The David Knight Show - World on the Brink: War Drums, Economic Collapse, Supply Chain, Media Circus of Lies

Episode Date: May 2, 2025

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Plan on flying? In order to board domestic flights, your driver's license or state-issued ID must be a Real ID. Learn how to get your Real ID today at tsa.gov slash real ID or visit your local DMV. Joining us now is Gerald Salente of TrendsJournal.com. Always great to have Gerald there. And look, folks, you can go to TrendsJournal.com. You can see a sample of what it is about, and it is an excellent news magazine. Hundreds of pages.

You can get it in an online format, so it's searchable, but it's really nice the way they have set this thing up. And it is a great, great value, especially if you get the 10% off with the code night. As Gerald has pointed out, it's less for the week than you're going to pay for a day with things like the Wall Street Journal, which are getting more and more fluffy as we speak. It's all pictures and all the rest of the stuff. Gerald, this week I talked about Breitbart and how they had literally 71, you know, I print the article up as a PDF, right? Put it in my thing here. They had 71 pages that I had to delete of pictures of Melania Trump. It was like a fashion show for Melania Trump talking

about her $37,000 purse and her $5,000 Burberry trench coat and all the rest of the stuff. It was amazing. But that's really what's happening with all these different publications. I mean, they're just going for fluff, aren't they? Not only that, they're prostitutes. Yeah. They're media whores that get paid to put out by their corporate pimps and government whore masters. Breitbart is

nothing more than a little boy's Trump Club. Yeah, yeah. Well they want to be able to afford a $35,000 person themselves. It is disgusting. Yeah, I agree. It's disgusting. I agree. All these be, Oh, I like Trump. So I'll, I'll watch Fox. I hate Trump. I'll watch MSNBC. I mean, that's the stupidity of the crap going on. There's no media anymore. There's no journalists pick up the New York slime. The Charlie

paper record. Yeah. You ready? Yeah. Again, we didn't prepare to talk about this, but here it goes. Again, as we don't, we just talk. Yeah. This is Sunday's New York Times. That's the business section, the business section. What are they selling? This is what you pay $6 on Sunday for. Wow. Wow. Look at this stupid picture.

And people say, Oh, Salenty calm down. No, I'm not calming down. The world is going to crap. We got crazy people in charge. They're stealing our money. They're slaughtering people all over the world. And you want me to calm down as you swallow their crap? Oh yeah.

Oh yeah. I am so disgusted here. You can't make this crap up again. This is, this is the business section. This is why here. Look, look, look, that's the second page. It's all pictures too. Yep. Yeah. It's a picture book. Third page is mostly pictures. Wait, it gets better. It gets better. You know, you ready?

You won't believe this. Two page spread of pictures. There we go. Yeah. Not only that's the cover story of the varsity influencers team. An effort at the university of North Carolina at Chapel Hill aims to turn its student athletes into social media stars. Others are following suit.

I used to live not too far from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I don't want those people influencing anybody. But this is the business section. Yeah, I know. What the hell does that have to do with business? Yeah. Yeah. Journalism is dead.

What we're giving people in the Trends Journal. You're not getting anywhere else in the world Go to go to our YouTube Gerald Salente or your or trend Trends Journal and see the comments and people look at the magazine They can't believe it. Yeah. Yeah, they can't believe there's nothing like it. Journalism is dead. Yes finished. Yes The Israel war going on How would they slaughter about 75 35 people every day every day? Yeah, every day every day every day every day killing 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 people every day Not a word Not a word in the toilet paper record the new york slime Not a word in the toilet paper record, the New York slime. Not a word in the Wall Street Journal.

Go to CNN, the cartoon news network. Not a word. Not a word. And it's civilians. You know, I mean, you look at it and rightfully so, you know. They're families. Oh, in the trench journal, over a thousand kids have gotten their arms and legs blown off.

Oh, oh, this is terrible. Can you imagine you were talking before it went on to you about your kids? Could you imagine your kids getting their arms and legs blown off? Oh, they'd be happy the rest of their lives. Yeah, you know, when you look at... there's a mass shooting at a school, for example, and you get, you know, five people killed. It's national headlines everywhere. And look, I understand, you know, it is a tragedy.

It is a tragedy. But as you point out, total silence when you have dozens of kids being killed on a daily basis. Daily basis. And this goes on for year after year after year. This is targeted towards children. And that's what's so amazing about this, along with the silence that is there. It truly is insane.

I know I've got more that I want to talk about with that, but let's talk about the economy first. Let's talk a little bit about what's going on, because we had some changes in gold this week. China did a massive sell-off of gold at one point in time. How do you read that? What do you think is going on? Is that profit-taking? It's only part of it because here's an article from the Financial Times yesterday, May 1st. Chinese investors pile into gold ETFs at record pace in Haven Hunt. Chinese investors are piling into gold funds at a record rate as President Donald Trump's trade war and fears

of a US recession and inflation drive a hunt for safe haven assets. Inflows into gold exchange traded funds in China, you ready? Totaled 70 tons in April, more than double the previous monthly record according to the World Gold Council. So yeah, there's ups and downs in it. People try to make money, but the long-term in this, again, I've been buying gold. I started buying gold in 1978. I forget it was either

$163, $183 an ounce. Yeah, that's a good story right there. Well, you know, when we look at this, I'm sorry, go ahead. I've been following us for years. As well know the Trends Journal and we do top trends each year Last year, we said it would be a golden year for gold. Mm-hmm. The price of gold went up almost 30% last year And it's gone up again Never before in my lifetime Never before in my lifetime have I seen such dangerous times ahead. And that's why gold prices are going up.

You have to look at not only the economic but the geopolitical issues that are going on. When you got the Ukraine war, there's no end in sight with it. And we're saying that Ukraine is going to do everything they can to keep this war going, and Europe is doing everything they can to keep the war going. A little slimeball piece of crap, this guy Mertz, the new Heil Hitler of Germany. Yeah. Where's it? What was his last job? Hey, I was with Black Rock. Yeah, where that crime syndicate that buys up the world? You got

it? Headed by a fink. Yeah, making that up. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah. Not making that up. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah. A trillion dollars. They're spending a trillion dollars to rebuild, to build up their military. And they say, we're also going to put some of that money into infrastructure to stop the Russians. And borrowing the money to do that, I mean that's very uncharacteristic of post-war Germany as well. To go into debt as well as to build the military up. It's Fred Mertz, not the one from I Love Lucy. This is a guy from I Hate Peace, Fred Mertz. Yes. Yeah.

And what you just said, not only that, Germany is headed to three years of recession. They had two years of recession, 23, 24, and now they're heading to a third year recession and they're borrowing all this money. We got to stop the Russians. So yeah, let me get this straight. Let me get this straight, you slimeball Mertz. Oh, Operation Barbarossa, World War II, when the Germans killed some 25 million Russians, when according to John F. Kennedy, at his speech to American University, in June of 1963, when

it was all about peace, he said, we should not hate the people in the Soviet Union. These people are very advanced, scientifically, technologically, and no nation suffered more during World War II than the Soviet Union. This is his words. This is John F. Kennedy. He said they lost their farms, their factories, their homes, and their land, the equivalent of Chicago to the East Coast.

We need peace with them. If we go to war against the Soviet Union, he said, and we have an atomic war, life on Earth will be destroyed in 24 hours. That was 1963. Anyway, that was June, July, August, September, October, November. Jack, you're dead. They killed him. It was all about peace. They didn't want peace.

Going back to this little clown boy Mertz and the reality, this slimeball saying Russia is a threat to Europe, all the Nordic countries, the UK, France, all building up their military, all sending more weapons to Ukraine, all ramping up the war. Now going back to gold. And they're getting, let me interject, they're getting out of the landmine treaty, where 70% of the casualties from the landmines are civilians of that country that put out the landmines after the war is over. That's the way this is happening.

And so you've got all these same countries that you're talking about there getting out of this landmine treaty that of course the US was never in, along with Russia and China and North Korea, all these warmongering countries. They never entered the landmine thing, but these other countries, these Scandinavian countries and things like that, they got out of that landmine treaty. I mean, they're really ramping everything up to kill everybody, aren't they? I'm telling you, this is why gold prices are going up. Yeah.

Yeah. And then you take, again, they're going to do everything they can to keep this war going. As the economies are going down, as I say, when all else fails, they take it to war. What followed the Great Depression, World War II. What followed the dot-com bust, the war on terror. They do this all the time. So now, Iran, when the United States announced they were going to have talks with Iran to end their nuclear agreement or to redo it,

we said this is a lot of Trump crap. They have absolutely no intention of moving forward with Iran. This is a big lie. We said this, I said it on your show, I said it in the Trends Journal when it first began months ago. It was Trump that ended the nuclear agreement that was signed under Obama with Iran back, I think it was 2017 or 2018. UN nuclear inspectors were saying Iran is not developing nuclear weapons. The nuclear development is for power plants, et etc. has nothing to do with it. The facts are all there. Trump ended it.

Trump ended it because he's a pro-Zionist Israeli puppet, only by the facts. He got a hundred million dollars from Sheldon Adelson back then, moved the United States Embassy out of Tel Aviv into Jerusalem, told us Israel, hey, you know, that land you stole in the golden heights, it's yours. That's wrong. Now let's move forward. We said this again, the wars are ramping up. And by the way, if the United States and Israel go to war against Iran, this is going to be

the beginning of the end of life on earth. Because there's no way in the world that the United States or Israel could defeat Iran. To make it clear, that little fat mouth, arrogant little boy, the little fox puppet that's now the secretary of defense that loves to do push-ups So strong. Yeah That little clown heads it. Yeah He's warning Iran that they can't support Yemen and the United States only bombed them 800 times Mm-hmm. No exaggeration that that literally 800 sorties, what was it, over the like the last

month or something, right? Yep. Yeah. And they're saying that now with Iran, Trump has just put sanctions on Iran. Any country buying oil from Iran will be sanctioned by the United States. This is as they're doing negotiations. Just happened two days ago. Yeah, yeah. Good faith negotiations too, I'm sure. What? Good faith negotiations, I'm sure. Yeah, just to show their good faith. They have the sanctions, which in and of itself is what we say, sanctions are an act of war. And I said that when we got locked down in 2020. I said, you know what they're doing? Our own governments are putting sanctions on small mom and pop businesses and service

businesses with just what we've got left. And I said it really is an act of war because it really is. You lock down people, you try to shut them down, you build, that's what they would always do in a siege, you know, around a fortified city or a castle or something like that. That's what a sanction is, trying to cut them off from everything else. You're 100% right. Here, this is from CNBC yesterday. Trump says any country that buys oil from Iran will not be allowed to do business with the U.S.

Quote, any country or person who buys, and it is all caps, any amount of oil or petrochemicals, all in caps, from Iran will be subject to immediately secondary sanctions. They will not be allowed to do business with the United States of America in any way, shape or form said Trump on his social media. I love the name of his social, Truth Social. How about BS Social? How about Arrogant daddy's boy social? My daddy left us over a half a

billion dollars worth of property. I'm a little spoiled daddy's boy with a bad attitude. That's Trump. All right? Trump also initiated negotiations with Iran last month over its nuclear program. His administration, you ready, believes Iran is trying to develop a nuclear bomb, an allegation that Tehran has denied. Not only has Tehran denied it, all the nuclear inspectors say they're not doing it. Mm-hmm. I remember, how long ago was it that Netanyahu got harangued by everybody because he went to the UN and he was talking about how Iran was going to have a nuclear bomb

within a couple of months or whatever. Remember, he had like that, you know, Warner Brothers cartoon Acme bomb. It was like a bowling ball with a cylinder coming out of it and a fuse that was lit. Remember that? He had that up behind him and everybody was saying, can you believe the nonsense that he's putting in? And that was years and years ago. It might have been decades ago. I don't remember when that was, but you know, oh, they're going to have it within months. And we keep hearing that, that they're going to have it within months. You mentioned Hegseth. This is the quote from Hegseth. He said on Wednesday, message to Iran, we see your lethal support to the Houthis. We know exactly what you're doing. You know very well what the US military is capable of

and you were warned. You will pay the consequence, all uppercase consequence, at the time and place of our choosing." Wow. Wow. This is, this is, this is, Hile Hitler. Yeah. Oh, I know. Yeah, and here's the other thing too. Okay, so think about this Gerald Hegseth is saying we see what you're doing You're giving support to the Yemenis and they're able with the stuff that you're giving them. They're able to shoot down 17 of these Reaper drones most of them within the last month. And so we see what you're doing, we're going to come after you. Okay, well what do you think that Iran is going to do if you attack their country? And yet, the reality is, is that Trump has gone on record as saying that the Yemenis,

he said, nobody would think that they could do it. Here's what he had to say. He said, they're experts on missiles. I mean, they're actually making the missiles. Nobody thought that, but they make missiles and they're highly sophisticated because they're taking down the Reaper drones. And so that might be a domestic thing. And yet Hegseth is saying, well, I think it's coming from the Iranians and we're going to come after the Iranians. What an idiot then. Because as I've been saying-

He's an arrogant little piece of crap. Yeah. This is asymmetric warfare taken into, you know, the air war. You know, we've seen when we occupied Iraq and Afghanistan and things, they would come up with improvised asymmetrical warfare to attack the troops as they're driving by in trucks or things like that, or even, you know, armored carriers. And so, you know, they would come up with roadside bombs and things like that. But now this asymmetric warfare has taken to the sky. We've got these sophisticated Reaper drones that are shooting down one after the other. Thirty million dollars a piece. That's the asymmetry. Well, they could care less about how much it costs. They just steal our money. Oh, yeah. Well, it's kind of a feature for the military-industrial complex. I mean mean if they get 30 million dollar drones shot down, no American pilots are dying, but

hey it's another contract for their suppliers at Raytheon or wherever. Excellent, they could kill us. Yeah, exactly. Well I mean you know, just more wasteful. Now what we do with the Trends Journal is we go to all the media. So like the Israel war, before I go on to that, as I said, there are 91 million Iranian against what about 10 million Israelis. Less than that when you take the Arab population out.

The United States hasn't won a war since World War II. They couldn't defeat Iraq. Longest war in American history, Afghanistan. They couldn't defeat Iraq. Longest war in American history, Afghanistan. They couldn't beat the Taliban. And I got this little fat, arrogant mouth, little clown boy heads that say we're going to take out Iran. So what they're going to do, this is why I'm going back to gold prices and whether people are concerned.

Israel, as you well know, has the Samson option. If we lose, Israel says they're going nuclear. They had between 200 to 400 nuclear warheads. Iran's not allowed to have any. Israel could have. They're the chosen people. They could have them. What kind of arrogance is this crap? So anyway, what we do, again, that's why gold prices are going up to geopolitical, and then we'll get to the economic. But to stay on this, as trend forecasters, we go to, we subscribe to Haaretz, the Israeli newspaper, we pay subscription. We go to Times of Israel, we go to Jerusalem Post, want to hear everything they're saying. We also go to IRNA, ISNA,

Press TV, Tehran Times. We want to hear what the Iranians are saying. So we also go to Arab News, So, we also go to Arab News, Middle East Monitor, Al Jazeera, wanting to hear what the Arabs have to say. So this is from ISNA, the Iranian news agency, Wednesday. Iran's finance minister, new U.S. sanctions will have negative impact on talk progress. Iran's foreign minister, Abbas, whatever his last name was, has criticized recent U.S. sanctions amid ongoing indirect talks warning that such, quote quote provocative actions cast doubt on Washington's seriousness in the negotiations. Yeah, yeah obviously. Yeah, yeah. I said it was a front from the beginning. They're setting the stage saying that we wanted to have peace talks with Iran, but they wanted no part of them. Yeah Yeah, who the maniac murderer

arrogant lying scum may rotten hell is Going to ramp up this war They are bombing and killing people, Israel in Syria, in Lebanon, in the West Bank and in Gaza every day. Hey, we're the chosen people. We could do anything we want. You know, by the way, when I say, you know, when I say about this has nothing to do with being anti-Jewish or anti-Semitic, save your crap, every day, you know, I have pictures in my place of all my aunts and uncles and I thank my friends that passed away And I thank my friends that passed away that gave me so much.

And some of the people I thank every day are Al Bolotin, Bert Feinsen, Mr. and Mrs. Singer, Mr. and Mrs. Rosenblatt, Herbie and Harold, Herbie and Harold. I was a soda jerk. They used to call soda jerks. I worked at a soda factory. Herbie and Harold ran the place. They couldn't have been nicer to me. Mr. and Mrs. Singer, Mr. and Mrs. Rosenblatt, Albalon, Bert Fein, they couldn't be not all Jewish people. I thank them every day. It has nothing to do with religions just like you don't hate all the German people under Hitler,

all the Italians on under Mussolini. Right. But that's what's going on now because of what's going on with Israel. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I said that all the, you know, when you look at American foreign policy, look at what our government has done. Look at what the CIA has done. It's like, you know, don't hate me because I happen to be an American because I hate policy. And I despise and oppose that government that does those things. So we make a distinction between it. And as I said, when you look at what they're doing with the colleges and other things like that, trying to blackmail them into censorship and deporting people and everything for writing

op-ed pieces, I said that doesn't have anything to do with semitism or religion or ethnicity or anything like that. It has to do with criticism of a foreign government that has taken over our politicians. And when you look at what these people are doing, I mean it's amazing to see this guy Cassidy, who we just saw in all these hearings, setting in judgments and vetoing anybody that would talk about autism or Vaccine issues and I think because he completely sold out to big pharma. Well, he's completely sold out to the Israelis as well and You know trying to push through this

anti-semitism awareness act nonsense and he just he despises Informed consent he despises the First Amendment as well. And he's completely for sale to these special interest groups. I said earlier in the program that I'd give him the award of the – what was the name of the guy? I mentioned it in the thing, the Israeli spy that they had – Jonathan Pollard. I said that I'd give him the Jonathan Pollard war over these people as traitors to this country. And that's really what these people like Cassidy are.

They're betraying and subverting our own Constitution, our basic God-given liberty of free speech, and doing it at the behest of a foreign government. I can't get any more traitors than that. No. Again, look at how many of them bought out by APAC. Mm hmm. Oh yeah. And look how way pack kills anybody that goes against them in terms of losing their elections. Yes. Again, look at that.

Did you see that clip from that little arrogant little arrogant piece of scum that Noel Coleman? No, I didn't see that. Oh, you didn't see that. No, no Coleman was a former Senator from Minnesota He said that The Masters of the universe are the Jews. You didn't see this.

I didn't see that. I've got one that I'll tell you that you probably didn't see. I saw Michelle Bachmann and she was on and she was saying, you know, we're seeing miracles all the time in Gaza coming up out of the rubble. She wasn't talking about people who'd survived the bombing. She was talking about the onward march of the kingdom. And it's like, you're not talking about the kingdom that I'm following. You know, Christ said, �The kingdom of God is within you.� And he said, �It's not of this world. If it was of this world, my servants would fight.� But that's what she's

trying to portray this at. This is the march of God's kingdom by killing and destroying civilians and children. It's amazing. But can you imagine the arrogance of this clown saying the masters of the universe are the Jews? Yeah. And then he goes on. That's why a lot of Christians are acting, you know, they replace Jesus with Israel,

you know. They really do. They worship this political entity and they want to excuse war for them. But yeah, so he says the masters of the universe. Go ahead, what else did he say? Oh, he goes Zuckerberg, he starts naming them. The guy, Google Bert, what's his name? The guy that was with, and anyway, he starts naming them, you know, Zuckerberg starts the masters of the universe. We're just pieces of crap. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now if you point out, this is one of the things that would accuse people

of being anti-Semitic, if you point out these successful people that are Jewish, they would say, well that's a trope and that's anti-Semitism because when we look at what these people like Zuckerberg and Bloomberg and all these other people do, there's some pretty bad guys. And you're not supposed to notice that the bad guys are Jewish. This guy likes what they're doing I guess and so he calls them the masters of the universe. Master's universe are Jews. That's a quote. So I'm just a little giddy from the Bronx.

I'm a nobody. You're a nobody. How dare you say Master's of the Universe? Who the hell are you? Who the hell are you? That's where you belong in hell. Oh, Coleman, you changed your name. It was Goldman. I forgot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, there's a rabbi that famously said within the last year, I forget the exact date that he came out with, he said, �The problem with you Christians is you're only worshipping one Jew. You should worship us all.� He said, �We're dying for your sins.

We're fighting these orcs and gods or whatever.� You know, that was his approach. He actually said that. Yeah. That's the attitude that is there. And that's what's going on. And I'm saying going back to gold, they are going to bomb Iran. Gonna expand it, yeah. And it's gonna hit oil, it's gonna hit everything, and then of course, just economic disaster, kinda like Trump's tariff stuff. It's going to be, because we've got this, speaking of bombs, you know, we've got this

slow moving bomb of the tariffs, because all of the massive stuff that he put on China, the 145% thing, that is kind of a slow boat from China that is getting here, and that slow boat should be arriving in the next week or two, where we start to see all of the empty boats or the boats that aren't arriving, I should say, because they're not sending them. A lot of stuff is already in the pipeline, already on its way over. We're going to start seeing the effects of that in a couple of weeks. What do you think about that? Well, what's going to happen is that people, again, it's in your magazine, the Trends Journal. There's been very the reason that remember we just saw the negative GDP in the United States,

but that's hardly news anymore. The markets are going up. People are buying more. They're buying cars. A lot of the companies are buying more products in the expectation of prices are going to go up. So there's going to be a false little boom. So it's not going to go down right away. It'll probably go down about three or four months because they're buying up. And by the way, before I forget, going back to Yemen, the Yemenis are bombing the ships that are going into Israel.

And they say they'll stop doing this when they stop slaughtering the people in Gaza. There he did for the ceasefire, and then they stopped that, and then they started to back up again when Israel broke the ceasefire. What you just said, Israel broke the ceasefire, not a word of that in the mainstream media. Not only did they break the ceasefire there, they broke it in Lebanon as well. They're wiping out entire neighborhoods of southern Lebanon. They're bombing Beirut. Here, UK joins US in air strikes on Yemen. All right? The UK, how about trying an FAU in airstrikes on Yemen.

All right. The UK, how about trying an F a, you and a C in that UK? Yeah. What are they doing over there? Yeah. Israel launches airstrike warning in Syria. That's from the Financial Times yesterday. They're bombing anybody they want. They're going back to gold. Now you have with the sanctions, you look at China's GDP.

Look at China's manufacturing. It's going way down. The GDP hasn't gone down far yet, but the manufacturing's going way down. The GDP hasn't gone down far yet, but the manufacturing is going way down. China has a crisis in the housing market. They overbuilt when they got into the World Trade Organization back in 2001. With every boom, there's a bust. But they had three years of zero COVID policy.

There was three years of zero COVID policy. Yeah. There's three years of zero COVID policy, we even, a hundred times worse than what was going on in America. They had cameras outside everywhere. Everything in China is digital. You don't pay with cash or anything. Everything's digital. Their people were under total control by the government.

Yeah. They destroyed their economy. Yeah. They already had that traffic light system. They'd already put in biometric identification. So they're watching, as you point out, they watch everything that everybody's doing. And if you jaywalk, well, okay, we're going to not only fine you, but we're going to make sure that you're going to be punished in other ways.

You're not going to be able to travel. You're not going to be able to do this. And the rest of the world is these globalists are using China really as a beta test site. So we can see this horrific stuff that is happening there. And they're just testing it to see how people react and to get the technology in place so they can do it to the rest of the world. So their economy is going down. All the global economies are going down.

And again, Europe is ramping up for war. As I said, when all else fails, they take you to war. It gets the people's mind off the economic problems. Yeah, they're not allowing in Germany, they're not quite as far along this net zero nonsense as the UK is. But in Germany, they're shutting down reliable power plants, they're telling the car companies electric only and all the rest of the stuff. Now with this massive deficit funding that the German government is doing, pouring money

into the military industrial complex and of course they're going to tell them, oh yeah, make tanks and make planes and all the rest of the stuff. These things use infinitely more fuel and create their emissions and everything, infinitely more than any of the passenger cars would do. But that's where they're going to steer everybody. So all of a sudden, Volkswagen, which was shut down, now you've got to basically, you're not going to be able to make any cars unless they're electric.

Now they're going to unleash Volkswagen to make gas guzzling tanks and planes and all the rest of this stuff. I mean, it's so phony. But the consistency is that the real objective, I believe, behind all this climate stuff, as well as the war, is depopulation. And so there is that criminal thread that runs through all of this stuff that gives it a consistency. You know, whatever they do, it's about controlling and killing us. Again, look at the freaks running this show. Look at the little got some Macron over there in France.

Look at the little jerk over there in the UK, Stammer. We talked about the Clown Boy Mertz. You got Trump. Before you had Biden out of your mind right in front of you. Yeah. Dead in your face. It's a of you. Yeah. Dead in your face. It's a freak show. Yeah.

And go, this is important too. What the media is doing is they're saying that Germany and these other countries, by building up their military, that's gonna build up their gross domestic product. That's not. When products are produced that consumers buy, that's what brings up the economy. These products that are being produced, nobody's buying them.

All the money's going into the pockets of the military industrial complex. It's kind of like the broken window fallacy, except what they're doing is they're creating the infrastructure to break windows, right, to destroy. It's an infrastructure that's being built to do destruction on a massive scale, and then they call that creative. So we see gold. Gold could easily go to $3,400, $3,500. There's no question, because this thing is going to get wilder and wilder.

Look, there's never been an administration like the Trump administration. The first hundred days, look at this freak show. Look at the things that he's doing, what you were talking about. Now they still, and by the way, you know, cutting off all this money going to colleges, why is a college like Trump, like Harvard, getting all our taxpayer money for these? What are you giving them all our money to these colleges for? Oh, absolutely. Yeah, I've said that over and over again.

I think it's an absolute outrage that they're getting nine billion. I thought it was bad when it was Princeton or Columbia. Columbia, I think it was, is getting 400 million. I thought, is that right? Four hundred million dollars? Yeah, it was Princeton or Columbia, Columbia I think it was, it was getting $400 million. Is that right? $400 million? Yeah, it was right. And then I see Harvard getting $9 billion, one of the richest institutions in this country. And of course it's the big guys who always get the money from the government, isn't it? As George Collins said, it's one big club and you ain't in it.

Yeah, yeah. You know, you're talking about the price of gold. You know, what you mentioned was very conservative. I saw one guy, probably the most aggressive, saying that $10,000 gold, and he said that because he thought of the supply chain issues that are going to happen. You know, again, when you had all these, I played this earlier in the show,

some, you know, the big cabinet meeting that Trump had and how it began with everybody kissing his ring and, oh, you're just the greatest person ever, that type of stuff. And Rubio was bragging about his stuff. He goes, what I like about this administration, he said, always in the past, they've had to do study and then a study on the study and then study the study and all the rest. Now we just do everything right away. And he said, and it's going really fast and it's changing like every day, every hour, every minute even,

he said. And I said, yeah, that's the problem. You know, it's kind of like, they don't think about what they're doing. And so, you know, this, this tariff thing is just like this moving train wreck and they're reacting to the destruction that they're doing. But the very fact that they're changing all the time, I think, is the most destructive thing about the terrorists. The fact that there's this uncertainty and nobody knows what to do or how to plan, and it's especially destructive to small businesses. Do you think this is going to be the second phase of Trump's attack on small businesses to go ahead and finally wipe out most of them? I don't know. I don't know. But you know, the thing with Trump again, like you

say, everything changes. And again, when he said, when I get into office, I'm going to put a 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico. He gets into office, I'm going to wait two weeks. Two weeks come, he puts them on, three days later he takes them off. It keep, hey, and here's, you vote for me, I'm gonna end that Ukraine war in 24 hours. I know, I know. All right, all right. Hey, I mean, I won the election, I'm gonna end that Ukraine war before I get into office. All right? Yeah.

All right? And nobody comes after this clown for lying, lying, spewing out his arrogant crap. Why how dare you come out against Trump? I suck up all his crap. Why don't you? That's the attitude. Oh yeah. We saw that this week with the tattoo nonsense, you know, insisting that that was

on there. Let's talk about the US Ukraine deal, okay? Now you know, they say, well yeah, we've got to have their rare earth minerals, and then everybody kind of quietly pointed out, some of people did. Well, the areas where they got the rare earth minerals are under control of the Russians for the most part. And so now they've got this deal where there's kind of this profit sharing plan. I mean, to me, it looks like just flat out chronic capitalism and looting that's going

on there. But I had somebody on last week that was part of a rare earth company here in the US. And he was talking about it. Yeah, we've got to have our own rare earth. I said, well, how long is it going to take for that? Well, you know, maybe about five years or whatever, you know, that's what they're looking at. So what are we doing in the meantime, right?

We've got to have this critical stuff and it isn't there. He does a deal with Ukraine and of course, you know, he's doing a deal for minerals that are there and they do have some minerals there, but it's not really the rare earth stuff that's there. But when you look at this deal, it's a partnership. And as I'm starting to look through what they have set up, it looks like a big crony capitalist pig trough that is there. It looks like they're going to rebuild the country.

It looks like what Cheney was doing with Halliburton and Iraq and all the rest of this stuff. The feeders are going to come in there and they're going to have this 50-50 partnership for minerals and all this kind of stuff. So, I mean, you know, what do you think is going to happen with that? And do you think that's going to be enough to get peace or is it going to continue down this path of war? What do you think? It's going to continue the path of war. What you said is exactly the truth. It's the bigs going in there making more money, stealing what they can and robbing less, whatever they want. Again, like that, you call them dick-Chaney, you see that? I have to be proper because I don't want to get blacklisted. I call them penis-Chaney because I don't want to call them dick-Chaney. But look at that little arrogant piece of scum that that guy was.

Is. And again, it's not going to make any difference in a peace talk with Russia. Here's the deal. Russia is not going to give back the 20% land that they've taken over. Everybody talks about Crimea, but they never talk about, they had an election in Crimea. Crimea was part of Russia for centuries. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. And they had an election that was monitored by those organizations that monitor elections.

It was totally legit. It was totally legit and about 97% of the people in Crimea voted to leave Ukraine and go with Russia. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. That's a... It's Russian language and Russian culture that's there. And of course, the Russians have always had their black fleet stationed there in Crimea as well.

So for all those reasons, Crimea is not a not not going to happen. What about that? I mean, is it is it looking like Zelensky is going to move on that? And then are there other areas of conflict there in your opinion? Now, because and again, the area that they've they've taken over with the areas that the Ukrainians were killing the people in those areas. They killed over 15,000 in the Donbas region. They're Russian people.

Again, if I could pick it up here real quick. Let me go find it. I've got so much stuff. And it was going on for eight years. You know, it was going on from 2014. They're shelling civilians, you know. And again, nobody reported that in the Western press.

Here's your Trends Journal, 2014. Washington driving the world to the final war. And here it is, Ukraine, article written by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, the United States overthrow the democratically elected government, the Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine back in 2014, that slimeball, Victoria Nuland handing out and what's his name, John McCain, Saint McCain, handing out cookies and candies in Maiden's Square, the United States putting that Assoc gang in there to overthrow the government. But people have no idea that that's only facts. And this is very important. We saw this coming and we warned about it because prior to the overthrow there's an article in the magazine. Yeah, you see this thing over there?

Yeah. This was the, it was a lead up to the Winter Olympics. This is three weeks before the United States over through the government. Security expert. It's not if, but when for the Social Olympics terror attack. Veteran security consultant Bill Rathborn, crap born it should be, hopes that he's wrong about the upcoming Winter Olympics in Russia, but he has more than a hunch that he's not. Quote, the security threat is higher than it's ever been in the history of the Olympic

Games, Rathbun said. In my opinion, it's not a matter of whether there will be some incident. It's just a matter of how bad it's going to be. We noted this because it was day after day, week after week, that the United States warned the American people not to go to the Sociolympics. Mm-hmm. Because it would be deadly. Mm-hmm. It was a total lie.

Right after that, they overthrew the government. It was a setup. People have no idea about this. So we're giving people that they're not getting anywhere else. And only by the facts. And the facts are, they're going to ramp up, there's not going to be a peace talk there. Ukraine is going to bomb more nuclear power plants or whatever. They'll bomb Russian oil pipelines, depots, whatever they can, strike deeper into Moscow. They're going to ramp up this war

and Europe's going to ramp it up with it. Again, not a word about peace. Not one person in the media is allowed to talk about peace. Yeah. Oh, I agree. I agree. Yeah, as a matter of fact, on RT, they're ramping up, you know, saying, well, Trump's got his golden dome that he wants to build in a few years or whatever that he imagines he's going to build. And RT did a long expose on a weapon system that Russia has been developing for a while, which is a cruise missile that, of course, they can put a nuclear warhead on it, but it's a cruise missile that actually has nuclear propulsion on it. And the issue is that this thing has an operational range of 22,000 kilometers and can stay up

in the air for days, they said, even weeks or months without refueling because of this. So we just put these things on patrol. I remember when cruise missiles first came out. As a matter of fact, one of the first jobs I interviewed for was, well, I was interviewing with Texas Instruments and they wanted me to interview with a lot of different groups. And one of the groups was a group that did cruise missile guidance systems and stuff. And it's like, I don't want anything to do with this. I had a friend who was in the military and he said you know with the cruise missiles

we can pick which window of the Kremlin that we want to stick this thing through and I was like okay great. I don't want to be a part of that though and so now they can do that. That was 40-50 years ago. Now they can still have that kind of accuracy but what they can do is keep this thing afloat for days, weeks, even months and just call it in. It's kind of like another version of these nuclear subs that are out there. So they're putting this out on RT because they don't see peace coming, I think.

No. Yeah. They call it their doomsday cruise missiles like Dr. Strangelove again. Again, we have evil people running the world. Yeah, yeah. You're evil. Yeah, I agree. Well, you know, this week we had, on Wednesday, we had a couple of anniversaries.

I had the 200th, 2000th anniversary of this show. I turned 70, and it was also the day that the Vietnam War officially ended. And I didn't realize that when I saw that. You know, I thought, wait a minute, 75? 1975? I thought it ended in 73 because for me, for me it did end. They had these talks in January of 73 and they were kind of then going to, you know, back out of it and whatever. And the last person that got drafted was in June of 73, and that was when I graduated from school. So, it's like, okay, it's over. I didn't pay any,

it's like I'm not interested now because they're not going to try to send me over there. But the, I didn't realize that it drug on for another couple of years, you know, till 1975. We got the famous helicoptering out of the U.S. Embassy and so forth in Saigon. What are your takes on the Vietnam War and what we definitely did not learn from that? Well, you know, when I was a young guy, you know, I believed it. I believed in the law that if we don't stop those Vietnamese, they gonna take obviously, you know the domino theory Yeah, I believed it and but I didn't want to get drafted because they don't want to get my brains blown out. Yeah

So that's why I did everything to beat the draft unlike Trump and Biden that beat the draft, but they like war To draft dodgers. Yeah, some guy kind ofurt. His father bought paid off, you know, guy doctor Bone spur on the ankle. What are you kidding me? But anyway going back to it think about this It's the same communist country, right? Yeah. Yeah we import that's our biggest second largest importer of furniture Clothing and shoes we bring

in from Vietnam. Yeah, exactly. That's the hypocrisy. And I'm not saying we shouldn't, I'm just saying the hypocrisy of it. Yeah, exactly. They're not a threat. Instead, what they did was they peacefully joined the system, and they did really well in the system, joining in and manufacturing stuff.

And I've talked about it in the past too. You know, there was Errol Morris is a filmmaker, a great filmmaker. He had this way where he would use a teleprompter years and years ago. I mean, his documentaries that I'm talking about are like, you know, 30 years old or whatever. But he would use a teleprompter to instead of doing a face-to-face interview, he would put that there to kind of put people at ease.

And before he became a filmmaker, he was an investigator and an interrogator, right? And he called it his interrotron. And so he would talk to people and his first documentary is able to get this guy to confess to a murder that they had somebody else on death row for. It's called A Thin Blue Line. But he got Robert McNamara, before McNamara died, he got him on and interviewed him for a couple of days and McNamara just confessed a whole bunch of stuff. Like yeah, it was based on a false flag there and the Golft-Tonkin incident, we knew that

that was a false flag and we did it anyway. And he's basically trying to excuse it and say, yeah, well, you know, what we did was not nearly as bad as the bombing of Dresden. And you know, so don't blame me for any war crimes and all the rest of this stuff. But he also said, Gerald, that he met with some of the Vietnamese decades afterwards and he said, one of the guys that had been a military leader stood up and banged his fist on the table and said, what's all this nonsense about dominoes don't you know anything don't you know that for a thousand years we were fighting the Chinese and we still

have issues with the Chinese because this whole domino theory was the dumbest thing we've ever seen you know and and McNamara supposedly this really smart quiz kid guy says yeah you know he know, he was actually right. You know, isn't it amazing, you know, how, how we were lied to with all of that stuff. I have that. I was just looking it up here in my book, trends 2000. I write about exactly what that guy said and McNamara about he lied about, they knew that they were lying. They're all a bunch of lying, little low life arrogant. Remember how arrogant McNamara was? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Arrogant. Like that little headset boy. Arrogant. Look at the little moron we have as the secretary of state, Rubio. Could you get a little dumber clown jerk than that?

Yeah, he's the one that says we don't need studies and that's a good thing, we don't need studies. We can do everything at warp speed. We can do the vaccines at warp speed, the lockdowns, we can do the tariffs, everything. We don't need to think about where this is going to happen with us. Yeah, well you know when I look back at the Vietnam War, I was at the very tail end of it, right? I had my sisters, new people who were, you know, the boys were facing that and knew some who had gone and some had survived in that time and some didn't.

And so we were watching it closely and it was already apparent, I mean it became a lot more apparent after the war, but it's already apparent that they, McNamara and these people, had no intention of winning that war. They would go in, they would fight, they would win a battle, and then at great cost, and then they would just evacuate and turn it back over to the enemy. And it's like, there's absolutely no way that I'm going to get involved in something like that. It's just insanity.

And yet, to me- How about ancient armies? Yeah, exactly. And to me, that is the essence of the military industrial complex and the US government's policy. They don't really care. It's just, let's have a war. Let's keep the war going as long as we can.

And I've seen it over and over again. I've seen it in Iraq. I've seen it in Afghanistan. They'll just keep the war going. And they don't care the human cost to our own soldiers. Nope. I've talked to so many people who were just a little bit older than I was. going. And they don't care the human cost to our own soldiers. No. I've talked to so many people who were just a little bit older than I was, and the trauma that they went through in Vietnam was just amazing, the stuff that they had these guys

do. I know a guy who just died from Agent Orange. It was so many years. Yeah. And you know what they said to the troops? They were spraying this stuff to kill mosquitoes. Really? Wow. Yeah. Wow.

Wow. Well, I know a guy that was at Texas Instruments, and he would talk about how his job was recon. And he said what they would do is they would drop him and another guy way behind enemy lines, and then they would have to work their way out and they would get back. If they made it back, they would tell them what they saw. And he said, �We�d have to travel by night.� And he goes, �During the day, you know, there�s bugs and all the rest of the stuff.� But he said, �You�d be there and you�d be trying to sleep during the day.� And all of a sudden, Viet Cong come through and he said, �If we moved, they were going to

kill us.� You know? So it was this constant terror. And he said, we would go through this and it would take us a week or two to make our way back to the base and to tell them what we saw. And he goes, and so then what they would do is they would give us about the same equivalent time, they would give us two or three weeks. They would fly us to Hawaii and we would indulge in every kind of hedonistic thing you can imagine for two weeks. Then we come back and it starts all over again.

They take us into this insane thing, dropping us way behind enemy lines and trying to find our way out without being killed. And I thought, man, the stuff that they did to people in that war that was absolutely unnecessary, that they had absolutely no interest in winning, because again, they would just abandon these places that they took over. It was just insane and yet that's our policy. That's our Pentagon policies, insanity. Again, you know, they're evil people. Yeah. And not the brightest cats either, just to make that clear. Yeah, yeah that's the thing we always, the mistake that we make is to underestimate their technology that other people have created for them and then to overestimate their morality because they're just not normal. You talked about the golf of Tonkin.

What the hell are we doing over there? What's the Vietnamese doing in the golf of Mexico? The golf of America, Gerald, what's the matter with you? Oh, I forgot. I'm sorry. Don't report me. You'll not be able to get any White House press credentials because of that. You know, that's, you'll be banned. Isn't it insane? What is going on? Well, if we had more time, I would talk to

you about this big crypto grift that's going on with Eric Trump and the son of Witkoff. I forget what the Witkoff's name is but you know real estate buddy of Donald Trump. I do use Jerkoff. It's an amazing thing because you've got a foreign government that is going to be using their stablecoin to get two billion dollars worth of stuff you know stored and and they're operating as a bank. You know, Eric Trump said banks are going to be gone in 10 years because what they're doing is they're setting up his company and stablecoin as a bank. You put this stuff on deposit with them and then they put it out and make money off it.

So they're going to make tens or hundreds of millions of dollars off of this two billion dollars that are there. And everybody want and the New York Times talking about it saying this is just unbelievable the amount of in-your-face corruption that is there. I wish we had time to talk about that. We'll talk about that maybe next time when you come on. We're just about out of time and I want to thank on Rumble. We have Talman916. Thank you very much for the tip. He says, happy belated birthday David, my dad's birthday is tomorrow, also turning 70. Well, that's great.

And so happy birthday to your dad. Tell him I said that. Today's your birthday? No, my birthday was on Wednesday when I had my 2000th show. And so I turned 70 on Wednesday and we had show number 2000 on Wednesday. So it was kind of interesting.

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