Trump's BLANKIN' Diplomacy

I promise you, when I first saw this post on Easter morning, I thought it was a fake Trump account!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I hope you had a wonderful Easter. As I mentioned
a moment ago in doing the forecast, beautiful day, just
a great day. Opened up the back door and had
the screen door closed, so I didn't have a bunch
of bugs flying in there, but I had the wind
and the breeze coming in there. And I got outside
a little bit yesterday, but really just enjoyed my family. Yesterday,

(00:25):
my daughter was home from college for the weekend. We
all went to Choich. I said, you guys want to
go to church. You want to go to Choich And
my kids just stare at me, kind of the way
Lucy is staring at me now. And we went to
Choich and we had a nice Easter brunch together and

(00:46):
just really had a great time spending time together, laughing
and goofing around and uh yeah. In the midst of
all of that, I thought I'd make a terrible mistake
and check in see what's going on in the news, like, oh,
President Trump posted something, Let's see what this is alliban. Actually,
the way I'd seen this was I went on Facebook.

(01:10):
That's what I did. I went on Facebook to wish
people a happy birthday, and one of the first things
I saw on there was someone I knew from college
that posted a screenshot of what was alleged what I
figured was alleged to have been President Trump on one
of his social media platforms, mouthing off to Iran, calling

(01:33):
him names, putting a bad, bad word in his post,
saying Praise Be to Allah. I'm like, what in the world.
And this person was like, look, this is crazy. This
guy is unhinged. And I just took a look at it,
and I took a look at the handle for the

(01:55):
truth social post and it said at real Donald Trump.
And I I know that he goes by and signs
Donald J. Trump. And my first thought was this is
clearly not actually the President of the United States. So
I just quickly, without double checking on it, posted on

(02:15):
there and said, this is a fake account, thinking he's
at real Donald J. Trump. But it turns out that's
how that's what he names the thing, but the handle
is in fact at real Donald Trump. I quickly learned, oh,

(02:36):
that's not a fake account, that's actually the President of
the United States who posted that.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
You just called the president fake news.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
I thought this was fake news, and I thought, you know,
if someone's gonna go with an unhinged rant on truth
social You could probably spice it up even more than this,
but no, it was really what he said. And I grappled,
I wrestled, I struggled with it. I'm still in the
midst of doing that. And I thought, well, what am

(03:09):
I going to say on the radio here in response
to what the President just posted in this angry as
the media saying profanity laced? It wasn't really late. It
was one word. There's another one I don't love to
say on the radio. But here's what the President said.
He said, And I'll don't worry. You don't have to

(03:30):
hide the kids. I'll change a word here. But in fact,
I'll change two words and you can kind of fill
in with your imagination. He said, And I quote, Tuesday
will be power plant Day and bridge Day, all wrapped
up and won in Iran. There will be nothing like it.
Open the blank and straight, you crazy bastages, or you'll

(03:52):
be living in hell. Just watch Praise be to Allah,
President Donald J. Trump. So my thought here this morning
is nothing he said. There changed what for me? Yesterday
was a beautiful Easter Sunday spent with my family. And

(04:13):
I know based on what I saw on social media
news response, and of course Congressman Don Bacon was reached
out to because I know he's a reliable Republican who's
not going to be impressed by the president's post. Apparently
a lot of people were greatly affected by all this.
I would argue that they really weren't. That they hate
the president anyway every single day. But that said, are

(04:38):
there some people who are inclined to support the president
who saw this and thought, what does he do? It's
Easter morning? What is he? What is this? Is this
the first time you're hearing of President Trump's truth social post?
Yesterday morning? Easter morning? Yeah, that's fantastic. I I can't

(05:00):
ever just spend a day where I'm not checking in
on the news. But like I said, I went on
Facebook and I thought it was fake, and so I
posted on there and said this is a fake account,
and then of course I got piled on.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Hey that's a good thing to get piled on, because
that means people are paying attention. Well, you got you've
got followers.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
No. No, This was a response to someone who, frankly
I barely know, someone I went to college with. I
like her, and she and I just said this is
a fake account. She posted a screenshot of this, and
I thought that the President didn't say this, and so
I said, this is a fake account. And then she's like, no,

(05:40):
it's not. It's been verified by and I was like whoa.
And the people are like nice. Try. I'm like, what
do you think I'm just making this up. I'm lying.
I thought it was fake. I thought there's no way.
The Commander in Chief on Easter morning posted this again,
this is what the President said. I'm changing words. Tuesday
day will be power plant Day and bridge Day, all

(06:03):
wrapped up in won in Iran. There'll be nothing like it.
Open the blank and straight, you crazy bastages, or you'll
be living in hell. Just watch Praise be to Allah.
President Donald J. Trump. I saw that and thought it
was fake. I saw the handle at real Donald Trump.
I was like, nah, he's at real Donald J. Trump.

(06:24):
This is fake. No, it's real. It's actually what he said.
So my first response, as I said a moment ago,
was it didn't really change how beautiful yesterday was being
with my family on Easter Sunday, but it certainly popped
into my thoughts quite a bit throughout the afternoon after

(06:44):
I'd seen.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
It, imagine it was.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
So here are some scattered thoughts I have. Number one,
it's a good thing Winston Churchill and General Patten didn't
have social media. He's cussed again. I can't. I mean,
it's a good thing. Your kids basketball coach doesn't live
stream what he says to your kid's fifth grade team
at halftime when they're down by six to a lesser team.

(07:09):
And okay, so language aside, Oh my gosh, you said
a bad word. Yeah. The President lets loose with some
blue language from time to time, which is pretty funny
because he's so red politically speaking. So a little bit
of blue language. Yeah, it's not great. So my thought is,

(07:29):
all right, the President just let Iran know what time
it is. But at the same time, he also let
everyone know what time it is. And I'm thinking, wouldn't
diplomacy be better done with a message like this directly
to whoever it is still has some arms and legs

(07:50):
and is in charge of Iran? Why is everyone in
on this? And by the way, saying you're going to
blow up all their power plants and bridges if they
don't open the Strait of Hormuz That is actually a
war crime. Unless you can prove that the enemy is

(08:11):
using power plants and bridges for strategic military involvement, you
can't just start blowing up the bridges and the power
plants and therefore put the people of Iran in that
kind of position. And then he doubled down on it.
I think it was ABC that got ahold of him
yesterday and said, are you really going to blow up

(08:33):
the power plants and the bridges? And he yeah, he
told ABC News later yesterday, quote, we're blowing up the
whole country unquote. Now, if it meets the ends of
ending this war, which is ultimately what the president wants.
He wants this ended. If if he gets it done

(08:53):
and he has to get their attention with some Randi
language on a truth social post, well then great. If
not what happens tomorrow night at seven o'clock Omaha time,
which is his deadline for getting this done, I'm just
glad he's not doing it tonight. We got basketball tonight.
We'll talk more about this and get your responses as well.

(09:15):
Scott atkfab dot com before tonight's basketball game. Here in
the eleven to ten KFAB Certified Transmission Sports Brief Scott
vorehe's in for Jim Rose. We had the end of
an era as Creighton lost in the Crown Tournament to
West Virginia on Saturday. Here's coach Greg McDermott.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
What's great about it is the people you did it with.
You know, I've you know, got a lot of assistants
that are now head coaches. And you know those guys
aren't successful head coaches if there weren't great assistant coaches.
So while people give me too much credit about the
coaching tree, they need to give them a little bit
more credit for their input and their effort when they

(09:53):
were on my staff, because they helped make it go
just like this year's staff did. And you know, coach Hust,
I do a terrific job. When the time comes, which
is now, I guess.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
They smile on his face. He said, you know when
the time comes, oh, I guess I'm done. And the
time is now for coach hust to step in for Creighton.
As I said, they lost in the Crown Tournament in
Vegas to West Virginia. West Virginia moved on to yesterday's
title game, beating Oklahoma eighty nine eighty two in overtime,
so the Mountaineers get paid. It's a different kind of

(10:25):
win that is on tap tonight as we've got Michigan
and Yukon Number one Michigan squaring off against second seed
Yukon from Indianapolis tonight. I had to double check this.
The Wolverines have it won March Madison's nineteen eighty nine.
In the Rameil Robinson days of the late eighties, the
Huskies dismantle Illinois, Michigan blew out Arizona, and so it's

(10:50):
a game tip off just before eight o'clock Omaha time
tonight for Michigan and Yukon for the national championship. UCLA
is one of its first win women's basketball NCAA title,
which also seems hard to believe. But they blew out
South Carolina seventy nine to fifty one yesterday for that championship.
And you baseball swept Penn State, and you softball swept Rutgers,

(11:14):
and Jordan Larson has played her last competitive volleyball games.
She retired Saturday night after the love Be Professional Volleyball match.
To see his news radio eleven ten kfab in Nebraska's
morning news, It's not like the President came out yesterday
morning on Easter and just fired off an F bomb
and taunted people of the Islamic faith and then just

(11:36):
called her and called it a day. He said, well,
that's it. That's enough President. It's enough president ing for
one Easter. Sunday he posted in addition to that, which
he actually did yesterday, he posted a nice Easter message
that kind of got buried up. Also a lot of
Easter miracle phrasing from the President and the administration related

(12:00):
to the airman we got back. As you heard on Friday,
as we got into the afternoon, there was some question
as to whether or not Iran had actually shot down
and a US fighter jet. As it turns out they
did and shot down two, and we got both airman back.
The second one he was downed on Good Friday and

(12:24):
then rescued on Easter. If that's not perfect, obviously it'd
be better not to have them shot down two hundred
miles inside Iran. But a US commando raid, nearly one
hundred Special Ops troops, a swarm of US aircraft, and
apparently as CIA deception campaign where they were radioing and

(12:47):
trying to get the Iranians. What's left of the Iranian military,
which I presume at this point kind of looks like
the Michael Jackson thriller video. These guys are all bombed
to Kingdom come, legs are falling off, they're all burned up.
But there's still a few people out there fighting for Iran,
and they apparently have a bit more capability than perhaps

(13:08):
we planned on. They did, after all, shoot down a
couple of our jets. So the CIA, we're looking for
this needle in a terrorist riddled haystack and letting those
terrorists with Iran think that we were over here, like
we got him, and we're trying to get him out

(13:28):
of the country and we're waiting on a jet to
come pick us up or whatever. Anyway, they're telling them
like we're we're over here. We got it, we got him,
he's over here, And of course the Iranians they fall
for it. They're running over there, running over there. All right,
Well he's supposed to be here. The American said he
was here. Well that was a lie. We lied to them, Sorry, guys,

(13:52):
we lied. We were actually pulling this guy out of
a mountain crevice after he was hiding in there for
two days. He did have a beacon. We were able
to track him down and we got him out of there,
and it's absolutely a wonderful thing. The President called it
an Eastern miracle. The airman only had a handgun to

(14:14):
defend himself before he was rescued. And here's there's different
reports about how how injured everyone is. One of these
reports said he just suffered a sprained ankle as his
jet went down. I mean you're thinking, like, well, airbags, yeah,
they Thank goodness for the we We've spent a little

(14:37):
extra and we got the airbags on the F fifteen
e Strike Eagle.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
I can joke because he's okay.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
Yeah, he's okay. But it was you think, like, well,
obviously they can see where the jet went down. He's
got to be right around there somewhere. So it wasn't
like we were looking all over Iran. He's got to
be over here, somewhere in the country. How big is
this place? He's got to be around that jet was.

(15:07):
I saw one report CNBC said that the commandos were
up on a seven thousand foot ridge trying to get
to this guy who was hiding in this mountain crevice. So,
thank goodness, he didn't just have to crash land right
in the middle of a desert. Where do I hide
under that sand or under that sand? I can dig

(15:28):
a little spider hole like Saddam Hussein and hide in
the sand. He had mountain cover, but still out there
for two days, and Iran had offered a bounty if
the airman was captured alive. They wanted this guy. And
to let you know how much money Iran has at
this point, the bounty and I'm not making this up,

(15:50):
according to the BBC, the Iranian bounty for capturing the
US airman alive, how much do you think it was, Lucy,
throw a number out there. Iran wants this so they
can use him as leverage. He's incredibly important to what's
left of the Iranian military. How much do you think
that bounty was?

Speaker 2 (16:08):
The equivalent of one million in US dollars?

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Makes sense, right, right? Sixty six thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
The equivalent of sixty six thousand US dollars.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
Sixty six thousand US dollars.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
Interesting, a lot of six is in there that was there?

Speaker 1 (16:22):
Well, they're one short, but don't worry, they'll they'll find it.
It's sixty six thousand dollars. In case you're wondering how
much we've crippled their ability to do anything. That's all
they had, Like pull our resource. How much money do
we have? Well, I think we could probably come up
with one hundred thousand dollars. We won't be able to
eat next week. Lower it. Someone will do it for

(16:43):
sixty and they will in Iran, sixty six thousand dollars.
You could be sultan if you had sixty six thousand dollars.
Sixty six thousand dollars, that's all they have left. We've
just about got these guys squeezed out. I love how
Courtney phrased did wall streets? Looking like there might be
a diplomatic end to this conflict in Iran? Yeah, that's

(17:05):
what the President said. He wasn't as diplomatic in the
way he phrased it. We'll get back on that in
some of your emails, Craig Evans report there that they
did have the Easter egg hunt at the White House yesterday.
The President was in a rare mood. He was yelling
at the kids, go get some blank and eggs. Their
eggs are over there, they're under the blank and bush.
How many blanken eggs did you get? Like, mister President,

(17:26):
please the language. It's Easter. And if you're wondering why
I am, you're having to fill in all the blank.
All those blanks, by the way, could have been filled
in with any word. If you fill them in with profanity,
that's on you find Jesus. Here's what the president is.
Here's what the President said on truth Social yesterday. He

(17:49):
said Tuesday will be power plant Day and bridge Day,
all wrapped up in won in Iran. I thought Tuesday
was leg day. Then he says, there'll be nothing like it.
Open the blank and straight you crazy blanks, or you'll
be living in blank. Just I'm now, I'm now, kids
are getting up for school. I got to put more

(18:10):
blanks in. Just watch Praise be to Allah. President Donald J. Trump.
I'm reasoning that I'm reading that phrase in the way
that I think that he intended it mocking. And yeah,
there was some in the blanks that I put into
the President's post. One of them was the uh, the
Queen mother of dirty words is was heard on a

(18:32):
Christmas story the f dash dash dash word. Only I
didn't say fudge that word ding Uh. Here's some responses
we got in the Zonkers custom Woods inbox Scott a
kfab dot com. Patsy said, Scott Harry Truman used a
lot of colorful language. He was my favorite president. That's Patsy.

(18:55):
As I said, be thankful that General pat and uh
Winston Churchill didn't have social media. You're like, my years,
my years. The language from these men, I can't. But
Shannon is listening to us via iHeartRadio in Texas, says
diplomacy with Iran is like dealing with a schizophrenic. If

(19:18):
you must cuss to get your point across, fine, and
then I love this and thank you Shannon for jogging
my memory back in this direction. Shannon says, funny, I
thought the Dems liked the F word. Yeah, it is
funny how many people are like, oh, this language from
the president. Meanwhile, you turn on any No King's Riley

(19:40):
coverage or any award show and there's de Niro going
blank this blank Trump and blank Bank, you know, and
you see it on social media posts and all the
rest of this stuff. But if the President says it,
oh my word, oh my lord, I'm getting the vapors
over here. What did the president say? Now, I'm not
saying I love what the president said yesterday, I think

(20:00):
that that kind of diplomacy would be better in telegraphing
that too, what's left of the Iranian regime. But since
I don't think he's got the opportunity to just send
them a text, I guess he needs to pepper the
entire world with it. Well, they got the message. But
the president has also delivered messages like this quite a bit.

(20:23):
Remember it was about ten days ago he said, you
guys got ten days, So we're coming down to the
last stretch. That ten days ends tonight. He's given them
till tomorrow seven o'clock Omaha, time to open the Strait
of Horror Mooz, which I don't know. I mean, he
called it the blank and straight. I don't know if
he's going to ask the map people to change the

(20:45):
name of it the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf
of America. It'll no longer be known as the Strait
of Horror moos and over here the oil flows just
south of Iran here in the blank and straight. Now
it could be worse, could be getting ready to circle
our moon and see the dark side of the moon.

(21:07):
The astronauts aboard the Artemis two were asked about the
Dark Side of the Moon, and they said they thought
it was overrated. Yeah, like everyone else in the nineties,
they smoked a bunch bunch of pot and tried to
sync it up with The Wizard of Oz. But generally
that album by Pink Floyd, which everyone owns is it's
not the greatest. I wouldn't even say it's the greatest

(21:28):
Pink Floyd album. But you know it's historic and it's
an interesting listen, especially if you're stoned out of your gourd.
It's not me saying that that's the Artemis two Astronauts.
When I asked about the Dark Side of the Moon,
there's a reference for no one under the age of thirty.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
You know what that album is worth, and it's an
original condition right now with the sticker and poster. I
don't even know I had it.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
You're asking a question that I don't.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
Well, I had the original album with the poster with
the sticker.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
You but you'd opened and listen to it, so it's
not pristine and brand new.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
Well, it's not in existence. I don't know what happened
to it years and years and years.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
And well, I bet it's probably not worth as much
as if you go down to whatever department store is
selling new old records and you can get a new
copy of it for like forty five bucks. It's a
used copy, and if you opened it and used it,
it's used. A used copy is probably not worth all
that much. And by the way, I don't know who

(22:32):
would buy it. As I said, everyone owns that album.
I'm not even a Pink Floyd fan and I owned
that record.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
Yeah, that's pretty accurate.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
Did you ever do the Wizard of Oz thing?

Speaker 3 (22:43):
No?

Speaker 2 (22:44):
Maybe we did a little.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
Yeah, we didn't, and we did it while sober, which
was apparently that's why it did work. Yeah, I'm just
watching it going so now I'm watching a movie I
already know and listening to music I don't even really like.
What a what a great use of it Friday night?

Speaker 2 (23:03):
This does not sound like a fun Friday.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
Yeah. Congressman Don Bacon's phone rang yesterday morning. Happy Easter,
said the New York Times. You're one of the few
Republicans who will speak out against the President of the
United States what he is? That right, Well, I don't
know if that's verbatim what they said, but that's essentially

(23:25):
what happened as the President posted on True Social his naughty,
naughty language, and The New York Times called up Nebraska's
second district Congressman, the outgoing Don Bacon, both because he's
not seeking reelection and he is a gregarious guy, and
he gave them the SoundBite they wanted. I'll tell you
what Don Bacon said. And in case you're just waking up,

(23:46):
coming to after a holiday weekend, going wait, what did
the president say? President goes on truth Social and he
says a bad word. He says a few bad words,
depending on how mild or how spicy you like your words.
And I'll tell you what he said in a moment.
But Lucy said, don't start off this segment with anything

(24:06):
other than what Don Bacon said to the New York Times.
I want to hear it, and I'm busy over here,
so here, when reached out for a comment to the
President's True Social post, are the words of Congressman Don Bacon. Quote,
Americans don't want their president to be profane and vulgar.
Part of leadership is self control un quote. Now, Congressman Bacon,

(24:32):
Brigadier general, has been supportive of the strikes against Iran, generally,
but he he didn't like the language. Yeah, it's it's Easter.
You're spending time with your family, and suddenly here comes
the New York Times. Hey, Congressman, can you give us
a quote on what the presidents say?

Speaker 2 (24:50):
What?

Speaker 1 (24:51):
I'm with my family, I'm at church, I'm spending time
with all the grandkids, aka the bacon bits. I don't
know if Congress and Bacon has grandkids, but if he does,
and if he's not calling them bacon bits, it's a
tremendous opportunity. Miss. So you're like, all right, what the
president say? Well, he goes on true social and he
said this quote, Tuesday will be power plant Day and

(25:12):
Bridge Day, all wrapped up and won. In Iran, there
will be nothing like it. Open the blank and straight,
you crazy blanks, or you'll be living in hell. Just
watch Praise be to Allah. President Donald J. Trump. He
didn't say thank you for your attention to this matter,
but I think he had that as part of the

(25:36):
insinuated messaging.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
I think if Churchill had done that, Neville Chamberlain would
have said the same thing.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
Oh Neville, you say, Don Bacon is Neville Chamberlain on this.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
I didn't say that. No, well, I said Nevill Chamberlain
might have said the same thing.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
No.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
I think Don Bacon is right in that American Americans,
Americans don't want their president to be profane and vulgar,
and part of leadership is self control. I also think
that the President could have probably telegraphed this message behind
the scenes somehow. But when we don't know with whom
we're dealing or how to reach them, you just end
up blanketing the whole world. And you got the president

(26:19):
who's trying to have an Easter with his family himself.
He has probably not slept because we've been trying to
get back there the service. No, no, no, no, President Trump.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
I thought you were talking about President Trump.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
I'm trying to I'm trying to think where his mind
is when he posts this kind of thing on true
social And I imagine yesterday the president is trying to
have Easter with his family. Remember, he didn't need to
run for president, He didn't need any of this. And yeah,
is is anyone going to rise up to be as

(26:55):
important in Donald Donald Trump's life as Donald Trump? I
doubt it. But what I've seen from this guy is
this guy, he's the president of the United States, so
some respect. What I've seen from our president is he
loves our military, and he's spent all week in not sleeping,

(27:21):
waiting for us to get back these airmen, including this
guy who it was concerned that he might have already
been captured by the Iranians. And now we're sending one
hundred Special Operations troops into an area where we might
get a sneak attack from what's left of the Iranian military.

(27:42):
And the President is waiting for all this. He's not sleeping,
and he's just really, really sick and tired if Iran
not giving into the reality that you can't beat us,
US being America, US being Israel, US being the partnership
of America and Israel, and no other countries apparently, but

(28:04):
you can't beat any of these nations. And the President
is not sleeping. He's angry, he's frustrated. His wife is
probably like, Donald, put down your phone. We're doing an
Easter egg hunt out here. Hang on up open the
blank gets straight, you crazy, blank, He'll be living in blank. Yeah.

(28:25):
So yeah, is that where this comes from? Do I
understand it on some level? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (28:30):
Do?

Speaker 1 (28:30):
I Sometimes fire back in an email when someone's like, hey,
Scott did, and I'm like, and I think, uh, I
don't need to send that. The president is not getting
He's got a bit more stress in his life than
I do. And then you do. And I think that's
where this comes from. And if if it meets the

(28:52):
intended in which is what he wants the end of
this war, then great, right.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
And Bacon is one hundred percent correct. Yeah, we do
want a more sophisticated speaking president. Is you just laid
out very well?

Speaker 1 (29:07):
Sure, but we didn't elect one, but sure.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
But but all presidents have had their their moments.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
All oh yeah, And Chuck Schumer came out with the
statement too, Chuck Schumer drops an F bomb every time
he's asked about the president. Do you think we're gonna
end the shutdown? Do you think you're gonna get the
president what he wants? No?

Speaker 2 (29:24):
Breaking way?

Speaker 1 (29:25):
You know. So that's that's Chuck Schumer.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
If you dropped cuss words, Yeah, if that can get
anything done, good, you know, whatever it takes, let's end
this thing.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
I'm gonna yeah, if if it works, If if the
only bomb he ends up dropping this time is an
F bomb, right, great, that's fantastic let's wrap this up,
which is what the President wants, apparently by any means necessary.
Scott a kfab dot com and the Zonker's custom what's
inbox that, Scott? Are you just gonna ignore Jim Rose

(29:56):
all day? Yep? He's been sitting here all morning and
I'm just blowing right by it. I'm doing sports updates
and not letting him talk at all. Isn't that right, Jim? Yeah,
that's right.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
That's my new favorite email.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
He's just gonna ignore Jim. Jim is out and I
mentioned that several times this morning. He's out. He'll be
back on Friday. Gary Saddlemeyer is gonna pop in here
and hang out with us tomorrow morning.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
Lucy, got a mouse in your bucket.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
Craig Evans will be here. Oh look, who thinks that
the show just grinds to a halt when she needs
to be gone for a day. Lucy has to take
tomorrow off. I'm still here, alguapo, which is not good
enough for anybody. A few more emails here on the

(30:45):
President's comment, This one from Tim say, good morning, Scott,
like you. My initial reaction to the post was what
the and then I thought, well, I should probably bring
you up to speed in case you didn't check in
with the news yesterday, just checking in this morning here
to eleven ten kfab. Of course you're in the right place.
You're on the way to work on I thought yesterday

(31:07):
was just easter. What'd the President say? He wished everyone
a happy Easter, and then in a separate post, he
wished a few other things. He said, Tuesday will be
power plant Day and bridge day, all wrapped up in
won in Iran, There'll be nothing like it. Open the
blank and straight you crazy blanks, or you'll be living

(31:27):
in blank. Just watch praise be to Allah. President Donald J. Trump.
The blanks can be filled in any way you want.
You're probably right. I put a few more blanks in
there because there's kids on the way to school and
the In case you don't know what words, just ask
your kids. They know all the words. So that's what

(31:48):
the President said yesterday morning. It threw everyone for a
bit of a loop, myself included Tim says, like you, Scott.
My initial reaction to the post was what the Then
I thought was that a post directed at what's left
of the Iranian regime and an attempt to get them
to the negotiating table. The one thing we've learned is
Trump's not a politician. He's not eloquent. Decorum of the

(32:12):
office is lost on him. But he seems to always
have a plan. Let's hope it works out. We always
know what he's thinking because he blurts it out and
rarely holds anything back. I'd like to see all of
our leaders get back to speaking more eloquently. You can
still be strong, but with a velvet fist rather than
a nuclear jackhammer. That's from Tim. By the way, I'm

(32:34):
calling Dibbs on starting a band band name nuclear jackhammer.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
Then I get velvet fists.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
You can have it. And if anyone's lining up in
the inbox to give Lucy the velvet fist, please calm down. Yeah,
I'm tired of the president being vulgar, Sovid David says,
I thought Trump's comment was spot on on. He let
them know he was done with all their delays and
told them exactly what was coming. We had to stop

(33:06):
using our Western culture foolishly thinking that they can be
reasoned with that mindset. They can't. Seems to me, before
every attack or during every attack, someone is yelling alu
akbar that's the way they are. He was speaking directly
to them. Hear me or else, powerful and brilliant, So
it's easter, says Dave. I wasn't offended. He's trying to

(33:27):
stop all the killing. The left tries to use everything
to condemn this man. They have become a joke. This
was a tactical statement. I support it. Great job, mister president.
That's from Dave, said to Scott at kfab dot com.
And then Scott emails and says, I'm looking forward to
Bridge Day tomorrow. This isn't like the seniors getting together

(33:49):
at the rec center and playing bridge all day. Bridge
Day in this scenario is a very different deal. And
if the President follows through on this, and there's no
reason to suggest that he won't, you've already got people
lining up to charge him with war crimes. Is there
anything to that. I'll give you the assessment of all

(34:10):
the different politicians and news agencies that stepped up here
in the wake of the president's threat and said, whoa, whoa, whoa,
this could be a war crime.

Speaker 4 (34:18):
The parents of a toddler are facing charges in Hershey, Pennsylvania,
after authority say that a child entered a wolf enclosure
at Zoo America, Please say. A seventeen month old squeeze
through a small opening in the outer fence of the
enclosure over the weekend while their parents appeared to be
paying attention to their cell phones. The child reached their
hand through the fence, at which point one of the

(34:39):
wolves grabbed onto it with its mouth, before several bystanders
intervened to pull the child away. I'm Craig Evans more
news at the top of the Avatt News Radio eleven
to ten kfab.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
Wow, we usually don't see that kind of thing here
at Omaha's Henry Dorley Zoo until you're drunk and having
broken into the zoo on how long? Usually the guests
and the animal's mouths stay far away from each other
here in Omaha. It's why our zoo was better. Thank
you for that report, Craig. I'm Scott Vorhees here with
Lucy Chapman Jim Rose out this week. This is Nebraska's

(35:14):
morning News. News Radio eleven to ten KFAB. And in
case you just moved here, Yeah, we had a girl
who was drinking and thought it'd be a fine idea
to break into the Henry Dorley Zoo. At night, sneak
in there and try and pet one of the tigers
and the cat again. No, this was Craig's report a

(35:37):
moment ago. Let me bring everyone up to speed here,
since Lucy wasn't listening, Craig reported, there's a little kid,
like an eighteen month old toddler and the zoo was
in Pennsylvania. I think that crawled underneath a fence Hershey, Pennsylvania,
and got up to the fence where the wolf is
and stuck its hand in there. The wolf was like,

(35:59):
I'll take that and put it in its mouth. Thankfully,
the wolf wasn't really I mean it was kind of tasting, yeah,
just scoping that out. Do I want to? And it
thankfully didn't really hurt the kid. That toddler suffered only

(36:20):
minor injuries. The parents, though, have been charged with one
count of child endangerment. Kids certainly certainly get away, but
when you're able to, you know, sneak under a fence
and then go over here. And they were on their phone,
said other bystanders, they're goofing off on their phones and

(36:41):
here's their eighteen month old who's sneaking into the wolf's
den that was in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
Wait, somebody saw this kid doing it, nobody stopped him.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
I think by the time they noticed that the kid
was under the fence, you had to be another eighteen
month old to get under the and the adults couldn't
do anything about it. They had to have, you know,
scream and yell for zoo officials to come over there
and try and protect the kid. Here kiddy trying to
pet the wolf. So then I yeah, yeah, So then

(37:14):
I mentioned here in Omaha it was that Halloween incident
years ago where this girl had a few drinks in
her and some like teenage kid with her as well.
This girl's in her twenties. I think, I don't know
what was going on, but she thought it'd be a
great idea to go in there and try and pet
some one of the tigers, and the tiger took off
with like a finger and a half from this girl's hand. Now,

(37:36):
I have tried over the years to reach out to
that woman, who I'm told from her family is very
interested in just moving on with her life and not
being the three and a half fingered girl from the
zoo incident. So I'd love to talk to her.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
Oh, you still haven't you haven't gotten any further on that.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
No, I've had some communication with family members. I'd love
to talk to her and say, how's the rest of
your life gone? You know, something like this happens and
you end up being a you know, an international headline
and mocked and laughed at, and then we all go
on with the rest of our lives. And then she
has to go and try and you know, hold a

(38:19):
coffee cup and go on with the rest of her life.
And it can't be easy on either front. And I'd
love to talk with her about Is that a.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
Great story about and it's hard to hold a coffee cup?

Speaker 1 (38:30):
I know, yeah, but I don't think it's one she
likes to tell. I think, you know, Lucy, at some point,
you'll realize that you've hit rock bottom, if you haven't
already yet this morning, And well, that's going to.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
Keep me laughing all day long.

Speaker 1 (38:46):
We don't always know when we've hit rock bottom. Sometimes
we don't recognize it, and sometimes.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
You just bounce off the bottoms right.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Sometimes when your hand is in a snow leopard's mouth,
that's when you realize, you know, I maybe need to
make some change in my life.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
No, that's not the point.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
Well that I think she got the point, and good
for her, and I'd love to talk to her about
that story of redemption as well. All right, here, let's
take a look at the way that President Trump ends
up in the Hague. If you look at what the
President posted on truth social yesterday morning, because nothing says
Easter morning like open the blank and straight, you crazy bastaches,

(39:25):
which is part of what the President said yesterday. I
changed a few words there, but he also said tomorrow
Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day, all
wrapped up and won in Iran. There'll be nothing like it.
This is his threat if they don't stop trying to
threaten the tankers getting through the Strait of Hormuz, which

(39:47):
were which will heretofore be known as the blanking Straight.
I don't know if Ran McNally's on board at that one,
but if they don't open up that straight, he's gonna
blow up there power plants and their bridges. Well, you're
not supposed to do that, you know, there's rules to war.

(40:08):
These are the things that we generally follow, and the
enemy never does not once, and I don't remember anyone
saying that the Ayatola, who we blew up real good
here recently. I don't know if anyone said, all right, well,
he's committed war crimes. He murdered tens of thousands of

(40:29):
his own people who were protesting their government on the
streets of Tehran. Let's go get him. I don't think
that ever happened. But the president says we'll blow up
some bridges and their power plants, and people are like, well,
that would raise very serious questions under the Geneva Convention
rules for war, because you see humanitarian groups say blacking

(40:53):
out the power and possibly water desalination plants would endanger hospitals,
sanata and basic survival, not to mention the ability if
you blow up the bridges for them to get someplace
that might have clean water, might have electricity, and not
just to be able to watch TV and power your phone.

(41:14):
This would be their need to survive. And I'm sure
the President would say, hey, that's that's on them, that's
on Iran. I told them all you have to do
is absolutely nothing. Stop shooting at our fighter jets, stop
trying to shoot and disrupt what's going on with oil

(41:34):
tankers in the Strait of Horror. Moves. All you got
to do is absolutely nothing. You want to live, you
want your people to live, have power, water, travel, Then
all you have to do is sit on your hands.
That's it. Let me know if I can tell you
any other way to get through this. So let's say

(42:00):
what is left of the leaders of Iran, not just
in terms of numbers, but in terms of body parts.
And these guys decide, all right, we're gonna I think
the president is bluffing. Great. Let's say they continue to
do what they've been doing and the President then goes
and blows up power plants and bridges. What happens? Someone

(42:25):
goes to the United Nations says, the president's a war criminal.
He went after civilian infrastructure and therefore that's in violation
of the Geneva Convention. He is a war criminal. Go
arrest that man who arrests him the blue hat United Nations, guys,
is that really gonna happen in the midst of war? Footing?

(42:50):
Call whatever you want with Iran, We're going to have
the United Nations come and handcuff our commander in chief
and lead him out of the White House, where the
golf course or wherever he is really Oh, there'd be
a lot of people who would love the side of that.
The United Nations isn't going to do that. So it's

(43:13):
an interesting conversation, and it's one that the president's detractors
love to point out. Yeah, go ahead and do it.
You know, this threat to attack the bridges and the
power plants, that would be a threat, that would be
a committing war crimes. All right, Well, you run down
to the courthouse and you file your charges. This isn't
me sticking up for the President doing this, But I

(43:35):
don't mind the President not ruling out anything and threatening
everything to try and get these guys to stop killing
people in Israel and threatening the United States. Now, is
he actually going to do it? I don't know. And
you know who else doesn't know Iran. And that's why
the President said all this stuff. Did he have to

(43:57):
use bad language? Yeah? Sorry, war as hell? Pardon my language.
In the Zonker's custom was inbox after the President said,
tomorrow is power plant day and bridge day in Iran
if they don't stop their atrocities in the Strait of
Hormuze Bridge Day. Unfortunately, Lucy, my stepmother just hopped a

(44:23):
flight to Tehran she's a life master when it comes
to Bridge loves that game. She's not going to miss
Bridge day. No, no, lois no, Yeah, you don't want
to miss you don't want to miss Bridge Day. Some
emails here, Ron says doesn't. Pretty much every World War
II movie show troops blowing up bridges to stop the

(44:45):
Germans from advancing. To say, blowing up bridges during war
as a war crime is just another TDS symptom. Yes,
yes and no. If the troops are advancing using these bridges, yes,
you can say military strategy. If it's just like, hey,
we're just looking to cripple everything you guys got, then

(45:05):
it's hard to make that call. But like I said,
what's going to happen? The United Nations blue hats are
going to go and arrest the president. Oh you'd like that,
wouldn't you? Some of you? Dave says, Russia has intentionally
been attacking everything the President is talking about bombing plus hospitals,
apartment buildings, grocery stores, et cetera. Is the United Nations

(45:27):
or anyone else going to arrest Vladimir Putin is a
war criminal? Or is anyone else even asking him to stop?
Great point there Dave, thank you very much for that email.
You can send yours as well, either via Scott atkfab
dot com or on our free iHeartRadio app. Send us
a message with your own voice via the talkback Mike.

Speaker 5 (45:50):
The dumbest thing that Trump did in his rant was
invoked the name Allah. I'm sure Midy's friends were not
impressed by his blasphem use of the deity. Sometimes our
president's just says and no one to shut up.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
Thank you for that message. I think he was talking
about mom. Donnie, the mayor of New York would not
be impressed. No, I don't think that anything the president
does really impress his mom, Donnie. Nor is that the
president's goal as far as his blasphemous use of the deity.
The terrorist Islamic fanatics already want to kill us. Did
the President do us any favors with his joking praise

(46:31):
be to Allah message yesterday? No? But it made people
that already want to kill us want to kill us.
Was it great? Was it eloquent? Was it wonderful? No? No, no,
but there it is. So now you got to look
at all. Right, so what's the fallout. The fallout is

(46:52):
terrorists want to kill us even more. I'm Scott Mooorhees
on news radio eleven to ten kfab Lucy, You'll be
happy to know that the Dow continues fluctuating. It no
longer has a six sixty six in the entirety of
the Dow Jones Industrial Index right now nowhere. No it
it popped up a little bit, so that was forty

(47:14):
six thousand. No it came back. It's back at six
sixty six. We needed to move move a little bit.
I can't have the mark of the beast in my
in my market updates.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
Isn't the market update kind of the mark of the beast? Anyway?

Speaker 1 (47:29):
I can't, James, Sometimes it feels like it sometimes four
oh one K right, Well, we you started it this
morning because we had all the soldiers looking for this
downed pilot Iran shot down an F fifteen e Strike

(47:50):
Eagle on Friday. Then we're trying to go in there
and find the guy. Were worried that perhaps we were
following a beacon that would lead to a nest of
or what's left of the Iranian soldiers who had already
got to him. After all, they had a head start,
they're already there and you know, they know where the
jet went down, so I think, go find the guy.
But it was a really mountainous terrain and he's been

(48:11):
hiding out in this mountain crevice. He had radioed on
Friday that he had reached high ground, had a beacon
on and said God is good. And our military was like,
that's true. But it also seems like something Iran would
say if they were saying, yeah, I'm good, I'm just

(48:34):
over here, totally fine. I don't see any of those
those darn Iranians anywhere come and get me.

Speaker 2 (48:41):
What was Good Friday?

Speaker 1 (48:42):
Though? Right?

Speaker 2 (48:43):
Yes, okay, well then that makes sense, right.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
How many of us on Good Friday? Though? Has something
go wrong at work? You know your computer shut down
for a second, and your reaction was not, well, God
is good. This guy just got shot down by Iran.
Wasn't sure if he was going to be captured or
killed or rescued, and on Easter Sunday he was rescued.

(49:08):
The CIA was telling in a way that we figured
Iran would already know that we got him, and we
were driving away to get to an aircraft that get
us out of there, like we're over here, We're driving
over here. You know, the darn these mountainous roads. We're
not even going very fast. I'm sure if Iran wanted
to come get us, they can come get us. But
who's running all this? Kevin McAllister from Home Alone, I'm

(49:32):
all alone in here, better come get me. Well, it worked,
It worked in Home Alone against the Wet Bandits.

Speaker 2 (49:38):
It went for Matthew Broderick, and it worked for war games.

Speaker 1 (49:43):
Oh thank you for that.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
They get a ding for that.

Speaker 1 (49:47):
You can have their eighties movie reference ding. Lucy has
requested it.

Speaker 5 (49:52):
There you go?

Speaker 1 (49:54):
Is that? But I don't know that that's an accurate ding.

Speaker 2 (49:58):
How was it that he was I don't know he
was playing war games? I know, but this was this
was an act.

Speaker 1 (50:06):
Of deception though, And I'll ding my Home Alone nineties
movie reference there. So the ding we still have. We're
in the midst of a ding for a movie reference.
Here the CIA where they were all trying, they were
trying to deceive, while our military one hundred Special Operations
troops wondering if we were being set up going there.

(50:28):
They rescued this guy. He'd been hiding in a mountain crevice.
We got him. The President called it an Eastern miracle,
and then he had a very different other tweet on
Drew Social We've been talking about all morning, but this
was an amazing rescue and Iran, they were definitely trying

(50:49):
to get this guy. They offered a bounty if the
airman was captured alive. They wanted to be able to
use him to keep the president from blowing up bridges
and power plants and every everything else that the president
has been doing. So if we could get an airman,
then we could use that as leverage. We're thinking the
Iranians and they wanted the guy, and they offered a

(51:09):
king's ransom a bounty, which in Iran, this is a
lot of money, sixty six thousand dollars. And asked Lucy
an hour ago, how much do you think Iran was
offering there, Like She's like, obviously a million dollars, right, Yeah,
they don't have that kind of money, but sixty six
thousand dollars. It depending on where you are in Iran,
that's like a million dollars. And Lucy said, that's a

(51:34):
lot of sixes. That's why we were wondering about what's
going on in the stock market, and we're now at
forty six thousand, six hundred ninety nine we got off
the sixty sixty six mark of the Beast. I can't
have that here on the first day after Easter. I'll
take it tomorrow. We'll take the mark of the Beast tomorrow.

(51:55):
But I'm kidding, not funny. I know. I got an
email from Rod, says, Scott, do you really believe Iran
would pay that kind of reward money? Well, I hadn't
considered it. I wasn't thinking about going to get him
and then turning him over to Iran. The only thing

(52:16):
stopping me from doing it was I doubt Iran would pay,
So Rod, I hadn't considered it. But if yeah, all right,
well let's let's follow through here. If you're just some
Iranian goat herder and you know where this soldier is,
and you could capture him and turn him over to

(52:38):
the what's left of the Iranian army and wait for
your windfall of sixty six thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (52:43):
And six dollars, And right.

Speaker 1 (52:46):
Now we're just they said six six, So we'll just
leave it with Yeah, I don't think that he would
get it, And even if they did pay, you would
quickly be murdered. By everyone, because you have more money
than ninety nine nine percent of the people in that
country with your sixty six thousand dollars, So it might

(53:07):
be something. Maybe maybe that was factored in. Maybe it
was some lowly goatherd who told the US military he's
in the crevice up there, that's a pay site. Lucy.
Here's an interesting story we have. These are the facts
of the case undocumented Honduran immigrant who was brought to

(53:32):
the US as a toddler. She was just a kid
when her family came here illegally. Her family then missed
an immigration court hearing, meaning they and she were all
in the country illegally. Now, this happens all the time,
and when the president is out there sending out his
masked gestapo to get people, it's because there's so many

(53:56):
times when someone comes to the country and they're either
given temporary status or told all right, you can come
in here for humanitarian reasons. We'll hear your claim for
asylum in this court years from now. Well, they never
show up, what are we supposed to do? Then go, well,
I hope they're okay, hope they're doing fine. No, The

(54:19):
deportation orders are then issued for the family.

Speaker 2 (54:23):
How old is the girl?

Speaker 1 (54:24):
So this girl is twenty two years old and she
was just trying to get on a military base Fort
Polk in Louisiana. She was detained. She's now marked for
deportation per the earlier order. Those are the facts of
the case. One other on one other, a little bit
in the story. Though she was going on the military base.

(54:46):
She has no criminal record. She's going on the military
base because she just married staff Sergeant Matthew Blank, who's
there at the military base. And she's like, all right,
I'm coming home. She might be going home to a
home she has not known for almost in her entire life.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
How old was she when her parents brought her?

Speaker 1 (55:08):
She is twenty two years old now she was twenty
two months old her family when her family missed the
immigration her her parents need to go back. She can stay.
She's married to this guy.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
She didn't she didn't come here illegally. Her parents brought
here here illegally.

Speaker 1 (55:25):
So she doesn't. She This might have been her first
time she ever knew. Oh, I didn't realize. I mean,
I mean they give out driver's licensees.

Speaker 2 (55:36):
Oh we settled all this with the dreamer at jobs.

Speaker 1 (55:40):
Yeah, that wasn't a forever thing, Thanks Obama,