The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | Guest: President Donald Trump | 8/26/26

Episode Date: August 26, 2026

Glenn brings on President Donald Trump to discuss a variety of issues, including the death of Dolly Parton, the CIA director flying to Russia, the potential death of the ayatollah, and the rise of Islam and what we can do to stop it in America. President Trump also discusses the affordability crisis hitting America, the lowering of beef prices, and the state of Israel under his presidency. Glenn shares how he and his wife reacted to Dolly Parton's death and why people like Dolly Parton are rare in today's society. Glenn goes through all the ways Dolly made the country better and highlights how she treated everybody with kindness and love. Younger generations argue that President Trump isn't doing enough to fix the economy, but Glenn lays out why he believes that view is inaccurate. Glenn gives the history lesson that he would share with the president. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Well, we begin the podcast with President Donald Trump. He joined the show today, and it was a fascinating conversation. I mean, really. We barely got off the air today and already all the news reports out of what he said, because he said a lot. You don't want to miss that full interview in its context. Also, what I would tell the president about what he is doing. He is building something for 20 years or 100 years down the road and not really, people don't understand it. And I learned something when I was walking the streets of Paris, France last week or two weeks ago. And as I started learning this stuff, I was like, oh my gosh, that is exactly what's happening now. We have been here before and it didn't end well. And the president needs to know about it.

And so do you. And I give you that information. Also, my thoughts on Dolly Parton. all that and more on today's podcast. You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck program. I guess I'm going all socialist today because I'm going to blow off all of our commercials, except I'm going to be paying for it so it's not. Well, I guess that is how socialism works.

But we have to blow off our commercials here because we have President Donald J. Trump joining us in just a couple of seconds. These are terrifying times right now. There are calls for Sharia law all across the Western world. it feels like there's a foreign occupation that is happening in parts of America, war with Iran, prices are still biting at the checkout line. Marxists are exploiting this crisis in every way possible. It's easy to forget where we were just two years ago.

So before we get to the president, let me just recap what has happened this week. Monday, Supreme Court cleared the way for the president's mail-in ballot order to take effect before the midterm six to three. Homeland Security can build a federal citizen. citizenship list and send it to the states while the attorney general can prioritize the prosecutions of officials who give ballots to ineligible voters. Also, the State Department. The State Department is moving to revoke the tourist and business visas of up to 200,000 people who came as visitors and then filed for asylum, the largest action in American history. 14 days this month, in 14 days, ICE arrested

almost 1,500 people in Virginia and Maryland alone, including 400 with convictions and pending charges for crimes from sexual battery, kidnapping robbery, attempted murder, rape, MS-13 members, one of the most successful operations ever. Also, this week, we find out State Department is removing the, is moving to revoke the tourist and business visas of up to 200,000 people who came as visitors. Let's see. Meanwhile, we find out ICE arrests surged nearly 50,000 in July highest monthly total. Homeland Security also proposed $103,000 fee on capped H-1B visa petitions. And then the economic news. This one's huge. Philadelphia Fed's manufacturing survey showed American factories having the strongest current conditions in more than five years. But more striking, the manufacturers, their expectations for the future, surged to the highest level since the beginning of the Reagan boom in 19. 1983 with the biggest one jump ever recorded. In other words, American manufacturing isn't surviving. It may be on the verge of a major... We're going to build things in America again, and nobody thought that was possible,

with the exception of our guest. That's all in one week, one. And the man responsible is President Donald J. Trump. Mr. President, welcome. Last night, we found out that... It does sound a little exhaustic as you... As you're going over that list. I'm getting exhausted.

I know. I don't know how you do it. I know. Last night we found out that we found out that Dolly Parton passed away and you did something and I actually wrote this in my diary last night before I heard what you did.

I said, I feel like she's kind of like I feel about her the way I felt about Queen Elizabeth. She was just such class. And I felt like we should lower our flags. And for the first time in history, you said we should lower our flags and you declared that our flags should be at half staff. That's never been done before.

Why'd you do it for her? Is that was never done for an entertainer before? Is that what you mean? Yeah, never. We've done this, you know, lowering. But as I understand it, I've heard that from a couple of people. I'm a little surprised. But she was unique.

I mean, she was amazing. And to lose her, it's like you lose a member of the family. You know, we all knew her so well. I knew a little bit. She wasn't a very political person. She really liked me, I will tell you, but she also wanted to say very, you know, she was of the opinion, you know, the 50%

who needs to lose? I don't think it's 50. I think it's probably 20% of the fans, okay, not 50. But she was a great person, and she was just a nice person. You know, I like her a lot. And I thought it was a natural thing to lower the flags. Can we put something to rest here?

because the speculation is crazy. The CIA director, ours, is in Russia. Rumors are saying Putin is going to test NATO resolve all the way to speculation that is crazy. He's going to strike England all the way to this is maybe the U.S. telling them about the Iranian sanctions saying we're serious about him. Can you tell me why our CIA director flew in the middle of the night to meet with the Russians? Well, none of the above. he's there on, you know, very sort of semi-routine.

I hate to disappoint people. We would like to see the war with Ukraine end. That's a war would have never started, Glenn of our president. That's one of the negatives of not having it done that way. I think this way has actually turned out to be bigger in many ways, but you wouldn't have had the war with Ukraine and you wouldn't have had 25 million people coming into our country like they did,

just come in like we were a bunch of fools. who was so sad. But they, you know, 20, and I think the number is higher than 25, frankly. But they came in from prisons, and they were drug dealers, and they were murderers and everything else, and they poured into our country. You wouldn't add that. But you would not have had the war in Ukraine. John Ratcliffe is a fantastic guy.

He's the head of the CIA, and he is not in there for any of the things that you said. Now, something may come out of it. We're working very hard to get that war ended. And frankly, they both want to see. had ended at this point. The Atlantic of all places is reporting and this is starting to become a commonplace that the Ayatollah

is dead. Is the Ayatollah dead and is there a way to win this war? I mean really win this war and have them unconditionally surrender without

the people rising up who don't have any guns. So is he dead? and where are we on the war? I don't think he's dead. He was very seriously wounded, the left side of his body, the arm, the leg, the whole thing. He was very seriously wounded,

but I don't think he's dead. And if he is, they're putting on a pretty good show because they talk about, you know, going back to talk to him all the time, you know, to get a final blessing on things. But, you know, you make a deal with them, It's like not the,

it's not the most honorable group, I will tell you that. And, you know, we have the straight open. We took out 22 boats last night. We have people coming in

the blockade. Our Navy has been unbelievable. Our military has been unbelievable, the combination, but, and our financial strength,

we built it up so much like you wouldn't believe in a year and a half. Our financial strength is unbelievable. And those things are going toward a very big victory. We had the victory

in Venezuela. and we're going to have a big victory here very soon. Can we, I mean, because these people are not, it's not like you're negotiating with Western-minded people. These people want chaos and death and everything else. Ken, has there been any talk anywhere of anybody, and not saying us, supplying the people with the ability to fire back? Because you've got to get the 80% of the people to stand up.

foresee them being able to stand up in the future and finish this regime? Right. They say they're so surprised that the people aren't fighting back. But Glenn, if you were in that position, and you're a brave guy. I've been a fan of years for a long time. You're a brave guy, but I don't think you'd be standing out there when they have a machine gun nest, but you know, they have really snipers at the tops of buildings, and people go out to protest, and they get hit, and they don't have to hit many. But when you see five or six or ten people go down and you have 100,000 or 200,000 people, they leave.

I don't care who you are. They leave. And it's very hard to protest when you have people that are willing to shoot you and kill you. And that's why they're not protesting. And there is a chance because they have become very much weakened. You know, their Navy is, as you know, totally gone. Their Air Force is totally gone. they're not their soldiers many of their soldiers aren't being paid they have 300 i think 300 i heard 90

i heard i think it's 300 percent inflation their their monetary their money is is almost valueless now i mean they're not doing very well and you know i would have to and i could have told you the same thing not as strongly but two months ago three months ago and i'd have to read the new york times saying how well they're doing they're not They're not actually saying that anymore, which is hard to believe. I'm surprised they don't continue to say it. But, you know, there was so much fake news for that. Because right from the beginning, from the B-2 bombers a little more than a year ago,

where we knocked out the nuclear to the present, we have really dominated, really truly dominated. We are, we have so many enemies, I feel, like inside our own gates. We have the DSA and we have Islam, the red-green alliance, something I put up on chalkboard when I was at Fox. And I said, this is going to happen. And everybody said that they'll never work together. And that's exactly what's happening. Would you push for or sign a no-sharia law act for America? And when it comes to the Marxists, what advice do you have for the GOP to begin to relate to the people who feel like they're

is an affordability crisis in America, especially for the youth. And the Marxists are playing on that and exploiting all of that. What advice do you have? Yeah, I would say two things. Number one on Sharia law, I would absolutely say that's not this country. It's no Sharia law. And you do have pockets of it, as you know. I would say no. And you go to London, you go to Paris. It's almost like a second way of life. It's ridiculous. And I would absolutely. be on your side on that, on a lot of other people's side, too, because, you know, you and I have people that I think we're more based on common sense that we are in ideology. It's all about good politics is all about common sense anyway, but I would absolutely prohibit the Sharia law

thing. And it is happening in this country a little bit. And while we see it, we take it out, and you have to take it out. You have one system. We have a great system. sometimes it's very frustrating, but it's the best there is that I can see. As far as the affordability. So affordability is interesting because the Democrats caused affordability. I took over everything was high. We had the highest inflation in history. They say 48 years, so either one.

But we had the highest inflation in the history of our country. Prices were at the highest. You look at the oil and gas. you look at groceries. You look at eggs. Remember, I took it over. Eggs were five times higher than they were four years before. And we've gotten them down very, very substantially.

And prior to the war, prior to what we're doing with Iran, which I think will be ending fairly soon, you could really say, you know, because the strait is open. We take a lot of ships through the straight now. We're taking them in. The mines are gone. You probably saw that we put it out yesterday, all the mines. we got rid of the minds, but the straight, it's functioning, it's a functioning straight. Yes, every once in a while, there'll be a drone or a rocket or something shot,

but it is a very functioning straight. A lot of oil is pouring out, 10 million gallons, 10 million barrels yesterday. But as far as affordability, when I was just prior to saying, we have to go down and we have to do this, I met with my people. We just had record stock market. And I said, you know, we're going to have to do a deal. detour, we could not let, it's very simple to me, we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That's what it's all about. It's 99.9%. We cannot let them because they are crazy and they will use it.

And we cannot let them have a nuclear weapon. And we stopped it. I stopped it twice. I stopped it then and I stopped it with the JCPOA. That's the Obama deal that he gave everything. One of the worst deals, one of the most dangerous deals ever said. He gave them a road, a path to a nuclear weapon. That was a path. That wasn't a stoppage. That was a path to a nuclear weapon. And I terminated that, as you know, it was a big deal when I did it.

And they tried to say, like, it was a disaster. They would have had a nuclear weapon five years ago if I didn't. I terminated it in my first term. And so I saved it then. They would have had a nuclear weapon. They would have used it. Israel would have been totally knocked out. They would have knocked out.

There would be, I will say this. if Donald Trump wasn't president, there would be no Israel right now. They would be, and that's a guarantee. There would not be an Israel because they would have had nuclear weapons, and they would have used them immediately. But as far as pricing, the prices are coming down. You know, they came up with that word affordability. So I inherit the worst inflation in history,

and I have my first news conference a day after I win, and the press is screaming at me about prices. And they especially, what about eggs? What about this? I said, I'm only here for one day. Give me a chance. I didn't even know. They're talking about eggs.

They're screaming, I'm going to be about eggs. They said, I just, you know, I just won yesterday. I mean, the whole thing was just absolutely crazy. Actually, it was the first day in, it was on January 21st. I'm having a news conference. I'm there for one day, and they're screaming a year about prices. I inherited a mess. in so many ways. The border, which I solved very quickly. I inherited so many different problems.

This was a bad administration. This was an incompetent administration. But I inherited high prices. And then from the first day, they started using the word affordability. They looked at me, affordability, it was a new word. Nobody ever heard the word. It was a new word that they devised because they're quite good at that. They're not good at running a country, but they're good at, I guess, good at politics. I don't know. They have some awfully bad policy for people like men and women's sports, et cetera. But I inherited affordability. I inherited high prices.

I'll put it a different way. And we've really gotten them down. Now, we have a little bit of an oil. Don't forget, when I did this, people thought the oil would go to $10 a gallon. You know that. But we had to do it. We had to stop them from having a nuclear. weapon and we did. And the prices are coming down very rapidly. And now beef is starting to come down.

You know, the meats, the beef is starting to come down. But prices have come down very, very, very, very simple. I have to tell you, Mr. President, I didn't plan on talking about this and we can get into it a later date. But please, please, when it comes to beef, please look at the cartel that is the meat processing cartel. I mean, that is, I run a ranch, so I know what it's like. And I'm telling you, it is the processing plants. There's four of them, and I think two of them are not even American. It's bad. And they're, I believe they're colluding.

And the ranchers and the farmers haven't done it because they're smart as well. I'm surprised, because that's been going on a long time, Glenn, long before I got here. Help us. Help us. It's so, we can't, we can't butcher with all of the federal regulations. is it is really hard. You know, if there's something you can do to help. Glenn, is that just a question of regulation?

Do you think? A lot of it is. Yeah, a lot of it is. The inspections are insane. So they make the regulations so tough that, so could you do it? If you didn't have those regulations, could you do it on your ranch?

Yes. And is that the way to do it? Or do you think you need some pretty strong regulations? Yes. Break the back, break the back of those processing plants. There's people that want to build processing plants everywhere. The regulations are killing us, just killing us. So you're saying with less regulation, you think that the ranchers and farmers would do a very good job of processing the beef?

Yes. Wow. Yes. I know. I know. I know. I've been hearing about this problem for 20 years I've been hearing about this problem. free your people.

Let our people go. Let your people go. You know what? This could be a very good call for ranchers and forth. That would be good. No, I've been hearing only bad about it's four places and it's a monopoly. It is. And who's controlling those regulations?

Department of Agriculture. Yes. An FDA. And the FDA. Or is it USDA? I can't remember which one of them. But it's the first. It's the federal regular.

It's all the inspections. It's all the inspections. Mr. President, I've got to get to one more question. Canada. This is a very big thing you just tell me, though. Because you just gave me a very good idea. Okay, good. Good.

Very good. I love the call. I love this call. Can you tell me quickly about Canada? I mean, it seems to me they had a really good deal, but this is all about the elections and throwing our elections. What is happening? Is there a way to end this?

Look, I don't know how you feel about Canada. They are one of the worst countries in the world to deal with. And this has gone on for many years. Wait, wait, wait. Can we say this? I love Canadians and Canada. I do not like their administration. Okay, well, the administration, and the previous administration, too, is terrible. Yes, yes, yes, yes.

But they have taken advantage of the United States for many decades, actually. They charge tariffs that are unbelievable, like on milk. 400% and I just said we're taking them on and I took them on at the beginning but we had so many other things to do because the country is a mess but I said we're going to take them on we're going to stop it and you saw the Lake Ontario you know people thought I was kidding maybe I wasn't because the last one you saw is the Gulf of Mexico is Gulf of America I know I know Now we have a golf and we have a lake, okay? You know, it's very simple.

But look, I don't want to go to great detail because it may be boring to people, but to me it's simple. They charge tariffs. They take advantage of us as though they were a state and they're not a state. And they've taken our car industry and they've taken our agriculture industry. You know, the farmers can't sell anything in there because the tariffs are so enormous. And yet they want to sell in us without any tax. I had a deal. That was a pretty good deal, you know, quite good, because they're afraid that

I won't do any bit. In other words, we won't trade. They don't have anything that we have to have, okay? We can get by. I mean, there are a couple of things that would make it a little inconvenient, but we could get them elsewhere. And it's time to teach Canada. You can't do this anymore. We lose $60 billion, and really more than that, $60 billion a year with Canada. Mr. President. I can't do that. I can't believe. I have to say this to you. I have a network break. You could hold on, but I know you're busy. I so appreciate your time, sir. I am sorry that we're on a network break. You are terrific. And thank you for the painting. That was so beautiful the picture. You're welcome.

That was so. Thank you, sir. You are fantastic. Thank you very much. And I'll talk to you soon. You bet. You bet. Bye-bye. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Hello, America. It's Glenn Beck. And as a gun owner, I understand the importance of being prepared. and I know that many of you share this same outlook, it's crucial to recognize 99% of all altercations do not require lethal force. That's why Berna is here, the leader in less lethal self-defense. Berna, less lethal self-defense platform,

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She came in and I could tell something big had happened. And she said, Dolly Parton just passed away. Now she's 80 years old. It's not a surprise, but it's sad because she was amazing. She was truly amazing. Here's what her family said they just released this. As her head of security for more than two decades, a role my father Larry held before me, I have imagined the heaviness of this moment but haven't truly felt it until now.

It is an honor, an honor that is mixed with absolute pride and great sadness. But sadness lies with us, not with Dolly. Dolly has lived in the light and is in the arms of Jesus, surely met by Carl, her parents, and countless others who have watched her and longed for her to meet them in the heavens. I first went on the road with Dolly as a kid, getting a taste of the road life in the early 1980s. Dolly opened doors not just for me, but for her entire family to reach the potential we didn't even know was possible. Dolly also opened doors for generations of singers, songwriters, musicians, and dreamers from every walk of life, and across every continent.

By her example, we believe that anything was possible. You know, the flag over the White House said half-staff now, stays there until sunset on the 1st of September, every federal building, every embassy, every naval station, everywhere. Dolly Parton would have turned that down. Had anybody asked her, she would have said, no, no, no, no, no, no. Because that's who she was. That's what she did. Do you know that the Trump administration offered her the Medal of Freedom?

the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It's the highest civilian award to be given. She said no. The Biden administration offered her the same thing. She said no. And she said, you know, if I take it, then I'd be doing politics. And she didn't want to do that. And I so respect her for that.

Tennessee moved a bill through committee to put a statue of her on the capital grounds in Tennessee. She said, please, please kill this. Please don't do that. Quote, given all that's going on in the world, I don't think putting me on a pedestal is appropriate. Who does that? At her stature, who does that? Dolly Parton. You may remember the Emmys in 2017.

Remember the three girls from 9 to 5 came out together to present an award? It was Dolly. It was Lily Tomlin, and I think Jane Fonda. And Fonda and Tomlin used the moment. And they talked about it before, and Dolly said, don't do it. Don't do it. Please don't do this. Back in 1980, Fonda said, we refused to be controlled by a sexist egotistical, lying, hypocritical, bigot.

And in 2017, Tomlin said, we still refuse. The room roared, everybody, you know, of course, they're talking to the room. And Dolly stood there, in the middle, on live television. Now, what would you have done? She asked her friends not to do that. What does she do? She pointed to her chest and she said, well, I know something. about support and the room roared, okay, took the air out of all of it.

She didn't correct her friends. She didn't lecture her friends. She didn't scold them. She didn't distance herself. She just declined to be a soldier in somebody else's war. And she did it with such grace that half the audience never noticed anything to even happen. She was asked about it afterward, and she said, I just don't, I don't voice my political opinions.

I get out there and I entertain. I don't condemn my friends. I don't condemn anybody. I just entertain. That's not cowardice. That's a job. The man who wrote that job description wrote it 160 years ago.

His name was Walter Baggett. He was an English editor. And he wrote a book about how his country actually worked instead of how the textbooks said it did. And he said, every stable nation has two halves. The efficient half, the ministers, the parliament, and the people who argue and pass laws and run the place, and the dignified half.

That's the part that governs nothing at all. The part that just exist to love and be loved. The efficient half does the work, and I would argue that they're not so efficient, but it can never hold a country together because the half of the country hates who's ever in charge at any given moment. The dignified half is the thing that people

who agree on nothing else can still agree on. that's Dolly Parton's whole life. You know, in England, they don't bring the queen into combat politics. Okay. She's just in another combatant. And I don't think there was anybody better as a queen than Queen Elizabeth. She was so classy at all times, so classy. I think the royal family, a piece of garbage, quite honestly.

But she was great. And I felt when Dolly died, she was our queen. Elizabeth, you know? Queen Elizabeth, 70 years on the throne, and not one living soul ever know how she voted or whether she even did. And it cost her.

There were things that she wanted to say that she never said. But that was the deal. Does America have a dignified half? No crown, no throne, nothing built into the system to hold the affection of the people who can't stand each other.

We don't have that queen. That was the role of the queen. I don't think Charles is going to be able to do it and the royal family can't do it anymore, but she did. But that was something she was born into. Dolly volunteered. She earned that place. That's what's so remarkable about Dolly Parton. Do you know that she wrote the song, I will always love you? She wrote that as a goodbye song to Port Wagner Wagner. And she wrote it in the 70s. And Elvis came to her.

And, you know, Dolly was young. She was a young songwriter. And Elvis Presley comes to her and says, I love that song. I will always love you. I want to do it. And she was going to stand in the studio and watch him sing her song. Biggest thing that had ever happened to her. And the night before the session, Colonel Tom Parker calls her and says,

we don't we don't we don't we don't Elvis doesn't record anything unless he gets half the publishing and she's 28 years old okay and she's like uh no and everybody around her said you're out of your mind it's Elvis Presley what are you doing she said no she said she went home she cried all night but she said something in my heart says don't do it 18 years later Whitney Houston cuts that song for the bodyguard and it becomes one of the best-selling singles in the history of the world. Dolly still owned every word. She said, later she said, she joked and she said, it made me enough money I could buy Grace Lynn.

What she actually said about it was this. You have to take care of your business. Everyone's going to use you if they can. Dolly Parton is underestimated. A woman for six decades. underestimated. And she let them. She wrote her own song. She kept her own copyright. She built a theme park in the poorest corner of East Tennessee, put a whole county to work. And her, one of her phrases, she joked that it would be on her tombstone. It costs a lot of money to look

this cheap. And everybody laughed at the wig. She quiet, you know, she would wear and she was quietly behind the scenes assembling one of the biggest business empires in American entertainment. she says, I'm a workhorse that looks like a show horse. Look what she did with it. Do you know her father couldn't read? Robert Lee Parton was his name. He worked farms in construction his entire life. Never learned to read or write.

And he was ashamed of it. My grandfather was the same. He couldn't read. Couldn't read. It was absolutely ashamed of it. So in 1995, Dolly started mailing free books to every child in her home county. from birth to age five. No income test, rich or poor, a book with your name on it. Over 300 million books since. Three million a month, all over the world. The children called her the book lady. She said no honor has meant more to her than that.

She said, if I'm a remembered 100 years from now, I hope it'll be not for looks, but for books. When fire tore through Gatlinburg in 2016, her foundation sent every family that lost a home $1,000 a month for six months. No strings. When COVID hit, she gave a million dollars to a friend's lab at Vanderbilt and helped them fund the early research. She never announced it as a cause. She went asked about it because she never brought it up. I just wanted to do some good.

And my favorite, because this shows how her mind worked, she offered every seventh and eighth grader in her county, $500 for graduating high school. But this time there was a string. There was a catch to it. You had to pick a buddy, and you only got paid if your buddy graduated to. They don't make them like Dolly Parton anymore. That's the whole gospel, according to Dolly Parton. Nobody gets out alone. Her explanation was always really super.

simple. I just see a need and if I can fill it, I will. People, I think, that don't know who Dolly Parton was, think the rhinestones. You know, they see the sparkle and that was the whole story. It wasn't. She was one of 12 children, a one-room cabin. The doctor who delivered her was paid with a sack of cornmeal. There was an abandoned church that was just down the hill. Windows busted out, wrecked piano, filthy words scrawled on the walls right next to the Bible verses that were still hanging there. Other kids went there to drink. Dolly went to that church, in that condition, to pray. She said, in that ruined little church is where God finally broke through and I found God, not out of fear,

not because a preacher scared me into it, but on my terms, I found God. I had found Dolly Parton, and I loved them both. She built a chapel on her own landlators. She stayed married to the same man for 59 years, a man who wanted. wanted no part of any of this stuff, guarded their privacy for all 60 years. He died last spring. She recently said she was still talking to him.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose. Storms make trees take deeper roots. If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain. She didn't just say those things. She lived every one of them. 11 days ago she was supposed to be at Dollywood in person opening the biggest ride they've ever built She couldn't make the trip

She sent a video instead In full sparkle pair of butterfly wings flapping behind her The butterfly has been her sign Since she was a little girl in those mountains Her Nashville doctor said Mm-mm you can't go She said My doctor clipped my wings

So I couldn't travel this week And then she said My little butterfly wings are getting kind of tired That was 11 days ago She was still working Still turning it into a joke Still not asking a soul to worry about her Or feel bad for her anyway

She never held an office Never commanded anything Never cast a vote anybody knew about And she turned down every honor This country tried to hand to her The biggest medal Three times and the statue But today our flags come down anyway

It's the one honor she can't decline And she earned it I think America is a little darker than it was yesterday, just a little bit. But I'm not going to spend my day praying about the loss. I'm going to spend time giving thanks. That we had the opportunity to witness that special light, that talent, that kindness, that we don't see very often. That little girl born in a cabin paid for with a bag of cornmeal

became the last thing left in this country that nearly all of us could still agree to love. But her spirit doesn't die because it was never on. only hers, it's ours. It is quintessentially, stubbornly, gloriously American. And somewhere, in some little town nobody's ever heard of, there's a little girl who nobody's ever heard of, who with God's help will grow up with that talent, that kindness, that intellect, that grace of Dolly Parton. Maybe all of us should honor Dolly Parton today by just making sure that that little girl has some books to read. More in a minute. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

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already knows. But it revolves around this. I have told you what the president is doing. What the president is doing is laying a foundation for another century of America. He is not putting tape around the plumbing. That's why you're not feeling the impact today that you might have felt in 2017. What he did is he did simple things, move this lever, move this letter. But then when he got out of office, they just moved all those levers back and it was over and then it got worse. So he has to fix and tear all the plumbing that is broken and been taped up, got to tear it all out, put new plumbing in, new foundation, and rebuild the house for a new generation and a new century. And here's why you have this that just came out this week. The Philadelphia Fed's manufacturing survey showed American

factories are having their strongest current conditions in more than five years. Factories. Remember, we don't build things. More striking than that, manufacturers expectations for the future. This means you call the factory and you say, hey, what do you think is happening in the future? You're going to get better, worse, or about the same? It's off the charts with them saying, oh, it's going to get much better.

In fact, it is at the highest level since the beginning of the Reagan boot. in 1983. It's also the biggest one-month jump ever recorded. In other words, manufacturers are going, we're going to start building things in America again. I know it. Okay?

Now, you haven't felt that yet. This is them saying, this is what's coming. But you're not feeling it yet. You're still at the grocery store line, paying your bills. And, you know, maybe you're,

maybe if you're lucky, you know, your pay is keeping up a little bit, but most likely not. Okay. So let me tell you what I learned. Because a factory that, you know, was announced this year makes its first part in 2029. So you're going to build a factory? That's it.

2029, that's when the door is open. A data center today, breaking ground this month, draws power in 2029. 2008 and pays for itself around 2034. A drilling permit shows up at the pump in two years, maybe. A restructured NATO, a new security architecture in the Middle East, Western Hemisphere rebuilt as a center of gravity for the next hundred years. That's what's actually happening. But you're not feeling any of it because it's generational work.

20 years before a man in Ohio can look at his life and say, oh, that's what all of that was for. Now, look at the calendar the people that are building all of this stuff live on. Midterms in 90 days. Presidential election in two years. Let's give the president the benefit of the doubt for just a second. Assume that the manufacturing base has come home. Because we all know if it doesn't come home, we lose the century.

assume the energy and the compute is ours and China doesn't write the rules for artificial intelligence and everything downstream of it. Assume the alliances were built for a world that ended. Assume every bit of everything that Donald Trump is doing is correct. It can all be correct and still cost him everything. And here's where we have been. Here's why I know we've been here before, okay? because it happened to the man who built the most beautiful city on earth. First time I've ever been over in Paris,

I brought my kids over to do some homework, and boy, did they hear about the Paris communes. They love traveling with dad. But anyway, I'm walking down the streets of Paris, and I'm noticing the architecture, and I'm noticing that the boulevards are really, really wide, and all of the buildings look like they were built around the same time. It's not like a hodgepodge of, oh, this was built, you know,

in 1700 or 1500 and this one was built tomorrow. It's all pretty much locked in. All the parts of Paris that you know and you think about, it's all from the same time period. So I started asking questions. I started doing my homework. Louis Napoleon, he spent his exile in London. And what he noticed when he was in London,

now this is Napoleon's son, not the palaces. He noticed the parks. he noticed the sewers. He noticed the clean water. He noticed the wide streets. He comes home and he takes the throne. And in 1853, he hires a guy named Hausman. Before he hired him, he had already taken the map of Paris himself and just redrew the whole thing. Okay. He redrew the streets. He said, we're getting rid of these entire neighborhoods. I mean, everything you think about as Paris today, was this guy. And he drew it out on a map by hand, and then he colored in different colors. This is what I want first. This is what comes second. The Paris in 1853 that he comes home to is hard to picture. You could go down the street and you could touch both sides of the street. You could touch the buildings on both sides. Okay. Drinking water was pulled right out of the sand downstream of the city's own sewage. So cholera was a big, Colora killed 20,000 people in 1832, then came back and killed, I don't know, another 20,000 in 1849. So they go to work.

17 years of work. 20,000 buildings were torn down. 34,000 went up in 17 years. He hired a guy to build aqueducts 100 miles out for spring water. He laid some 350 miles. miles of sewer. Coloura stopped. Parks were ordered. And not just like in New York where it's Central Park, these are massive parks and not just in the rich places. The great one on the east side went up at an abandoned Egyptian, a gypsum quarry. It was used as a garbage dump.

At the height of this, one in five working people in Paris were working on construction. Okay. So let's look at what they got. They got clean water, parks for the poor, work for the workers, boulevards that the whole world flies in to sea. It's the most beautiful city in the world. And all of these beautiful apartments and everything else. The neighborhoods came down. The old neighborhoods where everybody was living came down. This is the key I want you to listen to. The new apartments were renting for money that nobody had. Okay. So they moved east. And Paris sorted itself by class in a way it never had before. Also, dust for 17 years. That was a problem. They tore down the neighborhoods as they were going. And so everything was torn up for 17 years. And all the financing was done off the books, which handed the enemy a weapon. 1868, a politician named Jules Ferry. He publishes a pamphlet mocking the accounts. well, it landed and Houseman was fired in 1870. Four months later, Napoleon III put himself to a national vote and he won about five to one.

So he was okay. The country said yes, but Paris, the ones who were living in it, and remember this is a countrywide project in our time, they said no. That July, the war came with Prussia. By September, he was captured and the empire was finished. He died in England without ever seeing the amazing opera house that he was. ordered built. Then the Republic that replaced him spent 50 years finishing his plans, every single one of them. So he was right, but he lost anyway. Why? Because the cost of a rebuild are immediate, personal, and addressed to you the citizen by name. The benefits are slow,

they're thin, and they mostly belong to strangers who arrive later. If you're paying for the Boulevard, you're most likely not going to be the one that walks on it. You get the dust. Your grandson gets the boulevard. Now watch what filled the hole that he left. Because remember, what Trump is doing is he's building this grand thing, just like in Paris. But the people aren't feeling it yet, just like in Paris. So what happens in Paris? 1871. The war is lost. The city is starving. and the new government in Versailles announces that the rent is going to be suspended during the siege. Anything that's due right now, it's suspended. Pond shops, you have to resume selling what people pledged.

Paris starts to rise up. In 10 weeks, the commune governed by the city, and look what that's commune did for 10 weeks. Okay. Rent owned from October forward, all forgiven. Commercial debts postponed. Interest canceled. Pond shops were ordered return the tools, return the bedding, the clothing, the linen worth 20 francs or less. Give it back to those people for free because the working people had pawned their own tools to eat. Night work in the bakeries abolished. Factories abandoned by their owners handed to worker cooperative. There was a rent freeze, debt cancellation, cheaper bread. You read the list. Tell me you haven't heard this in English from a man who's just won the mayor's race.

Okay? For 10 weeks, it worked. It was real. A man walked into a pawn shop, walked out with his own hammer. That's not nothing. And pretending it was nothing is why we lose the argument. But then the bill came in one week. It was May 21st to the 28th.

the retreating communards, which I love that, because it just implies so much, but the communards torched the palace of justice and the Hotel de Ville and the city's entire archive in it. The army didn't rest without artillery. About a quarter of Paris was damaged, six thousand six hundred dead. Credible estimates are much higher than that.

43,000 people arrested, thousands deported to a penal quality in the South Pacific. Where did the Army do its finishing work? Not in the rich districts. Mm-mm. Nope. In the east. A place called Belleville.

The last of the barricades. The neighborhoods that had gotten the rent forgiveness paid for that in full. And the ones that paid the most were the ones that had cheered the last. There was a painter Gustav Corbe, and he was overseeing the pulling down of the column at, you know, some big palace. Anyway, the government sent him the bill for putting it back. 323,000 francs, 10,000 a year until he was about 91. Well, he fled. He ran to Switzerland. He died in December of 1877. That was the day before the first payment was due. That guy's dead.

So the point on that is somebody always is getting the bill, but it's never the guy who gave the speech. He died. Didn't we just see this movie in 2020? Roughly 1,500 businesses damaged in Minneapolis, St. Paul, $500 million. Something like 60% of it uninsured. Most of it along an immigrant-owned corridor on Lake Street. Four years later, it's half rebuilt. The neighborhood that was burned in the name of the people who live there is still not whole. So let's put these two things together because they're the same city 10 months apart. There are the things now on the ballot right now. One side is offering a 100-year project. That's Donald Trump. You want to own the next century?

Here's what we have to do. And he's doing it. But it's dust now, boulevards later. And people, it's not that you're not going to live to. see the ribbon cut. You will, you'll live to see the ribbon cut, but you're not feeling it. Nobody's telling you what we're building. On the other side, the other side is offering you free rent. I'm going to forgive your rent this month. I'm going to give you free food. I'm going to make your grocery so cost effect. And it's real for about 10 weeks. This is what makes it so dangerous.

Because it's not that a lie. It's a lie. It works for a very short period of time and the ruin arrives on delay and it arrives on the people who cheered. How do you beat? You're not going to have to worry about your rent. How are you going to beat that with your grandson is going to work in a factory? Logically, your grandson is going to work in a factory should work, but it won't. Okay? This is the best of the Glenn Beck program and we really want to thank you for listening. Here's a question that I want you to ask yourself. If someone in your family got sick tomorrow or there was a medication shortage or a natural

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