Big Ole Airplanes

Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:

• Is the jet a gift or not a gift?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 4 (00:31):
All right, we're talking about big old airplanes to start
the show today. We had a interesting discussion this morning
about President Trump accepting that big flying palace. I guess
that's how they're describing it. This this Boeing jet that
is completely uh you know, tricked out. It's it's got

(00:53):
all kinds of goodies on board. Uh, it probably is
President Trump's taste to It's probably got gold faucets and
that kind of stuff from the Government of Guitar. They
are giving it to him for free. It's like a
four hundred and some odd million dollar jed, right, And
of course the discussion begins right away as to whether

(01:16):
or not, well, we shouldn't be he shouldn't be accepting
that gift that you know, you can't take a gift
that big. And it's like, well wait a minute here,
what do you mean we can't take a gift that big,
and who's the gift for that? That that is the
key to this whole thing, is not that there's a
gift and that it could be turned into Air Force
One for Trump's personal use because he's president of the

(01:40):
United States. The question becomes what happens to it when
he's no longer president of the United States, Because at
that point, you know, is it something he's going to keep,
or is that something that that is going to go
to a different division of the government, or will it
continues Air Force One or whoever the next president is.

(02:00):
Those are the questions that have to be asked and
have to be answered before we can make a judgment
here on whether or not you know, this is a
this is a gift or not a gift. And I
saw a segment on the Five They're talking about the
jet and Kennedy was one of the guest commentators, and

(02:22):
she kind of made it sound like, well, you know,
maybe maybe we shouldn't take it. Maybe maybe that sends
the wrong impression. And I'm thinking, no, I don't think
that's the case. But let's take a listen. First of all,
here's how the left is talking about this. Jet, and

(02:43):
then we hear from the folks at the five.

Speaker 5 (02:45):
My attitude is, why wouldn't I accept the gift?

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Because he does not believe in rules and laws and norms.
He thinks they're for Suners.

Speaker 6 (02:54):
This flying grift or con air Force one.

Speaker 7 (02:57):
If this is all about, is getting a four hundred
million dollar aircraft for Donald Trump when he leaves the presidency.

Speaker 8 (03:03):
This administration is corrupt, full and through. If you read
the left leaning media, they're like, well, he hasn't really
done any deals with Syria and Ron and he called
the new Syrian president a terrorist at gie hattis not
long ago.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
But the plane.

Speaker 8 (03:20):
I don't think the plane is that great of an
idea to accept because I think that if we are
forcing Democrats and the Biden family, which was famous for
decades of grift, and if we're holding them to account,
then I think it's a political mistake to be doing
something that could be construed as the same thing.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yeah, you got to act better than your predecessor.

Speaker 8 (03:43):
Yeah, so you have to be able to employ the
political golden rule, which is if it's wrong for them,
it's wrong for us. And why distract from the phenomenal
wins that have happened over the last ten days.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
Okay, but are we comparing apples and apples or apples
and oranges? Right? I mean the Biden what the Biden
family did. I mean, that's that's grafting, corruption, pure and simple.
They did it to enrich themselves. If Trump accepts that
jet from Qatar, is he doing it to enrich himself
or is he doing it to enrich the country, because

(04:17):
that's who the gift is actually being given to. It
may be given to Trump, but as persion of the
United States is being given to the country. Like I said,
it all depends on what happens in my mind to
that jet once once he's no longer president of the
United States. But I asked, I asked our listeners this
morning on our KTRH morning show to weigh in on this,
and you had some very good answers.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Hi, Jimmy, It's Cindy from the middle of Houston. So
if we're not going to accept the guitar jet, are
we also going to send back the Statue of Liberty
if we're not supposed to accept gifts from foreign nations?
Just wondering. Tell Skoy Mike, I got a little frowls
going on with my hair today too.

Speaker 9 (04:57):
Hey, this is Jeremy from Tombaugh. I think it's a
or wonderful gift for our country for our leader to
fire around in something that's not old.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
And also it's not.

Speaker 9 (05:12):
A gift of cocaine for his son. So yeah, take
the jet for us.

Speaker 10 (05:17):
Good morning. This is Daniel from Border Regarding the the
gift of the jet, I think we should receive it,
then sell it, and then all the money that we
get for it we should either put towards border security,
our veteran programs.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Hey, Jenny, it's gen again.

Speaker 11 (05:36):
It's one hundred and fourteen degrees here at two forty
five in the afternoon, almost quit in time, so one
hundred and fourteen big ones.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
I think we got your beat.

Speaker 12 (05:46):
Have a good day, guys.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
He he was calling from Kuwait. Yes, yes, we had
morning show listener in Kuwait. And by the way, he
also provided me with the correct pronunciation of guitar a
T a r. If you are speaking Arabic, it is cutter.
If you are speaking English, it's Qatar. I'm not quite

(06:10):
sure why that is, but okay, that that that makes
some sense, I guess all right, So so far it's unanimous.
Trump should accept the jet. Let's get a few more
listeners in here.

Speaker 13 (06:21):
The United States give money away all over the will?
Why not allow us to accept a gift from from
a different country a guitar? The United States give money
away all over the will? Why not allow us to
accept a gift from from a different country guitar?

Speaker 6 (06:43):
Hey, Jimmy, this is Dan from Magnolia Again. If they
throw in a free year of fuel, that's great too.
We accepted the statue of liberty. Why can't we accept
a jet now? If there's spy equipment in the jet,
I'm sure they're gonna check.

Speaker 11 (07:00):
Well, first off, about the airplane, it's a gift to
the country, so yeah, you know, people don't listen to facts.
But what about the idea of where it was gifted from?
Do they see it as an insult for him to
have turned it down?

Speaker 2 (07:13):
Just thought it's no idea?

Speaker 4 (07:15):
Hey yeah, what would what would the Royal family and
Qatar think if we turned down the turned down the
offer of the gift? They might not be real happy
with that. But as far as again, the question is
really simple because there is there's some I've heard a
whole variety of different takes and what happens to the
jet when Trump is no longer president of the United States.

(07:39):
Does it stay as Air Force one, does it stay
as part of the United States government? Does it become
Trump's personal jet? Only if it becomes Trump's personal jet,
you know, three years from now, then then that brings about.
That brings about some questions as far as whether or
not it's on the up and up in order to

(07:59):
be able to up that as a gift. As long
as Trump is not taking it as a personal gift
and is using it in his role as president of
the United States, I don't see a problem. All right,
back with Born in a moment, Jimmy Bart show. Here
a name of nine fifty KPRC. All right, So I

(08:28):
see a teacher on Fox and Friends talking yesterday, and
I didn't hear the audio that went along with it,
and I wasn't quite sure why she was on. Then
I had a chance to go back and listen to
it after our show yesterday afternoon, and it turns out
that she was a young woman who had only been

(08:49):
a teacher for three years and it had already become disillusion.
I don't know if she became disillusioned, because it's probably
a combination of things. I don't think young teachers who
quit after just a few years necessarily quit because they're
not getting support or because the kids are bad. Sometimes

(09:12):
it's just a bad fit, you know. Sometimes people think
they can't think. First of all, they can't think of
anything else to be, so they decide they're going to
be a teacher, or they really don't understand what the
world of teaching is all about and all the ins
and the outs and the pros and the cons. Because
like any job, there's good parts about it and there's
bad parts about it. I'm sure it could be personally

(09:34):
very warning to be a teacher. And my dad was
a teacher, and I know that. You know, he took
a lot of pride in having an impact on young
people's lives, and he would routinely see adults come back,
you know, fifteen twenty years after high school, the high
school he taught at, and tell him, you know, what
an important role that my dad had played in their lives,

(09:56):
and how much they enjoyed his class. And that's got
to make you feel good, right, They have that kind
of impact on people. But you know, there's a lot
of politics involved. Uh, there's a lot of frustration involved,
and especially these days, because these teachers don't get a
lot of support from the administration. All the only thing
the administration wants to do is to keep parents, you know,
from from complaining. They just they and if that means

(10:20):
that they have to, uh, you know, do things, you know,
as in regards to uh, you know, disciplining students that
you know does not support the teacher, then that's that's
what they do. I mean, We've got something we had
this morning on the Morning Show. We had, uh that
that that of the Taylor High School student that that
girl who was beaten up by a bully at school

(10:42):
and ended up getting suspended for the same amount of
time as as this kid did. Even though this kid
had a huge track record of causing problems, she ended
up getting suspended for fighting back. She's just trying to
defend herself. And you know, but they have that, they
had to have this one size fits all policy, and
most schools that they've lost the ability to sit down,

(11:04):
hear both sides of the story and render a logical
decision that no longer exists in most of our public schools.
It's a problem so you know, I can understand why
there's frustration and how the bloom could be off the
rows after just three years of being a teacher. So
I decided, let me not go back. I'm gonna take
a listen. She's got a video that's gone viral. The's

(11:24):
like over a million people who have watched it. So
you're gonna hear a little bit of that clip. And
then she did an interview on Fox. You hear more
of the reasons of why she decided to quit teaching,
and it had it had everything to do with the students.

Speaker 14 (11:39):
A lot of these kids don't know how to read
because they have had things read to them, or they
can click a button and have something read out.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
Loud to them.

Speaker 14 (11:46):
I just don't think these kids even cared. They don't
They don't care about making a difference in the world.
They don't care about how to have a resume. They
don't care how I mean, how to write a resume.
They don't care how to write.

Speaker 15 (11:56):
A cover letter because chashis do it for them. And
I think that we need to cut off technology from
these kids, probably until they go to college.

Speaker 12 (12:08):
So I taught for three years, as I said in
my video, I wasn't always a teacher. I actually started
my career in digital marketing. So I've been in the
digital world for about five years now, or since I've graduated,
and throughout the three years, I've taught digital arts classes
and I've taught an English class and I would say

(12:30):
that in all of my teaching experience, technology has posed
quite a challenge, and with AI becoming so accessible to
children nowadays, especially teaching in an English or Core four classroom,
it's been especially challenging kind of to have the kids
comprehend and critical think and think for themselves on certain things.

(12:54):
So on my way out, I wanted to kind of
raise awareness and just let people know how how AI
and technology is affecting their children these days. Well a
lot of students, and I do want to be clear,
I taught a lot of very motivated and bright children,
and so I don't want this to come off as
if this is all the kids fault, but I do

(13:15):
know that a lot of times in my English classroom,
I would ask them to write down a short response
or just five sentences to answer a question, and a
lot of times it would be about two and a
half sentences and they would say well, I can't think
of anything else to say, or well, why do I
have to answer and complete sentences like you get the
point from what I'm saying and just this little sentence.

(13:36):
And then a lot of times I would assign essays,
long form essays, and I know how children write, especially
when they handwrite me things in the beginning of the
school year. And so when a student, how I know
how they write, typically would give me a very eloquently
and thorrow essay on a topic that I know that
normally wouldn't come from them, I would ask them, was

(13:59):
this really you? I'd run it through an AI generator,
and of course it would say one hundred percent CHAT
or AI, and I would seek to the student and
they would more so question of well, if I have
to redo this, how much is it really going to
affect my grade?

Speaker 2 (14:12):
Can I just think zero?

Speaker 8 (14:14):
Trying to take the easy way out.

Speaker 4 (14:16):
Yeah, kids are lazy, even lazier than they ever happened,
and technology is at least partly the blame for the laziness.
Don't you think what did we think was going to
happen with chat, GBT and artificial intelligence? What did we
think was going to happen? It's already incredibly easy. I mean,

(14:38):
think about when you know, some of us who are
really old school, think about when we were kids in
school and we had to write an essay or we
had to write a paper on some historical event. For example,
you'd have to go to the library, right and you'd
have to take out some books on the subject, and
you'd have to read the books and then you'd have

(14:58):
to you know, pair phrase that information and you'd have
to put down, you know, a glossary of where the
information came from, and teachers knew if it was plagiarized,
because same thing they know, they knew you're writing. They
knew how you would normally write a paper. And if
all of a sudden you go for being a dumb

(15:19):
ass to writing a you know, a paper that makes
it sound like you got a PhD in this subject,
then they know that they know they knew you're cheated. Well,
you know, teachers can still figure out that you're using chat,
GBT or you know, artificial intelligence, because you know, again,
it makes a dumb ass sound smart all of a sudden,

(15:40):
all of a sudden, you know it's it's writing an
entirely different, different method. I mean, kids have always tried
to find the easy way out. I mean, think when
you were sixteen, I mean, did you like writing essays?
Did you like turning in papers? Did you like doing homework?

Speaker 14 (15:58):
You know.

Speaker 4 (15:58):
The difference now is is that they have all this
technology to help them. At least, when we had to
look all this stuff up ourselves, we actually learned something
from the experience. Some of that actually stayed in our brains.
Young people. Now, I mean it's it's it's a great
time to be a lazy student. You can get great
grades and be a lazy student because you've got all

(16:20):
this technology to do it for you now. But the genie, Yeah,
I don't know how you fix it at this point.
You know, I don't think there's any parents out there
that either know that their kids are that into artificial
intelligence and you know, and and what I would call
cheating in order to do their papers in their homework,

(16:40):
or how many of them even care about that? You know,
I don't know that. You know, how would you say
the level of parental involvement is today versus what it
was like ten years ago, twenty years ago, thirty years ago.
Our parents as involved now as they were when we
were kids. Probably not. Probably not. Some of them don't
even bother by the way to read the report card.

(17:02):
You know, my wife works at a public school and
she always hears every year from parents who are calling
for an emergency meeting when they're like three weeks away
from graduation, calling for an emergency meeting because they just
figured out that their kid doesn't have the grades to graduate.
What do you mean he's not going to graduate, to
which my response would be, what do you mean you

(17:24):
didn't know he's not going to graduate? How's that possible?
How's that possible that you don't know how your child
is doing in school, what kind of grades they get.
You don't know that he's three weeks before the end
of the school year, and now you want to get involved.
So I can see why a lot of people, including
that young women, are frustrated. But maybe again, she didn't

(17:46):
start off as a teacher. Maybe she just thought it
would be a good idea, and then the reality of
being a teacher kind of hit her. You hang on
and getting paid? What to do?

Speaker 10 (17:54):
What?

Speaker 4 (17:55):
Yeah, maybe this wasn't such a great idea. All right,
quick will break back with more in a moment. Jimmy show.
You're an eight and nine fifty KPRC. All right, I've

(18:20):
done a couple of things to talk about on our
final segment today. I'm gonna start with this one, though,
and I'll warn you this might be just a little
bit hard to hear. This was recorded on Air Force One.
Sean Hannity went on this this trip to the Middle
East with President Trump. He got to hitch a ride
and do interviews along the way, so you might end

(18:41):
up you might have to deal with a little plain
noise here. I think there's a little bit of plain
noise in this segment. But the President got talking about
budgets and taxes and and what else he wants to
see as far as tax reductions go. So let's take
a listen to that.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
Interest deduction when Carson there.

Speaker 5 (19:00):
So it's no tax on tips, no tax on Social
Security benefits for seniors, which is so great, think of it,
and no tax on overtime.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
But there's a fourth leg that I think is.

Speaker 5 (19:11):
Really important of that where middle income people, but any people.
If you buy a car made in America only, I'm
not interested.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
If it's made anywhere else, I couldn't care less.

Speaker 5 (19:21):
But if it's made in America, you get and you
borrow money to buy the car, which I guess eighty
percent of the people do.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
You get a tax deduction on your interest. Famous that's
a big deal. That's never happened before, a big deal
for people that are buying cars.

Speaker 5 (19:37):
But that's a huge that's a huge game changer for
the car industry.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
Too huge. I think.

Speaker 16 (19:44):
One part that you can't control, although maybe you really
can because you have such influence with the Republican Party
is the one big, beautiful bill to put out a
big statement on that today and how confident are you
haven't spent time with majority leaders to Speaker of the
House Johnson.

Speaker 5 (20:02):
First of all, Johnson and Thune have been unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
They've done a great job.

Speaker 5 (20:07):
Their soul is into this, their whole heart and soul,
and they're working so hard. And it's always tough when
you have a very small you know, we have a majority,
but it's by in the Senate three votes and in
the Republican in the in Congress it's seven.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
Now it was one for a period of time.

Speaker 5 (20:25):
We won some elections in the meantime, but it was
actually one.

Speaker 4 (20:28):
So now it's seven. So he's still working on no
interest on a car loan. If I'm sorry, you could
deduct the interest on your car loan if you bought
an American assembled vehicle. No tax on tips, no tax
in overtime, no tax on senior Social Security. You know

(20:53):
how many of those things make it through? Do you think,
do we get the big beautiful bill and do we
get all or do we not get all that? And
are we going to you know, how much more are
we going to have to save in the federal budget
to pay for all that? That's the other part of this. Now.
You know, we're making a lot more income from tariffs

(21:15):
sat an all time record for the month of April
as far as how much money is coming in from tariff.
So you've got part of that offset some of this
stuff they're making Medicare Medicaid cuts. No, not not in
benefits for legitimate Medicare Medicaid recipients, but again weeding out
the fraud and the corruption and the people should are
receiving benefits that should not be receiving benefits. That makes

(21:37):
a big, big difference. So you've got all these things
going on. You also have the Office of Management and
Budget weighing in russ Voyd weighing in on the whole
idea that the Democrats are floating right now that that
DOGE is a scam, that somehow Elon Musk is enriching
himself through the DOGE cuts, that really that that's that's

(22:02):
what they're trying to claim. So here is russ Voyd
trying to set the record straight on what actually is
going on with the DOGE cuts.

Speaker 17 (22:10):
I find them to be totally outrageous, and I think
the American people know it's untrue. DOJ has been a
paradigm shift in Washington, DC, and this is one of
the most exciting times to be in DC in this
administration and be fighting on behalf of task players to
find waste abuse areas where the government is weaponized against
the American people. We've put forward a budget that accounts

(22:31):
for one hundred and sixty billion dollars of non defense
cuts while still providing for critical areas of government that
we think are important, and yet will allow us to
have the lowest non defense level that we've seen since
twenty seventeen, getting back to pre COVID level. So it's
an exciting time and Dog has been a partner throughout look,
a lot of editorial writers and news reports that I

(22:52):
think have been over their skis with regard to me
being named for DOGE. I'm doing two jobs. That's what
I've been given the responsibility to do. One is omb
it's an opportunity to do it for the second time,
and one.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
Is the head of the CFPB.

Speaker 17 (23:06):
But we intend to take the Doughe agenda and the
cuts and the momentum and the initiative and turn those
into permanent savings. That's what we believe is our responsibility.
We're in the midst of the approporations process. We got
that budget moving forward, and we're in the midst of
reconciliation to have significant over one point five trillion dollars

(23:29):
in reforms to the welfare safety net to make sure
that people are not improperly benefiting from these programs who
are ineligible I either also illegal aliens one point four
million just from the Medicaid program alone, and instituting work
requirements and medicaid in a fundamental way. These are paradigm
shifts that we are now doing because of the work

(23:51):
that's been done across the administration to put us in
this moment.

Speaker 4 (23:54):
Okay, well, said sir, all right, and what more story
for you here? We haven't really talked about laugh We
haven't because we don't normally talk about sports things on
the show. But there's kind of a Trump factor maybe
involved in this. President Trump had met with Major League
Baseball commissioner and all of a sudden, the band on

(24:19):
Pete Rose and shoeless Joe Jackson gets lifted. I mean,
it makes sense to lift it, after all, it was
a lifetime ban and the band's dead. Right, you can't.
You can't have a lifetime ban on somebody who's dead.
They're dead. Here's great Gutfeld and Tyrs talking about it.

Speaker 18 (24:37):
Major League Baseball reinstates Pete Rose after a lifetime ban,
making him eligible for the Hall of Fame. Rose died
in September, but Trump met with MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred
man Fred a few.

Speaker 3 (24:49):
Weeks ago and they discussed it.

Speaker 18 (24:52):
This has been going on for years and Trump gets
into power and all of a sudden, boom.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
Is it the Trump effect? This is point pointless. It
was a lifetime ban. Blow he died, that's true.

Speaker 7 (25:07):
That's exactly right.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
So I fired like him. Yeah, it's like, oh great.

Speaker 7 (25:14):
I mean the only good thing is that knowing Pete,
he probably bet the under Yeah. But uh, but this
is I love baseball. I'm a diehard Red Sox fan.
I love I love baseball. It's an American pastime. But I
find it hilarious that they were holding Pete Rose and
Shoeless Joe to these high standards when we literally had
cheating in the world My own Red Sox cheated in

(25:36):
the World Series Houston. As those managers should be banned
for life. Those players that willingly knew that they were
getting pitch counts with drums, that they all should have
been banned for life. They besmirched the game. And you
want to hold a guy who bet on himself accountable,
but you let you let these other teams keep these
trophies and championships like it just it just seems funny that, oh, yeah,
you lifted a lifetime ban for what his family, what

(25:57):
shoeless Joe, what his great great great great great granddaughter.
It's like, yes, we're in. It's just it's a move point.
It was life sentences. You took it from him, you
can't give it back to him.

Speaker 4 (26:07):
Yeah, they also, by the way, have forgiven the Chicago
Black Sox, of which Shoelesstroe Jackson was a part of that.
But I mean there were like eight members of the
team that were banned as a result of that. They've
all been reinstated at this point. So I'm guessing that
you know that means at some point in time that
people are being kept out of the Hall of Fame

(26:27):
because of steroid abuse back in the eighties and nineties,
that they're going to have an opportunity. Yeah, maybe maybe.
I notic what he said though about the Astros. We
could I can have an entire discussion on that again,
but there's no need to do that. But it's interesting
to me that he thinks that those managers should be banned.
Aj Hinch was the manager of the Astros when that

(26:48):
whole thing happened, and he is now the manager of
the Detroit Tigers. I think if you were to ask
Detroit Tigers fans whether or not he should be banned
for life, I think they would vehemently disagree with you,
because he's got the Detroit Tigers to number one in
the AL Central and with about a three game lead
on everybody else. I mean, they're like twenty eight or
twenty nine and twelve after a great start. Doesn't mean

(27:10):
that the whole year will be like that, but they
seem to be a team that might compete for an
opportunity to go to the World Series. How about that? Hey, listen,
y'all have a great day. Thanks for listening. I'll see
you tomorrow morning Burton early five am over our news
radio seven forty k TRH. We are back here at
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