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March 5, 2025 25 mins
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Takeaways from Trump’s speech to Congress. Fact checking “billions of dollars in fraud.” Trump mentioned Greenland last night… Greenland has the makings of a mining boom.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
KFI AM sixty. Oh what a day? What a day? Wednesday,
March fifth.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
I just read this. The Supreme Court just rejected. I
was just looking at this on CNN and Fox is
not carrying this. I love watching CNN and Fox because
they're right next to each other on these monitors, and
it's absolutely hilarious the difference. It was almost like last night,
Republicans and Democrats, two different worlds. And the Supreme Court
has rejected Trump's request to keep four and eight frozen.

(00:39):
So and if you pick that up and you know,
pull that story, that's what CNN just did. And because
I'm you know, interested, I'll read it either on the
air live while Neil is talking, or maybe I'll read
it during the break. Okay, with that being said, last night,
I was anticipating a sitcom with lots of laughter and

(01:02):
lots of fireworks. I got more than I even anticipated.
Last night was spectacular. It truly was must see TV.
Oh my goodness, was it must see TV. And the
more Trump said these ridiculous statements, the more the Republicans

(01:24):
danced up and down. I am very disappointed with the Democrats.
They missed some huge opportunities. They heckled the president. Al
Green of Texas Democratic Representative got kicked out, and after
that the Democrats actually stayed put. Mike Johnson threatened to
throw them all out. I wish he had. I wish

(01:46):
they had not stopped heckling. The huge opportunities lost. And
then I was talking earlier about the visual of Al
Green as he was escorted out, and as soon as
he hit the aisle, I wish he had just gone dead,
dead weight and have him literally he get hauled off
like a sack full of potatoes.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Like an eight year old and target yeah, yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
So what happened yesterday?

Speaker 3 (02:09):
Uh? And some takeaways, some statements of policy, uh, some
just made up stuff just and the more Trump made up,
the louder the Republicans cheered, even when he went against
everything they wanted previously. And as soon as he changes

(02:31):
his mind or as soon as he goes in one direction ooops,
that's where the president goes, will go there. Mike Johnson,
for example, almost lost his speakership last year.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
To back Ukraine.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
And uh, he's right up there cheering when Trump wants
to screw over Ukraine. It doesn't matter whatever Trump wants
Trump gets. I mean you talk about co opting and
owning the Republican Party. Uh, and the cheering that went
on on that side Democrats Uh, not paying attention to
virtually anything you said, calling him a liar. Well, I'm

(03:02):
paying attention, but having signs it said liar, not truth
that these little paddle signs like you see at auctions.
And I gotta tell you it was it was two
different places.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
There was no question about it. It was a rave
where next door is a bunch.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
It was a senior citizen center and you put the
two buildings together and that's what you saw.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Completely crazy.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
So let's go on and start talking about some of
the claims that were made. For example, US citizens who
are hundreds of year old are receiving Social Security checks
and the administration has identified hundreds of billions of dollars
of fraud. Uh not really Socialist Security administration does have

(03:50):
in his database people that are three hundred years old.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
Because of the way the database.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
If people are off the record, but they're they're noted
as Americans, then the system can put them at two
hundred years old.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Do they get money they do not.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, it's a coding thing or something like they put
a date in there.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah, And they're all getting money and we don't.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
And we're looking for them.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
Well, if you're sending them checks, don't you know where
they are? They're going someplace if you're sending them checks,
either being wired into some account or some address. So
that one made absolutely no sense at all. And I
gotta tell you, I have never seen anybody so obsessed

(04:37):
with Joe Biden as much as Trump was last night.
This speech was more about Joe Biden. Egg prices having
what doubled since January since the president has taken into
effect January twentieth, or gone up sixty percent or something insane.
It was at the market yesterday nine dollars for a
regular twelve pack a dozen eggs. Joe Biden created. That

(05:03):
that's Joe Biden inflation. That was Joe Biden's problem, not mine.
But wait, in fact, wait wait a minute. You promise
inflation would disappear the day you became president. Inflation is increasing.
That's Joe Biden did that. That's the Biden inflation. I

(05:24):
mean it was well, and this is what he said. Okay,
this is not interpreting. This is not prognostication. This is
a statement or statements that President Trump said, Joe Biden
the worst president in the history of the United States,
followed by Donald Trump the best president in the history

(05:49):
of the United States. And things are better under Trump
almost immediately in the best, the most extraordinary comeback in
the history of the United States. He inherited more challenges
than any president in the history of the United States.

(06:10):
And I wanted to raise my hands, said, you know,
there was a guy, but I think of Abraham Lincoln.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
You know, with the Civil War. You think he had
a little bit tougher piece of case. Yeah, that was
a piece of case. Yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
And to give you an idea, I'm going to go
through some of the specifics in a minute to give
you an idea of how insane some of these Republicans are.
I mean, how crazy they are. And this is granted,
this is just a few. This is not the vast
majority of Republican senators or congress people. But this does
not happen when a Democrat is in power. One congressman

(06:47):
introduced a resolution that there should be a third term
for a president, but only presidents who have lost, they've
served one term, lost the second, come back and win
a third or win it again after the loss, and
they that that person can go for a third term.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Who's at well, George JH. W. Bush dead.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
Jimmy Carter would have to win again and then he'd
be eligible and he's kind of dead.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
Wow, leaves Donald Trump. Okay, that's one. Two.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
Congressman introduced a bill Mount Rushmore should have another face
on it, Donald Trump my favorite one. Yesterday a congressman,
Republican congressman said the Benjamins that we have those hundred
dollars bills, Benjamin Franklin should be removed and Donald Trump's

(07:46):
picture should be on the face of one hundred dollars bill,
so you get paid in Donald's instead of Benjamin's.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Well, Benjamin Franklin wasn't a president.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
That's true.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
So yeah, it's good. Hair is a postmaster, big.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Deal, that's true. That's true.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
There's been a few Hamilton is on what kind of
what bill was Hamilton on?

Speaker 2 (08:08):
Uh? Is he on the ten? I'm trying to remember. Yeah, yeah,
he wasn't a president. All right, let's take a break.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, but he could sing and dance.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
Yeah, he sure could and rap at the same time,
you bet you now or forty minutes. And the more
self aggradizing it was, the more the Republicans chaired, even
to the point where Usa USA it was a rally
for the Trump administration and on the other side, usually
a Trump rallies, you don't see half the audience being

(08:40):
opponents what you did last night, because it was the
Democrats who were heckling and screaming and you know, holding
up signs liar and fact checking. Now, did Trump make
some stuff up? Me drug price, egg prices? It's all
Joe Biden is the one that's out there. I guess

(09:01):
killing the chickens.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
No, but he used to lay a lot of eggs
when he was in office.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
Biden the worst president in the history of United States,
and Trump, over and over again he is the best. Uh,
There's never been a president like him ever. The country
is at the best point it's ever going to be
with him, and the Republicans just didn't stop cheering, did
not stop cheering. We spent three hundred and fifty billion

(09:28):
dollars on Ukraine cheers that we've stopped it.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
Well, that's kind of not true, not even half of that.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
But who cares a few hundred billion here, a few
hundred billion there.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
Most estimates are in one hundred and seventy.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
Five billion to one eighty five, which is about half
of the three point fifty The Department of Government Efficiency,
we found hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud and
we've taken back the money.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Well, uh, March as.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
Of March fourth, the Dodge Joe website as basically as
of yesterday, the Dodge website shows one hundred and five
billion dollars in DOGE.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, that too, they played dodgeball.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
Well, I guess you can say, if you show one
hundred and five that's hundreds of billions.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
I'll give it to them.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
However, there is a wall of receipts that proves money
is coming back and that shows the savings generated from
DOGE cuts. That's less than twenty billion dollars that they
can actually show the money. So and by the way,
that wall of receipts, it's been off by yeah, just

(10:38):
a few one hundred billion dollars. Now here is the issue.
It's the bigger issue is the fraud that the president,
the administration and the Republicans are talking about. Are things
that they agree with ideologically diversity, equity, inclusion.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
Climate change. Spending money on that is not fraud.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
Spending money on that is an ideological difference.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
We don't want to spend money on that.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
We think that's wrong, as opposed to if you have
a diversity program, you are defrauding the United States. Big
difference in terms of fraud. So, and here's the other one.
The inspect is a general. You know, the oversight dozens
have been fired. They're the ones that find the fraud.

(11:29):
And why have they been fired. The accusation that they're
incompetent hasn't been there, that they haven't found, the fraud
hasn't been there.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
It's just ideological.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
Memos have gone out to department heads and senior executives saying,
if you disagree with the policy of the president, you
will be terminated. Not if you say, I disagree with this,
but it is my job. I am ordered to do this.
It is my job where I disagree. There have been
cabinet members who have said they disagree with the administration.

(12:06):
They've been cabinet members have been in the other party,
not in this case. And the more we are involved
in loyalty, the more the Republicans just love it. And
I talked about older people getting Social Security, people that
are one hundred years old, one hundred and fifty years old,
they're getting the money, Okay, show us, Well, we actually

(12:30):
can't prove it. We're looking for those people. The worst
inflation forty eight years was under Biden. Not really, We've
had inflations. Well, for example, under Jimmy Carter it hit
fifteen percent. Biden was nine percent. The Paris Climate Agreement,
if we'd stayed in, would cost the US trillions of dollars. Well,

(12:56):
if you look at what is being touted as trillions
of dollars, restrictions on fossil fuel emissions would result in
a higher cost of production.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
I guess that is loss opportunity costs.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
Higher cost of production translates into the closure of uncompetitive
manufacturing business. So those closures cost us money. You add
that to the figure that means fewer manufacturing job. That
costs us money. By the way, SODA's technology, So you
can't argue technology is costing us a whole bunch of money.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
Therefore we should stop technology.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
And the study, this long term study that why it's
costing as trillions of dollars doesn't even factor in the
offsetting job gains. For example, we can talk about when
you hear the employment numbers, right we there have been

(13:57):
eight hundred and fifty thousand new employe and unemployment claims filed.
Or that was during the Obama years, right when things
were going nuts. But let's say it was last week,
two hundred and fifty thousand new ones.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
Well, how many people were employed?

Speaker 3 (14:14):
You have x number unemployed and then some people were hired,
don't you think. Or when you have unemployment figures, I mean,
no one gets hired on the other side, and so
you got to factor all of that and it's not
being factored. So bottom line, this is the greatest president
that ever lived. Let's stand up and cheer, out of

(14:35):
control cheering. He said, I don't even know it was jokingly,
but he said, I am the number one president, the
greatest president.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
Number two.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
I'll put George Washington in And he was chuckling, but
he has said he is the greatest president that this
country has ever had. With the Republicans standing up and
cheering and cheering and cheering, man, you got me on this.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
One last night, it was good.

Speaker 3 (15:02):
Oh and then real one quick one running a little
bit over and that is and this the Democrats sitting
on their hands while that kid who survived that brain
cancer that was introduced. Come on, you're really sitting on
your hands. You're not applauding that one. And he was
an honorary Secret serviceman or the kid that Secret Service agent,
and then that kid who was appointed to West Point

(15:25):
and he got that and then pointing out various people.
The problem was the President was pointing out everybody in
the gallery.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
And it went on and on and on and on.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
So anyway, last night, nothing unusual when we hear the
State of the Union address next year. This last year
has been the greatest year in the history United States.
And if inflation goes up, that's not true.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
None of them ever come out and say things are bad.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
Some do, some do, some do, but none of them
come out and say that, you know, to the extent
that Trump did last night. Okay, now I want to
move to a little bit of what's going on with
the President and the Panama Canal for a moment. Panama Canal,

(16:12):
as he spoke about last night, was given back to
Panama by Jimmy Carter, sold back for a dollar.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
I mean, you can go on one side or the other.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
On that one, I think as horrible as the transferring,
I think could be politically not feasible to keep the
Panama Canal, not in this day and age American territory
right in the middle of Panama and the chief resource,
the chief revenue resource of that country. So it was
given back and the President said, we're not going to

(16:45):
buy it. That wasn't the speech. It's not going to
be a treaty. We're going to take it back. I
don't know how you do that. I really don't. Short
of invading Panama because they're not going to surround go here.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
Really, Now, are there other?

Speaker 3 (17:02):
Are there other means of pressuring Panama? Maybe sanctions that
are so horrific, But what sanctions can you put on
a country when it's chief source of revenue is the
Panama Canal? And so the sanctions because the United States
is or used to be so powerful, maybe forcing other countries, uh,

(17:25):
and other you know, other ships of countries and not
to go through the Panama Canal and therefore deprive Panama
of the revenue. Okay, so uh, the President United States
tells a private company you cannot go through the Panama Canal.
Otherwise we're going to sanction the country that licenses or

(17:49):
gives you the flag for your ship.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
Why don't we move to another country? I mean, I don't.
I just don't know how you do it.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
I don't now two other issues, are they possible?

Speaker 2 (18:00):
No one is bringing Canada in as the fifty first state.

Speaker 3 (18:07):
There may be one or two or thirty million Canadians
that go I don't think. So, Okay, do you buy
the state? Do you buy Ontario or Quebec? And what
I would they go for? And therein is the connection
with Greenland. Greenland is a different animal. Trump is saying

(18:30):
that Greenland is an issue of American national security. He
is not wrong, by the way. There is a very
strong point to make for his position. He has said
we will buy Greenland. Well, Denmark, where Greenland is a
territory of Greenland or territory of Denmark has said, no,

(18:55):
it's not for sale.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
What do you do with that? I insist you It's
almost like the Godfather.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
I'm gonna make you an offer that you cannot refuse.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
Who No, it doesn't work that way all right.

Speaker 3 (19:11):
One of the issues that we hear a lot from
Donald Trump Panama and in the fifty first aid candidate, etc.
Is the issue with Greenland? Originally, let's buy it not
for sale? Okay, let's cut a deal. Why is Greenland
so important when he talks about national security and Greenland?

(19:33):
I mean, come on, oh, let me tell you it's
pretty important stuff. Let's start with the fact that he
talks about rare earths. Rare earth is rare earth minerals
that are necessary used in electronics, that are used in phones,
that are used in computers. You can't build any of

(19:53):
that without rare earth minerals, you can't. And who controls
rare earth minerals China? China controls it. They have about
ninety percent of the production of rare earths. I think
they have seventy percent of the mining and the production

(20:13):
is about ninety percent. And the whole world looks to China.
I mean, you talk about controlling the market. Now. The
reason it has not stopped selling it because it would
be suicidal for them to stop everything in the world
in terms of commerce. Greenland happens to have the world's
largest reserve of rare minerals what is it, Kavnefeld And

(20:42):
those are the type of meatballs you pick up at aika.
They're very very good. Kanava Feld Kannaba Feld is a
billion year old solified magma in the mountains above the
town of Narsak. This is the world's single big this
biggest supply that is where rare earths are found. About

(21:03):
a billion tons of material could potentially transform the global
market for rare earth elements. So, okay, let's see how
this works. Let's see there may be a trade deal
going right now. There's a US base on there, and
Greenland looks the United States for a lot of security

(21:24):
and the presences. We want something in return. We want
to cut a deal for those rare earths. Okay, fair enough,
it makes sense. So a Wall Street General reporter went
there and rode stowemobiles through this gorge below a frozen plateau.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
Forty five minutes into the valley. The local guides.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
Pointed out a mine entrance in the distance which you
couldn't get into. And that's a mine. Now, not a
rare earth's mineral mine, just a mine. It turns out
that Greenland is truly one of the world's most challenging
environments to ever mine rare earth. Can it be done. Well, yeah, right,

(22:09):
Now there's only two active mines. There's a gold mine
that's in commissioning phase and then a mind producing an.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
Orthosite, which is using fiberglass, et cetera.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
Greenland has extended one hundred mining licenses, but it's all
for exploration. So building a mine insane startup costs. Rugged
terrain has to go from scratch. Eighty percent of it
is covered by ice, deep fjords, ice sheets, no roads
between settlements, it's all by not even airplanes, helicopters. Now,

(22:43):
how expensive do you think it is flying material in
to build a mine by helicopter. If you know the
Palm Springs tramway, You've seen a documentary on the tramway
in Palm Springs that was built by helicopter and what
it costs them. You see how they had to bring
up the materials. It was crazy. Well, you square that

(23:06):
one or you cube that one, and that's what you have.
And the point is is that mining anything in Greenland
is about as difficult as it gets anywhere in the world.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
Now does it make sense?

Speaker 3 (23:21):
Yeah, it's a president right and saying this is national
security for us. Hell yeah, it'd be kind of nice
to take away the ninety percent world market that China controls,
and we end up with either all or a good
portion of.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
The rare earth minerals that are available in Greenland. It's
just impossible to get to but it can be.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
I mean dinner before you know one thing about Americans
and American industry.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
I mean, we do it. How much is it going
to cost us? I don't know, and I think.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
The President is sort of pulling back on anything other
than a treaty of some.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
Kind and money changing hands. Panama different story. We're taking
Panama back. That's it. We're gonna go in.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
There and yanked from those Panamanians. That's our Panama Canal.
We built it, we own it. Oh, here's an interesting
sidebar story before it bail out of here. When John
McCain was running for president, there was a huge issue
that he was born outside of the United States and

(24:26):
not within the continental the United States, and therefore he
was not eligible for the presidency because you have to
be a native born American. He was born in the
canal zone, American territory.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
It was America, not anymore.

Speaker 3 (24:46):
It belongs to Panama. Coming up nuclear power plant revival.
I've always talked about how we have to have nukes.
I believe in nukes. Nukes are good. I believe in
your scrotum turning a nice bright blue at night so
it can be a night light. There's a lot that

(25:06):
I like about nukes. By the way, the scrotum part
is only for men. I just want to let you
know that I'm not.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
Accusing, not anymore.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
Good point. Good point, you don't know.

Speaker 3 (25:17):
Now you don't if oh as a new policy is
if you were born with him, you have them, even
if you don't have them. Okay, KFI AM six forty
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Speaker 2 (25:29):
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