December 11, 2025 • 16 mins
President Trump has announced that the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. This action has sparked concern among Democrats, who are raising alarms about security risks with other countries and the potential impact on the global oil supply. Additionally, Trump is reportedly considering action against Colombia due to concerns about drug trafficking and the possibility of narcotics entering the United States.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is seven to tenor boy, the Mark Simoon Show starts.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Now. Oh well, hey, I got a lot to get
to today. We'll get to the tanker. We'll get to Tucker,
We'll get to Mom, Donnie, We'll get to Luigi. We
got a lot of stuff to talk about today. So
that you might have seen on the news that the
United States of America seized a Venezuelan oil tanker. It
(00:27):
looked pretty impressive, the military operation with the planes and
fighter jets and helicopters and our military repelling down onto
the deck, seizing this massive oil tanker with thousands and
thousands of gallons of oil on if it was about
seventy million worth of oil. It was a Venezuelan ship.
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The whole thing was illegal because it was violating our sanctions.
And of course you had all the fake news all
up in arms. Here's that old weather beaten, old hag Martha.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Rattott sources telling ABC News it was headed for Cuba,
capable of carrying up to two million barrels of oil.
Today's seizure marking the first time the US has overtly
interfered with oil exports, Venezuela's main source of revenue.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Until now, the US.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Has been targeting boats they say are carrying drugs, striking
at least twenty two boats and killing nearly ninety people,
including two survivors.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Now this old Martha rat, it's this old hag looks
like Granny on a Beverly hillbillize, you know, not quite
the mother on Golden Girls. But she's getting there. But
you notice her language overtly interfered with Venezuela. If if
you were watching this, you must think this is the
(01:46):
most awful thing. Why would we overtly interfere with a nice, little, peaceful,
little oil shipman. Why would we see? Well, she forgot
to explain that the ship was in total violation of
US sanctions. Now, let me just explain. When it comes
to sanctions, they're never enforced. You know, we have sanctions
at times where you're not allowed to buy Russian oil,
(02:08):
you're not allowed to buy Iranian oil, or you're not
allowed to ship oil to this country or to that country.
These are sanctions now, they've just never enforced. Biden was
the king of this. You know, remember Russia did they
invaded Ukraine or at one point when Russia did something awful,
Biden big press conference. He said, I am placing six
(02:30):
hundred and fifty sanctions on Russia, and the fake news
applauded and said, wow, look at him, stand up to Russia. Well,
they never told the audience that there was already twenty
seven hundred sanctions on Russia that weren't being enforced, and
these six hundred weren't going to be enforced, and they're
never enforced. It's the silliest thing in the world. Can
(02:53):
you imagine if cops when they pull you over for
a speeding ticket, never forced them, if you throw it
away and you didn't go to court, nothing, whatever, you'd
never enforced them. Well, nobody would stop speeding. So President
Trump decided, let's actually enforce one of these sanctions. Let's
actually do what we're supposed to do and enforce one.
(03:16):
So they seized the ship, took the oil. She said,
a couple of million barrels. It's seventy million worth of oil.
And reporters, of course went nuts asking them about it.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
We've just seized a tanker on the coast of venezuela
large tanker, very large, largest one ever sees. Extra and
other things are happening.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah, okay, they cut the clip here. But the reporter said, well,
what are you gonna do with the oil? And he said,
I don't know. I guess we keep it. You know,
he hadn't thought about that's just simply enforcing the sanction.
And then when he said I guess we keep it,
of course fake news went nuts, how they can't keep
their oil. Well, what would you do with it? It's
(04:06):
a sanction you're supposed to enforce. You're supposed to seize it.
That's okay, despite what the fake news tells you. Now
that you've seized it, what do you do with the oil?
If you don't keep it? What do you do with it?
Do you give it back to somebody? You send it
back to? That wouldn't make any sense. So what do
you do with the oil? You could put it up
(04:27):
on eBay and sell it. You could go sell it somewhere.
You keep it, I guess. Now. The price of oil
went up a little yesterday the seizing of a tanker,
but not much it was it went only went up
one percent. And what this means is if he continues
to do this kind of stuff, the countries may actually
(04:49):
start obeying the sanctions. They may stop violating sanctions. Can
you imagine such a thing? What's next? And he un
hinted there's other things coming now. You know, he's got
talking about going into Venezuela, knocking out all their drug facilities,
stopping all that. You know, if he stops all their
oil shipments, they're just going to go broke. They got
a billion dollars in reserve, but at some point they'll
(05:11):
go broke. But he was also hinting it going after
Columbia next.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Columbia's producing a lot of drugs. They have cocaine factories
that they make cocaine, as you know, and they sell
it right into the say so he better wise up
or he'll be next.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Now, I don't know what this could do to people.
You know, if you go after all the fentanyl, if
you go after all the cocaine, at some point there
could be a tremendous shortage of drugs. I don't know.
I mean, you know, it can have all these drug
agents running around try to arrest all the drug dealers,
but that we've been doing that for a thousand years,
it never seems to get that much done. If you
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actually made the supply of drugs dry up, that could
be interesting. First of all, it would drive the price
way up, so it's interesting. But now, of course you're
going to see Chuck Schumer with his glasses all falls
ugged up, yelling and screaming about how dare you seize
an oil tanker. You're going to see all the craziest senators,
(06:08):
you know, the blooming dolls and the Chris Murphy's yelling
and screaming and huffing and puffing about it. But it's
a great thing. It's a great thing. You see all
these experts explaining this stuff.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserve in the world,
so it's fourteen trillion dollars worth of oil and it's
a primary means of the regime funding.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, so you're stopping the primary funding of that awful regime.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
It is a significant escalation, but this might be the
start of a campaign. With all that naval power, the
US can certainly stop oil tankers from leaving Venezuela, which
could completely cut off their ability to sell their own
Krugle world.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, now that's the other thing. You might not have
to fire too many shots after after a while. I
would think if you're a narco terrorist in one of
those speedboats. You might not really want to go on
one of those missions and go, you know, through the
water anymore. And if you're one of these tankers, if
it's going to get seized, you may not want to
send one of these tankers out. So it all might
(07:07):
just stop. So we'll see what happens. Schumer, of course,
yelling and screaming about everybody and everything. They're still on
Pete Hexath hexit arrangement syndrome continues. They want him gone.
He's not going anywhere. Hey. By the way, watch the
video of this mission, the seizing of the tanker. Real
impressive precision military mission. You got to remember under Hexath,
(07:31):
the military has pulled off some pretty amazing missions, the
bombing of the Iran nuclear facilities, the seizing of this tanker.
It's pretty good. Doesn't impress Chuck Schumer though, plan to
demand Secretary Hegseth.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Give the total unedited videos of what happened in the
September second boat strikes. I will demand of Rubio and
Hegseth what the hell is going on in the Caribbean,
and then his way up.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
What are their plans? Good for Schumer? This is what
he does best. Talk mix speeches, yell and scream. He
never actually does anything. You remember all those fake Sunday
press conferences with all those issues he was fighting for.
Soon as the press conference is over, he'd throw the
index cards in a waste basket and forget about it.
Same thing here he's demanding. He better nowhere else, or
(08:23):
that's all he does. He just talks and then leaves.
He wants the videos every second, unedited videos must be released.
They hate that he got these big new glasses just
to watch these videos. But you'll never he'll yell and
scream about it. Now, what democrats generally do is they
start this stuff, they go crazy, it becomes a major issue.
(08:43):
Then they keep focus grouping it, and then after about
a week or two they say, huh, it's not registering,
it's not working on people. Then they throw it right
in the waste basket. Find something else. They don't really
care about any of this stuff. Affordability that seems to
be working, that has registered, even though there's not that
much of an affordabil crisis. There was a terrible affordability
crisis under Joe Biden, where of inflation went nuts the
(09:07):
highest level in fifty years, and for the middle class
the highest level ever. It was horrible under Biden. Trump
has brought it down almost in half. It's going to
take another six months to bring it down the other half.
But so it's Biden's affordability crisis. They never mentioned that part.
But even on CNBC, which is the most left wing slanted,
(09:28):
even on CNBC yesterday, Jay Clayton, who's the US attorney,
he's the former SEC chairman, very knowledgeable guy financially on
the economy. All that's very not brilliant guy, very good guy,
Jay Clayton, he was the guest. But even the CNBC
panel had to admit that this affordability crisis was all
(09:50):
the fault of Joe Biden.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
The affordability issue is but from the twenty two percent increase.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
In prices in inflation under Biden, there's this full stop
right there.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
That's the affordability issue. And you ought to be able
to explain.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
That, right, That's right.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
And look, I think that with the economic team President
Trump and the economic team led by Scott Dessant, you
have people who very much understand this and it was
a they were thrown you know what, I would say,
the worst economy for the average American in my adult
lifetime in terms of the like you said, the incredible
(10:29):
increase in prices at the household.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Now, so this affordability thing seems to work. If you
just keep yelling at screaming this affordability crisis, people start
to believe it and hold it against Trump.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
They did this exact same play years ago against George HW.
Bush and it worked. George H. W. Bush Bush Senior
was running against this unknown young governor, Bill Clinton, and
they hadn't got the word affordability yet. That came out
of focus groups a few weeks ago. Focus groups found
the best word was affordability. But it was back in
(11:02):
ninety two Bush versus Clinton, and they kept talking about
the economic crisis. They made it look like they were
in the worst with the economy. It was having problems,
but it wasn't the worst economy. They made it sound
like it was, and it helped Bush Senior lose to Clinton.
And back then, the big newscast was the CBS Evening
News with Dan Rather, and every night you can go
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back and watch the videos of this all through the campaign.
Every night the CBS Evening News did the special feature
Economy in Crisis economy in crisis. They would open with
that and then rather had to do the actual news.
But before he did, he said, now coming up, we'll
get to our special feature, the economy in crisis or
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is a crisis in the economy? And every night they
would do this special feature, but the economy in crisis. Well,
on November fourth, the election came and Clinton won, and
that night they dropped the feature. There was no feature,
no economy and crisis, no crisis in the economy. They
never mentioned it again. As soon as Clinton won, they
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dropped the feature and never used it again. But it
helped kill Bush. So they've brought this play back. And
sure enough, if they keep yelling and screaming about affordability, affordability, affordability,
everyone thinks is a crisis. Now the president has not
been on top of this. He needs, you know, they
keep saying, you got to do better messaging. But it's
(12:27):
it's tough, you know, if every time anybody turns around,
they see affordability crisis. So he's got to get back
out there in the campaign trail. He did the first
one this week in Pennsylvania. There'll be more of them coming,
and he's got to talk about affordability. I have no.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
Higher priority than making America affordable again. That's what we're
going to do. They gave you high prices, they gave
you the highest inflation in history, and we're giving you
we're bringing those prices down rapidly, lower prices, bigger paychecks.
You're getting lower prices, bigger X. We're getting inflation, we're
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crushing it, and you're getting much higher wages. I mean,
the only thing that you used. It's really going up big.
It's called the stock market and your four oh one k.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Yeah, yeah, stock market has been on fire all year now.
When the stock market goes crazy, goes way up. Well,
of course it helps the big hedge fund guys of
billionaires Goldman's as those kind of guy, of course it
helps them. But it helps every working man and woman
in America because they got a four oh one k
pension and the pension's invested in stock. So it's driving
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up your pension, driving up your four oh one k.
But of course the media will never mention this. The
president gets no credit for it. You know, the smartest
guy is Larry Cudler, the best economist, and if you
watch Cudlow every day, four o'clock Fox Business Network, especially
the first five or ten minutes, Larry Cudler will go
over the exact most important statistics on the economy, laying
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out how much better the economy is doing. He'll give
you a real data. It'll put it up on the
screen and it's fascinating. Then I'll right away go to
the top economists in the world, Art Laugher, all of
this stuff, and if you watch that, you'll understand exactly
how good things are. The economy was bad under Biden,
but it's getting better every week, and you'll give you
(14:17):
the exact figures and data. Well, not everybody watches Cutlow
every day. You know, most people are watching Sherry Shepherd,
they're watching the prices right, They're watching entertainment. You know,
they're not watching that. So you gotta remember, for a
lot of people, they don't follow this stuff. They don't
listen to talk radio, they don't follow this closely. They
(14:38):
watch you man, we'll just check the evening news at
six point thirty. We'll watch that for ten minutes. That's
their news summary. So if you get these fake news
idiots like this Martha Raddatz.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Sources telling ABC News it was headed for Cuba capable
of carrying up to two million barrels of oil. Today's
seizure marking the first time the US has overtly inter
with the election.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
That's all you think. What they overtly interfered with a
country trying to ship some oil. She never mentions. It
was in total violation of US sanctions. It was an
illegal ship and illegalship. She never mentioned it. So if
you're just watching the ABC and evening news, what are
you supposed to think you're supposed to I think, slowly,
but truly, one by one, people are starting to realize
(15:23):
you can't trust these people. President Trump saying the New
York Times should cease publication. Well, I gonna cease publication.
New York Times actually doing pretty well. You can make
a lot of money with this fake news. In fact, subscriptions.
You gotta remember with the newspaper, the print edition means
nothing anymore. It's just a money loser. The New York
(15:44):
Times print edition probably has one hundred thousand people, but
it's online where people read the newspaper and you subscribe
online subscriptions. New York Times just hit twelve million. It's
pretty impressive. Twelve million, online subscription. So you can make
a lot of money doing this fake news. But there
should be some Federal Trade Commission something stepping in on labeling.
(16:08):
You know, if you falsely label a product, they can
step right in there and stop you. You know, if
you say this product can definitely cure that you well
they can. They can make you change that label and
you'll have to put in there that doesn't actually cure
it, it could reduce symptoms. You know. So when the New
York TIMPs calls it a newspaper, or that they're printing
news or here's the news section, Federal Trade Commission can
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step in there and say, you're not labeling this correctly.
This is a political agenda. You're pushing a narrative. You're
not really reporting the news as is. Anyway, we've got
a lot to get to speaking of the great economists.
We'll have one in just a few minutes, so we
can get the actual facts on how the economy is doing.
We've got a lot coming up. We'll take some calls next.
Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.
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Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten,
This is seven to tenor boy, the Mark Simoon Show starts.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Now. Oh well, hey, I got a lot to get
to today. We'll get to the tanker. We'll get to Tucker,
We'll get to Mom, Donnie, We'll get to Luigi. We
got a lot of stuff to talk about today. So
that you might have seen on the news that the
United States of America seized a Venezuelan oil tanker. It
(00:27):
looked pretty impressive, the military operation with the planes and
fighter jets and helicopters and our military repelling down onto
the deck, seizing this massive oil tanker with thousands and
thousands of gallons of oil on if it was about
seventy million worth of oil. It was a Venezuelan ship.
(00:49):
The whole thing was illegal because it was violating our sanctions.
And of course you had all the fake news all
up in arms. Here's that old weather beaten, old hag Martha.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Rattott sources telling ABC News it was headed for Cuba,
capable of carrying up to two million barrels of oil.
Today's seizure marking the first time the US has overtly
interfered with oil exports, Venezuela's main source of revenue.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Until now, the US.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Has been targeting boats they say are carrying drugs, striking
at least twenty two boats and killing nearly ninety people,
including two survivors.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Now this old Martha rat, it's this old hag looks
like Granny on a Beverly hillbillize, you know, not quite
the mother on Golden Girls. But she's getting there. But
you notice her language overtly interfered with Venezuela. If if
you were watching this, you must think this is the
(01:46):
most awful thing. Why would we overtly interfere with a nice, little, peaceful,
little oil shipman. Why would we see? Well, she forgot
to explain that the ship was in total violation of
US sanctions. Now, let me just explain. When it comes
to sanctions, they're never enforced. You know, we have sanctions
at times where you're not allowed to buy Russian oil,
(02:08):
you're not allowed to buy Iranian oil, or you're not
allowed to ship oil to this country or to that country.
These are sanctions now, they've just never enforced. Biden was
the king of this. You know, remember Russia did they
invaded Ukraine or at one point when Russia did something awful,
Biden big press conference. He said, I am placing six
(02:30):
hundred and fifty sanctions on Russia, and the fake news
applauded and said, wow, look at him, stand up to Russia. Well,
they never told the audience that there was already twenty
seven hundred sanctions on Russia that weren't being enforced, and
these six hundred weren't going to be enforced, and they're
never enforced. It's the silliest thing in the world. Can
(02:53):
you imagine if cops when they pull you over for
a speeding ticket, never forced them, if you throw it
away and you didn't go to court, nothing, whatever, you'd
never enforced them. Well, nobody would stop speeding. So President
Trump decided, let's actually enforce one of these sanctions. Let's
actually do what we're supposed to do and enforce one.
(03:16):
So they seized the ship, took the oil. She said,
a couple of million barrels. It's seventy million worth of oil.
And reporters, of course went nuts asking them about it.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
We've just seized a tanker on the coast of venezuela
large tanker, very large, largest one ever sees. Extra and
other things are happening.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah, okay, they cut the clip here. But the reporter said, well,
what are you gonna do with the oil? And he said,
I don't know. I guess we keep it. You know,
he hadn't thought about that's just simply enforcing the sanction.
And then when he said I guess we keep it,
of course fake news went nuts, how they can't keep
their oil. Well, what would you do with it? It's
(04:06):
a sanction you're supposed to enforce. You're supposed to seize it.
That's okay, despite what the fake news tells you. Now
that you've seized it, what do you do with the oil?
If you don't keep it? What do you do with it?
Do you give it back to somebody? You send it
back to? That wouldn't make any sense. So what do
you do with the oil? You could put it up
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on eBay and sell it. You could go sell it somewhere.
You keep it, I guess. Now. The price of oil
went up a little yesterday the seizing of a tanker,
but not much it was it went only went up
one percent. And what this means is if he continues
to do this kind of stuff, the countries may actually
(04:49):
start obeying the sanctions. They may stop violating sanctions. Can
you imagine such a thing? What's next? And he un
hinted there's other things coming now. You know, he's got
talking about going into Venezuela, knocking out all their drug facilities,
stopping all that. You know, if he stops all their
oil shipments, they're just going to go broke. They got
a billion dollars in reserve, but at some point they'll
(05:11):
go broke. But he was also hinting it going after
Columbia next.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Columbia's producing a lot of drugs. They have cocaine factories
that they make cocaine, as you know, and they sell
it right into the say so he better wise up
or he'll be next.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Now, I don't know what this could do to people.
You know, if you go after all the fentanyl, if
you go after all the cocaine, at some point there
could be a tremendous shortage of drugs. I don't know.
I mean, you know, it can have all these drug
agents running around try to arrest all the drug dealers,
but that we've been doing that for a thousand years,
it never seems to get that much done. If you
(05:48):
actually made the supply of drugs dry up, that could
be interesting. First of all, it would drive the price
way up, so it's interesting. But now, of course you're
going to see Chuck Schumer with his glasses all falls
ugged up, yelling and screaming about how dare you seize
an oil tanker. You're going to see all the craziest senators,
(06:08):
you know, the blooming dolls and the Chris Murphy's yelling
and screaming and huffing and puffing about it. But it's
a great thing. It's a great thing. You see all
these experts explaining this stuff.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserve in the world,
so it's fourteen trillion dollars worth of oil and it's
a primary means of the regime funding.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, so you're stopping the primary funding of that awful regime.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
It is a significant escalation, but this might be the
start of a campaign. With all that naval power, the
US can certainly stop oil tankers from leaving Venezuela, which
could completely cut off their ability to sell their own
Krugle world.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, now that's the other thing. You might not have
to fire too many shots after after a while. I
would think if you're a narco terrorist in one of
those speedboats. You might not really want to go on
one of those missions and go, you know, through the
water anymore. And if you're one of these tankers, if
it's going to get seized, you may not want to
send one of these tankers out. So it all might
(07:07):
just stop. So we'll see what happens. Schumer, of course,
yelling and screaming about everybody and everything. They're still on
Pete Hexath hexit arrangement syndrome continues. They want him gone.
He's not going anywhere. Hey. By the way, watch the
video of this mission, the seizing of the tanker. Real
impressive precision military mission. You got to remember under Hexath,
(07:31):
the military has pulled off some pretty amazing missions, the
bombing of the Iran nuclear facilities, the seizing of this tanker.
It's pretty good. Doesn't impress Chuck Schumer though, plan to
demand Secretary Hegseth.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Give the total unedited videos of what happened in the
September second boat strikes. I will demand of Rubio and
Hegseth what the hell is going on in the Caribbean,
and then his way up.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
What are their plans? Good for Schumer? This is what
he does best. Talk mix speeches, yell and scream. He
never actually does anything. You remember all those fake Sunday
press conferences with all those issues he was fighting for.
Soon as the press conference is over, he'd throw the
index cards in a waste basket and forget about it.
Same thing here he's demanding. He better nowhere else, or
(08:23):
that's all he does. He just talks and then leaves.
He wants the videos every second, unedited videos must be released.
They hate that he got these big new glasses just
to watch these videos. But you'll never he'll yell and
scream about it. Now, what democrats generally do is they
start this stuff, they go crazy, it becomes a major issue.
(08:43):
Then they keep focus grouping it, and then after about
a week or two they say, huh, it's not registering,
it's not working on people. Then they throw it right
in the waste basket. Find something else. They don't really
care about any of this stuff. Affordability that seems to
be working, that has registered, even though there's not that
much of an affordabil crisis. There was a terrible affordability
crisis under Joe Biden, where of inflation went nuts the
(09:07):
highest level in fifty years, and for the middle class
the highest level ever. It was horrible under Biden. Trump
has brought it down almost in half. It's going to
take another six months to bring it down the other half.
But so it's Biden's affordability crisis. They never mentioned that part.
But even on CNBC, which is the most left wing slanted,
(09:28):
even on CNBC yesterday, Jay Clayton, who's the US attorney,
he's the former SEC chairman, very knowledgeable guy financially on
the economy. All that's very not brilliant guy, very good guy,
Jay Clayton, he was the guest. But even the CNBC
panel had to admit that this affordability crisis was all
(09:50):
the fault of Joe Biden.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
The affordability issue is but from the twenty two percent increase.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
In prices in inflation under Biden, there's this full stop
right there.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
That's the affordability issue. And you ought to be able
to explain.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
That, right, That's right.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
And look, I think that with the economic team President
Trump and the economic team led by Scott Dessant, you
have people who very much understand this and it was
a they were thrown you know what, I would say,
the worst economy for the average American in my adult
lifetime in terms of the like you said, the incredible
(10:29):
increase in prices at the household.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Now, so this affordability thing seems to work. If you
just keep yelling at screaming this affordability crisis, people start
to believe it and hold it against Trump.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
They did this exact same play years ago against George HW.
Bush and it worked. George H. W. Bush Bush Senior
was running against this unknown young governor, Bill Clinton, and
they hadn't got the word affordability yet. That came out
of focus groups a few weeks ago. Focus groups found
the best word was affordability. But it was back in
(11:02):
ninety two Bush versus Clinton, and they kept talking about
the economic crisis. They made it look like they were
in the worst with the economy. It was having problems,
but it wasn't the worst economy. They made it sound
like it was, and it helped Bush Senior lose to Clinton.
And back then, the big newscast was the CBS Evening
News with Dan Rather, and every night you can go
(11:24):
back and watch the videos of this all through the campaign.
Every night the CBS Evening News did the special feature
Economy in Crisis economy in crisis. They would open with
that and then rather had to do the actual news.
But before he did, he said, now coming up, we'll
get to our special feature, the economy in crisis or
(11:45):
is a crisis in the economy? And every night they
would do this special feature, but the economy in crisis. Well,
on November fourth, the election came and Clinton won, and
that night they dropped the feature. There was no feature,
no economy and crisis, no crisis in the economy. They
never mentioned it again. As soon as Clinton won, they
(12:07):
dropped the feature and never used it again. But it
helped kill Bush. So they've brought this play back. And
sure enough, if they keep yelling and screaming about affordability, affordability, affordability,
everyone thinks is a crisis. Now the president has not
been on top of this. He needs, you know, they
keep saying, you got to do better messaging. But it's
(12:27):
it's tough, you know, if every time anybody turns around,
they see affordability crisis. So he's got to get back
out there in the campaign trail. He did the first
one this week in Pennsylvania. There'll be more of them coming,
and he's got to talk about affordability. I have no.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
Higher priority than making America affordable again. That's what we're
going to do. They gave you high prices, they gave
you the highest inflation in history, and we're giving you
we're bringing those prices down rapidly, lower prices, bigger paychecks.
You're getting lower prices, bigger X. We're getting inflation, we're
(13:02):
crushing it, and you're getting much higher wages. I mean,
the only thing that you used. It's really going up big.
It's called the stock market and your four oh one k.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Yeah, yeah, stock market has been on fire all year now.
When the stock market goes crazy, goes way up. Well,
of course it helps the big hedge fund guys of
billionaires Goldman's as those kind of guy, of course it
helps them. But it helps every working man and woman
in America because they got a four oh one k
pension and the pension's invested in stock. So it's driving
(13:34):
up your pension, driving up your four oh one k.
But of course the media will never mention this. The
president gets no credit for it. You know, the smartest
guy is Larry Cudler, the best economist, and if you
watch Cudlow every day, four o'clock Fox Business Network, especially
the first five or ten minutes, Larry Cudler will go
over the exact most important statistics on the economy, laying
(13:56):
out how much better the economy is doing. He'll give
you a real data. It'll put it up on the
screen and it's fascinating. Then I'll right away go to
the top economists in the world, Art Laugher, all of
this stuff, and if you watch that, you'll understand exactly
how good things are. The economy was bad under Biden,
but it's getting better every week, and you'll give you
(14:17):
the exact figures and data. Well, not everybody watches Cutlow
every day. You know, most people are watching Sherry Shepherd,
they're watching the prices right, They're watching entertainment. You know,
they're not watching that. So you gotta remember, for a
lot of people, they don't follow this stuff. They don't
listen to talk radio, they don't follow this closely. They
(14:38):
watch you man, we'll just check the evening news at
six point thirty. We'll watch that for ten minutes. That's
their news summary. So if you get these fake news
idiots like this Martha Raddatz.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Sources telling ABC News it was headed for Cuba capable
of carrying up to two million barrels of oil. Today's
seizure marking the first time the US has overtly inter
with the election.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
That's all you think. What they overtly interfered with a
country trying to ship some oil. She never mentions. It
was in total violation of US sanctions. It was an
illegal ship and illegalship. She never mentioned it. So if
you're just watching the ABC and evening news, what are
you supposed to think you're supposed to I think, slowly,
but truly, one by one, people are starting to realize
(15:23):
you can't trust these people. President Trump saying the New
York Times should cease publication. Well, I gonna cease publication.
New York Times actually doing pretty well. You can make
a lot of money with this fake news. In fact, subscriptions.
You gotta remember with the newspaper, the print edition means
nothing anymore. It's just a money loser. The New York
(15:44):
Times print edition probably has one hundred thousand people, but
it's online where people read the newspaper and you subscribe
online subscriptions. New York Times just hit twelve million. It's
pretty impressive. Twelve million, online subscription. So you can make
a lot of money doing this fake news. But there
should be some Federal Trade Commission something stepping in on labeling.
(16:08):
You know, if you falsely label a product, they can
step right in there and stop you. You know, if
you say this product can definitely cure that you well
they can. They can make you change that label and
you'll have to put in there that doesn't actually cure
it, it could reduce symptoms. You know. So when the New
York TIMPs calls it a newspaper, or that they're printing
news or here's the news section, Federal Trade Commission can
(16:33):
step in there and say, you're not labeling this correctly.
This is a political agenda. You're pushing a narrative. You're
not really reporting the news as is. Anyway, we've got
a lot to get to speaking of the great economists.
We'll have one in just a few minutes, so we
can get the actual facts on how the economy is doing.
We've got a lot coming up. We'll take some calls next.
Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.
(16:55):
Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten,
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