NATO, Trump’s Children & Obliteration – Top 3 Takeaways – June 26th, 2025

President Trump took NATO by storm. He went in. He succeeded. He left...but not without a little levity along the way.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Welcome to the Brian Mud Show. Thanks for listening. Passion
plus talent is unstoppable. It's time for today's Top three takeaways. NATO,
Trump's children and obliteration. My top three takeaways for you today.
We don't have a little fun here with this too.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
We had an instant classic what will become a guilty pleasure?
All as part of the NATO summit yesterday. My top
takeaway for you today, Who's your daddy? Joel's heardy cracking
up in there? This is This is one of the
sequences when it came to questioning yesterday. This is a

(00:55):
Sky News reporter. By the way, you got the the
AUSSI asking the president this.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Mark Brittard, the NATO chief. Who is your friend? He
called you daddy earlier? Do you regard your NATO allies
as kind of children?

Speaker 4 (01:13):
No, he likes me. I think he likes me. If
he doesn't, I'll let you know. I'll come back and
I'll hit him hard. Okay he did? He did it
very affectionate. Daddy here, my daddy.

Speaker 5 (01:23):
And it's as great as just hearing him say that.
Trump watching Marco Rubio, Yes, our Secretary of State art
former senator, Yes, laugh and smile. I have not seen
I mentioned this to you yesterday, Brian. I have not
seen Rubio smile. And I don't know how long maybe
he does behind what scenes.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
But in on that note, it's kind of funny because
preceding this question, I was going back and forth during
this yesterday, all throughout the summit, actually with our White
House correspondent John Decker. He's traveled with the president, so
he's he's been there. He asked one of the questions yesterday,
and he was sending me pictures. He's like, right there,
you know, it's a few roads back and every one

(02:08):
of them with Trump talking, and said, Rubio looks like
he's either a bodyguard or secret service. I mean, he
looks like he was ready to lay some suckers down.
The look at his face very stoic and kind of
like I feel like he needed.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
A good laugh.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yes, he's an intense guy anyway, which I understand because
I'm pretty intense.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
But he had all throughout the thing.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
He is like stone faced, like anybody comes up on
the stage, and they got Pete Hegg set up there too,
also kind of has stern and it's like they know
you need the secret Service at that point.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
But no, the moment that went down, Rubio lost it.
Wait the moment what went down?

Speaker 5 (02:46):
What are we talking about?

Speaker 4 (02:48):
Daddy? You're my daddy?

Speaker 1 (02:51):
That old sequence. So yeah, who's your daddy? Is my
top takeaway today. President Trump took NATO by storm. He
went in, he succeeded, he left, and by the way,
when he got back, the social media team for the
President they put out a whole video of Daddy's home

(03:14):
just related. If you're into the old daddy thing, it
was pretty amazing. I saw it just a bit ago.
But anyway, so, yeah, we had the levity with that
exchange that just brought you. But the funny thing is
she wasn't being funny. She was serious in her line
of questioning. Now, there were a couple of aspects of
our hilarious and I know Joel talked about the Rubiyo

(03:36):
aspect that caught me too. But Trump did go on
to very diplomatically answer the question because she did come
back and she pressed, She said, you're obviously appreciative of that,
but do you hope that they're actually going to be
able to defend themselves, defend Europe on their own. Now,

(04:02):
Trump was much more diplomatic than I would have been,
because what came to mind when I heard her ask
that follow up question was yes, petulant children, not just children,
petulent children, because when you think about it, it basically
has been the case. You see, and I realized in

(04:25):
this moment, I need to explain what's been going on here.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
See here it goes. The reason why, going back.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
To his first administration, President Trump has been adamant about
NATO countries increasing defense spending is because as Americans, we
have been taken advantage of egregiously by our allies.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
They abuse what NATO actually is under NATO guidelines.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
Just in case you're not familiar, if any NATO oh
country is attacked, it's considered an active war against every
one of its members. Okay, this is why, for example,
Ukraine has been forever attempting to become a member, because
what celenskiing company want most is not to fight their war,
but for us to. They want us NATO, but mostly

(05:21):
US to fight their war with Russia. But anyway, given
this reality, our allies quote unquote have intentionally underinfested in
defense knowing that a they have a big layer of
protection against aggression by the AUTO alliance with the United States.
Because again, you go after this weeds, then we the US,

(05:45):
go after you.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
And that be my second takeaway today.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
If there is a military need that arises, it's always
the US to the rescue.

Speaker 4 (06:00):
Most recently, the United States.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Our share of NATO country defense expenses is sixty eight
point seven percent.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
Sixty eight point seven.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
There are thirty two NATO nations, thirty two of them,
we do sixty eight point seven percent of defense spending.
The United States, by way of population, only makes up
thirty five percent of NATO. And so what this means
is that the United States, you and me, us tax
pain types, have been paying almost literally double the freight

(06:38):
in defense spending to account for what our allies are
not spending. Adjusted for population, We've been literally paying twice
as much as the thirty one other countries. So yeah,
what came to mind when she went there and said,
we do you view them like your trilityant children? Not

(07:02):
just children, petillant children and if you want to be
treated like an adult, this is the next day, kid
in mine, get a job, move out, pay your bills,
and act like an adult. Because that's what my dad
would would have said. You want to be treated like
an adult, you act like one. Stop living off of

(07:24):
mom and dad.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
Daddy, you're my daddy.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah, move out, pay your bills. And that's effectively what
President Trump accomplished at NATO when all countries but Spain
agreed to up there spending to five percent of GDP.
That will result in those countries pain for their population
adjusted share of their own defense needs. That's what this

(07:52):
actually was and is about. And as for Spain, Trump
made it clear that they would pay one way or
another there. When asked what he thought of Spain being
the lone country not to sign off in the agreement,
Trump said, Okay, they're going to be paying twice as
much for their trade deal with US, meaning tariffs twice
as much as everybody else. There have already been two

(08:15):
historic military wins this week. The first happened with the
destruction of Iran's nuclear facilities. In the second, NATO countries
paying their fair share of their own defense That has
the potential to save US hundreds of billions of dollars.
By the way, approximately has the potential to save US
four hundred and forty billion dollars per year over the

(08:39):
near term, and obviously trillions of dollars for future generations.
But about Iran's nuclear facilities, they are obliterated. This is
my third takeaway today, or in the words of Trump.

Speaker 4 (08:53):
Is blown up to Kingdom?

Speaker 1 (08:55):
Come blown up to He said, obliterated too. But I
kind of actually like that. Sound about the many good
sound bites yesterday.

Speaker 4 (09:02):
Is blown up the Kingdom?

Speaker 1 (09:04):
Come, so Israelly. Intelligence on the ground confirmed that. By
the way, I know I'm about to the Kingdom come.
That wasn't in the report. But otherwise, the Israeli intelligence said,
at a minimum, Iran's nuclear program has been set back
quote many years, if not completely destroyed. Countering the fake

(09:25):
news claim of leaked low level confidence reporting. Over the
previous day and while at the NATO Press are on Wednesday,
President Trump had this to say. He quoting him, he said,
a statement came in from the Atomic Energy Commission of Israel,
and when he read from the statement, it said, the

(09:46):
devastating US strike on four DAU destroyed the site's critical
infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility totally inoperable. It was devastated.
We assessed that the American Strike Center ron's nuclear facilities
had set back Iran's ability to develop nuclear weapons for
many years to come. This achievement can continue indefinitely if

(10:10):
Iran does not get access to nuclear material. So then
Trump once again added what he has said since the
beginning of it was really Saturday night afterwards, just right afterwards,
that the site is obliterated and Secretary of defends Pete

(10:31):
Heggs South, which, by the way, you take a look
at what an impressive job this guy has done so far,
highlighted by covertly point off Saturday's remarkable BE two bombing mission.
You notice that you aren't hearing people talk about it's
not qualified for the job anymore. You notice how we
don't hear oh, he's a drunk, or hey, you know
the the ex wife who ended up defending him. By

(10:52):
the way, you don't hear any of that junk any longer.
But anyway, Haig Seth.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
Had this to say.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
He said, there's a reason the President calls out fake
news for what it is. These pilots, these refuelers, these fighters,
these air defenders. The skill and the courage it took
to go into air enemy territory, flying thirty six hours
on behalf of the American people and the world to
take out a nuclear program is beyond what anyone in
this audience can fathom. And then the instinct, the instinct

(11:22):
of CNN, the instinct of the New York Times, is
to try to find a way to spend it for
their own political reasons, to try to hurt Prisident Trump
for our country. They don't care about what the troops think,
they don't care about what the world thinks. They want
to spin it to try to make him look bad
based on a leak. Of course, we've all seen plenty
of lakers, and what a lakers do? They have agendas?
What do they do they share? Do they share the

(11:44):
whole information or just the part they want to introduce?
And with that, hag Seth obliterated the fake news