April 30, 2025 • 35 mins
Trump Celebrates “First 100 Days” in Michigan
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Never a dull moment around these parts, and I can tell.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
You that much.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
We are in a little bit of a news tsunami
the last couple of days, so we're gonna do our
best to make sure we come up for Aaron a
little bit here and give you the latest. We got
stories the first hundred days. Trump makes his trimp to
Michigan and makes massive news while he's here, plus Whitmer
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involved in it somehow, and the boy she's she's getting
run through the ringer for being with Trump. We'll talk
about that and fill you in on all of it.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Coming up, news, weather and traffic, his stories of the day.
We are talking about what matters most in West Michigan
and beyond. This is the big three.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
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it was a massive day, the first hundred days and
the hundredths in fact, celebrating the second term President Trump
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with that rally and Warren Michigan Yesterday Town and accomplishments
blasting his detractors are declaring, We've just gotten started. You
haven't seen anything yet. As a matter of fact, there
was some more big news. Yeah, they've lifted some of
the the tariffs limited relief to lawmakers to build cars
(02:16):
right here in the US. The deal rebates if they
assemble with foreign parts, but just for two years and
only if they commit to producing more at home. Translation,
you play ball with America, you win. You play globalist games,
you lose. Four GMS to Lantis all breathing easier, the
message loud and clear. It's not charity, it's leverage. By
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the way, another big, big announcement out of Selfridge Air
National Guarden Base. When we're involved with that one. I'll
cover that coming up here in a second. It was
day three of the officershire trial yesterday. There were some
testimony from different experts want a use or force. He'll
be back on this today and there's talker whether Officer
(03:02):
Shure may in fact take the stand himself. Of course,
talks continue to pray for officers, share of the family
and Patrick Leoya and of course the entire city is
you see the back and forth on this thing, the
media circus that has the potential to become trand that
cooler heads would prevail. Well, he may have embarrassed Whitmer
(03:24):
once again, Trump calling on her, which was fantastic to
make a comment yesterday after he made that big announcement.
For everybody so excited about Suffrage Air National Guard Base.
They're going to get F fifteen's twenty one of them
in fact, a big investment and the future now clear
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about Suffrage and what Michigan's role is going to be
to play in it all. By the way, she's just
getting roasted. Roast did right and left in fact, like
different folks in her own party from being apartment. He
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asked her up there, He said, look, I'm glad you're here.
They met at the tarmac there and then he asked
her to come up. She said, I wasn't planning on this.
Here's Rep. Matt Hall, Speaker, the House President.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
It's because of your leadership. This is happening. No one
else could save Selfridge. We've tried for decades. It took you,
mister President. This is why the people at Michigan elected you.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Sir.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
You have not forgetting us. This is the first time
in decades where we can all say Selfridge is winning.
We are winning because of you, President Trump. And I
know all of these troops here will not let you
down with this new fighter mission, which will keep Selfridge
Air National Guard based thriving for the next thirty to
forty years.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
It's fantastic yesterday, by the way, as so Eric Nasmitt
said later, they're in the also gubernatorial candidate making a
brief appearance and saying a couple of words. They're invited
by President.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Trump for coming to Home County, thank you for coming
to Michigan, and thank you for writing another important service
of the F fifteen X. This means that these folks
are going to be continuing on the mission for America
for the coming decades because of your leadership. America's back again,
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mccomb's back again, Michigan's back again, and salfridg will be
leading the way. Thank you, mister President, for showing that leadership.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Here's that big announcement. By the way, this came with
a roar of applause from folks there on the base.
Air National Guard based Selfridge there on the other side
of the state. Take a listen.
Speaker 7 (05:54):
A warthog's with twenty one brand new F fifteen ex
Ego two fighter jets, the best of the world, the.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Fresh off, fresh off the lot, brand new, and.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
They have an expression you know what that means, fresh
off the line. That means they are brand new, They've
never been anywhere. This is where they're going to be
for a long time. And I saw one of them
flew over my head and I said.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
What the hell is that? That plan has serious power?
Speaker 7 (06:42):
So this is the best there is anywhere in the world.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Big announcement means a lot for Michigan, and of course
it was a big moment. I mean, anybody who's everybody
and of course in office, would want to be alongside
him as he's making that big announcement, including the governor
of Michigan. And she's taken heat for today, big grudge,
taking long heat, and it's all from the Democrats. It
is going to be a tough one for her to
(07:07):
square up. I'll explain why. First, let's listen to what
happened here. He is inviting her up to speak. She
wasn't planning on it, but.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Well, I hadn't planned to speak, but I'm on behalf
of all the military men and women who serve our
country and serve so honorably, on behalf of the state
of Michigan. I am really damn happy we're here to
celebrate this recapitalization at Selfridge.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
That was unnecessary.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
It's crucial for the Michigan economy. It's crucial for the
men and women here, for our homeland security and our future.
So thank you. I'm so so grateful that this announcements
me today and I appreciate.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
All the work.
Speaker 8 (07:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
A She did not want to say I'm grateful for
you by mister President, I thank you for making this happen.
And she kind of parsed to work there, and I'm
so grateful that this announcement was made. They killed for
all the work. That's but again, that's he started her
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career out five years ago by calling her that woman
from Michigan. She wrote the coattails of that. Over the
last five years, never fixed a single stretch of highway
as far as I'm concerned, we're we're still dealing with
all of those issues. Uh. Never came through, followed through
on that promise. And uh and and and then you
had a couple of weeks ago holding her blue folders
(08:37):
file folders over her face in the Oval office. You
thought that was bad. Wait if she gets to fallout
from this, so it's gonna be it's gonna be interesting
because you've got to how do you square this. You've
got her who's standing side by side with President Trump
there at Selfridge, saying thank you. And by the way
she ought to this is the way things ought to work.
(08:57):
Pat on the back. She actually have said, you want
to make it even better? I think she gets today
if she says thank you mister President, for your hard work.
But she didn't say that. She was trying to be
astute and trying to think about politics and her political career.
By the way, I'm gonna say something, her political career.
(09:18):
If she plays ball with President Trump, and if she
comes out as neutral now she will she will have
she will have a better chance. Now, I don't know,
she may still mess it up. She'll find a way
to do that. But if she played ball, she'd be
a lot, she'd be a lot better off. That's just
I'm gonna tell it. That's what people want to see. That's
(09:39):
why you see Gavin Newsom sort of trying to make
his way to the center right now. A lot of
these hopefuls for twenty twenty eight. But that's not how
the Democrat Party of today is working. By the way,
this is the same Democrat Party that's driven people away
in mass And why we got AOC and Bernie Sanders
out there clomping and stumping around on stage fl buying
(10:00):
private jets to tell you that we gotta you know,
we got to cut down on climate change and everything else.
So that's that's part of the part of the problem,
but part of the issue that you see here in Michigan.
It's Dana Nssel, Joncelyn Benzon, some of the most extreme
of the extreme. Dana Essel out here talking about how
she she wait, we just can't normalize this president. What
(10:21):
do you mean normalized? You're you know, Gretchen Whitmer, part
of the evil Trio. There is standing next to President
Trump Megan the announcement. She basically has to think him
and should by the way, during this whole this whole thing.
So it's gonna be interesting to watch how they try
to square that up and what that all looks like,
(10:42):
how it plays out in the day's head. We'll keep
you posted on that, U But there was even more.
There were bigger announcements that were made yesterday. We've got
to get into those, some of the clips from Officer
shir trial yesterday day too. We've got day three just
underway today as we speak.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
And more.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
It's all coming up, So don't go anywhere. We just
barely getting started, barely scratching the surface of it all.
Big news, lots of it, and guess what, we got
a front row seat for it all. We're back after
this on West Michigan Live. You know, part of the
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the market's reaction in what President Trump had to say
when it comes to tariffs and a little bit of
the leeway he's given the American autoworkers. And by the way,
this is great. It should be great for the markets.
It should be great for the auto industry as well,
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because he's giving them a path to get back up
onto manufacturing here in just to Michigan, but also the
entire country and hopefully we land a lot of that.
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Now, it's West Michigan Live with Justin Barclay on news
Radio Wood thirteen hundred and one oh six nine a
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Speaker 9 (13:05):
Here are your headlines from the Midwestern or this Tuesday,
April thirtieth. I'm Robin Poffman in Warren. President Trump holding
a big red, white and blue patriotic rally marking his
one hundredth day back in office. The President speaking to
supporters just north of Detroit, saying his policies are bringing
jobs back here to Michigan.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
They all want to come back to Michigan and build
cars again. You know why because of our tax and
tariff policy.
Speaker 9 (13:30):
Michigan Governor Democrat Wretchen Whitmer invited to come up to
the podium earlier in the day as Trump, visiting with
members of the US military, had an air National Guard base,
which Trump says will remain open. On that news, Whitmer
telling the crowd.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
It's crucial for the Michigan economy. It's crucial for the
men and women here, for our homeland security and our future.
So thank you. I'm so grateful about this announcements me
today and I appreciate all the work. Thank you.
Speaker 9 (13:58):
And prior to his Michigan visit, President Trump sitting down
with ABC's senior national correspondent Terry Moran in the Oval Office,
the President defending Doge.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
There are things that I'm considering right now putting back,
but overall, we've saved hundreds of billions of dollars.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
Well, the original promise was two trillion, went to one trillion,
out to one hundred and fifty million.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Heading now what it's.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
Going to be because we have things that are at
a very high level that are being looked at right now.
Speaker 9 (14:23):
For these stories and more. Visit the Midwesterner at the
Midwesterner dot news.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
The time to be here with us, and we'll be
right back with you.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Okay, my pleasure. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
We might as well say hi, we got him here
with us right now. Brian Panibecker is here. I want
to hold him over past the break if we can.
But autoworkers for Trump last night, big splash. They're in Warren.
The first hundred days, and Brian, I know that folks
watching had to be thinking the same thing. We know
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you're fired up. President Trump's fired up, but I think
you know America has a right to be fired up
with everything they're seeing play out in the first hundred days.
What does it mean for the auto manufacturing industry?
Speaker 8 (15:08):
Well, justin first, i'd like to say, just for the
sake of getting it out there, the legacy media and
the corporate media keep saying that Trump's pull numbers are
going down and Trump voters have buyer's remorse. Well that's
real news to me, because I haven't spoken to one
Trump voter who is disappointed with anything he's done. Because
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he has kept every campaign promise that he made. Everything
he's doing, he said he was going to do when
he campaigned, so we knew what we were getting and
we're loving every minute of it. As far as what
it means to the auto industry, this is what we've
been waiting for for thirty or forty years.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
You know.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
Ross Perrot famously said in nineteen ninety two, if napped up,
which they were talking about at that time, if it
gets signed into law, we're going to hear a giant
sucking sound and that'll be all of our jobs leaving
and going to Mexico. Well, Ross was right. I voted
for Ross throw back then, and he was right. We've
lost ninety thousand manufacturing facilities in the thirty years since then.
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And then we allowed China into the World Trade Organization
and they've been doing nothing.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
But ripping us off, eating and.
Speaker 8 (16:21):
Stealing our intellectual property since then. So we've been waiting
for a president who had the Cajonis to stand up
to China and other foreign countries who have been taking
advantage of America for decades. And he's doing it. This
guy has has a spine of steel.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
You know.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I gotta tell you the one thing, the one thing
about all of this. And by the way, let's play
a little bit. Let's play a little clip, because this
is this is brilliant. This is Brian last night, and
he was.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
We all know this.
Speaker 10 (16:55):
But we have the greatest president, probably not just in
our lifetimes, but in the history of this country. Best
man broke the mold in his first term and in
his first hundred days he's accomplished more than Joe Biden
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did in four years.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I gotta ask when we come back, Brian Pannabecker with
us right now, Auto Workers for Trump. When we come back.
There's a couple of people asking, Brian, when when are
you going to throw your hat in the ring and
run for something. We gotta ask that question. Plus I
want to find out because President Trump just made some
changes to the tariffsencidenta being really praised by lots of
(17:45):
folks in the auto industry. Some people say, what any
cave on something? I don't. Actually, it's it's the opposite.
I think what he's done is is really strategic. I
want to get your take on that too. Coming up,
Hang on, folks, back with Brian Pannabecker, Auto Workers for
Trump Beck after this on West Michigan Live. Hey we
(18:07):
got We're back on the air, flying right through it.
Man oh Man, last night was a whirlwin yesterday, big
breaking news all throughout the state. Nationally, President Trump's celebrating
his first one hundred days right here in Michigan.
Speaker 10 (18:24):
I want to say thank you to the auto workers,
everybody who works in the automotive field, the suppliers, every
one of you, the truck drivers. Thank you so much
for supporting the greatest president in our lifetimes.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Brian Panabeker auto workers for Trump last night and the
friend of the show. Always always a pleasure to have
you on. Brian. I got to ask you because big
announcements made yesterday. We heard all about Selfridge and the
F fifteen's and that was huge news here. But there's
teariff news too, which is really fascinating now the auto
workers in the industry, at least, it seems like the
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unions have come behind these tariffs and they really like it.
I've spoken with various folks, particularly in the previous cabinet
under President Trump, who can't say enough great things about
these tariffs and what they're going to accomplish, and how
we need to get things balanced as far as trade
goes and back on track. But particularly here in back
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in Michigan specifically, and for folks blue collar like yourself
that are going to make things. We need to make
things great things in America and again and specifically Michigan,
I think that these things are going to have a
big role, to play a big role in it all.
Speaker 8 (19:45):
You're exactly right, justin And I was briefed a little
bit about the tariff announcement yesterday.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
No, he's not caving. He's not giving in, not at all.
Speaker 8 (19:56):
As a matter of fact, he's doubling down and refining
and tuning his tariff announcement. He put together a great
team of negotiators. Those guys that he has are phenomenal.
And what they did was, and this is what I
was told. They went to the President and they said, Sir,
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some of these auto parts cross the border up to
believe it or not, seven times, and they it's just
not going to be practical or doable to teariff that
part essentially seven times.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
That would you know, they just can't do it. And
they can't move.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
That production of that part back to the United States
quick enough. It would just be super expensive. So he's
given them some time to readjust their supply chain with
What that translates into is bring your plants in your
production facilities, your supply chain back to the United States.
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So they figured out a formula so that the same
part that maybe shipped over a border and then put
into another assembly and then shipped back isn't getting double
and triple taxed by the tariff. These guys understand a
very complex issue. They're advising the president, here's how you
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need to tweak your policy, and that's what he's doing.
He relies on some very brilliant advisors and that was
the announcement he made yesterday. So everybody just needs I've
been advising people justin be patient, have faith, and trust Trump.
He's surrounded by brilliant people, starting with Elon Musk, but
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he's got Steve Besson and the whole assembly of his advisors.
They're all brilliant. So just watch this man work. And
he paused the tariffs for ninety days to give all
of these countries that we trade with time to get
over here, sit down. They can't sign a deal. It's
not like just a handshake, boom, it's done. They have
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to work through all the details, so it's going to
take time. He's close to a couple real big signings.
From what I understand, In the next week or two,
he should have some big announcements and the rest will
fall in line. They can kind of use the initial
agreements as a pattern to negotiate with other countries. You know,
they'll make their modifications and changes. Everybody's a little different.
(22:23):
But at the end of this ninety days, a lot
of big agreements should be complete. And then in the
next six months or so, I think he'll have the
vast majority of our ninety or one hundred bigger trading
partners with new trade agreements, and we'll all have lower
barriers to each other's products, and that will bring down
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the price of a lot of things, along with his
energy policies which are bringing down energy prices, which will
reduce transportation prices and consumer goods. So everybody should just
be patient, have faith and trust Trump.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Brian Panibeker, Autowork for Trump. He's not the only one
that says this is a good deal. In fact, Ford's
CEO Jim Farley is out talking about how great it is.
Speaker 11 (23:07):
Well, first of all, Ford is really different. We make
eighty percent in the US, more than any other manufacturer
in fact, we made four hundred thousand more vehicles than
our next competitor, and that would fill up the entire
island in Manhattan. That's how big of a gap we've made.
So look, we think this is really great for the country.
We really support the President's initiative. We never left the
(23:29):
America on car production, and so this moderation is reasonable.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
I think for.
Speaker 11 (23:37):
Mostly our competitors, they need more time. But at Ford,
we're in good shape and this is the right thing
to do. We really appreciate the dialogue we've had with
the President, but we have a lot more work to
do with him and the team.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah, it's interesting because Brian, the way I see this
is a this is a road really to bringing the
manufacturing back here. Some of these places, as you mentioned
on the last you know, decades, they've shipped manufacturing Canada, Mexico,
all over the world, some of these some of these
parts and then they assemble even like Ford. You know,
(24:11):
a lot of this stuff has assembled here, but it's
some of these parts are made all over at the end,
at the end of the day, we've got to have
a road to get these guys back. I can't just
yank the plug on him. Now, he did sort of
do that, I think to get them in line at first,
and this is all art of the deal, you got it.
But now they're lining up and they're saying thank you,
(24:32):
mister president. They're listening, they're having these conversations, and it
looks like it's going to work out.
Speaker 8 (24:38):
Yeah, well, he can't fix what happened over thirty to
forty years in three or four weeks.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Its okay.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
He's been in office for fourteen weeks, and the legacy media,
corporate media are trying to spend that and say, well,
you know what's he accomplished. It's like six days after
he was in office, they were screaming, how come the
price of eggs haven't come down? So, you know, some
people will fall for that, but most news consumers are
(25:07):
smart enough to realize the old media, the legacy corporate media,
are trying to tear Trump down. You guys, justin are
the new mainstream media. Guys like you and Joe Rogan
and all the other podcasters that are available accessible. More
and more people are turning to you for the truth,
(25:27):
the actual facts. You guys dig into issues and you
give them the straight truth, and that's all we want
from our news sources is the facts and the truth.
The legacy media got so far away from that. All
they have is a narrative and whatever the Democrats talking
points are, that's what they pair it. People are waking
(25:47):
up to it. Nobody's watching the legacy media anymore. They're
turning to guys like you to find out what's really
going on.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Well, we appreciate you taking the time to be here
with guys like me. Now, I know you're going to
be on a good fund business. You were on last night,
You're gonna be on again. You got a big TV yet,
litt Laura, and I guarantee they're going to all be
asking questions about all these things. But two questions. Somebody asked, Brian,
when are you going to run for something you're trump.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I got a real short answer for you. That ain't happening.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
I hear you.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
I love being an activist. I love being involved.
Speaker 8 (26:22):
I like working on issues out here in the public
and trying to change public perception, educating, motivating people. I
did announce I was going to run for state representative
about fifteen years ago, but a guy named Pete Locito
was also running for that same seat. In the primary,
him and I teamed up. I said, Pete, I'll pull out.
(26:43):
You got all the money, I'll support you. And he
went on to do a great job, became state Reps,
state senator, and now he's our county prosecutor here in McComb.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I'm good friends with Pete.
Speaker 8 (26:53):
That was my one little dipping my toe into the
political arena. I like being behind the scenes doing things
like I'm doing now with President Trump.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
But all those details will be in my book.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Justin you are certainly walking out your calling right now.
I tell you that much, Brandy. We appreciate you for it.
Now you just mentioned the book last night. You got
a deal done with the toughest deal maker there is.
What's that deal?
Speaker 3 (27:22):
The deal is.
Speaker 8 (27:23):
I went backstage with him and I real quickly said, hey,
mister President, And that's how I talked to him.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
We're on a sort of an informal basis.
Speaker 8 (27:32):
And it's funny because there's a lot of advisors and
secret service standing around. There's probably a ten or twelve
people in that little area where you're getting your picture taken.
And I said, hey, mister President, I got an offer
for you that he can't refuse. And he starts laughing
because he likes to joke around like that. And I said,
you've got a publishing company. I'm writing a book. I said,
I'll make you a deal. I'll use your publishing company
(27:54):
if you write the forward for my book. He didn't hesitate.
He stuck his hand out and said I'll do it.
I we got our picture. I started walking away, and
he says, call Sergio. Well, Sergio is the partner of
Donald Junior that runs the publishing company.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
It's called Winning Team Publishing.
Speaker 8 (28:13):
And the reason they started that publishing company was nobody
would publish Donald Trump. The five big publishers wouldn't touch
him back in twenty twenty one. They thought he was toxic. Well,
they're idiots because they could have made millions of dollars by.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Publishing Donald Trump.
Speaker 8 (28:28):
So he started his own publishing company, Winning Team Publishing.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
And so he's going to publish my book and write
the forward for it. So then get a load of this. Justin.
I locked him in. When I went up on stage
later in front of seven or.
Speaker 8 (28:43):
Eight thousand people, I talked about it, so you know,
and then I turned around to him. I pointed at him.
I said, that's how you deal with the best negotiator.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
In the world.
Speaker 8 (28:56):
It was hilarious and he loved it. I think he
got a kick out of him.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
You got to give you a chapter in the revised
version of the Art of the Deal. I love it. Brian.
What's the name of your book and when can we
expect it coming out?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (29:07):
The working title of the book is blue Collar Conservative,
which would be me. It's sort of semi autobiographical and
it's going to be about The subtitle is from Reagan
to Trump, and it's going to cover my upbringing in
McCom County, the home of the Reagan Democrats. My first
vote was for Ronald Reagan when I was eighteen nineteen
(29:28):
years old.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
And then my.
Speaker 8 (29:32):
Becoming an adult and kind of politically aware, I got
involved with two big statewide political issues.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
The first was the.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, which became Prop two in two
thousand and six. I was a statewide spokesman for that effort,
and we banned the use of racial preferences by the
government in college a missions, state hiring, and state contracting.
I worked side by side with Jennifer Gratz, the U
of M student who has denied it admission to U
(30:03):
of M, even though her test scores were way higher
than a lot of minority applicants. And then a couple
of years later I got involved with the right to
Work effort, which was a real interesting situation because I
was working in a UAW shop and right to work
as anathma to the UA to unions, and Michigan's the
(30:26):
home of the birthplace of the UAW, so that was
a legislative effort. We got that introduced and passed. There's
a whole story behind it, it'll be in the book.
And then a couple of years after we got right
to Work pass, I met Donald Trump in Nova and
told him he had to come to McComb County, Michigan
(30:46):
and ask for the Reagan Democrats support. And then that
relationship I'll talk about in the book, all the way
through being invited to the White House on Liberation Day,
April second, where he announced his tariff agenda and he
called me up in front of the entire world to
speak about it, which was an incredible honor. And then
(31:08):
that's continued right through last night here in McComb County,
where he came on his one hundredth day in office
called me up on stage, recognized me, agreed to publish
my book.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
So it's going to be a good book.
Speaker 8 (31:22):
And I'll tell the whole story, and that we're about
twenty thousand words in.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
It'll be about eighty.
Speaker 8 (31:28):
Thousand, which sounds intimidating, but it's only about twenty chapters,
and it'll cover those four areas, McComb County, Michigan, Civil
Rights Initiative, the right to work, and my relationship with
Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Political junkies will love it.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Well, don't let the ink dry too fast. I have
a feeling you're just getting started here, Brian.
Speaker 8 (31:46):
Yeah, well, I'm writing chapters every week. It seems like.
I told my co author last night. I texted him.
I said, yeah, I just wrote another chapter in the book.
I'll tell you all about it next week. He's in
Flora and we're talking over the phone and he's flying
up in a week or so to get all of
my newspaper clippings, articles, columns that I've written. When I
(32:10):
was working on all these issues as spokesman, I had
numerous columns in the.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Detroit News, Detroit Free Press.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
I even had columns in the New York Times, Wall
Street Journal, USA today because those were national issues, right,
I mean they were getting national coverage. So I've got
all that information that'll tell the story. He's going to
fly up from Florida. I'm going to drive him around
McComb County because he's a Wisconsin guy who lives in
(32:36):
Florida now. But I want him to see McComb County,
get a feel for it, see where I work, see
all the automotive plants, and get a sense of where
I grew up. I grew up about a mile away
from the plant I ended up working twenty five years at.
So there's a real story there. It'll be coming out
hopefully by November one, just in time for Christmas gift
(32:58):
buying season.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Brian Panabacker auto workers for Trump. Thank you, my friend,
always a pleasure, and thank you for everything you're doing
for the Thank you just stand to fight. You got
it back. After this. Taking a quick break, we'll talk
to the officer, sure trial and more that's happening right
in our own backyard.
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tariffs worked out for the auto industry, all part of
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the one hundredth day celebration rally there in previous press
conference there at Selfridge in Michigan. But there's a lot
more going on behind the scenes too. We're going to
talk about some of it. Stocks downs down seven hundred
points this morning on GDP first quarter GDP contraction. They're
saying raising recession fears. But what's really going on behind
(34:14):
the scenes. We're gonna talk about that coming up in
the after show. Give you the story that you won't
hear anywhere else. Plus Officer Shirtrout Day three, there's a
question about whether he will testify or not. Use of
force expert had some interesting things to say yesterday. I
don't think I agree with everything that he said, but
it's going to be a fascinating trial on the outcome
(34:34):
as we watch praying for him, the family of Patrick Lee,
or the entire city. Obviously, this is something that's tough
for everybody to go through, and all of the officers
that are out on the beat every day on the
job working for us to keep us safe. Yeah, it's
a tough one, but we're gonna deal with it. It's
like we always do. Straight ahead back with more. The
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Never a dull moment around these parts, and I can tell.
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We are in a little bit of a news tsunami
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little bit here and give you the latest. We got
stories the first hundred days. Trump makes his trimp to
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run through the ringer for being with Trump. We'll talk
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it was a massive day, the first hundred days and
the hundredths in fact, celebrating the second term President Trump
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with that rally and Warren Michigan Yesterday Town and accomplishments
blasting his detractors are declaring, We've just gotten started. You
haven't seen anything yet. As a matter of fact, there
was some more big news. Yeah, they've lifted some of
the the tariffs limited relief to lawmakers to build cars
(02:16):
right here in the US. The deal rebates if they
assemble with foreign parts, but just for two years and
only if they commit to producing more at home. Translation,
you play ball with America, you win. You play globalist games,
you lose. Four GMS to Lantis all breathing easier, the
message loud and clear. It's not charity, it's leverage. By
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the way, another big, big announcement out of Selfridge Air
National Guarden Base. When we're involved with that one. I'll
cover that coming up here in a second. It was
day three of the officershire trial yesterday. There were some
testimony from different experts want a use or force. He'll
be back on this today and there's talker whether Officer
(03:02):
Shure may in fact take the stand himself. Of course,
talks continue to pray for officers, share of the family
and Patrick Leoya and of course the entire city is
you see the back and forth on this thing, the
media circus that has the potential to become trand that
cooler heads would prevail. Well, he may have embarrassed Whitmer
(03:24):
once again, Trump calling on her, which was fantastic to
make a comment yesterday after he made that big announcement.
For everybody so excited about Suffrage Air National Guard Base.
They're going to get F fifteen's twenty one of them
in fact, a big investment and the future now clear
(03:48):
about Suffrage and what Michigan's role is going to be
to play in it all. By the way, she's just
getting roasted. Roast did right and left in fact, like
different folks in her own party from being apartment. He
(04:09):
asked her up there, He said, look, I'm glad you're here.
They met at the tarmac there and then he asked
her to come up. She said, I wasn't planning on this.
Here's Rep. Matt Hall, Speaker, the House President.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
It's because of your leadership. This is happening. No one
else could save Selfridge. We've tried for decades. It took you,
mister President. This is why the people at Michigan elected you.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Sir.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
You have not forgetting us. This is the first time
in decades where we can all say Selfridge is winning.
We are winning because of you, President Trump. And I
know all of these troops here will not let you
down with this new fighter mission, which will keep Selfridge
Air National Guard based thriving for the next thirty to
forty years.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
It's fantastic yesterday, by the way, as so Eric Nasmitt
said later, they're in the also gubernatorial candidate making a
brief appearance and saying a couple of words. They're invited
by President.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Trump for coming to Home County, thank you for coming
to Michigan, and thank you for writing another important service
of the F fifteen X. This means that these folks
are going to be continuing on the mission for America
for the coming decades because of your leadership. America's back again,
(05:32):
mccomb's back again, Michigan's back again, and salfridg will be
leading the way. Thank you, mister President, for showing that leadership.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Here's that big announcement. By the way, this came with
a roar of applause from folks there on the base.
Air National Guard based Selfridge there on the other side
of the state. Take a listen.
Speaker 7 (05:54):
A warthog's with twenty one brand new F fifteen ex
Ego two fighter jets, the best of the world, the.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Fresh off, fresh off the lot, brand new, and.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
They have an expression you know what that means, fresh
off the line. That means they are brand new, They've
never been anywhere. This is where they're going to be
for a long time. And I saw one of them
flew over my head and I said.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
What the hell is that? That plan has serious power?
Speaker 7 (06:42):
So this is the best there is anywhere in the world.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Big announcement means a lot for Michigan, and of course
it was a big moment. I mean, anybody who's everybody
and of course in office, would want to be alongside
him as he's making that big announcement, including the governor
of Michigan. And she's taken heat for today, big grudge,
taking long heat, and it's all from the Democrats. It
is going to be a tough one for her to
(07:07):
square up. I'll explain why. First, let's listen to what
happened here. He is inviting her up to speak. She
wasn't planning on it, but.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Well, I hadn't planned to speak, but I'm on behalf
of all the military men and women who serve our
country and serve so honorably, on behalf of the state
of Michigan. I am really damn happy we're here to
celebrate this recapitalization at Selfridge.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
That was unnecessary.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
It's crucial for the Michigan economy. It's crucial for the
men and women here, for our homeland security and our future.
So thank you. I'm so so grateful that this announcements
me today and I appreciate.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
All the work.
Speaker 8 (07:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
A She did not want to say I'm grateful for
you by mister President, I thank you for making this happen.
And she kind of parsed to work there, and I'm
so grateful that this announcement was made. They killed for
all the work. That's but again, that's he started her
(08:15):
career out five years ago by calling her that woman
from Michigan. She wrote the coattails of that. Over the
last five years, never fixed a single stretch of highway
as far as I'm concerned, we're we're still dealing with
all of those issues. Uh. Never came through, followed through
on that promise. And uh and and and then you
had a couple of weeks ago holding her blue folders
(08:37):
file folders over her face in the Oval office. You
thought that was bad. Wait if she gets to fallout
from this, so it's gonna be it's gonna be interesting
because you've got to how do you square this. You've
got her who's standing side by side with President Trump
there at Selfridge, saying thank you. And by the way
she ought to this is the way things ought to work.
(08:57):
Pat on the back. She actually have said, you want
to make it even better? I think she gets today
if she says thank you mister President, for your hard work.
But she didn't say that. She was trying to be
astute and trying to think about politics and her political career.
By the way, I'm gonna say something, her political career.
(09:18):
If she plays ball with President Trump, and if she
comes out as neutral now she will she will have
she will have a better chance. Now, I don't know,
she may still mess it up. She'll find a way
to do that. But if she played ball, she'd be
a lot, she'd be a lot better off. That's just
I'm gonna tell it. That's what people want to see. That's
(09:39):
why you see Gavin Newsom sort of trying to make
his way to the center right now. A lot of
these hopefuls for twenty twenty eight. But that's not how
the Democrat Party of today is working. By the way,
this is the same Democrat Party that's driven people away
in mass And why we got AOC and Bernie Sanders
out there clomping and stumping around on stage fl buying
(10:00):
private jets to tell you that we gotta you know,
we got to cut down on climate change and everything else.
So that's that's part of the part of the problem,
but part of the issue that you see here in Michigan.
It's Dana Nssel, Joncelyn Benzon, some of the most extreme
of the extreme. Dana Essel out here talking about how
she she wait, we just can't normalize this president. What
(10:21):
do you mean normalized? You're you know, Gretchen Whitmer, part
of the evil Trio. There is standing next to President
Trump Megan the announcement. She basically has to think him
and should by the way, during this whole this whole thing.
So it's gonna be interesting to watch how they try
to square that up and what that all looks like,
(10:42):
how it plays out in the day's head. We'll keep
you posted on that, U But there was even more.
There were bigger announcements that were made yesterday. We've got
to get into those, some of the clips from Officer
shir trial yesterday day too. We've got day three just
underway today as we speak.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
And more.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
It's all coming up, So don't go anywhere. We just
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Big news, lots of it, and guess what, we got
a front row seat for it all. We're back after
this on West Michigan Live. You know, part of the
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(11:22):
including the Dow futures which are down I think three
p fifty five right now. There's lots of red on
the screen. But part of it is going to be
the market's reaction in what President Trump had to say
when it comes to tariffs and a little bit of
the leeway he's given the American autoworkers. And by the way,
this is great. It should be great for the markets.
It should be great for the auto industry as well,
(11:44):
because he's giving them a path to get back up
onto manufacturing here in just to Michigan, but also the
entire country and hopefully we land a lot of that.
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Now, it's West Michigan Live with Justin Barclay on news
Radio Wood thirteen hundred and one oh six nine a
f m.
Speaker 9 (13:05):
Here are your headlines from the Midwestern or this Tuesday,
April thirtieth. I'm Robin Poffman in Warren. President Trump holding
a big red, white and blue patriotic rally marking his
one hundredth day back in office. The President speaking to
supporters just north of Detroit, saying his policies are bringing
jobs back here to Michigan.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
They all want to come back to Michigan and build
cars again. You know why because of our tax and
tariff policy.
Speaker 9 (13:30):
Michigan Governor Democrat Wretchen Whitmer invited to come up to
the podium earlier in the day as Trump, visiting with
members of the US military, had an air National Guard base,
which Trump says will remain open. On that news, Whitmer
telling the crowd.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
It's crucial for the Michigan economy. It's crucial for the
men and women here, for our homeland security and our future.
So thank you. I'm so grateful about this announcements me
today and I appreciate all the work. Thank you.
Speaker 9 (13:58):
And prior to his Michigan visit, President Trump sitting down
with ABC's senior national correspondent Terry Moran in the Oval Office,
the President defending Doge.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
There are things that I'm considering right now putting back,
but overall, we've saved hundreds of billions of dollars.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
Well, the original promise was two trillion, went to one trillion,
out to one hundred and fifty million.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Heading now what it's.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
Going to be because we have things that are at
a very high level that are being looked at right now.
Speaker 9 (14:23):
For these stories and more. Visit the Midwesterner at the
Midwesterner dot news.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
The time to be here with us, and we'll be
right back with you.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Okay, my pleasure. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
We might as well say hi, we got him here
with us right now. Brian Panibecker is here. I want
to hold him over past the break if we can.
But autoworkers for Trump last night, big splash. They're in Warren.
The first hundred days, and Brian, I know that folks
watching had to be thinking the same thing. We know
(14:54):
you're fired up. President Trump's fired up, but I think
you know America has a right to be fired up
with everything they're seeing play out in the first hundred days.
What does it mean for the auto manufacturing industry?
Speaker 8 (15:08):
Well, justin first, i'd like to say, just for the
sake of getting it out there, the legacy media and
the corporate media keep saying that Trump's pull numbers are
going down and Trump voters have buyer's remorse. Well that's
real news to me, because I haven't spoken to one
Trump voter who is disappointed with anything he's done. Because
(15:31):
he has kept every campaign promise that he made. Everything
he's doing, he said he was going to do when
he campaigned, so we knew what we were getting and
we're loving every minute of it. As far as what
it means to the auto industry, this is what we've
been waiting for for thirty or forty years.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
You know.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
Ross Perrot famously said in nineteen ninety two, if napped up,
which they were talking about at that time, if it
gets signed into law, we're going to hear a giant
sucking sound and that'll be all of our jobs leaving
and going to Mexico. Well, Ross was right. I voted
for Ross throw back then, and he was right. We've
lost ninety thousand manufacturing facilities in the thirty years since then.
(16:15):
And then we allowed China into the World Trade Organization
and they've been doing nothing.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
But ripping us off, eating and.
Speaker 8 (16:21):
Stealing our intellectual property since then. So we've been waiting
for a president who had the Cajonis to stand up
to China and other foreign countries who have been taking
advantage of America for decades. And he's doing it. This
guy has has a spine of steel.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
You know.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I gotta tell you the one thing, the one thing
about all of this. And by the way, let's play
a little bit. Let's play a little clip, because this
is this is brilliant. This is Brian last night, and
he was.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
We all know this.
Speaker 10 (16:55):
But we have the greatest president, probably not just in
our lifetimes, but in the history of this country. Best
man broke the mold in his first term and in
his first hundred days he's accomplished more than Joe Biden
(17:18):
did in four years.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I gotta ask when we come back, Brian Pannabecker with
us right now, Auto Workers for Trump. When we come back.
There's a couple of people asking, Brian, when when are
you going to throw your hat in the ring and
run for something. We gotta ask that question. Plus I
want to find out because President Trump just made some
changes to the tariffsencidenta being really praised by lots of
(17:45):
folks in the auto industry. Some people say, what any
cave on something? I don't. Actually, it's it's the opposite.
I think what he's done is is really strategic. I
want to get your take on that too. Coming up,
Hang on, folks, back with Brian Pannabecker, Auto Workers for
Trump Beck after this on West Michigan Live. Hey we
(18:07):
got We're back on the air, flying right through it.
Man oh Man, last night was a whirlwin yesterday, big
breaking news all throughout the state. Nationally, President Trump's celebrating
his first one hundred days right here in Michigan.
Speaker 10 (18:24):
I want to say thank you to the auto workers,
everybody who works in the automotive field, the suppliers, every
one of you, the truck drivers. Thank you so much
for supporting the greatest president in our lifetimes.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Brian Panabeker auto workers for Trump last night and the
friend of the show. Always always a pleasure to have
you on. Brian. I got to ask you because big
announcements made yesterday. We heard all about Selfridge and the
F fifteen's and that was huge news here. But there's
teariff news too, which is really fascinating now the auto
workers in the industry, at least, it seems like the
(19:05):
unions have come behind these tariffs and they really like it.
I've spoken with various folks, particularly in the previous cabinet
under President Trump, who can't say enough great things about
these tariffs and what they're going to accomplish, and how
we need to get things balanced as far as trade
goes and back on track. But particularly here in back
(19:27):
in Michigan specifically, and for folks blue collar like yourself
that are going to make things. We need to make
things great things in America and again and specifically Michigan,
I think that these things are going to have a
big role, to play a big role in it all.
Speaker 8 (19:45):
You're exactly right, justin And I was briefed a little
bit about the tariff announcement yesterday.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
No, he's not caving. He's not giving in, not at all.
Speaker 8 (19:56):
As a matter of fact, he's doubling down and refining
and tuning his tariff announcement. He put together a great
team of negotiators. Those guys that he has are phenomenal.
And what they did was, and this is what I
was told. They went to the President and they said, Sir,
(20:16):
some of these auto parts cross the border up to
believe it or not, seven times, and they it's just
not going to be practical or doable to teariff that
part essentially seven times.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
That would you know, they just can't do it. And
they can't move.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
That production of that part back to the United States
quick enough. It would just be super expensive. So he's
given them some time to readjust their supply chain with
What that translates into is bring your plants in your
production facilities, your supply chain back to the United States.
(20:56):
So they figured out a formula so that the same
part that maybe shipped over a border and then put
into another assembly and then shipped back isn't getting double
and triple taxed by the tariff. These guys understand a
very complex issue. They're advising the president, here's how you
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need to tweak your policy, and that's what he's doing.
He relies on some very brilliant advisors and that was
the announcement he made yesterday. So everybody just needs I've
been advising people justin be patient, have faith, and trust Trump.
He's surrounded by brilliant people, starting with Elon Musk, but
(21:38):
he's got Steve Besson and the whole assembly of his advisors.
They're all brilliant. So just watch this man work. And
he paused the tariffs for ninety days to give all
of these countries that we trade with time to get
over here, sit down. They can't sign a deal. It's
not like just a handshake, boom, it's done. They have
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to work through all the details, so it's going to
take time. He's close to a couple real big signings.
From what I understand, In the next week or two,
he should have some big announcements and the rest will
fall in line. They can kind of use the initial
agreements as a pattern to negotiate with other countries. You know,
they'll make their modifications and changes. Everybody's a little different.
(22:23):
But at the end of this ninety days, a lot
of big agreements should be complete. And then in the
next six months or so, I think he'll have the
vast majority of our ninety or one hundred bigger trading
partners with new trade agreements, and we'll all have lower
barriers to each other's products, and that will bring down
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the price of a lot of things, along with his
energy policies which are bringing down energy prices, which will
reduce transportation prices and consumer goods. So everybody should just
be patient, have faith and trust Trump.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Brian Panibeker, Autowork for Trump. He's not the only one
that says this is a good deal. In fact, Ford's
CEO Jim Farley is out talking about how great it is.
Speaker 11 (23:07):
Well, first of all, Ford is really different. We make
eighty percent in the US, more than any other manufacturer
in fact, we made four hundred thousand more vehicles than
our next competitor, and that would fill up the entire
island in Manhattan. That's how big of a gap we've made.
So look, we think this is really great for the country.
We really support the President's initiative. We never left the
(23:29):
America on car production, and so this moderation is reasonable.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
I think for.
Speaker 11 (23:37):
Mostly our competitors, they need more time. But at Ford,
we're in good shape and this is the right thing
to do. We really appreciate the dialogue we've had with
the President, but we have a lot more work to
do with him and the team.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah, it's interesting because Brian, the way I see this
is a this is a road really to bringing the
manufacturing back here. Some of these places, as you mentioned
on the last you know, decades, they've shipped manufacturing Canada, Mexico,
all over the world, some of these some of these
parts and then they assemble even like Ford. You know,
(24:11):
a lot of this stuff has assembled here, but it's
some of these parts are made all over at the end,
at the end of the day, we've got to have
a road to get these guys back. I can't just
yank the plug on him. Now, he did sort of
do that, I think to get them in line at first,
and this is all art of the deal, you got it.
But now they're lining up and they're saying thank you,
(24:32):
mister president. They're listening, they're having these conversations, and it
looks like it's going to work out.
Speaker 8 (24:38):
Yeah, well, he can't fix what happened over thirty to
forty years in three or four weeks.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Its okay.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
He's been in office for fourteen weeks, and the legacy media,
corporate media are trying to spend that and say, well,
you know what's he accomplished. It's like six days after
he was in office, they were screaming, how come the
price of eggs haven't come down? So, you know, some
people will fall for that, but most news consumers are
(25:07):
smart enough to realize the old media, the legacy corporate media,
are trying to tear Trump down. You guys, justin are
the new mainstream media. Guys like you and Joe Rogan
and all the other podcasters that are available accessible. More
and more people are turning to you for the truth,
(25:27):
the actual facts. You guys dig into issues and you
give them the straight truth, and that's all we want
from our news sources is the facts and the truth.
The legacy media got so far away from that. All
they have is a narrative and whatever the Democrats talking
points are, that's what they pair it. People are waking
(25:47):
up to it. Nobody's watching the legacy media anymore. They're
turning to guys like you to find out what's really
going on.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Well, we appreciate you taking the time to be here
with guys like me. Now, I know you're going to
be on a good fund business. You were on last night,
You're gonna be on again. You got a big TV yet,
litt Laura, and I guarantee they're going to all be
asking questions about all these things. But two questions. Somebody asked, Brian,
when are you going to run for something you're trump.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I got a real short answer for you. That ain't happening.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
I hear you.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
I love being an activist. I love being involved.
Speaker 8 (26:22):
I like working on issues out here in the public
and trying to change public perception, educating, motivating people. I
did announce I was going to run for state representative
about fifteen years ago, but a guy named Pete Locito
was also running for that same seat. In the primary,
him and I teamed up. I said, Pete, I'll pull out.
(26:43):
You got all the money, I'll support you. And he
went on to do a great job, became state Reps,
state senator, and now he's our county prosecutor here in McComb.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I'm good friends with Pete.
Speaker 8 (26:53):
That was my one little dipping my toe into the
political arena. I like being behind the scenes doing things
like I'm doing now with President Trump.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
But all those details will be in my book.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Justin you are certainly walking out your calling right now.
I tell you that much, Brandy. We appreciate you for it.
Now you just mentioned the book last night. You got
a deal done with the toughest deal maker there is.
What's that deal?
Speaker 3 (27:22):
The deal is.
Speaker 8 (27:23):
I went backstage with him and I real quickly said, hey,
mister President, And that's how I talked to him.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
We're on a sort of an informal basis.
Speaker 8 (27:32):
And it's funny because there's a lot of advisors and
secret service standing around. There's probably a ten or twelve
people in that little area where you're getting your picture taken.
And I said, hey, mister President, I got an offer
for you that he can't refuse. And he starts laughing
because he likes to joke around like that. And I said,
you've got a publishing company. I'm writing a book. I said,
I'll make you a deal. I'll use your publishing company
(27:54):
if you write the forward for my book. He didn't hesitate.
He stuck his hand out and said I'll do it.
I we got our picture. I started walking away, and
he says, call Sergio. Well, Sergio is the partner of
Donald Junior that runs the publishing company.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
It's called Winning Team Publishing.
Speaker 8 (28:13):
And the reason they started that publishing company was nobody
would publish Donald Trump. The five big publishers wouldn't touch
him back in twenty twenty one. They thought he was toxic. Well,
they're idiots because they could have made millions of dollars by.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Publishing Donald Trump.
Speaker 8 (28:28):
So he started his own publishing company, Winning Team Publishing.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
And so he's going to publish my book and write
the forward for it. So then get a load of this. Justin.
I locked him in. When I went up on stage
later in front of seven or.
Speaker 8 (28:43):
Eight thousand people, I talked about it, so you know,
and then I turned around to him. I pointed at him.
I said, that's how you deal with the best negotiator.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
In the world.
Speaker 8 (28:56):
It was hilarious and he loved it. I think he
got a kick out of him.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
You got to give you a chapter in the revised
version of the Art of the Deal. I love it. Brian.
What's the name of your book and when can we
expect it coming out?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (29:07):
The working title of the book is blue Collar Conservative,
which would be me. It's sort of semi autobiographical and
it's going to be about The subtitle is from Reagan
to Trump, and it's going to cover my upbringing in
McCom County, the home of the Reagan Democrats. My first
vote was for Ronald Reagan when I was eighteen nineteen
(29:28):
years old.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
And then my.
Speaker 8 (29:32):
Becoming an adult and kind of politically aware, I got
involved with two big statewide political issues.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
The first was the.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, which became Prop two in two
thousand and six. I was a statewide spokesman for that effort,
and we banned the use of racial preferences by the
government in college a missions, state hiring, and state contracting.
I worked side by side with Jennifer Gratz, the U
of M student who has denied it admission to U
(30:03):
of M, even though her test scores were way higher
than a lot of minority applicants. And then a couple
of years later I got involved with the right to
Work effort, which was a real interesting situation because I
was working in a UAW shop and right to work
as anathma to the UA to unions, and Michigan's the
(30:26):
home of the birthplace of the UAW, so that was
a legislative effort. We got that introduced and passed. There's
a whole story behind it, it'll be in the book.
And then a couple of years after we got right
to Work pass, I met Donald Trump in Nova and
told him he had to come to McComb County, Michigan
(30:46):
and ask for the Reagan Democrats support. And then that
relationship I'll talk about in the book, all the way
through being invited to the White House on Liberation Day,
April second, where he announced his tariff agenda and he
called me up in front of the entire world to
speak about it, which was an incredible honor. And then
(31:08):
that's continued right through last night here in McComb County,
where he came on his one hundredth day in office
called me up on stage, recognized me, agreed to publish
my book.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
So it's going to be a good book.
Speaker 8 (31:22):
And I'll tell the whole story, and that we're about
twenty thousand words in.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
It'll be about eighty.
Speaker 8 (31:28):
Thousand, which sounds intimidating, but it's only about twenty chapters,
and it'll cover those four areas, McComb County, Michigan, Civil
Rights Initiative, the right to work, and my relationship with
Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Political junkies will love it.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Well, don't let the ink dry too fast. I have
a feeling you're just getting started here, Brian.
Speaker 8 (31:46):
Yeah, well, I'm writing chapters every week. It seems like.
I told my co author last night. I texted him.
I said, yeah, I just wrote another chapter in the book.
I'll tell you all about it next week. He's in
Flora and we're talking over the phone and he's flying
up in a week or so to get all of
my newspaper clippings, articles, columns that I've written. When I
(32:10):
was working on all these issues as spokesman, I had
numerous columns in the.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Detroit News, Detroit Free Press.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
I even had columns in the New York Times, Wall
Street Journal, USA today because those were national issues, right,
I mean they were getting national coverage. So I've got
all that information that'll tell the story. He's going to
fly up from Florida. I'm going to drive him around
McComb County because he's a Wisconsin guy who lives in
(32:36):
Florida now. But I want him to see McComb County,
get a feel for it, see where I work, see
all the automotive plants, and get a sense of where
I grew up. I grew up about a mile away
from the plant I ended up working twenty five years at.
So there's a real story there. It'll be coming out
hopefully by November one, just in time for Christmas gift
(32:58):
buying season.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Brian Panabacker auto workers for Trump. Thank you, my friend,
always a pleasure, and thank you for everything you're doing
for the Thank you just stand to fight. You got
it back. After this. Taking a quick break, we'll talk
to the officer, sure trial and more that's happening right
in our own backyard.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
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Speaker 2 (33:19):
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Speaker 1 (33:22):
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Yeah, to get newsletter justin Barclay dot com is we'll
keep you up to date on all the stories. The
podcast we post on the daily, the iHeartRadio apps so
you can listen live or archive or wherever you download
your podcasts. Getting the f fifteens at Selfridge, getting the
tariffs worked out for the auto industry, all part of
(33:52):
the one hundredth day celebration rally there in previous press
conference there at Selfridge in Michigan. But there's a lot
more going on behind the scenes too. We're going to
talk about some of it. Stocks downs down seven hundred
points this morning on GDP first quarter GDP contraction. They're
saying raising recession fears. But what's really going on behind
(34:14):
the scenes. We're gonna talk about that coming up in
the after show. Give you the story that you won't
hear anywhere else. Plus Officer Shirtrout Day three, there's a
question about whether he will testify or not. Use of
force expert had some interesting things to say yesterday. I
don't think I agree with everything that he said, but
it's going to be a fascinating trial on the outcome
(34:34):
as we watch praying for him, the family of Patrick Lee,
or the entire city. Obviously, this is something that's tough
for everybody to go through, and all of the officers
that are out on the beat every day on the
job working for us to keep us safe. Yeah, it's
a tough one, but we're gonna deal with it. It's
like we always do. Straight ahead back with more. The
(34:55):
Glenn Beck program is coming up next. Wishing you the best,
make it a great day. God bless
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