The Trish Regan Show - Trump STUNS Iran, Europe & 'The View': STRIKES RESUME on Iran as Trump REWRITES America's Place in The World

Episode Date: July 8, 2026

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We get a very different picture right about now. We're looking at the possibility of U.S. troops, maybe even all U.S. troops, coming home if NATO doesn't get its act together, we're all over that story. As the president shows up in Turkey today. Yeah, imagine that, traveling all that ways. He's in Turkey in Ankara for the big meeting. Plus, oh, a few other things going on. We've got strikes resuming on Iran right now because, well, Iran can't keep its word. Surprise, surprise, surprise.

Yeah, so we're striking them again. We're also putting sanctions back in. Our Treasury Department announced that they're not going to be selling any more oil, at least not for the foreseeable future. So take that Iran. You know what, we can play hardball, and we're willing. Believe me, we are. Oh, and then there's a little number over on the view.

I mean, if you thought it was bad yesterday, with Sunny Houston saying that she doesn't feel safe when she sees all these American flags, I'll tell you, I don't feel safe when I see MTG, Marjorie Taylor Green, a name I thought I would hopefully never have to hear again. On the View today, I think she's looking for a job. We're going to talk about that. You know, it's what they call a kicker in the news business anyway. Boy, oh boy, we've got the hammer dropping on NATO right now.

Donald Trump walking into NATO today for a bilateral meeting with Turkey and essentially telling everyone, telling Turkey, telling America's allies, telling the press, Free ride is over. Okay? It's over. And believe me, I think they're starting to hear them. All right? They're starting to get nervous because today was not just another NATO meeting. It was actually not just a photo op for world leaders, shall we say, smiling. Now, nobody's smiling right now. In fact, according to the Wall Street Journal, they had a therapy session last night when they all got together for dinner. Because you now had Donald Trump looking straight at America's allies, so-called allies, straight in the eye. And he's saying, you know what? You guys get a pay up.

You get a pay up because we get a lot of other options. In fact, we have so many options. We could take our troops out. I repeat. Well, let's let him say it. We could take our troops out. We don't have to spend any money. We could remove all of our soldiers out of Europe.

Because as you probably noticed, Europe's a very different place than it was 20 years ago. A lot different, much different. It's a much different. And they better be careful with immigration and energy. if they're not careful with those two things, you're not going to have a Europe anymore. Ooh, he's not wrong. I mean, he really isn't.

You won't have a Europe anymore. You don't have any energy. And you get an immigration disaster. By the way, he took care of that right back here at home. Thank you very much. But think about it. Oh, and this is the headline in the F.T. You know, I saw this as it was crossing,

and I didn't see it getting much pickup here in the U.S., but it did get some over in Europe. And I think this is a big headline. I mean, he's saying, hey, we can take them all out. We don't have to be here, okay? You guys are darn lucky that we've been helping you out for the last 80 years. And you think about it, you know, Europe looking to us basically as the parent, if you would, they're running under the assumption that we're there no matter what, right? Like your parents. America's just always going to be there. American taxpayers are going to fund your military.

American troops are going to provide the deterrence. And American presidents are just going to pick up the tab over and over and over again with our generosity. Well, he has challenged that assumption. And then some. And that's why today's some. This week's summit really, really matters here because you're seeing effectively not just a disagreement over defense spending. You're watching what I would call the biggest realignment of post-World War II security. I mean, this is happening in real times. We're on the front lines of it here, ladies and gentlemen. This is real news, okay? And this is an arrangement that Europe liked, right?

And not just liked, but depended upon for generations. and Donald Trump is there to say, no can do. And everybody wanted this. Every president, believe me, is like, we can't keep shouldering this burden, but nobody had the leverage to be able to pull this off. Okay, and it's not just NATO. He's reigniting his push for Greenland.

Oh, boy, is he ever. He's warning Europe that mass migration is threatening its future. He's pointing to major manufacturing moves towards the U.S. as evidence that his tariffs are working, and he's ordering new military action against Iran. Meanwhile, you've got the ladies on the view just smoldering, right? They don't know what to do. They can't figure this out. They are such a great example of how the left and even politicians on their right start to implode

when they try to take on Donald Trump because they can't. Wow. We begin here with NATO. I mean, major, major developments. I mean, it's kind of just I wanted to give you an overall of where we're, we're heading in the show today, but I would just say, listen, Donald Trump has argued for some time now that Europe has become far too comfortable, relying on the United States. And, you know, he's just saying the quiet part out loud. Again, I want to go back to this because I can't stress

enough how incredibly important this is. Donald Trump coming out swinging, telling them in the first meeting here in front of all the press and other leaders, he's got the Treasury Secretary there, he's got Marco Rubio there, and he's like, you know, we could just walk away to Mark. We don't need to be here. We don't. We don't have to spend any money. We could remove all of our soldiers out of Europe. Because as you probably noticed, Europe's a very different place than it was 20 years ago.

A lot different, much different. Very different. Now, the extraordinary thing here really is that he's saying this to their faces. He's basically been doing it all along, right? I mean, if you didn't pick up on the tea leaves on this one, I don't really know what to tell you, because this has been telegraphed in front of the international press. I mean, he's even picked up the phone, and he's called Coriere de la Cera, which is the Italian newspaper, the equivalent of the New York Times over there,

and he's ranted about Georgia Maloney to them. He's called into an equivalent would be MSNBC, like some 24-hour news station. I say MSNBC because they're really liberal, right? Like all the media is really liberal in Italy and all of Europe. it's really, really liberal. So he calls into the liberal cable channel, and then he goes off on Maloney and said he felt bad for her. She's begging for a picture, for goodness sakes, right?

So he has not exactly been coy about any of this. He has been very, very straightforward, and he's wanted to make sure that everyone knew he'd be willing to walk away. And just in case you weren't sure, right? He said it again this morning. He said, we don't need to be here. We could take all our troops and we could go home.

So this is, again, leverage and you have that leverage when everyone knows you're willing to use it. I mean, it's one thing if you're Biden and you're like, yeah, you know, you guys ought to pay the bill. And gee, you know, you ought to pay the bill. And gosh, you know, Putin is very scary and we have to help Ukraine. No matter what we're helping Ukraine on the other hand is saying, yeah, Putin's not that scary. We don't know if we really need to help Ukraine. Kind of seems like your problem, not ours. And he's willing to walk. So that is, ladies and gentlemen, what you call leverage, right? And this is a businessman suddenly in there as opposed to a politician. And we talked about this

the other day, how he's not that interested in alliances. He's interested in, is this a good deal for the United States of America? Is this a good deal for the American people and the American taxpayers? And if it's not, then what the heck are we doing here? Okay, okay, you want world peace. Well, I don't really think this is helping world peace. And it's definitely not helping in America. So again, why are we here? He is making this abundantly clear. And so he's got all the leverage in the world, which is why they're freaking out. I mean, hey, we do. We spent billions of dollars defending Europe. And many European governments have failed for years and years and years to meet any of NATO's defense spending targets. So from Trump's perspective, right? From Trump's perspective,

you've got to actually change the game. From Trump's perspective, you actually have to be very willing to walk away because this relationship has been badly out of balance. for a long time now. I mean, you could make the argument, right? Years ago, you could make the argument, all right, going back to post-World War II, they didn't have anything. We didn't know a lot either, but, you know, we had more than them, and our gold was protected. They blew up half their gold, right? I mean, so we then became, courtesy of Bretton Woods Agreement, IMF, we became effectively the de facto currency of the world. We were the ones with all the gold, and so everything became pegged to the U.S. dollar. We went in there with the Marshall Plan, we rebuilt everything, and we had this

idea and they had this idea that maybe if we just kind of keep everybody the same, the same, with socialism, then no one will really be upset. And I guess that works for a while, right? It kind of worked until they started importing all these migrants, trying to have social programs that they couldn't afford, especially given all the migrants. And then they were suffering under the weight of their own failures with their own economic disaster that they had created, because, hey, we talked about it the other day. Fred Mertz is just coming out, Friedrich. Forgive me, the Chancellor of Germany, you know.

Again, it's the I Love Lucy reference. You can never forget his name this way, right? He spells it a little differently. It's M-E-R-Z, but in German it's pronounced, so it's Mertz. Friedrich said, hey, you can't call out by phone anymore. You know, you could take six weeks off just for like a little cold over there in Germany.

Apparently it's bad for their manufacturing capacity. You don't say, right? but, you know, the government decides everything there, as opposed to the companies themselves, having their own sick policies. So this is a result of us coming in as money bags, right, mom and dad, mom and dad saying, hey, hey, we're going to allow you to have this wild lifestyle where you get to live in Never Neverland, and now that's changing. So Donald Trump is like, you know what, it's not happening anymore. It is not happening. We're going to change that. and we don't care if you don't want it changed because we are willing to walk.

We will take our troops, all of them, if we have to, and we'll go. You guys failed the test. Europe failed the test. He said he was doing a little test here just to see who would really be there. And they weren't there. I'll tell you, funny enough, John Bolton, who, by the way, may be going to jail, John Bolton actually articulated this to CNN a couple of months ago. He said, hey, careful, Europe.

If you don't offer up the bases for Iran when he's asking for them, he is going to have carte blanche to say, I've gotten you off. And boy, this might be the only time Bolton was really right. He was right. Because now Donald Trump is saying, well, why should I help you? You didn't help me. This is not a two-way street. You know, you failed the test.

It was a test, and you guys screwed up. Let's go to him here. Speaking of the bilateral meeting this morning in Ankara, Turkey. Are further troop drawdowns in Europe likely? And are you satisfied with the progress that NATO-LAS? Well, we're going to see. I was very disappointed with NATO. We weren't treated well because we did something in Iran.

We don't need anybody's help. I didn't even want the help. But before I asked, they said they wouldn't be there. And we've invested trillions of dollars in NATO. Why? To protect European countries. others, Canada, et cetera, but to protect people, countries from, generally speaking, it used to be the Soviet Union, now it's Russia.

And I say that's fine, but you would think that they'd be very willing to do something to help us, and they really weren't. They definitely weren't. They definitely, definitely weren't. So guess what? They failed. big fat Fs right across the board for all of those major European allies, which puts us in the position of saying, well, gee, since you're not really our ally,

what are you? Maybe we don't need to continue this. Maybe we really do need to take every stinking one of our troops home, unless, of course, you're going to pay us for their time. In the case of the United Kingdom, the prime minister, I guess he's no longer there. Maybe because of this, it was a very unpopular thing he did. He said, no way. help after the war is over. I said, I don't need that kind of help. We didn't need any help at all.

And in a way, I was testing people. I was testing to see whether or not they'd be there, because I've long said that we helped them, but I'm not sure that they'd be there for us. And Italy turned us down, and Germany turned us down, and France turned us down. And it's okay. But, you know, why are we spending hundreds of billions of dollars and they're not there for us? we've always been there for them. Boom. Bingo. That's it in a nutshell. So he has all the latitude now to walk.

He has all the ability to say, Arriva derci. Signora, Meloni. Okay? It's been nice. Adios. I mean, he should say adios to Spain clearly because we've talked about little pedrito.

I know he's not so little. He's like 6.3 or something. But figuratively, quite little. with a very little economy there in Spain, and that little economy can't even cough up a little bit amount of money. That little economy can't find the 2% of GDP to give to NATO. That little economy wouldn't even sign on to the 5% commitment made last year at the NATO summit.

So, yeah, Pedrito is his name, Pedrito Sanchez, who is backed by communist China, it appears, certainly his predecessor, and mentor is, that's why you see Huawei. Yeah, Huawei, you know, the Chinese company, they built out the 5G in Spain, which means

the Chinese have access to everybody's cell phone in Spain, which means, oh, if you're going to be part of NATO, I don't think I really like that because now China has a backdoor to our NATO alliance. You see, Tom Trump understands this stuff. I don't know as the Europeans do, but Donald Trump gets it.

And he's not about to fold the over and play dead for these folks. These people who can't even manage their own house, who can't get a handle on Spain, that actually allowed for Spain at the last meeting to say, yeah, okay, you know, we're not going to do the 5%. Heck, Spain's not even doing the 2%. None of these countries are. That's what's so amazing about this. I mean, Mark Ruta, he's so happy because he's got them doing 20% more than they did last year. But it's like, okay, fine, but what was last year? I mean, we got to get some big numbers out of these people, Okay, big, big numbers. And believe me, we're trying. You get Pete Heggseth over there, making a list, checking it twice, going to find out who's naughty or nice. Really? He said as much in Brussels. I won't play the sound, but we've run it a few times. He said, listen, we're making a list. This is NATO 3.0. And in NATO 3.0, you pay your bills. And if you don't pay your bills, we're going to reduce how much we're giving to your country with a kind of reciprocity, if you would. Well, kind of like tariffs, right? You know, you think you can charge us 10% and we get to

charge of nothing? Like, no, that's not the way it works anymore. Think about what he's saying here. He tested them. He was testing people. This comment was not made in a vacuum, you guys. You know what? He is referring to years of disagreements over trade, years of military burden sharing all put on us on energy policy that is just the epitome of stupidity over there. For goodness sakes, they never met a windmill they didn't like. Nothing against windmills. But when you say, You cannot support us when we're trying to actually make sure that the straight-of-hormuz is open for all you people. I'm sorry, like, you just lost me. No, they need more windmills.

They don't want air conditioning because that might actually threaten climate policy. Come on. Join the real world, Europe. The real world is here for the taking. He's offering it up to you. He's telling you, you got to get with the program. Okay, so it's not just a conversation about troops. And believe me, it is. He's taken 10,000 now out of Germany. He's moving 5,000 into the front lines there in Poland because Poland actually pays its bills.

What did I say? Reciprocity. Leverage and reciprocity. Those are two big themes. We talked about leverage the other day. We can talk about reciprocity today because if America is expected to defend Europe, then Europe needs to be defending us and our interest. I mean, that is a transaction. Thank you very much. and in the business world, these are transactions. Okay, but for Donald Trump, it's not just purely a transaction. It's not just math. There's a layer of personality here as well, because I think he expects a little bit more from his friends.

You know, Spain, little Petrito Sanchez and his little teeny economy, we expect him to flake. We don't like it, but we expect it. the UK, that hits a little harder, right? Because the UK was, well, is our oldest ally. So when they refused to help us out, that hits hard. And then when Georgia Maloney, who seemed like she was the next sort of salvation to Europe and she was a link, right, between MAGA and what Europe needs and then she flakes on us,

Well, that's when it gets really personal. Really, really personal. George is having a hard time with this, apparently. Okay. This is just a funny meme that's making the rounds here. Just a funny meme because Georgia Maloney clearly has a lot at stake right now. Boy, that face looks tough. I mean, she's gone back to smoking.

Apparently, that's how hard it is. Well, that's a meme. It's a joke. She quit. She said she quit. Good for her. Definitely quit, right? But, you know, I can understand how this situation is becoming rather stressful

because, again, it's personal. Donald Trump is singling out one leader in particular. He could single out Spain. That's an obvious choice, but that's low-hanging fruit for him, okay? He doesn't need to go after Little Pedro. He's going after Italian Prime Minister, Georgia Maloney. Georgia Maloney in the hot seat. You know, she was once viewed as one of the closest ideological allies.

allies that Trump had in Europe. She's conservative. She's, well, theoretically conservative. She's theoretically strong on borders. She's theoretically a nationalist, but all those things are kind of up for debate right now because she's the one bringing 500,000 new people into Italy. You know, some people believe that she really would be very, very powerful in Europe's future, powerful because she had the president's America First agenda that she understood for Europe. but she's drifted. She's drifted big time. I mean, for goodness sake, this woman wouldn't allow for us to use the base that we wanted, Cigonella, there in Sicily, and so much she's drifted that he thinks she might be going the way of Starmour. Remember, Prime Minister Kier Starmor, he's out now. He played the

ultimate political price for moving in a similar direction away from Donald Trump. And, well, I'll let President Trump say it. He said, you know, he thinks that maybe Starmor out because of him. And then he had a few choice words on Georgia. I think she's a nice person, actually. We've had a good, we had a bad relationship, but it became a little bad because she refused to help us. Again, I didn't put a heavy press on her, but she refused to get involved with the hormone straight. Or you could also say just Iran. She refused to get involved. So it soured my relationship with her a little bit. But I like her. I think she's a nice person, actually, but I think she made a mistake.

You know, they get a lot of their oil from, we don't get any of it. We have a lot of oil. The United States has more oil than anybody. When you add Venezuela to it, it's like we have far more oil than any. We don't need the straits. We do this because we think it's an important thing to do. But she just wasn't there for us. And I wasn't happy about that. You could imagine. I wasn't happy about that. No, he definitely wasn't. In fact, he put this out before he got on the plane yesterday. You see that?

Restraining order needed. This is in reference to her desire to have a picture with him, and then everybody had fun with it online. They started animating it. Oh, she's just looking at him so adoringly. And yes, restraining order needed. Apparently, she did want to get... I got to tell you, she has a certain way about her.

Maybe it's just that she's Italian. I always like the Italians. I really do. I used to have a fantastic Italian teacher who wore these great high heels and she just had so much personality in the short skirts and everything, very, very Italian and charming as can be. She was just lovely. And Georgia Maloney kind of reminds me of her, you know, they're both little women, smaller in statue, but just big personalities and lovely, smiling and almost like flirtatious with everyone. She kind of has that going on. So when he says he needs a restraining order, it's kind of a fun. funny little thing. Maybe she wants a picture, maybe she doesn't. Maybe she thinks she can charm her

way there. I saw her looking really cozy with Elon Musk. Remember when he was over there? And it was like, wow. Oh, yeah. You know, if Elon didn't have so many extracurricular activities, we'll leave it there. Maybe there would be a future in the two of them. They seemed like they really kind of liked each other. Yeah. But, you know, maybe that's just how she looks at everyone. I don't know. My Italian teacher. So I would just say Georgia Maloney. Look, she is the best hope at trying to have this bridge between Trump and the Italians, but she's all over the place. Like the aria, I like to quote for you, the tenor aria from Rigoletto, Verdi, very, very popular composer. She would know this. La Dona immobil, right?

She's just like flighty, flighty like the wind. And that flightiness means not only is Donald Trump pretty much done with her at this point, but her own people are done with her. her. So when he's making the comparison between her and Kier-Starmour, that's not a good comparison. You don't want to be in that camp. You don't want to be in that camp. But she's kind of fallen into that because I think the people elected her for one thing and they're getting another. Now, what I love about him is he doesn't pull any punches, right? Think about it. He comes right out against her. He's putting the memes up about her. He's calling Coriare de la Cera, the equivalent of New York Times in Italy, complaining about her, saying he was shocked by her behavior.

He calls the 24-hour news cable station and says that she was begging for a photo. She got so upset about that one. She had to immediately issue a little response on her phone saying, no, no, no, Italy doesn't beg, I never beg, et cetera. So she took that rather seriously. The point just being that he has no problem, completely going for the jugular. Marco, on the other hand, he went over there. Remember to read her the riot act?

He went over to, I guess, to read the riot act, perhaps to the Pope a little bit too. I'm sure he was more diplomatic than an actual riot act. But I think he was trying to convey this message. Listen, we need you guys on our side. And if you're not on our side, it's going to be kind of painful. Because we can take all our troops and go home, period. End of story. Anyway, when he got out to complain, he did so in Rome, on Italian soil,

and looked at all of these reporters. But instead of going after George Maloney and the Pope directly or after Italy, he goes after little pedrito. I've been a strong supporter of NATO throughout my career in the Senate. And even now, one of the advantages of being in NATO is that it allows us to have forces deployed in Europe and bases that allow us a logistical ability to project power in case of contingencies. But we had a contingency. And some countries in Europe, 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 cost 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 has to be examined. But ultimately, that's a decision for the president to make. Ultimately, a decision for the president to make. So these are the decisions he's about to make right now.

And keep in mind, Donald Trump here, he is drawing some lines. I mean very strong lines in the sand. He's not just drawing lines between America and Europe, though. He's drawing lines inside Europe itself. And this is what really freaks them out. Because there are leaders who stand with the United States and Donald Trump, and there are leaders who don't. And because, as I said, it gets very personal with him.

He doesn't appreciate those who pretend to stand with him, maybe for political purposes, and then suddenly don't. And that matters because you know what? You've got a lot of relationships to stake here with trade, with defense, with immigration policy, all of these things. He is looking at the future of the Western Alliance. And if you are not with us, you're effectively against us. I'm not being too dramatic here. I mean, this is Europe.

Look at what's going on with Nigel Farage, for goodness sakes. I see you guys are asking about Nigel. My friend Nigel, you know, Nigel Farage is stepping. down. I want to put this onto the lower third, not forever, but there have been some scandals. And he's stepping aside to allow room for others at this moment in time because there have been some apparently concerns about the declaration of gifts or benefits, et cetera, including a crypto billionaire that may have given him something. And Nigel is saying, effectively, this is the political elites trying to attack the people.

And I think that Donald Trump has been quoted saying, listen, they're trying to do exactly to Nigel what they did to me. Nigel Farage is a very, very powerful figure. He is very exciting for that movement there in the UK, and he has been very much. He was a leader in Brexit. Don't forget all the success he had with Brexit. Of course, Brexit hasn't really worked out that well

because, although the UK hasn't really actually abided by some of the things that they were going to put in during Brexit, including some of the immigration reform. None of that really, really happened. And so, you know, Donald Trump is sort of saying this about his longtime ally that there are some parallels in the system and that you have the elites trying to clamp down on Nigel Farage in ways that you saw, of course, that happened to Donald Trump. And it's gotten the better of Farage here because he's posting on truth social as of today that he is going to be stepping down. And they're running the 24 anti-Trump playbook on Nigel Farage.

That's according to Trump, who put that on true social just yesterday. And so as a result of all of this, basically, you know, I think the UK and the leader of that movement there, Nigel Farage, Reform UK, you know, that's now kind of hanging in the balance. And so that's obviously a concern. And it's exactly what some of these people on the right, on the, forgive me, on the elite sort of side of things, on the left, if you would, really. want. So breaking story, a lot coming into us. I would just say that, you know, it's a big loss for the UK to not have Nigel Farage there. And we'll see what happens. Again, he's not going away forever. He said he's going to be coming back. So we'll keep an eye on Nigel. I do like him a lot. And I think he's been able to generate a lot of excitement for the people, right? Again, for the people

there in the UK. But it's not as easy over there. You guys know that. I mean, heck, you can't really say what you want to say over there. You can't. actually speak with the freedom that you have here. I'm going to be over there a little bit, doing some reporting for you this summer, and I'm like, oh, I better be careful. I better be careful. You weren't able to, for example, play the street scenes in Belfast, Ireland.

Remember that over the summer? Because they wanted to squash that, and they thought that somehow people that were streaming that video just trying to report the truth were actually encouraging these riots. And so that was a total restriction. on speech. I mean, we are lucky that we have the freedoms that we have right here. And I think Nigel Farage would be a lot better off if we had similar, similar freedoms. But I would just say this. Right now, the entire world, I mean the entire world is terrified of Donald Trump.

Just terrified. I mean, wait until you hear what Mark Roots is saying. Mark Root, he's the Secretary General, right, of NATO, and he's been behind the scenes trying to keep this whole alliance together. And he knows it's hanging by a thread. He's no fool. He's no fool. And so here's where it gets interesting. He just put out a piece in the Washington Post today. And he actually borrowed some terms from Pete Heggseth. NATO 3.0, he's calling it. Pete Hegseh was saying just the other day. This is NATO 3.0. So the title of his op-ed in the Washington Post, Mark Ruta, remember the Secretary General to NATO, is NATO 3.0 is rising and buying American. Ooh, now that's a headline we'd like to see, right? He said they have leaned too heavily on U.S. muscle. And now they're starting to build their own. And they're buying American defense to build their own. Here he is writing again in the post. Today I say with conviction, the times have changed.

As we gather for our summit in Ankara, Turkey, America's allies are making clear that their mindset has shifted. Oh, yeah. Okay. Renewed collective strength, not unhealthy dependencies, will drive peace, security and prosperity for the years ahead. So how is it that they're coming? to that realization right now. I think it's because effectively they had a gun to their head,

right? They had Donald Trump saying, no, no, I'm not going to pay for you guys anymore. You're on your own, kiddos. In Ankara, he writes, we are building for the future by ensuring that we have the forces and capabilities we need and that responsibility is and will be more fairly shared. NATO is and will always be a transatlantic alliance. Oh, really? But it is essential that we rebalance our security for the better. America's allies are stepping up. This is NATO 3.0 in action, a stronger Europe in a stronger NATO. This transformation will make us all more secure the U.S. and its allies alike. Well, I agree with that.

By the way, our whole team, this entire administration believes this very, very strongly. So we want Europe to be strong because a strong Europe is a better ally for us. Right? I mean, and let's be honest. When you've got the President of the United States floating the idea of pulling an all-American troops out of Europe all together, you've got some headwinds against you. But Mark Ruta is no fool. He knows that the way to Donald Trump's heart is by creating better economic opportunities for Americans so that we're no longer looking at Europe as a liability, but maybe as a,

dare I say, customer. So you read the next part of this op-ed in the Washington Post. He writes, as leaders gather in Akara, we will announce tens of billions of dollars in new contracts, with companies in Europe and North America. We will also demonstrate how we are investing in key technologies to meet the security demands of today and tomorrow. Capabilities made across NATO will grow economies, strengthen our tech edge, and create jobs on both sides of the ocean. He points out that apparently European defense orders, right? They're going to order from American defense companies are already sustaining 195,

thousand American jobs, not bad. 54 billion in 2025 with 300 billion in the pipeline. And in Ankara, we're going to take this even further. Okay, okay, okay, okay. So give a new meaning to the term, show me the money. All right, show us the money. Okay, Mark, here he is talking today about the new NATO 3.0. Last year at the NATO summit in the Heik, Allies made important commitments

to invest 5% of GDP and defense, to accelerate production and to speed up innovation. One year later, we can already see the results. Last year alone, European allies and Canada spent nearly 20% more on defense than the year before. An extra $139 billion. Looking at 2025 and 26,2006,200,000. together, it is an increase, again, Canada and the Europeans, of $258 billion, more than $250 billion. And that's just the additional investment.

So basically one thing is clear. The money is there and much more is coming. But this cash must be put to work. It needs to purchase capabilities to actually deter and defend. governments and the defense industry are laying the path by investing in expanding defense production. Over the last year alone, we have seen 37, 37 billion dollars invested in just boosting our defense industrial base itself. Again, think about this number, 37 billion to boost our defense industrial base. Okay, okay, okay. Let's keep going here, Mark. What else are you got for us? Show me the money.

And preparedness. According to our projections by next year, the alliance will have the capacity to produce around 4 million artillery shells annually. Okay. Almost twice as many as last year. Okay. That skill. So yes, we have made real progress. Okay. We are moving in the right direction. direction. The strategy is clear. But the match is far from over. And to win it, we need all team members to pull their weight. Okay, here we go. Here we go. Here we go. He's pressuring them. You see, they're not all pulling their weight. He actually has a really hard job. Think about this. He's trying to salvage this whole thing, but you have a bunch of deadbeats who don't want to cover a darn thing. They don't want to pay their tab. So listen to this. Faster together. We don't have

have the luxury of time, we need capabilities. Now to ensure we remain ready. Yeah. Security situation. Yeah, the security situation is scary, right? I know. Putin's going to come get you guys. I mean, this is the Wall Street Journal this week saying that they had some kind of therapy night when they got to dinner, got together for dinner. In emergency meeting, a European leader has vented so emotionally about Trump's tariffs and threats against Greenland that some would later call the session therapy night. Ooh, it all comes back to Greenland. Remember that.

You don't mess with the Danes. I tried once. They're a scary little group. So Mark Ruta is trying to salvage this thing, but it started going sideways over Greenland, and then it really went sideways when it turned out none of these countries would allow us to use our bases. All right. So what happens next? They're having a therapy session. They say it all started with Greenland.

By the way, Trump agrees with that. He said today, yeah, it started with Greenland. But, you know, this is the ramification of it all. We pay, you don't pay, and that's got to end. He posted this on Thursday of last week. The U.S. spends more money on NATO than any other country, and he's going on about how much we spend on defense, nearly a trillion. The U.K. is spending $90 billion. France, 66, Italy, 48, Poland, 44 billion, I mean, Germany much lower. You don't even see little Pedrito Sanchez and Spain in that group, right? No, there are nowhere to be found. And then just in case he didn't get it with the numbers, he had a picture chart that he also put out the next day. So the problem is the mainstream media and the Europeans themselves,

this is why they didn't want him elected, right? Think about it. They did not want, they knew this day would be coming, and this is what scared the living daylights out of them. And now that day is here. This day, is here, guys, right upon us at this moment in time. Like I said, we're on the front lines of history, and you now have the Wall Street Journal and plenty of other publications, because there's more where that came from. I like the Wall Street Journal. I actually do, and I like the FT, and I like Bloomberg and Reuters and all of these things.

I mean, I've worked for a bunch of them, right? But they have their bias. And their bias here is that the elephant in the room is probably the threat of Putin. They go on to say, oh, sure, he's talking about, gee, America spends this mind. and Italy only spends this much and France only spends this much, but they're ignoring, or he's ignoring, the Wall Street Journal and the mainstream media as a whole. This is the party line, okay? This is the party line. It's worth understanding, worth knowing. They're saying that this is ignoring that peace in Europe is a core U.S. interest.

It's not charity work, they say, as those who have survived the 20th century can attest. I don't dispute that. I doubt you dispute that. Yes, you know, peace in the world in general is very much a core U.S. interest. But how do you really create that peaceful environment and how do you make sure that the U.S. is not the one footing the bill for peace in the entire world? Maybe the answer is, and this gets back to a little bit of, you know, econ 101, you need some incentives. Right? So if you're going to have free trade, let's really have free trade. Because we don't have free trade right now. We don't have free trade when, you know, France gets to charge a nice little tariff on air. any good that comes in from the U.S., but we can't do the same.

You know, that French champagne, you're getting a bargain on it because there's no tariff. If they try to actually drink a Sauvignon Blanc or a Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa Valley, they're hitting it with a big giant tariff over there in Spain. Forgive me. France. Spain, too. But you understand where this is going. That's actually not free trade. So if you really do want peace and if you believe that free trade is something that generates a more peaceful environment because you have these trade negotiations and businesses that are all growing together

in countries that are growing together, then don't you actually want free trade? You're not getting it. You're not getting it at all. So he actually is noticing these things. Nobody else has at all. They're pointing out what Mark Ruta wanted you to know that, yes, they're spending 20% more than they did last year. Whoop-de-do, okay? You got to cough up more than 20% more. We want 5% of GDP. Do you hear me? 5% of GDP. And Georgia, you can't say, well, gee, GDP is less than we thought, so we're not going to give 5% of our current GDP. You're saying you're going to give us, what, 2% of a smaller overall number?

When we're supposed to get 5% of whatever your headline number is, I don't think so. That's not going to work. Anyway, it goes on to say that, you know, they're moving troops to Poland and the Baltics. And by the way, that's a good idea, right? Poland's actually paying its bill, and some of those Baltic countries are doing a heck of a lot better than France. in Germany, in Spain, forget about Spain, and of course, Italy. So this is good news. But here's the thing.

They're like, how dare he launch this six-month review of our European allies? This six-month review is the, you know, Pete Hagseth, keeping a list, checking it twice. Got to find out who's notty or nice. And let's see, six months, July, August, September, October, November, December. I think they launched this actually in Brussels last year. oh, so my little theme fits by Christmas time will know who's naughty, who's nice, okay? And if you're naughty, you're actually, you're going to lose a lot. You're going to lose a lot.

You're going to lose troops. You're going to lose money. It's game over for anybody who thinks that they can get away with not pain. Those days are so fundamentally gone. And I think they're starting to understand this. I mean, so now they're going to buy our fighter jets, our missile defense systems, our ammunition, they're going to expand their own armed forces. And this is what we want, right?

Because then our company's benefit, we're not putting our lives on the line. They're putting their lives on the line. And maybe if their lives are on the line, they have skin in the game, they're going to be a little more reluctant than to jump into every little conflict that comes their way. The incentives need to be changed. There need to be real incentives that encourage these people to go out and work for themselves. A little capitalism being injected into Europe. What do you know? 80 years later.

I like it. I like it. I like it. But they're going to have to get a handle on a whole bunch of things. Immigration. Major, major, major, major, major problem. They can't afford all these people they're bringing in to Europe. They can't. Not to mention the cultural disaster. I mean, Donald Trump, again, alerting to them to this. You guys are making a catastrophic mistake. Here he is.

Because as you probably noticed, Europe's a very different place than it was 20 years ago. A lot different, much different. It's a much different. And they better be careful with immigration and energy. If they're not careful with those two things, you're not going to have a Europe anymore. He's right. I mean, you just won't. Heck, we barely have a Minneapolis, right? Like, we've had to deal with this ourselves. And you got a problem when you have everybody living high off the hog off of social welfare programs. Well, if the United States, mom and dad aren't there to, like, write the checks anymore, how are you going to have all those social welfare programs there in Europe? Trump warning that Europe needs to get a handle on migration before it's too late. You're going to lose your culture. You were going to lose your economy. You are going to lose, lose, lose, lose. This isn't campaign rhetoric, okay? This has nothing. He's not campaigning. He has nothing to win from this other than,

let's make sure that we change the course of history. This is the biggest reset since World War II, and this is what he's trying to do. So it's a big deal. And he recognizes the flaws in Europe, much like he recognized the flaws here at home. I mean, last year, last year alone, European countries received well over a million asylum applications from Germany or into Germany, into Spain, into France, into Italy.

Those were the countries receiving the largest numbers. And at the same time, you had illegal, illegal migration all across the Mediterranean. There's remained a major challenge, despite efforts from some to tighten border enforcement. I mean, Italy's been trying. The European Union has sort of been trying, but then Italy does wacky things like this. You see what's on the screen? The 500,000 that Georgia wants in? Well, it's be technical.

It's 497,550. She admitted 164,850 migrants a lot from the Middle East coming in to Italy because she said it's better for the economy. They need people to perform these jobs. I don't think the people would agree with that. You know, you have a very high unemployment rate in Italy. And in my reporting, talking to people that, there. What I hear consistently over and over again, including from many young people, is that

nobody can actually get a head start. Nobody can actually have a family, for goodness sakes, because they can't even move out of mom and dad's house. Oh, wow. Gee, that kind of sounds like a big, giant theme that's going on. It's happened on the individual level, right, with individuals, young people not being able to move out of mom and dad's house, and then you got the whole European economy not being able to move out of our house. We're stuck with them. We were. But things are change in. And if it's not Donald Trump force in this change, it may just be the people of Europe themselves. Look at this. So this is some video I'm showing you of protests in Rome a few weeks ago. People taking to the streets because they're saying, listen, the immigration is out of control.

We can't take this anymore. And they blame Georgia Maloney and they blame their leaders for all of this. And so they're experiencing much of what we experienced here. The same exact stuff. I mean, think about these political consequences or these political sort of similarities are impossible to miss. In Europe, you've got this anti-establishment, anti-immigration sort of uprising that's happening. I mean, these immigration-focused parties are gaining ground in election after election in Germany right now, the sort of alt-right movement gaining a lot of success in France. Marie Le Pen announcing today that she is running for president. Don't forget, Macron is stepping down.

He was another Trump casualty, effectively. Marie Le Pen coming up, trying to rise up as president of France. You see similar things happening in Sweden. I mean, Sweden's been a disaster because of all the migration, of all the people that came in and totally have changed the fabric of that society. Women used to feel so safe in Sweden no longer. And then, of course, in Italy, as I showed you those Rome protests, even in Britain, right? Same kind of thing going on, and this is why Nigel Farage has been so powerful.

It remains one of the dominant issues. And so Donald Trump's argument that we responded to here in the U.S. is pretty straightforward. You know, if governments fail to control who enters their countries, eventually what's going to happen? Voters are going to replace those governments. And whether you agree with that assessment or not, I'll tell you, it's happening. It's shaping politics here. It's shaping politics there. So both sides of the Atlantic,

this is what is happening. And so when you talk about putting America first, this is what people are responding to. They have a huge migration problem there. The first reading of parliament is closed. So this is some video I'm showing you of the EU. just a couple of weeks ago making the decision to send home to port any migrant who came to the

country illegally, came to the region illegally, and has committed a crime. So they're chanting, send them back. Again, you see this momentum happening both sides of the Atlantic. I mean, Stephen Miller calling out what's been going down in California, for example. I mean, it's happening all over the country. Obviously, it happened to a great extent with a border that was open and porous in Mexico into the U.S. Bonkers stuff. I mean, really bonkers. Like, I can't believe that anybody had the policy that Kamala and Joe had.

I just can't believe it. But now, you know, in California, they get a similar thing going on. Let's listen to Miller. This was not a loophole. The Biden administration, Secretary of Homeland Security, Alej, Major. devised a scheme to fly illegal aliens into the country and then to escort them in mass across the border by the millions and to give them something known as parole, which gives them a work permit, which gives them a social security number, which gives them access to the voting booth. This was the plan all along to get them here illegally so they can get free government benefits, get hooked to welfare, and be able to participate in American elections. This was an attack on democracy by the Democrat Party.

It's the same attack that we see, Sean, when you have California, a sanctuary stay that is refusing to turn over even illegal alien criminals to ICE. So these are illegal aliens in California who have been arrested by California police, by California law enforcement for serious crimes. They are refusing to hand these criminal illegal aliens over to ICE. Instead, they're freeing them back, to the cities to offend and offend again. By any definition, what California is doing is criminal.

It is a violation of our laws. It is one of the most heinous things that I have seen. Wow. He's so good. He scares the living daylights out of the left, of course. It's really not fair. But he's just, he's really a powerful speaker. And I think that that gets to them. But, you know, this is what this is what Donald Trump faced here in the U.S. This is what voters faced in the U.S. And I'll tell you, he got another major win today, a huge major announcement that I've got to get to. But first, I want to take a quick moment to just tell you about one of our great sponsors on the show.

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Another, a huge win for the Trump administration today. Toyota, the company, just, announced plans to make a massive new investment in Texas. How do you like that? While shifting significant production of the Tacoma pickup from Mexico into the United States of America. That's what I'm talking about, right? Show me the money. Show me the money. The investment is valued at roughly $3.6 billion. It's expected to generate about 2,000 American jobs. Now, Toyota has a lot of reasons for doing this, right? A lot of reasons for making this decision.

I would argue that our workers are better here in the U.S., and if you want productivity levels, be high. You want to be here in the U.S. of A. You don't want to be in Mexico. But there are some other reasons, potentially, including tariffs, et cetera, that the president is pointing to as good examples of why tariffs are so positive for changing corporate behavior.

You know, his argument is pretty simple here. If companies want access to the American consumer, what do you do? You build in America. You hire American workers, not foreign ones. You invest in American companies. Whether you agree with tariffs or not, you know, politically, this is exactly the kind of announcement. The White House was very, very proud to say.

And here he put it up on two social this morning. Toyota's moving from Mexico to the United States. Texas, a really big deal. Tariffs at work. President Donald J. Trump putting that out at 821 this morning. And then he went, as he was in Turkey, this morning. this morning over to that bilateral meeting with Erdogan and said the following. It came over the wires that Toyota is moving out of Mexico into the United States

and building one of the biggest truck and car plants ever built. That's amazing. That's what tariffs do, properly used. And so we've never had a more exceptional economy or potential economy. There's never been anything like it. You don't think about this. We talked about UCMA, right? USMCA, I should say, just the other day.

And that was the trade deal that he put together, first time in office, with Mexico and Canada. Now, remember, that trade deal was up for renewal on July 4th, and he chose to not renew it. He did not renew it. So what that means is now every year, it's going to come up for. for renewal and they'll have like another chance to negotiate it. And eventually, I think it's either six years or ten years, it's going to expire. And if they haven't finished off renewing it and put in like a 16 year permanent agreement, then it goes by-bye. So if you're Toyota, think about this for a second. If you're Toyota and you want some kind of stability, you want to be investing

in an economy with stability. And if you don't know where the tariff situation, you're a is going to shake out in the good old Mexico factory, you're like, I'm out of here. I'm out of here. I'm out of here. I'm out of here. You see, this is actually a big win for unions as well, because don't forget, NAFTA never worked, right? It was supposed to work. It was a total disaster, certainly for the American worker,

because American workers lost a ton of jobs, and I could run those stats all day for you. You saw factory jobs disappearing to Mexico. His idea is we're going to bring them back. Now, I would argue you're going to get better productivity and better success out of your American workers, but he's putting the sort of pedal to the medal here because he's like, okay, you can choose to be in Mexico,

and I may choose to tear a few because you don't have an agreement anymore. The USMCA is finito. We're not going to change anything just yet, but we really could. And so I would point out it's not a full exit from Mexico. They still have some operations in Mexico, but they're making a huge investment. I mean, that is a lot of money, a lot of money, $3.6 billion to start. they're saying that all in, it's actually going to reach $8.3 billion that's being invested in Texas. Toyota's all together.

When it's all said and done, they're going to create 2,000 new jobs, put $8.3 billion in. Forgive me, it's actually going to be $8.3 billion since 2003. So they already have some operations in Texas. With today's announcement, you're looking at $8.3 billion all in. So this is just huge. I mean, this is, again, I think proof for him that these policies are working because people don't want to mess around with this. This is serious, again, leverage, and he's not afraid to use it, right?

Think about it, America's relationship with the rest of the world. You pay your share. You protect your borders. We'll protect ours. You invest in America. We'll make great products. We've got great workers. This is the message here, okay?

You want access to the world's biggest economy? You want our protection? then you got to kind of play ball with us. Thank you very much. That's the way it works. And if you weren't entirely sure, well, then we got to talk about Greenland because perhaps nothing illustrated that vision more

than what he said today about Greenland. Don't forget what I told you. The Wall Street Journal running a front page article just yesterday saying that all the European leaders were threatened and having some kind of therapy session over Greenland. Right, Greenland is the sticking point. Well, it really became an issue today because Donald Trump doubled down and he said, Greenland, quote, should be controlled by the United States.

Not Denmark. Yeah, let's watch. With respect to what? Well, that's what hurt my relationship with NATO. Because Greenland doesn't help Denmark. Denmark doesn't spend money to really help. help Greenland, but it's an important part for the United States. And it's surrounded by China ships and Russian ships. And that's not going to happen. The ships is not going to happen. It was Greenland

that in my, and it continues to be, that should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark. And when they wouldn't go along with it, and with all the money we spend to help them with Russia, and we don't have to spend any money. We could remove all of our soldiers out of Europe. Woo! Okay? So now we've just linked, we're going to take all our soldiers and go home with Denmark. You see, this really was a sticking point with him. You know, a lot of people are like, oh, you know, they kind of brushed it aside. And now he's there in a very important moment with very important discussions. And that was not off the cuff. I mean, I don't think so. I think everything is sort of done with the reason. I would say this. He's very vocal, right? He's.

always telling you exactly what he thinks, and he doesn't really shy away from things, but he hasn't brought Denmark up a lot recently. Today they asked him, well, how's things going? How are things going with NATO? And he said, you know, the real problem was Denmark. The real problem was Denmark. And I just want you to know we could take all our troops and go home. So this was a deliberate statement by the president.

He made it on the world stage, and you may be saying to yourself, gee, why does he care about Greenland? Well, there's a strategic argument here, for starters, Greenland is enormous, right? I mean, you're talking about, 836 square, 836,000, 836,000, yeah, 3,600, almost a million square miles. So it's the world's largest island. And just to put in perspective, it's like three times the size of Texas. I know we think, you know, everything's big in Texas. Greenland's like three times Texas. And they only have 57,000 people living there.

Ooh, okay. So these are nice like odds, right? Because how many people do you have to really worry about? You know, in Venezuela, you're taking on a liability. A lot of liabilities. In Greenland, not so many liabilities. Only 57,000 people live there. I mean, heck, you could give them all a whole bunch of money. I think you'd be able to buy this up pretty quick. 80% of the island is covered by ice. But it's got a location that is enormously important. That is what makes it so valuable. And if you look at the globe instead of like a flat map, what you see is Greenland. I used to have one of these globes as a kid.

I actually have one outside the office. I should have brought it on set. But anyway, Greenland sits directly between North America and Europe, and it's extending deep into the Arctic. And that's important because during the Cold War, it made it one of America's most important early warning positions against the Soviet Union. And today, the United States still operates the Petufik Space Base, formerly the Thul Air Base, And these all play major roles, major roles in warning systems, right? And missile defense and space surveillance. These are very important things for the presidents, especially as we think about the future.

And then you get the Arctic itself. And the thought there is, is if the polar ice is really going to be melting, then you're going to have shipping lanes that were once frozen, actually start to become increasingly available. And we're going to be able to navigate those. So you want Russia and China basically all there hanging out? I mean, they're investing very heavily in the Arctic, and they're going to then, therefore, have potential control over those routes.

And that could influence the future of global trade. So you see, he's just thinking like 100 years in the future. He's not thinking two years in the future. He's thinking strategically way, way ahead. And he has repeatedly argued that the United States cannot afford to let these strategic competitors. I'm being nice. You could go with enemies, China.

Russia. We'll go with strategic competitors, all right? I'm doing very nice. You can't allow them to dominate. This is not just about geography here. Greenland is believed to contain also significant deposits of rare earth materials. Those are relevant for us. Other critical resources that are very, very important. We use them in everything from smartphones, right, to electronics, electric vehicles, the lithium, right, that you need for the batteries to advance weapons systems. So China, they are currently kind of dominating that, right? They get the edge on the rare earth supply. we've been making some changes. I mean, just getting Venezuela, for example, and I say getting, but yeah, I guess we're kind of getting it. We have a lot more say down there in Venezuela these

days. That's important because they also have rare earth supply in addition to, obviously, oil in the Orinoco region that you've heard me talk about at Najum. So securing these alternatives is really, really important. This is a major objective for him. It's huge, okay? Like, why is it that no other the president was actually thinking about this stuff. I mean, I don't even know if Biden really could think. Certainly wasn't thinking about the future of Greenland. And everybody laughed at the president when he started talking about this. But he's darn serious, right?

And other presidents have before because, you know, this is not happening in a vacuum. If you go back to the 1800s and you think about some of the efforts that were made then, in 46, actually, 1946, you had an... offer again coming forward, $100 million in gold was actually offered at one point to Denmark for the island and Denmark rejected the offer, but I will tell you this, the strategic interest has never fully disappeared. And Denmark, you know, they're sitting there saying, no, no, no, no, no, no, their positions on change, it's not for sale. No, no, no, no, no, no, they're freaking, they hate Donald Trump. They hate me too, but they really hate Donald Trump. I told you, I got some experience

with these guys. Yeah, their economy isn't so hot either. You know, all of these socialist economies they've been changing a little bit towards capitalism over the years. And when I once dinged them a bit about their economy and had a little too much fun with it, they went bonkers. I mean truly, truly bonkers. They're still angry with me over it. Anyway, they're more angry with Donald Trump, so I'd rather have them taking him on than little old me. Anyway, they are really angry that this president is trying to take Greenland. But let's be honest, who do you think we do a better job protecting Greenland? I mean, for Donald Trump, this is not like a normal real estate deal. This is a very strategic, very important deal that has a lot to do with national security. And judging by

what he said today at NATO, he has no intention of dropping the issue. Now, we've reported this in the past that a lot of the sort of powers that be there in the White House, White House are saying that the U.S. is in active high-level talks with Denmark. I mean, Marco Rubio has been asked about it. Do you remember when Marco Rubio was asked by somebody about Denmark? And I think the question was, do you remember, it was something about how Denmark is not part of the United States, this person said to him. And he said under his breath, not yet. in other words, that was a telltale sign. And then he went on to say, well, these negotiations are going on, et cetera, and I'm not,

you know, I'm not privy to talk about it. But I think what we're seeing is that the White House is dead serious, okay? They want to expand our footprint there. They want to run Greenland. This is national security. This is military positioning. This is the next geopolitical, frontier, and it's important. So I don't see this one going away. Sorry, Denmark, sorry, sorry, sorry.

You know, we're going to get Greenland. We are. And that's the backdrop of all the insanity there at NATO. It's not just about you guys spending. It's about us getting what we consider the big cahuna, and that is Greenland. The administration coming out today announcing new military action against Iran. This just happened within the last couple of hours. You see the United States is backing here. Additional strikes. We're putting them on. And we're also reimposing sanctions. Sanctions going in to Iran because you had some commercial vessels that were attacked by drones. drones that were linked to IRGC-backed forces. So what's going on? I mean, I said, did I not from the beginning? You can never, ever trust Iran. You can never, ever, ever trust Iran. Don't think that this is like a

normal business arrangement. These people are not normal people. They are religious fanatics. And because they are such religious fanatics, it is very difficult to do any kind of deal with them. But this is exactly why you can never allow for them to have a nuclear weapon because they're all freaking crazy. Here they are. They got a great deal with the president. He's opening up the global economy to them. And what do they do? They get their little R.RGC militias on the side to then go attack. Three vessels? Commercial vessels? Well, sorry, guys, game over then. This MOU is basically being violated.

Donald Trump said he had no problem coming out and undoing everything he did. There was not going to be a deal if they screwed up. And guys, they're screwing up. Okay, here we are. The official telling the Epic Times, credit to them, they were one of the first to report this today. They had the U.S. Treasury Department quoted here. The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Controls. This is the group that's responsible for the sanctions.

It's the financial enforcement, right? So all this oil gets traded in dollars. Well, guess what? If any of that oil is coming from Iran, it's not going to be traded in dollars anymore. They're revoking a license that allowed Tehran to produce sell and deliver oil under that memorandum of understanding. It was signed by Iran in the United States in mid-June to end hostilities. And now it's being torn up, okay, in real time. Here's the quote.

The Office of Foreign Assets Controls is revoking GLX. which authorize the sale of Iranian oil. As President Donald Trump and the administration have repeatedly affirmed, the MOU in effect with Iran is entirely performance-based, and you guys screwed up. I mean, you know, you can lead a horse to water. You can't make them drink, and that's the problem we have with Iran. You can give them everything in the world, every opportunity in the world,

and you have a bunch of nut jobs that just want to fight. I mean, the Palestinians, I'm sorry, they are the same darn way. Look at what Clinton said. He had a peace deal right there for the taking. Did Arafat take it? No. want peace. They only want to fight. This is their entire existence, you guys. They want to run the world. And by the way, they've been doing a really good job. Infiltrating here in the US of A.

Yeah, Mamdami and his backup singers, the three little stooges that won in New York. You think about Ilhan Omar. You think about that nut job, Hassan, what's his name? I think he's worried about getting ding-dizzy foreign asset, the one that has that streaming show. Piker? Yeah. Anyway, U.S. launching new strikes against Iranian targets, the AP picking the story up after, actually, the Epic Times. Wall Street Journal also reporting this out here today. This coming this afternoon, the oil prices, yes, they have started to jump. I mean, this is why oil is so volatile right now because of these sanctions being put back into place. Don't forget, they're controlling 20% of the world's supply, right?

It's going through the Strait of Hormuz. So if the Strait of Hormuz shuts down, you know the drill. We've been through it before, right? you get 20% of the supply. It's a global commodity. It doesn't matter that it's all coming from the U.S. these days. And by the way, it is. We're like the world's largest supplier of oil to the world right now.

Thank you very much. So it's been kind of good for us. But if you're restricting the supply, then it, of course, drives prices higher. And so the president had wanted to bring these down. But, you know, what are you going to do? You can only do what you can do. And Iran can't get out of its own damn way. You know who else can't get out of Iran way?

Sunny Hauston on the view is really just a train wreck. And if you thought she was a train wreck, it got worse today because they decided to bring on a real circus performer. And by that, I mean, Marjorie Taylor Green. Yeah, I mean, she could be running P.T. Barnum herself. Anyway, just to back up for a second before we get there, know how crazy it is, because apparently Sonny Haaston is so scared of American flags, she actually feels that they are a symbol of white supremacism. I mean, we're talking bonker lady insanity. I mean, she might have just at this point, go move to Iran, okay? Like, maybe you'll have more fun there.

They're burning the American flag over there, saying, death to America. Maybe that'll make you feel a little better, Sunny. Of course, you're going to have to wear the headscarf and everything that may not go over so well with you. And I said this on this show many, many years ago, because this is my 10th year on the show, and I said there are times when I walk into a community

and I see American flags all over the community, and I suddenly feel unsafe because there is a section of this, country that has co-opted the American flag and they equate being an American or an American flag with white supremacy. And that should never be ever the symbol of white supremacy. But they have weaponized because the flag belongs to all of us. It does belong to all of us. But those men were wearing a flag on their on their right. Okay. I know. I know. Nobody wants to watch her. But this got weird. This got weird really fast. And I just have to ask you,

are the producers inviting MTG on this show? Like, why can't they actually find a real conservative? Why do they have to double down on crazy? I think MTG is looking for a job. And I think, you know, she kind of fits the casting directing narrative, right? You have to have a bunch of trump haters on the view. So now suddenly she's a trumpeter. But now it gets weird because, you know, don't forget the nut job in Maine, Graham Platner, the one with the Nazi tattoo. Boy, do they know how to pick him. Elizabeth Warren said, he's my kind of guy.

All the rape victims are coming out saying, yeah, he's not their kind of guy. Listen, this guy's going to be out. You've even got Bernie Sanders turning against him now. And yet who goes in for the kill to say, oh, he's just so great. And then some? M.T.G. I told you. welcome to Barnum and Bailey Circus, courtesy of the view and MTG. Watch.

Republicans at this point can ask us to take the moral high ground. There you go. That is over at this point. Opsie Daisy. That's not the way. I'm going to show you more. I'm going to show you more. Opsie Daisy, because this is actually just sunny house and doubling down on the crazy Grand Platner. Oh, yes, she wants you to know there's a reason she's going to support him no matter what, because apparently you can't have the moral high ground. You got to go low. Republicans at this point can ask us to take the moral high ground. There you go.

That is over at this point. That is over. I'm sorry. Democrats have always fallen in love and Republicans have always fallen in line. It's time for Democrats to stop that nonsense, put emotions on the side. Let's be strategic. Let's get some power. Let's take over the Senate.

Let's take over the House. And let's write the ship. Let's get our country back. I am sorry. I am someone that believes in character. I am someone that believes that morals matter. But because of the state of this country, I would, if I lived in Maine, I would hold my nose and I would vote for platinum. Okay. So she has no moral foundation, shall we say. I think she just made that quite clear. I'm not sure if that was before the latest accusation or that was just after the first few accusations. apparently they were Republican women now that like a liberal woman has come out. I don't know. I can't

quite keep this straight. But like let's just suffice it to say, I could have told you way back when. You know, you had me a tattoo. Nazi tattoo. You had me there, okay? And then the rest is just icing on the cake. This is one bad dude. Anyway, leave it to MTG to go all in for one bad dude. Circus time. That you tweeted yesterday that you kept up. You seem to imply that A-PAC might be, involved with the latest allegations of sexual assault by Graham Platner. Well, criticism of APEC is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Well, criticism of APEC is perfectly legitimate political discourse. Do you not understand that this plays into anti-Semitic tropes about Jews controlling things,

about Jews and money and power and politics? What do you even mean by that? Of course she understands that because MTG never, ever misses an opportunity to double down on anti-Semitism. I mean, she might actually be sporting one of those tattoos on her little honey herself. Well, what I mean by that is actually, big honey. It's unfortunate that rich donors that put Israel first are playing in American politics. Just like my friend Thomas HACS. To be clear, it's Americans who care about U.S. No, no, no, they care about Israel first. Israel's committing genocide. That, you do know, the under federal law, only American citizens. No, no, no.

contribute to AP. Let me tell you the future of this country is Americans are sick and tired of funding Israel's genocidal wars that are killing children in Gaza and Lebanon. For the record, that may be your position. I don't support the government of Israel. I support people. And I support Americans and I support our tax dollars being used for our purposes. Do you see how this is? However, APAC took out one of my good friends, Thomas Massey, okay? And Thomas Massey worked for his district. Thomas Macs also worked against me. Donald Trump endorsed against Thomas Massey. Thomas, you're going to blame a Merriam Adelson.

Because it feels like William Adelson put in. It feels like you're blaming. No, I'm blaming, I'm blaming donors that put Israel first over America. And this is American donors who support Israel. We don't, we're out of time. She's bitter. She's really bitter, right? She's, it's all about Israel. She's really bitter.

Crazy woman, okay? Crazy, crazy, crazy woman. And I got to say, like, it is so. good that Donald Trump cut her off. And she still is not over that. And she doesn't even get that Massey, he was a victim of himself, right? Himself. Okay. So you thought that was bad. I mean, I thought that was bad. And then guys, I saw this. And I just have to ask you, what are these producers thinking? What are they doing? Maureen, I agree with your assessment here. Why is she even on the show? Why would they ever put this woman, this atrocious woman? I don't know how she ever got elected.

Donald Trump didn't want her running again because he saw the polls. Yeah, I don't know if that's come out, but behind the scenes, that's, that's, that's the story. He saw the poll numbers and he knew she had no shot. No one likes her. She's crazy town. Perfect for the view. Let me ask you this because yesterday on X in a now deleted post, you accused Platner's accuser of doing, quote, rape for politics, end quote, stating that she had consensual sex with him years ago. No, I didn't accuse.

I said, I said women should report rape. Right. Because you want to know why. We want to get these rapists off the street. Early on in the tweet. And I'll tell you, I'm a former sex crimes prosecutor as they were trying to. Yeah, but you're going to finish. Okay, by the way, I just have to say, guys, like, this is such a weird exchange.

And when I actually think that Sunny's making sense, I don't know what's going on with the world. But just watch it. And it gets really ugly as I put on the lower third very fast. I wish you'd put my if you put my deleted tweet up we have it we have it put it up please okay we'll get it okay well they look for it but I just want to make sure my words aren't twisted it can someone bring my phone out to me you don't have your phone since when do you not have your phone yeah well well what I recall because I do have the post but it has now been deleted you did say that women should report

early and I will tell you as a former sex crimes prosecutor women it is the most underreported crime in our country because women are not believed and because it is very difficult they're defamed often and they should be believed and it's very difficult for them to do it right also I will tell you you you also wrote that she had had consensual sex with him years ago the fact that someone dates people or has had consensual consensual sex with them previously does not that they cannot be raped. Married women can be raped. Sex workers can be raped. Of course. And that is often because I've handled some of those cases. Well, we're not.

No, actually we... Because I want to know why you would post her, post that and accuse her of rape for politics. Well, I would like to know why you wouldn't put up my actual post. Because we're going to do it. We're getting it. Because I wasn't accusing her. Here we go. Your exact quote, your exact was, if you were raped or sexually assaulted, reported immediately. Don't wait for years later until the man runs for office to go to go. to news outlets to tell your story. And if you had consensual sex with him years ago, don't turn it into rape for politics with conflicting stories.

Is that correct? No, those are three separate pieces. I do want to get to it. That's not, that's not all. So can you answer my question? Why did you post that? Absolutely. I posted that because I support women who have been raped or sexually assaulted. And I want them to have justice. But not if they've had

consensual sex before. Then secondly, don't wait until they're running for office. We need to know early on. She was warning the public. I was warning the public. No, but this woman is warning the public. I'm saying the public needs to be warned because rapists need to be, they need to be convicted.

I do want to ask you about it. It's not the woman's fault. Not at all. Congress, I want to ask you about another. Just like it's not Americans with flags in front of their house's fault, and it should not be offensive. Oh. Okay, well, that was kind of a good one that she had at the end, right?

I'll give her that. But why are they putting her on? Like, ask yourself that. I mean, are they that desperate for viewers? I think they probably are. And I think she's probably auditioning for a gig because she wants to be one of the ladies on that table. So, like, there's this incentive to just go crazy, crazy, crazy and more crazy.

But, you know, this guy, I think he's going to be out. You look at all the Democrats right now that are pulling their endorsements, one after another. I mean, except for the, the, true weirdos like oh isn't this eric swallows friend yeah that that would be um this would be erics wallos and guyago this guy is an authentic man you know he's not uh anti-semitic uh you know and more importantly you know not more importantly but just as important is that he's going to win this election and we need to win elections we cannot go another four or five six years you know

trying to get the Senate back. Like we need to consistently win because whoever's going to be president in 2020, eight, we need to hand them the House and the Senate. Okay. So here's the problem with the view and with politicians that are willing to just give up any kind of moral compass to go out and campaign for a guy who is clearly not a very good guy out in Maine. You know what's going on?

They have nowhere to go because, Donald Trump sucked up all the oxygen in the room in that he took all their platforms. He said, I care about the American people. I want to actually get deals that are good for the American people. The left didn't know how, one, to get the good deals. And two, well, maybe they did. Maybe they chose not to have them. Maybe, oh, I don't know, where there's some backroom deals going on with companies,

company lobbying interests saying, hey, you know what, let us go down to Mexico. We'll manufacture our cars in Mexico. Oh, that could have happened. Whatever went on. America got the short end of the stick. And the American people finally said, we have had it. And Donald Trump comes along,

and he said, okay, I may be a Republican, but you know what? I want free trade to be free. I'm actually going to enforce these tariffs. I may be a Republican, but I don't believe in open borders. And don't forget, that was actually kind of a Bush thing for a while, open borders. So he went in, he took out all the things that the Democrats actually historically had loved. And he said, I'd take this, then I'll take this and I'll take a little bit of this over here.

So he took all the goodies, right? And he's like, they're mine. And then all of a sudden, they were like, well, we can't actually like Trump. Like we can't, we don't like Donald Trump. I mean, he took all the good stuff, this and this and this and this. Well, they had to be anti-Trump. That was their only platform. That's all they had.

So all of a sudden they find themselves back. in a corner saying, well, we're for open borders. We're for, we're for free trade. That's not really free trade. We're for France tariffing the wazoo out of us. Well, we don't have any kind of reciprocity. They were for us bankroll in the world. I'm into the tune where we're paying 300 million for some, I don't know, trans opera and Columbia. Maybe it was 3 million. And maybe it was in Peru. No, that was the comic book, right? I don't care.

You know, you lost me with all that USAID spending going into Never, Neverland. For what? Like, what was that? And then all of a sudden, the Democrats are arguing that's necessary? It's not. It never was. And so once that got exposed, again, what do they have? What do the ladies on the view have?

what does the Democrat Party have? This is why they're going towards socialism, you guys. This is why they're trying to get, you know, an unvetted jerk like Graham Platner out there to run because maybe he seems like a man of the people, like AOC seemed like a lady of the people. No, none of these people are of the people. You know what happens in communism and socialism.

It happens every single time. Look at Mamdami. He's getting himself a nice little pay raise, right? In New York City, right? They just voted to have a $300,000 salary for the new mayor. It's like the first pay raise in years and years and years and years. While his wife, on the 250th birthday of the United States of America, decides to hop a plane to go to Mallorca for an Islamic religious retreat.

It can't be that much fun. It was Islamic. But still, Mallorca is a nice place. You see where I'm going. They are now trying to bring socialist, communists in because they got nothing. They don't know which way to turn. On the view, they don't have anything to offer, but suddenly the American flag is a symbol of hate, of white nationalism.

Are you kidding me? Leave then, okay? Just go, go, go, go, go. We don't need you here. We don't want you here. You do not love America. Fine, so be it. Now, granted, I'm a big believer in our First Amendment.

You know, not everybody has this. They don't have it over there in the UK, one single bit to the point where I'm going to probably have to be little bit careful what I report. Although that'd be a heck of a story, right? I think Donald Trump would help bail me out. We could start an international incident. I show some of the protests on the street. They come and arrest me in my hotel and brampanpa. We have ourselves quite an episode. But the point is that we have this and we have this for a reason and that's wonderful. So sure, you can hate on America all you want. It is your privilege as an American to hate this country.

but I'd say you're a little bit messed up in the head. And this is affecting your ratings. No one wants to watch you, and you're what I would call a Debbie Downer with one note in one note only. But you know what it helps us? It helps us over here on this side of the aisle because the more they go on about this insanity,

the more they just complain about America, the more the rest of us look at it and say, gee, you know what? He must be on to something. Hey, it's good to have you guys here. Thank you so much for all. all your wonderful, wonderful comments, a piece of my mind saying I'm getting a little feisty today. Yeah, just a little bit, I guess. MTG, I agree with you, 100%.

She's a weird, weird lady. And you know what? It's a good thing she's out of the party. Hey, listen, great to have you guys here. Big stuff going on. NATO's still happening tomorrow. I'll be right back here with you on the show. Lots more coming your way throughout the evening.

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