of the dollar coming.

Trump wants the lower interest rates. The lower interest rates go, the deeper the dollar falls. The deeper the dollar falls. The higher gold prices go up. Gold, again, trends journal subscribers know it, as well you do. What was our top trend for 2024? Gold. Golden Year for Gold.

Yeah. Go to your Trends Journal. All year long, we've been saying going up, going up, and go back to October 16th. My podcast, I said there's going to be a correction in gold that's going to go down $500, at least $500. It did about a week later. It's going to be correction. Nothing goes straight up or straight down. But gold is the future because of the geopolitical and socioeconomic uncertainties.

that have never existed in your lifetime or mine. Yeah, I agree. These are the most times of our lives. And that's why the precious metals are skyrocketing on the silver end. And by the way, as we're going on the air today, whether it's gold is selling for about $4,625 an ounce. Yeah. And let me say this, just let the audience know,

we're recording this on Wednesday afternoon. So the way things are moving very quickly, it looks like we're probably, by the time this airs, we may be at war with Iran. That is what the Jerusalem Post is quoting an Israeli official. And, of course, whatever the Israeli officials want, Trump's going to give it to them. So it'll be interesting to see what happens to the price of gold when that kicks in. When it, Gerald. Well, yeah, this is the headline from Ha Hadats report.

Trump administration warns Saudis, Gulf countries to prepare U.S. strike on Iran. Yeah, yeah, that's right. All right. Now, when did he strike them the last time? What day? Do you remember? It was a Saturday. Yeah.

When did he kidnap Maduro? Saturday. He doesn't want the markets are closed. Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, there you go. that's a good prediction so maybe it won't have happened by the time we air this on

friday so he does it when the markets are closed yeah because if this happens when the markets are open foo very interesting yeah so anyway very bullish on this and got and silver now again going back you make connections between different fields silver by the way is being used very heavily in high-tech. Oh, yeah. And like, let's say you got a gold ring and you need the dough, you melt down the gold and you go sell the gold ring. Sylvia, your cell phone breaks, your computer breaks, you throw it away.

There's no stockpiles. And with the AI, more and more and more and more silvers being used in these chips and everything else, and there are no stockpiles of this stuff. That's why you're seeing, I mean, I mean, what did silver price off like a hundred? Yeah, oh, well, well, over 100% in such. But, you know, we're also seeing, we're seeing industrial use is so high that we've had a deficit for six years now of silver production versus silver use. And as you point out, people are not recycling it.

There's also something on the headline that a lot of people have been pointing to, and that is Samsung has a solid state battery that is superior in every way to the lithium batteries. that charges faster twice as long life and it has a much longer range and it doesn't have the fire issues, all these things, except it's more pricey because it's got a lot of silver in it. And if that catches on. Imagine if today was the day your idea changed someone's life. Imagine if you could help someone pay for college. Help your community build a new playground or help a child make it to that dream competition. With GoFundMe, it's all possible.

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This is a commercial message brought to you by GofundMe. I mean, I could almost see the U.S. government mandating it because of the fire hazards with the lithium stuff. But if that catches on, that's going to be a huge sink for silver, isn't it? Yes. And again, think about it. Where's Samsung? What country are they from? Yeah, that's right. South Korea, right? Yeah. Asian. The Asian country is going to take over AI. China's going to lead the world in it. And there's going to be a dot-com bus. They overinvested in these companies. That's one of our top trends for 2026. Trends are born. They grow, they mature reach all days. You don't invest in the companies that are infants that were just born in 2022.

Let's go back a year ago about a year ago in a week. There was a bust called when NVIDIA stock lost $600 billion in one day, when a company called Deep Sea came out from China. Oh, yeah. Oh, about that. Yeah. Again, you don't invest all you do in the companies that are just born. China's going to lead the world in AI.

I've said we've done. I mentioned to you before Slick Willie Clinton brought them into the, World Trade Organization 25 years ago, 10% of Chinese 18-year-olds went to college. Today, nearly 70%. And they're AI high-tech addicted. And jumping hundreds of billions of dollars into AI. Again, it's the future. Love and hate it, want it, don't want it, it's it.

And you're going to see a dot-com bust if or when the United States and Israel attack Iran. you're going to see Brent crude go over $100 a barrel. That's going to sink the global economy, the equity markets, and get ready for the greatest depression. Don't worry. When all else fails, they take you to war. I'm a Yankee Doodle, dang. While we're on the economy and gold, as you've always said,

that Trump is very good for gold. And now it looks like he wants to be a one-man Federal Reserve. Instead of ending the Federal Reserve, instead of auditing the Federal Reserve, he wants to get rid of Jerome Powell, so he's going to audit the Federal Reserve building. They're not going to audit the gold that's in Fort Knox. But he's going to take it over. He's got some ideas of what he's going to do to manipulate interest rates and his own version of quantitative easing.

That's going to also stoke gold, isn't it? Yep. And by the way, I think Trump is going to be gold for gold. Yeah. Hey, let's go back to February last year. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, me and me, we're going to go to Fort Knox, right? All right. Hey, got so, now come in and go there.

They go there. They know it's in there. They know what's in there. They're going to come out with this story. By the way, according to the data, the United States has more gold than anybody else in the world. Well, there's a lot of people that believe that China has hidden a lot of their stuff. What do you think? They'll say we got make up a number and we're raising the price of gold.

We're the ones that set the price and we're changing it. And now gold is going to be worth $10,000 an ounce. And we just wiped out our $38 trillion budget deficit. It'll make up some crap, I'm telling you. Yeah. Gold is it, man. Gold, again, there's going to be a correction. Nothing goes straight up and straight down.

Again, you go October 16th, I did a podcast. I said there'd be a correction in gold. It could go down $500 an ounce. Five days later, it went down $500. Yeah. So something goes straight up, straight down. But this gold and silver, it's the commodity. It is the trend, yeah, it is the trend, isn't it?

Well, let's talk a little bit about Iran, and of course, things could change very, very quickly in the next 24-36 hours. But you believe that this girl you're going to send a shockwave through the oil industry and create a depression, right? Oh, yeah. If the prices go up above 100, as we're talking now, Brent Cruz is about $65 and change a barrel. Last year, this time it was about $80 a barrel. All right? It goes over $100 a barrel. You're going to see inflation go way up.

And right now, there's more supply than demand. That's why the prices are so low. And more supply than demand means the whole economy is on slowdown. It should spike above $100 a barrel. You're going to see equity market crash. Yeah. Well, again, when we look at this, with all of it is in Venezuela, Trump had meeting last week, and he had these different oil company executives in.

And the Exxon CEO said he thought that Venezuela was uninvestable. And right after that, Trump says, well, he's out. You know, he's not going to get it. So it is actually uninvestable for his company, I guess. But when you look at it, you know, not factoring in what's what. the shock to the oil system that an Iran war is going to do. But when you look at where we are right now, without that being there, what incentive would the oil companies have to go in there and put a glut of oil on the market?

They don't want to see the price go down. This might be more of an incentive for them to get invested in Venezuela, but it's still a long time to get this infrastructure to where it's productive again, right? What do you think about that in terms of the oil aspect? Like that, you know, times change. Economies go up and down. And what you talk about Trump throwing a guy from Exxon out. This is Trump last week in the New York Times.

They said, they asked him if there were any limits on his global powers. Oh, yeah. Mr. Trump said, quote, yeah. Yeah. There is one thing, one thing. My own morality, my own mind. It's the only thing that could stop me. I don't need international law.

All right, stop. Yeah. My own mind? How about what somebody else? What the hell you're talking about with someone else is thinking? Only my mind counts. Yeah.

That's right. I know everything. Yeah. You know, as you know, I taught close combat for many years. And you come up by the guy you used to write for the magazine, may rest in peace. Bradley Steiner. Top close combat guy in America who taught my teacher, John Perkins. The first thing, number one, that we learned in close combat,

the only time you use your ego is when your life is on the line. That's my ego. That's what they're there. Trump is pure ego when he says that only his mind counts. Would other people, facts, data, show that doesn't count at all. It's only my mind. It's pure ego. Yeah.

Yeah, the ego has landed. That's basically good. Perfectly stated. It's amazing. And what is amazing to me is so many people that can't or won't see that and just how dangerous that is. Yeah, truly is amazing. Well, you know, when we look at this, there's another aspect of the Iranian thing, which you've talked about in the past as well, Gen C revolt. And so there's been a massive revolt that's there.

And I looked at this. I thought, you know, why in the world did anybody in their right mind, assuming that they had a mind? Why would you interfere with that, right? If he interferes with this, of course, that's going to only help the Ayatollah because, as you've pointed out over and over again, when people have, and we've seen this throughout history, many times in our lives, we've seen that, you know, governments will take people to war because things are difficult domestically and they get people's minds off it. We saw it with Israel and Netanyahu, right? Take them to war because he's struggling politically in his own country. And so if somebody is struggling politically in their own country, they want to have a war. Why would Trump give that to them if he had any inkling of a strategy? Why would you ask that question?

That's a rhetorical question, is it? Why? Yeah. Why is it the same person insane? I mean, you know, let's go back to Gen Z Revolution. First of all, you mention about Netanyahu. Everybody forgets there were 39 weeks of protests going on in Israel before the Hamas attack. Yeah.

because the Trump's Trump's Trump Netanyahu Greenberg iceberg what's the difference yeah then yahoo wanted to do away with the court system and say the government was in control there were 30 weeks of protest because of his judicial reform act not my language the language from uh Isaac Herzog president of Israel there's a civil war going on there was a civil war going on there was a civil war going on. Moss attacks, everybody forgot. Going back, Ha Ha' Hadd's Israel. Again, we only write the facts.

Everybody forgot this. Three days after the attack, it was reported that the United States in Egypt had warned Israel the attack was coming. And Ha Ha' Haddh, other newspapers have since reported, they all knew it was coming. They let it happen. Not the people's mind off it. That's right. So again, when all else fails, they take you to war.

And the global economies are failing. The United States economy, again, AI is responsible for 50% of last year's gross domestic product. Wow. That's amazing. 10% of Americans are responsible for 50% of the spending last year. Top 10% of Americans own 93% of the $3,000. percent of the stock market. The rest of the 90 percent

owns 70 percent. A 7 percent. Wow. That's it. The rich own everything. Last year, the top 10 billionaires in America, they only got $700 billion

richer. The job reports, look at the jobs that are created. Look at the numbers. Health services. Paying nothing. because again, I'm the baby boom generation. I'm the same age as Trump.

So if I fall asleep, I'm the same age. I mentioned that little clown boy Jake Crapper. Yeah. And then you know what he said? What are he saying? I get his exact quote here. If I can't find it, I'll tell you what it was.

Ah, here it is. Ready? Mm-hmm. Look. He's 79 years old. I mean, like, that's not abnormal for a 79-year-old to be sleepy. Hey, scumbag! You!

Don't you talk to me like that? I don't eat shit. All right? I'm in good... I'm 79. Well, we had an interview with Salenti, but it's not abnormal for a 79-year-old. All right. That's the crap.

So don't subscribe to the Judge Journal. Go to the Cartoon News Network and swallow crap from Jake Crapper. A little piece of crap to put that kind of shit out there. Disgusting. How dare you say that? Yeah. Well, you know, getting back to the Gen Z stuff. By the way, people don't like my language.

Hey, what did Trump do to that guy the other day? Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Guy to call the one about, but he wouldn't put out the Epstein files. Had a file protector. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. And what did Trump say? Yeah. He nailed it too. That's exactly the truth hurt, didn't it? Well, yeah, Trump said, FU, yeah. And he chooses him a bird, right? And he gave him the finger, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, but I, oh, Celenti now, you can't do that. He's the president. He did anything he wants. And I'm a little, gotless little clown, and I suck up to him like I suck up to, Oh, we got the suck up? Remember genocide Joe?

I forgot about him. You had gone before and I forgot this. After the Iranian revolution, Iranian economy was growing nicely. They were doing great. And then all of a sudden, the Nobel Peace of Crap Prize winner, Barack Obama put sanctions on them.

That's right. Yeah. Oh, the Nobel Peace of Crap Prize winner quoted in the book, Double Down. I'm really good at killing people. You're really good at killing. You're a little skinny prick. I don't want to use right word.

I don't want to be censored. You could fight your way out of a paper bag. What do you mean? Killing people. He killed over 40,000 people with drones. Yeah. Right? He puts sanctions on Iran.

Then he made a deal with him when they signed that agreement not to build a nuclear things, right? Then he gets into his office. And he puts more sanctions on it. And more sanctions and more sanctions and more sanctions. And more sanctions and more sanctions. That's why the, because he's a puppet of Israel. Yeah.

Is Obama. Obama's the guy that gave the deal that steals three, what, about $3.6 billion of our money each year to give to Israel. Mm-hmm. They call it taxes. It ain't taxes. It's stevery. Anyway, going back. So, then Trump put more and more sanctions on them.

So the country's going bust. That's why a Gen Z revolution. one of our top trends. Bro. Again, we talked about this. That little boy of nobody ever heard of. Again, not what you like,

what you want, what you wish for. There's a little nothing of a kid, Mandani in New York City. Biggest, and I'm a Bronx guy, I know New York, beep, beep,

b'bup. I got a little nobody here that nobody ever heard of. How come? Gen Z. Mm-hmm. Yeah, a 14 to 29-year-olds.

Mm-hmm. But the 18 to 29-year-olds were the biggest turnout in the primaries that beat little Andy Cuomo, another arrogant piece of skunk. What was the biggest turnout with the election? Millennials in Gen Z, they got no jobs. Oh, a couple of weeks ago, hey, they over through a government in a place called Bulgaria.

Who did it? Gen Z. What happened in Nepal, Gen Z? Hey, how about Tanzania, Gen Z? Oh, Kenya, Gen Z. Indonesia, France, Gen Z. Mara, Madagascar, Gen Z, Gen Z, taking their streets, they broke, they're busted,

because the billionaires own everything. Yeah, that's right. As you said many times when they lose it, they lose it. They lose everything, they lose it. And that's what we're saying all around the world. Nothing left to lose. They lose it. They're losing it.

They've got no future. You know, the other thing that really struck me this week when I saw the picture of what's going on in Iran, of course, there's been a lot of violence there. And I'm just going to pull this up here and you can get us back there, Lance, when we do this. but this is a picture. I know you can't see it, Gerald,

but this is a picture of the Iranian police, riot police. They look exactly like ice. They got full militarized helmets and all the rest of the stuff. Of course, their faces are masked as well, all black uniforms. That's what we see over and over again. And, yeah. Look what they're doing to these people in Minnesota. Yeah, that's right.

Because they did that one, blog your brain shot. Look at the other one that came out pulling that woman out of a car like that. Yeah. And don't do that. Real men don't act like that against the woman. I agree. And don't you believe that this is... Real men don't do that.

Yeah, I agree. Don't you believe that this is deliberate provocation? They want a civil war. Don't you think that's a... No. I don't think so. Crazy people. Yeah.

I just think that when I look at this, it is so over the top. And, and, of course, course, we've gotten to the point where, and you look at the aftermath of that shooting with Renee Good, and of course, Trump and like I said, they didn't even try to think, well, let's think of some way that we can spend this. They just made stuff up. Like Christine Ome said, yeah, they were stuck in the snow. And as they're trying to get out, she attacked them with their car. They didn't bother to look at it. You know, when Trump was shown the video from by some New York Times reporters in the Oval Office, it was speechless. And he changed.

the topic. They just, they don't even care. Well, then you know that they're lying anymore. They just lie to your face. That's why I believe that it's a deliberate provocation. They would love to have a war between these two tribes. And if you look at social media, I mean, the hatred that I see that has been engendered by this is just unbelievable. If you gave both these sides, a lot of guns and go after, they would gleefully kill each other right now. They don't need any more provocation. Yep. It's amazing. You know, I'm looking for something here.

You're saying about Trump lying. I'm trying to find. How dare you call him a liar? My resolution, peace on earth. I'm the most anti-war president in history. How dare you call him a liar? September 25th when he's running for office, 2024. We want our peace.

on earth all over. I dare you call him a liar. I'm not going to start a war. I'm going to stop wars. October 20th, 20, 24. All right? All right?

Lying in front of your face. Lying in front of your face. Yeah. Yeah, as a matter of fact, when you look at this, where do you think things go from Venezuela? I mean, we've had a moment now where everybody is celebrating him

and, oh, what a genius move this is. It seems to me very much like George W. Bush getting on the aircraft carrier and saying, you know, this is it. This taking his victory lap. I think there's a long way to go before he can claim any kind of a victory. What do you think in Venezuela? How do you see this moving forward? It's a wild cut. Yeah.

Yeah. Nobody knows. Yeah. It is kind of interesting that he's, you know, the line that they're taking because they don't want to say that they arrested ahead of state somewhere and kidnapped him. So what they're saying is he didn't. win the election legitimately. And it's like, okay, so who did you say won the election legitimately? The Machado woman or the Gonzalez guy, you know, they kept her off the ballot.

She looked like she was going to win, but they kept her off the ballot. And so the Western observer said, we thank Gonzalez won and Maduro stole it. So why don't you put those people in? If you think Gonzalez won it, once you make him the president, why don't you make Machado the president? Of course, that is also a rhetorical question, isn't it? You use the word kidnap. Again, this is why people subscribe to the Trends Journal. You're not allowed to use that word.

All the Western media, they never use the word kidnapped. You ready? You see has again come under scrutiny, this is from the Guardian. After it released, that staff were instructed to avoid using the word kidnapped when reporting the U.S. forcibly seizing Venezuela's president Nicholas Maduro. The BBC instructions were disclosed by The Guardian and the BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped a screenshot of what the BBC told reporters. Quote, to ensure clarity and consistency in our reporting, Please follow these guidelines when describing the recent events in Venezuela.

What the guidance is to be attributed to the U.S. description of the operation, as in, quote, the U.S. said Maduro was captured during the operation. The word of these is described as acceptable for use in our reporting when appropriate, while journalists must avoid using the term, quote, kidnap. I didn't get that memo. I'm still waiting for them to ceasing me on that, I guess. I've been called it kidnapping the entire time. When I say to you that there's no magazine like what we're doing,

we don't know. Nobody tells us what to. We have no advertisers. Nobody tells us what to do. Media's gone. It's dead. And that's really surprising, too, because, you know, So the BBC, the fact that they would grovel before the U.S. government like that,

even as Trump is suing there for what, $10 billion? Is that what the ridiculous moment is? Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. BBC, yeah. BS, BS crap. So what do you think is going to happen? He's also made some noise about Colombia and Cuba, even though he said Cuba was not going to,

they were going to bring them to their knees by making sure they didn't get any oil from Venezuela. then they went in and said, okay, well, Mexico can sell them oil. I mean, there's such confusion. It's almost, they don't know what they're doing, do they, from one day. It's almost like the tariffs. How do you read that? You just said it's like the tariffs. Every day it changes his mind.

Yeah. He's out of his mind. What mind? Oh, my mind is the only one's the wrong with you. I just said it over here, right? My mind. Yeah, his mind and his morality is what John Stewart said. So, in other words, nothing.

we don't have any morality we don't have any mind. How about mind your own business? Yeah, that's the mind, right? Let's talk a little bit about Greenland of all things. What is going on with Greenland? Why do you think they're so desperate? I mean, I can't use nuts. Yeah, yeah.

I mean, the only thing I can see with it, certainly, you know, they got resources, but how do you get to them? Defense, I mean, he's got a treaty, and they've had military bases there. And in the past, they've had up to 10,000 troops right after World War II. they've only got a couple hundred now, but they still have that treaty. What do you think is going to happen with this stuff? What do you think it's going to do with NATO and that type of? I look at it. My guess is, Gerald, I think they're just going to move a massive number of troops there and say,

hey, we've got a right to do this based on the treaty. I could see him just occupying Greenland. What do you think? I don't know what a crazy person is going to do. Do you think he's going to put on a uniform and start prancing around like Napoleon or something? or what is that one is that in the car? Big enough. That's right.

Yeah, they would have a little general in a different way, right? Ukraine. What do you think is going to happen with Ukraine? Again, we said it on and on and on over and over. We said that, oh, remember all the crap, again, from the mainstream media? Now, the BS of the Trump administration, that was a peace deal who was right at hand. How many times are we? How many times do we hear that?

Yeah. It's very simple. We said it from the beginning. First, we said that go back to your trends journal back in February of 2022 when the war began. There's no way that Ukraine could defeat Russia. That's right. Polian, you mentioned Napoleon. What do you left, Poland with 240, 10,000.

troops to attack Moscow, came back with 10,000. Operation Barbarossa, Germany, they killed 27 million Russians. Who are the first ones to beat the Germans? Yeah. Russians. That's right. There's no way they're going to beat them. So then, then when Russia started launching the attack, even back in the early days,

they got like 20% of the land. We said, they're not going to give this back. And then what happened? Oh, remember that other clown? That other arrogant, arrogant, arrogant, arrogant, arrogant, fat boy, Lloyd Austin. Remember? Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

Yeah, they had a defense department that now is the Department of War, I forgot. Remember the, they're going to add that, what would they call that thing? The counter-offensive. Yeah. Everybody forgot about the counter-offensive. The crap that they were selling

is going to be a huge counter-offensive. as slimeball Joe Biden and Anthony Blinking, the secretary escape. I went to Dalton. I went to Harvard. My daddy was the ambassador hungry. My uncle was the ambassador to Belgium.

I'm just an arrogant piece of scum. Yeah, that guy stole what? About $300 billion of our money? And what happened? Counteroffensive? Totally lost. Totally forgotten. Ed?

What happened with it? Russia took more land. They're not going to give back what they got. End the story. People don't know, but of course, and we've done this a thousand times with you in our Trends Journal back in 2014. How happy that guy is, the United States overthrow with a democratically elected government evicting anikovych in Ukraine back then. So now here's the deal.

Why did they attack? Oh, the Azovs, the Nazi Ukrainian government? how many Russian people they kill in the Donbos region? Over 15,000. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Again, Ukraine was part of Russia

until Khrushchev, whose Ukrainian said it's a separate entity, but it's still within the Soviet Union. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And again, the eastern New York part of Ukraine is Russian. And it was slaughtering the Russian people. So here's the deal.

They ain't going to be no deal. Mm-hmm. Russia is not going to give up what it has. So there's going to be a false flag event that's going to unify Europe to try to attack Russia. They've done it before. They'll do it again.

Yeah. Yeah, only the facts. Another piece of scum crap over there, your chance though, over there in Joimini, moits. Oh, the black rock guy. Yeah, that clown. Borrowing the Gulf, Germany,

third largest economy in the world, in a recession for two years, numbers haven't come out yet for 2025, but the estimate is it'll grow by 0.2%. Three years of recession. They're borrowing a trillion dollars to build up their defense,

and our infrastructure sort of could hold a tanks. Germany, France, UK, one country after another in Europe, building up their militaries. Yeah. One after another.

And giving warnings about how you've got to get the hospital set up so you can take in a lot of casualties. And, of course, they have been at war with their own people over the green agenda. They have destroyed the industrialized base. So now let's repurpose it to making military equipment. And let's get the people fighting a different enemy than us. And so I agree with you. I think it's going to be, you know, it was NATO that pushed this thing from the very beginning and pushed into there, did the coup and all the rest of the stuff. I remember when the UK defense minister said at the beginning of this stuff, he said,

we beat the Russians once in Crimea, we'll beat them again. I said at the time. So why were the Russians in Crimea a couple of hundred years ago, right, during the Crimean War in the late 1800s? So, you know, why were 150 years ago, I guess? You know, why were the Russians in Crimea 150 years ago? Because the Russians were in Crimea for 400 years. And what the hell of the British doing all over there?

Exactly. Oh, I forgot. I forgot. The sun never sets on the British Empire. Yeah, that's right. And again, show that word king up you, you know what. Yeah. You're an Italian, if they were telling you, you'd call them a mafia.

Murderous, murderous, murderous, scum. Yep, yeah. So, yeah, I agree with you. I think there'll be a false flag or something that's going to be driven by the European side. And, of course, they're very eager to put boots on the ground. Already the UK Prime Minister said we're going to get boots on the ground. They're trying to drag us into it with a security guarantee. What do you think about that?

Do you think that the U.S. will do that? I mean, there'll be a political cost for Trump to do that. I think the United States will join it. Yeah. Again, NATO, the deal made between Gorbachev and Bush Sr., James Baker at the time, quote, NATO will not move one inch further. Mm-hmm. If you're 16 NATO countries then, now there are 32.

Yeah, yeah. So if we had the Russians up here in Canada, four and a half hours from me, and the Chinese down in Mexico, oh, America would be fine with that, wouldn't they? That's one of the interesting things I think about Greenland is this, you know, Trump is really getting Denmark and a lot of other countries upset about this. That's the about the only silver lining I see in this, this is that it's a chaos and division within NATO over this Greenland thing. What the hell is Denmark doing in Greenland?

Yeah, I think some of the Greenland people have said that as well. What about Greenland just being Greenland and get the hell out of it. That's right. Yeah, well, they have said that over and over again. They've said that they don't want to be under the U.S. or under Denmark, but even more so not under the U.S. and, you know, the bribes that they're offering them and all the rest of this stuff. So let's take a look at the domestic stuff Because again, it's probably not going to be too much longer

Before we get the Supreme Court decision That's going to say whether or not Trump has to give back the tariffs That he put in arbitrarily on everybody And he's talking about how that's going to be a real mess And so he can't really undo what he just arbitrarily did What do you think the economic consequences are going to be If that happens? Because it does lean towards that

Not a lot. Yeah. I don't think it'll make much of a difference on that The tariffs haven't caused the inflation, according to the data that they anticipated it would be. And again, you know, by the way, you mentioned something before. I want to go back to it. You mentioned about, I forgot the exact phrase that you used about Europe's, you know, deindustrialization or something. How did you say it?

Yeah, they've gone to war with their own people and deindustrialized it. Yeah. The base. Yeah. Who de-industrialized it? This is the guy. Not them. Slick Willie, huh?

Or China into the World Trade Organization. Yeah, yeah. 25 years ago. What happened? All these Western companies that went over there to get cheap labor. Gave China all the high tech and heavy industry capabilities they never had. Mm-hmm. And now, these are the Chinese

and not stupid people. Now, who's the leader in AEVs? BYD? Yeah. As I said, who's going to lead the world in AI? China. They did it for that. So you go back.

Again, only by the facts. You go back to 2001 to like 2018, 2019. Mm-hmm. There's Volkswagen, BMW. W, Mercedes, Ford, GM. They're selling cars like crazy.

Their profits are skyrocketing. And then what happened? We don't need you anymore. Yeah. Everything we've never had. And now we got more than you. That's what happened. And then when you look at the Paris Climate Accord,

they didn't just give them the heavy industry. They also gave them the energy monopoly. I mean, they have access to cheap, affordable energy that nobody in Western Europe has. You know, the UK, when I say they're deindustrializing them. I mean, they're really just going through and ripping everything out, shutting down all their coal plants, even shutting down the plants that can make steel because, hey, it's going to destroy the world, you know, we'll have CO2 and that type of thing. And yet, nobody cares if it's done in China or if it's done in India.

They only care about the CO2 if it's coming in. out of the U.S. or the EU? China is doing all they can right now to make it cleaner, particularly with these EVs. And that is out there, what they're doing in so many different ways. I mean, they're the solar capital of the world.

And so they're trying to get off this. And by the way, again... But they're making the solar panels by burning coal from North Korea. What I'm saying, they're coming up with, they're coming up with new technologies that they're investing in. Yeah, that's right. I can do it. And, you know, going to an EV, that was something that right away, you know, we had such a lead on them, all the industrialized countries of the West, had such a lead on them in terms of internal combustion engines.

And then that was just thrown out the window. Okay, now everybody's going to have batteries and motors. And so it's very easy to catch up on that type of thing, isn't it? And they're going to, I'm telling you. I read this stuff, man. They're investing very heavily in alternative energies and again,

by the facts, they're EV crazy. Yeah, yeah. They're doing away with combustion engines. And again, yeah, again, I'm four and a half hours if I drive to Montreal from here. Take Amcrap.

You know how long it takes? Right across the river. Rhincliffe. For Ryecliffe. to Montreal by train, 10 hours. I don't know, my friend just went there. 10 hours each way. Yeah.

Take the subway in New York. How about a night in Calcutta? Filthy, dirty, ancient crap. Mm-hmm. Go to China. How about the high-speed rail? Like about 250 miles an hour? Yeah.

Yeah. They're going cleaners. They're trying. We're not doing anything. That's right. That's right. We're going backwards. Again, the 20th century I say was the American century,

but unfortunately the 21st century is going to be the Chinese century. Yeah. Because the business of America is war. That's right. And it's China's business. That's right. Yeah. Hey, hey, hey, go back to February last year, right?

Right. I'm on. CNBC says, the defense sector market went way down because President Trump said he was going to cut the military budget by $500 billion. That was last February.

Oh, what did he say last week? Yeah. Put another $500 billion into it. Yeah. Yeah. Just had a record all-time high of a trillion dollars, hit that for the first time. Then right away, it turns around. Let's make it one and a half,

trillion. Let's increase it by 50%. Yeah. What did you say last February? Yeah. Again, how can Pete, lies, lies in front of your eyes. And they hate me for calling him out as lies. I'm scared. I got to tell you, will ICE come in here and kill me or have somebody there kill me? Well, yeah, that's the thing. Ice has become a, I think they're gearing it up for a secret police surveillance state. Because you look at their budget and, you know, $28.5 billion, and it would be the 14th largest military in the world if it was a separate country. Their military is between Ukraine and Israel in terms of the amount of money that they have. And what are they doing with the money? Not just tiring.

They're getting a lot of surveillance technology to surveil everybody, everywhere. And yet they don't want you to see their face. Boy, if you take a cell phone video of them, they will. want to beat you and kill you. Oh, you see the pictures of what they're doing to people. Yeah, absolutely. I just saw when they punched this kid from out to the street. You do anything.

He's taking a picture. Yeah. Yeah. Again, you know, it's terrible what's going on. And there's going to be, you know, it's only going to get worse. Again, it's going to be the total surveillance state. You don't know what you did, we did, what you did, it's going to be. You know, I want to move on to something else, by the way.

Sure. Yeah. The bank stocks are going down as we're talking. You know that I've called an office building bust. When they locked down COVID, everything changed. Everything changed. Here, you ready? Mm-hmm.

This is my data. This is WDRB. They say that Central Business District in Louisville, vacancy rate 40%. Wow. Louisville. Wow. How about Chicago?

28%. 27 and change. Denver. Portland, Oregon, Seattle, Washington. All the high 20% 30% range. Vacant.

Vacant. Yeah. Yeah. Let's say my firm owns the building and leases, remember, the COVID war happened in 2020.

Leases of five 10-year leases. Now this is six years later. Leases have been up. Ain't renewing, man. Don't need all the space. My work at home three days a week. I had them in little cubicles, never saw them anyway. You don't need them here. Come in a couple of days a week. That's it. How are they going to pay their mortgages? Their loans. They're not. They're not. That's why this repo is going on. They're dumping hundreds of billions of dollars so the banksters could borrow money for free because they ain't got the dough.

There's going to be failures. The banks are not going to be able to cover these losses. Ain't ancient history three years ago, Silicon Khan Man Valley Bank, First Republic, and what was the other one? Silicon, First Republic, and it was another one that went bust. I think the third one,

And they were still solvent, but they kind of forced them out because they didn't like the crypto stuff that was there, right? I'm trying to remember, yeah. Three banks, boom, down went the equities and up went gold prices. First Republic, that was it, First Republic, signature, and Silicon. Three banks, boom. Markets are crashing, gold prices spiking. That was three banks. It's going to be 30 banks.

Yeah. We're going to see failures. Again, the data is all there. Yep. U.S. cities where central business districts office vacancies, rates are low. They got it right here. And it's one after another. The average is over 20%.

And you talk about that three banks going down and how it spooked the markets and everything. And I'm looking at this back and forth with Trump. And, you know, everybody said, oh, we want Fed independence. And it's like, yeah, I want it too. I want to be independent. of them. But that's not in the cards. But nevertheless, once Trump starts to make his moves, and of course, he's doing some of his own quantitative easing, he wants to manipulate interest rates and all the rest of the stuff, it's going to spook the marketplace, I think. And, you know,

regard, I think it'll happen very quickly the reactions to it because people are going to calculate that. They're not going to wait for it to trickle through. It's going to be right away. People are going to react to that. Of course, that's going to impact gold, right? Oh, yeah. You ready? This is according to Bouty's. Dayton, Ohio, vacancy rate,

37.5%. Their number in Dallas, Texas, 34.4%. St. Louis, 33%. San Antonio, 31.4%. Las Vegas, 30.7%.

Wow. Again, homeless everywhere it's the way of the world and it's only going to get worse if we don't have peace on earth and again you know my money where my mouth is

I lost to occupy peace you were kind enough to come up here your wife and son you know and speaking here if we don't these billionaires if they gave us a billion dollars of peace we'd have it tomorrow you can't do it without the dough and if we don't have peace on earth it's going to be hell on earth. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, you've been saying for a while that this is going to be leading to, you know, what was dialed in with the fake pandemic was a greater depression,

as well as dragflation that even anticipated that, you know, prior to that because of all the phony manipulations by the Federal Reserve, on quantitative easing and everything. They had dialed in stagflation, but you called it dragflation because it wasn't just going to go stagnant. It was going to go down quite a bit. but then with all the commercial real estate issues because of lockdown and how things change along with that a greater depression that is in the works here and so is there any good news that you see

no I don't see any good news at all the only thing to me by the way that it'll change is a renaissance we have to back the spirit of what this country used to be when the black plague happened and some 60% of Europe was wiped out because of the filthy sanitation and the Renaissance began in the late 1300s. They used to say, Alaramanah et Al Antica in the manner of the Romans

and the ancients to just quality of their work. But it wasn't without the Medici's, the banksters of the day that made it happen. Facts don't mean anything to people. We have to bring up the spirit of what this country was and why people

all over the world wanted to come here at one time. It was the land of opportunity. and now the big zone everything. That's right. Again, when you and I were young guys, they've said this a thousand times. There were hardware stores, stationary stores,

drug stores, shoes stores, clothing stores, clothing stores, everything now is a chain. Yeah. Goes back to Gen Z Revolution. What future there? Yeah.

A future they have. That's right. So, Renaissance, to me, is the only way it'll change. Facts don't mean anything to people. we bring back the music style and spirit of this country again you know one of my books then you could get this on going to trends journal my favorite book when zitsy gave honey boy and zitsy is the neapolitan dialect for auntie and honey boy she used to call me and that's the picture i don't know if you could see that

in my parents wedding yeah see that 1934 my father worked in a fish store they worked in factories the gates the buffets the bezos the musks the succorbergs couldn't come close to what these people look like the way they used to dress the style you look at the pictures of what during the great depression of people online looking for food look at the way they're dressed look at the style this country used to have and now it's turned to crap people dressed like crap look like crap and eat crap. Oh, don't believe me. What does the president eat?

You know, Jill, when you're talking about that, I thought about you when Sean Duffy was lecturing everybody just before the holiday saying, have some respect. You know, the way people are dressing when they get on a plane. It's like, shut up. I mean, you're the one who's forcing us to take off all of our clothes to get on a plane. You're the one who's taking away all of our self-respect, our freedom, our dignity. You know, those things are tied together. B. F. Skinner understood that.

He wrote a book called Beyond Freedom and Dignity. And it was about psychological manipulation. That's what they've been doing to us. They want to destroy our dignity so they can destroy our freedom. Exactly. I hate traveling anymore. Yeah. I don't want traveling. Again, before I forget, you talked about ICE and how much their budget is?

Who created it? I don't know. Who created ICE? I don't know. Homeland Security? Oh, yeah. That's right. Yeah. part of Homeland Security. But yeah. Little George Bush after 9-11.

That's right. Yep. And 90% of the people swallowed the crap coming out of that little boy with a pair ofjone small than a morph wolf. Yes, any at all.

We're going to get that guy Osama been like. Get along. Did you say what Christy Nome did this week? She had a press conference there at Homeland Security and they had on the post. podium, one of ours, all of theirs. And everybody pointed out, well, you know, that's kind of the motto of the Nazis when they wiped out that city and Czechoslovakia after the assassination of

Hydrick. And, you know, it's amazing. They're just right in your face about this stuff. Ben, look what they did. 90% of the people, they stole how many trillions of dollars to kill the hundred, a couple hundred thousand Afghan people? Yeah. What's the longest war in America? history that nobody talks about. The slime, they have weapons and mass destruction and ties down K. in Iraq. Total lie.

People courted. And you know, Trump said it was a lie, didn't he? You know, when he was running for president. And then when he becomes president, he takes the woman who did the torture, who covered up for the torture, and then sold the lie in Washington. Gina Haspel, he made her the head of the CIA.

Yeah. Yeah. It's amazing. It is really amazing. I say it's a freak show and the freaks are running the show. Yeah, that's right. Well, it's going to be an interesting year, as the Chinese say, you know, may live in interesting times or whatever. The crisis and opportunity, that is danger in opportunity.

That's really the definition of crisis, isn't it? I think it's going to be a crisis year. Yep. It's sort of in front of us. Oh, yeah. I mean, it seems like it's already been a year and it's just a couple of weeks into it. It's moving really, really fast. And again, on the Trends Journal, we have our top trends, 12 of them, for 2026, and they're coming true already.

And so if you want to read history before it happens, and again, you go to night, you put that link in there. It's a grand total of $2.50 a week, pennies a day. Is there anything? I kind of drove this in terms of the economy and war, but any other trends that we didn't talk about that you see on the head, Coming up, you said 12 different trends. You know, one of them that people aren't talking about is this techitis. The young people are totally messed up with this and it's only going to get worse. Little infants, you know, on their things.

And human spirit is being lost. And we have to change. Yeah. Yeah, it's like an inflammation, isn't it? It really is. I like that techitis. That's a good description of it. Yeah.

And again, unfortunately, it's going to. going to be also off with their heads 2.0. You're going to see a lot more revolutions going on around the world. Again, the rich own everything. And again, you look at the data from Oxfam how rich they got when they locked down the world. Yeah.

Billionaires got trillions and trillions of dollars richer as we all went down. Yeah. And again, the guy, who's that guy that had Twitter? What was that guy? Jack Dorsey. Yep. He was one of the first to lock down. supposed to go to South Africa.

They were the first to lock down, the geeks. And boy, their business boom when they started to Zoom. All everything changed. Their businesses boomed. Yeah. They were the first ones to lock down. And everybody forgets the data. We wrote about it as it happened.

You know where COVID landed first? Where was that? Kirkland, Washington. And a nursing home. Yeah. Yeah. And what else? Kirkland, Washington.

Oh, and again. Remember Seattle was booming back then? And how about your office vacancy rate there? And how about San Francisco? Yeah. You left your heart in San Francisco? You better than have any money. They're going to steal it from you.

Look what the crap hole is turned into. Yeah. The geeks did it. Look at them. I said they got this wrong in the King's James Bible when they said the meek shall inherit the earth. The geeks have inherited the earth. Yeah.

Yeah, and this is your, I predict, a lot of people predicted that Musk will become the first trillionaire. He's not too far away from there already, and he's got a big stock offering that's going to be coming out with SpaceX. And I imagine that'll put him over the top. Not a penny for peace. That's right. Oh, I remember we didn't see each other since Christmas time.

We were all these religions that talked about the Prince of Peace. Yeah. Oh, you had a Christmas sale still. All right, I forgot. Okay. All right. Then I call it Black Friday for nothing. It's like a black mass.

You know, it's a... I want White Friday. Yeah, that's right. Thank you so much, Gerald. It's always great to talk to you. And let's hope that something changes, but certainly the trends are, you're right on top.

You know, the trends are looking bad. But it's something that we need to keep an eye on for our own purposes. And about one of the few things that we can do, I think, is to, trying to protect ourselves and what little wealth we've got in terms of trying to get into gold as much as we can. That's about the only play that's left for the little guy, I think, isn't it? Well, again, we don't give financial advice, but the little guys, that's why you're seeing silver

prices spike. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Well, that's the poor man's gold. That's another reason is driving it up. That's right, yeah. Even in India, I mean, they were able to buy massive quantities of silver so much that they created shortages with that. So thank you so much, Gerald. And let's hope that maybe things will turn in a different way. But hope is not a strategy, is it? It's a... I can say,

I can word in the metaphysical dictionary because it wants something to happen without doing anything to make it happen. Yeah, that's right. But please do what you can do in a positive way. Yeah. And the best shape you can, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

Spiritually, especially, yeah. It's a priority to prevail, but rather an irate-tileous minority, keen on setting brush-fies of freedom in the minds of men, said Samuel Latt. And I'm on that trip. That's right.

And it is really the spiritual foundation that we have lost, wanting to have this happen. And, of course, our connection to God. Thank you so much, Gerald, and thank you for coming on. It's always great talking. It's been too long since we've talked. Thank you. Have a good day.

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