Should China be on Travel Ban List?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, this is now President Trump. Last night, uh in
a video announcing that the recent terror attack in Boulder
pushed him to make the final decision. He is going
to reimpose the travel ban. And this time it's not
going to be seven or eight countries. It's going to

(00:21):
be twelve countries. Roll cut three mic.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
The recent terror attack in Boulder, Colorado has underscored the
extreme dangers posed to our country by the entry of
foreign nationals who are not properly vetted, as well as
those who come here as temporary visitors and overstay their visas.
We don't want them.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
If you think, yeah, no, you're we don't want them.
We don't want them. And listen now to Trump saying, look,
here's why I'm imposing the travel ban. How many how
many people come into our country on say, a tourist visa,
and like this Egyptian national, Okay, Mohammed Soliman, Okay, or Solomon,

(01:13):
this guy, Mohammed Solomon, by the way, with his wife
and five children. And apparently now they're all on welfare.
They're all on welfare. And you have a judge, a
Biden appointed judge, who is now blocking the Trump administration
from deporting Solomon's wife and five children back to Egypt.

(01:35):
And you know who's feeding them. We are, who's housing them,
we are, who's taking care of them? We are. So
they overstate the visa, they're on welfare, they commit these
brutal acts of terror, they burn American citizens alive, and
then when we want to deport them, a Biden judge

(01:57):
steps in and says, no, at least temporarily, should a
temporary restraining order. And so Trump's saying, look, we need
this like we need a hole in the head. So
he goes, I'm tired of it. They come to this
country on some kind of a visa, usually a tourist visa.
They overstayed the visa, and either they stay on welfare,
they get on welfare or whatever, they some kind of

(02:20):
scam where they're milking the system, or they commit acts
of terrorism or crime. Listen now to Trump roll cut
three a a mic.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
In the twenty first century, we've seen one terror attack
after another, carried out by far and visa overstairs from
dangerous places all.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Over the world.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
And thanks to Biden's open door policies, today there are
millions and millions of these illegals who should.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Not be in our country.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
In my first term, my powerful travel restrictions were one
of our most successful policies, and they were a key
part of preventing major foreign terror tax on American soil.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yep. And what did Biden do day one? Day one?
He rescinded and rolled back everything that Trump had put in.
So they were coming in from all over the world.
So we imported terrorists, We imported gang bangers, drug dealers,

(03:23):
you name it, human traffickers, drug cartels. It didn't matter.
They just kept coming. So listen now to Trump saying,
I Am not going to turn this country into France,
into Britain, or into Germany, or into much of Europe
where they just keep coming and coming and coming by

(03:44):
the millions. Roll cut three, b Mike.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
We will not let what happened in Europe happened to America.
That's why on my first day back in office, I
directed the Secretary of State to form a security review
of high risk regions and make recommendations for where restrictions
should be imposed. Among the national security threats their analysis

(04:12):
considered are the large scale presence of terrorists, failure to
cooperate on visa security, inability to verify travelers' identities, inadequate
record keeping of criminal histories, and persistently high rates of
illegal visa overstays, and other things. Very simply, we cannot

(04:34):
have open migration from any country where we cannot safely
and reliably vet and screen those who seek to enter
the United States.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Amen, brother, to me, this is just you know again,
you may disagree with me. I want to hear from you. Agreed,
disagree six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight.
To me, this is just common sense. Is just pure
common sense. Now say one last thing, and then I'm
going to go right back to the phone lines again.

(05:04):
Entering the United States is not a right, it's a privilege.
For example, my wife is gonna Grayson and Ava are
gonna go to Lisbon. They're gonna go to Portugal. She's
got a dear Italian friend, and she's that friend and
her daughter, very close to my daughter, are going to
meet up in Portugal spend a week together. Ashton and

(05:26):
I are planning to go to Europe ourselves later this summer,
just the two of us. I don't assume that somehow
my wife has the right to go to Portugal, or
that you know, Grash and I have the right to
go to any European country we want. It's a privilege.
If they let you in, great and when you go there,

(05:50):
you respect the rules and you obey the law. Now,
this idea that somehow people are entitled to come to America,
that they you know, they can just travel here or
stay here, or you know, get a tourist visa and
then stay here as long as they want. No, it's

(06:11):
a privilege. And if a country keeps taking advantage of
that privilege, as many of these countries on that travel
ban list do, or if they can't, you know, we
want to check on someone to see if they do
have ties to criminal gangs or if they do have
ties to terrorist networks. And your country is so poor
and so backward and so dilapidated that you don't even

(06:35):
have basic criminal databases, Well, I'm sorry. If we can't
vet the person coming in, we're not going to let
that person in. I'm saying, we're you know, we haven't
signed a suicide pact. And the first job of any leader,
of any president of the United States is the safety
and security of the American people. I'm talking about dealing

(06:58):
with foreigners seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight
lines are blazing. Kathy in Rochester. Thanks for holding Kathy, and.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
Welcome hello Jeff. First of all, I think Donald the
President Trump for a run the travel band, you know,
that makes so much sense. What he said, Just listening
to what he says makes so much sense. And when
you listen to liberals speak or the Democratic Party, who
are basically Marxist communists, they don't make any sense no

(07:33):
matter what they say, they make zero sense. And when
you listen to Donald Trump, everything the man says makes
total sense because he wants to protect Americans and that's
his job is to protect us. That's what we voted
him in office for us to fix our country and
protect us. The Democratic Party their criminals, and all they
do is support the criminals. They never support we, the

(07:56):
people of this country. They're always on the wrong side
of every issue, no matter what it is. It's just amazing.
But what I want the reason I was calling you
is I wanted to Earlier you were talking about Walmart,
shopping at Walmart and buying ten dollars sneakers that are
made in China. But you know, I just wanted to
make you aware that Americans really don't know what's going

(08:17):
on in this country. Many of our brands, iconic brands
have been taken over by private equity firms. And I'm
going to give you an example. Knit Well, okay, the
company is Nitwell. They own the brands and Taylor, Chico's, Lane,
Bryant Loft, Talbot's, White House, black Market, and more so.
And they are owned by a company called Sycamore Partners,

(08:40):
who is a private equity firm. They also own they
bought a winery, Saint Michael Winery, a school, it's the
Guarded School. Other products express, let me see, there's quite
a few here, you know. And that is what's happening
in this country, is that all our brands, hotels aren't ty.
They're all owned by private equity firms. Everything is being

(09:03):
purchased by private equity firms.

Speaker 5 (09:05):
And they are the people that we should be blaming
because they are the people that allow all the manufacturing
to go on in Muslim countries like Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Indonesia.
Then we have other, you know, manufacturing going on Pakistan, Vietnam, India, China.

Speaker 4 (09:22):
India is really growing. They're starting to manufacture a lot
of products in India. But we have to blame our
own companies, not so much the Chinese government. They're smart,
I mean, they're brilliant. They're smart. If we're the idiots
that want to go over there and set up shop,
of course they're going to welcome us because they're gonna
benefit from that. But we have to start making wiser

(09:43):
choices as to what we buy because everything, no matter
what is Nike sneakers, they're made in Vietnam, so it
doesn't matter if you're paying ten dollars for a pair
of sneakers are two hundred and ten dollars. Stuart Weissman,
that's another example, is owned by this Sycamore Partners. Go
into the Stewar Weitzman shop in Mentum, they're selling shoes

(10:03):
for eight hundred dollars a pair. I mean, but they
made it, you know, in China. It's crazy. So we
as consumers have to either stop buying all this junk,
but we have got to blame our own corporations because
they're the ones who are creating this mess.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Oh Kathy, I couldn't agree with you more. And look,
this is when I really became an economic patriot or
an economic nationalist or if you want to call me
a protectionist, I really don't care. It was in the
nineteen nineties and I was then at Ohio University. I
was a teaching assistant. I was working on my PhD,

(10:43):
my doctoral dissertation, and I was teaching a lot of
the students at Athens, Ohio, and many of them came
from different parts of Ohio. And many of them came
from military families, families who had served in Vietnam, in
Korea in World War Two. Many of them came from
small towns, good decent, salt of the earth people. And

(11:07):
when NAFTA got implemented, it took less than a year.
Everything start to go overseas. It was American company. So
you're talking about now these big hedge fund people, private
equity people, Corporate America, wealthy corporations who just emptied out
these towns, hallowed them out, factory after factory, plant after plant.

(11:33):
And I remember these kids were in college. Now I
say kids affectionately, they were adults obviously, and they're like,
we don't understand. Our town has been destroyed. There's no jobs,
there's no opportunity. We can't even sell our homes because
nobody wants to live in our community anymore because all
the jobs are gone. So my parents spent their whole

(11:56):
life working, scrimping, saving, and now not only are my
parents out of work and they can't find any work,
but our home has suddenly lost all its value overnight.
And you know, they're like, my father served in Vietnam,
or my uncle served in Korea, or my you know whatever,
my granddad or whatever served in World War two. You know,

(12:19):
many of them have siblings that are in the military,
and they're like, why is our country doing this to us?
Like they were literally bewildered, like it broke my heart,
and they just were asking. They were just posting, like
they putting up their hands and like, you know, they
call me professor. There was saying, Professor Kuhner, we don't understand.
And remember this was Bill Clinton and New Gingrich. So

(12:42):
this wasn't just one party. It was the Democrats and
the Republicans. It was the Clintonistas, Bill Clinton and the
Republican led Congress. And I'll never forget I was dead
set against NAFTA. I said, this thing is going to
be a disaster. Ross Perot warned everybody in the nineteen
ninety two presidential election debate. You're going to hear this

(13:05):
giant sucking sound, and that's going to be our jobs
and our manufacturing and our factories going down to Mexico
and god knows where else. He was completely right. And
I'll never forget this, Kathy, And it's something i'd love
to write about if I ever get around to, you know,
with my kids and everything, but I'd love to write
at least a chapter on what happened during NAFTA. I'll

(13:28):
never forget it. It was naked bribery, naked bill. Clinton
went to Congress and it was there were Republicans against it,
Democrats against it because their constituents were against it. So
they're ringing their phones off the hook. The Middle America
did not want that disastrous trade deal. They knew what

(13:49):
was coming. And Clinton went one after another, what do
you want, literally, name your price, you got it. Next
member of Congress, what do you want, name your price,
You got it? And it was bribe after bribe, pork
after pork, deal after deal. It was one of the
most corrupt things I've ever seen. And that and that,

(14:14):
you know, and I was, you know, I was a
Reagan guy, a Reagan, Baby, I loved Reagan. To me,
American business, even big business, frankly, could do no wrong.
And I started to look at this. I'm like, have
they forgotten the country that made them wealthy? Yes, the companies.
Of course, you're obligated to your shareholders. I get that.

(14:37):
But you're an American company. And that's when I began
to realize, Kathy. No, they're an international company. They see
themselves as quote multinational. Now there's no allegiance to America
or to the country, or to its workers or to
its citizens. They just go where they can make a

(15:00):
maximum buck. And if they'll trade with our enemies, they'll
trade with our enemies. And if they'll sell us out,
they'll sell us out. And you nailed it. So look,
the problem is just to go full circle to because
you're completely right, Kathy. Look, I try not to buy
from Amazon. I try to avoid Amazon, but some occasionally

(15:20):
the kids want something, or graatees want something. Sometimes on Amazon,
if you buy a package, whatever it is, an alarm clock.
I bought Ashton an alarm clock, for example, recently, and
I'm like, Ashley, can we just go to the store. No, No,
we got to buy it on Amazon, Daddy, Okay, you
don't know where it's made. I always look where is
it made? And you really don't know where it's made

(15:44):
until you open up the package. And of course we
order an alarm clock for Ashton and guess what made
in China. I was gonna throw it against the wall.
I was so upset. But anyway, okay, Ashton, here's your
alarm clock. That's why I say, Daddy prefers if we
go to a store, Best Buy, whatever, and I can

(16:04):
see what I'm buying and look at the back and okay,
where is this made? Now? I always buy American. Whenever
I can, I buy American. If I can't buy American,
I'm not kidding. I will buy from a country that's
an ally of ours, or I'm not kidding. At a
bare minimum is not an enemy of ours. Like I

(16:26):
really I underwear whatever, A lot of it is something
I don't know why, but it's made in Honduras. Okay,
many of the illegals from Honduras are here. I figure,
what the hell? Before Trump? You know, Oh, they're gonna
get amnesty anyway, so it's they're gonna be their Americans
say in the making. But you know, all kidding aside.
I'll buy something from Honduras if I can't buy American,

(16:49):
But I don't buy from China. As much as I can,
I don't buy. In fact, I'm being honest with you
unless I don't know, like that case where I got
an Amazon package and it's made in China if you know,
and I didn't know it was. But if I know
that something is made in China, I don't buy it, period.
I don't buy it. I'll even buy from Vietnam. And

(17:11):
I'm telling you, I'm still bitter about the Vietnam War, okay,
because the Communist Party is still running that country. But
you know, let that go. I would still rather buy
from Vietnam than from China. Well why, Jeff, Because China
is our mortal enemy. Vietnam can never defeat US, China can,

(17:32):
Vietnam can never subjugate US. China can so to me,
I buy from any country but China. If I can't buy,
I'm serious. If I can't buy from the UNI something
you made in America. Stuff from Italy's always very good.
And I don't just mean the meats and the cheese
and you know, bottled water and all that. You know,

(17:53):
San Pellegrino is amazing, but clothes. Italians make phenomenal clothes.
So if you can't buy, yeah it's a little price.
Sure it's a little bit more expensive, but you're getting
top notch quality. Just as an example, LBAN. I'm just
throwing it out there. Ashton is saying, we got to
go to LBAN for our trip to Europe later this summer, Dad, Dad,

(18:16):
we got to buy some stuff at LBAN. I think
they make a lot of American stuff, right, I mean,
that's my understanding. I know it's a bit more expensive,
but it's great quality, lifetime warranty. I don't want to
still like a commercial, but that's what I hear about them.
And so you know, as LBAN a good place to
go if you want to buy American I'm just asking.
I'm I don't know, I've heard good stuff about I've

(18:39):
bought some boots in the past, loved them, still have them.
It's been like ten years or whatever. So stuff at
LBAN is good. You know, it's not cheap. But and
I believe my boots were made in the USA or
they were made in Canada, but anyway, it wasn't China,
that's for sure. Sandy just made an excellent point, quick point.

(19:00):
I want to go back to the phone lines. Her
mom like to buy fish, especially frozen fish, and so
when she would go, she would always want to know
is the fish in China from China? And I didn't
know this. Sandy literally just taught me something. Now, do
you know that a lot of the frozen fish that

(19:20):
we buy comes from China? And her mom a didn't
like China. So that's one reason why she didn't want
to buy. No communist China, so she didn't want to
buy fish. But the other reason is like their version
of the FDA, they have much lower standards than we do,
so things like mercury and fish or you know that

(19:42):
we have quite good strong standards on if they don't care.
So Sandy's mom was like, man, don't don't buy fish
from China. Now I didn't know this about frozen fish.
I mean, I'm not a big frozen fish guy to
begin with, but I wouldn't I wouldn't buy frozen fish
from China in a way.

Speaker 6 (20:01):
No, we.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
Gino in Buffalo. Thanks for holding Gino and welcome.

Speaker 6 (20:09):
American Bison.

Speaker 5 (20:13):
Gino.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
How are you, buddy, I'm doing a fantastic Jeff.

Speaker 6 (20:17):
I just want to talk to you know, his band
from these countries. Now, they always come up with these
monikers that call us anti this, anti dad, xenophobe. I'll
be all those things and it doesn't matter to me,
especially anti Islam, because Islam is antithetical to my beliefs
as a Christian. And if you say you live next

(20:38):
to a Muslim, a peaceful, hardworking love of Muslim, you
have to remember that they belong to Islam, and Islam
is not a peaceful religion. It's a nation hell bent
on conquering the world. So you have to.

Speaker 7 (20:50):
Remember, no matter how many welcome and how much you
may like them, when they are called the global and
Defada or global jihad they follow, will they have the
same mercies and thoughts as you as a Christian? Or
will they follow the Kuran and Mohammad and look at
you as an infidel and destroy you where you live
because everything is theirs?

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Well you know, Gino, no, gino. Look, many Christians, Jews,
non Muslims who are persecuted in Muslim countries say exactly
what you're saying, that Islam is not really a religion.
It's a political ideology, and they go, you have to
remember that, and you're right. It is antithetical to our

(21:34):
way of life, and it's antithetical to the way Christians
and Jews and many other religious believers think. Gino, thank
you for the courage to say what many people are thinking.
Rob in New Hampshire, thanks for holding Rob, Rob, I've
got one minute. I hate to do this to you, go.

Speaker 6 (21:54):
Corner man.

Speaker 8 (21:55):
I met Ross Perun ninety two in an elevator and
he warned everybody about Naptome. I've been shopping like you
since the eighties because I've been I was a Reagan
guy myself. I encourage all the listeners out there to
buy Americans as much as you can, because, yeah, you
know what, the previous caller was right. Their hell bent
on taking us out all together, and we got to

(22:16):
fight back America first, baby, Thanks for taking my call.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
Jeff, my pleasure. Rob, Thank you, buddy. So if anybody,
if you could email me, text me, message me ll
bean no, no, really, like, is that a good place
to buy American you know, like whatever, American boots and shorts, shirts, belts,
you know whatever. I'm just curious. I know the quality

(22:42):
is good, that I know, but is it made in
America Because I'd love to me I always want to
buy American. So again to the callers outstanding drop today,