The Trish Regan Show - BREAKING: Trump's Pentagon Just NUKED NATO — Italy’s Meloni LOSING U.S. Troops & Cash?!

Episode Date: June 18, 2026

Trump's Pentagon just dropped a BOMB on NATO — and Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is about to pay the price. But, she’s not the only one… The Pentagon announced a plan to review all European countries in NATO to see who helped us, who did not. Trump's Pentagon is DONE waiting and hoping for compliance. A full investigation has been launched — and U.S. troops AND cash are being pulled from deadbeat nations. Italy's Meloni is first in the crosshairs. 🔔 Subscribe & hit the bell — this story is MOVING FAST. #TrumpNATO #NATO #TrishRegan #Italy #Meloni #USMilitary #Trump #Pentagon ✅ Help support independent journalism — become a TRISH TEAM member: ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBlMo25WDUKJNQ7G8sAk4Zw/join ✅ Get my newsletter and start investing today! Https://76research.com ✅🔔 CHECK OUT MY NEW SPOTIFY SHOW AND PLEASE SUBSCRIBE FOR FULL DAILY EDITIONS: https://open.spotify.com/show/2blgbg4OaN5dqFhkBy12ii?si=HPdSujPDRrapZWtxbsgAjQ&nd=1&dlsi=979e048c08c04e13 BROUGHT TO YOU, IN PART, BY: https://TrishLovesGoldandSilver.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Wayfair, every style, every home. NATO is finally being forced to grow up. Imagine that. After all these years, what, it's been around since 1949. It's been ballooning from 12 countries into some 32, 33 countries. I mean, they all have their handout. They've all been asking for more, more, more, more, more, more, more. And finally, we have an administration that's willing to stand up to this.

Welcome to the program, everyone. I am Trish Riegan. Make sure you subscribe, share, like. NATO is indeed getting blasted, blasted hard. 33 countries, feeling the heat right now is Pete Hagseth. And as Donald Trump make it clear that we are not about to allow for these countries to not pay their fair share. We have telegraphed this over and over and over again. But today was the first time they got to.

delivered this message by the Department of War Chief in Brussels. I want you to see it. Pete Hackseth, my former colleague over at Fox News, sitting them down and giving them the reality. You got six months to pull it together. We have a list, and we're checking it twice, and we want to know who was willing to cooperate, who wasn't, and what they've done for us lately.

At the same time going forward, our annual NATO job, dues will be contingent on other countries meeting their defense spending targets. Where other allies do not spend with urgency, our dues contributions will go down. NATO will be a two-way street. It's only common sense. America cannot care for or pay more for Europe's defense than our allies do. And this review will think outside the box. our national defense strategy states clearly that we're going to incentivize and enable our allies to step up and do their part.

So we're going to keep a close eye on allies who are not doing that and who say no or maybe or wait and see when it matters most. It's a review that some countries will fail and others will pass with flying colors. In the end, the review is intended to both improve U.S. force posture and basing and strengthen NATO 3.0. It's intended to be constructive, as we have always been. There are no strategic surprises here. There haven't been. I've been clear with all of you since my first remarks to this body in February of 2025. President Trump has always done the same.

our direction of travel is and has been clear. This is the right thing to do by the American people. It's the right thing to do by this alliance. Europe can and must take primary responsibility for its conventional defense as it plagued at the Hague summit. In other words, you guys said you were going to do it for goodness sakes. Yes, signed on to the 5%. And many of you aren't even doing the 2.5%. I mean, for goodness sakes.

is enough is enough. Okay, so now they are making that list. They are checking it twice. And I'm telling you, places like Italy. They're high and dry. I mean, Italy is in trouble. What do you think Marco went over there a couple of weeks ago for to communicate that message to Ms. Georgia Maloney, Signora, per favor, get your act together because we're about to cut you off. And it's not going to be pretty. And Spain, well, you know, you're just a lost cause over there in Spain. We'll talk about Spain. The UK is a mess. I mean, the whole lot of them, for goodness sakes. And so this is effectively like a bomb that just went off right at NATO at Brussels, the precursor meeting to Ankara Turkey happening next month. And they told them, we have a list and we're checking all of you. I mean,

for goodness sakes, you had Donald Trump yesterday at G7. What did he do? He called out Kier Starrmer right there to his face in front of everyone. I mean, I'm telling you, the UK's on this list too. Not while the war was going on. I was a little disappointed. The U.K., I said, it would be nice if you sent ship. I didn't put a hard sell on, but it would be nice if you sent some ships.

And the prime minister said, they'll be there, sir, as soon as the war is over. I said, did you just say that? I couldn't believe it, actually. He did say that. The president has been going on and on and on about this, okay? I mean, ever since back in 2016, when he stood up there in front of him and called them all out for not paying what they needed to pay.

And now he's gotten to the point where he's like, it's so bad, you're still not paying. And on top of not paying, when we need some help, a little bit of help here and there, you won't even give it to us. I mean, we're the ones that have been keeping you afloat so that you can do all the stupid things you've done with all your migration policies, which, by the way, finally, they've just woken up to that one. We'll get to that in the show today too. But I'm telling you, you know what? Times are changing.

You can't do this anymore. You can't stiff us on the check. We are coming and we are collecting. We got our bankers involved, okay? And Pete, you know, he's no slouch. He went to Princeton. And I think, did he go to Harvard too? Anyway, he used to be a banker way back when on Wall Street

before he went to work in the service. But I'll tell you, Pete Heggseth is going to hold them accountable. And if you're not paying, guess what? We're not going to help you out. Because we know you're not going to help us out, which might mean, as the Carnegie Foundation released in its report two days ago, we might actually just bail on NATO altogether. We're going to just start whittling down and whittling down and whittling down everything that we've been giving you. So, yeah, Georgia Maloney, you may want to get with the program. Little Pedrito Sanchez, I think you may be voted out soon, but you might want to get with the program.

UK, forget about why do you think the guy who's the defense minister in the UK stepped down? because he didn't want to meet the wrath of Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio and Whitaker and the rest of them. Let's go back to Pete, Secretary of War, Pete Hagseth, who's making a historical analogy here. In other words, Eisenhower even said it. You know what, this thing, if in 10 years we're still trying to keep it afloat, then we have failed. In other words, we are here to make an independent Europe. And somehow, instead of having an independent Europe, we got a little baby. He was like, you know, still sucking on their thumb and begging mom and dad for everything.

Here we go, Pete. Europe was not supposed to be a dependency of the United States. That's not what Winston Churchill or Charles de Gaul or Conrad Adanauer wanted or expected. No, Europe was supposed to be a military power allied with a strong America. This is the essence of NATO 1.0. as Dwight Eisenhower himself said as early as 1951, if in 10 years, all American troops stationed in Europe for national defense purposes have not been returned to the United States, then this whole process will have failed. Eisenhower was Supreme Allied commander then, not yet our nation's 34th president, but he and his allied counterparts, all of them still living in the shadow of World War II, understood that NATO's power did not come from committees or from meetings or from

small flags on fancy tables. It came from warriors. And for Europe's defense, it had come from NATO allies. That was NATO 1.0. A hard-edged war-fighting organization focused on Europe's defense. But that spirit faded. Yeah, you better believe it faded. At some point, it just turned into, give me, give me, give me.

And we're like, okay, how big a check do you need today? I mean, and then, you know, Ukraine happened and everything. The checks get bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. And at some point, we've got to say, okay, we got other places to focus, other things that we need to pay attention to. We get an Indo-Pacific region that could, you know, become problematic, shall we say. Hopefully not. But we need to keep some powder dry, right?

We've got the Middle East that we've got to worry about. I mean, we've obviously been worrying about. We're the only ones worrying about it, for goodness sakesh. And so, yeah, Pete Hagseth is right. This is not what was intended. Somehow we lost our way. And Trump's been telling them over and over and over again. You know what, you guys, you screwed up.

And you're going to pay the price. And that day has now come. We spend trillions of dollars supporting countries. And this is Little League. This isn't the big league deal. This is a sort of Little League pool for us. weren't there. So if there's ever a big one, which I hope there's not, but if there's ever a big one, I don't think they're going to be there. And that's not fair. And we have to remember that as a

country, because we spend trillions of dollars protecting Europe, protecting the countries of NATO. They weren't there for us for small time. This is small time. So what makes you think they'd be there if we needed them for some? They wouldn't be. I don't think. I mean, I, I, I mean, I, I think it's pretty obvious when France won't even let you fly over their airspace. When you got a nice base right down there in Stigonella, in Sicilia, Sicily, right? And George Maloney's like, huh, sorry, can't let you. And then Spain's coming out and just telling you that this whole war is flat out illegal. And the UK's like, as Donald Trump said, despite being our oldest ally, what does it say?

Well, gee, we'll help you when the war is over. Okay. It doesn't do as much good right then. No, no, no, no. Matt Whitaker, too. Whitaker telling him he's the ambassador to NATO, you guys better get your, you know what together. LU is, you know, we've been in overdrive here diplomatically pushing our allies both here in Brussels and across capitals in Europe and in the Middle East to convince everybody. Unfortunately, it took some convincing that this is more important to them than it is the United States. I mean, you know, we get very little, if any, oil through those straight-of-form moves. It certainly is affecting, you know, the oil prices, the United States.

But that's one of the great things that President Trump was able to do is to make America energy independent. And that independence, obviously, guarantees our supply. Now, you know, we have. They don't have any energy. They completely predicated their entire success model upon cheap natural gas from Russia. Oh, gee, that really worked out for you, right? Remember Miracle? Angela Merkel, and what did Donald Trump say to her?

You know, you guys ought to diversify away from Russia. Did they know? Okay? So Merkel made that mistake. You got all of Europe following in her footsteps with those mistakes. The other mistakes she made, let's face it, was on immigration. A big, big mistake. She brought all those people in from Syria and other parts of the Middle East.

And now you get a mess in Germany to the point where now the entire European Union, parliament just voted to say we're going to send the illegals home. I mean, what a reversal. You understand, guys, that this is like America first taken over the world. This is responsibility taking over the world. This is the reality that you know what? You've got to look after Numeruono. And once you look after Numeruono, then you can start branching out, right? But you guys don't even have your own house in order, for goodness sakes. You can't even pay your bills. You're looking at us nonstop. This spring, denim gets a softer, lighter update.

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No, they're not teenagers anymore. What am I saying? I mean, they're full-grown, full-fledged adults, right? With all kinds of privileges and access to mom and dad's bank account. And they're like hanging out in the weekend house. And mom and dad say, hey, you know, we want to come up and spend Saturday night there. And they're like, nope, you can't come. It's our house.

We're the ones that are paying the bills. We're the ones that are keeping the electricity on. We're the ones that are supporting all of those bases throughout all of Europe. We got about 100,000 troops over there. Guess what? We don't need to have that many. We don't need to be there at all. We don't need to give them a dime.

And this is what the Carnegie Report just came out this week saying, you know what? He's pretty mad about this. And this is something for them because they're kind of left wing. And, you know, maybe they're, you know, you could say, well, this hyperbole. No, I actually don't think it is because I know. know Pete. I worked with Pete for a long time. I know the president. And the president's felt passionately about this for a whole long time. He's like, what are we doing? Like, we ought to be getting paid for this, right? We're sending our troops, our resources, our people. And what do we

get? Zip Serenada. Kind of a middle finger, too, if you ask me. So some of these countries are getting the message. Some of them are figuring out, hey, you know, we've got to do something. They're talking a good game. They're looking to build up this U.S. military. shortfall that they're going to have. I don't know quite how they're going to do it. It's going to be difficult, but, you know, the Pentagon says they're willing to help them a little bit. And I would say, you know, they ought to move because they seem to think that Russia is chomping at the bit to take them all down. In fact, they're saying it could happen in three years. It's very interesting because wasn't it just the other day that Starmor was telling us 2030? Well, apparently the EU just moved it up,

moved it up. The deadline is now 2029. Three years from now, they think that they could be in a war with Russia and the guy who's supposed to spearhead the new defense movement for all of the EU, this would be the defense minister from Germany, he's sound in the alarm. These are all the European countries together, 32 NATO partners. They have all come together and they have said, listen, we have a problem. We think Russia is going to start a war. They have cited some of the satellite imagery that talks about all the, basically, the facilities that are being built along some of the Nordic borders, like in Finland, and

They're saying, hey, you know, you had all this construction going on. It could house possibly 115,000 Russian troops. So we got to take this seriously. Okay, so the German guy, he's running defense, so, you know, he's got some incentive to talk about this. But, you know, they've got to do it. They should do it. This is what we want for them to do. Listen to what he said, you know, for so long nobody paid any attention at all to this in Germany, but throughout Europe.

Here's the German defense minister. Germany and other countries, they didn't, they hear the alarm clock, but they, pushed the snooze button and turned around. I like that. They pushed the snooze button and they turned around. They just didn't pay attention. The alarms were going off. And I guess they just figured mom and dad, U.S. of A. Uncle Sam will be there for us.

Well, you know, now they're looking at the possibility, as he's saying, as these NATO alliance partners are saying, of Russia knocking on their doorstep with a potential military conflict for all of them, not just Ukraine, but for all of them, come 2029? Well, yeah, if that's the case, you guys better pull your act together fast.

German society and public is convinced that there is a threat again after 25, almost 30 years of peace. Potentially facing a war in Europe. Potentially, yes. But not knowing whether or when. Okay. Well, I think your report said three years, buddy.

Okay? I realize. I think that interview was on June 11th. and the report that just came out now said, what do you know? They might be looking at a war with Russia in three years' time. So that is fast approaching, and I imagine that some people are getting nervous, especially when you look at what they have versus what Russia has.

Okay, so this is interesting. Per the Ukrainian Intelligence Service International Institute for Strategic Studies in the U.S. Department of War, guess what? Shell production? From our NATO ally friends? they get three to four and a half million. Russia has seven million. Here's another one for you. I mean, this is even despite what's going on, of course, and we saw what happened in Moscow there today, but this is even despite what's going on with Ukraine, they've still managed in their missile

production to put out 2,500 annually versus, I mean, that's more than double what they're doing over at NATO, 1,100 annually. And then take a look at this drone production, 3 million units that Russia is going to have, about it's estimated. This is per the U.S. Department of War and the Atlas Institute for International Affairs. They're saying three million units, drone production, and look at NATO's. I mean, I will tell you this, Georgia Maloney, in defense of Georgia. I know we all have our challenges with Georgia, including yours truly, who sometimes, I like to say, la don't immobil.

It's the famous tenor area from, oh, am I blanking? Is it Rigoletto? Yeah. Okay, so la domine immobil means the woman is very fickle, and that would pretty much describe Georgia to me right now, because one day, you know, she's all in, rah-rah, we've got to improve our NATO spend, and then the next day she's like, well, Italy can't. I mean, Italy can't, you know, and they're offering her all kinds of loans.

She's great loans, like, you know, you don't even have to pay the interest for like 10 years. I mean, fantastic loans, right? Or maybe it's the principal for 10 years. Great, great loans through the EU, and she won't take them. And it's like, lady, come on. Enough already. Don't talk out of two sides of your mouth. But I would just say, listen, this is kind of a big deal. They're talking about effectively a massive amount of drones that they have been able to produce there in Russia versus take a look at that minuscule number. I mean, 300,000 units versus 3 million units. And I will tell you this.

Georgia Maloney has been saying, we need more drones, we need more drones, we need more drones. And she's not wrong. They're cheap to produce. You might as well have them, guys. You might as well do it. But it means you're going to have to cough up some cash. So who's in trouble? Who's most in trouble? I think George is one of them. We're going to get to that in a second. But first, think about what's going on with the gold market right now. I found this kind of interesting. Central banks repatriating gold as global insecurity rises. An article this week in the FT pointing out that all the conflict internationally, the sanctions, the decline in trust, apparently have made. the institutions more cautious about storing bullion in other countries. Wow, we. Okay, so apparently it's a lot of the Europeans, France especially, they're looking to take all their money out of New York because they're worried about leaving it in New York. Now, why would they be worried about that? Maybe because we might say, hey, we're going to charge you for your NATO bill. I mean, I think the president kind of indicated we weren't going to do that. We're good players on the world stage, but they're getting nervous, right?

You have them, they have the Bank of England apparently stores more than 700 billion worth of gold in New York. They're looking at changing that. And then here's a very interesting line. 19% of respondents that they checked with, international players, had increased domestic storage over-diversified overseas storage locations for their gold in the past 12 months compared with just 7% to the previous year. So fewer central banks are looking to store their gold in the U.S. of A. And of course, guess which one here? One of the biggest recent repatriation programs has been in France. What does Macron have against us?

They just removed 129 tons of gold from the New York Federal Reserve between July 25 and January 26th. And they are now storing all of their gold domestically. Very, very interesting item, right? By the way, if you're interested in buying gold, you know, I like gold whenever it goes. down. It's down a little bit today. I try to scoop up a little bit. You can go to Trish Love's Gold and Silver to learn more about why I like them. And I should mention that this show is brought to you in part by our friends over at KEPM. You can get more information from them at Trish Love's Gold and Silver. Don't forget Silver, right? As Dr. Kirk likes to point out, there's reasons to like it.

It's an industrial metal. Gold is not. Silver is used in AI chips, cryptocurrency mining, solar power, nuclear power, electric vehicles, battery technology, all electronics, everything that I just said, that demand's not going away. It's only going up. And right now, the price of silver versus the price of gold is pointing all towards silver. Okay. So think about that. All right. So again, just know that Europe is so shaken. They're so nervous right now, probably because they know that we mean business, all right? We really do. I don't know if France is worried we're going to confiscate their gold. Hey, you know, let them be worried, for goodness sakes.

McCrone, you know, you need the fear of God or the fear of Brigitte. You know, she might have a special way with you. Okay, you know, I don't know if Donald Trump can quite pull that off, but let's just say, we're not going to put up with this anymore. So I'd say France, the UK, Spain, Italy, guys, it's over. You're all seriously on that naughty list right now. Germany, you might have a little more wiggle room, but you know, Donald Trump wasn't happy with you guys. He took 5,000 troops out already and then said he's taking another 5,000.

And we're going to look to actually put resources and effort into countries that are reciprocal because it can't be a one-way street. Okay, so Poland, which is actually contributing the 5%, they're kind of looking good in this environment. Spain, on the other hand, not so. good. Spain, communist Spain, which was the only country amazingly at the Hague to get an allowance for not contributing the 5%, not even 2%, I mean, because little Pedro Sanchez says he's just against war and he doesn't want any kind of conflict and, you know, he's a socialist and this alliance. Well, then why are you part of this alliance? Okay. Can I just ask that question? Why? And I'm with the

Pentagon. They've actually floated the idea of kicking Spain out altogether, but I think we've got a different approach right now. I think the approach is, okay, Spain, you're not contributing anything? Well, we're not going to contribute anything to you. Nothing. Zero. Zip. Nara. You're gone. You're dead to us, okay? And Gibraltar, that's owned by the UK anyway, so we can play off. However, need it. I mean, because when you got little Pedrito, little Pedro, he might be like six-something. He's like a tall guy, six feet, too, but, you know, he's going to little teeny economy. So it's a little teeny country. It's Spain. And it's gone full-comy, although there is a contingency of people that want to see him voted out,

and we are with them, and we hope they are successful, especially when you get a leader that is putting you guys in jeopardy of NATO. Trump and Hegg says, wrath, listen to Pedrito. Well, outspoken on this issue. Well, as I said, there's a moral dimension of this war, or these wars, I would say, because I think all of them are interconnected. the Gaza war, of course what is happening in Lebanon and of course in Iran. I do believe that there is a clear strategy from Prime Minister Netanyahu and his government to create a new geopolitical reality in the Middle East.

I don't know if the US administration is aligned with that vision or not. We are very concerned about the situation in the Middle East because because at the end of the day, we suffer the instability. We suffer, of course, the insecurity and the economic impact of all this. OK, he's worried about his oil prices. I can't listen to the guy anymore. He's the one that said, the war is illegal, okay? Unjust and illegal.

And then he went to the Pope. And he's like, don't you agree with me? And the Pope's like, of course. By the way, the Pope has actually said that he's very impressed with the agreement that just came forward. Anyway, neither here nor there. We just get a focus on these idiots that don't want to pay their... fair share. And listen, I think the handwriting's on the wall. You heard from Pete, you know that there is now a list. They are putting everyone on that list that did not cooperate and they are looking

to see what have you done for us lately. Are you contributing to NATO? Are you investing in the U.S.? Are you investing in NATO? Let's see if you are a worthwhile partner. If you're not, then we are going to diminish how much we are giving. Marco Rubio, he flew all the way over to Rome to meet with Georgia Maloney about a month or so ago, the Pope as well while he was there trying to talk some sense into both of them. But listen to how he phrased this. When he came out of that meeting with Georgia, I thought it was very interesting. He didn't attack her. He attacked Little Pedro Sanchez. Some countries in Europe, like Spain as an example, denied us the use of those bases for a very important contingency, that in some ways the denial of those bases actually impeded

the mission, not severely, but had a copy. and in fact even created some unnecessary dangers. So if one of the main reasons why the U.S. is in NATO is the ability to have forces deployed in Europe that we could project to other contingencies. And now that's no longer the case, at least when it comes to some NATO members, that's a problem and it has to be examined.

But ultimately, that's a decision for the president to make. His team and people like myself and others will provide him what those potential options are, but ultimately he'll have to make that decision. Okay. So that's what they're providing right now. The options. His team is putting together, as you heard from Pete Hegseth, at the beginning of this program,

he is putting together a list, and they are giving them six months, and they're going to evaluate them for six months. And don't forget, we're going to the next installment, right, of NATO. I mean, they've got the Brussels meeting going on today, which is why Pete is giving them fair warning, and they're telegraphing this loud and clear. but when they get to Turkey, they're going to be telling it up. Who's at 5%? Who let us use their bases?

Who are bases, frankly, and who did not? George Maloney, I think you're in a little bit of trouble. Georgia Maloney is right over there on the naughty list. Because this woman talks a real good game, but, you know, doesn't really follow through. Think about it. I mean, this is the woman that seemed like she was really like buddy, buddy, buddy, with Trump. Buddy, buddy, buddy with Elon Musk. I mean, buddy, buddy, buddy with all of America. You know, she, she ran on a platform that was actually a conservative platform that was

kind of Italy first. It was very similar. She didn't want all the migrants coming in, right? She wanted to have better economic policy that would be more stimulative for growth. She wanted more defense. And then all of a sudden, when she has to pay for the defense, she's like, oh, you know, sorry. You know, our economy's not doing so well. The equivalent of my treasury department is basically saying, you know, we could actually even slip into recession because of the higher oil prices. Wouldn't that make you want to actually contribute more? Wouldn't that actually make you want to see a resolution faster rather than later? Wouldn't that say, oh, you'd say, okay, go for it.

Take Cigonella. Go refuel. We'll do whatever we need to do because we want to actually see oil prices come down sooner rather than later. But that is not what she did. Instead, she dug her feet and her heels in. she agreed with the Pope on a whole variety of things. She wouldn't let Donald Trump have access to that base. Our own Pentagon got shut off from Italy,

and they do not forget these things, okay? They do not forget these things. So what's happening now? Oh, Georgia Maloney is suddenly growing a conscience. Georgia Maloney suddenly at G7 said, oh, here we are. We're ready. We're ready now because she said, well, you know, back in, I think this was April 23rd of this year, a couple of months ago,

we'll do our part when needed once it's all resolved. I mean, it's just like Kier Starmer, right? So what the president said about Kier Starmer in the UK. They'll come in once it's settled. I mean, nobody wants to do the dirty work for goodness sakes. Here she is. I mean, look at the crew she's hanging out with. My gosh.

I mean, you got Fred Merr's over there right above me, little Macron, you got Starmer and you got Georgia Maloney. I mean, what a crowd. And here she is saying, you know, well, once it's all settled, we will do our part. Okay, we will do our part. And that's where she is right now. So she's trying to do her part at this moment. And so what does she get?

The Italian Navy. I think we would have taken our bases over the Italian Navy. Thank you very much. It'll lead to send two Navy minesweepers to the Strait of Hermuz. So this is going to help with the demining effort. She's going to help escort commercial ships through the straight of her moves. She's very specific. This is a non-combat mission.

Again, lady, I would have taken our base. You know, you wouldn't even have had to send your two little ships over there. You could have been spared that one. But here she is right now trying to come forward and offer up this, what is, some kind of little peace trinket? I mean, I don't think that we forget that easily. I think we're very aware that somebody who we actually can. considered an ally, like a personal ally, a political ally, another conservative in Europe, turned

on us, turned on the president of the United States. I mean, you get the European press over there in Rome writing about how great it is that Georgia Maloney no longer likes Trump, and this is going to be how she gets elected. I don't think so. I think this might actually be why she doesn't get election. I think this might be why the generale, there's a general, 57-year-old general who's more right than Georgia Maloney. Of course, it doesn't take much apparently these days. When La Donne Emobilé, the woman is fickle, and she changes her mind every two minutes. Yes, indeed.

I mean, think about this. I played this for you recently. So this is Georgia-Milombole. Oh, no, forgive me. That's definitely not Georgia Maloney. But Georgia Maloney's been out there talking about how we need migrants and immigrants in Italy. That's why she's bringing $500,000 in. It's like, guys, what is going on?

What is going on? Here is the President of the United States when being asked about these European leaders just yesterday at G7. Here's what he said. Coming around to your worldview? I think they think I was right. I'm sort of always right.

You know, when you get right down to it. I think they think I was right. They feel good. Now all of a sudden they're, they all want to be involved. There's no reason to have them because it's pretty much over. They all want to be involved. He'd be involved if I wanted, but we don't want to waste this time for his people.

No, the European leaders, the meeting we had today was just the leaders. I don't even say the European. The leaders that we had met with, in addition to the seven, we had quite a few come in. They all were willing to get involved. It's like, you know, now they want to help. Now they want to help because they know that the handwriting is on the wall and that Donald Trump is willing to walk from NATO altogether. Again, the Carnegie Report this week saying, hey, you know what?

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He is the boss. He absolutely is. And the US of A, thank goodness, is the boss. When you get the biggest economy in the world and the biggest military in the world and you are the world's reserve currency, you better believe you're the boss, okay? So, insubordination? Do you defy your boss? You just say, you know, we don't care, boss that, you know, you've had us working on this project. and we've been working and working and working on this project. And when you come and want to see this file, we're not going to show it to you.

I mean, it's kind of like what they did there. I mean, Georgia Maloney really should be a shame. That was just unbelievable. And we're not going to forget it. Pedrito, you know, he's going to be out anyway. They can't stand him over in Spain. Pedrito Sanchez is about to be voted out if he doesn't go to jail first, because it turns up his predecessor basically sold off the 5G network to Huawei to China,

a backdoor entry, if you would, for China into NATO security. So, I mean, he might be in trouble because his wife also apparently had some sort of sketchy political connections, and now they're suggesting they're doing an investigation into whether or not he has some. So it could be problematic for him on many fronts, but I would say there's a sort of, you know, reasoning behind maybe looking at kicking Spain out of NATO, out of the EU, because of this vulnerability with its Huawei system on 5G. I mean, China has a total backdoor entry into Spain

and therefore into NATO and therefore into us. Not allowed. Okay, more on that. We can get into that some more tomorrow because I have some good sound I'd like you to hear from Whitaker, Mount Whitaker saying this is a big screw up. And I think they might have reason to actually lose Spain all together as a result of that.

But again, Georgia Maloney on the naughty list. And Georgia Maloney is now praying that she can get off that naughty list and she's trying to do her part, however that might be, to kind of re-engratiate herself with one Donald Trump. And you know, there might be an opening here. There might be. Okay, this is Georgia Maloney. just yesterday, looking magnificent, by the way.

I mean, great lighting, great lighting. And she's telling everybody how excited she is because the EU Parliament just voted to send all the illegals home. So if you're an illegal migrant right now, the European part, the European, I can't like say this enough. Like this is huge because you know how woke Europe is.

The EU Parliament said, we're going to send them all back. And not only did they vote to send them all back, what was it, 418 to 218 with 30 abstaining. Guess what? They shouted it from the rooftops. Listen to this. As the vote came in, they celebrated yelling, send them back. The first reading of parliament is closed.

The agenda, the report by Mrs. Brickmont on the EU-Pakistan Agreement, modification of concessions on tariff rate quotes. vote on consent, my roll call vote, the vote is open. They're excited. They're shouting, send them back, send them back, send them back, send them back. You know, Europe has changed a lot, a lot. Since I would say 2016, but also 2020, you had a lot of influx of people coming in in 2020.

But if you go back to 2016 and, of course, what was going on with Syria and for some reason Germany had a guilty conscious about all this, and they said, we'll just take one, we'll take all. And it wasn't the right prescription. It just wasn't. And I'm going to tell you this, because unfortunately, there's a religion in this world, the only religion in this world,

that actually condones violence, that actually condones this conversion by the sword, if you would, that actually condones, if you were to leave the religion, it is punishable by death. that's the Muslim religion, okay? And I know this is touchy and politically incorrect, but I'm just telling you, when you bring in a bunch of very poor, uneducated people

from these countries that are very enamored with their Muslim faith, and you try and integrate them into the rest of Europe, it's not happening. For goodness sakes, I mean, you can barely integrate the French and the Germans, okay? They still have their little snafus, okay? I mean, we just saw it. This week, I told you about how the Franco-German alliance that they had for flight and aviation for

military purposes is crumbling because nobody can get along and they all have different ideas on what they should be doing. And that's the French and the Germans, okay? You really think you're going to bring in the Syrians and think they're going to work with the Germans or the Italians? They're just not, okay, or the Swedish? Like, it's not happening. All of those countries have very specific, unique, and special cultures.

that they're proud of. And then you come in and you try and force-feed them something else. It's not working. I mean, you can go back to the UK gang rape reports. It just came out, and it's very clear it has not worked in the UK, and that's going all the way back to the 1950s. We'll talk about that. But here's the good news.

People are waking up, and I think to myself, would this have ever happened with Kamala Harris in office? No. because you would have just had more of the same. And I guess people would have been told they had to shut up, and you would have had more efforts to police what people could say and do online. You're already seeing it, right? In the UK, what do they want to say when the Northern Irish are like,

hey, this is not good? And they start, you know, lighting buses on fire and that kind of thing. We've seen all the video coming into us from Belfast. The answer is, shame on them. They're a bunch of racists. rather than what about the guy who tried to decapitate an Irishman in the middle of town? I mean, you're going to side with the criminals all over again, and if somebody actually dares to speak up,

they're the ones that are going to be in trouble. That's what's been happening. Well, this is changing now, because the people are speaking up, the European people are speaking up. And so now you have the European Parliament saying, we're going to send them home. And it wasn't just the EU Parliament. Take a look at this, ladies and gentlemen, the G7,

I credit Donald Trump with this and his team for getting this together before he got over there. They came out with a deal that you're not hearing about. Nobody's talking about this. Just a little old me, okay? Donald Trump got a deal from the G7 where they are now outlying illegal immigration. Listen. Here at the G7 and we signed a declaration on illegal immigration the first time ever for a G7 statement. They did a beautiful statement.

A beautiful statement. They said we are committed to tackling organized illegal immigration. We remain committed to fight against all forms of abuse and the exploitation of migrants. Okay, not really perfect, but they are committed to preventing illegal migration. Woo! Okay, wow. That is massive. That is massive because just a couple months ago, I heard La Donde Emobilay, the lady is fickle, George Maloney, saying this. Italy and Europe have been to

I'm going to translate for you on the fly here. Basically she's saying Italy, Europe, they cannot they cannot

survive unless we have migration. And this was right around the time that she was bringing in 500,000

signing a deal. I think the three amigos there, Macron, Starmer, and Freddie, Friedrich Merz,

they, they set her up. on this one, okay? Because all of a sudden she's willing to bring in 500,000 when she had campaigned against this, and I'll tell you, they don't like it one bit in Rome. You had the protesters out in full force last weekend. Yeah, you see that? They are not happy. Thousands of people. And guess what? Their needs, their desires are being met. Listen. Send them home. The first reading of the EU Parliament voting on the same day as the G7 announces.

we are going to end illegal migration. They are voting not just to end it, but a deport. Gone. Leave the continent. I want to play for you some sound from a Greek politician, one of the members of parliament over there, and one of her party leaders, and she's a young woman,

and she's just telling it exactly like it is and how she wants us going down and what the EU needs to do with these people that keep coming in illegally. Because don't forget, and I see Don back on making the point about Greece and how we're rotating some of these troops around other places, Poland being one of them, and perhaps sending in some more help to places like Greece that are dealing with this onslaught of migration. And she's got a solution here.

And, you know, gosh darn it, it is long overdue that we listen. And we understand because, listen, I think we do understand. We've been up against the exact same thing, and we're living proof that you can deal with it, provided you have the right political fortitude. Let's listen. Illegal immigration is a well-orchestrated business for the orchestrators to make a fortune and to Islamize Europe.

You have filled our countries with illegal migrants with the blessing of Germany and France. We pay Islam that hates us out of our savings to turn our cities into ghettos to rape and to murder before our eyes in the name of Allah. We are filled with Muhammad and Mahmoud in a Europe that has become unrecognizable. There are solutions strengthened by all means the countries that are the first entry points, such as Greece, Italy, and Spain. Those who enter European territory illegally, they should receive no benefits, they should receive. no asylum. They should be arrested, they should have their mobile phones confiscated, they should be taken to uninhabited islands, and then they should be deported to their country or countries

outside of the European Union. Stop subsidizing their accommodation and subsidize their deportation. Our guiding light ought to be the policies of Hungary and of Poland. It's quite clear that those who violate our borders are entering their unwanted guests and they're destroying our countries. So begin mass deportations immediately. Money exists. Airports exist. Detention centers are there. Kick them out before Europe dies. We want our countries, our identity and our values. And if you saw called sensitive socialists, well, why don't you look at yourselves? Because you are the biggest racist against your own people. It's like you hate yourself. That's what I said all along. Like

Angela Merkel and taking all the Syrians in, it was sort of like, what is she doing? I realize, you know, there's probably a lot of self-loathing after World War II. And Germany's get its issues, perhaps it's still dealing with, but the answer is not to then decimate your own culture. I mean, look at Germany today. It's 30% migrant. It's bizarre. I mean, Brussels, we're going to in Belgium, Brussels is 70%, 70% migrant. And you think about the US of A and where we were heading in this determination. I heard it from Michelle Obama today, as they, you know, had their little ceremony for their little monstrosity of a library.

I mean, you want to talk about some ugly piece of architecture. Gosh, it's like made by a communist, for goodness sakes. It totally looks like something you would have seen in the old Soviet Union. Just awful. Anyway, she's going on and on about how great immigration is and how these illegals and migrants and DACA and blah. You know, they're all like the very soul of America. And, you know, I think it's important in light of what we're hearing with these gang rape situations. And you probably have seen these reports that came out of Europe. Just awful, awful, awful stuff. with 250,000 young British women over several decades being affected by these trafficking rings. It is awful. It is disgusting. It is so, so wrong. And, you know, nobody would do anything.

The girls would report it. Their parents would report it. Social workers would report it. And the politicians would make it go away because they said it was prejudice. It was racist. You know who was racist? The disgusting pigs that were doing this to these young women. And you know what, Brandon Gill, young congressman out of Texas, he had a few things to say about this this morning. Let's listen in. If you point out what's happening here, if you're truthful about what mass Islamic immigration has done to Great Britain,

you're an Islamophobia, you're a racist, you're uncouth or unfit for dignified, civilized society, when the impact of that type of suppression of speech means that working class people have been brutally raped and tortured. And that's something that we deal with in the United States on a smaller level, but something we deal with now. If you speak out against mass Islamic immigration, you were denigrated and labeled a racist, and we have to be able to be truthful about these issues and straightforward that whenever you bring in large numbers of people from cultures that hold values that are entirely incompatible with our own. In this case, the belief that Muslims have more dignity and are superior to non-Muslims,

that child marriages are okay, that Muslims can essentially subjugate other people, including young children sexually. If you speak out against that, you're Islamophobic, we have got to get over that. Because you can see what the price is, and those working-class girls are the ones who paid the price here. You better believe it. It's a shame on the political elites that were willing to expend their lives. these young girls' lives because they wanted to be politically correct.

Listen, I'm over it. Okay? We talk about realism here on this show. I am a realist. I'm not an idealist. I mean, idealism is fine, okay? But realism is what matters. And you can't sit there and say, okay, we're going to cover our eyes and pretend none of this exists.

You know, it's a big, bad world out there. And you have a duty to protect your young people. you have a duty to protect your culture. You have a duty to protect the hardworking people of your great nation. They have made it the success it is thus far. I mean, Europe is going down the tubes fast. The UK, down the tubes. All of these places, I mean, they're a complete mess.

Their economies are a mess. If they were to join the United States of America, if we were on the acquisition trail, guess what? They would all come in as the lowest per capita income. by a lot in the United States because they have made the constant error of saying, we're going to bring in all these other cultures. We're going to basically allow them to have their say, and we're going to give them this, that, and the other.

And we're not going to actually have an economy that can be thriving for the people of the nation. I mean, it's bonkers. Again, look, you know what? Take care of yourself first. And then you can think about charity. Maybe, you know, support a charity over there. Why does everybody have to come to the UK? Why does everybody have to come to Germany? Or to Italy or to Spain? Oh, little pedrito loves that. He's all for open borders. Give me a break. You know who's for open borders? China's sitting there laughing because, you know, they don't have any open borders. they just sit there and say, yeah, you know, we'll see how this one works out for him. Not well.

Trust me, it won't work out well. We've seen that over and over and over again. And meanwhile, back here at home, the DOJ just announcing that illegals were responsible for a massive fraud situation in Massachusetts. Today, they announced 11 of 14, forgive me, 15 people that have been arrested in this fraud situation in Massachusetts, stealing $1.4 million. were all here illegally. I mean, this is kind of nuts. Alarmingly, 11 of the 15 charged defendants are suspected illegal aliens, some of whom assumed stolen identities to steal these taxpayer-funded benefits

and avoid detection. American citizens were boxed out of these programs because illegal aliens took their names to then take their money. That was the Justice Department just moments ago announcing 15 people are being charged with food stamp fraud in Massachusetts. The scams exploited food stamp, housing, and health care programs costing taxpayers more than $1.4 million. Eleven illegal immigrants, including some who have been living under stolen identities, are among those charged. Gosh. You know, I got to.

to say, like, we've been really stupid, haven't we? We've allowed ourselves to get taken advantage of. The good news is, I mean, we elected Donald Trump. The bad news is we had four years of Biden. The bad news is places like California, I mean, look at the fraud that they're uncovering out there. You know, they were run by people who didn't care. Guess what? You don't care. If it's not your money, you tend not to care. You know, we don't even have to debate whether or not Gavin Newsom is guilty of anything or his wife might be guilty of something. We don't even have to go there. Let's just assume he's completely asleep at the switch. Of course is asleep at the switch. This is why you've got to keep government on a short lease, okay? This is why what government has,

government will spend and probably not the way a normal working American family would spend it. This is why communism always fails, okay? When you keep giving the state all the money, they get to hand it out to their cronies. Just ask Ilhan Omar how that went down, allegedly. $250 million later to feed our future. Yeah, feed the Somali fraudsters future. They were running the fraud operation out of Minneapolis.

You've got to be kidding me. I mean, no, it's not okay. And it's got to actually stop because we need accountability. I mean, we got a lot of problems, okay? They look at the solvency of Social Security. We're running out of money. They thought that all these people could come in and help with that. Well, guess what, they can't because they're not here legally.

Okay, so they're not paying taxes. So there goes that idea. Instead, they just become drains on the system. If you're not contributing to the system, you're a drain on the system. And then by gosh darn it, if you're actually, engaging in fraud, such as the people we have learned about in Massachusetts and Minneapolis, well, then you're more than a drain on the system. So it's high time that we actually fix the system. I mean, we can't continue with, you know, a ledger that looks like ours when you think about

the deficits that we run and the debt that we have collected. That's not going to work long term. But look at how much we may have saved. like Doge 2.0, right? We may have saved a lot if we can actually stop all this fraud and we can stop all of this money from going to all of these wild, stupid, crazy projects to nowhere. Lower taxes, okay? Less federal spending. If you are stupid enough to live in a place, sorry to our California voters than viewers, you know, but you know, you keep voting for, People like Karen Bass instead of a Spencer Pratt, you know, look what happens. And you might even get someone who's more left than Karen Bass out there with the ramen

lady. I always forget her name and then I think ramen noodle, ramen noodle. So the ramen lady. Mamdami in New York City. I mean, you get what you voted for, I guess, thank you. New York City, I'm glad I'm out of there. What a mess that's turning. into. So we have to be more responsible. We have to think strategically. We have to think

long-term and we have to think about the health of this country and our balance sheet. And whether it's here at home or whether it's overseas. Because overseas, we've also got to be cautious about who we're spending money on. We don't need to give all this money to USAID. Well, we cut all that out now, didn't we? You know, we don't need to, like, support the transgender comic book in Peru. We don't need the gay opera in Colombia. Like, what was that for goodness? What were they doing?

They took over the world. You've realized that, guys. They were taken over the world with their woke ideology that was just a recipe for disaster and devastation. But we changed that. And we're going to keep changing it. I'm looking at the chat. I know some of you guys don't like what happened with the Iran deal. Again, I'm a realist.

And if we can get energy prices lower, we can bide some time to build some of those pipelines. It might work out. It might work out. I know both sides are mad about that. So, you know, we'll continue. I just say, hey, give it a minute. Okay, give it a minute. Let's see what happens.

He made it very clear that he's willing to go right back in and do whatever he has to do. So let's give it a minute and see if it works. And if it doesn't, we're armed, ready, and loaded. And we've put them in a much, much more difficult position. But, again, I just think about all the money that we spend things on. And you think about the fraud. And you think about Europe. And you think about USAID in the entire world.

It's over, okay? We're batten down the hedges. So NATO, consider yourself warned. You used to be 12 countries. now you're 32. And look at that list. You see all those countries? We're going to go through them right one after another,

and we're going to say, did you cooperate with us or didn't you? Are you paying into the NATO fund or are you not? If you're not, then I don't think you should be here or we shouldn't be there. We don't need to be part of this. We don't need any of it. The world is changing.

We're on the front lines of history. This is a very important moment, a very important moment. By the way, if you haven't gone to see my little company 76 research, you should. Take a look at those portfolios. A lot of good stuff there. Thank you for being here, everyone. It's wonderful to see you. It's nice to see so many compliments and nice things that you guys say in the chats.

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signing. J.D.'s got a big day ahead of himself in Geneva. I'll see you then.