November 24, 2025 • 7 mins
Mike in Florida calls Mark to tell him a quick story about President Trump's character behind the scenes. Ray in Astoria, Queens, called Mark to tell him a story of how he worked in the construction industry, and he rebuilt a building in NYC!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the Mark Simone Show on sevent Well, let's take
some calls. Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten
is the number, and let's go to Stuart, South Carolina. Stuart,
how you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Mark?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
How you do? I just heard the Meli masaker mentioned
a couple times by Vincent on Friday. I just want
to set the record straight. It happened in nineteen sixty
eight Lieutenant Cally. Yeah, yeah, massacreing in Meli. Later on
he was exonerated for that, and nobody mentions that. And
I just want to add that he in I remember when
(00:37):
it happened Verber Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
But I said it was illegal. But it is illegal.
I'm massacre civilians, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah, yeah, you have to go through the case and
everything else. But like I said, he was eventually exonerated.
And the fact that these Democrats are telling the military
men and women they have no dog in this fact fight.
If soldiers end up saying I'm not going to obey
this law, you know, or this order because I think
that it's illegal, they're going to get tried under the
(01:05):
UMJ and probably put in prison in Levenworth. I mean,
what they're telling these people is unconscionable.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Well, but it was pretty smart of them. It was
a you know, this is a world of trolling people.
Now they were trolling Trump. He overreacted a little. I
mean he's still right. He's absolutely right. I mean they're
talking about sedition.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
But h and that's absolutely right, sedition. I live right
near Fort Gordon in Augusta, and there are a lot
of military people here on Vice President of Vietnam Veterans
of America, North Augusta.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
And people are outraged.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, absolutely outraged.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
All right, good call, Stuart, thanks for calling. Let's go
to Steve in Manhattan. Steve, how you doing.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Don't blame me.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I voted for Pap Buchanan. Now there's nobody under ninety
who knows who you're talking about. But okay, he was
a great guy, Pat Buchanan, he was a regular guest
on the show. I love the guy. But I think
he's been dead twenty years and he ran for president
like thirty forty years ago or something. Those of you
that don't know who that is. Let's go to Mike
and Florida. Mike, how you doing morning, Mark, Yes, Mike.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
I have a quick story that kind of illustrates how
the president is in person. I a number of years
ago worked on an infomercial and he was the guest,
and I had met him previously a couple of times,
but on another show. And so the producer comes down
and just the usual spiel that produces. Do don't look
at him, don't talk to him. Okay. So of course
(02:32):
I'm the stage manager. So I go to the back
of the dressing room and in the outer room there's
a big burly security guard and he stops me. And
the President Trump is in the other room tying his tie.
So the god does what you need. I go on
the stage, my Mike on the stage manager. I just
wanted to show mister Trump his walkout. And Trump stops
(02:53):
what he's doing. He looks, and he goes. He walks out,
and he goes to the security guard. You will listen
to this guy pointing to me. He knows what he's
talking about. I said, Hi, Hi, missus, nice to meet
you again.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I just want to show you. Yes. He puts his yes,
Mike puts his arm on my shoulder.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I walk him down the hallway.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
He loves me, and this illustrates who he is.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
He wasn't insincere, he wasn't blowing smoke.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
He's genuinely like that.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Oh yeah, no, No, he's when he goes into a
building or anywhere, he always like to say hello the
doorman first. If he comes into a radio station, he's
the only guest I've ever seen going into the control
room say hello to everybody in there. That's the way
he is.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
That's a very very gregarious guy. And he has love
in his heart, and he's not you know, if he
has to fight, he will. You look, he's fought the
toughest guys in New York, you know, lobsters and bad
landlords and unions and politicians.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
So you know, sometimes you have to you know, sometimes
you get more you know, flies with honey, but sometimes
you kick him in the butt.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
We can do both. Yeah, good call, Mike, Thanks for calling. Yet,
you know, if you talk, there's people that work in
the White House for like thirty years, forty years. They're
just staff. They're there through every president, and a bunch
of them have told me the only president who ever
comes into the kitchen to talk to them, you know,
the people who work in the kitchen, it's Trump. He'll
walk in every you know, every few days, says, how
(04:18):
you doing, what's going on? And here you guys need anything.
He'll walk around the grounds, talk to the gardeners everything,
how you're doing, you need anything? Got everything? You need everything?
And they've been there for decades. They've never seen another
president do that, does that all, you know? I always
noticed when he comes to the big donors throwing a
big fundraiser in the apartment on Park Avenue or Fifth Avenue.
(04:40):
Whenever the candidate walks in, the big, big candidate. I
don't want to measure your names, mint round me. But
whenever the big candidate walks in, it's always the same thing.
The wife will come over first, and he'll like swat
the wife out of the way. Get out of the way.
Where's the husband, where's the guy right in the check
I want to talk to him, and all he wants
to do is talk to the big donor. But I
always that's when Trump walks in. He always ignores these people.
(05:02):
He always wants to talk to the waiters first, the
bartender first, the woman checking the coach. He'll always talk
to her first. I'll make the donors weight. He's always
been that way. Let's go to David in Brooklyn. David,
how you doing?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
We lost him. Let's go to uh Ray in the
story Ray, how you doing?
Speaker 5 (05:22):
All right?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Mark's mom let me check, yes it is listen.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
I worked on the precinct in the on seventy sixty
seventh Street there you are. I reboot that whole precinct wall.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
You were in a copy.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
No, No, I did construction there.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Okay, because with your voice, it wouldn't work if you
went stop police. It doesn't sound right.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
I know, I got it. I got a crazy voice.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
No, you got a nice voice. Good voice, very peppy,
very lively sound.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
I'm eighty I'm eighty six years old.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Perfect right now, target demograph.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
I worked on the precinct there and we rebuilt it.
And that whole area across the street was the Russian
what do you call residency and they got cameras all
over that precinct, all over that area.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
All right. I don't know what the hell you're talking about,
but you sound happy about it. What do you mean
you built a PC?
Speaker 5 (06:29):
We did the the precinct there, the old precinct. We
rebuilt it where eighty or sixty sixty seventh Street.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Oh, the nineteenth Priesc.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Yeah, the nineteenth the firehouse.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I got to be honest that that did in that
nineteenth precinct kind of run down. Yeah, you built that.
It's not exactly an architectural digest that place.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
I know. It's an eighteen eighty sixth facades.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I know what you're talking like. It's the taiz Ma Hall.
It's not the best look.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
In the h The insight of it is good.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I've seen the inside. It's okay. I mean it's functional, but.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Oh yeah, yeah, I just want to let you know
about this.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
But you want a decorator. I wouldn't go around showing
that to anybody.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
There's also a spy room in that precinct which they
have cameras looking at the Russian consulate right across the street.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yeah, well they do. Yeah, all right, right, good call.
You sound like a great guy. Thanks for calling. Hey
when we come back. One of the great psychiatrists, and
he's actually a great life coach. Now, but doctor Keith Ablow,
best selling author. You've seen him all over television. He
has some real insight into Trump derangement syndrome. What is
it really all about? Well, this is fascinating. We'll get
(07:50):
to this next on seven to ten w R
It's the Mark Simone Show on sevent Well, let's take
some calls. Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten
is the number, and let's go to Stuart, South Carolina. Stuart,
how you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Mark?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
How you do? I just heard the Meli masaker mentioned
a couple times by Vincent on Friday. I just want
to set the record straight. It happened in nineteen sixty
eight Lieutenant Cally. Yeah, yeah, massacreing in Meli. Later on
he was exonerated for that, and nobody mentions that. And
I just want to add that he in I remember when
(00:37):
it happened Verber Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
But I said it was illegal. But it is illegal.
I'm massacre civilians, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah, yeah, you have to go through the case and
everything else. But like I said, he was eventually exonerated.
And the fact that these Democrats are telling the military
men and women they have no dog in this fact fight.
If soldiers end up saying I'm not going to obey
this law, you know, or this order because I think
that it's illegal, they're going to get tried under the
(01:05):
UMJ and probably put in prison in Levenworth. I mean,
what they're telling these people is unconscionable.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Well, but it was pretty smart of them. It was
a you know, this is a world of trolling people.
Now they were trolling Trump. He overreacted a little. I
mean he's still right. He's absolutely right. I mean they're
talking about sedition.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
But h and that's absolutely right, sedition. I live right
near Fort Gordon in Augusta, and there are a lot
of military people here on Vice President of Vietnam Veterans
of America, North Augusta.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
And people are outraged.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, absolutely outraged.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
All right, good call, Stuart, thanks for calling. Let's go
to Steve in Manhattan. Steve, how you doing.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Don't blame me.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I voted for Pap Buchanan. Now there's nobody under ninety
who knows who you're talking about. But okay, he was
a great guy, Pat Buchanan, he was a regular guest
on the show. I love the guy. But I think
he's been dead twenty years and he ran for president
like thirty forty years ago or something. Those of you
that don't know who that is. Let's go to Mike
and Florida. Mike, how you doing morning, Mark, Yes, Mike.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
I have a quick story that kind of illustrates how
the president is in person. I a number of years
ago worked on an infomercial and he was the guest,
and I had met him previously a couple of times,
but on another show. And so the producer comes down
and just the usual spiel that produces. Do don't look
at him, don't talk to him. Okay. So of course
(02:32):
I'm the stage manager. So I go to the back
of the dressing room and in the outer room there's
a big burly security guard and he stops me. And
the President Trump is in the other room tying his tie.
So the god does what you need. I go on
the stage, my Mike on the stage manager. I just
wanted to show mister Trump his walkout. And Trump stops
(02:53):
what he's doing. He looks, and he goes. He walks out,
and he goes to the security guard. You will listen
to this guy pointing to me. He knows what he's
talking about. I said, Hi, Hi, missus, nice to meet
you again.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I just want to show you. Yes. He puts his yes,
Mike puts his arm on my shoulder.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I walk him down the hallway.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
He loves me, and this illustrates who he is.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
He wasn't insincere, he wasn't blowing smoke.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
He's genuinely like that.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Oh yeah, no, No, he's when he goes into a
building or anywhere, he always like to say hello the
doorman first. If he comes into a radio station, he's
the only guest I've ever seen going into the control
room say hello to everybody in there. That's the way
he is.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
That's a very very gregarious guy. And he has love
in his heart, and he's not you know, if he
has to fight, he will. You look, he's fought the
toughest guys in New York, you know, lobsters and bad
landlords and unions and politicians.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
So you know, sometimes you have to you know, sometimes
you get more you know, flies with honey, but sometimes
you kick him in the butt.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
We can do both. Yeah, good call, Mike, Thanks for calling. Yet,
you know, if you talk, there's people that work in
the White House for like thirty years, forty years. They're
just staff. They're there through every president, and a bunch
of them have told me the only president who ever
comes into the kitchen to talk to them, you know,
the people who work in the kitchen, it's Trump. He'll
walk in every you know, every few days, says, how
(04:18):
you doing, what's going on? And here you guys need anything.
He'll walk around the grounds, talk to the gardeners everything,
how you're doing, you need anything? Got everything? You need everything?
And they've been there for decades. They've never seen another
president do that, does that all, you know? I always
noticed when he comes to the big donors throwing a
big fundraiser in the apartment on Park Avenue or Fifth Avenue.
(04:40):
Whenever the candidate walks in, the big, big candidate. I
don't want to measure your names, mint round me. But
whenever the big candidate walks in, it's always the same thing.
The wife will come over first, and he'll like swat
the wife out of the way. Get out of the way.
Where's the husband, where's the guy right in the check
I want to talk to him, and all he wants
to do is talk to the big donor. But I
always that's when Trump walks in. He always ignores these people.
(05:02):
He always wants to talk to the waiters first, the
bartender first, the woman checking the coach. He'll always talk
to her first. I'll make the donors weight. He's always
been that way. Let's go to David in Brooklyn. David,
how you doing?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
We lost him. Let's go to uh Ray in the
story Ray, how you doing?
Speaker 5 (05:22):
All right?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Mark's mom let me check, yes it is listen.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
I worked on the precinct in the on seventy sixty
seventh Street there you are. I reboot that whole precinct wall.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
You were in a copy.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
No, No, I did construction there.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Okay, because with your voice, it wouldn't work if you
went stop police. It doesn't sound right.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
I know, I got it. I got a crazy voice.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
No, you got a nice voice. Good voice, very peppy,
very lively sound.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
I'm eighty I'm eighty six years old.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Perfect right now, target demograph.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
I worked on the precinct there and we rebuilt it.
And that whole area across the street was the Russian
what do you call residency and they got cameras all
over that precinct, all over that area.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
All right. I don't know what the hell you're talking about,
but you sound happy about it. What do you mean
you built a PC?
Speaker 5 (06:29):
We did the the precinct there, the old precinct. We
rebuilt it where eighty or sixty sixty seventh Street.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Oh, the nineteenth Priesc.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Yeah, the nineteenth the firehouse.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I got to be honest that that did in that
nineteenth precinct kind of run down. Yeah, you built that.
It's not exactly an architectural digest that place.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
I know. It's an eighteen eighty sixth facades.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I know what you're talking like. It's the taiz Ma Hall.
It's not the best look.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
In the h The insight of it is good.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I've seen the inside. It's okay. I mean it's functional, but.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Oh yeah, yeah, I just want to let you know
about this.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
But you want a decorator. I wouldn't go around showing
that to anybody.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
There's also a spy room in that precinct which they
have cameras looking at the Russian consulate right across the street.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yeah, well they do. Yeah, all right, right, good call.
You sound like a great guy. Thanks for calling. Hey
when we come back. One of the great psychiatrists, and
he's actually a great life coach. Now, but doctor Keith Ablow,
best selling author. You've seen him all over television. He
has some real insight into Trump derangement syndrome. What is
it really all about? Well, this is fascinating. We'll get
(07:50):
to this next on seven to ten w R
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