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The left is losing their minds after President Trump welcomed 49 Afrikaaner refugees to the United States. The fact is, these are exactly the type of refugees that benefit the United States.
The nation of Qatar has offered the United States Department of Defense a beautiful $400 million jet for use as Air Force One. Democrats are calling it corruption, but can't explain how it's corrupt.
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The left is losing their minds after President Trump welcomed 49 Afrikaaner refugees to the United States. The fact is, these are exactly the type of refugees that benefit the United States.
The nation of Qatar has offered the United States Department of Defense a beautiful $400 million jet for use as Air Force One. Democrats are calling it corruption, but can't explain how it's corrupt.
For the latest news, follow me on Instagram, and X:
@the.ethanbuchanan
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a great show. Second of all, I made this announcement
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you probably already know this. But I'm getting married at
the end of the month. That's kind of fun. That's exciting.
So I just wanted to, hey, put that out there.
But anyway, enough of all that, let's dig into it.
I want to start off with the economy.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Today.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
We've got a lot of really good economic news, which
is shocking, right. If you've been listening to the mainstream media,
then you thought that our economy was pooped.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
It's completely over for us.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Burn everything, throw everything away now while you still can
run for the hills because it's completely jover.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Well, guess what it's not as I predicted.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
We're fine. We're actually better than fine. We're doing better
than we have been in the last four years. Shocker right.
It's almost like the problem was Joe Biden, and literally
the moment we got rid of him, things started fixing themselves.
Problems started solving themselves. And that's pretty much exactly what happened.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yesterday.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
We got the April Consumer Price Index, which that is
essentially the inflation report that the federal government does every month.
They look back, here's how much prices rose from the
month of January to the month of February. And then
we compare that with February twenty twenty four to February
twenty twenty five, and here's how much the prices rose
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in that time period. Now consistently for four years, we
got terrible results of that. Remember, the Fed's target inflation
rate is two percent. That's how much they want prices
to rise.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Every year.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Now, I would submit to you that we should get
back on the gold standard, so we cannot have prices
rising by two percent every year. But until we do that,
setting a target of let's you know, shoot for two
percent every year, that seems reasonable, Okay, fair enough. I
can't have everything I want in this world. I know that,
so for now, until we can do better, basically, I
will settle for that two percent target. And we have consistently,
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for the four years of the Biden administration been way
above that number every single month. Now we're starting to
finally creep back towards that two percent inflation number, which
is great freaking news.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Despite the mainstream media's fear mongering about tariffs and the
Trump economy, we did get a really good report from
the Beuerau of Labor Statistics for the month of April.
So here are the numbers. Zero point two percent month
over month. So that means from the month of January
twenty twenty five, or I'm sorry, not January, from the
month of March twenty twenty five to the month of
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April twenty twenty five, prices rose just zero point two percent. Now,
that's actually better than what we thought it was going
to be. Everybody, all the kind of experts, the Wall
Street guys, the Dow Jones industrial folks, they were expecting
that number to be zero point three percent. So the
fact that we're doing better than the experts and the
economists who do this for a living think we're doing
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that is a good sign.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
But that's just one.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Half of the whole. Right, what about the year over
year number. So that number came in at two point
three percent? Remember the target is too even, right, we
want a hard two percent every year.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
The prices rise. So we're at two point three.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
That's higher, but we're getting closer, right, We're working towards
that two percent even goal. Again, the experts shot higher.
They were expecting two point four. We got two point three.
It's not we want it to be, but it's a
strong improvement. As a matter of fact, that is the
biggest improvement since literally the first month Joe Biden was
in office. I'm not making that up. This is the
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lowest price increase that we have seen in an inflation
report since February of twenty twenty one. Remember, Joe Biden
took office at the end of January twenty twenty one,
and then prices immediately started spiking. Is that a coincidence?
IE am inclined to think No, probably not, It's probably
not a coincidence. This really just goes to prove something
that a lot of conservatives and right wingers already knew
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the entire time. Joe Biden was completely horrible for the economy.
We can say that with one thousand percent confidence. It's
not up for debate anymore. The fact that Trump comes
back into office, Joe Biden leaves, and within four months
we're getting the lowest inflation numbers that we have seen
since Joe Biden took office. You can't really make the
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case that Joe Biden did anything good for the economy.
I mean, sure the stock market had a few good
moments while he was president, but unless you're heavily invested
in the stock market, you really didn't see any of
that advantage. Right, If you're an average Joe, you're losing
your job and the prices are skyrocketing, So who cares
about the stock market Now? Now the stock market is
doing great, and we're getting jobs and inflation is coming
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back down. Now, it's at this juncture that I want
to point out the fact that for the longest time,
Joe Biden was kind of propping up his economic record
on jobs numbers. He kept saying, Oh, we're bringing back jobs.
We had historic job loss and now we have historic
job growth, and it's all because of me, Joe Biden.
Everybody say thank you. The reality is the jobs that
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Joe Biden brought back fall into one of two categories.
Either they were jobs that only disappeared because Blue states
and Blue cities basically killed those jobs because of COVID regulations,
or they didn't exist and most of them frankly didn't exist.
Turns out Joe Biden was lying to us the entire
time about his record on jobs. Pjamedia reported on this, saying,
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to new figures released this week, the three hundred and
ninety nine thousand jobs that the Biden team claimed were
created between July and September of last year.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Have completely vanished.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Not only did the economy not add those jobs, but
it also lost one thousand private sector jobs during that period. Now,
a reasonable person would be forced to ask themselves, Okay,
if they were lying about those jobs, how much else
were they lying about when it comes to the economy,
how many other jobs reports were they lying about. I
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would venture to guess it's a lot, because every month
we had major corrections in the job report, they would
always revise it down. So this all goes to show
you the economy was doing terrible the entire Biden administration,
and it was his fault. It's undeniable. All right, stay tuned,
we'll be right back after this break. All right, let's
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talk about what I think has to be far and
away without any real close competition, the dumbest political controversy
that is floating around out there right now. So everybody's
familiar with Air Force one, right, that's the President of
the United States plane. It's a air Force plane. It's
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part of the Air Force fleet. It is the primary
plane that's used to transport the President of the United
States all over America, all over the world. Anytime the
president has to go somewhere that he can't really just
take a car to, they stick them on Air Force
one and they fly him there. Right, So obviously that's
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the plane our president is in all the time. We
want that to be the best of the best of
the best, right, we want that to kind of be
the representative of our country to a certain extent because
that carries the official representative of our country, which is
the president.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
So we want it to be up to date.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
We want it to be nice, we want it to
be obviously safe, equipped with the latest safety technology. This
shouldn't be controversial. The current air Force ones that we have,
and there is a couple, there's actually not one air
Force one, there's like two or three. I think they're
all really old, like they were built in the nineteen nineties.
There I believe Boeing seven forty seven two hundred B
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series aircrafts Now. I don't know anything about the details
of this aircraft. I'm not an aircraft nerd, but I
do know that that is an old plane because it
was built in the nineties. Obviously, if this was just
even a regular plane, you'd start thinking, Okay, maybe it's
time for an upgrade, right, maybe we're due to step
things up a nasche because again, our plane is forty
years old. So during his first term, Trump actually worked
(10:05):
with Boeing and they got a contract set up to
get some new Air Force ones, really nice planes. They
went through a whole bunch of negotiation. These are like
billion dollar aircrafts. I think Trump negotiated that price tag
down a little bit with Boeing, but they're very expensive planes,
very expensive, very fancy, and we penned this contract years
ago at this point because remember, we've had a whole
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nother president since then, and now Trump is back and
we still don't have those planes that we signed an
agreement for. So that's kind of a problem, right because
our planes that we have now are getting older and
we really don't know when, if ever, we're going to
get these new planes from Boeing. Now Katar enters the scene,
and of course Qatar is a nation that we kind
of have a rocky relationship with. We're not exactly friends,
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but we're not exactly enemies either. We kind of brokeer
some agreements, but through them, a lot of the negotiation
that we've been doing with Hamas, we've been doing that
through Katar ours friends with people that we wish they
weren't friends with, and they're kind of lukewarm to us,
so we can kind of negotiate. But it's rocky, and
we basically have a cooperative relationship, but we don't exactly
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like each other, and there's an effort being made right now,
I think by the Trump administration to kind of calm
a lot of tensions with a lot of countries in
the Middle East. For a long time, America has been
very interventionist in the Middle East. It really hasn't worked
out at all, and people don't like us over there.
We're trying to fix that problem in a good way.
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We're trying to, you know, just improve our relationship, kind
of back out a little bit where we need to,
and then maybe set up a better business relationship where
it is prudent and beneficial.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I think that's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
I like the fact that that's our foreign policy in
the Middle East right now. Don't get us involved in
any wars, but if we can get involved in some
business that makes some money, I'm all for it. Now,
as all these negotiations are going on, we're still waiting
on our new planes, and Qatar says, well, okay, how
about this. We're a we have a lot of oil,
because we're a rich nation with a lot of oil,
we have a lot of fancy planes as a gesture
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of good faith. Is what it looks like to me,
as sort of kind of an olive branch to say, hey,
we're working on being better friends. Here's a nice, fancy gift.
They gave us a really nice plane to use this
Air Force one. And I mean a really nice plane
to use this Air Force one. So here are the
details on this plane that is being gifted to the
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United States. Now, I'm gonna use the language that's written here.
This is from uncensored news on Twitter. All of this
is worth an independent fact check. I'm just reading you
the facts as I see them right now on my screen.
I believe this is all accurate, but I'm not an
expert on the matter. Okay, I'm reading from reports of reports,
so take everything with a grain of salt. But this
is what we got right now. The US President will
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be traveling to the Middle East in the coming days.
He's actually there now. Ahead of the visit, it is
known that Qatar is preparing to deliver a luxury Boeing
seven forty seven eight to Trump. According to ABC News use,
this is the world's first personalized Boeing, built in twenty
twelve for the Katori royal family. The estimating cost of
the plane, including interior finishing and subsequent modernization to meet
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the needs of the US president, is more than four
hundred million.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Dollars.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
That is a very nice, very expensive plane. The Bowing
seven forty seven to eight has a bedroom, VIP lounge,
gold plated interiors, and advanced communications equipment. The plane itself
has been flown to Texas where it is being prepared
for use as a temporary Air Force one. Okay, so
let's stick into some of the details. Remember we still
have that contract out with Boeing for those new Air
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Force one. So the delio right now is this is
going to just be the temporary Air Force one. This
is what Trump is going to fly around in or
the subsequent president until we get the planes we ordered
from Boeing. I'm gonna be honest with you. I don't
see the controversy here. Now it's worth pointing out this
plane is not being gifted to Donald j. It is
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being gifted to the United States Air Force.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
It will be.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Used by the President of the United States, who just
so happens to be Donald Trump, and I believe once
he leaves office, there's plans in place for it to
be sent to Donald Trump's Presidential Library, which, if I
understand it correctly, and I may not, I believe is
still a function of the Federal government. Every president gets
one of these. The Presidential Library for each administration is
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basically just designed to kind of show off different artifacts
and records and whatnot from each US presidential administration. I
believe it's actually still managed by the National Archives and
Records Administration, So it's not like at any point Donald
Trump will receive this super expensive, fancy personal gift, which
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obviously would be a problem that opens the door to
all sorts of corruption. There's reasons we have laws against that.
That's not what's happening here. Donald Trump made that clear
in a truth social post yesterday. He said the Boeing
seven forty seven is being given to the the United
States Air Force slash Department of Defense, not to me.
It is a gift from a nation, Katar, that we
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have successfully defended for many years. It will be used
by our government as a temporary air force one until
such time as our new Boeings, which are very late
on delivery, arrive. Why should our military and therefore our taxpayers,
be forced to pay hundreds of millions of dollars when
they can get it for free from a country that
wants to reward us for a job well done. This
big savings will be spent instead to make America great again.
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Only a fool would not accept this gift on behalf
of our country. Thank you for your attention on the matter.
And he's completely right. Obviously, we do need a new
plane for our president. A thirty five to forty year
old plane is not really a good look for us.
It's just not not to mention the safety concerns. Now,
we already have a contract to get new planes. They're
taking forever. Somebody needs to be looking into that. What
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is Boeing doing that's taking it so long for them
to get us our planes In the meantime, if we
can get a free gift to actually tied us over
on that, I don't see the controversy.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
There's not really a corruption concern.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Because the gift is being given to the United States government,
not to any one person. Donald Trump has already publicly
said I'm not going to use it when I'm not president.
This will be used by me when I'm president, and
when I'm not president it goes in the library. I
don't use it. I have no problems with this. I
don't understand why there's problems with this. But the left
is losing their mind. Over it all over Twitter. There's
people complaining about this end Citizens United I don't know
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what that group is, but they got on Twitter and
they said, are you corrupt enough to fly on bribe
force one? Well, Trump is His pattern of corruption reached
new heights after accepting a four hundred million dollar palace
in the sky jet from Qatar. Again, Trump is not
accepting a gift for himself. He is accepting a gift
to the Department of Defense on behalf of the United States.
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I see no problem with this at all. Somebody else said,
this is the perfect scandal for Trump because everyone with
eyes can see it is blatantly corrupt for him to
accept a free plane from Qatar. But there's no way
he isn't going to fight tooth and nail to keep
it just because he wants it. Again, he's already said
he's not going to keep it. The United States government
is receiving this plane and keeping this plane even after
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Trump leaves office. So please explain to me how this
is corrupt. If it is corrupt, obviously we should be
calling it out and I will be right there at
the very front saying, hey, Donald Trump, don't accept this plane.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
It's corrupt. I have yet to see a.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Solid argument from anybody as to why this is actually corrupt,
because again, it's the government receiving a gift as a taxpayer.
I'm all about this. I want our government to have
the best and nicest things because it makes us look
good on the world stage. It does, and that is important.
And I don't want to pay for it because I
don't want to have to pay more taxes. So this
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is the perfect win for me. I see no problems
with this at all. All right, stay tuned, we'll be
right back. All right, let's talk about South Africa. Not
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a question or not an issue or topic. I thought
I would be digging into a whole lot when I
set out to start this show, but here we are,
and I'm happy to do it. I have made very
clear in previous episodes my stance on immigration. I like
the idea of people coming into this country and becoming Americans.
I'm very openly in favor of that. I always have
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been and I always will be. I've been very consistent
on this message. Obviously, immigrants into this country played a
significant role in the building up of this country, whether
we're talking about you know, the Irish and German immigrants
that were coming in and kind of the mid eighteen
hundred that ended up, you know, serving on both sides
of the Civil War and then later playing a very
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crucial role in the building of the trans Continental Railroad.
A lot of that was built by immigrants that came
into the country and were just looking for jobs and
for work. Of course, because of the Irish potato famine,
that was one thing that was driving a lot of
people out.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Oppression of the Irish people.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
In Ireland by the English that drove people into the
United States.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
And they came here and they became Americans.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Right.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
That's an important note that I think we need to never, ever, ever, ever,
ever not emphasize. They didn't just come to the United States.
They came to the United States and became Americans. They
contributed to America. They worked their butts off to become
Americans and help America. Many of them died for America.
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They didn't just show up here and ask for handouts.
They showed up here and said, Hey, how can I
earn my seat at this table? They said, I see
what America is. I see the the rights that y'all have,
the protections that y'all have the vision for the future
that y'all have, and I want to be part of that.
So I'm going to leave behind whatever I was before,
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and I am going to become an American and I
will do whatever it takes to earn my seat at
that table. Those people, one thousand percent built this country
and they should be absolutely allowed to continue to come
here and become Americans. That is a good thing we
want these people. Now, this varies significantly from the left's
view of immigration. Their view of immigration is anyone that
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wants to be here for whatever reason at all should
just show up and get welfare. No, that's not the case.
The people we bring into the United States, allowed to
stay in the United States need to be people that
will a become Americans in every sense of the word
and be of benefit to America.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Right.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
We don't want people just coming up and sucking on
our welfare system. We want people to come here and contribute,
and we want them to become a Mariaricans. And of
course the perfect modern example of this is South Africans, right,
the Africanners, the white South Africans, the Bores as they're called.
If you're not familiar with what's going on in South
Africa right now. South Africa was like an apartheid state.
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It was originally like a English colony, and of course
after the colonial period it became an apartheid state. And
then in the nineties the apartheidness was abolished, and now
the white minority that's kind of the descendant of those
original colonists are very much actively being oppressed by their government.
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It's essentially, really, what it is is the perfect example
of DEI if you kind of let that go and
just follow it to its logical conclusion, right, because the
whole idea of DEI now is historically black people have
been oppressed, and so now we need to basically give
them special advantages in order to make up for that.
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The practical outworking of that is now, in some small
formal way, you're actually oppressing people who aren't black by
giving special privileges and advantages to black people. It's essentially
a evil now, in opposite of in order to correct
an evil in the past. Now, if you have common sense,
you know that two wrongs don't make a right, and
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so we should just say, hey, those wrong systems have
been abolished, and now we're just gonna move on. But
that's not what's happening in South Africa. They're essentially establishing
reverse apartheid, where rather than a minority of white people
kind of oppressing black people, it's now a majority, a
supermajority of black people oppressing all the white people. And
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it's gotten pretty ugly. I mean, we're not just talking
about you know, little minor legal inconveniences or oh, you're
not getting into a college because you're white. We're talking
about like people being straight up murdered. There's a strong argument,
a strong case to be made that this is a
legitimate genocide. Here's Donald Trump talking about what these white
folks in South Africa are having to deal with just
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because they are white, because.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
They're being killed, and we don't want to see people
be killed. Now, South Africa leadership is coming to see me,
I understand, sometime next week, and you know, we're supposed
to have a guess a G twenty meeting there or something,
but we're having a G twenty meeting. I don't know
how we can go unless that situation's taken care of.
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But it's a genocide that's taking place that you people
don't want to write about. But it's a terrible thing
that's taking place, and farmers are being killed. They happen
to be white. But whether they're white or black makes
no difference to me. But white farmers are being brutally
killed and their land is being confiscated in South Africa,
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and the newspapers and the media, television media doesn't even
talk about it. If it were the other way around,
they talk about it, that would be the only story
they talk about. And I don't care who they are.
I don't care about their their color, I don't care
about their height, their weight, I don't care about anything.
I just know that what's happening is terrible to have
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people that live in South Africa. They say, it's a
terrible situation taking place. So we've essentially extended citizenship to
those people to escape from that violence and come here.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
So that's Trump talking about and kind of explaining this
new refugee program that has been set up for these
white South Africans. Now, this is what the refugee programs
are supposed to be. It's supposed to be, Hey, this
oppressed people group that's being actively targeted by their government,
we will let them come here and become Americans where
the government protects its citizens. Ideally, and even if the
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government doesn't protect its citizens, you have the Second Amendment
and you can protect yourself. Now on top of that,
these are exactly the type of people that we want
coming into the United States. These are people that can
and it seems it appears, are more than willing to
assimilate to the United States of American United States culture.
They speak the language already, they're fluent in English. They
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understand the values because they come from Western societies, right,
they aren't from third world countries. They're from Western societies.
They know our values because oftentimes probably they share our values.
More importantly, they come to the United States and they're
waving our flag. We already got the first plane shipment
of these folks, and there's videos of them online of
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them walking off the plane into the hangar in the
United States of America and they're all holding flags and
waving the American flag, and they're excited to be here.
They're excited to become Americans. These are the people that
we want in this country. We want people who first
of all, understand how important what America has is because
they come from a place where they don't have our protections,
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our values, and our freedoms, but they understand the value
and they're willing to work hard to kind of contribute
and preserve the United States of America. Now the left
is pissed off at this because Ronald Trump is, you know,
bringing in refugees that will actually contribute to and preserve
the United States of America rather than ones that want
to supplant the United States of America with their own
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nation and their own culture.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Here's this video. I saw this lady that's.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Absolutely losing her mind over this, and I think borderline
threatening the South Africans. I say South Africans. I want to,
honestly at this point just start my fellow Americans who
just got here. She's I think borderline threatening these people
because she's mad that they get to come to the
United States because they actually want to be Americans, rather
than the I guess Guatemalans and El Salvadorians that want
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to come here and basically just take advantage of our
welfare systems.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Take a listen to this crazy lady.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Good morning. This is for the South Africans who are
going to be entering the United States. This is just
the public service announcement. I just wanted to make you.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Aware that the black people who were students storing apartheid
moles and Grandpa's now and we have the air of
gen Z.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
One more thing, I also want to let you know
that our president he has secret service and you will not.
I also want to tell you that black people over
here are empowered. It's one of these are just public
service announcements. When you get here, sit your ass down
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and don't touch nothing because you don't have secret service.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
First of all, the implication that black people in South
Africa as of right now are not empowered is patently ridiculous.
I mean, the majority black government in South Africa just
passed a law that says that the government can essentially
just take any white farmer's land for whatever reason they
want without paying them for it. So you have to
be an idiot to think that somehow in South Africa
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today black people are still being oppressed. It's it's a
ridiculous thing to say. Second of all, everything about this
reads like a threat. So to that end, I want
to issue my own public service announcement to the forty
nine South Africans, the white South Africans the africaners who
just got to the United States. We have the Second Amendment.
I don't know what the rules are as far as
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refugees getting access to firearms, but we know that you
are legal residents of the United States right now thanks
to the Trump administration. So look into the Second Amendment
and getting your hands on a firearm, and once you
have one, train with it and know how to use
it safely. I give this same message to every single
person that listens to this show. Self defense is important,
primarily because this lady seems crazy. But on top of that,
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self defense in the Second Amendment is a key part
of becoming an American, and we want you to become Americans.
We want everyone to become good Americans. To everybody out there,
come to the United States, assimilate, become an American.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
We will welcome you with open arms. We don't care
where you come from.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
We just want you to share our values and speak
our language and help make this country great again.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
That's it, that's all we ask.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
All right, Let's talk about Trump's ongoing Middle East trip
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
He was in Saudi Arabia yesterday.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
He signed a couple of big I think arms agreements
and whatnot with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, and
he spoke at this big investors conference and he kind
of gave some hints as to what his foreign policy
is going to be in this his second term, and
he essentially makes the same point that I made a
little bit earlier in this show, that like, hey, if
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it's not our country and we're not actively making money there,
we need to back out, right, So let's stop with
the interventionalism. Let's stop being world police. Obviously, Let's continue
to make sure that we are a militarily powerful nation,
and everybody knows that. But if we don't have to
go to war like and I mean really have to,
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let's stay out of the wars. If we don't have
something to gain in a country, let's just stay out
of that country. It's not our job to make sure
that every nation is equally free and prosperous. We are
uniquely free and prosperous, and that's a good thing. We
don't have to necessarily spread democracy all over the world.
Not every part of the world is built to handle
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a democracy. Some countries are better off as monarchies. They
have their systems in place, their own culture, their own
way of doing things. To a certain extent, as long
as it doesn't directly affect the United States of America,
we should probably stay out of it for the most part,
because we have now like twenty thirty forty years of
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kind of interventionalists foreign policy, world police, foreign policy to
look back on, and what do we have to show
for it really not a whole lot. We have a
lot of veterans that are wounded and scarred from wars
that they have had to go fight on behalf of
the United States, and obviously shout out to them, God
blessed them for doing that, for fighting their country's battles.
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That's an honorable and noble thing.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
But do we need to be.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Sending them into those battles? I would submit to you
that for a lot of the battles that our soldiers
have gone into, the answer is no. And I'm willing
to bet you there's a lot of veterans out there
that would agree with that. And in countries like Saudi
Arabia where we've kind of let them do their thing
and we haven't, you know, bombed them to crap and
tried to set up our own proxy governments there to
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a certain extent, it's been very successful. Obviously, I have
problems with the way Saudi Arabia governs their country. I
wouldn't want to live in that country. I don't like monarchies,
which is what Saudi Arabia has. I don't like Islamic
forms of government, which is what Saudi Arabia has. They're
very islam central. They're a Muslim country. I don't like that.
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I would never live there. But the people that live
there like their country, and they have built a successful country.
That is an objective fact. Donald Trump, in front of
the Saudi Arabians in Saudi Arabia, said this at a
big event for investors. He said, listen, we're just going
to kind of, you know, start looking to be a
business nation. Obviously, we'll protect our interests, right, We're going
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to continue to be a very militarily powerful nation, but
we're not going to try to police you and tell
you how to run your countries an you're more we're
going to try to actually do business with you and
have a cooperative relationship.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
I think that's a good thing. Take a listen to
Donald Trump saying that, and it's crucial for the wider world.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
To note, this great transformation has not come from Western
intervention no less, or flying people in beautiful planes giving
you lectures on how to live and how to govern
your own affairs. No, the gleaming marvels of Riad and
Abu Dhabi were not created by the so called nation builders, neocons,
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or liberal nonprofits like those who spent trillions and trillions
of dollars failing to develop Kabal Baghdad so many other cities. Instead,
the birth of a modern Middle East has been brought
by the people of the region themselves, the people that
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are right here, the people that have lived here all
their lives. Developing your own sovereign countries, pursuing your own
unique visions and charting your own destinies in your own way.
It's really incredible what you've done. In the end, the
so called nation builders wrecked far more nations than they built,
and the interventionalists were intervening in complex societies that they
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did not even understand themselves. They told you how to
do it, but they had no idea how to do
it themselves. Peace, prosperity, and progress ultimately came not from
a radical rejection of your heritage, but rather from embracing
your national traditions and embracing that same heritage that you
love so dearly.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
This is exactly the right approach to take on foreign
policy in my opinion. You have your nation, your culture,
your traditions, we have ours. You do your thing, will
do our thing, and hey, if there's some money to
be made along the way, if we can do business
together in a mutually beneficial way, that's what we'll do.
I like this approach from Trump. I think this is good.
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I want to see more of this in our foreign policy.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
All right.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Secondly, I found this video on X yesterday and I
want to talk about it because I think it's important.
I think it's an interesting Uh really, I think it's
interesting one because I think this lady's actually sincere and
that deserves a response. But let me just play you
the video. It's this lady who she says she's a Christian.
She says she's in a race state, in a red
county and used to vote Republican, but now because of
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her strong Christian faith, she just can't in good faith
do that anymore. And now she's calling out other Christians
in brotherly love to you know, turn away from the
Republican Party.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Take a listen to this.
Speaker 8 (35:15):
Yeah, if you're a MAGA and you call yourself a Christian,
I need to have a word with you, because you see,
Scripture says that if you have an issue with your brother,
you're to go to your brother. And that's what I'm
doing right now. I am following the example that is
outlined in Scripture for when you have a disagreement with
a fellow believer. You see, I was raised in a
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very conservative evangelical home in a red county in a
red state, and I still live in a red county
in a red state. I've also was raised to no Christ,
and I have followed Christ since I was five years old.
I have read the Bible cover to cover. I've taught
Sunday School and Bible Study, and can probably quote as
much Scripture as anyone out there. And I am telling you,
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if I didn't know Jesus and I saw the Republican
Party of today and I was told this is an
example of what Christians are, I would run as far
and as fast the other direction as I possibly could
because what we and I say we, because I used
to be there, what the Republican Party is showing is
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greed and power over generosity and kindness. It is selfishness
over selflessness. It is oppressing the poor and the immigrant
over helping the poor and the immigrant. The things that
you are showing do not accurately reflect Christ. And brother
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or sister, I'm going to tell you you need to
choose right now. Either identify yourself as a maga or
identify yourself as a follower of Christ. But the two
do not go together. And because of what you are doing,
you are harming the kingdom. You are pushing people away
from the Jesus we are supposed to reflect.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Okay, I will give her this.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
This lady who I don't believe is actually identified in
this at all, and even if she was, I wouldn't
identify her.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
She seems to be sincere, and I'll give her that.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
She does seem to be sincere, and I will give
her credit because she is accurately to a certain extent,
I think going about the steps that are lined out
in scripture to address a conflict that you may have
with another brother and sister in Christ. She's correct in
saying that the Bible does call you to go to
that person and try to work out those differences, those disagreements,
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if their sin or what have you. The Bible says, hey,
go to that brother and call them to repentance that
brother or sister.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
So I'll give her credit for that.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
Now, she did miss the part where the Bible does
not tell you to do that publicly online.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
That's not in there.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
And second of all, she doesn't actually ever back any
of this up right, Like she says, oh, you're doing this, this,
and this wrong because you're maga. You're pushing people away
because you're maga. There's not really any evidence that she
backs that up with. She doesn't give any real examples
like oh, we're harming the poor in the immigrant No,
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we're just saying, hey, don't immigrate into this country unlawfully
and don't demand that people pay for your entire existence
through welfare. I mean, if you can explain to me
how that's a violation of scripture, then I'm willing to
have that conversation as a fellow Christian. I mean, I
am seeing a lot of emotion here, but I'm not
seeing a lot of evidence as to how my faith
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and my politics because I am what she would call
a maga quote unquote, I don't see how those two
things are a disconnected. If you can point it out
to me, I welcome you to do that anyway. That's
all I've got for you today.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Stay tuned.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
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do have the ability to get the free iHeartRadio app.
Download that listen to it there AM nine to fifty KPRC.
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to listen to the radio now, because I've gotten into
the habit of rather than listening to podcasts at home,
I listen to the actual radio. I highly recommend you
do that, just because we have a great time. It's
a great show. Second of all, I made this announcement
on the radio broadcast on Sunday. But if you're here
then you're probably following me on social media already and
(01:57):
you probably already know this. But I'm getting married at
the end of the month. That's kind of fun. That's exciting.
So I just wanted to, hey, put that out there.
But anyway, enough of all that, let's dig into it.
I want to start off with the economy.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Today.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
We've got a lot of really good economic news, which
is shocking, right. If you've been listening to the mainstream media,
then you thought that our economy was pooped.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
It's completely over for us.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Burn everything, throw everything away now while you still can
run for the hills because it's completely jover.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Well, guess what it's not as I predicted.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
We're fine. We're actually better than fine. We're doing better
than we have been in the last four years. Shocker right.
It's almost like the problem was Joe Biden, and literally
the moment we got rid of him, things started fixing themselves.
Problems started solving themselves. And that's pretty much exactly what happened.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yesterday.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
We got the April Consumer Price Index, which that is
essentially the inflation report that the federal government does every month.
They look back, here's how much prices rose from the
month of January to the month of February. And then
we compare that with February twenty twenty four to February
twenty twenty five, and here's how much the prices rose
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in that time period. Now consistently for four years, we
got terrible results of that. Remember, the Fed's target inflation
rate is two percent. That's how much they want prices
to rise.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Every year.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Now, I would submit to you that we should get
back on the gold standard, so we cannot have prices
rising by two percent every year. But until we do that,
setting a target of let's you know, shoot for two
percent every year, that seems reasonable, Okay, fair enough. I
can't have everything I want in this world. I know that,
so for now, until we can do better, basically, I
will settle for that two percent target. And we have consistently,
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for the four years of the Biden administration been way
above that number every single month. Now we're starting to
finally creep back towards that two percent inflation number, which
is great freaking news.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Despite the mainstream media's fear mongering about tariffs and the
Trump economy, we did get a really good report from
the Beuerau of Labor Statistics for the month of April.
So here are the numbers. Zero point two percent month
over month. So that means from the month of January
twenty twenty five, or I'm sorry, not January, from the
month of March twenty twenty five to the month of
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April twenty twenty five, prices rose just zero point two percent. Now,
that's actually better than what we thought it was going
to be. Everybody, all the kind of experts, the Wall
Street guys, the Dow Jones industrial folks, they were expecting
that number to be zero point three percent. So the
fact that we're doing better than the experts and the
economists who do this for a living think we're doing
(04:35):
that is a good sign.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
But that's just one.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Half of the whole. Right, what about the year over
year number. So that number came in at two point
three percent? Remember the target is too even, right, we
want a hard two percent every year.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
The prices rise. So we're at two point three.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
That's higher, but we're getting closer, right, We're working towards
that two percent even goal. Again, the experts shot higher.
They were expecting two point four. We got two point three.
It's not we want it to be, but it's a
strong improvement. As a matter of fact, that is the
biggest improvement since literally the first month Joe Biden was
in office. I'm not making that up. This is the
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lowest price increase that we have seen in an inflation
report since February of twenty twenty one. Remember, Joe Biden
took office at the end of January twenty twenty one,
and then prices immediately started spiking. Is that a coincidence?
IE am inclined to think No, probably not, It's probably
not a coincidence. This really just goes to prove something
that a lot of conservatives and right wingers already knew
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the entire time. Joe Biden was completely horrible for the economy.
We can say that with one thousand percent confidence. It's
not up for debate anymore. The fact that Trump comes
back into office, Joe Biden leaves, and within four months
we're getting the lowest inflation numbers that we have seen
since Joe Biden took office. You can't really make the
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case that Joe Biden did anything good for the economy.
I mean, sure the stock market had a few good
moments while he was president, but unless you're heavily invested
in the stock market, you really didn't see any of
that advantage. Right, If you're an average Joe, you're losing
your job and the prices are skyrocketing, So who cares
about the stock market Now? Now the stock market is
doing great, and we're getting jobs and inflation is coming
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back down. Now, it's at this juncture that I want
to point out the fact that for the longest time,
Joe Biden was kind of propping up his economic record
on jobs numbers. He kept saying, Oh, we're bringing back jobs.
We had historic job loss and now we have historic
job growth, and it's all because of me, Joe Biden.
Everybody say thank you. The reality is the jobs that
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Joe Biden brought back fall into one of two categories.
Either they were jobs that only disappeared because Blue states
and Blue cities basically killed those jobs because of COVID regulations,
or they didn't exist and most of them frankly didn't exist.
Turns out Joe Biden was lying to us the entire
time about his record on jobs. Pjamedia reported on this, saying,
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to new figures released this week, the three hundred and
ninety nine thousand jobs that the Biden team claimed were
created between July and September of last year.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Have completely vanished.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Not only did the economy not add those jobs, but
it also lost one thousand private sector jobs during that period. Now,
a reasonable person would be forced to ask themselves, Okay,
if they were lying about those jobs, how much else
were they lying about when it comes to the economy,
how many other jobs reports were they lying about. I
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would venture to guess it's a lot, because every month
we had major corrections in the job report, they would
always revise it down. So this all goes to show
you the economy was doing terrible the entire Biden administration,
and it was his fault. It's undeniable. All right, stay tuned,
we'll be right back after this break. All right, let's
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talk about what I think has to be far and
away without any real close competition, the dumbest political controversy
that is floating around out there right now. So everybody's
familiar with Air Force one, right, that's the President of
the United States plane. It's a air Force plane. It's
(08:44):
part of the Air Force fleet. It is the primary
plane that's used to transport the President of the United
States all over America, all over the world. Anytime the
president has to go somewhere that he can't really just
take a car to, they stick them on Air Force
one and they fly him there. Right, So obviously that's
(09:05):
the plane our president is in all the time. We
want that to be the best of the best of
the best, right, we want that to kind of be
the representative of our country to a certain extent because
that carries the official representative of our country, which is
the president.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
So we want it to be up to date.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
We want it to be nice, we want it to
be obviously safe, equipped with the latest safety technology. This
shouldn't be controversial. The current air Force ones that we have,
and there is a couple, there's actually not one air
Force one, there's like two or three. I think they're
all really old, like they were built in the nineteen nineties.
There I believe Boeing seven forty seven two hundred B
(09:41):
series aircrafts Now. I don't know anything about the details
of this aircraft. I'm not an aircraft nerd, but I
do know that that is an old plane because it
was built in the nineties. Obviously, if this was just
even a regular plane, you'd start thinking, Okay, maybe it's
time for an upgrade, right, maybe we're due to step
things up a nasche because again, our plane is forty
years old. So during his first term, Trump actually worked
(10:05):
with Boeing and they got a contract set up to
get some new Air Force ones, really nice planes. They
went through a whole bunch of negotiation. These are like
billion dollar aircrafts. I think Trump negotiated that price tag
down a little bit with Boeing, but they're very expensive planes,
very expensive, very fancy, and we penned this contract years
ago at this point because remember, we've had a whole
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nother president since then, and now Trump is back and
we still don't have those planes that we signed an
agreement for. So that's kind of a problem, right because
our planes that we have now are getting older and
we really don't know when, if ever, we're going to
get these new planes from Boeing. Now Katar enters the scene,
and of course Qatar is a nation that we kind
of have a rocky relationship with. We're not exactly friends,
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but we're not exactly enemies either. We kind of brokeer
some agreements, but through them, a lot of the negotiation
that we've been doing with Hamas, we've been doing that
through Katar ours friends with people that we wish they
weren't friends with, and they're kind of lukewarm to us,
so we can kind of negotiate. But it's rocky, and
we basically have a cooperative relationship, but we don't exactly
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like each other, and there's an effort being made right now,
I think by the Trump administration to kind of calm
a lot of tensions with a lot of countries in
the Middle East. For a long time, America has been
very interventionist in the Middle East. It really hasn't worked
out at all, and people don't like us over there.
We're trying to fix that problem in a good way.
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We're trying to, you know, just improve our relationship, kind
of back out a little bit where we need to,
and then maybe set up a better business relationship where
it is prudent and beneficial.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I think that's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
I like the fact that that's our foreign policy in
the Middle East right now. Don't get us involved in
any wars, but if we can get involved in some
business that makes some money, I'm all for it. Now,
as all these negotiations are going on, we're still waiting
on our new planes, and Qatar says, well, okay, how
about this. We're a we have a lot of oil,
because we're a rich nation with a lot of oil,
we have a lot of fancy planes as a gesture
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of good faith. Is what it looks like to me,
as sort of kind of an olive branch to say, hey,
we're working on being better friends. Here's a nice, fancy gift.
They gave us a really nice plane to use this
Air Force one. And I mean a really nice plane
to use this Air Force one. So here are the
details on this plane that is being gifted to the
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United States. Now, I'm gonna use the language that's written here.
This is from uncensored news on Twitter. All of this
is worth an independent fact check. I'm just reading you
the facts as I see them right now on my screen.
I believe this is all accurate, but I'm not an
expert on the matter. Okay, I'm reading from reports of reports,
so take everything with a grain of salt. But this
is what we got right now. The US President will
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be traveling to the Middle East in the coming days.
He's actually there now. Ahead of the visit, it is
known that Qatar is preparing to deliver a luxury Boeing
seven forty seven eight to Trump. According to ABC News use,
this is the world's first personalized Boeing, built in twenty
twelve for the Katori royal family. The estimating cost of
the plane, including interior finishing and subsequent modernization to meet
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the needs of the US president, is more than four
hundred million.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Dollars.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
That is a very nice, very expensive plane. The Bowing
seven forty seven to eight has a bedroom, VIP lounge,
gold plated interiors, and advanced communications equipment. The plane itself
has been flown to Texas where it is being prepared
for use as a temporary Air Force one. Okay, so
let's stick into some of the details. Remember we still
have that contract out with Boeing for those new Air
(13:38):
Force one. So the delio right now is this is
going to just be the temporary Air Force one. This
is what Trump is going to fly around in or
the subsequent president until we get the planes we ordered
from Boeing. I'm gonna be honest with you. I don't
see the controversy here. Now it's worth pointing out this
plane is not being gifted to Donald j. It is
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being gifted to the United States Air Force.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
It will be.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Used by the President of the United States, who just
so happens to be Donald Trump, and I believe once
he leaves office, there's plans in place for it to
be sent to Donald Trump's Presidential Library, which, if I
understand it correctly, and I may not, I believe is
still a function of the Federal government. Every president gets
one of these. The Presidential Library for each administration is
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basically just designed to kind of show off different artifacts
and records and whatnot from each US presidential administration. I
believe it's actually still managed by the National Archives and
Records Administration, So it's not like at any point Donald
Trump will receive this super expensive, fancy personal gift, which
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obviously would be a problem that opens the door to
all sorts of corruption. There's reasons we have laws against that.
That's not what's happening here. Donald Trump made that clear
in a truth social post yesterday. He said the Boeing
seven forty seven is being given to the the United
States Air Force slash Department of Defense, not to me.
It is a gift from a nation, Katar, that we
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have successfully defended for many years. It will be used
by our government as a temporary air force one until
such time as our new Boeings, which are very late
on delivery, arrive. Why should our military and therefore our taxpayers,
be forced to pay hundreds of millions of dollars when
they can get it for free from a country that
wants to reward us for a job well done. This
big savings will be spent instead to make America great again.
(15:32):
Only a fool would not accept this gift on behalf
of our country. Thank you for your attention on the matter.
And he's completely right. Obviously, we do need a new
plane for our president. A thirty five to forty year
old plane is not really a good look for us.
It's just not not to mention the safety concerns. Now,
we already have a contract to get new planes. They're
taking forever. Somebody needs to be looking into that. What
(15:53):
is Boeing doing that's taking it so long for them
to get us our planes In the meantime, if we
can get a free gift to actually tied us over
on that, I don't see the controversy.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
There's not really a corruption concern.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Because the gift is being given to the United States government,
not to any one person. Donald Trump has already publicly
said I'm not going to use it when I'm not president.
This will be used by me when I'm president, and
when I'm not president it goes in the library. I
don't use it. I have no problems with this. I
don't understand why there's problems with this. But the left
is losing their mind. Over it all over Twitter. There's
people complaining about this end Citizens United I don't know
(16:28):
what that group is, but they got on Twitter and
they said, are you corrupt enough to fly on bribe
force one? Well, Trump is His pattern of corruption reached
new heights after accepting a four hundred million dollar palace
in the sky jet from Qatar. Again, Trump is not
accepting a gift for himself. He is accepting a gift
to the Department of Defense on behalf of the United States.
(16:50):
I see no problem with this at all. Somebody else said,
this is the perfect scandal for Trump because everyone with
eyes can see it is blatantly corrupt for him to
accept a free plane from Qatar. But there's no way
he isn't going to fight tooth and nail to keep
it just because he wants it. Again, he's already said
he's not going to keep it. The United States government
is receiving this plane and keeping this plane even after
(17:13):
Trump leaves office. So please explain to me how this
is corrupt. If it is corrupt, obviously we should be
calling it out and I will be right there at
the very front saying, hey, Donald Trump, don't accept this plane.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
It's corrupt. I have yet to see a.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Solid argument from anybody as to why this is actually corrupt,
because again, it's the government receiving a gift as a taxpayer.
I'm all about this. I want our government to have
the best and nicest things because it makes us look
good on the world stage. It does, and that is important.
And I don't want to pay for it because I
don't want to have to pay more taxes. So this
(17:44):
is the perfect win for me. I see no problems
with this at all. All right, stay tuned, we'll be
right back. All right, let's talk about South Africa. Not
(18:22):
a question or not an issue or topic. I thought
I would be digging into a whole lot when I
set out to start this show, but here we are,
and I'm happy to do it. I have made very
clear in previous episodes my stance on immigration. I like
the idea of people coming into this country and becoming Americans.
I'm very openly in favor of that. I always have
(18:44):
been and I always will be. I've been very consistent
on this message. Obviously, immigrants into this country played a
significant role in the building up of this country, whether
we're talking about you know, the Irish and German immigrants
that were coming in and kind of the mid eighteen
hundred that ended up, you know, serving on both sides
of the Civil War and then later playing a very
(19:05):
crucial role in the building of the trans Continental Railroad.
A lot of that was built by immigrants that came
into the country and were just looking for jobs and
for work. Of course, because of the Irish potato famine,
that was one thing that was driving a lot of
people out.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Oppression of the Irish people.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
In Ireland by the English that drove people into the
United States.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
And they came here and they became Americans.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Right.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
That's an important note that I think we need to never, ever, ever, ever,
ever not emphasize. They didn't just come to the United States.
They came to the United States and became Americans. They
contributed to America. They worked their butts off to become
Americans and help America. Many of them died for America.
(19:51):
They didn't just show up here and ask for handouts.
They showed up here and said, Hey, how can I
earn my seat at this table? They said, I see
what America is. I see the the rights that y'all have,
the protections that y'all have the vision for the future
that y'all have, and I want to be part of that.
So I'm going to leave behind whatever I was before,
(20:11):
and I am going to become an American and I
will do whatever it takes to earn my seat at
that table. Those people, one thousand percent built this country
and they should be absolutely allowed to continue to come
here and become Americans. That is a good thing we
want these people. Now, this varies significantly from the left's
view of immigration. Their view of immigration is anyone that
(20:34):
wants to be here for whatever reason at all should
just show up and get welfare. No, that's not the case.
The people we bring into the United States, allowed to
stay in the United States need to be people that
will a become Americans in every sense of the word
and be of benefit to America.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Right.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
We don't want people just coming up and sucking on
our welfare system. We want people to come here and contribute,
and we want them to become a Mariaricans. And of
course the perfect modern example of this is South Africans, right,
the Africanners, the white South Africans, the Bores as they're called.
If you're not familiar with what's going on in South
Africa right now. South Africa was like an apartheid state.
(21:15):
It was originally like a English colony, and of course
after the colonial period it became an apartheid state. And
then in the nineties the apartheidness was abolished, and now
the white minority that's kind of the descendant of those
original colonists are very much actively being oppressed by their government.
(21:37):
It's essentially, really, what it is is the perfect example
of DEI if you kind of let that go and
just follow it to its logical conclusion, right, because the
whole idea of DEI now is historically black people have
been oppressed, and so now we need to basically give
them special advantages in order to make up for that.
(21:58):
The practical outworking of that is now, in some small
formal way, you're actually oppressing people who aren't black by
giving special privileges and advantages to black people. It's essentially
a evil now, in opposite of in order to correct
an evil in the past. Now, if you have common sense,
you know that two wrongs don't make a right, and
(22:19):
so we should just say, hey, those wrong systems have
been abolished, and now we're just gonna move on. But
that's not what's happening in South Africa. They're essentially establishing
reverse apartheid, where rather than a minority of white people
kind of oppressing black people, it's now a majority, a
supermajority of black people oppressing all the white people. And
(22:40):
it's gotten pretty ugly. I mean, we're not just talking
about you know, little minor legal inconveniences or oh, you're
not getting into a college because you're white. We're talking
about like people being straight up murdered. There's a strong argument,
a strong case to be made that this is a
legitimate genocide. Here's Donald Trump talking about what these white
folks in South Africa are having to deal with just
(23:02):
because they are white, because.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
They're being killed, and we don't want to see people
be killed. Now, South Africa leadership is coming to see me,
I understand, sometime next week, and you know, we're supposed
to have a guess a G twenty meeting there or something,
but we're having a G twenty meeting. I don't know
how we can go unless that situation's taken care of.
(23:25):
But it's a genocide that's taking place that you people
don't want to write about. But it's a terrible thing
that's taking place, and farmers are being killed. They happen
to be white. But whether they're white or black makes
no difference to me. But white farmers are being brutally
killed and their land is being confiscated in South Africa,
(23:46):
and the newspapers and the media, television media doesn't even
talk about it. If it were the other way around,
they talk about it, that would be the only story
they talk about. And I don't care who they are.
I don't care about their their color, I don't care
about their height, their weight, I don't care about anything.
I just know that what's happening is terrible to have
(24:07):
people that live in South Africa. They say, it's a
terrible situation taking place. So we've essentially extended citizenship to
those people to escape from that violence and come here.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
So that's Trump talking about and kind of explaining this
new refugee program that has been set up for these
white South Africans. Now, this is what the refugee programs
are supposed to be. It's supposed to be, Hey, this
oppressed people group that's being actively targeted by their government,
we will let them come here and become Americans where
the government protects its citizens. Ideally, and even if the
(24:42):
government doesn't protect its citizens, you have the Second Amendment
and you can protect yourself. Now on top of that,
these are exactly the type of people that we want
coming into the United States. These are people that can
and it seems it appears, are more than willing to
assimilate to the United States of American United States culture.
They speak the language already, they're fluent in English. They
(25:03):
understand the values because they come from Western societies, right,
they aren't from third world countries. They're from Western societies.
They know our values because oftentimes probably they share our values.
More importantly, they come to the United States and they're
waving our flag. We already got the first plane shipment
of these folks, and there's videos of them online of
(25:24):
them walking off the plane into the hangar in the
United States of America and they're all holding flags and
waving the American flag, and they're excited to be here.
They're excited to become Americans. These are the people that
we want in this country. We want people who first
of all, understand how important what America has is because
they come from a place where they don't have our protections,
(25:47):
our values, and our freedoms, but they understand the value
and they're willing to work hard to kind of contribute
and preserve the United States of America. Now the left
is pissed off at this because Ronald Trump is, you know,
bringing in refugees that will actually contribute to and preserve
the United States of America rather than ones that want
to supplant the United States of America with their own
(26:10):
nation and their own culture.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Here's this video. I saw this lady that's.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Absolutely losing her mind over this, and I think borderline
threatening the South Africans. I say South Africans. I want to,
honestly at this point just start my fellow Americans who
just got here. She's I think borderline threatening these people
because she's mad that they get to come to the
United States because they actually want to be Americans, rather
than the I guess Guatemalans and El Salvadorians that want
(26:36):
to come here and basically just take advantage of our
welfare systems.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Take a listen to this crazy lady.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Good morning. This is for the South Africans who are
going to be entering the United States. This is just
the public service announcement. I just wanted to make you.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Aware that the black people who were students storing apartheid
moles and Grandpa's now and we have the air of
gen Z.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
One more thing, I also want to let you know
that our president he has secret service and you will not.
I also want to tell you that black people over
here are empowered. It's one of these are just public
service announcements. When you get here, sit your ass down
(27:28):
and don't touch nothing because you don't have secret service.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
First of all, the implication that black people in South
Africa as of right now are not empowered is patently ridiculous.
I mean, the majority black government in South Africa just
passed a law that says that the government can essentially
just take any white farmer's land for whatever reason they
want without paying them for it. So you have to
be an idiot to think that somehow in South Africa
(27:53):
today black people are still being oppressed. It's it's a
ridiculous thing to say. Second of all, everything about this
reads like a threat. So to that end, I want
to issue my own public service announcement to the forty
nine South Africans, the white South Africans the africaners who
just got to the United States. We have the Second Amendment.
I don't know what the rules are as far as
(28:14):
refugees getting access to firearms, but we know that you
are legal residents of the United States right now thanks
to the Trump administration. So look into the Second Amendment
and getting your hands on a firearm, and once you
have one, train with it and know how to use
it safely. I give this same message to every single
person that listens to this show. Self defense is important,
primarily because this lady seems crazy. But on top of that,
(28:37):
self defense in the Second Amendment is a key part
of becoming an American, and we want you to become Americans.
We want everyone to become good Americans. To everybody out there,
come to the United States, assimilate, become an American.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
We will welcome you with open arms. We don't care
where you come from.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
We just want you to share our values and speak
our language and help make this country great again.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
That's it, that's all we ask.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
All right, Let's talk about Trump's ongoing Middle East trip
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
He was in Saudi Arabia yesterday.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
He signed a couple of big I think arms agreements
and whatnot with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, and
he spoke at this big investors conference and he kind
of gave some hints as to what his foreign policy
is going to be in this his second term, and
he essentially makes the same point that I made a
little bit earlier in this show, that like, hey, if
(29:52):
it's not our country and we're not actively making money there,
we need to back out, right, So let's stop with
the interventionalism. Let's stop being world police. Obviously, Let's continue
to make sure that we are a militarily powerful nation,
and everybody knows that. But if we don't have to
go to war like and I mean really have to,
(30:15):
let's stay out of the wars. If we don't have
something to gain in a country, let's just stay out
of that country. It's not our job to make sure
that every nation is equally free and prosperous. We are
uniquely free and prosperous, and that's a good thing. We
don't have to necessarily spread democracy all over the world.
Not every part of the world is built to handle
(30:37):
a democracy. Some countries are better off as monarchies. They
have their systems in place, their own culture, their own
way of doing things. To a certain extent, as long
as it doesn't directly affect the United States of America,
we should probably stay out of it for the most part,
because we have now like twenty thirty forty years of
(30:58):
kind of interventionalists foreign policy, world police, foreign policy to
look back on, and what do we have to show
for it really not a whole lot. We have a
lot of veterans that are wounded and scarred from wars
that they have had to go fight on behalf of
the United States, and obviously shout out to them, God
blessed them for doing that, for fighting their country's battles.
(31:19):
That's an honorable and noble thing.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
But do we need to be.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Sending them into those battles? I would submit to you
that for a lot of the battles that our soldiers
have gone into, the answer is no. And I'm willing
to bet you there's a lot of veterans out there
that would agree with that. And in countries like Saudi
Arabia where we've kind of let them do their thing
and we haven't, you know, bombed them to crap and
tried to set up our own proxy governments there to
(31:43):
a certain extent, it's been very successful. Obviously, I have
problems with the way Saudi Arabia governs their country. I
wouldn't want to live in that country. I don't like monarchies,
which is what Saudi Arabia has. I don't like Islamic
forms of government, which is what Saudi Arabia has. They're
very islam central. They're a Muslim country. I don't like that.
(32:03):
I would never live there. But the people that live
there like their country, and they have built a successful country.
That is an objective fact. Donald Trump, in front of
the Saudi Arabians in Saudi Arabia, said this at a
big event for investors. He said, listen, we're just going
to kind of, you know, start looking to be a
business nation. Obviously, we'll protect our interests, right, We're going
(32:27):
to continue to be a very militarily powerful nation, but
we're not going to try to police you and tell
you how to run your countries an you're more we're
going to try to actually do business with you and
have a cooperative relationship.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
I think that's a good thing. Take a listen to
Donald Trump saying that, and it's crucial for the wider world.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
To note, this great transformation has not come from Western
intervention no less, or flying people in beautiful planes giving
you lectures on how to live and how to govern
your own affairs. No, the gleaming marvels of Riad and
Abu Dhabi were not created by the so called nation builders, neocons,
(33:07):
or liberal nonprofits like those who spent trillions and trillions
of dollars failing to develop Kabal Baghdad so many other cities. Instead,
the birth of a modern Middle East has been brought
by the people of the region themselves, the people that
(33:27):
are right here, the people that have lived here all
their lives. Developing your own sovereign countries, pursuing your own
unique visions and charting your own destinies in your own way.
It's really incredible what you've done. In the end, the
so called nation builders wrecked far more nations than they built,
and the interventionalists were intervening in complex societies that they
(33:53):
did not even understand themselves. They told you how to
do it, but they had no idea how to do
it themselves. Peace, prosperity, and progress ultimately came not from
a radical rejection of your heritage, but rather from embracing
your national traditions and embracing that same heritage that you
love so dearly.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
This is exactly the right approach to take on foreign
policy in my opinion. You have your nation, your culture,
your traditions, we have ours. You do your thing, will
do our thing, and hey, if there's some money to
be made along the way, if we can do business
together in a mutually beneficial way, that's what we'll do.
I like this approach from Trump. I think this is good.
(34:38):
I want to see more of this in our foreign policy.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
All right.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Secondly, I found this video on X yesterday and I
want to talk about it because I think it's important.
I think it's an interesting Uh really, I think it's
interesting one because I think this lady's actually sincere and
that deserves a response. But let me just play you
the video. It's this lady who she says she's a Christian.
She says she's in a race state, in a red
county and used to vote Republican, but now because of
(35:04):
her strong Christian faith, she just can't in good faith
do that anymore. And now she's calling out other Christians
in brotherly love to you know, turn away from the
Republican Party.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Take a listen to this.
Speaker 8 (35:15):
Yeah, if you're a MAGA and you call yourself a Christian,
I need to have a word with you, because you see,
Scripture says that if you have an issue with your brother,
you're to go to your brother. And that's what I'm
doing right now. I am following the example that is
outlined in Scripture for when you have a disagreement with
a fellow believer. You see, I was raised in a
(35:39):
very conservative evangelical home in a red county in a
red state, and I still live in a red county
in a red state. I've also was raised to no Christ,
and I have followed Christ since I was five years old.
I have read the Bible cover to cover. I've taught
Sunday School and Bible Study, and can probably quote as
much Scripture as anyone out there. And I am telling you,
(35:59):
if I didn't know Jesus and I saw the Republican
Party of today and I was told this is an
example of what Christians are, I would run as far
and as fast the other direction as I possibly could
because what we and I say we, because I used
to be there, what the Republican Party is showing is
(36:23):
greed and power over generosity and kindness. It is selfishness
over selflessness. It is oppressing the poor and the immigrant
over helping the poor and the immigrant. The things that
you are showing do not accurately reflect Christ. And brother
(36:44):
or sister, I'm going to tell you you need to
choose right now. Either identify yourself as a maga or
identify yourself as a follower of Christ. But the two
do not go together. And because of what you are doing,
you are harming the kingdom. You are pushing people away
from the Jesus we are supposed to reflect.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Okay, I will give her this.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
This lady who I don't believe is actually identified in
this at all, and even if she was, I wouldn't
identify her.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
She seems to be sincere, and I'll give her that.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
She does seem to be sincere, and I will give
her credit because she is accurately to a certain extent,
I think going about the steps that are lined out
in scripture to address a conflict that you may have
with another brother and sister in Christ. She's correct in
saying that the Bible does call you to go to
that person and try to work out those differences, those disagreements,
(37:41):
if their sin or what have you. The Bible says, hey,
go to that brother and call them to repentance that
brother or sister.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
So I'll give her credit for that.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
Now, she did miss the part where the Bible does
not tell you to do that publicly online.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
That's not in there.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
And second of all, she doesn't actually ever back any
of this up right, Like she says, oh, you're doing this, this,
and this wrong because you're maga. You're pushing people away
because you're maga. There's not really any evidence that she
backs that up with. She doesn't give any real examples
like oh, we're harming the poor in the immigrant No,
(38:18):
we're just saying, hey, don't immigrate into this country unlawfully
and don't demand that people pay for your entire existence
through welfare. I mean, if you can explain to me
how that's a violation of scripture, then I'm willing to
have that conversation as a fellow Christian. I mean, I
am seeing a lot of emotion here, but I'm not
seeing a lot of evidence as to how my faith
(38:42):
and my politics because I am what she would call
a maga quote unquote, I don't see how those two
things are a disconnected. If you can point it out
to me, I welcome you to do that anyway. That's
all I've got for you today.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Stay tuned.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
We'll be back on Sunday on I am nine to
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