The David Knight Show - Mon Episode #2207: Trump’s Tariff Tantrum After Supreme Court Rebuke

Episode Date: February 23, 2026

──────────────────────────────────────── 00:00:48:26 — Tariff Tantrum After Court Limits Executive PowerA Supreme Court setback triggers sweeping global tariffs, framed as retaliation rooted in personal authority rather than constitutional limits. ──────────────────────────────────────── 00:04:07:27 — The “Emergency Branch” Replaces Constitutional GovernmentPerpetual emergency declarations are described as a shadow branch enabling executive rule by decree. ──────────────────────────────────────── 00:07:16:20 — Supreme Court 6–3 Strikes Down Tariff ExpansionRoberts and two Trump appointees join Democrats to reject expanded tariff authority under IEPA. ──────────────────────────────────────── 00:09:39:24 — Wall Street Hedge Against Trump’s Own TariffsCantor Fitzgerald is accused of positioning financially to profit if the administration’s tariffs were overturned. ──────────────────────────────────────── 00:12:34:18 — Trump Family Promotes “USD One” StablecoinA Trump-backed cryptocurrency is pitched as a dollar “upgrade,” raising conflict-of-interest and monetary centralization concerns. ──────────────────────────────────────── 00:21:32:12 — Nondelegation Debate Over Congress’s Taxing PowerDiscussion centers on whether Congress unconstitutionally surrendered core taxation authority to the executive. ──────────────────────────────────────── 01:07:38:26 — Catherine Austin Fitts: “The Administration Is the Epstein Network”Fitts argues Trump and key officials were integral to Epstein’s operation, claiming DOJ inaction reflects systemic control. ──────────────────────────────────────── 01:12:29:23 — Hospital Ship Sent to Greenland Without Clear JustificationDeployment of the USNS Mercy raises questions after Danish officials state no request or medical need. ──────────────────────────────────────── 01:13:59:11 — Glyphosate Expansion and Legal Immunity PushEmergency authority is used to compel glyphosate production while shielding manufacturers from liability. ──────────────────────────────────────── 01:18:58:03 — U.S. Tourism Collapse Amid Police-State PerceptionSharp declines in foreign visitors are linked to border detentions, biometric demands, and aggressive enforcement optics. ──────────────────────────────────────── 01:27:34:21 — Trump Demands Netflix Fire Susan RicePublic threats against Netflix over a board member intensify concerns about executive retaliation against private corporations. ──────────────────────────────────────── 01:50:34:00 — FBI Lowers Hiring Standards Under Kash PatelPanel interviews and writing assessments are removed from special agent hiring, fueling concerns about politicized restructuring and federal police expansion. ──────────────────────────────────────── 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.

of deceit. Telling the truth is a revolutionary act. It's the David Knight Show. As a clock strikes 13, it's Monday the 23rd of February. Here of our Lord, 2006. Well, this last weekend, we got a clear example of Trump's absolute contempt for the rule of law in terms of the overthrowing of his tariffs, as well as his egonomics. It's not economics. It's not economics. And it's not geopolitics. It's ego politics as well. He immediately demonstrates why the founders wisely chose not to give these powers to one person. His knee-jerk reaction is to say, well, I'll do 10% tariffs on the entire world.

And then the next day, he jumps up to 15%. How does anybody run a business under these kind of chaotic, constantly changing circumstances? And as we see in Mexico, the drug cartels have assumed the military power of states. You might want to keep that in mind as you look at this Iran war. What could an adversary of the United States do with mercenaries like the drug cartels in America, in our country? We'll be right back. Yeah, it truly is amazing when you look at what is happening in Mexico. because big story worldwide, of course, when you have these types of terrorist events happening.

And that's some guy whose name was Namizio Servantes, the nemesis of Servantes, I guess, the guy who did Don Quixote. But it's kind of a Spanish Shakespeare. But when you look at this, and as the U.S. is ramping up the physical aspects, other war on drugs. And of course, perhaps this is what it was all about to start with, right? Because there was absolutely no possibility, and we've demonstrated this for 50 years, you can't stop people from using drugs by using the police. It's a spiritual issue. And so we're going to ignore the spiritual war, so we're going to get the real thing, I guess, and we're going to probably get that good and hard here in America. But I want to focus first

on the tariffs. And of course, Trump's rage and temper tantrum first at the Supreme Court, then at the entire world. He's going to tax the world, right? And stop and think about it. How does this make any kind of economic sense? Well, it doesn't. Except that the calculus of Trump is not whether or not there is a principle involved. It's not about the rule of law, the Constitution, or anything else.

It's not about economics either. It's about loyalty and power. Everything is about that for him. So I call it egonomics and ego politics, not geopolitics. And so when the Supreme Court says, A, there's not an emergency, and B, you don't have the legal authority even if there was an emergency. Emergency, everybody to get from city. emergency

Yeah, remember that? Remember that? The emergency? You know, we've got three branches of government, right? We have the legislative, the judicial, and the emergency branch. He claims emergency about everything, and that gives him supposedly the power to do anything that he wants, which is what he said.

He said, I can do anything I want. I can destroy a country over there if I want to, right? It's amazing the ego of this guy and how dangerous he is. To everyone, but especially to our country, has made us the pariah of the world, and rightfully so. And so he immediately jumped into his ego politics, you know, just like he did with the ice thuggery. There's ways to approach the issues. And by the way, there's a large report that came out from the Heritage Foundation talking about

the welfare magnet of schools for illegal aliens. and this goes back to an old Supreme Court decision that was wrongly decided. And it pointed out that, you know, if we were to, it's a tremendous cost. And just in Texas alone, the number of students tripled from 2021 to 2024. In just three years, they tripled the number of students who come in and take English as a second language classes, right? So this is what's happening with it. I said the entire, I mean, I was gone by 2021. I mean, the big explosions happened since I've been gone from Texas.

But I could see it happening before that. Through the Trump years, even. I even said, you're not going to have the American dream of owning a home if you're going to give dreamers a free education. And it's the same type of thing that we see in terms of in-state tuition, right? If in-state tuition is not a violation of equal protection, then why can't you charge people who are bringing their kids from a foreign country and for a free education? Why can't you charge them for tuition? Some states need to test that Supreme Court decision.

They've had six of them who have tried to do that, but that legislation has failed at the state level. Tennessee was one of them. and that legislation needs to pass so you can have that Supreme Court decision. It's the welfare. And, you know, they talk about magnet schools all the time. Well, the biggest part of the welfare magnet is the schools. That's a different thing, but it's really what they are. It's the magnet schools.

And so when you look at Trump's immediate knee-jerk reaction was to criticize the Supreme Court, as some people pointed out, maybe that's not such a good idea since he's so many cases coming up before the Supreme Court since he has tried to ignore the rule of law in so many different ways. Maybe it's not a good idea to antagonize them. However, the people who voted against him, you know, it was a six-three decision. And the people who voted to take down the tariffs that he demanded, three of them, of course, were the Democrat women who were put in by Obama and Biden. The other three were Roberts. And two Trump appointees, two of the three Trump appointees voted against him.

And I'm surprised that it wasn't nine to zero. I was really surprised that, I want to say Scalia, but it was Alito. And Clarence Thomas voted to let the president do it. And it's like, I thought you guys cared about the Constitution. I thought you were originalists. How in the world do you fit this kind of thing into an originalist, interpretation of the Constitution. It just isn't possible.

As a New American has pointed out, they still haven't gone back and looked at the constitutionality of what is being done in so many different ways of the legislative branch not doing their job. They pass everything over to the emergency branch and do nothing. They pass it over to the bureaucracy, which is all under the emergency branch. And so it's kind of fitting, I think, says Trump has done so much to attack small businesses and destroy them with the lockdowns and the CARES Act and a payroll protection plan that most of it went to the big businesses because, of course, Trump redefined what a small business was to include his businesses. And so more than 50%

of the money that was earmarked to help small businesses survive his blatantly unconstitutional tyranny of a lockdown, most of that might, over half of that money went to 5% of the companies. And the people who had small businesses and put that in the past tense, people who had small businesses once upon a time before Trump, they got nothing basically, a little pittance that was there. And then, of course, there's Howard Lutnik, lucky lying Lutnik. And he's at the center of this. He's basically selling shorts on the Trump tariffs as he's pushing the Trump tariffs.

Basically, what he was doing was derivatives of hedges of this. So they made an offer, his company, Cantor Fix Gerald, made an offer to a lot of different companies. And, oh, by the way, even though they've come out and denied it, the emails are there. And you got wired and other publications have shown the emails. That doesn't stop Howard Lutnik. Look at what he did with the Epstein files. Even though the emails pointed the finger at him, showed what he was doing,

he committed perjury. He lied under oath. Even with the emails there, he continues to lie. And so you can discount what they said about this because we've got the emails to show this, just like with the Epstein stuff. So what they did was they went around to companies

and said, you know, you've paid a fortune in these Trump terrorists, because it's American companies that are paying it. So American companies are going to either go out of business or they're going to pass those costs along with customers. That's the way it works, folks. Just like with minimum wage and other things like you. You either pass those costs along or you go out of business.

Anyway, he goes to them and says, yeah, these tariffs are really big, but there's a Supreme Court case out there. Now, you know, if you think you're going to win the Supreme Court case, then go for it. And then you can go through the process of trying to get your money out of this. Or I'll give you 20 to 30% of your potential refund. And I'll bet that these things get overturned. That's what Lutnik and his company are doing, Cantor Fitzgerald.

They're betting that the tariffs that Lutnik was pushing as being vital to American interest. They're betting they're going to be overturned. And now they get overturned, they can go through and collect these things and get 70 to 80% of the tariffs that have been paid. We're talking over $200 billion, I think. The Trump administration has thrown out figures of $600 billion or whatever, but now as I see it, they lie about everything. As I see it now, most people are putting the figure at around $200 billion

in terms of tariffs that have been paid and now need to be refunded. And so, a Cantor of Fitzgerald has set themselves up to take 70 or 80% of that from the people that the emails with them. And there are letters and emails that show it, and still the Lutnik people lie. Of course, he says, just like Trump does, it's my family that's doing it. It's not me.

I have nothing to do with my family business. It's my sons who are doing it. And by way, while all this stuff is happening, you've got Donald Trump Jr. And Eric holding a big crypto conference last Wednesday, where they are touting, their new stable coin as the replacement for the U.S. dollar. These guys want to rule the world, folks.

Again, the answer to the question for Rockefeller has asked him by the reporter, you're the richest man in the world. How much is enough? Rockefeller said, just a little bit more. Well, that's not exactly the answer. How much is enough when you have billions of dollars that you couldn't spend in a hundred lifetimes of lavish living. How much is enough?

And what are you really after? You're not after money anymore. You're after power and control. That's what's enough. That's what these people all want. And so again, the Trump boys are out there saying, even portraying themselves as victims as they're trying to become the rulers of the world.

Let's understand. Trump and his family are not anti-globalists. They don't like the people who are in charge right now, the people who are high up in globalism because they want to replace them. Just like they don't like the Democrats because they want to replace the Democrats, but they're just like the Democrats. You know, the Trumps want to be not end the globalism. They want to be the global kings, the global tyrants.

the global tyrants. That's really what they're after. And so let's take a look at what the Supreme Court did with this, with this emergency, emergency. Again, three branches of government, legislative, judicial, and the emergency branch. We need to redo the schoolhouse rock. And how law is made and they don't make laws anymore. They do regulations that are passed by the bureaucracy.

or the emergency branch. So the Supreme Court throughout most of Trump's tariffs, but of course, Trump had been doing that to himself. Trump always changing orders, I think, is a better way to put the taco thing. They say Trump always chickens out. I think it's not always, Trump always changing orders. You know, those executive orders based on emergencies.

It's vital that I do this. I've got to do this because it's emergency. And then the next day says, well, I'm going to change it. Did the emergency change? No, there never was an emergency. So again, it was a 6-3 decision, which is really crazy to see Clarence Thomas and Alito, usually the best guys on the bench. This was a slam dunk. It should have been a 9-0 thing because this is clearly not an emergency.

And if it were an emergency, they would still have to prove that this AIPA Act gave him the power to do this. So there's two questions here, but they don't even get really up to bat because it's not an emergency. There's nothing different about the trade deficit than we've had for my entire lifetime. It's not like it has suddenly surged. I saw that happen once when OPEC flexed its muscle, but that's not what happened with this. And so there clearly isn't anything that's unusual and certainly not anything that's an emergency. And so, the, the foundation of it was a lie. And then the fact that he is the only president in 50 years

that has attempted to do this with the Emergency Powers Act, AEPA, the Emergency Economics Power Economic Powers Act. Again, it's not about economics, it's about egotomics. A 1970s era law that allows the president to, quote, regulate imports when necessary to respond to national emergencies that pose an unusual and extraordinary threat. And I think that's really looking more at sanctions than it is at tariffs that are there. And so Justice Roberts wrote the opinion for the majority.

He said, we claim no special competence in matters of economics or foreign affairs. However, we claim, as we must, the limited role assigned to us by Article III of the Constitution. Fulfilling that role, we hold that if it is not authorized the president to impose terrorist, In other words, what he's saying is that, and again, I don't think that the Supreme Court should have the Marbury v. Madison decision that gave them the power to review all laws for constitutionality. They can certainly issue an opinion on that, but that should not be the final word. I think if you got one branch that says yes, another branch that says no to something, you ought to have the third branch as a tiebreaker, don't you think? except the emergency branches seems to be prevailing in most these cases.

So he says, you know, again, they point out he's the first one to use this in the 50 years it's existed. So the emergencies were adjusted constantly as response to the so-called emergencies. And it began with fentanyl tariffs imposed on Canada. Everything Trump does is a lie, isn't it?

It's just amazing. So the Trump sector-specific, terrorists that rely on separate authorities like those on steel, aluminum, and copper were not an issue and they remain in effect. And they are crippling our domestic manufacturers in many different ways. How are you going to domestically manufacture something if we have to pay more for steel than somebody else? And of course, we don't do much domestic production of steel, aluminum, and copper. And so that just increases their costs. makes their products more expensive domestically and makes them absolutely non-competitive internationally.

So, Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Lido, said, despite the vigorous policy debates spurred by the Trump's tariffs, those debates are not for the courts to resolve. That's right. And again, it is not about economics. It's about constitutional powers. And those powers are not there. The Supreme Court strikes them.

down, but it doesn't do anything about Congress abdicating its power. It doesn't say anything about that, of course, and that is the real issue at hand. Congress has abdicated its power, and it is a strategy of avoiding accountability. You see, when Congress is, again, I go back to it over and over again, people said, Nancy Pelosi, when I talked about Obamacare, said, we've got to pass it so we can find out what's in it. but what an idiot. Maybe if she didn't put out this massive bill of thousands of pages,

they'd know what's in it before they vote. Well, that's only part of it. The other part of it is that they create these broad, sweeping programs, and bureaucracies on the other side, and they throw it over to them, and they say, you fill in the details. And that's the way that government works. She was actually telling the truth.

And I know it sounded crazy, but she was actually telling the truth. You pass this new bit of legislation. Maybe you create a new bureaucracy on the other side as well. But you either create a new bureaucracy or you create this new agenda and you kick it over to the bureaucracy. And you tell them to fill in the details. Congress does not want to do that. That'd be too hard to do that, number one.

Number two, if they get it wrong and people get upset about it, including their patrons, their donors, then if the bureaucracy does it and gets it wrong, then they can come in as your savior and save you from the bad regulations that the people that they'd abdicated, their responsibility to create it. Whereas if they did it themselves, they'd have to accept responsibility. They'd have to reverse course and eat crow. They don't want to do that. So this is a way that it always works.

The court correctly overturned an instance of executive. overreach, says the new American. I agree with them. If left intact and even defended, Congress underlying decades long and unconstitutional delegation of power to the executive, now the emergency branch. And so Roberts said, AIPA's grant of authority to regulate importation falls short. Aipa contains no reference to tariffs or duties. The government points to a statute in which Congress use the word regulate to authorize taxation. And until now, no president has read Aipa to confer such powers. And a concurring opinion, Kagan, joined by Sotomayor and Jackson, in other words,

these are three leftist Democrats appointed, agreed that Congress can delegate its tariff powers, albeit not under the major questions doctrine. And so what is the major questions doctrine? That is saying that if it is something that is really, big. This is really big. The Congress actually has to do its job. That is a doctrine that was created by the Supreme Court. It's not in the law, actually.

Ironically, says a New American, Thomas is one of the dissenters and took the most constitutional position on non-delegation, arguing unlike his fellow justices, that Congress cannot delegate certain powers. But even he claimed that Congress can

delegate its tariff authority. Why would he do that? The bottom line is that Congress's main power is the power of the purse. The fact that they spend the money and they can raise the taxes. And so how in the world can you say that they can't delegate certain powers, but they can delegate the central and key power that has been given to Congress? That makes absolutely no sense.

I think there was politics. I'm calling political BS on this decision here. Congress delegation of power. including those pertaining to tariffs is wholly unconstitutional rights in New American, and they're absolutely right. As are the AEPA and the various other statutes allowing the president to unilaterally imposed tariffs. Look, it's the same type of deal as Trump saying, fortunately, I can ban whatever gun components I want. Remember when you did that with the bumpstock? No, you can't.

You don't have that power. The government doesn't have that power, so certainly you can't delegate that. I mean, it's even wrong for Congress of the Supreme Court to infringe on our right to keep and bear arms. No single branch has the authority to do that. And the worst branch to do that from a pragmatic standpoint would be the executive branch. Because, again, it's up to the whims of one person as opposed to even Congress where they have to get a consensus. So Trump was railing against the Supreme Court, calling them disloyal. And again, he said, they're disloyal this country in the Constitution.

No, they're disloyal to him. That's what he's upset about. Trump's not upset about disloyal to the Constitution. He and his advisors and even this thug criminal convict, Steve Bannon, say that, oh, we can do whatever we want. I don't care about the amendment that limits terms to two for the president. I don't care about that. They don't care about the Constitution. They're not loyal to the Constitution or the rule of law.

But he does demand personal loyalty to him. Meanwhile, you had Thomas Massey and Ram Paul commented, and I like their comments. Thomas Massey said, Scotus made the right decision on Terrace and Rand Paul. I went further. He said, this ruling will prevent a future president like Alexander. occasional cortex from using emergency powers to enact socialism. Yeah, we've got to stop the emergency branch.

That's not a legitimate government function, right? And if we don't stop the emergency branch, the left is going to use it on steroids. They did that right away with Trump saying, fortunately, I can ban whatever I want in terms of guns. Remember that? and immediate, and I said the Democrats are going to do this right away. And that was in the middle of the 2020 campaign.

And it wasn't even a week before La LaHara said, I'm going to give Congress 100 days to enact my agenda of gun control. And if they don't do it, I'll do it myself by executive order like Trump just did. And of course, Biden did continue on trying to do gun control by executive order. So all of these powers that Trump is usurping are going to be used. against us and of course against Republicans as well. At a press conference on Friday, Trump said his administration would pursue other methods, practices, statutes, and authorities to impose terrorists.

Just like he does with his third term and Steve Bannon, I don't really care what it says. I'll find some legal prevarication to do whatever I wish, and I'll dare you to stop me. Unfortunately, all three branches of the federal government says a new American, have largely abandoned constitutional adherence to the point where most of our nation's laws and judicial precedents are effectively divorced from the Constitution, and new unconstitutional laws and precedents are being added all the time. Restoring constitutional adherence starts with us,

educating our fellow citizens about America's founding principles and putting pressure on our elected officials to enforce the Constitution as written. By vigilantly taking action, we can reawaken the country to the principles that made it great. That is really the mission, I think, the John Birch Society. New American is published by them. And that's an important thing. Really important thing. It really does have to be a grassroots movement.

People have to demand this. If we don't demand it, of course they're not going to do it. If we do demand it, we may or may not be able to get them to do it. But if we don't demand it, they absolutely will do whatever they wish. I got a comment here from Fuzzy Mateo. He said, just imported two containers from India for a customer mine. They paid a $34,000 tariff. It's insane.

And it doesn't even make any sense. If Trump's metric of economic success is selling more stuff to other people than we buy from other people, then why is he punishing? the customers that we're successfully, the countries, that we're successfully selling more stuff to than they're buying from us, or that we're buying from them, I should say. And over and over again, these ridiculous reciprocal tariffs that, again, there was no basis for any of that. And these things were put together by people who don't understand the first thing about math. Perhaps that's why Trump's casinos went bankrupt. You know, the old joke is that Vegas was

city that was built to profit from people who don't understand math. Maybe that's why his casinos went bankrupt because he can't keep him going because he doesn't understand math and the people he hires don't understand as evidenced by his nonsense reciprocal terrorists punishing countries with whom we had a trade surplus. Why would you offend your customer? Why would you pick a fight with Canada even? None of it makes any sense. Live for your parish says, have you seen what's going on in Mexico?

The technique map is being created. CIA and others have killed the drug kingpin and there are fires everywhere. The airport's locked down along with the tourists. Yeah, exactly. That's one aspect of it. It's really a nice diversion, isn't it? But yeah, if we can escalate this drug war that the CIA has been doing, and it's a UN agenda that has been created by a CIA.

CIA is the biggest drug pushers in the world. And if they can take out some of the competition and instead, start a kinetic war, then maybe we can get that to spread to America. And if we get that to spread to America, then think of what we can do, how we can use that chaos. People are always trying to create chaos and distraction. Those are the 3D chess, right? Deny, distract, divert. That's Trump's 3D chess in a nutshell.

Well, who was it that was a lead defendant in this? guy 67 years old who has a small wine shop in Manhattan and has had that business since 1987. And he was afraid that the terrorists were going to run him out of business. And he said the president didn't have the authority to impose those without congressional approval. And he became one of the few descending corporate voices to publicly oppose the fees. And that has gotten him, most of the large and medium-sized companies were afraid to go on record attacking the president because that's the kind of country that America has become. Don't you dare criticize Trump where he's going to get even with you. So he says it was one thing to join the case,

but then to be the lead plaintiff really gave me pause. So even he, even though he's a small business, he said he's been given, he's gotten so many threats. that he's had to hire more security. I'm under constant attack through text, email, and I can't stop it, he said. So we keep our doors locked at the office now. But he said, we can't just raise our prices and we can't just pay it, unlike the big companies can write a check. And this is one of the reasons why Trump and his cabal like to do these types of things,

just like with the lockdown. The big companies and get on the phone with Howard, Lutnik or the Rothschild lawyer from the first term. And let's see, what was his name? His first Treasury Secretary. Anyway, he worked for the Ross Childs for a long time. They can get on the phone with these guys and cut a deal with them. Not the small businesses.

They got to work in the marketplace, not crony capitalism. And they have, they don't have access to unlimited amounts of money from Wall Street. I mean, when you got a Wall Street firm, they can basically raise money just like the U.S. Treasury Prince dollar bills. They can operate at a loss for decades. I know that because we competed against Blockbuster. And they, as soon as Paramount took it over, they stopped making a profit. But they didn't care. They kept the company going for another couple of decades because they're on Wall Street.

just like with Moderna, they never made a profit until Trump threw them tens of billions of dollars. But they were still making a lot of money because they were selling happy stories on Wall Street and playing people as suckers and fools. So, yeah, you have to actually operate in a marketplace with customers and things like that. If you're not on Wall Street, but if you're on Wall Street, what you do is you get money from people. It's like a casino. So he said, we can't just raise this. so I had to do something about it.

But, and again, what are you going to do? It's not even the level of taxation, but it's the uncertainty. You know, Trump always changing orders. That's the real taco. You know, how much is the tariff going to be next week? How much is it going to be tomorrow? You know, if he has a bad conversation with a leader of a country somewhere, or maybe he had a little bit of indigestion from the meal he had at Marlago last night,

who knows you might wake up and find that you got 100% tariffs have been put on the country that you that your supplier is in. How can you do business in a situation like that? Well, you can't. The Wall Street guys can lose money, though, until Trump is gone. But the other guys are going to go out of business. And so he said the tariffs are creating chaos, driving up prices and lowering profit margins. And the chaos is not just the high taxes.

It's the uncertainty. Always changing orders. I hear from people widely across the political spectrum how much they hate these tariffs, how they never expected this administration to do something of this nature. Something this stupid. And again, where are all the articles from the MAGA people? You know, like W&D and Breitbart and Info Wars and you name it, right? Where are the cheerleaders on all this terror stuff?

Do you remember when they were telling us, So don't worry, Trump is going to replace the income tax with the tariffs. I was like, okay, well, we've heard that story before. We've had, most of us don't like the income tax the way the thing is set up. We'd love to see it go. I'd love to see taxes if they're going to be collected, collected some other way. So this has been a lot of different proposals about that. But everybody always stops and says, but wait a minute, if we add some kind of a, you know, VAT tax or whatever,

they're proposing, right? If you add that tax and you don't take away the income tax first, we're going to wind up with both of those. Guess what? You know, that's what I was saying along this line. And Trump kept dropping hints that that was what he's going to do. But he never said it directly. They said it for him. See, he said this. And if you decode that, I get out my Q&ON decodering. and when Trump says this, what that really means is that he's going to get rid of the income tax. No, he was talking about making the tax cuts permanent. How do you make the tax cuts permanent if the income tax is not permanent? Right?

That was never his intention. It was the intention of the MAGA cheerleaders and influencers to deceive the public. So Trump calls the Supreme Court justices who ruled against his terrorist disloyal. Again, it's ego politics. His calculation is not. never about law or principle or country. It's only about personal loyalty. Even though he said they're disloyal to our constitution, he goes on to say, it's my opinion the court has been swayed by foreign interests and a political movement that is far smaller than people would ever

think. It's a small movement. In other words, they're going with a different political party, a different movement than my movement. So it really is about loyalty to his movement. I'd like to thank and congratulate Alito, Kavanaugh, and Thomas, and I'm very proud of those justices. And by the way, just to show that it's about personal loyalty, he has invited those three to the State of the Union address. The other six justices, he's not extended an invitation to, and he said he may not do it. Yeah, it's about loyalty to the Constitution, is it really? Don't think so.

Anyway, he talked about Gorsuch and Barrett, who he nominated and voted against him. Again, is this about the Constitution? Listen to what he says. Gorsuch and Barrett are an embarrassment to their families, quote unquote. I don't want it to say whether I regret nominating them. I think their decision was terrible. I think it's also an embarrassment to their families. When asked by the Hill, if he wants to see all the justices invited to a stay of the union address, he said, well he said three of them are invited to be honest i could care less if they come or not so again

it's about loyalty to him and about punishing those that he perceives to be disloyal so then the 10% tariff that he throws on and he can do this under a 1974 law that congress abdicated their authority to do that they allowed the president to impose tariffs for up to a hundred 150 days, about six months or so. And so that's why he immediately said, well, I'm going to do 10%. Then the next day, he says 15%. So the Cato Institute said, if Congress declines to act, the administration could, at least in theory, allow the tariffs to lapse

and declare a new balance of payments emergency, and then restart the clock, he said. Yeah, there's no, when you've got a dishonest executive, who is bound and determined to do whatever he wishes. And that's what he said. I can do whatever I want. I can punish a country that I don't like. I can reward another country.

I can destroy a country if I want. And he doesn't mean that just economically. He means that militarily. As we've seen with Venezuela, as we're about to see, with Iran. Although I think he's going to find out that it's harder to destroy Iran than Venezuela. But he said, And as he adds, the 10% tariffs in the course of the next day, taking it up to 15%, because Trump always changes orders.

They come on top of the levies that remain intact following the high court's decision, which invalidated the tariffs. And again, the 10% global tariffs could mean lower U.S. tariff rates for some of the countries that had either struck deals with the Trump administration or were in ongoing trade talks. So I guess the negotiations didn't really apply and we're going to just tax the entire world as a temper tantrum. The European Union, for example, had agreed to a 15% tariff as part of its trade deal with the U.S. So that's what they're going to get now anyway after the tantrum. This article is written on Friday. So they were saying, well, the EU's tariff, they'd already

agreed to 15%. Now Trump is going to say, well, I'm going to do 10%. Now he's then he up. it to 15%. When asked at Friday's press conference, why he didn't want to work with a legislative branch, he said, I don't have to. I have the right to do tariffs. He knows that I can do anything I want. That's the problem.

That he thinks that. And the problem is, is that that I think is the reality. Because of the passivity of the people who should be holding him to account, including his own voters. The Trump administration is also wielding Section 301 to launch several investigations into possible unfair trade practices, which could result in additional new tariffs. He said, we'll take in more money, he said, and we'll be a lot stronger for it. We're going to tax our way to prosperity.

Have you ever noticed how Trump sounds just like Bernie Sanders? Remember when they were talking tax, income tax reduction? and Bernie Sanders said, they're looting the treasury, right? All he cared about was money and power to the government. He doesn't want you to have control over money. He wants the government to have all the money. The government that doesn't even need the money

because the government has got a $40 trillion credit card that's out there. And they have no intention of paying it back. And if the debt and the deficit don't matter, the real debt and deficit, not the trade deficit, but the annual budget deficit. If that doesn't matter, why do we need any taxes for that matter, right? They're not coming anywhere close to meeting ends, you know, $40 trillion. How do you even get your head around a number that large?

And so it's essentially saying, we don't need to pay our debts, we don't need to pay off the credit card. So why do they tax us? Well, because they want all the money. They don't want us to have the money because if we have money, we can make economic decisions and they don't have as much control and power over us. That's the purpose of these federal taxes. It's not to balance the budget. It's to make sure that we don't have a budget personally, that our families don't have a budget. and so as he rants about destroying countries and it's like that quote from the Oppenheimer you know,

and become the destroyer of warls and everything. But yeah, Trump is the guy who revels in all of that. Well, Besson has called on U.S. trade partners to honor the tariff agreements. Well, you know, we'll see which ones? which of the many emergency orders should we honor with all this? And so again, he attacks everybody who he sees as his enemy. And we're going to take a quick break here. When we come back, we're going to talk about the open corruption of the Trump regime.

But I want to thank IRS machine gun. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. A little gas money. And before we go to break, I just want to thank. I'm meant to do it at the very top of the hour. I want to thank the people I put out a call on Friday, said, you know, we are past the halfway mark. We've only got about a week left. And I said, I think what at the time we were not quite

at a third. And so we put out the call and said, you know, if people could just contribute five dollars, we had a lot of people who contributed. And I want to recognize them. They are the producers of this show. We make the show available without a paywall. We want to have that information out there for free. And because there's a lot of things, what I tried to do, I try to cover things that are a threat to people. And I don't want to charge people for that.

But we do need to make ends meet. And so I appreciate the people who have supported this program. And I want to recognize the people who answered that call right away. Benjamin R. Susan L., these are regular supporters. orders always. Gregory C. Charles D., Joshua V. Jose G., Julie W., Daniel M., Susan L. again, and Scott L., Michael L., Kyle H., Brandon M., Kelly M., Michael M., Michael P., Alex, Jeffrey C., McBrion D., and that, he is a new supporter. So I appreciate that. Kelly K. Darren M. and Michelle V. Thank you very much.

And also, I want to think that was on Zell on Cash App. Daniel F., Jesse H., Richard S., Jessica R. Eric S., Brian P., Simeon G., Chris H, and Evo I, who is also a new contributor. Thank you so much all of you for answering that call and just let you know where we are right now. I think we're up to 63% now after that. So that was a big boost. Thank you all. And we're going to take a quick break and we will be right back. You're listening to the David Knight Show. Welcome back. Hi, Booth says after 250 years, we're right back to where we started with. Where they came.

Well, we've had a king for 250 years. It's called the Constitution. What the people who founded this country said was Lex Rex. The law is king. Unfortunately, that's not where we are right now. We have a usurper in the White House. I refuse to call this guy president anymore. If I do it, it's an accident.

And so this Trump usurper is one of the most obvious of all the oathbreakers that we've had. He has nothing but contempt for the rule of law. And his family is the same. The Trump family says the U.S. dollar needs an upgrade. And they're the ones to do it. That's the headline from CNBC. And, of course, what the Constitution says, what the real king of the country, all these people, again, is the analogy of Lord of the Rings. Remember the return of the king and how you had the family of stewards that were in charge of that city, Gondor, the one that Boromir was from?

And they had been stewards for so long they thought of themselves as king. And that's the way our president, so forth, supposed president. That's the way he is. These people take that office and set in the Oval Office, think of themselves now as the king rather than as a steward. And so it's time for us to bring back the Constitution, to bind them down with the chains of the Constitution. And what does the Constitution say about the dollar?

It says they'll coin it in gold and silver. And you know, that happened in 1792, as they point out in this article. And kind of interesting because the petro dollar garbage that we've got right now, that was concocted by Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon over 1971 and 1973. Why? Because the government had become so dishonest that they needed to come up with a new system to deceive people for another 50, 60 years, right? And so 1971, 1973, something they're putting that together.

So pick that midpoint of that, 1972. And it's like the dollar existed from 1792 to 1972. Interesting, isn't it? Just kind of switch those two middle numbers around. But it's still a fraud. Trump and his family began to market an alternative to the dollar last year. They dubbed it USD1. On Wednesday, Eric and Don Jr. held a conference, crypto conference at Marlago.

They told CNBC on the sidelines of a day-long crypto event that they hoped that they hosted why they thought that this should all change. And he said the Trump's company, World Liberty Financial. Folks, this is not about world liberty. It is about globalism and it's about tyranny. Interesting, they call it world liberty financial. It's about global tyrannical financial. They tout USD-1 as an improvement on official U.S. currency. On their website, they call their crypto-stable coin, the dollar upgraded, still the U.S. dollar, but for a new era.

Should say a new error, E-R-R-O-R. because we had the petro dollar error. Now we're going to have the, and it's going to be a stable coin. This is why I believe they brought in Lutnik because of his experience with the biggest stable coin company. His company, Cantor Fitzgerald, very intimately involved with Tether, one of the largest stockholders, if not the largest. And, of course, they help to let Tether, help Tether to accumulate. treasury bills and make a profit for that.

So that's his expertise. And I'm sure that he could help them to set up their own stable coin. And these stable coins, as I said before, it's like CBDC, right? Central Bank digital currency that everybody on the conservative side hates because I understand the control and surveillance that it brings. And yet, the left still likes it. In Europe, they're still going to call it the central bank digital currency. And they're going to have it run by central banks because those people,

people are just blindfolded to tyranny right now. They're going to walk straight into it. And so they're not even bothering to rebrand it. Here, however, because there's been a lot of pushback, especially on the Republican side, they've got a Republican office holder of president who is going to tell them, no, no, no, we're not going to do CBDC. And you've got people like DeSantis and Republicans in Florida say, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, CBDC.

And yet they're going to be open to a crony capitalist version of digital currency. As I said before, they're going to change the CBDC. They're going to upgrade it to CCDC. Crony capitalist digital currency. That's really what they're going to do. And as they're talking about this with CNBC, of course, these are Democrats. They want the government running all this.

And again, the government shouldn't be creating a dollar or doing anything else. Instead, the dollar should just be the government is there simply to coin real money, which is real money is gold and silver. They weren't creating a dollar. They were doing that in competition to the Spanish dollar that was out there. And again, that was not something that was backed up by the Spanish treasury. That was just them stamping that dollar. And so as CNBC is interviewing the Trump brothers,

they are clutching their pearls and saying, wait a minute. We're going to have the, this is the president and his family is going to now do the dollar. They're now going to create the dollar, which the federal government should be doing that. Well, the federal government doesn't have the authority to do that. And certainly, these crony criminals in the White House don't have the authority to do it. So World Liberty backers argue that the new cryptocurrency that they're building is not a threat to the dollar at all, but will help to ensure that the dollar remains dominant in the global crypto finance because USD1's value is pegged to it.

Well, then don't call it stable. And it's not a coin. A coin is something that you stamp out of real money, gold and silver. But one big question is why, if the dollar needs modernizing, why actually be done by the private sector? That's CNBC's take on it. So they're fine with changing the dollar. They're fine with a surveillance and control aspect of it.

CNBC has no problem with that. They just have a problem with the fact that the Trumps are going to make all the money off of it. I got a problem with all those things. This is open in-your-face corruption, folks. People talk about, well, the source code is out there for Bitcoin and other things that you can see it, right? Open source stuff. And this is open corruption, this crypto stuff. and that's what these guys are doing.

As a matter of fact, a year ago, and it's one of these Arab countries where they were holding one of these conferences, and Eric was talking at the time, he said, the banks are just awful. We don't like banks. We want to replace the banks. In 10 years, our stable coin is going to be a replacement for the banks.

And that's what he's saying throughout all this stuff. He's talking about this interview with CNBC, he's talking about JPMorgan and all these other banks and the Wall Street companies. Yeah, we can replace all them. Who's we? Yeah. The Trump family wants to replace all the Wall Street.

They want to replace all the banks. They want to replace the dollar with their cryptocurrency. Why do they call it world liberty? This is about world tyranny. It's about globalism. That's really what this is about. And corruption. Corruption on a scale that has never been seen before.

CNBC says, Why should the venture be in the private hands of a president and his family? And not in the hands of the U.S. Again, you know, they'd be perfectly fine with a CBDC, just like they've been perfectly fine with the fiat dollar. I'm not fine with either of those. I don't think the money should be in the hands of the U.S. Treasury. That's why we focus on gold and silver. And the lies that have established this whole fiat system, as this fiat system is everybody is wising up to the lies and the corruption of the system, people are starting to turn to.

real money, gold and silver. That's why they're doing what they're doing in the marketplace. The big Wall Street banking system argued the Trump brothers. This is Don Jr. So they simply aren't nimble or innovative enough to drive the needed changes. Eric Trump said, you're going to leave that to who? To J.P. Morgan? You're going to leave that to the federal government to make these changes? No, no, no. You need to leave it to the Trump's. They're geniuses, right? Eric Trump uses Wall Street, views it as overly complacent. He's right about that.

This is what the Trumps are taking advantage of, complacency, and strong-arm tactics. He says, so Wall Street is complacent and ripe for technological disruption. Yeah, we don't want J.P. Morgan doing this. We want the Trump's doing it. We don't want Wall Street doing it. We want the Trump's doing it. So Eric and Don Jr. made it clear that the animating force behind their venture is not their glee at building a better mouse trap.

They're not trying to build a better mouse trap. They're not trying to invent something that is going to be more efficient. They're not trying to help the U.S. dollar folks. They're doing this because they say they are victims of being canceled. Well, they are, you know, they're victims. And, you know, they're just trying to defend themselves. But they're not trying to defend us. I mean, we look at all the evil that has been done by the federal governments and the federal government under Democrats as well.

It is, you know, they have been attacked with this stuff. And yet, they're not concerned about anybody other than themselves. For example, $50 billion worth of lawsuits against people they say they've been wrong for. And yet they're not changing the government to protect other people. You know, as he puts this lawsuit of $10 billion against. against the IRS. And again, the IRS's entire budget, folks, is $20 billion. And so Donald Trump is suing the IRS because they put out his tax information. And, you know, it was embarrassing and awkward for him or whatever. There was a, you know, other people that they did it to,

they did it to, I think, 40,000 some odd people. Do any of them get compensation? No, only Donald Trump, because he can tell the Justice Department not to fight his lawsuit. So he said, basically, I can just sign the check to myself. There's another billionaire who had $30 billion net worth instead of the $3 billion that Trump had at the time. And he just got an apology from the IRS. But there's been no real structural change to make sure that doesn't happen again. Instead, Trump is going to reward himself with $10 billion,

saying that even though his net worth was $3 billion at the time, that he was injured by that amendment. And he's doing that across the board, with private companies with people who criticize him and so forth. He's not about ending the bad things that the federal government does. He's about protecting himself. And he's not about opposing the globalists. He opposes the people who have been running the global system because he wants to replace them as king. Not because he wants a better system, but because he wants revenge.

And they openly admit that. That's how they justify this. It's not about greed. It's not about pinky and the brain wanting to rule the world. It's not about any of that stuff. They are victims. They're only trying to get what is due to them. Right?

See this all the time from the Trump family. We got into it out of necessity. They basically forced us to become kings of the world. We were the most canceled people in the world. think so. Well, Trump Jr. said he concluded that the traditional banking system is a Ponzi scheme. And if people are that stupid to fall for the Ponzi scheme of the banking system, if people are that stupid to fall for the Ponzi scheme of the Fiat dollar, hey, we can do all that stuff as well. We can't take advantage of them. I reminded, I can't remember who it was that said this, but there was

some guy got into banking and his, what he said, they asked him, why did you get into banking? He said, well, because I dealt with bankers, and I thought they were the dumbest people in the world. I thought I could do better than them. So these people are looking at this and saying, you know, all this stuff is a Ponzi scheme. We can run it better than these other crooks out there. We can, and that's exactly what they're trying to do. And, but they're talking about it as retribution, saying they were forced into it. They talk retribution, but not the rule of law.

We're not going to get that back. And then this whole thing with Lutnik, the firm of Trump's officials' family, denies reports that it was standing to make it, that it is standing to make a fortune from the tariff rulings. This is why I said at the top of the program. While Lutnik is pushing the tariffs for Trump, he and his family are out there, and of course he says, just like Trump says, I don't have anything to do that. That's my family's business. Give me a break. We all see through that. So he's pushing the tariffs and he's going around to different companies saying, you know what? These tariffs, I'll let you hedge against these tariffs. You pay me, I'll pay you

20 to 30 percent of what you paid in in the tariffs and you signed over your refund to me. How about that? So they basically were selling hedges against the Supreme Court decision. against the tariffs. And they stand to make 70 to 80% of the tariff revenues at these large companies that they signed these deals with. And of course, Lutnik, first of all, he says, well, it's not me. It's my family, right? He didn't go to the Epstein Island.

It was his family. He took the kids and the nannies and his wife. It wasn't anything about a business deal or anything. And then you find out more emails saying, yes, they did do a business deal. Yes, that business deal happened right after he went there and on and on. So even though the emails exist and all the records are there, showing that lucky lying Lutnik is lying about all the stuff and they got the emails to prove it. He continues just like Trump to tell people what we've all seen is not true.

And he's doing the same thing here with this as well. Again, he's shoveling it off and saying, oh, it's not, you know, it's my family that went to Epstein Island, not me. It was my family that did the offered the hedge derivatives for the terrorists out there, not me. And I had nothing to do with it. And they didn't even do this to take advantage of Trump. Didn't even exist. Didn't happen.

And yet the emails are there. Just amazing how criminal these people are. Well, we're going to take a quick break, folks, and we'll be right back. Making sense. Common again. you're listening to the David Knight Show. APS Radio delivers multiple channels of music right to your mobile device. Get the APS Radio app today and listen wherever you go.

All right, welcome back. And I've got a couple of good comments here from Guard, Goldsmith, that Liberty Conspiracy said, there is no such thing as a balance of payments emergency. It's make-belief. Trade means that it's balanced by definition. Yeah, in other words, people on both sides that agree that this is what we want. And the government says, you can't have what you want. That seems to be the main rationale for government.

You can't have what you want. Sorry. He also says, Javier Malai joined the Board of Genocide, also the Board of Peace, right, with a billion-dollar ante that he got from the U.S. taxpayer. You know, we told the farmers in this country after China stopped buying soy from them and soybeans and other things like that. Trump told the farmers to go pound sand while he gave Javier Malai $20 billion. And then later on he said, well, I'll give you guys 12. But it'll take a while.

And, you know, they've still been waiting. That was back in September. In December, say, yeah, sometime in January. I haven't done anything at all for the American farmers. It's all about this club they're in, right? They're all part of the globalist club. And, of course, it didn't hurt Javier Malay to become a part of Chabad Lubavich either. That's the reality of what's going on with that guy.

Jason Barker, just think of this. He said, they're tokenizing our public lands, basically assuming ownership. Yep, that's right. These lands will then be used to distribute shares to foreign and domestic organizations we owe money to. You're absolutely right. This is the, and what they're doing is they're taking this securitization nonsense that worked out so well with them with a real estate crash and it didn't work out too well for the rest of us. But they wanted to extend that to everything. I've got an article here talking about that we're going to get to hopefully, even doing it to humans because they like to bet on everything.

You know, that's what you see with people like Jeffrey Epstein and Howard Lutnik. they bet on everything. That's the essence of Wall Street. As a matter of fact, one of the comments I saw, I think it was on Zero Hedge, I said, well, if they would have called it Poly Cantor, you know, instead of Poly Market, they could have bet on that anyway. But that's the essence of Wall Street. It's a giant casino. They're betting on everything. I'll tell you what, I'll give you this percentage, and I'll wager you that the tariffs are going to come off or the tariffs are going to stay on or whatever. It's always about that. Well, we did have also, over the week, weekend, a lot of things happening. Well, the only thing that didn't happen, I guess, is, yet is the war against Iran. But, of course, they're stockpiling, locked and loaded for that. And again, when I look at what is happening there in Holisco, Mexico, and I think it's Puerto Vallardo, was that?

Was that the town that was involved? I don't know my Mexican geography very well. But, anyway, unfortunately, we may be learning more of it if we get involved militarily in this stuff and start the rules. real drug war. The CIA would love to see that happen since they, I guess, are ready to make a move against their competitors in the illegal drug supply. So one of the things I'm concluding is, I think Trump. Okay. Well, that was Catherine Austin Fitz, and I'd like to hear what she had to say. Can you hit that again, Travis? That was a mistake. But let's go ahead and do that. I think I've had that

in here. Yeah, here we have. This is Catherine Austin Fitz about Trump was a general partner and all this stuff. So one of the things I'm concluding is I think Trump was part of the operation. I don't just think he was a friend of Jeffrey. It looks to me more and more like he was an integral part of the operation. He's absolutely right. If Trump was, then likely Lutnik was as well, not just somebody who lived next door and help him launder money. So this administration is the Epstein Network. It is the Epstein Network taking control of the U.S. government and ejecting its booster rocket. So by shutting down Jeffrey Epstein's operation, you know, whether he's still alive or not, it doesn't matter. They're simply ejecting the booster rocket and moving up. The reason

Department of Justice can't prosecute the Epstein Network is because the Epstein Network is because the Epstein Network is running the government, Donald Trump, the Department of Justice. They are the Epstein Network. She's absolutely right. As usual, Catherine Austin Fitz. And her organization is Solari. You can find them at Solari.com. Well, we had a Mar-Lago shooting.

A man shot dead. He was going to, this is one of the more absurd assassination attempts. He's going to bomb rush Mar-Lago. with a shotgun and a gasoline can, apparently that's happening here. Who knows if any of this stuff is real or not. It's too soon to tell. But it does help to create distractions for Trump. And again, they love to portray themselves as victims.

This guy is from a family that he says all, cousin said, all the family are avid Trump supporters. So we may be looking at a mentally retarded family here. I don't know. But that could be an excellent. explanation, low IQ. We're big Trump supporters. All of us, he said.

Everybody. But he described this guy as real quiet and never really talked about anything. He wouldn't even hurt an aunt. He doesn't even know how to use a gun. Well, he certainly doesn't know how to do an assassination either. I'm just saying, anyway, I came from a family of avid Trump supporters. they referred to him as an obsessed artist, 21 years old. They shot him dead again.

This is, as they refer to it, they neutralized him. So this works out for Trump. It gets another distraction to take people away from what he's actually doing. So is it just serendipity or is it conspiracy? Too soon to tell. I'm personally of the opinion that things have just gotten so insane that more of this type of thing is going to happen. There's a portion of the population that is more susceptible to this kind of mental illness. Oh, you know, the continual pressure and the anger gets to them in ways that it doesn't other people, causing them to want to lash out.

They don't think about this is never going to work. It's just that I've got to do something. I'm too angry. I'm too furious. I mean, there was a story about, you know, a Trump supporter shooting his daughter. because they just kept arguing about politics. Yeah. And, you know, it just, there are a lot of things that are siops,

and most things that you see in the news potentially are. But I think this kind of thing is just what we're going to be dealing with. You know, the news cycle drives some people insane. And when the news cycle is this bad and depressing, it's going to be worse. I agree. I mean, it is a crazy society, and people are losing it. They can't tell what's important. They can't tell what is real.

Absolutely the case. Junk Silver, thank you very much. That's very kind. Thank you for the tip. It says, I appreciate you not keeping your show behind a paywall. The people who would never chip in are the ones who really need to hear it. Thank you very much.

Here's $25 bill contributions on me. Well, thank you very much. I really do appreciate that. Thank you. And, of course, silver's not junk anymore, is it? So I don't know that's kind of an oxymoron junk silver anymore. We've got a comment here from high boost. He says, Porto Viarta, ironically, Stu Peters was there last week.

Oh. Yeah, it's a small world, isn't it? It's a small world. Well, Trump, talking about people that are crazy, Trump said he's sending a hospital boat to Greenland. Nobody knows why, and everybody's saying there's no details about this. Why is he sending a hospital boat to Greenland? and the people in Greenland say, well, they're going to need it very soon.

We're going to be bombing them, shooting them. They're going to need it. That's right. And of course, you know, when he bombed us with this fake pandemic, he sent hospital ships to New York and to L.A. Remember that? Never used, right? That it needed a 2,500-bed military field hospital set up in New York City,

never used. You know, Franklin Graham's Samaritan Purse does the same thing. So it's a huge field hospital. never used. Hospital ships in New York never used. Hospital ship in L.A. never used. There was no pandemic folks. They were killing people with the ventilators. And by the way, we're going to talk about the betrayal of Trump supporters, especially the Maha people. I said from the very beginning, maha, they're misspelling it. It's ha ha. They're laughing at you. He doesn't have any intention of doing any of that stuff. And now he's using the same quote, unquote,

quote, authority for another emergency. This is the emergency branch of government, right, to compel the production of glyphosate. They're not going to end it. They're going to compel it. And worse than that, give them legal immunity, like they did the vaccine companies. Yeah, you never let a good poison go to waste. That should be the motto of the Trump administration in Maha. Anyway, so what's going on with a hospital boat to Greenland?

I don't think they use glyphosate up there, but Trump put his announcement up on his Ministry of Truth Social. He says, it's on the way, and he put a picture of it up there as well. The hospital ship, and it's called the U.S. NS Mercy. And there's another one called the U.S.NS Comfort. And so he's sending one of these up there. Prominent Greenland activist said, Don X. No thanks. We and Greenland are healthy and we're doing well, sustained by our own traditional foods, including seal blubber,

which is rich in vitamins and nutrients that keep our population strong for generations. Well, I know about seal blubber. I can't even imagine how that would taste. This is another one of those things where the country is so desolate and the people are so poor that they just have to eat every part of the animal that they can to stay alive. And then eventually it becomes, oh, it's one of our delicacies. It's not. It's gross, probably.

And if you guys want to eat it, fine. It's probably healthier than glyphosate or our processed foods. There's got to be a lot healthier. Like there's parts in Mexico where they'll just eat crickets. And, you know, sucker Americans will go down there and think, oh, this is exotic. I'm going to try, it's just crickets. It's going to taste exactly like a cricket. I'm sure there are some places where they fry them up, but they're literally

places, well, they'll just serve you crickets in a tortilla. And it's like, oh, good. Yay. Yum. Well, you know, everybody is puzzling over what's going on with this hospital ship thing, right? Nobody knows anything about it. They asked the Pentagon about it. And they said, we don't know. Ask the White House about this. Nobody knows. I got a theory. I think Trump overheard somebody talking about his mad ideas about taking over Greenland. And they said, this guy is crazy. we need to get a, we need to ship him off to a hospital. And he goes, ship, Hospital, Greenland.

He puts it out there. That's my theory anyway. I don't know. It seems to fit better than any of the other theories about why he's talking about sending a hospital ship to Greenland. So you think Trump does executive order by Madlib. He's got certain words already there and he just fills things in, you know. Yeah.

Who knows what it is. So Greenland is saying, we're healthy. We don't need it. We don't want it. We got all the seal blubber we can use. We don't need more blubbering from Trump. And the Danish defense ministry. he had not been informed about a hospital ship heading toward Greenland and American assistance

was not needed. He said, we've got our own socialist medical system here. But again, Trump's got a picture of a book that he put up on true social. So it's on his way to help him. I wonder if this is a Trump class hospital ship. Came up with Trump class battleships. Now he's got a Trump class hospital ship. I don't know.

The question is, do Trump have any? class. I don't think so. You know, there was a time where people had the decency to know you don't name things after yourself. If you're a great person, eventually someone comes along and says, you know, we should honor what they did. We should create a museum or something and name it after them. Trump is just slapping his name on everything he can. It's, you know, it's a franchise presidency. It's like McDonald's. You've got to put the golden arches on it so they know. As a matter of fact, somebody wanted to name an airport after him in Florida and the Trump family said, yes, But we still retain rights to the name, you know.

So it is a franchise branding thing. But again, Travis, if Trump didn't name things after himself, who would? That's a realization he's come to, right? I don't think people are going to be going around naming things after Trump when he's gone. So he's got to do it himself while he's there. We're going to have to spend all that money to take his name off these things eventually. And the thing is, you know the Democrats are petty enough to do that. They'll get into power and then they're going to spend millions to billions of dollars.

renaming all these things that he put his name on. I think they'll do it with the Kennedy Center. You know, the Kennedy Center was set up. They said, this is going to be an honor of John F. Kennedy, and no other name is going to be associated with. So what he does, Trump does it. So John F. Kennedy Center or whatever, and you see carved into the stone up there, he puts the Donald Trump and he puts that

above the original name that is there. And so they are real upset about that because that's kind of like the crown jewel of the left. It's like, you know, where they do Broadway shows and things like that. Some people look at Trump adding his name to the John F. Kennedy Center and say, why? Actually, everyone says that. Why? Yeah, but Trump says, why not?

So, yeah, he may be sending a ship to Greenland, but people are not taking ships to America. We have a deficit of tourists because 11 million visitors less coming to the United States, a continuing tourism swamp. And, of course, it's having a big effect on Las Vegas, which I'm sure that breaks all of our hearts to see Vegas going down the twos. You know, you roll a dash. You win some, you lose some. That's the motto of Vegas. I guess the house doesn't always win.

That's right. Especially when people are staying in their house and not going to Vegas. But 11 million visitors short. And why is that? it's because of people looking at the authoritarian police state hellhole that Donald Trump is doing. And this is having a lot of effect on people who are trying to come to the country, for example. So we've got 11 million short visitors. Are they all from China?

Is that what they're? Yeah. I don't know. Maybe they're taking a short bus to America. But we are the only country that has had a decline in tourism because everybody else is getting out. and wanting to travel after the lockdown stuff, but they just don't want to come here. The example they lead off this story with,

the New York Times, always began with an anecdote. Michelle Cowley, a London-based communication specialist and her husband, spent nearly two years planning a $16,000 vacation to Walt Disney World in Florida. I just, I can't get my head around that.

I mean, the up Walt Disney World runs a junior in high school. And we used to go over there all the time. because in the early days, you paid for parking and you can just walk into the park for free. There's a nice place to go hang out, and it wasn't overly crowded or anything. And if you wanted to ride a ride, you can buy a ticket book. That's where they get the e-ticket stuff and all the rest of the thing. You know, they had like tickets that were rated from A to E with E being the big attractions in each section.

So we just go over there and kind of hang out. It was nice to do that. And then when Michael Eisner took it over, he put everything under one ticket and made the rides quote unquote free, you didn't have to have a ticket for it and then raise the prices up really high. It's unbelievable how expensive it is now. They and their children, 7 and 11 years old, heard about the shootings and what the ICE agents were doing and they said, well, I'm not really sure we want to go there. And then they saw the threats to annex Greenland and other things like that and said, we have decided it's really not the place that we want to be right now.

But there's better reasons than that for tourists. As a matter of fact, you know, we've reported many times about what's happening to people at the border. If you go back to February of last year, you had some German hikers, and they had a valid, what's this, a B, I wrote this down, B2 Visa, I think. They'd been hiking in a lot of different countries, and this hiker, an American boyfriend, she had already hiked in the Pacific Coast, as well as on the continental divide. she was separated from her boyfriend, her American boyfriend, held an internment for quite some time. And for 24 hours, we had a similar situation happen to a couple of German tourists who were hitchhiking around the world. Not hitchhiking, but backpacking around the world. Very different things.

They were backpacking around the world. They had been to many different countries. and they had just finished doing New Zealand, and they flew to Hawaii and were going to do that. Instead, they got hussed off to solitary confinement for 24 hours. They were strip searched. They put them in prison clothing, and they didn't know what was going to happen to them, and they were stuck there for 24 hours. That story went out.

That was in April of last year. And when you look at how they're treating people who come into this country, I look at it and say, why would anybody want to come here? I don't want to fly because the way the TSA is and the way Border Patrol is. And so I would not want a vacation in a country that is like what we have become. And so, again, it's not unusual at all, but it is really being ramped up. And it is a bipartisan problem. This has been going on for quite a while.

And the Trump administration is making it bigger all the time. So again, if they didn't know what was going on with Border Patrol, They need to wake up and understand that issue. And now the Trump administration has escalated to the point where they need all kinds of biometric information about you. They need to have your complete social media history. And it's like, why would anybody come here? So again, last year's tourism worldwide was growing. The U.S. was the only major destination to see a decline in foreign visitors.

Visitors from Canada plunged by 28%. And, of course, you know, they're booing American teams now in Canada. This is all the result of one man and his team of thieving liars that he's got around him. Key markets like Germany and France also recorded significant declines, while Britain, the largest long-haul source market for U.S. tourism, saw a marginal growth of only a half a percent compared to the previous year. Because I guess police state doesn't deter you if you live in one already like they do in the U.K. I see John Cleese said,

they're going to arrest me at any moment for being a domestic terrorist because of my opinions and statements and jokes, right? And he's probably right, probably right. Tyrants don't have a sense of humor. We've seen that from people in North Korea. As a matter of fact, Kim Jong-un just re-elected himself. Trump aspires to that, I guess. Anyway, TSA and Pre-check and DHS were all very confused about what was going on over the weekend. TSA was saying, saying the pre-check was open after DHS said it was closed. Some airports were saying it was open, others saying it was closed because of the partial government shutdown.

L.A. said Saturday, the L.A. airport on social media, that it was diverting all TSA pre-check customers to general screening lines, later removed the post. San Francisco said that TSA pre-check and global entry, quote, remain operational. So mixed signals. Does anybody know what's going on? And why do we have to have this kind of a permission society to travel in the first place? That's the thing that bothers me so much. And it's why I refuse to fly, because I just don't want to remind myself of what an authoritarian hellhole we've already become.

It disgust me to see these TSA people. Disgust me to see what's going on the airports. We ought to revolt against this stuff. As a matter of fact, we tried to organize a revolt. against it. We had the opt-out after they started doing the strip search and the naked body scanners. That first Thanksgiving, we opted out. We organized an opt-out and did it at InfoWars. And then what was the response? They shut down all screening on the busiest travel day of the year. That tells you everything you need to know. There's never been a threat to the airports or airplanes.

And they said that in internal documents in 2011, and it was discovered as part of a lawsuit where they published the unredacted as well as a redacted documents that were part of discovery. Anyway, so we know it's all a fraud, but now you've got confusion between DHS and between the Department of Transportation, between the airports, TSA, nobody knows what's going on. Typical of the Trump administration. A similar shutdown last year caused losses of more than $6 billion across the travel industry and related sectors. Democrats said on social media, the administration was kneecapping the programs that make travel smoother and secure. No, please kneecap the TSA.

We don't need them. You know, this is the difference, right? We could do perfectly well without the TSA at all. Instead, what the Democrats want to do is demand that we have the TSA and then demand that there be a pre-check program. I say get rid of all of it, flush at all. So they're ruining your travel on purpose, they said. Well, the TSA's existence ruins my travel. Outrage is Trump demands the firing of a corporate board member.

And that's really what he demanded over the weekend. Now, if you hear who that corporate board member is and you say, good, I want her fired. right? You're part of the problem. Susan Rice, who I don't like her policies. I don't like Biden and Obama that she worked for. I disagree with her on everything. But what right does Trump have to demand that board members to be fired because he doesn't like them personally? None. None.

And so you want to make a hero out of Susan Rice like Jimmy Kimmel and these other people? come on give me a break this is the problem with trump this is why we can't get anything done because even when he gets on the right side of the issue he destroys that issue that's what people should be concerned about it's not you know trump comes out here he talks about he's going to do this or that and when he says he's going to do something that should be done the way he does it makes it so odious that it'll be tainted and it'll taint anybody who actually tries to get it done. And so what he's doing here is threatening Netflix.

Susan Rice is on the board of Netflix. And she was pointing out, I think, rightfully so, that the Democrats are going to take revenge on the Republicans when they get back in place. Now, why is that something that Trump would take so much? Isn't that what he's doing? That's the problem. because both of these sides are going to be taking revenge against each other, and both of them are after the rest of us.

That's the real issue. All these powers that Trump is taking, ignoring the rule of law, pursuing personal vengeance, that's all going to be done by the left as well. People say, well, Biden started it. I agree. And I said when Trump took office, he was already talking about how he's going to get revenge, Trump sounded exactly like Susan Rice does now. And I said he was wronged.

It was wrong for them to come after him. And everybody realized that it was wrong. That was what got him elected, I think, more than anything else. People seeing him as a victim. He played that victim card. So he didn't even have to debate the other Republican candidates. He was a shoe in. And yet I said, what really needs to be done is they need to prosecute some of the people who did this.

They need to change laws and rules to make sure this doesn't happen again. what Biden did to Trump. Instead, Trump decides he's going to pursue personal revenge, because what's important to him is his power, not that we have a just society that operates on the rule of law. And so this is the evidence of it. Netflix board member Susan Rice says corporations who took a need of Trump will face an accountability agenda from elected Democrats if they win the midterms in 2026 and 28 presidential elections. That was written by Laura Lumer, then Trump added to it. Netflix should fire racist Trump-drained Susan Rice immediately or pay the consequences.

Pay the consequences? She's got no talent or skills, purely a political hack. Her power is gone and will never be back. How much is she being paid? And for what? Well, Attorney Erie Kohn chimed in and said, There is a 103% chance that Trump threatens to use the Department of justice to block the Netflix Warner Brothers deal and clear a path for his buddies at Paramount

if they don't fire rice, an even higher percentage chance that he actually does it with or without an explicit threat. So that's the point. So he wants to see this as coming from, of course, again, he's going to do this for the Ellison family that owns Paramount now and CBS and they want to buy Warner brothers and so Netflix wants to buy them as well and so Trump can make them pay consequences and it's corrupt and it's illegal and it's something that he shouldn't be allowed to do and it's going to backfire on him as well Brian Krasenstein says Netflix is in a bidding war paramount for Warner Brothers there are rumors that Trump may block the bid by Netflix this is exactly how dictators act how are the Republicans okay with that

Good question. Bottom line is, is that, you know, the other aspect of this is he could look weak and controlled by Ellison. Or he can look strong by saying, I blocked it because I don't like Susan Rice and the board of directors there in Netflix. That's another part of it, I think. Where are the people so concerned about cancel culture when the president is literally demanding the firing of a corporate board member wrote Matthew Sheffield? Absolutely right. However, Carrie Lake is out there saying, fire Susan Rice and cancel your Netflix account if you haven't already.

Well, I don't like Netflix. I don't like Susan Rice. And I really don't like tyrants who whine about being victims of a cancel culture as Eric and Don Jr. are claiming. We've got to take over the dollar. We're going to set up our own dollar in competition. with these other stable coins. And you need to help us to set up a global financial system with ourselves as king

because we were victims and they just keep it going. This is a left-right march of tyranny. Well, what about those other guys? They did it. So now we can do it. Now we can use the government to take revenge on people. Susan Rice pointed out this is not going to end well for them. It's not going to end well for any of us.

we're going to have the two parties becoming Hatfields and McCoys and completely ignoring the rule of law. Jonathan Turley says the Democrats are planning for possible take over the midterms at the 2028 election. And look, let's understand, I don't think it's possible. I think it's inevitable. You always have a situation where in the midterm elections, you know, the off-year elections, so the president gets elected for four years, then every two years you've got congressional. congressional elections, House elections, and some Senate elections. Well, always in those off years, the party that hasn't won the White House in the previous

election always loses seats. And they have a razor-thin margin, only a seat or two in the House. So that's going to happen, especially when you throw in the betrayals of the base by the Trump administration happening so many different ways. The majority is really at risk, I think, because there's a lot of people who are very upset about the betrayals of Epstein. And now he's doubled down on these health betrayals in terms of glyphosate, in terms of vaccines and MRI and all the rest of this other stuff. They have backed down and broken all of those promises. So I think it's going to be a bigger trend than usual.

So that's going to be there. And he says the Democrats are already plotting for what they're going to do. openly discussing their push for radical changes in our political system. I'm afraid he's right. Ladies to join this revenge, purge, pledge is Susan Rice. And again, it is the Trump precedent. He's crossed the Rubicon, taking us from a republic to a revenge politics state. Susan Rice wrote, when it comes to a leech, you know, the corporate interests, the law firms,

the universities, the media. it's not going to end well for them. For those that decided that they would act and their perceived very narrow self-interest, which I would underscore is very short-term self-interest and then take a knee to Trump. And so what she's saying is, these people who are violating the rule of law,

these people who are doing this kind of stuff, they're setting themselves up. And these are, you know, the Democrats don't care about the rule of law either. They're going to, again, it's going to be an escalation or ratcheting up every time they switch back and forth from left to right, from Republican to Democrat, they're going to ratchet up this revenge cycle. That's a given.

As Jonathan Turley puts it, the age of rage. What I find interesting is that Jonathan Turley himself has been caught up in this partisan march of death. Nowhere in this article Does he Acknowledge that Donald Trump has played his part to escalate this? Yeah, it started with Biden, but Trump has escalated it to a new level. And so what he does say is this yielding to a mobocracy

That's one of the critical dangers that the framers sought to deter Through protections against majoritarian tyranny. And yet, Turley, a law professor doesn't see Trump in any of this. I mean, just take a look at the tariffs and the rage and the, you know, I'm going to get even with you type of stuff that Trump. First, he ignores the law and then the rage and revenge that comes after that. And yet, you know, he says this about Susan Rice and it's true about her.

It's not going to end well for establishment figures like Rice, who believe that they can control a mob. Well, I don't think it's going to end well for an establishment figure like Trump who thinks that he can control a mob. This is the way these Jacobin revolutions always turn, right? He wind up with the robespheres on the guillotine themselves. Meanwhile, we have New York City, and he wants people to sign up as snow shovelers.

We're utilizing 33 DSNY vans and two DSNY buses to transport shovelers where they're needed, faster. And for those who want to do more to help your neighbors and earn some extra cash, you too can become an emergency snow shoveler. Just show up at your local sanitation garage between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. tomorrow with your paperwork, which is accessible online at nyc.gov slash snow, and you can get started right away. But still, you go out night after night, running around the city for one. God gave me a gift. I shovel well. I shoveled very well. I shoveled very well. I shoveled very You shovel better than any man I've ever known.

You're a good husband and a good father. Nothing more. I believe you, Daddy. Not encourage your father. I said I was gonna leave you, Eddie. The city's in peril, Lucille. Please don't start. I just came by to tell you that I love you.

Tell the kids I love him. I won't be here when you come home. There may not be a home to come back too. Wish me luck. It's okay. They call me the shoveler. That's my dad. My hero.

Yeah, he shovels and he shovels well. That's mystery man, of course. Yeah, there may not be home to come back to if you don't go out and shovel. So this is a call for all good shovelers to come to the aid of their city. And yet, you have to have five forms of ID, but not to vote, just to shovel. And look, this is, it's very funny. A lot of people have talked about how Mom Danny is putting out a call for emergency shovelers out there. But then says, you know, you've got to have all these different forms of ID in order to do it.

I wonder if the shoveler had any ID. Did anybody check his ID in that movie, Travis? I don't remember. That was mystery men. Anyway, they start out at $19 an hour and they go up to, $28.71. And I think this is the issue the media is missing for the most part. They've got to claw back this money in taxes.

And so that's why they need to have all this ID stuff, right? But people do point out, why isn't it? Certainly understand why they, as an employer, would have to have ID for these people. But why don't we need to have ID for, because they're paying them, right? So they've got to have some ID. Why wouldn't we need to have ID for the voters? Well, here's the answer because the voters are going to make sure the politicians get their paychecks, right? So we're going to make that as easy as possible.

No ID required for that. We're not legally permitted to hand out checks without completing the process of paperwork. But they don't need any paperwork if they're the ones who are going to be collecting the checks at the end of the election. That's the reality. Well, as I mentioned earlier in the program, Heritage Foundation, funded a study about, state and local governments and the overwhelming costs that come from illegal immigration combined with public education. So again, as I said, you know, it used to be the Libertarian Party to try to open up the minds

of college kids. They had an outreach program where they put up the Nolan chart that, first of all, it showed a political ideology map, if you will, that was not just left and right, but it was two-dimensional. And so they'd asked you some questions about economic. liberty, some questions about civil liberty, and then they would plot you on the space. And so they basically came up a left-right, authoritarian, libertarian, and things like that. And the one question that I always disagreed with on them was open borders. I said, you can't have open borders

and a welfare state. You've got to end the welfare state first. And I've been talking about the welfare magnet and the role of immigration since the 1980s and all of that. And so now what they're saying is they did a new report. The title of the report is every state should challenge pliler versus dough. It's time to end free education for illegal alien K through 12 students. They argue that the 1982 Supreme Court case, Pliler versus Doe, should be overturned. It presents model state legislation to allow schools to charge tuition for students who are here illegally.

In the Supreme Court case, they ruled five to four. The school district could not charge tuition to illegal alien students because it would violate the Equal Protection Clause the 14th Amendment. The clause requires states to treat all residents as equal under the law. That's not true, by the way. You know, when we look at the 14th Amendment, they keep mapping different things onto the 14th Amendment. was there because we had newly freed slaves and they were saying, you know, what do we do with them? Do we treat them as citizens or what? And they said, well, if they were born here subject to the jurisdiction, they need to be treated as citizens. There wasn't to say that anybody who, you know,

they've extended that now to include anchor babies, and that's not what the 14th Amendment is about at all. Context matters. And so the Again, even when we look at the anchor baby thing, like I said before, when Trump comes in, even if he's right on a particular issue, like ending the anchor baby situation with the 14th Amendment, he does it in such an odious and stupid way that he poisons it in order to be able to fix that situation. And it certainly does not require. It was never in mind that there would be a welfare state, certainly not a public school

education system. None of that was in view with the 14th Amendment. So this is misapplying all of that stuff. Charging tuition, they said, to K through 12 students. It's very similar to the policies of state colleges and universities that charge out-of-state students higher tuition. But what they don't say in this, I don't know if they say it in the Heritage Report, but they don't say it in this article here from W&D is that illegal aliens get, you know, the dreamers of or whatever, get in-state tuition, where were they going to go? So how is that equal protection for American citizens, right? I think in-state tuition, recognizing that the parents are residents and have been for a

particular period of time, paying taxes in that state and giving them an in-state tuition break, I think that's perfectly legit. And as they point out, there's been a lot of situations in states where if you decide that you want to go to a different school district, Some states will let you do that if you pay a fee. And so they say when you look at the distinction between in-state and out-of-state tuition for colleges, if you look at the situation of school districts where if you elect to go to a different school district, you can, but you have to pay different taxes because you haven't been taxed in that district,

then why not do that for people who come here from another country illegally? And I would say exactly right. And it doesn't even have to be about illegal. It should be about the legal immigration as well. So if you're charging tuition for a U.S. citizen and lawful permanent resident student from outside the school district to attend school district, but you're not charging illegal alien students, then you're treating U.S. citizens and permanent residents worse. And so it's not equal protection. Absolutely. The 34-page report points out limited resources of most school districts and the challenges.

that arise when an illegal alien student arrives at a school and requires additional attention or specialized resources due to language barriers, for example. And again, this should have been the number one priority, but not for the Trump administration, because they want to establish themselves as the toughest kid on the block. Don't mess with me, I'm the boss.

So they focused on conflict. They focused on sending a bunch of thugs around to beat people up, rather than focusing on the money. They don't even focused on getting the fraud taking care of with the Somalis. In California, for example, there were 1.1 million students enrolled in the English language learners program in 2021. In three years, by 2024, data shows over 3.5 million immigrant children living in California, indicating that it had more than tripled.

So, again, three years of Biden and it more than tripled. and I talked about that at the top of the program. I thought that was Texas, but that was California. In 2025, six states, Tennessee, Texas, Idaho, Indiana, Oklahoma, and New Jersey, introduced measures to either charge illegal aliens tuition or to report on students unlawfully present in the United States. However, none of these bills became law. And so, again, folks, the answers to these issues

are typically going to come from the state. not from the federal government. The federal government is the problem. It's not the solution. But what this shows you is that even though you've got six states, Tennessee, Texas, Idaho, Indiana, Oklahoma, New Jersey, even though you've got six states to try to do this, none of them succeeded. I say that to say that these problems are going to be solved at the state level if they can be solved. It's not going to be easy.

But it's not going to happen at the federal level. Yet everyone is focused almost exclusively. exclusively on what the federal government is doing. If a state does succeed in passing legislation and charge tuition to illegal immigrant children, of course they will be sued, and then Pliler should be overturned. So what they're saying is pass this legislation, make it a court case, and let's get that Supreme Court case overturned. Well, the states are spending the welfare cash that they're getting from the federal government

in really strange and crazy ways. again, they say, well, we need to have this for poor families. And yet, when you look at the amount of money, here's some of the examples. This is, this program is called the temporary assistance for needy families. They said a 2020 audit found that Mississippi spent $5 million that it got from the federal government and these TANF funds on a new volleyball stadium. And they paid NFL quarterback Brett Favre. Is it Favre? BFARV.

I think it's Favre. Barb, yeah, you can tell I follow football a lot. I kind of heard this name somewhere. Anyway, they were going to pay this football player a million dollars to speak. And he didn't even show up. And then later he gave that money back. But they paid $5 million for money that was supposed to go to needy families to help them buy food. They spent it on a new volleyball stadium.

In 2025 audit in Louisiana found that for 13 years, the state didn't properly track whether the TANF recipients were working at least 30 hours a week as required by federal law and on and on. This is, it's like all these federal programs, you know, the worst possible people that you could have to do these charity programs or the federal government. Of course, they hate for you to call it charity. Charity is something that should be done. It's needed. But these people want, these socialists want to present it as, I'm entitled to get that money.

And it should be coming from the federal government. And they push it to the federal government because they know the federal government isn't going to know what it's doing. It doesn't even care. It throws money out to people for everything. So Wall Street Journal analysts noted that both red and blue states are guilty of misusing their money. And we can go back to the CARES Act and the payroll protection plan and things like that to see how that works out when Trump does it.

He is saying, we're going to pull back some of this money. he's only focusing on the Democrat control states because they're going to do this partisan red-blue nonsense again. And so this is indicative of where we are. The FBI is going to lower requirements for special agents. You know, you don't even have to be able to sign your name of it. You just put an X there, right? They are removing the requirements to, they would usually have a panel interview and they would have to, a writing assessment. Now we're going to get rid of all that kind of stuff.

I guess the only requirement... Putting the special in special agent. I guess the only requirement is blind loyalty to Trump and Cash Patel. That's the interesting part of this. Yeah, I remember years ago there was a lawsuit brought by a cop in one of the New England states like New Jersey or New York or something like that or Massachusetts. He wanted to be a cop and they gave him an IQ test. and they wouldn't let him become a cop. They said his IQ was too high. Turned out he had average IQ of around 100,

but they wanted people who were below average IQ for the police. And that was a stated policy. And they actually fought that in court, and all that stuff came out in court. No, our policy is we only hire people of below average intelligence. And he was fighting them because I guess he was trying to prove that he had below average intelligence by fighting them for that. Who would want to have a job like that?

I don't know. when that's going to be your fellow workers out there. But he wants to reshape the Bureau, Cash Patel. And so the panel interview was something that was typically conducted by three trained agents. They would traditionally screen candidates on their life experience, on public speaking, and on critical thinking. Now that's going to be eliminated because I guess Cash Patel is worried that if you got somebody who has life experience, who can speak in public, and it has critical thinking he'd be out of a job. They'd be promoting from within.

He would be gone in no time at all. So that's our FBI of where we are. Patel has sought to reshape the FBI, referring to agents as cops and steering the Bureau more toward violent crime and immigration enforcement. Again, we didn't want to have federal police. And this is a part of him calling them cops

is a very important tell. the Trump administration has been focused on federalizing the police. And I am, it's another one of these areas where I'm absolutely amazed at how little pushback there has been from conservatives who've always understood how dangerous it was to centralize policing and have federal cops, especially now that they're not only all of that, but they are also militarized as well. And so they have cut back the training and the support for this just as ICE has scaled back training. They used to have five months of training. Now they do 45 days of training. And it shows,

doesn't it? I think it really does show as to what is happening. Well, before we run out of time here, I want to talk a little bit about that betrayal because we had some major betrayals in the last couple of days. As Brian Scha Jalavi points out, he says, the Maga cult is destroying America. This is at healthimpact.com. He said, I've been watching for defections in the Maga cult. ever since the Epstein files have been released, which so clearly show how Trump and most of his regime were complicit with Epstein's horrible crimes of sex trafficking and his criminal financial empire.

Honestly, other than possibly Marjorie Taylor Green, a politician in the House of Representatives who quit as now saying the right things, I haven't seen any defections from the Maga cult. He said Catherine Austin Fitz was recently interviewed by a MAGA supporter. I watched the interview, tried to understand the thinking of those in the Maga cult, and it was very important and informative. And again, Catherine Austin Fitz is not going to change her views based in order to placate

the interviewer. She's going to tell you what she thinks is true, and she usually understands what is true. I'm not seeing anything I've disagreed with Catherine Austin Fitz on. Maga believers often email me in their condescending tones. He said, here's an example. This is from somebody identified herself as Sharon Aller. She said, Epstein was hired by our government. I know it sounds crazy, but it was the best of two possible evils.

Children were being trafficked by the thousands, and they knew who was doing it, but they couldn't catch them because of how it was being done. So you see all this stuff about all the cover-up of Epstein and the minds of the Q&ON people and the Trump Maga cult. This is all part of the plan. Listen to how she explains this. She said, Epstein Island was the plan. Yes, children were there, but they were out to catch the election.

elites who are responsible for thousands of kids. And they caught the elites. The Clintons, Biden, the Rothschilds, movie stars, CEOs. They have gone before military tribunals at Gitmo and they're all dead. Did you know that? She said, what you are seeing are clones of these people. Isn't this amazing? And it gets even nuttier this letter.

I won't read the whole thing to you. But you realize how incredibly stupid these people are. they said this email from Sharon is so typical of those in the Maga cult who email me she offers no proof no links no references not even much of an appeal to authority and there certainly isn't in other words like well I know somebody who does this or I'm a person who does research or whatever and there is absolutely no appeal to sanity either I said but what if the entire Maga movement turned on Trump right now and demanded just for the children that he has been part of raping and torturing. But they won't, because most of them are also Zionists who literally worship Israel, and they think Trump is their savior, while they give lip service to Jesus as Christians. If the U.S. doesn't attack Iran and start World War III, we can all, if it does, it should say, we can all blame the Maga cult because without them, Trump would be powerless.

us. And here's an example of the betrayal. I guess this is all part of the plan as well, to tell people that you're going to get poison out and then to protect the poisoners. As a matter of fact, I had a clip in here of Trump. Here we are. A lot of that's common sense to. It's all common sense when you get right down to it.

But we're going to get toxic chemicals out of our environment and we're going to get them out of our food supply. We're going to get them out of our bodies. We'll get them out of our body, right? Right? What a betrayal. Yeah, trust the scam. Trust the scam. We've got to get these toxic chemicals out of our bodies and everything.

You know, like fluoride and glyphosate and things like that. There was a long battle for fluoride. And it was one in the court. And then the Trump EPA decided that they were going to appeal that and fight it. They want to keep fluoride in the water. As a matter of fact, they want to keep glyphosite in your food as well. And so we had last week, and I talked about it, it. The deal that Bear and, you know, who bought Monsanto and basically owns Roundup glyphosate,

the deal that they struck with the courts to say, well, we've got, you know, we've had tens of thousands of lawsuits of people who got non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which is pretty well linked to glyphosate, and they've been able to prove it. And so it's kind of like the vaccine stuff in so many different ways. They gave liability protection. to the vaccine companies because they said, well, the vaccines are inherently unsafe. Well, so is glyphosate. And it is everywhere. So what does Trump administration do about it? Well, first of all, the company is going to get away with literally getting away with murder. They put in like $7 billion into a fund. And when you got tens of thousands of people, what are these people going to get?

You know, a couple thousand dollars off of compensation off of this stuff. And it's what because who knows how many they're going to be in the future. And then Trump comes in and he says, well, we're going to use the Defense Act in order to compel the manufacture of glyphosate. And we're going to give them legal immunity as well, just like the vaccine companies. And the Republicans are cheering it in Congress because of Big Ag. And let me just say this before we cut the broadcast. When you look at what is happening, why are Republicans in Big Ag doing this?

You've got a lot of farmers who are not happy about glyphosate. not happy about other chemicals like this, like DeCamba. They talk about the DeCamba drift. They're trying to grow organic food or food without chemicals. And yet this stuff drifts onto their property and contaminates their land. And it poisons the land. Because the big part of this business model that Monsanto had, and they drove a lot of farmers in India into suicide because they got them to use glyphosate on their land, and then they couldn't grow anything unless it was a GMO seed from Monsanto. So you put this poison on your land, and not only is it unhealthy for us when it gets into the food,

but it poisons the land so that you can't grow real food on it, only the genetically modified product from Monsanto that you've got to buy every year. And that's an issue. And that's why they've been losing these lawsuits, uh, uh, uh, that's, when they would prohibit the use of glyphosate in certain areas. And Monsanto spent $8 million in one local election and still lost because the people were farmers and they understood what the issue was. And so what they did was they took the issue to Washington.

If you take it to Washington, you can get these corrupt politicians to do anything. You pay them and they say, we're going to stop this patchwork quilt of regulations. And so we're going to regulate it from Washington. And then they don't regulate it at all. And then it gets even worse. then they give them legal immunity, even though these people are peddling poison and know it and have known it for a long time.

And so where does Big Ag come into it? The Republicans are applauding this and saying this is absolutely essential because they're in the pocket of Big Ag. Big Ag doesn't care if they're giving you food with chemicals that are carcinogenic. They don't care about that. They're only concerned about producing

a massive quantity of food that they can sell you. And then if it kills you, they don't care about it. Just like the pharmaceutical companies. And the Republicans and Democrats are doing the same thing they do with them. And they want to tell us that this is all about making America healthy again? They're lying to your face. It's disgusting.

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