February 4, 2025 • 35 mins
And just like that Mexico blinks. Surprised? You shouldn’t be. Lieutenant Colonel James Carafano explains.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
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after the hour, Welcome to Tuesday, February. I can't believe
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can't believe. We're all going to be dead soon. And
everybody that knows this is going to be dead, and
(00:48):
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Speaker 3 (01:00):
I was listening today and talking about the meme of
comparing Obama Biden to Trump. I think the reason why
it stands out so much is the Obama Biden team
seems to not like our country so much and causes
us harm, whereas Trump is for us and for America,
and so when he pulls the other direction so hard,
(01:21):
it really stands out. Well, the thing is finally happening.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, it's nice to have a world leader that's putting
our interests first. Nice read. You think that's read. I
think the Duncan donuts guy has read. To Russell in Phoenix,
k f y, I we go.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I got one more for you, Donald Trump. Government at
the speed of right.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
All I can think of is that Ai generated Kama
looking drunk at an empty dark bar late at night,
whether bourbon, in front of her, saying I just have
to remind you.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Don't you ever let anybody take your power.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
You have the same power that you did before November.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah, thank god you don't. Donald Trump has gotten so
yesterday's a great example everybody freaking out with these tariffs.
What's he doing is going to drive up the cost
of living. He's going to destroy the economy before he
finishes his first month. The YadA YadA ya in the
Art of the deal is happening the whole time, and
all these people are on TV, ranting, raving, warning. By
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the time they get off the air and go to
the bathroom, Mexico had carved. By the time they got
back from lunch and got over there, you know, meal slumber,
Canada had caved. And by the time they put their
head on the pillow, Panama had caved. Mexico, Canada, Panama
(02:50):
all blinked. You surprised. You shouldn't have been. Lieutenant Colonel
James Carafano was here to explain why. Good morning, Lieutenant colonel.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
So what is really important is the tariffs on China,
and those are different than all these other terrorifts because
the terriffs are China are to send an important word,
which is, we need to stop doing business with this country,
right and we should we should buy stuff from other places.
(03:19):
Uh and uh and and if they and if they
don't want us to buy their stuff, I think we
should go and we should partner with other people and
buy them. So uh, this to me is this is
the real trade exactly all right.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
So let's but let's let's peel let's peel it back
a little bit and talk about it. I have always
felt like and I wonder if you agree that. You know,
I watched this academic guy and it was a very long,
very dry explanation. Uh. Most people talk about something in
a campaign, then they become president and they describe the problem,
they keep talking about it, nothing ever really gets done.
(03:58):
Donald Trump just out of the blue starts saying maybe
we should make Canada the fifty first trade for fifty
first eight. And people's response is this guy's nuts. No,
it's actually brilliant, and then it leads the tariff threat,
then it leads to the negotiation, and he ultimately gets
what he wants. It's a very disruptive, very effective force.
And what people think is the most uncomfortable or crazy
about him is actually the most effective. But China is
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what it's really all about. And I would actually go
one step further and say the president knew that all
the Canada and Mexico is not doing and taking advantage
of and being ungrateful for that, China was going to
PLoP and make cheap evs right across our border in
Mexico and flood our market with him. That's what's really
on his mind. And that's what I think yesterday took
(04:39):
shape to block. Yeah, there's a lot.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
I mean to your point is he was president for
four years. He spent four years playing to be president.
He's probably the most experienced world leader and around the
planet today.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
He probably knows more.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
World leaders than anybody else. He probably knows more about
what's going on around the world than any other world leader.
He came into office with a with a very serious
plan and let me, Mitchell, just subtlety of this guy.
Let's talk about the fifty first state thing in Canada
and how and how he really understands the dynamic better
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than the yahoos. Canada is a country in death spiral.
They have a chance to elect a conservative leader who
actually believes many of the things Donald Trump does. If
he stood up and said, let's partner with Donald Trump,
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most Canadians would actually vote for the Yahoos that are
destroying the country because they don't They just don't like Trump, right.
But when he's but when when the conservative leader stands
up says we don't want to be the fifty first state,
we should be We are a country we should be
proud of who we are and we should be responsible
for our country.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
More people are going to vote for this guy.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
So the fifty first state things actually kind of reverse psychology.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
It's just reminding.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
It's just reminding Canadians, like, dude, stand up and be
proud of who the heck you are.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
And the things that Donald Trump says that seemed the
most outrageous, most crazy, most disrespectful, are really the most brilliant.
You know, I was saying yesterday and everybody was predicting
everything was going to blow up on our face and
oil is going to go through the roof, expect to
pay another dollar ninety cents a gallon out At what's
he doing? He's nuts, you know. And I'm sitting here saying, look,
what if it's all about making sure peer wins that election?
(06:30):
All right? By drawing attention to this, because there's a
lot of people in Canada that want their border taking
care of for their own sake, wuant fetnahl taking care
of for their own sake, wuant terror's not coming into
their country on the way to our country.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Yeah, maybe it's about like not being stupid, right, And
when Donald Trump says something you're the first thought out
of your brain shouldn't be Well, let me, how can
I hate Donald Trump?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Maybe just to take like a tiny little droplet of
common sense. Mexico and Canada are export dependent economies. They
survived by exports. You know, the one thing an export
economy cannot afford to do, try to trade wark So
this notion that's I went actually in Europe. I got
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to tell you this.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I won't tell you who or when.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Somebody said, well, we were talking to the Canadians and
they are brilliant. They have a plan that if Trump
comes at them, they're going to retaliate and they're going
to make him feel the pay. And I'm looking at
them like you're joking, right, Like that's an s and
L skit, right, you're sixty sixty percent they're going to
fight a trade war with the United States.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Really, this is so opposite of reality. I just want
to make that clear. Uh, James Carafano is far more
successful than I've ever thought about being or ever will be.
But let's just say, for the sake of argument, that
sixty percent of your income comes from these weekly visits,
which nothing comes to you from these weekly visits, you know,
and one percent of my income comes from you being
(07:56):
on this show. Who can hurt who come exactly?
Speaker 6 (08:00):
I think?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Yeah, I mean it's just nuts. The China thing is
real love, right, because we need to stop doing business
with China. You know, there's a famous saying in the
British Empire that trade follows the flag yep, But they
never say the corollary, which is war follows the trade.
When adversarial countries are trade with each other, that actually creates.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
More friction and more likelihood of conflict.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Germany's biggest trading partner before the outbreak of World War.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
One, United Kingdom.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
So trade doesn't actually make relationships better. If you're trading
with people who are literally want to kill you, that
trade will become another irritant that will lead to war.
So actually the best thing for China and the United
States would be to stop doing business with each other.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
That would make the world say is there a concern
though that? As and again as a sovereign, independent nation.
Same annoils the other example, to be dependent upon enemies
who literally doctrinately first want to destroy Israel, then destroy you.
Your existence must be extinct to be dependent on them
for your source of energy is really foolish. I mean
(09:14):
I get that, But do you worry that as we
do all of this that it will unite Russia, China,
Iran and them more? I mean, address that for people
that make that ridiculous argument.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
Sorry, I did get I did get the guy on
Fox Business to Last the other day, who was he
was saying about sending Grail to Venezuela.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
You know, I said, that's like sending Luca Brodsky to
negotiate for.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
You, Luca Brozilis with the fish.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Well, yeah, because because nobody wanted to Nobody wants to
coach you.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
By the way, if you haven't figured it out, del
Jiarno Carafano, two Italians. Everything you need to know in
life comes from the Godfather. Go study. That's what we
were talking about. I think we were talking about Canada
taking the gun and leaving the Cans, or taking the
leaving the gun. Trump WoT to the mattress and everybody's caving. No,
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we were talking about would that unite Russia, China and Iran.
That's often the fear that comes out in argument, And
first of all, they're already united.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
But right, so this is the point is is you
can't stop them from getting together.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
This is ludicrous. And and the thing.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Is as well, we should embrace one of them and
that'll peel them off, and that will work because the
really reason why they're ganging up together is the only
thing they have in common is they all want to
destroy the America. So you can't say, well, let's leave
the alliance and come with me, and I'll give you
what you want, but I want the destruction of you.
So that's not really kind of a really incredible plan.
But the other thing is is they they It is
(10:51):
an alliance of necessity, and it is an alliance that
is deeply fragile, uh and and weakening and fragile.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
But I was just going to say before you, before you,
deeply fragiling, fragile, and weakening, because it's really that you
know this from teaching war college. The enemy of my
enemy is my friend. And that's about where it ends.
And one has real economic issues, one has you know,
UH war ambitions and extinction and world control ambitions, but
when push comes to shove, all three of them are
(11:21):
about themselves. And the only thing they really have at
the end of the day is the enemy of my
enemy is my friend. But that doesn't really get them anywhere.
That's a grace we've been living by. Right.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
The way the way you break that up is you
make them less valuable to each other. So when we
when we when we clamp down on Iran, that's not
only going to weaken Iran, but Iran won't be able
to do things for.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Russia and Ukraine.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
So they're less valuable when we crank down on Iranian
and Russian exports. And that's fuel, that's that's cheap energy,
that's not going to China. That's going to hurt them.
So so this is the way you do this. And
so Trump's got this exactly right, and he pulled the Russians.
If you think I'm just going to give you Europe,
you're just not right. Putin you're in a really weak spot.
(12:08):
I'm just going to crush you under my thumb. He's
told the Iranians the same thing, and he's told the
Chinese that playtime is over. You're not allowed to run
around the Western hemisphere and threaten us. We're not going
to let you buy into our buy our economy. We're
not going to let you run wild in the world,
and all of them are like, are blinking because they
know that they actually can't stop this. You know, what
(12:28):
I have come to believe is the only reason why
Putin has not come to the table to make a
deal because there is strategically exhausted as Ukrainians, is that
he has no cards to play.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Well, and he's got to find an exit that saves face.
But that's just a matter of creating that exit for
him too, and right and right.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Now, the way he's saving face is just throwing Russians
and North Koreans to their death right and saying, well,
I'm still winning the war, right Well, you know, even
the North Koreans have said they pulled their troops out
of the front because they said, we're not going to
do this anymore. So he's running out of cards to play.
He needs a strategic pause, but he has no cards
(13:07):
to play, So he doesn't know how to get to
the table with Trump because Trump's not going to give him.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
A good deal. Jams carfinal Lieutenant Colonel joining us as
he does every week. Let's close full circle where we began.
You said this is the most experienced president to ever
take office. I'd go even Further, I know it wasn't
the plan, and it's kind of like that Biblical teaching
of all things work together for the good for those
that are called according to his purpose. But it ended
up being perfect. Losing ended up being better than a
(13:31):
second term. All the law fair, ended up better. Surviving
assassination attempts better having that four year pause in between
to come back with all the lessons learned. I'm watching
a Donald Trump two point oh. The hubris of Donald
Trump one point oh was you're gonna get sick of winning.
You're gonna go You're gonna win so much, you're gonna
get sick of it, and then not really delivering. This
(13:51):
time he's delivering. I mean, what he's gotten done in
two weeks is breathtaking.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Can I just disagree with you a little bit because
that four years cost us many Americans who wound up
in jail for no reason. Well, there's Ukrainians who died
by the many tens of thousands people who died in
the refugee flow of raped, murdered, sex trafficked, thousands of
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people that died in the Middle East. We paid a
horrible people of his lives were destroyed, their economies were destroyed,
Their businesses were destroyed. We paid a horrible price for
putting Joe Biden in the White House, and we should
never forget that. I'm glad Trump's backed, don't get me wrong.
And I'm glad he's fixing everything, don't get me wrong.
But we played a terrible price. But this is the
(14:43):
beauty of democracy. Democracy says, you get to stand at
the edge of the cliff and decide if you want
to jump off or not. You know the Supreme Court justices,
you know the Constitution is not a suicide.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Back and away. He was right, but he's wrong. Right.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
It is a suice because if you choose wrong, you
choose your own downfall.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
To quote a nineteen eighty to use a quote from
a nineteen eighty two Bible study with Campus Crusade for Christ.
I received that rebuke point well made. That's why I
love our visits. Lieutenant Colonel James Carafana. We'll talk again
next Tuesday or sooner if conditions weren't. It's your morning
show with Michael del Chino. Can't have your morning show
without your voice. If you're listening on the iHeartRadio app,
(15:26):
there's a talkback button. That way, you don't have to
rot on hold. You can instantly ask your questions or
make your comments. Like big John right here, what can
you say? Another great great interview with the colonel. I
mean the insight and the intellect.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
It's like you two guys sitting at a table, kitchen table,
have an espresso, little zambuca and a shcrea del and
we're on our way. Excellent conversation right there.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Excellent. Well, thank you for the comment. But I have
a whole other train of thought here John, it's gone
too long. Where are you? I don't care where it is.
I'll drive a for We got to know each other.
I want to go. Yeah, all of us need to
go have lunch or something. I don't know where he
listens to or where he actually lives. But enough of this.
We want to know you in real life. Yeah. No,
(16:11):
And you know what, that's a book. That's our goal
for this show is to you know, there's a lot
of information out of there, out there, there's a lot
of narratives out there. Hopefully we're pointing you to the
realities and not the narratives, so that you can anticipate
what's coming, understand what's happening, and and none of us
(16:32):
want to tell you how to think. We just want
to give you a lot to think about. So that
kind of analogy of sitting at a table and you
just happen to be overhearing it, Well, that's mission accomplished.
Thanks for the kind words. All right, quick break, we
come back Sounds of the Day, part due and your
top stories, and then a final visit with Roy O'Neil.
The latest on President Trump's tariff and trade war turns
out to be the art of the deal once again,
(16:54):
with Mexico and Canada blinking. This is Paul David Patter
down in Toledo District Police, and my morning show is
your Morning Show with Michael Bell Journal. Hi, I'm Michael
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and Columbus, Georgia. We'd love to be a part of
your morning routine, but we're glad you're here now enjoyed
the podcast. Well, Mayco in Canada and Panama all blinked.
(17:40):
What's the endgame for Donald Trump?
Speaker 6 (17:44):
This guy was put an office to fix your economy.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
These terrors are gonna drive up the cost of living.
What's his endgame? What's he doing?
Speaker 4 (17:53):
I thought that that would go no uh.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
And just like that, ten thousand troops from Mexico headed
to the border to stop the fentanyl and the drug
lords and secure the border. Just like that, one point
three billion dollars heading from Canada to the border along
with a fentanyl czar. And just like that, Canada or
Panama says it will not renew its agreement involving China's
(18:19):
premiere foreign investment program. Apparently America needs to go and
get the twelve dollars paperback copy of the Art of
the Deal on Amazon and read it. And these same
people that were telling you Kamala was going to win
and then she didn't, these same people are telling you
where's he going with this tariff is just going to
drive up the cost of a living. I mean, we're
(18:39):
still trying to heat homes. What are we going to
do when Canada retaliates and raises the oil crewed tariff.
It's a negotiation, and he won. So we had a
long conversation earlier this morning, and I spared you the
audio of the academic that was explaining this. But when
most politicians use political process, they make bold promises going
(19:03):
in and then they talk a lot about the problem
and they try to get something done unilaterally, and nothing
ever happens. Not Donald Trump. Just out of the blue,
he starts saying, maybe we should make Canada the fifty
first state. But it's brilliant, it's disruptive, and it's doing
many things on many levels. It's got everybody in Canada
looking at their race in October saying, hey, wait a minute,
(19:24):
We're a sovereign, great nation. Our neighbors shouldn't be looking
at us like something we can add to their real
estate portfolio. They start looking at the border and what
could cost them sixty percent of their economy, and they say, well,
why would I do that? Why are we risking this?
Why are we all going to go broke for what?
For a porest drug flow and terrorist flow? Why we
(19:48):
should be securing that in our ports for our own sake,
let alone Americas. This isn't worth the cost Yesterually we
were talking to Shannon in Ottawa. She was like, he
shouldn't even be talking to Justin. He should be talking
to Pierre, that's going to be the next prime minister.
And I'm thinking, well, Trudeau has stepped down as Liberal leader,
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but he's still the prime minister. He's the one to
talk to. He caved by afternoon and today what will
their narrative be, Well, they'll just move on to usaid.
But they don't have a leg to stand down there
because nothing is remaining hidden. No status quo of waste
is going to survive. You know, all the talk about
what could Donald Trump reasonably get done in his first
one hundred days, I think he's going to be done
(20:31):
in one hundred days, which gives him the next three
hundred or four hundred days to focus on the midterm election.
The art of the deal struck again, and today reporters
with that gun their face will just move on to
their next false narrative. Meanwhile, Al Salvador says it will
(20:52):
how is violent US criminals and take deportise of any nationality.
Cruis have removed the uselage from the Potomac River near
the nation's capitol, Following last week's mid air collision, State Farm,
the largest home insure in California, is asking officials for
an emergency rate hike, blaming the move on the recent wildfires.
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These are just some of the top stories waking up
this morning, and we also have your Sounds of the
day momentarily. But first, we can't have your morning show
without your voice. Let's start with email at Michael di
at iHeartMedia dot com. Michael, don't leave me this way
by stopping your singing. See Jeffrey, some people appreciate my singing,
unlike you. You don't have to listen to it during
(21:35):
the commercials. I enjoyed your Neil Diamond songs and all
of the rest of the songs you have been kind
enough to share with us. See this guy knows I'm serving. Yes,
it's an act of kindness. When I break out into
Blackwater by the Doobie Brothers. I especially love your psychic self.
That's no Strudel journal. He almost struck this week, did he? Yeah?
(21:57):
He keeps coming. I get a little dizzy, but then
he goes is going to make a stellar prediction? Is
it just me? But I would love it if you
would summon your inner inspector Cluseau using the pink panther theme.
Just a thought, thank you for being your unique and
authentic self. Regards a fan, no name necessary a fan.
(22:22):
Neither of you two appreciate me.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
You're not at the time, are you?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
That's what I'm asking? Are you not entertained as he is?
Keep those kinds of emails? Goumy on the talkback line.
I can't remember the name now.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Oh, I've got a rebuttal from John, from Big John,
from Big John the bookie.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Why he doesn't want to meet us? Well he kind
of does.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
Oh yeah, maybe we'll make it happen. You know, once
a year and me and the guys that grew up
with go to an away football game. And this year
we're going to Tennessee. So maybe, just maybe it'll happen.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
See, he won't tell us where he is.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
Well, and what's funny he comes in on our home
station in Nashville w l a C.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Yeah, that's not where he lived. And I think I
think he lives somewhere with good Italian food too. I
think it's usin need to go to him. I think
he's making the good Italian food. Oh you never had
my sauce. Well, I mean, like the Sopranos. That's kind
of the how I see John.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
They're all around the botto being and then in the
back somebody's cooking up all the food.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
That's John. Well, I wasn't born yesterday. He's got to
be near Yankee Stadium. So we go in for a weekend.
We see some Yankee games, eat some pasta. Okay, you know,
have a masta choli, get to know each other, hug
a little bit like that. Red knows that area of
the country. He'll take us around like the uber driver
sounds the day. We only have three minutes, but I
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got some good ones I want.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
To share with you, and you have the same.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
And inspire and stop it.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Don't you ever let anybody take your power.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
No, no, it is the motto keep calm.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
That old guy just signed a deal with a rep firm.
What are they going to do with him? Send him
around speaking? Come on, you got it like an acting agent, right. Yeah.
I love the way Donald Trump's being so transparent from
the Oval Office with Lincoln behind him. He's signing these
executive orders one at a time, explaining what they are
with the press in the room. Answering any questions. I mean,
it really is remarkable what he's doing. And while he's
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signing an executive order yesterday, somebody gives him a question
about his cabinet approvals. And here's what Trump had to say.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
We have great people like people like this. We have great,
great people coming in. I think, I'd like to say,
the best ever recruited for government. I think we have
the finest people ever recruited for government.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
I'm gonna stop it right there. I'm beginning to agree.
I'm looking at Pete Hegsath and I'm thinking, this guy
looks presidential. Marco Rubio was remarkable. I mean, I could
do a whole segment on what Marco Rubio has pulled
off in the last two weeks, just like I could
do one about Donald Trump. Marco Rubil looks presidential Vice president.
(25:09):
Vance on any show with any adversary and discuss things
like no one can. It turned out to be a
better and he's about to be a governor in Ohio,
but almost a better apologist for the truth, the constitution
and transparent government than even Vivek Ramaswami. And we talked
(25:32):
about this bench during the primary process. But what a
cabinet he has formed. I actually agree, President Trump, this
is an amazing team you put together, and I think
Telsea Gabbard and RFK Junior are about to officially join
it after today's vote. But listen to what he said
after that, we'll take it after the commerce.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
And you know what, you're starting to see that because
we've done more in two weeks than Biden he's done
in five years, six years.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
They could be here between him and Obama.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
You added up, Okay, we've done more in two weeks
than they've done in twelve years.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Now you're probably saying, well, that's you, Ris. Well, here's
everybody's favorite Caroline Levin breaking down in ninety seconds everything
he's got done in two weeks. And this is before
the Cave of Mexico, the Cave of Canada, and the
Cave of Panama. With Greenland to come.
Speaker 8 (26:23):
We are two weeks in and President Trump is already
delivering big wins for the American people. Let's go through
the facts.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
On the border.
Speaker 8 (26:31):
President Trump declared a national emergency, deployed the military, ended
catch and release, and reinstated remain in Mexico, and already
illegal crossings are down ninety five percent. We are resuming
construction of the border wall, and Columbia's president is now
offering his own plane for deportation of illegal Colombian immigrants.
(26:53):
On the economy and energy, President Trump unleashed American energy,
declared a national energy emergency, and killed Joe Biden's radical
electric vehicle mandate. Wall Street is booming. AI investments skyrocketed
to five hundred billion dollars, and there's twenty billion flowing
into US data centers across our country. President Trump is
(27:15):
restoring law and order. He labeled the drug cartels as
foreign terrorist organizations, and he is deporting criminal illegal aliens.
And he signed the Lake and Rileyacht into.
Speaker 9 (27:25):
Law, draining the swamp.
Speaker 8 (27:27):
President Trump signed more than forty five executive orders. DEI
has been purged from the government, and our military and
lazy federal workers have been ordered back to the office.
And when it comes to free speech and transparency, President
Trump took twelve times more press questions than Joe Biden
(27:47):
did in a week, reinstated four hundred and forty silenced
journalists to the press room, and ended government censorship. Promise
has made, promise has kept, and we're just getting started.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Just getting started is the key to that. That's in
two weeks. Yesterday you could add to that the use
of terrorists to get what he wanted from Canada, from Mexico,
from Panama. This is remarkable. I mean this is in
play now. The worst president in US history, if he
was president, Joe Biden wedged between a remarkable disruptor and
(28:25):
then potentially the most productive, successful, greatest president ever. And
because he's doing all of this in two weeks, you
have hope, and you have change, and you have kept promises.
But what it brings into play is you will have
the results in a year year and a half, right
(28:45):
before midterm election and certainly before he leaves office, prosperity
and security. That's how great presidency becomes a revolution. And
that is your sounds of the day.
Speaker 10 (29:01):
I'm not joking.
Speaker 8 (29:02):
I don't think we should be taking the advice from
a group of people who can't defind what a woman is.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
That was just complete, not.
Speaker 9 (29:09):
A local formation, racist, extreme, and somewhere Kama is at
a dark bar talking to herself over a burpose.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
I just have to remind you, don't you ever let
anybody take your power.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
You have the same.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Power and around. This is your morning show with Michael
del Chona, and we can't have your morning show without
your voice. So let's get a final say to Youngstown, Ohio.
Speaker 11 (29:42):
So just a short message to w KBN, I want
to urge you to keep the current morning show that
you have, your morning show with Michael del Jorno. Of
all the morning shows that you've gone through in the
past number of years, this is the best one that
you've had and so please don't give up on it
and go to something else.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
I love it Wan to let you know that we
love being there. I didn't know there was a risk
of losing where I think we're pretty secure you could
relax that. But thank you so much for the kind words.
If you're just waking up. The tariffs in Mexico and
Canada have worked. The art of the deal has kicked
in and a thirty day pause has been put in place. Meanwhile,
Mexico has promised to send ten thousand troops to the
(30:26):
border to help the flow of fetanol and drug lords
from entering the country. That's a blank Canada one point
three billion, I believe, and they even have to name
a feedinyl czar to help protect the border. And along
the way, Panama has caved. Panama says it will not
renew its agreement involving China's premieer foreign investment program after
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leaders So, you know, I guess at least Greenland. I
don't know whatever else might be next, but more victories
for Donald Trump before all of the risk or the
temporary had to kick in. Both Mexico, Canada and Panama
have blinked. That's very good news, and we're not gloating.
We want to get on to fairness. We want to
get on to securing the border more kept promises to
(31:12):
add to a remarkable list of accomplishments in the first
two weeks. Also, Cruz removed the fuselage from the Potomac
River near the nation's capitol following last week's mid air collision,
and State Farm, the largest insurer in California, asking officials
for emergency rate hikes, blaming, of course, the wildfires in
southern California. Roy o'neili is are your morning show correspondent.
(31:32):
We always give Rory the final story or especially on
days where it falls that he's available at this hour.
The Trump taraf war that certainly turned out good for
America and for Donald Trump yesterday.
Speaker 10 (31:45):
Yeah, now again it's a thirty day pause.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
In the tariffs.
Speaker 10 (31:48):
I'm curious to see what's going to happen over these
next thirty days.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
A lot of the initiatives.
Speaker 10 (31:52):
From Mexico and Canada had already been announced, and we're
sort of repackaged for yesterday. But I'm curious to see
how this is going to hold thirty days from now,
when if we can try to keep these tarffs from.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Taking effent, Obviously there's incentive for both Mexico and Canada
and for their economy, and obviously there were incentives for
the President to secure the border. It's a good start.
We'll see where it is in thirty days. China has
reacted right.
Speaker 10 (32:20):
They did get the ten percent tariff because they didn't
reach a deal, although a phone call or two today
and tomorrow could change things. But China is responding with
a fifteen percent tariff on US coal and LNG liquefied
natural gas imports, also tariffs on large scale farm equipment,
and restrictions on some exports materials like tungsten, and an
(32:42):
anti trust investigation into Google.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yeah, we had Lieutenant Colonel James Carafano on earlier in
the hour. He doesn't think we have any business doing
which business with China at all, So that one, that
one's probout the time. Yeah, good look with that, and
that one's the tougher one to find common ground. We
talked yesterday, and I know I can throw this stuff
at you because because as I always gloat, you're a
know at all. We had hopes that in the removal
(33:06):
of all the fuselage out of the Atomac River that
we might find those last twelve remains. I didn't see
anything on that yesterday and I don't have anything in
the news this morning on that. How is that going?
And we're I mean, is it possible? This sounds very insensitive,
but I love these people and I love their loved
ones who need these remains for closure. Is it possible
(33:28):
some of these have gone in the current and they
may not be in the area of the crash slite
or did we recover most of them?
Speaker 10 (33:34):
It's possible, but really we didn't get information because there
was no NTSB news conference yesterday, So okay, did're getting
official update as to things? So they may have made
more progress, we just haven't got an official update.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Roy O'Neil always gets the final say, great reporting, we'll
talk again tomorrow. I save just enough time to play
you this before the Predators did what they always do
and lose. Last night to the Ottawa Senators. Something interesting
happened in the audience when the Canadian national anthem was sung. Listen,
(34:12):
and then apparently during the national anthem it was real quiet,
and somebody yelled out, go drap. Oh wow. But you
know that's interesting. By the way, this has no bearing
on the case, but I just I actually think the
Canadian national anthem is a really pretty song, and usually,
you know, the relationship between Canada the United States in
terms of hockey is a great relationship. That that was
(34:35):
very timely and I don't know if the people in
the stadium knew by then that Trudeau in Canada had
agreed to one point three billion for border security and
naming a fentanyl zar and that the tariffs were put
on pause. But you can see where hockey fans and
how they were feeling with their booze last night. Oh Candada.
(35:02):
All right, Well, who knows what today holds and what
we'll be talking about tomorrow. But we'll see a five central,
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Speaker 3 (01:00):
I was listening today and talking about the meme of
comparing Obama Biden to Trump. I think the reason why
it stands out so much is the Obama Biden team
seems to not like our country so much and causes
us harm, whereas Trump is for us and for America,
and so when he pulls the other direction so hard,
(01:21):
it really stands out. Well, the thing is finally happening.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, it's nice to have a world leader that's putting
our interests first. Nice read. You think that's read. I
think the Duncan donuts guy has read. To Russell in Phoenix,
k f y, I we go.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I got one more for you, Donald Trump. Government at
the speed of right.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
All I can think of is that Ai generated Kama
looking drunk at an empty dark bar late at night,
whether bourbon, in front of her, saying I just have
to remind you.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Don't you ever let anybody take your power.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
You have the same power that you did before November.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah, thank god you don't. Donald Trump has gotten so
yesterday's a great example everybody freaking out with these tariffs.
What's he doing is going to drive up the cost
of living. He's going to destroy the economy before he
finishes his first month. The YadA YadA ya in the
Art of the deal is happening the whole time, and
all these people are on TV, ranting, raving, warning. By
(02:30):
the time they get off the air and go to
the bathroom, Mexico had carved. By the time they got
back from lunch and got over there, you know, meal slumber,
Canada had caved. And by the time they put their
head on the pillow, Panama had caved. Mexico, Canada, Panama
(02:50):
all blinked. You surprised. You shouldn't have been. Lieutenant Colonel
James Carafano was here to explain why. Good morning, Lieutenant colonel.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
So what is really important is the tariffs on China,
and those are different than all these other terrorifts because
the terriffs are China are to send an important word,
which is, we need to stop doing business with this country,
right and we should we should buy stuff from other places.
(03:19):
Uh and uh and and if they and if they
don't want us to buy their stuff, I think we
should go and we should partner with other people and
buy them. So uh, this to me is this is
the real trade exactly all right.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
So let's but let's let's peel let's peel it back
a little bit and talk about it. I have always
felt like and I wonder if you agree that. You know,
I watched this academic guy and it was a very long,
very dry explanation. Uh. Most people talk about something in
a campaign, then they become president and they describe the problem,
they keep talking about it, nothing ever really gets done.
(03:58):
Donald Trump just out of the blue starts saying maybe
we should make Canada the fifty first trade for fifty
first eight. And people's response is this guy's nuts. No,
it's actually brilliant, and then it leads the tariff threat,
then it leads to the negotiation, and he ultimately gets
what he wants. It's a very disruptive, very effective force.
And what people think is the most uncomfortable or crazy
about him is actually the most effective. But China is
(04:18):
what it's really all about. And I would actually go
one step further and say the president knew that all
the Canada and Mexico is not doing and taking advantage
of and being ungrateful for that, China was going to
PLoP and make cheap evs right across our border in
Mexico and flood our market with him. That's what's really
on his mind. And that's what I think yesterday took
(04:39):
shape to block. Yeah, there's a lot.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
I mean to your point is he was president for
four years. He spent four years playing to be president.
He's probably the most experienced world leader and around the
planet today.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
He probably knows more.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
World leaders than anybody else. He probably knows more about
what's going on around the world than any other world leader.
He came into office with a with a very serious
plan and let me, Mitchell, just subtlety of this guy.
Let's talk about the fifty first state thing in Canada
and how and how he really understands the dynamic better
(05:17):
than the yahoos. Canada is a country in death spiral.
They have a chance to elect a conservative leader who
actually believes many of the things Donald Trump does. If
he stood up and said, let's partner with Donald Trump,
(05:37):
most Canadians would actually vote for the Yahoos that are
destroying the country because they don't They just don't like Trump, right.
But when he's but when when the conservative leader stands
up says we don't want to be the fifty first state,
we should be We are a country we should be
proud of who we are and we should be responsible
for our country.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
More people are going to vote for this guy.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
So the fifty first state things actually kind of reverse psychology.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
It's just reminding.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
It's just reminding Canadians, like, dude, stand up and be
proud of who the heck you are.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
And the things that Donald Trump says that seemed the
most outrageous, most crazy, most disrespectful, are really the most brilliant.
You know, I was saying yesterday and everybody was predicting
everything was going to blow up on our face and
oil is going to go through the roof, expect to
pay another dollar ninety cents a gallon out At what's
he doing? He's nuts, you know. And I'm sitting here saying, look,
what if it's all about making sure peer wins that election?
(06:30):
All right? By drawing attention to this, because there's a
lot of people in Canada that want their border taking
care of for their own sake, wuant fetnahl taking care
of for their own sake, wuant terror's not coming into
their country on the way to our country.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Yeah, maybe it's about like not being stupid, right, And
when Donald Trump says something you're the first thought out
of your brain shouldn't be Well, let me, how can
I hate Donald Trump?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Maybe just to take like a tiny little droplet of
common sense. Mexico and Canada are export dependent economies. They
survived by exports. You know, the one thing an export
economy cannot afford to do, try to trade wark So
this notion that's I went actually in Europe. I got
(07:13):
to tell you this.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I won't tell you who or when.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Somebody said, well, we were talking to the Canadians and
they are brilliant. They have a plan that if Trump
comes at them, they're going to retaliate and they're going
to make him feel the pay. And I'm looking at
them like you're joking, right, Like that's an s and
L skit, right, you're sixty sixty percent they're going to
fight a trade war with the United States.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Really, this is so opposite of reality. I just want
to make that clear. Uh, James Carafano is far more
successful than I've ever thought about being or ever will be.
But let's just say, for the sake of argument, that
sixty percent of your income comes from these weekly visits,
which nothing comes to you from these weekly visits, you know,
and one percent of my income comes from you being
(07:56):
on this show. Who can hurt who come exactly?
Speaker 6 (08:00):
I think?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Yeah, I mean it's just nuts. The China thing is
real love, right, because we need to stop doing business
with China. You know, there's a famous saying in the
British Empire that trade follows the flag yep, But they
never say the corollary, which is war follows the trade.
When adversarial countries are trade with each other, that actually creates.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
More friction and more likelihood of conflict.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Germany's biggest trading partner before the outbreak of World War.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
One, United Kingdom.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
So trade doesn't actually make relationships better. If you're trading
with people who are literally want to kill you, that
trade will become another irritant that will lead to war.
So actually the best thing for China and the United
States would be to stop doing business with each other.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
That would make the world say is there a concern
though that? As and again as a sovereign, independent nation.
Same annoils the other example, to be dependent upon enemies
who literally doctrinately first want to destroy Israel, then destroy you.
Your existence must be extinct to be dependent on them
for your source of energy is really foolish. I mean
(09:14):
I get that, But do you worry that as we
do all of this that it will unite Russia, China,
Iran and them more? I mean, address that for people
that make that ridiculous argument.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
Sorry, I did get I did get the guy on
Fox Business to Last the other day, who was he
was saying about sending Grail to Venezuela.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
You know, I said, that's like sending Luca Brodsky to
negotiate for.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
You, Luca Brozilis with the fish.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Well, yeah, because because nobody wanted to Nobody wants to
coach you.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
By the way, if you haven't figured it out, del
Jiarno Carafano, two Italians. Everything you need to know in
life comes from the Godfather. Go study. That's what we
were talking about. I think we were talking about Canada
taking the gun and leaving the Cans, or taking the
leaving the gun. Trump WoT to the mattress and everybody's caving. No,
(10:11):
we were talking about would that unite Russia, China and Iran.
That's often the fear that comes out in argument, And
first of all, they're already united.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
But right, so this is the point is is you
can't stop them from getting together.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
This is ludicrous. And and the thing.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Is as well, we should embrace one of them and
that'll peel them off, and that will work because the
really reason why they're ganging up together is the only
thing they have in common is they all want to
destroy the America. So you can't say, well, let's leave
the alliance and come with me, and I'll give you
what you want, but I want the destruction of you.
So that's not really kind of a really incredible plan.
But the other thing is is they they It is
(10:51):
an alliance of necessity, and it is an alliance that
is deeply fragile, uh and and weakening and fragile.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
But I was just going to say before you, before you,
deeply fragiling, fragile, and weakening, because it's really that you
know this from teaching war college. The enemy of my
enemy is my friend. And that's about where it ends.
And one has real economic issues, one has you know,
UH war ambitions and extinction and world control ambitions, but
when push comes to shove, all three of them are
(11:21):
about themselves. And the only thing they really have at
the end of the day is the enemy of my
enemy is my friend. But that doesn't really get them anywhere.
That's a grace we've been living by. Right.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
The way the way you break that up is you
make them less valuable to each other. So when we
when we when we clamp down on Iran, that's not
only going to weaken Iran, but Iran won't be able
to do things for.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Russia and Ukraine.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
So they're less valuable when we crank down on Iranian
and Russian exports. And that's fuel, that's that's cheap energy,
that's not going to China. That's going to hurt them.
So so this is the way you do this. And
so Trump's got this exactly right, and he pulled the Russians.
If you think I'm just going to give you Europe,
you're just not right. Putin you're in a really weak spot.
(12:08):
I'm just going to crush you under my thumb. He's
told the Iranians the same thing, and he's told the
Chinese that playtime is over. You're not allowed to run
around the Western hemisphere and threaten us. We're not going
to let you buy into our buy our economy. We're
not going to let you run wild in the world,
and all of them are like, are blinking because they
know that they actually can't stop this. You know, what
(12:28):
I have come to believe is the only reason why
Putin has not come to the table to make a
deal because there is strategically exhausted as Ukrainians, is that
he has no cards to play.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Well, and he's got to find an exit that saves face.
But that's just a matter of creating that exit for
him too, and right and right.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Now, the way he's saving face is just throwing Russians
and North Koreans to their death right and saying, well,
I'm still winning the war, right Well, you know, even
the North Koreans have said they pulled their troops out
of the front because they said, we're not going to
do this anymore. So he's running out of cards to play.
He needs a strategic pause, but he has no cards
(13:07):
to play, So he doesn't know how to get to
the table with Trump because Trump's not going to give him.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
A good deal. Jams carfinal Lieutenant Colonel joining us as
he does every week. Let's close full circle where we began.
You said this is the most experienced president to ever
take office. I'd go even Further, I know it wasn't
the plan, and it's kind of like that Biblical teaching
of all things work together for the good for those
that are called according to his purpose. But it ended
up being perfect. Losing ended up being better than a
(13:31):
second term. All the law fair, ended up better. Surviving
assassination attempts better having that four year pause in between
to come back with all the lessons learned. I'm watching
a Donald Trump two point oh. The hubris of Donald
Trump one point oh was you're gonna get sick of winning.
You're gonna go You're gonna win so much, you're gonna
get sick of it, and then not really delivering. This
(13:51):
time he's delivering. I mean, what he's gotten done in
two weeks is breathtaking.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Can I just disagree with you a little bit because
that four years cost us many Americans who wound up
in jail for no reason. Well, there's Ukrainians who died
by the many tens of thousands people who died in
the refugee flow of raped, murdered, sex trafficked, thousands of
(14:20):
people that died in the Middle East. We paid a
horrible people of his lives were destroyed, their economies were destroyed,
Their businesses were destroyed. We paid a horrible price for
putting Joe Biden in the White House, and we should
never forget that. I'm glad Trump's backed, don't get me wrong.
And I'm glad he's fixing everything, don't get me wrong.
But we played a terrible price. But this is the
(14:43):
beauty of democracy. Democracy says, you get to stand at
the edge of the cliff and decide if you want
to jump off or not. You know the Supreme Court justices,
you know the Constitution is not a suicide.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Back and away. He was right, but he's wrong. Right.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
It is a suice because if you choose wrong, you
choose your own downfall.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
To quote a nineteen eighty to use a quote from
a nineteen eighty two Bible study with Campus Crusade for Christ.
I received that rebuke point well made. That's why I
love our visits. Lieutenant Colonel James Carafana. We'll talk again
next Tuesday or sooner if conditions weren't. It's your morning
show with Michael del Chino. Can't have your morning show
without your voice. If you're listening on the iHeartRadio app,
(15:26):
there's a talkback button. That way, you don't have to
rot on hold. You can instantly ask your questions or
make your comments. Like big John right here, what can
you say? Another great great interview with the colonel. I
mean the insight and the intellect.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
It's like you two guys sitting at a table, kitchen table,
have an espresso, little zambuca and a shcrea del and
we're on our way. Excellent conversation right there.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Excellent. Well, thank you for the comment. But I have
a whole other train of thought here John, it's gone
too long. Where are you? I don't care where it is.
I'll drive a for We got to know each other.
I want to go. Yeah, all of us need to
go have lunch or something. I don't know where he
listens to or where he actually lives. But enough of this.
We want to know you in real life. Yeah. No,
(16:11):
And you know what, that's a book. That's our goal
for this show is to you know, there's a lot
of information out of there, out there, there's a lot
of narratives out there. Hopefully we're pointing you to the
realities and not the narratives, so that you can anticipate
what's coming, understand what's happening, and and none of us
(16:32):
want to tell you how to think. We just want
to give you a lot to think about. So that
kind of analogy of sitting at a table and you
just happen to be overhearing it, Well, that's mission accomplished.
Thanks for the kind words. All right, quick break, we
come back Sounds of the Day, part due and your
top stories, and then a final visit with Roy O'Neil.
The latest on President Trump's tariff and trade war turns
out to be the art of the deal once again,
(16:54):
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the podcast. Well, Mayco in Canada and Panama all blinked.
(17:40):
What's the endgame for Donald Trump?
Speaker 6 (17:44):
This guy was put an office to fix your economy.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
These terrors are gonna drive up the cost of living.
What's his endgame? What's he doing?
Speaker 4 (17:53):
I thought that that would go no uh.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
And just like that, ten thousand troops from Mexico headed
to the border to stop the fentanyl and the drug
lords and secure the border. Just like that, one point
three billion dollars heading from Canada to the border along
with a fentanyl czar. And just like that, Canada or
Panama says it will not renew its agreement involving China's
(18:19):
premiere foreign investment program. Apparently America needs to go and
get the twelve dollars paperback copy of the Art of
the Deal on Amazon and read it. And these same
people that were telling you Kamala was going to win
and then she didn't, these same people are telling you
where's he going with this tariff is just going to
drive up the cost of a living. I mean, we're
(18:39):
still trying to heat homes. What are we going to
do when Canada retaliates and raises the oil crewed tariff.
It's a negotiation, and he won. So we had a
long conversation earlier this morning, and I spared you the
audio of the academic that was explaining this. But when
most politicians use political process, they make bold promises going
(19:03):
in and then they talk a lot about the problem
and they try to get something done unilaterally, and nothing
ever happens. Not Donald Trump. Just out of the blue,
he starts saying, maybe we should make Canada the fifty
first state. But it's brilliant, it's disruptive, and it's doing
many things on many levels. It's got everybody in Canada
looking at their race in October saying, hey, wait a minute,
(19:24):
We're a sovereign, great nation. Our neighbors shouldn't be looking
at us like something we can add to their real
estate portfolio. They start looking at the border and what
could cost them sixty percent of their economy, and they say, well,
why would I do that? Why are we risking this?
Why are we all going to go broke for what?
For a porest drug flow and terrorist flow? Why we
(19:48):
should be securing that in our ports for our own sake,
let alone Americas. This isn't worth the cost Yesterually we
were talking to Shannon in Ottawa. She was like, he
shouldn't even be talking to Justin. He should be talking
to Pierre, that's going to be the next prime minister.
And I'm thinking, well, Trudeau has stepped down as Liberal leader,
(20:10):
but he's still the prime minister. He's the one to
talk to. He caved by afternoon and today what will
their narrative be, Well, they'll just move on to usaid.
But they don't have a leg to stand down there
because nothing is remaining hidden. No status quo of waste
is going to survive. You know, all the talk about
what could Donald Trump reasonably get done in his first
one hundred days, I think he's going to be done
(20:31):
in one hundred days, which gives him the next three
hundred or four hundred days to focus on the midterm election.
The art of the deal struck again, and today reporters
with that gun their face will just move on to
their next false narrative. Meanwhile, Al Salvador says it will
(20:52):
how is violent US criminals and take deportise of any nationality.
Cruis have removed the uselage from the Potomac River near
the nation's capitol, Following last week's mid air collision, State Farm,
the largest home insure in California, is asking officials for
an emergency rate hike, blaming the move on the recent wildfires.
(21:14):
These are just some of the top stories waking up
this morning, and we also have your Sounds of the
day momentarily. But first, we can't have your morning show
without your voice. Let's start with email at Michael di
at iHeartMedia dot com. Michael, don't leave me this way
by stopping your singing. See Jeffrey, some people appreciate my singing,
unlike you. You don't have to listen to it during
(21:35):
the commercials. I enjoyed your Neil Diamond songs and all
of the rest of the songs you have been kind
enough to share with us. See this guy knows I'm serving. Yes,
it's an act of kindness. When I break out into
Blackwater by the Doobie Brothers. I especially love your psychic self.
That's no Strudel journal. He almost struck this week, did he? Yeah?
(21:57):
He keeps coming. I get a little dizzy, but then
he goes is going to make a stellar prediction? Is
it just me? But I would love it if you
would summon your inner inspector Cluseau using the pink panther theme.
Just a thought, thank you for being your unique and
authentic self. Regards a fan, no name necessary a fan.
(22:22):
Neither of you two appreciate me.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
You're not at the time, are you?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
That's what I'm asking? Are you not entertained as he is?
Keep those kinds of emails? Goumy on the talkback line.
I can't remember the name now.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Oh, I've got a rebuttal from John, from Big John,
from Big John the bookie.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Why he doesn't want to meet us? Well he kind
of does.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
Oh yeah, maybe we'll make it happen. You know, once
a year and me and the guys that grew up
with go to an away football game. And this year
we're going to Tennessee. So maybe, just maybe it'll happen.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
See, he won't tell us where he is.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
Well, and what's funny he comes in on our home
station in Nashville w l a C.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Yeah, that's not where he lived. And I think I
think he lives somewhere with good Italian food too. I
think it's usin need to go to him. I think
he's making the good Italian food. Oh you never had
my sauce. Well, I mean, like the Sopranos. That's kind
of the how I see John.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
They're all around the botto being and then in the
back somebody's cooking up all the food.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
That's John. Well, I wasn't born yesterday. He's got to
be near Yankee Stadium. So we go in for a weekend.
We see some Yankee games, eat some pasta. Okay, you know,
have a masta choli, get to know each other, hug
a little bit like that. Red knows that area of
the country. He'll take us around like the uber driver
sounds the day. We only have three minutes, but I
(23:42):
got some good ones I want.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
To share with you, and you have the same.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
And inspire and stop it.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Don't you ever let anybody take your power.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
No, no, it is the motto keep calm.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
That old guy just signed a deal with a rep firm.
What are they going to do with him? Send him
around speaking? Come on, you got it like an acting agent, right. Yeah.
I love the way Donald Trump's being so transparent from
the Oval Office with Lincoln behind him. He's signing these
executive orders one at a time, explaining what they are
with the press in the room. Answering any questions. I mean,
it really is remarkable what he's doing. And while he's
(24:24):
signing an executive order yesterday, somebody gives him a question
about his cabinet approvals. And here's what Trump had to say.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
We have great people like people like this. We have great,
great people coming in. I think, I'd like to say,
the best ever recruited for government. I think we have
the finest people ever recruited for government.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
I'm gonna stop it right there. I'm beginning to agree.
I'm looking at Pete Hegsath and I'm thinking, this guy
looks presidential. Marco Rubio was remarkable. I mean, I could
do a whole segment on what Marco Rubio has pulled
off in the last two weeks, just like I could
do one about Donald Trump. Marco Rubil looks presidential Vice president.
(25:09):
Vance on any show with any adversary and discuss things
like no one can. It turned out to be a
better and he's about to be a governor in Ohio,
but almost a better apologist for the truth, the constitution
and transparent government than even Vivek Ramaswami. And we talked
(25:32):
about this bench during the primary process. But what a
cabinet he has formed. I actually agree, President Trump, this
is an amazing team you put together, and I think
Telsea Gabbard and RFK Junior are about to officially join
it after today's vote. But listen to what he said
after that, we'll take it after the commerce.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
And you know what, you're starting to see that because
we've done more in two weeks than Biden he's done
in five years, six years.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
They could be here between him and Obama.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
You added up, Okay, we've done more in two weeks
than they've done in twelve years.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Now you're probably saying, well, that's you, Ris. Well, here's
everybody's favorite Caroline Levin breaking down in ninety seconds everything
he's got done in two weeks. And this is before
the Cave of Mexico, the Cave of Canada, and the
Cave of Panama. With Greenland to come.
Speaker 8 (26:23):
We are two weeks in and President Trump is already
delivering big wins for the American people. Let's go through
the facts.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
On the border.
Speaker 8 (26:31):
President Trump declared a national emergency, deployed the military, ended
catch and release, and reinstated remain in Mexico, and already
illegal crossings are down ninety five percent. We are resuming
construction of the border wall, and Columbia's president is now
offering his own plane for deportation of illegal Colombian immigrants.
(26:53):
On the economy and energy, President Trump unleashed American energy,
declared a national energy emergency, and killed Joe Biden's radical
electric vehicle mandate. Wall Street is booming. AI investments skyrocketed
to five hundred billion dollars, and there's twenty billion flowing
into US data centers across our country. President Trump is
(27:15):
restoring law and order. He labeled the drug cartels as
foreign terrorist organizations, and he is deporting criminal illegal aliens.
And he signed the Lake and Rileyacht into.
Speaker 9 (27:25):
Law, draining the swamp.
Speaker 8 (27:27):
President Trump signed more than forty five executive orders. DEI
has been purged from the government, and our military and
lazy federal workers have been ordered back to the office.
And when it comes to free speech and transparency, President
Trump took twelve times more press questions than Joe Biden
(27:47):
did in a week, reinstated four hundred and forty silenced
journalists to the press room, and ended government censorship. Promise
has made, promise has kept, and we're just getting started.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Just getting started is the key to that. That's in
two weeks. Yesterday you could add to that the use
of terrorists to get what he wanted from Canada, from Mexico,
from Panama. This is remarkable. I mean this is in
play now. The worst president in US history, if he
was president, Joe Biden wedged between a remarkable disruptor and
(28:25):
then potentially the most productive, successful, greatest president ever. And
because he's doing all of this in two weeks, you
have hope, and you have change, and you have kept promises.
But what it brings into play is you will have
the results in a year year and a half, right
(28:45):
before midterm election and certainly before he leaves office, prosperity
and security. That's how great presidency becomes a revolution. And
that is your sounds of the day.
Speaker 10 (29:01):
I'm not joking.
Speaker 8 (29:02):
I don't think we should be taking the advice from
a group of people who can't defind what a woman is.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
That was just complete, not.
Speaker 9 (29:09):
A local formation, racist, extreme, and somewhere Kama is at
a dark bar talking to herself over a burpose.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
I just have to remind you, don't you ever let
anybody take your power.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
You have the same.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Power and around. This is your morning show with Michael
del Chona, and we can't have your morning show without
your voice. So let's get a final say to Youngstown, Ohio.
Speaker 11 (29:42):
So just a short message to w KBN, I want
to urge you to keep the current morning show that
you have, your morning show with Michael del Jorno. Of
all the morning shows that you've gone through in the
past number of years, this is the best one that
you've had and so please don't give up on it
and go to something else.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
I love it Wan to let you know that we
love being there. I didn't know there was a risk
of losing where I think we're pretty secure you could
relax that. But thank you so much for the kind words.
If you're just waking up. The tariffs in Mexico and
Canada have worked. The art of the deal has kicked
in and a thirty day pause has been put in place. Meanwhile,
Mexico has promised to send ten thousand troops to the
(30:26):
border to help the flow of fetanol and drug lords
from entering the country. That's a blank Canada one point
three billion, I believe, and they even have to name
a feedinyl czar to help protect the border. And along
the way, Panama has caved. Panama says it will not
renew its agreement involving China's premieer foreign investment program after
(30:48):
leaders So, you know, I guess at least Greenland. I
don't know whatever else might be next, but more victories
for Donald Trump before all of the risk or the
temporary had to kick in. Both Mexico, Canada and Panama
have blinked. That's very good news, and we're not gloating.
We want to get on to fairness. We want to
get on to securing the border more kept promises to
(31:12):
add to a remarkable list of accomplishments in the first
two weeks. Also, Cruz removed the fuselage from the Potomac
River near the nation's capitol following last week's mid air collision,
and State Farm, the largest insurer in California, asking officials
for emergency rate hikes, blaming, of course, the wildfires in
southern California. Roy o'neili is are your morning show correspondent.
(31:32):
We always give Rory the final story or especially on
days where it falls that he's available at this hour.
The Trump taraf war that certainly turned out good for
America and for Donald Trump yesterday.
Speaker 10 (31:45):
Yeah, now again it's a thirty day pause.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
In the tariffs.
Speaker 10 (31:48):
I'm curious to see what's going to happen over these
next thirty days.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
A lot of the initiatives.
Speaker 10 (31:52):
From Mexico and Canada had already been announced, and we're
sort of repackaged for yesterday. But I'm curious to see
how this is going to hold thirty days from now,
when if we can try to keep these tarffs from.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Taking effent, Obviously there's incentive for both Mexico and Canada
and for their economy, and obviously there were incentives for
the President to secure the border. It's a good start.
We'll see where it is in thirty days. China has
reacted right.
Speaker 10 (32:20):
They did get the ten percent tariff because they didn't
reach a deal, although a phone call or two today
and tomorrow could change things. But China is responding with
a fifteen percent tariff on US coal and LNG liquefied
natural gas imports, also tariffs on large scale farm equipment,
and restrictions on some exports materials like tungsten, and an
(32:42):
anti trust investigation into Google.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yeah, we had Lieutenant Colonel James Carafano on earlier in
the hour. He doesn't think we have any business doing
which business with China at all, So that one, that
one's probout the time. Yeah, good look with that, and
that one's the tougher one to find common ground. We
talked yesterday, and I know I can throw this stuff
at you because because as I always gloat, you're a
know at all. We had hopes that in the removal
(33:06):
of all the fuselage out of the Atomac River that
we might find those last twelve remains. I didn't see
anything on that yesterday and I don't have anything in
the news this morning on that. How is that going?
And we're I mean, is it possible? This sounds very insensitive,
but I love these people and I love their loved
ones who need these remains for closure. Is it possible
(33:28):
some of these have gone in the current and they
may not be in the area of the crash slite
or did we recover most of them?
Speaker 10 (33:34):
It's possible, but really we didn't get information because there
was no NTSB news conference yesterday, So okay, did're getting
official update as to things? So they may have made
more progress, we just haven't got an official update.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Roy O'Neil always gets the final say, great reporting, we'll
talk again tomorrow. I save just enough time to play
you this before the Predators did what they always do
and lose. Last night to the Ottawa Senators. Something interesting
happened in the audience when the Canadian national anthem was sung. Listen,
(34:12):
and then apparently during the national anthem it was real quiet,
and somebody yelled out, go drap. Oh wow. But you
know that's interesting. By the way, this has no bearing
on the case, but I just I actually think the
Canadian national anthem is a really pretty song, and usually,
you know, the relationship between Canada the United States in
terms of hockey is a great relationship. That that was
(34:35):
very timely and I don't know if the people in
the stadium knew by then that Trudeau in Canada had
agreed to one point three billion for border security and
naming a fentanyl zar and that the tariffs were put
on pause. But you can see where hockey fans and
how they were feeling with their booze last night. Oh Candada.
(35:02):
All right, Well, who knows what today holds and what
we'll be talking about tomorrow. But we'll see a five central,
sixth eastern right here on your morning show. I have
a great day. We're all in this together. This is
your Morning Show with Michael hild Show now
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