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Speaker 1 (00:01):
When Donald Trump was running for office, he made it
very clear one of his big promises was going to
be to protect Americans from terrorists around the world. Donald
Trump paying off on that. Over the past week, President
Donald Trump has intensified counter terrorism efforts both domestically and internationally.
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Here's a summary of just the latest developments that you
may have missed. Airstrikes were ordered on March the fifteenth.
President Trump authorized large airstrikes targeting Aramback Houthi rebels in
Yemen's capital.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
This action was in response.
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To the hoothy threat to the US shipping assets in
the Red Sea. The offensive aims to protect American interests
and ensure navigational.
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Freedom for our ships in the region.
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The strike resulted in over thirty deaths and more than
one hundred injured. The Huthi leader vowed to continue attacks
on American shipping in the US if US operations persist
quote unquote. Iran's foreign minister also criticized the US actions,
urging an end to Yemeny's civilian casualties. As he described it,
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even though, as you and I both know, Iran's foreign
minister has sanctioned an incredible number of deaths of civilians
in their attacks and backing of Hesblat and Hamas and going.
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After the Jews in Israel.
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Following by the way the air strikes, US warships intercepted
and destroyed approximately twelve drones that were launched by the
Houthies targeting the US Harry S.
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Truman aircraft carrier.
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This marks a significant escalation in hostilities, with a Huthis
claiming the use of the ballistic and cruise missiles along
side drones in their assault. Then the President said, that's
not all I'm dealing with them. Let me say it again.
The President then said, that's not all I'm doing to
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protect you, the American people. Domestic counter terrorism measures also happened.
The arrest of an activist march to tenth the Palasinian activists.
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Muhammad Khalil, known.
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For leading the pro Palestinian protests at Columbia University, was
arrested by ICE agents and the arrest was filmed by
his wife. President Trump praised the arrests, labeling it the
first of many to come, quote unquote. He also accused
activists like this individual of being paid agitators involved in
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anti American and anti Semitic activities.
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This move sparked criticism from quote.
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Free speech advocates and New York's City leaders, who deemed
it unconstitutional. Guess what, it is absolutely constitutional what the
President has done. Then the President also decided to do
something else, the designation of domestic acts as terrorism. In
response to recent vandalism that has happened against Tesla dealerships,
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President Trump announced that such acts would be labeled as
domestic terrorism. He emphasized that perpetrators would face severe consequences,
underscoring his support for the Tesla CEO, who we set
down with in our interview, Elon Musk. Now, the present
smart to do this because what's happening now is radical
leftists in this country, anarchists, Marxists and socialists. What they
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have decided to do is go after Tesla users. They're
attacking people in their cars, They're keying cars, they're destroying
cars or setting Tesla charging stations on fire. They're going
after Tesla dealerships and doing incredible damage to the dealerships,
all because Elon Musk is going after waste, fraud and abuse.
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We also had the President doing something else that was
pretty amazing, and it comes to the issue of leadership.
Appointments Joe Kent's nomination. In early February of twenty twenty five,
President Trump's nominated Joe Kent, a former Army Special Forces
soldier and two time congressional candidate from Washington State, to
lead the National counter Terrorism Center. Kent's extensive military background
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is expected to influence the administration's counter terrorism strategies. So
again he's leading, for example by the people that he's picking.
And then there was also some counter terrorism operations that
took place in Africa. In fact, there were airstrikes in Somalia.
The US conducted air strikes against Islamic State militants hiding
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in caves in Somalia. The operation, the first of its
kind since President Trump's returned to office, targeted key ISIS
operatives and aim to disrupt their operations.
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In the region.
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We also know about the capture of a terrorist behind
the Abby Gate bombing. The apprehension was announced on March fourth,
when President Trump announced the capture of the terrorists responsible
for that bombing during the Afghan withdrawal in August of
twenty twenty one that results in the deaths of thirteen
American service members. The individual is currently en route to
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face American justice with the operation highlighting cooperation between US
agencies as well as the Pakistani government. Now, what does
all this say put together? Very simply, it says this,
Donald Trump is back in office with a robust and
multi facet approach by his administration addressing terrorism threats both
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domestically and internationally. And this is just over the past week.
Look at the headlines. US shares photos of Trump watching
deadly strike against the Houthi rebels as it revealed US
informed Russia of the attack. Another headline, US military shoots
down Houthy drones is Trump strikes against counter against terrorism
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groups continue US air strikes. Another headline reads took out
multiple Hooty terror leaders. Trump says, as Yemen reports thirty
one killed. So, whether it is at home or abroad,
what we are witnessing right now is.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Law and order.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Law and order that is clearly now a major part,
I mean a major part of this entire government approach
to putting America first. The President of the United States
of America is putting America first. And that's incredible, and
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that's all you can ask for. That's what the voters asked,
That's what the voters wanted. They wanted this to happen,
They voted for it to happen, and it was amazing.
The reason why the American people right now are clearly
behind Donald Trump is for the simple reason that they
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actually understand that this president is keeping us safe. The media,
by the way, they are like losing their minds because.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
They don't know how to cover.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
This president in a way that can hurt him right now,
because the American people clearly are responding. I mean, look
at the video that was put out by Donald Trump
of all these gang members being sent out of the
country on these flights. Like I mean, Donald Trump said,
these are monsters that were sent into our country by
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crooked Joe Biden, the radical left Democrats. How dare they
thank you to El Salvador and in particular President of
l Salvador for understanding of this horrible situation which was
allowed to happen to the United States because of incompetent
democratic leadership.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
We will not forget.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
And he put to the video of all of these
hardened criminals, like hardened criminals.
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And it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
By the way, we've got a response now from the
White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt responding to allegations of
the Trump administration quote violated a federal court order by
not turning the deportation flights around.
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That we're going to El Salvador. Here is what she said. Quote.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
The administration did not refuse to comply with a court order.
The order, which had no lawful basis, was issued after
terrorists TDA aliens.
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Had already been removed from US territory.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
The written order and the administration's actions do not conflict. Moreover,
as the Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear, federal courts
generally have no jurisdiction over the presence conduct.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Of foreign affairs.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
His authorities under the Alien Enemies Act and his core
Article two powers to remove foreign alien terrorists from the
US soil and repel a declared invasion. A single judge
in a single city cannot direct the movement of an
aircraft carrier full of foreign alien terrists who were physically
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expelled from US soil quote unquote. So that is what
the White House Press Secretary has just said. Now there's
something else that you need to know, and this is
this new number that I love Trump is his highest
approval rating ever period, full stop. More Americans say the
US is on the right track than any time in
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twenty years, so the last two decades.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
That is where we are.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
The New York Posts coming out with his new poll numbers,
and let me just explain to you how they put it.
They said Trump ties for highest approval he's ever had.
That's kind of a big deal, highest a prove rating
he's ever had. Three months into his second term, President
Trump hit the highest approval rating.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
He's ever had as a commander in chief.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
While more Americans say the country is on the right
track than at any point since two thousand and.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Four, the new poll found go back to two thousand
and four.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
That was when that was in the year when George
Bush was reelected. That's a long time ago, folks. That's
the good news. According to an NBC News poll released
on Sunday, This is NBC News. The bad news is
that Trump still has not won over a majority of Americans.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Fifty four percent.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
They say they disapprove of his handling of the economy,
the first time he's lost the majority on that issue
in the NBC poll.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
That's what they say.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Now, I'd love to look at this data and see
exactly how they're getting it and do they go after
more hardcore liberals than an actual voting block that would
represent America.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
But we can deal with that in a minute.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Even so, the survey found that voters generally filled Trump
is bringing the right kind of change on the key issues,
even tariffs. More American support his changes to trade policy
than oppose it. According to NBC News that despite the
stick market selloff last week as Wall Street grappled the
Trump's decision earlier this month to slap twenty five percent
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across the board tariffs on Canadian and Mexico goods, as
well as twenty percent tariffs on China, on many other
key issues, voters felt the same way, with Trump's actions
on the.
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Border being the most popular.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Fifty eight percent said it was a positive change on
government cuts. Forty seven percent said his changes were good,
compared to twenty one percent who opposed it.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Again, these are major numbers.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
On many other key issues, voters felt the same way,
with Trump's actions on the border being the most popular,
fifty six percent said it's a positive change on government
Cutt's forty seven percent says changes were good compared to
twenty nine percent who opposed it.
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Even on the handling of the Ukraine War.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
In NATO policies have received a significant pushback.
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On mainly for the media and the press.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
More respondents said his actions were good forty one percent
and forty percent that opposed his actions.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Now, this is again coming from.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
NBC News and using their polls are very slanted against
Donald Trump. I go back to the basic issues here.
Donald Trump is hitting on the issues. Caroline Levitt, White
House Press Secretary on Sunday Morning Futures talking about invoking
the Alien Enemies Act against these gang members who have
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invaded our country, which the presidents saying we're going after
into pouring them to El Salvador.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
In just one month, President Trump has used his executive
authority to secure our southern border. It proves that everybody
who claimed we needed a border bill was wrong. We
just needed a new president who actually cared about securing
our homeland and enforcing our immigration laws. You mentioned daily
Godaway's seventy seven. That's an astronomical decrease from the previous administration.
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There's been a ninety nine percent decrease of illegal migrants
crossing through the Darien Gap. If you talk to border
patrol agents and Ice agents. They will tell you the
camaraderie in these agencies is at an all time high
because they are actually being allowed to do their jobs.
In breaking news, this morning, Maria, the President signed a
proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act against Trendy Aragua members
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who have invaded our country. These are the most violent,
heinoused criminal monsters you could ever imagine. They have taken
the lives of innocent American women like Joscelyn Nungray and
Lake and Riley. And the President invoked this authority to
deport nearly three hundred of them who are now in
El Salvador, where they will be behind bars where they belong,
rather than roaming freely in American communities. This is a
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massive win for the American public and it is going
to save lives.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
It is going to save lives.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
This is exactly why the President of United States of America,
exactly why he has so much support.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Now I'm faced the nation.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
This morning, Senator Marco Rubia was asked a simple question
by a hardcore leftist. Her name is Brittan. She's the
host there, and I want you to hear what she said.
And this is the reason why the media is just
losing the American people.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Is there any evidence of a link to terrorism or
is it just his r point of view?
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Yeah, they take over, I mean do not. I mean
you should watch the news. These guys take over entire buildings,
shut down.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
I'm asking about justification for the revocation of his visa.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
By the way, they're referencing this student that was arrested
and green card taken away? Who did all these protests
on the college campuses. And I love how Mark Rubia
looks as like, h did you you should watch the news.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I'm gonna back it up. Listen to that.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
He's talking to CBS. He's like, are you guys stupid?
Are you stupid?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (15:08):
They take over, I mean do not. I mean you
should watch the news. These guys take over entire buildings,
they shut down.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Justification for the revocation of his visa? Was there any evident?
Speaker 5 (15:21):
So was the negotiator on it, negotiating on behalf of
people that took over a campus, that vandalized buildings, negotiating
over what that's a crime in and of itself that
they're involved in, being the negotiator of the spokesperson this
that and the other.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
We don't want it.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
We don't need these people in our country.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
That we don't need these people in our country. Amen.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Now you look at all the President Trump is doing
and all the things that we're talking about here, and
it goes back to what Donald Trump said in an
interview recently. He said, simply put, we didn't need a
bunch of new laws.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
We just needed a new president. He's not wrong.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
You secure the border in days after becoming president. There
was a new laws passed.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
We have ninety nine percent improvement from Biden and that
was his better y. You know, he started around the
election working a little bit harder and they got a
little bit better. Was horrible still, so we're comparing it
to his best time, comparing it to the worst time.
It's like it's not even you can't calculate it. How
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much better? So we have now the best border we've
ever had, and we did that in.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
A period of five weeks. Pretty amazing.
Speaker 7 (16:34):
Actually, does that imply that we don't need to add
a bunch of money and forces. In fact, maybe you
could draw down or reappoint the force and manpower that's
down there, and we don't need new laws and new money.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
Well, you don't need very many new laws because I
did it without new laws. I did it twice without
new laws. I had the best border ever. And now
I think we're going to beat those numbers. Actually think
these numbers might be slightly better, and we're going to
get them better yet. And I said during the speech
on Tuesday night, I said that you didn't need anything,
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you just needed a new president for that. I said,
close the border, and they closed the border. He could
have done the same thing. I think he wanted open borders.
I don't know if he did, but somebody in there
that ran the operation. Nobody really knows who was running it.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I mean, it's incredible, isn't it it.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I mean, really, it really is incredible.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
The president, what he's been able to do so quickly,
Like this is not hard. It's just it's it's a
simple issue of enforcing what's happening, Like you just enforce
the laws.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
That's it. You enforce the laws that are on the books.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
And when you enforce those laws the way that he's
clearly doing it now, then what happens. It's a huge
victory for everyone. Again, it's not horror. And you notice
how just calm and collected the president is when he's
talking about it like we didn't need a bunch of
different things.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
We need a new leadership.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
We need someone that actually did the job and and
said we're going to stand up.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
For the American people.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
We're going to put the American people's safety and security
first instead of putting it last. That's what we're going
to do differently. And when you hear the President talk
about the way that he has and you look at
the results that we're talking about here, like the results
that we're talking about here are incredible. National Security Advisor
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Mike Waltz talked about just the US launching these air
strike that these are ramback Hooti rebels and Yemen, and
again the media is angry that Donald Trump is taking
out terrists, and listen to what he said.
Speaker 8 (18:51):
The difference is these were not kind of pen prick
back and forth what ultimately proved to be effeckless attacks.
This was an overwhelming response that actually targeted multiple hoothy
leaders and took them out. And the difference here is
one going after the hoo the leadership, and two holding
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Iran responsible. It is Iran that has repeatedly funded, resourced, trained,
and helped the Hoothy's target not only US warships but
global commerce, and has helped the houthis shut down two
of the world's most strategic sea lanes.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
We have Martha.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
Seventy percent of global shipping is now diverting around Southern Africa,
adding to the cost of goods, disrupting global economies, adding
to or shutting off supplies to the United States. President
Trump has founded unacceptable. What we inherited was a terrible situation,
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and this is one of what we'll be be a
sustained effort to right that wrong and to reopen global commerce.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
This is the reason why the president has the highest
approval rating of any president since two thousand and four.
You go back to Marco Rubio and what he said
about the same thing. Why are we going after these
terrorists this way? By the way, this isn't preemptive, This
isn't reaction too. And the media doesn't want you to
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understand it. They want you to think, oh, Donald Trump's
just going rogue. Listen to Rubio.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Well, first of all, the problem here is that this
is a very important shipping lane, and in the last
year and a half, last eighteen months, to who thies
have struck or attacked one hundred and seventy four naval
vessels of the United States, attacking the US Navy directly
one hundred and seventy four times, and one hundred and
forty five times they've attacked commercial shipping. So we basically
have a band of pirates, you know, with guided precision
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anti ship weaponry and attracting a toll system and one
of the most important shipping lanes in the world. That's
just not sustainable. We are not going to have these
people controlling which ships can go through and which ones cannot.
And so your question is how long will this go on?
It will go on until they no longer have the
capability to do that.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Well, what does US intelligence tell us at this point?
Because the US had been conducting strikes for some time
but has not stopped the hoo thies. So what's going
to be different right now? Do you have more fidelity
in the intelligence that would make this more successful.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Well, those strikes were a retaliation strike, so they launched
one missile, we hit the missile launcher, or we sent
something to do. This is not a message, This is
not a one off. This is an effort to deny
them the ability to continue to constrict and control shipping.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
And this is not going to happen. We're not going to.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Have these guys, these people with weapons able to tell
us where our ships can go, where the ships of
all the world can go. By the way, it's not
just the US we're doing the world of favor. We're
doing the entire world of favor by getting rid of
these guys and their ability to strike global shipping. That's
the mission here, and it will continue until that's carried out.
That never happened before. The Biden administration didn't do that.
All the Biden administration would do is they would respond
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to an attack. These guys would launch one rocket, We'd hit.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
The rocket launcher. That's it.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
This is an effort to take away their ability to
control global shipping in that part of the world.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
That's just not going to happen anymore.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
And it could will continue until that's finished.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
It could involve ground raids.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Well, those are military decisions to be made, but I've
heard no talk of ground raids. I don't think there's
a necessity for it right now. I can tell you
that as of last night, some of the key people
involved in those missile launches are no longer with US,
and I can tell you that some of the facilities
that they use are no longer existing and that will continue. Look,
it's bottom line, an easy way to understand it. Okay,
these guys are able to control what ships can go
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through there. They've attacked the US Navy one hundred and
seventy four times. They've attacked the United States Navy. We're
not going to have people sitting around with the missiles
attacking the US Navy. It's not going to happen, not
under President Trump.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Not under President Trump. What all this is about, Not
under President Trump. And you go on the issue of
border security, Trump, you just need a new president. Listen
to Donald Trump in a new interview that he did
talking about how America is getting ripped off. This goes
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back to again Donald Trump saying, I'm putting America first.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Well, we as a country have been ripped off for
years and years, decades and decades, and you've covered it
on your show. I've seen it. Canada is a disaster
for US. We lose close to two hundred billion dollars
with Canada. Nobody did anything. Nobody says that with Canada
that they charge our farmers think of this. They have
for dairy products, some dairy products two hundred and seventy
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percent tariff. Nobody knows that.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
Nobody to trink that down to like common terms. So
our farmers may have a product such as what and
we sell it to Canada, and we want to.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Sell milk into Canada, and they throw a two hundred
and seventy percent price increase on the milk.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
Which means we don't have much of a market, which
means we don't sell milk in Canada.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
It's almost it's called the monetary tariff. But they have
a lot of non monetary tariffs too. There's things unrelated
to you know, they'll have a standard that they'll say
you didn't meet or something that's called the non monitory.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
So you put a tariff on what, for example, to
try to counter the milk tariff.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
Well, I can put a tariff on anything, but in
a case of Canada, I put it on steel and aluminum.
Speaker 7 (24:26):
They want to sell their stuff to us.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
We have a lot of tariffs that we're going to
be putting on. It really hits on April second, and
actually we've been very consistent. I think a lot of
oh people are loving what I'm doing. The real business
people are loving it. We're going to make America rich again.
But we're going to have tariffs on automobiles. We're gonna
have tariffs or on steel. We're going to have tariffs
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on aluminum and copper and many, many different things. And
they're going to be very consistent, and I've been very consistent.
I did give General Motors and are Big Three actually
a month of relief because they would have had a
very unfair disadvantage over other car makers, which I didn't want.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
So I did that.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
And I think there was something I did from the
fact that you know, I want to take care of
our car companies, but you have and you've been reading
about it and seeing it. We have companies moving into
the United States at levels that has never been seen before.
We have many many car factories going up.
Speaker 7 (25:28):
If I understand it correctly, the benefits that would come
from some of that may largely be down the road.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
Well, no, I think immediately, Look, when you're building those plants,
a lot of money comes in from those plants. You know,
you're using companies, subcontractors, contractors, concrete companies, and steel companies,
and you can see it initially, but you're going to
see it more down the road when they open up.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
I love how they try it. Well, this may not
happen right away. No, no, it actually will actually will
happen right away. This is what winning sounds like. This
is what putting America first looks like. This is what
having a present that cares about America more than other countries.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
How many of you.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Knew what he just said there about the milk the
tariffs they put on milk, so it's impossible for us
to sell milk to Canada because the tariff on it
is so insane. When you hear that, he says, we're
getting ripped off by them. Like when you explain it
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the way that he is explaining it, it's incredibly simple
and easy.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
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